The Film-Lover's Check List: The Empire Masterpiece

The Empire Masterpiece

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1.	Raging Bull (1980)
2.	Gone With the Wind (1939)
3.	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
4.	Casablanca (1942)
5.	Blade Runner (1982)
6.	La Dolce Vita (1960)
7.	The Shining (1980)
8.	The Third Man (1949)
9.	The 400 Blows (1959)
10.	His Girl Friday (1940)
11.	Schindler's List (1993)
12.	The Godfather (1972)
13.	King Kong (1933)
14.	The Seven Samurai (1954)
15.	Fight Club (1999)
16.	Tokyo Story (1953)
17.	Annie Hall (1977)
18.	Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
19.	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
20.	This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
21.	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
22.	L'Atalante (1934)
23.	L.A. Confidential (1997)
24.	The Searchers (1956)
25.	Do the Right Thing (1989)
26.	Brief Encounter (1945)
27.	Brazil (1985)
28.	On the Waterfront (1954)
29.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
30.	Rome, Open City (1945)
31.	The General (1927)
32.	Deliverance (1972)
33.	The French Connection (1971)
34.	The Battle of Algiers (1966)
35.	Das Boot (1981)
36.	Don't Look Now (1973)
37.	Vertigo (1958)
38.	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
39.	Some Like It Hot (1959)
40.	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
41.	The Wages of Fear (1953)
42.	Belle de Jour (1967)
43.	The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
44.	Die Hard (1988)
45.	A Clockwork Orange (1971)
46.	Performance (1970)
47.	Bringing Up Baby (1938)
48.	The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
49.	The Big Sleep (1946)
50.	Days of Thunder (1990)
51.	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
52.	The Bicycle Thief (1948)
53.	Cabaret (1972)
54.	The Wild Bunch (1969)
55.	Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
56.	The Fly (1986)
57.	Out of the Past (1947)
58.	Rear Window (1954)
59.	Forbidden Planet (1956)
60.	The Night of the Hunter (1955)
61.	Network (1976)
62.	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
63.	Dr. Strangelove (1964)
64.	Rio Bravo (1959)
65.	8 1/2 (1963)

66.	Spartacus (1960)
67.	The Birds (1963)
68.	Goodfellas (1990)
69.	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
70.	Amadeus (1984)
71.	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
72.	Suspiria (1977)
73.	Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
74.	Magnolia (1999)
75.	All About Eve (1950)
76.	All the President's Men (1976)
77.	Fitzcarraldo (1982)
78.	McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
79.	Rififi (1955)
80.	The Dirty Dozen (1967)
81.	Now, Voyager (1942)
82.	Stagecoach (1939)
83.	Solaris (1972)
84.	The Court Jester (1956)
85.	Knife In the Water (1962)
86.	Stalag 17 (1953)
87.	Sleeper (1973)
88.	Lost Horizon (1937)
89.	Nashville (1975)
90.	Chinatown (1974)
91.	Double Indemnity (1944)
92.	The African Queen (1951)
93.	Sunset Boulevard (1950)
94.	Witness (1985)
95.	Manhattan (1979)
96.	When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
97.	Passport To Pimlico (1949)
98.	Fargo (1996)
99.	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
100.	E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
101.	Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
102.	The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
103.	Badlands (1973)
104.	Citizen Kane (1941)
105.	Eyes Without a Face (1960)
106.	The Apartment (1960)
107.	The Leopard (1963)
108.	Once Upon a Time In the West (1968)
109.	Groundhog Day (1993)
110.	The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
111.	Rosemary's Baby (1968)
112.	Night and the City (1950)
113.	Top Hat (1935)
114.	The Graduate (1967)
115.	12 Angry Men (1957)
116.	Big Wednesday (1978)
117.	Seven (1995)
118.	The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989)
119.	Throne of Blood (1957)
120.	M (1931)
121.	Oldboy (2003)
122.	Wild Strawberries (1957)
123.	Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
124.	Pulp Fiction (1994)
125.	Scream (1996)
126.	Toy Story (1995)
127.	The Blair Witch Project (1999)
128.	The Truman Show (1998)
129.	The Lives of Others (2006)
130.	Topsy-Turvy (1999)

131.	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
132.	City of God (2002)
133.	Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
134.	Red River (1948)
135.	Rocky (1976)
136.	Intolerance (1916)
137.	Beauty and the Beast (1991)
138.	The 39 Steps (1935)
139.	Before Sunrise (1995)
	Before Sunset (2004)
	Before Midnight (2013)
140.	JFK (1991)
141.	In the Mood For Love (2000)
142.	Children of Paradise (1945)
143.	Paris, Texas (1984)
144.	Halloween (1978)
145.	Hard Boiled (1992)
146.	The Last Picture Show (1971)
147.	Blue Velvet (1986)
148.	Up (2009)
149.	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
150.	Carrie (1976)
151.	The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
152.	Midnight Run (1988)
153.	Cyrano De Bergerac (1990)
154.	The Devil Rides Out (1968)
155.	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
156.	Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
157.	Bambi (1942)
158.	Young Frankenstein (1974)
159.	Ace In the Hole (1951)
160.	Blow Out (1981)
161.	Jules and Jim (1962)
162.	Children of Men (2006)
163.	Taxi Driver (1976)
164.	Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
165.	Peeping Tom (1960)
166.	The Rock (1996)
167.	Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
168.	A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
169.	Thief (1981)
170.	Evil Dead II (1987)
171.	The Iron Giant (1999)
172.	Back To the Future (1985)
173.	Body Heat (1981)
174.	Spirited Away (2001)
175.	The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
176.	Life of Brian (1979)
177.	Mulholland Drive (2001)
178.	The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
179.	A Hard Day's Night (1964)
180.	The Insider (1999)
181.	Field of Dreams (1989)
182.	Airplane! (1980)
183.	Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
184.	Swingers (1996)
185.	The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
186.	Singin' In the Rain (1952)
187.	An American Werewolf In London (1981)
188.	Imitation of Life (1959)
189.	Clerks (1994)
190.	Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
191.	Modern Times (1936)
192.	Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
193.	Assault On Precinct 13 (1976)

(Titles Per IMDb List - Need To Confirm)


194.	If.... (1968)
195.	The Ipcress File (1965)
196.	Mean Streets (1973)
197.	Slacker (1991)
198.	Persona (1966)
199.	Day For Night (1973)
200.	Harold and Maude (1971)
201.	Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
202.	Grizzly Man (2005)
203.	The Parallax View (1974)
204.	Gladiator (2000)
205.	Goldfinger (1964)
206.	Jurassic Park (1993)
207.	Ghostbusters (1984)
208.	Mother (2009)
209.	The Remains of the Day (1993)
210.	Day of the Dead (1985)
211.	Stalker (1979)
212.	Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
213.	Night Moves (1975)
214.	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
215.	The Verdict (1982)
216.	The Driver (1978)
217.	Training Day (2001)
218.	Went the Day Well? (1942)
219.	The Elephant Man (1980)
220.	Miller's Crossing (1990)
221.	Police Story (1985)
222.	Death Becomes Her (1992)
223.	Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
224.	The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
225.	Inside Out (2015)
226.	Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
227.	Rashomon (1950)
228.	Breathless (1960)
229.	The Piano (1993)
230.	Moonlight (2016)
231.	Charley Varrick (1973)
232.	Last Year At Marienbad (1961)
233.	Strangers On a Train (1951)
234.	Withnail & I (1987)
235.	Zodiac (2007)


	Actual Empire Magazine list updated with new entry about 15th or so of each month

	Currently unable to update because IMDb source list set to private around May 2023

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	IMDb List Used As Reference Source (UNAVAILABLE - SET TO PRIVATE)
	Alternate IMDb List attempting to recreate preceding IMDb source list
	Reddit list that is no longer updated

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"THE EMPIRE MASTERPIECE" is a regular feature in Empire Magazine since issue 167 (May 2003).

The Empire Masterpiece is a two-page essay on a film selected by Empire Magazine, in their Re.View section.

The selection of the films seem to be quite random and follow no specific pattern.

Only a few issues since the first masterpiece feature have not featured one -- 169, 179, 196, 197, 198, 246, 357.

Issue 240 had director Frank Darabont select 223 masterpieces.

L.A. Confidential was featured twice, once in issue 191 and again in issue 303.

(Text descriptions from wikipedia article, in following link)

Wikipedia article THAT USED TO HAVE LIST (but was eliminated from page): Wikipedia: Empire (film magazine): The Empire Masterpiece

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(to #172)

https://ultimatepopculture.fandom.com/wiki/Empire_(film_magazine)

(to #185)

https://cs.qwe.wiki/wiki/Empire_(film_magazine)

(to #193) - Assault on Precinct 13 (Issue 369, December 2019)

http://zims-en.kiwix.campusafrica.gos.orange.com/wikipedia_en_all_nopic/A/Empire_(film_magazine)

(possibly updated)

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls063404464/