How can anyone have just one favourite film? Here are some of the films that I would recommend to almost anyone.

If you want the definitive collection of great movies, visit master critic Roger Eberts great movies list.

As for my list, in no particular order:

• Grand Budapest Hotel
• Gravity
• 2001 A Space Odyssey
• Mean Streets
• Cool Hand Luke
• The Third Man
• There Will Be Blood
• Dr Strangelove
• Fitzcarraldo
• Goodfellas
• Senna
• No Country For Old Men
• Amelie
• M
• Sunset Boulevard
• Raging Bull
• El Topo
• Easy Rider
• Groundhog Day
• Old Boy
• The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie
• The Killing
• Heat
• Viridiana
• Do the right thing
• The lives of others
• Metropolis
• Vertigo
• Casablanca
• Chinatown
• Spinal Tap
• The Pianist
• The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
• Star Wars
• Withnail And I
• Aliens
• Belle De Jour
• Saturday Night Fever

TV

• Twin Peaks
• The Killing
• The Wire
• Mad Men
• Sopranos
• Bored to death
• True Detective