125 Martin Scorsese's Favorite Films

The Godfather

Year:

1972

Director:

Francis Ford Coppola

Children of Paradise

Year:

1945

Director:

Marcel Carné

Seven Samurai

Year:

1954

Director:

Akira Kurosawa

Ikiru

Year:

1952

Director:

Akira Kurosawa

Tokyo Story

Year:

1953

Director:

Yasujirô Ozu

2001: A Space Odyssey

Year:

1968

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

8½

Year:

1963

Director:

Federico Fellini

High and Low

Year:

1963

Director:

Akira Kurosawa

Bicycle Thieves

Year:

1948

Director:

Vittorio De Sica

The Grand Illusion

Year:

1937

Director:

Jean Renoir

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Year:

1974

Director:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Umberto D.

Year:

1952

Director:

Vittorio De Sica

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

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Year:

1972

Director:

Werner Herzog

Vertigo

Year:

1958

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock

The Rules of the Game

Year:

1939

Director:

Jean Renoir

Faces

Year:

1968

Director:

John Cassavetes

Il sorpasso

Year:

1962

Director:

Dino Risi

Citizen Kane

Year:

1941

Director:

Orson Welles

A Matter of Life and Death

Year:

1946

Director:

Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

The Leopard

Year:

1963

Director:

Luchino Visconti

Sansho the Bailiff

Year:

1954

Director:

Kenji Mizoguchi

Europe '51

Year:

1952

Director:

Roberto Rossellini

Ugetsu

Year:

1953

Director:

Kenji Mizoguchi

Arsenic and Old Lace

Year:

1944

Director:

Frank Capra

It Happened One Night

Year:

1934

Director:

Frank Capra

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

Journey to Italy

Year:

1954

Director:

Roberto Rossellini

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Year:

1985

Director:

Paul Schrader

All That Heaven Allows

Year:

1955

Director:

Douglas Sirk

Breathless

Year:

1960

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Metropolis

Year:

1927

Director:

Fritz Lang

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Year:

1979

Director:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Ace in the Hole

Year:

1951

Director:

Billy Wilder

The Conversation

Year:

1974

Director:

Francis Ford Coppola

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

Year:

1922

Director:

Fritz Lang

Death by Hanging

Year:

1968

Director:

Nagisa Ôshima

Dial M for Murder

Year:

1954

Director:

Alfred Hitchcock

Kiss Me Deadly

Year:

1955

Director:

Robert Aldrich

Blow-Up

Year:

1966

Director:

Michelangelo Antonioni

Ashes and Diamonds

Year:

1958

Director:

Andrzej Wajda

The Bad and the Beautiful

Year:

1952

Director:

Vincente Minnelli

Rocco and His Brothers

Year:

1960

Director:

Luchino Visconti

Do the Right Thing

Year:

1989

Director:

Spike Lee

The Flowers of St. Francis

Year:

1950

Director:

Roberto Rossellini

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

Year:

1974

Director:

Werner Herzog

The Hustler

Year:

1961

Director:

Robert Rossen

One, Two, Three

Year:

1961

Director:

Billy Wilder

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Year:

1958

Director:

Mario Monicelli

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Year:

1939

Director:

Frank Capra

Kings of the Road

Year:

1976

Director:

Wim Wenders

Night and the City

Year:

1950

Director:

Jules Dassin

Germany Year Zero

Year:

1948

Director:

Roberto Rossellini

The Band Wagon

Year:

1953

Director:

Vincente Minnelli

Gilda

Year:

1946

Director:

Charles Vidor

Rome, Open City

Year:

1945

Director:

Roberto Rossellini

Salvatore Giuliano

Year:

1962

Director:

Francesco Rosi

Band of Outsiders

Year:

1964

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Weekend

Year:

1967

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Paisan

Year:

1946

Director:

Roberto Rossellini

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Year:

1971

Director:

Robert Altman

La Terra Trema

Year:

1949

Director:

Luchino Visconti

The American Friend

Year:

1977

Director:

Wim Wenders

Midnight Cowboy

Year:

1969

Director:

John Schlesinger

America America

Year:

1963

Director:

Elia Kazan

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Year:

1922

Director:

F.W. Murnau

The Taking of Power by Louis XIV

Year:

1966

Director:

Roberto Rossellini

Gun Crazy

Year:

1950

Director:

Joseph H. Lewis

The River

Year:

1951

Director:

Jean Renoir

Stromboli

Year:

1950

Director:

Roberto Rossellini

An American in Paris

Year:

1951

Director:

Vincente Minnelli

Some Came Running

Year:

1958

Director:

Vincente Minnelli

Force of Evil

Year:

1950

Director:

Abraham Polonsky

The Butcher

Year:

1970

Director:

Claude Chabrol

Shadows

Year:

1960

Director:

John Cassavetes

Cape Fear

Year:

1962

Director:

J. Lee Thompson

Forty Guns

Year:

1957

Director:

Samuel Fuller

The Messiah

Year:

1975

Director:

Roberto Rossellini

How Green Was My Valley

Year:

1941

Director:

John Ford

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Year:

1921

Director:

Rex Ingram

HealtH

Year:

1980

Director:

Robert Altman

Sweet Smell of Success

Year:

1957

Director:

Alexander Mackendrick

Pickup on South Street

Year:

1953

Director:

Samuel Fuller

Duel in the Sun

Year:

1946

Director:

King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle

Nashville

Year:

1975

Director:

Robert Altman

The Searchers

Year:

1956

Director:

John Ford

The Power and the Glory

Year:

1933

Director:

William K. Howard

I Walk Alone

Year:

1947

Director:

Byron Haskin

Senso

Year:

1954

Director:

Luchino Visconti

The Magic Box

Year:

1952

Director:

John Boulting

Cat People

Year:

1942

Director:

Jacques Tourneur

Before the Revolution

Year:

1964

Director:

Bernardo Bertolucci

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Year:

1964

Director:

Anthony Mann

Heaven's Gate

Year:

1980

Director:

Michael Cimino

The Cake-Walk Infernal

Year:

1903

Director:

Georges Méliès