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Well, here it is. Thanks to everyone for their contributions and I hope it gives you all some good recommendations.


A Trip to the Moon (Georges Melies, 1902)
The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter, 1903)
The Impossible Voyage (Georges Méliès, 1904)
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (Edwin Porter and Wallace McCutcheon, 1906)
The Thieving Hand (J. Stuart Blackton, 1907
A Corner in Wheat (D.W. Giffith, 1909)
The Lonedale Operator (D.W. Griffith 1911)
The Cameraman's Revenge (Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1912)
The Dying Swan (Yevgeni Bauer, 1917)
The Cure (Charlie Chaplin, 1917)
Shoulder Arms (Charles Chaplin, 1918)
One Week (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline, 1920)
Manhatta (Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand, 1921)
Rhythmus 21 (Hans Richter, 1921)
The Return to Reason (Man Ray, 1923)
Entr'acte (Rene Clair, 1924)
Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
Diagonal Symphony (Viking Eggeling, 1924)
Chess Fever (Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky, 1925)
Anemic Cinema (Marcel Duchamp, 1926)
Leave Me Alone (Man Ray, 1926)
Film Study (Hans Richter, 1926)
Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1926)
Spiritual Constructions (Oskar Fischinger, 1927)
The Three-Sided Mirror (Jean Epstein, 1927)
Wax Experiments (Oskar Fischinger, 1927)
The Fall of the House of Usher (Hildegarde Watson and Melville Webber, 1928)
Ghosts Before Breakfast (Hans Richter, 1928)
The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich, 1928)
Police Report: Assault (Erno Metzner, 1928)
The Seashell and the Clergyman (Germaine Dulac, 1928)
The Sea Star (Man Ray, 1928)
Steamboat Willie (Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, 1928)
Autumn Mists (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1929)
An Andalusian Dog (Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dali, 1929)
H2O (Ralph Steiner, 1929)
The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice (Man Ray, 1929)
The Skeleton Dance (Walt Disney, 1929)
Á propos de Nice (Jean Vigo, 1930)
The Big Doghouse (Zion Meyers, 1930)
Sentimental Romance (Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1930)
Bimbo's Initiation (Dave Fleischer, 1931)
Betty Boop for President (Dave Fleischer, 1932)
The Music Box (James Parrott, 1932)
Land without Bread (Luis Buñuel, 1933)
Snow-White (Dave Fleischer, 1933)
Lot in Sodom (James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber 1934)
The Band Concert (Wilfred Jackson, 1935)
A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir, 1936)
The Cradle (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1936)
I Love to Singa (Tex Avery, 1936)
Thru the Mirror (David Hand, 1936)
Lonesome Ghosts (Burt Gillett, 1937)
The Old Mill (Wilfred Jackson, 1937)
An Optical Poem (Oskar Fischinger, 1937)
Brave Little Tailor (Bill Roberts, 1938)
Mickey's Trailor (Ben Sharpsteen, 1938)
Porky in Wackyland (Robert Clampett 1938)
Sniffles Bells the Cat (Chuck Jones 1941)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)
Puss n' Booty (Frank Tashlin, 1943)
At Land (Maya Deren, 1944)
The Private Life of a Cat (Alexander Hammid, 1944)
Baseball Bugs (Friz Freleng, 1946)
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (Bob Clampett, 1946)
Fireworks (Kenneth Anger, 1947)
Motion Painting No. 1 (Oskar Fischinger, 1947)
The Tempest Master (Jean Epstein, 1947)
Meditation on Violence (Maya Deren, 1948)
Blood of the Beasts (Georges Franju, 1949)
Inspiration (Karel Zeman, 1949)
Motor mania (Jack Kinney, 1950)
Rabbit of Seville (Chuck Jones, 1950)
A Song of Love (Jean Genet, 1950)
Rabbit Seasoning (Chuck Jones, 1952)
Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones, 1953)
Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (Chuck Jones 1953)
Eaux d'artifice (Kenneth Anger, 1953)
The End (Christopher MacLaine, 1953)
Scotch Hop (Christopher MacLaine, 1953)
Statues Also Die (Alain Resnais and Chris Marker, 1953)
The Tell-Tale Heart (Ted Parmelee, 1953)
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger, 1954)
One Froggy Evening (Chuck Jones, 1955)
The Mad Masters (Jean Rouch, 1955)
The Fountain of Youth (Orson Welles, 1958)
Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1959)
The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, 1956)
The Seine Meets Paris (Joris Ivens, 1957)
What's Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones, 1957)
A Movie (Bruce Conner, 1958)
On the Side of the Coast (Agnès Varda, 1958)
The Song of the Styrene (Alain Resnais, 1958)
Les Astronautes (Walerian Borowczyk and Chris Marker, 1959)
Bonanza Bunny (Robert McKimson, 1959)
Donald in Mathmagic Land (Hamilton Luske, 1959)
The Forgotten Faces (Peter Watkins, 1961)
Cosmic Ray (Bruce Conner, 1962)
Dog Star Man: Part I (Stan Brakhage, 1962)
La Jetee (Chris Marker, 1962)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Robert Enrico, 1962)
Prelude: Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage, 1962)
...A Valparaiso (Joris Ivens, 1962)
The Wall (Walter de Hoog, 1962)
Zoo (Bert Haanstra, 1962)
The Baker’s Girl of Monceau (Eric Rohmer, 1963)
Dog Star Man: Part II (Stan Brakhage, 1963)
Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963)
The House is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad, 1963)
Méditerranée (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1963)
Zapruder Film of Kennedy Assassination (Abraham Zapruder, 1963)
21-87 (Arthur Lipsett, 1964)
Dog Star Man: Part III (Stan Brakhage, 1964)
Dog Star Man: Part IV (Stan Brakhage, 1964)
The Game of the Angels (Walerian Borowczyk, 1964)
Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1964)
The Walls of Sana (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964)
The Big Shave (Martin Scorsese, 1965)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Meledez, 1965)
Film (Alan Schneider, 1965)
Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel, 1965)
The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1965)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Chuck Jones, 1966)
Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB (George Lucas, 1967)
Eye Myth (Stan Brakhage, 1967)
Historia Naturae, Suita (Jan Svankmajer, 1967)
Looking for Mushrooms (Bruce Conner, 1967)
Report (Bruce Conner, 1967)
Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)
The White Rose (Bruce Conner, 1967)
The Alphabet (David Lynch, 1968)
Duo (Norman McLaren, 1968)
The Glass Harmonica (Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, 1968)
Ripples (Jim Henson, 1968)
Storytime (Terry Gilliam, 1968)
Whistle and I'll Come to You (Jonathan Miller, 1968)
Windy Day (John and Faith Hubley, 1968)
79 Springs (Santiago Alvarez, 1969)
A Day With the Boys (Clu Gulager, 1969)
Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger, 1969)
The Grandmother (David Lynch, 1970)
The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage, 1971)
Bleu Shut (1971 - Robert Nelson)
Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia (Hollis Frampton, 1971)
Living (Frans Zwartjes, 1971)
Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice (Hollis Frampton, 1972)
Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1972)
OffOn (Scott Bartlett, 1972)
Frank Film (Caroline Mouris and Frank Mouris, 1973)
Island (Fyodor Khitruk, 1973)
L'Ordre (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1973)
The Five-Minute Films (Mike Leigh, 1975)
Four Seasons (Artavazd Peleshian, 1975)
Hedgehog in the Fog (Yuriy Norshteyn, 1975)
The Permissive Society (Mike Leigh, 1975)
Water Wrackets (Peter Greenaway, 1975)
Mindscape (Jacques Drouin, 1976)
Dog's Dialogue (Raoul Ruiz, 1977)
