Master's Top 10 Hollywood/English Films from 1930 to 2013
Posted: 28 Mar 2014, 17:58
1930
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930: Lewis Milestone)
Animal Crackers (1930: Victor Heerman)
Anna Christie (1930: Clarence Brown)
The Big Trail (1930: Raoul Walsh)
Borderline (1930: Kenneth MacPherson)
Feet First (1930: Clyde Bruckman)
Hell’s Angels (1930: Howard Hughes)
Monte Carlo (1930: Ernst Lubitsch)
Morocco (1930: Josef von Sternberg)
The Unholy Three (1930: Jack Conway)
Additional: Up the River (1930: John Ford)
1931
City Lights (1931: Charles Chaplin)
Dishonored (1931: Josef von Sternberg)
Dracula (1931: Tod Browning)
Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1931: Rouben Mamoulian)
Frankenstein (1931: James Whale)
Little Caesar (1931: Mervyn LeRoy)
The Maltese Falcon (1931: Roy Del Ruth)
Monkey Business (1931; Norman Z. McLeod)
The Public Enemy (1931: William A. Wellman)
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931: Ernst Lubitsch)
Additional: Smart Money (1931: Alfred E. Green)
1932
Freaks (1932: Tod Browning)
Horse Feathers (1932: Norman McLeod)
I Am a Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932: Mervyn LeRoy)
Island of Lost Souls (1932: Erle C. Kenton)
Love Me Tonight (1932: Rouben Mamoulian)
Movie Crazy (1932: Clyde Bruckman)
The Mummy (1932: Karl Freund)
The Old Dark House (1932: James Whale)
Shanghai Express (1932: Josef von Sternberg)
Trouble in Paradise (1932: Ernst Lubitsch)
Additional: The Most Dangerous Game (1932: Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack)
1933
42nd Street (1933: Lloyd Bacon)
Duck Soup (1933: Leo McCarey)
Footlight Parade (1933: Lloyd Bacon)
Hallelujah I’m A Bum (1933: Lewis Milestone)
Invisible Man (1933: James Whale)
King Kong (1933)
Lady for a Day (1944: Frank Capra)
Lady Killer (1933: Roy Del Ruth)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933: Alexander Korda)
Sons of the Desert (1933: William A. Seiter)
Additional: Design for Living (1933: Ernst Lubitsch)
1934
The Black Cat (1934: Edgar G. Ulmer)
Cleopatra (1934: Cecil B..DeMille)
The Gay Divorcee (1934:Mark Sandrich)
It Happened One Night (1934: Frank Capra)
It's a Gift (1934: Norman Z. McLeod)
Judge Priest (1934: John Ford)
The Lost Patrol (1934: John Ford)
The Old Fashioned Way (1934: William Beaudine)
Tarzan and His Mate (1934: Cedric Gibbons)
The Thin Man (1934: W.S. Van Dyke)
Additional: The Scarlet Empress (1934: Josef von Sternberg)
1935
The 39 Steps (1935: Alfred Hitchcock)
The Black Room (1935: Roy William Neill)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935: James Whale)
“G” Men (1935: William Keighley)
The Informer (1935: John Ford)
Mad Love (1935: Karl Freund)
Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935: Clyde Bruckman/W.C. Fields)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935: Frank Lloyd)
A Night at the Opera (1935: Sam Wood)
Top Hat (1935: Mark Sandrich)
Additional: The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935: Henry Hathaway)
1936
After The Thin Man (1936: W.S. Van Dyke)
The General Died at Dawn (1936: Lewis Milestone)
The Milky Way (1936: Leo McCarey)
Modern Times (1936: Charles Chaplin)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936:F rank Capra)
My Man Godfrey (1936: Gregory La Cava)
The Petrified Forest (1936: Archie Mayo)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936: John Ford)
Sabotage (1936: Alfred Hitchcock)
Swing Time (1936: George Stevens)
Additional: Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936: H. Bruce Humberstone)
1937
The Awful Truth (1937: Leo McCarey)
A Day at the Races (1937: Sam Wood)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937: William Dieterle)
Make Way For Tomorrow (1937: Leo McCarey)
On The Avenue (1937: Roy Del Ruth)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937: Several)
Stage Door (1937: Gregory La Cava)
Way Out West (1937: James W. Horne)
Wee Willie Winkle (1937: John Ford)
Young and Innocent (1937: Alfred Hitchcock)
Additional: Lost Horizon (1937: Frank Capra)
1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938: Michael Curtiz/William Keighley)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938: Michael Curtiz)
Boys Town (1938: Norman Taurog)
Block-Heads (1938: John G. Blystone)
Bringing Up Baby (1938: Howard Hawks)
The Dawn Patrol (1938: Edmund Goulding)
Holiday (1938: George Cukor)
The Lady Vanishes (1938: Alfred Hitchcock)
Pygmalion (1938: Anthony Asquith/Leslie Howard)
A Slight Case of Murder (1938: Lloyd Bacon)
Additional: Four Men and a Prayer (1938: John Ford)
1939
Beau Geste (1939: William A. Wellman)
Destry Rides Again (1939: George Marshall)
Gunga Din (1939: George Stevens)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939: William Dieterle)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939: Frank Capra)
Midnight (1939: Mitchell Leisen)
Ninotchka (1939: Ernst Lubitsch)
Son of Frankenstein (1939: Rowland V. Lee)
Stagecoach (1939: John Ford)
Wizard of Oz (1939: Victor Fleming)
Additional: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939: Alfred L. Werker)
1940
The Bank Dick (1940: Edward F. Cline)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940: John Ford)
The Great Dictator (1940: Charles Chaplin)
His Girl Friday (1940: Howard Hawks)
The Letter (1940: William Wyler)
The Philadelphia Story (1940: George Cukor)
Rebecca (1940: Alfred Hitchcock)
The Sea Hawk (1940: Michael Curtiz)
The Shop Around The Corner (1940: Ernst Lubitsch)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940: Michael Powell)
Additional: The Long Voyage Home (1940: John Ford)
Not Seen of Retro: Torrid Zone
1941
Buck Privates (1941: Arthur Lubin)
Citizen Kane (1941: Orson Welles)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941: William Dieterle)
How Green Was My Valley (1941: John Ford)
The Maltese Falcon (1941: John Huston)
Now Voyager (1941: Irving Rapper)
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941: Edward F. Cline)
Sergeant York (1941: Howard Hawks)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941: Preston Sturges)
The Wolf Man (1941: George Waggner)
Additional: High Sierra (1941: Raoul Walsh)
Not Seen of Retro: Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, Hot Spot aka I Wake Up Screaming, The Sea Wolf, Shanghai Gesture
1942
Bambi (1941: Various)
Casablanca (1942: Michael Curtiz)
Cat People (1942: Jacques Tourneur)
Holiday Inn (1942: Mark Sandrich)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942: Orson Welles)
The Palm Beach Story (1942: Preston Sturges)
The Pride of the Yankees (1942: Sam Wood)
Road to Morocco (1942: David Butler)
This Gun for Hire (1942: Frank Tuttle)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942: Michael Curtiz)
Additional: To Be or Not to Be (1942: Ernst Lubitsch)
Not Seen of Retro: The Glass Key, Grand Central Murder, Street of Chance, Tarzan's New York Adventure
1943
Destination Tokyo (1943: Delmer Daves)
Heaven Can Wait (1943: Ernst Lubitsch)
Hit the Ice (1943: Charles Lamont)
It Ain’t Hay (1943: Erle C.Kenton)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943: Jacques Tourneur)
Jane Eyre (1943: Robert Stevenson)
The Leopard Man (1943: Jacques Tourneur)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943: Powell & Pressburger)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943: William A. Wellman)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943: Alfred Hitchcock)
Additional: The Seventh Victim (1943: Mark Robson)
Not Seen of Retro: Cross of Lorraine, Tarzan Desert Mystery, Tarzan's Triumphs
1944
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944: Frank Capra)
Double Indemnity (1944: Billy Wilder)
Going My Way (1944: Leo McCarey)
It Happened Tomorrow (1944: Rene Clair)
Laura (1944: Otto Preminger)
The Lodger (1944: John Brahm)
Meet Me In Saint Louis (1944: Vincente Minnelli)
To Have and Have Not (1944: Howard Hawks)
The Princess and the Pirate (1944: David Butler)
The Scarlet Claw (1944: Roy William Neill)
Additional: Curse of the Cat People (1944: Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch)
Not Seen of Retro: The Mask of Dimitrios, Ministry of Fear, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1945
The Bells of Saint Marys (1945: Leo McCarey)
The Body Snatcher (1945: Robert Wise)
Hangover Square (1945: John Brahm)
Isle of the Dead (1945: Mark Robson)
Leave Her To Heaven (1945: John Stahl)
The Lost Weekend (1945: Billy Wilder)
Mildred Pierce (1945: Michael Curtiz)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945: Albert Lewin)
Scarlet Street (1945: Fritz Lang)
Spellbound (1945: Alfred Hitchcock)
Additional: I Know Where I’m Going (1945: Powell & Pressburger)
Not Seen of Retro: Conflict, Fallen Angel, The House on 92nd Street, Tarzan and the Amazons
1946
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946: William Wyler)
The Big Sleep (1946: Howard Hawks)
Canyon Passage (1946: Jacques Tourneur)
Gilda (1946: Charles Vidor)
Great Expectations (1946: David Lean)
Green for Danger (1946: Sidney Gilliat)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946: Frank Kapra)
My Darling Clementine (1946: John Ford)
Notorious (1946: Alfred Hitchcock)
The Stranger (1946: Orson Welles)
Additional: Bedlam (1946: Mark Robson)
Not Seen of Retro: The Killers, Nobody Lives Forver, Postman Always Rings Twice, Somewhere in the Night, Three Strangers
1947
The Bishop’s Wife (1947: Henry Koster)
Brute Force (1947: Jules Dassin)
Dark Passage (1947: Delmer Daves)
The Egg and I (1947: Chester Erskine)
The Ghost and Mrs.Muir (1947: Joseph L Mankiewicz)
It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947: Roy Del Ruth)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947: Orson Welles)
Lady in the Lake (1947: Robert Montgomery)
Miracle on 34 Street (1947: George Seaton)
Out of the Past (1947: Jacques Tourneur)
Additional: Monsieur Verdoux (1947: Charles Chaplin)
Not Seen of Retro: 13 Rue Madeleine, Dead Reckoning, Desperate, The Web
1948
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948: Charles Barton)
Fort Apache (1948: John Ford)
Hamlet (1948: Laurence Olivier)
Key Largo (1948: John Huston)
Oliver Twist (1948: David Lean)
The Paleface (1948: Norman Z. McLeod)
Red River (1948: Howard Hawks)
Rope (1948: Alfred Hitchcock)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948: John Huston)
Unfaithfully Yours (1948: Preston Sturges)
Additional: Fallen Idol (1948: Carol Reed)
Not Seen of Retro: Bodyguard, Cry of the City, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, Pitfall, Road House, The Street with No Name
1949
The Big Steal (1949: Don Siegal)
The Heiress (1949: William Wyler)
A Letter To Three Wives (1949: Joseph Mankiewicz)
In the Good Old Summertime (1949: Robert Z. Leonard)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949: Robert Hamer)
On the Town (1949: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelley)
The Set-Up (1949: Robert Wise)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949: John Ford)
The Third Man (1949: Carol Reed)
White Heat (1949: Raoul Walsh)
Additional: Adam’s Rib (1949: George Cukor)
Not Seen of Retro: Criss Cross, Follow Me Quietly, Knock on any Door, The Reckless Moment, Tokyo Joe
1950
All About Eve (1950: Joseph Mankiewicz)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950: John Huston)
The Baron of Arizona (1950: Samuel Fuller)
The Gunfighter (1950: Henry King)
In A Lonely Place (1950: Nicolas Ray)
Night and the City (1950: Jules Dassin)
Panic in the Streets (1950: Elia Kazan)
Rio Grande (1950: John Ford)
Sunset Boulevard (1950: Billy Wilder)
Winchester '73 (1950: Anthony Mann)
Additional: Last Holiday (1950: Henry Cass)
Not Seen of Retro: Armored Car Robbery, D.O.A., Halls of Montezuma, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, Union Station, Where the Sidewalk Ends
1951
Ace in the Hole (1951: Billy Wilder)
The African Queen (1951: John Huston)
An American in Paris (1951: Vincente Minnelli)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951: Robert Wise)
His Kind of Woman (1951: John Farrow)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951: Charles Crichton)
