The Essential 1000

Welcome to the Essential 1000. Below you'll find a list, in chronological order, of the 1,000 films that this site feels are Essential to any cinephile. With apologies to the authors of THIS great book series. The list features film from the beginning of cinema through 2019, each year the list will get updated with new entries. So start checking them off now!

Early Cinema

• The Birth of a Nation (1915)
• Les Vampires (1915)
• Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
• The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
• Broken Blossoms (1919)
  

1920s

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
• The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920)
• Within Our Gates (1920)
• Way Down East (1920)
• The Mark of Zorro (1920)
• The Kid (1921)
• The Phantom Carriage (1921)
• Orphans of the Storm (1921)
• The Sheik (1921)
• Nosferatu (1922)
• Foolish Wives (1922)
• Grandma’s Boy (1922)
• The Prisoner of Zenda (1922)
• Safety Last! (1923)
• Our Hospitality (1923)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
• Why Worry? (1923)
• Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
• The Last Laugh (1924)
• Greed (1924)
• The Navigator (1924)
• The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
• Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• The Gold Rush (1925)
• The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
• Strike (1925)
• Seven Chances (1925)
• The Freshman (1925)
• The Lost World (1925)
• Go West (1925)
• The Eagle (1925)
• The General (1926)
• A Page of Madness (1926)
• Faust (1926)
• The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
• The Son of the Sheik (1926)
• Metropolis (1927)
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
• Wings (1927)
• The Jazz Singer (1927)
• The Unknown (1927)
• 7th Heaven (1927)
• College (1927)
• The Cat and the Canary (1927)
• It! (1927)
• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
• The Circus (1928)
• The Cameraman (1928)
• Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
• The Man Who Laughs (1928)
• The Crowd (1928)
• The Last Command (1928)
• Speedy (1928)
• Tempest (1928)
• Pandora’s Box (1929)
• Blackmail (1929)
• The Broadway Melody (1929)
• Woman in the Moon (1929)
• The Love Parade (1929)
• The Iron Mask (1929)


1930s

• All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
• The Blue Angel (1930)
• Morocco (1930)
• Animal Crackers (1930)
• Murder! (1930)
• The Divorcee (1930)
• M (1931)
• City Lights (1931)
• Dracula (1931)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• The Public Enemy (1931)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
• Little Caesar (1931)
• À Nous la Liberté (1931)
• Cimarron (1931)
• The Champ (1931)
• Freaks (1932)
• Vampyr (1932)
• Scarface (1932)
• Trouble in Paradise (1932)
• The Mummy (1932)
• The Old Dark House (1932)
• Grand Hotel (1932)
• Island of Lost Souls (1932)
• The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
• White Zombie (1932)
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
• Horse Feathers (1932)
• A Farewell to Arms (1932)
• King Kong (1933)
• The Invisible Man (1933)
• Duck Soup (1933)
• 42nd Street (1933)
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
• Baby Face (1933)
• She Done Him Wrong (1933)
• Sons of the Desert (1933)
• Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
• Cavalcade (1933)
• Dinner at Eight (1933)
• The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
• It Happened One Night (1934)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
• The Thin Man (1934)
• The Black Cat (1934)
• The Gay Divorcee (1934)
• It’s a Gift (1934)
• The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• The 39 Steps (1935)
• Top Hat (1935)
• A Night at the Opera (1935)
• Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
• Captain Blood (1935)
• Mad Love (1935)
• Modern Times (1936)
• My Man Godfrey (1936)
• Swing Time (1936)
• Sabotage (1936)
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
• Things to Come (1936)
• Fury (1936)
• Camille (1936)
• The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
• Dodsworth (1936)
• The Petrified Forest (1936)
• Libeled Lady (1936)
• Secret Agent (1936)
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
• Grand Illusion (1937)
• Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
• The Awful Truth (1937)
• A Star Is Born (1937)
• The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
• Stage Door (1937)
• Young and Innocent (1937)
• Lost Horizon (1937)
• Captains Courageous (1937)
• A Day at the Races (1937)
• Shall We Dance (1937)
• Way Out West (1937)
• Bringing Up Baby (1938)
• The Lady Vanishes (1938)
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
• Holiday (1938)
• You Can’t Take It with You (1938)
• Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
• Jezebel (1938)
• Pygmalion (1938)
• Vivacious Lady (1938)
• A Christmas Carol (1938)
• The Wizard of Oz (1939)
• Gone with the Wind (1939)
• Stagecoach (1939)
• The Rules of the Game (1939)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
• Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
• Ninotchka (1939)
• Wuthering Heights (1939)
• Destry Rides Again (1939)
• Son of Frankenstein (1939)
• Dark Victory (1939)
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
• Babes in Arms (1939)
  

