My 250 Favourite Films
A Trip to the Moon, Georges Méliès, 1902
Dante's Inferno, Giuseppe de Liguoro, Francesco Bertolini, Adolpho Padovan, 1911
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920
Destiny, Fritz Lang, 1921
Hamlet, Heinz Schall, Svend Gade, 1921
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, Fritz Lang, 1924
He Who Gets Slapped, Victor Sjöström, 1924
Sherlock. Jr, Buster Keaton, 1924
A Page of Madness, Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926
Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927
The Seashell and the Clergyman, Germaine Dulac, 1928
The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928
The Man Who Laughs, Paul Leni, 1928
Freaks, Tod Browning, 1932
Vampyr, Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932
Blonde Venus, Josef von Sternberg, 1932
A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt, 1935
The Tale of the Fox, Wladyslaw Starewicz, irene Starewicz, 1937
Wuthering Heights, William Wyler, 1939
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, William Dieterle, 1939
Fantasia, Various, 1940
Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Deren, 1943
Day of Wrath, Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943
Jane Eyre, Robert Stevenson, 1943
Laura, Otto Preminger, 1944
Murder, My Sweet, Edward Dmytryk, 1944
Mildred Pierce, Michael, Curtiz, 1945
Spellbound, Alfred Hitchcock, 1945
A Matter of Life and Death, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, 1946
It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra, 1946
Beauty and the Beast, Jean Cocteau, 1946
Nightmare Alley, Edmund Goulding, 1947
The Lady from Shanghai, Orson Welles, 1947
Portrait of Jennie, William Dieterle, 1948
Rope, Alfred Hitchcock, 1948
Drunken Angel, Akira Kurosawa, 1948
Hamlet, Laurence Olivier, 1948
Louisiana Story, Robert Flaherty, 1948
The Red Shoes, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, 1948
Stray Dog, Akira Kurosawa, 1949
Orpheus, Jean Cocteau, 1950
The Gunfighter, Henry King, 1950
Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder, 1950
Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa, 1950
A Streetcar Named Desire, Elia Kazan, 1951
High Noon, Fred Zinnemann, 1952
The White Reindeer, Erik Blomberg, 1952
Ikiru, Akira Kurosawa, 1952
Sawdust and Tinsel, Ingmar Bergman, 1953
Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa, 1954
Johnny Guitar, Nicholas Ray, 1954
Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954
Godzilla, Ishiro Honda, 1954
The Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton, 1955
Ordet, Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955
Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich, 1955
Rebel Without a Cause, Nicholas Ray, 1955
The Bad Seed, Mervyn LeRoy, 1956
Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa, 1957
The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman, 1957
The Incredible Shrinking Man, Jack Arnold, 1957
The Cranes Are Flying, Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957
12 Angry Men, Sidney Lumet, 1957
Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman, 1957
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyar's Plot, Sergei Eisenstein, 1958
Cairo Station, Youssef Chahine, 1958
King Creole, Michael Curtiz, 1958
On the Beach, Stanley Kramer, 1959
Letter Never Sent, Mikhail Kalatozov, 1960
The Housemaid, Kim Ki-young, 1960
Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960
The Monkey King: Havoc in Heaven, Wan Laiming, 1961
Mother Joan of the Angels, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1961
Night Tide, Curtis Harrington, 1961
The Innocents, Jack, Clayton, 1961
La Jetée, Chris Marker, 1962
Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962
Planet of Storms, Pavel Klushantsev, 1962
The Trial of Joan of Arc, Robert Bresson, 1962
Pitfall, Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1962
Carnival of Souls, Herk Harvey, 1962
The Trial, Orson Welles, 1962
Ikarie XB 1, Jindřich Polák, 1963
Winter Light, Ingmar Bergman, 1963
Lord of the Flies, Peter Brook, 1963
Billy Liar, John Schlesinger, 1963
The Servant, Joseph Losey, 1963
Diamonds of the Night, Jan Němec, 1964
Kwaidan, Masaki Kobayashi, 1964
Hamlet, Grigori Kozintsev, 1964
Woman in the Dunes, Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964
Bunny Lake is Missing, Otto Preminger, 1965
Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965
Django, Sergio Corbucci, 1966
Seconds, John Frankenheimer, 1966
Come Drink with Me, King Hu, 1966
Tokyo Drifter, Seijun Suzuki, 1966
Patriotism, Yukio Mishima, Masaki Domoto, 1966
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mike Nichols, 1966
Emotion, Nobuhiko Obaysashi, 1966
The Face of Another, Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966
Persona, Ingmar Bergman, 1966
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 1966
Daisies, Věra Chytilová, 1966
Le Samourai, Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967
Branded to Kill, Seijun Suzuki, 1967
Wait Until Dark, Terence Young, 1967
Quatermass and the Pit, Roy Ward Baker, 1967
The Graduate, Mike Nichols, 1967
Marketa Lazarová, František Vláčil, 1967
Hour of the Wolf, Ingmar Bergman, 1968
Death by Hanging, Nagisa Oushima, 1968
The Great Silence, Sergio Corbucci, 1968
The Valley of the Bees, František Vláčil, 1968
The Swimmer, Frank Perry, 1968
2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, 1968
Romeo and Juliet, Franco Zeffirelli, 1968
Rosemary's Baby, Roman Polanski, 1968
Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero, 1968
Where Eagles Dare, Brian G. Hutton, 1968
Once Upon a Time in the West, Sergio Leone, 1968
