Favorite films of All Time

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Honorable Mention: Red Desert (1964)

In an industrial area, Giuliana, an unstable woman, attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni 

Stars: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi

Honorable Mention: The Godfather: Part II (1974)

The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

18. Come and See (1985)

 After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II. (142 mins.)

Director: E. Klimov

Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas

17. Barry Lyndon (1975)

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger

16. Do the Right Thing (1989)

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. (120 mins.)

Director: Spike Lee

Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson

15. There Will Be Blood (2007)

A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business. (158 mins.)

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano,Ciarán Hinds, Martin Stringer

14. Sunrise (1927)

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife. (94 mins.)

Director: F.W. Murnau

Stars: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing

13. Dekalog (1989)

Ten television drama films, each one based on one of the Ten Commandments. (572 mins.)

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski

Stars: Artur Barcis, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Olaf Lubaszenko, Piotr Machalica

12. O.J.: Made in America (2016)

A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.

Director: Ezra Edelman 

Stars: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mike Albanese, Muhammad Ali, Marcus Allen

11. Love Streams (1984)

Two closely bound, emotionally wounded souls reunite after years apart. (141 mins.)

Director: John Cassavetes

Stars: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Diahnne Abbott, Seymour Cassel

10. Brief Encounter (1945)

Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband. (86 mins.)

Director: David Lean

Stars: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey

9. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)

Picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered. (1014 mins.)

Director: David Lynch

Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Michael Horse, Chrysta Bell

8. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)

An innocent young man witnesses violence breaks out after an isolated village is inflamed by the arrival of a circus and its peculiar attractions, a giant whale and a mysterious man named "The Prince". (145 mins.)

Director: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky

Stars: Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, János Derzsi

7. Late Spring (1949)

Noriko is twenty-seven years old and still living with her widowed father. Everybody tries to talk her into marrying, but Noriko wants to stay at home caring for her father. (108 mins.)

Director: Yasujirô Ozu

Stars: Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura

6. Nights of Cabiria (1957)

A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak. (110 mins.)

Director: Federico Fellini

Stars: Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi, Dorian Gray

5. Possession (1981)

A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

Director: Andrzej Zulawski

Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent

4. Secrets & Lies (1996)

A successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is an underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed. (136 mins.)

Director: Mike Leigh 

Stars: Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan,Claire Rushbrook

3. Mulholland Dr. (2001)

 After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. (147 mins.)

Director: David Lynch

Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates

2. Satantango (1994)

Plotting on a payment they are about to receive, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is coming back to the village. (450 mins.)

Director: Béla Tarr

Stars: Mihály Vig, Putyi Horváth, László feLugossy, Éva Almássy Albert

1. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

Mabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her mental illness proves to be a problem in the marriage. (155 mins.)

Director: John Cassavetes 

Stars: Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands