140 movies chosen from among the most beautiful, the most imaginative, the most surprising, and also the most successful in the history of cinema

• Cabiria / Giovanni Pastrone
• Robert Wiene
• Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
• Sergej M. Ejzenstejn
• Fritz Lang
• Josef von Sternberg
• James Whale
• Edmund Goulding
• Ernest B. Schoedsack
• Frank Capra
• Charlie Chaplin
• Jean Renoir
• Victor Fleming
• Ernst Lubitsch
• John Ford
• Victor Fleming
• Orson Welles
• Michael Curtiz
• Frank Capra
• Roberto Rossellini
• Charles Vidor
• Frank Capra
• Vittorio de Sica
• John Huston
• Billy Wilder
• S. Donen, G. Kelly
• Fred Zinnemann
• Julien Duvivier
• Laszlo Benedek
• William Wyler
• Fred Zinnemann
• George Cukor The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Nosferatu / THe Battleship Potemkin / Metropolis / The Blue Angel / Frankenstein / Grand Hotel / King Kong / IT Happened One Night / Modern Times / Grand Illusion / The Wizard of OZ / Ninotchka / Stagecoach / Gone with the Wind / Citizen Kane / Casablanca / Arsenic and Old Lace / Rome, Open City / Gilda / It’s a Wonderful Life / The Bicycle Thief / The Asphalt Jungle / Sunset Boulevard / Singin’ in the Rain / High Noon / Don Camillo / The Wild One / Roman Holiday / From Here to Eternity / A Star is Born /

• On the Waterfront / Elia Kazan
• Billy Wilder
• Akira Kurosawa
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Nicholas Ray
• Roger Vadim
• Cecil B. Demille
• Ingmar Bergman
• David Lean
• Mario Monicelli
• William Wyler
• Billy Wilder
• Delmer Daves
• Federico Fellini
• Jean-Luc Godard
• Vittorio de Sica
• Alfred Hitchcock
• John Sturges
• Black Edwards
• Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
• Stanley Kubrick
• Francois Truffaut
• David Lean
• Blake Edwards
• Federico Fellini
• Luchino Visconti Sabrina / Seven Samurai / Rear Window / Rebel Without a Cause / And God Created Woman / The Ten Commandments / The Seventh Seal / The Bridge on the River Kwai / The Great War / Ben-Hur / Some Like It Hot / A Summer Place / La Dolce Vita / Breathless / Two Woman / Psyco / The Magnificent Seven / Breakfast at Tiffany’s / West Side Story / Lolita / Jules and Jim / Lawrence of Arabia / The Pink panther / 8 ½ / The Leopard /

• A Fistful of Dollars / Sergio Leone
• Guy Hamilton
• Robert Stevenson
• David Lean
• Claude Lelouch
• Stanley Kramer
• Robert Aldrich
• Luis Bunuel
• Mike Nichols
• Norman Jewison
• Franco Zeffirelli
• Franklin J. Schaffner
• Peter Yates
• Stanley Kubrick
• Roman Polanski
• Dennis Hopper
• John Schlesinger
• Arthur Hiller
• Robert Altman
• Don Siegel
• Stanley Kubrick
• Bob Fosse
• Francis Ford Coppola
• George Roy Hill
• George Lucas
• William Friedkin
• Steven Spielberg
• Milos Forman
• Robert Altman
• Martin Scorsese
• John G. Avildsen
• Nagisa Oshima
• John Badham
• George Lucas Goldfinger / Mary Poppins / Doctor Zhivago / A Man and a Woman / Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? / The Dirty Dozen / Belle de Jour / The Graduate / In the Heat of the Night / Romeo and Juliet / Planet of the Apes / Bullitt / 2001: a Space Odyssey / Rosemary’s Baby / Easy Rider / Midnight Cowboy / Love Story / M*A*S*H / Dirty Harry / A Clockwork Orange / Cabaret / The Godfather / The Sting / American Graffiti / The Exorcist / Jaws / One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest / Nashville / Taxi Driver / Rocky / In the Realm of the Senses / Saturday Night Fever / Star Wars [A new hope] Episode IV /

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind / S. Spielberg
• Michael Cimino
• Randal Kleiser
• Francis Ford Coppola
• Woody Allen
• Ridley Scott
• John landis
• Stanley Kubrick
• Paul Schrader
• Claude Pinoteau
• Steven Spielberg
• John Carpenter
• Ted Kotcheff
• Steven Spielberg
• Ridley Scott
• Sergio leone
• Wes Craven
• Robert Zemeckis
• Tony Scott
• Adrian Lyne
• Wim Wenders
• Bernardo Bertolucci
• Barry Levinson
• Luc Besson
• Garry Marshall
• Tim Burton
• Zhang Yimou
• Jonathan Demme
• Ridley Scott The Deer Hunter / Grease / Apocalypse Now / Manhattan / Alien / The Blues Brothers / The Shining / American Gigolo / The Party / Raiders of the Lost Ark / Escape from New York / First Blood (Rambo) / E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial / Blade Runner / Once Upon a Time in America / A Nightmare on Elm Street / Back to the Future / Top Gun / Nine ½ Weeks / Wing of Desire / The Last Emperor / Rain Man / Nikita / Pretty Woman / Edward Scissorhands / Raise the Red Lantern / The Silence of the lambs / Thelma & Louise /

• Basic Instinct / Paul Verhoeven
• Tim Burton
• Steven Spielberg
• Rober Zemeckis
• Quentin Tarantino
• David Fincher
• Brian de Palma
• Roberto Benigni
• James Cameron
• Andy and Larry Wachowski
• Ridley Scott
• Peter Jackson
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Pedro Almodovar
• Quentin Tarantino
• Edward Zwick
• Clint Eastwood
• Doug Liman – paul Greengrass
• Gore Verbinski Batman Returns / Schindler’s List / Forrest Gump / Pulp Fiction / Se7en / Mission: Impossible / Life is Beautiful / Titanic / The Matrix / Gladiator / The Lord of the Rings “Saga” / Amelie / Talk to Her / Kill Bill: volume 1 and volume 2 / The Last Samurai / Million Dollar Baby / The Bourne “Saga” / Pirates of the Carribean “Saga” /