50 Movie Directors Selected By Ian Freer

In 2009 Ian Freer wrote a book called Movie Makers: 50 Iconic Directors. He organized them by birth date, which is exactly how I would have done it, but he included a few directors I would have left out. Anyway, here’s his list. I’ve included a must-see movie from the director if I know of one:

1. D.W. Griffith (born 1875)

2. Cecil B. DeMille (born 1881)

3. Michael Curtiz (born 1886)

4. Charlie Chaplin (born 1889) — all until 1940

5. Fritz Lang (born 1890) — M

6. John Ford (born 1894) — Stagecoach

7. Jean Renoir (born 1894)

8. Josef von Sternberg (born 1894) — The Blue Angel

9. Howard Hawks (born 1896)

10. Frank Capra (born 1897)

11. Sergei Eisenstein (born 1898)

12. George Cukor (born 1899)

13. Alfred Hitchcock (born 1899) — The 39 Steps, many more

14. Luis Bunuel (born 1900) — Simon of the Desert

15. Walt Disney (born 1901) — The Jungle Book

16. William Wyler (born 1902) — Roman Holiday

17. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (born 1905, 1902)

18. John Huston (born 1906) — The Asphalt Jungle

19. Roberto Rossellini (born 1906) — Germany Year Zero

20. Billy Wilder (born 1906) — Some Like It Hot

21. David Lean (born 1908)

22. Elia Kazan (born 1909)

23. Akira Kurosawa (born 1910)

24. Orson Welles (born 1915)

25. Ingmar Bergman (born 1918) — Sawdust and Tinsel

26. Federico Fellini (born 1920)

27. Satyajit Ray (born 1921)

28. Robert Altman (born 1925) — Nashville

29. Sam Peckinpah (born 1925)

30. Stanley Kubrick (born 1928) — Dr. Strangelove, many more

31. Sergio Leone (born 1929)

32. Jean-Luc Godard (born 1930) — Breathless

33. Francois Truffaut (born 1932) — Soft Skin

34. Roman Polanski (born 1933) — Chinatown

35. Woody Allen (born 1935) — Hannah and Her Sisters, many more

36. Ridley Scott (born 1937) — Blade Runner

37. Francis Ford Coppola (born 1939) — The Godfather

38. Bernardo Bertolucci (born 1940)

39. Krzysztof Kieslowski (born 1941) — Three Colors series

40. Werner Herzog (born 1942)

41. Martin Scorsese (born 1942) — Taxi Driver

42. George Lucas (born 1944) — THX 1138, Star Wars series

43. David Lynch (born 1946) — Eraserhead

44. Steven Spielberg (born 1946) — Duel

45. Pedro Almodovar (born 1949)

46. Joel and Ethan Coen (born 1954, 1957) — Blood Simple, many more

47. Spike Lee (born 1957)

48. Tim Burton (born 1958) — Pee-wee's Big Adventure

49. Peter Jackson (born 1961) — The Lord of the Rings series

50. Quentin Tarantino (born 1963)

Newly Added to Criterion Channel in October 2026

Movies seen already are in bold, italics means my buddy John recommended it:

