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I LOVE Movies 466

06.22.2004

1:22 pm

After the Big List of Books last week, I wanted to put up a list of movies. This list is really about seven years old; I created it (with the use of several sources, the film teacher at school, and the invaluable Hubs) to be a companion list to something I had already created for school, a reading list for cultural literacy. So this isn't necessarily a list of the best films, or of my favorites (although there's a lot of me in here), it's a list designed for kids at school to work off of if they want to develop a sense of film literacy. Remember, it's seven years old, so there's a lot missing, although I did add some newer ones at the end. (That's more room for you to put stuff in of your own.)

(Some of it is an alphabetical order, but not all of it. Just so you know.)

Following a similar game plan to the book list, let's
  • bold films you've seen
  • italicize films you've seen part of, or walked out on
  • underline films you own in some video format (realizing that not everyone chooses to own movies when you can rent them, of course)
  • add three films of your own
  • and, if you don't mind, email me at [email protected] so I can see what you've added! Thanks.
  1. Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
  2. Affair to Remember, An (1957)
  3. African Queen, The (1951)
  4. Alien (1979)
  5. All About Eve (1950)
  6. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
  7. All the President's Men (1976)
  8. American Graffiti (1973)
  9. American in Paris, An (1951)
  10. Annie Hall (1977)
  11. Apocalypse Now (1979)
  12. Awful Truth, The ( 1937)
  13. Back to the Future (1985)
  14. Bambi (1942)
  15. Bank Dick, The (1940)
  16. Batman (1989)
  17. Ben-Hur (1959)
  18. Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  19. Birth of a Nation, The (1915) Also known as The Clansman
  20. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  21. Boys Town (1938)
  22. Breakfast Club, The (1985)
  23. Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
  24. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  25. Caine Mutiny, The (1954)
  26. Casablanca (1943)
  27. Chariots of Fire (1981)
  28. Chinatown (1974)
  29. Citizen Kane (1941)
  30. City Lights (1931)
  31. Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
  32. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
  33. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  34. Day for Night Original title: La Nuit Americaine (1973)
  35. Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
  36. Deer Hunter, The (1978)
  37. Destry Rides Again (1939)
  38. Dirty Harry (1971)
  39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
  40. Double Indemnity (1944)
  41. Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  42. Duck Soup (1933)
  43. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  44. Easy Rider (1969)
  45. Fantasia (1940)
  46. Field of Dreams (1989)
  47. Forrest Gump (1994)
  48. Frankenstein (1931)
  49. French Connection, The (1971)
  50. From Here to Eternity (1953)
  51. Gandhi (1982)
  52. Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
  53. Gigi (1958)
  54. Godfather, The (1972)
  55. Godfather, Part II, The (1974)
  56. Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956)
  57. Going My Way (1944)
  58. Gone With the Wind (1939)
  59. Graduate, The (1967)
  60. Grand Hotel (1932)
  61. Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  62. Great Dictator, The (1940)
  63. High Noon (1952)]
  64. Holiday Inn (1942)
  65. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
  66. Invasion of the Body-Snatchers (1956)
  67. It Happened One Night (1934)
  68. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  69. Jaws (1975)
  70. Jazz Singer, The (1927)
  71. King Kong (1933)
  72. Lion King, The (1994)
  73. Little Big Man (1970)
  74. M (1931)
  75. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
  76. Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
  77. Marty (1955)
  78. Mary Poppins (1964)
  79. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  80. Mildred Pierce (1945)
  81. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
  82. Modern Times (1936)
  83. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  84. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
  85. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
  86. My Darling Clementine (1946)
  87. Ninotchka (1939)
  88. North by Northwest (1959)
  89. On the Waterfront (1954)
  90. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  91. Patton (1970)
  92. Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
  93. Pride of the Yankees, The (1942)
  94. Psycho (1960)
  95. Public Enemy (1931)
  96. Raging Bull (1980)
  97. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  98. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
  99. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
  100. Rashomon (1950)
  101. Rear Window (1954)
  102. Rebel Without a Cause (1965)
  103. Red River (1948)
  104. Rocky (1976)
  105. Rocky Horror Picture Show, The
  106. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
  107. Schindler's List (1993)
  108. Sergeant York (1941)
  109. Shaft (1971)
  110. Shane (1953)
  111. She Done Him Wrong (1933)
  112. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
  113. Sleeper (1973)
  114. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
  115. Some Like It Hot (1959)
  116. Sound of Music, The (1965)
  117. Stagecoach (1939)
  118. Star is Born, A (1954)
  119. Star Wars (1977)
  120. Empire Strikes Back, The (1980)
  121. Return of the Jedi (1983)
  122. Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
  123. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  124. Taxi Driver (1976)
  125. Ten Commandments, The (1954)
  126. Terminator, The (1984)
  127. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  128. Things to Come (1936)
  129. Third Man, The (1949)
  130. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  131. Tom Jones (1963)
  132. Top Hat (1935)
  133. Touch of Evil (1958)
  134. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
  135. Triumph of the Will, The (1936)
  136. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  137. White Christmas
  138. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
  139. Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
  140. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  141. Young Frankenstein (1974)
  142. Animal Crackers (the Marx Brothers)
  143. Beau Geste
  144. La Cage Aux Folles
  145. The Christmas Story
  146. The Color Purple
  147. Dirty Dancing
  148. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  149. Mr. Roberts
  150. The Petrified Forest
  151. Pulp Fiction
  152. Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli)
  153. The Seven-Year Itch
  154. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
  155. Beauty and the Beast
  156. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
  157. The Lord of the Rings (any or all of them)

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