Action: “Charlie’s Angels”
Adventure: “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”
Arthouse: “Mulholland Drive”
Comedy: “Airplane!”
Documentaries: “This Film is Not Yet Rated”
Drama: “The Shawshank Redemption”
Epics: “Caligula”
Horror: “The Blair Witch Project”
Made for TV: “Root of All Evil?”
Musicals: “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”
Romance: “Locked Up” aka. “Gefangen”
ACTION – The Bourne Films
ADVENTURE – King Kong
ANIMATION – Lady & the Tramp
COMEDY – Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
CRIME/GANGSTER – Le Samourai
CULT FILMS – Amelie
DRAMA – Brokeback Mountain
EPICS – The Right Stuff
FILM NOIR – Touch of Evil
HORROR – Rosemary’s Baby
MUSICALS –
ROMANCE – Brief Encounter
SCI – FI – 2001 A Space Odyssey
SILENT FILMS – City Lights
SPORTS – Friday Night Lights
THRILLER – Black Sunday (1977 Frankenheimer film)
WAR – Letters from Iwo Jima
WESTERNS – The Searchers
ACTION – Armagedon
ADVENTURE – Indiana Jones
ANIMATION – Toy Story
COMEDY – The Royal Tenenbaum/ In Bruges/ Napoelon Dyanmite/ Borat
CRIME/GANGSTER – Goodfellas
CULT FILMS – Mondo Trasho
DRAMA – The Hours
EPICS – Apocalypse Now
FILM NOIR – Miller’s Crossing
HORROR – The Exorsit
MADE FOR T.V. – Band Of Brothers
MUSICALS – Mouline Rouge (the only musical that I like)
ROMANCE – ………
SCI – FI – Children of men
SILENT FILMS – shhhh!!!
SPORTS – The Wrestler
THRILLER – Naked Lunch
WAR – The Thin red line
WESTERNS – Dead man
I Put 2 more
Minimalist: Stranger than Paradise
Nouvelle Vague: Band Of Outsiders/ Tout Va Bien/ Les Quatre Cents Coups
ACTION – Hercules Conquers Atlantis
ADVENTURE – The Thief of Baghdad (Korda/Powell/Berger/Whelan)
ANIMATION – Duck Amuck
COMEDY – The Palm Beach Story
CRIME/GANGSTER – Le Samourai
CULT FILMS – Performance
DRAMA – Gertrud
EPICS – Lawrence Of Arabia
FILM NOIR – Try and Get Me
HORROR – LesYeux Sans Visage
MADE FOR T.V. – Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn
MUSICALS – Good News
ROMANCE – Les Chansons d’amour
SCI – FI – La Jetee
SILENT FILMS – City Lights
SPORTS – Tokyo Olympiad
THRILLER – Point Blank
WAR – The Big Red One
WESTERNS – Once Upon a Time in the West
Action – Hard Boiled
Adventure – Into the Wild
Animation – A Scanner Darkly (If that counts) if not, then Akira.
Comedy – The life Aquatic
Crime/Gangster – this is a hard one, but if I had to pick just ONE, I guess it would be Goodfellas.
Cult Films – Pulp Fiction
Drama – Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) or maybe The Shawshank Redemption
Epics – Apocalypse Now (preferably the Redux)
Film Noir – The Third Man
Horror – 28 Days Later
Made for T.V. – Band of Brothers
Musicals –
Romance – Amelie
Sci-Fi – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Silent Films – Modern Times
Sports – Raging Bull
Thriller – Memento
War – The Thin Red Line
Westerns – tie between Once Upon a Time in the West and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
ACTION – Death Wish
ADVENTURE – The Wages of Fear
ANIMATION – Fantastic Planet
COMEDY – Withnail and I
CRIME/GANGSTER – The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
CULT FILMS – The Swimmer
DRAMA – Hail Mary
EPICS – 2001: A Space Odyssey
FILM NOIR – Ride the pink horse
HORROR – Dead of Night (1945)
MADE FOR T.V. – Fanny and Alexander
MUSICALS – Candles at Nine
ROMANCE – Last Tango in Paris
SCI – FI – Solaris
SILENT FILMS – Sunrise
SPORTS – Bobby Deerfield
THRILLER – The Vanishing (1988)
WAR – Apacolypse Now
WESTERNS – I am sartana your angel of death
ACTION – Die Hard
ADVENTURE – Radiers of the lost arc
ANIMATION – Wall-E
