Below is a list of 1816 films which is constantly being updated and which has something valuable to say; while many titles seem obscure, they can be viewed on TCM, a favorite channel devoted to excellence.  If a title does not appear on the list, this is possibly an indication that it was unavailable for viewing and consideration.  The expression "If you can't say anything good about ..." should also apply to film as well.  But on a more practical level, failure to understand art may be a failing by the viewer.

 

 

 

3 Women

3:10 to Yuma (1950

8 MM

11:14

12 Years A Slave

13 Going On 30

21

21 Bridges

25th Hour

28 Days Later

49^th Parallel

50 First Dates

54

'71 

127 Days

360

400 Blows, The

2012

ABBA: The Movie

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter

Accident

Act of Violence

Ad Astra 

Adaptation

Address, The

Adjuster, The

Adventure in Sahara

Advise and Consent

 Affairs of Martha, The

After the Fox

After the Sunset

After the Wedding

Age of Consent

Agony and the Ecstasy, The

Ai Wei: Never Sorry

Air Force One

Alamo, The (1960)

Alfie (1965)

Ali

Alien

 Alien Nation

Alien Resurrection

All Fall Down

All I See Is You

 All is True

All of Me

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

All That Heaven Allows

All That Jazz

All the President’s Men

Almost Famous

Alpha

Altered States

Always

Amadeus

Amelie

America America

American, The

American Beauty

 American Buffalo

American Guerrilla in the Philippines

American History X

 American in Paris, An

American President, The

American Renegades

American Sniper

American Splendor

Americsn Star

Americanization of Emily, The

 Anderson Tapes, The

Andromeda Strain, The

Angel

Animal Kingdom

Anna Christie

Annie Hall

 Antichrist

Antwone Fisher

 Anybody's Woman

Apache

Apollo 13

Arabesque

Arch of Triumph (1948)

Armageddon

Art School Confidential

Argosy

Army of Crime

Army of Shadows

Artificial Intelligence 

Artist, The

As Young As You Feel

Asher

Assassination of Richard Nixon, The

 Assassins

Astronaut Farmer, The

At the Death House Door

Audrey Rose 

August Rush

Autumn Sonata

Avventura, L’

Awful Truth, The

Baader Meinhof Complex, The

Babadook, The

Babe

Babel

 Baby Doll

Baby, the Rain Must Fall

Bachelor Party, The

 Back to Bataan

Bad and the Beautiful, The

 Bad For Each Other

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Bad News Bears, The (1976)

Bad Seed, The

Bamboozled

Bananas

Barbarian Invasions, The

Barbershop

Barking Dogs Never Bite

Baron of Arizona, The 

Barton Fink

Basketball Diaries, The

Battle: Los Angeles 

Battle For Haditha

Battle of the River Plate (aka Pursuit of the Graf Spee)

Battle of the Sexes, The (1928)

Bay, The

Beach, The

Bear, The

 Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, The

Beasts of No Nation

Beat the Devil

Beatles: The First U.S. Visit, The

Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend, The

Beautiful Mind, A

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

 The Beaver

Becket

 Bedazzled (1967)

Bedlam (1946)

Bee Season

Beekeeper, The

 Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Behind Locked Doors

Behind the Rising Sun

Behold a Pale Horse

Being There

Bel Canto

Believe Me

Bell Book and Candle

Bellissima

Beloved Infidel

Bend It Like Beckham

Berlin Express

Bert Stern: Original MadMan

Best of Everything, The

Better Life, A

Bettie Page Reveals A 

Betty Blue

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Beyond the Clouds

Bhowani Junction

Bible, The (1966)

Bicentennial Man

Bicycle Thief, The

Big Blue, The

 Big Chill, The

Big Clock, The

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Big Eyes

Big Heat, The

Big Knife, The

Big Lebowski,

Big Miracle

Biggie & Tupac

Bill Cosby ... Far From Finished

Billie (2019)

Billy Bathgate

 Billy Budd

Billy Elliot

Bird

Birdman

Bishop's Wife,  The (1947)  

Bite the Bullet

Bitter Moon

 Bitter Victory

Black Cat, The (1934)

Black Day at Bad Rock

Black Hawk Down

Black Narcissus

Black Orpheus 

 Black Snake Moan

Black Sunday (1977)

Black Swan (2010)

Bladerunner

Blob, The (1958) 

Blonde Venus

Blood

Blood and Sand (1941)

Blood Simple

Blood Work

Blow-Up

Blue Crush

 Blue Gardenia, The

Blue Is the Warmest Color

 Blue Max, The

Blue Ruin

Blue Sky

 Blue Steel

Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Bobby Deerfield

Bobby Fisher Against the World

Body and Soul (1947)

Body Double

Body Heat

Body of Evidence

Bohemian Rhapsody

Boiler Room

Bonfire of the Vanities, The

Bonjour Tristesse

Border, The

Born to Be Bad

 Born to Kill

Born Reckless (1930)

Born Yesterday (1950)

