The Lives of Others is my favorite my of the century so far
You gotta watch
Battle Royale. It is the cultural antecedent of PUBG *and* The Hunger Games.
Come and See, one of the best war movies ever made. It was produced in Russia during the reign of the USSR, and it popularized that ringing sound effect after an explosion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HCTIUx1ArcVertigo is one of my favorite Hitchcock movies, and has a classic twist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5jvQwwHQNYThe Rules of the Game, this movie was directed by the famous painter Augueste Renoir's son, Jean Renoir, and invented the English manor murder mystery genre that you see later in movies like Gosford Park and Downton Abbey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxs4P6u1EiILa Dolce Vita, my favorite Fellini, about press hustlers and youth in late 1950s Italy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHpCgL4jZZUThe Wages of Fear, this movie is an epic thriller classic, and was remade as Socerer in the 1970s. a must-watch. It's so tense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_0OrSG5RWAAshes and Diamonds, great Polish war movie, and one of my favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmvtaSGeOSILust, Caution, my favorite Ang Lee movie, gripping movie about Chinese resistance during World War II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn0uZaiukXQEnron, The Smartest Guys in the Room, one of the best documentaries, chronicling Enron's meteoric rise and fall, and gives prescient hints towards the 2008 financial crisis to come. It's on Netflix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w6duQhWuVkDas Boot, one of my personal favorites. About a WWII German U-Boat crew, and a great tale of cooperation and teamwork under extremely harrowing circumstances.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pzKyeIex2YHousekeeping, a unique, emotional coming of age film about two teenage girls in the 1950s Pacific Northwest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ80uKQdIYUSpeaking of Coming of Age movies, I really like
Frances Ha, and the actress from that movie just directed a great coming age movie of her own,
Lady Birdhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBn5dgXFMisVideodrome is a really weird and disturbing David Cronenberg movie, about a TV producer who discovers a mysterious satellite channel broadcast..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFHey3utk0IEl Topo, directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky is famously incredibly strange, and a true culmination of creative vision. He was the first director to attempt to film Dune. Also check out his
The Holy Mountain[/b]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uqb4Jy0GTgL'AVVENTURA, about someone missing in 1960 Italy. I really like the mood of this movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6ShLDfjnzwDreams, by Akira Kurosawa. He directed this movie at 80, and is an inspiring testament to a creative mind executed his vision into his 9th decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIA_Gyd2CYwOnce Upon a Time in The West, Ennio Morricone makes the best film scores.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mMd6D1Gw1gWoman in the Dunes — don't fall into a sand pit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbK9FI5yK1w