This is a master list of English-language films that feature librarians, and I add to this whenever I find more films. I collect these titles from various sources, such as books, web sites, articles, and personal suggestions. Have I missed a movie? Please let me know in the comments.
Note: After I see one of the films on this title, I link it to other information provided on this site. The links indicate films I have seen; the others I have not. This means I cannot state for certain that every film on this list actually includes a librarian; it is my working list for further analysis.
Films classified as Class V do NOT include librarians, although they might mention a librarian or contain scenes set in a library.
#s – A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z
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2 Brothers and a Bride (aka A Foreign Affair, 2003) — Class III
6 Degrees of Desperation (2008)
7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) — Class II
9 (2009)
The 10th Kingdom (TV miniseries, 2000)
29 Reasons to Run (2006)
187 (aka One Eight Seven, 1997)
A
Abandon (2002) — Class III
The Addiction (1995)
Admissions (TV, 2004) — Class II
Adventure (1945) — Class I
The Age of Stupid (2009)
Age to Age (1998)
Agnes of God (1985) — Class III
Agora (2009)
Alice in Wonderland (1976)
All About Evil (2010)
All the King’s Men (1949)
All the President’s Men (1976) — Class III
All the Queen’s Men (2001)
Almost a Woman (TV, 2001)
Alone (2005)
The Alphabet Murders (1965) — Class IV
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) — Class IV
American Hot Wax (1978)
Amhurst (2008)
The Amityville Horror (1979) — Class IV
Amityville II: The Possession (1982) — Class III
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
An Angel at My Table (1992) — Class V (no librarians)
Angel’s Dance (1999) — Class III
Angels and Demons (2009)
Apartment for Peggy (1948)
Archangel (TV, 2005) — Class III
Artemis 81 (TV, 1981)
As Young as You Feel (1951) — Class III
Ask the Dust (2006)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950) — Class II
At First Sight (1999) — Class IV
The Attic (1979)
Autumn in New York (2000) — Class IV
The Avengers (1998) — Class IV
Awakenings (1990) — Class IV
B
Baby Boom (1987) — Class IV
Back to School (1986)
Back When We Were Grownups (TV, 2004) — Class IV
The Bank (2001)
Barney: The Land of Make Believe (2005)
The Baron of Arizona (1950)
Batman Returns (1992) — Class V (no librarians)
Beaches (1988)
Beautiful Girls (1996) — Class IV
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) — Class II
Bed of Roses (1996) — Class IV
Before Night Falls (2000) — Class II
Beyond the Mat (2009)
Beyond This Place (aka Web of Evidence, 1959)
Big (1988) — Class V (no librarians)
Big Bully (1996) — Class III
The Big Sleep (1946) — Class III
Billy Elliot (2000) — Class III
A Bird of the Air (aka The Loop, 2011)
The Birdmen (aka Colditz: Escape of the Birdmen; Escape of the Birdmen, TV, 1971)
Black Gold (2011)
Black Mamba (1974)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Blackmail (1929) — Class V (no librarians)
Blade (1998) Class III
Bliss (1997) Class III
Blood Cult (aka Slasher, 1985)
Bloody Bender’s Return (2003)
Bloom (2003)
Bloomington (2010) — Class IV
Bluebeard’s Ten Honeymoons (1960)
Body Bags (TV, 1993)
Bon Voyage! (1962) — Class III
Bookies (2003) — Class I
Booky’s Crush (TV, 2009)
Born Yesterday (1993)
Borstal Boy (2000) — Class III
Boston Blackie and the Law (1946)
Bound by Honor (aka Blood In, Blood Out… Bound by Honor, 1993) — Class II
The Box (2009)
A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
Brainstorm (1983) — Class IV
The Brass Ring (TV, 1983)
Brazil (1985) — Class I
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) — Class III
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Breaking Dawn (2004)
Bridge Across Time (TV, 1985)
Brief Encounter (1945) — Class IV
The Broken Gate (1920)
The Broken Gate (1927)
Brutal Massacre: A Comedy (2007)
