Faust
- Year:
- 1926
- Director:
- F.W. Murnau
101 Foundations of Cinema
Sub-categories
- 🧨 American Avant-Garde 1960-1990
- 🎨 Animation
- 🏙️ Avant-Garde Documentary 1920–1950
- 🇬🇧 British New Wave 1959–1979
- 🔊 Classical Hollywood 1930-1960
- 🕰️ Classical Silent Cinema 1908-1930
- 🌐 Contemporary Cinema 1980–2000
- 💠 Contemporary Cinema 2000–2026
- 🌍 Countries
- 🇪🇺 European Art Cinema 1940–1970
- 👁️ Expressionist Cinema 1916-1940
- 🖤 Film Noir 1940-1960
- 🇫🇷 French Cinema 1930-1990
- 🌏 Global New Waves 1970–2000
- 🇮🇹 Italian Cinema 1940–2026
- 🇯🇵 Japanese Cinema 1930–1990
- 🌊 Modern Cinema 1950–1970
- 🌀 Modernist Cinema 1960–1980
- 🦅 New Hollywood 1960–1990
- 🕊️ Postwar Cinema 1940-1960
- ⚙️ Soviet Montage 1924–1949
- 🌵 Spaghetti Western 1964-1976
- 📽️ The Birth of Cinema 1895-1910
Design for Living
- Year:
- 1933
- Director:
- Ernst Lubitsch
Rocco and His Brothers
- Year:
- 1960
- Director:
- Luchino Visconti
La belle noiseuse
- Year:
- 1991
- Director:
- Jacques Rivette
The Phantom of Liberty
- Year:
- 1974
- Director:
- Luis Buñuel
Long Day's Journey Into Night
- Year:
- 1962
- Director:
- Sidney Lumet
The Legend of 1900
- Year:
- 1998
- Director:
- Giuseppe Tornatore
A Story from Chikamatsu
- Year:
- 1954
- Director:
- Kenji Mizoguchi
Contempt
- Year:
- 1963
- Director:
- Jean-Luc Godard
Cemetery of Splendor
- Year:
- 2015
- Director:
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The 39 Steps
- Year:
- 1935
- Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
The Green Ray
- Year:
- 1986
- Director:
- Éric Rohmer
Johnny Guitar
- Year:
- 1954
- Director:
- Nicholas Ray
Children of Men
- Year:
- 2006
- Director:
- Alfonso Cuarón
In a Lonely Place
- Year:
- 1950
- Director:
- Nicholas Ray
Diaries Notes and Sketches
- Year:
- 1968
- Director:
- Jonas Mekas
The Making of Fanny and Alexander
- Year:
- 1984
- Director:
- Ingmar Bergman
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
- Year:
- 1939
- Director:
- Kenji Mizoguchi
The Flowers of St. Francis
- Year:
- 1950
- Director:
- Roberto Rossellini
The Golden Coach
- Year:
- 1952
- Director:
- Jean Renoir
I Knew Her Well
- Year:
- 1965
- Director:
- Antonio Pietrangeli
Smiles of a Summer Night
- Year:
- 1955
- Director:
- Ingmar Bergman
Out of the Past
- Year:
- 1947
- Director:
- Jacques Tourneur
Europa
- Year:
- 1991
- Director:
- Lars von Trier
That Obscure Object of Desire
- Year:
- 1977
- Director:
- Luis Buñuel
Roma
- Year:
- 2018
- Director:
- Alfonso Cuarón
Claire's Knee
- Year:
- 1970
- Director:
- Éric Rohmer
The End of Summer
- Year:
- 1961
- Director:
- Yasujirô Ozu
Black Bag
- Year:
- 2025
- Director:
- Steven Soderbergh
The Big Heat
- Year:
- 1953
- Director:
- Fritz Lang
The Last Picture Show
- Year:
- 1971
- Director:
- Peter Bogdanovich
Scarface
- Year:
- 1983
- Director:
- Brian De Palma
The Magic Flute
- Year:
- 1975
- Director:
- Ingmar Bergman
Rope
- Year:
- 1948
- Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
Window Water Baby Moving
- Year:
- 1959
- Director:
- Stan Brakhage
The Killing
- Year:
- 1956
- Director:
- Stanley Kubrick
Summer Interlude
- Year:
- 1951
- Director:
- Ingmar Bergman
Rosemary's Baby
- Year:
- 1968
- Director:
- Roman Polanski
All These Women
- Year:
- 1964
- Director:
- Ingmar Bergman
El
- Year:
- 1953
- Director:
- Luis Buñuel
Port of Shadows
- Year:
- 1938
- Director:
- Marcel Carné
The Spy Who Loved Flowers
- Year:
- 1966
- Director:
- Umberto Lenzi
The Lady Vanishes
- Year:
- 1938
- Director:
- Alfred Hitchcock
Funeral Parade of Roses
- Year:
- 1969
- Director:
- Toshio Matsumoto
Belle de Jour
- Year:
- 1967
- Director:
- Luis Buñuel
Two Women
- Year:
- 1960
- Director:
- Vittorio De Sica
The Quiet Man
- Year:
- 1952
- Director:
- John Ford
One, Two, Three
- Year:
- 1961
- Director:
- Billy Wilder
The Miracle Worker
- Year:
- 1962
- Director:
- Arthur Penn
Accattone
- Year:
- 1961
- Director:
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
Eternity and a Day
- Year:
- 1998
- Director:
- Theodoros Angelopoulos
Bride of Frankenstein
- Year:
- 1935
- Director:
- James Whale
Big Deal on Madonna Street
- Year:
- 1958
- Director:
- Mario Monicelli
Fallen Angels
- Year:
- 1995
- Director:
- Wong Kar-Wai
Noises Off...
