some ... essential east european cinema

Men of the mountain
Inspiration
Ashes and diamonds
Mother joan of the angels
A game with stones
Intimate lighting
Loves of a blonde
Closely observed trains
Daisies
The red and the white
The structure of crystal
Love
Camouflage
Man of marble
Blind chance
Man of iron
Dimensions of dialogue
No end
Year of the quiet sun
Decalogue
Damnation
Satantango
Werckmeister harmonies
The death of mr lazerescu
12:08 from bucharest
Four months two weeks
Police adjective
Aurora
My joy
The turin horse

some ... essential french cinema part 5

The aviators wife
A good marriage
Danton
Passion
A nos amours
L'argent
Pauline at the beach
Three crowns of the sailor
A sunday in the country
Melo
Shoah
Rendezvous
Vagabond
The green ray
My girlfriends boyfriend
Under the sun of satan
The gang of four
Nouvelle vague
La belle noiseuese
The double life of veronique
Van gogh
Abrahams valley
Cold water
Haut bas fragile
La ceremonie
Jlg/jlg
How i got into an argument
Irma vep
An autumn tale
Beau travail
Rosetta
Time regained

some .. essential indian cinema

Raja harishchandra
Andaz
Mahal
Awaara
The river
Pather panchali
Aparajito
Pyassa
Madhumati
The music room
Kaagaz ke phool
The world of apu
The cloud capped star
Sahib bibi aur gulam
The big city
Charulata
The golden thread
The guide
The jewel thief
Pakeezah
A river called titas
The chess players
Amar akbar anthony
Ekdin pratidin
Razia sultan
The stranger
Dil se

some .... essential chinese language cinema

The peach girl
Daybreak
Shen nu
Street angel
Spring in a small town
Crows and sparrows
Dragon gate inn
A touch of zen
Drunken master
The prodigal son
Nomad
That day on the beach
Wheels on meals
Summer at grandpas
Yellow earth
Taipei Story
A time to live
Dust in the wind
A better tomorrow
Peking opera blues
Terrorizers
The horse thief
Rouge
A city of sadness
Days of being wild
A brighter summers day
Centre Stage
The Blue Kite
The Puppetmaster

some ... essential japanese cinema part 2

Sansho the bailliff
Sound of the mountain
The crucified lovers
The seven samurai
Floating clouds
Crazy fruit
Early spring
Flowing
Throne of blood
Floating weeds
When a woman ascends the stairs
A wife confesses
The end of summer
Autumn afternoon
Intentions of murder
Yearning
Tokyo drifter
Scattered clouds
A man vanishes
Death by hanging
Boy
The ceremony
Vengeance is mine
My neighbour totoro
Boiling point
A scene at the sea
Only yesterday
Sonatine

some ... essential american cinema part 7

Modern romance
Thief
Losing ground
The king of comedy
My brothers wedding
Sudden impact
Losing ground
Love streams
Once upon a time in america
Stranger than paradise
Streets of fire
Back to the future
Mishima
Blue velvet
Down by law
Lost in america
Empire of the sun
Housekeeping
The thin blue line
Say anything
To sleep with anger
White hunter black heart
Simple men
A perfect world
Dazed and confused
Groundhog day
Schindlers list
The age of innocence
Pulp fiction

some ... essential french cinema, part 4

Au hasard balthasar
The rise to power of louis the fourteenth
Belle de jour
Le collectioneuse
Mouchette
Playtime
The young girls of rochefort
Two or three things i know about her
Appointment in bray
A gentle woman
My night at mauds
The unfaithful wife
Claires knee
Le boucher
Le cercle rouge
Appointment in bray
The little theatre of jean renoir
Four nights of a dreamer
The house in the woods
Chloe on the afternoon
The discreet charm of the bourgouise
F is for fake
La maman et la putain
Celine and julie go boating
Lancelot du lac
Duelle
Providence
That obscure object of desire
The devil probably
Perceval
Violette
The hypothesis of the stolen painting
Loulou
My american uncle

some ... essential american cinema, part 6

Psycho
The apartment
Wild river
Hatari
Shock corridor
The birds
Mans favourite sport
Marnie
Dog man star
Faces
Targets
Dirty harry
Mccabe and mrs miller
Ulzanaz raid
Avanti
Fat city
Badlands
The long goodbye
Travels with my aunt
A woman under the influence
Hard times
Night moves
The killing of a chinese bookie
The outlaw josey wales
Killer of sheep
An unmarried woman
Days of heaven
The driver
Halloween
Ten
Bronco billy
Melvin and howard
Used cars
The big red one

some ... essential british cinema

Fire
The lodger
Blackmail
The man who knew too much
The thirty nine steps
Young and innocent
The lady vanishes
Went the day well
The life and death of colonel blimp
A canterbury tale
Dead of night
I know where im going
A matter of life and death
Black narcissus
The red shoes
Kind hearts and coronets
The small back room
The third man
Gone to earth
The lavender hill mob
The man in the white suit
Peeping tom
Dr strangelove
Bunny lake is missing
Blow up
2001 a space oddysey
Carry on up the khybur
Witchfinder general
Kes
The private life of sherlock holmes

some ... essential scandinavian cinema

The ballet dancer
Ingeborg holm
Lay down your arms
Mysterious x
A man there was
The girl from stormycroft
The outlaw and his wife
Thomas graals best film
Sir arnes treasure
Song of the scarlet flower
The president
The sons of ingmar
Seduction
The monastery of sendomir
The parsons widow
Johan
The phantom carriage
Loves crucible
Nortullisligan
Gosta berling
Day of wrath
Ordet
Wild strawberries
Through a glass darkly
Winter light
Gertrud
A swedish love story

some ... essential french cinema, part 3

Diary of a country priest
Casque d'or
Le plaisir
The golden coach
Monsier hulots holiday
The earrings of madame de
French cancan
Touchez pas au grisbi
Lola montes
A man escaped
The red balloon
Bitter victory
Mon oncle
Une vie
Pickpocket
The 400 blows
A bout de souffle
A woman is a woman
Lola
Cleo from 5 to 7
Jules et jim
My life to live
Contempt
Muriel
A bande aparte
Diary of a chambermaid
The umbrellas of cherbourg
Le bonheur
Pierrot le fou

some ... essential italian cinema

The fall of troy
The oddysey
Quo vadis
Ma l'amor mio non muore
The last days of pompei
Assunta spina
Tigre reale
Rails
La signora di tutti
Obsessione
Rome open city
Paisan
Bicycle thieves
La terra trema
Germany year zero
Stromboli
The flowers of st francis
Europa 51
I vitelloni
La strada
Voyage in italy
Le notti bianche
Nights of cabiria
L'aventurra
La dolce vita
Big deal on madonna street
The savage innocents
Accatone
Girl with a suitcase
Il posto
La notte
Mamma roma
L'eclisse

some ... essential american cinema, part 5

Ace in the hole
Fixed bayonets
Steel helmet
On dangerous ground
Strangers on a train
Bend of the river
Limelight
Monkey business
The lusty men
The prowler
Gentlemen prefer blondes
Roman holiday
The naked spur
Track of the cat
A star is born
Johnny guitar
Rear window
All that heaven allows
Kiss me deadly
The night of the hunter
To catch a thief
Bigger than life
The girl can't help it
The killing
Written on the wind
Forty guns
The sweet smell of success
Will success spoil rock hunter
Witness for the prosecution
Rally round the flag boys
Some came running
Vertigo
Anatomy of a murder
Imitation of life
North by northwest
Rally round the flag boys
Rio bravo

some ... essential japanese cinema

I was born but
Where now are the dreams of youth
Passing fancy
A story of floating weeds
Our neighbour miss yae
An inn in tokyo
Pot worth a million ryo
The downfall of osen
Three sisters with maiden hearts
Wife be like a rose
Mr thank you
Osaka elegy
Sisters of the gion
The only son
Children in the wind
Humanity and paper balloons
Flowers have fallen
Two masseurs and a woman
Four seasons
The whole family works
The story of the last chrysanthemums
Ornamental hairpin
There was a father
Utamaro and his five women
Phoenix
The loves of sumako the actress
Record of a tenement gentleman
Late spring
A portrait of madam yuki
Early summer
Lightning
The life of oharu
Late chrysanthemums
Tokyo story
Ugetsu

some ... essential russian cinema

The ant and the grasshopper
The cameramans revenge
The insects christmas
Twilight of a womans soul
Silent witnesses
The happiness of eternal night
After death
Children of the age
Dreams
A life for a life
The dying swan
The king of paris
Battleship potemkin
Strike
Mother
The overcoat
Bed and sofa
October
S.v.d
The end of st petersburg
Women of razyan
Storm over asia
Zvenigora
Arsenal
The general line
Earth
By the bluest of blue seas
Alexander nevsky
Ivan the terrible

