Films I Need to See

- Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)

- The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, 1925)

- The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925)

- The General (Buster Keaton, 1927)

- Oktyabr [October] (Sergei Eisenstein, 1927)

- All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone, 1930)

- Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)

- City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)

- Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)

- It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)

- A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)

- The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)

- Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)

- Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)

- Mr Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939)

- Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)

- La Regle Du Jeu [The Rules of the Game, 1939)

- The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)

- The Grapes of Wrath (Tom Ford, 1940)

- The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline, 1940)

- The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)

- Ivan the Terrible, Parts One and Two (Sergei Eisenstein, 1944)

- The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)

- Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948)

- The Treasure of Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)

- All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)

- Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)

- A Place in the Sun (George Stevens, 1951)

- Ikiru [To Live] (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)

- High Noon (Fred Zinnermann, 1952)

- From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnermann, 1953)

- Tokyo Story (Yashujiro Ozu, 1953)

- On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954)

- La Strada [The Road] (Federico Fellino, 1954)

- Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)

- The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

- The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)

- The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. Demille, 1956)

- 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)

- Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)

- Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1959)

- Peeping Tom (Michael Powel, 1960)

- Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1961)

- The Hustler (Robert Rossen, 1961)

- West Side Story (Jerome Robbins, 1961)

- The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962)

- Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton, 1964)

- Dr Zhivago (David Lean, 1965)

- Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)

- Blowup (Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1966)

- Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967)

- Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)

- If…(Lindsay Anderson, 1968)

- Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969)

- The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)

- La Strategia Del Rango [The Spider’s Stratagem] (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)

- Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970)

- M*A*S*H (Robert Altman, 1970)

- Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971)

- Get Carter (Mike Hodges, 1971)

- The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971)

- Shaft (Gordon Parks, 1971)

- Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1971)

- Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)

- Solyaris [Solaris] (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)

- Badlands (Terrence Mallick, 1973)

- American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973)

- Papillon (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1973)

- Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)

- Serpico (Sidney Lumet, 1973)

- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

- Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paulo Pasolini, 1975)

- Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)

- Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)

- Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)

- Novocento [1900] (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1976)

- The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven, 1977)

- Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)

- Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)

- Die Blechtrommel [The Tin Drum] (Volker Schlonodorff, 1979)

- Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)

- Atlantic City (Louis Malle, 1980)

- The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980)

- Das Boot [The Boat] (Wolfgang Petersen, 1981)

- Poltergeist (Steven Spielberg, 1982)

- The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1982)

- Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982)

- Diner (Barry Levinson, 1982)

- Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)

- Ghandi (Richard Attenborough, 1982)

- Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)

- Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks, 1983)

- The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1983)

- The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman, 1983)

- Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1983)

- Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)

- Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)

- A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984)

- Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)

- The Killing Fields (Roland Joffe, 1984)

- The Natural (Barry Levinson, 1984)

- The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985)

- Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack, 1985)

- The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg, 1985)

- The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986)

- Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986)

- Salvador (Oliver Stone, 1986)

- Top Gun (Tony Scott, 1986)

- Der Himmel Uber Berlin [Wings of Desire] (Wim Wenders, 1987)

- Raising Arizona (Joel Coen, 1987)

- Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson, 1987)

- Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson, 1987)

- Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne, 1987)

- Spoorloos [The Vanishing] (George Sluizer, 1988)

- Bull Durham (Ron Shelton, 1988)

- The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)

- Big (1988)

- Rainman (Barry Levinson, 1988)

- Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)

- My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan, 1989)

- Sex, Lies and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh, 1989)

- Jacob’s Ladder (Adrian Lyne, 1990)

- Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)

- Boyz ‘N the Hood (John Singleton, 1991)

- Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang, 1991)

- Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg, 1991)

- Thelma and Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991)

- The Player (Robert Altman, 1992)

- The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992)

- C’est Arrive Pres De Chez Vou [Man Bites Dog] (Remy Belvaux, 1992)

- Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme, 1993)

- The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993)

- The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)

- Crumb (Terry Zwigoff, 1994)

- Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994)

- Riget [The Kingdom] (Lars Von Trier, 1994)

- Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)

- Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)

- Cheun Gwong Tsa Sit [Happy Together] (Wong Kar-Wai, 1997)

- The Ice Storm (Ang Lee, 1997)

- Kundun (Martin Scorsese, 1997)

- Ta’m E Guilass [Taste of Cherry] (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)

- Abre Los Ojos [Open Your Eyes] (Alejandro Amenabar, 1997)

- Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1998)

- Pi (Darren Aronofsky, 1998)

- Todo Sombre Mi Madre [All About my Mother] (Pedro Almodovar, 1998)

- Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)

- Yi Yi [A One and a Two] (Edward Yang, 2000)

- Hable Con Ella [Talk to Her] (Pedro Almodovar, 2002)

- Les Invasions Barbares [The Barbarian Invasions] (Denys Arcand, 2003)