100 Films To See Before You Die

Because I have too much free time and absolutely no motivation to do my summer homework, I instead spent too much of last Tuesday compiling a list of 100 films everyone should see before they die. Now, I'll admit I haven't actually seen all - or even most - of these films, but, being only seventeen, think that is probably a good thing. The ones I haven't seen were recommended to me by either my film-obsessed father, or extensive research on the internet, and the ones I HAVE seen are decorated with a little *asterisk. Enjoy :)

1. *Star Wars (the old ones)
2. *Lord of the Rings (all three)
3. *Harry Potter (at least one)
4. *Back to the Future (first essential, second optional, third preferable)
5. *Rocky (preferably first or third)
6. *Pretty Woman
7. *Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
8. *Shrek (first and second)
9. *Disney (as many as you can)
10. *Toy Story (all three)
11. *Bridget Jones’s Diary
12. Gone with the Wind
13. *A 'classic' Tom Hanks (Philadelphia/Castaway/Forrest Gump etc.)
14. *The Green Mile
15. *The Shawshank Redemption
16. Schindler’s List
17. *A 'classic' Baz Luhrman (Moulin Rouge/Romeo + Juliet/Australia)
18. *Ghost
19. *Four Weddings and a Funeral
20. *Monty Python (at least one)
21. *Austin Powers (at least one)
22. *The Full Monty
23. *Bugsy Malone
24. *Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
25. *E.T.
26. *Pride and Prejudice (preferably original 1995 version)
27. *Sound of Music
28. *The Matrix (first essential)
29. *The Dark Knight
30. *Jaws
31. *Titanic
32. *Avatar
33. A western (The Searchers/The Magnificent Seven)
34. *Alien (first preferable, second essential, third and fourth NOT recommended)
35. *Die Hard (one or three)
36. *The Sixth Sense
37. Braveheart
38. *Jurassic Park (first essential)
39. The Great Escape
40. *A Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction/Kill Bill/Reservoir Dogs)
41. *Gladiator
42. *The Abyss
43. The Shining
44. *Singin’ in the Rain
45. *Terminator (first preferable, second essential, others not worth mentioning)
46. *The Adventures of Robin Hood (the Errol Flynn one)
47. *The Wizard of Oz
48. The Godfather (apparently just the first two)
49. The Silence of the Lambs
50. *Indiana Jones (NOT the fourth)
51. *Saving Private Ryan
52. Blazing Saddles
53. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
54. The Graduate
55. *Groundhog Day
56. It’s a Wonderful Life
57. Nosferatu/Dracula (Christopher Lee version)
58. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
59. Psycho
60. *Some Like it Hot
61. This is Spinal Tap
62. To Kill A Mockingbird
63. *The Italian Job (original)
64. *When Harry Met Sally
65. Thelma and Louise
66. Trainspotting
67. Withnail and I
68. *Ghostbusters
69. Pan’s Labyrinth
70. Donnie Darko
71. Casablanca
72. *The Princess Bride
73. Kramer vs. Kramer
74. 2001: A Space Odyssey
75. *Billy Elliot
76. A Clockwork Orange
77. A James Bond for each actor (Sean, Roger, Timothy, George, Pierce, Daniel)
78. The Railway Children
79. Kes
80. Lawrence of Arabia
81. The Ladykillers (original)
82. *A Tim Burton film (recommended Batman)
83. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
84. *Dirty Dancing
85. The Elephant Man
86. *Grease
87. Fatal Attraction
88. *Airplane!
89. American Beauty
90. Ben-Hur
91. Blade Runner
92. The English Patient
93. *A Fish Called Wanda
94. Last Tango in Paris
95. Lost in Translation
96. Scarface
97. The Talented Mr. Ripley
98. Taxi Driver
99. Top Gun
100. The Usual Suspects