All-Time Favs

1. 1975 Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky; 1hr 48mins) 


2. 1953 Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu; 2hrs 16mins)


3. 1939 Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir; 1hr 53mins)


4. 1931 M (Fritz Lang; 1hr 58mins)


5. 1982 Fanny och Alexander (Ingmar Bergman; 3hrs 10mins) 


6. 1957 Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman; 1hr 33mins) 


7. 1966 Persona (Ingmar Bergman; 1hr 25mins) 


8. 1993 Short Cuts (Robert Altman; 3hrs 10mins) 


9. 1946 Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau; 1hr 36mins) 


10. 1990, 2000, 2004 Days of Being Wild (1hr 40mins)/In the Mood for Love(1hr 38mins)/2046(2hrs 9mins) (Wong Kar-Wai)


11. 1948 Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger; 2hrs 16mins) 


12. 1940 Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin; 2hrs 6mins)


13. 1978 Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick; 1hr 35mins) 


14. 2011 Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)


15. 1991 Double Life of Veronique (Krzyzstof Kieslowski; 1hr 38mins) 


16. 1993, 1994, 1994 Blue(1hr 34mins)/White(1hr 32mins)/Red (1hr 39mins) (Krzyzstof Kieslowski)  

17. 2001 Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch; 2hrs 27mins)

 
18. Twin Peaks (David Lynch)


19. 1946 Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock; 1hr 42mins)


20. 1979 Manhattan (Woody Allen; 1hr 36mins) 


21. 1935 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock; 1hr 26mins)


22. 1977 3 Women (Robert Altman; 2hrs 4mins)


23. 1947 Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger; 1hr 42mins) 
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24. 1988 Dekalog (Krzyzstof Kieslowski; 10hrs)


25. 1991 Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou; 2hrs 6mins)


26. 1988 My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki; 1hr 28mins) 


27. 2006 Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro; 1hr 59mins) 


28. 1934 Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg; 1hr 50mins) 


29. 1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen; 1hr 47mins)


30. 1984 Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders; 2hrs 30mins) 


31. 1996 Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier; 2hrs 39mins)


32. 2011 Turin Horse (Bela Tarr)











33. 2001 Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki; 2hrs 5mins)


34. 2002 Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar; 1hr 56mins)


35. 1975 Nashville (Robert Altman; 2hrs 41mins)


36. 1949 Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu; 1hr 50mins)


37. 1979 Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky; 2hrs 43mins) 


38. 1983 Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky; 2hrs 10mins)


39. 1986 Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky; 2hrs 22mins)


40. 1972 Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky; 2hrs 49mins)


41. 1962 Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut; 1hr 47mins)


42. 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick; 2hrs 41mins)


43. 1959 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut; 1hr 39mins)


44. 1934 L'Atalante (Jean Vigo; 1hr 29mins)


45. 1953 Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi; 1hr 37mins)


46. 1957 Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman; 1hr 36mins)


47. 1963 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini; 2hrs 18mins) 


48. 1960 Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard; 1hr 30mins)


49. 1954 La Strada (Federico Fellini; 1hr 48mins) 


50. 1948 Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica; 1hr 33mins)


51. 1950 Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa; 1hr 28mins)


52. 1960, 1961, 1963 Modernity Trilogy (Michelangelo Antonioni; 6hrs 33mins)



53. 1955 Ordet (Carl Dreyer; 2hrs 6mins)


54. 2019 Hidden Life (Terrence Malick)
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55. 1945 Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne; 3hrs 10mins)


56. 1922 Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau; 1hr 46mins) 


57. 1972 Aguirre (Werner Herzog; 1hr 34mins) 


58. 1927 Sunrise (F.W. Murnau; 1hrs 50mins) 


59. 1954 Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa; 3hrs 27mins)


60. 1960 La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini; 3hrs)


61. 1951 Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu; 2hrs 16mins)


62. 1925 Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein; 1hr 15mins)


63. 1927 Metropolis (Fritz Lang; 3hrs 30mins)


64. 1924 Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton; 56mins)


65. 1945 Brief Encounter (David Lean; 1hr 30mins)


66. 1958 Touch of Evil (Orson Welles; 1hr 35mins) 


67. 1985  Ran (Akira Kurosawa; 2hrs 42mins)


68. 1961 Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa; 1hr 50mins)


69. 1937 Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir; 1hr 57mins)


70. 2002 City of God (Fernando Meirelles; 2hrs 15mins)


71. 1973 Amarcord (Federico Fellini; 2hrs 7mins)


72. 2007 There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson; 2hrs 38mins)


73. 1920 Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene; 1hr 20mins) 


74. 1968 Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone; 2hrs 55mins)


75. 1929 Man with the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov; 1hr 20mins)


76. 1963 Leopard (Luchino Visconti; 2hrs 40mins)


77. 1962 My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard; 1hr 25mins)


78. 1959 Pickpocket (Robert Bresson; 1hr 19mins)


79. 1962 Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford; 2hrs 4mins)


80. 1949 Third Man (Carol Reed; 1hr 44mins)


81. 1987 Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders; 2hrs 10mins)


82. 1989 Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee; 2hrs 5mins)


83. 1973 Badlands (Terrence Malick; 1hr 35mins)


