This list is based off IMDB's Top 250

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• 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, 1968
• A Beautiful Mind, Ron Howard, 2001
• A Separation, Asghar Farhadi, 2011
• All Quiet on the Western Front, Lewis Milestone, 1930
• Amélie, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001
• Anatomy of a Murder, Otto Preminger, 1930
• ✔ Annie Hall, Woody Allen, 1977
• Apocalypse Now, Francis Coppola, 1979
• Back to the Future, Robert Zemeckis, 1985
• ✔ Blade Runner, Ridley Scott, 1982
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, George Roy Hill, 1969
• Casablanca, Michael Curtiz, 1942
• ✔ Castle in the Sky, Hayao Miyazaki, 1986
• Chinatown, Roman Polanski, 1974
• Citizen Kane, Orson Welles, 1941
• Cool Hand Luke, Stuart Rosenberg, 1967
• Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick, 1987
• ✔ Gone with the Wind, Victor Fleming, 1939
• Grave of the Fireflies, Isao Takahata, 1988
• High Noon, Fred Zinnemann, 1952
• Into the Wild, Sean Penn, 2007
• ✔ Jaws, Steven Spielberg, 1975
• Let the Right One In, Tomas Alfredson, 2008
• Life is Beautiful, Roberto Benigni, 1997
• M, Fritz Lang, 1931
• Mary and Max, Adam Elliot, 2009
• Memento, Christopher Nolan, 2000
• ✔ My Neighbor Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki, 1988
• ✔ No Country for Old Men, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2007
• ✔ North by Northwest, Alfred Hitchcock, 1959
• ✔ Princess Mononoke, Hayao Miyazaki, 1997
• ✔ Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, 1994
• Rebecca, Alfred Hitchcock, 1940
• ✔ Scarface, Brian De Palma, 1983
• Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg, 1993
• Sin City, Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, 2005
• Singing in the Rain, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1952
• ✔ Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki, 2001
• Strangers on a Train, Alfred Hitchcock, 1951
• Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese, 1976
• The 400 Blows, François Truffaut, 1959
• The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius, 2011
• ✔ The Big Lebowski, Joel Coen, 1998
• The Elephant Man, David Lynch, 1980
• The King's Speech, Tom Hooper, 2010
• The Pianist, Roman Polanski, 2002
• The Shawshank Redemption, Frank Darabont, 1994
• ✔ The Shining, Stanley Kubrick, 1980
• The Thing, John Carpenter, 1982
• The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah, 1969
• ✔ There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007
• ✔ Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958
• Yojimbo, Akira Kurosawa, 1961