The Frame

Part 2: 1960-2004

1900-1929

A Trip to the Moon (1902; Georges Méliès)
The Great Train Robbery (1903; Edwin S. Porter)
The Birth of a Nation (1915; D.W. Griffith)
Les Vampires (1915; Louis Feuillade)
Intolerance (1916; D.W. Griffith)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919; Robert Weine)
Broken Blossoms (1919; D.W. Griffith)
Way Down East (1920; D.W. Griffith)
Within Our Gates (1920; Oscar Micheaux)
The Phantom Carriage (1921; Victor Sjöström)
Orphans of the Storm (1921; D.W. Griffith)
The Smiling Madame Beudet (1922; Germaine Dulac)
Dr. Mabuse (1922; Fritz Lang)
Nanook of the North (1922; Robert J. Flaherty)
Nosferatu (1922; F.W. Murnau)
Häxan (1923; Benjamin Christensen)
Foolish Wives (1923; Erich von Stroheim)
Our Hospitality (1923; Buster Keaton & John G. Blystone)
The Wheel (1923; Abel Gance)
The Thief of Baghdad (1924; Raoul Walsh)
Strike (1924; Sergei Eisenstein)
Greed (1924; Erich von Stroheim)
Sherlock Jr. (1924; Buster Keaton & Roscoe Arbuckle)
The Last Laugh (1924; F.W. Murnau)
Seven Chances (1925; Buster Keaton)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925; Rupert Julian & Lon Chaney)
The Battleship Potemkin (1925; Sergei Eisenstein)
The Gold Rush (1925; Charlie Chaplin)
The Big Parade (1925; King Vidor)
Metropolis (1927; Fritz Lang)
Sunrise (1927; F.W. Murnau)
The General (1927; Buster Keaton)
The Unknown (1927; Tod Browning)
Oktober (1927; Sergei Eisenstein)
The Jazz Singer (1927; Alan Crosland)
Napoléon (1927; Abel Gance)
The Kid Brother (1927; J.A. Howe & Ted Wilde)
The Crowd (1928; King Vidor)
The Docks of New York (1928; Josef von Sternberg)
Un Chien Andalou (1928; Luis Buñuel)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928; Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928; Buster Keaton & Charles Reisner)
Storm Over Asia (1928; Vsevolod Pudovkin)
Blackmail (1929; Alfred Hitchcock)
Man With a Movie Camera (1929; Dziga Vertov)
Pandora’s Box (1929; Georg Wilhelm Pabst)

