Updated 1001 Films to See Before You Die

I posted awhile back about the 1001 Films to See Before You Die list. At the time I had about a quarter (252) but I thought I’d revisit the list now that I’ve complete the AFI list. I hoped I had moved up a little bit. Now I’ve added this thing to do on my 40 before I’m 40 list. Although this will definitely take me a few years (if I watch two movies a week, it’s going to take almost 7 years), I could say, without a doubt, that after having seen all these films, I’d be one of the most “well-watched” (is that a term?) people around.

Original post I had seen 298. Currently I’ve seen 302 on the list (films I’ve seen are in black) as of February 6, 2012:

12 Angry Men
1900
2001
3-Iron
39 Steps, The
42nd Street
8 1/2
A One and a Two
Actor’s Revenge, An
Actress, The
Adam’s Rib
Adventure, The
Adventures of Priscillia, Queen of the Desert, The
Adventures of Robin Hood, The
Affair to Remember, An
African Queen, The
Age of Gold, The
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer
Airplane!
Akira
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Alien
Aliens
All About Eve
All About My Mother
All Quiet on the Western Front
All That Heaven Allows
All That Jazz
All the President’s Men
Alphaville
Amadeus
Amarcord
Amelie
American Beauty
American Friend, The
American Graffiti
American In Paris, An
American Werewolf in London
Amores Perros
Anatomy of a Murder
Andalusian Dog, An
Andrei Rublev
Angel Face
Angels with Dirty Faces
Animal Farm
Annie Hall
Apartment, The
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypto
Archangel
Ariel
Artists and Models
Ascent, The
Ashes and Diamonds
Asphalt Jungle, The
Asthenic Syndrome, The
Atalante, L’
Atlantic City
Atonement
Audition
Autumn Afternoon, An
Awful Truth, The

Babe
Babes in Arms
Babette’s Feast
Back to the Future
Bad and the Beautiful, The
Bad Day at Black Rock
Badlands
Baker’s Wife, The
Ballad of Narayama, The
Balthazar
Band Wagon, The
Bank Dick, The
Barefoot Contessa, The
Barren Lives
Barry Lyndon
Batman
Battle of Algiers, The
Battle of San Pietro, The
Battleship Potemkin
Beat the Devil
Beau Travail
Beautiful Troublemaker, The
Beauty and the Beast
Before the Revolution
Being John Malkovich
Being There
Belle de Jour
Ben-Hur
Best of Youth, The
Best Years of Our Lives, The
Beverly Hills Cop
Bicycle Thief, The
Big
Big Carnival, The
Big Chill, The
Big Heat, The
Big Parade, The
Big Red One, The
Big Sky, The
Big Sleep, The
Bigamist, The
Bigger Than Life
Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The
Birds, The
Birth of a Nation, The
Bitch, The
Bitter Tea of General Yen, The
Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The
Black Cat, The
Black God, White Devil
Black Narcissus
Black Orpheus
Black Sunday
Blackmail
Blade Runner
Blair Witch Project, The
Blazing Saddles
Blonde Cobra
Blowup
Blue Angel, The
Blue Kite, The
Blue Velvet
Boat, The
Bob the Gambler
Body Heat
Bonnie and Clyde
Boogie Nights
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Boyz N the Hood
Brave-Hearted Will Take the Bride, The
Braveheart
Brazil
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Breakfast Club, The
Breaking Away
Breaking the Waves
Breathless
Bride of Frankenstein
Bridge on the River Kwai, The
Brief Encounter
Brighter Summer Day, A
Brightness
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Bringing Up Baby
Broadcast News
Brokeback Mountain
Broken Blossoms
Buffalo 66
Bull Durham
Burmese Harp, The
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butcher Boy, The
Butcher, The
Cabaret
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The
Cairo Station
Camille
Captain Blood
Captains Courageous
Caravaggio
Carmen Jones
Carrie
Casablanca
Casino
Cat People
Ceddo
Celebration, The
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, The
Chariots of Fire
Children of a Lesser God
Children of Paradise, The
Chimes at Midnight
Chinatown
Chinese Ghost Story, A
Christmas Story, A
Chronicle of a Summer
Chungking Express
Cinema Paradiso
Citizen Kane
City Lights
City of God
City of Sadness, A
Cleo from 5 to 7
Clerks
Clockwork Orange, A
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close-up
Closely Watched Trains
Cloud-Capped Star, The
Clueless
Color of Pomegranates, The
Color Purple, The
Come and See
Come Drink With Me
Conformist, The
Contempt
Conversation, The
Cook, the Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover, The
Cool Hand Luke
Cool World, The
Cow, The
Cranes are Flying, The
Crash
Cria!
