Movie Lists
...compiled by our librarians
To help you navigate our extensive movie collection, our librarians have compiled the following thematic lists that feature selected film and television titles.
Awarded and Honored Films
Academy Awards: Best Actor
Academy Awards: Best Actress
Academy Awards: Best Animated
Feature
Academy Awards: Best Documentary
Academy Awards: Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Awards: Best Picture
AFI's 10 Top 10: America's 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres
American Film Institute: 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th anniversary edition)
Cannes Film Festival — Golden Palm (Palme d'Or) Winners
Criterion Collection
Golden Globe Awards: Best Picture — Drama
Golden Globe Awards: Best Picture — Musical or Comedy
Golden Globe Award Winners for Best Foreign Language Film
National Film Registry
Toronto International Film Festival — People's Choice Award Winners
Tribeca Film Festival
Venice Film Festival — Golden Lion Winners
Books, Authors, and Writing
The Brontës
Fresh takes on timeless tales:
Movies inspired by classic literature
Movies about writers and writing
Movies based on 20th and 21st Century
fiction
Movies based on books -- for teens
Movies based on classics
Movies based on historical
novels and nonfiction books
Movies based on humorous books
Movies based on mysteries
Movies based on nonfiction
books
Movies based on the works of Jane
Austen
Movies based on thrillers
Comedy
African-American
comedies
British comedies
Funny films
If you like "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" try...
If you like "It's Complicated" try...
Movies based on humorous books
Quirky comedies
Romantic comedies
Slapstick movies
Cultural
Interest
African-American
comedies
African-American
directors
Black history and
heritage
Breaking down barriers:
Disability in film
Films of Native American
interest
Foreign films
Gay and lesbian films
Greece, Rome, and ancient civilizations
Jewish interest
Movies from Down Under: Featuring Australia and New Zealand
Pictures of Ireland
Seeking ancient Egypt
Spirit of Asia
A View of Mexico
Documentaries
Academy Awards: Best Documentary
Documentaries about food and water
Documentaries by Ken Burns
Documentary films
A comprehensive list of documentaries in our collection
In Memoriam: Walter Cronkite (1916-2009)
Family
Family films
If you like "Enchanted" try...
IMAX films
The Jeff Corwin Experience
Horror
Godzilla movies
Horror movies
King Kong movies
Monsters, ghosts, vampires, witches
Movies and television shows about vampires
In Memoriam
Walter Cronkite (1916-2009)
Blake Edwards (1922-2010)
Dennis Hopper (1936-2010)
Peter Falk (1927-2011)
John Hughes (1950-2009)
Heath Ledger (1979-2008)
Sidney Lumet (1924-2011)
Karl Malden (1912-2009)
Ismail Merchant (1936-2005)
Brittany Murphy (1977-2009)
Patricia Neal (1926-2010)
Paul Newman (1925-2008)
Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010)
Natasha Richardson (1963-2009)
Jean Simmons (1929-2010)
Patrick Swayze (1952-2009)
Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011)
Location, Location, Location...
Chicagoland movies
Greece, Rome, and ancient civilizations
Movies from Down Under: Featuring Australia and New Zealand
On location: Films set in beautiful and horrible
locations
Pictures of Ireland
Prison movies
Scotland!
Seeking ancient Egypt
A View of Mexico
Music and Dance
Films featuring dance
Greatest movie musicals
If you like "Once" try...
Movies about music and musicians
Musicals
Mystery and Crime
Agatha Christie television shows and films
British mysteries
Film noir
French film noir
Hitchcock films
Movies based on mysteries
Sherlock Holmes television shows and films
Romance
If you like "Sex and the City" try...
In the name of love: Romantic films
Romantic action films
Romantic comedies
Weddings and engagements
Series, Sequels, and Remakes
Remakes
Series and sequels
Special Interest
50 great tearjerkers
All in a day's work: every job has a
story
Anime films
Back to school
Campaigns, elections, and politics
Cult movies
Feel-good movies
Films based on true events
Films in black and white
Gambling movies
Gardening and flowers
Greece, Rome, and ancient civilizations
Inspirational and religious films
King Arthur, knights, and knighthood
Leonardo Da Vinci and The Da Vinci
Code
A long winter's film list
Movies about art and artists
Movies about games, competitions, and contests
Movies about making movies
Movies and television shows about magic and magicians
Movies with a twist
Overlooked movies
Prison movies
Puzzlers
Quests and fairytales
Royalty and nobility
Silent films
Sports movies
Supernatural movies and television series
Warm weather films
What's to eat? Food, restaurants, chefs & cooks
Special
Occasions and Holidays
Christmas movies
Holiday films
Weddings and engagements
Television
Agatha Christie television shows and films
British mysteries
Cult television series
Documentaries by Ken Burns
Glee
If you like "Mad Men" try...
If you like "The Wire" try...
The Jeff Corwin Experience
Masterpiece Theatre
National Geographic
NOVA
Sherlock Holmes television shows and films
Television shows
A comprehensive list of television shows in our collection
Thrillers, Action, and Adventure
Action movies
Hitchcock films
If you like "The Bourne Ultimatum" try...
If you like "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" try...
If you like "Iron Man" try...
If you like "Live Free Or Die Hard" try...
If you like "Prince of Persia" try...
Kickin' flicks
Movies based on thrillers
Pirates and swashbucklers
Popcorn movies
Superheroes and comic book
characters
Techno thrillers
War films
Viewalikes
If you like "Atonement" try...
If you like "Becoming Jane" try...
If you like "The Black Swan" try...
If you like "The Bourne Ultimatum" try...
If you like "Brideshead Revisited" try...
If you like "Crazy Heart" try...
If you like "Crazy, Stupid, Love" try...
If you like "Downton Abbey" try...
If you like "Duplicity" try...
If you like "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" try...
If you like "Enchanted" try...
If you like "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" try...
If you like "The Godfather" try...
If you like "The Golden Compass" try...
If you like "The Help" try...
If you like "I'm Not There" try...
If you like "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" try...
If you like "Iron Man" try...
If you like "It's Complicated" try...
If you like "The Jane Austen Book Club" try...
If you like "Juno" try...
If you like "The King's Speech" try...
If you like "Live Free Or Die Hard" try...
If you like "Mad Men" try...
If you like "Mamma Mia!" try...
If you like "Michael Clayton" try...
If you like "Midnight in Paris" try...
If you like "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" try...
If you like "The Namesake" try..
If you like "No Country for Old Men" try...
If you like "No Reservations" try...
If you like "Ocean's Thirteen" try...
If you like "Once" try...
If you like "The Other Boleyn Girl" try...
If you like "Prince of Persia" try...
If you like "Public Enemies" try...
If you like "Sex and the City" try...
If you like "State of Play" try...
If you like "There Will Be Blood" try...
If you like "Twilight" try...
If you like "The Visitor" try...
If you like "Waiting for Superman" try...
If you like "The Wire" try...
Women in Film
Academy Awards: Best Actress
Films directed by
women
Historical women in film
Women in the director's chair
