The Guardian's 1000 Films to See Before You Die

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"Well over a century has passed since the Lumière brothers frightened the life out of Parisians with The Arrival of a Train at a Station, and well over a million titles have since been recorded - if the Internet Movie Database is anything to go by.

Out of these million-plus movies, our team of experts has picked what we believe is the essential 1,000 - those that best sum up the dazzling achievement and variety of the movies."

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  1. 905 +4

    Titanic

    1997, in 25 top lists Check
  2. 122 -

    Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make...

    2006, in 8 top lists Check
  3. 107 -

    The Blair Witch Project

    1999, in 14 top lists Check
  4. 261 +4

    Donnie Darko

    2001, in 21 top lists Check
  5. 2 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  6. 36 -

    American Pie

    1999, in 6 top lists Check
  7. 440 +4

    Independence Day

    1996, in 8 top lists Check
  8. 186 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  9. 275 +4

    Dumb and Dumber

    1994, in 8 top lists Check
  10. 298 +4

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    2004, in 28 top lists Check
  11. 541 +4

    Lost in Translation

    2003, in 19 top lists Check
  12. 537 +4

    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    2001, in 31 top lists Check
  13. 566 +4

    The Matrix

    1999, in 30 top lists Check
  14. 353 +4

    Gladiator

    2000, in 25 top lists Check
  15. 539 +4

    The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

    2003, in 29 top lists Check
  16. 741 +4

    Requiem for a Dream

    2000, in 21 top lists Check
  17. 97 -

    The Big Lebowski

    1998, in 26 top lists Check
  18. 369 +4

    Grease

    1978, in 12 top lists Check
  19. 128 -

    Braveheart

    1995, in 19 top lists Check
  20. 302 +4

    Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain

    2001 — a.k.a. Amélie, in 27 top lists Check
  21. 698 +4

    Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the...

    2003, in 13 top lists Check
  22. 106 -

    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
  23. 722 +4

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  24. 31 -

    American Beauty

    1999, in 25 top lists Check
  25. 538 +4

    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

    2002, in 26 top lists Check
  26. 319 +4

    Fight Club

    1999, in 19 top lists Check
  27. 276 +4

    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    1982, in 30 top lists Check
  28. 1003 +4

    Zoolander

    2001, in 5 top lists Check
  29. 574 +4

    Meet the Parents

    2000, in 4 top lists Check
  30. 760 +4

    Romeo + Juliet

    1996, in 7 top lists Check
  31. 842 +4

    Spider-Man

    2002, in 7 top lists Check
  32. 496 +4

    El laberinto del fauno

    2006 — a.k.a. Pan's Labyrinth, in 33 top lists Check
  33. 886 +4

    There's Something About Mary

    1998, in 11 top lists Check
  34. 915 +4

    Top Gun

    1986, in 8 top lists Check
  35. 589 +4

    Million Dollar Baby

    2004, in 12 top lists Check
  36. 605 +4

    Mulholland Dr.

    2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check
  37. 245 +4

    Dirty Dancing

    1987, in 10 top lists Check
  38. 597 +4

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    1975, in 23 top lists Check
  39. 300 +4

    The Exorcist

    1973, in 27 top lists Check
  40. 849 +4

    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
  41. 575 +4

    Memento

    2000, in 27 top lists Check
  42. 318 +4

    The Fifth Element

    1997, in 7 top lists Check
  43. 357 +4

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  44. 783 +4

    Scarface

    1983, in 19 top lists Check
  45. 810 +4

    Shrek

    2001, in 14 top lists Check
  46. 360 +4

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  47. 781 +4

    Saving Private Ryan

    1998, in 28 top lists Check
  48. 571 +4

    Mean Girls

    2004, in 4 top lists Check
  49. 184 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  50. 805 +4

    The Shining

    1980, in 28 top lists Check
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