Scott's Classic Movie List*

 

* Disclaimer ­ This is NOT meant to be all inclusive.  Nor is it meant to be a list of the best movies of all time.  That would obviously be subjective.  This is simply a list of films that every serious actor should see.

 

All About Eve 

All That Jazz 

Apocalypse Now

The Asphalt Jungle 

The African Queen 

All The Kings Men

An American in Paris

Anastasia  

The Bad Seed 

Being There

Bonnie & Clyde

The Blackboard Jungle  

Bliss (Australian, hard to find but worth the effort)

Das Boot (subtitled) 

Born Yesterday  

Boy's Town  

The Bridge on the River Kwai  

The Caine Mutiny

Casablanca  

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

The Champ (1938)

Chinatown  

Citizen Kane 

The Crimson Pirate  

Dark Victory 

Dinner At Eight 

Dog Day Afternoon 

Double Indemnity  

East of Eden

Elmer Gantry 

The French Connection 

From Here to Eternity  

Giant  

The Godfather (all 3) 

Gone With the Wind 

The Graduate 

Grand Hotel  

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)  

Gunga Din   

Hamlet (Olivier) 

It Happened One Night 

Harold and Maude 

The Heiress 

Heat

High Noon 

Inherit The Wind 

Jezebel 

Kill Bill (Vol. 1&2)

Klute  

The Last Picture Show 

Last Tango in Paris 

Lawrence of Arabia

The Maltese Falcon 

Midnight Cowboy  

My Left Foot 

Network

Notorious   

On The Waterfront  

The Philadelphia Story

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) 

Prisoner of 2nd Ave. 

The  Producers   (the original)

Psycho

The Public Enemy 

Ran (subtitled) 

Rebel Without a Cause 

Repo Man

Reservoir Dogs

Romeo & Juliet (Zeffirelli 1968)

The Seven Samurai

Shane  

Some Like it Hot 

A Streetcar Named Desire

The Sting 

The Shining

One Flew Over The Cuckoošs Nest

Mystic River

Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Pulp Fiction  Sunset Boulevard  

Sweet Bird of Youth 

Taxi Driver  

To Have and Have Not 

The Wild Bunch 

Witness For The Prosecution  

Wuthering Heights