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30 Movies to Watch Before You Die

In the spirit of 30 books and 30 songs, I bring you the nominations for the all time top 30 movies that all people all over the world really must watch before they die.

The system is fairly simple, nominate a movie that is worthy of the title. Follow the format of: Movie title in English and where applicable the original title (year) - Director. Use www.imdb.com whe you don't know the English or the original title or year or director.

-No need to double-nominate, the effect will be non-existant.
-No trilogies or such. Every movie for itself!
-Also keep civil and no insulting people's nominations.

The top 30 will be selected with a poll, that will represent ET's opinion of the 30 movies to watch before you die.

1. The Godfather (1972) - F. F. Coppola
2. Seven Samurai Shichinin no Samurai (1954) - A. Kurosawa
3. Star Wars IV - The New Hope (1977) - G. Lucas
4. Life Is Beautiful La Vita E Bella (1997) - R. Benigni
5. Animal House (1978) - John Landis
6. In the mood for love Fa yeung nin wa {2000) - Wong Kar-wai
7. 2046 (2004) - Wong Kar-wai
8. Mystic River (2002) - Clint Eastwood
9. Forest Gump (1994) - Robert Zemeckis
10. Cast Away (2000) - Robert Zemeckis
11. The Sixth Sense (1999) - M. Night Shyamalan
12. The Others (2001) - Alejandro Amenabar
13. Pink Floyd: the Wall (1982) - Alan Parker
14. the Meaning of Life (1983) - Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam
15. Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring (2001) - Peter Jackson
16. Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers (2002) - Peter Jackson
17. Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King (2003) - Peter Jackson
18. Labyrinth (1986) - Jim Henson
19. Braveheart (1995) - Mel Gibson
20. Meet Joe Black (1998) - Martin Brest
21. Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986) - Adrian Lyne
23. The Number 23 - (2007) - Fernley Phillips
24. Munich (2006) - Steven Spielberg
25. American History X (1998) - Tony Kaye
26. What Is It? (2005) - Crispin Glover
27. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) - Stanley Kubrick
28. Dancer in the dark (2000) - Lars von Trier
29. The City of Lost Children (orig fr. La Cité des enfants perdus) (1995) - Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet
30. Cemetery Man (orig it. Dellamorte Dellamore) (1994) - Michele Soavi
31. Ran (1985) - Akira Kurosawa
32. The Seventh Seal (orig sw. Det Sjunde inseglet) (1957) - Ingmar Bergman
33. Spaceballs (1987) - Mel Brooks
34. Life of Brian (1979) - Terry Jones
35. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
36. Hamlet (1996) - Kenneth Branagh
37. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone (2001) - Chris Columbus
38. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) - Chris Columbus
39. Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead (1990) - Tom Stoppard
40. Big Fish (2003) - Tim Burton
41. Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) - Don Coscarelli
42. Lair of the White Worm (1988) - Ken Russell
43. Pi (1998) - Darren Aronofsky
44. Walk the line (2005) - James Mangold
45. the Silence of the Lambs (1991) - Jonathan Demme
46. Rocket Brothers (2003) - Kasper Torsting
47. Psycho (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock
48. Cat Soup (orig jp. Nekojiru-so) (2001) - Tatsuo Sato
49. Marnie (1964) - Alfred Hitchcock
50. Häjyt The Tough Ones (1999) - Aleksi Mäkelä
51. The Elephant Man (1980) - David Lynch
52. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) - Frank Capra
53. Sayonara (1957) - Joshua Logan
54. Singin' In The Rain (1952) - Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
55. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - David Lean
56. Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954) - Stanley Donen
57. My Fair Lady (1964) - George Cukor
58. The General (1927) - Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
59. Pride and Prejudice (1995) - Simon Langton
60. Only Yesterday (Omohide Poro Poro) (1991) - Isao Takahata
61. Happy Times Hotel (Xingfu Shiguang) (2000) - Yimou Zhang
62. Alien (1979) - Ridley Scott
63. The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) - Nicolas Roeg
64. Se7en (1995) - David Fincher
65. Fight Club (1999) - David Fincher
66. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982) - Nicholas Meyer
67. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate events (2004) - Brad Silberling
68. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) - Ron Howard
70. Man on the Moon (1999) - Milos Forman
71. Me, Myself & Irene (2000) - Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
72. The Truman Show (1998) - Peter Weir
73. Yogen / Premonition (2004) - Norio Tsuruta
74. Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Steven Spielberg
75. Schindler's List (1993) - Steven Spielberg
76. Edward Scissorhands (1990) - Tim Burton
77. The Usual Suspects (1995) - Bryan Singer
78. Spirited Away, Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001) - Hayao Miyazaki
79. American Beauty (1999) - Sam Mendes
80. Pulp Fiction (1994) - Quentin Tarantino
81. A Beautiful Mind (2001) - Ron Howard
82. Hero, Ying xiong (2002) - Yimou Zhang
83. Sympathy For Lady Vengeance Chinjeolhan geumjassi (2005) - Chan-wook Park
84. American Wedding (2003) - Jesse Dylan
85. The Boondock Saints (1999) - Troy Duffy
86. A History of Violence (2005) - David Cronenberg
87. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) - Gore Verbinkski
88. Kung Fu Hustle Kung Fu (2004) - Stephen Chow
89. Green Street Hooligans (2005) - Lexi Alexander
90. The Green Mile (1999) - Frank Darabont
91. L.A. Confidential (1997) - Curtis Hanson
92. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) - Quentin Tarantino
93. Reservoir Dogs (1992) - Quentin Tarantino
94. The Breakfast Club (1985) - John Hughes
95. Thin (2006) - Lauren Greenfield
96. Some Like It Hot (1959) - Billy Wilder
97. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) - Mel Stuart
98. The Princess Bride (1987) - Rob Reiner
99. Rain Man (1988) - Barry Levinson
100. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) - Henry Selick
101. What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) - Lasse Hallström
102. Igby Goes Down (2002) - Burr Steers
103. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Frank Capra
104. Sophie's Choice (1982) - Alan J. Pakula
105. When Harry Met Sally (1989) - Rob Reiner
106. The Colour Purple (1985) - Steven Spielberg
107. The Lion King (1994) - Roger Allers & Rob Minoff
108. Short circuit (1986) - John Badham
109. A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Stanley Kubrick
110. Dances with Wolves (1990) - Kevin Costner
111. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) - Andrew Adamson
112. Serenity (2005) - Joss Whedon
113. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - Blake Edwards
114. Rocky II (1979) - Sylvester Stallone
115. Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) - Steve Bendelack
116. Soylent Green (1973) - Walter Seltzer
117. Amelié Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001) - J-P Jeunet

