Criteria: These Greatest Movies of all time are ranked according to their initial and lasting acclaim, influence as well as initial and lasting popularity.
Edited By: Tim, pauldrach, ManPerson, Bruno, Dubrow
- The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola (1972)
- Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (1941)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick (1968)
- Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa (1954)
- Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
- Star Wars - George Lucas (1977)
- Battleship Potemkin - Sergei M. Eisenstein (1925)
- The Wizard of Oz - Victor Fleming (1939)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - David Hand et al. (1937)
- The Birth of a Nation - D. W. Griffith (1915)
- Casablanca - Michael Curtiz (1942)
- Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
- Gone with the Wind - Victor Fleming (1939)
- Jaws - Steven Spielberg (1975)
- A Trip to the Moon - Georges Méliès (1902)
- Singin' in the Rain - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (1952)
- Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
- Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean (1962)
- Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino (1994)
- The Godfather Part II - Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
- Metropolis - Fritz Lang (1927)
- City Lights - Charles Chaplin (1931)
- Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard (1960)
- Bicycle Thieves - Vittorio De Sica (1948)
- Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese (1976)
- M - Fritz Lang (1931)
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - F. W. Murnau (1927)
- Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock (1954)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Stanley Kubrick (1964)
- Rashōmon - Akira Kurosawa (1950)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark - Steven Spielberg (1981)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Sergio Leone (1966)
- Modern Times - Charles Chaplin (1936)
- The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1927)
- The Searchers - John Ford (1956)
- 8½ - Federico Fellini (1963)
- 12 Angry Men - Sidney Lumet (1957)
- It's a Wonderful Life - Frank Capra (1946)
- Stagecoach - John Ford (1939)
- The Empire Strikes Back - Irvin Kershner (1980)
- Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder (1959)
- North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock (1959)
- Toy Story - John Lasseter (1995)
- The Exorcist - William Friedkin (1973)
- Schindler's List - Steven Spielberg (1993)
- Alien - Ridley Scott (1979)
- The Gold Rush - Charles Chaplin (1925)
- Intolerance - D. W. Griffith (1916)
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Steven Spielberg (1982)
- The Graduate - Mike Nichols (1967)
- The 400 Blows - François Truffaut (1959)
- Tokyo Story - Yasujirō Ozu (1953)
- Bonnie and Clyde - Arthur Penn (1967)
- The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir (1939)
- The Terminator - James Cameron (1984)
- GoodFellas - Martin Scorsese (1990)
- Sunset Boulevard - Billy Wilder (1950)
- Blade Runner - Ridley Scott (1982)
- Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese (1980)
- A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick (1971)
- Goldfinger - Guy Hamilton (1964)
- The Third Man - Carol Reed (1949)
- One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Miloš Forman (1975)
- The Kid - Charles Chaplin (1921)
- Pather Panchali - Satyajit Ray (1955)
- Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee (1989)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Peter Jackson (2003)
- Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki (2001)
- Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder (1944)
- Once upon a Time in the West - Sergio Leone (1968)
- King Kong - Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack (1933)
- Persona - Ingmar Bergman (1966)
- La dolce vita - Federico Fellini (1960)
- Rome, Open City - Roberto Rossellini (1945)
- The Matrix - Lana & Lilly Wachowski (1999)
