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Essential Movies


This snapshot date: July 24, 2003 (505 movies).
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Movie Name My RatingIMDb Rating
 À bout de souffle (1960)   7.8
 À la folie... pas du tout (2002)   7.3
 À ma soeur! (2001)   6.6
 12 Angry Men (1957) 8 8.6
 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 9 8.3
 39 Steps, The (1935)   8.0
 42nd Street (1933)   7.5
 8 1/2 (1963)   8.0
 About Schmidt (2002)   7.6
 Abre los ojos (1997)   7.8
 Abyss, The (1989) 8 7.4
 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)   6.2
 Adam's Rib (1949)   7.6
 Adaptation. (2002)   7.9
 African Queen, The (1951)   8.2
 Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1973)   7.9
 Airplane! (1980)   7.7
 Akahige (1964)   7.5
 Akira (1988)   7.6
 Albero degli zoccoli, L' (1978)   8.0
 Alien (1979) 8 8.3
 Aliens (1986) 8 8.2
 All About Eve (1950)   8.5
 All or Nothing (2002)   7.4
 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)   8.2
 All That Heaven Allows (1955)   7.3
 All That Jazz (1979)   7.5
 All the President's Men (1976)   8.0
 Almost Famous (2000) 7 8.0
 Amadeus (1984) 8 8.3
 Amarcord (1973)   7.9
 Ame agaru (1999)   8.0
 American Beauty (1999) 9 8.5
 American History X (1998)   8.3
 American in Paris, An (1951)   7.5
 Amores perros (2000)   8.1
 Andrei Rublyov (1969)   8.1
 Annie Hall (1977)   8.3
 Apartment, The (1960)   8.4
 Apocalypse Now (1979) 8 8.5
 Apollo 13 (1995)   7.5
 Argent, L' (1983)   7.8
 Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)   8.1
 Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) 8 6.9
 Atalante, L' (1934)   7.4
 Au hasard Balthazar (1966)   8.4
 Au revoir les enfants (1987)   7.9
 Avventura, L' (1960)   7.4
 Ba wang bie ji (1993)   7.6
 Bacheha-Ye aseman (1997)   7.4
 Back to the Future (1985) 7 8.0
 Bank Dick, The (1940)   7.6
 Banshun (1949)   8.8
 Baraka (1992)   7.6
 Barry Lyndon (1975) 7 7.8
 Barton Fink (1991)   7.4
 Beautiful Mind, A (2001) 8 7.8
 Beavis and Butt-head Do America (1996)   6.0
 Being John Malkovich (1999) 7 8.0
 Being There (1979)   7.9
 Ben-Hur (1959)   8.1
 Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)   8.4
 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)   5.4
 Big Lebowski, The (1998)   7.9
 Big Sleep, The (1946)   8.3
 Birds, The (1963)   7.8
 Blade Runner (1982) 7 8.2
 Blood Simple. (1984)   7.7
 Blowup (1966)   7.4
 Blue Velvet (1986)   7.7
 Bonnie and Clyde (1967)   7.9
 Boogie Nights (1997) 6 7.6
 Boot, Das (1981)   8.5
 Bowling for Columbine (2002) 9 8.8
 Boys Don't Cry (1999)   7.6
 Braveheart (1995) 7 8.3
 Brazil (1985)   8.0
 Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)   7.7
 Bride of Frankenstein (1935)   8.1
 Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)   8.4
 Bringing Up Baby (1938)   8.2
 Broadway Danny Rose (1984)   7.3
 Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)   8.2
 Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) 7 8.7
 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)   8.2
 Céline et Julie vont en bateau (1974)   7.4
 C'era una volta il West (1968)   8.6
 Cabaret (1972)   7.8
 Capturing the Friedmans (2003)   8.0
 Carlito's Way (1993)   7.4
 Carrosse d'or, Le (1952)   7.4
 Casablanca (1942) 8 8.8
 Casino (1995)   7.7
 Charade (1963)   8.1
 Chariots of Fire (1981)   7.2
 Chelovek s kinoapparatom (1929)   7.6
