Open Culture lists the 11 films that Ingmar Bergman admired above all others:

• Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1971)
• The Circus (Charlie Chaplin, 1928)
• The Conductor (Andrzej Wajda, 1980)
• Marianne and Juliane (Margarethe von Trotta, 1981)
• The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
• The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström, 1921)
• Port of Shadows (Marcel Carné, 1938)
• Raven’s End (Bo Wilderberg, 1963)
• Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
• La strada (Federico Fellini, 1954)
• Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)