The First 50 Criterion Films

#1 Grand Illusion — Jean Renoir (1937)

#2 The Wages of Fear — Henri-Georges Clouzot (1953)

#3 The 39 Steps — Alfred Hitchcock (1935)

#4 Seven Samurai — Akira Kurosawa (1954)

#5 Beauty and the Beast — Jean Cocteau (1946)

#6 The Maltese Falcon — John Huston (1941)

#7 Band of Outsiders — Jean-Luc Godard (1964)

#8 My Life to Live — Jean-Luc Godard (1962)

#9 This Sporting Life — Lindsay Anderson (1963)

#10 Shoot the Piano Player — François Truffaut (1960)

#11 The Silence — Ingmar Bergman (1963)

#12 Autumn Sonata — Ingmar Bergman (1978)

#13 Wild Strawberries — Ingmar Bergman (1957)

#14 Scenes from a Marriage — Ingmar Bergman (1973)

#15 Cries and Whispers — Ingmar Bergman (1972)

#16 Bed and Board — François Truffaut (1970)

#17 Two English Girls — François Truffaut (1971)

#18 Night and Fog — Alain Resnais (1956)

#19 Hiroshima Mon Amour — Alain Resnais (1959)

#20 Last Year at Marienbad — Alain Resnais (1961)

#21 Eyes Without a Face — Georges Franju (1960)

#22 Amarcord — Federico Fellini (1974)

#23 The Red Desert — Michelangelo Antonioni (1964)

#24 The 400 Blows — François Truffaut (1959)

#25 L'Avventura — Michelangelo Antonioni (1960)

#26 Red Beard — Akira Kurosawa (1965)

#27 Ran — Akira Kurosawa (1985)

#28 Rashomon — Akira Kurosawa (1950)

#29 High and Low — Akira Kurosawa (1963)

#30 Stray Dog — Akira Kurosawa (1949)

#31 Yojimbo — Akira Kurosawa (1961)

#32 Sanjuro — Akira Kurosawa (1962)

#33 Ikiru — Akira Kurosawa (1952)

#34 Dersu Uzala — Akira Kurosawa (1975)

#35 The Hidden Fortress — Akira Kurosawa (1958)

#36 Smiles of a Summer Night — Ingmar Bergman (1955)

#37 Through a Glass Darkly — Ingmar Bergman (1961)

#38 Winter Light — Ingmar Bergman (1963)

#39 The Virgin Spring — Ingmar Bergman (1960)

#40 The Seventh Seal — Ingmar Bergman (1957)

#41 Persona — Ingmar Bergman (1966)

#42 Hour of the Wolf — Ingmar Bergman (1968)

#43 Shame — Ingmar Bergman (1968)

#44 The Passion of Anna — Ingmar Bergman (1969)

#45 Fanny and Alexander — Ingmar Bergman (1982)

#46 Mon Oncle — Jacques Tati (1958)

#47 Play Time — Jacques Tati (1967)

#48 Mr. Hulot's Holiday — Jacques Tati (1953)

#49 Traffic — Jacques Tati (1971)