This is actually a pretty difficult one, because more people watch movies than read (comics or otherwise), and there is less of a pre-established canon for me to work off of. I went to 65 here, and I probably could have gone to 1000. And even more so than in the previous two lists, there are a lot of things here that i think could easily be swapped out for other things. Once again, I basically centered on American films, with the exceptions of a few non-American ones that were so influential to American Film that they needed to be mentioned anyway. Anyway, here's the list... Let your flaming of me commence:
- 12 Angry Men
- A Christmas Story
- Akira
- American Beauty
- Any Given Sunday
- Apocalypse Now
- Bicycle Theives
- Bill Cosby: Himself
- Blazing Saddles
- Casablanca
- Chinatown
- Citizen Kane
- Clerks
- Debbie Does Dallas
- Dirty Harry
- Do the Right Thing
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Easy Rider
- Emmanuelle
- Enter the Dragon
- Fight Club
- Friday the 13th
- Full Metal Jacket
- The Godfather
- The Graduate
- Grease
- Heathers
- Higher Learning
- I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
- Jaws
- Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Kramer vs. Kramer
- La Strada
- Léon
- Malcolm X
- The Maltese Falcon
- Marathon Man
- Metropolis
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Mullholland Drive
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror
- Nototrious
- Psycho
- Pulp Fiction
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Saturday Night Fever
- Shaft
- Taxi Driver
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Shinchin no Samarai
- The Shining
- Singing in the Rain
- Sleepless in Seattle
- Snow White
- Some Like It Hot
- Song of the South
- Soylent Green
- Star Wars
- Swimming to Cambodia
- Things to Come
- Tootsie
- Tombstone
- When We Were Kings
- Wizard of Oz