Bug Off! (2001)
Burglar (1987)
Buried on Sunday (aka Northern Extremes, 1993)
Buried Secrets (TV, 1996)
Burning Annie (2004)
C
Cabaret (1972)
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) — Class V (no librarians)
Cain and Mabel (1936) — Class III
Cal (1984) — Class II
Cape Fear (1962) — Class IV
The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)
Carolina Skeletons (1991)
Caroline? (TV, 1990) — Class IV
Carrie (1976)
Carry On, Columbus (1992)
Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)
The Catman of Paris (1946)
The Caveman’s Valentine (2001) — Class III
The Census Taker (1998)
Chameleon Street (1989)
Chances Are (1989) — Class II
The Changeling (1980) — Class III
Chainsaw Sally (2004)
Chapter Two (1979)
Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) — Class V (no librarians)
A Child Lost Forever (TV, 1992)
Children of a Lesser God (1986)
Chimera (TV, 1991)
Chinatown (1974)
Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story (TV, 1995)
The Chosen (1981) — Class V (no librarians)
Christine (1983) — Class III
Christmas on Division Street (TV, 1991)
Citizen Kane (1941) — Class III
City of Angels (1998) — Class IV
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold (1994) — Class IV
The Claydon Treasure Mystery (1938)
Clean, Shaven (1994) — Class III
Cleopatra (1963)
The Client (1994)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Cobweb (1955)
The Color of Magic (aka The Colour of Magic, TV, 2008)
Coma (1978)
The Comfort of Strangers (1990) — Class V (no librarians)
Coming Up Easy (2004)
Commandments (1997)
Community College (2008)
Compensation (1999)
Complicity (aka Redemption, 2000)
Computercide (TV, 1982)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) — Class IV
Conspiracy of Silence (TV, 1991)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) — Class V (no librarians)
Cop-Out (aka Stranger in the House, 1967)
The Countess Alice (1992)
Credot (2008)
The Creeps (1997)
Crime Scene: The Bobby Ray Summers Story (2008)
Criminal Law (1988) — Class IV
The Crimson Kimono (1959)
Cry Wolf (2005)
Cthulhu (2007)
Curse of the Demon (aka Night of the Demon, 1957) — Class III
D
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Dangerous Child (TV, 2001)
Dangerous Minds (1995) — Class IV
The Dark (2005)
Dark Heritage (1989)
Dark Remains (2005)
Darkness (2002)
David Searching (1997)
Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (TV, 1976)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) — Class III
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Dead Heat (1988)
Deadline U.S.A. (1952)
Deadly Dreams (1988)
Dear Frankie (2004) — Class III
Death of a Son (TV, 1988)
Debbie Does Dallas (1978)
Deceived (1991)
December (1991)
Deception: A Mother’s Secret (TV, 1991)
The Deep (1977)
Deep Gold (2008)
Defense of the Realm (aka Defence of the Realm, 1985)
Delivery Boys (1984)
Demolition Man (1993) — Class V (no librarians)
Demons and Doors (2012)
Desk Set (1957) — Class I
Destiny (1994)
The Detective (aka Father Brown, 1954)
The Devil’s Cargo (1948)
The Devil’s Keep (1995)
Devils of Darkness (aka Talisman, 1965)
Digging Holes (1999)
The Disappearance of Harry (TV, 1982)
The Dive from Clausen’s Pier (TV, 2005)
Divine Reality (2001)
Doctor in Love (1960)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Dogs (1976)
The Dollhouse Murders (aka Secrets in the Attic, 1992)
Dolphins (2007)
Don’t Look Down (TV, 1998)
Don’t Look Under the Bed (1999)
Double Jeopardy (1999) — Class V (no librarians)
Down With Love (2003)
Draghoula (1995)
Dragonfly (aka One Summer Love, 1976)
Dream With the Fishes (1997) — Class IV
Dreams for Life (2004)
The Drivetime (1995)
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) — Class IV
Dungeons and Dragons (2000) — Class I
The Dunwich Horror (1970)
E
Echo (aka Deadly Echo, TV, 1997)
Educating Rita (1983)
Einstein and Eddington (TV, 2008)
Elephant (2003) — Class III
Ella Enchanted (2004) — Class IV
Elves (1990)
