Innovative Films

By: BaalMan

Innovative Films are:

Films which showed something new at the time they were released (new filimings techniques, special efects, new subjects, etc)
Cornerstone of a film genres
Cornerstone of a new film wave

It’s not a compreensive list yet so It might bring some controversy. Films genres that I am not so familiar like Westerns, horror, Sci-fi, Musicals can be underrepresented

Films not available in The Auteurs:
Trip to the moon (1902)
The Great Train Robbery (1903)

Contributions are welcome

• 01
  Persona
  Ingmar Bergman
• 02
  Un chien andalou
  Luis Buñuel
• 03
  Performance
  Donald Cammell
• 04
  Shadows
  John Cassavetes
• 05
  Daisies
  Věra Chytilová
• 06
  King Kong
  Merian C. Cooper
• 07
  The Jazz Singer
  Alan Crosland
• 08
  Meshes of the Afternoon
  Maya Deren
• 09
  Barren Lives
  Nelson Pereira dos Santos
• 10
  The Smiling Madame Beudet
  Germaine Dulac
• 11
  Strike
  Sergei Eisenstein
• 12
  Battleship Potemkin
  Sergei Eisenstein
• 13
  Satyricon
  Federico Fellini
• 14
  Nanook of the North
  Robert J. Flaherty
• 15
  Breathless
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 16
  The Birth of a Nation
  D.W. Griffith
• 17
  Rope
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 18
  Easy Rider
  Dennis Hopper
• 19
  The Maltese Falcon
  John Huston
• 20
  El Topo
  Alejandro Jodorowsky
• 21
  The General
  Buster Keaton
• 22
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Stanley Kubrick
• 23
  Metropolis
  Fritz Lang
• 24
  Eraserhead
  David Lynch
• 25
  La jetée
  Chris Marker
• 26
  Irreversible
  Gaspar Noé
• 27
  Chelsea Girls
  Paul Morrissey
• 28
  Nosferatu
  F.W. Murnau
• 29
  Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
  Sergei Parajanov
• 30
  The Color of Pomegranates
  Sergei Parajanov
• 31
  Koyaanisqatsi
  Godfrey Reggio
• 32
  Triumph of the Will
  Leni Riefenstahl
• 33
  Rome Open City
  Roberto Rossellini
• 34
  Pulp Fiction
  Quentin Tarantino
• 35
  Man with a Movie Camera
  Dziga Vertov
• 36
  The Celebration
  Thomas Vinterberg
• 37
  Ossessione
  Luchino Visconti
• 38
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 39
  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  Robert Wiene