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1893 |
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Blacksmithing Scene |
William K.L. Dickson |
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1894 |
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Edison Kinetoscope Record of a Sneeze |
William Heise |
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Luis Martinetti, Contortionist |
Wiliam K.L. Dickson |
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Caicedo, King of the Slack Wire |
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1895 |
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Workers Leaving the Factory |
Louis Lumiere |
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The Sprayer Sprayed |
Louis Lumiere |
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Feeding the Baby |
Louis Lumiere |
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The Card Game |
Louis Lumiere |
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Photographers Congress Arrives in Lyon |
Louis Lumiere |
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1896 |
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Demolition of a Wall |
Louis Lumiere |
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May Irwin Kiss (The Kiss) |
William Heise |
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The Devil's Castle |
Georges Melies |
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1901 |
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Sampson-Schley Controversy |
Edwin S. Porter |
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Execution of Czolgosz |
Edwin S. Porter |
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Demolishing and Building up the Star Theater |
Frederick S. Armitage |
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Kansas Saloon Smashers |
Edwin S. Porter |
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1902 |
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A Trip to the Moon |
Georges Melies |
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Jack and the Beanstalk |
Edwin S. Porter |
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How they Do Things on the Bowery |
Edwin S. Porter |
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Appointment by Telephone |
Edwin S. Porter |
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1903 |
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The Great Train Robbery |
Edwin S. Porter |
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The Life of an American Fireman |
Edwin S. Porter |
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The Gay Shoe Clerk |
Edwin S. Porter |
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Move On |
A.C Abadie |
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The Magic Lantern |
Georges Melies |
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1904 |
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Voyage Travers L'Impossible |
Georges Melies |
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Dog Factory |
Edwin S. Porter |
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Cascade of Fire |
Georges Melies |
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1905 |
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Interior New York Subway |
none |
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1906 |
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La fee Carabosse |
Georges Melies |
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Three American Beauties |
Wallace McCutcheon, Edwin S. Porter |
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1907 |
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Tunnelling the Channel |
Georges Melies |
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1908 |
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The Thieving Hand |
J. Stuart Blackton |
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The Genie of Fire |
Georges Melies |
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Rescued from an Eagle's Nest |
J. Searle Dawley |
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1909 |
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Corner in Wheat |
D.W. Griffith |
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Le Locataire Diabolique |
Georges Melies |
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Princess Nicotine or The Smoke Fairy |
J. Stuart Blackton |
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Those Awful Hats |
D.W. Griffith |
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The Sealed Room |
D.W. Griffith |
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Sightseeing Through Whisky |
George Melies |
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1910 |
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The Unchanging Sea |
D.W. Griffith |
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White Fawn's Devotion |
James Young Deer |
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Hydrotherapie Fantastique |
Georges Melies |
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1911 |
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The Lonedale Operator |
D.W. Griffith |
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Her Crowning Glory |
Lawrence Trimble |
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His Trust |
D.W. Griffith |
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1912 |
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The Land Beyond the Sunset |
Harold M. Shaw |
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The Confederate Ironclad |
Kenean Buel |
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The New York Hat |
D.W. Griffith |
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The Unseen Enemy |
D.W. Griffith |
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Conquest of the Pole |
Georges Melies |
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The Narrow Road |
DW Griffith |
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1913 |
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How Men Propose |
Lois Weber |
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A House Divided |
Lois Weber |
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A Mothering Heart |
D.W. Griffith |
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1914 |
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A Florida Enchantment |
Sidney Drew |
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz |
J. Farrell MacDonald |
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1915 |
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Les Vampires |
Louis Feuillade |
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Alias Jimmy Valentine |
Maurice Tourneur |
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Birth of a Nation |
DW Griffith |
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Der Golem |
Paul Wegener |
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The Cheat |
Cecil B. DeMille |
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A Night at the Show |
Charles Chaplin |
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Matrimony's Speed Limit |
Alice Guy-Blanche |
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The Bank |
Charles Chaplin |
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Shanghaied |
Charles Chaplin |
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By the Sea |
Charles Chaplin |
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1916 |
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Intolerance |
DW Griffith |
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Hell's Hinges |
Charles Swickard, William S. Hart |
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Snow White |
J. Searle Dawley |
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I'm Insured |
Harry Palmer |
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1917 |
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Easy Street |
Charles Chaplin |
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The Immigrant |
Charles Chaplin |
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The Cure |
Charles Chaplin |
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The Adventurer |
Charles Chaplin |
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1919 |
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Broken Blossoms |
DW Griffith |
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Cabinet of Dr. Caligari |
Robert Weine |
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Within Our Gates |
Oscar Micheaux |
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Spiders |
Fritz Lang |
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1920 |
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The Toll Gate |
Lambert Hillyer |
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1921 |
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Destiny |
Fritz Lang |
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The Kid |
Charlie Chaplin |
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Two Wise Wives |
Lois Weber |
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Tol'able David |
Henry King |
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1922 |
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Nanook of the North |
Robert Flaherty |
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Foolish Wives |
Erich von Stroheim |
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Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages |
Benjamin Christensen |
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Nosferatu |
F.W. Murnau |
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Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler |
Fritz Lang |
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Once Upon a Time |
Carl Dreyer |
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The Toll of the Sea |
Chester M. Franklin |
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1923 |
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Safety Last |
Fred C. Newmeyer |
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Our Hospitality |
Buster Keaton |
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Why Worry? |
Fred C. Newmeyer |
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1924 |
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Greed |
Erich von Stroheim |
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Sherlock Jr. |
Buster Keaton |
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The Thief of Baghdad |
Raoul Walsh |
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The Chechahcos |
Lewis H. Moomaw |
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Strike |
Sergei Eisenstein |
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Der Niebelungen |
Fritz Lang |
