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Samuel Stoddard's Essential Genre Viewing, Page 2 (1920-2004)

Essential Film Noir

 
1. I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
2. Fury (1936)
3. Rebecca (1940)
4. The Letter (1940)
5. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
6. The Glass Key (1942)
7. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
8. Phantom Lady (1944)
9. Gaslight (1944)
10. Double Indemnity (1944)
11. Laura (1944)
12. Murder, My Sweet (1944)
13. The Woman In the Window (1944)
14. Mildred Pierce (1945)
15. Leave Her To Heaven (1945)
16. Gilda (1946)
17. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
18. Notorious (1946)
19. The Big Sleep (1946)
20. The Killers (1946)
21. Odd Man Out (1947)
22. Dark Passage (1947)
23. Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
24. Nightmare Alley (1947)
25. Body and Soul (1947)
26. Out of the Past (1947)
27. The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
28. The Set-Up (1949)
29. The Third Man (1949)
30. They Live By Night (1948)
31. Gun Crazy (1950)
32. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
33. Night and the City (1950)
34. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
35. Strangers On a Train (1951)
36. Ace In the Hole (1951)
37. The Big Heat (1953)
38. Diabolique (1955)
39. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
40. The Desperate Hours (1955)
41. The Killing (1956)
42. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
43. Vertigo (1958)
44. Touch of Evil (1958)
45. Chinatown (1974)
46. Body Heat (1981)
47. Blood Simple (1984)
48. The Grifters (1990)
49. Dead Again (1991)
50. L.A. Confidential (1997)

Essential Sports Movies

 
1. The Champ (1931)
2. Horse Feathers (1932)
3. A Day At the Races (1937)
4. Knute Rockne All American (1940)
5. The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
6. Gentleman Jim (1942)
7. National Velvet (1944)
8. Body and Soul (1947)
9. Take Me Out To the Ball Game (1949)
10. The Stratton Story (1949)
11. Angels In the Outfield (1951)
12. Pat and Mike (1952)
13. The Harder They Fall (1956)
14. Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
15. Damn Yankees! (1958)
16. The Hustler (1961)
17. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
18. Requiem For a Heavyweight (1962)
19. Brian's Song (1971)
20. Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
21. The Longest Yard (1974)
22. The Bad News Bears (1976)
23. Rocky (1976)
24. Slap Shot (1977)
25. Heaven Can Wait (1978)
26. Breaking Away (1979)
27. North Dallas Forty (1979)
28. The Black Stallion (1979)
29. Caddyshack (1980)
30. Raging Bull (1980)
31. Chariots of Fire (1981)
32. The Natural (1984)
33. The Karate Kid (1984)
34. Hoosiers (1986)
35. Bull Durham (1988)
36. Eight Men Out (1988)
37. Major League (1989)
38. Field of Dreams (1989)
39. A League of Their Own (1992)
40. Rudy (1993)
41. Hoop Dreams (1994)
42. Kingpin (1996)
43. Tin Cup (1996)
44. When We Were Kings (1996)
45. Jerry Maguire (1996)
46. The Hurricane (1999)
47. Remember the Titans (2000)
48. 61* (2001)
49. The Rookie (2002)
50. Seabiscuit (2003)

Essential Martial Arts

 
1. The Seven Samurai (1954)
2. The Hidden Fortress (1958)
3. Yojimbo (1961)
4. Sanjuro (1962)
5. The Sword of Doom (1966)
6. The Big Boss (1971)
7. The Chinese Connection (1972)
8. Return of the Dragon (1972)
9. Enter the Dragon (1973)
10. Lady Snowblood (1973)
11. Drunken Master (1978)
12. Shaolin Master Killer (1978)
13. The Young Master (1980)
14. The Prodigal Son (1981)
15. The Shaolin Temple (1982)
16. Project A (1983)
17. Wheels On Meals (1984)
18. Mr. Vampire (1985)
19. Police Story (1985)
20. Armour of God (1987)
21. A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
22. Dragons Forever (1988)
23. Project A, Part II (1987)
24. Police Story II (1988)
25. Swordsman (1990)
26. Swordsman II (1992)
27. Once Upon a Time In China (1991)
28. Operation Condor (1991)
29. Once Upon a Time In China II (1992)
30. Supercop (1992)
31. Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
32. Iron Monkey (1993)
33. Fist of Legend (1994)
34. The Legend of Drunken Master (1994)
35. The Enforcer (1995)
36. Once Upon a Time In China and America (1997)
37. Who Am I? (1998)
38. The Matrix (1999)
39. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
40. Shanghai Noon (2000)
41. Hero (2002)
42. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
43. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
44. House of Flying Daggers (2004)

Essential Swashbucklers

 
1. The Mark of Zorro (1920)
2. The Three Musketeers (1921)
3. Robin Hood (1922)
4. The Prisoner of Zenda (1922)
5. Scaramouche (1923)
6. Don Q Son of Zorro (1925)
7. The Black Pirate (1926)
8. Don Juan (1926)
9. The Gaucho (1927)
10. The Beloved Rogue (1927)
11. The Iron Mask (1929)
12. Treasure Island (1934)
13. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
14. The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
15. Captain Blood (1935)
16. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
17. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
18. The Buccaneer (1938)
19. The Mark of Zorro (1940)
20. The Sea Hawk (1940)
21. Son of Fury (1942)
22. The Black Swan (1942)
23. Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
24. The Three Musketeers (1948)
25. The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
26. Treasure Island (1950)
27. Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
28. The Crimson Pirate (1952)
29. Scaramouche (1952)
30. The Court Jester (1956)
31. Moby Dick (1956)
32. Cartouche (1962)
33. The Three Musketeers (1973)
34. The Four Musketeers (1974)
35. The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
36. Treasure Island (1990)
37. Horatio Hornblower: The Duel (1998)
38. The Mask of Zorro (1998)
39. The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
40. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
41. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)