Gerald Peary's 100 Films for Film Literacy

  • À Bout de Souffle (1960)
  • Adam's Rib (1949)
  • Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
  • Airplane! (1980)
  • Alice in the Cities (1974)
  • The American Friend (1977)
  • Andrei Rublev (1966)
  • Annie Hall (1977)
  • Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
  • L'Avventura (1960)
  • Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  • Belle de Jour (1967)
  • Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  • The Big Sleep (1946)
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)
  • Blade Runner (1982)
  • A Blonde in Love (1965)
  • Blow Up (1966)
  • The Blue Angel (1930)
  • Blue Velvet (1986)
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  • The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)
  • Casablanca (1942)
  • Chelsea Girls (1966)
  • Citizen Kane (1941)
  • City Lights (1931)
  • The Conformist (1970)
  • Contempt (1963)
  • The Dead (1987)
  • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
  • Diva (1981)
  • Do the Right Thing (1989)
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  • La Dolce Vita (1960)
  • Double Indemnity (1944)
  • The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
  • Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
  • The Four Hundred Blows (1959)
  • The General (1927)
  • The Godfather (1972)
  • Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
  • The Gold Rush (1925)
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
  • The Graduate (1967)
  • La Grande Illusion (1937)
  • Greed (1924)
  • Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
  • High School (1968)
  • His Girl Friday (1940)
  • Ikiru (1952)
  • Imitation of Life (1959)
  • Intolerance (1916)
  • It Happened One Night (1934)
  • Jules and Jim (1962)
  • The King of Comedy (1982)
  • Knife in the Water (1962)
  • Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  • Man of Aran (1934)
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  • Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
  • The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971)
  • Metropolis (1927)
  • The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
  • Naked (1993)
  • Nanook of the North (1922)
  • Nashville (1975)
  • The Night of San Lorenzo (1982)
  • Nosferatu (1922)
  • Los Olvidados (1950)
  • On the Waterfront (1954)
  • The Passenger (1975)
  • Pather Panchali (1955)
  • Persona (1966)
  • Psycho (1960)
  • Pulp Fiction (1994)
  • Raging Bull (1980)
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  • Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
  • Ran (1985)
  • Rashomon (1950)
  • La Règle du Jeu (1939)
  • Rome, Open City (1945)
  • Salesman (1968)
  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
  • The Searchers (1956)
  • Shadows (1959)
  • Sherlock Jr. (1924)
  • Singin' in the Rain (1952)
  • Some Like It Hot (1959)
  • Stagecoach (1939)
  • La Strada (1954)
  • Sullivan's Travels (1941)
  • Sunrise (1927)
  • Taxi Driver (1976)
  • The Thin Blue Line (1988)
  • Top Hat (1935)
  • A Touch of Zen (1969)
  • Triumph of the Will (1935)
  • 28 Up (1985)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
  • Vertigo (1958)
  • Viridiana (1961)
  • Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
  • W.R. – Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
  • Where Is My Friend's House? (1987)
  • Wild Strawberries (1957)
  • Written on the Wind (1956)
  • Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
  • Zéro de Conduite (1933)
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