My Favorite Movies

James Stewart, in the darkest, most profound and sad performance of his career, falls in love with the alluring, distant, unattainable and mesmerizing Kim Novak.
Bernard Herrmann composes a heavenly, breathtaking wagnerian symphony.
and Alfred Hitchcock, in the absolute peak of his powers, materializes the most beautiful, haunting, compelling and heart breaking tale of love that transcended any cinematic or human barrier.
my all time favorite motion picture.

The peak of italian neoralism. an incomparable masterpiece which explores the avatar of a poor family in the post war escenario. tears invaded my face the first time I saw it. and to this day still amazes me, how bitter, shocking and yet touching and beautiful this film is. one of the most powerful endings in cinema history,

Kubrick's best film. From the narrow, noisy and dirty trenches to the opulent, wide and silent high rank officers' estates. One of the most compelling and touching anti-war statements. Kirk Douglas is simply amazing here. The ending magnifies even more this true cinematic marvel.

Voyeurism and male-female struggles are the core of one of Hitchcock's most entertaining and fascinating exercises of suspense. The indisputable master of the macabre achieved one of cinema's most intriguing and witty gems.

Fabulous brit noir with great prose by novelist Graham Greene, some other ad libbed by Orson Welles himself (cuckoo clock). Expresionistic state of the art photography. Immense duo Welles-Cotten. Baroque and poetry in black and white.

the best directorial debut ever. groundbreaking masterpiece, an immense rule book for filmmakers.

Charlot's best film. An impressive and endlessly witty true cornerstone of comedy.

The peak of Kurosawa's filmography. A moral tale about existencial issues & a true cinematic genius on the use of narration and editing.

State of the art direction by Polanski. A homage that surpases a lot of Film-noirs and hard-boiled detective thrillers. one of the best and most bitter endings ever captured.

The greatest and creepiest horror film of all time!!! Polanski introduced to us a fascinating story with satanism and prepartum deliria as the main subjects. the world wouldn't be the same after this film, from a cinematic view as well as for the consecuences led by it.

Billy Wilder was unstoppable creating the sassiest and most acid masterpieces as this cruel noirish hollywood satire. William Holden and Erich Von Stroheim are always a privilege to watch, but the elderly and mentally unstable femme fatale Gloria Swanson always causes chills run down my spine. One of my unquestionable favorites.

Chaplin's most tender, sympathetic and touching masterpiece...one direct punch to the heart.

One of the greatest love stories ever captured on celluloid. A masterpiece in all the sense of the word.

horror/suspense masterpiece. Hitchcock hits the spot once again, creating one of his most eerie and captivating films. full on twists, memorable performances, as well as the best murder ever captured on screen!

The birth of the cinematic montage, more than just a propaganda film. A basic, poignant, groundbreaking masterpiece.

Fritz Lang's epic adventure. the mother of all science fiction films.

profound, existentialist and visually stunning. wisely narrated by an inspired Bergman.

Fellini's biggest achievement. a profoundly sweet and moving masterwork. exceptional performances, soundtrack, screenplay, direction. overall astonishing in every department.

Bogey's launch to stardom. top notch thriller, the first film-noir ever conceived.

visually, the most breath-taking film ever created. Anthological.

No one does it to you like Max Shreck's horrifying portrayal of the immortal walking corpse Count Nosferatu. Murnau conjures up the supernatural with immeasurable power.

Hitchcock's greatest escapism/espionage tale. charming, tongue-in-cheeck performances by Robert Donat and the icy Hitch blond Madeleine Carroll. exciting and amusing from start to finish.

I know Elia Kazan did something wrong, but it doesn't have anything to do with this powerful, moving, indisputable masterpiece. Marlon Brando stands out in the role of his life.

Lynch's kind portrait of the victorian era tale. beautiful cinematography and superb performances especially by John Hurt, full of grief and tenderness inside his makeup.

The perfect blueprint of the great heist films. a lyrical, fatalistic and bitter work, like a castle of cards. Superb from Huston expressionistic direction to Sterling Hayden's deeply felt portrayal. Marilyn Monroe never looked more beautiful.

enigmatic and bizarre nightmare, enjoyable iniciatic jouney through Lynch's perverted mind.

A classic adventure with Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston & Tim Holt as the pack of losers who sold their souls only to find countless misfortune and greed, but also laughs, pure absolute movie magic.

As beautiful and nostalgic as sad and depressing. Truffaut begins his film career with the right foot, as well as his alter ego.

Epitome of the spaghetti-western. phenomenal acting trio; epic, raw, operatic grand direction by the unique Sergio Leone, sublimed by Ennio Morricone's score, a quintaessential, perfect film-music marriage. fantastic at every level.

If Hitch ever directed a Bond film, this is it. a marvelous trip all over america's most eye-catching landscapes by the hand of the always cool Cary Grant and the angelical beauty Eva Marie Saint.

A surreal and mesmerizing trip through the conflicts surrounding the deranged life of a filmmaker, none other than Fellini himself...

Herzog's masterpiece. a deep touching, and bittersweet story of blind hope through the amazon river. phenomenal Klaus Kinski playing an enterprising man with an enormous love for the opera.

sexual and bloody tour de force. Polanski makes his own femenine, twisted and lovely to look at version of Norman Bates.

Buñuel's masterpiece is also one of the most crude and heart-breaking stories ever told about children growing up on the slums of a corrupt, violent, blind and messy city. one of the most depressive documents ever produced.

beautiful, nostalgic and touching masterpiece. best performance by Gregory Peck ever.

A heartrending drama, but also a remorseless religious satire. Buñuel sets fire on every iberic-latinamerican taboo with his characteristic twisted humour.

A small group of criminals develop a seemingly perfect heist without imagine that luck would run against them at almost every previously elaborated move. Superb and millimetrical screenwriting with colorful characters like Sterling Hayden, once again as a resolute but doomed tough guy, and Marie Windsor as a hateful femme fatale, a real bitch. Powerful, no-nonsense and precise noir masterwork by Stanley Kubrick.

Amazing Buñuel film, as paranoic, mysognist and mesmerizing as always. great performance by Arturo De Córdova. some say the bell tower scene inspired Hitchcock in the equally brilliant climax of vertigo.

Overwhelming epic production, left by Anthony Mann and assumed with undeniable talent by a then young filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. Dalton Trumbo's screenplay has priceless moments and dialogue. One of the best assembled casts in film history.

F.W Murnau's crafty direction and Emil Jenning's disturbing charm gives us a plunge into men's most dark ambition, sin and redemption.

A seminal neo-noir, one of the most powerful and violent psychologic dramas. Scorsese's master direction and Herrman's jazzy score bring a new meaning to god's lonely man...

The quintaessential mafia film. the powerful almighty Don and his sons will always be at the top of the game. an exquisite film with operatic grandeur.

Terry Gilliam's masterpiece of lyrical and ethereal imagination. Unique take on Orwell's 1984 totalitarian regime. devastating and yet uplifting ending, I tremble every time I see it.

poetic, sublime and fascinating demythologized western with superb narrative pillars. Clint Eastwood's masterpiece.

Without any doubt, a horror masterpiece. Every silence, feeling, and presence is loaded with chilling and mesmerizing power. Nicholson drives the film through the edge, as well as Kubrick's "sense and sensibility" for space and lighting. operatic, barroque and remarkable style. A must see for any horror-Kubrick afficionado.