As the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival opens this week, here’s a look at the 20 most watchlisted titles on Letterboxd screening at the festival. What are you most looking forward to? Fjord La Bola Negra Club Kid All of a Sudden Minotaur Coward Josephine Bitter Christmas The Debut The Man I Love ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
A list of every film that you can rent now on Letterboxd Video Store. This list will be updated regularly as we add more films for rental, along with removing select titles whose availability will be for a limited time only. (Regions and prices vary by title, head to Video Store to see what’s available in your location.) Want to know more about Letterboxd Video Store? Check out our Journal primer here for the most pressing information, and our full FAQ here. Downbeat Unreleased Gem for August 2026 The Weed Eaters Unreleased Gem for August 2026 I Only Rest in the Storm Unreleased Gem for August 2026 The Wrong Girls Hadestown: The Musical Hokum I Love Boosters Blades of the Guardians Leviticus Mockbuster ...plus 77 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Updated each month, Katie Rife highlights a selection of the best classic titles hitting physical media or with new restorations opening in theaters. Read more about this month’s selections on Journal here. Kwaidan Out of the Past My Brother's Wedding Jacknife Gandahar Center Stage Barbarian The Fan Mystery Gypsy 83 ...plus 60 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
In partnership with travel booking app Omio, we’re planning our next trips to Brazil, France, Italy and Japan with twenty scenic films to inspire your wanderlust. Read the full story on Journal. Central Station City of God Black Orpheus Neighboring Sounds That Man from Rio Amélie Before Sunset Breathless To Catch a Thief An American in Paris ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
As A24 unleashes Onslaught, Adam Wingard spills on the ’80s sci-fi horror standards that inspired his latest action-slasher, its thematic predecessors The Guest and You’re Next, and the intense characters played by Adria Arjona and Dan Stevens. Read Isaac Feldberg's full interview on Journal. Assault on Precinct 13 The Fog Halloween Halloween III: Season of the Witch Escape from New York The Terminator Terminator 2: Judgment Day Alien Aliens Tremors ...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Primetime Hope Onslaught Fall 2: Deadpoint The Uprising Resident Evil The Love Hypothesis Heart of the Beast Practical Magic 2 Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Consensus for Showdown № 242 Yes, Chef! (best films about chefs and their kitchens) Ratatouille The Menu Chef Tampopo The Princess and the Frog Julie & Julia Boiling Point Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Babette's Feast The Taste of Things ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Everyone and their mother is talking about the loss of third places, and although malls are often remembered as temples of consumption, communities formed there. Mall goths, mall walkers, valley girls, mall santas, shoplifters—even zombies—could find a home. In 1986, there were 25,000 malls across the nation, and by 2028 that number is expected to drop to 900. This means that one day, all we’ll have to remember the mall phenomenon (besides my ancient retainer) will be the movies. So, get in loser. Let’s go shopping for the 20 definitive mall movies. Read the full list breakdown from Jenni Kaye over on Journal. Mallrats Dawn of the Dead Chopping Mall Golden Eighties Valley Girl Night of the Comet Fast Times at Ridgemont High Police Story The Blues Brothers Mannequin ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
In celebration of International Dog Day, we’re counting off twenty beloved pooches and pups from movie history, from faithful Claymation creations to underdogs you can’t help but root for. Read Isaac Feldberg’s full story on Journal. Lady and the Tramp Where the North Begins The Wizard of Oz Old Yeller A Charlie Brown Christmas The Fox and the Hound Beethoven Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey Lassie Men in Black ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
As Macon Blair’s Idiots rides into US theaters this week, the director shares ten films that influenced his buddy road comedy starring Dave Franco, O'Shea Jackson Jr., and Mason Thames. Read more for Blair’s accompanying notes for each pick. The Last Detail Our pitch for The Shitheads/Idiots was “An asshole version of The Last Detail with hard drugs.” A very literal inspiration. Midnight Run Another big inspiration… another fun road movie with action and crime but mainly we just loved the central engine of two hilarious actors constantly bickering over each other the whole movie. Barfly Grime + self annihilation + tenderness. Repo Man A constant influence, to one degree or another, but in this case it was clusters of grizzled grumps arguing with each other in an oddly decaying world. Never gets old. The American Friend Love this movie but it bears little relation to Idiots in terms of tone except for the sloppy-crazed Dennis Hopper fist-fight-on-train scene. Mainly, it was that Guillermo (Garza, the DP) and I just loved how it looked. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Used as a reference for the first third of Idiots: anti-social maniacs on drugs, driving around, making poor choices and causing a mess. No visible hallucinations in our movie but they were probably there. The Night of the Hunter We suggested the crew watch this one if they hadn’t seen it already. Not sure why, honestly. Other than one scene where Mark and Davis get lost in the woods it doesn’t have much in common with Idiots. I think we just like this one a lot and wanted to watch it again? Wild at Heart Although Sailor and Lula are way more horny than Mark and Davis (and at least more likeable than Mark), the general vibe of outsiders in a car on a long journey meeting increasingly strange folks along the way was something we thought about a lot. The Hitch-Hiker Two more-or-less regular guys drive a third one who turns out to be a dangerous freak and that’s our whole thing. You can see a brief clip of the movie featuring William Talman on a TV screen towards the end of the movie. Ida Lupino rules. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Obviously this one is like “maybe 2% inspired by” but the last third of Idiots – characters captured by masked weirdos in a secluded rural house – had some Chain Saw DNA in it. There’s a shot of one of the kidnappers (Najah Bradley) dancing around with her hatchet that immediately reminded me of Leatherface at the end of TCSM and that’s why I put it in the movie.
Vigilante revenge sagas, taut psychological thrillers, the return of a legendary movie monster and new efforts from Oscar-nominated writer-directors factor into our most anticipated films of the 2026 fall film festival season. Read our thoughts on each film in our full story on Journal. The Debut A Long Winter Godzilla Minus Zero A Statement Behemoth! Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother Being Heumann Primetime Magazine Look Back ...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Every film ever spotlighted in Watchlist This!, our monthly Journal feature highlighting a selection of watchlist-worthy titles that are potentially slipping under the radar. All films here are listed in reverse chronological order according to article date, with the most recent selections always at the top. Read more about this month’s selections on Journal here. Filipiñana Don't Say Good Luck The Fence Buddy Cookie Queens Remake Night Nurse Horsegirls The Kidnapping of Arabella Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass ...plus 185 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
With Louis Paxton’s The Incomer in theaters on September 25, the director shares a list of 10 films that influenced his new comedy. Read more for his accompanying notes for each pick. Ravenous This is one of my favorite films. The tonal balance between comedy and horror is truly unique, as is Robert Carlyle’s performance as Colqhoun. I love how gnarly it is, too. The main influence on The Incomer, however, was the score—Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman’s work is beautiful, eccentric, and foreboding. Composer Tom Kingston and I referenced it early on, utilizing a similar mix of looped folk instruments and a classical orchestra, though we leaned exclusively into Scottish folk instruments and Gaelic vocals. Step Brothers I grew up on SNL comedies and particularly love the work of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. Step Brotherstypifies the Ferrell "manchild" trope and pairs him perfectly with John C. Reilly as adolescent stepbrothers. The siblings in The Incomer were always meant to be stuck in a state of arrested development after their parents left. Step Brothers perfected the "adults acting as childlike siblings" dynamic so brilliantly that I often referenced it comedically, even if not visually or tonally. Hunt for the Wilderpeople We referenced the early work of Taika Waititi a lot when pitching this film. To me, his early films proved that you can have a hyper-specific voice—in his case, a distinctly New Zealand, Māori perspective—and still create stories with universal appeal. I wanted to do that with The Incomer: to tell an authentically and uniquely Scottish story that wasn’t parochial or exclusive, but accessible no matter where you come from. Dogtooth I’m a huge fan of Yorgos Lanthimos’ work. Out of all the influences on The Incomer, Dogtooth might seem like the closest in terms of setup, with a pair of lead siblings being brainwashed by their parents and taught to fear the outside world. After having the initial idea for The Incomer, it was the obvious first film to watch for reference—but because the setups were so similar, it actually pushed me to think about what would make The Incomer unique. Yorgos’ films are entirely his own, which forced me to dig into what I could bring to The Incomer that was uniquely mine. Edward Scissorhands This is one of my all-time favorite films. The mix of off-beat comedy and dark fairytale is so special, striking a brilliant balance between a dark undertone and a tremendous amount of heart while still feeling like a family movie. When writing The Incomer, I thought a lot about the family films I grew up with—movies that felt special because they snuck emotionally challenging themes and risqué humor into an otherwise family-friendly frame. I wanted to channel that. The Incomer also shares a storybook framing device with Edward Scissorhands: the film unfolds as if we’re being told one of Isla’s tales, much like Winona Ryder’s character telling the story of Edward to her grandchild. There Will Be Blood This one may not seem obvious in its influence on The Incomer, but in our approach to cinematography, DOP Pat Golan and I referenced Paul Thomas Anderson more than any other filmmaker. While The Incomer is set in the present day, it functions in many ways like a period film—the isle has no electricity, relying entirely on oil and candlelight. Period cinema was our main visual touchstone, and I think There Will Be Blood is one of the most beautiful period films ever made. The main lesson we took from PTA was to let fewer shots work harder. We also resisted shooting it like a traditional comedy; though the film is overtly funny, we opted for a grounded, naturalistic color palette. We felt that pushing the visuals too far toward comedy would feel overwhelming and ultimately undercut the humor. Predator Possibly my favorite film (though it shifts regularly between this and about a dozen others). Watching a VHS copy of this taped off the telly was life-changing for me as a wee boy. There’s a Predator joke in The Incomer, beautifully delivered by comedian Neil Bratchpiece (who is also a major fan of the movie). You can also see its influence in the third act when the siblings start picking off Roz’s henchmen—even Sandy gets his own "over here" moment as a tiny man with bananas. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring We reference these films heavily in the script because Daniel is obsessed with them—so much so that he claims to have written them himself. I wanted to show how storytelling serves as a vital bridge for human connection. Isla and Sandy rely on oral storytelling for entertainment and to make sense of their history, so I wanted Daniel to bring a iconic mainland myth with him; LOTR was perfect because it’s so ubiquitous and beloved. (Plus, since Domhnall was in Star Wars and Harry Potter, referencing either of those franchises would have felt a bit too meta!) Pan's Labyrinth Guillermo del Toro is among my favorite filmmakers, and Pan’s Labyrinth is the gold standard for using a dark fairytale to explore deep psychological trauma. This was something I was keen to lean into in The Incomer, where Isla uses folktales to process the difficult aspects of her upbringing and heritage. I love monsters, and Del Toro does them better than anyone; I often drew on his creature design philosophy when conceiving the Fin Man. Monty Python and the Holy Grail One of my earliest memories of a comedy movie, this film completely shaped my taste for absurd, playful humor. It’s my favorite Monty Python project for its sheer anarchy and messiness. It’s also wonderfully British in the way it celebrates the uniquely rubbish and banal. Its influence on The Incomer is clearest during the bird attack scene, where I heavily referenced the infamous killer rabbit attack.
