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
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
15 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) 1972 Luis Buñuel
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