Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1996

2 Days in the Valley – John Herzfeld

101 Dalmations – Stephen Herek

The Adventures of Pinocchi – Steve Barron

Alaska – Fraser Clarke Heston

All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 – Leker / Sabella

Andersonville – John Frankenheimer

L’Appartement – Gilles Mimouni

The Arrival – David Twohy

The Associate – Donald Petrie

August – Anthony Hopkins

Avvai Shanmughi – K.S. Ravikumar

Bad Moon – Eric Red

The Bandit – Yavuz Turgul

Barb Wire –

Beautiful Thing – Hettie MacDaonald

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America – Mike Judge

Bed of Roses – Michael Goldenberg

Besos en la Frente – Carlos Gatettini

Beamarchais de Jean-Pierre – Lucile Hadzihaliloviic

Beyond Silence – Caroline Link

Big Bully – Steve Miner

Black Sheep – Penelope Spheeris

Blood Brothers – Ernie Fritz

Bogus – Norman Jewison

Bordello of Blood – Gilbert Adler

Box of Moonlight – Tom DiCaillo

The Boy from Mercury – Martin Duffy

Breassed Off – Mark Herman

Brilliant lies – Richard Franklin

Broken English – Gregor Nicholas

Buenos Aires Vice Versa – Alejendro Agresti

Bullet – Julian Temple

Bulletproof – Ernest R. Dickerson

Camping Cosmos – Jan Bucquoy

Carpool – Arthur Hiller

Carla’s Song – Ken Loach

Carried Away – Bruno Barreto

Caught – Robert M. Young

Celluloide – Carlo Lizzani

Celtic Pride – Tom DeCerchio

Chain Reaction – Andrew Davis

The Chamber – James Foley

A Chef in Love – Nana Dzhordzhadze

Children of the Revolution – Peter Duncan

Chronicle of a Disappearance – Elia Suleiman

City Hall – Harold Becker

Clando – Jean-Marie Teno

Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day – Christopher Munch

Comrades: Almost a Love Story – Peter Chan

Conspirators of Pleasure – Jan Svankmajer

Cosi – Mark Joffe

Crimetown – George Sluizer

The Crucible – Nicholas Hytner

A Couch in New York – Chantal Akerman

D3: The Mighty Ducks – Robert Lieberman

Daddy’s Girl – Martin Kitrosser

Dating the Enemy – Megan Simpson Huberman

Dear God – Garry Marshall

Deep Crimson – Arturo Ripstein

The Dentist – Brian Yuzna

Different for Girls – Richard Spence

The Disappearance of Finbar – Sue Clayton

Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Jucie in the Hood – Paris Barclay

Down Periscope – David S. Ward

The Dress – Alex van Warmerdam

Driftin Clouds – Aki Kaurismaki

Dunston Checks In – Ken Kwapis

East Palace, West Palace – Zhang Yuan

Eddie – Steve Rash

Edipo Alcalde – Jorge Ali Triana

The Eighth Day – Jaco Van Dormael

The Elective Affinities – Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

Encore – Pascal Bonitzer

Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story – Michael Ray Rhodes

Eraser – Chuck Russell

Evita – Alan Parker

Executive Decision – Stuart Baird

Extasis – Mariano Barroso

Faithful – Paul Mazursky

A Famly Thing – Richard Pearce

The Fan – Tony Scott

Fear – James Foley

Feeling Minnesota – Steven Baigelman

Fine Powder – Estaban Sapir

Fire – Deepa Mehta

First Kid – David M. Evans

Five Days, Five Nights – Jose Fonseca e Costa

Fled – Kevin Hooks

Flipper – Alan Shapiro

Floating Life – Clara Law

Fly Away Home – Carroll Ballard

Follow Me Home – Peter Bratt

Forbidden City Cop – Kok / Chow

Foreign Land – Salles / Thomas

Foxfire – Annette Haywood-Carter

Freeway – Mathew Bright

From Dusk Till Dawn – Robert Rodriguez

The Funeral – Abel Ferrara

Baggeh – Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Gamera 2: Attck of Legion – Shusuke Kaneko

Get on the Bus – Spike Lee

Ghatak: Lethal – Rajkumar Santoshi

Girl 6 – Spike Lee

The Glimmer Man – John Gray

Glory Days – Michael Scott Bloom

The God of Cookery – Chow / Lik-Chi

Goodbye South, Goodbye – Hou Hsiao-Hsien

The Great White Hype – Reginald Hudlin

Hamsun – Jan Troell

Happy Gilmore – Dennis Dugan

Hard Core Logo – Bruce McDonald

Harriet the Spy – Bronwen Hughes

Heaven’s Prisoners – Phil Joanou

High School High – Hart Bochner

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco – David R. Ellis

House Arrest – Harry Winer

The Hunters – Kjell Sundvall

Hype! – Doug Pray

I Lucy Fell – Eric Schaeffer

I’m Not Rappaport – Herb Gardner

In Love and War – Richard Attenborough

Independence Day – Roland Emmerich

Indian – Shankar

Infinity – Mathew Broderick

Intimate Relations – Philip Goodhew

Irma Vep – Oliver Assayas

It’s My Party – Randal Kleiser

Jack – Francis Ford Coppola

James and the Giant Peach – Henry Selick

Jingle All The Way – Brian Levent

Joe’s Apartemnt – John Payson
Jane Eyre – Franco Zeffirelli

Jude – Michael Winterbottom

The Juror – Brian Gibson

Kaalapani – Priyadarshan

Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love – Mira Nair

Kazaam – Paul M. Glaser

Khamoshi: The Musical – Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Kids Return – Takeshi Kitano

