iCM Forum's Favourite Under 50 iCM Checks Movies : Results Thread

Tim2460 · #1

iCM Forum's Favourite Under 50 iCM Checks Movies

Results topic

For a new year, let's try something... really new and create our "under 50 checks" list of best movies...

Thx to our Voters :

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Tim2460 · #2

Here are the Result lists :

Top 250
https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+ ... s/tim2460/
Full List
https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/icm+ ... t/tim2460/

Tim2460 · #3

#250(NEW) Discopathe (2013)

Directed by: Renaud Gauthier
Country: Canada
(139,5 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–1
Plot: The mid-70's: a timid young New Yorker leads an uneventful life until he is fatefully exposed to the pulsating rhythms of a brand-new genre of music: disco. Unable to control his murderous ...

ICheckMovies: 31 Checks , 2 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 2 Voters:

cinephage (#51)
tourdesb (#9)

Coryn · #4

woooo this is going to be exciting.

beasterne · #5

I will be shocked if I get more than 5/250 on this list. I'll be surprised if I even hit 1/250. But this will still be a fun one!

Tim2460 · #6

#249(NEW) La chambre ardente (1962)
[The Burning Court]

Directed by: Julien Duvivier
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
(139,72 Pts, 3 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: ––1
Plot: A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.

ICheckMovies: 17 Checks , 1 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 3 Voters:

frbrown (#71)
matthewscott8 (#83)
peeptoad(#27)

Tim2460 · #7

#248(NEW) Die Mauer (1991)

Directed by: Jürgen Böttcher
Country: Germany
(140,13 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: ––2
Plot: A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but instead focuses on visual elements. From the Potsdamer Platz to the Brandenburg Gate, ...

ICheckMovies: 33 Checks , 1 Favourites , 1 Official lists

List of 2 Voters:

tourdesb (#20)
zuma (#34)

gromit82 · #8

Tim: What was the half-life used for this poll?

Tim2460 · #9

#247(NEW) Oi sfaires den gyrizoun piso (1967)
[Bullets Don't Come Back]

Directed by: Nikos Foskolos
Country: Greece
(140,26 Pts, 3 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: ––1
Plot: One accused of robbery and murder runs away from the gendarmerie and undertakes to locate another convict in exchange for his freedom. In the course of the pursuit, the two men know each other and assist each other.

ICheckMovies: 28 Checks , 5 Favourites , 1 Official lists

List of 3 Voters:

burneyfan (#55)
filmbantha (#30)
Leopardi (#98)

Tim2460 · #10

gromit82 wrote: ↑February 2nd, 2021, 11:04 pm Tim: What was the half-life used for this poll?

There are a lot of voters & enought films with more than one vote

So i left HL @ 50 as usual

Tim2460 · #11

#246(NEW) Nihon no higeki (1953)
[A Japanese Tragedy]

Directed by: Keisuke Kinoshita
Country: Japan
(140,39 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–2
Plot: Alternating in time, between the end of World War II and 1953, Haruko, a widow, does what she can to keep her daughter Utako and son Seiichi safe, fed, and sheltered. By 1953, it's clear ...

ICheckMovies: 41 Checks , 0 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 2 Voters:

jeff_v (#10)
Mysterious Dude (#48)

iCheckMovies · #12

I really wasn't expecting to see this ready so fast. Great work, Tim. Really excited to follow the results.

(Also: Ebby - we already see 3 votes films.

)

Tim2460 · #13

#245(NEW) Kaseki (1974)
[The Fossil]

Directed by: Masaki Kobayashi
Country: Japan
(140,46 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 1–1–1
Plot: ""A detailed look at a Tokyo business tycoon (played by Shin Saburi) given a diagnosis of terminal cancer who must now re-assess his life and values.""

ICheckMovies: 35 Checks , 6 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 2 Voters:

DudeLanez (#1)
RogerTheMovieManiac88(unranked)

iCheckMovies · #14

I actually considered voting for A Japanese Tragedy, undoubtedly one of Kinoshita's best.

As for Kaseki, that's one film I have been meaning to see for a decade.

Tim2460 · #15

#244(NEW) Fuck Me; Ray Bradbury (2010)

Directed by: Paul Briganti
Country: USA
(140,47 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: ––2
Plot: ""A sexy pop homage to the science fiction author Ray Bradbury.""

ICheckMovies: 32 Checks , 1 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 2 Voters:

ChrisReynolds (#28)
mightysparks (#25)

Tim2460 · #16

Forget the auto post script

Old school copy/paste from the OMDB page : was unable to debug the Python script yet.

