IMDB top 250... and the Canephian view.
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Movies I've seen are in bold. Movies I've seen in a theater have a * while movies I own have a $. Movies I've seen while on the job are disqualified.
1 Godfather, The
2 Shawshank Redemption, The
3 Godfather: Part II, The
4 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The *
5 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The *
6 Schindler's List *
7 Shichinin no samurai
8 Casablanca
9 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The *
10 Star Wars
11 Citizen Kane
12 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
13 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
14 Rear Window
15 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back *
16 Raiders of the Lost Ark
17 Usual Suspects, The
18 Pulp Fiction
19 Memento
20 North by Northwest
21 12 Angry Men (1957)
22 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il
23 Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le
24 Lawrence of Arabia
25 Psycho (1960)
26 Silence of the Lambs, The
27 It's a Wonderful Life
28 Goodfellas
29 American Beauty
30 Sunset Blvd.
31 Vertigo
32 Matrix, The * $
33 To Kill a Mockingbird
34 Apocalypse Now
35 Pianist, The
36 C'era una volta il West
37 Cidade de Deus
38 Paths of Glory
39 Third Man, The
40 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away) $
41 Taxi Driver
42 Some Like It Hot
43 Fight Club
44 Double Indemnity
45 Boot, Das
46 Singin' in the Rain
47 Chinatown
48 L.A. Confidential
49 M (1931)
50 Maltese Falcon, The
51 Requiem for a Dream
52 All About Eve
53 Bridge on the River Kwai, The
54 Se7en (1995)
55 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
56 Saving Private Ryan
57 Rashômon
58 Raging Bull
59 Wizard of Oz, The
60 Alien
61 American History X
62 Sting, The
63 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
64 Léon
65 Vita è bella, La
66 Manchurian Candidate, The
67 Touch of Evil
68 Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The
69 2001: A Space Odyssey
70 Modern Times
71 Reservoir Dogs
72 Clockwork Orange, A
73 Great Escape, The
74 Amadeus
75 Ran
76 Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
77 On the Waterfront
78 Annie Hall
79 Jaws
80 Apartment, The
81 Braveheart
82 High Noon
83 Finding Nemo
84 Aliens
85 Fargo
86 Strangers on a Train
87 Shining, The
88 Sixth Sense, The
89 Metropolis (1927)
90 Blade Runner
91 Duck Soup
92 Kill Bill: Vol. 1
93 City Lights (1931)
94 Donnie Darko
95 General, The (1927)
96 Great Dictator, The
97 Sjunde inseglet, Det (Seventh Sign)
98 Princess Bride, The
99 Nuovo cinema Paradiso
100 Notorious (1946)
101 Toy Story 2
102 Rebecca
103 Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke)
104 Full Metal Jacket
105 Lola rennt (Run, Lola, Run)
106 Big Sleep, The
107 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
108 Best Years of Our Lives, The
109 Graduate, The
110 Yojimbo (1961)
111 Patton
112 It Happened One Night
113 Ladri di biciclette
114 Manhattan
115 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
116 Dogville
117 Deer Hunter, The
118 Searchers, The
119 Philadelphia Story, The
120 Forrest Gump
121 Glory
122 African Queen, The
123 Cool Hand Luke
124 Bringing Up Baby
125 Ben-Hur (1959)
126 Green Mile, The
127 Once Upon a Time in America
128 Hable con ella (Speak to Her)
129 Unforgiven
130 Stalag 17
131 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
132 Shrek *
133 Arsenic and Old Lace
134 Mystic River
135 Grapes of Wrath, The
136 Gone with the Wind
137 Night of the Hunter, The
138 Elephant Man, The
139 Christmas Story, A
140 Wild Bunch, The
141 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
142 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
143 Straight Story, The
144 Back to the Future
145 Platoon
146 Hustler, The
147 Young Frankenstein
148 Amores perros
149 His Girl Friday
150 Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
151 Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries)