A Place in the Sun (1951: George Stevens)
Scrooge (1951: Brian Desmond Hurst)
Strangers on a Train (1951: Alfred Hitchcock)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951: Elia Kazan)
Additional: The Man in the White Suit (1951: Alexander Mackendrick)
Not Seen of Retro: The Desert Fox, Detective Story, The Enforcer, Go for Broke, The House of Telegraph Hill, Quo Vadis
1952
Bend of the River (1952: Anthony Mann)
High Noon (1952: Fred Zinnemann)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952: Anthony Asquith)
Lost in Alaska (1952: Jean Yarbrough)
Macao (1952: Josef von Sternberg)
Moulin Rouge (1952: John Huston)
On Dangerous Ground (1952: Nicolaus Ray) IMDB has this as 1951, but it is a 1952 release
The Quiet Man (1952: John Ford)
Singing in the Rain (1952: Stanley Donen)
The Sniper (1952: Edward Dymtyrk)
Additional: Kansas City Confidential (1952: Phil Karlsons)
Not Seen of Retro: 5 Fingers, Against All Flags, The Captive City, Deadline U.S.A., Ivanhoe, The Narrow Margin, Sudden Fear
1953
The Band Wagon (1953: Vincente Minnelli)
The Big Heat (1953: Fritz Lang)
From Here to Eternity (1953: Fred Zinnemann)
House of Wax (1953: André De Toth)
The Naked Spur (1953: Anthony Mann)
Pickup on South Street (1953: Samuel Fuller)
Roman Holiday (1953: William Wyler)
Shane (1953: George Stevens)
Stalag 17 (1953: Billy Wilder)
The War of the Worlds (1953: Byron Haskin)
Additional: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953: Howard Hawks)
Not Seen of Retro: Invaders From Mars, Knights of the Round Table, Salome
1954
20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954: Richard Fleischer)
The Barefoot Contessa (1954: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Broken Lance (1954: Edward Dymtyrk)
The Caine Mutiny (1954: Edward Dymtyrk)
Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954: Jack Arnold)
The Naked Jungle (1954: Byron Haskin)
Rear Window (1954: Alfred Hitchcock)
On The Waterfront (1954: Elia Kazan)
Sabrina (1954: Billy Wilder)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954: Stanley Donen)
Additional: Crime Wave (1954: Andre de Toth)
Not Seen of Retro: The Egyptian, Night People, Prince Valiant, Secret of the Incas, Suddenly
1955
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955: John Sturges)
The Court Jester (1955: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama)
East of Eden (1955: Elia Kazan)
Ladykillers (1955: Alexander Mackendrick)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955: Robert Aldrich)
Mister Roberts (1955: John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy)
The Man from Laramie (1955: Anthony Mann)
Mr. Arkadin (1955: Orson Welles)
Night of the Hunter (1955: Charles Laughton)
To Catch a Thief (1955: Alfred Hitchcock)
Additional: The Man With The Golden Arm (1955: Otto Preminger)
Not Seen of Retro: The Big Combo, The Dam Busters, Desperate Hours, Escape to Burma, House of Bamboo, Land of the Pharaohs
1956
Around the World in 80 Days (1956: Michael Anderson)
Forbidden Planet (1956: Fred M. Wilcox)
Giant (1956: George Stevens)
The Killing (1956: Stanley Kubrick)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956: Alfred Hitchcock)
Moby Dick (1956: John Huston)
The Searchers (1956: John Ford)
Seven Men From Now (1956: Budd Boetticher)
The Ten Commandments (1956: Cecil B. DeMille)
There’s Always Tomorrow (1956: Douglas Sirk)
Additional: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956: Don Siegal)
Not Seen of Retro: Alexander the Great, D-Day, Helen of Troy, A Kiss Before Dying, While the City Sleeps
1957
3:10 to Yuma (1957: Delmer Daves)
12 Angry Men (1957: Sidney Lumet
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957: David Lean)
A Face in the Crowd (1957: Elia Kazan)
Forty Guns (1957: Samuel Fuller)
Heaven Knows,Mr.Allison (1957: John Huston)
Paths of Glory (1957: Stanley Kubrick)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957: Alexander Mackendrick)
The Tall T (1957: Budd Boetticher)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957: Billy Wilder)
Additional: Funny Face (1957: Stanley Donen)
Not Seen of Retro: Crimes of Passion, Edge of the City, Men in War, Nightfall, Sayonara, The Unholy Wife
1958
The Big Country (1958: William Wyler)
The Defiant Ones (1958: Stanley Kramer)
Gigi (1958: Vincente Minnelli)
The Lineup (1958:Don Siegal)
Man of the West (1958: Anthony Mann)
Murder by Contract (1958: Irving Lerner)
Thunder Road (1958: Arthur Ripley)
Touch of Evil (1958: Orson Welles)
Some Came Running (1958: Vincente Minnelli)
Vertigo (1958: Alfred Hitchcock)
Additional: No Time for Sergeants (1958: Mervyn LeRoy)
Not Seen of Retro: The Naked and the Dead, Torpedo Run, The Vikings, The Young Lions
1959
Anatomy of a Murder (1959: Otto Preminger)
Ben-Hur (1959: William Wyler)
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959: Robert Stevenson)
The Horse Soldiers (1959: John Ford)
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959: John Sturges)
North By Northwest (1959: Alfred Hitchcock)
Ride Lonesome (1959: Budd Boetticher)
Rio Bravo (1959: Howard Hawks)
Sleeping Beauty (1959: Clyde Geronimi)
Some Like it Hot (1959: Billy Wilder)
Additional: I’m All Right Jack (1959: John Boulting)
Not Seen of Retro: Battle of the Coral Sea, Crimson Kimono, Ferry to Hong Kong, Journey, Solomon and Sheba
1960
The Apartment (1960: Billy Wilder)
Elmer Gantry (1960: Richard Brooks)
House of Usher (1960: Roger Corman)
Inherit the Wind (1960: Stanley Kramer)
The Magnificent Seven (1960:John Sturges)
Psycho (1960: Alfred Hitchcock)
Sergeant Rutledge (1960: John Ford)
Spartacus (1960: Stanley Kubrick)
The Time Machine (1960: George Pal)
Tunes of Glory (1960: Ronald Neame)
Additional: Peeping Tom (1960: Michael Powell)
Not Seen of Retro: Esther and the King, Exodus, The Gallant Hours, Hell to Eternity, Seven Thieves
1961
Blast of Silence (1961: Allen Baron)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961: Blake Edwards)
El Cid (1961: Anthony Mann)
The Hustler (1961: Robert Rossen)
The Innocents (1961: Jack Clayton)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961: Stanley Kramer)
King of Kings (1961: Nicholas Ray)
The Ladies Man (1961: Jerry Lewis)
Pocketful of Miracles (1961: Frank Capra)
West Side Story (1961: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise)
Additional: Pit and the Pendulum (1961: Roger Corman)
Not Seen of Retro: Bachelor in Paradise, Barabbas, Paris Blues, Underworld, U.S.A.
1962
Advise and Consent (1962: Otto Preminger)
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962: John Frankenheimer)
Cape Fear (1962: J. Lee Thompson)
Hatari! (1962: Howard Hawks)
The Intruder (1962: Roger Corman)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962: David Lean)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962: John Frankenheimer)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance(1962: John Ford)
Ride The High Country (1962: Sam Peckinpah)
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962: Robert Mulligan)
Additional: The Music Man (1962: Morton DaCosta)
Not Seen of Retro: The 300 Spartans, Damon and Pythias, The Longest Day
1963
Charade (1963: Stanley Donen)
The Comedy of Terrors (1963: Jacques Tourneur)
From Russia With Love (1963: Terence Young)
The Great Escape (1963:John Sturges)
It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963: Stanley Kramer)
The Haunting (1963: Robert Wise)
Hud (1963: Martin Ritt)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963: Don Chaffey)
Lilies of the Field (1963: Ralph Nelson)
The Nutty Professor (1963: Jerry Lewis)
Additional: Billy Liar (1963: John Schlesinger)
Not Seen of Retro: Cleopatra, Come Blow Your Horn, Kings of the Sun
1964
Dr. Strangelove (1964: Stanley Kubrick)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964: Anthony Mann)
Goldfinger (1964: Guy Hamilton)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964: Richard Lester)
Mary Poppins (1964: Robert Stevenson)
My Fair Lady (1964: George Cukor)
The Patsy (1964: Jerry Lewis)
Seven Days in May (1964: John Frankenheimer)
A Shot in the Dark (1964: Blake Edwards)
Zulu (1964: Cy Endfield)
Additional: Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964: Byron Haskin)
Not Seen of Retro: 633 Squadron, The 7th Dawn, Fail Safe, Morituri, Topkapi, The Train
1965
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965:Carol Reed)
Cat Ballou (1965: Elliot Silverstein)
The Cincinnati Kid (1965: Norman Jewison)
Doctor Zhivago (1965: David Lean)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965: Robert Aldrich)
Shenandoah (1965: Andrew V. McLaglen)
Ship of Fools (1965: Stanley Kramer)
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965: Henry Hathaway)
The Sound of Music (1965: Robert Wise)
Thunderball (1965: Terence Young)
Additional: The Family Jewels (1965: Jerry Lewis)
Not Seen of Retro: Battle of the Bulge, The Bedford Incident, Brain Storm, Faster, Pussycat !Kill! Kill!, The Heroes of the Telemark, Operation Crossbow, Von Ryan’s Express
1966
Blow-Up (1966: Michaelangelo Antonioni)
El Dorado (1966: Howard Hawks)
The Fortune Cookie (1966: Billy Wilder)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966: Richard Lester)
How To Steal a Million (1966: William Wyler)
A Man for All Seasons (1966: Fred Zinnemann)
The Naked Prey (1966: Cornel Wilde)
The Professionals (1966: Richard Brooks)
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966: Norman Jewison)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966: Mike Nichols)
Additional: The Bible: In the Beginning (1966: John Huston)
Not Seen of Retro: Ambush Bay, Around the World Under the Sea, Assault on a Queen, Gambit, Khartoum, The Quiller Memorandum
1967
Bonnie and Clyde (1967: Arthur Penn)
Cool Hand Luke (1967: Stuart Rosenberg)
The Dirty Dozen (1967: Robert Aldrich)
Hombre (1967: Martin Ritt)
In Cold Blood (1967: Richard Brooks)
In The Heat of the Night (1967: Norman Jewison)
Point Blank (1967: John Boorman)
The Producers (1967: Mel Brooks)
The War Wagon (1967: Burt Kennedy)
You Only Live Twice (1967: Lewis Gilbert)
Additional: The Graduate (1967: Mike Nichols)
Not Seen of Retro: Fathom, The Night of the Generals, Tony Rome, The Venetian Affair
1968
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968: Stanley Kubrick)
Bullitt (1968: Peter Yates)
Hang Em High (1968: Ted Post)
Monterey Pop (1968: D.A. Pennebaker)
The Odd Couple (1968: Gene Saks)
Oliver! (1968: Carol Reed)
The Party (1968: Blake Edwards)
Planet of the Apes (1968: Franklin J. Schaffner)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968:Norman Jewison)
Yellow Submarine (1968: George Dunning)
Additional: Night of the Living Dead (1968: George A.Romero)
Not Seen of Retro: The Detective, Lady in Cement, Submarine X-1
1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969: George Roy Hill)
Easy Rider (1969: Dennis Hopper)
Hello Dolly! (1969: Gene Kelly)
The Italian Job (1969: Peter Collinson)
Midnight Cowboy (1969:John Schlesinger)
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969: Peter R. Hunt)
Support Your Local Sheriff (1969: Burt Kennedy)
Take the Money and Run (1969: Woody Allen)
True Grit (1969: Henry Hathaway)
The Wild Bunch (1969: Sam Peckinpah)
Additional: Cactus Flower (1969: Gene Saks)
Not Seen of Retro: The Bridge of Remagen, Eye of the Cat, Flareup, The Lost Man, The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1970
The Aristocats (1970: Wolfgang Reitherman)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970: Sam Peckinpah)
Catch-22 (1970: Mike Nichols)
Five Easy Pieces (1970: Bob Rafelson)
Gimmie Shelter (1970: Albert Maysles, David Maysles)
Little Big Man (1970: Arthur Penn)
MASH (1970: Robert Altman)
Patton (1970: Franklin J. Schnaffner)
Rio Lobo (1970: Howard Hawks)
Woodstock (1970: Michael Wadleigh)
Additional: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970: Billy Wilder)
Not Seen of Retro: The Executioner, Fragment of Fear, Hornet’s Nest, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs, Tick… Tick… Tick…, Two Late the Hero, Tora! Tora! Tora!
