* Disclaimer ≠ This is NOT meant to be all inclusive. Nor is it meant to be a list of the best movies of all time. That would obviously be subjective. This is simply a list of films that every serious actor should see.
All About Eve
All That Jazz
Apocalypse Now
The Asphalt Jungle
The African Queen
All The Kings Men
An American in Paris
Anastasia
The Bad Seed
Being There
Bonnie & Clyde
The Blackboard Jungle
Bliss (Australian, hard to find but worth the effort)
Das Boot (subtitled)
Born Yesterday
Boy’s Town
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Caine Mutiny
Casablanca
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
The Champ (1938)
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
The Crimson Pirate
Dark Victory
Dinner At Eight
Dog Day Afternoon
Double Indemnity
East of Eden
Elmer Gantry
The French Connection
From Here to Eternity
Giant
The Godfather (all 3)
Gone With the Wind
The Graduate
Grand Hotel
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Gunga Din
Hamlet (Olivier)
It Happened One Night
Harold and Maude
The Heiress
Heat
High Noon
Inherit The Wind
Jezebel
Kill Bill (Vol. 1&2)
Klute
The Last Picture Show
Last Tango in Paris
Lawrence of Arabia
The Maltese Falcon
Midnight Cowboy
My Left Foot
Network
Notorious
On The Waterfront
The Philadelphia Story
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Prisoner of 2nd Ave.
The Producers (the original)
Psycho
The Public Enemy
Ran (subtitled)
Rebel Without a Cause
Repo Man
Reservoir Dogs
Romeo & Juliet (Zeffirelli 1968)
The Seven Samurai
Shane
Some Like it Hot
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Sting
The Shining
One Flew Over The Cuckooπs Nest
Mystic River
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Pulp Fiction Sunset Boulevard
Sweet Bird of Youth
Taxi Driver
To Have and Have Not
The Wild Bunch
Witness For The Prosecution
Wuthering Heights
