From this image, films I evidently must watch to be a productive member of society. Also, which ones I have actually seen are indicated. Action/Adventure
- ✔ African Queen, The
- Aliens
- Battle of Algiers, The
- Battle Royale
- Bullitt
- Departed, The
- Desperado
- Die Hard
- Dirty Harry
- El Mariachi
- Escape from New York
- ✔ Face/Off
- First Blood
- French Connection, The
- Fugitive, The
- Goodfellas
- Hard Boiled
- ✔ Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Internal Affairs
- Kill Bill Vol. 1
- Kill Bill Vol. 2
- Killer, The
- Layer Cake
- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
- Mad Max
- Matrix, The
- Mean Streets
- North by Northwest
- Oldboy
- Once Upon a Time in Mexico
- Planet Terror
- Pulp Fiction
- Se7en
- Seven Samurai
- Sin City
- ✔ Spider-Man
- ✔ Spider-Man 2
- Terminator
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Yojimbo
'''Animated'''
- A Bug's Life
- Castle in the Sky
- Coraline
- Emperor's New Groove, The
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- ✔ Finding Nemo
- Incredibles, The
- Iron Giant, The
- Howl's Moving Castle
- ✔ Jungle Book, The
- ✔ Lion King, The
- ✔ Monsters, Inc.
- Mulan
- My Neighbor Totoro
- ✔ Pinocchio
- Princess Mononoke
- ✔ Ratatouille
- Spirited Away
- Steamboat Willie
- ✔ Toy Story
- ✔ Toy Story 2
- Toy Story 3
- Up
- WALL-E
Comedy
- 500 Days of Summer
- Night at the Opera, A
- ✔ Airplane!
- Almost Famous
- Army of Darkness
- Big Lebowski, The
- ✔ Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
- Black Dynamite
- ✔ Blues Brothers, The
- ✔ Blazing Saddles
- Darjeeling Limited, The
- Dazed and Confused
- Dr. Strangelove
- Drag Me to Hell
- Evil Dead II
- Fargo
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- ✔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- ✔ Ghostbusters
- Gold Rush
- ✔ Groundhog Day
- Kung Fu Hustle
- Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Modern Times
- ✔ Naked Gun, The
- ✔ Office Space
- ✔ Pee Wee's Big Adventure
- Royal Tenenbaums, The
- Shaolin Soccer
- Some Like It Hot
- This Is Spinal Tap!
Drama
- ✔ 12 Angry Men
- 2046
- 8 1/2
- All the President's Men
- American Beauty
- Ashes and Diamonds
- Au revoir les enfants
- Bicycle Thieves
- ✔ Big Fish
- Casablanca
- Citizen Kane
- City of God
- Conversation, The
- Crazy Heart
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Dreamers, The
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Eyes Wide Shut
- Gofather, The
- Graduate, The
- Grand Illusion, The
- High and Low
- Igru
- I'm Not There
- ✔ It's a Wonderful Life
- Kramer vs. Kramer
- Last Emperor, The
- Last Tango in Paris
- Lives of Others, The
- No Country for Old Men
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Raging Bull
- Rashomon
- Rear Window
- Rebel Without a Cause
- Rocky
- Rope
- Rules of the Game, The
- Schindler's List
- ✔ Shawshank Redemption
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Seven Beauties
- Seventh Seal, The
- Stray Dog
- Synecdoche, New York
- Taxi Driver
- Throne of Blood
- Truman Show, The
- Umberto D
- Vertigo
- Waking Life
- Wild Strawberries
- ✔ Witness
- Wrestler, The
Horror
- 28 Days Later
- Alien
- ✔ Birds, The
- ✔ Blair Witch Project, The
- Dawn of the Dead
- Evil Dead, The
- Exorcist, The
- ✔ Fly The
- Freaks
- Friday the 13th
- Halloween
- Hellraiser
- Ichi the Killer
- Inside
- Jaws
- ✔ King Kong
- Last Man on Earth, The
- Let the Right One In
- Naked Lunch
- Night of the Living Dead
- Nosferatu
- Omen, The
- Paranormal Activity
- ✔ Poltergeist
- ✔ Psycho
- Rec
- ✔ Shining, The
- ✔ Silence of the Lambs, The
- ✔ Sixth Sense
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The
- Videodrome
Noir
- Chinatown
- Bad Sleep Well, The
- Basic Instinct
- Big Sleep, The
- Brick
- Dial M for Murder
- Double Indemnity
- Killing, The
- M
- Maltese Falcon
- Postman Always Rings Twice
- Le Samourai
- Sunset Boulevard
- Third Man, The
- Touch of Evil
- Usual Suspects, The
- ✔ Who Framed Roger Rabbitt?
Science Fiction
- 12 Monkeys
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Clockwork Orange, A
- Trip to the Moon, A
- ✔ Back to the Future
- Blade Runner
- Brazil
- Children of Men
- Day the Earth Stood Still, The
- District 9
- Metropolis
- Minority Report
- Moon
- Planet of the Apes
- Solaris
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
- Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
- Thing, The
- THX-1138
- Total Recall
- ✔ Tron
Western
- Fistful of Dollars, A
- Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The
- For a Few Dollars More
- Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The
- Great Train Robbery, The
- Hang 'em High
- High Noon
- High Plains Drifter
- Magnificent Seven, The
- Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The
- My Darling Clementine
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Outlaw Josey Wales
- Pale Rider
- Rio Bravo
- Searchers, The
- Shane
- Stagecoach
- Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The
- Unforgiven
- Wild Bunch, The