a chronological compendium of cinematic masterpieces (in very unpolished form for the time-being)

2007

1. Rehearsals for Retirement (Phil Solomon, USA)
2. State Legislature (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
3. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, UK)

2006

1. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-Soo, South Korea)
2. Still Life (Jia Zhang Ke, China)
3. Away From Her (Sarah Polley, Canada)
4. Inland Empire (David Lynch, USA)
5. Marie Antoinette (Sophia Coppola, USA)
6. 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumbiu, Romania)
7. Lady in the Water (M. Knight Shayamalan, USA)
8. Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey)

2005

1. The New World (Terrence Malick, USA)
2. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan)
3. A Bridge Over the Drina (Xavier Lukomski, Belgium)
4. Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel, France)
5. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
6. Takeshis’ (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)
7. Into Great Silence (Philip Groning, France)
8. Tale of the Cinema (Hong Sang-Soo, South Korea)
9. Sound Barrier (Amir Naderi, USA)
Praise (Barbara Sternberg, Canada)
11. The Sun (Alexander Sokurov, Russia)
12. Kolkata (Mark Lapore, USA)
13. The Piano Tuner of the Earthquakes (Brothers Quay, Germany)
14. Heading South (Laurent Cantet, France)
Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski, USA)

2004

1. Tanner on Tanner (Robert Altman, USA)
2. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
3. Chats Perches (Chris Marker, France)
4. 13 Lakes/Ten Skies (James Benning, USA)
5. The Dike of Transience (Gyula Nemes, Hungary)
6. The White Diamond (Werner Herzog, Germany)
Star Spangled to Death (Ken Jacobs, USA)
The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard, France)

2003

1. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan)
3. Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont, France/USA)
4. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Anderson, USA)
Basque Ball (Julio Medem, Spain)
Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-Ho, South Korea)
Uninvited (Lee Su-Yeon, South Korea)
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
Five Dedicated to Ozu (Abbas Kiarostani, Iran)

2002

1. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
2. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
Liberte et Patrie (Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville, France)
The Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, Hungary)
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (Guy Maddin, Canada)
Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski, USA)

2001

1. Chico (Ibolya Fekete, Hungary)
Sex and Lucia (Julio Medem, Spain)
ABC Africa (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan)
Where Has your Hidden Smile Gone? (Pedro Costa, France/Portugal)

2000

1. In Vanda’s Room (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
Mission to Mars (Brian De Palma, USA)
Platform (Jia Zhang-Ke, China)
Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
Origins of the 21st Century ((Jean-Luc Godard, France)
The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin, Canada)

1999

1. Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria)
Like a Dream that Vanishes (Barbara Sternberg, Canada)
Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz, Portugal/France)
South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut (Trey Parker, USA)
The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)

1998

1. Inquietude (Manoel Oliveira, Portugal/France)
2. The Old Place ((Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville, France/USA)
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold, Austria)
Khrustalyov, my car! (Alexei German, Russia/France)
New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara, USA)
Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller, USA)
The Celebration
The Hole (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan)

1997

1. Tren de Sombras (Jose Luis Guerin, Spain)
Made in Hong Kong (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
The River (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan)
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)

1996

1. A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran)
Day a Pig Fell into the Well (Hong Sang-Soo, South Korea)
Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan)
Everyone Says I Love You
Breaking the Waves
Nenette et Bont
Forever Mozart (Jean-Luc Godard, France)

1995

1. Spiritual Voices (Alexander Sokurov, Russia)

1994

1. Satantango (Bela Tarr, Hungary)
Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee, USA)
Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan)

1993

1. Matinee (Joe Dante, USA)
2. Helas Pour Moi (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
Children Play Russian (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter, USA)

1992

1. El Sol de Membrillo (Victor Erice, Spain)
Videogram of a Revolution (Harun Farocki, Germany)
Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambety

1991

1. And Life Goes On (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
I Don't Hear the Guitar Anymore (Philippe Garrel, France)
Side/Walk/Shuttle (Ernie Gehr, USA
The Frontier (Ricardo Larrain, Chile)
Prosepero’s Books (Peter Greenaway, UK)
New Jack City (Mario Van Peebles, USA)
A Brief Historry of Time (Errol Morris, USA)
Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat, France)
La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, France)
Conviction (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
Rhapsody in August (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
Malina (Werner Schroeter, Germany)
Life on a String (Chen Kaige, China)

1990

1. Larks on a String (Jiri Menzel, Czechoslovakia)
All the Vermeers in New York (Jon Jost, USA)
Good News (Ulrich Seidl, Austria)
Close Up (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
Reflecting Skin (Philip Ridley, UK)
The Garden (Derek Jarman, UK)
Open Doors (Gianni Amelio, Italy)
Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich, USA)

1989

1. A Tale of the Wind (Joris Ivens, France)
The Little Stranger (Bahram Beizai, Iran)
Black Rain (Shohei Imamura, Japan)
Sempre Xonxa (Chano Pineiro, Spain)

1988

1. Histoire(s) du Cinema: Tout Les Histoires (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terrence Davies, UK)
Ashik Kerib (Sergei Parajanov, USSR)
The Eye Above the Well (Johan Van Der Keuken, Netherlands)
Damnation (Bela Tarr, Hungary)

1987

1. Opera (Dario Argento, Italy)
Sleepwalk (Sara Driver, USA)
King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard, Bahamas/USA)
Yeelen (Souleymane Cisse, Mali)
The Cyclist (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran)
Where is the Friends Home? (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
Soigne Ta Droite (Jean-Luc Godard, France)

1986

1. Lanscape Suicide (James Benning, USA)
Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan)
Sherman's March (Ross Mcelwee, USA)

1985

1. Crimewave (John Paisz, Canada)
Love Hotel (Shinji Sômai, Japan)
Peril en la demeure (Michel Deville, France)
Men… (Doris Dorrie, West Germany)
Come and See (Elim Klimov, USSR)
Colonel Reidl (Istvan Szabo, Hungary)
Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard, France)

1984

1. Class Relations (Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet, France/West Germany)
2.Love Streams (John Cassavetes, USA)

1983

1. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky, Italy)
The Makioka Sisters (Kon Ichikawa, Japan)
Man of Flowers (Paul Cox, Australia)
Deadly Circuit (Claude Miller, France)
El Norte (Gregory Nava, USA/UK)
La Belle Captive (Alain Robbe-Grillet, France)
The Fourth Man (Paul Verhoeven, Netherlands)
First Name Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard, France)

1982

1. The Marathon Family (Slobodon Sijan, Yugoslavia)
Yol (Yilmaz Guney, Turkey)
Parsifal (Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, West Germany)
Passion (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
The Prefab People (Bela Tarr, Hungary)

1981

1. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, France/West Germany)
Montenegro (Dusan Makavejev, Sweden/UK)
Deprisa, Deprisa (Carlos Saura, Spain)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (Karel Reisz, UK)
The Outsider (Bela Tarr, Hungary)

1980

1. Mon Oncle d’Amerique (Alain Resnais, France)
Demon Lover Diary (Joel DeMott, USA)
The Night of the Hunted (Jean Rollin, France)
Deathwatch (Bertrand Tavernier, France/West Germany, UK)
Zigeunerweisen (Seijun Suzuki, Japan)
Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris, USA)
Sauve qui Peut (La Vie) (Jean-Luc Godard, France)

1979

1. Tale of Tales (Yuri Norstein, USSR)
The Unknown Soldier's Patent Leather Shoes (Rangel Vulchanov, Bulgaria)
Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura, Japan)
Life of Brian (Terry Jones, UK)
Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland)

1978

1. Hitler: A Film From Germany (Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, West Germany)
The All-Around Reduced Personality: Outtakes (Helke Sander, West Germany)
Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany/France)
Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
A Walk Through H (Peter Greenaway, UK)
In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)

1977

1. Le Fond de L’Air Est Rouge (Chris Marker, France)
News From Home (Chantal Akerman, France/Belgium)
A Dirty Story (Jean Eustache, France)
3 Women (Robert Altman, USA)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, USA)
Martin (George A. Romero, USA0
Man of Marble (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)
Desperate Living (John Waters, USA)

1976

1. The Desert of the Tartars (Valerio Zurlini, Italy)
Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, USA)
Ascent (Larisa Shepitko, USSR)

