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100 Movies to See Before You Die: The All-Time Greats by The Yahoo! Movies Editorial Staff Many movies are good, some are great, but only a select few can be called truly "essential." After heated discussions, long negotiations, and a shouting match or two, the staff at Yahoo! Movies has put together this list of the 100 films you must see before you die.

To choose the titles for the list, we considered factors like historical importance and cultural impact. But we also selected films that we believe are the most thrilling, most dramatic, scariest, and funniest movies of all time. Some of these films Printable "100 Movies" List you've seen, and some you may not have heard of, but we believe that each one is a timeless classic that you absolutely have to see. Print out the list of "The 100 Movies to See Before You Die" For a look at the movies from the more recent past we also think are worthy of acclaim, make sure you also see " 100 Movies to See Before You Die: The Modern Classics ." It highlights the greatest films from across the globe made during the last two decades. Share This Post

WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT Jump to a Letter (rollover where y ou see the icon for more information ) '100 Movies' Photo Galleries

0-9 The All-Time Greats 12 Angry Men (1957) (102 Photos) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E. G. Marshall

2001: A (1968) The Modern Classics (102 Photos) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

The 400 Blows (1959) DIRECTED BY: Francois Truffaut Sound Off STARRING: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick Auffay Agree or disagree with our picks? Leave your comment on our page » WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

8 ½ (1963) DIRECTED BY: Federico Fellini STARRING: , Anouk Aimee List Statistics

A Directors w ith the Most Films - 5 The African Queen (1952) - 4 DIRECTED BY: - 3 STARRING: , , - 3 Stanley Kubrick - 3 (1979) Decades with the Most Films DIRECTED BY: - 19 - 18 STARRING: Tom Skerritt, , 1960s - 17 1990s - 14 All About Eve (1950) 1980s - 12 DIRECTED BY: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Most Films in a Foreign Language STARRING: , , George Sanders Italian - 4 Japanese - 3 Annie Hall (1977) French - 3 DIRECTED BY: German - 3 Cantonese/Mandarin - 3 STARRING: Woody Allen,

Apocalypse Now (1979) DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola Also Listed in The Modern Classics STARRING: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT (1990) Groundhog Day (1993) (2001) (2001, 2002, 2003) B The Matrix (1999) (1999) The Battle of Algiers (1967) Pulp Fiction (1994) DIRECTED BY: Gillo Pontecorvo Raise the Red Lantern (1992) STARRING: Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag Saving Private Ryan (1998) Schindler's List (1993) WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT The Shawshank Redemption (1994) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) The Bicycle Thief (1948) Titanic (1997) Toy Story (1995) DIRECTED BY: Vittorio De Sica The Usual Suspects (1995) STARRING: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola

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Blazing Saddles (1974) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Cleavon Little, , Slim Pickens

Blow Up (1966) DIRECTED BY: Michelangelo Antononi STARRING: David Hemmings, ,

Blue Velvet (1986) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Kyle MacLachlan, ,

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Bonnie and Clyde (1967) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: , Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard

Breathless (1960) DIRECTED BY: Jean-Luc Godard STARRING: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: William Holden, , Jack Hawkins,

Bringing Up Baby (1938) DIRECTED BY: Howard Hawks STARRING: , Katherine Hepburn

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: , ,

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Casablanca (1942) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Humphrey Bogart, , Paul Henreid

Chinatown (1974) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: , Faye Dunaway, John Huston

Citizen Kane (1941) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Orson Welles, , Dorothy Comingore

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang

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Die Hard (1988) DIRECTED BY: John McTiernan STARRING: , Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman

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Do the Right Thing (1989) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: , Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

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Double Indemnity (1944) DIRECTED BY: Billy Wilder STARRING: Fred MacMurray, , Edward G. Robinson

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) DIRECTED BY: Stanley Kubrick STARRING: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden

Duck Soup (1933) DIRECTED BY: Leo McCarey STARRING: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg STARRING: Stone, Henry Thomas,

Enter the Dragon (1973) DIRECTED BY: Robert Clouse STARRING: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly

The Exorcist (1973) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: , Max von Sydow, ,

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Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982) DIRECTED BY: Amy Heckerling STARRING: , , Judge Reinhold, The French Connection (1971) DIRECTED BY: William Friedkin STARRING: , Fernando Rey,

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The Godfather (1972) DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola STARRING: Marlon Brando, , ,

The Godfather, Part II (1974) DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola STARRING: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

Goldfinger (1964) DIRECTED BY: Guy Hamilton STARRING: , Honor Blackman

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968) DIRECTED BY: Sergio Leone STARRING: , ,

Goodfellas (1990) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: , Ray Liotta,

The Graduate (1967) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: , , Katharine Ross,

