1910s
Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
1920s
Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
General, The (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Kearton, 1928)
Man with the Movie Camera, The (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Pandora’s Box (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929)
Un Chien andalou (Luis Bunuel, 1929)
1930s
American Tragedy, An (Josef Von Sternberg, 1931)
City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)
Awful Truth, The (Leo McCarey, 1937)
1940s
Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen, 1940)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1943)
Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946)
Big Sleep, The (Howard Hawks, 1946)
It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
Bicycle Thief, The (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
Third Man, The (Carol Reed, 1949)
1950s
Outrage (Ida Lupino, 1950)
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
Forbidden Games (Rene Clement, 1952)
Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952)
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952)
East of Eden (Elia Kazan, 1955)
Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955)
Night of the Hunter, The (Charles Laughton, 1955)
Rebel without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)
Searchers, The (John Ford, 1956)
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
400 Blows, The (Francois Truffaut, 1959)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
1960s
Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
Victim (Basil Dearden, 1961)
Fire Within, The (Louis Malle, 1963)
Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, 1963)
Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio, 1965)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
Blow-Up (Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The (Sergio Leone, 1966)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (John Huston, 1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)
1970s
Mon Oncle Antonie (Claude Jutra, 1971)
Panic in Needle Park, The (Jerry Schatzberg, 1971)
W.R. – Mysteries of the Organism (Dustin Makavejey, 1971)
Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972)
Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)
Solyaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)
Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
Fantastic Planet (Rene Laloux, 1973)
Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1973)
Spirit of the Beehive, The (Victor Erice, 1973)
F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1974)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)
Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)
3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)
Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
1980s
White Dog (Samuel Fuller, 1982)
A nos amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983)
Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)
This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)
Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet, 1988)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
Say Anything… (Cameron Crowe, 1989)
1990s
Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton, 1990)
Clean, Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan, 1995)
Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis, 1995)
Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)
Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen, 1996)
Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith, 1997)
Sweet Hereafter, The (Atom Egoyan, 1997)
Buffalo ’66 (Vincent Gallo, 1998)
Lawn Dogs (John Duigan, 1998)
Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh, 1998)
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
Talented Mr. Ripley, The (Anthony Minghella, 1999)
2000s
Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
Virgin Suicides, The (Sofia Coppola, 2000)
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
Royal Tenenbaums, The (Wes Anderson, 2001)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, 2001)
Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar, 2002)
Gerry (Gus Van Sant, 2003)
Return, The (Andrei Zvyagintsev, 2003)
Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004)
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005)
Little Children (Todd Field, 2006)
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The (Andrew Dominik, 2007)
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, 2008)
NOTICE: I do not feature more than one film from the same director. Which is why there is an absence of many of Hitchcock’s other masterpieces. “Sling Blade” is a very good movie, but not exceptional to me. 
Leon: The Professional (International Version) – Came super duper close to making it!
Heat – love it – one of its year best – but not all time
Cool Hand Luke – Came close.
There Will Be Blood – already had a PTA movie on there, but its seriously a terrific, great, super fantastic film. 
Thanks for the recommends. Cuz I do love those films.