103 Favourite Movies

I need to admit this list will be different tomorrow and the day after as I keep watching more films, good ones are bound to come up and my mood will decide if I pick a comedy or an art film for the 103rd spot on the list. Never the less I went ahead and made a list.

I decided not to rank them but some would most definitely be a top 10. I also tried not to include too many films from one director (I think I could've gone with six Michael Haneke films). There's also a mini series in the list but it was shown theatrically in some places upon its initial release. Along with the mini series there is also a trilogy of films that I consider to be one so it's listed as one entry below.

Each of these movies gets my utmost recommendation so I hope you enjoy this list and then the movies. So here are the films (in no particular order)

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1. Lola (Dir. Jacques Demy, 1961)

2. George Washington (Dir. David Gordon Green, 2000)

3. Weekend (Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) (see right)

4. A Man Escaped (Dir. Robert Bresson, 1956)

5. 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days (Dir. Cristian Mungiu, 2007)

6. Tehran Taxi (Dir. Jafar Pahani, 2015)

7. To Be or Not to Be (Dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)

8. It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Dir. Don Hertzfeldt, 2012)

9. Ran (Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1985)

10. Ace in the Hole (Dir. Billy Wilder, 1951)

11. Double Life of Veronique (Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991)

12. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Dir. Jacques Demy, 1964)

13. Kundun (Dir. Martin Scorsese, 1997)

14. Contempt (Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)

15. All is Lost (Dir. J.C. Chandor, 2013)

16. High and Low (Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1963) (see right)

17. Paris, Texas (Dir. Wim Wenders, 1984)

18. Dancer in the Dark (Dir. Lars von Trier, 2000)

19. Blow Out (Dir. Brian de Palma, 1981)

20. Amour (Dir. Michael Haneke, 2012)

21. City Lights (Dir. Charlie Chaplin, 1931)

1. Notorious (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

2. Cache (Dir. Michael Haneke, 2005) (see right)

3. Breathless (Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)

4. Bicycle Thieves (Dir. Vittorio de Sica, 1948)

5. Chungking Express (Dir. Wong Kar Wai, 1994)

6. Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Dir. John Huston, 1948)

7. Breaking the Waves (Dir. Lars von Trier, 1996)

8. All That Jazz (Dir. Bob Fosse, 1979)

9. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Dir. Behn Zeitlin, 2012)

1. The 400 Blows (Dir. Francois Truffaut, 1959)

2. Dunkirk (Dir. Christopher Nolan, 2017)

3. Good Time (Dir. Josh and Ben Safdie, 2017)

4. Arrival (Dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2016) (see right)

5. Mad Max Fury Road (Dir. George Miller, 2015)

6. La La Land (Dir. Damien Chazelle, 2016)

7. Stand By Me (Dir. Rob Reiner, 1986)

8. Inglourious Basterds (Dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2009)

9. The Matrix (Dir. the Wachowski siblings, 1999)

10. Hot Fuzz (Dir. Edgar Wright, 2007)

11. Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Dir. Peter Jackson, 2001-03)

1. Fight Club (Dir. David Fincher, 1999)

2. Call Me By Your Name (Dir. Luca Guadagnino, 2017)

3. Schindler’s List (Dir. Steven Spielberg, 1993)

4. Back to the Future (Dir. Robert Zemeckis, 1985)

5. Apocalypse Now (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)

6. Dazed and Confused (Dir. Richard Linklater, 1993)

7. Requiem for a Dream (Dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2000) (see right)

8. Manchester by the Sea (Dir. Kenneth Lonegran, 2016)

9. Whiplash (Dir. Damien Chazelle, 2014)

10. No Country for Old Men (Dir. Coen Brothers, 2007)

11. Grand Budapest Hotel (Dir. Wes Anderon, 2014)

1. Jaws (Dir. Steven Spielberg, 1975)

2. The Social Network (Dir. David Fincher, 2010)

3. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Dir. George Lucas, 1977)

4. Zodiac (Dir. David Fincher, 2007)

5. 12 Angry Men (Dir. Sidney Lumet, 1957)

6. Psycho (Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) (see right)

7. Black Swan (Dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2010)

8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Dir. Milos Forman, 1975)

9. Inside Out (Dir. Pete Docter, 2015)

1. Pan’s Labyrinth (Dir. Guillermo del Toro, 2006)

2. Boogie Nights (Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)

3. The Truman Show (Dir. Peter Weir, 1998)

4. Zero Dark Thirty (Dir. Kathryn Bieglow, 2012)

5. Moonrise Kingdom (Dir. Wes Anderson, 2012)

6. Children of Men (Dir. Alfonso Curaon, 2006)

7. Toy Story 2 (Dir. John Lasseter, 1999)

8. Blue is the Warmest Colour (Dir. Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013) (see right)

9. Halloween (Dir. John Carpenter, 1979)

10. Under the Skin (Dir. Johnathan Glazer, 2013)

11. Jackie (Dir. Pablo Larrain, 2016)

1. Once Upon a Time in America (Dir. Sergio Leone, 1984)

2. Elle (Dir. Paul Verhoeven, 2016)

3. Airplane! (Dir. David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, 1980) (see right)

4. The Graduate (Dir. Mike Nichols, 1967)

5. Some Like it Hot (Dir. Billy Wilder, 1959)

6. Rosemary’s Baby (Dir. Roman Polanski, 1968)

7. Dead Poet’s Society (Dir. Peter Weir, 1989)

8. Little Miss Sunshine (Dir. Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, 2006)

9. It’s a Wonderful Life (Dir. Frank Capra, 1946)

1. The Thin Red Line (Dir. Terrence Malick, 1998) (see right)

2. Dogtooth (Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009)

3. Rear Window (Dir. Alfred Hitchock, 1954)

4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Dir. Terry Gilliam, 1975)

5. The Master (Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)

6. Lawrence of Arabia (Dir. David Lean, 1962)

7. Moneyball (Dir. Bennett Miller, 2011)

8. Toni Erdmann (Dir. Maren Ade, 2016)

9. Being John Malkovich (Dir. Spike Jonze, 1999)

10. Stalker (Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) (see right)

1. High-Rise (Dir. Ben Wheatly, 2015)

2. The Tree of Life (Dir. Terrence Malick, 2011)

3. Adaptation. (Dir. Spike Jonze, 2002)

4. Come and See (Dir. Elem Klimov, 1985)

5. Naked (Dir. Mike Leigh, 1993)

6. Enter the Void (Dir. Gaspar Noe, 2009)

7. Raising Arizona (Dir. Coen Brothers, 1987)

8. Punch Drunk Love (Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)

9. The Piano Teacher (Dir. Michael Haneke, 2001)

10. Spirit of the Beehive (Dir. Victor Erice, 1973)

11. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Dir. Steven Spielberg, 1977)

12. The Dekalog (Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1989-90)

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