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<p>On Jan 25, 2020, tired of negative film lists on Twitter, I asked people for "obscure [or] underseen films you adore and think more people should know about." </p><p>This was the result. </p><p>If your choice didn't make the list, it's maybe because I didn't think it was obscure or underseen enough (Citizen Kane, A Clockwork Orange, Quadrophenia!) I wasn't sure which version you meant (Bartleby, Equinox, Endless Night) or because you quote-tweeted me and I couldn't find you again. </p><p>Feel free to add your suggestions in the comments section.</p>
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<p>All the films listed in the popular <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Movies_You_Must_See_Before_You_Die" rel="nofollow">1001 Movies...</a> book series. Contains more than 1001 titles because every new edition adds new titles and removes others. Also, some single entries in the book consist of multiple titles on Letterboxd. This list covers all the films in the English language editions published from 2003 to 2021, presently totalling 1245.</p><p>This is not my personal selection of films and I have no affiliation with the books or publisher. I have just put this list on Letterboxd because the lists here are a really convenient way of seeing how many you've watched or finding films to try out. I'd recommend seeking out one of the published books if you want to read up on the reasoning behind any particular film's inclusion or find out more about the list.</p><p>I've tried to be as accurate and complete as possible, but if you spot any errors or omissions, please, do let me know.<br />Currently in chronological order of release.</p><p>RIP Chip Lary <a href="https://letterboxd.com/tipsfromchip/" rel="nofollow">@tipsfromchip</a>. Thanks for all the help, encouragement and enthusiasm in putting this list on Letterboxd.</p>
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<p>2000 films to see before you die, chronological order. Not a list consisting of my favorite films, but rather the ones that I feel are most essential to a cinephile, be it regarding quality, relevance or even solely popularity. This method results in a list with many films I don't even like, but feel one should give a try if possible. I tried to concile my personal judgement with a more analytical one in most of the choices here, but of course ended up adding many of my favorites too. Obviously there are many essential films I still haven't watched and didn't add - the idea is trying to update this list every one or two years to see how it develops. 27/04/2022</p>
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In his Guide for the Film Fanatic (1986), Danny Peary provides short reviews for over 1600 “Must See” films.
104 movies missing. Imported from external source.
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In his Guide for the Film Fanatic (1986), Danny Peary provides short reviews for over 1600 “Must See” films.
104 movies missing. Imported from external source.
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Last Updated/Checked: Oct. 2024
I've got the 10th edition of the German translation of "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die". It's a 960-paged book edited by Steven Jay Schneider, containing the combined knowledge of 77 internationally renowned movie ciritics, with short one to half-sided essays, movie credits, and trivia, throughout all genres and countries.
There are already a number of lists out, however, this book is reviewed every year, and as far as I can tell (I did go through a lot of these lists) non depicts the 2013 edition I possess, which ends with Life of Pi. I then thought of the ideal list being on that includes *all* movies, starting from the original list from 2003, with all the editions but non of the removals since then. Thanks to the internet, such list exists and therefore I will be adding these here, one by one. I did not "rank" them, because actually the book doesn't either - they are ordered by year and that is as meaningful as any other order I guess. Also, the "ranked lists" all have the problem that some movies are removed, which is why a number of people think about how to renumber this list probably... all things I deem unnecessary.
And yes, I intend to watch them all! If you watch one of them every week, it's just a 20 years task :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Movies_You_Must_See_Before_You_Die
http://1001films.wikia.com/wiki/The_List
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> 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die is a film reference book edited by Steven Jay Schneider with original essays on each film contributed by over 70 film critics.
Source: `http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Movies_You_Must_See_Before_You_Die`
Edit 2024: I've added this list in years ago but it got surprisingly popular on trakt. For prosperity sake: I don't remember the edition of the book... it is an inconsistent mix up to the 5th edition which was published in 2008.
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> 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die is a film reference book edited by Steven Jay Schneider with original essays on each film contributed by over 70 film critics.
Source: `http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Movies_You_Must_See_Before_You_Die`
Edit 2024: I've added this list in years ago but it got surprisingly popular on trakt. For prosperity sake: I don't remember the edition of the book... it is an inconsistent mix up to the 5th edition which was published in 2008.
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Includes all the films of the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Book, including films culled to make way for newer releases, up to the 2021 edition.
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<p>Continually updated</p><p>All things Mountains, documentary and fiction. Mountaineering, Climbing, Art, Shorts, Videos etc.</p><p>Movies/documentaries about climbing, mountains or mountaineering. Also includes movies taking place on mountains to some degree or where a mountain plays a part. </p><p>SUGGESTIONS ARE WELCOME.</p><p>Movie(s) that for some reason aren't on LB:<br />- The Challenge: Everest (2008)</p>
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<p>All the films from all the editions through 2026, including those subsequently removed, presently totaling 1,272 films The November 2024 edition <i>1001 Filme: Die Sie sehen sollten, bevor das Leben vorbei ist</i> has only been released in German so far, but I think I've got the additions here. The most recent edition was released on October 27, 2026 and they are here as well. Some single entries in the book consist of multiple films. I've added all the films they list in the entry. I've tried to be as accurate and complete as possible, but if you spot any errors or omissions, please let me know. Currently this is listed newest to oldest, but there are options to sort lists chronologically, alphabetically, by average Letterboxd rating, etc. </p><p><a href="https://www.moviepilot.de/liste/1001-244-movies-you-must-see-before-you-die-all-editions-dazlious" rel="nofollow">www.moviepilot.de/liste/1001-244-movies-you-must-see-before-you-die-all-editions-dazlious</a></p>
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Sorted by year descending.
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<p>Pretty self-explanatory, "older films" must've come out at least 20 years ago. Primarily based on director's influences and recommendations. The movies either have common themes, filmmaking techniques or an overall similar atmosphere.<br />Suggestions welcomed!</p>
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"1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" is a film reference book edited by Steven Jay Schneider with original essays on each film contributed by over 70 film critics. This list holds the 1001 movies that are referenced in the only Danish edition from 2007.
My goal is to watch all 1001 before I die :) I have currently watched 367... Still quite a long way.
The list is originated from the work of sp1ti and his list here: http://trakt.tv/user/sp1ti/lists/1001-movies-you-must-see-before-you-die
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Original Edition (2003) + additions (2004-2021) in that order. http://1001films.wikia.com/wiki/The_List
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<p>A cumulative list "includ[ing] all films in all editions" of the <i>1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die</i> book series. Shamelessly copied from <a href="http://1001films.wikia.com/wiki/The_List" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br />Presence on this list is in no way an endorsement.</p>
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<p>As of May 16, 2026. Curated by <a href="https://boxd.it/2oA09" rel="nofollow">Mihir Nanda</a>, extracted from <a href="https://letterboxd.com/films/decade/1940s/by/rating/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. This list ranks narrative feature films released in the 1940s by average member rating. </p><p>These <a href="https://letterboxd.com/official/list/top-250-films-of-the-1940s/stats/" rel="nofollow">list stats</a> are unlocked for everybody!</p><p>See the top films by year: <a href="https://letterboxd.com/official/list/top-250-films-of-the-1940s/year/1940/" rel="nofollow">1940</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/official/list/top-250-films-of-the-1940s/year/1941/" rel="nofollow">1941</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/official/list/top-250-films-of-the-1940s/year/1942/" rel="nofollow">1942</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/official/list/top-250-films-of-the-1940s/year/1943/" rel="nofollow">1943</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/official/list/top-250-films-of-the-1940s/year/1944/" rel="nofollow">1944</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/official/list/top-250-films-of-the-1940s/year/1945/" rel="nofollow">1945</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/official/list/top-250-films-of-the-1940s/year/1946/" rel="nofollow">1946</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/official/list/top-250-films-of-the-1940s/year/1947/" rel="nofollow">1947</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/official/list/top-250-films-of-the-1940s/year/1948/" rel="nofollow">1948</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/official/list/top-250-films-of-the-1940s/year/1949/" rel="nofollow">1949</a></p><p><b>Eligibility rules:</b><br />• There is a 2,000 minimum ratings threshold. <br />• Films must have had their first national release from January 1, 1940 to December 31, 1949 in any country.<br />• Films must be feature-length (more than 40 minutes long) with a festival premiere, theatrical distribution or professional streaming release.<br />• This list excludes: documentaries of any kind, self-released web videos, DTV films, recap or recut films, theatre or stage shows, TV series or TV movies, specials or episodes.</p><p><b><a href="https://boxd.it/2l6d" rel="nofollow">Official List HQ Directory</a></b> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/official/tag/best-by-decade/lists/" rel="nofollow">Decade Lists</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/official/tag/mihir-nanda/lists/" rel="nofollow">Lists by Mihir Nanda</a></p>
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<p>This list comes from the New York Times Book of Movies: The Essential 1,000 Films To See (2019)</p><p>If you see any errors, please let me know. I already got Black Rain incorrect once.</p>
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<p>Co-Compiled by Sam DiSalle at <a href="https://mubi.com/lists/martin-scorseses-favorite-films" rel="nofollow">Mubi.com</a> as of 4.19.23</p><blockquote><p>All titles are gleaned from various sources, lists, interviews, etc.<br />Any additions and subtractions to be made are welcome, but please provide a source if possible. thanks to kenji, mubianer, xl, thecinemaadventurist, nelson núñez, surya biswas, james curry, scott d’agostino, zach, epessoa, zach callahan, brandon sparks, gregory pepe, carlitos barragan, RRR, davidsknight89, abas, un enthus palson, daynal, kunimosoJoe, isaacvalbuena08, uncleboonmee, james curry, jtisdale473, BB, Remigijus and s4mmcs for their contributions.</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/martin-scorsese-updated-list-15-greatest-movies-of-all-time/" rel="nofollow">2022 <i>Sight and Sound</i> ballot</a></p><p>Includes <a href="https://twitter.com/edgarwright/status/1362711583995092992" rel="nofollow">Martin Scorsese’s 50 Favorite British Films</a> shared with Edgar Wright</p>
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<p>There are many statistically-minded lists available. Generally, they are either based on averages or cumulative presence in lists. This list attempts to bring the two together, with a composite score that uses Letterboxd, IMDb, and Metacritic scores as well as a quantification of the movies' presence on several lists (enumerated below). </p><p>As anyone who has more than a passing interest in movies can see, the three main questions in movies are, in reverse order: What do you hate? What are your favorites? and What do you recommend? I would describe the results of these calculations as a consensus of recommendations without knowing a person's individual taste or movie knowledge. On that score, it doubles as a list of the films someone "should" see. Not as a historian, necessarily, but as a participant in "the conversation".</p><p>[You can also see the list of <a href="https://letterboxd.com/prof_ratigan/list/top-5000-films-of-all-time/" rel="nofollow">5,000 films here</a> and by Decade below.]</p><p>| <a href="https://letterboxd.com/prof_ratigan/list/top-films-through-the-1920s-calculated/" rel="nofollow">-1929</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/prof_ratigan/list/top-films-of-the-1930s-calculated/" rel="nofollow">1930s</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/prof_ratigan/list/top-films-of-the-1940s-calculated/" rel="nofollow">1940s</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/prof_ratigan/list/top-films-of-the-1950s-calculated/" rel="nofollow">1950s</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/prof_ratigan/list/top-films-of-the-1960s-calculated/" rel="nofollow">1960s</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/prof_ratigan/list/top-films-of-the-1970s-calculated/" rel="nofollow">1970s</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/prof_ratigan/list/top-films-of-the-1980s-calculated/" rel="nofollow">1980s</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/prof_ratigan/list/top-films-of-the-1990s-calculated/" rel="nofollow">1990s</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/prof_ratigan/list/top-films-of-the-2000s-calculated/" rel="nofollow">2000s</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/prof_ratigan/list/top-films-of-the-2010s-calculated/" rel="nofollow">2010s</a> | <a href="https://letterboxd.com/prof_ratigan/list/top-films-of-the-2020s-calcaulated-1/" rel="nofollow">2020s</a> |</p><p>I started with a list of about 30k titles gleaned from many Letterboxd lists, IMDb data, and other sources and crunched the numbers. I limited composite scores to those above 500 IMDb votes. Votes were normalized against the maximum votes on that website to account for the differing traffic, so the Highest Voted movie would be a 1.00 and the lowest 0.01. I weighted the differing website rating according to my own sense of importance with Letterboxd almost 2x IMDb and Metacritic about half of IMDb. I also included weighting by year to account for the significant recency bias in online vote tallies. That weight was Votes x (1+((2000-Year)/100).</p><p>The way that I quantified movies on lists like Sight & Sound was to give those films a sort of fictional rating as if it were from IMDb. So, for instance, Vertigo, at #1 on Sight & Sound's Top 250 got 100, Citizen Kane got 99.96. Lists where there was no ranking all received 100. Sight and Sound, Palme D'or, and Oscar Winners received the greatest weight, which was about 10x a Oscar nomination outside Best Picture and about twice the Golden Bear or AFI Top 100.