COMEDY – The Life Aquatic
CRIME/GANGSTER – Carlito’s Way
CULT FILMS – Blue Velvet
DRAMA – La Haine
EPICS – 2001
FILM NOIR – The Third Man
HORROR – A Tale of two sisters
MADE FOR T.V. – Lars von Triers Riget (Kingdom)
MUSICALS – Sweeney Todd
ROMANCE – Lost In Translation
SCI – FI – Blade Runner
SILENT FILMS – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
SPORTS – Crying Fist
THRILLER – Memento
WAR – Apocalypse Now
WESTERNS – The Proposition
ACTION – Apocalypse Now Redux
ADVENTURE – The Empire Strikes Back
ANIMATION – Azur & Asmar
COMEDY – Welcome to the Sticks
CRIME/GANGSTER – Goodfellas
CULT FILMS – Blue Velvet
DRAMA – Don’t Touch the Axe
EPICS – Heaven’s Gate
FILM NOIR – Build My Gallows High
HORROR – Carnival of Souls
MADE FOR T.V. – The Best of Youth
MUSICALS – Donkey Skin
ROMANCE – Amelie
SCI – FI – Star Wars: A New Hope
SILENT FILMS – Greed
SPORTS – He Got Game
THRILLER – The Butcher (Chabrol)
WAR – Full Metal Jacket
WESTERNS – Pat Garret & Billy the Kid
ACTION – Seven Samurai
ADVENTURE – The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
ANIMATION – Anything by Jan Svankmajer
COMEDY – This is Spinal Tap
CRIME/GANGSTER – The Godfather part 2
CULT FILMS – Julien Donkey-Boy
DRAMA – Winter Light
EPICS – Barry Lyndon
FILM NOIR – Chinatown
HORROR – Rosemary’s Baby
MADE FOR T.V. – Fanny and Alexander
MUSICALS – Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
ROMANCE – A Woman Under the Influence
SCI-FI – The Man Who Fell To Earth
SILENT FILMS – Sunrise
SPORTS – Raging Bull
THRILLER – Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me
WAR – Apocalypse Now
WESTERNS – El Topo
ACTION – Seven Samurai (we can all agree, much more than an action movie)
ADVENTURE – Memento
ANIMATION – Princess Mononoke
COMEDY – The Meaning of Life
CRIME/GANGSTER – On The Waterfront
CULT FILMS –
DRAMA – Magnolia/American Beauty/Reprise
EPICS – There Will Be Blood
FILM NOIR – Brick (haven’t seen a whole lot)
HORROR – The Shining
MADE FOR T.V. –
MUSICALS – West Side Story
ROMANCE – Children of Paradise
SCI – FI –
SILENT FILMS – City Lights
SPORTS – Chariots of Fire
THRILLER – Strange Days
WAR – The Thin Red Line
WESTERNS – Shane
ACTION – Yojimbo
ADVENTURE – The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
ANIMATION – Semi-computer-animated – Pan’s Labyrinth
COMEDY – Paper Moon, not exactly a comedy but a happy one
CRIME/GANGSTER – Crime – On The Waterfront, City of God – Gangster – Casino
CULT FILMS –Down By Law, EQUINOX!
DRAMA – This is a hard one…The Iceman Cometh, Days of Heaven, McCabe and Mrs. Miller….
EPICS – Is Amadues an epic? Fitzcarraldo?
FILM NOIR – The Maltese Falcon, The Third Man
HORROR – Any of the few great ones…
MUSICALS – Have yet to see one…
ROMANCE – Port of Shadows, Children of Paradise
SCI – FI – Solaris
SILENT FILMS – Dr. Mabuse:The Great Gambler
THRILLER – Hitchcock!
WAR – Does Army of Shadows count? Theres no soldiers…Paths of Glory, Apocalypse Now maybe even Che already
WESTERNS – Assassination of Jesse James
I suck at picking one….
ACTION – Hard Boiled
ADVENTURE – Back to the Future
ANIMATION – Akira
COMEDY – Super Troopers
CRIME/GANGSTER – Out of Sight or NARC
CULT FILMS – Le Samourai
DRAMA – La Dolce Vita
EPICS – Seven Samurai
FILM NOIR – This Gun for Hire
HORROR – Psycho
MUSICALS – Singin’ in the Rain
ROMANCE – Casablanca
SCI – FI – Brazil
SILENT FILMS – Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
SPORTS – Raging Bull
THRILLER – A Bittersweet Life
WAR – Full Metal Jacket
WESTERNS – The Good the Bad and the Ugly
ACTION – Transformers, I know that’s sad.
