Wednesday, June 13, 2007

100 Essential Movies

This is my list of 100 essential movies to watch this summer (or as long as it takes). These aren't necessarily the all time best, just 100 movies I think everyone should see. Many of them most of you probably already have seen.

There's many I'm sure I missed, seeing as I created this list in an hour while sitting here. With that in mind, I would appreciate suggestions for essential movies that I should see. Just post them as responses here, and post as many movies as you want. Ayway, here's my list.

1. 12 Angry Men
2. Adaptation
3. Amadeus
4. Amistad
5. American Psycho
6. American Splendor
7. Angels in America
8. Apocalypse Now!
9. A Simple Plan
10. Before Sunrise
11. Bonnie and Clyde
12. Breakfast at Tiffanies
13. Brick
14. Bringing up Baby
15. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
16. Bullitt
17. Casablanca
18. Caveman's Valentine, The
29. Chicken Run
20. Children of Men
21. Chinatown
22. Clockwork Orange
23. Confederate States of America, The
24. Conspiracy Theory
25. Constant Gardener, The
26. Cool Hand Luke
27. Closer
28. Cruise, The
29. Day the Earth Stood Still, The
30. Deer Hunter, The
31. DiG!
32. Diner
33. Dog Day Afternoon
34. Donnie Darko
35. Dreamers, The
36. Election
37. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
38. Exorcist, The
39. Fantasia
40. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
41. Fight Club
42. Finding Nemo
43. Five Easy Pieces
44. French Connection, The
45. Four Rooms
46. Full Metal Jacket
47. Game, The
48. Glory
49. Godfather, The
50. Goodbye Lenin
51. Groundhog Day
52. Hard Candy
53. Harold and Maude
54. Igby Goes Down
55. King Kong (1933)
56. L.A. Story
57. Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The
58. Lola Rennt
59. Lost in Translation
60. Manhattan
61. Man Who Wasn't There, The
62. Maria Full of Grace
63. MASH
64. Mean Girls
65. Memento
66. Network
67. Night Watch (Nochnoy Dozer)
68. Oldboy
69. On the Waterfront
70. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
71. Pi
72. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
73. Prestige, The
74. Pursuit of Happyness, The
75. Punch Drunk Love
76. Radio Days
77. Rear Window
78. Roman Holiday
79. Royal Tenenbaums, The
80. Shawshank Redemption, The
81. Shaun of the Dead
82. Shine
83. Shining, The
84. Smokey and the Bandit
85. Sophie Scholl- Die Letzen Tage
86. Spirited Away
87. Strangers on a Train
88. Swingers
89. Taxi Driver
90. Thing, The
91. This is Spinal Tap
92. Truman Show, The
93. Twelve Monkeys
94. Usual Suspects, The
95. Vanishing Point
96. What About Bob?
97. What Dreams May Come
98. What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
99. Wordplay
100. Working Man's Death

Hope you enjoy, and remember to post your suggestions for me to see.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

In my opinion, the only thing you're really missing is Seven.

-Chris