My personal 'top category'
- Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
- Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972, Werner Herzog)
- Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorcese)
- Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
- Koyaanisqatsi (1982, Godfrey Reggio)
- Sans Soleil (1983, Chris Marker)
- Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
- Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
- The Big Lebowski (1998, Joel & Ethan Coen)
- No Country for Old Men (2007, Joel & Ethan Coen)
My personal 'close-to-the-top category'
- North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
- Point Blank (1967, John Boorman)
- Bullitt (1968, Peter Yates)
- The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
- Down by Law (1986, Jim Jarmusch)
- Lost Highway (1997, David Lynch)
- Das Weisse Band (2009, Michael Haneke)
Category 'Documentaries'
- The Fog of War (2003, Errol Morris)
- Darwin's Nightmare (2004, Hubert Sauper)
- Manufactured Landscapes (2006, Edward Burtynsky)
Category 'Weird'
- Un chien Andalou (1929, Luis Bunuel)
- Vargtimmen (1968, Ingmar Bergman)
- Themroc (1973, Claude Faraldo)
- Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch)
- A Zed & Two Noughts (1985, Peter Greenaway)
- Gummo (1997, Harmony Korine)
