100 Movies to See Before You Die: The All-Time Greats

100 Movies to See Before You Die: 

The All-Time Greats

• 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

A

• 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
• Annie Hall (1977)
  DIRECTED BY: Woody Allen
  STARRING: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
  DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola
  STARRING: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

B

• The Battle of Algiers (1967)
  DIRECTED BY: Gillo Pontecorvo
  STARRING: Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• The Bicycle Thief (1948)
  DIRECTED BY: Vittorio De Sica
  STARRING: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Blade Runner (1982)
  DIRECTED BY: Ridley Scott
  STARRING: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
  DIRECTED BY: Mel Brooks
  STARRING: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens
• Blow Up (1966)
  DIRECTED BY: Michelangelo Antononi
  STARRING: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles
• Blue Velvet (1986)
  DIRECTED BY: David Lynch
  STARRING: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  DIRECTED BY: Arthur Penn
  STARRING: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
• Breathless (1960)
  DIRECTED BY: Jean-Luc Godard
  STARRING: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  DIRECTED BY: David Lean
  STARRING: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins,
• Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  DIRECTED BY: Howard Hawks
  STARRING: Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  DIRECTED BY: George Roy Hill
  STARRING: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

C

• Casablanca (1942)
  DIRECTED BY: Michael Curtiz
  STARRING: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
• Chinatown (1974)
  DIRECTED BY: Roman Polanski
  STARRING: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
• Citizen Kane (1941)
  DIRECTED BY: Orson Welles
  STARRING: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
  DIRECTED BY: Ang Lee
  STARRING: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang

D

• Die Hard (1988)
  DIRECTED BY: John McTiernan
  STARRING: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
  DIRECTED BY: Spike Lee
  STARRING: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Double Indemnity (1944)
  DIRECTED BY: Billy Wilder
  STARRING: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  DIRECTED BY: Stanley Kubrick
  STARRING: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
• Duck Soup (1933)
  DIRECTED BY: Leo McCarey
  STARRING: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

E

• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg
  STARRING: Dee Wallace Stone, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore
• Enter the Dragon (1973)
  DIRECTED BY: Robert Clouse
  STARRING: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly
• The Exorcist (1973)
  DIRECTED BY: William Friedkin
  STARRING: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair,

F

• Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
  DIRECTED BY: Amy Heckerling
  STARRING: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold,
• The French Connection (1971)
  DIRECTED BY: William Friedkin
  STARRING: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider

G

• The Godfather (1972)
  DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola
  STARRING: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan,
• The Godfather, Part II (1974)
  DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola
  STARRING: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
• Goldfinger (1964)
  DIRECTED BY: Guy Hamilton
  STARRING: Sean Connery, Honor Blackman
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)
  DIRECTED BY: Sergio Leone
  STARRING: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
• Goodfellas (1990)
  DIRECTED BY: Martin Scorsese
  STARRING: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
• The Graduate (1967)
  DIRECTED BY: Mike Nichols
  STARRING: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross,
• Grand Illusion (1938)
  DIRECTED BY: Jean Renoir
  STARRING: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim
• Groundhog Day (1993)
  DIRECTED BY: Harold Ramis
  STARRING: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott

H

• A Hard Day's Night (1964)
  DIRECTED BY: Richard Lester
  STARRING: The Beatles
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

I

• In the Mood For Love (2001)
  DIRECTED BY: Wong Kar-Wai
  STARRING: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung
• It Happened One Night (1934)
  DIRECTED BY: Frank Capra
  STARRING: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
• It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  DIRECTED BY: Frank Capra
  STARRING: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore

J

• Jaws (1975)
  DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg
  STARRING: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

K

• King Kong (1933)
  DIRECTED BY: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Shoedsack
  STARRING: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong

L

• The Lady Eve (1941)
  DIRECTED BY: Preston Sturges
  STARRING: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  DIRECTED BY: David Lean
  STARRING: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
• The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003)
  DIRECTED BY: Peter Jackson
  STARRING: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

M

• M (1931)
  DIRECTED BY: Fritz Lang
  STARRING: Peter Lorre, Theodor Loos, Otto Wernicke
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• M*A*S*H (1970)
  DIRECTED BY: Robert Altman
  STARRING: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt
• The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  DIRECTED BY: John Huston
  STARRING: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet
• The Matrix (1999)
  DIRECTED BY: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
  STARRING: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss
• Modern Times (1936)
  DIRECTED BY: Charlie Chaplin
  STARRING: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
  DIRECTED BY: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
  STARRING: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

