Movies You Need to See Before You Die

[AClb5]

PS - Make a Movie/TV Shows section in the misc!!

Any series of movies means the whole series unless indicated. I have taken very large lists of the best movies I have seen in each section ( I have seen every one in each section with very few exceptions ) and narrowed it down to 200. Then taking in proportion to the sizes of the sections to even smaller lists for you. Then picked my top picks from each section. This is after 4+ years of my dad managing a Blockbuster and watching more movies (15,000 titles in his store) than any one person should see and hearing feedback on even more than i wanted so without adu. . .. In semi-alphabetical order:

Top 100 Comedies:

1. Airplane
2. Big Hit
3. Big Lebowsky
4. American Pie
5. Anchorman
6. Animal House
7. Austin Powers
8. Back to the Future
9. Being John Malkovich
10. Beverly Hills cop
11. Bottle Rocket
12. Caddy Shack
13. Cable Guy
14. Canadian Bacon
15. Cave Man
16. Chasing Amy
17. Clerks
18. Clue
19. Dazed and Confused
20. Death to Smoochy
21. Dirty Work
22. Dogma
23. Dr. Strangeglove
24. Dumb and Dumber
25. Edward Scissorhands
26. Election
27. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
28. Eurotrip
29. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
30. Ferris Bueller
31. Fletch
32. Four Rooms
33. Friday
34. Ghostbusters
35. Good Morning Vietnam
36. Graduate, the
37. Groundhog Day
38. Half Baked
39. Happy Gilmore
40. Head of State
41. Heathers
42. High Fidelity
43. Hitch
44. History of the World
45. Hot Shots
46. Hudsucker Proxy
47. Igby Goes Down
48. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
49. Jerk, the
50. Kingpin
51. Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang
52. Kung Pow
53. Ladies Man
54. Life Aquatic
55. Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
56. Little Monsters
57. Made
58. Major League
59. Mallrats
60. Mexican, the
61. Mystery, Alaska
62. Naked Gun
63. Napoleon Dynamite
64. Christmas Vacation
65. Van Wilder
66. Night at the Roxbury
67. O, Brother Where Art Thou?
68. Office Space
69. PCU
70. Porky's
71. Punch Drunk Love
72. Raising Arizona
73. Risky Buisiness
74. Robin Hood Men in Tights
75. Royal Tennanbaums
76. Rushmore
77. Scrooged
78. Shaun of the Dead
79. Slap Shot
80. Snatch
81. Spaceballs
82. Spies Like Us
83. Sting, the
84. Strange Brew
85. Stripes
86. Super Troopers
87. There's Something About Mary
88. This is Spinal Tap
89. Tommy Boy
90. Top Secret
91. Trading Places
92. Uncle Buck
93. Tootsie
94. Top Secret
95. Waiting
96. Wayne's World
97. Wedding Crashers
98. Wedding Singer
99. Whole 9 Yards
100. Young Frankenstein
101. Zoolander

Top 15 Comedies:

1. Animal House
2. Clerks
3. Half Baked
4. Slapshot
5. Mallrats
6. Spaceballs
7. Austin Powers
8. Caddyshack
9. Kung Pow
10. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
11. Office Space
12. Wayne's World
13. Zoolander
14. Something about Mary
15. Tommy Boy

[Cramerica]

No Debbie Does Dallas?

[AClb5]

Top 120 Action, Sci Fi, and Horror:

1. 12 Monkeyes
2. 187
3. 300
4. After the Sunset
5. Alien
6. Apacolypse Now
7. Armageddon
8. Assassins
9. Bad Boys
10. Batman I, II, and Begins
11. Behind Enemy Lines
12. Black Hawk Down
13. Blade
14. Bond
15. Boon Dock Saints
16. Bourne Identity
17. Braveheart
18. Bullet
19. Chronicals of Riddick
20. Clash of the Titans
21. Collateral
22. Con Air
23. Count of Monte Cristo
24. Crimson Tide
25. Crow
26. Cube
27. Dances with Wolves
28. Die Hard
29. Dirty Harry
30. Dog Day Afternoon
31. Enemy at the Gate
32. Dune
33. Event Horizon
34. Enter the Dragon
35. Equilibrium
36. Fast and the Furious
37. French Connection
38. Fugitive
39. Full Metal Jacket
40. Gattaca
41. Ghost and the Darkness
42. Gladiator
43. Glory
44. Gone in 60 Seconds
45. Goodfellas
46. Godfather
47. Hellboy
48. Hero
49. Hidalgo
50. History of Violence
51. Hitchhickers Guide to the Universe
52. Hunt for Red October
53. Hunted, the
54. I, Robot
55. Indiana Jones
56. Independence Day
57. Italian Job
58. Jackal
59. Jaws
60. Jurassic Park
61. Karate Kid
62. Kill Bill
63. LadyHawke
64. Last Starfighter
65. Last Man Standing
66. Last Samuri
67. Last of the Mohicans
68. Leon the Professional
69. Long Kiss Goodnight
70. Lord of the Rings
71. Matrix
72. Mission Impossible
73. Minority Report
74. Mortal Combat
75. Mummy
76. Natural Born Killers
77. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
78. Outbreak
79. Patton
80. Pirates of the Carribean
81. Pitch Black
82. Platoon
83. Planet of the Apes
84. Pulp Fiction
85. Predator
86. Red Dawn
87. Reign of Fire
88. Resevior Dogs
89. Right Stuff
90. Robin Hood
91. Ronin
92. Saint, the
93. Scarface
94. Saving Private Ryan
95. Signs
96. Silvarado
97. Sneakers
98. Soylent Green
99. Species
100. Sphere
101. Spiderman
102. Stargate
103. Starship Troopers
104. Superman
105. Star Wars
106. Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn
107. Swordfish
108. Terminator
109. Time Machine
110. Tombstone
111. Top Gun
112. Tora, Tora, Tora
113. Total Recall
114. Troy
115. Underworld
116. Unforgiven
117. Untouchables
118. Willow
119. X-Men
120. Young Guns


