Martin Scorsese's Film School: The 85 films you need to see to know anything about film
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With 11 nominations and five wins for Hugo at the 2012 Oscars, Martin Scorsese remains one of the most influential directors in Hollywood. But what influenced him? Here’s an A-Z list of the films that mattered to Scorsese (in other words, the films you need to see to be the film expert you think you are).
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Ace in the Hole
1951, in 21 top lists Check -
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All That Heaven Allows
1955, in 11 top lists Check -
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America America
1963, in 7 top lists Check -
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An American in Paris
1951, in 18 top lists Check -
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Apocalypse Now
1979, in 37 top lists Check -
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Arsenic and Old Lace
1944, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Bad and the Beautiful
1952, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Band Wagon
1953, in 14 top lists Check -
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Born on the Fourth of July
1989, in 6 top lists Check -
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Cape Fear
1962, in 6 top lists Check -
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Cat People
1942, in 15 top lists Check -
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Caught
1949, in 2 top lists Check -
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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
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The Conversation
1974, in 23 top lists Check -
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Dial M for Murder
1954, in 9 top lists Check -
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Do the Right Thing
1989, in 25 top lists Check -
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Duel in the Sun
1946, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1921, in 7 top lists Check -
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Europa '51
1952 — a.k.a. Europe '51, in 8 top lists Check -
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Faces
1968, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964, in 1 top list Check -
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Francesco, giullare di Dio
1950 — a.k.a. The Flowers of St. Francis, in 10 top lists Check -
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Force of Evil
1948, in 13 top lists Check -
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Forty Guns
1957, in 9 top lists Check -
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Germania anno zero
1948 — a.k.a. Germany Year Zero, in 11 top lists Check -
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Gilda
1946, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Godfather
1972, in 42 top lists Check -
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Gun Crazy
1950, in 17 top lists Check -
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HealtH
1980, in 0 top lists Check -
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Heaven's Gate
1980, in 8 top lists Check -
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House of Wax
1953, in 4 top lists Check -
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How Green Was My Valley
1941, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Hustler
1961, in 15 top lists Check -
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I Walk Alone
1947, in 3 top lists Check -
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Le cake-walk infernal
1903 — a.k.a. The Cake-Walk Infernal, in 0 top lists Check -
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It Happened One Night
1934, in 29 top lists Check -
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Jason and the Argonauts
1963, in 6 top lists Check -
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Viaggio in Italia
1954 — a.k.a. Journey to Italy, in 14 top lists Check -
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Julius Caesar
1953, in 4 top lists Check -
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Kansas City
1996, in 0 top lists Check -
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Kiss Me Deadly
1955, in 20 top lists Check -
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Klute
1971, in 11 top lists Check -
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La terra trema
1948 — a.k.a. The Earth Trembles, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Lady from Shanghai
1947, in 9 top lists Check -
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Il gattopardo
1963 — a.k.a. The Leopard, in 18 top lists Check -
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Macbeth
1948, in 1 top list Check -
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The Magic Box
1951, in 0 top lists Check -
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M*A*S*H
1970, in 21 top lists Check -
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A Matter of Life and Death
1946, in 23 top lists Check -
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971, in 20 top lists Check
Last updated on May 7, 2012; source