This is The Movie List.
This will be the longest list. I will look to watch 250 films before the deadline. My rational for this is that movies are way shorter than books or video games and there are just so many films I should see.
I should preface that I am a big movie watcher. I worked at a movie theatre at the age of sixteen and spent many summers watching everything that came out. But seeing as that was during a cinematic low point I missed many classic films and have not suffered through many famous flops.
This list contains the good with the bad. I choose to include the top 10 and the bottom 10 from IMDBs top/bottoms list as a starter for 10. Then I added films that I have heard to be good, know to be important and others that I have heard I will need therapy after because of the scars they will leave on my psyche ( I am look at you Baby Geniuses )
While I have a good number to start with I would love some suggestions. Tell me the films that stuck with you throughout your life. The movie that makes you laugh every time, makes you cry, scares you shitless or that is so bad you love it all the more. Post it in the comments and I might add it to The List.
See you at the pictures kiddos.
–K.L. Mars
Update: Any movies listed in Bold will be titles that were suggested by viewers like you!
The Movie List
- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Godfather
- The Godfather II
- The Dark Knight
- Pulp Fiction
- The Good the Bad and The Ugly
- 12 Angry Men
- Schindler’s List
- Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- Fight Club
- ED
- Blubberella
- Joker
- Breaking Wind
- Popstar
- The Beast of Yucca Flats
- Santa Claus Conquerers the Martians
- Movie 43
- Baby Geniuses
- Brazil
- Citizen Kane
- Gigli
- Birth of a Nation
- Battlefield Earth
- Star Wars ( All Films )
- The Blair Witch
- Snow White and The Seven Dwarves
- Toy Story
- My Neighbour Totorro
- City of God
- The Shining
- Night of The Living Dead
- Psycho
- A Clockwork Orange
- Speed
- Batman ( Tim Burton)
- Superman ( Richard Donner Cut )
- The Graduate
- Sixteen Candles
- Clerks
- The Matrix
- Casablanca
- American History X
- Apocalypse Now
- Alien
- Wall-E
- Lawrence of Arabia
- 2001 SpaceOdyssey
- Rope
- Scary Movie
- UHF
- Chairman of The Board
- Die Hard
- Manos: Hand of Fate
- The Avengers
- Space Jam
- Shrek
- Little Mermaid
- Spinal Tap
- Black Book
- North by Northwest
Just the most important or influential? They are mostly older than what’s on your list, because I am 😀 Also, you have little in the way of foreign films. I expect your typos were unintended (It’s Citizen Kane, and The Shining lol). Here are a few adds:
International – The Seven Samurai (1954), Persona (1966), Alexander Nevsky (1938), M (1931), La Règle du Jeu (1939)
British – The Man in the White Suit (1951), Hobson’s Choice (1954), Great Expectations (1948), Scrooge aka Christmas Carol (1951)
Silent – Metropolis (1927), The Gold Rush (1925), The Golem (1920)
US faves by directors already on your list: Vertigo, North by Northwest, Dr. Strangelove, Saving Private Ryan, Ed Wood, Big Fish, Fantasia, Touch of Evil, Adventures of Robin Hood, Memento, Inception, Dawn of the Dead (the 1978 original), Kill Bill (pts 1 and 2 – two films).
So bad it’s good movies – White Comanche (Shatner times 2), Robot Monster, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Glen or Glenda?, Reefer Madness, Eegah!, Mommie Dearest, Rat Pfink a Boo Boo
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Thank you! I will defiantly look at these films and I am sure I will add some to the list, some I have seen and others sound very intriguing!….As for the typos…I am gonna fess up that they were not intentional and I am gonna fix them right now ( I am a god awful speller/typist, cheers for the assist! )
I hope to have the Intro Video to my Project up on Youtube in a few days so check it out.
Thanks Again,
K. L. Mars
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Hi Katie ,
Hope all is well in The UK and that & married life is treating you well! I have a few films for you to try experience:
Black Book – I think It’s from Holland , it stars Carice Van Houren where she plays a young Jewish girl in WW2 in occupied Holland and it such a great movie with a powerful performance !
Always – it’s a Japanese film about a group of people in japn during the after-effects of the WW2 and the building of a radio tower it so gooood!
For documentaries : the woman who wasn’t there & I think it was called girl code I will double check that!
And for animation :
Little nemo adventures in slumberland, grave of the fireflies, spirited away
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Also metropolis ( an Anime film) and the perks of being a wallflower !
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Black Book looks really good! Thanks so much for the recommendations DJ! Look forward to the reviews!
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