50 Favorite Films

By: Brandon Isaacso​n

Updated 2/10/13.

• 01
  Milk
  Gus Van Sant
• 02
  Adaptation.
  Spike Jonze
• 03
  Little Miss Sunshine
  Jonathan Dayton
• 04
  Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  Stephen Daldry
• 05
  Precious
  Lee Daniels
• 06
  Beginners
  Mike Mills
• 07
  The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  Wes Anderson
• 08
  I Heart Huckabees
  David O. Russell
• 09
  The Fountain
  Darren Aronofsky
• 10
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 11
  Where the Wild Things Are
  Spike Jonze
• 12
  21 Grams
  Alejandro González Iñárritu
• 13
  Biutiful
  Alejandro González Iñárritu
• 14
  A Single Man
  Tom Ford
• 15
  Bicycle Thieves
  Vittorio De Sica
• 16
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Michel Gondry
• 17
  A Serious Man
  Ethan Coen
• 18
  50/50
  Jonathan Levine
• 19
  Beasts of the Southern Wild
  Benh Zeitlin
• 20
  Martha Marcy May Marlene
  Sean Durkin
• 21
  The Tree of Life
  Terrence Malick
• 22
  The Social Network
  David Fincher
• 23
  Up in the Air
  Jason Reitman
• 24
  A Separation
  Asghar Farhadi
• 25
  The Cove
  Louie Psihoyos
• 26
  Antichrist
  Lars von Trier
• 27
  The Brothers Bloom
  Rian Johnson
• 28
  Chasing Amy
  Kevin Smith
• 29
  No Country for Old Men
  Ethan Coen
• 30
  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  Peter Jackson
• 31
  Do the Right Thing
  Spike Lee
• 32
  Hugo
  Martin Scorsese
• 33
  Borat
  Larry Charles
• 34
  The Illusionist
  Sylvain Chomet
• 35
  Away We Go
  Sam Mendes
• 36
  The Hurt Locker
  Kathryn Bigelow
• 37
  Oslo, August 31st
  Joachim Trier
• 38
  The Messenger
  Oren Moverman
• 39
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  Julian Schnabel
• 40
  The Dark Knight
  Christopher Nolan
• 41
  The Cabin in the Woods
  Drew Goddard
• 42
  Blue Valentine
  Derek Cianfrance
• 43
  How to Die in Oregon
  Peter D. Richardson
• 44
  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  Tomas Alfredson
• 45
  Inception
  Christopher Nolan
• 46
  I'm Here
  Spike Jonze
• 47
  Forgetting Sarah Marshall
  Nicholas Stoller
• 48
  Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  Woody Allen
• 49
  The American
  Anton Corbijn
• 50
  The Wrestler
  Darren Aronofsky