Boston Strangler, The

Bottom of the Bottle, The

Boulevard

Bound

 Boy Erased

Boy with Green Hair, The

Boyz N the Hood

Brains 

Bravados, The

Brave One, The

Brazil

‘Breaker’ Morant

Breaking the Waves

Breaking Up

 Breathless (1960)

Bride Wore Black, The

Bride Wore Red, The

Bridesmaid

Brief Vacation, A

Bridge, The

Bright Leaf

Bring It On

 Broadcast News

Broken Lullaby (1932)

Bronx Tale, A

 Brother Bear

Brotherhood of Death

Brothers McMullen, The

Brothers Rico, The

Browning Version, The (1951)

Bruce Almighty

 Bruno

Brute Force

 Buchanan Rides Alone

Buddy Holly Story, The

Bug

Bug's Life, A

Bullitt

Burden of Dreams

Burn After Reading

Burning Plain, The

Burnt

Burnt Offerings

 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butler, The

Butterfield 8

By Candlelight

Cabin Fever

Cache

Caine Mutiny, The

Calender

Callas Forever

Camp X-Ray

Candidate, The

  Candy (2006)

Canterbury Tale, A

Canterville Ghost, The

Canyon Passage

Canyons, The

Capote

Captain America: The First Avenger

Captain Phillips

Captive Wild Woman

Card Counter, The

Cardinal, The

Carlito’s Way

 Carmen Jones

Casa de los Babys

Casablanca

Cassandra’s Dream

Cast Away

Cat People (1942)

Cat’s Meow, The

Catch Me If You Can

Catered Affair, The

Catwoman

Caught

Cavalcade

Caveman’s Valentine, The

Cell, The

 Center of the World, The

Chamber, The

 Champ, The (1931)

Champion

Changeling

Changing Lanes

Chaplin

 Chapman Report, The

Chapter 27

Charade

 Charlotte's Web (2006)

Chase, The (1966)

Chasing Amy

 Che: Parts One and Two (2008)

Chef

Cheyenne Autumn

Chicago 10

Chicken Run

 Child Is Waiting, A

Children Are Watching Us, The

Children of the Damned

Children’s Hour, The

 China Syndrome, The

Chinatown

 Christmas Carol, A (2009)

Christopher Robin

Cimarron (1960)

Cinderella Man

Circle, The

Citadel, The

Citizen Kane

 Citizen Ruth

Citizenfour

 City by the Sea

City Hall

City Island

City Lights

City Streets 

Claim, The

Clash By Night

Cleopatra (1963)

Clerks

Cliffhanger

 Clock, The

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Closed Circuit

Cloverfield

Coach Carter

 Cobweb, The

Coco

Coco Before Chanel

Coffy

Cold Mountain

Collateral Beauty

Collateral Damage

 Color Me Kubrick

Colorado Territory

Comanche Station

Come and Get It

 Come Back, Little Sheba

Come to the Stable

Comes a Horseman

Company Men, The

Conclave

Concussion

Conduct Unbecoming

Conspirators, The

Contact

Contraband

Control

Control Room

Conversation, The

Conversation with Gregory Peck, A

Cool Hand Luke

Cottage on Dartmoor, A

Counselor, The

Countdown

Country Girl, The

Cousins, Les

Cove, The

Craig's Wife

Crash (2005)

Crazy Heart

Crazy Love

Crime and Punishment (1935)

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Crimes of the Future

Crimetime

Criminal, The 

Criminal Law

Crimson Kimono, The 

Crisis

Critical Care

Crossing Guard, The

Crossfire

Crown v. Stevens

Crown Vic

Crucible, The

Crumb

 Cry of the City

Cry, the Beloved Country (1952)

Dallas Buyers Club

Damage

 Damaged Lives

Damned Don't Cry!, The

Dance, Girl, Dance

Dancer in the Dark

Dancing at Lughnasa

Daniel

Dante’s Peak

Daredevil

Dark Blue

Dark Horse (2011)

Dark Knight, The

Datk Places

Dark Victory

Darkman

Darling

David Copperfield (1935)

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Day of the Falcon

Day of the Jackal, The  

Day of the Locust, The

Day the Earth Stood Still, The

 Days of Wine and Roses

Dead Poets Society

Dead Presidents

 Dead Ringers

Deadline at Dawn

Deadly Affair, The

Death Becomes Her 

 Death Kiss, The (1932)

Death of a Cyclist

Death Proof

Death Wish (2018)

Decline of Western Civilization - Part II: The Metal Years

Deep End, The

Deep Valley

Defector, The

Defiant Ones, The

Delinquents, The

Delirious

Delivery Man

Demi-Paradise, The 

Derailed

Dersu Uzala

Desert Fury

Desert Rats, The

 Design for Living

Desire Me

Desperate Hour, The (2021)

Destination Moon

Detective, The

Detour (1945)

Devil Is a Woman, The

Devil-Doll, The 

Devil’s Advocate, The

 Devil’s Doorway

Devotion

Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)

Dictator, The

Die Hard

Dirty Dingus Magee

Dirty Dozen, The

Dirty Pretty Things

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Disconnect (2012)

