Flix by Genre

Welcome to my movie recommendation pages! I was fortunate to grow up with a dad who took me to see samurai movies and art films, and with broadcast TV that showed old movies every day. Doomed to be a lifelong cinephile, I created these pages for fun years ago, then learned my friends were using them as viewing lists. 

We live in an age when there’s so much information available online, it seems like everything is there for us all the time. But most of these movies won’t show up at the top of your Netflix feed, and some will be downright hard to track down. I’m here to tell you they’re worth it.

With so much available, how do I decide what movie to watch? I start with a particular genre, like Western or comedy, then narrow it down from there.

My picks are mostly flix made in America during the 20th century. There are exceptions for exceptional works, but at heart I'm a classic Hollywood movie buff. Enjoy!

• THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) Peter Bogdanovich
• ACE IN THE HOLE (1951) Billy Wilder
• THE AMERICAN FRIEND (1977-Germany) Wim Wenders
• THE LAST DETAIL (1973) Hal Ashby
• THE APARTMENT (1960) Billy Wilder
• THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) John Ford

• THE SEVEN SAMURAI (1954-Japan) Akira Kurosawa
• THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (1978) John Huston
• TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948) John Huston
• BODYGUARD (1961-Japan) Akira Kurosawa
• LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962-England) David Lean
• YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (1967) Lewis Gilbert
• THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981) George Miller
• BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (1974) Sam Peckinpah

• WAGES OF FEAR (1952-France) Henri Clouzot
• NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) Charles Laughton
• SECONDS (1966) John Frankenheimer
• THE CONVERSATION (1974) Francis Ford Coppola
• THE BIRDS (1963) Alfred Hitchcock
• DON'T LOOK NOW (1973-England) Nicolas Roeg

• DR. STRANGELOVE (1964-England) Stanley Kubrick
• BEDAZZLED (1967-England) Stanley Donen
• SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) Billy Wilder
• DUCK SOUP (1933) Leo McCarey
• MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975-England) Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
  
• ANNIE HALL (1977) Woody Allen
• WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? (1957) Frank Tashlin

• HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940) Howard Hawks
• BALL OF FIRE (1941) Howard Hawks
• BRINGING UP BABY (1938) Howard Hawks
• YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1938) Frank Capra
• THE LADY EVE (1941) Preston Sturges
• NOTHING SACRED (1937) William Wellman
• MY MAN GODFREY (1936) Gregory LaCava

• STAGECOACH (1939) John Ford
• RED RIVER (1948) Howard Hawks
• THE GREAT NORTHFIELD MINNESOTA RAID (1972) Philip Kaufman
• DIRTY LITTLE BILLY (1972) Stan Dragoti
• WESTWORLD (1973) Michael Crichton
• RED SUN (1971) Terence Young
• THE CULPEPPER CATTLE COMPANY (1972) Dick Richards

• BARRY LYNDON (1975) Stanley Kubrick
• AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD (1972-Germany) Werner Herzog
• BURN! (1969-Italian-French) Gillo Pontecorvo
• THE RIGHT STUFF (1983) Philip Kaufman
• THE DUELLISTS (1977-England) Ridley Scott
• EIGHT MEN OUT (1988) John Sayles

• MIDNIGHT (1939) Mitchell Leisen
• ROBIN AND MARIAN (1976-England) Richard Lester
• QUEEN CHRISTINA (1933) Rouben Mamoulian
• FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (1967-England) John Schlesinger
• THE MODERNS (1988) Alan Rudolph
• RANDOM HARVEST (1942) Mervyn LeRoy

• THE THIRD MAN (1949-England) Carol Reed
• VERTIGO (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
• REAR WINDOW (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
• STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR (1940) Boris Ingster
• KISS ME DEADLY (1955) Robert Aldrich
• LADY IN THE LAKE (1947) Robert Montgomery
• THE LONG GOODBYE (1973) Robert Altman

• THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931) William Wellman
• THE ROARING TWENTIES (1939) Raoul Walsh
• POINT BLANK (1967) John Boorman
• WHITE HEAT (1949) Raoul Walsh
• THE DRIVER (1978) Walter Hill
• THE GETAWAY (1972) Sam Peckinpah
• STRAIGHT TIME (1978) Ulu Grosbard

• DETOUR (1945) Edgar G. Ulmer
• TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) Orson Welles
• LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1948) Orson Welles
• THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1949) Nicholas Ray
• THE SET-UP (1949) Robert Wise
• NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947) Edmund Goulding

• THE KILLING (1956) Stanley Kubrick
• THE ANDERSON TAPES (1972) Sidney Lumet
• RIFIFI (1954-France) Jules Dassin
• THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1-2-3 (1974) Joseph Sargent
• THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT (1974) Michael Cimino
• TOPKAPI (1964) Jules Dassin

• TAXI DRIVER (1976) Martin Scorsese
• MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969) John Schlesinger
• MEAN STREETS (1974) Martin Scorsese
• THE LANDLORD (1970) Hal Ashby
• THE WANDERERS (1979) Philip Kaufman
• THE LORDS OF FLATBUSH (1974) Stephen Verona
• STONY ISLAND (1978) Andrew Davis

• SUNRISE (1927) F.W. Murnau
• NAPOLEON (1927-France) Abel Gance
• BEGGARS FOR LIFE (1928) William Wellman
  
• CABIRIA (1914) Giovanni Pastrone
• GREED (1925) Eric Von Stroheim
• PANDORA’S BOX (1929-Germany) G.W. Pabst
• MADAM DuBARRY (1919-Germany) Ernst Lubitsch
• WEST OF ZANZIBAR (1928) Tod Browning
• FAUST (1926-Germany) F.W. Murnau

