Here is my list of must-see films from each genre, listed chronologically, from 1900–2000. I made this list for a friend who wanted to watch the classic movies from each category to gain a solid foundation on cinema history. For functional purposes, I have combined some film types/genres into one category. If a film is italicized, that means it is cross-listed. If a film is in bold, that means it is a personal favorite of mine. If it is not in bold, that does not necessarily mean I dislike the film—it simply means that it did not make it to my all-time favorites. This list is by no means comprehensive, but I tried to narrow it down to the classic films in each genre. Not all films are necessarily aesthetically “good,” but if they are important for the genre, then I included it. For instance, Birth of a Nation is not a particularly good film by modern standards, but it is important in the development and evolution of cinema history, so it has to be in there. Some categories deserve their own genre, but they were combined because they were too small on their own. For instance, since there are just a few films from the Czech New Wave, those films have been assimilated into other categories. Additionally, subgenres of drama, such as “road films” or “coming-of-age” films, were assimilated into the larger categories. Similarly, if a film fits into multiple categories, I tried to prioritize its categorical membership. For instance, an action film might also fit into the New Hollywood genre, but if it is more of an example of the action genre, it is probably not cross-listed. In other words, I had to make some subjective choices. Most film titles are in English, although if a film is commonly referred to in its original language, I kept it that way. As all categories are ultimately meaningless, I had to make some difficult decisions for many films for functionality’s sake. I am sure I have forgotten some films, but I tried my best to make a solid list from cinema around the world. What essential films have I missed? Let me know and I will add them.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Silent / German Expressionist / Soviet Montage
1902 Voyage to the Moon
1903 Great Train Robbery
1912 Falling Leaves
1915 Birth of a Nation
1916 Intolerance
1919 Broken Blossoms
1920 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1921 The Kid
1921 Phantom Carriage
1921 By Right of Birth
1922 Dr. Mabuse
1922 Haxan
1922 Nanook of the North
1922 Nosferatu
1924 The Last Laugh
1924 Sherlock Jr.
1925 The Gold Rush
1925 Strike
1925 Battleship Potemkin
1926 The General
1927 October: Ten Days That Shook the World
1927 Metropolis
1927 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1928 The Crowd
1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc
1929 Man with a Movie Camera
1930 Que Viva Mexico
1930 Blood of a Poet
1930 Earth
1930 City Lights
1932 Vampyr
Black Narcissus
Surrealist / Absurdist / Experimental / Weird
1928 The Starfish
1928 The Seashell and the Clergyman
1929 Un Chien Andalou
1929 Man with a Movie Camera
1929 H20
1930 L’Age d’Or
1930 Que Viva Mexico
1930 Blood of a Poet
1934 L’Atalante
1943 Meshes of the Afternoon
1946 A Matter of Life and Death
1947 Black Narcissus
1948 The Red Shoes
1952 Neighbours
1953 O Dreamland
1954 Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
1954 La Strada
1955 The Night of the Hunter
1959 Les Astronautes