some ... essential german cinema

A romany spy
The student of prague
The cabinet of dr caligari
The golem
Destiny
Scherben
The dark road
Burning soil
Nosferatu
Phantoms
Raskalnikov
Mikael
Siegfried
The last laugh
The joyless street
Faust
Metropolis
Abwege
Homecoming
Pandora's box
The wonderful lie of nina petrova
The blue angel
Westfront 1918
Kameradschaft
M
Vampyr
Liebelei

some ... essential french cinema, part 2

Nana
Napoleon
The fall of the house of usher
The magical clock
The passion of joan of arc
Lands end
Au bonheur des dames
Prix de beaute
The tale of the fox
La chienne
Marius
Boudu saved from drowning
Fanny
Night at the crossroads
L'age d'or
L'atalante
A day in the country
Cesar
La belle equipe
The crime of monsieur lange
Ladykiller
The grand illusion
La  bete humaine
The bakers wife
The rules of the game
Remorques
Les anges des peches
The sky is yours
Les dames de bois du boulogne
The children of paradise
Antoine and antoinette
Panique
Rendezvous in july
La ronde

some ... essential french cinema

History of a crime
The peeping tom
A trip to the moon
Ali baba and the forty thieves
A kingdom of fairies
William tell
Christopher columbus
The impossible voyage
Alladin and his wonder lamp
L'age du couer
Mortelle idyll
Pauvre mere
The merry frolics of satan
L'arlessienne
L'assommoir
The skaters debut
His first cigar
The white gloves
Un heroine du quatre ans
Fairy of the surf
Max and the mother in law
The heart and money
The rocks of kador
Germinal
The child of paris
The curse of greed
Le coupable
The swallow and the titmouse
El dorado
La terre
Crainquebille
Couer fidele
L'inhumaine
Visage d'enfants

some ... essential american cinema, part 4

Cat people
Gentleman jim
The magnificent ambersons
The man who came to dinner
The palm beach story
To be or not to be
Heaven can wait
I walked with a zombie
Shadow of a doubt
The seventh victim
Watch on the rhine
Curse of the cat people
Double indemnity
Laura
Lifeboat
The miracle of morgan's creek
Mildred Pierce
Scarlet street
The killers
To have and have not
Canyon passage
Cluny Brown
Gilda
My darling clementine
Notorious
The best years of our lives
They were expendable
Daisy Kenyon
Monsieur verdoux
Letter from an unknown woman
The unsuspected
They live by night
Unfaithfully yours
Beyond the forest
I was a male war bride
The reckless moment
White heat
All about eve
Harvey
In a lonely place
Stars in my crown
Sunset boulevard
The gunfighter

some ... essential american cinema, part 3

Bride of frankenstein
Crime and punishment
Little man what now
Ruggles of red gap
Steamboat round the bend
The devil is a woman
Modern times
Rose hobart
Showboat
Make way for tomorrow
Stage door
The awful truth
The great garrick
Bringing up baby
Four daughters
Stella dallas
The great waltz
Love affair
Midnight
Strange cargo
The roaring twenties
Young mr lincoln
Foreign correspondent
His girl friday
Rebecca
Remember the night
The grapes of wrath
The philadelphia story
The little foxes
The mortal storm
The shop around the corner
Ball of fire
Citizen kane
Hellzapoppin
Hold back the dawn
How green was my valley
Sullivan's travels
Suspicion
The devil and daniel webster
The palm beach story
The shanghai gesture

some ... essential american cinema, part 2

Bardleys the magnificent
The student prince of old heidelberg
Show people
Underworld
Beggars of life
The docks of new york
Hallelujah
Lucky star
Sunnyside up
Laughter
Morocco
The dawn patrol
An american tragedy
Blonde crazy
City lights
Dishonored
The champ
Back street
Me and my gal
Scarface
Trouble in paradise
Bombshell
Mans castle
Only yesterday
Sons of the desert
The invisible man
Topaze
Hallelujah i'm a bum
Imitation of life
It happened one night
Judge priest
The scarlet empress
The thin man
Twentieth century

some ... essential american cinema part 1

Jack and the beanstalk
The great train robbery
The night before christmas
A corner in wheat
The unchanging sea
In the border states
Enoch arden
The land beyond the sunset
The wishing ring
Carmen
Police
Pride of the clan
The tramp
Amarilly of clothes line alley
Stella maris
The blue bird
The immigrant
Blind husbands
Broken blossoms
Way down east
Last of the mohicans
The flapper
High and dizzy
The four horsemen of the apocalypse
Foolish wives
Nanook of the north
Safety last
The covered wagon
The ten commandments
The thief of baghdad
Greed
He who gets slapped
Lady windermere's fan
Lazybones
The marriage circle
Stella dallas
The big parade
The freshman
The scarlet letter