"I've Been A Professor At The NYU Graduate Film For The Past 15 Years.The 1st Day Of Every Class I Hand Out My List Of Films That I Feel You Must See If You Want To Make Films. Please Look At This List And See What You Might Have Missed. As I Tell My Students If You Want Your Film "Game" To Be Tight You Must Have Seen Great Movies, World Cinema, It Just Can't Be Hollywood Films. Educate Yourself. Learn. Grow. Evolve. Make Great Films."
An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology.
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate.
In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.
Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
An illegal Nigerian immigrant discovers the unpalatable side of London life.
A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.
The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.
When a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintupelets, their lives get more complicated than they anticipated.
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.
Set in Japan in the 16th century (or so), an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them, or cause them to turn on each other...and him...
A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise visit by his younger cousin from Budapest. From initial hostility and indifference a small degree of affection grows between the two. Along...
"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits.
Becoming closer to his dream of leading a normal life, a professional safecracker agrees to do a job for the mafia, who have other plans for him.
An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it.
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against ...
Three workers, Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel) and Smokey (Yaphet Kotto), are working at a car plant and drinking their beers together. One night when they steal away from their...
A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
After an encounter with U.F.O.s, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.
In 1964, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the ...
A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe, Nevada to pre-revolution 1958 Cuba.
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption and murder.
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
Following the life of a small-time hood who struggles with a moral crisis regarding his friends, family, business, and his conflicting religious beliefs.
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
A naive hustler goes to New York to seek personal fortune but in the process finds himself a new friend.
A somewhat romanticized account of the career of the notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang.
An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.
A man refuses to conform to life in a rural prison.
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
The departure of the German army from Paris in 1944.
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice.
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering paparazzo journalist living in Rome.
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy.
The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.
A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Moving story of a young boy who, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
An Arkansas drifter becomes an overnight media sensation. As he becomes drunk with fame and power, will he ever be exposed as the fraud he has become?
After refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.
A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
An old woman finds a baby among the cauliflowers in her garden. She takes care of the orphan, and calls him Totò. When she dies, he is sent to an orphanage, which he leaves as a teenager. ...
A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view.
A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, and the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others...
During WW2, a reconnaissance platoon is sent to map out a Japanese-held island but racial tensions arise between the white soldiers and the only black member of the group.
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn
Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
Set in Post-WWII Italy, a working class man's bicycle is stolen. He and his son set out to find it.
Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice. Communication is fragile. A woman leads an Allied patrol through a mine field; she dies ...
During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is chased by Nazis and he seeks refuge and escape.
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.
The Dead End Kids, an unemployed architect, and gangster Baby Face Martin interact with an East Side neighborhood over one day and night.