Cries and Whispers
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Crowd, The
Crumb
Crying Game, The
Cyclo
Daisies
Dance, Girl, Dance
Dancer in the Dark
Dances with Wolves
Dangerous Liaisons
David Holzman’s Diary
Dawn of the Dead
Day for Night
Day in the Country, A
Day the Earth Stood Still, The
Daybreak
Days of Heaven
Dead Man
Dead, The
Dear Diary
Decalogue, The
Decline of the American Empire
Deep End
Deer Hunter, The
Defiant Ones, The
Delicatessen
Deliverance
Departed, the
Dersu Uzala
Deseret
Destry Rides Again
Detour
Diaboliques, Les
Diary of a Country Priest
Die Hard
Diner
Dirty Harry
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The
Do the Right Thing
Docks of New York, The
Dodsworth
Dog Day Afternoon
Dog Star Man
Dog’s Life, A
Dolce Vita, La
Don’t Look Now
Double Indemnity
Double Life of Veronique, The
Down By Law
Downfall
Dr. Mabuse, Parts 1 and 2
Dr. Strangelove
Dr. Zhivago
Dracula
Dracula
Drowning by Numbers
Drugstore Cowboy
Duck Soup
Dumbo
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Ear, The
Earth
Earth Entranced
Easy Rider
Eclipse, The
Edward Scissorhands
El Norte
El Topo
Elephant Man, The
Empire Strikes Back, The
English Patient, The
Enter the Dragon
Eraserhead
Europa ’51
Europa Europa
Evil Dead, The
Exorcist, The
Eyes Without a Face
Faces
Fahrenheit 9/11
Fanny and Alexander
Fantasia
Fantastic Planet
Farewell My Concubine
Farewell My Lovely
Fargo
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Fat City
Fatal Attraction
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Fight Club
Firemen’s Ball, The
Fires Were Started
Fish Called Wanda, A
Fitzcarraldo
Five Deadly Venoms
Five Easy Pieces
Flaming Creatures
Floating Weeds
Fly, The
Foolish Wives
Footlight Parade
Forbidden Games
Forbidden Planet
Force of Evil
Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Fourth Man, The
Fox and His Friends
Frankenstein
Freaks
Freedom for Us
French Connection, The
Frenzy
From Here to Eternity
Full Metal Jacket
Funny Games
Gabbeh
Gallipoli
Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The
Gaslight
General, The
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gertrud
Get Carter
Ghandi
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The
Ghost Busters
Giant
Gigi
Gilda
Gimme Shelter
Gladiator
Gleaners and I, The
Glengarry Glen Ross
Glory
Go, See, and Become
Godfather, Part II, The
Godfather, The
Godson, The
Gold Diggers of 1933
Gold Rush, The
Golden Coach, The
Golden River
Goldfinger
Gone with the Wind
Good Bye Lenin!
