The Film-Lover's Check List: Movies To Watch

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Movies To Watch

War

1.	The Birth of a Nation (1915)
2.	Intolerance (1916) (d. D.W. Griffith) U.S. Civil War
3.	The Birth of a Nation (1915) (d. D.W. Griffith) Civil War
4.	Intolerance (1916) (d. D.W. Griffith) U.S. Civil War
5.	The Big Parade (1925) (d. D.W. Griffith) Civil War
6.	The General (1927) (d. King Vidor) Great War
7.	Napoleon (1927) (d. Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckmanu) U.S. Civil War
8.	All Quiet On the Western Front (1930) (fr) (d. Abel Gancelife) French Revolution
9.	Hell's Angels (1930) (d. Lewis Milestone) the Great War
10.	Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937) (d. Howard Hughes) U.S. Cival War
11.	Grand Illusion (1937) (ita.) the Defeat of Hannibal (d. Carmine Gallone) 2nd Punic War, Battle of Zama
12.	Gone With the Wind (1939) (fr) Grand Illusion (d. Jean Renoir) the Great War
13.	Beau Geste (1939) (d. Victor Flemming) U.S. Civil War
14.	Foreign Correspondent (1940) (d. William A. Wellman) French Foreign Legion In North Africa
15.	The Great Dictator (1940) (d. Alfred Hitchcock) Wwii, U.K.
16.	The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957) (d. Charlie Chaplin) Spoof/adolf Hitler
17.	Star Wars (1977)
18.	The African Queen (1951)
19.	Dr. Strangelove (1964)
20.	Apocalypse Now (1979)
21.	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
22.	Dr. Zhivago (1965)

23.	The Philadelphia Story (1940)
24.	From Here To Eternity (1953)
25.	Amadeus (1984)
26.	All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)
27.	The Sound of Music (1965)
28.	MAS*H (1970)
29.	The Third Man (1949)
30.	Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
31.	Stagecoach (1939)
32.	Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
33.	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
34.	Network (1976)
35.	The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
36.	An American In Paris (1951)
37.	Shane (1953)
38.	The French Connection (1971)
39.	Forrest Gump (1994)
40.	Ben-Hur (1959)
41.	Wuthering Heights (1939)
42.	The Gold Rush (1925)
43.	Dances With Wolves (1990)

44.	The Deer Hunter (1978)
45.	The Wild Bunch (1969)
46.	Giant (1956)
47.	Platoon (1986)
48.	Patton (1970)
49.	Mutiny On the Bounty (1935)
50.	A Place In the Sun (1951)
51.	The Searchers (1956)
52.	Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Crime/Underworld

1.	The Godfather (1972)
2.	Raging Bull (1980)
3.	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
4.	Schindler's List (1993)
5.	Vertigo (1958)
6.	City Lights (1931)
7.	The Searchers (1956)
8.	Psycho (1960)
9.	On the Waterfront (1954)
10.	Chinatown (1974)
11.	Some Like It Hot (1959)
12.	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
13.	E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
14.	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

15.	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
16.	High Noon (1952)
17.	All About Eve (1950)
18.	Double Indemnity (1944)
19.	Apocalypse Now (1979)
20.	The Maltese Falcon (1941)
21.	The Godfather, Part II (1974)
22.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
23.	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
24.	Dr. Strangelove (1964)
25.	The Sound of Music (1965)
26.	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

27.	West Side Story (1961)
28.	Taxi Driver (1976)
29.	The Deer Hunter (1978)
30.	MAS*H (1970)
31.	North By Northwest (1959)
32.	Jaws (1975)
33.	The African Queen (1951)
34.	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
35.	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
36.	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
37.	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
38.	In the Heat of the Night (1967)

39.	Forrest Gump (1994)
40.	All the President's Men (1976)
41.	Modern Times (1936)
42.	The Wild Bunch (1969)
43.	The Apartment (1960)
44.	The Sixth Sense (1999)
45.	Swing Time (1936)
46.	Blade Runner (1982)
47.	Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
48.	Toy Story (1995)
49.	Ben-Hur (1959)

Comedy

1.	Some Like It Hot (1959)
2.	Tootsie (1982)
3.	Dr. Strangelove (1964)
4.	Annie Hall (1977)
5.	Duck Soup (1933)
6.	Blazing Saddles (1974)
7.	The Philadelphia Story (1940)
8.	Singin' In the Rain (1952)
9.	Adam's Rib (1949)
10.	When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
11.	Born Yesterday (1950)
12.	The Gold Rush (1925)