 Chicago (2002)   7.8
 Chinatown (1974)   8.4
 Chong qing sen lin (1994)   7.6
 Christmas Story, A (1983)   8.1
 Cidade de Deus (2002)   8.6
 Citizen Kane (1941) 9 8.8
 City Lights (1931)   8.4
 City of Angels (1998) 7 6.2
 Clockwork Orange, A (1971) 9 8.3
 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)   7.8
 Con Air (1997)   6.3
 Conformista, Il (1970)   7.5
 Conversation, The (1974)   8.1
 Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, The (1989)   7.0
 Cool Hand Luke (1967)   8.1
 Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)   7.9
 Crowd, The (1928)   8.1
 Da hong deng long gao gao gua (1991)   8.0
 Dancer in the Dark (2000)   7.8
 Dances with Wolves (1990)   7.7
 Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951)   8.0
 Dead Man (1995)   7.5
 Dead Poets Society (1989)   7.7
 Deadly Is the Female (1949)   7.8
 Deconstructing Harry (1997)   7.1
 Deer Hunter, The (1978)   8.1
 Deliverance (1972)   7.8
 Dersu Uzala (1974)   7.9
 Diaboliques, Les (1955)   8.1
 Dial M for Murder (1954)   7.8
 Die Hard (1988) 7 8.0
 Die xue jie tou (1990)   7.4
 Die xue shuang xiong (1989)   8.0
 Dirty Harry (1971)   7.6
 Do the Right Thing (1989)   7.7
 Dodsworth (1936)   8.1
 Dog Day Afternoon (1975)   8.0
 Dogville (2003)   7.9
 Dolce vita, La (1960)   7.9
 Don't Look Now (1973)   7.5
 Donnie Darko (2001)   8.3
 Double Indemnity (1944)   8.6
 Double vie de Véronique, La (1991)   7.4
 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 8 8.7
 Dracula (1931/I)   7.5
 Driving Miss Daisy (1989)   7.3
 Duck Soup (1933)   8.3
 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 8 7.8
 Ed Wood (1994)   7.9
 Elephant (2003)   6.9
 Elephant Man, The (1980)   8.1
 Enemy of the State (1998) 8 7.1
 Enfants du paradis, Les (1945)   8.2
 English Patient, The (1996) 7 7.0
 Exorcist, The (1973) 8 7.9
 Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) 7 8.7
 Fanny och Alexander (1982)   8.0
 Fantasia (1940)   7.8
 Far from Heaven (2002)   7.8
 Fargo (1996)   8.2
 Fatal Attraction (1987)   6.7
 Faustrecht der Freiheit (1975)   7.5
 Festen (1998)   8.2
 Field of Dreams (1989)   7.7
 Fight Club (1999)   8.5
 Finding Nemo (2003)   8.3
 Forbidden Planet (1956)   7.6
 Forget Paris (1995)   6.2
 Forrest Gump (1994)   8.0
 Frankenstein (1931)   7.9
 French Connection, The (1971)   7.8
 From Here to Eternity (1953)   7.9
 Fugitive, The (1993)   7.7
 Full Metal Jacket (1987)   8.1
 Gandhi (1982)   7.9
 Gattaca (1997) 8 7.5
 General, The (1927)   8.4
 Ghost (1990)   6.7
 Giant (1956)   7.5
 Gigi (1958)   7.1
 Girl, Interrupted (1999) 7 7.0
 Gladiator (2000)   8.0
 Glory (1989)   8.1
 Goda viljan, Den (1992)   7.5
 Godfather, The (1972)   9.0
 Godfather: Part II, The (1974)   8.9
 Gold Rush, The (1925)   8.2
 Goldfinger (1964)   7.7
 Gone with the Wind (1939)   8.1
 Good Will Hunting (1997)   7.8
 Goodfellas (1990)   8.6
 Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1968)   8.9
 Graduate, The (1967)   8.1
 Grande illusion, La (1937)   8.3
 Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) 8 8.2
 Great Dictator, The (1940)   8.3
 Great Escape, The (1963)   8.3
 Great Expectations (1946)   8.1
 Green Mile, The (1999)   8.1
 Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)   7.4
 Gunga Din (1939)   7.6
 Hable con ella (2002)   8.2
 Halloween (1978)   7.6
 Hamlet (1948)   7.9
 Hanging Garden, The (1997)   7.2
 Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)   7.8
 Happiness (1998)   7.7
 Harvey (1950)   8.1
 Heat (1995)   7.8
 Henry V (1989)   8.0
 High Noon (1952)   8.3
 Himmel über Berlin, Der (1987)   7.9
 His Girl Friday (1940)   8.2
 Hotaru no haka (1988)   8.2
 Hours, The (2002)   7.7
 How Green Was My Valley (1941)   8.0
 Huang tu di (1984)   7.4
 Hud (1963)   7.9
 Hustler, The (1961)   8.2
 Ice Storm, The (1997)   7.5
 Ikiru (1952)   8.2
 In the Heat of the Night (1967)   8.0
 Independence Day (1996) 7 6.0
 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)   8.0
 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)   7.1
 Insider, The (1999) 8 8.0
 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)   7.0
 Irréversible (2002)   7.2
 It Happened One Night (1934)   8.3
 It's a Gift (1934)   7.8
 It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 7 8.6
 Jaws (1975) 7 8.2
 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)   8.2
 Jerry Maguire (1996)   7.3
 Jetée, La (1962) 7 7.7
 JFK (1991)   7.8
 Jules et Jim (1962)   7.6
 Jurassic Park (1993)   7.3
 Kôkaku kidôtai (1995)   7.6
 Killing, The (1956)   8.1
 King Kong (1933)   7.9
 Léon (1994)   8.3
 L.A. Confidential (1997) 7 8.4
 Ladri di biciclette (1948)   8.4
 Lady Eve, The (1941)   8.1
 Lady in White (1988)   6.6
 Lady Vanishes, The (1938)   8.0
 Last Emperor, The (1987)   7.6
 Last Picture Show, The (1971)   8.0
 Laura (1944)   8.2
 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)   8.6
 Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)   7.5
 Life of Brian (1979)   8.0
 Lilja 4-ever (2002)   8.0
 Lion in Winter, The (1968)   8.1
 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)   7.9
 Lola rennt (1998)   8.2
 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) 8 8.8
 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002)   8.8
 Louisiana Story (1948)   8.0
 Love Story (1970)   6.0
 M (1931)   8.5
 Mépris, Le (1963)   7.4
 Madame de... (1953)   8.0
 Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)   8.1
 Magnolia (1999)   8.0
 Maltese Falcon, The (1941)   8.4
 Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956) 8 7.4
 Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962)   8.1
 Man Who Would Be King, The (1975)   7.9
 Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)   8.4
 Manhattan (1979)   8.2
 Masculin, féminin (1966)   7.1
 MASH (1970)   7.8
 Matrix Reloaded, The (2003) 8 7.3
 Matrix, The (1999) 9 8.5
 Mean Streets (1973)   7.5
 Memento (2000) 8 8.7
 Memorias del subdesarrollo (1968)   8.1
 Mia aioniotita kai mia mera (1998)   7.1
 Midnight Cowboy (1969)   8.0
 Mies vailla menneisyyttä (2002)   7.8
 Mildred Pierce (1945)   7.7
 Miller's Crossing (1990)   8.0
 Minority Report (2002) 8 7.9
 Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The (1944)   7.9
 Miracle on 34th Street (1947)   7.8
 Misfits, The (1961)   7.3
 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)   7.4
 Missing (1982)   7.4
 Mission, The (1986)   7.2
 Modern Times (1936)   8.4
 Mononoke-hime (1997)   8.3
 Monsters, Inc. (2001) 7 8.0
 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)   8.4
 Moonstruck (1987)   7.1
 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)   7.9
 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 8 8.4
 Mulholland Dr. (2001) 8 8.0
 My Darling Clementine (1946)   8.1
