List of books on films

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This list of books on films is for books dedicated to individual films, film series, or related critical analyses.

Contents

American films

Avatar (2009)

Birth of a Nation (1915)

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Casablanca (1942)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Cold Mountain (2003)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

The Godfather trilogy (1972–90)

Gone with the Wind (1939)

The Graduate (1967)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Lolita (1962)

Psycho (1960)

Schindler's List (1993)

Star Wars franchise (1977–)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Tootsie (1982)

Touch of Evil (1958)

Vertigo (1958)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Asian films

Hong Kong

A Better Tomorrow (1986)

Ashes of Time (1994)

An Autumn's Tale (1987)

Bullet in the Head (1990)

Center Stage (1991)

Durian Durian (2000)

Happy Together (1997)

He's a Woman, She's a Man (1994)

Internal Affairs (2002–03)

The Killer (1989)

Made in Hong Kong (1997)

PTU (2003)

Song of the Exile (1990)

Wing Chun (1994)

Indian

The Apu Trilogy (1955–59)

Mother India (1957)

Japanese

A Page of Madness (1926)

Rashomon (1950)

Seven Samurai (1954)

Tokyo Story (1953)

Taiwanese

A Touch of Zen (1971)

European films

British

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

French

Breathless / À bout de souffle (1960)

The Rules of the Game / La Regle de Jeu (1939)

German

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Das Cabinet Des Dr Caligari (1920)

Nosferatu (1922)

Italian

(1963)

New Zealand

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001–03)

The Piano (1993)

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