This list contains the favorite movies of movie critic Jonathan Rosenbaum who writes for the Chicago Reader. The movies span virtually every decade, and include many an obscure movie.
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Number of Movies
763
Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
Exiting the Factory
A Corner in Wheat
D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery 1909-1913
The Avenging Conscience
Les vampires
Charlie Chaplin's Burlesque on Carmen
Judex
One A.M.
Broken Blossoms
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Oyster Princess
True Heart Susie
The Last of the Mohicans
The Doll
Cops
Between Two Worlds
The Kid
Nanook of the North
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Foolish Wives
Nosferatu
Orphans Of The Storm
The Smiling Madame Beudet
Three Ages
Ballet Mechanique
Greed
L'inhumaine
The Last Laugh
Michael
Peter Pan
Sherlock Jr
Strike
The Thief of Bagdad
The Big Parade
Chess Fever
The Gold Rush
Master of the House
The Merry Widow
Metropolis
Battleship Potemkin
Seven Chances
Faust
A Page of Madness
The General
The Three-Sided Mirror
It
October (Ten Days That Shook the World)
The Ring
7th Heaven
Sunrise
Money
The Cameraman
Un Chien Andalou
La chute de la maison Usher
The Crowd
The Docks of New York
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Little Matchgirl
Queen Kelly
Spies
Two Tars
Arsenal
Blackmail
Hallelujah
Lonesome
The Love Parade
Man with a Movie Camera
Thunderbolt
L'Age d'Or
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Blue Angel
Earth
Her Man
Monte Carlo
Under the Roofs of Paris
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Champ, The
The Bitch
La chienne
City Lights
Dishonored
M
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Freaks
Horse Feathers
Land Without Bread
I Was Born, But ...
Love Me Tonight
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Me and My Gal
The Music Box
The Old Dark House
Scarface
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
Trouble in Paradise
Vampyr
Zero for Conduct
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Bombshell
Deserter
Duck Soup
Passing Fancy
L'Atalante
The Black Cat
Cleopatra
The Gay Divorcee
Judge Priest
Our Daily Bread
The Scarlet Empress
Toni
Twentieth Century
Frontier
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Ruggles of Red Gap
The Scoundrel
Sylvia Scarlet
The 39 Steps
Devil Doll, The
Fury
Modern Times
Le fils unique
Prisoner of Shark Island, The
Show Boat
Make Way for Tomorrow
You Only Live Once
Alexander Nevsky
The Lady Vanishes
Olympia
Olympia II - Fest der Schönheit
You and Me
Love Affair
Only Angels Have Wings
The Rules of the Game
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
The Wizard of Oz
Christmas in July
Foreign Correspondent
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Dictator
The Long Voyage Home
Pinocchio
Rebecca
Shop Around the Corner, The
The Thief of Bagdad
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Citizen Kane
Dumbo
Hellzapoppin'
The Maltese Falcon
Man Hunt
The Strawberry Blonde
Suspicion
Cat People
The 47 Ronin
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Palm Beach Story
Sullivan's Travels
Les visiteurs du soir
Day of Wrath
Dumb-Hounded
Heaven Can Wait
I Walked With A Zombie
The Leopard Man
Red Hot Riding Hood
This Land Is Mine
Who Killed Who?
Brief Encounter
Double Indemnity
Children of Paradise
Laura
Meet Me in St. Louis
To Have and Have Not
The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks
Betrayed
When Strangers Marry
The Clock
Les dames du Bois de Boulogne
Duel in the Sun
Scarlet Street
The Three Caballeros
The Best Years of Our Lives
Gilda
The man I Love
A Matter of Life and Death
My Darling Clementine
Notorious
Paisan
Shoeshine
Dark Passage
Germany Year Zero
Monsieur Verdoux
Odd Man Out
Out of the Past
Quai des Orfèvres
Bicycle Thieves
Force of Evil
A Hen in the Wind
The Lady from Shanghai
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Moonrise
The Pirate
The Red Shoes
Rope
Spring in a Small Town
La Terra Trema
They Live by Night
Adam's Rib
Blood of the Beasts
The School for Postmen
Les Enfants Terribles
Gun Crazy
Han Matado a un Hombre Blanco
The Big Day
The Big Day
Late Spring
The Reckless Moment
Samson and Delilah
Stromboli, Land of God
Thieves' Highway
The Third Man
The Window
All About Eve
Annie Get Your Gun
Cinderella
Father of the Bride
The Flame and the Arrow
The Gunfighter
In a Lonely Place
Los Olvidados
Orpheus
Panic in the Streets
The Sound of Fury
Stars in My Crown
Sunset Boulevard
Wagon Master
Ace in the Hole
Alice in Wonderland
Bellissima
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Singin' In The Rain
The Steel Helmet
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Tall Target
El Pozo de la Angustia
The White Sheik
Angel Face
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Big Sky
Clash by Night
Europe '51
Ikiru
The Life of Oharu
Limelight
The Lusty Men
Madame de...
