- The Avenging Conscience or: 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' ( D.W. Griffith) (1914)
- The Birth of a Nation (1915) ( D.W. Griffith)
- Intolerance (1916) ( D.W. Griffith)
- Broken Blossoms (1919) ( D.W. Griffith) ƒ
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
- Orphans of the Storm (1921) ( D.W. Griffith) ƒ
- Nosferatu (1922) ( F. W. Murnau)
- Der letzte Mann (1924) ( F. W. Murnau)
- The Battleship Potemkin (1925) ( Sergei Eisenstein)
- La Bohème (1926) ( King Vidor)
- Faust (1926) ( F.W. Murnau)
- October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1927) ( Sergei Eisenstein) ƒ
- Metropolis (1927) ( Fritz Lang)
- The Beloved Rogue (1927)
- La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)
- Monte-Cristo (1929)
- Earth (1930) ( Alexander Dovzhenko) ƒ
- M (1931) ( Fritz Lang)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- Alexander Nevsky ( Sergei Eisenstein) (1938)
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Citizen Kane (1941) ( Orson Welles)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Ivan the Terrible (1944–58) ( Sergei Eisenstein)
- Henry V (1944) ( Laurence Olivier)
- La Belle et la Bête (1946) ( Jean Cocteau)
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Monsieur Vincent (1947)
- Ladri di biciclette (1948)
- Hamlet (1948) ( Laurence Olivier)
- The Fountainhead (1949)
- Witness for the Prosecution (1950)
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
- Quo Vadis (1951)
- A Streetcar Named Desire ( Elia Kazan) (1951)
- Othello (1952) ( Orson Welles)
- The Seventh Seal (1952) ( Ingmar Bergman)
- Seven Samurai (1954) ( Akira Kurosawa)
- On the Waterfront (1954) ( Elia Kazan)
- Richard III ( Laurence Olivier) (1955)
- The Ten Commandments (1956)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1956) ( David Lean)
- Wild Strawberries (1957) ( Ingmar Bergman)
- Vertigo (1958) ( Alfred Hitchcock)
- Les quatre cents coups (1958) ( François Truffault)
- Spartacus (1960) ( Stanley Kubrick)
- Psycho (1960) ( Alfred Hitchcock)
- Eyes Without a Face (1960) ƒ
- Yojimbo (1961) ( Akira Kurosawa)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) ( Blake Edwards)
- Lolita (1962) ( Stanley Kubrick)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962) ( David Lean)
- Jules et Jim (1962)
- The Miracle Worker (1962)
- 300 Spartans (1962)
- Lord of the Flies (1963) ( Peter Brook)
- The Birds (1963) ( Alfred Hitchcock)
- 8½ (1963) ( Federico Fellini)
- Becket (1964)
- The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) ( Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965) ( David Lean)
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- La battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers) (1966)
- A Man for All Seasons (1966)
- Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) (1966)
- Viy (1967)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) ( Stanley Kubrick)
- War and Peace (1968) ( Sergei Bondarchuk)
- Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
- Gāv (1969)
- El Topo (1970) ( Alejandro Jodorowsky)
- Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
- THX 1138 (1971) ( George Lucas) ƒ
- Macbeth (1971) ( Roman Polanski)
- The Big Boss (1971)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971) ( Stanley Kubrick)
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) ( Werner Herzog) ƒ
- The Godfather (1972) ( Francis Ford Coppola)
- Ludwig (1972) ( Luchino Visconti)
- Soylent Green (1973) ( Richard Fleischer)
- Barry Lyndon (1975) ( Stanley Kubrick)
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) ( Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- Taxi Driver (1976) ( Martin Scorcese)
- Eraserhead (1977) ( David Lynch)
- Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977) ( Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)
- Apocalypse Now (1979) ( Francis Ford Coppola) ƒ
- Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) ( Werner Herzog)
- Atlantic City (1980) ( Louis Malle)
- Mephisto (1981) ( István Szabó)
- Fanny och Alexander (1982) ( Ingmar Bergman)
- Blade Runner (1982) ( Ridley Scott)
- Koyaanisqatsi (1983) ( Godfrey Reggio)
- Stop Making Sense (1984) ( Jonathan Demme)
- Amadeus (1984)
- Au Revoir, les Enfants (1987) ( Louis Malle)
- Powaqqatsi (1988) ( Godfrey Reggio)
- They Live (1988) ( John Carpenter)
- Tous les matins du monde (1991)
- Begotten (1991)
- Baraka (1992)
- Forrest Gump (1994) ( Robert Zemeckis)
- Immortal Beloved (1994)
- Ed Wood (1994) ( Tim Burton)
- Safe (1995) ƒ
- Hackers (1995)
- The English Patient (1996)
- Fargo (1996) ( Coen brothers)
- Trainspotting (1996) ( Danny Boyle)
- La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful) (1997)
- Donnie Brasco (1997)
- Lola rennt (Run Lola Run) (1998)
- La veuve de Saint-Pierre (2000) ( Patrice Leconte)
- Le Roi Danse (2000)
- Quills (2000)
- Memento (2000) ( Christopher Nolan)
- Amélie (2001)
- Y tu mamá también (2001) ( Alfonso Cuarón)
- Blow (2001)
- Baran (2001)
- Russian Ark (2002) ( Alexander Sokurov)
- Elephant (2003) ( Gus Van Sant)
- Der Untergang (2004) ( Oliver Hirschbiegel)
- Ashes and Snow (2005) ( Gregory Colbert) ƒ
- Die Große Stille (Into Great Silence) (2005)
- Children of Men (2006) ( Alfonso Cuarón)
- Control (2007)
- La Vie en rose (2007)
- Mongol (2007)
- The Road (2009)
- The White Ribbon (2009)
- Nanook of the North (1922) ( Robert J. Flaherty)
- Häxan (1922)
- Triumph des Willens (1935) ( Leni Riefenstahl)
- Olympia (1938) ( Leni Riefenstahl)
- Albert Schweitzer (1957)
- Satanis: The Devil's Mass (1970)
- Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
- The Money Masters (1995)
- The Corporation (2003)
- Das Netz (2003)
- The Ister (2004)
- The Power of Nightmares (2004)
- An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
- The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)
- Collapse (2009)
- Le Repas de bébé (1895) ( Frères Lumière) 1
- Le Voyage dans la lune (1902) ( Georges Méliès) 1
- The Deficit Trials (1986) ( Ridley Scott) 1
- I, Claudius (BBC) (1976)
- The Black Adder (BBC) (1983)
- Blackadder II (BBC) (1986)
- Horizon (BBC) (1964 – )
- Q.E.D. (BBC) (1982–99)
- Planet Earth (BBC) (2006)