He also provided an alternate list of not so safe movies, without attempting to order them, that I've found fascinating to explore.
| # |
Title |
Year |
Director |
IMDb |
|
11x14 |
1976 |
James Benning |
IMDb |
|
Ace in the Hole |
1951 |
Billy Wilder |
IMDb |
|
An Affair to Remember |
1957 |
Leo McCarey |
IMDb |
|
Anatomy of a Murder |
1959 |
Otto Preminger |
IMDb |
|
Avanti! |
1972 |
Billy Wilder |
IMDb |
|
The Barefoot Contessa |
1954 |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
IMDb |
|
The Big Sky |
1952 |
Howard Hawks |
IMDb |
|
Bigger Than Life |
1956 |
Nicholas Ray |
IMDb |
|
The Black Cat |
1934 |
Edgar G. Ulmer |
IMDb |
|
Bride of Frankenstein |
1935 |
James Whale |
IMDb |
|
Broken Blossoms |
1919 |
D. W. Griffith |
IMDb |
|
Cat People |
1942 |
Jacques Tourneur |
IMDb |
|
Christmas in July |
1940 |
Preston Sturges |
IMDb |
|
Confessions of an Opium Eater |
1962 |
Albert Zugsmith |
IMDb |
|
The Crowd |
1928 |
King Vidor |
IMDb |
|
Dead Man |
1995 |
Jim Jarmusch |
IMDb |
|
Do the Right Thing |
1989 |
Spike Lee |
IMDb |
|
The Docks of New York |
1928 |
Josef Von Sternberg |
IMDb |
|
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer |
1974 |
Thom Anderson |
IMDb |
|
Eraserhead |
1977 |
David Lynch |
IMDb |
|
Foolish Wives |
1922 |
Erich Von Stroheim |
IMDb |
|
Force of Evil |
1948 |
Abraham Polonsky |
IMDb |
|
Freaks |
1932 |
Tod Browning |
IMDb |
|
The General |
1926 |
Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman |
IMDb |
|
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
1953 |
Howard Hawks |
IMDb |
|
Gilda |
1946 |
Charles Vidor |
IMDb |
|
The Great Garrick |
1937 |
James Whale |
IMDb |
|
Greed |
1924 |
Erich Von Stroheim |
IMDb |
|
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum |
1933 |
Lewis Milestone |
IMDb |
|
The Heartbreak Kid |
1972 |
Elaine May |
IMDb |
|
Housekeeping |
1987 |
Bill Forsyth |
IMDb |
|
The Hustler |
1961 |
Robert Rossen |
IMDb |
|
Intolerance |
1916 |
D. W. Griffith |
IMDb |
|
Johnny Guitar |
1954 |
Nicholas Ray |
IMDb |
|
Judge Priest |
1934 |
John Ford |
IMDb |
|
Killer of Sheep |
1979 |
Charles Burnett |
IMDb |
|
The Killing |
1956 |
Stanley Kubrick |
IMDb |
|
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie |
1976 |
John Cassavetes |
IMDb |
|
Kiss Me Deadly |
1955 |
Robert Aldrich |
IMDb |
|
The Ladies Man |
1961 |
Jerry Lewis |
IMDb |
|
The Lady from Shanghai |
1947 |
Orson Welles |
IMDb |
|
Last Chants for a Slow Dance |
1977 |
Jon Jost |
IMDb |
|
Laughter |
1930 |
Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast |
IMDb |
|
Letter from an Unknown Woman |
1948 |
Max Ophüls |
IMDb |
|
Lonesome |
1928 |
Pál Fejös |
IMDb |
|
Love Me Tonight |
1932 |
Rouben Mamoulian |
IMDb |
|
Love Streams |
1984 |
John Cassavetes |
IMDb |
|
The Magnificent Ambersons |
1942 |
Orson Welles |
IMDb |
|
Make Way for Tomorrow |
1937 |
Leo McCarey |
IMDb |
|
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
1962 |
John Ford |
IMDb |
|
Man's Castle |
1933 |
Frank Borzage |
IMDb |
|
McCabe & Mrs Miller |
1971 |
Robert Altman |
IMDb |
|
Meet Me in St Louis |
1944 |
Vincente Minnelli |
IMDb |
|
Mikey and Nicky |
1976 |
Elaine May |
IMDb |
|
Monsieur Verdoux |
1947 |
Charles Chaplin |
IMDb |
|
My Son John |
1952 |
Leo McCarey |
IMDb |
|
The Naked Spur |
1953 |
Anthony Mann |
IMDb |
|
Nanook of the North |
1922 |
Robert J. Flaherty |
IMDb |
|
The Night of the Hunter |
1955 |
Charles Laughton |
IMDb |
|
The Nutty Professor |
1963 |
Jerry Lewis |
IMDb |
|
The Palm Beach Story |
1942 |
Preston Sturges |
IMDb |
|
Panic in the Streets |
1950 |
Elia Kazan |
IMDb |
|
Park Row |
1952 |
Samuel Fuller |
IMDb |
|
The Phenix City Story |
1955 |
Phil Karlson |
IMDb |
|
Point Blank |
1967 |
John Boorman |
IMDb |
|
Real Life |
1979 |
Albert Brooks |
IMDb |
|
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania |
1971 |
Jonas Mekas |
IMDb |
|
Rio Bravo |
1959 |
Howard Hawks |
IMDb |
|
Scarface |
1932 |
Howard Hawks |
IMDb |
|
The Scarlet Empress |
1934 |
Josef Von Sternberg |
IMDb |
|
Scarlet Street |
1945 |
Fritz Lang |
IMDb |
|
Scenes from Under Childhood |
1970 |
Stan Brakhage |
IMDb |
|
The Scenic Route |
1978 |
Mark Rappaport |
IMDb |
|
The Seventh Victim |
1943 |
Mark Robson |
IMDb |
|
Shadows |
1959 |
John Cassavetes |
IMDb |
|
Sherlock Jr. |
1924 |
Buster Keaton |
IMDb |
|
The Shooting |
1966 |
Monte Hellman |
IMDb |
|
The Shop Around the Corner |
1940 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
IMDb |
|
The Sound of Fury |
1950 |
Cy Endfield |
IMDb |
|
Stars in My Crown |
1950 |
Jacques Tourneur |
IMDb |
|
The Steel Helmet |
1951 |
Samuel Fuller |
IMDb |
|
Stranger Than Paradise |
1984 |
Jim Jarmusch |
IMDb |
|
The Strawberry Blonde |
1941 |
Raoul Walsh |
IMDb |
|
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans |
1927 |
F. W. Murnau |
IMDb |
|
Sylvia Scarlett |
1935 |
George Cukor |
IMDb |
|
The Tarnished Angels |
1957 |
Douglas Sirk |
IMDb |
|
That's Entertainment! III |
1994 |
Bud Friedgen & Michael J. Sheridan |
IMDb |
|
This Land is Mine |
1943 |
Jean Renoir |
IMDb |
|
Thunderbolt |
1929 |
Josef Von Sternberg |
IMDb |
|
To Sleep with Anger |
1990 |
Charles Burnett |
IMDb |
|
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son |
1969 |
Ken Jacobs |
IMDb |
|
Track of the Cat |
1954 |
William A. Wellman |
IMDb |
|
Trouble in Paradise |
1932 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
IMDb |
|
Vinyl |
1965 |
Andy Warhol |
IMDb |
|
Wanda |
1970 |
Barbara Loden |
IMDb |
|
While the City Sleeps |
1956 |
Fritz Lang |
IMDb |
|
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? |
1957 |
Frank Tashlin |
IMDb |
|
Woodstock |
1970 |
Michael Wadleigh |
IMDb |
|
The Wrong Man |
1956 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
IMDb |
|
Zabriskie Point |
1970 |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
IMDb |