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The Top 250 '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die' Movies
Global Ranking |
Movie Title |
Release Year |
Director |
MPAA Rating |
Your Ranking |
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 |
8½ |
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 |
- |