1975

1. The Seasons (Artavazd Peleshyan, USSR)
Curriculum Vitae (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland)
The Travelling Players (Theo Angelopoulos, Greece)
Death of the Rat (Pascal Aubier, France)
Deep Red (Dario Argento, Italy)
Battle of Chile (Patricio Guzman, France/Cuba)
Chronicle of the years of embers (Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Algeria)
Adoption (Marta Meszaros, Hungary)

1974

1. Still Life (Sohrab Shahid Saless, Iran)
Parade (Jacques Tati, France)
The Mouth Agape (Maurice Pialat, France)
Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, West Germany)

1973

1. Electra Glide in Blue (James William Guercio, USA)
Score (Radley Metzger, USA)
Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambety, Senegal)
Sisters (Brian de Palma, USA)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
Charley Varrick (Don Siegel, USA)

1972

1. The Red Psalm (Miklos Jancso, Hungary)
Travels With My Aunt (George Cukor, USA)
The Inner Scar (Philippe Garrel, France)
The Rites of Frankenstein (Jess Franco, France/Spain)
Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
The Text of Light (Stan Brakhage, USA)

1971

1. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, USA)
The House in the Woods (Maurice Pialat, France)
La Region Centrale (Michael Snow, Canada)
Wanda (Barbara Loden, USA)
What's the Matter With Helen? (Curtis Harrington, USA)
Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kumel, Belgium/France)
Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper, USA)
Love (Karoly Makk, Hungary)
Blanche (Walerian Borowczyk, France)
Petit a petit (Jean Rouch, France)

1970

1. The Hart of London (Jack Chambers, Canada)
N-Zone (Arthur Lipsett, Canada)
Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer, France)
Don't Deliver Us From Evil (Joel Seria, France)
Eden and After (Alain Robbe-Grillet, France)
Ice (Robert Kramer, USA)
The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
Multiple Sidosis (Sid Lavarents, USA)
Zorn's Lemma (Hollis Frampton, USA)
The Spider's Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires, Czechoslovaki)

1969

1. L’Amour Fou (Jacques Rivette, France)
My Name is Oona (Gunvar Nelson, USA)
79 Primaveras (Santiago Alvarez, Cuba)
The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophüls, France)
The Cow (Dariush Mehrjui, Iran)
Diaries, Notebooks and Sketches (Jonas Mekas, USA)
Army in the Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)

1968

1. Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba)
The Hour of the Furnaces (Fernando Solanas, Argentina)
Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindo, Japan)
The Diamond Arm (Leonid Gaidai, USSR)

1967

1. Oedipus Rex (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
23rd Psalm Branch (Stan Brakhage, USA)
Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil, Czechoslovakia)
Caprice (Frank Tashlin, USA)
The Plea (Tengiz Abuladze, USSR)
Report (Bruce Conner, USA)
The Smugglers (Luc Moullet, France)
The Commissar (Alexander Askoldov, USSR)
China is Near (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
Love Affair or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)
Privilege (Peter Watkins, UK)

1966

1. Seven Women (John Ford, USA)
Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka, Austria)
Red Angel (Yasuzo Masumura, Japan)
Chelsea Girls (Andy Warhol/Paul Morrissey, USA)
Django (Sergio Corbucci, Italy)
A Report on the Party and the Guests (Jan Nemec, Czechoslovakia)
El Dorado (Howard Hawks, USA)
L'Armata Brancaleone (Mario Monicelli, Italy)
Falling Leaves (Otar Iosseliani, USSR)
La Vie de Chateau (Jean-Paul Rappeneau, France)

1965

1. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, Spain)
Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
Fugitive From the Past (Tomu Uchida, Japan)
Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda, France)
Ruka (Jirí Trnka, Czechoslovakia)
The Knack...and How to Get It (Richard Lester, UK)
Saragossa Manuscript (Wojciech Has, Poland)
Stage Sisters (Jin Xie, China)

1964

1. Mass for the Dakota Sioux (Bruce Baillie, USA)
Girl with Green Eyes (Desmond Davis, UK)
Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark)
The Gorgon (Terrence Fisher, UK)
Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
Manji (Yasuzo Masumura, Japan)

