1001 Movies You Must See

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

2009-09-15T09:41:00.000-07:00

Here's your pitch: restless dad sees UFO, chases UFO, boards UFO. Sounds like a blockbuster, doesn't it?

Not to poo poo, but how do you root for the dad when he's leaving his wife and kids behind to hitch a ride with aliens? Maybe this is why Steven Spielberg doesn't write his scripts anymore.

Legend has it that this is the loudest film in cinematic history. Might be. My speakers are not the loudest in the world, let alone the county, so I have to take Wikipedia's word for it. There's plenty of sound and fury going on, climaxing with a righteous keyboard jam between a scientist-musician and the Mothership (which is not only loudest but also the biggest mother-loving spacecraft of them all); throw Frank Zappa in there and it could be a concert album.

Still, even at the beck of sweet, maximum decibel electronica, dad comes off as an anti-hero. He leaves his family behind to explore the stars without so much as saying goodbye. This is unusual for a Spielberg film, who ordinarily gives us a fleshed-out but scrupulous protagonist. Remember Schindler's weepfest, or Indiana Jones tsk-tsking government meddling? We don't get that here, and I can't decide if it's a good thing.

One thing's sure: you would never see that happen now. At the very least his wife and kids would be there for a hug session. They might even go with him, setting the stage for the sequel: Earth Parents are Easy, Close Encounters 2: Parent Harder, or the crossover smash of the century, Indiana Jones and the Musical Mothership, in which an elderly Indy takes to the stars on the ultimate rescue mission that leads him to discover the source of the music of the spheres.

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

2009-08-20T07:15:00.000-07:00

Not to be confused with The Killing of a Chinese Wookiee...

If you've never seen a John Cassavetes' film, this is a good start. Many of his pictures are brilliant, though other Cassavetes classics like A Woman Under the Influence and Husbands meander and test a viewer's patience; Killing stands out for its straightforward narrative. The long takes and seemingly-extemporaneous dialogue (Cassavetes' films are tightly-scripted, the actors only appear to be improvising), rough edits, natural lighting, and selective use of music overdubbing are all here, guerilla filmmaking at its best.

The documentary aesthetic inserts you right into the action and gives the story of Cosmo Vitale a raw immediacy. He is paying off a mob debt when the film opens, only to go out with the most beautiful dancers from his strip club and get in over his head again. Things develop and he cannot so easily pay off his debt this time: the mob wants him to pull a hit on the competition, a local Chinese wookiee... sorry, bookie.

It isn't the plot that sets this film apart; it's the presentation. Ben Gazzara plays the lead to devastating effect, all swagger when confronting his girls but once away from them cycling through levels of existential despair provoked by urban realities crashing around him. He rebounds from one threat to another with painful intimacy, the camera like a cosmic eye capturing this mortal at his worst, yet the film is not so much concerned what he does as it is with how and why.

Center of the storm is Cosmo's strip club, a macabre joint closer to a saucy circus than anything truly raunchy -which, in the gritty context, is surprising. The dancers are coy, putting on airs and costumes, as an MC right out of vaudeville sings them from Paris to Potterdam. Mr Imagination serves as a kind of moral compass, in a pivotal scene fed up with the lack of appreciation he's getting because, let's face it, he's a freak.

No, Cosmo argues, you're not a freak, but Mr Imagination isn't having it: he's a freak and by inference so is Cosmo.

Part of what makes the film so great is Cassavetes' ability to carry this scene. Even in writing it down, I can't deny it sounds weird, but in the context of the film it becomes something truly beautiful. In calling his protagonist a freak, we hear the echo of Nietszche, saying not "freak" but "human, all too human". Which is a subject so rarely tackled in film anymore, the burden of simply being a man.

Audition

2009-07-14T09:40:00.000-07:00

"Sneaky" Miike, director deluxe of transgressive film, delivers one of most restrained visions of horror with Audition. Generally known for his lack of subtlety in films like Ichi the Killer (which a video store clerk introduced to me by promising to clap if I made it to the end) and Visitor Q, Takashi Miike is a prolific powerhouse, producing up to 4 movies a year in his native Japan. The level of quality varies, and he has made some stinkers; when he hits the mark, it is always a bullseye.

The premise is Hitchcockian, which is to say deceptively simple: a widower's film producer friend sets up auditions for his new wife, which lead him to meet a beautiful woman with a mysterious past. During their first date, he is naturally curious to know more about who she is, to which the woman responds, "If I told you the truth, you might think I'm a heavy woman."

His producer friend has a bad feeling and warns the man to stay away. "What's wrong with her?" asks the hapless suitor, whom we know by dint of movie logic must pursue the woman no matter how dangerous she appears. "Something chemical," answers the producer.

This is as fitting a description for Miike films as I've heard: there is something chemically wrong with them. Initially I thought they were weird because of a cultural gap, that his work was so "Japanese" that I as an occidental was excluded from its finer aspects. Having watched a bounty of his films, my conclusion is that even Japanese must find these stories disturbing and alien. They are endowed with a wicked chemical imbalance that gets under your skin and pollutes your blood, reaching your brain and exploding with dream-like urgency.

Audition is no different. It is presented with uncharacteristic restraint, which lends it a hypnotizing allure. Nevertheless, this is a film I recommend with strong cautions for those with sensitive stomachs.

Planet of the Apes

2009-07-01T08:51:00.000-07:00

What a preachfest! Charlton Heston arrives on Planet Ape like the second coming of the Ugly American. Mark that; he's bigger than his country of origin, as displayed by his laughter at the US flag marking the rough gravesite of a fallen comrade. This is the Ugly Human in all his notorious glory.

Beholding mute humanoids foraging in green fields, Heston preens and declares, "In six months, we'll be running this planet." Earlier he complains that there has to be something in the universe better than man. "Has to be," he says, chomping on the bitter end of a shrunken cigar and manfully adjusting the bandanna tied around his neck, as if anticipating his coming slavery at the paws of the planet's true masters.

Which are we to believe, that he wants a better world or to run it? Rather than delve that deeply into his character, the screenplay is content to tantalize us with broad assertions from the Ugly Human.

Don't think he's heartless. Heston tells his mute love interest, a brunette bombshell in the latest style of revealing fur sash, "Lots of lovemaking, but no love. That was the world we made." You can hear the ache in his throat as he realizes this painful home truth. Better, if you ask me, that he had taken the advice given later at an otherwise comical ape funeral: "Weep if you must, but make an end of sorrow."

