Top 100 Films
Just wanted to put this somewhere for the sake of documentation, might do this once a year to see how much the overall list changes.
Not ranked, but the list is done by release date, earliest to most recent. Includes short and feature length films (plus one TV series, and two serials, if you want to be specific):
• The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), dir. D.W. Griffith
• Fantômas (1913), dir. Louis Feuillade
• Les Vampires (1915), dir. Louis Feuillade
• The Doll (1919), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
• Foolish Wives (1922), dir. Erich von Stroheim
• Sherlock, Jr. (1924), dir. Buster Keaton
• Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924), dir. Fritz Lang
• Greed (1924), dir. Erich von Stroheim
• The Last Laugh (1924), dir. F. W. Murnau
• The Gold Rush (1925), dir. Charlie Chaplin
• The General (1926), dir. Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), dir. F. W. Murnau
• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• The Docks of New York (1928), dir. Josef von Sternberg
• The Wedding March (1928), dir. Erich von Stroheim
• Man with a Movie Camera (1929), Dziga Vertov
• M (1931), dir. Fritz Lang
• Vampyr (1932), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), dir. Mervyn LeRoy
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), dir. Mervyn LeRoy, Bubsy Berkeley
• L’Atalante (1934), dir. Jean Vigo
• The Scarlet Empress (1934), dir. Josef von Sternberg
• The Thin Man (1934), dir. W.S. Van Dyke
• The Only Son (1936), dir. Yasujirō Ozu
• Citizen Kane (1941), dir. Orson Welles
• Now, Voyager (1942), dir. Irving Rapper
• Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), dir. Maya Deren
• Day of Wrath (1943), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• At Land (1944), dir. Maya Deren
• Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944), dir. Sergei Eisenstein
• Notorious (1946), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
• Sunset Boulevard (1950), dir. Billy Wilder
• Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953), dir. Jacques Tati
• The Wages of Fear (1953), dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
• The Big Heat (1953), dir. Fritz Lang
• The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), dir. Kenneth Anger
• Rear Window (1954), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
• Ordet (1955), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• A Man Escaped (1956), dir. Robert Bresson
• Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars’ Plot (1958), dir. Sergei Eisenstein
• La Dolce Vita (1960), dir. Federico Fellini
• L’Avventura (1960), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
• La Notte (1961), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
• L’Eclisse (1962), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
• The Exterminating Angel (1962), dir. Luis Buñuel
• Mothlight (1963), dir. Stan Brakhage
• Red Desert (1964), dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
• Gertrud (1964), dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• The War Game (1966), dir. Peter Watkins
• Au Hasard Balthazar (1966), dir. Robert Bresson
• Daisies (1966), dir. Věra Chytilová
• Lemon (1969), dir. Hollis Frampton
• The Conformist (1970), dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), dir. Luis Buñuel
• F for Fake (1973), dir. Orson Welles
• Lancelot of the Lake (1974), dir. Robert Bresson
• A Woman Under the Influence (1974), dir. John Cassavetes
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). dir. Tobe Hooper
• House (1977), dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
• Stalker (1979), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• Nostalgia (1983), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• L’Argent (1983), dir. Robert Bresson
• Blue Velvet (1986), dir. David Lynch
• Heathers (1989), dir. Michael Lehmann
• Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989), dir. Hayao Miyazaki
• Baraka (1992), dir. Ron Fricke
• Satantango (1994), dir. Béla Tarr
• A Confucian Confusion (1994), dir. Edward Yang
• Chungking Express (1994), dir. Wong Kar-Wai
• Ed Wood (1994), dir. Tim Burton
• Whisper of the Heart (1995), dir. Yoshifumi Kondo
• Showgirls (1995), dir. Paul Verhoeven
