Next 70 Films to See Before You Die

Who doesn't like lists? Personally I love making them up for myself. Following my earlier post titled '50 Films to See Before You Die', I was surprised how many people started using it as a guide to initiate themselves to the world of cinema. I insist that 50 films is very inadequate to claim any kind of film literacy. One has to see at least 200 of them. So in continuation of that, here is my follow-up list of the next 70 great films. I refuse to rank them and so prefer to present them in A-Z order. This list still leaves a large number of outstanding films. You can rest assured that even after seeing these films, you will have scratched only on the surface of international cinema. This list is only indicative, an invitation to explore world cinemas.

(A-Z order)

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Stanley Kubrick
2. 21 Grams (2003) by Alejandro González Innaritú
3. Amarcod (1973) by Federico Fellini
4. Amores Perros (2000) by Alejandro González Innaritú
5. Ashes and Diamonds (1958) by Andrzej Wajda
6. Battleship Potemkin (1925) by Sergei Eisenstein
7. Behind the Sun (2001) by Walter Salles
8. The Birth of a Nation (1915) by David Wark Griffith
9. Bitter Moon (1992) by Roman Ploanski
10. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) by Arthur Penn
11. Breathless (1960) by Jean Luc Godard
12. Casablanca (1942) by Michael Curtiz
13. Central Station (1998) by Walter Salles
14. Children of Paradise (1945) by Marcel Carne
15. Children of Men (2006) by Alfonso Cuarón
16. Chinatown (1974) by Roman Polanski
17. Closely Watched Trains (1967) by Jiri Menzel
18. Diary of a Country Priest (1951) by Robert Bresson
19. Do the right thing (1989) by Spike Lee
20. Don’t Die without telling me where you are going (1995) by Eliseo Subiela
21. Double Indemnity (1944) by Billy Wilder
22. Duck Soup (1933) by Marx Brothers
23. Easy Rider (1969) by Dennis Hopper
24. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) by Stanley Kubrick
25. Faces (1968) by John Cassavasetes
26. Fanny and Alexander (by 1982) by Ingmar Bergman
27. Talk to Her (2002) by Pedro Almodóvar
28. The Constant Gardener (2005) by Fernando Meirelles
29. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) by Pier Paolo Pasolini
30. The Graduate (1967) by Mike Nichols
31. Greed (1924) by Eric von Stroheim
32. High Noon (1952) by Fred Zinnemann
33. In Praise of Love (2001) by Jean Luc Godard
34. In the Realm of the Senses (1976) by Nagisa Oshima
35. Intervista (1987) by Federico Fellini
36. Jalsaghar (1958) by Satyajit Ray
37. Kalpana (1948) by Uday Shankar
38. Landscape in the Mist (1988) by Theo Angelopolous
39. Lucia (1968) by Humberto Solás
40. M (1931) by Fritz Lang
41. The Maltese Falcon (1941) by John Huston
42. Man with a Movie Camera (1929) by Dziga Vertov
43. Manhattan (1979) by Woody Allen
44. The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (1974) by Werner Herzog
45. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978) by Rainer Fassbinder
46. Last Tango in Paris (1972) by Bernardo Bertolucci
47. Los Olvidados (1950) by Luis Buñuel
48. Nine Lives (2005) by Rodrigo García
49. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) by Carl Dreyer
50. Pather Panchali (1955) by Satyajit Ray
51. Psycho (1960) by Alfred Hitchcock
52. Pulp Fiction (1994) by Quentin Tarantino
53. Raging Bull (1980) by Martin Scorsese
54. Rear Window (1954) by Alfred Hitchcock
55. Rebel without a case (1955) by Nicholas Ray
56. The Rules of the Game (1939) by Jean Renoir
57. Scarface (1932) by Howard Hawks
58. The Seven Samurai (1954) by Akira Kurosawa
59. Shortcuts (1993) by Robert Altman
60. Singin’ in the rain (1952) by Donen & Kelly
61. Sunset Boulevard (1950) by Billy Wilder
62. Tango (1998) by Carlos Saura
63. The Third Man (1949) by Carol Reed
64. Three Times (2005) by Hou Hsiao Hsien
65. Tokyo Story (1953) by Yasujiro Ozu
66. Touch of Evil (1958) by Orson Welles
67. Two or Three Things I know About Her (1967) by Jean Luc Godard
68. Ugetsu Momogatari (1953) by Kenji Mizoguchi
69. The Wizard of Oz (1939) by Victor Fleming
70. W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) by Dusan Makavejev