The Author's Best 250 Movies

(Click on the colored title to read the author's review of the film)

Solaris (1972) .. Andrei Tarkovsky
King Lear (1971) .. Grigori Kozintsev
Hamlet (1964) .. Grigori Kozintsev
Runaway Train (1985) .. Andrei Konchalovsky
Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles
Death in Venice (1971) .. Luchino Visconti
Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977) .. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .. Stanley Kubrick
Stalker (1979) .. Andrei Tarkovsky
Dekalog (1989) .. Krzysztof Kieslowski
The Tree Of Life (2011) ..Terrence Malick
The Thin Red Line (1998) .. Terrence Malick
La Strada (1954) .. Federico Fellini 
Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) .. Marcel Carné
Duel (1971) .. Steven Spielberg
Heat (1995) .. Michael Mann
Koyaanisqatsi (1982) .. Godfrey Reggio
The Fifth Seal (1976) .. Zoltan Fabri
The Color of Pomegranates (1968) .. Sergei Paradjanov
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) .. Ermanno Olmi
Khandhar (1984) .. Mrinal Sen
The Seventh Seal (1957) .. Ingmar Bergman
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964) .. Sergei Paradjanov
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) .. Stanley Kubrick
The Sacrifice (1986) .. Andrei Tarkovsky
The Runner (1985) .. Amir Naderi
Budapest Tales (1976) .. István Szabó
Days of Heaven (1978) .. Terrence Malick
The Conductor (1980) .. Andrzej Wajda
Ikiru (1952) .. Akira Kurosawa
Once Upon a Time in America (1984) .. Sergio Leone
Winter Light (1963) .. Ingmar Bergman
Ryan's Daughter (1970) .. David Lean
Nazarin (1959) .. Luis Buñuel
The Blue Angel (1930) .. Josef von Sternberg
Le Silence de la Mer (1949) .. Jean-Pierre Melville
Doctor Zhivago (1965) .. David Lean
The Third Murder (2017) .. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Death Watch (1980) .. Bertrand Tavernier
Three Colours: Blue (1993) .. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Three Colours: White (1994) .. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Three Colors: Red (1994).. Krzysztof Kieslowski
The Wages of Fear (1953) .. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Battleship Potemkin (1925) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein
The Conversation (1974) .. Francis Ford Coppola
The Return (2003) .. Andrei Zvyagintsev
Mephisto (1981) .. István Szabó
Le Beau Serge (1958) .. Claude Chabrol
The Last Supper (1976) .. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Persona (1966) .. Ingmar Bergman
Dersu Uzala (1975) .. Akira Kurosawa
The Mouth Agape (1974).. Maurice Pialat
The Legend of 1900 (1998) .. Giuseppe Tornatore
F for Fake (1974) .. Orson Welles
The Music Room (1958) .. Satyajit Ray
Mirror (1975) .. Andrei Tarkovsky
Water, Wind, Dust (1989) .. Amir Naderi
Burn! (1969) .. Gillo Pontecorvo
Breaking the Waves (1996) .. Lars von Trier
A Dream of Passion (1978) .. Jules Dassin
The Cow (1969) .. Dariush Mehrjui
Limbo (1999) .. John Sayles
Shy People (1987) .. Andrei Konchalovsky
Three Monkeys (2008) .. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Titus (1999) .. Julie Taymor
Accident (1967) .. Joseph Losey
Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983) .. Raul Ruiz
Anantaram (1987) .. Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969) .. Abraham Polonsky
Japón (2002) ..Carlos Reygadas
The Desert of the Tartars (1976) .. Valerio Zurlini
Moolaadé (2004) .. Ousmane Sembene
Night Moves (1975) .. Arthur Penn
Nirmalyam (1973) .. M.T. Vasudevan Nair
Oliver! (1968) .. Carol Reed
Banishment (2007) .. Andrei Zvyagintsev
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) .. Werner Herzog
Peacock (2005) .. Gu Changwei
The Story of Adele H. (1975) .. François Truffaut
The Watchmaker of St. Paul (1974) .. Bertrand Tavernier
Le Chat (1971) .. Pierre Granier-Deferre
The Promised Land (1975) .. Andrzej Wajda
