• The Student of Prague
  • The Doll
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  • Algol: Tragedy of Power
  • From Morning to Midnight

1. German Expressionism (late 10s - early 30s)

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_Lluis_ 20 films

Expressive, haunting, stylized, psychological. Key films from the German expressionist cinema, ordered chronologically (one per author).

  • Rome, Open City
  • Two Anonymous Letters
  • The Bandit
  • Outcry
  • To Live in Peace

2. Italian Neorealism (mid 40s - early 50s)

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_Lluis_ 18 films

Social, grounded, humanistic, unvarnished. The Golden Age of Italian Cinema, ordered chronologically (one per author).

  • Elevator to the Gallows
  • Broadway by Light
  • The 400 Blows
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • A Simple Story

3. Nouvelle Vague (late 50s - 60s)

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_Lluis_ 32 films

Groundbreaking, experimental, iconoclast, rebellious. The French New Wave, ordered chronologically (one per author).

  • Room at the Top
  • Look Back in Anger
  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
  • The Angry Silence
  • A Kind of Loving

4. Kitchen Sink Realism (late 50s - 60s)

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_Lluis_ 29 films

Bleak, disillusioned, naturalistic, struggler. The British New Wave, ordered chronologically (one per author).

  • The Devil's Trap
  • The Sun in a Net
  • Something Different
  • When the Cat Comes
  • Black Peter

5. Czech New Wave (60s)

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_Lluis_ 15 films

Satirical, absurdist, surreal, liberating. Key films from the Czechoslovak film miracle, ordered chronologically (one per author).

  • Seconds
  • Bonnie and Clyde
  • The Graduate
  • Cool Hand Luke
  • The Trip

6. New Hollywood (late 60s - early 80s)

Countercultural, complex, gritty, subversive. The American New Wave, ordered chronologically (one per author).