Posted on 03/24/2009 1:12:46 AM PDT by iowamark
Many movies are good, some are great, but only a select few can be called truly "essential." After heated discussions, long negotiations, and a shouting match or two, the staff at Yahoo! Movies has put together this list of the 100 films you must see before you die.
To choose the titles for the list, we considered factors like historical importance and cultural impact. But we also selected films that we believe are the most thrilling, most dramatic, scariest, and funniest movies of all time. Some of these films you've seen, and some you may not have heard of, but we believe that each one is a timeless classic that you absolutely have to see.
12 Angry Men (1957) Directed By: Sidney Lumet Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E. G. Marshall
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Directed By: Stanley Kubrick Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
The 400 Blows (1959)Directed By: Francois Truffaut Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick Auffay Why You Should See It
8 ½ (1963) Directed By: Federico Fellini Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee
The African Queen (1952) Directed By: John Huston Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
Alien (1979) Directed By: Ridley Scott Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright
All About Eve (1950) Directed By: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
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12 Angry Men (1957)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
400 Blows (1959)
8 1/2 (1963)
A
The African Queen (1952)
Alien (1979)
All About Eve (1950)
Annie Hall (1977)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
B
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)
C
Casablanca (1942)
Chinatown (1974)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Dragon (2000)
D
Die Hard (1988)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Duck Soup (1933)
E
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
The Exorcist (1973)
F
Fast Times At Ridgemont
High (1982)
The French Connection (1971)
G
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)
H
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
I
In the Mood For Love (2001)
It Happened One Night (1934)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
J
Jaws (1975)
K
King Kong (1933)
L
The Lady Eve (1941)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Lord of the Rings (2001)
M
M (1931)
M*A*S*H (1970)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Matrix (1999)
Modern Times (1936)
Monty Python and the Holy
Grail (1975)
N
National Lampoon’s Animal
House (1978)
Network (1976)
Nosferatu (1922)
O
On the Waterfront (1954)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
Nest (1975)
P
Paths of Glory (1958)
Princess Mononoke (1999)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
R
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)
S
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)
T
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Third Man (1949)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Titanic (1997)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Toy Story (1995)
U
The Usual Suspects (1995)
V
Vertigo (1958)
W
When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Wings of Desire (1988)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Women On the Verge of Nervous Breakdown (1988)
The World of Apu (1959)
Well by my reckoning Ive seen 53 of those (and enjoyed about 40). These lists are always subjective - Im surprised “HArd days night” is on (its a good film, but not a great one) and Im surprised “Gone with the Wind” isnt.
Titanic? No.
Repulsion-Polanski
Taxi Driver-Scorsese
Caddyshack-Ramis
City of God-Meriellas/Lund
Public Enemy-Wellman
Midnight Cowboy-Schlesinger
Five Easy Pieces-Rafelson
To name a few.
Can't stand that one: unwatchable.
great list!
I'm a walking dead man. Oh the Horror.
I wonder if they would work in European players. At least Caligula has his shopping list made out now.
I’ve seen 51 of those, and not all of them were good (Pulp Fiction and Bonnie and Clyde are two of the worst movies I’ve ever seen).
That list isn’t really for my crowd anyway, only a tiny handful of foreign or silent films were on there. The Sight and Sound list is more my thing.
A relative of mine died a bitter, angry and broken man who left this life thinking himself a depraved and worthless failure because he never saw The Battle of Algiers (1967). His last rasping words, as his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren were gathered around his death bed were, “Damn you Blockbuster...”
Gran Torino
I’ve seen 52 .
” I , Claudius, in its entirety, is terrifically acted, and outclasses many of the films on this list. “
Agree . Recently bought the box set .
The Lives of Others.
Get it on NetFlix. Don’t miss it.
I bought the DVD but have not watched it yet. I guess I'll have to do that tommorow.
I was surprised - I’ve seen 37 movies on the list.
I noticed the war comedy, “Apocalypse Now” somehow made the list.
