Here is a list of the required films. You must acquire them on your own. I recommend a rental service such as Netflix. The films with an asterisk after the year may be available on YouTube.
| Film | Year |
| The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 |
| Pandora's Box | 1929 |
| Battleship Potemkin | 1925 |
| The Man with a Movie Camera | 1929* |
| The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928* |
| The Rules of the Game | 1939 |
| A Matter of Life and Death | 1946 |
| Bicycle Thieves | 1948 |
| Tokyo Story | 1953 |
| Seven Samurai | 1954 |
| Breathless | 1960 |
| Peeping Tom | 1960 |
| La dolce vita | 1960 |
| 8 1/2 | 1963 |
| The Seventh Seal | 1958 |
| Fanny & Alexander | 1982 |
| Let the Right One In | 2008 |
