Simply put, I enjoy watching movies. Below I list some of my favourite non-Hollywood, non-Indian movies: Andrei Tarkovsky There is this ethereal quality to his films. Almost like poetry in celluloid. And quite often, like poetry, very obscure and yet enjoyable. Favourites: Solyaris, Mirror, Stalker Nostalghia, The Sacrifice, My Name is Ivan Federico Fellini Favourites: 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita Amarcord Ingmar Bergman Favourites: Wild Strawberries, Seventh Seal, The Silence, Autumn Sonata Persona, Smiles of a Summer Night Akira Kurosawa Favourites: Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Ikiru Yojimbo, Kagemusha Krystof Kieslowski Favourites: Three Colors: Blue Three Colors: Red, Three Colors: White Francois Truffaut Favourites: 400 Blows Shoot the Piano Player Jean Luc Goddard Favourites: My Life to Live, Breathless, Band of Outsiders, Contempt Masculin Feminin, Pierrot Le Fou Vittorio De Sica The ultimate neo-realist. Favourites: Bicycle Thieves, Umberto D Michaelangelo Antonioni L'Avventura, Blowup Pedro Almodovar Favourites: All About My Mother, Talk to Her Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Luis Bunuel Favourites: The Exterminating Angel Viridiana, Los Olvidados, Belle de Jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Henri-Georges Clouzot The Wages of Fear Fritz Lang Metropolis Abbas Kiarostami Interesting perspectives on death in these two movies. Favourites: The Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us Closeup Majid Majidi Favourites: Children of Heaven Wim Wenders Favourites: Wings of Desire Paris Texas Jacques Demy Favourites: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (I never realized musicals could be so interesting before I saw this film) Emir Kusturica Unique imagination. Specially, in Underground the absurdity of the story was fascinating. Favourites: Time of the Gypsies, Underground Yasujiro Ozu Favourites: Tokyo Story Wong-Kar Wai Favourites: In the Mood for Love Ashes of Time Yimou Zhang The Road Home ranks as one of the most exquisite romantic movies I have ever seen. Favourites: The Road Home Werner Herzog Favourites: Aguirre - Wrath of God Claude Chabrol Favourites: The Butcher Story of Women Roberto Rossellini Favourites: Open City Voyage in Italy Andre Techine My Favourite Season Hiroshi Teshigahara Favourites: Woman in the Dunes Marco Bellocchio Henry IV Atom Egoyan The Sweet Hereafter Andrzej Wajda A sincere portrait of Stalinist Poland in Man of Marble Favourites: Man of Marble Misc. Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen), Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore), The Shop on the Main Street (Jan Kadar, Elmar Klos)