 My Fair Lady (1964)   7.8
 Narayama bushiko (1982)   7.3
 Nashville (1975)   7.8
 Natural Born Killers (1994) 8 6.5
 Nema-ye Nazdik (1990)   8.3
 Network (1976)   8.0
 Night at the Opera, A (1935)   8.2
 Night of the Hunter, The (1955)   8.2
 Ninotchka (1939)   8.0
 North by Northwest (1959)   8.6
 Notes From Underground (1995) 8 7.0
 Notorious (1946)   8.3
 Now, Voyager (1942)   7.7
 Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988)   8.3
 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)   7.8
 Ocean's Eleven (2001) 7 7.5
 Oklahoma! (1955)   7.2
 Olvidados, Los (1950)   7.6
 On the Town (1949)   7.6
 On the Waterfront (1954)   8.4
 Once Upon a Time in America (1984)   8.1
 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 8 8.7
 Ordet (1955)   7.7
 Ordinary People (1980)   7.8
 Otac na sluzbenom putu (1985)   7.4
 Others, The (2001) 7 7.9
 Out of Africa (1985)   6.8
 Out of the Past (1947)   8.0
 Outlaw Josey Wales, The (1976)   7.6
 Ox-Bow Incident, The (1943)   8.2
 Padre padrone (1977)   7.1
 Paisà (1946)   7.7
 Palm Beach Story, The (1942)   7.9
 Paris, Texas (1984)   7.5
 Pather Panchali (1955)   7.5
 Paths of Glory (1957)   8.6
 Patton (1970)   8.2
 Pelle erobreren (1987)   7.4
 Performance (1970)   6.6
 Persona (1966)   8.1
 Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2002)   6.3
 Philadelphia Story, The (1940)   8.2
 Pi (1998)   7.5
 Pianist, The (2002) 8 8.7
 Pianiste, La (2001) 8 7.3
 Piano, The (1993) 8 7.3
 Pickpocket (1959)   7.7
 Pierrot le fou (1965)   7.4
 Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981)   7.4
 Place in the Sun, A (1951)   7.7
 Planet of the Apes (1968) 6 7.8
 Platoon (1986)   8.0
 Poltergeist (1982)   7.2
 Popiól i diament (1958)   7.5
 Princess Bride, The (1987)   8.2
 Producers, The (1968)   7.8
 Przesluchanie (1982)   8.5
 Psycho (1960) 8 8.6
 Pulp Fiction (1994) 8 8.6
 Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)   8.2
 Quiet Man, The (1952)   8.0
 Règle du jeu, La (1939)   8.0
 Raging Bull (1980)   8.4
 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 7 8.6
 Rain Man (1988)   7.8
 Ran (1985)   8.4
 Rang-e khoda (1999)   7.4
 Rashômon (1950)   8.5
 Rear Window (1954) 8 8.7
 Rebecca (1940)   8.2
 Rebel Without a Cause (1955)   7.7
 Red River (1948)   8.2
 Reds (1981)   7.0
 Requiem for a Dream (2000) 7 8.5
 Reservoir Dogs (1992)   8.2
 Right Stuff, The (1983)   8.0
 Ring, The (2002) 8 7.5
 Rio Bravo (1959)   8.0
 Road to Perdition (2002)   7.9
 Roaring Twenties, The (1939)   7.5
 Rock, The (1996) 7 7.0
 Rocky (1976)   7.7
 Roman Holiday (1953)   8.1
 Room with a View, A (1986)   7.4
 Rosemary's Baby (1968) 7 7.8
 Rosetta (1999)   6.9
 S1m0ne (2002) 7 6.4
 Sans toit ni loi (1985)   7.4
 Sanshô dayû (1954)   9.1
 Saving Private Ryan (1998)   8.3
 Scarecrow (1973)   6.8
 Schindler's List (1993) 8 8.8
 Se7en (1995) 7 8.3
 Searchers, The (1956)   8.3
 Secretary (2002)   7.3
 Secrets & Lies (1996)   7.8
 Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)   8.6
 Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)   7.0
 Shadow of a Doubt (1943)   8.2
 Shakespeare in Love (1998)   7.6
 Shane (1953)   7.8
 Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) 8 9.0
 Shichinin no samurai (1954)   8.9
 Shining, The (1980) 8 8.2
 Short Cuts (1993)   7.6
 Shrek (2001) 8 8.1
 Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) 8 8.5
