Winter Break Assignment – Levine – ELA/Honors ELA – Best Movie List Ever
Due as the bell rings the first day back after winter break.
Please choose movies from the following list (and only the following list) and watch them over break. Write a 3-5-sentence summary and a 3-5 sentence review. ( For example: Did you like it? Why or why not? What was the best/worst part of the film? Would you recommend it?) That’s all you need to write. Just make sure your sentences are complete and grammatically correct! Punctuation, Capitalization, Title case, etc count!
***Some movies are rated R so please get permission to watch them!
Grading: If you complete the assignment correctly (summary & review):
1 movie = 1 (NP)
2 movies = 2 (C)
3 movies = 3 (B)
4 movies = 4 (A)
1. A Day at the Races
2. A Hard Day’s Night
3. A River Runs Through It
4. Abbot and Costello (ALL of their movies)
5. Airplane
6. Alien or Aliens
7. All That Jazz
8. All the Presidents Men
9. American Graffiti
10. An Affair to Remember
11. An American in Paris
12. An American Werewolf in London
13. Anchors Away
14. Angels with Dirty Faces
15. Animal House
16. Annie Hall
17. Apocalypse Now
18. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
19. Avalon
20. Back to the Future 1,2,3
21. Being There
22. Better Off Dead
23. Beverly Hills Cop (#1 only)
24. Big
25. Blade Runner
26. Blazing Saddles
27. Blow Out
28. Body Double
29. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
30. Brazil
31. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
32. Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension
33. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
34. Cabaret
35. Caddy Shack
36. Camelot
37. Casablanca
38. Catch 22
39. China Town
40. Citizen Kane
41. Clerks
42. Clockwork Orange
43. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
44. Clue
45. Coal Miner’s Daughter
46. Cold Comfort Farm
47. Dangerous Beauty
48. Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
49. Diner
50. Dirty Dancing (1987)
51. Do the Right Thing
52. Dr. Strangelove
53. Duck Soup
54. E.T.
55. East of Eden
56. Easy Rider
57. El Mariachi
58. Enchanted April
59. Eraserhead
60. Evil Dead 2 (1987)
61. Fandango
62. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
63. Field of Dreams
64. Flashdance
65. Footloose (1984)
66. From Dusk til Dawn (1996)
67. From Here to Eternity
68. Full Metal Jacket
69. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
70. Giant
71. Gigi
72. Goodfellows
73. Grease
74. Grey Gardens (1975)
75. Guys and Dolls
76. Harold and Maude
77. Heathers
78. Hell’s Angels (1930)
79. High Society
80. History of the World, Part I
81. House of Games
82. I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing
83. Into the Night
84. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
85. It Happened One Night
86. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
87. Jagged Edge
88. Jaws (1975)
89. Joe vs. The Volcano
90. Johnny Dangerously
91. Jungle Fever
92. Kalifornia
93. Kelly’s Hero’s
94. Kramer vs Kramer
95. La Dolce Vita
96. Lady Hawk
97. Last Tango in Paris
98. Lifeboat
99. Lolita
100. Love Story
101. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
102. Major League (1989)
103. Marathon Man
104. Marty
105. MASH
106. Metropolis
107. Midnight Cowboy
108. Midnight Express
109. Mildred Pierce
110. Modern Times (1936)
111. Monty Python and The Holy Grail
112. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
113. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
114. My Mother Wore Tights
115. Night of the Comet
116. Night of the Iguana
117. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
118. North by Northwest
119. Notorious
120. Oceans Eleven
121. Officer and a Gentleman
122. Oh God!
123. On the Town
124. On the Waterfront
125. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
126. Out of Africa
127. Paper Moon
128. Patton
129. Philadelphia Story
130. Pillow Talk
131. Pink Flamingos
132. Plan Nine From Outer Space
133. Polyester
134. Porky’s (#1 only)
135. Pretty in Pink
136. Psycho (1960)
137. Pulp Fiction
138. Radio Flyer
139. Raging Bull
140. Real Genius
141. Rear Window
142. Rebel Without a Cause
143. Repo Man
144. Reservoir Dogs
145. Rocky Horror Picture Show
146. Rollerball (1975)
147. Roman Holiday
148. Rope
149. Royal Wedding (1951)
150. Sabrina (1954)
151. Scarface (1932 or 1983)
152. Seventh Samurai
153. Sex, Lies and Videotape
154. Shampoo
155. She’s Gotta Have it
156. Silverado
157. Singing in the Rain
158. Sixteen Candles
159. Slaughterhouse Five
160. Some Kind of Wonderful
161. Some Like it Hot
162. Something Wild
163. Splendor in the Grass
164. Stage Door
165. Stalag 17
166. Strangers on a Train
167. Streets of Fire
168. Stripes
169. Suddenly Last Summer
170. Sunset Boulevard
171. Taps
172. Taxi Driver
173. The African Queen
174. The Apartment
175. The Big Sleep
176. The Birdman of Alcatraz
177. The Breakfast Club
178. The Candidate
179. The Deer Hunter
180. The Exorcist (1973)
181. The French Connection
182. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
183. The Godfather I & II (but not III cuz it sucks)
184. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
185. The Graduate
186. The Great Dictator
187. The Grifters
188. The Gumball Rally
189. The Hustler
190. The Kid (1921)
191. The Last Picture Show
192. The Lost Boys
193. The Maltese Falcon
194. The Man with Two Brains
195. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
196. The Misfits
197. The Natural
198. The Out of Towners (1970)
199. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
200. The Princess Bride
201. The Purple Rose of Cairo
202. The Seven Year Itch
203. The Shining
204. The Sting
205. The Terminator (#1 only)
206. The Thin Man
207. The Three Musketeers (1973)
208. The Usual Suspects
209. The Wall
210. The Way We Were
211. The Wild Bunch
212. The Women (1939)
213. The Year of Living Dangerously
214. This is Spinal Tap
215. Three O’clock High
216. To Live and Die in L.A.
217. To Sir with Love
218. Tommy
219. Tootsie
220. Top Hat
221. Trading Places
222. Tron (1982)
223. True Grit (1969)
224. True Romance
225. Vacation
226. Valley of the Dolls
227. Vertigo
228. Victor/Victoria
229. War Games
230. War of the Roses
231. Weird Science
232. When Harry Met Sally
233. Woman of the Year
234. Working Girl
235. Young Frankenstein