Yet Another Take: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

Yet Another Take: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

In 2003, Barron’s published a massive volume entitled 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider and with contributions by numerous film critics. It’s been updated regularly since then, given a new cover image each time, and translated into numerous languages.

According to the back cover of the original (2003) edition:

“These are films that nobody should miss: from 12 Angry Men to Z, from art house classics to westerns, the selections for this book are based on historical, popular, and critical acclaim.”

Here are all the titles from the “1001 Movies” books, in chronological order from 1902 to 2016 and hyperlinked to my own reviews when available. There are more than 1,001 because each year, as new titles are added, others are taken away. Titles in bold are reviewed in Guide for the Film Fanatic; titles in italics are listed in the back of Peary’s book. Those without any emphasis at all are unique selections from 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.

Voyage Dans la Lune, Le (1902)
Great Train Robbery, The (1903)
Birth of a Nation, The (1915)
Vampires, Les (1915)
Intolerance (1916)
Broken Blossoms (1919)
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (1919)
Way Down East (1920)
Within Our Gates (1920)
Orphans of the Storm (1921)
Phantom Carriage, The
Dr. Mabuse, Parts 1 and 2 (1922)
Foolish Wives (1922)
Nanook of the North (1922)
Nosferatu (1922)
Smiling Madame Beudet, The (1922)
Haxan (1923)
Our Hospitality (1923)
Wheel, The (1923)
Great White Silence, The (1924)
Greed (1924)
Last Laugh, The (1924)
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
Strike (1925)
Thief of Bagdad, The (1924)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Big Parade, The (1925)
Gold Rush, The (1925)
Phantom of the Opera, The (1925)
Seven Chances (1925)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed) (1926)
General, The (1927)
Jazz Singer (1927)
Kid Brother, The (1927)
Metropolis (1927)
Napoleon (1927)
October (1927)
Sunrise (1927)
Unknown, The (1927)
Chien Andalou, Un (1928)
Crowd, The (1928)
Docks of New York, The (1928)
Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

Storm Over Asia (1928)
Blackmail (1929)
Man With the Movie Camera, The (1929)
Pandora’s Box/Lulu (1929)
Throw of Dice, A (1929)
Age d’Or, L’ (1930)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Blue Angel, The (1930)
Earth/Soil (1930)

Little Caesar (1931)
A Nous la Liberte (1931)
Chienne, La (1931)
City Lights (1931)
Dracula (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)

Limite (1931)
M (1931)
Million, Le (1931)
Public Enemy, The (1931)

Tabu (1931)
Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932)
Freaks (1932)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)

Love Me Tonight (1932)
Me and My Gal (1932)
Scarface, The Shame of the Nation (1932)
Shanghai Express (1932)

Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Vampyr (1932)
42nd Street (1933)

Bitter Tea of General Yen, The (1933)
Duck Soup (1933)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

Hurdes, Las/Land Without Bread (1933)
King Kong (1933)
Queen Christina (1933)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
Zéro de Conduite/Zero for Conduct (1933)

Atalante, L’ (1934)
Black Cat, The (1934)
Goddess, The (Shen nu) (1934)
It Happened One Night (1934)
It’s a Gift (1934)

Judge Priest (1934)
Thin Man, The (1934)
Triumph of the Will (1934)
39 Steps, The (1935)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Captain Blood (1935)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Night at the Opera, A (1935)

Peter Ibbetson (1935)
Top Hat (1935)
Camille (1936)
Day in the Country, A (1936)
Dodsworth (1936)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Sabotage (1936)

Story of a Cheat, The (1936)
Swing Time (1936)
Things to Come (1936)
Awful Truth, The (1937)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Grand Illusion (1937)

Life of Emile Zola, The (1937)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Midnight Song (1937; Chinese)
Pepe Le Moko (1937)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Stella Dallas (1937)
Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
Baker’s Wife, The (1938)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Jezebel (1938)
Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938)

Babes in Arms (1939)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Gunga Din (1939)
Jour Se Leve, Le (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Ninotchka (1939)

Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Rules of the Game, The (1939)
Stagecoach (1939)

Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, The (1939)
Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Bank Dick, The (1940)
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Fantasia (1940)
Grapes of Wrath, The (1940)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Mortal Storm, The (1940)
Philadelphia Story, The (1940)
Pinocchio (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Dumbo (1941)
High Sierra (1941)

