Never saw ‘Gandhi’.
‘Schindler’s List’ and ‘Saving Private Ryan’ are incredibly over rated.
Where’s Sam Peckinpah’s ‘The Wild Bunch’?
‘Lawrence Of Arabia’, also very over rated.
Switch ‘From Russia With Love’ for ‘Dr. No’.
Agree with the previously suggested ‘The Hill’ by Sidney Lumet and Bogart’s version of ‘Sahara’.
Don’t know why ‘American Beauty’, ‘Bull Durham’, ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day’ are on the list. Swap those for Walter Hill’s ‘Extreme Prejudice’, the Coen brothers’ ‘Miller’s Crossing’, Alan Ladd’s ‘The Glass Key’ or Bogart’s ‘The Big Sleep’.
Overall, a fair to middling list of ‘Suggestions’. ‘Essential’? No way in Hell!
Jack.