250 Must Watch Movies

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Rank Rating Title

1 9.1 The Shawshank Redemption(1994)2 9.1 The Godfather(1972)3 9 The Godfather: Part II(1974)4 8.9 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly(1966)5 8.9 Pulp Fiction(1994)6 8.9

Toy Story 3(2010)7 8.9 Schindler's List(1993)8 8.8 12 Angry Men(1957)9 8.8 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975)

10 8.8 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back(1980)11 8.8 The Dark Knight(2008)12 8.8 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King(2003)13 8.8 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope(1977)14 8.7 Seven Samurai(1954)15 8.7 Casablanca(1942)16 8.7 Goodfellas(1990)

17 8.7 Fight Club(1999)18 8.7 City of God(2002)19 8.7 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(2001)

20 8.7 Raiders of the Lost Ark(1981)21 8.7 Rear Window(1954)22 8.7 Psycho(1960)23 8.7 The Usual Suspects(1995)24 8.7 Once Upon a Time in the West(1968)25 8.6 The Silence of the Lambs(1991)26 8.6

The Matrix(1999)27 8.6 Se7en(1995)28 8.6 Memento(2000)29 8.6 It's a Wonderful Life(1946)30 8.6 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers(2002)31 8.6 Sunset Blvd.(1950)32 8.6 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love

the Bomb(1964)33 8.6 North by Northwest(1959)34 8.6 Citizen Kane(1941)35 8.6 The Professional(1994)

36 8.6 Apocalypse Now(1979)37 8.6 Forrest Gump(1994)38 8.5 American Beauty(1999)39 8.5 American History X(1998)40 8.5 Taxi Driver(1976)41 8.5 Terminator 2: Judgment Day(1991)42 8.5 Vertigo(1958)43 8.5 Lawrence of Arabia(1962)44 8.5 Alien(1979)

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45 8.5 Amélie(2001)46 8.5 Saving Private Ryan(1998)47 8.5 WALL·E(2008)48 8.5 The Shining(1980)49 8.5 A Clockwork Orange(1971)50 8.4 Paths of Glory(1957)51 8.4

The Departed(2006)52 8.4 The Pianist(2002)53 8.4 To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)54 8.4 Aliens(1986)55 8.4 Spirited Away(2001)56 8.4 The Lives of Others(2006)57 8.4 M(1931)58 8.4 Double Indemnity(1944)59 8.4 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind(2004)60 8.4 Chinatown(1974)61 8.4 Requiem for a Dream(2000)

62 8.4 L.A. Confidential(1997)63 8.4 Reservoir Dogs(1992)64 8.4 The Third Man(1949)65 8.4 Das Boot(1981)66 8.4 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre(1948)67 8.4 Monty Python and the Holy Grail(1975)68 8.4 City Lights(1931)69 8.4 Pan's Labyrinth(2006)70 8.4 The Bridge on the River Kwai(1957)71 8.3 Raging Bull(1980)72 8.3

The Prestige(2006)73 8.3 Back to the Future(1985)74 8.3 Inglourious Basterds(2009)75 8.3 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)76 8.3 Life Is Beautiful(1997)77 8.3 Modern Times(1936)78 8.3 Singin' in the Rain(1952)79 8.3 Some Like It Hot(1959)80 8.3 Amadeus(1984)81 8.3 Full Metal Jacket(1987)82 8.3 Downfall(2004)

83 8.3 Up(2009)84 8.3 Braveheart(1995)85 8.3 Cinema Paradiso(1988)86 8.3 The Maltese Falcon(1941)87 8.3 Once Upon a Time in America(1984)88 8.3 All About Eve(1950)89 8.3 Rashômon(1950)90 8.3 Metropolis(1927)91 8.3 The Green Mile(1999)



































































































92 8.3 Gran Torino(2008)93 8.3 The Elephant Man(1980)94 8.3 The Great Dictator(1940)95 8.3 Sin City(2005)96 8.3 Rebecca(1940)97 8.3 The Apartment(1960)98 8.3

Gladiator(2000)99 8.3 The Sting(1973)100 8.3 The Great Escape(1963)101 8.3 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade(1989)102 8.3 Slumdog Millionaire(2008)103 8.3 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi(1983)104 8.3 Unforgiven(1992)105 8.3 Avatar(2009)106 8.3 Bicycle Thieves(1948)107 8.3 Jaws(1975)108 8.3 Batman Begins(2005)

109 8.2 Die Hard(1988)110 8.2 Blade Runner(1982)111 8.2 On the Waterfront(1954)112 8.2 Oldboy(2003)113 8.2 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington(1939)114 8.2 Hotel Rwanda(2004)115 8.2 No Country for Old Men(2007)116 8.2 Touch of Evil(1958)117 8.2 The Seventh Seal(1957)118 8.2 Fargo(1996)119 8.2

