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Here is a list I ran across today that I found interesting...I have seen 64 of these films so death must be creeping up on me one movie at a time and I only have 36 movies to go!

100 Movies To See Before You Die
March 22, 2009

Many movies are good, some are great, but only a select few can be called truly "essential." After heated discussions, long negotiations, and a shouting match or two, the staff at Yahoo! Movies has put together this list of the 100 films you must see before you die. To choose the titles for the list, we considered factors like historical importance and cultural impact. But we also selected films that we believe are the most thrilling, most dramatic, scariest, and funniest movies of all time. Some of these films you've seen, and some you may not have heard of, but we believe that each one is a timeless classic that you absolutely have to see.

0-9
12 Angry Men (1957)
Directed By: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E. G. Marshall

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Directed By: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

The 400 Blows (1959)
Directed By: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick Auffay

8 ½ (1963)
Directed By: Federico Fellini
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee

A
The African Queen (1952)
Directed By: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley

Alien (1979)
Directed By: Ridley Scott
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright

All About Eve (1950)
Directed By: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders

Annie Hall (1977)
Directed By: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton

Apocalypse Now (1979)
Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall

B
The Battle of Algiers (1967)
Directed By: Gillo Pontecorvo
Starring: Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag

The Bicycle Thief (1948)
Directed By: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola

Blade Runner (1982)
Directed By: Ridley Scott
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young

Blazing Saddles (1974)
Directed By: Mel Brooks
Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens

Blow Up (1966)
Directed By: Michelangelo Antononi
Starring: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles

Blue Velvet (1986)
Directed By: David Lynch
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Directed By: Arthur Penn
Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard

Breathless (1960)
Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Directed By: David Lean
Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins,

Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Directed By: Howard Hawks
Starring: Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Directed By: George Roy Hill
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

C
Casablanca (1942)
Directed By: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

Chinatown (1974)
Directed By: Roman Polanski
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston

Citizen Kane (1941)
Directed By: Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Directed By: Ang Lee
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang

D
Die Hard (1988)
Directed By: John McTiernan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman

Do the Right Thing (1989)
Directed By: Spike Lee
Starring: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

Double Indemnity (1944)
Directed By: Billy Wilder
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Directed By: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden

Duck Soup (1933)
Directed By: Leo McCarey
Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx


E
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Dee Wallace Stone, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore

Enter the Dragon (1973)
Directed By: Robert Clouse
Starring: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly

The Exorcist (1973)
Directed By: William Friedkin
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair,

F
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
Directed By: Amy Heckerling
Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold,

The French Connection (1971)
Directed By: William Friedkin
Starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider

G
The Godfather (1972)
Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan,

The Godfather, Part II (1974)
Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

Goldfinger (1964)
Directed By: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Sean Connery, Honor Blackman

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)
Directed By: Sergio Leone
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef

Goodfellas (1990)
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci

The Graduate (1967)
Directed By: Mike Nichols
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross

Grand Illusion (1938)
Directed By: Jean Renoir
Starring: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim

Groundhog Day (1993)
Directed By: Harold Ramis
Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott

H
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Directed By: Richard Lester
Starring: The Beatles

I
In the Mood For Love (2001)
Directed By: Wong Kar-Wai
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung

It Happened One Night (1934)
Directed By: Frank Capra
Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Directed By: Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore

J
Jaws (1975)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

K
King Kong (1933)
Directed By: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Shoedsack
Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong

L
The Lady Eve (1941)
Directed By: Preston Sturges
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Directed By: David Lean
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn

The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003)
Directed By: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen


M
M (1931)
Directed By: Fritz Lang
Starring: Peter Lorre, Theodor Loos, Otto Wernicke

M*A*S*H (1970)
Directed By: Robert Altman
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt

The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Directed By: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet

The Matrix (1999)
Directed By: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss

Modern Times (1936)
Directed By: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Directed By: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

N
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
Directed By: John Landis
Starring: John Belushi, Tim Matheson

Network (1976)
Directed By: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch

Nosferatu (1922)
Directed By: F.W. Murnau
Starring: Max Schreck, Gustave Von Wagenheim, Greta Schroeder,

