The Greatest Films or: how much of a film buff are you, anyway?

This is our compilation of the greatest films of all time, based on reputable industry lists. Criteria for inclusion is simple: if a film appears on any edition of a selected list, it makes it onto this aggregate list. Ranking is ignored, results are sorted by year. You can find the source lists here.

There are 451 films in total.

Film Year Country Director
Petite maman 2021 France, France, USA Céline Sciamma
Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019 France Céline Sciamma
Parasite 2019 South Korea Bong Joon-ho
Zama 2017 France, USA, Spain, Mexico, Argentina Lucrecia Martel
Get Out 2017 USA Jordan Peele
Moonlight 2016 USA Barry Jenkins
Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 USA, Australia, South Africa George Miller
Under the Skin 2014 USA, UK, Switzerland Jonathan Glazer
Melancholia 2011 France, Sweden, Denmark, Germany Lars von Trier
The Tree of Life 2011 USA Terrence Malick
A Separation 2011 France, Iran, Australia Asghar Farhadi
Nostalgia for the Light 2010 France, USA, Spain, Germany, Chile Patricio Guzmán
Inception 2010 USA, UK Christopher Nolan
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 2010 France, UK, Spain, Germany, Thailand Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Avatar 2009 USA, UK James Cameron
Up 2009 USA Pete Docter
Slumdog Millionaire 2008 UK Danny Boyle
The Headless Woman 2008 France, USA, Italy, Spain, Argentina Lucrecia Martel
The Dark Knight 2008 USA, UK Christopher Nolan
WALL·E 2008 USA Andrew Stanton
There Will Be Blood 2007 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
Pan's Labyrinth 2006 USA, Spain, Mexico Guillermo del Toro
Syndromes and a Century 2006 France, Austria, Thailand Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Caché 2005 France, Italy, Germany, Austria Michael Haneke
Brokeback Mountain 2005 USA, Canada Ang Lee
The Intruder 2005 France Claire Denis
Tropical Malady 2004 France, Italy, Germany, Thailand Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 USA Michel Gondry
Goodbye, Dragon Inn 2003 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003 USA, New Zealand Peter Jackson
Morvern Callar 2002 UK, Canada Lynne Ramsay
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks 2002 Netherlands, China Wang Bing
Talk to Her 2002 Spain Pedro Almodóvar
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 USA, New Zealand Peter Jackson
Spirited Away 2001 Japan Hayao Miyazaki
Mulholland Drive 2001 France, France, France, France, USA David Lynch
Amélie 2001 France, Germany Jean-Pierre Jeunet
La Ciénaga 2001 France, Japan, Spain, Argentina Lucrecia Martel
In Vanda's Room 2001 Germany, Switzerland, Portugal Pedro Costa
Werckmeister Harmonies 2001 France, Italy, Germany, Hungary Béla Tarr
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000 USA Jonas Mekas
Memento 2000 USA Christopher Nolan
In the Mood for Love 2000 France, Hong Kong Wong Kar-wai
Yi Yi 2000 Japan, Taiwan Edward Yang
Almost Famous 2000 USA Cameron Crowe
The Gleaners and I 2000 France Agnès Varda
Gladiator 2000 USA, UK Ridley Scott
Beau Travail 2000 France Claire Denis
Magnolia 1999 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
Fight Club 1999 USA, Germany David Fincher
American Beauty 1999 USA Sam Mendes
The Sixth Sense 1999 USA M. Night Shyamalan
All About My Mother 1999 France, Spain Pedro Almodóvar
The Matrix 1999 USA Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Flowers of Shanghai 1998 Japan, Taiwan Hou Hsiao-hsien
Saving Private Ryan 1998 USA Steven Spielberg
The Big Lebowski 1998 USA, UK Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Good Will Hunting 1997 USA Gus Van Sant
Titanic 1997 USA James Cameron
Taste of Cherry 1997 France, Iran Abbas Kiarostami