ADVENTURE – Return of the Jedi
ANIMATION – Spirited Away
COMEDY – Best in Show
CRIME/GANGSTER – City of God
CULT FILMS – Juno
DRAMA – Magnolia
EPICS – Seven Samurai
FILM NOIR – The Big Sleep
HORROR – The Exorcist
MADE FOR T.V. – Is this a genre?
MUSICALS – Singin’ in the Rain
ROMANCE – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
SCI – FI – Dark Crystal
SILENT FILMS – Sunrise
SPORTS – Chariots of Fire
THRILLER – Strange Days
WAR – The Patriot
WESTERNS – The Untouchables
Action – Ong-bak
Adventure – Streets of Fire
Animation – I Married a Strange Person
Comedy – Going Berserk
Crime – The Beat that my Heart Skipped
Cult – Lost Highway
Drama – Boogie Nights
Epics – Apocalypto
Film Noir – Body Heat
Horror – The Beyond
Musical – not a fan
Romance – All the Real Girls
Sci-fi – 2001
Silent Film – haven’t seen enough
Sports – The Wrestler
Thriller – Blue Velvet
War – Paths of Glory
Westerns – The Propostion
Not to sound like a dick or anything Paya but “Juno” a cult film? Really?
Action: Die Hard
Adventure: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Animation: Heavy Metal
Comedy: The Blues Brothers
Crime: Scarface (1983)
Cult: Pulp Fiction
Drama: The Seventh Seal
Epic: Gandhi
Film Noir: Blade Runner
Horror: Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Musical: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Romance:Bringing Up baby
Sci-fi: Empire Strikes Back
Silent: La Roue
Sports: Rollerball (1975)
Thriller: The Village
War: Apocalypse Now
Western: Serenity
Action: Hana-bi
Adventure: The Motorcycle Diaries
Animation: Grave of Fireflies
Art-House: The Seventh Seal
Comedy: A Day At The Races
Crime: Memories of Murder
Cult: Repo Man
Drama: Citizen Kane
Epic: Fanny And Alexander: The Television Version
Film Noir: (Tie) The Maltese Falcon and M
Horror: (Tie) Night of The Living Dead and The Thing (1982)
Musical: Fiddler on The Roof
Romance: Annie Hall(if it doesn’t qualify), All That Heaven Allows
Sci-Fi: (Tie) Blade Runner and Empire Strikes Back
Silent: Nosferatu
Sports: Raging Bull
Thriller: Memento
War: The Great Escape
Western: (Tie) The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly and Red River
could also include favorite films from film movements just because I’m bored:
New Wave(Any Country): Closely Watched Trains, Pierrot Le Fou, or Loves of a Blonde
Italian Neorealism: Rome Open City or Bicycle Theives
New German Cinema: Wings of Desire or Fitzcaraldo
ACTION – Hard Boiled
ADVENTURE – 2001: A Space Odyssey
ANIMATION – Fantasia
COMEDY – Hi, Mom!
CRIME/GANGSTER – Once Upon a Time in America
CULT FILMS – Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
DRAMA – Last Year at Marienbad
EPICS – A Idade da Terra
FILM NOIR – Sunset Boulevard
HORROR – Awakening of the Beast (What?!? You say you DON’T know Coffin Joe?)
MADE FOR T.V. – Out 1: Noli me tangere
MUSICALS – Wild at Heart
ROMANCE – In the Realm of the Senses
SCI – FI – Sans soleil
SILENT FILMS – City Lights
SPORTS – Tokyo Olypmiad
THRILLER – Mulholland Drive
WAR – The Hour of the Furnaces
WESTERNS – Dead Man
And why not add some more?
ADAPTATION: Memories of Underdevelopment
DOCUMENTARY: Don’t Look Back
ESSAY: Le vent d’est
MYSTERY: Muriel
POLITICAL: Tout va Bien
RELIGIOUS: Hail Mary
Painfully excluded runner-ups: Playtime (Comedy), Will Succes Spoil Rock Hunter (Comedy), McCabe (Western), Berlin Alexanderplatz (Made for TV), WR Mysteries of thje Organism (Essay), The Flowers of St. Francis (Religion), most of the things by Bresson (Religious), anything by Chris Marker (Essay/Documentary), Blood and Black Lace (Horror), Dario Argento giallos (Horror), Johnny Guitar (Western), Bring Me to the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Western), The Shooting (Western), Seven Women (Western), Underground (Epic), Inland Empire (Mystery), A Time to Love and a Time to Die (War), Heaven’s Gate (Western), Que viva Mexico (Silent), Johnny Got His Gun (War), Les Vampires (Silent), Earth (Silent), I Am Cuba (Political), Numero Deux (Political) a countless, perhaps infinite plethora of movies that I am to lazy to describe (Drama, Avant Garde/Experimental).
