Tuesday, March 24, 2009

100 Movies to See Before You Die







Title


Director


Year


Country


Genre

12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet
1957
USA
Drama
2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick
1968
USA
Sci-Fi
400 Blows
Francois Truffaut
1959
France
Foreign
8 ½
Federico Fellini
1963
Italy
Foreign
A Hard Day's Night
Richard Lester
1964
UK
Musical/Comedy
African Queen
John Huston
1952
USA
Drama/War
Alien
Ridley Scott
1979
USA
Sci-Fi/Horror
All About Eve
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1950
USA
Drama
Annie Hall
Woody Allen
1977
USA
Comedy/Romance
Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola
1979
USA
War
Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo
1967
Italy
War/Foreign
Bicycle Thief, The
Vittorio De Sica
1948
Italy
Foreign
Blade Runner
Ridley Scott
1982
USA
Sci-Fi
Blazing Saddles
Mel Brooks
1974
USA
Comedy
Blow Up
Michelangelo Antononi
1966
UK/Italy
Drama/Foreign
Blue Velvet
David Lynch
1986
USA
Thriller
Bonnie and Clyde
Arthur Penn
1967
USA
Drama/Crime
Breathless
Jean-Luc Godard
1960
France
Foreign
Bridge on the River Kwai
David Lean
1957
UK
War
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
George Roy Hill
1969
USA
Western
Casablanca
Michael Curtiz
1942
USA
Drama/Romance
Chinatown
Roman Polanski
1974
USA
Drama/Crime
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles
1941
USA
Drama
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ang Lee
2000
Taiwan
Kung Fu/Foreign
Die Hard
John McTiernan
1988
USA
Action
Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee
1988
USA
Drama
Double Indemnity
Billy Wilder
1944
USA
Drama/Crime
Dr. Strangelove
Stanley Kubrick
1964
USA
Comedy
Duck Soup
Leo McCarey
1933
USA
Comedy
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Steven Spielberg
1982
USA
Sci-Fi
Enter the Dragon
Robert Clouse
1973
USA
Kung Fu
Exorcist, The
William Friedkin
1973
USA
Horror
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Amy Heckerling
1982
USA
Comedy
French Connection, The
William Friedkin
1971
USA
Drama/Crime
Godfather, Part II
Francis Ford Coppola
1974
USA
Drama
Godfather, The
Francis Ford Coppola
1972
USA
Drama
Goldfinger
Guy Hamilton
1964
USA/UK
Action/Adventure
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The
Sergio Leone
1968
Italy
Western
Goodfellas
Martin Scorsese
1990
USA
Drama/Crime
Graduate, The
Mike Nichols
1967
USA
Comedy/Romance
Grand Illusion
Jean Renoir
1938
France
Foreign
Groundhog Day
Harold Ramis
1993
USA
Comedy
In the Mood For Love
Wong Kar-Wai
2001
Hong Kong
Foreign
It Happened One Night
Frank Capra
1934
USA
Comedy
It's a Wonderful Life
Frank Capra
1946
USA
Drama
Jaws
Steven Spielberg
1975
USA
Horror
King Kong
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Shoedsack
1933
USA
Action/Adventure
Lawrence of Arabia
David Lean
1962
UK
Drama/War
Lord of the Rings, The
Peter Jackson
2001

New Zealand/USA


Action/Adventure
M
Fritz Lang
1931
Germany
Drama/Crime
M*A*S*H
Robert Altman
1970
USA
War/Comedy
Maltese Falcon, The
John Huston
1941
USA
Drama/Crime
Matrix, The
Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
1999
USA
Sci-Fi
Modern Times
Charlie Chaplin
1936
USA
Comedy
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
1975
UK
Comedy
National Lampoon's Animal House
John Landis
1978
USA
Comedy
Network
Sidney Lumet
1976
USA
Comedy
Nosferatu
F.W. Murnau
1922
Germany
Horror
On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan
1954
USA
Drama
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Milos Forman
1975
USA
Drama
Paths of Glory
Stanley Kubrick
1958
USA
War
Princess Mononoke
Hayao Miyazaki
1999
Japan
Animation
Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock
1960
USA
Horror
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
1994
USA
Drama/Crime
Raging Bull
Martin Scorsese
1980
USA
Drama/Sports
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Steven Spielberg
1981
USA
Action/Adventure
Raise the Red Lantern
Zhang Yimou
1992
China
Foreign
Rashomon
Akira Kurosawa
1951
Japan
Foreign
Rear Window
Alfred Hitchcock
1954
USA
Thriller
Rebel Without a Cause
Nicholas Ray
1955
USA
Drama
Rocky
John Avildsen
1976
USA
Drama/Sports
Roman Holiday
Billy Wilder
1953
USA
Comedy/Romance
Saving Private Ryan
Steven Spielberg
1998
USA
War
Schindler's List
Steven Spielberg
1993
USA
Drama/War
Searchers, The
John Ford
1956
USA
Western
Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa
1954
Japan
Foreign
Shawshank Redemption, The
Frank Darabont
1994
USA
Drama
Silence of the Lambs, The
Jonathan Demme
1991
USA
Horror
Singin' in the Rain
Gene Kelley
1952
USA
Musical
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
David Hand
1937
USA
Animation
Some Like It Hot
Billy Wilder
1959
USA
Comedy
Sound of Music, The
Robert Wise
1965
USA
Musical
Star Wars
George Lucas
1977
USA
Sci-Fi
Sullivan's Travels
Preston Sturges
1942
USA
Comedy
Sunset Blvd.
Billy Wilder
1950
USA
Drama
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
James Cameron
1991
USA
Sci-Fi
Third Man, The
Carol Reed
1949
UK
Drama
This is Spinal Tap
Rob Reiner
1984
USA
Comedy
Titanic
James Cameron
1997
USA
Drama
To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Mulligan
1962
USA
Drama
Toy Story
John Lasseter
1995
USA
Animation
Usual Suspects, The
Bryan Singer
1995
USA
Drama/Crime
Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock
1958
USA
Thriller

When Harry Met Sally...


Rob Reiner
1989
USA
Comedy/Romance
Wild Bunch, The
Sam Peckinpah
1969
USA
Western
Wild Strawberries
Ingmar Bergman
1957
Sweden
Foreign
Wings of Desire
Wim Wenders
1988
Germany
Foreign
Wizard of Oz, The
Victor Fleming
1939
USA
Musical
Woman On the Verge of Nervous Breakdown
Pedro Almodovar
1988
Spain
Foreign
World of Apu, The
Satyajit Ray
1959
India
Foreign