• REPO MAN (1984) Alex Cox
• EASY RIDER (1969) Dennis Hopper
• FREAKS (1932) Tod Browning
• AFTER HOURS (1985) Martin Scorsese
• CABIN BOY (1994) Adam Resnik
• HEAD (1968) Bob Rafelson
• BLOW UP (1966-England) Michelangelo Antonioni

• SAHARA (1943) Zoltan Korda
• THE BIG RED ONE (1980/2005 reconstruction) Sam Fuller
• PATHS OF GLORY (1957) Stanley Kubrick
• FIRES ON THE PLAIN (1959-Japan) Kon Ichikawa
• ACES HIGH (1977-England) Jack Gold
• DOWNFALL (2004-Germany) Oliver Hirschbeigel
• FULL METAL JACKET (1987-England) Stanley Kubrick
• CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH (2009-China) Lu Chuan
• CATCH-22 (1970) Mike Nichols
• CROSS OF IRON (1976) Sam Peckinpah
• THE BEAST (1988) Kevin Reynolds
• DAWN PATROL (1938) Edmund Goulding

• THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) James Whale
• DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) George Romero
• THE EXORCIST (1971) William Friedkin
• GODZILLA (1954-Japanese version)
• ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968) Roman Polanski
• KWAIDAN (1965-JAPAN) Masaki Kobayashi
  
• THE CRAZIES (2010) Breck Eisner
• REC (2007-Mexico) Jaume Balagueró

• BARON MUNCHAUSEN (1989) Terry Gilliam
• THE 5000 FINGERS OF DR. T (1953) Roy Rowland
• BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946-France) Jean Cocteau
• RETURN TO OZ (1985) Walter Murch
• JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963) Don Chaffe
• THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN (1995-France) Jean-Pierre Jeunet

• THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976-England) Nicolas Roeg
• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) Stanley Kubrick
• FAHRENHEIT 451 (1967-England) Francois Truffaut
• SOYLENT GREEN (1972) Richard Fleischer
• FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) Fred Wilcox
• PLANET OF THE APES (1968) Franklin J. Schaffner
• BUCKAROO BANZAI (1984) W.D. Richter

• THE SEA HAWK (1940) Michael Curtiz
• MASTER AND COMMANDER (2003) Peter Weir
• BILLY BUDD (1962-England) Peter Ustinov
• CAPTAIN BLOOD (1935) Michael Curtiz
• CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER (1951-England) Raoul Walsh
• CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS (1937) Victor Fleming
• DAMN THE DEFIANT! (1962-England) Lewis Gilbert

• GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (1935) Dave Fleischer
• PINOCCHIO (1940) Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske
• AKIRA (1988-Japan) Katsuhiro Otomo
• CASTLE IN THE SKY (1986-Japan) Hayao Miyazaki
• WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? (1988) Robert Zemeckis
• CORALINE (2009) Henry Selick

• WONDER WOMAN (2017) Patty Jenkins
  
• THE ROCKETEER (1991) Joe Johnston
• CAPTAIN AMERICA (2011) Joe Johnston
• THE INCREDIBLES (2004) Brad Bird
• IRON MAN (2008) Jon Favreau
• THE PHANTOM (1996) Simon Wincer

• THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1970) Billy Wilder
• 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1954) Richard Fleischer
• CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (1968-England) Ken Hughes
• TIME AFTER TIME (1979) Nicholas Meyer
• MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1961-England) Cy Endfield
• THE TIME MACHINE (1960) George Pal

• LUST FOR LIFE (1956) Vincente Minnelli
• MR. TURNER (2014) Mike Leigh
• AMERICA, AMERICA (1963-USA) Elia Kazan
• COAL MINER’S DAUGHTER (1980) Michael Apted
• MILK (2008) Gus Van Sant
• COOLEY HIGH (1975) Michael Schultz

• BREATHLESS (1959-France) Jean-Luc Godard
• THE ROAD (1954-Italy) Federico Fellini
• THE BICYCLE THIEF (1947-Italy) Vittorio De Sica
• SONG OF THE ROAD (1955-India) Satyajit Ray
• SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (1960-France) Francois Truffaut

• NETWORK (1976) Sidney Lumet
• SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) Billy Wilder
• A FACE IN THE CROWD (1957) Elia Kazan
• THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1952) Vincente Minnelli
• SHOW PEOPLE (1928) King Vidor
• THE PLAYER (1996) Robert Altman

• STORMY WEATHER (1943) Andrew Stone
• TOPSY-TURVY (1998-England) Mike Leigh
• WEST SIDE STORY (1961) Robert Wise
• THE GIRL CAN’T HELP IT (1956) Frank Tashlin
• COTTON CLUB (1984) Francis Ford Coppola
• HARD DAY’S NIGHT (1964-England) Richard Lester
• YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942) Michael Curtiz
• ON THE TOWN (1949) Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
• FOOTLIGHT PARADE (1933) Lloyd Bacon
• ROCK ’N’ ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (1979) Alan Arkush

• THE NEW WORLD (2005) Terrence Malick
• CITY OF GOD (2002-Brazil) Fernando Meirelles
• MASTER AND COMMANDER (2003) Peter Weir
• MR. TURNER (2014) Mike Leigh
• FURY ROAD (2015) George Miller
• THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007) P.T. Anderson
• FOG OF WAR (2003) Errol Morris
• CONTAGION (2011) Steven Soderbergh
• 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE (2002-England) Michael Winterbottom

• GLADIATOR (2000)
• THE MUMMY (1999)
• GHOSTBUSTERS (2016)
• THE MASK OF ZORRO (1998)
• GALAXY QUEST (1999)
• INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996)
• THE A-TEAM (2010)