Sub Titles Movie List
Each episode, Tim presents two albums which are thematically similar to the original movie on the 2007 AFI list; Matt chooses the Sub Titles Movie List entry, working from #100 up.
Just because an album or movie replaces another at #1 (for example) doesn’t mean that it will ultimately be ranked as that number on the Sub Titles Album or Movie Lists. Right now, these lists stand as a quick record for you to see which piece has joined a Sub Titles list via which theme, which piece it replaced, and which piece was offered but not chosen.
queer subtext
Morocco
1930 | Josef von Sternberg
ORIGINAL TITLe (100)
Ben-Hur
1959 | William Wyler
runner up
Johnny Guitar
1954 | Nicholas Ray
PLAYTIME
Stand by me
1986 | Rob Reiner
ORIGINAL TITLe (99)
Toy Story
1995 | John Lasseter
runner up
Little Women
2019 | Greta Gerwig
PLAYING AGAINST TYPE
MILK
2008 | Gus Van Sant
ORIGINAL TITLE (98)
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942 | Michael Curtiz
runner up
Fort Apache
1948 | John Ford
human again
big trouble in
little china
1986 | John Carpenter
ORIGINAL TITLE (97)
Blade Runner
1982 | Ridley Scott
runner up
Beauty and the Beast
1991 | Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
tight Quarters
the diary of
anne frank
1959 | George Stevens
ORIGINAL TITLE (96)
Do the Right Thing
1989 | Spike Lee
runner up
Apollo 13
1995 | Ron Howard
cold comfort
safe
1995 | Todd Haynes
ORIGINAL TITLE (95)
The Last Picture Show
1971 | Peter Bogdanovich
runner up
The Bad and the Beautiful
1952 | Vincente Minnelli
once upon a time in L.A.
my brother’s
wedding
1983 | Charles Burnett
ORIGINAL TITLE (94)
Pulp Fiction
1994 | Quentin Tarantino
runner up
Speed
1994 | Jan de Bont
eye-popping measures
to be or not to be
1942 | Ernst Lubitsch
ORIGINAL TITLE (93)
The French Connection
1971 | William Friedkin
runner up
Only Angels Have Wings
1939 | Howard Hawks
“…like a schnook”
Wendy and lucy
2008 | Kelly Reichardt
ORIGINAL TITLE (92)
Goodfellas
1990 | Martin Scorsese
runner up
The Crowd
1928 | King Vidor
women on the verge
a letter to three wives
1949 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz
ORIGINAL TITLE (91)
Sophie’s Choice
1982 | Alan J. Pakula
runner up
If Beale Street Could Talk
2018 | Barry Jenkins
talent show
the muppet movie
1979 | James Frawley
ORIGINAL TITLE (90)
Swing Time
1936 | George Stevens
runner up
A Star is Born
1954 | George Cukor
pennsylvania
witness
1985 | Peter Weir
ORIGINAL TITLE (89)
The Sixth Sense
1999 | M. Night Shyamalan
runner up
The Irishman
2019 | Martin Scorsese
Patrician romance
Craig’s Wife
1936 | Dorothy Arzner
ORIGINAL TITLE (88)
Bringing Up Baby
1938 | Howard Hawks
runner up
Heaven Can Wait
1943 | Ernst Lubitsch
Persuasion
fiddler on the roof
1971 | Norman Jewison
ORIGINAL TITLE (87)
12 Angry Men
1957 | Sidney Lumet
runner up
Ratatouille
2007 | Brad Bird
classical needledrops
heaven’s gate
1980 | Michael Cimino
ORIGINAL TITLE (86)
Platoon
1986 | Oliver Stone
runner up
The Right Stuff
1983 | Philip Kaufman
Musical interludes
SHORT CUTS
1993 | Robert Altman
ORIGINAL TITLE (85)
A Night at the Opera
1935 | Sam Wood
runner up
Anatomy of a Murder
1959 | Otto Preminger
(deep sigh) Boomers
Shampoo
1975 | Hal Ashby
ORIGINAL TITLE (84)
Easy Rider
1969 | Dennis Hopper
runner up
Modern Romance
1981 | Albert Brooks
Boaty McBoatface
20,000 leagues
under the sea
1954 | Richard Fleischer
ORIGINAL TITLE (83)
Titanic
1997 | James Cameron
runner up
Master and Commander
2003 | Peter Weir
Journey to Tilsit
dodsworth
1936 | William Wyler
ORIGINAL TITLE (82)
Sunrise
1927 | F. W. Murnau
runner up
Before Midnight
2013 | Richard Linklater
directors out of type
the straight story
1999 | David Lynch
ORIGINAL TITLE (81)
Spartacus
1960 | Stanley Kubrick
runner up
Starman
1984 | John Carpenter
blue christmas
three days of the condor
1975 | Sydney Pollack
ORIGINAL TITLE (80)
The Apartment
1960 | Billy Wilder
runner up
3 Godfathers
1948 | John Ford
SCORPIONS AND ANTS
SILENCE
2016 | Martin Scorsese
ORIGINAL TITLE (79)
The Wild Bunch
1969 | Sam Peckinpah
runner up
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943 | William A. Wellman
food for the machine
get out
2017 | Jordan Peele
ORIGINAL TITLE (78)
Modern Times
1936 | Charlie Chaplin
runner up
Eraserhead
1977 | David Lynch
journalism
broadcast news
1987 | James L. Brooks
ORIGINAL TITLE (77)
All the President’s Men
1976 | Alan J. Pakula
runner up
Reds
1981 | Warren Beatty
history class
zodiac
