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by The Yahoo! Movies Editorial Staff March 22, 2009

Many movies are good, some are great, but only a select few can be

called truly "essential." After long discussions, a fair amount of

barga ining, and a shouting match or two, the staff at Yahoo! Movieshas put together this list of the 100 films you must see before you die.

To choose the titles for the list, we considered factors like historical

importance and cultural impact. But we also selected films that we

believe are the most thrilling, most dramatic, scariest, and funniest

movies of all time. Some of these films you've seen, and some you

may not have heard of, but we believe that each one is a timeless

classic that you absolutely have to see.

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12 Angry Men(1963)

DIRECTED BY: Sidney Lumet

STARRING: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E. G. Marshall

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2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)

DIRECTED BY: Stanley Kubrick

STARRING: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

8 (1963)

DIRECTED BY: Federico Fellini

STARRING: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee

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The African Queen(1952)

DIRECTED BY: John Huston

STARRING: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley

Alien(1979)

DIRECTED BY: Ridley Scott

STARRING: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright

All About Eve(1950)

DIRECTED BY: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

STARRING: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders

Annie Hall(1977)

DIRECTED BY: Woody Allen

STARRING: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton

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The 400 Blows(1959)

DIRECTED BY: Francois TruffautSTARRING: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick Auffay

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Bonnie and Clyde (1966)

DIRECTED BY:Arthur Penn

STARRING: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard

Breathless (1966)

DIRECTED BY: Jean-Luc Godard

STARRING: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

DIRECTED BY: David Lean

STARRING: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins,

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

DIRECTED BY: George Roy Hill

STARRING: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

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Casablanca (1942)

DIRECTED BY: Michael Curtiz

STARRING: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

Blue Velvet (1986)

DIRECTED BY: David Lynch

STARRING: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis

Hopper


Bringing Up Baby (1986)

DIRECTED BY: Howard Hawks

STARRING: Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn



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Chinatown (1974)

DIRECTED BY: Roman Polanski

STARRING: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston

Citizen Kane (1941)

DIRECTED BY: Orson Welles

STARRING: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon(2000)

DIRECTED BY:Ang Lee

STARRING: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang

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Double Indemnity(1944)

DIRECTED BY: Billy Wilder

STARRING: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

Dr. Strangelove(1964)


STARRING: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden

Die Hard (1988)

DIRECTED BY: John McTiernan

STARRING: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman


Do the Right Thing(1989)

DIRECTED BY: Spike Lee

STARRING: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee



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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg

STARRING: Dee Wallace Stone, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore

Enter the Dragon(1973)

DIRECTED BY: Robert Clouse

STARRING: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly

The Exorcist (1973)

DIRECTED BY: William Friedkin

STARRING: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair,

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Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)

DIRECTED BY:Amy Heckerling

STARRING: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold,

The French Connection (1971)

DIRECTED BY: William Friedkin

STARRING: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider

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The Godfather(1972)

DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola

Duck Soup(1933)

DIRECTED BY: Leo McCarey

STARRING: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx



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STARRING: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan,

The Godfather, Part II (1974)

DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola

STARRING:Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)

DIRECTED BY: Sergio Leone

STARRING: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef

Goodfellas (1990)

DIRECTED BY: Martin Scorsese

STARRING: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci

The Graduate (1967)

DIRECTED BY: Mike Nichols

STARRING:Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross,

Grand Illusion (1938)

DIRECTED BY: Jean Renoir

STARRING: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim

Groundhog Day (1993)

DIRECTED BY: Harold Ramis

STARRING: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott

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Goldfinger(1964)

DIRECTED BY: Guy Hamilton

STARRING: Sean Connery, Honor Blackman



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In the Mood For Love (2001)

DIRECTED BY: Wong Kar-Wai

STARRING: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung

It Happened One Night (1934)

DIRECTED BY: Frank Capra

STARRING: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

DIRECTED BY: Frank Capra

STARRING: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore

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King Kong (1934)

DIRECTED BY: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Shoedsack

STARRING: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong

A Hard Day's Night(1964)

DIRECTED BY: Richard Lester

STARRING: The Beatles


Jaws(1964)

DIRECTED BY: Steven SpielbergSTARRING: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss



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The Lady Eve (1941)

DIRECTED BY: Preston Sturges

STARRING: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

DIRECTED BY: David LeanSTARRING: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn

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M*A*S*H (1970)

