First Films
Cinema history is dotted with thunderous works of art that announced their makers’ brilliance right out of the gate.
Spine # | Title | Director | Country | Year | |
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691 | Thief | Michael Mann | United States, | 1981 | |
1252 | Performance | Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg | United Kingdom, | 1970 | |
551 | Cronos | Guillermo del Toro | Mexico, | 1993 | |
1247 | Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling | Richard Pryor | United States, | 1986 | |
1238 | Gummo | Harmony Korine | United States, | 1997 | |
The Seventh Victim | Mark Robson | United States, | 1943 | ||
654 | Repo Man | Alex Cox | United States, | 1984 | |
1231 | Real Life | Albert Brooks | United States, | 1979 | |
1230 | Not a Pretty Picture | Martha Coolidge | United States, | 1975 | |
Brief Encounters | Kira Muratova | Ukraine, | 1967 | ||
1227 | Risky Business | Paul Brickman | United States, | 1983 | |
Orlando, My Political Biography | Paul B. Preciado | France, | 2023 | ||
1220 | Bound | Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski | United States, | 1996 | |
1219 | Girlfight | Karyn Kusama | United States, | 2000 | |
1209 | Nothing but a Man | Michael Roemer | United States, | 1964 | |
Je tu il elle | Chantal Akerman | Belgium, | 1975 | ||
Saute ma ville | Chantal Akerman | Belgium, | 1968 | ||
834 | Blood Simple | Joel Coen | United States, | 1984 | |
783 | Pather Panchali | Satyajit Ray | India, | 1955 | |
Bim, the Little Donkey | Albert Lamorisse | France, | 1951 | ||
428 | Blast of Silence | Allen Baron | United States, | 1961 | |
1196 | Nanny | Nikyatu Jusu | United States, | 2022 | |
1190 | Drylongso | Cauleen Smith | United States, | 1998 | |
The Baby Carriage | Bo Widerberg | Sweden, | 1963 | ||
408 | Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard | France, | 1960 | |
1184 | The Watermelon Woman | Cheryl Dunye | United States, | 1996 | |
1183 | Medicine for Melancholy | Barry Jenkins | United States, | 2008 | |
Accattone | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy, | 1961 | ||
1179 | Targets | Peter Bogdanovich | United States, | 1968 | |
1173 | Hollywood Shuffle | Robert Townsend | United States, | 1987 | |
80 | The Element of Crime | Lars von Trier | Denmark, | 1984 | |
Loving Couples | Mai Zetterling | Sweden, | 1964 | ||
The Seventh Continent | Michael Haneke | Austria, | 1989 | ||
1154 | Eve’s Bayou | Kasi Lemmons | United States, | 1997 | |
909 | Night of the Living Dead | George A. Romero | United States, | 1968 | |
1151 | Sound of Metal | Darius Marder | United States, | 2019 | |
1148 | Kalpana | Uday Shankar | India, | 1948 | |
1146 | Muna moto | Dikongué-Pipa | Cameroon, | 1975 | |
1145 | Chess of the Wind | Mohammad Reza Aslani | Iran, | 1976 | |
1143 | Sambizanga | Sarah Maldoror | Angola, | 1972 | |
1141 | Faya dayi | Jessica Beshir | Ethiopia, | 2021 | |
1140 | Buck and the Preacher | Sidney Poitier | United States, | 1972 | |
1138 | Daddy Longlegs | Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie | United States, | 2009 | |
1137 | Frownland | Ronald Bronstein | United States, | 2007 | |
920 | The Virgin Suicides | Sofia Coppola | United States, | 1999 | |
1128 | Farewell Amor | Ekwa Msangi | United States, | 2020 | |
1125 | The Funeral | Juzo Itami | Japan, | 1984 | |
1121 | Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) | Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri | Nigeria, | 2020 | |
1117 | love jones | Theodore Witcher | United States, | 1997 | |
1108 | The Celebration | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark, | 1998 | |
1106 | One Night in Miami . . . | Regina King | United States, | 2020 | |
1105 | Menace II Society | Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes | United States, | 1993 | |
1104 | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | United States, | 1941 | |
1083 | Pariah | Dee Rees | United States, | 2011 | |
107 | Mona Lisa | Neil Jordan | United Kingdom, | 1986 | |
1093 | The Story of a Three Day Pass | Melvin Van Peebles | United States, | 1967 | |
1061 | Minding the Gap | Bing Liu | United States, | 2018 | |
1060 | Amores perros | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Mexico, | 2000 | |
685 | Touki bouki | Djibril Diop Mambéty | Senegal, | 1973 | |
1031 | Wildlife | Paul Dano | United States, | 2018 | |
1026 | Me and You and Everyone We Know | Miranda July | United States, | 2005 | |
1018 | Paris Is Burning | Jennie Livingston | United States, | 1990 | |
980 | La vie de Jésus | Bruno Dumont | France, | 1997 | |
951 | True Stories | David Byrne | United States, | 1986 | |
941 | Smithereens | Susan Seidelman | United States, | 1982 | |
938 | sex, lies, and videotape | Steven Soderbergh | United States, | 1989 | |
936 | Bull Durham | Ron Shelton | United States, | 1988 | |
335 | Elevator to the Gallows | Louis Malle | France, | 1958 | |
902 | Desert Hearts | Donna Deitch | United States, | 1985 | |
