1. 8 1/2 
(1963, 138 Minutes, Black & White)
Federico Fellini's indisputable masterpiece certainly belongs on the Top Ten Best Films of All Time list. It is a magnificently textured work, a triumph of art and imagi...
2. Accattone
(1961, 116 Minutes, Black & White)
In one of the most significant directorial debuts of the sixties, Pasolini burst onto the international scene with this startling film. Creating his own style of neo-rea...
3. Alexander Nevsky
(1938, 97 Minutes, Black & White)
An essential film of the Russian Cinema, this Eisenstein classic features some of the most beautiful imagery ever put on celluloid, with the grandest music score to match...
4. Battleship Potemkin
(1924, 74 Minutes, Black & White)
If one were to assemble a collection of the greatest films of all time, with the stipulation that the collection be limited to only ten films, POTEMKIN would most certa...
5. Bernadette of Lourdes
(1961, 105 Minutes, Black & White)
The story of Saint Bernadette, who at the age of 14 had visions of the "Holy Mother" and attributed inexplicable events she experienced at the grotto of Massabi...
6. Bicycle Thief, The
(1948, 90 Minutes, Black & White)
Another must-have film to head anyone's list of the Top Ten Best Films of All Time. The Bicycle Thief ranks as one of the most important films to come out of post World ...
7. Diamonds of the Night
(1964, 82 Minutes, Black & White)
Derived from Arnost Lustig’s novella, this searing film by noted Czech New Wave director, Jan Nemec, is set in Czechoslovakia during World War II. Ladislave Jansky and A...
8. El (This Strange Passion)
(1952, 100 Minutes, Black & White)
A black comedy from Bunuel’s Mexican period. An otherwise respectable man has a fatal defect, insane jealousy. When Don Francisco, in his early forties, falls in love w...
9. Exterminating Angel, The
(1962, 95 Minutes, Black & White)
Georges Sadoul, author of Dictionary of Film, thought that the key to Bunuel’s great follow-up film to Viridiana is best summed up in the Mexican proverb: “After 24 hours...
10. General Della Rovere
(1960, 139 Minutes, Black & White)
Vittorio De Sica plays a shady ne’er-do-well in wartime Italy. He is caught taking money from families of imprisoned Italians and is arrested by the Germans. In prison ...
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