13.	Being There (1979)
14.	There's Something About Mary (1998)
15.	Ghostbusters (1984)
16.	City Lights (1931)
17.	Sullivan's Travels (1941)
18.	It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
19.	Moonstruck (1987)
20.	Big (1988)
21.	American Graffiti (1973)
22.	A Shot In the Dark (1964)
23.	To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
24.	Cat Ballou (1965)

25.	The Seven Year Itch (1955)
26.	Ninotchka (1939)
27.	Arthur (1981)
28.	The Awful Truth (1937)
29.	Bananas (1971)
30.	Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
31.	Caddyshack (1980)
32.	Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
33.	Monkey Business (1931)
34.	Nine To Five (1980)
35.	She Done Him Wrong (1933)

36.	Victor/Victoria (1982)
37.	The Palm Beach Story (1942)
38.	Road To Morocco (1942)
39.	The Freshman (1925)
40.	Sleeper (1973)
41.	Ball of Fire (1941)
42.	Fargo (1996)
43.	Auntie Mame (1958)
44.	Silver Streak (1976)
45.	Sons of the Desert (1933)
46.	Bull Durham (1988)
47.	The Court Jester (1956)
48.	The Nutty Professor (1963)
49.	Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

AFI Thrilling Movies

1.	Psycho (1960)
2.	Jaws (1975)
3.	The Exorcist (1973)
4.	North By Northwest (1959)
5.	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
6.	King Kong (1933)
7.	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
8.	Rear Window (1954)
9.	Deliverance (1972)
10.	Chinatown (1974)
11.	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
12.	Double Indemnity (1944)
13.	Titanic (1997)

14.	The Maltese Falcon (1941)
15.	Star Wars (1977)
16.	Fatal Attraction (1987)
17.	The Shining (1980)
18.	The Deer Hunter (1978)
19.	Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
20.	Saving Private Ryan (1998)
21.	Carrie (1976)
22.	Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
23.	Dial M For Murder (1954)
24.	Ben-Hur (1959)
25.	Marathon Man (1976)

26.	Raging Bull (1980)
27.	Rocky (1976)
28.	Pulp Fiction (1994)
29.	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
30.	Wait Until Dark (1967)
31.	Frankenstein (1931)
32.	All the President's Men (1976)
33.	The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
34.	Planet of the Apes (1968)
35.	The Third Man (1949)

36.	Thelma & Louise (1991)
37.	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
38.	Gaslight (1944)
39.	The Magnificent Seven (1960)
40.	The Guns of Navarone (1961)
41.	The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
42.	Braveheart (1995)
43.	Body Heat (1981)
44.	Night of the Living Dead (1968)
45.	The China Syndrome (1979)
46.	Full Metal Jacket (1987)
47.	Blue Velvet (1986)
48.	Safety Last (1923)
49.	Blood Simple (1984)
50.	Speed (1994)
51.	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

AFI Passionate Movies

1.	Casablanca (1942)
2.	Gone With the Wind (1939)
3.	West Side Story (1961)
4.	Roman Holiday (1953)
5.	An Affair To Remember (1957)
6.	The Way We Were (1973)
7.	Dr. Zhivago (1965)
8.	From Here To Eternity (1953)
9.	Pretty Woman (1990)
10.	On Golden Pond (1981)
11.	Now, Voyager (1942)
12.	King Kong (1933)
13.	When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

14.	The Lady Eve (1941)
15.	The Sound of Music (1965)
16.	The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
17.	An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
18.	Swing Time (1936)
19.	The King and I (1956)
20.	Dark Victory (1939)
21.	Camille (1936)
22.	Beauty and the Beast (1991)
23.	Sleepless In Seattle (1993)
24.	To Catch a Thief (1955)
25.	Splendor In the Grass (1961)
26.	Last Tango In Paris (1972)
27.	The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
28.	Shakespeare In Love (1998)