1930-1939

The Blue Angel (1930; Josef von Sternberg)
L’age d’or (1930; Luis Buñuel)
Earth (1930; Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
Little Caesar (1931; Mervyn LeRoy)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930; Lewis Milestone)
À nous la liberté (1930; René Clair)
Le million (1931; René Clair)
Tabu (1931; F.W. Murnau)
Dracula (1931; Tod Browning)
Frankenstein (1931; James Whale)
City Lights (1931; Charlie Chaplin)
The Public Enemy (1931; William A. Wellman)
M (1931; Fritz Lang)
La Chienne (1931; Jean Renoir)
Vampyre (1932; Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Love Me Tonight (1932; Rouben Mamoulian)
Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932; Jean Renoir)
I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932; Mervyn LeRoy)
Trouble in Paradise (1932; Ernst Lubitsch)
Scarface: The Shame of a Nation (1932; Howard Hawks)
Shanghai Express (1932; Josef von Sternberg)
Freaks (1932; Tod Browning)
Me and My Gal (1932; Raoul Walsh)
Zéro for Conduct (1933; Jean Vigo)
42nd Street (1933; Lloyd Bacon)
Footlight Parade (1933; Lloyd Bacon)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933; Mervyn LeRoy)
She Done Him Wrong (1933; Lowell Sherman)
Duck Soup (1933; Leo McCarey)
Queen Christina (1933; Rouben Mamoulian)
Land Without Bread (1933; Luis Buñuel)
King Kong (1933; Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933; Frank Capra)
Sons of the Desert (1933; William A. Seiter)
It’s a Gift (1933; Norman Z. McLeod)
Triumph of the Will (1934; Leni Reifenstahl)
L’atalante (1934; Jean Vigo)
The Black Cat (1934; Edgar G. Ulmer)
Judas Priest (1934; John Ford)
It Happened One Night (1934; Frank Capra)
The Thin Man (1934; W.S. Van Dyke)
Captain Blood (1935; Michael Curtiz)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935; Frank Lloyd)
A Night at the Opera (1935; Sam Wood)
The 39 Steps (1935; Alfred Hitchcock)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935; James Whale)
Top Hat (1935; Mark Sandrich)
A Day in the Country (1936; Jean Renoir)
Modern Times (1936; Charlie Chaplin)
Swing Time (1936; George Stevens)
My Man Godfrey (1936; Gregory LaCava)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936; Frank Capra)
Camille (1936; George Cukor)
Sabotage (1936; Alfred Hitchcock)
Dodsworth (1936; William Wyler)
Things to Come (1936; William Cameron Menzies)
The Story of a Cheat (1936; Sacha Guitry)
Captains Courageous (1937; Victor Fleming)
Midnight Song (1937; Ma-Xu Weibang)
Grand Illusion (1937; Jean Renoir)
Stella Dallas (1937; King Vidor)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937; William Dieterle)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937; Leo McCarey)
Snow White and Seven Dwarfs (1937; Walt Disney)
The Awful Truth (1937; Leo McCarey)
Pépé le Moko (1937; Julien Duvivier)
Jezebel (1938; William Wyler)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938; Michael Curtiz & William Keighley)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938; Michael Curtiz)
Olympia (1938; Leni Reinfenstahl)
The Baker’s Wife (1938; Marcel Pagnol)
Bringing Up Baby (1938; Howard Hawks)
Stagecoach (1939; John Ford)
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (1939; Kenji Mizaguchi)
Babes in Arms (1939; Busby Berkeley)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939; Frank Capra)
The Wizard of Oz (1939; Victor Fleming)
Destry Rides Again (1939; George Marshall)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939; Howard Hawks)
Gone With the Wind (1939; Victor Fleming)
Daybreak (1939; Marcel Carné)
Gunga Din (1939; George Stevens)
Ninotchka (1939; Ernst Lubitsch)
The Rules of the Game (1939; Jean Renoir)
Wuthering Heights (1939; William Wyler)

