• The Cabinet of Dr Caligari - Wiene (1920)

• Nosferatu – Murnau (1922)

• M – Lang (1931)

• Psycho – Hitchcock (1960)

• Peeping Tom - Powell (1960)

• Night of the Living Dead - Romero (1968)

• Don't Look Now - Roeg (1973)

• Exorcist – Friedkin (1973)

• Carrie - De Palma (1976)

• The Shining – Kubrick (1980)

• Silence of the Lambs – Demme (1991)

• Seven – Fincher (1995)

• Scream – Craven (1996)

• Ringu – Nakata (1998)

• The Blair Witch Project – Myrick / Sanchez (1999)

• American Psycho - Harron (2000)

• Battle Royale - Fukusaku (2000)

• The Others – Amenabar (2001)

• Saw – Wan (2003)

• Oldboy - Chan Wook Park (2003)

• Paranormal Activity - Peli (2006)

• Let the Right one In – Alfredson (2008)

• The Chaser - Hong Jin Na (2008)

• Shutter Island - Scorcese (2010)

• Black Swan - Aronofsky (2011)

• Cabin in the Woods (2011)

• Marianne – Tegstedt (2011)

• Kill List - Wheatley (2011)

• Prisoners - Villeneuve (2013)

• The Babadook - Kent (2014)

• Nightcrawler - Gilroy (2014)

• Gone Girl - Fincher (2014)

• Get Out - Peele (2017)

• A Quiet Place (2018)

• Us (2019)

• Midsommar (2019)

• A Quiet Place part II (2020)

• The Jazz Singer – Crosland (1927)

• 42nd Street – Bacon (1933)

• Singin’ in the Rain – Kelly / Donen (1952)

• Calamity Jane – Butler (1953)

• West Side Story – Wise / Robbins (1961)

• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – Demy (1964)

• The Sound of Music --Rodgers/Hammerstein (1965)

• Cabaret – Fosse (1972)

• The Rocky Horror Picture Show – Sharman (1975)

• Saturday Night Fever – Badham (1977)

• Grease – Kleiser (1978)

• Blues Brothers - Landis (1980)

• An American Tail - Bluth (1986)

• Labyrinth - Henson (1986)

• Little Shop of Horrors - Oz (1986)

• Dirty Dancing - Bergstein (1987)

• Dancer in The Dark - Von Trier (2000)

• Moulin Rouge! – Luhrmann (2001)

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Mitchell (2001)

• Lagaan – Gowariker (2001)

• Devdas - Chattopadhyay  (2001)

• Chicago – Marshall (2002)

• School of Rock - Linklater (2003)

• Rent – Columbus (2005)

• Once - Carney (2007)

• The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best - O'Nan (2011)

• Les Miserables - Hooper (2014)

• Begin Again - Carney (2013)

• La La Land - Chazelle (2016)

• The Greatest Showman - Gracey (2017)

• Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

• A Star is Born (2018)

• Rocketman (2019)

• Cats (2019)

• Hamilton (2020) *

• Encanto (2021)

• Kpop Demon Hunters (2025)

• Stagecoach - Ford (1939)

• High Noon – Zinneman (1952)

• Shane - Stevens (1953)

• The Searchers – Ford (1956)

• The Magnificent Seven - Sturges (1960)

• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Leone (1966)

• El Dorado - Hawks (1966)

• Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid – Hill (1969)

• True Grit – Hathaway (1969)

• The Wild Bunch – Peckinpah (1969)

• Blazing Saddles – Brooks (1974)

• The Outlaw Josey Wales - Eastwood (1976)

• Unforgiven – Eastwood (1992)

• Tombstone - Cosmatos (1993)

• Brokeback Mountain – Lee (2005)

• 3:10 to Yuma - Mangold (2007)

• True Grit – Coen Bros (2010)

• Ringo --Verbinksi (2011)

• Django Unchained - Tarantino (2012)

• The Revenant (2015)

• Bone Tomahawk (2015)

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

• Killers of the Flowermoon (2023)

German Expressionism

• The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari – Wiene (1920)

• Nosferatu – Murnau (1922)

• M – Lang (1931)

Italian Neo-Realism

• Toni – Renoir (1935)

• Roma -  Rossellini (1945)

• The Bicycle Thieves – De Sica (1948)

• Umberto D – De Sica (1955)

