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. 600 +4

    Morvern Callar

    2002, in 7 top lists Check
  2. 442 +4

    The Insider

    1999, in 5 top lists Check
  3. 214 +4

    Dangerous Liaisons

    1988, in 8 top lists Check
  4. 765 +4

    Rumble Fish

    1983, in 8 top lists Check
  5. 630 +4

    A Nightmare on Elm Street

    1984, in 8 top lists Check
  6. 623 +4

    Neco z Alenky

    1988 — a.k.a. Alice, in 10 top lists Check
  7. 803 +4

    Shi mian mai fu

    2004 — a.k.a. House of Flying Daggers, in 5 top lists Check
  8. 287 +4

    Elmer Gantry

    1960, in 6 top lists Check
  9. 794 +4

    Sex, Lies, and Videotape

    1989, in 11 top lists Check
  10. 113 -

    The Blue Lamp

    1950, in 4 top lists Check
  11. 35 -

    American Movie

    1999, in 5 top lists Check
  12. 526 +4

    Little Big Man

    1970, in 9 top lists Check
  13. 292 +4

    L'enfant

    2005 — a.k.a. The Child, in 8 top lists Check
  14. 172 -

    Chariots of Fire

    1981, in 14 top lists Check
  15. 956 +4

    Wall Street

    1987, in 3 top lists Check
  16. 124 -

    Le boucher

    1970 — a.k.a. Le Boucher, in 11 top lists Check
  17. 431 +4

    Idioterne

    1998 — a.k.a. The Idiots, in 6 top lists Check
  18. 895 +4

    This Sporting Life

    1963, in 9 top lists Check
  19. 761 +4

    Room at the Top

    1958, in 10 top lists Check
  20. 751 +4

    River's Edge

    1986, in 2 top lists Check
  21. 585 +4

    Midnight Run

    1988, in 4 top lists Check
  22. 795 +4

    Sexy Beast

    2000, in 8 top lists Check
  23. 197 -

    The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

    1989, in 10 top lists Check
  24. 423 +4

    Hud

    1963, in 10 top lists Check
  25. 138 -

    Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

    1974, in 10 top lists Check
  26. 381 +4

    Gummo

    1997, in 4 top lists Check
  27. 656 +4

    On the Town

    1949, in 10 top lists Check
  28. 268 +4

    Dracula

    1958 — a.k.a. Horror of Dracula, in 8 top lists Check
  29. 608 +4

    My Beautiful Laundrette

    1985, in 7 top lists Check
  30. 146 -

    Bull Durham

    1988, in 8 top lists Check
  31. 746 +4

    The Right Stuff

    1983, in 13 top lists Check
  32. 272 +4

    Drugstore Cowboy

    1989, in 7 top lists Check
  33. 744 +4

    Ride the High Country

    1962, in 7 top lists Check
  34. 622 +4

    Near Dark

    1987, in 9 top lists Check
  35. 808 +4

    Sholay

    1975 — a.k.a. Embers, in 12 top lists Check
  36. 414 +4

    Hong gao liang

    1988 — a.k.a. Red Sorghum, in 11 top lists Check
  37. 402 +4

    Hellzapoppin'

    1941, in 7 top lists Check
  38. 704 +4

    The Player

    1992, in 10 top lists Check
  39. 208 +4

    Crumb

    1994, in 12 top lists Check
  40. 554 +4

    Mamma Roma

    1962, in 7 top lists Check
  41. 311 +4

    Far from Heaven

    2002, in 10 top lists Check
  42. 474 +4

    The Karate Kid

    1984, in 3 top lists Check
  43. 34 -

    An American in Paris

    1951, in 18 top lists Check
  44. 261 +4

    Donnie Darko

    2001, in 21 top lists Check
  45. 30 -

    Les amants

    1958 — a.k.a. The Lovers, in 7 top lists Check
  46. 3 -

    24 Hour Party People

    2002, in 5 top lists Check
  47. 601 +4

    Mou gaan dou

    2002 — a.k.a. Infernal Affairs, in 14 top lists Check
  48. 200 -

    Crash

    1996, in 9 top lists Check
  49. 427 +4

    I Walked with a Zombie

    1943, in 10 top lists Check
  50. 582 +4

    Metropolitan

    1990, in 5 top lists Check
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