The Greatest Movies To See Before You Die

Many movies are good, some are great, but only a select few can be deemed “classic”. It’s easy for movie lovers to be nostalgic for Hollywood’s “Golden Age” of the 1930s and ’40s, and many cine-files will tell you that film as an art reached its peak in the late ’60s and early ’70s. However there have been some incredible ground breaking cinematic pictures of more recent times, from big budget blockbusters to small break out independent features stretching from all corners of the globe.

After pondering this for some time I have compiled a list of 150 of what I feel to be essential film. To choose the titles for the list, I considered factors like historical importance and cultural impact. But I also selected films that I believe are the most thrilling, dramatic, original, scariest, funniest and most artistic movies of all time. Some of these films you’ve seen, and some you may not have heard of, but I believe that each one is a timeless classic that demands your view, at least before you die.

The Greatest Movies To See Before You Die

00s

2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)

28 Days Later (2002)

A

A.I Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Ali (2001)

Alien (1979)

Aliens (1986)

All the Presidents Men (1976)

Almost Famous (2000)

Amores Perros (2000)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Apollo 13 (1995)

As Good as it gets (1997)

B

Back to the Future I-II-III (1985-1989-1990)

Badlands (1973)

Batman (Tim Burton) (1989-1992)

Dark Knight Trilogy (Christopher Nolan) (2005-2008-2012)

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) – Review

Blade Runner (1982)

Blues Brothers (1980)

Blue Valentine (2010) – Review

Boogie Nights (1997)

Braveheart (1995)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

C

Carlitos Way (1993)

Casablanca (1942)

Casino (1995)

Casino Royale (2006)

Cast Away (2000)

Cinema Paradiso (1988)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Children of Men (2006)

City of God (2002)

Close Encounters of the Third kind (1977)

Crouching Dragon Hidden Tiger (2000)

D

Dances with Wolves (1990)

Das Boot (1981)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Days of Heaven (1978)

Dead Mans Shoes (2004

Dead Man Walking (1995)

Die Hard (1988)

Downfall (2004)

E

E.T The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Empire of the Sun (1987)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Evil dead (1981)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

F

Fargo (1996)

Fight Club (1999)

Finding Nemo (2003)

First Blood (1982)

Fitzcarraldo (1982)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

G

Ghostbusters (1984)

Gladiator (2000)

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Goodfellas (1990)

Gremlins (1984)

Groundhog Day (1993)

H

Halloween (1978)

Heat (1995)

Home Alone (1990)

I

Inception (2010)

Interview with a Vampire (1994)

Into the Wild (2007)

J

Jaws (1975)

Jurassic Park (1993)

K

King kong (1933)

L

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Let the right One In (Swedish) (2008)

Life of Pi (2012) – Review

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

M



Master and Commander (2003)

Mean Streets(1973)

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Misery (1990)

N

No Country of Old Men (2007)

North by Northwest (1959)

O

Oldboy (2003)

On The Waterfront (1954)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

P

Platoon (1986)

Predator (1987)

Psycho (1960)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

R

Raging Bull (1980)

Raider of the Lost Ark (1981)

Rain Man (1988)

Rear Window (1954)

Remains of the Day (1993)

Robocop (1987)

Rocky (1976)

S

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Seven Samurai (1954)

Scarface (1982)

Schindlers List (1993)

Scrooged (1988)

Se7en (1995)

Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Sideways (2004)

Skyfall (2012) – Review

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1959)

Star Wars – VI-V-VI (1977-1980-1983)

T

Taxi Driver (1976)

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

The Beautiful Country (2004)

The Bourne Trilogy (2002-2004-2007)

The Changeling (1980)

The Deer Hunter (1978)

The Exorcist (1973)

The French Connection (1971)

The Godfather I-II-III (1972-1974-1990)

The Goonies (1985)

The Graduate (1967)

The Green Mile (1999)

The Hustler (1961)

The Last of the Mohicans (1992) – Review

The Lion King (1994)

The Lord of the Rings I-II-III (2001-2002-2003)

The Matrix (1999)

The Motorcycle Diaries (1004)

The New World (2005)

The Nightmare before Christmas (1993)

The Shining (1980)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

The Sting (1973)

The Terminator (1984)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

The Thin Red Line (1998)

The Thing (1982)

The Untouchables (1987)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

There Will Be Blood (2007)

This is England (2006) – Review

This is Spinal Tap (1984)

Trains Planes and Automobiles (1987)

Trainspotting (1996)

True Romance (1993)

Twilight Samurai (2002)

U

Unforgiven (1992)

V

Vanilla Sky (2001)

Vertigo (1958)

Vera Drake (2004)

W

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

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