Screenwriting & Film Studies

(**Since I made these lists, I have created pages on this site with film-clips for each category. Click on the links in the head­ings to access them.)

Vampire Films

1. Vampyr (1932) Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer

2. The Addic­tion (1995) Directed by Abel Ferrara

3. Martin (1977) Directed by George A. Romero

4. The Hunger (1983) Directed by Tony Scott

5. The Fear­less Vampire Killers (1967) Directed by Roman Polanski

6. Near Dark (1987) Directed by Kathryn Bigelow

7. Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971) Directed by John D. Hancock

Western Films

1. Bad Company (1972) Directed by Robert Benton

2. The Glory Guys (1965) Directed by Arnold Laven

3. Little Big Man (1970) Directed by Arthur Penn

4. A Fistful of Dollars (1964) Directed by Sergio Leone

5. The Hunting Party (1971) Directed by Don Medford

6. Butch Cassidy & the Sund­ance Kid (1969) Directed by George Roy Hill

7. Ulzana’s Raid (1972) Directed by Robert Aldrich

War Films

1. The Long Day’s Dying (1968) Directed by Peter Collinson

2. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Directed by Lewis Milestone

3. King Rat (1965) Directed by Bryan Forbes

4. Come & See (1985) Directed by Elem Klimov

5. The Bofors Gun (1968) Directed by Jack Gold

6. The Train (1964) Directed by John Frankenheimer

7. Cross of Iron (1977) Directed by Sam Peckinpah

Film Noir

1. The Big Sleep (1953) Directed by Howard Hawks

2. Les Diabol­iques (1955) Directed by Henri Georges Clouzot

3. Lift To The Scaf­fold (1957) Directed by Louis Malle

4. The Hit (1984) Directed by Stephen Frears

5. The Long Goodbye (1973) Directed by Robert Altman

6. Body Heat (1981) Directed by Lawrence Kasdan

7. The Last Seduc­tion (1994) Directed by John Dahl

Love Stories

1. Jules et Jim (1953) Directed by Fran­cois Truffaut

2. Elvira Madigan (1967) Directed by Bo Widerberg

3. A Time to Love & A Time to Die (1955) Directed by Douglas Sirk

4. The Ragman’s Daughter (1972) Directed by Harold Becker

5. Dogfight (1991) Directed by Nancy Savoca

6. Raging Moon (1971) Directed by Bryan Forbes

7. Romeo, Juliet and Dark­ness (1960) Directed by Jirí Weiss

© David Clough 1995