Happy Together 1997 Japan, Hong Kong, Argentina Wong Kar-wai
Crash 1996 USA, UK, Canada David Cronenberg
Fargo 1996 USA, UK Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
The Watermelon Woman 1996 USA Cheryl Dunye
Heat 1995 USA Michael Mann
Toy Story 1995 USA John Lasseter
Se7en 1995 USA David Fincher
The Usual Suspects 1995 USA Bryan Singer
Braveheart 1995 USA Mel Gibson
The Shawshank Redemption 1994 USA Frank Darabont
Pulp Fiction 1994 USA Quentin Tarantino
Chungking Express 1994 Hong Kong Wong Kar-wai
The Lion King 1994 USA, USA Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
Forrest Gump 1994 USA Robert Zemeckis
Satantango 1994 Germany, Hungary, Switzerland Béla Tarr
Schindler's List 1993 USA Steven Spielberg
Blue 1993 UK Derek Jarman
Jurassic Park 1993 USA Steven Spielberg
The Piano 1993 France, New Zealand, Australia Jane Campion
Groundhog Day 1993 USA Harold Ramis
Orlando 1992 France, UK, Italy, Netherlands, Russia Sally Potter
Dream of Light 1992 Spain Víctor Erice
Reservoir Dogs 1992 USA Quentin Tarantino
Unforgiven 1992 USA Clint Eastwood
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 France, USA David Lynch
Van Gogh 1991 France Maurice Pialat
Beauty and the Beast 1991 USA Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Taiwan Edward Yang
Thelma & Louise 1991 USA, UK Ridley Scott
Paris Is Burning 1991 USA, UK Jennie Livingston
The Silence of the Lambs 1991 USA Jonathan Demme
Daughters of the Dust 1991 USA Julie Dash
GoodFellas 1990 USA, USA, USA Martin Scorsese
Close-Up 1990 Iran Abbas Kiarostami
Dances with Wolves 1990 USA, UK Kevin Costner
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories 1989 France, Switzerland Jean-Luc Godard
A City of Sadness 1989 Hong Kong, Taiwan Hou Hsiao-hsien
Twin Peaks 1989 USA David Lynch
When Harry Met Sally... 1989 USA, USA Rob Reiner
Do the Right Thing 1989 USA Spike Lee
Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 UK, Germany Terence Davies
Die Hard 1988 USA John McTiernan
My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Japan Hayao Miyazaki
Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Japan Isao Takahata
The Princess Bride 1987 USA Rob Reiner
Wings of Desire 1987 France, Germany Wim Wenders
The Dead 1987 UK, Ireland John Huston
Where Is My Friend's House? 1987 Iran, Iran Abbas Kiarostami
Platoon 1986 USA, UK Oliver Stone
Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
The Green Ray 1986 France Éric Rohmer
Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 USA John Hughes
Vagabond 1985 France, UK Agnès Varda
Come and See 1985 Soviet Union Elem Klimov
Back to the Future 1985 USA Robert Zemeckis
Ran 1985 France, Japan Akira Kurosawa
Shoah 1985 France Claude Lanzmann
The Breakfast Club 1985 USA John Hughes
Twenty Years Later 1984 Brazil Eduardo Coutinho
Amadeus 1984 France, USA Miloš Forman
Paris, Texas 1984 France, UK, Germany Wim Wenders
Ghostbusters 1984 USA Ivan Reitman
Once Upon a Time in America 1984 USA, Italy Sergio Leone
Love Streams 1984 USA John Cassavetes
L'Argent 1983 France, Switzerland Robert Bresson
Born in Flames 1983 USA Lizzie Borden
Sans Soleil 1983 France Chris Marker
Videodrome 1983 Canada David Cronenberg
Fanny and Alexander 1982 France, Sweden, Germany Ingmar Bergman
Tootsie 1982 USA Sydney Pollack
Sophie's Choice 1982 USA, UK Alan J. Pakula
The Thing 1982 USA John Carpenter
Blade Runner 1982 USA, Hong Kong, UK Ridley Scott
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 USA Steven Spielberg
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 USA Steven Spielberg
Possession 1981 France, Germany Andrzej Żuławski
Raging Bull 1980 USA Martin Scorsese
Airplane! 1980 USA Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker
The Shining 1980 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
