The Canon

• Jeanne Dielman (1975) .. Chantal Akerman
• Kiss Me Deadly (1955) .. Robert Aldrich
• Annie Hall (1977) .. Woody Allen
• Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) .. Woody Allen
• Manhattan (1979) .. Woody Allen
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) .. Robert Altman
• Nashville (1975) .. Robert Altman
• The Travelling Players (1975) .. Theo Angelopoulos
• Blow Up (1966) .. Michelangelo Antonioni
• L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni
• L'Eclisse (1962) .. Michelangelo Antonioni
• The Passenger (1975) .. Michelangelo Antonioni
• Cries and Whispers (1972) .. Ingmar Bergman
• Fanny and Alexander (1982) .. Ingmar Bergman
• Persona (1966) .. Ingmar Bergman
• The Seventh Seal (1957) .. Ingmar Bergman
• Wild Strawberries (1957) .. Ingmar Bergman
• The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci
• The Last Picture Show (1971) .. Peter Bogdanovich
• Deliverance (1972) .. John Boorman
• A Man Escaped (1956) .. Robert Bresson
• Mouchette (1967) .. Robert Bresson
• Pickpocket (1959) .. Robert Bresson
• Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson
• Diary of a Country Priest (1951) .. Robert Bresson
• Freaks (1932) .. Tod Browning
• Belle de Jour (1967) .. Luis Buñuel
• L'Age d'Or (1930) .. Luis Buñuel
• Los Olvidados (1950) .. Luis Buñuel
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) .. Luis Buñuel
• The Exterminating Angel (1962) .. Luis Buñuel
• Un Chien Andalou (1929) .. Luis Buñuel
• Viridiana (1961) .. Luis Buñuel
• The Piano (1993) .. Jane Campion
• It Happened One Night (1934) .. Frank Capra
• It's a Wonderful Life (1946) .. Frank Capra
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) .. Frank Capra
• Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) .. Marcel Carné
• A Woman Under the Influence (1974) .. John Cassavetes
• City Lights (1931) .. Charles Chaplin
• Modern Times (1936) .. Charles Chaplin
• The Gold Rush (1925) .. Charles Chaplin
• The Great Dictator (1940) .. Charles Chaplin
• The Deer Hunter (1978) .. Michael Cimino
• The Wages of Fear (1953) .. Henri-Georges Clouzot
• La Belle et la Bête (1946) .. Jean Cocteau
• Orphues (1950) .. Jean Cocteau
• Fargo (1996).. The Coen Brothers
• King Kong (1933) .. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
• Apocalypse Now (1979) .. Francis Ford Coppola
• The Conversation (1974) .. Francis Ford Coppola
• The Godfather (1972) .. Francis Ford Coppola
• The Godfather: Part II (1974) .. Francis Ford Coppola
• A Star Is Born (1954) .. George Cukor
• The Philadelphia Story (1940) .. George Cukor
• Casablanca (1942) .. Michael Curtiz
• Bicycle Thieves (1948) .. Vittorio De Sica
• Umberto D. (1952) .. Vittorio De Sica
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991) .. Jonathan Demme
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) .. Jacques Demy
• Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) .. Maya Deren
• Singin' in the Rain (1952) .. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
• Earth (1930) .. Alexander Dovzhenko
• Day of Wrath (1943) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Ordet (1955) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Vampyr (1932) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Unforgiven (1992) .. Clint Eastwood
• Alexander Nevsky (1938) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein
• Battleship Potemkin (1925) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein
• Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein
• Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1956) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein
• The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice
• The Mother and the Whore (1973) .. Jean Eustache
• Fear Eats the Soul (1974) .. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 8½ (1963) .. Federico Fellini
• Amarcord (1973) .. Federico Fellini
• La Dolce Vita (1960) .. Federico Fellini
• La strada (1954) .. Federico Fellini
• Nights of Cabiria (1957) .. Federico Fellini
• Nanook of the North (1922) .. Robert Flaherty
• Gone with the Wind (1939) .. Victor Fleming
• The Wizard of Oz (1939) .. Victor Fleming
• My Darling Clementine (1946) .. John Ford
• Stagecoach (1939) .. John Ford
• The Grapes of Wrath (1940) .. John Ford
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) .. John Ford
• The Searchers (1956) .. John Ford
• Amadeus (1984) .. Milos Forman
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) .. Milos Forman
• Cabaret (1972) .. Bob Fosse
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962) .. John Frankenheimer
• The Exorcist (1973) .. William Friedkin
• Napoleon (1927) .. Abel Gance
• Brazil (1985) .. Terry Gilliam
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) .. Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones
• À Bout de Souffle (1960) .. Jean-Luc Godard
• Contempt (1963) .. Jean-Luc Godard
• Pierrot le Fou (1965) .. Jean-Luc Godard
• Vivre sa Vie (1962) .. Jean-Luc Godard
• Weekend (1967) .. Jean-Luc Godard
• Broken Blossoms (1919) .. D.W. Griffith
• Intolerance (1916) .. D.W. Griffith
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) .. D.W. Griffith
• Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) .. Robert Hamer
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) .. David Hand
• Bringing Up Baby (1938) .. Howard Hawks
• His Girl Friday (1940) .. Howard Hawks
• Red River (1948) .. Howard Hawks
• Rio Bravo (1959) .. Howard Hawks
• The Big Sleep (1946) .. Howard Hawks
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) .. Werner Herzog
• North by Northwest (1959) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• Notorious (1946) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• Psycho (1960) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• Rear Window (1954) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• Strangers on a Train (1951) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• The Birds (1963) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• Vertigo (1958) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) .. Tobe Hooper
• The African Queen (1951) .. John Huston
• The Maltese Falcon (1941) .. John Huston
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) .. John Huston
• Dead Man (1995) .. Jim Jarmusch
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) .. Elia Kazan
• On the Waterfront (1954) .. Elia Kazan
• Sherlock Jr. (1924) .. Buster Keaton
• The General (1927) .. Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980) .. Irvin Kershner
• Close-Up (1990) .. Abbas Kiarostami
• Dekalog (1989) .. Krzysztof Kieslowski
• The Three Colours Trilogy (1993-94) .. Krzysztof Kieslowski
• Come and See (1985) .. Elem Klimov
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .. Stanley Kubrick
• A Clockwork Orange (1971) .. Stanley Kubrick
• Barry Lyndon (1975) .. Stanley Kubrick
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) .. Stanley Kubrick
• Paths of Glory (1957) .. Stanley Kubrick
• The Shining (1980) .. Stanley Kubrick
• Ran (1985) .. Kurosawa Akira
• Rashomon (1950) .. Kurosawa Akira
• Seven Samurai (1954) .. Kurosawa Akira
• Throne of Blood (1957) .. Kurosawa Akira
• Ikiru (1952) .. Kurosawa Akira
• M (1931) .. Fritz Lang
• Metropolis (1927) .. Fritz Lang
• The Night of the Hunter (1955) .. Charles Laughton
• Brief Encounter (1945) .. David Lean
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962) .. David Lean
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) .. David Lean
• Do the Right Thing (1989) .. Spike Lee
• Once Upon a Time in America (1984) .. Sergio Leone
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) .. Sergio Leone
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) .. Sergio Leone
• The Shop Around the Corner (1940) .. Ernst Lubitsch
• To Be or Not to Be (1942) .. Ernst Lubitsch
• Trouble in Paradise (1932) .. Ernst Lubitsch
• Star Wars (1977) .. George Lucas
• 12 Angry Men (1957) .. Sidney Lumet
• Dog Day Afternoon (1975) .. Sidney Lumet
• Network (1976) .. Sidney Lumet
• Blue Velvet (1986) .. David Lynch
• The Elephant Man (1980) .. David Lynch
• Duck Soup (1933) .. Leo McCarey
• The Awful Truth (1937) .. Leo McCarey
• Sweet Smell of Success (1957) .. Alexander Mackendrick
• Badlands (1973) .. Terrence Malick
• Days of Heaven (1978) .. Terrence Malick
• All About Eve (1950) .. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• La Jetée (1962) .. Chris Marker
• Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker
• Le Samourai (1967) .. Jean-Pierre Melville
• Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) .. Vincente Minnelli
• Sansho Dayu (1954) .. Mizoguchi Kenji
• The Life of Oharu (1952) .. Mizoguchi Kenji
• The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939) .. Mizoguchi Kenji
• Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) .. Mizoguchi Kenji
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) .. Robert Mulligan
• Nosferatu (1922) .. F.W. Murnau
• Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau
• Tabu (1931) .. F.W. Murnau
• The Last Laugh (1924) .. F.W. Murnau
• The Graduate (1967) .. Mike Nichols
• Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) .. Max Ophüls
• Lola Montes (1955) .. Max Ophüls
• Madame de… (1953) .. Max Ophüls
• Late Spring (1949) .. Ozu Yasujiro
• Tokyo Story (1953) .. Ozu Yasujiro
• Pandora's Box (1929) .. G.W. Pabst
• Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) .. Pier Paolo Pasolini
• The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) .. Pier Paolo Pasolini
• The Wild Bunch (1969) .. Sam Peckinpah
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967) .. Arthur Penn
• Chinatown (1974) .. Roman Polanski
• Repulsion (1965) .. Roman Polanski
• Rosemary's Baby (1968) .. Roman Polanski
• The Battle of Algiers (1966) .. Gillo Pontecorvo
• Peeping Tom (1960) .. Michael Powell
• A Matter of Life and Death (1946) .. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
• Black Narcissus (1947) .. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) .. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
• The Red Shoes (1948) .. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
• In a Lonely Place (1950) .. Nicholas Ray
• Johnny Guitar (1954) .. Nicholas Ray
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955) .. Nicholas Ray
• The Apu Trilogy (1955-59) .. Satyajit Ray
• The Third Man (1949) .. Carol Reed
• La Grande Illusion (1937) .. Jean Renoir
• La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir
• Partie de Campagne (1936) .. Jean Renoir
• Last Year in Marienbad (1961) .. Alain Resnais
• Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) .. Alain Resnais
• Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette
• Don't Look Now (1973) .. Nicolas Roeg
• Performance (1970) .. Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell
• My Night with Maud (1969) .. Eric Rohmer
• Dawn of the Dead (1978) .. George A. Romero
• Night of the Living Dead (1958) .. George A. Romero
• Germany Year Zero (1948) .. Roberto Rossellini
• Paisan (1946) .. Roberto Rossellini
• Rome Open City (1945) .. Roberto Rossellini
• Viaggio in Italia (1954) .. Roberto Rossellini
• Midnight Cowboy (1969) .. John Schlesinger
• Goodfellas (1990) .. Martin Scorsese
• Mean Streets (1973) .. Martin Scorsese
• Raging Bull (1980) .. Martin Scorsese
• Taxi Driver (1976) .. Martin Scorsese
• Alien (1979) .. Ridley Scott
• Blade Runner (1982) .. Ridley Scott
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) .. Don Siegel
• All That Heaven Allows (1955) .. Douglas Sirk
• Imitation of Life (1959) .. Douglas Sirk
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) .. Steven Spielberg
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) .. Steven Spielberg
• Jaws (1975) .. Steven Spielberg
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) .. Steven Spielberg
• Schindler's List (1993) .. Steven Spielberg
• Shane (1953) .. George Stevens
• Sullivan's Travels (1941) .. Preston Sturges
• The Lady Eve (1941) .. Preston Sturges
• Pulp Fiction (1994) .. Quentin Tarantino
• Reservoir Dogs (1992) .. Quentin Tarantino
• Andrei Rublev (1966) .. Andrei Tarkovsky
• Mirror (1975) .. Andrei Tarkovsky
• Solaris (1972) .. Andrei Tarkovsky
• Stalker (1979) .. Andrei Tarkovsky
• Satantango (1994) .. Tarr Béla
• Mon Oncle (1958) .. Jacques Tati
• Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) .. Jacques Tati
• Playtime (1967) .. Jacques Tati
• Woman of the Dunes (1964) .. Teshigahara Hiroshi
• Build My Gallows High / Out of the Past (1947) .. Jacques Tourneur
• Jules and Jim (1962) .. Franτois Truffaut
• The Four Hundred Blows (1959) .. François Truffaut
• Fantasia (1940) .. various
• Man with a Movie Camera (1929) .. Dziga Vertov
• The Crowd (1928) .. King Vidor
• L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo
• Zéro de Conduite (1933) .. Jean Vigo
• Death in Venice (1971) .. Luchino Visconti
• Rocco and His Brothers (1960) .. Luchino Visconti
• Senso (1954) .. Luchino Visconti
• The Leopard (1963) .. Luchino Visconti
• The Blue Angel (1930) .. Josef von Sternberg
• Greed (1924) .. Erich von Stroheim
• Ashes and Diamonds (1958) .. Andrzej Wajda
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) .. Peter Weir
• Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles
• Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles
• The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) .. Orson Welles
• Touch of Evil (1958) .. Orson Welles
• Kings of the Road (1976) .. Wim Wenders
• Paris, Texas (1984) .. Wim Wenders
• Wings of Desire (1987) .. Wim Wenders
• Bride of Frankenstein (1935) .. James Whale
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) .. Wiene
• Double Indemnity (1944) .. Billy Wilder
• Some Like It Hot (1959) .. Billy Wilder
• Sunset Boulevard (1950) .. Billy Wilder
• The Apartment (1960) .. Billy Wilder
• West Side Story (1961) .. Jerome Robbins & Wise
• Chungking Express (1994) .. Wong Kar Wai
• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) .. William Wyler
• High Noon (1952) .. Fred Zinnemann