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HOWEVER,
PLEASE BE AWARE . . .
VIRTUALLY ALL THE SCIENCE FICTION FLICKS OF THE LAST 60 YEARS
HAVE A FAIRLY HEAVY PROPAGANDA LOAD CARRYING WATER FOR THE GLOBALIST OLIGARCHY AND THEIR CONSTRUCTIONS ON REALITY THAT THEY EXPECT ALL CITIZENS OF THE PLANET TO SUBSCRIBE TO.
THIS IS TRUE OF ALL MY FAVORITES OF THE GENRE.
Even THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL does the same thing.
Some, if not most, of such films had seed money and/or script input from the oligarchy to begin with.
They can be great entertainment and enjoyable by one and all. However, that makes the propaganda go down all the slicker and reside in the brain all the more unshakably. I say that as a psychologist and a sociologist. Add in the group think aspect and it’s a grand achievement of the oligarchy.
Can’t take any movie list seriously without “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe”
To be sure for modern tastes it is too long, too slow and overly melodramatic. But it is a landmark film, which is one of the criteria they are using.
LOL
DON’T BE KIND! DON’T REWIND!
Agree too.
I still cannot watch the scenes where Caligula eats his unborn incestously conceived child, and its all done “off-camera”.
Horror does not have to be “in your face” to be horrific.
What on (or off) Earth are you TALKING about???????
Check out why NASA
wrote Spielberg a 20 page letter . . . angry about his script for . . . I think it was ET.
There are lots of other reports of the PTB dinking around with and essentially using HOLLYWEED to further their globalist agenda.
You can also learn some interesting thins at the post linked in my tagline.
Beyond that . . . I don’t care to bother being folks’ research assistant when they can and should do it themselves. It’s part of what I’ve studied for 45 years.
Do your own homework.
They left out a few, Chushingura, and “Z” to name just two.
I’d also substitute Brotherhood of the Wolf - Gans (amazing movie) for one of their weaker picks on the list. (Toy Story, T2, Fast Times at Ridgemont High.)
Without question.
Agreed.
...and I would add Ken Burns, The Civil War to that list too.
How could they leave out Zulu?
Colour Sergeant Bourne: It’s a miracle.
Lieutenant John Chard: If it’s a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it’s a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle.
Colour Sergeant Bourne: And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind.
Animal House didn’t make the list?
In a few years, it'll have to be reclassified as a documentary though.
Although it appear light and entertaining, Princess Bride is an almost perfectly-told tale and, IMO, deserves to be in any list at least 50 movies long.
Too early to be included, but the most recent almost perfectly-told tale is Benjamin Button. It is virtually seamless.
They left out the following:
Man Hunt (w/ Charles Bronson)
Treasure of the Sierra Madres (Humphrey Bogart)
They also left “Pootie Tang” off the list. :)
How did they miss “Plan 9 From Outer Space?” I'm sure we could add hundreds to this list. For those interested, keep an eye on this site as I'm sure they're going to get an earful about certain films not included on the list and make a new one in response.
Burt Prelutsky’s list:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/02/24/65618/
“”And now, my 10 favorite movies for every decade, except the 1940s, 80s and 90s, when the best I could do was cull my list down to 20 favorites.
