100 Essential Films - Slant Magazine

In 2003, Slant Magazine compiled a list of essential movies. In their own words, "[t]his list should not be construed as a definitive “greatest films” package, but as an alternative compiled by a group of kinky film-lovers wanting to give serious critical thought to neglected, forgotten and misunderstood gems."

No documentaries, short or animations.

One film per director.

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Director	Year	Answer
Louis Feuillade	1915	Les Vampires
D.W. Griffith	1919	Broken Blossoms
Erich Von Stroheim	1922	Foolish Wives
F.W. Murnau	1926	Faust
Maurice Elvey	1927	Hindle Wakes
Edward Sedgwick	1928	The Cameraman
King Vidor	1928	The Crowd
Jean Epstein	1928	The Fall of the House of Usher
Fritz Lang	1928	Spies
Aleksandr Dovzhenko	1930	Earth
Josef Von Sternberg	1931	An American Tragedy
Sergei Eisenstein	1931	Que viva Mexico
Tod Browning	1932	Freaks
Rouben Mamoulian	1932	Love Me Tonight
Edgar G. Ulmer	1934	The Black Cat
Jean Renoir	1936	The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Jean Grémillon	1937	Gueule D'Amour
Leo McCarey	1937	Make Way for Tomorrow
Gregory La Cava	1937	Stage Door
Howard Hawks	1939	Only Angels Have Wings
Frank Borzage	1940	The Mortal Storm
Ernst Lubitsch	1942	To Be or Not To Be
Jacques Tourneur	1943	The Leopard Man
Charles Chaplin	1947	Monsieur Verdoux
William Dieterle	1948	Portrait of Jennie
Roberto Rossellini	1950	The Flowers of St. Francis
Nicholas Ray	1950	In a Lonely Place
Billy Wilder	1951	Ace in the Hole
Kenji Mizoguchi	1952	The Life of Oharu
Max Ophüls	1952	Le Plaisir
Alfred Hitchcock	1952	I Confess
Luis Buñuel	1955	The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Robert Aldrich	1956	Autumn Leaves
Frank Tashlin	1957	Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Otto Preminger	1958	Bonjour Tristesse
Douglas Sirk	1959	Imitation of Life
Jerry Lewis	1961	The Ladies' Man
Agnès Varda	1962	Cleo from 5 to 7
Albert Zugsmith	1962	Confessions of an Opium Eater
Ingmar Bergman	1963	Winter Light
Satyajit Ray	1964	Charulata
Carl Theodor Dreyer	1964	Gertrud
Mikio Naruse	1964	Yearning
John Ford	1966	7 Women
Mario Bava	1966	Kill, Baby, Kill!
Jean-Luc Godard	1966	Masculin Féminin
John Boorman	1967	Point Blank
Monte Hellman	1967	The Shooting
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea	1968	Memories of Underdevelopment
Sergio Leone	1968	Once Upon a Time in the West
Brain De Palma	1970	Hi Mom!
Radley Metzger	1970	The Lickerish Quartet
Paul Morrissey	1970	Trash
Robert Altman	1971	McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Elaine May	1971	A New Leaf
Sam Peckinpah	1974	Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Jacques Rivette	1974	Celine and Julie Go Boating
Robert Bresson	1974	Lancelot du Lac
Tobe Hooper	1974	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Chantal Akerman	1975	Jeanne Dielman
Michelangelo Antonioni	1975	The Passenger
Ousmane Sembène	1975	Xala
John Carpenter	1976	Assault on Precinct 13
Orson Welles	1976	F for Fake
Roman Polanski	1976	The Tenant
Charles Burnett	1977	Killer of Sheep
Rainer Werner Fassbinder	1978	In a Year of 13 Moons
Andrei Tarkovsky	1979	Stalker
Samuel Fuller	1980	The Big Red One
Andrzej Zulawski	1980	Possession
Werner Herzog	1982	Fitzcarraldo
Dario Argento	1982	Tenebre
Shohei Imamura	1983	The Ballad of Narayama
George A. Romero	1985	The Day of the Dead
Steven Spielberg	1987	Empire of the Sun
Souleymane Cisse	1987	Yeelen
Terence Davies	1988	Distant Voices, Still Lives
Martin Scorsese	1988	The Last Temptation of Christ
Krzysztof Kieślowski	1988	A Short Film About Killing
Abbas Kiarostami	1990	Close-Up
Edward Yang	1991	A Brighter Summer Day
John Woo	1992	Hard Boiled
Woody Allen	1992	Husbands and Wives
David Lynch	1992	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Hou Hsiao-hsien	1993	The Puppetmaster
Béla Tarr	1994	Sátántangó
Jim Jarmusch	1995	Dead Man
Paul Verhoeven	1995	Showgirls
Emir Kusturica	1995	Underground
David Cronenberg	1996	Crash
Takeshi Kitano	1997	Fireworks
Aleksandr Sokurov	1997	Mother and Son
Jonathan Demme	1998	Beloved
Tsai Ming-liang	1998	The Hole
Todd Haynes	1998	Velvet Goldmine
Claire Denis	1999	Beau Travail
Jia Zhang-ke	2000	Platform
Catherine Breillat	2001	Fat Girl
Kiyoshi Kurosawa	2001	Pulse
Bruno Dumont	2003	Twentynine Palms