A poignant moment in this classic science fiction film which has nevertheless aged gracelessly is Heston's attempts to write a note to his ape slave masters. Cornelius, head scientist of the ape colony and all-around grump, sees the note and takes it for himself, reading it when no one else can see. How fortunate that he can read English, since Heston's written cry for help is legible enough to him that Cornelius promptly disposes of the note.

"Maybe he's intelligent," Cornelius says of Heston, "but he's also crazy!"

Planet of the Apes was made in the 1968, at the height of countercultural fervor, and this mood permeates the film. In a moment of self-reflection, Heston asks rhetorically (the Ugly Human only speaks in rhetoric), "If man was superior, why didn't he survive?" This line is played for pathos but comes across now as dated and self-pitying from a figure who lacks the depth of character to come up with a satisfactory answer. Which is too bad, because Charlton Heston was a civil rights activist and boldly stood up against the Establishment before it was popular to do so: to see him reduced to this thuggish and preachy misanthrope is a real shame.

Fight Club

2009-05-18T11:22:00.001-07:00

Tyler Durden is the gonzo messiah.

Psycho

2009-04-19T22:20:00.000-07:00

This weekend we finally figured out how to hook up my laptop to our TV. Hundreds of movies are available online with our Netflix subscription, but we've never really taken advantage this feature because who wants to watch a movie on a laptop? Well no more.

Thus we embarked on an old-school horror spree with three classic films: The Fly (1958), House on Haunted Hill (1959) and Psycho (1960). The first two films (both starring Vincent Price) were entertaining in a classic B movie sort of a way, but neither of them could hold a candle to Psycho. Perhaps that is why Psycho is the only one of the three that appears on The List.

One of Alfred Hitchcock's most famous movies, Psycho stands the test of time as one of the best movies ever made. One of the film's highlights is Anthony Perkins' brilliant performance as the seemingly innocent yet disturbed Norman Bates. I find the very last image of the film, of Norman's creepy smile into the directly into the camera, to be particularly memorable and unsettling.

And of course there is the cinematography. So much as already been written on this subject that I will not dwell on it here. Suffice it to say that from the infamous shower scene to the creepy shots of the old Bates house on the hill, Psycho masterfully keeps the viewer in suspense to the very end of the movie.

Footlight Parade

2009-04-19T10:29:00.000-07:00

Greetings from your 1930s film reviewer, Jonathan Shaw! I'll be covering the '30s films from the "1001 Movies You Must See" list. There are 87 of them, so this should keep me busy for a while. As we find ourselves in the first depression since the 30s (no one's calling it a depression now, but you can guarantee they'll use the term eventually), I thought it'd be interesting to explore the films from the last depression.

So, Footlight Parade (1933) takes a little getting used to. James Cagney's explosive, high-velocity speaking cadence is often impossible to follow. After I switched the subtitles on, though, I was generally able to keep up. Even still, there are jokes that were inexplicable. And there are expressions that a web search yields nary an insight into ("oh nerts!" for example.)

Sprinkled throughout the film are references to changes afoot in the entertainment industry at the time. The Hays Code -- a set of film censorship guidelines -- was in effect, but wasn't fully enforced until 1934. Footlight Parade pokes fun at all this via a character who's a bumbling on-set censorship "cop," appointed by nepotism, announcing himself with a comical double-clap, and easily seduced by the scheming Vivian Rich ("I was just showing Miss Rich what you can't do in Kalamazoo," he explains weakly when the two of them are caught in an amorous embrace.)

After a half hour or so, I found myself pulled into the plot. James Cagney's character, Chester Kent, is a partner in a broadway production firm who's trying to cope with the shift to talking pictures. His idea: musical on-stage prologues that show before films. You can't help but feel sympathetic for him after you learn that his other two partners are siphoning off all the firm's profits (through some "creative accounting") while he's working himself ragged to produce truly crowd-pleasing fare.

One of these ideas is a "prosperity unit" -- which, again, a web search taught me nothing on -- but what I inferred was a sort of "be optimistic and remember the good old days of the booming 20s" song-and-dance routine. Cagney espies a group of girls rehearsing for a prosperity unit and he intervenes: "this is a prosperity unit! Show some life and some pep! *Dance* on your feet, don't die on them!" He then takes the opportunity to show them how it's done (the dude has some serious energy..)

But, casting a glance at their fretful dance instructor, one of the dancers counters "how can we look 'prosperity' when he's got depression all over that can of his?" And they decide to switch gears -- to the absurdly comical (cat-themed performances) and an absolutely over-the-top waterworld fantasy (right) with suggestive nymphs frolicking, smiling, and swimming in a variety of undulating geometric formations.

You get a sense, then, of what Americans in 1933 -- contending with a staggeringly high unemployment rate of 25% -- wanted to see in their films. They didn't want preachy "prosperity units" (whatever those were), and they didn't want imbecilic censorship rules (but those started getting enforced anyway, in 1934).

What they got in this film, instead, was an extravagant escape fantasy, brimming over with courageous defiance (Cagney stands up to his corrupt partners), sexual innuendo, and savvy commentary on the times. I finished up the film feeling hopeful and happy. No wonder people ate it up in 1933.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

2009-04-16T07:10:00.001-07:00

Mickey Rooney has been gracious enough to take some time from his gardening tool expo tour to talk about his cousin Ed's role in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

1001: Did you know beforehand he would be in the movie?

Mickey Rooney: It was after. I was in Verona for a production of The Magic Flute and hadn't known he was in movies until these calls start coming in, saying I had to see him, he was really good. So, I saw the movie dubbed in Italian.

1001: No subtitles?

MR: It sounded like they used a girl to dub his voice. But the performance is so strong, it didn't matter. I know a thing or two about voices and it didn't bother me -because I was so proud of Ed, he'd really made it. What a great role for him, in such a popular movie!

1001: Ferris Bueller was very influential in the 80's.

MR: I wouldn't know, honestly that decade's a wash. It was opera all the time for me then; I lived for opera.

1001: Did you talk to Ed?

MR: I called him, of course, and said what a wonderful part it was, really playing to his strengths. He was always uptight growing up and they really gave him the right venue. That Ferris kid really riled him up, you know?

1001: You sympathized with Ferris.

