100 Movies You Should Watch Before You Die
Bold the ones you’ve seen… regardless of whether you liked it or not.
12 Angry Men (1957)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The 400 Blows (1959)
8 ½ (1963)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
The African Queen (1952)
Alien (1979)
All About Eve (1950)
Annie Hall (1977)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
The Bicycle Thief (1948)
Blade Runner (1982)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Blow Up (1966)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Breathless (1960)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Casablanca (1942)
Chinatown (1974)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Die Hard (1988)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Duck Soup (1933)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
The Exorcist (1973)
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
The French Connection (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
Goldfinger (1964)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)
Goodfellas (1990)
The Graduate (1967)
Grand Illusion (1938)
Groundhog Day (1993)
In the Mood For Love (2001)
It Happened One Night (1934)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jaws (1975)
King Kong (1933)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003)
M (1931)
M*A*S*H (1970)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Matrix (1999)
Modern Times (1936)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)
Network (1976)
Nosferatu (1922)
On the Waterfront (1954)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Paths of Glory (1958)
Princess Mononoke (1999)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Raise the Red Lantern (1992)
Rashomon (1951)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Rocky (1976)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Schindler’s List (1993)
The Searchers (1956)
Seven Samurai (1954)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Star Wars (1977)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Third Man (1949)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Titanic (1997)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Toy Story (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Vertigo (1958)
When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Wings of Desire (1988)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
The World of Apu (1959)
I scored 56. I guess I’m half way there. But if you haven't died yet, these will push you over the edge.
Aeon Flux (Bewildered Stupidity)
Audition (Terror)
Balls of Fury (Stupidity)
Bastard Out of Carolina (Anguish)
Batman and Robin (Torment and Stupidity)
Battlefield Earth (Laughter)
Beaches (Shame)
Being John Malkovich (Embolism)
Big Momma’s House II (Stupidity)
Bio-Dome (Stupidity)
Breaking the Waves (Sadness)
Brokeback Mountain (Heartbreak)
The Brown Bunny (Disgust)
Boys Don’t Cry (Anguish)
The Butcher’s Wife (Sappiness)
Caligula (Disgust)
Cannibal Holocaust (Shock)
Captivity (Repulsion)
Catwoman (Embarrassment)
Crash (1996) (Shock)
Crash (2004) (Stupidity)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Boredom)
Dancer in the Dark (Anguish)
Date Movie (Stupidity)
Dead-Alive (Squeamishness)
Dead Man Walking (Anguish)
Dead Poets Society (Anguish)
The Descent (Fear)
Delta Farce (Pills)
Deuce Bigelow: American Gigolo (Stupidity)
Disaster Movie (Stupidity)
English Patient (Boredom)
Eraserhead (Befuddlement)
Ernest Goes to Camp (Stupidity)
Evil Dead 2 (Happiness)
eXiStEnZ (Confusion)
The Exorcist (Terror)
Faces of Death (Disgust)
First Daughter (Self-inflicted gunshot wound)
Frankenhooker (Bewilderment)
Freddy Got Fingered (Stupidity and Disgust)
From Justin to Kelly (Dismay)
Garden State (Whimsy)
Ghost Rider (Shock and Stupidity)
Gigli (Dismay)
Glitter (Dismay)
Good Luck Chuck (Stupidity)
Half-Nelson (Heartbreak)
Happiness (Shock)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (Horror)
High Tension (Shock)
Hotel Rwanda (Anguish)
The Hottie and the Nottie (Stupidity)
The Hours (Boredom)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Trauma)
The Ice Storm (Anguish)
In America (Heartbreak)
Identity (Anger)
I Know Who Killed Me (Confusion)
Irreversible (Shock)
I Spit on Your Grave (Repulsion)
Jacob’s Ladder (Insanity)
John Tucker Must Die (Self-inflicted gunshot wound)
Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (Misery)
Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet (Bed Sores)
Kids (Anguish)
Last House on the Left (1972) (Terror)
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (Misery)
Little Man (Stupidity)
Legends of the Fall (Boredom)
Lost Highway (Insanity)
Manos: Hands of Fate (Boredom)
Meet Joe Black (Boredom)
Mulholland Drive (Erotic Confusion)
My Girl (Shame)
My Life (Shame)
Naked Lunch (Confusion)
Nil by Mouth (Psychological Torment)
Norbit (Repugnance)
The Notebook (Shame)
Oldboy (Shock)
Old Yeller (Sadness)
The Passion of the Christ (Shock and Dismay)
Pink Flamingos (Disgust)
Requiem for a Dream (Shock and Trauma)
Salo (Disgust)
Schindler’s List (Anguish)
Se7en (Shock)
A Simple Plan (Despair)
Spice World (Stupidity)
Steel Magnolias (Shame)
Suspiria (Shock)
Teen Wolf 2 (Shock)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) (Terror)
Titanic (Boredom)
Vampire in Brooklyn (Boredom)
The Wackness (Heartbreak)
Who’s Your Caddy (Stupidity)
The Wicker Man (2006) (Embarrassment)
Hoo boy. I've seen 36 of these 99.