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Thanks for the input. (Note that this list is incomplete – more movies I haven't watched yet are in the pending and currently unwatched sections of my "Watching" tag)

Favorite films

These are in order from favorite to least favorite. I would probably watch them again if given a chance, but there's a lot that I find unappealing even now. (The first one is only the second-favorite because it was my introduction to the Sixties, and a very interesting entry point.)

1. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

2. The Day of the Dolphin (2003)

3. A Man Escaped (1956)

4. The Ninth Configuration (1980)

5. Rear Window (1954)

6. The Searchers (1956)

7. The Day of the Rope (1964)

8. The Birds (1963)

Favorite TV shows

1. Twin Peaks (David Lynch, 1990–91)

2. The Outer Limits (X-Files, 1994–2002)

3. The Invaders (David E. O'Neill, 1965–66)

4. Twin Peaks – Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch, 1992)

5. The X-Files (1994–2002)

6. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1994)

7. Twin Peaks – the Return (David Lynch, 2017)

Other

An Imaginary Life – the documentary about a surreal near-death experience (2010)

A Serious Man – film about a weird, paranoid math professor (2009)

The Bad News Bears – film about (sort of) a weird, paranoid math professor (1976–79)

The Big Lebowski – film about (sort of) a weird, paranoid math professor (1998–2010)

Boogie Nights – film about (sort of) a sex movie producer (1997)

Dark Night of the Soul – horror short (1973)

Eraserhead – experimental film (1977)

Hausu – Japanese erotic comic (1959–62)

Hoopoe – experimental film (1958)

Last Year in Marienbad – film about (sort of) a weird, paranoid math professor (2009)

Mad Love – Korean film about a sad woman (1990)

Melancholia – "scary" sci-fi film (2011)

Pi – mathematics art film (2008)

Solaris – sci-fi film, sort of, with a bunch of weird, paranoid math professors

The Stunt Man – film about a wacky stunt double (1963)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit – film about (sort of) a wacky stunt double (1951)

Yojimbo – film about (sort of) a wacky stunt double, in a post-WWII era where there's a lot of weird, paranoid math professors

(Some of these might not be technically movies or TV but are still sort of movies or TV, e.g. "film." Or "sort of" movies or TV, e.g. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.)