The most basic principles of decision-making in Economics are the trade-off and the opportunity cost. There is a reason why classics are classics. They have survived through time and people. Also, there are hidden gems among a pile of junk.
The movies in the following list are my subjective suggestions. At least, you will not regret your invested time. Also, my low ratings (1/5 or 2/5) do not mean the films of those ratings are really bad. I already eliminated terrible movies that are not worth of your precious time.
Please enjoy your movie time!
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Edward Yang Chang Chen, Lisa Yang, Kuo-Chu Chang 8.4/10 A Touch of Sin (天注定) 2013 Zhangke Jia Wu Jiang, Baoqiang Wang, Tao Zhao, Lanshan Luo 7.1/10 After Life 1998 Hirokazu Koreeda Arata Iura, Erika Oda 7.6/10 Ariel 1988 Aki Kaurismäki Turo Pajala, Susanna Haavisto 7.5/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Bacurau 2019 Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira 7.4/10 Beyond the Hills 2012 Cristian Mungiu Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur 7.5/10 BirdMan 2014 Alejandro G. Iñárritu Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton 7.7/10 Black Christmas 1974 Bob Clark Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea 7.2/10 Bright Future 2002 Kiyoshi Kurosawa Joe Odagiri, Tadanobu Asano, Tatsuya Fuji 6.8/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Certain Women 2016 Kelly Reichardt Michelle Williams, Laura Dern 6.4/10 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón Clive Owen, Julianne Moore 7.9/10 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova 8.3/10 Creepy 2016 Kiyoshi Kurosawa Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Toru Baba 6.3/10 Cure 1997 Kiyoshi Kurosawa Masato Hagiwara, Kôji Yakusho 7.5/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer 7.6/10 Dheepan 2015 Jacques Audiard Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby 7.2/10 Drifting Clouds 1996 Aki Kaurismäki Kati Outinen, Kari Väänänen 7.7/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating East of Eden 1955 Elia Kazan James Dean, Raymond Massey 7.9/10 E.T. 1982 Steven Spielberg Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace 7.9/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Fame 1980 Alan Parker Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri 6.6/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson 7.3/10 Gravity 2013 Alfonso Cuarón Sandra Bulloc, kGeorge Clooney 7.7/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Hakuchi (The Idiot) 1951 Akira Kurosawa Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshirô Mifune 7.2/10 Happy Hour 2015 Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, Rira Kawamura 7.4/10 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 John McNaughton Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles 7.0/10 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa Toshirô Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai 8.4/10 Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959 Alain Resnais Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada 7.9/10 Hive 2021 Blerta Basholli Yllka Gashi, Çun Lajçi 7.3/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko 8.3/10 I Live in Fear 1955 Akira Kurosawa Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki 7.3/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975 Chantal Akerman Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte 7.8/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Last Train from Gun Hill 1959 John Sturges Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn 7.3/10 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff 7.8/10 Leningrad Cowboys Go America 1989 Aki Kaurismäki Matti Pellonpää, Kari Väänänen, Sakke Järvenpää 7.1/10 Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses 1994 Aki Kaurismäki Twist-Twist Erkinharju, Ben Granfelt 5.7/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Madadayo 1993 Akira Kurosawa Tatsuo Matsumura, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro 7.3/10 Milyang (Secret Sunshine) 2007 Chang-dong Lee Jeon Do-yeon, Kang-ho Song 7.5/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Nightmare Alley 1947 Edmund Goulding Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray 6.9/10 No Regrets for Our Youth 1946 Akira Kurosawa Setsuko Hara, Susumu Fujita, Denjirô Ôkôchi 7.1/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Old Joy 2006 Kelly Reichardt Daniel London, Will Oldham 6.8/10 One Wonderful Sunday 1947 Akira Kurosawa Isao Numasa, kiChieko Nakakita 7.2/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Pitfall 1962 Hiroshi Teshigahara Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano 7.6/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Rashomon 1950 Akira Kurosawa Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô 8.2/10 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock James Stewart, Grace Kelly 8.5/10 Revanche 2008 Götz Spielmann Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Ursula Strauss 7.5/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Sanjuro 1962 Akira Kurosawa Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai 8.1/10 Scandal 1950 Akira Kurosawa Toshirô Mifune, Shirley Yamaguchi, Yôko Katsuragi 7.2/10 Scrooge 1970 Ronald Neame Albert Finney 7.5/10 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima 8.6/10 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk 8.0/10 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons 7.9/10 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Alisa Freyndlikh 8.1/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Teret (The Load) 2018 Ognjen Glavonic Leon Lucev, Pavle Cemerikic 6.6/10 The Bad Sleep Well 1960 Akira Kurosawa Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa 8.0/10 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki 8.1/10 The Last Seduction 1994 John Dahl Linda Fiorentino 7.1/10 The Lord of the Rings 2001, 2002, 2003 Peter Jackson Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom 8.8/10, 8.7/10, 8.9/10 The Match Factory Girl 1990 Aki Kaurismäki Kati Outinen, Elina Salo 7.6/10 The Matrix 1999 The Wachowskis Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss 8.7/10 The Matrix Reloaded 2003 The Wachowskis Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss 7.2/10 The Other Side of Hope 2017 Aki Kaurismäki Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen 7.2/10 Thelma 2017 Joachim Trier Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins 7.0/10 The Revenant 2015 Alejandro G. Iñárritu Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter 8.0/10 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada 8.1/10 Two Weeks in Another Town 1962 Vincente Minnelli Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse 6.5/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock James StewartKim Novak 8.3/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Wanda 1970 Barbara Loden Barbara Loden, Michael Higgins 7.1/10 War and Peace 1966 Sergey Bondarchuk Sergey Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov 8.3/10 Watership Down 1978 Martin Rosen 7.6/10 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida 8.5/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai 8.2/10
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Title Year Director Cast My Rating IMDb Rating Zodiac 2007 David Fincher Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo 7.7/10 Zombi Child 2019 Bertrand Bonello Louise Labeque, Wislanda Louimat 6.0/10
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