French New Wave

• Le Beau Serge – Chabrol (1958)

• The 400 Blows – Truffaut (1959)

• Breathless – Godard (1960)

• Jules et Jim – Truffaut (1962)

Dogme 95

• Breaking the Waves – Von Trier (1996)

• The Idiots – Von Trier (1998)

• Julien Donkey-Boy – Korine (1999)

• Dancer in the Dark – Von Trier (2000)

New Hollywood

• The Graduate – Nichols (1967)

• Bonnie and Clyde – Penn (1967)

• Easy Rider - Hopper (1969)

• Midnight Cowboy – Schlesinger (1969)

• The Godfather – Coppola (1972)

• The Conversation – Coppola (1974)

• Dog Day Afternoon – Lumet (1975)

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Forman (1975)

Hong Kong New Wave

• The Secret – Hui (1979)

• Cops and Robbers – Cheung (1979)

• Boat People (Hui, 1982)

• Homecoming – Yim (1984)

• Police Story - Chan (1985) 

• City on Fire - Lam (1987)

• A Better Tomorrow – Woo (1986)

• The Killer - Woo (1989)

• Chungking Express – Wai (1994)

• Ashes of Time - Wai (1994)

• Happy Together - Wai (1997)

Film Noir / Neo-Noir

• Double Indemnity – Wilder (1944)

• The Postman Always Rings Twice - Garnett (1946)

• Kiss Me Deadly  - Aldrich (1955)

• LA Confidential – Hanson (1997)

• Million Dollar Baby – Eastwood (2004)

• Sin City – Miller / Rodriguez (2005)

NARRATIVE

• Rashomon –Kurosawa (1950)

• Reservoir Dogs – Tarantino (1992)

• Pulp Fiction – Tarantino (1994)

• The Usual Suspects - Singer (1995)

• Run Lola Run – Tykwer (1998)

• Amores Perros - Inarittu (2000)

• Memento - Nolan (2000)

• Irreversible - Noe (2002)

• Adaptation – Jonze (2002)

• Kill Bill - Tarantino - (2003)

• Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind - Gondry (2004)

• No Country For Old Men - Coen Bros (2007)

• 500 Days of Summer - Webb (2009)

ANIMATION

• Waltzing with Bashir –Folman (2008)

• Persepolis – Satrapi / Paronnaud (2007)

• The Lion King – Allers / Minkoff (1994)

• Grave of the Fireflies -  Takahata (1998)

• Up – Docter / Peterson (2009)

• Spirted Away – Miyazaki (2001)

• Akira - Otomo (1988)

• Spiderverse Movies

• Kpop Demon Hunter (2025)

China

• The Goddess –Yonggang (1934)

• Mulan Joins the Army – Wancang (1939)

• Spring in a Small Town – Mu (1941)

• Hibiscus Town – Jin (1986)

• Raise the Red Lantern - Yimou (1991)

• Hardboiled - Woo (1992)

• The Story of Qiu Ju - Yimou (1992)

• Farewell My Concubine - Kaige (1993)

• Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - Lee (2000)

• In The Mood For Love - Wai (2000)

• Hero - Yimou (2002)

• Infernal Affairs - Lau/Mak (2002)

• Infernal Affairs - Lau/Mak (2003)

• House of Flying Daggers – Yimou (2004)

• Still Life – Zhangke (2006)

• Let the Bullets Fly – Wen (2010)

See also – Hong Kong New Wave

Japan

• Tokyo Story – Ozu (1953)

• Ugetsu – Mizoguchi (1953)

• Sansho the Bailiff – Mizoguchi (1954)

• Harakiri - Kobayashi (1962)

• Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - Miyazaki (1984)

• Grave of the Fire Flies - Takahata (1988)

• Kiki's Delivery Service - Miyazaki (1989)

• Violent Cop - Kitano (1989)

• Battle Royale – Takami (1999)

• Spirited Away - Miyazaki (2001)

• Twilight Samurai  - Yamada (2002)

• Zatoichi - Kitano (2003)

• Caterpillar – Wakamatsu (2010)

• Outrage – Kitano (2010)

See also: Akira Kurosawa

Korea

• The Housemaid – Ki Young (1960)

• Mandala – Kwon-taek (1981)

• My Sassy Girl - Jae-Yong (2001)

• The Warrior - Kim (2001)