How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Lady Eve, The (1941)
Maltese Falcon, The (1941)

Sergeant York (1941)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
Wolf Man, The (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
Cat People (1942)
Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)
Now, Voyager (1942)
Palm Beach Story, The (1942)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Fires Were Started (1943)
I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943)
Man in Grey, The (1943)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Ossessione (1943)
Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943)
Seventh Victim, The (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Gaslight (1944)
Henry V (1944)
Ivan the Terrible, Parts 1 and 2 (1944)
Laura (1944)
Meet Me in St Louis (1944)
Murder, My Sweet/Farewell My Lovely (1944)
To Have and Have Not (1944)

Battle of San Pietro, The (1945)
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1945)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Detour (1945)
Enfants Du Paradis, Les (1945)

I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)
Lost Weekend, The (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Open City (1945)
Spellbound (1945)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Big Sleep, The (1946)
Black Narcissus (1946)
Great Expectations (1946)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Killers, The (1946)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Notorious (1946)

Paisan (1946)
Postman Always Rings Twice, The (1946)
Stairway to Heaven / Matter of Life and Death, A (1946)
Stranger, The (1946)

Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The (1947)
Gilda (1946)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Odd Man Out (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
Bicycle Thief, The (1948)
Force of Evil (1948)
Lady From Shanghai, The (1948)
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)

Louisiana Story (1948)
Paleface, The (1948)
Red River (1948)
Red Shoes, The (1948)
Rope (1948)

Secret Beyond the Door (1948)
Snake Pit, The (1948)
Spring in a Small Town (1948)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
Adam’s Rib (1949)
Gun Crazy (1949)
Heiress, The (1949)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
On the Town (1949)

Reckless Moment, The (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
Whisky Galore! (1949)
White Heat (1948)
All About Eve (1950)
Asphalt Jungle, The (1950)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Los Olvidados (1950)
Orpheus / Orphée (1950)
Rashomon (1950)

Rio Grande (1950)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Winchester ’73 (1950)
African Queen, The (1951)
American in Paris, An (1951)
Big Carnival, The/Ace in the Hole (1951)
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)
Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

Lavender Hill Mob, The (1951)
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
Place in the Sun, A (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire

Angel Face (1952)
Bad and the Beautiful, The (1952)
Big Sky, The (1952)
Bigamist, The (1952)

Europa ’51 (1952)
Forbidden Games (1952)
Golden Coach, The (1952)
High Noon (1952)
Ikiru (1952)
Quiet Man, The (1952)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Umberto D. (1952)
Band Wagon, The (1953)
Beat the Devil (1953)
Big Heat, The (1953)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
M. Hulot’s Holiday (1953)
Madame De… (1953)
Naked Spur, The (1953)

Pickup on South Street (1953)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Shane (1953)
Summer with Monika (Sommaren med Monika) (1953)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Ugetsu (1953)

Voyage in Italy (1953)
Wages of Fear, The (1953)
Animal Farm (1954)
Barefoot Contessa, The (1954)
Carmen Jones (1954)
Diaboliques, Les (1954)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
Salt of the Earth (1954)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

Senso (1954)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Seven Samurai, The (1954)

Silver Lode (1954)
Star is Born, A (1954)
Strada, La (1954)

Artists and Models (1955)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

Bob le Flambeur (1955)
Guys and Dolls (1955)
Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Ladykillers (1955)
Mad Masters, The (1955)
Man From Laramie, The (1955)
Marty (1955)
Night and Fog (1955)
Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
Ordet (1955)
Pather Panchali (1955)

Phenix City Story, The (1955)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Sins of Lola Montes, The (1955)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)

All That Heaven Allows (1956)
Aparajito (1956)
Bigger Than Life (1956)
Burmese Harp, The (1956)

Forbidden Planet (1956)
Giant (1956)
High Society (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Man Escaped, A (1956)
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
Searchers, The (1956)
Ten Commandments, The (1956)
Written on the Wind (1956)
Wrong Man, The (1956)
12 Angry Men (1957)

Affair to Remember, An (1957)
Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)
Cranes Are Flying, The (1957)

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
Incredible Shrinking Man, The (1957)
Mother India/Bharat Mata (1957)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Seventh Seal, The (1957)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Throne of Blood (1957)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)

