List of Films To See
TV too:
The Wire
The (BBC) Office and The Office Special
Prime Suspect
Slings & Arrows: Seasons 1- 3
Extras: Seasons 1-2: Disc 2 (2-Disc Series)
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Seasons 1 & 2 . . .
Curb Your Enthusiasm . .
Party Down
. . . . . .
Films (most dates accurate!):
8 1⁄2 (1963, including excellent commentary in Criterion collection release)
Aaltra (2004)
Absence of Malice (1981)
Adam's Apples (Danish-2005)
Adam's Rib (1949)
Adaptation (2002)
The African Queen (1952)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Alien (1979); Aliens (1986)
All About My Mother (1999)
Amélie (2001)
The American Friend (1977)
An American in Paris (1951)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Annie Hall (1977)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Atlantic City (1981)
L'Auberge Espagnole (2002)
L'Avventura (1961)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Babette's Feast (1987)
Back to the Future (1985)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Bagdad Café
Barton Fink (1991)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Being There (1979)
Big Night (1996)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Birds (1963)
Black Orpheus (1959)
Bladerunner (1982; director’s Final Cut, 2007)
Blame It on Fidel (La Faute à Fidel!, 2006)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Blow-Up (1966)
Born Into Brothels (2005)
Born Yesterday (1950)
Brazil (1985)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Breaking Away (1979)
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Breathless (1961)
Brick (2005)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Brief Encounter (1946)
Bullitt (1968)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Casablanca (1942)
Charade (1963)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Chinatown (1974)
(Nuovo) Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City of God (2002)
Clueless (1995)
The Conversation (1974)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Dead Again (1991)
Death and the Maiden (1994)
Deliverance (1972)
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Diabolique (1955)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Die Hard (1988)
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985)
Dirty Harry (1971)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Diva (1982)
Divorce Italian Style (1961)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Down by Law (1986)
Dumbo (1941)
Easy Rider (1969)
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
L'Eclisse (1962)
Educating Rita (1983)
Fanny & Alexander (1983)
Fargo (1996)
La Femme Nikita (1991)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Flirting (1991)
The French Connection (1971)
Fresh (1994)
The Full Monty (1997)
Garden State (2004)
Gaslight (1944)
Gates of Heaven (1980)
The Girl in the Cafe (2005)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Goldfinger (1964)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1968)
Goodbye Lenin! (2003)
GoodFellas (1990)
Gosford Park (2001)
The Graduate (1967)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Harlan County, USA (1976)
Henry V (1989)
High Noon (1952)
Holiday (1938)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
House of Games (1987)
The Human Stain (2003)
I vitelloni (1953)
Ikiru (1952, reviewed 1960)
In Bruges (2008)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Interiors (1978)
It Happened One Night (1934)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Japanese Story (2003)
Jaws (1975)
Kill Bill: Vols. 1 and 2 (2003/2004)
Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit, 1976)
Kitchen Stories (Salmer fra kjøkkenet, 2003)
Knife in the Water (Nóz w wodzie, 1962)
Kontroll (2003)
Knife in the Water (1963)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
La Lectrice (1988)
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Le Petit Soldat (1960)
Le samouraï (1967)
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in, 2008)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Letter to Brezhnev (1985)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
Little Big Man (1970)
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen, 2006)
Living in Oblivion (1995)
M (1931, reviewed 1933)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Man with the Movie Camera (Chelovek s kino-apparatom, 1929)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Manhattan (1979)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
M*A*S*H (1970)
Mister Roberts (1955)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Monsieur Hire (1989)
Moonstruck (1987)
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
My Beautiful Laundrette (1986)
My Dinner With Andre (1981)
My Fair Lady (1964)
My Life as a Dog (1987)
Network (1976)
Never on Sunday (1960)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Ninotchka (1939)
North by Northwest (1959)
Notorious (1946)
La Notte (1961)
Now, Voyager (1942)
Once (2007)
On the Waterfront (1954)
The Opposite of Sex (1998)
Ossessione (1942)
The Page Turner (2007)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Paris, Texas (1984, including Criterion Collection version with director Wim Wenders' commentary)
The Passenger (1975)
Persona (1967)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Pink Panther (1964)
Pinocchio (1940)
