Films I must see before… 

I’m creating a list of films I need to see before whatever happens to me. Films that a typical film buff (or just anyone) needs to see. I’m doing this because I’m tired of people referencing things that have been in films in the past and everyone seems to know what they’re talking about except ME (and because I want to and I can :3). I’m basically taking lists from several sites and combining them, so here goes…

• 12 Angry Men
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The 39 Steps
• The 400 Blows
• 42nd Street
• 8 1/2
• Adam’s Rib
• The Adventures of Robin Hood
• The African Queena
• Airplane!
• Akira
• Alien
• All About Eve
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• All the King’s Men
• Amadeus
• American Beauty
• American Graffiti
• An American in Paris
• Annie Hall
• The Apartment
• Apocalypse Now
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• The Asphalt Jungle
• Atlantic City
• The Awful Truth
• Bad Day at Black Rock
• The Bad and the Beautiful
• Babe
• Baby Doll
• Badlands
• Bambi
• The Bank Dick
• The Battleship Potemkin
• Beauty and the Beast
• Being There
• Ben-Hur
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• The Big Heat
• The Big Parade
• The Big Red One
• The Bicycle Thief
• The Big Sleep
• The Birds
• The Birth of a Nation
• Blade Runner
• Blow-Up
• Blue Velvet
• Bonnie and Clyde
• Brazil
• Breathless
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Brief Encounter
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Bringing Up Baby
• Broken Blossoms
• Bull Durham
• Bus Stop
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Cabaret
• Cabin in the Sky
• Camille
• Carrie
• Casablanca
• Cat People
• Un Chien Andalou
• Children of Paradise
• Chinatown
• Citizen Kane
• City Lights
• A Clockwork Orange
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• The Conversation
• Cool Hand Luke
• Crimes and Misdemeanors
• The Crowd
• The Crying Game
• Dark Victory
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Days of Heaven
• The Deer Hunter
• Deliverance
• Dinner at Eight
• Dirty Harry
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
• Do the Right Thing
• Dodsworth
• La Dolce Vita
• Don’t Look Now
• Double Indemnity
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Dracula
• Duck Soup
• E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial
• East of Eden
• Easy Rider
• The Empire Strikes Back
• Enter the Dragon
• The Exorcist
• Fantasia
• Fargo
• Field of Dreams
• Fight Club
• A Fish Called Wanda
• Five Easy Pieces
• Footlight Parade
• Frankenstein
• Freaks
• The French Connection
• The Freshman
• From Here to Eternity
• Full Metal Jacket
• Gaslight
• The General
• Glory
• The Godfather
• The Godfather, Part II
• The Gold Rush
• Gone With the Wind
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• GoodFellas
• The Graduate
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Great Dictator
• Greed
• Groundhog Day
• Gun Crazy
• Halloween
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• A Hard Day’s Night
• The Heiress
• Henry V (1944)
• Henry V (1989)
• High Noon
• His Girl Friday
• How Green Was My Valley
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
• The Hustler
• I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
• In a Lonely Place
• In the Heat of the Night
• Inherit the Wind
• Intolerance
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• It Happened One Night
• It’s a Gift
• It’s a Wonderful Life
• Jailhouse Rock
• Jaws
• The Jazz Singer
• Jezebel
• JFK
• Key Largo
• The Kid (1921)
• The Killers
• The Killing
• The King of Comedy
• King Kong
• Kings Row
• Kiss Me Deadly
• Koyaanisqatsi
• L.A. Confidential
• The Lady Eve
• The Lady from Shanghai
• The Last Emperor
• The Last Picture Show
• Last Tango in Paris
• Laura
• Lawrence of Arabia
• The Letter
• Letter From an Unknown Woman
• The Lion in Winter
• Little Caesar
• The Lost Weekend
• M
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• The Maltese Falcon
• A Man for All Seasons
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• The Man Who Would Be King
• The Manchurian Candidate
• Manhattan
• Marty
• M*A*S*H
• The Matrix
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• Mean Streets
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• Metropolis
• Midnight Cowboy
• Mildred Pierce
• Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
• Modern Times
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Murder, My Sweet
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• My Darling Clementine
• My Fair Lady
• My Man Godfrey
• Nashville
• Network
• A Night at the Opera
• The Night of the Hunter
• Night of the Living Dead
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Ninotchka
• North by Northwest
• Nosferatu
• Notorious
• Now, Voyager
• On the Waterfront
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• Only Angels Have Wings
• Out of the Past
• The Ox-Bow Incident
• The Palm Beach Story
• Paths of Glory
• Patton
• Persona
• The Philadelphia Story
• The Piano
• Pink Flamingos
• Pinocchio
• A Place in the Sun
• Planet of the Apes
• Platoon
• Poltergeist
• The Postman Always Rings Twice
• Pretty Woman
• The Producers
• Psycho
• The Public Enemy
• Pulp Fiction
• Pygmalion
• Queen Christina
• The Quiet Man
• Raiders of the Lost Arc
• Raging Bull
• Rashomon
• Rear Window
• Rebecca
• Rebel Without a Cause
• Red River
• The Red Shoes
• Repulsion
• The Road Warrior
• Rocky
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Roman Holiday
• Romeo and Juliet (1968)
• A Room With a View
• Rosemary’s Baby
• The Rules of the Game
• Saturday Night Fever
• Saving Private Ryan
• Scarface (1932)
• The Scarlet Empress
• Schindler’s List
• The Searchers
• The Seven Samurai
• Shadow of a Doubt
• Shane
• The Shawshank Redemption
• She Done Him Wrong
• Sherlock, Jr.
• The Shining
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Singin’ in the Rain
• Sleeper
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Some Like It Hot
• Sons of the Desert
• The Sound of Music
• Spartacus
• Splendor in the Grass
• Stagecoach
• Stairway to Heaven
• A Star Is born
• Star Wars
• Strangers on a Train
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Sullivan’s Travels
• Sunrise
• Sunset Boulevard
• Sweet Smell of Success
• Swing Time
• Taxi Driver
• The Terminator
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Thelma & Louise
• The Thief of Bagdad
• The Thin Man
• The Thing (From Another World)
• The Third Man
• This is Spinal Tap
• Titanic
• To Be or Not to Be
• To Have and Have Not
• Tokyo Story
• Tootsie
• Touch of Evil
• Toy Story
• Toy Story 2
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• Trouble in Paradise
• Unforgiven
• The Usual Suspects
• Vertigo
• Way Out West
• West Side Story
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
• When Harry Met Sally…
• White Heat
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• The Wild Bunch
• Winchester ‘73
• The Wind
• Witness for the Prosecution
• The Wizard of Oz
• Written on the Wind
• Wuthering Heights
• Yankee Doodle Dandy
• Young Frankenstein