150 Favourite Films

Do you like to list things? To organise things into groups and order them by personal preference? I do! Here is my 150 Favourite Films list.

It is different in format to my previous list of 50 Favourite Games which I wrote back in 2015; most notably in the fact that I have chosen not to write about each individual entry. This allows the list to be longer and less time consuming to write and to digest. Also, the idea of writing about films I may have only seen once about 10 years ago... no thanks!

I took further stress and pointless work out of the equation by grouping the 150 films into 6 distinct tiered groups (which are then organised alphabeticly) instead of ordering them all 150-1, as trying to decide between that many films and to really put them in an order would (again) take a lot of time and would ultimately be pointless. I'd have to watch them all again to really evaluate something like that and that'd take way too much time and I'd rather spend that time watching films I've never seen before.

All of these films come highly recommended but I can't guarantee you'll enjoy them as much as I have! Please feel free to list some favourite films or recommendations to my twitter here.

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150 - 101

20th Century Women (USA 2016 - Mike Mills)
A Clockwork Orange (UK 1971 - Stanley Kubrick)
Alice in the Cities (Germany 1974 - Wim Wenders)
Amour (France 2012 - Michael Haneke)
A One and a Two (Yi Yi) (Taiwan 2000 - Edward Yang)
The Artist (France 2011 - Michel Hazanavicius)
Berberian Sound Studio (UK 2012 - Peter Strickland)
Blue Valentine (USA 2010 - Derek Cianfrance)
Bottle Rocket (USA 1996 - Wes Anderson)
Bullet Ballet (Japan 1998 - Shinya Tsukamoto)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Germany 1920 - Robert Wiene)
Cape Fear (USA 1991 - Martin Scorsese)
Code Unknown (France 2000 - Michael Haneke)
Dead or Alive (Japan 1999 - Miike Takashi)
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (USA 2017 - David France)
Drive (USA 2011 - Nicolas Winding Refn)
Enter The Dragon (Hong Kong 1973 - Robert Clouse)
Ex Machina (UK 2014 - Alex Garland)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (USA 1986 - John Hughes)
Fish Tank (UK 2009 - Andrea Arnold)
Get Out (USA 2017 - Jordan Peele)
Gravity (UK 2013 - Alfonso Cuarón)
Himizu (Japan 2011 - Sion Sono)
Island of the Hungry Ghosts (Australia 2018 - Gabrielle Brady)
Joy (USA 2015 - David O. Russell)
Juno (USA 2007 - Jason Reitman)
La Haine (France 1995 - Mathieu Kassovitz)
Let the Right One In (Sweden 2008 - Tomas Alfredson)
Ley Lines (Japan 1999 - Miike Takashi)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (UK 1976 - Nicolas Roeg)
The One I Love (USA 2014 - Charlie McDowell)
Peeping Tom (UK 1960 - Michael Powell)
Project Nim (UK 2011 - James Marsh)
Psycho (USA 1960 - Alfred Hitchcock)
Punishment Park (USA 1971 - Peter Watkins)
Roma (Mexico 2018 - Alfonso Cuarón)
Scanners (Canada 1981 - David Cronenberg)
Shaun Of The Dead (UK 2004 - Edgar Wright)
The Skin I Live In (Spain 2011 - Pedro Almodóvar)
Smoke (USA 1995 - Wayne Wang)
Solaris (Soviet Union 1972 - Andrei Tarkovsky)
Still Alice (USA 2014 - Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland)
The Tenant (France 1976 - Roman Polanski)
The Thin Blue Line (USA 1988 - Errol Morris)
Together (Sweden 2000 - Lukas Moodysson)
Tron (USA 1982 - Steven Lisberger)
Tyrannosaur (UK 2011 - Paddy Considine)
The Wailing (South Korea 2016 - Hong-jin Na)
Wildlife (USA 2018 - Paul Dano)
Walkabout (UK 1971 - Nicolas Roeg)

