Recommended Films
As a student of film you should be aiming to watch as many films as possible. Here is a list of ‘essential’ genre films. It’s not definitive but it is a start.
Western
- High Noon
- Stagecoach
- The Searchers
- Once Upon A Time In the West
- Unforgiven
- Tombstone
- Open Range
Gangster
- Scarface (1929)
- The Public Enemy
- Angels With Dirty Faces
- Mean Streets
- Goodfellas
- The Godfather
Film Noir
- The Maltese Falcon
- The Big Sleep
- Lady From Shanghai
- Crossfire
- Build My Gallows High/Out Of The Past
- The Big Combo
- Mildred Pierce
- Chinatown
- LA Confidential
- The Man Who Wasn’t There
- Blood Simple
- The Last Seduction
- The Hot Spot
- The Usual Suspects
Sci Fi
- Star Wars
- Bladerunner
- 2001
- Alien
- The Terminator
- The Fifth Element
- Event Horizon
War
- The Longest Day
- Apocalypse Now
- Platoon
- Schindler’s List