Poligon (Anatoli Petrov, 1977)
The Sand Castle (Co Hoedemann, 1977)
La Soufrière (Werner Herzog, 1977)
A Walk Through H (Peter Greenaway, 1978)
Asparagus (Suzanne Pitt, 1979)
Tale of Tales (Yuriy Norshteyn, 1979)
Tyll the Giant (Rein Raamat, 1980)
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Les Blank, 1980)
Junkopia (John Chapman and Chris Marker, 1981)
Dimensions of Dialogue (Jan Svankmajer, 1982)
In Rachachant (Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet, 1982)
The Snowman (Dianne Jackson, 1982)
Vincent (Tim Burton, 1982)
Grass Labyrinth (Shuji Terayama, 1983)
Mickey's Christmas Carol (Burny Mattinson, 1983)
Our Century (Artavazd Peleshian, 1983)
Film-Wipe-Film (Paul Glabicki, 1984)
Fingered (Richard Kern, 1986)
Meetin' WA (Jean-Luc Godard, 1986)
Overture (Stan Douglas, 1986)
Precious Images (Chuck Workman, 1986)
How Wang-Fo Was Saved (Rene Laloux, 1987)
The Lodgers of an Old House (Alexei Karaev, 1987)
The Man Who Planted Trees (Frédéric Back, 1987)
The Short & Curlies (Mike Leigh, 1987)
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1987)
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings (Dean Parisot, 1988)
The Marathon (Aleksandr Petrov and Michael Tumelya, 1988)
Balance (Christopher and Wolfgang Lauenstein, 1989)
Darkness Light Darkness (Jan Svankmajer, 1989)
A Grand Day Out (Nick Park, 1989)
Isle of Flowers (Jorge Furtado, 1989)
Ambition (Hal Hartley, 1991)
The Food Trilogy (Jan Svankmajer, 1991)
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Aleksandr Petrov, 1992)
Gargantuan (John Smith, 1992)
A Sense of History (Mike Leigh, 1992)
The Beach (Patrick Bokanowski, 1992)
Bear (Steve Mcqueen, 1993)
The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park, 1993)
The Dirdy Birdy (John Dilworth, 1994)
End (Artavazd Peleshian, 1994)
A Close Shave (Nick Park, 1995)
Cremaster 4 (Matthew Barney, 1995)
Imaginaria ([Creative Director] David Newsom, 1995)
Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (Guy Maddin, 1995)
Runaway Brain (Chris Bailey, 1995)
When it Rains (Charles Burnett, 1995)
Cremaster 1 (Matthew Barney, 1996)
Oriental Elegy (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1996)
Commingled Containers (Stan Brakhage, 1997)
Geri's Game (Jan Pinkava, 1997)
Elimination Dance (Bruce McDonald, 1998)
Humdrum (Peter Peake, 1998)
More (Mark Osbourne, 1998)
Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999)
Hospital Fragment (Guy Maddin, 1999)
For The Birds (Ralph Eggleston, 2000)
The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin, 2000)
The Origin of the 21st Century (Jean-Luc Godard, 2000)
Copy Shop (Virgil Widrich, 2001)
Persian Series (Stan Brakhage, 2001)
Dream Work (Peter Tscherkassky, 2002)
The Flying Car (Kevin Smith, 2002)
Hostage (John Woo, 2002)
Ticker (Joe Carnahan, 2002)
Boundin' (Bud Lucky, 2003)
Cashback (Sean Ellis, 2004)
Cigarettes and Coffee (Cristi Puiu, 2004)
The Last Farm (Rúnar Rúnarsson, 2004)
The Natural Route (Álex Pastor, 2004)
Our Time is Up (Rob Pearlstein, 2004)
Tomorrow's Memoir (Jim Cliffe, 2004)
9 (Shane Acker, 2005)
The Fan and the Flower (Bill Plympton, 2005)
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (Peter Tscherkassky, 2005)
Jettison Your Loved Ones (Ray Tintori, 2005)
Mirror Mechanics (Siegfried Fruhauf, 2005)
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morrello (Anthony Lucas, 2005)
One Man Band (Mark Andrews, 2005)
The Danish Poet (Torill Kove, 2006)
Lifted (Gary Rydstrom, 2006)
Tragic Story with Happy Ending (Regina Pessoa, 2006)
Death to the Tinman (Ray Tintori, 2007)
Madame Tutli-Putli (Chris Lavis, 2007)
Not Available Today (Gustavo Taretto, 2007)
Oktapodi (Julien Bocabeille, 2007)
Validation (Kurt Kuenne, 2007)
Presto (Doug Sweetland, 2008)
Winter (Nathaniel Dorsky, 2008)
Goat Rope in the Duty Hut (Joe Fioranelli, 2009)


Physician, heal thyself.
Good luck with no f-ckin' head.