100 films to see before you die
This is a list (by Yahoo) with 100 films to see before you die. Let’s see how many films I have already watched….
I got this idea from The Movie Viewing Girl and thought it was fun, so here I go (bold: I have seen the films):
12 Angry Men
2001: A Space Odyssey
400 Blows
8 1/2
The African Queen
Alien
All About Eve
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
The Battle of Algiers
The Bicycle Thief
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Blow Up
Blue Velvet
Bonnie and Clyde
Breathless
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Bringing Up Baby
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Die Hard
Do the Right Thing
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove
Duck Soup
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Enter the Dragon
The Exorcist
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
The French Connection
The Godfather
The Godfather, Part II
Goldfinger
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Goodfellas
The Graduate
Grand Illusion
Groundhog Day
A Hard Day’s Night
In the Mood For Love
It Happened One Night
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jaws
King Kong (1933)
The Lady Eve
Lawrence of Arabia
The Lord of the Rings
M
M*A*S*H
The Maltese Falcon
The Matrix
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
National Lampoon’s Animal House
Network
Nosferatu
On the Waterfront
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Paths of Glory
Princess Mononoke
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raise the Red Lantern
Rashomon
Rear Window
Rebel Without a Cause
Rocky
Roman Holiday
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler’s List
The Searchers
Seven Samurai
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
Singin’ in the Rain
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Some Like It Hot
The Sound of Music
Star Wars
Sunset Blvd.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Third Man
This is Spinal Tap
Titanic
To Kill a Mockingbird
Toy Story
The Usual Suspects
Vertigo
When Harry Met Sally…
Wild Strawberries
Wings of Desire
The Wizard of Oz
Women On the Verge of Nervous Breakdown
The World of Apu
Well…almost half, not so bad, I guess. What’s worse is that I don’t actually remember if I have seen some films or just read or heard a lot about it… 
If you feel like it, pass the list on, it’s fun!
March 26th, 2009 at 1:46 am
Looks like you’ve got to work on your ‘R’s.
Also, you should give some serious consideration to watching Wings of Desire. It was remade into City of Angels with Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage, but the original is quite different and in some ways superior.
March 26th, 2009 at 11:51 am
I have seen the one with Nicholas Cage…I will try to check out the original though, thanks!
March 27th, 2009 at 4:52 am
It’s neat seeing what movies from the list you have seen.
I’m such a bad judge of what old movies are well known and which ones people have never heard of. No Roman Holiday?!? Really?
It Happened One Night and The Lady Eve are a lot of fun, too.
March 27th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Wendymoon – This is great, I love getting suggestions for old movies. I always want to expand my knowledge of them but there are just too many and I never know which are good and which I don’t have to bother watching. So, thanks
March 28th, 2009 at 1:04 am
Lots of work to do!
However, Slumdog has to be added!
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:26 am
Good list, I have probably seen about 50 or 60 of those films. I’m surprised that City of God isn’t on that list
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Farzan – wow, thats quite a lot! Yahoo made the list…I guess I would have made a different one…