- On the Waterfront - Elia Kazan (1954)
- Chinatown - Roman Polański (1974)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- The Deer Hunter - Michael Cimino (1978)
- The Great Dictator - Charles Chaplin (1940)
- It Happened One Night - Frank Capra (1934)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Peter Jackson (2001)
- Back to the Future - Robert Zemeckis (1985)
- Night of the Living Dead - George A. Romero (1968)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai - David Lean (1957)
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Robert Wiene (1920)
- The Maltese Falcon - John Huston (1941)
- Fantasia - Ben Sharpsteen et al. (1940)
- Midnight Cowboy - John Schlesinger (1969)
- Ben-Hur - William Wyler (1959)
- The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman (1957)
- Man with a Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov (1929)
- The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan (2008)
- Rocky - John G. Avildsen (1976)
- Halloween - John Carpenter (1978)
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Robert Mulligan (1962)
- Annie Hall - Woody Allen (1977)
- The Apartment - Billy Wilder (1960)
- The Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont (1994)
- Forrest Gump - Robert Zemeckis (1994)
- Frankenstein - James Whale (1931)
- All About Eve - Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
- Die Hard - John McTiernan (1988)
- The Grand Illusion - Jean Renoir (1937)
- My Neighbor Totoro - Hayao Miyazaki (1988)
- Nosferatu - F. W. Murnau (1922)
- Mulholland Dr. - David Lynch (2001)
- Blue Velvet - David Lynch (1986)
- High Noon - Fred Zinnemann (1952)
- The Sound of Music - Robert Wise (1965)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - John Huston (1948)
- The Best Years of Our Lives - William Wyler (1946)
- The General - Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman (1926)
- West Side Story - Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins (1961)
- Touch of Evil - Orson Welles (1958)
- A Streetcar Named Desire - Elia Kazan (1951)
- Saving Private Ryan - Steven Spielberg (1998)
- Titanic - James Cameron (1997)
- Un chien andalou - Luis Buñuel (1929)
- Children of Paradise - Marcel Carné (1945)
- The Wild Bunch - Sam Peckinpah (1969)
- La strada - Federico Fellini (1954)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Steven Spielberg (1977)
- Parasite - Bong Joon-Ho (2019)
- Jurassic Park - Steven Spielberg (1993)
- The Shining - Stanley Kubrick (1980)
- Rebel Without a Cause - Nicholas Ray (1955)
- Superman - Richard Donner (1978)
- L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat - Louis & Auguste Lumière (1896)
- Notorious - Alfred Hitchcock (1946)
- The French Connection - William Friedkin (1971)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre - Tobe Hooper (1974)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Frank Capra (1939)
- Dr. No - Terence Young (1962)
- Blow-Up - Michelangelo Antonioni (1966)
- Paths of Glory - Stanley Kubrick (1957)
- Rio Bravo - Howard Hawks (1959)
- The Grapes of Wrath - John Ford (1940)
- Fargo - Joel & Ethan Coen (1996)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day - James Cameron (1991)
- Unforgiven - Clint Eastwood (1992)
- Rosemary's Baby - Roman Polański (1968)
- Avatar - James Cameron (2009)
- Aliens - James Cameron (1986)
- Sherlock Jr. - Buster Keaton (1924)
- Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory - Louis Lumière (1895)
- Fight Club - David Fincher (1999)
- There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Michel Gondry (2004)
- Duck Soup - Leo McCarey (1933)
- Amadeus - Miloš Forman (1984)
- The Birds - Alfred Hitchcock (1963)
- All Quiet on the Western Front - Lewis Milestone (1930)
- The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton (1955)
- Safety Last! - Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor (1924)
- Nanook of the North - Robert J. Flaherty (1922)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Mike Nicholas (1966)
- Scarface - Brian De Palma (1983)
- Batman - Tim Burton (1989)