The Empire Strikes Back 1980 USA, USA, USA Irvin Kershner
Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Coppola
Stalker 1979 Soviet Union Andrei Tarkovsky
Alien 1979 USA, UK Ridley Scott
Manhattan 1979 USA Woody Allen
West Indies 1979 France, Algeria, Mauritania Med Hondo
The Deer Hunter 1978 USA, UK Michael Cimino
Killer of Sheep 1978 USA Charles Burnett
Days of Heaven 1978 USA Terrence Malick
Opening Night 1977 USA John Cassavetes
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 USA Steven Spielberg
Star Wars 1977 USA, USA, USA George Lucas
News from Home 1977 Belgium, France, Germany Chantal Akerman
Annie Hall 1977 USA Woody Allen
The Ascent 1977 Soviet Union Larisa Shepitko
Eraserhead 1977 USA David Lynch
Suspiria 1977 Italy Dario Argento
Harlan County U.S.A. 1977 USA Barbara Kopple
One Way or Another 1977 Cuba Sara Gómez
Rocky 1976 USA John G. Avildsen
Network 1976 USA Sidney Lumet
All the President's Men 1976 USA, USA Alan J. Pakula
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 USA John Cassavetes
Taxi Driver 1976 USA Martin Scorsese
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1976 Belgium, France Chantal Akerman
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom 1976 France, Italy Pier Paolo Pasolini
Barry Lyndon 1975 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 USA Miloš Forman
Jaws 1975 USA Steven Spielberg
Nashville 1975 USA Robert Altman
India Song 1975 France Marguerite Duras
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 UK Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Mirror 1975 Soviet Union Andrei Tarkovsky
Je Tu Il Elle 1974 Belgium, France Chantal Akerman
The Godfather Part II 1974 USA, USA, USA Francis Ford Coppola
Young Frankenstein 1974 USA Mel Brooks
A Woman Under the Influence 1974 USA John Cassavetes
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 USA, USA Tobe Hooper
Céline and Julie Go Boating 1974 France Jacques Rivette
Chinatown 1974 USA Roman Polanski
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Germany Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Conversation 1974 USA Francis Ford Coppola
Blazing Saddles 1974 USA Mel Brooks
Badlands 1974 USA Terrence Malick
Amarcord 1973 France, Italy Federico Fellini
The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Spain Víctor Erice
American Graffiti 1973 USA George Lucas
Touki Bouki 1973 Senegal Djibril Diop Mambéty
The Mother and the Whore 1973 France Jean Eustache
Sambizanga 1973 France, Angola, Congo Sarah Maldoror
Don't Look Now 1973 UK, Italy Nicolas Roeg
Oh, Sun 1973 France, Mauritania Med Hondo
Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1972 Mexico, Germany, Germany, Peru Werner Herzog
Cries and Whispers 1972 Sweden Ingmar Bergman
Pink Flamingos 1972 USA John Waters
The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Coppola
Cabaret 1972 USA Bob Fosse
A Clockwork Orange 1971 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
A Touch of Zen 1971 Hong Kong, Taiwan King Hu
The French Connection 1971 USA William Friedkin
Out 1 1971 France Jacques Rivette
The Last Picture Show 1971 USA Peter Bogdanovich
Husbands 1970 USA John Cassavetes
Wanda 1970 USA Barbara Loden
The Conformist 1970 France, Italy, Germany Bernardo Bertolucci
Kes 1970 UK Ken Loach
M*A*S*H 1970 USA Robert Altman
Patton 1970 USA Franklin J. Schaffner
The Color of Pomegranates 1969 Soviet Union Sergei Parajanov
Army of Shadows 1969 France, Italy Jean-Pierre Melville
Easy Rider 1969 USA Dennis Hopper
The Wild Bunch 1969 USA Sam Peckinpah
My Night at Maud's 1969 France Éric Rohmer
Midnight Cowboy 1969 USA John Schlesinger
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 USA George Roy Hill
Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 USA, Italy Sergio Leone
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One 1968 USA William Greaves
