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| Oak Street Cinema where I used to hang out on the University of Minnesota campus and watched a lot of the films on my list |
| Classic Films |
| Casablanca On The Waterfront It's A Wonderful Life Citizen Kane A Streetcar Named Desire Sunset Boulevard To Have And Have Not The Godfather The Bridge On The River Kwai Key Largo The Graduate All About Eve Gone With The Wind The Wizard Of Oz The African Queen Lawrence of Arabia Some Like It Hot Singing In The Rain One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest The Maltese Falcon Taxi Driver Raging Bull Bonnie and Clyde Apocalypse Now Mr. Smith Goes To Washington Sunrise The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre To Kill A Mockingbird It Happened One Night His Girl Friday Midnight Cowboy The Best Years Of Our Lives Doctor Zhivago West Side Story King Kong (1933) Godzilla (1952) Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs Fantasia 101 Dalmatians (animated) Pinocchio Dumbo Cinderella The Philadelphia Story From Here To Eternity The Sting All's Quiet On The Western Front (1930) The Sound Of Music Mary Poppins Rebel Without A Cause East Of Eden Giant Tootsie The Caine Mutiny Network The Manchurian Candidate An American In Paris The French Connection Ben-Hur (1959) Wuthering Heights The Gold Rush City Lights Modern Times Our Hospitality Steamboat Bill, Jr. The General American Graffiti Rocky The Deer Hunter Duck Soup Mutiny On The Bounty (1935) Frankenstein Dracula Easy Rider Patton The Jazz Singer (1927) My Fair Lady Breakfast At Tiffany's A Place In The Sun The Apartment Guess Who's Coming To Dinner Bringing Up Baby Yankee Doodle Dandy Angels With Dirty Faces Grease Frenzy Gentleman Prefer Blondes Night Of The Hunter |
| Westerns |
| A Fistful Of Dollars Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid For A Few Dollars More Stagecoach The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly True Grit Hang 'Em High The Searchers High Plains Drifter El Dorado Unforgiven Dances With Wolves The Wild Bunch (1969) Shane Young Guns Young Guns II High Noon Pale Rider She Wore A Yellow Ribbon Drums Along The Mohawk Fort Apache Rio Grande Tombstone Winchester '73 How The West Was Won My Darling Clementine |
| Modern Classics |
| Fargo American Beauty The Truman Show Forrest Gump Pulp Fiction Purple Rain Gladiator Erin Brockavich Toy Story Toy Story 2 The Silence Of The Lambs Rain Man A Few Good Men Platoon Gandi Amadeus Traffic The Cell Braveheart Beauty And The Beast Aladdin The Lion King The Sixth Sense Titanic Selena Stand And Deliver Road To Perdition Lord Of The Rings series Master And Commander Shrek Shrek 2 Finding Nemo Monsters Inc. Shark Tale |
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| Jules And Jim Breathless La Strada Nosferatu Metropolis The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari Children Of The Lost City Delicatessen Grand Illusion The Bicycle Thief Battleship Potemkin Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon El Mariachi The 400 Blows The Green Room Samuri I Y Tu Mamá También El Sexo Y Lucia Akira Kurosawa films (samurai) The Throne Of Blood Hidden Fortress Yojimbo The Seven Samurai Ran Rashomon Sanjuro |
| Films about a morally ambiguous, tough-guy detective investigating a crime or a group of people trying to commit the perfect crime. The detective is usually obsessed with something, maybe a woman or money or both. The films use a lot of shadows and night scenes to emphasis the darkness of the world that the characters inhabit and the soul of the detective himself, even though he is often the only force of reason, good, and light. |
| Foreign Films |
| Classic Film Noirs: (Black and white films from 1940's and 1950's)) The Maltese Falcon The Big Sleep Murder My Sweet Double Indemnity Kiss Me Deadly Touch Of Evil Lady From Shanghai Force Of Evil Out Of The Past The Big Heat The Killing The Asphalt Jungle The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) The Third Man Vertigo (in color, but part of the period) Laura Modern Film Noirs (in color, either set in the past or in the present time) Chinatown LA Confidential Devil In A Blue Dress The Long Goodbye Seven The Usual Suspects Shaft Fargo Basic Instinct The Negotiator Insomnia Man On Fire The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) Mulholland Falls Body Heat The Talented Mr. Ripley The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) Boiler Room Get Carter Eye See You Future/Sci-Fi Noirs (films with a detective story wrapped in science fiction) Blade Runner The X-Files (tv shows) The X-Files: Fight The Future Parodies of the Noir films Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid Who Framed Roger Rabbit? |
| Film Noir |
| Science Fiction |
| Star Trek Star Wars Episode One The Phantom Menace Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Star Wars A New Hope Star Trek III: The Search For Spock Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home Star Wars Return Of The Jedi Star Trek V: The Final Frontier Star Wars Episode Two Attack Of The Clones Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Contact Star Trek Generations The Terminator Star Trek First Contact Terminator 2: Judgment Day Star Trek Insurrection The Fifth Element Alien The Day The Earth Stood Still Aliens Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Alien 3 Jurassic Park Jurassic Park 3 The Lost World: Jurassic Park E. T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 2001: A Space Odyssey The Matrix series Total Recall Dark City THX-1138 Signs Minority Report |
| Sci-Fi Comedies |
| Ghostbusters Ghostbusters II Back To The Future Back To The Future II GalaxyQuest Back To The Future III Men In Black Spaceballs |
| Action |
| Conan The Barbarian Halloween Escape From Alcatraz Conan The Destroyer Speed Dirty Harry Armageddon Enemy Of The State Magnum Force Die Hard Top Gun The Enforcer Lethal Weapon Bad Boys Sudden Impact Lethal Weapon 2 The Rock The Dead Pool Lethal Weapon 3 Eraser Beverly Hills Cop Lethal Weapon 4 Cliffhanger Independence Day Predator The Dirty Dozen Laura Croft: Tomb Raider First Blood (Rambo) The Firm The Mummy True Lies Mission: Impossible The Mask Of Zorro Mission: Impossible 2 In The Line Of Fire Highlander The Hunt For Red October Patriot Games Clear And Present Danger Goldfinger Dr. No From Russia With Love Thunderball You Only Live Twice Live And Let Die The Man With The Golden Gun For Your Eyes Only Octopussy View To A Kill The Living Daylights Goldeneye Tomorrow Never Dies The World Is Not Enough The Untouchables Face/Off Swordfish The Road Warrior Rush Hour Rumble In The Bronx Escape From New York |
| Superhero/Comic Book Movies |
| Superman Batman Blade Spider-Man Spider-Man 2 Superman II Batman Returns Blade II Spawn The Hulk Spawn Daredevil The Punisher The Crow Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles X-Men X2: X-Men Unite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze The Mask |
| Comedies |
| Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Something About Mary Some Like It Hot The Wedding Singer The Wedding Planner Gentlemen Prefer Blondes The Seven-Year Itch Stripes Dumb And Dumber Monty Python And The Holy Grail The Naked Gun Monty Python: Life With Brian Animal House Porky's The Blues Brothers Airplane Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
| Favorite Directors/Auteurs |
| This section of the page is dedicated to some of my favorite directors and their best films. The director (auteur) is considered the "author" of the film, shaping the film's vision and how the film may be perceived by the audience. Film critics and historians credit the directors for making films as entertaining and educational as they are. This page is to give these guys their dues for what the art they have created. |
| Sir Alfred Hitchcock: The Master Of Suspense |
| The Lodger Blackmail The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) The 39 Steps Sabotage Rebecca Mr. And Mrs. Smith Shadow Of A Doubt Notorious Rope Strangers On A Train Rear Window Vertigo North By Northwest Psycho (not the color one, it was a different director who did the same film) The Birds |
| Steven Spielberg: Box Office King |
| Duel Jaws Close Encounters Of The Third Kind 1941 Raiders Of The Lost Ark E. T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom The Color Purple Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade Schindler's List Jurassic Park Saving Private Ryan A. I. Artificial Intelligence |
| Stanley Kurbrick: Reclusive Genius |
| Killer's Kiss The Killing Paths Of Glory Spartacus Lolita Dr. Strangelove 2001: A Space Odyssey A Clockwork Orange Barry Lyndon The Shining Full Metal Jacket Eyes Wide Shut |
| John Ford: Cowboy Director |
| Young Mr. Lincoln Stagecoach Drums Along The Mohawk The Grapes Of Wrath How Green Was My Valley My Darling Clementine Fort Apache She Wore A Yellow Ribbon Rio Grande The Searchers How The West Was Won |
| John Huston: Maverick Director |
| The Maltese Falcon Treasure Of The Sierra Madre Key Largo The Asphalt Jungle The African Queen The Red Badge Of Courage Beat The Devil The Misfits Night Of The Iguana The Man Who Would Be King |
| My Favorite Actors/Actresses |
| Humphrey Bogart Audrey Hepburn Jimmy Stewart Katharine Hepburn John Wayne Grace Kelly Cary Grant Marilyn Monroe Tom Hanks Ingrid Bergman Mel Gibson Jennifer Lopez Jim Carrey Jodi Foster Sean Connery Marlon Brando Robert De Niro Al Pacino |
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| Favorite Movies Page |
| The Throne Of Blood The Hidden Fortress Yojimbo The Seven Samurai Ran Rashomon Sanshiro Sugata Sanjuro The Bad Sleep Well The Men Who Tread On The Tiger's Tail Ikiru Scandal Stay Dog One Wonderful Sunday |
| Akira Kurosawa: Samurai Master |
| Several of his films were influential in cinema: Yojimbo was remade into "A Fistful Of Dollars" and "Last Man Standing", "The Seven Samurai" was remade into "The Magnificent Seven", and "The Hidden Fortress" was an inspiration for "Star Wars". His films have also influenced the Hong Kong and Asian action cinema that gave us director John Woo (Face/Off, Mission: Impossible 2), Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and "The Matrix" style action sequences. |
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| Anime |
| Akira Ninja Scroll Vampire Hunter D Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust Princess Mononoke Ghost In The Shell Blood: The Last Vampire |