A Filmmaker's Guide to: 150 Films of the Golden Age

We have finally made it to part 150 and therefore, our next milestone will be part 200. I wanted to go through 150 films of the golden age that I think you should be watching if you are really looking to study film. Some of these are obvious and others are ones you may not have heard of before, so pay close attention. The most important ones will be marked out by me putting them in bold.

Remember: these are not modern films. They are films from the Golden Age of Cinema which means that these are from the start of the talkies (late 1920s) all the way through to the mid-1960s.

So here we go then, in no particular order, here are 150 films of the Golden Age and which are the most important if you're going into film.

150 Films of the Golden Age

1. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

2. Gone with the Wind

3. Anatomy of a Murder

4. A Streetcar Named Desire

5. Citizen Kane

6. The Big Sleep

7. Rebel Without a Cause

8. Rear Window

9. North by Northwest

10. The Man Who Knew Too Much

11. The Jazz Singer

12. All About Eve

13. The Third Man

14. 12 Angry Men

15. From Here to Eternity

16. Shadow of a Doubt

17. The African Queen

18. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

19. Gaslight

20. Strangers on a Train

21. It Happened One Night

22. Double Indemnity

23. The Grapes of Wrath

24. Stagecoach

25. It's a Wonderful Life

26. His Girl Friday

27. Laura

28. Charade

29. Breakfast at Tiffany's

30. East of Eden

31. Key Largo

32. High Noon

33. Casablanca

34. The Maltese Falcon

35. On the Waterfront

36. Witness for the Prosecution

37. Sunset Boulevard

38. A Touch of Evil

39. The Sweet Smell of Success

40. The Best Years of Our Lives

41. The Quiet Man

42. Mildred Pierce

43. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

44. Lawrence of Arabia

45. Ben-Hur

46. Goodbye Mr. Chips

47. The Ten Commandments

48. Paths of Glory

49. Yankee Doodle Dandy

50. The Philadelphia Story

51. Adam's Rib

52. Mutiny on the Bounty

53. Roman Holiday

54. Suspicion

55. The Bad and the Beautiful

56. An American in Paris

57. Bedelia

58. The Awful Truth

59. The Letter

60. The King and I

61. Dark Victory

62. My Fair Lady

63. All Quiet on the Western Front

64. My Fair Lady

65. Some Like it Hot

66. Robin Hood

67. To Have and Have Not

68. Guess Who's Coming For Dinner?

69. Woman of the Year

70. Arsenic and Old Lace

71. Mr. Skeffington

72. Around the World in 80 Days

73. Vertigo

74. Giant

75. Keeper of the Flame

76. The Wizard of Oz

77. Mogambo

78. Only Angels Have Wings

79. The Birds

80. Night and Day

81. Spartacus

82. Bringing Up Baby

83. Duck Soup

84. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

85. Animal House

86. She Done Him Wrong

87. You'll Never Get Rich

88. City Lights

89. Singin' in the Rain

90. Stalag 17

91. Meet Me in St. Louis

92. The Magnificent Ambersons

93. The Searchers

94. The Lady Eve

95. Modern Times

96. Sergeant York

97. A Star is Born

98. Ocean's 11

99. The Manchurian Candidate

100. Gilda

101. Auntie Mame

102. Frankenstein

103. Scarface

104. Grand Hotel

105. 42nd Street

106. Shanghai Express

107. Dracula

108. Baby Face

109. The Invisible Man

110. The Phantom of the Opera

111. Queen Christina

112. Of Human Bondage

113. Anna Karenina

114. Manhattan Melodrama

115. Becky Sharp

116. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

117. Heidi

118. Stagefright

119. Jezebel

120. Rebecca

121. The Lady Vanishes

122. My Man Godfrey

123. How Green Was My Valley

124. Now, Voyager

125. Henry V

126. The Barber of Seville

127. The Lost Weekend

128. Great Expectations

129. The Postman Always Rings Twice

130. The Razor's Edge

131. Easter Parade

132. Rope

133. Intruder in the Dust

134. In a Lonely Place

135. Rio Grande

136. Ivanhoe

137. Calamity Jane

138. Julius Caesar

139. The Gold Rush

140. Flesh and the Devil

141. Ace in the Hole

142. Wings

143. Broadway Melody

144. Camille

145. Swing Time

146. Beau Geste

147. You Can't Take it With You

148. Babes in Arms

149. Gunga Din

150. Foreign Correspondent