Eugene McCrann's | Some Favorite Movies: Silent Era to 2004

Some Favorite Movies: Silent Era to Present

1.  Snack Shack (Adam Rehmeier/USA)

1.  The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer/USA, UK, Poland)

2.  The Beast (Bertrand Bonello/France, Canada)

3.  Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese/USA)

4.  Ferrari (Michael Mann/USA, UK, Italy, China)

5.  Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part One (Christopher McQuarrie/USA)

6.  The Iron Claw (Sean Durkin/USA, UK)

7.  The Sweet East (Sean Price Williams/USA)

8.  The Killer (David Fincher/USA)

9.  Asteroid City (Wes Anderson/USA)

10. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos/Ireland, UK, USA, Hungary)

1.  Ambulance (Michael Bay/USA)

2.  TÁR (Todd Field/USA)

3.  The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh/Ireland, UK, USA)

4.  Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook/South Korea)

5.  X (Ti West/USA)

6.  How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber/USA)

7.  Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski/USA)

8.  Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis/France)

9.  The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Tom Gormican/USA)

10. RRR (S.S. Rajamouli/India)

1.  The Card Counter (Paul Schrader/USA, UK, China)

2.  Red Rocket (Sean Baker/USA)

3.  Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul/Colombia, Thailand, France, Germany, Mexico, Qatar, UK, China Switzerland)

4.  The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski/USA)

5.  Titane (Julia Ducournau/France, Belgium)

6.  Friends and Strangers (James Vaughan/Australia)

7.  In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo/South Korea)

8.  Pig (Michael Sarnoski/UK)

9.  Dune (Denis Villeneuve/USA, Canada)

10. House of Gucci (Ridley Scott/USA, Canada)

1.  Tenet (Christopher Nolan/UK, USA)

2.  The Nest (Sean Durkin/UK, Canada)

3.  Possessor (Brandon Cronenberg/Canada, UK)

4.  The Wolf of Snow Hollow (Jim Cummings/USA)

5.  Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross/USA)

6.  The Empty Man (David Prior/USA, South Africa, UK)

7.  Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee/USA)

1.  Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino/USA, UK, China)

2.  Uncut Gems (Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie/USA)

3.  The Irishman (Martin Scorsese/USA)

4.  Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach/USA)

5.  A White, White Day (Hlynur Palmason/Iceland, Denmark, Sweden)

6.  The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine/USA, Switzerland, UK, France)

7.  Light of My Life (Casey Affleck/USA)

8.  Deadwood: The Movie (Daniel Minahan/USA)

9.  Dark Waters (Todd HaynesUSA)

10. Knives Out (Rian JohnsonUSA)

1.  Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski/USA)

2.  Burning (Lee Chang-dong/South Korea)

3.  Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell/USA)

4.  First Man (Damien Chazelle/USA)

5.  Den of Thieves (Christian Gudegast/USA)

6.  Vox Lux (Brady Corbet/USA)

7.  Transit (Christian Petzold/Germany, France)

8.  Asako I & II (Ryusûke Hamaguchi/Japan, France)

9.  Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry/USA, Greece)

10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen/USA)

1.  First Reformed (Paul Schrader/USA)

2.  Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson/USA)

3.  Molly’s Game (Aaron Sorkin/USA, China)

4.  Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh/UK, USA)

5.  Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan/UK, France, Netherlands, USA)

6.  Wormwood (Errol Morris/USA)

7.  Good Time (Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie/USA)

8.  Western (Valeska Grisebach/Germany, Bulgaria, Austria)

9.  Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino/Italy, France, Brazil, USA)

10. A Ghost Story (David Lowery/USA)

1.  O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman/USA)

2.  Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan/USA)

3.  Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade/Germany, Austria)

4.  Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater/USA)

5.  Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve/France, Germany)

6.  One More Time with Feeling (Andrew Dominik/UK, France)

7.  Elle (Paul Verhoeven/France, Germany, Belgium)

8.  Paterson (Jim Jarmusch/USA, France, Germany)

9.  Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho/Brazil, France)

10. La La Land (Damien Chazelle/USA)

1.  Blackhat (Michael Mann/USA)

2.  The Other Side (Roberto Minervini/Italy, France)

3.  The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino/USA)

4.  The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos/Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, UK, France)

5.  Mississippi Grind (Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck)

6.  Sicario (Denis Villeneuve/USA)

7.  Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo/South Korea)

