150 Films for Cinephiles

Everyone has to start somewhere and although there might be quite a few great lists that introduce people to foreign and art-house films, most of them forget about the more obscure ones that people don't tend to talk about all the time.

So here's a list I've put together to help people find out about the lesser known films of cinema. Of course, there'll be some of the famous ones on here but I've tried to keep a good balance between the critics favourites and the hidden gems.

I've put a link to most of the films in the notes section for every one that I could find on YouTube. Just saving you guys some time so you don't have to search around YouTube!

If anyone's seen almost all of these then I will be pretty damn impressed.

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  • Harakiri

    1

  • Marketa Lazarová

    2

  • Persona

    3

  • Stalker

    4

  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

    5

  • Ordet

    6

  • La Grande Illusion

    7

  • High and Low

    8

  • The Earrings of Madame de...

    9

  • Death in Venice

    10

  • Fellini Satyricon

    11

  • We Won't Grow Old Together

    12

  • A Woman Under the Influence

    13

  • Tokyo Story

    14

  • Funeral Parade of Roses

    15

  • Sansho the Bailiff

    16

  • The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

    17

  • Celine and Julie Go Boating

    18

  • Alphaville

    19

  • The Man Who Sleeps

    20

  • Cria Cuervos

    21

  • The Cameraman

    22

  • L'Avventura

    23

  • On the Silver Globe

    24

  • Chimes at Midnight

    25

  • El Sur

    26

  • The Music Room

    27

  • Sonatine

    28

  • I Am Cuba

    29

  • The Scarlet Empress

    30

  • Satantango

    31

  • Lessons of Darkness

    32

  • Hiroshima Mon Amour

    33

  • The Saragossa Manuscript

    34

  • Daisies

    35

  • As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    36

  • This Special Friendship

    37

  • Cesarée

    38

  • In a Year with 13 Moons

    39

  • Land of Silence and Darkness

    40

  • Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

    41

  • Man with a Movie Camera

    42

  • Mirror

    43

  • Close-Up

    44

  • Spring in a Small Town

    45

  • The 400 Blows

    46

  • Werckmeister Harmonies

    47

  • Querelle

    48

  • Taxi Driver

    49

  • Contempt

    50

  • The Decalogue

    51

  • Eyes Wide Shut

    52

  • I Was Born, But...

    53

  • Sans Soleil

    54

  • Children of Paradise

    55

  • Eden and After

    56

  • Amer

    57

  • Theorem

    58

  • The Sword of Doom

    59

  • Greed

    60

  • Four Nights of a Dreamer

    61

  • Last Year at Marienbad

    62

  • Apocalypse Now

    63

  • Fata Morgana

    64

  • Tokyo Twilight

    65

  • To Be or Not To Be

    66

  • Red Desert

    67

  • L'Atalante

    68

  • Europa

    69

  • Rapture

    70

  • Winter Light

    71

  • Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights...

    72

  • Ménilmontant

    73

  • Inland Empire

    74

  • Woman in the Dunes

    75

  • Quintet

    76

  • The Color of Pomegranates

    77

  • Suspiria

    78

  • Moonfleet

    79

  • Solaris

    80

  • In a Lonely Place

    81

  • India Song

    82

  • Fox and His Friends

    83

  • Fando y Lis

    84

  • Time Masters

    85

  • Kin-dza-dza!

    86

  • Equinox Flower

    87

  • Journey to Italy

    88

  • Limelight

    89

  • Zabriskie Point

    90

  • Deep End

    91

  • Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

    92

  • Faces

    93

  • Galician Caress (Of Clay)

    94

  • Synecdoche, New York

    95

  • A Man There Was

    96

  • Weekend

    97

  • Husbands

    98

  • O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization

    99

  • Beware of a Holy Whore

    100