501 Must-See Movies

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From a book of the same name.

The list is divided into 10 sections, each with 50 movies. (Except for the last, which has 51.)

Action/Adventure & Epic (page 1)
Comedy (page 2)
Drama (page 3)
Horror (page 4)
Musical (page 5)
Romance (page 6)
Science Fiction/Fantasy (page 7)
Mystery/Thriller (page 8)
War (page 9)
Western (pages 10 and 11)

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  1. 1.
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    The Iron Horse
    by John Ford

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  2. 2.
    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
    by Rex Ingram

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  3. 3.
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    Napoléon (France, 1927)
    by Abel Gance

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  4. 4.
    Cleopatra (1934)
    by Cecil B. DeMille

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  5. 5.
    The Adventures of Robin Hood (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz

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  6. 6.
    Alexander Nevsky
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

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  7. 7.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Victor Fleming

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  8. 8.
    The Sea Hawk
    by Michael Curtiz

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  10. 10.
    The African Queen
    by John Huston

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  11. 11.
    The Wages of Fear - Criterion Collection
    by Henri-Georges Clouzot

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  12. 12.
    Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  13. 13.
    The Ten Commandments

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  14. 14.
    War and Peace

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  15. 15.
    The Vikings
    by Richard Fleischer

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  16. 16.
    North By Northwest

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  17. 17.
    Ben-Hur
    by William Wyler

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  18. 18.
    Spartacus
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  19. 19.
    Lawrence of Arabia

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  20. 20.
    Zulu
    by Cy Endfield

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  21. 21.
    Dr. Zhivago

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  22. 22.
    The Charge of the Light Brigade
    by Michael Curtiz

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  23. 23.
    The Lion in Winter
    by Anthony Harvey (II)

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  24. 24.
    Waterloo
    by Sergei Bondarchuk

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  25. 25.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

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  26. 26.
    The Poseidon Adventure (Special Edition)
    by Ronald Neame

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  27. 27.
    Enter the Dragon
    by Robert Clouse

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  28. 28.
    Papillon
    by Franklin J. Schaffner

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  29. 29.
    The Towering Inferno
    by John Guillermin

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  30. 30.
    The Man Who Would Be King
    by John Huston

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  31. 32.
    Fitzcarraldo
    by Werner Herzog

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  32. 33.
    Gandhi (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Richard Attenborough

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  33. 34.
    The Right Stuff
    by Philip Kaufman

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  34. 36.
    A Passage to India
    by David Lean

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  35. 37.
    Ran - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  36. 38.
    The Mission (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Roland Joffé

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  37. 39.
    Top Gun
    by Tony Scott

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  38. 40.
    The Last Emperor
    by Bernardo Bertolucci

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  39. 41.
    Die Hard (Widescreen Edition)
    by John McTiernan

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  40. 42.
    Speed (Widescreen Edition)
    by Jan de Bont

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  41. 43.
    True Lies
    by James Cameron

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  42. 44.
    Braveheart

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  43. 45.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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  44. 46.
    Gladiator (Widescreen Edition)
    by Ridley Scott

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  45. 50.
    Troy (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Wolfgang Petersen

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Comments

Jenn
Toronto

Untitled — 28 weeks ago

Bravo! This is a great list and was glad to see someone completed it :)


holliday
Florida

Great — 35 weeks ago

I’ve had this book for about a year. I thought of making a list for it, but didn’t because of how long it would take, lol. Glad to see someone else already made it.


alyxstarr
Gaithersburg

Untitled — 1 year ago

I found a copy of the list and I’ve added most of the rest, as well as fixing some earlier ones. (A few were missed, and a few were the wrong version—e.g., the 2002 Solaris instead of the 1972 version.)

Just one section left to do.


klagregory
Nashville

345? — 1 year ago

Are there more movies for this list? The heading says ‘501’ but the list stops at 345. It is an excellent list thus far.


maggiem
Detroit

Untitled — 1 year ago

very awesome list!