1. Metropolis- 1927
  2. UN CHIEN ANDALOU – 1929
  3. City Lights – 1931
  4. The Rules of the Game- 1939
  5. Mother – 1926
  6. The Passion of Joan of Arc – 1928
  7. Man With a Movie Camera – 1929
  8. Modern Times- 1936
  9. Citizen Kane – 1941
  10. Duck Soup- 1933
  11. Bicycle Thieves – 1948
  12. The Red Shoes – 1948
  13. Breathless- 1960
  14. Rashomon – 1950
  15. Billy Liar – 1963
  16. Ace in the Hole – 1955
  17. Vertigo – 1958
  18. Casablanca – 1942
  19. Steamboat Bill Jr. – 1928
  20. A Streetcar Named Desire – 1951
  21. It Happened One Night – 1934
  22. Schindler’s List – 1993
  23. Persona – 1966
  24. A Trip to the Moon – 1902
  25. North by Northwest – 1959
  26. The 400 Blows – 1959
  27. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg- 1964
  28. 8 1/5 – 1963
  29. Safety Last! – 1923
  30. Paper Moon – 1973
  31. Don’t Look Back – 1967
  32. Paris, Texas – 1984
  33. Waltz With Bashir – 2008
  34. TheWizard of Oz- 1939
  35. Gone With the Wind – 1939
  36. Rebel Without a Cause – 1955
  37. 12 Angry Men – 1957
  38. The Godfather Part I & II
  39. The General – 1926
  40. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles – 1975
  41. The Searchers – 1956
  42. Fargo – 1996
  43. Inception – 2010
  44. Masculin Feminin – 1966
  45. Sleeper – 1973
  46. Alphaville – 1965
  47. Grey Gardens – 1975
  48. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – 2007
  49. Annie Hall – 1977
  50. Mulholland Drive – 2001
  51. Barry Lyndon – 1975
  52. Psycho-1960
  53. Raging Bull – 1980
  54. Seven Samurai- 1954
  55. Boyhood – 2014
  56. The Seventh Seal – 1957
  57. The Royal Tenenbaums – 2001
  58. Cleo from 5 to 7 – 1962
  59. Chinatown- 1974
  60. Eyes Without a Face – 1960
  61. The Gold Rush – 1925
  62. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie- 1972
  63. Noferatu – 1922
  64. Shadows – 1959
  65. Stranger Than Paradise – 1984
  66. Band of Outsiders – 1964
  67. Battleship Potemkin – 1925
  68. The Cameraman – 1928
  69. Footlight Parade – 1933
  70. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders – 1970
  71. Sunset Boulevard – 1950
  72. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? – 1962
  73. 2001: A Space Odyssey- 1968
  74. Get Out – 2017
  75. The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari – 1920
  76. The Phantom Carriage – 1921
  77. Taxi Driver – 1976
  78. Her -2013
  79. Memento – 2000
  80. Wild Strawberries – 1957
  81. Jules and Jim – 1962
  82. Larence of Arabia – 1962
  83. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans – 1927
  84. Blue Velvet – 1986
  85. Cinema Paradiso – 1988
  86. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly- 1966
  87. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – 2004
  88. Amelie – 2001
  89. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – 1975
  90. Ed Wood – 1994
  91. Strangers on a Train – 1951
  92. La Strada – 1954
  93. The Last Picture Show – 1971
  94. All Quiet on the Western Front – 1930
  95. The Red Balloon – 1956
  96. Rear Window – 1954
  97. The Truman Show – 1998
  98. La Dolce Vita – 1960
  99. The Birth of a Nation – 1915
  100. The Great Train Robbery – 1903

One thought on “Must Watch Films for Film Studies”

  1. I love this list: I’ve printed it and it looks like I’ll be hitting my local library’s DVD section. I have seen almost all of the films on your list; I am aware of most of the ones I never got around to seeing, but now I will. And there are a few “new” ones I am now aware of. All of these lists are subjective, of course, and there is no right or wrong—so in my adjusted listing I’d personally bump: Get Out, Her, Amelie, and Blue Velvet for: Carl Theodore Dreyer’s Vampyr (1932), Russian Ark (2002), and Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger (1975) and Ugetsu (1953).

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