On this list are movies that at the time I saw them made a big impression on me.  It could have been when I was seven or last week.  Some of them have not held up when viewed again - others I have not seen again for fear it would destroy my wonderful memories.  There are probably many 'better' movies I could have listed but this isn't a contest - I'm not a judge.

Please excuse typos, misspelling, and just plain wrong credits. When I feel the screenwriter is of particular importance I include him after the director.  The order of films is not particularly significant...

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Stanley Kubrick

ADREI RUBLEV - Andrei Tarkovsky

ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL - Rainer Fassbinder

ANNIE HALL - Woody Allen

BADLANDS - Terence Mallick

BECKET -

BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT, THE - Rainer Fassbinder

BLEAK MOMENTS - Mike Leigh

CAPE FEAR - J. Lee Thompson

CARRIE - Brian DePalma

CONVERSATION, THE - Francis Ford Coppola

DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, THE - Robert Wise

DEAD RINGERS - David Cronenberg

DELICATE BALANCE, A - Tony Richardson/Edward Albee

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO - David Lean

DRACULA - Tod Browning

EAST OF EDEN - Elia Kazan

EASY RIDER - Dennis Hopper

ERASERHEAD - David Lynch

ET - Steven Spielberg

EXORCIST, THE - William Freidkin

FRANKENSTEIN -

GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS -

GODFATHER, THE 1 + 2 - Francis Ford Coppola

GRADUATE, THE - Mike Nichols

GREAT SANTINI, THE - Lewis John Carlino

HARD DAYS NIGHT, A - Richard Lester

HOMECOMING, THE - Peter Hall (Harold Pinter, writer)

HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, THE - William Dieterle

IF - Lindsay Anderson

IKURU - Akira Kurosawa

INTERIORS - Woody Allen

INVADERS FROM MARS - William Carmeron Menziez

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, THE - Don Siegel

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE - Frank Capra

JEAN DE FLORETTE - Claude Berri

JEREMIAH JOHNSON - Sidney Pollack

JOANNA - Michael Sarne

L-SHAPED ROOM, THE - Bryon Forbes

LAST WAVE, THE - Peter Weir

LAST TANGO IN PARIS - Bernardo Bertolucci

LILIES OF THE FIELD -

LONELINESS OF A LONG DISTANCE RUNNER, THE - Tony Richardson

LONELY ARE THE BRAVE -

LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, A - Sidney Lumet  (Eugene O'Neill, writer)

LORD OF THE FLIES - Peter Brook

MAN OF FLOWERS - Paul Cox

MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN, THE - Rainer Fassbinder

MARTY - (TV)

MEANTIME - Mike Leigh

MEET JOHN DOE - Frank Capra

MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ - John Cassavetes

MURMUR OF THE HEART, A - Louis Malle

NETWORK - Sidney Lumet

OLD YELLER - Robert Stevenson

PAPER MOON - Peter Bogdonovich

PROFESSIONAL, THE - Luc Besson

PROOF - Jocelyn Moorehouse

REMBRANDT - Alexander Korda

ROAD WARRIOR - George Miller

ROCKY - John Avildson/Sylvester Stallone

ROSHOMON - Akira Kurasawa

SAFE - Todd Haynes

SATYRICON - Frederico Fellini

SAVAGE MESSIAH - Ken Russell

SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE - Ingmar Bergman

SECRETS AND LIES - Mike Leigh

SEVEN SAMURAI - Akira Kurasawa

SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD, THE - Nathan Juran

SLING BLADE - Billy Bob Thorton

SPARTACUS - Stanley Kubrick

SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER - Joseph Mankiewicz

SUMMER - Claude Chabrol

SUNDAYS AND CYBELE - Serge Bourguignon

SUNSET BOULEVARD - Billy Wilder

SWEPT AWAY - Lena Wertmuller

SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON -

TAXI DRIVER - Martin Scorsese

THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR - Joseph Losey

THING (FROM ANOTHER WORLD), THE - Christian Nyby (Howard Hawkes, producer)

TIME OF THE GYPSIES - Emir Kusturica

TOUCH OF EVIL, A - Orson Welles

VERTIGO - Alfred Hitchcock

WEATHERBY - David Hare

WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND - Bryan Forbes

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? - Mike Nichols/Edward Albee

WINGS OF DESIRE - Wim Wenders

WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, A - John Cassavetes

WOMEN IN LOVE - Ken Russell

PENNIES FROM HEAVEN - Dennis Potter

SINGING DETECTIVE, THE - Dennis Potter

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