Essential Films
Essential Films
#A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- 42nd Street (1933)
- 5 Fingers (1952)
- The 39 Steps (1935)
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
- Ace in the Hole (1951)
- Adam’s Rib (1947)
- African Queen The (1951)
- Alice Adams (1935)
- Aliens (1986)
- All About Eve (1950)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- All the King’s Men (1949)
- Amadeus (1984)
- American Graffiti (1973)
- Americanization of Emily The (1964)
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
- Anna Karenina (1935)
- Apollo 13 (1995)
- Arsenic And Old Lace (1944)
- Asphalt Jungle The (1950)
- The Apartment (1960)
- Bachelor Mother (1939)
- Back to the Future (1985)
- Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
- Ball of Fire (1941)
- Battleground (1949)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
- Big Country The (1958)
- Big Sleep The (1946)
- Blackboard Jungle (1955)
- Body and Soul (1947)
- Bombshell (1933)
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- Born Yesterday (1950)
- Boys Town (1938)
- Braveheart (1995)
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
- Breaking Away (1979)
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- Brief Encounter (1945)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Brute Force (1947)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Cabaret (1972)
- Caine Mutiny The (1954)
- Camille (1936)
- Captain Blood (1935)
- Captains Courageous (1937)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
- Champ The (1931)
- Champion (1949)
- Chariots of Fire (1981)
- Chinatown (1974)
- Citadel The (1938)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- Clockwork Orange A (1971)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- Color Purple The (1985)
- Come Back Little Sheba (1952)
- Command Decision (1948)
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- Corn is Green The (1945)
- Counsellor at Law (1933)
- Crossfire (1947)
- Crowd The (1928)
- D.O.A. (1950)
- Dances With Wolves (1990)
- Dark Victory (1939)
- David Copperfield (1935)
- Dawn Patrol The (1938)
- Day of the Jackal The (1973)
- Day the Earth Stood Still The (1951)
- Dead End (1937)
- Defiant Ones The (1958)
- Deliverance (1972)
- Designing Woman (1957)
- Desperate Hours The (1955)
- Destry Rides Again (1939)
- Devil and Miss Jones The (1941)
- Dial M for Murder (1954)
- Diary of Anne Frank The (1959)
- Dinner at Eight (1933)
- Dirty Dozen The (1967)
- Dirty Harry (1971)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- Dodsworth (1936)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- Double Life A (1947)
- Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1963)
- Dracula (1931)
- The Deer Hunter (1978)
- Face In The Crowd A (1957)
- Fall of the Roman Empire The (1964)
- Farmer’s Daughter The (1947)
- Father of the Bride (1950)
- Field of Dreams (1989)
- Five Star Final (1931)
- Flesh and the Devil (1926)
- Footlight Parade (1933)
- Foreign Affair A (1948)
- Foreign Correspondent (1940)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Fortune Cookie The (1966)
- Four Daughters (1938)
- Frankenstein (1931)
- Freaks (1932)
- Free Soul A (1931)
- Frenzy (1972)
- Friendly Persuasion (1956)
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- From Russia With Love (1963)
- Fury (1936)
- The French Connection (1971)
- Gandhi (1982)
- Gaslight (1944)
- Gentleman Jim (1942)
- Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
- Giant (1956)
- Going My Way (1944)
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
- Goldfinger (1964)
- Gone With the Wind (1939)
- Good Earth The (1937)
- Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)
- Grand Hotel (1932)
- Great Escape The (1963)
- Great McGinty The (1940)
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
- Gunga Din (1939)
- The Godfather Part II (1974)
- The Godfather (1972)
- The Good The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
- The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
- I Remember Mama (1948)
- I Want to Live! (1958)
- Imitation of Life (1934)
- In A Lonely Place (1950)
- In Cold Blood (1967)
- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- In Which We Serve (1942)
- Inherit the Wind (1960)
- Intruder in the Dust (1949)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
- Jaws (1975)
- Jazz Singer The (1927)
- Jezebel (1938)
- Johnny Belinda (1948)
- Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
- Julius Caesar (1953)
- Key Largo (1948)
- Killing The (1956)
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
- King and I The (1956)
- King Kong (1933)
- Kings Row (1942)
- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
- Lady Eve The (1941)
- Lady for a Day (1933)
- Ladykillers The (1955)
- Lavender Hill Mob The (1951)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Letter The (1940)
- Letter to Three Wives A (1949)
- Libeled Lady (1936)
- Life With Father (1947)
- Lilies of the Field (1963)
- Lion in Winter The (1968)
- Little Foxes The (1941)
- Little Women (1933)
- Lives of a Bengal Lancer The (1935)
- Lolita (1962)
- Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)
