6-packs

 

social studies

Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir) - 1939
Oliver Twist (David Lean) - 1948
The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff) - 1979
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) - 1989
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou) - 1991
City of God (Fernando Meirelles) - 2002

 

gothic dread

Nosferatu (FW Murnau) - 1922
The Black Cat (Edgar G Ulmer) - 1934
House of Usher (Roger Corman) - 1960
The Exorcist (William Friedkin) - 1973
The Dark Angel (Peter Hammond) - 1987
The Orphanage (Juan Antonio Bayona) - 2007

 

no biz like show biz

Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder) - 1950
All About Eve (Joseph L Mankiewicz) - 1950
The Bad & the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli) - 1952
A Star is Born (George Cukor) - 1954
8 1/2 (Federico Fellini) - 1963
The Stunt Man (Richard Rush) - 1980

 

con artists

The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges) - 1941
Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding) - 1947
House of Games (David Mamet) - 1987
The Grifters (Stephen Frears) - 1990
Love Crimes (Lizzie Borden) - 1992
The Talented Mr Ripley (Anthony Minghella) - 1999

 

faustus

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin) - 1945
Macario (Roberto Gavaldón) - 1960
Bedazzled (Stanley Donen) - 1967
Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski) - 1968
Suspiria (Dario Argento) - 1977
Angel Heart (Alan Parker) - 1987

 

pugilists

The Set-Up (Robert Wise) - 1949
Champion (Mark Robson) - 1949
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan) - 1954
Fat City (John Huston) - 1972
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese) - 1980
Fight Club (David Fincher) - 1999