1959 Hiroshima mon Amour
1960 La Dolce Vita
1962 The Exterminating Angel
1962 La Jetée
1963 8½
1965 Juliet of the Spirits
1965 Ruka
1966 Daisies
1969 Lemon
1969 The Color of Pomegranates
1970 El Topo
1970 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
1971 W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
1972 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1973 Belladonna of Sadness
1973 The Holy Mountain
1974 The Phantom of Liberty
1974 Mahler
1977 House
1977 3 Women
1977 Eraserhead
1980 Video Killed the Radio Star
1980 Altered States
1981 My Dinner with Andre
1982 Koyaanisqatsi
1982 Pink Floyd – The Wall
1983 Dimensions of Dialogue
1983 Sans Soleil
1984 The Element of Crime
1987 Alice
1989 Cycles
1990 Dreams
1995 Dead Man
1997 Lost Highway
1998 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998 Run Lola Run
1998 Pi
1999 Being John Malkovich
1999 Fight Club
2000 Songs from the Second Floor
2000 Memento
Sunset Boulevard
Film Noir / Neo-Noir
1941 The Maltese Falcon
1944 Double Indemnity
1945 Mildred Pierce
1945 The Lost Weekend
1946 The Big Sleep
1948 Naked City
1948 Rope
1948 They Live by Night
1949 The Third Man
1950 The Asphalt Jungle
1950 In a Lonely Place
1950 Sunset Boulevard
1951 Strangers on a Train
1953 The Big Heat
1953 Pickup on South Street
1954 On the Waterfront
1955 Killer’s Kiss
1956 The Wrong Man
1958 Vertigo
1967 Branded to Kill
1974 Chinatown
1984 Blood Simple
1986 Blue Velvet
1990 Miller’s Crossing
1991 Barton Fink
1992 Basic Instinct
1992 The Player
1995 Seven
1995 The Usual Suspects
1997 L.A. Confidential
1997 Lost Highway
1999 Dark City
2000 Memento
Scarface
Gangster
1931 The Public Enemy
1932 Scarface
1938 Angels with Dirty Faces
1939 The Roaring Twenties
1972 The Godfather
1973 Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1974 The Godfather Part II
1983 Scarface
1984 Once Upon a Time in America
1987 The Untouchables
1990 The Godfather Part III
1990 Goodfellas
1990 Miller’s Crossing
1990 My Blue Heaven
1991 Boyz in the Hood
1995 Get Shorty
1998 Ronin
1999 Analyze This
Bicycle Thieves
Italian Neorealism
1945 Rome, Open City
1947 Paisa
1948 Bicycle Thieves
1948 Germany Year Zero
1952 Umberto D.
1954 La Strada
Hiroshima Mon Amour
French New Wave
1959 Hiroshima mon Amour
1959 400 Blows
1960 Breathless
1961 Last Year at Marienbad
1962 Cleo from 5 to 7
1962 La Jetée
1962 Jules et Jim
1962 Vivre sa Vie
1964 Alphaville
1966 Masculin Féminin
1967 Two or Three Things I Know About Her
1967 La Chinoise
1967 Weekend
1973 Day for Night
El Topo
Westerns
1939 Stagecoach
1946 My Darling Clementine
1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1952 High Noon
1956 The Searchers
1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1964 A Fistful of Dollars
1965 For a Few Dollars More
1966 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1968 Once Upon a Time in the West
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 True Grit
1969 The Wild Bunch
1970 El Topo
1970 Two Mules for Sister Sara
1974 Blazing Saddles
1977 Star Wars
1991 City Slickers
1992 Unforgiven
1993 Tombstone
1995 The Quick and the Dead
1995 Dead Man
My Fair Lady
Musicals
1933 42nd Street
1935 Top Hat
1951 An American in Paris
1952 Singin’ in the Rain
1957 Jailhouse Rock
1964 A Hard Day’s Night
1964 My Fair Lady
1965 The Sound of Music
1968 Yellow Submarine
1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1973 Jesus Christ Superstar