152 Die Hard (1988)
153 Gold Rush, The (1925)
154 Grande illusion, La (1937)
155 Monsters, Inc.
156 Spartacus
157 Life of Brian
158 Charade
159 Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
160 Festen (The Celebration)
161 Gladiator
162 Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The
163 Almost Famous
164 Witness for the Prosecution
165 Lost in Translation
166 Conversation, The
167 Roman Holiday
168 Sling Blade
169 Quatre cents coups, Les (The 400 Blows)
170 Magnolia
171 Toy Story
172 Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
173 Brazil
174 Insider, The
175 All the President's Men [read the book, actually]
176 Night at the Opera, A
177 Day the Earth Stood Still, The
178 Being John Malkovich
179 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
180 Shadow of a Doubt
181 To Be or Not to Be
182 Killing, The (1956)
183 Trois couleurs: Rouge
184 Ying xiong (Hero)
185 Mulholland Dr.
186 Ed Wood
187 Exorcist, The
188 Stand by Me
189 Dog Day Afternoon
190 Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
191 Twelve Monkeys
192 Terminator, The
193 Harvey
194 Gandhi
195 Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies)
196 Lion in Winter, The
197 This Is Spinal Tap
198 Trainspotting
199 Miller's Crossing
200 Groundhog Day
201 Right Stuff, The
202 Network
203 Adaptation
204 Midnight Cowboy
205 Bonnie and Clyde
206 Rain Man
207 8½ Weeks
208 Whale Rider
209 Laura
210 King Kong (1933)
211 39 Steps, The
212 Snatch
213 Stagecoach
214 Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928)
215 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
216 Others, The
217 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
218 Strada, La
219 Minority Report
220 Thin Man, The
221 In the Heat of the Night
222 Big Lebowski, The
223 Ikiru
224 Untouchables, The
225 X2 *
226 Traffic
227 Rio Bravo
228 Big Fish
229 Beauty and the Beast
230 Planet of the Apes (original)
231 Henry V (1989)
232 Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother)
233 Red River (1948)
234 Fantasia
235 Being There
236 Bride of Frankenstein
237 Good Will Hunting
238 Sleuth (1972)
239 Die xue shuang xiong (The Killer)
240 Quiet Man, The (1952)
241 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
242 Clerks.
243 Beautiful Mind, A
244 Heat
245 Man Who Would Be King, The
246 Man for All Seasons, A (1966)
247 Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
248 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
249 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
250 Enfants du paradis, Les (1945)
Out of the above, I've seen 80% of the top 5, 27% of the Top 100, and 17% of the Top 250. Only 3% were seen in actual theaters. I own under 1% on DVD.
joshuwain for this Meme...Movies I've seen are in bold. Movies I've seen in a theater have a * while movies I own have a $. Movies I've seen while on the job are disqualified.
1 Godfather, The
2 Shawshank Redemption, The
3 Godfather: Part II, The
4 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The *
5 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The *
6 Schindler's List *
7 Shichinin no samurai
8 Casablanca
9 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The *
10 Star Wars
11 Citizen Kane
12 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
13 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
14 Rear Window
15 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back *
16 Raiders of the Lost Ark
17 Usual Suspects, The
18 Pulp Fiction
19 Memento
20 North by Northwest
21 12 Angry Men (1957)
