501 Must See Movies Hitlist

Submitted by myth*writing on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 12:11
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  1. A bout de soufflé
  2. Ace in the Hole
  3. Age of Innocence
  4. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zom Gottes)
  5. Airplane!
  6. Alexander Nevsky
  7. Alien
  8. Aliens
  9. All About My Mother (Tobo Sobre mi Madre)
  10. All of Me
  11. All Quiet on the Western Front
  12. All That Heaven Allows
  13. All That Jazz
  14. All the President’s Men
  15. Amelie
  16. American Beauty
  17. American Werewolf in London
  18. Angel Heart
  19. Animal House
  20. Annie Hall
  21. Apocalypse Now
  22. Attack!
  23. Audition
  24. Bad Company
  25. Ballad of Cable Hogue
  26. Ballad of a Soldier (Ballada o soldate)
  27. Barefoot in the Park
  28. Basic Instinct
  29. Battleground
  30. The Bedford Incident
  31. Belle de jour
  32. Bend of The River
  33. Ben-Hur
  34. The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette)
  35. The Big Country
  36. The Big Heat
  37. The Big Lebowski
  38. The Big Red One
  39. Billy The Kid
  40. Blade Runner
  41. The Blair Witch Project
  42. Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife
  43. The Blues Brothers
  44. Born Yesterday
  45. Braveheart
  46. The Breakfast Club
  47. Brief Encounter
  48. Bullitt
  49. The Burmese Harp (Biruma no tategoto)
  50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  51. Cabaret
  52. Camille
  53. Carrie
  54. Catch-22
  55. The Charge of the Light Brigade
  56. Chicago
  57. Child’s Play
  58. Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis)
  59. City of God (Cidade de Deus)
  60. Cleopatra
  61. Clockwork Orange
  62. Come and See (Idi I smotri)
  63. The Conversation
  64. Cross of Iron
  65. The Cruel Sea
  66. Dances with Wolves
  67. Dangerous Liaisons
  68. Dark Star
  69. Das Boot
  70. Dawn of the Dead
  71. Dead of Night
  72. The Deer Hunter
  73. Deliverance
  74. The Desert Fox
  75. Die Hard
  76. Dirty Harry
  77. Dr. Zhivago
  78. Dog Day Afternoon
  79. Don’t Look Now
  80. Do the Right Thing
  81. Dracula (1958)
  82. Duel in the Sun
  83. Easy
  84. 8 ½
  85. Enemy of the State
  86. Enter the Dragon
  87. Eraserhead
  88. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But were afraid to ask)
  89. Evil Dead
  90. The Exorcist
  91. The Fabulous Baker Boys
  92. Fahrenheit
  93. Fame
  94. Fatal Attraction
  95. Fitzcarraldo
  96. Five Graves to Cairo
  97. The Fly
  98. The Fog
  99. Forbidden Planet
  100. Fort Apache
  101. Forty Guns
  102. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
  103. Freaks
  104. The French Connection
  105. The French Lieutenant’s Woman
  106. Friday the 13th
  107. Full Metal Jacket
  108. The Gang’s All Here
  109. The Ghost of Mrs. Muir
  110. Gladiator
  111. Glengarry, Glen Ross
  112. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
  113. Goodfellas
  114. Great Expectations
  115. Green Card
  116. Greystroke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
  117. Grosse Point Blank
  118. The Gunfighter
  119. Halloween
  120. Harold and Maude
  121. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
  122. The Haunting
  123. Hell in the Pacific
  124. High Noon
  125. High Plains Drifter
  126. High Society
  127. Hombre
  128. Hua yang nian hua (In the Mood for Love)
  129. The Incredible Shrinking Man
  130. Independence Day
  131. In Which We Serve
  132. The Iron Horse
  133. The Italian Job
  134. It’s a Gift
  135. The Killing
  136. Kind Hearts and Coronets
  137. The King of Comedy
  138. Kiss of Death
  139. La Belle et la bete (Beauty and the Beast)
  140. La Grande Illusion (The Grand Illusion)
  141. The Last Action Hero
  142. The Last Emperor
  143. The Last of the Mohicans
  144. The Last Picture Show
  145. Last Train From Gun Hill
  146. The Last Waltz
  147. Le diner de cons
  148. The Left-handed Gun
  149. Leon
  150. Les Diaboliques
  151. Les Vacances de M. Hulot
  152. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  153. The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
