The Top 250 '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die' Movies

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The Top 250 '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die' Movies
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Movie Title Release
Year
Director MPAA
Rating
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1 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas PG -
2 The Empire Strikes Back 1980 Irvin Kershner PG -
3 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola R -
4 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg PG -
5 The Shawshank Redemption 1994 Frank Darabont R -
6 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino R -
7 Return of the Jedi 1983 Richard Marquand PG -
8 Back to the Future 1985 Robert Zemeckis PG -
9 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa NR -
10 The Godfather Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola R -
11 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan PG13 -
13 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher R -
14 GoodFellas 1990 Martin Scorsese R -
15 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
17 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin G -
18 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott R -
19 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme R -
20 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick R -
22 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino R -
23 Se7en 1995 David Fincher R -
24 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz PG -
25 The Apartment 1960 Billy Wilder NR -
26 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa NR -
27 The Matrix 1999 The Wachowskis R -
28 M 1931 Fritz Lang NR -
29 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones PG -
30 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan R -
31 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 Sergio Leone NR -
32 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman R -
33 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder NR -
35 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 F.W. Murnau NR -
36 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton NR -
37 Ghostbusters 1984 Ivan Reitman PG -
38 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
39 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick NR -
40 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 Peter Jackson PG13 -
41 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed NR -
42 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles NR -
43 The Princess Bride 1987 Rob Reiner PG -
44 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa NR -
45 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron R -
46 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott R -
47 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese R -
48 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer R -
50 Aliens 1986 James Cameron R -
51 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
52 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot NR -
53 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg R -
54 Paths of Glory 1957 Stanley Kubrick NR -
55 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet NR -
56 Schindler's List 1993 Steven Spielberg R -
57 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg PG13 -
58 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer NR -
59 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola R -
60 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman NR -
61 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger NR -
62 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
63 Forrest Gump 1994 Robert Zemeckis PG13 -
64 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles NR -
65 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski R -
66 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg PG -
67 Le samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville PG -
68 Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter G -
70 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick R -
71 Bicycle Thieves 1948 Vittorio De Sica NR -
72 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan R -
73 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes PG13 -
75 The General 1926 Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton NR -
76 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov NR -
77 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick R -
78 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston NR -
79 Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujirô Ozu NR -
80 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron R -
81 Fargo 1996 Joel & Ethan Coen R -
82 Inception 2010 Christopher Nolan PG13 -
83 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut NR -
84 It Happened One Night 1934 Frank Capra NR -
85 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman NR -
86 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
87 Sunset Blvd. 1950 Billy Wilder NR -
88 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman NR -
89 Ace in the Hole 1951 Billy Wilder NR -
91 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick G -
92 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
93 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin G -
94 Grand Illusion 1937 Jean Renoir NR -
97 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan NR -
98 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen PG -
99 1963 Federico Fellini NR -
102 Network 1976 Sidney Lumet R -
103 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky NR -
104 The Philadelphia Story 1940 George Cukor NR -
105 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray NR -
106 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa NR -
107 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick NR -
108 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola PG -
109 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 John Ford NR -
110 The Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir NR -
111 Cool Hand Luke 1967 Stuart Rosenberg NR -
112 Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis PG -
113 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese R -
114 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger PG -
115 All About Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz NR -
116 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
117 His Girl Friday 1940 Howard Hawks NR -
119 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur NR -
120 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick PG -
122 The Gold Rush 1925 Charles Chaplin NR -
124 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston NR -
126 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks NR -
127 La Dolce Vita 1960 Federico Fellini NR -
128 Aguirre: The Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog NR -
130 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter R -
132 The Lion King 1994 Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff G -
133 Sherlock Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton NR -
135 In the Mood for Love 2000 Wong Kar-Wai PG -
136 Gladiator 2000 Ridley Scott R -
137 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner R -
139 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
140 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger NR -
141 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot NR -
142 The Searchers 1956 John Ford NR -
145 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick PG -
147 The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes R -
149 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke NR -
150 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 Frank Capra NR -
151 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges NR -
152 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman R -
153 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Howard Hawks NR -
156 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill PG -
158 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming NR -
159 Rio Bravo 1959 Howard Hawks NR -
160 Unforgiven 1992 Clint Eastwood R -
161 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
162 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 Sergio Leone PG13 -
163 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger NR -
165 Annie Hall 1977 Woody Allen PG -
167 Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa R -
168 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939 Frank Capra NR -
169 Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey NR -
170 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean NR -
172 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean G -
174 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler NR -
175 To Be or Not to Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch NR -
176 The Sting 1973 George Roy Hill PG -
178 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders R -
179 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula PG -
180 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet R -
182 Chungking Express 1994 Wong Kar-Wai PG13 -
185 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky NR -
186 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols PG -
187 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund R -
188 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges NR -
189 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo NR -
190 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang NR -
191 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 Mel Stuart G -
192 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese PG -
193 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
194 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg PG -
195 Django Unchained 2012 Quentin Tarantino R -
199 The Hustler 1961 Robert Rossen NR -
200 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Robert Mulligan NR -
201 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman R -
202 Scarface 1983 Brian De Palma R -
205 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes R -
206 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah R -
207 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
208 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson R -
210 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin R -
211 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi NR -
212 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale NR -
213 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger NR -
214 Young Frankenstein 1974 Mel Brooks PG -
215 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean PG -
216 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara NR -
217 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Isao Takahata NR -
220 My Man Godfrey 1936 Gregory La Cava NR -
222 Airplane! 1980 Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker PG -
223 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones R -
226 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann NR -
227 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick PG -
229 Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger NR -
230 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan PG13 -
231 Singin' in the Rain 1952 Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly NR -
233 Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen R -
236 Spirited Away 2001 Hayao Miyazaki PG -
237 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 Mike Nichols NR -
238 Oldboy 2003 Chan-wook Park R -
241 White Heat 1949 Raoul Walsh NR -
242 Stagecoach 1939 John Ford NR -
243 Pan's Labyrinth 2006 Guillermo del Toro R -
248 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder PG13 -
250 Roman Holiday 1953 William Wyler NR -
251 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma R -
255 Rain Man 1988 Barry Levinson R -
256 Heat 1995 Michael Mann R -
257 There Will Be Blood 2007 Paul Thomas Anderson R -
258 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin R -
259 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich R -
260 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino R -
263 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle NR -
266 Batman 1989 Tim Burton PG13 -
267 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento R -
268 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks R -
270 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson NR -
271 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi NR -
274 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson R -
276 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel NR -
279 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy NR -
280 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini NR -
283 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn R -
284 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky PG -
286 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders PG13 -
288 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood NR -
289 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman R -
290 Toy Story 2 1999 John Lasseter G -
291 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
292 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam R -
293 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski NR -
294 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné NR -
295 Let the Right One In 2008 Tomas Alfredson R -
296 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner R -
297 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone R -
298 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee R -
299 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog PG -
301 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese R -
302 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby PG -
304 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman R -
306 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale NR -
307 The Social Network 2010 David Fincher PG13 -
308 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby PG -
309 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges NR -
310 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman PG -
311 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen PG13 -
316 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski R -
317 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison NR -
319 La Strada 1954 Federico Fellini NR -
320 Three Colors: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski R -
324 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg PG -
325 Drive 2011 Nicolas Winding Refn R -
326 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati NR -
330 Eyes Without a Face 1960 Georges Franju NR -
331 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson NR -
333 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith R -
335 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky NR -
337 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley R -
338 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford NR -
339 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell NR -
341 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton PG13 -
342 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz, William Keighley NR -

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