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1001 Movies To See Before You Die

May 13th, 2008 by mark

As seen on Kottke.  Here are the 263 titles that I’ve seen.  The original list is here.

  • Nosferatu, A Symphony of Terror(1922)
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
  • Dracula (1931)
  • Frankenstein (1931)
  • 42nd Street (1933)
  • Duck Soup (1933)
  • King Kong (1933)
  • The Thin Man (1934)
  • Captain Blood (1935)
  • Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
  • The 39 Steps (1935)
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
  • Sabotage (1936)
  • Captains Courageous (1937)
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
  • The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
  • Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  • Stagecoach (1939)
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  • The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  • Destry Rides Again (1939)
  • Gone With the Wind (1939)
  • Daybreak (1939)
  • Gunga Din (1939)
  • His Girl Friday (1940)
  • Fantasia (1940)
  • The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  • The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  • Pinocchio (1940)
  • Citizen Kane (1941)
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  • Sergeant York (1941)
  • Dumbo (1941)
  • High Sierra (1941)
  • Now, Voyager (1942)
  • Casablanca (1942)
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  • Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
  • Gaslight (1944)
  • Double Indemnity (1944)
  • Spellbound (1945)
  • My Darling Clementine (1946)
  • Notorious (1946)
  • It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
  • Rope (1948)
  • The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
  • Adam’s Rib (1949)
  • Winchester ‘73 (1950)
  • Rio Grande (1950)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  • Strangers on a Train (1951)
  • The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
  • The African Queen (1951)
  • An American in Paris (1951)
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
  • The Quiet Man (1952)
  • High Noon (1952)
  • From Here to Eternity (1953)
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
  • Shane (1953)
  • Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
  • Rear Window (1954)
  • Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
  • The Ladykillers (1955)
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
  • The Ten Commandments (1956)
  • 12 Angry Men (1957)
  • An Affair to Remember (1957)
  • Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
  • North by Northwest (1959)
  • Some Like It Hot (1959)
  • Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  • Ben-Hur (1959)
  • Rio Bravo (1959)
  • Psycho (1960)
  • The Hustler (1961)
  • West Side Story (1961)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  • The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  • The Birds (1963)
  • The Nutty Professor (1963)
  • The Great Escape (1963)
  • Goldfinger (1964)
  • Marnie (1964)
  • My Fair Lady (1964)
  • Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  • A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
  • Doctor Zhivago (1965)
  • The Sound of Music (1965)
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
  • The Graduate (1967)
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  • The Jungle Book (1967)
  • Planet of the Apes (1968)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  • Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  • Easy Rider (1969)
  • Patton (1970)
  • M*A*S*H (1970)
  • Harold and Maude (1971)
  • The French Connection (1971)
  • Dirty Harry (1971)
  • High Plains Drifter (1972)
  • Sleuth (1972)
  • Solaris (1972)
  • The Godfather (1972)
  • The Sting (1973)
  • American Graffiti (1973)
  • Papillon (1973)
  • Enter the Dragon (1973)
  • Serpico (1973)
  • The Exorcist (1973)
  • Young Frankenstein (1974)
  • Chinatown (1974)
  • Blazing Saddles (1974)
  • The Godfather Part II (1974)
  • Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
  • One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
  • Jaws (1975)
  • Carrie (1976)
  • The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
  • All the President’s Men (1976)
  • Rocky (1976)
  • Taxi Driver (1976)
  • Network (1976)
  • Star Wars (1977)
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
  • Annie Hall (1977)
  • Saturday Night Fever (1977)
  • The Deer Hunter (1978)
  • Grease (1978)
  • Halloween (1978)
  • Alien (1979)
  • Breaking Away (1979)
  • All That Jazz (1979)
  • Being There (1979)
  • Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
  • Life of Brian (1979)
  • Apocalypse Now (1979)
  • The Jerk (1979)
  • The Muppet Movie (1979)
  • Mad Max (1979)
  • Ordinary People (1980)
  • The Shining (1980)
  • Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  • The Elephant Man (1980)
  • The Big Red One (1980)
  • Airplane! (1980)
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  • The Boat (1981)
  • Gallipoli (1981)
  • Chariots of Fire (1981)
  • Body Heat (1981)
  • Reds (1981)
  • An American Werewolf in London (1981)
  • Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1981)
  • E.T.: The Extra-Terestrial (1982)
  • The Thing (1982)
  • Poltergeist (1982)
  • Blade Runner (1982)
  • Tootsie (1982)
  • Diner (1982)
  • Gandhi (1982)
  • A Christmas Story (1983)
  • Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
  • The Big Chill (1983)
  • Terms of Endearment (1983)
  • The Right Stuff (1983)
  • Scarface (1983)
  • Amadeus (1984)
  • The Terminator (1984)
  • This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
  • Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
  • Ghostbusters (1984)
  • The Natural (1984)
  • The Breakfast Club (1985)
  • Out of Africa (1985)
  • The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
  • Back to the Future (1985)
  • Prizzi’s Honor (1985)
  • The Color Purple (1985)
  • Manhunter (1986)
  • Stand By Me (1986)
  • Aliens (1986)
  • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
  • Children of a Lesser God (1986)
  • Platoon (1986)
  • Top Gun (1986)
  • Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  • Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
  • The Princess Bride (1987)
  • Moonstruck (1987)
  • The Untouchables (1987)
  • Fatal Attraction (1987)
  • Bull Durham (1988)
  • A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
  • The Naked Gun (1988)
  • Die Hard (1988)
  • A Tale of the Wind (1988)
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
  • Rain Man (1988)
  • Batman (1989)
  • When Harry Met Sally (1989)
  • Roger & Me (1989)
  • Glory (1989)
  • Goodfellas (1990)
  • King of New York (1990)
  • Dances with Wolves (1990)
  • Pretty Woman (1990)
  • Edward Scissorhands (1990)
  • Total Recall (1990)
  • Thelma & Louise (1991)
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  • The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  • JFK (1991)
  • Unforgiven (1992)
  • Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
  • Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992)
  • The Crying Game (1992)
  • Groundhog Day (1993)
  • Philadelphia (1993)
  • Jurassic Park (1993)
  • Schindler’s List (1993)
  • Forrest Gump (1994)
  • Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
  • The Lion King (1994)
  • Pulp Fiction (1994)
  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  • Babe (1995)
  • Toy Story (1995)
  • Braveheart (1995)
  • The Usual Suspects (1995)
  • Fargo (1996)
  • Independence Day (1996)
  • The English Patient (1996)
  • L.A. Confidential (1997)
  • The Ice Storm (1997)
  • Boogie Nights (1997)
  • Titanic (1997)
  • Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  • There’s Something About Mary (1998)
  • Magnolia (1999)
  • The Blair Witch Project (1999)
  • Being John Malkovich (1999)
  • American Beauty (1999)
  • The Sixth Sense (1999)
  • The Matrix (1999)
  • Gladiator (2000)
  • Meet the Parents (2000)
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
  • No Man’s Land (2001)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  • Gangs of New York (2002)
  • The Pianist (2002)
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

 

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