101 Movies
From time to time, I see these lists of 100 movies that everyone should watch. These aren’t necessarily ones that everyone should watch, but as a movie buff with eclectic taste and a particular fondness for films from the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, this list would constitute my 100, with one extra for good measure:
- Easy Rider (1970)
- Cool Hand Luke (1967)
- At Close Range (1986)
- Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
- Stealing Beauty (1996)
- Wild at Heart (1990)
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Bad News Bears (1976)
- The Exorcist (1973)
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
- Lilies of the Field (1963)
- In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- Magnolia (1999)
- Vanishing Point (1971)
- Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
- Raisin in the Sun (1961)
- Black Orpheus (Brazil, 1959)
- Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song (1971)
- Suburbia (1983)
- Killing Zoe (1993)
- The Breakfast Club (1985)
- Pretty in Pink (1986)
- Tank Girl (1995)
- The African Queen (1951)
- Rocky (1976)
- Henry & June (1990)
- Blacula (1972)
- Dolemite (1975)
- Shaft (1971)
- My Own Private Idaho (1991)
- Stand by Me (1986)
- Where the Day Takes You (1991)
- Good Will Hunting (1997)
- Contempt (France, 1963)
- Klute (1971)
- Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
- The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
- Gran Torino (2008)
- Dirty Harry (1971)
- Rebel without a Cause (1955)
- Dear Brigitte (1965)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Rio Lobo (1970)
- Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens (1979)
- Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
- River’s Edge (1986)
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
- American History X (1998)
- The Graduate (1967)
- The Addiction (1995)
- Slacker (1990)
- Better Off Dead (1985)
- Time Bandits (1981)
- The Outsiders (1983)
- Rumble Fish (1983)
- High Fidelity (2000)
- Say Anything (1989)
- The Natural (1984)
- Dead Presidents (1995)
- The Passion of the Christ (2004)
- Two Lane Blacktop (1971)
- Escape from New York (1981)
- The Pledge (1991)
- The Crossing Guard (1995)
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
- Se7en (1995)
- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993)
- The Cannonball Run (1981)
- Barefoot in the Park (1966)
- Motel Hell (1981)
- Five Easy Pieces (1970)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
- Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
- Four Friends (1981)
- Animal House (1978)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
- Fandango (1985)
- City of Lost Children (France, 1995)
- Kids (1995)
- Network (1976)
- A Perfect World (1993)
- Road Warrior (1981)
- Romeo & Juliet (1968)
- Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
- Half Baked (1998)
- Friday (1995)
- Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
- Falling Down (1993)
- True Romance (1993)
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
- Real Genius (1985)
- Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
- The Lost Boys (1987)
- Dead Poets Society (1989)
- Léon: The Professional (1994)
- Office Space (1999)
- Before Sunrise (1995)
- Dazed and Confused (1993)