A FEW TOP 20 LISTS

These lists are meant to be guides for future viewing if you find yourself drawn to any one of the genres we will study in class. They are all titles you can't go wrong with. There are three lists here covering Westerns, Film Noir and Horror. A few foreign titles weaseled their way in but all the rest are as solid as Mom and apple pie. If you have lists of your own, be sure and post them. See you in class.

20 WESTERNS
Once Upon a Time in the West (Italian)
A Fistfull of Dollars (Italian)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Italian)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven
Red River
Rio Bravo
Shane
Stagecoach
My Darling Clementine
The Searchers
7 Men From Now
Ride the High Country
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
The Wild Bunch
Winchester 73
The Naked Spur
The Magnificent Seven
High Noon


20 FROM THE CLASSIC PERIOD OF FILM NOIR
They Live By Night
Out of the Past
Gun Crazy
Murder My Sweet
The Set-Up
Detour (1945)
On Dangerous Ground
Gilda
Double Indemnity
The Asphalt Jungle
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep (1946)
Kiss Me Deadly
The Killers (1946)
Criss-Cross
Nightmare Alley
The Killing
Naked City
The Big Heat
Touch of Evil


20 HORROR MOVIES
The Cabinet of Dr. Calagari (1920 - German)
Nosferatu (1922 – German)
Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Dracula (1931)
Vampyr (1932 – Danish)
The Black Cat (1934)
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Wolf Man (1941)
Cat People (1942)
Curse of the Demon
The Horror of Dracula (British)
Eyes Without a Face (French)
Psycho (1960)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Exorcist
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Halloween (1978)
Alien
The Shining
The Thing (1982)