MR: Never! I wanted Ed to wring his scrawny neck. Are you kidding?

1001: Did you like the movie?

MR: Sure. I would have liked it if Ed was more prominent. He was the one who needed a day off, not that punk. To tell the truth, I probably wanted to kill that kid more than Ed! (laughs) I would have taken that beret and made him eat it, really swallow the whole thing. Ed was too soft on him!

1001: Thank you for your time...

MR: That Bueller got off easy! They should have called him 'Fairy' not Ferris, and run him over with that fancy sports car. (laughs) But Ed, my cousin, such a beautiful soul. He really got gipped in that one. He was better in Howard the Duck.

Gandhi

2009-04-08T06:00:00.000-07:00

Ever since watching the movie Slumdog Millionaire this year, I've been increasingly interested in India-themed books and movies. I realized that I just didn't know much about Indian history and culture, despite the fact that many of my colleagues are from India. I read the incredible (and, at 1400 pages, incredibly long) novel A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, which takes place a few years after the partition of India and Pakistan. The novel piqued my interest in that period of Indian history, so next on the agenda was the movie Gandhi (1982).

Gandhi tells the story of Mohatma Gandhi's struggle against British colonial rule in India
We watched Gandhi together as a family, and even though the movie was over three hours long we were held spellbound throughout the entire movie. Needless to say, I was incredibly moved by the performance of Ben Kingsley as Mohatma Gandhi.

A highly recommended movie!

Dirty Harry

2009-04-06T08:44:00.000-07:00

The Lalo Schifrin score for Dirty Harry is so very sweet, and I think it must have influenced my young brain. The last time this movie was playing on a screen in front of me, it was on brand new VHS technology and I was barely in my teens.

But I was writing about Schifrin, not the early 80's. You can look at Rollergirl's page for tales of that decade. I'm here to praise an acid jazz soundtrack many years ahead of its time.

From the opening piano riff, the score of Dirty Harry is unique. Classical music, blues, jazz and psychedelic rock woof and weave through the music, accompanying images of Clint Eastwood blowing away criminals with a hand cannon. To be honest, I was more interested in the music.

Filmed in San Francisco at the cusp of the seventies, the frenetic bass lines are perfect. The urban chaos of Harry pursuing a Zodiac-style killer is heightened by Schifrin's score, recorded in gritty mono that sounds glorious at high volume. Watch out, though: when Harry fires that Magnum revolver -"the most powerful handgun in the world"- there's enough reverb to blow out your fishtank.

The music carries on at a hot tempo, burning up the speakers and sounding fresh and timeless. In 1971 it must have sounded like it was from outer space.

Dirty Harry follows a basic template: misunderstood cop will stop at nothing to carry out his idea of justice, and Clint Eastwood plays a character that by now is quite familiar. When told that criminals have rights, Harry pithily responds, "Then the law is crazy." It's little wonder that activists called Eastwood a fascist at the time.

Many aspects of the film are controversial. It was made at a time when militant groups were in open rebellion and serial killers reaped fear across the US. Does this justify torturing criminals? The question haunts us as much now as it did then. Dirty Harry provokes by showing what one determined cop can accomplish by ignoring the rule of law. Whether or not he accomplishes anything of lasting value is up to viewers to decide.

Personally I zoned out halfway through. Many of the early scenes are entertaining, while later ones plod along to a predictable finish. Still, we kept the volume turned up to hear that sweet, sweet Lalo Schifrin score.

Dawn of the Dead

2009-03-17T06:16:00.000-07:00

My housemate doesn't like scary movies. Passing through the living room on her way out, she hunches her shoulders and covers her eyes and offers a nervous laugh. Unlike some people I know, she retains sensitivity to grisly onscreen imagery; while I wince and recoil from violence and grossness in movies, it doesn't prevent me from keeping up with quality horror cinema.

When we put on Dawn of the Dead the other night, she was headed toward the door as fast as her feet could carry her -and then stopped. "Is this-?" she started to ask, already knowing the answer. "We were talking about zombies at the bar," she continued, recounting a conversation at her drinking haunt, "and I got no end of (poop) that I haven't seen this! It's some kind of classic, isn't it?"
This is the film that started it all for me. Seeing Dawn of the Dead made such a huge impression that I've sought out zombie movies ever since. Some are good, most are dreck, but Dawn remains the best.

In this age of CGI and digital canoodling, some may wonder how it holds up. Basically a tale of survival horror, we follow four regular folks as they flee from zombies who want to eat their brains. After being chased out of the city, they take refuge at... a shopping mall.

In 1975 shopping malls were nowhere near as pervasive as they are now. The mall at which the film was shot was one of the few in the US at that time. Having our heroes take refuge there, while being threatened by mindless hordes whose only desire is to consume, it's a small leap to connect shopping to eating and fashion a wry commentary on rampant capitalism. If you want to take it that way, the subtext is there. What makes Dawn a lasting film is not so much its political content as the fact that it is a great story.

Four people versus endless hordes of the undead, set against the backdrop of a shopping mall. Good stuff, but not until marauding bikers show up does the content of the film reveal itself. The bikers are humans who have survived by wits and horsepower; leatherclad daredevils who kill people who stand in their way as casually as they dispatch zombies. The horror turns out not to be from the monsters. Once the bikers show up, the zombies become sympathetic.

This is a classic upheaval of viewer expectations and stands Dawn of the Dead above the crowd of imitators.

Videodrome

2009-03-16T13:03:00.000-07:00

Here's a film to watch if you're in the right mood. I don't often recommend David Cronenberg's Videodrome; unless a person is predisposed toward films that rattle around in your head, Videodrome can be downright disturbing. I'm surprised to find it on a "must-see" list.

James Woods plays a television producer of questionable tastes, always looking for the next big thing in transgression. When he stumbles upon an underground snuff show called Videodrome, he wants to syndicate it. Things take a turn when he begins experiencing hallucinations that steadily encroach on his life, until he is no longer sure what is real anymore. Neither is the viewer and therein lies the power of the film. Videodrome blurs the line between real and imagined to such convincing, devastating effect, its influence continues to be felt on films like The Matrix, Donnie Darko, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Woods and co-star Debbie Harry (lead singer of Blondie, in her first movie role) go to great lengths exploring the world of Videodrome, along the way encountering revolutionary optometrists and a man who exists only on VHS, as well as pushing dangerous boundaries of how far mind and body can be taxed until they break. There are developments that bewilder and unnerve, all building toward a climax that threatens reality itself.

