This is a list of movies that connects to me personally and thus is skewed towards my personal taste and preference. I don't believe in a canon of movies that is cast on stone and I believe movie experience is an evolving one. This list may just as well change tomorrow. But for now, here is a list of movies that I consider worth my time watching, even for the tenth time and will still surprise me with each viewing and discovering something new and fascinating.

Here's for a start:

001. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)

002. To Live (Zhang Yimou, 1994)

003. The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang, 1993)

004. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)

005. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)

006. City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)

007. Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming Liang, 2003)

008. Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark, 1986)

009. Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai, 1994)

010. Salaam Bombay! (Mira Nair, 1988)

011. Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964)

012. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)

013. Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988)

014. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959)

015. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)

016. Faces (John Cassavetes, 1968)

017. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)

018. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)

019. Close Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)

020. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)

021: Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)

022. Tempting Hearts (Sylvia Chang, 1999)

023. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)

024. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)

025. Kes (Ken Loach, 1969) 

026. City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)

027. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972)

028. Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1954)

029. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai, 1991) 

030. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)

031. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1956) 

032. Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955)

033. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel, 1977)

034. Satantango (Bela Tarr, 1994)

035. Sepet (Yasmin Ahmad, 2004)

036. My Life To Live (Jean Luc Godard, 1962)

037. La Jetee (Chris Marker, 1962)

038. My Neighbour Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)

039. Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke, 2002)

040. Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow, 2001) 

040. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan, 1996)