- Longest Day The (1962)
- Lost Horizon (1937)
- Love Affair (1939)
- Love Me Tonight (1932)
- Lust for Life (1956)
- The Lady Vanishes (1938)
- The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
- The Lost Weekend (1945)
- A Man For All Seasons (1966)
- M (1931)
- Mad Max (1979)
- Madame Bovary (1949)
- Magnificent Ambersons The (1942)
- Magnificent Seven The (1960)
- Major and the Minor The (1942)
- Maltese Falcon The (1941)
- Man Who Came to Dinner The (1942)
- Man Who Shot Liberty Valance The (1962)
- Man Who Would Be King The (1975)
- Manchurian Candidate The (1962)
- Mark of Zorro The (1940)
- Marty (1955)
- Mary Poppins (1964)
- Mating Season The (1951)
- Meet John Doe (1941)
- Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
- Merrily We Live (1938)
- Midnight (1939)
- Mildred Pierce (1945)
- Miracle of Morgan’s Creek The (1944)
- Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
- Miracle Worker The (1962)
- Mister Roberts (1955)
- More the Merrier The (1943)
- Morocco (1930)
- Mortal Storm The (1940)
- Most Dangerous Game The (1932)
- Mouthpiece The (1932)
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- My Fair Lady (1964)
- My Favorite Wife (1940)
- My Man Godfrey (1936)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
- Naked Spur The (1953)
- National Velvet (1944)
- Network (1976)
- Night of the Hunter The (1955)
- Ninotchka (1939)
- North By Northwest (1959)
- Notorious (1946)
- Now Voyager (1942)
- Nun’s Story The (1959)
- Oklahoma! (1955)
- On the Waterfront (1954)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
- One Foot in Heaven (1941)
- One Two Three (1961)
- One Way Passage (1932)
- Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
- Ordinary People (1980)
- Our Town (1940)
- Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
- Out of the Past (1947)
- Outlaw Josey Wales The (1976)
- Ox-Bow Incident The (1943)
- Palm Beach Story The (1942)
- Paper Moon (1973)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Patton (1970)
- Penthouse (1933)
- Petrified Forest The (1936)
- Philadelphia Story The (1940)
- Picnic (1955)
- Picture of Dorian Gray The (1945)
- Place in the Sun A (1951)
- Point Blank (1967)
- Political Campaign Films
- Postman Always Rings Twice The (1946)
- Pride and Prejudice (1940)
- Pride of the Yankees The (1942)
- Prisoner of Zenda The (1937)
- Psycho (1960)
- Public Enemy The (1931)
- Pygmalion (1938)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- Raisin in the Sun A (1961)
- Random Harvest (1942)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Red Dust (1932)
- Red River (1948)
- Red Shoes The (1948)
- Roaring Twenties The (1939)
- Rocky (1976)
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- Rose Tattoo The (1955)
- The Razor’s Edge (1946)
- Saboteur (1942)
- Sabrina (1954)
- Sahara (1943)
- San Francisco (1936)
- Scaramouche (1952)
- Schindler’s List (1993)
- Sea Hawk The (1940)
- Search The (1948)
- Separate Tables (1958)
- Sergeant York (1941)
- Set-Up The (1949)
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- Shane (1953)
- She Done Him Wrong (1933)
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
- Ship of Fools (1965)
- Shop Around The Corner The (1940)
- Sign of the Cross The (1932)
- Since You Went Away (1944)
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
- Smiling Lieutenant The (1931)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- Some Like it Hot (1959)
- Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
- Song of Bernadette The (1943)
- Sounder (1972)
- Spartacus (1960)
- Stage Door (1937)
- Stagecoach (1939)
- Stalag 17 (1953)
- Star is Born A (1954)
- Star Wars (1977)
- Stella Dallas (1937)
- Story of Louis Pasteur The (1936)
- Strangers on a Train (1951)
- Stratton Story The (1949)
- Street Scene (1931)
- Streetcar Named Desire A (1951)
- Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
- Sunrise (1927) – full length review!
- Sunset Blvd. (1950)
- Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
- Swing Time (1936)
- The Searchers (1956)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- The Sting (1973)
- Taking of the Pelham One Two Three The (1974)
- Tale of Two Cities A (1935)
- Talk of the Town The (1942)
- Ten Commandments The (1956)
- Terms of Endearment (1983)
- These Three (1936)
- They Live By Night (1949)
- They Won’t Forget (1937)
- Third Man The (1949)
- Thousand Clowns A (1965)
- Three Comrades (1938)
- Titanic (1997)
- To Be or Not to Be (1942)
- To Catch a Thief (1955)
- To Have and Have Not (1944)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Tom Jones (1963)
- Tootsie (1982)
- Top Hat (1935)
- Topkapi (1964)
- Topper (1937)
- Touch of Evil (1958)
- Treasure of the Sierra Madre The (1948)
- Trouble in Paradise (1932)
- Twelve O’Clock High (1949)
- The Wild Bunch (1969)
- Watch on the Rhine (1943)
- West Side Story (1961)
- Westerner The (1940)
- White Banners (1938)
- White Christmas (1954)
- White Heat (1949)
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- Winchester ’73 (1950)
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
- Wizard of Oz The (1939)
- Woman of the Year (1942)
- Women The (1939)
- Wuthering Heights (1939)