TCM’s The Essential Directors

Must-See Movies
A Dog’s Life
The Kid
A Woman of Paris
The Gold Rush
City Lights
Modern Times
The Great Dictator
Limelight

Must-See Movies
The Cheat
Male and Female
The Ten Commandments
The King of Kings
Cleopatra
Samson and Delilah
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Ten Commandments

Must-See Movies
The Birth of a Nation
Intolerance
Hearst of the World
Broken Blossoms
Way Down East
Orphans of the Storm
Isn’t Life Wonderful

Must-See Movies
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler
Metropolis
M
Fury
You Only Live Once
Scarlet Street
The Big Heat
While the City Sleeps

Must-See Movies
Within Our Gates
The Symbol of the Conquered
Body and Soul
The Exile
Ten Minutes to Live
Lying Lips

Must-See Movies
The Big Parade
The Crowd
Show People
Hallelujah
The Champ
Stella Dallas
The Citadel
Duel in the Sun

Must-See Movies
Blind Husbands
Foolish Wives
Greed
The Merry Widow
The Wedding March
Queen Kelly

Must-See Movies
Suspense
Hypocrites
Where Are My Children?
Shoes
The Dumb Girl of Portici
The Blot

Must-See Movies
The Wild Party
Merrily We Go to Hell
Christopher Strong
Craig’s Wife
The Bride Wore Red
Dance, Girl, Dance

Must-See Movies
Flesh and the Devil
Anna Christie
A Free Soul
Anna Karenina
National Velvet
The Yearling
Intruder in the Dust

Must-See Movies
Platinum Blonde
Lady for a Day
It Happened One Night
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Lost Horizon
You Can’t Take It with You
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
It’s a Wonderful Life
State of the Union

Must-See Movies
The Virginian
Red Dust
Captains Courageous
The Wizard of Oz
Gone with the Wind
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A Guy Named Joe

Must-See Movies
Scarface
Bringing Up Baby
His Girl Friday
Sergeant York
To Have and Have Not
The Big Sleep
Red River
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Rio Bravo

Must-See Movies
Little Caesar
I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Gold Diggers of 1933
Waterloo Bridge
Random Harvest
Quo Vadis
The Bad Seed
Gypsy

Must-See Movies
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
The Love Parade
Trouble in Paradise
The Merry Widow
Ninotchka
The Shop Around the Corner
To Be or Not to Be
Heaven Can Wait

Must-See Movies
Applause
City Streets
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Love Me Tonight
Queen Christina
Becky Sharp
Golden Boy
The Mark of Zorro

Must-See Movies
Duck Soup
Ruggles of Red Gap
Make Way for Tomorrow
The Awful Truth
Love Affair
My Favorite Wife
Going My Way
An Affair to Remember

Must-See Movies
Trader Horn
Tarzan the Ape Man
Manhattan Melodrama
The Thin Man
Naughty Marietta
San Francisco
After the Thin Man
Marie Antoinette
Journey for Margaret

Must-See Movies
Underworld
The Last Command
The Blue Angel
Morocco
Shanghai Express
Blonde Venus
The Scarlet Empress
The Shanghai Gesture

Must-See Movies
Dinner at Eight
Camille
The Philadelphia Story
Gaslight
A Double Life
Adam’s Rib
Born Yesterday
A Star is Born
My Fair Lady

Must-See Movies
Angels with Dirty Faces
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Privates Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
The Sea Wolf
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Casablanca
Mildred Pierce
Life with Father
White Christmas

Must-See Movies
Stagecoach
The Grapes of Wrath
How Green Was My Valley
The Quiet Man
Mister Roberts
The Searchers
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
How the West Was Won
7 Women

Must-See Movies
The Maltese Falcon
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Key Largo
The Asphalt Jungle
The African Queen
Moby Dick
The Misfits
The Night of the Iguana
The Man Who Would Be King

Must-See Movies
Cabin in the Sky
Meet Me in St. Louis
The Clock
Father of the Bride
An American in Paris
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Band Wagon
Lust for Life
Gigi

Must-See Movies
Swing Time
Gunga Din
Woman of the Year
The More the Merrier
I Remember Mama
A Place in the Sun
Shane
Giant
The Greatest Story Ever Told

