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Showdown: The Celluloid Closet

Current topic: best underseen queer films

This is my list for all the Letterboxd showdowns with the current topic occupying the first ten spots. Not every list is complete here because you can't have the same movie twice on the same list, so some spots are empty in older showdowns.

Here is the key to this list:

#1-10: The Celluloid Closet (best underseen queer films)
#11-20: The Nice Guys (best films about male friendship)
#21-30: Grand Illusion (best classic sci-fi/fantasy films)
#31-37: This Must Be the Place (best films with location titles)
#38-46: The Killing Joke (best dark-comedy films)
#47-55: Monkey Business (best primates in film)
#56-61: The Favourite (best nominees for the Outstanding British Film BAFTA)
#62-65: The NeverEnding…

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There are 28 films in this list released in the 1960s.

  • Planet of the Apes

    49

  • The Devil Rides Out

    97

  • Viridiana

    70

  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

    99

  • Le Samouraï

    126

  • Kwaidan

    131

  • Far from Vietnam

    133

  • Alphaville

    154

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    26

  • Woman in the Dunes

    79

  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    83

  • Contempt

    161

  • 8½

    162

  • The Great Escape

    19

  • The Battle of Algiers

    36

  • The Graduate

    40

  • The Cremator

    43

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    58

  • Persona

    76

  • Winter Light

    78

  • Wavelength

    167

  • Bonnie and Clyde

    172

  • La Dolce Vita

    201

  • The Apartment

    214

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    39

  • Lolita

    69

  • Psycho

    106

  • Mary Poppins

    199