Top Ranked 1000 Films - Alphabetical
Here's the Top 1011 films in alphabetical order.
© 2009, William L. Sinclair
- 12 Angry Men (1957) - Lumet, Sidney
- 1900 (1976) - Bertolucci, Bernardo
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Kubrick, Stanley
- 39 Steps, The (1935) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- 4 Little Girls (1997) - Lee, Spike
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) - Mungiu, Cristian
- 400 Blows, The (1959) - Truffaut, François
- 42 UP (1998) - Apted, Michael
- 42nd Street (1933) - Bacon, Lloyd
- 47 Ronin, The (1962) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
- 8½ (1963) - Fellini, Federico
- À nous la liberté (1931) - Clair, René
- Accattone (1961) - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- Ace in the Hole (1951) - Wilder, Billy
- Actor's Revenge, An (1963) - Ichikawa, Kon
- Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938) - Curtiz, Michael/William Keighley
- Affair to Remember, An (1957) - McCarey, Leo
- African Queen, The (1951) - Huston, John
- After Hours (1985) - Scorsese, Martin
- Age of Innocence, The (1993) - Scorsese, Martin
- Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) - Herzog, Werner
- Alexander Nevsky (1938) - Eisenstein, Sergei
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1971) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
- Alice in the Cities (1974) - Wenders, Wim
- Alien (1979) - Scott, Ridley
- Aliens (1986) - Cameron, James
- All About Eve (1950) - Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
- All About My Mother (1999) - Almodóvar, Pedro
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) - Milestone, Lewis
- All That Heaven Allows (1955) - Sirk, Douglas
- All That Jazz (1979) - Fosse, Bob
- All the President's Men (1976) - Pakula, Alan J.
- Almost Famous (2000) - Crowe, Cameron
- Alphaville (1965) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Amadeus (1984) - Forman, Milos
- Amants du Pont-Neuf, Les (1991) - Carax, Lèos
- Amarcord (1973) - Fellini, Federico
- America, America (1963) - Kazan, Elia
- American Beauty (1999) - Mendes, Sam
- American Graffiti (1973) - Lucas, George
- American History X (1998) - Kaye, Tony
- American Splendor (2003) - Berman, Shari, and Pulcini, Robert
- Amores perros (2000) - Inarritu
- An Actor's Revenge (1963) - Ichikawa, Kon
- An American in Paris (1951) - Minnelli, Vincente
- Anatahan (1953) - von Sternberg, Josef
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Preminger, Otto
- And Life Goes On (1991) - Kiarostami, Abbas
- Andrei Rublev (1966) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
- Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (1991) - Workman, Chuck
- Angel (1937) - Lubitsch, Ernst
- Angel at My Table, An (1990) - Campion, Jane
- Annie Hall (1977) - Allen, Woody
- Antonio das Mortes (1969) - Rocha, Glauber
- Aparajito (1956) - Ray, Satyajit
- Apartment, The (1960) - Wilder, Billy
- Apocalypse Now (1979) - Coppola, Francis
- Arabian Nights (1974) - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- Argent, L' (1983) - Bresson, Robert
- Army of Shadows (1969) - Melville, Jean-Pierre
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) - Capra, Frank
- Art of Vision, The (1965) - Brakhage, Stan
- Ashes and Diamonds (1958) - Wajda, Andrzej
- Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) - Huston, John
- Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) - Carpenter, John
- Atlantic City (1980) - Malle, Louis
- Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) - Bresson, Robert
- Autumn Afternoon, An (1962) - Ozu, Yasujiro
- Away from Her (2006) - Polley, Sarah
- Awful Truth, The (1937) - McCarey, Leo
- Back to the Future (1985) - Zemeckis, Robert
- Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952) - Minnelli, Vincente
- Bad Timing (1980) - Roeg, Nicolas
- Badlands (1973) - Malick, Terrence
- Bambi (1942) - Hand, David
- Band of Outsiders (1964) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Band Wagon, The (1953) - Minnelli, Vincente
- Bande à part (1964) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Bank Dick, The (1940) - Cline, Edward F.
- Barefoot Contessa, The (1954) - Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
- Barren Lives (1963) - Dos Santos, Nelson Pereira
- Barry Lyndon (1975) - Kubrick, Stanley
- Barton Fink (1991) - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen
- Batman Begins (2005) - Nolan, Christopher
- Battle of Algiers, The (1966) - Pontecorvo, Gillo
- Battleship Potemkin (1925) - Eisenstein, Sergei
- Beau Travail (1998) - Denis, Claire
- Before Night Falls (2000) - Schnabel, Julian
- Before Sunset (2004) - Linklater, Richard
- Being John Malkovich (1999) - Jonze, Spike
- Being There (1979) - Ashby, Hal
- Belle de jour (1967) - Buñuel, Luis
- Belle et la bête, La (Beauty/Beast, 1946) - Cocteau, Jean
- Ben-Hur (1959) - Wyler, William
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
- Best of Youth, The (2003) - Giordana, Marco Tullio
- Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946) - Wyler, William
- Bête humaine, La (1938) - Renoir, Jean
- Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) - Meyer, Russ
- Bicycle Thief, The (1949) - De Sica, Vittorio
- Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) - Monicelli, Mario
- Big Fish (2003) - Burton, Tim
- Big Heat, The (1953) - Lang, Fritz
- Big Lebowski, The (1998) - Coen, Ethan and Joel
- Big Parade, The (1925) - Vidor, King
- Big Sleep, The (1946) - Hawks, Howard
- Bigger Than Life (1956) - Ray, Nicholas
- Birds, The (1963) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Birth of a Nation, The (1915) - Griffith, D.W.
- Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The (1972) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
- Black God, White Devil (1964) - Rocha, Glauber
- Black Narcissus (1946) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
- Black Sunday (1977) - Bava, Mario
- Blade Runner (1982) - Scott, Ridley
- Blood of a Poet, The (1930) - Cocteau, Jean
- Bloody Sunday (2002) - Greengrass, Paul
- Blow Out (1981) - De Palma, Brian
- Blow-Up (1966) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
- Blue Angel, The (1930) - von Sternberg, Josef
- Blue Velvet (1986) - Lynch, David
- Bob le flambeur (1956) - Melville, Jean-Pierre
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Penn, Arthur
- Boogie Nights (1997) - Anderson, Paul Thomas
- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) - Charles, Larry
- Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) - Renoir, Jean
- Bourne Ultimatum, The (2007) - Greengrass, Paul
- Boys Don't Cry (1999) - Pierce, Kimberly
- Branded to Kill (1967) - Suzuki, Seijun
- Braveheart (1995) - Gibson, Mel
- Brazil (1985) - Gilliam, Terry
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - Edwards, Blake
- Breaking the Waves (1996) - von Trier, Lars
- Breathless (1959) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - Whale, James
- Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957) - Lean, David
- Brief Encounter (1945) - Lean, David
- Brighter Summer Day, A (1991) - Yang, Edward
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) - Peckinpah, Sam
- Bringing Up Baby (1938) - Hawks, Howard
- Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Lee, Ang
- Broken Blossoms (1919) - Griffith, D.W.