• Fighter in The Wind - Yang (2004)

• Taegukgi – Je-gyu (2004)

• Crying Fist - Ryoo (2005)

• Chaser - Hong-Jin (2008)

• The Good the Bad and the Weird - Jee-Woon (2008)

• Shiri – Je-gyu (1999)

• Old Boy – Chan-wook (2003)

• Parasite - Joon-Ho (2019)

India

• Junglee – Mukherjee (1961)

• Neecha Nagar – Anand (1946)

• Jalsaghar - Ray (1958)

• Vasthuhara  - Aravindan (1991)

• Bandit Queen – Kapur (1994)

• Hyderabad Blues – Kukunoor (1998)

• Iqbal – Kukunoor (2005­)

See also: Satyajit Ray

See also: Deepa Mehta

Germany

• The Blue Angel – Sternberg (1930)

• The Tin Drum – Schlöndorff (1979)

• Wings of Desire – Wender (1987)

• Run Lola Run – Tykwer (1998)

• Das Experiment - Hirschbiegel (2001)

• Good Bye Lenin! – Becker (2003)

• Downfall - Hirschbiegel (2004)

• The Edukators - Weingartner (2004)

• The Lives of Others – von Donnersmarck (2006)

• The Baader Meinhof Complex - Edel (2008)

• The Wave - Gansel (2008)

See also: German Expressionism

See also: Werner Herzog

See also: Leni Riefenstahl

France

• La Grande Illusion – Renoir (1937)

• La Regle du Jeu - Renoir (1939)

• La Cage Aux Folles – Molinaro (1978)

• Nikita – Besson (1990)

• La Haine – Kassovitz (1995)

• Amelie – Jeunet (2001)

• Hidden – Haneke (2005)

• The Class – Cantet (2008)

South America

• Maria Full of Grace - Marston (2004)

• City of God - Meirelles (2002)

• The Motorcycle Diaries - Salles (2004)

• Central Station - Salles (1998)

• Bus 174 - Padilha (2002)

• Wild Tales - Szifron (2014)

• Amores Perros - Inarritu (2000)

• Y Tu Mama Tambien - Cuaron (2001)

• Pans Labyrinth - Del Toro (2006)

• Like Water For Chocolate - Arau (1992)

• Biutiful - Inarritu (2010)

• Rudo Y Curso - Cuaron (2008)

Britain

• The 39 Steps – Hitchcock (1935)

• Brief Encounter – Lean (1945)

• The Red Shoes – Powell / Pressburger (1948)

• A Hard Day’s Night – Lester (1964)

• Kind Hearts and Coronets – Hamer (1949)

• Look Back in Anger – Richardson (1959)

• Don’t Look Now – Roeg (1973)

• Life of Brian – Jones (1979)

• Naked – Leigh (1993)

• Secrets and Lies – Leigh (1996)

• Trainspotting – Boyle (1996)

• Local Hero  - Forsyth (1983)

• Withnail and I - Robinson (1987)

Senegal

• Black Girl -  Sembène (1966)

• Moolade – Sembène (2004)

Other

The Raid (Indonesia) Evans (2011)

The Raid 2 (indonesia) Evans (2014)

Whale Rider (New Zealand) Caro (2002)

Akira Kurosawa

• Rashomon (1950)

• Ikiru (1952)

• The Seven Samurai (1954)

• Throne of Blood (1957)

• The Hidden Fortress (1958)

• Yojimbo (1961)

• Ran (1985)

• Kagemusha (1980)

• Red Beard (1965)

• Sanjuro (1962)

Alfred Hitchcock

• Rope (1948)

• Rear Window (1954)

• Vertigo (1958)

• Psycho (1960)

• The Birds (1963)

• Marnie (1964)

Orson Wells

• The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

• Touch of Evil (1958)

• Citizen Kane (1941)

Deepa Mehta

• Fire (1996)

• Earth (1998)

• Water (2005)

Werner Herzog

• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

• Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

• Fitzcarraldo (1982)

• My Best Fiend (1999)

• Grizzly Man (2005)

Stanley Kubrick

• Dr Strangelove (1964)

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

• A Clockwork Orange (1971)

• Barry Lyndon (1975)

• The Shining (1980)

Satyajit Ray

• Pather Panchali (1955)

• Aparajito (1956)

• Apur Sansar (1959)

