SOME GREATS

Ingmar Bergman:

1.   The Seventh Seal

2.   The Virgin Spring

3.   Wild Strawberries

4.   The Silence

5.   Cries and Whispers

Alain Resnais:

1.   Last Year at Mareinbad

2.   Hiroshima, Mon Amour

3.   Le Guerre est Fine

Michaelangelo Antonioni:

1.   L’Aventurra

2.   Red Desert

3.   Blow-Up

Roberto Rossellini:

1.   Rome, Open City

2.   Paisan

Vittorio De Sica:

1.   Bicycle Thief

2.   Umberto D

3.   Shoeshine

Federico Fellini:

1.   La Strada

2.   La Dolce Vita

3.   Fellini 8 1/2

Luis Bunuel:

1.   Un Chein Andalou

2.   L’Age D’or

3.   Viridiana

4.   Exterminating Angel

5.   Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie

Francois Truffaut:

1.   400 Blows

2.   Jules and Jim

3.   Shoot the Piano Player

Jean-Luc Godard:

1.   Breathless

2.   Contempt

Jean Renoir:

1.   Rules of the Game

2.   La Grande Illusion

Fritz Lang:

1.   M

2.   Metropolis

F. W. Murnau:

1.   Nosferatu

2.   The Last Laugh

3.   Sunrise

William Wyler:

1.   Dodsworth

2.   Best Years of Our Lives

3.   The Heiress

4.   The Little Foxes

King Vidor:

1.   The Big Parade

2.   The Crowd

Akira Kurosawa:

1.   Seven Samurai

2.   Rashomon

3.   Throne of Blood

Rene Clement:

1.   Forbidden Games

Orson Welles:

1.   Magnificent Ambersons

2.   Touch of Evil

3.   The Trial

David Lean:

1.   Brief Encounter

2.   Great Expectations

3.   Bridge on the River Kwai

4.   Lawrence of Arabia

Fred Zinneman:

1.   High Noon

2.   The Search

3.   From Here to Eternity

4.   Man For All Seasons

Stanley Kubrick:

1.   Paths of Glory

2.   Dr. Strangelove

3.   2001: A Space Odyssey

4.   Clockwork Orange

Bernardo Bertolucci:

1.   The Conformist

2.   Last Tango in Paris

John Huston:

1.   The Maltese Falcon

2.   Treasure of the Sierra Madre

3.   The Asphalt Jungle

4.   The African Queen

John Ford:

1.   Stagecoach

2.   The Long Voyage Home

3.   The Grapes of Wrath

4.   How Green Was My Valley

5.   The Searchers

Alfred Hitchcock:

1      The 39 Steps

2      Lady Vanishes

3      Vertigo

4      North by Northwest

5      Psycho

Mike Nichols:

1.   Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf

2.   The Graduate

Charlie Chaplin:

1.   City Lights

2.   The Gold Rush

3.   Modern Times

4.   The Great Dictator

Billy Wilder:

1.   Sunset Boulevard

2.   Witness For the Prosecution

3.   Double Indemnity

4.   The Apartment

George Stevens:

1.   Shane

2.   A Place in The Sun

Frank Capra:

1.   It Happened One Night

Sidney Lumet:

1.   12 Angry Men

2.   The Pawnbroker

3.   Network

Henri-Georges Clouzot:

1.   Diabolique

2.   Wages of Fear

Roman Polanski:

1.   Knife in The Water

2.   Repulsion

3.   Chinatown

Francis Ford Coppola:

1.   The Godfather

2.   Godfather 2

3.   The Conversation

Carol Reed:

1.   Odd Man Out

2.   The Third Man

Rouben Mamoulian:

1.   Applause

2.   Queen Christina

Joseph L. Mankewicz:

1.   All About Eve

2.   Letter to Three Wives

3.   Julius Caesar

Jacques Tournier:

1.   Cat People

2.   Out of The Past

Joseph Von Sternberg:

1.   Blue Angel

2.   Scarlet Empress

William Wellman:

1.   The Ox-Bow Incident

Robert Altman

1.   McCabe & Mrs. Miller

2.   Long Goodbye

3.   Nashville

OTHERS:

1.   King Kong

2.   The Red Shoes

3.   Black Orpheus

4.   French Connection

5.   The Last Picture Show

6.   In The Heat of The Night

7.   Midnight Cowboy

8.   Five Easy Pieces

9.   On The Waterfront

10.Petulia

11.Sweet Smell of Success

12.All The King’s Men

13.Hud

14.Marty

15.The General

16.Singin’ in the Rain

17.Woman in The Dunes

18.Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

19.Greed

20.All Quiet on the Western Front

21.A Letter From an Unknown Woman

and, of course,

WORMWOOD!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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