Sijmen's List of Mainstream Classics
of World Cinema


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1989
Cinema Paradiso (Guiseppe Tornatore / Italy)
Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)


1988
Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears)
Die Hard (John McTiernan)
A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton)
Pelle the Conqueror (Bille August / Denmark)
Rain Man (Barry Levinson)


1987
Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle / France)
The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci / United Kingdom)
My Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallstr�m / Sweden)
The Untouchables (Brian DePalma)


1986
Aliens (James Cameron)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
The Mission (Roland Joffe / United Kingdom)
Platoon (Oliver Stone)
Stand By Me (Rob Reiner)


1985
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa / Japan)
Witness (Peter Weir)


1984
Amadeus (Milos Forman)
The Killing Fields (Roland Joffe / United Kingdom)
The Terminator (James Cameron)


1983
Fanny & Alexander (Ingmar Bergman / Sweden)
Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)


1982
Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen / Federal Republic of Germany)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
Ghandi (Richard Attenborough / United Kingdom)
Missing (Costa Gavras)
Tootsie (Sidney Pollack)


1981
Atlantic City (Louis Malle / Canada)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)


1980
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
Kagemusha, the Shadow Warrior (Akira Kurosawa / Japan)
Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)















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