Further Beyond the Canon

This list was created using a formula to weight each film’s vote against its relative visibility/obscurity (number of IMDb votes divided by number of Beyond the Canon votes equals weighted vote) so as to highlight some of the lesser known films that have received a certain amount of support here.

1. La Femme Qui Pleure (1979) .. Jacques Doillon
2. Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004) .. Lav Diaz
3. Du Côté d'Orouët (1973) .. Jacques Rozier
4. The Messiah (1975) .. Roberto Rossellini
5. Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935) .. Naruse Mikio
6. The Masseurs and a Woman (1938) .. Shimizu Hiroshi
7. Le Tempestaire (1947) .. Jean Epstein
8. Sink or Swim (1990) .. Su Friedrich
9. Anatahan (1953) .. Josef von Sternberg
10. The Mouth Agape (1974) .. Maurice Pialat
11. Histoire(s) du Cinema (1989-1998) .. Jean-Luc Godard
12. Out 1 (1971) .. Jacques Rivette
13. M/Other (1999) .. Suwa Nobuhiro
14. Duelle (1976) .. Jacques Rivette
15. Colossal Youth (2006) .. Pedro Costa
16. Boy (1969) .. Oshima Nagisa
17. The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) .. Ritwik Ghatak
18. India Song (1975) .. Marguerite Duras
19. Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937) .. Yamanaka Sadao
20. Touki Bouki (1973) .. Djibril Diop Mambéty
21. The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968) .. Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub
22. La Prise de Pouvoir par Louis XIV (1966) .. Roberto Rossellini
23. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) .. Leo McCarey
24. Lonesome (1928) .. Fejôs Pál
25. The Intruder (2004) .. Claire Denis
26. Ménilmontant (1926) .. Dimitri Kirsanoff
27. The Cheat (1936) .. Sacha Guitry
28. Liebelei (1933) .. Max Ophüls
29. Edvard Munch (1974) .. Peter Watkins
30. Begone Dull Care (1949) .. Evelyn Lambart & Norman McLaren
31. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) .. Naruse Mikio
32. Street of Shame (1956) .. Mizoguchi Kenji
33. Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960) .. Aram Avakian & Bert Stern
34. Fantômas (1913/14) .. Louis Feuillade
35. The Rocking Horse Winner (1949) .. Anthony Pelissier
36. Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) .. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
37. The Reckless Moment (1949) .. Max Ophüls
38. Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968) .. Alain Resnais
39. Chelsea Girls (1966) .. Andy Warhol & Paul Morrissey
40. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) .. Terence Davies
41. Les Bonnes Femmes (1960) .. Claude Chabrol
42. Le Plaisir (1952) .. Max Ophüls
43. El Sur (1983) .. Victor Erice
44. Stars in My Crown (1950) .. Jacques Tourneur
45. Angel (1937) .. Ernst Lubitsch
46. Xala (1975) .. Ousmane Sembene
47. There Was a Father (1942) .. Ozu Yasujiro
48. The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985) .. Hou Hsiao-hsien
49. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) .. Douglas Sirk
50. Floating Clouds (1955) .. Naruse Mikio
51. The Devil, Probably (1977) .. Robert Bresson
52. The House is Black (1963) .. Forugh Farrokhzad
53. La Femme du Boulanger (1938) .. Marcel Pagnol
54. The Quince Tree Sun (1992) .. Víctor Erice
55. Louisiana Story (1948) .. Robert J. Flaherty
56. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) .. Luis Buñuel
57. Bitter Victory (1957) .. Nicholas Ray
58. Van Gogh (1991) .. Maurice Pialat
59. Barren Lives (1963) .. Nelson Pereira dos Santos
60. And Life Goes On... (1991) .. Abbas Kiarostami
61. Wanda (1970) .. Barbara Loden
62. The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer
63. 7th Heaven (1927) .. Frank Borzage
64. City Girl (1930) .. F.W. Murnau
65. To Our Loves (1983) .. Maurice Pialat
66. Man of Aran (1934) .. Robert Flaherty
67. The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) .. Jean Epstein
68. Lancelot of the Lake (1974) .. Robert Bresson
69. Daisy Kenyon (1947) .. Otto Preminger
70. Run of the Arrow (1957) .. Samuel Fuller
71. The L-Shaped Room (1962) .. Bryan Forbes
72. An Autumn Afternoon (1962) .. Ozu Yasujiro
73. The Red and the White (1967) .. Jancsó Miklós
74. The Docks of New York (1928) .. Josef von Sternberg
75. Michael (1924) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
76. Ride Lonesome (1959) .. Budd Boetticher
77. Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) .. Werner Herzog
78. Pyaasa (1957) .. Guru Dutt
79. Day of the Outlaw (1959) .. André De Toth
80. Mothlight (1963) .. Stan Brakhage
81. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) .. Jean Renoir
82. Alice in the Cities (1974) .. Wim Wenders
83. The Pumpkin Eater (1964) .. Jack Clayton
84. Cowards Bend the Knee (2003) .. Guy Maddin
85. Husbands (1970) .. John Cassavetes
86. Deep End (1971) .. Jerzy Skolimowski
87. A City of Sadness (1989) .. Hou Hsiao-hsien
88. Vive l'Amour (1994) .. Tsai Ming-liang
89. Casque d'Or (1952) .. Jacques Becker
90. Le Bonheur (1965) .. Agnès Varda
91. Killer of Sheep (1977) .. Charles Burnett
92. The Marquise of O (1976) .. Eric Rohmer
93. Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) .. Mizoguchi Kenji
94. La Chienne (1931) .. Jean Renoir
95. Il Posto (1961) .. Ermanno Olmi
96. Effi Briest (1974) .. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
97. Un Chant d'Amour (1950) .. Jean Genet
98. Platform (2000) .. Jia Zhangke
99. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) .. Tsai Ming-liang
100. The Face of Another (1966) .. Teshigahara Hiroshi