1971
Bananas (1971: Woody Allen)
Dirty Harry (1971: Don Siegel)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971: Norman Jewison)
The French Connection (1971: William Friedkin)
The Grissom Gang (1971: Robert Aldrich)
Harold And Maude (1971: Hal Ashby)
Shaft (1971: Gordon Parks)
THX-1138 (1971: George Lucas)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971: Monte Hellman)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971: Mel Stuart)
Additional: The Omega Man (1971: Boris Sagal)
Not Seen of Retro: Klute, The Organization, Panic in Needle Park
1972
Cabaret (1972: Bob Fosse)
Deliverance (1972: John Boorman)
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972: Robert Fuest)
Frenzy (1972: Alfred Hitchcock)
The Getaway (1972: Sam Peckinpah)
The Godfather (1972: Francis Ford Coppola)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972: Sydney Pollack)
Junior Bonner (1972: Sam Peckinpah)
Play it Again, Sam (1972: Herbert Ross)
What’s Up Doc? (1972: Peter Bogdanovich)
Additional: Avanti! (1972: Billy Wilder)
Not Seen of Retro: Across 110th Street, The Mechanic, Red Sun, Slaughter, Superfly, The Valaci Papers
1973
American Graffiti (1973: George Lucas)
The Day of the Jackal (1973: Fred Zinnemann)
High Plains Drifter (1973: Clint Eastwood)
The Last Detail (1973: Hal Ashby)
Mean Streets (1973: Martin Scorsese)
Paper Moon (1973: Peter Bogdanovich)
Papillon (1973: Franklin J.Schaffner)
Sleeper (1973: Woody Allen)
The Sting (1973: George Roy Hill)
Soylent Green (1973: Richard Fleischer)
Additional: Enter the Dragon (1973: Robert Clouse)
Not Seen of Retro: Charley Varrick, The Mack
1974
Blazing Saddles (1974: Mel Brooks)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974: Sam Peckinpah)
China town (1974: Roman Polanski)
The Conversation (1974: Francis Ford Coppola)
Death Wish (1974: Michael Winner)
The Godfather II (1974: Francis Ford Coppola)
The Longest Yard (1974: Robert Aldrich)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974: Joseph Sargent)
The Towering Inferno (1974: John Guillermin)
Young Frankenstein (1974: Mel Brooks)
Additional: Zardoz (1974: John Boorman)
Not Seen of Retro: Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, The Education of Sonny Carson, Mr. Majestyk
1975
Barry Lyndon (1975: Barry Lyndon)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975: Sidney Lumet)
Jaws (1975: Steven Spielberg)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975: John Huston)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975: Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones)
Nashville (1975: Robert Altman)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975: Milos Forman)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975: Blake Edwards)
Rooster Cogburn (1975: Stuart Millar)
Three Days of the Condor (1975: Sydney Pollack)
Additional: Cooley High (1975: Michael Schultz)
Not Seen of Retro: Bucktown, Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold, The French Connection II, Night Moves, Sheba, Baby, White-line Fever, The Yakuza
1976
All the President’s Men (1976: Alan J.Pakula)
The Bad News Bears (1976: Michael Ritchie)
Marathon Man (1976: John Schlesinger)
The Missouri Breaks (1976: Arthur Penn)
Murder by Death (1976: Robert Moore)
Network (1976: Sidney Lumet)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976: Blake Edwards)
Rocky (1976: John G. Avildsen)
The Shootist (1976: Don Siegel)
Taxi Driver (1976: Martin Scorsese)
Additional: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976: John Carpenter)
Not Seen of Retro: King Kong
1977
Annie Hall (1977: Annie Hall)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977: Steven Spielberg)
The Duellists (1977: Ridley Scott)
High Anxiety (1977: Mel Brooks)
New York, New York (1977: Martin Scorsese)
Oh God! (1977: Carl Reiner)
Pumping Iron (1977: George Butler, Robert Fiore)
Saturday Night Fever (1977: John Badham)
Smokey and the Bandit (1977: Hal Needham)
Star Wars (1977: George Lucas)
Additional: The Island of Dr.Moreau (1977: Don Taylor)
Not Seen of Retro: A Bridge Too Far, Cross of Iron, The Deep, Rolling Thunder, Telefon
1978
Animal House (1978: John Landis)
Dawn of the Dead (1978: George A.Romero)
The Driver (1978: Walter Hill)
Foul Play (1978: Colin Higgins)
Grease (1978: Randal Kleiser)
Halloween (1978: John Carpenter)
Heaven Can Wait (1978: Warren Beatty, Buck Henry)
The Last Waltz (1978: Martin Scorsese)
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978: Blake Edwards)
Superman (1978: Richard Donner)
Additional: Days of Heaven (1978: Terrence Malick)
Not Seen of Retro: Blue Collar, Convoy, F.I.S.T., The Fury, The Wild Geese
1979
Alien (1979: Ridley Scott)
Apocalypse Now (1979: Francis Ford Coppola)
Being There (1979: Hal Ashby)
Escape From Alcatraz (1979: Don Siegel)
The Jerk (1979: Carl Reiner)
Manhattan (1979: Woody Allen)
The Muppet Movie (1979: James Frawley)
North Dallas Forty (1979: Ted Kotcheff)
The Warriors (1979: Walter Hill)
Wise Blood (1979: John Huston)
Additional: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979: Robert Wise)
Not Seen of Retro: Boulevard Nights, The China Syndrome, Over the Edge
1980
Airplane! (1980: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker)
Atlantic City (1980: Louis Malle)
The Big Red One (1980: Samuel Fuller)
The Blues Brothers (1980: John Landis)
Caddyshack (1980: Harold Ramis)
The Elephant Man (1980: David Lynch)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980: Irvin Kershner)
Ordinary People (1980: Robert Redford)
Raging Bull (1980: Martin Scorsese)
Stir Crazy (1980: Sidney Poitier)
Additional: The Shining (1980: Stanley Kubrick)
Not Seen of Retro: Alligator, Borderline, Brubaker, Cruising, Flash Gordon, Friday the 13th, Night of the Juggler
Not Seen of Mark: The Changeling, Cruising, Dressed to Kill, Friday the 13th, New: Eyes of a Stranger)
1981
Arthur (1981: Steve Gordon)
Chariots of Fire (1981: Hugh Hudson)
Clash of the Titans (1981: Desmond Davis)
Escape From New York (1981: John Carpenter)
Gallipoli (1981: Peter Weir)
Mad Max 2 (1981: George Miller)
My Dinner With Andre (1981: Louis Malle)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981: Steven Spielberg)
Thief (1981: Michael Mann)
Time Bandits (1981: Terry Gilliam)
Additional: On Golden Pond (1981: Mark Rydell)
Not Seen of Retro: The Burning, Fort Apache: The Bronx, Friday the 13th II, Night Hawks, Southern Comfort, Taps
Not Seen of Mark: Blow Out, Body Heat, Deadly Blessing, Escape to Victory, Nighthawks, Road Games
1982
48 Hrs.(1982: Walter Hill)
Blade Runner (1982: Ridley Scott)
Gandhi (1982: Richard Attenborough)
The King of Comedy (1982: Martin Scorsese)
Moonlighting (1982: Jerzy Skolimowski)
My Favorite Year (1982: Richard Benjamin)
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982: Nicholas Meyer)
The Thing (1982: John Carpenter)
TRON (1982: Steven Lisberger)
The Verdict (1982: Sidney Lumet)
Additional: Diner (1982: Barry Levinson)
Not Seen of Retro: The Challenge, Class of 1984, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, An Officer and a Gentleman, Poltergeist
Not Seen of Mark: Death Wish II, The Entity, Evil Under the Sun, Poltergeist, Tenebrae
1983
A Christmas Story (1983: Bob Clark)
Local Hero (1983: Bill Forsyth)
The Meaning of Life (1983: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam)
Return of the Jedi (1983: Richard Marquand)
The Right Stuff (1983: Philip Kaufman)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983: Jack Clayton)
Trading Places (1983: John Landis)
Vacation (1983: Harold Ramis)
WarGames (1983: John Badham)
Zelig (1983: Woody Allen)
Additional: Terms of Endearment (1983: James L.Brooks)
Not Seen of Retro: 10 to Midnight, Lone Wolf McQuade, The Star Chamber, Uncommon Valor, Under Fire
Not Seen of Mark: Bad Boys, The Dead Zone, Psycho II, Silkwood, 10 to Midnight
1984
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984: W.D. Richter)
Amadeus (1984: Milos Forman)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984: Woody Allen)
Ghost Busters (1984: Ivan Reitman)
Gremlins (1984: Joe Dante)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984: Steven Spielberg)
The Karate Kid (1984: John G. Avildsen)
The Natural (1984: Barry Levinson)
The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984: Stuart Rosenberg)
This is Spinal Tap (1984: Rob Reiner)
Additional: Under the Volcano (1984: John Huston)
Not Seen of Retro: Friday the 13th IV, Red Dawn
Not Seen of Mark: Missing in Action, Teachers
1985
After Hours (1985: Martin Scorsese)
Back to the Future (1985: Robert Zemeckis)
Brazil (1985: Terry Gilliam)
The Breakfast Club (1985: John Hughes)
Fletch (1985: Michael Ritchie)
The Goonies (1985:Richard Donner)
Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985: Tim Burton)
Prizzi’s Honor (1985: John Huston)
Spies Like Us (1985: John Landis)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985: William Friedkin)
Additional: The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985: Woody Allen)
Not Seen of Retro: Death Wish III, Invasion USA, Missing in Action 2, Tuff Turf
Not Seen of Mark: Invasion USA, Missing in Action 2, Pale Rider, The Sure Thing
1986
Aliens (1986: James Cameron)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986: John Carpenter)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986: John Hughes)
The Fly (1986: David Cronenberg)
Heartbreak Ridge (1986: Clint Eastwood)
Hoosiers (1986: David Anspaugh)
Platoon (1986: Oliver Stone)
Sid & Nancy (1986: Alex Cox)
Stand By Me (1986: Rob Reiner)
Star Trek IV (1986: Leonard Nimoy)
Additional: Three Amigos! (1986: John Landis)
Not Seen of Retro: Cobra, Friday the 13th Part VI, Iron Eagle, Thrashin’
Not Seen of Mark: Avenging Force, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Friday the 13th, Part VI, Salvador
1987
Angel Heart (1987: Alan Parker)
Evil Dead II (1987: Sam Raimi)
Lethal Weapon (1987: Richard Donner)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987: John Hughes)
Predator (1987: John McTiernan)
Princess Bride (1987: Rob Reiner)
Robocop (1987: Paul Verhoeven)
Three O'Clock High (1987: Phil Joanou)
The Untouchables (1987: Brian De Palma)
Withnail & I (1987: Bruce Robinson)
Additional: Moonstruck (1987: Norman Jewison)
Not Seen of Retro: Less than Zero, Monster Squad
Not Seen of Mark: The Bedroom Window, The Principal
1988
Big (1988: Penny Marshall)
Bloodsport (1988: Newt Arnold)
Dead Ringers (1988: David Cronenberg)
Die Hard (1988: John McTiernan)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988: Frank Oz)
Eight Men Out (1988: John Sayles)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988: Charles Crichton)
Mississippi Burning (1988: Alan Parker)
The Naked Gun (1988: David Zucker)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988: Robert Zemeckis)
Additional: Beetlejuice (1988: Tim Burton)
Not Seen of Retro: The Beast of War, Off Limits, Rambo III
Not Seen of Mark: Braddock: Missing in Action III, Frantic, Heathers, Working Girl
1989
The Abyss (1989: James Cameron)
Batman (1989: Tim Burton)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989: Woody Allen)
Do The Right Thing (1989: Spike Lee)
Field of Dreams (1989: Phil Alden Robinson)
Glory (1989: Edward Zwick)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989: Steven Spielberg)
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989: Richard Donner)
My Left Foot (1989: Jim Sheridan)
Say Anything… (1989: Cameron Crowe)
Additional: UHF (1989: Jay Levey)
Not Seen of Retro: Friday the 13th VIII, Loverboy, Road House
Not Seen of Mark: Born on the 4th of July, Casualties of War, Sea of Love
1990
Awakenings (1990: Penny Marshall)
Dances with Wolves (1990: Kevin Costner)
Die Hard II (1990: Renny Harlin)
The Freshman (1990: Andrew Bergman)
Goodfellas (1990: Martin Scorsese)
Home Alone (1990: Chris Columbus)
The Hunt for Red October (1990: John McTiernan)
Jacob's Ladder (1990: Adrian Lyne)
Metropolitan (1990: Whit Stillman)
Total Recall (1990: Paul Verhoeven)
Additional: Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990: Joe Dante)
Not Seen of Retro: Arachnophobia, Delta Force II, Navy Seals, Tremors
Not Seen of Mark: Misery
1991
The Addams Family (1991: Barry Sonnenfeld)
Barton Fink (1991: Coen Bros.)
Beauty and the Beast (1991: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise)
City Slickers (1991: Ron Underwood)
JFK (1991: Oliver Stone)
My Own Private Idaho (1991: Gus Van Sant)
Point Break (1991: Kathryn Bigelow)
Silence of the Lambs (1991: Jonathan Demme)
Star Trek VI (1991: Nicholas Meyer)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991: James Cameron)
Additional: Only the Lonely (1991:Chris Columbus)
Not Seen of Retro: Bugsy, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Stone Cold, Toy Soldiers
Not Seen of Mark: Dead Again, Toy Soldiers
1992
Army of Darkness (1992: Sam Raimi)
Batman Returns (1992: Tim Burton)
The Crying Game (1992: Neil Jordan)
A Few Good Men (1992: Rob Reiner)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992: James Foley)
A League of Their Own (1992: Penny Marshall)
Malcolm X (1992: Spike Lee)
Under Siege (1992: Andew Davis)
Unforgiven (1992: Clint Eastwood)
Wayne’s World (1992: Penelope Spheeris)
Additional: School Ties (1992: Robert Mandel)
Not Seen of Retro: Fixing the Shadow, Passenger 57, Trespass
Not Seen of Mark: Diggstown
1993
The Fugitive (1993: Andew Davis)
Groundhog Day (1993: Harold Ramis)
In the Line of Fire (1993: Clint Eastwood)
In the Name of the Father (1993: Jim Sheridan)
Jurassic Park (1993: Steven Spielberg)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993: Henry Selick)
A Perfect World (1993: Clint Eastwood)
The Piano (1993: Jane Campion)
Schindler’s List (1993: Steven Spielberg)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993: Lasse Hallstrom)
Additional: Romeo is Bleeding (1993: Peter Medak)
Not Seen of Retro: Aspen Extreme, Blood In, Blood Out, Sniper
Not Seen of Mark: Judgment Night
1994
Crumb (1994: Terry Zwigoff)
Ed Wood (1994: Tim Burton)
Forrest Gump (1994: Robert Zemeckis)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994: Mike Newell)
Hoop Dreams (1994: Steve James)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994: Coen Brothers)
Pulp Fiction (1994: Quentin Tarantino)
Quiz Show (1994: Robert Redford)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994: Frank Darabont)
Speed (1994: Jan de Bont)
Additional: The Lion King (1994: Roger Allers,Rob Minkoff)
Not Seen of Retro: Blown Away, Chasers, Drop Zone, Surviving The Game, Terminal Velocity
Not Seen of Mark: Mute Witness, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, Wolf
1995
Babe (1995: Chris Noonan)
Braveheart (1995: Mel Gibson)
Crimson Tide (1995: Tony Scott)
Heat (1995: Michael Mann)
Nixon (1995: Oliver Stone)
Richard III (1995: Richard Loncraine)
Sense and Sensibility (1995: Ang Lee)
Se7en (1995: David Fincher)
Strange Days (1995: Kathryn Bigelow)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995: Todd Solondz)
Additional: The Indian in the Cupboard (1995: Frank Oz)
Not Seen of Retro: Crying Freeman, Dead Presidents, Just Cause
Not Seen of Mark: Dead Presidents, The Hunted, The Last Supper, The Quick and the Dead
1996
The Arrival (1996: David Twohy)
The Cable Guy (1996: Ben Stiller)
From Dusk till Dawn (1996: Robert Rodriquez)
Get On The Bus (1996: Spike Lee)
Hamlet (1996: Kenneth Branagh)
Kingpin (1996: Farrelly Bros.)
