50 Favorite Films

[Updated 2/1/2006]

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Recently I have found it increasingly difficult to come to terms with any historical canon, find the means by which to arrive at any, or rank movies individually rather than by group. Due to this problem, I have decreased my list to 50 movies. I have added a column signifying what movies I own on DVD, currently 43 out of 50.

Title
Director
Year
Picture
DVD
2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick
1968
1
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles
1941
1
Raging Bull
Martin Scorsese
1980
1
Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock
1958
1
The 400 Blows
Francois Truffaut
1959
1
Rashomon
Akira Kurosawa
1950
1
Battleship Potemkin
Sergei Eisenstein
1925
Tokyo Story
Yasujiro Ozu
1953
1
Man with a Movie Camera
Dziga Vertov
1929
The Rules of the Game
Jean Renoir
1939
1
La Dolce Vita
Federico Fellini
1960
1
Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa
1954
1
City Lights
Charlie Chaplin
1931
1
Pepe le Moko
Julien Duvivier
1937
1
L'Atalante
Jean Vigo
1934
1
The Third Man
Carol Reed
1949
1
Sunset Boulevard
Billy Wilder
1950
1
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick
1971
1
Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes
Werner Herzog
1972
1
Beauty and the Beast
Jean Cocteau
1947
1
Blow Up
Michelangelo Antonioni
1966
Ikiru
Akira Kurosawa
1952
1
Le Samourai
Jean-Pierre Melville
1967
1
Dr. Strangelove
Stanley Kubrick
1964
1
Metropolis
Fritz Lang
1927
1
8 1/2
Federico Fellini
1963
1
Double Indemnity
Billy Wilder
1944
Modern Times
Charlie Chaplin
1936
1
Breathless
Jean-Luc Godard
1960
M
Fritz Lang
1931
1
Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock
1960
1
The Godfather, Parts I & II
Francis Ford Coppola
1972-74
1
Singin' in the Rain
Stanley Donen
1952
1
The Birth of a Nation
D.W. Griffith
1915
1
The Bicycle Thief
Vittorio De Sica
1949
On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan
1954
1
Paths of Glory
Stanley Kubrick
1957
1
Harakiri
Masaki Kobayashi
1962
1
Some Like it Hot
Billy Wilder
1959
1
It's a Wonderful Life
Frank Capra
1946
1
The Grapes of Wrath
John Ford
1940
1
Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee
1989
1
Yojimbo
Akira Kurosawa
1961
1
Mon Oncle
Jacques Tati
1958
1
Annie Hall
Woody Allen
1977
1
Ugetsu Monogatari
Kenji Mizoguchi
1953
Orpheus
Jean Cocteau
1949
1
Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola
1979
1
The Lady Vanishes
Alfred Hitchcock
1939
1
Bonnie & Clyde
Arthur Penn
1967
1

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