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.
I like that you included Salo or the 120 days of Sodom. You should seriously watch Leon: The Professional (International Version), Heat, Cool Hand Luke and There Will Be Blood if you haven’t yet. These are from 1994, 1995, 1967 and 2007 by the way. THANK GOD DARK KNIGHT WASNT IN IT OR SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION OR FIGHT CLUB. You have good taste, and my recommendation will improve it.
kiriss_dogg | Feb 14, 2009
i think thats alot of movies : )
Emily Smith | Feb 14, 2009
My opinion your 2000’s list is pretty lame, there where much better movies than that. But that is your choice. Mine would be totally different. Again this is my opinion which is what you asked for.
thexfilez | Feb 14, 2009
Well i only reconize movies from the 80’s,90s,and 200’s.
But other than that i like your sense in movies.
Very Good !
miszxgabby | Feb 14, 2009
I like your 40s and 50s choices. And you have some good ones in the 90s and 2000s.
Eve | Feb 14, 2009
sh!t thats alot.
lillygirl | Feb 14, 2009
I agree with your whole list except for one selection. "The Talented Mr. Ripley". This movie was a total waste of time and money, when my wife and I went to see it in the theatre we and at least 30% of the other audience walked out because this movie was so dull and boring. We demanded our money back and got it because the manager of the theatre agreed with us and said he was going to pull it the next day because of poor ticket sales and complaints of other patrons wanting their money back.
420 NDN | Feb 14, 2009
Some good titles up there, a few i haven’t heard of. Nosferatu was certainly an inspirational classic for the time it was made. Mulholland Drive is another great movie with some fine camera work. I actually work as a film camera operator myself, so I appreciate stuff like that. Was certainly inspirational for me.
Only dodgy one is ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’. C’mon now, it’s an awful movie, not even a very decent gore-fest..Lol. Over-rated in my opinion but if you like badly acted low budget cult films then whatever floats your boat I guess.
Do yourself a favor and try to see ‘Dersu Uzala’ (1975) directed by Akira Kurosawa. One of my all-time favourites for its stunning cinematography, beautiful scenery and story-telling. It stays with you.
macstu23 | Feb 14, 2009
I would say your list has some of the most memorable movies, not the most critically acclaimed. I think you would like to add Rear Window for the 50’s and Sling Blade for the 90’s, as I think they might fit your taste.
larrybob | Feb 14, 2009
Great list!
but - the thirties without "Gone With The Wind" and The Wizard Of Oz"
There will never be a list long enough to include every great movie.
ptery | Feb 14, 2009