These are my hundred favorite feature films, as of November 2018, presented unranked in alphabetical order. A few notes:

  • Only feature films are included (including full-length documentaries, but excluding short films and miniseries)
  • I have not see most films in the world; by my reckoning I’ve watched about 700, so this list is far from exhaustive.
  • Titles are presented in English translation when not natively in English.

Adaptation (2002)

Airplane! (1980)

Alien (1979)

American Movie (1999)

Army of Darkness (1992)

Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

Barcelona (1994)

Barton Fink (1991)

Being John Malkovich (1999)

Being There (1979)

The Big Lebowski (1998)

Black Pond (2011)

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Bottle Rocket (1996)

‘Breaker’ Morant (1980)

Burn After Reading (2008)

Chinatown (1974)

Conspiracy (2001)

The Conversation (1974)

The Crying Game (1992)

Donnie Darko (2001)

Election (1999)

The Emperor’s New Clothes (2001)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Evil Dead II (1987)

In The Mood For Love (2000)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Ghost World (2001)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Gregory’s Girl (1980)

Groundhog Day (1993)

Hot Fuzz (2007)

The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle (2009)

The Impostors (1998)

In The Loop (2009)

In The Soup (1992)

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Kicking and Screaming (1995)

The King of Kong (2007)

The Last Days of Disco (1998)

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

Living in Oblivion (1995)

Local Hero (1983)

Lone Star (1996)

The Long Good Friday (1980)

Lost in Translation (2003)

The Man from Earth (2007)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

Margin Call (2011)

Margot at the Wedding (2007)

Metropolitan (1990)

Miller’s Crossing (1990)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)

Moon (2009)

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

The Mosquito Coast (1986)

The Naked Gun (1988)

The Name of the Rose (1986)

Night Moves (1975)

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Observe and Report (2009)

Outland (1981)

The People vs. George Lucas (2010)

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)

Porco Rosso (1992)

Primer (2004)

Princess Mononoke (1997)

The Quiet Earth (1985)

Recount (2008)

Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979)

Robocop (1987)

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

Rushmore (1998)

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)

Spirited Away (2001)

Millennium Actress (2001)

A Serious Man (2009)

Shakes the Clown (1991)

Silence (2016)

The Sky Crawlers (2008)

The Specials (2000)

Star Wars (1977)

Stories We Tell (2012)

The Ten (2007)

The Thin Red Line (1998)

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Time Bandits (1981)

Tremors (1990)

True Grit (2010)

Twelve Monkeys (1995)

UHF (1989)

Upstream Color (2013)

WarGames (1983)

The Wind Rises (2013)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)

Woman in the Dunes (1964)