| Title | Director | Year |
| The Infernal Cakewalk | George Melies | 1903 |
| Secrets of the Soul | G. W. Pabst | 1912 |
| The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse | Rex Ingram | 1921 |
| The Power and the Glory | William K. Howard | 1933 |
| It Happened One Night | Frank Capra | 1934 |
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Frank Capra | 1936 |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Frank Capra | 1939 |
| Stagecoach | Orsen Welles | 1939 |
| The Roaring Twenties | Raoul Walsh | 1939 |
| How Green Was My Vallery | John Ford | 1941 |
| Citizen Kane | Orsen Welles | 1941 |
| Sullivan’s Travels | Preston Sturges | 1941 |
| Cat People | Jacques Tourneur | 1942 |
| Arsenic and Old Lace | Frank Capra | 1944 |
| Rome, Open City | Roberto Rossellini | 1945 |
| Gilda | Charles Vidor | 1946 |
| Duel in the Sun | King Vidor | 1946 |
| A Matter of Life and Death | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1946 |
| Paisa | Roberto Rossellini | 1946 |
| T-Men | Anthony Mann | 1947 |
| The Lady from Shanghai | Orsen Welles | 1947 |
| Force of Evil | Abraham Polonsky | 1948 |
| Raw Deal | Anthony Mann | 1948 |
| I Walk Alone | Byron Haskin | 1948 |
| Hamlet | Laurence Oliver | 1948 |
| La Terra Trema | Lucchino Visconti | 1948 |
| Macbeth | Orsen Welles | 1948 |
| German Year Zero | Roberto Rossellini | 1948 |
| The Red Shoes | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1948 |
| The Third Man | Carroll Reed | 1949 |
| Caught | Max Ophul | 1949 |
| Gun Crazy | Joseph H. Lewis | 1950 |
| Night and the City | Jules Dassin | 1950 |
| The Flowers of St. Francis | Roberto Rossellini | 1950 |
| Stromboli | Roberto Rossellini | 1950 |
| Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa | 1950 |
| Ace in the Hole | Billy Wilder | 1951 |
| The Magic Box | John and Roy Boulting | 1951 |
| Tales of Hoffman | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1951 |
| An American in Paris | Vincente Minnelli | 1951 |
| Othello | Orsen Welles | 1952 |
| Europa ’51 | Roberto Rossellini | 1952 |
| The Bad and the Beautiful | Vincente Minnelli | 1952 |
| House of Wax | André De Toth | 1953 |
| Julius Caesar | Orsen Welles | 1953 |
| Pickup on South Street | Samuel Fuller | 1953 |
| The Band Wagon | Vincente Minnelli | 1953 |
| Tokyo Story | Yasujiro Ozu | 1953 |
| Dial M for Murder | Alfred Hitchcock | 1954 |
| Senso | Lucchino Visconti | 1954 |
| Journey to Italy | Roberto Rossellini | 1954 |
| All That Heaven Allows | Douglas Sirk | 1955 |
| Kiss Me Deadly | Robert Aldrich | 1955 |
| Ordet | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1955 |
| The Red Balloon | Albert Lamoris | 1956 |
| Forty Guns | Samuel Fuller | 1957 |
| Sweet Smell of Success | Alexander Mackendrick | 1957 |
| The Seventh Seal | Ingmar Bergman | 1957 |
| Touch of Evil | Orsen Welles | 1958 |
| Some Came Running | Vincente Minnelli | 1958 |
| Hiroshima Mon Amour | Alain Resnais | 1959 |
| Shadows | John Cassavetes | 1959 |
| La Terra Trema | Lucchino Visconti | 1960 |
| Peeping Tom | Michael Powell | 1960 |
| One, Two, Three | Billy Wilder | 1961 |
| The Hustler | Robert Rossen | 1961 |
| Cape Fear | J. Lee Thompson | 1962 |
| The Trail | Orsen Welles | 1962 |
| Two Weeks in Another Town | Vincente Minnelli | 1962 |
| America, America | Elia Kazan | 1963 |
| The Leopard | Lucchino Visconti | 1963 |
| Jason and the Argonauts | Ray Harryhausen | 1963 |
| Shock Corridor | Samuel Fuller | 1963 |
| The Fall of the Roman Empire | Anthony Mann | 1964 |
| Simon of the Desert | Luis Buñuel | 1965 |
| The Rise of Louis XIV | Roberto Rossellini | 1966 |
| Andrei Rublev | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1966 |
| Cool Hand Luke | Stuart Rosenberg | 1967 |
| Faces | John Cassavetes | 1968 |
