100 Movies to see before you die.

Yahoo Movies ^ | 03/22/2009 | Yahoo! Movies Editorial Staff  

[iowamark]

Many movies are good, some are great, but only a select few can be called truly "essential." After heated discussions, long negotiations, and a shouting match or two, the staff at Yahoo! Movies has put together this list of the 100 films you must see before you die.

To choose the titles for the list, we considered factors like historical importance and cultural impact. But we also selected films that we believe are the most thrilling, most dramatic, scariest, and funniest movies of all time. Some of these films you've seen, and some you may not have heard of, but we believe that each one is a timeless classic that you absolutely have to see.

12 Angry Men (1957) Directed By: Sidney Lumet Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E. G. Marshall

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Directed By: Stanley Kubrick Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

The 400 Blows (1959)Directed By: Francois Truffaut Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick Auffay Why You Should See It

8 ½ (1963) Directed By: Federico Fellini Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee

The African Queen (1952) Directed By: John Huston Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley

Alien (1979) Directed By: Ridley Scott Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright

All About Eve (1950) Directed By: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders

[seoul62]

Fat Man & Little Boy-*(about General Graves, Oppenheimer and the Bomb)*, Impromptu, L.A. Confidential, Lumumba and Beauty and the Beast-*(the black and white - French version.)*./Just Asking - seoul62......

[Made In The USA]

What about an epic - ‘The Ten Commandments’? I am still convinced that if I go to heaven, I’ll find that Moses will look exactly like Charleton Heston.

What about the ‘The Blues Brothers’?

[Wyatt's Torch]

I’ve actually seen 38 of these...couple of disagreements:

Crash and Traffic deserve to be on the list. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is way overrated. If you are going to pick a martial arts/artsy film, I thought House of Flying Daggers was much better.

[Isabel C.]

One of my all time favorite movies is The Sting, with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. I also “enjoyed” The Exorcist.

[reg45]

Here are three comedies to add to the list:

Harvey (1950)
Director: Henry Koster
Cast: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow

The Producers (1968)
Director: Mel Brooks
Cast: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder
- - - - * The 2005 remake is almost as good. But! See the original first.
The Producers (2005)
Director: Susan Stroman
Cast: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair

[gussiefinknottle]

I love foreign films also. I would have put “Children of Paradise,” on list.

[mad_as_he$$]

I have seen almost all of them. About 20 or so I want my time back. Citizen Kane what a pompous POS. There are way better Welles movies such as Man in the Shadow. One I notice is not on the list is the first Terminator. If you are going to include T2 you have to have T1.

[Monterrosa-24]

“I, Claudius, in its entirety...”

Yes that is one I would like to see. But I think when we’re on our death beds and think of the things in life we did not do...watching movies will not be one of them.

How could they have FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH on this brainless best list?

[Vanders9]

Oh,

Well, I dont care to the object of other peoples scorn and paranoia when I was asking a question.

Live in your own madhouse

[MortMan]

Where is “Debbie does Dallas” in that list? ;-P

[Straight Vermonter]

I’ve seen 62 and there were 13 that I had never heard of.

[Vanders9]

haunting music. Very good acting. Plus it was made in a more innocent age when most people really did not believe such atrocities went on.

[texasredneck]

Only one John Wayne movie?

[Vor Lady]

Not a bad list.

[wtc911]

I've seen all but one, Toy Story.

It's a good list but where's the truly iconoc western? The Searchers is there but it's a revenge story set in the west, not a true western like Shane or High Noon. A spaghetti western (GBU)and a half-a-homo man love story (Butch) don't cut it.

Only one noir?

No Astair/Rogers? No Busby Berkley? These depression era films were vastly popular as the first examples of Escape movies.

No pre-code movie?btw

One silent (and it's German). Where's Griffith? Where are the incredible Russians from the silent era?

btw...Hard Days Night does belong for both cultural and technigue reasons. Spinelli invented the music video with this movie.

[Oztrich Boy]

PLEASE BE AWARE . . .

VIRTUALLY ALL THE SCIENCE FICTION FLICKS OF THE LAST 60 YEARS

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Interesting obsession you have there.

[Vanders9]

Careful Oztrich, non-believers risk all ire.

[Hatteras]

"He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach."

-The Old Man and the Sea, Spencer Tracy

I guess it's and acquired taste but I can sit and watch that movie any time.

[Chunga]

Everything by Billy Wilder and Elia Kazan, then fill in the blanks.

[Verbosus]

What about “Weekend at Bernie’s II”
That should top anyone’s list.