Top 10 Movies EVERYONE Watches in Film School

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The best movies that will be shown to budding directors, filmmakers, and cinephiles who find themselves studying in film school as examples of outstanding cinema. WatchMojo presents the Top 10 Movies You Will Most Likely watch in film school! But what will take the top spot? Breathless, Seven Samurai, or Citizen Kane? Watch to find out!
00:41 #10. “City Lights” (1931)
01:41 #9. “The Graduate” (1967)
02:42 #8. “Mulholland Drive” (2001)
04:08 #7. “The Godfather” (1972)
05:06 #6. “Psycho” (1960)
06:10 #5. “Raging Bull” (1980)
07:12 #4. “Bicycle Thieves” (1948)
08:13 #3, #2, #1 ????
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[@WatchMojo]

If you watch these 3 movies it's exactly like going to film school. Godfather goo.gl/ylgRmM Raging bull goo.gl/56dyZu Breathless goo.gl/qI07Jm

[@georgesartiano3559]

Unfortunately, Breathless is terrible. Watch any Kubrick film instead.

[@TyhlerNovac]

WatchMojo.com I think I'm the only 41 yr old who has never seen any of the Godfather's

[@ASErdsasF6aASda6sda4]

Tyhler Novac im 12 and ive seen them, please watch them. you will do yourself a huge favor.

[@georgesartiano3559]

If you enjoy films with jump cuts, and an a-synchronus presentation. Watch it so you can have conversations about it with others who went to film school, or the like, but there are many better films from all eras. Breathless was shocking and a game changer when it came out, but without the importance of its place in film canon for what it did, it would just be a ow budget poorly edited film today.

[@albertryan3696]

Someone who finally pronounces Scorsese correctly. Salut!

[@gnarwhal7562]

I think every film studies professor should show Tommy Wiseau's The Room. It's the perfect example of what not to do.

[@ItMakesSpence]

Gnarwhal "I did not hit her! I did nahhht!... oh hi Mark."

[@gnarwhal7562]

ItMakesSpence So anyway, how is your sex life?

[@MrGOOMBAGUY]

You are tearing me apart Lisa!

[@user-wh9mp9rd3y]

.Gnarwhal I couldn't say this better

[@TheChillyCucumber]

That's actually great. A student could probably easily write a 10 page paper on everything done wrong. Noted.

[@Sam_B1]

1. Every Stanley Kubrick movie.

[@danielmashanic5738]

Quantum Leap Yeah. Really, who's better than Kubrick?

[@Dragonflower]

2001 is a masterpiece, which established the form of Science Fiction film making for decades to come. I do think Clockwork Orange and The Shining are brilliant works in themselves, but this one truly screams Stanley Kubrick.

[@kostajovanovic3711]

+Daniel Mashanic Tarkovsky probably

[@kostajovanovic3711]

Even fear and desire?

[@vb2388]

not every Kubrick film, although he's my favourite director he has made a couple of horrible films but Andrei Tarkovsky? He has made only 7 films and all 7 are considered as classics.. even his least rated film is 83% in RT..and I think 4 of his film are rated 100%..

[@Goldikay]

I only took a film class in high school and we watched: Singing in the Rain Casablanca Citizen Kane My Man Godfrey Psycho Chinatown Rear Window 2001 A Space Odyssey Stagecoach Strangers on a Train The Graduate That was such a great class that made me love and appreciate the classics! 😍

[@jamesalexander5623]

That's a Better List than MoJo's!

[@Goldikay]

@@jamesalexander5623 Ha ha, thanx! 😁

[@DarkMysteriousObject]

Quite a good list though I would have chosen Vertigo over Rear Window but yes I guess you have to discuss Film as Voyeurism which it probably does better than any other film. Also The Young Girls of Rochefort over Singin in the Rain and Sullivan's Travels over My Man Godfrey even though its a great film as well

[@jesstube6466]

I’ve already seen singin in the rain, citizen kane, psycho, and rear window and i’m only in middle school so that’s good

[@huntercrowley564]

Must have been before everyone became soft. Never see that in highschool again

[@cowmousedog]

I go to a film school, and Pulp Fiction is talked about ALL THE TIME

[@DigitalShark99]

ummm...they had movies before 1994, and Tarantino freely admitted stealing from them.

[@pierre-emilehjbjerg5380]

@Kyle Luke i love 2001, clockwork orange, the usual suspect, pulp fiction, reservoir dogs, goodfellas, raging bull, 12 angry men, rear window, psycho

[@davidfoster989]

@@reecedaniels4450 Today's youth don't care about the classics. I've noticed that when I entered Film School. Most of the first years have only seen the modern popular films. Incluign myself, I have only met Nine other firs years of 150 first years who watch a very diverse range of films, both old and new, and range from different countries. I don't have much hope for future cinema if these are the kind of film makers going forward. They find the classics boring.

[@everythingmovingpictures2019]

I know

[@lavieenrose3272]

Reece Daniels GOODFELLAS YEOOOO

[@louiseganmccutcheon5279]

Timestamps #10 - 0:43 City Lights #9 - 1:40 The Graduate #8 - 2:42 Mullholland Drive #7 - 4:10 The Godfather #6 - 5:07 Psycho #5 - 6:11 Raging Bull #4 - 7:13 Bicycle Thieves #3 - 8:15 Seven Samurai #2 - 9:20 Breathless Honourable Mentions The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (10:34) Metropolis (10:41) Casablaca (10:49) #1 - 10:56 Citizen Kane

[@Pancrasio-it9qd]

😎

[@vincentknight27]

Wow, I'm genuinely surprised they put Citizen Kane at #1! - Said no one ever

[@joebarniak]

haha. It definately fits the most overrated movie list

[@alexroodman4318]

Wow, I'm genuinely surprised by a WatchMojo list! - Said no one ever

[@yousefghunaim8195]

Godfather deserved it more or se7en for the final scene especially godfather

[@pauljamessquibbs.3945]

Citizen Kane is rubbish. Mad Max Fury Road is a better movie. Just shows how useless film studies are if they think Citizen Kane would work today. Can't eat frigging popcorn to Citizen Kane.

