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Films Preferred by Older and Younger Voters

The lists below contain films that older voters like more than younger voters do and the reverse. The lists are ranked by the "% difference," which is the absolute value of the difference between the percent of ballots from older voters on which a film appeared and the percent of ballots from younger voters on which a film appeared. For example, if a film appeared on 9.74% of ballots from older voters and 5.31% of ballots from younger voters, the % difference would be 4.43%.

For these tables, older voters are those born before 1960. Younger voters were born in 1960 or later.

Films Liked by Older Voters More than by Younger Voters

Rank Title Year Director % Difference
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 9.50%
2 Sunrise 1927 F. W. Murnau 7.30%
3 Searchers, The 1956 John Ford 7.26%
4 Règle du jeu, La 1939 Jean Renoir 6.82%
5 Passion of Joan of Arc 1927 Carl Theodor Dreyer 5.72%
6 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 5.19%
7 Seventh Seal, The 1957 Ingmar Bergman 5.17%
8 grande illusion, La 1937 Jean Renoir 4.67%
9 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 4.23%
10 Ugetsu Monogatari 1953 Mizoguchi Kenji 4.15%
11 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 3.65%
12 Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 3.64%
13 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 3.63%
14 strada, La 1954 Federico Fellini 3.14%
15 Singin' in the Rain 1951 Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly 3.13%
16 General, The 1926 Buster Keaton 3.12%
= Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 3.12%
18 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 2.84%
19 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 2.68%
20 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 2.67%
21 Atalante, L' 1934 Jean Vigo 2.66%
22 Avventura, L' 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 2.65%
= dolce vita, La 1960 Federico Fellini 2.65%
24 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 2.63%
= Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 2.63%
26 M 1931 Fritz Lang 2.62%
27 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 2.61%
28 Mouchette 1966 Robert Bresson 2.60%
= Wild Bunch, The 1969 Sam Peckinpah 2.60%
30 Leopard, The 1963 Luchino Visconti 2.59%
31 enfants du paradis, Les 1945 Marcel Carné 2.58%
= Germany Year Zero 1948 Roberto Rossellini 2.58%
33 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M Eisenstein 2.12%
34 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 2.10%
35 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 2.09%
36 Magnificent Ambersons, The 1942 Orson Welles 2.08%
= Sansho Dayu 1954 Mizoguchi Kenji 2.08%
38 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 2.07%
= Dr. Strangelove 1963 Stanley Kubrick 2.07%
= Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 2.07%
= Travelling Players, The 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 2.07%
= Two or Three Things I Know About Her… 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 2.07%
43 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 2.06%
= Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The 1972 Luis Buñuel 2.06%
= Ivan the Terrible 1945 Sergei M Eisenstein 2.06%
= Madame de… 1953 Max Ophüls 2.06%
= Orphée 1950 Jean Cocteau 2.06%
= Shop Around the Corner, The 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 2.06%
= Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow 2.06%
50 Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 1.66%
51 eclisse, L' 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 1.60%
= Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 1.60%
53 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 1.59%
54 Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959 Alain Resnais 1.58%
= Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 1.58%
56 Gold Rush, The 1925 Charles Chaplin 1.57%
= Letter From an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 1.57%
= Tree of Life, The 2010 Terrence Malick 1.57%
59 Chimes at Midnight 1966 Orson Welles 1.56%
= Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk 1.56%
= Pandora's Box 1928 G W Pabst 1.56%
= Rome Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 1.56%
= Turin Horse, The 2011 Béla Tarr 1.56%
64 Bad Sleep Well, The 1960 Akira Kurosawa 1.55%
= Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 1.55%
= Big Sleep, The 1946 Howard Hawks 1.55%
= Crime of Monsieur Lange, The 1935 Jean Renoir 1.55%
= Deuxième Souffle, Le 1966 Jean-Pierre Melville 1.55%
= Dr Mabuse, The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 1.55%
