I got this book at Christmas called ‘1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die’, and since I’m bored to hell I’ve been looking through it to see how many of those movies I’ve seen. So, without further ado:

1. Nanook of the North (1922)
2. Celovek s kinoapparatom (Man With Movie Camera) (1929)
3. Triumph des Willens (1934)
4. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
5. Animal Farm (1954)
6. The Birds (1963)
7. Goldfinger (1964)
8. Dr. Strangelove. Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
9. Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo (1966)
10. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
11. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
12. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
13. Dirty Harry (1971)
14. Deliverance (1972)
15. The Godfather (1972)
16. Badlands (1973)
17. The Conversation (1974)
18. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
19. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
20. Barry Lyndon (1975)
21. Jaws (1975)
22. Rocky (1976)
23. Taxi Driver (1976)
24. Star Wars (1977)
25. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
26. The Deer Hunter (1978)
27. Grease (1978)
28. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
29. Halloween (1978)
30. Alien (1979)
31. Life of Brian (1979)
32. Apocalypse Now (1979)
33. The Shining (1980)
34. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
35. Raging Bull (1980)
36. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
37. Das Boot (1981)
38. Gallipoli (1981)
39. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
40. The Thing (1982)
41. Blade Runner (1982)
42. Star Wars: Episode IV – Return of the Jedi (1983)
43. Scarface (1983)
44. The Terminator (1984)
45. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
46. Ghost Busters (1984)
47. Back to the Future (1985)
48. The Fly (1986)
49. Aliens (1986)
50. Top Gun (1986)
51. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
52. The Untouchables (1987)
53. Akira (1988)
54. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
55. The Naked Gun (1988)
56. Big (1988)
57. Die Hard (1988)
58. Rain Man (1988)
59. Batman (1989)
60. My Left Foot (1989)
61. Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
62. Pretty Woman (1990)
63. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
64. Total Recall (1990)
65. Delicatessen (1991)
66. Thelma & Louise (1991)
67. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
68. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
67. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
68. The Crying Games (1992)
69. Jurassic Park (1993)
70. Schindler’s List (1993)
71. Forrest Gump (1994)
72. The Lion King (1994)
73. Clerks (1994)
74. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
75. Nattevagten (1994)
76. Pulp Fiction (1994)
77. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
78. Riget (1994)
79. Babe (1995)
80. Braveheart (1995)
81. Toy Story (1995)
82. Casino (1995)
83. Heat (1995)
84. Se7en (1995)
85. The Usual Suspects (1995)
86. Fargo (1996)
87. Independence Day (1996)
88. Trainspotting (1996)
89. Scream (1996)
90. The English Patient (1996)
91. Titanic (1997)
92. The Big Lebowski (1998)
93. Festen (1998)
94. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
95. Fucking Åmål (1998)
96. Lola rennt (1998)
97. The Thin Red Line (1998)
98. There’s Something about Mary (1998)
99. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
100. Three Kings (1999)
101. Den Eneste Ene (1999)
102. Fight Club (1999)
103. American Beauty (1999)
104. The Matrix (1999)
105. The Sixth Sense (1999)
106. Gladiator (2000)
107. Bænken (2000)
108. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
109. Meet the Parents (2000)
110. Wo Hu Cang Long (2000)
111. Memento (2000)
112. Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001)
113. Moulin Rouge (2001)
114. Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (2001)
115. The Pianist (2002)
116. Oldboy (2003)
117. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
118. Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
119. Lost in Translation (2003)
120. Der Untergang (2004)
121. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
122. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
123. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
124. The Prestige (2006)
125. Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
126. United 93 (2006)
127. El Laberinto del Fauno (2006)
128. The Last King of Scotland (2006)
129. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
130. Babel (2006)
131. Apocalypto (2006)
132. The Departed (2006)

It’s more or less what I expected, I feel pretty embarrassed that I haven’t seen more of the classics, especially Hitchcock and Kurisawa’s. I disagree with a lot of the movies though, especially the new ones, Meet the Parents for example, what the hell?!

I’ve also uploaded a spreadsheet with the IMdb top 250 movies I’ve seen, you can see it here.