Note: Following is the list of movies I like (and recommend). The list is fragmentary and will be growing as I remember more from the memory. The names in the parenthese are either director or main actors of the film.

Top of the List:

• Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford)
• Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
• Fantastic Planet (Roland Topor, Rene Laloux)
• Les Enfants du Paradis (in French)
• Matrix (Keanu Reaves)
• The Young Lions (Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift)
• Toulouse-Lautrec (Jose Ferrer)

Animation and SF:

• 2001: Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
• Bee Moive (Pixar)
• Close Encouters of the Third Kind
• Fahrenheit 451 (Francois Truffaut)
• Flushed Away
• Gandahar (Rene Laloux)
• Ice Age
• James and the Giant Peach (Henry Selick)
• Labyrinth
• Logan's Run (Michael York)
• Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
• MicroCosmos (Claudine Nuridsany, Marie Perennol)
• Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol (Abe Levitow, 1962)
• Planet of the Apes (Charlton Heston)
• Quest for Fire (Jean-Jacques Annaud)
• Shrek (DreamWorks)
• Silent Running (on spaceship greenhouse)
• Starship Troopers
• The Hunt for Red October (Sean Connery)
• The Matrix: Reloaded
• The Nightmare before Christmas (Tim Burton)
• The Wall (Pink Floyd)
• THX 1138 (George Lucas)
• Toy Story I & II (Pixar)
• Wallace and Gromit (Nick Park)
• Willows
• Zardoz (Sean Connery)

Movies in English:

• American Graffiti (George Lucas)
• Around the World in 80 Days (David Niven)
• Bagdad Cafe (Percy Adlon)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards, Audrey Hepburn)
• Brother Sun, Sister Moon
• Casino Royal (David Niven)
• Chan is missing (Wayne Wang)
• Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith)
• Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
• Citizen Kane (Orson Wells)
• Dr Zhivago (Omar Sharif)
• English Patient (Anthony Minghella, Ralph Fiennes)
• Flirting (Nicole Kidman)
• Gallipoli (Mel Gibson)
• Georgy Girl (Lynn Redgrave)
• Gods must be crazy (Bushman)
• Gone with the Wind (Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh)
• Gorky Park (William Hurt, Lee Marvin)
• The Jazz Singer (Al Jolsom)
• Little Women (George Cukor, Katharine Hepburn)
• The Man Who Would Be King (Sean Connery)
• Midnight Express
• My Life So Far (Hugh Hudson)
• Papillion (Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman)
• Pink Panther Series
• Play Misty for Me (Clint Eastwood)
• Romeo and Juliet (Olivia Hussey)
• Singing in the Rain (Gene Kelly)
• Stand By Me (Rob Reiner)
• Summer Place (Sandra Dee)
• The Man Who Would Be King (Sean Connery, Michael Cain)
• The Third Man (Orson Wells)
• Wizard of OZ (Judy Garland)

Movies in Non-English Language:

• A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) (Jean Paul Belmondo)
• A Man and A Woman (Claude Lelouch)
• Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein)
• Au Revoir les Enfants (Louis Malle)
• Bicycle Thief (Wittorio de Sica)
• Bonjour Tristess
• Children of Heaven
• Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore)
• Cria!
• Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen)
• Dinner Game (Le Diner de Cons) (Francis Veber)
• Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee)
• Elvira Madigan (T. Berggren, Pia Degermark)
• Europea Europa (Solly Perel, Agnieszka Holland)
• Hairdresser's Husband (Patrice Leconte)
• Il Postino (The Postman)
• Jeux Interdit (1959)
• Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)
• Killer (John Woo, Chow Yun-Fat)
• La Cage aux Folles (Edouard Molinaro)
• La Strada (Federico Fellini)
• Le Roi de Coeur (King of Hearts, Alan Bates)
• Like Water for Chocolate
• Lisbon Story (Wim Wenders)
• M (Fritz Lang)
• My Life As A Dog (Lasse Hallstrom, Reidar Jonsson)
• October 1917 (Eisenstein)
• Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
• Plein Soleil (Alain Delon)
• Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse)
• Run Lola Run (Franka Potente)
• Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
• The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
• The Bicycle Thief (Vittoria De Sica)
• The Cup (phorpa) (khyentse Norbu)
• The Funeral (Juzo Itami)
• The Mystery of Rampo (Kazuyoshi Okuyama and Michiko Hada)
• The Night Of The Shooting Stars (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
• The Silence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
• Three Brothers (Francesco Rosi)
• Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorff)
• Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, Catherine Deneuve)
• Un Coeur en Hiver (Claude Sautet)
• West Beirut (Ziad Doueiri)
• Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
• Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)