- Decalogue 1 (1989)
- Wall-E (2008)
- Decalogue 6 (1989)
- True Grit (2010)
- Rashomon (1950)
- Decalogue 10 (1989)
- Modern Times (1936)
- Big Night (1996)
- The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
- THE APU TRILOGY (1955-1959)
- Grizzly Man (2005)
- The Night of the Hunter (1955)
- Breaker Morant (1980)
- Stagecoach (1939)
- Lola Montes (1955)
- Harakiri (1962)
- Idiocracy (2008)
- The LadyKillers (1955)
- Andrei Rublev (1967)
- MIRROR (1974)
- Paris, Texas (1983)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Nebraska (2013)
- Local Hero (1983)
- Chungking Express (1994)
- Duck Soup (1935)
- The Station Agent (2003)
- Notorious (1946)
- Metropolis (1927)
- REPO MAN (1984)
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
- Carnival of Souls (1962)
- First Reformed (2017)
- My Man Godfrey (1936)
- Bicycle Thieves (1948)
- Ozu’s Good Morning (1959)
- Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960)
- The Battle of Algiers (1966)
- Nightcrawler (2014)
- Akira Kurosawa’s YOJIMBO (1961)
- Satyajit Ray’s The Music Room (1958)
- Jacques Tati’s Jour de Fete (1949)
- James Cameron’s Aliens (1985)
- Spike Lee’s Malcolm X (1992)
- Louis Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
- Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull (1980)
- Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges (2008)
- George C. Scott in Patton (1970)
- Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975)
- Terrence Malick’s DAYS OF HEAVEN (1978)
- Powell and Pressburger’s Black Narcissus (1947)
- Errol Morris’ Vernon, Florida (1981)
- Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (1963)
- Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves (1996)
- Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street (1945)
- Oliver Stone’s JFK (1991)
- Tommy Lee Jones’ The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
- Martin Rosen’s Watership Down (1978)
- Roman Polanski’s Tess (1979)
- Frank Capra’s MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1936)
- Powell and Pressburger’s “I Know Where I’m Going!” (1945)
- The Coens’ “Inside Llewyn Davis” (2013)
- Harold Lloyd in The Freshman (1925) and Speedy (1928)
- Elem Klimov’s Come and See (1985)
- Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1990)
- Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
- F.W. Marnau’s Nosferatu (1922)
- Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931)
- Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu (1979)
- Shindo’s Kuroneko (1968)
- Federico Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria (1957)
- Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale (2005)
- Kenzo Mizoguchi’s Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
- Three Colors Trilogy — RED (1995)
- Three Colors Trilogy — BLUE (1993)
- Three Colors Trilogy — WHITE (1994)
- Oliver Stone’s Platoon (1986)
- Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru (1952)
- Howard Hawks’ Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
- Wong Kar-Wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000)
- Spike Jonze’s Her (2014)
- Luis Bunuel’s Belle du Jour (1967)
- Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows (1959)
- John Huston’s Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- The Guns of Navarone (1961)
- Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped (1956)
- Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront (1954)
- Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Chinatown (1974)
- Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957)
- Five Easy Pieces (1970)
- Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966)
- Preston Sturges’ Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
- Jacques Tati’s Mon Oncle (1958)
- Jacques Tati’s Playtime (1967)
- Marlon Brando’s One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
- Mikhail Kalatozov’s The Letter Never Sent (1961)
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- Milos Foreman’s Amadeus (1984)
- John Hughes’ The Breakfast Club (1985)
- Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964)
- David Lynch’s The Elephant Man (1980)
- John Ford’s The Searchers (1957)
- Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957)
- Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear (1953)
- Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries (1957)
- Ingmar Bergman’s Through a Glass Darkly (1963)
- Ingmar Bergman’s Winter Light (1964)
- Terence Malick’s Knight of Cups (2015)
- David Lynch’s Eraserhead (1977)
- Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (1966)
- Alex Garland’s Ex Machina (2014)
- Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf (1968)
- Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies (1983)
- Martin Scorsese’s After Hours (1985)
- Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
- Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata (1978)
- Jacques Tourneur’s Out of the Past (1947)
- Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused (1993)
- Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander (1982)
- Ingmar Bergman’s Virgin Spring (1960)
- Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman (1996)
- The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- Martin Scorsese’s The Departed (2006)
- Babette’s Feast (1987)
- Abbas Kiarostami’s Where is the Friend’s House? (1987)
- Jean Renoir’s La Grande Illusion (1937)
- John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)
- Abbas Kiarostami’s Life, And Nothing More (1992)
- Tim Burton’s Ed Wood (1994)
- Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice (1986)
- Abbas Kiarostami’s Through the Olive Trees (1994)
- Paul Schrader’s Mishima (1985)
- Todd Haynes’ Safe (1995)
- Michael Mann’s Thief (1981)
- Carl Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
- Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps (1935)
- Jules Dassin’s Night and the City (1950)
- Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (1921)
- Powell and Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep (2014)
- Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down (2002)
- Michael Haneke’s Funny Games (1997)
- William Friedkin’s The French Connection (1971)
- The Lives of Others (2006)
- Cameron Crowe’s Say Anything … (1989)
- Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal (2019)
- Buster Keaton’s Seven Chances (1925)
- Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville (1965)
- Harrison Ford in The Fugitive (1993)
- Harold Lloyd in Why Worry (1923)
- Anthony Hopkins in The Father (2020)
- Christopher Guest’s Best in Show (2000)
- Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven (1992)
- Hell or High Water (2016)
- Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line (1998)
- Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low (1963)
- Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant (1998)
- Fritz Lang’s M (1931)
- Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949)
- Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979)
- Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation (1974)
- John Huston’s The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Howard Hawks’ Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master (2012)
- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
- Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
- Samurai Rebellion (1967)
- Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Uzak (“Distant”) (2002)
- Jack Nicholson in “The Last Detail” (1973)
Forgotten Classics
This video series showcases movies that most people haven’t heard of. They’re all good — ranging from great to fun to pretty good.
- Delmer Daves’ The Hanging Tree (1959 Western)
- Roberto Rosselini’s The Machine That Kills Bad People (1952 fantasy comedy)
- Ermen Sharbayev’s Revenge (1989 poetic folktale from Kazakhstan)
- Jafar Panahi’s The White Balloon (1995)
- Luchino Visconti’s Le Notti Bianche (1954)
- The King of Kong (2006)
- Preston Sturges’ Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
- One False Move (1992)
- Ingmar Bergman’s Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
- Before the Rain (1994)
- King Rat (1965)
- The Mouse That Roared (1959)
- Touching the Void (2003)
- Ikarie XB-1 (1963)
- Ingmar Bergman’s Brink of Life (1958)
- Black Robe (1991)
- The Dresser (1983)
- Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger (1975)
- Brian De Palma’s Body Double (1984)
- Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer (2010)
- Joseph Cedar’s Footnote (2011)
- The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982)
- Sergio Leone’s Duck You, Sucker (1971)
- Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man (1995)
- Samurai Rebellion (1967)
- Locke (2013)
The Under-Rated
This video series praises good films that I think are underrated. To determine what’s underrated, I look at metrics on aggregate internet ratings sites, such as imdb and letterbox.
- Peter Weir’s The Mosquito Coast (1986)
- Jean-Luc Godard’s Made in U.S.A. (1966)
- Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem (2013)
- George Miller’s Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
- Robert Altman’s Buffalo Bill and the Indians (1976)
- Darren Aronofsky’s mother! (2017)
- Bong Joon-ho’s The Host (2006)
- Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
- You Were Never Really Here (2017)
- Dragged Across Concrete (2018)