| Movie | Director | Release date |
|---|---|---|
| Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 |
| Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica | 1948 |
| The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola | 1972 |
| Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | 1960 |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | 1968 |
| The Rules of the Game | Jean Renoir | 1939 |
| Singin' in the Rain | Gene Kelly | 1952 |
| Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn | 1967 |
| Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 1942 |
| Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa | 1954 |
| Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | 1994 |
| Annie Hall | Woody Allen | 1977 |
| Chinatown | Roman Polanski | 1974 |
| The Searchers | John Ford | 1956 |
| Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | 1980 |
| Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope | George Lucas | 1977 |
| Rashômon | Akira Kurosawa | 1950 |
| The 400 Blows | François Truffaut | 1959 |
| Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg | 1993 |
| E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | 1982 |
| 8 1/2 | Federico Fellini | 1963 |
| Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard | 1960 |
| Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | 1962 |
| Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | 1958 |
| GoodFellas | Martin Scorsese | 1990 |
| Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | 1959 |
| All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1950 |
| Metropolis | Fritz Lang | 1927 |
| Gone with the Wind | Victor Fleming | 1939 |
| The Godfather Part II | Francis Ford Coppola | 1974 |
| The Conformist | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1970 |
| La Dolce Vita | Federico Fellini | 1960 |
| On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | 1954 |
| Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese | 1976 |
| The Wizard of Oz | Victor Fleming | 1939 |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick | 1964 |
| M | Fritz Lang | 1931 |
| Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder | 1950 |
| Raise the Red Lantern | Yimou Zhang | 1991 |
| Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | 1944 |
| Tokyo Story | Yasujiro Ozu | 1953 |
| The World of Apu | Satyajit Ray | 1959 |
| Jules and Jim | François Truffaut | 1962 |
| Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | 1979 |
| The Graduate | Mike Nichols | 1967 |
| Belle de jour | Luis Buñuel | 1967 |
| Persona | Ingmar Bergman | 1966 |
| Nashville | Robert Altman | 1975 |
| It's a Wonderful Life | Frank Capra | 1946 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Milos Forman | 1975 |
| Ran | Akira Kurosawa | 1985 |
| Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders | 1987 |
| Ikiru | Akira Kurosawa | 1952 |
| L'Avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1960 |
| L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson | 1997 |
| Grand Illusion | Jean Renoir | 1937 |
| The Maltese Falcon | John Huston | 1941 |
| Aguirre, The Wrath of God | Werner Herzog | 1972 |
| Pather Panchali | Satyajit Ray | 1955 |
| King Kong | Merian C. Cooper | 1933 |
| The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | 1991 |
| Unforgiven | Clint Eastwood | 1992 |
| The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | Luis Buñuel | 1972 |
| Nosferatu | F.W. Murnau | 1922 |
| Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg | 1998 |
| The Seventh Seal | Ingmar Bergman | 1957 |
| It Happened One Night | Frank Capra | 1934 |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean | 1957 |
| North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | 1959 |
| Fargo | Joel Coen | 1996 |
| Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 1989 |
| Bringing Up Baby | Howard Hawks | 1938 |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | Steven Spielberg | 1981 |
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | John Huston | 1948 |
| The Wild Bunch | Sam Peckinpah | 1969 |
| West Side Story | Jerome Robbins | 1961 |
| Children of Paradise | Marcel Carné | 1945 |
| The Third Man | Carol Reed | 1949 |
| Fanny & Alexander | Ingmar Bergman | 1982 |
| Battleship Potemkin | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1925 |
| Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | 1958 |
| The Best Years of Our Lives | William Wyler | 1946 |
| High Noon | Fred Zinnemann | 1952 |
| Rome Open City | Roberto Rossellini | 1945 |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | David Hand | 1937 |
| The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola | 1974 |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Elia Kazan | 1951 |
| The Manchurian Candidate | John Frankenheimer | 1962 |
| Blow-Up | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1966 |
| Ugetsu | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1953 |
| Ashes and Diamonds | Andrzej Wajda | 1958 |
| The Lady Eve | Preston Sturges | 1941 |
| Jaws | Steven Spielberg | 1975 |
| M*A*S*H | Robert Altman | 1970 |
| Sunrise | F.W. Murnau | 1927 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Ford | 1940 |
| Blade Runner | Ridley Scott | 1982 |
| Stagecoach | John Ford | 1939 |
| Beauty and the Beast | Jean Cocteau | 1946 |
| The Apartment | Billy Wilder | 1960 |
| Top Hat | Mark Sandrich | 1935 |
| Duck Soup | Leo McCarey | 1933 |
| Trouble in Paradise | Ernst Lubitsch | 1932 |
| The General | Buster Keaton | 1927 |
| Aparajito | Satyajit Ray | 1957 |
| The Bride of Frankenstein | James Whale | 1935 |
| The French Connection | William Friedkin | 1971 |
| Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | 1946 |
| Rebel Without a Cause | Nicholas Ray | 1955 |
| Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | 1954 |
| Cabaret | Bob Fosse | 1972 |
| American Beauty | Sam Mendes | 1999 |
| The Adventures of Robin Hood | Michael Curtiz | 1938 |
| Atlantic City | Louis Malle | 1980 |
| The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich | 1971 |
| A Hard Day's Night | Richard Lester | 1964 |
| The Deer Hunter | Michael Cimino | 1978 |
| The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | 1955 |
| All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula | 1976 |
| L'Atalante | Jean Vigo | 1934 |
| Y tu mamá también | Alfonso Cuarón | 2001 |
| All About My Mother | Pedro Almodóvar | 1999 |
| Sullivan's Travels | Preston Sturges | 1941 |
| Sweet Smell of Success | Alexander Mackendrick | 1957 |
| The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor Erice | 1973 |
| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Ang Lee | 2000 |
| City Lights | Charles Chaplin | 1931 |
| Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger | 1969 |
| The Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo | 1965 |
| Red | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1994 |
| My Fair Lady | George Cukor | 1964 |
| Diary of a Country Priest | Robert Bresson | 1951 |
| Sansho the Bailiff | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1954 |
| Day for Night | François Truffaut | 1973 |
| Network | Sidney Lumet | 1976 |
| Farewell My Concubine | Kaige Chen | 1993 |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Frank Capra | 1939 |
| Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick | 1957 |
| Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1972 |
| The Piano | Jane Campion | 1993 |
| The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King | Peter Jackson | 2003 |
| La Strada | Federico Fellini | 1954 |
| City of God | Fernando Meirelles | 2002 |
| The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1928 |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | George Roy Hill | 1969 |
| American Graffiti | George Lucas | 1973 |
| Playtime | Jacques Tati | 1967 |
| Blue Velvet | David Lynch | 1986 |
| Shane | George Stevens | 1953 |
| Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson | 1970 |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Don Siegel | 1956 |
| The Producers | Mel Brooks | 1968 |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg | 1977 |
| Mr. Hulot's Holiday | Jacques Tati | 1953 |
| The Decalogue | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1989 |
| Sherlock, Jr. | Buster Keaton | 1924 |
| Forbidden Games | René Clément | 1952 |
| Viridiana | Luis Buñuel | 1961 |
| The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1953 |
| Intolerance | D.W. Griffith | 1916 |
| Titanic | James Cameron | 1997 |
| Modern Times | Charles Chaplin | 1936 |
| Red River | Howard Hawks | 1948 |
| The Gold Rush | Charles Chaplin | 1925 |
| The Hustler | Robert Rossen | 1961 |
| Manhattan | Woody Allen | 1979 |
| 12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet | 1957 |
| Smiles of a Summer Night | Ingmar Bergman | 1955 |
| In the Mood for Love | Kar Wai Wong | 2000 |
| A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | 1971 |
| The Gospel According to St. Matthew | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1964 |
| The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | Sergio Leone | 1966 |
| Rocco and His Brothers | Luchino Visconti | 1960 |
| The Exorcist | William Friedkin | 1973 |
| Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | 1989 |
| His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks | 1940 |
| The Birth of a Nation | D.W. Griffith | 1915 |
| Contempt | Jean-Luc Godard | 1963 |
| Goldfinger | Guy Hamilton | 1964 |
| Mean Streets | Martin Scorsese | 1973 |
| Diabolique | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1955 |
| Kind Hearts and Coronets | Robert Hamer | 1949 |
| Dog Day Afternoon | Sidney Lumet | 1975 |
| Deliverance | John Boorman | 1972 |
| My Darling Clementine | John Ford | 1946 |
| An American in Paris | Vincente Minnelli | 1951 |
| Last Year at Marienbad | Alain Resnais | 1961 |
| The Sound of Music | Robert Wise | 1965 |
| Un Chien Andalou | Luis Buñuel | 1928 |
| Brokeback Mountain | Ang Lee | 2005 |
| Frankenstein | James Whale | 1931 |
| Chariots of Fire | Hugh Hudson | 1981 |
| The Lost Weekend | Billy Wilder | 1945 |
| Saturday Night Fever | John Badham | 1977 |
| Pan's Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro | 2006 |
| Days of Heaven | Terrence Malick | 1978 |
| Out of the Past | Jacques Tourneur | 1947 |
| Pinocchio | Hamilton Luske | 1940 |
| Meet Me in St. Louis | Vincente Minnelli | 1944 |
| Tom Jones | Tony Richardson | 1963 |
| Amélie | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 2001 |
| Le Samouraï | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1967 |
| Strangers on a Train | Alfred Hitchcock | 1951 |
| Badlands | Terrence Malick | 1973 |
| Ben-Hur | William Wyler | 1959 |
| Mulholland Dr. | David Lynch | 2001 |
| Andrei Roublev | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1969 |
| Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki | 2001 |
| In the Heat of the Night | Norman Jewison | 1967 |
| Amadeus | Milos Forman | 1984 |
| Throne of Blood | Akira Kurosawa | 1957 |
| The Player | Robert Altman | 1992 |
| The Big Sleep | Howard Hawks | 1946 |
| Greed | Erich von Stroheim | 1924 |
| The African Queen | John Huston | 1951 |
| Once Upon a Time in the West | Sergio Leone | 1968 |
| The Celebration | Thomas Vinterberg | 1998 |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Peter Jackson | 2002 |
| White Heat | Raoul Walsh | 1949 |
| Los Olvidados | Luis Buñuel | 1950 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Robert Mulligan | 1962 |
| The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring | Peter Jackson | 2001 |
| Closely Watched Trains | Jirí Menzel | 1966 |
| Reds | Warren Beatty | 1981 |
| Easy Rider | Dennis Hopper | 1969 |
| The Magnificent Ambersons | Orson Welles | 1942 |
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Pedro Almodóvar | 1988 |
| Tootsie | Sydney Pollack | 1982 |
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Lewis Milestone | 1930 |
| 42nd Street | Lloyd Bacon | 1933 |
| McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman | 1971 |
| Great Expectations | David Lean | 1946 |
| Thelma & Louise | Ridley Scott | 1991 |
| Rocky | John G. Avildsen | 1976 |
| L'Âge d'Or | Luis Buñuel | 1930 |
| Zéro de conduite | Jean Vigo | 1933 |
| Kramer vs. Kramer | Robert Benton | 1979 |
| The Blue Angel | Josef von Sternberg | 1930 |
| Hannah and Her Sisters | Woody Allen | 1986 |
| Rebecca | Alfred Hitchcock | 1940 |
| From Here to Eternity | Fred Zinnemann | 1953 |
| Secrets & Lies | Mike Leigh | 1996 |
| Alien | Ridley Scott | 1979 |
| Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | 1975 |
| Sideways | Alexander Payne | 2004 |
| Doctor Zhivago | David Lean | 1965 |
| Orpheus | Jean Cocteau | 1949 |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | Jean-Paul Rappeneau | 1990 |
| Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze | 1999 |
| Tristana | Luis Buñuel | 1970 |
| Anatomy of a Murder | Otto Preminger | 1959 |
| The Man with the Movie Camera | Dziga Vertov | 1929 |
| The Bank Dick | Edward F. Cline | 1940 |
| The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor | 1940 |
| Pandora's Box | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | 1929 |
| The Quiet Man | John Ford | 1952 |
| Spartacus | Stanley Kubrick | 1960 |
| Laura | Otto Preminger | 1944 |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Mike Nichols | 1966 |