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Girl Shy |
Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor |
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Mikael |
Carl Dreyer |
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The Last Laugh |
F.W. Murnau |
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The Navigator |
Donald Crisp |
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The Iron Horse |
John Ford |
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Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks |
Lev Kuleshov |
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Hot Water |
Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor |
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1925 |
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Gold Rush |
Charlie Chaplin |
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The Freshman |
Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor |
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Battleship Potemkin |
Sergei Eisenstein |
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The Big Parade |
King Vidor |
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Body and Soul |
Oscar Micheaux |
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Ben Hur: A Tale of Christ |
Fred Niblo |
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Master of the House |
Carl Dreyer |
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Phantom of the Opera |
Lon Chaney |
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Seven Chances |
Buster Keaton |
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1926 |
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Faust |
FW Murnau |
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Scar of Shame |
Frank Perugini |
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Flesh and the Devil |
Clarence Brown |
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1927 |
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Sunrise |
FW Murnau |
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Metropolis |
Fritz Lang |
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The General |
Buster Keaton |
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October |
Sergei Eisenstein |
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The End of St. Petersburg |
Vsevolod Pudovkin |
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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City |
Walter Ruttmann |
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Love of Jeanne Ney |
G.W. Pabst |
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The Kid Brother |
J.A. Howe and Ted Wilde |
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The Lodger |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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Napoleon |
Abel Gance |
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Wings |
William Wellman |
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My Best Girl |
Sam Taylor |
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1928 |
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Passion of Joan of Arc |
Carl Dreyer |
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Zvenigora |
Alexander Dovzhenko |
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Arsenal |
Alexandre Dovzhenko |
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The Crowd |
King Vidor |
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The Docks of New York |
Josef von Sternberg |
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The Last Command |
Josef von Sternberg |
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The Circus |
Charles Chaplin |
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Street Angel |
Frank Borzage |
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The Wedding March |
Erich von Stroheim |
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Spies |
Fritz Lang |
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The Wind |
Victor Sjostrom |
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Show People |
King Vidor |
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The Fall of the House of Usher |
James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber |
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The Man Who Laughs |
Paul Leni |
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The Cameraman |
Buster Keaton |
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Steamboat Bill, Jr. |
Buster Keaton |
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Steamboat Willie |
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Storm over Asia |
Vsevolod Pudovkin |
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Speedy |
Ted Wilde |
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1929 |
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Un Chien Andalou |
Luis Bunuel |
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Piccadilly |
E.A. Dupont |
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Man with the Movie Camera |
Dziga Vertov |
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Pandora's Box |
G.W. Pabst |
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Hallelujah |
King Vidor |
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Autumn Mist |
Dimitri Kirsanoff |
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Diary of a Lost Girl |
G.W. Pabst |
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Blackmail |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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Days of Youth |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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I Graduated, ButÉ |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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A Straightforward Boy |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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1930 |
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Earth |
Alexander Dovzhenko |
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Morocco |
Josef von Sternberg |
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Blue Angel |
Josef von Sternberg |
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All Quiet on the Western Front |
Lewis Milestone |
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Walk Cheerfully |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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I Flunked But.. |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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The Blood of a Poet |
Jean Cocteau |
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That Night's Wife |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Juno and the Paycock |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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1931 |
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City Lights |
Charlie Chaplin |
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Fritz Lang |
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Dishonored |
Josef von Sternberg |
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Frankenstein |
James Whale |
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Tokyo Chorus |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Kameradschaft |
G.W. Pabst |
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Le Million |
Rene Clair |
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Tabu |
FW Murnau |
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A Nous La Liberte |
Rene Clair |
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The Lady and the Beard |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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1932 |
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I Was Born, ButÉ |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Scarface |
Howard Hawks |
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Shanghai Express |
Josef von Sternberg |
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Vampyr |
Carl Dreyer |
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Trouble in Paradise |
Ernst Lubitsch |
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Freaks |
Tod Browning |
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I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang |
Mervyn LeRoy |
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Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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1933 |
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen |
Frank Capra |
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum |
Lewis Milestone |
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Las Hurdes |
Luis Bunuel |
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King Kong |
Ernest Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper |
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Duck Soup |
Leo McCarey |
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Woman of Tokyo |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Dragnet Girl |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Dinner at Eight |
George Cukor |
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Passing Fancy |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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1934 |
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The Scarlet Empress |
Josef von Sternberg |
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Happiness |
Alexander Medvedkin |
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L'Atalante |
Jean Vigo |
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A Story of Floating Weeds |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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It Happened one Night |
Frank Capra |
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Twentieth Century |
Howard Hawks |
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Our Daily Bread |
King Vidor |
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A Mother Should Be Loved |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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1935 |
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Bride of Frankenstein |
James Whale |
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A Night at the Opera |
Sam Wood |
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An Inn at Tokyo |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Top Hat |
Mark Sandrich |
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The Informer |
John Ford |
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The Devil is a Woman |
Josef von Sternberg |
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1936 |
