The Best '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die' Movies

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The Best '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die' Movies
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Movie Title Release
Year
Director MPAA
Rating
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262 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento R -
265 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle NR -
266 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi NR -
267 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson NR -
268 Batman 1989 Tim Burton PG13 -
269 Blazing Saddles 1974 Mel Brooks R -
273 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson R -
274 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy NR -
278 Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini NR -
279 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buñuel NR -
283 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky PG -
284 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders PG13 -
285 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn R -
287 A Night at the Opera 1935 Sam Wood NR -
288 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 Robert Altman R -
289 Toy Story 2 1999 John Lasseter G -
290 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski NR -
291 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam R -
293 Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné NR -
294 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
295 Do the Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee R -
296 Let the Right One In 2008 Tomas Alfredson R -
297 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Rob Reiner R -
298 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone R -
299 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog PG -
301 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese R -
302 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby PG -
305 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman R -
306 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale NR -
307 The Lady Eve 1941 Preston Sturges NR -
308 Being There 1979 Hal Ashby PG -
309 The Social Network 2010 David Fincher PG13 -
310 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman PG -
311 Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 Woody Allen PG13 -
316 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski R -
318 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 -
325 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg PG -
326 Red River 1948 Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson NR -
327 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati NR -
328 Drive 2011 Nicolas Winding Refn R -
329 Eyes Without a Face 1960 Georges Franju NR -
332 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky NR -
334 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell NR -
335 Clerks. 1994 Kevin Smith R -
337 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley R -
340 The Grapes of Wrath 1940 John Ford NR -
341 Edward Scissorhands 1990 Tim Burton PG13 -
342 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz, William Keighley NR -
343 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau NR -
349 Hannah and Her Sisters 1986 Woody Allen PG13 -
352 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray PG13 -
353 A Woman Under the Influence 1974 John Cassavetes R -
355 Top Hat 1935 Mark Sandrich NR -
358 Trouble in Paradise 1932 Ernst Lubitsch NR -
363 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski R -
364 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer NR -
366 Cries and Whispers 1972 Ingmar Bergman R -
367 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang NR -
368 An American Werewolf in London 1981 John Landis R -
369 Umberto D. 1952 Vittorio De Sica NR -
373 The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976 Clint Eastwood PG -
374 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer PG13 -
376 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene NR -
377 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor NR -
378 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis PG -
379 A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Elia Kazan NR -
383 The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 William A. Wellman NR -
384 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras PG -
385 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero NR -
386 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci R -
388 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks NR -
392 The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 Martin Scorsese R -
395 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel R -
396 The Lost Weekend 1945 Billy Wilder NR -
399 The African Queen 1951 John Huston NR -
401 The Awful Truth 1937 Leo McCarey NR -
402 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel NR -
403 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais NR -
404 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch R -
406 Toy Story 3 2010 Lee Unkrich G -
407 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer NR -
412 The Phantom Carriage 1921 Victor Sjöström NR -
415 High Plains Drifter 1973 Clint Eastwood R -
417 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz NR -
418 Belle de jour 1967 Luis Buñuel R -
421 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo R -
422 Being John Malkovich 1999 Spike Jonze R -
423 Boogie Nights 1997 Paul Thomas Anderson R -
425 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges NR -
427 A Separation 2011 Asghar Farhadi PG13 -
429 Total Recall 1990 Paul Verhoeven R -
431 Jules and Jim 1962 François Truffaut NR -
432 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel & Ethan Coen PG13 -
433 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 Orson Welles PG -
434 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich NR -
435 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse R -
436 Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger R -
437 Marty 1955 Delbert Mann NR -

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