7. The Three Colours Trilogy
It isn't all just Hollywood blockbusters up here at the top, thanks to Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy based on the French tricolor, which remains as much of a break-out experience for new audiences now, as it did when first released. The trilogy is hugely stimulating, on both an intellectual and emotional level, and the substance is met with huge stylistic and cinematic ambition, which makes the execution of the films wildly satisfying, thanks to a sumptuous richness translated in the palette and cinematography. The stories are each as arresting as the last, swaying from the brutal sentimentality of Blue, and Juliette Binoche's beareaved wife, through the more comic leanings of White, and back into more serious territories with Red, but it is the style and the artistic conviction of the films that makes them far, far more enduring than some of the more digestible films on this list.
The Uncharacteristic Low Point? White lacks the emotional depth or grand-standing power of its fellow films, though its comparative slightness perhaps shouldn't be deemed a fault, and rather just a change of focus that adds variety.