1940-1949

His Girl Friday (1940; Howard Hawks)
Rebecca (1940; Alfred Hitchcock)
Fantasia (1940; Ben Sharpsteen)
The Philadelphia Story (1940; George Cukor)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940; John Ford)
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940; Dorothy Arzner)
Pinocchio (1940; Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen)
The Mortal Storm (1940; Frank Borzage)
The Bank Dick (1940; Edward F. Cline)
Citizen Kane (1941; Orson Welles)
The Lady Eve (1941; Preston Sruges)
The Wolf Man (1941; George Waggner)
The Maltese Falcon (1941; John Huston)
Sergeant York (1941; Howard Hawks)
Dumbo (1941; Ben Sharpsteen)
High Sierra (1941; Raoul Walsh)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941; Preston Sturges)
How Green Was My Valley (1941; John Ford)
The Palm Beach Story (1942; Preston Sturges)
Now, Voyager (1942; Irving Rapper)
Casablanca (1942; Michael Curtiz)
To Be or Not to Be (1942; Ernst Lubitsch)
Cat People (1942; Jacques Tourneur)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942; Orson Welles)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942; Michael Curtiz)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943; Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)
Fires Were Started (1943; Humphrey Jennings)
The Man in Grey (1943; Leslie Arliss)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943; Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
I Walked With a Zombie (1943; Jacques Tourneur)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943; William A. Wellman)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943; Alfred Hitchcock)
Ossessione (1943; Luchino Visconti)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944; Vincente Minnelli)
To Have and Have Not (1944; Howard Hawks)
Laura (1944; Otto Preminger)
Gaslight (1944; George Cukor)
Henry V (1944; Laurence Olivier)
Ivan the Terrible (1944; Sergei Eisenstein)
Double Indemnity (1944; Billy Wilder)
Murder, My Sweet (1944; Edward Dmytryk)
The Battle of San Pietro (1945; John Huston)
Spellbound (1945; Alfred Hitchcock)
Mildred Pierce (1945; Michael Curtiz)
Children of Paradise (1945; Marcel Carné)
Open City (1945; Roberto Rossellini)
The Lost Weekend (1945; Billy Wilder)
Detour (1945; Edgar G. Ullmer)
I Know Where I’m Going! (1945; Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946; William Wyler)
Brief Encounter (1946; David Lean)
Paisan (1946; Roberto Rossellini)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946; Tay Garnett)
My Darling Clementine (1946; John Ford)
The Stranger (1946; Orson Welles)
Beauty and the Beast (1946; Jean Cocteau)
The Big Sleep (1946; Howard Hawks)
The Killers (1946; Robert Siodmak)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946; Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Great Expectations (1946; David Lean)
Notorious (1946; Alfred Hitchcock)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946; Frank Capra)
Gilda (1946; Charles Vidor)
Black Narcissus (1947; Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947; Charlie Chaplin)
Out of the Past (1947; Jacques Tourneur)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947; Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Odd Man Out (1947; Carol Reed)
Bicycle Thieves (1948; Vittorio de Sica)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948; Max Oph&üls)
Secret Beyond the Door (1948; Fritz Lang)
Force of Evil (1948; Abraham Polonsky)
Spring in a Small Town (1948; Fei Mu)
Red River (1948; Howard Hawks & Arthur Rosson)
Rope (1948; Alfred Hitchcock)
The Snake Pit (1948; Anatole Litvak)
The Lady from Shanghai (1948; Orson Welles)
The Paleface (1948; Norman Z. McLeod)
The Red Shoes (1948; Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948; John Huston)
Louisiana Story (1948; Robert J. Flaherty)
The Heiress (1949; William Wyler)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949; Robert Harner)
Gun Crazy (1949; Joseph H. Lewis)
Adam’s Rib (1949; George Cukor)
Whisky Galore! (1949; Alexander Mackendrick)
White Heat (1949; Raoul Walsh)
The Reckless Moment (1949; Max Ophüs)
The Third Man (1949; Carol Reed)
On the Town (1949; Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
Orpheus (1949; Jean Cocteau)

