1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2004 edition)

A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.

A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.

Four historical tales depict the ongoing human struggle against prejudice and inhumanity.

Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.

A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.

A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.

Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.

On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.

Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.

An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.

Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.

In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.

Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.

Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.

A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.

A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

A railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage.

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.

The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

An aging doorman is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel.

A man learns that he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7PM that evening.