Gerald Peary's 100 Films for Film Literacy

• À Bout de Souffle (1960)
• Adam's Rib (1949)
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• Airplane! (1980)
• Alice in the Cities (1974)
• The American Friend (1977)
• Andrei Rublev (1966)
• Annie Hall (1977)
• Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
• L'Avventura (1960)
• Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• Belle de Jour (1967)
• Bicycle Thieves (1948)
• The Big Sleep (1946)
• The Birth of a Nation (1915)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• A Blonde in Love (1965)
• Blow Up (1966)
• The Blue Angel (1930)
• Blue Velvet (1986)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Chelsea Girls (1966)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• City Lights (1931)
• The Conformist (1970)
• Contempt (1963)
• The Dead (1987)
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
• Diva (1981)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• La Dolce Vita (1960)
• Double Indemnity (1944)
• The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
• Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
• The Four Hundred Blows (1959)
• The General (1927)
• The Godfather (1972)
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
• The Gold Rush (1925)
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
• The Graduate (1967)
• La Grande Illusion (1937)
• Greed (1924)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
• High School (1968)
• His Girl Friday (1940)
• Ikiru (1952)
• Imitation of Life (1959)
• Intolerance (1916)
• It Happened One Night (1934)
• Jules and Jim (1962)
• The King of Comedy (1982)
• Knife in the Water (1962)
• Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
• The Maltese Falcon (1941)
• Man of Aran (1934)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
• Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
• The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971)
• Metropolis (1927)
• The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
• Naked (1993)
• Nanook of the North (1922)
• Nashville (1975)
• The Night of San Lorenzo (1982)
• Nosferatu (1922)
• Los Olvidados (1950)
• On the Waterfront (1954)
• The Passenger (1975)
• Pather Panchali (1955)
• Persona (1966)
• Psycho (1960)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Raging Bull (1980)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
• Ran (1985)
• Rashomon (1950)
• La Règle du Jeu (1939)
• Rome, Open City (1945)
• Salesman (1968)
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
• The Searchers (1956)
• Shadows (1959)
• Sherlock Jr. (1924)
• Singin' in the Rain (1952)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• Stagecoach (1939)
• La Strada (1954)
• Sullivan's Travels (1941)
• Sunrise (1927)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• The Thin Blue Line (1988)
• Top Hat (1935)
• A Touch of Zen (1969)
• Triumph of the Will (1935)
• 28 Up (1985)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
• Vertigo (1958)
• Viridiana (1961)
• Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
• W.R. – Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
• Where Is My Friend's House? (1987)
• Wild Strawberries (1957)
• Written on the Wind (1956)
• Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
• Zéro de Conduite (1933)