501 Must-See Movies (Revised)

Submitted by ilymary27 on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 20:10
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  • Action/Adventure and Epic

  • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
  • The Iron Horse (1924)
  • Napoleon (1927)
  • Cleopatra (1934)
  • The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
  • Alexander Nevsky (1938)
  • Gone With the Wind (1939)
  • The Sea Hawk (1940)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  • The African Queen (1951)
  • Wages of Fear (1953)
  • The Seven Samurai (1954)
  • The Ten Commandments (1956)
  • War and Peace (1956)
  • The Vikings (1958)
  • North by Northwest (1959)
  • Ben-Hur (1959)
  • Spartacus (1960)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  • Zulu (1964)
  • Dr. Zhivago (1965)
  • The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
  • The Lion In Winter (1968)
  • Waterloo (1970)
  • Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
  • The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
  • Enter the Dragon (1973)
  • Papillon (1973)
  • The Towering Inferno (1974)
  • The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  • Fitzcarraldo (1982)
  • Gandhi (1982)
  • The Right Stuff (1983)
  • Greystroke (1984)
  • A Passage To India (1984)
  • Ran (1985)
  • The Mission (1986)
  • Top Gun (1986)
  • The Last Emperor (1987)
  • Die Hard (1988)
  • Speed (1994)
  • True Lies (1994)
  • Braveheart (1995)
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
  • Gladiator (2000)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
  • Troy (2004)


  • Comedy


  • Safety Last (1923)
  • The General (1927)
  • Show People (1928)
  • Duck Soup (1933)
  • It's a Gift (1934)
  • Modern Times (1936)
  • Nothing Sacred (1937)
  • Way Out West (1937)
  • Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
  • Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  • Midnight (1939)
  • His Girl Friday (1940)
  • Sullivan's Travels (1941)
  • To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
  • Road To Morocco (1942)
  • Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
  • Born Yesterday (1950)
  • Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)
  • Some Like It Hot (1959)
  • Move Over, Darling (1963)
  • The Pink Panther (1964)
  • The Fortune Cookie (1966)
  • The Producers (1968)
  • The Odd Couple (1968)
  • Harold and Maude (1971)
  • What's Up, Doc? (1972)
  • Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (but Were Afraid To Ask) (1972)
  • Blazing Saddles (1974)
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
  • Animal House (1978)
  • Airplane! (1980)
  • Tootsie (1982)
  • Trading Places (1983)
  • All of Me (1984)
  • This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
  • The Breakfast Club (1985)
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
  • A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
  • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (1988)
  • Big (1988)
  • Home Alone (1990)
  • Groundhog Day (1993)
  • Grosse Point Blank (1997)
  • Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
  • The Big Lebowski (1998)
  • Le Dîner De Cons (1998)
  • There's Something About Mary (1998)
  • Meet the Parents (2000)
  • Amelie (2001)
  • Lost In Translation (2003)


  • Drama


  • Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
  • The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  • Citizen Kane (1941)
  • Children of Paradise (1945)
  • The Lost Weekend (1945)
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  • Great Expectations (1946)
  • It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  • Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
  • The Bicycle Thief (1948)
  • All About Eve (1950)
  • Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  • Ace In the Hole (1951)
  • On the Waterfront (1954)
  • Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
  • 12 Angry Men (1957)
  • The Seventh Seal (1957)
  • Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
  • Vertigo (1958)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  • 8 1/2 (1963)
  • A Man For All Seasons (1966)
  • Belle de Jour (1967)
  • The Graduate (1967)
  • Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)
  • Easy Rider (1969)
  • The Last Picture Show (1971)
  • Sleuth (1972)
  • Nashville (1975)
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  • All the President's Men (1976)
  • Rocky (1976)
  • Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
  • Raging Bull (1980)
  • The King of Comedy (1983)
  • Fatal Attraction (1987)
  • Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
  • Rain Man (1988)
  • Do the Right Thing (1989)
  • Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
  • Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
  • The Player (1992)
  • Forrest Gump (1994)
  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  • Apollo 13 (1995)
  • Shakespeare In Love (1998)
  • The Truman Show (1998)
  • All About My Mother (1999)
  • American Beauty (1999)
  • Traffic (2000)


