The Frame

Source: Roger Ebert

As of 8/30/09. List is not ranked.

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Souls for Sale
In a Lonely Place (1950; Nicholas Ray)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring
12 Angry Men (1957)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968; Stanley Kubrick)
The 400 Blows (1959; François Truffaut)
8 1/2 (1963; Federico Fellini)
Ace in the Hole (1951; Billy Wilder)
Adaptation. (2002; Spike Jonze)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938; Michael Curtiz & William Keighley)
After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
After Hours (1985; Martin Scorsese)
The Age of Innocence (1993; Martin Scorsese)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972; Werner Herzog)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1973; Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Alien (1979; Ridley Scott)
All About Eve (1950; Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Amadeus (1984; Milos Forman)
Amarcord (1974; Federico Fellini)
Annie Hall (1977; Woody Allen)
The Apartment (1960; Billy Wilder)
Apocalypse Now (1979; Francis Ford Coppola)
The Apu Trilogy (1959; Satyajit Ray)
Army of Shadows (1969; Jean-Pierre Melville)
Atlantic City (1980)
Au hasard Balthazar (1966; Robert Bresson)
Au revoir, les enfants (1987; Louis Malle)
Babel (2006; Alejandro Gonazalez Iñarrítu)
The Band Wagon (1953; Vincente Minnelli)
The Bank Dick (1940)
Baraka (1992)
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
The Battleship Potemkin (1925; Sergei Eisenstein)
Beat the Devil (1954; John Huston)
Beauty and the Beast (1946; Jean Cocteau)
Being There (1979; Hal Ashby)
Belle de Jour (1967; Luis Buñuel)
La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946; William Wyler)
Bicycle Thieves (1949; Vittorio DeSica)
The Big Heat (1953; Fritz Lang)
The Big Red One (1980; Samuel Fuller)
The Big Sleep (1946; Howard Hawks)
The Birth of a Nation (1915; D.W. Griffith
Blade Runner (1982; Ridley Scott)
Blow-Up (1966; Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Blue Kite (1993)
Bob le flambeur (1955; Jean-Pierre Melville)
Body Heat (1981; Lawrence Kasdan)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967; Arthur Penn)
Breathless (1960; Jean-Luc Godard)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935; James Whale)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957; David Lean)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974; Sam Peckinpah)
Broken Blossoms (1919; D.W. Griffith)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920; Robert Weine)
Cabiria (1914)
Casablanca (1943; Michael Curtiz)
Cat People (1942; Jacques Tourneur)
Children of Paradise (1945; Marcel Carne)
Chimes at Midnight (1965; Orson Welles)
Chinatown (1974; Roman Polanski)
Chop Shop (2008)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Duck Amuck (1953; Chuck Jones)
One Froggy Evening (1955; Chuck Jones)
What’s Opera, Doc? (1957; Chuck Jones)
Citizen Kane (1941; Orson Welle)
City Lights (1931; Charles Chaplin)
The Color Purple (1985; Steven Spielberg)
The Conversation (1974; Francis Ford Coppola)
Cool Hand Luke (1967; Arthur Kennedy)
Cries and Whispers (1972; Ingmar Bergman)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989; Woody Allen)
Crumb (1994)
Dark City (1998; Alex Proyas)
Day for Night (1973; François Truffaut)
Days of Heaven (1978; Terrence Malick)
The Dead (1987; John Huston)
The Decalogue (1988; Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Detour (1945)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972; Luis Buñuel)
Diva (1981)
Do the Right Thing (1989; Spike Lee)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975; Sidney Lumet)
Don’t Look Now (1974)
Double Indemnity (1944; Billy Wilder)
The Double Life of Veronique (1991; Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Dr. Strangelove (1964; Stanley Kubrick)
Dracula (1931)
Duck Soup (1933)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982; Steven Spielberg)
The Earrings of Madame de… (1953; Max Ophüls)
Easy Rider (1969; Dennis Hopper)
El Norte (1983)
El Topo (1970)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974; Werner Herzog)
Exotica (1994)
The Exterminating Angel (1962; Luis Buñuel)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Fanny and Alexander (1983; Ingmar Bergman)