- Reservoir Dogs - Quentin Tarantino (1992)
- Enter the Dragon - Robert Clouse (1973)
- Dawn of the Dead - George A. Romero (1978)
- The Red Shoes - Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1948)
- Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)
- Pinocchio - Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen et al. (1940)
- Rebecca - Alfred Hitchcock (1940)
- Bride of Frankenstein - James Whale (1935)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Don Siegel (1956)
- Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman (1957)
- City of God - Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund (2002)
- Trainspotting - Danny Boyle (1996)
- The Lion King - Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff (1994)
- Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick (1975)
- Bringing Up Baby - Howard Hawks (1938)
- Aguirre: The Wrath of God - Werner Herzog (1972)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - George Roy Hill (1969)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood - Michael Curtiz & William Keighley (1938)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail - Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones (1975)
- WALL·E - Andrew Stanton (2008)
- Inception - Christopher Nolan (2010)
- Godzilla - Ishirō Honda (1954)
- Mad Max: Fury Road - George Miller (2015)
- M*A*S*H - Robert Altman (1970)
- Mary Poppins - Robert Stevenson (1964)
- Ikiru - Akira Kurosawa (1952)
- The Social Network - David Fincher (2010)
- The Big Parade - King Vidor (1925)
- No Country for Old Men - Joel & Ethan Coen (2007)
- American Graffiti - George Lucas (1973)
- The Jazz Singer - Alan Crosland (1927)
- Dracula - Tod Browning (1931)
- His Girl Friday - Howard Hawks (1940)
- The Philadelphia Story - George Cukor (1940)
- Ugetsu - Kenji Mizoguchi (1953)
- Roman Holiday - William Wyler (1953)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Ang Lee (2000)
- A Fistful of Dollars - Sergio Leone (1964)
- A Hard Day's Night - Richard Lester (1964)
- Napoléon - Abel Gance (1927)
- Greed - Erich von Stroheim (1924)
- In the Heat of the Night - Norman Jewison (1967)
- Easy Rider - Dennis Hopper (1969)
- The Crowd - King Vidor (1928)
- Steamboat Willie - Walt Disney & Ub Iwerks (1928)
- L'avventura - Michelangelo Antonioni (1960)
- Get Out - Jordan Peele (2017)
- Scarface - Howard Hawks (1932)
- The Avengers - Joss Whedon (2012)
- The Battle of Algiers - Gillo Pontecorvo (1966)
- The Wages of Fear - Henri-Georges Clouzot (1953)
- Dirty Harry - Don Siegel (1971)
- Ghostbusters - Ivan Reitman (1984)
- American Beauty - Sam Mendes (1999)
- The Asphalt Jungle - John Huston (1950)
- Network - Sidney Lumet (1976)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's - Blake Edwards (1961)
- Pan's Labyrinth - Guillermo del Toro (2006)
- Cabaret - Bob Fosse (1972)
- Brief Encounter - David Lean (1945)
- Out of the Past - Jacques Tourneur (1947)
- The Public Enemy - William A. Wellman (1931)
- Airplane! - Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams & David Zucker (1980)
- Se7en - David Fincher (1995)
- Brokeback Mountain - Ang Lee (2005)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Peter Jackson (2002)
- Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky (1966)
- Yojimbo - Akira Kurosawa (1961)
- The Last Laugh - F. W. Murnau (1924)
- Hiroshima mon amour - Alain Resnais (1959)
- The Usual Suspects - Bryan Singer (1995)
- Finding Nemo - Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich (2003)
- The Thing - John Carpenter (1982)
- Manhattan - Woody Allen (1979)
- Boyhood - Richard Linklater (2014)
- Mean Streets - Martin Scorsese (1973)
- Carrie - Brian De Palma (1976)
- Akira - Katsuhiro Ōtomo (1988)
- Gladiator - Ridley Scott (2000)
- Ran - Akira Kurosawa (1985)
- Once upon a Time in America - Sergio Leone (1984)
- Beauty and the Beast - Jean Cocteau (1946)
- Meet Me in St. Louis - Vincente Minnelli (1944)
- Beauty and the Beast - Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise (1991)
- To Be or Not to Be - Ernst Lubitsch (1942)
- Our Hospitality - Buster Keaton & John G. Blystone (1923)