[@errwhattheflip]

@@joebarniak It really doesn't...at all.

[@jeffanderson9938]

Sunset Boulevard, 12 Angry Men, The Seventh Seal and Taxi Driver should be on here.

[@boltmarksman488]

I am being very honest here: What about Vertigo???

[@DarkMysteriousObject]

Absolutely.. One of the landmarks-not merely of the movies, but of 20th-century art. The film extends the theme of Rear Window-the relationship of creator and creation-into the realm of love and sexuality, focusing on an isolated, inspired romantic who pursues the spirit of a woman he film's dynamics of chase, capture, and escape parallel the artist's struggle with his work; the enraptured gaze of the Stewart character before the phantom he has created parallels the spectator's position in front of the movie screen. The famous motif of the fall is presented in horizontal rather than vertical space, so that it becomes not a satanic fall from grace, but a modernist fall into the image, into the artwork-a total absorption of the creator by his creation, which in the end is shown as synonymous with death. But a thematic analysis can only scratch the surface of this extraordinarily dense and commanding film, perhaps the most intensely personal movie to emerge from the Hollywood cinema.

[@EasternOrthodox101]

Yes, and what about MANY others too😂That's why film schools are so pretentious!! They don't know s#%* lol Except from Hitchcock and Welles, all they teach about is garbage, boring garbage wtf🤦‍♂️😂🤣🤣

[@guillermomillan3525]

Wheres Paul Blart Mall Cop ???

[@adamgordon3163]

Millanstar it should of been... On how not to make a film

[@linkbiff1054]

Alex Reyes It was shown when a couple of friends of mine took a film class.

[@cranberrywb100]

Millanstar Or The Bee Movie? Tsk tsk tsk

[@MrElm0O]

Millanstar

[@x2ceyez]

The Room

[@brodierule5373]

no Sharkboy and lavagirl?

[@Jeevzsk]

Brodie Rule best movie ever

[@drewdemersyt8153]

Brodie Rule I was suprised spy kids wasn't on here

[@harrycahill2140]

Ur worst nightmare jokes aside, el mariachi deserves to be in film school more than any of these films

[@NoBrianCells]

no Howard the duck either,god dangit

[@ProfeCreepyAdventures]

Fore Real!!! Blasphemy!!!

[@Arthur-Escom]

Film school ? Really ? These are just classical movies that you should have watched before even going to a film school …

[@mnm2590]

Exactly sir...It would be a shame if one went to film school without having watched these movies.

[@davidfoster989]

@@mnm2590 I agree. When I first etered film school, I was suprised with how little films many students actually watched. Many of them have not seen one of the films on the list. The films they watch were popolar hollywood films released at the time. They don't bother with watching classic films. They right about them in essays and use the films as inspiration for their students films, but have never seen them. For example, one person presented how he uses The Godfather as a refrence for the way he will copose the music for a stucent film. Later I ased him what was his opinon on The GOdfather, he told me he had never seen the film and never plans to.

[@smelly_nut_hut2776]

I went to film school and the films there weren't even close to any of these movies! I made sure to research 3 movies...seeing as I was researching horror/scifi movies....I watched Halloween, A Clock Work Orange, and the invisible man.....and none of these movies ever popped up in other topics my friends researched....bunch of bullshit...

[@Pancrasio-it9qd]

@captain drama mulholland drive is great

[@Pancrasio-it9qd]

@captain drama vertigo is great too 😎

[@pixelvapour1960]

Where's Taxi Driver?

[@documented2]

WERE YOU NOT WATCHING??

[@ghundhabvadh5961]

@Ali's Archive hahahaha I was going to say that

[@michaelcorleone2397]

Ali's Archive you got a gift my friend

[@michaelcorleone2397]

Ali's Archive yes you do

[@michaelcorleone2397]

Ali's Archive yes you do

[@fourest8125]

I clicked because I saw Luko Bracsi getting choked out by some piano wire

[@leedrane4591]

*Luca Brasi

[@JazzieFunk]

Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes

[@Robjr83]

trill kid and may your first grandchild be a masculine one

[@comrade3186]

Me too!!!!!

[@George32027]

*luca brasi

[@heisenbergular8722]

where's The Room? You're tearing me apart Mojo!

[@betoen]

Anyway, Justin, how's your sex life!

[@meriemzaoui9302]

Oh hi mark

[@mcsteeley]

Cheep cheep cheeeep!

[@spukster9086]

Ha ha ha.

[@Pancrasio-it9qd]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@samcastevens8044]

what about every stanley kubrick movie?

[@fido416]

I want to go to a film school and become a movie director

[@utubeCoD10]

no one asked

[@fido416]

Amiri Copeland thanks

[@eldasfrogs22]

The Masked Jake GO FOR IT!

[@collector832]

You and I both :) Best of luck and may you succeed!

[@CarnalKid]

+Amiri Copeland You tell 'em, buddy.