8.  Junun (Paul Thomas Anderson/USA)

9.  The Witch (Robert Eggers/USA, UK, Canada, Brazil)

10. De Palma (Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow/USA)

1.  Interstellar (Christopher Nolan/USA, UK)

2.  The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson/USA, Germany)

3.  It Follows (David Robert Mitchell/USA)

4.  Phoenix (Christian Petzold/Germany, Poland)

5.  Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy/USA)

6.  The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland/UK)

7.  Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman/USA, Australia)

8.  Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne/Belgium, France, Italy)

9.  Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang/France, Taiwan)

10. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle/USA)

1.  Coherence (James Ward Byrkit/USA, UK)

2.  The Past (Asghar Farhadi/France, Italy)

3.  Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro/USA)

4.  All Is Lost (J.C. Chandor/USA)

5.  The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese/USA)

6.  Oculus (Mike Flanagan/USA)

7.  Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang/Taiwan, France)

8.  Before Midnight (Richard Linklater/USA)

9.  Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer/UK)

10. Upstream Color (Shane Carruth/USA)

1.  Seven Psychopaths (Martin McDonagh/USA)

2.  Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach/USA)

3.  Amour (Michael Haneke/France, Germany, Austria)

4.  Compliance (Craig Zobel/USA)

5.  Looper (Rian Johnson/USA)

6.  Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas/Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany)

7.  Tabu (Miguel Gomes/Portugal, Germany, Brazil, France, Spain)

8.  The Imposter (Bart Layton/UK)

9.  Only the Young (Jason Tippet & Elizabeth Mims/USA)

10. Drug War (Johnnie To/China, Hong Kong)

1.  Mildred Pierce (Todd Haynes/USA)

2.  Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan/USA)

3.  House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello/France)

4.  Bellflower (Evan Glodell/USA)

5.  A Separation (Asghar Farhadi/Iran)

6.  The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne/Belgium, France, Italy)

7.  Melancholia (Lars von Trier/Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany)

8.  The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev/USA, Germany)

9.  The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick/USA)

10. Terri (Azazel Jacobs/USA)

1.  The Social Network (David Fincher/USA)

2.  Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy/USA, UK)

3.  Beginners (Mike Mills/USA)

4.  Stone (John Curran/USA)

5.  Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt/USA)

6.  The Town (Ben Affleck/USA)

7.  Cold Weather (Aaron Katz/USA)

8.  The Fighter (David O. Russell/USA)

9.  Winter's Bone (Debra Granik/USA)

10. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky/USA)

1.  Everyone Else (Maren Ade/Germany)

2.  Public Enemies (Michael Mann/USA)

3.  The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Terry Gilliam/UK, Canada, France)

4.  Observe and Report (Jody Hill/USA)

5.  Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson/USA, UK)

6.  Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino/USA, Germany)

7.  Father of My Children (Mia Hansen-Løve/France, Germany)

8.  The Road (John Hillcoat/USA)

9.  Up (Pete Docter/USA)

10. Amer (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani/France, Belgium)

1.  Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman/USA)

2.  Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme/USA)

3.  The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan/USA)

4.  In Bruges (Martin McDonagh/UK, USA)

5.  Two Lovers (James Gray/USA)

6.  Julia (Erick Zonca/France, USA, Mexico, Belgium)

7.  Blindness (Fernando Meirelles/Canada, Brazil, Japan)

8.  Che (Steven Soderbergh/Spain, France, USA)

9.  A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin/France)

10. WALL * E (Andrew Stanton/USA)

1.  Zodiac (David Fincher/USA)

2.  Import Export (Ulrich Seidl/Austria)

3.  There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson/USA)

4.  No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen/USA)

5.  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik/USA)

6.  Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino/USA)

7.  My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev/USA, UK)

8.  Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols/USA)

9.  The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson/USA)

10. Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck/USA)

1.  Miami Vice (Michael Mann/USA, Germany)

2.  The Prestige (Christopher Nolan/USA, UK)

3.  Running Scared (Wayne Kramer/USA, Germany)

4.  Dance Party, USA (Aaron Katz/USA)

5.  United 93 (Paul Greengrass/USA, UK, France)

6.  Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt/USA)

7.  Bug (William Friedkin/USA)

8.  Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo/South Korea)

9.  Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck/USA)

10. Volver (Pedro Almodóvar/Spain)

1.  The New World (Terrence Malick/USA)

2.  Last Days (Gus Van Sant/USA)

3.  The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach/USA)

4.  Domino (Tony Scott/USA, UK, France)

5.  Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe/USA)

6.  Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski/USA)

7.  The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang/Taiwan, France)

8.  A History of Violence (David Cronenberg/USA, Germany)

9.  Bubble (Steven Soderbergh/USA)

10. The Island (Michael Bay/USA)

1.  Before Sunset (Richard Linklater/USA, France)

2.  Primer (Shane Carruth/USA)

3.  Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino/USA)

