My ‘Seen’ List, although bigger than my peers, is widely incomplete. Here I chart what I want to see and, when I see it, my ranking out of 10 will be found here.
Recommendations are requested!
I am also trying to work through this list (and many others) of the best female-directed films.
This is a multiplying list that will never be finished (in no particular order):
- Casablanca
- While You Were Sleeping
- Intolerable Cruel
- Golden Years
- Burn Burn Burn
- The Girl on the Train
- You’ve Got Mail
- Look Both Ways
- The Conversation
- Lantana
- Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
- The Pianist
- The Gremlins
- The Princess Bride
- Not Quite Hollywood
- Skippy
- Paterson
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Saving Face
- Amélie
- Saving Grace
- London River
- The Proposition
- There’s something about Mary
- Overboard
- Sleepless in Seattle
- Father of The Bride
- Look Both Ways
- Man on Fire
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Chopper
- The 40 Year Old Virgin
- Groundhog Day
- Sixteen Candles
- Leap Year
- The Prince and Me
- Penelope
- The things you do!
- Runaway Bride
- Roxanne
- Emma
- Romancing the Stone
- Sabrina
- Truly, Madly, Deeply
- Interstellar
- Goodfellas
- Aliens
- Blade Runner
- Seven Samurai
- A Private function
- City of God
- Se7en
- The Usual Suspects
- Citizenfour
- Flight 93
- Nine Queens
- The curse of the golden flower
- Oh brother where art thou?
- Sixteen Candles
- Tora Tora Tora
- Kramer vs. Kramer
- Paper Moon
- The Revenant
- Ordinary People
- It Happened One Night
- Bringing Up Baby
- In the Heart of the Sea
- Ed Wood
- Man on the Moon
- Rocky
- Rocky II
- Creed (after Rocky)
- The Fountain
- The Road
- The Insider
- Blood Sport
- Predator
- Alien
- Saving Private Ryan
- Shoot Em Up
- District 9
- Ten Canoes
- Wolf Creek
- Sherpa
- The Babadook
- Dirty Deeds
- That Sugar Film
- Eye of the Storm
- Tracks
- Candy
- Mystery Road
- Roman Holiday
- Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
- In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
- There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
- Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
- The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
- Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Edward Yang, 2000)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2013)
- Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007)
- Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006)
- The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
- Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012
- The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009)
- Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
- Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
- The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
- Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
- 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
- Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002)
- Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
- Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011)
- The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
- Son of Saul (László Nemes, 2015)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)
- Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014)
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
- City of God (Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, 2002)
- The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
- Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)
- Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
- Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013)
- Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
- Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014)
- Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard, 2014)
- The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2015)
- Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
- Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2013)
- Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, director; Ágnes Hranitzky, co-director, 2000)
- Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembène, 2004)
- A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
- Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
- Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
- The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011)
- The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)
- Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009)
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003)
- Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012)
- Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
- Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
- Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004)
- Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine, 2012)
- Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
- The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
- Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
- The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003)
- Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)
- A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2009)
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
- A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, 2009)
- Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)
- Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
- The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
- The Pianist (Roman Polanski, 2002)
- The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella, 2009)
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
- Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
- White Material (Claire Denis, 2009)
- Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002)
- The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda, 2000)
- Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010)
- Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
- Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016)
- Dope
Seen in 2017
- Your Name
Seen in 2016
- Dr Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Batman Begins
- The Dark Knight
- The Dark Knight Rises
- The Martian
- Steve Jobs
- Chicago
- Sicario
- Dead Poets Society
- Eddie the Eagle
- Secrets in their Eyes
- Hamlet
- Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
- Shutter Island
- Fight Club
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- Blazing Saddles
- The BFG
- Hail, Caeser!
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- The Skeleton Twins
- Four Weddings and a Funeral
- Jason Bourne
- Love and Friendship
- Slumdog Millionaire
- 12 Years a Slave
- Carol
- Last Cab to Darwin
- No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
- Thelma and Louise
- American Beauty
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
- Beasts of No Nation
- Moonstruck
- Inglorious Bastards
- The Artist
- Looking for Alibrandi
- Holding the Man
- Annie Hall
- Ghostbusters (2016)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- Down Under
- Deadpool
- Mustang
- Moana
- Hell or High Water
- Arrival
- Down Under
- Little Fish
- Girl Asleep
- Tootsie
- Mrs Doubtfire