Cairo Station/Bab el Hadid (1958)
Defiant Ones, The (1958)
Dracula/Horror of Dracula (1958)
Gigi (1958)
Man of the West (1958)
Mon Oncle (1958)

Music Room, The (1958)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
400 Blows, The (1959)

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Black Orpheus (1959)
Breathless (1960)

Eyes Without a Face (1959)
Floating Weeds (1959)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
North by Northwest (1959)

Pickpocket (1959)
Ride Lonesome (1959)
Rio Bravo (1959)

Shadows (1959)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
Trou, Le/The Hole (1959)
World of Apu, The (1959)
Apartment, The (1960)
Avventura, L’ (1960)
Black Sunday (1960)

Cloud-Capped Star, The/Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960)
Dolce Vita, La (1960)
Hayno/The Housemaid (1960)
Peeping Tom (1960)
Psycho (1960)

Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Shoot the Piano Player/Tirez Sur le Pianiste (1960)
Spartacus (1960)

Young One, The/La Joven (1960)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
Hustler, The (1961)
Jetee, Le (The Pier; 1961)
Ladies Man, The (1961)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Lola (1961)
Notte, La (1961)

One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)

Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Viridiana (1961)
West Side Story (1961)
Autumn Afternoon, An (1962)
Cleo From 5 to 7 (1962)
Dog Star Man (1962)

Eclisse, L’ (1962)
Heaven and Earth Magic (1962)
Jules et Jim (1962)
Keeper of Promises (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Lolita (1962)
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962)

Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)
Mondo Cane (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Vivre Sa Vie (A Film in Twelve Episodes) / My Life to Live (1962)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Actor’s Revenge, An (1963)
Birds, The (1963)
Blonde Cobra (1963)
Contempt (1963)
Cool World, The (1963)
8 1/2 (1963)
Flaming Creatures (1963)

Great Escape, The (1963)
Haunting, The (1963)
House is Black, The (1963)
Hud (1963)
Leopard, The (1963)
Mediterranee (1963)
Nutty Professor, The (1963)
Passenger (1963)
Servant, The (1963)
Shock Corridor (1963)
Vidas Secas (1963)
Winter Light (1963)
Before the Revolution (1964)
Black God, White Devil (1964)
Demon, The/Onibaba (1964)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Gertrud (1964)
Goldfinger (1964)
Gospel According to St. Matthew, The (1964)
Hard Day’s Night, A (1964)
Marnie (1964)
Masque of the Red Death, The (1964)
My Fair Lady (1964)

Red Desert (1964)
Scorpio Rising (1964)
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The (1964)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Alphaville (1965)
Battle of Algiers, The (1965)
Chimes at Midnight (1965)

Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
Golden River (1965)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short, The (1965)
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Repulsion (1965)

Saragossa Manuscript, The (1965)
Shop on Main Street, The (1965)
Sound of Music, The (1965)
Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
Vinyl (1965)
War Game, The (1965)
Au Hasard, Balthazar (1966)
Blowup (1966)
Come Drink With Me (1966)
Daisies (1966; Czech)
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The (1966)
Hold Me While I’m Naked (1966)
Masculin, Feminin (1966)
Persona (1966)
Seconds (1966)

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
Belle du Jour (1967)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Closely Watched Trains (1967)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Earth Entranced (1967)
Firemen’s Ball, The (1967)
Graduate, The (1967)

Hombre (1967)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Jungle Book, The (1967)
Marketa Lazarova (1967)
Playtime (1967)
Point Blank (1967)
Red and the White, The (1967)
Report (1967)
Samourai, Le (1967)
Vij (1967)
Wavelength (1967)
Week End (1967)
Young Girls at Rochefort, The (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
David Holzman’s Diary (1968)
Faces (1968)
Gaav/The Cow (1968; Farsi)
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
If … (1968)
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Producers, The (1968)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

Shame (1968)
Targets (1968)
Andrei Rublev (1969)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Butcher, The (1969)
Color of Pomegranates, The (1969)
Conformist, The (1969)
Easy Rider (1969)
Fellini’s Satyricon (1969)

High School (1969)
In the Year of the Pig (1969)
Kes (1969)
Lucia (1969)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
My Night With Maud (1969)

