Another Movie List

Thankfully I’ve seen a ton of these already. The bulleted and bolded ones. From Roger Ebert:

2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) Stanley Kubrick
The 400 Blows” (1959) Francois Truffaut
“8 1/2″ (1963) Federico Fellini
“Aguirre, the Wrath of God” (1972) Werner Herzog
Alien” (1979) Ridley Scott
“All About Eve” (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Annie Hall” (1977) Woody Allen
Apocalypse Now” (1979) Francis Ford Coppola*
Bambi” (1942) Disney
The Battleship Potemkin” (1925) Sergei Eisenstein
“The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946) William Wyler
“The Big Red One” (1980) Samuel Fuller
The Bicycle Thief” (1949) Vittorio De Sica
The Big Sleep” (1946) Howard Hawks
Blade Runner” (1982) Ridley Scott
“Blowup” (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni
“Blue Velvet” (1986) David Lynch
“Bonnie and Clyde” (1967) Arthur Penn
Breathless” (1959 Jean-Luc Godard
Bringing Up Baby” (1938) Howard Hawks
“Carrie” (1975) Brian DePalma
Casablanca” (1942) Michael Curtiz
Un Chien Andalou” (1928) Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali
“Children of Paradise” / “Les Enfants du Paradis” (1945) Marcel Carne
Chinatown” (1974) Roman Polanski
Citizen Kane” (1941) Orson Welles
A Clockwork Orange” (1971) Stanley Kubrick
“The Crying Game” (1992) Neil Jordan
The Day the Earth Stood Still” (1951) Robert Wise
“Days of Heaven” (1978) Terence Malick
Dirty Harry” (1971) Don Siegel
“The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” (1972) Luis Bunuel
Do the Right Thing” (1989 Spike Lee
“La Dolce Vita” (1960) Federico Fellini
Double Indemnity” (1944) Billy Wilder
Dr. Strangelove” (1964) Stanley Kubrick
“Duck Soup” (1933) Leo McCarey
E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial” (1982) Steven Spielberg
Easy Rider” (1969) Dennis Hopper
The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) Irvin Kershner
The Exorcist” (1973) William Friedkin
Fargo” (1995) Joel & Ethan Coen
Fight Club” (1999) David Fincher
“Frankenstein” (1931) James Whale
“The General” (1927) Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
The Godfather,” “The Godfather, Part II” (1972, 1974) Francis Ford Coppola
Gone With the Wind” (1939) Victor Fleming
GoodFellas” (1990) Martin Scorsese
The Graduate” (1967) Mike Nichols
Halloween” (1978) John Carpenter
A Hard Day’s Night” (1964) Richard Lester
Intolerance” (1916) D.W. Griffith
“It’s a Gift” (1934) Norman Z. McLeod
It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) Frank Capra
Jaws” (1975) Steven Spielberg
“The Lady Eve” (1941) Preston Sturges
Lawrence of Arabia” (1962) David Lean
“M” (1931) Fritz Lang
Mad Max 2″ / “The Road Warrior” (1981) George Miller
The Maltese Falcon” (1941) John Huston
The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) John Frankenheimer
Metropolis” (1926) Fritz Lang
Modern Times” (1936) Charles Chaplin
Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (1975) Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam
“Nashville” (1975) Robert Altman
“The Night of the Hunter” (1955) Charles Laughton
Night of the Living Dead” (1968) George Romero
North by Northwest” (1959) Alfred Hitchcock
Nosferatu” (1922) F.W. Murnau
On the Waterfront” (1954) Elia Kazan
“Once Upon a Time in the West” (1968) Sergio Leone
Out of the Past” (1947) Jacques Tournier
“Persona” (1966) Ingmar Bergman
“Pink Flamingos” (1972) John Waters
Psycho” (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
“Pulp Fiction” (1994) Quentin Tarantino
Rashomon” (1950) Akira Kurosawa
Rear Window” (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
Rebel Without a Cause” (1955) Nicholas Ray
“Red River” (1948) Howard Hawks
“Repulsion” (1965) Roman Polanski
“The Rules of the Game” (1939) Jean Renoir
“Scarface” (1932) Howard Hawks
“The Scarlet Empress” (1934) Josef von Sternberg
Schindler’s List” (1993) Steven Spielberg
The Searchers” (1956) John Ford
The Seven Samurai” (1954) Akira Kurosawa
Singin’ in the Rain” (1952) Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
Some Like It Hot” (1959) Billy Wilder
“A Star Is Born” (1954) George Cukor
A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951) Elia Kazan
Sunset Boulevard” (1950) Billy Wilder
“Taxi Driver” (1976) Martin Scorsese
The Third Man” (1949) Carol Reed
“Tokyo Story” (1953) Yasujiro Ozu
Touch of Evil” (1958) Orson Welles
“The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948) John Huston
“Trouble in Paradise” (1932) Ernst Lubitsch
Vertigo” (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
“West Side Story” (1961) Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise
The Wild Bunch” (1969) Sam Peckinpah
The Wizard of Oz” (1939) Victor Fleming

Comments and conversations on this post

  1. I’ve got a copy of West Side Story with your name on it. We’ll watch it while we paint each other’s nails!

  2. That’s one I’m not sure of. I think I might have seen it, since Robert Wise graduated from my High School.

  3. i am interestingly surprised at some of the movies you’ve never seen.

  4. You mean like Pulp Fiction and Taxi Driver? I don’t like Tarantino or most movies from the 70s.

  5. LOL! exactly. blue velvet too.

  6. That’s another one I can’t remember if I’ve seen. I have memories of a scene involving a car as the set piece, but that’s it.

  7. is this list eberts all time favorites? and they are in the car alot in blue velvet.

  8. If you saw Blue Velvet, you’d remember it! If we can get a copy of Aguirre, I always wanted to see that. And I can never get enough of Duck Soup “Your nuts, Madam. I certainly am!” and The Treasures of the Sierra Madre (I don need no steekin’ badges!). You have to watch West Side Story just to stare at Natalie Wood.