The King of Masks – Wu Tianming

Kissed – Lynne Stopewich

Kolya – Jan Sverak

Larger then Life – Howard Franklin

Last Dance – Bruce Beresford

The Last Days of Frankie the Fly – Peter Merkle

Last Man Standing - Walter Hill

The Leading Man – John Duigan

Leila – Dariush Mehrjui

The Liars – Elie Chouraqui

Libertarias – Vincente Aranda

Licantropo – Francisco Rodriguez Gordillo

Lilies – John Greyson

Loch Ness – John Henderson

Long Day’s Journey Into Night – David Wellington

The Long Kiss Goodnight – Renny Harlin

Lost and Found – Lee Chi-Ngai

Love and Other Catastrophes – Shirley Barrett

Love is All There Is – Joeseph Bolongna / Renee Taylor

Love Serenade – Shirley Barrett

Luna e l’altra – Mauizio Michetti

Mad Dog Time – Larry Bishop

Mahjong – Edward Yang

Malicious – Ian Corson

Many & Lo – Lisa Krueger

Mary Reilly – Stephen Frears

Matilda – Danny DeVito

Maximum Risk – Ringo Lam

Michael – Nora Ephron

La mia generazione – Wilma Labate

Mr. Wrong – Nick Castle

Moll Flanders – Pen Densham

Mother Night – Keith Gordon

Microcosmos – Claude Nuridsany / Marie Pernnou

The Mirror has Two Faces – Barabra Streisand

Mulholland Falls – Lee Tamahori

My Fellow Americans – Peter Segal

My Man – Bertand Blier

My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument – Arnaud Desplechin

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie – Jim Mallon

Nenette et Boni – Claire Denis

Ninne Pelladata – Krishna Vamsi

North Star – Nils Gaup

The Ogre (Der Unhold) – Volker Schlondorff

Original Gangstas – Larry Cohen

Opening Day of Close-Up – Nanni Moretti

The Other Side of Sunday – Berit Nesheim

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robbin Hood Hills – Berlinger / Sinofky

Parkland – Kathryn Millard

Pedar – Majid Majid

A Petal – Jang Sun-woo

The Phantom – Simon Wincer

Phat Beach – Doug Ellin

Phenomenon – Jon Turteltaub

Pie in the Sky – Bryan Gordon

Picnic – Shunjo Iwai

Police Story 4: First Strike – Stanley Tong

Ponette – Jacques Doillon

The Portait of a Lady – Jane Campion

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame – Srdan Dragojevic

Prisoner of the Mountains – Sergei Bodrov

Pusher – Nicolas Winding Refn

The Quest – Jean-Claude Van Damme

The Quite Room – Rolf de Heer

Race the Sun – Charles T. Kanganis

Revive! Ultraman – Masahiro Tsuburaya

Ridicule – Patrice Leconte

The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus – Michael Lindsay-Hog

Saint Clara – Ari Folman & Ori Sivan

A Saturday on Earth – Diane Bertand

Schizopolis – Steven Soderbergh

A Self Made Hero – Jacques Audiard

Set It Off – F. Gary Grey

Silent Trigger – Russell Mulcahy

Space Truckers – Stuart Gordon

Stealing Beauty – Bernardo Bertolucci

Stella Does Tricks – Coky Giedroyc

Strangles Lives – Ricky Tognazzi

A Summer’s Tale – Eric Rohmer

The Sunchaser – Michael Cimino

Sunset at Chaophraya – Euthana Mukdasnit

Sunset Park – Steve Gomer

Surviving Picasso – James Ivory

Swallowtail Butterfly – Shunji Iwai

Temptress Moon (Feng yue) – Chen Kaige

Tender Fictions – Barbara Hammer

Tesis – Alejandro Amenabar

Thieves – Andre Techine

A Thin Line Between Love and Hate – Martin Lawrence

Thinner – Tom Holland

Three Lives and Only One Death – Raul Ruia

Tierra – Julio Medem

Traveling Companion – Peter Del Monte

Tremors 2: Aftershocks – S.S. Wilson

Twelfth Night: Or What Will You Do – Trevor Nunn

Two Much – Fernando Trueba

Unforgettable – John Dahl

Up Close and Personal – Jon Avnet

Urban Safari – Reto Salimbeni

Vicotry – Mark Peploe

Village of Dreams – Yoichi Higashi

The War at Home – Emilio Estevez

Wedding Bell Blues – Dana Lustig

We Free Kings (I magi randagi) – Sergio Citti

What I Have Written – John Hughes

When the Cat’s Away –Cedric Klapisch

White Squall – Ridley Scott

The Whole Wide World – Dan Ireland

The Winner – Alex Cox

William Shakespear’s Romeo & Juliet – Baz Luhrmann