Ryan

England
Wannabe movie buff

When it came to making this list, I had to strike a balancing act between my favourite films and films that I feel are historically significant. Since there are a number of directors whose films I haven't watched yet, I apologise in advance for not including some films over others.

  1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  2. Andrei Rublev (1966) .. Andrei Tarkovsky
  3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .. Stanley Kubrick
  4. Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau
  5. Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles
  6. Persona (1966) .. Ingmar Bergman
  7. City Lights (1931) .. Charles Chaplin
  8. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) .. Stanley Kubrick
  9. Seven Samurai (1954) .. Akira Kurosawa
  10. Vertigo (1958) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  11. Bicycle Thieves (1948) .. Vittorio De Sica
  12. Mirror (1975) .. Andrei Tarkovsky
  13. Ikiru (1952) .. Akira Kurosawa
  14. The Godfather (1972) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  15. The Seventh Seal (1957) .. Ingmar Bergman
  16. Apocalypse Now (1979) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  17. Ran (1985) .. Akira Kurosawa
  18. Raging Bull (1980) .. Martin Scorsese
  19. The Godfather: Part II (1974) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  20. Rashomon (1950) .. Akira Kurosawa
  21. Taxi Driver (1976) .. Martin Scorsese
  22. 8½ (1963) .. Federico Fellini
  23. The Third Man (1949) .. Carol Reed
  24. Yojimbo (1961) .. Akira Kurosawa
  25. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) .. Sergio Leone
  26. Psycho (1960) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  27. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) .. Werner Herzog
  28. La Dolce Vita (1960) .. Federico Fellini
  29. A Clockwork Orange (1971) .. Stanley Kubrick
  30. Fanny and Alexander (1982) .. Ingmar Bergman
  31. Three Colours: Red (1994) .. Krzysztof Kieslowski
  32. M (1931) .. Fritz Lang
  33. Pather Panchali (1955) .. Satyajit Ray
  34. Rear Window (1954) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  35. The Four Hundred Blows (1959) .. Francois Truffaut
  36. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) .. Sergio Leone
  37. Paths of Glory (1957) .. Stanley Kubrick
  38. On the Waterfront (1954) .. Elia Kazan
  39. North by Northwest (1959) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  40. Barry Lyndon (1975) .. Stanley Kubrick
  41. Cries and Whispers (1972) .. Ingmar Bergman
  42. Chinatown (1974) .. Roman Polanski
  43. Le Samourai (1967) .. Jean-Pierre Melville
  44. Goodfellas (1990) .. Martin Scorsese
  45. 12 Angry Men (1957) .. Sidney Lumet
  46. Stalker (1979) .. Andrei Tarkovsky
  47. Wild Strawberries (1957) .. Ingmar Bergman
  48. Nights of Cabiria (1957) .. Federico Fellini
  49. Network (1976) .. Sidney Lumet
  50. Three Colours: Blue (1993) .. Krzysztof Kieslowski

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