250 Must Watch Movies

One my Life List I also want to watch the IMDB Top 250 movies.

I have taken the list from the date I published this page (19/07/11).

  1. The ShawshankRedemption
  2. The Godfather
  3. The Godfather Part II
  4. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
  5. Pulp Fiction
  6. 12 Angry Men
  7. Schindler’s List
  8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  9. Inception
  10. The Dark Knight
  11. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  12. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
  13. Seven Samurai
  14. Fight Club
  15. Goodfellas
  16. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope
  17. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  18. Casablanca
  19. City of God
  20. Once Upon a Time in the West
  21. Rear Window
  22. The Matrix
  23. Raiders of the Lost Ark
  24. The Usual Suspects
  25. Psycho
  26. The Silence of the Lambs
  27. Se7en
  28. It’s a Wonderful Life
  29. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  30. Memento
  31. Forest Gump
  32. Sunset Boulevard
  33. Leon
  34. Dr Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  35. Apocalypse Now
  36. Toy Story 3
  37. American History X
  38. Citizen Kane
  39. North By Northwest
  40. American Beauty
  41. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
  42. Taxi Driver
  43. Savings Private Ryan
  44. Alien
  45. Vertigo
  46. Amelie
  47. Spirited Away
  48. The Shining
  49. Paths of Glory
  50. City Lights
  51. WALL.E
  52. The Pianist
  53. M
  54. Double Indemnity
  55. Lawrence of Arabia
  56. The Lives of Others
  57. The Departed
  58. A Clockwork Orange
  59. To Kill a Mockingbird
  60. Aliens
  61. Requiem for a Dream
  62. Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
  63. Das Boot
  64. Modern Times
  65. Reservoir Dogs
  66. Life is Beautiful
  67. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
  68. The Third Man
  69. L.A. Confidential
  70. Back to the Future
  71. Chinatown
  72. The Prestige
  73. The Treasure of the Serria Madre
  74. Cinema Paradiso
  75. The Green Mile
  76. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  77. Raging Bull
  78. Once Upon Time in America
  79. Rashomon
  80. Some Like it Hot
  81. Pan’s Labyrinth
  82. Singin’ in the Rain
  83. Amadeus
  84. The Bridge over the River Kwai
  85. All About Eve
  86. Full Metal Jacket
  87. The Great Dictator
  88. Bicycle Theives
  89. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  90. Braveheart
  91. Gladiator
  92. The Apartment
  93. Inglorious Basterds
  94. Metropolis
  95. Downfall
  96. Oldboy
  97. Unforgiven
  98. The Sting
  99. Gran Torino
  100. Up
  101. The Elephant Man
  102. Mr Smith goes to Washington
  103. Black Swan
  104. The Maltese Falcon
  105. Star Wars: Episide VI – The Return of the Jedi
  106. On the Waterfront
  107. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
  108. Princess Mononoke
  109. Rebecca
  110. Die Hard
  111. The Great Escape
  112. Sin City
  113. The Seventh Seal
  114. Batman Begins
  115. Heat
  116. The King’s Speech
  117. Fargo
  118. The General
  119. Blade Runner
  120. For a Few Dollars More
  121. Yojimbo
  122. Hotel Rwanda
  123. Jaws
  124. Grave of the Fireflies
  125. No Country for Old Men
  126. Ran
  127. Witness for the Prosecution
  128. Snatch
  129. A Touch of Evil
  130. The Wizard of Oz
  131. Wild Strawberries
  132. The Lion King
  133. Slumdog Millionaire
  134. The Deer Hunter
  135. The Big Lewowski
  136. The Sixth Sense
  137. Cool Hand Luke
  138. Annie Hall
  139. Toy Story
  140. Strangers on a Train
  141. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  142. Donnie Darko
  143. It Happened One Night
  144. High Noon
  145. Platoon
  146. Into The Wild
  147. Scarface
  148. Million Dollar Baby
  149. There Will Be Blood
  150. District 9
  151. Trainspotting
  152. The Gold Rush
  153. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
  154. Notorious
  155. Gone with the Wind
  156. The Grapes of Wrath
  157. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  158. Ikiru
  159. The Kid
  160. Groundhog Day
  161. The Wages of Fear
  162. The Secret in Their Eyes
  163. Ben-Hur
  164. Amores Perros
  165. The Big Sleep
  166. The Graduate
  167. Life of Brian
  168. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
  169. Finding Nemo
  170. The Manchurian Candidate
  171. The Terminator
  172. The Best Years of Our Lives
  173. Casino
  174. The Thing
  175. The Bourne Ultimatum
  176. Stand By Me
  177. The Wrestler
  178. Dog Day Afternoon
  179. Twelve Monkeys
  180. How to Train Your Dragon
  181. V for Vendetta
  182. The Friends
  183. Avatar
  184. Gandhi
  185. My Neighbour Totoro
  186. Judgement at Nuremberg
  187. Ratatouille
  188. Good Will Hunting
  189. The Night of the Hunter
  190. Network
  191. 8 1/2
  192. The Princess Bride
  193. The 400 Blows
  194. The Battle of Algiers
  195. The Killing
  196. The Hustlers
  197. Star Trek
  198. Mary and Max
  199. La Strada
  200. Dial M for Murder
  201. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  202. The Social Network
  203. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  204. The Exorcist
  205. Persona
  206. The Wild Bunch
  207. A Streetcar Named Desire
  208. Stalag 17
  209. The Incredibles
  210. In Bruges
  211. Kind Hearts and Coronets
  212. Fanny and Alexander
  213. The Passion of Joan of Arc
  214. Barry Lyndon
  215. Rocky
  216. All Quiet on the Western Front
  217. The Truman Show
  218. Let the Right One In
  219. Mystic River
  220. Ed Wood
  221. Big Fish
  222. Magnolia
  223. Nights of Cabiria
  224. Sherlock Jr
  225. Rosemary’s Baby
  226. Children of Men
  227. Howl’s Moving Castle
  228. Infernal Affairs
  229. Manhattan
  230. Festen
  231. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
  232. Roman Holiday
  233. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
  234. Patton
  235. Rope
  236. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  237. Sleuth
  238. His Girl Friday
  239. Letters from Two Jima
  240. Duck Soup
  241. Shutter Island
  242. Monsters Inc
  243. Harvey
  244. Rain Man
  245. Ip Man
  246. La Grande Illusion
  247. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring
  248. Arsenic and Old Lace
  249. A Separation
  250. A Tokyo Story

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