Inspired by Edgar Wright’s list of his COVID-lockdown movie list (and for all the non-believers who doubt that I actually saw 175 movies last year), here’s my own personal rundown of all the movies I saw in 2020. Titles are listed, along with release date and director. Movies in bold are ones I saw for the first time this year.
2.0 (2018; S. Shankar)
Address Unknown (1944; William Cameron Menzies)
After the Thin Man (1936; W.S. Van Dyke)
Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972; Werner Herzog)
All is Lost (2013; J.C. Chandor)
Always for Pleasure (1978; Les Blank)
Alphaville (1965; Jean-Luc Godard)
And Now For Something Completely Different.. (1971; Ian MacNaughton, Terry Gilliam)
Angel Face (1953; Otto Preminger)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950; John Huston)
Background to Danger (1943; Raoul Walsh)
Bahubali: The Beginning (2915; S.S. Rajamouli)
Bahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017; S.S. Rajamouli)
Beastie Boys Story (2020; Spike Jonez)
The Big Doll House (1971; Jack Hill)
The Big Night (1951; Joseph Losey)
The Big Sleep (1946; Howard Hawks)
Billa (2009; Meher Ramesh)
Blood on the Moon (1948; Robert Wise)
The Blues Brothers (1980; John Landis)
The Blue Gardenia (1953; Fritz Lang)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967; Arthur Penn)
The Breaking Point (1950; Michael Curtiz)
Buck & the Preacher (1972; Sidney Poitier)
The Burglar (1957; Paul Wendkos)
Caged Heat (1974; Jonathan Demme)
Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter (1974; Brian Clemens)
Captive City (1952; Robert Wise)
The Chase (1946; Arthur Ripley)
Cleopatra Jones (1973; Jack Starrett)
Cold Pursuit (2019; Hans Petter Moland)
Colorado Territory (1949; Raoul Walsh)
Coming to America (1988; John Landis)
Cover Up (1949; Alfred E. Green)
Crawl (2019; Alexandre Aja)
Crime of Passion (1957; Gerd Oswald)
Crime Wave (1954; Andre DeToth)
The Crimson Kimono (1959; Samuel Fuller)
Danger: Diabolik (1968; Mario Bava)
Danger Signal (1945; Robert Florey)
Day of the Owl (1968; Damiano Damiani)
Den of Thieves (2018; Christian Gudegast)
Destination: Murder (1950; Edward L. Cahn)
Detour (1945; Edgar G. Ulmer)
Dial 1119 (1950; Gerald Mayer)
Dick (1999; Andrew Fleming)
The Disaster Artist (2017; James Franco)
Don (1978; Chandra Barot)
Double Dragon (1994; James Yukich)
Double Indemnity (1944; Billy Wilder)
Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972; Alan Gibson)
Drive (2011; Nicolas Winding Refn)
Elvis: That’s The Way It Is (1970; Denis Sanders)
Enemy of the State (1998; Tony Scott)
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020; David Dobkin)
Fear (1946; Alfred Zeisler)
Forty Guns (1957; Samuel Fuller)
Gangs of Wasseypur, Part 1 (2012; Anurag Kashyap)
Gangs of Wasseypur, Part 2 (2012; Anurag Kashyap)
The Gangster (1947; Gordon Wiles)
Ghostbusters (1984; Ivan Reitman)
Gilda (1946; Charles Vidor)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019; Michael Dougherty)
The Good Liar (2019; Bill Condon)
The Handmaiden (2016; Park Chan-wook)
The Haunting (1963; Robert Wise)
Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922; Benjamin Christensen)
Haywire (2011; Steven Soderbergh)
Hell and High Water (1954; Samuel Fuller)
Hercules, Samson, and Ulysses (1963; Pietro Francisci)
Hitman (2007; Xavier Gens)
Hobbs & Shaw (2019; David Leitch)
Horrible Bosses (2011; Seth Gordon)
The Horror of Dracula (1958; Terence Fisher)
Hot Fuzz (2007; Edgar Wright)
House of Bamboo (1955; Samuel Fuller)
The House With a Clock in its Walls (2018; Eli Roth)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989; Steven Spielberg)
The International (2009; Tom Tykwer)
In the Line of Duty IV: Witness (1989; Yuen Woo-ping)
I Shot Jesse James (1949; Samuel Fuller)
I Wake Up Screaming (1941; H. Bruce Humberstone)
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019; Chad Stahelski)
Josie and the Pussycats (2x) (2001; Harry Elfont & Deborah Kaplan)
The Killers (1946; Robert Siodmak)
The Killing (1956; Stanley Kubrick)
