50 films to see before you die

[B33R]

This list was made to celebrate the launch of the UK's first dedicated free-to-view film channel, Film4.

Voted for by a panel of film experts including Lord David Puttnam (producer), Jason Solomons (film critic), Jonathan Rutter (film publicist), Tessa Ross (Channel 4 Head of Film and Drama), Karen Krizanovich (film critic) and Menhaj Huda (film director).

Here's their "50 films to see before you die". Feel free to comment.

1 Apocalypse Now
2 The Apartment
3 City of God
4 Chinatown
5 Sexy Beast
6 2001: A Space Odyssey
7 North by Northwest
8 A Bout de Souffle
9 Donnie Darko
10 Manhattan
11 Alien
12 Lost in Translation
13 The Shawshank Redemption
14 Lagaan: Once Upon A Time in India
15 Pulp Fiction
16 Touch of Evil
17 Walkabout
18 Black Narcissus
19 Boyz N the Hood
20 The Player
21 Come and See
22 Heavenly Creatures
23 A Night at the Opera
24 Erin Brockovich
25 Trainspotting
26 The Breakfast Club
27 Hero
28 Fanny and Alexander
29 Pink Flamingos
30 All About Eve
31 Scarface
32 Terminator 2: Judgement Day
33 Three Colours: Blue
34 The Royal Tenenbaums
35 The Ladykillers
36 Fight Club
37 The Searchers
38 Mulholland Drive
39 The Ipcress File
40 The King of Comedy
41 Manhunter
42 Dawn of the Dead
43 Princess Mononoke
44 Raising Arizona
45 Cabaret
46 This Sporting Life
47 Brazil
48 Aguirre: The Wrath of God
49 Secrets and Lies
50 Badlands

 

[-JDT-]

3 City of God

Wonderful!

 

[FluxAds.com]

The Usual Suspects, The Shining ....

Kaiser Soze!!

That is a GREAT movie.

 

[jumpenjuhosapha]

The untouchables
The starwars movies ep. 4, 5, 6
The godfather trilogy
13 ghosts
All of the die hards
All of the lethal weapons
Stand by me
labyrynth
american history x
fried green tomatoes
shawshank redemtion
meet joe black
cheech and chongs up in smoke
braveheart
last of the mohicans
a river ran through it
legends of the fall
shallow hal
40 year old virgin
many many more noteworthy movies

City of god was surprisingly very good for a subtitled movie, if you haven't seen it, you should check it out, it's based on a true story.

I almost forgot one of my all time favorites.....Crossroads (the one with ralph maccio), awesome flick, especially for guitarists.

 

[Pound]

Gattaca (sp?) - insane movie. Although some people hatae it, it is definitely one of my all-time favs.

 

[donlee]

i cannot believe taht
braveheart
gladiator
kingdom of heaven
we were soldiers
nor troy made the list

 

[briman1970]

i cannot believe taht
braveheart
gladiator
kingdom of heaven
we were soldiers
nor troy made the list

Yup... you know it's a crap list when they leave out Braveheart and Star Wars (4: New Hope)

The sequels that were a bit dissapointing ruined the chance for the matrix to have prestige as a great 'classic' movie in the future.

I agree that the sequels failed to live up to the first movie, but the original Matrix was one of the greatest and most influential movies ever made. I think they had a larger task ahead of them than Lucas did while they were creating the sequels. People were expecting to be blown away like they were by the first movie but the novelty and originality were difficult to recapture. It doesn't change the fact that the original Matrix was an incredible achievement, and it kicked ass IMHO.

 

[namebug]

They pick something like The Breakfast Club and leave out classics like The 7 Samurai, etc ?

 

[Koopa]

Pretty good list but I'm surprised films like Harvey, Halloween and The Time Machine (original) aren't on there?