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Films Preferred by Men and by Women

The lists below contain films that men like more than women did and films that women like more than men did. The lists are ranked by the "% difference," which is the absolute value of the difference between the percent of men's ballots on which a film appeared and the percent of women's ballots on which a film appeared. For example, if a film appeared on 9.74% of men's ballots and 5.31% of the women's ballots, the % difference would be 4.43%.

Films That Men Like More than Women Do

Rank Title Year Director % Difference
1 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 6.78%
2 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 6.24%
3 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 4.53%
4 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 4.38%
5 Règle du jeu, La 1939 Jean Renoir 4.20%
6 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 3.97%
7 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 3.65%
8 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 2.81%
9 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 2.79%
10 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 2.61%
11 Rashomon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 2.57%
12 Magnificent Ambersons, The 1942 Orson Welles 2.52%
13 Sansho Dayu 1954 Mizoguchi Kenji 2.43%
14 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 2.28%
15 Age d'Or, L' 1930 Luis Buñuel 2.20%
16 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 2.09%
17 Rio Bravo 1958 Howard Hawks 2.03%
18 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 1.99%
19 Avventura, L' 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 1.94%
20 8½ 1963 Federico Fellini 1.82%
21 Wild Bunch, The 1969 Sam Peckinpah 1.82%
22 dolce vita, La 1960 Federico Fellini 1.80%
23 Searchers, The 1956 John Ford 1.76%
24 Greed 1925 Erich von Stroheim 1.70%
25 Intolerance 1916 D.W. Griffith 1.59%
26 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 1.59%
27 Mirror 1974 Andrei Tarkovsky 1.52%
28 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg 1.49%
= River, The 1951 Jean Renoir 1.49%
30 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 1.48%
31 Diary of a Country Priest 1951 Robert Bresson 1.47%
= Rome Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 1.47%
33 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 1.46%
34 Sunrise 1927 F. W. Murnau 1.44%
35 Histoire(s) du cinéma 1988-2004 Jean-Luc Godard 1.44%
36 olvidados, Los 1950 Luis Buñuel 1.40%
37 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen 1.38%
38 Bicycle Thieves, The 1948 Vittorio de Sica 1.37%
39 Out 1 1990 Jacques Rivette 1.36%
40 Maman et la putain, La 1973 Jean Eustache 1.34%
41 To Be or Not To Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 1.28%
42 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 1.27%
43 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 1.26%
= My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 1.26%
= Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 1.26%
= Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hawks 1.26%
47 Sherlock Jr 1924 Buster Keaton 1.21%
48 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 1.19%
= Tree of Life, The 2010 Terrence Malick 1.19%
50 Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr 1.17%
51 Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The 1976 John Cassavetes 1.15%
52 M 1931 Fritz Lang 1.15%
= Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 1.15%
54 argent, L' 1983 Robert Bresson 1.09%
55 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 1.08%
56 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 1.07%
57 Big Sleep, The 1946 Howard Hawks 1.05%
= Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 1.05%
= Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The 1974 Tobe Hooper 1.05%
= Three Colours: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1.05%
61 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 1.04%
62 Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The 1972 Luis Buñuel 0.96%
63 Ugetsu Monogatari 1953 Mizoguchi Kenji 0.96%
64 Birds, The 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 0.94%
= Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 0.94%
= Nostalghia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 0.94%
67 eclisse, L' 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 0.94%
= Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 0.94%
69 Aguirre, Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 0.92%
= Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 0.92%
71 Last Year At Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais 0.90%
72 Gold Rush, The 1925 Charles Chaplin 0.88%
= Ivan the Terrible 1945 Sergei M Eisenstein 0.88%
74 Chimes at Midnight 1966 Orson Welles 0.86%
75 Autumn Afternoon, An 1962 Ozu Yasujirô 0.84%
= Crowd, The 1928 King Vidor 0.84%
