Movies by Lists - Martin Scorseses 125 Favorite Films (124 [125]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 8½A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. | 1963 | Federico Fellini (*) | Drama | 8.0 (115.2K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| 400 BlowsA young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime. | 1959 | François Truffaut (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.1 (113.8K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| 2001 A Space Odyssey The Monoliths push humanity to reach for the stars; after their discovery in Africa generations ago, the mysterious objects lead mankind on an awesome journey to Jupiter, with the help of H.A.L. 9000: the world's greatest supercomput | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Adventure, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (642.5K votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
| Ace in the HoleA frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus. | 1951 | Billy Wilder (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 8.1 (34.8K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Aguirre The Wrath Of God [Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes]In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado. | 1972 | Werner Herzog (*) | Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History | 7.9 (55.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Ali - Fear Eats the Soul [Angst essen Seele auf]A lonely widow meets a much younger Arab worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies. | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.0 (20.9K votes) | 92 | 20220414 |
| All That Heaven AllowsAn upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers. | 1955 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (14.4K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| America AmericaA young Greek stops at nothing to secure a passage to America. | 1963 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama | 7.8 (5.4K votes) | 174 | 20211228 |
| American Friend, TheTom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man. | 1977 | Wim Wenders (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (15.7K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| An American in ParisThree friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman. | 1951 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.2 (32.8K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Apocalypse NowA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god. | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Drama, Mystery, War | 8.4 (641.8K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Arsenic And Old LaceA Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation when he decides to tie the knot. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers. | 1943 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 8.0 (69.5K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Ashes and Diamonds [Popiól i diament]As WWII and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Russian forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland. | 1958 | Andrzej Wajda (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.8 (11.7K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Bad and the Beautiful, TheAn unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success. | 1952 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (14.5K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Band of Outsiders [Bande a part]Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery. | 1964 | Jean-Luc Godard (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.7 (24.4K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Band Wagon, TheA pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition. | 1953 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.5 (11.1K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Beauty and the Beast [La Belle et la Bête]A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her. | 1946 | Jean Cocteau, René Clément | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.9 (25.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Before the RevolutionFollowing the death of his friend, an Italian youth grows increasingly closer to his young aunt. | 1964 | Bernardo Bertolucci (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (2.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Bicycle Thief [Ladri di Biciclette]In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it. | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica (*) | Drama | 8.3 (158.6K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Big Deal on Madonna Street [I Soliti Ignoti]A motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce. | 1958 | Mario Monicelli | Comedy, Crime | 8.0 (10.2K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Blow-UpA fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park. | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (60.3K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Born on the Fourth of JulyThe biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for. | 1989 | Oliver Stone (*) | Biography, Drama, War | 7.2 (103.7K votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Boucher, LeAn unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town. | 1970 | Claude Chabrol (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.4 (8.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| BreathlessA small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy. | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.8 (78.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Cape FearA lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail. | 1962 | J. Lee Thompson | Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (28.5K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Cat PeopleAn American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together. | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 7.3 (22K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| CaughtAn ambitious young LA department store model gets her wish of marrying a millionaire but she eventually discovers that rich life isn't always a happy one. | 1949 | Max Ophüls (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.0 (3.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Children of Paradise [Les enfants du paradis]The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her. | 1945 | Marcel Carné (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.4 (19.4K votes) | 189 | 20211228 |
| Citizen KaneFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'. | 1941 | Orson Welles (*) | Drama, Mystery | 8.3 (429.4K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Conversation, TheA paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered. | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 (108K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Death by Hanging [Koshikei]A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce. | 1968 | Nagisa Ôshima | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.6 (2.7K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Dial M For MurderA former tennis player tries to arrange his wife's murder after learning of her affair. | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Thriller | 8.2 (169.9K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Do the Right ThingOn the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. | 1989 | Spike Lee (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.0 (98.7K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler [Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit]Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him. | 1922 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (8.2K votes) | 242 | 20211228 |
| Duel in the SunBeautiful, biracial, Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad. | 1946 | King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies | Drama, Romance, Western | 6.8 (8.5K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Earth Trembles, The [La terra trema]In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently. | 1948 | Luchino Visconti (*) | Drama | 7.9 (4.9K votes) | 160 | 20211228 |
| Easy Life, The [Il Sorpasso]An impulsive braggart takes a shy law student with him for a two-day road trip from Rome to Tuscany. | 1962 | Dino Risi | Comedy, Drama | 8.3 (10.5K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The [Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle]A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note. | 1974 | Werner Herzog (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.8 (17.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Europa '51A wealthy woman becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies after committing suicide. | 1952 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Drama | 7.5 (4K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| FacesA middle-aged man leaves his wife for another woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other. | 1968 | John Cassavetes (*) | Drama | 7.6 (10.4K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Fall Of The Roman Empire, TheThe death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire. | 1964 | Anthony Mann (*) | Drama, History, War | 6.7 (9K votes) | 188 | 20211228 |