Diva

Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes

Divorce Italian Style

Django Unchained

Do the Right Thing

Dodge City 

 Dog's Purpose, A 

Dogville

Dollars

Don Jon

Don Juan De Marco

Donnie Brasco

Don’t Look Back

Don’t Look Now

Doubt

Downstairs

Dr. Broadway

Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)

Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler, Part One and Part Two

Dream House

Dreams (1955)

Dressed to Kill

Dresser, The

Drumline

 Drums Along the Mohawk

 Drunken Angel

Duck You Sucker (a.k.a. Fistful of Dynamite, A)

Duel

Dunkirk

Dust Be My Destiny

Dutchess, The

Eagle Eye

Easy Living (1937)

Easy Living (1949)

East of Eden

Easy Rider

Eclisse, L’

Edge of Love, The

Edge of the City

Edge of Tomorrow

Edmond

Eight Below

Eight Men Out

Ekstase

Election

 Electra Glide in Blue

Elevator to the Gallows

Elmer Gantry

Emperor’s Club, The

Emperor Jones, The

Empire of Passion

End of the Affair (1955)

Enemy Below, The

Enemy of the State

Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room

Entre Nos

Equilibrium

Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars

Erin Brockovich

Escape By Night

Escobar: Paradise Lost

Essential Killing

Eternal Love (1929)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

 Europe '51

Everybody Does It

 Everything Put Together

 Ex Machina

Executive Suite

Exotica

Experiment in Terror

Extraordinary Measures

Eye of the Needle, The

 Eyewitness

F1: The Movie

Face (1997)

Face in the Crowd, A

 Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

Fail-Safe

Fair Game (2010)

Faithful

 Falcon Strikes Back, The

Fall of the Roman Empire, The

Fallen Angel

Fallen Idol, The

Falling Down

Family, The

Family Thing, A

Family Viewing

Farewell to Arms, A (1957)

Fargo

 Fat City

Father, The (2020)

Father of the Bride (1950)

Father's Little Dividend

Fear

Fear Strikes Out

FearDotCom

Feeling Minnesota

Femme Fatale

Fever Pitch

 Few Good Men, A

Field, The

Fighter, The

Final Fantasy

Find Me Guilty

Finding Forrester

Finding Nemo

Finestkind

Firm, The

First Comes Courage

First Wives Club, The

 Fistful of Dollars, A

Five Came Back

Five Easy Pieces

Five Senses, The

Fixed Bayonets!

Flag Wars, The 

Flags of Our Fathers

 Flame and the Arrow, The

Flame of New Orleans, The

Flaming Star

Flap

Flash of Genius

Flashdance

Flawless (1999)

Flesh and Bone

 Flesh and the Devil

Flight of the Phoenix, The (1965)

Flowers of War, The

Fly, The (1986)

Flying Leathernecks, The

Food, Inc.

For a Few Dollars More

For Love of the Game

 Force of Evil

Ford v Ferrari

Fountainhead, The

Four Feathers, The (1939)

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The (1962)

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Foxy Brown

Frailty

 Frances

French Connection, The

French Kiss

Friends of Eddie Coyle, The

Friday Night Lights

 Frisco Kid, The

From Paris With Love

From Russia With Love

Front, The

Front Runner, The

Fugitive, The (1947)

Funeral In Berlin

Fury

Gallipoli 

Gambit (1966)

Gandhi

Gardens of  Stone

Gaslight

Gatekeepers, The

Gattica

 Gay Desperado, The

General, The (1998)

Generale Della Rovere, Il

General’s Daughter, The

Generation War

Gentleman Jim

Get Out

Ghost

Ghost of Mississippi

Ghost Ship, The *1943)

Ginger and Fred

Ginger Snaps

Girl From Jones Beach, The

Girl in the News, The

Girl on the Train, The (2016)

Girl 6

Girls in Chains

Girlfight

Gladiator (2000)

Glenn Miller Story, The

Gloria (1980)

Glory Road

 Go

Go-Between, The

Goddess, The

Godfather, The (trilogy)

Godzilla (1998)

 Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

Going My Way

Golden Bowl, The

Golden Boy

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson

Good Kill

Good Night, and Good Luck

Good Ol' Frieda

Good Shepherd, The

 Good Son, The

Good Will Hunting

Gosford Park

Graceland

Graduate, The

Grand Canyon

Grand Hotel

Grand Illusions

Grand Piano

Great Dictator, The

Great Gabbo, The

Great Gatsby, The (1974)

Great Escape, The

Great McGinty, The

Great Race, The 

Great Sinner, The 

 Great World of Sound

Greed

Green Berets, The

Green Book, The (2018)

Green Mile, The

Greetings From New York

Grey Gardens (2009)

Group, The

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Gumshoe

Gun Crazy

Gunfighter, The (1950) 

Guns of Darkness

Guns of the Navarone, The

Guy Named Joe, A

Gyspy Moths, The

Hacksaw Ridge 

Hail the Conquering Hero

 Hangmen Also Die!

Hangover, The 

Hanna

Happiness

Happy Ending

Happy-Go-Lucky

Hard Candy

Hard Day’s Night, A

Hard Eight

 Harlan County U.S.A.

Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle

 Harper

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

Hatful of Rain, A

Haunting, The (1963)

Havoc

Hawaii

He Got Game

He Ran All the Way

He Walked By Night

Head in the Clouds

Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The

Heart Breaker [a.k.a. L'Arcaoeur] (2010)

Hearts in Atlantis

Heat

Heatwave (1997) [a.k.a. Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave]

Heaven & Earth

 Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison

Heaven With a Barbed Wire Fence

Heaven's Gate

Heavens Above! 

Heiress, The

Hell in the Pacific

 Hell or High Water

Hemingway & Gellhorn

Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque 

her

Hester Street

High and Low

High Noon

 High Plains Drifter

Hill, The

HIM (2025)

His Girl Friday

History of Violence, A

Hitch

Hitman's Bodyguard, The

 Hoax, The

 Hold Back the Dawn

Hollywoodland

Home of the Brave (1949)

Homeward Bound

Homicide

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

 Honkytonk Man

Hope Springs

Hopscotch

Horse Soldiers, The

Hospital, The 

Hostel 

Hostiles (2017)

Hotel

Hotel Rwanda

Hour of the Wolf 

Hours (2013)

Hours, The (2002)

 House by the River

House of Gucci

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

House Bunny, The

  House of Flying Daggers

 House of Games

House of Sand and Fog

 House on Telegraph Hill, The

How to Marry a Millionaire

How to Murder Your Wife

How To Train Your Dragon

Howards End

Hucksters, The 

Hud

Hudsucker Proxy, The

 Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel

Human Desire

Humoresque (1946)

Hunley, The

Hunted, The

 Hurricane, The (1937)

 Hysteria (2011)

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

I Am Big Bird

I Am Number

I Called Him Motgan

I Compagni

I Know Where I’m Going!

I Stand Condemned

I Vitelloni

I Wanna Hold Your Hand

I Want to Live!

Identification of a Woman

Identity

If I Were King

Il Cammino Della Esperanza/Path of Hope, The

Imagine Me & You

Imitation Game, The

Imitation of Life (1959)

Impatient Maiden, The

In a Better World

In a Lonely Place

In Cold Blood (1967)

In Good Company

 In Like Flint

In This Our Life

Incendies

Inconvenient Truth, An

Identification of a Woman

Independence Day

 Informant!, The

Informer, The (1929)

Informer, The (1935)

Informer, The (2020)

 Inglorious Bastards, The (1978)

Inglourious Basterds  (2009)

Inherit the Wind

Innocents, The

Inside Daisy Clover 

Interiors

Internal Affairs (1990)

Internet's Own Boy, The: The Story of Aaron Swartz

Internship, The

Intimate Strangers

Into the Storm (2014)

Intolerable Cruelty

Inventing the Abbotts

Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers

Italian Job, The (2003)

It Should Happen to You

It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

J. Edgar

J'Accuse

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

Jackie Brown

Jackpot

Jacob’s Ladder

Jazz Singer, The (1927)

Jean de Florette

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

Jesus Camp

Jinx, The: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst

JoJo Rabbit8

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

John Wick

Johnny Got His Gun

Johnny Guitar

Joker

Journey's End (2017)

Joy

Joy Luck Club, The

Joyeax Noel

 Joyless Street

Judas and the Black Messiah

Juggernaut

Juggler, The

Juke Girl

Jules

Jumper

Junior Bonner

Jurassac Park

Just Like Heaven

K-19: The Widowmaker

Kalifornia

Kameradschaft 

Keeper of the Flame

Key, The

Key Largo

Kick-Ass

Kicks

Kid For Two Farthings, A

Kid Glove Killer

 Kid Stays in the Picture, The

Kill Bill Vol.1

Kill Bill Vol. 2

Killer Bait

Killer Is Loose, A

Killers, The (1946)

Kinamand

Kind Hearts and Coronets

King Creole

King in New York, A

King of Kong, The

King Kong (2005)

 King of Kings, The (1927)

King Rat

King Richard (2021)

King's Speech, The

Kiss Before Dying, A (1956)

Kiss Me Guido

 Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

Kiss Of Death

 Kiss of the Spider Woman

Kitchen, The

Kitty Foyle

Klown

Knock on Any Door

Knowing

Koch Brothers Exposed

Kong: Skull Island

Kremlin Letter, The

L-Shaped Room, The

La Bataille du Rail

La Dolce Vita

La Strada

Lady Eve, The

 Lady from Shanghai, The

 Ladykillers, The (1955)

Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend

Lars and the Real Girl

Last Command, The (1928)