1940s

• Fantasia (1940)
• Pinocchio (1940)
• The Great Dictator (1940)
• Rebecca (1940)
• His Girl Friday (1940)
• The Philadelphia Story (1940)
• The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
• The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
• Foreign Correspondent (1940)
• The Bank Dick (1940)
• Remember the Night (1940)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• The Maltese Falcon (1941)
• Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
• The Wolf Man (1941)
• The Lady Eve (1941)
• Suspicion (1941)
• How Green Was My Valley (1941)
• Ball of Fire (1941)
• Sergeant York (1941)
• Meet John Doe (1941)
• The Little Foxes (1941)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Bambi (1942)
• To Be or Not to Be (1942)
• Cat People (1942)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
• The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
• Now, Voyager (1942)
• Saboteur (1942)
• Mrs. Miniver (1942)
• The Palm Beach Story (1942)
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
• Holiday Inn (1942)
• Woman of the Year (1942)
• This Gun for Hire (1942)
• Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
• I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
• Heaven Can Wait (1943)
• Phantom of the Opera (1943)
• Double Indemnity (1944)
• Laura (1944)
• Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
• Gaslight (1944)
• Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
• To Have and Have Not (1944)
• Lifeboat (1944)
• The Three Caballeros (1944)
• The Uninvited (1944)
• Murder, My Sweet (1944)
• Ministry of Fear (1944)
• A Canterbury Tale (1944)
• Going My Way (1944)
• Henry V (1944)
• The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
• Brief Encounter (1945)
• Rome, Open City (1945)
• Spellbound (1945)
• Children of Paradise (1945)
• Mildred Pierce (1945)
• The Lost Weekend (1945)
• Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
• I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
• Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
• The Body Snatcher (1945)
• And Then There Were None (1945)
• Blithe Spirit (1945)
• It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
• Notorious (1946)
• The Big Sleep (1946)
• Beauty and the Beast [La belle et la bête] (1946)
• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
• A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
• Gilda (1946)
• My Darling Clementine (1946)
• The Killers (1946)
• Great Expectations (1946)
• Song of the South (1946)
• Duel in the Sun (1946)
• Black Narcissus (1947)
• The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
• Out of the Past (1947)
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
• Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
• Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
• The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
• Rope (1948)
• Bicycle Thieves (1948)
• The Red Shoes (1948)
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
• Red River (1948)
• Key Largo (1948)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
• Hamlet (1948)
• The Naked City (1948)
• Oliver Twist (1948)
• Easter Parade (1948)
• The Snake Pit (1948)
• The Third Man (1949)
• Late Spring (1949)
• White Heat (1949)
• Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
• The Heiress (1949)
• On the Town (1949)
• Adam’s Rib (1949)
• All the King’s Men (1949)
• She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
• A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
  