= Testament of Dr Mabuse, The 1933 Fritz Lang 0.84%
78 grande illusion, La 1937 Jean Renoir 0.83%
79 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 0.81%
80 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 0.78%
81 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 0.77%
= Last Laugh, The 1924 F. W. Murnau 0.77%
83 Journey to Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 0.77%
84 Eraserhead 1976 David Lynch 0.75%
= It's a Wonderful Life 1947 Frank Capra 0.75%
= Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 0.75%
= Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, The 1939 Mizoguchi Kenji 0.75%
= Tabu 1931 F. W. Murnau 0.75%
= Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 0.75%
90 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk 0.73%
= Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 0.73%
= Early Summer 1951 Ozu Yasujirô 0.73%
= Make Way for Tomorrow 1937 Leo McCarey 0.73%
= Nouvelle Vague 1990 Jean-Luc Godard 0.73%
= Quiet Man, The 1952 John Ford 0.73%
= Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 0.73%
= Wagon Master 1950 John Ford 0.73%
98 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 0.70%
99 Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The 1966 Sergio Leone 0.67%
100 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda 0.65%
= Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 0.65%
= Opening Night 1977 John Cassavetes 0.65%
= Paisà 1946 Roberto Rossellini 0.65%
104 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 0.63%
= Devils, The 1971 Ken Russell 0.63%
= Monsieur Verdoux 1947 Charles Chaplin 0.63%
= Numéro deux 1975 Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville 0.63%
= Reservoir Dogs 1991 Quentin Tarantino 0.63%
= Silence, The 1963 Ingmar Bergman 0.63%
= Stranger than Paradise 1982 Jim Jarmusch 0.63%
= Tenant, The 1976 Roman Polanski 0.63%
= Wages of Fear, The 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 0.63%
113 Late Spring 1949 Ozu Yasujirô 0.62%
114 Tokyo Story 1953 Ozu Yasujirô 0.61%
115 Brighter Summer Day, A 1991 Edward Yang 0.60%
= enfants du paradis, Les 1945 Marcel Carné 0.60%
117 Canterbury Tale, A 1944 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 0.56%
= Clockwork Orange, A 1971 Stanley Kubrick 0.56%
= Husbands 1970 John Cassavetes 0.56%
= One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 0.56%
= Vampyr 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer 0.56%
122 A nos Amours 1983 Maurice Pialat 0.54%
= Army of Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville 0.54%
= Devil Probably, The 1977 Robert Bresson 0.54%
= I Was Born, But… 1932 Ozu Yasujirô 0.54%
= Killer of Sheep 1977 Charles Burnett 0.54%
= My Night with Maud 1969 Eric Rohmer 0.54%
= Puppetmaster, The 1993 Hsiao-hsien Hou 0.54%
= Shop Around the Corner, The 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 0.54%
130 Au Revoir les enfants 1987 Louis Malle 0.52%
= Birth of a Nation, The 1915 D.W. Griffith 0.52%
= Casino 1995 Martin Scorsese 0.52%
= Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A Romero 0.52%
= Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa 0.52%
= Faust 1926 F. W. Murnau 0.52%
= Gummo 1997 Harmony Korine 0.52%
= Heaven's Gate 1980 Michael Cimino 0.52%
= Holy Mountain, The 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky 0.52%
= Land Without Bread 1933 Luis Buñuel 0.52%
= Long Goodbye, The 1973 Robert Altman 0.52%
= Lusty Men, The 1952 Nicholas Ray 0.52%
= Mothlight 1963 Stan Brakhage 0.52%
= My Friend Ivan Lapshin 1986 Aleksey German 0.52%
= Naked 1993 Mike Leigh 0.52%
= Obscure Object of Desire, That 1977 Luis Buñuel 0.52%
= Passion 1982 Jean-Luc Godard 0.52%
= Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid 1973 Sam Peckinpah 0.52%
= Port of Shadows 1938 Marcel Carné 0.52%
= Purple Rose of Cairo, The 1985 Woody Allen 0.52%
= Short Cuts 1993 Robert Altman 0.52%
= The Tiger of Eschnapur/The Indian Tomb 1958 Fritz Lang 0.52%
= They Live By Night 1948 Nicholas Ray 0.52%
= Thing, The 1982 John Carpenter 0.52%
= Woman of Paris, A 1923 Charles Chaplin 0.52%
155 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 0.50%

Films That Women Like More than Men Do

Rank Title Year Director % Difference
1 Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975 Chantal Akerman 5.40%
2 Touki Bouki 1973 Djibril Diop Mambéty 4.76%
3 In The Mood For Love 2000 Wong Kar Wai 4.24%
4 Singin' in the Rain 1951 Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly 3.32%
5 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid 3.27%
6 Beau Travail 1998 Claire Denis 3.12%
7 Piano, The 1992 Jane Campion 2.89%
8 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 2.57%
9 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk 2.45%
10 Battle of Algiers, The 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 2.35%
11 Leopard, The 1963 Luchino Visconti 2.30%
12 Atalante, L' 1934 Jean Vigo 2.23%
13 Godfather: Part II, The 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 2.12%