Tim2460 · #17

#243(NEW) La marcia su Roma (1962)
[March on Rome]

Directed by: Dino Risi
Country: ""Italy, France""
(140,5 Pts, 3 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–1
Plot: ""After the 1st world war, two veterans, starving, but fools, are enlisted with the fascists, where they can eat. But when it comes to killing, they drop out.""

ICheckMovies: 31 Checks , 2 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 3 Voters:

72aicm (#7)
jeff_v (#57)
St. Gloede (#268)

Tim2460 · #18

#242(NEW) Chi wa kawaiteru (1960)
[Blood Is Dry]

Directed by: Yoshishige Yoshida
Country: Japan
(140,75 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: ––1
Plot: ""An assurance company employee threatens suicide after a massive layoff is announced by the management. The company takes advantage of his threat by turning it into an advertising campaign.""

ICheckMovies: 48 Checks , 6 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 2 Voters:

outdoorcats(unranked>20)
pitchorneirda (#13)

Lonewolf2003 · #19

Results

Tim2460 · #20

#241(NEW) En la selva no hay estrellas (1967)
[No Stars in the Jungle]

Directed by: Armando Robles Godoy
Country: ""Argentina, Peru""
(140,78 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–1
Plot: No Plot

ICheckMovies: 13 Checks , 0 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 2 Voters:

Perception de Ambiguity(unranked>2)
sortile9io (#6)

Tim2460 · #21

Last one for tonight

#240(NEW) 21 x Nowy Jork (2016)
[21 X New York]

Directed by: Piotr Stasik
Country: Poland
(140,78 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–2
Plot: ""\""21 x New York\"" is an intimate portrait of the city and its people. We meet the characters in the NYC subway and we follow them to the surface finding out about their lives, cravings, ...""

ICheckMovies: 8 Checks , 1 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 2 Voters:

Jimi Antiloop (#6)
Perception de Ambiguity(unranked>2)

Tim2460 · #22

See you tomorow

pitchorneirda · #23

Finally Chi wa kawaiteru in an iCM forum list

RogerTheMovieManiac88 · #24

Absolutely loving how you have things set up. Screenshots, posters, voters, etc. It looks awesome and is shaping up to be an amazing list.

Interesting to see one from Armando Robles Godoy already show up. I really admired 'Espejismo' and voted for it here. I remember seeing it on several other ballots so I hope it will show up as well.

Beautiful to see 'Kaseki' among this opening bunch. A haunting, contemplative, beautifully filmed late-career masterpiece from Kobayashi. It is one of those films that I would love to see again sometime to see how it holds up. It's been a long time but I remember being moved deeply by it.

Torgo · #25

St. Gloede wrote: ↑February 2nd, 2021, 11:10 pm I actually considered voting for A Japanese Tragedy, undoubtedly one of Kinoshita's best.

But then?

Tim2460 wrote: ↑February 2nd, 2021, 11:09 pm #245(NEW) Kaseki (1974)
[The Fossil]
List of 2 Voters:
DudeLanez (#1)
RogerTheMovieManiac88(unranked)

Wow, a #1 already! And how close it was to missing the countdown without the other unranked vote ..

Tim2460 wrote: ↑February 2nd, 2021, 11:22 pm #240(NEW) 21 x Nowy Jork (2016)

(140,78 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–2
List of 2 Voters:
Jimi Antiloop (#6)
Perception de Ambiguity(unranked>2)

An 8-check film

sol · #26

I love the fact that we got enough votes for a decent top 250.

Really looking forward to how this pans out. As said when I suggested the poll idea, this should be one of the most unpredictable polls that we have ever held in the best possible way.

72aicm · #27

Looks great Tim. Interesting results!

iCheckMovies · #28

Torgo wrote: ↑February 3rd, 2021, 1:43 am
St. Gloede wrote: ↑February 2nd, 2021, 11:10 pm I actually considered voting for A Japanese Tragedy, undoubtedly one of Kinoshita's best.
But then?

But then I decided to not make my list too monstrously big. If I had been adding every great film I would likely not have been done on time. (in fact I was not done on time)

Tim2460 · #29

Torgo wrote: ↑February 3rd, 2021, 1:43 am Wow, a #1 already! And how close it was to missing the countdown without the other unranked vote ..

I usually post the Number ones outside of the top list beginning the result thread... but there are too much this time ! will post them after ,)

Tim2460 · #30

#239(NEW) Dadetown (1995)

Directed by: Russ Hexter
Country: USA
(140,78 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–2
Plot: ""Interviews in the Michael Moore/\""Roger and Me\"" tradition examine life in small-town America, class conflicts and the collapse of an upstate New York community, Dadetown, when the town's ...""

