Steven Spielberg's List of "Movies You Have To See To Work Here."
SPIELBERG'S LISTThis list makes its way around town from time to time. It's Steven Spielberg's List of "Movies You Have To See To Work Here."Watch all these films if you want to talk shop with Steven Spielberg. If you want to be in the movie business you damn well better know all the best movies by heart and be able to articulate what makes them great. Knowing these films will give you a deeper understanding of how the best directors in history have used moving pictures to tell stories. Make a serious study of the framing and composition of each shot, the writing, the sound, the lighting, and the emotional content. |
| GENRE | TITLE | DIRECTOR | ACTORS |
| Sci Fi | 2001 | Stanley Kubrick | Gary Lockwood |
| French | 400 Blows | Francios Truffaut | Jean-Pierre Leaud |
| Italian | 8 1/2 | Federico Fellini | Marcello Mastroianni |
| Comedy | Adam's Rib | George Cukor | Katherine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Spencer Tracy |
| Crime | Al Capone | Richard Wilson | Rod Steiger |
| Drama | Alfie | Lewis Gilbert | Michael Caine, Shelley Winters |
| Drama | All About Eve | Joseph Mankiewicz | Anne Baxter, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe |
| Musical | All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | Jessica Lange, John Lithgow, Roy Scheider |
| Drama | All The Presidents Men | Alan Pakula | Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards |
| Musical | American In Paris, An | Vincent Minnelli | Gene Kelly |
| Thriller | And Justice For All | Norman Jewison | Al Pacino, Lee Strasberg, Jeffrey Tambor |
| Comedy | Annie Hall | Woody Allen | Woody Allen, Jeff Goldblum, Diane Keaton |
| Comedy | Apartment, The | Billy Wilder | Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, Shirley McLaine |
| Drama | Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen |
| Drama | Baby Doll | Elia Kazan | Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Rip Torn, Eli Wallach |
| Drama | Bang The Drum Slowly | John Hancock | Robert DeNiro, Michael Moriarty |
| Comedy | Barefoot In The Park | Gene Saks | Jane Fonda, Robert Redford |
| Russian | Battleship Potemkin | Sergei Eisenstein | Vladimir Barsky |
| French | Belle De Jour | Luis Bunuel | Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel |
| Drama | Best Years Of Our Lives, The | William Wyler | Fredric March, Harold Russell, Teresa Wright |
| Italian | Bicycle Thief, The | Vittorio de Sica | Lamberto Maggiorani |
| Drama | Big Chill, The | Michael Grillo | Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Glen Close |
| Film Noir | Big Sleep, The | Michael Winner | Joan Collins, Robert Mitchum, Jimmy Stewart |
| Horror | Birds, The | Alfred Hitchcock | Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Rod Taylor |
| Film Noir | Body Heat | Lawrence Kasdan | William Hurt Mickey Rourke, Kathleen Turner |
| Gangster | Bonnie & Clyde | Arthur Penn | Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman |
| Drama | Breakfast At Tiffany's | Blake Edwards | Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Mickey Rooney |
| French | Breathless | Jean Luc Goddard | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Segal |
| Drama | Bridge On The River Kwai | David Lean | Alec Guiness, Jack Hawkins, William Holden |
| Drama | Brief Encounter | David Lean | Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson |
| Comedy | Bringing Up Baby | Howard Hawks | Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn |
| Action | Bullitt | Peter Yate | Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Duvall, Steve McQueen |
| Gangster | Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid | George Roy Hill | Paul Newman, Robert Redford |
| Drama | Cape Fear | J. Lee Thompson | Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck |
| Drama | Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains |
| Drama | Champ, The | Franco Zeffirelli | Jon Voight |
| Horror | Charade | Stanley Donen | James Coburn, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn |
| Drama | Chase,The | Arthur Penn | Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Robert Redford |
| French | Children Of Paradise, The | Marcel Came | Enenne Decroux |
| Film Noir | Chinatown | Roman Polanski | Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Diane Ladd, Jack Nicholson |
| Drama | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles |
| Drama | Clockwork Orange, A | Stanley Kubrick | Malcolm McDowell |
| Sci Fi | Close Encounters Of The Third | Steven Speilberg | Melinda Dillon, Richard Dreyfuss, Ted Garr |
| Drama | Come Back Little Sheba | Daniel Mann | Shirley Booth, Burt Lancaster |
| Mystery | Conversation, The | Francis Ford Coppola | Robert Duvall, Harrison Ford, Gene Hackman |
| Drama | Cool Hand Luke | Stuart Rosenberg | Dennis Hopper, George Kennedy, Paul Newman |
| Sci Fi | Day The Earth stood Still, The | Robert Wise | Billy Gray, Hugh Marlowe, Patricia Neal |
| Drama | Days Of Wine And Roses | Blake Edwards | Jack Klugman, Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick |
| Drama | Deer Hunter, The | Michael Cimino | Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep |
| Drama | Doctor Zhivago | David Lean | Julie Christie, Alec Guinness, Omar Shard |
| Drama | Dog Day Afternoon | Sidney Lumet | John Cazale, Al Pacino |
| Film Noir | Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck |
| Drama | East of Eden | Elia Kazan | James Dean, Jo Harris, Jo Van Fleet |
| Horror | Exorcist,The | William Friedkin | Lee J. Cobb, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller |
| Drama | Face In The Crowd, A | Elia Kazan | Andy Griffith, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick |
| Drama | Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson | Karen Black, Jack Nicholson |
| Drama | Fly, The | David Cronenberg | Jeff Goldblum |
| Drama | French Connection Part 2, The | John Frankenheimer | Gene Hackman |
| Drama | French Connection, The | William Friedkin | Gene Hackman |
| Drama | From Here to Eternity | Fred Zimmerman | Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra |
| Drama | Fugitive Kind, The | Sidney Lumet | Marlon Brando |
| Thriller | Gaslight | George Cukor | Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten |
| Comedy | General, The | Buster Keaton | Buster Keaton |
| Drama | Gentlemen's Agreement | Elia Kazan | John Garfield, Gregory Peck |
| Drama | Giant | George Stevens | James Dean, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor |
| Drama | Godfather, The (1-3) | Francis Ford Coppola | Marlon Brando, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Al Pacino |
| Drama | Gone With The Wind | Victor Fleming | Clark Gable, Olivia De Havilland, Vivian Leigh |
| Comedy | Graduate, The | Mike Nichols | Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman |
| French | Grand Illusion | Jean Renior | Erich Von Stroheim |
| Drama | Grapes Of Wrath | John Ford | Jane Darwell, Henry Fonda |
| Gangster | Great Escape, The | John Sturges | Charles Bronson, James Coburn, James Garner, Steve McQueen |
| Drama | Great Santini, The | Lewis John Carlino | Robert Duvall |
| Drama | Guess Who's Coming To Dinner | Stanley Kramer | Katherine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy |
| Drama | Guns Of Navaronne | J. Lee Thompson | Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn |
| Drama | Heiress, The | William Wyler | Montgomery Clift, Olivia De Havilland, Ralph Richardson |
| Western | High Noon | Fred Zinnerman | Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly |
| Comedy | His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks | Cary Grant |
| Comedy | Holiday | George Cukor | Cary Grant Katherine Hepburn |
| Drama | Hud | Martin Rift | Patricia Neal, Paul Newman |
| Drama | Hunter, The | Buzz Kulik | Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach |
| Drama | Hustler, The | Robert Rossen | Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, Paul Newman |
| Drama | I Confess | Alfred Hitchcock | Montgomery Clift, Karl Malden |
| Comedy | Immigrant, The | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin |
| Drama | In A Lonely Place | Nicolas Ray | Humphrey Bogart |
| Drama | In the Heat Of The Night | Norman Jewison | Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger |
| Drama | Indiscretion Of An American Wife | Vittorio de Sica | Montgomery Clift Jennifer Jones |
| Comedy | It Happened One Night | Frank Capra | Claudette Colbert Clark Gable |
| Drama | It's A Wonderful Life | Frank Capra | Lionel Barrymore, Jimmy Stewart |
| Drama | Judgment At Nuremberg | Stanley Kramer | Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Spencer Tracy |
| Drama | Julius Caesar | Joseph Mankiewicz | Marlon Brando |
| Drama | Kramer Vs. Kramer | Robert R. Benton | Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep |
| Drama | Last Detail, The | Hal Ashby | Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid |
| Drama | Last Picture Show, The | Peter Bogdanovich | Jeff Bridges, Ben Johnson, Cybill Shephard |
| Drama | Last Tango In Paris | Bernardo Bertolucci | Marlon Brando |
| Drama | Lawrence Of Arabia | David Lean | Alec Guinness, Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quinn |
| Drama | Little Foxes, The | William Wyler | Bette Davis, Teresa Wright |
| Drama | Lolita | Stanley Kubrick | Sue Lyon, James Mason, Peter Sellers, Shelley Winters |
| Drama | Lonelyhearts | Vincent J. Donahue | Montgomery Clift, Maureen Stapleton |
| Drama | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Sidney Lumet | Katherine Hepburn, Jason Robards |
| Drama | Long Hot Summer, The | Martin Ritt | Paul Newman, Orson Welles, Joanne Woodward |
| Comedy | Lost In America | Albert Brooks | Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty |
| Drama | Lost Weekend, The | Billy Wilder | Ray Milland |
| Drama | Love Story | Arthur Hiller | Ali McGraw, Ray Milland, Ryan O'Neal |
| German | M | Fritz Lang | Peter Lorre |
| Drama | Magnificent Ambersons, The | Orson Welles | Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Orson Welles |
| Drama | Magnificent Seven, The | John Sturges | Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach |
| Western | Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance | John Ford | Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin |
| Drama | Manchurian Candidate | John Frankenheimer | Angela Lansbury, Frank Sinatra |
| Drama | Marathon Man | John Schlesinger | Dustin Hoffman |
| Drama | Marty | Delbert Mann | Ernest Borgnine |
| Drama | Mean Streets | Martin Scorsese | Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel |
| Drama | Men, The | Fred Zimmerman | Marlon Brando |
| Sci Fi | Metropolis | Fritz Lang | Brigitte Heim, Theodore Loos |
| Drama | Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger | Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voiqht |
| Comedy | Miracle Of Morgan's Creek, The | Preston Sturges | Bobby Watson |
| Drama | Misfits, The | John Huston | Clift, Gable, Monroe |
| Drama | Mississippi Burning | Alan Parker | Willem Defoe, Gene Hackman |
| Drama | Missouri Breaks, The | Arthur Penn | Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson |
| Comedy | Modern Romance | Albert Brooks | Albert Brooks, Bruno Kirby |
| Comedy | Modern Times | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin |
| Comedy | Mr. Smith Goes To Washington | Frank Capra | Claude Rains, Jimmy Stewart |
| Drama | Mutiny On The Bounty | Frank Lloyd | Marlon Brando |
| Musical | My Fair Lady | George Cukor | Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn |
| Drama | Nashville | Robert Altman | Ned Beatty, Jeff Goldblum |
| Drama | National Velvet | Clarence Brown | Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor |
| Drama | Network | Sidney Lumet | Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall |
| Drama | No Way To Treat A Lady | Jack Smight | Rod Steiger |
| Mystery | North By Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint |
| Mystery | Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant |
| Comedy | Odd Couple, The | Gene Saks | Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau |
| Drama | On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | Brando, Malden, Steiger |
| Drama | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Milos Foreman | Jack Nicholson, Danny Divito |
| Drama | One-Eyed Jacks | Marlon Brando | Marlon Brando, Karl Malden |
| Drama | Ordinary People | Robert Redford | Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland |
| Drama | Panic in Needle Park, The | Jerry Schatzberg | Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino |
| Drama | Papillion | Franklin Schaffner | Dustin Hoffman, Steve McQueen |
| Horror | Parallax View, The | Alan Pakula | Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn |
| Comedy | Party, The | Blake Edwards | Peter Sellers |
| Drama | Patton | Franklin Schaffner | Karl Malden, George C. Scott |
| Drama | Pawnbroker, The | Sidney Lumet | Rod Steiger |
| Comedy | Philadelphia Story | Georqe Cukor | Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn |
| Horror | Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins |
| Gangster | Public Enemy, The | William Wellman | James Cagney |
| Drama | Quiet Man, The | John Ford | John Wayne |