896 | The Lure | Agnieszka Smoczyńska | Poland, | 2015 | |
5 | The 400 Blows | François Truffaut | France, | 1959 | |
545 | Easy Rider | Dennis Hopper | United States, | 1969 | |
802 | Paris Belongs to Us | Jacques Rivette | France, | 1961 | |
799 | The Kid | Charles Chaplin | United States, | 1921 | |
787 | Jellyfish Eyes | Takashi Murakami | Japan, | 2013 | |
766 | Here Is Your Life | Jan Troell | Sweden, | 1966 | |
196 | Hiroshima mon amour | Alain Resnais | France, | 1959 | |
743 | La Ciénaga | Lucrecia Martel | Argentina, | 2001 | |
730 | Jour de fête | Jacques Tati | France, | 1949 | |
725 | Eraserhead | David Lynch | United States, | 1977 | |
152 | George Washington | David Gordon Green | United States, | 2000 | |
Love Is Colder Than Death | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Germany, | 1969 | ||
658 | Medium Cool | Haskell Wexler | United States, | 1969 | |
The Suitor | Pierre Etaix | France, | 1963 | ||
651 | Badlands | Terrence Malick | United States, | 1973 | |
638 | Following | Christopher Nolan | United Kingdom, | 1999 | |
640 | Koyaanisqatsi | Godfrey Reggio | United States, | 1983 | |
Madonna of the Seven Moons | Arthur Crabtree | United Kingdom, | 1945 | ||
Wild 90 | Norman Mailer | United States, | 1968 | ||
616 | Shallow Grave | Danny Boyle | United Kingdom, | 1994 | |
Babo 73 | Robert Downey Sr. | United States, | 1964 | ||
611 | Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze | United States, | 1999 | |
604 | In Which We Serve | David Lean and Noël Coward | United Kingdom, | 1942 | |
596 | Three Outlaw Samurai | Hideo Gosha | Japan, | 1964 | |
597 | Tiny Furniture | Lena Dunham | United States, | 2010 | |
591 | 12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet | United States, | 1957 | |
580 | Le beau Serge | Claude Chabrol | France, | 1958 | |
À propos de Nice | Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman | France, | 1930 | ||
569 | People on Sunday | Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer | Germany, | 1930 | |
547 | Drive, He Said | Jack Nicholson | United States, | 1970 | |
544 | Head | Bob Rafelson | United States, | 1968 | |
548 | A Safe Place | Henry Jaglom | United States, | 1971 | |
541 | The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | United States, | 1955 | |
539 | House | Nobuhiko Obayashi | Japan, | 1977 | |
Warrendale | Allan King | Canada, | 1967 | ||
Crisis | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden, | 1946 | ||
534 | L’enfance nue | Maurice Pialat | France, | 1968 | |
532 | Louie Bluie | Terry Zwigoff | United States, | 1985 | |
41 | Henry V | Laurence Olivier | United Kingdom, | 1944 | |
165 | Man Bites Dog | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoit Poelvoorde | Belgium, | 1992 | |
162 | Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay | United Kingdom, | 1999 | |
Sanshiro Sugata | Akira Kurosawa | Japan, | 1943 | ||
Major Barbara | Gabriel Pascal | United Kingdom, | 1941 | ||
504 | Hunger | Steve McQueen | Ireland, | 2008 | |
Hotel Monterey | Chantal Akerman | United States, | 1972 | ||
Man Is Not a Bird | Dušan Makavejev | Yugoslavia, | 1965 | ||
I Am Waiting | Koreyoshi Kurahara | Japan, | 1957 | ||
450 | Bottle Rocket | Wes Anderson | United States, | 1996 | |
215 | Knife in the Water | Roman Polanski | Poland, | 1962 | |
436 | Before the Rain | Milcho Manchevski | Republic of Macedonia, | 1994 | |
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? | William Klein | France, | 1966 | ||
419 | La Pointe Courte | Agnès Varda | France, | 1955 | |
417 | This Sporting Life | Lindsay Anderson | United Kingdom, | 1963 | |
407 | Mala Noche | Gus Van Sant | United States, | 1985 | |
875 | Mysterious Object at Noon | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand, | 2000 | |
399 | House of Games | David Mamet | United States, | 1987 | |
I Shot Jesse James | Samuel Fuller | United States, | 1949 | ||
397 | Ivan’s Childhood | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union, | 1962 | |
362 | Border Radio | Allison Anders, Dean Lent, and Kurt Voss | United States, | 1987 | |
360 | Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes by William Greaves | William Greaves | United States, | ||
356 | Sweetie | Jane Campion | New Zealand, | 1989 | |
354 | Clean, Shaven | Lodge Kerrigan | United States, | 1994 | |
353 | Sólo con tu pareja | Alfonso Cuarón | Mexico, | 1991 | |
351 | The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor Erice | Spain, | 1973 | |
349 | Kicking and Screaming | Noah Baumbach | United States, | 1995 | |
334 | Harlan County USA | Barbara Kopple | United States, | 1976 | |
333 | Fists in the Pocket | Marco Bellocchio | Italy, | 1965 | |
326 | Metropolitan | Whit Stillman | United States, | 1990 | |
283 | A Generation | Andrzej Wajda | Poland, | 1955 | |
279 | Young Törless | Volker Schlöndorff | Germany, | 1966 | |
251 | Shadows | John Cassavetes | United States, | 1959 | |
77 | And God Created Woman | Roger Vadim | France, | 1956 |