We asked contributors to name five indispensable movies. The results of our survey are listed below, in alphabetical order. No movie was named more than once. Editor picks are included.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
All: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
All About Eve (1950)
Audition (1999)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blow-Up (1966)
Caddyshack (1980)
Captain Blood (1935)
Chinatown (1974)
Coco (2017)
Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
Crooklyn (1994)
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Ed Wood (1994)
Eraserhead (1977)
Fargo (1996)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Gabon: The Last Eden (2007)
Genèse (2019)
Goodfellas (1990)
Grey Gardens (2009)
Harold and Maude (1971)
High School (2006)
Hollywood Confidential (1997)
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Hugo (2011)
I Remember Mama (1948)
In Jackson Heights (2015)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
It Follows (2014)
Jeon Woo-chi: The Taoist Wizard (2009)
Kiss Me Kate (1968)
Klute (1971)
Labyrinth (1986)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Mean Streets (1973)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Modern Times (1936)
Moonlight (2016)
Ordinary People (1980)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Pierrot Le Fou (1965)
Pride & Prejudice (1940)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Shoplifters (2018)
Starman (1984)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Cheetah Girls 2 (2006)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
The Gleaners & I (2000)
The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)
The Matrix (1999)
The Mirror (1975)
The NeverEnding Story (1984)
The Player (1992)
The Razor’s Edge (1946)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Street of Crocodiles (1986)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Toy Story (1995)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
Toy Story 4 (2019)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Us (2019)
Vertigo (1958)
Waiting for Guffman (1996)
What Is Poetry to You? (1980)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Withnail & I (1987)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)