Fresh update after a couple years.

In alphabetical order. Italics indicates top 25, bold indicates top 10. There are 11 bolded films because I have a tie I couldn’t break.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick
8 1/2 (1963) Federico Fellini
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) Werner Herzog
Andrei Rublev (1966) Andrei Tarkovsky
The Apartment (1960) Billy Wilder
Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola
The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1957, 1959) Satyajit Ray
Barry Lyndon (1975) Stanley Kubrick
The Battle of Algiers (1966) Gillo Pontecorvo
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) David Lean
A Brighter Summer Day (1993) Edward Yang
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969) George Roy Hill
Che (2008) Steven Soderbergh
Children of Men (2006) Alfonso Cuaron
Children of Paradise (1945) Marcel Carne
Citizenfour (2014) Laura Poitras
Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles
City Lights (1931) Charlie Chaplin
The Conformist (1970) Bernardo Bertolucci
Day for Night (1974) Francois Truffaut
Days of Heaven (1978) Terrence Malick
The Decalogue (1989) Krzysztof Kieslowski
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) Luis Bunuel
Do the Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee
Europa (1992) Lars Von Trier
The Exterminating Angel (1961) Luis Bunuel
Fargo (1996) The Coen Brothers
Fresh (1994) Boaz Yakin
Gates of Heaven (1978) Errol Morris
George Washington (2000) David Gordon Green
The Godfather (1972) Francis Ford Coppola
Gomorrah (2008) Matteo Garrone
GoodFellas (1990) Martin Scorsese
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) Sergio Leone
Good Will Hunting (1997) Gus Van Sant
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) John Ford
Harlan County, USA (1976) Barbara Kopple
Heat (1995) Michael Mann
High Fidelity (2000) Stephen Frears
Hospital (1970) Frederick Wiseman
Hour of the Furnaces (1968) Fernando E. Solanas
Hud (1963) Martin Ritt
Ice (1970) Robert Kramer
Ikiru (1952) Akira Kurosawa
Jackie Brown (1997) Quentin Tarantino
JFK (1991) Oliver Stone
Juvenile Court (1973) Frederick Wiseman
Killer of Sheep (1977) Charles Burnett
Kings of the Road (1976) Wim Wenders
The Last Picture Show (1971) Peter Bogdanovich
Last Tango in Paris (1973) Bernardo Bertolucci
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Alain Resnais
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) David Lean
Magnolia (1999) Paul Thomas Anderson
Malcolm X (1992) Spike Lee
Man with a Movie Camera (1929) Dziga Vertov
Manhattan (1979) Woody Allen
Medium Cool (1969) Haskell Wexler
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
The Mirror (1975) Andrei Tarkovsky
Mother and Son (1998) Aleksandr Sokurov
Nashville (1975) Robert Altman
Paris, Texas (1984) Wim Wenders 
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Carl Theodor Dreyer
Persona (1966) Ingmar Bergman
Pierrot le Fou (1965) Jean-Luc Godard
Playtime (1967) Jacques Tati
Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Tarantino
Punishment Park (1971) Peter Watkins
Raging Bull (1980) Martin Scorsese
The Red and The White (1967) Miklos Jansco
The Red Shoes (1948) Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
The Rules of The Game (1939) Jean Renoir
The Sacrifice (1986) Andrei Tarkovsky
Salesman (1969) The Maysles Brothers
Sansho The Bailiff (1954) Kenji Mizoguchi
Scenes From A Marriage (1974) Ingmar Bergman
Se7en (1995) David Fincher
Seven Samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa
Sherlock, Jr. (1924) Buster Keaton
Singin’ in The Rain (1952) Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
The Son (2002) Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Songs from the Second Floor (2000) Roy Andersson
Streetwise (1985) Martin Bell
Sunrise (1927) F.W. Murnau
Sunset Boulevard (1950) Billy Wilder
Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese
There Will Be Blood (2007) Paul Thomas Anderson
The Third Man (1949) Carol Reed
A Time to Live and A Time to Die (1986) Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Tokyo Story (1953) Yasujiro Ozu
Umberto D (1952) Vittorio De Sica
The Up Series (1964-) Michael Apted
Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
Welfare (1975) Frederick Wiseman
Wild Strawberries (1957) Ingmar Bergman
Woodstock (1970) Michael Wadleigh
Yeelen (1987) Souleymane Cisse
Z (1969) Costa-Gavras

