Greatest Movies

                                                                 AMERICAN CINEMA

FREAKS (1932) - Tod Browning
THE UNKNOWN (1927) - Tod Browning
THE SUNRISE (1927) - Friedrich Murnau
ERASERHEAD (1977) - David Lynch
ELEPHANTMAN (1980) - David Lynch
TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (1992) - David Lynch
BLUE VELVET (1986) - David Lynch
LOST HIGHWAY (1997) - David Lynch
MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001) - David Lynch
WILD AT HEART (1990) - David Lynch
TAXI DRIVER (1976) - Martin Scorsese
(The film was inspired by Dostoevsky's Notes From the Underground)
RAGING BULL (1980) - Martin Scorsese
CASINO (1995) - Martin Scorsese
MEAN STREETS (1973) - Martin Scorsese
GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI (1999) - Jim Jarmusch
DEAD MAN (1995) - Jim Jarmusch
STRANGER THAN PARADISE (1984) - Jim Jarmusch
PSYCHO (1960)- Alfred Hitchcock
VERTIGO (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock
BIRDS (1963) - Alfred Hitchcock
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) - Alfred Hithcock
THE ROPE (1948) - Alfred Hithcock
LA MAIN AU COLLET (1955) - Alfred Hitchcock
CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) - Stanley Kubrick
2001, A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) - Stanley Kubrick
THE KILLING (1956) - Stanley Kubrick
PATHS OF GLORY (1957) - Stanley Kubrick
BARRY LYNDON (1975) - Stanley Kubrick
SHADOWS (1959) - John Cassavetes
FACES (1968) - John Cassavetes
A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (1974) - John Cassavetes
OPENING NIGHT (1977) - John Cassavetes
HUSBANDS - John Cassavetes
MODERN TIMES (1936) - Charlie Chaplin
THE KID (1921) - Charlie Chaplin
THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) - Charlie Chaplin
THE GOLD RUSH (1925) - Charlie Chaplin
MONSIEUR VERDOUX (1947) - Charlie Chaplin
THE MISFITS (1961) - John Huston
BAD LIEUTENANT (1992) - Abel Ferrara
OUR FUNERAL (1996)- Abel Ferrara
KING OF NEW YORK (1990) - Abel Ferrara
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) - Charles Laughton
CHINATOWN (1974) - Roman Polanski
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) - Jonathan Demme
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (1974) - Tobe Hooper
HENRY, PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (1986)
THE DEER HUNTER (1978) - Michael Cimino
DELIVERANCE (1973) - John Boorman
ED WOOD (1994) - Tim Burton
SCARFACE (1983) - Brian de Palma
LAURA (1944) - Otto Preminger
CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962) - Herk Harvey
HAPPINESS (1998) - Tod Solondz

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CANADIAN CINEMA

THE FLY (1986) - David Cronenberg
CRASH (1996) - David Cronenberg

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GERMAN CINEMA

M LE MAUDIT (1931) - Fritz Lang
METROPOLIS - Fritz Lang
FURY (1937) - Fritz Lang
LE TESTAMENT DU DOCTEUR MABUSE (1933) - Fritz Lang
AGUIRRE THE WRATH OF GOD (1972) - Werner Herzog
PARIS-TEXAS (1984) - Wim Wenders
PANDORA'S BOX (1929) - Georg Wilhelm Pabst
WHY DOES HERR R. RUN AMOK? (1970) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
L'AMOUR, L'ARGENT, L'AMOUR (2000) - Philip Gröning

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ITALIAN CINEMA

STROMBOLI (1951) - Roberto Rossellini
MAMMA ROMA (1962) - Pier Paolo Pasolini
THEOREM (1968) - Pier Paolo Pasolini
LA GRANDE BOUFFE (1973) - Marco Ferreri
THE ECLIPSE (1962) - Michelangelo Antonioni
LA STRADA (1954) - Federico Fellini
LA CITE DES FEMMES Città delle donne (1980) - Federico Fellini
DERNIER TANGO A PARIS (1972) - Bernardo Bertolucci
LUDWIG (1969) - Luchino Visconti

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SPANISH CINEMA

L'AGE D'OR (1930) - Luis Buñuel
EL also known as This Strange Passion (1952) - Luis Buñuel
THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (1962) -| Luis Buñuel

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FRENCH CINEMA

BREATHLESS (A bout de Souffle) (1959) - Jean-Luc Godard
PIERROT GOES WILD (Pierrot le Fou) (1965) - Jean-Luc Godard
ALPHAVILLE - Jean-Luc Godard
LE MEPRIS - Jean-Luc Godard
QUE LA BETE MEURE - Claude Chabrol
NOCES ROUGES - Claude Chabrol
A JUDGEMENT IN STONE (La Cérémonie) (1995) - Claude Chabrol
THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR (1981) - Truffaut
THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN (1977) - Truffaut
LES VALSEUSES (1974) - Bertrand Blier
COLD CUTS (Buffet froid) (1979) - Bertrand Blier
THE SAMURAI (1969) - Melville
EYES WITHOUT A FACE (1959) - Georges Franju
LA MAMAN ET LA PUTAIN - Jean Eustache
THE FIRE WITHIN (Le feu follet) (1963) - Louis Malle
ELEVATOR TO THE SCAFFOLD (Ascenseur pour l'échafaud) (1957) - Louis Malle
SERIE NOIRE (1981) - Alain Corneau
IRREVERSIBLE (2001) - Gaspar Noé

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BELGIAN CINEMA

LA PROMESSE (1996) - Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Man Bites Dog: It Happened in Your Neighborhood (1992) - Rémy Belvaux

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SCANDINAVIAN CINEMA

THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (1961) - Ingmar Bergman
PERSONA (1966) - Ingmar Bergman
HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (1924) - Victor Sjöström (the film was inspired by the play "He, the One Who Gets Slapped" by Leonid Andreyev)

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RUSSIAN CINEMA

THE SACRIFICE (1986)- Andrei Tarkovsky
THE CHEKIST (1992) - Aleksandr Rogozhkin

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ASIAN CINEMA

RASHOMON (1950)- Akira Kurosawa (Japan)
THE 7 SAMURAIS (1956) - Akira Kurosawa
CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH (1960) - Nagisa Oshima
THE EMPIRE OF THE SENSES (1976) - Nagisa Oshima
KIKUJIRO NO NATSU (1999) - Takeshi Kitano (Japan)
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) - Wong Kar Wai (Korea)
THE RIVER (1997) - Tsang Ming Liang (Taiwan)
VIVE L'AMOUR (1994) - Tsang Ming Liang
THE HOLE (1998) - Tsang Ming Liang
ONIBABA (1964) - Kaneto Shindô

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SERBIA-POLAND-GREECE

ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A COUNTRY (Underground) (1995) - Emir Kusturica (Serbia)
TIME OF THE GYPSIES (1989) - Emir Kusturica
TU NE TUERAS POINT (from "Dekalog") (1987) - Krzysztof Kieslowski (Poland)
L'APICULTEUR (1987) - Theo Angelopoulos (Greece)

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SHORT FILMS

AN ANDALUSIAN DOG (1929) - Luis Buñuel
THE PIER (1962) - Chris Marker
THE BIG SHAVE (1967) - Martin Scorsese