A list of every film that has been announced as an Unreleased Gem on Letterboxd Video Store. See all films currently available to rent now. Unreleased Gems are discoveries that span buzzy titles from recent festivals, older gems that flew under the radar, or just films that deserve a spotlight. Read the Journal stories on our Unreleased Gems shelves for December 2025, April 2026, July 2026 and August 2026. At the time of their launch on Video Store, they are undistributed in the countries where we show them. Each is available for a limited time only, and exclusive to Video Store. Please feel free to leave a comment suggesting unreleased gems for our consideration. It Ends Available from December 10, 2025 to January 9, 2026. Kennedy Available from December 10, 2025 to January 9, 2026. The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo Available from December 10, 2025 to January 9, 2026. Sore: A Wife from the Future Available from December 10, 2025 to January 9, 2026. Amoeba Available to rent from April 29 to May 28, 2026. Eugene the Marine Available to rent from April 29 to May 28, 2026. Lemonade Blessing Available to rent from April 29 to May 28, 2026. The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick Available to rent from April 29 to May 28, 2026. Tinsman Road Available to rent from July 1 to August 1, 2026 King Hamlet Available to rent from July 1 to August 1, 2026 ...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
There is no rigid criteria or genre when it comes to iconic movie theater scenes in films—spanning the full gamut, Rory Doherty rounds up twenty of the most transportive, from In the Mouth of Madness to Babylon and more. Read the full list breakdown on Journal. Donnie Darko Cinema Paradiso The Long Day Closes Hail, Caesar! The Fabelmans Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood Babylon Ed Wood In the Mouth of Madness Son of Rambow ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Consensus for Showdown № 241 Camp Classics (best films set at summer camp) Moonrise Kingdom The Parent Trap Addams Family Values Friday the 13th Wet Hot American Summer But I'm a Cheerleader Theater Camp Sleepaway Camp Holes Dirty Dancing ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
To celebrate master filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock’s 127th birthday, and his enduring influence on cinema history far and wide, Travis Woods offers up a starter pack of twenty films inspired by the pioneering director. Read the full breakdown of the list on Journal. Sisters Roadgames Tenebre Variety Gaslight Phantom Thread Charade Mission: Impossible II Last Embrace Suzhou River ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Since 2011, the Letterboxd crew has chosen up to six new releases to spotlight on the front page, ranging from the biggest blockbusters to festival favorites to deep cut indies. This is a list of all films that have been selected as a crew pick as of August, 2026. It Ends The End of Oak Street Finding Emily The Rivals of Amziah King Coyote vs. Acme Nimrods The Odyssey Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Tony The Samurai and the Prisoner ...plus 577 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
With Siobhan McCarthy’s She’s the He! now on Letterboxd Video Store, the filmmaker shares some of the films that influenced their high school trans comedy. Read more for their accompanying notes. Watch She’s the He! now on Letterboxd Video Store. She's the Man This is pretty obvious because even the title She’s the He is a direct nod to She’s the Man. Beyond the joke, She’s the Man is quite literally the unbothered, accidentally trans movie we were trying to make. Some Like It Hot The classic gender swap movie, and an absolute top ten. I refuse to believe there was not at least one gay person working on this movie. Daisies Daisies is a great example of a film about joy, yet was still banned by its home country because that joy was counter to what the government mandated. Easy A Easy A not only solidified the blessing that is Emma Stone’s career, but was also the final breath of the comedies I grew up on. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl The aesthetics and the casually sexy, undeniable gender-swappery of Pirates spoke to something in me that I haven’t been able to shake. Shrek 2 Truly one of the best movies of all time. Nothing tops this, and I will steal from this movie as long as I can make my own. My only regret is not having a musical number as they had on the DVD special features.
