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Films Preferred by Voters with Known and Unknown Birth Dates

The lists below contain films that voters in one poll likes more than the voters in the other poll did. The lists are ranked by the "% difference," which is the absolute value of the difference between the percent of critics' ballots on which a film appeared and the percent of directors' ballots on which a film appeared. For example, if a film appeared on 9.74% of the ballots from people with unknown birth years and 5.31% of ballots from people with known birth years, the % difference would be 4.43%.

Films Liked More by Voters with Unknown Birth Dates

Rank Title Year Director % Difference
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 6.51%
2 Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 4.80%
3 Mulholland Dr 2003 David Lynch 2.88%
4 Late Spring 1949 Ozu Yasujirô 2.86%
5 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M Eisenstein 2.68%
6 Searchers, The 1956 John Ford 2.63%
7 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 2.57%
8 Histoire(s) du cinéma 1988-2004 Jean-Luc Godard 2.55%
9 In The Mood For Love 2000 Wong Kar Wai 2.49%
10 argent, L' 1983 Robert Bresson 2.46%
11 Touki Bouki 1973 Djibril Diop Mambéty 2.33%
12 Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975 Chantal Akerman 2.27%
13 Sunrise 1927 F. W. Murnau 2.19%
14 Sans Soleil 1982 Chris Marker 1.80%
15 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 1.79%
16 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid 1.71%
17 Sherlock Jr 1924 Buster Keaton 1.69%
18 Passion of Joan of Arc 1927 Carl Theodor Dreyer 1.65%
19 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 1.64%
20 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 1.63%
21 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg 1.58%
22 Colour of Pomegranates, The 1968 Sergei Parajanov 1.57%
23 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 1.54%
24 Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr 1.52%
25 Singin' in the Rain 1951 Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly 1.47%
26 Jetée, La 1962 Chris Marker 1.41%
27 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 1.39%
28 Passenger, The 1974 Michelangelo Antonioni 1.33%
29 One and a Two, A 1999 Edward Yang 1.33%
30 Spirit of the Beehive, The 1973 Víctor Erice 1.31%
31 Rio Bravo 1958 Howard Hawks 1.30%
32 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 1.29%
33 Atalante, L' 1934 Jean Vigo 1.28%
34 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 1.23%
35 Out 1 1990 Jacques Rivette 1.22%
36 City of Sadness, A 1989 Hsiao-hsien Hou 1.21%
37 Lady Eve, The 1941 Preston Sturges 1.20%
38 Brighter Summer Day, A 1991 Edward Yang 1.18%
= enfants du paradis, Les 1945 Marcel Carné 1.18%
40 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 1.18%
41 Leopard, The 1963 Luchino Visconti 1.17%
42 Règle du jeu, La 1939 Jean Renoir 1.16%
43 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 1.13%
44 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 1.11%
45 Colossal Youth 2006 Pedro Costa 1.11%
= Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 1.11%
= Touch of Zen, A 1969 King Hu 1.11%
48 Do The Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 1.08%
49 Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The 1943 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1.07%
50 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder 1.03%
51 Daisies 1966 Vera Chytilová 0.98%
= October 1928 Sergei M Eisenstein 0.98%
= West of the Tracks 2002 Wang Bing 0.98%
54 Trip to the Moon, A 1902 Georges Méliès 0.97%
55 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 0.88%
= Journey to Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 0.88%
57 Close-Up 1989 Abbas Kiarostami 0.87%
58 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk 0.86%
= demoiselles de Rochefort, Les 1967 Jacques Demy 0.86%
= French Cancan 1955 Jean Renoir 0.86%
61 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 0.86%
62 Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 0.83%
= Nosferatu 1922 F. W. Murnau 0.83%
= Red Shoes, The 1948 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 0.83%
= Spring in a Small Town 1948 Fei Mu 0.83%
= Three Colours: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 0.83%
67 Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow 0.82%
68 Blow Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 0.82%
69 Beau Travail 1998 Claire Denis 0.80%
70 General, The 1926 Buster Keaton 0.75%
= Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 0.75%
72 Affair to Remember, An 1957 Leo McCarey 0.74%
= India Song 1975 Marguerite Duras 0.74%
= Matrix, The 1999 Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski 0.74%
= Muriel 1963 Alain Resnais 0.74%
= Sorrow and the Pity, The 1969 Marcel Ophüls 0.74%
77 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 0.73%
= House is Black, The 1962 Forough Farrokhzad 0.73%
= I Know Where I'm Going! 1945 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 0.73%
= Kings of the Road 1976 Wim Wenders 0.73%
81 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 0.72%
= In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 0.72%
= Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 0.72%
= Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 0.72%
= Tabu 1931 F. W. Murnau 0.72%
86 Canterbury Tale, A 1944 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 0.71%
= Werckmeister Harmonies, The 2000 Béla Tarr 0.71%
88 Ivan the Terrible 1945 Sergei M Eisenstein 0.70%
= Madame de… 1953 Max Ophüls 0.70%
= Tropical Malady 2004 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 0.70%
91 Greed 1925 Erich von Stroheim 0.69%
92 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz 0.68%
= chien andalou, Un 1928 Luis Buñuel 0.68%
94 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 0.67%
95 Aguaespejo granadino 1955 José Val del Omar 0.62%
= Barton Fink 1991 Joel & Ethan Coen 0.62%
= Hatari! 1961 Howard Hawks 0.62%
= Headless Woman, The 2008 Lucrecia Martel 0.62%
= In Vanda's Room 2000 Pedro Costa 0.62%
= Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls 0.62%
= Platform 2000 Jia Zhang Ke 0.62%
= Port of Shadows 1938 Marcel Carné 0.62%
= Purple Rose of Cairo, The 1985 Woody Allen 0.62%
= Scenes from a Marriage 1995 Ingmar Bergman 0.62%
= Seasons of the Year, The 1975 Artavazd Pelechian 0.62%
= The Tiger of Eschnapur/The Indian Tomb 1958 Fritz Lang 0.62%
= Winter Light 1972 Ingmar Bergman 0.62%
108 Autumn Afternoon, An 1962 Ozu Yasujirô 0.61%
= Band Wagon, The 1953 Vincente Minnelli 0.61%
= How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford 0.61%
= Johnny Guitar 1954 Nicholas Ray 0.61%
= Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors 1964 Sergei Parajanov 0.61%
= Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 0.61%
= WALL-E 2008 Andrew Stanton 0.61%
= World of Apu, The 1958 Satyajit Ray 0.61%
116 His Girl Friday 1939 Howard Hawks 0.60%
= Russian Ark 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 0.60%
= Spirited Away 2001 Miyazaki Hayao 0.60%
119 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 0.59%
= Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 0.59%
121 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk 0.57%
= Matter of Life and Death, A 1946 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 0.57%
= Partie de campagne 1936 Jean Renoir 0.57%
124 Maman et la putain, La 1973 Jean Eustache 0.53%
125 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 0.51%