Touch of Zen, A (1969)
Wild Bunch, The (1969)
Z (1969)
Bird With the Crystal Plumage, The (1970)
Deep End (1970)
El Topo (1970)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The (1970)
Gimme Shelter (1970)
Little Big Man (1970)
M*A*S*H (1970)
Patton (1970)
Performance (1970)

Spider’s Strategem, The (1970)
Tristana (1970)
Ucho/The Ear (1970)
Woodstock (1970)
Zabriskie Point (1970)
Clockwork Orange, A (1971)

Dirty Harry (1971)
French Connection, The (1971)
Get Carter (1971)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Hired Hand, The (1971)
Klute (1971)
Last Picture Show, The (1971)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
Murmur of the Heart (1971)

Red Psalm (1971)
Shaft (1971)
Sorrow and the Pity, The (1971)
Straw Dogs (1971)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Walkabout (1971)
Wanda (1971)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The (1972)
Cabaret (1972)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Deliverance (1972)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (1972)
Fat City (1972)

Frenzy (1972)
Godfather, The (1972)
Heartbreak Kid, The (1972)
High Plains Drifter (1972)
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Pink Flamingos (1972)

Sleuth (1972)
Solaris (1972)
Sting, The (1972)
Superfly (1972)

Amarcord (1973)
American Graffiti (1973)
Badlands (1973)
Day for Night (1973)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Exorcist, The (1973)
F for Fake (1973)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Harder They Come, The (1973)
Long Goodbye, The (1973)
Mean Streets (1973)

Mother and the Whore, The (1973)
Papillon (1973)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
Serpico (1973)

Sleeper (1973)
Spirit of the Beehive, The (1973)
Turkish Delight (1973)
Wicker Man, The (1973)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Blazing Saddles (1974)

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Chinatown (1974)
Conversation, The (1974)
Dersu Uzala (1974)
Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The (1974)

Towering Inferno, The (1974)
Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
Woman Under the Influence, A (1974)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Zerkalo/The Mirror (1974)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Cria! (1975)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Fox and His Friends (1975)
India Song (1975)

Jaws (1975)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Manila in the Claws of Brightness (1975)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
Nashville (1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (1975)

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Travelling Players,The (1975)
Wall, The/Deewaar (1975)
All the President’s Men (1976)
Ascent/Voskhozhdenie (1976)
Carrie (1976)
Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The (1976)
Man Who Fell to Earth, The (1976)
Network (1976)
Novecento (1976)
Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976)
Rocky (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
American Friend, The (1977)
Annie Hall (1977)

Ceddo (1977)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Eraserhead (1977)
Hills Have Eyes, The (1977)

Killer of Sheep (1977)
Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977)
Last Wave, The (1977)
Man of Marble (1977)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Stroszek (1977)
Suspiria (1977)
Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, The (1978)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Deer Hunter, The (1978)

Five Deadly Venoms (1978)
Grease (1978)
Halloween (1978)

Shaolin Master Killer (1978)
Tree of Wooden Clogs, The (1978)
Up in Smoke (1978)
Alien (1979)
All That Jazz (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)

Being There (1979)
Breaking Away (1979)

Jerk, The (1979)
Kramer Versus Kramer (1979)
Life of Brian (1979)
Mad Max (1979)
Manhattan (1979)
Marriage of Maria Braun, The (1979)

Muppet Movie, The (1979)
My Brilliant Career (1979)
Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night (1979)
Real Life (1979)

Stalker (1979)
Tin Drum, The (1979)
Airplane! (1980)
Atlantic City (1980)
Big Red One, The (1980)
Elephant Man, The (1980)
Last Metro, The (1980)
Loulou (1980)

Ordinary People (1980)
Raging Bull (1980)
Shining, The (1980)
Star Wars: Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
American Werewolf in London, An (1981)
Body Heat (1981)

Chariots of Fire (1981)
Das Boot (1981)
Gallipoli (1981)

Man of Iron (1981)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Reds (1981)

Three Brothers (1981)
Too Early, Too Late (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
Diner (1982)
Draughtsman’s Contract, The (1982)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Evil Dead, The (1982)

Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Gandhi (1982)
Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
Poltergeist (1982)

Question of Silence, A (1982)
Thing, The (1982)
Too Early, Too Late (Zu Früh, Zu Spät / Trop Tôt, Trop Tard) (1982)
Tootsie (1982)
Yol (1982)

