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This is the day of the expanding list

Top 200. No director limit. No real order after, maybe, the top ten, but roughly every 40 or so films could be considered a slightly different tier (as if it matters).

Added 6/1/25:
House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello, 2011), John From (João Nicolau, 2015)

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  • Henry Fool
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • The Golden Boat
  • A Zed & Two Noughts
  • What Happened Was...
  • Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
  • Another Girl Another Planet
  • The Double
  • Arizona Dream
  • Metropolitan
  • Twin Peaks
  • Mauvais Sang
  • Dim the Fluorescents
  • Mods
  • Trust
  • Badlands
  • Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog
  • Sweetie
  • I Hired a Contract Killer
  • Design for Living
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • News, news
  • Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
  • Safe
  • Sherman's March
  • A Bread Factory: Part One: For the Sake of Gold
  • A Bread Factory: Part Two: Walk With Me A While
  • The Living World
  • Sombre
  • Perceval
  • There Are No False Undertakings
  • Cosmopolis
  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
  • River of Grass
  • Southland Tales
  • La Flor
  • Hitler: A Film from
  • Surviving Desire
  • First Name: Carmen
  • The Art of Speech
  • Sleepwalk
  • The Love Witch
  • My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument
  • Love Torn in a Dream
  • Sans Soleil
  • Happy Together
  • Local Color
  • House of Tolerance
  • My Winnipeg
  • Orlando
  • Drowning by Numbers
  • Go Down Death
  • Guys and Dolls
  • Pilots
  • Masked and Anonymous
  • Hail Mary
  • Beau Travail
  • John From
  • Castro
  • Buffet Froid
  • Amateur
  • Three Bewildered People in the Night
  • L
  • Wittgenstein
  • The New World
  • Fallen Leaves
  • The Power of Emotion
  • Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
  • Occidental
  • Toutes les nuits
  • The Holy Bunch
  • Strong Medicine
  • Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King
  • Necropolis Symphony
  • Night and Day
  • It Felt Like a Kiss
  • Liquid Sky
  • Chungking Express
  • Waiting for April
  • Ivan the Terrible, Part I
  • Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
  • TÁR
  • Uprise
  • Anomalisa
  • Buffalo '66
  • Boy Meets Girl
  • The Mother and the Whore
  • Thief or Reality
  • Nadja
  • Mrs. Hyde
  • Day of the Idiots
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  • Gummo
  • Viva
  • Listen Up Philip
  • Professor Taranne
  • Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
  • The Third Generation
  • Jean-Jacques
  • Technoboss