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. 626 +4

    A Night at the Opera

    1935, in 17 top lists Check
  2. 714 +4

    The Princess Bride

    1987, in 19 top lists Check
  3. 20 -

    Akira

    1988, in 22 top lists Check
  4. 828 +4

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    1937, in 25 top lists Check
  5. 447 +4

    The Iron Giant

    1999, in 14 top lists Check
  6. 941 +4

    The Usual Suspects

    1995, in 24 top lists Check
  7. 129 -

    Brazil

    1985, in 23 top lists Check
  8. 981 +4

    Wo hu cang long

    2000 — a.k.a. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, in 27 top lists Check
  9. 274 +4

    Duck Soup

    1933, in 24 top lists Check
  10. 483 +4

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  11. 7 -

    8½

    1963, in 35 top lists Check
  12. 379 +4

    Groundhog Day

    1993, in 22 top lists Check
  13. 360 +4

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  14. 521 +4

    Life of Brian

    1979 — a.k.a. Monty Python's Life of Brian, in 18 top lists Check
  15. 97 -

    The Big Lebowski

    1998, in 26 top lists Check
  16. 980 +4

    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 37 top lists Check
  17. 106 -

    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
  18. 128 -

    Braveheart

    1995, in 19 top lists Check
  19. 733 +4

    Rashômon

    1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check
  20. 496 +4

    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
  21. 741 +4

    Requiem for a Dream

    2000, in 21 top lists Check
  22. 298 +4

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  23. 186 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  24. 781 +4

    Saving Private Ryan

    1998, in 28 top lists Check
  25. 31 -

    American Beauty

    1999, in 25 top lists Check
  26. 184 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  27. 575 +4

    Memento

    2000, in 27 top lists Check
  28. 813 +4

    The Silence of the Lambs

    1991, in 36 top lists Check
  29. 804 +4

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  30. 362 +4

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  31. 660 +4

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    1975, in 35 top lists Check
  32. 948 +4

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  33. 988 +4

    X-Men

    2000, in 5 top lists Check
  34. 2 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  35. 23 -

    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
  36. 28 -

    Amadeus

    1984, in 23 top lists Check
  37. 38 -

    An American Werewolf in London

    1981, in 12 top lists Check
  38. 47 -

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 38 top lists Check
  39. 65 -

    Back to the Future

    1985, in 25 top lists Check
  40. 78 -

    Batman

    1989, in 9 top lists Check
  41. 88 -

    Ben-Hur

    1959, in 22 top lists Check
  42. 122 -

    Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make...

    2006, in 8 top lists Check
  43. 125 -

    Bowling for Columbine

    2002, in 11 top lists Check
  44. 133 -

    Brick

    2005, in 8 top lists Check
  45. 148 -

    Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

    1966 — a.k.a. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, in 29 top lists Check
  46. 161 -

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  47. 241 +4

    Die Hard

    1988, in 21 top lists Check
  48. 247 +4

    Dirty Harry

    1971, in 17 top lists Check
  49. 261 +4

    Donnie Darko

    2001, in 21 top lists Check
  50. 284 +4

    Elephant

    2003, in 10 top lists Check
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