These are films that I like. Unfortunately my work does not leave me much time for watching.
The film of my life is "Tokyo story" of Ozu.
If I were to choose a few of the rest I would say: "The seventh seal" and "Persona" of Bergman, "Viridiana" of Bunuel, "Modern times" of Chaplin, "Fargo" of J and E Coen, "8 1/2" and "La strada" of Fellini, "Amour" of Haneke, "Streetcar named desire" of Kazan, all of Kieslowski, "Seven samurai", "Ikiru" and "Dreams" of Kurosawa, "M" of Lang, both of Loach, "An unfinished piece for mechanical piano" and "Burnt by the sun" of Mikhalkov, all of Ozu, all of Pasolini, "The rules of the game" of Renoir, "Bicycle thieves" of de Sica, all of Tarkovsky, "The 400 blows" of Truffaut, "Citizen Kane" of Welles, and "Sunset blvd" of Wilder.
All these films speak to me very strongly about the Human Condition.
There are some which are aesthetically magnificent, like: all of Antonioni, "Apocalypse now" of Coppola, "Battleship Potemkin" of Eisenstein, "The cranes are flying" by Kalatozov, "Sin city" by Miller and Rodriguez, "Nosferatu" by Murnau, all of Parajanov, "The third man" by Reed, "Blade runner" by Scott, "Dogville" by von Triers, all of Visconti, "The lady from Shanghai" of Welles, "Wings of desire" of Wenders, and "In the mood for love" of Wong.
There are a few "horror" films like: the classic "Psycho" of Hitchcock, "The Texas chainsaw massacre" of Hooper (I could not sleep when I saw it for the first time), "Funny games" of Haneke (I am afraid to see it again), "The shining" of Kubrick, etc.
All these films are quite "old": no surprise, since I am a dinosaur.
But I was very-very-very pleased when I saw some of the more recent films, like: "Let the right one in" by Alfredson, both of Andersson, "Parasite" of Bong, "Fallen leaves" of Kaurismaki, "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring" of Kim, "Shoplifters" of Kore-eda, "The banshees of Inisherin" by McDonagh, "Old boy" of Park.
And I must mention separately the very recent absolutely excellent "Perfect days" of Wenders.
Tomas Gutierrez Alea
Death of a bureaucrat
Tomas Alfredson
Let the right one in
Woody Allen
Match point
Paul Thomas Anderson
There will be blood
Roy Andersson
A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence
Songs from the second floor
Michelangelo Antonioni
L’avventura
L’eclisse
Red desert
La notte
Ingmar Bergman
The seventh seal
Persona
Autumn sonata
Cries and whispers
Wild strawberries
The silence
Smiles of a summer night
Summer with Monika
Fanny and Alexander
Winter light
Joon-ho Bong
Parasite
John Boorman
Point blanc
Robert Bresson
Au hasard Balthazar
Pickpocket
Mouchette
Mel Brooks
Young Frankenstein
Luis Bunuel
Viridiana
The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie
That obscure object of desire
The exterminating angel
Belle de jour
Los olvidados
Tim Burton
Corpse bride
Marcel Carne
Les enfants du paradis
John Carpenter
The thing
John Cassavetes
A woman under the influence
Gloria
Charlie Chaplin
Modern times
City lights
The gold rush
The circus
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Les diaboliques
Jean Cocteau
Beauty and the beast
Joel and Ethan Coen
Fargo
No country for old men
The big Lebowski
Barton Fink
The ladykillers
Miller’s crossing
Francis Ford Coppola
Apocalypse now
The godfather
Sofia Coppola
Lost in translation
George Cukor
My fair lady
Gaslight
Michael Curtiz
Casablanca
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Rosetta
Walt Disney
Snow White and the seven dwarfs
Pinocchio
Fantasia
Alexander Dovzhenko
Earth
Carl Theodor Dreyer
The passion of Joan of Arc
Klint Eastwood
Million dollar baby
Sergei Eisenstein
Ivan the Terrible, I and II
Battleship Potemkin
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The marriage of Maria Braun
The bitter tears of Petra von Kant
Federico Fellini
8 ½
La strada
La dolce vita
I vitelloni
Amarcord
Roma
David Fincher
Seven
Victor Fleming
Gone with the wind
James Foley
Glengarry Glen Ross
John Ford
Stagecoach
Milos Forman
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Amadeus
Loves of a blonde
Jean-Luc Godard
Breathless
Alphaville
Contempt
Pierrot le fou
Michael Haneke