| Flowers of St. Francis, TheA series of vignettes depicting the lives of the original Franciscan monks, including their leader and the bumbling Ginepro. | 1950 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Biography, Comedy, Drama, History | 7.4 (3.6K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Force Of EvilAn unethical lawyer, with an older brother he wants to help, becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket. | 1948 | Abraham Polonsky (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.3 (6.6K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Forty GunsShowdown in Arizona between the Bonnell brothers, U.S.Marshals, and Jessica Drummond, the iron-fist rancher who controls the territory. | 1957 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Drama, Romance, Western | 7.0 (5.1K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Four Horsement of the Apocalypse, TheAn extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I. | 1921 | Rex Ingram | Drama, Romance, War | 7.2 (3.3K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| Germany Year Zero [Germania, anno zero]A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin. | 1948 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Drama, War | 7.9 (12K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| GildaA small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover. | 1946 | Charles Vidor (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.6 (31.5K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Godfather Part I, TheThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty in postwar New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son. | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Crime, Drama | 9.2 (1.7M votes) | 175 | 20211228 |
| Grand Illusion, The [La Grande Illusion]During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress. | 1937 | Jean Renoir (*) | Drama, War | 8.1 (35.8K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Gun CrazyTwo disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree. | 1950 | Joseph H. Lewis (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.6 (13K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| HealtHA parody and satire of the U.S. political scene of the time, HealtH is set at a health food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization is deciding on a new president. | 1980 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy | 5.7 (811 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Heaven's GateDuring the Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, a sheriff born into wealth does his best to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests. | 1980 | Michael Cimino (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 6.8 (14.8K votes) | 219 | 20211228 |
| High and Low [Tengoku to jigoku]An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom. | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.4 (41.4K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| House of WaxAn associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous. | 1953 | André De Toth | Horror | 7.1 (17.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| How Green Was My ValleyAt the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. | 1941 | John Ford (*) | Drama, Family | 7.7 (23.4K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Hustler, TheAn up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match. | 1961 | Robert Rossen (*) | Drama, Sport | 8.0 (80.3K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| I Walk AloneFrankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn't prepare Frankie for Big Business. | 1947 | Byron Haskin | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.1 (2.8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| IkiruA bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer. | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Drama | 8.3 (75.5K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| It Happened One NightA renegade reporter trailing a young runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York, and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops. | 1934 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Romance | 8.1 (100.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Jason and the ArgonautsThe legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece. | 1963 | Don Chaffey | Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 7.3 (27.1K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Journey to Italy [Viaggio in Italia]An unhappily married couple attempts to find direction and insight while vacationing in Naples. | 1954 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (10.2K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Julius CaesarThe growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony. | 1953 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*) | Drama, History | 7.3 (11.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Kings of The RoadA traveling projection-equipment mechanic works in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out theatres. He meets with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel together | 1976 | Wim Wenders (*) | Drama | 7.8 (5.7K votes) | 175 | 20211228 |
| Kiss Me DeadlyA doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit". | 1955 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.6 (20K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| KluteA small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute. | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (25.1K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Lady from Shanghai, TheFascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot. | 1947 | Orson Welles (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (29.5K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| L'AvventuraA woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other. | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni (*) | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 7.8 (28.8K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| Leopard, TheThe Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily. | 1963 | Luchino Visconti (*) | Drama, History | 8.0 (25.1K votes) | 186 | 20211228 |
| MacbethMacbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. | 1948 | Orson Welles (*) | Drama, History, War | 7.5 (7K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Magic Box, TheA chronicle of the life of William Friese-Greene, a British inventor and early pioneer in cinema. | 1951 | John Boulting | Biography, Drama | 7.1 (1.2K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Marriage of Maria Braun, The [Die Ehe der Maria Braun]Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s. | 1979 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder (*) | Drama | 7.8 (13.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| MASHThe staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. | 1970 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Drama, War | 7.4 (71.2K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Matter Of Life And Death, AA British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl. | 1946 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Drama, Fantasy, Romance, War | 8.1 (21.4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| McCabe & Mrs. MillerA gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene. | 1971 | Robert Altman (*) | Drama, Western | 7.7 (24.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Merchant of Four Seasons, TheHans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair. | 1972 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder (*) | Drama | 7.4 (4.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Messiah, The [Il Messia]The story of the life of Jesus Christ. | 1975 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Biography, History | 6.6 (326 votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| MetropolisIn a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. | 1927 | Fritz Lang (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (169.6K votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
| Midnight CowboyA naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process. | 1969 | John Schlesinger (*) | Drama | 7.8 (108.2K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Mishima - A Life In Four ChaptersA fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. | 1985 | Paul Schrader (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (10.9K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Mr. Deeds Goes to TownA unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him. | 1936 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (21K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonA naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his char | 1939 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.1 (113.2K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| NapoleonA film about the French general's youth and early military career. | 1927 | Abel Gance (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 8.2 (7.7K votes) | 330 | 20211228 |
| NashvilleOver the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention. | 1975 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.7 (25.6K votes) | 160 | 20211228 |