From Vertigo to Vertical Limit, Dominic Corry sizes up twenty elevated thrillers and dramas set in very high places. For more context on each selected film, read the full story on Journal. Vertigo Cliffhanger The Uninvited North by Northwest Fall The Eiger Sanction The Towering Inferno Die Hard Decision to Leave GoldenEye ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
To celebrate International Cat Day, we’re counting off twenty beloved cats and kittens from movie history, from animated Disney icons to purr-fect pals from global arthouse hits. Read the full list breakdown in Isaac Feldberg’s story on Journal. Alice in Wonderland Bell, Book and Candle Breakfast at Tiffany's When the Cat Comes You Only Live Twice The Aristocats The Long Goodbye House The Cat from Outer Space Alien ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
With Spider-Man: Brand New Day breaking box-office records, we weave a not-so-tangled web: the Letterboxd community’s ranking of every solo big-screen adventure for the friendly neighborhood wall-crawler, from best to worst. Read more on Journal. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Spider-Man: Brand New Day Spider-Man 2 Spider-Man Spider-Man: No Way Home The Amazing Spider-Man Spider-Man: Homecoming Spider-Man: Far From Home Spider-Man 3 ...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
This list of personal favorites was assembled by Edgar Wright and Sam DiSalle in July 2016, and is semi-regularly updated. Films are ordered by year, and alphabetized within each year (our list matches MUBI’s source list order, but some films are listed under alternative names). Note from Edgar, August 2026: Ten years ago, I discovered a 700-strong list on MUBI entitled ‘Edgar Wright’s Favorite Movies’, which came as something of a surprise, as I hadn’t written it. Though the American spelling of ‘favourite’ was a clue. The list had been created by Sam DiSalle, so I reached out to ask how he had compiled it. He explained that it included every film I had ever said I liked in interviews, articles and polls. I asked if I could edit it and, over the next few months, after much addition and subtraction, gave him enough further suggestions to bring the grand total up to a round 1,000 films. Every now and then I update it and thought I would do so ten years on. It is a very personal and entirely subjective selection of favourites from more than 100 years of cinema. Some people get extremely riled up about films they perceive to be ‘missing’, so please be warned: any comments along the lines of “What, no…?” will be deleted. It’s only one person’s list, and the great news is you can absolutely make your own. In fact, I encourage you to! I enjoy keeping the list fluid for my own pleasure, amusement and reference. I’m sharing a recently updated version in the hope that you’ll have fun poring over it and diving into some films you haven’t seen, or perhaps haven’t even heard of. I should also apologise to my friends at @1000filmsblog for adding and removing titles. I really don’t mean to increase your workload! Anything that has ever appeared on the list remains valid; I simply like to cycle films in and out according to rewatches and new discoveries. And, of course, enormous thanks to Sam DiSalle for helping me put it all together and maintain it over the years. Links to his MUBI and Letterboxd versions of the list are below. Film-watching is a lifetime pursuit, and there are still so many others out there for me to see. I hope these two lists are a great place to for you to start. Please give my regards to your eyeballs! Note from Edgar, August 2016: “This is a personal and subjective list of 1,000 favourite movies from 100 years of cinema. It’s not a set text or intended as any bible of ‘greatest’ films. I decided to put this together as a fluid list for my own enjoyment, amusement and reference. I hope it’s fun for you to pore over and dive into some of the films you haven’t seen or haven’t heard of. Don’t get all riled up about omissions or which movies you think should be favourites of mine, the truth is I may very well like / not like or not have seen the movies you think are missing. In fact, I like way more than 1,000 movies, but any longer and this list would be really insane. Thanks to Sam DiSalle for helping me put it together. If you feel so inspired, make your own list. Film watching is a life-time pursuit and there’s many more films out there for me to see. This site is a great place to start.” Last updated in August 2026. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Nosferatu Safety Last! Sherlock Jr. The Gold Rush Faust The General Metropolis Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans Steamboat Bill, Jr. ...plus 990 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
An archive of the previous version of this list. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Nosferatu Safety Last! Sherlock Jr. The Gold Rush Faust The General Metropolis Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog ...plus 989 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Consensus for Showdown № 240 Room Service (best films set in hotels) The Shining The Grand Budapest Hotel Psycho Lost in Translation Spirited Away The Florida Project Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Aftersun Some Like It Hot The Lobster ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
As Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey dominates at the worldwide box office, we delve into the Letterboxd community’s ranking of this iconic director’s entire filmography from best to worst. Read the full story on Journal. The Dark Knight Interstellar The Odyssey The Prestige Inception Memento Oppenheimer Batman Begins The Dark Knight Rises Dunkirk ...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Vengeance is hers! Katie Rife compiles twenty standout films, from commercial comedies to harrowing horror-thrillers, in which women exact retribution on those who’ve wronged them. Read the full list breakdown on Journal. Lady Vengeance Gone Girl Thelma & Louise Nine to Five Carrie Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 Ms .45 The First Wives Club Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair Revenge ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
As Potsy Ponciroli’s Motor City lands in US theaters this Friday, the director shares a list of films that influenced his revenge crime actioner. Read more for his accompanying notes for each pick. Drive I was chasing the mood of this film hard. The lonely nights, the sodium vapor glow, the way the city seems to breathe after midnight. It’s a film that understands atmosphere can tell as much of the story as dialogue. I wanted Detroit to feel the same way. Beautiful, dangerous, and quietly heartbroken. Bullitt Steve McQueen! One of the coolest dudes who ever lived. Effortless. He had to do so little to command the screen. Bullitt is a masterclass in confidence, restraint, and silence. It shows subtle looks can be far more powerful than speeches. The French Connection I’ve always loved how The French Connection makes every chase feel like it could fall apart at any second. There’s no polish to it, just momentum and danger. That crunch and real, rawness became the base for the action in Motor City. The Goonies The one that started it all! This is the movie that made me want to become a filmmaker. I (like almost everyone) must have watched it a hundred times growing up. The way it captures the spirit of adventure and wonder. The bravery and friendships… It’s something that has stuck with me and always will. True Romance At its heart, True Romance is a story about two people who believe love is worth risking absolutely everything for. That idea found its way into the DNA of Motor City from the very beginning… only Motor City offers a different look at love through the love triangle. The Count of Monte Cristo I’ve always loved that beneath all the revenge and adventure, this is really a story about a man trying to reclaim his life. More important… the woman that was stolen from him. Sun City Sun City embraces pulp storytelling in the best way. Every character is iconic, every image feels heightened, and it never apologizes for being larger than life. It reminded me that cool and style can take the forefront in a story. Iconic imagery is everything. Get Carter Get Carter is one of the great revenge films because it didn’t romanticize revenge. It’s showed it as cold, methodical, and to a degree… procedural. Michael Caine moves through that world with a quiet determination. The Crow Such a badass movie. The imagery sticks with you. It’s a revenge movie wrapped inside a tragic love story, and somehow that makes both more powerful. The myth, romance, and violence. Blue Ruin Such a great film! It tackles revenge without the glamour. The violence is awkward, painful, and irreversible. It’s a heightened story with painfully real consequences.