Theorem, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968
Funeral Parade of Roses, Toshio Matsumoto, 1969
The Cremator, Juraj Herz, 1969
The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah, 1969
The Trouble with Girls, Peter Tewksbury, 1969
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Jaromil Jireš, 1970
The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdonavich, 1971
A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick, 1971
Fat City, John Huston, 1972
Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Werner Herzog, 1972
Buck and The Preacher, Sidney Poitier, 1972
O Lucky Man!, Lindsay Anderson, 1973
Belladonna of Sadness, Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973
Badlands, Terence Malick, 1973
Lady Snowblood, Toshiya Fujita,1973
Don't Look Now, Nicolas Roeg, 1973
Space is the Place, John Coney, 1974
Phase IV, Saul Bass, 1974
Pastoral: To Die in the Country, Shuji Terayama, 1974
Alice in the CIties, Wim Wenders, 1974
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper, 1974
The Stepford Wives, Bryan Forbes, 1975
Mirror, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975
Nashville, Robert Altman, 1975
Black Moon, Louis Malle, 1975
The Man Who Fell to Earth, Nicolas Roeg, 1976
Mad Dog Morgan, Philippe Mora, 1976
Suspiria, Dario Argento, 1977
Wizards, Ralph Bakshi, 1977
Eraserhead, David Lynch, 1977
3 Women, Robert Altman, 1977
The White Buffalo, J. Lee Thompson, 1977
The Greatest, Tom Gries, Monte Hellman, 1977
The Ascent, Larisa Shepitko, 1977
Star Wars, George Lucas, 1977
The American Friend, Wim Wenders, 1977
House, Nobuhiko Obaysashi, 1977
September 30, 1955, James Bridges, 1977
Days of Heaven, Terence Malick, 1978
Drunken Master, Yuen Woo-ping, 1978
Watership Down, 1978
Killer of Sheep, Charles Burnett, 1978
Crippled Avengers, Chang Cheh, 1978
Mad Max, George Miler, 1979
Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979
Nezha Conquers the Dragon King, Shuchen Wang, Yan Dingxian, Jingda Xu, 1979
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979
Radio On, Chris Petit, 1979
Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
Out of the Blue, Dennis Hopper, 1980
The Shining, Stanley Kubrick, 1980
The Elephant Man, David Lynch, 1980
Shogun Assassin, Robert Houston, Kenji Misumi, 1980
Son of the White Mare, Marcell Jankovics, 1981
Possession, Andrzej Żuławski, 1981
The Last Unicorn, Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr, 1982
Repo Man, Alex Cox, 1984
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki, 1984
Paris, Texas, Wim Wenders, 1984
Angel's Egg, Mamoru Oshii, 1985
Ran, Akira Kurosawa, 1985
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Paul Schrader, 1985
Come and See, Elem Klimov, 1985
Phenomena, Dario Argento, 1985
Police Story, Jackie Chan, 1985
Blue Velvet, David Lynch, 1986
Labyrinth, Jim Henson, 1986
A Better Tomorrow, John Woo, 1986
Transformers: The Movie, 1986
1/2 Man, Gakuryu Ishii, 1986
Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders, 1987
My Neighbour Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki, 1988
Alice, Jan Švankmajer, 1988
Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988
Looking for Langston, Isaac Julien, 1989
Mystery Train, Jim Jarmusch, 1989
Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989
Dreams, Akira Kurosawa, 1990
The Juniper Tree, Nietzchka Keene, 1990
Wild at Heart, David Lynch, 1990
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, Lam Nai-Choi, 1991
Hard Boiled, John Woo, 1992
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, David Lynch, 1992
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Bruce Timm, Eric Radomski, 1992
Chungking Express, Wong Kar-wai, 1994
Heavenly Creatures, Peter Jackson, 1994
August in the Water, Gakuryu Ishii, 1995
La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995
Fallen Angels, Wong Kar-wai, 1995
Memories, Koji Morimoto, Katsuhiro Otomo, Tensai Okamura
Crash, David Cronenberg, 1996
Romeo + Juliet, Baz Luhrmann, 1996
Labyrinth of Dreams, Gakuryu Ishii, 1997
Happy Together, Wong Kar-wai, 1997
Perfect Blue, Satoshi Kon, 1997
Buffalo '66, Vincent Gallo, 1998
Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio, 1999
In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai, 2000
Electric Dragon 80.000 V, Gakuryu Ishii, 2001
Pulse, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001
Cat Soup, Tatsuo Sato, 2001
Mulholland Drive, David Lynch, 2001
Millennium Actress, Satoshi Kon, 2001
Blue Spring, Toshiaki Toyoda, 2001
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, Shusuke Kaneko, 2001
Memories of Murder, Bong Joon-ho, 2003
Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Tsai Ming-liang, 2003
Coffe and Cigarettes, Jim Jarmusch, 2003
Tropical Malady, Apichatpong Weersethakul, 2004
Spider-Man 2, Sam Raimi, 2004
Mirrored Mind, Gakuryu Ishii, 2005
Inland Empire, David Lynch, 2006
Tekkonkinkreet, Michael Arias, 2006
Let the Right One In, Tomas Alfredson, 2008
Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009
The Raid, Gareth Evans, 2011
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Apichatpong Weersethakul, 2010
Hard to Be a God, Aleksey German, 2013
Under the Skin, Jonathan Glazer, 2013
Kaili Blues, Bi Gan, 2015
Shin Godzilla, Hideaki Anno, 2016
Long Day's Journey Into the Night, Bi Gan, 2018
Burning, Lee Chang-dong, 2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Rodney Rothman, Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti, 2018
The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers, 2019
Parasite, Bong Joon-ho, 2019
Petrov's Flu, Kirill Serebrennikov, 2021
The Green Knight, David Lowery, 2021
The Batman, Matt Reeves, 2022
Perfect Days, Wim Wenders, 2024