Movies You Must See Before You Die (Acording to me). Constantly updated.

Submitted by BaalMan on Thu, 09/17/2009 - 09:43
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  1. The Vampires - Louis Feuillade (France/1915)
  2. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Robert Wiene (Germany/1920)
  3. The Kid - Charles Chaplin (US/1921)
  4. Destiny - Fritz Lang (Germany/1921)
  5. Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler - Fritz Lang (Germany/1922)
  6. Nosferatu - F.W. Murnau (Germany/1922)
  7. The Wheel - Abel Gance (France/1923)
  8. Sherlock Jr. - Buster Keaton (US/1924)
  9. The Last Laugh - F.W. Murnau (Germany/1924)
  10. Greed - Erich von Stroheim (US/1924)
  11. Faust - F.W. Murnau (Germany/1926)
  12. Mother - Vsevolod Pudovkin (Soviet Union/1926)
  13. Metropolis - Fritz Lang (Germany/1927)
  14. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Th. Dreyer (France/1928)
  15. Storm Over Asia - Vsevolod Pudovkin (Soviet Union/1928)
  16. Man with a Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov (Soviet Union/1928)
  17. All Quiet on the Western Front - Lewis Milestone (US/1930)
  18. Freedom for Us - René Clair (France/1931)
  19. M - Fritz Lang (Germanny/1931)
  20. Limite - Mario Peixoto (Brazil/1931)
  21. The Vampire - Carl Th. Dreyer (Germany/1932)
  22. The Red Head - Julien Duvivier (France/1932)
  23. I Was Born, But... - Yasujiro Ozu (Japan/1932)
  24. Duck Soup - Leo McCarey (US/1933)
  25. Chapaev - Georgi & Sergei Vasilyev (Soviet Union/1934)
  26. L'Atalante - Jean Vigo (France/1934)
  27. An Inn in Tokyo - Yasujiro Ozu (Japan/1935)
  28. Modern Times - Charles Chaplin (US/1936)
  29. The Only Son - Yasujiro Ozu (Japan/1936)
  30. La Marseillaise - Jean Renoir (France/1937)
  31. Port of Shadows - Marcel Carné (France/1938)
  32. The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums - Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan/1939)
  33. The Rules of the Game - Jean Renoir (France/1939)
  34. The Grapes of Wrath - John Ford (US/1940)
  35. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Elia Kazan (US/1941)
  36. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles (US/1941)
  37. Day of Wrath - Carl Th. Dreyer (Denmark/1943)
  38. Ivan the Terrible, Part One - Sergei M. Eisenstein (Soviet Union/1944)
  39. The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne - Robert Bresson (France/1945)
  40. Children of Paradise - Marcel Carné (France/1945)
  41. Rome, Open City - Roberto Rossellini (Italy/1945)
  42. The Lost Weekend - Billy Wilder (US/1945)
  43. The Bicycle Thief - Vittorio de Sica (Italy/1948)
  44. Rope - Alfred Hitchcock (US/1948)
  45. Hamlet - Lawrence Olivier (UK/1948)
  46. Macbeth - Orson Welles (US/1948)
  47. Late Spring - Yasujiro Ozu (Japan/1949)
  48. The Forgotten Ones - Luis Buñuel (Mexico/1950)
  49. Orpheus - Jean Cocteau (France/1950)
  50. Sunset Blvd. - Billy Wilder (US/1950)
  51. Diary of a Country Priest - Robert Bresson (France/1951)
  52. Limelight - Charles Chaplin (US/1952)
  53. Forbidden Games - René Clément (France/1952)
  54. Umberto D. - Vittorio De Sica (Italy/1952)
  55. Living - Akira Kurosawa (Japan/1952)
  56. The Life of Oharu - Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan/1952)
  57. Cangaceiro - Lima Barreto (Brazil/1953)
  58. The Earrings of Madame de... - Max Ophüls (France/1953)
  59. Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu (Japan/1953)
  60. Dial M for Murder - Alfred Hitchcock (US/1954)
  61. On the Waterfront - Elia Kazan (US/1954)
