All-Time Favorites

Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon (1895, Louis & Auguste Lumière)
Fantômas (1913, Louis Feuillade)
Les Vampires (1915, Louis Feuillade)
Tih-Minh (1918, Louis Feuillade)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922, Fritz Lang)
Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim)
The General (1926, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
Napoléon (1927, Abel Gance)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, F. W. Murnau)
The Docks of New York (1928, Josef von Sternberg)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Th. Dreyer)
Spione (1928, Fritz Lang)
M (1931, Fritz Lang)
Shanghai Express (1932, Josef von Sternberg)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Fritz Lang)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935, Leo McCarey)
Rose Hobart (1936, Joseph Cornell)
The Awful Truth (1937, Leo McCarey)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks)
The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1941, Orson Welles)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli)
The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks)
Canyon Passage (1946, Jacques Tourneur)
Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
Fort Apache (1948, John Ford)
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophuls)
Spring in a Small Town (1948, Fei Mu)
The Heiress (1949, William Wyler)
Late Spring (1949, Ozu Yasujiro)
Diary of a Country Priest (1950, Robert Bresson)
Duck Amuck (1953, Chuck Jones)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953, Howard Hawks)
The Saga of Anatahan (1953, Josef von Sternberg)
Tokyo Story (1953, Ozu Yasujiro)
Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Mizoguchi Kenji)
Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa Akira)
A Star Is Born (1954, George Cukor)
The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)
A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson)
Night and Fog (1956, Alain Resnais)
Pyaasa (1957, Guru Dutt)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
The 400 Blows (1959, François Truffaut)
Imitation of Life (1959, Douglas Sirk)
Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)
Breathless (1960, Jean-Luc Godard)
Le Trou (1960, Jacques Becker)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais)
An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Ozu Yasujiro)
La Jetée (1962, Chris Marker)
The Birds (1963, Alfred Hitchcock)
High and Low (1963, Kurosawa Akira)
The Love Eterne (1963, Li Han-hsiang)
Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963, Alain Resnais)
Gertrud (1964, Carl Th. Dreyer)
The Gospel According to Matthew (1964, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)
Woman in the Dunes (1964, Teshigahara Hiroshi)
Yearning (1964, Naruse Mikio)
Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
All My Life (1966, Bruce Baillie)
Au hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)
The Battle of Algiers (1966, Gillo Pontecorvo)
Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)
La Collectionneuse (1967, Éric Rohmer)
Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu)
PlayTime (1967, Jacques Tati)
Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow)
Week-end (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, Jacques Demy)
Death by Hanging (1968, Oshima Nagisa)
L’Amour fou (1969, Jacques Rivette)
My Night at Maud’s (1969, Éric Rohmer)
Zorns Lemma (1970, Hollis Frampton)
A New Leaf (1971, Elaine May)
(nostalgia) (1971, Hollis Frampton)
Out 1: Noli me tangere (1971, Jacques Rivette)
La Région centrale (1971, Michael Snow)
A Touch of Zen (1971, King Hu)
Two English Girls (1971, François Truffaut)
Out 1: Spectre (1972, Jacques Rivette)
The Mother and the Whore (1973, Jean Eustache)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
Femmes Femmes (1974, Paul Vecchiali)
Lancelot du Lac (1974, Robert Bresson)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tom Hooper)
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras)
Moses and Aaron (1975, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
Nashville (1975, Robert Altman)
News From Home (1976, Chantal Akerman)
The Devil, Probably (1977, Robert Bresson)
Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch)
Days of Heaven (1978, Terrence Malick)
Perceval le Gallois (1978, Éric Rohmer)
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978, Lau Kar-leung)
Dirty Ho (1979, Lau Kar-leung)
Legend of the Mountain (1979, King Hu)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Simone Barbès or Virtue (1980, Marie-Claude Treilhou)
The Aviator’s Wife (1981, Éric Rohmer)
Spacy (1981, Ito Takashi)
Tree of Knowledge (1981, Nils Malmros)
Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
L’Argent (1983, Robert Bresson)
Sunless (1983, Chris Marker)
That Day, on the Beach (1983, Edward Yang)
Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders)
Shanghai Blues (1984, Tsui Hark)
