University of Southern California Film school recommended viewing list for graduate Production students 
01. Birth of a Nation - Griffith
02.
Potemkin - Eisenstein
03.
Alexander Nevsky - Eisenstein
04.
The Last Laugh - Murnau
05.
Gold Rush - Chaplin
06.
The Passion of Jean of Arc - Dreyer
07.
Man of Aran - Flaherty
08.
The Informer - Ford
09.
L'Atalante - Vigo
10.
Shanghai Express - Sternberg
11.
Notorious - Hitchcock
12.
North by Northwest - Hitchcock
13.
Trouble in Paradise - Lubitch
14.
The Best Years of Our Lives - Wyler
15.
An American in Paris - Minelli
16.
The Wild Bunch - Pecknipah
17.
Bycycle Thief - DeSica
18.
Los Olidados - Bunuel
19.
Cranes are Flying - Kalatozov
20.
Ashes and Diamonds - Wayda
21.
Grapes of Wrath - Ford
22.
His Girl Friday - Hawks
23.
Rashomon - Kurosawa
24.
8 1/2 - Fellini
25.
Wild Strawberries - Bergman
26.
Persona - Bergman
27.
Breathless - Godard
28.
400 Blows - Truffaut
29.
Day for Night - Truffaut
30.
Cul de Sac - Polansky
31.
Shadows - Cassavetes
32.
Husbands - Cassavetes
33.
The Marriage of Maria Braun - Fassbinder
34.
The Last Picture Show - Bogdanovich
35.
Mash - Altman
36.
Raging Bull - Scorsese
37.
JFK - Stone
38.
The Conformist - Bertolucci
39.
DeCameron - Pasolini
40.
Duck Soup - McCarey
41.
Triumph of the Will
42.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Capra
43.
All the Kings Men - Rossen
44.
On the Waterfront - Kazan
45.
Point of Order - de Antonio
46.
China Syndrome - Bridges
47.
Missing - Costa-Gavras
48.
Under Fire - Spottiswoode
49.
Harlan County - Kopple
50.
Brother from Another Planet - Sayles
51. Matewan - Sayles
52.
An Official Story - Puenzo
53.
Sullivan's Travels - Sturgis
54.
Burn - Ponticorvo
55.
Battle of Algiers - Ponticorvo
56.
2001 - Kubrick
57.
Treasure of Siera Madre - Houston
58.
The General - Keaton
59.
Casablanca - Curtes
60.
Citizen Cane - Welles
61.
Lawrence of Arabia - Lean
62.
Gone with the Wind - many
63.
Patton - Schaffner
64.
The Producers - Brooks
65.
Some Like it Hot - Wilder
66.
Dr. Strangelove - Kubrick
67.
Queen Margot - Chereau
68.
La Strada - Fellini
69.
Godfather I & II - Coppola
70.
Apocalypse Now - Coppola
71.
The Searchers - Ford
72.
The Third Man - Reed
73.
All About Eve - Mankiewicz
74.
High Noon - Zinnemann
75.
The Lady Eve - Sturges
76.
The Last Emporer - Bertolucci
77.
Chinatown - Polansky
78.
The Graduate - Nichols
79.
Two for the Road - Donen
80.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Hughes
81.
Pulp Fiction - Tarantino
82.
Annie Hall - Allen
83.
Crimes and Misdemeanors - Allen
84.
Manhattan - Allen
85.
Hunchback of Notre Dame - Dieterle
86.
La Nuit de Varennes - Scola
87.
Night of the Falling Stars - Tavianni
88.
Down by Law - Jarmusch
89.
Bonnie and Clyde - Penn
90.
Children of Paradise - Carne
91.
Cinema Paradiso - Tornatore
92.
Andre Rublev - Tarkovsky
93.
Gandhi - Attenborough
94.
The Decalogue (10 films by Kieslowsky)
95.
Chariots of Fire - Hudson
96.
Modern Times - Chaplin
97.
Grand Illusion - Renoir
98.
Lavender Hill Mob - Chrighton
99.
Groundhog Day - Harold Ramis
100.
Blow up - Antonioni
101.
Goya in Bordeaux - Saura
 

 

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