This is the rating which I save for the films that hit me as among the finest. Sure, I give it so frequently, but I’m not one who likes being extremely harsh, but I have a specific distinction for what ends up becoming one of my favourites. Anyways, these are all the films I’ve given 5 stars so far.

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#, A, B, C

• 8½
• 12 Angry Men
• 12 Years a Slave
• 20th Century Women
• 24 Hour Party People
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Adaptation
• After Life
• The Age of Shadows
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• Alien
• All That Heaven Allows
• All That Jazz
• Angst
• The Apartment
• Arrival
• Autumn Sonata
• Badlands
• Barry Lyndon
• The Battle of Algiers
• Beau Travail
• Beautiful Boy
• Beauty and the Beast
• Before Sunrise
• Being John Malkovich
• Being There
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Bicycle Thieves
• The Big Lebowski
• BlacKkKlansman
• Blade Runner
• Blade Runner 2049
• Blue Velvet
• Booksmart
• Boyfriends and Girlfriends
• Brazil
• A Brighter Summer Day
• Broadcast News
• Burning
• Cafe Noir
• Call Me by Your Name
• Canoa: A Shameful Memory
• Carol
• Casablanca
• Casino
• Certain Women
• Chungking Express
• A Clockwork Orange
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Cold War
• The Conformist
• Crash
• Cries and Whispers
• The Crowd

D, E, F

• Daisies
• Day for Night
• Days of Heaven
• Die Hard
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Do the Right Thing
• La Dolce Vita
• Don’t Look Now
• The Double Life of Veronique
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Election
• The Emigrants
• Eraserhead
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• The Exorcist
• Exotica
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Fanny & Alexander
• The Farewell
• The Favourite
• First Reformed
• The Fisher King
• The Florida Project
• Frances Ha
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle

G, H, I

• Get Out
• Ghost in the Shell
• Ghost World
• The Godfather
• Godzilla
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn
• The Gospel According to St. Matthew
• The Graduate
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Grave of the Fireflies
• The Great Dictator
• Green Room
• Halloween
• The Handmaiden
• Happiness of Us Alone
• Harakiri
• Harold and Maude
• Harvey
• Heat
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Her
• High and Low
• High Life
• Hiroshima Mon Amour
• House
• Hunger
• The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• The In-Laws
• In a Lonely Place
• In the Mood for Love
• In the Realm of the Senses
• The Incredibles
• Inglourious Basterds
• Inherent Vice
• Intolerance
• It’s a Wonderful Life

J, K, L

• Jaws
• Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
• Jigoku
• The Killer
• The King of Comedy
• Kiss Me Deadly
• Knives Out
• L.A. Confidential
• Lady Bird
• The Last Picture Show
• The Last Temptation of Christ
• Last Year at Marienbad
• Late Spring
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Lenny
• The Lighthouse
• The Little Mermaid
• Logan
• The Long Day Closes
• Lost in Translation

M, N, O

• Mädchen in Uniform
• Magnolia
• Make Way for Tomorrow
• Malcolm X
• The Maltese Falcon
• Manchester by the Sea
• The Manchurian Candidate
• Manila in the Claws of Light
• Margaret
• Marketa Lazarová
• Marriage Story
• The Matrix
• Midsommar
• Mikey and Nicky
• Millennium Actress
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
• Modern Romance
• Moonlight
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Monsters, Inc.
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Ms .45
• Mulholland Drive
• My Darling Clementine
• My Dinner with André
• My Neighbor Totoro
• My Own Private Idaho
• Napoleon
• Network
• Nobody Knows
• North by Northwest
• Nosferatu
• Los Olvidados
• Once Upon a Time in America
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Only Angels Have Wings
• The Other Side of the Underneath

P, Q, R, S

• A Page of Madness
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• Parasite
• Paris, Texas
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• Pather Panchali
• Paths of Glory
• Pauline at the Beach
• Persona
• Personal Shopper
• Phantom Thread
• The Piano Teacher
• Picnic at Hanging Rock
• The Player
• Police Story
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Raise the Red Lantern
• Ran
• Rebel Without a Cause
• Repulsion
• RoboCop
• Roma
• Roman Holiday
• Rosemary’s Baby
• The Rules of the Game
• Sansho the Bailiff
• The Saragossa Manuscript
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
• The Searchers
• Serial Experiments Lain
• Seven Samurai
• Shame (2011)
• The Shape of Water
• Shoplifters
• Silence (2016)
• The Silence of the Lambs
• The Social Network
• Solaris
• Sorry to Bother You
• Sound of the Mountain
• Spirited Away
• The Squid and the Whale
• A Star is Born
• Starship Troopers
• Still Walking
• Stop Making Sense
• The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums
• Straw Dogs
• Sunset Boulevard
• El Sur
• Suspiria
• Suspiria (2018)
• Sweet Smell of Success

T, U, V

• Taxi Driver
• The Thin Blue Line
• The Thin Red Line
• The Thing
• Time of the Gypsies
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Tokyo Story
• Toni Erdmann
• Total Recall
• Touch of Evil
• A Touch of Zen
• Traffic
• The Tree of Life
• Trouble Every Day
• The Truman Show
• Umberto D.
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
• Uncut Gems
• Up
• Vampyros Lesbos
• Vertigo
• The Virgin Suicides

W, X, Y, Z

• Waking Life
• Weekend
• Wendy and Lucy
• West Side Story
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Widows
• Wild Strawberries
• The Wind Rises
• Wings of Desire
• Woman in the Dunes
• Yi Yi
• The Young Girls of Rochefort