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.

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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

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