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Modern Times |
Charlie Chaplin |
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Rose Hobart |
Joseph Cornell |
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Sisters of the Gion |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
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A Day in the Country |
Jean Renoir |
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The Only Son |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Fury |
Fritz Lang |
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My Man Godfrey |
Gregory De La Cava |
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Dodsworth |
William Wyler |
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Sabotage |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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Show Boat |
James Whale |
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Kagamijishi |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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1937 |
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Street Angel |
Yuan Muzhi |
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Humanity and Paper Balloons |
Sadao Yamanaka |
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La Grande Illusion |
Jean Renoir |
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The Awful Truth |
Leo McCarey |
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Make Way for Tomorrow |
Leo McCarey |
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What Did the Lady Forget? |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Stage Door |
Gregory La Cava |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
Walt Disney |
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This Spanish Earth |
Joris Ivens |
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Shall We Dance |
Mark Sandrich |
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Young and Innocent |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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The Good Earth |
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1938 |
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Porky in Wackyland |
Robert Clampett |
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Bringing Up Baby |
Howard Hawks |
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Edge of the World |
Michael Powell |
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Holiday |
George Cukor |
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You and Me |
Fritz Lang |
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Angels with Dirty Faces |
Michael Curtiz |
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The Adventures of Robin Hood |
Michael Curtiz |
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Alexander Nevsky |
Sergei Eisenstein |
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Sidewalks of London a/k/a St. Martin's Lane |
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Le Bete Humaine |
Jean Renoir |
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Jezebel |
William Wyler |
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Pygmalion |
Anthony Asquith |
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1939 |
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Rules of the Game |
Jean Renoir |
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Story of the Late Chrysanthemums |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
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Wizard of Oz |
Victor Fleming |
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Only Angels Have Wings |
Howard Hawks |
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Jour Se Leve |
Marcel Carne |
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Gone with the Wind |
Victor Fleming |
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The 400 Million |
Joris Ivens |
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1940 |
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The Shop around the Corner |
Ernst Lubitsch |
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His Girl Friday |
Howard Hawks |
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The Grapes of Wrath |
John Ford |
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The Great Dictator |
Charles Chaplin |
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The Letter |
William Wyler |
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The Bank Dick |
Edward F. Cline |
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1941 |
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Citizen Kane |
Orson Welles |
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How Green Was My Valley |
John Ford |
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Notes on an Itinerant Performer |
Hiroshi Shimizu |
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Maltese Falcon |
John Huston |
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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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The Shanghai Gesture |
Josef von Sternberg |
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The Little Foxes |
William Wyler |
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1942 |
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The Magnificent Ambersons |
Orson Welles |
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Casablanca |
Michael Curtiz |
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The Palm Beach Story |
Preston Sturges |
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To Be or Not to Be |
Ernst Lubitsch |
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Road to Morocco |
David Butler |
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Cat People |
Jacques Tourneur |
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There Was a Father |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Mrs. Miniver |
William Wyler |
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Yankee Doodle Dandy |
Michael Curtiz |
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1943 |
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Meshes of the Afternoon |
Maya Deren |
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Dayof Wrath |
Carl Dreyer |
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp |
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
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The Leopard Man |
Jacques Tourneur |
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Ossessione |
Luchino Visconti |
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Cabin in the Sky |
Vincente Minnelli |
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1944 |
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A Canterbury Tale |
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
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Meet Me in St. Louis |
Vincente Minnelli |
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To Have and Have Not |
Howard Hawks |
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Hail the Conquering Hero |
Preston Sturges |
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1945 |
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Ivan the Terrible Part I |
Sergei Eisenstein |
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Rome, Open City |
Roberto Rossellini |
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Scarlet Street |
Fritz Lang |
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Les Dames de Bois du Bologne |
Robert Bresson |
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Leave Her to Heaven |
John M. Stahl |
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Children of Paradise |
Marcel Carne |
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Lost Weekend |
Billy Wilder |
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The Clock |
Vincente Minnelli |
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I Know Where I'm Going |
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
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1946 |
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My Darling Clementine |
John Ford |
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Notorious |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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It's a Wonderful Life |
Frank Capra |
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Utamaro and His Five Women |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
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Brief Encounter |
David Lean |
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A Matter of Life and Death |
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
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The Stranger |
Orson Welles |
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The Best Years of Our Lives |
William Wyler |
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Beauty and the Beast |
Jean Cocteau |
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Paisan |
Roberto Rossellini |
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No Regrets for Our Youth |
Akira Kurosawa |
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Murderers Are Among Us |
Wolfgang Staudte |
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Great Expectations |
David Lean |
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The Killers |
Robert Siodmark |
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Gilda |
Charles Vidor |
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Diary of a Chambermaid |
Jean Renoir |
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1947 |
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Germany Year Zero |
Roberto Rossellini |
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The Lady from Shanghai |
Orson Welles |
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
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A Double Life |
George Cukor |
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Record of a Tenement Gentleman |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Out of the Past |
Jacques Tourneur |
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Monsieur Verdoux |
Charlie Chaplin |
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Brute Force |
Jules Dassin |
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Odd Man Out |
Carol Reed |
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Body and Soul |
Robert Rossen |
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T-Men |
Anthony Mann |
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The Fugitive |
John Ford |
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Black Narcissus |
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