[@ModelAndMake]

I'm in Film School and in my case most of those are actually true, but I find your lack of "Battleship Potemkin" disturbing.

[@trentdumon9054]

DioraMadness I took a film elective class at my high school last semester. We did actually watch Battleship Potemkin, I'm still not sure what it's about though because I fell asleep on the first 10 minutes. Not saying it's bad, but I was just really tired that day.

[@homelessathome]

this movie is actually the holy grail of the modern cinema

[@John_Fx]

And the lack of "Battleship"

[@asendimchev1996]

I thought that Metropolis, A Trip to The Moon, and Battleship Potemkin were the go-to movies for all film schools. Much more so than Mullholand Drive, it's inclusion baffles me.

[@braderlon16]

Birth of A Nation

[@ph43draaa]

I also remember viewing La Dolce Vita, Blade Runner, Modern Times, 8 1/2, Journey to the Moon, It Happened One Night, Some Like it Hot, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and many more. Good times.

[@Pancrasio-it9qd]

Hi

[@413zeo]

Went to film school for 2 years, NEVER seen any of these in my classes, we touched on alfred hitchcock but we only watched Stranger on the train. They showed us movies like blade runner, a trip to the moon, and taxi driver

[@snake_9002]

Taxi driver blade runner you must appreciate your school

[@patrickjohnson1649]

Well... That's just like... Your opinion man.

[@CottonCandySharks]

Patrick Johnson How could they have forgot to add the Dude??

[@jakobrogers625]

The Big Lebowski is a classic and it deserves to be on this list.

[@alternative_action]

Jake The Snake Mark It ZERO!

[@xxkarencxx9360]

Jakob Rogers yes it’s a class, not terribly important for film class tho. I take film at NYU and nothing of the kinda was considered important

[@dontbelievethehype1583]

I'm sorry I wasn't listening

[@leobergmiller873]

I wouldve probably added "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Birth of a Nation" (because of its influence in cinema, not its message obviously)

[@tatehildyard5332]

Leo Bergmiller Birth of A Nation I feel is also good for teaching how to not get turned off by outdated cultural norms. The Jazz Singer may have used blackface but it was about racial equality.

[@leobergmiller873]

Tate Hildyard Well I wouldn't say Birth of a Nation had "cultural norms" because it was about african americans being complete villians and pests of America and the KKK being the saviors of the land which is most obviously not how it worked... I mean its the normal interpretation of those events by some people around that time but it isnt really what you'd call the social norm of the time.

[@tatehildyard5332]

"Cultual norms" was probably not the best phrasing on my part.

[@leobergmiller873]

Tate Hildyard Yeah I get what you mean and you have a good point but I think its mainly because of how that was like literally the first narrative film ever...

[@AaronGerschler]

Well from a film history perspective D.W. Griffith got his start by plagiarizing Georges Méliès films for Edison. He did eventually develop his own style of story telling but his iconography still holds a great debt to the man he stole from.

[@floxy20]

"Now students, we are going to learn film by studying masterpieces." How dumb. I would make students shoot practice commercials at first; then they would learn how to light a scene and write economical dialog and other things. Then short films, etc.

[@mysticalcobra7380]

That's not how it works. We study movies and learn how to make them. My teacher never just put a movie and say nothing, hell tell us all the tricks that the movie used

[@OneSlyGhost]

Love Mulholland Drive, one of my all time favorite movies. It does a good job of keeping the viewer guessing and providing such a surreal environment that it truly stands out amongst other films.

[@DarkMysteriousObject]

Mulholland Drive is Probably Lynch's best film although I prefer Lost Highway personally

[@maciek8159]

Lol blue velvet is Lynch’s best film.

[@chrisjfox8715]

​@@maciek8159 Blue Velvet is the most straightforward of the three mentioned here. A great example of tension building without being cryptic. Mulholland Drive strikes the most quintessential balance of cryptic ambiguity yet cohesion - it's poetic that way. Some of his other projects can get a bit lost in the sauce, or movies like Blue Velvet or Elephant Man that are so straightforward that they "miss out on" the poetry of open interpretation that Mulholland Drive (albeit great films in their own right).

[@maciek8159]

@@chrisjfox8715 Since I've left that comment I've changed my opinion. I think Eraserhead is his best film followed by Blue Velvet. Yes, Blue Velvet is pretty straight forward but still keeps surreal aspects. I agree some of his other films go too far with being incomprehensible like Inland Empire and Lost Highway. My three favorites are Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive

[@katsoris2011]

i was hoping for 2001 a space odyssey

[@shigsho]

Yes, directors always pick 2001 and Tokyo Story. Two great films.

[@Gavin_jk]

where the heck is the emoji movie

[@ConnorMcCartney95]

pool that's still got months to come out

[@full-timepog6844]

pool cancelled?

[@8attery]

Shakir Newton it wasn't cancelled

[@unafflicted]

gavinctุ is that you jacksfilms?

[@deadinside7958]

watch it pal, thats on the edge of almost kinda swearing

[@cynicaloptimist970]

Top 10 Clips From Movies That WatchMojo Overuse... Number 2: "Rosebud" from Citizen Kane Number 1: "Shower Scene" from Psycho Anyone else...?

[@maxhoblick5830]

Sfsfsfsfsfsfsf from silence of the lambs

[@canofcoke7999]

Diner scene from Mulholland Drive. But I love it tho.

[@atulrawat4559]

Shower scene deserves to be over-used.

