2013: A MOVIE ODYSSEY
{1902-2013}-For the love of film: A personal choice of the greatest movies of all-time. An ever-evolving, lifetime quest of an endless journey. This list is purely subjective and in chronological order.
"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls." - Ingmar Bergman.
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1.
The Seventh Seal
(1957)
A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague. (96 mins.)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
“ An introductory poster to one of the greatest films of the 20th century. A movie that has gone on to become a true classic and an icon of film and film-making. Highly influential on future film-makers. A true work of art that cements film as a seriously viable art-form. ” - Dr-Faustus
2.
A Trip to the Moon
(1902 Short Film)
A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the moon. (13 mins.)
3.
The Great Train Robbery
(1903 Short Film)
A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.
4.
Cabiria
(1914)
Three centuries before Christus. Young Cabiria is kidnapped by some pirates during one eruption of the Etna... (148 mins.)
Director: Giovanni Pastrone
5.
Les vampires
(1915)
An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
Director: Louis Feuillade
6.
The Birth of a Nation
(1915)
The Civil War divides friends and destroys families, but that's nothing compared to the anarchy in the black-ruled South after the war. (165 mins.)
Director: D.W. Griffith
7.
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
(1916)
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history. (163 mins.)
Director: D.W. Griffith
8.
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
(1919)
A frail waif, abused by her brutish boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences. (90 mins.)
Director: D.W. Griffith
9.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(1920)
Dr. Caligari's somnambulist, Cesare, and his deadly predictions.
Director: Robert Wiene
10.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(1920)
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Director: John S. Robertson
11.
The Penalty
(1920)
A deformed criminal mastermind plans to loot the city of San Francisco as well as revenge himself on the doctor who mistakenly amputated his legs.
Director: Wallace Worsley
12.
The Golem
(1920)
In 16th-century Prague, a Jewish rabbi creates a giant creature from clay, called the Golem, and using sorcery, brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution. (91 mins.)
Director: Carl Boese, Paul Wegener
13.
Way Down East
(1920)
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock. (145 mins.)
Director: D.W. Griffith
14.
Destiny
(1921)
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless... (114 mins.)
Director: Fritz Lang
15.
The Kid
(1921)
The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy. (68 mins.)
Director: Charlie Chaplin
16.
The Phantom Carriage
(1921)
It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year... (93 mins.)
Director: Victor Sjöström
17.
Orphans of the Storm
(1921)
Henriette and Louise, a foundling, are raised together as sisters. When Louise goes blind, Henriette swears to take care of her forever... (150 mins.)
Director: D.W. Griffith
18.
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler
(1922)
Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him. (242 mins.)
Director: Fritz Lang
19.
Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages
(1922 Documentary)
A historical view of witchcraft in seven parts and a variety of styles. First, there is a slide-show... (87 mins.)
Director: Benjamin Christensen
20.
Foolish Wives
(1922)
"Count" Karanzim, a Don Juan is with his cousins in Monte Carlo, living from faked money and the money he gets from rich ladies... (384 mins.)
Director: Erich Von Stroheim
21.
Nosferatu
(1922)
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. Silent classic based on the story "Dracula." (94 mins.)
Director: F.W. Murnau
22.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1923)
In fifteenth century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with the gypsy queen.
Director: Wallace Worsley
23.
The Wheel
(1923)
Sisif, a railwayman, and his son Elie fall in love with the beautiful Norma (whom Sisif rescued from... (273 mins.)
Director: Abel Gance
24.
Safety Last!
(1923)
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Director: Fred Neymeyer, Sam Taylor
25.
Our Hospitality
(1923)
A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family. (65 mins.)
Director: Jack Blystone, Buster Keaton
26.
The Pilgrim
(1923)
The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.
27.
The Navigator
(1924)
Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship. (59 mins.)
Director: Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton
28.
Greed
(1924)
The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved. (140 mins.)
Director: Erich von Stroheim
29.
The Last Laugh
(1924)
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious Hotel is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society. (77 mins.)
Director: F.W. Murnau
30.
Siegfried
(1924)
Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, hears of the beautiful sister of Gunter, King of Worms, Kriemhild. On his way to Worms... (97 mins.)
Director: Fritz Lang
31.
The Thief of Bagdad
(1924)
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess. (155 mins.)
Director: Raoul Walsh
32.
The Hands of Orlac
(1924)
A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn't know they once belonged to a murderer. (92 mins.)
Director: Robert Wiene
33.
Sherlock Jr.
(1924)
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch. (45 mins.)
Director: Buster Keaton
34.
The Gold Rush
(1925)
The Tramp goes the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.
Director: Charles Chaplin
35.
Battleship Potemkin
(1925)
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre. (75 mins.)
Director: S.M. Eisenstein
36.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
(1925)
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy... (143 mins.)
Director: Fred Niblo
37.
The Big Parade
(1925)
The idle son of a rich businessman joins the army when the U.S.A. enters World War One. He is sent to France...
Director: King Vidor
38.
The Phantom of the Opera
(1925)
A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer. (93 mins.)
Director: Rupert Julian
39.
The Freshman
(1925)
Nerdy college student will do anything to become popular on campus.
Director: Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
40.
Strike
(1925)
In Russia's factory region during Czarist rule, there's restlessness and strike planning among workers; management brings in spies and external agents... (82 mins.)
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
41.
Faust
(1926)
The demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul. (85 mins.)
Director: F.W. Murnau
42.
The General
(1926)
When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines. (107 mins.)
Director: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
43.
La bohème
(1926)
It is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there... (95 mins.)
Director: King Vidor
45.
The Black Pirate
(1926)
Seeking revenge, an athletic young man joins the pirate band responsible for his father's death. (88 mins.)
Director: Albert Parker
46.
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
(1926)
A handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.
Director: Lotte Reiniger
47.
The Scarlet Letter
(1926)
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne is punished for playing on the Sabbath day; but kindly minister Arthur Dimmesdale takes pity on her... (115 mins.)
Director: Victor Seastrom
48.
The End of St. Petersburg
(1927)
A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old village friend who is now a labor leader... (80 mins.)
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller
49.
Flesh and the Devil
(1927)
Leo and Ulrich are life long friends. Home, on leave from their military training, Leo sees the beautiful Felicitas at the railroad station... (112 mins.)
Director: Clarence Brown
50.
The Jazz Singer
(1927)
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy his father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer. (88 mins.)
Director: Alan Crosland
51.
The Lodger
(1927)
A landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London. (68 mins.)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
52.
Sunrise
(1927)
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife. (94 mins.)
Director: F.W. Murnau
53.
Metropolis
(1927)
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. (153 mins.)
Director: Fritz Lang
54.
Napoleon
(1927)
A film about the French Field Marshal's youth and early military career. (240 mins.)
Director: Abel Gance
55.
Underworld
(1927)
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend. (80 mins.)
Director: Josef von Sternberg
56.
The Unknown
(1927)
Alonzo is an armless knife thrower and gun shooter for a circus---or so he appears. He is actually a burglar with his arms intact...
Director: Tod Browning
57.
Wings
(1927)
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I. (144 mins.)
Director: William A. Wellman
58.
The Cameraman
(1928)
Hopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire.
Director: Edward Sedgwick
59.
The Circus
(1928)
The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus. (71 mins.)
Director: Charlie Chaplin
60.
The Crowd
(1928)
The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles and downfalls.
Director: King Vidor
61.
The Last Command
(1928)
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary. (88 mins.)
Director: Josef von Sternberg
62.
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
(1928)
A professional clown and a self-indulgent count learn to help each other with their problems, but then become romantic rivals.
Director: Herbert Brenon
63.
The Man Who Laughs
(1928)
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured. (110 mins.)
Director: Paul Leni
64.
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
(1928)
In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of...
Director: G. Aleksandrova, S. M. Eizenshteina
65.
Show People
(1928)
Colonel Pepper brings his daughter, Peggy, to Hollywood from Georgia to be an actress. There she meets...
Director: King Vidor
66.
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
(1928)
The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew. (70 mins.)
Director: Chas. F. Reisner
67.
The Docks of New York
(1928)
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide. (76 mins.)
Director: Josef von Sternberg
68.
The Wind
(1928)
Innocent and naive Letty Mason moves from her Virginia home to Sweet Water on the western prairies to live on the ranch of her cousin Beverly... (95 mins.)
Director: Victor Seastrom
70.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
(1928)
A chronicle of the trial of Jeanne d'Arc on charges of heresy, and the efforts of her ecclesiastical jurists to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions. (110 mins.)