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - Hill, George Roy
- Cabaret (1972) - Fosse, Bob
- Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (1919) - Wiene, Robert
- Cameraman, The (1928) - Keaton, Buster/Edward Sedgwick
- Camille (1936) - Cukor, George
- Canterbury Tale, A (1944) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
- Capote (2005) - Miller, Bennett
- Capturing the Friedmans (2003) - Jarecki, Andrew
- Carnival in Flanders (1935) - Feyder, Jacques
- Carrie (1976) - De Palma, Brian
- Casablanca (1942) - Curtiz, Michael
- Casino (1995) - Scorsese, Martin
- Casque d'or (1952) - Becker, Jacques
- Cat People (1942) - Tourneur, Jacques
- Ceddo (1977) - Sembene, Ousmane
- Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974) - Rivette, Jacques
- Changeling (2008) - Eastwood, Clint
- Chant d'amour, Un (1950) - Genet, Jean
- Chariots of Fire (1981) - Hudson, Hugh
- Charulata (1964) - Ray, Satyajit
- Chelsea Girls (1967) - Warhol, Andy
- Chicken Run (2000) - Park, Nick & Lord, Peter
- Chien andalou, Un (1928) - Buñuel, Luis
- Children of Men (2006) - Merielles, Ferdinand
- Children Underground (2001) - Belzberg, Edet
- Chimes at Midnight (1966) - Welles, Orson
- Chinatown (1974) - Polanski, Roman
- Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, The (1968) - Straub, Jean-Marie
- Chungking Express (1994) - Wong Kar-Wai
- Cinema Paradiso (1988) - Tornatore, Giuseppe
- Circus, The (1928) - Chaplin, Charles
- Citizen Kane (1941) - Welles, Orson
- City Lights (1931) - Chaplin, Charles
- City of God(2002) - Meirelles, Fernando
- City of Sadness, A (1989) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Claire's Knee (1970) - Rohmer, Eric
- Class, The (2008) - Cantet, Laurent
- Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) - Varda, Agnès
- Clockwork Orange, A (1971) - Kubrick, Stanley
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - Spielberg, Steven
- Closely Watched Trains (1966) - Menzel, Jirí
- Close-Up (1990) - Kiarostami, Abbas
- Cloud-Capped Star, The (1960) - Ghatak, Ritwik
- Coeur en hiver, Un (1992) - Sautet, Claude
- Collectionneuse, La (1967) - Rohmer, Eric
- Colour of Pomegranate, The (Sayat Nova, 1968) - Parajanov, Sergei
- Come and See (1985) - Klimov, Elem
- Conformist, The (1970) - Bertolucci, Bernardo
- Contempt (1963) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Conversation, The (1974) - Coppola, Francis
- Cool Hand Luke (1967) - Rosenberg, Stuart
- Cranes Are Flying, The (1957) - Kalatozishvili, Mikheil
- Crash (1996) - Cronenberg, David
- Crash (2004/I) - Haggis, Paul
- Cries and Whispers (1972) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Crime of Monsieur Lange, The (1936) - Renoir, Jean
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) - Allen, Woody
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) - Lee, Ang
- Crowd, The (1928) - Vidor, King
- Crumb (1994) - Zwigoff, Terry
- Crying Game, The (1992) - Jordan, Neil
- Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The (2008) - Fincher, David
- Daisies (1966) - Chytilová, Vera
- Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Les (1945) - Bresson, Robert
- Damned, The (1969) - Visconti, Luchino
- Dangerous Liaisons (1988) - Frears, Stephen
- Dark Knight, The (2008) - Nolan, Christopher
- Das Boot (1981) - Peterson, Wolfgang
- Dawn of the Dead (1978) - Romero, George A.
- Day for Night (1973) - Truffaut, François
- Day of Wrath (1943) - Dreyer, Carl
- Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951) - Wise, Robert
- Days of Heaven (1978) - Malick, Terrence
- Dazed and Confused (1993) - Linklater, Richard
- Dead Man (1995) - Jarmusch, Jim
- Dead Poets Society (1989) - Weir, Peter
- Dead Ringers (1988) - Cronenberg, David
- Dead, The (1987) - Huston, John
- Death in Venice (1971) - Visconti, Luchino
- Deer Hunter, The (1978) - Cimino, Michael
- Dekalog (1988) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
- Deliver Us from Evil (2006) - Berg, Amy
- Deliverance (1972) - Boorman, John
- Departed, The (2007) - Scorsese, Martin
- Dersu Uzala (1975) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Design for Living (1933) - Lubitsch, Ernst
- Detour (1945) - Ulmer, Edgar G.
- Devil is a Woman, The (1935) - von Sternberg, Josef
- Devils, The (aka ..of Loudun, 1971) - Russell, Ken
- Diaboliques, Les (1955) - Clouzot, Henri-Georges
- Dial M for Murder (1954) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Diary of a Country Priest (1950) - Bresson, Robert
- Die Hard (1988) - McTiernan, John
- Diner (1982) - Levinson, Barry
- Dirty Harry (1971) - Siegel, Don
- Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (1972) - Buñuel, Luis
- Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) - Davies, Terence
- Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2008) - Schnabel, Julian
- Do The Right Thing (1989) - Lee, Spike
- Doctor Zhivago (1965) - Lean, David
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - Lumet, Sidney
- Dolce vita, La (1960) - Fellini, Federico
- Donnie Darko (2001) - Kelly, Richard
- Don't Look Back (1967) - Pennebaker, D.A.
