Movie canon
- Farewell My Concubine: Chen Kaige. 1993
- Come and See: Elem Klimov. 1985
- Once Upon a Time in America: Sergio Leone. 1984
- Barry Lyndon: Stanley Kubrick. 1975
- High and Low: Akira Kurosawa. 1963
- North by Northwest: Alfred Hitchcock. 1959
- Seven Samurai: Akira Kurosawa. 1954
- Casablanca: Michael Curtiz. 1942
- Trouble in Paradise: Ernst Lubitsch. 1932
- M: Fritz Lang. 1931
Watching list 2026
Title in bold denotes this year's favorite.
- Shoplifters: Hirokazu Kore-eda. 2018
- Lost in Translation: Sofia Coppola. 2003
- Dancer in the Dark: Lars von Trier. 2000
- Kagemusha: Akira Kurosawa. 1980
- Secrets & Lies: Mike Leigh. 1996
- Pulp Fiction: Quentin Tarantino. 1994
- The Secret Agent: Kleber Mendonça Filho. 2025
- The Pianist: Roman Polanski. 2002
- It Was Just an Accident: Jafar Panahi. 2025
- I, Daniel Blake: Ken Loach. 2016
- Wuthering Hights: Emerald Fennell. 2026
- Triangle of Sadness: Ruben Östlund. 2022
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley: Ken Loach. 2006
- F1: Joseph Kosinski. 2025
- Hamnet: Chloé Zhao. 2025
- Se7en: David Fincher. 1995
- The Wages of Fear: Henri-Georges Clouzot. 1953
- Miss Julie: Alf Sjoberg. 1951
- The Third Man: Carol Reed. 1949
- The Cranes Are Flying: Mikhail Kalatozov. 1957
- Bugonia: Yorgos Lanthimos. 2025
- Farewell My Concubine: Chen Kaige. 1993
- Frankenstein: Guillermo del Toro. 2025
- Weapons: Zach Cregger. 2025
- Taste of Cherry: Abbas Kiarostami. 1997
- Torment: Alf Sjoberg. 1944
- Anatomy of a Fall: Justine Triet. 2023
- Train Dreams: Clint Bentley. 2025
- Viridiana: Luis Buñuel. 1961
- Sentimental Value: Joachim Trier. 2025
- Rome, Open City: Roberto Rossellini. 1945
- Brief Encounter: David Lean. 1945
- Sinners: Ryan Coogler. 2025