As seen here.
Here are 100 films spanning nearly 100 years. Mark them as PARTLY (if you’ve seen parts but not enough to say “yeah, I’ve seen that”), SEEN (feel free to add +/- for liked/didn’t like it), FAVE (would watch it repeatedly) or QUEUED (if you would like to or intend to see it, via Netflix for example).
As you’ll see, my “old movie” viewing is seriously lacking.
1. Broken Blossoms
2. Metropolis
3. The Phantom of the Opera
4. Un Chien Andalou
5. Nosferatu
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc
7. Pandora’s Box
8. Modern Times
9. It Happened One Night PARTLY
10. Gone With the Wind PARTLY
11. The Adventures of Robin Hood
12. Wuthering Heights
13. Freaks
14. Casablanca SEEN+
15. Citizen Kane
16. Rebecca
17. Kind Hearts & Coronets
18. The Philadelphia Story SEEN+
19. Double Indemnity
20. The Heiress
21. The Magnificent Ambersons
22. Arsenic & Old Lace
23. Rear Window SEEN+
24. 12 Angry Men
25. Sunset Boulevard
26. Touch of Evil
27. Singin’ In The Rain
28. Some Like It Hot
29. On The Waterfront
30. The Night of the Hunter
31. The African Queen
32. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb SEEN+
33. Psycho
34. Lawrence of Arabia
35. To Kill A Mockingbird SEEN+
36. Mary Poppins SEEN
37. The Manchurian Candidate
38. Judgment at Nuremberg
39. 8 1/2
40. The Graduate SEEN (-)
41. A Man For All Seasons
42. The Hustler
43. The Innocents
44. The Godfather PARTLY
45. Five Easy Pieces
46. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest PARTLY
47. Taxi Driver PARTLY
48. Monty Python & The Holy Grail FAVE
49. Alien PARTLY
50. A Clockwork Orange
51. The Sting
52. Jaws SEEN
53. Annie Hall SEEN
54. Patton
55. The Exorcist PARTLY
56. Harold & Maude
57. Young Frankenstein SEEN+
58. Network
59. All The President’s Men SEEN
60. The Last Picture Show
61. Barry Lyndon
62. The French Connection
63. Rocky SEEN
64. M*A*S*H* PARTLY
65. Halloween SEEN
66. Das Boot
67. Amadeus SEEN+
68. The Elephant Man
69. Blade Runner PARTLY
70. The Princess Bride *FAVE*
71. Platoon
72. Body Heat
73. Die Hard SEEN+
74. Scarface
75. Brazil
76. Henry V
77. This Is Spinal Tap SEEN+
78. Say Anything *FAVE*
79. The Last Emperor
80. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off FAVE
81. Pulp Fiction SEEN
82. The Usual Suspects SEEN+
83. The Age of Innocence
84. Goodfellas SEEN+
85. Groundhog Day PARLTY
86. Leaving Las Vegas
87. Fight Club SEEN+
88. American Beauty SEEN+
89. Trainspotting SEEN+
90. The Nightmare Before Christmas SEEN+
91. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind SEEN+
92. The Pianist
93. A Beautiful Mind SEEN+
94. Million Dollar Baby
95. Kill Bill
96. Children of Men SEEN+
97. United 93
98. Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (Willy Wonka, yes…Charlie, no)
99. Little Miss Sunshine SEEN+
100. Casino Royale
Here are the five I recommend for you: Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, Some Like It Hot, Psycho & The Age of Innocence.
IMO Charlie is better than Willy. I know I’m in the minority but I hate Willy and love Charlie.
I would highly recommend scanning the listings at Turner Classic Movies. A lot of these movies are frequently on there (such as Sunset Blvd., Citizen Kane and Double Indemnity, all of which are superior flicks), and TCM airs them all unedited with no commercial breaks. And with a DVR, it just makes it that much easier!
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