Films That Were Special to Me, by June 2026

  1. 1920 - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Robert Wiene, Germany
  2. 1926 - The Adventures of Prince Achmed - Lotte Reiniger, German Reich
  3. 1927 - Metropolis - Fritz Lang, Weimar Republic, Germany
  4. 1927 - Napoleon -Abel Gance, France
  5. 1928 - Steamboat Bill, Jr. - Buster Keaton, United States
  6. 1928 - The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer, France
  7. 1929 - Un Chien Andalou - Luis Buñuel, France
  8. 1939 - The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir, France
  9. 1940 - Fantasia -Walt Disney, United States
  10. 1943 - Meshes of the Afternoon - Maya Deren, Alexandr Hackenschmied, United States
  11. 1946 - Gilda - Charles Vidor, United States
  12. 1947 - Black Narcissus - Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, United Kingdom
  13. 1948 - The Red Shoes - Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, United Kingdom
  14. 1948 - Spring in a Small Town - Fei Mu, Republic of China
  15. 1949 - The Third Man - Carol Reed, United Kingdom
  16. 1951 - Othello - Orson Welles, United States
  17. 1952 - Ikiru - Akira Kurosawa, Japan
  18. 1952 - The Life of Oharu -Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan
  19. 1954 - La Strada - Federico Fellini, Italy
  20. 1954 - Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock, United States
  21. 1955 - Pather Panchali - Satyajit Ray, India
  22. 1956 - Aparajito - Satyajit Ray, India
  23. 1957 - Nights of Cabiria - Federico Fellini, France, Italy
  24. 1958 - Elevator to the Gallows - Louis Malle, France
  25. 1958 - The Tender Game - John Hubley, United States
  26. 1959 - Apur Sansar - Satyajit Ray, India
  27. 1959 - The 400 Blows - François Truffaut, France
  28. 1960 - Peeping Tom - Michael Powell, United Kingdom
  29. 1960 - Le Trou - Jacques Becker, France
  30. 1960 - Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock, United States
  31. 1960 - The Cloud-Capped Star - Ritwik Ghatak, India
  32. 1960 - La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini, France, Italy
  33. 1960 - Testament of Orpheus - Jean Cocteau, France
  34. 1961 - The Monkey King: Uproar in Heaven - Wan Laiming, China
  35. 1961 - The Steamroller and the Violin - Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union
  36. 1961 - Yojimbo - Akira Kurosawa, Japan
  37. 1961 - Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Resnais, France, Italy
  38. 1962 - Cléo from 5 to 7 - Agnès Varda, France, Italy
  39. 1962 - Jules and Jim - François Truffaut, France
  40. 1962 - La Jetée - Chris Marker, France
  41. 1962 - Ivan's Childhood - Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union
  42. 1962 - Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean, United Kingdom, United States
  43. 1962 - The Manchurian Candidate - John Frankenheimer, United States
  44. 1962 - L'Eclisse - Michelangelo Antonioni, France, Italy
  45. 1963 - The Servant - Joseph Losey, United Kingdom
  46. 1963 - The Leopard - Luchino Visconti, France, Italy
  47. 1964 - A Hard Day's Night - Richard Lester, United Kingdom
  48. 1964 - Charulata - Satyajit Ray, India
  49. 1964 - Red Desert - Michelangelo Antonioni, France, Italy
  50. 1964 - Woman in the Dunes - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan
  51. 1965 - War and Peace - Sergei Bondarchuk, Soviet Union
  52. 1966 - Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union
  53. 1966 - Blow-Up - Michelangelo Antonioni, United Kingdom, Italy
  54. 1966 - The Battle of Algiers - Gillo Pontecorvo, Algeria, Italy
