260 Movies You Really Oughta See
COMEDIES
Airplane
Amazon Women On The Moon
Animal House
Arsenic And Old Lace
Beetlejuice
Better Off Dead
Blazing Saddles
Clerks
Clerks II
Down Periscope
Johnny Dangerously
Mother, Jugs & Speed
Never Give A Sucker An Even Break
Office Space
Oscar
Sleeper
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
The Bride Came C.O.D.
Tropic Thunder
Young Frankenstein
EPIC DRAMAS
A Face in The Crowd
A Raisin in The Sun
As Good As It Gets
Black Narcissus
Boogie Nights
Citizen Kane
Glory
Imitation of Life
Jaws
Lolita
Nothing But A Man
On The Beach
Raging Bull
Rocky
Schindler’s List
Seven Samurai
Shawshank Redemption
Spartacus
Taxi Driver
The Bad and The Beautiful
The Lion In Winter
The Ten Commandments
The Third Man
To Have and Have Not
Twelve Angry Men (both versions)
Vertigo
Gone With The Wind
Cape Fear (both versions)
A Bronx Tale
Falling Down
Angels With Dirty Faces
FANTASY
Excalibur
Jason And The Argonauts
Ladyhawke
Star Wars
The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen
The Empire Strikes Back
The Neverending Story
The Princess Bride
The Seventh Seal
The Sword And The Sorcerer
The Thief Of Bagdad (1940)
The Wizard of Oz
Time Bandits
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)
SPORTS
A League of Their Own
Brian’s Song
Cool Runnings
Eight Men Out
Friday Night Lights
He Got Game
Pride Of The Yankees
Remember The Titans
Slapshot
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars And Motor Kings
White Men Can’t Jump
CHICK FLICKS
Clueless
Fried Green Tomatoes
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
How To Marry A Millionaire
Pretty Woman
Sense and Sensibility
Steel Magnolias
Terms of Endearment
The Bridges of Madison County
Waiting to Exhale
What Women Want
SCIENCE FICTION
2001: A Space Odyssey
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Alien
Back To The Future
Blade Runner
Dark City
Dr. Cyclops
Enemy Mine
eXistenZ
Forbidden Planet
Gattaca
Planet of The Apes
Robocop
Soylent Green
The Blob (both versions)
The Bride of Frankenstein
Westworld
ACTION/ADVENTURE
48 Hours
Aliens
All Through The Night
Big Trouble In Little China
Die Hard
Dr. No
Enter The Dragon
Equilibrium
Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
Jurassic Park
King Kong (Original & Peter Jackson remake)
Mad Max
North by Northwest
Predator
Raiders of The Lost Ark
Silver Streak
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The 13th Warrior
The Fifth Element
The Hidden Fortress
The Last Dragon
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Road Warrior
The Terminator
WESTERNS
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Dead Man
El Dorado
Hidalgo
My Name Is Nobody
Once Upon A Time In The West
Open Range
Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
Quigley Down Under
Ride The High Country
Silverado
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
The Magnificent Seven
The Missouri Breaks
The Professionals
The Searchers
The War Wagon
The Wild Bunch
The Wrath of God
Tombstone
True Grit
Unforgiven
MUSICALS
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
Cabaret
Chicago
Dreamgirls
Grease
Guys And Dolls
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Jesus Christ, Superstar
Little Shop of Horrors
Singin’ In the Rain
South Pacific
The Blues Brothers
The Music Man
The Sound of Music
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Wiz
WAR MOVIES
Apocalypse Now Redux
Full Metal Jacket
Kelly’s Heroes
Letters From Iwo Jima
M*A*S*H
Paths of Glory
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
The Bridge Over The River Kwai
The Dirty Dozen
Where Eagles Dare
HORROR
American Werewolf in London
Angel Heart
Halloween
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Night of The Hunter
Night of The Living Dead
Nightmare on Elm Street
Poltergeist
Psycho
Stir of Echoes
The Abominable Dr. Phibes
The Black Cat
The Changeling
The Exorcist
The Haunting (1963)
The Last Man on Earth
The Thing (both versions)
ODDITIES
Barton Fink
Blue Velvet
Crash
Dogma
Donnie Darko
Edward Scissorhands
Eraserhead
Ghostbusters
Heathers
Ichi The Killer
Miracle Mile
Naked Lunch
Videodrome
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
CRIME
Bonnie & Clyde
Ghost Dog: Way of The Samurai
Goodfellas
Heat
Jackie Brown
L.A. Confidential
Miller’s Crossing
Pulp Fiction
Scarface
Shadow of a Doubt
Shaft(1971)
Sin City
The Conversation
The Departed
The Godfather Trilogy
The Maltese Falcon
The Thin Man
SUPERHERO
Batman (1969)
Batman (1989)
Batman Begins
Danger: Diabolik
Hellboy
Hulk
Iron Man
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Sky High
Spider-Man
Superman
The Phantom
Dick Tracy
The Rocketeer
The Shadow
Unbreakable
ANIMATION
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
American Pop
Antz
Chicken Run
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
Despicable Me
Fantasia
Finding Nemo
Happy Feet
Heavy Metal
Laputa: Castle In The Sky
Lilo And Stitch
Streetfight
The Aristocats
The Castle of Cagliostro
The Incredibles
The Lion King
The Tune
Toy Story
UP
Wizards
Seen 75.
Seen 188 of these. Great selection. What? No WATCHMEN?
The list was posted here in February 2011 but actually was written up a year or so before. Time to overhaul the list, I’m thinking.