- Freaks - Tod Browning (1932)
- Memento - Christopher Nolan (2000)
- The Manchurian Candidate - John Frankenheimer (1962)
- Nashville - Robert Altman (1975)
- The Ten Commandments - Cecil B. DeMille (1956)
- Das Boot - Wolfgang Petersen (1981)
- Contempt - Jean-Luc Godard (1963)
- A Woman Under the Influence - John Cassavetes (1974)
- Dog Day Afternoon - Sidney Lumet (1975)
- Oldboy - Park Chan-Wook (2003)
- Cool Hand Luke - Stuart Rosenberg (1967)
- The Thin Man - W. S. Van Dyke (1934)
- This Is Spinal Tap - Rob Reiner (1984)
- Shane - George Stevens (1953)
- Laura - Otto Preminger (1944)
- Les diaboliques - Henri-Georges Clouzot (1955)
- Days of Heaven - Terrence Malick (1978)
- All the President's Men - Alan J. Pakula (1976)
- Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Part 1: The Great Gambler - Fritz Lang (1922)
- Repulsion - Roman Polański (1965)
- Doctor Zhivago - David Lean (1965)
- Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón (2013)
- Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino (2009)
- In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-Wai (2000)
- The Conformist - Bernardo Bertolucci (1970)
- Raise the Red Lantern - Zhang Yimou (1991)
- Jules and Jim - François Truffaut (1962)
- Make Way for Tomorrow - Leo McCarey (1937)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - John Ford (1962)
- Häxan - Benjamin Christensen (1922)
- My Darling Clementine - John Ford (1946)
- Top Hat - Mark Sandrich (1935)
- Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - George Miller (1981)
- A Man Escaped - Robert Bresson (1956)
- The Phantom Carriage - Victor Sjöström (1921)
- Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Resnais (1961)
- The Last Picture Show - Peter Bogdanovich (1971)
- The Blue Angel - Josef von Sternberg (1930)
- A Matter of Life and Death - Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1946)
- The Big Sleep - Howard Hawks (1946)
- The Elephant Man - David Lynch (1980)
- L.A. Confidential - Curtis Hanson (1997)
- Boyz n the Hood - John Singleton (1991)
- Anatomy of a Murder - Otto Preminger (1959)
- Sanshō the Bailiff - Kenji Mizoguchi (1954)
- The Sting - George Roy Hill (1973)
- Viridiana - Luis Buñuel (1961)
- Brazil - Terry Gilliam (1985)
- The Truman Show - Peter Weir (1998)
- Heat - Michael Mann (1995)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - Chantal Akerman (1975)
- Young Frankenstein - Mel Brooks (1974)
- Moonlight - Barry Jenkins (2016)
- A Separation - Asghar Farhadi (2011)
- Wings - William A. Wellman (1927)
- Red River - Howard Hawks (1948)
- Spartacus - Stanley Kubrick (1960)
- The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
- From Here to Eternity - Fred Zinnemann (1953)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Robert Zemeckis (1988)
- Groundhog Day - Harold Ramis (1993)
- The Invisible Man - James Whale (1933)
- Patton - Franklin J. Schaffner (1970)
- Planet of the Apes - Franklin J. Schaffner (1968)
- L'Atalante - Jean Vigo (1934)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Richard Brooks (1958)
- Shoah - Claude Lanzmann (1985)
- Cinema Paradiso - Giuseppe Tornatore (1988)
- Kind Hearts and Coronets - Robert Hamer (1949)
- Three Colours: Red - Krzysztof Kieślowski (1994)
- Le samouraï - Jean-Pierre Melville (1967)
- Trouble in Paradise - Ernst Lubitsch (1932)
- The Phantom of the Opera - Rupert Julian (1925)
- Last Tango in Paris - Bernardo Bertolucci (1972)
- The African Queen - John Huston (1951)
- The Great Train Robbery - Edwin S. Porter (1903)
- Toy Story 3 - Lee Unkrich (2010)
- Up - Pete Docter & Bob Peterson (2009)
- Platoon - Oliver Stone (1986)
- The Sixth Sense - M. Night Shyamalan (1999)
- Au hasard Balthazar - Robert Bresson (1966)
- The Lives of Others - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (2006)
- The Pianist - Roman Polański (2002)
- Life Is Beautiful - Roberto Benigni (1997)
- Strangers on the Train - Alfred Hitchcock (1951)
- Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders (1987)
- Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick (1987)
