some films i'd recommend
(note that this list is neither complete nor ordered according to preference)

1. Masculin, feminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. La Bete Humaine (Jean Renoir)
4. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
5. La Jetee (Chris Marker)
6. Bande a part (Jean-Luc Godard)
7. La Grande illusion (Jean Renoir)
8. The Third Man (Orson Wells)
9. Touch of Evil (Orson Wells)
10. Shadows (John Cassavetes)
11. Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi)
12. Cobra Verde (Werner Herzog)
13. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
14. Wild Blue Yonder (Werner Herzog)
15. Woyzeck (Werner Herzog)
16. The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
17. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
18. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
19. Instrument (Jem Cohen)
20. Lucky Three (Jem Cohen)
21. Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (Errol Morris)
22. The Fog of War (Errol Morris)
23. Tickets (Ken Loach, et al.)
24. Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
25. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
26. Lost Highway (David Lynch)
27. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
28. Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
29. Roger and Me (Michael Moore)
30. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
31. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)
32. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (John Frankenheimer)
33. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
34. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
36. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
37. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
38. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
39. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
40. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
41. Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
42. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
43. Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel)
44. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
45. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
46. The Misfits (John Huston)
47. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
48. Zelig (Woody Allen)
49. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
50. Nausica of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
51. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
52. The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen)
53. The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel and Ethan Coen)
54. Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)
55. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
56. All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula)
57. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
58. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
59. Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
60. We Jam Econo (Tim Irwin)
61. Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
62. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)

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