I’m just going to list films I really like that fall within this topic. Not necessarily the most important or whatever.
Easy Rider – Dennis Hopper
Kids – Larry Clark
The Evil Dead – Sam Raimi
Reservoir Dogs – Quentin Tarantino
Eraserhead – David Lynch
Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Tobe Hooper
Last House on the Left – Wes Craven
El Mariachi – Robert Rodriguez
Shawshank Redemption – Frank Darabont.
American Beauty – Sam Mendes
Night of the Living Dead – George A. Romero
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure – Tim Burton
Boyz in the Hood – John Singleton
Amores Perros – Alejandro González Iñárritu
Citizen Kane – Orson Welles
Clean, Shaven—Lodge Kerrigan
George Washington—David Gordon Green
Badlands—Terrance Malick
Repo Man—Alex Cox
Primer—Shane Carruth
Eraserhead—David Lynch
Blue Collar—Paul Schrader
Night of the Hunter—Charles Laughton
Night of the Living Dead—George Romero
Zero de Conduite—Jean Vigo
Permanent Vacation—Jim Jarmusch
Mysterious Objects at Noon—Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Indian Runner (Penn)
Primer (Carruth)
Henry V (Branagh)
Badlands (Malick)
The Maltese Falcon (Huston)
Diner (Levinson)
Terms of Endearment (Brooks)
Real Life (Brooks, Albert)
12 Angry Men (Lumet)
Dances with Wolves (Costner)
1. The Shawshank Redemption – Frank Darabont
2. American Beauty – Sam Mendes
3. 12 Angry Men – Sidney Lumet
4. The Band’s Visit – Eran Kolirin
5. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada – Tommy Lee Jones
6. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind – George Clooney
7. Moon – Duncan Jones
8. Mousehunt – Gore Verbinski
9. District 9 – Neill Blomkamp
10. El mariachi – Robert Rodriguez
11. The Guard – John Michael McDonagh
12. Thank You for Smoking – Jason Reitman
13. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels – Guy Ritchie
14. Gattaca – Andrew Niccol
15.Michael Clayton – Tony Gilroy
16.The Virgin Suicides – Sofia Coppola
17.Animal Kingdom – David Michôd
18.Bad Day to Go Fishing – Alvaro Brechner
19. Zift – Javor Gardev
20. In Bruges – Martin McDonagh
I can’t even think of 10, but The Spirit of the Beehive is my favorite film of all time, and it was Victor Erice’s first feature film.
The 400 Blows
Badlands
À propos de Nice
12 Angry Men
Accattone
Beign John Malkovich
Breathless
Blood Simple
Clerks
Citizen Kane
The Virgin Suicides
Duel
Easy Rider
Knife In The Water
The Night Of The Living Dead
Killer of Sheeps
Love Is Colder Than Death
Just to mention one debut that hasn’t yet found a partisan — “Sweetie” by Jane Campion
In no order.
Blue Collar (Schrader)
Who’s That Knocking at My Door (Scorsese)
Love is Colder Than Death (Fassbinder)
The Seventh Continent (Haneke)
Thief (Mann)
Brick (Johnson)
Following (Nolan)
Performance (Cammell/Roeg)
Pi (Aronofsky)
Accattone (Pasolini)
Story of a Love Affair (Antonioni)
House of Games (Mamet)
The Element of Crime (von Trier)
Violent Cop (Kitano)
Hard Eight (Anderson)
Shadows (Cassavetes)
Play Misty For Me (Eastwood)
Next of Kin (Egoyan)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Deren)
I Shot Andy Warhol (Harron)
The Deadly Companions (Peckinpah)
Bound (Wachowski Bros.)
Eraserhead (Lynch)
Clerks (Smith)
1. 12 Angry Men – Sidney Lumet
2. American Beauty – Sam Mendes
3. Castaway On The Moon – Lee Hae-joon
4. I stand alone – Gaspar Noe
5. District 9 – Neill Blomkamp
6. The 7th Continent – Michael Haneke
7. The Shawshank Redemption – Frank Darabont
8. American History X – Tony Kaye
9. (500) Days of Summer – Marc Webb
10. Shadows – John Cassavetes
11. Blood Simple – The Coen’s
12. No Man’s Land – Danis Tanovic
13. Dhobi Ghat – Kiran Rao
14. Gattaca – Andrew Niccol
15. Knife in the Water – Roman Polanski
16. 13 Tzametti – Géla Babluani
17 Pather Panchali – Satyajit Ray
18. Before the rain – Milcho Manchevski
19. Sorok pervyy – Grigori Chukhrai
20. Dumb and Dumber – Peter Farrelly
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The 400 Blows – Francois Truffaut
Breathless – Jean Luc Godard
Distant Voices Still Lives – Terance Davies
The Duelists – Ridley Scott
Citizen Kane – Orson Welles
Gumshoe – Stephen Frears
Saturday Night And Sunday Morning – Karel Reisz
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? – Mike Nichols
Monty Python and the Holy Grail – Terry Gilliam
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn – Elia Kazan
12 Angry Men – Sidney Lumet
Heaven Can Wait – Warren Beatty
Withnail & I – Bruce Robinson
Look Back In Anger – Tony Richardson
The Producers – Mel Brooks