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Favorite Films, 1909-1974

by Michael E. Grost

This is a list of outstanding films, arranged by year. All are films I personally enjoyed.

It is a work in progress. There are many famous films I am still trying to see!

1909

Corner in Wheat, The Sealed Room, The Curtain Pole, Those Awful Hats, The Voice of the Violin (D. W. Griffith)

Nerone / Nero, or the Fall of Rome (Luigi Maggi)

Princess Nicotine or The Smoke Fairy (J. Stuart Blackton)

1910

Ramona, The House With Closed Shutters, The Fugitive (D. W. Griffith)

Mobilier fidèle / The Automatic Moving Company (Émile Cohl)

The Police Force of New York City (no director credited)

1910 - 1914

The Man in The Silk Hat (Max Linder, Maud Linder)

1911

Her Crowning Glory (Larry Trimble)

The Poisoned Flume (Allan Dwan)

1912

Algie the Miner (Alice Guy)

The Cry of the Children (George Nichols)

From the Submerged (Theodore Wharton)

A Girl and Her Trust; The New York Hat; The Musketeers of Pig Alley (D. W. Griffith)

Onésime Horloger (Jean Durand)

1913

An American in the Making (Carl I. Gregory)

The Evidence of the Film (Lawrence Marston, Edwin Thanhouser)

The Mothering Heart (D. W. Griffith)

Suspense (Lois Weber, Philips Smalley)

1914

The Knockout (Charles Avery)

Tillie's Punctured Romance (Mack Sennett)

The Wishing Ring (Maurice Tourneur)

1915

Alias Jimmy Valentine (Maurice Tourneur)

Burlesque on Carmen (Charlie Chaplin short)

La Folie du Docteur Tube (Abel Gance)

A Fool There Was (Frank Powell)

The Golden Chance (Cecil B. De Mille)

The Hypocrites (Lois Weber)

Pool Sharks (Edwin Middleton)

Regeneration (Raoul Walsh)

Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)

Who Pays?: Toil and Tyranny (Harry Harvey)

Young Romance (George Melford)

1916

Hell's Hinges (William S. Hart, Charles Swickard)

Intolerance (D.W. Griffith)

Judex (Louis Feuillade)

An Ocean Waif (Alice Guy)

One A.M., The Pawnshop, The Rink (Charlie Chaplin shorts)

1917

The Cure, Easy Street (Charlie Chaplin shorts)

Coney Island (Roscoe Arbuckle short)

Das Fidele Gefängnis / The Merry Jail (Ernst Lubitsch)

A Girl's Folly (Maurice Tourneur)

Tom Sawyer (William Desmond Taylor)

1918

The Blue Bird (Maurice Tourneur)

I Don't Want to be a Man (Ernst Lubitsch)

The Married Virgin (Joseph Maxwell)

Off the Trolley (Harold Lloyd shorts)

The Outlaw and His Wife (Victor Sjöström)

1919

Anders als die Andern §175 / Different from the Others (Paragraph 175) (Richard Oswald)

Die Austernprinzessin / The Oyster Princess (Ernst Lubitsch)

Blind Husbands (Erich von Stroheim)

The Busher (Jerome Stern)

Captain's Kidd's Kids, From Hand to Mouth, His Royal Slyness (Harold Lloyd shorts)

Daddy-Long-Legs (Marshall Neilan)

Delicious Little Devil (Robert Z. Leonard)

Don't Change Your Husband (Cecil B. De Mille)

The Garage (Roscoe Arbuckle short)

Madame Dubarry (Ernst Lubitsch)

Die Puppe / The Doll (Ernst Lubitsch)

Sir Arne's Treasure (Mauritz Stiller)

The Spiders Part I: The Golden Sea (Fritz Lang)

Sunnyside (Charlie Chaplin short)

1920

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)

An Eastern Westerner, High and Dizzy, Number Please (Harold Lloyd shorts)

Erotikon (Mauritz Stiller)

Just Pals (John Ford)

The Mark of Zorro (Fred Niblo)

Neighbors, One Week, The Scarecrow, Convict 13 (Buster Keaton shorts)

Outside the Law (Tod Browning)

The Parson's Widow (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

The Soul of Youth (William Desmond Taylor)

Way Down East (D.W. Griffith)

Why Change Your Wife (Cecil B. De Mille)

Within Our Gates (Oscar Michaux)

1921

The Ace of Hearts (Wallace Worsley)

Among Those Present, Never Weaken, Now or Never (Harold Lloyd shorts)

The Boat, Hard Luck, The Haunted House, The High Sign (Buster Keaton shorts)

Camille (Ray C. Smallwood)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Rex Ingram)

The Idle Class (Charlie Chaplin)

The Kid (Charlie Chaplin)

Manhatta (Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler)

Miss Lulu Bett (William de Mille)

Der Müde Tod / Destiny (Fritz Lang)

Rhythmus 21 (Hans Richter)

Schloss Vogelöd (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau)

1922

The Blacksmith, Cops, The Electric House, The Frozen North (Buster Keaton shorts)

Beyond the Rocks (Sam Wood)

Blood and Sand (Fred Niblo)

Crainquebille (Jacques Feyder)

Dr. Mabuse Der Spieler (Fritz Lang)

Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim)

Lorna Doone (Maurice Tourneur)

Pay Day (Charlie Chaplin)

Phantom (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau)

The Prisoner of Zenda (Rex Ingram)

Robin Hood (Allan Dwan)

The Toll of the Sea (Chester M. Franklin)

The Young Rajah (Phil Rosen)

1923

America (D.W. Griffith)

Beau Brummel (Harry Beaumont)

The Covered Wagon (James Cruze)

Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton, Jack Blystone)

Paris qui dort (René Clair)

The Pilgrim (Charlie Chaplin)

Le Retour à la raison (Man Ray)

Scaramouche (Rex Ingram)

Souls for Sale (Rupert Hughes)

The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. De Mille)

1924

Ballet méchanique (Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy)

Entr'acte (René Clair)

Family Life (Robert P. Kerr)

Girl Shy (Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor)

Greed (Erich von Stroheim)

Isn't Life Wonderful (D.W. Griffith)

Der Letzte Mann / The Last Laugh (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau)

Michael (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

The Navigator (Buster Keaton and Donald Crisp)

Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton)

Siegfried (Fritz Lang)

Symphonie Diagonale (Viking Eggeling)

1925

Ben-Hur (Fred Niblo)

The Big Parade (King Vidor)

La Bohème (King Vidor)

The Eagle (Clarence Brown)

The Freshman (Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor)

The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin)

Go West (Buster Keaton)

Labor's Reward (no director credited)

Lady Windemere's Fan (Ernst Lubitsch)

The Master of the House (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

The Merry Widow (Erich von Stroheim)

The Monster (Roland West)

1925 Studio Tour (no director credited)

Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)

The Rag Man (Edward F. Cline)

Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)

The Vanishing American (George B. Seitz)

1926

The Bat (Roland West)

Battling Butler (Buster Keaton)

The Blue Eagle (John Ford)

By the Law (Lev Kuleshov)

The Clinging Vine (Paul Sloane)

Emak-Bakia (Man Ray)

For Heaven's Sake (Sam Taylor)

Hands Up! (Clarence Badger)

The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)

Metropolis (Fritz Lang)

The Strong Man (Frank Capra)

Tartuffe (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau)

The Temptress (Fred Niblo)

Three Bad Men (John Ford)

Tumbleweeds (King Baggott)

What Price Glory (Raoul Walsh)

1927

The Battle of the Century (Clyde Bruckman)

Bed and Sofa (Abram Room)

College (James Horne)

Easy Virtue (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Flag (Arthur Maude)

The General (Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman)

La Glace à trois faces (Jean Epstein)

Hollywood the Unusual (William Taylor)

It (Clarence Badger)

The Kid Brother (Ted Wilde)

The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra (Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich)

London After Midnight (Tod Browning)

Play Safe (Joseph Henabery)

The Red Mill (Fatty Arbuckle)

The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch)

Sunrise (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau)

Underworld (Josef von Sternberg)

1928

Across to Singapore (William Nigh)

Champagne (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)

L'Étoile de mer (Man Ray)

The Fall of the House of Usher (Melville Webber, James Sibley Watson)

Four Sons (John Ford)

Hangman's House (John Ford)

The Last Command (Josef von Sternberg)

The Love of Zero (Robert Florey, William Cameron Menzies)

The Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)

The Mating Call (James Cruze)

The Mysterious Lady (Fred Niblo)

Our Dancing Daughters (Harry Beaumont)

The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

Queen Kelly (Erich von Stroheim)

Show People (King Vidor)

Spione/Spies (Fritz Lang)

Steamboat Bill, Jr (Charles Reisner)

Vormittagsspuk / Ghosts Before Breakfast (Hans Richter)

The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim)

West Point (Edward Sedgwick)

The Wind (Victor Sjöström)

1929

The Cocoanuts (Robert Florey, Joseph Santley)

The Divine Lady (Frank Lloyd)

Eternal Love (Ernst Lubitsch)

Frau im Mond / Woman in the Moon (Fritz Lang)

The Kiss (Jacques Feyder)

The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch)

Les Mystères du Château du Dé (Man Ray)

Our Modern Maidens (Jack Conway)

Piccadilly (E. A. Dupont)

Redskin (Victor Schertzinger)

Regen / Rain (Joris Ivens, Mannus Franken)

Salt For Svanetia (Mikhail Kalatozov)

Seven Keys to Baldpate (Reginald Barker)

So This Is College (Sam Wood)

Thunderbolt (Josef von Sternberg)

Weary River (Frank Lloyd)

The Wild Party (Dorothy Arzner)

1930

An Aimless Walk (Alexander Hammid)

Anna Christie (Jacques Feyder)

The Bat Whispers (Roland West)

The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau)

The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)

Born Reckless (John Ford)

Framed (George Archainbaud)

Let Us Be Gay (Robert Z. Leonard)

Light Rhythms (Francis Bruguière, Oswell Blakeston)

Little Caesar (Mervyn Le Roy)

Lovin' the Ladies (Melville Brown)

Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch)

Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)

Romance Sentimentale (Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein)

Shooting Straight (George Archainbaud)

The Silver Horde (George Archainbaud)

Sous les toits de Paris (René Clair)

Up the River (John Ford)

Whoopee! (Thornton Freeland, Busby Berkeley)

1931

An American Tragedy (Josef von Sternberg)

Autumn Fire (Herman G. Weinberg)

Chances (Allan Dwan)

La Chienne (Jean Renoir)

City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)

Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg)

Dracula (Tod Browning)

The Guilty Generation (Rowland V. Lee)

M (Fritz Lang)

Man to Man (Allan Dwan)

Le Million (René Clair)

The Miracle Woman (Frank Capra)

Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod)

Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra)

Possessed (Clarence Brown)

The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)

Street Scene (King Vidor)

Tarnished Lady (George Cukor)

Three Who Loved (George Archainbaud)

The Woman Between (Victor Schertzinger)

1932

American Madness (Frank Capra)

Artistic Temper (Roy Mack)

Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg)

Boudu sauvé des eaux (Jean Renoir)

A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage)

Forbidden (Frank Capra)

The Half Naked Truth (Gregory La Cava)

Hell's Highway (Roland Brown)

Horse Feathers (Norman Z. McLeod)

I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu)

The Lost Squadron (George Archainbaud)

Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)

À Nous la liberté (René Clair)

Number 17 (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Old Dark House (James Whale)

The Penguin Pool Murder (George Archainbaud)

Qué viva Mexico! (Sergei Eisenstein)

The Red Shadow (Roy Mack)

Scarface (Howard Hawks)

Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)

Symphony of Six Million (Gregory La Cava)

Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)

Union Depot (Alfred E. Green)

Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

1933

Bed of Roses (Gregory La Cava)

Circles (Oskar Fischinger)

Design For Living (Ernst Lubitsch)

Diplomaniacs (William A. Seiter)

Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)

The Eagle and The Hawk (Mitchell Leisen)

Emergency Call (Edward L. Cahn)

Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley)

42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley)

From Headquarters (William Dieterle)

Going Hollywood (Raoul Walsh)

Golddiggers of 1933 (Mervyn Le Roy, Busby Berkeley)

Las Hurdes / Land Without Bread (Luis Buñuel)

International House (A. Edward Sutherland)

Lady For a Day (Frank Capra)

