Movies I Saw in 2021: The Complete List

(First-time viewings in bold.)

2 Champions of Shaolin (1980; Chang Cheh)
7 Grandmasters (1977, Joseph Kuo)
Action Jackson (1988; Craig R. Baxley)
The Adventurers (2017; Stephen Fung)
The American Friend (orig. Der amerikanische Freund) (1977, Wim Wenders)
The Assassin (1967, Chang Cheh)
Atlantic City (1980; Louis Malle)
Avengers: Endgame (2019; Joe & Anthony Russo)
Bad Trip (2020, Kitao Sakurai)
Bandidos (aka Guns of Death, You Die…But I Live) (1967, Massimo Dallamano)
The Baron of Arizona (1950; Samuel Fuller)
Bastard Swordsman (1983, Chun-Ku Lu)
Beat Girl (1960, Edmond T. Greville)
The Beatles: Get Back (2021, Peter Jackson)
Best in Show (2000, Christopher Guest)
Black and Tan (1929, Dudley Murphy)
Black Jack (1968, Gianfranco Baldanello)
Black Panther (2018, Ryan Coogler)
Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
Blast of Silence (1961, Allen Baron)
Blind Fury (1989, Phillip Noyce)
Blood and Black Lace (1964, Mario Bava)
Bølgen (aka The Wave) (2015; Roar Uthaug)
Born to Kill (1947; Robert Wise)
Borsalino (1970, Jacques Deray)
Boss Level (2021, Joe Carnahan)
Boxer from Shantung (1972, Chang Cheh)
Breaking News (2004, Johnnie To)
The Bribe (1949, Robert Z. Leonard)
Brighton Rock (aka Young Scarface) (1948, John Boulting)
Brotherhood of Blades (2014, Yang Lu)
The Brothers Rico (1957, Phil Karlson)
Buchanan Rides Alone (1958, Budd Boetticher)
California (1977, Michele Lupo)
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974, Brian Clemens)
Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
Casino Raiders 2 (aka Rich & Famous) (1991, Johnnie To)
Cause for Alarm! (1951, Tay Garnett)
Chandler (1971; Paul Magwood)
Chocolate (aka Zen, Warrior Within) (2008, Prachya Pinkaew)
City on Fire (1987, Ringo Lam)
Classe Tous Risques (Consider All Risks) (1960, Claude Sautet)
Cloudburst (1951, Francis Searle)
A Clusterfunke Christmas (2021, Anna Dokoza)
Coffy (1973; Jack Hill)
The Crew (aka Braqueurs) (2015; Julien Leclercq)
Cruel Gun Story (1964, Takumi Furukawa)
Comanche Station (1960, Budd Boetticher)
Companeros (1970, Sergio Corbucci)
The Conqueror (1956; Dick Powell)
Crooked House (2017, Gilles Paquet-Brenner)
Crossfire (1947, Edward Dmytryk)
Dance of the Drunk Mantis (aka Drunken Master 2) (1979, Yuen Woo-Ping)
Dark of the Sun (1968; Jack Cardiff)
The Deadly Breaking Sword (1979, Chung Sun)
The Deadly Duo (1971, Chang Cheh)
Decision at Sundown (1957, Budd Boetticher)
Dementia 13 (1963, Francis Ford Coppola)
Dirty Ho (1979, Lau Kar-Leung)
Disciples of the 36th Chamber (1985, Chia-Liang Liu)
Dolemite (1975, D’Urville Martin)
Dragon Tiger Gate (2006, Wilson Yip)
Drive a Crooked Road (1954, Richard Quine)
Duel to the Death (1983, Sui-Tung Ching)
Dune (2021, Denis Villeneuve)
Dunkirk (2017, Christopher Nolan)
El Desperado (aka The Dirty Outlaws, The Big Ripoff) (1967, Franco Rossetti)
The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1984, Chia-Liang Liu)
Election (2005, Johnnie To)
Elf (2003, Jon Favreau)
Enter the Fat Dragon (1978, Sammo Hung)
The Equalizer 2 (2018, Antoine Fuqua)
E.T., the Extraterrestrial (1982, Steven Spielberg)
Exiled (2006, Johnnie To)
F is for Fake (1973, Orson Welles)
Farewell, My Lovely (1975, Dick Richards)
The Fate of Lee Khan (1973, King Hu)
Fearless Hyena (1979, Jackie Chan)
Fight Back to School (1991, Gordon Chan)
The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe (orig. Il mio nome è Shanghai Joe; aka My Name is Shanghai Joe; Shanghai Joe; The Dragon Strikes Back) (1973, Mario Caiano)
Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog)
Five Element Ninjas (1982, Chang Cheh)
Five Steps to Danger (1957, Henry S. Kesler)
Five Superfighters (1979, Mar Lo)
The Five Venoms (aka Five Deadly Venoms) (1978, Chang Cheh)
Flash Point (2007, Wilson Yip)
Flying Guillotine 2 (aka Palace Carnage) (1978, Kang Cheng & Shan Hua)
For a Few Dollars More (1965, Sergio Leone)
Foxy Brown (1974; Jack Hill)
Friday Foster (1975; Arthur Marks)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973, Peter Yates)
Full Moon Scimitar (1979, Yuen Chor)
Gil intoccabili (aka Machine Gun McCain) (1969; Giuliano Montaldo)
The Glass Key (1942; Stuart Heisler)
The Glass Wall (1953, Maxwell Shane)
God Forgives…I Don’t (aka Dio perdona… lo no!, Blood River) (1967, Giuseppe Colizzi)
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021, Adam Wingard)
Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973, Jun Fukuda)
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
The Grand Duel (aka Il grande duello, Storm Rider, The Loner, The Great Duel) (1972, Giancarlo Santi)
Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)
Guilty Bystander (1950, Joseph Lerner)
Hangover Square (1945, John Brahm)
The Harder They Fall (2021, Jeymes Samuel)
The Hateful Eight: Extended Edition (2015, Quentin Tarantino)
Hell Bound (1957, William J. Hole Jr.)
