Jonathan Rosenbaum's 1000 Essential Films

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From his book "Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons" (2004).

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  1. 1.
    L'Arrivée d'un Train à la Ciotat
    by August & Louis Lumiere

  2. 2.
    La Sortie des usines Lumière (1895)
    by Louis Lumière

  3. 3.
    Le tunnel sous la manche (1907)
    by Georges Méliès

  4. 4.
    A Corner in Wheat (1909 Short)
    by D.W. Griffith

  5. 5.
    The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
    by D.W. Griffith

  6. 6.
    Fantômas contre Fantômas
    by Louis Feuillade

  7. 7.
    The Avenging Conscience (1914)
    by D.W. Griffith

  8. 8.
    Child of the Big City (Ditya bolshogo goroda)(1914)
    by Yevgeni Bauer

  9. 9.
    L'enfant de Paris (1913)
    by Léonce Perret

  10. 10.
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    The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England (1914)
    by Maurice Tourneur

  11. 11.
    Les Vampires
    by Louis Feuillade

  12. 12.
    Burlesque on Carmen (1916)
    by Charles Chaplin

  13. 13.
    Intolerance (1916)
    by D.W. Griffith

  14. 14.
    Judex (Deluxe Edition)
    by Louis Feuillade

  15. 15.
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    One A.M.
    by Charles Chaplin

  16. 16.
    Tih Minh (1918)
    by Louis Feuillade

  17. 17.
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    Barrabas (1919)
    by Louis Feuillade

  18. 18.
    Broken Blossoms (Deluxe Edition)
    by D.W. Griffith

  19. 19.
    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Robert Wiene

  20. 20.
    The Oyster Princess (Die Austernprinzessin)(1919)
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  21. 21.
    True Heart Susie (1919)
    by D.W. Griffith

  22. 22.
    Last of the Mohicans (1920)
    by Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown

  23. 23.
    The Parson's Widow : Three Films by Carl Theodor Dreyer
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

  24. 24.
    The Doll (Die Puppe)(1919)
    by Ernst Lubitsch

  25. 25.
    Cops (1922 short)
    by Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline

  26. 26.
    Destiny
    by Fritz Lang

  27. 27.
    The Kid
    by Charlie Chaplin

  28. 28.
    Nanook of the North (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert J. Flaherty

  29. 29.
    Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler
    by Fritz Lang

  30. 30.
    Foolish Wives

  31. 31.
    Nosferatu
    by F.W. Murnau

  32. 32.
    Orphans of the Storm
    by D.W. Griffith

  33. 33.
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    Raskolnikow
    by Robert Wiene

  34. 34.
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    Le souriante Madame Beudet
    by Germaine Dulac

  35. 35.
    The Covered Wagon (1923)
    by James Cruze

  36. 36.
    Three Ages
    by Edward F. Cline

  37. 37.
    Ballet mécanique (1924)
    by Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy

  38. 38.
    Greed

  39. 39.
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    L'inhumaine
    by Marcel L'Herbier

  40. 40.
    The Last Laugh
    by F.W. Murnau

  41. 41.
    Michael
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

  42. 42.
    Die Nibelungen
    by Fritz Lang

  43. 43.
    Paris qui dort (At 3:25) (The Crazy Ray)(1925)
    by René Clair

  44. 44.
    Peter Pan
    by Herbert Brenon

  45. 45.
    Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
    by Buster Keaton

  46. 46.
    Strike
    by Sergei Eisenstein

  47. 47.
    The Thief of Bagdad (Deluxe Edition)
    by Raoul Walsh

  48. 48.
    The Big Parade
    by King Vidor

  49. 49.
    Chess Fever (Shakhmatnaya goryachka)(1925)
    by Vsevolod Pudovkin & Nikolai Shpikovsky

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Comments

An overall tip — 3 years ago

It might be helpful for those who are trying to complete this list, to first complete the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die list, after which you will have made a sizable dent in Rosenbaum’s list.


Needs to go back. — 4 years ago

Only this time, unless I’ve missed something, ‘Flaming Creatures’ does belong. He even writes a section on the film in “Essential Cinema” and I know it exists on the list in his book.


Whoa — 5 years ago

This is the most unique, frustrating, exhilerating film list I’ve ever seen. It’s great to see Rosenbaum’s quirks so evident. I knew he loved Feuillade, but I didn’t realize he loved him THAT much. And Spielberg’s 1941?

Thanks for putting up this list.

All respect to Rosenbaum,too.


some tweaks — 6 years ago

I resorted the last few movies so that they were in the right order. Also identified one film that did not belong (“Flaming Creatures”) and one that was missing (“Lumière d’Etè”).




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