  62. The Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa (Japan/1954)
  63. Sansho the Bailiff - Kenji Mizoguchi (Japan/1954)
  64. The Crucified Lovers - Kenji Mizoguchi(Japan/1954)
  65. The Word - Carl Th. Dreyer (Denmark/1955)
  66. Song of the Little Road - Satyajit Ray (India/1955)
  67. Hiroshima Mon Amour - Alain Resnais (France/1955)
  68. The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman (Sweden/1956)
  69. The Burmese Harp - Kon Ichikawa (Japan/1956)
  70. Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman (Sweden/1957)
  71. Nights of Cabiria - Federico Fellini (France/1957)
  72. The Cranes Are Flying - Mikhail Kalatozov (Soviet Union/1957)
  73. Kanal - Andrzej Wajda (Poland/1957)
  74. The Magician - Ingmar Bergman (Sweden/1958)
  75. Ivan the Terrible, Part II - Sergei M. Eisenstein & M. Filimonova (Soviet Union/1958)
  76. Ashes and Diamonds - Andrzej Wajda (Poland/1958)
  77. Pickpocket - Robert Bresson (France/1959)
  78. Shadows - John Cassavetes (US/1959)
  79. Fires on the Plain - Kon Ichikawa (Japan/1959)
  80. The Letter That Was Never Sent - Mikhail Kalatozov (Soviet Union/1959)
  81. The Human Condition Part 1, 2 & 3 - Masaki Kobayashi (Japan/1959/59/61)
  82. Floating Weeds - Yasujiro Ozu (Japan/1959)
  83. Night and Fog - Alain Resnais (France/1959)
  84. The 400 Blows - François Truffaut (France/1959)
  85. The Adventure - Michelangelo Antonioni (Italy/1960)
  86. The Devil's Eye - Ingmar Bergman (Sweden/1960)
  87. La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini (Italy/1960)
  88. Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard (France/1960)
  89. The Housemaid - Kim Ki-young (South Korea/1960)
  90. Shoot the Pianist - François Truffaut (France/1960)
  91. Rocco and His Brothers - Luchino Visconti (Italy/1960)
  92. The Night - Michelangelo Antonioni (Italy/1961)
  93. Through a Glass Darkly - Ingmar Bergman (Sweden/1961)
  94. A Woman Is a Woman - Jean-Luc Godard (France/1961)
  95. Splendor in the Grass - Elia Kazan (US/1961)
  96. Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Resnais (France/1961)
  97. Eclipse - Michelangelo Antonioni (Italy/1962)
  98. Winter Light - Ingmar Bergman (Sweden/1962)
  99. The Exterminating Angel - Luis Buñuel (Mexico/1962)
  100. Keeper of Promises - Anselmo Duarte (Brazil/1962)
  101. Lawrence of Arabia - David Lean (UK/1962)
  102. The Unscrupulous Ones - Ruy Guerra (Brazil/1962)
  103. Love at Twenty - Various (France/1962)
  104. The Trial - Orson Welles (France/1962)
  105. 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini (Italy/1963)
  106. Contempt - Jean-Luc Godard (France/1963)
  107. Barren Lives - Nelson Pereira dos Santos (Brasil/1963)
  108. The Leopard - Luchino Visconti (Italy/1963)
  109. Gertrud - Carl Th. Dreyer (Denmark/1964)
  110. The Guns - Ruy Guerra (Brazil/1964)
  111. I Am Cuba - Mikhail Kalatozov (Soviet Union/1964)
  112. Men and Women - Walter Hugo Khouri (Brazil/1964)
  113. Black God, White Devil - Glauber Rocha (Brazil/1964)
  114. Woman in the Dunes - Hiroshi Teshigahara (Japan/1964)
  115. Alphaville - Jean-Luc Godard (France/1965)
  116. Pierrot le fou - Jean-Luc Godard (France/1965)
  117. The Shop on Main Street - Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos (Czechoslovakia/1965)
  118. São Paulo S/A - Luís Sérgio Person (Brazil/1965)
  119. The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga - Roberto Santos (Brazil/1965)
  120. The Priest and the Girl - Joaquim Pedro de Andrade (Brazil/1966)
  121. Balthazar - Robert Bresson (France/1966)
  122. The Pornographers - Shohei Imamura (Japan/1966)
