Films to Watch

This list initially included 92 movies, for each day of summer. It has since expanded and continues to grow. Here they are in no particular order:

1. My Name is Khan

2. Food, Inc.

3. The Dark Knight

4. Raging Bull

5. Dolores Claiborne

6. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

7. The Rise of the Planet of the Apes

8. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

9. A Single Man

10. Schindler’s List

11. Sophie’s Choice

12.  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

13. North by Northwest

14. Jaws

15. Avatar

16. 8 1/2

17. The 400 Blows

18. Taxi Driver

19. Annie Hall

20. Manhattan

21. Breathless

22. The Maltese Falcon

23. The Usual Suspects

24. Bonnie and Clyde

25. Sweet Smell of Success

26. Swing Time

27. Singin’ in the Rain (this movie will never get old)

28. Passing Strange

29. The Silence of the Lambs

30. Sunshine Cleaning

31. Reservoir Dogs

32. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

33. Casablanca

34. The Sting

35. Chicago

36. Pride & Prejudice

37. The Departed

38. Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon

39. The King’s Speech

40. Trainspotting

41. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

42. Revolutionary Road

43. Apocalypse Now

44. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

45. Sunset Boulevard

46. Star Wars

47. The Godfather

48. Strangers on a Train

49. All About Eve

50. Dog Day Afternoon

51. Fargo

52. Back to the Future

53. The Apartment

54. The Searchers

55. Kramer vs. Kramer

56. Harold and Maude

57. The Pianist

58. Rain Man

59. Beginners

60. Notorious

61. The Help

62. How to Train Your Dragon

63. An American in Paris

64. Persepolis

65. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle

66. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

67. Touch of Evil

68. Amélie

69. On Golden Pond

70. Seven Samurai

71. Memento

72. American History X

73. The Hours

74. Elevator to the Gallows

75. Cinema Paradiso

76. La Vita è Bella

77. Requiem for a Dream

78. Chinatown

79. Miracle at St. Anna

80. Malcolm X

81. School Daze

82. Tell Them Who You Are

83. Oldboy

84. In the Heat of the Night

85. Good Will Hunting

86. Roman Holiday

87. Network

88. Lost in Translation

89. Milk

90. Syriana

91. Rush Hour

92. Up in the Air

93. Bill Cunningham New York

94. The Black Power Mixtape

95. Fruitvale Station

96. 12 Years a Slave

97. Gomorrah

98. Hitler’s Children

99. Detropia

100. Jab We Met

101. To Rome with Love

102. 42

103. Fists in the Pocket

104. Rome Open City

105. Greenberg

106. Lee Daniels’ The Butler

107. Venus and Serena

108. The Invisible War

109. The Intouchables

110. Super 8

111. Girlhood

112. Middle of Nowhere

113. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

114. Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl

115. Mediterranea

116. Iris

117. Chiraq

118. Tango Negro: The African Roots of Tango

 

5 thoughts on “Films to Watch

    1. I didn’t include The Social Network because I wanted to focus mostly on movies I haven’t seen. I did like the movie and Jesse Eisenberg was great.

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