MY CORE IDENTITY FILMS

• Bladerunner (1982) ## My favorite and the beginning of my love for cyberpunk as a genre
• Stalker (Tarkovsky)
• Eraserhead
• Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me, Twin Peaks (2017)
• Videodrome
• Peep "TV" Show (2003)
• Taxi Driver
• Come and See (Иди и смotri)
• Kairo (Pulse) (2001)
• Chungking Express
• Mulholland Drive

PHILOSOPHICAL / EXISTENTIAL CANON

• Solaris
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Apocalypse Now
• The Thing
• A Clockwork Orange
• Network (1976)
• No Country for Old Men
• Children of Men
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

CYBERPUNK & FUTURE DECAY / TECHNO-PARANOIA

• The Matrix
• Bladerunner 2049
• Minority Report
• Robocop
• Alien
• Terminator 1,2
• Arrival
• Snowpiercer

NU HOLLYWOOD / CRIME & MORAL DECAY

• Pulp Fiction
• Reservoir Dogs
• Dog Day Afternoon
• La Haine
• The French Connection
• Goodfellas
• The Godfather Part I,II
• Scarface
• Se7en
• Fight Club
• Burning (2018)

SURREAL / TRANSGRESSIVE / MOOD-DRIVEN

• Blue Velvet
• Jacobs Ladder
• Suspiria (1977)
• Mad God
• The City of Lost Children
• Lake Mungo
• Blair Witch Project
• Suicide Club
• The Red Spectacles

EAST ASIAN CINEMA (Samurai, Noir, Urban Alienation)

• Yojimbo
• Ran
• Kagemusha
• A Fistful of Dollars
• The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
• Hard Boiled (1992)
• Fallen Angels
• All About Lily Chou Chou
• Beijing Watermelon
• A Colt Is My Passport

WAR / HISTORICAL / POLITICAL

• Full Metal Jacket
• Platoon
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Inglourious Basterds
• V for Vendetta

HORROR / GENRE EVOLUTION

• 28 Days Later
• The Ring
• Rec (2007)
• The Blob
• The Shining

GENERAL ENJOYMENT / GENRE CONFIDENCE

Films here not downgraded they simply function more as enjoyment or genre fluency than as philosophical anchors.

• Mad Max
• Escape from New York ## Kurt Russell, No I say more?
• Blade (1998)
• Pitch Black
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness
• Posession
• Nosferatu
• The Tenant
• The Piano Teacher
• Wings of Desire
• Downfall
• The Lighthouse
• Antichrist

misc./ ODDBALLS / PERSONAL ENJOYMENT (Explicit catch all)

• Manic (2001)
• All My Friends Hate Me
• Amelie
• North by Northwest
• Shutter Island
• Elvira Mistress of the Dark
• Yakuza Like a Dragon (ryû ga gotoku: gekijô-ban)