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100 Favorite FIlms

  1. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
  2. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999)
  3. Almayer’s Folly (Chantal Akerman, 2011)
  4. Argent, L’ (Robert Bresson, 1983)
  5. Aviator’s Wife, The (Éric Rohmer, 1981)
  6. Awaara (Raj Kapoor, 1951)
  7. Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
  8. Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
  9. Bhumika (Shyam Benegal, 1977)
  10. Big City, The (Satyajit Ray, 1963)
  11. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
  12. Bonheur, Le (Agnès Varda, 1965)
  13. Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Éric Rohmer, 1987)
  14. Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
  15. Brighter Summer Day, A (Edward Yang, 1991)
  16. Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1971)
  17. Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964)
  18. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)
  19. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
  20. Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)
  21. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
  22. Conformist, The (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
  23. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)
  24. Dil Se.. (Mani Ratnam, 1998)
  25. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
  26. Duvidha (Mani Kaul, 1973)
  27. Earrings of Madame de …, The (Max Ophüls, 1953)
  28. Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
  29. End of Evangelion, The (Hideaki Anno et al., 1997)
  30. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
  31. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
  32. Gertrud (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1964)
  33. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)
  34. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
  35. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
  36. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
  37. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
  38. His Motorbike, Her Island (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1986)
  39. History is Made at Night (Frank Borzage, 1937)
  40. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
  41. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
  42. In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
  43. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
  44. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1978)
  45. Lady Eve, The (Preston Sturges, 1941)
  46. Last Days of Disco, The (Whit Stillman, 1998)
  47. Late Spring (Yasujirô Ozu, 1949)
  48. Letter to Three Wives, A (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1949)
  49. Long Day Closes, The (Terence Davies, 1992)
  50. M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
  51. Magnificent Ambersons, The (Orson Welles, 1942)
  52. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
  53. Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992)
  54. Mammo (Shyam Benegal, 1994)
  55. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
  56. Master, The (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
  57. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021)
  58. Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, 1976)
  59. Moment of Innocence, A (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996)
  60. Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin, 1947)
  61. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
  62. My Night at Maud’s (Éric Rohmer, 1969)
  63. Naseem (Saeed Akhtar Mirza, 1995)
  64. Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
  65. Night of the Hunter, The (Charles Laughton, 1955)
  66. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)
  67. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
  68. Offside (Jafar Panahi, 2006)
  69. Om Shanti Om (Farah Khan, 2007)
  70. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
  71. Ordet (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1955)
  72. Phantom Carriage, The (Victor Sjöström, 1921)
  73. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
  74. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
  75. Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (Aditya Chopra, 2008)
  76. Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang, 1992)
  77. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
  78. Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
  79. Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica, 1946)
  80. Shop Around the Corner, The (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
  81. Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman, 1955)
  82. Steel Helmet, The (Samuel Fuller, 1951)
  83. Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
  84. Terrorizers, The (Edward Yang, 1986)
  85. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
  86. Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, 1994)
  87. To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
  88. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008)
  89. Tokyo Twilight (Yasujirô Ozu, 1957)
  90. Tree of Life, The (Terrence Malick, 2011)
  91. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
  92. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch, 2017)
  93. Two Lovers (James Gray, 2008)
  94. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
  95. Underground (Emir Kusturica, 1995)
  96. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
  97. Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994)
  98. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
  99. Yearning (Mikio Naruse, 1964)
  100. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)