100 Movies to See Before You Die

1990

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  Goodfellas

  DIRECTED BY: Martin Scorsese

  STARRING: Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Misery

  DIRECTED BY: Rob Reiner
  STARRING: James Caan, Kathy Bates

1991

• Beauty and the Beast

  DIRECTED BY: Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale
  STARRING: Paige O'Hara, Robbie Benson
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  The Silence of the Lambs

  DIRECTED BY: Jonathan Demme

  STARRING: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day

  DIRECTED BY: James Cameron
  STARRING: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick

• Thelma & Louise

  DIRECTED BY: Ridley Scott
  STARRING: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis

1992

• Hard Boiled (Lat sau san taam)

  DIRECTED BY: John Woo
  STARRING: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai

• Malcolm X

  DIRECTED BY: Spike Lee
  STARRING: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett

• The Player

  DIRECTED BY: Robert Altman
  STARRING: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi

• Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua)

  DIRECTED BY: Zhang Yimou
  STARRING: Gong Li, Ma Jingwu
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  Supercop (Ging chat goo si 3: Chiu kup ging chat)

  DIRECTED BY: Stanley Tong

  STARRING: Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Unforgiven

  DIRECTED BY: Clint Eastwood
  STARRING: Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman

1993

• Dazed and Confused

  DIRECTED BY: Richard Linklater
  STARRING: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey

• Groundhog Day

  DIRECTED BY: Harold Ramis
  STARRING: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Stephen Tobolowsky

• Schindler's List

  DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg
  STARRING: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes

1994

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  Chungking Express (Chung Hing sam lam)

  DIRECTED BY: Wong Kar-Wai

  STARRING: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Ed Wood

  DIRECTED BY: Tim Burton
  STARRING: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker

• Forrest Gump

  DIRECTED BY: Robert Zemeckis
  STARRING: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise

• Four Weddings and a Funeral

  DIRECTED BY: Mike Newell
  STARRING: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Simon Callow

• Pulp Fiction

  DIRECTED BY: Quentin Tarantino
  STARRING: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis

• The Shawshank Redemption

  DIRECTED BY: Frank Darabont
  STARRING: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman

• Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge)

  DIRECTED BY: Krzysztof Kieslowski
  STARRING: Irene Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant

1995

• Babe

  DIRECTED BY: Chris Noonan
  STARRING: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski

• Before Sunrise

  DIRECTED BY: Richard Linklater
  STARRING: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
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  Clueless

  DIRECTED BY: Amy Heckerling

  STARRING: Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Brittany Murphy

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Heat

  DIRECTED BY: Michael Mann
  STARRING: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer

• Living in Oblivion

  DIRECTED BY: Tom DeCillo
  STARRING: Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener

• Sense and Sensibility

  DIRECTED BY: Ang Lee
  STARRING: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant
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  Toy Story

  DIRECTED BY: John Lasseter

  STARRING: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
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  The Usual Suspects

  DIRECTED BY: Bryan Singer

  STARRING: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

1996

• Big Night

  DIRECTED BY: Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci
  STARRING: Tony Shaloub, Stanley Tucci, Ian Holm

• Dead Man

  DIRECTED BY: Jim Jarmusch
  STARRING: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen
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  Fargo

  DIRECTED BY: Joel Coen

  STARRING: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Ghost in the Shell (Kokaku kidotai)

  DIRECTED BY: Mamoru Oshii
  STARRING: Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Otsuka

• Lone Star

  DIRECTED BY: John Sayles
  STARRING: Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Pena, Kris Kristofferson, Matthew McConaughey,
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  Scream

  DIRECTED BY: Wes Craven

  STARRING: Neve Campbell, Drew Barrymore

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Secrets & Lies

  DIRECTED BY: Mike Leigh
  STARRING: Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall

• Sling Blade

  DIRECTED BY: Billy Bob Thornton
  STARRING: Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, Lucas Black

• Swingers

  DIRECTED BY: Doug Liman
  STARRING: Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Heather Graham

• Trainspotting

  DIRECTED BY: Danny Boyle
  STARRING: Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle

1997

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  Boogie Nights

  DIRECTED BY: Paul Thomas Anderson

  STARRING: Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Eve's Bayou

  DIRECTED BY: Kasi Lemmons
  STARRING: Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan

• L.A. Confidential

  DIRECTED BY: Curtis Hanson
  STARRING: Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey

• The Sweet Hereafter

  DIRECTED BY: Atom Egoyan
  STARRING: Ian Holm, Bruce Greenwood, Sarah Polley
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  Titanic

  DIRECTED BY: James Cameron

  STARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

1998

• The Big Lebowski

  DIRECTED BY: Joel Coen
  STARRING: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore

• Fireworks (Hana-bi)

  DIRECTED BY: Takeshi Kitano
  STARRING: Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto
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  Out of Sight

  DIRECTED BY: Steven Soderbergh

  STARRING: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Catherine Keener

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
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  Saving Private Ryan

  DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg

  STARRING: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• There's Something About Mary

  DIRECTED BY: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly
  STARRING: Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller

1999

• All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)