Ransom (1996: Ron Howard)
The Rock (1996: Michael Bay)
Secrets & Lies (1996: Mike Leigh)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996: Jonathan Frakes)
Additional: Happy Gilmore (1996: Dennis Dugan)
Not Seen of Retro: Chain Reaction, Executive Decision, The Long Kiss Goddnight
Not Seen of Mark: Bound, The Long Kiss Goodnight, A Time to Kill, 2 Days in the Valley, Unforgettable
1997
Amistad (1997: Steven Spielberg)
As Good as it Gets (1997: James L. Brooks)
Con Air (1997: Simon West)
Conspiracy Theory (1997: Richard Donner)
Donnie Brasco (1997: Mike Newell)
Face/Off (1997: John Woo
Gattaca (1997: Andre Niccol)
Jackie Brown (1997: Quentin Tarantino)
LA Confidential (1997: Curtis Hanson)
Men in Black (1997: Barry Sonnenfeld)
Additional: Eve's Bayou (1997: Kasi Lemmons)
Not Seen of Retro: Alien Ressurection, Anaconda, Boogie Nights, The Devil’s Own, The Jackal, Starship Troopers
Not Seen of Mark: Copland, The Edge, The Rainmaker, Red Corner
1998
American History X (1998: Tony Kaye)
Babe: Pig in the City (1998: George Miller)
The Big Lebowski (1998: Coen Bros.)
Buffalo ’66 (1998: Vincent Gallo)
Enemy of the State (1998: Tony Scott)
Dark City (1998: Alex Proyas)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998: Terry Gilliam)
Ronin (1998: John Frankenheimer)
There's Something About Mary (1998: Farrelly Brothers)
The Truman Show (1998: Peter Weir)
Additional: Blade (1998: Stephen Norrington)
Not Seen of Retro: Disturbing Behavior, Firestorm, Hard Rain, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Replacement Killers, Savior,Sphere, The Thin Red Line
Not Seen of Mark: The Negotiator, The Thin Red Line, U.S. Marshalls, Wild Things
1999
Bringing Out The Dead (1999: Martin Scorsese)
Fight Club (1999: David Fincher)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999: Jim Jarmusch)
The Green Mile (1999: Frank Darabont)
Man on the Moon (1999: Milos Forman)
The Matrix (1999: Andy Wachowski/Larry Wachowski)
Office Space (1999: Mike Judge)
The Sixth Sense (1999: M. Night Shyamalan)
Sleepy Hollow (1999: Tim Burton)
Three Kings (1999: David O. Russell)
Additional: Notting Hill (1999: Roger Michell)
Not Seen of Retro: The Bone Collector, The Corruptor, Deep Blue Sea, The General’s Daughter, Instinct, Lake Placid, Summer of Sam
Not Seen of Mark: American Pie, 8mm, Go, The World is Not Enough
2000
American Psycho (2000: Mary Harron)
Best in Show (2000: Christopher Guest)
Billy Elliot (2000: Stephen Daldry)
Chicken Run (2000: Peter Lord, Nick Park)
Gladiator (2000: Ridley Scott)
High Fidelity (2000: Stephen Frears)
Memento (2000: Christopher Nolan)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000: Coen Bros.)
Snatch (2000: Guy Ritchie)
Unbreakable (2000: M. Night Shyamalan)
Additional: Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey (2000: John Little, Bruce Lee)
Not Seen of Mark: Frequency, Hollow Man, Mission: Impossible II, Return to Me, Shaft, Thirteen Days, What Lies Beneath
Not Seen of Retro: Gone in 60 Seconds, Mission Impossible II, Mission to Mars, Rules of Engagement, Shaft, Thirteen Days
2001
A Beautiful Mind (2001: Ron Howard)
AI (2001: Steven Spielberg)
Donnie Darko (2001: Richard Kelly)
From Hell (2001: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes)
Ghost World (2001: Terry Zwigoff)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001: Peter Jackson)
Mulholland Dr. (2001: David Lynch)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001: Wes Anderson)
Spy Game (2001: Tony Scott)
Zooland (2001: Ben Stiller)
Additional: Monsters Inc. (2001: Pete Docter,David Silverman)
Not Seen of Mark: Along Came a Spider, Anti-trust, Frailty, The Majestic, The Others, The Score
Not Seen of Retro: Behind Enemy Lines, Black Hawn Down, Enemy at the Gates, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
2002
Blade II (2002: Guillermo del Toro)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002: Peter Jackson)
Minority Report (2002: Steven Spielberg)
The Pianist (2002: Roman Polanski)
Orange County (2002: Jake Kasdan)
Panic Room (2002: David Fincher)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002: Paul Thomas Anderson)
Road to Perdition (2002: Sam Mendes)
Signs (2002: M. Night Shyamalan)
Spider-Man (2002: Sam Raimi)
Additional: Bubba Ho-Tep (2002: Don Coscarelli)
Not Seen of Mark: Collateral Damage, The Conte of Monte Cristo, Die Another Day, The Four Feathers, Jason X
Not Seen of Retro: Blood Work, Count of Monte Cristo, Narc, Sum of All Fears, Transporter
2003
Big Fish (2003: Tim Burton)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003: Peter Jackson)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003: Peter Weir)
Matchstick Men (2003: Ridley Scott)
A Mighty Wind (2003: Christopher Guest)
Mystic River (2003: Clint Eastwood)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003: Robert Rodriquez)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003: Gore Verbinski)
Seabiscuit (2003: Gary Ross)
Touching the Void (2003: Kevin Macdonald)
Additional: Bruce Almighty (2003: Tony Shadyac)
Not Seen of Mark: The Cooler, Gothika, The Last Samurai, The Live of David Gale, Open Range, Out of Time, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Note Seen of Retro: Basic, Dark Blue, The Hunted, Tomb Raider – Cradle of Life, Tears of the Sun, The Recruit
2004
The Aviator (2004: Martin Scorsese)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004: Michel Gondry)
Hellboy (2004: Guillermo del Toro)
Hotel Rwanda (2004: Terry George)
The Incredibles (2004: Brad Bird)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004: Wes Anderson)
Man on Fire (2004: Tony Scott)
Shaun of the Dead (2004: Edgar Wright)
Spiderman 2 (2004: Sam Raimi)
The Terminal (2004: Steven Spielberg)
Additional: The Passion of the Christ (2004: Mel Gibson)
Not Seen of Mark: Cellular, Spartan
Not Seen of Retro:
2005
Batman Begins (2005: Christopher Nolan)
Brokeback Mountain (2005: Ang Lee)
Cinderella Man (2005: Ron Howard)
Constantine (2005: Francis Lawrence)
Danny the Dog (2005: Louis Leterrier)
Grizzly Man (2005: Werner Herzog)
A History of Violence (2005: David Cronenberg)
King Kong (2005: Peter Jackson)
Walk the Line (2005: James Mangold)
The World’s Fastest Indian (2005: Roger Donaldson)
Additional: Last Days (2005: Gus van Sant)
Not Seen of Mark: The Constant Gardner, Four Brothers, The Interpreter, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Red Eye
Note Seen of Retro: Lords of Dogtown, Unich, Red Eye, Transporter 2, Assault on Precinct 13, Syriana, Kingdom of Heaven
2006
300 (2006: Zack Snyder)
Apocalypto (2006: Mel Gibson)
Children of Men (2006: Alfonso Cuaron)
The Departed (2006: Martin Scorsese)
Flushed Away (2006: David Bowers, Sam Fell)
The Illusionist (2006: Neil Burger)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris)
The Prestige (2006: Christopher Nolan)
A Scanner Darkly (2006: Richard Linklater)
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006: Richard Donner)
Additional: Grandma’s Boy (2006: Nicholaus Goossen)
Not Seen of Mark: Blood Diamond, Hollywoodland, Running Scared, Thank You for Smoking
Not Seen of Retro: Black Dahlia, Blood Diamond, Casino Royale, The Good Shepherd, Flags of Our Fathers
2007
3:10 to Yuma (2007: James Mangold)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford (2007: Andrew Dominik)
Control (2007: Anton Corbijn)
Eastern Promises (2007: David Cronenberg)
Hot Fuzz (2007: Edgar Wright)
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007: Seth Gordon)
No Country For Old Men (2007: Coen Brothers)
Ratatouille (2007: Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava)
There Will Be Blood (2007: Paul Thomas Anderson)
Zodiac (2007: David Fincher)
Additional: Hot Rod (2007: Akiva Schaffer)
Not Seen of Mark: Death Sentence, Gone Baby Gone, In the Valley of Elah, Live Free or Die Hard, The Orphanage, We Own the Night
Not Seen of Retro: Charlie Wilson’s War, The Kingdom, Shooter, American Gangster, Hitman
2008
The Dark Knight (2008: Christopher Nolan)
Gran Torino (2008: Clint Eastwood)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008: Guillermo del Toro)
In Bruges (2008: Martin McDonagh)
Iron Man (2008: Jon Favreau)
Man on Wire (2008: James Marsh)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan)
Tropic Thunder (2008: Ben Stiller)
Wall*E (2008: Andrew Stanton)
The Wrestler (2008: Darren Aronofsky)
Additional: Doubt (2008: John Patrick Shanley)
Not Seen of Mark: The Bank Job, Body of Lies, Pride and Glory, Quantum of Solace, Rambo
Not Seen of Retro: The Bank Job, Body of Lies, Quantum of Solace, 10,000 BC
2009
Bronson (2008/2009: Nicolas Winding Refn)
District 9 (2009: Neill Blomkamp)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009: Wes Anderson)
The Hurt Locker (2009: Kathryn Bigelow)
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Invictus (2009: Clint Eastwood)
Management (2009: Stephen Belber)
Sherlock Holmes (2009: Guy Ritchie)
Up (2009: Pete Docter/Bob Peterson)
Watchmen (2009: Zach Snyder)
Additional: Star Trek (2009: J.J. Abrams)
Not Seen of Mark: Bandslam, Crossing Over, 500 Days of Summer, A Perfect Getaway, Terminator: Salvation, Up in the Air
Not Seen of Retro: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The International, Law Abiding Citizen
2010
127 Hours (2010: Danny Boyle)
The A-Team (2010: Joe Carnahan)
Black Swan (2010: Darren Aronofsky)
Despicable Me (2010: Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud)
How To Train Your Dragon (2010: Dean DeBlois/Chris Sanders)
Inception (2010: Christopher Nolan)
The King’s Speech (2010: Tom Hooper)
Secretariat (2010: Randall Wallace)
Shutter Island (2010: Martin Scorsese)
The Social Network (2010: David Fincher)
Additional: Toy Story 3 (2010: Lee Unkrich)
2011
The Big Year (2011: David Frankel)
The Descendants (2011: Alexander Payne)
Drive (2011: Nicolas Winding Refn)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II (2011: David Yates)
Hugo (2011: Martin Scorsese)
J. Edgar (2011: Clint Eastwood)
Midnight in Paris (2011: Woody Allen)
Moneyball (2011: Bennett Miller)
Rango (2011: Gore Verbinski)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011: Guy Ritchie)
Additional: Limitless (2011: Neil Burger)
2012
Argo (2012: Ben Affleck)
The Avengers (2012: Joss Whedon)
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012: John Madden)
The Grey (2012: Joe Carnahan)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012: Peter Jackson)
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011: David Gelb)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012: Wes Anderson)
Seven Psychopaths (2012: Michael McDonagh)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012: David O. Russell)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012: Katheryn Bigelow)
Additional: Flight (2012: Robert Zemeckis)
2013
12 Years a Slave (2013: Steve McQueen)
The Croods (2013: Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders)
Drug War (2013: Johnnie To)
The Grandmaster (2013: Wong Kar-wai: Hong Kong/China)
Gravity (2013: Alfonso Cuarón)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013: Peter Jackson)
Nebraska (2013: Alexander Payne)
The Place Beyond the Pines (2013: Derek Cianfrance)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013: J.J. Abrams)
The World’s End (2013: Edgar Wright)
Additional: Rush (2013: Ron Howard)
* Years by IMDB; Not in order of preference
NOTES: saw Boomerang (Retro), They Drive By Night (Retro)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930: Lewis Milestone)
Animal Crackers (1930: Victor Heerman)
Anna Christie (1930: Clarence Brown)
The Big Trail (1930: Raoul Walsh)
Borderline (1930: Kenneth MacPherson)
Feet First (1930: Clyde Bruckman)
Hell’s Angels (1930: Howard Hughes)
Monte Carlo (1930: Ernst Lubitsch)
Morocco (1930: Josef von Sternberg)
The Unholy Three (1930: Jack Conway)
