by TIME Magazine · 50 items
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul — Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1974)
Bande à part — Jean-Luc Godard (1964)
Barry Lyndon — Stanley Kubrick (1975)
Berlin Alexanderplatz — Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1980)
Blow-Up — Michelangelo Antonioni (1966)
Bonnie and Clyde — Arthur Penn (1967)
Brazil — Terry Gilliam (1985)
Bride of Frankenstein — James Whale (1935)
Casablanca — Michael Curtiz (1942)
Chinatown — Roman Polanski (1974)
Chungking Express — Wong Kar-wai (1994)
Citizen Kane — Orson Welles (1941)
City Lights — Charlie Chaplin (1931)
Come and See — Elem Klimov (1985)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — Ang Lee (2000)
The Crying Game — Neil Jordan (1992)
Days of Heaven — Terrence Malick (1978)
Do the Right Thing — Spike Lee (1989)
Dr. Strangelove — Stanley Kubrick (1964)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial — Steven Spielberg (1982)
The Earrings of Madame de... — Max Ophüls (1953)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — Michel Gondry (2004)
The Exorcist — William Friedkin (1973)
Eyes Wide Shut — Stanley Kubrick (1999)
Fanny and Alexander — Ingmar Bergman (1982)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — Terry Gilliam (1998)
Floating Clouds — Mikio Naruse (1955)
GoodFellas — Martin Scorsese (1990)
Groundhog Day — Harold Ramis (1993)
Hamlet — Laurence Olivier (1948)
Harold and Maude — Hal Ashby (1971)
His Girl Friday — Howard Hawks (1940)
The Incredibles — Brad Bird (2004)
It's a Wonderful Life — Frank Capra (1946)
Jules and Jim — François Truffaut (1962)
The Lady Eve — Preston Sturges (1941)
The Last of the Mohicans — Michael Mann (1992)
L'Atalante — Jean Vigo (1934)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring — Peter Jackson (2001)
Lost in Translation — Sofia Coppola (2003)
M — Fritz Lang (1931)
A Man Escaped — Robert Bresson (1956)
Metropolis — Fritz Lang (1927)
Miller's Crossing — Joel & Ethan Coen (1990)
Mona Lisa — Neil Jordan (1986)
Mulholland Drive — David Lynch (2001)
Nashville — Robert Altman (1975)
A Night at the Opera — Sam Wood (1935)
The Night of the Hunter — Charles Laughton (1955)
Ninotchka — Ernst Lubitsch (1939)