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1,001 movies you must see before you die. covers films from 1900s to 2020.

list | letterboxd tag | tracking since 2020

  • chinatown, roman polanski (1974)
  • the grave of the fireflies, isao takahata (1988)
  • the lighthouse, robert eggers (2019)
  • monos, alejandro landes (2019)
  • back to the future, robert zemeckis (1985)
  • vampyr, carl theodor dreyer (1932)
  • the evil dead, sam raimi (1981)
  • let the right one in, tomas alfredson (2008)
  • under the shadow, babak anvari (2016)
  • an american werewolf in london, john landis (1981)
  • le samourai, jean-pierre melville (1967)
  • fantastic planet, rené laloux (1973)
  • irreversible, gaspar noé (2002)
  • jaws, steven spielberg (1975)
  • 2 or 3 things i know about her, jean-luc goddard (1967)
  • rashomon, akira kurosawa (1950)
  • tenet, christopher nolan (2020)
  • ikiru, akira kurosawa (1952)
  • seven samurai, akira kurosawa (1954)
  • throne of blood, akira kurosawa (1957)
  • monty python and the holy grail, terry gilliam & terry jones (1975)
  • dersu uzala, akira kurosawa (1975)
  • young frankenstein, mel brooks (1974)
  • skyfall, sam mendes (2012)
  • ran, akira kurosawa (1985)
  • a.i. artificial intelligence, steven spielberg (2001)
  • poltergeist, tobe hooper (1982)
  • the girl with the dragon tattoo, david fincher (2011)
  • akira, katsuhiro otomo (1988)
  • the terminator, james cameron (1984)
  • the dark knight, christopher nolan (2008)
  • dangerous liaisons, stephen frears (1988)
  • blazing saddles, mel brooks (1974)
  • the host, bong joon-ho (2006)
  • gravity, alfonso cuarón (2013)
  • bram stoker's dracula, francis ford coppola (1992)
  • top gun, tony scott (1986)
  • stand by me, rob reiner (1986)
  • the vast of night, andrew patterson (2019)
  • e.t. the extra-terrestrial, steven spielberg (1982)
  • the shining, stanley kubrick (1980)
  • saint maud, rose glass (2019)
  • black swan, darren aronofsky (2010)
  • collateral, michael mann (2004)
  • the rocky horror picture show, jim sharman (1975)
  • avatar, james cameron (2009)
  • taste of cherry, abbas kiarostami (1997)
  • kill bill: vol. 1, quentin tarantino (2003)
  • solaris, andrei tarkovsky (1972)
  • mad max: fury road, george miller (2015)
  • arrival, denis villeneuve (2016)
  • oldboy, park chan-wook (2003)
  • the lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring, peter jackson (2001)
  • the lord of the rings: the two towers, peter jackson (2002)
  • the lord of the rings: return of the king, peter jackson (2003)
  • a trip to the moon, georges méliès (1902)
  • repulsion, roman polanski (1965)
  • scream, wes craven (1996)
  • nosferatu, f. w. murnau (1922)
  • blade runner, ridley scott (1982)
  • blade runner 2049, denis villeneuve (2017)
  • the matrix, the wachowskis (1999)
  • amélie, jean-pierre jeunet (2001)
  • the farewell, lulu wang (2019)
  • avengers: infinity war, anthony & joe russo (2018)
  • avengers: endgame, anthony & joe russo (2019)
  • the big lebowski, joel coen (1998)
  • little women, greta gerwig (2019)
  • terminator 2: judgement day, james cameron (1991)
  • fight club, david fincher (1999)
  • hell or high water, david mackenzie (2016)
  • clueless, amy heckerling (1995)
  • alien, ridley scott (1979)
  • stalker, andrei tarkovsky (1979)
  • the great train robbery, edwin s. porter (1903)
  • the naked gun: from the files of police squad!, david zucker (1988)
  • the adventures of priscilla, queen of the desert, stephan elliott (1994)
  • the princess bride, rob reiner (1987)
  • the muppet movie, james frawley (1979)
  • dumbo, ben sharpsteen (1941)
  • un chien andalou, luis buñuel (1929)
  • meshes of the afternoon, maya deren & alexander hammid (1943)
  • 2001: a space odyssey, stanley kubrick (1968)
  • crazy rich asians, john m. chu (2018)
  • mad max, george miller (1979)
  • aliens, james cameron (1986)
  • independence day, roland emmerich (1996)
  • total recall, paul verhoeven (1990)
  • mirror, andrei tarkovsky (1975)
  • spirited away, hayao miyazaki (2001)
  • the handmaiden, park chan-wook (2016)
  • hold me while i'm naked, george kuchar (1966)
  • the cabin in the woods, drew goddard (2011)
  • wall·e, andrew stanton (2008)
  • the jungle book, wolfgang reitherman (1967)
  • toy story, john lasseter (1995)
  • snow white and the seven dwarfs, david hand (1937)
  • pinnochio, sharpsteen, luske, kinney, roberts, hee, ferguson, & jackson (1940)
  • sherlock jr., buster keaton (1924)
  • dead ringers, david cronenberg (1988)
  • edward scissorhands, tim burton (1990)
  • frankenstein, james whale (1931)
  • videodrome, david cronenberg (1983)
  • tetsuo: the iron man, shinya tsukamoto (1989)
  • freaks, tod browning (1932)
  • viy, konstantin ershov & georgi kropachyov (1967)
  • i walked with a zombie, jacques tourneur (1943)
  • the thing, john carpenter (1982)
  • what ever happened to baby jane?, robert aldrich (1962)
  • bride of frankenstein, james whale (1935)
  • dracula, tod browning (1931)
  • the wolf man, george waggner (1941)
  • suspiria, dario argento (1977)
  • the unknown, tod browning (1927)
  • get out, jordan peele (2017)
  • the silence of the lambs, jonathan demme (1991)
  • candyman, bernard rose (1992)
  • black sunday, mario bava (1960)
  • the blair witch project, daniel myrick & eduardo sánchez (1999)
  • the fly, david cronenberg (1986)
  • the wicker man, robin hardy (1973)
  • seconds, john frankenheimer (1966)
  • the bird with the crystal plumage, dario argento (1970)
  • the kingdom i, lars von trier (1994)
  • airplane!, jerry & david zucker & jim abrahams (1980)
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