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

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