Lady Killer (Roy Del Ruth)

The Little Giant (Roy Del Ruth)

Looking Forward (Clarence Brown)

Lot in Sodom (Melville Webber, James Sibley Watson)

A Man's Castle (Frank Borzage)

The Masquerader (Richard Wallace)

Night on Bald Mountain (Alexander Alexeieff, Clare Parker)

Our Betters (George Cukor)

Pilgrimage (John Ford)

Sailor's Luck (Raoul Walsh)

Scarlet River (Otto Brower)

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)

1934

L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)

The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)

Chained (Clarence Brown)

Cleopatra (Cecil B. De Mille)

The Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich)

Hide-Out (W. S. Van Dyke)

Imitation of Life (John M. Stahl)

It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)

Keep Em Rolling (George Archainbaud)

Kid Millions (Roy Del Ruth)

The Lost Patrol (John Ford)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch)

The Mystery of Mr. X (Edgar Selwyn)

Nana (Dorothy Arzner)

One Night of Love (Victor Schertzinger)

The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)

The Silver Streak (Thomas Atkins)

Toni (Jean Renoir)

Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)

We Live Again (Rouben Mamoulian)

1935

After Office Hours (Robert Z. Leonard)

Air Hawks (Albert S. Rogell)

Annie Oakley (George Stevens)

The Barbary Coast (Howard Hawks)

Black Sheep (Allan Dwan)

Captain Blood (Michael Curtiz)

A Colour Box (Len Lye)

Grand Old Girl (John Robertson)

La Kermesse héroique (Jacques Feyder)

Komposition in Blau / Composition in Blue (Oskar Fischinger)

A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)

The Night Is Young (Dudley Murphy)

Old Man Rhythm (Edward Ludwig)

Phantom Empire (Otto Brower, B. Reeves Eason)

Ready, Willing and Able (Ray Enright, Bobby Connolly)

Remember Last Night? (James Whale)

Roberta (William A. Seiter)

Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)

Shadow of Doubt (George B. Seitz)

Stranded (Frank Borzage)

Thanks a Million (Roy Del Ruth)

The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)

To Beat the Band (Benjamin Stoloff)

The Traveling Saleslady (Ray Enright)

1936

Allegretto / Radio Dynamics (Oskar Fischinger)

Come and Get It (Howard Hawks, William Wyler)

Fury (Fritz Lang)

The Jonker Diamond / Harnessed Rhythm / Killer-Dog (Jacques Tourneur shorts)

Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)

My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)

Pigskin Parade (David Butler)

The Plot Thickens (Ben Holmes)

The Princess Comes Across (William K. Howard)

The Prisoner of Shark Island (John Ford)

Rainbow Dance (Len Lye)

Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)

San Francisco (W. S. Van Dyke)

Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Swing Time (George Stevens)

That Girl From Paris (Leigh Jason)

Two in the Dark (Benjamin Stoloff)

Wanted: Jane Turner (Edward Killy)

The Witness Chair (George Nicholls, Jr.)

A Woman Rebels (Mark Sandrich)

1937

Angel (Ernst Lubitsch)

Broadway Melody of 1938 (Roy Del Ruth)

Colour Flight (Len Lye)

A Damsel in Distress (George Stevens)

Double Wedding (Richard Thorpe)

Drôle de drame (Marcel Carné)

The Grand Bounce / Romance of Radium (Jacques Tourneur shorts)

Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)

The Great Garrick (James Whale)

History Is Made at Night (Frank Borzage)

Internes Can't Take Money (Alfred Santell)

The King and the Chorus Girl (Mervyn Le Roy)

The Mad Miss Manton (Leigh Jason)

The Man Who Found Himself (Lew Landers)

Music For Madame (John Blystone)

On the Avenue (Roy Del Ruth)

Parnell (John M. Stahl)

Slave Ship (Tay Garnett)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand)

Something To Sing About (Victor Schertzinger)

Stand-In (Tay Garnett)

Super Sleuth (Benjamin Stoloff)

There Goes My Girl (Ben Holmes)

They Wanted to Marry (Lew Landers)

Trade Tattoo (Len Lye)

Young and Innocent (Alfred Hitchcock)

1938

Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein)

Alexander's Ragtime Band (Henry King)

Artists and Models Abroad (Mitchell Leisen)

Border Wolves (Joseph H. Lewis)

The Buccaneer (Cecil B. De Mille)

California Frontier (Elmer Clifton)

Carefree (Mark Sandrich)

Double Danger (Lew Landers)

Fools for Scandal (Mervyn Le Roy)

Hold That Co-Ed (George Marshall)

The Joy Of Living (Tay Garnett)

The Last Stand (Joseph H. Lewis)

Maid's Night Out (Ben Holmes)

My Lucky Star (Roy Del Ruth)

Overland Stage Raiders (George Sherman)

The Patient in Room 18 (Bobby Connolly, Crane Wilbur)

Quai des brumes / Port of Shadows (Marcel Carné)

The Saint in New York (Ben Holmes)

The Shining Hour (Frank Borzage)

Sky Giant (Lew Landers)

Spring Madness (S. Sylvan Simon)

The Spy Ring (Joseph H. Lewis)

Suez (Allan Dwan)

Werther (Max Ophuls)

You and Me (Fritz Lang)

You Can't Take It With You (Frank Capra)

1939

Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding)

Destry Rides Again (George Marshall)

Fifth Avenue Girl (Gregory La Cava)

First Love (Henry Koster)

Golden Boy (Rouben Mamoulian)

The Gorilla (Allan Dwan)

The Housekeeper's Daughter (Hal Roach)

Le Jour se lève (Marcel Carné)

Midnight (Mitchell Leisen)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (William Clemens)

Nancy Drew, Reporter (William Clemens)

Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)

Q Planes (Tim Whelan)

The Rains Came (Clarence Brown)

La Règle du jeu / The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)

The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)

Stagecoach (John Ford)

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (Irving Cummings)

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi)

The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, Bobby Connolly, King Vidor)

Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)

Zorro's Fighting Legion (John English, William Witney)

1940

American Matchmaker (Edgar G. Ulmer)

Blazing Six Shooters (Joseph H. Lewis)

Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)

Composition 1 (Themis) (Dwinell Grant)