- Don't Look Now (1973) - Roeg, Nicolas
- Double Indemnity (1944) - Wilder, Billy
- Double Life of Veronique, The (1991) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
- Down by Law (1986) - Jarmusch, Jim
- Downfall (2004) - Hirschbiegel, Oliver
- Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (1922) - Lang, Fritz
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) -Kubrick, Stanley
- Duck Soup (1933) - McCarey, Leo
- Duel in the Sun (1946) - Vidor, King
- Dumbo (1941) - Sharpsteen, Ben
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Spielberg, Steven
- Early Summer (Bakushû, 1951) - Ozu, Yasujiro
- Earrings of Madame de..., The (1953) - Ophuls, Max
- Earth (1930) - Dovzhenko, Alexander
- East of Eden (1955) - Kazan, Elia
- Easy Rider (1969) - Hopper, Dennis
- Ed Wood (1994) - Burton, Tim
- Edge of Heaven, The (2007) - Akin, Fatih
- Edward Scissorhands (1990) - Burton, Tim
- El (1952) - Buñuel, Luis
- El Dorado (1966) - Hawks, Howard
- Elephant Man, The (1980) - Lynch, David
- Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, The (2000) - Butler, George
- Enfants du paradis, Les (1945) - Carné, Marcel
- English Patient, The (1996) - Minghella, Anthony
- Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The (1974) - Herzog, Werner
- Eraserhead (1977) - Lynch, David
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Gondry, Michael
- Europa (1991) - von Trier, Lars
- Europa '51 (1952) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Evil Dead II (1987) - Raimi, Sam
- Exorcist, The (1973) - Friedkin, William
- Exterminating Angel, The (1962) - Buñuel, Luis
- Eyes Without a Face (1959) - Franju, Georges
- F for Fake (1973) - Welles, Orson
- Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) - Jeunet, Jean-Pierre
- Faces (1968) - Cassavetes, John
- Fallen Idol, The (1948) - Reed, Carol
- Fanny and Alexander (1982) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Fantasia (1940) - Sharpsteen, Ben
- Farewell, My Concubine (1993) - Chen Kaige
- Fargo (1996) - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen
- Fast Runner, The (2001) - Kunuk, Zacharias
- Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) - Meyer, Russ
- Fat City (1972) - Huston, John
- Fateless (2005) - Koltai, Lajos
- Faust (1926) - Murnau, F.W.
- Fellini Satyricon (1969) - Fellini, Federico
- Fellini's Casanova (1976) - Fellini, Federico
- Fellini's Roma (1972) - Fellini, Federico
- Femme est une femme, Une (1961) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) - Hughes, John
- Festival Express (2003) - Smeaton & Cvitanovich
- Fight Club (1999) - Fincher, David
- Finding Nemo (2003) - Stanton, Andrew & Unkrich, Lee
- Firemen's Ball, The (1967) - Forman, Milos
- Fires Were Started (1943) - Jennings, Humphrey
- Fish Called Wanda, A (1988) - Crichton, Charles
- Fitzcarraldo (1982) - Herzog, Werner
- Five Easy Pieces (1970) - Rafelson, Bob
- Flaming Creatures (1963) - Smith, Jack
- Flight of the Red Balloon, The (2007) - Hsiao-hsien Hou
- Floating Clouds (1955) - Naruse, Mikio
- Flowers of Shanghai (1998) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Flowers of St. Francis, The (1950) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Fog of War, The (2003) - Morris, Errol
- Foolish Wives (1922) - von Stroheim, Erich
- For a Few Dollars More (1965) - Leone, Sergio
- Forbidden Games (1951) - Clément, René
- Forrest Gump (1994) - Zemeckis, Robert
- Fox and His Friends (1975) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
- Frankenstein (1931) - Whale, James
- Freaks (1932) - Browning, Tod
- French Cancan (1954) - Renoir, Jean
- French Connection, The (1971) - Friedkin, William
- From Here to Eternity Zinnemann, Fred
- Fugitive, The (1993) - Davis, Andrew
- Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Kubrick, Stanley
- Funny Face (1957) - Donen, Stanley
- Gandhi (1982) - Attenborough, Richard
- General, The (1927) - Keaton, Buster/Clyde Bruckman
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) - Hawks, Howard
- Germany, Year Zero (1947) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Gertrud (1964) - Dreyer, Carl
- Get Carter (1971) - Hodges, Mike
- Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (1947) - Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
- Ghost World (2001) - Zwigoff, Terry
- Gigi (1958) - Minnelli, Vincente
- Gilda (1946) - Vidor, Charles
- Gimme Shelter (1970) - Maysles, Albert/David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin
- Gladiator (2000) - Scott, Ridley
- Glory (1989) - Zwick, Edward
- Godfather, The (1972) - Coppola, Francis
- Godfather: Part II, The (1974) - Coppola, Francis
- Gold Rush, The (1925) - Chaplin, Charles
- Golden Coach, The (1952) - Renoir, Jean
- Goldfinger (1964) - Hamilton, Guy
- Gomorra (2008) - Garrone, Matteo
- Gone with the Wind (1939) - Fleming, Victor
- Good Will Hunting (1997) - Van Sant, Gus
- Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, The (1966) - Leone, Sergio
- Goodbye Solo (2008) - Bahrani, Ramin
- Goodfellas (1990) - Scorsese, Martin
- Gosford Park (2001) - Altman, Robert
- Gospel According to St. Matthew, The (1964) - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- Graduate, The (1967) - Nichols, Mike
- Gran Torino (2008) - Eastwood, Clint
- Grande Illusion, La (1937) - Renoir, Jean
- Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) - Ford, John
- Great Dictator, The (1940) - Chaplin, Charles
- Great Escape, The (1963) - Sturges, John
- Great Expectations (1946) - Lean, David
- Greed (1924) - von Stroheim, Erich
- Green Mile, The (1999) - Darabont, Frank
- Gregory's Girl (1981) - Forsyth, Bill
- Grifters, The (1990) - Frears, Stephen
- Grizzly Man (2005) - Herzog, Werner
- Groundhog Day (1993) - Ramis, Harold
- Gun Crazy (Deadly is the Female, 1950) - Lewis, Joseph H.
- Half Nelson (2006) - Fleck, Ryan
- Hallelujah! (1929) - Vidor, King
- Halloween (1978) - Carpenter, John
- Hana-Bi (1997) - Kitano, Takeshi
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) - Allen, Woody
- Happiness (1998) - Solondz, Todd
- Hard Day's Night, A (1964) - Lester, Richard
- Harold and Maude (1971) - Ashby, Hal
- Hart of London, The (1970) - Chambers, Jack
- Harvey (1950) - Coster, Henry
- Hatari! (1962) - Hawks, Howard
- Heat (1995) - Mann, Michael
- Heaven's Gate (1980) - Cimino, Michael
- Heimat (Homeland: A German Chronicle, 1984) - Reitz, Edgar
- Heiress, The (1949) - Wyler, William
- Hellzapoppin' (1941) - Potter, H.C.
