The Guardian's 1000 films to see before you die

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Published in The Guardian as a series during the week of June 25–29, 2007.

"Well over a century has passed since the Lumière brothers frightened the life out of Parisians with The Arrival of a Train at a Station, and well over a million titles have since been recorded – if the Internet Movie Database is anything to go by.

"Out of these million-plus movies, our team of experts has picked what we believe is the essential 1,000 – those that best sum up the dazzling achievement and variety of the movies."

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  1. 1.
    Ace in the Hole (1951) (Import All Region)
    by Billy Wilder

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  2. 2.
    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
    by Tom Shadyac

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  3. 4.
    The Addiction
    by Abel Ferrarra

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  4. 5.
    The Adjuster
    by Atom Egoyan

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  5. 7.
    The Adventures of Robin Hood (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Michael Curtiz

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  6. 8.
    After Hours

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  7. 9.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

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  8. 10.
    Airplane! (Special Collector's Edition)
    by David Zucker

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  9. 11.
    Akira (Special Edition)
    by Katsuhiro Ôtomo

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  10. 12.
    Alexander Nevsky
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

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  11. 13.
    Alfie
    by Lewis Gilbert (II)

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  12. 14.
    Alice (1988)
    by Jan Svankmajer

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  13. 15.
    Alien (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Ridley Scott

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  14. 16.
    All About My Mother

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  15. 17.
    All That Heaven Allows - Criterion Collection
    by Douglas Sirk

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  16. 18.
    All That Jazz - Music Edition
    by Bob Fosse

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  17. 19.
    All the President's Men
    by Alan J. Pakula

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  18. 20.
    Alphaville - Criterion Collection
    by Jean-Luc Godard

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  19. 21.
    Amadeus
    by Milos Forman

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  20. 23.
    Amelie
    by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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  21. 24.
    American Beauty

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  22. 25.
    American Gigolo
    by Paul Schrader

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  23. 26.
    American Graffiti (Collector's Edition)
    by George Lucas

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  24. 27.
    An American in Paris
    by Vincente Minnelli

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  25. 28.
    American Movie
    by Chris Smith (II)

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  26. 29.
    American Pie - Unrated (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
    by Chris Weitz

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  27. 30.
    American Splendor
    by Shari Springer Berman

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  28. 31.
    An American Werewolf in London

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  29. 32.
    Amores Perros
    by Alejandro González Iñárritu

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  30. 33.
    Anatomy of a Murder
    by Otto Preminger

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  31. 34.
    Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  32. 35.
    An Angel at My Table - Criterion Collection
    by Jane Campion

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  33. 36.
    Annie Hall

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  34. 37.
    The Apartment

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  35. 38.
    Apocalypse Now

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  36. 39.
    L' Appartement
    by Gilles Mimouni

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  37. 40.
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    Sib / The Apple (1999)
    by Samira Makhmalbaf

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  39. 43.
    Arsenic and Old Lace
    by Frank Capra

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  40. 44.
    The Asphalt Jungle
    by John Huston

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  41. 47.
    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

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  42. 48.
    The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)
    by Zacharias Kunuk

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  43. 49.
    Atlantic City
    by Louis Malle

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  44. 50.
    Au Hasard Balthazar (Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

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mark
Randolph

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/36612 — 1 year ago

are these the same list?


Ben
Long Island

997? — 1 year ago

where did the other 3 go?


The omissions — 1 year ago

After comparing this to someone else’s recording of the list, here are the omissions I managed to gather:

Apple
Asya’s Happiness
Big Parade
A Blonde in Love
Blue Lamp
A Brighter Summer Day
A Canterbury Tale
A Clockwork Orange
Cocksucker Blues
Colour of Pomegranates
Cremaster Cycle
Dear Diary
Dougal and the Blue Cat
Dream Life of Angels
Dreams That Money Can Buy
Eight and a Half (8 1/2)
8 Mile
A Face in the Crowd
A Fish Called Wanda
Gallivant
Ghost
Go-Between
La Grande Illusion
Greed
A Hard Day’s Night
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hell Is a City
A History of Violence
Horse Thief
Howards End
I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname
Insider
Irma Vep
Ivansxtc
Le Jour Se Leve
Lacemaker
Last Days
Last Movie
Lola
Lonely Are the Brave
Lovers
Monsieur Hire
Mother and Whore
My Childhood
My Night With Maud
Naked
Nanny
Napoleon
A Night at the Opera
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Orphée
People On Sunday
La Petite Voleuse
Plein Soleil / Purple Noon
P’tang, Yang, Kipperbang
Rita Sue and Bob Too
Room With a View
Runner
Savage Nights
A Self-Made Hero
A Short Film About Killing
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
Small World of Sammy Lee
South (Frank Hurley, 1919)
Soy Cuba
Spring Summer Autumn Winter… and Spring
A Streetcar Named Desire
Ten Things I Hate About You
These Are the Damned
Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Timecode
Trop Belle Pour Toi
Twelve Monkeys
24 Hour Party People
2001: A Space Odyssey
Les Valseuses
War Game
Werckmeister Harmoniak
Witchfinder General / The Conqueror Worm
Yellow Earth


DenverGreen
London

Correct? — 2 years ago

Not sure, to be honest it took so long to enter in the films (thanks to Hookylw1500 for the help) that I didn’t have the heart to check it again against the list. Please do if you have the energy and inclination!


MestnyiGeroi
New York City

Seven titles are missing somewhere...? — 2 years ago

Is this right?


MestnyiGeroi
New York City

Thanks-- nice! — 2 years ago

But The Devils is listed twice.