The Hour of the Furnaces 1968 Argentina Fernando E. Solanas, Octavio Getino
Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Cuba Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
The Party 1968 USA Blake Edwards
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
Hour of the Wolf 1968 Sweden Ingmar Bergman
The Graduate 1967 USA Mike Nichols
PlayTime 1967 France, Italy Jacques Tati
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967 USA Stanley Kramer
Le Samouraï 1967 France, Italy Jean-Pierre Melville
Bonnie and Clyde 1967 USA Arthur Penn
In the Heat of the Night 1967 USA Norman Jewison
Mouchette 1967 France Robert Bresson
Wavelength 1967 USA, Canada Michael Snow
The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 France Jacques Demy
Daisies 1966 Czechoslovakia Věra Chytilová
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 USA, USA, Italy, Italy, Spain Sergio Leone
Blow-Up 1966 USA, UK, Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
Andrei Rublev 1966 Soviet Union Andrei Tarkovsky
Persona 1966 Sweden Ingmar Bergman
The Battle of Algiers 1966 Italy, Algeria Gillo Pontecorvo
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 USA Mike Nichols
Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 France, Sweden Robert Bresson
Black Girl 1966 France, Senegal Ousmane Sembène
Doctor Zhivago 1965 USA, UK, Italy David Lean
Pierrot le Fou 1965 France, Italy Jean-Luc Godard
The Sound of Music 1965 USA Robert Wise
The Gospel According to Matthew 1965 France, Italy Pier Paolo Pasolini
Happiness 1965 France Agnès Varda
Gertrud 1964 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
Mary Poppins 1964 USA Robert Stevenson
I Am Cuba 1964 Soviet Union, Cuba Mikhail Kalatozov
My Fair Lady 1964 USA George Cukor
Red Desert 1964 France, Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
Charulata 1964 India Satyajit Ray
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France, Germany Jacques Demy
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 USA, UK, UK Stanley Kubrick
America America 1963 USA Elia Kazan
Contempt 1963 France, Italy Jean-Luc Godard
The Birds 1963 USA Alfred Hitchcock
The Leopard 1963 France, Italy Luchino Visconti
The House Is Black 1963 Iran Forugh Farrokhzad
1963 France, Italy Federico Fellini
To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 USA, USA Robert Mulligan
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Japan Yasujirō Ozu
The Manchurian Candidate 1962 USA, USA John Frankenheimer
Vivre Sa Vie 1962 France Jean-Luc Godard
The Exterminating Angel 1962 Mexico Luis Buñuel
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 USA John Ford
L'Eclisse 1962 France, Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
Cléo from 5 to 7 1962 France, Italy Agnès Varda
Viridiana 1962 Spain, Mexico Luis Buñuel
La Jetée 1962 France Chris Marker
Jules and Jim 1962 France, France François Truffaut
West Side Story 1961 USA Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France, Italy Alain Resnais
Lola 1961 France, Italy Jacques Demy
La Notte 1961 France, Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
Spartacus 1960 USA Stanley Kubrick
L'Avventura 1960 France, Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
The Apartment 1960 USA, USA Billy Wilder
The Cloud-Capped Star 1960 India Ritwik Kumar Ghatak
Breathless 1960 France Jean-Luc Godard
La Dolce Vita 1960 France, Italy Federico Fellini
Pickpocket 1959 France Robert Bresson
Ben-Hur 1959 USA William Wyler
Imitation of Life 1959 USA Douglas Sirk
North by Northwest 1959 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959 France, Japan Alain Resnais
Nazarin 1959 Mexico Luis Buñuel
The 400 Blows 1959 France François Truffaut
Some Like It Hot 1959 USA Billy Wilder
Rio Bravo 1959 USA Howard Hawks
