Top 250 Favorite Films

I thought about choosing my top 100 favorite films. Wasn't happening. So i went with my top 250 favorite films. A couple of clarifications:

- These are not my choices for the best films, just my favorites.
- They are listed chronologically, nothing to do with favorite to least favorite.
- I didn't put a ton of initial thought into this. My plan is to update this anytime i realize i left something out, or anytime i see a new movie that belongs here. When i update it, I'll include a note with the date, what got removed, and what got added.

The List:

Coeur Fidele (Jean Epstein - 1923)
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer - 1928)
Mr Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu - 1936)
The Only Son (Yasujiro Ozu - 1936)
Story Of The Last Chysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi - 1939)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles - 1941)
There Was A Father (Yasujiro Ozu - 1942)
The Third Man (Carol Reed - 1949)
Le Silence De La Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville - 1949)
Mother (Mikio Naruse - 1949)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu - 1949)
Repast (Mikio Naruse - 1951)
Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu - 1951)
Lightning (Mikio Naruse - 1952)
Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica - 1952)
The Wages Of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot - 1953)
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu - 1953)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa - 1954)
Godzilla (Ishiro Honda - 1954)
Sansho The Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi - 1954)
Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse - 1955)
The Searchers (John Ford - 1956)
The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa - 1956)
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson - 1956)
Early Spring (Yasujiro Ozu - 1956)
Throne Of Blood (Akira Kurosawa - 1957)
Sweet Smell Of Success (Alexander Mackendrick - 1957)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman - 1957)
12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet - 1957)
Paths Of Glory (Stanley Kubrick - 1957)
Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu - 1957)
The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa - 1958)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock - 1958)
Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu - 1958)
The 400 Blows (Franciois Truffaut - 1959)
The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa - 1960)
The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo - 1960)
Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu - 1960)
The Human Condition (Masaki Kobayashi - 1961)
La Jetee (Chris Marker - 1962)
Lawrence Of Arabia (David Lean - 1962)
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel - 1962)
Hara-Kiri (Masaki Kobayashi - 1962)
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu - 1962)
High And Low (Akira Kurosawa - 1963)
Woman In The Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara - 1964)
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo - 1964)
The Gospel According To Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini - 1964)
Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa - 1965)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman - 1966)
Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil - 1967)
2001: A Space Oddysey (Stanley Kubrick - 1968)
A Touch Of Zen (King Hu - 1971)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky - 1972)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola - 1972)
World On A Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 1973)
F For Fake (Orson Welles - 1974)
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 1974)
Derzu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa - 1975)
Monty Python And The Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones - 1975)
Rocky (John G Avildsen - 1976)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky - 1979)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola - 1979)
Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa - 1980)
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner - 1980)
The Blues Brothers (John Landis - 1980)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick - 1980)
Airplane (Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker - 1980)
Fanny And Alexander (Ingmar Bergman - 1982)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott - 1982)
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky - 1983)
Return Of The Jedi (Richard Marquand - 1983)
Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind (Hayao Miyazaki - 1984)
Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest - 1984)
Macross: Do You Remember Love? (Shoji Kawamori - 1984)
Paris Texas (Wim Wenders - 1984)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa - 1985)
Tokyo-ga (Wim Wenders - 1985)
The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky - 1986)
Terrorizors (Edward Yang - 1986)
Aliens (James Cameron - 1986)
Highlander (Russell Mulcahy - 1986)
The Naked Gun (David Zucker - 1988)
My Neightbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki - 1988)
U2: Rattle And Hum (Phil Joanou - 1988)
Say Anything (Cameron Crowe - 1989)
The Abyss (James Cameron - 1989)
Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1989)
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa - 1990)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese - 1990)
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang - 1991)
The Double Life Of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1991)
A Scene At The Sea (Takeshi Kitano - 1991)
Baraka (Ron Fricke - 1992)
Madadayo (Akira Kurosawa - 1993)
Tombstone (George P Cosmatos - 1993)
So I Married An Axe Murderer (Thomas Sclamme - 1993)
The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont - 1994)
Clerks (Kevin Smith - 1994)
Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1994)
Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1994)
Pulp Fiction (Quinten Tarantino - 1994)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai - 1994)
Ghost In The Shell (Mamoru Oshii - 1995)
Casino (Martin Scorsese - 1995)
La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz - 1995)
Heat (Michael Mann - 1995)
Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater - 1995)
12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam - 1995)
Swingers (Doug Liman - 1996)
Breaking The Waves (Lars Von Trier - 1996)
Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage - 1997)
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki - 1997)