29.	Bringing Up Baby (1938)
30.	The Graduate (1967)
31.	A Place In the Sun (1951)
32.	Sabrina (1954)
33.	Reds (1981)
34.	The English Patient (1996)
35.	Two For the Road (1967)
36.	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
37.	Manhattan (1979)
38.	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
39.	What's Up, Doc? (1972)
40.	Harold and Maude (1971)
41.	Sense and Sensibility (1995)
42.	Way Down East (1920)
43.	Roxanne (1987)
44.	The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
45.	Woman of the Year (1942)
46.	The American President (1995)

47.	The Quiet Man (1952)
48.	The Awful Truth (1937)
49.	Coming Home (1978)
50.	Jezebel (1938)
51.	Body Heat (1981)
52.	Lady and the Tramp (1955)
53.	Barefoot In the Park (1967)
54.	Grease (1978)
55.	The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
56.	Pillow Talk (1959)
57.	Jerry Maguire (1996)

AFI Inspiring Movies

1.	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
2.	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
3.	Schindler's List (1993)
4.	Rocky (1976)
5.	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
6.	Hoosiers (1986)
7.	The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
8.	The Miracle Worker (1962)
9.	Norma Rae (1979)
10.	National Velvet (1944)
11.	Sullivan's Travels (1941)

12.	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
13.	High Noon (1952)
14.	Field of Dreams (1989)
15.	Gandhi (1982)
16.	Pinocchio (1940)
17.	Star Wars (1977)
18.	Mrs. Miniver (1942)
19.	The Sound of Music (1965)
20.	12 Angry Men (1957)
21.	Gone With the Wind (1939)
22.	Spartacus (1960)
23.	On Golden Pond (1981)
24.	Lilies of the Field (1963)
25.	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
26.	The African Queen (1951)
27.	Meet John Doe (1941)
28.	Seabiscuit (2003)

29.	The Color Purple (1985)
30.	Dead Poets Society (1989)
31.	Shane (1953)
32.	Rudy (1993)
33.	The Defiant Ones (1958)
34.	Ben-Hur (1959)
35.	Sergeant York (1941)
36.	Silkwood (1983)
37.	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
38.	An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
39.	The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
40.	Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
41.	Cool Hand Luke (1967)
42.	Dark Victory (1939)
43.	Erin Brockovich (2000)
44.	Gunga Din (1939)
45.	The Verdict (1982)

46.	Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
47.	Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
48.	Thelma & Louise (1991)
49.	The Ten Commandments (1956)
50.	Babe (1995)
51.	Boys Town (1938)
52.	The Paper Chase (1973)
53.	Fame (1980)
54.	A Beautiful Mind (2001)
55.	Captains Courageous (1937)
56.	Places In the Heart (1984)
57.	Searching For Bobby Fischer (1993)
58.	Madame Curie (1943)
59.	The Karate Kid (1984)
60.	Ray (2004)
61.	Chariots of Fire (1981)

AFI Top 25 Musicals

AFI Top 10 Animated Movies

AFI Top 10 Romantic Comedies

AFI Top 10 Westerns

1.	Singin' In the Rain (1952)
2.	West Side Story (1961)
3.	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
4.	The Sound of Music (1965)
5.	Cabaret (1972)
6.	Mary Poppins (1964)
7.	A Star Is Born (1954)
8.	My Fair Lady (1964)
9.	Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
10.	On the Town (1949)
11.	Grease (1978)
12.	Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)
13.	Beauty and the Beast (1991)
14.	Guys and Dolls (1955)
15.	Show Boat (1936)
16.	Moulin Rouge! (2001)

1.	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
2.	Pinocchio (1940)
3.	Bambi (1942)
4.	The Lion King (1994)
5.	Aladdin (1992)
6.	Toy Story (1995)
7.	Beauty and the Beast (1991)
8.	Shrek (2001)
9.	Cinderella (1950)
10.	Finding Nemo (2003)

AFI Top 10 Sports Movies


1.	Raging Bull (1980)
2.	Rocky (1976)
3.	The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
4.	Hoosiers (1986)
5.	Bull Durham (1988)
6.	The Hustler (1961)
7.	Caddyshack (1980)
8.	Breaking Away (1979)
9.	National Velvet (1944)
10.	Jerry Maguire (1996)

1.	City Lights (1931)
2.	Annie Hall (1977)
3.	It Happened One Night (1934)
4.	Roman Holiday (1953)
5.	The Philadelphia Story (1940)
6.	When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
7.	Adam's Rib (1949)
8.	Moonstruck (1987)
9.	Harold and Maude (1971)
10.	Sleepless In Seattle (1993)