Regardless of my surprise seeing Videodrome on this list, my respect for the film grows with each viewing. Is this because I have begun hallucinating, like a character in the film? Possibly. The central conceit that tv signals can interact dangerously with the brain and infect it with tumors is sci-fi horror par excellence, and as is becoming obvious in my contributions thus far, I don't seem to watch much else -or hallucinate about much else, however you want to paint it. Cronenberg plays into the fear of infection and twists our perceptions of what is unfolding before us on the screen; don't be surprised if after watching this you never trust a television again.

If you are not turned off by psycho-sensual imagery and wild excursions into human depravity, this is the film for you; if not, may I recommend Sense and Sensibility instead?

PS. David Cronenberg made a film called eXistenZ (1999) that is considered by some, including myself, to be a sequel to Videodrome. It doesn't rank as a "must-see" for our purposes here, but allow me to say that it is a superior viewing pleasure in every way, the work of a master who, at the time of making Videodrome (1983), was just finding his wings.

Back to the Future

2009-02-07T18:14:00.000-08:00

We recently watched the 1985 movie Back to the Future, starring Michael J. Fox, Christoper Lloyd and Crispin Glover. We interviewed Mr. B-Man, age 12 going on 13, for his opinion of this fine film.

Q: So Brendan, what did you think about Back to the Future?

A: I thought it was good considering the special effects were from 1985 and were so advanced - like the car going through time.

Q: So what did you think about the car?

A: You mean the DeLorean? The DeLorean seems good for the movie because it is a cheesy and eccentric car just like the professor and the 80s. It also looks very sci-fi which is why it makes a good time machine.

Q: What did you think you think about the fact that it was from the 80s.

A: When I think about the 1980s, Back to the Future is one of the first things I think of because it is cheesy like the 1980s. Marty's jeans jacket and jeans were very 80s, along with his neon orange vest that everyone in the 50s thought made him look like a sailor.

Q: What was one of your favorite scenes from the movie?

A: Caution Spoiler Alert!: The scene where Marty dresses up as an alien and uses a Van Halen track to make him look more futuristic in order to convince his dad George McFly to go out with his mom. That was very weird by the way. I also liked the part when he first went back into time and crashes into a barn. A family thinks he is an alien and tries to shoot him with a shotgun.

Q: Would you ever want to travel in a time machine?

A: Who wouldn't!

Q: Where would you want to go? Or when rather?

A: Hmm that's a hard one. I would go back in time so I would have more time to think about that.

And this concludes our interview with Mr. B-Man. Tune in next for more! (just kidding)

A Trip To The Moon

2009-02-04T21:58:00.000-08:00

As friends and family will attest, I am a big Science Fiction fan. And so it was with great excitement that we recently watched the first Sci-Fi film of all time, A Trip to the Moon by Georges Méliès (1902). Despite the fact that the movie has no sound and is only 14 minutes in length, it has all the elements of a great sci fi movie. A trip to space? Check. Adventurous special effects? Check. Aliens? Check.

A Trip to the Moon tells the story of a group of scientists (although they looked more like wizards than astronomers) who plan a splendid trip into outer space. They pile into a rocket and blast off, only to crash land on the face of the moon (directly into the Man of the Moon's eye, to be exact). Once on the moon they encounter an alien race of beings called Selenites and are forced to flee.

Do our intrepid explorers escape the evil clutches of the Selenites? Will they ever see the earth again? For the answers to these questions, and more, you'll have to watch A Trip To the Moon for yourself.

The Thing

2009-02-04T09:16:00.000-08:00

We watched The Thing the other night and I was amazed how well this film stands the test of time. The clock starts ticking as soon as any effects-heavy production hits the screen; like a new car, once it's off the lot value immediately begins to depreciate. It can be quite painful to revisit horror/science-fiction films of the past precisely for this reason. Not so with The Thing! The creature effects are so effective that even to this day they cause viewers to cringe and squeal -as witnessed at the recent viewing. To me, that's the sign of a good film.

Ostensibly a remake of The Thing From Another World (1954), this film takes the premise of the original and updates and expands on it. The Antarctic setting isolates a group of researchers in an icy tundra, where they find themselves at the mercy of an alien shapeshifter. As one character describes the alien, "It's wierd and pissed off, whatever it is." Add a furious winter storm and you have a recipe for one of the greatest horror films ever made.

Favorite quote, during an exchange between Macready (Kurt Russell) and Blair (Wilford Brimley):

Macready: How you doing, old boy?

Blair: I don't know who to trust.

Macready: I know what you mean, Blair. Trust's a hard thing to come by these days. Tell you what, why don't you just trust in the Lord?

Young Frankenstein

2009-02-03T06:47:00.000-08:00

From the moment you see a mysterious pair of hands wresting a box from a skeleton that refuses to let go, Young Frankenstein all but announces that it will be silly. This is, after all, a Mel Brooks film, a name associated with silly comedies. Usually I'm not the sort to go for silly, so it's a bit of mystery why I enjoy Young Frankenstein so much. Maybe it's Gene Wilder's hair, a character in and of itself, or possibly Frau Blucher, whose name creates fear in the staunchest of horse.

My favorite sequences involve the creature, when he visits the blind monk (played beautifully by Gene Hackman) and his encounter with a young girl; the latter has such a brilliant punchline that I didn't stop laughing for five minutes. For someone who rarely laughs out loud even at comedies he likes, this is epic.

The Beginning

2009-02-02T23:37:00.000-08:00

For Christmas 2008, I received a copy of the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (5th Edition). A veritable compendium of noteworthy films, the book encompasses the entire cinematic history from A Trip to the Moon (1902) through Atonement (1997). At 960 pages long, it is possibly the longest, densest, and heaviest book that I own. And I have gotten the crazy notion in my head to try to watch every single movie.

After realizing that it would take almost twenty years to watch all of the films in this book (assuming that I watch one movie per week), I realized that I needed some help. So I have assembled a team of experts to assist with this herculean undertaking. The team includes Adam (my better half), Brendan (my son), Jonathan (my brother), and Wayne (my friend). This blog will follow our progress as we attempt to watch every single movie on The List.