Good Morning Vietnam
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The
Goodbye Children
Goodfellas
Gospel According to St. Matthew, The
Graduate, The
Grand Illusion
Grapes of Wrath, The
Grave of the Fireflies
Grease
Great Escape, The
Great Expectations
Great Train Robbery, The
Greed
Groundhog Day
Gun Crazy
Gunfight at the OK Corral
Gunga Din
Guys and Dolls
Halloween
Hannah and Her Sisters
Hanyeo
Happiness
Happy Together
Hard Day’s Night, A
Harder They Come, The
Harold and Maude
Haunting, The
Hxan
Head On
Heartbreak Kid, The
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
Heat
Heaven and Earth Magic
Heavenly Creatures
Heiress, The
Henry V
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
High Noon
High Plains Drifter
High School
High Sierra
High Society
Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer
Hills Have Eyes, The
Hiroshima mon amour
His Girl Friday
Hold Me While I’m Naked
Hole, The
Hombre
Hoop Dreams
Horse Thief, The
Hotel Terminus:The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
Hour of the Wolf
House is Black, The
Housekeeping
How Green Was My Valley
Hud
Hustler, The
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
I Know Where I’m Going!
I Walked with a Zombie
Ice Storm, The
If?
In a Lonely Place
In the Heat of the Night
In the Mood for Love
In the Realm of the Senses
In the Year of the Pig
Incredible Shrinking Man, The
Independence Day
India Song
Into The Wild
Intolerance
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Irreversible
It Happened One Night
It’s a Gift
It’s a Wonderful Life
Ivan the Terrible, I
Jacob’s Ladder
Jaws
Jazz Singer, The
Jeanne Dielman?
Jerk, The
Jezebel
JFK
Johnny Guitar
Judge Priest
Jules and Jim
Juliet of the Spirits
Jungle Book, The
Jurassic Park
Kandahar
Keeper of Promises
Kes
Kid Brother, The
Kill Bill Violume 1
Killer of Sheep
Killer, The
Killers, The
Killing Fields, The
Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The
Kind Hearts and Coronets
King Kong
King of Comedy, The
King of New York
Kingdom, The
Kippur
Kiss Me Deadly
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Klute
Koyaanisqatsi
Kramer vs. Kramer
L.A. Confidential
Ladies Man, The
Lady Eve, The
Lady from Shanghai, The
Ladykillers, The
Land Without Bread
Landscape in the Mist
Lantana
Last Battle, The
Last Chants for a Slow Dance
Last Laugh, The
Last Metro, The
Last Picture Show, The
Last Seduction, The
Last Tango in Paris
Last Wave, The
Last Year at Marienbad
Laura
Lavender Hill Mob, The
Lawrence of Arabia
Le Rose En Vie
Leopard, The
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The
Life of Emile Zola, The
Lion King, The
Little Big Man
Little Caeser
Little Miss Sunshine
Lives of Others, The
Lola
Lolita
Lone Star
Long Goodbye, The
Lord of the Rings, The
Lost Weekend, The
Louisiana Story
Loulou
Love Me Tonight
Luc¡a
M
M*A*S*H*
M. Hulot’s Holiday
Mad Masters, The
Mad Max
Madame de…
Magnificent Ambersons, The
Magnolia
Make Way for Tomorrow
Maltese Falcon, The
Man Bites Dog
Man Escaped, A
Man From Laramie, The
Man in Grey, The
Man of Iron
Man of Marble
Man of the West
Man Who Fell to Earth, The
Man who had his hair cut short, The
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The
Man with a Movie Camera, The
Manchurian Candidate, The
Manhattan
Manhunter
Manila in the Claws of Brightness
Marketa Lazarov
Marnie
Marriage of Maria Braun, The
Marty
Masculine-Feminine
Masque of the Red Death, The
Matrix, The
Matter of Life and Death, A
M‚diterran‚e
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Me and My Gal
Mean Streets
Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet the Parents
Memento
Memories of Underdevelopment
Meshes of the Afternoon
Metropolis
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Song
Mildred Pierce
Million, The
Mirror, The
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Modern Times
Money
Monsieur Verdoux
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Moonstruck
Mortal Storm, The
Mother and the Whore, The
Mother India
Moulin Rouge!
