New York University Department of Filmography General Filmography

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NYU Tisch is consistently ranked among the best film programs in the world and was recently ranked the #1 film school by The Hollywood Reporter.

The university's Cinema Studies Program provides a list of films that highlight their choices for the most important films for their students to recognize and become familiar with. Different sections include

Fiction Film
Animation
Experimental and Political Avant-Gardes
Documentary and Ethnographic Films
Fiction Films: Hollywood Genres:
A) Musicals
B) Westerns
C) Horror
D) Science Fiction
E) Comedy
F) Historical Drama
G) Gangster FIlms
H) Romantic Melodramas /"Women's Pictures"
I) Film Noir / Neo Noir
J) War Films
K)Action-Adventure

Individual Lists can be found here.

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  1. 125 new

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  2. 123 new

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  3. 82 new

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  4. 83 new

    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
  5. 75 new

    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
  6. 87 new

    The Matrix

    1999, in 30 top lists Check
  7. 76 new

    The Shining

    1980, in 28 top lists Check
  8. 147 new

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  9. 85 new

    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
  10. 100 new

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...

    1964, in 37 top lists Check
  11. 71 new

    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
  12. 124 new

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  13. 150 new

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
  14. 151 new

    Full Metal Jacket

    1987, in 18 top lists Check
  15. 158 new

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    1981 — a.k.a. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 29 top lists Check
  16. 153 new

    Saving Private Ryan

    1998, in 28 top lists Check
  17. 110 new

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  18. 108 new

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  19. 111 new

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  20. 142 new

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
  21. 74 new

    Jaws

    1975, in 28 top lists Check
  22. 58 new

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  23. 86 new

    The Terminator

    1984, in 24 top lists Check
  24. 115 new

    Braveheart

    1995, in 19 top lists Check
  25. 66 new

    Unforgiven

    1992, in 24 top lists Check
  26. 104 new

    Groundhog Day

    1993, in 22 top lists Check
  27. 99 new

    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
  28. 73 new

    The Exorcist

    1973, in 27 top lists Check
  29. 134 new

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  30. 149 new

    Paths of Glory

    1957, in 26 top lists Check
  31. 152 new

    The Thin Red Line

    1998, in 14 top lists Check
  32. 143 new

    Blue Velvet

    1986, in 27 top lists Check
  33. 84 new

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    1977, in 23 top lists Check
  34. 141 new

    Touch of Evil

    1958, in 31 top lists Check
  35. 69 new

    Bride of Frankenstein

    1935, in 19 top lists Check
  36. 155 new

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  37. 72 new

    Night of the Living Dead

    1968, in 20 top lists Check
  38. 63 new

    The Searchers

    1956, in 26 top lists Check
  39. 64 new

    The Wild Bunch

    1969, in 25 top lists Check
  40. 157 new

    Goldfinger

    1964, in 15 top lists Check
  41. 101 new

    Manhattan

    1979, in 20 top lists Check
  42. 77 new

    A Nightmare on Elm Street

    1984, in 8 top lists Check
  43. 144 new

    Blood Simple

    1984, in 10 top lists Check
  44. 156 new

    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    1938, in 17 top lists Check
  45. 146 new

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    1930, in 19 top lists Check
  46. 112 new

    Gandhi

    1982, in 15 top lists Check
  47. 78 new

    The Day the Earth Stood Still

    1951, in 12 top lists Check
  48. 96 new

    Duck Soup

    1933, in 24 top lists Check
  49. 61 new

    Stagecoach

    1939, in 21 top lists Check
  50. 136 new

    Out of the Past

    1947, in 16 top lists Check
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