Lovely by Surprise (2007)

Highly Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Writer/Director: Kirt Gunn

Cinematographer: Steve Yedlin

Composer: Shelby Bryant

Cast: Carrie Preston, Michael Chernus, Austin Pendleton, Dallas Roberts, Reg Rogers, Kate Burton, Richard Masur

Gunn’s beautifully acted and distinctively shot Kaufmanesque debut, combining three intertwining narratives (a woman struggles to kill off the main protagonist of her novel, her characters struggle to exist in and out of their fictional world, and a doleful car salesman struggles to deal with the loss of his wife) is a funny, imaginative, and very moving examination of loss and grief and the redemptive possibilities of the artistic process. Iain.Stott

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A Night at the Opera (1935)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Sam Wood

Writers: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, James Kevin McGuinness

Cinematographer: Merritt B. Gerstad

Composer: Herbert Stothart

Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Walter King, Siegfried Rumann, Margaret Dumont, Edward Keane, Robert Emmett O'Connor

Although probably the best of their post-Paramount work, and an hilarious film by itself, this entertaining yet overlong movie, in which Grouch, Chico, and Harpo cause havoc on an ocean liner and at the titular theatrical event, proves to be, never the less, merely diluted Marxian madness – if only we could cull all the non-Marx musical numbers and romantic nonsense that get in the way of the good stuff. Iain.Stott

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L'Argent (1928)

Recommended

France

Feature Film

Original Title: L'argent

Director: Marcel L'Herbier

Writers: Arthur Bernède, Marcel L'Herbier, Émile Zola

Cinematographers: Louis Berte, Jules Kruger, Jean Letort

Composer: Jean-François Zygel (2008)

Cast: Pierre Alcover, Marie Glory, Brigitte Helm, Henry Victor, Alfred Abel

Featuring a number of excellent performances – Alcover as an ill-dealing fat-cat, Glory as an angelic innocent, and Helm as a sexy femme fatale – L’Herbier’s visually arresting adaptation of Zola’s novel about fraud and deception in Parisian big business proves to be a gripping and unsettling work, which has had a great deal of influence on subsequent generations of film-makers. Iain.Stott

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Sons of the Desert (1933)

Essential Viewing

USA

Short Feature Film

Director: William A. Seiter

Writer: Frank Craven

Cinematographer: Kenneth Peach

Composer: Marvin Hatley

Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Dorothy Christy, Charley Chase

Laurel & Hardy’s finest feature (in fact, the only one of comparable quality to the best of their short works) – in which Ollie feigns illness in order for him and Stan to attend a convention of the eponymous lodge, in Chicago, whilst their wives think they are on a cruise to Honolulu – is a trouser soilingly funny film from beginning to end, without a single wasted moment, which also boasts perhaps Stan Laurel’s greatest performance (which is no mean feat). Iain.Stott

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Silence (1971)

Recommended

Japan

Feature Film

Original Title: 沈黙

Director: Shinoda Masahiro

Writers: Endo Shusaku, Shinoda Masahiro

Cinematographer: Miyagawa Kazuo

Composer: Takemitsu Tōru

Cast: David Lampson, Don Kenny, Matsuhashi Noboru, Kato Yoshi, Iwamatsu Mako

Shinoda’s film about humanism’s battle against the evils of religious fanaticism, religious persecution, and martyrdom - in which a pair of Portuguese Jesuit priests land on the shores of 17th century Japan, where Christianity is banned, attempting to spread the word of Jesus, but end up captured by the authorities - is a fascinating, harrowing, and uncompromising work. Iain.Stott

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F for Fake (1974)

Highly Recommended

France/Iran/West Germany

Feature Documentary

Original Title: ?: About Fakes

Director: Orson Welles

Writer: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar

Cinematographer: François Reichenbach

Composer: Michel Legrand

Featuring: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving

Welles’s final film is a documentary of and about fraud and fakery, taking a look at the art forger Elmyr de Hory, notorious biographer Clifford Irving, as well as at Welles himself, which proves to be a fun, playful, and absorbing look at the role of the artist in a capitalist society. Iain.Stott

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Killer of Sheep (1977)

Highly Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Writer/Director/Cinematographer: Charles Burnett

Cast: Henry Gayle Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy, Angela Burnett, Eugene Cherry, Jack Drummond

Taking an episodic view of everyday working class life in Los Angeles, portraying work (bleak), play (joyously authentic), and familial relationships (touchingly credible), Burnett’s ultra low budget feature debut, despite some slightly amateurish acting in some of the supporting roles, is an entrancing, poetic, and thoroughly convincing portrait of ordinary lives. Iain.Stott

