 | Open City
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $12.40 The defining film of Italian neorealism. A searing, unforgettable masterpiece.
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 | Beauty and The Beast - Criterion Collection (Restored Edition)
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $21.00 Directed by Jean Cocteau, this is probably the greatest fantasy film ever made.
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 | Orphic Trilogy - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $62.49 / Used from: $40.00 Cocteau's "Orphee" is a dark, haunting dream. One of the 20th century's greatest films.
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 | Umberto D. - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $27.49 / Used from: $14.00 This is the saddest movie I have ever seen...
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 | La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $17.95 Fellini's Modernist epic of modern Rome. A film that begins in realism and ends in symbolism, preparing us for the psychological surrealism of "8 1/2".
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 | 8 1/2 - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $31.99 / Used from: $13.45 Fellini's greatest and most original achievement. Most of the movie occurs inside the central character's head, a setting so rich that every time I see the film, I'm surprised by something.
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 | The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $10.00 Max von Sydow participates in film's most morbid chess match. A marvelous meditation on life and death disguised as a medieval period piece.
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 | Wild Strawberries - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $33.99 / Used from: $18.93 Legendary Swedish director Victor Sjostrom stars in Bergman's first great psychological masterpiece.
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 | Persona
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $6.81 This is my candidate for Greatest Film of All Time. Enough said.
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 | Cries & Whispers - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $9.99 Death, cruelty, self-mutilation. In short, an ordinary day in Bergman land.
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 | The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $14.50 One of the best films ever made about childhood.
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 | Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $32.49 / Used from: $20.43 One of the best films ever made. Period.
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 | Murmur of the Heart - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $13.94 A brilliant, pitch-perfect comedy about mother-son incest. Perhaps Louis Malle's best movie.
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 | Breathless - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.49 / Used from: $24.99 The single most important defining film of the French New Wave.
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 | Weekend
Buy used from: $55.00 Godard's ultra-dark, Bunuelian satire of France in the Sixties.
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 | The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.49 / Used from: $17.95 Speaking of Bunuel, the man himself returned to Europe and made his best films in the 1960s and 1970s.
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 | The Phantom of Liberty
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $11.98 Employing a floating point-of-view, multiple narrative structure more common in experimental fiction, Bunuel takes us on an incomparable and always surprising satirical ride.
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 | Belle de Jour
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $9.84 Bunuel and Deneuve explore sex, desire and the thin line between fantasy and reality.
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 | Last Year at Marienbad
Buy used from: $18.99 Why is this out of print?!? Alain Resnais and novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet create a film that bridges the gap between the cinematic New Wave and the French New Novel.
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 | Andrei Rublev (Criterion Collection Spine #34)
Buy new: $34.49 / Used from: $16.00 Tarkovsky's brilliant, exciting film about the greatest of Russian icon painters. (That's right, an exciting film about a painter. It is possible.)
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 | Solaris - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $21.79 The Russian "2001". Tarkovsky's vision of humans in space is darker and more cerebral than Kubrick's.
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 | Peeping Tom - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $17.49 Michael Powell's riff on Hitchcock is among the most disturbing British films ever made--and that's saying a lot.
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 | L'Avventura - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $32.49 / Used from: $14.94 Antonioni's masterpiece. A great, mysterious existentialist epic
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 | The Battle of Algiers - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $37.99 / Used from: $30.94 This 40+ year-old film about terrorism, torture, counterinsurgency and imperialism is altogether too timely today.
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 | Andrzej Wajda - Three War Films (A Generation, Kanal, and Ashes & Diamonds) - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $71.99 / Used from: $42.50 "Ashes and Diamonds" is Wajda's early masterpiece, set in the closing days of WWII. It stars Zbigniew Cybulski, the Polish James Dean, a dude with charisma to burn. Check him out. Dig him.
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 | Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $10.85 Werner Herzog's haunting, poetic film about the doomed expedition of a Spanish conquistador. If Joseph Conrad had been born 75 years later, he would've made this movie.
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 | The Belly of an Architect
Buy used from: $18.95 Peter Greenaway's brilliant, beautifully photographed meditation on Rome, art, sex, domes and abdomens. The best performance Brian Dennehy has ever given on film.
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 | Last Tango in Paris
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $5.99 I wish Marlon Brando had lived long enough to do a commercial for 'I Can't Believe It's Not Butter'.
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 | The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $17.48 Jean Renoir's greatest film. One of the few movies that can be mentioned in the same breath as "Citizen Kane."
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 | Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $30.99 / Used from: $12.29 Renoir's other undisputed masterpiece. Watch it and notice how it influenced the visual style of Welles and Toland in 'Kane'.
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 | Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $20.53 Pasolini's last film is perhaps the most disturbing satire ever made--a satire that functions not through comedy but through disgust. The movie disgusts us, outrages us, and finally places us in the torturers' chair and indicts us for what we have seen, indicts our spectatorial passivity.
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