1978 Grease
1984 The Muppets Take Manhattan
Killer of Sheep
Social Realism / Shomin-Geki / Parallel & Third Cinema / Kitchen Sink
1940 The Grapes of Wrath
1942 There Was a Father
1945 Rome, Open City
1947 Paisa
1947 The Record of a Tenement Gentleman
1948 Bicycle Thieves
1949 Late Spring
1952 Ikiru
1952 Umberto D.
1953 Tokyo Story
1955 Pather Panchali
1956 Aparajito
1959 Apur Sansar
1960 Late Autumn
1966 Black Girl
1969 The Cow
1973 Touki Bouki
1978 Killer of Sheep
1983 El Norte
1996 A Moment of Innocence
1996 Secrets and Lies
1997 Life Is Beautiful
Rebel Without a Cause
Classic Hollywood
1934 It Happened One Night
1936 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1937 Heidi
1937 Make Way for Tomorrow
1938 You Can’t Take It with You
1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 The Wizard of Oz
1939 Gone with the Wind
1940 The Grapes of Wrath
1941 Citizen Kane
1941 How Green Was My Valley
1942 Casablanca
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 It’s a Wonderful Life
1948 Letter from an Unknown Woman
1950 All About Eve
1951 A Streetcar Named Desire
1953 Roman Holiday
1955 All That Heaven Allows
1955 Rebel Without a Cause
1955 Bigger Than Life
1957 12 Angry Men
1959 Anatomy of a Murder
1960 The Apartment
1960 Inherit the Wind
1961 Breakfast at Tiffany’s
1961 The Hustler
1961 Judgment at Nuremberg
1962 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962 The Trial
1963 Shock Corridor
1963 The Servant
Harold and Maude
New Hollywood / British New Wave / Later Hollywood Dramas
1966 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967 Bonnie and Clyde
1967 Cool Hand Luke
1968 if…
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 Easy Rider
1969 Medium Cool
1969 Midnight Cowboy
1970 Catch-22
1970 Five Easy Pieces
1970 Love Story
1970 MASH
1971 Harold and Maude
1971 The Last Picture Show
1973 Badlands
1973 Mean Streets
1973 Paper Moon
1974 The Conversation
1974 A Woman Under the Influence
1975 Dog Day Afternoon
1975 Nashville
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1976 Network
1976 Taxi Driver
1978 Days of Heaven
1978 Blue Collar
1978 Interiors
1979 And Justice for All
1979 Being There
1979 Kramer vs. Kramer
1980 Raging Bull
1981 On Golden Pond
1982 The King of Comedy
1982 The World According to Garp
1990 To Sleep with Anger
1991 Thelma & Louise
1993 Philadelphia
1993 What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
1994 Natural Born Killers
1994 Pulp Fiction
1994 The Shawshank Redemption
1995 Casino
1995 Safe
1995 Heat
1996 The People vs. Larry Flynt
1996 Fargo
1997 Boogie Nights
1997 Jackie Brown
1997 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1998 Pleasantville
1998 Rounders
1999 American Beauty
1999 Magnolia
2000 Almost Famous
2000 Cast Away
2000 Chocolat
2000 Requiem for a Dream
2000 The Virgin Suicides
The Dark Crystal
Adventure / Fantasy / Superhero
1939 Gunga Din
1939 The Wizard of Oz
1946 La Belle et la Bête
1956 Moby Dick
1957 The Incredible Shrinking Man
1958 The Hidden Fortress
1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1973 The Three Musketeers
1977 Star Wars
1977 Superman
1979 Mad Max
1981 Clash of the Titans
1981 Excalibur
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 Time Bandits
1982 Conan the Barbarian
1982 The Dark Crystal
1984 Dune
1985 The Goonies
1985 Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985 Return to Oz
1986 Highlander
1986 Labyrinth
1988 Beetlejuice
1988 Willow
1989 Batman
1989 Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
1989 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
1990 Edward Scissorhands
1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
1993 Jurassic Park
1994 The Crow
1997 Men in Black
1999 Being John Malkovich