Princess Mononoke(1997)120 8.2 The Wizard of Oz(1939)121 8.2 For a Few Dollars More(1965)122 8.2 District 9(2009)123 8.2 Heat(1995)124 8.2 Strangers on a Train(1951)125 8.2 Cool Hand Luke(1967)126 8.2 Donnie Darko(2001)127 8.2 High Noon(1952)128 8.2 The Sixth Sense(1999)129 8.2 Notorious(1946)

130 8.2 The Deer Hunter(1978)131 8.2 There Will Be Blood(2007)132 8.2 Snatch.(2000)133 8.2 Annie Hall(1977)134 8.2 Kill Bill: Vol. 1(2003)135 8.2 The General(1926)136 8.2 The Manchurian Candidate(1962)137 8.2 The Big Lebowski(1998)138 8.2 Platoon(1986)



































































































139 8.1 Yojimbo(1961)140 8.1 Into the Wild(2007)141 8.1 Ran(1985)142 8.1 Ben-Hur(1959)143 8.1 The Wrestler(2008)144 8.1 The Big Sleep(1946)145 8.1

Million Dollar Baby(2004)146 8.1 The Lion King(1994)147 8.1 It Happened One Night(1934)148 8.1 Witness for the Prosecution(1957)149 8.1 Life of Brian(1979)150 8.1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)151 8.1 Toy Story(1995)152 8.1 The Bourne Ultimatum(2007)153 8.1 Finding Nemo(2003)154 8.1 Wild Strawberries(1957)155 8.1 Trainspotting(1996)

156 8.1 Gone with the Wind(1939)157 8.1 The Terminator(1984)158 8.1 Stand by Me(1986)159 8.1 Groundhog Day(1993)160 8.1 Scarface(1983)161 8.1 The Graduate(1967)162 8.1 Kick-Ass(2010)163 8.1 The Thing(1982)164 8.1 Amores Perros(2000)165 8.1 Star Trek(2009)166 8.1

Dog Day Afternoon(1975)167 8.1 Ratatouille(2007)168 8.1 Gandhi(1982)169 8.1 V for Vendetta(2005)170 8.1 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels(1998)171 8.1 The Wages of Fear(1953)172 8.1 Twelve Monkeys(1995)173 8.1 The Secret in Their Eyes(2009)174 8.1 How to Train Your Dragon(2010)175 8.1 The Grapes of Wrath(1940)176 8.1 Casino(1995)

177 8.1 The Gold Rush(1925)178 8.1 8½(1963)179 8.1 Grave of the Fireflies(1988)180 8.1 Diabolique(1955)181 8.1 The Night of the Hunter(1955)182 8 Judgment at Nuremberg(1961)183 8 The Incredibles(2004)184 8 The Princess Bride(1987)185 8 The Killing(1956)



































































































186 8 The Wild Bunch(1969)187 8 Kind Hearts and Coronets(1949)188 8 Children of Men(2006)189 8 The Exorcist(1973)190 8 In Bruges(2008)191 8 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans(1927)192 8

The Best Years of Our Lives(1946)193 8 The Kid(1921)194 8 Nights of Cabiria(1957)195 8 Dial M for Murder(1954)196 8 The Hustler(1961)197 8 Good Will Hunting(1997)198 8 Rosemary's Baby(1968)199 8 Ed Wood(1994)200 8 Harvey(1950)201 8 Big Fish(2003)202 8 King Kong(1933)

203 8 A Streetcar Named Desire(1951)204 8 Let the Right One In(2008)205 8 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly(2007)206 8 Sleuth(1972)207 8 Rocky(1976)208 8 Kill Bill: Vol. 2(2004)209 8 Magnolia(1999)210 8 Letters from Iwo Jima(2006)211 8 Shadow of a Doubt(1943)212 8 Mystic River(2003)213 8

Stalag 17(1953)214 8 Network(1976)215 8 Brief Encounter(1945)216 8 The African Queen(1951)217 8 Rope(1948)218 8 Crash(2004/I)219 8 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl(2003)

220 8 Bonnie and Clyde(1967)221 8 Duck Soup(1933)222 8 The Battle of Algiers(1966)

223 8 Planet of the Apes(1968)224 8 Manhattan(1979)225 8 The 400 Blows(1959)226 8 Patton(1970)227 8 La strada(1954)228 8 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon(2000)229 8 The Conversation(1974)230 8 Changeling(2008)231 8 Barry Lyndon(1975)

































































