Consensus for Showdown № 239 Empire State of Mind (best ancient-epic films) Gladiator Hercules Spartacus Ben-Hur Troy 300 The Northman The Prince of Egypt Life of Brian Mulan ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Stories of gods, monsters and heroes blazing through antiquity have made for some of our most memorable and exciting blockbusters—in honor of The Odyssey, Matt Goldberg looks at twenty films that blur history and fantasy, creating a distinct crop of cinematic myths. Read the full list breakdown on Journal. Ben-Hur Gladiator Spartacus 300 Clash of the Titans Jason and the Argonauts Cleopatra The Thief of Bagdad Hercules Samson and Delilah ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Whether in a lead role or supporting turn, the great Sam Neill made the most of any part. Matt Goldberg highlights a selection of the late actor’s best performances, and the Letterboxd community’s love for each. Read the full story on Journal. Jurassic Park Hunt for the Wilderpeople In the Mouth of Madness Possession Event Horizon Dead Calm The Piano Memoirs of an Invisible Man My Brilliant Career The Final Conflict ...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
To celebrate the release of her first album, ’Be Sweet to Me’, Violet Grohl shares a list of six films that inspired the album. Lost Highway Lost Highway was a big visual inspiration for the music video for my song “595.” There are lots of bits and pieces throughout the movie that are somewhat humorous in a very David Lynch way that my producer Justin Raisen and I really latched onto when we watched his movies. We wanted to use that ultra American almost satirical comedy throughout the album and in some of the music videos as well just to keep it light hearted and fun through the vulnerability. Singles Singles is one of my favorite movies of all time. It’s the only rom-com I can truly stomach to be honest. I don’t think there’s a movie that’s more ’90s than Singles. I love the musical cameos. I love the performances. The soundtrack is on another level. It’s grunge gold. It’s treasure. It’s just funny and brilliant. Lots of the bands in this movie heavily inspired my writing and the sound I love so much. It’s amazing to see them having fun while still doing the thing they do while just popping their head in in a movie. The Decline of Western Civilization The Decline of Western Civilization is one of my favorite documentaries of all time. It’s definitely my favorite music documentary. I love the Talking Heads bits. It was really inspiring to me when I was writing “Cool Buzz” as well. I just wanted to lean into those roots and pay homage to the sound that I love and the scene that I love so much while also critiquing the way people go about themselves in that scene. I was extremely inspired by X’s opening performance of “Nausea”. When I was younger, I did a cover of that song with my dad when I was fourteen. I have always looked up to the bands in that movie and their stage presence and the sonics it’s just so perfect. I recommend it to anyone who loves music or music history. Urgh! A Music War Another favorite music documentary of mine is Urgh! A Music War. It showcases a lot of my favorite artists and some of my favorite performances by my favorite artists. The Cramps’ performance in this movie is unmatched, it’s so frenetic and just so them. It’s a perfect showcase of what they can do and who they were. I love Gary Numan’s performance and X is always a favorite of mine. It’s just so beautifully ’80s. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me has been a massive creative influence. The first time I watched it I was in a hotel room in DC. It was really late at night, and I was looking for something to watch. It was at the top of my list. I was completely sucked into the story line and the characters. I hadn’t really watched Twin Peaks, just bits of it, so I kind of watched it out of order. It opened up this whole world for me that I wanted to dive into even deeper. There are lots of pieces from the Twin Peaks world that we paid homage to in my songs, in my lyrics and in my visuals. David was just a brilliant and surreal filmmaker and that’s my favorite kind of stuff. Fast Times at Ridgemont High Fast Times at Ridgemont High inspired the title for my song “Cool Buzz” which is a reference to Jeff Spicoli’s convenience store line. I’ve always had an affinity for this movie growing up in the valley and my mom grew up in the valley as well. It feels very close to home. It’s just a great comfort watch if you want something funny to put on and to enjoy.