| The Blues According to Lightning Hopkins | Les Blank | 1968 |
| Rosemary’s Baby | Roman Polanski | 1968 |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubric | 1968 |
| Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger | 1969 |
| Klute | Alan J. Pakula | 1971 |
| THX 1138 | George Lucas | 1971 |
| Murmur of the Heart | Louis Malle | 1971 |
| McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman | 1971 |
| A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubric | 1971 |
| The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola | 1972 |
| M*A*S*H | Robert Altman | 1972 |
| Battles Without Honor and Humanity | Kinji Fukasaku | 1973 |
| The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola | 1974 |
| Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes | 1974 |
| Nashville | Robert Altman | 1975 |
| The Messiah | Roberto Rossellini | 1975 |
| Dog Day Afternoon | Sidney Lumet | 1975 |
| The Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1975 |
| The Gates Heaven | Errol Morris | 1978 |
| Black Stallion | Carroll Ballard | 1979 |
| Apocolypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | 1979 |
| Mad Max | George Miller | 1979 |
| Norma Rae | Martin Ritt | 1979 |
| Black Jack | Ken Loach | 1979 |
| Hardcore | Paul Schrader | 1979 |
| Alien | Ridley Scott | 1979 |
| Permanent Vactation | Jim Jarmusch | 1980 |
| Heaven’s Gate | Michael Cimino | 1980 |
| Health | Robert Altman | 1980 |
| The Ninth Configuration | William Better Blatty | 1980 |
| The Shining | Stanley Kubric | 1980 |
| Burden of Dreams | Les Blank | 1982 |
| Fitzcarraldo | Werner Herzog | 1982 |
| Stranger than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch | 1984 |
| Blood Simple | The Coen Brothers | 1984 |
| The Element of Crime | Lars Von Trier | 1984 |
| God’s Country | Errol Morris | 1985 |
| Tampopo | Juzo Itami | 1985 |
| Mishima | Paul Schrader | 1985 |
| The Lost Boys | Joel Schumacher | 1987 |
| Au Revoir les Enfants | Louis Malle | 1987 |
| Raising Arizona | The Coen Brothers | 1987 |
| The Thin Blue Line | Errol Morris | 1988 |
| Drugstore Cowboy | Gus Van Sant | 1989 |
| Born on the First of July | Oliver Stone | 1989 |
| Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 1989 |
| Wild at Heart | David Lynch | 1990 |
| My Own Private Idaho | Gus Van Sant | 1991 |
| Night on Earth | Jim Jarmusch | 1991 |
| The Player | Robert Altman | 1992 |
| Benny’s Video | Michael Haneke | 1992 |
| Hoop Dreams | Steve James | 1994 |
| Kansas City | Robert Altman | 1996 |
| Fargo | The Coen Brothers | 1996 |
| Gummo | Harmony Korine | 1997 |
| The Fifth Element | Luc Besson | 1997 |
| Funny Games | Michael Haneke | 1997 |
| Boogie Nights | Paul Thomas Anderson | 1997 |
| Run Lola Run | Tom Tykwer | 1998 |
| The Messenger Joan of Arc | Luc Besson | 1999 |
| La Cienega | Lucrecia Martel | 2001 |
| The Assassination of Richard Nixon | Niels Mueller | 2004 |
| Last Days | Gus Van Sant | 2005 |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Julian Schnabel | 2007 |
| There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2007 |
| Funny Games | Michael Haneke | 2007 |
| Hunger | Steve Mcqueen | 2008 |
| Let the Right One In | Tomas Alfredson | 2008 |
| Un Prophète | Jacques Audiard | 2009 |
| Antichrist | Lars Von Trier | 2009 |
| The White Ribbon | Michael Haneke | 2009 |
| Notre Jour Viendra | Roman Gavras | 2010 |
| The Master | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2012 |
| Inherent Vice | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2014 |
| Force Majeure | Ruben Östlund | 2014 |
| Victoria | Sebastien Schipper | 2015 |
| Phantom Thread | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2017 |
| The Square | Ruben Östlund | 2017 |
| The Favourite | Yorgos Lanthimos | 2018 |
| Parasite | Boon Joon-Ho | 2019 |
