El invento.

• "Sneeze", T. A. Edison, 1984
• "Arrivée du train a ciotat", Louis Lumière, 1895.
• "Dixon Exp. Sound Film", T. A. Edison, 1896.
• "Voyage dans la lune", Georges Méliès, 1902.
• "The Great Train Robbery", Edwin S. Porter, 1903. ( Primer western, primer montaje en paralelo )

Inicios del cinema narrativo.

• "L'assassinat du Duc du Guise", A. Calmette y Ch. Le Bargy, 1905. ( Cinéma d'art )
• "Cabiria", Giovanni Pastrone, 1914 ( Cinema Kolossal )
• "Barry Oldfield's Race For Life", Mack Sennett, 1913 ( Cómico )
• "The Birth Of A Nation", David W. Griffith, 1915. ( Narración, inicios movimientos de cámara. Intolerance. United Artists )
• "The Gold Rush", Charles Chaplin, 1925 ( Primer largo cómico )
• "The General" Buster Keaton, 1927.

Avanguardas europeas.

• "Das Kabinet Des Dr. Caligari" Robert Wiene, 1919. ( expresionismo )
• "Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauns", F. W. Murnau, 1922. ( el cine como relfejo de las tensioes sociales )
• "Bronenosec Potëmkin", Sergei M. Esienstein, 1926. ( Constructivismo ruso. Población analfabeta - capacidad ideológica )
• "Mat", Vsevelod I. Pudovkin, 1926. ( Diseñar un nuevo mundo. Rusia )
• "Metropolis", Fritz Lang, 1927. ( Alemania )
• "Napoleón", Abel Garce, 1927. ( Proyección en tres pantallas. Francia )
• "La Passion de Jean D'Arc", Carl T.Dreyer, 1928 ( Primeros planos expresivos, sin maquillaje )
• "Un chien andalou", Luis Buñuel, 1928. ( Surrealismo )
• "Celoveks Kinoapparatom", Dziga Vertov, 1929.
• "Le Sang d'un poète" Jean Cocteau, 1930. ( Surrealismo )

Aparición de lo sonoro y llegada del color ( Cambio de la velocidad de los proyectores. Cinema hablado )

• "Frankenstein", James Whale, 1931.
• "King Kong", Shoedsack/Looper, 1933.
• "Modern Times" Charlie Chaplin, 1935.
• "La grande illusion" Jean Renoir, 1937.
• "Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs" Walt Disney, 1937. ( Primer largo de animación. En color )
• "Bringing up baby" Howard Hawks, 1938.
• "Gone with the wind", Victor Fleming, 1939. ( Película de productor. 3 directores distintos )
• "Stagecoach", John Ford, 1939.
• "The Wizard Of Oz", Victor Fleming, 1939. ( crisis )
• "Citizien Kane", Orson Welles, 1940. ( Innovación de planos, control total del director )
• "The Great Dictator", Charles Chaplin, 1940.
• "The Maltese Falcon", John Huston, 1941.
• "Casablanca", Michael Curtiz, 1942.
• "To be or not to be", Ernst Lubitsch, 1942.
• "The Third Man", Carol Reed, 1949. ( Inglés. Situación posguerra en Viena. Collab con Welles )
• "Singin' in the rain" Stanley Donen, 1952.
• "High Noon", Fred Zimmerman, 1952. ( Caza de brujas a EEUU. Good luck, goodbye )
• "On The Waterfront", Elia Kazan, 1954.
• "East Of Eden", Elia Kazan, 1955. ( Actors Studio, Lee Strasberg. Actuar según experiencias propias. Marlon Brando, James Dean )
• "Some like it hot", Billy Wilder, 1959.
• "Ben Hur" William Wyler, 1959.
• "Psycho", A. Hitchcock, 1960. ( El director supera el star system )
• "The Magnificient Seven", John Sturges, 1960.
• "West Side Story", Robert Wise, 1961.

El cine moderno

• "Roma, città aperta", Roberto Rossellini, 1945. ( Neorrealismo italiano )
• "Ladri di biciclette", Vittorio De Sica, 1948. ( Neorrealismo italiano )
• "Rashomon", Akira Kurosawa, 1950. ( Japonesa. Metáfora situación )
• "Bienvenido, Mr. Marshall", Luis García Berlanga, 1953.
• "Ugetsu Monogatari", Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953.
• "La Strada", Federico Fellini, 1953.
• "Muerte de un ciclista", Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955.
• "Det Sjunde Inseglet", Ingmar Bergman, 1957.
• "Pather Panchali", "Apajarito" y "Apur Sansar", Satyajit Ray. 1955 - 1959 ( Neorrealismo indio )
• "Popiol i Diament", Andrej Wajda, 1958.
• "Mon oncle", Jacques Tati, 1958. ( crítica al diseño )
• "Les quattre cents coups", François Truffaut, 1959. ( Nouvelle Vague )
• "Hiroshima, mon amour", Alain Resnais, 1959.
• "À bout de souffle", Jean Luc Godard, 1960.
• "La Notte", Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961.
• "Viridiana", Luis Buñuel, 1961.
• "Sanma No Aji", Yasujiro Ozu, 1962.
• "Lawrence de Arabia", David Lean, 1962.
• "Ivanovo Detstvo", Andrei Tarkovski, 1962.
• "Il Gattopardo", Luchino Visconti, 1963.
• "The loneliness of the long distance runner", Tony Richardson, 1963. ( Inglaterra. Free Cinema )
• "Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo", Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964.
• "Deus eo diablo na terra do sol", Glauber Rocha, 1964.
• "La Caza", Carlos Saura, 1965. ( Nuevo cine español )
• "Ma Nuit Chez Maud", Eric Rohmer, 1969. ( El rayo verde )
• "The Graduate", Mike Nichols, 1967.
• "Planet of the Apes", Franklin J. Schnaffer, 1968.
• "2001: A Space Odyssey", Stanley Kubrick, 1968. ( Estructura narrativa )
• "Easy rider", Dennis Hopper, 1969.
• "The Wild Bunch", Sam Peckinpah, 1969. ( Western crepuscular )
• "The night of the walking dead", George A. Romero, 1969.

De los 70 a los 90. ( Cine + TV )

• "The French Connection", William Friedkin, 1971.
• "Last Tango in Paris", Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972.
• "El espíritu de la colmena", Víctor Erice, 1973. ( Intentar entender el mundo a través de los indicios )
• "Chinatown", Roman Polanski, 1974.
• "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", Milos Forman, 1975.
• "Ai No Corrida", Nagisha Oshima, 1976.
• "Padre Padrone", Hermanos Taviani, 1977.
• "Der Amerikanishce Freund", Wim Wenders, 1977.
• "Star Wars", George Lucas, 1977.
• "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind", Steven Spielberg, 1978.
• "Manhattan", Woody Allen, 1979.
• "Die Blechtrommel", Volker Schlöndorff, 1979.
• "Apocalypse Now", Francis Ford Coppola, 1979.
• "Koyaanisqatsi", Godfrey Reggio, 1982.
• "Blade Runner", Ridley Scott, 1982.
• "Fanny Och Alexander", Ingmar Bergman, 1982.
• "Witness", Peter Weir, 1984.
• "¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?", Pedro Almodóvar, 1984.
• "Out Of Africa", Sydney Pollack, 1985.
• "Sorgo Rojo", Zhang Yimou, 1987.
• "Hidden Agenda", Ken Loach, 1990.
• "Cyrano De Bergerac", Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1990.