6-packs

 

all in the family

Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock) - 1943
Hamlet (Laurence Olivier) - 1948
Kind Hearts & Coronets (Robert Hamer) - 1949
Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray) - 1956
Our Mother’s House (Jack Clayton) - 1967
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet) - 2007

 

the politics of paranoia

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel) - 1956
Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer) - 1964
The Parallax View (Alan J Pakula) - 1974
Winter Kills (William Richert) - 1979
Zentropa (Lars von Trier) - 1991
Heartbeat Detector (Nicolas Klotz) - 2007

 

detectives

The Maltese Falcon (John Huston) - 1941
Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk) - 1944
The Naked City (Jules Dassin) - 1948
The Big Combo (Joseph H Lewis) - 1955
A Shot in the Dark (Blake Edwards) - 1964
Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau, Alan Mak) - 2002

 

fantasy

Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo) - 1933
Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau) - 1946
Brazil (Terry Gilliam) - 1985
City of Lost Children (Marc Caro/Jean-Pierre Jeunet) - 1995
Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller) - 1998
Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro) - 2006

 

comedy

Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch) - 1932
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks) - 1940
The Naked Truth (Mario Zampi) - 1957
The Wrong Box (Bryan Forbes) - 1966
The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel) - 1974
After Hours (Martin Scosese) - 1985

 

crazy love

The Blue Angel (Joseph von Sternberg) - 1930
Wuthering Heights (William Wyler) - 1939
Leave Her to Heaven (John Stahl) - 1945
In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray) - 1950
Harold & Maude (Hal Ashby) - 1971
Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan) - 1981