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Lotsa them out there....
Here are mine...some are obvious choices...some oddball.
By year....
1.NOSFERATU (1922)
2.DRACULA (1932)
3.VAMPYR
4.MARK of the VAMPIRE
5.ISLE OF THE DEAD-Karloff and Greek vampires. Oddly enuff,karloff would play a Greek vampire in Mario Bava's BLACK SABBATH!
6.ABBOT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN
7.HORROR OF DRACULA
8.BLOOD OF DRACULA-Sandra Harrison looks like the spawn of Max Shreck!
10.BLACK SUNDAY
11.BLOOD AND ROSES
12.TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA
13.The FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS
14.SCARS of DRACULA
15.LETS SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH
16.the WEREWOLF VS the VAMPIRE WOMAN
17.the VAMPIRE LOVERS
18.MARTIN
19.NEAR DARK
20.VAMPIRE'S KISS
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1) Near Dark
2) Salem's Lot
3) The Fearless Vampire Killers
4) The Lost Boys
5) Nosferatu: The Vampyre
6) Once Bitten
7) Vampire's Kiss
8) Daughters Of Dracula
9) Vampire In Venice
10) Fright Night
11) The Vampire Lovers
12) Prince Of Darkness
13) The Return Of Count Yorga
14) Thirst
15) Twins Of Evil
16) Martin
17) Vamp
18) Blacula
19) Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires
20) Blade

01 Let The Right One In (2008)
02 Dracula (1958)
03 Interview with the Vampire (1994)
04 Dracula (1992)
05 From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
06 Dance of the Vampires (1967)    
07 Martin (1977)
08 Near Dark (1987)
09 The Lost Boys (1987)
10 Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
11 Fright Night (1985)
12 Cronos (1993)
13 Blade II (2002)
14 30 Days of Night (2007)
15 Daughters of Darkness (1971)
16 Daybreakers (2009)
17 Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
18 Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)
19 The Vampire Lovers (1970)
20 Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1990)

Honorable Mention:
   
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
The Hunger (1983)
Salem's Lot (1979) (TV Movie)
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
Dracula (1979)
Vampyres (1975)
La peau blanche (2004)
Innocent Blood (1992)
Vampires (1998)
Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)

and

The Night Flier (1997)

As you can see, I enjoy silly movies....not sure about the order on these but here are 20 I really like for various reasons:

Dracula : Dead and Loving It
Lost Boys
From Dusk Till Dawn
Fright Night
Innocent Blood
Dracula AD 1972
Shadow of the Vampire
Vampires (v.James Woods)
Dracula (v.Gary Oldman)
Bordello of Blood
Bitten
My Best Friend is a Vampire
Cronos
Dracula 2000
Dracula II: Ascension
Blade
Once Bitten
Nosferatu (v.original)
Dracula (v.Christopher Lee)
Interview with the Vampire

Forgot to list:

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In alphabetical order, mixing cheesy and horrifying:

THE ADDICTION
BLACULA
BLOOD FOR DRACULA
BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992)
DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS
DRACULA (1931)
DRACULA (1931, Spanish version)
DRACULA'S DAUGHTER
DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN
THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS
FRIGHT NIGHT
HABIT
NEAR DARK
NOSFERATU (1922)
NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (1979)
THE SEVEN BROTHERS MEET DRACULA
SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE
THIRST (2009)
VAMPIRE HUNTER D
VAMPYRES

I was fretting if I should have added BLOOD FOR DRACULA and DRACULA'S DAUGHTER. I wanted to add MALENKA aka FANGS OF THE LIVING DEAD too!

One havent seen...and NEED to-that Claws mentioned- is DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS(1971)! Just haven't had the chance...I've heard good things about it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFRuSbykaV0

Another I wanna see...The VAMPIRES NIGHT ORGY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phxtFVHfQgg

Yeah, I recommend DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS.  It's a little weird and arty though.   :wink:  I need to see VAMPYR and the Jean Rollins movies (RAPE OF THE VAMPIRE, etc.). 

