Movies, the ones that stick
A list of movies that changed my life (at least a little), here the best 50 in my opinion.
- Battleship Potemkin (1925)
- Metropolis (1927)
- Un Chien Andalou (1929)
- Modern Times (1936)
- The Great Dictator (1940)
- Bicycle Thieves (1948)
- The Seventh Seal (1957)
- Wild strawberries (1957)
- Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
- The 400 Blows (1959)
- The Great War (1959)
- Il Sorpasso (1962)
- The Exterminating Angel (1962)
- Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- For Love and Gold (1966)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
- My Friends (1975)
- An Average Little Man (1977)
- Maria Zef (1981)
- The Marquis of Grillo (1981)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Nothing Left to Do But Cry (1984)
- Cinema Paradiso (1988)
- Dead Poets Society (1989)
- Thelma & Louise (1991)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- The Truman Show (1998)
- Fight Club (1999)
- The Matrix (1999)
- Requiem for a Dream (2000)
- The Lord of the Rings (2001)
- Naqoyqatsi (2002)
- Daredevil (2003)
- Finding Nemo (2003)
- Goodbye Lenin (2003)
- Last Samurai (2003)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
- The Fountain (2006)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
- Il sole tramonta a mezzanotte (2009)
- Inglorious Bastards (2009)
- Source code (2011)
- The Great Beauty (2013)
- Die Göttliche Ordnung (2017)
- Parasite (2019)
- Joker (2019)
- The whale (2022)
As you can guess from the list, I believe many awesome movies were produced in the 60s and 70s and cinematography peaked around the 1990s. Finding a good movie in the 2020s is practically impossible and I gave up on that. From time to time, I rather look for old movies I might have missed.