1.
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
(1972)
This is a dramatization of events in the life of St.
Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience
through his audience with the pope... (135 mins.)
Director:
Franco Zeffirelli
2.
Ugetsu (1953)
In the beginning of the springtime in the period of the
Japanese Civil Wars of the Sixteenth Century in Lake
Biwa in the Province of Omi... (96 mins.)
Director:
Kenji Mizoguchi
3.
Zelig (1983)
"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like
whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.
(79 mins.)
Director:
Woody Allen
4.
Nights of Cabiria
(1957)
A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking
for true love but finds only heartbreak. (110 mins.)
Director:
Federico Fellini
5.
Central Station (1998)
An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who write
letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose
mother has just died, in search for the father he never
knew. (113 mins.)
Director:
Walter Salles
6.
Children of Paradise
(1945)
This tragic tale centers around the ill-fated love
between Baptiste, a theater mime, and Claire Reine...
(190 mins.)
Director:
Marcel Carné
7.
After the Wedding
(2006)
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to
Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering
family secret. (120 mins.)
Director:
Susanne Bier
8.
Antonio das Mortes
(1969)
Period piece about a Brazil that is no more. This movie
is the sequel to "God and the Devil in the Land of the
Sun" (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol)... (100 mins.)
Director:
Glauber Rocha
9.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(1975)
Upon arriving at a mental institution, a brash rebel
rallies the patients to take on the oppressive Nurse
Ratched, a woman more dictator than nurse. (133 mins.)
Director:
Milos Forman
10.
Citizen Kane (1941)
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news
reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final
utterance. (119 mins.)
Director:
Orson Welles
11.
Match Point (2005)
At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro
falls for a femme-fatal type who happens to be dating
his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law. (124 mins.)
Director:
Woody Allen
12.
Fawlty Towers (1975 TV
Series)
Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and
arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and
trouble are never far away.
13.
What Time Is It Over There?
(2001)
When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a
woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant
connection... (116 mins.)
Director:
Ming-liang Tsai
14.
Mississippi Mermaid
(1969)
Louis Mahe is a tobacco planter at Reunion Island. He is
waiting for Julie Roussel to marry her. He only knows
her by mail... (123 mins.)
Director:
François Truffaut
15.
The Phantom of the Opera
(1990 TV Movie)
Count de Chagnie has discovered Christine's singing
talent on a market place and sent her to his friend
Carriere... (168 mins.)
Director:
Tony Richardson
16.
Ginger and Fred (1986)
Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to
perform their old music-hall act (imitating Fred... (125
mins.)
Director:
Federico Fellini
17.
Loves of a Blonde
(1965)
A factory manager in rural Czechoslovakia bargains with
the army to send men to the area, to boost the morale of
his young female workers...
Director:
Milos Forman
18.
The Firemen's Ball
(1967)
The fire department in a small town is having a big
party when the ex-boss of the department celebrates his
86th birthday... (71 mins.)
Director:
Milos Forman
19.
Cyrano de Bergerac
(1990)
Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier
romances his cousin by proxy. (137 mins.)
Director:
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
20.
The Conformist (1970)
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who
goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old
teacher, now a political dissident.
Director:
Bernardo Bertolucci
21.
The Party (1968)
A clerical mistake results in a bumbling film extra
being invited to an exclusive Hollywood party instead of
being fired. (99 mins.)
Director:
Blake Edwards
22.
8 Women (2002)
One murdered man, eight women, each seeming to be more
eager than the others to know the truth. Gimme, gimme,
gimme some clues to make up my mind. And eventually
enter the truth. Oh, thou cruel woman! (111 mins.)
Director:
François Ozon
23.
Green Card (1990)
A man wanting to stay in the US enters into a marriage
of convenience, but it turns into more than that. (103
mins.)
Director:
Peter Weir
24.
Autumn Sonata (1978)
After having neglected her children for many years,
world famous pianist Charlotte visits her daughter Eva
in her home... (99 mins.)
Director:
Ingmar Bergman
25.
The Man Without a Past
(2002)
The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy,
the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki... (97
mins.)
Director:
Aki Kaurismäki
26.
Viridiana (1961)
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows,
pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her
Mother Superior. (90 mins.)
Director:
Luis Buñuel
27.
Damage (1992)
A member of Parliament falls passionately in love with
his son's fiancée despite the dangers of discovery. (111
mins.)
Director:
Louis Malle
28.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
(1988)
Lawrence and Freddie are con-men; big-time and small
time respectively. They unsuccessfully attempt... (110
mins.)
Director:
Frank Oz
29.
The Odyssey (1997 TV
Series)
This lavish small-screen adaptation of Homer's ancient
epic--replete with exotic Maltese and Turkish
locations...
Director:
Andrei Konchalovsky
30.
Adam's Apples (2005)
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church
clashes with the blindly devotional priest. (94 mins.)
