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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

100 Movies to See Before You Die: The All-Time Greats


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 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.
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.

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  • 12 Angry Men (1957)

    DIRECTED BY: Sidney Lumet
    STARRING: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E. G. Marshall

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

    DIRECTED BY: Stanley Kubrick
    STARRING: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

  • The 400 Blows (1959)

    DIRECTED BY: Francois Truffaut
    STARRING: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick Auffay
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  • 8 ½ (1963)

    DIRECTED BY: Federico Fellini
    STARRING: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee
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  • The African Queen (1952)

    DIRECTED BY: John Huston
    STARRING: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley

  • Alien (1979)

    DIRECTED BY: Ridley Scott
    STARRING: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright

  • All About Eve (1950)

    DIRECTED BY: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    STARRING: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders

  • Annie Hall (1977)

    DIRECTED BY: Woody Allen
    STARRING: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton

  • Apocalypse Now (1979)

    DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola
    STARRING: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall



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  • The Battle of Algiers (1967)

    DIRECTED BY: Gillo Pontecorvo
    STARRING: Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag
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  • The Bicycle Thief (1948)

    DIRECTED BY: Vittorio De Sica
    STARRING: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola
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  • Blade Runner (1982)

    DIRECTED BY: Ridley Scott
    STARRING: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young

  • Blazing Saddles (1974)

    DIRECTED BY: Mel Brooks
    STARRING: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens

  • Blow Up (1966)

    DIRECTED BY: Michelangelo Antononi
    STARRING: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles

  • Blue Velvet (1986)

    DIRECTED BY: David Lynch
    STARRING: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
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  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

    DIRECTED BY: Arthur Penn
    STARRING: Warren Beatty, 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: David Lean
    STARRING: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins,

  • Bringing Up Baby (1938)

    DIRECTED BY: Howard Hawks
    STARRING: Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn
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  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

    DIRECTED BY: George Roy Hill
    STARRING: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
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  • Casablanca (1942)

    DIRECTED BY: Michael Curtiz
    STARRING: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

  • Chinatown (1974)

    DIRECTED BY: Roman Polanski
    STARRING: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston

  • Citizen Kane (1941)

    DIRECTED BY: Orson Welles
    STARRING: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore

  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

    DIRECTED BY: Ang Lee
    STARRING: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang
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  • Die Hard (1988)

    DIRECTED BY: John McTiernan
    STARRING: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman
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  • Do the Right Thing (1989)

    DIRECTED BY: Spike Lee
    STARRING: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee
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  • Double Indemnity (1944)

    DIRECTED BY: Billy Wilder
    STARRING: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, 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: Dee Wallace Stone, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore

  • Enter the Dragon (1973)

    DIRECTED BY: Robert Clouse
    STARRING: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly

  • The Exorcist (1973)

    DIRECTED BY: William Friedkin
    STARRING: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair,
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  • The Godfather (1972)

    DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola
    STARRING: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan,

  • The Godfather, Part II (1974)

    DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola
    STARRING: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

  • Goldfinger (1964)

    DIRECTED BY: Guy Hamilton
    STARRING: Sean Connery, Honor Blackman
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  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)

    DIRECTED BY: Sergio Leone
    STARRING: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef

  • Goodfellas (1990)

    DIRECTED BY: Martin Scorsese
    STARRING: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci

  • The Graduate (1967)

    DIRECTED BY: Mike Nichols
    STARRING: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross,

  • Grand Illusion (1938)

    DIRECTED BY: Jean Renoir
    STARRING: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim

  • Groundhog Day (1993)

    DIRECTED BY: Harold Ramis
    STARRING: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
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  • A Hard Day's Night (1964)

    DIRECTED BY: Richard Lester
    STARRING: The Beatles
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  • Jaws (1975)

    DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg
    STARRING: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
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  • King Kong (1933)

    DIRECTED BY: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Shoedsack
    STARRING: Fay Wray, 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: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
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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: Robert Altman
    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, Laurence Fishburne, 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 Gilliam, Terry Jones
    STARRING: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, 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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  • Paths of Glory (1958)

    DIRECTED BY: Stanley Kubrick
    STARRING: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou
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  • Princess Mononoke (1999)

    DIRECTED BY: Hayao Miyazaki
    STARRING: Billy Crudup, Billy Bob Thornton, Minnie Driver

  • Psycho (1960)

    DIRECTED BY: Alfred Hitchcock
    STARRING: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh

  • Pulp Fiction (1994)

    DIRECTED BY: Quentin Tarantino
    STARRING: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman
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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, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman

  • Raise the Red Lantern (1992)

    DIRECTED BY: Zhang Yimou
    STARRING: Gong Li, He Caifei, Cao Cuifeng

  • Rashomon (1951)

    DIRECTED BY: Akira Kurosawa
    STARRING: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo
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  • Rear Window (1954)

    DIRECTED BY: Alfred Hitchcock
    STARRING: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr

  • Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

    DIRECTED BY: Nicholas Ray
    STARRING: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo

  • Rocky (1976)

    DIRECTED BY: John Avildsen
    STARRING: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young

  • Roman Holiday (1953)

    DIRECTED BY: William Wyler
    STARRING: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
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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: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes

  • The Searchers (1956)

    DIRECTED BY: John Ford
    STARRING: John Wayne, 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: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman

  • The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

    DIRECTED BY: Jonathan Demme
    STARRING: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, 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: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

  • The Sound of Music (1965)

    DIRECTED BY: Robert Wise
    STARRING: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer

  • Star Wars (1977)

    DIRECTED BY: George Lucas
    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: James Cameron
    STARRING: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton

  • The Third Man (1949)

    DIRECTED BY: Carol Reed
    STARRING: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, 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, Kate Winslet
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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: Bryan Singer
    STARRING: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne
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  • Vertigo (1958)

    DIRECTED BY: Alfred Hitchcock
    STARRING: James Stewart, Kim Novak
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  • When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

    DIRECTED BY: Rob Reiner
    STARRING: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher

  • Wild Strawberries (1957)

    DIRECTED BY: Ingmar Bergman
    STARRING: Victor Sjostrom, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ingrid Thulin

  • Wings of Desire (1988)

    DIRECTED BY: Wim Wenders
    STARRING: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander

  • The Wizard of Oz (1939)

    DIRECTED BY: Victor Fleming
    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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