100 Films of Kurosawa's Choice

Taken from the 1999 book A Dream Is a Genius, based on conversations between Kurosawa Akira and his daughter Kazuko.

• Broken Blossoms (1919)
• The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)
• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
• The Gold Rush (1925)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (1928, Epstein)
• Un Chien Andalou (1929)
• Earth (1930)
• Morocco (1930)
• Der Kongress Tanzt (1931)
• The Threepenny Opera (1931)
• Lover Divine (1933)
• Our Neighbour (1934)
• The Thin Man (1934)
• Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935)
• Capricious Young Man (1936)
• La Grande Illusion (1937)
• Stella Dallas (1937)
• Composition Class (1938)
• Ninotchka (1939)
• The Big Sleep (1946)
• It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
• Ivan the Terrible (1944-1946)
• My Darling Clementine (1946)
• Bicycle Thieves (1948)
• The Green Mountains (1949)
• Late Spring (1949)
• The Third Man (1949)
• Orpheus (1950)
• Carmen Comes Home (1951)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
• The Life of Oharu (1952)
• Thérèse Raquin (1953)
• Godzilla (1954)
• La Strada (1954)
• Viaggio in Italia (1954)
• Daddy Long Legs (1955)
• Floating Clouds (1955)
• Pather Panchali (1955)
• The Proud Ones (1956)
• The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957)
• The Young Lions (1958)
• Ben-Hur (1959)
• The Four Hundred Blows (1959)
• Les Cousins (1959)
• À Bout de Souffle (1960)
• Her Brother (1960)
• Plein Soleil (1960)
• Stowaway in the Sky (1960)
• Zazie dans le Métro (1960)
• Last Year in Marienbad (1961)
• The Long Absence (1961)
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
• The Big Snatch (1963)
• The Birds (1963)
• The Red Desert (1964)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• In the Heat of the Night (1967)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969)
• MASH (1970)
• French Connection (1971)
• Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
• Solaris (1972)
• The Day of the Jackal (1973)
• The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
• Conversation Piece (1974)
• The Godfather: Part II (1974)
• Sandakan 8 (1974)
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• The Travelling Players (1975)
• Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
• Annie Hall (1977)
• Padre Padrone (1977)
• An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano (1977)
• A Distant Cry from Spring (1980)
• Gloria (1980)
• Fanny and Alexander (1982)
• Fitzcarraldo (1982)
• The King of Comedy (1982)
• La Traviata (1982)
• Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
• The Killing Fields (1984)
• Paris, Texas (1984)
• Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
• A Summer at Grandpa's (1984)
• The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
• When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
• Witness (1985)
• Bagdad Cafe (1987)
• The Dead (1987)
• The Whales of August (1987)
• Where Is My Friend's House? (1987)
• My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
• Running on Empty (1988)
• Buddies (1989)
• La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
• Hana-Bi (1997)