--katy

The List

2009-02-02T23:00:00.000-08:00

A Trip to the Moon 1902
The Great Train Robbery 1903
The Birth of a Nation 1915
Les Vampires 1915
Intolerance 1916
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1919
Broken Blossoms 1919
Way Down East 1920
Within Our Gates 1920
The Phantom Carriage 1921
Orphans of the Storm 1921
The Smiling Madame Beudet 1922
Dr. Mabuse, Parts 1 and 2 1922
Nanook of the North 1922
Nosferatu, A Symphony of Terror 1922
Häxan 1923
Foolish Wives 1922
Our Hospitality 1923
The Wheel 1923
The Thief of Bagdad 1924
Strike 1924
Greed 1924
Sherlock, Jr. 1924
The Last Laugh 1924
Seven Chances 1925
The Phantom of the Opera 1925
The Battleship Potemkin 1925
The Gold Rush 1925
The Big Parade 1925
Metropolis 1927
Sunrise 1927
The General 1927
The Unknown 1927
October 1927
The Jazz Singer 1927
Napoléon 1927
The Kid Brother 1927
The Crowd 1928
The Docks of New York 1928
An Andalusian Dog 1928
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928
Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928
Storm over Asia 1928
Blackmail 1929
The Man with the Movie Camera 1929
Pandora's Box 1929
The Blue Angel 1930
The Age Of Gold 1930
Earth 1930
Little Caesar 1930
All Quiet on the Western Front 1930
Freedom For Us 1931
The Million 1931
Tabu 1931
Dracula 1931
Frankenstein 1931
City Lights 1931
The Public Enemy 1931
M 1931
The Bitch 1931
The Vampire 1932
Love Me Tonight 1932
Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932
Trouble in Paradise 1932
Scarface: The Shame Of A Nation 1932
Shanghai Express 1932
Freaks 1932
Me and My Gal 1932
Zero for Conduct 1933
42nd Street 1933
Footlight Parade 1933
Gold Diggers of 1933 1933
She Done Him Wrong 1933
Duck Soup 1933
Queen Christina 1933
Land Without Bread 1933
King Kong 1933
The Bitter Tea of General Yen 1933
Sons of the Desert 1933
It's a Gift 1934
Triumph of the Will 1934
L'Atalante 1934
The Black Cat 1934
Judge Priest 1934
It Happened One Night 1934
The Thin Man 1934
Captain Blood 1935
Mutiny on the Bounty 1935
A Night at the Opera 1935
The 39 Steps 1935
Bride of Frankenstein 1935
Top Hat 1935
A Day in the Country 1936
Modern Times 1936
Swing Time 1936
My Man Godfrey 1936
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1936
Camille 1936
Sabotage 1936
Dodsworth 1936
Things to Come 1936
The Story of a Cheat 1936
Captains Courageous 1937
Midnight Song 1937
Grand Illusion 1937
Stella Dallas 1937
The Life of Emile Zola 1937
Make Way for Tomorrow 1937
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves 1937
The Awful Truth 1937
Pépé Le Moko 1937
Jezebel 1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938
Angels with Dirty Faces 1938
Olympia 1938
The Baker's Wife 1938
Bringing Up Baby 1938
Stagecoach 1939
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums 1939
Babes in Arms 1939
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939
The Wizard of Oz 1939
Destry Rides Again 1939
Only Angels Have Wings 1939
Gone With the Wind 1939
Daybreak 1939
Gunga Din 1939
Ninotchka 1939
The Rules of the Game 1939
Wuthering Heights 1939
His Girl Friday 1940
Rebecca 1940
Fantasia 1940
The Philadelphia Story 1940
The Grapes of Wrath 1940
Dance, Girl, Dance 1940
Pinocchio 1940
The Mortal Storm 1940
The Bank Dick 1940
Citizen Kane 1941
The Lady Eve 1941
The Wolf Man 1941
The Maltese Falcon 1941
Sergeant York 1941
Dumbo 1941
High Sierra 1941
Sullivan's Travels 1941
How Green Was My Valley 1941
The Palm Beach Story 1942
Now, Voyager 1942
Casablanca 1942
To Be or Not to Be 1942
Cat People 1942
The Magnificent Ambersons 1942
Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943
Fires Were Started 1943
The Man in Grey 1943
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943
I Walked with a Zombie 1943
The Seventh Victim 1943
The Ox-Bow Incident 1943
Shadow of a Doubt 1943
Ossessione 1943
Meet Me in St. Louis 1944
To Have and Have Not 1944
Laura 1944
Gaslight 1944
Henry V 1944
Ivan the Terrible, Parts One and Two 1944
Double Indemnity 1944
Murder, My Sweet 1944
The Battle of San Pietro 1945
Spellbound 1945
Mildred Pierce 1945
The Children of Paradise 1945
Open City 1945
The Lost Weekend 1945
Detour 1945
I Know Where I'm Going! 1945
The Best Years of Our Lives 1946
Brief Encounter 1946
Paisan 1946
The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946
My Darling Clementine 1946
The Stranger 1946
Beauty and the Beast 1946
The Big Sleep 1946
The Killers 1946
A Matter of Life and Death 1946
Great Expectations 1946
Notorious 1946
Black Narcissus 1946
It's a Wonderful Life 1946
Gilda 1946
Monsieur Verdoux 1947
Out of the Past 1947
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947
Odd Man Out 1947
The Bicycle Thief 1948
Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948
Secret Beyond the Door 1948
Force of Evil 1948
Spring in a Small Town 1948
Red River 1948
Rope 1948
The Snake Pit 1948
The Lady from Shanghai 1948
The Paleface 1948
The Red Shoes 1948
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
Louisiana Story 1948
The Heiress 1949
Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949
Gun Crazy 1949
Adam's Rib 1949
Whiskey Galore! 1949
White Heat 1949
The Reckless Moment 1949
The Third Man 1949
On the Town 1949
Orpheus 1949
The Asphalt Jungle 1950
Rashomon 1950
Winchester '73 1950
Rio Grande 1950
All About Eve 1950
Sunset Blvd. 1950
Los Olvidados 1950
In a Lonely Place 1950
The Big Carnival 1951
A Streetcar Named Desire 1951
Strangers on a Train 1951
The Lavender Hill Mob 1951
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 1951
The African Queen 1951
Diary of a Country Priest 1951
An American in Paris 1951
A Place in the Sun 1951
The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951
The Quiet Man 1952
Forbidden Games 1952
Angel Face 1952
Singin' in the Rain 1952