2006-07-04 [Thε ßαd Turkεy]: Ah, hell.

2006-07-04 [iippo]: xD

2006-07-12 [Thε ßαd Turkεy]: I saw the Godfather part three the other day... that sucked! One and two are the best...

2006-07-12 [iippo]: It's the unwritten rule: sequels suck. The only exceptions are Terminator, where 2nd is best, and Star Wars where 4, 5 and 6 are best. o.O

2006-07-12 [thuthuca]: *w00ts for the third 30-type wiki* The trilogy is complete :D

2006-07-12 [Linderel]: Oi, oi! Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest definitely didn't suck! :o

2006-07-12 [thuthuca]: And Ice Age. :P They were both uber XD

2006-07-12 [Thε ßαd Turkεy]: What? No "30 wikis"?

2006-07-12 [thuthuca]: It's a trilogy now. It's complete. :P

2006-07-15 [Whiskers]: Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead (the originals) were good sequels

2006-08-01 [Viking]: Also Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness were excellent sequels

2006-08-01 [merihevonen]: and Aliens. :)

2006-08-01 [Viking]: Yeah, but not Alienses (also known as Alien³)

2006-08-01 [Viking]: Ay, caramba! I didn't even add the movies from my top fives wiki...

2006-08-01 [merihevonen]: And of course Harry Potter 2! XD

2006-08-02 [merihevonen]: And talking about bad sequels, Psycho 2 (and 3) and LOTR 2 weren't that good. :/ at least in my opinion

2006-08-02 [Viking]: Hmmm...I seem to remember thinking that was the best one, except for the !#$^@ elves at Helm's Deep.

2006-08-02 [merihevonen]: Ahh. Well, not many share my opinion... >_> Some haven't read the book, so they have different views...

2006-08-02 [Angelous_Draven]: Alot of these dont even belong on this list of great movies. A great movie is something that when you are done watching it is like damn that was one good ass movie and you actually mean it and maintain that opinion longer no matter what.

2006-08-02 [Viking]: Well, this isn't exactly the list of great movies. It's the list of nominations that should go on the list of great movies.

2006-08-02 [iippo]: And also take notice that this isn't he nominations of the "great movies" This is the list for movies that everybody has to watch. Notice the difference? There are films that people should watch as part of everyday education, to stay tuned with lasting conversation - not necessarely the best movies ever, most of the very best films are actually well-kept secrets.

