The Guardian: 1000 Films to See Before You Die

• À Bout de Souffle (1960)
• Ace in the Hole (1951)
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
• An Actor's Revenge (1963)
• The Addiction (1995)
• The Adjuster (1991)
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
• After Hours (1985)
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• Airplane! (1980)
• Akira (1988)
• Alexander Nevsky (1938)
• Alfie (1966)
• Alice (1988)
• Alien (1979)
• All About My Mother (1999)
• All That Heaven Allows (1955)
• All That Jazz (1979)
• All the President's Men (1976)
• Alphaville (1965)
• Amadeus (1984)
• Les Amants (1958)
• Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991)
• Amelie (2001)
• American Beauty (1999)
• American Gigolo (1980)
• American Graffiti (1973)
• An American in Paris (1951)
• American Movie (1999)
• American Pie (1999)
• American Splendor (2003)
• An American Werewolf in London (1981)
• Amores Perros (2000)
• Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
• Andrei Rublev (1966)
• An Angel at My Table (1990)
• Annie Hall (1977)
• The Apartment (1960)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• L'Appartement (1996)
• The Apple (1998)
• The Army in the Shadows (1969)
• Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
• Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
• The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
• Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
• L'Atalante (1934)
• Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)
• Atlantic City (1980)
• Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
• Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
• Audition (1999)
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
• L'Avventura (1960)
• Babe (1995)
• Babette's Feast (1987)
• Back to the Future (1985)
• Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
• Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
• Bad Lieutenant (1992)
• Bad Santa (2003)
• Badlands (1973)
• Bagdad Cafe (1987)
• Bambi (1942)
• Bande à Part (1964)
• Bandit Queen (1994)
• Barbarella (1968)
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• Barton Fink (1991)
• Batman (1989)
• The Battle of Algiers (1966)
• Battle Royale (2000)
• Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
• Beau Travail (1999)
• Becket (1964)
• Before Sunrise (1995)
• Being John Malkovich (1999)
• Being There (1979)
• Belle de Jour (1967)
• La Belle Noiseuse (1991)
• Belleville Rendez-Vous (2003)
• Ben-Hur (1959)
• La Bête (1975)
• La Bête Humaine (1938)
• Better Off Dead... (1985)
• Betty Blue (1986)
• Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
• Bicycle Thieves (1948)
• The Big Chill (1983)
• The Big Combo (1955)
• The Big Heat (1953)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Big Night (1996)
• The Big Parade (1925)
• The Big Sleep (1946)
• Big Wednesday (1978)
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)
• The Birds (1963)
• The Birth of a Nation (1915)
• Black Cat, White Cat (1998)
• Blackboard Jungle (1955)
• Blackboards (2000)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• The Blair Witch Project (1999)
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
• A Blonde in Love (1965)
• Bloody Sunday (1960)
• Blow Up (1966)
• The Blue Angel (1930)
• The Blue Dahlia (1946)
• The Blue Lamp (1950)
• Blue Velvet (1986)
• The Blues Brothers (1980)
• Bob le Flambeur (1955)
• Body and Soul (1947)
• Bombon El Perro (2004)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• Boogie Nights (1997)
• Das Boot (1981)
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
• The Boston Strangler (1968)
• Le Boucher (1970)
• Bowling for Columbine (2002)
• Boyz n the Hood (1991)
• The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
• Branded to Kill (1967)
• Braveheart (1995)
• Brazil (1985)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
• Breaking Away (1979)
• Breaking the Waves (1996)
• Brick (2005)
• Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Brief Encounter (1945)
• A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
• Brighton Rock (1947)
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
• Bringing Up Baby (1938)
• Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
• Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• Buffalo '66 (1998)
• Bugsy Malone (1976)
• Build My Gallows High (1947)
• Bull Durham (1988)
• Bullitt (1968)
• Burnt by the Sun (1994)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
• Cabaret (1972)
• The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)
• La Cage aux Folles (1978)
• A Canterbury Tale (1944)
• Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
• Caravaggio (1986)
• Caro Diario (1993)
• Carry on Cleo (1964)
• The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Casino (1995)
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
• Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)
• The Cement Garden (1993)
• Central Station (1998)
• La Cérémonie (1995)
• The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
• Chariots of Fire (1981)
• The Chess Players (1977)
• Chicken Run (2000)
• Un Chien Andalou (1929)
• The Child (2005)
• Chinatown (1974)
• Chuck & Buck (2000)
• Chungking Express (1994)
• La Ciénaga (2001)
• The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
• Cinema Paradiso (1988)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• City of God (2002)
• Clerks (1994)
• A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• Closely Observed Trains (1966)
• Close-Up (1990)
• Clueless (1995)
• Cocksucker Blues (1972)
• The Colour of Pomegranates (1968)
• Come and See (1985)
• The Company of Wolves (1984)
• Comrades (1986)
• Con Air (1997)
• The Conformist (1970)
• The Consequences of Love (2004)
• Contempt (1963)
• The Conversation (1974)
• Coogan's Bluff (1968)
• The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
• Cool Hand Luke (1967)
• Le Corbeau (1943)
• The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
• Crash (1996)
• Cremaster 1 (1996)
• Cremaster 2 (1999)
• Cremaster 3 (2002)
• Cremaster 4 (1995)
• Cremaster 5 (1997)
• Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
• "Crocodile" Dundee (1986)
• Cronos (1993)
• Crooklyn (1994)
• Crossfire (1947)
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
• Crumb (1994)
• The Crying Game (1992)
• Cul-de-sac (1966)
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
• The Damned (1963)
• Dancer in the Dark (2000)
• Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
• Danton (1983)
• Dark Star (1974)
• Darling (1965)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
• Day for Night (1973)
• Days of Being Wild (1990)
• Days of Heaven (1978)
• Dazed and Confused (1993)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
• Dead of Night (1945)
• Dead Presidents (1995)
• Dead Ringers (1988)
• Death in Venice (1971)
• The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• Deliverance (1972)
• Der Golem (1920)
• Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
• Detour (1945)
• Devdas (2002)
• Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
• The Devils (1971)
• Les Diaboliques (1955)
• Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
• Dick Tracy (1990)
• Die Hard (1988)
• Dig! (2004)
• Diner (1982)
• Dirty Dancing (1987)
• The Dirty Dozen (1967)
• Dirty Harry (1971)
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
• Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
• Diva (1981)
• Django (1966)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• Doctor Zhivago (1965)
• Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
• Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
• Dogville (2003)
• La Dolce Vita (1960)
• Donnie Brasco (1997)
• Donnie Darko (2001)
• Dont Look Back (1967)
• Don't Look Now (1973)
• Double Indemnity (1944)
• Dougal and the Blue Cat (1970)
• Le Doulos (1962)
• Down by Law (1986)
• Downfall (2004)
• Dracula (1958)
• The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
• The Dream Life of Angels (1998)
• Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947)
• The Dresser (1983)
• Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
• Drunken Master (1978)
• Duck Soup (1933)
• Dumb & Dumber (1994)
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• East of Eden (1955)
• Easy Rider (1969)
• Edward II (1991)
• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
• 8½ (1963)
• Eight Men Out (1988)
• 8 Mile (2002)
• Election (1999)
• Elephant (2003)
• The Elephant Man (1980)
• Elizabeth (1998)
• Elmer Gantry (1960)
• Empire of the Sun (1987)
• End of the Century (2003)
• The Endless Summer (1966)
• Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
• The English Patient (1996)
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
• Enter the Dragon (1973)
• Eraserhead (1977)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
• The Evil Dead (1981)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• Eyes Without a Face (1960)
• The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
• A Face in the Crowd (1957)
• Face/Off (1997)
• The Faculty (1998)
• Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
• The Fallen Idol (1948)
• Fanny and Alexander (1982)
• Far from Heaven (2002)
• Farewell My Concubine (1993)
• Fargo (1996)
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
• Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
• Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
• Festen (1998)
• Field of Dreams (1989)
• The Fifth Element (1997)
• Fight Club (1999)
• Fires Were Started (1943)
• A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
• Fists in the Pocket (1965)
• Fitzcarraldo (1982)
• Five Easy Pieces (1970)
