Sub Titles Movie List
Each episode, Tim presents two films 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 AFI TITLE #100
Ben-Hur
1959 | William Wyler
RUNNER UP
Johnny Guitar
1954 | Nicholas Ray
playtime
stand by me
1986 | Robert Reiner
ORIGINAL AFI TITLE #99
Toy Story
1995 | John Lasseter
RUNNER UP
Little Women
2019 | Greta Gerwig
playing against type
milk
2008 | Gus Van Sant
ORIGINAL AFI 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 afi 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 afi TITLE #96
Do the Right Thing
1989 | Spike Lee
RUNNER UP
Apollo 13
1995 | Ron Howard
cold comfort
safe
1995 | Todd Haynes
ORIGINAL AFI 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 afi 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 AFI 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 AFI 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 afi 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 AFI TITLE #90
Swing Time
1936 | George Stevens
RUNNER UP
A Star is Born
1954 | George Cukor
pennsylvania
witness
1985 | Peter Weir
ORIGINAL AFI 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 AFI 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 AFI TITLE #87
12 Angry Men
1957 | Sidney Lumet
RUNNER UP
Ratatouille
2007 | Brad Bird
classical needledrops
heaven’s gate
1980 | Michael Cimino
ORIGINAL AFI TITLE #86
Platoon
1986 | Oliver Stone
RUNNER UP
The Right Stuff
1983 | Philip Kaufman
musical interludes
short cuts
1993 | Robert Altman
ORIGINAL AFI 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 AFI 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 afi TITLE #83
Titanic
1997 | James Cameron
RUNNER UP
Master and Commander
2003 | Peter Weir
journey to tilsit
dodsworth
1936 | William Wyler
ORIGINAL AFI 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 AFI TITLE #81
Spartacus
1960 | Stanley Kubrick
RUNNER UP
Starman
1984 | John Carpenter
blue christmas
three days of the condor
1975 | Sydney Pollack
ORIGINAL afi TITLE #80
The Apartment
1960 | Billy Wilder
RUNNER UP
3 Godfathers
1948 | John Ford
scorpions and ants
silence
2016 | Martin Scorsese
ORIGINAL AFI 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 AFI TITLE #78
Modern Times
1936 | Charlie Chaplin
RUNNER UP
Eraserhead
1977 | David Lynch
journalism
broadcast News
1987 | James L. Brooks
ORIGINAL AFI TITLE #77
All the President’s Men
1976 | Alan J. Pakula
RUNNER UP
Reds
1981 | Warren Beatty
history class
zodiac
2007 | David Fincher
ORIGINAL AFI 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 AFI 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 AFI 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 AFI 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 AFI 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 AFI 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 AFI 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 AFI TITLE #69
Tootsie
1982 | Sydney Pollack
RUNNER UP
Hud
1963 | Martin Ritt
print the legend
the new world
2005 | Terrence Malick
ORIGINAL AFI TITLE #68
Unforgiven
1992 | Clint Eastwood
RUNNER UP
The Social Network
2010 | David Fincher
marriage crackups
the shining
1980 | Stanley Kubrick
ORIGINAL AFI 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 AFI 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 AFI TITLE #65
The African Queen
1951 | John Huston
RUNNER UP
Mogambo
1953 | John Ford
modern times
speedy
1928 | Ted Wilde
ORIGINAL AFI TITLE #64
Network
1976 | Sidney Lumet
RUNNER UP
All That Heaven Allows
1955 | Douglas Sirk
“do You still think you can control them?”
The towering inferno
1974 | John Guillermin
ORIGINAL AFI TITLE #63
Cabaret
1972 | Bob Fosse
RUNNER UP
Ace in the Hole
1951 | Billy Wilder
nostalgia
The roaring twenties
1939 | Raoul Walsh
ORIGINAL AFI 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 AFI 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 AFI 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 AFI 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 AFI TITLE #58
The Gold Rush
1925 | Charlie Chaplin
RUNNER UP
Jurassic Park
1993 | Steven Spielberg
fighting the last fight
make way for tomorrow
1937 | Leo McCarey
ORIGINAL AFI 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 AFI TITLE #56
Jaws
1975 | Steven Spielberg
RUNNER UP
Notorious
1946 | Alfred Hitchcock
to thine own auteur be true
moby dick
1956 | John Huston
ORIGINAL AFI 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 AFI 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 AFI TITLE #53
The Deer Hunter
1978 | Michael Cimino
RUNNER UP
Father of the Bride
1991 | Charles Shyer
color cinematography
niagara
1953 | Henry Hathaway
ORIGINAL AFI 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 AFI TITLE #51
West Side Story
1961 | Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins
RUNNER UP
They Live By Night
1948 | Nicholas Ray
Best of the 21st Century?!
Tree of life
2011 | Terrence Malick
ORIGINAL AFI TITLE #50
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 | Peter Jackson
RUNNER UP
The Master
2012 | Paul Thomas Anderson
film school
night of the living dead
1968 | George Romero
ORIGINAL AFI TITLE #49
Intolerance
1916 | D.W. Griffith
RUNNER UP
Forbidden Planet
1956 | Fred M. Wilcox
Scopophilia
blue velvet
1986 | David Lynch
ORIGINAL AFI TITLE #48
Rear Window
1954 | Alfred Hitchcock
RUNNER UP
Freaks
1932 | Tod Browning
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
A Soldier’s Story
1984 | Norman Jewison
ORIGINAL AFI TITLE #47
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 | Elia Kazan
RUNNER UP
Long Day's Journey into Night
1962 | Sidney Lumet
beefcake
the swimmer
1968 | Frank Perry
ORIGINAL AFI TITLE #46
It Happened One Night
1934 | Frank Capra
RUNNER UP
The Vikings
1958 | Richard Fleischer
Hold back the darkness
maria full of Grace
2004 | Joshua Marston
ORIGINAL AFI TITLE #45
Shane
1953 | George Stevens
RUNNER UP
Bringing Out the Dead
1999 | Martin Scorsese
the mgm story
love finds andy hardy
1938 | George B. Seitz
ORIGINAL AFI TITLE #44
The Philadelphia Story
1940 | George Cukor
RUNNER UP
Tea and Sympathy
1956 | Vincente Minnelli
imported directors, imported styles
once upon a time in america
1984 | Sergio Leone
ORIGINAL AFI TITLE #43
Midnight Cowboy
1969 | John Schlesinger
RUNNER UP
Tabu
1930 | F.W. Murnau
three decade period piece
hoosiers
1986 | David Anspaugh
ORIGINAL AFI TITLE #42
Bonnie and Clyde
1967 | Arthur Penn
RUNNER UP
Farewell, My Lovely
1975 | Dick Richards
perfect last lines
back to the future
1985 | Robert Zemeckis
ORIGINAL AFI TITLE #41
King Kong
1933 | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
RUNNER UP
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932 | Mervyn LeRoy