My films (with a little extra fat...)

By: Neil Bahadur

These here are the films which I consider my own. I suppose they’re essentially a “personal canon,” but to me, they’re far more than a canon. These are the films of my life, and the ones that continue to push the medium forward.

Few films which are missing but should be there…

Hell’s Hinges (Hart, Swickard, 1916)
Straight Shooting (Ford, 1917)
India (Rossellini, 1959)
Cheyenne Autumn (Ford, 1964)

• 01
  A Trip to the Moon
  Georges Méliès
• 02
  A Corner in Wheat
  D.W. Griffith
• 03
  The Musketeers of Pig Alley
  D.W. Griffith
• 04
  Ingeborg Holm
  Victor Sjöström
• 05
  The Birth of a Nation
  D.W. Griffith
• 06
  Regeneration
  Raoul Walsh
• 07
  Easy Street
  Charlie Chaplin
• 08
  The Immigrant
  Charlie Chaplin
• 09
  A Man There Was
  Victor Sjöström
• 10
  The Outlaw and His Wife
  Victor Sjöström
• 11
  Blind Husbands
  Erich von Stroheim
• 12
  Way Down East
  D.W. Griffith
• 13
  The Phantom Carriage
  Victor Sjöström
• 14
  Foolish Wives
  Erich von Stroheim
• 15
  Nosferatu
  F.W. Murnau
• 16
  A Woman of Paris
  Charlie Chaplin
• 17
  The Iron Horse
  John Ford
• 18
  The Gold Rush
  Charlie Chaplin
• 19
  Greed
  Erich von Stroheim
• 20
  3 Bad Men
  John Ford
• 21
  Sunrise
  F.W. Murnau
• 22
  The Wedding March
  Erich von Stroheim
• 23
  The Docks of New York
  Josef von Sternberg
• 24
  The Wind
  Victor Sjöström
• 25
  Queen Kelly
  Erich von Stroheim
• 26
  City Lights
  Charlie Chaplin
• 27
  Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
  F.W. Murnau
• 28
  Morocco
  Josef von Sternberg
• 29
  L'Atalante
  Jean Vigo
• 30
  Pilgrimage
  John Ford
• 31
  The Scarlet Empress
  Josef von Sternberg
• 32
  Toni
  Jean Renoir
• 33
  Modern Times
  Charlie Chaplin
• 34
  Stagecoach
  John Ford
• 35
  Grand Illusion
  Jean Renoir
• 36
  Young Mr. Lincoln
  John Ford
• 37
  The Rules of the Game
  Jean Renoir
• 38
  This Land Is Mine
  Jean Renoir
• 39
  I Know Where I'm Going!
  Michael Powell
• 40
  Rome Open City
  Roberto Rossellini
• 41
  They Were Expendable
  John Ford
• 42
  Paisan
  Roberto Rossellini
• 43
  Monsieur Verdoux
  Charlie Chaplin
• 44
  Wagon Master
  John Ford
• 45
  The Flowers of St. Francis
  Roberto Rossellini
• 46
  The River
  Jean Renoir
• 47
  The Quiet Man
  John Ford
• 48
  The Saga of Anatahan
  Josef von Sternberg
• 49
  The Sun Shines Bright
  John Ford
• 50
  Voyage to Italy
  Roberto Rossellini
• 51
  Sansho the Bailiff
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 52
  French Cancan
  Jean Renoir
• 53
  A King in New York
  Charlie Chaplin
• 54
  The Searchers
  John Ford
• 55
  Touch of Evil
  Orson Welles
• 56
  Breathless
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 57
  India: Matri Bhumi
  Roberto Rossellini
• 58
  Peeping Tom
  Michael Powell
• 59
  One-Eyed Jacks
  Marlon Brando
• 60
  Accattone
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 61
  Vivre sa vie
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 62
  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  John Ford
• 63
  Before the Revolution
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 64
  Contempt
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 65
  High and Low
  Akira Kurosawa
• 66
  Gertrud
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 67
  7 Women
  John Ford
• 68
  The Gospel According to St. Matthew
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 69
  Alphaville
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 70
  Chimes at Midnight
  Orson Welles
• 71
  A Countess from Hong Kong
  Charlie Chaplin
• 72
  Oedipus Rex
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 73
  The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
  Roberto Rossellini
• 74
  Weekend
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 75
  Teorema
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 76
  The Spider's Stratagem
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 77
  The Conformist
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 78
  The Decameron
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 79
  Badlands
  Terrence Malick
• 80
  Last Tango in Paris
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 81
  Mean Streets
  Martin Scorsese
• 82
  Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 83
  Blaise Pascal
  Roberto Rossellini
• 84
  F for Fake
  Orson Welles
• 85
  Barry Lyndon
  Stanley Kubrick
• 86
  Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 87
  1900
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 88
  Every Man for Himself
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 89
  Days of Heaven
  Terrence Malick
• 90
  The Driller Killer
  Abel Ferrara
• 91
  Raging Bull
  Martin Scorsese
• 92
  Berlin Alexanderplatz
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 93
  The King of Comedy
  Martin Scorsese
• 94
  First Name: Carmen
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 95
  Hail Mary
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 96
  Taipei Story
  Edward Yang
• 97
  The Horse Thief
  Tian Zhuangzhuang
• 98
  The Terrorizers
  Edward Yang
• 99
  China Girl
  Abel Ferrara
• 100
  The Last Emperor
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 101
  The Last Temptation of Christ
  Martin Scorsese
• 102
  King of New York
  Abel Ferrara
• 103
  Nouvelle vague
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 104
  The Sheltering Sky
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 105
  A Brighter Summer Day
  Edward Yang
• 106
  Close-Up
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 107
  Bad Lieutenant
  Abel Ferrara
• 108
  The Age of Innocence
  Martin Scorsese
• 109
  Dangerous Game
  Abel Ferrara
• 110
  Through the Olive Trees
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 111
  Heat
  Michael Mann
• 112
  The Funeral
  Abel Ferrara
• 113
  Taste of Cherry
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 114
  Kundun
  Martin Scorsese
• 115
  New Rose Hotel
  Abel Ferrara
• 116
  The Wind Will Carry Us
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 117
  Yi yi
  Edward Yang
• 118
  In Praise of Love
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 119
  Gangs of New York
  Martin Scorsese
• 120
  Tropical Malady
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 121
  Go Go Tales
  Abel Ferrara
• 122
  Oh, Woe Is Me
  Jean-Luc Godard