MOVIE RECOMMENDATIONS
FOR MILLENNIALS
COMEDY
9 to 5
Airplane!
All of Me
Amelie
Animal Crackers
Animal House
Annie Hall
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Arthur
Austin Powers
Babe
Back to the Future
Bananas
Best in Show
Beverly Hills Cop
Big
Blazing Saddles
Bob Roberts
Borat
Born Yesterday
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Bringing Up Baby
Broadway Danny Rose
Caddyshack
Defending Your Life
Dr. Strangelove
Duck Soup
Easy Living
Ed Wood
Edward Scissorhands
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
Hail the Conquering Hero
Harold and Maude
Heathers
Herbie the Love Bug
High Anxiety
It’s A Wonderful Life
Jour de Fete
Knocked Up
Lost in America
Love and Death
Manhattan
Meatballs
Mighty Aphrodite
Modern Romance
Monkey Business
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python’s Meaning of Life
My Man Godfrey
Ninotchka
The Naked Gun
O, Brother! Where Art Thou?
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
Philadelphia Story
Pink Flamingos
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Pretty in Pink
Purple Rose of Cairo
Raising Arizona
Revenge of the Nerds
School of Rock
Sherlock Jr.
Sixteen Candles
Sleeper
Some Like It Hot
Splash
Stand By Me
Stir Crazy
Strangers in Paradise
Stripes
Sullivan’s Travels
Superman and Superman 2
Sweet and Lowdown
The Apartment
The Awful Truth
The Big Lebowski
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The Breakfast Club
The General
The Gold Rush
The Goodbye Girl
The Great McGinty
The Jerk
The Kid
The King of Comedy
The Lady Eve
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
The Odd Couple
The Palm Beach Story
The Princess Bride
The Producers
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Sunshine Boys
The Triplets of Belleville
The Truman Show
The World According to Garp
There Is Something About Mary
This is Spinal Tap
To Be or Not To Be (original)
Tootsie
Trading Places
Up
Vacation
Valley Girl
Vivacious Lady
Waiting for Guffman
WALL-E
When Harry Met Sally
Whitnail and I
You Can’t Take It With You
Young Frankenstein
Zelig
DRAMA
12 Angry Men
A Clockwork Orange
A Few Good Men
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A Little Romance
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Thousand Clowns
All About Eve
All the President’s Men
Amadeus
American Beauty
Amour
An Officer and a Gentleman
Avalon
Being There
Big Night
Blood Simple
Bonnie & Clyde
Boogie Nights
Boys Don’t Cry
Boyz in the Hood
Boyhood
Brazil
Breaking Away
Breaking the Waves
Broadcast News
Bugsy
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Capote
Casablanca
Chariots of Fire
Children of Men
Children of Paradise
Chinatown
Choose Me
Cinema Paradiso
Citizen Kane
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Dangerous Laisons
Dead Poet’s Society
Death of a Salesman (Cobb and Hoffman)
Django Unchained
Do The Right Thing
Dog-Day Afternoon
Donnie Darko
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Double Indemnity
Easy Rider
Elephant Man
Eraserhead
Fatal Attraction
Fargo
Fight Club
Gandhi
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Giant
Glengarry Glen Ross
Godfather 1 and 2
Gone With the Wind
Goodfellas
Grapes of Wrath
Hannah and Her Sisters
Heaven Can Wait
Her
House of Games
Into the Wild
It’s A Wonderful Life
Jesus of Montreal
Karate Kid
Kids
King Kong
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kramer vs. Kramer
L.A. Confidential
La Strada
La Vie en Rose
Last Tango in Paris
Lenny
Lolita
Look Back in Anger
Looking for Richard
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Malcolm X
Marathon Man
Metropolis
Midnight Cowboy
Miracle Mile
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Modern Lights
Modern Times
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Motorcycle Diaries
My Bodyguard
My Dinner With Andre
Network
Norma Rae
Notorious
On Golden Pond
On the Waterfront
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ordinary People
Paper Chase
Philadelphia
Pope of Greenwich Village
Prospero’s Books
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rear Window
Rebel Without A Cause
Reservoir Dogs
Risky Business
Rocky
Say Anything
Shakespeare in Love
Somewhere in Time
Sunset Boulevard
Taxi Driver
Terms of Endearment
Testament
The Big Chill
The Color Purple
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover
The Counterfeiters
The Dark Knight Rises
The Decalogue
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Entertainer
The Graduate
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The Great Dictator
The Hustler
The Ice Storm
The Last Picture Show
The Lives of Others
The Manchurian Candidate
The Natural
The Outsiders
The Philadelphia Story
The Player
The Sting
The Third Man
The Usual Suspects
The Wild Bunch
The Wolf of Wall Street
There Will Be Blood
To Die For
To Kill A Mockingbird
Touch of Evil
Trainspotting
True Romance
Underground
V for Vendetta
Vanya on 42nd Street
Vertigo
Victory
War Games
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Wings of Desire
WAR
All Quiet on the Western Front
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Inglorious Bastards
Johnny Got Your Gun
M.A.S.H.
Paths of Glory
Platoon
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Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List
The Deer Hunter
The Killing Fields
The Pianist
HORROR
Dial M for Murder
Exorcist
Halloween
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Jaws
Nightmare on Elm Street
North by Northwest
Psycho
The Blob
The Omen
The Shining
SCI-FI
2001 – A Space Odyssey
Alien
Avatar
Blade Runner
Brazil
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Contact
Dune
E.T.
Planet of the Apes
Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Matrix
Time After Time
HISTORY
Chaplin
Glory
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J.F.K.
Lincoln
Mississippi Burning
Reds
Selma
The Right Stuff
The Year of Living Dangerously
MUSICALS
42nd Street
All That Jazz
An American in Paris
Annie
Band Wagon
Blues Brothers
Cabaret
Fame
Fiddler on the Roof
Gold Diggers of 1933
Grease
Guys and Dolls
Hair
Into the Woods
Little Shop of Horrors
Meet Me in St. Louis
My Fair Lady
Oklahoma
Oliver!
Passing Strange
Pennies from Heaven
Purple Rain
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Saturday Night Fever
Show Boat
Singin’ in the Rain
South Pacific
Stop Making Sense
Stormy Weather
Sweet Charity
Swing Time
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The Jazz Singer
The King and I
The Muppet Movie
The Music Man
The Sound of Music
The Wiz
The Wizard of Oz
West Side Story
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Wilder)
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Top Hat
DOCUMENTARIES
A Film Unfinished
Blackfish
Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story
Born Into Brothels
Citizenfour
Crumb
Darwin’s Nightmare
Day’s of Heaven
Enron
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Fahrenheit 911
Food Inc.
Gasland
Grey Gardens
Grizzly Man
Hearts and Minds
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
Heir to an Execution
Hoop Dreams
How to Survive a Plague
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Joni Mitchel: Woman of Heart and Mind
Man on Wire
Murderball
Roger and Me
Salinger
Sicko
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The Act of Killing
The Cruise
The Fog of War
The Thin Blue Line
Thoth
Who Killed the Electric Car?
SERIAL TELEVISION
Black Mirror
Breaking Bad
Friday Night Lights
Fringe
Louis
The Honeymooners
The Sopranos
The Wire
Transparent
Twilight Zone
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