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50 Films

Dec 13

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I was made aware of 250films.net earlier, it’s an interactive list of the top 250 rated films on imdb.com that you can tick off. It’s made me remember that there’s loads of great films that I haven’t, but should, have seen already.

So, with this in mind, I’m going to make a list of 50 or so films with the aim to watch at least one a week.

My next challenge is to work out a schedule for which films I want to watch each week. I’m going to try get them to follow on nicely from each other and have some organised for back-to-back viewing like the Dollars trilogy, for example.

You lovely, faithful, diminishing readership should suggest me some more obscure films as these were just gleamed from various “Top <insert number here> <optional genre> Films To See Before You Die”.

The Shortlist as it stands:

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. The Godfather
3. The Godfather 2
4. It’s a Wonderful Life
5. Citizen Kane
6. Requiem for a Dream
7. Inglorious Basterds
8. Gran Torino
9. Metropolis
10. Blade Runner (The Final Cut)
11. No Country For Old Men
12. Oldboy
13. Strangers on a Train
14. The Wrestler
15. There Will Be Blood
16. The Deer Hunter
17. Stand By Me
18. Letters From Iwo Jima
19. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
20. Good Will Hunting
21. Mulholland Drive
22. Blue Velvet
23. La battaglia di Algeri
24. Mou Gaan Dou (Infernal Affairs)
25. Let The Right One In (original)
26. Mystic River
27. Amelie
28. Seven Samurai
29. Rashomon
30. Das Boot
31. The Graduate
32. Once Upon a Time in The West
33. A Fistful of Dollars
34. For a Few Dollars More
35. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
36. The Breakfast Club
37. The Descent
38. The City Of Lost Children
39. O Lucky Man!
40. Akira
41. Princess Mononoke
42. Solaris (Original)
43. Forbidden Planet
44. Brazil
45. 8 1/2
46. Enter The Dragon
47. Some Like It Hot
48. Ghost World
49. Do The Right Thing
50. Singin’ In The Rain