Argent, L’ (1983)
Ballad of Narayama, The (1983)
Big Chill, The (1983)
Christmas Story, A (1983)

Dernier Combat, Le (1983)
El Norte (1983)
Fourth Man, The (1983)
King of Comedy, The (1982)
Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
Once Upon a Time in America (1983)
Right Stuff, The (1983)

Sans Soleil (1983)
Scarface (1983)
Stars Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
Terms of Endearment (1983)

UTU (1983)
Videodrome (1983)
Amadeus (1984)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Breakfast Club, The (1984)
Ghost Busters (1984)
Killing Fields, The (1984)
Natural, The (1984)
Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Passage to India, A (1984)
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Terminator, The (1984)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Back to the Future (1985)
Brazil (1985)
Color Purple, The (1985)

Idi I Smotri/Come and See (1985)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Manhunter (1985)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
Official Story, The (1985)
Out of Africa (1985)
Prizzi’s Honor (1985)
Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985)

Quiet Earth, The (1985)
Ran (1985)
Shoah (1985)

Time to Live and the Time to Die, The (1985)
Vagabond (1985)
Aliens (1986)
Blue Velvet (1986)

Caravaggio (1986)
Children of a Lesser God (1986)
Decline of the American Empire, The (1986)
Down By Law (1986)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Fly, The (1986)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

Horse Thief, The (1986)
Peking Opera Blues (1986)
Platoon (1986)
Room With a View, A (1986)

