Movies To See Before You Die

My own tribute to the big fat book, although there’s not 1001 (yet).  They’re not all Oscar winners or deep explorations of the human psyche, but they are all great movies that I believe everyone needs to see.  The order is a bit random, since its a bit of a stream of conciousness that’s getting constantly updated, but I’ll highly recommend any of them.  Some of them I’ve already written about somewhere, all of them I could rave about for hours.

1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. My favourite films ever and the reason I got seriously into movies. Watch them all at least once a year.  Also, the inspiration for this blog title!
2. The Star Wars Trilogy. The prequels aren’t all bad but not up to the standard of the original)
3. The Matrix (the original, the second two have awesome fight choreography but little else)
4. Brokeback Mountain
5. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
6. Rain Man
7. Benny and Joon
8. Moulin Rouge
9. Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet
10. Die Hard
11. Speed
12. Armageddon
13. Deep Impact
14. Philadelphia
15. The Green Mile
16. The Shawshank Redemption
17. Braveheart
18. The Talented Mr Ripley
19. Dogma
20. Billy Elliot
21. Twelve Monkeys
22. The Truman Show
23. Reservoir Dogs
24. Pulp Fiction
25. Phone Booth
26. The Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy (but if you only have time for one, go for the first)
27. Sweeney Todd
28. Edward Scissorhands
29. Dead Poet’s Society
30. Midnight Cowboy
31. Good Morning Vietnam
32. Forrest Gump
33. Apollo 13
34. Four Weddings and a Funeral
35. Notting Hill
36. Love Actually
37. Casino Royale
38. The Dark Knight
39. X-Men (all of them!)
40. Spiderman
41. Donnie Darko
42. Fight Club
43. Withnail and I
44. The Lion King
45. Toy Story
46. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
47. Jurassic Park
48. The Indiana Jones Trilogy (we’ll ignore fourth one)
49. Stardust
50. The Back To The Future Trilogy
51. The Sixth Sense
52. Signs
53. Shrek
54. ET
55. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
56. Juno
57. Sleepy Hollow
58. The Blues Brothers
59. Desperado
60. Once Upon A Time In Mexico (technically the sequel to the above but made far enough apart to get separate justification)
61. Happy Feet
62. The Iron Giant
63. Grease
64. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
65. Independence Day
66. Jumanji
67. 10 Things I Hate About You
68. A Knight’s Tale
69. The Lost Boys
70. The Usual Suspects
71. Taxi Driver
72. Goodfellas
73. Identity
74. Donnie Brasco
75. Titanic
76. Wall-E
77. The Polar Express
78. Gremlins
79. Findind Neverland
80. A Scanner Darkly
81. Watchmen
82. Walk the Line
83. The Princess Bride
84. Star Trek (2009)
85. Shakespeare in Love
86. GATTACA
87. The Prestige
88. The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
89. Pleasantville
90. Iron Man (after a rethink)
91. Avatar
92. Sherlock Holmes and the sequel, A Game of Shadows
93. Iron Man 2
94. The Hangover (I know, this one surprised me too!)
95. Harry Brown
96. The Pianist
97. M*A*S*H
98. A Matter of Life and Death
99. The Motorcycle Diaries
100. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
101. High Fidelity
102. Inception
103. The King’s Speech
104. Shadowscan (short film)
105. District 9
106. Real Steel
107. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
108. In Bruges
109. Avengers Assemble. Hell Yeah.
110. Cloverfield
111. The Muppet Movie. Just properly fantastic.

I’ll keep adding more as I watch more.