| The Public Enemy | William A. Wellman | 1931 |
| Brief Encounter | David Lean | 1945 |
| The Thin Man | W.S. Van Dyke | 1934 |
| The Red Shoes | Michael Powell | 1948 |
| Ninotchka | Ernst Lubitsch | 1939 |
| Shoah | Claude Lanzmann | 1985 |
| The Crying Game | Neil Jordan | 1992 |
| The Pianist | Roman Polanski | 2002 |
| Gigi | Vincente Minnelli | 1958 |
| Wild Strawberries | Ingmar Bergman | 1957 |
| Le Jour se lève | Marcel Carné | 1939 |
| Repulsion | Roman Polanski | 1965 |
| To Be or Not to Be | Ernst Lubitsch | 1942 |
| Amarcord | Federico Fellini | 1973 |
| Toy Story | John Lasseter | 1995 |
| The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | 1950 |
| No Country for Old Men | Ethan Coen | 2007 |
| Bambi | David Hand | 1942 |
| Weekend | Jean-Luc Godard | 1967 |
| Night of the Living Dead | George A. Romero | 1968 |
| Patton | Franklin J. Schaffner | 1970 |
| Marty | Delbert Mann | 1955 |
| Swing Time | George Stevens | 1936 |
| Napoléon | Abel Gance | 1927 |
| Airplane! | Jim Abrahams | 1980 |
| Written on the Wind | Douglas Sirk | 1956 |
| The 39 Steps | Alfred Hitchcock | 1935 |
| The King of Comedy | Martin Scorsese | 1983 |
| Stairway to Heaven | Michael Powell | 1946 |
| The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | 1996 |
| Z | Costa-Gavras | 1969 |
| Kiss Me Deadly | Robert Aldrich | 1955 |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy | Michael Curtiz | 1942 |
| Le Boucher | Claude Chabrol | 1970 |
| Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen | 1981 |
| À nous la liberté | René Clair | 1931 |
| Blue | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1993 |
| Loves of a Blonde | Milos Forman | 1965 |
| Knife in the Water | Roman Polanski | 1962 |
| Dangerous Liaisons | Stephen Frears | 1988 |
| The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow | 2008 |
| Dodsworth | William Wyler | 1936 |
| Nights of Cabiria | Federico Fellini | 1957 |
| Don't Look Now | Nicolas Roeg | 1973 |
| Now, Voyager | Irving Rapper | 1942 |
| Cries and Whispers | Ingmar Bergman | 1972 |
| A Room with a View | James Ivory | 1985 |
| Rififi | Jules Dassin | 1955 |
| Hiroshima, mon amour | Alain Resnais | 1959 |
| The Shawshank Redemption | Frank Darabont | 1994 |
| If... | Lindsay Anderson | 1968 |
| Scarface | Howard Hawks | 1932 |
| A Star Is Born | George Cukor | 1954 |
| Au Revoir, Les Enfants | Louis Malle | 1987 |
| Mildred Pierce | Michael Curtiz | 1945 |
| How Green Was My Valley | John Ford | 1941 |
| Henry V | Laurence Olivier | 1944 |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | Frank Lloyd | 1935 |
| Fantasia | James Algar | 1940 |
| The Insider | Michael Mann | 1999 |
| The Leopard | Luchino Visconti | 1963 |
| The Earrings of Madame de... | Max Ophüls | 1953 |
| Faces | John Cassavetes | 1968 |
| The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | 1995 |
| In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | 1950 |
| The Marriage of Maria Braun | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1979 |
| The Life of Emile Zola | William Dieterle | 1937 |
| The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Jacques Demy | 1964 |
| Umberto D. | Vittorio De Sica | 1952 |
| The Last Emperor | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1987 |
| The Killing Fields | Roland Joffé | 1984 |
| Shadow of a Doubt | Alfred Hitchcock | 1943 |
| Beauty and the Beast | Gary Trousdale | 1991 |
| Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back | Irvin Kershner | 1980 |
| Earth | Aleksandr Dovzhenko | 1930 |
| Shakespeare in Love | John Madden | 1998 |
| The Right Stuff | Philip Kaufman | 1983 |
| Last Tango in Paris | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1972 |
| Johnny Guitar | Nicholas Ray | 1954 |
| The Lives of Others | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | 2006 |
| Shine | Scott Hicks | 1996 |
| The Ox-Bow Incident | William A. Wellman | 1943 |
| Pickpocket | Robert Bresson | 1959 |
| The Sting | George Roy Hill | 1973 |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Robert Zemeckis | 1988 |
| A Night at the Opera | Sam Wood | 1935 |
| Come and See | Elem Klimov | 1985 |
| The Awful Truth | Leo McCarey | 1937 |
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Frank Capra | 1936 |
| Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle | 2008 |
| Yi Yi | Edward Yang | 2000 |
| Dirty Harry | Don Siegel | 1971 |
| The Band Wagon | Vincente Minnelli | 1953 |
| Wuthering Heights | William Wyler | 1939 |
| All the King's Men | Robert Rossen | 1949 |
| Crimes and Misdemeanors | Woody Allen | 1989 |
| The Lavender Hill Mob | Charles Crichton | 1951 |
| Gladiator | Ridley Scott | 2000 |
| Celine and Julie Go Boating | Jacques Rivette | 1974 |
| This Is Spinal Tap | Rob Reiner | 1984 |
| Boogie Nights | Paul Thomas Anderson | 1997 |
| Jean de Florette | Claude Berri | 1986 |
| Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola | 2003 |
| Platoon | Oliver Stone | 1986 |
| A Place in the Sun | George Stevens | 1951 |
| Talk to Her | Pedro Almodóvar | 2002 |
| My Man Godfrey | Gregory La Cava | 1936 |
| Rio Bravo | Howard Hawks | 1959 |
| A Man for All Seasons | Fred Zinnemann | 1966 |
| The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | John Ford | 1962 |
| Halloween | John Carpenter | 1978 |
| Murmur of the Heart | Louis Malle | 1971 |
| Groundhog Day | Harold Ramis | 1993 |
| Gandhi | Richard Attenborough | 1982 |
| Bad Day at Black Rock | John Sturges | 1955 |
| Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | 1984 |
| Shame | Ingmar Bergman | 1968 |
| The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell | 1943 |
| Roman Holiday | William Wyler | 1953 |
| The Palm Beach Story | Preston Sturges | 1942 |
| Fitzcarraldo | Werner Herzog | 1982 |
| The Elephant Man | David Lynch | 1980 |
| Forrest Gump | Robert Zemeckis | 1994 |
| Planet of the Apes | Franklin J. Schaffner | 1968 |
| The Big Red One | Samuel Fuller | 1980 |
| Lola Montès | Max Ophüls | 1955 |
| The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Robert Wiene | 1920 |
| Yojimbo | Akira Kurosawa | 1961 |
| Dumbo | Ben Sharpsteen | 1941 |
| There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2007 |
| Diner | Barry Levinson | 1982 |
| White | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1994 |
| Jezebel | William Wyler | 1938 |
| Rosemary's Baby | Roman Polanski | 1968 |
| Force of Evil | Abraham Polonsky | 1948 |
| The Dead | John Huston | 1987 |
| Le Million | René Clair | 1931 |
| Breaking the Waves | Lars von Trier | 1996 |
| East of Eden | Elia Kazan | 1955 |
| Amores perros | Alejandro González Iñárritu | 2000 |
| The Birds | Alfred Hitchcock | 1963 |