Fargo (1995; Joel & Ethan Coen)
Faust (1926)
The Firemen’s Ball (1968)
Fitzcarraldo (1982; Werner Herzog)
Five Easy Pieces (1970; Bob Rafaelson)
Floating Weeds (1959; Yasujiro Ozu)
Forbidden Games (1952; Rene Clement)
Gates of Heaven (1978)
The General (1927; Buster Keaton)
The Godfather (1972; Francis Ford Coppola)
The Godfather, Part II (1974; Francis Ford Coppola)
Goldfinger (1964)
Gone With the Wind (1939; Victor Fleming)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966; Sergio Leone)
GoodFellas (1990; Martin Scorsese)
Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964; Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Grand Illusion (1937; Jean Renoir)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940; John Ford)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
The Great Dictator (1940; Charlie Chaplin)
Great Expectations (1946; David Lean)
Greed (1923; Erich von Stroheim)
Groundhog Day (1993)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964; Richard Lester)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
House of Games (1987; David Mamet)
Howards End (1992; James Ivory)
The Hustler (1961)
Ikiru (1952; Akira Kurosawa)
In Cold Blood (1967)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946; Frank Capra)
Jaws (1975; Steven Spielberg)
JFK (1991; Oliver Stone)
Johnny Guitar (1954; Nicholas Ray)
Jules and Jim (1961; François Truffaut)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965; Federico Fellini)
Killer of Sheep (1977; Charles Burnett)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
King Kong (1933; Merian C. Cooper)
L’Atalante (1934; Jean Vigo)
L’Avventura (1960; Michelangelo Antonioni)
La Dolce Vita (1960; Federico Fellini)
The Lady Eve (1941; Preston Sturges)
The Last Laugh (1924)
The Last Picture Show (1971; Peter Bogdanovich)
Last Tango in Paris (1972; Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988; Martin Scorsese)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961; Alain Resnais)
Late Spring (1972; Yasujiro Ozu)
Laura (1944; Otto Preminger)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962; David Lean)
The Butcher (2003)
Le Samouraï (1967; Jean-Pierre Melville)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Leolo (1993)
The Leopard (1963; Luchino Visconti)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943; Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
The River (Le Fleuve) (1951)
The Long Goodbye (1973; Robert Altman)
M (1931; Fritz Lang)
Magnolia (1999; Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Maltese Falcon (1941; John Huston)
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Man With a Movie Camera (1929; Dziga Vertov)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962; John Frankenheimer)
Manhattan (1979; Woody Allen)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979; Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971; Robert Altman)
Mean Streets (1973; Martin Scorsese)
Mephisto (1981)
Metropolis (1926; Fritz Lang)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
Mon Oncle (1958; Jacques Tati)
Mon Oncle Antoine
Moolaade
Moonstruck (1987)
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (1953; Jacques Tati)
The Music Room
My Darling Clementine (1946; John Ford)
My Dinner With Andre (1981)
My Fair Lady (1964; George Cukor)
Vivre sa vie (1962; Jean-Luc Godard)
My Man Godfrey (1936; Gregory LaCava)
My Neighbor Totoro (1993; Hayao Miyazaki)
Nanook of the North (1922; Robert Flaherty)
Nashville (1975; Robert Altman)
Network (1976)
Night Moves (1975; Arthur Penn)
The Night of the Hunter (1955; Charles Laughton)
Nights of Cabiria (1957; Federico Fellini)
Nosferatu (1922; F.W. Murnau)
Notorious (1946; Alfred Hitchcock)
On the Waterfront (1954; Elia Kazan)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975; Milos Forman)
Ordet (1955; Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Orpheus (1949; Jean Cocteau)
Out of the Past (1947)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2005; Guillermo Del Toro)
Pandora’s Box (1928; G.W. Pabst)
Paris, Texas (1984; Wim Wenders)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928; Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Paths of Glory (1957; Stanley Kubrick)
