Classic Films / Auteur Cinema Archive ©

Classic Films / Auteur Cinema Archive ©

Auteur Cinema Archive is a curated repository celebrating the unique voices of filmmakers who shape cinema through personal vision and artistic integrity. From timeless classics to contemporary masterworks, we highlight films where the director’s signature is unmistakable—works that transcend convention and reflect a singular point of view. Whether rediscovering icons of the past or exploring bold new auteurs, our archive honors the craft, courage, and creativity that define true auteur cinema.

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Classic Films / Auteur Cinema Archive ©
  • Man with a Movie Camera (1929, USSR) by Dziga Vertov

    Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 Soviet silent documentary film, directed by Dziga Vertov, filmed by his brother Mikhail Kaufman, and edited by Vertov's wife Yelizaveta Svilova. Kaufman also appears as the titular Man.
    Vertov's feature film, produced by the film studio All-Ukrainia...

  • Dementia 13 (1963, United States) by Francis Ford Coppola

    A scheming widow hatches a bold plan to acquire her late husband's inheritance, unaware that she is being targeted by an ax murderer who lurks in the family's estate.
    Dementia 13 (released in the United Kingdom as The Haunted and the Hunted) is a 1963 horror thriller film written and directed by ...

  • Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, USA) by Maya Deren, Alexandr Hackenschmied

    A woman (Maya Deren) notices someone on the street as she walks back to her home. She enters her room and falls asleep in a chair. As soon as she drifts off, she experiences a dream in which she repeatedly tries to chase a mysterious hooded figure with a mirror for a face but is unable to catch i...

  • Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)(1929, France) by Luis Buñuel

    A French silent short film directed, produced and edited by Luis Buñuel, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Salvador Dalí. Buñuel's first film, it was initially released in a limited capacity at Studio des Ursulines in Paris, but became popular and ran for eight months.
    Un Chien Andalou has no...

  • Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (Germany, 1922) by F. W. Murnau.

    Based on a screenplay by Henrik Galeen, it stars Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife (Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town.
    Nosferatu was produced by Prana Film and is an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 18...

  • The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962, United States) by Joseph Green

    The Brain That Wouldn't Die (also known as The Head That Wouldn't Die or The Brain That Couldn't Die) is a 1962 American science fiction horror film directed by Joseph Green and written by Green and Rex Carlton. The film was completed in 1959 under the working title The Black Door but was not the...

  • Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966, United States) by Harold P. Warren

    It stars Warren, Tom Neyman, John Reynolds, and Diane Mahree. The film follows a family getting lost during their vacation road trip through the Texas desert and becoming stranded at the lodge of a polygynous pagan cult led by the Master who decides their fate.
    Warren was an insurance and fertili...

  • Driller Killer (1979/USA) by Abel Ferrara

    A young artist, Reno Miller (Abel Ferrara) and his girlfriend Carol enter a Catholic church. Reno approaches an elderly bearded man kneeling at the pulpit. Although Reno seems to recognize the man as his long-lost father, he is merely a derelict. After the man seizes Reno's hand, Reno grabs Carol...

  • The Terror (1963, United States) Roger Corman

    The film stars Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson, the latter of whom portrays a French officer who is seduced by a woman who is also a shapeshifting devil.
    The film is sometimes linked to Corman's Poe cycle, a series of movies based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe; however, The Terror is not based...

  • The Little Shop of Horror (1960/USA) by Roger Corman

    A farce about an inadequate florist's assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human flesh and blood.

  • Battleship Potemkin (1925/Russia) by Sergei Eisenstein

    The film is set in June 1905; the protagonists of the film are the members of the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin, a battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet.

  • The Night of the Living Dead (1968/USA) by George A. Romero

    In this classic yet still creepy horror film, strangers hold up in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse and battle constant attacks from dead locals who have been brought back to life by mysterious radiation.

  • The Lost World (1925/USA) by Harry O. Hoyt

    From a lost expedition to a tepui in Venezuela, Paula White brings the journal of her father explorer Maple White to the eccentric Professor Challenger in London. The journal features sketches of dinosaurs which is enough proof for Challenger to publicly announce that dinosaurs still walk the ear...

  • Carnival Of Souls (1962/USA) by Herk Harvey

    Mary Henry (Hilligoss) is riding in a car with two other young women when some men challenge them to a drag race. As they speed across a bridge, the women's car plunges over the side into the river. The police spend three hours dragging the murky, fast-running water without success. Mary miraculo...

  • House On Haunted Hill (1959/USA) by William Castle

    Eccentric millionaire Frederick Loren (Vincent Price) invites five people to a "party" he is throwing for his fourth wife, Annabelle (Carol Ohmart), in an allegedly haunted house he has rented, promising to give them each $10,000 with the stipulation that they must stay the entire night in the ho...

  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1922/Germany) by Robert Wiene

    A man named Francis relates a story about his best friend Alan and his fiancée Jane. Alan takes him to a fair where they meet Dr. Caligari, who exhibits a somnambulist, Cesare, that can predict the future. When Alan asks how long he has to live, Cesare says he has until dawn. The prophecy comes t...