These are in no particular order.

Fright Night
Near Dark
Vampires
From Dusk til Dawn
Werewolf vs. Vampire Women
Vampire Happening
Let the Right One In
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Brides of Dracula
A Polish Vampire in Burbank
Dracula( Bela)
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Dracula(Frank Langella)
Blade
Dracula 2000
Vampire Lovers
Vampire Circus
Zoltan Hound of Dracula
Salem's Lot(1979)

I'm not really into weird and arty films...but for vampire films...it seems to work. The world of the vampire seems weird.BLOOD AND ROSES is weird and arty...but I loved it.

VAMPYR (1932) is one of the strangest films I've ever seen. I'ts like watching a nightmare-the kind where you walk in a haze and just float around. Very surreal.
It's said that Dreyer saw the Lugosi version of DRACULA and said-"I could make a picture like that." Not like Dracula at all. MUCH stranger!

As far as Jean Rollin goes-I havn't seen any of his work! I really should!

The vampires victum turns...from VAMPYRE (1932)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvW2mKiLM-M

While I haven't seen 20 vampire films yet I am very happy to see Bela represented.  :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

As for the vampire films I have seen: All the Blade fimsl and Dracula Dead and Loving It I liked. The only one I've seenand hate is Jennifer's Body. I'm not sure if Bela's character from Plan 9 From Outer Space counts, as his charcater is an un dead vampire. If it does that's the best vampire films I've seen.

 :question:

Jennifer's Body isn't a Vampire movie. What gave you the idea?

Fright Night
From Dusk til Dawn
Vampire Hunter D (the original)
Dracula (the Lugosi classic)
Dracula (the first Christoper Lee version)
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein (It's got Dracula in it.  I'm going to count it)
Blade
Demon Under Glass (An obscure movie, but a great one)
Daughters of Darkness
The Bare Breasted Countess
Nosferatu (original)
Nosferatu (kinski version)
Shadow of the Vampire
Lost Boys
Innocent Blood
Captain Kronos Vampire Killer

Bob-though Bela wore the Dracula costume (it was actually an outake for an unmade Wood film-Bela was dead by the time PLAN 9 was made) the undead in PLAN 9 were actually  zombies. Bela also wore the Dracula cape in SPOOKS RUN WILD and OLD MOTHER RILEY MEETS THE VAMPIRE...and wasn't an actual  vampire in those films either. Low budget film makers were exploiting his Dracula image. He was broke. He did it. A man has to eat.
He WAS a vampire-and very Draculean,in RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE.
He appeared as a Dracula type charecter in MARK OF THE VAMPIRE(1935)...but alas...well..if you haven't seen the film,I won't spoil it. It IS a great performance...and a vampire film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6SAfFCA9RA

MOTHERf**kING COCK!!!
WHY WHY DO THESE PRICKS NOT ALLOW-f**k em.

Dam. Ok. No love for GOLIATH AND THE VAMPIRES?  :tongueout:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSxr7iB0G4g

Good call. Another great obscure Vampire movie is The Girl with the Hungry Eyes:

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and The Addiction (1995). Nadja (1994) on the other hand was very "rofl" (bad).

Actually it's kind of tough to pick a Top 20 because well I still feel I have quite a few yet to catch but anyways out of what I have seen:

1) Nosferatu: by far I think the creepiest and eeriest and perhaps the most frightening vampire tale of them all.
2) Nosferatu the Vamypre: the remake with Klaus Kiniski is pretty darn good too and plays up the tragic elements arguably even more.
3) Dracula (1931): Bela Lugosi's Dracula is still arguably the definitive one.
4) Spanish Dracula (1931): Spanish version done on the same sets. Is surprisingly very good.
5) Blacula: I love this movie. William Marshall is great! and rises this a notch or two above its blaxploitation roots.
6) Salem's Lot: the first vampire movie to truly frighten the beejezus out of me, especially the creepy kids.
7) Black Sabbath: again the creepy child vampire scenes really rise this a notch above in terms of creepiness and of course there's the always great Boris Karloff.
8) Horror of Dracula: the first Christopher Lee film gives Dracula more fangs.
9) Cronos: a great more modern take on the tragic element.
10) Vampyr: genuinely creepy and surreal but also rather terrifying in its own right.
11) Blood of Dracula: Dracula played to the teen 50s Drive-In audience.
12) Dracula's Daughter: Surprisingly different take on the genre with elements of lesbian erotism.
13) Son of Dracula: I like Lon Chaney Jr.'s take on the character.
14) Fright Night: good 80s take, something a bit different.
15) Count Yorga, Vampire: good  70s take, something a bit different again.
16) Dracula (1979): hey, it frightened me as a kid, gives it points with me.
17) Kiss of the Vampire: decidedly different than most films that proceeded it, liked the reclusive vampire hunter element.
18) The Night Stalker: Carl Kolchak must reluctantly match wits with an undead vampire.
19) Vampire Hunter D: good anime take on the vampire legends, refreshingly different too.
20) The Vampire Lovers: great and horrific imagery but also hard to take one's eyes off of due to its erotism.

Honorable mentions: The Brides of Dracula, Blood & Donuts, Mark of the Vampire, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Isle of the Dead, Black Sunday, Fearless Vampire Killers, Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman, Shadow of the Vampire, Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Addiction

Some films that didn't make the top 20-but I was very iffy on them-I DO love them-
.DRACULA'S DAUGHTER-Like JaseSF sez-theirs more than a little lesbianism going on here-the forerunner of the VAMPIRE LOVERS.
.SON OF DRACULA-Chaney was a very physical Dracula-kinda like Chris Lee was. He didn't mind grabbing you by the throat and tossing you across the room.
.the LAST MAN ON EARTH-Before NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD-there was this. Vinnie fighting a whole world full of vampires!
.PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES-Mario Bava's excellent photography and mood shine-whether in Gothic Europe or outer space.

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hmmm.... I know that but I'm not quite sure why I posted that. Lack of sleep perhaps?

A couple of good ones I don't think have been mentioned:

QUEEN OF BLOOD (1966) An AIP mashup from from Russian scifi footage with new stuff by Curtis Harrington. It's about a mysterious alien woman who turns out t be a vampire.  It's actually pretty creepy. Costars Basil Rathbone and Forrest J Ackerman!

RETURN OF COUNT YORGA (1971) The Count from LA targets an orphanage. I think it's actually better than the first film.

There's also CONDEMNED TO LIVE (1935) and DEAD MEN WALK (1945), a couple of poverty row horrors rhat actually feature real vampires. Real monsters were pretty scarce in these low budget films.

I forgot Subspecies!  :buggedout:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP3rbLu4qDY

Modern movies:

Blade - as soon as it was over, I wanted to buy another ticket to see it again.
Wes Craven's Dracula 2000 - Gerard Butler is fantastic in this one
Lifeforce - which was based on the Colin Wilson novel 'The Space Vampires' and features the unutterably gorgeous Mathilda May NAKED for most of the movie, and has a super soundtrack by Henry Mancini

Older movies:

Twins of Evil - Mary and Madeleine Collinson!  Hot hot hot!
The Vampire Lovers - Madeline Smith!  Even hotter!!!
Count Yorga, Vampire - Robert Quarry does a great job in this movie and its sequel
The Return of Count Yorga
Lust for a Vampire - Yutte Stensgaard! I think that Hammer movies and British TV of that time permanently imprinted me on hot British and European girls.

I have to admit that I haven't seen any of the Christopher Lee Dracula movies, despite really enjoying Hammer horror and vampire movies.