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Muppet Movie, The
Muriel?s Wedding
Murmur of the Heart
Music Room, The
Mutiny on the Bounty
My Brilliant Career
My Darling Clementine
My Fair Lady
My Left Foot
My Life to Live
My Man Godfrey
My Night with Maud
My Own Private Idaho
My Uncle
Naked Gun, The
Naked Lunch
Naked Spur, The
Nanook of the North
Napoleon
Nashville
Natural Born Killers
Natural, The
Neco z Alenky
Network
Night and Fog
Night at the Opera, A
Night of the Hunter, The
Night of the Living Dead
Night of the Shooting Stars, The
Night, The
Nightmare on Elm Street, A
Nights of Cabiria, The
Ninotchka
No Country for Old Men
No Fear, No Die
No Man’s Land
North By Northwest
Nosferatu, a Symphony of Terror
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
Notorious
Now, Voyager
Nutty Professor, The
October
Odd Man Out
Official Story, The
Oldboy
Olympia Part 1: Festival of the Nations & Part 2: Festival of Beauty
On the Town
On the Waterfront
Once
Once Upon a Time in America
Once Upon a Time in China
Once Upon a Time in the West
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One-Eyed Jacks
Onibaba
Only Angels Have Wings
Open City
Open Your Eyes
Ordet
Ordinary People
Orphans of the Storm
Orpheus
Ossessione
Our Hospitality
Out of Africa
Out of the Past
Outlaw Josey Wales, The
Ox-Bow Incident, The
Paisan
Paleface, The
Palm Beach Story, The
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Pandora’s Box
Papillon
Paradise Now
Paris, Texas
Passage to India, A
Passenger
Passion of Joan of Arc, The
Passion of the Christ, The
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Pather Panchali
Paths of Glory
Patton
P‚p‚ le Moko
Peeping Tom
Peking Opera Blues
Performance
Persona
Phantom Carriage, The
Phantom of the Opera, The
Phenix City Story, The
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Story, The
Pi
Pianist, The
Piano, The
Pickpocket
Pickup on South Street
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Pier, The
Pierrot Goes Wild
Pink Flamingos
Pinocchio
Place in the Sun, A
Planet of the Apes
Platoon
Player, The
Playtime
Point Blank
Poltergeist
Postman Always Rings Twice, The
Pretty Woman
Princess Bride, The
Princess Mononoke
Prizzi’s Honor
Producers, The
Project A, Part II
Psycho
Public Enemy, The
Pulp Fiction
Puppetmaster, The
Purple Rose of Cairo, The
Quatre Cent Coups, Les
Queen Christina
Question of Silence, A
Quiet Earth, The
Quiet Man, The
Rabbit Proof Fence
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rain Man
Raise the Red Lantern
Raising Arizona
Ran
Rapture, The
Rashomon
Real Life
Rear Window
Rebecca
Rebel Without a Cause
Reckless Moment, The
Red and the White, The
Red Desert, The
Red Psalm
Red River
Red Shoes, The
Red Sorghum
Reds
Report
Repulsion
Requiem for a Dream
Resevoir Dogs
Return of the Jedi
Reversal of Fortune
Ride Lonesome
Right Stuff, The
Ring
Rio Bravo
Rio Grande
Rocco and his Brothers
Rocky
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The
Roger & Me
Roman Holiday
Romper Stomper
Room with a View, A
Rope
Rosemary’s Baby
Royal Tenenbaums, The
Rules of the Game, The
Run Lola Run
Rushmore
Sabotage
Safe
Salo, or The 120 days of Sodom
Salt of the Earth
Salvador
Sansh“ Day–
Saragossa Manuscript
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Saturday Night Fever
Satyricon
Saving Private Ryan
Say Anything
S t ntang¢
Scarface
Scarface: The Shame of a Nation
Schindler’s List
Scorpio Rising
Scream
Se7en
Searchers, The
Seconds
Secret Beyond the Door
Secrets & Lies
Senso
Sergeant York
Serpico
Servant, The
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Seven Chances
Seven Samurai, The
Seventh Seal, The
Seventh Victim, The
Sex, lies, and videotape
Shadow of a Doubt
Shadows
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
Shaft
Shame
Shane
Shanghai Express
Shaolin Master Killer
Shawshank Redemption, The
She Done Him Wrong
She’s Gotta Have It
Sherlock Jr.