The Emperor’s Club (2002)
Empty Beach (1985)
Encounters (aka Voyage into Fear, 1993)
Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970) — Class V (no librarians)
Entrusted (TV, 2003)
Ernest Rides Again (1993)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979) — Class III
Ever After (1998) — Class IV
Ever Since the World Ended (2001)
Everything’s Jake (2000)
Evil Has a Face (TV, 1996)
Evil in Clear River (1988)
Evil in the Woods (1986)
An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000) — Class I
The Eyes of Julia Deep (1918)
F
The F-Zone (1999)
The Face at the Window (1998)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
The Failing of Raymond (TV, 1971)
Fancy Dancing (2002)
Fast and Loose (1939) — Class I
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Father Makes Good (1950)
The FBI Story (1959) — Class II
Field of Dreams (1989)
Fighting Trouble (1956)
Final Analysis (1992)
The Final Cut (2004) — Class V (no librarians)
Final Notice (1989)
Finding Forrester (2000) — Class IV
Firestarter 2: Rekindled (2002)
The Firm (1993)
…First Do No Harm (TV, 1997) — Class IV
First to Die (aka 1st to die, TV, 2003)
Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
Fletch (1985)
Flight of the Intruder (1991) — Class III
The Fog (2005)
Follow the Stars Home (TV, 2001)
Food of the Gods II (aka Food of the Gods Part 2; Gnaw – Food of the Gods: Part 2, 1989)
Footloose (1984)
For Them That Trespass (1949)
Forbidden (1932) — Class I
Foreign Affairs (1993)
Forever Mine (1999) – Class II
Forever Young (1992)
The Forgotten (2004) — Class IV
Foul Play (1978) — Class I
The Fragile Heart (TV, 1996)
Frankenstein (TV, 2004)
Freaky Friday (TV, 1995)
The Freeze Out (1921)
Frenchman’s Farm (1987)
A Friend of Dorothy’s (1994)
Fright Flick (2008)
Fright Night (2011)
From a Whisper to a Scream (aka The Offspring, 1987)
Fulgazi (2004)
Fun (1994)
The Fury Within (TV, 1998)
G
Gallowglass (TV, 1993)
Gangster Story (1960)
The Garden (1995)
Genghis Cohn (TV, 1993)
Georgia (1988)
Gentlemen are Born (1934)
Getting In (aka Student Body, 1994)
Getting It On (1983)
Ghost Lake (2004)
The Ghost of Mickey Bullock (2003)
Ghostbusters (1984) — Class III
Gideon’s Trumpet (TV, 1980) — Class III
The Gift (TV, 1988)
The Gilded Lily (1935)
A Girl Named Tamiko (1962)
The Girl on the Late, Late Show (TV, 1974)
The Girl Rush (1955)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) — Class III
Girls’ School (1938)
Gods and Monsters (1998) — Class IV
The Golden Child (1986) — Class III
The Golden Compass (2007)
GoldenEye (1995)
The Good Companions (1933) – Class IV
Good Buys Bad Guys: Only the Young Die Good (TV, 1997)
Good News (1947) — Class I
Goodbye, Columbus (1969) — Class I
Gracie Rose (2008)
Graduation (2007)
The Graduate (1967)
Grave Misconduct (2008, TV)
Grave of the Vampire (aka Seed of Terror, 1974)
Gross Anatomy (aka A Cut Above, 1989)
Guarding Tess (1994)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag (1992) — Class I
Guns & Lipstick (1995)
H
The Half Life of Timofey Berezin (aka PU-239, 2006)
Half Light (2006)
Hammett (1982) — Class II
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
The Handmaid’s Tale (1990) — Class II
Hanging Up (2000)
Happy Together (1989)
Harry and the Hendersons (1987) — Class III
Harvey Middleman, Fireman (1965)
Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
Head Over Heels (aka Chilly Scenes of Winter, 1979)
Heading Home (1991)
Hear My Song (1991) — Class III
Heart and Souls (1993) — Class II
Heaven Help Us (1985)
Henry Fool (1997)
He’s on My Mind (2008)
Hidden City (1988)
The Hideout (2007)
High (aka In, 1969, Canada)
High School High (1996) — Class IV
High School Musical (TV, 2006)
Home by Christmas (TV, 2006)
Horror of Dracula (1958) — Class I
Hot Spell (1958)
House (1998)
The House on Carroll Street (1988) — Class IV
How I Got into College (1989)
The Human Comedy (1943) — Class III
Hysterical (1983)
I
I, Claudius (TV miniseries, 1976)
I Love Trouble (1994) — Class IV