As the MUBI Podcast returns with a second series of needle-drops focusing on UK music of the ’80s and ’90s, host Rico Gagliano shares eleven films that exemplify the power of music in cinema. Read more on Journal. 2001: A Space Odyssey Donnie Darko The Harder They Come Chungking Express Blackboard Jungle Whisper of the Heart Bend It Like Beckham All of Us Strangers Belly This Is England ...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
For the second in a series of starter packs surveying New Hollywood, Justin LaLiberty brings together twenty recommendations for those looking to dive deeper into this independent, auteur-driven movement of American cinema. Who's That Knocking at My Door Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Zabriskie Point Husbands A New Leaf Two-Lane Blacktop Carnal Knowledge Play Misty for Me Fat City Across 110th Street ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
As the 2026 summer movie season delivers a fresh, hopeful batch of crowd-pleasing spectacles, the Letterboxd crew makes a case for some of the lesser-loved blockbusters from years past that we feel are worth a second look. Read the full story on Journal. The Matrix Resurrections Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) Hulk Constantine Transformers: Age of Extinction Mission: Impossible II Alien³ Bad Boys II Cliffhanger Air Force One ...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
In partnership with Mentos, here are the top 20 most popular comedies of the 1990s on Letterboxd. How many have you seen? The Truman Show Pulp Fiction 10 Things I Hate About You Forrest Gump Home Alone Toy Story Clueless Notting Hill Fargo The Big Lebowski ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma One Night Only Super Troopers 3 Tony The End of Oak Street The Wrong Girls The Birthday Party The Magic Faraway Tree Mutiny Spa Weekend ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
As we dive headfirst into summer and outrageously hot temperatures in much of the world, a starter pack of twenty fantastic films about summer vacations awaits. While many are joyous and uplifting, summer isn’t always just about joy—filmmakers have also deftly used the summer months to explore unexpected loneliness, alienation, heartbreak; as much on an individual level, or even through families tearing at the seams. This collection of movies reminds us that a summer holiday is far from a cure-all; for the lovers and dreamers, and the non-believers, there’s something for everyone’s watchlists. Read the full list breakdown over on Journal. Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar Dirty Dancing The Way Way Back The Green Ray Before Midnight Only Yesterday How Stella Got Her Groove Back Smiles of a Summer Night The Quiet Girl The Talented Mr. Ripley ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
With Elliot Tuttle’s Blue Film now available on Letterboxd Video Store’s New Releases shelf, the filmmaker shares the films that influenced his provocative debut feature. Read more to see his accompany notes for each pick. In a Glass Cage Ground-breaking in its onscreen depiction of taboo — one film completely sustained by evil-made-human and just a few characters. It’s brash and completely disregards socially-acceptable storytelling in pursuit of a greater truth. And that very specific icy blue cast by DP Jaume Peracaula in its final moments will forever be an aesthetic reference for me. Sweet Movie Impossible to shake — one of the few films I regard highly and have only seen once — perfect example of a film one could never make now. Its ethos, which guides us through unseen depravity with such an unblinking eye, gave me courage when thinking about Blue Film. My Own Private Idaho It has to be one of the quintessential Gay films, all the more interesting because I don’t know if I could describe River Phoenix or Keanu Reeves’ characters as gay. But I do think Phoenix in this film is one of the greatest performances of all time, and his sensitivity (which transcends any identity) was hugely informative for the character of Aaron. 36 Fillette I’ve mentioned Breillat many times through the press cycle of Blue Film but this stands out to me as both her best work and the most influential to mine. Her portrait(s) of adolescent sexuality move me very deeply in that they’re made with such care and reckless abandon. Her films exist so far outside of any social precedent, but she makes them with such honesty. It’s a radical feat, and she does it every time she makes a film. A true visionary. Ken Park Sex onscreen is often relegated to the conceptual, but films like Ken Park make it feel rife with danger and potential, as an experience that moves us through our lives. It’s a nauseating film insofar as we see ourselves in its depravity. Pervert Park Very informative to me as a piece of journalism on sex offenders, however anecdotal and personal. It became clear to me very quickly that I could not make characters that were representative of all gay guys and sex workers, or convicted sex offenders. But this film offered a lot of valuable, and carefully documented, insight on the inner lives of pedophiles and sexual criminals. Father and Son The film has this hallucinatory quality unlike anything I’ve ever seen; it’s not ‘visual poetry,’ ‘surrealist,’ or any of our usual descriptors. It’s so ambitious, visually, and then completely compelling in a similarly somatic, emotional, insular story of only two characters (a younger and older man). Ariel Enormous visual reference that I shared with my DP Ryan Jackson-Healy, as well as Kaurismaki’s Le Havre. I don’t think Kaurismaki gets enough credit for how expressively he uses color — he deserves to be talked about alongside Almodóvar. It was very important to me and Ryan not to be afraid of color, or attempting a visual world. I didn’t want to fall into the classic debut feature pitfall of mistaking framing for cinematography. I was very grateful to Ryan for guiding the process and being such a wonderful collaborator. Nymphomaniac As blunt and honest about sex as any film I could imagine. One of his major works (alongside The House That Jack Built in my opinion). Should be spoken about all the time. Hard Candy A very intelligently-written chamber piece that threads this perfect line between human drama, dark comedy, and perverse sex thriller. It’s difficult to find a tonal misstep in what is really an audacious film, especially for that time in the American scene with two major stars who had a lot to risk by making it. ...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Consensus for Showdown № 238 Bright Lights (best Las Vegas films) Ocean's Eleven Casino The Hangover Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Anora Showgirls The Godfather Part II Leaving Las Vegas Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Blade Runner 2049 ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
As Minions & Monsters rolls out into theaters, co-writer Brian Lynch shares the movies that inspired or are referenced in the feature that harkens back to Old Hollywood. Modern Times Steamboat Bill, Jr. Safety Last! Plan 9 from Outer Space Singin' in the Rain Citizen Kane The Maltese Falcon The Muppet Movie Back to the Future Part II E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