1950s

• Sunset Blvd. (1950)
• Rashomon (1950)
• Cinderella (1950)
• All About Eve (1950)
• In a Lonely Place (1950)
• The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
• Harvey (1950)
• Gun Crazy (1950)
• Winchester ’73 (1950)
• Alice in Wonderland (1951)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
• Strangers on a Train (1951)
• Ace in the Hole (1951)
• An American in Paris (1951)
• The African Queen (1951)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
• The Thing From Another World (1951)
• A Place in the Sun (1951)
• The River (1951)
• Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
• Ikiru (1952)
• High Noon (1952)
• Umberto D. (1952)
• The Quiet Man (1952)
• Tokyo Story (1953)
• Roman Holiday (1953)
• Ugetsu (1953)
• The Wages of Fear (1953)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
• I Vitelloni (1953)
• Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953)
• Shane (1953)
• From Here to Eternity (1953)
• The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)
• Stalag 17 (1953)
• House of Wax (1953)
• The Band Wagon (1953)
• The War of the Worlds (1953)
• How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
• Rear Window (1954)
• Seven Samurai (1954)
• Dial M for Murder (1954)
• On the Waterfront (1954)
• Godzilla (1954)
• La Strada (1954)
• Sabrina (1954)
• Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
• Johnny Guitar (1954)
• White Christmas (1954)
• A Star Is Born (1954)
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
• Them! (1954)
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
• The Night of the Hunter (1955)
• Lady and the Tramp (1955)
• Diabolique (1955)
• To Catch a Thief (1955)
• Rififi (1955)
• East of Eden (1955)
• Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
• The Seven Year Itch (1955)
• Killer’s Kiss (1955)
• Marty (1955)
• Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
• Guys and Dolls (1955)
• Lola Montès (1955)
• Summertime (1955)
• The Killing (1956)
• The Searchers (1956)
• A Man Escaped (1956)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• Forbidden Planet (1956)
• The Ten Commandments (1956)
• Giant (1956)
• The Wrong Man (1956)
• Written on the Wind (1956)
• High Society (1956)
• Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
• The Bad Seed (1956)
• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• The Seventh Seal (1957)
• Paths of Glory (1957)
• Wild Strawberries (1957)
• Throne of Blood (1957)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Nights of Cabiria (1957)
• Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
• Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
• A Face in the Crowd (1957)
• Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)
• An Affair to Remember (1957)
• The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
• Night of the Demon (1957)
• 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
• The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
• Vertigo (1958)
• Touch of Evil (1958)
• The Hidden Fortress (1958)
• Mon Oncle (1958)
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
• Horror of Dracula (1958)
• The Blob (1958)
• The Fly (1958)
• Gigi (1958)
• The Defiant Ones (1958)
• North by Northwest (1959)
• The 400 Blows (1959)
• Some Like it Hot (1959)
• Sleeping Beauty (1959)
• Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
• Ben-Hur (1959)
• Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
• Rio Bravo (1959)
• House on Haunted Hill (1959)
• Black Orpheus (1959)
• Imitation of Life (1959)

1960s

• Psycho (1960)
• The Apartment (1960)
• Breathless (1960)
• La Dolce Vita (1960)
• Eyes Without a Face (1960)
• Spartacus (1960)
• L’Avventura (1960)
• Peeping Tom (1960)
• The Virgin Spring (1960)
• Black Sunday (1960)
• The Magnificent Seven (1960)
• Village of the Damned (1960)
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
• West Side Story (1961)
• One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
• Yojimbo (1961)
• The Innocents (1961)
• The Hustler (1961)
• Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
• Splendor in the Grass (1961)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• Lolita (1962)
• Harakiri (1962)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
• Dr. No (1962)
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
• Jules and Jim (1962)
• Carnival of Souls (1962)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• Sanjuro (1962)
• Cape Fear (1962)
• The Birds (1963)
• 8½ (1963)
• High and Low (1963)
• Charade (1963)
• The Great Escape (1963)
• From Russia with Love (1963)
• The Sword in the Stone (1963)
• Winter Light (1963)
• The Haunting (1963)
• The Leopard (1963)
• It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
• Black Sabbath (1963)
• Shock Corridor (1963)
• Cleopatra (1963)
• Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• Mary Poppins (1964)
• A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
• Goldfinger (1964)
• My Fair Lady (1964)
• Onibaba (1964)
• A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
• Kwaidan (1964)
• Band of Outsiders (1964)
• Marnie (1964)
• Blood and Black Lace (1964)
• Fail Safe (1964)
• The Sound of Music (1965)
• Pierrot le Fou (1965)
• For a Few Dollars More (1965)
• Repulsion (1965)
• Alphaville (1965)
• Thunderball (1965)
• Doctor Zhivago (1965)
• Help! (1965)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
• Persona (1966)
• Blow-Up (1966)
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
• The Battle of Algiers (1966)
• Seconds (1966)
• Django (1966)
• Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
• A Man for All Seasons (1966)
• The Graduate (1967)
• Le Samouraï (1967)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• PlayTime (1967)
• Cool Hand Luke (1967)
• In the Heat of the Night (1967)
• The Producers (1967)
• You Only Live Twice (1967)
• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
• Point Blank (1967)
• The Dirty Dozen (1967)
• Wait Until Dark (1967)
• Samurai Rebellion (1967)
• In Cold Blood (1967)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Bullitt (1968)
• Funny Girl (1968)
• Barbarella (1968)
• Shame (1968)
• Romeo and Juliet (1968)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
• Easy Rider (1969)
• The Wild Bunch (1969)
• Army of Shadows (1969)
• On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
• Z (1969)
• The Italian Job (1969)
• The Passion of Anna (1969)
• True Grit (1969)

1970s

• El Topo (1970)
• M*A*S*H (1970)
• Five Easy Pieces (1970)
• Patton (1970)
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
• Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
• A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
• Harold and Maude (1971)
• The French Connection (1971)
• Dirty Harry (1971)
• The Last Picture Show (1971)
• Klute (1971)
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
• THX 1138 (1971)
• The Godfather (1972)
• Solaris (1972)
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• Cabaret (1972)
• Cries and Whispers (1972)
• Deliverance (1972)
• Last Tango in Paris (1972)
• What’s Up, Doc? (1972)
• Frenzy (1972)
• The Last House on the Left (1972)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• The Wicker Man (1973)
• Badlands (1973)
• Mean Streets (1973)
• The Holy Mountain (1973)
• Don’t Look Now (1973)
• American Graffiti (1973)
• The Long Goodbye (1973)
• Serpico (1973)
• The Sting (1973)
• Paper Moon (1973)
• Enter the Dragon (1973)
• Amarcord (1973)
• Westworld (1973)
• Live and Let Die (1973)
• Soylent Green (1973)
• Papillon (1973)
• The Godfather: Part II (1974)
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
• Chinatown (1974)
• The Conversation (1974)
• A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
• Young Frankenstein (1974)
• Black Christmas (1974)
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
• Scenes from a Marriage (1974)
• The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
• The Parallax View (1974)
• Jaws (1975)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• Mirror (1975)
• Deep Red (1975)
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
• Nashville (1975)
• Three Days of the Condor (1975)
• Shivers (1975)
• The Stepford Wives (1975)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• Carrie (1976)
• Rocky (1976)
• Network (1976)
• All the President’s Men (1976)
• The Omen (1976)
• Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
• The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
• Marathon Man (1976)
• The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
• Logan’s Run (1976)
• Star Wars (1977)
• Suspiria (1977)
• Eraserhead (1977)
• House (1977)
• Annie Hall (1977)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• Saturday Night Fever (1977)
• Sorcerer (1977)
• The Ascent (1977)
• The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
• Halloween (1978)
• Grease (1978)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• Days of Heaven (1978)
• Dawn of the Dead (1978)
• Superman: The Movie (1978)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
• Animal House (1978)
• Midnight Express (1978)
• Alien (1979)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Stalker (1979)
• Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
• Mad Max (1979)
• Manhattan (1979)
• Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
• All That Jazz (1979)
• The Warriors (1979)
• Being There (1979)
• The Muppet Movie (1979)
• Phantasm (1979)
• The Amityville Horror (1979)

1980s

• The Shining (1980)
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
• Raging Bull (1980)
• Airplane! (1980)
• The Elephant Man (1980)
• Friday the 13th (1980)
• The Blues Brothers (1980)
• The Fog (1980)
• Ordinary People (1980)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• The Evil Dead (1981)
• Possession (1981)
• An American Werewolf in London (1981)
• Escape from New York (1981)
• Blow Out (1981)
• Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
• Thief (1981)
• Scanners (1981)
• Chariots of Fire (1981)
• Das Boot (1981)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• The Thing (1982)
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• The King of Comedy (1982)
• Poltergeist (1982)
• First Blood (1982)
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
• Fanny and Alexander (1982)
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
• Gandhi (1982)
• Tootsie (1982)
• Return of the Jedi (1983)
• Scarface (1983)
• Videodrome (1983)
• The Outsiders (1983)
• A Christmas Story (1983)
• Terms of Endearment (1983)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• The Terminator (1984)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
• Paris, Texas (1984)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
• Amadeus ( 1984)
• Gremlins (1984)
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
• The Karate Kid (1984)
• Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
• Blood Simple (1984)
• This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
• Sixteen Candles (1984)
• The NeverEnding Story (1984)
• Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
• Back to the Future (1985)
• The Breakfast Club (1985)
• Come and See (1985)
• The Goonies (1985)
• Brazil (1985)
• Clue (1985)
• Ran (1985)
• Re-Animator (1985)
• The Color Purple (1985)
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
• Top Gun (1986)
• Blue Velvet (1986)
• Stand by Me (1986)
• Aliens (1986)
• The Fly (1986)
• Castle in the Sky (1986)
• Labyrinth (1986)
• Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
• Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
• Platoon (1986)
• Manhunter (1986)
• Pretty in Pink (1986)
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)
• The Princess Bride (1987)
• Dirty Dancing (1987)
• Evil Dead II (1987)
• Predator (1987)
• RoboCop (1987)
• Raising Arizona (1987)
• Hellraiser (1987)
• The Untouchables (1987)
• The Lost Boys (1987)
• Wings of Desire (1987)
• Moonstruck (1987)
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
• Lethal Weapon (1987)
• Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
• My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
• Die Hard (1988)
• Beetlejuice (1988)
• Akira (1988)
• Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
• Cinema Paradiso (1988)
• Rain Man (1988)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
• They Live (1988)
• Big (1988)
• Child’s Play (1988)
• Coming to America (1988)
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
• The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
• Dead Ringers (1988)
• The Vanishing (1988)
• Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
• When Harry Met Sally (1989)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Batman (1989)
• The Little Mermaid (1989)
• Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
• Say Anything… (1989)

1990s

• GoodFellas (1990)
• Home Alone (1990)
• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
• Pretty Woman (1990)
• Misery (1990)
• Total Recall (1990)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
• Beauty and the Beast (1991)
• Point Break (1991)
• The Addams Family (1991)
• Cape Fear (1991)
• Reservoir Dogs (1992)
• Aladdin (1992)
• Batman Returns (1992)
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
• Candyman (1992)
• Unforgiven (1992)
• Army of Darkness (1992)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• Schindler’s List (1993)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• Dazed and Confused (1993)
• Three Colors: Blue (1993)
• Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
• True Romance (1993)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• The Lion King (1994)
• Léon: The Professional (1994)
• Chungking Express (1994)
• Speed (1994)
• Three Colors: Red (1994)
• Ed Wood (1994)
• Clerks (1994)
• Se7en (1995)
• Toy Story (1995)
• Before Sunrise (1995)
• Clueless (1995)
• Heat (1995)
• Casino (1995)
• The Usual Suspects (1995)
• Twelve Monkeys (1995)
• Braveheart (1995)
• Ghost in the Shell (1995)
• Fargo (1996)
• Scream (1996)
• Trainspotting (1996)
• Independence Day (1996)
• William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)
• Mission: Impossible (1996)
• From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
• Titanic (1997)
• Good Will Hunting (1997)
• Princess Mononoke (1997)
• Boogie Nights (1997)
• Jackie Brown (1997)
• Life Is Beautiful (1997)
• Men in Black (1997)
• The Game (1997)
• The Fifth Element (1997)
• L.A. Confidential (1997)
• Lost Highway (1997)
• Funny Games (1997)
• Gattaca (1997)
• Starship Troopers (1997)
• Face/Off (1997)
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
• Chasing Amy (1997)
• The Truman Show (1998)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• Mulan (1998)
• American History X (1998)
• Rushmore (1998)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
• The Thin Red Line (1998)
• Fight Club (1999)
• The Matrix (1999)
• American Beauty (1999)
• Toy Story 2 (1999)
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
• The Sixth Sense (1999)
• Magnolia (1999)
• The Green Mile (1999)
• Being John Malkovich (1999)
• The Blair Witch Project (1999)
• The Iron Giant (1999)
• Audition (1999)
• Office Space (1999)
• All About My Mother (1999)