[@adarshjose3891]

You didn't even mention any of there movies: -Fellini -Tarkovsky -Bergman -Woody Allen -F.W Murnau -Eisenstein -Sidney Lumet -JORN FORD -Kubrick -Herzgog -Yasujiro Ozu -Billy Wilder -Frank Capra -David Lean -Polanski - Truffaut -John Huston -William Wyler -Ray -Elia Kazan -Renior -Peckinpah -Bustor Keaton -George Cukor - Altman -Bertolucci -Antonioni -Demile -Douglas Sirk -Lubistch

[@vafanapoli5396]

Adarsh Jose It’s a list of just 10 lol

[@FormulaVase-kp3dc]

@@vafanapoli5396 exactly, I mean wtf.

[@juancarlosquintanilla5355]

Jorn Ford. What a funny mistake u made.

[@Pancrasio-it9qd]

@@juancarlosquintanilla5355 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jonathasmoral]

2 girl 1 cup is classic too

[@christinek.2083]

I know this was a joke, but our films teachers advised it because of the reaction phenomenon that spiralled after it XD We only technically had to watch the reaction videos, but still hahaha.

[@avalonh-b.3412]

Christine K. Really? 😂😂 Omg that's crazy lol

[@brayanargandonaflorentino548]

I get it, because of your profile pic of the flag of Brazil

[@mohammadashrafulmahmud3009]

😂

[@CabbigePach]

WHERE IS BEE MOVIE????

[@jeremybarker5510]

A the white dad Ha ha. Very funny. Not a great film school movie.

[@calebreynolds8038]

Top ten anime films

[@brayanargandonaflorentino548]

What's the deal with the bees?

[@mryoyoserpico]

Bee movie? Seriously??

[@JerryTVong]

tch

[@matman000000]

Way too mainstream, more like top 10 movies every self-respecting film fan should watch. Consider this an extension of the list: 10. In a Mood for Love 9. A Man Escaped 8. Cabinet of Dr Caligari 7. The 400 Blows 6. Persona 5. 8 1/2 4. Eraserhead 3. Stalker 2. Un Chien Andalou 1. Man with a Movie Camera

[@rwnachman]

finally...first person I've seen who said Man With a Movie Camera

[@JessIdlehart]

100% of your list was shown to me in film school, compared to none of Mojo's well-tread list.

[@lavieenrose3272]

i would add trainspotting aswell but thats my opinion

[@DarkMysteriousObject]

Good list, I prefer Au Hazard Balthazar over A Man Escaped but you could really put any Bresson film on here. I would also add Satantango or something by Bela Tarr and would still take Godard over Truffaut. Also Ordet or The Passion of Joan of Arc and would take Sunrise over Caligari. And Stalker would be my choice by Tarkovsky as well. Excellent list though.. All great films but Im just not a Truffaut fan.

[@MacaulayFergusson]

@@rwnachman great lost tbh, i loved a man escaped, but my tarkovksy would be mirror :)

[@SusannaPowers]

Ahhh, I saw “Seven Samurai” this summer and liked it so much more than I thought I would. Really engaging and well done film.

[@solidsnake9898]

Best. Thumbnail. Ever.

[@walsheee93]

Solid Snake ikr

[@senkkella7664]

mgs fanboy

[@solidsnake9898]

Nelio 01 Problem?

[@User-ge7ni]

Solid Snake cringe

[@pixelvapour1960]

Nelio 01 Well MGS is brilliant.

[@Gunman610]

The introspective ending of The Graduate happened because Mike Nicols asked a friend of his to direct the scene of them on the bus, but he forgot to say "Cut". The actors, being professionals, didn't say "are we done yet" in the middle of the scene, so result is more of a masterpiece of editing than it is of directing.

[@XnxlixG]

WHERES SHARKNADO ???

[@RodericSpode]

Not surprising considering they didn't even include Weekend at Bernie's II.

[@brobro3770]

cats

[@ommane9365]

Where is 2001 : A Space Oddysey???

[@misterpowers5234]

THE ONLY one of these films I saw in film school was Citizen Kane

[@jackhussey2918]

I watched that in my high school film class!

[@Izzythrills]

Jack Hussey me too!

[@Clarrisani]

I got Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Bicycle Thief, Psycho (as well as The Birds and Rear Window), and a different Kurosawa film (Rashomon).

[@ZeppelinBigFan]

+Clarrisani We watched Rashomon as well, Seven Samurai is a bit too long to watch at the end of a lecture, so I think Rashomon is the one they usually go for.

[@MsKillerqueen5]

that's why it's #1

[@johnriddlebaugh7436]

Nothing by Kubrick is on the list? Weird.

[@patrickclark3337]

John Riddlebaugh wasn't the first film on this list A Clockwork Orange?

[@JamesGilbert_]

No, number ten was 1931's _City Lights._

[@bridges4232]

Exactly the best director of all time

[@FilmStudent07]

I went to film school for 3 years and didn't even here of Kubrick. I've seen all his films now. The reason, in my opinion, his films aren't shown is because most of his films deal with harsh real life subject matter which at times critiques capitalist society heavily. For instance; you find yourself routing for a rapist murderer in A Clockwork Orange, explore the harsh life and dehuminisation of soldiers trained for war in Full Metal Jacket, see how personal pride and recognition take president over the lives of soldiers in Paths of Glory, explore how the system's and individuals made to protect society can do the very opposite in Dr Strangelove, etc. He's the greatest Film maker in my opinion, his films are so true to life and there's so much conflict coming out of every scene! His topics and engunity as an artist are beyond the scope of most film schools, attempting to teach basic popular film culture. Most film cources tend to ignore great filmmaking if it's controversial in any way, like Michael Powell"s Prepping Tom.