- Henry V (1944) - Olivier, Laurence
- Hidden Fortress, The (1958) - Kurosawa, Akira
- High and Low (1963) - Kurosawa, Akira
- High Noon (1952) - Zinnemann, Fred
- Hiroshima mon amour (1959) - Resnais, Alain
- His Girl Friday (1940) - Hawks, Howard
- Histoire(s) - du cinéma (1997) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977) - Syberberg, Hans-Jürgen
- Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966) - Kuchar, George
- Holiday (1938) - Cukor, George
- Hotaru no Hakaa (Grave/Fireflies, 1988) - Takahata, Isao
- Hotel Rwanda (2004) - George, Terry
- Hôtel Terminus (1988) - Ophüls, Marcel
- Hour of the Furnaces, The (1968) - Getino, Octavio & Fernando E. Solanas
- House of Flying Daggers (2004) - Yimou Zhang
- How Green Was My Valley (1941) - Ford, John
- Howards End (1992) - Ivory, James
- Hurt Locker, The (2008) - Bigelow, Kathryn
- Husbands (1970) - Cassavetes, John
- Hustler, The (1961) - Rossen, Robert
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) - LeRoy, Mervyn
- I Am Cuba (1964) - Kalatozishvili, Mikheil
- I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
- I Walked with a Zombie (1943) - Tourneur, Jacques
- I Was Born, But… (1932) - Ozu, Yasujiro
- If… (1968) - Anderson, Lindsay
- Ikiru (1952) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Il Bidone (1955) - Fellini, Federico
- I'm Going Home (2001) - de Oliveira, Manoel
- Imitation of Life (1959) - Sirk, Douglas
- In a Lonely Place (1950) - Ray, Nicholas
- In a Year with 13 Moons (1978) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
- In Bruges (2008) - McDonagh, Martin
- In the Bedroom (2001) - Field, Todd
- In the Heat of the Night (1967) - Jewison, Norman
- In the Mood for Love (2001) - Wong Kar-Wai
- In the Realm of the Senses (1976) - Oshima, Nagisa
- Incredibles, The (2004) - Bird, Brad
- India Song (1975) - Duras, Marguerite
- Indian Tomb, The (1959) - Lang, Fritz
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) - Spielberg, Steven
- Informer, The (1935) - Ford, John
- Innocents, The (1961) - Clayton, Jack
- Into the Wild (2007) - Penn, Sean
- Intolerance (1916) - Griffith, D.W.
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - Siegel, Don
- It Happened One Night (1934) - Capra, Frank
- It's a Gift (1934) - McLeod, Norman Z.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Capra, Frank
- Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944) - Eisenstein, Sergei
- Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946) - Eisenstein, Sergei
- Ivan's Childhood (1962) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
- Jaws (1975) - Spielberg, Steven
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) - Akerman, Chantal
- JFK (1991) - Stone, Oliver
- Johnny Guitar (1954) - Ray, Nicholas
- Jour se lève, Le (1939) - Carné, Marcel
- Ju Dou (1990) - Zhang Yimou
- Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) - Kramer, Stanley
- Jules et Jim (1961) - Truffaut, François
- Juliet of the Spirits (1965) - Fellini, Federico
- Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) - Dutt, Guru
- Kagemusha (1980) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Kameradschaft (1931) - Pabst, G.W.
- Kes (1969) - Loach, Ken
- Kid, The (1921) - Chaplin, Charles
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) - Tarantino, Quentin
- Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) - Tarantino, Quentin
- Killer of Sheep (1977) - Burnett, Charles
- Killer, The (1989) - Woo, John
- Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The (1976) - Cassavetes, John
- Killing, The (1956) - Kubrick, Stanley
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) - Hamer, Robert
- King Kong (1933) - Cooper, Merian C./Ernest B. Schoedsack
- King of Comedy, The (1982) - Scorsese, Martin
- Kings of the Road (1976) - Wenders, Wim
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955) - Aldrich, Robert
- Knocked Up (2007) - Apatow, Judd
- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) - Benton, Robert
- L.A. Confidential (1997) - Hanson, Curtis
- La Belle Noiseuse (1991) - Rivette, Jacques
- La Chienne (1931) - Renoir, Jean
- La Jetee (1961) - Marker, Chris
- La Strada (1954) - Fellini, Federico
- Lacombe, Lucien (1974) - Malle, Louis
- Lady Eve, The (1941) - Sturges, Preston
- Lady from Shanghai, The (1947) - Welles, Orson
- Lady Vanishes, The (1938) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- L'Âge d'Or (1930) - Buñuel, Luis
- Lancelot du Lac (1974) - Bresson, Robert
- Land Without Bread (1933) - Buñuel, Luis
- Landscape in the Mist (1988) - Angelopoulos, Theo
- Last Laugh (1924) - Murnau, F.W.
- Last Letter, The (2004) - Gannon, Russell
- Last Picture Show, The (1971) - Bogdanovich, Peter
- Last Tango in Paris (1973) - Bertolucci, Bernardo
- Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988) - Scorsese, Martin
- Last Year at Marienbad (1961) - Resnais, Alain
- L'Atalante (1934) - Vigo, Jean
- Late Spring (1949) - Ozu, Yasujiro
- Laura (1944) - Preminger, Otto
- L'Avventura (1960) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
- Law of Desire (1987) - Almodóvar, Pedro
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Lean, David
- Le Boucher (1970) - Chabrol, Claude
- Le Jour se lève (1939) - Carné, Marcel
- Le Million (1931) - Clair, René
- L'Eclisse (1962) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
- L'Enfant (The Child, 2005) - Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc
- Léon (1994) - Besson, Luc
- Leopard, The (1963) - Visconti, Luchino
- Les Vampires (1915-16) - Feuillade, Louis
- Let the Right One In (2008) - Alfredson, Tomas
- Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) - Ophüls, Max
- Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) - Eastwood, Clint
- Liebelei (1933) - Ophüls, Max
- Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
- Life is Beautiful (1997) - Begnini, Roberto
- Life of Brian (1979) - Gilliam, Terry/Terry Jones
- Life of Oharu, The (1952) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
- Limelight (1952) - Chaplin, Charles
- Limite (1931) - Peixoto, Mario
- Lion King, The (1994) - Allers, Roger & Minkoff, Robert
- Listen to Britain (1941) - Jennings, Humphrey
- Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - Dayton, Jonathan & Faris, Valerie
- Little Women (1994) - Armstrong, Gillian
- Lives of Others, The (2006) - von Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel
- Local Hero (1983) - Forsyth, Bill
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) - Ritchie, Guy
- Lola (1961) - Demy, Jacques
- Lola Montès (1955) - Ophüls, Max
- Lolita (1962) - Kubrick, Stanley
- Long Goodbye, The (1973) - Altman, Robert
- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) - Jackson, Peter
- Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) - Jackson, Peter
- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) - Jackson, Peter
- Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) - Andersen, Thom
- Los Olvidados (1950) - Buñuel, Luis
- Lost in Translation (2003) - Coppola, Sofia
- Lost Weekend, The (1945) - Wilder, Billy
- Love Me Tonight (1932) - Mamoulian, Rouben
- Love Streams (1984) - Cassavetes, John
- Loves of a Blonde (1965) - Forman, Milos
- Ludwig (1972) - Visconti, Luchino
- Lusty Men, The (1952) - Ray, Nicholas
- M (1931) - Lang, Fritz
- M*A*S*H (1970) - Altman, Robert
- Mad Max 2 (1981) - Miller, George
- Madame de… (1953) - Ophüls, Max
- Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942) - Welles, Orson
- Magnificent Seven, The (1960) - Sturges, John
- Magnolia (1999) - Anderson, Paul Thomas
- Maîtres fous, Les (1955) - Rouch, Jean
- Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) - McCarey, Leo
- Maltese Falcon, The (1941) - Huston, John
- Man Escaped, A (1956) - Bresson, Robert
- Man for All Seasons, A (1966) - Zinnemann, Fred
- Man of Aran (1934) - Flaherty, Robert
- Man of the West (1958) - Mann, Anthony
- Man on Wire (2008) - Marsh, James
- Man Who Fell to Earth, The (1976) - Roeg, Nicolas
- Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962) - Ford, John
- Man Who Would Be King, The (1975) - Huston, John
- Man With a Movie Camera, The (1928) - Vertov, Dziga
- Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) - Frankenheimer, John
- Manhattan (1979) - Allen, Woody
- Maria Full of Grace (2004) - Marston, Joshua
- Marnie (1964) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Marooned in Iraq (2002) - Ghobadi, Bahman
- Marriage of Maria Braun, The (1979) - Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
- Masculine-Feminine (1966) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Matrix, The (1999) - Wachowski, Andy & Larry Wachowski
- Matter of Life and Death, A (1946) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) - Altman, Robert
- Mean Streets (1973) - Scorsese, Martin
- Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) - Minnelli, Vincente
- Memento (2000) - Nolan, Christopher
- Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) - Alea, Tomás Gutiérrez
- Mephisto (1981) - Szabó, István
- Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) - Deren, Maya
- Metropolis (1927) - Lang, Fritz
- Midnight (1939) - Leisen, Mitchell
- Midnight Cowboy (1969) - Schlesinger, John
- Midnight Run (1988) - Brest, Martin
- Mildred Pierce (1945) - Curtiz, Michael
- Miller's Crossing (1990) - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen
- Million Dollar Baby (2004) - Eastwood, Clint
- Miracle in Milan (1951) - De Sica, Vittorio
- Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The (1944) - Sturges, Preston
- Mirror, The (1976) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
- Misfits, The (1961) - Huston, John
- Modern Times (1936) - Chaplin, Charles
- Moment of Innocence, A (1996) - Makhmalbaf, Mohsen
- Mon oncle (1958) - Tati, Jacques
- Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) - Resnais, Alain
- Mononoke-hime (1997) - - anime Miyazaki, Hayao
- Monsieur Verdoux (1947) - Chaplin, Charles
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - Gilliam, Terry/Terry Jones
- Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) - Jones, Terry
- Moolaadé (2004) - Sembene, Ousmane
- Moonfleet (1955) - Lang, Fritz
- Morocco (1930) - von Sternberg, Josef
- Mother (Mat, 1926) - Pudovkin, Vsevolod
- Mother and the Whore, The (1973) - Eustache, Jean
- Mouchette (1966) - Bresson, Robert
- Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953) - Tati, Jacques
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - Capra, Frank
- Mulholland Dr. (2001) - Lynch, David
- Murder by Contract (1958) - Lerner, Irving
- Murderball (2005) - Rubin, Henry Alex & Shapiro, Dana Adam
- Muriel ou Le Temps d'un Retour (1963) - Resnais, Alain
- Murmur of the Heart (1971) - Malle, Louis
- Music Room, The (1958) - Ray, Satyajit
- My Darling Clementine (1946) - Ford, John
- My Fair Lady (1964) - Cukor, George
- My Life as a Dog (1985) - Hallström, Lasse
- My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie) - (1962) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- My Man Godfrey (1936) - La Cava, Gregory
- My Neighbour Totoro (1988) - Miyazaki, Hayao
- My Night at Maud's (1969) - Rohmer, Eric
- My Voyage to Italy (1999) - Scorsese, Martin
- Mystic River (2003) - Eastwood, Clint
- Naked (1993) - Leigh, Mike
- Naked Spur, The (1953) - Mann, Anthony
- Nanook of the North (1922) - Flaherty, Robert
- Napoléon (1927) - Gance, Abel
- Nashville (1975) - Altman, Robert
- Navigator, The (1924) - Keaton, Buster/Donald Crisp
- Network (1976) - Lumet, Sidney
- New York, New York (1977) - Scorsese, Martin
- Night and Fog (1955) - Resnais, Alain
- Night at the Opera, A (1935) - Wood, Sam
- Night of the Demon (1957) - Tourneur, Jacques
- Night of The Hunter, The (1955) - Laughton, Charles
- Night of the Living Dead (1968) - Romero, George A.
- Night of the Shooting Stars, The (1982) - Taviani, Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
- Nights of Cabiria (1957) - Fellini, Federico
- Ninotchka (1939) - Lubitsch, Ernst
- No Country for Old Men (2007) - Coen Ethan and Joel
- No End in Sight (2007) - Ferguson, Charles
- Nobody Knows (2004) - Koreeda, Hirokazu
- North by Northwest (1959) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) - Murnau, F.W.