Top 15

1. 12 Monkeyes
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Boondock Saints
4. Enemy at the Gates
5. Equilibrium
6. Gattaca
7. Godfather
8. Lord of the Rings
9. Last of the Mohicans
10. Matrix
11. Pulp Fiction
12. Platoon
13. Scarface
14. Swordfish
15. X-Men

[AClb5]

Drama 90:

1. 9 1/2 Weeks
2. 25th Hour
3. Almost Famous
4. American Beauty
5. Amen
6. American History X
7. Apt Pupil
8. Barton Fink
9. Basketball Diaries
10. Beautiful Mind
11. Believer
12. Ben-Hur
13. Big Fish
14. Blow
15. Boiler Room
16. Brokedown Palace
17. Casino
18. Catch Me if you Can
19. Clockwork Orange
20. Crash
21. Dead Poets Society
22. Deer Hunter
23. Donnie Darko
24. Empire of the Sun
25. Falling Down
26. Few Good Men
27. Fight Club
28. For Love of the Game
29. Forrest Gump
30. Frequency
31. Frida
32. Gandhi
33. Gangs of New York
34. Garden State
35. Ghost World
36. Gia
37. Girl, Interupted
38. Godfather
39. Goodfellas
40. Gosford Park
41. Good Will Hunting
42. Gummo
43. Green Mile
44. Heat
45. Hoosiers
46. Hotel Rawanda
47. Kids
48. Last Castle
49. Lawrence of Arabia
50. Lean on Me
51. Legends of the Fall
52. Life of David Gale
53. Lost in Translation
54. Malcom X
55. Momento
56. Mystic River
57. Natural, the
58. O
59. One flew ofer the Cookoos
60. Outsiders
61. People vs. Larry Flynt
62. Pi
63. Pollock
64. Poolhall Junkies
65. Prestige, the
66. Raging Bull
67. Rain Man
68. Ray
69. Requiem for a Dream
70. River Runs Through It
71. Road to Perdition
72. Romeo and Juliet
73. Rudy
74. Rules of Attraction
75. Runaway Jury
76. Scent of a Woman
77. Schindler's List
78. School Ties
79. Seabiscuit
80. Searching for Bobby Fischer
81. Secondhand Lions
82. Shawshank Redemption
83. SLC Punk
84. Sleepers
85. Sling Blade
86. Taps
87. Thirteen
88. Trainspotting
89. Very Bad Things
90. What's Eating Gilbert Grape

[AClb5]

Suspense 70:

1. American Psycho
2. Antitrust
3. Apostle
4. Arlington Road
5. Basic
6. Bless the Child
7. Body of Evidence
8. Butterfly Effect
9. Clearing, the
10. Client, the
11. Color of Night
12. Confidence
13. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
14. Conspiracy Theory
15. Day of the Jackel
16. Devil's Advocate
17. Dial "M" for Murder
18. Domestic Disturbance
19. Dragonfly
20. Existence
21. Fallen
22. Fargo
23. Finder's Fee
24. Following
25. Fraility
26. From Hell
27. Game, the
28. General's Daughter
29. Gossip
30. Hannibal
31. Heist
32. Identity
33. Instinct
34. Insomnia
35. Memoirs of a Geisha
36. Missing
37. Mothman Prophecies
38. Mulholland Dr.
39. Munich
40. Murder by Numbers
41. Murder of Crows
42. Negotiator
43. Perfect Murder
44. Poison Ivy
45. Primer
46. Psycho
47. Ransom
48. Recruit
49. Red Dragon
50. Rising Sun
51. Salton Sea
52. Seven
53. Shade
54. Silence of the Lambs
55. Sixth Sense
56. Skulls
57. Spartan
58. Spy Game
59. Stay
60. Suicide Kings
61. Syriana
62. Swimming Pool
63. Taking Lives
64. Training Day
65. Time to Kill
66. Unbreakable
67. Usual Suspect
68. V for Vendetta
69. Vannila Sky
70. Way of the Gun