Also, I’ve decided The Big Red One is better than ‘Furnaces’. And, though it’s a bit of a stretch, replace Sunset Boulevard with Ace in the Hole.
Let’s try this:
Action: Speed
Adventure: Bridge on the River Kwai
Animation: Perfect Blue
Comedy: Sabrina
Crime: Casino
Cult: Santa Sangre
Drama: Dead Poets Society
Epic: Titanic
Noir: Gun Crazy
Horror: Suspiria
Musical: Tommy
Romance: Paris – When it Sizzles
Sci-Fi: Vampire Hunter D
Silent: Birth of a Nation
Thriller: 12 Angry Men
War: Apocalypse Now
Western: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Five favorites form each genre, off the top of my head so don’t be too harsh.
Action: The Wild Bunch(a western first but the shootout is my favorite action sequence in cinema), Hard Boiled, Sword of Doom, Sherlock Jr., Robocop.
Adventure: The Big Sky, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, King Kong, Raiders of The Lost Ark, The Thief of Baghdad.
Animation: Duck Amuck, Fantasia, Alice in Wonderland, Duck Dodgers, Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Comedy: Playtime, Bad Santa, Simon of the Desert, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Bringing up Baby.
Crime: Point Blank, Spione, Gangs of New York, Scarface, Branded to Kill.
Cult: Showgirls, Performance, Santa Sangre, Beyond The Valley of The Dolls, Blood for Dracula.
Drama: Taxi Driver, Ivan The Terrible, The River, Young Mr. Lincoln, Bigger Than Life.
Epic: Seven Samurai, Intolerance, Lawrence of Arabia, Land of The Pharaohs, Red Cliff.
Noir: Gun Crazy, Touch of Evil, The Big Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, In a Lonely Place.
Horror: Night of the Hunter, The Devils, The Seventh Victim, Dawn of the Dead, Black Sunday.
Musical: Meet Me in St. Louis, The Red Shoes, All That Jazz, The Band Wagon, Nashville.
Romance: Vertigo, Annie Hall, City Lights, Wings of Desire, Tha Apartment.
Sci-Fi: La Jetee, Brazil, Metropolis, A.I., 2001.
Silent: Sunrise, The Docks of New York, Faust, Un Chien Andalou, the Crowd.
Thriller: Rear Window, Ms. 45, Peeping Tom, Vengeance is Mine, The Tenant.
War: Apocalypse Now, The Big Red One, The General, The Steel Helmet, Paisan.
Western: The Searchers, Rio Bravo, Dead Man, The Naked Spur, Unforgiven.
Did this two years ago. Thought it would be fun to see how much it changed. The answer is a lot. It changed a lot.
ACTION – Harakiri
ADVENTURE – L’avventura
ANIMATION – Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies
COMEDY – This is Spinal Tap
CRIME/GANGSTER – The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
CULT FILMS – Verboten!
DRAMA – Winter Light
EPICS – Andrei Rublev
FILM NOIR – Ace in the Hole
HORROR – Rosemary’s Baby
MADE FOR T.V. – The Decalogue
MUSICALS – Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
ROMANCE – Scenes from a Marriage
SCI-FI – Until the End of the World
SILENT FILMS – I Was Born, But…
SPORTS – Night and the City
THRILLER – Dead Ringers
WAR – The Battle of Algiers
WESTERNS – Johnny Guitar
ACTION – Seven Samurai
ADVENTURE – Raiders of the Lost Ark
ANIMATION – Pinnochio
COMEDY – Young Frankenstein
CRIME/GANGSTER – The Godfather
CULT FILMS – Pulp Fiction
DRAMA – Nashville
EPICS – Lawrence of Arabia
FILM NOIR – Touch of Evil
HORROR – The Shining
MADE FOR T.V. – I, Claudius
MUSICALS – A Hard Day’s Night
ROMANCE – Claire’s Knee
SCI-FI – 2001: A Space Odyssey
SILENT FILMS – City Lights
SPORTS – Raging Bull
THRILLER – Psycho
WAR – Apocalypse Now
WESTERNS – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
ACTION – SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (edgar wright, 2010)
ADVENTURE – MAN FOLLOWS BIRDS (ali khamraev, 1975)
ANIMATION – AKIRA (katsuhiro ohtomo, 1988)
COMEDY – HARVEY (henry koster, 1950)
CRIME/GANGSTER – TAXI DRIVER (martin scorsese, 1976)
CULT FILMS – SLACKER (richard linklater, 1991)
DRAMA – PARIS, TEXAS (wim wenders, 1984)
EPICS – SEVEN SAMURAI (akira kurosawa, 1954)
FILM NOIR – IN A LONELY PLACE (nicholas ray, 1950)
HORROR – KWAIDAN (masaki kobayashi, 1964)
MADE FOR T.V. – MADE IN BRITAIN (alan clarke, 1982)
MUSICALS – DAYS AND NIGHTS (henry barakat, 1955)
ROMANCE – IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (frank capra, 1934)
SCI-FI – STALKER (andrei tarkovsky, 1979)
SILENT FILMS – THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (carl theodor dreyer, 1928)
SPORTS – A DAY AT THE RACES (sam wood, 1937)
THRILLER – PORT OF SHADOWS (marcel carne, 1938)
WAR – BARRY LYNDON (stanley kubrick, 1975)
WESTERNS – WINCHESTER 73 (anthony mann, 1950)
What’s the difference between “action” and “adventure”?