Films Liked More by Voters with Unknown Birth Dates

Rank Title Year Director % Difference
1 Bicycle Thieves, The 1948 Vittorio de Sica 3.23%
2 strada, La 1954 Federico Fellini 3.22%
3 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 3.19%
4 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 2.74%
5 Fanny and Alexander 1984 Ingmar Bergman 2.65%
6 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 2.49%
7 argent, L' 1928 Marcel L'Herbier 2.40%
8 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 2.31%
= One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 2.31%
10 Apartment, The 1960 Billy Wilder 2.22%
11 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 2.15%
12 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 1.98%
13 Gospel According to St Matthew, The 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1.95%
14 Mirror 1974 Andrei Tarkovsky 1.87%
15 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 1.86%
16 Aguirre, Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog 1.85%
17 grande illusion, La 1937 Jean Renoir 1.74%
18 Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The 1976 John Cassavetes 1.67%
19 Man Escaped, A 1956 Robert Bresson 1.62%
20 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone 1.61%
21 Vivre Sa Vie 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 1.58%
22 Godfather: Part II, The 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 1.54%
23 dolce vita, La 1960 Federico Fellini 1.53%
24 Godfather: Part I, The 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 1.48%
25 Come And See 1985 Elem Klimov 1.46%
= Seventh Seal, The 1957 Ingmar Bergman 1.46%
27 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 1.42%
28 Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 Jean Renoir 1.41%
= Cranes are Flying, The 1957 Mikhail Kalatozov 1.41%
30 Tokyo Story 1953 Ozu Yasujirô 1.35%
31 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 1.33%
32 Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959 Alain Resnais 1.31%
= To Be or Not To Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 1.31%
34 Deer Hunter, The 1977 Michael Cimino 1.29%
= Umberto D 1952 Vittorio de Sica 1.29%
36 Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The 1974 Werner Herzog 1.28%
37 Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 1.21%
38 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 1.20%
39 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 1.19%
40 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes 1.18%
= Kes 1969 Ken Loach 1.18%
42 It's a Wonderful Life 1947 Frank Capra 1.17%
= Zero de Conduite 1933 Jean Vigo 1.17%
44 Nanook of the North 1922 Robert J. Flaherty 1.16%
45 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 1.15%
= Songs from the Second Floor 2000 Roy Andersson 1.15%
= Woman of the Dunes 1964 Teshigahara Hiroshi 1.15%
48 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 1.09%
49 Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The 1966 Sergio Leone 1.06%
= There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson 1.06%
51 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen 1.04%
= Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick 1.04%
53 Koyaanisqatsi 1983 Godfrey Reggio 1.03%
54 Nazarín 1958 Luis Buñuel 1.02%
= Veronika Voss 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1.02%
56 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 1.01%
57 Conformist, The 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 0.96%
58 olvidados, Los 1950 Luis Buñuel 0.95%
59 Mouchette 1966 Robert Bresson 0.94%
60 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 0.92%
61 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda 0.92%
= Thin Blue Line, The 1989 Errol Morris 0.92%
63 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 0.90%
= Elephant 1989 Alan Clarke 0.90%
= On The Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 0.90%
66 eclisse, L' 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni 0.86%
67 8½ 1963 Federico Fellini 0.82%
68 400 Blows, The 1959 François Truffaut 0.81%
69 E.T. 1982 Steven Spielberg 0.80%
= Husbands 1970 John Cassavetes 0.80%
71 mépris, Le 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 0.80%
72 Melancholia 2011 Lars von Trier 0.79%
= My Darling Clementine 1946 John Ford 0.79%
74 Festen 1998 Thomas Vinterberg 0.78%
75 Devils, The 1971 Ken Russell 0.77%
= Executioner, The 1963 Luis García Berlanga 0.77%
= Graduate, The 1967 Mike Nichols 0.77%
= Lola 1961 Jacques Demy 0.77%
= Orphée 1950 Jean Cocteau 0.77%
= Round-Up, The 1966 Miklos Jancso 0.77%
= Sacrifice, The 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky 0.77%
= Short Film About Killing, A 1987 Krzysztof Kieslowski 0.77%
= Silence, The 1963 Ingmar Bergman 0.77%
= Tenant, The 1976 Roman Polanski 0.77%
85 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 0.77%
= Asphalt Jungle, The 1950 John Huston 0.77%
= Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler 0.77%
= City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles 0.77%
= Deuxième Souffle, Le 1966 Jean-Pierre Melville 0.77%
= humanité, L' 1999 Bruno Dumont 0.77%
= Man on Wire 2007 James Marsh 0.77%
= Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 0.77%
= Misfits, The 1961 John Huston 0.77%
= Network 1976 Sidney Lumet 0.77%
= One, Two, Three 1961 Billy Wilder 0.77%
= Scarlet Empress, The 1934 Josef von Sternberg 0.77%
= Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 David Hand et al 0.77%
= Story of Qiu Ju, The 1992 Zhang Yimou 0.77%
= Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 0.77%
= Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 0.77%
101 Third Man, The 1949 Carol Reed 0.72%
102 Jules et Jim 1962 François Truffaut 0.69%
103 Napoleon 1927 Abel Gance 0.68%
104 I am Cuba 1964 Mikhail Kalatozov 0.67%
= Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 0.67%
= Rocco and his Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 0.67%
107 notte, La 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 0.66%
= Pandora's Box 1928 G W Pabst 0.66%
= Three Colours: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 0.66%
110 Eyes Without a Face 1960 Georges Franju 0.65%
= Grido, Il 1957 Michelangelo Antonioni 0.65%
= Kid, The 1921 Charles Chaplin 0.65%
= Last Picture Show, The 1971 Peter Bogdanovich 0.65%
= Stagecoach 1939 John Ford 0.65%
= Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 0.65%
116 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days 2007 Cristian Mungiu 0.64%
= Bad Sleep Well, The 1960 Akira Kurosawa 0.64%
= Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 0.64%
= Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill 0.64%
= Dodeskaden 1970 Akira Kurosawa 0.64%
= Flower of My Secret, The 1995 Pedro Almodóvar 0.64%
= French Connection, The 1971 William Friedkin 0.64%
= Funny Games 1997 Michael Haneke 0.64%
= Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich 0.64%
= Maltese Falcon, The 1941 John Huston 0.64%
= Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Zhang Yimou 0.64%
= Sound of Music, The 1965 Robert Wise 0.64%
= To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan 0.64%
129 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 0.64%
130 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 0.63%
= Still Life 1974 Sohrab Shahid Saless 0.63%
132 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 0.63%
133 Ugetsu Monogatari 1953 Mizoguchi Kenji 0.62%
134 M 1931 Fritz Lang 0.61%
135 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 0.56%
= Letter From an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 0.56%
137 Opening Night 1977 John Cassavetes 0.54%
= Piano, The 1992 Jane Campion 0.54%
139 Magnolia 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson 0.53%
= Rosetta 1999 Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne 0.53%
141 Au Revoir les enfants 1987 Louis Malle 0.52%
= Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn 0.52%
= cercle rouge, Le 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville 0.52%
= Dersu Uzala 1975 Akira Kurosawa 0.52%
= Down By Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch 0.52%
= Flaming Creatures 1963 Jack Smith 0.52%
= Holy Mountain, The 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky 0.52%
= Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 0.52%
= Lusty Men, The 1952 Nicholas Ray 0.52%
= Picnic At Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir 0.52%
= This Is Spinal Tap 1983 Rob Reiner 0.52%
= Treasure of Sierra Madre, The 1947 John Huston 0.52%
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