The Movies canon

Sourced and screened.

Every film chosen by hand and annotated for why it matters.
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3 films
SortEditorial Year Title
Subject·Fathers and sons✕clear
Drama

Bicycle Thieves

Directed by Vittorio De Sica
1948 · Italy

Italian neorealism starts with this, and it still guts people: De Sica cast a factory worker as his lead and found a whole society inside one stolen bicycle.

★ 9.1
Drama

East of Eden

Directed by Elia Kazan
1955

The only James Dean performance released while he was still alive: Steinbeck's Cain and Abel moved to a California lettuce valley, and Dean improvises his way through it.

★ 7.3