Hercules in the Haunted World (1961, Mario Bava)
The Heroic Ones (1970, Chang Cheh)
His Kind of Woman (1951, John Farrow)
The Hit (1984, Stephen Frears)
Hitch-Hike (aka Death Drive, Autostop Rosso Sangue) (1977, Pasquale Festa Campanile)
Hollow Triumph (aka The Scar) (1948, Steve Sekely)
Hot Rod (2007, Akiva Schaffer)
House (1977, Nobuhiko Obayashi)
Human Desire (1954, Fritz Lang)
The Hunger (1983, Tony Scott)
I Walk Alone (1947, Byron Haskin)
Iceman (2014, Law Wing-Cheung)
Iceman: The Time Traveler (2018, Wai-Man Yip)
In and Of Itself (2021; Frank Oz)
Intimidation (1960, Koreyoshi Kurahara)
The Invincible Armour (1977, See-Yuen Ng)
Iron Monkey 2 (1996, Chao Lu-jiang)
Island of Lost Souls* (1932, Erle C. Kenton)
Island on Fire (aka The Prisoner) (1990, Yen-Ping Chu)
Johnny O’Clock (1947, Robert Rossen)
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021; Shaka King)
Kid With the Golden Arm (1979, Chang Cheh)
Killer Clans (1976, Chor Yuen)
Killer Constable (1980, Chih-Hung Kuei)
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950; Earl McEvoy)
The Killers (1964: Don Seigel)
Killer’s Kiss (1955; Stanley Kubrick)
Kung Fu Hero (aka Kung Fu’s Hero, Angry Dragon) (1973, Joseph Kong Hung)
La Bestia debe Morir (1952, Roman Vinoly Barreto)
La polizia è sconfitta (aka Stunt Squad, Elimination Force) (1977, Domenico Paoletta)
Lady Snowblood (1973, Toshiya Fujita)
The Last King (orig. Birkebeinerne) (2016, Nils Gaup)
The Last of Sheila (1973; Herbert Ross)
Legendary Weapons of China (1982, Lau Kar-Leung)
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (2010, Andrew Lau)
Le Magnifique (aka The Man From Acapulco) (1973, Philippe de Broca)
Le Marginal (1983, Jacques Deray)
Le Professionnel (1981, Georges Lautner)
Les Maudits (The Damned) (1947, Rene Clement)
Lifeline (1997, Johnnie To)
The Lineup (1958, Don Seigel)
Little Dragon Maiden (aka The Brave Archer 5) (1983, Hua Shan)
Los Tallos Amargos (1956, Fernando Ayala)
Lost Bullet (aka Balle Perdue) (2020; Guillaume Pierret)
Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art (2020, Barry Avrich)
The Magic Blade (1976, Chor Yuen)
Magnet of Doom (1963, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Maigret Sets a Trap (1958; Jean Delannoy)
The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston)
Martial Arts of Shaolin (aka Shaolin Temple 3) (1986, Lau Kar-Leung)
Meet Him and Die (1976, Franco Prosperi)
The Melies Mystery (2021, Eric Lange)
The Mission (1999, Johnnie To)
Mission Impossible IV: Ghost Protocol (2011; Brad Bird)
Mister America (2019, Eric Nortanicola)
The Mystery of Chess Boxing (1979, Joseph Kuo)
Nightmare Alley (1947, Edmund Goulding)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979; Werner Herzog)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, Joel & Ethan Coen)
Ode to Gallantry (1982, Chang Cheh)
Operation Condor (1991, Jackie Chan)
Opium and the Kung Fu Master (aka Lightning Fists of Shaolin) (1984, Chia Tang)
Outlander (2008, Howard McCain)
Out of the Past (1947; Jacques Tourneur)
Palm Springs (2020; Max Barbakow)
Paradox (2017, Wilson Yip)
Penn and Teller Get Killed (1989, Arthur Penn)
Pigs and Battleships (1961, Shohei Imamura)
Piranha (1978; Joe Dante)
Police Story: Lockdown (aka Police Story 2013) (2013, Ding Sheng)
Prometheus (2012, Ridley Scott)
