My 30 Favourite Films of All Time

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.

While recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.' s

Alex DeLarge and his droogs barbarize a decaying near-future.

In the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name.

A boy wants to decipher the ancient letters of the ancient Toltec civilization, which mysteriously disappeared many centuries ago. And he not only wanted to, but he decided to dedicate his whole life to this.

The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, as the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

Johann Strauss II pursues his passion for waltzes in 1845 Vienna, facing societal resistance. His music gains popularity through opera singers, leading to fame and personal conflicts between his wife and a passionate affair.

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

A film about the French general's youth and early military career.

A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures that seem designed to challenge his naive idealism.

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.

The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy.