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109 À nous la liberté 1931 3 Clair, René France D
722 About Schmidt 2002 10 Payne, Alexander USA D
429 Ace in the Hole 1951 7 Wilder, Billy USA DUP
444 Adam's Rib 1949 7 Cukor, George USA YUP
476 Adaptation. 2002 5 Jonze, Spike USA DU
1388 The Adventurer 1917 2 Chaplin, Charles USA DU
2235 The Adventures of Dollie 1908 1 Griffith, D.W. / Bitzer, G.W. USA D
2235 The Adventures of Kathlyn 1913 6 Grandon, Francis J. USA
130 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 2 Curtiz, Michael / Keighley, William USA DBS
2235 Afgrunden 1910 2 Gad, Urban Denmark
165 The African Queen 1951 3 Huston, John UK / USA Y
2285 After Death 1915 9 Bauer, Yevgeni Russia D
756 The Age of Innocence 1993 6 Scorsese, Martin USA YUPS
55 Aguirre, The Wrath of God 1972 3 Herzog, Werner West Germany / Peru / Mexico D
285 Airplane! 1980 4 Abrahams, Jim / Zucker, David / Zucker, Jerry USA DUPS
916 Aladdin 1992 9 Clements, Ron / Musker, John USA YS
537 Alexander Nevsky 1938 6 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Vasilyev, Dmitri Soviet Union Y
523 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 8 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany Y
2235 Alice in Wonderland 1903 2 Hepworth, Cecil M. / Stow, Percy UK D
292 Alien 1979 4 Scott, Ridley UK DS
460 Aliens 1986 4 Cameron, James USA / UK DUPS
2235 Alkali Ike's Auto 1911 1 Anderson, Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' USA D
26 All About Eve 1950 2 Mankiewicz, Joseph L. USA DS
334 All About My Mother 1999 2 Almodóvar, Pedro Spain / France DS
233 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 4 Milestone, Lewis USA D
517 All That Jazz 1979 8 Fosse, Bob USA DS
353 All the King's Men 1949 4 Rossen, Robert USA D
217 All the President's Men 1976 4 Pakula, Alan J. USA DU
774 Almost Famous 2000 10 Crowe, Cameron USA YBS
246 Amadeus 1984 1 Forman, Milos USA DUS
271 Amarcord 1973 7 Fellini, Federico Italy / France DS
480 Amélie 2001 4 Jeunet, Jean-Pierre France / Germany DS
213 American Beauty 1999 1 Mendes, Sam USA YU
153 The American Friend 1977 3 Wenders, Wim West Germany / France Y
181 American Graffiti 1973 3 Lucas, George USA Y
227 An American in Paris 1951 5 Minnelli, Vincente USA DUPS
1114 American Splendor 2003 10 Berman, Shari Springer / Pulcini, Robert USA Y
2235 Among the Ruins 1923 9 Mizoguchi, Kenji Japan
532 Amores perros 2000 7 Iñárritu, Alejandro González Mexico YU
315 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 7 Preminger, Otto USA DU
418 Andrei Roublev 1969 6 Tarkovsky, Andrei Soviet Union Y
768 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 10 Curtiz, Michael USA DS
1714 Animal Crackers 1930 10 Heerman, Victor USA D
20 Annie Hall 1977 1 Allen, Woody USA D
2235 Apachentanz 1906 2 Messter, Oskar Germany
185 Aparajito 1957 6 Ray, Satyajit India D
128 The Apartment 1960 6 Wilder, Billy USA D
63 Apocalypse Now 1979 1 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DS
584 Apollo 13 1995 7 Howard, Ron USA DUPS
1291 Applause 1929 5 Mamoulian, Rouben USA Y
2235 Arsene Lupin 1916 9 Tucker, George Loane UK
2285 Arthème Swallows His Clarinet 1912 6 unknown France D
685 As Good as It Gets 1997 9 Brooks, James L. USA YUS
74 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 2 Wajda, Andrzej Poland D
378 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 5 Huston, John USA YUS
169 Atlantic City 1980 2 Malle, Louis USA / Canada / France DUS
1095 Atonement 2007 5 Wright, Joe UK DUS
2235 Au clair de la lune ou Pierrot malheureux 1904 2 Méliès, Georges France D
449 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 8 Bresson, Robert France / Sweden D
320 Au Revoir, Les Enfants 1987 2 Malle, Louis France / West Germany D
2190 The Avenging Conscience; Thou Shalt Not Kill 1914 5 Griffith, D.W. USA D
497 The Aviator 2004 3 Scorsese, Martin USA / Japan / Germany DS
2224 Awakening of Rip 1896 1 Dickson, William K.L. USA D
314 The Awful Truth 1937 4 McCarey, Leo USA DU
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504 Babe 1995 5 Noonan, Chris Australia / USA YU
716 Babel 2006 5 Iñárritu, Alejandro González USA DBU
2235 Back Stage 1919 7 Arbuckle, Roscoe 'Fatty' USA D
502 Back to the Future 1985 7 Zemeckis, Robert USA YS
376 The Bad and the Beautiful 1952 8 Minnelli, Vincente USA YU
388 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 10 Sturges, John USA YUS
239 Badlands 1973 5 Malick, Terrence USA YU
739 The Baker's Wife 1938 9 Pagnol, Marcel France Y
1979 The Balloonatic 1923 6 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
294 Bambi 1942 5 Hand, David / Algar, James / Armstrong, Samuel / Heid, Graham / Pearce, Perce / Roberts, Bill / Satterfield, Paul / Wright, Norman USA DS
273 The Band Wagon 1953 7 Minnelli, Vincente USA YS
216 The Bank Dick 1940 4 Cline, Edward F. USA D
409 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 2 Arcand, Denys Canada / France D
2235 Barbe-bleue 1901 2 Méliès, Georges France D
2235 The Bargain 1914 7 Barker, Reginald USA
2190 Barrabas 1919 6 Feuillade, Louis France
291 Barry Lyndon 1975 4 Kubrick, Stanley UK DU
2235 The Battle Cry of Peace 1915 8 Blackton, J. Stuart / North, Wilfrid USA
300 The Battle of Algiers 1965 5 Pontecorvo, Gillo Algeria / Italy YS
212 Battleship Potemkin 1925 3 Eisenstein, Sergei M. / Aleksandrov, Grigori Soviet Union DU
1979 Battling Butler 1926 10 Keaton, Buster USA Y
2144 Beau Brummel 1924 10 Beaumont, Harry USA D
85 Beauty and the Beast 1946 3 Cocteau, Jean / Clément, René France / Luxembourg D
294 Beauty and the Beast 1991 4 Trousdale, Gary / Wise, Kirk USA DS
2235 Bébé fume 1910 2 Feuillade, Louis France
2235 Becket 1910 2 Kent, Charles USA
1008 Before Sunset 2004 10 Linklater, Richard USA DS
1765 Behind the Screen 1916 4 Chaplin, Charles USA DUS
351 Being John Malkovich 1999 3 Jonze, Spike USA Y
371 Being There 1979 6 Ashby, Hal USA / UK / West Germany / Japan YU
35 Belle de jour 1967 2 Buñuel, Luis France / Italy D
260 Ben-Hur 1959 6 Wyler, William USA DUS
1289 Ben-Hur 1925 8 Niblo, Fred / Brabin, Charles / Cabanne, Christy / Cohn, J.J. / Ingram, Rex USA DU
2235 Ben Hur 1907 2 Olcott, Sidney USA
1532 Berlin: Symphony of a Great City 1927 8 Ruttmann, Walter Germany Y
81 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 2 Wyler, William USA D
788 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 9 Brest, Martin USA YUP
12 Bicycle Thieves 1948 1 De Sica, Vittorio Italy D
1645 Big Business 1929 10 Horne, James W. / McCarey, Leo USA YU
459 The Big Chill 1983 4 Kasdan, Lawrence USA Y
1622 The Big House 1930 9 Hill, George W. USA Y
525 The Big Parade 1925 5 Vidor, King USA V
413 The Big Red One 1980 8 Fuller, Samuel USA YU
203 The Big Sleep 1946 5 Hawks, Howard USA DS
2235 The Big Swallow 1901 2 Williamson, James UK D
597 Billy Elliot 2000 8 Daldry, Stephen UK / France Y
366 The Birds 1963 5 Hitchcock, Alfred USA DU
2235 Birth Control 1917 6 Sanger, Margaret USA
183 The Birth of a Nation 1915 1 Griffith, D.W. USA YUS
312 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 8 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany Y
767 The Black Cat 1934 6 Ulmer, Edgar G. USA D
479 Black Narcissus 1947 3 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK Y
1484 The Black Pirate 1926 2 Parker, Albert USA D
2235 A Black Sherlock Holmes 1918 6 Phillips, R.W. USA
914 Blackmail 1929 3 Hitchcock, Alfred UK Y
1979 The Blacksmith 1922 9 Keaton, Buster / St. Clair, Malcolm USA Y
2224 Blacksmith Scene 1893 1 Dickson, William K.L. USA D
2235 The Blacksmith's Daughter 1904 2 Collins, Alf UK
97 Blade Runner 1982 3 Scott, Ridley USA DBUPS
576 Blazing Saddles 1974 9 Brooks, Mel USA DBUP
2235 Blind Husbands 1919 7 von Stroheim, Erich USA D
107 Blow-Up 1966 2 Antonioni, Michelangelo UK / Italy DU
554 Blue 1993 5 Kieslowski, Krzysztof France / Poland / Switzerland / UK Y
100 The Blue Angel 1930 2 von Sternberg, Josef Germany DS
2058 The Blue Bird 1918 3 Tourneur, Maurice USA D
2235 Blue Blazes Rawden 1918 6 Hart, William S. USA
957 Blue Collar 1978 10 Schrader, Paul USA Y
907 The Blue Kite 1993 10 Tian, Zhuangzhuang China / Hong Kong Y
118 Blue Velvet 1986 1 Lynch, David USA DS
1979 The Boat 1921 7 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
2235 The Bond 1918 6 Chaplin, Charles USA D
11 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 1 Penn, Arthur USA DBUPS
374 Boogie Nights 1997 4 Anderson, Paul Thomas USA Y
1079 Boomerang! 1947 10 Kazan, Elia USA
515 Born on the Fourth of July 1989 7 Stone, Oliver USA DUS
613 Born Yesterday 1950 9 Cukor, George USA D
204 Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 2 Renoir, Jean France D
906 Bound for Glory 1976 10 Ashby, Hal USA Y
499 Boyz N the Hood 1991 6 Singleton, John USA Y
522 Braveheart 1995 6 Gibson, Mel USA DUS
593 Brazil 1985 9 Gilliam, Terry UK D
447 Breakfast at Tiffany's 1961 9 Edwards, Blake USA DUS
420 Breaking Away 1979 7 Yates, Peter USA Y
440 Breaking the Waves 1996 5 von Trier, Lars Denmark / Sweden / France / Netherlands / Norway Y
17 Breathless 1960 2 Godard, Jean-Luc France D
122 The Bride of Frankenstein 1935 2 Whale, James USA DUS
87 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 1 Lean, David UK / USA DUS
304 Brief Encounter 1945 4 Lean, David UK Y
70 Bringing Up Baby 1938 1 Hawks, Howard USA DU
598 Broadcast News 1987 8 Brooks, James L. USA Y
464 Brokeback Mountain 2005 1 Lee, Ang USA D
560 Broken Blossoms 1919 1 Griffith, D.W. USA YU
2235 The Broken Oath 1910 2 Solter, Harry USA
669 Bull Durham 1988 7 Shelton, Ron USA D
1641 Bulldog Drummond 1929 9 Jones, F. Richard / Howard, Sidney USA Y
