When You Can't Go On: Burnout, Reckoning and Renewal

Global Crisis, National Renewal: A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the U.S.

A Hacker's Teleology: Sharing the Wealth of Our Shrinking Planet

Will You Be Richer or Poorer?: Profit, Power and A.I. in a Traumatized World

Pathfinding our Destiny: Preventing the Final Fall of Our Democratic Republic

The Adventures of the Consulting Philosopher: The Disappearance of Drake

Money and Work Unchained

Inequality and the Collapse of Privilege

Why Our Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform

A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All: The Future Belongs to Work That Is Meaningful

Get a Job, Build a Real Career and Defy a Bewildering Economy

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History

The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, And Environment

The Second Tour (a novel of the Vietnam War)

Ayurvedic Nutrition

Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence

The Endangered American Dream

Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

The Rise of the Creative Class Life

Escape from Freedom

Horsemen of the Red Hand: Book Two of the Operation SERF Trilogy

God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World

Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction

Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution

The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization

Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

Deschooling Society (Ivan Illich)

War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning (Chris Hedges)

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (Chris Hedges)

Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire)

Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture

Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations

False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism

Get Ready!: Preparing for the Coming Catastrophe

Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines

How To Bury Your Goods: The Complete Manual of Long Term Underground Storage

Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of The Christ

Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication

China: Fragile Superpower

China: The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know Now About the Emerging Superpower

China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy

The Blind Watchmaker

Conspiracy World: A Truthteller's Compendium of Eye-Opening Revelations an d Forbidden Knowledge

Democracy: The God that Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order

The Unknown Battle of Midway: The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons

Survival+: Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation

Survival+ The Primer

Modernism: The Lure of Heresy

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown

The (Mis)behavior of Markets

The Fourth Turning

The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change

The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

The End of Work

Survival+: Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation

The Collapse of Complex Societies

Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy

ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism

Greed, Fraud & Ignorance: A Subprime Insider's Look at the Mortgage Collapse

Planet of Slums

Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects

Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front

Coercion

Globalization and Its Discontents

The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War

When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era

Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader

The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures

The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies

The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future

The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

Who Rules America? Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance

Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes

The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age

Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence

China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy

The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge To China's Future
by Elizabeth C. Economy
The Future of Life
by E. O. Wilson
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Mao's War against Nature : Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China
by Judith Shapiro
China's New Rulers: The Secret Files
by Andrew J. Nathan and Bruce Gilley
China Wakes : The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
by Nicolas D. Kristof
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
The River at the Center of the World : A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
by Simon Winchester
The Good Women of China : Hidden Voices by Xinren Xue
Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang
Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine
by Jasper Becker
BIG DRAGON : The Future of China: WHAT IT MEANS FOR BUSINESS, THE ECONOMY, AND THE GLOBAL ORDER
by Daniel Burstein
Mao : The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
The Private Life of Chairman Mao
by Li Zhi-Sui
The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security
by Andrew J. Nathan
China Dawn: The Story of a Technology and Business Revolution
by David Scheff
Streetlife China
by Michael Dutton
China's New Order : Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition by Hui Wang
Red Sorrow: A Memoir
by Nanchu
The Dragon Syndicates: The Global Phenomenon of the Triads
The China Dream: The Quest for the Last Great Untapped Market on Earth by Joe Studwell

Essential Books
Ages of Discord

The (Mis)behavior of Markets

Escape from Freedom

Boiling Point (Global Warming)

Our Stolen Future: How We Are Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival
How We Know What Isn't So

Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future
The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

The Future of Life
Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak

The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World

The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future
The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures

Running On Empty: How The Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It
Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated .
The Fourth Turning

The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History

War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires

Urban Planning
How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (James Howard Kunstler)

Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century (James Howard Kunstler)

The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition (James Howard Kunstler)

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

Streets for People: A Primer for Americans

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity

Global City Blues

The New Transit Town: Best Practices In Transit-Oriented Development

Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit

Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings (1886)

Planet of Slums

The Works: Anatomy of a City

When You Can't Go On: Burnout, Reckoning and Renewal

Global Crisis, National Renewal: A (Revolutionary) Grand Strategy for the United States

A Hacker's Teleology: Sharing the Wealth of Our Shrinking Planet

Will You Be Richer or Poorer? Profit, Power and A.I. in a Traumatized World

Pathfinding our Destiny: Preventing the Final Fall of Our Democratic Republic

Money and Work Unchained

Inequality and the Collapse of Privilege

Why Our Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform

A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All: The Future Belongs to Work That Is Meaningful

Get a Job, Build a Real Career and Defy a Bewildering Economy

The Nearly Free University and the Emerging Economy: The Revolution in Higher Education

Resistance, Revolution, Liberation: A Model for Positive Change

Why Things Are Falling Apart and What We Can Do About It

An Unconventional Guide to Investing in Troubled Times

Survival+: Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation

Survival+ The Primer

Weblogs & New Media: Marketing in Crisis

Novels

The Adventures of the Consulting Philosopher: The Disappearance of Drake

Four Bidding For Love

Claire's Great Adventure

Kama Sutra Cadillac

Of Two Minds

Verona in Spring

For My Daughter

I-State Lines

How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower (Adrian Goldsworthy)

War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires (Peter Turchin)

The Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire (Anthony Everitt)

428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire (Giusto Traina)

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Jack Weatherford)

Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (Judith Herrin)

Venice: A New History (Thomas F. Madden)

The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization (Thomas Homer-Dixon)

The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third

The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire

The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000

1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

Diet/Nutrition/Food
Ayurvedic Nutrition

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health

The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Food, Inc. (film)

King Corn (film)

Super Size Me (film)

Fast Food Nation (film)

Fast Food Nation (book)

Diet for a Small Planet

Rats in the Grain: The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland, the Supermarket to the World

The Informant: A True Story

Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture

Cook Food: A Manualfesto for Easy, Healthy, Local Eating

The obesity epidemic can be viewed visually via this slideshow map of the U.S.:

Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Obesity Trends 1985-2007

Cooking/Culinary Arts
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol

Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (Mary Enig and Sally Fallon)

Eat Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans Fats (Sally Fallon)

The Mcdougall Quick and Easy Cookbook: Over 300 Delicious Low-Fat Recipes You Can Prepare in Fifteen Minutes or Less

The Mcdougall Program: 12 Days to Dynamic Health

The Mcdougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss

Curried Favors: Family Recipes from South India
by Maya Kaimal Macmillan

Ayurvedic Nutrition

Self-Sufficiency/Gardening
When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency by Matthew Stein

Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times
Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance

Just in Case Kathy Harrison

The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City

Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front Sharon Astyk

It's a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (Not So) Simple Life

Depression 2.0: Creative Strategies for Tough Economic Times
Disclosure: I contributed a chapter to this book.

Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm Management

Food Security for the Faint of Heart

How to Build Animal Housing: 60 Plans for Coops, Hutches, Barns, Sheds, Pens, Nestboxes, Feeders, Stanchions, and Much More

The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse

How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It
A Nation of Farmers: Defeating the Food Crisis on American Soil

The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure

Rainwater Collection for the Mechanically Challenged

The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization

Deschooling Society

Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health

Disabling Professions

Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Against Method
Creativity and Taoism
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey
Thinking about the Unthinkable
End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation

The Wisdom of Crowds

Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
The Ethics of Identity
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
The Ethics of Authenticity
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States
The Fourth Turning
Politics of Experience
The Divided Self
Reason & Violence
The Rhythm of War
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View

The Sense of Being Stared At: And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

Firing Back: Against the Tyranny of the Market

Acts of Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market

The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches

Tristes Tropiques

Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics

Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology

Unpopular Essays Bertrand Russell

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis E.O. Wilson

Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Toward Self-Realization Karen Horney

The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine James Le Fanu M.D.

Minds, Brains and Science John Searle

Who am I? The 16 Basic Desires that Motivate Our Actions and Define Our Personalities Steven Reiss

How The World Really Works Alan Jones

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kunstler

Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health
Dr. J. Douglas Bremner, M.D.

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations

The Great Transformation

The Nature of Mass Poverty

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Science As a Vocation, Politics As a Vocation Max Weber

Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion :

Propaganda

The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization

Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)

The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization

The Misbehavior of Markets

The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation

Irrational Exuberance
Bait And Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America ,
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader
The Paradox of Plenty: Hunger in a Bountiful World
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World

Greed, Fraud & Ignorance: A Subprime Insider's Look at the Mortgage Collapse

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures

Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

How The World Really Works

The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
David Hackett Fischer

World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability

Web of Debt

Fooled by Randomness

The Richest Man in Babylon

While America Aged: the Next Financial Crisis

The Road to Serfdom
F. A. Hayek

When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era

Globalization and Its Discontents Joseph Stiglitz

This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation

The Rich and the Super-Rich, A Study in the Power of Money Today (out of print, used copies only)

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy Joseph Schumpeter

Who Rules America? Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance

Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes

The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age

The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern

The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny

A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War

Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson

The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
For God and Glory: Lord Nelson and His Way of War

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Summons of the Trumpet: U.S.-Vietnam in Perspective

What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror
State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism

Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude

I Will Bear Witness 1942-1945: A Diary of the Nazi Years

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

Scouting on Two Continents
Frederick Russell Burnham

Burning Daylight
Jack London

Fiction/Novels
The Enigma of Arrival
The Confidence-Man
Heart of the Matter
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values .
I-State Lines
Walk On, Bright Boy
Don Quijote (trans. Raffel/Norton)
Stones from the River

The Annotated Lolita (This is "Lolita" by Nabokov but in an annotated edition I found useful)

Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man

Moby-Dick

Kokoro Natsume Soseki

The Makioka Sisters Junichiro Tanizaki

The Counterfeiters Andre Gide

L'Assommoir Emile Zola

The Fall Albert Camus

Notes From Underground Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Rainbow D.H. Lawrence

The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad

World Made by Hand
by James Howard Kunstler

Poetry
Essential Haiku
The Spring of My Life: And Selected Haiku (Issa)

Culture/Marketing
The Kimono Mind: an informal guide to Japan and the Japanese

One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America
The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes

Weblogs & New Media: Marketing in Crisis

Music (books)
The Year the Music Died, 1964-1972: A Commentary on the Best Era of Pop Music, and an Irreverent Look at the Musicians and Social Movements of the Time
Dwight Rounds

Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture by Gavan Daws and Jac Holzman

Burning Daylight
Jack London

The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism Is Seducing America

The Visitor
Piratical Nonsense (Pirates of the Caribbean II)
A Real Pirate Movie: Captain Blood
The Road Home
American Splendor
The World of Apu
Sea of Love
Lost Horizon
All About My Mother
Oldboy
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media
(documentary)
Little Miss Sunshine
All the President's Men
Network

In the Heat of the Night

Modern Japanese films:

Sex and Fury

Ghost in the Shell
(animation)

Ghost in the Shell 2 - Innocence
(animation)

Spirited Away
(animation)

Howl's Moving Castle
(animation)

My Neighbor Totoro
(animation)

American Splendor
U.S.A.

The Visitor
U.S.A.

All About My Mother
Spain

The World of Apu
India

Iron Ladies
Thailand

The Mirror
Iran

Lessons of Darkness
Germany (documentary)

My Neighbor Totoro
Japan (animation)

I'm Not Scared
Italy

My Father's Glory
France

Siberiade
Russia

The Bicycle Thief
(1949) Vittorio De Sica

I'm Not Scared
(2003) Gabriele Salvatores

Christ Stopped at Eboli
(1979) Francesco Rosi

Nights of Cabiria
(1957) Federico Fellini

8 1/2
(1963) Federico Fellini

1900
(1977) Bernardo Bertolucci

The Best of Youth
(2003) Marco Tullio Giordana

Don't Move
(2004) Sergio Castellitto

Il Postino (The Postman)
(1995) Michael Radford

The Legend of 1900
(1998) Giuseppe Tornatore

Amarcord
(1974) Federico Fellini

La Strada
(1954) Federico Fellini

The Last Kiss
(2001) Gabriele Muccino

Malena
(2000) Giuseppe Tornatore

Cinema Paradiso
(1990) Giuseppe Tornatore
Other Italian films worth seeing:

Umberto D.
(1952) Vittorio De Sica

Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow
(1964) Vittorio De Sica

Le Notti Bianche (White Nights)
(1961) Luchino Visconti

French films

Three Colors Trilogy (Blue / White / Red) ("Trois Colours")

Amelie

A Man and a Woman

My Father's Glory

My Mother's Castle

The Fanny Trilogy (Marius/Fanny/Cesar)