100 Movies To See Before You Die: YOUR List

[TJ Wells]

Pretty simple, in a Word document, make a list (not in any order, just a general list) of 100 movies you think people HAVE to see in their lifetime. Then post it here. When enough start coming in, I'll try to compile an AP list.

[popdisaster00]

This would take a while.

[IAmNietzche]

How about a list of 5 movies to die before you see?

[williek311]

I agree with Dan.

[a speedo model]

100 seems easier to me. Coming up with only 5 seems like it would take more time...

[TJ Wells]

100 seems easier to me. Coming up with only 5 seems like it would take more time...
This.

[a speedo model]

I'll do this, may take a day or two..

[Thomas Balkcom]

I will do mine tonight when I get home from school, I think this is a great idea

[MADSTA]

It would be easy if it wasn't a specific number. Just movies you have to see.

[WakingTheMisery]

100 seems easier to me. Coming up with only 5 seems like it would take more time...

I don't think you read the statement.

[a speedo model]

I don't think you read the statement.
Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh.

[jbaseball44]

Pretty simple, in a Word document, make a list (not in any order, just a general list) of 100 movies you think people HAVE to see in their lifetime. Then post it here. When enough start coming in, I'll try to compile an AP list.
1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) A Clockwork Orange
3) The Shining
4) Trainspotting
5) Pulp Fiction
6) The Godfather
7) The Godfather Pt.2
8) The Shawshank Redemption
9) Dr. Strangelove
10) Star Wars
11) Psycho
12) Citizen Kane
13) Umberto D.
14) Rear Window
15) Casablanca
16) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
17) The Usual Suspects
18) Silence of the Lambs
19) Memento
20) Indiana Jones & the Raiders of the Lost Ark
21) Mulholland Dr.
22) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
23) Seven
24) Zodiac
25) A Scanner Darkly
26) Blade Runner
27) Apocalypse Now
28) American Beauty
29) Taxi Driver
30) Paths of Glory
31) Lawrence of Arabia
32) Toy Story
33) Double Indemnity
34) Requiem for a Dream
35) Das Boot
36) The Battleship Potemkin
37) Reservoir Dogs
38) Raging Bull
39) Goodfellas
40) The Great Escape
41) The Sting
42) Cool Hand Luke
43) Touch of Evil
44) On the Waterfront
45) Full Metal Jacket
46) There Will Be Blood
47) Boogie Nights
48) Back to the Future
49) Jaws
50) Fargo
51) Donnie Darko
52) JFK
53) It Happened One Night
54) Ben-Hur
55) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
56) Dog Day Afternoon
57) The Lion King
58) Toy Story 2
59) Children of Men
60) Seven Samurai
61) Dial M for Murder
62) Ed Wood
63) The Exorcist
64) A Streetcar Named Desire
65) Frankenstein
66) Roman Holiday
67) Do the Right Thing
68) Once Upon A Time in the West
69) Good Will Hunting
70) Barry Lyndon
71) Planet of the Apes
72) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
73) Yojimbo
74) North By Northwest
75) Lord of the Rings
76) Schindlers List
77) Jurassic Park
78) Strangers on a Train
79) Fight Club
80) Bridge on the River Kwai
81) My Left Foot
82) Syriana
83) Superman
84) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
85) City of God
86) Brazil
87) For a Few Dollars More
88) A Fistful of Dollars
89) Once Upon A Time in America
90) Annie Hall
91) Miller’s Crossing
92) Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
93) Young Frankenstein
94) Night of the Living Dead
95) Dawn of the Dead (1978)
96) From Russia with Love
97) Casino Royale
98) Goldfinger
99) Rushmore
100) The Killing
That's my initial list, i will probably tweak it a little. They are in no particular order, just numbered so i know there are 100 of them

[Kaleidoscope]

I can't make a list. There's movies I love. I say just see as much as you can. See the classics, cult movies, indie films, and shitty movies. There will be stuff you like in every category.

[MADSTA]