1963

1. Pour la Suite du Monde (Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault, Canada)
Normal Love (Jack Smith, USA)
The House is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran)
The Fire Within (Louis Malle, France)
The Whip and the Body (Mario Bava, Italy)
Gidget Goes to Rome (Paul Wendkos, USA)
Passenger (Andrzej Munk, Poland)
I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
Muriel (Alain Resnais, France)

1962

1. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
Freud (John Huston, USA)
Walk on the Wild Side (Edward Dmytryk, USA)
The 47 Ronin (Hiroshi Inagaki, Japan)

1961

1. Taste of Fear (Seth Holt, UK)
E-Flat (Ritwik Ghatak, India)
The Giant of Metropolis (Umberto Scarpelli, Italy)

1960

1. The Young One (Luis Bubuel, Mexico/USA)
The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis, USA)
Black Sunday (Mario Bava, Italy
First Spaceship on Venus (Kurt Maetzig, East Germany/Poland)
The Island (Kaneto Shindo, Japan)

1959

1. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, France)
Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher, USA)
India (Roberto Rossellini, France/Italy)
Head Against the Wall (Georges Franju, France)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, USA)
The Hanging Tree (Delmer Daves, USA)
L'il Abner (Melvin Frank, USA)

1958

1. Man of the West (Anthony Mann, USA)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
Jalsaghar (Satyajit Ray, India)
Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
China Doll (Frank Borzage, USA)
From the Earth to the Moon (Byron Haskin, USA)
The Very Eye of Night (Maya Deren, USA)

1957

1. Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray, USA)
China Gate (Sam Fuller, USA)
He Who Must Die (Jules Dassin, Italy/France)
Rock All Night (Roger Corman, USA)
Pyaasa (Guru Dutt, India)

1956

1. Elena et les Hommes (Jean Renoir, France/Italy)
Gervaise (Rene Clement, France)
Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, USA)
A Kiss Before Dying (Gerd Oswald, USA)
Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray, USA)

1955

1. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, USA)
Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem, Spain/Italy)

1954

1. Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse, Japan)
Anatahan (Josef Von Sternberg. USA/Japan)
Tiefland (Leni Riefenstahl, Germany)

1953

1. The End (Christopher Maclaine, USA)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (Roy Rowland, USA)
Eaux d'artifice (Kenneth Anger, USA)
The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang, USA)
Le Carrosse d'Or (Jean Renoir, France/Italy)

1952

1. Singin’ In the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, USA)
Vida en Sombras (Lorenzo Llobet Gracia, Spain)
Howlings in Favour of de Sade (Guy Debord, France)
Baiju Bawra (Vijay Bhatt, India)
Park Row (Sam Fuller, USA)
Angel Face (Otto Preminger, USA)
Neighbors (Norman Maclaren, Canada)

1951

1. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, USA)
Awaara (Raj Kapoor, India)

1950

1. Story of a Love Affair (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)

1949

1. Begone Dull Care (Norman Maclaren, Canada)
White Paws (Jean Gremillon, France)
The Black Book (Anthony Mann, USA)
Pacific 231 (Jean Mitry, Canada)
Crows and Sparrows (Zheng Junli, China)

1948

1. Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle, USA)
Louisiana Story (Robert Flaherty, USA)
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, UK)

1947

1. Golden Earrings (Mitchell Leisen, USA)
Dreams that Money Can Buy (Hans Richter, USA)
Motion Painting No. 1 (Oskar Fischinger, USA)
Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding, USA)
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
Pursued (Raoul Walsh, USA)

1946

1. Dragonwyck (Joseph Mankiewicz, USA)

1945

1. Experiment Perilous (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)
Dillinger (Max Nosseck, USA)

1944

1. The Keys of the Kingdom (John M. Stahl, USA)
At Land (Maya Deren, USA)
An American Romance (King Vidor, USA)

1943

1. Fires Were Started (Humphrey Jennings, UK)

1942

1. Here We Go Again (Allan Dwan, USA)

1941

1. The Strawberry Blonde (Raoul Walsh, USA)
The Iron Crown (Alessandro Blasetti, Italy)
Hellzapoppin' (H.C. Potter, USA)

1940

1. Christmas in July (Preston Sturges, USA)
Johnny Apollo (Henry Hathaway, USA)
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, USA/UK)