Sherman’s March
Shine
Shining, The
Shoah
Shock Corridor
Shoot the Piano Player
Shop on Main Street, The
Short Cuts
Sideways
Silence of the Lambs, The
Silver Lode
Sin of Lola Montes, The
Singin’ in the Rain
Sixth Sense, The
Slacker
Sleeper
Sleuth
Smiles of a Summer Night
Smiling Madame Beudet, The
Smoke
Snake Pit, The
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Solaris
Soldier of Orange
Some Like it Hot
Sons of the Desert
Sorrow and the Pity, The
Sound of Music, The
Spartacus
Spellbound
Spider’s Stratagem, The
Spirit of the Beehive, The
Spirited Away
Splendor in the Grass
Spring in a Small Town
Stagecoach
Stalker
Stand By Me
Star is Born, A
Star Wars
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Stella Dallas
Sting, The
Storm over Asia
Story of a Cheat, The
Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, The
Story of Women, The
Strada, La
Stranger than Paradise
Stranger, The
Strangers on a Train
Straw Dogs
Streetcar Named Desire, A
Strictly Ballroom
Strike
Stroszek
Sullivan’s Travels
Suna No Onna
Sunless
Sunrise
Sunset Blvd.
Superfly
Suspiria
Sweet Hereafter, The
Sweet Smell of Success
Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song
Swing Time
Tabu
Tale of the Wind, A
Tale of Winter, A
Tales of Ugetsu
Talk To Her
Tampopo
Targets
Taste of Cherry
Taxi Driver
Ten Commandments, The
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator, The
Terms of Endearment
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Host
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Queen
Thelma and Louise
There Will Be Blood
There’s Something About Mary
Thief of Bagdad, The
Thin Blue Line, The
Thin Man, The
Thin Red Line, The
Thing, The
Things To Come
Third Man, The
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
This is Spinal Tap
Three Brothers
Three Colors: Blue
Three Colors: Red
Three Kings
Three Lives and Only One Death
Throne of Blood
Through a Glass Darkly
Through the Olive Trees
Time to Live and the Time to Die, The
Tin Drum, The
Titanic
To Be or Not to Be
To Have and Have Not
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Live
Tokyo Olympiad
Tokyo Story
Tongues Untied
Too Early, Too Late
Tootsie
Top Gun
Top Hat
Total Recall
Touch of Evil
Touch of Zen, A
Toy Story
Traffic
Trainspotting
Travelling Players
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The
Tree of Wooden Clogs, The
Trip to the Moon, A
Tristana
Triumph of the Will
Trouble in Paradise
Trust
Tsotsi
Turkish Delight
Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Two-Lane Blacktop
Umberto D
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The
Unbelievable Truth, The
Underground
Unforgiven
Unknown, The
Untouchables, The
Unvanquished, The
Up in Smoke
Usual Suspects, The
Utu
Uzak
Vagabond
Vampire, The
Vampires, Les
Vanishing, The
Vertigo
Videodrome
Vij
Vinyl
Viridiana
Voyage in Italy
W.R.:Mysteries of the Organism
Wages of Fear
Walkabout
Wall, The
Wanda
War Game, The
Wavelength
Way Down East
Wedding Banquet, The
Week End
West Side Story
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Wheel, The
When Harry Met Sally
Whiskey Galore!
White Balloon, The
White Heat
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Wicker Man, The
Wild Bunch, The
Wild Reeds
Wild Strawberries
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Winchester ’73
Wings of Desire
Winter Light
Within Our Gates
Withnail and I
Wizard of Oz, The
Wolf Man, The
Woman Under the Influence, A
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Woodstock
World of Apu, The
Written on the Wind
Wrong Man, The
Wuthering Heights
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yol
Young and the Damned, The
Young Frankenstein
Young Girls of Rochefort, The
Young One, The
Z
Zabriskie Point
Zero for Conduct
Zero Kelvin