Movie List For People Who Just Kinda Want To Know What Everybody’s Talking about
euo:
i was getting a lot of questions of where one should start if theyre interested in getting into film/ know what people are talking about. so heres a short list of a few movies thatll just give you a little background, i came up with it off the top of my head and i tried to keep it short so im missed something or made a mistake my apologies. it begins in 1965 and goes to 2013. i tried to put only two films in each year but some of them got a little out of hand…. enjoy!
1965:
- The Sound of Music
- Pierrot Le Fou
1966:
- The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- Blow Up
1967:
- The Graduate
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
1968:
- Planet of the Apes
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969:
- Take The Money And Run
- Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
1970:
- Le Genou De Claire
- MASH
1971:
- A Clockwork Orange
- Harold And Maude
1972:
- The Godfather
- Solaris
1973:
- The Holy Mountain
- The Exorcist
1974:
- Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
- Chinatown
1975:
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1976:
- Taxi Driver
- Rocky
- Carrie
1977:
- Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope
- Annie Hall
1978:
- Grease
- Halloween
1979:
- Manhattan
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Alien
1980:
- Star Wars Episode V
- The Shining
- Raging Bull
- Caddyshack
- The Elephant Man
- Airplane
- Cannibal Holocaust
- The God’s Must Be Crazy
1981:
- An American Werewolf In London
- Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
- My Dinner with Andre
- Chariots of Fire
1982:
- E.T.
- Gandhi
- Sophie’s Choice
1983:
- Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
- Scarface
- Videodrome
1984:
- Ghostbusters
- The Karate Kid
- Gremlins
- The Terminator
- Footloose
1985:
- The Breakfast Club
- Brazil
- Clue
1986:
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- Pretty In Pink
1987:
- Full Metal Jacket
- Cry Freedom
- The Princess Bride
1988:
- Coming to America
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- Rain Man
- Beetle Juice
- Heathers
1989:
- Do The Right Thing
- Driving Miss Daisy
- When Harry Met Sally
- Dead Poet’s Society
1990:
- Goodfellas
- Edward Sissor hands
1991:
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Boyz n the Hood
1992:
- Reservoir Dogs
- A Few Good Men
1993:
- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
- Philadelphia
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
1994:
- Forrest Gump
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Pulp Fiction
- Leon: The Professional
- Reality Bites
1995:
- Se7en
- Braveheart
- Kids
- Before Sunrise
- Apollo 13
1996:
- Fargo
- Trainspotting
- Sling Blade
1997:
- Gummo
- Good Will Hunting
1998:
- American History X
- The Truman Show
- Saving Private Ryan
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Pi
1999:
- American Beauty
- The Matrix
- The Sixth Sense
- Fight Club
- Being john Malkovich/
- Boys Don’t Cry
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
- Eyes Wide Shut
- The Green Mile
- Magnolia
- Girl, Interrupted
2000:
- Requiem For A Dream
- Memento
- Battle Royale
- American Psycho
2001:
- Amelie
- Spirited Away
- Mulholland Drive
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Donnie Darko
- A Beautiful Mind
2002:
- Adaptation
- Catch Me If You Can
- The Pianist
- 28 Days Later
- City of God
- Lilya 4-Ever
2003:
- Oldboy
- Kill Bill Vol. 1
- Lost In Translation
2004:
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Kill Bill Vol. 2
- The Aviator
- Hotel Rwanda
2005:
- Brokeback Mountain
- The Squid and the Whale
- Capote
- V for Vendetta
2006:
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Little Miss Sunshine
- The Prestige
- The Departed
2007:
- Hotel Chevalier (short film)
- No Country For Old Men
- There Will Be Blood
2008:
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Synecdoche, New york
- Bronson
2009:
- Inglourious Basterds
- Dogtooth
- Mr. Nobody
2010:
- Black Swan
- The Social Network
- Inception
- Shutter Island
- Submarine
2011:
- Drive
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,
- The Tree of Life
- We Need To Talk About Kevin
2012:
- Electrick Children
- Cloud Atlas
- Moonrise Kingdome
2013:
- Fruitvale Station
- 12 Years A Slave
- Her
- Stoker
- Short Term 12
- Blue Is The Warmest Color
Film Series:
- Scream
- The Dark Knight
- The Godfather
- The Planet of the Apes (original)
- Lethal Weapon
- The Terminator
- The Matrix
- Alien
- Star Trek
- Star Wars
- Rocky
- Indiana Jones
- Bond
Directors:
- Ousmane Sembène
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Terry Gilliam
- Harmony Korine
- Darren Aronofsky
- Stanley Kubrick
- Christopher Nolan
- Ingmar Bergman
- Spike Jonze
- Charlie Kaufman
- David Fincher
- Martin Scorcese
- Sam Mendes
- Michel Gondry
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Gus Van Sant
- Quentin Tarantino
- The Coen Brothers
- Mirandy July
- Milos Forman
- Ang Lee
- Tim Burton
- Danny Boyle
- Rob Reiner
- Ridley Scott
- Richard Ayoade
- Roman Polanski (gross, evil, disgusting, unfortunately relevant to film history)
- David Fincher
- Baz Luhrmann
- Wes Anderson
- Nicholas Ray
- Spike Lee
- Woody Allen (gross, evil, disgusting, unfortunately relevant to film history)
CLICK HERE FOR A LIST OF FILMS IN GENERAL
sorry if there are any typos/ mistakes
(via 389)
