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For All Mankind

Al Reinert
1989 • 79 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #54 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus, iTunes

Al Reinert’s visually dazzling documentary For All Mankind is the story of the twenty-four men who traveled to the moon—told in their words, in their voices, using the images of their experiences.

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Philip Kaufman
1988 • 172 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #55 Edition: DVD

Philip Kaufman achieves a delicate, erotic balance with his screen version of Milan Kundera’s “unfilmable” novel about a womanizing surgeon (Daniel Day-Lewis), his free-spirited mistress (Lena Olin), and his childlike wife (Juliette Binoche).

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The 39 Steps

Alfred Hitchcock
1935 • 86 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #56 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

A heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps follows Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) as he stumbles upon a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.

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Charade

Stanley Donen
1963 • 113 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #57 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

In this comedic thriller, a trio of crooks relentlessly pursue a young American, played by Audrey Hepburn in gorgeous Givenchy, through Paris in an attempt to recover the fortune her dead husband stole from them.

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Peeping Tom

Michael Powell
1960 • 101 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #58 Edition: DVD

A frank exploration of voyeurism and violence, Michael Powell’s extraordinary film is the story of a psychopathic cameraman—his childhood traumas, sexual crises, and murderous revenge as an adult.

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The Night Porter

Liliana Cavani
1974 • 118 minutes • 1.85:1 • Italy
Spine: #59 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

In Liliana Cavani’s scintillating drama, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her ex-torturer/lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as a night porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna.

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Monty Python’s Life of Brian

Terry Jones
1979 • 94 minutes • 1.85:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #61 Edition: DVD

Blind faith, virgin birth, crucifixion—nothing is sacred in Monty Python’s epic send-up of ancient times, which draws on the cornball biblical blockbusters of the 1950s to lampoon celebrity culture in any era.

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Carnival of Souls

Herk Harvey
1962 • 83 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #63 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus

In Herk Harvey’s macabre masterpiece, Mary Henry survives a drag race in a rural Kansas town, then takes a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she becomes haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her to an abandoned lakeside pavilion.

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The Third Man

Carol Reed
1949 • 104 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #64 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime—and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder.

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Rushmore

Wes Anderson
1998 • 93 minutes • 2.35:1 • United States
Spine: #65 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Tenth grader Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) is Rushmore Academy’s most extracurricular student, and its least scholarly, in Wes Anderson’s dazzling sophomore effort—equal parts coming-of-age story, French New Wave homage, and screwball comedy.

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The Last Temptation of Christ

Martin Scorsese
1988 • 163 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #70 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

The Last Temptation of Christ, by Martin Scorsese, is a towering achievement. Though it initially engendered enormous controversy, the film can now be viewed as the remarkable, profoundly personal work of faith that it is.

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Chasing Amy

Kevin Smith
1997 • 113 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #75 Edition: DVD

Cult comic-book artist Holden (Ben Affleck) falls in love with fellow artist Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams), only to be thwarted by her sexuality. Chasing Amy offers Kevin Smith’s unique ear for dialogue and insight into relationships.

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The Bank Dick

Edward Cline
1940 • 72 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #78 Edition: DVD

W.C. Fields stars as an unemployed, henpecked drunk who spends most of his time at the Black Pussy Cat café. Things take a turn for the absurd when he unwittingly captures a bank robber and lands a job as a security guard.

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W. C. Fields—Six Short Films

Monte Brice, Clyde Bruckman, Edwin Middleton…
1933 • 115 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #79 Edition: DVD

W. C. Fields’s prolific career placed him at the forefront of slapstick comedy. Gathered here are six gems that feature the comic genius at his peak.

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Hamlet

Laurence Olivier
1948 • 153 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #82 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, iTunes

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy.

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The Harder They Come

Perry Henzell
1973 • 103 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States
Spine: #83 Edition: DVD

Reggae superstar Jimmy Cliff is Ivan, a rural Jamaican musician who journeys to the city of Kingston in search of fame and fortune in The Harder They Come, which brought the catchy and subversive rhythms of the Rastas to the U.S. in the early 1970s.

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Pygmalion

Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard
1938 • 96 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #85 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets, Hulu Plus

Cranky Professor Henry Higgins (Leslie Howard) takes a bet that he can turn Cockney guttersnipe Eliza Doolittle (Wendy Hiller) into a “proper lady” in a mere six months in this delightful comedy of bad manners, based on the play by George Bernard Shaw.

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Sisters

Brian De Palma
1973 • 93 minutes • 1.85:1 • United States
Spine: #89 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus, iTunes

A stylish paean to female destructiveness, De Palma’s first foray into horror voyeurism is a stunning amalgam of split-screen effects, bloody birthday cakes, and a chilling score by frequent Hitchcock collaborator Bernard Herrmann.

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The Blob

Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
1958 • 82 minutes • 1.66:1 • United States
Spine: #91 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Hulu Plus

One of the great cult classics, The Blob melds ’50s schlock sci-fi and teen delinquency pics even as it transcends these genres with strong performances and ingenious special effects. The Blob helped launch the careers of superstud Steve McQueen and composer Burt Bacharach.

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Fiend Without a Face

Arthur Crabtree
1958 • 92 minutes • 1.66:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #92 Editions: DVD, Hulu Plus, iTunes

A scientist’s thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller, directed by Arthur Crabtree.

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Black Narcissus

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1947 • 101 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #93 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, iTunes

This explosive work about the conflict between the spirit and the flesh is the epitome of the sensuous style of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

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I Know Where I’m Going!

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1945 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #94 Editions: DVD, iTunes

In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s stunningly photographed comedy, Wendy Hiller stars as a headstrong young woman who travels to the remote Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich lord.

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All That Heaven Allows

Douglas Sirk
1955 • 89 minutes • 1.77:1 • United States
Spine: #95 Edition: DVD

Jane Wyman is a repressed wealthy widow and Rock Hudson is the hunky Thoreau-following gardener who loves her in Douglas Sirk’s heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s small-town America.

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Written on the Wind

Douglas Sirk
1956 • 99 minutes • 1.77:1 • United States
Spine: #96 Edition: DVD

Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring.

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