Greatest Favorites

Below are not only many of my favorite films, but also some of the finest achievements in cinema I've witnessed yet. The beauty of it all is that there are still many films I'm yet to see, and this list can only expand from here. 

Long story short, it's basically me ripping off the idea behind Roger Ebert's 'Great Movies'. I'm not ashamed.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 - Stanley Kubrick)

8 1/2 (1963 - Federico Fellini)
Akira (1988 - Katsuhiro Otomo)

Alien (1979 - Ridley Scott)

Aliens (1986 - James Cameron)

All That Jazz (1979 - Bob Fosse)

American Movie (1999 - Chris Smith)

Annie Hall (1977 - Woody Allen)

Apocalypse Now (1979 - Francis Ford Coppola)

The Apu Trilogy (Satyajit Ray): Pather Panchali (1955); Aparajito (1956); Apur Sansar (1959)

L'Avventura (1960 - Michelangelo Antonioni)

The Battle of Algiers (1966 - Gillo Pontecorvo)

Battleship Potemkin (1925 - Sergei Eisenstein)

Bicycle Thieves (1948 - Vittorio de Sica)

The Big Lebowski (1998 - Coen Bros.)
Blade Runner (1982 - Ridley Scott)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017 - Denis Villeneuve)

The Blair Witch Project (1999 - Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez)

Blow-Up (1966 - Michelangelo Antonioni)

Blue Velvet (1986 - David Lynch)

Born on the Fourth of July (1989 - Oliver Stone)

Boyhood (2014 - Richard Linklater)

Breaking the Waves (1996 - Lars von Trier)

A Brighter Summer Day (1991 - Edward Yang)

Broadcast News (1987 - James L. Brooks)
Broken Flowers (2005 - Jim Jarmusch)

The Brown Bunny (2003 - Vincent Gallo)

Buffalo '66 (1998 - Vincent Gallo)

Citizen Kane (1941 - Orson Welles)

City of God (2002 - Fernando Meirelles)

A Clockwork Orange (1971 - Stanley Kubrick)

Close-Up (1990 - Abbas Kiarostami)

Come and See (1985 - Elem Klimov)

Cries and Whispers (1972 - Ingmar Bergman)

Crumb (1994 - Terry Zwigoff)

Dancer in the Dark (2000 - Lars von Trier)
Dawn of the Dead (1978 - George A. Romero)
Day for Night (1973 - Francois Truffaut)

Do the Right Thing (1989 - Spike Lee)

Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964 - Stanley Kubrick)

Dog Day Afternoon (1975 - Sidney Lumet)

The Emigrants (1971 - Jan Troell)

Enter the Void (2009 - Gaspar Noe)

Eraserhead (1977 - David Lynch)
The Exorcist (1973 - William Friedkin)

Faces (1968 - John Cassavetes)

Fish Tank (2009 - Andrea Arnold)

Five Easy Pieces (1970 - Bob Rafelson)

The Godfather (1972 - Francis Ford Coppola)

GoodFellas (1990 - Martin Scorsese)

Happy-Go-Lucky (2008 - Mike Leigh)

A Hard Day's Night (1964 - Richard Lester)

Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976 - Barbara Kopple)

Ikiru (1952 - Akira Kurosawa)

In Cold Blood (1967 - Richard Brooks)

Irreversible (2002 - Gaspar Noe)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946 - Frank Capra)

Kids (1995 - Larry Clark)

The Killing (1956 - Stanley Kubrick)

Koyaanisqatsi (1983 - Godfrey Reggio)
La Haine (1995 - Mathieu Kassovitz)

Last Tango in Paris (1972 - Bernardo Bertolucci)

Last Year at Marienbad (1961 - Alain Resnais)

Lost in Translation (2003 - Sofia Coppola)

Love in the Afternoon (1972 - Eric Rohmer)
Love Streams (1984 - John Cassavetes)

M (1931 - Fritz Lang)

Man Bites Dog (1992 - Remy Belvaux; Andre Bonzel; Benoit Poelvoorde)

Man Push Cart (2005 - Ramin Bahrani)

Manhattan (1979 - Woody Allen)
Meantime (1983 - Mike Leigh)

Metropolis (1927 - Fritz Lang)

Mulholland Dr. (2001 - David Lynch)

My Dinner with Andre (1981 - Louis Malle)

My Night at Maud's (1969 - Eric Rohmer)

My Own Private Idaho (1991 - Gus Van Sant)

Naked (1993 - Mike Leigh)

Network (1976 - Sidney Lumet)

Night on Earth (1991 - Jim Jarmusch)
Night of the Living Dead (1968 - George A. Romero)

Nights of Cabiria (1957 - Federico Fellini)

No Country for Old Men (2007 - Coen Bros.)

The Noriko Trilogy (Yasujiro Ozu): Late Spring (1949); Early Summer (1951); Tokyo Story (1953)

El Norte (1983 - Gregory Nava)

Nosferatu (1922 - F.W. Murnau)

Oldboy (2003 - Park Chan-wook)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975 - Milos Forman)

The Original Star Wars Trilogy: A New Hope (1977 - George Lucas); The Empire Strikes Back (1980 - Irvin Kershner); Return of the Jedi (1983 - Richard Marquand)

The Only Son (1936 - Yasujiro Ozu)

Paris, Texas (1984 - Wim Wenders)

Paths of Glory (1957 - Stanley Kubrick)

Persona (1966 - Ingmar Bergman)

Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982 - Alan Parker)

Platoon (1986 - Oliver Stone)

Psycho (1960 - Alfred Hitchcock)

Pulp Fiction (1994 - Quentin Tarantino)

Raging Bull (1980 - Martin Scorsese)

Sansho the Bailiff (1954 - Kenji Mizoguchi)

Satantango (1994 - Bela Tarr)

Scenes from a Marriage (1973 - Ingmar Bergman)

Secret Sunshine (2007 - Lee Chang-dong)

Seven Samurai (1954 - Akira Kurosawa)

The Seventh Seal (1957 - Ingmar Bergman)

Shame (2011 - Steve McQueen)
The Shining (1980 - Stanley Kubrick)

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (2003 - Kim Ki-duk)

Stalker (1979 - Andrei Tarkovsky)

Stand by Me (1986 - Rob Reiner)

Stranger Than Paradise (1984 - Jim Jarmusch)

Stray Dog (1949 - Akira Kurosawa)

Sundays and Cybele (1962 - Serge Bourguignon)

Sunset Boulevard (1950 - Billy Wilder)

Synecdoche, New York (2008 - Charlie Kaufman)

Taxi Driver (1976 - Martin Scorsese)

The Terminator (1984 - James Cameron)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991 - James Cameron)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 - Tobe Hooper)

The Thin Red Line (1998 - Terrence Malick)

The Thing (1982 - John Carpenter)

This is Spinal Tap (1984 - Rob Reiner)

The Three Colors Trilogy (Krzysztof Kieslowski): Blue (1993); White (1994); Red (1994)

Traffic (2000 - Steven Soderbergh)

The Tree of Life (2011 - Terrence Malick)

Two-Lane Blacktop (1971 - Monte Hellman)

Vagabond (1985 - Agnes Varda)
Vertigo (1958 - Alfred Hitchcock)

Waking Life (2001 - Richard Linklater)

We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011 - Lynne Ramsay)

Werckmeister Harmonies (2000 - Bela Tarr)
Wings of Desire (1987 - Wim Wenders)

Woman in the Dunes (1964 - Hiroshi Teshigahara)

A Woman Under the Influence (1974 - John Cassavetes)

Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001 - Alfonso Cuaron)