ICheckMovies: 8 Checks , 2 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 2 Voters:

OldAle1(#6)
Perception de Ambiguity(unranked>2)

Tim2460 · #31

#238(NEW) Art of Memory (1987)

Directed by: Woody Vasulka
Country: USA
(140,78 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–2
Plot: ""N/A""

ICheckMovies: 14 Checks , 4 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 2 Voters:

hurluberlu (#6)
Perception de Ambiguity(unranked>2)

Tim2460 · #32

#237(NEW) Der Apfel ist ab (1948)
[The Original Sin]

Directed by: Helmut Käutner
Country: Germany
(140,89 Pts, 3 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–1
Plot: ""An apple juice producer can't decide between his wife and his secretary and tries to commit suicide. Being committed to psychiatry, he falls asleep and dreams of adventures as Adam and Eve in heaven and hell.""

ICheckMovies: 14 Checks , 1 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 3 Voters:

brokenface (#3)
RogerTheMovieManiac88(unranked)
St. Gloede (#250)

Tim2460 · #33

Stunning !!

#236(NEW) Beauty (2014)

Directed by: Rino Stefano Tagliafierro
Country: Italy
(141,48 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: ––2
Plot: ""BEAUTY is a short story of the most important emotions of life, from birth to death, love and sexuality through pain and fear. It is a tribute to art and his disarming beauty.""

ICheckMovies: 41 Checks , 6 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 2 Voters:

ChrisReynolds (#24)
joachimt(#28)

Tim2460 · #34

Guess where i found the screenshot

#235(NEW) Colonel Panics (2016)

Directed by: Cho Jinseok
Country: ""Japan, Australia""
(142,08 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–1
Plot: ""The destinies of two men, one from the future and one from the past, become entwined as a malevolent virus spreads throughout Level 4, a digital gaming experience that blurs dreams and reality.""

ICheckMovies: 12 Checks , 1 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 2 Voters:

Onderhond (#5)
Perception de Ambiguity(unranked>2)

Tim2460 · #35

#234(NEW) L'île au trésor (2018)
[Treasure Island]

Directed by: Guillaume Brac
Country: France
(142,08 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–1
Plot: ""A summer on a leisure island in the Paris region. Land of adventure, drag and transgression for some, place of refuge and escape for others. From its fee-paying beach to its hidden recesses...""

ICheckMovies: 40 Checks , 2 Favourites , 1 Official lists

List of 2 Voters:

Perception de Ambiguity(unranked>2)
Teproc (#5)

Tim2460 · #36

#233(NEW) Xiang hun nü (1993)
[The Women from the Lake of Scented Souls]

Directed by: Fei Xie
Country: China
(142,23 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: ––2
Plot: ""If money can't buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Her husband is lazy and drinks; her son is blood simple. ...""

ICheckMovies: 37 Checks , 2 Favourites , 1 Official lists

List of 2 Voters:

Caracortada (#38)
Mate_cosido (#15)

Tim2460 · #37

#232(NEW) L'invenzione di Morel (1974)
[Morel's Invention]

Directed by: Emidio Greco
Country: Italy
(142,23 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: ––2
Plot: ""A castaway arrives on an island. He thinks it's uninhabited, but he sees a palace with also a hidden room. Soon he sees some people walking, dressed with old-fashioned clothes. He is afraid because people don't see him, like a ghost.""

ICheckMovies: 43 Checks , 3 Favourites , 1 Official lists

List of 2 Voters:

beavis (#38)
hurluberlu (#15)

Tim2460 · #38

#231(NEW) Melodiya dlya sharmanki (2009)
[Melody for a Street Organ]

Directed by: Kira Muratova
Country: Ukraine
(142,58 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–1
Plot: ""Two young orphan siblings travel to Moscow in search of their missing father. Scared of being separated and sent to orphanages, they hope to reunite with the last link of their shattered family.""

ICheckMovies: 40 Checks , 4 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 2 Voters:

matthewscott8 (#56)
Y U M E (#4)

Tim2460 · #39

#230(NEW) Sarah Winchester; opéra fantôme (2016)
[Sarah Winchester; Phantom Opera]

Directed by: Bertrand Bonello
Country: France
(142,64 Pts, 2 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: –1–1
Plot: ""An opera ballet that doesn't exist. A ghost-like piece, played in Opera Bastille and danced at Opera Garnier, An almost mystical link between both scenes, A musician is testing sounds in ...""

ICheckMovies: 48 Checks , 4 Favourites , 0 Official lists

List of 2 Voters:

Daviddoes (#3)
Obgeoff (#58)

Ebbywebby · #40

"Art of Memory" has been on my list of shorts to see for ages, but it seems like I found it once and it needed subtitles in isolated places? No?

"Sarah Winchester, Phantom Opera" is on my shorts list too. Anyone have a link for that one?

I have "Beauty" checked but can't remember it at all.