Index, Title, Year, Running Time

1 Magazine 2026 11 — quit after two minutes

2 The Last Jiangshi 2026 20 — quit after five minutes

3 Hideous 2022 22 — quit after two minutes

4 Hustler White 1996 80 — quit after five minutes

5 Gerontophilia 2013 82 — quit after ten minutes

6 Spider's Eyes 1998 83 —- quit after fifteen minutes

7 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 83

8 Cohen and Tate 1989 85 — quit after thirty minutes at ffwd

9 Serpent's Path 1998 85 — Kiyoshi Kurosawa

10 Dust Devil 1992 87

11 Door III 1996 88 — Kiyoshi Kurosawa

12 Race with the Devil 1975 88

13 Duel 1971 89

14 The Appointment 1981 89

15 The Wraith 1986 92

16 Highway to Hell 1991 93

17 When a Stranger Calls Back 1993 93

18 Demon Seed 1977 94

19 Homebodies 1974 94

20 Party Girl 1995 94

21 You're Next 2011 94

22 Otto; or, Up with Dead People 2008 94

23 Ring 2 1999 95

24 The Keep 1983 95

25 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 96

26 Alone 2020 97

27 Dark Night of the Scarecrow 1981 97

28 Joy Ride 2001 97

29 Someone's Watching Me! 1978 97

30 The Hitcher 1986 97

31 Maximum Overdrive 1986 98

32 And Soon the Darkness 1970 99

33 Kisapmata 1981 99

34 By Hook or by Crook 2001 100

35 Road Games 1981 100

36 The Last One for the Road 2025 100

37 Tenebrae 1982 101

38 Jennifer's Body 2009 102

39 Play Misty for Me 1971 102

40 Altered States 1980 103

41 Charisma 1999 104

42 The Faculty 1998 104

43 Batch '81 1982 105

44 The Others 2001 105

45 Inferno 1980 106

46 Will Your Heart Beat Faster? 1980 106

47 Itim 1976 107

48 The Gift 2015 108

49 Don't Look Now 1973 110

50 The Cat o' Nine Tails 1971 111

51 The Omen 1976 111

52 Serpent's Path 2024 113 — Kiyoshi Kurosawa

53 Bright Future 2002 115

54 Dead Ringers 1988 115 — Cronenberg oh no no no

55 Lifeforce 1985 116

56 Pulse 2001 119

57 The Social Network 2010 120

58 To the Ends of the Earth 2019 120 — Kiyoshi Kurosawa

59 Two Evil Eyes 1991 120

60 The Entity 1982 125

61 Three 2002 128

62 Creepy 2016 130

63 Rosemary's Baby 1968 136

64 Lolita 1962 153

65 The Wailing 2016 156

66 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 159

67 Salem's Lot 1979 183

68 Barry Lyndon 1975 185

69 Terror in Resonance 2014 253

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Only these 16 recommended by John … ugh, wrong, GIGO (AI) hallucinated all these recos, god, I hate AI:

1. Lolita 1962 153

2. Rosemary's Baby 1968 136

3. Duel 1971 89

4. Don't Look Now 1973 110

5. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 83

6. Barry Lyndon 1975 185

7. Altered States 1980 103

8. Inferno 1980 106

9. The Entity 1982 125

10. The Keep 1983 95

11. Maximum Overdrive 1986 98

12. Dead Ringers 1988 115

13. Party Girl 1995 94

14. The Faculty 1998 104

15. The Others 2001 105

16. The Social Network 2010 120

Bosley Crowther on James Dean

I watched East of Eden last night and wasn’t thrilled. I hate James Dean. I watched Rebel Without a Cause recently and wasn’t thrilled with that one either. Anyway, here’s an excerpt from Bosley Crowther’s movie review of East of Eden, written in 1955:

“This young actor [James Dean], who is here doing his first big screen stint, is a mass of histrionic gingerbread. He scuffs his feet, he whirls, he pouts, he sputters, he leans against walls, he rolls his eyes, he swallows his words, he ambles slack-kneed-all like Marlon Brando used to do. Never have we seen a performer so clearly follow another’s style. Mr. Kazan should be spanked for permitting him to do such a sophomoric thing. Whatever there might be of reasonable torment in this youngster is buried beneath the clumsy display.”

Bingo and amen.

Coen Brothers' Movies, Ranked

I need to re-watch a lot of these, but this is my snap judgment:

1. 1998 The Big Lebowski

2. 1984 Blood Simple

3. 2007 No Country for Old Men

4. 1996 Fargo

5. 2009 A Serious Man

6. 1991 Barton Fink

7. 1987 Raising Arizona

8. 2001 The Man Who Wasn't There

9. 2013 Inside Llewyn Davis

10. 2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou?

11. 2018 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

12. 1990 Miller's Crossing

13. 2010 True Grit

14. 2004 The Ladykillers

15. 2003 Intolerable Cruelty

16. 2008 Burn After Reading

17. 1994 The Hudsucker Proxy

18. 2016 Hail, Caesar!

