My 101 Favourite Films
This is an ongoing list which is bound to change when I see a good film.
As of today, 20 July 2008, this is how the list stands.
- American Beauty (1999, Mendes)
- Magnolia (1999, P.T. Anderson)
- Shawshank Redemption, The (1994, Darabont)
- Se7en (1995, Fincher)
- Silence of the Lambs, The (1991, Demme)
- Haine, La (1995, Kassovitz)
- Fargo (1996, Coen)
- Lost in Translation (2003, S. Coppola)
- 2046 (2004, Kar-wai)
- Pulp Fiction (1994, Tarantino)
- Requiem for a Dream (2000, Aronofsky)
- Cidade de Deus [City of God] (2002, Meirelles)
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Nichols)
- Goodfellas (1990, Scorsese)
- Annie Hall (1977, Allen)
- Oldboy (2003, Park)
- English Patient, The (1996, Minghella)
- Persona (1966, Bergman)
- Fa yeung nin wa [In the Mood for Love] (2001, Kar-wai)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, Cameron)
- Taxi Driver (1976, Scorsese)
- Hable con ella [Talk to Her] (2002, Almodóvar)
- Psycho (1960, Hitchcock)
- Paris, Texas (1984, Wenders)
- Fight Club (1999, Fincher)
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Ray)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick)
- Sunset Blvd. (1950, Wilder)
- Tôkyô monogatari [Tokyo Story] (1953, Ozu)
- Back to the Future (1985; Zemeckis)
- Chung Hing sam lam [Chungking Express] (1994, Kar-wai)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998, Spielberg)
- Chinatown (1974, Polanski)
- Samouraï, Le (1967, Melville)
- Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi [Spirited Away] (2002, Miyazaki)
- American History X (1998, Kaye)
- Yojimbo (1961, Kurosawa)
- Leaving Las Vegas (1995, Figgis)
- Usual Suspects, The (1995, Singer)
- Manhattan (1979, Allen)
- Notorious (1946, Hitchcock)
- Adaptation. (2002, Jonze)
- Dancer in the Dark (2000, von Trier)
- Y tu mamá también [And Your Mother Too] (2001, Cuarón)
- Clockwork Orange, A (1971, Kubrick)
- Jaws (1975, Spielberg)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Gondry)
- L.A. Confidential (1997, Hanson)
- Being John Malkovich (1999, Jonze)
- Dark Knight, The (2008, Nolan)
- Mulholland Dr. (2001, Lynch)
- Children of Men (2006, Cuarón)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, Forman)
- There Will Be Blood (2007, P.T. Anderson)
- Departed, The (2006, Scorsese)
- Ordinary People (1980, Redford)
- Vita è bella, La [Life is Beautiful] (1998, Benigni)
- Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Le [Amélie] (2001, Jeunet)
- Pleasantville (1998, Ross)
- Some Like it Hot (1959, Wilder)
- Wo hu cang long [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] (2000, A. Lee)
- Network (1976, Lumet)
- Memento (2001, Nolan)
- C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005, Vallée)
- Forrest Gump (1994, Zemeckis)
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Donen/Kelly)
- Koyaanisqatsi – Life Out of Balance (1982, Reggio)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987, Kubrick)
- Before Sunset (2004, Linklater)
- Trois couleurs: Rouge [Three Colours: Red] (1994, Kieslowski)
- Trois couleus: Bleu [Three Colours: Blue] (1993, Kieslowski)
- Little Miss Sunshine (2006, Dayton/Faris)
- Aliens (1986, Cameron)
- Boogie Nights (1997, P.T. Anderson)
- Laberinto del Fauno, El [Pan's Labyrinth] (2006, Del Toro)
- Scaphandre et le papillon, Le [The Diving Bell and the Butterfly] (2007, Schnabel)
- 8 ½ (1963, Fellini)
- Alien (1979, R. Scott)
- Amores perros [Love's a Bitch] (2000, Iñárritu)
- Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001, W. Anderson)
- Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951, Kazan)
- Batman Begins (2005, Nolan)
- Rear Window (1954, Hitchcock)
- Thelma & Louise (1991, R. Scott)
- Don’t Look Now (1973, Roeg)
- My Own Private Idaho (1991, Van Sant)
- Gangs of New York (2002, Scorsese)
- Far from Heaven (2002, Haynes)
- Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Kubrick)
- Truman Show, The (1998, Weir)
- Todo sobre mi madre [All About My Mother] (1999, Almodóvar)
- All About Eve (1950, Mankiewicz)
- Blue Velvet (1986, Lynch)
- Almost Famous (2000, Crowe)
- Donnie Darko (2001, Kelly)
- Woman Under the Influence, A (1974, Cassavetes)
- Edward Scissorhands (1990, Burton)
- 12 Angry Men (1957, Lumet)
- Apartment, The (1960, Wilder)
- Schindler’s List (1993, Spielberg)
- Matrix, The (1999, Wachowski/Wachowski)
