The Official Movie List
Are you looking for the most essential movies to watch? Let’s face it, movies have played an outsized role in driving culture forward. Their ability to tell stories is only rivaled by books (on which many films have been based). From its earliest days, film (motion pictures) have been a sensation. This only increased when motion pictures included sound. We’ve gone through the stark realism of silent pictures to the splashy musicals of the 40s and 50s and into the larger-than-life epics. From the American West to a galaxy far, far away, motion pictures have transformed how we see the world.
In this list, I have selected my favorite films and those which I think are most important. Some of them are Academy Award Nominees and many of them are simply excellent films. If you are looking for documentaries please see the Official Documentary List for what documentaries I think I really worth watching.
Here is my Official Movie List:
Apocalypse Now: Director’s Cut
Your Loving Vincent
Nosferatu
Birth of a Nation
Taxi
The French Connection
Coffee and Cigarettes
Waking Life
Gone with the Wind
Capote
Fried Green Tomatoes
Mildred Pierce
Sunset Boulevard
Mulholland Drive
What Happened to Baby Jane?
The Godfather Part II
The Breakfast Club
St. Elmo’s Fire
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Women
The Searchers
Stagecoach
White Christmas
The King’s Speech
The English Patient
The French Lieutenant’s Wife
Twister
Schindler’s List
Grey Gardens
The Italian Job
Citizen Kane
Rebel Without a Cause
Fantasia
Network
Some Like it Hot
The Grapes of Wrath
North by Northwest
Annie Hall
Interiors
Dr. Strangelove or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb
A Clockwork Orange
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
It’s A Wonderful Life
Chinatown
Pulp Fiction
Spirited Away
The Lovely Bones
The Killing Fields
The Shawshank Redemption
Inception
Beauty and the Beast
Hotel Rwanda
The Great Dictator
Das Boot
The Apartment
Persepolis
L.A. Confidential
Green Book
There Will Be Blood
No Country for Old Men
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Bridge on the River Kwai
12 Years a Slave
The Big Lebowski
The Handmaiden
In the Mood for Love
