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R   Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The --- Wiene, Robert (1919; Germany; 69m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Café Lumière --- Hou Hsiao-Hsien (2003; Japan-Taiwan; 108m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Caged --- Cromwell, John (1950; US; 96m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Caine Mutiny, The --- Dmytryk, Edward (1954; US; 125m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir California Split --- Altman, Robert (1974; US; 108m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Call Northside 777 --- Hathaway, Henry (1948; US; 111m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Camera Buff/Amator --- Kieslowski, Krszystof (1979; Poland; 112m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Cameraman, The --- Keaton, Buster/Edward Sedgwick (1928; US; 69m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Camille --- Cukor, George (1936; US; 108m ; BW)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Candidate, The --- Ritchie, Michael (1972; US; 109m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Canterbury Tale, A --- Powell, Michael/Emeric Pressburger (1944; UK; 124m ; BW)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Cape Fear --- Scorsese, Martin (1991; US; 128m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Cape Fear --- Thompson, J. Lee (1961; US; 105m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R   Capote --- Miller, Bennett (2005; US-Canada; 98m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Captain Blood --- Curtiz, Michael (1935; US; 119m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Captive City, The --- Wise, Robert (1952; US; 90m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R   Capturing the Friedmans --- Jarecki, Andrew (2003; US; 107m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Carnet de Bal, Un --- Duvivier, Julien (1937; France; 144m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Carnival in Flanders --- Feyder, Jacques (1935; France; 95m ;BW)   Amazon Google
R   Carnival of Souls --- Harvey, Herk (1962; US; 80m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Caro diario --- Moretti, Nanni (1994; Italy-France; 100m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Carrie --- De Palma, Brian (1976; US; 97m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R   Carrington --- Hampton, Christopher (1995; UK; 122m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Casablanca --- Curtiz, Michael (1942; US; 102m ; BW)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Casino --- Scorsese, Martin (1995; US; 182m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Casque d'or --- Becker, Jacques (1952; France; 96m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cast Away --- Zemeckis, Robert (2000; US; 143m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cat on a Hot Tin Roof --- Brooks, Richard (1958; US; 108m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cat People --- Tourneur, Jacques (1942; US; 73m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R   Cat Returns, The --- Morita, Hiroyuki (2002; Japan-US; 75m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Catch Me if You Can --- Spielberg, Steven (2002; US; 141m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Caught --- Ophüls, Max (1949; US; 88m ; BW)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Ceiling Zero --- Hawks, Howard (1935; US; 95m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Celine and Julie Go Boating --- Rivette, Jacques (1974; France; 192m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R   Celluloid Closet, The --- Epstein, Rob/Jeffrey Friedman (1995; US; 102m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Central Station --- Salles, Walter (1998; Brazil-France-Spain-Japan; 110m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Century of the Self, The [TV] --- Curtis, Adam (2002; UK; 240m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Ceremonie, La/A Judgement in Stone/The Ceremony --- Chabrol, Claude (1995; France; 111m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Ceremony, The --- Oshima, Nagisa (1971; Japan; 121m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cesar --- Pagnol, Marcel (1936; France; 170m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Champion --- Robson, Mark (1949; US; 99m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Changing Lanes --- Michell, Roger (2002; US; 99m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R   Chant d'amour, Un --- Genet, Jean (1950; France; 26m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Charade --- Donen, Stanley (1963; US; 114m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Charleston Parade/Charleston --- Renoir, Jean (1927; France; 17m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Charley Varrick --- Siegel, Don (1973; US; 111m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Charlie and the Chocolate Factory --- Burton, Tim (2005; UK-US-Australia; 115m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Charulata --- Ray, Satyajit (1964; India; 124m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Chasing Amy --- Smith, Kevin (1996; US; 105m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Chelsea Girls --- Warhol, Andy (1967; US; 215m ; Col-BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Chess Fever --- Pudovkin, Vsevolod & Nikolai Shpikovsky (1925; USSR; 28m ; BW)   Amazon Google