To Live 1952
Europa '51 1952
The Bad and the Beautiful 1952
The Big Sky 1952
High Noon 1952
Umberto D 1952
The Golden Coach 1952
The Bigamist 1953
The Band Wagon 1953
Madame De… 1953
From Here to Eternity 1953
Tokyo Story 1953
Roman Holiday 1953
Wages of Fear 1953
The Naked Spur 1953
Pickup on South Street 1953
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953
The Big Heat 1953
M. Hulot's Holiday 1953
Voyage in Italy 1953
Tales of Ugetsu 1953
Shane 1953
Beat the Devil 1953
Johnny Guitar 1954
On the Waterfront 1954
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954
Les Diaboliques 1954
Animal Farm 1954
Rear Window 1954
A Star Is Born 1954
The Barefoot Contessa 1954
The Road 1954
The Seven Samurai 1954
The Wanton Countess 1954
Silver Lode 1954
Carmen Jones 1954
Sansho the Baliff 1954
Salt of the Earth 1954
Artists and Models 1955
Guys and Dolls 1955
Pather Panchali 1955
Bad Day at Black Rock 1955
The Mad Masters 1955
Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer 1955
The Ladykillers 1955
Marty 1955
Ordet 1955
Bob the Gambler 1955
Kiss Me Deadly 1955
The Man from Laramie 1955
Rebel Without a Cause 1955
The Phenix City Story 1955
Smiles of a Summer Night 1955
Night and Fog 1955
The Night of the Hunter 1955
The Sins of Lola Montes 1955
Forbidden Planet 1956
The Burmese Harp 1956
The Searchers 1956
A Man Escaped 1956
Written on the Wind 1956
The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956
Giant 1956
All That Heaven Allows 1956
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956
The Wrong Man 1956
Bigger Than Life 1956
High Society 1956
The Ten Commandments 1956
12 Angry Men 1957
The Seventh Seal 1957
An Affair to Remember 1957
Wild Strawberries 1957
The Nights of Cabiria 1957
Throne of Blood 1957
The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957
The Unvanquished 1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957
Mother India 1957
The Cranes Are Flying 1957
Paths of Glory 1957
Sweet Smell of Success 1957
Man of the West 1958
Touch of Evil 1958
Cairo Station 1958
Gigi 1958
The Defiant Ones 1958
Vertigo 1958
Ashes and Diamonds 1958
Dracula 1958
My Uncle 1958
The Music Room 1958
The 400 Blows 1959
North by Northwest 1959
Some Like It Hot 1959
Anatomy of a Murder 1959
Eyes without a Face 1959
Ride Lonesome 1959
Black Orpheus 1959
Shadows 1959
The World of Apu 1959
Breathless 1959
Ben-Hur 1959
Pickpocket 1959
Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959
Rio Bravo 1959
The Hole 1959
Floating Weeds 1959
Rocco and His Brothers 1960
La Dolce Vita 1960
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960
Shoot the Piano Player 1960
The Adventure 1960
The Young One 1960
The Cloud-Capped Star 1960
The Housemaid 1960
Psycho 1960
Revenge of the Vampire / Black Sunday 1960
Peeping Tom 1960
The Apartment 1960
Spartacus 1960
Splendor in the Grass 1961
Last Year at Marienbad 1961
The Pier 1961
One-Eyed Jacks 1961
Lola 1961
Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961
The Night 1961
Jules and Jim 1961
Viridiana 1961
The Ladies Man 1961
Through a Glass Darkly 1961
Chronicle of a Summer 1961
The Hustler 1961
West Side Story 1961
A Dog's Life 1962
Cleo from 5 to 7 1962
Dog Star Man 1962
An Autumn Afternoon 1962
The Eclipse 1962
Lawrence of Arabia 1962
To Kill a Mockingbird 1962
The Manchurian Candidate 1962
Lolita 1962
Keeper of Promises 1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962
My Life to Live 1962
Heaven and Earth Magic 1962
The Birds 1963
The Nutty Professor 1963
Blonde Cobra 1963
The Cool World 1963
8 1/2 1963
Passenger 1963
Contempt 1963
Hud 1963
Winter Light 1963
Flaming Creatures 1963
The Great Escape 1963
Shock Corridor 1963
The Leopard 1963
Barren Lives 1963
Méditeranée 1963
The House is Black 1963
The Haunting 1963
An Actor's Revenge 1963
The Servant 1963
Goldfinger 1964
Scorpio Rising 1964
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964
Marnie 1964
My Fair Lady 1964
Woman in the Dunes 1964
Dr. Strangelove 1964
A Hard Day's Night 1964
The Red Desert 1964
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1964
The Masque of the Red Death 1964
Before the Revolution 1964
Gertrud 1964
The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964
Black God, White Devil 1964
The Demon 1964
Vinyl 1965
The Shop on Main Street 1965
Doctor Zhivago 1965
The War Game 1965
Tokyo Olympiad 1965
The Battle of Algiers 1965
The Sound of Music 1965
The Saragossa Manuscript 1965
Alphaville 1965
Chimes at Midnight 1965
Repulsion 1965
Juliet of the Spirits 1965
Pierrot Goes Wild 1965
Faster, Pussy Cat! Kill! Kill! 1965
Golden River 1965
The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short 1965
Hold Me While I'm Naked 1966
Blowup 1966
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 1966
Daisies 1966
Come Drink with Me 1966
Seconds 1966
In the Heat of the Night 1967
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966
Persona 1966
Masculine-Feminine 1966
Balthazar 1966
Two or Three Things I Know About Her 1967
The Graduate 1967
Playtime 1967
Report 1967
Hombre 1967
Belle de Jour 1967
The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967
Week End 1967
The Godson 1967
Cool Hand Luke 1967
Point Blank 1967
Wavelength 1967
Bonnie and Clyde 1967
The Red and the White 1967
Marketa Lazarová 1967
The Jungle Book 1967
The Fireman's Ball 1967
Earth Entranced 1967
Closely Watched Trains 1967
Viy 1967
The Cow 1968
Once Upon a Time in the West 1968
Planet of the Apes 1968
Faces 1968
Rosemary's Baby 1968
If… 1968
Memories of Underdevelopment 1968
The Producers 1968
David Holzman's Diary 1968
Shame 1968
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
Hour of the Wolf 1968
Targets 1968
Night of the Living Dead 1968
My Night at Maud's 1969
Lucía 1969
A Touch of Zen 1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969