| Waltz with Bashir | Ari Folman | 2008 |
| Happiness | Todd Solondz | 1998 |
| Let the Right One In | Tomas Alfredson | 2008 |
| Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | Karel Reisz | 1960 |
| Ordinary People | Robert Redford | 1980 |
| The Sweet Hereafter | Atom Egoyan | 1997 |
| The Barbarian Invasions | Denys Arcand | 2003 |
| The Full Monty | Peter Cattaneo | 1997 |
| The Killers | Robert Siodmak | 1946 |
| Ivan the Terrible, Part One | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1945 |
| All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | 1979 |
| Million Dollar Baby | Clint Eastwood | 2004 |
| Being There | Hal Ashby | 1979 |
| Camille | George Cukor | 1936 |
| Little Caesar | Mervyn LeRoy | 1931 |
| The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | 1980 |
| Odd Man Out | Carol Reed | 1947 |
| The Matrix | Andy Wachowski | 1999 |
| Peeping Tom | Michael Powell | 1960 |
| Killer of Sheep | Charles Burnett | 1977 |
| Cool Hand Luke | Stuart Rosenberg | 1967 |
| Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Stanley Donen | 1954 |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Julian Schnabel | 2007 |
| Hud | Martin Ritt | 1963 |
| The Crowd | King Vidor | 1928 |
| When Harry Met Sally | Rob Reiner | 1989 |
| The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick | 1998 |
| Manon of the Spring | Claude Berri | 1986 |
| The Thief of Bagdad | Raoul Walsh | 1924 |
| David Copperfield | George Cukor | 1935 |
| Ace in the Hole | Billy Wilder | 1951 |
| Moulin Rouge! | Baz Luhrmann | 2001 |
| Run Lola Run | Tom Tykwer | 1998 |
| Central Station | Walter Salles | 1998 |
| It's a Gift | Norman Z. McLeod | 1934 |
| Strike | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1925 |
| Mystic River | Clint Eastwood | 2003 |
| The King's Speech | Tom Hooper | 2010 |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang | Mervyn LeRoy | 1932 |
| Oldboy | Chan-wook Park | 2003 |
| Breaking Away | Peter Yates | 1979 |
| Downfall | Oliver Hirschbiegel | 2004 |
| The Queen | Stephen Frears | 2006 |
| The Defiant Ones | Stanley Kramer | 1958 |
| Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | 1985 |
| The Great Dictator | Charles Chaplin | 1940 |
| Woodstock | Michael Wadleigh | 1970 |
| 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Cristian Mungiu | 2007 |
| The Social Network | David Fincher | 2010 |
| The Big Heat | Fritz Lang | 1953 |
| Sense and Sensibility | Ang Lee | 1995 |
| A Prophet | Jacques Audiard | 2009 |
| Dr. Mabuse - The Gambler | Fritz Lang | 1922 |
| Giant | George Stevens | 1956 |
| The Double Life of Véronique | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1991 |
| Woman in the Dunes | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 1964 |
| Amour | Michael Haneke | 2012 |
| Witness | Peter Weir | 1985 |
| Mon oncle | Jacques Tati | 1958 |
| Walkabout | Nicolas Roeg | 1971 |
| Pierrot le fou | Jean-Luc Godard | 1965 |
| Dracula | Tod Browning | 1931 |
| Letter from an Unknown Woman | Max Ophüls | 1948 |
| Crumb | Terry Zwigoff | 1994 |
| The Bad and the Beautiful | Vincente Minnelli | 1952 |
| Pixote | Hector Babenco | 1981 |
| Room at the Top | Jack Clayton | 1959 |
| Alexander Nevsky | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1938 |
| Taste of Cherry | Abbas Kiarostami | 1997 |
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Vittorio De Sica | 1970 |
| A Face in the Crowd | Elia Kazan | 1957 |
| Triumph of the Will | Leni Riefenstahl | 1935 |
| The Burmese Harp | Kon Ichikawa | 1956 |
| Au hasard Balthazar | Robert Bresson | 1966 |
| Lagaan | Ashutosh Gowariker | 2001 |
| Through a Glass Darkly | Ingmar Bergman | 1961 |
| Adaptation. | Spike Jonze | 2002 |
| sex, lies, and videotape | Steven Soderbergh | 1989 |
| Pickup on South Street | Samuel Fuller | 1953 |
| Cat People | Jacques Tourneur | 1942 |
| Queen Christina | Rouben Mamoulian | 1933 |
| The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | Preston Sturges | 1944 |
| Field of Dreams | Phil Alden Robinson | 1989 |
| Kes | Ken Loach | 1969 |
| Hoop Dreams | Steve James | 1994 |
| L'Eclisse | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1962 |
| Two English Girls | François Truffaut | 1971 |
| Born on the Fourth of July | Oliver Stone | 1989 |
| Far from Heaven | Todd Haynes | 2002 |
| Boudu Saved from Drowning | Jean Renoir | 1932 |
| Traffic | Steven Soderbergh | 2000 |
| Vivre sa vie | Jean-Luc Godard | 1962 |
| Dances with Wolves | Kevin Costner | 1990 |
| Lamerica | Gianni Amelio | 1994 |
| The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius | 2011 |
| Good Night, and Good Luck. | George Clooney | 2005 |
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day | James Cameron | 1991 |
| Shadows | John Cassavetes | 1959 |
| Floating Weeds | Yasujiro Ozu | 1959 |
| Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations | Leni Riefenstahl | 1938 |
| La Belle Noiseuse | Jacques Rivette | 1991 |
| Young Frankenstein | Mel Brooks | 1974 |
| Gun Crazy | Joseph H. Lewis | 1950 |
| The Informer | John Ford | 1935 |
| Ordet | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1955 |
| The Tin Drum | Volker Schlöndorff | 1979 |
| Delicatessen | Marc Caro | 1991 |
| The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | Werner Herzog | 1975 |
| Fury | Fritz Lang | 1936 |
| La Chienne | Jean Renoir | 1931 |
| What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Robert Aldrich | 1962 |
| Crossfire | Edward Dmytryk | 1947 |
| A Man Escaped | Robert Bresson | 1956 |
| The Terminator | James Cameron | 1984 |
| Mon Oncle d'Amérique | Alain Resnais | 1980 |
| The Sixth Sense | M. Night Shyamalan | 1999 |
| Terms of Endearment | James L. Brooks | 1983 |
| The Big Chill | Lawrence Kasdan | 1983 |
| Mary Poppins | Robert Stevenson | 1964 |
| Kagemusha | Akira Kurosawa | 1980 |
| The Heiress | William Wyler | 1949 |
| Gangs of New York | Martin Scorsese | 2002 |
| Destry Rides Again | George Marshall | 1939 |
| That Obscure Object of Desire | Luis Buñuel | 1977 |
| Night of the Shooting Stars | Paolo Taviani | 1982 |
| The Thief of Bagdad | Ludwig Berger | 1940 |
| Cría cuervos | Carlos Saura | 1976 |
| Gunga Din | George Stevens | 1939 |
| Boyz N the Hood | John Singleton | 1991 |
| Brazil | Terry Gilliam | 1985 |
| Leaving Las Vegas | Mike Figgis | 1995 |
| Trainspotting | Danny Boyle | 1996 |
| The Big Parade | King Vidor | 1925 |
| The Tree of Wooden Clogs | Ermanno Olmi | 1978 |
| The Golden Coach | Jean Renoir | 1953 |
| The Aviator | Martin Scorsese | 2004 |
| Make Way for Tomorrow | Leo McCarey | 1937 |
| Young Mr. Lincoln | John Ford | 1939 |
| Babe | Chris Noonan | 1995 |
| Shock Corridor | Samuel Fuller | 1963 |
