America, America
Call it star-spangled skepticism—these are films that wrestle with the idea and reality of America.
| Spine # | Title | Director | Country | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1301 |
|
The Man Who Wasn’t There | Joel Coen | United States, | 2001 |
| 919 |
|
Dead Man | Jim Jarmusch | United States, | 1995 |
| 1286 |
|
Nightmare Alley | Guillermo del Toro | United States, | 2021 |
| 1283 |
|
A History of Violence | David Cronenberg | United States, | 2005 |
| 898 |
|
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | David Lynch | United States, | 1992 |
| 1277 |
|
Born in Flames | Lizzie Borden | United States, | 1983 |
| 1270 |
|
Carnal Knowledge | Mike Nichols | United States, | 1971 |
| 1262 |
|
Killer of Sheep | Charles Burnett | United States, | 1977 |
| 959 |
|
In the Heat of the Night | Norman Jewison | United States, | 1967 |
| 1258 |
|
Prince of Broadway | Sean Baker | United States, | 2008 |
| 1255 |
|
Night Moves | Arthur Penn | United States, | 1975 |
| 1243 |
|
No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | United States, | 2007 |
| 501 |
|
Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | Germany, | 1984 |
| 1239 |
|
Scarface | Howard Hawks | United States, | 1932 |
| 1238 |
|
Gummo | Harmony Korine | United States, | 1997 |
| 1235 |
|
Happiness | Todd Solondz | United States, | 1998 |
| 1233 |
|
Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy | |||
| 1231 |
|
Real Life | Albert Brooks | United States, | 1979 |
| 1227 |
|
Risky Business | Paul Brickman | United States, | 1983 |
| 1224 |
|
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | Sam Peckinpah | United States, | 1973 |
| 1223 |
|
The Underground Railroad | Barry Jenkins | United States, | 2021 |
| 977 |
|
Blue Velvet | David Lynch | United States, | 1986 |
| 175 |
|
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Terry Gilliam | United States, | 1998 |
| 1213 |
|
To Die For | Gus Van Sant | United States, | 1995 |
| 1210 |
|
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Laura Poitras | United States, | 2022 |
| 1209 |
|
Nothing but a Man | Michael Roemer | United States, | 1964 |
| 827 |
|
McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman | United States, | 1971 |
| 1205 |
|
Mudbound | Dee Rees | United States, | 2017 |
| 1202 |
|
Lone Star | John Sayles | United States, | 1996 |
| 549 |
|
The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich | United States, | 1971 |
| 1196 |
|
Nanny | Nikyatu Jusu | United States, | 2022 |
| 1190 |
|
Drylongso | Cauleen Smith | United States, | 1998 |
| 1187 |
|
One False Move | Carl Franklin | United States, | 1992 |
| 1184 |
|
The Watermelon Woman | Cheryl Dunye | United States, | 1996 |
| 1180 |
|
Thelma & Louise | Ridley Scott | United States, | 1991 |
| 1179 |
|
Targets | Peter Bogdanovich | United States, | 1968 |
| 1173 |
|
Hollywood Shuffle | Robert Townsend | United States, | 1987 |
| 336 |
|
Dazed and Confused | Richard Linklater | United States, | 1993 |
| 1167 |
|
Imitation of Life | John M. Stahl | United States, | 1934 |
| 1160 |
|
Malcolm X | Spike Lee | United States, | 1992 |
| 1140 |
|
Buck and the Preacher | Sidney Poitier | United States, | 1972 |
| 1130 |
|
Shaft | Gordon Parks | United States, | 1971 |
| 1124 |
|
Chan Is Missing | Wayne Wang | United States, | 1982 |
| 1127 |
|
Mississippi Masala | Mira Nair | United States, | 1991 |
| 423 |
|
Walker | Alex Cox | United States, | 1987 |
| 1106 |
|
One Night in Miami . . . | Regina King | United States, | 2020 |
| 1095 |
|
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song | Melvin Van Peebles | United States, | 1971 |
| 1094 |
|
Watermelon Man | Melvin Van Peebles | United States, | 1970 |
| 1062 |
|
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese | Martin Scorsese | United States, | 2019 |
| 1061 |
|
Minding the Gap | Bing Liu | United States, | 2018 |
| 1058 |
|
The Irishman | Martin Scorsese | United States, | 2019 |
| 545 |
|
Easy Rider | Dennis Hopper | United States, | 1969 |
| 887 |
|
Lost in America | Albert Brooks | United States, | 1985 |
| 821 |
|
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick | United States, | 1964 |
| 118 |
|
Sullivan’s Travels | Preston Sturges | United States, | 1941 |
| 334 |
|
Harlan County USA | Barbara Kopple | United States, | 1976 |
| 928 |
|
Bowling for Columbine | Michael Moore | United States, | 2002 |
|
. . . And the Pursuit of Happiness | Louis Malle | France, | 1986 | |
| 803 |
|
The Manchurian Candidate | John Frankenheimer | United States, | 1962 |
| 945 |
|
A Raisin in the Sun | Daniel Petrie | United States, | 1961 |
| 826 |
|
The New World | Terrence Malick | United States, | 2005 |
| 97 |
|
Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | United States, | 1989 |
|
The Emigrants/The New Land | ||||
| 114 |
|
My Man Godfrey | Gregory La Cava | United States, | 1936 |
| 952 |
|
The Magnificent Ambersons | Orson Welles | United States, | 1942 |
| 951 |
|
True Stories | David Byrne | United States, | 1986 |
|
Mr. Freedom | William Klein | France, | 1969 | |
| 258 |
|
Tanner ’88 | Robert Altman | United States, | 1988 |
| 320 |
|
Young Mr. Lincoln | John Ford | United States, | 1939 |
| 414 |
|
Two-Lane Blacktop | Monte Hellman | United States, | 1971 |
|
God’s Country | Louis Malle | United States, | 1985 | |
| 683 |
|
Nashville | Robert Altman | United States, | 1975 |
| 636 |
|
Heaven’s Gate | Michael Cimino | United States, | 1980 |
| 514 |
|
Ride with the Devil | Ang Lee | United States, | 1999 |
|
Babo 73 | Robert Downey Sr. | United States, | 1964 | |
| 481 |
|
Made in U.S.A | Jean-Luc Godard | France, | 1966 |
| 658 |
|
Medium Cool | Haskell Wexler | United States, | 1969 |
| 562 |
|
Blow Out | Brian De Palma | United States, | 1981 |
|
Native Land | Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand | United States, | 1942 | |
| 566 |
|
Insignificance | Nicolas Roeg | United Kingdom, | 1985 |
| 1031 |
|
Wildlife | Paul Dano | United States, | 2018 |