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“SOME IMPORTANT FILMS”
For the 100th Anniversary of Cinema
Pontifical Council for Social Communications, 1995
Religion
- Andrei Rublev Andrei Tarkowsky (1969, USSR)
- The Mission Roland Joffé (1986, UK)
- La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc) Carl T. Dreyer (1928, France)
- La vie et la passion de Jésus Christ (Life and Passion of Christ)Ferdinand Zecca and Lucien Nonguet (1905, France)
- Identified on the Vatican film list as La Passion Pathé
- Francesco, giullare di Dio (The Flowers of St. Francis / Francis, God’s Jester) Roberto Rossellini (1950, Italy)
- Il vangelo secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to Matthew) Pier Paolo Pasolini (1964, France/Italy)
- Thérèse Alain Cavalier (1986, France)
- Ordet (The Word) Carl T. Dreyer (1955, Denmark)
- Offret — Sacrificatio (The Sacrifice) Andrei Tarkowsky (1986, Sweden/UK/France)
- Francesco Liliana Cavani (1989, Italy/Germany)
- Ben-Hur [A Tale of the Christ] William Wyler (1959, USA)
- Babettes gæstebud (Babette’s Feast) Gabriel Axel (1987, Denmark)
- Nazarín Luis Buñuel (1958, Mexico)
- Monsieur Vincent Maurice Cloche (1947, France)
- A Man for All Seasons Fred Zinnemann (1966, UK)
Values
- Gandhi Richard Attenborough (1982, UK/USA/India)
- Intolerance D. W. Griffith (1916, USA)
- Dekalog (The Decalogue) Krzysztof Kieslowski (1987, Poland)
- Identified on the Vatican film list as Il Decalogo
- Au Revoir, Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children) Louis Malle (1987, France)
- Dersu Uzala Akira Kurosawa (1974, Japan)
- L’albero degli zoccoli (The Tree of the Wooden Clogs) Ermanno Olmi (1978, Italy/France)
- Roma, città aperta (Open City) Roberto Rossellini (1946, Italy)
- Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) Ingmar Bergman (1957, Sweden)
- Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal) Ingmar Bergman (1957, Sweden)
- Chariots of Fire Hugh Hudson (1981, UK)
- Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) Vittorio de Sica (1948, Italy)
- It’s a Wonderful Life Frank Capra (1946, USA)
- Schindler’s List Steven Spielberg (1993, USA)
- On the Waterfront Elia Kazan (1954, USA)
- Biruma No Tategoto (The Burmese Harp) Kon Ichikawa (1956, Japan)
Art
- 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick (1968, UK/USA)
- La Strada Federico Fellini (1954, Italy)
- Citizen Kane Orson Welles (1941, USA)
- Metropolis Fritz Lang (1927, Germany)
- Modern Times Charlie Chaplin (1936, USA)
- Napoléon Abel Gance (1927, Italy)
- 8½ Federico Fellini (1963, Italy)
- La grande illusion (Grand Illusion) Jean Renoir (1937, France)
- Nosferatu F. W. Murnau (1922, Germany)
- Stagecoach John Ford (1939, USA)
- Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) Luchino Visconti (1963, Italy/France)
- Fantasia (1940, USA)
- The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming (1939, USA)
- The Lavender Hill Mob Charles Crichton (1951, UK)
- Little Women George Cukor (1933, USA)
