I Am Cuba - it's propaganda, but visually stunning and influential
Yi Yi - to get a sense of Yang/Taiwanese film (I like it more than A Brighter Summer Day, although tbh I'm not really crazy about either. The Terrorizers is my favorite of his that I've seen)
Last Year at Marienbad - not necessarily a favorite, but there's nothing else like it. essential vision of what surrealism can look like for film
Come and See - but I'm assuming you've seen some other stuff by Bresson, Cassavetes, and Dreyer. If you haven't, then I would get moving on those
Thoughts on other stuff here:
Jeanne Dielman - I mean, you gotta watch it at some point if you have any interest in film as an art form, but there's a reason why it has such a punishing reputation
Sátántangó - I am a superfan of both Tarr and Krasznahorkai, but I wouldn't start here. There are huge chunks of the second half of this - anything at the commune - which are just painful; that said, there are parts of the first half - the part with the old drunk, the part with the young girl and the cat - which are as good as it gets. Watch it eventually
Gertrud - my favorite Dreyer
La Jetée - this is only like 20 minutes and you like sci-fi stuff, so I would just watch it alongside Sans Soleil
Of the various Cassavetes stuff here, my favorite is Opening Night
La Maman et la putain - it's fine, maybe the most stereotypical French art house film ever made
A Matter of Life and Death - I love it, maybe my favorite P&P film
Don’t Look Now - surprised you haven't seen this. it's alright, a solid high-end horror film, but not nearly as good as other stuff on this list
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