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## On the 7th Art ### Top 10 (circa 2025) * Pulp Fiction * Matrix 1 * Oppenheimer * Lost in Translation * Midsommar * 12 Angry Men * Blade Runner * The Thin Red Line * 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, 28 Years Later * Stand by Me ### Canonical * Ex Machina * The Shining * Mulholland Drive * The Seventh Seal * Solaris * Fight Club * Donnie Darko * Reservoir Dogs * Everything Everywhere All at Once * Stranger than Paradise * Waking Life * The Wicker Man * Taxi Driver * Interview with the Vampire * Hereditary * Metropolis * The Apprentice * Wild Strawberries * Dr. Strangelove * High Fidelity * Kiki's Delivery Service * Arrival * Civil War * Flatliners * Before Sunrise * Hackers * Frankenstein * Le Fabuleux Destin d'AmΓ©lie Poulain * Apocalypse Now * Requiem for a Dream * Dracula * Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind * The Wizard of Oz * The Warriors * Life is Beautiful * City of God * Suspiria (both) * The Usual Suspects * Magnolia * La Dolce Vita * Rear Window * Oldboy (both) * Tron (all) * Nosferatu (both) * The Lost Boys * Stalker * Jacob's Ladder * 8 1/2 * Run Lola Run * Shutter Island * Abre Los Ojos * Rosemary's Baby * A Dark Song * Beetlejuice * The Castle of Otranto * Cinema Paradiso * Dreams * The Craft * Trainspotting * Clockwork Orange * Sunset Blvd * From Dusk Till Dawn * Contempt (Le MΓ©pris) * Ghost in the Shell * John Wick 1-4 * Pan's Labyrinth * Land of the Dead (both) * The Virgin Suicides * Blue Velvet * Citizen Kane * Ordinary People * The Big Lebowski * Being John Malkovich * Terminator 1 and 2 * The Exorcist * 2001: A Space Odyssey * The Green Mile * Casablanca * The Shawshank Redemption * Spirited Away * Amores Peros * Labyrinth * Office Space * True Romance * Kill, Baby... Kill * Monty Python and the Holy Grail * Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels * Birds * Eyes Wide Shut * Modern Times * American Story X * Back to the Future 1, and 2 * Chinatown * What We Do In the Shadows * The Godfather 1, 2, and 3 * Night Watch * The Fountain * Vertigo * Snatch * Gone with the Wind * American Beauty * Goodfellas * Frida * Bonnie & Clyde * A Scanner Darkly * Total Recall * IrrΓ©versible * Slumdog Millionaire * WarGames * 30 Days of Night * Alien 1 * Se7en * Central do Brasil * The Tree of Life * The Unbearable Lightness of Being * There will Be Blood * Todo Sobre Mi Madre * Devil's Advocate * Videodrome * Downfall * Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas * Jurassic Park 1 * They Live * 23 * Thelma & Louise * Dune (maybe all of them) * Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid * The Dark Knight * Inception * Parasite * Do The Right Thing * The Sixth Sense * The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly * 12 Monkeys * Cronos * Serenity * Catch Me If You Can * The Truman Show * Malcolm X * Lady Bird * Starship Troopers * Natural Born Killers * LΓ©on: The Professional * M * Punch Drunk Love * Misery * Cargo * Empire Records * Fargo * Pi * Soylent Green * O Que e Isso Companheiro? * Sin City * Mary and Witch's Flower * Schindler's List * Breaking the Waves * Punch-Drunk Love * The Ninth Gate * Joker 1 and 2 * Sinners ### Supplementary * Thunderbolts * The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare * Cruel Intentions * District 9 * Castle in the Sky * Koyaanisqatsi * Point Break * My Neighbor Totoro * Before the Devil Knows You're Dead * The Love Witch * Paranormal Activity * The Rocky Horror Picture Show * La La Land * The Gorge * The Ugly Stepsister * Don't Look Up * The Big Short * Weapons * Black Swan * Coraline * The Life of Bryan * The Blair Witch Project * Goodbye, Lenin * Across the Universe * Elite Squad * Midnight in Paris * I'm Still Here * The Nightmare Before Christmas * Star Wars (maybe up to VI) * End of Days * Riff Raff *** ## On Books * GΓΆdel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, * Kafka on the Shore * [The Myth of Sisyphus](https://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/Albert_Camus_The_Myth_of_Sisyphus_Complete_Text_.pdf) * The Dispossessed * The Left Hand of Darkness * Animal Farm and 1984 * Brave New World * Neuromancer * The Doors of Perception * Little Brother * The Aleph and Fictions * Heart of Darkness * Love in the Time of Cholera * The Brothers Karamazov * One Hundred Years of Solitude * The Three-Body Problem * Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? * Lost Paradise * The Hero with Thousand Faces * Lord of the Flies * [Unsong](https://unsongbook.com/) * Gravity's Rainbow * I, Robot * Alice's Adventures in Wonderland * The Catcher in the Rye * The Call of Cthulhu * The Divine Comedy * Foucault's Pendulum * Love Is a Dog From Hell * Foundation * The Metamorphosis * A Song of Ice and Fire * Ready Player One * The Little Prince * Dracula * Hamlet * The Time Machine * Ulysses * Faust * Frankenstein * Crime and Punishment * The Republic * The Raven *** ## On Graphic Novels * Watchmen * Sandman * V for Vendetta * The Walking Dead * From Hell * Y: The Last Man * Swamp Thing * Hellblazer * Death Note * The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic * One Piece *** ## On TV * The Twilight Zone * The Billion Dollar Code * Game of Thrones * Cowboy Bebop * Stranger Things S1 * American Horror Story S3 * Breaking Bad * Twin Peaks * Goosebumps * X-Files * White Lotus * Death Note * Lost * Sailor Moon * Buffy * Misfits * The Office * Black Mirror * Orzak * Battlestar Galactica * The Venture Bros * Chernobyl * Firefly * Rick and Morty S1 * Sopranos * House * Mr. Robot S1 * Heroes S1 * Sense8 S1 * The Walking Dead S1 * What We Do in the Shadows * Sponge Bob * The Queen's Gambit * The Wire S1 * The Haunting of Hill House * The Last of Us S1 * The Sandman * Kaos * Murderbot * Wednesday *** ## Cool Lists * [**2025 Top Must Watch Zombie Movies**](https://samhain.vonsteinkirch.com/doors/11.html) * [**2025 Top Must Watch Vampire Movies**](https://samhain.vonsteinkirch.com/doors/5.html) * [**Classic Movies to Watch with Our Kids**](https://gist.github.com/von-steinkirch/f45a57b69ac66076bc367b4ea005dd9c) * [**Classic American Movies For Thanksgiving**](https://gist.github.com/von-steinkirch/6296159fdd7afd6dcce182effb819b9f)