• Devi (1960)

Jordan Peele

• Get Out (2017)

• Us (2019)

• Nope (2022)

Jane Campion

• The Piano (1993)

• Portrait of a Lady (1996)

• Bright Star (2009)

Krzysztof Kieslowski

• Three Colours: Blue (1993)

• Three Colours: White (1994)

• Three Colours: Red (1994)

Coen Brothers

• Blood Simple (1984)

• Raising Arizona (1987)

• Fargo (1996)

• The Big Lebowski (1998)

• O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

• No Country for Old Men (2007)

• Burn After Reading (2008)

• True Grit (2010)

• Inside Llewyn Davies (2013)

• Hail Caesar (2016)

Tim Burton

• Edward Scissorhands (1990)

• The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

• Mars Attacks! (1996)

• Big Fish (2001)

• Batman (1989)

• Batman Returns (1992)

• Sleepy Hollow (1999)

• Corpse Bride (2005)

• Sweeny Todd (2007)

• Alice in Wonderland (2010)

• Big Eyes (2014)

David Lynch

• Eraserhead (1977)

• Dune (1984)

• Blue Velvet (1986)

• Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me (1992)- Twin Peaks Show

• Mulholland Drive (2001)

• Inland Empire (2006)

Martin Scorcese

• Taxi Driver (1976)

• New York New York (1977)

• Mean Streets (1973)

• Raging Bull (1980)

• Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

• Goodfellas (1990)

• Cape Fear (1991)

• Casino (1995)

• Raging Bull (1980)

• Cape Fear (1991)

• Gangs of NewYork (2002)

• The Departed (2006)

• Hugo (2011)

• Shutter Island (2010)

• Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Zack Snyder

• 300 (2007)

• Sucker Punch (2011)

• Dawn of the Dead (2004)

• Watchmen (2009)

• Legend of The Guardians (2010)

• Man of Steel (2013)

• Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice

Quentin Tarantino

• Pulp Fiction (1994)

• Reservoir Dogs (1992)

• Django (2012)

• Jackie Brown (1997)

• Kill Bill (2003)

• Death Proof (2007)

• Inglorius Basterds (2009)

• Hateful Eight (2015)

Wong Kar Wai

• Days of Being Wild (1990)

• Chungking Express (1994)

• Ashes of Time (1994)

• Fallen Angels (1995)

• Happy Together (1997)

• In the Mood for Love (2000)

• 2046 (2004)

• Mt Blueberry Nights (2007)

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Christopher Nolan

• ​Doodlebug (1997)

• Memento (2000)

• Insomnia (2002)

• Batman Begins (2005)

• The Prestige (2006)

• The Dark Knight (2008)

• Inception (2010)

• The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

• Interstellar (2014)

• Dunkirk (2017)

• Tenet (2020)

• Oppenheimer(2023)

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Michael Bay

• Bad Boys (1995)

• The Rock (1996)

• Armageddon (1998)

• Pearl Harbour (2001)

• Bad Boys 2 (2003)

• The Island (2005)

• Transformers (2007)

• Pain and Gain (2013)

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Steven Speiberg

• Duel (1971)

• Jaws (1975)

• Close Encounters of the Third Counter (1977)

• 1941 (1979)

• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

• E.T (1982)

• The Colour Purple (1985)

• Empire of the Sun (1987)

• Hook (1991)

• Jurassic Park (!993)

• Schindler's List (1993)

• Amistad (1997)

• Saving Private Ryan (1998)

• A.I (2001)

• Minority Report (2002)

• War of the Worlds (2005)

• Munich (2005)

• War Horse (2011)

• Lincoln (2012)

• The BFG (2016)

Greta Gerwig

• Lady Bird (2017)

• Little Women (2019)

• Barbie (2023)

Danny Boyle

• Shallow Grave (1994)

• Trainspotting (1996)

• The Beach (2000)

• 28 Days Later (2002)

• Sunshine (2007)

• Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

• 127 Hours (2010)

• Stever Jobs (2015)

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Terence Malick

• Badlands (1973)

• Days of Heaven (1978)

• The Thin Red Line (1998)

• The New World (2005)

• The Tree of Life (2011)

• Knight of Cups (2015)

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Gus Van Sant

• Drug Store Cowboy (1989)

• My Own Private Idaho (1991)

• Good Will Hunting (1997)