1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) A Clockwork Orange
3) The Shining
4) Trainspotting
5) Pulp Fiction
6) The Godfather
7) The Godfather Pt.2
8) The Shawshank Redemption
9) Dr. Strangelove
10) Star Wars
11) Psycho
12) Citizen Kane
13) Umberto D.
14) Rear Window
15) Casablanca
16) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
17) The Usual Suspects
18) Silence of the Lambs
19) Memento
20) Indiana Jones & the Raiders of the Lost Ark
21) Mulholland Dr.
22) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
23) Seven
24) Zodiac
25) A Scanner Darkly
26) Blade Runner
27) Apocalypse Now
28) American Beauty
29) Taxi Driver
30) Paths of Glory
31) Lawrence of Arabia
32) Toy Story
33) Double Indemnity
34) Requiem for a Dream
35) Das Boot
36) The Battleship Potemkin
37) Reservoir Dogs
38) Raging Bull
39) Goodfellas
40) The Great Escape
41) The Sting
42) Cool Hand Luke
43) Touch of Evil
44) On the Waterfront
45) Full Metal Jacket
46) There Will Be Blood
47) Boogie Nights
48) Back to the Future
49) Jaws
50) Fargo
51) Donnie Darko
52) JFK
53) It Happened One Night
54) Ben-Hur
55) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
56) Dog Day Afternoon
57) The Lion King
58) Toy Story 2
59) Children of Men
60) Seven Samurai
61) Dial M for Murder
62) Ed Wood
63) The Exorcist
64) A Streetcar Named Desire
65) Frankenstein
66) Roman Holiday
67) Spartacus
68) Great Expectations
69) Good Will Hunting
70) Barry Lyndon
71) Planet of the Apes
72) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
73) Yojimbo
74) Ran
75) Lord of the Rings
76) Schindlers List
77) Jurassic Park
78) Strangers on a Train
79) Fight Club
80) Bridge on the River Kwai
81) My Left Foot
82) Syriana
83) Superman
84) E.T.
85) City of God
86) Brazil
87) For a Few Dollars More
88) A Fistful of Dollars
89) Once Upon A Time in America
90) Annie Hall
91) Miller’s Crossing
92) Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
93) Young Frankenstein
94) Night of the Living Dead
95) Dawn of the Dead (1978)
96) From Russia with Love
97) Casino Royale
98) Goldfinger
99) Rushmore
100) The Killing
That's my initial list, i will probably tweak it a little. They are in no particular order, just numbered so i know there are 100 of them
I've seen 15 of these.

[Thomas Balkcom]

1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) A Clockwork Orange
3) The Shining
4) Trainspotting
5) Pulp Fiction
6) The Godfather
7) The Godfather Pt.2
8) The Shawshank Redemption
9) Dr. Strangelove
10) Star Wars
11) Psycho
12) Citizen Kane
13) Umberto D.
14) Rear Window
15) Casablanca
16) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
17) The Usual Suspects
18) Silence of the Lambs
19) Memento
20) Indiana Jones & the Raiders of the Lost Ark
21) Mulholland Dr.
22) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
23) Seven
24) Zodiac
25) A Scanner Darkly
26) Blade Runner
27) Apocalypse Now
28) American Beauty
29) Taxi Driver
30) Paths of Glory
31) Lawrence of Arabia
32) Toy Story
33) Double Indemnity
34) Requiem for a Dream
35) Das Boot
36) The Battleship Potemkin
37) Reservoir Dogs
38) Raging Bull
39) Goodfellas
40) The Great Escape
41) The Sting
42) Cool Hand Luke
43) Touch of Evil
44) On the Waterfront
45) Full Metal Jacket
46) There Will Be Blood
47) Boogie Nights
48) Back to the Future
49) Jaws
50) Fargo
51) Donnie Darko
52) JFK
53) It Happened One Night
54) Ben-Hur
55) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
56) Dog Day Afternoon
57) The Lion King
58) Toy Story 2
59) Children of Men
60) Seven Samurai
61) Dial M for Murder
62) Ed Wood
63) The Exorcist
64) A Streetcar Named Desire
65) Frankenstein
66) Roman Holiday
67) Spartacus
68) Great Expectations
69) Good Will Hunting
70) Barry Lyndon
71) Planet of the Apes
72) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
73) Yojimbo
74) Ran
75) Lord of the Rings
76) Schindlers List
77) Jurassic Park
78) Strangers on a Train
79) Fight Club
80) Bridge on the River Kwai
81) My Left Foot
82) Syriana
83) Superman
84) E.T.
85) City of God
86) Brazil
87) For a Few Dollars More
88) A Fistful of Dollars
89) Once Upon A Time in America
90) Annie Hall
91) Miller’s Crossing
92) Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
93) Young Frankenstein
94) Night of the Living Dead
95) Dawn of the Dead (1978)
96) From Russia with Love
97) Casino Royale
98) Goldfinger
99) Rushmore
100) The Killing
That's my initial list, i will probably tweak it a little. They are in no particular order, just numbered so i know there are 100 of them

I've seen 85 of those, good list Miller's Crossing will be on mine as well

[TJ Wells]

Seen 82, agreed good list.