Last Detail, The

Last Emperor, The

 Last Frontier, The

Last Hurrah, The

Last Man on Earth The

Last Picture Show, The

Last Station, The

Last Time I Saw Paris, The

Last Word, The

Lavender Hill Mob, The

Layer Cake

Le Week-End

Leave Her to Heaven

Left Hand of God, The

Left Handed Gun, The

Legend of Bagger Vance, The

Leopard, The

Leopard Man, The

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Let's Make Love

Letter for Evie, A

Letters from Iwo Jima

 Libeled Lady

Libertine, The

Lie With Me

Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The

Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The

 Life Is Beautiful

 Life of Emile Zola, The

Life of Her Own, A

Like Crazy

 Limey, The

Lineup, The

Lion Has Wings, The

Lion in Winter, The

Lions for Lambs

Listen To Me Marlon

Little Caesar

Little Children

Lives of Others, The

Living in OblivionLock Down

Lock Down

Locke

Logan

London Dreams 

Lone Star

 Lonely Are the Brave

 Lonelyhearts

Lonesome Jim

Long Gray Line, The

Long Kiss Goodnight, The

Long, Long Trailer, The

Long Way Down

Looking for Richard

Lookout, The

 Lord Jim

Lord of the Flies (1963)

Lord of the Rings, The: The FellowshiLp of the Ring

Lord of the Rings, The: The Return of the King

Lord of War

 Lore

Lost City, The

Lost Highway

Lost Patrol, The

Love is All You Need

Love Parade, The

Lovely and Amazing

Lovely Bones, The

 Loves of a Blonde

Lucy

Lust for Life

Lusty Men, The

Lured

M (1931)

M Butterfly

Machinist, The

Mad Love (1995)

Made

Made for Each Other

Made in England - The Films of Powell and Pressburger

Mademoiselle Fifi

Mafioso

Maggie's Plan

Magnificent Ambersons, The

Magnificent Obsession (1954)

Magnificent Seven, The

Magnolia

Mail Order Bride

Majestic, The

Malcolm X

 Malena

Maltese Falcon, The

 Mamma Roma

Man Between, The

Man for All Seasons, A

Man From Laramie, The

Man Hunt

Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The

Man in the Iron Mask, The (1939)

Man in the Iron Mask, The (1998)

 Man in the White Suit, The

Man of the West

Man Who Fell to Earth, The

Man Who Invented Christmas, The

Man Who Would Be King, The

Man With the Golden Arm, The

Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)

 Manchurian Candidate, The (2004)

Manderlay

Manhattan

Manhattan Melodrama

Manon of the Spring

Marathon Man

Margin Call

Margin For Error

Maria Full of Grace

Marianne & Leonard

Mark of Zorro, The (1920)

 Mark of Zorro, The (1940)

Marrying Kind, The

Martian, The

Marty

Marvin’s Room

Mask of Zorro, The

Master, The

Matrix, The

Matter of Life and Death, A

Mauritanian, The

May

 Member of the Wedding, The

Memento

Men, The

Men in Black

Mephisto

Merrill's Marauders

Merrily We Go To Hell

Metropolis (1927) 

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

Mi Familia/My Family

 Michael Clayton

Middle of the Night

 Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, A

 Milagro Beanfield War, The

Mildred Pierce

Milk

Miller’s Crossing

Million Dollar Baby

Minions  

Minority Report

Minstrel Man

Miracle at St. Anna

Miracle of Morgan Creek, The

 Miracle of 34th Street, The

Mirror Has Two Faces, The

Misfits, The

Missing 

Mission to Mars

Mission Impossible: Fallout

Mississippi Masala

Mist, The

Mo' Better Blues

Modern Times

Mojave

Mona Lisa Smile

 Model Shop

Mojave

Monsieur Verdoux

Monsignor

Monster’s Ball

Monuments Men, The

Moon 44

 Moonfleet

Moontide

Moon Over Harlem

Mosquito Coast, The

Mother, The (2004)

Mother (2009)

Mother! (2017) 

Motorcycle Diaries, The

 Moulin Rouge (1952)

Mountain, The

Mouse That Roared, The

Moustache, La

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)

Mr. Arkadin

Mr. Jones

Mr. Klein

Mulan

Mulholland Dr.

Munich

Muriel’s Wedding

Murmur of the Heart

Music Box

Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

My Brother Talks to Horses

My Cousin Vinny

My Darling Clementine

My Man Godfrey

My Mistress

My Week with Marilyn

Mystery Street

Mystic River

Naked City, The 

Naked Prey, The 

Naked Spur, The

Namesake, The 

Narc

Narrow Margin, The (1952) 

Necrophiliac Vol. I and II

Ned Kelly (2004)

Negotiator, The

Nana (1934)

Network

Never on Sunday

Never Take Candy From a Stranger

New Age, The

News of the World

Next of Kin (1984)

Niagara

Nice Guy Johnnie

Nickelodeon 

Night and the City

Night Angel, The

Night Must Fall

Night of the Generals, The

Night of the Hunter, The

Night of the Living Dead (1968) 

 Night People

Night Train to Munich

Nightcrawler

Nightmare Alley

Nights of Cabiria

Nightwalking

No Country for Old Men

No End in Sight

 No Regrets For Our Youth

No Subtitles Necessary: Lazlo and Vilmos

Nobody's Fool

Norma Jean and Marilyn

Northfork

 Not as a Stranger

Notte, La

Notorious (2009)

Notti Bianche, Le (White Nights 1957)

