Top 60 Films
Last updated: February 22, 2020
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 | Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie | 2014 |
| 8. | Naked Lunch | David Cronenberg | 1991 |
| 9. | The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1928 |
| 10. | Inland Empire | David Lynch | 2006 |
| 11. | Stardust Memories | Woody Allen | 1980 |
| 12. | The Connection | Shirley Clarke | 1962 |
| 13. | The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | 1968 |
| 14. | The Phantom Carriage | Victor Sjöstrom | 1921 |
| 15. | 8½ | Federico Fellini | 1963 |
| 16. | The Seventh Seal | Ingmar Bergman | 1957 |
| 17. | Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1972 |
| 18. | Mulholland Dr. | David Lynch | 2001 |
| 19. | Dancer in the Dark | Lars von Trier | 2000 |
| 20. | Amour | Michael Haneke | 2012 |
| 21. | Chinatown | Roman Polanski | 1974 |
| 22. | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry | 2004 |
| 23. | The Holy Mountain | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 1973 |
| 24. | Mommy | Xavier Dolan | 2014 |
| 25. | Nymphomaniac | Lars von Trier | 2013 |
| 26. | Suspiria | Dario Argento | 1977 |
| 27. | Fox and His Friends | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1975 |
| 28. | Network | Sidney Lumet | 1976 |
| 29. | The 400 Blows | François Truffaut | 1959 |
| 30. | Brazil | Terry Gilliam | 1985 |
| 31. | The Fire Within | Louis Malle | 1963 |
| 32. | Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | 1984 |
| 33. | Red Desert | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1964 |
| 34. | Leviathan | Andrey Zvyagintsev | 2014 |
| 35. | The Face of Another | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 1966 |
| 36. | Synecdoche, New York | Charlie Kaufman | 2008 |
| 37. | The Bicycle Thief | Vittorio de Sica | 1948 |
| 38. | Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1979 |
| 39. | Good Time | Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie | 2017 |
| 40. | The Vanishing | George Sluizer | 1988 |
| 41. | Three Colors: White | Krzysztof Kieślowski | 1994 |
| 42. | Troubled Water | Erik Poppe | 2008 |
| 43. | Celine and Julie Go Boating | Jacques Rivette | 1974 |
| 44. | The Rules of the Game | Jean Renoir | 1939 |
| 45. | M | Fritz Lang | 1931 |
| 46. | Paper Moon | Peter Bogdanovich | 1973 |
| 47. | The Seventh Continent | Michael Haneke | 1989 |
| 48. | Santa sangre | Alejandro Jodorowsky | 1989 |
| 49. | Threads | Mick Jackson | 1950 |
| 50. | The Celebration | Thomas Vinterberg | 1998 |
| 51. | Fail-Safe | Sidney Lumet | 1964 |
| 52. | L'argent | Robert Bresson | 1983 |
| 53. | L'humanité | Bruno Dumont | 1999 |
| 54. | La Haine | Mathieu Kassovitz | 1995 |
| 55. | Ashes and Diamonds | Andrej Wajda | 1958 |
| 56. | Love Streams | John Cassavetes | 1984 |
| 57. | That Obscure Object of Desire | Luis Buñuel | 1977 |
| 58. | Blow Out | Brian de Palma | 1981 |
| 59. | Close-Up | Abbas Kiarostami | 1990 |
| 60. | Orpheus | Jean Cocteau | 1950 |
Recommended Mini-Series
I need to make this addition to my films list. To truly appreciate film, one should occasionally watch a mini-series or two, as many auteurs have created artistic and film-quality productions for television.
However, it feels inappropriate almost to include a mini-series among a list of films, as it's not technically the same format. However, there are many incredible programs out there.
| Title | Director | Year | |
| Horace and Pete | Louis C.K. | 2016 | |
| Chernobyl | Johan Renck | 2019 | |
| Scenes from a Marriage | Ingmar Bergman | 1973 | |
| Dekalog | Krzysztof Kieślowski | 1988 |