Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
Last Laugh, The (F.W. Murnau, 1924)
Greed [4 hr. cut] (Erich von Stroheim, 1925)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
Passion of Joan of Arc, The (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)

1930s

City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)
Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch, 1933)
Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The (Fritz Lang, 1933)
L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936)
Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937)
Rules of the Game, The (Jean Renoir, 1939)
Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)
Wizard of Oz, The (Victor Fleming, 1939)

1940s

Shop Around the Corner, The (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
To Be or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
This Land is Mine (Jean Renoir, 1943)
At Land (Maya Deren, 1944)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Sergei Eisenstein, 1944)
Big Sleep, The (Howard Hawks, 1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
Shoe-Shine (Vittorio De Sica, 1946)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (John Huston, 1948)

1950s

In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
Miss Julie (Alf Sjöberg, 1951)
Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951)
Life of Oharu, The (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)
On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray, 1952)
Earrings of Madame de..., The (Max Ophuls, 1953)
Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, 1953)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955)
Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955)
Burmese Harp, The (Kon Ichikawa, 1956)
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)
Wrong Man, The (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956)
Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray, 1957)
Bridge on the River Kwai, The (David Lean, 1957)
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)
Seventh Seal, The (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

1960s

L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
Shoot the Piano Player (Truffaut, 1960)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960)
Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1962)
Manchurian Candidate, The (John Frankenheimer, 1962)
My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
Trial, The (Orson Welles, 1962)
8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)
An Actor's Revenge (Kon Ichikawa, 1963)
Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
Shop on Main Street, The (Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, 1965)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel, 1967)
Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967)
Graduate, The (Mike Nichols, 1967)
Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967)
Playtime (Jaques Tati, 1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
Une Femme Douce (Robert Bresson, 1969)

1970s

Conformist, The (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
Godfather, The (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
Conversation, The (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Godfather Part II, The (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
Deep Red (Dario Argento, 1975)
Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa, 1975)
Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker, 1977/2002)
That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel, 1977)
Days of Heaven (Terence Malick, 1978)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
The Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979)
Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979)

1980s

Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, 1980)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980)
Empire Strikes Back, The (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
Shining, The (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
The Road Warrior (George Miller, 1981)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982)
Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1983)
L'Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)
Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983)
Blood Simple (Joel Coen, 1984)
NeverEnding Story, The (Wolfgang Petersen, 1984)
Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Decalogue, The (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1987)
Raising Arizona (Joel Coen, 1987)
Where is My Friend's House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988)
Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The (Terry Gilliam, 1988)
Thin Blue Line, The (Errol Morris, 1988)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
Seventh Continent, The (Michael Haneke, 1989)

1990s

Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard, 1990)
Trust (Hal Hartley, 1990)
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991)
Last of the Mohicans, The (Michael Mann, 1992)
Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992)
Player, The (Robert Altman, 1992)
Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993)
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
Three Colors: Red (Krzyzstof Kieslowski, 1994)
Cyclo (Tran Anh Hung, 1995)
Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
Underground (Emir Kusturica, 1995)
Mother & Son (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1997)
Sweet Hereafter, The (Atom Egoyan, 1997)
Histoire(s) du Cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, 1998)
Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999)
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
Rosetta (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 1999)

2000s

Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, 2000)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, 2000)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
Royal Tenenbaums, The (Wes Anderson, 2001)
25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
Decasia (Bill Morrison, 2002)
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2002)
Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney, 2003)
Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003)
Spider (David Cronenberg, 2003)
Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2004)
Millennium Mambo (Hsiao-Hsien Hou, 2004)
Last Days (Gus Van Sant, 2005)
New World, The (Terrence Malick, 2005)
L'Intrus/The Intruder (Claire Denis, 2006)
I'm Not There (Haynes, 2007)
There Will Be Blood (Anderson, 2007)