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Cinematic Masterpieces

By: moglis

The best films I’ve seen, sorted in ascending chronological order.


The full list (including the titles that aren’t listed on the website):

Le chaudron infernal [The Infernal Caldron] (Méliès, 1903) *
Le locataire diabolique [The Devilish Tenant] (Méliès, 1909) *

Der letzte Mann [The Last Laugh] (Murnau, 1924)
Entr’acte (Clair, 1924) *

Stachka [Strike] (Eisenstein, 1925)

Faust – Eine deutsche Volkssage [Faust] (Murnau, 1926)

Napoléon (Gance, 1927)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)

Chelovek s kino-apparatom [Man with a Movie Camera] (Vertov, 1929)
H2O (Steiner, 1929) *
Un chien andalou (Buñuel, 1929) *

À propos de Nice (Vigo, 1930) *
L’âge d’or (Buñuel, 1930)

L’idée [The Idea] (Bartosch, 1932) *

Las Hurdes [Land Without Bread] (Buñuel, 1933) *

Komposition in Blau [Composition in Blue] (Fischinger, 1935) *

Allegretto (Fischinger, 1936) *
Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Cottrell/Hand, 1937)
The Old Mill (W. Jackson, 1937) *
Trade Tattoo (Lye, 1937) *

Fantasia (various, 1940)
The Great Dictator (Chaplin, 1940)

Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)

Bambi (Armstrong/Hand, 1942)
Radio Dynamics (Fischinger, 1942) *

Ivan Groznyy [Ivan the Terrible, Part I] (Eisenstein, 1944)

Motion Painting No. 1 (Fischinger, 1947) *
The Lady from Shanghai (Welles, 1947)

The Cat That Hated People (Avery, 1948) *

Inspirace [Inspiration] (Zeman, 1949) *

Los olvidados (Buñuel, 1950)
Rashômon (Kurosawa, 1950)
Spiegel van Holland [Mirror of Holland] (Haanstra, 1950) *

Bakushû [Early Summer] (Ozu, 1951)
Miracolo a Milano [Miracle in Milan] (De Sica, 1951)

A Phantasy (McLaren, 1952) *
Feed the Kitty (Jones, 1952) *
Magical Maestro (Avery, 1952) *
Neighbours (McLaren, 1952) *
Singin’ in the Rain (Donen/Kelly, 1952)
The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Welles, 1952)

Eaux d’artifice (Anger, 1953) *
Tôkyô monogatari [Tokyo Story] (Ozu, 1953)
Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom (Kimball/ A. Nichols, 1953) *

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Anger, 1954) *

Ordet [The Word] (Dreyer, 1955)
Pather Panchali [Song of the Little Road] (S. Ray, 1955)
Sommarnattens leende [Smiles of a Summer Night] (Bergman, 1955)
The Legend of Rockabye Point (Avery, 1955) * - not listed at MUBI

Let nad mocvarom (Petrović, 1956) * - not listed at MUBI

Det sjunde inseglet [The Seventh Seal] (Bergman, 1957)
Kanal (Wajda, 1957)
Smultronstället [Wild Strawberries] (Bergman, 1957)

Ivan Groznyy: Skaz vtoroy – Boyarskiy zagovor [Ivan the Terrible, Part II] (Eisenstein, 1958)
Mon oncle (Tati, 1958)

Ben-Hur (Wyler, 1959)
Le merle [Blackbird] (McLaren, 1959) *
Les quatre cents coups [The 400 Blows] (Truffaut, 1959)
Nazarín (Buñuel, 1959)

High Note (Jones, 1960) * - not listed at MUBI
L’avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
Lines: Vertical (McLaren, 1960) * - not listed at MUBI
The Young One (Buñuel, 1960)
Tirez sur le pianiste [Shoot the Piano Player] (Truffaut, 1960)

L’année dernière à Marienbad [Last Year at Marienbad] (Resnais, 1961)
La notte (Antonioni, 1961)
Munro (Deitch, 1961) * - not listed at MUBI
Ples v dežju [Dancing in the Rain] (Hladnik, 1961)
Viridiana (Buñuel, 1961)
West Side Story (Robbins/Wise, 1961)

El ángel exterminador [The Exterminating Angel] (Buñuel, 1962)
Istoriya odnogo prestupleniya [Story of One Crime] (Khitruk, 1962) *
Ivanovo detstvo [Ivan’s Childhood] (Tarkovsky, 1962)
Prelude: Dog Star Man (Brakhage, 1962) *
Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux [My Life to Live] (Godard, 1962)
Zoo (Haanstra, 1962) *

8½ (Fellini, 1963)
Khaneh siah ast [The House Is Black] (Farrokhzad, 1963) *
Le mépris [Contempt] (Godard, 1963)
Nattvardsgästerna [Winter Light] (Bergman, 1963)
The Critic (Pintoff, 1963) *
Tystnaden [The Silence] (Bergman, 1963)