AFI Top 10 Mysteries


1.	Vertigo (1958)
2.	Chinatown (1974)
3.	Rear Window (1954)
4.	Laura (1944)
5.	The Third Man (1949)
6.	The Maltese Falcon (1941)
7.	North By Northwest (1959)
8.	Blue Velvet (1986)
9.	Dial M For Murder (1954)
10.	The Usual Suspects (1995)

1.	The Searchers (1956)
2.	High Noon (1952)
3.	Shane (1953)
4.	Unforgiven (1992)
5.	Red River (1948)
6.	The Wild Bunch (1969)
7.	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
8.	McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
9.	Stagecoach (1939)
10.	Cat Ballou (1965)

AFI Top 10 Fantasies


1.	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
2.	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
3.	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
4.	King Kong (1933)
5.	Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
6.	Field of Dreams (1989)
7.	Harvey (1950)
8.	Groundhog Day (1993)
9.	The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
10.	Big (1988)

AFI Top 10 Gangster Movies

AFI Top 10 Science Fiction Movies

AFI Top 10 Courtroom Dramas

AFI Top 10 Epics

1.	The Godfather (1972)
2.	Goodfellas (1990)
3.	The Godfather, Part II (1974)
4.	White Heat (1949)
5.	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
6.	Scarface (1932)
7.	Pulp Fiction (1994)
8.	The Public Enemy (1931)
9.	Little Caesar (1931)
10.	Scarface (1983)

1.	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2.	Star Wars (1977)
3.	E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
4.	A Clockwork Orange (1971)
5.	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
6.	Blade Runner (1982)
7.	Alien (1979)
8.	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
9.	Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
10.	Back To the Future (1985)

1.	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
2.	12 Angry Men (1957)
3.	Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
4.	The Verdict (1982)
5.	A Few Good Men (1992)
6.	Witness For the Prosecution (1957)
7.	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
8.	In Cold Blood (1967)
9.	A Cry In the Dark (1988)
10.	Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)

1.	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
2.	Ben-Hur (1959)
3.	Schindler's List (1993)
4.	Gone With the Wind (1939)
5.	Spartacus (1960)
6.	Titanic (1997)
7.	All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)
8.	Saving Private Ryan (1998)
9.	Reds (1981)
10.	The Ten Commandments (1956)

Top L.A. Films

1.	Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
2.	Training Day (2001)
3.	The Big Lebowski (1998)
4.	Falling Down (1993)
5.	Bound By Honor (1993)
6.	Funny People (2009)
7.	L.A. Confidential (1997)
8.	Lords of Dogtown (2005)
9.	Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
10.	Crash (2005)
11.	Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke (1978)
12.	Friday (1995)
13.	The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005)
14.	Swingers (1996)
15.	Stand and Deliver (1988)
16.	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
17.	Knocked Up (2007)
18.	Chinatown (1974)
19.	Easy Rider (1969)
20.	Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
21.	American History X (1998)
22.	The Usual Suspects (1995)
23.	Clueless (1995)
24.	Pulp Fiction (1994)
25.	Heat (1995)
26.	Fight Club (1999)
27.	Point Break (1991)
28.	Boyz N the Hood (1991)
29.	White Men Can't Jump (1992)

The Los Angeles Times 25 best L.A. films of the past 25 years (2008-1984)

The L.A. Times' two ground rules:

1) The film must communicate some inherent truth about the L.A. experience

2) Only one film per director allowed


1.	L.A. Confidential (1997)
2.	Boogie Nights (1997)
3.	Jackie Brown (1997)
4.	Boyz N the Hood (1991)
5.	Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
6.	The Player (1992)
7.	Clueless (1995)
8.	Repo Man (1984)
9.	Collateral (2004)
10.	The Big Lebowski (1998)
11.	Mulholland Drive (2001)
12.	Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
13.	Training Day (2001)
14.	Swingers (1996)
15.	Devil In a Blue Dress (1995)
16.	Friday (1995)
17.	Speed (1994)
18.	Valley Girl (1983)
19.	To Live and Die In L.A. (1985)
20.	L.A. Story (1991)
21.	To Sleep With Anger (1990)
22.	Less Than Zero (1987)
23.	Fletch (1985)
24.	Mi Vida Loca/My Crazy Life (1993)
25.	Crash (2005)