• Gerry (2002)

• Elephant (2003)

• Paris Je T'aime (2006)

• Paranoid Park (2007)

• Milk (2008)

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Wes Anderson

• Rushmore (1998)

• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

• The Darjeelng Limited (2007)

• Fantastic Mr Fox (2009)

• Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

• The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

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David O'Russell

• Spanking the Monkey (1994)

• Three Kings (1999)

• I Heart Huckabees (2004)

• The Fighter (2010)

• Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

• American Hustle (2013)

• Joy (2015)

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Paul Thomas Anderson

• Boogie Nights (1997)

• Magnolia (1999)

• Punch Drunk Love (2002)

• There Will Be Blood (2007)

• The Master (2012)

• Inherent Vice (2014)

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Honorable Mentions and Directors to Look out For:

• Lynne Ramsey

• Nicolas Winding Refn

• Joss Whedon

• Lars Von Trier

• Jason Reitman

• Steve McQueen

• Leos Carax

• Edgar Wright

• Andrea Arnold

• Steven Soderberg

• Lena Dunham

• Jacques Audiard

• JJ Abrams

• David Fincher

• Werner Herzog

• Ben Wheatley

• Mia Hansen Love

• Gaspar Noe

• Gareth Edwards

• Andrei Tarkovsky

• Luis Bunuel

• Federico Fellini

• Ingmar Bergman

• Yasujiro Ozu

• Satyajit Ray

• Rainer Werner Fassbinder

• Ki-duk Kim

• Alfred Hitchcock

• David Lynch

• Wim Wenders

• Terry Gilliam 

• Bernado Bertolucci

• Hayao Miyazaki

• Orson Welles

• Jean Luc Goddard

• Richard Linklater

• Spike Jonze

• Charles Chaplin​

• Fritz Lang

• Roman Polanski

• Bela Tarr

• Sergio Leone

• Pedro Almodovar

• Sofia Coppola

• Katheryn Bigelow

• Jane Campion

• Agnes Varda

• Taika Waititi

• 1940 - His Girl Friday, The Grapes of Wrath, The Philadelphia Story, The Great Dictator, Pinocchio, Fantasia

• 1941 - Citizen Kane, The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The Maltese Falcon, How Green Was My Valley, Sergeant York, Dumbo

• 1942 - Casablanca, The Magnificent Ambersons, To Be or Not to Be, The Palm Beach Story, Cat People, Bambi

• 1943 - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Day of Wrath, Meshes of the Afternoon, Shadow of a Doubt, I Walked with a Zombie

• 1944 - Double Indemnity, Ivan the Terrible, Part One, Meet Me in St. Louis, To Have And To Have Not, Laura, A Canterbury Tale

• 1945 - Mom and Dad, Children of Paradise, Rome, Open City, Brief Encounter, I Know Where I'm Going!, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne

• 1946 - It's a Wonderful Life, Notorious, My Darling Clementine, Paisà, A Matter of Life and Death, The Best Years of Our Lives; First Cannes Film Festival

• 1947 - Miracle on 34th Street, Gentleman's Agreement, Out of the Past, Monsieur Verdoux, Germany, Year Zero

• 1948 - The Bicycle Thief, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Red Shoes, Red River; 1st British Academy Film Awards

• 1949 - The Third Man, All the King's Men, A Letter to Three Wives, Late Spring, Kind Hearts and Coronets

• 1950 - Rashomon, Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, Los Olvidados, Annie Get Your Gun, In a Lonely Place, Harvey, Cinderella

• 1951 - A Streetcar Named Desire, Alice in Wonderland, The River, Miracle in Milan, Strangers on a Train, An American in Paris, Quo Vadis

• 1952 - Singin' in the Rain, The Greatest Show on Earth, High Noon, This Is Cinerama, Umberto D., The Quiet Man, The Wages of Fear

• 1953 - Peter Pan, From Here to Eternity, Tokyo Story, Ugetsu, The Earrings of Madame de..., Voyage in Italy, The Band Wagon; first use of CinemaScope, Roman Holiday

• 1954 - The Seven Samurai, Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, La Strada, White Christmas, Sansho the Bailiff, On the Waterfront

• 1955 - Rebel Without a Cause, To Catch a Thief, The Night of the Hunter, Ordet, Pather Panchali, Floating Clouds, Lady and the Tramp

