The units are below with posible film selections.  If we decide not to watch a film below, you can always watch it on your own and write your film review about it.   

The Short Film

  PBS Short Film Festival

Dear Basketball
The Paper Boy
Identity 
Will "The Machine"
Pentecost
Two Strangers Meet FIve Times
The New Boy
The English Teacher
Coda
Anxiety
Hair Love
Ghost Train
Flying Lotus: Until the Quiet Comes
Captureland
The Long Goodbye
Bibi
Glory at Sea
Feeling Through
Exit Strategy
Paradox 
Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma
A New Man
Stoop Kid      on Amazon Prime Rated R  
Dia De Los Muertos
Alternative Math
AI-Pocalypse
Adman
Different
Keep Grinding
Haulout              short documentary 
Questionable 
Stranger at the Gate           short documentary 
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Teaching Reading Comprehension Skills Using Short Films
10 Inspirational Short Films

The Horror Film

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
A Quiet Place
Devil
The Ring
The Others
Jacob's Ladder     I wish . . . Might be too much.  My favorite horror film though . . .  Has a bit of the psychological thriller in it too.
25 Best PG-13 Horror Movies. Ranked

How Black Horror Became America's Most Powerful Cinematic Genre
Modern Films Subvert Stereotypes of Black Characters in Horror
Code Switch Episode The Horror, The Horror: "Get Out" And the Place of Race in Scary Movies
All Rated R . . .Dang.  These are the films i'd like to show in the unit
Get Out
Night of the Living Dead
Us
Black Box

The Satire

Jo Jo Rabbit 
Office Space
Thanks for Smoking
Truman Show
Dr. Strangelove

The Science Fiction Film

2001: A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner                                         Rated R
​Moon                                                       Rated R
Gravity
The Martian
Arrival
Interstellar

​Underrated Science Fiction Films
5  Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now
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The Animated Film

Spirtied Away
Mirai
Soul
Abominable
Over the Moon
Howl's Moving Castle
​Iron Giant
​Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Weathering with You
Persepolis
Your Name 
My Neighbor Totoro

The Documentary 

Dogtown and Z Boys
Hoop Dreams
Man on a Wire
Free Solo
Capturing the Friedmans 
The Work
Minding the Gap
Broke

38 Documentaries that Will Change Your Life

The Thriller

Vertigo 
Inception
 Split 
​The 6th Sense 
Source Code
The Prestige
Red Eye
Taken
Unbreakable
Escape Room 
​Red Eye
Usual Suspects                                                                  Rated R
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The Rom-Com

Annie Hall
Groundhog Day
When Harry Met Sally          Rated R
500 Days of Summer
10 Things I Hate About You
Some Kind of Wonderful
The 40-year-old Virgin        Rated R
Clueless
Easy A
Amelie
Say Anything 
Can't Buy Me Love  
Just One of the Guys
Jerry Maguire                 Rated R

The 25 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time

The Magical Realist Film

Beasts of the Southern Wild
Field of Dreams
Pan's Labyrinth or The Shape of Water                   Rated R
Big Fish
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
Midnight in Paris
​The Green Mile                                                          Rated R

20 Great Magical Realism Movies That Are Worth Your Time
​Magical Realism Short Film Archive
And The Whole Sky is a Poetic Ghost Story with a Magical Realist Touch

​Other Unit Possibilities:

The Coming of Age Film: Y Tu Mama Tambien, Moonlight, The Wackness, The Florida Project, Boyhood,                      Karate Kid, Stand By Me, Ladybird, ferris bullers day off, little miss sunshine, Frances ha, Yi Yi, Little  women, Dazed and Confused 
The Social Justice Film: Monster, 13th
​The Sports Film: Rudy, Bull Durham, Without Limits, Rocky, The Hustler/The Color of Money, Breaking Away 
          ESPN's Top 20 Sports Movies of All Time
The Detective Film: Devil in a Blue Dress, Clockers 
The Bollywood Film: Bride and Prejudice 
The War Film: Saving Private Ryan, The Hurt Locker, Miracle at St. Anna

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Questions about Film:
What movie traumatized you most as a child?
Who's your favorite actor/director?
What's your favorite movie?
Why do movies matter?
Is it possible to make an interesting/good/successful movie without dialogue?                       All is Lost


Quotes about Movies/Films


​Editing Transitions in Film
Camera Shots