131 Films To Watch

131 FILMS TO WATCH

1.     Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)

2.     High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)

3.     The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa)

4.     Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)

5.     Samurai Spy (Masahiro Shinoda)

6.     North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)

7.     Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)

8.     The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 version // Alfred Hitchcock)

9.     Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)

10.   Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks)

11.   Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)

12.   Manchurian Candidate (1962 version //  Otto Preminger)

13.   Carmen Jones (Otto Preminger)

14.   Seconds (John Frankenheimer)

15.   The Young Savages (John Frankenheimer)

16.   Tokyo! (Michel Gondry // Leos Carax // Bong Joon-Ho)

17.   Tears Of The Black Tiger (Wisit Sasanatieng)

18.   F For Fake (Orson Welles)

19.   Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles)

20.   Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)

21.   Crooklyn (Spike Lee)

22.   Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee)

23.   Big Trouble In Little China (John Carpenter)

24.   The Thing (1982 version // John Carpenter)

25.   Brother From Another Planet (John Sayles)

26.   The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (W.D. Richter)

27.   Blue Velvet (David Lynch)

28.   Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)

29.   Six Degrees of Separation (Fred Schepisi)

30.   Once Upon A Time In The West (Sergio Leone)

31.   Duck, You Sucker (Sergio Leone)

32.   The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)

33.   Maltese Falcon (John Huston)

34.   Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus)

35.   I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba) (Mikhail Kalatozov)

36.   ¡Que Viva México! (Sergei Eisenstein)

37.   The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell)

38.   Rockers (Theodoros Bafaloukos)

39.   Pickup On South Street (Samuel Fuller)

40.   The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller)

41.   Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)

42.   The Jerk (Carl Reiner)

43.   Che (Parts 1 & 2) (Steven Soderbergh)

44.   No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)

45.   Raising Arizona (Joel & Ethan Coen)

46.   Sleeper (Woody Allen)

47.   Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* *But Were Afraid to Ask (Woody Allen)

48.   Life of Brian (Terry Jones)

49.   Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones)

50.   Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (Kelly Makin)

51.   Brazil (Terry Gilliam)

52.   The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam)

53.   Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage) (René Laloux)

54.   El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky)

55.   Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)

56.   The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)

57.   Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton)

58.   The Killers (Robert Siodmak)

59.   Edge of the City (Martin Ritt)

60.   The Hustler (Robert Rossen)

61.   Hud (Martin Ritt)

62.   Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)

63.   Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)

64.   Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)

65.   Rushmore (Wes Anderson)

66.   The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)

67.   A Thousand Clowns (Fred Coe)

68.   Bonnie & Clyde (Arthur Penn)

69.   The French Connection (William Friedkin)

70.   The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)

71.   I Love You Alice B. Toklas (Hy Averback)

72.   Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)

73.   Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)

74.   Grey Gardens (David Maysles, Muffie Meyer, Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles)

75.   Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)

76.   The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)

77.   Pink Flamingos (John Waters)

78.   City of God (Cidade De Deus) (Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund)

79.   Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)

80.   Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)

81.   Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie)

82.   Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)

83.   La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)

84.   Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur) (Henri-Georges Clouzot)

85.   Carrie (Brian De Palma)

86.   Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett)

87.   Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)

88.   Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)

89.   Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch)

90.   Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)

91.   Ile Aiye (The House of Life) (David Byrne)

92.   Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey)

93.   On The Beach (Stanley Kramer)

94.   General Idi Amin (Barbet Schroeder)

95.   Muhammad Ali: The Greatest (William Klein)

96.   3:10 to Yuma (1957 version // Delmer Daves)

97.   Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse)

98.   Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike)

99.   Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)

100.Suture (Scott McGehee, David Siegel)

101.Putney Swope (Robert Downey, Sr.)

102.Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)

103.I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (Keenen Ivory Wayans)

104.Ghandi (Richard Attenborough)

105.Cosmos (Carl Sagan)

106.Wave Twisters (Syd Garon, Eric Henry)

107.Downtown 81 (Edo Bertoglio)

108.Style Wars (Henry Chalfant, Tony Silver)

109.How To Get Ahead In Advertising (Bruce Robinson)

110.Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)

111.They Live (John Carpenter)

112.Falling Down (Joel Schumacher)

113.Jackie Brown (Quinten Tarantino)

114.Logan’s Run (Michael Anderson)

115.Coffy (Jack Hill)

116.Shaft (Gordon Parks)

117.Shaft In Africa (John Guillermin)

118.Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)

119.Westworld (Michael Crichton)

120.Elevator To The Gallows (Louis Malle)

121.The Last Picture Show (Peter Bagdanovich)

122.Breaking Away (Peter Yates)

123.Hard Boiled (John Woo)

124.Dark Crystal (Jim Henson, Frank Oz)

125.Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glaser)

126.Bagdad Café (Percy Adlon)

127.Baraka (Ron Fricke)

128.Nat Pwe: Burma’s Carnival of Spirit Soul (Sublime Frequencies)

129.Phantom India (Louis Malle)

130.Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)

131.Slacker (Richard Linklater)