1939

1. Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)
Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, USA)

1938

1. Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl, Germany)
The Baker's Wife (Marcel Pagnol, France)

1937

1. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, USA)
Trade Tattoo (Len Lye, UK)
Un Carnet du Bal (Julien Duvivier, France)
Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka, Japan)

1936

1. By the Bluest of Seas (Boris Barnet, USSR)
Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell, USA)
Rose Marie (W.S. Van Dyke, USA)
Swing Time (George Stevens, USA)
Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry, France)
The Only Son (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)

1935

1. The Wedding Night (King Vidor, USA)
Top Hat (Mark Sandrich, USA)
The Phantom Empire (Otto Brower, USA)

1934

1. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, France)
Liliom (Fritz Lang, France)
The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch, 1934, USA)
Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty, UK)
The Goddess (Wu Yonggang, China)

1933

1. Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon, USA)
Quatorze Juillet (Rene Clair, France)
Liebelei (Max Ophuls, Germany)
Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian, USA)
Scarlet River (Otto Brower, USA)
Gabriel Over the White House (Gregory La Cava\, USA)
Ecstasy (Gustav Machaty, Czechoslovakia/Austria)

1932

1. Ivan (Alexander Dovzhenko, USSR)
Freaks (Tod Browning, USA)
Happiness (Alexander Medvedkin, USSR)

1931

1. The Murderer Dmitri Karamazov (Fyodor Otsep, Germany)

1930

1. The Dawn Patrol (Howard Hawks, USA)
City Girl (F.W. Murnau, USA)
Aimless Walk (Alexander Hammid, Czechoslovakia)

1929

1. The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, USSR)
Spite Marriage (Edward Sedgwick [Buster Keaton], USA)
New Babylon (Grigori Kozintsev/Leonid Trauberg, USSR)
Finis Terrae (Jean Epstein, France)
Piccadilly (Ewald Andre Dupont, UK)
Diary of a Lost Girl (G.W. Pabst, Germany)
Dans la nuit (Charles Vanel, France)

1928

1. Beggars of Life (William A. Wellman, USA)

1927

1. Napoleon (Abel Gance, France)
The Kid Brother (Ted Wilde/Lewis Milestone/J.A. Howe, USA)
The End of St. Petersburg (Vsevolod Pudovkin, USSR)
The Battle of the Century (Clyde Bruckman [Laurel and Hardy], USA)
The Chess Player (Raymond Bernard, France)
Invitation to a Journey (Germaine Dulac, France)

1926

1. Menilmontant (Dmitri Kirsanoff, France)
A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan)
The Devil's Circus (Benjamin Christensen, USA)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, Germany)

1925

1. Strike (Sergei Eisenstein, USSR)
Go West (Buster Keaton, USA)

1924

1. The Red Lily (Fred Niblo, USA)
L'inhumaine (Marcel L'Herbier, France)

1923

1. Coeur Fidele (Jean Epstein, France)
Safety Last (Fred Newmeyer/Harold Lloyd, USA)

1922

1. Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, USA

1921

1. The Kid (Charlie Chaplin, USA)
Tol'able David (Henry King, USA)

1920

1. The Sendomir Monastery (Victor Sjostrom, Sweden)
The Golem (Paul Wegener, Germany)
Erotikon (Mauritz Stiller, Sweden)

before 1920

1. After Death (Evgeni Bauer, 1915, Russia)
Annabelle Serpentine Dance (August and Louis Lumiere, 1895, France)
Jack and the Beanstalk (Edwin S. Porter, 1902, USA)
The Abyss (Urban Gad, 1910, Denmark)
Behind the Screen (Charles Chaplin, 1916, USA)
20,000 Employees Entering Lord Armstrong's Elswick Works (James Kenyon/Sagar Mitchell, 1900, UK)
The Impossible Voyage (Georges Melies, 1904, France)
L'Inferno (Francesco Bertolini, 1911, Italy)
How a Mosquito Operates (Winsor McCay, 1911, USA)
Thais (Anton Giulio Bragaglia, 1916, Italy)
Judex (Louis Feuillade, 1916, France)