| Night and the CityA small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter. | 1950 | Jules Dassin | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Sport, Thriller | 7.9 (13.3K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| NoseratuVampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. | 1922 | F.W. Murnau (*) | Fantasy, Horror | 7.9 (93.9K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| One, Two, ThreeIn West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter. | 1961 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy | 7.9 (20.7K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| OthelloThe Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago. | 1951 | Orson Welles (*) | Drama, History, Romance | 7.6 (8.4K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Paisan [Paisa]American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat. | 1946 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Drama, War | 7.7 (8.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Peeping TomA young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. | 1960 | Michael Powell (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.7 (34.2K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Pickup on South StreetA pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring. | 1953 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.7 (14.2K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Player, TheA Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected, but which one? | 1992 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.5 (58.5K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Power and the Glory, TheA man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was | 1933 | William K. Howard | Drama | 6.7 (661 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Raw DealJoe Sullivan has taken the rap for Rick who double-crosses him with a flawed escape plan and other means intended to get rid of him. | 1948 | Anthony Mann (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.2 (4.6K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Red Shoes, TheA young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina. | 1948 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Drama, Music, Romance | 8.1 (33.8K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Rise of Louis XIV, The [La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV]After the death of Cardinal Mazarin, young king Louis XIV decides to assert his power to control the aristocracy. | 1966 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Biography, History | 7.2 (1.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| River, TheThe growing pains of three young women contrast with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold. | 1951 | Jean Renoir (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (6.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Roaring Twenties, TheThree men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I. | 1939 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.9 (13.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Rocco and His Brothers [Rocco e i Suoi Fratelli]Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone. | 1960 | Luchino Visconti (*) | Crime, Drama, Sport | 8.3 (18.4K votes) | 179 | 20211228 |
| Rome Open CityDuring the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape. | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Drama, Thriller, War | 8.1 (25.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Rules of the Game, TheA bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau. | 1939 | Jean Renoir (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.0 (28.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Salvatore GiulianoThe unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano. | 1962 | Francesco Rosi (*) | Crime, Drama, History, Mystery | 7.4 (3.2K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Sansho the BailiffIn medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression. | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi (*) | Drama | 8.4 (16K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Searchers, TheAn American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm. | 1956 | John Ford (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.9 (86.6K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| SensoAn Italian Countess is allied with Nationalists during the Italian-Austrian war of unification. However, she risks betraying their cause when she falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant. | 1954 | Luchino Visconti (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.5 (6.7K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Seven SamuraiA poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves. | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Action, Drama | 8.6 (334.9K votes) | 207 | 20211228 |
| ShadowsCassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City. | 1958 | John Cassavetes (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (11.2K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Shock CorridorBent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder. | 1963 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Drama, Mystery | 7.4 (11.8K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Shoot the Piano Player [Tirez sur le pianiste]Charlie is approached by his crook brother Chico, who is chased by two gangsters. Charlie helps him to escape, but he upsets the criminals, so when his brother Fido is kidnapped, Charlie has to take an attitude with tragic consequenc | 1960 | François Truffaut (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.5 (18.8K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Some Came RunningA veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals. | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (6.4K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| StagecoachA group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process. | 1939 | John Ford (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.9 (47.4K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| StromboliKarin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli. | 1950 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Drama | 7.3 (6.8K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Sullivans TravelsHollywood director John L Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie. | 1941 | Preston Sturges (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (25.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Sweet Smell of SuccessPowerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician. | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 8.0 (30.8K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Taking of Power by Louis XIV, The [La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV]After the death of Cardinal Mazarin, young king Louis XIV decides to assert his power to control the aristocracy. | 1966 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Biography, History | 7.1 (1.7K votes) | 90 | 20240826 |
| Third Man, ThePulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. | 1949 | Carol Reed (*) | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (167.7K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| T-MenTwo US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring. | 1947 | Anthony Mann (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 6.9 (3.5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Tokyo Story [Tôkyô monogatari]An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention. | 1953 | Yasujirô Ozu (*) | Drama | 8.2 (59.2K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Touch of EvilA stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town. | 1958 | Orson Welles (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 8.0 (102.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Trial, TheAn unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges. | 1962 | Orson Welles (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (20.9K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Two Weeks in Another TownAfter spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption. | 1962 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Drama | 6.5 (2.5K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Ugetsu [Ugetsu monogatari]A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century. | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi (*) | Drama, Fantasy, War | 8.2 (22.8K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Umberto DAn elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome. | 1952 | Vittorio De Sica (*) | Drama | 8.2 (25.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| VertigoA former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed. | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 8.3 (389.4K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| WeekendA surreal tale of a married couple going on a road trip to visit the wife's parents with the intention of killing them for the inheritance. | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (14.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Le cake-walk infernal | 1903 | Georges Méliès | Short, Fantasy, Horror | 6.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| I segreti dell'anima | 1912 | Vincenzo Denizot | Short, Drama | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |