Everyone's Five Favourite Films

How this was counted. Counted by distinct redditor, one ballot each: their top five. Follow-up comments adding “ooh, and also…”, honourable-mention piles, and second lists posted a year later are not counted. Two people replied with a ten instead of a five and are counted as ballots; two others posted a 37-film “short list” and a 22-film pile of honourable mentions, which are not top fives and are left out entirely. The asker's own five are excluded. Trilogies count as the person named them — The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Fellowship of the Ring are separate rows. The long tail is the finding, not a flaw: ask strangers for all-time favourites with no constraint and 79% of the answers are named by exactly one person.