As a cinema student, I have watched a lot of movies during my life. Some to forget, some to remember, some to just pass time time. But even when I have liked a lot of movies during my entire life, I only have a selected list of movies that I consider as my favourites.
To be fair, most of my favourites movies aren't masterpieces. Some of them are pretty bad actually. But there is something in them that caught my attention every time I see them, and made me think that I'm really watching something special.
One of these movies is “Eyes without a face” which is a French movie of the 1960s and tells the story of a mad surgeon, who is constantly killing young girls to remove their facial skin and transplant them to her daughters face, that he ruined at a failed experiment. Altrought the movie has its mistakes (mostly in the script) the construction of the character arc of the vulnerable and mysterious surgeon's daughter (who always had to use a white mask to hide her face) is rather tragic and very emotional.
“Suspiria” (1977) and “Santa Sangre” (1989) are also movies that I don't really think that they are very good, but the way that they tell a rather bizarre and violent story, mixed with the music, acting, and especially the art direction made them a very unique experience to watch.
Finally, “Cabaret” (1972) and “Cría Cuervos” (1975) are probably the best movies on my list. Even when they are very different (one is a musical and the other one is a drama) I like them because they set apart of other movies of their genres using unique characters and styles. For example, in Cabaret, all of the musical numbers are part of the story and in Cría Cuervos, the drama of a death is at the eyes of a young girl who lost her parents.