needs reformatting (feeling reluctantly inclined to do so)

• 12 Years A Slave
• 1925, Charlie Chaplin - The Gold Rush
• 1929, F. W. Murnau - Nosferatu
• 1931, Fritz Lang - M ★
• 1933, Lloyd Bacon, 42nd Street
• 1939, Jean Renoir - Rules of the Game
• 1941, Orson Welles - citizen kane ★
• 1942, Michael Curtiz - Casablanca
• 1945, Michael Curtiz - Mildred Pierce
• 1946, Alfred Hitchcock - Notorious
• 1947, Orson Welles - The Lady from Shanghai
• 1948, John Ford - Fort Apache
• 1948, John Huston - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• 1948, Vittorio De Sica - bicycle thieves
• 1949, Carol Reed - The Third Man
• 1951, Elia Kazan - a streetcar named desire
• 1952, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly - Singing in the Rain
• 1954, Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window
• 1954, Elia Kazan - On the Waterfront
• 1955, Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske - Lady and the Tramp
• 1955, Nicholas Ray - Rebel Without a Cause ★
• 1955, Stanley Kubrick - Killer's Kiss
• 1956, Stanley Kubrick - Paths of Glory
• 1957, Ingmar Bergman - The Seventh Seal
• 1957, Sidney Lumet - 12 Angry Men
• 1958, Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo ★★
• 1959, Alfred Hitchcock - North by Northwest ★
• 1959, Billy Wilder - Some Like It Hot
• 1959, François Truffaut - The 400 Blows ★★
• 1959, Jean-Luc Godard - All the Boys are Called Patrick
• 1960, Jean-Luc Godard - Breathless ★★
• 1960, Jean-Luc Godard - Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
• 1961, Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise - west side story
  • musical
• 1961, Jean-Luc Godard - A Story of Water
• 1961, Jean-Luc Godard - A Woman is a Woman
• 1962, David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia
• 1962, Jean-Luc Godard - Vivre Sa Vie
• 1962, John Ford - The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
  • Netflix
• 1963, Jean-Luc Godard - Contempt
• 1963, Jean-Luc Godard - Le Petit Soldat
• 1963, Jean-Luc Godard - The Soldiers
• 1963, Jean-Luc Godard, Others - Ro.Go.Pa.G.
  • 4 shorts by different directors
• 1964, Jean-Luc Godard - Band of Outsiders
• 1964, Jean-Luc Godard - Une Femme Mariee
• 1964, Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ★
• 1965, Jean-Luc Godard - Alphaville
• 1965, Jean-Luc Godard - Pierrot le Fou
• 1965, Jean-Luc Godard, Others - Six in Paris
• 1966, Gillo Pontecorvo - Battle of Algiers
• 1966, Jean-Luc Godard - Made in U.S.A
• 1966, Jean-Luc Godard - Masculin Feminin
  • six vignettes by different directors
• 1967, Jean-Luc Godard - La Chinoise
• 1967, Jean-Luc Godard - Two or Three Things I Know About Her
• 1967, Jean-Luc Godard - Weekend
• 1967, Luis Buñuel - Belle de Jour ★
• 1968, Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey ★★
• 1969, George Roy Hill - butch cassidy and the sundance kid
  • Netflix
• 1970, Arthur Hiller - love story
• 1971, Hal Ashby - Harold & Maude
  • Netflix
• 1971, Stanley Kubrick - a clockwork orange ★★
• 1972, Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather ★
• 1973, George Lucas - American Graffiti ★
• 1973, Terrence Malick - Badlands
• 1975, Jean-Luc Godard - Numero Deux
• 1975, Stanley Kubrick - Barry Lyndon
• 1976, Jean-Luc Godard - Here and Elsewhere
• 1976, John G. Avildsen - Rocky
• 1978, Terrence Malick - Days of Heaven
• 1980, Jean-Luc Godard - Every Man For Himself
• 1981, Wolfgang Petersen - Das Boot
• 1982, Ridley Scott - blade runner (1992 director's cut) ★★
• 1983, Jean-Luc Godard - First Name: Carmen
• 1986, David Lynch - blue velvet ★
• 1986, Tony Scott - top gun
• 1988, Giuseppe Tornatore - Cinema Paradiso
• 1988, John McTiernan - Die Hard ★
• 1989, Herbert Ross - Steel Magnolias
• 1990, Kar Wai Wong - days of being wild
• 1990, Luc Besson - La Femme Nikita
• 1990, Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
• 1991, Jean-Luc Godard - Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
• 1994, Wong Kar-wai - Chungking Express ★
• 1994, Frank Darabont - The Shawshank Redemption ★★
• 1994, Luc Besson - Leon: The Professional
• 1994, Steve James - hoop dreams ★
• 1996, Tim Burton - Mars Attacks!
