🎬 100 Must-See Movies Challenge
A few days ago, I stumbled across a “100 Must-See Movies” list published by Art of Manliness. Naturally, I couldn’t resist doing a quick audit to see how many I’ve actually watched.
Turns out… quite a few 😄
Here’s my running list so far:
🎥 Classics, Epics & Timeless Cinema
- The Great Escape
- Casablanca
- Citizen Kane
- Lawrence of Arabia
- The Godfather (I & II)
- 12 Angry Men
- Ben-Hur
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
🎞️ Drama, Grit & Powerful Stories
- There Will Be Blood
- The Shawshank Redemption
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Schindler’s List
- American Beauty
- Malcolm X
- Gandhi
- Mississippi Burning
- On the Waterfront
- A Streetcar Named Desire
🎬 Action, Adventure & Crowd-Pleasers
- Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
- Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark & The Last Crusade)
- Die Hard
- Gladiator
- Braveheart
- Saving Private Ryan
- Top Gun
- The Bourne Identity (Trilogy)
- Rocky
- Enter the Dragon
⚾ Sports, Underdogs & Inspiration
- Field of Dreams
- Rudy
- Hoosiers
- Bull Durham
- Remember the Titans
- Chariots of Fire
- The Natural
- Cinderella Man
🎥 Westerns, Noir & Old-School Cool
- Unforgiven
- High Noon
- Shane
- The Searchers
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Double Indemnity
- The Maltese Falcon
- Chinatown
- Bullitt
🎞️ International & Thought-Provoking
- Seven Samurai
- Das Boot
- The Bicycle Thief
- Mar Adentro (The Sea Inside)
- Zulu
- All Quiet on the Western Front
🎬 Everything Else That Deserves Respect
- Ghostbusters
- Groundhog Day
- Dead Poets Society
- The Iron Giant
- Old Yeller
- Swingers
- The Longest Day
✅ Final Thoughts
This list really made me appreciate how much great cinema I’ve already experienced — and how much is still waiting.
🎥 Next step: revisit a few favorites… and finally knock off the ones I’ve been putting off.
How many from this list have you seen?
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