http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5F_AMVNz-0

Movie about drug smuggler George Jung. Blow is also a euphemism for cocaine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYJnFQE7evQ

Movie about a sexist ex boxer turned trainer and his female protegee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9CkhBb18E

Robert De Niro’s best role. He was robbed of an Oscar because Peter Finch had died before the release of Network and so won the award instead. This film is shown from the point of view of a mentally unstable ex-marine who is driven to violence by the urban decay he sees during his job as a Taxi Driver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y-PlhlhBNU

It’s a Wonderful Life featured one of Jimmy Stewarts best performances and may be the most touching movie of all time. It also started the cliche of an angel showing a suicidal man what the world would be like without him. Yah how many times have you seen that on TV? This movie was the first to do that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ff46b58Hk

One of the best gangster films of all time starring Ray Liotta about a young boy’s ambition to be a mobster and his life when he finally becomes one. Joe Pesci won a best supporting oscar for his portrayal of sociopathic mobster Danny Devito.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt1vQ81jNWw

Humphrey Bogart starred as cynical bar owner Rick Blaine and all the mayhem that comes when his ex girlfriend shows up with her boyfriend who’s being pursued across Europe by the Nazis. His role in this film has become iconic. It’s also the first chick flick and the only one with any artistic merit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BizxiDtFdrI

Film adaption of the lives of notorious bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeVq1e6JKlw

Marlon Brando stars in one of his best roles as Terry Malloy, a dock worker caught up in the brutal fights between the unions that controlled the waterfront with an iron fist and those who tried to oppose them. He won his first academy award for his role. The scene above is one of the most famous in cinema.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aifeXlnoqY

Crime film starring Jack Nicholson as a private detective hired to follow a man he believes to be the husband of his client but ends up falling into much more. This script is taught in screen writing classes as the perfect script.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM44eaasx0Y

Notable for being Robert De Niro’s first large film role. The movie is about a loan shark not finding the kind of redemption he likes in the church turns to helping an unruly youth.

In this line he is saying he grew up on the mean streets and spent his “school days” there.