Midnight Cowboy 1969
Satyricon 1969
Z 1969
The Conformist 1969
Easy Rider 1969
High School 1969
In the Year of the Pig 1969
The Wild Bunch 1969
Andrei Rublev 1969
The Butcher 1969
The Color of Pomegranates 1969
Kes 1969
Tristana 1970
Five Easy Pieces 1970
El Topo 1970
Woodstock 1970
Deep End 1970
The Spider's Stratagem 1970
Little Big Man 1970
The Ear 1970
Patton 1970
M*A*S*H 1970
Performance 1970
Gimme Shelter 1970
Zabriskie Point 1970
The Bird with The Crystal Plumage 1970
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1970
Wanda 1971
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism 1971
A Clockwork Orange 1971
The Sorrow and the Pity 1971
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 1971
McCabe and Mrs. Miller 1971
Walkabout 1971
Klute 1971
Harold and Maude 1971
Red Psalm 1971
Get Carter 1971
The French Connection 1971
Shaft 1971
Dirty Harry 1971
Murmur of the Heart 1971
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song 1971
The Last Picture Show 1971
Straw Dogs 1971
Two-Lane Blacktop 1971
The Heartbreak Kid 1972
Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1972
Cabaret 1972
Last Tango in Paris 1972
High Plains Drifter 1972
Sleuth 1972
Deliverance 1972
Solaris 1972
The Godfather 1972
Cries and Whispers 1972
Fat City 1972
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant 1972
Frenzy 1972
Pink Flamingos 1972
Superfly 1972
The Sting 1973
The Mother and the Whore 1973
Badlands 1973
American Graffiti 1973
Papillon 1973
Enter the Dragon 1973
Mean Streets 1973
The Long Goodbye 1973
The Wicker Man 1973
Day for Night 1973
Don't Look Now 1973
Sleeper 1973
Serpico 1973
The Exorcist 1973
Turkish Delight 1973
The Spirit of the Beehive 1973
Fantastic Planet 1973
Amarcord 1973
The Harder They Come 1973
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973
Dersu Uzala 1974
The Conversation 1974
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974
The Mirror 1974
A Woman Under the Influence 1974
Young Frankenstein 1974
Chinatown 1974
Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974
Blazing Saddles 1974
The Godfather: Part II 1974
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974
Dog Day Afternoon 1975
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975
The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975
The Wall 1975
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975
Barry Lyndon 1975
Fox and His Friends 1975
India Song 1975
Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975
Manila in the Claws of Brightness 1975
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom 1975
Nashville 1975
Cria! 1975
The Travelling Players 1975
Jaws 1975
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976
Carrie 1976
The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976
All the President's Men 1976
Rocky 1976
Taxi Driver 1976
Network 1976
Ascent 1976
In the Realm of the Senses 1976
1900 1976
The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976
Star Wars 1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
The Last Wave 1977
Annie Hall 1977
Last Chants for a Slow Dance 1977
Stroszek 1977
Man of Marble 1977
Saturday Night Fever 1977
Killer of Sheep 1977
Eraserhead 1977
Ceddo 1977
The American Friend 1977
The Hills Have Eyes 1977
Soldier of Orange 1977
Suspiria 1977
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith 1978
Five Deadly Venoms 1978
The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978
The Deer Hunter 1978
Grease 1978
Days of Heaven 1978
Dawn of the Dead 1978
Shaolin Master Killer 1978
Up in Smoke 1978
Halloween 1978
The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979
Real Life 1979
My Brilliant Career 1979
Stalker 1979
Alien 1979
Breaking Away 1979
The Tin Drum 1979
All That Jazz 1979
Being There 1979
Kramer vs. Kramer 1979
Life of Brian 1979
Apocalypse Now 1979
The Jerk 1979
The Muppet Movie 1979
Manhattan 1979
Mad Max 1979
Nosferatu: Phantom Of The Night 1979
Ordinary People 1980
Atlantic City 1980
The Last Metro 1980
The Shining 1980
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 1980
The Elephant Man 1980
The Big Red One 1980
Loulou 1980
Airplane! 1980
Raging Bull 1980
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
The Boat 1981
Gallipoli 1981
Chariots of Fire 1981
Body Heat 1981
Reds 1981
An American Werewolf in London 1981
Three Brothers 1981
Man of Iron 1981
Too Early, Too Late 1981
Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1981
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 1982
The Thing 1982
Poltergeist 1982
Blade Runner 1982
The Evil Dead 1982
Tootsie 1982
Yol 1982
Diner 1982
Fitzcarraldo 1982
Gandhi 1982
The Night of the Shooting Stars 1982
A Question of Silence 1982
Fanny and Alexander 1982
A Christmas Story 1983
El Norte 1983
Videodrome 1983
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi 1983
The Big Chill 1983
Sunless 1983
The Last Battle 1983
Money 1983
Utu 1983
Terms of Endearment 1983
The Fourth Man 1983
The King of Comedy 1983
The Right Stuff 1983
Koyaanisqatsi 1983
Once Upon a Time in America 1983
Scarface 1983
The Ballad of Narayama 1983
Amadeus 1984
The Terminator 1984
Paris, Texas 1984
A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984
This Is Spinal Tap 1984
Beverly Hills Cop 1984
Ghostbusters 1984
A Passage to India 1984
Stranger Than Paradise 1984
The Killing Fields 1984
The Natural 1984
The Breakfast Club 1985
Ran 1985
Come and See 1985
The Official Story 1985
Out of Africa 1985
The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985
Back to the Future 1985
The Time to Live and the Time to Die 1985
Brazil 1985
Kiss of the Spider Woman 1985
The Quiet Earth 1985
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985
Prizzi's Honor 1985
Vagabond 1985
Shoah 1985
