Film Literature
Spring 2014
Ms. Kearney
We will be studying films representing many different genres. Individual films will be taken
from the following list. Not all of these movies will be shown (obviously). Most are on the
American Film Institute’s Best 100 films list. Those films that we have watched or are
watching are starred.
Romance/Relationships
· Sliding Doors
· Casablanca
· Some Like It Hot
· Tootsie
· Titanic
As Good as it Gets
Westerns
· Shane
· No Country for Old Men
· High Noon
· Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
War
· Shenandoah
· Apocalypse Now**
· Saving Private Ryan
· The Best Years of Our Lives
· Life is Beautiful**
· Gone with the Wind**
· M*A*S*H**
Animation
· Fantasia
· Snow White
· Toy Story
· Shrek
Adventure (true stories)
· The Perfect Storm
· Everest
· Into Thin Air
Musicals
· Singing in the Rain
· West Side Story
· Cabaret
· Mary Poppins
· Grease
Sports
· Hoosiers
· Blind Side
· Rocky
· Raging Bull
Suspense
 The Shining
· North by Northwest
· Psycho
· Gridlock
· Rear Window
· Jaws
· Silence of the Lambs
Crime
· Shawshank Redemption
· Pulp Fiction
· Green Mile
· The Godfather
Supernatural/Space
· Alien
· The Sixth Sense
· 2001: A Space Odyssey
· Wizard of Oz
· Star Wars
· Blade Runner
· The Runaway
· E.T.
· Dr. Strangelove
Animals
· Babe
· A Dog Named Skip
· National Velvet
· Hillebrand movie about racehorses
Comedy
· A Night At the Opera
· Duck Soup
· Talladega Nights
· Bringing Up Baby
Classics
· Citizen Kane
· On the Waterfront
· To Kill a Mockingbird
· The Maltese Falcon
Social Commentary
· The Help
· One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
· To Kill a Mockingbird