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The One-Line Review Presents “1000 Films from the First Century of Cinema that Every Self-Respecting Film-Buff Should See at Least Once”

• Assassination (1964)
• Audition/Talent Competition (1964)
• Bande à Part (1964)
• Before the Revolution (1964)
• Black God, White Devil (1964)
• Charulata - The Lonely Wife (1964)
• Culloden (1964)
• Dog Star Man (1962-1964)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• Gertrud (1964)
• The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
• A Hard Day's Night (1964)
• I Am Cuba (1964)
• The Killers (1964)
• Kwaidan (1964)
• Marnie (1964)
• My Fair Lady (1964)
• Onibaba (1964)
• The Red Desert (1964)
• Scorpio Rising (1964)
• Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
• Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
• A Shot in the Dark (1964)
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
• Une Femme Mariée (1964)
• Woman of the Dunes (1964)
• A Blonde in Love (1965)
• Chimes at Midnight (1965)
• Doctor Zhivago (1965)
• Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
• Fists in the Pocket (1965)
• Intimate Lighting (1965)
• The Ipcress File (1965)
• My Way Home (1965)
• Pierrot le Fou (1965)
• Red Beard (1965)
• Repulsion (1965)
• The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
• The Shameless Old Lady (1965)
• The Shop on Main Street (1965)
• The Sound of Music (1965)
• Sword of the Beast (1965)
• The War Game (1965)
• Andrei Rublev (1966)
• Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
• The Battle of Algiers (1966)
• Blow Up (1966)
• Chelsea Girls (1966)
• Closely Observed Trains (1966)
• Daisies (1966)
• The Face of Another (1966)
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
• Hunger (1966)
• Masculine, Feminine (1966)
• The Naked Prey (1966)
• Paddle to the Sea (1966)
• The Party and the Guests (1966)
• Patriotism (1966)
• Persona (1966)
• Red Angel (1966)
• The Round-Up (1966)
• Seconds (1966)
• The Sword of Doom (1966)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
• Belle de Jour (1967)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• Branded to Kill (1967)
• A Colt Is My Passport (1967)
• Cool Hand Luke (1967)
• David Holzman's Diary (1967)
• Dont Look Back (1967)
• Elvira Madigan (1967)
• The Firemen's Ball (1967)
• For the First Time (1967)
• The Graduate (1967)
• Happy Gypsies (1967)
• In Cold Blood (1967)
• In the Heat of the Night (1967)
• Marketa Lazarova (1967)
• Mouchette (1967)
• Playtime (1967)
• Point Blank (1967)
• The Red and the White (1967)
• Le Samourai (1967)
• Two or Three Things I Know about Her (1967)
• Le Vieil Homme et l'Enfant (1967)
• War and Peace (1967)
• Wavelength (1967)
• Weekend (1967)
• The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
• Baldwin's Nigger (1968)
• Carry On Up the Khyber (1968)
• The Colour of Pomegranates (1968)
• L'Enfance Nue (1968)
• Faces (1968)
• The Hour of the Furnaces (1968)
• Hour of the Wolf (1968)
• The Human Bullet (1968)
• I Am Curious - Yellow/Blue (1967-68)
• If... (1968)
• Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• The Odd Couple (1968)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Que la Bête Meure (1969)
• Rosemary's Baby (1968)
• Salesman (1968)
• Shame (1968)
• Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (1968)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• The Army in the Shadows (1969)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
• The Cremator (1969)
• Easy Rider (1969)
• Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
• Kes (1969)
• Medium Cool (1969)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969)
• The Milky Way (1969)
• My Night with Maud (1969)
• The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
• A Touch of Zen (1969)
• The Wild Bunch (1969)
• Z (1969)
• Le Boucher (1970)
• Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
• Claire's Knee (1970)
• The Conformist (1970)
• The Ear (1970)
• Five Easy Pieces (1970)
• Gimme Shelter (1970)
• The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
• MASH (1970)
• Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (1970)
• Patton (1970)
• Performance (1970)
• A Swedish Love Story (1970)
• Tristana (1970)
• Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
• The Wild Child (1970)
• Blanche (1971)
• A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• Death in Venice (1971)
• The Devils (1971)
• The Emigrants (1971)
• The French Connection (1971)
• Harold and Maude (1971)
• The Hired Hand (1971)
• The Last Picture Show (1971)
• Love (1971)
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
• Out 1 (1971)
• Punishment Park (1971)
• Le Souffle au Coeur (1971)
• Straw Dogs (1971)
• Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
• The Third Part of the Night (1971)
• Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
• W.R. – Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
• Walkabout (1971)