Funny games
Amour
Howard Hawks
Red river
Werner Herzog
Aguirre, the wrath of God
Fitzcarraldo
Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho
Rebecca
Notorious
Vertigo
Rear window
The birds
North by northwest
The 39 steps
Spellbound
Dial M for murder
Tobe Hooper
The Texas chainsaw massacre
John Huston
The maltese falcon
The treasure of the Sierra Madre
Shohei Imamura
The ballad of Narayama
Jim Jarmusch
Stranger than paradise
Down by law
Dead man
Mikhail Kalatozov
The cranes are flying
Mathieu Kassovitz
Hate
Aki Kaurismaki
Lights in the dusk
Fallen leaves
Elias Kazan
Streetcar named desire
On the waterfront
Krzysztof Kieslowski
The double life of Veronique
Three colors trilogy: blue, white, red
A short film about killing
A short film about love
Ki-duk Kim
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Shoplifters
Grigori Kozintsev
Hamlet
Stanley Kubrick
2001: a space odyssey
The shining
A clockwork orange
Eyes wide shut
Barry Lyndon
Dr. Strangelove
Akira Kurosawa
Seven samurai
Ikiru
Dreams
Yojimbo
Rashomon
Sanjuro
The idiot
Kagemusha
Fritz Lang
M
Metropolis
Big heat
Charles Laughton
Night of the hunter
Mike Leigh
Vera Drake
Sergio Leone
Once upon a time in the west
The good, the bad, and the ugly
A fistful of dollars
Barry Levinson
Rain man
Ken Loach
I, Daniel Blake
The wind that shakes the barley
Sidney Lumet
12 angry men
The verdict
David Lynch
Blue velvet
Twin peaks
The elephant man
Luis Malle
Au revoir les anfants
Ascenseur pour l’echafaud
Chris Marker
La jetee
Sans soleil
Martin McDonagh
The banshees of Inisherin
Jean-Pierre Melville
Bob le Flambeur
Le cercle rouge
Nikita Mikhalkov
An unfinished piece for mechanical piano
Burnt by the sun
12
Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Sin city
Hayao Miyazaki
Spirited away
My Neighbor Totoro
Kenji Mizoguchi
The life of Oharu
Street of shame
Ugetsu
Friedrich Murnau
Sunrise: a song of two humans
Nosferatu
Max Ophuls
The earrings of Madame de …
Yasujiro Ozu
Tokyo story
Late spring
Floating weeds
An autumn afternoon
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
The threepenny opera
Brian de Palma
Scarface
Sergei Parajanov
The color of pomegranates
Shadows of forgotten ancestors
The legend of Suram fortress
Chan-wook Park
Old boy
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Mamma Roma
Theorem
Accattone
The gospel according to St Matthew
Sam Peckinpah
The wild bunch
Arthur Penn
Bonnie and Clyde
Roman Polanski
Chinatown
Knife in the water
Rosemary’s baby
Repulsion
Bob Rafelson
Five easy pieces
The postman always rings twice
Carol Reed
The third man
Jean Renoir
The rules of the game
Grand illusion
The human beast
The lower depths
Alain Resnais
Hiroshima mon amour
Last year at Marienbad
George Romero
Night of the living dead
Roberto Rossellini
Rome, open city
Gus van Sant
Elephant
Drugstore cowboy
My own private Idaho
Volker Schlondorff
The lost honor of Katharina Blum
The tin drum
Martin Scorsese
Taxi driver
Raging bull
Goodfellas
Mean streets
Ridley Scott
Blade runner
Vittorio de Sica
Bicycle thieves
Steven Spielberg
Saving private Ryan
Jaws
Josef von Sternberg
The docks of New York
The Blue Angel
Shanghai express
Erich von Stroheim
Greed
Istvan Szabo
Mephisto
Quentin Tarantino
Pulp fiction
Kill Bill, 1 and 2
Andrei Tarkovsky
Solaris
Mirror
Nostalghia
The sacrifice
Stalker
Andrei Rublev
Ivan’s childhood
Jacques Tati
Monsieur Hulot’s holiday
Mon oncle
Playtime
Traffic
Lars von Trier
Dogville
Breaking the waves
Francois Truffaut
The 400 blows
Jules et Jim
Charles Vidor
Gilda
Luchino Visconti
Rocco and his brothers
La terra trema
Senso
Death in Venice
Ossessione
Andrzej Wajda
Ashes and diamonds
Man of marble
Man of iron
Orson Welles
Citizen Kane
The lady from Shanghai
Wim Wenders
Perfect days
Paris, Texas
Wings of desire
The American friend
Pina
The salt of the earth
Alice in the cities
Billy Wilder
Some like it hot
Sunset blvd
Double indemnity
Robert Wise
West side story
Kar-wai Wong
In the mood for love
William Wyler
The best years of our lives
Roman holiday
Sergei Yutkevich
Othello
Krzysztof Zanussi
A year of the quiet sun
The constant factor
Yimou Zhang
Raise the Red Lantern
Red sorghum