Director: Carl Th. Dreyer
71.
West of Zanzibar
(1928)
Magician Phroso's wife Anna leaves him for another man, named Crane, who fights with Phroso and leaves him paralyzed... (65 mins.)
Director: Tod Browning
72.
Pandora's Box
(1929)
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her. (109 mins.)
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
73.
Un Chien Andalou
(1929 Short Film)
In a dream-like sequence, a woman's eye is slit open--juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring... (16 mins.)
Director: Louis Bunuel
74.
Arsenal
(1929)
Set in the bleak aftermath and devastation of the World War I, a recently demobbed soldier, Timosh, returns to his hometown Kiev...
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
75.
By Rocket to the Moon
(1929)
A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there. (156 mins.)
Director: Fritz Lang
76.
Queen Kelly
(1929)
Prince Wolfram is the betrothed of mad Queen Regina V of Kronberg. Supreme ruler, her word is law and he is a playboy... (101 mins.)
Director: Erich Von Stroheim
77.
Diary of a Lost Girl
(1929)
Thymiane is a beautiful young girl who is not having a storybook life. Her governess, Elizabeth, is thrown out of her home when she is pregnant... (104 mins.)
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
78.
People on Sunday
(1930)
Edwin, a taxi driver, lives with Annie, a neurasthenic model. They plan to spend Sunday at the Nikolassee beach with Wolfgang... (74 mins.)
Director: Kurt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak
79.
The Blue Angel
(1930)
An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer. (124 mins.)
Director: Josef von Sternberg
80.
The Blue Angel
(1930)
Alternate language version of _Blaue Engel, Der (1930)_ , by the same cast and crew but spoken in English. (100 mins.)
Director: Josef von Sternberg
81.
All Quiet on the Western Front
(1930)
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. (136 mins.)
Director: Lewis Milestone
82.
Animal Crackers
(1930)
Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding. (97 mins.)
Director: Victor Heerman
83.
Earth
(1930)
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming. (75 mins.)
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
84.
L'Age d'Or
(1930)
Bunuel's first feature has more of a plot than Un Chien Andalou, but it's still a pure Surrealist film... (60 mins.)
Director: Luis Buñuel
85.
Hell's Angels
(1930)
Brothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man's arms. (127 mins.)
Director: Howard Hughes
86.
Under the Roofs of Paris
(1930)
Albert is smitten for Pola but ends up wrongly committed in jail, in the meantime her affections are sort after by his friend, and on his release both love and friendship must be tested. (96 mins.)
Director: René Clair
87.
Frankenstein
(1931)
Horror classic in which an obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses. (70 mins.)
Director: James Whale
88.
À Nous la Liberté
(1931)
A famous left-wing satirical comedy about two ex-convicts, one of whom escaped jail and then worked his way up from salesman to factory owner... (104 mins.)
Director: René Clair
89.
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
(1931)
In one island of Bora Bora lagoon, a young fisherman, Matahi, is in love with Reri. But she is chosen to be the holy maid and therefore becomes "tabu"... (82 mins.)
Director: F.W. Murnau
90.
M
(1931)
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt. (117 mins.)
Director: Fritz Lang
91.
Street Scene
(1931)
Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave. (80 mins.)
Director: King Vidor
92.
City Lights
(1931)
The Tramp struggles to help a blind flower girl he has fallen in love with. (87 mins.)
Director: Charles Chaplin
93.
Dracula
(1931)
The ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina.
Director: Tod Browning
94.
Le Million
(1931)
An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket. (81 mins.)
Director: René Clair
95.
The Public Enemy
(1931)
A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war. (83 mins.)
Director: William A. Wellman
96.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(1931)
Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that changes him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde. (98 mins.)
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
97.
La Chienne
(1931)
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and makes her his mistress... (91 mins.)
Director: Jean Renoir
98.
Little Caesar
(1931)
The ambitious criminal Rico moves from the country to the big city in the east and joins Sam Vettori's gang with his friend Joe Massara... (79 mins.)
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
99.
Monkey Business
(1931)
On a transatlantic crossing, the Marx brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship. (77 mins.)
Director: Norman McLeod
100.
The Blood of a Poet
(1932)
A young artist draws a face at a canvas on his easel. Suddenly the mouth on the drawing comes into life and starts talking... (55 mins.)
Director: Jean Cocteau
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