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Film Canon | Amazing Films


In Order of Excellence

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Michel Goundry (2004)

A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour,
​but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.


2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee (2000)

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous,
​physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.


3. Mulholland Dr. - David Lynch (2001)

After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic,
​she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.


4. Blue Velvet - David Lynch (1986)

The gruesome discovery of a severed human ear he found in a field leads a young man on a dark and dangerous journey
​into a dark and sinister underworld that exists in his hometown.


5. M - Fritz Lang (1931)

When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

6. Requiem for a Dream - Darren Aronofsky (2000)

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island individuals are shattered when their addictions become stronger.

7. Heat - Michael Mann(1995)

A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist.

8. Meshes of the Afternoon - Maya Deren (1943)

A solitary flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a loaf of bread,
​a phone off the hook: discordant images a woman sees as she comes home. 


9. Blood of a Poet -  Jean Cocteau (1932)

A young artist draws a face at a canvas on his easel. Suddenly the mouth on the drawing comes into life and starts talking. 

10. Snatch - Guy Ritchie (2000)

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers,
​and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.


11. The Fighter - David O. Russell (2010)

A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.

12. The Matrix - Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski (1999)

A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.

13. American Beauty - Sam Mendes (1999)

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis,
​decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend.


14. Traffic - Steven Sodebergh (2000)

A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs,
​only to discover that his teenage daughter is an addict.


15. Up in the Air - Jason Reitman (2009)

With a job that has him traveling around the country firing people,
​Ryan Bingham leads an empty life out of a suitcase, until his company does the unexpected: ground him.


16. Desperado - Robert Rodriguez (1995)

A gunslinger is embroiled in a war with a local drug runner.

17. Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson (1999)

An epic mosaic of several interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

18. Beauty and the Beast - Jean Cocteau (1946)

Adélaïde, Belle, Félicie and Ludovic are young adult siblings who once lived in grandeur until their father's merchant ships were lost at sea.

19. The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius (2011)

A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.

20. Children of Men - Alfonso Cuaron (2006)

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate,
a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea,
​where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.


21. Notorious - Alfred Hitchcock (1946)

A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?

22. The Lower Depths - Akira Kurosawa (1957)

In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot.
​Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.


23. Se7en - David Fincher (1995)

Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi.

24. Man Bites Dog - Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel (1992)

In this dark satire, a film crew follows a ruthless thief and heartless killer as he goes about his daily routines.
​But complications set in when the film crew loses their abjectness and begin lending a hand.


25. I Am Cuba - Mikhail Kalatozov (1964)

This study of Cuba--partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society.


26. Gummo - Harmony Korine (1997)

Lonely residents of a tornado-stricken Ohio town wander the deserted landscape trying to fulfill their boring, nihilistic lives.

27. Reservoir Dogs - Quentin Tarantino (1992)

After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.

28. Dracula - Francis Ford Coppola (1992)

The vampire comes to England to seduce a visitor's fiancée and inflict havoc in the foreign land.

29. Triumph of the Will - Leni Riefenstahl (1935)

The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.

30. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom - Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975)

Four fascist libertines round up 9 teenages boys and girls
​and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental and sexual torture.


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