| The Day the Earth Stood Still | Robert Wise | 1951 |
| Detour | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1945 |
| Life Is Beautiful | Roberto Benigni | 1997 |
| Prizzi's Honor | John Huston | 1985 |
| The Women | George Cukor | 1939 |
| Persepolis | Vincent Paronnaud | 2007 |
| Imitation of Life | Douglas Sirk | 1959 |
| Casino | Martin Scorsese | 1995 |
| Dogville | Lars von Trier | 2003 |
| On the Town | Gene Kelly | 1949 |
| Funny Face | Stanley Donen | 1957 |
| War and Peace | Sergei Bondarchuk | 1968 |
| My Left Foot | Jim Sheridan | 1989 |
| Stranger Than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch | 1984 |
| Braveheart | Mel Gibson | 1995 |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Rupert Julian | 1925 |
| Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty | Leni Riefenstahl | 1938 |
| Klute | Alan J. Pakula | 1971 |
| Aliens | James Cameron | 1986 |
| The American Friend | Wim Wenders | 1977 |
| Point Blank | John Boorman | 1967 |
| Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino | 1992 |
| Gertrud | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1964 |
| The Shop around the Corner | Ernst Lubitsch | 1940 |
| Senso | Luchino Visconti | 1954 |
| To Have and Have Not | Howard Hawks | 1944 |
| The Dresser | Peter Yates | 1983 |
| The Great Escape | John Sturges | 1963 |
| JFK | Oliver Stone | 1991 |
| Breakfast at Tiffany's | Blake Edwards | 1961 |
| Shoot the Piano Player | François Truffaut | 1960 |
| Apollo 13 | Ron Howard | 1995 |
| Three Kings | David O. Russell | 1999 |
| Bob le flambeur | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1955 |
| Avatar | James Cameron | 2009 |
| Billy Elliot | Stephen Daldry | 2000 |
| The Wind | Victor Sjöström | 1928 |
| Inception | Christopher Nolan | 2010 |
| Love Me Tonight | Rouben Mamoulian | 1932 |
| The Departed | Martin Scorsese | 2006 |
| She Done Him Wrong | Lowell Sherman | 1933 |
| Gilda | Charles Vidor | 1946 |
| Lacombe Lucien | Louis Malle | 1974 |
| The Go-Between | Joseph Losey | 1970 |
| Stolen Kisses | François Truffaut | 1968 |
| The Sorrow and the Pity | Marcel Ophüls | 1969 |
| The Killing | Stanley Kubrick | 1956 |
| Bullitt | Peter Yates | 1968 |
| Crash | Paul Haggis | 2004 |
| Black Narcissus | Michael Powell | 1947 |
| Bull Durham | Ron Shelton | 1988 |
| The Hours | Stephen Daldry | 2002 |
| A Star Is Born | William A. Wellman | 1937 |
| Oliver! | Carol Reed | 1968 |
| Lola | Jacques Demy | 1961 |
| Woman of the Year | George Stevens | 1942 |
| Lolita | Stanley Kubrick | 1962 |
| Twelve O'Clock High | Henry King | 1949 |
| Jerry Maguire | Cameron Crowe | 1996 |
| Howards End | James Ivory | 1992 |
| Going My Way | Leo McCarey | 1944 |
| Hope and Glory | John Boorman | 1987 |
| Born Yesterday | George Cukor | 1950 |
| Paisan | Roberto Rossellini | 1946 |
| In Cold Blood | Richard Brooks | 1967 |
| The Long Goodbye | Robert Altman | 1973 |
| The Ten Commandments | Cecil B. DeMille | 1956 |
| The Verdict | Sidney Lumet | 1982 |
| Die Hard | John McTiernan | 1988 |
| Winchester '73 | Anthony Mann | 1950 |
| Broadcast News | James L. Brooks | 1987 |
| Death in Venice | Luchino Visconti | 1971 |
| The Exterminating Angel | Luis Buñuel | 1962 |
| House of Flying Daggers | Yimou Zhang | 2004 |
| Landscape in the Mist | Theo Angelopoulos | 1988 |
| Suspiria | Dario Argento | 1977 |
| L'Argent | Robert Bresson | 1983 |
| Adam's Rib | George Cukor | 1949 |
| Pygmalion | Anthony Asquith | 1938 |
| A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes | 1974 |
| The Fallen Idol | Carol Reed | 1948 |
| Precious | Lee Daniels | 2008 |
| Rain Man | Barry Levinson | 1988 |
| Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Sam Wood | 1939 |
| The Cranes Are Flying | Mikhail Kalatozov | 1957 |
| Picnic at Hanging Rock | Peter Weir | 1975 |
| Vampyr | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1932 |
| Freaks | Tod Browning | 1932 |
| Melvin and Howard | Jonathan Demme | 1980 |
| Magnolia | Paul Thomas Anderson | 1999 |
| Seven | David Fincher | 1995 |
| Coal Miner's Daughter | Michael Apted | 1980 |
| A Sunday in the Country | Bertrand Tavernier | 1984 |
| Once Upon a Time in America | Sergio Leone | 1984 |
| Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Peter Weir | 2003 |
| Claire's Knee | Eric Rohmer | 1970 |
| A Separation | Asghar Farhadi | 2011 |
| Four Weddings and a Funeral | Mike Newell | 1994 |
| Topsy-Turvy | Mike Leigh | 1999 |
| Army of Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1969 |
| Diva | Jean-Jacques Beineix | 1981 |
| Ossessione | Luchino Visconti | 1943 |
| Little Women | George Cukor | 1933 |
| Blazing Saddles | Mel Brooks | 1974 |
| Yeelen | Souleymane Cissé | 1987 |
| Out of Africa | Sydney Pollack | 1985 |
| Zero Dark Thirty | Kathryn Bigelow | 2012 |
| Love Affair | Leo McCarey | 1939 |
| Heimat | Edgar Reitz | 1984 |
| Atonement | Joe Wright | 2007 |
| My Night at Maud's | Eric Rohmer | 1969 |
| The Grifters | Stephen Frears | 1990 |
| Up in the Air | Jason Reitman | 2009 |
| The Vanishing | George Sluizer | 1988 |
| Oliver Twist | David Lean | 1948 |
| Get Carter | Mike Hodges | 1971 |
| Shrek | Andrew Adamson | 2001 |
| Moonstruck | Norman Jewison | 1987 |
| Quiz Show | Robert Redford | 1994 |
| Pelle the Conqueror | Bille August | 1987 |
| The Thin Blue Line | Errol Morris | 1988 |
| Babette's Feast | Gabriel Axel | 1987 |
| Darling | John Schlesinger | 1965 |
| Little Big Man | Arthur Penn | 1970 |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | Tay Garnett | 1946 |
| They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Sydney Pollack | 1969 |
| Salaam Bombay! | Mira Nair | 1988 |
| Memento | Christopher Nolan | 2000 |
| Day of Wrath | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1943 |
| Kolya | Jan Sverák | 1996 |
| Elmer Gantry | Richard Brooks | 1960 |
| The Nun's Story | Fred Zinnemann | 1959 |
| Finding Neverland | Marc Forster | 2004 |
| Chicago | Rob Marshall | 2002 |
| The Fourth Man | Paul Verhoeven | 1983 |
| Monty Python's Life of Brian | Terry Jones | 1979 |
| The Mother and the Whore | Jean Eustache | 1973 |
| Band of Outsiders | Jean-Luc Godard | 1964 |
| The Color Purple | Steven Spielberg | 1985 |
| Local Hero | Bill Forsyth | 1983 |
| The White Ribbon | Michael Haneke | 2009 |
| Scarface | Brian De Palma | 1983 |
| The Road Warrior | George Miller | 1981 |
| The Last Metro | François Truffaut | 1980 |
| Chicken Run | Peter Lord | 2000 |
| Mephisto | István Szabó | 1981 |
| Red Desert | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1964 |
| Good Bye, Lenin! | Wolfgang Becker | 2003 |
| Tampopo | Juzo Itami | 1985 |
| The Truman Show | Peter Weir | 1998 |
| Withnail & I | Bruce Robinson | 1987 |