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Chicken Run --- Park, Nick & Peter Lord (2000; US-UK; 84m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Chienne, La --- Renoir, Jean (1931; France; 95m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Chikamatsu monogatari --- Mizoguchi, Kenji (1954; Japan; 100m ;BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Childhood of Maxim Gorky, The --- Donskoi, Mark (1938; USSR; 99m ; BW)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Children Are Watching Us, The --- De Sica, Vittorio (1944; Italy; 85m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Children of Men --- Cuaron, Alfonso (2006; US-UK-Japan; 109m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Chimes at Midnight --- Welles, Orson (1966; Spain-Switzerland; 115m ; BW)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Chinatown --- Polanski, Roman (1974; US; 131m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Chinoise, La --- Godard, Jean-Luc (1967; France; 95m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Chloe in the Afternoon --- Rohmer, Eric (1972; France; 97m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Choose Me --- Rudolph, Alan (1984; US; 106m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Choses de la vie, Les --- Sautet, Claude (1970; France-Italy-Switzerland; 89m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Christmas in July --- Sturges, Preston (1940; US; 67m ; BW)   Amazon Google
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Christopher Strong --- Arzner, Dorothy (1933; US; 77m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Chronicle of a Summer --- Rouch, Jean & Edgar Morin (1960; France; 90m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, The --- Straub, Jean-Marie (1968; West Germany-Italy; 94m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cicatrice interieure, La/The Inner Scar --- Garrel, Philippe (1972; France; 60m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Circus, The --- Chaplin, Charles (1928; US; 72m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Citadel, The --- Vidor, King (1938; UK-US; 112m ; BW)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Citizen Kane --- Welles, Orson (1941; US; 119m ; BW)   Amazon Google
HR Dir City Girl --- Murnau, F.W. (1929; US; 90m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir City Lights --- Chaplin, Charles (1931; US; 86m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R   City of God --- Meirelles, Fernando (2002; Brazil-Germany-France; 129m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir City of Hope --- Sayles, John (1991; US; 129m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir City of Sadness, A --- Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1989; Taiwan; 158m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R   City That Never Sleeps --- Auer, John H. (1953; US; 90m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Claim, The --- Winterbottom, Michael (2000; UK-Canada-France; 120m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Claire's Knee --- Rohmer, Eric (1971; France; 103m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Clash by Night --- Lang, Fritz (1952; US; 105m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Classe tous risques --- Sautet, Claude (1960; France; 111m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cleo from 5 to 7 --- Varda, Agnès (1961; France; 90m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Clerks --- Smith, Kevin (1994; US; 89m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Climates --- Ceylan, Nuri Bilge (2006; Turkey-France-Netherlands; 102m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Clock, The --- Minnelli, Vincente (1945; US; 90m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Clockers --- Lee, Spike (1995; US; 129m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Close Encounters of the Third Kind --- Spielberg, Steven (1977; US; 135m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Close Shave, A --- Park, Nick (1995; UK; 30m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R   Closely Watched Trains --- Menzel, Jirí (1966; Czechoslovakia; 89m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Close-Up --- Kiarostami, Abbas (1989; Iran; 93m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cloud-Capped Star, The --- Ghatak, Ritwik (1960; India; 126m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Coal Miner's Daughter --- Apted, Michael (1980; US; 125m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cobweb, The --- Minnelli, Vincente (1955; US; 124m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cockfighter --- Hellman, Monte (1974; US; 83m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Coeur en hiver, Un --- Sautet, Claude (1991; France; 105m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Coeur fidele --- Epstein, Jean (1923; France; 87m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Coffee and Cigarettes --- Jarmusch, Jim (2003; US-Japan-Italy; 95m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Collectionneuse, La --- Rohmer, Eric (1966; France; 88m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Colloque de chiens --- Ruiz, Raul (1977; France; 22m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Color Purple, The --- Spielberg, Steven (1985; US; 152m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Colorado Territory --- Walsh, Raoul (1949; US; 94m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Comanche Station --- Boetticher, Budd (1960; US; 74m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Come Live with Me --- Brown, Clarence (1941; US; 86m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Comedie de l'innocence/Comedy of Innocence --- Ruiz, Raul (2000; France; 102m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Comedy of Power, A --- Chabrol, Claude (2005; France-Germany; 110m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Commune (Paris, 1871), La --- Watkins, Peter (2000; France; 345m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R   Con Air --- West, Simon (1997; US; 115m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Confession --- May, Joe (1937; US; 86m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Confidentially Yours --- Truffaut, François (1983; France; 111m ; BW)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Conformist, The --- Bertolucci, Bernardo (1969; Italy-France-Germany; 115m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Contempt --- Godard, Jean-Luc (1963; France-Italy; 103m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R   Contender, The --- Lurie, Rod (2000; Germany-US-UK; 126m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R   Control --- Corbijn, Anton (2007; UK-Japan-Australia; 122m ; BW)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Conversation, The --- Coppola, Francis (1974; US; 113m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cookie's Fortune --- Altman, Robert (1998; US; 117m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cool Hand Luke --- Rosenberg, Stuart (1967; US; 126m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cops --- Keaton, Buster/Eddie Cline (1922; US; 18m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Corbeau, Le/The Raven --- Clouzot, Henri-Georges (1943; France; 92m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cornered --- Dmytryk, Edward (1945; US; 102m ; BW)   Amazon Google
HR   Corporation, The --- Abbott, Jennifer & Mark Achbar (2003; Canada; 145m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Corpse Bride/Tim Burton's Corpse Bride --- Burton, Tim & Mike Johnson (2005; UK-US; 76m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R   Court Jester, The --- Panama, Norman/Melvin Frank (1956; US; 101m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Crack-Up --- Reis, Irving (1946; US; 93m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Craig's Wife --- Arzner, Dorothy (1936; US; 75m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cranes Are Flying, The --- Kalatozishvili, Mikheil (1957; Russia; 94m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R   Crazed Fruit --- Nakahira, Kô (1956; Japan; 86m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Creature From the Black Lagoon --- Arnold, Jack (1954; US; 79m ; BW)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Cries and Whispers --- Bergman, Ingmar (1972; Sweden; 106m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Crime of Monsieur Lange, The --- Renoir, Jean (1936; France; 90m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Crime Wave --- De Toth, André (1954; US; 74m ; BW)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Crimes and Misdemeanors --- Allen, Woody (1989; US; 104m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz, The --- Buñuel, Luis (1955; Mexico; 91m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Criminal, The/The Concrete Jungle --- Losey, Joseph (1960; UK; 86m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Crimson Gold --- Panahi, Jafar (2003; Iran; 96m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Crimson Kimono, The --- Fuller, Sam (1959; US; 82m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Crimson Pirate, The --- Siodmak, Robert (1952; US; 104m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Criss Cross --- Siodmak, Robert (1949; US; 87m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Crooked Way, The --- Florey, Robert (1949; US; 90m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Crossfire --- Dmytryk, Edward (1947; US; 86m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon --- Lee, Ang (2000; China-Taiwan-US; 120m ; Col)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Crowd, The --- Vidor, King (1928; US; 104m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Crucified Lovers, The/Chikamatsu Monogatari --- Mizoguchi, Kenji (1954; Japan; 100m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Crumb --- Zwigoff, Terry (1995; US; 119m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cry Danger --- Parrish, Robert (1951; US; 79m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cry of the City --- Siodmak, Robert (1948; US; 95m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cry of the Hunted --- Lewis, Joseph H. (1953; US; 80m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cry, the Beloved Country --- Korda, Zoltan (1951; UK; 111m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Cul-De-Sac --- Polanski, Roman (1966; UK; 111m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Culloden/The Battle of Culloden --- Watkins, Peter (1964; UK; 69m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Curse of the Cat People, The --- Wise, Robert/Gunther von Fritsch (1944; US; 70m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Curse of the Jade Scorpion, The --- Allen, Woody (2001; US-Germany; 103m ; Col)   Amazon Google
         
HR Dir D.O.A. --- Mate, Rudolph (1949; US; 83m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R   Daisies --- Chytilová, Vera (1966; Czechoslovakia; 76m ; Col-BW)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Daisy Kenyon --- Preminger, Otto (1947; US; 99m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Dames --- Enright, Ray (1934; US; 90m ; BW)   Amazon Google
HR Dir Dames du Bois de Boulogne, Les --- Bresson, Robert (1945; France; 84m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Dance of Life, The --- Cromwell, John & A. Edward Sutherland (1929; US; 115m ; Col-BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Dancer in the Dark --- von Trier, Lars (2000; Denmark-France-Sweden-Italy-Germany-Norway-Netherlands-Iceland-Finland-UK-US; 140m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Dangerous Crossing --- Newman, Joseph M. (1953; US; 75m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Dangerous Liaisons --- Frears, Stephen (1988; US; 120m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Darjeeling Limited, The --- Anderson, Wes (2007; US; 91m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Dark at Noon/L' Oeil qui ment --- Ruiz, Raul (1992; France; 100m ; Col)   Amazon Google
R Dir Dark City --- Dieterle, William (1950; US; 98m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Dark Corner, The --- Hathaway, Henry (1946; US; 99m ; BW)   Amazon Google
R Dir Dark Mirror, The --- Siodmak, Robert (1946; US; 85m ; BW)