I made a version of this list roughly two years ago, but I felt it was time to revisit the idea. Simply put: if I was stranded on a desert island, these are the 100 films I'd want with me. What movies are missing? What are you shocked to see included?
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
400 Blows, The (1959)
8 ½ (1963)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Alien (1979)
All About Eve (1950)
Amarcord (1973)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Back to the Future (1985)
Badlands (1973)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Battle of Algiers, The (1966)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Best Years of Our Lives, The (1946)
Bicycle Thief, The (1948)
Black Stallion, The (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Breathless (1960)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (1920)
Casablanca (1942)
Children of Paradise (1946)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Citizen Kane (1941)
City Lights (1931)
City of God (2002)
Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Conformist, The (1970)
Conversation, The (1974)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Fall of the House of Usher, The (1928)
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Fantasia (1940)
Godfather, The (1972)
Goodfellas (1990)
Grand Illusion (1937)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Ikiru (1952)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
L’Atalante (1934)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Lord of the Rings, The (2001-2003)
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962)
Man with a Movie Camera, The (1929)
Matrix, The (1999)
Memento (2000)
Metropolis (1927)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Network (1976)
Night of the Hunter, The (1955)
Nightmare Before Christmas, The (1993)
North by Northwest (1959)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Passion of Joan of Arc, The (1928)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Playtime (1967)
Pleasantville (1998)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Producers, The (1968)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Raging Bull (1980)
Rashomon (1950)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Rules of the Game, The (1939)
Schindler’s List (1993)
Seven Samurai, The (1954)
Seventh Seal, The (1957)
Shining, The (1980)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Stalker (1979)
Star Wars Trilogy (1977, 1980, 1983)
Sunrise (1927)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Taxi Driver (1976)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Thin Red Line, The (1998)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Titanic (1997)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
Ugetsu (1953)
Underground (1995)
Vertigo (1958)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Wizard of Oz, The (1939)