Director:
Anders Thomas Jensen
31.
Tess (1979)
A young strong-willed peasant girl, becomes the
affection of two men, in the end tragically falling into
the arms of one. (186 mins.)
Director:
Roman Polanski
32.
Falling in Love (1984)
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into
each other. This fleeting short moment will start to
change their lives... (106 mins.)
Director:
Ulu Grosbard
33.
Macaroni (1985)
A businessman from the United States returns to Italy
for the first time in four decades only to discover that
an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have
involved him in a massive hoax.
Director:
Ettore Scola
34.
Malady of Love (1987)
Mad love. Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in
love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic
hairdresser... (122 mins.)
Director:
Jacques Deray
35.
American Beauty (1999)
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a
mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around
after developing an infatuation for his daughter's
attractive friend. (122 mins.)
Director:
Sam Mendes
36.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
A New York City doctor, who is married to an art
curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous
night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after
his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.
(159 mins.)
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
37.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love
the Bomb (1964)
An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust
that a war room of politicians and generals frantically
try to stop. (95 mins.)
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
38.
Amadeus (1984)
The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in
flashback by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri -
now confined to an insane asylum. (160 mins.)
Director:
Milos Forman
39.
Babel (2006)
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the
Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story
involving four different families. (143 mins.)
Director:
Alejandro González Iñárritu
40.
The Great Dictator
(1940)
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a doppelganger, a poor but
kind Jewish barber living in the slums, who one day is
mistaken for Hynkel. (125 mins.)
Director:
Charles Chaplin
41.
Breaking the Waves
(1996)
Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who
prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan
urges her to have sex with another. (159 mins.)
Director:
Lars Von Trier
43.
The Story of Adele H
(1975)
Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant. (96
mins.)
Director:
François Truffaut
44.
Open Hearts (2002)
A Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart
after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman
falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused
the accident. (113 mins.)
Director:
Susanne Bier
45.
Italian for Beginners
(2000)
Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a
town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as
the platform to meet the romance of their lives. (112
mins.)
46.
A Special Day (1977)
The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is
the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler... (110
mins.)
Director:
Ettore Scola
47.
HouseSitter (1992)
Con artist Gwen moves into Newton's empty house without
his knowledge, and begins setting up house posing as his
new wife. (102 mins.)
Director:
Frank Oz
48.
Cries & Whispers (1972)
When a woman dying of cancer in turn-of-the century
Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long repressed
feelings between the siblings rise to the surface. (91
mins.)
Director:
Ingmar Bergman
49.
The 400 Blows (1959)
Intensely touching story of a misunderstood young
adolescent who left without attention, delves into a
life of petty crime. (99 mins.)
Director:
François Truffaut
50.
Persona (1966)
A nurse is put in charge of an actress who can't talk
and finds that the actress's persona is melding with
hers. (85 mins.)
Director:
Ingmar Bergman
51.
Goya's Ghosts (2006)
Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his
muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk. (113 mins.)
Director:
Milos Forman
52.
Always (1989)
A romantic adventure about a legendary pilot's passion
for dare-devil firefighting and his girl. (122 mins.)
Director:
Steven Spielberg
53.
Black Cat, White Cat
(1998)
Matko is a small time hustler, living by the river
Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed...
(127 mins.)
Director:
Emir Kusturica
54.
Show Me Love (1998)
Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is
beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is
friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin. (89
mins.)
Director:
Lukas Moodysson
55.
Betty Blue (1986)
Zorg is a handyman working at in France, maintaining and
looking after the bungalows. He lives a quiet and
peaceful life... (120 mins.)
Director:
Jean-Jacques Beineix
56.
Dalecarlians (2004)
Mia, who's living in Stockholm, comes home to her small
childhood town to celebrate her father's birthday... (98
mins.)
Director:
Maria Blom
57.
Forrest Gump (1994)
Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally
been present at many historic moments, but his true
love, Jenny, eludes him. (142 mins.)
Director:
Robert Zemeckis
58.
A Single Man (2009)
An English professor, one year after the sudden death of
his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days
in 1960s Los Angeles. (99 mins.)
Director:
Tom Ford
59.
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love
with the movies at his village's theater and formed a
deep friendship with the theater's projectionist. (155
mins.)
Director:
Giuseppe Tornatore
60.
Broken Flowers (2005)
As the intensely withdrawn Don Johnston is dumped by his
latest woman, he receives an anonymous letter from a
former lover informing him that he has a son who may be
looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor moves Don
to embark on a cross-country search for his old flames
in search of answers. (106 mins.)
Director:
Jim Jarmusch
61.
Barry Lyndon (1975)
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and
assumes her dead husband's position in 18th Century
aristocracy. (184 mins.)
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
62.
Kramer vs. Kramer
(1979)
A just-divorced man must learn to care for his son on
his own, and then must fight in court to keep custody of
him. (105 mins.)
Director:
Robert Benton