Salvador (1986)
She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
Sherman’s March (1986)
Stand By Me (1986)
Tampopo (1986)
Top Gun (1986)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987)
Babette’s Feast (1987)
Broadcast News (1987)
Chinese Ghost Story, A (1987)
Dead, The (1987)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Housekeeping (1987)
Moonstruck (1987)
Princess Bride, The (1987)
Project A, Part II (1987)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Red Sorghum (1987)
Robocop (1987)
Untouchables, The (1987)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Withnail and I (1987)
Yeelen/Brightness (1987)
Accidental Tourist, The (1988)
Akira (1988, anime)
Alice/Neco Z Alenky (1988)
Ariel (1988)
Big (1988)
Bull Durham (1988)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Dead Ringers (1988)
Decalogue, The (1988)
Die Hard (1988)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1989)
Drowning By Numbers (1988)
Fish Called Wanda, A (1988)
Hotaru No Haka/Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988)
Landscape in the Mist (1988)
Naked Gun, The (1988)
Rain Man (1988)
Story of Women, The (1988)
Tale of the Wind, A (1988)
Thin Blue Line, The (1988)
Vanishing, The (1988)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Asthenic Syndrome, The (1989)
Batman (1989)
City of Sadness, A (1989)
Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, The (1989)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Glory (1989)
Killer, The (1989)
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
Roger and Me (1989)
Say Anything (1989)
Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)
Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989)
Tongues Untied (1989)
Unbelievable Truth, The (1989)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Archangel (1990)
Close-Up (1990)
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Europa Europa (1990)
Goodfellas (1990)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990)
Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
King of New York (1990)
No Fear, No Die (1990)
Pretty Woman (1990)
Reversal of Fortune (1990)
Total Recall (1990)
Trust (1990, Hal Hartley)
Archangel (1991)
Belle Noiseuse, La (1991)
Boyz ‘n the Hood (1991)
Brighter Summer Day, A (1991)
Delicatessen (1991)
Double Life of Veronique, The (1991)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991)
JFK (1991)
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Naked Lunch (1991)
Once Upon a Time in China (1991)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
Rapture, The (1991)
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
Slacker (1991)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Thelma and Louise (1991)
Tongues Untied (1991)
Actress, The/Yuen Ling-yuk (1992)
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
Candyman (1992)
Center Stage (1992)
Crying Game, The (1992)
Dracula (1992)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Man Bites Dog (1992)
Player, The (1992)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Romper Stomper (1992)
Strictly Ballroom (1992)
Tale of Winter (1992)
Unforgiven (1992)
Age of Innocence, The (1993)
Blue Kite, The (1993)
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Philadelphia (1993)
Piano, The (1993)
Puppetmaster, The (1993)
Schindler’s List (1993)
Short Cuts (1993)
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
Three Colors: Blue (1993)
Wedding Banquet, The (1993)
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The (1994)
Chungking Express (1994)
Clerks (1994)
Crumb (1994)
Dear Diary (1994)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
Kingdom, The (1994)
Last Seduction, The (1994)
Lion King,The (1994)
Muriel’s Wedding (1994)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Satantango (1994)
Shawshank Redemption, The (1994)
Three Colors: Red (1994)
Three Colors: White (1994)
Through the Olive Trees (1994)
Wild Reeds (1994)
Babe (1995)
Brave-Hearted Will Take the Bride, The / Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)
Braveheart (1995)
Casino (1995)
Clueless (1995)
Cyclo (1995)
Dead Man (1995)
Deseret (1995)
Heat (1995)
Safe (1995)
Se7en (1995)
Smoke (1995)
Strange Days (1995)
Toy Story (1995)
Underground (1995)
Usual Suspects, The (1995)
White Balloon, The (1995)
Zero Kelvin (1995)
Breaking the Waves (1996)
English Patient, The (1996)
Fargo (1996)
Gabbeh (1996)
Independence Day (1996)
Lone Star (1996)
Pillow Book, The (1996)
Scream (1996)
Secrets and Lies (1996)
Shine (1996)
Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)
Trainspotting (1996)
Abre los Ojos (1997)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Butcher Boy, The (1997)
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control (1997)
Fireworks (1997)
Funny Games (1997)
Hana-Bi (1997)
Happy Together (1997)
Ice Storm, The (1997)
Kundun (1997)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Mother and Son (1997)
Open Your Eyes (1997)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Sweet Hereafter, The (1997)
Taste of Cherry (1997)
Titanic (1997)
Big Lebowski, The (1998)
Buffalo 66 (1998)
Celebration, The (1998)
Happiness (1998)
Idiots, The (1998)
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Pi (1998)
Ringu (1998)
Run Lola Run (1998)
Rushmore (1998)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Sombre (1998)
There’s Something About Mary (1998)
Thin Red Line, The (1998)
All About My Mother (1999)
American Beauty (1999)
Attack of the Gas Station! (1999)
Audition, The (1999)
Beau Travail (1999)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Blair Witch Project, The (1999)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Fight Club (1999)
Magnolia (1999)
Matrix, The (1999)
Rosetta (1999)
Sixth Sense, The (1999)
Taboo/Gohatto (1999)
Three Kings (1999)
Time Regained/Le Temps Retrouve (1999)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Wind Will Carry Us, The (1999)
Ali Zaoua, Prince of the Streets (2000)
Amores Perros (2000)
Captive, The (2000)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Gladiator (2000)
Gleaners and I, The (2000)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Kippur (2000)
Meet the Parents (2000)
Memento (2000)
Nine Queens (2000)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Signs and Wonders (2000)
Traffic (2000)
Yi Yi (2000)
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Amelie (2001)
Fat Girl (2001)
Kandahar (2001)
Lantana (2001)
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Monsoon Wedding (2001)
Moulin Rouge (2001)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
