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Film & Television

Research Guide for Film and Television

Films That Students Should See Before Coming to LMU!

Screenwriting Department's Required films:

The Links go to the library's catalog. Click on 'WATCH ONLINE" 

  1. Casablanca - 1942
  2. Tootsie - 1982
  3. Thelma & Louise - 1991
  4. Do The Right Thing - 1989
  5. The Apartment - 1960 - Available on: Google Play, ITunes, Prime Video and more
  6. All About Eve - 1950 -Available on: Google Play, ITunes, Prime Video and more
  7. E.T., The extra-terrestrial - 1982
  8. Sunset Boulevard - 1950 - Available on: Google Play, ITunes, Prime Video and more
  9. Silence of the Lambs - 1991
  10. Sullivan’s Travels - 1941 - Available on: Google Play, ITunes, Prime Video and more
  11. Shakespeare In Love - 1989 - Available on: Google Play, ITunes, PlayStation Store, YouTube, and more
  12. The Graduate - 1967 - Available on: NETFLIX, Google Play, ITunes, Prime Video and more
  13. Die Hard - 1988 - Available on: Google Play, ITunes, Prime Video and more
  14. Groundhog Day - 1993
  15. Jaws - 1975
  16. To Kill A Mockingbird - 1962
  17. It’s A Wonderful Life - 1946
  18. American Beauty - 1999
  19. (Mario Puzo's) The Godfather 1 & The Godfather, part 2 - 1972 & 1974
  20. Little Miss Sunshine - 2006 - Available on: Google Play, ITunes, Prime Video and more

 

Screenwriting Department's Recommended films:

  1. City Lights - 1931
  2.  Nightcrawler - 2014
  3. Star Wars - 1977
  4. The Lives of Others - 2006
  5. Back to the Future - 1985
  6. Chinatown - 1974
  7. Network - 1976
  8. Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown - 1988
  9. LA Confidential - 1997
  10. Moonlight - 2016
  11. When Harry Met Sally - 1989
  12. Diabolique - 1955
  13. Fargo - 1996
  14. On The Waterfront - 1954
  15. The Wedding Banquet - 1993
  16. Boys In The Hood - 1991
  17. Cinema Paradiso - 1988
  18. The Incredibles - 2004
  19. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - 2000
  20. Butch Cassidy and the  Sundance Kid - 1969
  21. Love & Basketball - 2000
  22. All The President’s Men - 1976
  23. Central Station - 1998
  24. Moonstruck - 1987
  25.  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 2004
  26. Princess Bride - 1987
  27. Midnight Cowboy - 1969
  28. Spirited Away - 2001
  29. Real Women Have Curves - 2002
  30. Y Tu Mama También - 2001
  31. Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India - 2001
  32. Breakdown - 1988


Production Department's Required films:
The Links go to the library's catalog. Click on 'WATCH ONLINE" 

  1. The Gold Rush (Chaplin) 
  2. The General (Keaton)  
  3. Citizen Kane  
  4. Panther Panchali (Ray)  
  5. Tokyo Story (Ozu)  
  6. On the Waterfront  
  7. Singing in the Rain (Donen)  
  8. Vertigo (Hitchcock)  
  9. The Searchers (Ford)  
  10. A Man Escaped (Bresson)  
  11. The Apartment (Wilder)  
  12. Breathless (Godard)  
  13. Cleo from 5-7 (Varda)  
  14. Daisies (Chytilova)  
  15. Persona (Bergman)  
  16. 8 1/2 (Fellini)  
  17. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)  
  18. The Godfather, part 2 (Coppola)  
  19. Stalker (Tarkovski)  
  20. Jeanne Dielman (Ackerman)  
  21. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder)  
  22. Grey Gardens (Maysles Brothers)  
  23. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)  
  24. A Woman under the Influence (Cassavetes)  
  25. Thin Blue Line (Morris)  
  26. Yeelen (Cisse)  
  27. Daughters of the Dust Netflix 
  28. Amores Perros (Inarritu) A 
  29. Man on Wire (Marsh)  
  30. Breaking Bad, pilot (Gilligan
Subjects: Film & Television