2000 X-Men
Seven Samurai
Action / Martial Arts / Spy / Crime / Wuxia / Sports
1943 Sanshiro Sugata
1954 Seven Samurai
1958 The Hidden Fortress
1961 Yojimbo
1962 Dr. No
1967 Branded to Kill
1971 Dirty Harry
1971 A Touch of Zen
1973 Enter the Dragon
1973 Lady Snowblood
1976 Rocky
1977 The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
1979 Mad Max
1980 Raging Bull
1981 Escape from New York
1982 First Blood
1984 The Karate Kid
1984 The Terminator
1986 Top Gun
1987 Lethal Weapon
1987 Predator
1988 Die Hard
1990 The Hunt for Red October
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1996 Mission: Impossible
1997 Face/Off
1997 The Fifth Element
1997 Starship Troopers
1998 Ronin
1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Stunt Man
Cult / Exploitation / B Movies / Camp
1931 Freaks
1959 Plan 9 from Outer Space
1964 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
1965 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
1967 Branded to Kill
1968 Barbarella
1968 Night of the Living Dead
1971 Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
1971 Shaft
1972 Pink Flamingos
1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1978 Jubilee
1980 Altered States
1980 The Stunt Man
1981 The Evil Dead
1984 Repo Man
1986 Big Trouble in Little China
1987 Evil Dead II
1988 Hairspray
1988 Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
1988 They Live
1991 Naked Lunch
1992 Army of Darkness
1994 Pulp Fiction
1994 Reality Bites
1995 Four Rooms
1996 Crash
1997 Gummo
1997 Jackie Brown
1999 Free Enterprise
Belladonna of Sadness
Animated / Stop Motion
1926 The Adventures of Prince Achmed
1928 Steamboat Willie
1933 A Night on Bald Mountain
1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1940 Pinocchio
1940 Fantasia
1941 Dumbo
1949 Inspiration
1951 Alice in Wonderland
1959 Sleeping Beauty
1959 Les Astronautes
1965 Ruka
1966 The Snails
1967 The Jungle Book
1968 Yellow Submarine
1972 Fritz the Cat
1972 French Windows
1973 Johnny Corncob
1973 Belladonna of Sadness
1973 Fantastic Planet
1974 Hunger
1977 A Doonesbury Special
1977 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
1978 Watership Down
1979 Asparagus
1981 Clash of the Titans
1982 The Secret of NIMH
1983 Dimensions of Dialogue
1987 The Brave Little Toaster
1987 Alice
1988 Akira
1988 The Pass
1988 The Land Before Time
1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1991 Beauty and the Beast
1992 Cool World
1993 The Nightmare Before Christmas
1994 The Lion King
1995 Toy Story
1995 Ghost in the Shell
1996 Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
1997 Princess Mononoke
1997 Perfect Blue
1997 Antz
1999 The Iron Giant
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Comedy / Satire / Screwball
1921 The Kid
1932 Boudu Saved from Drowning
1933 42nd Street
1933 Dinner at Eight
1933 Duck Soup
1933 I’m No Angel
1934 It Happened One Night
1935 A Night at the Opera
1936 Modern Times
1936 My Man Godfrey
1939 The Rules of the Game
1940 The Great Dictator
1940 His Girl Friday
1940 The Bank Dick
1940 Philadelphia Story
1941 Sullivan’s Travels
1944 Arsenic and Old Lace
1949 Adam’s Rib
1950 Born Yesterday
1950 La Ronde
1952 The Importance of Being Earnest
1957 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1958 Mon Oncle
1959 Some Like It Hot
1963 It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 The Pink Panther
1964 Dr. Strangelove
1966 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1966 Daisies
1967 The Firemen’s Ball
1967 Playtime
1968 Head
1968 The Odd Couple
1968 The Producers
1970 Catch-22
1970 MASH
1972 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
1973 The Three Musketeers
1974 Blazing Saddles
1974 The Phantom of Liberty
1974 Young Frankenstein
