Sijmen's List of Mainstream Classics
of World Cinema


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1989
Come and See (Elem Klimov / Soviet-Union)
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 / United Kingdom)


1987
Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle / France)
Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
My Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallstrom / Sweden)


1986
Aliens (James Cameron)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
Platoon (Oliver Stone)


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)
The Mirror (Andrey Tarkovskiy / Soviet Union)
Scarface (Brian De Palma)


1982
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen / Federal Republic of Germany)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
Missing (Costa Gavras)
Stalker (Andrey Tarkovskiy / Soviet Union)
Tootsie (Sidney Pollack)


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


1980
The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)















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