The Color Purple 1985
Manhunter 1986
Stand By Me 1986
Blue Velvet 1986
Hannah and Her Sisters 1986
She's Gotta Have It 1986
The Decline of the American Empire 1986
The Fly 1986
Aliens 1986
Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986
Down by Law 1986
A Room with a View 1986
Children of a Lesser God 1986
Platoon 1986
Caravaggio 1986
Tampopo 1986
Peking Opera Blues 1986
Salvador 1986
Top Gun 1986
Sherman's March 1986
The Horse Thief 1986
Brightness 1987
Wings of Desire 1987
Project A, Part II 1987
Babette's Feast 1987
Raising Arizona 1987
Full Metal Jacket 1987
Withnail and I 1987
Good Morning, Vietnam 1987
Goodbye Children 1987
Broadcast News 1987
Housekeeping 1987
The Princess Bride 1987
Moonstruck 1987
The Untouchables 1987
Red Sorghum 1987
The Dead 1987
Fatal Attraction 1987
A Chinese Ghost Story 1987
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988
The Vanishing 1988
Bull Durham 1988
Ariel 1988
The Thin Blue Line 1988
Akira 1988
Cinema Paradiso 1988
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie 1988
A Fish Called Wanda 1988
The Naked Gun 1988
Big 1988
Dangerous Liaisons 1988
Grave of the Fireflies 1988
Landscape in the Mist 1988
The Decalogue 1988
Die Hard 1988
A Tale of the Wind 1988
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988
Rain Man 1988
The Story of Women 1988
Drowning by Numbers 1988
Alice 1988
Batman 1989
When Harry Met Sally 1989
Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989
Drugstore Cowboy 1989
My Left Foot 1989
The Killer 1989
Do the Right Thing 1989
Roger & Me 1989
Glory 1989
The Asthenic Syndrome 1989
Sex, Lies and Videotape 1989
Say Anything 1989
The Unbelievable Truth 1989
A City of Sadness 1989
No Fear, No Die 1990
Reversal of Fortune 1990
Goodfellas 1990
Jacob's Ladder 1990
King of New York 1990
Dances with Wolves 1990
Europa Europa 1990
Pretty Woman 1990
Archangel 1990
Trust 1990
Close-Up 1990
Edward Scissorhands 1990
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1990
Total Recall 1990
Once Upon a Time in China 1991
Boyz 'n the Hood 1991
Raise the Red Lantern 1991
Delicatessen 1991
A Brighter Summer Day 1991
Naked Lunch 1991
The Beautiful Troublemaker 1991
The Rapture 1991
My Own Private Idaho 1991
Thelma & Louise 1991
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
The Silence of the Lambs 1991
JFK 1991
Slacker 1991
Tongues Untied 1991
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991
The Double Life of Veronique 1991
Strictly Ballroom 1992
The Player 1992
Reservoir Dogs 1992
Romper Stomper 1992
Glengarry Glen Ross 1992
Unforgiven 1992
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer 1992
A Tale of Winter 1992
The Actress 1992
Man Bites Dog 1992
The Crying Game 1992
Farewell My Concubine 1993
Groundhog Day 1993
Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould 1993
Short Cuts 1993
Philadelphia 1993
The Puppetmaster 1993
Jurassic Park 1993
Three Colors: Blue 1993
The Piano 1993
The Blue Kite 1993
The Wedding Banquet 1993
Schindler's List 1993
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 1994
Three Colors: Red 1994
Hoop Dreams 1994
Forrest Gump 1994
The Lion King 1994
Clerks 1994
Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994
Natural Born Killers 1994
The Last Seduction 1994
Pulp Fiction 1994
The Shawshank Redemption 1994
The Wild Reeds 1994
Chungking Express 1994
Crumb 1994
Sátántangó 1994
Through the Olive Trees 1994
Heavenly Creatures 1994
Dear Diary 1994
Muriel's Wedding 1994
The Kingdom (Riget) 1994
Babe 1995
Deseret 1995
Braveheart 1995
Safe 1995
Toy Story 1995
Casino 1995
Heat 1995
Zero Kelvin 1995
Clueless 1995
Smoke 1995
The White Balloon 1995
Se7en 1995
Underground 1995
The Brave-Hearted Will Take the Bride 1995
Cyclo 1995
The Usual Suspects 1995
Dead Man 1995
Fargo 1996
Three Lives and Only One Death 1996
Shine 1996
Breaking the Waves 1996
Independence Day 1996
Secrets & Lies 1996
Gabbeh 1996
Lone Star 1996
Trainspotting 1996
Scream 1996
The English Patient 1996
Happy Together 1997
Princess Mononoke 1997
L.A. Confidential 1997
The Butcher Boy 1997
The Ice Storm 1997
The Sweet Hereafter 1997
Boogie Nights 1997
Taste of Cherry 1997
Funny Games 1997
Titanic 1997
Open Your Eyes 1997
The Celebration 1998
Saving Private Ryan 1998
Buffalo 66 1998
Rushmore 1998
Run Lola Run 1998
Happiness 1998
Pi 1998
There's Something About Mary 1998
Ring 1998
The Thin Red Line 1998
Three Kings 1999
Magnolia 1999
Fight Club 1999
Audition 1999
The Blair Witch Project 1999
All About My Mother 1999
Beau Travail 1999
Being John Malkovich 1999
American Beauty 1999
The Matrix 1999
The Sixth Sense 1999
The Gleaners and I 2000
Gladiator 2000
In the Mood for Love 2000
Kippur 2000
A One and a Two 2000
Requiem for a Dream 2000
Amores Perros 2000
Meet the Parents 2000
Traffic 2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000
Memento 2000
Dancer in the Dark 2000
Amélie 2001
Moulin Rouge 2001
Kandahar 2001
No Man's Land 2001
Spirited Away 2001
The Royal Tenenbaums 2001
The Lord of the Rings 2001
Lantana 2001
Uzak 2002
The Pianist 2002
Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002
City of God 2002
Talk to Her 2002
Ireversible 2002
The Best of Youth 2002
Oldboy 2003
Kill Bill: Volume One 2003
Good Bye Lenin! 2003
Head-On 2004
3-Iron 2004
The Passion of the Christ 2004
Crash 2004
Downfall 2004
Sideways 2004
Fahrenheit 9/11 2004
Go, See, and Become 2005
Paradise Now 2005
Brokeback Mountain 2005
Tsotsi 2005
Little Miss Sunshine 2006
Apocalypto 2006
The Departed 2006
Pan's Labyrinth 2006
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006
The Lives of Others 2006
Once 2006
The Queen 2006
The Host 2006
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007
La Vie en Rose 2007
No Country for Old Men 2007
Into the Wild 2007
There Will Be Blood 2007
Atonement 2007