Damian Arlyn
Pinocchio
Citizen Kane
Psycho
Apocalypse Now
Manhattan
Die Hard
Unforgiven
Schindler's List
The Tree of Life
Noah Aust
Synecdoche NY
Mulholland Dr.
Blade Runner
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Tree of Life
A Night At The Opera
The Wizard of Oz
12 Monkeys
The Conversation
Blake Backlash
Letter From An Unknown Woman
Touch of Evil
Phantom of the Paradise
A Serious Man
Quiz Show
Carnival of Souls
Starship Troopers
The Parallax View
Blazing Saddles
Miriam Bale
"It's insane not to include Lewis, Ray, Lubitsch, & Hawks, the four greatest American directors. But with them, it's too difficult to choose one.”
Mean Streets
Magnificent Ambersons
Love Streams
Vertigo
A New Leaf
I Walked With A Zombie
Meet Me in St. Louis
Objective Burma!
Daughters of the Dust
Rushmore
Eric Barroso
The Magnificent Ambersons
Thief
His Girl Friday/Only Angels Have Wings
Park Row
Mothlight
Sherlock, Jr.
Scorpio Rising
Fury
Night of the Hunter
Theodora Blasko
Pulp Fiction
Bringing Up Baby
The Royal Tenenbaums
All That Jazz
Rosemary’s Baby
No Country for Old Men
Zodiac
Annie Hall
Boogie Nights
Danny Bowes
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Singin' in the Rain
2001: A Space Odyssey
Vertigo
Blade Runner ('07 cut)
The Grapes of Wrath
Goodfellas
The Godfather
Network
Charles Bramesco
All About Eve
Dr. Strangelove
Sherlock Jr.
Taxi Driver
Vertigo
Lost Highway
Barton Fink
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
Nashville
David Cairns
Rear Window
Out of the Past
Citizen Kane
The General
Paper Moon
Raging Bull
Harold & Maude
He Who Gets Slapped
The Apartment
Forrest Cardamenis
Dog Star Man
Killer of Sheep
Mulholland Dr.
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Tree of Life
Johnny Guitar
Meek's Cutoff
Safe
Do The Right Thing
Monica Castillo
Singin' In The Rain
His Girl Friday
The Thing
Do The Right Thing
Annie Hall
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Our Hospitality
Jaws
Rosemary's Baby
Jaime N. Christley
Make Way For Tomorrow
Only Angels Have Wings
His Girl Friday
The Magnificent Ambersons
Vertigo
The Ladies Man
Blade Runner
White Dog
Schindler’s List
Sam Cohen
True Grit
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Badlands
Dead Man
All That Jazz
Spring Breakers
Manhattan
Blue Velvet
The Last Picture Show
Jake Cole
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Bigger Than Life
A.I.
Opening Night
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Rio Bravo
Nashville
The King of Comedy
The Magnificent Ambersons
Olivia Collette
Some Like It Hot
Alien
The Royal Tenenbaums
Pleasantville
Citizen Kane
Koyaanisqatsi
Lost In Translation
The Shining
L.A. Story
Adam Cook
Age of Innocence
The Long Voyage Home
An American In Paris
Blackout
Love Streams
Heat
City Lights
Unforgiven
The Big Heat
Max Covill
The Godfather
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Vertigo
Singin' In The Rain
Jaws
Badlands
Double Indemnity
Taxi Driver
City Lights
Fernando F. Croce
Badlands
The Reckless Moment
Johnny Guitar
The Bowery
City Girl
Take Me To Town
The Patsy
Duel In The Sun
To Sleep With Anger
Greg Cwik
Batman Returns
The Godfather
Goodfellas
Jaws
Mulholland Drive
Point Blank
Rosemary's Baby
There Will Be Blood
Vertigo
Phantom 11. Alien
Brian Darr
Docks of New York
Angel
King-Size Canary
The End
The Far Country
Hold Me While I'm Naked
Carrie
To Sleep With Anger
The Company
Abhimanyu Das
Apocalypse Now
Pulp Fiction
Blue Velvet
Blade Runner
Chinatown
Rear Window
RoboCop
Die Hard
The Godfather Part II
Diana Drumm
Gone with the Wind
Sunset Boulevard
Vertigo
Annie Hall
Badlands
Network
Dead Man
Closer
Laura
Phantom 11. 12 Years a Slave
Paul Duane
Only Angels Have Wings
The Thing
Taxi Driver
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Detour
Gun Crazy
The Producers
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
Rio Bravo
Tim Earle
Citizen Kane
Fargo
Do the Right Thing
Saving Private Ryan
Goodfellas
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Team America, World Police
Fight Club
Synecdoche, New York
Tom Elrod
Modern Times
Fantasia
The Magnificent Ambersons
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Searchers
The Long Goodbye
E.T.