Alexis Zorbas [Zorba the Greek] (Kakogiannis, 1964)
Canon (McLaren/Munro, 1964) *
Démanty noci [Diamonds of the Night] (Nemec, 1964)
Le journal d’une femme de chambre [Diary of a Chambermaid] (Buñuel, 1964)
The Pink Phink (Freleng/Pratt, 1964) *
Twice a Man (Markopoulos, 1964)

Simón del desierto [Simon of the Desert] (Buñuel, 1965)
The War Game (Watkins, 1965)
Tini zabutykh predkiv [Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors] (Parajanov, 1965)

Andrey Rublyov [Andrei Rublev] (Tarkovsky, 1966)
Blowup (Antonioni, 1966)
Cul-de-sac (Polanski, 1966)
Lapis (Whitney, 1966) *
Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis [Masculine, Feminine: In 15 Acts] (Godard, 1966)
Persona (Bergman, 1966)
Ruka [The Hand] (Trnka, 1966) *
Uccellacci e uccellini [The Hawks and the Sparrows] (Pasolini, 1966)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols, 1966)

23rd Psalm Branch: Part I (Brakhage, 1967) * - not listed at MUBI
Belle de jour (Buñuel, 1967)
In the Pink (Pratt, 1967) * - not listed at MUBI
Play Time (Tati, 1967)
Skizbe [Beginning] (Peleshian, 1967) *
Skupljaci perja [I Even Met Happy Gypsies] (Petrović, 1967)
The Hand Is Pinker Than the Eye (Pratt, 1967) * - not listed at MUBI
Tri [Three] (Petrović, 1967)
Week End (Godard, 1967)

2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos [Artists under the Big Top: Perplexed] (Kluge, 1968)
Byt [The Flat] (Švankmajer, 1968) *
Pas de deux (McLaren, 1968) *
Sayat Nova [The Color of Pomegranates] (Parajanov, 1968)
Skammen [Shame] (Bergman, 1968)
The Lion in Winter (Harvey, 1968)

En passion [The Passion of Anna] (Bergman, 1969)
La voie lactée [The Milky Way] (Buñuel, 1969)
The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)
Women in Love (Russell, 1969)
Zaseda [The Ambush] (Pavlović, 1969)

Dodesukaden (Kurosawa, 1970)
I clowns [The Clowns] (Fellini, 1970)
Tristana (Buñuel, 1970)

A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
Carnal Knowledge (Nichols, 1971)
Morte a Venezia [Death in Venice] (Visconti, 1971)
Out 1, noli me tangere (Rivette, 1971)
Punishment Park (Watkins, 1971)
Synchromy (McLaren, 1971) *
Trafic (Tati, 1971)

Cabaret (Fosse, 1972)
Der Tod der Maria Malibran [The Death of Maria Malibran] (Schroeter, 1972)
Images (Altman, 1972)
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie [The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie] (Buñuel, 1972)
Play It Again, Sam (Ross, 1972)
Solyaris [Solaris] (Tarkovsky, 1972)
Street Musique (Larkin, 1972) *
Viskningar och rop [Cries & Whispers] (Bergman, 1972)

Amarcord (Fellini, 1973)
Frank Film (Caroline Mouris/Frank Mouris, 1973) *
La nuit américaine [Day for Night] (Truffaut, 1973)
Plamuz [Music Art] (Rybczynski, 1973) * - not listed at IMDb
The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky, 1973)
Tüzoltó utca 25. [25 Fireman’s Street] (Szabó, 1973)
Wesele [The Wedding] (Wajda, 1973)

Mahler (Russell, 1974)
Le fantôme de la liberté [The Phantom of Liberty] (Buñuel, 1974)

Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
Nashville (Altman, 1975)
O thiasos [The Travelling Players] (Angelopoulos, 1975)
The Day of the Locust (Schlesinger, 1975)
Tommy (Russell, 1975)
Vremena goda [The Seasons] (Peleshian, 1975) *
Zerkalo [The Mirror] (Tarkovsky, 1975)
Ziemia obiecana [The Promised Land] (Wajda, 1975)

Le locataire [The Tenant] (Polanski, 1976)
Nowa ksiazka [New Book] (Rybczynski, 1976) *
The Omen (Donner, 1976)

3 Women (Altman, 1977)
Annie Hall (Allen, 1977)
Cet obscur objet du désir [That Obscure Object of Desire] (Buñuel, 1977)
Czlowiek z marmuru [Man of Marble] (Wajda, 1977)
The Bead Game (I. Patel, 1977) *

Bez znieczulenia [Without Anesthesia] (Wajda, 1978)
Lmno (Breer, 1978) *
My Way Home (Douglas, 1978)
Prova d’orchestra [Orchestra Rehearsal] (Fellini, 1978)
Satiemania (Gasparović, 1978) *