[WakingTheMisery]

1) Full Metal Jacket
2) Die Hard
3) Spaceballs
4) Slap Shot
5) Akira
7) Tommy
8) Aliens
9) Evil Dead
10) Grave of the Fireflies
11) Pulp Fiction
12) Seven Samurai
13) All Dogs Go to Heaven
14) The Professional
15) Shopgirl
16) Big Fish
17) Who Framed Roger Rabbit
18) Bram Stoker’s Dracula
19) 12 Angry Men
20) And Then There Were None
21) The Shawshank Redemption
22) Rocketeer
23) Commando
24) Princess Mononoke
25) First Blood
26) Hotel Rwanda
27) Breakfast at Tiffany’s
28) The Lion King
29) Mystic River
30) Falling Down
31) Monster Squad
32) The Warriors
33) Heat
34) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
35) Death Wish
36) Hellraiser
37) The Pianist
38) Waterworld
39) Catch Me if You Can
40) Millennium Princess
41) Scanners
42) A Bug’s Life
43) Nosferatu
44) Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein
45) Rear Window
46) Jingle All the Way
47) Short Circuit
48) Total Recall
49) Spirited Away
50) Jurassic Park
51) The Squid and the Whale
52) Phantasm
53) Ghost Busters
54) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
55) Pet Sematary
56) The Fifth Element
57) Taxi Driver
58) The Sandlot
59) Can’t Hardly Wait
60) Schindler’s List
61) Batman
62) Yojimbo
63) Se7en
64) Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
65) The Notebook
66) Dreamcatcher
67) Fargo
68) Abyss
69) Forest Gump
70) Star Wars
71) Toys
72) The Big Lebowski
73) Blade Runner
74) The Shining
75) Lord of the Flies
76) Hamlet (1996)
77) Clash of the Titans
78) Jaws
79) Summer of Sam
80) Enter the Dragon
81) Big Trouble in Little China
82) Gremlins
83) A Time to Kill
84) Back to the Future
85) Ikiru
86) Life is Beautiful
87) The Burbs
88) Point Break
89) Vagabond
90) Of Mice and Men
91) History of the World Pt 1
92) Robocop
93) Night of the Living Dead
94) The Old Man and the Sea
95) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
96) Gattaca
97) Pinocchio
98) From Dusk til Dawn
99) Fargo
100) Naussica

[TJ Wells]

100 Movies you think are essential viewing, basically.

[Thomas Balkcom]

doing mine right now

[TJ Wells]

Ditto. I just opened an Excel document and am listing every movie I can think of that might be worthy of inclusion on my list. Then when I'm satisfied, I'll alphabetize the list and start eliminating.

This+Rockstar+Built to Spill = Probably too much enjoyment.

[Thomas Balkcom]

the first 100 movies that came to mind, will probably work on later some more

[Thomas Balkcom]

I'll put mine in an excel worksheet now, you're right about alphabetizing

[Thomas Balkcom]

new one, alphabetized

about three fourths of my list are movies that when people tell me they haven't seen I am shocked and the other 25 are personal favorites that I think everyone should try and see at least once in their lifetime

[a speedo model]

01. 12 Angry Men
02. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)
03. 2001: Space Odyssey
04. A Clockwork Orange
05. A Fish Called Wanda
06. Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein
07. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
08. Africa Screams
09. Alien
10. Army of Shadows
11. Back to the Future
12. The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
13. The Beat My Heart Skipped
14. Beetlejuice
15. Before Sunrise
16. Before Sunset
17. Ben-Hur
18. The Big Lebowski
19. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
20. Blade Runner
21. Blues Brothers
22. Bourne Identity
23. Braveheart
24. Chaplin
25. Charade
26. Children of Men
27. Control (2007)
28. Dans Paris
29. Dark City
30. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
31. The Departed
32. Dirty Dozen
33. Dirty Harry
34. Eastern Promises
35. Escape From New York
36. Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
37. Fantastic Voyage
38. Fight Club
39. Fists in the Pocket
40. The Fly (1986)
41. The Fountain
42. The Fugitive
43. Galaxy Quest
44. Gattaca
45. Ghost Busters
46. The Gold Rush
47. Groundhog Day
48. Goodfellas
49. The Great Dictator
50. High Fidelity
51. Ice Age
52. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
53. The Invisible Man (1933)
54. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
55. Jurassic Park
56. La Moustache
57. Lady Vanishes
58. Last Life of the Universe
59. Lawrence of Arabia
60. Le Samourai
61. the Lives of Others
62. Lord of the Rings
63. The Magnificent Seven
64. Matrix
65. Memento
66. Minority Report
67. Monster’s Inc.
68. Mouse Hunt
69. Nosferatu
70. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
71. Pan’s Labyrinth
72. Planet of the Apes (1968)
73. The Princess Bride
74. Raiders of the Lost Ark
75. Reservoir Dogs
76. Saving Private Ryan
77. Se7en
78. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
79. Shaggy Dog (1959)
80. Silver Streak
81. Solaris (1972)
82. Star Trek: First Contact
83. Star Trek II: Wrath of Kahn
84. Star Wars
85. Taxi Driver
86. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
87. That Thing You Do!
88. The 39 Steps
89. The Time Machine (1960)
90. Titan A.E.
91. Tombstone
92. Tsotsi
93. Toy Story
94. Trainspotting
95. The Untouchables
96. Vanilla Sky
97. Vampyr
98. When Harry Met Sally
99. Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
100. Young Frankenstein

As of now, probably will do a few changes.