No Rhyme or Reason

By: Johnny DuBiel

Just a handful of films I love that might not get mentioned as much as they probably should. Not all are great films, but all have elements (scenes, performances, score, whatever) that have elements of greatness. All are definitely worth a look.

• 01
  Prime Cut
  Michael Ritchie
• 02
  To Sleep with Anger
  Charles Burnett
• 03
  The Long Goodbye
  Robert Altman
• 04
  Linda Linda Linda
  Nobuhiro Yamashita
• 05
  Blue Gate Crossing
  Yee Chin-yen
• 06
  A Walk in the Sun
  Lewis Milestone
• 07
  Strangers with Candy
  Paul Dinello
• 08
  Where the Truth Lies
  Atom Egoyan
• 09
  The Ballad of Cable Hogue
  Sam Peckinpah
• 10
  Love and Death
  Woody Allen
• 11
  Satan's Brew
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 12
  Deep Red
  Dario Argento
• 13
  Targets
  Peter Bogdanovich
• 14
  The Boy Friend
  Ken Russell
• 15
  She Killed in Ecstasy
  Jesús Franco
• 16
  Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
  Jim Jarmusch
• 17
  Faraway, So Close!
  Wim Wenders
• 18
  A Snake of June
  Shinya Tsukamoto
• 19
  Excalibur
  John Boorman
• 20
  The Petrified Forest
  Archie Mayo
• 21
  Love Songs
  Christophe Honoré
• 22
  The Stunt Man
  Richard Rush
• 23
  Dr. Akagi
  Shôhei Imamura
• 24
  Possession
  Andrzej Żuławski
• 25
  Innocent Blood
  John Landis
• 26
  Kundun
  Martin Scorsese
• 27
  The Match Factory Girl
  Aki Kaurismäki
• 28
  Poison
  Todd Haynes
• 29
  Born in Flames
  Lizzie Borden
• 30
  The Fall of the House of Usher
  Jean Epstein
• 31
  Hi, Mom!
  Brian De Palma
• 32
  Clockers
  Spike Lee
• 33
  Something Wild
  Jonathan Demme
• 34
  To Live and Die in L.A.
  William Friedkin
• 35
  Southern Comfort
  Walter Hill
• 36
  Undertow
  David Gordon Green
• 37
  Party Girl
  Nicholas Ray
• 38
  Quest for Fire
  Jean-Jacques Annaud
• 39
  The Beat That My Heart Skipped
  Jacques Audiard
• 40
  The Missing
  Ron Howard
• 41
  The Rules of Attraction
  Roger Avary
• 42
  Where's Poppa?
  Carl Reiner
• 43
  The Claim
  Michael Winterbottom
• 44
  Coming Out
  Kim Ji-woon
• 45
  The Sum of Us
  Geoff Burton
• 46
  Winchester '73
  Anthony Mann
• 47
  Electra Glide in Blue
  James William Guercio
• 48
  Bad Company
  Jean Eustache
• 49
  Eight Men Out
  John Sayles
• 50
  Ju Dou
  Zhang Yimou
• 51
  People Will Talk
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 52
  Tight Little Island
  Alexander Mackendrick
• 53
  The Ox-Bow Incident
  William A. Wellman
• 54
  The Collector
  William Wyler
• 55
  California Split
  Robert Altman
• 56
  Daughters of Darkness
  Harry Kümel
• 57
  Cross of Iron
  Sam Peckinpah
• 58
  One, Two, Three
  Billy Wilder
• 59
  The Missouri Breaks
  Arthur Penn
• 60
  Ginger Snaps
  John Fawcett
• 61
  Lost and Delirious
  Léa Pool
• 62
  Daughters of the Dust
  Julie Dash
• 63
  A Woman of Paris
  Charlie Chaplin
• 64
  Memento Mori: Remember the Dead
  Kim Tae-yong
• 65
  Times Square
  Allan Moyle
• 66
  Ms. 45
  Abel Ferrara
• 67
  Watership Down
  Martin Rosen
• 68
  Wild Reeds
  André Téchiné
• 69
  Girl on the Bridge
  Patrice Leconte
• 70
  La bête
  Walerian Borowczyk
• 71
  Fear and Trembling
  Alain Corneau
• 72
  Les misérables
  Claude Lelouch
• 73
  Mädchen in Uniform
  Leontine Sagan
• 74
  May
  Lucky McKee
• 75
  Afterglow
  Alan Rudolph
• 76
  War Is Menstrual Envy
  Nick Zedd
• 77
  Café Flesh
  Stephen Sayadian
• 78
  Mr. Majestyk
  Richard Fleischer
• 79
  The Indian Runner
  Sean Penn
• 80
  Soylent Green
  Richard Fleischer
• 81
  A Perfect World
  Clint Eastwood
• 82
  Hide and Seek
  Su Friedrich
• 83
  Perfect Blue
  Satoshi Kon
• 84
  The Professional
  Georges Lautner
• 85
  Brigadoon
  Vincente Minnelli
• 86
  King of the Children
  Chen Kaige
• 87
  One from the Heart
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 88
  The Beguiled
  Don Siegel
• 89
  Blind Shaft
  Li Yang
• 90
  The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman
  León Klimovsky
• 91
  Kiss of Death
  Henry Hathaway
• 92
  Lilya 4-ever
  Lukas Moodysson
• 93
  All About Lily Chou-Chou
  Shunji Iwai
• 94
  The Black Dahlia
  Brian De Palma
• 95
  Carnal Knowledge
  Mike Nichols
• 96
  Year of the Dragon
  Michael Cimino
• 97
  The Yakuza
  Sydney Pollack
• 98
  Britannia Hospital
  Lindsay Anderson
• 99
  Margot at the Wedding
  Noah Baumbach
• 100
  Men with Guns
  John Sayles
• 101
  The Addiction
  Abel Ferrara
• 102
  Set Me Free
  Léa Pool
• 103
  The Double Hour
  Giuseppe Capotondi
• 104
  Felidae
  Michael Schaack
• 105
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  Peter R. Hunt
• 106
  Gypo
  Jan Dunn
• 107
  The Devil Came from Akasava
  Jesús Franco
• 108
  Black Sunday
  John Frankenheimer
• 109
  Go Tell the Spartans
  Ted Post
• 110
  Grey Gardens
  Albert Maysles
• 111
  Gasoline
  Julio Hernández Cordon
• 112
  Cat People
  Paul Schrader
• 113
  Stir of Echoes
  David Koepp
• 114
  The Girl of Your Dreams
  Fernando Trueba
• 115
  Cyrus
  Jay Duplass
• 116
  Pretty Maids All in a Row
  Roger Vadim
• 117
  Seconds
  John Frankenheimer
• 118
  Wheels on Meals
  Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
• 119
  Baby Boy
  John Singleton
• 120
  The Blood Spattered Bride
  Vicente Aranda
• 121
  U Turn
  Oliver Stone
• 122
  Don't Torture a Duckling
  Lucio Fulci
• 123
  Don't Deliver Us from Evil
  Joël Séria
• 124
  The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
  Auraeus Solito
• 125
  Get on the Bus
  Spike Lee
• 126
  Black Rain
  Shôhei Imamura
• 127
  XXY
  Lucía Puenzo
• 128
  Trouble in Mind
  Alan Rudolph
• 129
  Sleep with Me
  Rory Kelly
• 130
  King of the Hill
  Steven Soderbergh
• 131
  Beloved
  Jonathan Demme
• 132
  The American Soldier
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 133
  4
  Ilia Khrzhanovsky
• 134
  Last Orders
  Fred Schepisi
• 135
  Lantana
  Ray Lawrence
• 136
  The Smugglers
  Luc Moullet
• 137
  À tout de suite
  Benoît Jacquot
• 138
  The Safety of Objects
  Rose Troche
• 139
  Pistol Opera
  Seijun Suzuki
• 140
  With a Friend Like Harry
  Dominik Moll
• 141
  Malpertuis
  Harry Kümel
• 142
  Cyclo
  Tran Anh Hung
• 143
  Swoon
  Tom Kalin
• 144
  The World's Greatest Sinner
  Timothy Carey