Ishtar
The Last Temptation of Christ
Alex Engquist
Meshes of the Afternoon
The Magnificent Ambersons
Imitation of Life
Only Angels Have Wings
Window Water Baby Moving
Wanda
Nashville
Love Streams
Do The Right Thing
A.I.
Autumn Faust
The Blair Witch Project
A.I.
Inland Empire
Apocalypse Now
Spring Breakers
Meshes of the Afternoon
Do The Right Thing
The Evil Dead 2
The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eye
Veronika Ferdman
Johnny Guitar
Wild at Heart
The Tree of Life
The Tarnished Angels
Heat
The Moderns
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Puce Moment
Kenji Fujishima
Vertigo
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Dawn of the Dead
The Crowd
The Conversation
Killer of Sheep
Love Streams
Window Water Baby Moving
Mean Streets
Barry Lyndon
Hatari!
Walden: Diaries, Notes & SketchesBroken Blossoms
Wagon Master
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Make Way for Tomorrow
Two-Lane Blacktop
Hallejulah
Force of Evil
My Hustler
Jim Gabriel
The Crowd
Citizen Kane
Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Meet Me In St. Louis
Bigger Than Life
The Wild Bunch
Nashville
All That Jazz
The Dante Quartet
The Tree of Life
The Magnificent Ambersons
Only Angels Have Wings
Head
Female Trouble
Killer of Sheep
California Split
Nashville
The King of Comedy
Duck Amuck
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Ruggles of Red Gap
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Night of the Hunter
Slacker
Two Lane Blacktop
Do The Right Thing
The New World
Dead Man
High School
Welfare/The Store
Love Streams
Salesman
3 Women
Frownland
Manhattan Murder Mystery/Stardust Memories
Imitation of Life
Miami Vice
Portrait of Jason
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Tina Hassania
Do The Right Thing
The Shining
To Be Or Not To Be
Meshes of the Afternoon
Badlands
His Girl Friday
Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans
You've Got Mail
The Big Lebowski
Roderick Heath
The Seventh Victim
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome/Lucifer Rising
Hell To Eternity
The Hustler
Confessions of an Opium Eater
Marnie
The Color Purple
Kundun
Tony G. Huang
Notorious
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
The Shop Around The Corner
The Last Detail
Rebel Without A Cause
Wind Across The Everglades
To Have and Have Not
Citizen Kane
Days of Heaven
Apocalypse Now
Citizen Kane
There Will Be Blood
The Godfather
Jaws
Dr. Strangelove
Sweet Smell of Success
Pulp Fiction
Fargo
Zodiac
"As an English-speaking Canadian, I largely absorbed American culture and entertainment as my own while I grew up. But the older I get, the more alien America seems to me, the more I realize that American myths are not my myths, and the more I realize that America (like any other place in the world) is a weird, special place with its own culture and idiosyncrasies, as well as its own demons. So that might be why my favourite "American films" tend to treat America as a strange and unique place rather than succumbing to the horseshit concept of American exceptionalism or attempting to universalize the American experience. To be honest, there are probably American productions I prefer to some of the movies below, but to me the words "American film" suggest a certain preoccupation with "America," so that's how I've written this list (sorry, Hitch!). Also, I like movies about teens."
Apocalypse Now
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Beach Blanket Bingo
The Breakfast Club
Chinatown
Do the Right Thing
Once Upon a Time in America
The Last Picture Show
Rebel Without a Cause
The Straight Story
Dan Khan
Dr. Strangelove
Casablanca
The Lady From Shanghai
Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Pulp Fiction
The Searchers
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Tree of Life
Bringing Up Baby
Down By Law
Danny King
Cop
Fat City
Heaven’s Gate
Keane
Losing Ground
My Son John
The New Centurions
Pride of the Marines
Two Lovers
Ryland Walker Knight
His Girl Friday
The Birds
Wanda
Two-Lane Blacktop
A New Leaf
Bless Their Little Hearts
Love Streams
Inland Empire
The Master
Zach Lewis
Young Mr. Lincoln
North on Evers
Sunrise
The Black Book
Kiss Me Deadly
The Clock
The Addiction
Nothing But A Man
The Lusty Men
Mark Lukenbill
Killer of Sheep
All that Heaven Allows
Sullivan's Travels
Paper Moon
The Night of the Hunter
The Long Goodbye
Mikey and Nicky
Elephant
Two Lovers
Noah Adrian Lyons
Mulholland Dr.
Citizen Kane
2001: A Space Odyssey
Psycho
Meshes of the Afternoon
Do the Right Thing
Annie Hall
Taxi Driver
Lost in Translation
Lucas Mangum
American Beauty
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
O, Brother Where Art Thou?
Big Trouble In Little China
Jaws
Terminator 2
Blade Runner
Calum Marsh
Ruggles of Red Gap
The Thin Man
The Palm Beach Story
Ball of Fire
Bitter Victory
Los Angeles Plays Itself
The Sweet Smell of Success
California Split
Ms. 45
Phantom 11: Barry Lyndon
Jake Mulligan
The Best Years of Our Lives
Blow Out
It's Always Fair Weather
Jungle Fever
Monkey Business
Patty Hearst
Rolling Thunder
Unfaithfully Yours
You Only Live Once
Vikram Murthi
Night of the Hunter
Taxi Driver
2001: A Space Odyssey
Chinatown
Blue Collar
Something Wild
Blue Velvet
Pulp Fiction
Zodiac
Nick Newman
You Only Live Once
Bigger Than Life
Rio Bravo
Nothing But a Man
Zapruder Film of the Kennedy Assassination
Days of Heaven
After Hours
Pulp Fiction
Inland Empire
Max B. O'Connell
Vertigo
Manhattan
E.T.
Citizen Kane
On The Waterfront
There Will Be Blood
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Lady Eve
City Lights
John M. Oursler
King of Comedy
Nashville
The Exorcist
Opening Night
Safe
Mulholland Dr.
Cabaret
The Master
All About Eve
Michael Pattison
Singin' In The Rain
Deseret
Chinatown
North By Northwest
Rope
Southern Comfort
Blue Velvet
Die Hard
Heat
Cain Rodriguez
The Godfather
12 Angry Men
All The President's Men
The Killing
Days of Heaven
Die Hard
Raising Arizona
Boogie Nights
Halloween
Bill Ryan
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
The Exorcist
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Glengarry Glen Ross
Some Came Running
A Serious Man
In Harm's Way
This is Spinal Tap
The Shooting
Kristen Sales
Young Mr. Lincoln
Citizen Kane
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Imitation of Life
The Wild Bunch
The Godfather
Nashville
Days of Heaven
Do The Right Thing
Michael Sicinski
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
2001: A Space Odyssey
Vertigo
What The Water Said Nos. 4-6
Imitation of Life
Kiss Me Deadly
Do The Right Thing
Side/Walk/Shuttle
Killer of Sheep
Michelle Siracusa
The New World
Sorcerer
Near Dark
Moonrise Kingdom
Hugo
The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Rosemary's Baby
West Side Story
Wall*E
Andrew Skelton
My Darling Clementine
Only Angels Have Wings
Fury
In A Lonely Place
The Heartbreak Kid
Targets
Pickup on South Street
Singin' in the Rain
Safe
Justine A. Smith
The Awful Truth
Laura
Lost Highway
Eyes Wide Shut
Cluny Brown
Baby Doll
Some Like It Hot
The Searchers
Window Water Baby Moving
Colin Stacy
Trouble in Paradise
The Apartment
The Birds
His Girl Friday
Chinatown
Grey Gardens
Killer of Sheep
Eraserhead
Boogie Nights
Andreas Stoehr
The Scarlet Empress
Bride of Frankenstein
Meshes of the Afternoon
Johnny Guitar
All That Heaven Allows
All My Life
Nashville
RoboCop
Mulholland Dr.
Tanner Tafelski
How Green Was My Valley
Notorious
Dead Man
The Thin Red Line
Eraserhead
3:10 to Yuma
Naked Lunch
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Landscape Suicide
Scout Tafoya
Punishment Park
Man In The Wilderness/The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Leviathan
Killer of Sheep
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
Dawn of the Dead
Morocco
Love Streams
North By Northwest
Brian Tallerico
Fargo
Jaws
Zodiac
Night of the Hunter
The Searchers
Singin' in the Rain
Touch of Evil
The Tree of Life
Vertigo
Irina Trocan
Anatomy of a Murder
High School
Rio Bravo
Sunset Boulevard
High Plains Drifter
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Design for Living
Stemple Pass
David Holzman’s Diary
Phantom 11. Barry Lyndon
Kyle Turner
Angels in America
Clue
Stranger Than Fiction
Paper Moon
The Silence of the Lambs
Mildred Pierce
Design for Living
Fantasia
Frances Ha
Sean Van Deuren
Frances Ha
Badlands
Zodiac
Hannah and Her Sisters
All The President’s Men
Eyes Wide Shut
Singing In The Rain
Raging Bull
Punch-Drunk Love
Neil Young
Punch-Drunk Love
The Fog
Nashville
Casting A Glance
The Long Goodbye
Don't Look Back
The Elephant Man
Badlands
The Game