DIRECTED BY: Robert Altman

STARRING: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt

The Maltese Falcon(1941)

DIRECTED BY: John Huston

STARRING: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet

The Matrix(1999)

DIRECTED BY: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski

The Lord of the Rings(2001,2002,2003)

DIRECTED BY: Peter Jackson

STARRING: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen


M(1931)

DIRECTED BY: Fritz Lang

STARRING: Peter Lorre, Theodor Loos, Otto Wernicke



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STARRING: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss

Modern Times (1936)

DIRECTED BY: Charlie Chaplin

STARRING: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

DIRECTED BY: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

STARRING: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones,

Michael Palin

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Network (1976)

DIRECTED BY: Sidney Lumet

STARRING: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch

Nosferatu (1922)

DIRECTED BY: F.W. MurnauSTARRING: Max Schreck, Gustave Von Wagenheim, Greta Schroeder,

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On the Waterfront (1954)

DIRECTED BY: Elia Kazan

STARRING: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

DIRECTED BY: Milos Forman

National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

DIRECTED BY: John Landis

STARRING: John Belushi, Tim Matheson



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STARRING: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield

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Princess Mononoke (1999)

DIRECTED BY: Hayao Miyazaki

STARRING: Billy Crudup, Billy Bob Thornton, Minnie Driver

Psycho (1960)

DIRECTED BY:Alfred Hitchcock

STARRING:Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh

Pulp Fiction (1994)

DIRECTED BY: Quentin Tarantino

STARRING: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman

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Raging Bull (1980)DIRECTED BY: Martin Scorsese

STARRING: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty-Gentile, Joe Pesci

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)


STARRING: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman

Raise the Red Lantern (1992)

DIRECTED BY: Zhang Yimou

Paths of Glory (1978)


STARRING: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou



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STARRING: Gong Li, He Caifei, Cao Cuifeng

Rear Window (1954)

DIRECTED BY:Alfred Hitchcock

STARRING: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

DIRECTED BY: Nicholas Ray

STARRING: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo

Rocky (1976)

DIRECTED BY: John Avildsen

STARRING: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young

Roman Holiday (1953)

DIRECTED BY: William Wyler

STARRING: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert

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Schindler's List (1993)

Rashomon (1951)

DIRECTED BY:Akira Kurosawa

STARRING: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo


Saving Private Ryan (1998)


STARRING: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore


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STARRING: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes

The Searchers (1956)

DIRECTED BY: John Ford

STARRING: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles

Seven Samurai (1954)

DIRECTED BY:Akira Kurosawa

STARRING: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

DIRECTED BY: Frank Darabont

STARRING: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman

The Silence of the Lambs (1994)

DIRECTED BY: Jonathan Demme

STARRING: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

DIRECTED BY: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelley

STARRING: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds

Some Like It Hot (1959)


STARRING: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

The Sound of Music (1965)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

DIRECTED BY: David Hand

STARRING:Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell



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DIRECTED BY: Robert Wise

STARRING: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer

Star Wars (1977)

DIRECTED BY: George Lucas

STARRING: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher

Sunset Blvd. (1950)


STARRING: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

DIRECTED BY: James Cameron

STARRING:Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton

The Third Man (1949)

DIRECTED BY: Carol Reed

STARRING: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles

This is Spinal Tap (1984)

DIRECTED BY: Rob Reiner

STARRING: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest

To Kill a Mockingbird (1949)

DIRECTED BY: Robert Mulligan

STARRING: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford

Titanic (1997)

DIRECTED BY: James Cameron

STARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet



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Toy Story (1995)

DIRECTED BY: John Lasseter

STARRING: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles

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When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

DIRECTED BY: Rob Reiner

STARRING: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher

Wild Strawberries (1957)

DIRECTED BY: Ingmar Bergman

STARRING: Victor Sjostrom, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ingrid Thulin

Wings of Desire (1988)

DIRECTED BY: Wim Wenders

STARRING: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander

The Usual Suspects (1995)

DIRECTED BY: Bryan Singer

STARRING: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne


Vertigo (1958)DIRECTED BY:Alfred Hitchcock

STARRING: James Stewart, Kim Novak


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The Wizard of Oz (1939)

DIRECTED BY: Victor Fleming

STARRING: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger

The World of Apu (1959)

DIRECTED BY: Satyajit Ray

STARRING: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Swampan Mukerjee,

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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown(1988)

DIRECTED BY: Pedro Almodovar

STARRING: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas


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