I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)
I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)
I Love You to Death (1990) — Class IV
I, Madman (1989)
I Was a Shoplifter (1950)
Icebreaker (2008)
Idiocracy (2006)
I’m Dangerous Tonight (TV, 1990)
Imitation of Life (1934)
Imitation of Life (1959)
In God’s Country (TV, 2007) — Class IV
In Plain Sight (2004)
In the Name of the Father (1993) — Class III
Incident at Dark River (aka Dark River: A Father’s Revenge, TV, 1989) — Class IV
The Incubus (1982)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) — Class V (no librarians)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) — Class IV
Inferno (aka Dario Argento’s Inferno, 1980)
Information Received (1961)
Inspector Gadget 2 (2003)
Interlude (1957)
Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)
The Ipcress File (1965)
Ironweed (1987) — Class III
It (aka Stephen King’s It, TV, 1990) — Class I
It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) — Class I
I’ve Been Waiting for You (TV, 1998)
J
J. Edgar (2011)
Jack Frost (1998)
Jail Break (1936)
The Jealous God (2005)
Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) — Class I
Joey Breaker (1993)
Judicial Consent (1994)
Jumanji (1995)
Jumper (2008)
Juno (2007)
Jury Duty (1995)
Just Cause (1995) — Class III
Just Looking (1999)
Just Us (1986)
K
Katherine (aka The Radical, TV, 1975)
Katie Did It (1951)
Kes (1969)
Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Kill List (2011)
Kill Switch (2008)
Killer Instinct (2000)
Killer Me (2001)
Killer Movie (2008) – Class IV
The Killing Kind (1973)
A Kiss Before Dying (1991)
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)
Knock Knock (2007)
L
Labou (2006)
The Lady Forgets (TV, 1989)
Lady in the Dark (1944)
The Lady of Names (2011)
Lamb (1986)
The Last American Virgin (1982) – Class III
Last Call (TV, 2002)
The Last Supper (1995) — Class III
Late Afternoon of the Living Dead (2007)
The Legend of Cryin’ Ryan (1998)
The Legend of Lucy Keyes (2006)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) — Class V (no librarians)
Letter to My Killer (TV, 1995)
The Libeled Lady (1936)
The Librarian (1912)
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (TV, 2004) — Class I
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines (TV, 2006) — Class I
The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice (TV, 2009)
The Librarians (aka Strike Force, 2003)
Life Is Ruff (TV, 2005)
The Likely Lads (1976)
A Likeness in Stone (TV, 2000)
Lily of the Dust (1924)
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1992)
Little Secrets (1991)
Little Sister (aka Mister Sister, 1992)
The Living Wake (2007)
Logan’s Run (1976)
A Long Way Home (TV, 1981)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) — Class IV
The Lords of Discipline (1983)
The Lords of Magick (1989)
Lorenzo’s Oil (1992) — Class III
Lost (aka Tears for Simon, 1956)
Lost Horizon (1973)
The Lost Romance (1921)
Love and Money (1982)
Love Story (1970) — Class II
Love the Hard Way (2001)
Lucky Jim (1957) — Class V (no librarians)
M
The Mad Doctor (1941)
The Mad Librarian and Other Tales (2002)
Mad Love (1995) — Class IV
The Magic of Ordinary Days (TV, 2005) — Class IV
The Magician (1926)
Magnolia (1999)
Major League (1989) — Class II
Making It (1971)
Malcolm X (1992)
A Man Betrayed (aka Wheel of Fortune, 1941)
The Man in Grey (1943)
Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
The Man Who Never Was (1956) — Class II
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Marathon Man (1976)
Margie (1946)
Martha, Ruth & Edie (1988)
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) — Class III
Matilda (1996)
Maxie (1985) — Class II
May the Best Man Win (2008)
McGuire, Go Home! (aka The High Bright Sun, 1964)
McTaggart’s Fortune (2008)
The Mechanic (1972)
The Medallion (2003)
Meeting Mr. Subian (1996)
The Memory Thief (2007)
Men of Honor (2000) — Class II
Mercury Rising (1998) — Class IV