</p><p>Most Frequent:<br />Year<br />1975 ... 24<br />1960 ... 23<br />1959 ... 22<br />1962 ... 22<br />1964 ... 22<br />1968 ... 22<br />1966 ... 21<br />1961 ... 19<br />1974 ... 19<br />1963 ... 18</p><p>Year Adj<br />1975 ... 24<br />1960 ... 23<br />1968 ... 22<br />1964 ... 22<br />1962 ... 22<br />1959 ... 22<br />1966 ... 21<br />1974 ... 19<br />1961 ... 19<br />1963 ... 18</p><p>Decade Top 1k<br />1960s ... 192<br />1950s ... 147<br />1970s ... 143<br />1980s ... 103<br />1940s ... 102<br />1930s ... 87<br />1990s ... 81<br />1920s ... 50<br />2020s ... 46<br />2000s ... 35</p><p>Director<br />16 ... Alfred Hitchcock<br />14 ... Akira Kurosawa<br />14 ... Ingmar Bergman<br />13 ... Yasujirô Ozu<br />12 ... Luis Buñuel<br />12 ... William Wyler<br />11 ... Satyajit Ray<br />9 ... Billy Wilder<br />9 ... John Ford<br />9 ... Stanley Kubrick<br />8 ... Charles Chaplin<br />8 ... Elia Kazan<br />8 ... Fritz Lang<br />8 ... George Cukor<br />8 ... Howard Hawks</p><p>List of Lists:<br />Oscar Best Picture (Nom/Win), Oscar Best Foreign Film (Nom/Win), Sight & Sound Top 250 (2002/2012/2022), Letterboxd Top 250, Bafta (Win), Oscar Original Screenplay (Nom/Win), Oscar Cinematography (Nom/Win), Oscar Director (Nom/Win), Nat'l Board of Review Top 10 Lists, AFI Top 100, Hong Kong Film Awards Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures, Caimán Cuadernos de Cine Top 100 Spanish Films, Eberts Great Movies, BFI Top 100 British Films, Palme d'Or (Win), Golden Bear (Win),Golden Lion (Win), NY Times Top 1000, Library of Congress Film Registry, Empire Top 500, Rosenbaum's Top 1000, Halliwell's Top 1000, DK's Top 100</p><p>Updates: Corrected formula to time-weight Letterboxd votes. Added Sight & Sound votes, set IMDb vote threshold to 2,500, tweaked the calculation to ignore RT Audience scores with under 500 votes, set Letterboxd vote threshold to 1,250. (1/7/22) Altered the weighting by year to better reflect the number of films represented per year. (2/23/2023) Removed the Letterboxd Top 250 (as that's essentially double-counting) and Rotten Tomatoes because that's become impossible to keep up to date through automation. Past lists are available in spreadsheet form <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lKw6AsgXYw-rSdIbdgn26GlzTyV0zr2UtJ6Y9vCIC8k/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p>
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<p>List made from the book <b>1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die</b>. This list just from the 2026 edition, so you'll not see deleted movies as in other list.</p><p>Also my list sorted backwards, thus i think it's easier to watch this way from newer movies.</p><p>By popular demand - collections that were used in the book were switched to first entry only, e.g. Toy Story, Olympia and Fellowship of the Ring, Dune, Ivan the Terrible.</p>
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From https://letterboxd.com/reelstats/list/the-1001-greatest-movies-of-all-time-according/
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> In response to the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 greatest American movies, film scholar Jonathan Rosenbaum took the AFI to task for what he saw as a product "symptomatic of an increasingly dumbed-down film culture that continues to outflank our shrinking expectations." Of course, any list of this kind (including Sight and Sound’s decennial roster and the Village Voice Film Critic’s Poll from a few years back) is not without its blind spots. Participants are often forced to pick a select group of favorites and make a number of concessions ("Well, if I want Antonioni to make it into the collective top 10, I’d better hedge my bets with L’Avventura instead of my personal favorite Zabriskie Point."). Consequently, underdogs and obscure gems have little chance of being represented on a composite list that’s typically unveiled with little-to-no "justification for any of its titles" (to borrow again from Rosenbaum). Rather than present a list that looks like everyone else’s, Slant Magazine has decided to do something a little different. While you will find many popular classics and critical favorites on our list of 100 Essential Films, our goal was to mix things up a bit. This list should not be construed as a definitive "greatest films" package, but as an alternative compiled by a group of kinky film-lovers wanting to give serious critical thought to neglected, forgotten and misunderstood gems. We aimed for the kind of list where post-Cahiers Orson Welles could stand shoulder-to-shoulder with a pre-pastiche Brian De Palma; where it’s understood that Hitchcock, Dreyer, Ford, and Ozu created masterpieces besides film school staples like Vertigo, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Searchers, and Tokyo Story; and where the postmodern irony of Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life is allowed space next to its modern-day equivalent: Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls (gasp!). Because space was tight, documentaries, shorts and animated films were not eligible. Additionally, we limited directors to no more than one spot on the list.
Source: `http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/100-essential-films`