84. 1979 Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola; 4hrs 49mins)


85. 1941 Lady Eve (Preston Sturges; 1hr 37mins)


86. 1975 Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick; 3hrs 7mins)


87. 1976 Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese; 1hr 54mins)


88. 1966 Blow-up (Michelangelo Antonioni; 1hr 51mins)


89. 1930 Earth (Alexandre Dovzhenko; 1hr 16mins)


90. 1986 Blue Velvet (David Lynch; 2hrs 1min)


91. 1950 Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder; 1hr 55mins)


92. 1994, 1995 Chungking Express (1hr 42mins)/Fallen Angels (1hr 37mins) (Wong Kar-Wai)


93. 1962 Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu; 2hrs 13mins)


94. 2000 Yi Yi (Edward Yang; 2hrs 53mins)


95. 1997 Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami; 1hr 35mins) 


96. 2006 Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; 2hrs 18mins)


97. 2007 No Country For Old Men (Coen Bros; 2hrs 3mins)


98. 1998 Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick; 2hrs 51mins)


99. 1988 Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore; 2hrs 4mins)


100. 1962 Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky; 1hr 37mins)


101. 1975 Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni; 1hr 59mins)


102. 2017 Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)

103. 1980 The Shining (Stanley Kubrick; 2hrs 26mins)


104. 2016 Krisha (Trey Edward Schults)

105. 2016 The Witch (Robert Eggers)

106. 1992 Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino; 1hr 39mins)


107. 1943 Day of Wrath (Carl T. Dreyer)


108. 1966 Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)


109. 1956 Searchers (John Ford)


110. 1955 Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)


111. 1954 Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)


112. 2010 Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

113. 1967 Playtime (Jacques Tati)


114. 1952 Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)


115. 1954 Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)


116. 2012 Holy Motors (Leos Carax)

117. 1923 Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton)


118. 1931 City Lights (Charles Chaplin)


119. 1966 Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)


120. 1942 Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)


121. 1941 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)


122. 1944 Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)


123. 1962 La Jetee (Chris Marker)


124. 1938 Bringing up Baby (Howard Hawks)


125. 1956 Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)


126. 1957 Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)


127. 1957 Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)


128. 1936 Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)


129. 1952 Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly)


130. 1928 Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl T. Dreyer)


131. 1974 Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)


132. 1954 Johnny Guitar (Nicolas Ray)


133. 1946 My Darling Clementine (John Ford)


134. 1950 All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)


135. 1999 All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar)


136. 1948 Red River (Howard Hawks)


137. 1974 Chinatown (Roman Polanski)


138. 1964 Gertrud (Carl T. Dreyer)


139. 2000 Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr; 2hrs 25mins)


140. 1959 North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)


141. 1958 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)


142. 1993 The Piano (Jane Campion)


143. 1957 Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)


144. 2011 Separation (Asghar Farahdi)

145. 1964 Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)


146. 1951 Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)


147. 1929 Un Chien Andalou (Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel)


148. 2011 Melancholia (Lars von Trier)

149. 2016 The Wailing (Na Hong-jin)

150. 1925 Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)


151. 1959 Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)


152. 1933 Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)


153. 1948 Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)


154. 1972 Godfather I (Francis Ford Coppola)


155. 1980 Elephant Man (David Lynch)


156. 1986 Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)


157. 1961 End of Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)


158. 1960 Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu)


159. 1964 Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)


160. 1996 Fargo (Coen Bros)


161. 1984 Blood Simple (Coen Bros)


162. 1963 High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)


163. 1995 Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)


164. 2001 Y tu Mama También (Alfonso Cuaron)


165. 1953 Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)


166. 1987 Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)


167. 1999 Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)


168. 1956 The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)


169. 1986 Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)


170. 1991 Barton Fink (Coen Bros)


171. 1955 Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)


172. 1926 The General (Buster Keaton)


173. 1987 Raising Arizona (Coen Bros)


174. 1997 Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)


175. 1964, 1965, 1966 Man with No Name Trilogy (Sergio Leone)


176. 1977 Annie Hall (Woody Allen)


177. 1955 Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)


178. 1982 Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)


179. 1997 Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)


180. 1942 Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)


181. 2003 Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)


182. 1997 Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai)


183. 2007 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Christian Mungiu)


184. 2004 Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)


185. 1974 Godfather II (Francis Ford Coppola)


186. 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)


187. 1984 This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)


188. 2007 Paranoid Park (Gus van Sant)


189. 2002 Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)


190. 1998 Rushmore (Wes Anderson)


191. 1999 Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)


192. 1999 Matrix (Wachowski Sibs)

193. 1966 Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)


194. 1959 Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)

195. 1972 Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)


196. 1963 Contempt (Jean-Pierre Godard)


197. 1940 His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)


198. 1967 Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)


199. 1964 Band of Outsiders (Jean-Pierre Godard)













200. 1973 Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)


201. 1960 The Apartment (Billy Wilder)


202. 1946 Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)


203. 1968 Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)


204. 1932 Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)


205. 1942 To Be or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
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206. 1975 Jeanne Dielman (Chantal Ackerman)


207. 1977 Eraserhead (David Lynch)


208. 1952 Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)


209. 1932 Freaks (Todd Browning)


210. 1953 Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)


211. 1924 Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau)


212. 2008 Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda)
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