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Supposedly, this is Stephen Spielberg's list of movies that you 'have to see before you work with him.' Citation definitely needed, but it's an interesting list.



(UPDATE: It probably isn't Spielberg's list. And some of these movies are terrible. YMMV.)





1. 12 Angry Men

2. 2001

3. 400 Blows

4. 8 1/2

5. Adam's Rib

6. Alfie

7. Al Capone

8. All About Eve

9. All That Jazz

10. American In Paris

11. And Justice For All

12. Annie Hall

13. Apartment, The

14. Apocalypse Now

15. All the Presidents Men

16. Baby Doll

17. Bang the Drum Slowly

18. Barefoot In the Park

19. Battleship Potemkin

20. Belle De Jour

21. The Best Years Our Lives

22. Big Sleep, The

23. Bicycle Thieves

24. Big Chill, The

25. Birds, The

26. Body Heat

27. Bonnie & Clyde

28. Breakfast at Tiffany's

29. Breathless

30. Bridge Over the River Kwai

31. Brief Encounter

32. Bringing Up Baby

33. Bullitt

34. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

35. Cape Fear

36. Casablanca

37. Celebration, The

38. Champ, The

39. Charade

40. Chase, The

41. Les Enfants du Paradis

42. Chinatown

43. Citizen Kane

44. Clockwork Orange

45. Close Encounters

46. Come Back Little Sheba

47. Cool Hand Luke

48. Conversation, The

49. The Day the Earth Stood Still

50. The Days of Wine & Roses

51. Deer Hunter, The

52. Dog Day Afternoon

53. Double Indemnity

54. Doctor Zhivago

55. East of Eden

56. Exorcist,The

57. Face In The Crowd

58. Five Easy Pieces

59. Fly, The

60. French Connection

61. French Conn. 2

62. From Here to Eternity

63. Fugitive Kind, The

64. Gaslight

65. General, The

66. Gntlmn’s Agrmnt

67. Giant

68. Gone With/Wind

69. Grand Illusion

70. Great Escape, The

71. Godfather, The

72. Godfatherr II, The

73. Godfather III, The

74. Graduate, The

75. Grapes Of Wrath

76. Great Santini, The

77. Guess Who's…

78. Guns Of Navaronne

79. Heiress, The

80. High Noon

81. Hud

82. Hunter, The

83. Hustler, The

84. His Girl Friday

85. Holiday

86. I Confess

87. Immigrant, The

88. In A Lonely Place

89. In the Heat of the Night

90. Indiscretion/Wife

91. It Happened/Night

92. It's A Wonderful Life

93. Jdgmnt/Nuremberg

94. Julius Caesar

95. Kramer Vs. Kramer

96. Last Detail, The

97. Last Picture Show

98. Last Tango In Paris

99. Lawrence Of Arabia

100. Little Foxes, The

101. Lolita

102. Lonelyhearts

103. A Long Day's Journey into Night

104. Long Hot Summer

105. Lost In America

106. Lost Weekend

107. Love Story

108. M

109. The Magnificent Ambersons

110. The Magnificent Seven

111. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

112. The Manchurian Candidate

113. Marathon Man

114. Marty

115. Mean Streets

116. Men, The

117. Metropolis

118. Midnight Cowboy

119. Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

120. Misfits, The

121. Mississippi Burning

122. Missouri Breaks

123. Modern Romance

124. Modern Times

125. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington

126. Mutiny on the Bounty

127. My Fair Lady

128. Nashville

129. National Velvet

130. Network

131. North By Northwest

132. Notorious

133. No Way To Treat A Lady

134. Odd Couple, The

135. On the Waterfront

136. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

137. One-Eyed Jacks

138. Ordinary People

139. Panic in Needle Park

140. Papillion

141. Party, The

142. Parallax View

143. Patton

144. Pawnbroker, The

145. Philadelphia Story

146. Public Enemy, The

147. Psycho

148. Quiet Man, The

149. Raging Bull

150. Rain People, The

151. Raintree County

152. Ramblin' Rose

153. Real Life

154. Rear Window

155. Rebel Without a Cause

156. Red River

157. Reflections in a Golden Eye

158. Requiem for a Heavyweight

159. Rosemary's Baby

160. Runaway Train

161. Safety Last

162. Sand Pebbles

163. Saturday Night Fever

164. Sayonara

165. Scarecrow

166. Scarface

167. Scent Of A Woman

168. Searchers, The

169. Serpico

170. Seven Samurai

171. Seventh Seal

172. Signal 7

173. Singin' In the Rain

174. Smiles of a Summer Night

175. Soldier In The Rain

176. Some Like It Hot

177. Sound Of Music

178. Splendor in the Grass

179. Stagecoach

180. Star Is Born

181. Star Wars

182. Streetcar/Desire

183. Suddenly Last…

184. Sullivan's Travels

185. Sunset Boulevard

186. Sweet Bird of Youth

187. Taxi Driver

188. Teahouse of the Autumn Moon

189. Tender Mercies

190. Third Man, The

191. Three Days of the Condor

192. To Kill A Mockingbird

193. Tootsie

194. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

195. Trip To Bountiful, A

196. Two Rode Together

197. Verdict, The

198. Vertigo

199. Viva Zapata

200. Wait Until Dark

201. West Side Story

202. White Christmas

203. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

204. Wild One, The

205. Wild River

206. Young Lions, The