  55. 1966 - The Face of Another - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan
  56. 1966 - Persona - Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
  57. 1967 - Marketa Lazarová - František Vláčil, Czechoslovakia
  58. 1967 - The Young Girls of Rochefort - Jacques Demy, France
  59. 1967 - PlayTime - Jacques Tati, France
  60. 1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick, United Kingdom, United States
  61. 1969 - The Color of Pomegranates - Sergei Parajanov, Soviet Union
  62. 1970 - The Aristocats - Wolfgang Reitherman, United States
  63. 1971 - A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick, United Kingdom, United States
  64. 1972 - Cries and Whispers - Ingmar Bergman, Sweden
  65. 1972 - Love in the Afternoon - Éric Rohmer, France
  66. 1972 - Solaris - Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union
  67. 1972 - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Luis Buñuel, France, Italy, Spain
  68. 1973 - Belladonna of Sadness - Eiichi Yamamoto, Japan
  69. 1973 - Day for Night - François Truffaut, France, Italy
  70. 1973 - Fantastic Planet - René Laloux, Czechoslovakia, France
  71. 1974 - Mahler - Ken Russell, United Kingdom
  72. 1974 - Edvard Munch - Peter Watkins, Sweden
  73. 1974 - The Phantom of Liberty - Luis Buñuel, France, Italy
  74. 1975 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, United Kingdom
  75. 1975 - Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - Chantal Akerman, Belgium
  76. 1976 - Cria! -Carlos Saura, Spain
  77. 1977 - Annie Hall - Woody Allen, United States
  78. 1977 - That Obscure Object of Desire - Luis Buñuel, France, Spain
  79. 1977 - House - Radoslav Vladić, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Yugoslavia, Japan
  80. 1978 - Autumn Sonata - Ingmar Bergman, Germany, France, Sweden, Norway
  81. 1978 - Watership Down - Martin Rosen, United Kingdom
  82. 1979 - Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union
  83. 1982 - Chan Is Missing - Wayne Wang, United States
  84. 1982 - Fanny and Alexander - Ingmar Bergman, Germany, France, Sweden
  85. 1982 - Pink Floyd: The Wall - Alan Parker, United Kingdom, United States
  86. 1982 - Blade Runner - Ridley Scott, Hong Kong, United States
  87. 1983 - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence - Nagisa Oshima, United Kingdom, Japan
  88. 1984 - The Home and the World - Satyajit Ray, India
  89. 1984 - Fanny and Alexander - Ingmar Bergman, Germany, France, Sweden
  90. 1985 - Tampopo - Jūzō Itami, Japan
  91. 1985 - Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters - Paul Schrader, United States, Japan
  92. 1985 - Angel's Egg - Mamoru Oshii, Japan
  93. 1986 - Betty Blue - Jean-Jacques Beineix, France
  94. 1986 - Caravaggio - Derek Jarman, Australia, United Kingdom
  95. 1986 - A Better Tomorrow - John Woo, British Hong Kong, Hong Kong, United States
  96. 1986 - The Green Ray - Éric Rohmer, France
  97. 1987 - The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On - Kazuo Hara, Japan
  98. 1987 - Withnail & I - Bruce Robinson, United Kingdom
  99. 1987 - Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders, Germany, France
  100. 1989 - Dekalog - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland
  101. 1989 - When Harry Met Sally... - Rob Reiner, United States
  102. 1989 - For All Mankind - Al Reinert, United States
  103. 1989 - Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! - Pedro Almodóvar, Spain
  104. 1990 - Days of Being Wild - Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong
  105. 1990 - Song of the Exile - Ann Hui, Hong Kong
  106. 1991 - A Brighter Summer Day - Edward Yang, Taiwan