To celebrate the release of Jackass: Best and Last, let’s go back to the very beginning and unpack all the jackassery cinema has gifted us along the way. Here are twenty movies that influence, inspire and embody the spirit of Jackass, from raunchy comedies and music docs to films maudit and beyond. Read the full story on Journal. Beavis and Butt-Head Do America Being Evel Pink Flamingos SLC Punk Blazing Saddles Roar Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Footlight Parade The Decline of Western Civilization Tucker and Dale vs. Evil ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
To celebrate this summer’s mammoth FIFA World Cup, we revisit Annie Lyons’ celebration of underseen, underrated narrative features focused on soccer that center o jogo bonito in an integral way. These choices might not tend to offer much on-field action but still capture something true about the game’s essence, encompassing everything from an ambitious coach’s crisis point to fans risking arrest to attend a match and a romance that runs parallel to a World Cup. Head over to Journal for the full list breakdown and to find a handful of nonfiction recommendations too. The Damned United Diamantino Fever Pitch Looking for Eric Mario Offside Rudo y Cursi What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
The Odyssey Spider-Man: Brand New Day Minions & Monsters Evil Dead Burn Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass Moana Horsegirls The Samurai and the Prisoner Pinocchio: Unstrung Motor City ...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Olivia Rodrigo loves love—and over three albums to date, she has learned to write and sing about it with a wisdom far beyond her years: the beautiful, shiny parts as much as the ugly, sad ones. Recorded during and released after the dissolution of Rodrigo’s first “big girl relationship”, her third album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love lets love songs and laments on heartbreak coexist and converse with each other. Love and loneliness become intimate bedfellows across its thirteen tracks, with startling clarity. To keep the conversation going around Rodrigo’s most cinematic and emotionally arresting album yet, behold twenty films below that serve as essential representation for the essential sad girls one of our greatest young songwriters has always taken such great care of. Read the full story breakdown on Journal. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant The Apartment In the Mood for Love Charulata If Beale Street Could Talk A Tale of Winter Asako I & II On the Beach at Night Alone Babyteeth Je Tu Il Elle ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
With The Death of Robin Hood out now in theaters, Dan Mecca unleashes a quiver’s worth of cinematic excursions with the iconic outlaw that hit the mark. Read the full story on Journal. The Death of Robin Hood Robin Hood Robin Hood: Men in Tights Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Robin Hood Robin and Marian Robin Hood A Challenge for Robin Hood Robin and the 7 Hoods The Adventures of Robin Hood ...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
To celebrate the release of Horse Lords’ sixth studio album Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!, band members Max Eilbacher (bass/electronics) and Owen Gardner guitar/electronics) share a list of movies they watched during the making of the record, available now via RVNG Intl. Follow Max and Owen on Letterboxd. Read their accompanying notes for each pick. Anaconda An all-time hotel classic—over 15 years of touring, we have developed and refined an appreciation for the blockbusters of the past that now linger in the purgatory of cable TV. I feel like I have said “I barely slept, Anaconda was on last night” at many early lobby calls. How do you take what works for and against Anaconda and distill it into a 3-minute song? The Catch I watched this after a difficult studio session trying to figure out how to enjoy writing bass lines remotely. It haunted me on multiple levels, something I could still feel when I resumed the aborted writing session. How did Somai create something so pedestrian yet so disturbing? Where do artistic intent and the viewer’s subjective projections meet and depart? I was watching the film, wrecked by it, but also thinking about the same three bass notes. Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day A high water mark for leftist art using the tools of mass entertainment. An openly stagey and propagandistic romance whose characters are so lovingly wrought that their struggles and successes feel like ours, and through whom Marxist tenets are communicated with rare sincerity and directness, heeding Douglas Sirk’s (and country music’s) lesson that realism is not necessarily the most direct path to the real. F for Fake Music production is no less built on lies, but despite my best efforts I haven’t yet succeeded in exploiting this as gleefully as Welles, who apparently thought this was a masterpiece but seems to treat it like a joke? Silliness is serious. Heimat 2: A Chronicle of a Generation Conveys so vividly the joy and agony of creation and of creative community. This 1,500-minute journey through one of Germany’s tempestuous decades accompanied and mirrored the sometimes tortured path through composing, recording and mixing this record. Loose Corner We strive for a similar approach to examining sonic and/or musical phenomena—maybe best heard on “Playing and Reality”—exploring an illusion in a way that conveys wonder and curiosity rather than mastery. Great soundtrack as well, the sound of piano on tape bringing added wistfulness. The Suspect Political intrigue and betrayal unfold under the beautiful arcades and interiors of Turin. Intricate ornamentation and texture alone are not enough, and a hushed yet thrilling plot alone is not enough. Form needs both. How do you weave them together in a way that preserves, mutes, and amplifies? This film does a pretty great job of all this. 3 Women The Miles Davis 1974 live band and Pete Cosey left the feedback setting on a little too high and Davis did not do anything about it till near the end of the concert but it’s a movie made by the GOAT Altman. He takes the logic of dreams seriously and so do we. A Touch of Zen That in the midst of what one would expect to be the most intense action sequences the focus shifts to the stillness of the forest, the rustling of clothes and the imaginary whipping windy sounds of jumping: magical, and an effect we’ll continue trying to emulate. What's Up Connection It melts any notion of form and casts its sticky material into a barber pole spinning between a shop selling enlightenment and one selling sugary snacks. I had never experienced this level of play with the notion of fixed characters, cinematic categories, linear markings, all held together inside the container of a cartoonish movie plot—one so flexible that it can suddenly become a slapstick ethnographic film and just as unexpectedly return. Very inspiring.