= Flaming Creatures 1963 Jack Smith 1.55%
= Flower of My Secret, The 1995 Pedro Almodóvar 1.55%
= Gone with the Wind 1939 Victor Fleming 1.55%
= Lady Eve, The 1941 Preston Sturges 1.55%
= Listen to Britain 1942 Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister 1.55%
= Maltese Falcon, The 1941 John Huston 1.55%
= Misfits, The 1961 John Huston 1.55%
= Paisà 1946 Roberto Rossellini 1.55%
= Plaisir, Le 1951 Max Ophüls 1.55%
= Puppetmaster, The 1993 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1.55%
= Red Shoes, The 1948 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1.55%
= Scarlet Empress, The 1934 Josef von Sternberg 1.55%
= Sound of Music, The 1965 Robert Wise 1.55%
83 Battle of Algiers, The 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 1.10%
84 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 1.09%
85 Night of the Hunter, The 1955 Charles Laughton 1.08%
86 Amarcord 1972 Federico Fellini 1.07%
= Late Spring 1949 Ozu Yasujirô 1.07%
88 Jules et Jim 1962 François Truffaut 1.06%
89 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda 1.05%
= Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 1.05%
= Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 1.05%
= My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 1.05%
= River, The 1951 Jean Renoir 1.05%
= Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch 1.05%
95 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1.04%
= Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 1.04%
= Great Dictator, The 1940 Charles Chaplin 1.04%
= In a Year of 13 Moons 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1.04%
= Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The 1943 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1.04%
= Life of Oharu, The 1952 Mizoguchi Kenji 1.04%
= Lola 1961 Jacques Demy 1.04%
= Music Room, The 1958 Satyajit Ray 1.04%
= Nazarín 1958 Luis Buñuel 1.04%
= On The Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 1.04%
= Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa 1.04%
= Sherlock Jr 1924 Buster Keaton 1.04%
= Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 1.04%
= Where is My Friend's House? 1989 Abbas Kiarostami 1.04%
109 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 1.03%
= Aleksandr Nevski 1938 Sergei M Eisenstein 1.03%
= All About Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1.03%
= Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 1.03%
= Army of Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville 1.03%
= Awful Truth, The 1937 Leo McCarey 1.03%
= Bambi 1942 David Hand 1.03%
= Barren Lives 1963 Nelson Pereira dos Santos 1.03%
= Battle of Chile, The 1975 Patricio Guzmán 1.03%
= Bête Humaine, La 1938 Jean Renoir 1.03%
= Big Deal on Madonna Street 1958 Mario Monicelli 1.03%
= Big Heat, The 1953 Fritz Lang 1.03%
= Black Girl 1965 Ousmane Sembene 1.03%
= Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The 1919 Robert Wiene 1.03%
= Charulata 1964 Satyajit Ray 1.03%
= Chelsea Girls 1966 Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey 1.03%
= Cloud-Capped Star, The 1960 Ritwik Ghatak 1.03%
= Cul-de-Sac 1966 Roman Polanski 1.03%
= Dekalog 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1.03%
= Don't Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker 1.03%
= Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 1.03%
= East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 1.03%
= Germany Year 90 Nine Zero 1991 Jean-Luc Godard 1.03%
= Gleaners & I, The 2000 Agnès Varda 1.03%
= Goodbye, Dragon Inn 2003 Tsai Ming Liang 1.03%
= In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 1.03%
= Killing, The 1956 Stanley Kubrick 1.03%
= Mandabi 1968 Ousmane Sembene 1.03%
= Mon Oncle 1958 Jacques Tati 1.03%
= Not Reconciled 1965 Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet 1.03%
= Obscure Object of Desire, That 1977 Luis Buñuel 1.03%
= Our Hospitality 1923 Buster Keaton/John G. Blystone 1.03%
= Quiet Man, The 1952 John Ford 1.03%
= Russian Ark 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 1.03%
= Salvatore Giuliano 1962 Francesco Rosi 1.03%
= Shadows 1959 John Cassavetes 1.03%
= Shanghai Express 1932 Josef von Sternberg 1.03%
= Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller 1.03%
= Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928 Buster Keaton 1.03%
= Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 1.03%
= Tree of Wooden Clogs, The 1978 Ermano Olmi 1.03%
= Viva l'Amour 1994 Tsai Ming Liang 1.03%
= Wagon Master 1950 John Ford 1.03%
= Wanda 1970 Barbara Loden 1.03%
= Wind Will Carry Us, The 1999 Abbas Kiarostami 1.03%
= You, The Living 2007 Roy Andersson 1.03%
= Z 1968 Costa-Gavras 1.03%
= Zabriskie Point 1970 Michelangelo Antonioni 1.03%