2000s

• American Psycho (2000)
• Memento (2000)
• Requiem for a Dream (2000)
• In the Mood for Love (2000)
• Gladiator (2000)
• Almost Famous (2000)
• The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)
• Snatch (2000)
• Cast Away (2000)
• Spirited Away (2001)
• Donnie Darko (2001)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
• Monsters, Inc. (2001)
• Shrek (2001)
• Amélie (2001)
• Mulholland Drive (2001)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
• Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
• A Beautiful Mind (2001)
• Spider-Man (2002)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
• Catch Me If You Can (2002)
• The Pianist (2002)
• Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
• City of God (2002)
• 28 Days Later (2002)
• Lilo & Stitch (2002)
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
• Finding Nemo (2003)
• Lost in Translation (2003)
• Oldboy (2003)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
• Memories of Murder (2003)
• Big Fish (2003)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
• The Incredibles (2004)
• Spider-Man 2 (2004)
• Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
• Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
• Mean Girls (2004)
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• Before Sunset (2004)
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
• Million Dollar Baby (2004)
• Batman Begins (2005)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
• Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• Pride & Prejudice (2005)
• V for Vendetta (2005)
• Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
• The Prestige (2006)
• The Departed (2006)
• Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
• Children of Men (2006)
• Casino Royale (2006)
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
• No Country for Old Men (2007)
• Ratatouille (2007)
• Zodiac (2007)
• There Will Be Blood (2007)
• Superbad (2007)
• Juno (2007)
• Hot Fuzz (2007)
• The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
• The Dark Knight (2008)
• Iron Man (2008)
• WALL·E (2008)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
• Ponyo (2008)
• Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
• In Bruges (2008)
• Inglourious Basterds (2009)
• Up (2009)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
• Avatar (2009)
• Coraline (2009)
• Zombieland (2009)
• Jennifer’s Body (2009)
• The Hangover (2009)

2010s-Present

• Inception (2010)
• Black Swan (2010)
• Shutter Island (2010)
• Toy Story 3 (2010)
• The King’s Speech (2010)
• The Social Network (2010)
• A Separation (2011)
• The Artist (2011)
• Drive (2011)
• The Raid: Redemption (2011)
• It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
• Django Unchained (2012)
• Amour (2012)
• Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
• Argo (2012)
• The Master (2012)
• Prisoners (2013)
• Before Midnight (2013)
• 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• Her (2013)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
• Boyhood (2013)
• Whiplash (2014)
• Interstellar (2014)
• The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
• What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
• Song of the Sea (2014)
• Gone Girl (2014)
• Nightcrawler (2014)
• Birdman (2014)
• Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
• Spotlight (2015)
• Carol (2015)
• Ex Machina (2015)
• The Handmaiden (2016)
• Moonlight (2016)
• Your Name. (2016)
• Arrival (2016)
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
• Manchester by the Sea (2016)
• Sing Street (2016)
• La La Land (2016)
• Moana (2016)
• Paddington 2 (2017)
• Get Out (2017)
• Coco (2017)
• The Florida Project (2017)
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
• Logan (2017)
• Phantom Thread (2017)
• First Reformed (2017)
• The Shape of Water (2017)
• The Breadwinner (2017)
• Call Me by Your Name (2017)
• Wonder Woman (2017)
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
• Shoplifters (2018)
• Roma (2018)
• The Favourite (2018)
• Hereditary (2018)
• Black Panther (2018)
• A Star is Born (2018)
• Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
• Cold War (2018)
• Avengers: Endgame (2019)
• Parasite (2019)
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
• Sound of Metal (2019)
• Bacurau (2019)
• 1917 (2019)
• Jojo Rabbit (2019)
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
• The Lighthouse (2019)
• The Farewell (2019)
• Knives Out (2019)
• Pain and Glory (2019)
• Marriage Story (2019)
• The Vast of Night (2020)
• Wolfwalkers (2020)
• Minari (2020)
• Soul (2020)
• Judas and the Black Messiah (2020)
• Nomadland (2020)
• Palm Springs (2020)
• Promising Young Woman (2020)
• One Night in Miami… (2020)
• Possessor (2020)
• The Invisible Man (2020)
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)