- Z - Costa-Gavras (1969)
- Black Narcissus - Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1947)
- Fanny and Alexander - Ingmar Bergman (1982)
- White Heat - Raoul Walsh (1949)
- Late Spring - Yasujirō Ozu (1949)
- Paris, Texas - Wim Wenders (1984)
- Sweet Smell of Success - Alexander Mackendrick (1957)
- Monty Python's Life of Brian - Terry Jones (1979)
- Imitation of Life - Douglas Sirk (1959)
- Solaris - Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)
- L'âge d'or - Luis Buñuel (1930)
- Ninotchka - Ernst Lubitsch (1939)
- Badlands - Terrence Malick (1973)
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Rex Ingram (1921)
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - Mervyn LeRoy (1932)
- Love Me Tonight - Rouben Mamoulian (1932)
- Edward Scissorhands - Tim Burton (1990)
- Aladdin - John Musker & Ron Clements (1992)
- My Fair Lady - George Cukor (1964)
- Cabiria - Giovanni Pastrone (1914)
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (1943)
- Bambi - David Hand et al. (1942)
- 42nd Street - Lloyd Bacon (1933)
- Million Dollar Baby - Clint Eastwood (2004)
- Stranger than Paradise - Jim Jarmusch (1984)
- Amélie - Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2001)
- Pandora's Box - G. W. Pabst (1929)
- Los olvidados - Luis Buñuel (1950)
- Inside Out - Pete Docter & Ronnie del Carmen (2015)
- La La Land - Damien Chazelle (2016)
- Kramer vs. Kramer - Robert Benton (1979)
- From Russia with Love - Terence Young (1963)
- The Hustler - Robert Rossen (1961)
- The Quiet Man - John Ford (1952)
- The 39 Steps - Alfred Hitchcock (1939)
- A Night at the Opera - Sam Wood (1935)
- The Thief of Bagdad - Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger & Tim Whelan (1940)
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ - Fred Niblo (1925)
- Dances with Wolves - Kevin Costner (1990)
- The Princess Bride - Rob Reiner (1987)
- The Breakfast Club - John Hughes (1985)
- National Lampoon's Animal House - John Landis (1978)
- 12 Years a Slave - Steve McQueen (2013)
- The Thief of Bagdad - Raoul Walsh (1924)
- L'arroseur arrosé - Louis Lumière (1895)
- Saturday Night Fever - John Badham (1977)
- Grave of the Fireflies - Isao Takahata (1988)
- The Ox-Bow Incident - William A. Wellman (1942)
- Close-Up - Abbas Kiarostami (1990)
- Breaking the Waves - Lars von Trier (1996)
- Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola (2003)
- Boogie Nights - Paul Thomas Anderson (1997)
- Elevator to the Gallows - Louis Malle (1958)
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Jacques Demy (1964)
- Princess Mononoke - Hayao Miyazaki (1997)
- The Lost Weekend - Billy Wilder (1945)
- Cat People - Jacques Tourneur (1942)
- The Incredibles - Brad Bird (2004)
- The Great Escape - John Sturges (1963)
- Bullitt - Peter Yates (1968)
- An American in Paris - Vincente Minnelli (1951)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still - Robert Wise (1951)
- Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Part 2: Inferno - Fritz Lang (1922)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Jim Sharman (1975)
- The Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky (1975)
- My Man Godfrey - Gregory La Cava (1936)
- Pierrot le fou - Jean-Luc Godard (1965)
- The Jungle Book - Wolfgang Reitherman (1967)
- Gertie the Dinosaur - Winsor McCay (1914)
- The Circus - Charles Chaplin (1928)
- Mildred Pierce - Michael Curtiz (1945)
- Amarcord - Federico Fellini (1973)
- Dracula - Terence Fisher (1958)
- Throne of Blood - Akira Kurosawa (1957)
- Don't Look Now - Nicolas Roeg (1973)
- The Big Lebowski - Joel & Ethan Coen (1998)
- Come and See - Elem Klimov (1985)
- Rope - Alfred Hitchcock (1948)
- Mutiny on the Bounty - Frank Lloyd (1935)
- The Magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles (1942)
- Gandhi - Richard Attenborough (1982)
- Three Colours: Blue - Krzysztof Kieślowski (1993)
- Chimes at Midnight - Orson Welles (1965)
- Nights of Cabiria - Federico Fellini (1957)
- The Producers - Mel Brooks (1967)
- The Leopard - Luchino Visconti (1963)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman (2018)