| Europa '51 | Roberto Rossellini | 1952 |
| Sunday Bloody Sunday | John Schlesinger | 1971 |
| Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | Sergei Parajanov | 1964 |
| Gallipoli | Peter Weir | 1981 |
| Close-up | Abbas Kiarostami | 1990 |
| A Night to Remember | Roy Ward Baker | 1958 |
| The Good Earth | Victor Fleming | 1937 |
| The Jazz Singer | Alan Crosland | 1927 |
| Stage Door | Gregory La Cava | 1937 |
| Dawn of the Dead | George A. Romero | 1978 |
| Drugstore Cowboy | Gus Van Sant | 1989 |
| The Purple Rose of Cairo | Woody Allen | 1985 |
| Malcolm X | Spike Lee | 1992 |
| 1900 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1976 |
| Juliet of the Spirits | Federico Fellini | 1965 |
| Red Sorghum | Yimou Zhang | 1987 |
| Short Cuts | Robert Altman | 1993 |
| Europa Europa | Agnieszka Holland | 1990 |
| Whisky Galore! | Alexander Mackendrick | 1949 |
| Dead of Night | Alberto Cavalcanti | 1945 |
| Capote | Bennett Miller | 2005 |
| Eyes Without a Face | Georges Franju | 1960 |
| The Last Laugh | F.W. Murnau | 1924 |
| One False Move | Carl Franklin | 1992 |
| Caché | Michael Haneke | 2005 |
| Hail the Conquering Hero | Preston Sturges | 1944 |
| Billy Liar | John Schlesinger | 1963 |
| Broken Blossoms | D.W. Griffith | 1919 |
| Monsieur Verdoux | Charles Chaplin | 1947 |
| The Scarlet Empress | Josef von Sternberg | 1934 |
| Hamlet | Laurence Olivier | 1948 |
| La Terra Trema | Luchino Visconti | 1948 |
| This Sporting Life | Lindsay Anderson | 1963 |
| Picnic | Joshua Logan | 1955 |
| Fat City | John Huston | 1972 |
| Serpico | Sidney Lumet | 1973 |
| Frenzy | Alfred Hitchcock | 1972 |
| Judgment at Nuremberg | Stanley Kramer | 1961 |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Terry Gilliam | 1975 |
| Heat | Michael Mann | 1995 |
| WR - Mysteries of the Organism | Dusan Makavejev | 1971 |
| Nanook of the North | Robert J. Flaherty | 1922 |
| I Know Where I'm Going! | Michael Powell | 1945 |
| Lincoln | Steven Spielberg | 2012 |
| Hugo | Martin Scorsese | 2011 |
| Eraserhead | David Lynch | 1977 |
| Carmen Jones | Otto Preminger | 1954 |
| A Taste of Honey | Tony Richardson | 1961 |
| Around the World in 80 Days | Michael Anderson | 1956 |
| The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | 1968 |
| Only Angels Have Wings | Howard Hawks | 1939 |
| The Snake Pit | Anatole Litvak | 1948 |
| The Idiots | Lars von Trier | 1998 |
| The Story of Qiu Ju | Yimou Zhang | 1992 |
| Chimes at Midnight | Orson Welles | 1965 |
| No Man's Land | Danis Tanovic | 2001 |
| Argo | Ben Affleck | 2012 |
| Mother India | Mehboob Khan | 1957 |
| Gimme Shelter | Albert Maysles | 1970 |
| The Lady Vanishes | Alfred Hitchcock | 1938 |
| The Spider's Stratagem | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1970 |
| 12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen | 2013 |
| Death of a Salesman | László Benedek | 1951 |
| Gosford Park | Robert Altman | 2001 |
| Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón | 2013 |
| Limelight | Charles Chaplin | 1952 |
| Ten | Abbas Kiarostami | 2002 |
| Empire of the Sun | Steven Spielberg | 1987 |
| Gold Diggers of 1933 | Mervyn LeRoy | 1933 |
| The Letter | William Wyler | 1940 |
| Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1974 |
| The Little Foxes | William Wyler | 1941 |
| Vagabond | Agnès Varda | 1985 |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | John Cromwell | 1937 |
| Heavenly Creatures | Peter Jackson | 1994 |
| My Life as a Dog | Lasse Hallström | 1985 |
| Grease | Randal Kleiser | 1978 |
| Straw Dogs | Sam Peckinpah | 1971 |
| Blue is the Warmest Colour | Abdellatif Kechiche | 2013 |
| About Schmidt | Alexander Payne | 2002 |
| The Remains of the Day | James Ivory | 1993 |
| Finding Nemo | Andrew Stanton | 2003 |
| Scenes from a Marriage | Ingmar Bergman | 1973 |
| Poltergeist | Tobe Hooper | 1982 |
| The Baker's Wife | Marcel Pagnol | 1938 |
| Sons and Lovers | Jack Cardiff | 1960 |
| The Killer | John Woo | 1989 |
| The Ladykillers | Alexander Mackendrick | 1955 |
| Rushmore | Wes Anderson | 1998 |
| Ring | Hideo Nakata | 1998 |
| The Lion King | Roger Allers | 1994 |
| Babel | Alejandro González Iñárritu | 2006 |
| Little Miss Sunshine | Jonathan Dayton | 2006 |
| The China Syndrome | James Bridges | 1979 |
| El Norte | Gregory Nava | 1983 |
| Masculin, féminin | Jean-Luc Godard | 1966 |
| Black Swan | Darren Aronofsky | 2010 |
| Ride the High Country | Sam Peckinpah | 1962 |
| Enter the Dragon | Robert Clouse | 1973 |
| Romeo and Juliet | Franco Zeffirelli | 1968 |
| Jesus of Montreal | Denys Arcand | 1989 |
| Dinner at Eight | George Cukor | 1933 |
| The Day of the Jackal | Fred Zinnemann | 1973 |
| The Straight Story | David Lynch | 1999 |
| The Fly | David Cronenberg | 1986 |
| Way Out West | James W. Horne | 1937 |
| The Servant | Joseph Losey | 1963 |
| As Good as It Gets | James L. Brooks | 1997 |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Richard Brooks | 1958 |
| Almost Famous | Cameron Crowe | 2000 |
| Partie de campagne | Jean Renoir | 1936 |
| Miller's Crossing | Joel Coen | 1990 |
| Lone Star | John Sayles | 1996 |
| The Life of Oharu | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1952 |
| Midnight | Mitchell Leisen | 1939 |
| National Lampoon's Animal House | John Landis | 1978 |
| The Butcher Boy | Neil Jordan | 1997 |
| Ship of Fools | Stanley Kramer | 1965 |
| Genevieve | Henry Cornelius | 1953 |
| Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | 2009 |
| Erin Brockovich | Steven Soderbergh | 2000 |
| Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan | Larry Charles | 2006 |
| A Fish Called Wanda | Charles Crichton | 1988 |
| A Passage to India | David Lean | 1984 |
| I'm All Right, Jack | John Boulting | 1959 |
| Milk | Gus Van Sant | 2008 |
| The Dreamlife of Angels | Erick Zonca | 1998 |
| The Fast Runner | Zacharias Kunuk | 2001 |
| Fatal Attraction | Adrian Lyne | 1987 |
| House of Games | David Mamet | 1987 |
| The Man in the White Suit | Alexander Mackendrick | 1951 |
| Roger & Me | Michael Moore | 1989 |
| 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her | Jean-Luc Godard | 1967 |
| The Triplets of Belleville | Sylvain Chomet | 2003 |
| Frost/Nixon | Ron Howard | 2008 |
| The Piano Teacher | Michael Haneke | 2001 |
| Missing | Costa-Gavras | 1982 |
| The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1972 |
| Vera Drake | Mike Leigh | 2004 |
| Angels with Dirty Faces | Michael Curtiz | 1938 |
| Jurassic Park | Steven Spielberg | 1993 |
| La Notte | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1961 |
| Victim | Basil Dearden | 1961 |
| The Descendants | Alexander Payne | 2011 |
| Reversal of Fortune | Barbet Schroeder | 1990 |
