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. 905 +4

    Titanic

    1997, in 25 top lists Check
  2. 261 +4

    Donnie Darko

    2001, in 21 top lists Check
  3. 186 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  4. 298 +4

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  5. 541 +4

    Lost in Translation

    2003, in 19 top lists Check
  6. 353 +4

    Gladiator

    2000, in 25 top lists Check
  7. 741 +4

    Requiem for a Dream

    2000, in 21 top lists Check
  8. 128 -

    Braveheart

    1995, in 19 top lists Check
  9. 722 +4

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  10. 31 -

    American Beauty

    1999, in 25 top lists Check
  11. 319 +4

    Fight Club

    1999, in 19 top lists Check
  12. 760 +4

    Romeo + Juliet

    1996, in 7 top lists Check
  13. 496 +4

    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
  14. 915 +4

    Top Gun

    1986, in 8 top lists Check
  15. 589 +4

    Million Dollar Baby

    2004, in 12 top lists Check
  16. 605 +4

    Mulholland Dr.

    2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check
  17. 245 +4

    Dirty Dancing

    1987, in 10 top lists Check
  18. 357 +4

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  19. 783 +4

    Scarface

    1983, in 19 top lists Check
  20. 360 +4

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  21. 781 +4

    Saving Private Ryan

    1998, in 28 top lists Check
  22. 184 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  23. 294 +4

    The English Patient

    1996, in 19 top lists Check
  24. 141 -

    Brokeback Mountain

    2005, in 21 top lists Check
  25. 459 +4

    Jaws

    1975, in 29 top lists Check
  26. 550 +4

    Magnolia

    1999, in 17 top lists Check
  27. 801 +4

    The Shawshank Redemption

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
  28. 63 -

    Babe

    1995, in 12 top lists Check
  29. 921 +4

    Trainspotting

    1996, in 18 top lists Check
  30. 818 +4

    The Sixth Sense

    1999, in 20 top lists Check
  31. 45 -

    Annie Hall

    1977, in 34 top lists Check
  32. 312 +4

    Fargo

    1996, in 26 top lists Check
  33. 47 -

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 38 top lists Check
  34. 788 +4

    Se7en

    1995, in 29 top lists Check
  35. 742 +4

    Reservoir Dogs

    1992, in 26 top lists Check
  36. 104 -

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  37. 342 +4

    Ghost

    1990, in 9 top lists Check
  38. 878 +4

    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
  39. 650 +4

    Oldeuboi

    2003 — a.k.a. Oldboy, in 34 top lists Check
  40. 6 -

    8 Mile

    2002, in 3 top lists Check
  41. 963 +4

    West Side Story

    1961, in 22 top lists Check
  42. 941 +4

    The Usual Suspects

    1995, in 24 top lists Check
  43. 774 +4

    Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma

    1975 — a.k.a. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, in 14 top lists Check
  44. 315 +4

    Ferris Bueller's Day Off

    1986, in 11 top lists Check
  45. 280 +4

    Edward Scissorhands

    1990, in 10 top lists Check
  46. 130 -

    Breakfast at Tiffany's

    1961, in 9 top lists Check
  47. 452 +4

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  48. 161 -

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  49. 7 -

    8½

    1963, in 35 top lists Check
  50. 448 +4

    Irréversible

    2002 — a.k.a. Irreversible, in 10 top lists Check
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