Most Influential Movies Of All Time
Movies that are great. Not my Favorite necessarily but movies that have substance and are important to the history of Cinema
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- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Paul BelmondoJean SebergVan DoudeA small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.Quick shots, jump cuts, anti-heroes, romanticizing violence, and the French New Wave were formed by the success of this film. This film brought the medium down from the pedestal of the Hollywood studio into the hands of inspiring creatives that would go on to shape modern Hollywood.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'Narrative Storytelling in films was forever changed and inspired by this film.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsRoy ScheiderRobert ShawRichard DreyfussWhen a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.This Blockbuster was the first of it's kind. The summertime blockbuster owes everything to this movie.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKeir DulleaGary LockwoodWilliam SylvesterAfter uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.The quintessential sci-fi film that pulled the genre out of the depths of campy B-films into a high art.
- DirectorGeorge LucasStarsMark HamillHarrison FordCarrie FisherLuke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.Combining elements of Jaws and 2001; this movie introduced toys and merchandise to films.
- DirectorArthur PennStarsWarren BeattyFaye DunawayMichael J. PollardBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.The movie that brought the French new wave of films over to America and effectively ended "old Hollywood"
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishMae MarshHenry B. WalthallThe Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.For better or for worse Griffith showed the scope that movies can reach.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.The film that justified the existence of "new Hollywood" and gave it an extra 20 years of its lifespan.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJohn TravoltaUma ThurmanSamuel L. JacksonThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.There's something gestalt about this film; and it's why audiences went in droves to see it. This indie masterpiece would go on to kick-start a wave of imitations and action comedies that just couldn't "hear the music" of Tarantino's purism.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardHenry BergmanThe Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.The film that made Chaplin a celebrity. Perhaps the first time film reached out to help people.