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• Cabaret (1972)
• Cries and Whispers (1972)
• Deliverance (1972)
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
• The Goat Horn (1972)
• The Harder They Come (1972)
• Last Tango in Paris (1972)
• Pink Flamingos (1972)
• Red Psalm (1972)
• Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)
• The Ruling Class (1972)
• Solaris (1972)
• Themroc (1972)
• Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)
• Amarcord (1973)
• American Graffiti (1973)
• Badlands (1973)
• Day for Night (1973)
• The Devil in Miss Jones (1973)
• Don't Look Now (1973)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• Fantastic Planet (1973)
• The Holy Mountain (1973)
• The Long Goodbye (1973)
• Mean Streets (1973)
• The Mother and the Whore (1973)
• O Lucky Man! (1973)
• A River Called Titas (1973)
• Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
• The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
• Turkish Delight (1973)
• The Wicker Man (1973)
• Alice in the Cities (1974)
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
• Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)
• Chinatown (1974)
• The Conversation (1974)
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
• F for Fake (1974)
• Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
• Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait (1974)
• Hearts and Minds (1974)
• Lacombe Lucien (1974)
• The Night Porter (1974)
• The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
• A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
• Young Frankenstein (1974)
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• The Beast (1975)
• A Boy and His Dog (1975)
• Dersu Uzala (1975)
• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
• Fox and His Friends (1975)
• India Song (1975)
• Jaws (1975)
• Jeanne Dielman (1975)
• Manila in the Claws of Neon (1975)
• Mirror (1975)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
• Nashville (1975)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• Overlord (1975)
• The Passenger (1975)
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
• Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
• Seven Beauties (1975)
• Sholay (1975)
• Smile (1975)
• The Travelling Players (1975)
• Under the Cherry Blossoms (1975)
• All the President's Men (1976)
• Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
• Carrie (1976)
• Cria Cuervos (1976)
• Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
• In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
• The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
• Kings of the Road (1976)
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
• The Man on the Roof (1976)
• The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
• Network (1976)
• 1900 (1976)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• The Tenant (1976)
• Annie Hall (1977)
• The Ascent (1977)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• Eraserhead (1977)
• Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)
• Killer of Sheep (1977)
• The Lace-maker (1977)
• Man of Marble (1977)
• Soldier of Orange (1977)
• Stroszek (1977)
• Suspiria (1977)
• That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
• 3 Women (1977)
• Autumn Sonata (1978)
• The Bill Douglas Trilogy (1972-1978)
• The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
• Dawn of the Dead (1978)
• Days of Heaven (1978)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• Fingers (1978)
• Gates of Heaven (1978)
• Halloween (1978)
• In the Year of the 13 Moons (1978)
• The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
• Alien (1979)
• All That Jazz (1979)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Being There (1979)
• Breaking Away (1979)
• Buffet Froid (1979)
• Doomed Love (1979)
• The Herd (1979)
• Manhattan (1979)
• The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
• Messidor (1979)
• Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)
• The Muppet Movie (1979)
• Scum (1979)
• Stalker (1979)
• The Tin Drum (1979)
• Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
• Airplane! (1980)
• Atlantic City (1980)
• Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
• The Big Red One (1980)
• 'Breaker' Morant (1980)
• The Elephant Man (1980)
• Germany, Pale Mother (1980)
• Heaven's Gate (1980)
• The Long Good Friday (1980)
• Radio On (1980)
• Raging Bull (1980)
• The Shining (1980)
• Stardust Memories (1980)
• Who's Singing Over There? (1980)
• An American Werewolf in London (1981)
• Das Boot (1981)
• Christiane F. (1981)
• Coup de Torchon (1981)
• The Evil Dead (1981)
• Gregory's Girl (1981)
• The Inquisitor (1981)
• Mephisto (1981)
• Pixote (1981)
• Prince of the City (1981)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• Rat-Trap (1981)
• Another Way (1982)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• Burden of Dreams (1982)
• Dimensions of Dialogue (1982)
• E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• Fanny and Alexander (1982)