Il Postino (The Postman) (1994)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Rain Man (1988)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Rashomon (1951)
Rear Window (1954)
Repo Man (1984)
Risky Business (1983)
Roger & Me (1989)
Roman Holiday (1953)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Run Lola Run (1998)
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966)
The Science of Sleep (2006)
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002)
Seven Beauties (1976)
The Seven Samurai (1956
7 Up/28 Up (1985) to 49 Up
The Seventh Seal (1958)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Shane (1953)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Shrek (2001)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Sleeper (1973)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938)
Son of Rambow (2007)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Star Wars (1977); STAR WARS EPISODE V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)
The Station Agent (2003)
Stop Making Sense (1984)
Stranger than Fiction (2006)
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Strictly Ballroom (1992)
Swimming Pool (2003)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Swept Away (By an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August) (1974)
Swing Time (1936)
Talk to Her (2002)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The 400 Blows (1959, Les Quatre cents coups, including excellent Criterion Collection critic's commentary)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
The Silence (1963)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
The Terminator (1984)
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
The Third Man (1949)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Three Colours: BLUE(1993), Three Colours: WHITE (1993), Three Colours: RED(1994)
Through a Glass Darkly(1961)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Tootsie (1982)
Top Hat (1935)
Toy Story (1995)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Tree of the Wooden Clogs (1979)
This is Spinal Tap
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Tsotsi (2005)
12 Angry Men (1957, see also 1997 remake, plus "12", a fascinating 2007 Russian version)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
Vernon Florida (1982)
Vertigo (1958)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Waking Life (2001)
West Side Story (1961)
What Just Happened (2008)
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Wild Strawberries (1959)
Wings of Desire (1988)
Winter Light (1962)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Women in Love (1970)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Excerpt from series of Top Ten recommended films by various critics, in The Criterion Collection (some obvious choices already noted above, such as “M” etc., left out of list below):
3 Women
8 1⁄2
À nous la liberté/ Le million/
A Woman Is a Woman
A Woman Under the Influence
Ace in the Hole
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Alphaville
Amarcord
Andrei Rublev
Ashes and Diamonds
Au hasard Balthazar
Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
Big Deal on Madonna Street/Mario Monicelli
Billy Liar
Black Narcissus
Bob le flambeur
Brute Force
Burden of Dreams
Carl Theodor Dreyer (Criterion Box Set)
Carnival of Souls
Children of Paradise
Contempt
Cries and Whispers
Crrazed Fruit
Day of Wrath
Dazed and Confused
Eyes Without a Face
F for Fake
Fishing with John
Fists in the Pocket
Floating Weeds/A Story of Floating Weeds
Forbidden Games
General Idi Amin Dada
Gimme Shelter
Great Expectations (David Lean)
Grey Gardens
Hard Boiled
Häxan
Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
High and Low
Hiroshima mon amour
Hoop Dreams
I Know Where I'm Going!
In the Mood for Love
Insomnia (Erik Skjoldbjaerg)
Ivan the Terrible, Parts I & II
John Cassavetes: Five Films
Jules and Jim
Kind Hearts and Coronets
La collectionneuse
La Strada
Le million
Le trou
Lord of the Flies
Loves of a Blonde
M. Hulot's Holiday
Mamma Roma
Man Bites Dog
Masculin féminin
Metropolitan
Mon oncle
Mona Lisa
Monterey Pop
Murmur of the Heart
My Man Godfrey
My Own Private Idaho
Naked
Night and Fog
Night and the City
Oliver Twist (David Lean)
Opening Night
Pandora’s Box
Pickpocket
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Playtime
Red Beard
Richard III (Laurence Olivier)
Rushmore
Salesman
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Samurai Trilogy
Scenes from a Marriage
Schizopolis
Secret Honor
Shock Corridor
Short Cuts
Slacker
Straw Dogs
Stray Dog
Sullivan's Travels
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
That Obscure Object of Desire
The 400 Blows
The Bad Sleep Well
The Battle of Algiers
The BRD Trilogy
The Complete Mr. Arkadin
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Firemen's Ball
The Flowers of St. Francis
The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
The Horse's Mouth
The Killer
The Killers (1964)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
The Lady Eve
The Lady Vanishes
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Last Wave
The Leopard
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Naked Kiss
The Night Porter
The Pornographers
The Red Shoes
The Rules of the Game
The Shop on Main Street
The Sword of Doom
The Tin Drum
The Vanishing
The Wages of Fear
Time Bandits
Tokyo Story
Trouble in Paradise
Umberto D.
Unfaithfully Yours
Videodrome
Walkabout
Winter Light
Written on the Wind
Young Mr. Lincoln