A Merry War (aka Keep the Aspidistra Flying, 1997) — Class III
Micky McGee Hates to Read! (2010)
Millionaires in Prison (1940)
Mindkiller (1987)
Miranda (2002)
MirrorMask (2005) — Class III
The Misadventures of Margaret (1998)
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964)
Misery (1990)
Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951)
Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939) — Class III
Mr. Sycamore (1975)
Mommy’s Day (aka Mommy 2: Mommy’s Day, 1997)
Monkey Trouble (1994) — Class III
Monsters University (2013)
Morning Glory (1993)
Moscow on the Hudson (1984) — Class V (no librarians)
Movie Movie (1978) — Class II
Ms. Bear (1999)
The Mummy (1999) — Class I
The Mummy Returns (2001) — Class I
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Murder Ahoy (1964) — Class III
Murder at the Gallop (1963) — Class III
Murder Most Foul (1964) — Class III
Murder She Said (1961) — Class III
Murder Story (1989)
The Music Man (1962) — Class I
The Music Man (TV, 2003)
Mutiny in the Big House (1939)
My Bodyguard (1980) — Class IV
My Boyfriend’s Back (1993)
My Dog Vincent (1998)
My Louisiana Sky (TV, 2001)
My Science Project (1985) — Class II
My Side of the Mountain (1969) — Class I
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) — Class V (no librarians)
My Week with Marilyn (2011) — Class III
Mystery Broadcast (1943)
N
Nailed (2001)
Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991)
The Name of the Rose (1986) — Class I
The Namesake (2005)
Nancy Drew (TV, 2002)
National Treasure (2004)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Nature Boy (TV miniseries, 2000)
Navy Blues (1937)
Necronomicon, Book of the Dead (aka Necronomicon, 1993) — Class III
The Neverending Story III: Escape from Fantasia (1994) — Class III
The New Guy (2002) — Class III
New Port South (2001)
Nico the Unicorn (1988)
Night at the Museum (2006)
The Night Strangler (1973) — Class III
Nightmare (TV, 2007)
The Ninth Gate (1999)
No Man of Her Own (1932) — Class I
Norman Conquests (TV, 1978)
Nothing Personal (1980)
O
Odicie (TV, 2007)
Off Beat (1986) — Class I
The Off Season (2004)
Old Gringo (1989) — Class IV
Older than America (TV, 2008)
Oliver’s Travels (TV miniseries, 1995)
Olympia (1998)
Only 38 (1923)
Only Two Can Play (1962) — Class I
Ophelia Learns to Swim (2000)
Ordeal by Innocence (1984) — Class IV
Osmosis Jones (2001)
Out of the Body (1989)
P
The Pagemaster (1994) — Class I
The Paper Chase (1973) — Class III
Paperback Romance (aka Lucky Break, 1994) — Class IV
Paranoia (1998)
Party Girl (1995) — Class I
The Path of Evil (2005)
Peeping Tom (aka Face of Fear; Fotographer of Panic, 1960) — Class II
Peggy (1950)
The Pelican Brief (1993)
Pendulum (2001)
The Perfect Bride (TV, 1991)
The Perfect Nanny (2000)
Personals (aka Personal Ads, TV, 1990) — Class I
The Phantom (1996) — Class III
The Phantom of the Opera (aka Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera, 1989)
Phenomenon (1996) — Class V (no librarians)
Philadelphia (1993) — Class III
The Philadelphia Story (1940) — Class III
The Photograph (2002)
Pickup on South Street (1953) — Class IV
The Pink Chiquitas (1987)
Pirate Kids II: The Search for the Silver Skull (2006)
The Pit (aka Teddy, 1981)
Playroom (1990)
Pleasantville (1998)
Positive ID (1987)
Possessed (TV, 2000)
Possession (2002) — Class III
Prick Up Your Ears (1987) — Class III
Pride and Prejudice (1940) — Class III
Primary Colors (1998) — Class III
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) — Class III
Principal Takes a Holiday (TV, 1998)
Prism (2007)
The Prodigal (1983)
Public Access (1993)
Pump Up the Volume (1990) — Class II
Putting It Over (1994)
Q
Quatermass and the Pit (aka Five Million Years to Earth, 1967) — Class III
Queen of the Damned (2002)
Quiet Please, Murder (1942)
Quiz Show (1994)
R
The Race for the Double Helix (aka Life Story, 1987)
Race with the Devil (1975)
Racing Daylight (2007)
Racing with the Moon (1984) — Class II
The Racket (1951)
Ragtime (1981) — Class III
