Choose the film for your writing assignment from the lists below. To learn more about a film, scroll down a list and click on the name of the film. Then click the "go" button. You will arrive at the Internet Movie Database. If there is more than one film with a similar title, click the link to the name of the appropriate film that you wish to view. If you want to view all cast and crew members, click the "Full Cast and Crew" link on the left side of the screen.

-------------- Drama/Melodrama -------------- Absence of Malice (1981) Absolute Power (1997) American Beauty (1999) Annie Hall At First Sight Awakenings Beautiful Mind, A (2001) Big Chill, The Big Night, The Broadcast News Casablanca Cast Away Chariots of Fire Citizen Kane City of Hope Cool Hand Luke Conspiracy Theory Crimson Tide Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Dead Poets Society Edward Scissorhands French Lieutenant's Woman, The Fried Green Tomatoes Fugitive, The Good Will Hunting Gosford Park Graduate, The Grand Canyon Grapes of Wrath Hurricane, The In the Line of Fire Instinct Into the West Kramer vs. Kramer Leaving Las Vegas Little Women Lost in Translation Midnight Cowboy Million Dollar Baby (2004) Mission, The Mystic River Norma Rae Nuts Officer and a Gentleman, An One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ordinary People Out of Africa Pelican Brief Phenomenon Piano, The Powder Prince of Tides Rain Man Razor's Edge, The (1984) Regarding Henry Searching for Bobby Fischer Secrets and Lies Shawshank Redemption, The Sideways Sixth Sense, The Sliding Doors Slingblade Sophie's Choice Soldier's Story, A Station Agent, The Stepmom Taxi Driver Terms of Endearment Way We Were, The Titanic Wall Street White Nights You Can Count on Me

------ Biographical/Historical Drama ----- Becket Ben Hur Braveheart Dr. Zhivago El Cid Elizabeth Exodus Gandhi Gladiator Gone with the Wind Gunga Din Lawrence of Arabia Malcolm X Man for All Seasons, A (1966) Reds Spartacus

-------------- Romantic Comedy -------------- All of Me American President, The As Good as It Gets Big French Kiss It Happened One Night Lost in Translation Love Actually My Best Friend's Wedding One Fine Day Pretty Woman Roxanne Postman (Italian) Sabrina (1995) Sabrina (1954) Tootsie What Women Want What's Up Doc? (1972) Working Girl You've Got Mail

----------------------- Musical ---------------------- All That Jazz American in Paris, An Bugsy Malone Cabaret Gigi Moulin Rouge New York, New York Singin' in the Rain South Pacific Strictly Ballroom Top Hat West Side Story Wizard of Oz, The

---------------- Combat/Wartime --------------- All Quiet on the Western Front Apocalypse Now (1979) Big Red One, The Black Hawk Down Bridges at Toko-Ri, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Deer Hunter, The Dirty Dozen, The Empire of the Sun, The Enigma Eye of the Needle, The Full Metal Jacket Glory Great Escape, The Guns of Navarone, The Killing Fields, The Last of the Mohicans, The (1992) Platoon Patriot Patton Saving Private Ryan Schindler's List Thin Red Line, The What Price Glory?

--------------- Courtroom Drama --------------- 12 Angry Men (1957) Erin Brockovich Hurricane, The (1999) Inherit the Wind (1960) Insider, The Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) Presumed Innocent Primal Fear Rainmaker, The To Kill a Mockingbird Verdict, The Witness for the Prosecution

---------------------- Western ---------------------- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Cheyenne Autumn (1964) Cowboys, The (1972) Dances with Wolves (1990) High Noon (1952) High Plains Drifter (1973) Johnny Guitar (1954) Last of the Mohicans, The (1992) Magnificent Seven, The (1960) Open Range (2003) Outlaw Josie Wales (1976) Professionals, The (1966) Red River (1948) Searchers, The (1956) Shane (1952) Stagecoach (1939) Unforgiven (1992)

---------------------- Comedy ---------------------- All of Me Annie Hall Bevery Hills Cop Dr. Strangelove Graduate, The Harriet the Spy Heartbreak Kid, The Home Alone M*A*S*H Mrs. Doubtfire Sleeper Some Like It Hot Tootsie Trading Places

----------------- Science Fiction ----------------- 2001: A Space Odyssey Alien Andromeda Strain, The Back to the Future Blade Runner Close Encounters of a Third Kind E.T.: The Extra-terrestrial Empire Strikes Back, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Logan's Run Man Who Fell to Earth, The Matrix, The Phenomenon Return of the Jedi Star Wars Terminator Terminator 2

----------------------- Sports ------------------------ Bang the Drum Slowly Bull Durham Field of Dreams Hoosiers League of Their Own, A (1992) Million Dollar Baby

---------------------- Film Noir --------------------- Big Heat, The Big Sleep, The Blue Velvet Body Heat Chinatown (1974) Double Indemnity Key Largo Kiss Me Deadly Maltese Falcon, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Taxi Driver

--- Crime, Suspense, Murder Mystery --- Basic Instinct (1992) Blade Runner (1982) Bone Collector, The Bonnie and Clyde Chinatown (1974) Dead Man Walking Dial M for Murder Dirty Harry Face-Off Fallen Godfather, The Godfather, Part II Goodfellas Gosford Park Heat In Cold Blood Instinct In the Line of Fire Fargo Key Largo Klute L.A. Confidential North by Northwest Perfect Murder, A Primal Fear Professional, The Psycho Pulp Fiction Raising Arizona Rear Window Red Dragon Road to Perdition Silence of the Lambs Simple Plan, A Sting, The To Catch a Thief To Live and Die in LA Traffic Training Day Untouchables, The Usual Suspects, The Vertigo Witness

------------------ Coming of Age ---------------- Bend It Like Beckham Diner (1982) Do the Right Thing Liberty Heights Little Women Mystic Pizza Sixteen Candles