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. 994 +4

    Les yeux sans visage

    1960 — a.k.a. Eyes Without a Face, in 14 top lists Check
  2. 986 +4

    X

    1963 — a.k.a. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, in 5 top lists Check
  3. 978 +4

    Witchfinder General

    1968, in 8 top lists Check
  4. 972 +4

    The Wicker Man

    1973, in 13 top lists Check
  5. 964 +4

    What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

    1962, in 15 top lists Check
  6. 953 +4

    Village of the Damned

    1960, in 5 top lists Check
  7. 951 +4

    Videodrome

    1983, in 18 top lists Check
  8. 890 +4

    The Thing from Another World

    1951, in 7 top lists Check
  9. 884 +4

    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    1974, in 15 top lists Check
  10. 883 +4

    Tetsuo

    1989 — a.k.a. Tetsuo, the Iron Man, in 10 top lists Check
  11. 866 +4

    Suspiria

    1977, in 17 top lists Check
  12. 822 +4

    Sleepy Hollow

    1999, in 4 top lists Check
  13. 805 +4

    The Shining

    1980, in 28 top lists Check
  14. 800 +4

    Shaun of the Dead

    2004, in 13 top lists Check
  15. 787 +4

    Scream

    1996, in 8 top lists Check
  16. 763 +4

    Rosemary's Baby

    1968, in 21 top lists Check
  17. 747 +4

    Ringu

    1998, in 12 top lists Check
  18. 734 +4

    Re-Animator

    1985, in 7 top lists Check
  19. 718 +4

    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
  20. 711 +4

    Predator

    1987, in 9 top lists Check
  21. 709 +4

    Poltergeist

    1982, in 9 top lists Check
  22. 695 +4

    Pink Flamingos

    1972, in 13 top lists Check
  23. 683 +4

    Peeping Tom

    1960, in 20 top lists Check
  24. 678 +4

    Parents

    1989, in 2 top lists Check
  25. 670 +4

    The Others

    2001, in 9 top lists Check
  26. 664 +4

    Onibaba

    1964, in 13 top lists Check
  27. 655 +4

    The Omen

    1976, in 7 top lists Check
  28. 648 +4

    Ôdishon

    1999 — a.k.a. Audition, in 11 top lists Check
  29. 638 +4

    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check
  30. 630 +4

    A Nightmare on Elm Street

    1984, in 8 top lists Check
  31. 628 +4

    Night of the Living Dead

    1968, in 20 top lists Check
  32. 622 +4

    Near Dark

    1987, in 9 top lists Check
  33. 618 +4

    The Nanny

    1965, in 2 top lists Check
  34. 563 +4

    La maschera del demonio

    1960 — a.k.a. Black Sunday, in 8 top lists Check
  35. 483 +4

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  36. 472 +4

    Kaidan

    1964 — a.k.a. Kwaidan, in 13 top lists Check
  37. 444 +4

    Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    1956, in 19 top lists Check
  38. 441 +4

    The Innocents

    1961, in 12 top lists Check
  39. 427 +4

    I Walked with a Zombie

    1943, in 10 top lists Check
  40. 420 +4

    House of Wax

    1953, in 4 top lists Check
  41. 392 +4

    Häxan

    1922, in 17 top lists Check
  42. 391 +4

    The Haunting

    1963, in 6 top lists Check
  43. 385 +4

    Halloween

    1978, in 17 top lists Check
  44. 359 +4

    Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam

    1920 — a.k.a. The Golem, in 9 top lists Check
  45. 352 +4

    Ginger Snaps

    2000, in 6 top lists Check
  46. 336 +4

    Funny Games

    1997, in 12 top lists Check
  47. 331 +4

    Freaks

    1932, in 19 top lists Check
  48. 330 +4

    Frankenstein

    1931, in 18 top lists Check
  49. 326 +4

    The Fly

    1986, in 11 top lists Check
  50. 306 +4

    The Faculty

    1998, in 2 top lists Check
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