George Mpoukatsas

Yet another movie-blogger.

The order is far from definite, though not necessarily random. All these movies are personal favourites that I keep on revisiting from time to time and, in my opinion, evoke to a certain extent the power of the medium. Many other films could have been included, it just happened that those listed sprang to my mind at this particular moment.

  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .. Stanley Kubrick
  2. Vertigo (1958) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  3. Rio Bravo (1959) .. Howard Hawks
  4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) .. John Ford
  5. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) .. Stanley Kubrick
  6. Barry Lyndon (1975) .. Stanley Kubrick
  7. The Shining (1980) .. Stanley Kubrick
  8. Heimat (1984) .. Edgar Reitz
  9. Heimat 2 (1992) .. Edgar Reitz
  10. Dekalog (1989) .. Krzysztof Kieslowski
  11. The Naked Spur (1953) .. Anthony Mann
  12. Providence (1977) .. Alain Resnais
  13. The Seventh Continent (1989) .. Michael Haneke
  14. Hidden (2005) .. Michael Haneke
  15. Heat (1995) .. Michael Mann
  16. Rear Window (1954) .. Alfred Hitchcock
  17. The Sheltering Sky (1990) .. Bernardo Bertolucci
  18. La Peau Douce (1964) .. François Truffaut
  19. Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau
  20. M (1931) .. Fritz Lang
  21. The Big Heat (1953) .. Fritz Lang
  22. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson
  23. My Night with Maud (1969) .. Eric Rohmer
  24. L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni
  25. L'Eclisse (1962) .. Michelangelo Antonioni
  26. Naked (1993) .. Mike Leigh
  27. Sunset Boulevard (1950) .. Billy Wilder
  28. Chinatown (1974) .. Roman Polanski
  29. The Thin Red Line (1998) .. Terrence Malick
  30. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) .. David Lean
  31. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) .. Sergio Leone
  32. Harakiri (1962) .. Masaki Kobayashi
  33. Stalker (1979) .. Andrei Tarkovsky
  34. Manhattan (1979) .. Woody Allen
  35. Viridiana (1961) .. Luis Buñuel
  36. The Phantom of Liberty (1974) .. Luis Buñuel
  37. Ikiru (1952) .. Akira Kurosawa
  38. High and Low (1963) .. Akira Kurosawa
  39. The Reckless Moment (1949) .. Max Ophüls
  40. Sansho Dayu (1954) .. Kenji Mizoguchi
  41. Kings of the Road (1976) .. Wim Wenders
  42. Paris, Texas (1984) .. Wim Wenders
  43. The Big Lebowski (1998) .. The Coen Brothers
  44. Raging Bull (1980) .. Martin Scorsese
  45. Brazil (1985) .. Terry Gilliam
  46. Fanny and Alexander (1982) .. Ingmar Bergman
  47. Winter Light (1962) .. Ingmar Bergman
  48. The Godfather: Part II (1974) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  49. Dead Ringers (1988) .. David Cronenberg
  50. Happy Together (1997) .. Wong Kar Wai

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