Got the idea for this from Neil who has posted the ones he’s seen. He only had 21 so I reckon I’m gonna have a little bit more than that. 🙂 The films I’ve seen are in bold and the ones I also own on DVD are in italics. Here goes:
- The Godfather (1972)
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- The Godfather: Part II (1974)
- Seven Samurai (1954)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Schindler’s List (1993)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- Star Wars (1977)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
- Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
- The Usual Suspects (1995)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- City of God (2002)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- Memento (2000)
- Psycho (1960)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- North by Northwest (1959)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Amélie (2001)
- Goodfellas (1990)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Sunset Boulevard. (1950)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
- American Beauty (1999)
- Eternal Sunhine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- The Matrix (1999)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Fight Club (1999)
- Vertigo (1958)
- The Third Man (1949)
- Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- Das Boot (1981)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- M (1931)
- The Pianist (2002)
- Rashômon (1950)
- Se7en (1995)
- All About Eve (1950)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Requiem for a Dream (2000)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
- Chinatown (1974)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- L.A. Confidential (1997)
- Léon (1994)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Alien (1979)
- American History X (1998)
- Modern Times (1936)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- The Sting (1973)
- On the Waterfront (1954)
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- Ran (1985)
- Amadeus (1984)
- Life is Beautiful (1997)
- Touch of Evil (1958)
- The Great Escape (1963)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- City Lights (1931)
- Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- The Apartment (1960)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Metropolis (1927)
- The Shining (1980)
- High Noon (1952)
- Jaws (1975)
- Aliens (1986)
- Finding Nemo (2003)
- Annie Hall (1977)
- Braveheart (1995)
- Million Dollar Baby (2004)
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)
- Fargo (1996)
- Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
- Oldboy (2003)
- Yojimbo (1961)
- The Incredibles (2004)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Strangers on a Train (1951)
- Donnie Darko (2001)
- The Sixth Sense (1999)
- The Princess Bride (1987)
- The Seventh Seal (1957)
- The Great Dictator (1940)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Before Sunset (2004)
- Cinema Paradiso (1989)
- The General (1927)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Mononoke-hime (1997)
- Rebecca (1940)
- Duck Soup (1933)
- The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- The Bicycle Thief (1948)
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- The Big Sleep (1946)
- Notorious (1946)
- Smultronstället (1957)
- The Graduate (1967)
- Hero (2002)
- Unforgiven (1992)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
- The Deer Hunter (1978)
- Patton (1970)
- Run Lola Run (1998)
- Toy Story 2 (1999)
- The Night of the Hunter (1955)
- Hotel Rwanda (2004)
- The Gold Rush (1925)
- Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- The Elephant Man (1980)
- Back to the Future (1985)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- Glory (1989)
- The Green Mile (1999)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)
- Grande illusion, La (1937)
- Manhattan (1979)
- Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
- Platoon (1986)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- Shrek (2001)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- The African Queen (1951)
- His Girl Friday (1940)
- Ikiru (1952)
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
- The Searchers (1956)
- Mystic River (2003)
- Die Hard (1988)
- Amores perros (2000)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Hotaru no haka (1988)
- A Christmas Story (1983)
- The Wild Bunch (1969)
- Life of Brian (1979)
- Stalag 17 (1953)
- Big Fish (2003)
- The Hustler (1961)
- Charade (1963)
- Gladiator (2000)
- Young Frankenstein (1974)
- Sideways (2004)
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- The Straight Story (1999)
- Talk to Her (2002)
- To Be or Not to Be (1942)
- The Killing (1956)
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
- A Night at the Opera (1935)
- Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
- Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, La (1928)
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- Spartacus (1960)
- Lost in Translation (2003)
- Monsters, Inc. (2001)
- Magnolia (1999)
- Harvey (1950)
- Strada, La (1954)
- Ed Wood (1994)
- Sling Blade (1996)
- The Terminator (1984)
- Toy Story (1995)
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- Untergang, Der (2004)
- All the President’s Men (1976)
- The Lion in Winter (1968)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- Festen (1998)
- Twelve Monkeys (1995)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- Trainspotting (1996)
- 8½ (1963)
- Finding Neverland (2004)
- Laura (1944)
- Brazil (1985)
- The Conversation (1974)
- Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
- The Insider (1999)
- Almost Famous (2000)
- Dogville (2003)
- The Station Agent (2003)
- Gandhi (1982)
- Stand by Me (1986)
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- Persona (1966)
- King Kong (1933)
- Fanny och Alexander (1982)
- The Exorcist (1973)
- The 39 Steps (1935)
- Rain Man (1988)
- Mulholland Drive (2001)
- Stagecoach (1939)
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
- Being John Malkovich (1999)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
- Rio Bravo (1959)
- Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
- Network (1976)
- Snatch (2000)
- 21 Grams (2003)
- The Thin Man (1934)
- For a Few Dollars More (1965)
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
- Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- Midnight Cowboy (1969)
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
- The Right Stuff (1983)
- Barry Lyndon (1975)
- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
- Miller’s Crossing (1990)
- Garden State (2004)
- The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
- Spider-Man 2 (2004)
- The Untouchables (1987)
- Heat (1995)
- The Last Picture Show (1971)
- Fa yeung nin wa (2000)
- Kumonosu jô (1957)
For stats fans:
- I’ve seen 71 of the top 250 films. Not bad going.
- I own 33 of the 71 films I have seen.
- I own 7 films I haven’t watched yet. 😯