100 must-see movies before you die

I found this list of movies this week on the Daily Telegraph website. It's the 'Leigh Patsch's 100 must-see movies before you die'. Interesting! I have not seen most of these movies. I decided to write out the list and work through them one at a time with T who is a real movie collector. We got started on the weekend and watched No Country for Old Men and I did not enjoy this movie at all! So hopefully it gets better from here. I'm going to come back and edit this post and cross out the movies when we watch them. I would be interested to find more lists of 'must see' movies. How did Dirty Dancing not make the list?!


All Time Top 20
1. The Godfather Parts 1 & 2 1972, 1974
2. Citizen Kane - 1941
3. Gone with the Wind - 1939
4. To Kill a Mockingbird - 1962
5. Casablanca - 1942
6. Raging Bull - 1980
7. Mad Max 2 - 1981
8. Rear Window - 1954
9. The Toy Story Trilogy - 1995, 1999, 2010
10. Avatar - 2009
11. Schindler's List - 1993
12. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - 1966
13. Lawrence of Arabia - 1962
14. Pulp Fiction - 1994
15. Singin' In The Rain - 1952
16. Goodfellas - 1990
17. Inception - 2010
18. The Wizard of Oz - 1993
19. The Matrix - 1999
20. When we were kings - 1996 - Watched 30/05/13

Modern Top 20
1. Sideways - 2004
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 2004
3. The Harry Potter Series - 2001-2011
4. Knocked Up - 2007
5. Lost in Translation - 2003
6. Senna - 2001
7. Life of Pi - 2012
8. The Departed - 2006
9. Up - 2009
10. There will be blood - 2007
11. Amelie - 2001
12. Samson & Delilah - 2009
13. Mystic River - 2003
14. The Lives of Others - 2006
15. Momento - 2000
16. Inglorious Bastards - 2009
17. The Avengers - 2012
18. Looper - 2012
19. Beasts of the southern wild - 2012
20. No Country for old men - 2007 - Watched 25/05/13

Romance
1. Slumdog Millionaire - 2008
2. Love Story - 1971
3. Brokeback Mountain - 2005
4. An Affair to remember - 1958
5. Out of Sight - 1998

Comedy
1. Some like it hot - 1959
2. This is Spinal Tap - 1984
3. Groundhog Day - 1993
4. Annie Hall - 1977
5. Dumb & Dumber - 1994

Thriller
1. Dirty Harry - 1972
2. Vertigo - 1958
3. The Hitcher - 1986
4. Speed - 1994
5. The Bourne Ultimatum - 2007

Horror
1. The Exorcist - 1973
2. The Silence of the lambs - 1991
3. Psycho - 1959
4. Jaws - 1975
5. Seven - 1995

Action
1. Seven Samurai - 1954
2. Top Gun - 1986
3. Terminator 2: Judgement Day - 1991
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - 2000
5. Die Hard 1 & 2 - 1988, 1990

War
1. Paths of Glory - 1958
2. Apocalypse Now - 1979
3. Gallipoli - 1981
4. Saving Private Ryan - 1998
5. The Battle of Algiers - 1965

Crime
1. Heat - 1995
2. The Usual Suspects - 1995
3. Rififi - 1955
4. The Sting - 1973
5. Scarface - 1983

Based on a true story
1. The Pianist - 2002
2. All the Presidents Men - 1976
3. Apollo 13 - 1998
4. Titanic - 1997
5. Chariots of Fire - 1981

Documentary
1. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse - 1991
2. Don't Look Back - 1967
3. Bowling for Columbine - 2002
4. Hoop Dreams - 1994
5. An Inconvenient Truth - 2006

Sci-Fi
1. Alien & Aliens - 1979, 1986
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 1977
3. Blade Runner - 1982
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey - 1968
5. Sunshine - 2007

Australian Films
1. Don's Party - 1976
2. The Club - 1980
3. Strictly Ballroom - 1992
4. The Boys - 1998
5. Ten Canoes - 2006

Adapted from the book
1. Fight Club - 1999
2. Trainspotting - 1996
3. Great Expectations - 1946
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1975
5. Deliverance - 1972

What are you favourite must see movies?