Contraband (Michael Powell)

Fantasia (Ben Sharpsteen)

Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)

A Fugitive from Justice (Terry Morse)

Gallant Sons (George B. Seitz)

The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)

The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)

The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)

His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)

The Lone Wolf Strikes (Sidney Salkow)

The Man from Tumbleweeds (Joseph H. Lewis)

The Man Who Talked Too Much (Vincent Sherman)

The Mark of Zorro (Rouben Mamoulian)

The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage)

The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)

Play Girl (Frank Woodruff)

The Return of Wild Bill (Joseph H. Lewis)

Seven Sinners (Tay Garnett)

The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)

Swinging the Lambeth Walk (Len Lye)

The Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster)

Tear Gas Squad (Terry Morse)

That Gang of Mine (Joseph H. Lewis)

They Drive By Night (Raoul Walsh)

1941

An American March (Oskar Fischinger)

Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)

The Case of the Black Parrot (Noel M. Smith)

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)

Contrathemis (Dwinell Grant)

La Corona di Ferro / The Iron Crown (Alessandro Blasetti)

The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi)

The Get-Away (Edward Buzzell)

The Great Lie (Edmund Goulding)

How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)

Invisible Ghost (Joseph H. Lewis)

The Invisible Woman (A. Edward Sutherland)

It Started With Eve (Henry Koster)

I Wake Up Screaming (H. Bruce Humberstone)

Lady Scarface (Frank Woodruff)

Man Hunt (Fritz Lang)

Meet Boston Blackie (Robert Florey)

Meet John Doe (Frank Capra)

1941 (Francis Lee)

Playmates (David Butler)

Pride of the Bowery (Joseph H. Lewis)

Respect the Law (Joseph M. Newman)

The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg)

Sun Valley Serenade (H. Bruce Humberstone)

Swamp Water (Jean Renoir)

They Died With Their Boots On (Raoul Walsh)

1942

Calling Dr. Gillespie (Harold S. Bucquet)

The Dover Boys at Pimento University (Chuck Jones)

The Fleet's In (Victor Schertzinger)

Gentleman Jim (Raoul Walsh)

I Married a Witch (René Clair)

In This Our Life (John Huston, Raoul Walsh)

It's All True (Orson Welles)

Journey into Fear (Orson Welles)

The Lady Is Willing (Mitchell Leisen)

The Magic Alphabet (Jacques Tourneur short)

The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)

A Night To Remember (Richard Wallace)

Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper)

La Nuit fantastique (Marcel L'Herbier)

The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)

Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Silver Bullet (Joseph H. Lewis)

Son of Fury (John Cromwell)

Spanish Fiesta (Jean Negulesco)

Springtime in the Rockies (Irving Cummings)

Stagedoor Canteen (Frank Borzage)

Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)

The Talk of the Town (George Stevens)

There Was a Father (Yasujiro Ozu)

This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle)

To Be Or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch)

You Were Never Lovelier (William A. Seiter)

1943

Above Suspicion (Richard Thorpe)

Air Force (Howard Hawks)

Around the World (Allan Dwan)

Background to Danger (Raoul Walsh)

Bombs Over Burma (Joseph H. Lewis)

Cabin in the Sky (Vincente Minnelli)

Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

The Gang's All Here (Busby Berkeley)

Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)

Hello, Frisco, Hello (H. Bruce Humberstone)

Isle of Forgotten Sins / Monsoon (Edgar G. Ulmer)

I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)

Jive Junction (Edgar G. Ulmer)

Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid)

Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang)

The More the Merrier (George Stevens)

Murder in Times Square (Lew Landers)

Mystery Broadcast (George Sherman)

Old Acquaintance (Vincent Sherman)

Princess O'Rourke (Norman Krasna)

Sanshiro Sugata (Akira Kurosawa)

A Scream in the Dark (George Sherman)

Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)

True To Life (George Marshall)

Whistling in Brooklyn (S. Sylvan Simon)

1944

And Now Tomorrow (Irving Pichel)

At Land (Maya Deren)

Broadway Rhythm (Roy Del Ruth)

The Conspirators (Jean Negulesco)

Experiment Perilous (Jacques Tourneur)

The Falcon in Hollywood (Gordon Douglas)

Gaslight (George Cukor)

Going My Way (Leo McCarey)

The Great Moment (Preston Sturges)

Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)

In the Street (Helen Levitt, Helen Loeb, James Agee)

Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Sergei Eisenstein)

The Keys of the Kingdom (John M. Stahl)

Laura (Otto Preminger)

Mark of the Whistler (William Castle)

Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)

Mr. Skeffington (Vincent Sherman)

One Mysterious Night (Budd Boetticher)

Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak)

The Story of Dr. Wassell (Cecil B. De Mille)

They Were Expendable (John Ford)

When Strangers Marry / Betrayed (William Castle)

1945

Christmas in Connecticut (Peter Godfrey)

Crime Doctor's Courage (George Sherman)

Crime Doctor's Warning (William Castle)

Les Enfants du paradis / The Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné)

The Falcon in San Francisco (Joseph H. Lewis)

Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger)

A Gun in His Hand (Joseph Losey)

Her Highness and the Bellboy (Richard Thorpe)

The Horn Blows at Midnight (Raoul Walsh)

Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl)

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (Akira Kurosawa)

My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis)

Power of the Whistler (Lew Landers)

A Royal Scandal (Otto Preminger)

Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)

The Southerner (Jean Renoir)

Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock)

A Study in Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren)

The Valley of Decision (Tay Garnett)

Visual Variations on Noguchi (Marie Menken)

Voice of the Whistler (William Castle)

Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)

1946

The Bamboo Blonde (Anthony Mann)

Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)

Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur)

Crack-Up (Irving Reis)

The Dark Corner (Henry Hathaway)

Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)

Green for Danger (Sidney Gilliat)

It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)

The Jolson Story (Alfred E. Green, Joseph H. Lewis)

The Killers (Robert Siodmak)

The Man I Love (Raoul Walsh)

My Darling Clementine (John Ford)

My Reputation (Curtis Bernhardt)

A Night in Casablanca (Archie Mayo)

Paisà (Roberto Rossellini)

The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett)

The Potted Psalm (Sidney Peterson, James Broughton)

The Razor's Edge (Edmund Goulding)