All That Jazz (Fosse, 1979)
Harpya (Servais, 1979) *
Manhattan (Allen, 1979)
Mein Fenster [My Window] (Rybczynski, 1979) * - not listed at MUBI
Panny z Wilka [The Maids of Wilko] (Wajda, 1979)
Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)

Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder, 1980)
Skazka skazok [Tale of Tales] (Norshteyn, 1980) *

A Légy [The Fly] (Rófusz, 1981) *
Czlowiek z zelaza [Man of Iron] (Wajda, 1981)
Tango (Rybczynski, 1981) *

Duvar [The Wall] (Güney, 1983)
L’ange (Bokanowski, 1983)
Narcissus (McLaren, 1983) *
Nostalghia (Tarkovsky, 1983)
Zelig (Allen, 1983)

Charade (Minnis, 1984) * - not listed at MUBI
Fountain of Dreams (Belson, 1984) *
Lev i byk [Lion and Bull] (Khitruk, 1984) * - not listed at MUBI
Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)

Idi i smotri [Come and See] (Klimov, 1985)
Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)

78 Tours (Schwizgebel, 1986) *
Ginger e Fred [Ginger and Fred] (Fellini, 1986)
Offret [The Sacrifice] (Tarkovsky, 1986)

Der Himmel über Berlin [Wings of Desire] (Wenders, 1987)
Imagine (Rybczynski, 1987) * - not listed at MUBI

The Fourth Dimension (Rybczynski, 1988) * - not listed at MUBI

Dharmaga tongjoguro kan kkadalgun [Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?: A Zen Fable] (Bae, 1989)
Vigyázat, lépcsö! [Mind the Steps!] (Orosz, 1989) *

The Orchestra (Rybczynski, 1990) - not listed at MUBI

Cavallette [Grasshoppers] (Bozzetto, 1991) * - not listed at MUBI
Manipulation (Greaves, 1991) * - not listed at MUBI

Rispondetemi (Pool, 1992) * - not listed at MUBI

Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers (Park, 1993) *

To vlemma tou Odyssea [Ulysses’ Gaze] (Angelopoulos, 1995)

Mysterious Journey (Belson, 1997) * - not listed at IMDb
Study of a River (Hutton, 1997) *

The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998)

The Old Man and the Sea (Petrov, 1999) *
When the Day Breaks (Forbis/Tilby, 1999) *

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Mekas, 2000)
Au bout du monde [At the Ends of the Earth] (Bronzit, 2000) *
From the Notebook of… (Beavers, 2000) - not listed at MUBI
Le chapeau [The Hat] (Cournoyer, 2000) * - not listed at MUBI
Sånger från andra våningen [Songs from the Second Floor] (Andersson, 2000)
The Heart of the World (Maddin, 2000) *

Adazhio [Adagio] (Bardin, 2001) *
Moulin Rouge! (Luhrmann, 2001)
The Ground (Beavers, 2001) *

Ebolusyon ng isang pamilyang Pilipino [Evolution of a Filipino Family] (Diaz, 2004)
Veter vdol berega [Wind Along the Coast] (Maksimov, 2004) *

9 (Acker, 2005) *
Sshtoorrty (Snow, 2005) * - not listed at MUBI

.#1 (Castéra, 2008) * - not listed at IMDb
Battements solaires [Solar Beats] (Bokanowski, 2008) *
Tsumiki no ie [The House of Small Cubes] (Katô, 2008) *

Day & Night (Newton, 2010) *

The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011)



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Directors with multiple entries:



Luis Buñuel (16)




Ingmar Bergman (9)




Norman McLaren (8)



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Zbigniew Rybczyński, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrzej Wajda (7)




Federico Fellini (5)



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Oskar Fischinger, Jean-Luc Godard (4)



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Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni (3)



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Tex Avery,Sergei Eisenstein, Stanley Kubrick (3)



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Akira Kurosawa, F.W. Murnau, Aleksandar Petrović (3)


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Hawley Pratt, Ken Russell, Jacques Tati (3)



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François Truffaut, Orson Welles (3)



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Theodoros Angelopoulos, Kenneth Anger, Robert Beavers (2)



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Jordan Belson, Patrick Bokanowski, Stan Brakhage (2)



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Charles Chaplin, Bob Fosse, Bert Haanstra (2)



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David Hand, Chuck Jones, Fyodor Khitruk (2)



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Terrence Malick, Georges Méliès, Mike Nichols (2)



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Yasujirô Ozu, Sergei Parajanov, Artavazd Peleshian (2)



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Roman Polanski, Peter Watkins, Wim Wenders (2)



 

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This list totally pwns, especially because of inclusion of The Ground.

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There is so much to chew on here. Thanks.

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