Films Liked by Younger Voters More than by Older Voters

Rank Title Year Director % Difference
1 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 12.09%
2 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 5.02%
3 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 4.44%
4 Come And See 1985 Elem Klimov 4.02%
5 Apartment, The 1960 Billy Wilder 4.01%
6 Beau Travail 1998 Claire Denis 3.54%
= Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 3.54%
8 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 3.02%
9 Close-Up 1989 Abbas Kiarostami 3.00%
10 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 2.53%
11 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 2.51%
= Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 2.51%
= Husbands 1970 John Cassavetes 2.51%
14 Maman et la putain, La 1973 Jean Eustache 2.50%
= Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr 2.50%
16 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 2.49%
17 400 Blows, The 1959 François Truffaut 2.44%
18 Eraserhead 1976 David Lynch 2.02%
= Graduate, The 1967 Mike Nichols 2.02%
= Last Picture Show, The 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 2.02%
= My Neighbour Totoro 1988 Miyazaki Hayao 2.02%
= Once Upon a Time in America 1983 Sergio Leone 2.02%
= Tropical Malady 2004 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 2.02%
= Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 2.02%
= Veronika Voss 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 2.02%
26 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 2.01%
= Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 2.01%
= Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 2.01%
= Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini 2.01%
30 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes 2.00%
= Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The 1966 Sergio Leone 2.00%
= Woman Under the Influence, A 1974 John Cassavetes 2.00%
33 Aguirre, Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 1.97%
34 Man Escaped, A 1956 Robert Bresson 1.96%
35 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 1.94%
36 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 1.91%
37 Godfather: Part I, The 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1.90%
38 Mirror 1974 Andrei Tarkovsky 1.88%
39 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 1.83%
40 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days 2007 Cristian Mungiu 1.52%
= Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 1.52%
= Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1.52%
= Blissfully Yours 2002 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 1.52%
= Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 1.52%
= Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 1.52%
= City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 1.52%
= Code Unknown 2000 Michael Haneke 1.52%
= Do The Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 1.52%
= Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 1.52%
= Down By Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch 1.52%
= Flowers of St Francis, The 1950 Roberto Rossellini 1.52%
= Funny Games 1997 Michael Haneke 1.52%
= Green Ray, The 1986 Eric Rohmer 1.52%
= Holy Mountain, The 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky 1.52%
= humanité, L' 1999 Bruno Dumont 1.52%
= Innocents, The 1961 Jack Clayton 1.52%
= Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 1.52%
= Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock 1.52%
= Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 1.52%
= One and a Two, A 1999 Edward Yang 1.52%
= Outer Space 2002 Peter Tscherkassky 1.52%
= Picnic At Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir 1.52%
= Separation, A 2011 Asghar Farhadi 1.52%
= Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 1.52%
= Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 1.52%
= Story of Qiu Ju, The 1992 Zhang Yimou 1.52%
= Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The 1974 Tobe Hooper 1.52%
= This Is Spinal Tap 1983 Rob Reiner 1.52%
= Wages of Fear, The 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 1.52%
= Werckmeister Harmonies, The 2000 Béla Tarr 1.52%
= Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 1.52%
