The Film List, by ARCHETYPES:
1.The Quest • Oh Brother Where art thou: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW9Xo2HtlJI • Employee of the month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8HrbX0hzX8 • Unforgiven (1992): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_UlfsdGiEc • Easy Rider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLdTZaKMQ9c • The Lobster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU29VfayDMw&feature=youtu.be • Tenet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3pk_TBkihU • The King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMJnsTx-TBg • The Laundromat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuBRcfe4bSo • The Truman Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loTIzXAS7v4 • Ready Player One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSp1dM2Vj48 • Me and Earl, and the Dying Girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qfmAllbYC8 • Stand by me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYTfYsODWQo
3.The Initiation
• Fight Club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtRKdVHc-cE • Diner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Q6_27KKEc • The Breakfast Club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iQOw0dHRZA • Reservoir dogs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KLZ4fSXtgI • Wonder Boys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sveK_fhIqhs • The King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMJnsTx-TBg • American Graffiti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx7QdFbxr1c • Best in show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94y9n9lNy2Y • JoJo Rabbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL4McUzXfFI
4. Death and Rebirth
• The Revenant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRfj1VCg16Y • Groundhog Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncQtURdcE4 • The Lobster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU29VfayDMw&feature=youtu.be • The Last Samurai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRrckyRrG20 • Disobedience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEVonh8bjC0 • JoJo Rabbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL4McUzXfFI • The Joker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAGVQLHvwOY • The Truman Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loTIzXAS7v4 • The sweet hereafter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7w-dPZI_LY • Defiance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVNR8PrtnQc
5.Battle Between Good and Evil
• Django unchained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUdM9vrCbow • Inglorious Bastards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnrRy6kSFF0 • Bronson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMJ1c3qxOWc • Pulp Fiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7EdQ4FqbhY • Tenet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3pk_TBkihU • Natural Born Killers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpLKNclOtLg • The Crucible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OBffF0s3Hc • The Joker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAGVQLHvwOY • The Reluctant Fundamentalist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqJTHDbhhfk • Children of Men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VT2apoX90o • Ex Machina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggUmgeMCdc • The Laundromat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuBRcfe4bSo • Body of Lies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8oYugFe0-Q • The King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMJnsTx-TBg • The Silence of the lambs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Mm8Sbe__o • Defiance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVNR8PrtnQc • To Kill a Mockingbird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR7loA_oziY • Citizen Kane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1A_WUNQlKY • The Revenant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRfj1VCg16Y
6. Parent-child Conflict • Tarnation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVeAU0Kjf-c • A Borrowed Identity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=surYQw0_rck • The Joker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAGVQLHvwOY • Sand Storm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4vQugCOIY4 • American Beauty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly7rq5EsTC8 • The Lobster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU29VfayDMw&feature=youtu.be • The Brothers McMullen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPsbUcvKzxQ • Star Wars-The Empire Strikes Back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNwNXF9Y6kY • The graduate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KnSucVko1s
7. Light vs. Darkness • The Dark Knight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PZpmTj1Q8Q • Gangs of NY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHVUPri5tjA • The Crucible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OBffF0s3Hc • Fed Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCUbvOwwfWM • The Joker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAGVQLHvwOY • The Forgiven: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2249081/videoplayer/vi3342645273?ref_=tt_ov_vi • Macbeth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqHhKuCQmoY • Children of Men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VT2apoX90o • Inglorious Bastards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnrRy6kSFF0 • Bronson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMJ1c3qxOWc • Pulp Fiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7EdQ4FqbhY • Natural Born Killers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpLKNclOtLg
8. The Boogie Man • Django unchained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUdM9vrCbow • Inglorious Bastards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnrRy6kSFF0 • The Crucible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OBffF0s3Hc • Bronson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMJ1c3qxOWc • The Joker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAGVQLHvwOY • Pulp Fiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7EdQ4FqbhY • Ex Machina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggUmgeMCdc • Natural Born Killers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpLKNclOtLg • The Silence of the lambs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Mm8Sbe__o Sinister • The Reluctant Fundamentalist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqJTHDbhhfk • Body of Lies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8oYugFe0-Q