Nous La Liberte, A

Nun’s Story, The

Obsession

Ocean's Eleven (1960) 

October Sky

Odd Couple, The 

Odds Against Tomorrow

 Of Human Bondage (1946)

Of Unknown Origin

[The Student Prince in] Old Heidelberg 

Official Secrets

Old Yeller

On Dangerous Ground

On the Waterfront

Once a Thief

Once Upon a Time in America

Once Upon a Time in America

Once Were Warriors

One-Eyed Jacks 

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Hour Photo

 One Hour With You 

One of Our Aircraft id Missing

One Wonderful Sunday

Onion Field, The

Only Two Can Play

Open Water

Operation Crossbow

Oppenheimer

Opponent, The (2000)

Orange County

Orca: The Killer Whale

Original Sin

Orphanage, The

Orpheus (1949) 

Oscar, The

Other, The 

Others, The

Ottoman Liuetenant, The

Our Daily Bread

Our Man in Havana

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes 

Out of Africa

Out of the Furnace

Out of Time

Outcast of the Islands

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdock's War on Journalism

Outrage

Outside the Law (1920)

Overlord (2018)

Overnight

 Ox-Bow Incident, The

P.S.

Pain & Gain

Paint Your Wagon

Paisan 

Palm Beach Story, The

Panic in the Streets 

Paparazzi

Paper Chase, The

Paper Moon 

Paperboy, The

Paranoia (2013)

Paris, Texas

Paris Je T'Aime

Parker

Party Girl 

Passengers

Passion of Anna, The 

Passion of the Christ, The

 Pat and Mike

Paycheck

Payment Deferred

Peaceful Warrior

Pearl Harbor

Pelican Brief, The

People vs. Larry Flynt, The

Pepe Le Moko

Perfect Storm, The

 Performance

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Period of Adjustment

Persona

Peyton Place

Phaedra

Phantom Thread 

Phone Call from a Stranger

Pi

Pickup on South Street

Pinky

Pirates Of Silicon Valley

Planes (2013)

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Pleasantville

 Pledge, The

Pocahontas (1995)

Point Blank

Point Break

Poor Boy's Game

Pork Chop Hill

Portnoy's Complaint

Portrait of Jennie

 Poseidon Adventure, The

Possessed (1947)

Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946)

Power and the Glory, The

Power of the Dog, The

Premium Rush

Pretty Poison

Prey, The (2011)

Pride and Glory

Prime

 Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The

Prince and the Showgirl, The 

Prince of the City

Princess and the Warrior

Prisoner of Shark Island, The

Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The

Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, The

Promise, The

Prophet, A

Prowler, The 

Prozac Nation

Public Enemy, The

Pulp Fiction

Purple Rose of Cairo, The

Pursued

Quartet

Queen Christina

Queen Margot

Queen of Versailles, The

Quest for Fire

Quiet American, The (2002)

Quiet Duel, The

Quills

Quintet

Rabbit Hole

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Rain

Rain Man

Rainmaker, The

 Raintree Country

 Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins

Raising Arizona

Rambo: Last Blood

Rampage (2018)

Rancho Notorious

Random Harvest

 Ransom! (1956)

Ratatouille

Ravenous

Razor’s Edge, The (1946)

 Rebel Without a Cause

Recruit, The

 Red Badge of Courage, The

Red (2008)

Red (2010)

Red Headed Woman

Red Kimono, The

Red River

Red Tails

Redacted

Redes (1936)

Reds

Reefer Madness

Remains of the Day, The

Remarkable Andrew, The

Remember the Night

Rendition

Repulsion

Requiem for a Dream

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Restoration

Return of Frank James, The

Reunion in France

Revenge (2017)

Revolutionary Road

Ride Lonesome

Ride the High Country

Rififi

 Rifkin's Festival

Right Stuff, The

Ring, The

 Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story

Rings on Her Fingers

Ripley’s Game

 Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, The

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Rising of the Moon, The

Risky Business

Road to Guantanamo, The

Road to Perdition

Robber, The

Robe, The

Robin Hood (2018)

RoboCop (2014)

Rockabye

Rocketman

Rocking Horse Winner, The

Rocky

Roger Dodger

 Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The 

Romancing the Stone

Rome Open City 

Romper Stomper 

Ronde, Le 

Room at the To 

Room Next Door, The

Rosemary’s Baby

 Rounders, The (1965)

Roux, La

Rover, The

Rules of Engagement

 Run of the Arrow

Running Man, The (1963)

Rush

Saddle the Wind

Safe House

Sahara (2005)

 Saint Joan

Salvador

 Sand Pebbles, The

Sanshiro Sugata

Sanshiro Sugata Part 2

 Sansho the Bailiff

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Save the Last Dance

Save the Tiger

Saved!