• 1956 - The Ten Commandments, Carousel, The King and I, Giant, High Society, The Searchers, Written on the Wind, Invasion of the Body Snatchers

• 1957 - 12 Angry Men, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Sweet Smell of Success, Paths of Glory, Throne of Blood

• 1958 - Vertigo, Gigi, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, South Pacific, Touch of Evil, Ashes and Diamonds, Jalsaghar, Mon Oncle

• 1959 - Some Like It Hot, Ben-Hur, The 400 Blows, North by Northwest, Anatomy of a Murder, Sleeping Beauty, Rio Bravo, Pickpocket

• 1960 - Psycho, Breathless, Exodus, Spartacus, The Apartment, The Alamo, La Dolce Vita, L'Avventura

• 1961 - West Side Story, Judgment at Nuremberg, Divorce, Italian Style, Yojimbo, Breakfast at Tiffany's, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Havoc in Heaven, The Hustler

• 1962 - Lawrence of Arabia, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate, Ivan's Childhood, Lolita

• 1963 - The Birds, Hud, Not on Your Life, The Haunting, The Great Escape, Lilies of the Field, 8½, Cleopatra

• 1964 - Woman in the Dunes, A Hard Day's Night, A Fistful of Dollars, My Fair Lady, Dr. Strangelove, Mary Poppins

• 1965 - The Sound of Music, Doctor Zhivago, For a Few Dollars More, Thunderball, The Great Race

• 1966 - Persona, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Sand Pebbles, A Man for All Seasons, The Battle of Algiers

• 1967 - Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Cool Hand Luke, In the Heat of the Night, Dont Look Back, The Jungle Book

• 1968 - 2001: A Space Odyssey, Once Upon a Time in the West, Rosemary's Baby, Night of the Living Dead, Planet of the Apes

• 1969 - Midnight Cowboy, True Grit, Easy Rider, Z, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Wild Bunch

• 1970 - Performance, Love Story, The Aristocats, Five Easy Pieces, Patton, M*A*S*H, The Conformist; first IMAX films

• 1971 - The French Connection, A Clockwork Orange, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Dirty Harry, The Last Picture Show, Fiddler on the Roof

• 1972 - The Godfather, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Solaris, Cries and Whispers, Last Tango in Paris

• 1973 - The Exorcist, Don't Look Now, Badlands, Papillon, Amarcord, The Sting, Enter the Dragon, Mean Streets

• 1974 - A Woman Under the Influence, The Godfather Part II, Chinatown, The Conversation, Blazing Saddles, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

• 1975 - Jaws, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Nashville, The Rocky Horror Picture Show; videocassette recorders appear on mass market

• 1976 - Taxi Driver, Rocky, Network, Carrie, All the President's Men, In the Realm of the Senses, 1900, Logan's Run

• 1977 - Annie Hall, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, A Bridge Too Far, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Saturday Night Fever, Providence

• 1978 - Halloween, Dawn of the Dead, Grease, The Tree of Wooden Clogs, Days of Heaven, The Deer Hunter, Superman

• 1979 - Apocalypse Now, Mad Max, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Alien, Kramer vs. Kramer, Manhattan, Stalker, Star Trek: The Motion Picture

• 1980 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Raging Bull, The Shining, Ordinary People, Kagemusha, Airplane, Caddyshack

• 1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark, On Golden Pond, Chariots of Fire, Pennies from Heaven, Das Boot, Reds, Blow Out

• 1982 - Blade Runner, Sophie's Choice, Poltergeist, Fitzcarraldo, Fanny and Alexander, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Tootsie, Gandhi

• 1983 - Sans Soleil, L'Argent, Terms of Endearment, The King of Comedy, The Right Stuff, Risky Business, Nostalghia, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

• 1984 - This is Spinal Tap, Amadeus, The Karate Kid, The Terminator, Once Upon a Time in America, Ghostbusters, Paris, Texas

• 1985 - Back to the Future, Come and See, Ran, Brazil, Shoah, Out of Africa, The Breakfast Club, The Color Purple

• 1986 - Blue Velvet, Aliens, The Sacrifice, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Stand by Me, Hannah and Her Sisters, Platoon, Top Gun

• 1987 - Fatal Attraction, Wings of Desire, The Dead, Dirty Dancing, The Princess Bride, Evil Dead II, Full Metal Jacket, The Last Emperor

