The Lists

The films by year

directors

To know a medium is often different than experiencing its “best” works only. To know film, a series of 5 collections, 10 pictures each.

the 50 essential films

Collection I.

• Nashville (1975)

• PlayTime (1967)

• Dog Star Man (1961 - 1964)

• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

• Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

• Mirror (1975)

• Mulholland Dr. (2001)

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

collection II.

• The Searchers (1956)

• Band of Outsiders (1964)

• Every Man for Himself (1980)

• Zigeunerweisen (1980)

• That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

• Arabian Nights (1974)

• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

• The Seventh Seal (1957)

• Sunrise : A Song of Two Humans (1927)

• Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

collection III.

• The Rules of the Game (1939)

• Providence (1977)

• 8 1/2 (1963)

• L’Avventura (1960)

• The Red Shoes (1948)

• Persona (1966)

• Vertigo (1958)

• Stalker (1979)

• Through a Glass Darkly (1961)

• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Collection IV.

• Death by Hanging (1968)

• Hiroshima mon Amour (1959)

• Pierrot le Fou (1965)

• Basic Instinct (1992)

• Killer of Sheep (1977)

• Woman in the Dunes (1964)

• Opening Night (1977)

• My Dinner with Andre (1981)

• The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)

• Double Suicide (1969)

collection V.

• Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)

• The Holy Mountain (1973)

• Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxells (1975)

• The Image Book (2018)

• Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

• Ordet (1955)

• Teorema (1968)

• F for Fake (1973)

• The Lickerish Quartet (1970)

• Ran (1985)