GREAT VISUAL STORYTELLING: 100 MOVIES TO LEARN FROM

By: Martinu​s

- Movies that can teach you a lot about film language: use of camera, mise en scene, editing.
- The list is in chronological order and is a work in progress.

• 01
  Master of the House
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 02
  Faces of Children
  Jacques Feyder
• 03
  Ménilmontant
  Dimitri Kirsanoff
• 04
  Sunrise
  F.W. Murnau
• 05
  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 06
  Earth
  Aleksandr Dovzhenko
• 07
  All Quiet on the Western Front
  Lewis Milestone
• 08
  M
  Fritz Lang
• 09
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  Rouben Mamoulian
• 10
  Stagecoach
  John Ford
• 11
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 12
  The Magnificent Ambersons
  Orson Welles
• 13
  Shadow of a Doubt
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 14
  Brief Encounter
  David Lean
• 15
  Notorious
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 16
  The Third Man
  Carol Reed
• 17
  La ronde
  Max Ophüls
• 18
  Rashômon
  Akira Kurosawa
• 19
  Strangers on a Train
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 20
  Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
  Albert Lewin
• 21
  The Man in the White Suit
  Alexander Mackendrick
• 22
  Le plaisir
  Max Ophüls
• 23
  Rear Window
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 24
  Dial M for Murder
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 25
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 26
  The Heart
  Kon Ichikawa
• 27
  The Wrong Man
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 28
  Twelve Angry Men
  Sidney Lumet
• 29
  Paths of Glory
  Stanley Kubrick
• 30
  The Cranes Are Flying
  Mikhail Kalatozov
• 31
  The Bridge on the River Kwai
  David Lean
• 32
  Vertigo
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 33
  North by Northwest
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 34
  Psycho
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 35
  The Innocents
  Jack Clayton
• 36
  La notte
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 37
  The Trial
  Orson Welles
• 38
  L'eclisse
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 39
  Harakiri
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 40
  Knife in the Water
  Roman Polanski
• 41
  Lawrence of Arabia
  David Lean
• 42
  The Silence
  Ingmar Bergman
• 43
  8½
  Federico Fellini
• 44
  Charulata
  Satyajit Ray
• 45
  I Am Cuba
  Mikhail Kalatozov
• 46
  Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
  Sergei Parajanov
• 47
  Woman in the Dunes
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 48
  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  Sergio Leone
• 49
  The Round-Up
  Miklós Jancsó
• 50
  Here's Your Life
  Jan Troell
• 51
  Point Blank
  John Boorman
• 52
  War and Peace
  Sergei Bondarchuk
• 53
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Stanley Kubrick
• 54
  Once Upon a Time in the West
  Sergio Leone
• 55
  The French Connection
  William Friedkin
• 56
  Ryan's Daughter
  David Lean
• 57
  Le cercle rouge
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 58
  The Spider's Stratagem
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 59
  Deliverance
  John Boorman
• 60
  The Conversation
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 61
  Martha
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 62
  Jaws
  Steven Spielberg
• 63
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 64
  Carrie
  Brian De Palma
• 65
  The Shining
  Stanley Kubrick
• 66
  Raging Bull
  Martin Scorsese
• 67
  Dressed to Kill
  Brian De Palma
• 68
  Blow Out
  Brian De Palma
• 69
  The Fourth Man
  Paul Verhoeven
• 70
  Blood Simple
  Joel Coen
• 71
  After Hours
  Martin Scorsese
• 72
  Blue Velvet
  David Lynch
• 73
  Carlito's Way
  Brian De Palma
• 74
  The Age of Innocence
  Martin Scorsese
• 75
  The Shawshank Redemption
  Frank Darabont
• 76
  Pulp Fiction
  Quentin Tarantino
• 77
  Heavenly Creatures
  Peter Jackson
• 78
  Mother and Son
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 79
  Eternity and a Day
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 80
  The Insider
  Michael Mann
• 81
  Magnolia
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 82
  Requiem for a Dream
  Darren Aronofsky
• 83
  Werckmeister Harmonies
  Béla Tarr
• 84
  Unbreakable
  M. Night Shyamalan
• 85
  Punch-Drunk Love
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 86
  Road to Perdition
  Sam Mendes
• 87
  Minority Report
  Steven Spielberg
• 88
  Oldboy
  Park Chan-wook
• 89
  The Aura
  Fabián Bielinsky
• 90
  Little Children
  Todd Field
• 91
  Children of Men
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 92
  Zodiac
  David Fincher
• 93
  Atonement
  Joe Wright
• 94
  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  Cristian Mungiu
• 95
  There Will Be Blood
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 96
  No Country for Old Men
  Ethan Coen
• 97
  Revolutionary Road
  Sam Mendes
• 98
  Shutter Island
  Martin Scorsese
• 99
  Take Shelter
  Jeff Nichols
• 100
  Wuthering Heights
  Andrea Arnold