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100 - 51

13th (USA 2016 - Ava DuVernay)
Annihilation (UK 2018 - Alex Garland)
A Simple Life (Hong Kong 2011 - Ann Hui)
A Snake of June (Japan 2002 - Shinya Tsukamoto)
Audition (Japan 1999 - Miike Takashi)
Bad Taste (New Zealand 1987 - Peter Jackson)
Blood Simple (USA 1984 - Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
Blue Velvet (USA 1986 - David Lynch)
Braindead (New Zealand 1992 - Peter Jackson)
Cape Fear (USA 1962 - J. Lee Thompson)
Cosmopolis (Canada 2012 - David Cronenberg)
The Dark Knight Rises (USA 2012 - Christopher Nolan)
Dr. Strangelove (UK 1964 - Stanley Kubrick)
The Fifth Element (France 1997 - Luc Besson)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Sweden 2009 - Niels Arden Oplev)
Gone Girl (USA 2014 - David Fincher)
Good Will Hunting (USA 1997 - Gus Van Sant)
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (Japan 2011 - Miike Takashi)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (New Zealand 2016 - Taika Waititi)
Ida (Poland 2013 - Pawel Pawlikowski)
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Taiwan 2006 - Tsai Ming-liang)
It's a Wonderful Life (UK 1946 - Frank Capra)
Inherent Vice (USA 2014 - Paul Thomas Anderson)
Ivan's Childhood (Soviet Union 1962 - Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Kid with a Bike (Belgium 2011 - Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne)
Kill List (UK 2011 - Ben Wheatley)
Lady Bird (USA 2017 - Greta Gerwig)
Leviathan (USA 2012 - Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel)
Man on the Moon (USA 1999 - Milos Forman)
Man with a Movie Camera (Soviet Union 1929 - Dziga Vertov)
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Japan 1983 - Nagisa Ôshima)
Midnight Cowboy (USA 1969 - John Schlesinger)
Moonrise Kingdom (USA 2012 - Wes Anderson)
Perfect Blue (Japan 1997 - Satoshi Kon)
Pi (USA 1998 - Darren Aronofsky)
Queen of Earth (USA 2015 - Alex Ross Perry)
The Queen of Versailles (USA 2012 - Lauren Greenfield)
Rainy Dog (Japan 1997 - Miike Takashi)
Reservoir Dogs (USA 1992 - Quentin Tarantino)
RoboCop (USA 1987 - Paul Verhoeven)
The Square (Sweden 2017 - Ruben Östlund)
Tokyo Fist (Japan 1995 - Shinya Tsukamoto)
Tokyo Story (Japan 1953 - Yasujirô Ozu)
True Romance (USA 1993 - Tony Scott)
Upstream Colour (USA 2013 - Shane Carruth)
Videodrome (Canada 1983 - David Cronenberg)
Visitor Q (Japan 2001 - Miike Takashi)
The Wayward Cloud (Taiwan 2005 - Tsai Ming-liang)
What Time Is It There? (Taiwan 2001 - Tsai Ming-liang)
Young Thugs Nostalgia (Japan 1998 - Miike Takashi)

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50 - 26

The 400 Blows (France 1959 - François Truffaut)
Alien (UK 1979 - Ridley Scott)
Apocalypse Now (USA 1979 - Francis Ford Coppola)
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (USA 2014 - Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
Birth (USA 2004 - Jonathan Glazer)
By the Time It Gets Dark (Thailand 2016 - Anocha Suwichakornpong)
Dead or Alive 2: Birds (Japan 2000 - Miike Takashi)
Eraserhead (USA 1977 - David Lynch)
The Florida Project (USA 2017 - Sean Baker)
Grave of the Fireflies (Japan 1988 - Isao Takahata)
Hour of the Wolf (Sweden 1968 - Ingmar Bergman)
Ichi the Killer (Japan 2001 - Miike Takashi)
Kotoko (Japan 2011 - Shinya Tsukamoto)
La La Land (USA 2016 - Damien Chazelle)
Lawrence of Arabia (UK 1962 - David Lean)
Marriage Story (USA 2019 - Noah Baumbach)
The Master (USA 2012 - Paul Thomas Anderson)
Nocturnal Animals (USA 2016 - Tom Ford)
The Shining (UK 1980 - Stanley Kubrick)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (USA 1991 - James Cameron)
Thelma & Louise (USA 1991 - Ridley Scott)
Toni Erdmann (Germany 2016 - Maren Ade)
Toy Story (USA 1995 - John Lasseter)
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (France 2017 - Luc Besson)
The Wrestler (USA 2008 - Darren Aronofsky)

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25 - 16

Black Swan (USA 2010 - Darren Aronofsky)
Dancer in the Dark (Denmark 2000 - Lars von Trier)
Eyes Wide Shut (UK 1999 - Stanley Kubrick)
Funny Games (Austria 1997 - Michael Haneke)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Taiwan 2003 - Tsai Ming-liang)
The Hole (Taiwan 1998 - Tsai Ming-liang)
Kwaidan (Japan 1964 - Masaki Kobayashi)
Lilya 4-Ever (Sweden 2002 - Lukas Moodysson)
The Lovers on the Bridge (France 1991 - Leos Carax)
Stalker (Soviet Union 1979 - Andrei Tarkovsky)

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15 - 6

Cameraperson (USA 2016 - Kirsten Johnson)
Days of Heaven (USA 1978 - Terrence Malick)
Fargo (USA 1996 - Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
Holy Motors (France 2012 - Leos Carax)
Inland Empire (USA 2006 - David Lynch)
The Night Is Young (France 1986 - Leos Carax)
The Piano Teacher (Austria 2001 - Michael Haneke)
Samsara (USA 2011 - Ron Fricke)
The Thing (USA 1982 - John Carpenter)
Vive L'Amour (Taiwan 1994 - Tsai Ming-liang)

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5 - 1

2001: A Space Odyssey (UK 1968 - Stanley Kubrick)
Mulholland Drive (USA 2001 - David Lynch)
The River (Taiwan 1997 - Tsai Ming-liang)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Japan 1989 - Shinya Tsukamoto)
The Tree of Life (USA 2011 - Terrence Malick)




Posted: 15th January 2020