Movies & TV Shows I Must Watch as a Filmmaker and a fan of it and Gilmore Girls

Breaking Away 
2000 Year Old Man
3 Days
8 Mile
9 1/2 weeks
AI
Alive 4.11
All About Eve
All the President’s Men
American Gigolo 
American in Paris
Amistad 
An Affair to Remember 
Animal House 
Annie Hall 
Apocalypse Now (Re-watch ending)
Arthur 
Attica 
Autumn in New York
Bambi
Banger Sisters
Basic Instinct 
Beautiful Mind
Ben Hur
Benji
Bewitched
Billy Jack
Blades of Glory 
Blood on the Highway
Blue Crush 
Blue Lagoon
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Bonnie & Clyde 
Boogie Nights
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
The Breakfast Club
Breaking Away
Bridge On The River Kwai
Brigadoon
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Bringing up Baby
Brokeback Mountain
Bugsy Malone 
Bull Durham 
Bye Bye Birdie
Byron
Cabaret
Cabin Boy
California Suite
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 
Casablanca
The Champ
Charlemagne: Holy Barbarian
Charlie’s Angel’s Full Throttle
Chico & the Man 
Chinatown
Cinderella
Citizen Kane
Cocktail
Cocoon
Coming Home
Cool Hand Luke
The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
Crimes & Misdemeanos 
Crossroads
The Crucible
The Damned
Dances with Wolves 
Dangerous Liaisons
Das Boot 
Dead Calm 
Dean Martin Roast Don Rickles
The Deerhunters
Delovely
Desperately Seeking Susan
The Detective
Dick Tracy
Dig
Diner 
Dirty Dancing
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood 
Dog Day Afternoon
The Dollhouse
Dr. Dolittle
Driving Miss Daisy
Duece Bigalow
Dumbo
Easter Parade
Ed Wood
Edward Scissorhands
Electric Boogaloo
Endless Love
Endless Summer 
Enter the Dragon 
Erin Brockovich 
Everest 
The Fair Penitent
Fame
Farenheit 9.11 
Fast & the Furious 1, 2 & 3
Fatal Attraction 
Fatso 
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Fiddler on the Roof
Flashdance
Fletch
The Fly
Footloose 
For Keeps
Forty-Year-Old VirginFreaky Friday
Fried Green Tomatoes
From Here to Eternity
Funny Face 
Funny Girl
G.I. Jane 
Gaslight 
Ghost

Ghostbusters
Gigi
Girl, Interrupted 
Glitter
The GodfatherGone with the Wind
Good Morning Vietnam
Good Night & Good Luck
Good Ship Lollipop
The Goonies
Gray Gardens
Grease 
Great Santini 
Grinch Who Stole Christmas
Hairspray
Hamlet
Hannibal Lector Movies 
Hardbodies
Harold & Maude 
Harvey 
The Heathers
Heidi 
High Noon 
His Girl Friday
Hitch 
Hoosiers
Hudson Hawk 
Ice Castles
An Inconvenient TruthInherit the wind
Into the Woods 
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers 
Ironweed 
Ishtar
It Happened One Night 
James Bond Movies 
Jarhead
The Jerk
Joe vs. the Volcano 
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 
Julia 
Karate Kid
Ken Burns Boring Sod Documentary 
Kill Bill
Kiss My Grits 
Kujo 
La boheme 
Lady & the Tramp 
The Lake HouseLast Tango in Paris 
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Les Miserables 
Little House on the Prairie
Little Man Tate
The Little Rascals
Lord of the Rings
Love in the Afternoon 
Love Story 
M. Night Shyamalan movies
Mad About Ballroom 
Magnolia 
Marathon Man
The March of the Penguins
Mary Poppins
The Mask
Master & Commander 
The Matrix
Midnight Express 
Midsummer Night’s Dream 
John Milton
Misery 6.21
Mission Impossible 
Moment by Moment 
Mommie Dearest 
The Money Pit
Monster
Moose Murders
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
Mr. Baseball 
The Music Man
Mystic Pizza 
National Velvet 
Nell 
Network 
Norma Rae 
Not Without my Daughter
Officer & a Gentleman 
Old Yeller 
Open Water
Othello
Out of Africa
Paper Moon
The Parent Trap
Passion of the Christ
Philadelphia Story

Pippi Longstocking
The Poseidon Adventure
The Postman
The Power of Myth
Primary Colors 
The Princess Bride
The Producers
Psycho 
Purple Rain 
The Pursuit of Happyness
Rainman 
Rent
Reversal of Fortune 
Richard III 
Riding the Bus with my Sister 
Risky Business 
The River Wild 
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Room with a View 
Rosemary’s Baby
Sabrina
Saint Elmo’s Fire
Sandra Oh 
Saturday Night Fever 
Schindler’s List
Seven Samurai 
Shaft 
Shakespeare in Love 
Shallow Hal
Shane 
Shanghai Express 
Shoah 
Showgirls
Silent Movie 
Silkwood 
Singing in the Rain
Sixteen Candles
Sleeping Beauty
Snakes on a Plane 
Snow Dogs 
Sophie’s Choice
The Sound of Music
Space Odyssey
Speed
Star Wars
The Sting
A Streetcar Named Desire
Taboo Broadway Show 
Taxi Driver
Terms of Endearment 
Them 
This is Spinal Tap
The Thomas Crown Affair
Titanic
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Turning Point
The Untouchables
Urban Cowboy
Valley of the Dolls 
View from the Top 
Waiting for Godot 
Waiting for Guthman
Wall Street
The Way We Were
Welcome to the Dollhouse 
West Side Story 
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane 
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 
Wizard of Oz

The Brady Bunch
Working Girl 
Xanadu 
The Yearling
Young Frankenstein
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown 

Legend:

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