ideas

Samurai
Red Beard
Seven Samurai
Harakiri
The Sword of Doom

Korean revenge films
Oldboy
Mr Vengeance
Ms Vengeance

Bong Joon Ho
Memories of Murder
Mother
The Host
Okja

Shōhei Imamura
The Insect Woman
Vengeance Is Mine
The Eel
The Pornographers

Hirokazu Kore-eda
Still Walking
Shoplifters
Air Doll
After Life

Mikio Naruse
Floating Clouds
Yearning
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Two in the Shadow

Kenji Mizoguchi
Ugetsu
Sansho the Bailiff
The Life of Oharu
Street of Shame

Takashi Miike
Audition
13 Assassins
Ichi
The Bird People in China

Woody Allen
Midnight in Paris
Annie Hall
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Manhattan

John Carpenter
Big Trouble in Little China
The Thing
Escape From New York
In the Mouth of Madness

Wes Anderson
Moonrise Kingdom
The Darjeeling Limited
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Bottle Rocket

Lee Chang-dong
Burning
Poetry
Secret Sunshine
Oasis

Takeshi Kitano
Boiling Point
Dolls
Kikujiro
Violent Cop

David Cronenberg
The Fly
Scanners
Naked Lunch
Dead Ringers

Lars von Trier
Dancer in the Dark
Melancholia
The House That Jack Built
Dogville

Melancholic movies
AI
Ikiru
Lars and the Real Girl
Persona

Toons
Time of Eve
Jin Roh
Millennium Actress
Redline

Roman Polanski
Repulsion
Rosemary’s Baby
Chinatown
Carnage

David Fincher
Fight Club
Gone Girl
Social Network
Panic Room

David Lynch
Mulholland Drive
Blue Velvet
Eraserhead
Lost Highway

Ethan Hawke
Waking Life
First Reformed
Gattaca
Predestination

Sidney Lumet
Network
Serpico
Dog Day Afternoon
12 Angry Men

Werner Herzog
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Fitzcarraldo
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

Sion Sono
Suicide Club
Love Exposure
Why Don't You Play in Hell
Guilty of Romance

Paul Thomas Anderson
There Will be Blood
The Master
Magnolia
Boogie Nights

Kim Ki-duk
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
Pieta
3-Iron
The Isle

Shunji Iwai
All About Lily Chou-Chou
Love Letter
Hana and Alice
April Story

Wong Kar-wai
In the Mood for Love
Happy Together
Chungking Express
Fallen Angels

Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho
Vertigo
Rope
North by Northwest

Stanley Kubrick
2001
FMJ
Clockwork Orange
Dr Strangelove

Hayao Miyazaki
My Neighbor Totoro
Princess Mononoke
Howl’s Moving Castle
Kiki’s Delivery Service

Post War Japan
Black Rain
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
Fires on the Plain
The Burmese Harp

Masaki Kobayashi
The Human Condition
Harakiri
Samurai Rebellion
Kwaidan

Ang Lee
Lust Caution
The Wedding Banquet
Eat Drink Man Woman
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon