The lists below are movies that are worth seeing for each year going back to 1961, and then by decade from the 1930s-1950s. Some years have more "worthy" movies and other years did not produce as many memorable films. Check the genre before watching. Comments and criticism are welcome. Image above is from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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2020 FILMS
The Gentlemen Greenland Hillbilly Elegy The King of Staten Island Nomadland Promising Young Woman Shiva Baby Tenet 2016 FILMS The Accountant AlliedArrival Elle (France) The Girl with All the Gifts Hell of High Water Lion O.J.: Made in America Passengers War Dogs 2012 FILMS Argo The Avengers Cloud Atlas The Imposter Looper The Perks of Being a Wallflower Prometheus Silver Linings Playbook The Words 2008 FILMS Chocolate (Thailand) Cloverfield The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Iron Man Let the Right One In (Sweden) Slumdog Millionaire Tell No One (France) Vicki Christina Barcelona 2004 FILMS The Butterfly Effect Carandiru (Brazil) District B13 (France) Hero (Hong Kong) Kill Bill: Vol 2 Man on Fire Saw Sideways Super Size Me 2000 FILMS Cast Away Chocolat Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Ghost World Gladiator High Fidelity Memento Mission Impossible 2 The Nine Queens (Argentina) One Day in September Unbreakable You Can Count on Me 1996 FILMS The Arrival The Birdcage Bound The English Patient Fargo Independence Day Jerry Maguire Mission Impossible Primal Fear Shine Swingers Trainspotting 1992 FILMS Basic Instinct The Crying Game The Cutting Edge A Few Good Men Light Sleeper My Cousin Vinny Resevoir Dogs Wayne's World 1988 FILMS BigBull Durham Cinema Paradiso (Italy) Die Hard A Fish Called Wanda Midnight Run The Naked Gun Rain Man Working Girl 1984 FILMS 1984 2010 Beverly Hills Cop Birdy Dune Indiana Jones Temple Doom The Killing Fields Once Upon a Time in America Paris, Texas Sixteen Candles Stop Making Sense Stranger than Paradise The Terminator 1980 FILMS Airplane! The Blues Brothers The Gods Must Be Crazy Ordinary People Raging Bull The Shining Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Superman II Virus (Japan) 1976 FILMS Assault on Precint 13 The Marathon Man Network The Omen Rocky Shout at the Devil Taxi Driver The Tenant (France) Who Can Kill a Child (Spain) 1972 FILMS Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Germany) Cabaret Caliber 9 (Italy) Conquest Planet of the Apes Deliverance The Godfather The Harder they Come (Jamaica) Metzitzim (Israel) Play it Again Sam 1968 FILMS 2001 A Space Odyssey Night of the Living Dead Once Upon a Time in the West Planet of the Apes Rosemary's Baby The Swimmer Targets 1964 FILMS Dr. Strangelove A Fistfull of Dollars (Italy) Goldfinger Marnie The Pawnbroker Sceance on a Wet Afternoon 1960 FILMS The Apartment Breathless (France) PsychoThe Time Machine |
2019 FILMS
1917 Booksmart I am Mother Knives Out Midsommar Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Parasite (South Korea) Uncut Gems Us 2015 FILMS Age of Adaline The Big Short Ex Machina Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Germany) Interstellar Spotlight 2011 FILMS The Adjustment Bureau Another Earth The Artist Bridesmaids The Descendants The Help Moneyball Phase 7 (Argentina) Super 8 Warrior 2007 FILMS I am Legend In the Valley of Elah Juno Knocked Up The Lives of Others (Germany) The Man from Earth Michael Clayton [REC] (Spain) Superbad Tropa de Elite (Brazil) Waitress 2003 FILMS 28 Days Later American Splendor Bend it Like Beckham Better Luck Tomorrow City of God (Brazil) Kill Bill Vol 1 Lord of the Rings Return of the King Lost in Translation Master and Commander Ondskan (Sweden) Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior (Thailand) Paycheck Spellbound 1999 FILMS The 13th Floor American Beauty American Pie Being John Malkovich Election Eyes Wide Shut Fight Club Galaxy Quest Go The Green Mile Magnolia The Matrix Office Space The Sixth Sense The Thomas Crown Affair 1995 FILMS The Brothers McMullen Clueless Il Postino (Italy) Kids Mr. Holland's Opus Muriel's Wedding Seven Twelve Monkeys The Usual Suspects Waterworld 1991 FILMS Boyz N the Hood Father of the Bride La Femme Nikita (France) My Girl The Prince of Tides The Silence of the Lambs Terminator 2: Judgment Day Thelma & Louise 1987 FILMS Angel Heart Au Revoir Les Enfants (France) Empire of the Sun Fatal Attraction Full Metal Jacket Good Morning Vietnam Lethal Weapon Moonstruck The Princess Bride The Secret of My Success Wall Street 1983 FILMS The Big Chill The Dead Zone Koyaanisqatsi Risky Business Scarface Star Wars Return of the Jedi Terms of Endearment Trading Places WarGames 1979 FILMS Alien Apocalypse Now Kramer vs. Kramer A Little Romance Mad Max Manhattan North Dallas Forty Rock and Roll High School The Wanderers 1975 FILMS Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore Barry Lyndon A Boy and His Dog Dog Day Afternoon Jaws Nashville One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Picnic at Hanging Rock (Australia) Rollerball Seven Beauties (Italy) Sholay (India) The Stepford Wives Tommy 1971 FILMS Bananas A Clockwork Orange Daughters of Darkness (Belgium) Diamonds are Forever Dirty Harry Fiddler on the Roof A Fistful of Dynamite (Italy) The French Connection Harold and Maude Straw Dogs Wake in Fright (Australia) Walkabout (Australia) 1967 FILMS Bonnie and Clyde In Cold Blood The Graduate Le Samourai (France) The President's Analyst Wait Until Dark You Only Live Twice 1964 FILMS The Birds Charade From Russia with Love The Great Escape The Pink Panther 1950s FILMS 12 Angry Men The 400 Blows (France) An Affair to Remember The African Queen An American in Paris Anatomy of a Murder Ben Hur Bob Le Flambeur (France) The Bridge on the River Kwai The Caine Mutiny The Day the Earth Stood Still From Here to Eternity The Killing Kiss Me Deadly Night of the Hunter North by Northwest On the Beach On the Waterfront Pickpocket (France) Rear Window Roman Holiday Seven Samurai (Japan) Some Like it Hot Strangers on a Train The Sweet Smell of Success To Catch a Thief Touch of Evil Vertigo The Wages of Fear (France) |
2018 FILMS
Border (Sweden) Burning (South Korea) Dragged Across Concrete Game Night Green Book Mirage (Spain) The Mule Ready Player One Three Identical Strangers 2014 FILMS American Sniper Boyhood Captain America: The Winter Soldier Edge of Tomorrow The Grand Budapest Hotel Guardians of the Galaxy Interstellar It Follows The Water Diviner Wild 2010 FILMS Date Night The Debt The Ghost Writer Incendie (Canada) The King's Speech The Social Network TrollHunter (Norway) True Grit Winter's Bone 2006 FILMS Borat Children of Men Déjà Vu The Illusionist Little Miss Sunshine The Painted Veil Pan's Labyrinth (Spain) Scoop Volver (Spain) 2002 FILMS Adaptation Black Hawk Down Bus 174 (Brazil) Chicago Dirty Pretty Things Gangs of New York The Hours Infernal Affairs (Hong Kong) Lord of the Rings Two Towers Minority Report The Pianist The Ring Secretary Talk to Her (Spain) 1998 FILMS The Big Lebowski Black Cat, White Cat (France) Buffalo 66 Croupier Dark City Enemy of the State Pi Run Lola Run (Germany) Rushmore Saving Private Ryan Shakespeare in Love 1994 FILMS Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the.... Barcelona The Crow Forrest Gump Four Weddings and a Funeral The Last Seduction Pulp Fiction The Shawshank Redemption Stargate 1990 FILMS Dances with Wolves Edward Scissorhands Europa Europa (Germany) GoodFellas The Handmaid's Tale The Hunt for Red October Jacob's Ladder Metropolitan Total Recall 1986 FILMS Aliens Children of a Lesser God F/X Ferris Bueller's Day Off Hannah and Her Sisters Hoosiers Platoon Pretty In Pink 1982 FILMS Blade Runner E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Fast Times Ridgemont High Fitzcarraldo (Germany) Gandhi Mad Max the Road Warrior Pink Floyd the Wall Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan Tootsie 1978 FILMS Animal House The Boys from Brazil Coma Dawn of the Dead The Deer Hunter Grease Halloween Invasion of the Body Snatchers Midnight Express Superman 1974 FILMS Blazing Saddles Chinatown The Godfather II Lacombe, Lucien (France) The Longest Yard The Man with the Golden Gun Phase IV The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 Young Frankenstein Zardoz 1970 FILMS Beneath Planet of the Apes The Bird with the Crystal Plumage Le Cercle Rouge (France) Five Easy Pieces The Garden of the Finzi Continis (Italy) Goin' Down the Road (Canada) Love Story MASH THX 1138 Woodstock 1966 FILMS The Battle of Algiers (France) The Blue Max Closely Watched Trains (Czech) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Italy) The Sand Pebbles Seconds 1962 FILMS The Day of the Triffids Dr. No To Kill a Mockingbird Knife in the Water (Poland) Lawrence of Arabia La Jetee (France) The Manchurian Candidate The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1940s FILMS The Best Years of Our Lives The Bicycle Thief (Italy) The Big Sleep The Body Snatcher Casablanca Cat People Citizen Kane Dead of Night Double Indemnity Force of Evil Gaslight Gentlemen's Agreement His Girl Friday It's a Wonderful Life Laura The Lady Eve Letter from an Unknown Woman Lifeboat The Maltese Falcon Open City (Italy) Out of the Past The Ox-Bow Incident Rebecca Rope Spellbound Suspicion The Third Man To Be or Not to Be To Have and Have Not The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
2017 FILMS
Battle of the Sexes The Big Sick Dunkirk Get Out Ladybird The Shape of Water Thor: Ragnarok Wonder Woman 2013 FILMS About Time Blue Jasmine The East The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Metro Manila (UK/Philippines) Oblivion The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Snowpiercer World War Z 2009 FILMS Ajami (Israel) A Serious Man Avatar District 9 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Sweden) The Hangover The Hurt Locker Inglorious Basterds 2005 FILMS The 40 Year Old Virgin Batman Begins Brokeback Mountain The Constant Gardener Crash March of the Penguins Match Point Serenity V for Vendetta War of the Worlds 2001 FILMS AI Artificial Intelligence A Beautiful Mind Donnie Darko Lagaan (India) Late Marriage (Israel) Lord of the Rings Fellowship Mulholland Drive The Others Snatch Y Tu Mama Tambien (Mexico) 1997 FILMS Chasing Amy Gattaca The Icestorm In the Company of Men LA Confidential Open Your Eyes (Spain) The Sticky Fingers of Time Titanic 1993 FILMS Benny and Joon Falling Down The Fugitive In the Name of the Father Jurassic Park Like Water for Chocolate Schindler's List Shortcuts What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1989 FILMS Batman Crimes and Misdemeanors Dead Calm Do the Right Thing Driving Miss Daisy Field of Dreams Indiana Jones Last Crusade Major League Sex, Lies and Videotape When Harry Met Sally 1985 FILMS After Hours Back to the Future Brazil The Breakfast Club The Emerald Forest Fletch Phenomena (Italy) The Quiet Earth (New Zealand) Shoah (France) St. Elmo's Fire WitnessYear of the Dragon 1981 FILMS Atlantic City Body Heat Das Boot (Germany) For Your Eyes Only Gallipoli Heavy Metal My Dinner with Andre Raiders of the Lost Ark Scanners Stripes 1977 FILMS Annie Hall Close Encounters of the Third Kind The Last Wave (Australia) Saturday Night Fever Slap Shot The Spy Who Loved Me Star Wars Stroszek (Germany) Suspiria (Italy) 1973 FILMS American Grafitti Badlands The Crazies Enter the Dragon (Hong Kong) The Exorcist Fantastic Planet (France) Live and Let Die Mean Streets Papillon Soylent Green The Sting The Wicker Man 1969 FILMS Alices's Restaurant Army of Shadows (France) Easy Rider Kes (U.K.) Midnight Cowboy Take the Money and Run They Shoot Horses, Don't They? The Wild BunchZ (France) 1965 FILMS For a Few Dollars More (Italy) Repulsion The Sound of Music Thunderball It Happened Here 1961 FILMS Breakfast at Tiffany's The Day the Earth Caught Fire The Hustler Splendor in the Grass Victim West Side Story 1930s FILMS Battleship Potemkin (Russia) Bride of Frankenstein Dead End Dracula Frankenstein Freaks Grand Illusion (France) The Invisible Man King Kong Lost Horizon M (Germany) Metropolis (Germany) Mr. Smith Goes Washington Stagecoach Tarzan and His Mate Tarzan the Ape Man The Testament of Dr. Mabuse The Wizard of Oz |