Consensus for Showdown № 237 Love Lies Bleeding (best “be gay, do crime” films) Dog Day Afternoon Bound The Handmaiden Love Lies Bleeding Rope Bottoms The Rocky Horror Picture Show Mulholland Drive The Talented Mr. Ripley Jennifer's Body ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Marilyn Monroe’s legacy as a performer is one of appearances being deceiving. In spite of her beauty and platinum hair, she was anything but a “dumb blonde”. She was a producer, a perfectionist, a woman who wanted to be seen as a person and respected as a woman. Even in movies made about her, only one of which is included in this list, there’s a desire to showcase who she was as a person and an actor. The films below—in chronological order—demonstrate different facets of Marilyn Monroe, and do a fantastic job of presenting the performer she was, and what she could have been. Read more about Kristen Lopez’s selections on Journal. Ladies of the Chorus The Asphalt Jungle All About Eve Let's Make It Legal Clash by Night Don't Bother to Knock Monkey Business Niagara Gentlemen Prefer Blondes How to Marry a Millionaire ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
As Disclosure Day brings Steven Spielberg back into speculative science-fiction territory, we bring to light the Letterboxd community’s ranking of the legendary director’s entire filmography from best to worst. Read the full story on Journal. Schindler's List Saving Private Ryan Raiders of the Lost Ark Jurassic Park Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Catch Me If You Can The Fabelmans The Color Purple Jaws Empire of the Sun ...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
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Andrew Garfield breaks down his career, from Silence and The Social Network to Under the Silver Lake and Spider-Man: No Way Home. His new film, The Uprising, opens in US theaters on September 10 and in UK and Irish cinemas on October 9. Featuring: Boy A, Never Let Me Go, The Social Network, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Silence, Under the Silver Lake, tick, tick… BOOM!, Spider-Man: No Way Home, We Live in Time, The Uprising.
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Four Favorites with The Whisper Man star Adam Scott. The Whisper Man releases tomorrow on Netflix.
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The Dog Stars team Josh Brolin, Jacob Elordi, and Ridley Scott guess films from their filmography based on your Letterboxd reviews. The Dog Stars is in UK and Irish cinemas now and in US theaters this Friday.
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Finding Emily star Angourie Rice and director Alicia MacDonald read and react to your Letterboxd reviews of the film. Finding Emily opens in select US theaters on August 28.
Four Favorites with Magdalena Bay and Amanda Kramer on the two year anniversary of their album, Imaginal Disk. Amanda Kramer directs the band in the film accompanying their album of the same name. The band is hosting two special LA screenings of the film on August 24.
Matthew McConaughey shares his four favorite films with Letterboxd. The Rivals of Amziah King is in US theaters now.
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The End of Oak Street writer-director David Robert Mitchell and producer J.J. Abrams break down how they approached the film’s dinosaur sequences and detail some of their inspirations, from Poltergeist and Signs to The Twilight Zone. The End of Oak Street opens in theaters everywhere on August 14.
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Antonio Banderas looks back on his career, from his decades-long collaboration with Pedro Almodóvar to Puss in Boots and more. Tony is in select US theaters now and comes to the UK and Ireland on August 14.
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Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder talk teenage movie memories, X-Files monsters, and favorite movie theater snacks. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma opens in US theaters on August 7 via MUBI and comes to the UK and Ireland on August 21.
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Katharine Isabelle and Emily Perkins read and react to your Letterboxd reviews of Ginger Snaps. Ginger Snaps premiered at Munich Fantasy FilmFest on this day in 2000.
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At San Diego Comic-Con, Avengers: Doomsday stars Lewis Pullman and Danny Ramirez ask each other for their four favorite films. Avengers: Doomsday will be released in theaters on December 18.
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Christopher Nolan explains every format to experience his new epic, The Odyssey, his early obsession with Homer’s mythology, and speaks to the enduring love for Interstellar. The Odyssey is in theaters and IMAX around the world July 17. On the film’s page in the Letterboxd app, you can track and share the ways you see the film.
Jena Malone looks back on Donnie Darko, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Lovesong and more. Her new album, Flowers for Men, is out now.
Olivia Wilde and Edward Norton discuss their influences for The Invite. The Invite is now playing in theaters across the US and UK.
Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon read and react to your reviews of Homecoming, Far From Home and No Way Home ahead of the release of Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Spider-Man: Brand New Day releases July 31 via Sony Pictures.
Filmmaker Elvira Lind and her husband Oscar Isaac discuss their memorable movie-going experiences together and take us for a peek behind some of the inspirations behind their theater documentary King Hamlet. Watch King Hamlet now on Letterboxd Video Store, exclusively for a limited time only.
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Jackass: Best and Last star Johnny Knoxville and director Jeff Tremaine talk about their favorite Jackass moments, uninsurable stunts, the influence of Tom and Jerry and more. Jackass: Best and Last is in theaters June 26 via Paramount Pictures.
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Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor take us inside Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day. The stars look back on filming their first scenes, reveal their favorite Spielberg movies, and offer a few hints about the relationship between their characters in the director’s upcoming sci-fi epic. Disclosure Day opens worldwide on June 12th, 2026.