Stanley Kubrick’s films evoke a diverse range of influences, which is no surprise given that he was a voracious cinephile during his life. Thanks to an in-depth BFI interview with his close friend, executive producer and brother-in-law Jan Harlan, there is a master list of 90 of Kubrick’s favorite movies.
Annie Hall – Woody Allen, 1977.
Husbands and Wives – Woody Allen, 1992.
Manhattan – Woody Allen, 1979.
Radio Days – Woody Allen, 1987.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller – Robert Altman, 1971.
If… – Lindsay Anderson, 1968.
Boogie Nights – Paul Thomas Anderson, 1998.
La notte – Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961.
Harold and Maude – Hal Ashby, 1971.
Pelle the Conqueror – Bille August, 1987.
Babette’s Feast – Gabriel Axel, 1987.
Casque d’Or – Jacques Becker, 1952.
Édouard et Caroline – Jacques Becker, 1951.
Cries and Whispers – Ingmar Bergman, 1972.
Smiles of a Summer Night – Ingmar Bergman, 1955.
Wild Strawberries – Ingmar Bergman, 1972.
Deliverance – John Boorman, 1972.
Henry V – Kenneth Branagh, 1989.
Modern Romance – Albert Brooks, 1981.
Children of Paradise – Marcel Carné, 1945.
City Lights – Charles Chaplin, 1931.
The Bank Dick – Edward Cline, 1940.
Beauty and the Beast – Jean Cocteau, 1946.
Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola, 1979.
The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola, 1972.
The Silence of the Lambs – Jonathan Demme, 1991.
Alexander Nevsky – Sergei Eisenstein, 1938.
The Spirit of the Beehive – Victor Erice, 1973.
La Strada – Federico Fellini, 1954.
I Vitelloni – Federico Fellini, 1953.
La Kermesse Héroïque – Jacques Feyder, 1935.
Tora! Tora! Tora! – Richard Fleischer, 1970.
The Fireman’s Ball – Miloš Forman, 1967.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Milos Forman, 1975.
Cabaret – Bob Fosse, 1972.
The Exorcist – William Friedkin, 1973.
Get Carter – Mike Hodges, 1971.
The Terminal Man – Mike Hodges, 1974.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Tobe Hooper, 1974.
Hell’s Angels – Howard Hughes, 1930.
The Treasure of Sierra Madre – John Huston, 1947.
Dekalog – Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990.
Rashomon – Akira Kurosawa, 1950.
Seven Samurai – Akira Kurosawa, 1954.
Throne of Blood – Akira Kurosawa, 1957.
Metropolis – Fritz Lang, 1927.
An American Werewolf in London – John Landis, 1981.
Abigail’s Party – Mike Leigh, 1977.
La bonne année – Claude Lelouch, 1973.
Once Upon a Time in the West – Sergio Leone, 1968.
Very Nice, Very Nice – Arthur Lipsett, 1961.
American Graffiti – George Lucas, 1973.
Dog Day Afternoon – Sidney Lumet, 1975.
Eraserhead – David Lynch, 1976.
House of Games – David Mamet, 1987.
The Red Squirrel – Julio Medem, 1993.
Bob le flambeur – Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956.
Closely Watched Trains – Jiří Menzel, 1966.
Pacific 231 – Jean Mitry, 1949.
Roger & Me – Michael Moore, 1989.
Henry V – Laurence Olivier, 1944.
The Earrings of Madame de… – Max Ophuls, 1953.
Le Plaisir – Max Ophuls, 1951.
La Ronde – Max Ophuls, 1950.
Rosemary’s Baby – Roman Polanski, 1968.
The Battle of Algiers – Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966.
Heimat – Edgar Reitz, 1984.
Blood Wedding – Carlos Saura, 1981.
Cría Cuervos – Carlos Saura, 1975.
Peppermint Frappé – Carlos Saura, 1967.
Alien – Ridley Scott, 1977.
The Anderson Platoon – Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1967.
White Men Can’t Jump – Ron Shelton, 1992.
Miss Julie – Alf Sjöberg, 1951.
The Phantom Carriage – Victor Sjöström, 1921.
The Vanishing – George Sluizer, 1988.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Steven Spielberg, 1977.
E.T. the Extra-terrestrial – Steven Spielberg, 1982.
Mary Poppins – Robert Stevenson, 1964.
Platoon – Oliver Stone, 1986.
Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino, 1994.
The Sacrifice – Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986.
Solaris – Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972.
The Emigrants – Jan Troell, 1970.
The Blue Angel – Josef von Sternberg, 1930.
Danton – Andrzej Wajda, 1984.
Girl Friends – Claudia Weill, 1978.
The Cars that Ate Paris – Peter Weir, 1974.
Picnic at Hanging Rock – Peter Weir, 1975.
Citizen Kane – Orson Welles, 1941.
Roxie Hart – William Wellman, 1942.
Ådalen 31 – Bo Widerberg, 1969.
The Siege of Manchester – Herbert Wise, 1965.