  154. Little Big Man
  155. Little Caesar
  156. Little Shop of Horrors
  157. Lonely Are The Brave
  158. The Lone Riders
  159. Lost in Translation
  160. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
  161. A Man for All Seasons
  162. Manhunter
  163. Man of the West
  164. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  165. Mean Streets
  166. Meet the Parents
  167. Memento
  168. Metropolis
  169. Miller’s Crossing
  170. Misery
  171. The Mission
  172. Moulin Rouge!
  173. The Mummy
  174. My Darling Clementine
  175. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad
  176. Naked Lunch
  177. The Naked Spur
  178. Napoleon
  179. Nashville
  180. Natural Born Killers
  181. A New Leaf
  182. New York, New York
  183. Night of the Living Dead
  184. Nightmare on Elm Street
  185. Nine ½ Weeks
  186. Nosferatu
  187. Nothing Sacred
  188. An Officer and a Gentleman
  189. Oklahoma!
  190. The Omen
  191. Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era una volta il West)
  192. The Others
  193. The Outlaw Josey Wales
  194. The Ox-Bow Incident
  195. Papillon
  196. A Passage to India
  197. Paths of Glory
  198. Peeping Tom
  199. The Phantom of the Opera
  200. Pillow Talk
  201. The Pink Panther
  202. Platoon
  203. The Player
  204. Point Blank
  205. Poltergeist
  206. The Poseidon Adventure
  207. The Professionals
  208. The Public Enemy
  209. Pulp Fiction
  210. The Quiet Man
  211. Raging Bull
  212. Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua)
  213. Ran
  214. Random Harvest
  215. The Red Badge of Courage
  216. Red River
  217. Reservoir Dogs
  218. Ride the High Country
  219. Ride in the Whirlwind
  220. Rififi
  221. The Right Stuff
  222. Ringu
  223. Rio Bravo
  224. Road to Morocco
  225. RoboCop
  226. Rocky
  227. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  228. Romeo + Juliet
  229. Rome, Open City (Roma, citta aperta)
  230. Rosemary’s Baby
  231. Run of the Arrow
  232. Run Lola Run (Lola rennt)
  233. Saturday Night Fever
  234. Saving Private Ryan
  235. Scanners
  236. Scarface
  237. Scream
  238. The Searchers
  239. Serpico
  240. (Se7en)
  241. The Seven Samurai (Shichinin ni samurai)
  242. The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet)
  243. Shadow of the Vampire
  244. Shakespeare in Love
  245. Shane
  246. The Shining
  247. Shoulder Arms
  248. Show People
  249. The Silence of the Lambs
  250. Silent Running
  251. Sleeper
  252. Sleuth
  253. Solaris (solyaris)
  254. Speed
  255. Spider-Man
  256. Stagecoach
  257. A Star is Born
  258. The Story of G.I. Joe
  259. Strike up the Band
  260. Sunrise
  261. Sweat Smell of Success
  262. The Tall T
  263. Taxi Driver
  264. The Terminator
  265. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  266. There’s Something About Mary
  267. The Thing
  268. The Third Man
  269. This Is Spinal Tap
  270. Time Bandits
  271. Titanic
  272. To Be or Not to Be
  273. Tora! Tora! Tora!
  274. Total Recall
  275. Touch of Evil
  276. The Towering Inferno
  277. Trading Places
  278. Traffic
  279. The Train
  280. Tron
  281. True Grit
  282. True Lies
  283. The Truman Show
  284. Twelve Monkeys
  285. Twelve O’Clock High
  286. 28 Days Later
  287. Two Rode Together
  288. (Ulzana’s Raid)
  289. Un home et une femme
  290. Union Pacific
  291. The Untouchables
  292. The Usual Suspects
  293. The Vikings
  294. Village of the Damned
  295. Viva Las Vegas
  296. Van Ryan’s Express
  297. The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la peur)
  298. War and Peace
  299. Waterloo
  300. Waterloo Bridge
  301. Way Out West
  302. Westworld
  303. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
  304. Where Eagles Dare
  305. While You Were Sleeping
  306. The Wicker Man
  307. The Wild Bunch
  308. Winchester ‘73
  309. Witness
  310. Woodstock
  311. Young Guns
  312. Zelig
  313. Zero Hour
  314. Zulu
Author Comments: 

These are the movies I have yet to see from the list. Entries in parentheses only appeared in the reference list, but not in the text of the book (or vica versa). I figure they were the movies that just missed making the cut or just sneaked in, so I included them for completeness. I might go back and add dates if I'm feeling ambitious some day...(or maybe once I've whittled the list down a little more...).