982 Bulworth 1998 10 Beatty, Warren USA YUS
2190 Burlesque on Carmen 1915 6 Chaplin, Charles USA YU
178 The Burmese Harp 1956 2 Ichikawa, Kon Japan D
2296 The Busher 1919 9 Storm, Jerome USA D
198 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 3 Hill, George Roy USA DBS
660 The Butcher Boy 1997 8 Jordan, Neil Ireland / USA D
2235 The Butcher Boy 1917 6 Arbuckle, Roscoe 'Fatty' USA D
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134 Cabaret 1972 5 Fosse, Bob USA DUS
556 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 1 Wiene, Robert Germany DU
1321 Cabiria 1914 1 Pastrone, Giovanni Italy D
766 The Cameraman 1928 5 Keaton, Buster / Sedgwick, Edward USA Y
2235 The Cameraman's Revenge 1912 5 Starewicz, Wladyslaw Russia D
388 Camille 1936 6 Cukor, George USA D
840 Capote 2005 4 Miller, Bennett USA DU
733 Captain Blood 1935 10 Curtiz, Michael USA YUS
601 Captains Courageous 1937 8 Fleming, Victor USA DS
2235 Cardinal Wolsey 1912 5 Blackton, J. Stuart / Trimble, Laurence USA
622 Carmen Jones 1954 10 Preminger, Otto USA YS
9 Casablanca 1942 1 Curtiz, Michael USA DBUPS
719 Casino 1995 8 Scorsese, Martin USA / France DBU
706 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 8 Brooks, Richard USA DU
452 Cat People 1942 8 Tourneur, Jacques USA D
384 The Celebration 1998 3 Vinterberg, Thomas Denmark / Sweden D
152 Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974 4 Rivette, Jacques France Y
2006 Changeling 2008 7 Eastwood, Clint USA S
772 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith 1978 7 Schepisi, Fred Australia
308 Chariots of Fire 1981 3 Hudson, Hugh UK YU
2235 Charleston Chain Gang 1902 2 unknown USA
2235 Charlie the Champion 1915 8 Chaplin, Charles USA D
1603 The Cheat 1915 3 DeMille, Cecil B. USA DU
538 Chicago 2002 8 Marshall, Rob USA / Canada DBS
2035 A Child of the Big City 1914 2 Bauer, Yevgeni Russia V
802 Children of a Lesser God 1986 8 Haines, Randa USA DUP
45 Children of Paradise 1945 1 Carné, Marcel France D
15 Chinatown 1974 1 Polanski, Roman USA DUS
2235 The Christian 1923 9 Tourneur, Maurice USA
609 A Christmas Story 1983 9 Clark, Bob USA / Canada DBUP
463 Cinema Paradiso 1989 4 Tornatore, Giuseppe Italy / France DS
1 Citizen Kane 1941 1 Welles, Orson USA DS
96 City Lights 1931 2 Chaplin, Charles USA DS
356 City of God 2002 4 Meirelles, Fernando / Lund, Kátia Brazil / France / USA Y
2058 Civilization 1916 7 Ince, Thomas H. / Barker, Reginald / West, Raymond B. / Edwards, Walter / Hartford, David / Hunt, Jay / Read, J. Parker Jr. USA Y
230 A Clockwork Orange 1971 5 Kubrick, Stanley UK DUP
177 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 4 Spielberg, Steven USA DBUS
652 Close-up 1990 5 Kiarostami, Abbas Iran Y
384 Closely Watched Trains 1966 7 Menzel, Jirí Czechoslovakia D
2235 Cohen Collects a Debt 1912 5 Sennett, Mack USA
2235 Cohen's Advertising Scheme 1904 2 Porter, Edwin S. USA
483 The Color Purple 1985 4 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
676 Coming Home 1978 6 Ashby, Hal USA Y
2235 Comment monsieur prend son bain 1903 2 Guy, Alice France
29 The Conformist 1970 1 Bertolucci, Bernardo Italy / France / West Germany DS
1325 The Constant Gardener 2005 9 Meirelles, Fernando USA / UK D
