Arthouse

Top 30 arthouse films by archive rank.

# Title Year Director Public Rating Watched
1 The Phantom Carriage (1921) 1921 Victor Sjöström — —
2 Sherlock Jr. (1924) 1924 Buster Keaton 9.00 —
3 Metropolis (1927) 1927 Fritz Lang 8.67 —
4 The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer — —
5 L'Atalante (1934) 1934 Jean Vigo 8.00 —
6 Brief Encounter (1945) 1945 David Lean — —
7 Black Narcissus (1947) 1947 Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell 9.00 —
8 Spring in a Small Town (1948) 1948 Fei Mu — —
9 The Third Man (1949) 1949 Carol Reed — —
10 Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) 1953 Jacques Tati — —
11 A Man Escaped (1956) 1956 Robert Bresson — —
12 The Battle of Algiers (1966) 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo — —
13 PlayTime (1967) 1967 Jacques Tati — —
14 Deep End (1971) 1971 Jerzy Skolimowski 8.00 —
15 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) 1972 Luis Buñuel 8.00 —
16 Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) 1972 Werner Herzog — —
17 The Conversation (1974) 1974 Francis Ford Coppola — —
18 Barry Lyndon (1975) 1975 Stanley Kubrick 10.00 —
19 Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976) 1976 Chantal Akerman 9.00 —
20 Days of Heaven (1978) 1978 Terrence Malick 9.00 —
21 Apocalypse Now (1979) 1979 Francis Ford Coppola — —
22 The Shining (1980) 1980 Stanley Kubrick — —
23 L'Argent (1983) 1983 Robert Bresson 10.00 —
24 Paris, Texas (1984) 1984 Wim Wenders — —
25 Vagabond (1985) 1985 Agnès Varda — —
26 Where Is The Friend's House? (1987) 1987 Abbas Kiarostami — —
27 Cinema Paradiso (1988) 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore — —
28 A City of Sadness (1989) 1989 Hou Hsiao-hsien 9.00 —
29 Close-Up (1990) 1990 Abbas Kiarostami — —
30 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 1991 Jonathan Demme — —