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I'll be adding more titles as time passes. Also subtracting some, based on either waning enthusiasm or a film's debut on an official list. See below to check out the abundant films that I've deleted for the latter reason. In fact, I've had to delete so many films that the remaining ones' dwindling quality has me debating whether this list is still worth sharing. ICM's bloated set of official lists now suggests there are over 17,000 essential, canonical films to see? Silly.

I so wish I was more confident about the shorts I've included...I've checked off about 6,400 shorts on ICM and now really regret not taking notes on the best ones. I just don't remember all those blips of film footage well enough.

Newly "official" films deleted during 2024: The World According to Garp

During 2023: Morgiana, Saute ma Ville, The Sun's Burial, Deerskin, Images, Phase IV, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Mademoiselle, Asparagus

During 2022: Jodorowsky's Dune, Mingus - Charlie Mingus 1968, Mandara, Uta, El Empleo, The Hand of God, The Power of the Dog, Johnny Corncob, Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?

2021: Night Tide, Crimson Peak, Boy Meets Girl, Macbeth (1948), Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven, Savage Messiah, The Valley, First Cow

2020: From the Life of the Marionettes, Diabel, Machete, Dead Man Walking, Yoiyami Semareba, Small Change, Orchestra Rehearsal, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, High Life, The Bad News Bears (1976)

2019: Youth, Plastic Bag, Endless Poetry, Visa de Censure No X, Shinboru, Catch Us If You Can, Thieves Like Us, Faraway So Close!, David & Lisa, Eat the Document

2018: I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Long-Haired Hare, Smithereens, King of Hearts, Model Shop, mother!, A Coffee in Berlin

2017: Rocky II, California Split, The L-Shaped Room, Paterson, The Selfish Giant, Submarine, Borom Sarret, The Telephone Book

2016: Heart of a Dog, The Lobster, Prick Up Your Ears, Aprili, Wrong Move, The Hateful Eight, Accident, Bubble, Confidentially Yours, The Forgotten Faces, My Best Fiend, The Panic in Needle Park, Peppermint Frappé, Space Is the Place, Sweet & Lowdown, Sympathy for the Devil, The White Bus

2015: The Witches, The Shout, Cat People (1982), La Cabina, Italianamerican, The Hudsucker Proxy, La Lune à un Mètre, The Perfect Human, Giants & Toys, All the Boys Are Called Patrick, Dogma, Film Film Film, Great (Isambard Kingdom Brunel), Slaughterhouse-Five, They Call Me Trinity, The Station Agent, Broken Flowers, Match Point, Idiocracy, Burn After Reading, Bernie, Inherent Vice, Cat Soup

2014: Bob Roberts, Live Flesh, Chuck & Buck, The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, Rock 'n' Roll High School, WarGames, Tommy, Silent Movie, Lost in La Mancha, Kingpin, I'll Never Forget What's'isname, High Anxiety, These Are the Damned, The Meaning of Life, Rabbit Fire, Duck Rabbit Duck, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Upstream Color, Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, The Idle Class, Pay Day, Rachel Getting Married

2013: Laugh Clown Laugh, Dirty Pretty Things, Emak-Bakia, For Heaven's Sake, Blind Chance, West of Zanzibar, A Zed & Two Noughts, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Lisztomania, Steppenwolf, Made in Britain, After the Rehearsal, City of Women, Comfort & Joy, Hi Mom!, Intervista, Vicky Cristina Barcelona….

Strange but true: This may be only "favorite unofficial checks" list on ICM that does not contain any official checks.

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    Roots

    1977, in 0 top lists Check
  2. 26 -

    Holocaust

    1978, in 0 top lists Check
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    American Masters: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

    2005, in 0 top lists Check
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    Sybil

    1976, in 0 top lists Check
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    American Masters: Woody Allen: A Documentary

    2011, in 0 top lists Check
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    At Play in the Fields of the Lord

    1991, in 0 top lists Check
  7. 47 -

    Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow

    1987, in 0 top lists Check
  8. 103 +1

    Ragtime

    1981, in 0 top lists Check
  9. 97 +1

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    1981, in 0 top lists Check
  10. 116 +1

    Frances

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  11. 73 +1

    The Boy Friend

    1971, in 0 top lists Check
  12. 158 +1

    Equus

    1977, in 0 top lists Check
  13. 135 +1

    The Song Remains the Same

    1976 — a.k.a. Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same, in 0 top lists Check
  14. 124 +1

    Vortex

    2021, in 0 top lists
    Check
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    Nightwatching

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
  16. 101 +1

    The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

    2018, in 0 top lists
    Check
  17. 85 +1

    Isadora

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
  18. 93 +1

    La mort en direct

    1980 — a.k.a. Death Watch, in 0 top lists Check
  19. 152 +1

    Le passé

    2013 — a.k.a. The Past, in 0 top lists Check
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    Saraba hakobune

    1984 — a.k.a. Farewell to the Ark, in 0 top lists Check
  21. 192 +1

    Valley of the Gods

    2019, in 0 top lists Check
  22. 155 +1

    A Bigger Splash

    2015, in 0 top lists Check
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    A Wedding

    1978, in 0 top lists Check
  24. 112 +1

    Blow

    2001, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 61 +1

    Kokuhakuteki joyûron

    1971 — a.k.a. Confessions Among Actresses, in 0 top lists Check
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    Palermo Shooting

    2008, in 0 top lists Check
  27. 127 +1

    Pleasantville

    1998, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
  29. 111 +1

    The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

    2009, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Music Lovers

    1971, in 0 top lists Check
  31. 56 +1

    Life Itself

    2014, in 0 top lists Check
  32. 92 +1

    The Last of Sheila

    1973, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Man Who Knew Too Much

    1956, in 0 top lists Check
  34. 182 +1

    Rescue Dawn

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
  35. 105 +1

    Sweet Bird of Youth

    1962, in 0 top lists Check
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    Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

    2004, in 0 top lists Check
  37. 122 +1

    The Belly of an Architect

    1987, in 0 top lists Check
  38. 72 +1

    Despair

    1978, in 0 top lists Check
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    Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief

    2015, in 0 top lists Check
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    Drowning by Numbers

    1988, in 0 top lists Check
  41. 140 +1

    Heavens Above!

    1963, in 0 top lists Check
  42. 166 +1

    Bronco Billy

    1980, in 0 top lists Check
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    Tokyo Tribe

    2014, in 0 top lists Check
  44. 102 +1

    Wonderstruck

    2017, in 0 top lists
    Check
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    Mahler

    1974, in 0 top lists Check
  46. 81 +1

    Kika

    1993, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Landlord

    1970, in 0 top lists Check
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    More

    1969, in 0 top lists Check
  49. 169 +1

    Satansbraten

    1976 — a.k.a. Satan's Brew, in 0 top lists Check
  50. 57 +1

    Tacones lejanos

    1991 — a.k.a. High Heels, in 0 top lists Check
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