Roma città libera (Marcello Pagliero)

A Scandal in Paris (Douglas Sirk)

Shadow of a Woman (Joseph Santley)

The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak)

Step by Step (Phil Rosen)

The Stranger (Orson Welles)

To Each His Own (Mitchell Leisen)

Undercurrent (Vincente Minnelli)

Ziegfield Follies (Vincente Minnelli)

1947

Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)

Born to Kill (Robert Wise)

Carnegie Hall (Edgar G. Ulmer)

Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)

Dead Reckoning (John Cromwell)

Desperate (Anthony Mann)

The Exile (Max Ophuls)

Fireworks (Kenneth Anger)

Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan)

Golden Earrings (Mitchell Leisen)

Good News (Charles Walters)

High Wall (Curtis Bernhardt)

House of Cards (Joseph Vogel)

Living In a Big Way (Gregory La Cava)

Mad Wednesday (Preston Sturges)

Motion Painting No. 1 (Oskar Fischinger)

Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)

The Perils of Pauline (George Marshall)

Railroaded (Anthony Mann)

Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu)

Something in the Wind (Irving Pichel)

Le Tempestaire (Jean Epstein)

T-Men (Anthony Mann)

Trail Street (Ray Enright)

Under the Tonto Rim (Lew Landers)

The Unsuspected (Michael Curtiz)

The Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir)

1948

The Adventures of Don Juan (Vincent Sherman)

Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur)

Bodyguard (Richard Fleischer)

A Double Life (George Cukor)

Easter Parade (Charles Walters)

Fort Apache (John Ford)

He Walked By Night (Anthony Mann, Alfred Werker)

The Inside Story (Allan Dwan)

Key Largo (John Huston)

The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles)

Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)

Macbeth (Orson Welles)

The Naked City (Jules Dassin)

The Pirate (Vincente Minnelli)

Raw Deal (Anthony Mann)

Red River (Howard Hawks)

The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)

The Return of October (Joseph H. Lewis)

Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)

Secret Beyond The Door (Fritz Lang)

Sleep, My Love (Douglas Sirk)

The Street With No Name (William Keighley)

Summer Holiday (Rouben Mamoulian)

They Caught the Ferry (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

1949

The Black Book/Reign of Terror (Anthony Mann)

Border Incident (Anthony Mann)

Caught (Max Ophuls)

Christmas, USA (Gregory Markopoulos)

Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak)

Follow Me Quietly (Richard Fleischer)

The Fountainhead (King Vidor)

Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)

Homicide (Felix Jacoves)

Intruder in the Dust (Clarence Brown)

I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller)

It's A Great Feeling (David Butler)

Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)

On the Town (Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen)

The Pirates of Capri (Edgar G. Ulmer)

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)

Side Street (Anthony Mann)

Slattery's Hurricane (André De Toth)

Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock)

Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)

Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini)

They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray)

Too Late for Tears (Byron Haskin)

The Undercover Man (Joseph H. Lewis)

Whirlpool (Otto Preminger)

White Heat (Raoul Walsh)

1950

All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Armored Car Robbery (Richard Fleischer)

Backfire (Vincent Sherman)

The Baron of Arizona (Samuel Fuller)

Born to Be Bad (Nicholas Ray)

Born Yesterday (George Cukor)

Cronaca di un amore / Story of a Love Affair (Michelangelo Antonioni)

Destination: Murder (Edward L. Cahn)

The File on Thelma Jordon (Robert Siodmak)

Francesco giullare di Dio / The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)

The Good Humor Man (Lloyd Bacon)

Hoedown (Ray Nazarro)

House by the River (Fritz Lang)

Journal d'un curé de campagne / Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)

A Lady Without Passport (Joseph H. Lewis)

The Lawless (Joseph Losey)

Luci del varietà / Variety Lights (Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada)

Mystery Street (John Sturges)

Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)

Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan)

Rio Grande (John Ford)

La Ronde (Max Ophuls)

Scandal (Akira Kurosawa)

711 Ocean Drive (Joseph M. Newman)

Stars in My Crown (Jacques Tourneur)

The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)

Two Weeks With Love (Roy Rowland)

Wagonmaster (John Ford)

Where the Sidewalk Ends (Otto Preminger)

Winchester 73 (Anthony Mann)

1951

An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)

Angels in the Outfield (Clarence Brown)

Belle Le Grande (Allan Dwan)

Captain Horatio Hornblower (Raoul Walsh)

Cry Danger (Robert Parrish)

Day of the Fight / Flying Padre (Stanley Kubrick shorts)

The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)

Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)

Father's Little Dividend (Vincente Minnelli)

The Great Caruso (Richard Thorpe)

The Idiot (Akira Kurosawa)

The Law and the Lady (Edwin H. Knopf)

Lightning Strikes Twice (King Vidor)

Man in the Saddle (André De Toth)

The Man From Planet X (Edgar G. Ulmer)

The Mating Season (Mitchell Leisen)

No Questions Asked (Harold F. Kress)

On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)

On Moonlight Bay (Roy Del Ruth)

The Racket (John Cromwell)

Rich, Young and Pretty (Norman Taurog)

The River (Jean Renoir)

Spoilers of the Plains (William Witney)

St. Benny the Dip (Edgar G. Ulmer)

The Texas Rangers (Phil Karlson)

Tomorrow Is Another Day (Felix Feist)

1952

Clash By Night (Fritz Lang)

Diplomatic Courier (Henry Hathaway)

Europe '51 (Roberto Rossellini)

The Girl in White (John Sturges)

Glory Alley (Raoul Walsh)

Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (Douglas Sirk)

Horizons West (Budd Boetticher)

Ikiru / To Live (Akira Kurosawa)

The Importance of Being Earnest (Anthony Asquith)

Just This Once (Don Weis)

Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson)

The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Lovely to Look At (Vincente Minnelli, Mervyn Le Roy)

Macao (Josef von Sternberg)

The Man Behind the Gun (Felix Feist)

Meet Me at the Fair (Douglas Sirk)

The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer)

Othello (Orson Welles)

Park Row (Samuel Fuller)

Pat and Mike (George Cukor)

The Prisoner of Zenda (Richard Thorpe)

The Quiet Man (John Ford)

Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang)

Red Skies of Montana (Joseph M. Newman)