1975 Love and Death
1975 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975 The Bad News Bears
1976 Network
1977 Annie Hall
1977 Smokey and the Bandit
1978 All You Need Is Cash (a.k.a. The Rutles)
1978 La Cage Aux Folles
1978 National Lampoon’s Animal House
1978 Up in Smoke
1979 Breaking Away
1979 The Jerk
1979 Manhattan
1979 Monty Python’s Life of Brian
1980 Airplane!
1980 The Blues Brothers
1980 Caddyshack
1980 Stardust Memories
1981 Cannonball Run
1981 History of the World, Part I
1982 Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1982 Tootsie
1983 The Big Chill
1983 A Christmas Story
1983 Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
1983 National Lampoon’s Vacation
1983 Trading Places
1983 Beverly Hills Cop
1984 Ghostbusters
1984 Gremlins
1985 Revenge of the Nerds
1984 This Is Spinal Tap
1985 The Breakfast Club
1985 Lost in America
1985 Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
1986 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
1986 Hannah and Her Sisters
1986 Short Circuit
1987 Good Morning, Vietnam
1987 The Princess Bride
1987 Raising Arizona
1987 RoboCop
1987 Spaceballs
1988 Coming to America
1988 Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
1988 A Fish Called Wanda
1988 The Naked Gun
1988 Hairspray
1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989 Do the Right Thing
1989 Weekend at Bernie’s
1989 When Harry Met Sally
1990 Home Alone
1990 My Blue Heaven
1990 Pretty Woman
1991 Man Bites Dog
1991 The Addams Family
1991 City Slickers
1991 The Fisher King
1991 Hook
1991 L.A. Story
1992 My Cousin Vinny
1992 Wayne’s World
1992 Demolition Man
1993 Groundhog Day
1993 Much Ado About Nothing
1993 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994 Clerks
1994 Forrest Gump
1994 Serial Mom
1995 Clueless
1995 Get Shorty
1995 Major Payne
1995 To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
1996 Mars Attacks!
1996 Swingers
1996 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
1997 Deconstructing Harry
1997 The Full Monty
1997 Men in Black
1997 Starship Troopers
1997 Waiting for Guffman
1998 The Big Lebowski
1998 Bulworth
1998 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998 Rushmore
1998 Pecker
1999 Analyze This
1999 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
1999 Election
1999 Dogma
1999 Fight Club
1999 Free Enterprise
1999 Galaxy Quest
1999 Office Space
1999 South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
2000 Best in Show
2000 High Fidelity
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Barry Lyndon
Historical / Epics / Biopics / Period Pieces
1938 Alexander Nevsky
1939 Gone with the Wind
1956 The Ten Commandments
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai
1960 Spartacus
1962 Lawrence of Arabia
1968 The Lion in Winter
1975 Barry Lyndon
1975 Dersu Uzala
1977 The Duellists
1980 Kagemusha
1981 Reds
1982 Gandhi
1983 The Right Stuff
1983 Amadeus
1984 The Killing Fields
1987 The Last Emperor
1988 Dangerous Liaisons
1990 Dances with Wolves
1991 Barton Fink
1991 The Doors
1991 JFK
1992 Malcolm X
1993 Gettysburg
1993 Schindler’s List
1994 Quiz Show
1994 Apollo 13
1994 Braveheart
1995 Dead Man Walking
1995 Nixon
1995 Sense and Sensibility
1996 A Moment of Innocence
1996 Amistad
1997 Titanic
1999 Quills
2000 Erin Brockovich
2000 Gladiator
Repulsion
Horror / Thriller / Heist / Suspense / Monster / Body Horror
1931 Dracula
1931 Frankenstein
1932 Vampyr
1933 King Kong
1943 Day of Wrath
1944 Gaslight
1945 Spellbound
1951 Strangers on a Train
1953 The Wages of Fear
1954 Godzilla
1954 Rear Window
1955 A Man Escaped
1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much
1958 Vertigo
1959 North by Northwest
1960 Psycho
1963 The Birds
1964 Kwaidan