  • Horror


  • Nosferatu, a Symphony of Terror (1922)
  • The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
  • Freaks (1932)
  • King Kong (1933)
  • Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
  • Dead of Night (1945)
  • Les Diaboliques (1955)
  • Dracula (1958)
  • Psycho (1960)
  • Peeping Tom (1960)
  • Village of the Damned (1960)
  • What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)
  • The Birds (1963)
  • The Haunting (1963)
  • Rosemary's Baby (1968)
  • Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  • Deliverance (1972)
  • The Exorcist (1973)
  • Don't Look Now (1973)
  • The Wicker Man (1973)
  • The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
  • Jaws (1975)
  • The Omen (1976)
  • Carrie (1976)
  • Eraserhead (1977)
  • Halloween (1978)
  • Dawn of the Dead (1978)
  • The Shining (1980)
  • Friday the 13th (1980)
  • The Fog (1980)
  • An American Werewolf In London (1981)
  • The Thing (1982)
  • Poltergeist (1982)
  • Gremlins (1984)
  • A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
  • Manhunter (1986)
  • Evil Dead II (1987)
  • Angel Heart (1987)
  • Child's Play (1988)
  • Misery (1990)
  • Tremors (1990)
  • The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  • Scream (1996)
  • Ringu (1998)
  • The Sixth Sense (1999)
  • The Blair Witch Project (1999)
  • The Mummy (1999)
  • Audition (1999)
  • The Others (2001)
  • 28 Days Later (2002)


  • Musical


  • 42nd Street (1933)
  • Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
  • The Gay Divorcee (1934)
  • Top Hat (1935)
  • Show Boat (1936)
  • Alexander’s Ragtime Banda (1938)
  • The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  • Strike Up the Band (1940)
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  • You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
  • The Gang’s All Here (1943)
  • Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
  • Easter Parade (1948)
  • The Red Shoes (1948)
  • On the Town (1949)
  • An American In Paris (1951)
  • Singin' In the Rain (1952)
  • The Band Wagon (1953)
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
  • Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)
  • A Star Is Born (1954)
  • Oklahoma! (1955)
  • High Society (1956)
  • The King and I (1956)
  • Funny Face (1957)
  • Pal Joey (1957)
  • South Pacific (1958)
  • West Side Story (1961)
  • Viva Las Vegas (1964)
  • A Hard Day's Night (1964)
  • Mary Poppins (1964)
  • My Fair Lady (1964)
  • Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
  • The Sound of Music (1965)
  • Funny Girl (1968)
  • Hello, Dolly! (1969)
  • Woodstock (1970)
  • Cabaret (1972)
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
  • Saturday Night Fever (1977)
  • New York, New York (1977)
  • The Last Waltz (1978)
  • Grease (1978)
  • All That Jazz (1979)
  • The Blues Brothers (1980)
  • Fame (1980)
  • Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
  • Dirty Dancing (1987)
  • Moulin Rouge! (2001)
  • Chicago (2002)


  • Romance


  • Sunrise (1927)
  • It Happened One Night (1934)
  • Camille (1936)
  • Wuthering Heights (1939)
  • The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
  • Waterloo Bridge (1940)
  • The Philadelphia Story (1940)
  • The Lady Eve (1941)
  • Casablanca (1942)
  • Now, Voyager (1942)
  • Random Harvest (1942)
  • Brief Encounter (1945)
  • Beauty and the Beast (1946)
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
  • Adam's Rib (1949)
  • The Quiet Man (1952)
  • Roman Holiday (1953)
  • To Catch a Thief (1955)
  • All That Heaven Allows (1955)
  • An Affair To Remember (1957)
  • The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
  • Pillow Talk (1959)
  • A Bout De Souffle (1960)
  • The Apartment (1960)
  • Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)
  • Un Homme Et Une Femme (1966)
  • Barefoot In the Park (1967)
  • Love Story (1970)
  • A New Leaf (1971)
  • The Way We Were (1973)
  • Annie Hall (1977)
  • 10 (1979)
  • The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
  • An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
  • Out of Africa (1985)
  • Nine ½ (1986)
  • The Princess Bride (1987)
  • The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
  • When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
  • Pretty Woman (1990)
  • Ghost (1990)
  • Green Card (1990)
  • The Age of Innocence (1993)
  • Sleepless In Seattle (1993)
  • While You Were Sleeping (1995)
  • Romeo & Juliet (1996)
  • The English Patient (1996)
  • Titanic (1997)
  • As Good As It Gets (1997)
  • Hua Yang De Nian Hua (2000)


  • Science Fiction/Fantasy


  • Metropolis (1927)
  • Lost Horizon (1937)
  • The Man In the White Suit (1951)
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
  • The War of the Worlds (1953)
  • Forbidden Planet (1956)
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
  • The Amazing Shrinking Man (1957)
  • Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
  • Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  • Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
  • Planet of the Apes (1968)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  • Silent Running (1972)
  • Solaris (1972)
  • Sleeper (1973)
  • Westworld (1973)
  • Dark Star (1974)
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
  • Star Wars (1977)
  • Superman (1978)
  • Alien (1979)
  • The Road Warrior (1981)
  • Scanners (1981)
  • Time Bandits (1981)
  • Blade Runner (1982)
  • E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
  • Tron (1982)
  • Ghostbusters (1984)
  • The Terminator (1984)
  • Back To the Future (1985)
  • Brazil (1985)
  • Aliens (1986)
  • The Fly (1986)
  • Robocop (1987)
  • Batman (1989)
  • Total Recall (1990)
  • Naked Lunch (1991)
  • Jurassic Park (1993)
  • Twelve Monkeys (1995)
  • Independence Day (1996)
  • Men In Black (1997)
  • The Matrix (1999)
  • X-Men (2000)
  • A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
  • Minority Report (2002)
  • Spiderman (2002)