• Fitzcarraldo (1982)
• Interrogation (1982)
• The King of Comedy (1982)
• The Night of San Lorenzo (1982)
• The Worthless (1982)
• Antarctica (1983)
• L'Argent (1983)
• Ballad of Narayama (1983)
• El Norte (1983)
• Local Hero (1983)
• Nostalgia (1983)
• Sans Soleil (1983)
• Scarface (1983)
• The Star Wars Trilogy (1977-1983)
• To Our Loves (1983)
• Videodrome (1983)
• Amadeus (1984)
• Blood Simple (1984)
• Choose Me (1984)
• Diary for My Children (1984)
• Gremlins (1984)
• Heimat (1984)
• The Hit (1984)
• The Killing Fields (1984)
• Love Streams (1984)
• My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1984)
• Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
• Paris, Texas (1984)
• Sexmission (1984)
• Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
• The Terence Davies Trilogy (1984)
• The Terminator (1984)
• This is Spinal Tap (1984)
• After Hours (1985)
• Brazil (1985)
• Come and See (1985)
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
• Police (1985)
• The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
• Ran (1985)
• Shoah (1985)
• The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985)
• Vagabond (1985)
• Blue Velvet (1986)
• Down by Law (1986)
• The Girl from Hunan (1986)
• The Green Ray (1986)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
• Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
• River's Edge (1986)
• The Sacrifice (1986)
• Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
• Evil Dead II (1987)
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)
• House of Games (1987)
• Matewan (1987)
• Partition (1987)
• Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
• Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
• Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)
• Walker (1987)
• Where Is My Friend's House? (1987)
• Wings of Desire (1987)
• Withnail & I (1987)
• Cinema Paradiso (1988)
• Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
• Days of Eclipse (1988)
• Dead Ringers (1988)
• Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
• Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
• Landscape in the Mist (1988)
• A Short Film about Killing (1988)
• The Thin Blue Line (1988)
• Time of the Gypsies (1988)
• The Vanishing (1988)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
• Bashu, the Little Stranger (1989)
• Black Rain (1989)
• Celia (1989)
• A City of Sadness (1989)
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover (1989)
• Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
• For All Mankind (1989)
• Heathers (1989)
• Jesus of Montreal (1989)
• The Killer (1989)
• Monsieur Hire (1989)
• Roger & Me (1989)
• The Seventh Continent (1989)
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
• Black Snow (1990)
• Close-Up (1990)
• Days of Being Wild (1990)
• Dekalog (1989-1990)
• The Godfather Trilogy (1972-1990)
• Goodfellas (1990)
• The Match Factory Girl (1990)
• Metropolitan (1990)
• Miller's Crossing (1990)
• No Fear, No Die (1990)
• Trust (1990)
• Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)
• And Life Goes On... (1991)
• Barton Fink (1991)
• La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
• A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
• Delicatessen (1991)
• The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
• Europa (1991)
• Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
• Paris Trout (1991)
• Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Slacker (1991)
• Van Gogh (1991)
• Bad Lieutenant (1992)
• Braindead (1992)
• Careful (1992)
• The Crying Game (1992)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
• Heimat 2 (1992)
• In the Land of the Deaf (1992)
• The Long Day Closes (1992)
• Monster in a Box (1992)
• Orlando (1992)
• The Player (1992)
• Reservoir Dogs (1992)
• Un Coeur en Hiver (1992)
• Unforgiven (1992)
• Abraham Valley (1993)
• Blue (1993)
• Clean, Shaven (1993)
• Cronos (1993)
• Farewell My Concubine (1993)
• Flesh and Bone (1993)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• Naked (1993)
• Palms (1993)
• The Piano (1993)
• The Puppetmaster (1993)
• The Remains of the Day (1993)
• Schindler's List (1993)
• Short Cuts (1993)
• Sonatine (1993)
• The Wrong Trousers (1993)
• Before the Rain (1994)
• Burnt by the Sun (1994)
• Chungking Express (1994)
• Clerks (1994)
• Crumb (1994)
• L'Eau Froide (1994)
• Ed Wood (1994)
• Exotica (1994)
• Hoop Dreams (1994)
• The Kingdom (1994)
• The Last Seduction (1994)
• London (1994)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Sátántango (1994)
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• The Three Colours Trilogy (1993-1994)
• Through the Olive Trees (1994)
• To Live (1994)
• Vive l'Amour (1994)
• Before Sunrise (1995)
• Cold Fever (1995)
• Cyclo (1995)
• Dead Man (1995)
• La Haine (1995)
• Heat (1995)
• Kicking and Screaming (1995)
• Safe (1995)
• Salaam Cinema (1995)
• Toy Story (1995)
• Underground (1995)
• Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)

