Movies for Film Analysis: Summer 2022
*There may be earlier or later versions of some of these titles other than the ones listed; however, please be sure to watch the version listed here, which are considered the “definitive” versions.
Please refer to IMDB.com, TCM.com, or other reputable sites for background information about these films.
If you have read a play or novel for the literary analysis by the same title, you are welcome and encouraged to compare the two versions; however, do not watch the film as a substitute for reading the literature, as the two versions are often quite different.
Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Peyton Place (1959)
West Side Story (1961)
The Apartment (1960)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Revolutionary Road (2008)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Come Back, Little Sheba(1952)
Imitation of Life (1959)
Some Came Running (1958)
Giant (1956)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Where the Boys Are (1960)
A Patch of Blue (1965)
To Sir, with Love (1967)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
No Way Out (1950)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Exodus (1960)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
East of Eden (1955)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Father of the Bride (1950)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
North by Northwest (1959)
On the Waterfront (1954)
The Searchers (1956)
Twelve Angry Men (1957)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Vertigo (1958)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Marty (1955)
The Catered Affair (1956)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Stopped Worrying and Loved to Learn the Bomb (1964)
Fail-Safe (1964)
Psycho (1960)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Thing from Another World (1951)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Blob (1958)
Godzilla (1954)
Them! (1954)
Tarantula (1955)
Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
All About Eve (1950)
Psycho (1960)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
An American in Paris (1951)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
American Graffiti (1973)
Rear Window (1954)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
A Raisin in the Sun(1961)
2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)
Badlands (1974)
Sweet Smell of Success (1958)
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Red River (1948)
Rio Bravo (1959)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
