Given below is a list of films that are recommended to watch as a student of allied arts.

Kindly go
through the viewer's discretion advisory on IMDB before viewing the films since it might contain
mature content.

REGIONAL CINEMA

Africa

The Sparrow(1973)

Cairo Station(1958)

Chronicles of the Years of Fire(1975)

The Silences of the Palace(1994)

Tsotsi(2005)

Middle-East

Paradise Now(2005)

Free Zone(2005)

Divine Intervention(2002)

Eastern Europe

Border Street(1948)

Man of Marble(1976)

No End(1984)

The Contant Factor(1980)

Dekalog(1990)

The Falcons(1970)

The Round Up(1965)

Mephisto(1981)

Knife in the Water

Divided We Fall

Man of Marble

Koyla(1996)
The Balkans

With Faith in God(1931)

Three(1965)

I Even Met Happy(1976)

Underground(1995)

Forest of the Hanged(1964)

The Goat Horn(1972)

Yol(1982)

In the Name of the Law(1952)

Russia

The Battleship Potemkin(1925)

Storm Over the Sea(1928)

Earth(1930)

The Color of Pomegranates(1969)

Come and See(1985)

Russian Arc(2002)

The Cranes are Flying(1957)

The New Babylon(1929)

Hamlet(1964)

Andrei Rublev(1966)

The Return(2003)

The Last Train(2003)

Angel on the Right(2002)

The Thief(1997)

The Nordic Countries

The White Slave Trade(1910)

The Phantom Carraige(1921)

Persona(1966)

Festen(1998)

The Parson's Widow(1920)

Witchcraft through Ages(1922)

Day of Wrath(1943)

The 12th Man(2017)

Germany

The Cabinet of Dr.Caligiri(1920)

The Student of Prague(1913)

The Golem(1915)

The Last Laugh(1924)

The Blue Light(1932)

M(1931)

The Tin Drum(1979)

The Bride(1959)

Downfall(2004)

Good Bye Lenin(2003)

Das Boot(1981)

France

Hiroshima Mon Amour(1959)

El Dorado(1921)

A Trip to the Moon(1902)

Wages of Fear(1953)

Mon Oncle(1958)

Au Revoir les Enfants(1987)

Time out(2001)

Amelie(2001)

Enter the Void(2009)

Blue is the Warmest Color(2013)

Italy

The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)

Umberto D.(1952)

La Notte(1961)

The Leopard(1963)

Amarcod(1973)

1900 (1976)

Cinema Paradiso(1988)

Il Postino(1944)

The Best of Youth(2003)

Gomorrah(2008)

Vincere(2009)

UK

The Lady Vanishes(1938)

Brief Encounter(1945)

Odd Man Out(1947)

Black Narcissus(1947)

Whiskey Galore(1949)

The Servant(1963)

If....(1968)

Brazil(1985)

Billy Elloit(2000)
Touching the Void(2003)

The King's Speech(2010)

Spain

Welcome Mr. Marshal(1953)

Death of a Cyclist(1955)

Viridiana(1961)

The Spirit of the Beehive(1973)

Cria Cuervos(1976)

Tierra(1996)

Talk to Her(2002)

The Sea Inside(2004)

Belle Epoque(1992)

Frankenstein(1931)

All about my Mother(1999)

Sex and Lucia(2001)

The Others(2001)

Portugal

Hard Times(1988)

Abraham's Valley(1993)

God's Comedy(1995)

River of Gold(1998)

O Delfim(2002)

Canada

My Uncle Antoine(1971)

The True Nature of Bernadette(1972)

Videodrome(1983)
Exotica(1994)

The Sweet Hereafter(1997)

Spider(2002)

The Barbarian Invasions(2003)

Twist(2003)

Latin America

Maria Candelaria(1944)

La Perla(1947)

Los Olvidados(1950)

I am Cuba(1964)

Memories of Underdevelpoment (1968)

Lucia(1968)

Like Water for Chocolate(1992)

Amores Perros(2000)

Y tu Mama Tambien(2001)

Pan's Labyrinth(2006)

Babel(2006)

Roma(2018)

The Hand in the Trip(1961)

The Hour of the Furnaces(1970)

The Battle of Chille(1975)

Central Station(1998)

City of God(2002)

The Motorcycle Diaries(2004)

The Secret in their Eyes(2010)

China, Hongkong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea

Crows and Sparrows(1949)

Red Sorghum(1987)

A Touch of Zen(1969)

The Way of the Dragon(1972)

Yellow Earth(1984)

City of Sadness(1989)

Raise of the Red Lantern(1991)

Still Life(2006)

Shiri(1999)

The Way Home(2002)

Oasis(2002)

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter,,, and Spring

Secret Sunshine(2007)

Seven Samurai(1954)

Equinox Flower(1958)

Boy(1969)

Tampopo(1985)

Afterlife(1998)

Spirited Away(2001)

BEST DIRECTORS

Woody Allen

Pedro Almodovar

Robert Altman

Theo Angelopoulos
Michelangelo Antonioni

Ingmar Bergman

Bernardo Bertolucci

Robert Bresson

Luis Buneul

Marcel Carne

Charlie Chaplin

Rene Clair

Jean Cocteau

Joel and Ethan Coen

Francis Ford Coppola

Vittorio De Sica

Sergei Eisenstein

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Federico Fellini

Robert Flaherty

John Ford

Milos Forman

Jean-Luc Godard

Werner Herzog

Alfred Hitchcock

John Huston

Miklos Jancso

Elia Kazan

Abbas Kiarostami

Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stanley Kubrick

Akira Kurosawa

Fritz Lang

David Lean

Spike Lee

David Lynch

Louis Malle

Joseph Mankiewicz

Friedrich Murnau

Manoel de Oliviera

Nagisha Oshima

Yasujiro Ozu

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Roman Polanski

Satyajit Ray

Jean Renoir

Eric Rohmer

Roberto Rossellini

Martin Scorsese

Josef von Sternberg

Andrei Tarkovsky

Andzrej Zulawski

Jacques Tati

Lars Von Trier

Agnes Varda
Francois Truffaut

Orson Welles

Wim Wenders

Billy Wilder

Wong Kar Wai

Majid Majidi

David Cronenberg

David Fincher

Gasper Noe

Alfonso Cuaron

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

David Fincher

Christopher Nolan

Luca Guadagnino

RECOMENDED FILMS

The Birth of a Nation

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Noseratu

Nanook of the North

The Battleship Potemkin

Metropolis

Napoleon

The passion of the Joan of Arc

An Andalusian Dog

All Quite on the Western Front

City Lights

Olympia

The Grapes of Wrath

Citizen Kane

To be or Not to be

Bicycle Thieves

The Third Man

The Seventh seal

Vertigo

Rashomon

Tokyo Story

Pather Panchali

La Dolce Vita

Breathless

Dr.Strangelove

The Battle of Algiers

Solaris

The Conformist

The Godfather

Aguirre, Wrath of God

The Deer Hunter

Bladerunner

Wings of Desire

Come and See

Heimat

Cinema Paradiso
Irreversible

Three Colors; Blue, White and Red

Through the Olive Trees

In the Mood for Love

City of God

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind

Children of Man

The Tree of Life