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Here's a list of my favorites.
- After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985)
- Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, & Jerry Zucker, 1980)
- Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
- All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
- The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
- The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick / Eduardo Sanchez, 1999)
- Blood Simple (Ethan and Joel Coen, 1984)
- Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
- Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier, 1996)
- The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)
- Brother's Keeper (Joe Berlinger / Bruce Sinofsky, 1992)
- Bully (Larry Clark, 2001)
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)
- Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)
- Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
- Central Station (Walter Salles, 1998)
- Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
- City of Lost Children (Marc Caro / Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1995)
- A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
- Cruising (William Friedkin, 1980)
- Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000)
- Dawn of the Dead (George Romero, 1978)
- Desperate Living (John Waters, 1977)
- The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson, 1977)
- The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro, 2001)
- Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
- The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1981)
- The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973)
- Eye of God (Tim Blake Nelson, 1997)
- Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1959)
- Fargo (Ethan and Joel Cohen, 1996)
- Female Trouble (John Waters, 1974)
- The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T (Ray Rowland, 1953)
- The Fog (John Carpenter, 1980)
- Forbidden Games (Rene Clement, 1952)
- The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959)
- Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)
- Freeway (Matthew Bright, 1996)
- Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997)
- Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944)
- Grey Gardens (Albert & David Maysles, 1975)
- Hairspray (John Waters, 1988)
- Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
- Happiness (Todd Solondz, 1998)
- Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971)
- Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994)
- I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
- The Ice Storm (Ang Lee, 1997)
- In a Glass Cage (Agustin Villaronga, 1986)
- Inferno (Dario Argento, 1980)
- Lair of the White Worm (Ken Russell, 1988)
- Lord of the Flies (Peter Brook, 1963)
- Los Alvidados (Luis Bunuel, 1950)
- Luna (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1979)
- The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
- Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
- Manny & Lo (Lisa Krueger, 1996)
- Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964)
- Multiple Maniacs (John Waters, 1970)
- Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
- Night of the Living Dead (George Romero, 1968)
- North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
- Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, 1964)
- Opera (Dario Argento, 1987)
- Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)
- Pink Flamingos (John Waters, 1972)
- Polyester (John Waters, 1981)
- Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
- Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
- Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)
- The Reflecting Skin (Philip Ridley, 1990)
- Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
- Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)
- Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
- Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)
- Salo (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)
- Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1989)
- Seance on a Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes, 1964)
- Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
- Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943)
- Sisters of Satan (Juan Lopez Moctezuma, 1978)
- Sixteen Candles (John Hughes, 1984)
- The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
- Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
- The Straight Story (David Lynch, 1999)
- Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959)
- Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1987)
- Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
- The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
- Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
- Waiting for Guffman (Christopher Guest, 1996)
- Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz, 1995)
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971)
- The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
- Wuthering Heights (William Wyler, 1939)
- Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron, 2001)