Picking my top-10 personal favorites was VERY hard, but here goes...
1) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
2) Los Olvidados (Buñuel)
3) Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
4) Modern Times (Chaplin)
5) Amadeus (Forman)
6) Once Upon A Time in the West (Leone)
7) The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly (Leone)
8) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Forman)
9) A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
10) The Great Dictator (Chaplin)
OTHER NOTABLES (in no particular order, except the way they came to me):
Sunset Boulevard, Limelight, City Lights, Steamboat Bill, Jr., The Shining, Leon (the Professional), Mystic River, Star Wars (original trilogy), Lord of the Rings (trilogy), A.I., Dr. Strangelove, Indiana Jones (trilogy), E.T., The Godfather (parts I & II), Dead Man Walking, Barry Lyndon, Immortal Beloved, Carlito's Way, State of Grace, The Untouchables, GoodFellas, Prizzi's Honor, Chinatown, Raging Bull, Vertigo, Last Action Hero, My Darling Clementine, The Searchers, The Wild Bunch, The Great Silence, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Unforgiven, The Great Escape, Papillon, The Dirty Dozen, The Big Red One, Lawrence of Arabia, The Graduate, Rain Man, Taxi Driver, Five Easy Pieces, The Exterminating Angel, Oliver Twist, Viridiana, Passion of the Christ, Citizen Kane, The Grapes of Wrath, Umberto D., Freaks, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Nazarin, La Strada, The Circus, Amores Perros, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Kid, The Cameraman
I think that silent films got a lot more things right than talkies. --Stanley Kubrick
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