22 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il
23 Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le
24 Lawrence of Arabia
25 Psycho (1960)
26 Silence of the Lambs, The
27 It's a Wonderful Life
28 Goodfellas
29 American Beauty
30 Sunset Blvd.
31 Vertigo
32 Matrix, The * $
33 To Kill a Mockingbird
34 Apocalypse Now
35 Pianist, The
36 C'era una volta il West
37 Cidade de Deus
38 Paths of Glory
39 Third Man, The
40 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away) $
41 Taxi Driver
42 Some Like It Hot
43 Fight Club
44 Double Indemnity
45 Boot, Das
46 Singin' in the Rain
47 Chinatown
48 L.A. Confidential
49 M (1931)
50 Maltese Falcon, The
51 Requiem for a Dream
52 All About Eve
53 Bridge on the River Kwai, The
54 Se7en (1995)
55 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
56 Saving Private Ryan
57 Rashômon
58 Raging Bull
59 Wizard of Oz, The
60 Alien
61 American History X
62 Sting, The
63 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
64 Léon
65 Vita è bella, La
66 Manchurian Candidate, The
67 Touch of Evil
68 Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The
69 2001: A Space Odyssey
70 Modern Times
71 Reservoir Dogs
72 Clockwork Orange, A
73 Great Escape, The
74 Amadeus
75 Ran
76 Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
77 On the Waterfront
78 Annie Hall
79 Jaws
80 Apartment, The
81 Braveheart
82 High Noon
83 Finding Nemo
84 Aliens
85 Fargo
86 Strangers on a Train
87 Shining, The
88 Sixth Sense, The
89 Metropolis (1927)
90 Blade Runner
91 Duck Soup
92 Kill Bill: Vol. 1
93 City Lights (1931)
94 Donnie Darko
95 General, The (1927)
96 Great Dictator, The
97 Sjunde inseglet, Det (Seventh Sign)
98 Princess Bride, The
99 Nuovo cinema Paradiso
100 Notorious (1946)
101 Toy Story 2
102 Rebecca
103 Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke)
104 Full Metal Jacket
105 Lola rennt (Run, Lola, Run)
106 Big Sleep, The
107 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
108 Best Years of Our Lives, The
109 Graduate, The
110 Yojimbo (1961)
111 Patton
112 It Happened One Night
113 Ladri di biciclette
114 Manhattan
115 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
116 Dogville
117 Deer Hunter, The
118 Searchers, The
119 Philadelphia Story, The
120 Forrest Gump
121 Glory
122 African Queen, The
123 Cool Hand Luke
124 Bringing Up Baby
125 Ben-Hur (1959)
126 Green Mile, The
127 Once Upon a Time in America
128 Hable con ella (Speak to Her)
129 Unforgiven
130 Stalag 17
131 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
132 Shrek *
133 Arsenic and Old Lace
134 Mystic River
135 Grapes of Wrath, The
136 Gone with the Wind
137 Night of the Hunter, The
138 Elephant Man, The
139 Christmas Story, A
140 Wild Bunch, The
141 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
142 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
143 Straight Story, The
144 Back to the Future
145 Platoon
146 Hustler, The
147 Young Frankenstein
148 Amores perros
149 His Girl Friday
150 Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
151 Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries)
152 Die Hard (1988)
153 Gold Rush, The (1925)
154 Grande illusion, La (1937)
155 Monsters, Inc.
156 Spartacus
157 Life of Brian
158 Charade
159 Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
160 Festen (The Celebration)
161 Gladiator
162 Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The
163 Almost Famous
164 Witness for the Prosecution
165 Lost in Translation
166 Conversation, The
167 Roman Holiday
168 Sling Blade
169 Quatre cents coups, Les (The 400 Blows)
170 Magnolia
171 Toy Story
172 Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
173 Brazil
174 Insider, The
175 All the President's Men [read the book, actually]
176 Night at the Opera, A
177 Day the Earth Stood Still, The
178 Being John Malkovich
179 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
180 Shadow of a Doubt
181 To Be or Not to Be
182 Killing, The (1956)
183 Trois couleurs: Rouge
184 Ying xiong (Hero)
185 Mulholland Dr.
186 Ed Wood
187 Exorcist, The
188 Stand by Me
189 Dog Day Afternoon
190 Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
191 Twelve Monkeys
192 Terminator, The
193 Harvey
194 Gandhi
195 Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies)
196 Lion in Winter, The
197 This Is Spinal Tap
198 Trainspotting
199 Miller's Crossing
200 Groundhog Day
201 Right Stuff, The
202 Network
203 Adaptation
204 Midnight Cowboy
205 Bonnie and Clyde
206 Rain Man
207 8½ Weeks
208 Whale Rider
209 Laura
210 King Kong (1933)
211 39 Steps, The
212 Snatch
213 Stagecoach
214 Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928)
215 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
216 Others, The
217 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
218 Strada, La
219 Minority Report
220 Thin Man, The
221 In the Heat of the Night
222 Big Lebowski, The
223 Ikiru
224 Untouchables, The
225 X2 *
226 Traffic
227 Rio Bravo
228 Big Fish
229 Beauty and the Beast
230 Planet of the Apes (original)
231 Henry V (1989)
232 Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother)
233 Red River (1948)
234 Fantasia
235 Being There
236 Bride of Frankenstein
237 Good Will Hunting
238 Sleuth (1972)
239 Die xue shuang xiong (The Killer)
240 Quiet Man, The (1952)
241 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
242 Clerks.
243 Beautiful Mind, A
244 Heat
245 Man Who Would Be King, The
246 Man for All Seasons, A (1966)
247 Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
248 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
249 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
250 Enfants du paradis, Les (1945)
Out of the above, I've seen 80% of the top 5, 27% of the Top 100, and 17% of the Top 250. Only 3% were seen in actual theaters. I own under 1% on DVD.