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See also:

Jonathan Rosenbaum's 1000 Essential Films

Have You Seen...? - a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films by David Thomson

The New York Times: The Best 1000 Movies Ever Made

They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?

Halliwell's Top 1000 Movies

The Guardian: 1000 Films to See Before You Die

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

Guide for the Film Fanatic by Danny Peary

Piero Scaruffi’s The Best Films of all Times

1000 DVDs to See

Sanderson Beck’s List of the 1,000 Greatest Movies in Alphabetical Order

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The One-Line Review Presents “1000 Films from the First Century of Cinema that Every Self-Respecting Film-Buff Should See at Least Once”

I present a list, not of my own personal favourites, but a list of films that every serious filmlover should really see at least once. In fact, I rather disliked a number of films on the list, and many more were little more than diverting, but they are all films that have many admirers and/or have great historical or social value. And furthermore, I didn’t include many films that I admire greatly, simply because I am perhaps in the minority in doing so. That’s not to say that some subjectivity hasn’t crept in to my selection making, but for the most part, this is a list that goes some way towards definitiveness, or at least reaches for it in a fairly honest way.

Film-makers, actors, genres, major film-producing nations, movements – just about everything is covered. Of course, there’s bound to be one or two eyebrow raising omissions and the odd dubious inclusion, but for the most part this is a list that few will find inaccurate when measured against its rather inelegant but precise title.

• Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895)
• Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896)
• The Kiss (1896)
• Explosion of a Motor Car (1900)
• A Trip to the Moon (1902)
• The Great Train Robbery (1903)
• The Red Spectre (1907)
• Little Nemo and the Princess (1911)
• Cabiria (1914)
• After Death (1915)
• The Birth of a Nation (1915)
• Intolerance (1916)
• Les Vampires (1915-1916)
• Easy Street (1917)
• Broken Blossoms (1919)
• The Oyster Princess (1919)
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
• Destiny (1921)
• The Phantom Carriage (1921)
• Cops (1922)
• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
• Häxan (1922)
• Nanook of the North (1922)
• Nosferatu (1922)
• Our Hospitality (1923)
• Safety Last! (1923)
• Girl Shy (1924)
• Greed (1924)
• The Last Laugh (1924)
• Die Nibelungen (1924)
• Sherlock Jr. (1924)
• Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• The Big Parade (1925)
• The Gold Rush (1925)
• Seven Chances (1925)
• Strike (1925)
• The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
• Faust (1926)
• Berlin, Symphony of a City (1927)
• The General (1927)
• Metropolis (1927)
• Napoleon (1927)
• The Red Mill (1927)
• Sunrise (1927)
• L'Argent (1928)
• The Cameraman (1928)
• The Crowd (1928)
• October (1928)
• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
• Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
• The Wedding March (1928)
• The Wind (1928)
• Asphalt (1929)
• Big Business (1929)
• Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
• Pandora’s Box (1929)
• The Skeleton Dance (1929)
• Un Chien Andalou (1929)
• L'Âge d'Or (1930)
• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• The Blue Angel (1930)
• Borderline (1930)
• Earth (1930)
• People on Sunday (1930)
• Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)
• La Chienne (1931)
• City Lights (1931)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• M (1931)
• Le Million (1931)
• À Nous la Liberté (1931)
• The Public Enemy (1931)
• Tabu (1931)
• Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
• Freaks (1932)
• Free Wheeling (1932)
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
• I Was Born, But... (1932)
• Love Me Tonight (1932)
• The Music Box (1932)
• Scarface (1932)
• Trouble in Paradise (1932)
• Vampyr (1932)
• Duck Soup (1933)
• 42nd Street (1933)
• King Kong (1933)
• Land Without Bread (1933)
• Liebelei (1933)
• Queen Christina (1933)
• Sons of the Desert (1933)
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
• Three Little Pigs (1933)
• Zéro de Conduite (1933)
• L'Atalante (1934)
• It Happened One Night (1934)
• It's a Gift (1934)
• The Scarlet Empress (1934)
• The Sea Horse (1934)
• The Thin Man (1934)
• Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• Les Misérables (1935)
• Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
• A Night at the Opera (1935)
• The 39 Steps (1935)
• Tit for Tat (1935)
• Top Hat (1935)
• Triumph of the Will (1935)
• The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
• Dodsworth (1936)
• Fury (1936)
• How to Vote (1936)
• Modern Times (1936)
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
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• The Silence (1963)
• This Sporting Life (1963)
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