65 Contempt 1963 2 Godard, Jean-Luc France / Italy DS
131 The Conversation 1974 3 Coppola, Francis Ford USA DU
1979 Convict 13 1920 9 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
2285 The Cook 1918 7 Arbuckle, Roscoe 'Fatty' USA D
364 Cool Hand Luke 1967 8 Rosenberg, Stuart USA DBUPS
1516 Cops 1922 6 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
2011 A Corner in Wheat 1909 1 Griffith, D.W. USA YU
2235 The Cossack Whip 1916 9 Collins, John H. USA
1961 The Count 1916 5 Chaplin, Charles USA DU
830 The Count of Monte Cristo 1934 7 Lee, Rowland V. / Lucas, Wilfred USA D
2235 The Count of Monte Cristo 1912 5 Porter, Edwin S. / Golden, Joseph A. USA
2235 The Courting of Mary 1911 1 Kirkwood, James / Tucker, George Loane USA
2190 The Covered Wagon 1923 7 Cruze, James USA Y
702 Crash 2005 3 Haggis, Paul USA / Germany DBUPS
219 Cría cuervos 1976 5 Saura, Carlos Spain D
311 Cries and Whispers 1972 7 Bergman, Ingmar Sweden Y
507 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 6 Allen, Woody USA Y
606 Crossfire 1947 5 Dmytryk, Edward USA YU
369 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 2 Lee, Ang Taiwan / Hong Kong / USA / China YU
359 The Crowd 1928 3 Vidor, King USA Y
339 Crumb 1994 5 Zwigoff, Terry USA D
2235 The Cry of the Children 1912 5 Nichols, George USA
307 The Crying Game 1992 2 Jordan, Neil UK / Japan Y
1232 The Cure 1917 1 Chaplin, Charles USA DUS
2224 The Curse of Quon Gwon 1916 8 Wong, Marion USA
568 Cyrano de Bergerac 1990 4 Rappeneau, Jean-Paul France Y
2285 Cyrano De Bergerac 1900 2 Maurice, Clément France D
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2235 Daddy-Long-Legs 1919 7 Neilan, Marshall USA D
2235 Damnation du Docteur Faust 1904 2 Méliès, Georges France D
385 Dances with Wolves 1990 2 Costner, Kevin USA DUS
345 Dangerous Liaisons 1988 2 Frears, Stephen USA / UK YUP
1860 The Dark Knight 2008 3 Nolan, Christopher USA DBUS
648 Darling 1965 10 Schlesinger, John UK Y
557 Das Boot 1981 7 Petersen, Wolfgang West Germany Y
2235 A Daughter of the Gods 1916 9 Brenon, Herbert USA
439 David Copperfield 1935 7 Cukor, George USA D
2235 David Copperfield 1913 6 Bentley, Thomas UK
779 Dawn of the Dead 1978 8 Romero, George A. Italy / USA D
2235 Day at the Circus 1901 2 Porter, Edwin S. USA
180 Day for Night 1973 2 Truffaut, François France / Italy DS
703 Day of Wrath 1943 4 Dreyer, Carl Theodor Denmark D
446 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 8 Wise, Robert USA DBUS
1979 Daydreams 1922 9 Keaton, Buster / Cline, Edward F. USA Y
1253 Days of Glory 2006 10 Bouchareb, Rachid France / Morocco / Algeria / Belgium D
255 Days of Heaven 1978 2 Malick, Terrence USA DUPS
416 The Dead 1987 4 Huston, John UK Y
758 Dead Man 1995 9 Jarmusch, Jim USA / Germany / Japan Y
681 Dead of Night 1945 10 Cavalcanti, Alberto / Crichton, Charles / Dearden, Basil / Hamer, Robert UK Y
612 Death of a Salesman 1951 10 Benedek, László USA
68 The Decalogue 1989 2 Kieslowski, Krzysztof Poland D
158 The Deer Hunter 1978 1 Cimino, Michael USA D
354 The Defiant Ones 1958 5 Kramer, Stanley USA Y
269 Deliverance 1972 6 Boorman, John USA DBUP
589 The Departed 2006 2 Scorsese, Martin USA D