Additional: Up the River (1930: John Ford)
1931
City Lights (1931: Charles Chaplin)
Dishonored (1931: Josef von Sternberg)
Dracula (1931: Tod Browning)
Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1931: Rouben Mamoulian)
Frankenstein (1931: James Whale)
Little Caesar (1931: Mervyn LeRoy)
The Maltese Falcon (1931: Roy Del Ruth)
Monkey Business (1931; Norman Z. McLeod)
The Public Enemy (1931: William A. Wellman)
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931: Ernst Lubitsch)
Additional: Smart Money (1931: Alfred E. Green)
1932
Freaks (1932: Tod Browning)
Horse Feathers (1932: Norman McLeod)
I Am a Fugitive From A Chain Gang (1932: Mervyn LeRoy)
Island of Lost Souls (1932: Erle C. Kenton)
Love Me Tonight (1932: Rouben Mamoulian)
Movie Crazy (1932: Clyde Bruckman)
The Mummy (1932: Karl Freund)
The Old Dark House (1932: James Whale)
Shanghai Express (1932: Josef von Sternberg)
Trouble in Paradise (1932: Ernst Lubitsch)
Additional: The Most Dangerous Game (1932: Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack)
1933
42nd Street (1933: Lloyd Bacon)
Duck Soup (1933: Leo McCarey)
Footlight Parade (1933: Lloyd Bacon)
Hallelujah I’m A Bum (1933: Lewis Milestone)
Invisible Man (1933: James Whale)
King Kong (1933)
Lady for a Day (1944: Frank Capra)
Lady Killer (1933: Roy Del Ruth)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933: Alexander Korda)
Sons of the Desert (1933: William A. Seiter)
Additional: Design for Living (1933: Ernst Lubitsch)
1934
The Black Cat (1934: Edgar G. Ulmer)
Cleopatra (1934: Cecil B..DeMille)
The Gay Divorcee (1934:Mark Sandrich)
It Happened One Night (1934: Frank Capra)
It's a Gift (1934: Norman Z. McLeod)
Judge Priest (1934: John Ford)
The Lost Patrol (1934: John Ford)
The Old Fashioned Way (1934: William Beaudine)
Tarzan and His Mate (1934: Cedric Gibbons)
The Thin Man (1934: W.S. Van Dyke)
Additional: The Scarlet Empress (1934: Josef von Sternberg)
1935
The 39 Steps (1935: Alfred Hitchcock)
The Black Room (1935: Roy William Neill)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935: James Whale)
“G” Men (1935: William Keighley)
The Informer (1935: John Ford)
Mad Love (1935: Karl Freund)
Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935: Clyde Bruckman/W.C. Fields)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935: Frank Lloyd)
A Night at the Opera (1935: Sam Wood)
Top Hat (1935: Mark Sandrich)
Additional: The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935: Henry Hathaway)
1936
After The Thin Man (1936: W.S. Van Dyke)
The General Died at Dawn (1936: Lewis Milestone)
The Milky Way (1936: Leo McCarey)
Modern Times (1936: Charles Chaplin)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936:F rank Capra)
My Man Godfrey (1936: Gregory La Cava)
The Petrified Forest (1936: Archie Mayo)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936: John Ford)
Sabotage (1936: Alfred Hitchcock)
Swing Time (1936: George Stevens)
Additional: Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936: H. Bruce Humberstone)
1937
The Awful Truth (1937: Leo McCarey)
A Day at the Races (1937: Sam Wood)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937: William Dieterle)
Make Way For Tomorrow (1937: Leo McCarey)
On The Avenue (1937: Roy Del Ruth)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937: Several)
Stage Door (1937: Gregory La Cava)
Way Out West (1937: James W. Horne)
Wee Willie Winkle (1937: John Ford)
Young and Innocent (1937: Alfred Hitchcock)
Additional: Lost Horizon (1937: Frank Capra)
1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938: Michael Curtiz/William Keighley)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938: Michael Curtiz)
Boys Town (1938: Norman Taurog)
Block-Heads (1938: John G. Blystone)
Bringing Up Baby (1938: Howard Hawks)
The Dawn Patrol (1938: Edmund Goulding)
Holiday (1938: George Cukor)
The Lady Vanishes (1938: Alfred Hitchcock)
Pygmalion (1938: Anthony Asquith/Leslie Howard)
A Slight Case of Murder (1938: Lloyd Bacon)
Additional: Four Men and a Prayer (1938: John Ford)
1939
Beau Geste (1939: William A. Wellman)
Destry Rides Again (1939: George Marshall)
Gunga Din (1939: George Stevens)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939: William Dieterle)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939: Frank Capra)
Midnight (1939: Mitchell Leisen)
Ninotchka (1939: Ernst Lubitsch)
Son of Frankenstein (1939: Rowland V. Lee)
Stagecoach (1939: John Ford)
Wizard of Oz (1939: Victor Fleming)
Additional: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939: Alfred L. Werker)
1940
The Bank Dick (1940: Edward F. Cline)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940: John Ford)
The Great Dictator (1940: Charles Chaplin)
His Girl Friday (1940: Howard Hawks)
The Letter (1940: William Wyler)
The Philadelphia Story (1940: George Cukor)
Rebecca (1940: Alfred Hitchcock)
The Sea Hawk (1940: Michael Curtiz)
The Shop Around The Corner (1940: Ernst Lubitsch)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940: Michael Powell)
Additional: The Long Voyage Home (1940: John Ford)
Not Seen of Retro: Torrid Zone
1941
Buck Privates (1941: Arthur Lubin)
Citizen Kane (1941: Orson Welles)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941: William Dieterle)
How Green Was My Valley (1941: John Ford)
The Maltese Falcon (1941: John Huston)
Now Voyager (1941: Irving Rapper)
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941: Edward F. Cline)
Sergeant York (1941: Howard Hawks)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941: Preston Sturges)
The Wolf Man (1941: George Waggner)
Additional: High Sierra (1941: Raoul Walsh)
Not Seen of Retro: Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, Hot Spot aka I Wake Up Screaming, The Sea Wolf, Shanghai Gesture
1942
Bambi (1941: Various)
Casablanca (1942: Michael Curtiz)
Cat People (1942: Jacques Tourneur)
Holiday Inn (1942: Mark Sandrich)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942: Orson Welles)
The Palm Beach Story (1942: Preston Sturges)
The Pride of the Yankees (1942: Sam Wood)
Road to Morocco (1942: David Butler)
This Gun for Hire (1942: Frank Tuttle)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942: Michael Curtiz)
Additional: To Be or Not to Be (1942: Ernst Lubitsch)
Not Seen of Retro: The Glass Key, Grand Central Murder, Street of Chance, Tarzan's New York Adventure
1943
Destination Tokyo (1943: Delmer Daves)
Heaven Can Wait (1943: Ernst Lubitsch)
Hit the Ice (1943: Charles Lamont)
It Ain’t Hay (1943: Erle C.Kenton)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943: Jacques Tourneur)
Jane Eyre (1943: Robert Stevenson)
The Leopard Man (1943: Jacques Tourneur)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943: Powell & Pressburger)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943: William A. Wellman)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943: Alfred Hitchcock)
Additional: The Seventh Victim (1943: Mark Robson)
Not Seen of Retro: Cross of Lorraine, Tarzan Desert Mystery, Tarzan's Triumphs
1944
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944: Frank Capra)
Double Indemnity (1944: Billy Wilder)
Going My Way (1944: Leo McCarey)
It Happened Tomorrow (1944: Rene Clair)
Laura (1944: Otto Preminger)
The Lodger (1944: John Brahm)
Meet Me In Saint Louis (1944: Vincente Minnelli)
To Have and Have Not (1944: Howard Hawks)
The Princess and the Pirate (1944: David Butler)
The Scarlet Claw (1944: Roy William Neill)
Additional: Curse of the Cat People (1944: Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch)
Not Seen of Retro: The Mask of Dimitrios, Ministry of Fear, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
1945
The Bells of Saint Marys (1945: Leo McCarey)
The Body Snatcher (1945: Robert Wise)
Hangover Square (1945: John Brahm)
Isle of the Dead (1945: Mark Robson)
Leave Her To Heaven (1945: John Stahl)
The Lost Weekend (1945: Billy Wilder)
Mildred Pierce (1945: Michael Curtiz)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945: Albert Lewin)
Scarlet Street (1945: Fritz Lang)
Spellbound (1945: Alfred Hitchcock)
Additional: I Know Where I’m Going (1945: Powell & Pressburger)
Not Seen of Retro: Conflict, Fallen Angel, The House on 92nd Street, Tarzan and the Amazons
1946
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946: William Wyler)
The Big Sleep (1946: Howard Hawks)
Canyon Passage (1946: Jacques Tourneur)
Gilda (1946: Charles Vidor)
Great Expectations (1946: David Lean)
Green for Danger (1946: Sidney Gilliat)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946: Frank Kapra)
My Darling Clementine (1946: John Ford)
Notorious (1946: Alfred Hitchcock)
The Stranger (1946: Orson Welles)
Additional: Bedlam (1946: Mark Robson)
Not Seen of Retro: The Killers, Nobody Lives Forver, Postman Always Rings Twice, Somewhere in the Night, Three Strangers
1947
The Bishop’s Wife (1947: Henry Koster)
Brute Force (1947: Jules Dassin)
Dark Passage (1947: Delmer Daves)
The Egg and I (1947: Chester Erskine)
The Ghost and Mrs.Muir (1947: Joseph L Mankiewicz)
It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947: Roy Del Ruth)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947: Orson Welles)
Lady in the Lake (1947: Robert Montgomery)
Miracle on 34 Street (1947: George Seaton)
Out of the Past (1947: Jacques Tourneur)
Additional: Monsieur Verdoux (1947: Charles Chaplin)
Not Seen of Retro: 13 Rue Madeleine, Dead Reckoning, Desperate, The Web
1948
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948: Charles Barton)
Fort Apache (1948: John Ford)
Hamlet (1948: Laurence Olivier)
Key Largo (1948: John Huston)
Oliver Twist (1948: David Lean)
The Paleface (1948: Norman Z. McLeod)
Red River (1948: Howard Hawks)
Rope (1948: Alfred Hitchcock)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948: John Huston)
Unfaithfully Yours (1948: Preston Sturges)
Additional: Fallen Idol (1948: Carol Reed)
Not Seen of Retro: Bodyguard, Cry of the City, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, Pitfall, Road House, The Street with No Name
1949
The Big Steal (1949: Don Siegal)
The Heiress (1949: William Wyler)
A Letter To Three Wives (1949: Joseph Mankiewicz)
In the Good Old Summertime (1949: Robert Z. Leonard)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949: Robert Hamer)
On the Town (1949: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelley)
The Set-Up (1949: Robert Wise)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949: John Ford)
The Third Man (1949: Carol Reed)
White Heat (1949: Raoul Walsh)
Additional: Adam’s Rib (1949: George Cukor)
Not Seen of Retro: Criss Cross, Follow Me Quietly, Knock on any Door, The Reckless Moment, Tokyo Joe
1950
All About Eve (1950: Joseph Mankiewicz)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950: John Huston)
The Baron of Arizona (1950: Samuel Fuller)
The Gunfighter (1950: Henry King)
In A Lonely Place (1950: Nicolas Ray)
Night and the City (1950: Jules Dassin)
Panic in the Streets (1950: Elia Kazan)
Rio Grande (1950: John Ford)
Sunset Boulevard (1950: Billy Wilder)
Winchester '73 (1950: Anthony Mann)
Additional: Last Holiday (1950: Henry Cass)
Not Seen of Retro: Armored Car Robbery, D.O.A., Halls of Montezuma, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, Union Station, Where the Sidewalk Ends
1951
Ace in the Hole (1951: Billy Wilder)
The African Queen (1951: John Huston)
An American in Paris (1951: Vincente Minnelli)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951: Robert Wise)
His Kind of Woman (1951: John Farrow)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951: Charles Crichton)
A Place in the Sun (1951: George Stevens)
Scrooge (1951: Brian Desmond Hurst)
Strangers on a Train (1951: Alfred Hitchcock)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951: Elia Kazan)