1965 Repulsion
1968 Night of the Living Dead
1968 Rosemary’s Baby
1968 Hour of the Wolf
1973 The Exorcist
1974 Jaws
1975 Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976 Carrie
1977 Suspiria
1978 Halloween
1979 Alien
1980 Altered States
1980 The Shining
1981 The Evil Dead
1981 Possession
1982 Poltergeist
1982 The Thing
1983 Videodrome
1984 Ghostbusters
1984 Gremlins
1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street
1985 Aliens
1987 Predator
1987 Evil Dead II
1989 Tetsuo: The Iron Man
1991 The Silence of the Lambs
1992 Army of Darkness
1992 Bram Stoker’s Dracula
1992 The Crying Game
1992 Reservoir Dogs
1993 The Fugitive
1993 Clean, Shaven
1994 Interview with the Vampire
1995 Safe
1996 From Dusk till Dawn
1996 Independence Day
1996 Mars Attacks!
1996 Scream
1997 The Devil’s Advocate
1997 Funny Games
1998 Pi
1998 Ronin
1998 Ringu
1999 The Blair Witch Project
1999 Existenz
1999 The Sixth Sense
1999 Audition
1999 American Psycho
2000 Battle Royale
2000 Memento
2001: A Space Odyssey
Science Fiction / Dystopian / Futuristic
1936 Things to Come
1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951 The Thing from Another World
1956 Forbidden Planet
1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1957 The Incredible Shrinking Man
1960 The Time Machine
1962 La Jetée
1964 Alphaville
1966 Seconds
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 Je t’aime, je t’aime
1968 Planet of the Apes
1971 A Clockwork Orange
1971 THX 1138
1972 Solaris
1973 Soylent Green
1976 Logan’s Run
1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1979 Mad Max
1979 Stalker
1979 Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1980 Altered States
1982 Blade Runner
1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
1982 Tron
1983 Videodrome
1984 The Brother from Another Planet
1984 The Terminator
1985 Back to the Future
1985 Brazil
1988 On the Silver Globe
1990 Total Recall
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1992 Demolition Man
1993 Jurassic Park
1994 12 Monkeys
1995 Safe
1995 Ghost in the Shell
1996 Independence Day
1996 Mars Attacks!
1997 Contact
1997 Face/Off
1997 The Fifth Element
1997 Starship Troopers
1998 Armageddon
1998 The Truman Show
1999 Dark City
1999 Existenz
1999 Galaxy Quest
1999 The Matrix
2000 Battle Royale
Paths of Glory
War / Political
1930 All Quiet on the Western Front
1935 Triumph of the Will
1937 The Grand Illusion
1942 In Which We Serve
1944 Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1946 Ivan the Terrible, Part II
1948 Germany Year Zero
1954 Animal Farm
1954 Salt of the Earth
1954 On the Waterfront
1955 Night and Fog
1957 The Cranes Are Flying
1957 Paths of Glory
1962 Ivan’s Childhood
1964 I Am Cuba
1966 The Battle of Algiers
1967 La Chinoise
1967 The Red and the White
1969 Z
1970 Catch-22
1970 The Conformist
1970 MASH
1974 Hearts and Minds
1975 All the President’s Men
1975 Harlan County, USA
1979 Apocalypse Now
1981 Das Boot
1981 Reds
1984 The Killing Fields
1985 Come and See
1985 Ran
1987 Full Metal Jacket
1987 Matewan
1996 The English Patient
1996 A Moment of Innocence
1997 Life Is Beautiful
1998 Bulworth
1998 Saving Private Ryan
1998 The Thin Red Line
2000 Erin Brockovich
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
New German Cinema
1972 Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
1974 Alice in the Cities
1974 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1977 Stroszek
1982 Fitzcarraldo
1987 Wings of Desire
Slacker
Independent / L.A. Rebellion / No Wave
1953 Little Fugitive
1959 Black Orpheus
1959 Shadows
1964 The Pawnbroker
1967 I Am Curious (Yellow)
1968 Faces
1968 Je t’aime, je t’aime
1970 Wanda
1973 The Spirit of the Beehive
1977 Diary of an African Nun