| Drama | Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | Robert DeNiro |
| Drama | Rain People, The | Francis Ford Coppola | James Caan, Robert Duvall |
| Drama | Raintree County | Edward Dmytryk | Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor |
| Drama | Ramblin'Rose | Martha Coolidge | Laura Dern, Robert Duvall |
| Comedy | Real Life | Albert Brooks | Albert Brooks, Charles Grodin |
| Mystery | Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | Grace Kelly, Jimmy Stewart |
| Drama | Rebel Without A Cause | Nicholas Ray | James Dean, Natalie Wood |
| Western | Red River | Howard Hawks | Montgomery Clift, John Wayne |
| Drama | Reflections In A Golden Eye | John Huston | Marlon Brando, Julie Harris |
| Drama | Requiem For A Heavyweight | Ralph Nelson | Jackie Gleason, Julie Harris |
| Horror | Rosemary's Baby | Roman Polanski | Mia Farrow, Ruth Gordon |
| Drama | Runaway Train | Andrei Konchalovsky | Eric Roberts, Jon Voight |
| Comedy | Safety Last | Harold Lloyd | Harold Lloyd |
| Drama | Sand Pebbles, The | Robert Wise | Steve McQueen |
| Drama | Saturday Night Fever | John Badham | John Travolta |
| Drama | Sayonara | Joshua Logan | Marlon Brando |
| Drama | Scarecrow | Jerry Schatzberg | Gene Hackman, Al Pacino |
| Drama | Scarface | Brian De Palma | Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer |
| Drama | Scent Of A Woman | Martin Brest | Al Pacino |
| Western | Searchers, The | John Ford | John Wayne, Natalie Wood |
| Drama | Serpico | Sidney Lumet | Al Pacino |
| Japanese | Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa | Takashi Shimura |
| Swedish | Seventh Seal, The | Ingmar Bergman | Max Von Sydow |
| Drama | Signal 7 | ||
| Musical | Singin' In the Rain | Stanley Donen | Gene Kelly, Rita Moreno |
| Swedish | Smiles Of A Summer Night, The | Ingmar Bergman | Jarl Kulle |
| Drama | Soldier In The Rain | Ralph Nelson | Jackie Gleason, Steve McQueen |
| Comedy | Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe |
| Musical | Sound Of Music, The | Robert Wise | Julie Andrews |
| Drama | Splendor In The Grass | Elia Kazan | Warren Beatty, Natalie Wood |
| Western | Stagecoach | John Ford | James Mason, John Wayne |
| Musical | Star Is Born, A | William Wellman | Janet Gaynor, Fredric March |
| Sci Fi | Star Wars | George Lucas | Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford |
| Drama | Streetcar Named Desire, A | Elia Kazan | Brando, Kim Hunter, Vivian Leigh |
| Drama | Suddenly Last Summer | Joseph Mankiewicz | Clift, Hepburn, Taylor |
| Comedy | Sullivan's Travels | Preston Sturges | Veronica Lake, Joel McCrea |
| Film Noir | Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder | William Holden, Gloria Swanson |
| Drama | Sweet Bird of Youth | Richard Brooks | Paul Newman, Geraldine Page |
| Drama | Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese | Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel |
| Drama | Teahouse Of The August Moon, The | Daniel Mann | Marlon Brando |
| Drama | Tender Mercies | Bruce Beresford | Robert Duvall |
| Drama | Third Man, The | Carol Reed | Orson Welles |
| Drama | Three Days Of The Condor | Sidney Pollack | Faye Dunaway, Robert Redford |
| Drama | To Kill A Mockingbird | Robert Mulligan | Gregory Peck |
| Comedy | Tootsie | Sidney Pollack | Dustin Hoffman |
| Drama | Tree Grows In Brooklyn, A | Elia Kazan | James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner |
| Drama | Trip To Bountiful, A | Peter Masterson | Geraldine Page |
| Drama | Twelve Angry Men | Sidney Lumet | Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda |
| Western | Two Rode Together | John Ford | Jimmy Stewart |
| Drama | Verdict, The | Sidney Lumet | Paul Newman |
| Mystery | Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | Kim Novak, Jimmy Stewart |
| Drama | Viva Zapata | Elia Kazan | Marlon Brando, Karl Malden |
| Horror | Wait Until Dark | Terence Young | Alan Arkin, Audrey Hepburn |
| Musical | West Side Story | Jerome Robbins | Rita Moreno, Natalie Wood |
| Musical | White Christmas | Michael Curtiz | Bing Crosby |
| Drama | Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? | Mike Nichols | Richard Burton, George Segal |
| Drama | Wild One, The | Laszlo Benedek | Marlon Brando, Lee Marvin |
| Drama | Wild River | Elia Kazan | Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick |
| Drama | Young Lions, The | Edward Dmytryk | Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift |
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