• 1988 - Rain Man, The Last Temptation of Christ, My Neighbour Totoro, Midnight Run, Dead Ringers, Cinema Paradiso, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Die Hard

• 1989 - Do the Right Thing, Driving Miss Daisy, The Little Mermaid, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Abyss, Close-Up, Batman; first publication of Empire

• 1990 - Home Alone, Goodfellas, Ghost, An Angel at My Table, Edward Scissorhands, Miller's Crossing, Dances with Wolves, Total Recall

• 1991 - The Silence of the Lambs, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, JFK, A Brighter Summer Day, Thelma & Louise, Beauty and the Beast

• 1992 - Unforgiven, Aladdin, Reservoir Dogs, The Player, Basic Instinct, The Crying Game, A Few Good Men, Indochine, Like Water for Chocolate

• 1993 - Schindler's List, The Piano, In the Name of the Father, Groundhog Day, Jurassic Park, Philadelphia, Three Colors: Blue

• 1994 - Forrest Gump, Sátántangó, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, The Lion King, Legends of the Fall, Three Colors: Red, Clerks, Leon

• 1995 - Braveheart, Se7en, Toy Story, Heat, A Moment of Innocence, 12 Monkeys, The Usual Suspects, Apollo 13; first DVDs released

• 1996 - Fargo, Breaking the Waves, Trainspotting, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Independence Day, Jerry Maguire, The English Patient, Flirting with Disaster

• 1997 - Titanic, Boogie Nights, Taste of Cherry, Hana-bi, L.A. Confidential, Good Will Hunting, Life is Beautiful, Jackie Brown

• 1998 - Saving Private Ryan, American History X, The Thin Red Line, Shakespeare in Love, The Big Lebowski, Rush Hour, The Truman Show, Mulan, The City of lost Children,

• 1999 - American Beauty, The Matrix, The Sixth Sense, Fight Club, Magnolia, The Blair Witch Project, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Eyes Wide Shut, Tell No One,

• 2000 - In the Mood for Love, Counching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Platform, Memento, Erin Brockovich, Cast Away, Gladiator, Requiem for a Dream

• 2001 - Mulholland Drive, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, A Beautiful Mind, Spirited Away, Shrek, Donnie Darko, Harry Potter film series (2001-11) Batman Begins, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amelie,

• 2002 - City of God, Talk to Her, Minority Report, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Spider-Man, The Pianist, Chicago, Russian Ark, Infernal Affairs, Rabbit-Proof Fence,

• 2003 - Oldboy, Kill Bill: Volume 1, Elephant, Monster, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Piraites of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Finding Nemo, Spring Summer Winter Fall...and Spring, I'm Not Scared, City of God

• 2004 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Passion of the Christ, Million Dollar Baby, The Incredibles, Sideways, Tropical Malady, Hotel Rwanda, Downfall, The Motorcycle Diaries, Fighter in the Wind

• 2005 - Caché, The New World, Brokeback Mountain, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, A History of Violence, Pride & Prejudice, Walk the Line, Batman Begins

• 2006 - Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, The Departed, Dreamgirls, The Lives of Others, The Prestige, The Queen, Casino Royale, The Host

• 2007 - 300, I Am Legend, Ratatouille, There Will Be Blood, Into the Wild, No Country for Old Men, Atonement, Juno, Tnhe Diving Bell and the Butterfly,

• 2008 - The Dark Knight, Iron Man, WALL-E, Gran Torino, Slumdog Millionaire, The Wrestler, Milk, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Gomorrah, Let The Right One In,

• 2009 - Inglourious Basterds, Up, The Secret in Their Eyes, Mary and Max, District 9, Avatar, The Princess and the Frog, Star Trek, Where the Wild Things Are

• 2010 - Black Swan, Inception, The King's Speech, Tangled, The Social Network, Winter's Bone, How to Train Your Dragon, 127 Hours, Troll Hunter,

• 2011 - The Artist, Drive, The Intouchables, Hugo, A Separation, The Tree of Life, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Midnight in Paris, 13 Assassins, The Kid with a Bike,

• 2012 - Prometheus, The Avengers, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Argo, Lincoln, Django Unchained, Life of Pi, Les Misérables, The Dark Knight Rises, A Highjacking, This is Not a Film, The Act of Killing, Holy Motors