- The Departed - Martin Scorsese (2006)
- The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick (2011)
- Caché - Michael Haneke (2005)
- Talk to Her - Pedro Almodóvar (2002)
- The Piano - Jane Campion (1993)
- Rififi - Jules Dassin (1955)
- The Shop Around the Corner - Ernst Lubitsch (1940)
- The Lady Eve - Preston Sturges (1941)
- Broken Blossoms - D. W. Griffith (1919)
- Grease - Randal Kleiser (1978)
- Tootsie - Sydney Pollack (1982)
- The Evil Dead - Sam Raimi (1981)
- Peeping Tom - Michael Powell (1960)
- Tillie's Punctured Romance - Mack Sennett (1914)
- Night and Fog - Alain Resnais (1956)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Rouben Mamoulian (1931)
- East of Eden - Elia Kazan (1955)
- Forbidden Planet - Fred M. Wilcox (1956)
- Stand by Me - Rob Reiner (1986)
- Amour - Michael Haneke (2012)
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtus of Ignorance) - Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014)
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - Frank Capra (1936)
- McCabe and Mrs. Miller - Robert Altman (1971)
- The Awful Truth - Leo McCarey (1937)
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Luis Buñuel (1972)
- Cries and Whispers - Ingmar Bergman (1972)
- Roma - Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
- The Cameraman - Buster Keaton & Edward Sedgwick (1928)
- Dune - Denis Villeneuve (2021)
- The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
- Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson (1999)
- Mad Max - George Miller (1979)
- Letter from an Unknown Woman - Max Ophüls (1948)
- In a Lonely Place - Nicholas Ray (1950)
- Eraserhead - David Lynch (1977)
- Belle de jour - Luis Buñuel (1967)
- Kiss Me Deadly - Robert Aldrich (1955)
- Suspiria - Dario Argento (1977)
- Ordet - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1955)
- Playtime - Jacques Tati (1967)
- Pickpocket - Robert Bresson (1959)
- Ivan the Terrible, Part 1 - Sergei M. Eisenstein (1944)
- Shadow of a Doubt - Alfred Hitchcock (1943)
- Harold and Maude - Hal Ashby (1971)
- Dead Poets Society - Peter Weir (1989)
- The Thin Red Line - Terrence Malick (1998)
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul - Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1974)
- All About My Mother - Pedro Almodóvar (1999)
- To Have and Have Not - Howard Hawks (1944)
- How Green Was My Valley - John Ford (1941)
- The Impossible Voyage - Georges Méliès (1904)
- When Harry Met Sally... - Rob Reiner (1989)
- Meshes of the Afternoon - Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid (1943)
- Requiem for a Dream - Darren Aronofsky (2000)
- Everything Everywhere All at Once - Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (2022)
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off - John Hughes (1986)
- Blazing Saddles - Mel Brooks (1974)
- Sullivan's Travels - Preston Sturges (1941)
- The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson (2014)
- Roundhay Garden Scene - Louis Le Prince (1888)
- Little Caesar - Mervyn LeRoy (1931)
- Django Unchained - Quentin Tarantino (2012)
- RoboCop - Paul Verhoeven (1987)
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - Hayao Miyazaki (1984)
- A Star Is Born - George Cukor (1954)
- Mr. Hulot's Holiday - Jacques Tati (1953)
- Being John Malkovich - Spike Jonze (1999)
- Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle (2008)
- Braveheart - Mel Gibson (1995)
- Amores perros - Alejandro González Iñárritu (2000)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street - Wes Craven (1984)
- Killer of Sheep - Charles Burnett (1978)
- Ratatouille - Brad Bird (2007)
- Johnny Guitar - Nicholas Ray (1954)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Richard Fleischer (1954)
- Alexander Nevsky - Sergei M. Eisenstein & Dmitri Vasilyev (1938)
- Triumph of the Will - Leni Riefenstahl (1935)
- On the Town - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (1949)
- The Spirit of the Beehive - Víctor Erice (1973)
- Rain Man - Barry Levinson (1988)
- Ashes and Diamonds - Andrzej Wajda (1958)