Must-See Movies
The Great Moment
The Lady Eve
Sullivan’s Travels
The Palm Beach Story
The Miracle at Morgan’s Creek
Hail the Conquering Hero
Unfaithfully Yours

Must-See Movies
Citizen Kane
The Magnificent Ambersons
Journey into Fear
The Lady from Shanghai
Othello
Touch of Evil
The Trial
Chimes at Midnight

Must-See Movies
Dodsworth
The Letter
The Little Foxes
Mrs. Miniver
The Best Years of Our Lives
Roman Holiday
Ben-Hur
The Collector
Funny Girl

Must-See Movies
Rebecca
Shadow of a Doubt
Notorious
Strangers on a Train
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Vertigo
Psycho
The Birds

Must-See Movies
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Streetcar Named Desire
On the Waterfront
East of Eden
Baby Doll
A Face in the Crowd
Wild River
Splendor in the Grass
America America

Must-See Movies
Outrage
Hard, Fast and Beautiful
The Hitch-Hiker
The Bigamist
The Trouble with Angels

Must-See Movies
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
A Letter to Three Wives
No Way Out
All About Eve
Julius Caesar
The Barefoot Contessa
Guys and Dolls
Cleopatra
Sleuth

Must-See Movies
Laura
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Angel Face
Carmen Jones
The Man with the Golden Arm
Anatomy of a Murder
Exodus
Advise & Consent

Must-See Movies
They Live by Night
In a Lonely Place
Born to Be Bad
On Dangerous Ground
Johnny Guitar
Rebel Without a Cause
Party Girl
King of Kings

Must-See Movies
Lured
Magnificent Obsession
All That Heaven Allows
Written on the Wind
Battle Hymn
The Tarnished Angels
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Imitation of Life

Must-See Movies
Double Indemnity
The Lost Weekend
Sunset Boulevard
Ace in the Hole
Stalag 17
Sabrina
The Seven Year Itch
Some Like It Hot
The Apartment

Must-See Movies
Born to Kill
The Set-Up
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Executive Suite
I Want to Live!
West Side Story
The Haunting
The Sound of Music
The Sand Pebbles

Must-See Movies
The Search
High Noon
From Here to Eternity
Oklahoma!
The Nun’s Story
A Man for All Seasons
The Day of the Jackal
Julia

Must-See Movies
Operation Petticoat
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Experiment in Terror
Days of Wine and Roses
The Pink Panther
A Shot in the Dark
The Great Race
The Party
Victor/Victoria

Must-See Movies
The Defiant Ones
On the Beach
Inherit the Wind
Judgment at Nuremberg
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Ship of Fools
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Must-See Movies
The Killing
Paths of Glory
Spartacus
Lolita
Dr. Strangelove
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket

Must-See Movies
Blithe Spirit
Brief Encounter
Great Expectations
Summertime
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia
Doctor Zhivago
A Passage to India

Must-See Movies
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The Graduate
Catch-22
Carnal Knowledge
Silkwood
Biloxi Blues
Working Girl
The Birdcage

Must-See Movies
Knife in the Water
Repulsion
Rosemary’s Baby
Chinatown
Tess
Frantic
The Pianist
The Ghost Writer

Must-See Movies
Play It Again, Sam
Sleeper
Annie Hall
Zelig
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Hannah and Her Sisters
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Bullets Over Broadway
Midnight in Paris

Must-See Movies
MASH
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Long Goodbye
California Split
Nashville
Vincent & Theo
The Player
Short Cuts
Gosford Park

Must-See Movies
The Landlord
Harold and Maude
The Last Detail
Shampoo
Bound for Glory
Coming Home
Being There

Must-See Movies
The Last Picture Show
What’s Up, Doc?
Paper Moon
Nickelodeon
They All Laughed
Mask
Noises Off

Must-See Movies
The Producers
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Silent Movie
High Anxiety
Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Must-See Movies
The Godfather
The Conversation
The Godfather Pt II
Apocalypse Now
The Outsiders
The Cotton Club
The Godfather Pt III
Bram Stoker’s Dracula