Raiders of the Living Dead (1986)
The Reader (2008)
The Real Howard Spitz (1998)
Red (2010)
Red Dragon (2002) — Class V (no librarians)
Red Hot (1993)
Red Roses and Petrol (2003)
Regarding Henry (1991)
The Remake (aka 1988: The Remake; Showboat 1988; Showboat, the Remake, 1977)
Remember Me (TV, 1995)
Resting Place (TV, 1986)
The Return of Ironside (TV, 1993)
Return to Peyton Place (1961)
The Returning (1990)
Revelation (2001)
The Right Questions (2003)
The Ring (2002) — Class III
A River Runs Through It (1992)
Robot & Frank (2012)
Rollerball (1975) — Class III
Rome Adventure (1962) — Class I
Room at the Top (1959)
The Rosary Murders (1987)
Rounding First (2005)
Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost (TV, 2008)
Rubdown (1993)
Rudy (1993) — Class IV
Running on Empty (1988) — Class IV
Rushmore (1998)
S
Salmonberries (aka Percy Adlon’s Salmonberries, 1991) — Class I
Salvage (2006)
San Francisco (1936)
Savage Messiah (1972)
Scandal Street (1938)
Scent of a Woman (1992) — Class II
School Daze (1988)
Scorpio (1973)
Scream, Blacula, Scream! (1973) — Class IV
The Scream Team (TV, 2002)
Scream 3 (2000) — Class III
Screwballs (1983)
Sea Devils (1937)
A Season for Miracles (TV, 1999)
The Secret (2007)
The Secret Life of Girls (1999)
Separated by Murder (TV, 1994)
Seven (aka Se7en, 1995)
The Seven Minutes (1971)
The Seventh Coin (aka Pursued; Worlds Apart, 1993)
The Seventh Sign (1988)
The Seventh Victim (1943) — Class III
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) — Class III
Shadow on the Wall (1950)
Shadowlands (1993)
Shadows in the Storm (1988)
Shanghai Knights (2003)
Sharks’ Treasure (1975)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) — Class II
She Cried No (TV, 1996)
Shelf Life (2005)
She’s Working Her Way Through College (1952) — Class V (no librarians)
Shock Treatment (1964) — Class IV
Shooting the Past (1999) — Class I
Sidewalk Stories (1989)
A Simple Plan (1998) — Class II
Sitting Pretty (1948) — Class V (no librarians)
The Skulls III (2003)
Slamdance (1987)
Slaughter of the Innocents (1994)
The Sleep Room (1998)
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) — Class II
Slightly Dangerous (1943) — Class V (no librarians)
Sliver (1993)
Small Faces (1996)
The Smile Behind the Mirror (2010)
The Snapper (1993) — Class IV
Sneakers (1992) — Class V (no librarians)
Snoopy Come Home (1972)
Snowball Express (1972)
So Well Remembered (1947)
Society’s Child (TV, 2002)
The Socratic Method (2001)
Solitude (2001)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) — Class I
Somewhere in Time (1980) — Class IV
Somewhere in Between (2005)
Sons & Lovers (2003)
Sophie’s Choice (1982) — Class III
Soul Man (1986)
Soylent Green (1973) — Class III
Special Agent (1949)
Spellbound (1945) — Class V (no librarians)
Spencer’s Mountain (1963) — Class II
The Spirit of Youth (1929)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) — Class II
Stanley & Iris (1990)
Stanley’s Dragon (1994)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998, deleted scenes)
Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) — Class III
Stardust (1998)
Start Cheering (1938)
The Station Agent (2003) — Class III
Stay Until Tomorrow (2004)
Stellina Blue (2008)
The Stepford Children (TV, 1987)
Stepping Out (1991)
Storm Center (1956) — Class I
Storyville (1992)
Straight Talk (1992) — Class IV
Straightaway (1933)
Stranger in Town (TV, 1998)
Strike Up the Band (1940) — Class II
Strip Mind (2007)
The Substitute (1996) — Class III
Suburban Girl (2007)
Summer of the Monkeys (1998) – Class III
Summertime (1955) — Class V (no librarians)
Suspect (1987)
The Sweetest Gift (1998)
Sydney White (2007)
Sylvia (1965)
T
Tail Gunner Joe (TV, 1977)
Tale of a Vampire (aka Warlock: Tale of a Vampire, 1992) — Class I
Talking to Strange Men (1992)
Tangled (2001)
Teenage Mother (1968)
The Tell-Tale Heart (aka The Hidden Room of 1,000 Horrors, 1960)
The Ten (2007)
Tennessee Johnson (1942)
That Kind of Girl (1963)
That Touch of Mink (1962) — Class III
The Ten (2007)
They Might Be Giants (1971) — Class II
The Thief (1952)
This Happy Breed (1944) — Class III
This House Possessed (1981)
This Rebel Breed (aka The Black Rebels, 1960)
This Was Paris (aka So This Was Paris, 1942) — Class III
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
The Three Lives of Karen (TV, 1997)
Threesome (1994) — Class IV
Time Changer (2002)
The Time Machine (1960)
The Time Machine (2002) — Class III
Time of Her Life (2005)
The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
To Love, Honor, and Deceive (aka The Protected Wife, TV, 1996)
Tomcats (2001) — Class III
Total Eclipse (1995)
A Touch of Courage (2007)
Trading Favors (aka Do Me a Favor, 1997)
Transylvania Twist (1990)
Traps (1986)
Trash (1999)
Travis (1991)
Traxx (1988)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) — Class III
The Trespasser (1947)
Tru Confessions (TV, 2002)
The Truman Show (1998)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Twisted Nerve (1968) — Class II
The Two Jakes (1990)
Two:Thirteen (2008)
U
The Ultimate Gift (2006) — Class III
Ulysses (1967)
The Underground Man (TV, 1974)
Unearthed (2004)
Universal Signs (2008)
Unnamable II: The Statement of Rudolph Carter (1993)
Up the Down Staircase (1967) — Class III
Urban Legend (1998)
V
Vault of Darkness (2009)
A Very Good Young Man (1919)
Videodrome (1983)
Voices (1979)
Violent Saturday (1955)
W
Wacko (1983)
Waitress! (aka Soup to Nuts, 1981) — Class IV
Walter and Henry (TV, 2001)
Wanted (2008) — Class V (no librarians)
The War of the Worlds (1953) — Class II
WarGames (1983)
A Way of Life (2004)
The Way We Were (1973)
The Web (1947)
Wedding Crashers (2005, DVD bonus material)
Weeds (1987)
Weird Woman (1944) — Class I
Wet Gold (TV, 1984)
Wetherby (1985) — Class II
What’s New Pussycat? (1965) — Class V (no librarians)
When the Wind Blows (1986)
Where the Heart Is (2000) — Class II
The Whisperers (1967)
Whispering City (aka Crime City, 1947)
Whispering Footsteps (1943)
The White River Kid (1999)
The Wicker Man (1973) — Class III
A Wife on Trial (1917)
Wild Card (TV, 1992)
Wilderness (1996)
Wimps (1986)
Winnie (TV, 1988)
Wishing Ring Man (1919)
With Honors (1994) — Class IV
Within the Law (1939) — Class III
The Wives He Forgot (TV, 2006)
The Wiz (1978)
Wonder Man (1945) — Class II
Y
You Can’t Get Away With Murder (1939)
You, Me and Dupree (2006)
You Must Be Joking! (1965)
Young Bride (1932)
Young Cassidy (1965)
Young Poisoner’s Handbook (1995)
Young Sherlock Holmes (aka Young Sherlock Holmes and the Pyramid of Fear, 1985)
You’re a Big Boy Now (1966) — Class I
Z
Z.P.G. (aka Zero Population Growth, 1972)
Zardoz (1974)
Zero Day (2003)
Hello,
. (I’ve checked IMDB but can’t confirm the name of the actor.)
I’ve just stumbled on your blog, it’s really interesting! Well done on watching and compiling so many films with/about librarians!
One film I think you could add to your list is ‘I love you, Phillip Morris’ – there are a couple of scenes in a prison library with a library assistant doing a lot of shushing
Hope this is helpful!
Anna
Thanks so much, Anna — I’m glad you’re enjoying the blog! And I am adding ‘I Love You, Phillip Morris’ to my Master List right now — thanks for the tip! And the movie is available to request through my local library. BONUS!
An option to (from the dark side) would be Zelda Rubenstein’s bizarre librarian in the movie “Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon”, which is a satire of the slasher genre in the guise of a mockumentary…..
Thanks for the addition to the Master List! How big is the librarian role?
It’s a small supporting part, but memorable due to the fact it’s the creepy psychic lady from “Poltergeist” and narrator of those “true-life” haunted house “documentaries” on cable television.
It’s a key role, though, as she provides important (and cliched, like everything else in the film, but that’s the point of it) exposition for the protagonist in the movie.