Nick Davis's 100 Favorite Films

Again I am re-formatting this list so that it’s readable … looks like 109 titles in total:

1930 Min and Bill

1932 Blonde Venus

1935 Alice Adams

1947 Possessed

1949 Adam's Rib

1951 A Streetcar Named Desire

1954 Executive Suite

1959 Pickpocket

1959 Suddenly, Last Summer

1962 Walk on the Wild Side

1963 Hud

1966 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

1967 Cool Hand Luke

1968 Night of the Living Dead

1968 The Lion in Winter

1972 Solaris

1973 The Way We Were

1974 Claudine

1975 Chronicle of the Smoldering Years

1975 Dog Day Afternoon

1977 3 Women

1977 Eraserhead

1977 Opening Night

1978 Les Rendez-vous d'Anna

1979 The Brood

1979 The China Syndrome

1981 Pennies from Heaven

1982 Frances

1982 Illusions

1982 Peel: An Exercise in Discipline

1985 Kiss of the Spider Woman

1985 Mask

1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo

1986 Sherman's March

1986 The Fly

1987 Fatal Attraction

1987 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

1987 Where Is the Friend's Home?

1988 Another Woman

1990 Postcards from the Edge

1990 Without You I'm Nothing

1991 Boyz N the Hood

1991 Cape Fear

1991 Frankie & Johnny

1991 JFK

1991 Naked Lunch

1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula

1992 Dream of Light (aka The Quince Tree Sun)

1992 Howards End

1992 Husbands and Wives

1992 Hyenas

1992 Orlando

1992 The Crying Game

1992 These Hands

1993 Dottie Gets Spanked

1993 The Baby of Mâcon

1993 The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom

1994 Bullets over Broadway

1994 Cemetery Man

1994 Vanya on 42nd Street

1995 Babe

1995 Georgia

1995 Home for the Holidays

1995 Nixon

1995 Strange Days

1995 The Bridges of Madison County

1996 Crash

1996 Female Perversions

1996 Irma Vep

1996 The English Patient

1996 The Pillow Book

1996 The Portrait of a Lady

1996 Walking and Talking

1997 Jackie Brown

1997 Titanic

1998 Hands on a Hardbody

1998 High Art

1998 Psycho

1998 Velvet Goldmine

1999 Beau travail

1999 Boys Don't Cry

1999 Eyes Wide Shut

1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

1999 Magnolia

1999 Pola X

1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley

2000 Best in Show

2000 Blackboards

2000 Bring It On

2000 Erin Brockovich

2000 I'm the One that I Want

2000 The Cell

2000 You Can Count on Me

2001 Late Marriage

2001 Ocean's Eleven

2001 The Piano Teacher

2002 Eleven Minutes, Nine Seconds, One Image: September 11

2002 demonlover

2002 Solaris

2002 The Cremaster Cycle

2002 The Hours

2003 Monster

2003 The Corporation

2004 Birth

2004 I ♥ Huckabees

2005 Dave Chappelle's Block Party

2005 Grizzly Man

2005 Junebug

2005 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

Nick Davis's Top 100 Movies

I discovered this gentleman’s top movies list today, but found it so unreadable that I will re-format it here … the numbers reflect his ranking:

1 Persona

2 The Earrings of Madame de...

3 The Piano

4 Diary of a Country Priest

5 Citizen Kane

6 The Ballad of Narayama

7 Modern Times

8 Harlan County, U.S.A.

9 Sanshô the Bailiff

10 Andrei Rublev

11 Nashville

12 Singin' in the Rain

13 Vertigo

14 The Passion of Joan of Arc

15 Pinocchio

16 ??? [missing from list]

