NYU Film List
| FILM | DIRECTOR | YEAR |
| Bad Lieutenant | Abel Ferrara | 1992 |
| Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa | 1950 |
| Yojimbo | Akira Kurosawa | 1961 |
| Ran | Akira Kurosawa | 1985 |
| Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | 1954 |
| Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | 1958 |
| North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | 1959 |
| Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn | 1967 |
| The Conformist | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1970 |
| Last Tango in Paris | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1972 |
| Ace in the Hole | Billy Wilder | 1951 |
| Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | 1959 |
| Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder | 1950 |
| Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | 1955 |
| Raising Arizona | Coen Brothers | 1987 |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean | 1957 |
| Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | 1962 |
| On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | 1954 |
| La Strada | Federico Fellini | 1954 |
| La Dolce Vita | Federico Fellini | 1960 |
| 8 ½ | Federico Fellini | 1963 |
| City of Gods | Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund | 2002 |
| The Godfather: Part II | Francis Ford Coppola | 1974 |
| 400 Blows | Francois Truffaut | 1959 |
| Day for Night | Francois Truffaut | 1973 |
| Patton | Franklin J. Schnaffner | 1970 |
| Mad Max | George Miller | 1979 |
| The Road Warrior | George Miller | 1981 |
| Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo | 1966 |
| The Last Detail | Hal Ashby | 1973 |
| Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard | 1960 |
| West Side Story | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | 1961 |
| Stranger than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch | 1984 |
| The Train | John Frankenheimer | 1964 |
| The Maltese Falcon | John Huston | 1941 |
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre | John Huston | 1948 |
| Fat City | John Huston | 1972 |
| Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger | 1969 |
| Marathon Man | John Schlesinger | 1976 |
| Boyz n the Hood | John Singleton | 1991 |
| Los Olivados | Luis Bunuel | 1950 |
| Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow | 2008 |
| Los Olvidados | Luis Bunuel | 1950 |
| Black Orpheus | Marcel Camus | 1959 |
| Home of the Brave | Mark Robson | 1949 |
| Mean Streets | Martin Scorsese | 1973 |
| Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | 1980 |
| Apocalypto | Mel Gibson | 2006 |
| The Deer Hunter | Michael Cimino | 1978 |
| Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 1942 |
| Thief | Michael Mann | 1981 |
| The Red Shoes | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1948 |
| Coolie High | Michael Schultz | 1975 |
| I Am Cuba | Mikhail Kalatozov | 1964 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Milos Forman | 1975 |
| District 9 | Neill Blomkamp | 2009 |
| In the Heat of the Night | Norman Jewison | 1967 |
| Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | 1958 |
| Blue Collar | Paul Schrader | 1978 |
| White Heat | Raoul Walsh | 1949 |
| Is Paris Burning? | Rene Clement | 1966 |
| Mash | Robert Altman | 1970 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Robert Mulligan | 1962 |
| Rome Open City | Roberto Rossellini | 1945 |
| Paisan | Roberto Rossellini | 1946 |
| Chinatown | Roman Polanski | 1974 |
| Dog Day Afternoon | Sidney Lumet | 1975 |
| Singin’ in the Rain | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | 1952 |
| Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick | 1957 |
| Spartacus | Stanley Kubrick | 1960 |
| Dirty Pretty Things | Stephen Frears | 2002 |
| Hoop Dreams | Steve James | 1984 |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg | 1977 |
| Cool Hand Luke | Stuart Rosenberg | 1967 |
| Badlands | Terrence Malick | 1973 |
| Days of Heaven | Terrence Malick | 1978 |
| The Wizard of Oz | Victor Fleming | 1939 |
| An American in Paris | Vincente Minnelli | 1951 |
| Lust for Life | Vincente Minnelli | 1956 |
| The Bicycle Thief | Vittorio De Sica | 1948 |
| Miracle in Milan | Vittorio De Sica | 1951 |
| Dead End | William Wyler | 1937 |
| Zelig | Woody Allen | 1983 |