50 Movies you need to watch

Published on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 9am

Here's a list of 50 movies you need to watch, and in the order you should watch them. It's been set up so the more important ones are at the top and the less important ones are at the bottom. None the less, you must watch them all.

I'd recommend printing this page, marking out the ones you've seen and then marking out the rest as you go. Obviously you're going to have seen some of these already and most likely have disliked them. That's fine, it's not a list of the best movies of all time, just a list of ones to see.

Some of them are epic and represent what film should strive to be, while others suffer from cases of extreme uniqueness, and then there are those that were put in simply to take away from the pretentiousness of being a list. Feel free to respond at the bottom with your comments on which ones you've seen and liked, also write in how many of the 50 you've already seen.

1. Amélie
2. Fight Club
3. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgendy
4. Wristcutters: A Love Story
5. Crank
6. Brick
7. Charlie Bartlett
8. Rodger Dodger
9. Squid and the Whale
10. The Motorcycle Diaries
11. Little Miss Sunshine
12. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samuri
13. Baraka
14. Broken Flowers
15. Donnie Darko
16. Lost in Translation
17. Me and You and Everyone We Know
18. SLC Punk
19. Shortbus
20. Rushmore
21. Boondock Saints
22. L.A. Story
23. The Life Aquatic, with Steve Zissou
24. American Splendor
25. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
26. A Clockwork Orange
27. Jesus Camp
28. Dancer in the Dark
29. I ♥ Huckabees
30. Apocalypse Now: Redux
31. A Very Long Engagement
32. Magnolia
33. About Schmidt
34. The Professional
35. Kids
36. Battle of Shaker Heights
37. Gummo
38. Four Brothers
39. Station Agent
40. Punch Drunk Love
41. But I'm A Cheerleader
42. Memento
43. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
44. CKY2K
45. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
46. A Mighty Wind
47. Wag the Dog
48. Moulin Rouge!
49. Once Upon a Time in the West
50. Empire Records

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