The films chosen for this list were limited to English language films made since the birth of the talkies.
Casablanca (1942), dir. Michael Curtiz - The Godfather Part II (1974), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
- North By Northwest (1959), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Citizen Kane (1941), dir. Orson Welles
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962), dir. David Lean
- Manhattan (1979), dir. Woody Allen
- Gone With The Wind (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
- Chinatown (1974), dir. Roman Polanski
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), dir. John Ford
- City Lights (1931), dir. Charles Chaplin
- Raging Bull (1980), dir. Martin Scorsese
- Sunset Boulevard (1950), dir. Billy Wilder
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), dir. Stanley Kubrick
- The Philadelphia Story (1940), dir. George Cukor
- To Have and Have Not (1944), dir. Howard Hawks
- The Graduate (1967), dir. Mike Nichols
- The Maltese Falcon (1941), dir. John Huston
- Star Wars (1977), dir. George Lucas
- It's A Wonderful Life (1946), dir. Frank Capra
- The Wild Bunch (1969), dir. Sam Peckinpah
- Vertigo (1958), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Singin' In The Rain (1952), dir. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
- The Godfather (1972), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
- E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), dir. Steven Spielberg
- The Palm Beach Story (1942), dir. Preston Sturges
- Blade Runner (1982), dir. Ridley Scott
- Double Indemnity (1944), dir. Billy Wilder
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962), dir. John Frankenheimer
- All About Eve (1950), dir. Joseph Mankiewicz
- The Searchers (1956), dir. John Ford
- Rear Window (1954), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Annie Hall (1977), dir. Woody Allen
- Ninotchka (1939), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
- Blue Velvet (1986), dir. David Lynch
- The Wizard of Oz (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
- Bringing Up Baby (1938), dir. Howard Hawks
- The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957), dir. David Lean
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964), dir. Stanley Kubrick
- Pulp Fiction (1994), dir. Quentin Tarantino
- Some Like It Hot (1959), dir. Billy Wilder
- On The Waterfront (1954), dir. Elia Kazan
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975), dir. Milos Forman
- Taxi Driver (1976), dir. Martin Scorsese
- Touch Of Evil (1958), dir. Orson Welles
- Nashville (1975), dir. Robert Altman
- Apocalypse Now (1979), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
- The Hustler (1961), dir. Robert Rossen
- The Big Sleep (1946), dir. Howard Hawks
- Bonnie And Clyde (1967), dir. Arthur Penn
- Unforgiven (1992), dir. Clint Eastwood
- Network (1976), dir. Sidney Lumet
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991), dir. Jonathan Demme
- Jaws (1975), dir. Steven Spielberg
- The Deer Hunter (1978), dir. Michael Cimino
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), dir. Woody Allen
- Gunga Din (1939), dir. George Stevens
- Schindler's List (1993), dir. Steven Spielberg
- Hud (1963), dir. Martin Ritt
- The Third Man (1949), dir. Carol Reed
- Modern Times (1936), dir. Charles Chaplin
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), dir. Steven Spielberg
- Red River (1948), dir. Howard Hawks
- The Empire Strikes Back (1980), dir. Irvin Kershner
- Hamlet (1948), dir. Laurence Olivier
- Notorious (1946), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), dir. Elia Kazan
- Last Tango in Paris (1972), dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
- Sweet Smell of Success (1957), dir. Alexander Mackendrick
- Out Of The Past (1947), dir. Jacques Tournier
- All That Jazz (1979), dir. Bob Fosse
- Top Hat (1935), dir. Mark Sandrich
- The Misfits (1961), dir. John Huston
- Tootsie (1982), dir. Sydney Pollack
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), dir. Frank Capra
- Short Cuts (1993), dir. Robert Altman
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940), dir. John Ford
- The Apartment (1960), dir. Billy Wilder
- A Clockwork Orange (1971), dir. Stanley Kubrick
- Psycho (1960), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Moonstruck (1987), dir. Norman Jewison
- GoodFellas (1990), dir. Martin Scorsese
- Stagecoach (1939), dir. John Ford
- The Last Picture Show (1971), dir. Peter Bogdanovich
- Die Hard (1988), dir. John McTiernan
- Midnight Cowboy (1969), dir. John Schlesinger
- West Side Story (1961), dir. Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
- The Quiet Man (1952), dir. John Ford
- Reds (1981), dir. Warren Beatty
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955), dir. Nicholas Ray
- A Hard Day's Night (1964), dir. Richard Lester
- A Room With A View (1986), dir. James Ivory
- From Here to Eternity (1953), dir. Fred Zinnemann
- The Piano (1993), dir. Jane Campion
- Adam's Rib (1949), dir. George Cukor
- This Is Spinal Tap (1984), dir. Rob Reiner
- It Happened One Night (1934), dir. Frank Capra
- Do the Right Thing (1989), dir. Spike Lee
- The Thin Man (1934), dir. W.S. Van Dyke
- Patton (1970), dir. Franklin Schaffner
- The Terminator (1984), dir. James Cameron