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Crossfire |
Edward Dmytryk |
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1948 |
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Fort Apache |
John Ford |
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La Terra Trema |
Luchino Visconti |
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Spring in a Small Town |
Fei Mu |
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The Red Shoes |
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
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Force of Evil |
Abraham Polonsky |
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Raw Deal |
Anthony Mann |
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Red River |
Howeard Hawks |
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The Bicycle Thieves |
Vittorio De Sica |
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A Hen in the Wind |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
John Huston |
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Key Largo |
John Huston |
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Hamlet |
Laurence Olivier |
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Macbeth |
Orson Welles |
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He Walked by Night |
Anthony Mann |
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Letter from an Unknown Woman |
Max Ophuls |
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Drunken Angel |
Akira Kurosawa |
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The Search |
Fred Zinnemann |
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1949 |
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The Third Man |
Carol Reed |
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Stromboli |
Roberto Rossellini |
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Late Spring |
Yasujiro Ozu |
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On the Town |
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen |
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Crows and Sparrows |
Zheng Junli |
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Stray Dog |
Akira Kurosawa |
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Myriads of Lights |
Shen Fu |
| 8 |
Adam's Rib |
George Cukor |
| 9 |
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| 10 |
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1950 |
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| 1 |
This Life of Mine |
Shi Hui |
| 2 |
Los Olvidados |
Luis Bunuel |
| 3 |
Outrage |
Ida Lupino |
| 4 |
In a Lonely Place |
Nicholas Ray |
| 5 |
Orphee |
Jean Cocteau |
| 6 |
The Munekata Sisters |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 7 |
Sunset Boulevard |
Billy Wilder |
| 8 |
Rio Grande |
John Ford |
| 9 |
Winchester '73 |
Anthony Mann |
| 10 |
Wagonmaster |
John Ford |
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1951 |
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| 1 |
Awara |
Raj Kapoor |
| 2 |
Diary of a Country Priest |
Robert Bresson |
| 3 |
Early Summer |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 4 |
An American in Paris |
Vincente Minnelli |
| 5 |
Rashomon |
Akira Kurosawa |
| 6 |
Tales of Hoffmann |
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger |
| 7 |
Strangers on a Train |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| 8 |
The African Queen |
John Huston |
| 9 |
A Place in the Sun |
George Stevens |
| 10 |
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1952 |
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| 1 |
Singin' in the Rain |
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly |
| 2 |
Ikiru |
Akira Kurosawa |
| 3 |
Life of Oharu |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 4 |
Forbidden Games |
Rene Clement |
| 5 |
El |
Luis Bunuel |
| 6 |
The Golden Coach |
Jean Renoir |
| 7 |
The Bad and the Beautiful |
Vincente Minnelli |
| 8 |
Umberto D |
Vittorio De Sica |
| 9 |
High Noon |
Fred Zinneman |
| 10 |
Moulin Rouge |
John Huston |
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1953 |
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| 1 |
Tokyo Story |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 2 |
Voyage To Italy |
Roberto Rossellini |
| 3 |
The Naked Spur |
Anthony Mann |
| 4 |
Ugetsu |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 5 |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
Howard Hawks |
| 6 |
The Bigamist |
Ida Lupino |
| 7 |
The Big Heat |
Fritz Lang |
| 8 |
Summer with Monika |
Ingmar Bergman |
| 9 |
Roman Holiday |
William Wyler |
| 10 |
From Here to Eternity |
Fred Zinnemann |
| |
The Bandwagon |
Vincente Minnelli |
| |
The Earrings of Madame DeÉ |
Max Ophuls |
| |
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| |
1954 |
|
| 1 |
Seven Samurai |
Akira Kurosawa |
| 2 |
Rear Window |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| 3 |
Sansho the Bailiff |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 4 |
Anatahan |
Josef von Sternberg |
| 5 |
Johnny Guitar |
Nicholas Ray |
| 6 |
Boot Polish |
Prakash Arora |
| 7 |
On the Waterfront |
Elia Kazan |
| 8 |
La Strada |
Federico Fellini |
| 9 |
Senso |
Luchino Visconti |
| 10 |
The Caine Mutiny |
Edward Dmytryk |
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1955 |
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| 1 |
Ordet |
Carl Dreyer |
| 2 |
Night and Fog |
Alain Resnais |
| 3 |
Pather Panchali |
Satyajit Ray |
| 4 |
Rebel Without a Cause |
Nicolas Ray |
| 5 |
Night of the Hunter |
Charles Laughton |
| 6 |
Smiles of a Summer Night |
Ingmar Bergman |
| 7 |
Kiss Me Deadly |
Robert Aldrich |
| 8 |
All that Heaven Allows |
Douglas Sirk |
| 9 |
The Empress Yang Kwei Fei |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 10 |
French Cancan |
Jean Renoir |
| |
Guys and Dolls |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| |
Bad Day at Black Rock |
John Sturges |
| |
Mr. Arkadin |
Orson Welles |
| |
Shree 420 |
Raj Kapoor |
| |
Mr. Roberts |
John Ford |
| |
East of Eden |
Elia Kazan |
| |
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| |
1956 |
|
| 1 |
A Man Escaped |
Robert Bresson |
| 2 |
Early Spring |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 3 |
Lust for Life |
Vincent Minnelli |
| 4 |
Street of Shame |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 5 |
Written on the Wind |
Douglas Sirk |
| 6 |
Bigger than Life |
Nicholas Ray |
| 7 |
The Burmese Harp |
Kon Ichikawa |
| 8 |
The Wrong Man |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| 9 |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
Don Siegel |
| 10 |
New Year's Sacrifice |
Sang Hu |
| |
The Killing |
Stanley Kubrick |
| |
The Mystery of Picasso |
Henri Georges Clouzot |
| |
The Searchers |
John Ford |
| |
The Ten Commandments |
Cecil B. DeMille |
| |
The Man who Knew Too Much |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| |
Around the World in 80 Days |
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1957 |
|
| 1 |
Mother India |
Mehboob Khan |
| 2 |
Pyaasa |
Guru Dutt |
| 3 |
Aparajito |
Satyajit Ray |
| 4 |
Tokyo Twilight |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 5 |
A King in New York |
Charles Chaplin |
| 6 |
Nights of Cabiria |
Federico Fellini |
| 7 |
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter |
Frank Tashlin |
| 8 |
Il Grido |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 9 |
Throne of Blood |
Akira Kurosawa |
| 10 |
Wild Strawberries |
Ingmar Bergman |
| |
Bitter Victory |
Nicholas Ray |
| |
Kanal |
Andrzej Wajda |
| |
12 Angry Men |
Sidney Lumet |
| |
The Bridge on the River Kwai |
David Lean |
| |
Sweet Smell of Success |
Alexander Mackendrick |
| |
Paths of Glory |
Stanley Kubrick |
| |
Man on the Tracks |
Andrzej Munk |
| |
An Affair to Remember |
Leo McCarey |
| |
The Cranes are Flying |
Mikhail Kalatozov |
| |
A Face in the Crowd |
Elia Kazan |
| |
Seventh Seal |
Ingmar Bergman |
| |
Witness for the Prosecution |
Billy Wilder |
| |
The Lower Depths |
Akira Kurosawa |
| |
Les Girls |
George Cukor |
| |
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| |
1958 |
|
| 1 |
Vertigo |
Alfred Hithccock |
| 2 |
Nazarin |
Luis Bunuel |
| 3 |
Jalshaghar (The Music Room) |
Satyajit Ray |
| 4 |
Man of the West |
Anthony Mann |
| 5 |
Ivan the Terrible Part II |
Sergei Eisenstein |
| 6 |
Touch of Evil |
Orson Welles |
| 7 |
Some Came Running |
Vincente Minnelli |
| 8 |
Enjo |
Kon Ichikawa |
| 9 |
Mon Oncle |
Jacques Tati |
| 10 |
Equinox Flower |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| |
Gigi |
Vincente Minnelli |
| |
A Night to Remember |
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| |
Ashes and Diamonds |
Andrzej Wajda |
| |
Elevator to the Gallows |
Louis Malle |
| |
Separate Tables |
Delbert Mann |
| |
The Hidden Fortress |
Akira Kurosawa |
| |
Look Back in Anger |
Tony Richardson |
| |
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| |
1959 |
|
| 1 |
Imitation of Life |
Douglas Sirk |
| 2 |
Floating Weeds |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 3 |
Fires on the Plain |
Kon Ichikawa |
| 4 |
Rio Bravo |
Howard Hawks |
| 5 |
North by Northwest |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| 6 |
Eyes Without a Face |
Georges Franju |
| 7 |
The Lin Family Shop |
Shui Hua |
| 8 |
Pickpocket |
Robert Bresson |
| 9 |
Ohayo |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 10 |
Shadows |
John Cassavetes |
| |
400 Blows |
Francois Truffaut |
| |
Some Like it Hot |
Billy Wilder |
| |
The Crimson Kimono |
Sam Fuller |
| |
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| |
1960 |
|
| 1 |
Underworld, USA |
Sam Fuller |
| 2 |
Psycho |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| 3 |
Breathless |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 4 |
The Lady with the Dog |
Josef Heifetz |
| 5 |
Mughal E Azam |
K. Asif |
| 6 |
Late Autumn |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 7 |
L'Avventura |
Michaelangelo Antonioni |
| 8 |
Peeping Tom |
Michael Powell |
| 9 |
La Dolce Vita |
Federico Fellini |
| 10 |
The Testament of Orpheus |
Jean Cocteau |
| |
Spartacus |
Stanley Kubrick |
| |
Elmer Gantry |
Richard Brooks |
| |
The Bad Sleep Well |
Akira Kurosawa |
| |
The Apartment |
Billy Wilder |
| |
Rocco and His Brothers |
Lichino Visconti |
| |
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|
| |
1961 |
|
| 1 |
Last Year at Marienbad |
Alain Resnais |
| 2 |
Lola |
Jacques Demy |
| 3 |
Cleo From 5 to 7 |
Agnes Varda |
| 4 |
Viridiana |
Luis Bunuel |
| 5 |
Accatone |
Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 6 |
The Hustler |
Robert Rossen |
| 7 |
A Taste of Honey |
Tony Richardson |
| 8 |
Yojimbo |
Akira Kurosawa |
| 9 |
Third Sister Liu |
Su Li |
| 10 |
West Side Story |
Robert Wise |
| |
A Woman Is a Woman |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| |
Flower Drum Song |
Henry Koster |
| |
La Notte |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
| |
Breakfast at Tiffany's |
Blake Edwards |
| |
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|
| |
1962 |
|
| 1 |
L'Eclisse |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 2 |
Lawrence of Arabia |
David Lean |
| 3 |
An Autumn Afternoon |
Yasujiro Ozu |
| 4 |
Vivre Sa Vie |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 5 |
La Jetee |
Chris Marker |
| 6 |
The exterminating Angel |
Luis Bunuel |
| 7 |
My Name is Ivan |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 8 |
Knife in the Water |
Roman Polanski |
| 9 |
The Trial |
Orson Welles |
| 10 |
High and Low |
Akira Kurosawa |
| |
Mamma Roma |
Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| |
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? |
Robert Aldrich |
| |
Lolita |
Stanley Kubrick |
| |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
Robert Mulligan |
| |
Sanjuro |
Akira Kurosawa |
| |
Winter Light |
Ingmar Bergman |
| |
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|
| |
1963 |
|
| 1 |
The Leopard |
Luchino Visconti |
| 2 |
8 1/2 |
Federico Fellini |
| 3 |
Contempt |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 4 |
Shock Corridor |
Sam Fuller |
| 5 |
Muriel |
Alain Resnais |
| 6 |
The Birds |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| 7 |
Le Petit Soldat |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 8 |
Les Carabiniers |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 9 |
An Actor's Revenge |
Kon Ichikawa |
| 10 |
The Love Eterne |
Li Han Hsiang |
| |
This Sporting Life |
Lindsay Anderson |
| |
Donovan's Reef |
John Ford |
| |
Cheryomushki |
Herbert Rappaport |
| |
Tom Jones |
Tony Richardson |
| |
Billy Liar |
John Schlesinger |
| |
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| |
1964 |
|
| 1 |
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg |
Jacques Demy |
| 2 |
The Gospel According to St. Matthew |
Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 3 |
Hard Days Night |
Richard Lester |
| 4 |
Band of Outsiders |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 5 |
Dr. Strangelove |
Stanley Kubrick |
| 6 |
Charulata |
Satyajit Ray |
| 7 |
Gertrud |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 8 |
Manji |
Yasuzo Masumura |
| 9 |
The Naked Kiss |
Sam Fuller |
| 10 |
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors |
Sergei Parajanov |
| |
Mary Poppins |
Robert Stevenson |
| |
I Am Cuba |
Mikhail Kalatozov |
| |
Hush, HushÉ Sweet Charlotte |
Robert Aldrich |
| |
Woman in the Dunes |
|
| |
Becket |
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| |
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| |
1965 |
|
| 1 |
Pierrot Le Fou |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 2 |
Battle of Algiers |
Gilles Pontecorvo |
| 3 |
Loves of a Blonde |
Milos Forman |
| 4 |
Story of a Prostitute |
Seijun Suzuki |
| 5 |
Stage Sisters |
Xie Fei |
| 6 |
Simon of the Desert |
Luis Bunuel |
| 7 |
Alphaville |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 8 |
Chimes at Midnight |
Orson Welles |
| 9 |
The Shop on Main Street |
Jan Kadar |
| 10 |
Help! |
Richard Lester |
| |
The Sound of Music |
Robert Wise |
| |
Repulsion |
Roman Polanski |
| |
La Collectioneuse |
Eric Rohmer |
| |
Samurai Assassin |
Kihachi Okamoto |
| |
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| |
1966 |
|
| 1 |
Au Hasard Balthazar |
Robert Bresson |
| 2 |
The Rise of Louis XIV |
Roberto Rossellini |
| 3 |
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
Sergio Leone |
| 4 |
Hawks and Sparrows |
Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 5 |
7 Women |
John Ford |
| 6 |
Blow-Up |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 7 |
The Pornographers |
Shohei Imamura |
| 8 |
Masculin Feminin |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 9 |
Come Drink with Me |
King Hu |
| 10 |
Daisies |
Vera Chytilova |
| |
Persona |
Ingmar Bergman |
| |
Closely Watched Trains |
Jiri Menzel |
| |
Death of a Bureaucrat |
Thomas Gutierrez Alea |
| |
Fighting Elegy |
Seijun Suzuki |
| |
La guerre est finie |
Alain Resnais |
| |
Violence at Noon |
Nagisa Oshima |
| |
La Religieuse/The Nun |
Jacques Rivette |
| |
A Man for All Seasons |
Fred Zinnemann |
| |
Marat/Sade |
Peter Brook |
| |
Sword of Doom |
Kihachi Okamoto |
| |
Tokyo Drifter |
Seijun Suzuki |
| |
La Caza |
Carlos Saura |
| |
Cul-de-Sac |
Roman Polanski |
| |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
Mike Nichols |
| |
Alfie |
Lewis Gilbert |
| |
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|
| |
1967 |
|
| 1 |
Playtime |
Jacques Tati |
| 2 |
Week-End |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 3 |
2 or 3 Things I Know about Her |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 4 |
Mouchette |
Robert Bresson |
| 5 |
The Red and the White |
Miklos Jancso |
| 6 |
Oedipus Rex |
Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 7 |
Two for the Road |
Stanley Donen |
| 8 |
Belle de Jour |
Luis Bunuel |
| 9 |
David Holzman's Diary |
Jim McBride |
| 10 |
Les Dameoiselles de Rochefort |
Jacques Demy |
| |
In Cold Blood |
Richard Brooks |
| |
Bonnie and Clyde |
Arthur Penn |
| |
Branded to Kill |
Seijun Suzuki |
| |
One-Armed Swordsman |
Chang Cheh |
| |
The Dirty Dozen |
Robert Aldrich |
| |
Portrait of Jason |
Shirley Clark |
| |
The Graduate |
Mike Nichols |
| |
The Fireman's Ball |
Milos Forman |
| |
Le Samourai |
Jean-Pierre Melville |
| |
In the Heat of the Night |
Norman Jewison |
| |
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|
| |
1968 |
|
| 1 |
The Color of Pomegrantates |
Sergei Parajanov |
| 2 |
Memories of Underdevelopment |
Tomas Gutierrez Alea |
| 3 |
Once Upon a Time in the West |
Sergio Leone |
| 4 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
Stanley Kubrick |
| 5 |
Golden Swallow |
Chang Cheh |
| 6 |
Night of the Living Dead |
George Romero |
| 7 |
IfÉ |
Lindsay Anderson |
| 8 |
Rosemary's Baby |
Roman Polanski |
| 9 |
The Producers |
Mel Brooks |
| 10 |
Faces |
John Cassavetes |
| |
Planet of the Apes |
Franklin J. Schaffner |
| |
Teorema |
Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| |
The Party |
Blake Edwards |
| |
Bullitt |
Peter Yates |
| |
Oliver! |
Carol Reed |
| |
The Lion in Winter |
Anthony Harvey |
| |
Romeo and Juliet |
Franco Zefferelli |
| |
Shame |
Ingmar Bergman |
| |
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|
| |
1969 |
|
| 1 |
A Touch of Zen |
King Hu |
| 2 |
My Night at Maud's |
Eric Rohmer |
| 3 |
The Arch |
Tong Shu Shuen |
| 4 |
Andrei Rublev |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 5 |
Red Lion |
Kihachi Okamoto |
| 6 |
Kes |
Ken Loach |
| 7 |
Z |
Costa-Gavras |
| 8 |
The Wild Bunch |
Sam Peckinpah |
| 9 |
The Damned |
Luchino Visconti |
| 10 |
Putney Swope |
Robert Downey |
| |
Me and My Brother |
Robert Frank |
| |
Easy Rider |
Peter Fonda |
| |
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here |
Abraham Polonsky |
| |
Anne of the Thousand Days |
Charles Jarret |
| |
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|
| |
1970 |
|
| 1 |
Performance |
Nicholas Roeg |
| 2 |
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls |
Russ Meyer |
| 3 |
Tristana |
Luis Bunuel |
| 4 |
Woodstock |
Michael Waldeigh |
| 5 |
The Conformist |
Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 6 |
Five Easy Pieces |
Bob Rafaelson |
| 7 |
Claire's Knee |
Eric Rohmer |
| 8 |
Patton |
Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 9 |
Gimme Shelter |
Albert Maysles |
| 10 |
Husbands |
John Cassavetes |
| |
Vengeance |
Chang Cheh |
| |
MASH |
Robert Altman |
| |
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|
| |
1971 |
|
| 1 |
McCabe and Mrs. Miller |
Robret Altman |
| 2 |
Walkabout |
Nicolas Roeg |
| 3 |
Pakeezah |
Kamal Amrohi |
| 4 |
Incident at Blood Pass |
Hiroshi Inagaki |
| 5 |
Two Lane Blacktop |
Monte Hellmann |
| 6 |
The Last Picture Show |
Peter Bogdanovich |
| 7 |
Harold and Maude |
Hal Ashby |
| 8 |
A Clockwork Orange |
Stanley Kubrick |
| 9 |
Hospital |
Paddy Chayefsky |
| 10 |
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| |
1972 |
|
| 1 |
The Godfather |
Francis Ford Coppola |
| 2 |
Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan |
Chu Yuen |
| 3 |
Chloe In the Afternoon |
Eric Rohmer |
| 4 |
Solaris |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 5 |
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie |
Luis Bunuel |
| 6 |
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance |
Kenji Misumi |
| 7 |
Sounder |
Martin Ritt |
| 8 |
Superfly |
Gordon Parks, Jr. |
| 9 |
Last Tango In Paris |
Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 10 |
Cries and Whispers |
Ingmar Bergman |
| |
Aguirre, the Wrath of God |
Werner Herzog |
| |
|
|
| |
1973 |
|
| 1 |
Mean Streets |
Martin Scorsese |
| 2 |
WR: Mysteries of the Organism |
Dusan Makavejev |
| 3 |
Blood Brothers |
Chang Cheh |
| 4 |
Don't Look Now |
Nicholas Roeg |
| 5 |
Spirit of the Beehive |
Victor Erice |
| 6 |
Enter the Dragon |
Robert Clouse |
| 7 |
Day for Night |
Francois Truffaut |
| 8 |
American Graffiti |
George Lucas |
| 9 |
The Last Detail |
Hal Ashby |
| 10 |
Sleeper |
Woody Allen |
| |
The Way We Were |
Sydney Pollock |
| |
The Wicker Man |
Anthony Shaffer |
| |
The Exorcist |
William Friedkin |
| |
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|
| |
1974 |
|
| 1 |
Celine and Julie Go Boating |
Jacques Rivette |
| 2 |
Chinatown |
Roman Polanski |
| 3 |
Lancelot du Lac |
Robert Bresson |
| 4 |
Parade |
Jacques Tati |
| 5 |
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 6 |
The Godfather Part II |
Francis Ford Coppola |
| 7 |
A Woman Under the Influence |
John Cassavetes |
| 8 |
Young Frankenstein |
Mel Brooks |
| 9 |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
Tobe Hooper |
| 10 |
The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser |
Werner Herzog |
| |
Phantom of Liberty |
Luis Bunuel |
| |
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| |
1975 |
|
| 1 |
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1860 Bruxelles |
Chantal Akerman |
| 2 |
The Travelling Players |
Theo Angelopoulos |
| 3 |
Barry Lyndon |
Stanley Kubrick |
| 4 |
Nashville |
Robert Altman |
| 5 |
F For Fake |
Orson Welles |
| 6 |
Xala |
Ousmane Sembene |
| 7 |
Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
Terry Gilliam |
| 8 |
Fox and His Friends |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 9 |
Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 10 |
India Song |
Marguerite Duras |
| |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
Milos Forman |
| |
Jaws |
Steven Spielberg |
| |
Dog Day Afternoon |
Sidney Lumet |
| |
The Story of Adele H. |
Francois Truffaut |
| |
Day of the Locust |
John Schlesinger |
| |
A Boy and His Dog |
L.Q. Jones |
| |
Sholay |
Ramesh Sippy |
| |
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|
| |
1976 |
|
| 1 |
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie |
John Cassavetes |
| 2 |
In the Realm of the Senses |
Nagisa Oshima |
| 3 |
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 |
Alain Tanner |
| 4 |
The Marquise of O |
Eric Rohmer |
| 5 |
Taxi Driver |
Martin Scorsese |
| 6 |
Harlan County, USA |
Barbara Koppel |
| 7 |
Mr. Klein |
Joseph Losey |
| 8 |
Rocky |
John G. Avildsen |
| 9 |
Fellini's Casanova |
Federico Fellini |
| 10 |
Face to Face |
Ingmar Bergman |
| |
Carrie |
Brian DePalma |
| |
All the President's Men |
Alan J. Pakula |
| |
Network |
Sidney Lumet |
| |
Bound for Glory |
Hal Ashby |
| |
The Man Who Fell to Earth |
Nicolas Roeg |
| |
Family Plot |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| |
Seven Beauties |
Lina Wertmuller |
| |
|
|
| |
1977 |
|
| 1 |
Killer of Sheep |
Charles Burnett |
| 2 |
Saturday Night Fever |
John Badham |
| 3 |
The Devil, Probably |
Robert Bresson |
| 4 |
Annie Hall |
Woody Allen |
| 5 |
Eraserhead |
David Lynch |
| 6 |
Citizens' Band a/k/a Handle with Care |
Jonathan Demme |
| 7 |
Padre Padrone |
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani |
| 8 |
Invincible Armour |
See-Yuen Ng |
| 9 |
3 Women |
Robert Altman |
| 10 |
The Getting of Wisdom |
Bruce Beresford |
| |
Man of Marble |
Andrzej Wajda |
| |
Opening Night |
John Cassavetes |
| |
Providence |
Alain Resnais |
| |
That Obscure Object of Desire |
Luis Bunuel |
| |
Desperate Living |
John Waters |
| |
Stroszek |
Werner Herzog |
| |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
Steven Spielberg |
| |
Hardware Wars |
|
| |
Star Wars |
George Lucas |
| |
A Very Moral Night |
Karoly Makk |
| |
Outrageous! |
|
| |
The Kentucky Fried Movie |
|
| |
The Lacemaker |
|
| |
Suspiria |
Dario Argento |
| |
The Duellists |
Ridley Scott |
| |
|
|
| |
1978 |
|
| 1 |
Gates of Heaven |
Errol Morris |
| 2 |
In a Year of 13 Moons |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 3 |
Days of Heaven |
Terence Malick |
| 4 |
The Brood |
David Cronenberg |
| 5 |
Crippled Avengers |
Chang Cheh |
| 6 |
The Five Deadly Venoms |
Chang Cheh |
| 7 |
The Buddy Holly Story |
|
| 8 |
The Last Waltz |
Martin Scorsese |
| 9 |
National Lampoon's Animal House |
John Landis |
| 10 |
Superman |
Richard Donner |
| |
Midnight Express |
Alan Parker |
| |
Suspiria |
Dario Argento |
| |
|
|
| |
1979 |
|
| 1 |
Stalker |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 2 |
Perceval |
Eric Rohmer |
| 3 |
Apocalypse Now |
Francis Ford Coppola |
| 4 |
Being There |
Hal Ashby |
| 5 |
Kramer Vs. Kramer |
Robert Benton |
| 6 |
Manhattan |
Woody Allen |
| 7 |
Vengeance Is Mine |
Shohei Imamura |
| 8 |
Messidor |
Alain Tanner |
| 9 |
Breaking Away |
Peter Yates |
| 10 |
The Tin Drum |
Volker Schlondorff |
| |
Alien |
Ridley Scott |
| |
Hungarian Rhapsody |
Miklos Jancso |
| |
10 |
Blake Edwards |
| |
|
|
| |
1980 |
|
| |
Raging Bull |
Martin Scorsese |
| |
The Empire Strikes Back |
Irvin Kershner |
| |
Airplane! |
Abraham, Zucker and Zucker |
| |
The Shining |
Stanley Kubrick |
| |
American Gigolo |
Paul Schrader |
| |
Nine to Five |
|
| |
Ordinary People |
Robert Redford |
| |
Superman II |
|
| |
|
|
| |
1981 |
|
| |
Raiders of the Lost Ark |
Steven Spielberg |
| |
Atlantic City |
Louis Malle |
| |
Chariots of Fire |
Hugh Hudson |
| |
On Golden Pond |
Mark Rydell |
| |
Das Boot |
Wolfgang Peterson |
| |
Porky's |
|
| |
|
|
| |
1982 |
|
| 1 |
Ballad of Narayama |
Shohei Imamura |
| 2 |
Zu: Warriors of Magic Mountain |
Tsui Hark |
| 3 |
Sans Soleil |
Chris Marker |
| 4 |
Chan Is Missing |
Wayne Wang |
| 5 |
Wend Kuuni |
Gaston Kabore |
| 6 |
Tootsie |
Sydney Pollack |
| 7 |
Yol |
Yilmaz Guney |
| 8 |
E.T. |
Steven Spielberg |
| 9 |
Fanny and Alexander |
Ingmar Bergman |
| 10 |
Blade Runner |
Ridley Scott |
| |
An Officer and a Gentleman |
Taylor Hackford |
| |
|
|
| |
1983 |
|
| 1 |
L'Argent |
Robert Bresson |
| 2 |
Trading Places |
Jon Landis |
| 3 |
Videodrome |
David Cronenberg |
| 4 |
Homecoming |
Yim Hou |
| 5 |
Pauline at the Beach |
Eric Rohmer |
| 6 |
The Boys from Fengkuei |
Hou Hsiao Hsien |
| 7 |
A Christmas Story |
Bob Clark |
| 8 |
Terms of Endearment |
James L. Brooks |
| 9 |
Project A |
Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung |
| 10 |
Nostalghia |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
| |
Return of the Jedi |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
1984 |
|
| 1 |
Yellow Earth |
Chen Kaige |
| 2 |
Stranger Than Paradise |
Jim Jarmusch |
| 3 |
Summer at Grandpa's |
Hou Hsiao Hsien |
| 4 |
Amadeus |
Milos Forman |
| 5 |
The Killing Fields |
Roland Joffe |
| 6 |
Legend of Suram Fortress |
Sergei Parajanov |
| 7 |
Paris, Texas |
Wim Wenders |
| 8 |
Blood Simple |
Joel Cohen |
| 9 |
Beverly Hills Cop |
Martin Ritt |
| 10 |
Ghostbusters |
Ivan Reitman |
| |
Places in the Heart |
Robert Benton |
| |
Revenge of the Nerds |
Jeff Kanew |
| |
A Passage to India |
David Lean |
| |
|
|
| |
1985 |
|
| 1 |
A Time to Live and a Time to Die |
Hou Hsiao Hsien |
| 2 |
Horse Thief |
Tian Zhuangzhuang |
| 3 |
Vagabond |
Agnes Varda |
| 4 |
Ran |
Akira Kurosawa |
| 5 |
Back to the Future |
Robert Zimeckis |
| 6 |
My Beautiful Laundrette |
Stephen Frears |
| 7 |
Pee Wee's Big Adventure |
Tim Burton |
| 8 |
Come and See |
Elim Klimov |
| 9 |
Mishima |
Paul Schrader |
| 10 |
Witness |
Peter Weir |
| |
The Color Purple |
Steven Spielberg |
| |
Crime Wave |
John Paizs |
| |
Tokyo-Ga |
Wim Wenders |
| |
After Hours |
Martin Scorsese |
| |
Cocoon |
Ron Howard |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
1986 |
|
| 1 |
Aliens |
James Cameron |
| 2 |
Blue Velvet |
David Lynch |
| 3 |
In the Wild Mountains |
Yan Xueshu |
| 4 |
The Terrorizers |
Edward Yang |
| 5 |
The Old Well |
Wu Tianming |
| 6 |
My Beautiful Laundrette |
Stephen Frears |
| 7 |
Sid and Nancy |
Alex Cox |
| 8 |
A Better Tomorrow |
John Woo |
| 9 |
Peking Opera Blues |
Tsui Hark |
| 10 |
Down By Law |
Jim Jarmusch |
| |
The Fly |
David Cronenberg |
| |
Platoon |
Oliver Stone |
| |
Hannah and Her Sisters |
Woody Allen |
| |
Sherman's March |
Ross McElwee |
| |
Tampopo |
Juzo Itami |
| |
Round Midnight |
Betrand Tavernier |
| |
|
|
| |
1987 |
|
| 1 |
Yeleen |
Souleymane Cisse |
| 2 |
Dekalog |
Kryzstof Kieslowski |
| 3 |
The Untouchables |
Brian DePalma |
| 4 |
Full Metal Jacket |
Stanley Kubrick |
| 5 |
Where Is My Friend's Home |
Abbas Kiarostami |
| 6 |
Babette's Feast |
Gabriel Axel |
| 7 |
Grave of the Fireflies |
Isao Takahata |
| 8 |
Raising Arizona |
Joel Cohen |
| 9 |
Broadcast News |
James L. Brooks |
| 10 |
The Dead |
John Huston |
| |
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story |
Todd Haynes |
| |
Good Morning, Vietnam |
Barry Levinson |
| |
|
|
| |
1988 |
|
| 1 |
Rain Man |
Barry Levinson |
| 2 |
The Naked Gun |
Abraham, Zucker and Zucker |
| 3 |
Distant Voices, Still Lives |
Terence Davies |
| 4 |
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown |
Pedro Almadovar |
| 5 |
A Tale of the Wind |
Joris Ivens |
| 6 |
Dead Ringers |
David Cronenberg |
| 7 |
Bull Durham |
Ron Shelton |
| 8 |
Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
Robert Zimeckis |
| 9 |
A Fish Called Wanda |
John Cleese |
| 10 |
Bird |
Clint Eastwood |
| |
Damnation |
Bela Tarr |
| |
Landscape in the Mist |
Theo Angelopoulos |
| |
Gang of Four |
Jacques Rivette |
| |
Violent Cop |
Takeshi Kitano |
| |
Ashik Kerib |
Sergei Parajanov |
| |
|
|
| |
1989 |
|
| 1 |
City of Sadness |
Hou Hsiao Hsien |
| 2 |
Do the Right Thing |
Spike Lee |
| 3 |
Black Rain |
Shohei Imamura |
| 4 |
Batman |
Tim Burton |
| 5 |
Kiki's Delivery Service |
Hayao Miyazaki |
| 6 |
The Fabulous Baker Boys |
Steve Kloves |
| 7 |
Time of the Gypsies |
Emir Kusturica |
| 8 |
Drugstore Cowboy |
Gus Van Sant |
| 9 |
The War of the Roses |
Danny DeVito |
| 10 |
My Left Foot |
Jim Sheridan |
| |
Say Anything |
Cameron Crowe |
| |
Yaaba |
Idrissa Ouderango |
| |
|
|
| |
1990 |
|
| 1 |
Close-Up |
Abbas Kiarostami |
| 2 |
To Sleep with Anger |
Charles Burnett |
| 3 |
Goodfellas |
Martin Scorsese |
| 4 |
Miller's Crossing |
Joel Coen |
| 5 |
The Freshman |
Andrew Bergman |
| 6 |
Ju Dou |
Zhang Ymou |
| 7 |
Pump Up the Volume |
Allen Moyle |
| 8 |
Dick Tracy |
Warren Beatty |
| 9 |
Ghost |
Jerry Zucker |
| 10 |
Dances with Wolves |
Kevin Costner |
| |
|
|
| |
1991 |
|
| 1 |
Days of Being Wild |
Wong Kar-Wai |
| 2 |
A Brighter Summer Day |
Edward Yang |
| 3 |
Once Upon a Time in China |
Tsui Hark |
| 4 |
Terminator 2: Judgment Day |
James Cameron |
| 5 |
Naked Lunch |
David Cronenberg |
| 6 |
Raise the Red Lantern |
Zhang Yimou |
| 7 |
My Own Private Idaho |
Gus Van Sant |
| 8 |
Daughters of the Dust |
Julie Dash |
| 9 |
Rhapsody in August |
Akira Kurosawa |
| 10 |
Barton Fink |
Joel Coen |
| |
Trust |
Hal Hartley |
| |
City of Hope |
John Sayles |
| |
|
|
| |
1992 |
|
| 1 |
And Life Goes On |
Abbas Kiarostami |
| 2 |
The Crying Game |
Neil Jordan |
| 3 |
The Story of Qiu Ju |
Zhang Yimou |
| 4 |
One False Move |
Carl Franklin |
| 5 |
The Last Bolshevik |
Chris Marker |
| 6 |
Careful |
Guy Maddin |
| 7 |
Army of Darkness |
Sam Raimi |
| 8 |
Honeymoon in Vegas |
Andrew Bergman |
| 9 |
Centre Stage |
Stanley Kwan |
| 10 |
Malcolm X |
Spike Lee |
| |
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America |
Craig Baldwin |
| |
Hard Boiled |
John Woo |
| |
|
|
| |
1993 |
|
| 1 |
The Puppetmaster |
Hou Hsiao Hsien |
| 2 |
It's All True |
Orson Welles |
| 3 |
Latcho Drom |
Tony Ratliff |
| 4 |
Short Cuts |
Robert Altman |
| 5 |
Groundhog Day |
Harold Ramis |
| 6 |
Schindler's List |
Steven Spielberg |
| 7 |
The Green Snake |
Tsui Hark |
| 8 |
Farewell My Concubine |
Chen Kaige |
| 9 |
Sonatine |
Takeshi Kitano |
| 10 |
Blue |
Kryzstof Kieslowski |
| |
The Piano |
Jane Campion |
| |
The Wedding Banquet |
Ang Lee |
| |
|
|
| |
1994 |
|
| 1 |
Through the Olive Trees |
Abbas Kiarostami |
| 2 |
Crumb |
Terry Zwigoff |
| 3 |
Red |
Kryzastof Kieslowski |
| 4 |
Chungking Express |
Wong Kar Wai |
| 5 |
Hoop Dreams |
Steve James |
| 6 |
Vive L'Amour |
Tsai Ming Liang |
| 7 |
Cold Water |
Olivier Assayas |
| 8 |
Pulp Fiction |
Quentin Tarantino |
| 9 |
Exotica |
Atom Egoyan |
| 10 |
Heavenly Creatures |
Peter Jackson |
| |
Joan the Maid |
Jacques Rivette |
| |
The Fugitive |
Andrew Davis |
| |
In the Heat of the Sun |
Jiang Wen |
| |
To Live |
Zhang Yimou |
| |
Lamerica |
Gianni Amellio |
| |
Leon |
Luc Besson |
| |
Queen Margot |
Patrice Chereau |
| |
Quiz Show |
Robert Redford |
| |
Forrest Gump |
Robert Zimeckis |
| |
|
|
| |
1995 |
|
| 1 |
Dead Man |
Jim Jarmusch |
| 2 |
Underground |
Emir Kusturica |
| 3 |
The 60 Million Dollar Man |
Jing Wong, Bai Man Yip |
| 4 |
Safe |
Todd Haynes |
| 5 |
Babe |
Chris Noonan |
| 6 |
Showgirls |
Michael Verhoeven |
| 7 |
Fallen Angels |
Wong Kar Wai |
| 8 |
Good Men, Good Women |
Hou Hsiao Hsien |
| 9 |
Xiao Shan Goes Home |
Jia Zhangke |
| 10 |
Dead Man Walking |
Tim Robbins |
| |
Before Sunrise |
Richard Linklater |
| |
|
|
| |
1996 |
|
| 1 |
Breaking the Waves |
Lars von Trier |
| 2 |
Irma Vep |
Olivier Assayas |
| 3 |
Goodbye South, Goodbye |
Hou Hsiao Hsien |
| 4 |
Fargo |
Joel Cohen |
| 5 |
Nightjohn |
Charles Burnett |
| 6 |
Lone Star |
John Sayles |
| 7 |
Jerry Maguire |
Cameron Crowe |
| 8 |
Crash |
David Cronenberg |
| 9 |
The White Balloon |
Jafar Panahi |
| 10 |
Secrets and Lies |
Mike Leigh |
| |
Comrades, Almost a Love Story |
Peter Chan |
| |
Sling Blade |
Billy Bob Thornton |
| |
|
|
| |
1997 |
|
| 1 |
As Good as It Gets |
James L. Brooks |
| 2 |
Taste of Chery |
Abbas Kiarostami |
| 3 |
Destiny |
Youssef Chahine |
| 4 |
Xiao Wu |
Jia Zhangke |
| 5 |
Face/Off |
John Woo |
| 6 |
Men In Black |
Barry Sonnenfeld |
| 7 |
Boogie Nights |
PT Anderson |
| 8 |
Princess Mononoke |
Hayao Miyazaki |
| 9 |
Eve's Bayou |
Kasi Lemmons |
| 10 |
The River |
Tsai Ming Liang |
| 11 |
Mother and Son |
Alexander Sokurov |
| 12 |
Affliction |
Paul Schrader |
| 13 |
The Life of Jesus |
Bruno Dumont |
| 14 |
Cure |
Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| 15 |
Fireworks |
Takeshi Kitano |
| 16 |
Unagi (aka The Eel) (Imamura Shohei) yes |
|
| 17 |
L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson) yes |
|
| 18 |
Wag the Dog |
Barry Lenvinson |
| 19 |
The Apostle (Robert Duvall) yes (I'd like it to be YES...and
yet...) |
|
| 20 |
Xianggang zhizao (aka Made in Hong Kong) (Fruit Chan)
yes |
|
| 21 |
In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute) yes |
|
| 22 |
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris) yes |
|
| 23 |
Kundun (Martin Scorsese) yes |
|
| 24 |
Titanic |
|
| 25 |
Selena (Gregory Nava) yes |
James Cameron |
| 26 |
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan) yes |
|
| 27 |
The Ice Storm (Ang Lee) yes |
|
| 28 |
Henry Fool (Hal Hartley) yes |
|
| 29 |
Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage) yes |
|
| 30 |
The Fifth Element (Luc Besson) yes |
|
| |
Tomorrow Never Dies (Roger Spottiswoode) yes |
|
| |
Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith) yes (no for the ending) |
|
| |
Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant) mixed |
|
| |
Bacheha-Ye aseman (aka The Children of Heaven) (Majid
Majidi) mixed |
|
| |
Ulee's Gold (Victor Nunez) mixed |
|
| |
Gattaca (Andrew Niccol) mixed |
|
| |
Cheun gwong tsa sit (aka Happy Together) (Wong Kar Wai)
mixed |
|
| |
Chinese Box (Wayne Wang) mixed |
|
| |
Lost Highway (David Lynch) mixed |
|
| |
In & Out (Frank Oz) mixed |
|
| |
Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell) mixed |
|
| |
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (Jay Roach)
mixed |
|
| |
The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo) mixed |
|
| |
Liar Liar (Tom Shadyac) mixed |
|
| |
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg) mixed
|
|
| |
My Best Friend's Wedding (P.J. Hogan) mixed (used to
be no, but Robin Wood's essay persuaded me to bump it
up) |
|
| |
La vita ? bella (aka Life Is Beautiful) (Roberto Benigni)
mixed |
|
| |
Lolita (Adrian Lyne) no |
|
| |
Batman & Robin (Joel Schumacher) no |
|
| |
Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen) NO |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
1998 |
|
| 1 |
Flowers of Shanghai |
Hou Hsiao Hsien |
| 2 |
The Thin Red Line |
Terence Malick |
| 3 |
When Rocco Meats Kelly |
Rocco Siffredi |
| 4 |
Rushmore |
Wes Anderson |
| 5 |
There's Something about Mary |
Bobby and Peter Farrelly |
| 6 |
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American
Movies |
(Martin Scorsese and Michael Henry Wilson) |
| 7 |
Babe: Pig in the City |
George Miller |
| 8 |
Beloved |
Jonathan Demme |
| 9 |
The Dreamlife of Angels |
Erick Zonca |
| 10 |
The Celebration |
Thomas Vinterberg |
| 11 |
Wandafuru raifu (aka After Life) (Koreeda Hirokazu)
yes |
|
| 12 |
Dr. Akagi |
Shohei Imamura |
| 13 |
Primary Colors (Mike Nichols) yes |
|
| 14 |
Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg) yes |
|
| 15 |
Secret d?fense (Jacques Rivette) yes |
|
| 16 |
The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen) yes |
|
| 17 |
Small Soldiers (Joe Dante) yes |
|
| 18 |
The Opposite of Sex (Don Roos) yes |
|
| 19 |
Pleasantville (Gary Ross) yes |
|
| 20 |
The Truman Show (Peter Weir) yes |
|
| 21 |
Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon) yes |
|
| 22 |
Shakespeare in Love (John Madden) yes |
|
| 23 |
Happiness (Todd Solondz) yes |
|
| 24 |
Dark City (Alex Proyas) yes |
|
| 25 |
Kundun |
Martin Scorsese |
| 26 |
Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train (aka Those Who
Love Me Can Take the Train) (Patrice Ch?reau) yes (projected
upon future re-viewing) |
|
| 27 |
Black Cat, White Cat |
Emir Kusturica |
| 28 |
Fin ao?t, d?but septembre (aka Late August, Early September)
(Olivier Assayas) mixed |
|
| 29 |
Antz (Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson) mixed |
|
| 30 |
City of Angels (Brad Silberling) mixed |
|
| |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam) mixed
|
|
| |
Great Expectations (Alfonso Cuar--n) mixed |
|
| |
He Got Game (Spike Lee) mixed |
|
| |
Mulan (Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook) mixed |
|
| |
The Replacement Killers (Antoine Fuqua) mixed |
|
| |
A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi) mixed |
|
| |
The Wedding Singer (Frank Coraci) mixed |
|
| |
You've Got Mail (Nora Ephron) mixed |
|
| |
Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo) mixed |
|
| |
Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur) mixed |
|
| |
Pi (Darren Aronofsky) mixed |
|
| |
Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes) mixed |
|
| |
What Dreams May Come (Vincent Ward) mixed |
|
| |
Crna macka, beli macor (aka Black Cat, White Cat) (Emir
Kusturica) mixed |
|
| |
Dong (aka The Hole) (Tsai Ming-liang) mixed |
|
| |
Lola rennt (aka Run Lola Run) (Tom Tykwer) mixed |
|
| |
Le violon rouge (aka The Red Violin) (Fran?ois Girard)
mixed |
|
| |
Khrustaliov, mashinu <<> (Aleksei
German) mixed |
|
| |
Tian yu (aka Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl) (Joan Chen)
no |
|
| |
|
|
| |
1999 |
|
| 1 |
The Wind Will Carry Us |
Abbas Kiarostami |
| 2 |
Ratcatcher |
Lynne Ramsay |
| 3 |
Magnolia |
PT Anderson |
| 4 |
Topsy Turvy |
Mike Leigh |
| 5 |
Eyes Wide Shut |
Stanley Kubrick |
| 6 |
Darkness and Light |
Chang Tso-chi |
| 7 |
Three Kings |
David O. Russell |
| 8 |
Bringing out the Dead |
Martin Scorsese |
| 9 |
Molokh |
Alexander Sokurov |
| 10 |
Beau Travail |
Claire Denis |
| 11 |
The Straight Story |
David Lynch |
| 12 |
The Insider |
Michael Mann |
| 13 |
Judy Berlin |
Erci Mendelsohn |
| 14 |
South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut |
Trey Parker |
| 15 |
L'Humanite |
Bruno Dumont |
| 16 |
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai |
Jim Jarmusch |
| 17 |
Boys DonÕt Cry |
Kimberly Peirce |
| 18 |
Not One Less |
Zhang Yimou |
| 19 |
The Sixth Sense |
|
| 20 |
Being John Malkovich |
Spike Jonze |
| 21 |
Dead or Alive |
Takashi Miike |
| 22 |
Man on the Moon |
Milos Forman |
| 23 |
Ride with the Devil |
Ang Lee |
| 24 |
Cookie's Fortune |
Robert Altman |
| 25 |
Toy Story 2 |
john lasseter |
| 26 |
Limbo |
John Sayles |
| 27 |
Deep Blue Sea |
Renny Harlin |
| 28 |
Genghis Blues |
Roko Belic |
| 29 |
Buena Vista Social Club |
Wim Wenders |
| 30 |
Election |
Alexander Payne |
| |
American Pie |
Chris and Paul Weitz |
| |
Galaxy Quest |
Dean Parisot |
| |
Romance |
Catherine Breillat |
| |
American Beauty |
Sam Mendes |
| |
Bowfinger |
Frank Oz |
| |
She's All That |
Robert Iscove |
| |
All About My Mother |
Pedro Almodovar |
| |
The Virgin Suicides |
Sofia Coppola |
| |
Emperor and the Assassin |
Chen Kaige |
| |
10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger) -- mixed |
|
| |
Analyze This (Harold Ramis) - mixed |
|
| |
Anna and the King (Andy Tennant) - mixed |
|
| |
The Cider House Rules (Lasse Hallstr?m) - mixed |
|
| |
Anywhere But Here - mixed |
|
| |
Cruel Intentions (Roger Kumble) - mixed |
|
| |
The End of the Affair (Neil Jordan) - mixed |
|
| |
Entrapment (Joel Amiel) - mixed (yes for pre-Michael
Douglas baby factory Catherine Zeta-Jones' tantric yoga
scene, no for the rest) |
|
| |
Fight Club (David Fincher) - yes for the first two thirds,
NO for the ending, for a overall rating of mixed |
|
| |
Girl, Interrupted (James Mangold) - mixed |
|
| |
Go (Doug Liman) - mixed (i've heard raves from others
but it struke me as a PULP FICTION knockoff) |
|
| |
The Hurricane (Norman Jewison) - mixed |
|
| |
The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers) - mixed (might be
a yes but having to hear everyone talk about it drove
me up the f*cking wall) |
|
| |
Music of the Heart (Wes Craven) - mixed |
|
| |
Notting Hill (Roger Michell) - mixed |
|
| |
Office Space (Mike Judge) - mixed (a poor man's AMERICAN
BEAUTY) |
|
| |
Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton) - mixed |
|
| |
Snow Falling on Cedars (Scott Hicks) - mixed |
|
| |
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (George Lucas)
- mixed |
|
| |
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella) - mixed
|
|
| |
The World Is Not Enough (Michael Apted) - mixed |
|
| |
The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez)
- mixed |
|
| |
eXistenZ (David Cronenberg) - mixed |
|
| |
The Limey (Steven Soderbergh) - mixed |
|
| |
Kadosh (Amos Gitai) - mixed |
|
| |
The Terrorist - mixed |
|
| |
Wo de fu qin mu qin (aka The Road Home) (Zhang Yimou)
- mixed |
|
| |
Xizao (aka Shower) (Zhang Yang) - mixed |
|
| |
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (Luc Besson)
- no |
|
| |
Flawless (Joel Schumacher) - no |
|
| |
Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone) - no |
|
| |
The General's Daughter (Simon West) - god NO |
|
| |
The Green Mile (Frank Darabont) - NO (so much a NO it's
funny) |
|
| |
|
|
| |
2000 |
|
| 1 |
Platform |
Jia Zhangke |
| 2 |
Yi Yi |
Edward Yang |
| 3 |
The Heart of the World |
Guy Maddin |
| 4 |
You Can Count on Me |
Kenneth Lonergan |
| 5 |
The Gleaners and I |
Agnes Varda |
| 6 |
Ghost World |
Terry Zwigoff |
| 7 |
Chunhyang |
Im Kwon Taek |
| 8 |
In the Mood for Love |
Wong Kar-Wai |
| 9 |
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich |
Chris Marker |
| 10 |
Battle Royale |
Kinji Fukasaku |
| 11 |
The Circle |
Jafar Panahi |
| 12 |
Jung (War) in the Land of the Mujaheddin |
|
| 13 |
Under the Sand |
Francois Ozon |
| 14 |
Quills |
Philip Kaufman |
| 15 |
Gladiator |
Ridley Scott |
| 16 |
Wonder Boys |
Curtis Hanson |
| 17 |
X-Men |
Bryan Singer |
| 18 |
Krapp's Last Tape |
Atom Egoyan |
| 19 |
Drift |
Quentin Lee |
| 20 |
Nurse Betty |
Neil LaBute |
| 21 |
Cast Away |
Robert Zimeckis |
| 22 |
The Original Kingsof Comedy |