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) .. Mike Nichols
The Petrified Forest (1936) .. Archie Mayo
The Night of the Iguana (1964) .. John Huston
Padre Padrone (1977) .. Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
Red Beard (1965) .. Akira Kurosawa
The Ballad of Narayama (1983) .. Shohei Imamura
Bitter Dreams (2004).. Mohsen Amiryouseffi
Illustrious Corpses (1976) .. Francesco Rosi
Nights of Cabiria (1957) .. Frederico Fellini
Bicycle Thieves (1948) .. Vittorio de Sica
The Kid (1921) .. Charles Chaplin
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) .. Robert Wiene
Ivan the Terrible (Part.II) (1958) ..  Sergei M. Eisenstein
Diary of a Country Priest (1951) .. Robert Bresson
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010) .. Raul Ruiz
Certified Copy (2010) .. Abbas Kiarostami
Leviathan (2014) ..  Andrei Zvyagintsev
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) .. Ermanno Olmi
Paradise (2016) ..  Andrei Konchalovsky 
The Leopard (1963) .. Luchino Visconti 
The Burmese Harp (1956) .. Kon Ichikawa
Color of Paradise (1999) .. Majid Majidi 
Mother and Son (1997) .. Aleksandr Sokurov
Still the Water (2014) .. Naomi Kawase 
Becket (1964) .. Peter Glenville 
Amour (2012) .. Michael Haneke 
Manoel's Destinies (1984) .. Raul Ruiz 
I, Daniel Blake (2016) .. Ken Loach 
Van Gogh (1991) .. Maurice Pialat 
Post Tenebras Lux (2012) .. Carlos Reygadas
There is No Evil (2020) .. Mohammad Rasoulof
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) .. Céline Sciamma
Nader and Simin: A Separation (2011) .. Asghar Farhadi 
The Postman's White Nights (2014) ..  Andrei Konchalovsky 
Still Life (2013) .. Uberto Pasolini 
Castle of Dreams (2019) .. Reza Mirkarimi 
The Death of Mr Lazarescu (2005) .. Cristi Puiu
Honey (2010) .. Semih Kaplanoglu 
Winter Sleep (2014) .. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Vitalina Varela (2019) .. Pedro Costa
The Wild Pear Tree (2018) .. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Pearl Button (2015) .. Patricio Guzmán
Cache (2005) .. Michael Haneke
Black and White Like Day and Night (1978) .. Wolfgang Petersen
McCabe and Mrs Miller (1971) .. Robert Altman
Capernaum (2018) .. Nadine Labaki
Grain (2017) .. Semih Kaplanoglu 
Memoria (2021) .. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Oedipus the King (1968) .. Phillip Saville
Through a Glass Darkly (1961) .. Ingmar Bergman
The Silence (1963) .. Ingmar Bergman
The Swimmer (1968) .. Frank Perry & Sydney Pollack
Greed (1924) .. Erich von Stroheim
Senso (1954) .. Luchino Visconti 
Dear Comrades! (2020) .. Andrei Konchalovsky
Away from Her (2006) .. Sarah Polley
Pikoo's Day (1981) .. Satyajit Ray
Foreign Correspondent (1940) .. Alfred Hitchcock
The Paradine Case (1947) .. Alfred Hitchcock
White Dog (1982) .. Samuel Fuller 
Police (1985) .. Maurice Pialat
The Lion in Winter (1968) .. Anthony Harvey
The Naked City (1948) .. Jules Dassin
Point Blank (1967) .. John Boorman   
I Served the King of England (2006) .. Jiri Menzel
The Young One (1960) .. Luis Buñuel
Adrift (1971) .. Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos 
Conversation Piece (1974) .. Luchino Visconti 
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965) .. Géza von Radványi
Not One Less (1999) .. Yimou Zhang
Boomerang! (1947) .. Elia Kazan 
The Comedians (1967) ..Peter Glenville
The Stranger (1946) .. Orson Welles
Treasure Island (1986) .. Raul Ruiz
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) .. Sydney Pollack 
Dry Cleaning (1997) .. Anne Fontaine
Mahler (1974) .. Ken Russell
Night on Earth (1991) .. Jim Jarmusch
Captain Conan  (1996) .. Bertrand Tavernier
A Man Without a Past (2002) .. Aki Kaurismaki 
Paterson (2016) .. Jim Jarmusch
The Trout (1982) .. Joseph Losey
Ballad of a White Cow (2020) .. Maryam Moghadham & Behtash Sanaeeha
This Is Not a Burial, It's a Résurrection (2019) .. Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese 