  DIRECTED BY: Pedro Almodovar
  STARRING: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penelope Cruz

• American Beauty

  DIRECTED BY: Sam Mendes
  STARRING: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch

• Being John Malkovich

  DIRECTED BY: Spike Jonze
  STARRING: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich

• Election

  DIRECTED BY: Alexander Payne
  STARRING: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein
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  Fight Club

  DIRECTED BY: David Fincher

  STARRING: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
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  The Matrix

  DIRECTED BY: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski

  STARRING: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime)

  DIRECTED BY: Hayao Miyazaki
  STARRING: Yoji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida

• Run Lola Run (Lola rennt)

  DIRECTED BY: Tom Tykwer
  STARRING: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu

• The Sixth Sense

  DIRECTED BY: M. Night Shyamalan
  STARRING: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette

• Three Kings

  DIRECTED BY: David O. Russell
  STARRING: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube

2000

• Almost Famous

  DIRECTED BY: Cameron Crowe
  STARRING: Patrick Fugit, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson
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  Best in Show

  DIRECTED BY: Christopher Guest

  STARRING: Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)

  DIRECTED BY: Ang Lee
  STARRING: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang
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  Yi Yi

  DIRECTED BY: Edward Yang

  STARRING: Wu Nien-jen, Issey Ogata, Elaine Jin

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

2001

• Amelie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain)

  DIRECTED BY: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  STARRING: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz

• Donnie Darko

  DIRECTED BY: Richard Kelly
  STARRING: Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze

• In the Mood For Love (Fa yeung nin wa)

  DIRECTED BY: Wong Kar-Wai
  STARRING: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai
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  The Lord of the Rings

  DIRECTED BY: Peter Jackson

  STARRING: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Memento

  DIRECTED BY: Christopher Nolan
  STARRING: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano

• Mulholland Drive

  DIRECTED BY: David Lynch
  STARRING: Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring,

• The Royal Tenenbaums

  DIRECTED BY: Wes Anderson
  STARRING: Gene Hackman, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow

2002

• The Pianist

  DIRECTED BY: Roman Polanski
  STARRING: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Emilia Fox

• Y Tu Mama Tambien

  DIRECTED BY: Alfonso Cuaron
  STARRING: Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna

2003

• City of God (Cidade de Deus)

  DIRECTED BY: Fernando Meirelles
  STARRING: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino De Hora Phellipe, Seu Jorge
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  Elephant

  DIRECTED BY: Gus Van Sant

  STARRING: Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Finding Nemo

  DIRECTED BY: Andrew Stanton
  STARRING: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres

2004

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  Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

  DIRECTED BY: Adam McKay

  STARRING: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
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  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

  DIRECTED BY: Michel Gondry

  STARRING: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Shaun of the Dead

  DIRECTED BY: Edgar Wright
  STARRING: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield

• Sideways

  DIRECTED BY: Alexander Payne
  STARRING: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen

2005

• The 40-Year-Old Virgin

  DIRECTED BY: Judd Apatow
  STARRING: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Seth Rogen
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  Brokeback Mountain

  DIRECTED BY: Ang Lee

  STARRING: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• A History of Violence

  DIRECTED BY: David Cronenberg
  STARRING: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris
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  Oldboy

  DIRECTED BY: Park Chan-wook

  STARRING: Choi Min-shik, Kang Hye-jeong

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

2006

• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

  DIRECTED BY: Larry Charles
  STARRING: Sacha Baron Cohen, Kenneth Davitian
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  Children of Men

  DIRECTED BY: Alfonso Cuaron

  STARRING: Clive Owen, Michael Caine, Julianne Moore

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)

  DIRECTED BY: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
  STARRING: Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Muehe, Sebastian Koch

• Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)

  DIRECTED BY: Guillermo del Toro
  STARRING: Maribel Verdu, Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones

2007

• 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile)

  DIRECTED BY: Cristian Mungiu
  STARRING: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov
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  The Bourne Ultimatum

  DIRECTED BY: Paul Greengrass

  STARRING: Matt Damon, Joan Allen, David Strathairn

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)

  DIRECTED BY: Julian Schnabel
  STARRING: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze

• Michael Clayton

  DIRECTED BY: Tony Gilroy
  STARRING: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton

• No Country for Old Men

  DIRECTED BY: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
  STARRING: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin

• There Will Be Blood

  DIRECTED BY: Paul Thomas Anderson
  STARRING: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano

2008

• The Dark Knight

  DIRECTED BY: Christopher Nolan
  STARRING: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart

• Slumdog Millionaire

  DIRECTED BY: Danny Boyle
  STARRING: Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Freida Pinto
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  WALL-E

  DIRECTED BY: Andrew Stanton

  STARRING: Fred Willard, Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Garlin

  

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

  
  

• Avatar

  DIRECTED BY: James Cameron
  STARRING: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
• 2009
  

  The Hurt Locker

  DIRECTED BY: Kathryn Bigelow

  STARRING: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty

  WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
• Inglourious Basterds

  DIRECTED BY: Quentin Tarantino
  STARRING: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Melanie Laurent