Ford’s The Searchers(1956)
Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train or Notorious or Vertigo or Rear Window or Shadow of a Doubt
De Sica’s Umberto D. or Bicycle Thieves
Rossellini’s Journey to Italy (1954) or Rome, Open City (1945)
Renoir’s The River (1951)
Melville’s Le Samouraï
Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria (1957) or La Dolce Vita(1960) or 8½ (1963)
Powell and Pressburger’s  I Know Where I’m Going(1945) or Black Narcissus (1947) or The Red Shoes (1948)
Bergman's Persona (1966), Wild Strawberries (1957), The Seventh Seal (1957), or the [lengthy] masterpiece Fanny and Alexander
Ozu’s Late Spring (1949) or Tokyo Story(1953)
Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai or Rashomon
Mizoguchi's Ugetsu monogatari (1953)
Ray’s Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road, 1955), Aparajito (The Undefeated, 1956), or Apur Sansar (The World of Apu, 1959)--UI library
Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966) or L’avventura (1966)
Truffaut’s Day for Night, Shoot the Piano Player or The 400 Blows (1959), or Antoine and Colette, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, or Love on the Run
Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) or Vagabond (1985) or La Pointe Courte (1956)
Godard’s Contempt (Le Mépris, 1963) or Breathless (1960) or Pierrot le fou
Frears's My Beautiful Laundrette
Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959)
Wenders's Alice in the Cities (1974) or Paris, Texas (1984), or Wings of Desire (1987)
Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), or Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Menzel's Closely Watched Trains(1966)
Chytilová’s Daisies (1966)
Wexler's Medium Cool (1969)
Loach's Kes (1970)
Jutra's Mon oncle Antoine (1971)
Egoyan's the sweet hereafter
Fassbinder's Ali Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Erice's Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Hood's Tsotsi (2005)
Meirelles's City of God (2002)
Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham (2002) or Bhaji on the Beach
Rocha's Barravento
Semebene's Moolaadé (2004)
Haneke's Caché (2004)
Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Kieślowski's Three Colors: Blue
Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) or The Chungking Express (1994)
Hunt's Frozen River (2008)
Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise (1994)
Tarantino's Jackie Brown (1997)
Demange's '71 (2014)
Lee's Do the Right Thing
Dardenne brothers' Two Days, One Night (2014), or La Promesse, or L'Enfant
Demme's Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995) or Before Sunset (2004) or Before Midnight
Allen's Manhattan or Annie Hall
Nolan's Memento
Yates's Breaking Away (1979)
Chazelle's Whiplash(2014) or La La Land (2016)
Granik's Winter's Bone (2010)
Alfredson's Let the Right One In (2008)
Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Iñárritu's Birdman (Or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)--2014
Jonze's Her (2013) or Adaptation
Bertolucci's The Conformist
Makhmalbaf's The Silence
Campanella's El Secreto de Sus Ojos
Chopra's Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (The Big-Hearted Will Take Away the Bride)
Varma's Satya
Nair's Monsoon Wedding
Gowariker's Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Varma's Company
Advani's Kal Ho Naa Ho (There May or May Not Be a Tomorrow)
Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke (1997, animated) or Spirited Away (2001)
Dassin's The Naked City
Shepitko's Wings
Camell's and Roeg's Performance (1970)
Hodges's Get Carter (1971)
Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976)
Reitman's Juno
Johnson's Brick
Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
Scherfig's An Education
Kiarostami's Close-Up
Almodóvar's Volver
Yakin's Fresh
Garland's Ex Machina
Raimi's A Simple Plan
Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001)
Luhrman's Strictly Ballroom (1992)
Barnett's Killer of Sheep
July's Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
Raimi's A Simple Plan (1998)
Anderson's Magnolia
Heckerling's Clueless
Majidi's The Color of Paradise or Children of Heaven
Tabrizi's The Lizard
Nakata's Ringu
Tarantino's Kill Bill, Vol. 1 or Vol. 2 (2003-2004)
Zwigoff's Ghost World (2001)
Cuarón's Children of Men (2006)
Chopra's Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (The Big-Hearted Will Take Away the Bride, 1995)
Varma's Satya (1998) or Company (2002)
Nair's Monsoon Wedding (2001)
Gowariker's Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)
Advani's Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003/There May or May Not Be a Tomorrow)
Briski's and Kaufman's Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004, documentary)
Forster's Stranger Than Fiction
Anderson's If (1968)
Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Dahl's The Last Seduction,
Jewison's In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Young's Wait Until Dark (1967)
Anspaugh's Hoosiers
Sluizer's The Vanishing (1988)
Kiarostami's Close-Up (1990)
Zhangke's Still Life (2006) and Platform (2000)
Cissé's Yeelen(1987)
Glazer's Under the Skin (2014)
Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Villaneuve's Arrival (2016)
Jenkins's Moonlight (2016)
Ade's Toni Erdmann (2016)
Peele's Get Out (2017)
Showalter's The Big Sick (2017)
von Trotta's The Second Awakening of Christina Klages (1977)
Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979)
Robinson's Withnail and I (1987)
Andersson's Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Jonze's Adaptation (2002)
Braff's Garden State (2004)
Von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others (2006)
Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Weerasethakul 's Tropical Malady (2005)
Fleck & Boden's Half-Nelson (2006)
Vigalondo's Time Crimes (2007)
Spielman's Revanche (2008)
Martel's The Headless Woman (2008)
Assayas's Summer Hours (2009)
Denis's White Material (2009)
Audiard's A Prophet (2010)
Rees's Pariah (2011)
al Mansour's Wadjda (2013)
Chabrol's La Ceremonie (1995)
Porumboiu's Police, Adjective (2009)
Pawlikowski's Ida (2013)
Nemes's Son of Saul (2015)
Haynes's Carol (2015)
Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird (2017)
Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Weber's 500 Hundred Days of Summer (2009)
Coogler's Creed (2015)
Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (2007)
Farhadi's The Salesman (2016)
Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Anderson's Phantom Thread (2017)
Assayas's Personal Shopper (2017)