• 1997, Curtis Hanson - L.A. confidential
• 1997, Roberto Benigni & Rod Dean - life is beautiful
• 1998, Coen Brothers - The Big Lebowski ★★★
• 1998, Terrence Malick - The Thin Red Line
• 1998, Tony Kaye - american history x
• 1998, Vincent Gallo - Buffalo 66
• 1999, David Fincher - Fight Club ★★★
• 1999, Stanley Kubrick - Eyes Wide Shut
• 1999, Troy Duffy - the Boondock Saints
• 2000, Cameron Crowe - almost famous
• 2000, Darren Aronofsky - Requiem for a Dream ★
• 2001, Rob Cohen - the fast and the furious
• 2001, Satoshi Kon - Millennium Actress ★
• 2002, Adam Shankman - a walk to remember
• 2002, Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund - city of god ★
• 2002, Miguel Arteta - the good girl
• 2002, Rob Marshall - Chicago
• 2003, Chan-wook Park - Oldboy
• 2003, Lars von Trier - Dogville
  • cannes winner
• 2003, Richard Curtis - Love Actually
• 2004, Adam McKay - Anchorman
• 2004, Brad Anderson - The Machinist
• 2004, Edgar Wright - Shaun of the Dead
• 2004, Jean-Luc Godard - Notre Musique
• 2004, Jonathan Glazer - Birth ★
• 2004, Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• 2004, Mike Nichols - Closer
• 2004, Paul Haggis - Crash
• 2004, Zack Snyder - Dawn of the Dead
• 2005, David Slade - hard candy ★
• 2005, Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino - Sin City
• 2005, Steven Spielberg - Munich ★★★
• 2005, Terrence Malick - New World ★★
  • recommended by Minkyu
• 2006, Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
• 2006, Alfonso Cuarón - children of men
• 2006, Edward Zwick - Blood Diamond
• 2006, Martin Scorsese - The Departed
• 2006, Michael Arias - Tekkonkinkreet
• 2006, Pedro Almodóvar - Volver
  • cinematography
• 2006, Ronny Yu - Fearless
• 2006, Tarsem Singh - The Fall
• 2007, Edgar Wright - hot fuzz
• 2007, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen - No Country for Old Men
• 2007, Gus Van Sant - paranoid park
• 2007, Wes Anderson - The Darjeeling Limited ★
• 2008, jonathan demme - rachel getting married
• 2008, Udayan Prasad - The Yellow Handkerchief
• 2009, Bruce McDonald - Pontypool
• 2009, F. Gary Gray - Law Abiding Citizen ★
• 2009, Joon-jo Bong - Madeo
• 2009, Juan José Campanella - The Secret in Their Eyes
• 2009, Paul McGuigan - push
• 2011, Terrence Malick - Tree of Life ★
• 2011, André Ovredal - Troll Hunter
  • recommended by Carl
• 2011, Lars von Trier - Melancholia ★
• 2011, Martin Scorsese - Hugo
• 2011, Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
  • recommended by a fellow in experimental animation
• 2011, Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris ★
• 2012, Kirstin Marcon - the most fun you can have dying
• 2012, Ang Lee - Life of Pi
• 2012, Ben Affleck - Argo
  • interest peaked by academy award win for movie of the year 2012
• 2012, Benh Zeitlin - Beasts of the Southern Wild ★
• 2012, Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
  • academy award nominee for movie of the year 2012
• 2012, Lee Daniels - The Paperboy
  • 2/5 rotten tomatoes
  • 5.7/10 imdb
  • cannes winner
• 2012, Michael Haneke - Amour ★
• 2012, Phil Lord, Chris Miller - 21 Jump Street
• 2012, Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
• 2012, Stephen Chbosky - Perks of Being a Wallflower
• 2012, Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
• 2012, Terrence Malick - To The Wonder
• 2012, Tom Hooper - Les Miserables
• Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
• arrival
• Back to the Future
• Batman Begins
• bird man
• Catch Me if You Can
• City Lights (1931)
• Cool Hand Luke (1967)
• Dallas Buyers Club
• girl with a pearl earring
• Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ★★
• interstellar
• Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
• manchester by the sea
• Marie Antoinette
• Million Dollar Baby
• Ocean's Eleven
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Phantom of the Opera (2004)
• Saving Private Ryan ★
• saw
• Scarface (1983) ★
• Se7en
• Seven Samurai
• Sleepy Hollow
• Sophie's choice ((1982)
• Sunset Blvd. (1950)
• The Bourne series
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• The Experiment (2001)
• The Godfather Part 2
• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
• The Last King of Scotland
• The Number 23
• The Omen
• the queen (2006)
• The Terminator
• The Untouchables (1987)