  107. 1991 - Jacquot de Nantes - Agnès Varda, France
  108. 1991 - Center Stage - Stanley Kwan, Hong Kong
  109. 1992 - Orlando - Sally Potter, Russia, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Italy
  110. 1992 - A Tale of Winter - Éric Rohmer, France
  111. 1992 - Bitter Moon - Roman Polanski, United Kingdom, France
  112. 1992 - Malcolm X - Spike Lee, United States
  113. 1993 - Moving - Shinji Sōmai, Japan
  114. 1993 - Naked - Mike Leigh, United Kingdom
  115. 1993 - The Wedding Banquet - Ang Lee, Taiwan, United States
  116. 1993 - Farewell My Concubine - Chen Kaige, People's Republic of China
  117. 1993 - Madadayo - Akira Kurosawa, Japan
  118. 1994 - In the Heat of the Sun - Jiang Wen, People's Republic of China
  119. 1994 - Crumb - Terry Zwigoff, United States
  120. 1994 - Eat Drink Man Woman - Ang Lee, Taiwan, United States
  121. 1994 - Three Colours: Red - Krzysztof Kieślowski, France, Poland, Switzerland
  122. 1996 - The Watermelon Woman - Cheryl Dunye, United States
  123. 1996 - Supermarket Woman - Jūzō Itami, Japan
  124. 1996 - Trainspotting - Danny Boyle, United Kingdom
  125. 1997 - Deconstructing Harry - Woody Allen, United States
  126. 1998 - Following - Christopher Nolan, United Kingdom
  127. 1998 - A Tale of Autumn - Éric Rohmer, France
  128. 1998 - Run Lola Run - Tom Tykwer, Germany
  129. 1999 - Silvia Prieto - Martín Rejtman, Argentina
  130. 2000 - Yi Yi - Edward Yang, Taiwan, Japan
  131. 2000 - Requiem for a Dream - Darren Aronofsky, United States
  132. 2000 - Together - Lukas Moodysson, Italy, Denmark, Sweden
  133. 2000 - In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong
  134. 2001 - Amélie - Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France
  135. 2001 - Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki, Japan
  136. 2001 - Lan Yu - Stanley Kwan, Hong Kong
  137. 2001 - Mulholland Drive - David Lynch, United States
  138. 2001 - The Piano Teacher - Michael Haneke, Germany, France, Austria
  139. 2002 - Oasis - Lee Chang-dong, South Korea
  140. 2002 - Blue Gate Crossing - Yee Chin-yen, Taiwan, France
  141. 2004 - Mind Game - Masaaki Yuasa, Japan
  142. 2004 - 3-Iron - Kim Ki-duk, South Korea, Japan
  143. 2005 - Linda Linda Linda - Nobuhiro Yamashita, Japan
  144. 2005 - Pride & Prejudice - Joe Wright, United Kingdom, France, United States
  145. 2007 - Atonement - Joe Wright, United Kingdom, France
  146. 2007 - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - Cristian Mungiu, Romania
  147. 2008 - Love Exposure - Sion Sono, Japan
  148. 2009 - Spring Fever - Lou Ye, People's Republic of China, France
  149. 2010 - Submarine - Richard Ayoade, United Kingdom, United States
  150. 2011 - A Separation - Asghar Farhadi, Iran
  151. 2011 - Tomboy - Céline Sciamma, France
  152. 2011 - One Day - Lone Scherfig, United Kingdom, France, United States
  153. 2011 - You Are the Apple of My Eye - Fruit Chan, Hong Kong, Taiwan
  154. 2012 - Frances Ha - Noah Baumbach, United States
  155. 2013 - Coherence - James Ward Byrkit, United States
  156. 2014 - Interstellar - Christopher Nolan, United Kingdom, United States
  157. 2015 - Amy - Asif Kapadia, United Kingdom
  158. 2015 - Right Now, Wrong Then - Hong Sang-soo, South Korea
  159. 2016 - The Red Turtle - Michaël Dudok de Wit, France, Belgium, Japan
  160. 2016 - Sing Street - John Carney, United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
  161. 2019 - The Lighthouse - Robert Eggers, United States, Canada
  162. 2019 - Little Women - Greta Gerwig, United States
  163. 2022 - Hundreds of Beavers
  164. 2023 - Past Lives - Celine Song, United States