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Total Film's 50 Movies That Shook The World

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1. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
sexy, violent, auteur-launcher

People who added this item 304  Average listal rating (169 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.1 
2. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
original angry, young man

People who added this item 33  Average listal rating (16 ratings) 6.6  IMDB Rating 6.8 
3. The Jazz Singer (1927)
the first talkie

People who added this item 203  Average listal rating (125 ratings) 5.7  IMDB Rating 5.6 
4. Flashdance (1983)
flashy film w/simple plot

People who added this item 258  Average listal rating (158 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 7.5 
5. Mean Streets (1973)
sountrack w/various artists

People who added this item 1440  Average listal rating (970 ratings) 7.1  IMDB Rating 8.3 
6. Jaws (1975)
mega-blockbuster
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People who added this item 1823  Average listal rating (1290 ratings) 6.9  IMDB Rating 7.6 
7. Batman (1989)
marketing campaign bigger than film

People who added this item 225  Average listal rating (118 ratings) 6.8  IMDB Rating 7.1 
8. Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
independant film explosion

People who added this item 594  Average listal rating (395 ratings) 7.1  IMDB Rating
9. Halloween (1978)
slasher films begin
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People who added this item 2180  Average listal rating (1511 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 8.8 
10. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
first of Hollywood money grabbers

People who added this item 3  Average listal rating (1 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating 7.7 
11. The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)
first feature film

People who added this item 48  Average listal rating (24 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 7.5 
12. Splendor in the Grass (1961)
first tongue kiss

People who added this item 6  Average listal rating (3 ratings) 5.7  IMDB Rating 6.7 
13. The Moon Is Blue (1953)
the first censor challenger

People who added this item 852  Average listal rating (534 ratings) 6.9  IMDB Rating 7.8 
14. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
first kid's film

People who added this item 1667  Average listal rating (1216 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 8.5 
15. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
first film costing $100 million
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People who added this item 17  Average listal rating (12 ratings) 6.3  IMDB Rating 7.4 
16. Women in Love (1969)
first film showing genitals

People who added this item 741  Average listal rating (467 ratings) 6.8  IMDB Rating 7.4 
17. Carrie (1976)
first shocker ending
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People who added this item 15  Average listal rating (4 ratings) 6  IMDB Rating 6.8 
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Ecstasy (1933)
first sex scene

People who added this item 1  Average listal rating (0 ratings) 0  IMDB Rating 6.3 
19. I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
first film to utter the F-word

People who added this item 104  Average listal rating (47 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 7.1 
20. Catch-22 (1970)
first film with a bowel movement

People who added this item 337  Average listal rating (197 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 7.9 
21. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
first teen film

People who added this item 113  Average listal rating (60 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.1 
22. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
first anti-war film

People who added this item 25  Average listal rating (11 ratings) 5.4  IMDB Rating 5.2 
23. Deep Throat (1972)
first mainstream porno-film

People who added this item 92  Average listal rating (40 ratings) 6.7  IMDB Rating 7.1 
24. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
the first racist film

People who added this item 20  Average listal rating (12 ratings) 4.8  IMDB Rating 4.7 
25. The Driller Killer (1979)
the first senseless video

People who added this item 20  Average listal rating (10 ratings) 6.8  IMDB Rating 7.7 
26. The Defiant Ones (1958)
the first racist-issue film

People who added this item 16  Average listal rating (6 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating
27. Room at the Top (1959)
first film of British new-wave

People who added this item 268  Average listal rating (159 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating 7.5 
28. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
first film questioning God

People who added this item 52  Average listal rating (23 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 7.8 
29. Triumph of the Will (1935)
first propoganda film

People who added this item 13  Average listal rating (7 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 7.8 
30. Victim (1961)
the first film to utter the word "homosexual"

People who added this item 115  Average listal rating (79 ratings) 6.3  IMDB Rating 6.4 
31. The Last Starfighter (1984)
first sci-fi film to use supercomputers

People who added this item 734  Average listal rating (430 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.6 
32. Citizen Kane (1941)
first to do many of today's methods of filmmaking
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People who added this item 331  Average listal rating (210 ratings) 7.1  IMDB Rating 8.1 
33. King Kong (1933)
first FX feature
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People who added this item 705  Average listal rating (449 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.6 
34. Vertigo (1958)
first film to use different method of zooming

People who added this item 1741  Average listal rating (1195 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 8.5 
35. The Shining (1980)
first film to be directed focussing on tracking shots
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People who added this item 3729  Average listal rating (2260 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 8.7 
36. The Matrix (1999)
slow-motion action shots
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People who added this item 196  Average listal rating (117 ratings) 8  IMDB Rating
37. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
the first use of editing for meaning

People who added this item 2395  Average listal rating (1656 ratings) 7.2  IMDB Rating 8.1 
38. Toy Story (1995)
first feature length computer-animated film

People who added this item 255  Average listal rating (164 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating
39. Breathless (1960)
jump cutting of film used

People who added this item 515  Average listal rating (361 ratings) 6.8  IMDB Rating 7.5 
40. The Abyss (1989)
first use of CGI for inanimate objects
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People who added this item 2671  Average listal rating (1773 ratings) 8.2  IMDB Rating 8.9 
41. Pulp Fiction (1994)
first post-modern classic
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People who added this item 2918  Average listal rating (1950 ratings) 6.9  IMDB Rating 7.8 
42. Jurassic Park (1993)
computer animated dinosaurs

People who added this item 954  Average listal rating (618 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.7 
43. Psycho (1960)
first hero killed before end of film
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People who added this item 355  Average listal rating (238 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating 7.9 
44. Dirty Harry (1971)
a cop who kills

People who added this item 447  Average listal rating (276 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating
45. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
bleak, pessimistic ending
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People who added this item 2875  Average listal rating (1916 ratings) 8.3  IMDB Rating 8.8 
46. Fight Club (1999)
shattering of typical Hollywood convensions
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People who added this item 470  Average listal rating (240 ratings) 8.1  IMDB Rating 8.4 
47. Metropolis (1927)
first sci-fi with future visions
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People who added this item 366  Average listal rating (246 ratings) 7.2  IMDB Rating 7.8 
48. Blazing Saddles (1974)
broad genre-spoofing, sight gags
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People who added this item 293  Average listal rating (200 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 7.6 
49. Enter the Dragon (1973)
"Bond-style" martial arts film

People who added this item 1155  Average listal rating (743 ratings) 7.9  IMDB Rating 8.4 
50. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
interplanetary travel



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Posted : 6 months, 2 weeks ago at May 7 18:02
Wow, great list.
Posted : 6 months, 2 weeks ago at May 8 8:03
Great list indeed, though I think Bergman in his films has dealt with questioning of God many times before The Last Temptation of Christ was even made. But it might be the first religious film that has done it.

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In May of 2002, Total Film Magazine's writers came up with their definitive list of 50 films that changes we watch films forever. For one reason or another, each of these films skewed the perception of film entertainment that we, previous to the release of these films, thought we had seen/heard it all.

Total Film thinks that these are the fifty reasons we see film in a new light...

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