Additional: The Man in the White Suit (1951: Alexander Mackendrick)
Not Seen of Retro: The Desert Fox, Detective Story, The Enforcer, Go for Broke, The House of Telegraph Hill, Quo Vadis
1952
Bend of the River (1952: Anthony Mann)
High Noon (1952: Fred Zinnemann)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952: Anthony Asquith)
Lost in Alaska (1952: Jean Yarbrough)
Macao (1952: Josef von Sternberg)
Moulin Rouge (1952: John Huston)
On Dangerous Ground (1952: Nicolaus Ray) IMDB has this as 1951, but it is a 1952 release
The Quiet Man (1952: John Ford)
Singing in the Rain (1952: Stanley Donen)
The Sniper (1952: Edward Dymtyrk)
Additional: Kansas City Confidential (1952: Phil Karlsons)
Not Seen of Retro: 5 Fingers, Against All Flags, The Captive City, Deadline U.S.A., Ivanhoe, The Narrow Margin, Sudden Fear
1953
The Band Wagon (1953: Vincente Minnelli)
The Big Heat (1953: Fritz Lang)
From Here to Eternity (1953: Fred Zinnemann)
House of Wax (1953: André De Toth)
The Naked Spur (1953: Anthony Mann)
Pickup on South Street (1953: Samuel Fuller)
Roman Holiday (1953: William Wyler)
Shane (1953: George Stevens)
Stalag 17 (1953: Billy Wilder)
The War of the Worlds (1953: Byron Haskin)
Additional: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953: Howard Hawks)
Not Seen of Retro: Invaders From Mars, Knights of the Round Table, Salome
1954
20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954: Richard Fleischer)
The Barefoot Contessa (1954: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Broken Lance (1954: Edward Dymtyrk)
The Caine Mutiny (1954: Edward Dymtyrk)
Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954: Jack Arnold)
The Naked Jungle (1954: Byron Haskin)
Rear Window (1954: Alfred Hitchcock)
On The Waterfront (1954: Elia Kazan)
Sabrina (1954: Billy Wilder)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954: Stanley Donen)
Additional: Crime Wave (1954: Andre de Toth)
Not Seen of Retro: The Egyptian, Night People, Prince Valiant, Secret of the Incas, Suddenly
1955
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955: John Sturges)
The Court Jester (1955: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama)
East of Eden (1955: Elia Kazan)
Ladykillers (1955: Alexander Mackendrick)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955: Robert Aldrich)
Mister Roberts (1955: John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy)
The Man from Laramie (1955: Anthony Mann)
Mr. Arkadin (1955: Orson Welles)
Night of the Hunter (1955: Charles Laughton)
To Catch a Thief (1955: Alfred Hitchcock)
Additional: The Man With The Golden Arm (1955: Otto Preminger)
Not Seen of Retro: The Big Combo, The Dam Busters, Desperate Hours, Escape to Burma, House of Bamboo, Land of the Pharaohs
1956
Around the World in 80 Days (1956: Michael Anderson)
Forbidden Planet (1956: Fred M. Wilcox)
Giant (1956: George Stevens)
The Killing (1956: Stanley Kubrick)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956: Alfred Hitchcock)
Moby Dick (1956: John Huston)
The Searchers (1956: John Ford)
Seven Men From Now (1956: Budd Boetticher)
The Ten Commandments (1956: Cecil B. DeMille)
There’s Always Tomorrow (1956: Douglas Sirk)
Additional: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956: Don Siegal)
Not Seen of Retro: Alexander the Great, D-Day, Helen of Troy, A Kiss Before Dying, While the City Sleeps
1957
3:10 to Yuma (1957: Delmer Daves)
12 Angry Men (1957: Sidney Lumet
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957: David Lean)
A Face in the Crowd (1957: Elia Kazan)
Forty Guns (1957: Samuel Fuller)
Heaven Knows,Mr.Allison (1957: John Huston)
Paths of Glory (1957: Stanley Kubrick)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957: Alexander Mackendrick)
The Tall T (1957: Budd Boetticher)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957: Billy Wilder)
Additional: Funny Face (1957: Stanley Donen)
Not Seen of Retro: Crimes of Passion, Edge of the City, Men in War, Nightfall, Sayonara, The Unholy Wife
1958
The Big Country (1958: William Wyler)
The Defiant Ones (1958: Stanley Kramer)
Gigi (1958: Vincente Minnelli)
The Lineup (1958:Don Siegal)
Man of the West (1958: Anthony Mann)
Murder by Contract (1958: Irving Lerner)
Thunder Road (1958: Arthur Ripley)
Touch of Evil (1958: Orson Welles)
Some Came Running (1958: Vincente Minnelli)
Vertigo (1958: Alfred Hitchcock)
Additional: No Time for Sergeants (1958: Mervyn LeRoy)
Not Seen of Retro: The Naked and the Dead, Torpedo Run, The Vikings, The Young Lions
1959
Anatomy of a Murder (1959: Otto Preminger)
Ben-Hur (1959: William Wyler)
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959: Robert Stevenson)
The Horse Soldiers (1959: John Ford)
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959: John Sturges)
North By Northwest (1959: Alfred Hitchcock)
Ride Lonesome (1959: Budd Boetticher)
Rio Bravo (1959: Howard Hawks)
Sleeping Beauty (1959: Clyde Geronimi)
Some Like it Hot (1959: Billy Wilder)
Additional: I’m All Right Jack (1959: John Boulting)
Not Seen of Retro: Battle of the Coral Sea, Crimson Kimono, Ferry to Hong Kong, Journey, Solomon and Sheba
1960
The Apartment (1960: Billy Wilder)
Elmer Gantry (1960: Richard Brooks)
House of Usher (1960: Roger Corman)
Inherit the Wind (1960: Stanley Kramer)
The Magnificent Seven (1960:John Sturges)
Psycho (1960: Alfred Hitchcock)
Sergeant Rutledge (1960: John Ford)
Spartacus (1960: Stanley Kubrick)
The Time Machine (1960: George Pal)
Tunes of Glory (1960: Ronald Neame)
Additional: Peeping Tom (1960: Michael Powell)
Not Seen of Retro: Esther and the King, Exodus, The Gallant Hours, Hell to Eternity, Seven Thieves
1961
Blast of Silence (1961: Allen Baron)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961: Blake Edwards)
El Cid (1961: Anthony Mann)
The Hustler (1961: Robert Rossen)
The Innocents (1961: Jack Clayton)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961: Stanley Kramer)
King of Kings (1961: Nicholas Ray)
The Ladies Man (1961: Jerry Lewis)
Pocketful of Miracles (1961: Frank Capra)
West Side Story (1961: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise)
Additional: Pit and the Pendulum (1961: Roger Corman)
Not Seen of Retro: Bachelor in Paradise, Barabbas, Paris Blues, Underworld, U.S.A.
1962
Advise and Consent (1962: Otto Preminger)
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962: John Frankenheimer)
Cape Fear (1962: J. Lee Thompson)
Hatari! (1962: Howard Hawks)
The Intruder (1962: Roger Corman)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962: David Lean)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962: John Frankenheimer)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance(1962: John Ford)
Ride The High Country (1962: Sam Peckinpah)
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962: Robert Mulligan)
Additional: The Music Man (1962: Morton DaCosta)
Not Seen of Retro: The 300 Spartans, Damon and Pythias, The Longest Day
1963
Charade (1963: Stanley Donen)
The Comedy of Terrors (1963: Jacques Tourneur)
From Russia With Love (1963: Terence Young)
The Great Escape (1963:John Sturges)
It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963: Stanley Kramer)
The Haunting (1963: Robert Wise)
Hud (1963: Martin Ritt)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963: Don Chaffey)
Lilies of the Field (1963: Ralph Nelson)
The Nutty Professor (1963: Jerry Lewis)
Additional: Billy Liar (1963: John Schlesinger)
Not Seen of Retro: Cleopatra, Come Blow Your Horn, Kings of the Sun
1964
Dr. Strangelove (1964: Stanley Kubrick)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964: Anthony Mann)
Goldfinger (1964: Guy Hamilton)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964: Richard Lester)
Mary Poppins (1964: Robert Stevenson)
My Fair Lady (1964: George Cukor)
The Patsy (1964: Jerry Lewis)
Seven Days in May (1964: John Frankenheimer)
A Shot in the Dark (1964: Blake Edwards)
Zulu (1964: Cy Endfield)
Additional: Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964: Byron Haskin)
Not Seen of Retro: 633 Squadron, The 7th Dawn, Fail Safe, Morituri, Topkapi, The Train
1965
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965:Carol Reed)
Cat Ballou (1965: Elliot Silverstein)
The Cincinnati Kid (1965: Norman Jewison)
Doctor Zhivago (1965: David Lean)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965: Robert Aldrich)
Shenandoah (1965: Andrew V. McLaglen)
Ship of Fools (1965: Stanley Kramer)
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965: Henry Hathaway)
The Sound of Music (1965: Robert Wise)
Thunderball (1965: Terence Young)
Additional: The Family Jewels (1965: Jerry Lewis)
Not Seen of Retro: Battle of the Bulge, The Bedford Incident, Brain Storm, Faster, Pussycat !Kill! Kill!, The Heroes of the Telemark, Operation Crossbow, Von Ryan’s Express
1966
Blow-Up (1966: Michaelangelo Antonioni)
El Dorado (1966: Howard Hawks)
The Fortune Cookie (1966: Billy Wilder)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966: Richard Lester)
How To Steal a Million (1966: William Wyler)
A Man for All Seasons (1966: Fred Zinnemann)
The Naked Prey (1966: Cornel Wilde)
The Professionals (1966: Richard Brooks)
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966: Norman Jewison)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966: Mike Nichols)
Additional: The Bible: In the Beginning (1966: John Huston)
Not Seen of Retro: Ambush Bay, Around the World Under the Sea, Assault on a Queen, Gambit, Khartoum, The Quiller Memorandum
1967
Bonnie and Clyde (1967: Arthur Penn)
Cool Hand Luke (1967: Stuart Rosenberg)
The Dirty Dozen (1967: Robert Aldrich)
Hombre (1967: Martin Ritt)
In Cold Blood (1967: Richard Brooks)
In The Heat of the Night (1967: Norman Jewison)
Point Blank (1967: John Boorman)
The Producers (1967: Mel Brooks)
The War Wagon (1967: Burt Kennedy)
You Only Live Twice (1967: Lewis Gilbert)
Additional: The Graduate (1967: Mike Nichols)
Not Seen of Retro: Fathom, The Night of the Generals, Tony Rome, The Venetian Affair
1968
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968: Stanley Kubrick)
Bullitt (1968: Peter Yates)
Hang Em High (1968: Ted Post)
Monterey Pop (1968: D.A. Pennebaker)
The Odd Couple (1968: Gene Saks)
Oliver! (1968: Carol Reed)
The Party (1968: Blake Edwards)
Planet of the Apes (1968: Franklin J. Schaffner)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968:Norman Jewison)
Yellow Submarine (1968: George Dunning)
Additional: Night of the Living Dead (1968: George A.Romero)
Not Seen of Retro: The Detective, Lady in Cement, Submarine X-1
1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969: George Roy Hill)
Easy Rider (1969: Dennis Hopper)
Hello Dolly! (1969: Gene Kelly)
The Italian Job (1969: Peter Collinson)
Midnight Cowboy (1969:John Schlesinger)
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969: Peter R. Hunt)
Support Your Local Sheriff (1969: Burt Kennedy)
Take the Money and Run (1969: Woody Allen)
True Grit (1969: Henry Hathaway)
The Wild Bunch (1969: Sam Peckinpah)
Additional: Cactus Flower (1969: Gene Saks)
Not Seen of Retro: The Bridge of Remagen, Eye of the Cat, Flareup, The Lost Man, The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1970
The Aristocats (1970: Wolfgang Reitherman)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970: Sam Peckinpah)
Catch-22 (1970: Mike Nichols)
Five Easy Pieces (1970: Bob Rafelson)
Gimmie Shelter (1970: Albert Maysles, David Maysles)
Little Big Man (1970: Arthur Penn)
MASH (1970: Robert Altman)
Patton (1970: Franklin J. Schnaffner)
Rio Lobo (1970: Howard Hawks)
Woodstock (1970: Michael Wadleigh)
Additional: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970: Billy Wilder)
Not Seen of Retro: The Executioner, Fragment of Fear, Hornet’s Nest, They Call Me Mr. Tibbs, Tick… Tick… Tick…, Two Late the Hero, Tora! Tora! Tora!