9. The Hero
• Logan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Div0iP65aZo • The Joker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAGVQLHvwOY • Fargo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2tY82z3xXU • The King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMJnsTx-TBg • Tenet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3pk_TBkihU • The Dark Knight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PZpmTj1Q8Q • The Truman Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loTIzXAS7v4 • Avengers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOrNdBpGMv8 • Guardians of the Galaxy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d96cjJhvlMA • Wonder Woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q8fG0TtVAY • Rocky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RYpJAUMo2M • Terminator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k64P4l2Wmeg
10. Young Person from the Provinces • True Grit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUiCu-zuAgM • A Borrowed Identity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=surYQw0_rck • JoJo Rabbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL4McUzXfFI • Tenet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3pk_TBkihU • Slumdog Millionaire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIzbwV7on6Q • The Last Samurai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T50_qHEOahQ • GATIKA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpzVFdDeWyo • Robin Hood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwPn9ZnbCo0 • Batman Begins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neY2xVmOfUM • Ex Machina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggUmgeMCdc • Harry Potter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyHV0BRtdxo • The Grand Budapest hotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fg5iWmQjwk • The Natural: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMnwlNm6xWs
11. The Teacher • The Grand Budapest hotel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fg5iWmQjwk • Lean on me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evA9nkdOhKU • Good will hunting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaZVjZEFkRs • Dead Poet’s Society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lj185DaZ_o • Ex Machina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggUmgeMCdc • Karate Kid: o 1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7JhKCQnEqQ o 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY8amUImEu0 • Stand and deliver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtQQC23eseU • Finding Forester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjO0QVuZcE8 • The Great debaters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN2AGZThL-8
12. The Hunting Group of Companions • Red Dawn o “Evil Russia” - 1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_I4WgBfETc o “Evil N. Korea” - 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGoe7BdGdlg • The Breakfast Club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSXBvor47Zs • Boys in the hood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4sKiGkzKJo • Platoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KztP7SKe0uk • The outsiders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJmi3-Eau00 • Defiance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVNR8PrtnQc • American Graffiti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx7QdFbxr1c • The Deer Hunter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gqit3zVmyc • Goodfellas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo5jJpHtI1Y
13. True Love
• The Sandstorm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4vQugCOIY4 • The Lobster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU29VfayDMw&feature=youtu.be • Revolutionary Road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qADM67ZgYxM • The One I love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCOvhojlZzQ • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBEke6JixyE • Her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzV6mXIOVl4 • A Borrowed Identity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=surYQw0_rck • Ex Machina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggUmgeMCdc • Say Anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFV7FnbhBRY • Blue Valentine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw0NChcdQfQ • Before Sunrise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v6X-Dytlko • The Princess Bride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo • Thelma and Louise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iBFmKlO4BY • Reign over me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzQYokimcg0 • When Harry met Sally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmSpCLefjnw • Breakfast at Tiffany’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XcLVQCDtbM • Brokeback Mountain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIiOlwn4PSk • Drinking Buddies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxuxkQF7Bak • 500 Days of Summer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsD0NpFSADM • Punch Drunk Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNeZi1y_v88 • Crazy Stupid Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iCwtxJejik
Non “archetypal” categories to add at semester’s end:
Old School: 20+ years
• Citizen Kane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dxh3lwdofw&feature=emb_logo • Casablanca-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkl9l7qovse&feature=emb_logo • Psycho-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtjqffq40li&feature=emb_logo • The Graduate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6knsucvko1s&feature=emb_logo • 2001: A Space Odyssey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR_e9y-bka0&feature=emb_logo • Night of the living dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5XwrRFP7Zw&feature=emb_logo • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep518FVHKIU&feature=emb_logo • Do the Right Thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ny631yQ-DM&feature=emb_logo • Big Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJsUNQjRYm4&feature=emb_logo • American Psycho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YnGhW4UEhc&feature=emb_logo • Fargo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2tY82z3xXU&feature=emb_logo • The Usual Suspects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3t0Nc6fg7w&feature=emb_logo • Lost in Translation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6iVPCRflQM&feature=emb_logo
