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With this list I've included not just "the classics", I've tried to feature films which broke new ground, are fine examples of a particular genre or style, or are an example of a particular director's work. Of course, I'll have missed some films out, and if you can spot any omissions, please feel free to contact me at screaming_reels@yahoo.co.uk.
1895 - 1927
Nosferatu (1922) Director: F.W. Murnau
The first vampire film, with the story borrowed from Stoker's Dracula. A lot of the conventions first featured here are still in use in horror films today.
The Battleship Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein
Montage's finest moments.
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919) Robert Wiene
More early horror, and the first example of German Expressionism.
Metropolis (1926) Fritz Lang
Early science fiction. The city of the future.
Birth of a Nation (1915) D.W.Griffith
One of the first "blockbusters", from the father of film montage. Few films have advanced the techniques of film more. A two and a half hour history of the American Civil War.
Nanook of the North (1922) Robert Flaherty
One of the first, and finest documentaries. Also an early example of a tampering documentarian. For example, none of the subjects had ever fished with spears, so Flaherty brought in someone to show them how to do so.
Cabiria (1914) Giovanni Pastrone
Big budget, exotic locales, innovative filmmaking in this early Italian historical epic.
The General (1927 Buster Keaton
Slapstick at its best.
Un Chien Andalou (1927) Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali
The surrealists move to film. Groundbreaking short.
The Lodger (1926) Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock's first thriller. Jack the Ripper. Subtitled "A Story of the London Fog".
1927 - 1945
Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles
The film that inspired a thousand directors.
Casablanca (1942) Michael Curtiz
Patriotism and star-studded melodrama. A cult film of the 60's and 70's, and a multi-Oscar winner.
It's A Wonderful Life (1945) Frank Capra
The quintessential Christmas movie, feelgood movie and Capra movie.
It Happened One Night (1934) Frank Capra
More Capra, this time classic Holywood comedy with Clark Gable.
The Thirty Nine Steps (1935) Alfred Hitchcock
The best of several versions of John Buchan's book.
The Rules of the Game (1939) Jean Renoir
Renoir's poetic masterpiece.
Gone With the Wind (1939) Victor Fleming
The epic epitome of Hollywood studio cinema.
Top Hat (1935) Mark Sandrich
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in one of the finest of the thirties boom in musicals.
Scarface (1932) Howard Hawks
Violent fictionalised biography of Al Capone.
Frankenstein (1931) James Whale
The first of Whale's and Universal's classic horror films.
M (1931) Fritz Lang
The police and the criminal underworld hunt a child killer in this masterful crime thriller.
Duck Soup (1933) Leo McCarey
Anarchic comedy from the Marx Brothers.
Triumph of the Will (1935) Leni Riefenstahl
Nazi propaganda in the coverage of a Nuremburg rally.
The Maltese Falcon (1941) John Huston
The first to use the style which became the aesthetics of film noir.
Modern Times (1936) Charles Chaplin
The tramp appears for the final time in this social satire of modernised life.
1945 - 1958
Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
Bicycle Thieves (1949) Vittorio de Sica
The Third Man (1949) Carol Reed
Ikiru (1952) Akira Kurosawa
Rashomon (1951) Akira Kurosawa
La Strada (1954) Federico Fellini
Seven Samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa
The Seventh Seal (1957) Ingmar Bergman
Sunset Boulevard (1950) Billy Wilder
On The Waterfront (1954) Elia Kazan
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Nicholas Ray
Murderers Among Us (1946) Wolfgang Staudte
Open City (1945) Roberto Rossellini
Double Indemnity (1945) Billy Wilder
Touch of Evil (1957) Orson Welles
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) Robert Wise
High Noon (1952) Fred Zinnemann
The Big Sleep (1946) Howard Hawks
The Lost Weekend (1945) Billy Wilder
1958 - 1975
Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
400 Blows (1959) Francois Truffaut
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick
Bullitt (1968) Peter Yates
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) Alain Resnais
A Bout de Souffle (1959) Jean-Luc Godard
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) David Lean
In The Heat Of The Night (1967) Norman Jewison
Easy Rider (1969) Dennis Hopper
Bonnie & Clyde (1967) Arthur Penn
Dr Strangelove (1964) Stanley Kubrick
A Clockwork Orange (1970) Stanley Kubrick
Once Upon A Time In The West (1968) Sergio Leone
MASH (1970) Robert Altman
The Godfather (1972) Francis Coppola
Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski
Some Like It Hot (1959) Billy Wilder
Spartacus (1960) Stanley Kubrick
8 1/2 (1962) Federico Fellini
L'Avventura (1959) Michealangelo Antonioni
Blow Up (1966) Michealangelo Antonioni
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) Karel Reisz
Get Carter (1971) Mike Hodges
Sleep (1963) Andy Warhol
Dr No (1962) Terence King
Enter The Dragon (1973) Robert Clouse
1975 - 2002
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Sidney Lumet
Jaws (1975) Steven Spielberg
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Milos Forman
Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese
Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Coppola
Raging Bull (1980) Martin Scorsese
Cinema Paradiso (1989) Giuseppe Tornatore
sex, lies and videotape (1989) Stevn Soderbergh
Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Tarantino
Memento (2000) Christopher Nolan
Shawshank Redemption (1994) Frank Darabont
Star Wars (1977) George Lucas
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) Steven Spielberg
Chariots Of Fire (1980) Hugh Hudson
Trainspotting (1995) Danny Boyle
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1975) Tobe Hooper
Alien (1979) Ridley Scott
Manhattan (1979) Woody Allen
Do The Right Thing (1988) Spike Lee
Reservoir Dogs (1991) Quentin Tarantino
Toy Story (1995) John Lasseter
Festen (1998) Thomas Vinterberg
Amores Perros (2000) Alejandro González Iñárritu
La Ardilla Roja (1998) Julio Medem
Blue Velvet (1986) David Lynch
Hard Boiled (1992) John Woo
Man Bites Dog (1992) Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde
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A Short History of Film
Pt. 1: Silent Cinema 1895-1927
Pt. 2: Studio System 1927-1945
Pt. 3: Post-War 1945-1959
Pt. 4: New Waves 1959-1975
Pt. 5: Blockbusters 1975-2002
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