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A list of my favorites from over the years. Not too many big, special effects blockbusters here. 
2020s

​Anora
​The Substance
​The Piano Lesson
​Kneecap
The Monk and the Gun
​Drive Away Dolls
Love Lies Bleeding
​American Fiction
​Saltburn
Killers of the Flower Moon
Barbie
Oppenheimer
​Bottoms
White Tiger
​Asteroid City
The Real Charlie Chaplin
The Last Film Show
Beef (series)
​The Bear (series)
​Pig
Babylon
​Amsterdam
White Noise
​Dinner in America
​Not Okay
Belfast
​Licorice Pizza
​Flag Day
​Stillwater
The French Dispatch
​No Sudden Move
​Rose Island
​A Sun (Taiwan)
​Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
​How to Build a Girl
Da 5 Bloods
Frances Ferguson
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2010s

Wild Rose (UK)
​Atlantics (French, Internat.)
Bad Genius (Thailand)
​Parasite (Korea)
​Joker
​A Taxi Driver (Korea)
​Blinded by the Light
​Tigers Are Not Afraid (Mexico)
The Art of Self Defense
Booksmart
​The Last Black Man
     in San Francisco
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
A Girl Walks Home Alone
     at Night (Iran)
​The Glass Castle
It Happened in L.A.
​Double Lover
The Only Living Boy
       in New York
Lady Bird
​Ingrid Goes West
Twentieth Century Woman
​Mudbound
​Gook
​Before I Fall
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed
I Don't Feel at Home
    in this World Anymore
War on Everyone
A  Futile and Stupid Gesture
​Fences
​La La Land
​Girl on the Train
Maggie's Plan
High-Rise
Sing Street
A Bigger Splash
​Mistress America
​Don Verdean
Chi-Raq
​The Little Death
​The Hundred Year Old
    Man Who Climbed
    Out the Window
    and Disappeared
Birdman
Band of Robbers
Palo Alto
Men, Women & Children
Gone Girl 
Get Up On It 
Supermensch
Headhunters 
The Man From Reno
American Hustle
Pain and Gain 
Grand Budapest Hotel 
August, Osage County
In a World 
Afternoon Delight 
​Not Fade Away
Branded
Savages
Butter 
Killing Bono
The Perks of Being
    a Wallflower
Silver Linings Playbook
Safety Not Guaranteed 
Beasts of the
    Southern Wild 
Leaves of Grass
Moonrise Kingdom
Submarine
Transsiberian
Flipped
Exit Through the Gift Shop
The Town
Winter's Bone
Ghost Writer
True Grit
2000s

Cashback
​500 Days of Summer
​In the Loop
Punching the Clown 
Art of the Steal
Youth in Revolt
King of California
District 9
Frozen River
Cadillac Records
Seven Pounds
Nick & Norah's
    Infinite Playlist
Wall-E
Slumdog Millionaire
The Wackness
Juno
Superbad
No Country for Old Men
Little Miss Sunshine
Idiocracy
Borat
Crash
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Danny Deckchair
Supersize Me
21 Grams
Scotland, PA
Bowling for Colombine
Slaughter Rule
Best In Show
Better Luck Tomorrow
Adaptation
Life of David Gale
Anniversary Party
Ghost World
Start-up.com
Groove
Momento
Mystic River
The Kid Stays In the Picture
Saving Grace
1990s

The Talented Mr. Ripley
Fight Club 
An American Movie
The Straight Story
Office Space
Mystery Men
Election
A Simple Plan
The Player
Short Cuts
Search & Destroy
Ice Storm
Very Bad Things
Cape Fear
Burn, Hollywood, Burn
The Wonderful Ice
    Cream Suit
There’s Some About Mary
Rushmore
Suicide Kings
No Looking Back
Flirting With Disaster
The Full Monty
Party Girl
Waiting for Guffman
Day Trippers
Wrestling Ernest Hemmingway
When We Were Kings
Dream With the Fishes
Bottle Rocket
Living In Oblivion
Death and the Maiden
Good Will Hunting
Chasing Amy
Clerks
Delores Claborne
Pulp Fiction
Resovaour Dogs
True Romance
Bound
Red Rock West
The Matrix
Last Seduction
Shallow Grave
Lone Star
Usual Suspects
Swingers
American Beauty
A River Runs Through It
Goodfellas
Silence of the Lambs
Slacker
Four Weddings
    and a Funeral
The Nasty Girl
Jesus of Montreal
Hoop Dreams
El Mariachi
Crooklyn
Roger and Me
1980s

Wings of Desire
Sex, Lies and Videotape
King of Comedy
Spinal Tap
Dead Calm
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
She’s Gotta Have It
Caddy Shack
Fletch
Down and Out In
    Beverly Hills
Raiders of the Lost Ark I
Hannah and Her Sisters
Crimes & Misdemeanors
Blood Simple
Witness
The Shining
Repo Man
Risky Business
After Hours
Diner
The Cook, The Thief, His
    Wife & Her Lover
Desperately Seeking Susan
Paris, Texas
Raging Bull
Do the Right Thing
Blade Runner
The Verdict
Fast Times At
    Ridgemont High
Raising Arizona
Gandhi
Brazil
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Trading Places
Christmas Story
1970s

Annie Hall
Taxi Driver
Star Wars: A New Hope
The Front
The Jerk
Being There
Animal House
Manhatten
Bananas
Sleeper
One Flew Over
    the Cookoos Nest
Last Picture Show
Godfather I & II
The Life of Brian
Animal House
Deliverance
Chinatown
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Apocolypse Now
Deer Hunter
Harold & Maude
1960s

Easy Rider
Dr. Strangelove
Take the Money and Run
Psycho
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lawerance of Arabia
Midnight Cowboy
The Hustler
Fortune Cookie
Cape Fear
The Graduate
The Good, The Bad &
    The Ugly
The Apartment
Bell Boy
Nutty Professor
Ocean’s Eleven
The Producers
Yellow Submarine
Dr. No
Pink Panther I
The Party
Cool Hand Luke
Dr. Zhivago
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Breakfast At Tiffany’s
It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
You Only Live Twice
Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill


​1950s

African Queen
Night of the Hunter
Strangers On A Train
Artists and Models
Sabrina
Night and the City
Touch of Evil
Some Like It Hot
To Catch a Thief
Man In A White Suit
The Killing
Vertigo
Sunset Boulevard
Roman Holiday
Rafifi
Rear Window
On the Waterfront
North By Northwest
Father of the Bride
Asphalt Jungle
Twelve Angry Men
Anatomy of a Murder
Witness for the Prosecution
High Noon
A Place in the Sun
Seven Year Itch
Bad Day at Black Rock
3:10 to Yuma 
1940s

It’s A Wonderful Life
Shadow of A Doubt
Notorious
Rope
Rebecca
The Third Man
Laura
Maltise Falcon
Grapes of Wrath
Casablanca
The Postman Always
    Rings Twice
Key Largo
The Big Sleep
Miracle on 34th Street
Philadelphia Story
Double Indemnity
Spellbound
Meet John Doe
Arsenic & Old Lace
Citizen Kane
Yellow Sky 


1930s

Wizard of Oz
Day At The Races
It Happened One Night
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Night at the Opera
Bringing Up Baby
Modern Times
City Lights
Stagecoach
Mutiny On The Bounty
The Thin Man
Scarface
Frankenstein
Gone With the Wind
Holiday
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1920s

Metropolis
Music History

8 Mile
Ray
Cadillac Records
​Love & Mercy
Stones in Exile
​Lambert & Stamp
It Might Get Loud
Beyond the Lighted Stage
Running Down a Dream
Walk the Line
Grand Theft Parsons
Troubadours:  The Rise of the
​        Singer-Songwriter
​The United States vs. Billie Holliday
M

Bohemian Rhapsody
Twenty Feet from Stardom
Wrecking Crew
Muscle Shoals
Hip Hop Evolution
Amy
Searching for Sugarman
Notorious
​Sound City
Mayor of Sunset Strip
Last Waltz
CBGB
​Get on Up
​History of the Eagles
​Summer of Soul