100 Movies to See Before You Die:

[fatman17]

You may not agree with the list (i dont) but anyhow!

100 Movies to See Before You Die:

The Modern Classics

by The Yahoo! Movies Editorial Staff

It's easy for classic movie lovers to be nostalgic for Hollywood's "Golden Age" of the 1930s and '40s. And many cineastes will tell you that film as an art reached its peak in the late '60s and early '70s. But the truth is there have been remarkable movies made in the 1990s and 2000s. From big budget blockbusters, to breakout independent films, to discoveries from around the world, we have seen exciting and groundbreaking cinematic work created in the last two decades.
For our second installment of our "100 Movies to See Before You Die," we decided to highlight these "Modern Classics" made between 1990 and 2009. Like our first list, we chose movies based on their artistry, originality, and pure cinematic entertainment. And even we were surprised by the results.
While big stars like George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Morgan Freeman are well-represented on the list with three films each, it's acclaimed actress Catherine Keener who appears in the most movies. By working in both independent films like "Being John Malkovich" and studio productions like "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," she personifies the best of the era.
Look through the list below to see our choices for the top movies made in the last twenty years. Click on a title to add your comments about that particular choice. And take a look at the original "100 Movies to See Before You Die" to see the seventeen films that appear on both lists.


1990
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Goodfellas
DIRECTED BY: Martin Scorsese
STARRING: Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• Misery
DIRECTED BY: Rob Reiner
STARRING: James Caan, Kathy Bates
1991

• Beauty and the Beast
DIRECTED BY: Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale
STARRING: Paige O'Hara, Robbie Benson

• The Silence of the Lambs
DIRECTED BY: Jonathan Demme
STARRING: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
DIRECTED BY: James Cameron
STARRING: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick

• Thelma & Louise
DIRECTED BY: Ridley Scott
STARRING: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis
1992

• Hard Boiled (Lat sau san taam)
DIRECTED BY: John Woo
STARRING: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai

• Malcolm X
DIRECTED BY: Spike Lee
STARRING: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett

• The Player
DIRECTED BY: Robert Altman
STARRING: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi

• Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua)
DIRECTED BY: Zhang Yimou
STARRING: Gong Li, Ma Jingwu

• Supercop (Ging chat goo si 3: Chiu kup ging chat)
DIRECTED BY: Stanley Tong
STARRING: Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• Unforgiven
DIRECTED BY: Clint Eastwood
STARRING: Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman
1993

• Dazed and Confused
DIRECTED BY: Richard Linklater
STARRING: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey

• Groundhog Day
DIRECTED BY: Harold Ramis
STARRING: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Stephen Tobolowsky

• Schindler's List
DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg
STARRING: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
1994

• Chungking Express (Chung Hing sam lam)
DIRECTED BY: Wong Kar-Wai
STARRING: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• Ed Wood
DIRECTED BY: Tim Burton
STARRING: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker

• Forrest Gump
DIRECTED BY: Robert Zemeckis
STARRING: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise

• Four Weddings and a Funeral
DIRECTED BY: Mike Newell
STARRING: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Simon Callow

• Pulp Fiction
DIRECTED BY: Quentin Tarantino
STARRING: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis

• The Shawshank Redemption
DIRECTED BY: Frank Darabont
STARRING: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman

• Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge)
DIRECTED BY: Krzysztof Kieslowski
STARRING: Irene Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant
1995

• Babe
DIRECTED BY: Chris Noonan
STARRING: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski

• Before Sunrise
DIRECTED BY: Richard Linklater
STARRING: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy

• Clueless
DIRECTED BY: Amy Heckerling
STARRING: Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Brittany Murphy
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• Heat
DIRECTED BY: Michael Mann
STARRING: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer

• Living in Oblivion
DIRECTED BY: Tom DeCillo
STARRING: Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener

• Sense and Sensibility
DIRECTED BY: Ang Lee
STARRING: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant

• Toy Story
DIRECTED BY: John Lasseter
STARRING: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• The Usual Suspects
DIRECTED BY: Bryan Singer
STARRING: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
1996

• Big Night
DIRECTED BY: Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci
STARRING: Tony Shaloub, Stanley Tucci, Ian Holm

• Dead Man
DIRECTED BY: Jim Jarmusch
STARRING: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen

• Fargo
DIRECTED BY: Joel Coen
STARRING: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• Ghost in the Shell (Kokaku kidotai)
DIRECTED BY: Mamoru Oshii
STARRING: Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Otsuka

• Lone Star
DIRECTED BY: John Sayles
STARRING: Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Pena, Kris Kristofferson, Matthew McConaughey,

• Scream
DIRECTED BY: Wes Craven
STARRING: Neve Campbell, Drew Barrymore
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• Secrets & Lies
DIRECTED BY: Mike Leigh
STARRING: Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall

• Sling Blade
DIRECTED BY: Billy Bob Thornton
STARRING: Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, Lucas Black

• Swingers
DIRECTED BY: Doug Liman
STARRING: Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Heather Graham

• Trainspotting
DIRECTED BY: Danny Boyle
STARRING: Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle
1997

• Boogie Nights
DIRECTED BY: Paul Thomas Anderson
STARRING: Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• Eve's Bayou
DIRECTED BY: Kasi Lemmons
STARRING: Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan

• L.A. Confidential
DIRECTED BY: Curtis Hanson
STARRING: Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey

• The Sweet Hereafter
DIRECTED BY: Atom Egoyan
STARRING: Ian Holm, Bruce Greenwood, Sarah Polley

• Titanic
DIRECTED BY: James Cameron
STARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
1998

• The Big Lebowski
DIRECTED BY: Joel Coen
STARRING: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore

• Fireworks (Hana-bi)
DIRECTED BY: Takeshi Kitano
STARRING: Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto

• Out of Sight
DIRECTED BY: Steven Soderbergh
STARRING: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Catherine Keener
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• Saving Private Ryan
DIRECTED BY: Steven Spielberg
STARRING: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• There's Something About Mary
DIRECTED BY: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly
STARRING: Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller
1999

• All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)
DIRECTED BY: Pedro Almodovar
STARRING: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penelope Cruz

• American Beauty
DIRECTED BY: Sam Mendes
STARRING: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch

• Being John Malkovich
DIRECTED BY: Spike Jonze
STARRING: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich

• Election
DIRECTED BY: Alexander Payne
STARRING: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein

• Fight Club
DIRECTED BY: David Fincher
STARRING: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• The Matrix
DIRECTED BY: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
STARRING: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime)
DIRECTED BY: Hayao Miyazaki
STARRING: Yoji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida

• Run Lola Run (Lola rennt)
DIRECTED BY: Tom Tykwer
STARRING: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu

• The Sixth Sense
DIRECTED BY: M. Night Shyamalan
STARRING: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette

• Three Kings
DIRECTED BY: David O. Russell
STARRING: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube
2000

• Almost Famous
DIRECTED BY: Cameron Crowe
STARRING: Patrick Fugit, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson

• Best in Show
DIRECTED BY: Christopher Guest
STARRING: Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)
DIRECTED BY: Ang Lee
STARRING: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang

• Yi Yi
DIRECTED BY: Edward Yang
STARRING: Wu Nien-jen, Issey Ogata, Elaine Jin
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
2001

• Amelie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain)
DIRECTED BY: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
STARRING: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz

• Donnie Darko
DIRECTED BY: Richard Kelly
STARRING: Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze

• In the Mood For Love (Fa yeung nin wa)
DIRECTED BY: Wong Kar-Wai
STARRING: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai

• The Lord of the Rings
DIRECTED BY: Peter Jackson
STARRING: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• Memento
DIRECTED BY: Christopher Nolan
STARRING: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano

• Mulholland Drive
DIRECTED BY: David Lynch
STARRING: Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring,

• The Royal Tenenbaums
DIRECTED BY: Wes Anderson
STARRING: Gene Hackman, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow
2002

• The Pianist
DIRECTED BY: Roman Polanski
STARRING: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Emilia Fox

• Y Tu Mama Tambien
DIRECTED BY: Alfonso Cuaron
STARRING: Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna
2003

• City of God (Cidade de Deus)
DIRECTED BY: Fernando Meirelles
STARRING: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino De Hora Phellipe, Seu Jorge

• Elephant
DIRECTED BY: Gus Van Sant
STARRING: Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• Finding Nemo
DIRECTED BY: Andrew Stanton
STARRING: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres
2004

• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
DIRECTED BY: Adam McKay
STARRING: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
DIRECTED BY: Michel Gondry
STARRING: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• Shaun of the Dead
DIRECTED BY: Edgar Wright
STARRING: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield

• Sideways
DIRECTED BY: Alexander Payne
STARRING: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen
2005

• The 40-Year-Old Virgin
DIRECTED BY: Judd Apatow
STARRING: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Seth Rogen

• Brokeback Mountain
DIRECTED BY: Ang Lee
STARRING: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• A History of Violence
DIRECTED BY: David Cronenberg
STARRING: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris

• Oldboy
DIRECTED BY: Park Chan-wook
STARRING: Choi Min-shik, Kang Hye-jeong
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
2006

• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
DIRECTED BY: Larry Charles
STARRING: Sacha Baron Cohen, Kenneth Davitian