  123. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Mike Nichols (US/1966)
  124. The Battle of Algiers - Gillo Pontecorvo (Italy/1966)
  125. The Margin - Ozualdo Candeias (Brazil/1967)
  126. Earth Entranced - Glauber Rocha (Brazil/1967)
  127. Proezas de Satanás na Vila do Leva-e-Traz - Paulo Gil Soares (Brazil/1967)
  128. Marketa Lazarová - Frantisek Vlácil (Czechoslovakia/1967)
  129. The Beatles: Yellow Submarine - George Cunning (UK/1968)
  130. One Plus One - Jean-Luc Godard (UK/1968)
  131. Memories of Underdevelopment - Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Cuba/1968)
  132. Teorema - Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy/1968)
  133. The Man Who Lies - Alain Robbe-Grillet (France/1968)
  134. The Red Light Bandit - Rogério Sganzerla (Brazil/1968)
  135. Macunaima - Joaquim Pedro de Andrade (Brazil/1969)
  136. Killed the Family and Went to the Movie - Júlio Bressane (Brazil/1969)
  137. Razor in the Flesh - Braz Chediak (Brazil/1969)
  138. Z - Costa-Gavras (France/1969)
  139. The Cow - Dariush Mehrjui (Iran/1969)
  140. Antonio das Mortes - Glauber Rocha (Brazil/1969)
  141. My Night at Maud's - Eric Rohmer (France/1969)
  142. The Woman of Everyone - Rogério Sganzerla (Brazil/1969)
  143. Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky (Soviet Union/1969)
  144. The Heirs - Carlos Diegues (Brazil/1970)
  145. El Topo - Alexandro Jodorowsky (Mexico/1970)
  146. The Ear - Karel Kachyna (Czechoslovakia/1970)
  147. Little Big Man - Arthur Penn (US/1970)
  148. Sem Essa, Aranha - Rogério Sganzerla (Brazil/1970)
  149. Bed and Board - François Truffaut (France/1970)
  150. Woodstock, 3 Days of Peace & Music - Michael Wadleigh (US/1970)
  151. Bananas - Woody Allen (US/1971)
  152. A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick (UK/1971)
  153. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask - Woody Allen (US/1972)
  154. Kozijat Rog - Metodi Andonov (Bulgaria/1972)
  155. Cries and Whispers - Ingmar Bergman (Sweden/1972)
  156. Last Tango in Paris - Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy/1972)
  157. The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola (US/1972)
  158. Aguirre: The Wrath of God - Werner Herzog (Germany/1972)
  159. Chloe in the Afternoon - Eric Rohmer (France/1972)
  160. The Dawns Here Are Quiet - Stanislav Rostotsky (Soviet Union/1972)
  161. Scenes from a Marriage - Ingmar Bergman (Sweden/1973)
  162. The Mother and the Whore - Jean Eustache (France/1973)
  163. Amarcord - Federico Fellini (Italy/1973)
  164. The Holy Mountain - Alexandro Jodorowsky (US/1973)
  165. Day for Night - François Truffaut (France/1973)
  166. The Godfather part II - Francis Ford Coppola (US/1974)
  167. Hearts and Minds - Peter Davis (US/1974)
  168. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul - RW Fassbinder (Germany/1974)
  169. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser - Werner Herzog (Germany/1974)
  170. Alice in the Cities - Wim Wenders (Germany/1974)
  171. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - Chantal Akerman (Belgium/1975)
  172. Nashville - Robert Altman (US/1975)
  173. The Travelling Players - Theo Angelopoulos (Greece/1975)
  174. Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick (UK/1975)
  175. Derzu Uzala - Akira Kurosawa (Soviet Union/1975)
  176. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom - Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy/1975)
  177. The Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky (Soviet Union/1975)