1978 Killer of Sheep
1979 Your Children Come Back to You
1980 Return of the Secaucus 7
1982 Smithereens
1982 Losing Ground
1983 Suburbia
1983 El Norte
1983 My Brother’s Wedding
1984 The Brother from Another Planet
1984 Bless Their Little Hearts
1984 Stranger Than Paradise
1986 Down by Law
1986 She’s Gotta Have It
1986 Working Girls
1987 Border Radio
1988 Chocolat
1989 Sex, Lies, and Videotape
1989 Sidewalk Stories
1989 Chameleon Street
1989 Cycles
1990 Archangel
1991 Night on Earth
1991 Daughters of the Dust
1991 My Own Private Idaho
1991 Slacker
1992 Juice
1992 Reservoir Dogs
1993 True Romance
1994 The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
1994 Barcelona
1994 Clerks
1994 Léon: The Professional
1994 Pulp Fiction
1994 Reality Bites
1994 What Happened Was
1995 Dead Man
1995 Four Rooms
1995 Kids
1995 The Doom Generation
1995 The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
1996 Trainspotting
1996 Trees Lounge
1997 Good Will Hunting
1997 Jackie Brown
1998 Buffalo ’66
1998 Happiness
1998 High Art
1998 The Idiots
1998 Edge of Seventeen
1998 Run Lola Run
1998 Pi
1998 Smoke Signals
1999 Being John Malkovich
1999 The Boondock Saints
1999 Free Enterprise
1999 Girl, Interrupted
Medium Cool
Documentary / Cinema Verite / Mockumentary
1922 Nanook of the North
1929 Man with a Movie Camera
1955 Night and Fog
1962 The House Is Black
1967 Dont Look Back
1968 Black Panthers
1969 Medium Cool
1970 Woodstock
1970 Gimme Shelter
1971 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
1974 Hearts and Minds
1975 Grey Gardens
1975 Harlan County, USA
1978 Gates of Heaven
1978 A Dream Is What You Wake Up From
1980 Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1982 The Atomic Café
1982 Brick by Brick
1982 Room 666
1982 Burden of Dreams
1983 Sans Soleil
1983 Voyage in Time
1984 Streetwise
1984 This Is Spinal Tap
1988 The Thin Blue Line
1989 Roger and Me
1990 American Dream
1992 Baraka
1993 Crumb
1993 Fear of a Black Hat
1994 Through the Olive Trees
1994 Hoop Dreams
1997 Waiting for Guffman
2000 Best in Show
Stalker
Auteurs / Art House
1943 Day of Wrath
1945 Children of Paradise
1947 Black Narcissus
1948 The Red Shoes
1950 Variety Lights
1950 Rashomon
1951 The River
1951 Diary of a Country Priest
1952 Ikiru
1953 I Vitelloni
1954 Rear Window
1957 Nights of Cabiria
1957 Wild Strawberries
1957 Seventh Seal
1958 Elevator to the Gallows
1958 The Lovers
1959 Hiroshima mon Amour
1959 Pickpocket
1959 400 Blows
1960 L’Avventura
1961 Last Year at Marienbad
1961 La Notte
1961 Through a Glass Darkly
1962 L’Eclisse
1963 8½
1963 Winter Light
1963 The Silence
1964 Red Desert
1964 The Woman in the Dunes
1965 Juliet of the Spirits
1965 Repulsion
1966 Andrei Rublev
1966 Au Hasard Balthazar
1966 Persona
1967 Belle de Jour
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 Shame
1969 The Color of Pomegranates
1970 The Conformist
1970 El Topo
1971 A Clockwork Orange
1972 Last Tango in Paris
1972 Solaris
1972 Cries and Whispers
1973 Amarcord
1973 The Spirit of the Beehive
1973 The Holy Mountain
1975 Barry Lyndon
1975 Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
1975 Mirror
1976 In the Realm of the Senses
1977 Stroszek
1978 Autumn Sonata
1978 Interiors
1979 Stalker
1980 My American Uncle
1980 The Shining
1980 Stardust Memories
1981 My Dinner with Andre
1982 Koyaanisqatsi
1983 L’Argent
1983 Nostalghia
1984 Paris, Texas
1985 Brazil
1985 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985 My Life as a Dog
1985 Vagabond
1987 Wings of Desire
1988 Damnation
1988 Cinema Paradiso
1990 Dreams
1991 Raise the Red Lantern
1993 Three Colours: Blue
1995 Dead Man
1998 Pi
1999 Eyes Wide Shut
2000 Werckmeister Harmonies
2000 Yi Yi
2000 In the Mood for Love
2000 Songs from the Second Floor