Non-Mainstream Subjective Favourite Films
What I consider too mainstream but, otherwise would have been included:
-Almost all films made by the following directors: Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni, Masaki Kobayashi, Yasujirô Ozu, Jean-Luc Godard, David Lynch, John Cassavetes, Darren Aronofsky, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Quentin Tarantino, Charles Chaplin, Lars von Trier, Paul Thomas Anderson
-The following films made by the following directors:
Krzysztof Kieslowski - "Three Colors" Trilogy, The Double Life of Véronique (1991), The Decalogue (1990)
Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), North by Northwest (1959), Rear Window (1954)
Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Raging Bull (1980) Taxi Driver (1976)
Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk (2017), Interstellar (2014), The Dark Knight (2008)
Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998)
François Truffaut - The 400 Blows (1959), Small Change (1976), Jules and Jim (1973)
Gaspar Noé - Irreversible (2002), Enter the Void (2009)
Denis Villeneuve - Sicario (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Roman Polanski - Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Pianist (2002)
Alfonso Cuarón - Roma (2018), (2Y tu mamá también (2001)
Luca Guadagnino - Suspiria (2018), Call Me by Your Name (2017)
-Favourite BUT well-known modern titles:
Poor Things (2023), Marriage Story (2019), Joker (2019), Uncut Gems (2019), The Lighthouse (2019), Parasite (2019), The Florida Project (2017), Manchester by the Sea (2016), The Revenant (2015), Birdman (2014), Dallas Buyers Club (2013), Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), No Country for Old Men (2007), City of God (2002), Donnie Darko (2001), Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Princess Mononoke (1997), Fight Club (1999), The Mummy (1999), Trainspotting (1996), In Bruges (2008), Forrest Gump (1994), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), American History X (1998), The Green Mile (1999), Natural Born Killers (1994), The Matrix (1999), Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003), Chungking Express (1994) and more...
-Favourite BUT well-known classics:
Gone with the Wind (1939), Sunset Blvd.(1950), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Ben-Hur (1959), Easy Rider (1969), Midnight Cowboy (1969), West Side Story (1961), Casablanca (1942), The Searchers (1956), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Apartment (1960), Life Is Beautiful (1997), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Alien (1979), The Holy Mountain (1973), Cool Hand Luke(1967), The Hustler(1961), On the Waterfront (1954), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Bicycle Thieves (1948), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), The Shining (1980), Cinema Paradiso (1988), Stand by Me (1989), Unforgiven (1992), The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and more...
-Almost all films made by the following directors: Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni, Masaki Kobayashi, Yasujirô Ozu, Jean-Luc Godard, David Lynch, John Cassavetes, Darren Aronofsky, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Quentin Tarantino, Charles Chaplin, Lars von Trier, Paul Thomas Anderson
-The following films made by the following directors:
Krzysztof Kieslowski - "Three Colors" Trilogy, The Double Life of Véronique (1991), The Decalogue (1990)
Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), North by Northwest (1959), Rear Window (1954)
Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas (1990), Casino (1995), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Raging Bull (1980) Taxi Driver (1976)
Christopher Nolan - Dunkirk (2017), Interstellar (2014), The Dark Knight (2008)
Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998)
François Truffaut - The 400 Blows (1959), Small Change (1976), Jules and Jim (1973)
Gaspar Noé - Irreversible (2002), Enter the Void (2009)
Denis Villeneuve - Sicario (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Roman Polanski - Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Pianist (2002)
Alfonso Cuarón - Roma (2018), (2Y tu mamá también (2001)
Luca Guadagnino - Suspiria (2018), Call Me by Your Name (2017)
-Favourite BUT well-known modern titles:
Poor Things (2023), Marriage Story (2019), Joker (2019), Uncut Gems (2019), The Lighthouse (2019), Parasite (2019), The Florida Project (2017), Manchester by the Sea (2016), The Revenant (2015), Birdman (2014), Dallas Buyers Club (2013), Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), No Country for Old Men (2007), City of God (2002), Donnie Darko (2001), Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Princess Mononoke (1997), Fight Club (1999), The Mummy (1999), Trainspotting (1996), In Bruges (2008), Forrest Gump (1994), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), American History X (1998), The Green Mile (1999), Natural Born Killers (1994), The Matrix (1999), Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003), Chungking Express (1994) and more...
-Favourite BUT well-known classics:
Gone with the Wind (1939), Sunset Blvd.(1950), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Ben-Hur (1959), Easy Rider (1969), Midnight Cowboy (1969), West Side Story (1961), Casablanca (1942), The Searchers (1956), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Apartment (1960), Life Is Beautiful (1997), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Alien (1979), The Holy Mountain (1973), Cool Hand Luke(1967), The Hustler(1961), On the Waterfront (1954), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Bicycle Thieves (1948), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), The Shining (1980), Cinema Paradiso (1988), Stand by Me (1989), Unforgiven (1992), The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and more...
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