50 Essential Films

Dateline Bangkok’s fifty essential films, in chronological order, selected from a database of 500 titles:

1900s

• A Trip to the Moon

1910s

• The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

1920s

• Battleship Potemkin
• Metropolis
• The Jazz Singer
• Un chien andalou
• Man with a Movie Camera

1930s

• Frankenstein
• City Lights
• The Public Enemy
• 42nd Street
  
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Stagecoach
• Le jour se lève

1940s

• His Girl Friday
• Citizen Kane
• The Maltese Falcon
• Casablanca
• Out of the Past
• Bicycle Thieves

1950s

• Sunset Boulevard
• Rashomon
• Singin’ in the Rain
• Tokyo Story
• On the Waterfront
• Seven Samurai
• The Searchers
• The Seventh Seal
• Vertigo
• Some Like It Hot

1960s

• Breathless
• Psycho
• Chronicle of a Summer
• Dr Strangelove
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Dont Look Back
• 2001: A Space Odyssey

1970s

• The Godfather
• Pink Flamingos
• Chinatown
• Jaws
• Taxi Driver
• Apocalypse Now

1980s

• Raging Bull

1990s

• Pulp Fiction
• La haine
• Toy Story

2000s

• Spirited Away
• City of God

2010s

• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives