The best language tutor in today’s digital era is a collection of movies, suitable for language acquisition and appropriate for language learners. To realize the pedagogic advantages a movie has to offer, and to justify and optimize one’s time and effort in movie-assisted language learning, it is necessary to select movies best fitted for language acquisition and appropriate for language learners.

This book introduces a list of movies suitable for learning contemporary American English and appropriate for ESL learners, selected from candidate movies gathered from a variety of sources, applying the selection criteria and methodology described in Selecting Movies for English Language Learning and Teaching.

Part 1 briefly reviews the set of ESL specific criteria and considerations in selecting these movies; and outlines the resources in gathering the initial list of contemporary American-English-language movies. Part 2 reviews these movies from the perspective of ESL learning and teaching, and provides the information relevant to deciding the fitness of a movie for ESL objectives, such as linguistic characteristics, ESL proficiency level, content maturity level, etc.