Spike Lee |
| 23 |
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon |
Ang Lee |
| 24 |
Traffic |
Steven Soderbergh |
| 25 |
The Cell (Tarsem Singh) -- mixed |
|
| 26 |
Shaft (John Singleton) -- mixed |
|
| 27 |
The Contender (Rod Lurie) -- mixed |
|
| 28 |
Chicken Run (Nick Park) -- mixed |
|
| 29 |
Bring It On (Peyton Reed) -- mixed |
|
| 30 |
Bamboozled (Spike Lee) -- mixed |
|
| |
American Psycho (Mary Harron) -- mixed |
|
| |
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe) mixed |
|
| |
Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh) -- mixed |
|
| |
Best in Show (Christopher Guest) -- mixed |
|
| |
Shanghai Noon (Tom Dey) -- mixed |
|
| |
Chuck and Buck (Miguel Arteta) -- mixed |
|
| |
Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier) -- mixed |
|
| |
Dr. T and the Women (Robert Altman) -- mixed |
|
| |
George Washington (David Gordon Green) -- mixed |
|
| |
High Fidelity (Stephen Frears) -- mixed |
|
| |
The House of MIrth (Terence Davies) -- mixed |
|
| |
Memento (Christopher Nolan) -- mixed |
|
| |
Pollock (Ed Harris) -- mixed |
|
| |
Amores perros (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu) - mixed
|
|
| |
Guizi Laile <> (Jiang Wen) --
mixed |
|
| |
Oodishon <> (Takashi Miike) -- mixed |
|
| |
Suzhou he << Suzhou River>> (dir. Lou Ye) -- mixed |
|
| |
Timecode-- mixed (YES for technical achievement, NO
for content) |
|
| |
The Family Man (Brett Ratner) -- no |
|
| |
Chocolat (Lasse Hallstrom) |
|
| |
The Perfect Storm (Wolfgang Petersen) -- no |
|
| |
Mission: Impossible II (John Woo) -- no |
|
| |
State and Main (David Mamet) - no |
|
| |
Uzumaki ...aka Spiral no |
|
| |
The Legend of Bagger Vance (Robert Redford) -- NO |
|
| |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen) -- NO |
|
| |
Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky) -- NO |
|
| |
Malena (Giuseppe Tornatore) -- NO NO NO |
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
2001 |
|
| 1 |
The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein |
John Gianvito |
| 2 |
WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? |
Tsai Ming-Liang |
| 3 |
A.I.: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE |
Steven Spielberg |
| 4 |
SPIRITED AWAY |
Hayao Miyazaki |
| 5 |
Waking Life |
Richard Linklater |
| 6 |
Take Care of My Cat |
Jeong Jae-Eun |
| 7 |
Y Tu Mama Tambien |
Alfonso Cuaron |
| 8 |
ATANARJUAT: THE FAST RUNNER |
Zacharias Kunuk |
| 9 |
In Praise of Love |
Jean-Luc Godard |
| 10 |
Seafood |
Wen Zhu |
| 11 |
Mulholland Drive |
David Lynch |
| 12 |
TIME OUT |
Laurent Cantet |
| 13 |
I'm Going Home |
Manoel De Oliveira |
| 14 |
SILENCEÉ WE'RE ROLLING |
Youssef Chahine |
| 15 |
THE ORPHAN OF ANYANG |
Wang Chao |
| 16 |
Pistol Opera |
Seijun Suzuki |
| 17 |
Ali |
Michael Mann |
| 18 |
The Piano Teacher |
Michael Haneke |
| 19 |
Gosford Park |
Robert Altman |
| 20 |
In the Bedroom |
Todd Field |
| 21 |
A Ma Soeur <> |
|
| 22 |
The Deep End |
|
| 23 |
Vanilla Sky |
|
| 24 |
Millennium Mambo |
Hou Hsiao-Hsien |
| 25 |
Shaolin Soccer |
|
| 26 |
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India |
|
| 27 |
Wit |
|
| 28 |
Va Savoir |
|
| 29 |
Moulin Rouge! |
|
| 30 |
Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring |
|
| |
Bridget Jones' Diary |
|
| |
Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
|
| |
Porn Star: The Life of Ron Jeremy |
|
| |
Monrak Transistor |
|
| |
Beijing bicycle |
|
| |
Crazy/Beautiful |
|
| |
All About Lily Chou-Chou |
|
| |
Donnie Darko |
|
| |
Amelie |
|
| |
The Others |
|
| |
Ichi the Killer |
|
| |
Monsoon Wedding |
|
| |
My Sassy Girl |
|
| |
the Royal Tenenbaums |
|
| |
L.I.E. |
Michael Cuesta |
| |
The Man who Wasn't There |
|
| |
Training Day |
|
| |
The Princess Diaries |
|
| |
Save the Last Dance |
|
| |
Legally Blonde |
|
| |
Bully |
|
| |
Center of the World |
|
| |
Ocean's Eleven |
|
| |
American Pie 2 |
JR Rogers |
| |
Zoolander |
|
| |
Shrek |
|
| |
Black Hawk Down |
|
| |
|
|
| |
2002 |
|
| 1 |
Russian Ark |
Alexander Sokurov |
| 2 |
Sud Saehena <> |
Apichatpong Weerasethakul |
| 3 |
Yadon ilaheyya <> |
Elia Suleiman |
| 4 |
The Pianist |
Roman Polanski |
| 5 |
10 |
Abbas Kiarostami |
| 6 |
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance |
Park Chan-Woo |
| 7 |
25th Hour |
Spike Lee |
| 8 |
Heremakono <> |
Abderame Sissako |
| 9 |
Hero |
Zhang Yimou |
| 10 |
Marion Bridge |
Wiebke von Carolsfeld |
| 11 |
The Magdalene Sisters |
Peter Mullan |
| 12 |
Oasis |
Lee Chang-Dong |
| 13 |
Punch Drunk Love |
P.T. Anderson |
| 14 |
To Be and To Have |
Nicholas Philibert |
| 15 |
Spellbound |
Jeffrey Blitz |
| 16 |
Adaptation |
Spike Jonze |
| 17 |
Gangs of New York |
Martin Scorsese |
| 18 |
Ren Xiao Yao <> |
Jia Zhangke |
| 19 |
Sweet Sixteen |
Ken Loach |
| 20 |
Raising Victor Vargas |
Peter Sollett |
| 21 |
S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine |
Rithy Pran |
| 22 |
Ararat |
Atom Egoyan |
| 23 |
Bloody Sunday |
Paul Greengrass |
| 24 |
Hukkle |
Gyorgy Pyalfi |
| 25 |
Cidade de Deus a/k/a City of God |
|
| 26 |
Chicago |
Rob Marshall |
| 27 |
Bowling for Columbine |
Michael Moore |
| 28 |
Femme Fatale |
Brian De Palma |
| 29 |
Morvern Callar |
Lynne Ramsay |
| 30 |
Changing Lanes |
Roger Michell |
| |
In America |
Jim Sheridan |
| |
About Schmidt |
Alexander Payne |
| |
Spider |
David Cronenberg |
| |
The Man without a Past |
Aki Kaurismaki |
| |
Solaris |
Steven Soderbergh |
| |
The Hours |
Steven Daldry |
| |
The Secret Lives of Dentists |
Alan Rudolph |
| |
Catch Me if you Can |
Steven Spielberg |
| |
Minority Report |
Steven Spielberg |
| |
Dirty Pretty Things |
Stephen Frears |
| |
Bollywood Hollywood |
Deepa Mehta |
| |
Whale Rider |
Nikki Caro |
| |
Hebi Ichigo <> |
Miwa Nishikawa |
| |
San Geng a/k/a Three - mixed for the first part, no
for the second part, yes for the last part |
Peter Chan, Jiwoon Kim, Nonzee Nimibur |
| |
So Close |
Corey Yuen |
| |
Demonlover |
Olivier Assayas |
| |
Echoes |
Atsushi Funahashi |
| |
In This World |
Michael Winterbottom |
| |
Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys |
|
| |
The Cuckoo |
Aleksandr Rogohzin |
| |
Signs |
|
| |
Hable con Ella a/k/a Talk to Her |
|
| |
Far from Heaven |
|
| |
Lilya 4-Ever |
|
| |
8 Mile |
Bahman Ghobadi |
| |
Gomgashtei dar Aragh a/k/a Marooned in Iraq |
|
| |
Le Fils a/k/a The Son |
Jean-Luc and Pierre Dardenne |
| |
The Quiet American |
Philip Noyce |
| |
Rabbit Proof Fence |
Philip Noyce |
| |
Daughter from Danang (dir. Gail Dolgin and Vincente
Franco) |
|
| |
Better Luck Tomorrow |
|
| |
Charlotte Sometimes (dir. Eric Byler) |
|
| |
Sunshine State |
|
| |
Lord of the Rings: The Two Aryan Towers |
|
| |
Spider Man |
|
| |
Japon (dir. Carlos Reygadas) |
|
| |
Chihwaseon |
|
| |
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones |
|
| |
8 Women |
|
| |
Road to Perdition |
|
| |
The Missing Gun |
|
| |
|
|
| |
2003 |
|
| 1 |
Dogville |
Lars von Trier |
| 2 |
Capturing the Friedmans |
Andrew Jarecki |
| 3 |
Elephant |
Gus Van Sant |
| 4 |
The Fog of War |
Errol Morris |
| 5 |
Raja |
Jacques Doillon |
| 6 |
Finding Nemo |
Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich |
| 7 |
Down with Love |
Peyton Reed |
| 8 |
Cold Mountain |
Anthony Mingella |
| 9 |
A Good Lawyer's Wife |
Im Sang Soo |
| 10 |
Angels in America |
Mike Nichols |
| 11 |
PTU |
Johnnie To |
| 12 |
Mystic River |
Clint Eastwood |
| 13 |
15 |
Royston Tan |
| 14 |
The Return |
Andrei Zvyagintsev |
| 15 |
A Tale of Two Sisters |
Kim Ji-Won |
| 16 |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
Peter Weir |
| 17 |
The Saddest Music in the World |
Guy Maddin |
| 18 |
The Station Agent |
Thomas McCarthy |
| 19 |
Crimson Gold |
Jafar Panahi |
| 20 |
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones |
Jim Fields, Michael Gramaglia |
| 21 |
The School of Rock |
Richard Linklater |
| 22 |
The Triplets of Belleville |
Sylvain Chomet |
| 23 |
Love Actually |
|
| 24 |
Pirates of the Caribbean |
Gore Verbinski |
| 25 |
A Tale of Two Sisters |
Kim Ji-Won |
| 26 |
Distant |
Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| 27 |
Twentynine Palms |
Bruno Dumont |
| 28 |
Osama |
Siddiq Barmak |
| 29 |
21 Grams |
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu |
| 30 |
Bright Future |
Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| |
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
Peter Jackson |
| |
Goodbye Dragon Inn |
Tsai Ming-liang |
| |
Kill Bill |
Quentin Tarantino |
| |
Lost in Translation |
Sofia Coppola |
| |
American Splendor |
Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini |
| |
All the Real Girs |
David Gordon Green |
| |
X-2: Xmen United |
Bryan Singer |
| |
Welcome to Destination Shanghai |
Andrew Cheng |
| |
Owning Mahowny |
|
| |
Holes |
Andrew Davis |
| |
The matrix Reloaded |
|
| |
Seabiscuit |
Gary Ross |
| |
Country of My Skull |
John Boorman |
| |
Old School |
|
| |
|
|
| |
2004 |
|
| |
Before Sunset |
Richard Linklater |
| |
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
Michel Gondry |
| |
South of the Clouds |
Zhu Wen |
| |
The Passion of the Christ |
Mel Gibson |
| |
Maria, Full of Grace |
Joshua Marston |
| |
Lost Embrace |
Daniel Burman |
| |
Tomorrow We Move |
Chantal Akerman |
| |
Take Out |
Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou |
| |
Intimate Strangers |
Patrice Chereau |
| |
Process |
C.S. Leigh |
| |
|
|
| |
seen in 2004 |
|
| 1 |
Before Sunset |
Richard Linklater |
| 2 |
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind |
Michel Gondry |
| 3 |
South of the Clouds |
Zhu Wen |
| 4 |
Take Care of My Cat |
Jeong Jae-Eun |
| 5 |
My Architect |
Nathaniel Kahn |
| 6 |
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance |
Park Chan-Woo |
| 7 |
A Good Lawyer's Wife |
Im Sang Soo |
| 8 |
15 |
Royston Tan |
| 9 |
The Return |
Andrei Zvyagintsev |
| 10 |
A Tale of Two Sisters |
Kim Ji Woon |
| 11 |
The Passion of the Christ |
Mel Gibson |
| 12 |
The Saddest Music in the World |
Guy Maddin |
| 13 |
End of the Century |
Jim Fields, Michael Gramaglia |
| 14 |
The School of Rock |
Richard Linklater |
| 15 |
Twentynine Palms |
Bruno Dumont |
| 16 |
Osama |
Siddiq Barmak |
| 17 |
Maria, Full of Grace |
Joshua Marston |
| 18 |
Bright Future |
Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| 19 |
Monster |
Patty Jenkins |
| 20 |
Lost Embrace |
Daniel Burman |
| 21 |
Tomorrow We Move |
Chantal Akerman |
| 22 |
Take Out |
Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou |
| 23 |
Welcome to Destination Shanghai |
Andrew Cheng |
| 24 |
Intimate Strangers |
Patrice Chereau |
| 25 |
Spring, Summer, Fall, WinterÉ And Spring |
Kim Ki-Duk |
| 26 |
Country of My Skull |
John Boorman |
| 27 |
Process |
C.S. Leigh |
| 28 |
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| 29 |
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| 30 |
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