Monkey Business
My Son John
The Narrow Margin
Othello
Park Row
Son of Paleface
Les statues meurent aussi
Umberto D
The Band Wagon
The Big Heat
Dangerous When Wet
Duck Amuck
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Golden Coach
I Love Melvin
Kiss Me Kate
The Naked Spur
99 River Street
Pickup on South Street
Tokyo Story
The Barefoot Contessa
Les amants crucifiés
Executive Suite
Johnny Guitar
M. Hulot's Holiday
Rear Window
River of No Return
Sansho the Bailiff
Senso
Silver Lode
A Star is Born
Track of the Cat
The Wages of Fear
Artists and Models
Bad Day at Black Rock
East of Eden
The Eddy Duchin Story
Kiss Me Deadly
The Lady Without Camelias
Land of the Pharaohs
Lola Montès
The Long Gray Line
The Man with the Golden Arm
Moonfleet
Mr. Arkadin
The Night of the Hunter
Night and Fog
Ordet
The Phenix City Story
Rebel Without a Cause
Salt of the Earth
Sawdust and Tinsel
The Trouble with Harry
Wichita
Aparajito
Baby Doll
Bhowani Junction
Bigger Than Life
Elena and Her Men
Forbidden Planet
The Girl Can't Help It
Guys and Dolls
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Killing
A Man Escaped
The Searchers
All the World's Memory
While the City Sleeps
An Affair to Remember
Bitter Victory
Forty Guns
A King in New York
Les maîtres fous
Paths of Glory
Run of the Arrow
Sweet Smell Of Success
12 Angry Men
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
The Wrong Man
Ashes and Diamonds
The Song of Styrene
Curse of the Demon
Gigi
India: Matri Bhumi
Man of the West
Mon Oncle
Murder by Contract
Party Girl
Rock-a-Bye Baby
A simple story
The Tarnished Angels
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Touch of Evil
Vertigo
Wind Across the Everglades
Anatomy of a Murder
L'Avventura
North by Northwest
The 400 Blows
Good Morning
Hiroshima Mon Amour
The Magician
Nazarin
Breathless
Peeping Tom
Pickpocket
Purple Noon
Rio Bravo
The Tiger of Eschnapur
The Bellboy
Bells Are Ringing
The Good Time Girls
The Cloud-Capped Star
The Goddess
Elmer Gantry
Let's Make Love
Psycho
The Savage Innocents
Shadows
Spartacus
Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse
Shoot the Pianist
Wild River
The Young One
Zazie in the Metro
Accattone
Chronicle of a Summer
Cléo from 5 to 7
The Exiles
The Hustler
The Ladies Man
Last Year In Marienbad
Paris Belongs to Us
Viridiana
A Wife Confesses
Revenge of a Kabuki Actor
Confessions of an Opium Eater
L'Eclisse
The Exterminating Angel
The House Is Black
The Manchurian Candidate
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Too Late Blues
Contempt
8½
The Leopard
Mediterranean
Muriel, or The Time of Return
The Nutty Professor
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Shock Corridor
The Trial
Band of Outsiders
Culloden
Before the Revolution
Black God White Devil
The Disorderly Orderly
Gertrud
A Hard Day's Night
I Am Cuba
La Jetée
Parineeta
The Soft Skin
Red Desert
Zulu
Red Line 7000
Vinyl
Andrei Rublev
Au hasard Balthazar
Black Girl
Daisies
Uccellacci e uccellini
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
Lord Love a Duck
Made in U.S.A.
Oedipus Rex
Persona
The Red Angel
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
The War Game
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Belle de Jour
Bonnie and Clyde
La Chinoise
David Holzman's Diary
Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
Mouchette
PlayTime
Point Blank
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
Privilege
The Shooting
Wavelength
Weekend
The Young Girls of Rochefort
L'impiccagione
Faces
I Love You, I Love You
The Party
Petulia
The Color of Pomegranates
Stolen Kisses
Targets
Teorema
2001: A Space Odyssey
L'amour Fou
The Bed Sitting Room
The Unfaithful Wife
Blue Movie
The Grandmother
Katzelmacher
My Night at Maud’s
Mr. Freedom
A Time For Dying
The Wild Bunch
Aranyer Din Ratri
The Wild Child
Fata Morgana
The Honeymoon Killers
Performance
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
The Spider's Stratagem
Tristiana
Woodstock
Zabriskie Point
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
Four Nights of a Dreamer
McCabe & Mrs Miller
A New Leaf
Red Psalm
Trafic
Two-Lane Blacktop
Walkabout
Wanda
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Avanti!
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Fat City
Roma
The Heartbreak Kid
Last Tango in Paris
Solaris
Badlands
F for Fake
The Long Goodbye
Martha
The Mother and the Whore
Parade
Journey of the Hyena
What?
Che!
Alice In The Cities
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Cockfighter
The Conversation
Lancelot of the Lake
Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
The Phantom of Liberty
The Traveler
A Woman Under the Influence
Barry Lyndon
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