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There are thousands of
films to study about cinema. But critics have suggested about 100 films that
must see for films studies. These films will help to learn film language to the
learners. The 100 films that must see for film studies are given below:-
1. The Birth
of a Nation (1915) by D.W. Griffith
2. The Cabinet
of Dr. Caligari (1920) by Robert Wiene
3. Nanook of the
North (1922) by Robert J. Flaharty
4. Greed
(1924) by Erich Von Stroheim
5. Battleship
Potemkin (1925) by Sergei Wisenstien
6. The General
(1926) by Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
7. Metropolis
(1927) by Fritz Lang
8. Mother
(1926) by Vsevolod Pudovkin
9. Napoleon
(1927) by Abel Gance
10. Un Chien
Andalou (1929) by Luis Bunuel
11. The
Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) by Carl Theodor Dreyer
12. October
(Ten Days That Shook the World) (1928) by Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori
Alekzandrov
13. Man With a
Movie Camera (1929) by Dziga Vertov
14. The Blue
Angel (1930) by Josef Von Sternberg
15. City
Lights (1931) by Charlie Chaplin
16. Vampyr
(1932) by Carl Theodor Dreyer
17. Modern
Times (1936) by Charlie Chaplin
18. Triumph of
the Will (1935) by Leni Riefenstahl
19. Grand
Illusion (1937) by Jean Renoir
20. Olympia
Part One: Festival of Nations (1938) by Leni Riefenstahl
21. The Rules
of the Game (1939) by Jean Renoir
22. Le Jour Se
Leve (1939) by Marcel Carne
23. Gone with
the Wind (1939) by Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
24. Stagecoach
(1939) by John Ford
25. Citizen
Kane (1941) by Orson Welles
26. Casablanca
(1942) by Michael Curtiz
27. Children
of Paradise (1945) by Marcel Carne
28. Rome, Open
City (1945) by Roberto Rossellini
29. Bicycle
Thieves (1948) by Vittorio De Sica
30. La Terra
Trema (1948) by Luchino Visconti
31. The Third
Man (1949) by Carol Reed
32. Rashomon
(1950) by Akira Kurosawa
33. Ikiru
(1952) by Akira Kurosawa
34. Forbidden
Games (1952) by Rene Clement
35. Singing in
the Rain (1952) by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
36. High Noon
(1952) by Fred Zinnemann
37. Tokyo
Story (1953) by Yasujiro Ozu
38. Ugetsu
(1953) by Kenji Mizoguchi
39. Seven
Samurai (1954) by Akira Kurosawa
40. On the
Waterfront (1954) by Elia Kazan
41. Rear
Window (1954) by Alfred Hitchcock
42. Floating
Clouds (1955) by Mikio Naruse
43. Pather
Panchali (1955) by Satyajit Ray
44. Rebel
Without a Cause (1955) by Nicholas Ray
45. Mon Oncle
(1958) by Jacques Tati
46. Giant
(1956) by George Stevens
47. Before the
Rain (1994) by Milco Mancevski
48. Wild
Strawberries (1957) by Ingmar Bergman
49. The
Seventh Seal (1957) by Ingmar Bergman
50. Ashes and
Diamonds (1958) by Andrzej Wajda
51. Hiroshima
Mon Amour (1959) by Alain Resnais
52. The 400
Blows (1959) by Francois Truffaut
53. Breathless
(1960) by Jean-Luc Godard
54. Psycho
(1960) by Alfred Hitchcock
55. West Side
Story (1961) by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
56. La Dolce
Vita (1960) by Federico Fellini
57. Viridiana
(1961) by Luis Bunuel
58. Last Year
at Marienbad (1961) by Alain Resnais
59. Jules and
Jim (1962) by François Truffaut
60. Lawrence
of Arabia (1962) by David Lean
61. L'Eclisse
(1962) by Michelangelo Antonioni
62. 8½
(1963) by Federico Fellini
63. La Strada
(1954) by Federico Fellini
64. The Gospel
According to St. Matthew (1964) by Pier Paolo Pasolini
65. Persona
(1966) by Ingmar Bergman
66. Andrei
Rublev (1966) by Andrei Tarkovsky
67. Belle De
Jour (1967) by Luis Bunuel
68. Bonnie and
Clyde (1967) by Arthur Penn
69. Blow-Up
(1966) by Michelangelo Antonioni
70. 2001: A
Space Odyssey (1968) by Stanley Kubrick
71. Lucia
(1968) by Humberto Solas
72. Z (1969)
by Costa-Gavras
73. Apocalypse
Now (1979) by Francis Ford Coppola
74. A
Clockwork Orange (1971) by Stanley Kubrick
75. Death in
Venice (1971) by Luchino Visconti
76. The
Godfather (1972) by Francis Ford Coppola
77. Aguirre,
the Wrath of God (1972) by Werner Herzog
78. Cries and
Whispers (1972) by Ingmar Bergman
79. The Mirror
(1975) by Andrei Tarkovsky
80. In the Realm
of the Senses (1976) by Nagisa Oshima
81. Taxi
Driver (1976) by Martin Scorsese
82. Annie Hall
(1977) by Woody Allen
83. Star Wars
(1977) by George Lucas
84. Blade
Runner (1982) by Ridley Scott
85. Nostalghia
(1983) by Andrei Tarkovsky
86. Paris,
Texas (1984) by Wim Wenders
87.
L'avventura (1960) by Michelangelo Antonioni
88. The Green
Ray (1986) by Eric Rohmer
89. Where is
the friend's Home? (1987) by Abbas Kiarostami
90. Wings of
Desire (1987) by Wim Wenders
91. Landscape
in the Mist (1988) by Theodoros Angelopoulos
92. The
Decalogue (1989) by Krzysztof Kieślowski
93. Pulp
Fiction (1994) by Quentin Tarantino
94.
Underground (1995) by Emir Kusturica
95. Dancer in
the Dark (2000) by Lars Von Trier
96. Vertiges
(1985) by Christine Laurent
97. The
Searchers (1956) by John Ford
98. A Tale of
Springtime (1990) by Eric Rohmer
99. Day for
Night (1973) by Francois Truffaut
100. The
Shining (1980) by Stanley Kubrick