O
On the Waterfront (1954)
Directed By: Elia Kazan
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Directed By: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield

P
Paths of Glory (1958)
Directed By: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou

Princess Mononoke (1999)
Directed By: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Billy Crudup, Billy Bob Thornton, Minnie Driver

Psycho (1960)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh

Pulp Fiction (1994)
Directed By: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman

R
Raging Bull (1980)
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty-Gentile, Joe Pesci

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman

Raise the Red Lantern (1992)
Directed By: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, He Caifei, Cao Cuifeng

Rashomon (1951)
Directed By: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo

Rear Window (1954)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Directed By: Nicholas Ray
Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo

Rocky (1976)
Directed By: John Avildsen
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young

Roman Holiday (1953)
Directed By: William Wyler
Starring: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert

S
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore

Schindler's List (1993)
Directed By: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes

The Searchers (1956)
Directed By: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles

Seven Samurai (1954)
Directed By: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Directed By: Frank Darabont
Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Directed By: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn

Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Directed By: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelley
Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Directed By: David Hand
Starring: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell

Some Like It Hot (1959)
Directed By: Billy Wilder
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

The Sound of Music (1965)
Directed By: Robert Wise
Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer

Star Wars (1977)
Directed By: George Lucas
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher

Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Directed By: Billy Wilder
Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim

T
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Directed By: James Cameron
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton

The Third Man (1949)
Directed By: Carol Reed
Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles

This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Directed By: Rob Reiner
Starring: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest

Titanic (1997)
Directed By: James Cameron
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Directed By: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford

Toy Story (1995)
Directed By: John Lasseter
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles

U
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Directed By: Bryan Singer
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne

V
Vertigo (1958)
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak

W
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Directed By: Rob Reiner
Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher

Wild Strawberries (1957)
Directed By: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Victor Sjostrom, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ingrid Thulin

Wings of Desire (1988)
Directed By: Wim Wenders
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander

The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Directed By: Victor Fleming
Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Directed By: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas

The World of Apu (1959)
Directed By: Satyajit Ray
Starring: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Swampan Mukerjee,
"Ponder well on this point: the pleasant hours of our life are all connected, by a more or less tangible link, with some memory of the table."-Charles Pierre Monselet, French author(1825-1888)
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  Re: OT-We've talked about Authors...How about movies?? by firechef (Here is a list I ran...)
I knew Rear Window would have to be on that list! I can't not watch it whenever it's on. And every time I do watch it I'm nervous. LOL. Rope is another one I love by Hitchcock.

So many good movies on that list. And I'm there are lots I've yet to see. I should add them to my Blockbuster queue (before they go out of business).
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  Re: Re: OT-We've talked about Authors...How about movi by Trixxee (I knew Rear Window w...)
Not bad: I only have 25 more to go!

Tsk! Tsk! How can they list M, but not include Fritz Lang's megamasterpiece, Metropolis?

Similarly, they include Princess Mononoke, but not Grave of the Fireflies, which I honestly believe is one of the most beautiful movies ever made. Don't let the fact that it is anime (Japanese animation) dissuade you from seeing it. If possible, watch it with Japanese audio and English subtitles to be able to catch the original acting as it was intended by the director. Be forewarned, though: Grave of the Fireflies IS an incredibly beautiful movie, but also an incredibly sad movie. When a movie's opening line is that of the 14-year-old main character saying, "September 21, 1945: That was the night I died," you know not everything is going to be rosy. Still, if you miss this movie, you will have missed a thing of rare beauty.

Sorry - I'll stop now. When I get started about that movie, it's hard to stop me. LOL!
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  Re: Re: OT-We've talked about Authors...How about movi by labradors (Not bad: I only have...)
They didn't put Patton on the list either! What a shame and a sham!!!
"Ponder well on this point: the pleasant hours of our life are all connected, by a more or less tangible link, with some memory of the table."-Charles Pierre Monselet, French author(1825-1888)
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  Re: Re: OT-We've talked about Authors...How about movi by firechef (They didn't put Patt...)
jeez, 20 I haven't seen - most of those are in the last 15-20 years. don't go that often anymore. Used to be a passion with us.

I have to watch Pulp Fiction about every 5 years.
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