Personal Favorite Movies
Most movies by Hitchcock
Bergman movies, especially Smiles of a Summer Night, The Devil's Eye, Persona, Scenes from a Marriage, but there are many good ones.
Paths of Glory - Kubrick's best
Babette's Feast
Dangerous Liaisons
City Lights
Sullivan's Travels
Stairway to Heaven (known as A Matter of Life and Death in the UK)
Black Narcissus
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (revised version)
Blade Runner, Director's Cut
A Hard Day's Night
High Noon
Top Hat
Ran
Ikiru
Enter the Dragon
John Woo movies, but only the Hong Kong ones
Ringo Lam movies
Children of Paradise The Passion of Joan of Arc
Siegfried (Fritz Lang)
The Maltese Falcon
Double Indemnity
Bringing Up Baby
Pillow Talk
Body Heat, other film noir
White Heat
Ernst Lubitsch movies
Kaspar Hauser, Nosferatu (both by Werner Herzog)
The Story of Qiu Ju
Pathfinder
Robert Flaherty documentaries, such as Nanook of the North,
Louisiana Story
Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill! Kill!
Star Wars Trilogy
The Last of Sheila
Wayne's World
Cable Guy, Ace Ventura
My Best Friend's Wedding
The Advocate
A Little Princess Princess Mononoke, and all the other Miyazaki movies
Map of the Human Heart
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Stalker, The Sacrifice, all Takovsky movies are visually and conceptually brilliant.
Donnie Brasco
The Godfather
Last Tango in Paris
Monsters, Inc.
Dumbo
Some Like it Hot
Proof
Dead Ringers
The White Balloon, The Circle
Time of Drunken Horses
Taste of Cherry and other Iranian movies
The Hole
Puppetmaster
Celebration
Goodbye, Lenin!
Master and Commander
The Host
Oldboy
The New World
Amores Perros
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Satantango (very long)
I am Cuba
Grizzly Man
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
My Winnipeg
Apocalypto
Away from Her
Two Syndromes and a Century
Lebanon
Waltz with Bashir
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