This list of books on films is for books dedicated to ''individual'' films, film series, or related critical analyses.
American films
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Avatar'' (2009)
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''Birth of a Nation'' (1915)
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Bringing Up Baby
''Bringing Up Baby'' is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predic ...
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''Casablanca'' (1942)
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Citizen Kane'' (1941)
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''Cold Mountain'' (2003)
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Eyes Wide Shut
''Eyes Wide Shut'' is a 1999 erotic mystery psychological drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on the 1926 novella '' Traumnovelle'' (''Dream Story'') by Arthur Schnitzler, transferring the story's set ...
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Full Metal Jacket'' (1987)
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''The Godfather'' trilogy (1972–90)
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''Gone with the Wind'' (1939)
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The Graduate
''The Graduate'' is a 1967 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from W ...
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It's a Wonderful Life
''It's a Wonderful Life'' is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet ''The Greatest Gift'', which Philip Van Doren Stern self-published in 1943 and is in turn loos ...
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''Lolita'' (1962)
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''Psycho'' (1960)
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Schindler's List
''Schindler's List'' is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the 1982 novel ''Schindler's Ark'' by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. The film f ...
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''Star Wars'' franchise (1977–)
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''Sunset Boulevard'' (1950)
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Tootsie
''Tootsie'' is a 1982 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Dustin Hoffman. Its supporting cast includes Pollack, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Bill Murray, Charles Durning, Geo ...
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Touch of Evil
''Touch of Evil'' is a 1958 American film noir written and directed by Orson Welles, who also stars in the film. The screenplay was loosely based on the contemporary Whit Masterson novel ''Badge of Evil'' (1956). The cast included Charlton Hes ...
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''Vertigo'' (1958)
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''The Wizard of Oz'' (1939)
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Asian films
Hong Kong
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A Better Tomorrow
''A Better Tomorrow'' () is a 1986 Hong Kong crime action film directed and co-written by John Woo, and starring Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung and Chow Yun-fat. The film had a profound influence on Hong Kong action cinema, and has been recognised as ...
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Ashes of Time
''Ashes of Time'' (Chinese: 東邪西毒) is a 1994 Hong Kong film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai, and inspired by characters from Jin Yong's novel ''The Legend of the Condor Heroes''.
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An Autumn's Tale
''An Autumn's Tale'' is a 1987 Hong Kong romantic drama film set in New York City starring Chow Yun-fat, Cherie Chung, and Danny Chan. The film is Mabel Cheung's second directorial effort after her "migration trilogy."
The film won the Hong Ko ...
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Bullet in the Head'' (1990)
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''Center Stage'' (1991)
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Durian Durian'' (2000)
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''Happy Together'' (1997)
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He's a Woman, She's a Man
''He's a Woman, She's a Man'' (金枝玉葉) is a 1994 Hong Kong romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Peter Chan and starring Leslie Cheung, Anita Yuen, Carina Lau, Eric Tsang and Jordan Chan. Its many awards garnered include Best ...
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''Internal Affairs'' (2002–03)
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''The Killer'' (1989)
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''Made in Hong Kong'' (1997)
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''PTU'' (2003)
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Song of the Exile
''Song of the Exile'' (客途秋恨, translit. Kè tú qiū hèn) is a 1990 Hong Kong-Taiwanese film, a semi-fictionalised autobiography directed by Ann Hui. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival ...
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''Wing Chun'' (1994)
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Indian
The ''Apu'' Trilogy (1955–59)
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Mother India
''Mother India'' is a 1957 Indian epic drama film, directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar and Raaj Kumar. A remake of Khan's earlier film '' Aurat'' (1940), it is the story of a poverty-stricken village wom ...
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Japanese
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A Page of Madness'' (1926)
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Rashomon
is a 1950 Jidaigeki psychological thriller/crime film directed and written by Akira Kurosawa, working in close collaboration with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura ...
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Seven Samurai'' (1954)
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Tokyo Story
is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Yasujirō Ozu and starring Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama about an aging couple who travel to Tokyo to visit their grown children. Upon release, it did not immediately gain international recogni ...
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Taiwanese
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A Touch of Zen
''A Touch of Zen'' (Chinese: 俠女) is a 1971 ''wuxia'' film co-edited, written, and directed by film maker King Hu. Its screenplay is based on a classic Chinese story "Xianü (short story), Xianü" in the book ''Strange Stories from a Chinese ...
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European films
British
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2001: A Space Odyssey'' (1968)
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''A Clockwork Orange'' (1971)
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''Lawrence of Arabia'' (1962)
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''Sense and Sensibility'' (1995)
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French
''Breathless'' / ''À bout de souffle'' (1960)
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The Rules of the Game
''The Rules of the Game'' (original French title: ''La règle du jeu'') is a 1939 French satirical comedy-drama film directed by Jean Renoir. The ensemble cast includes Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Marcel Dalio, Julien Carette, ...
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German
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' / ''Das Cabinet Des Dr Caligari'' (1920)
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Nosferatu
''Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror'' (German: ''Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens'') is a 1922 silent German Expressionist horror film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife ...
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Italian
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' (Italian title: , ) is a 1963 surrealist comedy-drama film directed and co-written (with Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano and Brunello Rondi) by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. The metafictional narrative centers on Guido Anselmi, played by M ...
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New Zealand
''The Lord of the Rings'' Trilogy (2001–03)
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The Piano
''The Piano'' is a 1993 historical drama, period drama film written and directed by Jane Campion. Starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin in her first major acting role, the film focuses on a Elective mutism, mute Scott ...
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''Jane Campion's "The Piano''" Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN, 0521592585.
See also
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Stanley Kubrick bibliography
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Alfred Hitchcock bibliography
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