Valerie Troutman

I can't say that these are the 50 best films that I know, but these are 50 films that resonated with me and continue to do so to this day. There are other films that I could include, but since 50 is the limit, this is my list. Sorry that I don't have time to fill in details about why I chose each film like why I chose a cheesy ‘80s B-movie like Trancers.
  1. Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) .. Stanley Kubrick
  2. Trancers (1985) .. Charles Band
  3. The Music Man (1962) .. Morton DaCosta
  4. A Clockwork Orange (1971) .. Stanley Kubrick
  5. Ikiru (1952) .. Akira Kurosawa
  6. The Godfather (1972) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  7. The Godfather: Part II (1974) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  8. Bicycle Thieves (1948) .. Vittorio De Sica
  9. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  10. Taxi Driver (1976) .. Martin Scorsese
  11. Apocalypse Now (1979) .. Francis Ford Coppola
  12. Chinatown (1974) .. Roman Polanski
  13. Viridiana (1961) .. Luis Buñuel
  14. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson
  15. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) .. Sergio Leone
  16. Last Year in Marienbad (1961) .. Alain Resnais
  17. Blue Velvet (1986) .. David Lynch
  18. Big (1988) .. Penny Marshall
  19. The Exterminating Angel (1962) .. Luis Buñuel
  20. Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein
  21. Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein
  22. The World of Apu (1959) .. Satyajit Ray
  23. Fear Eats the Soul (1974) .. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  24. Network (1976) .. Sidney Lumet
  25. A Woman Under the Influence (1974) .. John Cassavetes
  26. Grease (1978) .. Randal Kleiser
  27. The Crowd (1928) .. King Vidor
  28. Battleship Potemkin (1925) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein
  29. Brazil (1985) .. Terry Gilliam
  30. L.A. Confidential (1997) .. Curtis Hanson
  31. WarGames (1983) .. John Badham
  32. Paris, Texas (1984) .. Wim Wenders
  33. Imitation of Life (1959) .. Douglas Sirk
  34. Intolerance (1916) .. D.W. Griffith
  35. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) .. Werner Herzog
  36. The Raven (1963) .. Roger Corman
  37. Umberto D. (1952) .. Vittorio De Sica
  38. Real Genius (1985) .. Martha Coolidge
  39. The Day I Became a Woman (2000) .. Marzieh Makhmalbaf
  40. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) .. James Cameron
  41. Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau
  42. The Cranes Are Flying (1957) .. Mikhail Kalatozov
  43. Ballad of a Soldier (1959) .. Grigori Chukhrai
  44. Late Spring (1949) .. Yasujiro Ozu
  45. Floating Weeds (1959) .. Yasujiro Ozu
  46. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) .. Jacques Demy
  47. Dawn of the Dead (1978) .. George A. Romero
  48. Woman of the Dunes (1964) .. Hiroshi Teshigahara
  49. Suspiria (1977) .. Dario Argento
  50. Moolaadé (2004) .. Ousmane Sembene

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