Great Films

* If a film is great in my books, it makes the list. As simple as that. So as I see more great films, they'll be added to the list.

In no particular order -

Persona - Ingmar Bergman
Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky
Les Enfants Du Paradis - Marcel Carne
Mouchette - Robert Bresson
Badlands - Terrence Malick
Blast Of Silence - Allen Baron
A Bout De Souffle - Jean-Luc Godard
Sheitan - Kim Chapiron
Fat Girl - Catherine Breillat
Le Souffle - Damien Odoul
Frankie - Fabienne Berthaud
Lunacy - Jan Svankmajer
Blue Velvet - David Lynch
Inland Empire - David Lynch
Wild At Heart - David Lynch
Eraserhead - David Lynch
City Lights - Charlie Chaplin
Sherlock Jr. - Buster Keaton
Gummo - Harmony Korine
Holy Mountain - Alejandro Jodorowsky
Brand On The Brain - Guy Maddin
Tales From The Gimli Hospital - Guy Maddin
La Dolce Vita - Frederico Fellini
8½ - Frederico Fellini
L'Âge D'Or - Luis Buñuel
The Shining - Stanley Kubrick
Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Tobe Hooper
Wings Of Desire - Wim Wenders
La Règle du Jeu - Jean Renoir
Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock
Les Quatre Cents Coups - François Truffaut
Groundhog Day - Harold Ramis
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot - Jacques Tati
Mad Max 2 - George Miller
La Passion De Jeanne D'Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer
Pickpocket - Robert Bresson
Le Samouraï - Jean-Pierre Melville
Sunrise - FW Murnau
Element Of Crime - Lars Von Trier
L'Année Dernière à Marienbad - Alain Resnais
It's A Wonderful Life - Frank Capra
Straw Dogs - Sam Peckinpaw
The Big Heat - Fritz Lang
Babette's Feast - Gabriel Axel
The Third Man - Carol Reed
Touch Of Evil - Orson Welles
Hiroshima Mon Amour - Alain Resnais
Woman In The Dunes - Hiroshi Teshigahara
Les Yeux Sans Visage - Georges Franju
The Cat People - Jacques Tourneur
A Movie - Bruce Conner
Man With A Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov
Taxi Driver - Martin Scorcese
Raging Bull - Martin Scorcese
Down By Law - Jim Jarmusch
Detour - Edgar G. Ulmer
The Hitch-Hiker - Ida Lupino
Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder
M - Fritz Lang
Freaks - Tod Browning
Fitzcarraldo - Werner Herzog
Great Expectations - David Lean
Bicycle Theives - Vittorio De Sica
Sunset Blvd. - Billy Wilder
Johnny Guitar - Nicholas Ray
The Human Condition - Masaki Kobayashi
Vivre Sa Vie - Jean-Luc Godard
The Graduate - Mike Nichols
Bonnie & Clyde - Arthur Penn
Chinatown - Roman Polanski
The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie - John Cassavetes
Manhattan - Woody Allen
Sherman's March - Ross McElwee
How To Get Ahead In Advertising - Bruce Robinson
Drugstore Cowboy - Gus Van Sant
River's Edge - Tim Hunter
Delicatessen - Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
C'est Arrivé Près De Chez Vous (Man Bites Dog) - Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould - François Girard
3 Colors Red + 3 Colors Blue - Krzysztof Kieslowski
Crumb - Terry Zwigoff
Xich lo (Cyclo) - Anh Hung Tran
Buffalo '66 - Vincent Gallo
The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson
Oh Brother! Where Art Thou? - Joel Coen
Bronenosets Potyomkin (The Battleship Potemkin) - Sergei M. Eisenstein
Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
Singin' In The Rain - Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Unforgiven - Clint Eastwood
Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin
L'Atalante - Jean Vigo
Night Of The Hunter - Charles Laughton
Suspiria - Dario Argento
Le Voyage Dans La Lune - Georges Méliès
Nosferatu - FW Murnau
The Beaver Trilogy - Trent Harris
Mamma Roma - Pier Paolo Pasolini
Viridianna - Luis Buñuel
Batalla en el cielo (Battle In Heaven) - Carlos Reygadas
Au Hazard Balthazar - Robert Bresson
Sullivan's Travels - Preston Sturges
Rescue Dawn - Werner Herzog

more to come...

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