100 Films I Have Never Seen But Should

*Intolerance (1916, D.W. Griffith)
Broken Blossoms (1919, D.W. Griffith)
Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim)
*Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei M. Eisenstein)
*All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, Lewis Milestone)
*Trouble in Paradise (1932, Ernst Lubitsch)
*I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932, Mervyn LeRoy)
David Copperfield (1935, George Cukor)
*Swing Time (1936, George Stevens)
*The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, Michel Curtiz, William Keighley)
*Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939, John Ford)
*How Green Was My Valley (1941, John Ford)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
*Heaven Can Wait (1943, Ernst Lubitsch)
*Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carné)
Mildred Pierce (1945, Michael Curtiz)
*Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)
Stairway to Heaven (1946, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
*Great Expectations (1946, David Lean)
*Duel in the Sun (1946, King Vidor)
*The Bad and the Beautiful (1952, Vincente Minnelli)
*Ugetsu (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
*The Band Wagon (1953, Vincente Minnelli)
From Here to Eternity (1953, Fred Zinnemann)
The Earrings of Madam De… (1953, Max Ophüls)
*Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujirô Ozu)
Voyage in Italy (1954, Roberto Rossellini)
*Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)
Giant (1956, George Stevens)
*A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson)
*The Nights of Cabiria (1957, Federico Fellini)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957, Billy Wilder)
*Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
*Horror of Dracula (1958, Terence Fisher)
The Hidden Fortress (1958, Akira Kurosawa)
*Shadows (1959, John Cassavetes)
Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)
*Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson)
*Shoot the Piano Player (1960, François Truffaut)
*Viridiana (1961, Luis Buñuel)
*The Innocents (1961, Jack Clayton)
Jules and Jim (1962, François Truffaut)
*Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962, Agnès Varda)
*L’Eclisse (1962, Michelangelo Antonioni)
*The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Buñuel)
The Leopard (1963, Luchino Visconti)
*Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
*The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)
Gertrud (1964, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
*Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Battle of Algiers (1966, Gillo Pontecorvo)
*Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)
*Le Samouraï (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville)
*Playtime (1967, Jacques Tati)
*Faces (1968, John Cassavetes)
If…. (1968, Lindsay Anderson)
*Salesman (1969, Albert and David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)
Kes (1969, Ken Loach)
*The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Little Big Man (1970, Arthur Penn)
Walkabout (1971, Nicolas Roeg)
The Panic in Needle Park (1971, Jerry Schatzberg)
The Devils (1971, Ken Russell)
*The Last Picture Show (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)
*The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Papillon (1973, Franklin J. Schaffner)
*Amarcord (1973, Federico Fellini)
*Mirror (1974, Andrei Tarkovsky)
*Lenny (1974, Bob Fosse)
*Grey Gardens (1975, Ellen Hovde, Albert and David Maysles, Muffie Meyer)
*Bound for Glory (1976, Hal Ashby)
*3 Women (1977, Robert Altman)
*Stroszek (1977, Werner Herzog)
*Coming Home (1978, Hal Ashby)
Tess (1979, Roman Polanski)
Ordinary People (1980, Robert Redford)
The Verdict (1982, Sidney Lumet)
Sophie’s Choice (1982, Alan J. Pakula)
*Fanny and Alexander (1982, Ingmar Bergman)
Sans Soleil (1983, Chris Marker)
Terms of Endearment (1983, James L. Brooks)
*Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders)
*Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Sergei Leone)
*Amadeus (1984, Milos Forman)
*Shoah (1985, Claude Lanzmann)
The Color Purple (1985, Steven Spielberg)
Rain Man (1988, Barry Levinson)
JFK (1991, Oliver Stone)
*The Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann)
*Hoop Dreams (1994, Steve James)
*Satantango (1994, Béla Tarr)
*The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)
*All About My Mother (1999, Pedro Almodóvar)
*Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee)
*In the Mood for Love (2000, Kar Wai Wong)
City of God (2002, Fernando Meirelles, co-dir. Kátia Lund)
The Pianist (2002, Roman Polanski)
*The Lives of Others (2006, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)

*Seen since making the list