232 8 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)233 8 Little Miss Sunshine(2006)234 8 Toy Story 2(1999)235 7.9 The Truman Show(1998)236 7.9 Anatomy of a Murder(1959)237 7.9 The Nightmare Before Christmas(1993)238 7.9

All Quiet on the Western Front(1930)239 7.9 The Adventures of Robin Hood(1938)240 7.9 Mulholland Dr.(2001)241 7.9 Spartacus(1960)242 7.9 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(1966)243 7.9 Monsters, Inc.(2001)244 7.9 Shaun of the Dead(2004)245 7.9 Ikiru(1952)246 7.9 My Neighbor Totoro(1988)247 7.9 Arsenic and Old Lace(1944)248 7.9 Rain Man(1988)

249 7.9 Glory(1989)250 7.9 The Philadelphia Story(1940)

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Five-Star Movies (Must See)

African Queen (1962 Adventure) *****

Amadeus *

Apollo 13

Armageddon *****

Ben Hur

Braveheart



Bridge on the River Kwai, The

Casablanca******

Chocolat

Count of Monte Cristo, The *

Cyrano de Begerac

Flight of The Phoenix

Fountainhead, The****

Gattaca

Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, The *****

High Noon ****

I Am Legend ***** (great, except for one mention of

the main here at the end)

In the Heat of the Night

Ice Princess*

Kiss the Girls **** (great portrayal of the main heroine)

Last of the Mohicans

Lawrence of Arabia

Lord of the Rings *

Love Letters

Matrix I*****

Miracle Worker, The

Name of the Rose, The

North by Northwest

Patton

The Pursuit of Happyness(2006) ******Scarlet Pimpernel, The

Seven Samurai, The

Shall We Dance?

Shane

Shawshank Redemption *****

Singin' in the Rain *****

Sound of Music, The *

Stick It

Stick It

Star WarsTerminator 2 *****

"V" for Vendetta *

We the living

Three–Four Star Movies

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The Edge (with Anthony Hopkins)

Aviator (great except for the end)

12 Angry Men***

1984

Adventures of Robin Hood, The

Airplane!*****

All About Eve

Amistad

An American in Paris

As Good As It Gets*

Back to the Future (part 1)

Godfather, The ***

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned





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397,774

236,140

152,662

403,723

32,851

267,013

112,990

206,550

269,526

445,381

352,772

313,535

93,782

163,491

221,634368,631

159,892

376,906

236,549

115,183

138,825

259,273

71,209

236,973

368,457

268,636

261,639

98,969

317,447

52,839

152,333

90,601

135,092

192,872

168,703

289,537

284,598

216,795

150,534

229,655

88,926

77,421

175,157

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174,941

263,180

173,310

171,920

187,998

43,311

253,894

129,340

80,518

165,762

96,990

71,893

38,676

35,854

212,985

76,688

179,326

161,254

206,758

49,662

68,595

32,185

151,452

26,340

147,614

57,18887,399

195,553

194,615

164,659

156,172

104,649

34,491

53,899

65,407

94,217

147,118

79,718

100,672

233,897

43,944

50,239

69,949

34,171

37,895

38,287

191,658



121,268

56,329

35,787

248,288

34,488

35,340

270,657

63,986

60,232

167,068

168,530

205,389

95,383

243,848

26,578

133,812

260,999

175,987

181,152

39,988

93,663

32,432

89,042

191,476

31,809

35,630161,183

63,552

100,069

41,914

141,683

140,353

33,200

44,058

204,530

33,239

231,828

30,535

85,728

126,577

167,753

63,576

224,278

19,314

33,912

172,373

105,545



28,410

94,475

33,658

56,822

88,509

28,209

136,093

130,430

24,335

17,423

91,264

55,938

143,379

140,351

158,857

20,594

146,237

76,750

173,984

87,444

130,717

147,162

75,795

60,054

75,858

59,298127,628

57,655

126,651

49,175

216,604

121,760

13,720

164,887

13,736

23,806

22,690

105,116

20,219

28,755

33,356

14,106

24,938

13,728

153,590

121,275

24,006



30,263

12,667

152,555

99,666

92,885

10,959

16,900

13,423

10,617

28,814

24,664

145,125

48,936

72,151

22,615

136,745

37,662

32,772

52,488

29,619

16,802

92,626

176,680

118,873

54,609

20,747115,376

20,256

32,491

13,046

33,160

30,372

166,128

225,669

40,101

25,782

13,357

55,939

37,541

23,073

38,498

17,231

106,283

31,971

61,767

38,686



131,204

145,939

112,303

149,801

16,144

76,139

20,751

22,879

99,019

49,235

19,009

109,805

128,106

15,508

29,087

29,164

101,240

55,792

27,264

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