ACTION /ADVENTURE – NONE – I HATE THESE CATEGORIES
ANIMATION – Fantasia.
COMEDY – The Producers
CRIME/GANGSTER – The Ladykillers (the original version, obviously not the awful remake)
CULT FILMS – Triumph of the Will (Riefenstahl)
DRAMA – Kind Hearts and Coronets
EPICS – Lawrennce of Arabia
FILM NOIR – Maltese Falcon
HORROR – Freaks
MADE FOR T.V. – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
MUSICALS – The Producers
ROMANCE – Casablanca
SCI–FI – Young Frankenstein
SILENT FILMS – Nosferatu
SPORTS – Olympiade (Riefenstahl)
THRILLER – M
WAR – Downfall (2004)
WESTERNS – Blazing Saddles
Action- The Terminator
Animation- Toy Story Trilogy
Science Fiction- 2001: A Space Odyssey
Horror- Psycho
Mystery/Thriller- Vertigo
Gangster- The Godfather
Romance- Casablanca
War- Apocalypse Now
Sports- Raging Bull
Fantasy- Harry Potter Series
Comedy- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Gonna limit myself to one per genre:
ACTION /ADVENTURE – Casino Royale (2006)
ANIMATION – Spirited Away
COMEDY – Manhattan
CRIME/GANGSTER – The Godfather Pt. II
CULT FILMS – Hmm, how about Timecrimes
DRAMA – Synecdoche, New York – though it could be comedy or horror.
EPICS – There Will Be Blood
FILM NOIR – If we’re talking old school noir, maybe Double Indemnity
HORROR – The Shining
MUSICALS – I haven’t seen a musical I like.
ROMANCE – Before Sunset
SCI–FI – Children of Men
SPORTS – Raging Bull
THRILLER – Se7en
WAR – Apocalypse Now
WESTERNS – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Action – Goodfellas (if violence is action…)
Animation – My Neighbor Toroto
Comedy – The Party
Crime/Gangster – Breathless
Cult – Distant Voices, Still Lives
Drama – Shadows
Epic – The Leopard
Film Noir – Mulholland Drive, The Conversation, Blade Runner (neo), Touch of Evil, Kiss Me Deadly, and The Killing (revision), Ace in the Hole, The Third Man, and Angel Face (classic)
Horror – The Shining
Musicals – The Band Wagon and Meet Me in St. Louis
Romance – The Earrings of Madame de…or Hiroshima Mon Amour
Sci-Fi – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Sports – Raging Bull
Thriller – M
War – La Grande Illusion and A Man Escaped
Westerns – Rio Bravo
Ryan
ACTION – Raiders Of The Lost Ark
ADVENTURE – The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
ANIMATION – Monsters Inc.
COMEDY – Bottle Rocket
CRIME/GANGSTER – The Godfather
CULT FILMS – Blade Runner
DRAMA – Ran
EPICS – Lawrence Of Arabia
FILM NOIR – Sunset Boulevard
HORROR – Psycho
MADE FOR T.V. – The Temptations
MUSICALS – Yankee Doodle Dandy
ROMANCE – Casablanca
SCI – FI – Solaris
SILENT FILMS – City Lights
SPORTS – The Hustler
THRILLER – Europa (Zentropa)
WAR – The Caine Mutiny
WESTERNS – The Magnificent Seven