2006-08-02 [iippo]: A movie that everyone should watch is one with either a lot of long-lasting attention, a very meaningful message, it's general education to know it, it's very different as a concept and thus notable, and such things. You don't even have to like the film, as long as you watch it and know it.

2006-11-10 [iippo]: Who added Spirited Away, add the original title too after the English translated name.

2006-11-10 [shotokan_gal]: Oops sorry ^^; error. I saw the original name when looking it up, but for some reason didn't copy it out into the edit form.

2006-11-10 [shotokan_gal]: Oh, and is the link above supposed to be www.imdb.com ? I clicked and was suprised when it took me somewhere else.

2006-11-10 [iippo]: Uff, sorry. Fixed.

2006-12-08 [Faulty Limerence]: Who directed Equilibrium?

2006-12-08 [iippo]: Is this a trivia-question or a would-like-to-know -question? (in other words, will checking IMDB.com ruin fun?)

2006-12-08 [Jeesum Crowe]: ...I could totally go on forever....

2006-12-08 [Faulty Limerence]: A "would-like-to-know" question. I'm going to nominate it.

*laughs* Someone nominated Short Circuit. That movie was a lot better when I saw it young.

2007-03-31 [Mortified Penguin]: No Rocky or Breakfast at Tiffany's...?

2007-03-31 [iippo]: There is now :P

2007-04-01 [Viking]: I had breakfast at Tiffany's once. But she wasn't a very good cook. And her father really didn't like some strange guy showing up at the breakfast table, especially when he learned I had been there all night. That was an...uncomfortable...moment.

2007-06-10 [ForeverNothing]: they r all good but i liked spirited away as the best animated one

2007-06-10 [Mortified Penguin]: That was a terrible movie... *eats ramen*...

2007-06-10 [Jeesum Crowe]: Thou hast no taste!

2007-06-11 [iippo]: I has a flavour. (Someone had to say it.)

2007-06-11 [Jeesum Crowe]: Yeah. Ya taste like shit. OHHHH! Buuuuuuuurnnnnn, sucka!

2007-06-11 [windowframe]: Nah, she taste of win.

2007-06-11 [Mortified Penguin]: Windex...

2007-06-11 [Jeesum Crowe]: Boo-yah!

2007-07-10 [Faulty Limerence]: I am guilty. I enjoyed the new Transformers movie. I'm sorry but I grew up on the original series and always dreamed that my car was a transformer. The movie had all the shamelessly corny lines you could always expect from the old cartoon. Really, I think they did very well, story-wise, considering what they had to work with.

2007-07-10 [windowframe]: A lot of us grew up on the original series. But the trailers didn't impress me.

2007-07-11 [Faulty Limerence]: It's actually pretty well done, as I've already hinted at. It can be a little hard to tell what's going on in all of the action sequences, what with the mess of robot on robot entaglement, but it's just got this undeniable "Cool-Factor".

2007-07-11 [windowframe]: *L* I find the phrase "as I hinted at" highly amusing. There's a difference between a hint (an indirect suggestion/ slight implication) and just saying "I enjoyed the movie" (Which is what you said).

2007-07-11 [Faulty Limerence]: Well, I wasn't saying that I enjoyed it, in the second comment. I was saying that it was pretty well done. Two different statements. The second was only implied in the first comment, so I said that I'd hinted at it.

2007-07-11 [windowframe]: Quote your first comment: ' Really, I think they did very well,' That's a fairly straight-forward statement of approval you're "hinting" at, right there. ;)

2007-07-12 [deus-ex-machina]: Pedant.

2007-07-12 [Faulty Limerence]: Sort of, I suppose I'll concede on this one.

2007-07-12 [windowframe]: I wouldn't really be me, if I wasn't, Deus. :)

2007-07-12 [deus-ex-machina]: Indeed. :P

2007-08-26 [ceridwen]: Heh. I wonder if instead of The Number 23 I should have added 23, which is the original German film.
=/

2007-08-26 [iippo]: It would have been awesome if it had also been number 23 on the list.

2007-08-27 [ceridwen]: Ha. That would have freaked me out a tad bit.
Seeing as all the closest people in my life who I love the most all somehow have 23 associated with their birthdays.
Oh, and mine, too.
.> <.<

2009-03-22 [Easterling]: In the mood for love - a great movie.

2009-03-24 [Lothuriel]: I ask the same question, do we do this the same as 30 books or do we wait until the list is more ginormouser?

2009-03-25 [Linderel]: Uh. The 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice is a miniserie, not a single film...

2009-03-28 [iippo]: I think we are still nominating here.

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