Some Came Running 1958 USA Vincente Minnelli
The Music Room 1958 India Satyajit Ray
Vertigo 1958 USA Alfred Hitchcock
Touch of Evil 1958 USA Orson Welles
Wild Strawberries 1957 Sweden Ingmar Bergman
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 UK David Lean
An Affair to Remember 1957 USA Leo McCarey
12 Angry Men 1957 USA Sidney Lumet
Pyaasa 1957 India Guru Dutt
The Seventh Seal 1957 Sweden Ingmar Bergman
Throne of Blood 1957 Japan Akira Kurosawa
A Man Escaped 1956 France Robert Bresson
Giant 1956 USA George Stevens
The Searchers 1956 USA John Ford
Night and Fog 1956 France Alain Resnais
All That Heaven Allows 1955 USA Douglas Sirk
Rebel Without a Cause 1955 USA Nicholas Ray
Pather Panchali 1955 India Satyajit Ray
The Night of the Hunter 1955 USA Charles Laughton
Moonfleet 1955 USA Fritz Lang
Kiss Me Deadly 1955 USA Robert Aldrich
Ordet 1955 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
Senso 1954 Italy Luchino Visconti
A Star Is Born 1954 USA George Cukor
The Barefoot Contessa 1954 USA, Italy Joseph L. Mankiewicz
La Strada 1954 Italy Federico Fellini
Journey to Italy 1954 France, Italy Roberto Rossellini
Rear Window 1954 USA Alfred Hitchcock
On the Waterfront 1954 USA Elia Kazan
Johnny Guitar 1954 USA Nicholas Ray
Seven Samurai 1954 Japan Akira Kurosawa
Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Japan Kenji Mizoguchi
Tokyo Story 1953 Japan Yasujirō Ozu
The Earrings of Madame de... 1953 France, Italy Max Ophüls
From Here to Eternity 1953 USA Fred Zinnemann
The Band Wagon 1953 USA Vincente Minnelli
Él 1953 Mexico Luis Buñuel
Shane 1953 USA George Stevens
Ugetsu 1953 Japan Kenji Mizoguchi
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday 1953 France Jacques Tati
Europe '51 1952 Italy Roberto Rossellini
Limelight 1952 USA Charlie Chaplin
Ikiru 1952 Japan Akira Kurosawa
High Noon 1952 USA Fred Zinnemann
Singin' in the Rain 1952 USA Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Casque d'Or 1952 France Jacques Becker
Le Plaisir 1952 France Max Ophüls
Umberto D. 1952 Italy Vittorio De Sica
The African Queen 1952 USA, UK John Huston
An American in Paris 1951 USA Vincente Minnelli
A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 USA Elia Kazan
The River 1951 France, USA, India Jean Renoir
A Place in the Sun 1951 USA George Stevens
The Young and the Damned 1950 Mexico Luis Buñuel
All About Eve 1950 USA Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Rashomon 1950 Japan Akira Kurosawa
Sunset Boulevard 1950 USA, USA Billy Wilder
In a Lonely Place 1950 USA Nicholas Ray
The Earth Trembles 1949 Italy Luchino Visconti
Late Spring 1949 Japan Yasujirō Ozu
The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy Vittorio De Sica
Louisiana Story 1948 USA Robert Flaherty
The Red Shoes 1948 UK Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 USA Max Ophüls
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 USA John Huston
Out of the Past 1947 USA Jacques Tourneur
Monsieur Verdoux 1947 USA Charlie Chaplin
Black Narcissus 1947 UK Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 USA William Wyler
It's a Wonderful Life 1946 USA Frank Capra
A Matter of Life and Death 1946 UK Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Paisan 1946 Italy Roberto Rossellini
Beauty and the Beast 1946 France Jean Cocteau
My Darling Clementine 1946 USA John Ford
Notorious 1946 USA Alfred Hitchcock
A Day in the Country 1946 France Jean Renoir
Brief Encounter 1945 UK David Lean
I Know Where I'm Going! 1945 UK Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Rome, Open City 1945 Italy Roberto Rossellini
Les Dames du bois de Boulogne 1945 France Robert Bresson
Children of Paradise 1945 France Marcel Carné
Ivan the Terrible, Part I 1944 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein
Laura 1944 USA Otto Preminger
A Canterbury Tale 1944 UK Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Double Indemnity 1944 USA Billy Wilder
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 UK Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Casablanca 1943 USA Michael Curtiz
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 USA Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 USA Orson Welles
Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 USA Michael Curtiz
To Be or Not to Be 1942 USA Ernst Lubitsch
Sullivan's Travels 1941 USA Preston Sturges
The Maltese Falcon 1941 USA John Huston
Citizen Kane 1941 USA Orson Welles
The Philadelphia Story 1940 USA George Cukor
Fantasia 1940 USA David Hand, James Algar, Samuel Armstrong
The Great Dictator 1940 USA Charlie Chaplin
The Grapes of Wrath 1940 USA John Ford
His Girl Friday 1940 USA Howard Hawks
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 USA Frank Capra
The Wizard of Oz 1939 USA Victor Fleming
The Rules of the Game 1939 France Jean Renoir
Daybreak 1939 France Marcel Carné
Only Angels Have Wings 1939 USA Howard Hawks
Wuthering Heights 1939 USA William Wyler
Gone with the Wind 1939 USA, USA Victor Fleming
Stagecoach 1939 USA John Ford
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky 1938 Soviet Union Mark Donskoy
Bringing Up Baby 1938 USA Howard Hawks
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937 USA David Hand
Grand Illusion 1937 France, France Jean Renoir
The Story of a Cheat 1936 France Sacha Guitry
Swing Time 1936 USA George Stevens
By the Bluest of Seas 1936 Soviet Union Boris Barnet
Modern Times 1936 USA Charlie Chaplin
Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 USA Frank Lloyd
A Night at the Opera 1935 USA Edmund Goulding, Sam Wood
The Scarlet Empress 1934 USA Josef von Sternberg
L'Atalante 1934 France Jean Vigo
It Happened One Night 1934 USA Frank Capra
Duck Soup 1933 USA Leo McCarey
Zero for Conduct 1933 France Jean Vigo
King Kong 1933 USA Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Hurray Mexico! 1932 USA, Mexico Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein
Trouble in Paradise 1932 USA Ernst Lubitsch
Vampyr 1932 France, USA, Denmark, Germany Carl Theodor Dreyer
Scarface 1932 USA Howard Hawks
Freaks 1932 USA Tod Browning
Frankenstein 1931 USA James Whale
Tabu 1931 USA F. W. Murnau
Limite 1931 Brazil Mário Peixoto
M 1931 Germany Fritz Lang
Le Million 1931 France René Clair
City Lights 1931 USA Charlie Chaplin
All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 USA Lewis Milestone
Earth 1930 Soviet Union Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Hallelujah 1929 USA King Vidor
Un Chien Andalou 1929 France Luis Buñuel
Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Soviet Union Dziga Vertov
Pandora's Box 1929 Germany G.W. Pabst
The Wind 1928 USA Victor Sjöström
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
The Crowd 1928 USA King Vidor
The Jazz Singer 1928 USA Alan Crosland
October (Ten Days that Shook the World) 1928 Soviet Union Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 USA F. W. Murnau
Napoléon 1927 France Abel Gance
Metropolis 1927 Germany Fritz Lang
The General 1926 USA, UK Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Mother 1926 Soviet Union Vsevolod Pudovkin
Battleship Potemkin 1925 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein
The Gold Rush 1925 USA Charlie Chaplin
The Last Laugh 1924 Germany F. W. Murnau
Greed 1924 USA Erich von Stroheim
Sherlock Jr. 1924 USA Buster Keaton
Nosferatu 1922 Germany F. W. Murnau
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Germany Robert Wiene
Broken Blossoms 1919 USA D.W. Griffith
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916 USA D.W. Griffith
The Birth of a Nation 1915 USA, USA D.W. Griffith