1971
Bananas (1971: Woody Allen)
Dirty Harry (1971: Don Siegel)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971: Norman Jewison)
The French Connection (1971: William Friedkin)
The Grissom Gang (1971: Robert Aldrich)
Harold And Maude (1971: Hal Ashby)
Shaft (1971: Gordon Parks)
THX-1138 (1971: George Lucas)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971: Monte Hellman)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971: Mel Stuart)
Additional: The Omega Man (1971: Boris Sagal)
Not Seen of Retro: Klute, The Organization, Panic in Needle Park
1972
Cabaret (1972: Bob Fosse)
Deliverance (1972: John Boorman)
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972: Robert Fuest)
Frenzy (1972: Alfred Hitchcock)
The Getaway (1972: Sam Peckinpah)
The Godfather (1972: Francis Ford Coppola)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972: Sydney Pollack)
Junior Bonner (1972: Sam Peckinpah)
Play it Again, Sam (1972: Herbert Ross)
What’s Up Doc? (1972: Peter Bogdanovich)
Additional: Avanti! (1972: Billy Wilder)
Not Seen of Retro: Across 110th Street, The Mechanic, Red Sun, Slaughter, Superfly, The Valaci Papers
1973
American Graffiti (1973: George Lucas)
The Day of the Jackal (1973: Fred Zinnemann)
High Plains Drifter (1973: Clint Eastwood)
The Last Detail (1973: Hal Ashby)
Mean Streets (1973: Martin Scorsese)
Paper Moon (1973: Peter Bogdanovich)
Papillon (1973: Franklin J.Schaffner)
Sleeper (1973: Woody Allen)
The Sting (1973: George Roy Hill)
Soylent Green (1973: Richard Fleischer)
Additional: Enter the Dragon (1973: Robert Clouse)
Not Seen of Retro: Charley Varrick, The Mack
1974
Blazing Saddles (1974: Mel Brooks)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974: Sam Peckinpah)
China town (1974: Roman Polanski)
The Conversation (1974: Francis Ford Coppola)
Death Wish (1974: Michael Winner)
The Godfather II (1974: Francis Ford Coppola)
The Longest Yard (1974: Robert Aldrich)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974: Joseph Sargent)
The Towering Inferno (1974: John Guillermin)
Young Frankenstein (1974: Mel Brooks)
Additional: Zardoz (1974: John Boorman)
Not Seen of Retro: Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, The Education of Sonny Carson, Mr. Majestyk
1975
Barry Lyndon (1975: Barry Lyndon)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975: Sidney Lumet)
Jaws (1975: Steven Spielberg)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975: John Huston)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975: Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones)
Nashville (1975: Robert Altman)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975: Milos Forman)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975: Blake Edwards)
Rooster Cogburn (1975: Stuart Millar)
Three Days of the Condor (1975: Sydney Pollack)
Additional: Cooley High (1975: Michael Schultz)
Not Seen of Retro: Bucktown, Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold, The French Connection II, Night Moves, Sheba, Baby, White-line Fever, The Yakuza
1976
All the President’s Men (1976: Alan J.Pakula)
The Bad News Bears (1976: Michael Ritchie)
Marathon Man (1976: John Schlesinger)
The Missouri Breaks (1976: Arthur Penn)
Murder by Death (1976: Robert Moore)
Network (1976: Sidney Lumet)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976: Blake Edwards)
Rocky (1976: John G. Avildsen)
The Shootist (1976: Don Siegel)
Taxi Driver (1976: Martin Scorsese)
Additional: Assault on Precinct 13 (1976: John Carpenter)
Not Seen of Retro: King Kong
1977
Annie Hall (1977: Annie Hall)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977: Steven Spielberg)
The Duellists (1977: Ridley Scott)
High Anxiety (1977: Mel Brooks)
New York, New York (1977: Martin Scorsese)
Oh God! (1977: Carl Reiner)
Pumping Iron (1977: George Butler, Robert Fiore)
Saturday Night Fever (1977: John Badham)
Smokey and the Bandit (1977: Hal Needham)
Star Wars (1977: George Lucas)
Additional: The Island of Dr.Moreau (1977: Don Taylor)
Not Seen of Retro: A Bridge Too Far, Cross of Iron, The Deep, Rolling Thunder, Telefon
1978
Animal House (1978: John Landis)
Dawn of the Dead (1978: George A.Romero)
The Driver (1978: Walter Hill)
Foul Play (1978: Colin Higgins)
Grease (1978: Randal Kleiser)
Halloween (1978: John Carpenter)
Heaven Can Wait (1978: Warren Beatty, Buck Henry)
The Last Waltz (1978: Martin Scorsese)
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978: Blake Edwards)
Superman (1978: Richard Donner)
Additional: Days of Heaven (1978: Terrence Malick)
Not Seen of Retro: Blue Collar, Convoy, F.I.S.T., The Fury, The Wild Geese
1979
Alien (1979: Ridley Scott)
Apocalypse Now (1979: Francis Ford Coppola)
Being There (1979: Hal Ashby)
Escape From Alcatraz (1979: Don Siegel)
The Jerk (1979: Carl Reiner)
Manhattan (1979: Woody Allen)
The Muppet Movie (1979: James Frawley)
North Dallas Forty (1979: Ted Kotcheff)
The Warriors (1979: Walter Hill)
Wise Blood (1979: John Huston)
Additional: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979: Robert Wise)
Not Seen of Retro: Boulevard Nights, The China Syndrome, Over the Edge
1980
Airplane! (1980: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker)
Atlantic City (1980: Louis Malle)
The Big Red One (1980: Samuel Fuller)
The Blues Brothers (1980: John Landis)
Caddyshack (1980: Harold Ramis)
The Elephant Man (1980: David Lynch)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980: Irvin Kershner)
Ordinary People (1980: Robert Redford)
Raging Bull (1980: Martin Scorsese)
Stir Crazy (1980: Sidney Poitier)
Additional: The Shining (1980: Stanley Kubrick)
Not Seen of Retro: Alligator, Borderline, Brubaker, Cruising, Flash Gordon, Friday the 13th, Night of the Juggler
Not Seen of Mark: The Changeling, Cruising, Dressed to Kill, Friday the 13th, New: Eyes of a Stranger)
1981
Arthur (1981: Steve Gordon)
Chariots of Fire (1981: Hugh Hudson)
Clash of the Titans (1981: Desmond Davis)
Escape From New York (1981: John Carpenter)
Gallipoli (1981: Peter Weir)
Mad Max 2 (1981: George Miller)
My Dinner With Andre (1981: Louis Malle)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981: Steven Spielberg)
Thief (1981: Michael Mann)
Time Bandits (1981: Terry Gilliam)
Additional: On Golden Pond (1981: Mark Rydell)
Not Seen of Retro: The Burning, Fort Apache: The Bronx, Friday the 13th II, Night Hawks, Southern Comfort, Taps
Not Seen of Mark: Blow Out, Body Heat, Deadly Blessing, Escape to Victory, Nighthawks, Road Games
1982
48 Hrs.(1982: Walter Hill)
Blade Runner (1982: Ridley Scott)
Gandhi (1982: Richard Attenborough)
The King of Comedy (1982: Martin Scorsese)
Moonlighting (1982: Jerzy Skolimowski)
My Favorite Year (1982: Richard Benjamin)
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982: Nicholas Meyer)
The Thing (1982: John Carpenter)
TRON (1982: Steven Lisberger)
The Verdict (1982: Sidney Lumet)
Additional: Diner (1982: Barry Levinson)
Not Seen of Retro: The Challenge, Class of 1984, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, An Officer and a Gentleman, Poltergeist
Not Seen of Mark: Death Wish II, The Entity, Evil Under the Sun, Poltergeist, Tenebrae
1983
A Christmas Story (1983: Bob Clark)
Local Hero (1983: Bill Forsyth)
The Meaning of Life (1983: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam)
Return of the Jedi (1983: Richard Marquand)
The Right Stuff (1983: Philip Kaufman)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983: Jack Clayton)
Trading Places (1983: John Landis)
Vacation (1983: Harold Ramis)
WarGames (1983: John Badham)
Zelig (1983: Woody Allen)
Additional: Terms of Endearment (1983: James L.Brooks)
Not Seen of Retro: 10 to Midnight, Lone Wolf McQuade, The Star Chamber, Uncommon Valor, Under Fire
Not Seen of Mark: Bad Boys, The Dead Zone, Psycho II, Silkwood, 10 to Midnight
1984
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984: W.D. Richter)
Amadeus (1984: Milos Forman)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984: Woody Allen)
Ghost Busters (1984: Ivan Reitman)
Gremlins (1984: Joe Dante)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984: Steven Spielberg)
The Karate Kid (1984: John G. Avildsen)
The Natural (1984: Barry Levinson)
The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984: Stuart Rosenberg)
This is Spinal Tap (1984: Rob Reiner)
Additional: Under the Volcano (1984: John Huston)
Not Seen of Retro: Friday the 13th IV, Red Dawn
Not Seen of Mark: Missing in Action, Teachers
1985
After Hours (1985: Martin Scorsese)
Back to the Future (1985: Robert Zemeckis)
Brazil (1985: Terry Gilliam)
The Breakfast Club (1985: John Hughes)
Fletch (1985: Michael Ritchie)
The Goonies (1985:Richard Donner)
Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985: Tim Burton)
Prizzi’s Honor (1985: John Huston)
Spies Like Us (1985: John Landis)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985: William Friedkin)
Additional: The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985: Woody Allen)
Not Seen of Retro: Death Wish III, Invasion USA, Missing in Action 2, Tuff Turf
Not Seen of Mark: Invasion USA, Missing in Action 2, Pale Rider, The Sure Thing
1986
Aliens (1986: James Cameron)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986: John Carpenter)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986: John Hughes)
The Fly (1986: David Cronenberg)
Heartbreak Ridge (1986: Clint Eastwood)
Hoosiers (1986: David Anspaugh)
Platoon (1986: Oliver Stone)
Sid & Nancy (1986: Alex Cox)
Stand By Me (1986: Rob Reiner)
Star Trek IV (1986: Leonard Nimoy)
Additional: Three Amigos! (1986: John Landis)
Not Seen of Retro: Cobra, Friday the 13th Part VI, Iron Eagle, Thrashin’
Not Seen of Mark: Avenging Force, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Friday the 13th, Part VI, Salvador
1987
Angel Heart (1987: Alan Parker)
Evil Dead II (1987: Sam Raimi)
Lethal Weapon (1987: Richard Donner)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987: John Hughes)
Predator (1987: John McTiernan)
Princess Bride (1987: Rob Reiner)
Robocop (1987: Paul Verhoeven)
Three O'Clock High (1987: Phil Joanou)
The Untouchables (1987: Brian De Palma)
Withnail & I (1987: Bruce Robinson)
Additional: Moonstruck (1987: Norman Jewison)
Not Seen of Retro: Less than Zero, Monster Squad
Not Seen of Mark: The Bedroom Window, The Principal
1988
Big (1988: Penny Marshall)
Bloodsport (1988: Newt Arnold)
Dead Ringers (1988: David Cronenberg)
Die Hard (1988: John McTiernan)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988: Frank Oz)
Eight Men Out (1988: John Sayles)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988: Charles Crichton)
Mississippi Burning (1988: Alan Parker)
The Naked Gun (1988: David Zucker)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988: Robert Zemeckis)
Additional: Beetlejuice (1988: Tim Burton)
Not Seen of Retro: The Beast of War, Off Limits, Rambo III
Not Seen of Mark: Braddock: Missing in Action III, Frantic, Heathers, Working Girl
1989
The Abyss (1989: James Cameron)
Batman (1989: Tim Burton)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989: Woody Allen)
Do The Right Thing (1989: Spike Lee)
Field of Dreams (1989: Phil Alden Robinson)
Glory (1989: Edward Zwick)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989: Steven Spielberg)
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989: Richard Donner)
My Left Foot (1989: Jim Sheridan)
Say Anything… (1989: Cameron Crowe)
Additional: UHF (1989: Jay Levey)
Not Seen of Retro: Friday the 13th VIII, Loverboy, Road House
Not Seen of Mark: Born on the 4th of July, Casualties of War, Sea of Love
1990
Awakenings (1990: Penny Marshall)
Dances with Wolves (1990: Kevin Costner)
Die Hard II (1990: Renny Harlin)
The Freshman (1990: Andrew Bergman)
Goodfellas (1990: Martin Scorsese)
Home Alone (1990: Chris Columbus)
The Hunt for Red October (1990: John McTiernan)
Jacob's Ladder (1990: Adrian Lyne)
Metropolitan (1990: Whit Stillman)
Total Recall (1990: Paul Verhoeven)
Additional: Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990: Joe Dante)
Not Seen of Retro: Arachnophobia, Delta Force II, Navy Seals, Tremors
Not Seen of Mark: Misery
1991
The Addams Family (1991: Barry Sonnenfeld)
Barton Fink (1991: Coen Bros.)
Beauty and the Beast (1991: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise)
City Slickers (1991: Ron Underwood)
JFK (1991: Oliver Stone)
My Own Private Idaho (1991: Gus Van Sant)
Point Break (1991: Kathryn Bigelow)
Silence of the Lambs (1991: Jonathan Demme)
Star Trek VI (1991: Nicholas Meyer)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991: James Cameron)
Additional: Only the Lonely (1991:Chris Columbus)
Not Seen of Retro: Bugsy, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Stone Cold, Toy Soldiers
Not Seen of Mark: Dead Again, Toy Soldiers
1992
Army of Darkness (1992: Sam Raimi)
Batman Returns (1992: Tim Burton)
The Crying Game (1992: Neil Jordan)
A Few Good Men (1992: Rob Reiner)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992: James Foley)
A League of Their Own (1992: Penny Marshall)
Malcolm X (1992: Spike Lee)
Under Siege (1992: Andew Davis)
Unforgiven (1992: Clint Eastwood)
Wayne’s World (1992: Penelope Spheeris)
Additional: School Ties (1992: Robert Mandel)
Not Seen of Retro: Fixing the Shadow, Passenger 57, Trespass
Not Seen of Mark: Diggstown
1993
The Fugitive (1993: Andew Davis)
Groundhog Day (1993: Harold Ramis)
In the Line of Fire (1993: Clint Eastwood)
In the Name of the Father (1993: Jim Sheridan)
Jurassic Park (1993: Steven Spielberg)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993: Henry Selick)
A Perfect World (1993: Clint Eastwood)
The Piano (1993: Jane Campion)
Schindler’s List (1993: Steven Spielberg)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993: Lasse Hallstrom)
Additional: Romeo is Bleeding (1993: Peter Medak)
Not Seen of Retro: Aspen Extreme, Blood In, Blood Out, Sniper
Not Seen of Mark: Judgment Night
1994
Crumb (1994: Terry Zwigoff)
Ed Wood (1994: Tim Burton)
Forrest Gump (1994: Robert Zemeckis)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994: Mike Newell)
Hoop Dreams (1994: Steve James)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994: Coen Brothers)
Pulp Fiction (1994: Quentin Tarantino)
Quiz Show (1994: Robert Redford)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994: Frank Darabont)
Speed (1994: Jan de Bont)
Additional: The Lion King (1994: Roger Allers,Rob Minkoff)
Not Seen of Retro: Blown Away, Chasers, Drop Zone, Surviving The Game, Terminal Velocity
Not Seen of Mark: Mute Witness, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, Wolf
1995
Babe (1995: Chris Noonan)
Braveheart (1995: Mel Gibson)
Crimson Tide (1995: Tony Scott)
Heat (1995: Michael Mann)
Nixon (1995: Oliver Stone)
Richard III (1995: Richard Loncraine)
Sense and Sensibility (1995: Ang Lee)
Se7en (1995: David Fincher)
Strange Days (1995: Kathryn Bigelow)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995: Todd Solondz)
Additional: The Indian in the Cupboard (1995: Frank Oz)
Not Seen of Retro: Crying Freeman, Dead Presidents, Just Cause
Not Seen of Mark: Dead Presidents, The Hunted, The Last Supper, The Quick and the Dead
1996
The Arrival (1996: David Twohy)
The Cable Guy (1996: Ben Stiller)
From Dusk till Dawn (1996: Robert Rodriquez)
Get On The Bus (1996: Spike Lee)
Hamlet (1996: Kenneth Branagh)
Kingpin (1996: Farrelly Bros.)
