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

  2. 2.
    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

  3. 4.
    The Addiction
    by Abel Ferrarra

  4. 5.
    The Adjuster
    by Atom Egoyan

  5. 6.

  6. 8.
    After Hours
    by Martin Scorsese

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

  8. 10.
    Airplane! (Don't Call Me Shirley! Edition)
    by Jim Abrahams

  9. 11.
    Akira
    by Katsuhiro Ohtomo

  10. 12.
    Alexander Nevsky
    by Dmitri Vasilyev

  11. 13.
    Alfie
    by Lewis Gilbert

  12. 14.
    Alice (1988)
    by Jan Svankmajer

  13. 15.
    Alien (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott

  14. 16.
    All About My Mother

  15. 18.
    All That Jazz - Music Edition
    by Bob Fosse

  16. 19.
    All the President's Men

  17. 20.
    Alphaville (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  18. 21.
    Amadeus

  19. 23.
    Amelie

  20. 24.
    American Beauty (Widescreen Edition)
    by Sam Mendes

  21. 25.
    American Gigolo
    by Paul Schrader

  22. 26.

  23. 27.
    An American in Paris

  24. 28.
    American Movie
    by Chris Smith (II)

  25. 29.
    American Pie (Unrated Widescreen Collector's Edition)
    by Chris Weitz

  26. 30.
    American Splendor
    by Shari Springer Berman

  27. 31.
    An American Werewolf in London
    by John Landis

  28. 32.
    Amores Perros
    by Alejandro González Iñárritu

  29. 33.
    Anatomy of a Murder
    by Otto Preminger

  30. 34.
    Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  31. 35.
    An Angel at My Table (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jane Campion

  32. 36.
    Annie Hall
    by Woody Allen

  33. 37.
    The Apartment

  34. 38.
    Apocalypse Now

  35. 39.
    L' Appartement [Region 2]

  36. 40.
    ?
    Sib / The Apple (1999)
    by Samira Makhmalbaf

  37. 41.
    L' Armee Des Ombres (Army in the Shadows) - Region 2 (French release)
    by Jean-Pierre Melville

  38. 43.
    Arsenic and Old Lace
    by Frank Capra

  39. 44.
    ?
    The Asphalt Jungle

  40. 45.
    Assault on Precinct 13 (Special Edition)
    by John Carpenter

  41. 47.
    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

  42. 48.
    The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)

  43. 49.
    Atlantic City

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

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Comments

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/36612 — 3 years ago

are these the same list?


Ben

997? — 4 years ago

where did the other 3 go?


The omissions — 4 years 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


Correct? — 4 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!


Seven titles are missing somewhere...? — 4 years ago

Is this right?


Thanks-- nice! — 4 years ago

But The Devils is listed twice.




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