3 Act Structure
Run Lola Run (1998) Tom Tykwer

Early Film History
Short films by Lumiere Brothers
Trip to the Moon- (1902) George Meilies
The Great Train Robbery- (1903) Edwin Porter

Silent Era Slapstick
The Immigrant- (1917) Charlie Chaplin
The Cameraman- (1928) Buster Keaton

German Expressionism
Nosferatu (1922) F.W. Murnau

Soviet Montage
Battleship Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein

Film Noire
The Maltese Falcon (1941) John Huston
Sunset Boulevard- (1950) Billy Wilder
China Town (1974)- Roman Polanski

Italian Neo-realism
The Bicycle Thief (1948) Vittorio De Sica

Hitchcock
Vertigo (1958)
Psycho (1960)

French New Wave
400 Blows (1959) Francois Truffaut
Breathless (1960) Jean-Luc Godard

The Western
The Searchers (1956) John Ford
The Good The Bad and The Ugly (1966) Sergio Leone
The Unforgiven (1992) Clint Eastwood

The War Film
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) David Lean
Dr. Strangelove (1964) Stanley Kubrick
Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola

Romance
Casablanca (1942) Michael Curtiz
ChungKing Express (1994) Wong Kar-Wai
Amélie (2001) Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Como agua para chocolate (1992) Alfonso Arua

Coming of Age
Welcome to the Doll House (1995) Todd Solondz
Nobody Knows (2004) Hirokazu Koreeda
Motorcycle Diaries (2004) Walter Salles

Action/Comedy
Yojimbo (1961) Kurosawa
Raising Arizona (1987) Coen Brothers
Cidade De Deus (2002) Fernando Meierelles
Hero (2002) Yimou Zhang

Other Films to watch on your own:
The Graduate (1967) Mike Nichols
Grapes of Wrath (1940) John Ford
Citizen Kane (1941) Orsen Welles