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997), dir. Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki
• Gummo (1997), dir. Harmony Korine
• The Big Lebowski (1998), dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
• Outer Space (1999), dir. Peter Tscherkassky
• Beau Travail (1999), dir. Claire Denis
• Julien Donkey-Boy (1999), dir. Harmony Korine
• Yi Yi (2000), dir. Edward Yang
• Dancer in the Dark (2000), dir. Lars von Trier
• The Piano Teacher (2001), dir. Michael Haneke
• Mulholland Drive (2001), dir. David Lynch
• What Time Is It There? (2001), dir. Tsai Ming-liang
• Memories of Murder (2003), dir. Bong Joon-ho
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003), dir. Lily Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
• The Village (2004), dir. M. Night Shyamalan
• Caché (2005), dir. Michael Haneke
• Southland Tales (2006), dir. Richard Kelly
• Inland Empire (2006), dir. David Lynch
• Zodiac (2007), dir. David Fincher
• The White Ribbon (2009), dir. Michael Haneke
• The Turin Horse (2011), dir. Béla Tarr
• Five Broken Cameras (2012), dir. Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
• The Master (2012), dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
• Spring Breakers (2012), dir. Harmony Korine
• Song to Song (2017), dir. Terrence Malick
• Twin Peaks: The Return (2017), dir. David Lynch
• The Favourite (2018), dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), dir. Céline Sciamma
• We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021), dir. Jane Schoenbrun
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an absolute list of films i’d like to watch (so far)
thanks to the Letterboxd community for always recommending the most unhinged pieces ever
Gummo, Harmony Korine (1997)
Hard Candy, David Slade (2005)
House, Nobuhiko Obayashi (1977)
Ichi the Killer, Takashi Miike (2001)
Kids, Larry Clark (1995)
Léon: The Professional, Luc Besson (1994)
Oldboy, Park Chan-wook (2003)
Once Upon a Time in America, Sergio Leone, (1984)
Fantastic Planet, René Laloux (1973)
Punch Drunk-Love, Paul Thomas Anderson (2002)
[REC], Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza (2007)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jim Sharman (1975)
Shock Treatment, Jim Sharman (1981)
Sleepaway Camp, Robert Hiltzik (1983)
The Warriors, Walter Hill (1979)
Videodrome, David Cronenberg (1983)
Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese (1976)
The Ninth Configuration, William Peter Blatty (1980)
Flowers for Algernon, Jeff Bleckner (2000)
Mona Lisa, Neil Jordan (1986)
The Machinist, Brad Anderson (2004)
Miller’s Crossing, Joel Coen (1990)
Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
The Farewell, Lulu Wang (2019)
Trash Humpers, Harmony Korine (2009)
Pixote, Héctor Babenco (1980)
Julien Donkey-Boy, Harmony Korine (1999)
Last Night, Don McKellar (1998)
Duck Butter, Miguel Arteta (2018)
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)
The Pianist, Roman Polanski (2002)
Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino (1992)
Blue Velvet, David Lynch (1986)
At Eternity’s Gate, Julian Schnabel (2018)
Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014)
Climax, Gaspar Noé (2018)
Shirkers, Sandi Tan (2018)
A Ghost Story, David Lowery (2017)
Carol, Todd Haynes (2015)
Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro, Hayao Miyazaki (1979)
Baby Driver, Edgar Wright (2017)
The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu (2015)
She’s Gotta Have It, Spike Lee (1986)
I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, Macon Blair (2017)
It Comes at Night, Trey Edward Shults (2017)
Buster’s Mal Heart, Sarah Adina Smith (2016)
Cam, Daniel Goldhaber (2018)
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski, Irek Dobrowolski (2018)
I Think We’re Alone Now, Reed Morano (2018)
Skins, Eduardo Casanova (2017)
The Fundamentals of Caring, Rob Burnett (2016)
About Time, Richard Curtis (2013)
The Bad Batch, Ana Lily Amirpour (2016)
The Highwaymen, John Lee Hancock (2019)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh (2017)
Natural Born Killers, Oliver Stone (1994)
XX, Karyn Kusama & Jovanka Vuckovic & Roxanne Benjamin & St. Vincent (2017)
Cargo, Ben Howling & Yolanda Ramke (2017)
Residue, Alex Garcia Lopez (2015)
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, Griffin Dunne (2017)
