My Favorite Films of All Time

By: Drew.

This list changes constantly, but right now these 50 films are the ones that mean the most to me as a filmmaker, as a human being, and as an individual.

(plus 5 runner-ups, oh and Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight fill one spot, as does Wajda’s War Trilogy)

• 01
  The Red Shoes
  Michael Powell
• 02
  Jules and Jim
  François Truffaut
• 03
  Annie Hall
  Woody Allen
• 04
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 05
  East of Eden
  Elia Kazan
• 06
  On the Waterfront
  Elia Kazan
• 07
  It's a Wonderful Life
  Frank Capra
• 08
  Faces
  John Cassavetes
• 09
  Bringing Up Baby
  Howard Hawks
• 10
  Apocalypse Now
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 11
  Vertigo
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 12
  Fanny and Alexander — The Television Version
  Ingmar Bergman
• 13
  Eyes Wide Shut
  Stanley Kubrick
• 14
  8½
  Federico Fellini
• 15
  Dogville
  Lars von Trier
• 16
  The Piano
  Jane Campion
• 17
  Portrait of Jennie
  William Dieterle
• 18
  Breaking the Waves
  Lars von Trier
• 19
  The Decalogue
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 20
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 21
  Blue Valentine
  Derek Cianfrance
• 22
  Singin' in the Rain
  Stanley Donen
• 23
  Nashville
  Robert Altman
• 24
  Rebel Without a Cause
  Nicholas Ray
• 25
  Pierrot le fou
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 26
  Last Tango in Paris
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 27
  City Lights
  Charlie Chaplin
• 28
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 29
  Before Sunrise
  Richard Linklater
• 30
  Before Sunset
  Richard Linklater
• 31
  Before Midnight
  Richard Linklater
• 32
  They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
  Sydney Pollack
• 33
  Persona
  Ingmar Bergman
• 34
  Magnolia
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 35
  Meet John Doe
  Frank Capra
• 36
  The Apartment
  Billy Wilder
• 37
  Hannah and Her Sisters
  Woody Allen
• 38
  Bringing Out the Dead
  Martin Scorsese
• 39
  Shame
  Steve McQueen
• 40
  Don't Look Now
  Nicolas Roeg
• 41
  Last Year at Marienbad
  Alain Resnais
• 42
  The Graduate
  Mike Nichols
• 43
  Brief Encounter
  David Lean
• 44
  La dolce vita
  Federico Fellini
• 45
  The Cameraman
  Edward Sedgwick
• 46
  In a Lonely Place
  Nicholas Ray
• 47
  In Bruges
  Martin McDonagh
• 48
  The Great Dictator
  Charlie Chaplin
• 49
  Children of Paradise
  Marcel Carné
• 50
  Letter from an Unknown Woman
  Max Ophüls
• 51
  Fat Girl
  Catherine Breillat
• 52
  A Generation
  Andrzej Wajda
• 53
  Kanal
  Andrzej Wajda
• 54
  Ashes and Diamonds
  Andrzej Wajda
• 55
  Five Easy Pieces
  Bob Rafelson
• 56
  Ordet
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 57
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke
• 58
  A Serious Man
  Ethan Coen
• 59
  Late Spring
  Yasujirô Ozu