Movies That Make Me Want To Keep Watching Movies

By: Kai White

These are films that have meant a lot to me as I’ve discovered them over the last few years. There’s no particular rhyme or reason to them, but they do serve a purpose on this list. This is full of movies that have made me want to watch other movies, whether it be of the same genre, country, director, actor, whatever. I did not just put my favorite films down here. I love The Godfather II, but it is not on this list because it did not necessarily make me want to explore other films. So this list simply serves as a very basic outline of movies that have made me want to watch more movies, thus, the title of the list. Enjoy!

• 01
  Ran
  Akira Kurosawa
• 02
  Rebecca
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 03
  Last Year at Marienbad
  Alain Resnais
• 04
  Brief Encounter
  David Lean
• 05
  Letter from an Unknown Woman
  Max Ophüls
• 06
  Sunrise
  F.W. Murnau
• 07
  The Cloud-Capped Star
  Ritwik Ghatak
• 08
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 09
  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 10
  Notorious
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 11
  A Day in the Country
  Jean Renoir
• 12
  Le jour se lève
  Marcel Carné
• 13
  Throne of Blood
  Akira Kurosawa
• 14
  The Cranes Are Flying
  Mikhail Kalatozov
• 15
  Greed
  Erich von Stroheim
• 16
  8½
  Federico Fellini
• 17
  Picnic at Hanging Rock
  Peter Weir
• 18
  Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  Chantal Akerman
• 19
  A City of Sadness
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 20
  The Seventh Seal
  Ingmar Bergman
• 21
  The Red and the White
  Miklós Jancsó
• 22
  The Best Years of Our Lives
  William Wyler
• 23
  The Hour of the Furnaces
  Octavio Getino
• 24
  Touch of Evil
  Orson Welles
• 25
  The Word
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 26
  On the Waterfront
  Elia Kazan
• 27
  Paths of Glory
  Stanley Kubrick
• 28
  The Road
  Şerif Gören
• 29
  India Song
  Marguerite Duras
• 30
  Kanal
  Andrzej Wajda
• 31
  La jetée
  Chris Marker
• 32
  Sansho the Bailiff
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 33
  The Golden Thread
  Ritwik Ghatak
• 34
  Rashômon
  Akira Kurosawa
• 35
  Alexander Nevsky
  Sergei Eisenstein
• 36
  Ashes and Diamonds
  Andrzej Wajda
• 37
  Rome Open City
  Roberto Rossellini
• 38
  Werckmeister Harmonies
  Béla Tarr
• 39
  A Place in the Sun
  George Stevens
• 40
  Battleship Potemkin
  Sergei Eisenstein
• 41
  High Noon
  Fred Zinnemann
• 42
  Rebels of the Neon God
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 43
  The Greatest Love
  Roberto Rossellini
• 44
  Day of Wrath
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 45
  Mon oncle
  Jacques Tati
• 46
  The Public Enemy
  William A. Wellman
• 47
  Lone Star
  John Sayles
• 48
  Jules and Jim
  François Truffaut
• 49
  The Cool World
  Shirley Clarke