The Rough, Tough West (Ray Nazarro)

Scandal Sheet (Phil Karlson)

Lo sceicco bianco / The White Shiek (Federico Fellini)

Singing in the Rain (Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen)

Son of Paleface (Frank Tashlin)

Springfield Rifle (André De Toth)

Stop, You're Killing Me (Roy Del Ruth)

When in Rome (Clarence Brown)

The World in His Arms (Raoul Walsh)

1953

The Actress (George Cukor)

All I Desire (Douglas Sirk)

Appointment in Honduras (Jacques Tourneur)

Athena (Richard Thorpe)

The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)

The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang)

Call Me Madam (Walter Lang)

Code Two (Fred Wilcox)

Crin blanc: Le cheval sauvage / White Mane (Albert Lamorisse)

Dangerous Crossing (Joseph M. Newman)

The Desert Song (H. Bruce Humberstone)

Eaux d'Artifice (Kenneth Anger)

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (Roy Rowland)

A Geisha / Gion Festival Music (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)

The Glass Wall (Maxwell Shane)

The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)

Golden Demon (Koji Shima)

Gun Fury (Raoul Walsh)

I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)

I Love Melvin (Don Weis)

It Came From Outer Space (Jack Arnold)

Julius Caesar (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Last of the Pony Riders (George Archainbaud)

Madame de... (Max Ophuls)

Mogambo (John Ford)

The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)

Niagara (Henry Hathaway)

99 River Street (Phil Karlson)

Small Town Girl (Leslie Kardos, Busby Berkeley)

Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)

Take Me To Town (Douglas Sirk)

Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)

Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot / M Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)

The Woman They Almost Lynched (Allan Dwan)

1954

Ali Baba (Jacques Becker)

Bengal Brigade (Laslo Benedek)

Broken Lance (Edward Dmytryk)

Chikamatsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Crime Wave (André De Toth)

Deep in My Heart (Stanley Donen)

Desistfilm (Stan Brakhage)

Elephant Walk (William Dieterle)

French Cancan (Jean Renoir)

Godzilla (Ishiro Honda)

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger)

It Should Happen to You (George Cukor)

Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)

Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse)

The Long, Long Trailer (Vincente Minnelli)

The Naked Jungle (Byron Haskin)

Private Hell 36 (Don Siegel)

The Purple Plain (Robert Parrish)

Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)

River of No Return (Otto Preminger)

Sansho the Baliff (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Saskatchewan (Raoul Walsh)

The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)

Sign of the Pagan (Douglas Sirk)

Silver Lode (Allan Dwan)

A Star Is Born (George Cukor)

La strada (Federico Fellini)

Them! (Gordon Douglas)

They Rode West (Phil Karlson)

Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita)

The Wild One (Laslo Benedek)

World for Ransom (Robert Aldrich)

1955

Around the World with Orson Welles (Orson Welles)

Battle Cry (Raoul Walsh)

The Benny Goodman Story (Valentine Davies)

Il bidone (Federico Fellini)

The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis)

Bring Your Smile Along (Blake Edwards)

The Cobweb (Vincente Minnelli)

The Court Jester (Norman Panama, Melvin Frank)

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (Otto Preminger)

Escape to Burma (Allan Dwan)

The Glass Slipper (Charles Walters)

Good Morning, Miss Dove (Henry Koster)

It's Always Fair Weather (Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen)

Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)

The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick)

A Lawless Street (Joseph H. Lewis)

Lola Montès (Max Ophuls)

The Long Gray Line (John Ford)

The Man With the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger)

Moonfleet (Fritz Lang)

Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles)

Murder Is My Beat (Edgar G. Ulmer)

The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)

Nuit et brouillard / Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)

Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)

The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson)

Picnic (Joshua Logan)

Princess Yang Kei Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Revenge of the Creature (Jack Arnold)

Strange Lady in Town (Mervyn Le Roy)

This Island Earth (Joseph M. Newman)

Tight Spot (Phil Karlson)

To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Trouble With Harry (Alfred Hitchcock)

Violent Saturday (Richard Fleischer)

Wonder Ring (Stan Brakhage)

1956

All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)

Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)

Le Ballon rouge / The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse)

Bhowani Junction (George Cukor)

Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)

Comanche (George Sherman)

Un Condamné à mort s'est échappé / A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)

Elena et les hommes / Paris Does Strange Things (Jean Renoir)

The Fastest Gun Alive (Russell Rouse)

Forbidden Planet (Fred Wilcox)

Giant (George Stevens)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)

A Kiss Before Dying (Gerd Oswald)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Mole People (Virgil Vogel)

Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur)

The Proud Ones (Robert D. Webb)

Reprisal! (George Sherman)

The Searchers (John Ford)

Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher)

Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan)

Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli)

Time Without Pity (Joseph Losey)

23 Paces to Baker Street (Henry Hathaway)

While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang)

1957

L'Ascenseur pour l'échafaud / Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)

China Gate (Samuel Fuller)

The Dalton Girls (Reginald Le Borg)

Fear Strikes Out (Robert Mulligan)

Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)

Funny Face (Stanley Donen)

Fury at Showdown (Gerd Oswald)

Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)

The Halliday Brand (Joseph H. Lewis)

The Hard Man (George Sherman)

The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold)

Jalsaghar/The Music Room (Satyajit Ray)

The Lure of the Swamp (Hubert Cornfield)

Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)

Le notte bianchi / White Nights (Luchino Visconti)

The One That Got Away (Roy Ward Baker)

The Pajama Game (Stanley Donen, George Abbott)

Recreation I (Robert Breer)

Run of The Arrow (Samuel Fuller)

Silk Stockings (Rouben Mamoulian)

The Tall T (Budd Boetticher)

3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves)

The Tin Star (Anthony Mann)

The 27th Day (William Asher)

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)

Yantra (James Whitney)

1958

Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda)

Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher)

Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu)

The Fat Man (Joseph H. Lewis)

The Fearmakers (Jacques Tourneur)

The Geisha Boy (Frank Tashlin)

Gigi (Vincente Minnelli)

Gunman's Walk (Phil Karlson)

High School Confidential! (Jack Arnold)

Indiscreet (Stanley Donen)

The Last Hurrah (John Ford)

Man of the West (Anthony Mann)

Merry Andrew (Michael Kidd)

