Lawrence Jose Sinclair

The World's Best Films

Here's my Beyond the Canon list, in alphabetical order. Were I to do a top list of films that are most surprising to not usually be included they would be: Babe, Requiem for a Dream, Field of Dreams, Big Fish, Hannah and Her Sisters, Parenthood, Hope and Glory, Jean de Florette/Manon de Sources, Wall-E, Salaam Bombay!, Open Range, Shakespeare in Love...

• After the Wedding (2006) .. Susanne Bier
• Aliens (1986) .. James Cameron
• Atlantic City (1980) .. Louis Malle
• Auntie Mame (1958) .. Morton DaCosta
• Babe (1995) .. Chris Noonan
• Beautiful Girls (1996) .. Ted Demme
• Big (1988) .. Penny Marshall
• Big Fish (2003) .. Tim Burton
• Blast from the Past (1999) .. Hugh Wilson
• Broadcast News (1987) .. James L. Brooks
• Burden of Dreams (1982) .. Les Blank
• Carmen (1983) .. Carlos Suara
• Central Station (1998) .. Walter Salles
• Chicago (2002) .. Rob Marshall
• Cinema Paradiso (1988) .. Giuseppe Tornatore
• City of God (2002) .. Fernando Meirelles
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) .. Ang Lee
• The Cuckoo (2002) .. Alexsandr Rogozhkin
• Dances with Wolves (1990) .. Kevin Costner
• Dangerous Liaisons (1988) .. Stephen Frears
• Das Boot (1981) .. Wolfgang Petersen
• Diva (1981) .. Jean-Jacques Beineix
• Drugstore Cowboy (1989) .. Gus Van Sant
• Eat Drink, Man Woman (1994) .. Ang Lee
• Election (1999) .. Alexander Payne
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) .. Michel Gondry
• A Face in the Crowd (1957) .. Elia Kazan
• Fallen Angels (1995) .. Wong Kar Wai
• Fearless (1993) .. Peter Weir
• Field of Dreams (1989) .. Phil Alden Robinson
• Finding Nemo (2003) .. Andrew Stanton
• Finding Neverland (2004) .. Marc Forster
• Fitzcarraldo (1982) .. Werner Herzog
• The Game (1997) .. David Fincher
• Gandhi (1982) .. Richard Attenborough
• Goodbye Lenin! (2003) .. Wolfgang Becker
• Goodnight, Mister Tom (1999) .. Jack Gold
• A Great Wall (1986) .. Peter Wang
• The Grey Fox (1982) .. Philip Coursos
• The Grifters (1990) .. Stephen Frears
• Groundhog Day (1993) .. Harold Ramis
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) .. Woody Allen
• Heat and Dust (1983) .. James Ivory
• Heathers (1988) .. Michael Lehmann
• Hero (2002) .. Zhang Yimou
• Hope and Glory (1987) .. John Boorman
• House of Games (1987) .. David Mamet
• In Bruges (2008) .. Martin McDonagh
• Jean de Florette (1986) .. Claude Berri
  Manon des Sources (1986) .. Claude Berri
• Kolya (1996) .. Jan Sverák
• Lamerica (1994) .. Gianni Amelio
• The Last Emperor (1987) .. Bernardo Bertolucci
• The Lives of Others (2006) .. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) .. Peter Jackson
• Lost in Translation (2003) .. Sofia Coppola
• Mad Max 2 (1981) .. George Miller
• The Man Who Would Be King (1975) .. John Huston
• Memento (2000) .. Christopher Nolan
• Million Dollar Baby (2004) .. Clint Eastwood
• Minority Report (2002) .. Steven Spielberg
• Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) .. Karel Reisz
• The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) .. Walter Salles
• Much Ado About Nothing (1993) .. Kenneth Branagh
• My Brilliant Career (1979) .. Gillian Armstrong
• My Fair Lady (1964) .. George Cukor
• Nikita (1990) .. Luc Besson
• Norma Rae (1979) .. Martin Ritt
• El Norte (1983) .. Gregory Nava
• Nowhere in Africa (2001) .. Caroline Link
• October Sky (1999) .. Joe Johnston
• Open Range (2003) .. Kevin Costner
• Parenthood (1989) .. Ron Howard
• The Player (1992) .. Robert Altman
• Raising Arizona (1987) .. The Coen Brothers
• Requiem for a Dream (2000) .. Darren Aronofsky
• Ridicule (1996) .. Patrice Leconte
• Rivers and Tides (2001) .. Thomas Riedelsheimer
• Ronin (1998) .. John Frankenheimer
• A Room with a View (1985) .. James Ivory
• Run Lola Run (1998) .. Tom Tykwer
• Salaam Bombay! (1988) .. Mira Nair
• Seven Beauties (1975) .. Lina Wertmüller
• Shakespeare in Love (1998) .. John Madden
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994) .. Frank Darabont
• Sideways (2004) .. Alexander Payne
• Thank You for Smoking (2005) .. Jason Reitman
• The 39 Steps (1935) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• Time Bandits (1981) .. Terry Gilliam
• To Live (1994) .. Zhang Yimou
• Traffic (2000) .. Steven Soderbergh
• The Train (1964) .. John Frankenheimer
• The Twilight Samurai (2002) .. Yamada Yôji
• V for Vendetta (2005) .. James McTeigue
• Walkabout (1971) .. Nicolas Roeg
• WALL·E (2008) .. Andrew Stanton
• When Harry Met Sally... (1989) .. Rob Reiner
• Winged Migration (2001) .. Jacques Perrin
• Woodstock (1970) .. Michael Wadleigh
• You Can't Take It with You (1938) .. Frank Capra
• Zelary (2003) .. Ondrej Trojan