Important Films For Learning

 

 

 

 

[1915]

 

The Birth of a Nation

 

American Silent Film.

Directed by D. W. Griffith.

 

[1925]

 

Battleship Potempkin

 

Russian Silent Film.

Directed by Sergei Eisenstein.

The film has been called one of the most influential propaganda films.

 

[1926]

 

The General

 

American Silent Comedy Film.

Released by United Artists based upon the Great Train Chase.

 

[1927]

 

Metropolis

 

German Expressionist Science-Fiction Film.

Directed by Fritz Lang.

 

[1941]

 

Citizen Kane

 

American Drama Film.

Directed by and starring Orson Welles.

 

[1948]

 

Bicycle Thieves

 

Italian Neorealist Film.

Directed by Vittorio De Sica.

 

Rope

 

American Thriller Film.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

 

[1950]

 

Rashomon

 

Japanese Crime Mystery Film.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

 

[1953]

 

Roman Holiday

 

Romantic Comedy Film.

Directed and produced by William Wyler.

 

Tokyo Story

 

Japanese Film.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu.

 

[1956]

 

The Ten Commandments

 

American Epic Film.

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille.

 

[1958]

 

Vertigo

 

Psychological Thriller Film.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

 

[1959]

 

The 400 Blows

 

French Film.

Directed by François Truffaut.

One of the defining films of the French New Wave.

 

[1960]

 

Breathless

 

French Romantic Crime Drama Film.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

 

[1962]

 

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

 

French Short Film.

Directed by Robert Enrico.

 

Lawrence of Arabia

 

British Film.

Directed by David Lean.

 

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

 

German Silent Horror Film.

Directed by Robert Wiene.

It is one of the most influential of German Expressionist Films.

 

[1963]

 

The Birds

 

Horror Film.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

 

[1965]

 

The Sound of Music

 

American Musical Film.

Directed by Robert Wise.

 

[1966]

 

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Italian Epic Spaghetti Western Film.

Directed by Sergio Leone.

 

[1968]

 

Once Upon a Time in the West

Italian Eepic Spaghetti Western Film.

Directed by Sergio Leone.

 

[1969]

 

Mackenna's Gold

 

Western Film.

Directed by J. Lee Thompson.

 

[1971]

 

Fiddler on the Roof

 

Directed by Norman Jewison.

 

[1972]

 

The Godfather

 

American Epic Crime Film.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

 

[1980]

 

The Gods Must Be Crazy

 

This is the first in The Gods Must Be Crazy Series of Films.

Directed by Jamie Uys.

 

[1984]

 

Once Upon a Time in America

 

Italian Epic Crime Film.

Directed by Sergio Leone.

 

[1988]

 

Cinema Paradiso

 

Italian Drama Film.

Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore.

 

[1991]

 

Thelma & Louise

 

Directed by Ridley Scott.

 

[1994]

 

The Shawshank Redemption

 

American Drama Film.

Directed by Frank Darabont.

 

[1995]

 

Dead Man Walking

 

American Drama Film.

Directed by Tim Robbins.

 

[1997]

 

Life Is Beautiful

 

Italian Film.

Directed by Roberto Benigni.

 

Titanic

 

American Romance and Disaster Film.

Directed byJames Cameron.

 

[1998]

 

Saving Private Ryan

 

American War Film.

Directed by Steven Spielberg.

 

[2000]

 

Almost Famous

 

Comedy-Ddrama Film.

Written and Directed by Cameron Crowe.

 

Cast Away

 

Drama Film.

Directed by Robert Zemeckis.

 

Gladiator

 

Historical Epic Film.

Directed by Ridley Scott.

 

In the Mood for Love

 

Hong Kong Film.

Directed by Wong Kar-wai,

 

Snatch

 

Crime Film.

Directed by British filmmaker Guy Ritchie.

 

[2001]

 

Legally Blonde

 

American Comedy Film.

Directed by Robert Luketic.

 

[2002]

 

City of God

Brazilian Crime Drama Film.

Directed by Fernando Meirelles and Co-Directed by Kátia Lund.

 

He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not

 

French Psychological Thriller Film.

Directed by Laetitia Colombani.

 

[2004]

 

Crash

 

American Ddrama Film.

Co-written, Produced, and Directed by Paul Haggis.

 

Million Dollar Baby

 

American Sports Drama Film.

Directed by Clint Eastwood.

 

Passion of the Christ

 

Drama Film.

Directed by Mel Gibson.

 

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

 

Documentary Film, About The Art of Film Editing.

Directed by Wendy Apple.

 

[2006]

 

Apocalypto

 

American Epic Action, Adventure Film.

Directed by Mel Gibson.

 

The Last King of Scotland

 

British Drama Film.

Directed by Kevin Macdonald.

 

[2009]

 

Precious

 

American Drama Film.

Directed by Lee Daniels.

 

The Blind Side

 

American Semi-Biographical Drama Film.

It is Written and Directed by John Lee Hancock.

 

The Hangover

 

American Comedy Film.

Directed by Todd Phillips.

 

 

 

 

 

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