An Updated Top 25

As far as I am concerned you can never go wrong with any of these films.

Top 10

1 The Double Life of Veronique – dir. Krysztof Kieslowski – 9.07

2 Chungking Express – dir. Wong Kar-Wai – 8.73

2 Zero Dark Thiry – dir. Kathryn Bigalow – 8.73

4 Persona – dir. Ingmar Bergman – 8.67

4 Stalker – dir. Andrei Tarkovsky – 8.67

4 Barry Lyndon – dir. Stanley Kubrick – 8.67

7 Three Colors: Red – dir. Krystof Kieslowski – 8.60

7 Shoah – dir. Claude Lanzmann – 8.60

9 Close-Up – dir. Abbas Kiarostami – 8.57

9 Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 – dir. Chantal Akerman – 8.57

11-25

11 Royal Tenenbaums – dir. Wes Anderson – 8.53

11 The Seventh Seal – dir. Ingmar Bergman – 8.53

11 Star Wars – dir. George Lucas – 8.53

11 A Matter of Life and Death – dir. Michael Powell – 8.53

15 Phoenix – dir. Christian Petzoid – 8.47

15 Three Colors: Blue – dir. Krysztof Kieslowski – 8.47

15 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – dir. David Fincher – 8.47

15 The Empire Strikes Back – dir. Irvin Kirshner – 8.47

19 Cries and Whispers – dir. Ingmar Bergman – 8.43

20 The Passion of Joan of Arc – dir. Carl Th. Dreyer – 8.40

20 Seven Samurai – dir. Akira Kurosawa – 8.40

22 Tales of Hoffmann – dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger – 8.33

23 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick – 8.27

24 The Manchurian Candidate – dir. John Frankenheimer – 8.13

24 The Red Shoes – dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger – 8.13

last update 7-19-2016