Mon oncle (Jacques Tati)

The Naked and the Dead (Raoul Walsh)

The Reluctant Debutante (Vincente Minnelli)

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (Raoul Walsh)

I soliti ignoti / Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli)

The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)

Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph H. Lewis)

A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk)

Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)

The Two-Headed Spy (André De Toth)

Two Men and a Wardrobe (Roman Polanski)

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)

Witness For the Prosecution (Billy Wilder)

1959

The Alligator People (Roy Del Ruth)

The Beast From Haunted Cave (Monte Hellman)

The Black Orchid (Martin Ritt)

Cat's Cradle (Stan Brakhage)

The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller)

Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)

India Matri Bhumi (Roberto Rossellini)

Last Train from Gun Hill (John Sturges)

North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)

Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)

Plein soleil / Purple Noon (René Clément)

The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (Henry Levin)

Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)

Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)

Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli)

Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

The Tiger of Eschnapur & The Indian Tomb (Fritz Lang)

Westbound (Budd Boetticher)

The Wild and the Innocent (Jack Sher)

Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage)

1960

A bout de souffle / Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)

L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)

The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis)

Bells Are Ringing (Vincente Minnelli)

Beyond the Time Barrier (Edgar G. Ulmer)

Cimarron (Anthony Mann)

Classe tous risques (Claude Sautet)

Esther and the King (Raoul Walsh)

The Flower Thief (Ron Rice)

Hell to Eternity (Phil Karlson)

High Time (Blake Edwards)

Home From the Hill (Vincente Minnelli)

Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer)

The Lawbreakers (Joseph M. Newman)

Let's Make Love (George Cukor)

The Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman)

Night Tide (Curtis Harrington)

Pollyanna (David Swift)

Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (Budd Boetticher)

Sergeant Rutledge (John Ford)

The Third Voice (Hubert Cornfield)

The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)

Le Trou (Jacques Becker)

The Westerner: Brown / The Courtship of Libby / The Painting (Sam Peckinpah)

Wild River (Elia Kazan)

Zazie dans le métro (Louis Malle)

1961

The Absent-Minded Professor (Robert Stevenson)

Allures (Jordan Belson)

L'Année dernière à Marienbad / Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)

Bachelor in Paradise (Jack Arnold)

Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)

Catalog (John Whitney)

Cléo de 5 à 7 (Agnès Varda)

Divorce - Italian Style (Pietro Germi)

Une femme est une femme / A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)

The Great Impostor (Robert Mulligan)

Homicidal (William Castle)

Lover Come Back (Delbert Mann)

Murder, She Said (George Pollock)

La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)

One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)

The Pit and the Pendulum (Roger Corman)

Pocketful of Miracles (Frank Capra)

Il posto (Ermanno Olmi)

A Raisin in the Sun (Daniel Petrie)

Scream of Fear (Seth Holt)

Summer and Smoke (Peter Glenville)

Tammy Tell Me True (Harry Keller)

Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller)

You Need to Run Fast (Edward L. Cahn)

1962

Advise and Consent (Otto Preminger)

An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu)

Billy Rose's Jumbo (Charles Walters)

La Caporal épinglé / The Elusive Corporal (Jean Renoir)

L'Eclisse / The Eclipse (Michelangelo Antonioni)

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Vincente Minnelli)

Hatari! (Howard Hawks)

The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad)

In Search of the Castaways (Robert Stevenson)

It's Only Money (Frank Tashlin)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)

The Notorious Landlady (Richard Quine)

Otto e mezzo / 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)

Procès de Jeanne d'Arc / The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)

Ride The High Country (Sam Peckinpah)

1963

La Baie des anges / Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy)

The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)

A Boy Ten Feet Tall (Alexander Mackendrick)

The Cardinal (Otto Preminger)

Charade (Stanley Donen)

I compagni / The Organizer (Mario Monicelli)

Donovan's Reef (John Ford)

I fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)

Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith)

Il gattopardo / The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)

George Dumpson's Place (Ed Emshwiller)

High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)

L'Homme de Rio / That Man from Rio (Philippe De Broca)

It Happened at the World's Fair (Norman Taurog)

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer)

Lilies of the Field (Ralph Nelson)

Mahanagar / The Big City (Satyajit Ray)

Le Mépris / Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)

Muriel (Alain Resnais)

The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)

The Raven (Roger Corman)

Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger)

Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)

A Ticklish Affair (George Sidney)

1964

Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Memo From Purgatory (Joseph Pevney)

Bande à part / Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)

The Brass Bottle (Harry Keller)

Charulata (Satyajit Ray)

Cheyenne Autumn (John Ford)

Culloden (Peter Watkins)

Daniel Boone: Pompey (Joseph H. Lewis)

Il deserto rosso / The Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)

Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage)

Father Goose (Ralph Nelson)

A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)

Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger)

Man's Favorite Sport? (Howard Hawks)

Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)

Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson)

The Moon-Spinners (James Neilson)

Murder Ahoy (George Pollock)

My Fair Lady (George Cukor)

The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller)

The Night Walker (William Castle)

The Outer Limits: episodes (Gerd Oswald)

Pale Flower (Shinoda Masahiro)

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg / The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Paradjanov)

A Shot in the Dark (Blake Edwards)

Straight-Jacket (William Castle)

The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Charles Walters)

1965

Baby the Rain Must Fall (Robert Mulligan)

Billie (Don Weis)

Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger)

Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein)

Compartiment tueurs / The Sleeping Car Murders (Constantin Costa-Gavras)

La decima vittima / The Tenth Victim (Elio Petri)

The Great Race (Blake Edwards)

Hagop Hovnatanian (Sergei Paradjanov)

The Heroes of Telemark (Anthony Mann)

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Robert Aldrich)

Man Is Not a Bird (Dusan Makavejev)

Oh Dem Watermelons (Robert Nelson)

Peyote Queen (Storm De Hirsch)

Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)

The Sandpiper (Vincente Minnelli)

Simón del desierto / Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)

Sins of the Fleshapoids (Mike Kuchar)

1966

Batman (Leslie Martinson)

Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)

Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)

Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Jean-Marie Straub, Danièlle Huillet)

Daisies (Vera Chytilová)

Fahrenheit 451 (François Truffaut)

Fantastic Voyage (Richard Fleischer)