17 Meshes of the Afternoon

18 His Girl Friday

19 The Battle of Algiers

20 The Green Ray

21 The Thin Red Line

22 Aguirre, the Wrath of God

23 Taste of Cherry

24 Laura

25 Chinatown

26 Bicycle Thieves

27 A Woman Under the Influence

28 Apocalypse Now

29 Taxi Driver

30 Safe

31 The Lady Eve

32 Man with a Movie Camera

33 Holiday

34 Casablanca

35 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

36 The Fall of the House of Usher

37 Nanook of the North

38 McCabe & Mrs. Miller

39 Hannah and Her Sisters

40 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

41 Imitation of Life

42 Woman in the Dunes

43 The Conversation

44 Cries and Whispers

45 Shoah

46 The Travelling Players

47 Days of Heaven

48 Morvern Callar

49 Pickup on South Street

50 The Battleship Potemkin

51 Metropolis

52 The Scarlet Empress

53 The Gospel According to St. Matthew

54 Aliens

55 Pather Panchali

56 Tokyo Story

57 The Seventh Seal

58 Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

59 Dead Ringers

60 Raging Bull

61 42nd Street

62 Psycho

63 All About Eve

64 Russian Ark

65 The 400 Blows

66 Xala

67 The Joyless Street

68 The Docks of New York

69 The Last of England

70 Letter from an Unknown Woman

71 The Wages of Fear

72 The Letter

73 New York, New York

74 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

75 Fanny and Alexander

76 L'Atalante

77 Dancer in the Dark

78 Smiles of a Summer Night

79 Black Rain

80 Viridiana

81 Shame

82 The Godfather

83 Under the Sun of Satan

84 Notorious

85 Mulholland Drive

86 The Third Man

87 Long Day's Journey into Night

88 Sunset Boulevard

89 Annie Hall

90 2001: A Space Odyssey

91 Velvet Goldmine

92 Riddles of the Sphinx

93 Close-Up

94 When Harry Met Sally...

95 Flesh

96 Nostalghia

97 Marat/Sade

98 Talk to Her

99 Daughters of the Dust

100 Mary Poppins

Roger Ebert's The Great Movies, Sorted Chronologically

In 2002 Roger Ebert wrote a book called The Great Movies which includes the following 100 movies. I’ve listed them here chronologically. I am not a fan of Ebert’s criticism, but have noted which movies I recommend.

1. Broken Blossoms 1919

2. Nosferatu 1922

3. Greed 1924

4. Battleship Potemkin 1925

5. The General 1926

6. Metropolis 1927

7. The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 - Chairman Recommended

8. Pandora's Box 1929

9. Un Chien Andalou 1929

10. City Lights 1931 - Chairman Recommended

11. Dracula 1931

12. M 1931 - Chairman Recommended

13. Trouble in Paradise 1932

14. Duck Soup 1933

15. L'Atalante 1934

16. Bride of Frankenstein 1935

17. Swing Time 1936 - Chairman Recommended

18. Grand Illusion 1937

19. Gone with the Wind 1939

20. The Wizard of Oz 1939

21. Pinocchio 1940

22. Citizen Kane 1941

23. The Lady Eve 1941

24. The Maltese Falcon 1941

25. Casablanca 1942

26. Double Indemnity 1944 - Chairman Recommended

27. Detour 1945

28. Beauty and the Beast 1946 - Chairman Recommended

29. The Big Sleep 1946

30. It's a Wonderful Life 1946

31. My Darling Clementine 1946

32. Notorious 1946 - Chairman Recommended

33. Bicycle Thieves 1948

34. Red River 1948

35. The Third Man 1949 - Chairman Recommended

36. All About Eve 1950

37. Sunset Blvd 1950

38. Ikiru 1952

39. Singin' in the Rain 1952 - Chairman Recommended

40. Mr. Hulot's Holiday 1953

41. On the Waterfront 1954

42. The Seven Samurai 1954

43. The Night of the Hunter 1955 - Chairman Recommended

44. The Apu Trilogy 1955-59

45. Written on the Wind 1956

46. The Seventh Seal 1957

47. Sweet Smell of Success 1957

48. Vertigo 1958 - Chairman Recommended

49. The 400 Blows 1959

50. Floating Weeds 1959

51. Pickpocket 1959

52. Some Like It Hot 1959 - Chairman Recommended

53. The Apartment 1960 - Chairman Recommended

54. La Dolce Vita 1960

55. L'Avventura 1960

56. Peeping Tom 1960

57. Psycho 1960

58. Last Year at Marienbad 1961

59. The Exterminating Angel 1962

60. Lawrence of Arabia 1962

61. My Life to Live 1962

62. 8 1/2 1963

63. Dr. Strangelove 1964 - Chairman Recommended

64. A Hard Day's Night 1964

65. The "Up" Documentaries 1964

66. Woman in the Dunes 1964 - Chairman Recommended

67. Blowup 1966

68. Persona 1966

69. Belle de Jour 1967

70. Bonnie and Clyde 1967 - Chairman Recommended

71. Le Samourai 1967

72. 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

73. The Wild Bunch 1969

74. McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971

75. Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1972

76. The Godfather 1972 - Chairman Recommended

77. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974

78. Chinatown 1974 - Chairman Recommended

79. A Woman Under the Influence 1974

80. Nashville 1975

81. Network 1976

82. Taxi Driver 1976 - Chairman Recommended

83. Star Wars 1977 - Chairman Recommended

84. Days of Heaven 1978 - Chairman Recommended

85. Gates of Heaven 1978

86. Apocalypse Now 1979

87. Manhattan 1979 - Chairman Recommended

88. Raging Bull 1980 - Chairman Recommended

89. Body Heat 1981 - Chairman Recommended

90. E.T. 1982

91. Wings of Desire 1987

92. The Decalogue 1989

93. Do the Right Thing 1989

94. JFK 1991

95. The Silence of the Lambs 1991 - Chairman Recommended

96. Schindler's List 1993

97. Hoop Dreams 1994 - Chairman Recommended

98. Pulp Fiction 1994

99. The Shawshank Redemption 1994 - Chairman Recommended

100. Fargo 1996 - Chairman Recommended

Movies Watched in March 2026

I now think the goal of watching 50 movies a month is a little crazy so I’m dropping it to a more manageable 30 a month. Check out the January 2026 and February 2026 lists.

Here is what I watched in March, listed alphabetically:

1. A Shot in the Dark, 1964

2. Basic Training, 1971

3. Blade Runner, 1982

4. Bonjour Tristesse, 1958

5. Diary of a Mad Housewife, 1970

6. Earth, 1930

7. El Bruto, 1953

8. Harper, 1966

9. Johnny Guitar, 1954

10. Kuroneko, 1968

11. La Bete Humaine, 1938

12. My Life As a Dog, 1985

13. Petite Maman, 2021

14. Pina, 2011

15. Rashomon, 1950

16. Rebel Without a Cause, 1955

17. Sleuth, 1972

18. Summertime, 1955

19. The 400 Blows, 1959

20. The Exterminating Angel, 1962

21. The Merchant of Four Seasons, 1971

22. The Milky Way, 1936

23. The Servant, 1963

24. The Swimmer, 1968

25. The Thin Blue Line, 1988

26. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 1964

27. Three Colours: White, 1994

28. Titicut Follies, 1967

29. To Be Or Not To Be, 1942

30. Un Chien Andalou, 1962

31. Watership Down, 1978

32. Where Is the Friend's House, 1983

33. Wild Strawberries, 1957

34. Woman in the Dunes, 1964

35. Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939

The movies that I consider must-see among these are listed below:

1. Blade Runner, 1982 (director: Ridley Scott)

2. The Merchant of Four Seasons, 1971 (director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

3. To Be Or Not To Be, 1932 (director: Ernst Lubitsch)

4. Woman in the Dunes, 1964 (director: Hiroshi Teshigahara)

Otto Penzler's 101 Greatest Movies of Mystery and Suspense

Sorted chronologically:

1. Bulldog Drummond, 1929

2. Little Caesar, 1930

3. The Public Enemy, 1931

4. Freaks, 1932

5. Scarface, 1932

6. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 1932

7. The Kennel Murder Case, 1933

8. The Thin Man, 1934

9. The 39 Steps, 1935

10. Charlie Chan at the Opera, 1936

11. The Petrified Forest, 1936

12. Dead End, 1937

13. The Lady Vanishes, 1938

14. The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939

15. Foreign Correspondent, 1940

16. Rebecca, 1940

17. High Sierra, 1941

18. I Wake Up Screaming, 1941

19. Suspicion, 1941

20. The Maltese Falcon, 1941

21. The Glass Key, 1942

22. The Gun for Hire, 1942

23. Shadow of a Doubt, 1943

24. The Woman in the Window, 1944

25. To Have and Have Not, 1944

26. Murder, My Sweet, 1944

27. Double Indemnity, 1944

28. Laura, 1944

29. Spellbound, 1945

30. And Then There Were None, 1945

31. The Blue Dahlia, 1946

32. Notorious, 1946

33. The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946

34. The Big Sleep, 1946

35. The Killers, 1946

36. Crossfire, 1947

37. Kiss of Death, 1947

38. Out of the Past, 1947

39. The Fallen Idol, 1948

40. Key Largo, 1948

41. Criss Cross, 1949

42. White Heat, 1949

43. The Third Man, 1949

44. In a Lonely Place, 1950

45. The Asphalt Jungle, 1950

46. D.O.A., 1950

47. Sunset Boulevard, 1950

48. Strangers on a Train, 1951

49. Detective Story, 1951

50. The Big Heat, 1953

51. Rear Window, 1954

52. Kiss Me Deadly, 1955

53. The Night of the Hunter, 1955

54. The Killing, 1956

55. The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1956

56. Witness for the Prosecution, 1957

57. Vertigo, 1958

58. Touch of Evil, 1958

59. Anatomy of a Murder, 1959

60. North by Northwest, 1959

61. Psycho, 1960

62. To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962

63. The Manchurian Candidate, 1962

64. Charade, 1963

65. A Shot in the Dark, 1964

66. Topkapi, 1964

67. Goldfinger, 1964

68. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1965

69. The Ipcress File, 1965

70. Harper, 1966

71. In Cold Blood, 1967

72. In the Heat of the Night, 1967

73. Bonnie and Clyde, 1967

74. Bullitt, 1968

75. Dirty Harry, 1971

76. The French Connection, 1971

77. Sleuth, 1972

78. The Godfather, 1972

79. Mean Streets, 1973

80. The Day of the Jackal, 1973

81. The Sting, 1973

82. Murder on the Orient Express, 1974

83. The Conversation, 1974

84. The Godfather Part II, 1974

85. Chinatown, 1974

86. Taxi Driver, 1976

87. Body Heat, 1981

88. Blade Runner, 1982

89. Fatal Attraction, 1987

90. The Untouchables, 1987

91. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, 1988

92. The Grifters, 1990

93. GoodFellas, 1990

94. Silence of the Lambs, 1991

95. Reservoir Dogs, 1992

96. In the Line of Fire, 1993

97. The Fugitive, 1993

98. The Last Seduction, 1994

99. The Usual Suspects, 1995

100. Fargo, 1996

101. L.A. Confidential, 1997

Movies Watched in February 2026

I now think the goal of watching 60 movies a month is a little crazy so I’m dropping it to a more manageable 50 a month. Check out the January 2026 list here.

Here is what I watched in February, listed alphabetically:

1. Alien, 1979

2. All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930

3. Bonjour Tristesse, 2024

4. Charade, 1963

5. Cries and Whispers, 1972

6. Diary of a Chambermaid, 1946

7. Elevator to the Gallows, 1958

8. Fanny and Alexander, 1982

9. Fiend Without a Face, 1958

10. Fitzcarraldo, 1982

11. Forbidden Games, 1952

12. Foreign Correspondent, 1940

13. Germany Year Zero, 1948

14. Ghostbusters, 1984

15. Green for Danger, 1946

16. Heaven Can Wait, 1940

17. I Know Where I'm Going, 1945

18. Japon, 2002

19. Journey to Italy, 1954

20. Kiss Me Deadly, 1955

21. La piscine, 1969

22. La ronde, 1950

23. Last Holiday, 1950

24. Last Year at Marienbad, 1961

25. L'avventura, 1960

26. Le corbeau, 1943

27. Le jour se leve, 1939

28. Mad Max, 1979

29. Make Way for Tomorrow, 1937

30. Miss Julie, 1951

31. My Man Godfrey, 1936

32. Pickpocket, 1959

33. Red River, 1948

34. Sawdust and Tinsel, 1953

35. Scarface, 1932

36. Secret Honor, 1984

37. She's Gotta Have It, 1986

38. Shoot the Piano Player, 1960

39. Stolen Kisses, 1968

40. The Browning Version, 1951

41. The Innocents, 1961

42. The Lovers, 1958

43. The Most Dangerous Game, 1932

44. The Virgin Spring, 1960

45. Tootsie, 1982

46. Touchez pas au grisbi, 1954

47. Trouble in Paradise, 1932

48. Two or Three Things I Know About Her, 1967

49. Videodrome, 1983

50. Viridiana, 1961

51. White Mane, 1952

52. Youth of the Beast, 1963

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The movies that I consider must-see among these are listed below:

1. Alien, 1979

2. Charade, 1963

3. Germany Year Zero, 1948

4. La ronde, 1950

5. Sawdust and Tinsel, 1953

6. The Lovers, 1958

I’m still on the fence about Cries and Whispers (1972) and Last Holiday (1950).