4.  Head-On (Fatih Akin/Germany, Turkey)

5.  I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell/USA, Germany)

6.  Man on Fire (Tony Scott/USA, UK, Mexico)

7.  Spartan (David Mamet/USA, Germany)

8.  3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk/South Korea, Japan)

9.  Moolaade (Ousmane Sembene/Senegal, France, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Morocco, Tunisia)

10. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou/China, Hong Kong)

1.  Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho/South Korea)

2.  Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen/USA)

3.  Dogville (Lars von Trier/Denmark, Sweden, France, Norway, Netherlands, Finland, Germany, USA, UK)

4.  Bad Boys II (Michael Bay/USA)

5.  Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette/USA)

6.  Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff/USA, Germany)

7.  Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir/USA)

8.  The Hunted (William Friedkin/USA)

9.  The Matrix Reloaded (Lilly Wachowski & Lana Wachowski/USA)

10. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino/USA)

1.  Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes/USA)

2.  Gerry (Gus Van Sant/USA, Argentina, Jordan)

3.  Happy Here and Now (Michael Almereyda/USA)

4.  Irreversible (Gaspar Noé/France)

5.  Insomnia (Christopher Nolan/USA)

6.  25th Hour (Spike Lee/USA)

7.  Solaris (Steven Soderbergh/USA)

8.  Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson/USA)

9.  Adaptation (Spike Jonze/USA)

10. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar/Spain)

1.  Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch/USA, France)

2.  Bad Guy (Kim Ki-duk/South Korea)

3.  Training Day (Antoine Fuqua/USA, Australia)

4.  The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen/USA, UK)

5.  Tape (Richard Linklater/USA)

6.  Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly/USA)

7.  The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke/Austria, France, Germany)

8.  Artificial Intelligence: AI (Steven Spielberg/USA)

9.  Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón/Mexico)

10. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien/Taiwan, France)

1.  In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai/Hong Kong, France)

2.  The Way of the Gun (Christopher McQuarrie/USA)

3.  Yi yi: A One and a Two... (Edward Yang/Taiwan, Japan)

4.  Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier/Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, USA, UK, France, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Norway)

5.  Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong/South Korea, Japan)

6.  You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan/USA)

7.  Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson/USA, UK, Japan, Germany)

8.  Amores Perros (Alejandro G. Iñárritu/Mexico)

9.  Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe/USA)

10. Hamlet (Michael Almereyda/USA)

1.  Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson/USA)

2.  The Straight Story (David Lynch/USA, France, UK)

3.  Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick/USA, UK)

4.  The Matrix (Lilly Wachowski & Lana Wachowski/USA)

5.  The Insider (Michael Mann/USA)

6.  Summer of Sam (Spike Lee/USA)

7.  Fight Club (David Fincher/USA, Germany)

8.  The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella/USA)

9.  Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh/UK)

10. My Best Fiend (Werner Herzog/Germany, UK, Finland, USA)

1.  The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick/USA, Canada)

2.  Rushmore (Wes Anderson/USA)

3.  Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh/USA)

4.  Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo/USA)

5.  The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman/USA)

6.  Ronin (John Frankenheimer/UK, France, USA)

7.  The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen/USA, UK)

8.  New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara/USA)

9.  Wild Things (John McNaughton/USA)

10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam/USA)

1.  The Game (David Fincher/USA)

2.  In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute/USA, Canada)

3.  L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson/USA)

4.  Face/Off (John Woo/USA)

5.  Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino/USA)

6.  Con Air (Simon West/USA)

7.  Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa/Japan)

8.  The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan/Canada)

9.  Lost Highway (David Lynch/USA, France)

10. The Edge (Lee Tamahori/USA)

1.  Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas/France)

2.  The Rock (Michael Bay/USA)

3.  Bound (Lilly Wachowski & Lana Wachowski/USA)

4.  Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe/USA)

5.  Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma/USA)

6.  Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh/UK, France)

7.  Trainspotting (Danny Boyle/UK)

8.  Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky/USA)

9.  Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson/USA)

10. Scream (Wes Craven/USA)

1.  Se7en (David Fincher/USA)

2.  Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam/USA)

3.  Heat (Michael Mann/USA)

4.  Nixon (Oliver Stone/USA)

5.  Crimson Tide (Tony Scott/USA)

6.  Die Hard: With a Vengeance (John McTiernan/USA)

7.  Casino (Martin Scorsese/USA, France)

8.  Safe (Todd Haynes/USA, UK)

9.  Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin/USA)

10. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater/USA, Austria, Switzerland)

1.  Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino/USA)

2.  Dumb & Dumber (Peter Farrelly & Bob Farrelly/USA)

3.  Ed Wood (Tim Burton/USA)

4.  Sátántangó (Béla Tarr/Hungary, Germany, Switzerland)

5.  Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson/New Zealand, Germany)

6.  Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone/USA)

7.  True Lies (James Cameron/USA)

8.  The Professional (Luc Besson/France)

9.  Exotica (Atom Egoyan/Canada)

10. Nadja (Michael Almereyda/USA)

1.  Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater/USA)

2.  Short Cuts (Robert Altman/USA)

3.  Naked (Mike Leigh/UK)

4.  Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma/USA)

5.  Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg/USA)

6.  Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis/USA)

7.  Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg/USA)

8.  True Romance (Tony Scott/USA)

9.  The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick/USA)

10. In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen/USA)

1.  Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino/USA)

2.  Hard-Boiled (John Woo/Hong Kong)

3.  Raising Cain (Brian De Palma/USA)

4.  The Player (Robert Altman/USA)

5.  A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner/USA)

6.  Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood/USA)

7.  Full Contact (Ringo Lam/Hong Kong)

8.  Wayne’s World (Penelope Spheeris/USA)

9.  Batman Returns (Tim Burton/USA, UK)

10. Alien³ (David Fincher/USA)

1.  JFK (Oliver Stone/USA, France)

2.  Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron/USA, France)

3.  The Doors (Oliver Stone/USA)

4.  My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant/USA)

5.  Barton Fink (Joel Coen/USA, UK)

6.  The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme/USA)

7.  Zentropa (Lars von Trier/Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, Switzerland)

8.  What About Bob? (Frank Oz/USA)

9.  The Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax/France)

10. Homicide (David Mamet/USA)

1.  Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen/USA)

2.  Wild at Heart (David Lynch/USA)

3.  Miami Blues (George Armitage/USA)

4.  Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton/USA)

5.  Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante/USA)

6.  Slacker (Richard Linklater/USA)

7.  The Grifters (Stephen Frears/USA)

8.  Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese/USA)

9.  Misery (Rob Reiner/USA)

10. Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven/USA)

1.  The Killer (John Woo/Hong Kong)

2.  Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee/USA)

3.  Dekalog, Nine (Krzysztof Kieslowski/Poland, West Germany)

4.  Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen/USA)

5.  Say Anything... (Cameron Crowe/USA)

6.  The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway/France, UK)

7.  Dekalog, Four (Krzysztof Kieslowski/Poland, West Germany)

8.  Sea of Love (Harold Becker/USA)

9.  Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant/USA)

10. Heathers (Michael Lehmann/USA)

1.  Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg/Canada, USA)

2.  The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese/USA)

3.  The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris/USA)

4.  Die Hard (John McTiernan/USA)

5.  Dekalog, Six (Krzysztof Kieslowski/Poland, West Germany)

6.  Midnight Run (Martin Brest/USA)

7.  Rain Man (Barry Levinson/USA)

8.  Frantic (Roman Polanski/USA, France)

9.  The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman/USA)

10. A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton/USA, UK)

1.  House of Games (David Mamet/USA)

2.  Where Is the Friend’s House? (Abbas Kiarostami/Iran)

3.  Predator (John McTiernan/USA)

4.  Extreme Prejudice (Walter Hill/USA)

5.  Angel Heart (Alan Parker/USA, Canada, UK)

6.  Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick/USA)

7.  Raising Arizona (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen/USA)

8.  Cobra Verde (Werner Herzog/Ghana, West Germany)

9.  The Hidden (Jack Sholder/USA)

10. White of the Eye (Donald Cammell/UK)

1.  Aliens (James Cameron/USA, UK)

2.  Blue Velvet (David Lynch/USA)

3.  Salvador (Oliver Stone/USA)

4.  Manhunter (Michael Mann/USA)

5.  The Fly (David Cronenberg/USA, UK, Canada)

6.  Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz/USA)

7.  Platoon (Oliver Stone/USA)

8.  Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch/USA, West Germany)

9.  Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen/USA)

10. The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer/France)

1.  Brazil (Terry Gilliam/UK)

2.  Death of a Salesman (Volker Schlondorff/USA, West Germany)

3.  Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis/USA)

4.  To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin/USA)

5.  Fletch (Michael Ritchie/USA)

6.  The Dark Glow of the Mountains (Werner Herzog/West Germany)

7.  After Hours (Martin Scorsese/USA)

8.  Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader/USA, Japan)

