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alt title(s): Movies There is a constant interchange of ideas between TV and film — hit movies getting Spin Off series, popular TV series getting big-screen outings — so many tropes have entered TV from film, and vice versa.
Silent Film established most of the basic Camera Tricks, and is the home to many a Discredited Trope.
Note: Do not italicize the titles; it prevents the indices from working properly.
Really Old
- 1888 - Roundhay Garden Scene
 and Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge - possibly the first movies ever, and certainly the oldest known to still exist, were shot by Louis Le Prince on experimental camera.
- 1893-1895 - William K.L. Dickson, working at Thomas Edison's studio, shot Blacksmith Scene, Fred Ott's Sneeze, Carmencita, The Great Sandow, and others - the first commercial movies ever. Dickson Experimental Sound Film, the first sound picture, and The Execution of Mary Stuart, the first cinematic special effects, were also produced at the studio. In 1897, it introduced the world to the first pornographic movie with The Dolorita Passion Dance or Dolorita in the Passion Dance. The film was removed from Atlantic City Kinetoscope parlors in 1895, this being perhaps the first instance of film Censorship.
- 1895-1896 - The Lumière brothers shot movies, including The Sprinkler Sprinkled, Employees Leaving the Factory, and Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, establishing tropes such as the Practical Joke, Faux Documentary, and cinematic narrative in general.
- 1898-1905 - Georges Méliès shot pioneering movies such as The Four Troublesome Heads, The Man with the Rubber Head, The One Man Band, A Trip to the Moon, The Impossible Voyage, and The Black Imp, establishing many kinds of special effects and Special Effects and genres such as Science Fiction and Fantasy.
- 1903 - Edwin Porter directed The Great Train Robbery at Edison's studio.
- 1906 - The first ever feature-length film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, was filmed in Melbourne, Australia. Of course, in 1906, "feature-length" meant about forty-five minutes long, which was still many times longer than any other film made at that point. (Interestingly, The Story of the Kelly Gang was originally planned as a short film, but its runtime ballooned out as the filmmakers kept adding more and more footage.)
- 1908-1914 - D.W. Griffith directed lots of short films, inventing and/or popularizing more Camera Tricks and other film tropes like:
- 1911-1914 - Winsor McCay makes the first animated films, including Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur.
- 1912 - The Cameraman's Revenge, one of the first examples of stop-motion animation.
Pre-1920 majors
1915-1921
- D.W. Griffith directed some of the earliest feature films, including:
1916-1928
- Charlie Chaplin produced and starred in 20 pioneering Slapstick comedies at Mutual studios and First National studios, including:
- He also produces four feature-length movies, three of which are comedies.
- Fantomas (Serial, made over several years.)
1919
The 1920s
1920-1928
- Buster Keaton starred in several short Slapstick comedies, including:
- He also starred in several feature comedies, including
1920
1921-1927
- Fritz Lang directed a number of trope making feature films, including
- Destiny
- Dr. Mabuse the Gambler - invented gangster film tropes that would be used for many years
- Die Nibelungen - film adaptation of the medieval German epic, Das Nibelungenlied (on which Richard Wagner's Ring opera cycle was also partly based), and zillions of Fantasy tropes are seen on film for the first time here.
- Metropolis - arguably responsible for nearly every Science Fiction trope we're familiar with in film today.
1922-1927
- F.W. Murnau directed several influential silent films including
1922
1923
1924
- Greed - a 9 1/2 hour epic by Erich von Stroheim, edited to 2 hours against his wishes, the cut footage destroyed.
- The Thief Of Baghdad - not the first to use special effects but probably the first "special-effect-driven" film.
1925
1927
1928
1929
The 1930s
1930-1935
- The Marx Brothers star in early sound comedies including
1930
1931-1936
- Universal Studios produced archetypal monster movies, including
1931
1932
1933
1934-1938
- Alfred Hitchcock directed influential suspense thrillers that become world-famous:
1934-1939
- Frank Capra directed a number of feel-good movies, including:
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
Other 1930s films
The 1940s
1940-1948
1940
1941
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1943
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1945
1946
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1949
Other 1940s films
The 1950s
1950
1951-1959
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1954
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1957
1958
1959
Other 1950s
- Carry On . . .
- . . . Sergeant
- . . . Nurse
- . . . Teacher
The 1960s
1960-1968
- Stanley Kubrick directed a number of highly acclaimed films, such as
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
Other 1960s
The 1970s
1970
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1972-1979
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1979
Other 1970s
The 1980s
1980
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1987
1988
1989
Other 1980s
The 1990s
1990
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1993-1998
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1999
Other 1990s film
2000-present
Notable Film Franchises, 2000-2008
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2009
Animated films:
Animated Shorts
Notably Long Film Series (five or more films)
- Batman - All in all the character's been to the theaters 8 times. One was based on the sixties TV series, and another was an animated theatrical release. Warner Brothers's live action films include:
- The Falcon - a once famous, now rather obscure detective character who was the hero of sixteen different features made between 1940 and 1949.
- Friday The13th - slasher films revolving around hockey-masked Jason Voorhees
- Friday the 13th (1980)
- '' Part 2 (1981)
- '' Part 3 (1982)
- '' The Final Chapter (1984)
- '' A New Beginning (1985)
- '' Part 6: Jason Lives (1986)
- '' Part 7: The New Blood (1988)
- '' Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
- Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1993)
- Jason X (2002)
- Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
- Friday the 13th (2009) (a remake of the original)
- Fu Manchu - He has been played in over forty films (beginning in 1923) by over a dozen different actors, including H. Agar Lyons (an Irishman), Warner Oland (a Swede), Boris Karloff (with Myrna Loy as his daughter, here called Fah Lo), Christopher Lee, and Peter Sellers (three Englishmen) — but never yet by an actual Asian actor.
- Godzilla - The Japanese series about the rampaging mutant is one of if not THE longest running feature film series ever, at a current total of 30 films made over 50 years (1954-2004). Of these, all but one were made by Towa Studios, who have made dozens of other films set in the same 'verse.
- Hammer Horror - Defined vampire and gothic horror cinema of the 1950s and 1960s.
- James Bond - 21 official films, with two "unofficial" films not produced by Eon/United Artists.
- Harry Potter
- HP and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
- HP and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
- HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
- HP and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
- HP and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
- HP and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
- HP and the Deathly Hallows (two parts, to be released in 2010 and 2011)
- A Nightmare On Elm Street - 9 films, plus a loosely connected TV show.
- Olsen Banden - 14 movies, the first from 1968 and the last from 1998
- The Prisoner Of Zenda (six separate versions: 1913, 1915, 1922, 1937, 1952, 1979))
- St Trinians (1954, 1957, 1960, 1966, 1980, 2007, 2009)
- Star Trek - Eleven films
- Star Wars - Six live action films divided into two trilogies, one computer animated film.
- Star Wreck - A seven-part series of fan-made CGI and live action Star Trek spoof films. The last one, Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning was feature-length and had professional level special effects.
- Tales For All
- Tarzan - FAR too many to list, although the most famous were those with Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan in the 1930s and 1940s. Also: Greystoke in 1984.
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