I'm looking forward to the list you said you were going to make for me
Damn. I completely forgot.
Broken Blossoms - DW Griffith (1919)
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari - Robert Wiene (1920)
Dr Mabuse, The Gambler - Fritz Lang (1922)
Nosferatu - FW Murnau (1922)
Metropolis - Fritz Lang (1927)
Le Sang d'un Poete - Jean Cocteau (1930)
La Grande Ilusion - Jean Renoir (1937)
Alexander Nevsky - Sergei Eisenstein (1938)
Port of Shadows - Marcel Carné (1938)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums - Kenzi Mizoguchi (1939)
The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir (1939)
The Great Dictator - Charlie Chaplin (1940)
Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (1941)
The Maltese Falcon - John Huston (1941)
Shadow of a Doubt - Hitchcock (1941)
Le Corbeau - Henri-Georges Clouzot (1943)
Day of Wrath - Carl Theodor Dreyer (1943)
Children of Paradise - Marcel Carné (1945)
Black Narcissus - Powell + Pressburger (1947)
The Red Shoes - Powell + Pressburger (1948)
Bicycle Thieves - Vittorio de Sica (1948)
They Live by Night - Nicholas Ray (1948)
The Third Man - Carol Reed (1949)
Bitter Rice - Giuseppe de Santis (1949)
Late Spring - Yasujiro Azu (1949)
Rashomon - Akira Kurosawa (1950)
Orphée - Jean Cocteau (1950)
Los Olvidados - Luis Bunuel (1950)
Diary of a Country Priest - Robert Bresson (1951)
Ugetsu - Kenzi Mizoguchi (1953)
The Wages of Fear - Henri-Georges Clouzot (1953)
The Earrings of Madame de... - Max Ophüls (1953)
La Strada - Federico Fellini (1954)
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome - Kenneth Anger (1954)
On the Waterfront - Elia Kazan (1954)
Richard III - Laurence Olivier (1955)
Early Spring - Yasujiro Ozu (1956)
Witness for the Prosecution - Billy Wilder (1957)
Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman (1957)
Elevator to the Gallows - Louis Malle (1958)
The Ballad of Narayama - Keisuke Kinoshita (1958)
Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
Hiroshima Mon Amour - Alain Resnais (1959)
The 400 Blows - Francois Truffaut (1959)
Pickpocket - Robert Bresson (1959)
L'avventura - Michelangelo Antonioni (1960)
Shoot the Piano Player - Francois Truffaut (1960)
La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini (1960)
Rocco and His Brothers - Luchino Visconti (1960)
Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Resnais (1961)
Viridiana - Luis Bunuel (1961)
Jules Et Jim - Francois Truffaut (1962)
Vivre Sa Vie - Jean -Luc Godard (1962)
L'eclisse - Michelangelo Antonioni (1962)
Le Doulos - Jean-Pierre Melville (1962)
La Jetee - Chris Marker (1962)
The Devil's Trap - Franistek Vlacil (1962)
Muriel, or the Time of Return - Alain Resnais (1963)
The Leopard - Luchio Visconti (1963)
Kwaidan - Mashaki Kobayashi (1964)
Dr Strangelove - Stanley Kubrick (1964)
Onibaba - Kaneto Shindo (1964)
The Saragossa Manuscript - Wojciech Jerzy Has (1964)
Woman in the Dunes - Hiroshi Teshigahara (1964)
Diamonds of the Night - Jan Nemec (1964)
Pale Flower - Masahiro Shinoda (1964)
Pierrot le Fou - Jean-Luc Godard (1965)
Persona - Ingmar Bergman (1966)
Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky (1966)
Daisies - Vera Chytilova (1966)
Tokyo Drifter - Seijun Suzuki (1966)
Marketa Lazarova - Franistek Vlacil (1967)
Le Samourai - Jean-Pierre Melville (1967)
The Hour of the Wolf - Ingmar Bergman (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick (1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West - Sergio Leone (1968)
Funeral Parade of Roses - Toshio Matsumoto (1969)
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief - Nagisa Oshima (1969)
Z - Costa-Gavras (1969)
Easy Rider - Dennis Hopper (1969)
Valerie And Her Week of Wonders - Jaromil Jires (1970)
The Conformist - Bernardo Bertolucci (1970)
Le Cercle Rouge - Jean-Pierre Melville (1970)
The French Connection - William Friedkin (1971)
The Devils - Ken Russell (1971)