[@DanielGutierrez-ko9ep]

I thought "Schindler's List" would be on this list.

[@mischabarattolo7598]

Lmao

[@Sir-Seaniel]

maybe for a list off top 10 movies you watch in school. Definitely more options for this list though

[@MacaulayFergusson]

ovverated film tbh

[@Indeeee]

@@MacaulayFergusson lol you better stick with American Pie

[@MacaulayFergusson]

@@Indeeee when i said schindlers lost was oveerrated i meant its shit compared to tarkovsky and ingmar bergman

[@Mo-MuttMusic]

"Singin' in the Rain" is regularly shown in film/media classes as a classic example of the Hollywood musical. Shawn R., Mo-Mutt Music (and former film studies grad assistant and former film student)

[@kasperzak9027]

Fellini? Antonioni? Bergman? Kieslowski? Really?

[@DarkMysteriousObject]

Red Dessert / L'Aventura and The Double Life of Veronique certainly could be there.

[@MacaulayFergusson]

you forgot tarkovksy as well :(

[@sujatasengupta3681]

Satyajit Ray

[@erickgarcia9377]

What did you expect, its watchmojo

[@AdamMitchyCat]

The two movies I've seen most in film school are Singin in the Rain and Sunset Boulevard. I've seen each of them three times since starting college

[@meropale]

I love Mulholland Drive and saw it in the theatres when it first came out. I'm surprised it's on here but happy that it is. I can't watch it often though because it breaks my heart too much. The movie doesn't do a good job of explaining what's going on and there's probably no single explanation but for me it's a sad story of unrequited love.

[@rmr1967]

watch the final fight scene in Kill Bill Vol. 1. Its is flawless even with its over a dozen different camera angles. The sound, the pacing, the editing. It's perfect cinematography.

[@katieener8171]

rmr1967 yeah its my fave tarantino film

[@Shoegazebasedgenre0.]

Ohh hell no kill bill are cheesy and overrated! I'm glad it's not get on the list

[@JasonJeckers]

Kill Bill sucked ass.

[@ankush2275]

@@Shoegazebasedgenre0. Fuck you

[@bryanross3014]

Where is The Shining? For me, that's the most powerfully constructed piece of cinema filming ever.

[@everythingisawesome2903]

Bryan Ross lol

[@ankush2275]

@@everythingisawesome2903 lol to you

[@ThePirateprincess23]

I watched City Lights, The Graduate, Psycho, and Citizen Kane when I took a film appreciation class back in college.

[@edsmith1757]

there are too many Fritz Lang's "M" is also a masterpiece

[@Zett76]

Additions: Schindler‘s List, almost any Kubrick... Oh, and Twilight. To learn what to avoid. 🙂

[@juanucedaperez9614]

Hahahahaha... what to avoid... what a riot!!!

[@CalebCosner]

*Teacher plays The Room* Teacher: DONT DO THIS

[@thohangst]

thankfully.

[@95Bonham]

Interesting that not a single Kubrick film made it onto this list. That's not to say I'm disappointed; I think it's just a testament to the fact that his style and methods are so outside of the norm. I think his films are just sort of beyond what is considered great film making. They're kind of just their own medium, their own universe...

[@CashelOConnolly]

Bonham Paxton oh sure and David Lynch is the part of the norm!!!!!

[@CashelOConnolly]

Bonham Paxton he made over long trash like the Shinning and 2001

[@asendimchev1996]

I've been to film school and Kubrick is surprisingly unpopular among academia. They prefer more socialist-leaning directors like the French new wave or Soviet directors like Eisenstein or Tarkovski. We've only studied Full Metal Jacket, just so the lecturer could show us how evil the US army is.

[@ImAlwaysHere1]

Yep. They could have added 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, or Dr. Strangelove.

[@riverpinkston8884]

Bonham Paxton Kubrick films remain unparalleled, no one makes movies like he did and I don’t think anyone ever will. He was truly the master.

[@Feelthefelt]

um... Battleship Potemkin anyone?

[@dogvom]

Happy 120th birthday, Sergei Eisenstein!

[@beernpizzalover9035]

Patrick Felton Good call!

[@aravindraj9045]

Yeah the first film i watched in film school!!

[@ReapTheWhirlwind]

I had to watch October: Ten Days That Shook The World instead.

[@IvorPresents]

I got it on my list. essential editing.

[@ZeppelinBigFan]

I watched Mulholland Drive, Bicycle Thieves, Breathless and Citizen Kane in film school. Didn't watch Psycho, although both Rear Window and Vertigo were Hitchcock films we actually did watch. Also, Rashomon tends to be showed more than Seven Samurai I think, since it's about two hours shorter, and almost as influential.

[@Pancrasio-it9qd]

Yes

[@gnewt75]

Goodfellas should of been on the honorable mentions list!

[@codeblack9407]

gnewt75 what about frozen

[@gnewt75]

Keyshawn Milton never saw it.

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

better go get you shinebox

[@socalsp3]

you tink I'm a funny?

[@sudarmansudarman7666]

funny how?

[@itsrectimemedia]

The only movies, I've seen from this list in film school are Bicycle Thieves, Breathless, and Citizen Kane. Other films were Strangers on Trains, The Birth of a Nation, A Trip to the Moon, The Third Man, The General, and so many more I'd lost track.

[@ididntasktobehere]

steven alvarez just finished early ones starting with a trip to the moon and I'm dissapointed my school thinks that Birth of a Nation is a bit to Inappropriate to watch in class

[@vv1340]

steven alvarez I

[@keilymaldonado5492]

u went to ucla film school huh?

[@thohangst]

The General and other silents are tricky as you're never going to get an authentic experience without pulling out the ol' Wurlitzer.

[@szattttt]

why don't you choose "Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory" ? that's the origin of everything...

[@neilpower60]

Szatosi Kozai Edward Muybridge was experimenting before then with cinema

[@JoelMBarr-hh7vs]

Incredibly surprised that a Kubrick or Lumet didn't make the list... We had to watch both's entire catalog in film school...so many outstanding movies there that I learned a ton from.

[@Branfaol1]

Surprised Metropolis and Casablanca only got honorable mention.

[@alflex621]

Drive will be one to be looked at in 5-10 years, atleast it should be.

[@CalebCosner]

I'm there with you buddy.

[@ChimcharrNo1]

alflex621 brilliant film

[@Gunman610]

I totally disagree. It doesn't even come close to Man on Fire or A History of Violence, which have the same themes, but are 100x better.

[@Buccko92]

History of violence is ass lmao. So corny.

[@AdamMitchyCat]

I watched it in a cinematography class two semesters ago

[@Mo-MuttMusic]

"Doctor Strangelove" is regularly shown in film classes, too.

[@EasternOrthodox101]

😂That's why film schools are so pretentious!! They don't know s#%* Except from Hitchcock and Welles, all they teach about is garbage, boring garbage wtf🤦‍♂️😂🤣🤣

[@derprenolds6901]

You guys should do another one of these and/or top 10 movies everyone needs to watch

[@SilverAshes109]

What kind of Film School doesn't show M by Fritz Lang, Double Indemnity, Alfred Hitcock's Vertigo, Strangers on a Train, or North by Northwest?!

[@AddyRothTV]

SilverAshes109 A good film school would never show Hitchcock, everyone can see his movies

[@Rilumai]

+Soundwave961 Everyone can see pretty much any movie if they really want to so should a film school never show any movie?

[@heliotropezzz333]

If they show a director I imagine they pick the best example of his films and here they picked "Rear Window" and Psycho".

[@paulsouth2604]

Box Hill TAFE

[@warrena10]

I was sure North by Northwest would be on the list. Very disappointing.

[@PublicEnemyMinusOne]

Maybe apart from Dune...*Any* David Lynch movie is essential in Film School. The man is an artistic Genius. fuckin Twin Peaks 2017!!!

[@Dragonflower]

Hell yeah. With the exception of Eraserhead. That can't really be studied... can it?

[@PublicEnemyMinusOne]

Hahah I get what you mean but maybe in a way it can? It's surrealism? It's depiction of the fears of fatherhood?

[@michaelbacher8493]

PublicEnemy-1 And blue velvet

[@joirwin2636]

You could argue Dune is a necessary and good contrast to his more successful films, considering David was forced to sacrifice much of his creative vision (and more) to make the film. This movie nearly ruined his career and yet his other films/works, where he does what he wants (regardless of if it makes sense to the audience), were extremely successful and some of the most influential and groundbreaking works of all time. Twin Peaks, for example, changed television forever- the show was unprecedented in the early 90's, like most of his work. You struggle to find a director/writer/producer/show/film that hasn't been affected by something David made. Essentially, Dune is a lesson in creativity, principle, and what not to do.

[@ABodyInProgress]

I've watched Lynch - "Mulholland Dr." and "Lost Highway". No interest in seeing anything of his again.

[@rykeman916]

I took a lot of film classes in community college, and so the films from this list that I've seen in class are: The Graduate (only clips), Mulholland Drive, The Godfather, Psycho, Bicycle Thieves, seven samurai, a single clip of Breathless (though I saw most of 400 blows), and Citizen Kane. not a bad list

[@vincentantista5055]

Maybe a couple documentaries as well? Nanook of the North or The Thin Blue Line perhaps?

[@codyhiginbotham6616]

I had one (of many) film classes in college, and we watched - His Girl Friday - Casablanca - The Graduate - Rear Window - The 400 Blows - Young Frankenstein - Yojimbo - Moulin Rouge - Rashomon It was a great class

[@Pancrasio-it9qd]

Hi

[@miguelmagana8244]

Citizen Kane was literally the first movie I saw in film school.

[@SOPARA862k]

I did a film studies AS and the films we studied in depth were Blade Runner, Psycho, 12 Monkeys, The Crying Game, Double Indemnity and American History X. We did study individual scenes from a host of other films though.

[@paulsouth2604]

We watched The 400 Blows and Yojimbo when I studied screenwriting in the early 2000's, but I can't remember what else. Though the students I hung out with were more interested in Charlie Kaufman's films. There's too many essential films to mention.

[@chasepetty6269]

here's a few movies id pick if i was a film teacher 2001 a space odyssey memento amores perros childeren of men pulp fiction Lawrence of arabia spirited away eternal sunshine of the spotless mind the master apocalypse now

[@vb2388]

chasetalksmusic _ great list! some of my picks would be.. Sunrise, M, Citizen Kane, Pather Panchali, Mirror, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Close-Up, Werckmeister Harmonies, Chungking Express etc..

[@devarya8963]

+VB MUTT thanks for acknowledging piece of art.. Pather panchali

[@SuperFastEddies]

Add chinatown and its a solid list.

[@davidstokle2259]

Yes, no list can be perfect of course, but to not include a single Stanley Kubrick film on a top ten film school list just doesn't seem rational. I was hoping either 2001 or Dr. Strangle Love would make it. I'm glad 2001 made yours.

[@suhijo]

but you are not :)

[@LyleVSXyle]

No Pulp Fiction?

[@papa_mia4495]

That movie is pure bullshit, it literally is.

[@LyleVSXyle]

I don't remember asking you a goddamn thing!

[@papa_mia4495]

What?

[@iamjacksalias6071]

Papa mia Clearly you either haven't seen it or didn't pay attention. How could you forget that line?

[@tehidiotboys3010]

+Papa mia oh god he doesn't even know

[@Ivan-rl9mk]

Raging bull is the one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen

[@Jeannekm126]

A film school isn't a real film school without BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN!!!

[@ILikeGuns1992]

Citizen Kane is such an amazing movie - it's just perfect as a whole. One of the best movies ever made.

[@bluedjules]

*in American Film School

[@AdarshKumar-nj7rp]

America, world, same thing *average American*

[@KitchenerLesli]

Thats basically the whole world man

[@cheeesonator]

*because it's an American company making videos for American people

[@everythingisawesome2903]

cheeesonator no, Watch Mojo is an Canadian channel

[@KaizerBeatz-vf9wf]

cheeesonator I’m British & thought the videos were for me? Why do they make their content available worldwide then?

[@tedhoeborn2310]

Film school aside, The Graduate has one great goof that I noticed. When Hoffman's character is traveling to Berkeley it shows him heading westbound on the Bay Bridge, away from Berkeley and into San Francisco.

[@TK199999]

I have seen other lists where the movie Terminator is in the list, or at least honorable mention since its one of the most effect films ever made. With some of the best exposition scenes in cinema. With the Shinning being also in the list, but only recently have people discovered things Kurbric did to make it so scary, like purposely make the Overlook Hotels rooms and hallways impossible, giving the audience an unsettling feeling, but consciously not knowing why. Also the Alien, since its one of the best horror movies ever written, directed and acted. Even though it's essentially a slasher movie, you can tell how much better a movie it is, that it transcends any problems found in horror.

[@doublerotifilms5653]

A decent list. There should be a Kubrick film on it, Tarantino as well. We were shown all these, including Metroplis - Chaplin's Modern Times instead of City lights was the first movie shown in that order and Kurusawa's Rashomon. Some additions - Bergman's Seven Seals was a pathbreaking film. Tarkovsky's Stalker. Battleship Potemkin is one film, I remember clearly being shown in class and a long essay and analysis to be submitted on the technique of montage introduced in the film. memories

[@Texasscout96]

They forgot "Dude wheres my car?", Leonard Part 6, the Toxic Avenger and Flashdance.

[@aaronlaster8260]

Texasscout96 toxic avenger should be seen by everyone

[@blakekrasner8188]

I went to AFI. The only one's of these that we studied were Psycho, Seven Samurai, and Citizen Kane. My focus though was more on early cinema so we studied silent and early talkies extensively. Nosferatu, Metropolis , M, etc... Mainly German Expressionism...

[@Sagefrakrobatik]

I took a film class in high school from what I remembered, We watched Citizen Kane, Raging Bull, Twins, Alfred Hitchock's "Rear Window," Momento, and One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest.

[@mountbrocken]

What no Ingmar Bergman????

[@RhythmGrizz]

Mulholland Drive kicks ass

[@chrisflynn6946]

I distinctly remember watching Terrence Malick's "Days of Heaven" when I was in film school in 2010.

[@selmaferdjioui5873]

As a film student, I can say that we did watch many of these but not all of them. Although, I still haven’t finished my studies so maybe that we’ll watch more of these movies in the next years

[@edwardalvarez6429]

it won't be too long till they make a top ten top ten

[@gabrielcalderon5765]

Any film from Stanley Kubrick?

[@viktorriquelme3735]

Gabriel Calderon yep

[@zipgow]

Coming from a film school graduate, Citizen Kane is the film you will see in as many film classes that have an excuse to screen it. So you will definitely see it in your intro class, your screenwriting class, American Cinema, and so on and so forth. So when a film student calls something "Citizen Kane of __", they aren't necessarily saying its a great film. They might be saying it's the film of its genre that your Professor is most likely to screen. For example: Stagecoach is the Citizen Kane of Westerns. Psycho is the Citizen Kane of both Horror movies and Hitchcock movies. The Bicycle Thief is the Citizen Kane of Italian Neorealism. The Seventh Seal is the Citizen Kane of Swedish Cinema. The 400 Blows is the Citizen Kane of French New Wave. The Rules of the Game is the Citizen Kane of classic French Cinema. The Seven Samurai is the Citizen Kane of Japanese Cinema, but some professors might choose Rashoman to represent Kurosawa because of its length; the reason many of these films are screened more than other similar choices is because Professors like to have time to discuss the film.

[@schizoidboy]

I heard that there were courses that just focused on the one scene from Hitchcock's North by Northwest. The scene where Cary Grant's character is waiting by a road near a field before being attacked by a plane is what they have an entire class based around.

[@marcosmoreira5372]

I'm in film school. It's somewhat true. You missed quite a few: 1- every Andrei Tarkovsky movie 2- (almost) every Stanley Kubrick movie 3- man with a movie camera / battleship potemkin 4- birth of a nation

[@NoJusticeNoPeace]

Where is M? Where is Nosferatu? Where is Night of the Hunter? Where is The Third Man? And these days you're a lot more likely to see The Matrix than Bicycle Thieves in a film class.