  178. Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese (US/1976)
  179. Ascent - Larisa Shepikto (Soviet Union/1976)
  180. Kings of the Road - Wim Wenders (Germany/1976)
  181. Annie Hall - Woody Allen (US/1977)
  182. The Man Who Loved Women - François Truffaut (France/1977)
  183. The Man of Marble - Andrzej Wajda (Poland/1977)
  184. Autumn Sonata - Ingmar Bergman (Sweden/1978)
  185. Everything's Alright - Arnaldo Jabor (Brazil/1978)
  186. Manhattan - Woody Allen (US/1979)
  187. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola (US/1979)
  188. Monty Python's Life of Brian - Terry Jones (UK/1979)
  189. Amator - Krzysztof Kieslowski (Poland/1979)
  190. Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky (Soviet Union/1979)
  191. Aopção ou As Rosas da Estrada - Ozualdo Candeias (Brazil/1981)
  192. The Iron Man - Andrzej Wajda (Poland/1981)
  193. The Way - Yilmaz Güney & Serif Gören (Turkey/1982)
  194. The Ballad of Narayama - Shohei Imamura (Japan/1983)
  195. This is Spinal Tap - Rob Riener (US/1984)
  196. Fool for Love - Robert Altman (US/1985)
  197. Twenty Years Later - Eduardo Coutinho (Brazil/1985)
  198. My Life as a Dog - Lasse Hallström (Sweden/1985)
  199. A Time to Live, a Time to Die - Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Taiwan/1985)
  200. Come and See - Elem Klimov (Soviet Union/1985)
  201. After Hours - Martin Scorsese (US/1985)
  202. Down By Law - Jim Jarmusch (US/1986)
  203. Stand By Me - Rob Riener (US/1986)
  204. The Sacrifice - Andrei Tarkovsky (Sweden/1986)
  205. Where Is the Friend's Home? - Abbas Kiarostami (Iran/1987)
  206. The Lonely Human Voice - Aleksandr Sokurov (Soviet Union/1987)
  207. Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders (Germany/1987)
  208. Landscape in the Mist - Theo Angelopoulos (Greece/1988)
  209. Time of the Gypsies - Emir Kusturica (Yugoslavia/1988)
  210. Days of Elipse - Aleksandr Sokurov (Soviet Union/1988)
  211. Crimes and Misdemeanors - Woody Allen (US/1989)
  212. The Asthenic Syndrome - Kira Muratova (Soviet Union/1989)
  213. GoodFellas - Martin Scorsese (US/1990)
  214. The Second Circle - Aleksandr Sokurov (Soviet Union/1990)
  215. Days of Being Wild - Wong Kar-Wai (Hong Kong/1990)
  216. Barton Fink - Joel Coen (US/1991)
  217. The Silence of the Lambs - Jonathan Demme (US/1991)
  218. And Life Goes on... - Abbas Kiarostami (Iran/1991)
  219. The Commitments - Alan Parker (UK/1991)
  220. Europa - Lars Von Trier (Denmark/1991)
  221. Three Colours: Blue - Krzysztof Kieslowski (France/1993)
  222. Shawshank Redemption - Frank Darabont (US/1994)
  223. Three Colours: Red - Krzysztof Kieslowski (France/1994)
  224. Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino (US/1994)
  225. Satantango - Béla Tarr (Hungary/1994)
  226. Chungking Express - Wong Kar-Wai (Hong Kong/1994)
  227. Dead Man - Jim Jarmushi (US/1995)
  228. Underground - Emir Kusturica (Yugoslavia/1995)
  229. Cyclo - Anh Hung Tran (Vietnam/1995)
  230. Secrets & Lies - Mike Leigh (UK/1996)
  231. From Dusk Till Dawn - Robert Rodriguez (US/1996)
  232. Funny Games - Michael Haneke (Austria/1997)
  233. Children of Heaven - Majid Majidi (Iran/1997)
  234. Mother and Son - Aleksandr Sokurov (Russia/1997)
  235. Eternity and a Day - Theodoros Angelopoulos (Greece/1998)
  236. Pi - Darren Aronofsky (US/1998)
  237. The Thin Red Line - Terrence Malick (US/1998)
  238. I Stand Alone - Gaspar Noé (France/1998)
  239. The Celebration - Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark/1998)
  240. All About My Mother - Pedro Almodóvar (Spain/1999)