Stop Making Sense (1984, Jonathan Demme)
Wheels on Meals (1984, Sammo Hung)
Taipei Story (1985, Edward Yang)
Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (1986, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
The Green Ray (1986, Éric Rohmer)
Manhunter (1986, Michael Mann)
Peking Opera Blues (1986, Tsui Hark)
Terrorizers (1986, Edward Yang)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Miyazaki Hayao)
Beijing Watermelon (1989, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
A City of Sadness (1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
The Killer (1989, John Woo)
Pedicab Driver (1989, Sammo Hung)
Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)
Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong Kar-wai)
Trust (1990, Hal Hartley)
A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang)
Once Upon a Time in China (1991, Tsui Hark)
Hard-Boiled (1992, John Woo)
The Rocking Horsemen (1992, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992, David Lynch)
Naked (1993, Mike Leigh)
Ashes of Time (1994, Wong Kar-wai)
Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai)
A Confucian Confusion (1994, Edward Yang)
La Cérémonie (1995, Claude Chabrol)
Heat (1995, Michael Mann)
Strange Days (1995, Kathryn Bigelow)
Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996, Peter Chan)
Mahjong (1996, Edward Yang)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Take care of yourself. (1996, Anno Hideaki)
Cure (1997, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
The End of Evangelion (1997, Anno Hideaki)
Happy Together (1997, Wong Kar-wai)
The River (1997, Tsai Ming-liang)
Flowers of Shanghai (1998, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
The Hole (1998, Tsai Ming-liang)
Beau Travail (1999, Claire Denis)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Stanley Kubrick)
Outer Space (1999, Peter Tscherkassky)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee)
In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
A One and a Two… (2000, Edward Yang)
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg)
Millennium Mambo (2001, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch)
Pulse (2001, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Spirited Away (2001, Miyazaki Hayao)
Café Lumière (2003, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen)
Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola)
PTU (2003, Johnnie To)
Before Sunset (2004, Richard Linklater)
Kung Fu Hustle (2004, Stephen Chow)
Throw Down (2004, Johnnie To)
Tropical Malady (2004, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2046 (2004, Wong Kar-wai)
L’Enfant (2005, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Election 2 (2006, Johnnie To)
Inland Empire (2006, David Lynch)
Miami Vice (2006, Michael Mann)
Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007, Adam Curtis)
Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony (2008, Zhang Yimou)
Night and Day (2008, Hong Sang-soo)
Sparrow (2008, Johnnie To)
35 Shots of Rum (2008, Claire Denis)
Oxhide II (2009, Liu Jiayin)
Certified Copy (2010, Abbas Kiarostami)
Meek’s Cutoff (2010, Kelly Reichardt)
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo)
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (2011, Johnnie To)
The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
Like Someone in Love (2012, Abbas Kiarostami)
Manakamana (2013, Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai Ming-liang)
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014, Johnnie To)
Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson)
Hill of Freedom (2014, Hong Sang-soo)
Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson)
Horse Money (2014, Pedro Costa)
Jauja (2014, Lisandro Alonso)
Phoenix (2014, Christian Petzold)
The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Blackhat (2015, Michael Mann)
Carol (2015, Todd Haynes)
Cemetery of Splendor (2015, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke)
Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong Sang-soo)
Nocturama (2016, Bertrand Bonello)
Silence (2016, Martin Scorsese)
Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade)
Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo)
Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, David Lynch)
Asako I & II (2018, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
Grass (2018, Hong Sang-soo)
La Flor (2018, Mariano Llinás)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018, Bi Gan)
Transit (2018, Christian Petzold)
Martin Eden (2019, Pietro Marcello)
Drive My Car (2021, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
Memoria (2021, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Pacifiction (2022, Albert Serra)
Walk Up (2022, Hong Sang-soo)
The Beast (2023, Bertrand Bonello)
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (2023, Radu Jude)
Evil Does Not Exist (2023, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)