• Children of Men
DIRECTED BY: Alfonso Cuaron
STARRING: Clive Owen, Michael Caine, Julianne Moore
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
DIRECTED BY: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
STARRING: Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Muehe, Sebastian Koch

• Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
DIRECTED BY: Guillermo del Toro
STARRING: Maribel Verdu, Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones
2007

• 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile)
DIRECTED BY: Cristian Mungiu
STARRING: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov

• The Bourne Ultimatum
DIRECTED BY: Paul Greengrass
STARRING: Matt Damon, Joan Allen, David Strathairn
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
DIRECTED BY: Julian Schnabel
STARRING: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze

• Michael Clayton
DIRECTED BY: Tony Gilroy
STARRING: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton

• No Country for Old Men
DIRECTED BY: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
STARRING: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin

• There Will Be Blood
DIRECTED BY: Paul Thomas Anderson
STARRING: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano
2008

• The Dark Knight
DIRECTED BY: Christopher Nolan
STARRING: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart

• Slumdog Millionaire
DIRECTED BY: Danny Boyle
STARRING: Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Freida Pinto

• WALL-E
DIRECTED BY: Andrew Stanton
STARRING: Fred Willard, Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Garlin
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT
2009

• Avatar
DIRECTED BY: James Cameron
STARRING: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver

• The Hurt Locker
DIRECTED BY: Kathryn Bigelow
STARRING: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty
WHY YOU SHOULD SEE IT

• Inglourious Basterds
DIRECTED BY: Quentin Tarantino
STARRING: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Melanie Laurent


Also Listed in The All-Time Greats

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
• Goodfellas (1990)
• Groundhog Day (1993)
• In the Mood For Love (2001)
• The Lord of the Rings (2001, 2002, 2003)
• The Matrix (1999)
• Princess Mononoke (1999)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Raise the Red Lantern (1992)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• Schindler's List (1993)
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
• Titanic (1997)
• Toy Story (1995)
• The Usual Suspects (1995)

 

[GUNS-N- ROSES]

well compiled however incomplete for most of the indians and dare i say for pakistanis too 9i dont wanna start a debate pls). here are some indian movies one must watch:

Guide, Sholay, deewar, lamhe, satyam shivam sundaram, golmal (original), Mother india and many more.

 

[divya]

well compiled however incomplete for most of the indians and dare i say for pakistanis too 9i dont wanna start a debate pls). here are some indian movies one must watch:

Guide, Sholay, deewar, lamhe, satyam shivam sundaram, golmal (original), Mother india and many more.

include guru for me in modern times sir..... though the movie was on the ethical lines. but i liked the movie... one of my favs...

 

[Dalai Lama]

Jarhead
I Saw The Devil
The Way Back
Old Boy

...and many more

 

[mjnaushad]

90 To go for me.....

 

[rajusri]

^I watched 90 of them.


But Sholey is the best.

 

[Windjammer]

A Must in any list.

 

[Paan Singh]

movies????????/
PPPP

 

[Sonic_boom]

3 idiots any one?

 

[Ajaxpaul]

this is one of my fav movie

 

[F86 Saber]

I'd say my list would be

In no Particular order

1. The Dark Knight
2. P.S I Love You
3. Forrest Gumph
4. Cast Away
5. The Terminal
6. Jurassic Park
7. Liar Liar
8. The Game Plan
9. Independence Day
10. The Rock
11. The Knowing
12. Batman Begins
13. 300
14. Meet the Spartans
15. Six Days Seven Nights
16. RED (The new one)
17. I am Sam
18. Goal (Well may be because of my football and Real Madrid Craze )
19. Ocean's 11,12,13
20. The Bourne Trilogy

 

[LaBong]

A Clockwork Orange, Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove, Barry Lyndon - Kubrick
Apur Sangsar, Jano Aronyo, Pather Panchali - Satyajit Ray
Aguirre the wrath of god - Werner Herzog
Seven Samurai - Kurosawa
Apocalypse Now, Godfather 1/2 - De Coppola
Almost all of Hitchcock.
Casablanca, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Sabrina etc the feel goods.
Persona, Through a Glass Darkly, The Seventh Seal - Bergman
Once Upon a Time in West and Dollar trilogy - Sergio Leone
Lots of WW2 movies - The Longest Day, Iwo Jima etc, NO Saving private Ryan
Inglorious Bastards, Pulp Fiction - Tarantino
The Third Man
Subarnarekha, Meghe Dhaka Tara, Ajantrik - Ritwik Ghatak
some old Bengali movies.

Think I missed many, will add later.

 

[Manticore]

 

[Manticore]

 

[Manticore]