• I Am Cuba
  • Barry Lyndon
  • Suspiria
  • Sertânia
  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Black Mirror: San Junipero
  • Coco

Possible Worlds Showdown: Best alternate-universe films

"Make some space, take some time to bring coherence to the task of listing your favorite films with alternate realities,…

  • The Karate Kid
  • Bloodsport
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • The Amazing Spider-Man
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • The Wizard of Oz
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • The Illusionist

Nice magicians from (not always) good films or TV series (or even theatre!) 🧙🏻‍♂️🧙🏻‍♀️

Both powerful wizards/witches and smart trick-makers are in the list. A list with the Showdown tag has been created, when…

  • Richard III
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Moonlight
  • Casablanca
  • The Whale

Stage Door showdown - Best stage-to-screen film adaptations (not Brazilian)

Following the instructions, I avoided movies where "the script veers too far from Shakespeare’s original source material to count".

See…

  • Richard III
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Merchant of Venice (Globe Theater, 2015)
  • Hamlet
  • The Tempest - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

My personal tentative Shakespearean adaptations ranking

Not including stories loosely inspired in the plays. Off course, only films I have already watched; the list is continuously…

  • Richard III
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Hamlet
  • Dia de Reis
  • Macbeth

To Be or Not to Be Showdown

I added the showdown:bard tag to my Shakespeare list ( boxd.it/92f9o ), but as the challenge considered pro-shot theatre as…

  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Jabberwocky
  • Outlaw King
  • The Name of the Rose
  • Braveheart
  • Two Friends
  • Undertow
  • 108
  • Rodman: For Better or Worse
  • Grandma

The Celluloid Closet Showdown 🏳️‍🌈 Best underseen queer films (excluded Brazilian ones)

"Go fish up a list of your ten favorite queer films with 50,000 watches or fewer". As most of my…

  • Califórnia
  • Charcoal
  • The City of Pirates
  • Mars One
  • Madame Satã

Brazilian underseen queer movies 🇧🇷🏳️‍🌈 The Celluloid Closet Showdown

Just one film I would have included in my top Brazilian queer movies overcame the 50K watches: excellent Hoje Eu…

  • The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
  • Beauties of the Night
  • The Seven Year Itch
  • Pé na Tábua
  • Absolutely Right

Divine Trash : Best camp films - late tentative list for a past Showdown challenge

Chronological order. I will add more films as I them. I decided not to include pioneer slapstick comedy geniuses…

  • Her
  • A Twelve-Year Night
  • The Staple of News
  • Trumbo
  • Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Films about writers ✍⌨

To be added: iography: Charles Dickens: A Tale of Ambition and Genius; A Casa do Mário.

I eventually added showdown…