14 Festen 1998 Thomas Vinterberg 2.09%
15 Fanny and Alexander 1984 Ingmar Bergman 2.05%
16 Hidden 2004 Michael Haneke 2.05%
17 Angel at My Table, An 1992 Jane Campion 2.00%
18 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 1.97%
19 Close-Up 1989 Abbas Kiarostami 1.95%
20 Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1.92%
21 Passion of Joan of Arc 1927 Carl Theodor Dreyer 1.91%
22 Sorrow and the Pity, The 1969 Marcel Ophüls 1.90%
23 Nosferatu 1922 F. W. Murnau 1.86%
= Three Colours: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1.86%
25 Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 1.81%
26 Woman Under the Influence, A 1974 John Cassavetes 1.73%
27 Amarcord 1972 Federico Fellini 1.61%
28 Happy Together 1997 Wong Kar Wai 1.58%
= I Know Where I'm Going! 1945 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1.58%
30 Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 1.55%
31 Lady Eve, The 1941 Preston Sturges 1.54%
= Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 1.54%
33 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 1.52%
34 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 1.51%
35 Scenes from a Marriage 1995 Ingmar Bergman 1.50%
36 Night and Fog 1955 Alain Resnais 1.48%
37 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 1.46%
38 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier 1.46%
= E.T. 1982 Steven Spielberg 1.46%
= Werckmeister Harmonies, The 2000 Béla Tarr 1.46%
41 One and a Two, A 1999 Edward Yang 1.44%
42 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 1.35%
43 Vivre Sa Vie 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 1.33%
44 mépris, Le 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 1.30%
45 All About My Mother 1999 Pedro Almodóvar 1.29%
46 Melancholia 2011 Lars von Trier 1.27%
= Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 1.27%
48 Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959 Alain Resnais 1.25%
49 13 Lakes 2005 James Benning 1.20%
= Grey Gardens 1975 Maysles Brothers 1.20%
= Orlando 1992 Sally Potter 1.20%
52 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 1.19%
53 Daisies 1966 Vera Chytilová 1.18%
= Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni 1.18%
= Taste of Cherry, The 1997 Abbas Kiarostami 1.18%
56 Turin Horse, The 2011 Béla Tarr 1.16%
57 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 1.15%
58 Tropical Malady 2004 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 1.14%
59 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 1.10%
= Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach 1968 Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet 1.10%
= Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring… 2003 Kim Ki-Duk 1.10%
= Waiting for Happiness 2002 Abderrahmane Sissako 1.10%
= Wake in Fright 1971 Ted Kotcheff 1.10%
= Written on the Wind 1956 Douglas Sirk 1.10%
65 All About Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1.08%
= Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The 1919 Robert Wiene 1.08%
= Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnès Varda 1.08%
= Green Ray, The 1986 Eric Rohmer 1.08%
= Separation, A 2011 Asghar Farhadi 1.08%
70 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 1.06%
71 Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow 1.04%
72 Mulholland Dr 2003 David Lynch 1.02%
73 chien andalou, Un 1928 Luis Buñuel 1.02%
74 After Life 1998 Koreeda Hirokazu 0.99%
= Aguaespejo granadino 1955 José Val del Omar 0.99%
= Ciénaga, La 2001 Lucrecia Martel 0.99%
= Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 0.99%
= Headless Woman, The 2008 Lucrecia Martel 0.99%
= Hour of the Furnaces, The 1968 Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas 0.99%
= This Is Spinal Tap 1983 Rob Reiner 0.99%
81 notte, La 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 0.97%
= Pandora's Box 1928 G W Pabst 0.97%
= Wanda 1970 Barbara Loden 0.97%
84 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 0.94%
85 Matter of Life and Death, A 1946 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 0.93%
86 Seventh Seal, The 1957 Ingmar Bergman 0.91%
87 Belle et la Bete, La 1946 Jean Cocteau 0.89%
= Code Unknown 2000 Michael Haneke 0.89%
= Empire 1964 Andy Warhol 0.89%
= India Song 1975 Marguerite Duras 0.89%
= Matrix, The 1999 Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski 0.89%
= Orphée 1950 Jean Cocteau 0.89%
93 Spirited Away 2001 Miyazaki Hayao 0.87%
= Trip to the Moon, A 1902 Georges Méliès 0.87%
95 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks 0.85%
= Red Shoes, The 1948 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 0.85%
97 Conformist, The 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 0.81%
= Spirit of the Beehive, The 1973 Víctor Erice 0.81%
99 Black Swan 2010 Darren Aronofsky 0.80%
= Born in Flames 1983 Lizzie Borden 0.80%
= Cat People 1943 Jacques Tourneur 0.80%
= Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge 1995 Aditya Chopra 0.80%
= Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The 2007 Julian Schnabel 0.80%
= Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean 0.80%
= Dupes, The 1972 Tawfik Saleh 0.80%
= Going Places 1974 Bertrand Blier 0.80%
= How to be Loved 1962 Wojciech Has 0.80%
= Killer, The 1989 John Woo 0.80%
= Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth 0.80%
= Magnificent Obsession, A 1954 Douglas Sirk 0.80%
= Misérables, Les 1912 Albert Capellani 0.80%
= Moolaadé 2004 Ousmane Sembene 0.80%
= Paris is Burning 1990 Jennie Livingston 0.80%
= Persepolis 2007 Vincent Paronnaud/Marjane Satrapi 0.80%
= Rio Grande 1950 John Ford 0.80%
= Silences of the Palace, The 1994 Moufida Tlatli 0.80%
= Sweetie 1989 Jane Campion 0.80%
= Time that Remains, The 2009 Elia Suleiman 0.80%
= Timeless, Bottomless, Bad Movie 1998 Jang Sun-Woo 0.80%
= Under the Skin 1997 Carine Adler 0.80%
= Videograms of a Revolution 1993 Harun Farocki/Andrei Ujica 0.80%
122 Black Girl 1965 Ousmane Sembene 0.78%
= By the Bluest of Seas 1935 Boris Barnet, S. Mardanin 0.78%
= Eyes Without a Face 1960 Georges Franju 0.78%
= Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch 0.78%
126 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 0.78%
127 Death of Mr Lazarescu, The 2005 Cristi Puiu 0.76%
128 Colour of Pomegranates, The 1968 Sergei Parajanov 0.72%
129 Before the Rain 1994 Milcho Manchevski 0.70%
= Bête Humaine, La 1938 Jean Renoir 0.70%
= Blue 1993 Derek Jarman 0.70%
= Branded to Kill 1967 Suzuki Seijun 0.70%
= Chronicle of a Disappearance, A 1996 Elia Suleiman 0.70%
= Circus, The 1928 Charles Chaplin 0.70%
= Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Ang Lee 0.70%
= East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan 0.70%
= Enfance nue, L' 1969 Maurice Pialat 0.70%
= Exotica 1994 Atom Egoyan 0.70%
= Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 1975 Werner Herzog 0.70%
= Haine, La 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz 0.70%
= Head-On 2003 Fatih Akin 0.70%
= Hurt Locker 2008 Kathryn Bigelow 0.70%
= Lives of Others, The 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 0.70%
= Lucía 1969 Humberto Solás 0.70%
= Maison des bois, La 1971 Maurice Pialat 0.70%
= Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 0.70%
= Melancolia 2008 Lav Díaz 0.70%
= My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus van Sant 0.70%
= New York, New York 1977 Martin Scorsese 0.70%
= Oldboy 2003 Park Chan-wook 0.70%
= Ten 2002 Abbas Kiarostami 0.70%
= Topo, El 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky 0.70%
153 Pyaasa 1957 Guru Dutt 0.68%
= Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 0.68%
= Walkabout 1970 Nicolas Roeg 0.68%
= Wind Will Carry Us, The 1999 Abbas Kiarostami 0.68%
157 Exterminating Angel, The 1962 Luis Buñuel 0.66%
= Marketa Lazarová 1967 Frantisek Vlácil 0.66%
159 1900 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci 0.59%
= Brokeback Mountain 2005 Ang Lee 0.59%
= Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 0.59%
= Cairo Station 1958 Youssef Chahine 0.59%
= Dodeskaden 1970 Akira Kurosawa 0.59%
= Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, The 1987 Kazuo Hara 0.59%
= Equinox Flower 1958 Ozu Yasujirô 0.59%
= Farewell My Concubine 1993 Chen Kaige 0.59%
= Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1966 Russ Meyer 0.59%
= Funny Games 1997 Michael Haneke 0.59%
= Ghost and Mrs Muir, The 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 0.59%
= Gimme Shelter 1970 Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin 0.59%
= Gleaners & I, The 2000 Agnès Varda 0.59%
= Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby 0.59%
= Nostalgia for the Light 2010 Patricio Guzmán 0.59%
= Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Zhang Yimou 0.59%
= River, The 1997 Tsai Ming Liang 0.59%
= Secrets and Lies 1996 Mike Leigh 0.59%
= Servant, The 1963 Joseph Losey 0.59%
= Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan 0.59%
= Star is Born, A 1954 George Cukor 0.59%
= Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich 0.59%
= Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 0.59%
= White Material 2009 Claire Denis 0.59%
= Wings 1966 Larisa Shepitko 0.59%
= Yol 1982 Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney 0.59%
185 Jetée, La 1962 Chris Marker 0.58%
= Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 0.58%
187 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 0.57%
= Best Years of Our Lives, The 1946 William Wyler 0.57%
= Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 0.57%
= Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 0.57%
= House is Black, The 1962 Forough Farrokhzad 0.57%
= Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 0.57%
193 Cries and Whispers 1957 Ingmar Bergman 0.55%
194 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 0.53%
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