Here are my favorite art films in no particular order:

• Amelie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Elephant by Gus Van Sant
• Living in Oblivion by Tom DiCillo
• Lost in Translation by Sofia Coppola
• City of God by Fernando Meirelles
• Run Lola Run by Tom Tykwer
• Natural Born Killers by Oliver Stone
• Requiem for a Dream  by Darren Aronofsky
• Trainspotting by Danny Boyle
• Talk to Her by Pedro Almodóvar
• Chungking Express (and most Wong Kar Wai movies)
• In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar Wai
• Oro Plata Mata by Peque Gallaga
• Bayaning Third World  by Mike De Leon
• Amores Perros  by Alejandro González
• Y Tu Mama Tambien by Alfonso Cuarón
• Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino
• Clerks (and most Kevin Smith movies)
• Ma Vie en Rose by Alain Berliner
• Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore
• Il Postino  by Michael Radford
• Children of Heaven  by Majid Majidi
• Little Miss Sunshine  by Jonathan Dayton
• American Beauty  by Sam Mendes
• Se7en by David Fincher
• Fight Club  by David Fincher
• American History X by Tony Kaye
• Sin City by Frank Miller
• Battle Royale  by Kinji Fukasaku
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by Ang Lee
• Salo or the 120 days of Sodom by Pier Paolo Pasolini

MUSICAL 

• Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Tim Burton
• Dancer in the Dark  by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
• Moulin Rouge by Baz Luhrmann

HORROR/SUSPENSE

• The Ring (Ring 0, Ring 1, Ring 2 – the original version not the Hollywood one) by Norio Tsuruta
• The Eye (original version not the Hollywood version) by Norio Tsuruta
• The Others by Alejandro Amenábar
• 28 Days Later  by Danny Boyle
• 28 Weeks Later  by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

ANIMATION

• Spirited Away  by Hayao Miyazaki
• Grave of the Fireflies by Isao Takahata

Please feel free to add your favorites in the comments below.

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