- Nostalghia (1983) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
- Not Reconciled (1965) - Straub, Jean-Marie
- Notorious (1946) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Notte, La (1961) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
- Now, Voyager (1942) - Rapper, Irving
- O Lucky Man! (1973) - Anderson, Lindsay
- October (1927) - Eisenstein, Sergei
- Odd Man Out (1947( Reed, Carol
- Of a Thousand Delights (1965) - Visconti, Luchino
- Offside (2006) - Panahi, Jafar
- Oldboy (2003) - Park Chan-Wook
- Olvidados, Los (1950) - Buñuel, Luis
- Olympia (1938) - Riefenstahl, Leni
- On the Town (1949) - Donen, Stanley/Gene Kelly
- On the Waterfront (1954) - Kazan, Elia
- Once (2006) - Carney, John
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984) - Leone, Sergio
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) - Leone, Sergio
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Forman, Milos
- Only Angels Have Wings (1939) - Hawks, Howard
- Open City (1945) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Opening Night (1977) - Cassavetes, John
- Ordet (1955) - Dreyer, Carl
- Orlando (1992) - Potter, Sally
- Orpheus (1950) - Cocteau, Jean
- Ossessione (1943) - Visconti, Luchino
- Othello (aka Tragedy of Othello, 1952) - Welles, Orson
- Our Daily Bread (1934) - Vidor, King
- Our Hospitality (1923) - Keaton, Buster/John Blystone
- Out 1: Spectre (1974) - Rivette, Jacques
- Out of the Past (1947) - Tourneur, Jacques
- Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976) - Eastwood, Clint
- Outskirts (Okraina, 1933) - Barnet, Boris
- Overlord (1975) - Cooper, Stuart
- Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943) - Wellman, William A.
- Paisan (1946) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Pakeezah (1972) - Amrohi, Kamal
- Palm Beach Story, The (1942) - Sturges, Preston
- Pandora's Box (1928) - Pabst, G.W.
- Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - del Toro, Guillermo
- Paris, Texas (1984) - Wenders, Wim
- Partie de campagne (1936) - Renoir, Jean
- Party, The (1968) - Edwards, Blake
- Passenger, The (1975) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
- Passion (1982) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928) - Dreyer, Carl Theodor
- Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) - Peckinpah, Sam
- Pather Panchali / Apu Trilogy I (1955) - Ray, Satyajit
- Paths of Glory (1957) - Kubrick, Stanley
- Patton (1970) - Shaffner, Frank
- Peeping Tom (1960) - Powell, Michael
- Pépé le Moko (1937) - Duvivier, Julien
- Performance (1970) - Roeg, Nicolas/Donald Cammell
- Persepolis (2007) - Paronnaud, Vincent & Satrapi, Marjane
- Persona (1966) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Peter Ibbetson (1935) - Hathaway, Henry
- Phantom Carriage, The (1921) - Sjöström, Victor
- Phantom of Liberty, The (1974) - Buñuel, Luis
- Philadelphia Story, The (1940) - Cukor, George
- Pianist, The (2002) - Polanski, Roman
- Piano, The (1993) - Campion, Jane
- Pickpocket (1959) - Bresson, Robert
- Pickup on South Street (1953) - Fuller, Sam
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) - Weir, Peter
- Pierrot le fou (1965) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Pinocchio (1940) - Sharpsteen, Ben & Hamilton Luske
- Place in the Sun, A (1951) - Stevens, George
- Plaisir, Le (1951) - Ophüls, Max
- Platoon (1986) - Stone, Oliver
- Player, The (1992) - Altman, Robert
- Playtime (1967) - Tati, Jacques
- Point Blank (1967) - Boorman, John
- Port of Shadows (1938) - Carné, Marcel
- Prestige, The (2006) - Nolan, Christopher
- Princess Bride, The (1987) - Reiner, Rob
- Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Yokihi, 1955) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
- Producers, The (1968) - Brooks, Mel
- Providence (1977) - Resnais, Alain
- Psycho (1960) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Public Enemy (1931) - Wellman, William A.
- Pulp Fiction (1995) - Tarantino, Quentin
- Puppetmaster, The (1993) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985) - Allen, Woody
- Pursued (1947) - Walsh, Raoul
- Pyaasa (1957) - Dutt, Guru
- Que viva Mexico! (1932) - Eisenstein, Sergei
- Queen Kelly (1929) - von Stroheim, Erich
- Queen, The (2006) - Frears, Stephen
- Quiet Man, The (1952) - Ford, John
- Quiz Show (1994) - Redford, Robert
- Raging Bull (2000) - Scorsese, Martin
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Spielberg, Steven
- Raise the Red Lantern (1991) - Zhang Yimou
- Raising Arizona (1987) - Coen, Joel and Ethan Coen
- Ran (1985) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Rashomon (1950) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Ratatouille (2007) - Bird, Brad & Pinkava, Jan
- Rear Window (1954) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Rebecca (1940) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - Ray, Nicholas
- Reckless Moment, The (1949) - Ophüls, Max
- Red Beard (1965) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Red Circle, The (1970) - Melville, Jean-Pierre
- Red Desert (1964) - Antonioni, Michelangelo
- Red River (1948) - Hawks, Howard
- Red Shoes, The (1948) - Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger
- Red Sorghum (1987) - Zhang Yimou
- Reds (1981) - Beatty, Warren
- Région centrale, La (1971) - Snow, Michael
- Repulsion (1965) - Polanski, Roman
- Requiem for a Dream (2000) - Aronofsky, Darren
- Reservoir Dogs (1991) - Tarantino, Quentin
- Reversal of Fortune (1990) - Schroeder, Barbet
- Ride the High Country (1962) - Peckinpah, Sam
- Right Stuff, The (1983) - Kaufman, Philip
- Rio Bravo (1959) - Hawks, Howard
- Rio Grande (1950) - Ford, John
- Rise of Louis XIV, The (1966) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Rise to Power of Louis XIV, The (1966) - Rossellini, Roberto
- River, The (1951) - Renoir, Jean
- Rocco and His Brothers (1964) - Visconti, Luchino
- Rocky (1976) - Avildsen, John G.