• Flesh (1968)
• Flirting with Disaster (1996)
• The Fly (1986)
• Force of Evil (1948)
• The Fortune Cookie (1966)
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
• The Four Hundred Blows (1959)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• Freaks (1932)
• The French Connection (1971)
• The Front (1976)
• The Fugitive (1993)
• Funny Games (1997)
• Gallivant (1997)
• The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
• The General (1927)
• Get Carter (1971)
• Ghost (1990)
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
• Ghost in the Shell (1995)
• Ghost World (2001)
• Ghostbusters (1984)
• Giant (1956)
• Gigi (1958)
• Gilda (1946)
• Gimme Shelter (1970)
• Ginger Snaps (2000)
• Gladiator (2000)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
• Gloria (1980)
• The Go-Between (1970)
• The Godfather (1972)
• Going Places (1974)
• Goldfinger (1964)
• Gone with the Wind (1939)
• Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
• Goodfellas (1990)
• Gosford Park (2001)
• The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
• The Graduate (1967)
• Le Grand Voyage (2004)
• La Grande Bouffe (1973)
• La Grande Illusion (1937)
• The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
• Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
• Grease (1978)
• The Great Dictator (1940)
• Great Expectations (1946)
• The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
• Greed (1924)
• Gregory's Girl (1981)
• Grey Gardens (1975)
• The Grifters (1990)
• Grizzly Man (2005)
• Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• Gummo (1997)
• Gun Crazy (1950)
• Guys and Dolls (1955)
• La Haine (1995)
• The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)
• Hairspray (1988)
• Halloween (1978)
• Happiness (1998)
• Hard Boiled (1992)
• A Hard Day's Night (1964)
• The Harder They Come (1972)
• Harold and Maude (1971)
• Harper (1966)
• The Haunting (1963)
• Häxan (1922)
• Head (1968)
• Head-On (2004)
• Hearts and Minds (1974)
• Heat (1995)
• Heathers (1989)
• Heavenly Creatures (1994)
• Heaven's Gate (1980)
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
• Heimat (1984)
• Hell Is a City (1960)
• Hellzapoppin' (1941)
• Henry V (1944)
• Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
• Hester Street (1975)
• Hidden (2005)
• High Noon (1952)
• The Hired Hand (1971)
• Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
• His Girl Friday (1940)
• A History of Violence (2005)
• The Holy Mountain (1973)
• The Honeymoon Killers (1969)
• Hope and Glory (1987)
• The Horse Thief (1986)
• Hot Fuzz (2007)
• The Hours and Times (1991)
• House of Flying Daggers (2004)
• The House of Mirth (2000)
• House of Wax (1953)
• Howards End (1992)
• Hud (1963)
• Hukkle (2002)
• The Hustler (1961)
• I Am Cuba (1964)
• I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
• I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
• I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
• The Ice Storm (1997)
• The Idiots (1998)
• If... (1968)
• Ikiru (1952)
• I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
• In a Lonely Place (1950)
• In the Company of Men (1997)
• In the Heat of the Night (1967)
• In the Mood for Love (2000)
• In the Name of the Father (1993)
• In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
• In This World (2002)
• Independence Day (1996)
• Infernal Affairs (2002)
• The Innocents (1961)
• The Insider (1999)
• Intolerance (1916)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• The Ipcress File (1965)
• Irma Vep (1996)
• The Iron Giant (1999)
• Irréversible (2002)
• It Happened One Night (1934)
• The Italian Job (1969)
• It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
• Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944)
• Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946)
• Ivansxtc (2000)
• Jackie Brown (1997)
• Jacquot de Nantes (1991)
• Japón (2002)
• Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
• Jaws (1975)
• The Jerk (1979)
• Jerry Maguire (1996)
• La Jetée (1962)
• Johnny Guitar (1954)
• Le Jour se Lève (1939)
• Jubilee (1978)
• Jules and Jim (1962)
• The Jungle Book (1967)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• Kanal (1957)
• Kandahar (2001)
• The Karate Kid (1984)
• Keane (2004)
• Kes (1969)
• Kids (1995)
• The Killer (1989)
• Killer of Sheep (1977)
• The Killers (1946)
• The Killing (1956)
• The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
• Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
• King Kong (1933)
• King Lear (1971) (Kozintsev)
• The King of Comedy (1982)
• King of New York (1990)
• Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
• Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
• Klute (1971)
• Knife in the Water (1962)
• Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
• Kwaidan (1964)

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