The Guardian's 1000 Films to See Before You Die

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"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. 781 +4

    Saving Private Ryan

    1998, in 28 top lists Check
  2. 496 +4

    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
  3. 47 -

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
  4. 161 -

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  5. 701 +4

    Platoon

    1986, in 21 top lists Check
  6. 230 +4

    The Deer Hunter

    1978, in 26 top lists Check
  7. 370 +4

    The Great Dictator

    1940, in 25 top lists Check
  8. 135 -

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
  9. 417 +4

    Hotaru no haka

    1988 — a.k.a. Grave of the Fireflies, in 21 top lists Check
  10. 294 +4

    The English Patient

    1996, in 19 top lists Check
  11. 274 +4

    Duck Soup

    1933, in 24 top lists Check
  12. 564 +4

    M*A*S*H

    1970, in 21 top lists Check
  13. 142 -

    Bronenosets Potemkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check
  14. 288 +4

    Empire of the Sun

    1987, in 9 top lists Check
  15. 253 +4

    Doctor Zhivago

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  16. 80 -

    La battaglia di Algeri

    1966 — a.k.a. The Battle of Algiers, in 29 top lists Check
  17. 246 +4

    The Dirty Dozen

    1967, in 8 top lists Check
  18. 367 +4

    La grande illusion

    1937 — a.k.a. The Grand Illusion, in 30 top lists Check
  19. 59 -

    Au revoir les enfants

    1987 — a.k.a. Au Revoir les Enfants, in 13 top lists Check
  20. 430 +4

    Idi i smotri

    1985 — a.k.a. Come and See, in 27 top lists Check
  21. 906 +4

    To Be or Not to Be

    1942, in 24 top lists Check
  22. 757 +4

    Roma città aperta

    1945 — a.k.a. Rome, Open City, in 23 top lists Check
  23. 1004 +4

    Zulu

    1964, in 8 top lists Check
  24. 925 +4

    Triumph des Willens

    1935 — a.k.a. Triumph of the Will, in 16 top lists Check
  25. 110 -

    Die Blechtrommel

    1979 — a.k.a. The Tin Drum, in 14 top lists Check
  26. 49 -

    L'armée des ombres

    1969 — a.k.a. Army of Shadows, in 18 top lists Check
  27. 968 +4

    Where Eagles Dare

    1968, in 7 top lists Check
  28. 518 +4

    Letyat zhuravli

    1957 — a.k.a. The Cranes Are Flying, in 17 top lists Check
  29. 957 +4

    The War Game

    1966, in 12 top lists Check
  30. 668 +4

    Ostre sledované vlaky

    1966 — a.k.a. Closely Watched Trains, in 14 top lists Check
  31. 233 +4

    Le dernier métro

    1980 — a.k.a. The Last Metro, in 8 top lists Check
  32. 992 +4

    The Year of Living Dangerously

    1982, in 6 top lists Check
  33. 806 +4

    Shoah

    1985, in 18 top lists Check
  34. 99 -

    The Big Parade

    1925, in 13 top lists Check
  35. 154 -

    A Canterbury Tale

    1944, in 8 top lists Check
  36. 942 +4

    Utomlennye solntsem

    1994 — a.k.a. Burnt by the Sun, in 8 top lists Check
  37. 414 +4

    Hong gao liang

    1988 — a.k.a. Red Sorghum, in 11 top lists Check
  38. 920 +4

    The Train

    1964, in 4 top lists Check
  39. 473 +4

    Kanal

    1957, in 11 top lists Check
  40. 497 +4

    Lacombe Lucien

    1974, in 8 top lists Check
  41. 394 +4

    Hearts and Minds

    1974, in 7 top lists Check
  42. 347 +4

    Il giardino dei Finzi Contini

    1970 — a.k.a. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, in 9 top lists Check
  43. 170 -

    Le chagrin et la pitié

    1969 — a.k.a. The Sorrow and the Pity, in 11 top lists Check
  44. 428 +4

    I Was a Male War Bride

    1949 — a.k.a. You Can't Sleep Here, in 3 top lists Check
  45. 329 +4

    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    1921, in 7 top lists Check
  46. 320 +4

    Fires Were Started

    1943, in 8 top lists Check
  47. 769 +4

    Safar-e Ghandehar

    2001 — a.k.a. Kandahar, in 3 top lists Check
  48. 602 +4

    Mughal-E-Azam

    1960 — a.k.a. The Emperor of the Mughals, in 8 top lists Check
  49. 171 -

    The Charge of the Light Brigade

    1968, in 2 top lists Check
  50. 880 +4

    Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel...

    1999 — a.k.a. Marcel Proust's Time Regained, in 5 top lists Check
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