Ransom (1996: Ron Howard)
The Rock (1996: Michael Bay)
Secrets & Lies (1996: Mike Leigh)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996: Jonathan Frakes)
Additional: Happy Gilmore (1996: Dennis Dugan)
Not Seen of Retro: Chain Reaction, Executive Decision, The Long Kiss Goddnight
Not Seen of Mark: Bound, The Long Kiss Goodnight, A Time to Kill, 2 Days in the Valley, Unforgettable
1997
Amistad (1997: Steven Spielberg)
As Good as it Gets (1997: James L. Brooks)
Con Air (1997: Simon West)
Conspiracy Theory (1997: Richard Donner)
Donnie Brasco (1997: Mike Newell)
Face/Off (1997: John Woo
Gattaca (1997: Andre Niccol)
Jackie Brown (1997: Quentin Tarantino)
LA Confidential (1997: Curtis Hanson)
Men in Black (1997: Barry Sonnenfeld)
Additional: Eve's Bayou (1997: Kasi Lemmons)
Not Seen of Retro: Alien Ressurection, Anaconda, Boogie Nights, The Devil’s Own, The Jackal, Starship Troopers
Not Seen of Mark: Copland, The Edge, The Rainmaker, Red Corner
1998
American History X (1998: Tony Kaye)
Babe: Pig in the City (1998: George Miller)
The Big Lebowski (1998: Coen Bros.)
Buffalo ’66 (1998: Vincent Gallo)
Enemy of the State (1998: Tony Scott)
Dark City (1998: Alex Proyas)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998: Terry Gilliam)
Ronin (1998: John Frankenheimer)
There's Something About Mary (1998: Farrelly Brothers)
The Truman Show (1998: Peter Weir)
Additional: Blade (1998: Stephen Norrington)
Not Seen of Retro: Disturbing Behavior, Firestorm, Hard Rain, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Replacement Killers, Savior,Sphere, The Thin Red Line
Not Seen of Mark: The Negotiator, The Thin Red Line, U.S. Marshalls, Wild Things
1999
Bringing Out The Dead (1999: Martin Scorsese)
Fight Club (1999: David Fincher)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999: Jim Jarmusch)
The Green Mile (1999: Frank Darabont)
Man on the Moon (1999: Milos Forman)
The Matrix (1999: Andy Wachowski/Larry Wachowski)
Office Space (1999: Mike Judge)
The Sixth Sense (1999: M. Night Shyamalan)
Sleepy Hollow (1999: Tim Burton)
Three Kings (1999: David O. Russell)
Additional: Notting Hill (1999: Roger Michell)
Not Seen of Retro: The Bone Collector, The Corruptor, Deep Blue Sea, The General’s Daughter, Instinct, Lake Placid, Summer of Sam
Not Seen of Mark: American Pie, 8mm, Go, The World is Not Enough
2000
American Psycho (2000: Mary Harron)
Best in Show (2000: Christopher Guest)
Billy Elliot (2000: Stephen Daldry)
Chicken Run (2000: Peter Lord, Nick Park)
Gladiator (2000: Ridley Scott)
High Fidelity (2000: Stephen Frears)
Memento (2000: Christopher Nolan)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000: Coen Bros.)
Snatch (2000: Guy Ritchie)
Unbreakable (2000: M. Night Shyamalan)
Additional: Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey (2000: John Little, Bruce Lee)
Not Seen of Mark: Frequency, Hollow Man, Mission: Impossible II, Return to Me, Shaft, Thirteen Days, What Lies Beneath
Not Seen of Retro: Gone in 60 Seconds, Mission Impossible II, Mission to Mars, Rules of Engagement, Shaft, Thirteen Days
2001
A Beautiful Mind (2001: Ron Howard)
AI (2001: Steven Spielberg)
Donnie Darko (2001: Richard Kelly)
From Hell (2001: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes)
Ghost World (2001: Terry Zwigoff)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001: Peter Jackson)
Mulholland Dr. (2001: David Lynch)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001: Wes Anderson)
Spy Game (2001: Tony Scott)
Zooland (2001: Ben Stiller)
Additional: Monsters Inc. (2001: Pete Docter,David Silverman)
Not Seen of Mark: Along Came a Spider, Anti-trust, Frailty, The Majestic, The Others, The Score
Not Seen of Retro: Behind Enemy Lines, Black Hawn Down, Enemy at the Gates, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
2002
Blade II (2002: Guillermo del Toro)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002: Peter Jackson)
Minority Report (2002: Steven Spielberg)
The Pianist (2002: Roman Polanski)
Orange County (2002: Jake Kasdan)
Panic Room (2002: David Fincher)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002: Paul Thomas Anderson)
Road to Perdition (2002: Sam Mendes)
Signs (2002: M. Night Shyamalan)
Spider-Man (2002: Sam Raimi)
Additional: Bubba Ho-Tep (2002: Don Coscarelli)
Not Seen of Mark: Collateral Damage, The Conte of Monte Cristo, Die Another Day, The Four Feathers, Jason X
Not Seen of Retro: Blood Work, Count of Monte Cristo, Narc, Sum of All Fears, Transporter
2003
Big Fish (2003: Tim Burton)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003: Peter Jackson)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003: Peter Weir)
Matchstick Men (2003: Ridley Scott)
A Mighty Wind (2003: Christopher Guest)
Mystic River (2003: Clint Eastwood)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003: Robert Rodriquez)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003: Gore Verbinski)
Seabiscuit (2003: Gary Ross)
Touching the Void (2003: Kevin Macdonald)
Additional: Bruce Almighty (2003: Tony Shadyac)
Not Seen of Mark: The Cooler, Gothika, The Last Samurai, The Live of David Gale, Open Range, Out of Time, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Note Seen of Retro: Basic, Dark Blue, The Hunted, Tomb Raider – Cradle of Life, Tears of the Sun, The Recruit
2004
The Aviator (2004: Martin Scorsese)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004: Michel Gondry)
Hellboy (2004: Guillermo del Toro)
Hotel Rwanda (2004: Terry George)
The Incredibles (2004: Brad Bird)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004: Wes Anderson)
Man on Fire (2004: Tony Scott)
Shaun of the Dead (2004: Edgar Wright)
Spiderman 2 (2004: Sam Raimi)
The Terminal (2004: Steven Spielberg)
Additional: The Passion of the Christ (2004: Mel Gibson)
Not Seen of Mark: Cellular, Spartan
Not Seen of Retro:
2005
Batman Begins (2005: Christopher Nolan)
Brokeback Mountain (2005: Ang Lee)
Cinderella Man (2005: Ron Howard)
Constantine (2005: Francis Lawrence)
Danny the Dog (2005: Louis Leterrier)
Grizzly Man (2005: Werner Herzog)
A History of Violence (2005: David Cronenberg)
King Kong (2005: Peter Jackson)
Walk the Line (2005: James Mangold)
The World’s Fastest Indian (2005: Roger Donaldson)
Additional: Last Days (2005: Gus van Sant)
Not Seen of Mark: The Constant Gardner, Four Brothers, The Interpreter, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Red Eye
Note Seen of Retro: Lords of Dogtown, Unich, Red Eye, Transporter 2, Assault on Precinct 13, Syriana, Kingdom of Heaven
2006
300 (2006: Zack Snyder)
Apocalypto (2006: Mel Gibson)
Children of Men (2006: Alfonso Cuaron)
The Departed (2006: Martin Scorsese)
Flushed Away (2006: David Bowers, Sam Fell)
The Illusionist (2006: Neil Burger)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris)
The Prestige (2006: Christopher Nolan)
A Scanner Darkly (2006: Richard Linklater)
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006: Richard Donner)
Additional: Grandma’s Boy (2006: Nicholaus Goossen)
Not Seen of Mark: Blood Diamond, Hollywoodland, Running Scared, Thank You for Smoking
Not Seen of Retro: Black Dahlia, Blood Diamond, Casino Royale, The Good Shepherd, Flags of Our Fathers
2007
3:10 to Yuma (2007: James Mangold)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford (2007: Andrew Dominik)
Control (2007: Anton Corbijn)
Eastern Promises (2007: David Cronenberg)
Hot Fuzz (2007: Edgar Wright)
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007: Seth Gordon)
No Country For Old Men (2007: Coen Brothers)
Ratatouille (2007: Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava)
There Will Be Blood (2007: Paul Thomas Anderson)
Zodiac (2007: David Fincher)
Additional: Hot Rod (2007: Akiva Schaffer)
Not Seen of Mark: Death Sentence, Gone Baby Gone, In the Valley of Elah, Live Free or Die Hard, The Orphanage, We Own the Night
Not Seen of Retro: Charlie Wilson’s War, The Kingdom, Shooter, American Gangster, Hitman
2008
The Dark Knight (2008: Christopher Nolan)
Gran Torino (2008: Clint Eastwood)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008: Guillermo del Toro)
In Bruges (2008: Martin McDonagh)
Iron Man (2008: Jon Favreau)
Man on Wire (2008: James Marsh)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan)
Tropic Thunder (2008: Ben Stiller)
Wall*E (2008: Andrew Stanton)
The Wrestler (2008: Darren Aronofsky)
Additional: Doubt (2008: John Patrick Shanley)
Not Seen of Mark: The Bank Job, Body of Lies, Pride and Glory, Quantum of Solace, Rambo
Not Seen of Retro: The Bank Job, Body of Lies, Quantum of Solace, 10,000 BC
2009
Bronson (2008/2009: Nicolas Winding Refn)
District 9 (2009: Neill Blomkamp)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009: Wes Anderson)
The Hurt Locker (2009: Kathryn Bigelow)
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Invictus (2009: Clint Eastwood)
Management (2009: Stephen Belber)
Sherlock Holmes (2009: Guy Ritchie)
Up (2009: Pete Docter/Bob Peterson)
Watchmen (2009: Zach Snyder)
Additional: Star Trek (2009: J.J. Abrams)
Not Seen of Mark: Bandslam, Crossing Over, 500 Days of Summer, A Perfect Getaway, Terminator: Salvation, Up in the Air
Not Seen of Retro: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, The International, Law Abiding Citizen
2010
127 Hours (2010: Danny Boyle)
The A-Team (2010: Joe Carnahan)
Black Swan (2010: Darren Aronofsky)
Despicable Me (2010: Pierre Coffin/Chris Renaud)
How To Train Your Dragon (2010: Dean DeBlois/Chris Sanders)
Inception (2010: Christopher Nolan)
The King’s Speech (2010: Tom Hooper)
Secretariat (2010: Randall Wallace)
Shutter Island (2010: Martin Scorsese)
The Social Network (2010: David Fincher)
Additional: Toy Story 3 (2010: Lee Unkrich)
2011
The Big Year (2011: David Frankel)
The Descendants (2011: Alexander Payne)
Drive (2011: Nicolas Winding Refn)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II (2011: David Yates)
Hugo (2011: Martin Scorsese)
J. Edgar (2011: Clint Eastwood)
Midnight in Paris (2011: Woody Allen)
Moneyball (2011: Bennett Miller)
Rango (2011: Gore Verbinski)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011: Guy Ritchie)
Additional: Limitless (2011: Neil Burger)
2012
Argo (2012: Ben Affleck)
The Avengers (2012: Joss Whedon)
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012: John Madden)
The Grey (2012: Joe Carnahan)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012: Peter Jackson)
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011: David Gelb)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012: Wes Anderson)
Seven Psychopaths (2012: Michael McDonagh)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012: David O. Russell)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012: Katheryn Bigelow)
Additional: Flight (2012: Robert Zemeckis)
2013
12 Years a Slave (2013: Steve McQueen)
The Croods (2013: Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders)
Drug War (2013: Johnnie To)
The Grandmaster (2013: Wong Kar-wai: Hong Kong/China)
Gravity (2013: Alfonso Cuarón)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013: Peter Jackson)
Nebraska (2013: Alexander Payne)
The Place Beyond the Pines (2013: Derek Cianfrance)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013: J.J. Abrams)
The World’s End (2013: Edgar Wright)
Additional: Rush (2013: Ron Howard)
* Years by IMDB; Not in order of preference
NOTES: saw Boomerang (Retro), They Drive By Night (Retro)