- Year:
- 1992
- Director:
- Peter Bogdanovich
Eraserhead
- Year:
- 1977
- Director:
- David Lynch
The Round-Up
- Year:
- 1966
- Director:
- Miklós Jancsó
Inglourious Basterds
- Year:
- 2009
- Director:
- Quentin Tarantino
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Year:
- 1939
- Director:
- Frank Capra
The Last Temptation of Christ
- Year:
- 1988
- Director:
- Martin Scorsese
At Land
- Year:
- 1944
- Director:
- Maya Deren
Mysterious Object at Noon
- Year:
- 2000
- Director:
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
A Summer's Tale
- Year:
- 1996
- Director:
- Éric Rohmer
What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
- Year:
- 1963
- Director:
- Martin Scorsese
Hello Cinema
- Year:
- 1995
- Director:
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- Year:
- 1920
- Director:
- Robert Wiene
Divorce Italian Style
- Year:
- 1961
- Director:
- Pietro Germi
Boyfriends and Girlfriends
- Year:
- 1987
- Director:
- Éric Rohmer
The King of Comedy
- Year:
- 1982
- Director:
- Martin Scorsese
Demons
- Year:
- 1971
- Director:
- Toshio Matsumoto
The Awful Truth
- Year:
- 1937
- Director:
- Leo McCarey
A Time to Live and a Time to Die
- Year:
- 1985
- Director:
- Hsiao-Hsien Hou
The Turin Horse
- Year:
- 2011
- Director:
- Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
The Hawks and the Sparrows
- Year:
- 1966
- Director:
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
Mandabi
- Year:
- 1968
- Director:
- Ousmane Sembene
Little Big Man
- Year:
- 1970
- Director:
- Arthur Penn
Adam's Rib
- Year:
- 1949
- Director:
- George Cukor
The Hill
- Year:
- 1965
- Director:
- Sidney Lumet
Sound of the Mountain
- Year:
- 1954
- Director:
- Mikio Naruse
Häxan
- Year:
- 1922
- Director:
- Benjamin Christensen
The Great Silence
- Year:
- 1968
- Director:
- Sergio Corbucci
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
- Year:
- 1962
- Director:
- John Ford
Ugly, Dirty and Bad
- Year:
- 1976
- Director:
- Ettore Scola
Bread and Tulips
- Year:
- 2000
- Director:
- Silvio Soldini
For a Few Dollars More
- Year:
- 1965
- Director:
- Sergio Leone
The Exorcist
- Year:
- 1973
- Director:
- William Friedkin
Taipei Story
- Year:
- 1985
- Director:
- Edward Yang
Nostalghia
- Year:
- 1983
- Director:
- Andrei Tarkovsky
The Great War
- Year:
- 1959
- Director:
- Mario Monicelli
After Hours
- Year:
- 1985
- Director:
- Martin Scorsese
The Elephant Man
- Year:
- 1980
- Director:
- David Lynch
The Color Purple
- Year:
- 1985
- Director:
- Steven Spielberg
Pigsty
- Year:
- 1969
- Director:
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
- Year:
- 1931
- Director:
- F.W. Murnau
A Fistful of Dollars
- Year:
- 1964
- Director:
- Sergio Leone
To Joy
- Year:
- 1950
- Director:
- Ingmar Bergman
The Piano Teacher
- Year:
- 2001
- Director:
- Michael Haneke
A Lesson in Love
- Year:
- 1954
- Director:
- Ingmar Bergman
The 'High Sign'
- Year:
- 1921
- Director:
- Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
- Year:
- 2011
- Director:
- Martin Scorsese