The Movie Book (2nd edition)

The Movie Book was first published in 2015 as a guide to the most influential films from cinema history: “The movies gathered here are those that the authors feel... to have had the most seismic impact on both cinema and the world.” The book was written by a team of authors (Louis Baxter, John Farndon, Kieran Grant, and Damon Wise), led by Danny Leigh.

116 films were included, cross-referenced and arranged chronologically, with entries ranging from a single page to six pages per film. There was also an appendix of eighty-eight extra films, “a selection of the movies that came close to being included in the main section, but did not quite make the final cut.”

The second edition appeared in 2022, with minimal changes. It included only one additional film, Parasite (기생충), making a new total of 117 main entries. Five films were deleted from the appendix, replaced by five new entries. The deletions from the appendix are Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler), The Jazz Singer, Rosemary’s Baby, Good Bye, Lenin!, and Times and Winds (Beş Vakit); the additions are The Exorcist, Twelve Years a Slave, Black Panther, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and Nomadland.

These are the 117 main entries in the second edition:

• A Trip To The Moon
  
• Intolerance
  
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  
• Battleship Potemkin
  
• Sunrise
  
• Metropolis
  
• Steamboat Bill Jr
  
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
  
• The Blue Angel
  
• People on Sunday
  
• City Lights
  
• M
  
• Duck Soup
  
• King Kong
  
• Zero for Conduct
  
• The Bride of Frankenstein
  
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  
• The Wizard of Oz
  
• The Rules of the Game
  
• Gone with the Wind
  
• His Girl Friday
  
• Citizen Kane
  
• Casablanca
  
• To Be or Not to Be
  
• Ossessione
  
• Laura
  
• Children of Paradise
  
• La belle et la bête
  
• A Matter of Life and Death
  
• It’s a Wonderful Life
  
• Bicycle Thieves
  
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
  
• The Third Man
  
• Rashomon
  
• Sunset Boulevard
  
• A Streetcar Named Desire
  
• The Night of the Hunter
  
• Singin’ in the Rain
  
• Tokyo Story
  
• The Wages of Fear
  
• Godzilla
  
• All That Heaven Allows
  
• Rebel Without a Cause
  
• Pather Panchali
  
• Kiss Me Deadly
  
• The Searchers
  
• The Seventh Seal
  
• Vertigo
  
• Ashes and Diamonds
  
• Some Like It Hot
  
• The 400 Blows
  
• La Dolce Vita
  
• Breathless
  
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
  
• Last Year at Marienbad
  
• La jetée
  
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  
• Black God, White Devil
  
• Dr. Strangelove
  
• The Sound of Music
  
• The Battle of Algiers
  
• The Chelsea Girls
  
• Playtime
  
• Bonnie and Clyde
  
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
  
• The Wild Bunch
  
• Easy Rider
  
• Le boucher
  
• The Godfather
  
• Aguirre: The Wrath of God
  
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
  
• Don’t Look Now
  
• The Spirit of the Beehive
  
• Chinatown
  
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  
• Jaws
  
• Picnic at Hanging Rock
  
• Taxi Driver
  
• Annie Hall
  
• Star Wars IV: A New Hope
  
• Alien
  
• Stalker
  
• Das Boot
  
• Blade Runner
  
• Blue Velvet
  
• Wings of Desire
  
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
  
• sex, lies, and videotape
  
• Do the Right Thing
  
• Raise the Red Lantern
  
• Pulp Fiction
  
• Three Colours: Red
  
• The Shawshank Redemption
  
• Toy Story
  
• La haine
  
• Fargo
  
• The Sweet Hereafter
  
• Central Station
  
• Festen
  
• The Ring
  
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  
• Spirited Away
  
• Amelie
  
• Lagaan
  
• The Lord of The Rings I: The Fellowship of the Ring
  
• City of God
  
• Oldboy
  
• The Lives of Others
  
• Pan’s Labyrinth
  
• Slumdog Millionaire
  
• The Hurt Locker
  
• Man on Wire
  
• The White Ribbon
  
• Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  
• Gravity
  
• Boyhood
  
• Parasite

These are the eighty-eight films in the appendix:

• The Great Train Robbery
  
• Nosferatu
  
• Un chien andalou
  
• Freaks
  
• The Grapes of Wrath
  
• The Maltese Falcon
  
• Sullivan’s Travels
  
• Meshes of the Afternoon
  
• Double Indemnity
  
• Brief Encounter
  
• Murders Among Us
  
• Out of the Past
  
• The Red Shoes
  
• All About Eve
  
• Los Olvidados
  
• The Big Heat
  
• La strada
  
• Seven Samurai
  
• Rififi
  
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  
• Touch of Evil
  
• Elevator to the Gallows
  
• Peeping Tom
  
• Psycho
  
• West Side Story
  
• The Innocents
  
• Jules et Jim
  
• The Manchurian Candidate
  
• Dry Summer
  
• Jason and the Argonauts
  
• Onibaba
  
• I Am Cuba
  
• Closely Observed Trains
  
• Persona
  
• The Graduate
  
• Belle de jour
  
• Salesman
  
• Once Upon a Time in the West
  
• Kes
  
• Midnight Cowboy
  
• A Clockwork Orange
  
• Harold and Maude
  
• Land of Silence and Darkness
  
• Walkabout
  
• The Harder They Come
  
• The Exorcist
  
• A Woman Under the Influence
  
• Sholay
  
• Xala
  
• Eraserhead
  
• Dawn of the Dead
  
• Days of Heaven
  
• Apocalypse Now
  
• Raging Bull
  
• The Shining
  
• ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
  
• Scarface
  
• Blood Simple
  
• Paris, Texas
  
• Come and See
  
• Brazil
  
• Down by Law
  
• Jesus of Montreal
  
• Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
  
• Hard Boiled
  
• Reservoir Dogs
  
• Naked
  
• Short Cuts
  
• Heavenly Creatures
  
• Drifting Clouds
  
• Breaking the Waves
  
• Taste of Cherry
  
• Werckmeister Harmonies
  
• Amores Perros
  
• In the Mood for Love
  
• Mulholland Drive
  
• Tsotsi
  
• Caché
  
• Ten Canoes
  
• There Will Be Blood
  
• The Secret in Their Eyes
  
• The Kid with a Bike
  
• Holy Motors
  
• Twelve Years a Slave
  
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Black Panther
  
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  
• Nomadland

(Note that Some Like It Hot is the 1959 Billy Wilder classic, Scarface is the 1983 remake, and The Maltese Falcon is the 1941 remake.)