Very Good Movies
[In alphabetical order]
- 12 Angry Men
- 2001 A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
- Amores Perros (Iñárritu) (2000)
- A Night at the Opera (Marx Brothers) (1935)
- A Short Film About Love (Kieslowski) (1988)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan the Squealer)
- At The Circus (Marx Brothers) (1939)
- A Woman Under The Influence (Cassavetes) (1974)
- Akahige (Kurosawa)
- Ali G In Da House (Sacha Baron Cohen)
- All Quiet On The Western Front
- Amarcord (Fellini)
- American Beauty
- American History X
- American Psycho
- And Justice for All (1979)
- Annie Hall (Woody Allen) (1977)
- Bande A Part (Godard) (1964)
- Blade Runner
- Blowup (Antonioni) (1966)
- Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen)
- Catch 22
- City Lights (Chaplin)
- Cold Mountain (2003)
- Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
- Das Leben Der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
- Dead Poets Society (Weir) (1989)
- Det Sjunde Inseglet (The Seventh Seal) (Bergman) (1957)
- Do You Remember Dolly Bell
- Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
- El Verdugo (Berlanga) (1963)
- Eraserhead (David Lynch) (1977)
- Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick) (1999)
- Fahrenheit 451 (1966) (François Truffaut)
- Fanny och Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
- Gabbeh (Makhmalbaf)
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- Goya’s Ghosts (2006) (Miloš Forman)
- Grapes of Wrath (Ford)
- Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka) (1988)
- Hable Con Ella (Talk to Her) (Almodóvar)
- Hakuchi (The Idiot) (Kurosawa) (1951)
- Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa
- Horse Feathers (Marx Brothers) (1932)
- I Vitelloni (Fellini)
- Ikiru (Kurosawa)
- Il Postino
- In the Mood For Love (Wong Kar Wai)
- In The Valley of Elah (2007)
- Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron
- Jules et Jim (François Truffaut)
- Jungfrukällan (The Virgin Spring) (Bergman)
- Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) (Guru Dutt)
- Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi) (1964)
- La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
- La Haine (The Hate)
- La Strada (Fellini)
- L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni) (1960)
- Le Mépris (Jean Luc Godard) (1963)
- Les Quatre Cents Coups (400 Blows) (Truffaut) (1959)
- Life Of Brian (Monty Python)
- M (Fritz Lang) (1931)
- Magnolia
- Malena (Tornatore)
- Maria Full of Grace (Marston) (2004)
- Masculin Feminin (Godard)
- Memento (Nolan) (2000)
- Metropolis (Fritz Lang) (1927)
- Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky) (1975)
- Monster’s Ball (2001)
- Monty Python And The Holy Grail
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- No Man’s Land
- Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky) (1983)
- Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou (Coen) (2000)
- One Flew over The Cuckoo’s Nest
- Persona (Bergman)
- Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
- Pyaasaa (1957) (Guru Dutt)
- Ran (Kurosawa)
- Rashomon (Kurosawa) (1950)
- Roma (Fellini)
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- Rosetta (1999)
- Run Lola Run
- Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
- Solyaris (Tarkovsky)
- Spirited Away
- Stalker (Tarkovsky)
- The Apartment (1960)
- The Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
- The Constant Gardener
- The English Patient (1996)
- The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)
- The Killing (Stanley Kubrick) (1956)
- The Killing Fields
- The King of Comedy (Scorsese)
- The Last Picture Show (1971)
- The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
- The Pianist (Polanski)
- The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)
- The Searchers (Ford) (1956)
- The Shining (Kubrick) (1980)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston)
- The Truman Show (Weir) (1998)
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach)
- Three Colours (Kieslowski)
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Touch of Evil (Orson Welles) (1958)
- Traffic (Soderbergh) (2000)
- Trainspotting (1996)
- Two Women (Vittorio De Sica)
- Tystnaden (The Silence) (Bergman)
- Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica)
- Vargtimmen (Hour of the Wolf) (Bergman)
- War Inc. (2008)
- Weekend (Godard) (1967)
- Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
- Yojimbo (Kurosawa) (1961)
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