Top ten flower films

A dahlia from the recently-visited National Dahlia Collection near Penzance, Cornwall

1. Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger, 1947)
2. Daisies (Chytilová, 1966)
3. Funeral Parade of Roses (Matsumoto, 1969)
4. Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi, 1939)
5. Purple Rose of Cairo (Allen, 1985)
6. Magnolia (Anderson, 1999)
7. Blue Jasmine* (Allen, 2013)
8. Broken Flowers (Jarmusch, 2005)
9. The Blue Dahlia (Marshall, 1946)
10. War of the Roses (DeVito, 1989)

*The second of four Woody Allen films with flowers in their titles, the other two being What’s up, Tiger Lily? (1966) and Broadway Danny Rose (1984).