9.  The Breakfast Club (John Hughes/USA)

10. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton/USA)

1.  The Element of Crime (Lars von Trier/Denmark)

2.  The Terminator (James Cameron/USA, UK)

3.  Love Streams (John Cassavetes/USA)

4.  Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme/USA)

5.  A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven/USA)

6.  Blood Simple (Joel Coen/USA)

7.  Amadeus (Milos Forman/USA)

8.  Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch/USA, West Germany)

9.  Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone/Italy, USA)

10. Body Double (Brian De Palma/USA)

1.  Scarface (Brian De Palma/USA)

2.  The Hunger (Tony Scott/UK, USA)

3.  Sans soleil (Chris Marker/France)

4.  Videodrome (David Cronenberg/Canada, USA)

5.  Zelig (Woody Allen/USA)

6.  Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones/UK)

7.  Star 80 (Bob Fosse/USA)

8.  Breathless (Jim McBride/USA)

9.  Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Ôshima/UK, Japan, New Zealand)

10. Psycho II (Richard Franklin/USA)

1.  Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog/Peru, West Germany)

2.  The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese/USA)

3.  The Thing (John Carpenter/USA)

4.  Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski/UK)

5.  White Dog (Samuel Fuller/USA)

6.  An Officer and a Gentleman (Taylor Hackford/USA)

7.  48 Hrs. (Walter Hill/USA)

8.  First Blood (Ted Kotcheff/USA)

9.  Cat People (Paul Schrader/USA)

10. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg/USA)

1.  Southern Comfort (Walter Hill/USA)

2.  Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam/UK)

3.  Blow Out (Brian De Palma/USA

4.  Thief (Michael Mann/USA)

5.  Possession (Andrzej Zulawski/France, West Germany)

6.  The Road Warrior (George Miller/Australia)

7.  The Aviator’s Wife (Éric Rohmer/France)

8.  Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan/USA)

9.  Gallipoli (Peter Weir/Australia)

10. Stripes (Ivan Reitman/USA)

1.  The Shining (Stanley Kubrick/USA, UK)

2.  Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese/USA)

3.  Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa/Japan)

4.  Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg/UK)

5.  Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma/USA)

6.  The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller/USA)

7.  The Elephant Man (David Lynch/UK, USA)

8.  The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty/USA)

9.  The Changeling (Peter Medak/Canada)

10. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams & David Zucker & Jerry Zucker/USA)

1.  Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola/USA)

2.  Saint Jack (Peter Bogdanovich/USA)

3.  Alien (Ridley Scott/UK)

4.  Monty Python’s The Life of Brian (Terry Jones/UK)

5.  Love on the Run (François Truffaut/France)

6.  Breaking Away (Peter Yates/USA)

7.  Escape from Alcatraz (Don Siegel/USA)

8.  ...And Justice for All (Norman Jewison/USA)

9.  Hardcore (Paul Schrader/USA)

10. Rocky II (Sylvester Stallone/USA)

1.  Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick/USA)

2.  Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard/USA)

3.  Fedora (Billy Wilder/France, West Germany)

4.  Halloween (John Carpenter/USA)

5.  The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino/USA)

6.  The Silent Partner (Daryl Duke/Canada)

7.  The Fury (Brian De Palma/USA)

8.  The Driver (Walter Hill/USA, UK)

9.  The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski/UK)

10. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero/USA, Italy)

1.  Sorcerer (William Friedkin/USA)

2.  Rolling Thunder (John Flynn/USA)

3.  Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg/USA, UK)

4.  New York, New York (Martin Scorsese/USA)

5.  Opening Night (John Cassavetes/USA)

6.  Eraserhead (David Lynch/USA)

7.  Saturday Night Fever (John Badham/USA)

8.  Suspiria (Dario Argento/Italy)

9.  Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett/USA)

10. La Soufriere (Werner Herzog/West Germany)

1.  The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes/USA)

2.  Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May/USA)

3.  All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula/USA)

4.  Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese/USA)

5.  Rocky (John G. Avildsen/USA)

6.  Network (Sidney Lumet/USA)

7.  Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter/USA)

8.  Carrie (Brian De Palma/USA)

9.  The Innocent (Luchino Visconti/Italy, France)

10. The Omen (Richard Donner/UK, USA)

1.  Nashville (Robert Altman/USA)

2.  Love and Death (Woody Allen/USA, France)

3.  Night Moves (Arthur Penn/USA)

4.  Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones/UK)

5.  The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston/UK, USA)

6.  Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick/UK)