Patton (1970; Franklin J. Schaffner)
Peeping Tom (1960; Michael Powell)
Persona (1966; Ingmar Bergman)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Pickpocket (1959; Robert Bresson)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975; Peter Weir)
Pinocchio (1940; Wolfgang Reitherman)
Pixote (1981)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Playtime (1967; Jacques Tati)
A Prairie Home Companion (2006; Robert Altman)
The Producers (1968; Mel Brooks)
Psycho (1960; Alfred Hitchcock)
Pulp Fiction (1994; Quentin Tarantino)
Raging Bull (1980; Martin Scorsese)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981; Steven Spielberg)
Raise the Red Lantern (1990; Zhang Yimou)
Ran (1985; Akira Kurosawa)
Rashomon (1950; Akira Kurosawa)
Rear Window (1954; Alfred Hitchcock)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955; Nicholas Ray)
Red River (1948; Howard Hawks)
The Red Shoes (1948; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
Rififi (1954; Jules Dassin)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Rio Bravo (1959; Howard Hawks)
Ripley’s Game (2002)
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
The Rules of the Game (1939; Jean Renoir)
Safety Last (1923 Harold Lloyd)
Samurai Rebellion (1967)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Santa Sangre (1989)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Say Anything (1989; Cameron Crowe)
Scarface (1983; Brian DePalma)
The Scarlet Empress (1934; Josef von Sternberg)
Schindler’s List (1993; Steven Spielberg)
The Searchers (1956; John Ford)
Secrets & Lies (1996; Mike Leigh)
The Seven Samurai (1954; Akira Kurosawa)
The Seventh Seal (1957; Ingmar Bergman)
Shane (1954; George Stevens)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994; Frank Darabont)
The Shining (1980; Stanley Kubrick)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991; Jonathan Demme)
The Silence (1963; Ingmar Bergman)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952; Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Solaris (1972; Andrei Tarkovsky)
Some Like It Hot (1959; Billy Wilder)
Star Wars (1977; George Lucas)
Strangers on a Train (1951; Alfred Hitchcock)
Stroszek (1977)
A Sunday in the Country (1984)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1928; F.W. Murnau)
Sunset Boulevard (1950; Billy Wilder)
The Sweet Smell of Success (1957; Alexander MacKendrick)
Swing Time (1936; George Stevens)
A Tale of Winter (1992)
Taxi Driver (1976; Martin Scorsese)
Tender Mercies (1983)
The Terrorist (2000)
The Thin Man (1934; W.S. Van Dyke)
The Third Man (1949; Carol Reed)
This is Spinal Tap (1984; Rob Reiner)
Three Colors: Blue (1993; Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Three Colors: White (1994; Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Three Colors: Red (1994; Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3 Women (1977)
Through a Glass Darkly (1961; Ingmar Bergman)
Tokyo Story (1953; Yasujiro Ozu)
Top Hat (1935; Mark Sandrich)
Touch of Evil (1958; Orson Welles)
Touchez pas au grisbi (1954; Jacques Becker)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948; John Huston)
Triumph of the Will (1935; Leni Reifenstahl)
Trouble in Paradise (1932; Ernst Lubitsch)
Ugetsu (1953)
Umberto D (1952; Vittorio DeSica)
Un chien andalou (1928; Luis Buñuel)
Unforgiven (1992; Clint Eastwood)
The Up Documentaries (1985)
Vengeance is Mine (2008)
Vertigo (1958; Alfred Hitchcock)
Victim (1961)
Waking Life (2001; Richard Linklater)
Walkabout (1971; Nicolas Roeg)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000; Béla Tarr)
West Side Story (1961; Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962; Robert Aldrich)
The Wild Bunch (1969; Sam Peckinpah)
Wings of Desire (1988; Wim Wenders)
Winter Light (1962; Ingmar Bergman)
Withnail & I (1987)
The Wizard and Oz (1939; Victor Fleming)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974; John Cassavetes)
A Woman’s Tale (1982)
Woodstock (1970)
WR – Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Written on the Wind (1956; Douglas Sirk)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942; Michael Curtiz)
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Yojimbo (1961; Akira Kurosawa)