A Kiss Before Dying (1956; Gerd Oswald)
Kiss of Death (1947; Henry Hathaway)
Knives Out (2019; Rian Johnson)
The Last Dance (2020; Jason Hehir)
Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976; Ruggero Deodato)
Loaded Guns (1975; Fernando di Leo)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972; Kenji Misumi)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Hades (1972; Kenji Misumi)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972; Buichi Saito)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973; Buichi Saito)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972; Kenji Misumi)
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974; Buichi Saito)
The Long Haul (1957; Ken Hughes)
Looper (2012: Rian Johnson)
The Losers (2010; Sylvain White)
The Lost City of Z (2016; James Gray)
Lured (1947; Douglas Sirk)
Macao (1952; Josef von Sternberg)
Madam Satan (1930; Cecil B. DeMille)
Man Bait (1952; Terence Fisher)
The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950; Felix Feist)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975; John Huston)
Man With a Movie Camera (1929; Dziga Vertov)
Mark of the Vampire (1935; Tod Browning)
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008; Jean-Francois Richet)
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020; Tony Tilse)
Monty Python & the Holy Grail (1975; Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam)
The Naked Kiss (1964; Samuel Fuller)
The Night Editor (1946; Henry Levin)
Nightfall (1957; Jacques Tourneur)
The Old Guard (2020; Gina Prince-Bythewood)
Padmaavat (2018; Sanjay Leela Bhansali)
Park Row (1952; Samuel Fuller)
Phantom of Chinatown (1940; Phil Rosen)
Planet of the Vampires (1965; Mario Bava)
Point Blank (1967; John Boorman)
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016; Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone)
Port of Shadows (Le quai des brumes) (1938; Marcel Carne)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946; Tay Garnett)
Prospect (2018; Zeek Earl & Chris Caldwell)
The Public Enemy (1931; William Wellman)
The Racket (1951; John Cromwell)
Ratatouille (2007; Brad Bird)
Rat Race (2001; Jerry Zucker)
Red Light (1949; Roy Del Ruth)
The Robber (Der Rauber) (2010; Benjamin Heisenberg)
Scarface (1932; Howard Hawks)
The Secret Six (1931; George W. Hill)
The Seventh Victim (1943; Mark Robson)
Shake! Otis at Monterey (1987; D.A. Pennebaker)
Shock Corridor (1963; Samuel Fuller)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960; Francois Truffaut)
The Slave (1962; Sergio Corbucci)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018; Ron Howard)
Spy Game (2001; Tony Scott)
The Steel Helmet (1951; Samuel Fuller)
Stop Making Sense (1984; Jonathan Demme)
Suddenly! (1954; Lewis Allen)
Suspense (1946; Frank Tuttle)
That Man From Rio (1964; Phillippe de Broca)
They Won’t Believe Me (1947; Irving Pichel)
The Thing (1982; John Carpenter)
This is Spinal Tap (2X) (1984; Rob Reiner)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999; John McTiernan)
Three Strangers (1946; Jean Negulesco)
Time Bandits (1981; Terry Gilliam)
Tomorrow is Another Day (1951; Felix Feist)
Too Late for Tears (1949; Byron Haskin)
Tower Heist (2011; Brett Ratner)
Triple Frontier (2019; J.C. Chandor)
The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947; Peter Godfrey)
Uncut Gems (2019; Josh & Benny Safdie)
Under the Silver Lake (2018; David Robert Mitchell)
The Underworld Story (1950; Cy Endfield)
Underworld USA (1961; Samuel Fuller)
Unstoppable (2010; Tony Scott)
The Vast of Night (2019; Andrew Patterson)
Waiting for Guffman (1996; Christopher Guest)
The Warped Ones (1960; Koreyoshi Kurahara)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950; Otto Preminger)
Wicked Woman (1953; Russell Rouse)
The Wicker Man (1973; Robin Hardy)
Winchester 73 (1950; Anthony Mann)
Woman on the Run (1950; Norman Foster)
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020: Patty Jenkins)
Zero Hour! (1957; Hall Bartlett)
So there.