  241. The Loss of Sexual Innocence - Mike Figgis (UK/1999)
  242. Being John Malkovich - Spike Jonze (US/1999)
  243. Julien Donkey-Boy - Harmony Korine (US/1999)
  244. Cradle Will Rock - Tim Robbins (US/1999)
  245. Almost Famous - Cameron Crowe (US/2000)
  246. High Fidelity - Stephen Frears (US/2000)
  247. Amores Perros - Alejandro González-Iñárritu (Mexico/2000)
  248. After the Reconciliation - Anne-Marie Miéville (France/2000)
  249. Dancer In The Dark - Lars Von Trier (Denmark/2000)
  250. In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar-Wai (Hong Kong/2000)
  251. Gosford Park - Robert Altman (UK/2001)
  252. Son of the Bride - Juan José Campanella (Argentina/2001)
  253. To the Left of the Father - Luiz Fernando Carvalho (Brazil/2001)
  254. The Piano Teacher - Michael Haneke (France/2001)
  255. Mulholland Drive - David Lynch (US/2001)
  256. Sex and Lucia - Julio Medem (Spain/2001)
  257. Behind the Sun - Walter Salles (Brazil/2001)
  258. No Man's Land - Danis Tanovic (Bosnia-Herzegovina/2001)
  259. What Time Is It There? - Tsai Ming-Liang (Taiwan/2001)
  260. Valentin - Alejandro Agresti (Argentina/2002)
  261. Talk to Her - Pedro Almodóvar (Spain/2002)
  262. Mango Yellow - Claudio Assis (Brasil/2002)
  263. Unknown Pleasures - Jia Zhang-Ke (China/2002)
  264. Taurus - Aleksandr Sokurov (Russia/2002)
  265. Dolls - Takeshi Kitano (Japan/2002)
  266. City of God - Fernando Meirelles (Brazil/2002)
  267. Bowling for Columbine - Michael Moore (US/2002)
  268. Irreversible - Gaspar Noé (France/2002)
  269. Russian Ark - Aleksandr Sokurov (Russia/2002)
  270. In this World - Michael Winterbottom (UK/2002)
  271. The Barbarian Invasions - Denys Arcand (Canada/2003)
  272. Carandiru - Hector Babenco (Brazil/2003)
  273. Reconstruction - Christoffer Boe (Denmark/2003)
  274. Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola (US/2003)
  275. Coffee and Cigarettes - Jim Jarmusch (US/2003)
  276. Oldboy - Park Chan-Wook (South Korea/2003)
  277. Elephant - Gus Van Sant (US/2003)
  278. Dogville - Lars Von Trier (Denmark/2003)
  279. Head-On - Fatih Akin (Germany/2004)
  280. The Sea Inside - Alejandro Amenábar (Spain/2004)
  281. The Dreamers - Bernardo Bertolucci (France/2004)
  282. Duck Season - Fernando Eimbcke (Mexico/2004)
  283. Downfall - Oliver Hirschbiegel (Germany/2004)
  284. Little Sky - María Victoria Menis (Argentina/2004)
  285. Green Chair - Park Chul-Soo (South Korea/2004)
  286. Super Size Me - Morgan Spurlock (US/2004)
  287. Movies, Aspirin and Vultures - Marcelo Gomes (Brazil/2005)
  288. Caché - Michael Haneke (France/2005)
  289. Three Times - Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Taiwan/2005)
  290. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu - Cristi Puiu (Romania/2005)
  291. Letters From Iwo Jima - Clint Eastwood (US/2006)
  292. In Paris - Christophe Honoré (France/2006)
  293. The Killing of John Lennon - Andrew Piddington (UK/2006)
  294. There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson (US/2007)
  295. Estômago: A Gastronomic Story - Marcos Jorge (Brazil/2007)
  296. I'm Not There - Todd Haynes (US/2007)
  297. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - Cristian Mungiu (Romania/2007)
  298. Elite Squad - José Padilha (Brazil/2007)
  299. Silent Light - Carlos Reygadas (Mexico/2007)
  300. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Julian Schnabel (France/2007)
  301. Getting Home - Zhang Yang (China/2007)
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Films released until 2007
Documentaries are included
short films not included