Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services News Sports Finance Entertainment Make Y! My HomepageGet Yahoo! Toolbar Account Options New User? Sign UpSign InHelp Yahoo! Drag the "Y!" and drop it onto the "Home" icon. Select "Yes" from the pop up window. Nothing, you're done. If this didn't work for you see detailed instructions Close this window Yahoo! Search YAHOO! ENTERTAINMENT: Games Movies Music omg! TV Video THE 9 Movies DVD / Video My Movies Search Yahoo! Movies: Movies Home In Theaters Showtimes & Tickets Coming Soon Top Rated Trailers & Clips News Box Office   100 Movies To See Before You Die 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 heated discussions, long negotiations, and a shouting match or two, the staff at Yahoo! Movies has 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. Jump to a Letter 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT (rollover where you see the icon for more information) 0-9 12 Angry Men (1957) Directed By: Sidney Lumet Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E. G. Marshall 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Directed By: Stanley Kubrick Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester The 400 Blows (1959) Directed By: Francois Truffaut Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick Auffay Why You Should See It 8 ½ (1963) Directed By: Federico Fellini Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee A 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 Apocalypse Now (1979) Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola Starring: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall Why You Should See It B The Battle of Algiers (1967) Directed By: Gillo Pontecorvo Starring: Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag Why You Should See It The Bicycle Thief (1948) Directed By: Vittorio De Sica Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola Why You Should See It Blade Runner (1982) Directed By: Ridley Scott Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young Blazing Saddles (1974) Directed By: Mel Brooks Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens Blow Up (1966) Directed By: Michelangelo Antononi Starring: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles Blue Velvet (1986) Directed By: David Lynch Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper Why You Should See It Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Directed By: Arthur Penn Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard Breathless (1960) 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, Bringing Up Baby (1938) Directed By: Howard Hawks Starring: Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn Why You Should See It Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Directed By: George Roy Hill Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross C Casablanca (1942) Directed By: Michael Curtiz Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid 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 D Die Hard (1988) Directed By: John McTiernan Starring: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman Why You Should See It Do the Right Thing (1989) Directed By: Spike Lee Starring: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee Why You Should See It Double Indemnity (1944) Directed By: Billy Wilder Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) Directed By: Stanley Kubrick Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden Duck Soup (1933) Directed By: Leo McCarey Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx Why You Should See It E 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, F 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 G The Godfather (1972) Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, The Godfather, Part II (1974) Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton Goldfinger (1964) Directed By: Guy Hamilton Starring: Sean Connery, Honor Blackman Why You Should See It 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 H A Hard Day's Night (1964) Directed By: Richard Lester Starring: The Beatles Why You Should See It I 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 J Jaws (1975) Directed By: Steven Spielberg Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss Why You Should See It K King Kong (1933) Directed By: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Shoedsack Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong L The Lady Eve (1941) Directed By: Preston Sturges Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Directed By: David Lean Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003) Directed By: Peter Jackson Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen Why You Should See It M M (1931) Directed By: Fritz Lang Starring: Peter Lorre, Theodor Loos, Otto Wernicke Why You Should See It 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 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 N National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) Directed By: John Landis Starring: John Belushi, Tim Matheson Why You Should See It Network (1976) Directed By: Sidney Lumet Starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch Nosferatu (1922) Directed By: F.W. Murnau Starring: Max Schreck, Gustave Von Wagenheim, Greta Schroeder, O 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 Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield P Paths of Glory (1958) Directed By: Stanley Kubrick Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou Why You Should See It 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 R Raging Bull (1980) Directed By: Martin Scorsese Starring: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty-Gentile, Joe Pesci Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Directed By: Steven Spielberg Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman Raise the Red Lantern (1992) Directed By: Zhang Yimou Starring: Gong Li, He Caifei, Cao Cuifeng Rashomon (1951) Directed By: Akira Kurosawa Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo Why You Should See It 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 S Saving Private Ryan (1998) Directed By: Steven Spielberg Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore Why You Should See It Schindler's List (1993) Directed By: Steven Spielberg 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 (1991) 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 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Directed By: David Hand Starring: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell Why You Should See It Some Like It Hot (1959) Directed By: Billy Wilder Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon The Sound of Music (1965) 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) Directed By: Billy Wilder Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim T 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 Titanic (1997) Directed By: James Cameron Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet Why You Should See It To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Directed By: Robert Mulligan Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford Toy Story (1995) Directed By: John Lasseter Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles U The Usual Suspects (1995) Directed By: Bryan Singer Starring: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne Why You Should See It V Vertigo (1958) Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak Why You Should See It W 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 Wizard of Oz (1939) Directed By: Victor Fleming Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) Directed By: Pedro Almodovar Starring: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas Why You Should See It The World of Apu (1959) Directed By: Satyajit Ray Starring: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Swampan Mukerjee,