The Ultimate Film Studies Watchlist

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Year:

1976

Director:

Chantal Akerman

A Brighter Summer Day

Year:

1991

Director:

Edward Yang

The Godfather

Year:

1972

Director:

Francis Ford Coppola

Pulp Fiction

Year:

1994

Director:

Quentin Tarantino

Seven Samurai

Year:

1954

Director:

Akira Kurosawa

Stalker

Year:

1979

Director:

Andrei Tarkovsky

Come and See

Year:

1985

Director:

Elem Klimov

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Year:

1977

Director:

George Lucas

Ordet

Year:

1955

Director:

Carl Theodor Dreyer

The Celebration

Year:

1998

Director:

Thomas Vinterberg

Sunset Boulevard

Year:

1950

Director:

Billy Wilder

Beau Travail

Year:

2000

Director:

Claire Denis

Persona

Year:

1966

Director:

Ingmar Bergman

The Godfather Part II

Year:

1974

Director:

Francis Ford Coppola

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Year:

1928

Director:

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Tokyo Story

Year:

1953

Director:

Yasujirô Ozu

Pather Panchali

Year:

1955

Director:

Satyajit Ray

Close-Up

Year:

1990

Director:

Abbas Kiarostami

2001: A Space Odyssey

Year:

1968

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

Satantango

Year:

1994

Director:

Béla Tarr

M

Year:

1931

Director:

Fritz Lang

Meshes of the Afternoon

Year:

1943

Director:

Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid

8½

Year:

1963

Director:

Federico Fellini

Lawrence of Arabia

Year:

1962

Director:

David Lean

Andrei Rublev

Year:

1966

Director:

Andrei Tarkovsky

Casablanca

Year:

1943

Director:

Michael Curtiz

GoodFellas

Year:

1990

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Sunrise

Year:

1927

Director:

F.W. Murnau

Rashomon

Year:

1950

Director:

Akira Kurosawa

The Matrix

Year:

1999

Director:

Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski

The Mother and the Whore

Year:

1973

Director:

Jean Eustache

Rear Window

Year:

1954

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock

Ran

Year:

1985

Director:

Akira Kurosawa

Bicycle Thieves

Year:

1948

Director:

Vittorio De Sica

Army of Shadows

Year:

1969

Director:

Jean-Pierre Melville

Man with a Movie Camera

Year:

1929

Director:

Dziga Vertov

A Man Escaped

Year:

1956

Director:

Robert Bresson

The Battle of Algiers

Year:

1966

Director:

Gillo Pontecorvo

Playtime

Year:

1967

Director:

Jacques Tati

La Jetée

Year:

1962

Director:

Chris Marker

The Color of Pomegranates

Year:

1969

Director:

Sergei Parajanov

Alien

Year:

1979

Director:

Ridley Scott

La haine

Year:

1995

Director:

Mathieu Kassovitz

Koyaanisqatsi

Year:

1983

Director:

Godfrey Reggio

Double Indemnity

Year:

1944

Director:

Billy Wilder

Napoleon

Year:

1927

Director:

Abel Gance

Apocalypse Now

Year:

1979

Director:

Francis Ford Coppola

The Red Shoes

Year:

1948

Director:

Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

The 400 Blows

Year:

1959

Director:

François Truffaut

L'Atalante

Year:

1934

Director:

Jean Vigo

The Shining

Year:

1980

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

Psycho

Year:

1960

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock

Sherlock Jr.

Year:

1924

Director:

Buster Keaton

Duck Soup

Year:

1933

Director:

Leo McCarey

The Cranes Are Flying

Year:

1957

Director:

Mikhail Kalatozov

Once Upon a Time in the West

Year:

1968

Director:

Sergio Leone

Vertigo

Year:

1958

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock

The Rules of the Game

Year:

1939

Director:

Jean Renoir

Citizen Kane

Year:

1941

Director:

Orson Welles

Angel's Egg

Year:

1985

Director:

Mamoru Oshii

Taxi Driver

Year:

1976

Director:

Martin Scorsese

American Movie

Year:

1999

Director:

Chris Smith

The Great Dictator

Year:

1940

Director:

Charles Chaplin

The Night of the Hunter

Year:

1955

Director:

Charles Laughton

Barry Lyndon

Year:

1975

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

Raging Bull

Year:

1980

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Brief Encounter

Year:

1945

Director:

David Lean

Ugetsu

Year:

1953

Director:

Kenji Mizoguchi

Modern Times

Year:

1936

Director:

Charles Chaplin

A City of Sadness

Year:

1989

Director:

Hsiao-Hsien Hou

The Conformist

Year:

1971

Director:

Bernardo Bertolucci

Beauty and the Beast

Year:

1946

Director:

Jean Cocteau, René Clément

The Third Man

Year:

1949

Director:

Carol Reed

L'Avventura

Year:

1960

Director:

Michelangelo Antonioni

Kes

Year:

1970

Director:

Ken Loach

Gone with the Wind

Year:

1939

Director:

Victor Fleming

The Young and the Damned

Year:

1950

Director:

Luis Buñuel

Greed

Year:

1924

Director:

Erich von Stroheim

Metropolis

Year:

1927

Director:

Fritz Lang

A Short Film About Killing

Year:

1988

Director:

Krzysztof Kieslowski

The Conversation

Year:

1974

Director:

Francis Ford Coppola

House

Year:

1977

Director:

Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Battleship Potemkin

Year:

1925

Director:

Sergei Eisenstein

Hard Boiled

Year:

1992

Director:

John Woo

Badlands

Year:

1974

Director:

Terrence Malick

A Touch of Zen

Year:

1970

Director:

King Hu

Clerks

Year:

1994

Director:

Kevin Smith

The Last Laugh

Year:

1924

Director:

F.W. Murnau

Do the Right Thing

Year:

1989

Director:

Spike Lee

Eraserhead

Year:

1977

Director:

David Lynch

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Year:

1920

Director:

Robert Wiene

Häxan

Year:

1922

Director:

Benjamin Christensen

The Exorcist

Year:

1973

Director:

William Friedkin

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Year:

1989

Director:

Peter Greenaway

Suspense

Year:

1913

Director:

Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Year:

1999

Director:

Jim Jarmusch

Intolerance

Year:

1916

Director:

D.W. Griffith

Jaws

Year:

1975

Director:

Steven Spielberg

Fantasia

Year:

1940

Director:

James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Ben Sharpsteen

Paisan

Year:

1946

Director:

Roberto Rossellini