[AClb5]

Foreign 20:

1. Amelie
2. Brotherhood of the Wolf
3. City of God
4. Das Boot
5. Farewell my Concubine
6. Ju-On
7. Legend of Suriyothai
8. Malena
9. Monsoon Wedding
10. No Man's Land
11. Onnyoji
12. Open your Eyes
13. Piano Teacher
14. RAN
15. Running on Karma
16. Seven Samurai
17. Tae Guk Gi
18. Sex and Lucia
19. Empire of Wolves
20. Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman

[AClb5]

Top 20 Drama, Suspense, and Foreign:

1. American Beauty
2. Beautiful Mind
3. Clockwork Orange
4. Donnie Darko
5. Fight Club
6. Life of David Gale
7. Memento
8. Poolhall Junkies
9. Requiem for a Dream
10. Schindler's List
11. Shawshank Redemption
12. American Psycho
13. Basic
14. Fraility
15. Game, the
16. Perfect Murder
17. Seven
18. Silence of the Lambs
19. Vannilla Sky
20. V for Vendetta

[AClb5]

Top 10 Underatted Movies:

1. SLC Punk
2. Bottle Rocket
3. Death to Smoochy
4. 187
5. Leon the Professional
6. Butterfly Effect
7. Basic
8. Existenze
9. Stay
10. Way of the Gun

[boosteddatsun]

Holy mother of I ain't readin' all that ****

[Worldwide]

young throats?

[Fon7ana]

u expect me to see ALL those before i die.. but what if i have somewhat of a life?

[Sam C]

where's:

Millers Crossing

Letters From Iwo Jima

Flags of our Fathers

To kill a mocking bird

And ALL Coen Brother's films should be on there

Rush Hour?????

This just about fails

[AClb5]

Originally Posted by Sam C

where's:

Millers Crossing

Letters From Iwo Jima

Flags of our Fathers

To kill a mocking bird

And ALL Coen Brother's films should be on there

Rush Hour?????

This just about fails

This is my list, feel free to make your own!

[boast]

wait wait, u actually MADE that list?! no c&p?


*leaves thread*

[HY9]

Originally Posted by boast

wait wait, u actually MADE that list?! no c&p?


*leaves thread*

you made it? damn, thats a lot of movies you watched.

[johno_66]

Ill give any1 reps if they find me a working link to anchorman... I posted a thread before and som1 gave me a link but it stoped working after 2 minutes.

[HY9]

Originally Posted by johno_66

Ill give any1 reps if they find me a working link to anchorman... I posted a thread before and som1 gave me a link but it stoped working after 2 minutes.

aww, cant fine one

[Mikehc69]

The lack of "Blazing Saddles" disturbs me.

[Sam C]

Originally Posted by AClb5

This is my list, feel free to make your own!

lol, I didn't know it was yours. WOW

[AClb5]

Originally Posted by Sam C

lol, I didn't know it was yours. WOW

Took me a while.

[TheNewAddiction]

Worst Top list of all.

Animal House? Seriously? Have you watched this, it's not that funny.

12 Monkeys and Equilibrium in the top? WOW.

American Beauty and Beautiful Mind? Are those really your choices or are you just going with what Hollywood might pick - cause both those movies suck, even more so considering they took in Oscars. *shakes head

In closing, I will give you props on your Foreign Film selection, that's a pretty decent list.

TNA

[Bad Company]

Originally Posted by AClb5

This is my list, feel free to make your own!

I very much doubt its your list.
You have copied it

[AClb5]

Originally Posted by Bad Company

I very much doubt its your list.
You have copied it

K.

[Pad264]

Oh, you're that guy...the guy who thinks the first movie was screened in 1990. (no, not being literal) (yes, that is a jaded list)

EDIT: Came off meaner than I meant to...plus, I did not see your age at first. It's all good...but you have a lot to see I imagine.

[trainTilfailure]

honestly ur list sucks ass.

but Snatch. is definately one of my fav. movies ever and one of the more entertaining i've seen.



My List off the top of my head

1. Catch me if you can
2. Snatch.
3. Oceans 11
4. Friday Night Lights

[Carpathia]

how can you possibly not have any star wars movie in the top 15 all time in sci fi?

[Bad Company]

Im not buying that u have watchd all them films

[Bad Company]

Guy is a jack ass, its his dads list from video shop... if he hasnt stole it off another web page

[AClb5]

Originally Posted by Bad Company

Im not buying that u have watchd all them films

Well when your dad manages a Blockbuster, and brings home new movies to watch every night...It's kind of addicting. Like I said above, I have probably seen about 99% of them.

[johno_66]

Originally Posted by HY9

aww, cant fine one

Reps for trying anyway...

Originally Posted by shayne26

honestly ur list sucks ass.

but Snatch. is definately one of my fav. movies ever and one of the more entertaining i've seen.



My List off the top of my head

1. Catch me if you can
2. Snatch.
3. Oceans 11
4. Friday Night Lights

Snatch is fkin amazin!