- Roman Holiday (1953) - Wyler, William
- Rome, Open City (1945) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Ronde, La (1950) - Ophüls, Max
- Rope (1948) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Rosemary's Baby (1968) - Polanski, Roman
- Round-Up, The (Szegénylegények, 1966) - Jancsó, Miklós
- Rules of the Game, The (1939) - Renoir, Jean
- Rushmore (1998) - Anderson, Wes
- Russian Ark (2002) - Sokurov, Aleksandr
- Sacrifice, The (1986) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
- Safe (1995) - Haynes, Todd
- Safety Last! (1923) - Newmeyer, Fred C. & Taylor, Sam
- Salesman (1968) - Maysles, Albert/David Maysles/Charlotte Zwerin
- Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- Salvatore Giuliano (1961) - Rosi, Francesco
- Samouraï, Le (1967) - Melville, Jean-Pierre
- Sans soleil (1983) - Marker, Chris
- Sansho the Bailiff (1954) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
- Sátántangó (1994) - Tarr, Béla
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) - Reisz, Karel
- Saturday Night Fever (1977) - Badham, John
- Sauve qui peut (la vie) - (1980) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Savages, The (2007) - Jenkins, Tamara
- Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Spielberg, Steven
- Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Say Anything… (1989) - Crowe, Cameron
- Scarface (1932) - Hawks, Howard
- Scarface (1982) - De Palma, Brian
- Scarlet Empress, The (1934) - von Sternberg, Josef
- Scenes from a Marriage (1973) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Schindler's List (1993) - Spielberg, Steven
- Scorpio Rising (1964) - Anger, Kenneth
- Se7en (1995) - Fincher, David
- Searchers, The (1956) - Ford, John
- Secrets & Lies (1996) - Leigh, Mike
- Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) - -anime Miyazaki, Hayao
- Senso (1954) - Visconti, Luchino
- Seraphine (2008) - Provost, Martin
- Servant, The (1963) - Losey, Joseph
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) - Donen, Stanley
- Seven Chances (1925) - Keaton, Buster
- Seven Samurai, The (1954) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Seven Women (1966) - Ford, John
- Seventh Seal, The (1956) - Bergman, Ingmar
- sex, lies, and videotape (1989) - Soderberg, Steve
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Shadows (1959) - Cassavetes, John
- Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) - Parajanov, Sergei
- Shakespeare in Love (1998) - Madden, John
- Shame (Skammen, 1968) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Shane (1953) - Stevens, George
- Shanghai Express (1932) - von Sternberg, Josef
- Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) - Darabont, Frank
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) - Ford, John
- Sherlock Jr. (1924) - Keaton, Buster
- Shine (1996) - Hicks, Scott
- Shining, The (1980) - Kubrick, Stanley
- Shoah (1985) - Lanzmann, Claude
- Shoeshine (Sciuscia, 1947) - De Sica, Vittorio
- Shoot the Piano Player (1960) - Truffaut, François
- Shop Around the Corner, The (1940) - Lubitsch, Ernst
- Short Cuts (1993) - Altman, Robert
- Short Film About Killing, A (1988) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
- Sideways (2004) - Payne, Alexander
- Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) - Demme, Jonathan
- Silence, The (1963) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Sin City (2005) - Rodgriguez, Robert
- Singin' in the Rain (1952) - Donen, Stanley/Gene Kelly
- Sixth Sense, The (1999) - Shyamalan, M. Knight
- Sleuth (1972) - Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
- Slumdog Millionaire (2008) - Boyle, Danny
- Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Snatch (2000) - Ritchie, Guy
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) - Hand, David
- Solaris (1972) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
- Some Came Running (1958) - Minnelli, Vincente
- Some Like it Hot (1959) - Wilder, Billy
- Son, The (Le Fils, 2002) - Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc
- Sound of Music, The (1965) - Wise, Robert
- Spartacus (1960) - Kubrick, Stanley
- Spider's Stratagem, The (1970) - Bertolucci, Bernardo
- Spirit of the Beehive, The (1973) - Erice, Victor
- Spirited Away (2001) - Miyazaki, Hayao
- Splendor in the Grass (1961) - Kazan, Elia
- Spring in a Small Town (1948) - Fei Mu
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) - Ki-duk Kim
- Stagecoach (1939) - Ford, John
- Stalag 17 (1953) - Wilder, Billy
- Stalker (1979) - Tarkovsky, Andrei
- Stand by Me (1986) - Reiner, Rob
- Star is Born, A (1954) - Cukor, George
- Star Wars (1978) - Lucas, George
- Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - Lucas, George
- Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - Marquand, Richard
- Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) - Keaton, Buster/Charles F. Reisner
- Sting, The (1973) - Hill, George Roy
- Stop Making Sense (1984) - Demme, Jonathan
- Storm Over Asia (1928) - Pudovkin, Vsevolod
- Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, The (1939) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
- Straight Story, The (1999) - Lynch, David
- Stranger Than Paradise (1984) - Jarmusch, Jim
- Strangers on a Train (1951) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Straw Dogs (1971) - Peckinpah, Sam
- Street Fight (2005) - Curry, Marshall
- Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) - Kazan, Elia
- Strike (1924) - Eisenstein, Sergei
- Stromboli (1950) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Sugar Cane Alley (Rue case negres, 1983) - Palcy, Euzhan
- Sullivan's Travels (1941) - Sturges, Preston
- Sun Shines Bright, The (1953) - Ford, John
- Sunrise (1928) - Murnau, F.W.
- Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Wilder, Billy
- Superman II (1980) - Lester, Richard
- Superman: The Movie (1978) - Donner, Richard
- Suspiria (1977) - Argento, Dario
- Sweet Hereafter, The (1997) - Egoyan, Atom
- Sweet Sixteen (2002) - Loach, Ken
- Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - Mackendrick, Alexander
- Swing Time (1936) - Stevens, George
- Tabu (1931) - Murnau, F.W.
- Talk to Her (2002) - Almodóvar, Pedro
- Tarnation (2003) - Caouette, Jonathan
- Tarnished Angels, The (1958) - Sirk, Douglas
- Taste of Cherry, A (1997) - Kiarostami, Abbas
- Taxi Driver (1976) - Scorsese, Martin
- Ten (2002) - Kiarostami, Abbas
- Tenant, The (1976) - Polanski, Roman
- Teorema (1968) - Pasolini, Pier Paolo
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) - Cameron, James
- Terminator, The (1984) - Cameron, James
- Terra em Transe (1967) - Rocha, Glauber
- Terra trema, La (1948) - Visconti, Luchino
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974) - Hooper, Tobe
- That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) - Buñuel, Luis
- Thelma & Louise (1991) - Scott, Ridley
- There Will Be Blood (2007) - Anderson, Paul Thomas
- There's Always Tomorrow (1956) - Sirk, Douglas
- They Live by Night (1948) - Ray, Nicholas
- They Were Expendable (1945) - Ford, John
- Thief of Bagdad, The (1940) - Powell, Michael/Ludwig Berger/Tim Whelan
- Thin Blue Line, The (1988) - Morris, Errol
- Thin Man, The (1934) - Van Dyke, W.S.
- Thin Red Line, The (1998) - Malick, Terrence
- Thing from Another World, The (1951) - Nyby, Christian/Howard Hawks
- Thing, The (1982) - Carpenter, John
- Third Man, The (1948) - Reed, Carol
- This Is England (2006) - Meadows, Shane
- This is Spinal Tap (1984) - Reiner, Rob
- Three Colours: Blue (1993) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
- Three Colours: Red (1994) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
- Three Colours: White (1994) - Kieslowski, Krszystof
- Threepenny Opera, The (1931) - Pabst, G.W.