N

• National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
  DIRECTED BY: John Landis
  STARRING: John Belushi, Tim Matheson
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Network (1976)
  DIRECTED BY: Sidney Lumet
  STARRING: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch
• Nosferatu (1922)
  DIRECTED BY: F.W. Murnau
  STARRING: Max Schreck, Gustave Von Wagenheim, Greta Schroeder,

O

• On the Waterfront (1954)
  DIRECTED BY: Elia Kazan
  STARRING: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  DIRECTED BY: Milos Forman
  STARRING: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield

P

• Paths of Glory (1958)
  DIRECTED BY: Stanley Kubrick
  STARRING: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Princess Mononoke (1999)
  DIRECTED BY: Hayao Miyazaki
  STARRING: Billy Crudup, Billy Bob Thornton, Minnie Driver
• Psycho (1960)
  DIRECTED BY: Alfred Hitchcock
  STARRING: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
  DIRECTED BY: Quentin Tarantino
  STARRING: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman

R

• Raging Bull (1980)
  DIRECTED BY: Martin Scorsese
  STARRING: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty-Gentile, Joe Pesci
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg
  STARRING: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman
• Raise the Red Lantern (1992)
  DIRECTED BY: Zhang Yimou
  STARRING: Gong Li, He Caifei, Cao Cuifeng
• Rashomon (1951)
  DIRECTED BY: Akira Kurosawa
  STARRING: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Rear Window (1954)
  DIRECTED BY: Alfred Hitchcock
  STARRING: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
  DIRECTED BY: Nicholas Ray
  STARRING: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
• Rocky (1976)
  DIRECTED BY: John Avildsen
  STARRING: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
• Roman Holiday (1953)
  DIRECTED BY: William Wyler
  STARRING: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert

S

• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg
  STARRING: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Schindler's List (1993)
  DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg
  STARRING: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
• The Searchers (1956)
  DIRECTED BY: John Ford
  STARRING: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles
• Seven Samurai (1954)
  DIRECTED BY: Akira Kurosawa
  STARRING: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  DIRECTED BY: Frank Darabont
  STARRING: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  DIRECTED BY: Jonathan Demme
  STARRING: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
• Singin' in the Rain (1952)
  DIRECTED BY: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelley
  STARRING: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
  DIRECTED BY: David Hand
  STARRING: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
  DIRECTED BY: Billy Wilder
  STARRING: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
• The Sound of Music (1965)
  DIRECTED BY: Robert Wise
  STARRING: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
• Star Wars (1977)
  DIRECTED BY: George Lucas
  STARRING: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
• Sunset Blvd. (1950)
  DIRECTED BY: Billy Wilder
  STARRING: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim

T

• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  DIRECTED BY: James Cameron
  STARRING: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton
• The Third Man (1949)
  DIRECTED BY: Carol Reed
  STARRING: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
• This is Spinal Tap (1984)
  DIRECTED BY: Rob Reiner
  STARRING: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest
• Titanic (1997)
  DIRECTED BY: James Cameron
  STARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  DIRECTED BY: Robert Mulligan
  STARRING: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford
• Toy Story (1995)
  DIRECTED BY: John Lasseter
  STARRING: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles

U

• The Usual Suspects (1995)
  DIRECTED BY: Bryan Singer
  STARRING: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

V

• Vertigo (1958)
  DIRECTED BY: Alfred Hitchcock
  STARRING: James Stewart, Kim Novak
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

W

• When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
  DIRECTED BY: Rob Reiner
  STARRING: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher
• Wild Strawberries (1957)
  DIRECTED BY: Ingmar Bergman
  STARRING: Victor Sjostrom, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ingrid Thulin
• Wings of Desire (1988)
  DIRECTED BY: Wim Wenders
  STARRING: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander
• The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  DIRECTED BY: Victor Fleming
  STARRING: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown(1988)
  DIRECTED BY: Pedro Almodovar
  STARRING: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas
  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• The World of Apu (1959)
  DIRECTED BY: Satyajit Ray

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