72 Big Lebowski, The 1998 Joel & Ethan Coen 1.50%
= Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 1.50%
= Hidden 2004 Michael Haneke 1.50%
= notte, La 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1.50%
= Opening Night 1977 John Cassavetes 1.50%
= Sans Soleil 1982 Chris Marker 1.50%
= Spirit of the Beehive, The 1973 Víctor Erice 1.50%
= Woman of the Dunes 1964 Teshigahara Hiroshi 1.50%
80 Deer Hunter, The 1977 Michael Cimino 1.49%
= E.T. 1982 Steven Spielberg 1.49%
82 To Be or Not To Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 1.48%
83 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 1.47%
84 As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000 Jonas Mekas 1.01%
= Ascent, The 1976 Larisa Shepitko 1.01%
= Before the Rain 1994 Milcho Manchevski 1.01%
= Being There 1979 Hal Ashby 1.01%
= Carrie 1976 Brian de Palma 1.01%
= Christine 1937 Julien Duvivier 1.01%
= City of Sadness, A 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1.01%
= Cyclo 1995 Tran Anh Hung 1.01%
= Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier 1.01%
= Days of Being Wild 1990 Wong Kar Wai 1.01%
= D'est 1993 Chantal Akerman 1.01%
= Diary 1983 David Perlov 1.01%
= Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 1.01%
= Empire 1964 Andy Warhol 1.01%
= Europa 51 1952 Roberto Rossellini 1.01%
= Exorcist, The 1973 William Friedkin 1.01%
= Exotica 1994 Atom Egoyan 1.01%
= F for Fake 1975 Orson Welles 1.01%
= Floating Weeds 1959 Ozu Yasujirô 1.01%
= Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 1.01%
= Freaks 1932 Tod Browning 1.01%
= Golden Thread, The 1965 Ritwik Ghatak 1.01%
= Goodbye, South, Goodbye 1996 Hou Hsiao-hsien 1.01%
= Gummo 1997 Harmony Korine 1.01%
= Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen 1.01%
= Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 1.01%
= Head-On 2003 Fatih Akin 1.01%
= How to be Loved 1962 Wojciech Has 1.01%
= Hud 1962 Martin Ritt 1.01%
= Idiots, The 1998 Lars von Trier 1.01%
= Insect Woman, The 1963 Imamura Shohei 1.01%
= Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Robert Benton 1.01%
= Ladies Man, The 1961 Jerry Lewis 1.01%
= Lady from Shanghai, The 1947 Orson Welles 1.01%
= Last Movie, The 1971 Dennis Hopper 1.01%
= Lovers on the Bridge, The 1991 Leos Carax 1.01%
= Match Factory Girl, The 1990 Aki Kaurismaki 1.01%
= Moment of Innocence, A 1995 Mohsen Makhmalbaf 1.01%
= Moulin Rouge 2001 Baz Luhrmann 1.01%
= My Friend Ivan Lapshin 1986 Aleksey German 1.01%
= Mysteries of Lisbon 2010 Raúl Ruiz 1.01%
= Near Death 1989 Frederick Wiseman 1.01%
= Night at the Opera, A 1935 Sam Wood 1.01%
= Ossessione 1943 Luchino Visconti 1.01%
= Pawnbroker, The 1964 Sydney Lumet 1.01%
= Performance 1970 Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg 1.01%
= Piano Teacher, The 2001 Michael Haneke 1.01%
= Portrait of Ga 1952 Margaret Tait 1.01%
= Possession 1981 Andrzej Zulawski 1.01%
= Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson 1.01%
= Quince Tree Sun, The 1992 Víctor Erice 1.01%
= Raising Arizona 1987 Joel & Ethan Coen 1.01%
= Roma 1972 Federico Fellini 1.01%
= Ryan's Daughter 1970 David Lean 1.01%
= Satyricon 1969 Federico Fellini 1.01%
= Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 1.01%
= Scorpio Rising 1964 Kenneth Anger 1.01%
= Secret Sunshine 2007 Lee Chang-dong 1.01%
= Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 1.01%
= Silent Light 2007 Carlos Reygadas 1.01%
= Simon of the Desert 1965 Luis Buñuel 1.01%
= Some Came Running 1958 Vincente Minnelli 1.01%
= Star is Born, A 1954 George Cukor 1.01%
= Swedish Love Story, A 1970 Roy Andersson 1.01%
= Swimmer, The 1968 Frank Perry 1.01%
= Take the Money and Run 1969 Woody Allen 1.01%
= Teorema 1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1.01%
= Trainspotting 1995 Danny Boyle 1.01%
= Valentin de las Sierras 1967 Bruce Baillie 1.01%
= We Won't Grow Old Together 1972 Maurice Pialat 1.01%
= Weather Diary 3 1988 George Kuchar 1.01%
= Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch 1.01%

It is probably just a coincidence that the films that older voters like more than younger voters have an average year of 1957 and that the films that younger voters like much more than older voters have an average year of 1977.

This page was last modified on August 19, 2013