 Singin' in the Rain (1952) 7 8.4
 Sixth Sense, The (1999) 8 8.2
 Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)   8.3
 Sling Blade (1996)   8.0
 Smultronstället (1957)   8.3
 Snatch. (2000)   7.9
 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)   7.8
 Solyaris (1972)   7.5
 Some Like It Hot (1959)   8.5
 Sons of the Desert (1933)   7.8
 Sound of Music, The (1965)   7.7
 Sous le soleil de Satan (1987)   6.5
 Spartacus (1960)   8.0
 Speed (1994) 7 7.1
 Stagecoach (1939)   8.1
 Stalag 17 (1953)   8.3
 Stand by Me (1986)   7.9
 Stanza del figlio, La (2001)   7.4
 Star Wars (1977)   8.8
 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)   8.7
 Stepmom (1998) 8 6.1
 Sting, The (1973)   8.3
 Strada, La (1954)   8.2
 Straight Story, The (1999)   8.2
 Strangers on a Train (1951)   8.3
 Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)   8.1
 Sullivan's Travels (1941)   8.3
 Sunrise (1927)   8.3
 Sunset Blvd. (1950)   8.6
 Suspiria (1977)   7.3
 Sweet Smell of Success (1957)   8.1
 Swing Time (1936)   7.7
 Ta'm e guilass (1997)   7.2
 Taxi Driver (1976) 7 8.4
 Tengoku to jigoku (1963)   7.9
 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 8 8.1
 Terminator, The (1984) 8 7.9
 Terms of Endearment (1983)   7.3
 Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The (1974)   6.9
 Thin Man, The (1934)   8.1
 Thing, The (1982) 7 7.7
 Third Man, The (1949)   8.5
 This Is Spinal Tap (1984)   7.9
 Titanic (1997) 8 6.9
 To Be or Not to Be (1942)   8.4
 To Have and Have Not (1944)   7.9
 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)   8.5
 Todo sobre mi madre (1999)   8.0
 Tokyo monogatari (1953)   7.6
 Tonari no Totoro (1988)   7.9
 Tootsie (1982)   7.5
 Top Gun (1986) 6 6.4
 Top Hat (1935)   7.8
 Topsy-Turvy (1999)   7.4
 Touch of Evil (1958)   8.4
 Toy Story (1995)   7.9
 Toy Story 2 (1999)   8.2
 Traffic (2000)   7.9
 Trainspotting (1996)   7.9
 Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)   8.4
 Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993)   7.8
 Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)   8.1
 Trouble in Paradise (1932)   8.0
 Truman Show, The (1998) 9 7.7
 Twelve Monkeys (1995)   7.9
 Twister (1996) 6 5.9
 Ugetsu monogatari (1953)   7.7
 Ultimo tango a Parigi (1972)   6.9
 Umberto D. (1952)   7.9
 Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956)   7.5
 Unagi (1997)   7.2
 Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (1988)   7.4
 Underground (1995)   7.8
 Unforgiven (1992)   8.0
 Uninvited, The (1944)   7.4
 Untouchables, The (1987)   7.8
 Usual Suspects, The (1995) 8 8.7
 Vanilla Sky (2001) 8 6.9
 Vertigo (1958) 8 8.5
 Vita è bella, La (1997)   8.4
 Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (1962)   7.3
 Waking Life (2001)   7.5
 Wavelength (1967)   7.1
 West Side Story (1961)   7.7
 Whale Rider (2002)   8.1
 When Harry Met Sally... (1989) 8 7.7
 White Heat (1949)   8.2
 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)   8.1
 Wild at Heart (1990)   6.9
 Wild Bunch, The (1969)   8.2
 Witness for the Prosecution (1957)   8.3
 Wizard of Oz, The (1939)   8.3
 Wo hu cang long (2000)   8.4
 Woman Under the Influence, A (1974)   7.5
 Y tu mamá también (2001) 8 7.9
 Yi yi (2000)   7.6
 Yojimbo (1961)   8.3
 Young Frankenstein (1974)   8.0
 Yukinojo henge (1963)   7.4
 Z (1969)   7.9
 Zangiku monogatari (1939)   8.8
 Zerkalo (1975)   7.4