Every movie you've ever seen stands on the shoulders of the people who pushed the boundaries, broke rules, and forged a new path for the art form. In honor of those great contributions form around the world, here are our picks for the Top 10 Film Movements of all time!<br /><br />What did you think of the list? Did we leave off one of your personal favorites? Did you learn about or did this make you curious about a new era of film? Or a new country the films came from? Have we inspired you to check some of them out? What do you think is the most influential film movement of all time?<br /><br />Let us know in the comments!<br /><br />Would you like to learn about more film movements that were smaller but still important? Or that didn't quite make out list? Let us know and we'll do a follow up!<br /><br />THE LIST<br /><br /><br />British New Wave<br />A focus on the realities of working class daily life.<br /><br />Scandinavian Revival<br />Dark, monochrome, slow, and a little bit mystical.<br /><br />Japan’s Golden Age of Cinema<br />Filmmakers in an unoccupied and uncensored post-WWII Japan unleashed all of their creativity at once.<br /><br />New Queer Cinema<br />Embracing gender and sexuality as socially constructed objects.<br /><br />Third Cinema<br />Staunchly anti-colonial in countries of the third world.<br /><br />Neorealism<br />Stories, shot on location, filled with lower class non-actors struggling to go about their normal lives in the the shadow of the war.<br /><br />German Expressionism<br />Shadowy movies with exaggerated design as a rejection of reality.<br /><br />Soviet Montage<br />Focus on cutting because that’s what separates film from other art forms.<br /><br />The Golden Age of Hollywood<br />As the rest of the world dealt with war the American film market thrived and benefitted from refugee filmmakers who had come to the US to escape the turmoil.<br /><br />Nouvelle Vague<br />Filmmaking as art by auteurs, not pandering to viewers or made solely for profit.