| Man of Iron | Andrzej Wajda | 1981 |
| Moonlighting | Jerzy Skolimowski | 1982 |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Rouben Mamoulian | 1931 |
| The Miracle Worker | Arthur Penn | 1962 |
| Women in Love | Ken Russell | 1969 |
| Fellini Satyricon | Federico Fellini | 1969 |
| A History of Violence | David Cronenberg | 2005 |
| True Grit | Ethan Coen | 2010 |
| My Neighbor Totoro | Hayao Miyazaki | 1988 |
| Kiss of the Spider Woman | Hector Babenco | 1985 |
| Lust for Life | Vincente Minnelli | 1956 |
| Tsotsi | Gavin Hood | 2005 |
| Berlin Alexanderplatz | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1980 |
| Life of Pi | Ang Lee | 2012 |
| The River | Jean Renoir | 1951 |
| The Innocents | Jack Clayton | 1961 |
| The Wicker Man | Robin Hardy | 1973 |
| Sergeant York | Howard Hawks | 1941 |
| The Princess Bride | Rob Reiner | 1987 |
| My Brilliant Career | Gillian Armstrong | 1979 |
| Elizabeth | Shekhar Kapur | 1998 |
| Pépé le Moko | Julien Duvivier | 1937 |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | David Fincher | 2008 |
| Breaker Morant | Bruce Beresford | 1980 |
| The Dark Knight | Christopher Nolan | 2008 |
| The Fugitive | Andrew Davis | 1993 |
| The Official Story | Luis Puenzo | 1985 |
| The Untouchables | Brian De Palma | 1987 |
| Miracle on 34th Street | George Seaton | 1947 |
| The Kingdom | Lars von Trier | 1994 |
| Lost Horizon | Frank Capra | 1937 |
| The Host | Joon-ho Bong | 2006 |
| Spellbound | Alfred Hitchcock | 1945 |
| Munich | Steven Spielberg | 2005 |
| The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick | 2011 |
| Sons of the Desert | William A. Seiter | 1933 |
| Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Martin Scorsese | 1974 |
| A Christmas Story | Bob Clark | 1983 |
| The Shootist | Don Siegel | 1976 |
| Henry V | Kenneth Branagh | 1989 |
| The Age of Innocence | Martin Scorsese | 1993 |
| Morocco | Josef von Sternberg | 1930 |
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry | 2004 |
| Wild Reeds | André Téchiné | 1994 |
| Rosetta | Jean-Pierre Dardenne | 1999 |
| Volver | Pedro Almodóvar | 2006 |
| Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sam Peckinpah | 1974 |
| La Cérémonie | Claude Chabrol | 1995 |
| Toy Story 2 | John Lasseter | 1999 |
| Alphaville | Jean-Luc Godard | 1965 |
| Letters from Iwo Jima | Clint Eastwood | 2006 |
| Les Misérables | Richard Boleslawski | 1935 |
| Inherit the Wind | Stanley Kramer | 1960 |
| The Private Life of Henry VIII | Alexander Korda | 1933 |
| The Longest Day | Ken Annakin | 1962 |
| Here Comes Mr. Jordan | Alexander Hall | 1941 |
| Donnie Brasco | Mike Newell | 1997 |
| The Music Man | Morton DaCosta | 1962 |
| The Shop on Main Street | Ján Kadár | 1965 |
| Speed | Jan de Bont | 1994 |
| Coming Home | Hal Ashby | 1978 |
| Glory | Edward Zwick | 1989 |
| The Lion in Winter | Anthony Harvey | 1968 |
| Of Mice and Men | Lewis Milestone | 1939 |
| The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | Tobe Hooper | 1974 |
| I Walked with a Zombie | Jacques Tourneur | 1943 |
| The People vs. Larry Flynt | Milos Forman | 1996 |
| The Jungle Book | Wolfgang Reitherman | 1967 |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Elia Kazan | 1945 |
| Black Orpheus | Marcel Camus | 1959 |
| The Set-Up | Robert Wise | 1949 |
| The Dirty Dozen | Robert Aldrich | 1967 |
| La Haine | Mathieu Kassovitz | 1995 |
| The Last Seduction | John Dahl | 1994 |
| Dark Victory | Edmund Goulding | 1939 |
| Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Howard Hawks | 1953 |
| The Unfaithful Wife | Claude Chabrol | 1969 |
| Hero | Yimou Zhang | 2002 |
| Ruggles of Red Gap | Leo McCarey | 1935 |
| Shanghai Express | Josef von Sternberg | 1932 |
| She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | John Ford | 1949 |
| Becket | Peter Glenville | 1964 |
| Superman | Richard Donner | 1978 |
| Dancer in the Dark | Lars von Trier | 2000 |
| Akira | Katsuhiro Ôtomo | 1988 |
| Chungking Express | Kar Wai Wong | 1994 |
| The King and I | Walter Lang | 1956 |
| The Blair Witch Project | Daniel Myrick | 1999 |
| Captains Courageous | Victor Fleming | 1937 |
| Safety Last! | Fred C. Newmeyer | 1923 |
| Performance | Donald Cammell | 1970 |
| To Live | Yimou Zhang | 1994 |
| Audition | Takashi Miike | 1999 |
| Election | Alexander Payne | 1999 |
| Stand by Me | Rob Reiner | 1986 |
| Juno | Jason Reitman | 2007 |
| Witness for the Prosecution | Billy Wilder | 1957 |
| The Last Waltz | Martin Scorsese | 1978 |
| Foreign Correspondent | Alfred Hitchcock | 1940 |
| The Invisible Man | James Whale | 1933 |
| Kwaidan | Masaki Kobayashi | 1964 |
| Carrie | Brian De Palma | 1976 |
| United 93 | Paul Greengrass | 2006 |
| The Parallax View | Alan J. Pakula | 1974 |
| Glengarry Glen Ross | James Foley | 1992 |
| Forbidden Planet | Fred M. Wilcox | 1956 |
| The Sugarland Express | Steven Spielberg | 1974 |
| The Outlaw Josey Wales | Clint Eastwood | 1976 |
| Days of Wine and Roses | Blake Edwards | 1962 |
| This Man Must Die | Claude Chabrol | 1969 |
| La Ronde | Max Ophüls | 1950 |
| The Nasty Girl | Michael Verhoeven | 1990 |
| Monsoon Wedding | Mira Nair | 2001 |
| Smile | Michael Ritchie | 1975 |
| Winter's Bone | Debra Granik | 2010 |
| In the Bedroom | Todd Field | 2001 |
| Late Spring | Yasujiro Ozu | 1949 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Robert Z. Leonard | 1940 |
| Ghost World | Terry Zwigoff | 2001 |
| The Front Page | Lewis Milestone | 1931 |
| Julia | Fred Zinnemann | 1977 |
| The Thing from Another World | Christian Nyby | 1951 |
| Twentieth Century | Howard Hawks | 1934 |
| A Walk in the Sun | Lewis Milestone | 1945 |
| The Son's Room | Nanni Moretti | 2001 |
| Driving Miss Daisy | Bruce Beresford | 1989 |
| Richard III | Laurence Olivier | 1955 |
| The Men | Fred Zinnemann | 1950 |
| Summertime | David Lean | 1955 |
| Strictly Ballroom | Baz Luhrmann | 1992 |
| Dark Eyes | Nikita Mikhalkov | 1987 |
| Splendor in the Grass | Elia Kazan | 1961 |
| The Phantom of Liberty | Luis Buñuel | 1974 |
| Port of Shadows | Marcel Carné | 1938 |
| On Golden Pond | Mark Rydell | 1981 |
| Tunes of Glory | Ronald Neame | 1960 |
| A Beautiful Mind | Ron Howard | 2001 |
| Murder, My Sweet | Edward Dmytryk | 1944 |
| In the Realm of the Senses | Nagisa Oshima | 1976 |
| Two-Lane Blacktop | Monte Hellman | 1971 |
| Our Hospitality | Buster Keaton | 1923 |
| Aladdin | Ron Clements | 1992 |
| 'Round Midnight | Bertrand Tavernier | 1986 |
| Time Regained | Raoul Ruiz | 1999 |
| The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | Fred Schepisi | 1978 |
| Yellow Submarine | George Dunning | 1968 |
| Julius Caesar | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1953 |
