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Bill Hader Recommends...

List of films that Bill Hader has recommended. Currently sourced from the recent list that he provided to Collider, the list of 200 Films that Bill thinks every comedy writer should watch, his Criterion Closet picks, and his Top Ten Criterion Collection films (which is more than ten films...) Other sources are listed in the notes (along with things Bill has said about the film).

Bill Hader did not specify year or director with some of these films so I just guessed which one he was talking about and will change any wrong ones to the right film if I find out they're wrong.

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  • 1941
  • 8½
  • Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
  • Abigail's Party
  • Ace in the Hole
  • The Act of Killing
  • The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
  • After Hours
  • Aguirre, the Wrath of God
  • Airplane!
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  • Alien
  • All About My Mother
  • All That Jazz
  • All the President's Men
  • Amarcord
  • The American Friend
  • American Graffiti
  • An American in Paris
  • Amores Perros
  • Animal Crackers
  • Animal House
  • Annie Hall
  • Antichrist
  • The Apartment
  • Apocalypto
  • Apollo 13
  • Army of Darkness
  • Arsenic and Old Lace
  • Ashes and Diamonds
  • The Asphalt Jungle
  • The Awful Truth
  • Back to the Future
  • Bad Day at Black Rock
  • The Bad News Bears
  • Ball of Fire
  • Bananas
  • The Band Wagon
  • The Bank Dick
  • Barton Fink
  • The Battle of Algiers
  • Beetlejuice
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Being There
  • Best in Show
  • The Best Years of Our Lives
  • Better Off Dead...
  • Bicycle Thieves
  • Billy Wilder Speaks
  • The Big Clock
  • Big Deal on Madonna Street
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Bigger Than Life
  • The Birdcage
  • The Black Cat
  • Black Narcissus
  • Blazing Saddles
  • Blood Simple
  • Blue Velvet
  • The Blues Brothers
  • Bob le Flambeur
  • Boogie Nights
  • Born Yesterday
  • Bottle Rocket
  • Boudu Saved from Drowning
  • Brazil
  • The Breaking Point
  • Bringing Up Baby
  • Broadway Danny Rose
  • Broken Lullaby
  • The Brood
  • Brother's Keeper
  • A Bucket of Blood
  • Bullets Over Broadway
  • The 'Burbs
  • Cabin in the Sky
  • Caché
  • Caddyshack
  • Canoa: A Shameful Memory
  • Carrie
  • Catch-22
  • Charley Varrick
  • Children of Men
  • Chopper
  • The Circus
  • Citizen Kane
  • City Lights
  • Cléo from 5 to 7
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • Closely Watched Trains
  • The Cocoanuts
  • Coffy
  • Come and See
  • The Conformist
  • Coming to America
  • Contempt
  • The Court Jester
  • The Cranes Are Flying
  • Crazy Love