Directed by Federico Fellini.
138 minutes; released 1963.
With both career and marriage in chaos, an Italian movie director protects his overgrown ego by retreating into surreal memories of the past and wild fantasies about the present. In Italian with optional English subtitles.
Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
148 minutes; released 1968.
A team of scientists is sent to investigate a four-million-year-old black monolith found on the moon.
Directed by Orson Welles.
119 minutes; released 1941.
A powerful newspaper publisher dies, and a reporter tries to piece together the meaning of his life.
Directed by Norm Ferguson.
125 minutes; released 1940.
This Disney film gets its fame from its seamless blending of classical music and animation. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" features Mickey Mouse as an apprentice magician who oversteps his limits with his master's books. Large hippos dancing ballet are just part of the many moody and melodic scenes in this film.
Directed by Jean Renoir.
114 minutes; released 1937.
Two French soldiers escape from a World War I German prison camp. In French, with optional English subtitles.
Directed by Federico Fellini.
108 minutes; released 1954.
A young woman is sold to a traveling circus performer. In Italian, with optional English subtitles.
Directed by Charles Crichton.
81 minutes; released 1951.
Alec Guinness plays a timid bank clerk with an almost perfect scheme to steal a million pounds in gold from the Bank of England.
Directed by George Cukor.
116 minutes; released 1933.
The story of four New England sisters and their family during the American Civil War. Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott. Starring Katharine Hepburn.
Directed by Fritz Lang.
124 minutes; released 1927.
An early silent film about a futuristic city where the workers live in the dark underground and the rich enjoy splendour.
Directed by Charlie Chaplin.
87 minutes; released 1936.
A factory worker driven to boredom by the soulless momentum of work executes a series of slapstick routines around machines, including a memorable encounter with an automatic feeding apparatus. Starring Charlie Chaplin.
Directed by F.W. Murnau.
81 minutes; released 1922.
The first film version of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Count Orlock (Nosferatu, the vampire) leaves his castle in the Carpathians and travels by ship to Bremen, bringing coffins filled with dirt and plague rats.
Directed by Victor Fleming.
101 minutes; released 1939.
Dorothy Gale is swept away in a tornado from her home in Kansas to the Land of Oz. To return home, she must travel to the Emerald City and get the help of a great wizard. On her journey she befriends a Scarecrow, a Tin Man, and a Lion.
8 1/2.
2001: A Space Odyssey.
Citizen Kane.
Fantasia.
Grand Illusion = La Grande Illusion.
La Strada.
The Lavender Hill Mob.
The Leopard = Il Gattopardo.
Little Women.
Metropolis.
Modern Times.
Nosferatu.
Stagecoach.
The Wizard of Oz.