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower, Joe Piscatella (2017)
Chasing Trane, John Scheinfeld (2016)
Tallulah, Siân Heder (2016)
Expedition Happiness, Felix Starck & Selima Taibi (2017)
Bottom of the World, Richard Sears (2017)
Super Dark Times, Kevin Phillips (2017)
Notes on Blindness, Pete Middleton & James Spinney (2016)
Newness, Drake Doremus (2017)
ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke, Kelly Duane de la Vega (2019)
Paddleton, Alexandre Lehmann (2019)
Juanita, Clark Johnson (2019)
Temple, Michael Barrett (2017)
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, Bob Hercules & Rita Coburn Whack (2016)
P, Paul Spurrier (2005)
I Am Happiness on Earth, Julián Hernández (2014)
Carrie Pilby, Susan Johnson (2016)
Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses, David Stubbs (2015)
I Called Him Morgan, Kasper Collin (2016)
A Family Affair, Tom Fassaert (2015)
Q, Sanjeev Gupta (2017)
Boyhood, Richard Linklater (2014)
Thelma & Louise, Ridley Scott (1991)
Brick, Rian Johnson (2005)
The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson (2001)
Moonlight, Barry Jenkins (2016)
Mulholland Drive, David Lynch (2001)
Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)
Lake Mungo, Joel Anderson (2008)
War of the Worlds, Steven Spielberg (2005)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto (1989)
Mady, Panos Cosmatos (2018)
Raw, Julia Ducournau (2016)
The Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn (2016)
The Love Witch, Anna Biller (2016)
Tusk, Kevin Smith (2014)
Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky (2010)
A Serbian Film, Srđan Spasojević (2010)
Antichrist, Lars von Trier (2009)
Paprika, Satoshi Kon (2006)
Audition, Takashi Miike (1999)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam (1998)
Perfect Blue, Satoshi Kon (1997)
Suspiria, Dario Argento (1977)
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975)
Irreversible, Gaspar Noé (2002)
Teeth, Mitchell Lichtenstein (2007)
Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood, Hideshi Hino (1985)
I Stand Alone, Gaspar Noé (1998)
Begotten, E. Elias Merhige (1989)
Dekalog, Krzysztof Kieślowski (1989)
Dancer in the Dark, Lars von Trier (2000)
Shoplifters, Hirokazu Kore-eda (2018)
Honey Boy, Alma Har’el (2019)
The Inner Scar, Philippe Garrel (1972)
The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook (2016)
Funny Games, Michael Haneke (1997)
$9.99, Tatia Rosenthal (2008)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Ana Lily Amirpour (2014)
In The Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai (2000)
Stranger Than Paradise, Jim Jarmusch (1984)
Quadrophenia, Franc Roddam (1979)
Blow-Up, Michaelangelo Antonioni (1966)
Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee (1989)
Christiane F., Uli Edel (1981)
Grey Gardens, Albert Maysles & David Maysles & Muffie Meyer & Ellen Hovde (1975)
The Tribe, Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi (2014)
Uncut Gems, Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie (2019)
Persona, Ingmar Bergman (1966)
Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman (1957)
The Silence, Ingmar Bergman (1963)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma (2019)
The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers (2019)
Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell (2020)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer, Masaki Kobayashi (1961)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, Jonas Mekas (2000)
X, Ti West (2022)
Everything Everywhere All at Once, Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan (2022)
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Tom Gormican (2022)
The Conversation, Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell Live, Aaron Craig & Alex Craig (2017)
La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz (1995)
My Life as a Zucchini, Claude Barras (2016)
The Wolf House, Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña (2018)
Come and See, Elem Klimov (1985)
Noisy Requiem, Yoshihiko Matsui (1988)
Eyes Without a Face, Georges Franju (1960)
Angel’s Egg, Mamoru Oshii (1985)
Dogville, Lars von Trier (2003)
Pink Flamingos, John Waters (1972)
Are you lost in the world like me?, Steve Cutts (2016)
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