When it comes to cinema, 2024 was a year of many wonderful vintage discoveries, such as Andrey Chernykh's mysterious, dreamlike debut Austrian Field, Rangel Vulchanov's highly poetic romance The Sun and the Shadow, or Gianfranco Giagni's The Spider Labyrinth - a stunningly photographed love letter to the masters of Italian horror. A number of blanks in my knowledge of acclaimed classics were also filled - The Conformist, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Saragossa Manuscript etc, and I didn't shy away from B movies and rip-offs, enjoying stuff such as Albert Pyun's Nemesis, Brice Mack's Jennifer and Lucas Lowe's The King of Kickboxers. Hereinafter, you will find a list of 100 pre-2000 favorites viewed for the first time during 2024, and if you're interested in more details, mini-reviews for the great majority of these titles are available through monthly compilations. (The rankings are mostly improvisational, so take them with a grain or two of salt.)
1. Австрийское поле (Андрей Черных, 1991) / Austrian Field (Andrey Chernykh, 1991)
2. Il conformista / The Conformist (Bernando Bertolucci, 1970)
3. O fovos / The Fear (Kostas Manoussakis, 1966)
4. Слънцето и сянката (Рангел Вълчанов, 1962) / The Sun and the Shadow (Rangel Vulchanov, 1962)
5. Kuća na pijesku / House on the Sand (Ivan Martinac, 1985)
6. Nazar (Mani Kaul, 1990)
7. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951)
8. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935)
9. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951)
10. Sokout / The Silence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1998)
11. La fille aux yeux d'or / The Girl with the Golden Eyes (Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, 1961)
12. Khesht va Ayeneh / Brick and Mirror (Ebrahim Golestan, 1966)
13. Pociąg / Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1959)
14. Nar-o-nay / Pomegranate and Cane (Saeed Ebrahimifar, 1989) 9
15. Fata/Morgana / Left-Handed Fate (Vicente Aranda, 1966) 9
16. Табор уходит в небо (Эмиль Лотяну, 1976) / Queen of the Gypsies (Emil Loteanu, 1976)
17. Requiem (Zoltán Fábri, 1982)
18. Hunted (Charles Chrichton, 1952)
19. In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks, 1967)
20. Experiment in Terror (Blake Edwards, 1962)
21. Xích lô / Cyclo (Anh Hung Tran, 1995)
22. 3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)
23. Lola Montès (Max Ophüls, 1955)
24. I dolci inganni / Sweet Deceptions (Alberto Lattuada, 1960)
25. Il nido del ragno / The Spider Labyrinth (Gianfranco Giagni, 1988)
26. El lado oscuro del corazón / The Dark Side of the Heart (Eliseo Subiela, 1992)
27. Juliette ou La clef des songes / Juliette, or Key of Dreams (Marcel Carné, 1951)
28. Faraon / Pharaoh (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1966)
29. Plein soleil / Purple Noon (René Clément, 1960)
30. Le orme / Footprints on the Moon (Luigi Bazzoni, 1975)
31. Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie / The Saragossa Manuscript (Wojciech Has, 1965)
32. Singapore Sling: Ο άνθρωπος που αγάπησε ένα πτώμα / Singapore Sling: The Man Who Loved a Corpse (Nikos Nikolaidis, 1990)
33. Glitterbug (Derek Jarman, 1994)
34. Les feluettes / Lilies (John Greyson, 1996)
35. The Mystical Rose (Michael Lee, 1976)
36. Dust (Marion Hänsel, 1985)
37. Reflections in a Golden Eye (John Huston, 1967)
38. Victim (Basil Dearden, 1961)
39. Морето (Петър Донев, 1967) / The Sea (Peter Donev, 1967)
40. Последно лято (Христо Христов, 1974) / The Last Summer (Christo Christov, 1974)