PTU (aka PTU: Police Tactical Unit) (2003, Johnnie To)
The Punisher (2004, Jonathan Hensleigh)
A Quiet Place (2018, John Krasinski)
Raw Deal (1948, Anthony Mann)
Red Sun (1971, Terence Young)
Return of the Bastard Swordsman (1984, Chun-Ku Lu)
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960; Budd Boetticher)
Rock Star (2001, Stephen Herek)
Rolling Thunder (1977, John Flynn)
The Ruthless Four (orig. Ognuno per se; aka Every Man for Himself; Sam Cooper’s Gold; The Goldseekers) (1968, Giorgio Capitani)
Sad Hill Unearthed (2017, Guillermo de Oliveira)
Scandal Sheet (1952, Phil Karlson)
Schizoid (1980, David Paulsen)
Scrooged (1988, Richard Donner)
Seven Men from Now (1956, Budd Boetticher)
Shaolin Mantis (1978, Chia-Liang Liu)
Shaolin Martial Arts (1975, Chang Cheh)
Shaolin Prince (1982, Chia Tang)
Shaolin Temple (1976, Chang Cheh)
Shoot the Living, Pray for the Dead (aka Prega il morto e ammazza il vivo, To Kill a Jackal, Renegade Gun, Pray to Kill and Return Alive) (1971, Giuseppe Vari)
Sign O the Times (1987, Prince)
Skinny Tiger and Fatty Dragon (1990, Chia-Yung Liu)
Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow (1978, Yuen Woo-Ping)
Space Sweepers (2021, Jo Sung-hee)
The Spiritual Boxer (1975, Chia-Liang Liu)
Split Second (1992, Tony Maylam & Ian Sharp)
Squadra antiscippo (aka The Cop in Blue Jeans) (1976; Bruno Corbucci)
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945; Robert Siodmak)
A Stranger in Town (orig. Un dollar tra i denti; aka For a Dollar in the Teeth) (1966, Luigi Vanzi)
The Stranger Returns (orig. Un uomo, un cavallo, una pistola; aka A Man, a Horse, a Gun) (1967, Luigi Vanzi)
Subway (1985, Luc Besson)
Sudden Fear (1952, David Miller)
The Suicide Squad (2021, James Gunn)
Summer of Soul (2021, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson)
Sunset Boulevard (1950; Billy Wilder)
Supercop (1992, Stanley Tong)
The Supreme Swordsman (1984, Keith Li)
The Swarm (1978; Irwin Allen)
Swordsman and Enchantress (1978, Chor Yuen)
The Take (aka Bastille Day) (2016; James Watkins)
Take a Hard Ride (1975, Antonio Margheriti)
Take Aim at the Police Van (1960, Seijun Suzuki)
Tales of a Eunuch (1983, Shan Hua)
Tenet (2020, Christopher Nolan)
Tepepa (aka Blood and Guns) (1968; Giulio Petroni)
Tequila Sunrise (1988, Robert Towne)
That Man From Rio (1964, Philippe de Broca)
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988; Charlotte Zwerin)
Thief (1981, Michael Mann)
The Thin Man (1934, W.S. Van Dyke)
This Magic Moment (2016, Gentry Kirby & Erin Leyden)
Three (2016; Johnnie To)
Three Outlaw Samurai (1964, Hideo Gosha)
Throw Down (2004, Johnnie To)
Tight Spot (1955, Phil Karlson)
A Touch of Sin (2015, Zhangke Jia)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985; William Friedkin)
The Trip (2010, Michael Winterbottom)
Una lunga fila di croci (aka A Hanging for Django; No Room to Die; A Noose for Django) (1969; Sergio Garrone)
The Unsuspected (1947, Michael Curtiz)
The Vault (2021, Jaume Balaguero)
Violent Cop (1989, Takeshi Kitano)
Walk a Crooked Mile (1948, Gordon Douglas)
War (2007; Philip Atwell)
The Weird Man (1983, Chang Cheh)
The Wind and the Lion (1975; John Milius)
Witness to Murder (NA) (1954; Roy Rowland)
Wolf Guy: Enraged Lycanthrope (1975, Kazuhiko Yamaguchi)
Wu Tang Clan: Of Mics & Men (2019; Sacha Jenkins)
The Young Master (1980, Jackie Chan)