1. Raging Bull - , Raging Bull weaves brutality and beauty into heavily character driven story. In the early years of the blockbusters Raging Bull proved that important and personal filmmaking will always inspire others to create.
2. Manhattan - One of the greatest openings in film history.
3. Schindler's List - I love it, but I can't watch it very much.
4. The Elephant Man - One of David Lynch's most accessible films. John Hurt gives one of the great performances in film history.
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Overlord -
The fact that this film was made in 1975 is unbelievably amazing. It looks like it was shot during the war. They have seamlessly inter-cut real WWII footage with this film to make it sudo-documentary looking. Shot by John Alcott (A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining), Overlord is one of the best looking WWII films I have seen. It's in my top 10 War films ever