Fresh update after a couple years.
In alphabetical order. Italics indicates top 25, bold indicates top 10. There are 11 bolded films because I have a tie I couldn&#8217;t break.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick 
8 1/2 (1963) Federico Fellini 
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) Werner Herzog 
Andrei Rublev (1966) Andrei Tarkovsky 
The Apartment (1960) Billy Wilder 
Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola 
The Apu Trilogy (1955, 1957, 1959) Satyajit Ray 
Barry Lyndon (1975) Stanley Kubrick 
The Battle of Algiers (1966) Gillo Pontecorvo 
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) David Lean 
A Brighter Summer Day (1993) Edward Yang 
Butch Cassidy &amp; the Sundance Kid (1969) George Roy Hill 
Che (2008) Steven Soderbergh 
Children of Men (2006) Alfonso Cuaron 
Children of Paradise (1945) Marcel Carne 
Citizenfour (2014) Laura Poitras 
Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles 
City Lights (1931) Charlie Chaplin 
The Conformist (1970) Bernardo Bertolucci 
Day for Night (1974) Francois Truffaut 
Days of Heaven (1978) Terrence Malick 
The Decalogue (1989) Krzysztof Kieslowski 
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) Luis Bunuel 
Do the Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee 
Europa (1992) Lars Von Trier 
The Exterminating Angel (1961) Luis Bunuel 
Fargo (1996) The Coen Brothers 
Fresh (1994) Boaz Yakin 
Gates of Heaven (1978) Errol Morris 
George Washington (2000) David Gordon Green 
The Godfather (1972) Francis Ford Coppola 
Gomorrah (2008) Matteo Garrone 
GoodFellas (1990) Martin Scorsese 
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) Sergio Leone 
Good Will Hunting (1997) Gus Van Sant 
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) John Ford 
Harlan County, USA (1976) Barbara Kopple 
Heat (1995) Michael Mann 
High Fidelity (2000) Stephen Frears 
Hospital (1970) Frederick Wiseman 
Hour of the Furnaces (1968) Fernando E. Solanas 
Hud (1963) Martin Ritt 
Ice (1970) Robert Kramer 
Ikiru (1952) Akira Kurosawa 
Jackie Brown (1997) Quentin Tarantino 
JFK (1991) Oliver Stone 
Juvenile Court (1973) Frederick Wiseman 
Killer of Sheep (1977) Charles Burnett 
Kings of the Road (1976) Wim Wenders 
The Last Picture Show (1971) Peter Bogdanovich 
Last Tango in Paris (1973) Bernardo Bertolucci 
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Alain Resnais 
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) David Lean 
Magnolia (1999) Paul Thomas Anderson 
Malcolm X (1992) Spike Lee 
Man with a Movie Camera (1929) Dziga Vertov 
Manhattan (1979) Woody Allen 
Medium Cool (1969) Haskell Wexler 
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 
The Mirror (1975) Andrei Tarkovsky 
Mother and Son (1998) Aleksandr Sokurov 
Nashville (1975) Robert Altman 
Paris, Texas (1984) Wim Wenders 
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Carl Theodor Dreyer 
Persona (1966) Ingmar Bergman 
Pierrot le Fou (1965) Jean-Luc Godard 
Playtime (1967) Jacques Tati 
Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Tarantino 
Punishment Park (1971) Peter Watkins 
Raging Bull (1980) Martin Scorsese 
The Red and The White (1967) Miklos Jansco 
The Red Shoes (1948) Michael Powell &amp; Emeric Pressburger 
The Rules of The Game (1939) Jean Renoir 
The Sacrifice (1986) Andrei Tarkovsky 
Salesman (1969) The Maysles Brothers 
Sansho The Bailiff (1954) Kenji Mizoguchi 
Scenes From A Marriage (1974) Ingmar Bergman 
Se7en (1995) David Fincher 
Seven Samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa 
Sherlock, Jr. (1924) Buster Keaton 
Singin&#8217; in The Rain (1952) Gene Kelly &amp; Stanley Donen 
The Son (2002) Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne 
Songs from the Second Floor (2000) Roy Andersson 
Streetwise (1985) Martin Bell 
Sunrise (1927) F.W. Murnau 
Sunset Boulevard (1950) Billy Wilder 
Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese 
There Will Be Blood (2007) Paul Thomas Anderson 
The Third Man (1949) Carol Reed 
A Time to Live and A Time to Die (1986) Hou Hsiao-Hsien 
Tokyo Story (1953) Yasujiro Ozu 
Umberto D (1952) Vittorio De Sica 
The Up Series (1964-) Michael Apted 
Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock 
Welfare (1975) Frederick Wiseman 
Wild Strawberries (1957) Ingmar Bergman 
Woodstock (1970) Michael Wadleigh 
Yeelen (1987) Souleymane Cisse 
Z (1969) Costa-Gavras

All-Time Favorite Films