41. Household Saints (Nancy Savoca, 1993)
42. Verführung am Meer / Seduction by the Sea (Jovan Živanović, 1963)
43. Naked Tango (Leonard Schrader, 1990)
44. Innocent Blood (John Landis, 1992)
45. To teleftaio psemma / A Matter of Dignity (Michael Cacoyannis, 1958)
46. Door (Banmei Takahashi, 1988)
47. Meet Joe Black (Martin Brest, 1998)
48. Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994)
49. Ai no Bōrei / Empire of Passion (Nagisa Ōshima, 1978)
50. The Prize (Mark Robson, 1963)
51. Die Halbstarken / Teenage Wolfpack (Georg Tressler, 1956)
52. Heart of Midnight (Matthew Chapman, 1988)
53. Brzezina / The Birch Wood (Andrzej Wajda, 1970)
54. Jigokumon / Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1953)
55. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
56. Zgodba ki je ni / Non-existent Story (Matjaž Klopčič, 1967)
57. Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan, 1956)
58. Kaidan otoshiana / The Pit of Death (Kōji Shima, 1968)
59. No abras nunca esa puerta / Never Open That Door (Carlos Hugo Christensen, 1952)
60. Beatrice Cenci / Castle of the Banned Lovers (Riccardo Freda, 1956)
61. Le Cœur battant / The French Game (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, 1960)
62. Kalde spor / Cold Tracks (Arne Skouen, 1962)
63. Spider Baby, or the Maddest Story Ever Told (Jack Hill, 1967)
64. O Bobo / The Jester (José Álvaro Morais, 1987)
65. Nemesis (Albert Pyun, 1992)
66. Death Machine (Stephen Norrington, 1994)
67. Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)
68. I visionari / The Visionaries (Maurizio Ponzi, 1968)
69. Mystère / Dagger Eyes (Carlo Vanzina, 1983)
70. Darling (John Schlesinger, 1965)
71. Harem Suare / Last Harem (Ferzan Özpetek, 1999)
72. You Never Can Tell (Lou Breslow, 1951)
73. Le monache di Sant’Arcangelo / The Nun and the Devil (Domenico Paolella, 1973)
74. Ai futatabi / To Love Again (Kon Ichikawa, 1971)
75. Barnvagnen / The Baby Carriage (Bo Widerberg, 1963)
76. Nightmare (Maxwell Shane, 1956)
77. Luminous Procuress (Steven Arnold, 1971)
78. Appointment with a Shadow (Richard Carlson, 1957)
79. The Philadelphia Experiment (Stewart Raffill, 1984)
80. Giornata nera per l'ariete / The Fifth Cord (Luigi Bazzoni, 1971)
81. Tenshi no kōkotsu / Ecstasy of the Angels (Kōji Wakamatsu, 1972)
82. She (Irving Pichel & Lansing C. Holden, 1935)
83. Der schweigende Stern / The Silent Star aka First Spaceship on Venus (Kurt Maetzig, 1960)
84. Ukigusa no yado / Inn of the Floating Weeds (Seijun Suzuki, 1957)
85. Score (Radley Matzger, 1973)
86. El Vampiro / The Vampire (Fernando Méndez, 1957)
87. La casa nel tempo / The House of Clocks (Lucio Fulci, 1989)
88. La casa de Bernarda Alba / The House of Bernarda Alba (Mario Camus, 1987)
89. Jonathan (Hans W. Geissendörfer, 1970)
90. Jengi / The Gang (Åke Lindman, 1963)
91. Skatetown U.S.A. (William A. Levey, 1979)
92. Älskarinnan / The Mistress (Vilgot Sjöman, 1962)
93. Grad / The City (Vojislav ‘Kokan’ Rakonjac, Marko Babac & Živojin Pavlović, 1963)
94. Uccellacci e uccellini / The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1966)
95. Jennifer (Brice Mack, 1978)
96. Pathos – Segreta inquietudine / Obsession: A Taste of Fear (Piccio Raffanini, 1988)
97. The Outsiders (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983)
98. Dante no es únicamente severo / Dante Is Not Only Severe (Jacinto Esteva & Joaquim Jordà, 1967)
99. Modern Girls (Jerry Kramer, 1986)
100. The King of the Kickboxers (Lucas Lowe, 1990)
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