Slant Magazine's 100 Essential Films

• Les Vampires (1915-16)
• Broken Blossoms (1919)
• Foolish Wives (1922)
• Faust (1926)
• Hindle Wakes (1927)
• The Cameraman (1928)
• The Crowd (1928)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (1928, Epstein)
• Spione (1928)
• Earth (1930)
• An American Tragedy (1931)
• Que Viva Mexico! (1932)
• Freaks (1932)
• Love Me Tonight (1932)
• The Black Cat (1934)
• The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
• Gueule d'Amour (1937)
• Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
• Stage Door (1937)
• Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
• The Mortal Storm (1940)
• To Be or Not to Be (1942)
• The Leopard Man (1943)
• Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
• Portrait of Jennie (1948)
• Saint Francis, God's Jester (1950)
• In a Lonely Place (1950)
• Ace in the Hole (1951)
• The Life of Oharu (1952)
• Le Plaisir (1952)
• I Confess (1953)
• The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)
• Autumn Leaves (1956)
• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
• Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
• Imitation of Life (1959)
• The Ladies Man (1961)
• Cleo from 5-7 (1962)
• Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962)
• Winter Light (1962)
• Charulata - The Lonely Wife (1964)
• Gertrud (1964)
• Yearning (1964)
• 7 Women (1966)
• Curse of the Dead (1966)
• Masculine, Feminine (1966)
• Point Blank (1967)
• The Shooting (1967)
• Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
• Hi Mom! (1970)
• The Lickerish Quartet (1970)
• Trash (1970)
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
• A New Leaf (1971)
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
• Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)
• Lancelot du Lac (1974)
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
• Jeanne Dielman (1975)
• The Passenger (1975)
• Xala (1975)
• Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
• F for Fake (1974)
• The Tenant (1976)
• Killer of Sheep (1977)
• In the Year of the 13 Moons (1978)
• Stalker (1979)
• The Big Red One (1980)
• Possession (1981)
• Fitzcarraldo (1982)
• Tenebrae (1982)
• Ballad of Narayama (1983)
• Day of the Dead (1985)
• Empire of the Sun (1987)
• Yeelen (1987)
• Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
• The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
• A Short Film About Killing (1988)
• Close-Up (1990)
• A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
• Hard Boiled (1992)
• Husbands and Wives (1992)
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
• The Puppetmaster (1993)
• Sátántangó (1994)
• Dead Man (1995)
• Showgirls (1995)
• Underground (1995)
• Crash (1996)
• Hana-Bi (1997)
• Mother and Son (1997)
• Beloved (1998)
• The Hole (1998)
• Velvet Goldmine (1998)
• Beau Travail (1999)
• Platform (2000)
• À Ma Soeur (2001)
• Pulse (2001)
• Twentynine Palms (2003)