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Greatest Movies



"All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go. I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention. I believe that someone should become a person like other people." Travis Bickle in Taxi Drivcr


Expressionnist movies, neorealistic movies, horror movies... Movies that deeply moved me, shocked me, scared me, deeply marked my retine, and somehow changed my vision of reality.

My favorite movie: Freaks 1932 by Tod Browning

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AMERICAN CINEMA

FREAKS (1932) - Tod Browning
THE UNKNOWN (1927) - Tod Browning
THE SUNRISE (1927) - Friedrich Murnau
ERASERHEAD (1977) - David Lynch
ELEPHANTMAN (1980) - David Lynch
TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (1992) - David Lynch
BLUE VELVET (1986) - David Lynch
LOST HIGHWAY (1997) - David Lynch
MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001) - David Lynch
WILD AT HEART (1990) - David Lynch
TAXI DRIVER (1976) - Martin Scorsese
(The film was inspired by Dostoevsky's Notes From the Underground)

RAGING BULL (1980) - Martin Scorsese
CASINO (1995) - Martin Scorsese
MEAN STREETS (1973) - Martin Scorsese
GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI (1999) - Jim Jarmusch
DEAD MAN (1995) - Jim Jarmusch
STRANGER THAN PARADISE (1984) - Jim Jarmusch
PSYCHO (1960)- Alfred Hitchcock
VERTIGO (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock
BIRDS (1963) - Alfred Hitchcock
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) - Alfred Hithcock
THE ROPE (1948) - Alfred Hithcock
LA MAIN AU COLLET (1955) - Alfred Hitchcock
CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) - Stanley Kubrick
2001, A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) - Stanley Kubrick
THE KILLING (1956) - Stanley Kubrick
PATHS OF GLORY (1957) - Stanley Kubrick
BARRY LYNDON (1975) - Stanley Kubrick
SHADOWS (1959) - John Cassavetes
FACES (1968) - John Cassavetes
A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (1974) - John Cassavetes
OPENING NIGHT (1977) - John Cassavetes
HUSBANDS - John Cassavetes
MODERN TIMES (1936) - Charlie Chaplin
THE KID (1921) - Charlie Chaplin
THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) - Charlie Chaplin
THE GOLD RUSH (1925) - Charlie Chaplin
MONSIEUR VERDOUX (1947) - Charlie Chaplin
THE MISFITS (1961) - John Huston
BAD LIEUTENANT (1992) - Abel Ferrara
OUR FUNERAL (1996)- Abel Ferrara
KING OF NEW YORK (1990) - Abel Ferrara
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) - Charles Laughton
CHINATOWN (1974) - Roman Polanski
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) - Jonathan Demme
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974) - Tobe Hooper
HENRY, PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (1986)
THE DEER HUNTER (1978) - Michael Cimino
DELIVERANCE (1973) - John Boorman
ED WOOD (1994) - Tim Burton
SCARFACE (1983) - Brian de Palma
LAURA (1944) - Otto Preminger
CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962) - Herk Harvey
HAPPINESS (1998) - Tod Solondz


CANADIAN CINEMA

THE FLY (1986) - David Cronenberg
CRASH (1996) - David Cronenberg


GERMAN CINEMA


M LE MAUDIT (1931) - Fritz Lang
METROPOLIS - Fritz Lang
FURY (1937) - Fritz Lang
LE TESTAMENT DU DOCTEUR MABUSE (1933) - Fritz Lang
AGUIRRE THE WRATH OF GOD (1972) - Werner Herzog
PARIS-TEXAS (1984) - Wim Wenders
PANDORA'S BOX (1929) - Georg Wilhelm Pabst
WHY DOES HERR R. RUN AMOK? (1970) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
L'AMOUR, L'ARGENT, L'AMOUR (2000) - Philip Gröning


ITALIAN CINEMA

STROMBOLI (1951) - Roberto Rossellini
MAMMA ROMA (1962) - Pier Paolo Pasolini
THEOREM (1968) - Pier Paolo Pasolini
LA GRANDE BOUFFE (1973) - Marco Ferreri
THE ECLIPSE (1962) - Michelangelo Antonioni
LA STRADA (1954) - Federico Fellini
LA CITE DES FEMMES Città delle donne (1980) - Federico Fellini
DERNIER TANGO A PARIS (1972) - Bernardo Bertolucci
LUDWIG (1969) - Luchino Visconti


SPANISH CINEMA


L'AGE D'OR (1930) - Luis Buñuel
EL also known as This Strange Passion (1952) - Luis Buñuel
THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (1962) -| Luis Buñuel


FRENCH CINEMA

BREATHLESS (A bout de Souffle) (1959) - Jean-Luc Godard
PIERROT GOES WILD (Pierrot le Fou) (1965) - Jean-Luc Godard
ALPHAVILLE - Jean-Luc Godard
LE MEPRIS - Jean-Luc Godard
QUE LA BETE MEURE - Claude Chabrol
NOCES ROUGES - Claude Chabrol
A JUDGEMENT IN STONE (La Cérémonie) (1995) - Claude Chabrol
THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR (1981) - Truffaut
THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN (1977) - Truffaut
LES VALSEUSES (1974) - Bertrand Blier
COLD CUTS (Buffet froid) (1979) - Bertrand Blier
THE SAMURAI (1969) - Melville
EYES WITHOUT A FACE (1959) - Georges Franju
LA MAMAN ET LA PUTAIN - Jean Eustache
THE FIRE WITHIN (Le feu follet) (1963) - Louis Malle
ELEVATOR TO THE SCAFFOLD (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud) (1957) - Louis Malle
SERIE NOIRE (1981) - Alain Corneau
IRREVERSIBLE (2001) - Gaspar Noé


BELGIAN CINEMA

LA PROMESSE (1996) - Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Man Bites Dog: It Happened in Your Neighborhood (1992) - RŽmy Belvaux


SCANDINAVIAN CINEMA

THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (1961) - Ingmar Bergman
PERSONA (1966) - Ingmar Bergman
HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (1924) - Victor Sjöström (the film was inspired by the play "He, the One Who Gets Slapped" by Leonid Andreyev)


RUSSIAN CINEMA

THE SACRIFICE (1986)- Andrei Tarkovsky
THE CHEKIST (1992) - Aleksandr Rogozhkin


ASIAN CINEMA

RASHOMON (1950)- Akira Kurosawa (Japan)
THE 7 SAMURAIS (1956) - Akira Kurosawa
CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH (1960) - Nagisa Oshima
THE EMPIRE OF THE SENSES (1976) - Nagisa Oshima

KIKUJIRO NO NATSU (1999) - Takeshi Kitano (Japan)
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) - Wong Kar Wai (Korea)
THE RIVER (1997) - Tsang Ming Liang (Taiwan)
VIVE L'AMOUR (1994) - Tsang Ming Liang
THE HOLE (1998) - Tsang Ming Liang
ONIBABA (1964) - Kaneto Shind™


SERBIA-POLAND-GREECE


ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A COUNTRY (Underground) (1995) - Emir Kusturica (Serbia)
TIME OF THE GYPSIES (1989) - Emir Kusturica

TU NE TUERAS POINT (from "Dekalog") (1987) - Krzysztof Kieslowski (Poland)
L'APICULTEUR (1987) - Theo Angelopoulos (Greece)


SHORT FILMS

AN ANDALUSIAN DOG (1929) - Luis Buñuel
THE PIER (1962) - Chris Marker
THE BIG SHAVE (1967) - Martin Scorsese



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