  • Mystery/Thriller


  • Little Caesar (1930)
  • The Public Enemy (1931)
  • Rebecca (1940)
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  • Double Indemnity (1944)
  • The Big Sleep (1946)
  • Kiss of Death (1947)
  • The Third Man (1949)
  • The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
  • Strangers On a Train (1951)
  • The Big Heat (1953)
  • Rear Window (1954)
  • The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  • Rififi (1955)
  • The Killing (1956)
  • Touch of Evil (1958)
  • Charade (1963)
  • Goldfinger (1964)
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  • In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  • Point Blank (1967)
  • Bullitt (1968)
  • The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
  • The Italian Job (1969)
  • Dirty Harry (1971)
  • The French Connection (1971)
  • The Godfather (1972)
  • Mean Streets (1973)
  • Serpico (1973)
  • The Sting (1973)
  • Chinatown (1974)
  • The Conversation (1974)
  • Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
  • Taxi Driver (1976)
  • Scarface (1983)
  • Witness (1985)
  • The Untouchables (1987)
  • Goodfellas (1990)
  • Miller's Crossing (1990)
  • Basic Instinct (1992)
  • Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  • Pulp Fiction (1994)
  • Léon (1994)
  • Seven (1995)
  • The Usual Suspects (1995)
  • Fargo (1996)
  • L.A. Confidential (1997)
  • Run Lola Run (1998)
  • Memento (2000)
  • City of God (2002)


  • War


  • Shoulder Arms (1918)
  • Wings (1927)
  • All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)
  • Grand Illusion (1937)
  • Sergeant York (1941)
  • In Which We Serve (1942)
  • Five Graves To Cairo (1943)
  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
  • Open City (1945)
  • Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
  • They Were Expendable (1945)
  • Battleground (1949)
  • Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
  • Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
  • The Desert Fox (1951)
  • The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
  • The Cruel Sea (1952)
  • From Here To Eternity (1953)
  • Stalag 17 (1953)
  • Mister Roberts (1955)
  • Attack! (1956)
  • The Burmese Harp (1956)
  • The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
  • Paths of Glory (1957)
  • Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
  • The Guns of Navarone (1961)
  • The Longest Day (1962)
  • The Great Escape (1963)
  • The Train (1964)
  • The Bedford Incident (1965)
  • Von Ryan's Express (1965)
  • The Dirty Dozen (1967)
  • Hell In the Pacific (1968)
  • Where Eagles Dare (1968)
  • Catch-22 (1970)
  • Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
  • M*A*S*H (1970)
  • Patton (1970)
  • Cross of Iron (1977)
  • The Deer Hunter (1978)
  • Apocalypse Now (1979)
  • The Big Red One (1980)
  • Das Boot (1981)
  • The Killing Fields (1984)
  • Come and See (1985)
  • Platoon (1986)
  • Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  • Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
  • Schindler's List (1993)
  • Saving Private Ryan (1998)


  • Western


  • Union Pacific (1939)
  • Stagecoach (1939)
  • The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
  • Duel In the Sun (1946)
  • My Darling Clementine (1946)
  • Fort Apache (1948)
  • Red River (1948)
  • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
  • The Gunfighter (1950)
  • Winchester '73 (1950)
  • Bend of the River (1952)
  • High Noon (1952)
  • The Naked Spur (1953)
  • Shane (1953)
  • The Searchers (1956)
  • The Tall T (1957)
  • 3:10 To Yuma (1957)
  • Forty Guns (1957)
  • Run of the Arrow (1957)
  • The Big Country (1958)
  • The Left Handed Gun (1958)
  • Man of the West (1958)
  • Last Train From Gun Hill (1959)
  • Rio Bravo (1959)
  • The Magnificent Seven (1960)
  • Two Rode Together (1961)
  • Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  • Ride the High Country (1962)
  • Ride In the Whirlwind (1965)
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
  • The Professionals (1966)
  • Hombre (1967)
  • Once Upon a Time In the West (1968)
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  • True Grit (1969)
  • The Wild Bunch (1969)
  • The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
  • Little Big Man (1970)
  • McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
  • Bad Company (1972)
  • The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
  • Ulzana's Raid (1972)
  • High Plains Drifter (1972)
  • The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
  • The Shootist (1976)
  • The Long Riders (1980)
  • Young Guns (1988)
  • Dances With Wolves (1990)
  • Unforgiven (1992)
  • The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Author Comments: 

Someone else posted it but was missing a few, so here you go :]. Check out my blog if you can, i'm watching these all this year. http://marywatchingmovies.blogspot.com/ <3.