| They Live by Night | Nicholas Ray | 1949 |
| La Roue | Abel Gance | 1923 |
| American Splendor | Shari Springer Berman | 2003 |
| The Spiral Staircase | Robert Siodmak | 1946 |
| Guys and Dolls | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1955 |
| One-Eyed Jacks | Marlon Brando | 1961 |
| Night and Fog | Alain Resnais | 1955 |
| The Red and the White | Miklós Jancsó | 1967 |
| Ghostbusters | Ivan Reitman | 1984 |
| Wanda | Barbara Loden | 1971 |
| Sleuth | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1972 |
| A Touch of Zen | King Hu | 1969 |
| The Man Who Would Be King | John Huston | 1975 |
| Baby Doll | Elia Kazan | 1956 |
| Show Boat | James Whale | 1936 |
| The Knack... and How to Get It | Richard Lester | 1965 |
| The Music Box | James Parrott | 1932 |
| The Wolf of Wall Street | Martin Scorsese | 2013 |
| Bed and Board | François Truffaut | 1970 |
| The Ipcress File | Sidney J. Furie | 1965 |
| Long Day's Journey Into Night | Sidney Lumet | 1962 |
| Before the Rain | Milcho Manchevski | 1994 |
| Fight Club | David Fincher | 1999 |
| The Naked City | Jules Dassin | 1948 |
| Gaslight | George Cukor | 1944 |
| Friendly Persuasion | William Wyler | 1956 |
| Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi | Richard Marquand | 1983 |
| The Gunfighter | Henry King | 1950 |
| Mad Max | George Miller | 1979 |
| Blackmail | Alfred Hitchcock | 1929 |
| Metropolitan | Whit Stillman | 1990 |
| Wall•E | Andrew Stanton | 2008 |
| Lantana | Ray Lawrence | 2001 |
| Gomorrah | Matteo Garrone | 2008 |
| Things to Come | William Cameron Menzies | 1936 |
| Bad Education | Pedro Almodóvar | 2004 |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip Kaufman | 1988 |
| The Pawnbroker | Sidney Lumet | 1964 |
| Face to Face | Ingmar Bergman | 1976 |
| The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | Tommy Lee Jones | 2005 |
| Grand Hotel | Edmund Goulding | 1932 |
| The Lady from Shanghai | Orson Welles | 1948 |
| The Secret in Their Eyes | Juan José Campanella | 2009 |
| David Holzman's Diary | Jim McBride | 1967 |
| A Letter to Three Wives | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1949 |
| Night Moves | Arthur Penn | 1975 |
| San Francisco | W.S. Van Dyke | 1936 |
| Toy Story 3 | Lee Unkrich | 2010 |
| The Sea Inside | Alejandro Amenábar | 2004 |
| Silkwood | Mike Nichols | 1983 |
| Into the Wild | Sean Penn | 2007 |
| Seven Chances | Buster Keaton | 1925 |
| Beat the Devil | John Huston | 1953 |
| The Year of Living Dangerously | Peter Weir | 1982 |
| Hotel Rwanda | Terry George | 2004 |
| The Clockmaker | Bertrand Tavernier | 1974 |
| The Greatest Show on Earth | Cecil B. DeMille | 1952 |
| Beasts of the Southern Wild | Benh Zeitlin | 2012 |
| Tabu | F.W. Murnau | 1931 |
| Ulzana's Raid | Robert Aldrich | 1972 |
| All That Heaven Allows | Douglas Sirk | 1955 |
| The Last of the Mohicans | Michael Mann | 1992 |
| Boys Don't Cry | Kimberly Peirce | 1999 |
| Horror of Dracula | Terence Fisher | 1958 |
| The Caine Mutiny | Edward Dmytryk | 1954 |
| Ju Dou | Yimou Zhang | 1990 |
| My Beautiful Laundrette | Stephen Frears | 1985 |
| Beverly Hills Cop | Martin Brest | 1984 |
| Grave of the Fireflies | Isao Takahata | 1988 |
| Key Largo | John Huston | 1948 |
| Viva Zapata! | Elia Kazan | 1952 |
| The Damned | Luchino Visconti | 1969 |
| Moulin Rouge | John Huston | 1952 |
| Midnight Express | Alan Parker | 1978 |
| The Fighter | David O. Russell | 2010 |
| The Haunting | Robert Wise | 1963 |
| The Best of Youth | Marco Tullio Giordana | 2003 |
| Russian Ark | Aleksandr Sokurov | 2002 |
| Grizzly Man | Werner Herzog | 2005 |
| Michael Clayton | Tony Gilroy | 2007 |
| Barton Fink | Joel Coen | 1991 |
| Dead End | William Wyler | 1937 |
| Gods and Monsters | Bill Condon | 1998 |
| Bus Stop | Joshua Logan | 1956 |
| The Long Good Friday | John Mackenzie | 1980 |
| When Father Was Away on Business | Emir Kusturica | 1985 |
| Fahrenheit 9/11 | Michael Moore | 2004 |
| Shoe-Shine | Vittorio De Sica | 1946 |
| Sherman's March | Ross McElwee | 1986 |
| My Own Private Idaho | Gus Van Sant | 1991 |
| The Incredible Shrinking Man | Jack Arnold | 1957 |
| Capturing the Friedmans | Andrew Jarecki | 2003 |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? | Joel Coen | 2000 |
| The Kid | Charles Chaplin | 1921 |
| Husbands and Wives | Woody Allen | 1992 |
| Lola | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1981 |
| Soldier of Orange | Paul Verhoeven | 1977 |
| Gate of Hell | Teinosuke Kinugasa | 1953 |
| The Assault | Fons Rademakers | 1986 |
| Safe | Todd Haynes | 1995 |
| The Man Without a Past | Aki Kaurismäki | 2002 |
| The Magnificent Seven | John Sturges | 1960 |
| The Sea Hawk | Michael Curtiz | 1940 |
| Wonder Boys | Curtis Hanson | 2000 |
| The Great McGinty | Preston Sturges | 1940 |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street | Wes Craven | 1984 |
| Il Postino | Michael Radford | 1994 |
| Nothing Sacred | William A. Wellman | 1937 |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Rowland V. Lee | 1934 |
| 2046 | Kar Wai Wong | 2004 |
| The Passenger | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1975 |
| Rabbit-Proof Fence | Phillip Noyce | 2002 |
| The Wrong Man | Alfred Hitchcock | 1956 |
| Targets | Peter Bogdanovich | 1968 |
| Wise Blood | John Huston | 1979 |
| Good Will Hunting | Gus Van Sant | 1997 |
| Batman | Tim Burton | 1989 |
| Divorce Italian Style | Pietro Germi | 1961 |
| Kings Row | Sam Wood | 1942 |
| The Testament of Orpheus | Jean Cocteau | 1960 |
| Green for Danger | Sidney Gilliat | 1946 |
| Stalag 17 | Billy Wilder | 1953 |
| The Wrestler | Darren Aronofsky | 2008 |
| Children of a Lesser God | Randa Haines | 1986 |
| Morgan! | Karel Reisz | 1966 |
| The Train | John Frankenheimer | 1964 |
| Love Story | Arthur Hiller | 1970 |
| Steamboat Bill, Jr. | Buster Keaton | 1928 |
| An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky | 1978 |
| The Blue Kite | Zhuangzhuang Tian | 1993 |
| Spider-Man 2 | Sam Raimi | 2004 |
| The Cameraman | Buster Keaton | 1928 |
| Captain Phillips | Paul Greengrass | 2013 |
| The Decline of the American Empire | Denys Arcand | 1986 |
| The Goodbye Girl | Herbert Ross | 1977 |
| Hard Boiled | John Woo | 1992 |
| High Sierra | Raoul Walsh | 1941 |
| Infernal Affairs | Wai Keung Lau | 2002 |
| Monsieur Hire | Patrice Leconte | 1989 |
| Salesman | David Maysles | 1969 |
| Devdas | Sanjay Leela Bhansali | 2002 |
| Footlight Parade | Lloyd Bacon | 1933 |
| Nebraska | Alexander Payne | 2013 |
| Salt of the Earth | Herbert J. Biberman | 1954 |
| Werckmeister Harmonies | Béla Tarr | 2000 |
| Naked | Mike Leigh | 1993 |
| The Pink Panther | Blake Edwards | 1963 |
| Sleeper | Woody Allen | 1973 |
