I like movies and I like lists, so I especially like lists of movies, especially iconoclastic lists of movies, like this one by Jonathan Rosenbaum from 1998 (sorted chronologically) … there are a lot terrible movies on this list, but also a few good ones:
Intolerance (1916)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
Foolish Wives (1922)
Nanook of the North (1922)
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Greed (1925)
Sunrise (1927)
The General (1927)
The Crowd (1928)
The Docks of New York (1928)
Lonesome (1929)
Thunderbolt (1929)
Laughter (1930)
Freaks (1932)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
Scarface (1932)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Hallelujah, I’m a Bum! (1933)
Man’s Castle (1933)
Judge Priest (1934)
The Black Cat (1934)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
The Great Garrick (1937)
Christmas in July (1940)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
Cat People (1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
The Seventh Victim (1943)
This Land Is Mine (1943)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Scarlet Street (1945) Gilda (1946)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Force of Evil (1948)
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Stars in My Crown (1950)
The Sound of Fury/Try and Get Me! (1950)
Ace in the Hole/The Big Carnival (1951)
The Steel Helmet (1951)
My Son John (1952)
Park Row (1952)
The Big Sky (1952)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
The Naked Spur (1953)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Track of the Cat (1954)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Phenix City Story (1955)
Bigger Than Life (1956)
The Killing (1956)
While the City Sleeps (1956)
An Affair to Remember (1957)
The Wrong Man (1957)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
The Tarnished Angels (1958)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Shadows (1960)
The Hustler (1961)
The Ladies’ Man (1961)
Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Vinyl (1965)
Point Blank (1967)
The Shooting (1967)
Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son (1969)
Scenes From Under Childhood (1970)
Woodstock (1970)
Zabriskie Point (1970)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971)
Wanda (1971)
Avanti! (1972)
The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1974)
11 x 14 (1976)
Mikey and Nicky (1976)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977)
Eraserhead (1978)
Killer of Sheep (1978)
The Scenic Route (1978)
Real Life (1979)
Love Streams (1984)
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Housekeeping (1987)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
To Sleep With Anger (1990)
That’s Entertainment! III (1994)
Dead Man (1995)