Grand Illusion (1938) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: , ,

Groundhog Day (1993) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: , Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott

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A Hard Day's Night (1964) DIRECTED BY: Richard Lester STARRING:

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In the Mood For Love (2001) DIRECTED BY: Wong Kar-Wai STARRING: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung

It Happened One Night (1934) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Clark Gable,

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) DIRECTED BY: Frank Capra STARRING: , Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore

J (1975) DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg STARRING: Roy Scheider, ,

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King Kong (1933) DIRECTED BY: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Shoedsack STARRING: , Robert Armstrong

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The Lady Eve (1941) DIRECTED BY: Preston Sturges STARRING: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) DIRECTED BY: David Lean STARRING: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn

The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003) DIRECTED BY: Peter Jackson STARRING: , Ian McKellen,

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M (1931) DIRECTED BY: Fritz Lang STARRING: Peter Lorre, Theodor Loos, Otto Wernicke

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M*A*S*H (1970) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt

The Maltese Falcon (1941) DIRECTED BY: John Huston STARRING: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet

The Matrix (1999) DIRECTED BY: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski STARRING: Keanu Reeves, , Carrie-Anne Moss

Modern Times (1936) DIRECTED BY: Charlie Chaplin STARRING: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) DIRECTED BY: , Terry Jones STARRING: Graham Chapman, , Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

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National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) DIRECTED BY: John Landis STARRING: John Belushi, Tim Matheson

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Network (1976) DIRECTED BY: Sidney Lumet STARRING: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch

Nosferatu (1922) DIRECTED BY: F.W. Murnau STARRING: Max Schreck, Gustave Von Wagenheim, Greta Schroeder,

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On the Waterfront (1954) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) DIRECTED BY: Milos Forman STARRING: Jack Nicholson, , William Redfield

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Paths of Glory (1958) DIRECTED BY: Stanley Kubrick STARRING: , Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou

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Princess Mononoke (1999) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Billy Crudup, , Minnie Driver

Psycho (1960) DIRECTED BY: Alfred Hitchcock STARRING: Anthony Perkins,

Pulp Fiction (1994) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson,

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Raging Bull (1980) DIRECTED BY: Martin Scorsese STARRING: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty-Gentile, Joe Pesci

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg STARRING: Harrison Ford, , Paul Freeman

Raise the Red Lantern (1992) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: , He Caifei, Cao Cuifeng

Rashomon (1951) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo

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Rear Window (1954) DIRECTED BY: Alfred Hitchcock STARRING: James Stewart, ,

Rebel Without a Cause (1955) DIRECTED BY: Nicholas Ray STARRING: James Dean, , Sal Mineo

Rocky (1976) DIRECTED BY: John Avildsen STARRING: , Talia Shire, Burt Young

Roman Holiday (1953) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: , ,

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Saving Private Ryan (1998) DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg STARRING: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore

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Schindler's List (1993) DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg STARRING: , Ben Kingsley,

The Searchers (1956) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: , Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles

Seven Samurai (1954) DIRECTED BY: Akira Kurosawa STARRING: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) DIRECTED BY: Frank Darabont STARRING: ,

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: , , Scott Glenn

Singin' in the Rain (1952) DIRECTED BY: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelley STARRING: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) DIRECTED BY: David Hand STARRING: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell

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Some Like It Hot (1959) DIRECTED BY: Billy Wilder STARRING: , Tony Curtis,

The Sound of Music (1965) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Julie Andrews,

Star Wars (1977) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher

Sunset Blvd. (1950) DIRECTED BY: Billy Wilder STARRING: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Arnold Schwarzenegger,

The Third (1949) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Joseph Cotten, , Orson Welles

This is Spinal Tap (1984) DIRECTED BY: Rob Reiner STARRING: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest

Titanic (1997) DIRECTED BY: James Cameron STARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio,

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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) DIRECTED BY: Robert Mulligan STARRING: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford

Toy Story (1995) DIRECTED BY: John Lasseter STARRING: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles

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The Usual Suspects (1995) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: , Gabriel Byrne

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Vertigo (1958) DIRECTED BY: Alfred Hitchcock STARRING: James Stewart,

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When Harry Met Sally... (1989) DIRECTED BY: Rob Reiner STARRING: , Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher

Wild Strawberries (1957) DIRECTED BY: Ingmar Bergman STARRING: Victor Sjostrom, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ingrid Thulin

Wings of Desire (1988) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander

The Wizard of Oz (1939) DIRECTED BY: STARRING: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) DIRECTED BY: Pedro Almodovar STARRING: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas

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The World of Apu (1959) DIRECTED BY: Satyajit Ray STARRING: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Swampan Mukerjee,

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