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. 82 new

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  2. 156 new

    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    1938, in 17 top lists Check
  3. 75 new

    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
  4. 23 new

    All My Babies: A Midwife's Own Story

    1953, in 2 top lists Check
  5. 146 new

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    1930, in 19 top lists Check
  6. 59 new

    All That Jazz

    1979, in 19 top lists Check
  7. 119 new

    Angels with Dirty Faces

    1938, in 9 top lists Check
  8. 150 new

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 38 top lists Check
  9. 38 new

    The Atomic Cafe

    1982, in 3 top lists Check
  10. 34 new

    The Ax Fight

    1975, in 1 top list Check
  11. 111 new

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  12. 105 new

    Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ

    1925 — a.k.a. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, in 6 top lists Check
  13. 8 new

    Berlin - Die Sinfonie der Großstadt

    1927 — a.k.a. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis, in 12 top lists Check
  14. 92 new

    Big Business

    1929, in 5 top lists Check
  15. 139 new

    The Big Heat

    1953, in 18 top lists Check
  16. 145 new

    The Big Parade

    1925, in 13 top lists Check
  17. 85 new

    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
  18. 126 new

    Blonde Venus

    1932, in 3 top lists Check
  19. 144 new

    Blood Simple

    1984, in 10 top lists Check
  20. 143 new

    Blue Velvet

    1986, in 27 top lists Check
  21. 115 new

    Braveheart

    1995, in 19 top lists Check
  22. 69 new

    Bride of Frankenstein

    1935, in 19 top lists Check
  23. 97 new

    Bringing Up Baby

    1938, in 23 top lists Check
  24. 94 new

    Busy Bodies

    1933, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 55 new

    Cabin in the Sky

    1943, in 3 top lists Check
  26. 48 new

    Capturing the Friedmans

    2003, in 7 top lists Check
  27. 147 new

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  28. 70 new

    Cat People

    1942, in 15 top lists Check
  29. 9 new

    Chelovek s kino-apparatom

    1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
  30. 142 new

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
  31. 27 new

    Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960)

    1961 — a.k.a. Chronicle of a Summer, in 8 top lists Check
  32. 84 new

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    1977, in 23 top lists Check
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    Cops

    1922, in 10 top lists Check
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    Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph

    1894 — a.k.a. Edison Kinetoscopic Record of Boxers, in 0 top lists Check
  35. 137 new

    Criss Cross

    1949, in 6 top lists Check
  36. 26 new

    The Cry of Jazz

    1959, in 2 top lists Check
  37. 129 new

    Dance, Girl, Dance

    1940, in 4 top lists Check
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    Daughter Rite

    1980, in 2 top lists Check
  39. 78 new

    The Day the Earth Stood Still

    1951, in 12 top lists Check
  40. 67 new

    Dead Man

    1995, in 12 top lists Check
  41. 22 new

    Deadline for Action

    1946, in 1 top list Check
  42. 21 new

    December 7th

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
  43. 93 new

    The Dentist

    1932, in 1 top list Check
  44. 134 new

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  45. 100 new

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

    1964, in 37 top lists Check
  46. 96 new

    Duck Soup

    1933, in 24 top lists Check
  47. 73 new

    The Exorcist

    1973, in 27 top lists Check
  48. 49 new

    The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of...

    2003 — a.k.a. The Fog of War, in 6 top lists Check
  49. 79 new

    Forbidden Planet

    1956, in 9 top lists Check
  50. 151 new

    Full Metal Jacket

    1987, in 18 top lists Check
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