Top 60 Films
Updated Fri May 21 2021
This list is a congregation of several countries, a dozen languages, and many directors' worth of material. With this list, I am hoping to express my personal favorites as well as acknowledge the greatest films of all time. See also my Top Albums List.
| # | Title | Director | Year |
| 1. | Manhattan | Woody Allen | 1979 |
| 2. | Persona | Ingmar Bergman | 1966 |
| 3. | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Robert Wiene | 1920 |
| 4. | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | 1968 |
| 5. | A Woman under the Influence | John Cassavetes | 1974 |
| 6. | Woman in the Dunes | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 1964 |
| 7. | Heaven Knows What | Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie | 2014 |
| 8. | The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1928 |
| 9. | Kings of the Road | Wim Wenders | 1976 |
| 10. | Naked Lunch | David Cronenberg | 1991 |
| 11. | Inland Empire | David Lynch | 2006 |
| 12. | Stardust Memories | Woody Allen | 1980 |
| 13. | The Connection | Shirley Clarke | 1962 |
| 14. | The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | 1968 |
| 15. | The Phantom Carriage | Victor Sjöstrom | 1921 |
| 16. | The Seventh Seal | Ingmar Bergman | 1957 |
| 17. | Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1979 |
| 18. | 8½ | Federico Fellini | 1963 |
| 19. | Mulholland Dr. | David Lynch | 2001 |
| 20. | Dancer in the Dark | Lars von Trier | 2000 |
| 21. | Until the End of the World | Wim Wenders | 1991 |
| 22. | The Bicycle Thief | Vittorio de Sica | 1948 |
| 23. | Amour | Michael Haneke | 2012 |
| 24. | Network | Sidney Lumet | 1976 |
| 25. | Nymphomaniac | Lars von Trier | 2014 |
| 26. | The Holy Mountain | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 1973 |
| 27. | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry | 2004 |
| 28. | Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1972 |
| 29. | Chinatown | Roman Polanski | 1974 |
| 30. | City of Life and Death | Lu Chuan | 2009 |
| 31. | Last Year at Marienbad | Alain Resnais | 1961 |
| 32. | Threads | Mick Jackson | 1984 |
| 33. | M | Fritz Lang | 1931 |
| 34. | Tangerine | Sean Baker | 2015 |
| 35. | The Face of Another | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 1966 |
| 36. | The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | Werner Herzog | 1974 |
| 37. | Decoder | Muscha | 1984 |
| 38. | Red Desert | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1964 |
| 39. | The Fire Within | Louis Malle | 1963 |
| 40. | The Life of Oharu | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1952 |
| 41. | Synecdoche, New York | Charlie Kaufman | 2008 |
| 42. | The Rules of the Game | Jean Renoir | 1939 |
| 43. | Brazil | Terry Gilliam | 1985 |
| 44. | Love Streams | John Cassavetes | 1984 |
| 45. | La Haine | Matthieu Kassovitz | 1996 |
| 46. | A Raisin in the Sun | Daniel Petrie | 1961 |
| 47. | Funny Games | Michael Haneke | 1997 |
| 48. | Fox and His Friends | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1975 |
| 49. | The 400 Blows | François Truffaut | 1959 |
| 50. | Fail-Safe | Sidney Lumet | 1964 |
| 51. | We Need to Talk About Kevin | Lynne Ramsay | 2011 |
| 52. | Leviathan | Andrey Zvyagintsev | 2014 |
| 53. | Troubled Water | Erik Poppe | 2008 |
| 54. | Santa sangre | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 1989 |
| 55. | Orpheus | Jean Cocteau | 1950 |
| 56. | Funeral Parade of Roses | Toshio Matsumoto | 1969 |
| 57. | The Celebration | Thomas Vinterberg | 1998 |
| 58. | Do the Right Thing | Spkie Lee | 1989 |
| 59. | Paper Moon | Peter Bogdanovich | 1973 |
| 60. | The Trial | Orson Welles | 1962 |