Solaris - Andrei Tarkovsky (1971)
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets - Shuji Terayama (1971)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Luis Bunuel (1971)
Aguirre, The Wrath of God - Werner Herzog (1972)
Paper Moon - Peter Bogdanovich (1973)
The Hourglass Sanatorium - Wojciech Jerzy Has (1973)
Ali Fear Eats the Soul - Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1973)
La Maman et la Putain - Jean Eustache (1973)
The Holy Mountain - Alejandro Jodorowsky (1973)
Lady Snowblood - Toshiya Fujita (1973)
Badlands - Terence Malick (1973)
Alice in the Cities - Wim Wenders (1974)
Celine and Julie Go Boating - Jacques Rivette (1974)
A Woman under the Influence - John Cassavetes (1974)
Pastoral Hide and Seek - Shuji Terayama
The Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky (1975)
Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick (1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Milos Forman (1975)
Stroszek - Werner Herzog (1977)
Suspiria - Dario Argento (1977)
Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)
The Tin Drum - Volker Schlorndorff (1979)
Nosferatu The Vampyre - Werner Herzog (1979)
Narcissus and Psyche - Gabor Body (1980)
Possession - Andrzej Zulawski (1981)
Nostalghia - Andrei Tarkovsky (1983)
The Ballad of Narayama - Shohei Imamura (1983)
Stranger than Paradise - Jim Jarmusch (1984)
Boy Meets Girl - Leos Carax (1984)
Ran - Akira Kurosawa (1985)
Vagabond - Agnes Varda (1985)
Blue Velvet - David Lynch (1986)
The Sacrifice - Andrei Tarkovsky (1986)
Down By Law - Jim Jarmusch (1986)
Caravaggio - Derek Jarman (1986)
Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders (1987)
Alice - Jan Svankmajer (1988)
Damnation - Bela Tarr (1988)
Cinema Paradiso - Giuseppe Tornatore (1988)
Landscape in the Mist - Theo Angelopoulos (1988)
A City of Sadness - Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1989)
Raise the Red Lantern - Zhang Yimou (1991)
Barton Fink - Coen Brothers (1991)
The Double Life of Veronique - Krzysztof Kieslowski (1991)
La Belle Noiseuse - Jacques Rivette (1991)
Fire Walk With Me - David Lynch (1992)
Reservoir Dogs - Quentin Tarantino (1992)
Unforgiven - Clint Eastwood (1992)
Three Colours Trilogy - Kieslowski (1990s)
Chungking Express - Wong Kar-Wai (1994)
Leon: The Professional - Luc Besson (1994)
Satantango - Bela Tarr (1994)
Fallen Angels - Wong Kar-Wai (1995)
The Big Lebowski - Coen Brothers (1998)
Eternity and a Day - Theo Angelopoulos (1998)
In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-Wai (2000)
Werckmeister Harmonies - Bela Tarr (2000)
Memento - Christopher Nolan (2000)
O Brother Where art Thou - Coen Brothers (2000)
Songs From the Second Floor - Roy Andersson (2000)
Mulholland Drive - David Lynch (2001)
The Pianist - Roman Polanski (2002)
City of God - Fernando Meirelles (2002)
The Return - Andrei Zvyagintsev (2003)
Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall... and Spring - Kim Ki Duk (2003)
Oldboy - Chan Wook Park (2003)
The Beat that my Heart Skipped - Jacques Audiard (2005)
Inland Empire - David Lynch (2006)
Pan's Labyrinth - Guillermo Del Toro (2006)
The Banishment - Andrei Zvyagintsev (2007)
The Lives of Others - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (2007)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Andrew Dominik (2007)
There Will be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson (2008)
Love Exposure - Sion Sono (2008)
Moon - Duncan Jones (2008)
The White Ribbon - Michael Haneke (2008)
Melancholia - Lav Diaz (2008)
The Milk of Sorrow - Claudia Llosa (2009)
Tetro - Francis Ford Coppola (2009)
Essential Killing - Jerzy Skolimowski (2010)
The Yellow Sea - Na Hong-Jin (2010)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives - Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2010)
This list grows a little long, so let's call it quits here, at 2010. I'm sure I still forgot quite a few.