7.  Jaws (Steven Spielberg/USA)

8.  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman/USA)

9.  Mandingo (Richard Fleischer/USA)

10. French Connection II (John Frankenheimer/USA)

1.  The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola/USA)

2.  Chinatown (Roman Polanski/USA)

3.  The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent/USA)

4.  California Split (Robert Altman/USA)

5.  Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette/France)

6.  Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Michael Cimino/USA)

7.  A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes/USA)

8.  Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman/USA)

9.  The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula/USA)

10. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (Werner Herzog/West Germany)

1.  The Last Detail (Hal Ashby/USA)

2.  Badlands (Terrence Malick/USA)

3.  Sisters (Brian De Palma/USA)

4.  The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman/USA)

5.  Sleeper (Woody Allen/USA)

6.  Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah/USA)

7.  Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg/USA)

8.  Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg/UK, Italy)

9.  Charley Varrick (Don Siegel/USA)

10. Serpico (Sidney Lumet/Italy, USA)

1.  Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky/Soviet Union)

2.  The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola/USA)

3.  Fat City (John Huston/USA)

4.  The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah/USA)

5.  Ulzana’s Raid (Robert Aldrich/USA)

6.  What’s Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich/USA)

7.  Love in the Afternoon (Éric Rohmer/France)

8.  The Last House on the Left (Wes Craven/USA)

9.  Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog/West Germany)

10. The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May/USA)

1.  A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick/UK)

2.  Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah/UK, USA)

3.  Dirty Harry (Don Siegel/USA)

4.  A New Leaf (Elaine May/USA)

5.  Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman/USA)

6.  The Beguiled (Don Siegel/USA)

7.  Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff/Australia, USA)

8.  Out 1 (Jacques Rivette/France)

9.  Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes/USA)

10. The Panic in Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg/USA)

1.  Le Cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville/France, Italy)

2.  Husbands (John Cassavetes/USA)

3.  Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski/UK, West Germany)

4.  The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci/Italy, France, West Germany)

5.  Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni/USA)

6.  Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri/Italy)

7.  Bed and Board (François Truffaut/France, Italy)

8.  The Landlord (Hal Ashby/USA)

9.  The Wild Child (François Truffaut/France)

1.  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill/USA)

2.  Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger/USA)

3.  The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah/USA)

4.  Downhill Racer (Michael Ritchie/USA)

5.  A Touch of Zen (King Hu/Taiwan)

6.  The Italian Job (Peter Collinson/UK)

7.  Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville/France, Italy)

8.  La Piscine (Jacques Deray/France, Italy)

1.  2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick/UK, USA)

2.  Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone/Italy, USA)

3.  The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci/Italy, France)

4.  Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski/USA)

5.  Hell in the Pacific (John Boorman/USA)

6.  Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut/France)

7.  The Swimmer (Frank Perry/USA)

8.  Secret Ceremony (Joseph Losey/UK)

9.  Faces (John Cassavetes/USA)

10. Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea/Cuba)

1.  Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel/France, Italy)

2.  Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville/France, Italy)

3.  Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn/USA)

4.  Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse/Japan)

5.  The Graduate (Mike Nichols/USA)

6.  Point Blank (John Boorman/USA)

7.  Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi/Japan)

8.  The Red and the White (Miklos Jancso/Hungary, Soviet Union)

9.  Dont Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker/USA)

10. Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard/Italy, France)

1.  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone/Italy, Spain)

2.  El Dorado (Howard Hawks/USA)

3.  Seconds (John Frankenheimer/USA)

4.  The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto/Japan)

5.  Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni/UK, Italy, USA)

6.  Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky/Soviet Union)

7.  A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann/UK)

8.  The Nun (Jacques Rivette/France)

9.  Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson/France, Sweden)

1.  Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard/France, Italy)

2.  Repulsion (Roman Polanski/UK)

3.  The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison/USA)

4.  Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles/France, Spain, Switzerland)

5.  For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone/Italy, Spain, West Germany, Monaco)

6.  The Ipcress File (Sidney J. Furie/UK)

7.  Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini/Italy, France)

8.  Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger/UK)

9.  Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman/Czechoslovakia)

10. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Martin Ritt/UK)

1.  Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard/France)

2.  Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara/Japan)

3.  Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet/USA)

4.  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy/France, West Germany)

5.  The Best Man (Franklin J. Schaffner/USA)

6.  Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi/Italy, France)

7.  The Killers (Don Siegel/USA)

8.  The Train (John Frankenheimer/France, Italy, USA)

9.  Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick/UK)

