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WRITING TOOLS
Films to know

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

--Robert Frost

Below is a list of famous poems by famous poets that students should know going into a college literary class. Like all poems, these should be reread as once gets older, as the poems will change meaning with the reader.
COMEDY
  • 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
  • Animal House (1978)
  • The Big Lebowski (1998)
  • The Birdcage (1996)
  • Blazing Saddles (1974)
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
  • The Breakfast Club (1985)
  • Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  • Duck Soup (1933)
  • Father of the Bride (1991)
  • Ghostbusters (1984)
  • Groundhog Day (1993)
  • The Graduate (1967)
  • Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
  • It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
  • It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  • A Night at the Opera (1935)
  • The Odd Couple (1968)
  • Office Space (1999)
  • Shawn of the Dead (2004)
  • Some Like It Hot (1958)
  • The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
  • To Catch a Thief (1955)
  • Young Frankenstein (1974)
 
ROMANCE
  • Adam’s Rib (1949)
  • Amelie (2001)
  • Annie Hall (1977)
  • The Apartment (1960)
  • Garden State (2004)
  • Gone With the Wind (1939)
  • Love Actually (2003)
  • The Notebook (2004)
  • On Golden Pond (1981)
  • The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  • The Princess Bride (1987)
  • Roman Holiday (1953)
  • Sabrina (1954)
  • Titanic (1997)
  • A Walk to Remember (2002)
  • When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
 
ANIMATION
  • Beauty and the Beast (1991)
  •  “Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarfs” (1943)
  • “Duck Amuck” (1953)
  • Dumbo (1941)
  • Fantasia (1940)
  • The Lion King (1994)
  • “One Froggy Evening” (1955)
  • “Porky in Wackyland” (1938)
  • “Rabbit Seasoning” (1952)
  • “Red Hot Riding Hood” (1943)
  • Spirited Away (2001)
  • Street of Crocodiles (1986)
  • Toy Story (1995)
  • Up (2009)
  • WALL-E (2008)
  • “What’s Opera, Doc?” (1957)
 
DRAMA & TRAGEDY
  • 12 Angry Men (1957)
  • All About Eve (1950)
  • American Beauty (1999)
  • A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  • Citizen Kane (1941)
  • Cruel Intentions (1999)
  • The Dark Knight (2008)
  • Dead Poets Society (1989)
  • Do the Right Thing (1989)
  • Forest Gump (1994)
  • Good Will Hunting (1997)
  • Lincoln (2012)
  • Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  • On the Waterfront (1954)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
  • Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
  • Rocky (1976)
  • Schindler’s List (1993)
  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  • Taxi Driver (1976)
  • The Upside of Anger (2005)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  • Unforgiven (1992)
  • What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
ACTION & ADVENTURE
  • Back to the Future (1985)
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  • Casablanca (1942)
  • Die Hard (1988)
  • Fight Club (1999)
  • The Goonies (1985)
  • The Great Escape (1963)
  • Inception (2010)
  • Jaws (1975)
  • Jurassic Park (1994)
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  • Run Lola Run (1998)
  • Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  • The Sting (1973)
  • True Grit (1969)
 
SCI FI & FANTASY
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989)
  • Alien (1979)
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
  • Dracula (1931)
  • E.T. the Extraterrestrial (1982)
  • Forbidden Planet (1956)
  • Frankenstein (1931)
  • Gattaca (1997)
  • Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
  • King Kong (1933)
  • Metropolis (1927)
  • The Planet of the Apes (1968)
  • Star Wars (1977)
  • The Terminator (1984)
 
MUSICALS
  • Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
  • Cabaret (1972)
  • Chicago (2002)
  • Grease (1978)
  • Mary Poppins (1964)
  • Moulin Rouge! (2001)
  • Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
  • The Sound of Music (1959)
  • South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut (1999)
  • West Side Story (1961)
  • The Wizard of Oz (1939)
 
CRIME & MYSTERY
  • Chinatown (1974)
  • Dial M for Murder (1954)
  • Dr. No (1962)
  • Fargo (1996)
  • The Godfather (1972)
  • Goodfellas (1990)
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  • No Country for Old Men (2007)
  • Pulp Fiction (1994)
  • Rear Window (1954)
  • Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  • Seven (1995)
  • The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  • The Third Man (1949)
  • The Usual Suspects (1995)
  • Wait Until Dark (1967)
 
SUSPENSE AND HORROR
  • 28 Days Later (2002)
  • The 39 Steps (1935)
  • The Birds (1963)
  • Carrie (1976)
  • Dawn of the Dead (1978)
  • Gremlins(1984)
  • Halloween (1978)
  • Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  • North by Northwest (1959)
  • Psycho (1960)
  • Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
  • Scream (1996)
  • The Shining (1980)
  • Vertigo (1958)
 
DOCUMENTARY
  • Bowling for Columbine (2002)
  • Food, Inc. (2008)
  • Gunner Palace (2004)
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel (2005)
  • Man on Wire (2008)
  • Night and Fog (1955)
  • Race to Nowhere (2009)
  • Supersize Me (2004)
  • This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006)
  • This is Spinal Tap (1984)
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