Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Wilder's 1950 Hollywood gothic. Sunset Boulevard is the Billy Wilder film noir that became Hollywood's most lacerating film about itself.
Genre: Drama (Page 21)
DramaOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Forman's 1975 mental hospital drama. Nicholson as McMurphy, Fletcher as Nurse Ratched.
DramaThe Mother and the Whore (1973)
Eustache's 1973 French three-and-a-half-hour relationship drama. Post-1968 disillusionment captured in continuous long takes.
Drama
DramaThe Exterminating Angel (1962)
Buñuel's 1962 surrealist drama. The Catholic Church, capitalism, ritual.
AmericanaThe Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Ford's 1940 Steinbeck adaptation. The film that established American social-realist cinema.
DramaThe Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Dreyer's 1928 silent French religious drama. Considered by many the greatest performance ever filmed.
CrimeThe Godfather Part II (1974)
Coppola's 1974 sequel-and-prequel. De Niro as young Vito, Pacino as Michael.
DramaWar and Peace (1966-1967)
Bondarchuk's 1966-67 Soviet seven-hour Tolstoy adaptation. The most expensive film ever made at that time.
DramaApocalypse Now (1979)
Coppola's 1979 Vietnam Heart of Darkness. Sheen, Brando, Duvall, Hopper.
Drama
DramaDas Boot (1981)
Petersen's 1981 German U-boat drama. Three-hour theatrical, six-hour director's cut, miniseries.