Hud (1963) .. Martin Ritt
Baran (2001) .. Majid Majidi 
The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) .. Abbas Kiarostami 
This Property Is Condemned (1966) .. Sydney Pollack 
Castle Keep (1969) .. Sydney Pollack 
Taste of Cherry (1997) .. Abbas Kiarostami 
Bitter Victory (1957) .. Nicholas Ray 
Sandra (1965) .. Luchino Visconti
Good bye (2011) .. Mohammad Rasoulof
The Servant (1963) .. Joseph Losey
The Go-Between (1971) .. Joseph Losey
Taxi (2015) .. Jafar Panahi
The Damned (1969) .. Luchino Visconti
Boom! (1968) .. Sydney Pollack 
Stromboli (1950) .. Roberto Rossellini
The Circle (2000) .. Jafar Panahi
A Man of Integrity (2017) .. Mohammad Rasoulof
Jeremiah Johnson (1972) .. Sydney Pollack
Mr Klein (1976) .. Joseph Losey
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) .. Jim Jarmusch
Kaos (1984) .. Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
Shirin (2008) .. Abbas Kiarostami
King & Country (1964) .. Joseph Losey
Maria's Lovers (1984) .. Andrei Konchalovsky
Europa '51 (1952) .. Roberto Rossellini
1900 (1976) .. Bernardo Bertolucci
Galileo (1975) .. Joseph Losey
Paisan (1946) .. Roberto Rossellini
The Judge and the Assaassin (1976) .. Bertrand Tavernier
The Testament of Dr Mabuse (1933) .. Fritz Lang 
Happy Days (1991) .. Aleksey Balabanov
Locke (2013) .. Steven Knight 
Julieta (2016) .. Pedro Almodovar
Elena (2011) .. Andrei Zvyagintsev
The Intruder (2004) .. Claire Denis
The Castle (1994) .. Aleksey Balabanov
The Consequences of Love (2004) .. Paolo Sorrentino
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2001) .. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Dogville (2003) .. Lars von Trier
The Pawnbroker (1964) ..Sidney Lumet
Drive My Car (2021) .. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
The Mourning Forest (2007) .. Naomi Kawase 
The Gospel According to St Mathew (1964) .. Pier Paolo Pasolini
12 Angry Men (1957) .. Sidney Lumet
Petulia (1968) .. Richard Lester 
Equus (1977) .. Sidney Lumet 
High Noon (1958) .. Fred Zinnemann
Gloria (1980) .. John Cassavetes
Il prato/The Meadow (1979) .. Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
Julia (1977) .. Fred Zinnemann
Massacre in Rome (1973) .. George P. Cosmatos
Ship of Theseus (2012) .. Anand Gandhi 
Umberto D (1952) .. Vittorio de Sica
Il posto (1961) .. Ermanno Olmi 
Coup de Torchon/Clean Slate (1981) .. Bertrand Tavernier
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) .. David Lean
Theorem (1968) .. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Lord Jim (1965) .. Richard Brooks
Embrace of the Serpent (2015) .. Ciro Guerra 
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) .. John Cassavetes
Touch of Evil (1958) .. Orson Welles
The Barefoot Contessa (1954) .. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Suzaku (1997) .. Naomi Kawase 
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) .. Robert Altman 
The Immortal Story (1968) .. Orson Welles
Hombre (1967) .. Martin Ritt
Under the Sun of Satan (1987) .. Maurice Pialat
Silent Light (2007) .. Carlos Reygadas
Poetry (2010) .. Chang-dong Lee
Klimt (2006) .. Raul Ruiz
Leave No Trace (2018) .. Debra Granik
The Duellists (1977) .. Ridley Scott 
The Last Wave/Black Rain (1977) .. Peter Weir
The New Babylon (1929) .. Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg
Vision (2018) .. Naomi Kawase
Blood Simple (1984) .. Joel and Ethan Coen 
The Aura (2005) .. Fabian Bielinsky 
Rosetta (1999) .. Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Barry Lyndon (1975) .. Stanley Kubrick
Dark Eyes/Oci Ciornie (1987) .. Nikita Mikhalkov 
Z (1969) .. Costa-Gavras 
Notorious (1946) .. Alfred Hitchcock 
Michael Clayton (2007) .. Tony Gilroy
Northfork (2003) ..  Michael Polish 
Russian Ark (2002) .. Aleksandr Sokurov 


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