The Fortune Cookie (Billy Wilder)

The Glass Bottom Boat (Frank Tashlin)

The Glass Menagerie (Michael Elliott)

The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly (Sergio Leone)

Hotel Paradiso (Peter Glenville)

I Love a Mystery (Leslie Stevens)

Katerina Izmailova (Mikhail Shapiro)

Lapis (James Whitney)

The Money Trap (Burt Kennedy)

Planet of Blood (Curtis Harrington)

La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV / The Rise of Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)

Ride the Whirlwind (Monte Hellman)

The Secret of Wendel Samson (Mike Kuchar)

Seven Women (John Ford)

The Shooting (Monte Hellman)

Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki)

Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Trouble With Angels (Ida Lupino)

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (Blake Edwards)

The Wrong Box (Bryan Forbes)

1967

Annie Get Your Gun (Clark Jones, Jack Sydow)

The Awful Backlash (Robert Nelson)

Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel)

Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)

Caprice (Frank Tashlin)

The Champagne Murders (Claude Chabrol)

The Comedians (Peter Glenville)

Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)

A Countess From Hong Kong (Charlie Chaplin)

The Craven Sluck (Mike Kuchar)

Da uomo a uomo / Death Rides a Horse (Giulio Petroni)

Doctor, You've Got to be Kidding (Peter Tewksbury)

El Dorado (Howard Hawks)

Eye Myth (Stan Brakhage)

Games (Curtis Harrington)

In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison)

Play Time (Jacques Tati)

Samadhi (Jordan Belson)

Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville)

Star Trek: 14 episodes (Joseph Pevney)

Thoroughly Modern Millie (George Roy Hill)

A Time for Burning (William C. Jersey)

To Sir, With Love (James M. Clavell)

Le Voleur (Louis Malle)

Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard)

The World of Kurt Weill (Marc Daniels)

1968

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (Joe McGrath)

Boom! (Joseph Losey)

Charlie Bubbles (Albert Finney)

The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Paradjanov)

A Dandy in Aspic (Anthony Mann)

The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)

Je t'aime, je t'aime (Alain Resnais)

Madigan (Don Siegel)

The Money Jungle (Francis D. Lyons)

OffOn (Scott Bartlett)

Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner)

The Power (Byron Haskin)

Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli)

Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)

Song of Summer: Delius (Ken Russell)

Targets (Peter Bogdanovich)

Toby Dammit (Federico Fellini)

2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)

1969

The Damned (Luchino Visconti)

Double Suicide (Shinoda Masahiro)

80 Steps to Jonah (Gerd Oswald)

Eye of the Cat (David Lowell Rich)

Fellini Satyricon (Federico Fellini)

Une Femme douce (Robert Bresson)

The Night of the Following Day (Hubert Cornfield)

Our Lady of the Sphere (Larry Jordan)

Run a Crooked Mile (Gene Levitt)

Topaz (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Trouble With Girls (Peter Tewksbury)

Women in Love (Ken Russell)

Z (Constantin Costa-Gavras)

1970

The Andersonville Trial (George C. Scott)

L'Aveu / The Confession (Constantin Costa-Gavras)

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah)

Bleu Shut (Robert Nelson)

Le Cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)

The Clowns (Federico Fellini)

Darling Lili (Blake Edwards)

The Go-Between (Joseph Losey)

Goddess Dancers of Cambodia (Faubion Bowers)

How Awful About Allan (Curtis Harrington)

Little Big Man (Arthur Penn)

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Vincente Minnelli)

Rio Lobo (Howard Hawks)

The Spider's Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci)

S:tream:S S:ection S:ection:S S:ectioned (Paul J. Sharits)

Trafic (Jacques Tati)

Trash (Paul Morrissey)

Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)

1971

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Robert Stevenson, Ward Kimball)

The Boy Friend (Ken Russell)

Le Chagrin et la pitié / The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls)

Dead Men Tell No Tales (Walter Grauman)

Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti)

A Death of Innocence (Paul Wendkos)

Deus Ex (Stan Brakhage)

Escape! (John Llewellyn Moxey)

The Face of Fear (George McCowan)

Gumshoe (Stephen Frears)

Hannie Caulder (Burt Kennedy)

Incident in San Francisco (Don Medford)

A New Leaf (Elaine May)

Revenge! (Jud Taylor)

Such Good Friends (Otto Preminger)

Support Your Local Gunfighter (Burt Kennedy)

Ten Days Wonder (Claude Chabrol)

Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)

Von Richthofen and Brown (Roger Corman)

What's the Matter With Helen? (Curtis Harrington)

Who Slew Auntie Roo? (Curtis Harrington)

WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev)

1972

Avanti! (Billy Wilder)

Call Her Mom (Jerry Paris)

Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (Samuel Fuller)

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)

Goodnight, My Love (Peter Hyams)

Heat (Paul Morrissey)

Home for the Holidays (John Llewellyn Moxey)

Junior Bonner (Sam Peckinpah)

Magic Carpet (William A. Graham)

The People (John Korty)

Pink Flamingos (John Waters)

Savage Messiah (Ken Russell)

1776 (Peter H. Hunt)

Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Travels With My Aunt (George Cukor)

What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich)

When the Legends Die (Stuart Millar)

The Wold Shadow (Stan Brakhage)

1973

American Graffiti (George Lucas)

Bang the Drum Slowly (John Hancock)

Birds of Prey (William A. Graham)

The Cat Creature (Curtis Harrington)

Catholics (Jack Gold)

A Doll's House (Joseph Losey)

The Fabulous Dr. Fable (Bernard Girard)

Light (Jordan Belson)

La Nuit américaine / Day For Night (François Truffaut)

Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)

Sleeper (Woody Allen)

Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer)

The Sting (George Roy Hill)

The Train Robbers (Burt Kennedy)

1974

Amy Prentiss: Baptism of Fire (Jeffrey Hayden)

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (John Korty)

Daisy Miller (Peter Bogdanovich)

Lancelot du lac / Lancelot of the Lake (Robert Bresson)

The Longest Yard (Robert Aldrich)

Mahler (Ken Russell)

The Nickel Ride (Robert Mulligan)

The Nine Tailors (Raymond Menmuir)

The Questor Tapes (Richard A. Colla)

Stavisky (Alain Resnais)

A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)