The End Of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno - 1997)
Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith - 1997)
Contact (Robert Zemeckis - 1997)
Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano - 1997)
The Big Lebowski (Coen Brothers - 1998)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick - 1998)
American History X (Tony Kaye - 1998)
Rushmore (Wes Anderson - 1998)
Fight Club (David Fincher - 1999)
Dogma (Kevin Smith - 1999)
Office Space (Mike Judge - 1999)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick - 1999)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee - 2000)
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe - 2000)
Momento (Christopher Nolan - 2000)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang - 2000)
Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang Dong - 2000)
American Psycho (Mary Harron - 2000)
High Fidelity (Stephen Frears - 2000)
In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar Wai - 2000)
Frailty (Bill Paxton - 2001)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch - 2001)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki - 2001)
Super Troopers (Jay Chandrasekhar - 2001)
Made (Jon Favreau - 2001)
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly - 2001)
The Royal Tennenbaums (Wes Anderson - 2001)
Moonlight Mile (Brad Silberling - 2002)
Oasis (Lee Chang Dong - 2002)
Solaris (Steven Soderbergh - 2002)
Dolls (Takeshi Kitano - 2002)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring (Kim Ki-duk - 2003)
Oldboy (Park Chan Wook - 2003)
Kill Bill Volume 1 (Quinten Tarantino - 2003)
Anchorman (Adam McKay - 2004)
Shaun Of The Dead (Edgar Wright - 2004)
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Michael Gondry - 2004)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater - 2004)
Primer (Shane Carruth - 2004)
The Life Aquatic (Wes Anderson - 2004)
2046 (Wong Kar Wai - 2004)
House of The Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou - 2004)
Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch - 2005)
Babel (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - 2006)
Children Of Men (Alfonso Cuaron - 2006)
The Prestige (Christopher Nolan - 2006)
The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky - 2006)
Pan's Labyrinthe (Guillermo del Toro - 2006)
Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster - 2006)
Miami Vice (Michael Mann - 2006)
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik - 2007)
No Country For Old Men (Coen Brothers - 2007)
Sunshine (Danny Boyle - 2007)
Heima (Dean DeBlois - 2007)
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Julian Schnabel - 2007)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang Dong - 2007)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson - 2007)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy - 2007)
Synecdoche NY (Charlie Kaufman - 2008)
It Might Get Loud (David Guggenheim - 2008)
Revanche (Gotz Spielmann - 2008)
Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda - 2008)
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow - 2008)
Bronson (Nicholas Winding Refn - 2008)
Love Exposure (Sion Sono - 2008)
Departures (Yojiro Takita - 2008)
Moon (Duncan Jones - 2009)
Mr Nobody (Jaco Van Dormael - 2009)
The Road (John Hillcoat - 2009)
Inglourious Basterds (Quinten Tarantino - 2009)
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami - 2010)
Biutiful (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - 2010)
Inception (Christopher Nolan - 2010)
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky - 2010)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik - 2010)
Incendies (Denis Villeneuve - 2010)
Cave Of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog - 2010)
A Seperation (Asghar Farhadi - 2011)
Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols - 2011)
Melancholia (Lars Von Trier - 2011)
Children Who Chase Lost Voices (Makoto Shinkai - 2011)
Another Earth (Mike Cahill - 2011)
Drive (Nicholas Winding Refn - 2011)
The Tree Of Life (Terrence Malick - 2011)
Like Someone In Love (Abbas Kiarostami - 2012)
Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard - 2012)
Museum Hours (Jem Cohen - 2012)
Holy Motors (Leos Carax - 2012)
Wolf Children (Mamoru Hosoda - 2012)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson - 2012)
Skyfall (Sam Mendes - 2012)
The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg - 2012)
The Congress (Ari Folman - 2013)
The Past (Asghar Farhadi - 2013)
Enemy (Denis Villeneuve - 2013)
Short Term 12 (Destin Daniel Cretton - 2013)
Like Father Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda - 2013)
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier - 2013)
Under The Skin (Jonathan Glazer - 2013)
Only God Forgives (Nicholas Winding Refn - 2013)
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino - 2013)
Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski - 2013)
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater - 2013)
Upstream Color (Shane Carruth - 2013)
A Story Of Yonosuke (Shuichi Okita - 2013)
Her (Spike Jonze - 2013)
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar Wai - 2013)
Tokyo Family (Yoji Yamada - 2013)
John Wick (Chad Stahelski/David Leitch - 2014)
Phoenix (Christian Petzold - 2014)
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan - 2014)
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle - 2014)
The Look Of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer - 2014)
The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy - 2014)
Clouds Of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas - 2014)
Boyhood (Richard Linklater - 2014)
Force Majeure (Ruben Ostlund - 2014)
Tokyo Tribe (Sion Sono - 2014)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson - 2014)
The Salt Of The Earth (Wim Wenders - 2014)
Ex Machina (Alex Garland - 2015)
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve - 2015)
World Of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt - 2015)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien - 2015)
Youth (Paolo Sorrentino - 2015)
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos - 2015)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins - 2016)
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve - 2016)
Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols - 2016)
Your Name (Makoto Shinkai - 2016)
Silence (Martin Scorsese - 2016)
The Red Turtle (Michael Dudok de Wit - 2016)
The Neon Demon (Nicholas Winding Refn - 2016)
Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford - 2016)
mother! (Darren Aronofsky - 2017)
Logan (James Mangold - 2017)
Columbus (Kogonada - 2017)