No Man’s Land (2001)
Piano Teacher, The (2001)
Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001)
Son’s Room, The (2001)
Spirited Away (2001)
What Time is it There? (2001)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
Adaptation (2002)
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
Bus 174 (2002)
Chicago (2002)
City of God (2002)
Distant (2002)
Far From Heaven (2002)
Gangs of New York (2002)
Hero (2002)
Irreversible (2002)
Lord of the Rings, The: The Two Towers (2002)
Pianist, The (2002)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Russian Ark (2002)
Talk to Her (2002)
Uzak (2002)
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)
Barbarian Invasions, The (2003)
Best of Youth, The (2003)
Elephant (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Lord of the Rings, The: The Return of the King (2003)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Oldboy (2003)
Osama (2003)
Aviator, The (2004)
Collateral (2004)
Consequences of Love, The (2004)
Crash (2004)
Downfall (2004)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Head-On (2004)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Moolaade (2004)
Passion of the Christ, The (2004)
Sideways (2004)
3-Iron (2004)
Very Long Engagement, A (2004)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Cache (2005)
Constant Gardener, The (2005)
Go, See, and Become (2005)
Live and Become (2005)
Paradise Now (2005)
Tsotsi (2005)
Apocalypto (2006)
Babel (2006)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of American for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
Children of Men (2006)
Departed, The (2006)
Host, The (2006)
Last King of Scotland, The (2006)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Lives of Others, The (2006)
Once (2006)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Prestige, The (2006)
Queen, The (2006)
United 93 (2006)
Volver (2006)
Atonement (2007)
Bourne Ultimatum, The (2007)
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007)
Into the Wild (2007)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Paranormal Activity (2007)
Surfwise (2007)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Vie en Rose, La (2007)
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008)
Class, The (2008)
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The (2008)
Dark Knight, The (2008)
Gomorra (2008)
Good, the Bad, the Weird, The (2008)
Hurt Locker, The (2008)
Let the Right One In (2008)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Wall-E (2008)
Wrestler, The (2008)
Avatar (2009)
District 9 (2009)
Education, An (2009)
Fish Tank (2009)
Hangover, The (2009)
In the Loop (2009)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Paranormal Activity (2009)
Precious (2009)
White Ribbon, The (2009)
Black Swan (2010)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Four Lions (2010)
Inception (2010)
King’s Speech, The (2010)
Monsters (2010)
Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
Of Gods and Men (2010)
Senna (2010)
Social Network, The (2010)
Toy Story 3 (2010)
True Grit (2010)
Artist, The (2011)
Bridesmaids (2011)
Descendants, The (2011)
Drive (2011)
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The (2011)
Havre, Le (2011)
Hugo (2011)
Kid with a Bike, The (2011)
Separation, A (2011)
Shame (2011)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Tree of Life, The (2011)
War Horse (2011)
Act of Killing, The (2012)
Amour (2012)
Argo (2012)
Blancanieves (2012)
Cabin in the Woods, The (2012)
Django Unchained (2012)
Les Misérables (2012)
Life of Pi (2012)
Lincoln (2012)
Skyfall (2012)
Wadjda (2012)
American Hustle (2013)
Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
Gravity (2013)
Great Beauty, The (2013)
Ida (2013)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Nebraska (2013)
Touch of Sin, A (2013)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Under the Skin (2013)
Wolf of Wall Street, The (2013)
Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Boyhood (2014)
Citizenfour (2014)
Grand Budapest Hotel, The (2014)
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Leviathan (Leviafan) (2014)
Look of Silence, The (20140
Theory of Everything, The (2014)
Whiplash (2014)
Big Short, The (2015)
Bridge of Spies (2015)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Revenant, The (2015)
Son of Saul (2015)
Spotlight (2015)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Tangerine (2015)
Victoria (2015)
Arrival (2016)
Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)
Handmaiden, The (2016)
Hell or High Water (2016)
I, Daniel Blake (2016)
Jackie (2016)
Jungle Book, The (2016)
La La Land (2016)
Manchester By the Sea (2016)
Moonlight (2016)
13th (2016)
Toni Erdmann (2016)
Under the Shadow (2016)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Get Out (2017)
Greatest Showman, The (2017)
Lady Bird (2017)
Lady MacBeth (2017)
Mother! (2017)
Phantom Thread (2017)
Shape of Water, The (2017)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Black Panther (2018)
Capernaum (2018)
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Favourite, The (2018)
Hereditary (2018)
Roma (2018)
Sorry to Bother You (2018)
Star is Born, A (2018)
Vice (2018)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Booksmart (2019)
Farewell, The (2019)
For Sama (2019)
Joker (2019)
Lighthouse, The (2019)
Little Women (2019)
Lover’s Rock (2020)
Monos (2019)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
Parasite (2019)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) (2019)
Rocks (2019)
Saint Maud (2019)
Vast of Night, The (2019)
Assistant, The (2020)
Lovers Rock (2020)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
Nomadland (2020)
Soul (2020)
Tenet (2020)

One thought on “Yet Another Take: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

  1. I wouldn’t quite trust the authors opinions there.

    When it comes to James Bond, I’d agree with Goldfinger but drop Skyfall in favour of Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service; much more significant films in the series.

    As regards Tarantino; how can the list not have Jackie Brown but it does have Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained?

    On the Marvel Cinematic universe it has Guardians of the Galaxy as sole representative, but no Iron Man (the first) or The Avengers (biggest) both of which are – again – far more significant.

    Add Batman Begins but drop The Dark Knight. No Mad Max 2 … but Mad Max: Fury Road! Why?

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