According to this article the following are the 100 movies to see before you die, how do you fare?
12 Angry Men
2001 A Space Odyssey - when I first saw this, I was too young to really understand it. When I saw it a second time, I thought the book was better.
The 400 Blows
8 ½
The African Queen
Alien - I saw Aliens first, though.
All About Eve
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now I didn't much care for this one.
The Battle of Algiers
The Bicycle Thief
Blade Runner - How many DVD versions are there of this?
Blazing Saddles
Blow Up
Blue Velvet - Can't say I understood this one.
Bonnie and Clyde
Breathless
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Bringing Up Baby
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Die Hard - I loved this film when I first saw it, and still do. It's the action film that kick-started over the top filmfests for this generation...
Do the Right Thing
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Peter Sellers is superb in this film.
Duck Soup My second favourite Marx Brothers film.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Enter the Dragon
The Exorcist
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Godfather, Part II
Goldfinger
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Goodfellas
The Graduate
Grand Illusions
Groundhog Day I agree - why is this film on a top 100 list?
A Hard Day’s Night
In the Mood For Love
It Happened One Night
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jaws
King Kong (1993)
The Lady Eve
Lawrence of Arabia
The Lord of the Rings
M
M*A*S*H
The Maltese Falcon
The Matrix
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
National Lampoon’s Animal House
Network
Nosferatu
On the Waterfront
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Paths of Glory
Princess Mononoke (1999)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark Loved this film as a kid, but the body on the spikes at the start freaked the hell out of me.
Raise the Red Lantern
Rashomon
Rear Window
Rebel Without a Cause - The lead character wears a tie for almost all of the film. How times have changed...
Rocky (1976)
Roman Holiday
Saving Private Ryan - would you believe that the scenes on the beaches are toned down, compared to reality?
Schindler’s List
The Searchers
Seven Samurai (1954)
The Shawshank Redemption - This one I feel guilty about, because it's a really good film, but I have no urge at all to rewatch it.
The Silence of the Lambs
Singin’ In the Rain
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - I bought this one a couple of weeks ago, but still haven't watched it. They didn't have 101 Dalmations, which is what I wanted...
Some Like It Hot
The Sound of Music
Star Wars
Sunset Blvd
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Third Man (1949)
This is Spinal Tap
Titanic - Watched because of the number of oscars it got, remembered because Kate Winslet takes her clothes off. Probably not the directors intention.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Toy Story
The Usual Suspects
Vertigo
When Harry Met Sally - I remember this film because it was one I saw with my dad, when the two of us were living with my grandparents away from my mum and brothers. I had to convince dad to go, and he ended up really enjoying it.
Wild Strawberries - Well, at least one Ingmar Bergman film made it onto the list.
Wings of Desire
The Wizard of Oz
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The World of Apu
There are some weird choices in this list. A lot of films I'd expect to see are missing - things like In The Heat of the Night, Touch of Evil, Night of the Hunter... but it's not a list skewed in a consistent manner; often, these lists are geared around the most popular blockbusters or something similar. Hmm.
12 Angry Men
2001 A Space Odyssey - when I first saw this, I was too young to really understand it. When I saw it a second time, I thought the book was better.
The 400 Blows
8 ½
The African Queen
Alien - I saw Aliens first, though.
All About Eve
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now I didn't much care for this one.
The Battle of Algiers
The Bicycle Thief
Blade Runner - How many DVD versions are there of this?
Blazing Saddles
Blow Up
Blue Velvet - Can't say I understood this one.
Bonnie and Clyde
Breathless
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Bringing Up Baby
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Die Hard - I loved this film when I first saw it, and still do. It's the action film that kick-started over the top filmfests for this generation...
Do the Right Thing
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Peter Sellers is superb in this film.
Duck Soup My second favourite Marx Brothers film.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Enter the Dragon
The Exorcist
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Godfather, Part II
Goldfinger
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Goodfellas
The Graduate
Grand Illusions
Groundhog Day I agree - why is this film on a top 100 list?
A Hard Day’s Night
In the Mood For Love
It Happened One Night
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jaws
King Kong (1993)
The Lady Eve
Lawrence of Arabia
The Lord of the Rings
M
M*A*S*H
The Maltese Falcon
The Matrix
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
National Lampoon’s Animal House
Network
Nosferatu
On the Waterfront
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Paths of Glory
Princess Mononoke (1999)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark Loved this film as a kid, but the body on the spikes at the start freaked the hell out of me.
Raise the Red Lantern
Rashomon
Rear Window
Rebel Without a Cause - The lead character wears a tie for almost all of the film. How times have changed...
Rocky (1976)
Roman Holiday
Saving Private Ryan - would you believe that the scenes on the beaches are toned down, compared to reality?
Schindler’s List
The Searchers
Seven Samurai (1954)
The Shawshank Redemption - This one I feel guilty about, because it's a really good film, but I have no urge at all to rewatch it.
The Silence of the Lambs
Singin’ In the Rain
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - I bought this one a couple of weeks ago, but still haven't watched it. They didn't have 101 Dalmations, which is what I wanted...
Some Like It Hot
The Sound of Music
Star Wars
Sunset Blvd
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Third Man (1949)
This is Spinal Tap
Titanic - Watched because of the number of oscars it got, remembered because Kate Winslet takes her clothes off. Probably not the directors intention.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Toy Story
The Usual Suspects
Vertigo
When Harry Met Sally - I remember this film because it was one I saw with my dad, when the two of us were living with my grandparents away from my mum and brothers. I had to convince dad to go, and he ended up really enjoying it.
Wild Strawberries - Well, at least one Ingmar Bergman film made it onto the list.
Wings of Desire
The Wizard of Oz
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The World of Apu
There are some weird choices in this list. A lot of films I'd expect to see are missing - things like In The Heat of the Night, Touch of Evil, Night of the Hunter... but it's not a list skewed in a consistent manner; often, these lists are geared around the most popular blockbusters or something similar. Hmm.
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