2007 | David Fincher
ORIGINAL TITLE (76)
Forrest Gump
1994 | Robert Zemeckis
runner up
Meek’s Cutoff
2010 | Kelly Reichardt
the south
Daughters of the dust
1991 | Julie Dash
ORIGINAL TITLE (75)
In the Heat of the Night
1967 | Norman Jewison
runner up
The Member of the Wedding
1952 | Fred Zinnemann
Ladies love a serial killer
badlands
1973 | Terrence Malick
ORIGINAL TITLE (74)
The Silence of the Lambs
1991 | Jonathan Demme
runner up
Shadow of a Doubt
1943 | Alfred Hitchcock
the bill comes due
separate tables
1958 | Delbert Mann
ORIGINAL TITLE (73)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 | George Roy Hill
runner up
Days of Heaven
1978 | Terrence Malick
Society by necessity
The Thing
1982 | John Carpenter
ORIGINAL TITLE (72)
The Shawshank Redemption
1994 | Frank Darabont
runner up
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
1971 | Robert Altman
WWII from a distance
The thin red line
1998 | Terrence Malick
ORIGINAL TITLE (71)
Saving Private Ryan
1998 | Steven Spielberg
runner up
The Big Red One
1980 | Samuel Fuller
THE OLD ULTRAVIOLENCE
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
2007 | the Coen Brothers
ORIGINAL TITLE (70)
A Clockwork Orange
1972 | Stanley Kubrick
runner up
The Big Heat
1953 | Fritz Lang
“Shame on you, you macho S***head”
SADIE THOMPSON
1928 | Raoul Walsh
ORIGINAL TITLE (69)
Tootsie
1982 | Sydney Pollack
runner up
Hud
1963 | Martin Ritt
print the legend
the new world
2005 | Terrence Malick
ORIGINAL TITLE (68)
Unforgiven
1992 | Clint Eastwood
runner up
The Social Network
2010 | David Fincher
marriage crackups
the shining
1980 | Stanley Kubrick
ORIGINAL TITLE (67)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 | Mike Nichols
runner up
A Woman Under the Influence
2010 | John Cassavetes
Poindexter comes alive
losing ground
1982 | Kathleen Collins
ORIGINAL TITLE (66)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 | Steven Spielberg
runner up
Ball of Fire
1941 | Howard Hawks
“…drag me away from you”
the english patient
1996 | Anthony Minghella
ORIGINAL TITLE (65)
The African Queen
1951 | John Huston
runner up
Mogambo
1953 | John Ford
modern times
speedy
1928 | Ted Wilde
ORIGINAL TITLE (64)
Network
1976 | Sidney Lumet
runner up
All That Heaven Allows
1955 | Douglas Sirk
“still think you can control them”
the towering inferno
1974 | John Guillermin
ORIGINAL TITLE (63)
Cabaret
1972 | Bob Fosse
runner up
Ace in the Hole
1951 | Billy Wilder
nostalgia
the roaring twenties
1939 | Raoul Walsh
ORIGINAL TITLE (62)
American Graffiti
1973 | George Lucas
runner up
The Magnificent Ambersons
1942 | Orson Welles
1941
the devil and daniel webster
1941 | William Dieterle
ORIGINAL TITLE (61)
Sullivan’s Travels
1941 | Preston Sturges
runner up
The Little Foxes
1941 | William Wyler
zany brainy
What’s Up, Doc?
1972 | Peter Bogdanovich
ORIGINAL TITLE (60)
Duck Soup
1933 | Leo McCarey
runner up
The Palm Beach Story
1942 | Preston Sturges
Diegetic musicals
Inside Llewyn Davis
2013 | The Coen Brothers
ORIGINAL TITLE (59)
Nashville
1975 | Robert Altman
runner up
Phantom of the Paradise
1974 | Brian De Palma
the oceana roll
the shop around the corner
1940 | Ernst Lubitsch
ORIGINAL TITLE (58)
The Gold Rush
1925 | Charlie Chaplin
runner up
Jurassic Park
1993 | Steven Spielberg
losing the last fight
make way for tomorrow
1937 | Leo McCarey
ORIGINAL TITLE (57)
Rocky
1976 | John G. Avildsen
runner up
The Cincinnati Kid
1965 | Norman Jewison
100 Years…100 thrills
the exorcist
1973 | William Friedkin
ORIGINAL TITLE (56)
Jaws
1975 | Steven Spielberg
runner up
Notorious
1946 | Alfred Hitchcock
To thine own auteur be true
moby dick
1956 | John Huston
ORIGINAL TITLE (55)
North by Northwest
1959 | Alfred Hitchcock
runner up
My Darling Clementine
1946 | John Ford
The worst person you know
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986 | John Hughes
ORIGINAL TITLE (54)
M*A*S*H
1970 | Robert Altman
runner up
Five Came Back
1939 | John Farrow
wedding bells
the birdcage
1996 | Mike Nichols
ORIGINAL TITLE (53)
The Deer Hunter
1978 | Michael Cimino
runner up
Father of the Bride
1991 | Charles Shyer
Color cinematography
Niagara
1953 | Henry Hathaway
ORIGINAL TITLE (52)
Taxi Driver
1976 | Martin Scorsese
runner up
The Hunt for Red October
1990 | John McTiernan
Love on a fire escape
desert hearts
1985 | Donna Deitch
ORIGINAL TITLE (51)
West Side Story
1961 | Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins
runner up
They Live By Night
1948 | Nicholas Ray