6-packs

 

romance

Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage) - 1927
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz) - 1942
Laura (Otto Preminger) - 1944
Rapture (John Guillermin) - 1965
Blood Wedding (Carlos Saura) - 1981
Bright Star (Jane Campion) - 2009

 

on the road

The Devil Thumbs a Ride (Felix E Feist) - 1947
The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino) - 1953
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) - 1971
Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders) - 1976
Wild at Heart (David Lynch) - 1990
Cold Fever (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson) - 1995

 

upward mobility

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles) - 1941
A Place in the Sun (George Stevens) - 1951
A Kiss Before Dying (Gerd Oswald) - 1956
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick) - 1957
La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini) - 1960
There Will be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson) - 2007

 

assassination

The Tall Target (Anthony Mann) - 1951
Ashes & Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda) - 1958
Blast of Silence (Allen Baron) - 1961
The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer) - 1962
Z (Costa-Gavras) - 1969
The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann) - 1973

 

fall of the old order

The Music Room (Satyajit Ray) - 1958
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti) - 1963
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo) - 1966
The Jewel in the Crown (Jim O'Brien, Christopher Morahan) - 1984
Farewell, My Concubine (Chen Kaige) - 1993
King Lear (Richard Eyre) - 1998

 

darkdrama

The Crowd (King Vidor) - 1928
Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné) - 1945
The Fugitive Kind (Sidney Lumet) - 1959
Balthazar (Robert Bresson) - 1966
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle) - 1996
Time Out (Laurent Cantet) - 2001