1950-1959

The Asphalt Jungle (1950; John Huston)
Rashomon (1950; Akira Kurosawa)
Winchester ‘73 (1950; Anthony Mann)
Rio Grande (1950; John Ford)
All About Eve (1950; Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Sunset Boulevard (1950; Billy Wilder)
The Young and the Damned (1950; Luis Buñuel)
In a Lonely Place (1950; Nicholas Ray)
The Big Carnival (aka Ace in the Hole) (1951; Billy Wilder)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951; Elia Kazan)
Strangers on a Train (1951; Alfred Hitchcock)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951; Charles Crighton)
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951; Albert Lewin)
The African Queen (1951; John Huston)
Diary of a Country Priest (1951; Robert Bresson)
An American in Paris (1951; Vincente Minnelli)
A Place in the Sun (1951; George Stevens)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951; Robert Wise)
The Quiet Man (1952; John Ford)
Forbidden Games (1952; René Clément)
Angel Face (1952; Otto Preminger)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952; Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
Ikiru (1952; Akira Kurosawa)
Europa ‘51 (1952; Roberto Rossellini)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952; Vincente Minnelli)
The Big Sky (1952; Howard Hawks)
High Noon (1952; Fred Zinnemann)
Umberto D (1952; Vittorio de Sica)
The Golden Coach (1952; Jean Renoir)
The Bigamist (1953; Ida Lupino)
The Band Wagon (1953; Vincente Minnelli)
The Earrings of Madame de… (1953; Max Ophüls)
From Here to Eternity (1953; Fred Zinnemann)
Tokyo Story (1953; Yasujiro Ozu)
Roman Holiday (1953; William Wyler)
The Wages of Fear (1953; Henri-Georges Clouzot)
The Naked Spur (1953; Anthony Mann)
Pickup on South Street (1953; Samuel Fuller)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953; Howard Hawks)
The Big Heat (1953; Fritz Lang)
M. Hulot’s Holiday (1953; Jacques Tati)
Voyage in Italy (1953; Roberto Rossellini)
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953; Kenji Mizoguchi)
Shane (1953; George Stevens)
Beat the Devil (1953; John Huston)
Johnny Guitar (1954; Nicholas Ray)
On the Waterfront (1954; Elia Kazan)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954; Stanley Donen)
Les Diaboliques (1954; Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Animal Farm (1954; Joy Batchelor & John Halas)
Rear Window (1954; Alfred Hitchcock)
A Star is Born (1954; George Cukor)
The Barefoot Contessa (1954; Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
La Strada (1954; Federico Fellini)
The Seven Samurai (1954; Akira Kurosawa)
Senso (1954; Luchino Visconti)
Silver Lode (1954; Allan Dwan)
Carmen Jones (1954; Otto Preminger)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954; Kenji Mizoguchi)
Salt of the Earth (1954; Herbert J. Biberman)
Artists and Models (1955; Frank Tashlin)
Guys and Dolls (1955; Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Pather Panchali (1955; Satyajit Ray)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955; John Sturges)
The Mad Masters (1955; Jean Rouch)
Hill 24 Doesn’t Know (1955; Thorold Dickinson)
The Ladykillers (1955; Alexander Mackendrick)
Marty (1955; Delbert Mann)
Ordet (1955; Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Bob le flambeur (1955; Jean-Pierre Melville)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955; Robert Aldrich)
The Man from Laramie (1955; Anthony Mann)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955; Nicholas Ray)
The Phoenix City Story (1955; Phil Karlson)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955; Ingmar Bergman)
Night and Fog (1955; Alain Resnais)
The Night of the Hunter (1955; Charles Laughton)
Lola Montès (1955; Max Ophüls)
Forbidden Planet (1956; Fred M. Wilcox)
The Burmese Harp (1956; Kon Ichikawa)
The Searchers (1956; John Ford)
A Man Escaped (1956; Robert Bresson)
Written on the Wind (1956; Douglas Sirk)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956; Alfred Hitchcock)
Giant (1956; George Stevens)
All That Heaven Allows (1956; Douglas Sirk)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956; Don Siegel)
The Wrong Man (1956; Alfred Hitchcock)
Bigger Than Life (1956; Nicholas Ray)
High Society (1956; Charles Walter)
The Ten Commandments (1956; Cecil B. DeMille)
12 Angry Men (1957; Sidney Lumet)
The Seventh Seal (1957; Ingmar Bergman)
An Affair to Remember (1957; Leo McCarey)
Wild Strawberries (1957; Ingmar Bergman)
The Nights of Cabiria (1957; Federico Fellini)
Throne of Blood (1957; Akira Kurosawa)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957; Jack Arnold)
Aparajito (1957; Satyajit Ray)
Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957; John Sturges)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957; David Lean)
Mother India (1957; Mehboob Khan)
The Cranes are Flying (1957; Mikheil Kalatozishvili)
Paths of Glory (1957; Stanley Kubrick)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957; Alexander Mackendrick)
Man of the West (1958; Anthony Mann)
Touch of Evil (1958; Orson Welles)
Cairo Station (1958; Youssef Chahine)
Gigi (1958; Vincente Minnelli)
The Defiant Ones (1958; Stanley Kramer)
Vertigo (1958; Alfred Hitchcock)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958; Andrzej Wajda)
Dracula (1958; Terence Fisher)
Mon Oncle (1958; Jacques Tati)
The Music Room (1958; Satyajit Ray)
The 400 Blows (1959; François Truffaut)
North by Northwest (1959; Alfred Hitchcock)
Some Like It Hot (1959; Billy Wilder)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959; Otto Preminger)
Eyes Without a Face (1959; Georges Franju)
Ride Lonesome (1959; Budd Boetticher)
Black Orpheus (1959; Marcel Camus)
Shadows (1959; John Cassavettes)
The World of Apu (1959; Satyajit Ray)
Breathless (1959; Jean-Luc Godard)
Ben-Hur (1959; William Wyler)
Pickpocket (1959; Robert Bresson)
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959; Alain Resnais)
Rio Bravo (1959; Howard Hawks)
Le Trou (1959; Jacques Becker)
Floating Weeds (1959; Yasujiro Ozu)