10. Zulu (Cy Endfield/UK)

1.  8 1/2 (Federico Fellini/Italy, France)

2.  Hud (Martin Ritt/USA)

3.  Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard/France, Italy)

4.  High and Low (Akira Kurosawa/Japan)

5.  The Servant (Joseph Losey/UK)

6.  The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock/USA)

7.  The Leopard (Luchino Visconti/Italy, France)

8.  The Great Escape (John Sturges/USA)

9.  Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller/USA)

10. Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard/France)

1.  Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean/UK)

2.  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford/USA)

3.  Lolita (Stanley Kubrick/USA, UK)

4.  Jules and Jim (François Truffaut/France)

5.  Requiem for a Heavyweight (Ralph Nelson/USA)

6.  Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi/Japan)

7.  The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer/USA)

8.  Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah/USA)

9.  Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski/Poland)

10. My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard/France)

1.  A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard/Italy, France)

2.  Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa/Japan)

3.  Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda/France, Italy)

4.  The Hustler (Robert Rossen/USA)

5.  One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder/USA)

6.  Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller/USA)

7.  La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni/Italy, France)

8.  The Misfits (John Huston/USA)

9.  The Innocents (Jack Clayton/UK)

10. Too Late Blues (John Cassavetes/USA)

1.  Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti/Italy, France)

2.  Classe tous risques (Claude Sautet/France, Italy)

3.  La Dolce vita (Federico Fellini/Italy, France)

4.  La Vérité (Henri-Georges Clouzot/France, Italy)

5.  Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock/USA)

6.  Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard/France)

7.  The Apartment (Billy Wilder/USA)

8.  Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick/USA)

9.  Purple Noon (René Clément//France, Italy)

10. The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges/USA)

1.  Pickpocket (Robert Bresson/France)

2.  Hiroshima, mon amour (Alain Resnais/France, Japan)

3.  Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger/USA)

4.  North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock/USA)

5.  The Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalatozov/Soviet Union)

6.  Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks/USA)

7.  General della Rovere (Roberto Rossellini/Italy, France)

8.  The Human Condition, Part I: No Greater Love (Masaki Kobayashi/Japan)

9.  The 400 Blows (François Truffaut/France)

1.  Touch of Evil (Orson Welles/USA)

2.  Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda/Poland)

3.  Fiend Without a Face (Arthur Crabtree/UK)

4.  Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock/USA)

5.  Thunder Road (Arthur Ripley/USA)

1.  The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman/Sweden)

2.  The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean/UK, USA)

3.  Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick/USA)

4.  A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan/USA)

5.  Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick/USA)

6.  Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa/Japan)

7.  Run of the Arrow (Samuel Fuller/USA)

8.  12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet/USA)

9.  The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk/USA)

10. On the Bowery (Lionel Rogosin/USA)

1.  Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk/USA)

2.  The Killing (Stanley Kubrick/USA)

3.  Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray/USA)

4.  Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi/Japan)

5.  The Searchers (John Ford/USA)

6.  Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville/France)

7.  Attack! (Robert Aldrich/USA)

1.  The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis/USA)

2.  Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot/France)

3.  The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton/USA)

4.  Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray/USA)

5.  Rififi (Jules Dassin/France)

6.  East of Eden (Elia Kazan/USA)

7.  Mister Roberts (John Ford & Mervyn LeRoy/USA)

8.  Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich/USA)

9.  Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni/Italy)

10. Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges/USA)

1.  Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray/USA)

2.  Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa/Japan)

3.  On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan/USA)

4.  La Strada (Federico Fellini/Italy)

5.  Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock/USA)

6.  Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi/Japan)

1.  The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot/France, Italy)

2.  Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller/USA)

3.  Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi/Japan)

4.  The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophüls/France, Italy)

5.  The Big Heat (Fritz Lang/USA)

6.  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks/USA)

7.  Tokyo Story (Yasujirô Ozu/Japan)

8.  Roman Holiday (William Wyler/USA)

9.  I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini/Italy, France)

10. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann/USA)

1.  Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen/USA)

2.  The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray/USA)

3.  Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica/Italy)

4.  High Noon (Fred Zinnemann/USA)

5.  Clash by Night (Fritz Lang/USA)

6.  Othello (Orson Welles/USA, Italy, Morocco, France)

7.  The Quiet Man (John Ford/USA)

8.  The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer/USA)

9.  Forbidden Games (René Clément/France)

1.  Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder/USA)

2.  On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray/USA)

3.  Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson/France)

4.  Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock/USA)

5.  A Place in the Sun (George Stevens/USA)

1.  In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray/USA)

2.  All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz/USA)

3.  The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini/Italy)

4.  The Furies (Anthony Mann/USA)

5.  Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa/Japan)

6.  Wagon Master (John Ford/USA)

7.  The Breaking Point (Michael Curtiz/USA)

8.  Tension (John Berry/USA)

9.  Los olvidados (Luis Buñuel/Mexico)

10. Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan/USA)

1.  The Third Man (Carol Reed/UK)

2.  Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis/USA)

3.  Le Silence de la Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville/France)

4.  Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin/USA)

5.  She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford/USA)

6.  The Set-Up (Robert Wise/USA)

1.  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston/USA)

2.  Red River (Howard Hawks/USA)

3.  They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray/USA)

4.  The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger/UK)

5.  Fort Apache (John Ford/USA)

6.  Key Largo (John Huston/USA)

1.  Born to Kill (Robert Wise/USA)

2.  Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger/USA)

3.  Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding/USA)

4.  T-Men (Anthony Mann/USA)

1.  It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra/USA)

2.  Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock/USA)

3.  Gilda (Charles Vidor/USA)

4.  My Darling Clementine (John Ford/USA)

5.  The Killers (Robert Siodmak/USA)

6.  Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur/USA)

7.  The Stranger (Orson Welles/USA)

1.  Brief Encounter (David Lean/UK)

2.  Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné/France)

3.  Open City (Roberto Rossellini/Italy)

4.  Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz/USA)

5.  And Then There Were None (Rene Clair/USA)

1.  Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder/USA)

2.  Laura (Otto Preminger/USA)

3.  To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks/USA)

4.  The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges/USA)

5.  Address Unknown (William Cameron Menzies/USA)

6.  Henry V (Laurence Olivier/UK)

7.  The Suspect (Robert Siodmak/USA)

8.  Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak/USA)

1.  I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur/USA)

2.  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger/UK)

3.  Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer/Denmark)

4.  The Song of Bernadette (Henry King/USA)

5.  Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot/France)

1.  The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges/USA)

2.  The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles/USA)

3.  Casablanca (Michael Curtiz/USA)

4.  Cat People (Jacques Tourneur/USA)

1.  Citizen Kane (Orson Welles/USA)

2.  The Maltese Falcon (John Huston/USA)

3.  Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks/USA)

4.  Blood and Sand (Rouben Mamoulian/USA)

5.  The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges/USA)

1.  The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch/USA)

2.  His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks/USA)

3.  Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock/USA)

4.  Night Train to Munich (Carol Reed/UK)

5.  The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford/USA)

6.  The Mark of Zorro (Rouben Mamoulian/USA)

1.  The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir/France)

2.  Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks/USA)

3.  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra/USA)

4.  The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi/Japan)

5.  Stagecoach (John Ford/USA)

1.  The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock/UK)

2.  Port of Shadows (Marcel Carné/France)

3.  Jezebel (William Wyler/USA)

1.  The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey/USA)

2.  Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir/France)

3.  Lost Horizon (Frank Capra/USA)

1.  Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra/USA)

2.  The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir/France)

3.  Modern Times (Charles Chaplin/USA)

4.  Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi/Japan)

1.  Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale/USA)

2.  The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock/UK)

1.  Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks/USA)

2.  It Happened One Night (Frank Capra/USA)

3.  L'Atalante (Jean Vigo/France)

1.  Duck Soup (Leo McCarey/USA)

2.  The Bowery (Raoul Walsh/USA)

1.  Scarface (Howard Hawks/USA)

2.  Red Dust (Victor Fleming/USA)

3.  Freaks (Tod Browning/USA)

4.  Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding/USA)

5.  Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch/USA)

6.  Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg/USA)

7.  Horse Feathers (Norman Z. McLeod/USA)

8.  Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian/USA)

9.  Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer/Germany)

10. Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg/USA)

1.  M (Fritz Lang/Germany)

2.  City Lights (Charles Chaplin/USA)

3.  La Chienne (Jean Renoir/France)

1.  L’Age d’or (Luis Buñuel/France)

2.  People on Sunday (Robert Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer/Germany)

3.  Morocco (Josef von Sternberg/USA)

Silent Era or: Anything before 1930

1.  Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau/USA)

2.  Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton/USA)

3.  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene/Germany)

4.  The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton/USA)

5.  The Battleship Potemkin (Sergei M. Eisenstein/Soviet Union)

6.  The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin/USA)

7.  College (James W. Horne & Buster Keaton/USA)

8.  Girl Shy (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor/USA)

9.  Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (D.W. Griffith/USA)