- Throne of Blood (1957) - Kurosawa, Akira
- Through a Glass Darkly (1961) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Through the Olive Trees (1994) - Kiarostami, Abbas
- Tiger of Eschnapur, The (1959) - Lang, Fritz
- Time of the Gypsies (1988) - Kusturica, Emir
- Time Out (2001) - Cantet, Laurent
- Time to Live and the Time to Die, The (1985) - Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Tin Drum, The (1979) - Schlöndorff, Volker
- Titanic (1997) - Cameron, James
- To Be and to Have (2002) - Philibert, Nicolas
- To Be or Not to Be (1942) - Lubitsch, Ernst
- To Die For (1995) - Van Sant, Gus
- To Have and Have Not (1944) - Hawks, Howard
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - Mulligan, Robert
- Tokyo Story (1953) - Ozu, Yasujiro
- Tom Jones (1963) - Richardson, Tony
- Tom, Tom the Piper's Son (1969) - Jacobs, Ken
- Tootsie (1982) - Pollack, Sydney
- Top Hat (1935) - Sandrich, Mark
- Topsy-Turvy (1999) - Leigh, Mike
- Touch of Evil (1958) - Welles, Orson
- Touch of Zen, A (1969) - Hu, King
- Toy Story (1995) - Lasseter, John
- Toy Story 2 (1999) - Lasseter, John & Brannon, Ash
- Traffic (2000) - Soderbergh, Steve
- Trainspotting (1995) - Boyle, Danny
- Travelling Players, The (1975) - Angelopoulos, Theo
- Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) - Huston, John
- Tree of Wooden Clogs, The (1978) - Olmi, Ermanno
- Trip to the Moon, A (Voyage dans la lune, 1902) - Melies, Georges
- Triplets of Belleville, The (2003) - Chomet, Sylvain
- Tristana (1970) - Buñuel, Luis
- Triumph of the Will (1935) - Riefenstahl, Leni
- Trou, Le (1960) - Becker, Jacques
- Trouble in Paradise (1932) - Lubitsch, Ernst
- Truman Show, The (1998) - Weir, Peter
- Tulpan (2008) - Dvortsevoy, Sergei
- Turtles Can Fly (2004) - Ghobadi, Bahman
- Twelve Monkeys (1995) - Gilliam, Terry
- Two English Girls (1971) - Truffaut, François
- Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1966) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) - Hellman, Monte
- Ugetsu (1953) - Mizoguchi, Kenji
- Umberto D (1952) - De Sica, Vittorio
- Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (1964) - Demy, Jacques
- Un Chien Andalou (1929) - Buñuel, Luis
- Under the Roofs of Paris (1930) - Clair, René
- Under the Sand (2000) - Ozon, Francois
- Underground (1995) - Kusturica, Emir
- Unfaithfully Yours (1948) - Sturges, Preston
- Unforgiven (1992) - Eastwood, Clint
- United 93 (2006) - Greengrass, Paul
- Usual Suspects, The (1995) - Singer, Bryan
- V for Vendetta (2005) - McTeigue, James
- Vagabond (San toit ni loi, 1985) - Varda, Agnès
- Vampyr (1932) - Dreyer, Carl
- Van Gogh (1991) - Pialat, Maurice
- Verdict, The (1982) - Lumet, Sidney
- Verdugo, El (1963) - Berlanga, Luis García
- Vertigo (1958) - Hitchcock, Alfred
- Videodrome (1983) - Cronenberg, David
- Viridiana (1961) - Buñuel, Luis
- Vitelloni, I (1953) - Fellini, Federico
- Vivre sa vie (1963) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Voyage dans la lune, Le (Trip to the Moon, 1902) - Méliès, Georges
- Voyage in Italy (1953) - Rossellini, Roberto
- Wages of Fear, The (1952) - Clouzot, Henri-Georges
- Wagon Master (1950) - Ford, John
- Walkabout (1971) - Roeg, Nicolas
- Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) - Park, Nick & Box, Steve
- WALL-E (2008) - Stanton, Andrew
- Waltz with Bashir (2008) - Folman, Ari
- Wavelength (1967) - Snow, Michael
- Wedding March, The (1928) - von Stroheim, Erich
- Week-End (1967) - Godard, Jean-Luc
- Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) - Tarr, Bela & Hranitzky, Agnes
- West Side Story (1961) - Wise, Robert/Jerome Robbins
- When Harry Met Sally (1989) - Reiner, Rob
- Where is the Friend's Home? (1987) - Kiarostami, Abbas
- While the City Sleeps (1956) - Lang, Fritz
- White Heat (1949) - Walsh, Raoul
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - Nichols, Mike
- Wild Bunch, The (1969) - Peckinpah, Sam
- Wild Child, The (1970) - Truffaut, François
- Wild Strawberries (1957) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Wind Will Carry Us, The (1999) - Kiarostami, Abbas
- Wind, The (1928) - Sjöström, Victor
- Wings of Desire (1987) - Wenders, Wim
- Winter Light (1962) - Bergman, Ingmar
- Witness (1985) - Weir, Peter
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957) - Wilder, Billy
- Wizard of Oz, The (1939) - Fleming, Victor
- Woman in the Dunes (1964) - Teshigahara, Hiroshi
- Woman in the Window, The (1944) - Lang, Fritz
- Woman Next Door, The (1981) - Truffaut, François
- Woman Under the Influence, A (1974) - Cassavetes, John
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) - Almodóvar, Pedro
- World of Apu, The (1959) - Ray, Satyajit
- Wrestler, The (2008) - Aronofsky, Darren
- Written on the Wind (1956) - Sirk, Douglas
- Xala (1975) - Sembene, Ousmane
- Y Tu Mamá También (2001) - Cuarón, Alfonso
- Yeelen (1987) - Cissé, Souleymane
- Yellow Earth (1984) - Chen Kaige
- Yi yi (2000) - Yang, Edward
- Yojimbo (1961) - Kurosawa, Akira
- You Can Count On Me (2000) - Lonergan, Kenneth
- You Only Live Once (1937) - Lang, Fritz
- Young Girls of Rochefort, The (1967) - Demy, Jacques
- Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) - Ford, John
- Z (1969) - Costa-Gavras, Constantin
- Zelig (1983) - Allen, Woody
- Zero for Conduct (1933) - Vigo, Jean