The 1930s: “It Happened One Night,” “Alice Adams,” “The Gold Rush,” “Destry Rides Again,” “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Bachelor Mother,” “Make Way for Tomorrow,” “My Man Godfrey” and any one of these four Astaire-Rogers films, “Top Hat,” “Carefree,” “Gay Divorcee” or “Swing Time”
1940s: “My Favorite Wife,” “The Shop Around the Corner,” “The Thief of Baghdad,” “Citizen Kane,” “The Maltese Falcon,” “Ball of Fire,” “The Lady Eve,” “The Major and the Minor,” “Casablanca,” “Meet Me in St. Louis,” “Hail the Conquering Hero,” “Apartment for Peggy,” “Mildred Pierce,” “The Best Years of Our Lives,” “Stairway to Heaven,” “Great Expectations,” “It’s a Wonderful Life,” “The Farmer’s Daughter,” “I Remember Mama” and “Force of Evil”
1950s: “All About Eve,” “The African Queen,” “The Ladykillers,” “People Will Talk,” “High Noon,” “7 Brides for 7 Brothers,” “Some Like It Hot,” “Singin’ in the Rain,” “On the Waterfront” and “Sweet Smell of Success”
1960s: “The Apartment,” “School for Scoundrels,” “The Hustler,” “A Cold Wind in August,” “Charade,” “Support Your Local Sheriff,” “My Fair Lady,” “The Pumpkin Eater,” “36 Hours” and “Divorce, American Style”
1970s: “The Godfather,” “The Heartbreak Kid,” “Paper Moon,” “The Friends of Eddie Coyle,” “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz,” “Rocky,” “The Goodbye Girl,” “House Calls,” “Time After Time” and “Breaking Away”
1980s: “Atlantic City,” “Diner,” “Ordinary People,” “A Christmas Story,” “Terms of Endearment,” “The Natural,” “Broadway Danny Rose,” “Midnight Run,” “Die Hard,” “Field of Dreams,” “The Tall Guy,” “Witness,” “Murphy’s Romance,” “Lost in America,” “Hannah and Her Sisters,” “Hoosiers,” “The Princess Bride,” “Tin Men,” “Roxanne” and “The Untouchables”
1990s: “Green Card,” “Galaxy Quest,” “Cinema Paradiso,” “Silence of the Lambs,” “Mumford,” “Dead Again,” “Defending Your Life,” “My Cousin Vinny,” “Peter’s Friends,” “Housesitter,” “Swingers,” “Sliding Doors,” “Enchanted April,” “Groundhog Day,” “Falling Down,” “Remains of the Day,” “The Fugitive,” “Fargo,” “Sense and Sensibility” and “Nobody’s Fool”
2000s: “The Dish,” “About a Boy,” “Chicago,” “The Matador,” “Love Actually,” “The Upside of Anger,” “The Lives of Others,” “Thank You for Smoking,” “Gran Torino” and “Taken”
I just noticed that it adds up to a hundred movies, with roughly 40 of them being comedies or musicals. So even if you think I have lousy taste, you should at least give me points for not trying to impress you with a lot of pretentious hooey.””
yikes...no “Wild Bunch” or “Caddyshack” or “Suddenly” or “Man With The Golden Arm” or “On The Beach” or “Elmer Gantry” or “Exodus”
Idiocracy is a good movie.
Very cool... I’ve seen about 43 on that list which really surprises me because the majority of those movies were “before my time” by more than a bit! LOL
Some great Errol Flynn movies like The Adventures of Robin Hood, Sea Hawk, and Dodge City.
Yes... a lot of the older films aren't even in the running here.
A few good Jimmy Stewart movies were left out as well:
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, and Harvey.
I'll take these any day over insipid movies like Fast Times at Ridgemont High. IMHO.
I am Mr. SF, the UberNerd. Seriously. And when I saw ET all I could think of was "He might as well have been a cuddly little puppy. This movie is written entirely to manipulate my emotions. Here it comes...threee, two, one...ADORABLE MOMENT. Followed by INSERT EMPATHIZE WITH ET HERE." It was like a bad carnival hot dog that everyone else was chomping down like it was a Nathan's...but you knew, in your heart, it was made with floor sweepings and flavored with chemicals calculated to make you go "ooooh, he's SOOOOOOOOO CUTE!"
I’ve seen 73 of these movies (but I used to work in hollywood where watching movies was the daily activity of everyone in and out of the biz.)
No Gone With the Wind nor The Dirty Dozen....tsk, tsk, tsk.
I would add “The Passion of the Christ” and “A Man for all Seasons,” just to name two.
No Oscar darlings from the last 10 years - says a bunch. :)
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