Female Lead:
1. Atomic Blonde: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aieQrj9Yy8s&feature=emb_logo 2. True Grit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUiCu-zuAgM 3. Juno: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0SKf0K3bxg 4. Kill Bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_dNIXwrbzY&feature=emb_logo 5. Hustlers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46XaikZ0FSw&feature=youtu.be 6. Hanna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=KlB_Ttvug3Q&feature=emb_logo 7. The Heat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=1O3iRdiplB0&feature=emb_logo 8. Dark Phoenix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=43&v=azvR__GRQic&feature=emb_logo 9. G.I. Jane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1voXbzvJo0&feature=emb_logo 10. The Hunger Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9a5V9ODuY 11. Million Dollar Baby” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_RsHRmIRBY 12. Hidden Figures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK8xHq6dfAo 13. Bombshell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2G9-KhBek8 14. Black Swan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jaI1XOB-bs
Quentin Tarantino Films:
1. Pulp Fiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7EdQ4FqbhY 2. Reservoir Dogs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vayksn4Y93A 3. Jackie Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7HkBDNZV7s 4. Natural Born Killers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpLKNclOtLg 5. Kill Bill Vol. I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kSuas6mRpk 6. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELeMaP8EPAA 7. The Hateful Eight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69UwVX6Riv8
Low-Brow, Comedic Favorites:
1. Employee of the month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8HrbX0hzX8 2. Office Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMIrlP61Z9s&t=2s 3. Napoleon Dynamite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHDi_AnqwN4 4. Groundhog Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncQtURdcE4 5. Animal House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWjtI6n5xWM 6. Office Space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMIrlP61Z9s&t=2s
Documentaries:
1. Boys State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1Kh_T5ZBIM 2. Free Solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF-7H5Dk26E 3. Jiro Dreams of Sushi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1UDS2kgqY8&feature=youtu.be 4. The Armstrong Lie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQNItkpKkXE 5. Inequality for All: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCbAyk8aRxI 6. Icarus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXoRdSTrR-4
International Films:
1. The Salesman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlKN5PBVLN8 2. Pain and Glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEjFOkCKb3g 3. A Borrowed Identity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=surYQw0_rck 4. The Sandstorm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4vQugCOIY4 5. Corpus christi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFFvje2A2vE 6. City of god: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcUOO4Itgmw 7. Amelie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUECWi5pX7o 8. Pan's Labyrinth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7XGNPXdlGQ 9. The Hunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieLIOBkMgAQ 10. Let the Right One In: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICp4g9p_rgo
Sci-Fi 1. Source Code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkTrG-gpIzE 2. Gemini Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbyJignbSj0 3. Inception: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoHD9XEInc0 4. The Expanse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQuTAPWJxNo 5. Edge of Tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw61gCe2oqI 6. Gravity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiTiKOy59o4 7. Under the Skin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoSWbyvdhHw 8. Ex Machina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggUmgeMCdc 9. The One I love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCOvhojlZzQ 10. Children of Men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VT2apoX90o 11. Looper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iQuhsmtfHw 12. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBEke6JixyE 13. Another Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8hEwMMDtFY
Super-Hero:
1. Wonder Woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q8fG0TtVAY 2. Thor: Ragnarok: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue80QwXMRHg 3. Avengers Endgame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcMBFSGVi1c 4. Captain America: Civil War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKrVegVI0Us 5. Batman versus Superman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX_iASz1Si8 6. Spider Man: Far From Home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt9L1jCKGnE
Coen Brothers:
1. Inside Llewyn Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuQ8pz-5WLY 2. Raising Arizona: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjWu8i6eMZo 3. Fargo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2tY82z3xXU&feature=emb_logo 4. A Serious Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDKHWRbK2_Q 5. Oh Brother Where art thou: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW9Xo2HtlJI
Last Semester’s Favorites:
• The Death of Stalin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukJ5dMYx2no • Sound of Metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFOrGkAvjAE • Portrait of a Lady on Fire - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-fQPTwma9o • The Prestige—https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObGVA1WOqyE • Inside Llewyn Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuQ8pz-5WLY • The Grand Budapest Hotel —https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fg5iWmQjwk • Jo Jo Rabbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL4McUzXfFI • Zodiac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNncHPl1UXg • Tenet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3pk_TBkihU • The Crucible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OBffF0s3Hc