[@vb2388]

NoJusticeNoPeace...I am not sure what they show in film schools but every Tarkovsky film should be shown in film schools..

[@davidgdraper6269]

NoJusticeNoPeace Nosferatu for sure. N by NW, High Noon and way more than these 10 listed. Yes Citizen Kane should top the list. Taxi Driver and Raging Bull should be assigned in the same week with a paper contrasting the two. Some Coen brothers. A Kubrick film as well as Woody Allen and Roman Polanski. Some Scandinavian efforts as well.

[@jessicaphillips1394]

Night of the Hunter is an awesome movie, I couldn't agree more. Saw it in my film class in hs 😄

[@TheMrsFunky]

Some Scandinavian efforts? - Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal), Aki Kaurismäki, Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg to name just few are essential and inspirational for any artist.

[@borderlandwerun]

I saw Bicycle Thieves in film class.

[@curtyeomans8446]

I didn't see most of these films when I was in film school, although I saw several of them elsewhere. Our school's attitude was that most people had seen the stereotypical stuff like the Godfather, Psycho or The Graduate so they wanted us to see what you might call some of the deeper cuts. What I remember us watching was stuff like Breathless, Fargo (It had just won the Academy Award the week before), Rome Open City, Blackmail, Mrs. Miniver, the Philadelphia Story, Steamboat Bill Jr., Gold Diggers of 1933, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Metropolis, Hard Days Night (the teacher let us vote that week and it was this or Goldfinger among other films) and Rhapsody in August. Unfortunately, the only version of Metropolis available to watch at the time was the version with the Queen soundtrack dubbed in, which made for a very surreal experience. There are certain films that we only watched key parts of, such as the Odessa steps scene from Battleship Potemkin.

[@Pancrasio-it9qd]

Vertigo is great

[@wingnutistaken8917]

I wonder why Clerks is never shown. It is basically the blueprint on not only budget film making, but it is a wonderful example of how to pace a script and how to write witty and realistic dialogue.

[@27TheJose]

Citizen Kane has to be number 1! That movie revolutionized the film industry

[@curryjon]

Can you please explain how it did so? I don't like the movie at all but I really just want to know exactly what makes it a revolutionary film.

[@TamizPerdiz]

Hawkmeister If you go with time when the movie was released it's revolutionary. The technique of Flashback was the main element to tell the story. But if you just go to watch the movie only as a story then you won't appreciate it. I disliked also, i felt it simple, i got that the protagonist was suffering but i never felt empathy towards him.

[@ommane9365]

But where is 2001 :A Space Oddysey??? Without that movie today we wouldn't be able to see such wonderful Sci Fiction movies!!

[@marceneriz8180]

Metropolis was first but I agree

[@foxybingo1112]

Also Battleship Potemkin, 2001, Stalker, The Mirror and 8 1/2

[@DarkMysteriousObject]

Stalker is one of my all time favorite films.

[@dawsondjodvorj2408]

@@DarkMysteriousObject and my least favorite from Tarkovsky 😂 Still love it though!

[@DarkMysteriousObject]

@@dawsondjodvorj2408 Interesting. Why is that? I didnt think Solaris was as good, nor My Name is Ivan. Andrey Rublev, Stalker and The Sacrifice are my personal faves but all are excellent films

[@dawsondjodvorj2408]

@@DarkMysteriousObject My favorite are Andrei Rublev, The Sacrifice and The Mirror. I love all his movie, the thing with stalker is that it was a very patience testing movie, I was really invested at beginning but somewhere around the middle I completely lost interest. I have to definitely rewatch, since I only watched it once, I have watched his other movies multiple times.

[@DarkMysteriousObject]

@@dawsondjodvorj2408 See it again, everything beautifully sets up that final shot which is stuck in my head forever... But either way, anything he does is better than the best of most others. :)

[@MrBluepants1]

In film school we've only watching a few of these as part of class, and the rest we are expected to have already watched or watch on your own.

[@cheerwhiner7829]

Robert McKee would say, “Casablanca.” RM trains scriptwriters and has a seminar about writing for film. He breaks down Casablanca scene by scene with his students. His book called, “Story” is excellent to learn about scriptwriting.

[@kostajovanovic3711]

Bergman? Bunūel? Tarkovsky ? M from Lang? Bresson?

[@devarya8963]

Satyajit ray

[@vincentantista5055]

Fellini?

[@arvindupadhyay9671]

Federico fellini

[@rogerdude23]

Americans dont like foreign films...

[@maciek8159]

@@rogerdude23 I’m American and I prefer foreign films

[@themightycongueror8383]

No Chinatown?

[@XxDirtyXxXSanchezxX]

Finally i found this comment. Agreed!!

[@SuperFastEddies]

Exactly!

[@IvorPresents]

Hear hear

[@DarkMysteriousObject]

Chinatown and Vertigo Probably the two best Hollywood produced films of their respective decades

[@DarkMysteriousObject]

@Moh Asani Fair enough, I think Chinatown is flawless in every aspect but agree the 70's imo was the greatest decade of Cinema. What are your entries?

[@rlt152]

I took a few film classes while in school and I saw 3 of these- The Graduate, Raging Bull, and Citizen Kane. Didn't see Akira Kurosawa but saw another film directed by Akira Kurosawa- Yojimbo

[@btetschner]

Thank you for the video.