 | I hated black and white movies: the case of Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 | drama | |
 | Sidney, it’s brilliant: 12 Angry Men (1957) | Sidney Lumet | 1957 | (courtroom) drama | |
 | 50 years ahead of its time: Some Like It Hot (1959) | Billy Wilder | 1959 | (romantic) comedy | |
 | No one can serve his parents beyond the grave: Tokyo Story (1953) | Yasujirō Ozu | 1953 | drama | (東京物語, Tōkyō Monogatari |
 | 75% of silent movies have been lost, but we still have one found in a mental hospital | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1928 | silent (historical) drama | La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc |
 | Fairytale meets serial killer: Night of the Hunter (1955) | Charles Laughton | 1955 | thriller | |
 | Are We Wrong To Forgive A Murderer? M (1931) | Fritz Lang | 1931 | thriller/pre-noir | M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder |
 | What have I been living for all these years? Ikiru (1952) | Akira Kurosawa | 1952 | drama | Ikiru |
 | Do prostitutes dream of love? Nights of Cabiria (1957) | Federico Fellini | 1957 | drama | Le notti di Cabiria |
 | Take Hitler and stick him on the funny page! His Girl Friday (1940) | Howard Hawks | 1940 | screwball comedy | |
 | 2020 Social documentary from 1940: Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath | John Ford | 1940 | drama | |
 | I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am… a man! The Elephant Man (1980) | David Lynch | 1980 | historical/surrealist drama | |
 | “You live and you suffer.” Bicycle Thieves (1948) | Vittorio De Sica | 1948 | neorealist drama | Ladri di biciclette |
 | The usual monkey-funeral sequence. Sunset Boulevard (1950) | Billy Wilder | 1950 | film noir | |
 | Where reason ends. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) | Robert Mulligan | 1962 | drama | |
 | Here’s looking at you, kid. Casablanca (1942) | Michael Curtiz | 1942 | (romantic) drama | |
 | I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
| Charlie Kaufman | 2020 | experimental film/psychological thriller | |
 | A Fistful of Yens: Yojimbo (1961) | Akira Kurosawa | 1961 | samurai film | 用心棒, Yōjinbō |
 | Dust to dust: Kubrick’s Paths of Glory (1957) | Stanley Kubrick | 1957 | anti-war film | |
 | There has been blood: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) | Robert Aldrich | 1962 | psychological thriller/horror | |
 | Abandon hope all ye who enter here: Los olvidados (1950) | Luis Buñuel | 1950 | surrealist drama | Los olvidados (“The Forgotten Ones”, alternative: The Young and the Damned) |
 | Conquistador of the Useless: Fitzcarraldo (1982) | Werner Herzog | 1982 | epic adventure drama | |
 | What kind of man are you, don’t you even like dolphins? Zorba the Greek (1964) | Michael Cacoyannis | 1964 | comedy-drama | Αλέξης Ζορμπάς, Alexis Zorbas |
 | “I met Death Today. We are Playing Chess”: The Seventh Seal (1957) | Ingmar Bergman | 1957 | drama, historical fantasy | Det sjunde inseglet |
 | It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) | Frank Capra | 1946 | fantasy drama | |
 | There is probably no one alive who has seen the 1927 Metropolis | Fritz Lang | 1927 | science fiction drama, epic | |
 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) | Sergio Leone | 1966 | (spaghetti) epic western | Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo |
 | And there wasn’t light: The Turin Horse (2011) | Béla Tarr | 2011 | philosophical drama | A torinói ló |
 | Not quite yet: Brief Encounter (1945) | David Lean | 1945 | romantic drama | |
 | There’s really nothing here for most of us: Pig (2021) | Michael Sarnoski | 2021 | drama | |
 | How’s the despair? The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) | Martin McDonagh | 2022 | tragicomedy | |
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