• 2013 - The Wolf of Wall Street, 12 Years a Slave, Gravity, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Rush, Frozen, American Hustle, Blue is the Warmest Colour,

• 2014 - Interstellar, Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Birdman, Guardians of the Galaxy, Whiplash, Wild Tales, The Imitation Game, White God,

• 2015 - Bridge of Spies, The Revenant, The Hateful Eight, Inside Out, The Martian, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Crimson Peak, Mad Max: Fury Road, Carol, Ex-Machina, Sicario, Anomalisa, The Big Short, Slow West, Son of Saul, Amy, Me Earl and The Dying Girl, The Lobster, Tangerine, The Danish Girl, Room, The Assassin, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Cartel Land, Tmbuktu, Wild Tales, The Tribe, Blind, Taxi, Breathe, Girlhood, Eden, Mustang, When Marnie Was There, Ida, 

• 2016 - Embrace The Serpent, A War, 100 Yen Love, April and the Extraordinary World, Brooklyn, Dheepan, Eye in the Sky, I am a Hero, The Jungle Book, Mustang, Room, Sing Street, Spotlight, Steve Jobs, Trivisa, The BFG, A Bigger Splash, Chronic, The Club, Deadpool, Everybody Wants Some, Fire at Sea, Hail Caesar, The Hateful Eight, High-Rise, Love and Friendship, Maggies Plan, The Neon Demon, The Nice Guys, Our Little Sister, Tale of Tales, Victoria, Zootopia, The Wave, 10 Cloverfield Lane

• 2017 - Justice League, Spiderman-Homecoming, Baby Driver, Dunkirk, Blade Runner 2049, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2, The Fate of the Furious, Logan, Kingsman-The Golden Circle, The Greatest Showman, Jumanji, Logan, Thor Ragnarok, Lady Bird, The Shape of Water, John Wick Chapter 2, Wonder Woman, Star Wars 7, La La Land

• 2018 - Black Panther, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Mission Impossible- Fallout, BlacKkKlansman, A Star is Born, A Quiet Place, Eighth Grade, Avengers: Infinity War

• 2019 - Avengers: Endgame, Us, Toy Story 4, Knives Out, BookSmart, Spiderman: Far From Home, Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood, Shazam!, Little Women, Parasite, The Irishman, Marriage Story

• 2020 - Tenet, Emma, Soul, The Invisible Man, Minari, Nomadland, Hamilton, Judas and the Black Messiah, Sound of Metal, Palm Springs

• 2021 - Spider-Man: No way home, In the Heights, Pig, Coda, Raya and the Last Dragon, West Side Story, A quiet place part II, The Mitchells vs the Machines, The Suicide Squad, Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings, Luca, Dune, Demon Slayer-Kimetsu No Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train, Encanto, No Time to Die, Candyman, Zola

• 2022 - Top Gun: Maverick, Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Banshee of Inisherin, Pinocchio, Turning Red, The Batman, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, The Unbearable weight of Massive Talent\

• 2023 - Spider-Man: Across the spider-verse, Oppenheimer, John Wick: Chapter 4, M3gan, They cloned Tyrone, Joy Ride, Dungeons & Dragon: Honor Among Thieves, Barbie, Creed III, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3, Suzume, Killers of the Flower Moon, The Boy and the Heron, Poor Things, Godzilla Minus One, Taylor Swift / The Eras Tour, 

• 2024 - Dune: Part Two, Deadpool & Wolverine, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Anora, Wicked, The Brutalist, Conclave, Nickel Boys, A Real Pain, Babygirl, Queer, Sing Sing, Nosferatu, Ghostlight, The Wild Robot, The Substance, A Complete Unknown, Gladiator II, Juror #2, Flow, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, All We Imagine as Light, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, The Girl with the Needle, I'm Still Here, Santosh, Universal Language, Sugarcane, Black Box Diaries, Dahomey, Look into My Eyes, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, Will & Harper, Bird, A Different Man, Dìdi, Good One, Hard Truths, His Three Daughters, Love Lies Bleeding, My Old Ass, Thelma.

• 2025 - Sinners, Black Bag, One Battle After Another, 28 Years Later, Weapons, Mickey 17, Superman, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, F1, A Minecraft Movie, How to Train Your Dragon, Companion, Eddington, Frankenstein, KPop Demon Hunters

• 2026 -