 Scandal (1950)

Scandal in Paris, A

Scandal Sheet

Scarecrow (1773)

Scarface (1932)

 Scarlet Letter, The (1926)

Scarlet Street

Scent of a Woman

Score, The

Scorpio

Scout, The

Sea of Grass, The

Seabiscuit

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Search, The

Searchers, The

Searching for Debra Winger

Searching for Sugar Man

Seconds

Secret of Santa Vittoria, The

Secret Window

Secrets of a Soul

Secretariat

Selena

Self/less

Senior, The

Senso

Separate Lies

Seraphim Falls

Serenade

Sergeant Madden 

Sergeant Rutledge

Sergeant York

Serpico

Servant, The

Sessions, The

Set-Up, The

Seven Days in May

 Seven Five, The

Seven Samurai

 Seven Miles from Alcatraz

Seven Women 

Seven Years in Tibet

Seventh Cross, The 

Seventh Seal, The 

Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Sexy Beast 

Shadow of the Thin Man

Shadows 

Shalako

Shake Hands with the Devil

Shall We Dance? (1997)

Shallow Grave

Shampoo

Shame (2011)

Shape of Water, The

She's Gotta Have It

Shockproof

Shooting Stars

Shoeshine

Shop Around the Corner, The

 Shortbus

Sid and Nancy

 Side Street

Sideways

Silence, The

Silence de la Mer, Le

Silence of the Lambs, The

Silent Partner, The

Silk Stockings

Silver Linings Playbook

Simone

Simple Plan, A

 Sin of Harold Diddlebock, The

Since You Went Away

Sirocco

Sister Kenny

6th Day, The

Skeleton Key, The

 Sketches of Frank Gehry

Sleeper

Sleeping Tiger, The

Slender Thread, The

Slightly French 

Slipper and the Rose, The 

Smile

Sniper, The

Snowden

So Well Remembered

Socrates

Solaris (2002)

 Soloist, The

Somebody Up There Likes Me

 Something Always Happens

Something For the Birds

Something of Value

Somewhere in Time

Soul

Sound of Thunder, A

Space Cowboys

Spanglish

Spanking the Monkey

Speaking Parts

Species

Speed

Spencer

Spider-Man 2

 Spider-Man 3

Spiral Staircase, The

Splendor in the Grass

Spotlight

Spring Breakers

Spy Game

 Spy in Black

Square, The

Stage Struck (1958)

Stan & Ollie

Standing in the Shadows of Motown

 Star Is Born, A (1937)

Star Is Born, A (1954)

Star Trek: Into Darkness

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Stars in My Crown

Starting Over

State of Play

Stay

 Steel Helmet, The

Stepfather, The (1987)

 Stepford Wives, The (1975)

Sterile Cuckoo, The

Sting, The

Stir of Echoes

 Story of Adele H., The

Story of G.I. Joe

Storytelling

Straight Outta Compton

Straight Story, The

Strange Love of Martha Ives

Strange Woman, The

Stranger Than Fiction

 Strategic Air Command

Stray Dog

Stretch

Stromboli

Stuart Little

 Subject Was Roses, The

Success at Any Price

Substance, The

Suburbicon

Sucker Punch

Suddenly

Sugar

Sullivan’s Travels

 Summer Holiday

Summer of ’42

Summer Storm

Sundowners, The

Sunflower

Sunshine (1999)

Super Size Me

Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken

Susan and God

Suspect Zero

Sweet Bird of Youth

Sweet November

 Sweet Smell of Success

Swimming With Sharks

Swing Vote

Swingers

Swiss Family Robinson (1960)

Take Her She’s Mine

Take Shelter

Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The

Taking of Power By louis XIV< The

Talented Mr. Ripley, The

Talk to Her

Tall T, The

Tall Target, The

Tarzan the Ape Man

Taste of Cherry. A

Tea and Sympathy

Ted

Teeth

Telefon

 Tell No One

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Ten Seconds to Hell

Tenant, The

 Tender Mercies

Terminal, The

Terminal Station (aka Indiscretion of an American Wife)

Terra Trema, La

Thank You For Smoking

Thank You For Your Service

That Kind of Woman

 That Lady in Ermine

That Thing You Do

That Uncertain Feeling

Theater of Blood

Thelma and Louise

 Theory of Everything, The

There Will Be Blood

 There's Always Tomorrow

Therese and Isabelle

Their Finest

These Three

 They Gave Him a Gun

They Live By Night

They Shall Not Grow Old

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

They Were Expendable

They Won't Forget

Thieves’ Highway

Thin Man, The

Thing from Another World, The

Things We Lost in the Fire

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

 This Land Is Mine (1943)

This Sporting Life

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 

Three Days of the Condor

Three Faces of Eve, The

Three Fugitives

Three Godfathers (1936)

3 Godfathers (1948)

Three Kings

Throne of Blood

Time After Time

Time Machine, The

Time Out of Mind

Tin Drum, The 

Titus

To Be Or Not To Be (1942)

To Die For

 To Kill a Mockingbird

To Rome With Love

Tokyo Sonata

Tokyo Story

Tom Jones

Tomorrow We Live

Tootsie

Topkapi

Topper (1937)

Tortilla Flat

 Total Eclipse

Total Recall (1990)

Totally Under Control

Town, The

Toy Story 3 

 Toys

Trading Places

Train, The

Trainwreck

Transsiberian

Trapeze

Trash (2015)

Treasure of Sierre Madre, The

Tree of Life, The

Tribute to a Bad Man

Tristana

Troy

True Crime

 True Story of Jesse James, The

Truly Madly Deeply

Tucker: The Man and His Dreams

Tupac: Resurrection

 Turistas

Tusk

Twist of Faith

Two For the Money 

Two Smart People

Two Brothers

 Two-Faced Woman

Two Flags West

Two for the Road

Two for the Seesaw

Two Lovers

Two Weeks in Another Town

Two Women/Ciociara, La

Ultimate Heist

Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston

Umberto D.

Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The

Uncovered: The War on Iraq

Under The Tuscan Sun

Under the Volcano

Underground (1928)

Unfinished Life, An

Unforgiven

 Unforgiven, The

 United States of Secrets

Unknown Known, The

Unlocked 

Unlocking the Cage

Unmarried Woman, The

Until They Sail

Untouchables, The 

Up Close and Personal

Up in the Air 

Used Cars

V For Vendetta 

Valentino (1977)

Valet, The

Valkyrie

Vampira and Me

Vanilla Sky 

Vanishing, The (1988) 

Vantage Point

Vera Cruz

Verdict, The

Very Long Engagement, A

Very Special Favor, A

Victim

Victor/Victoria

Village of the Damned (1960)

 Vincent and Theo

Virgin Spring, The

Viridiana

Vision

Visitor, The

Viva Maria!

Viva Villa!

Viva Zapata!

Voyage of the Damned

Voyage to Italy

Wait Until Dark

Walk Among the Tombstones

Walk in the Clouds, A

Walk in the Sun, A

 Wall, The

Wall Street 

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

WALL-E

Wal*Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

Wannabe, The (2015)

Wanted

Waterloo Bridge (1931)

War For the Planet of the Apes 

War Horse

War of the Roses, The

 War of the Worlds (20005)

WarGames

Warlock 

Warrior

Wasp Woman, The

Water For Elephants

Waterfront (AKA Waterfront Women)

Waterloo Bridge (1931)

Wave, The (2015)

Way Back, The

Way We Were, The

We Bought a Zoo

We Live Again

We Own the Night

We Were Soldiers

 We Were Strangers

Weather Underground, The

Weight of Water, The

Went the Day Well?

Western Union

Whale Rider

What Lies Beneath

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane 

 What Maisie Knew

What Price Hollywood?

Where the Sidewalk Ends

While the City Sleeps

Whisperers, The

White Man’s Burden

White Ribbon, The 

 White Sheik, The

Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everybody 

Talkin' About Him)? 

Who Killed the Electric Car?

Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollack

 Whole Town’s Talking, The

Why We Fight (2005)

 Wichita

Wicker Man, The (1974)

Wife, The

Wild Bunch, The

 Wild Man Blues

Wild Mountain Thyme

Wild Party, The (1929)

Wild River

Wild Rovers

Wild Strawberries

Winchester '73

Wind River

Wind That Shakes the Barley, The

Wings of Desire

Wings of Eagles, The

Winter's Bone

Without Pity

Woman in Red, The

Woman in the Window, The

 Woman of Straw

Woman’s World

Wrestler, The

Written on the Wind

 Wrong Box, The

X-Men: First Class

Yakuza, The

Yards, The

Year of Living Dangeroulsy, The

Yellowstone Kelly

Yentl

Yes Men, The 

Yesterday

Yes Men Are Revolting, The

Yes Men Fix the World, The

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow/Leri, Oggi, Domani

You Can Count On Me

You Don't Know Jack

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Young Ideas 

 Young Man With a Horn

Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Savages, The

Young Stranger, The

Young Winston

Your Cheatin' Heart

Yves Saint Laurent

Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Theorem, The

Zipper

Zombieland

Zookeeper's Wife, The

 

 

 

 

In addition, the following filmmakers (listed alphabetically) have consistently shown an ability to understand the medium as an art form: Woody Allen, Edward Burns, James Cameron, Frank Capra, Nick Cassavetes, John Dahl, Nora Ephron, David Fincher, Antoine Fuqua, Alfred Hitchcock, Gregory Hoblit, Norman Jewison, Neil Jordan, Stanley Kramer, Stanley Kubrick, Neil LaBute, David Lean, Rod Lurie, Luis Mandoki, Joseph Mankiewicz, Elaine May, Michael Moore, Mike Nichols, Alan Parker, Robert Rossen, Martin Scorsese, M. Night Shyamalan, George Stevens, Billy Wilder, William Wyler, Edward Zwick

 

 

Other filmmakers for consideration but their body of work has not been fully viewed are: Robert Aldrich, Michael Anderson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Richard Brooks, George Cukor, Jules Dassin, Vittorio Di Sica, Kirby Dick, Edward Dmytryk, Alex Gibney, John Huston, Elia Kazan, Akiro Kurasawa, Fritz Lang, Sidney Lumet, Rouben Mamoulian, Anthony Mann, Michael Powell, Otto Preminger, Nicholas Ray, Carol Reed, Roberto Rossellini, Fred Zinnemann