Channel 4 reveals the 50 Films to See Before You Die

2001: A Space Odyssey
A Bout de Souffle
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Alien
All About Eve
Apartment, The
Apocalypse Now
Badlands
Black Narcissus
Boyz N the Hood
Brazil
Breakfast Club, The
Cabaret
Chinatown
City of God
Come and See
Dawn of the Dead
Donnie Darko
Erin Brockovich
Fanny and Alexander
Fight Club
Heavenly Creatures
Hero
Ipcress File, The
King of Comedy, The
Ladykillers, The
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Lost in Translation
Manhattan
Manhunter
Mulholland Drive
Night at the Opera
North by Northwest
Pink Flamingos
Player, The
Princess Mononoke
Pulp Fiction
Raising Arizona
Royal Tenenbaums, The
Scarface
Searchers, The
Secrets and Lies
Sexy Beast
Shawshank Redemption, The
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
This Sporting Life
Three Colours Blue
Touch of Evil
Trainspotting
Walkabout

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How many you seen?

ive seen 37 and own 28 on DVD - have to say there's a few in there that dont really deserve to be and a few which should be added

I watched this last night, there were a good number I have seen. Me and my partner are gonna watch the ones we have not seen in the next couple of months.

Good to see Lost in Translation in there. Easily one of the greatest films made :)

I've only seen 8 from that list. I don't really watch many western films.

Saw that last night and kept a note of the main ones I liked the look of but missed a couple - pity C4 haven't put them in order :(. Thanks, hadn't been able to find it earlier.

The likes of Citizen Kane, God Father Trilogy and to a lesser extent the Star Wars Trilogy are missing for a start...

Who makes these things up!?

Although they've picked out some classics, quite a lot of those films are relatively obscure and rated 'mediocre' by most. Certainly, they could have done with looking at the IMDb Top 250 list. :)

oh and FilmFour are showing loads of the above films on it's new free channel (31 for freeview) :)

Seen only 15 of them, and of those I own 6 on DVD.
My DVD collection is exclusively films I consider very good - I buy quite a few but if they don't make the grade I give them away to friends.
Sometimes films are good for only 1 viewing.

Lost In Translation wasn't even worth one view.

Of the remainder of that list, I would want to acquire Brazil and rent The Royal Tenenbaums (and only that because I saw a trailer for it just the other night).

I wonder if they meant the 1955 Ladykillers (Alec Guinness) or the recent remake (Tom Hanks)?

It was the 1955 version with Alec Guinness :)

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Well that's a blessing at least :)
Though I might have expected The Green Mile, Jacob's Ladder or Blade Runner to make an appearance in that list...

honestly some of those movies u should die before you see ....


My list of missing movies:

Time to kill ( GREAT MOVIE)
Seven
Star Wars (from the first 3 or was it the last 3 ok u know what i mean)
Saving Private Ryan
The Wizard of Oz :)
Platoon
The Exorcist
Gost (plz dont kill me for this one)
Indiana jones (men i wanna see it again lol)
The Sixth Sense (i kinda liked unbreakable more)
Braveheart (they messed up the story but 10 years ago i wanted to be scottish then gladiator , samurai, greek warrior... well at least not frodo )
the devils advocate
Schindler's List (dam i saw that in school too many times)
the shining
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Crow
Edward Scissorhands


ok wayyy too many movies popping in my head so i end with THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

Certainly not a bad list, there's quite a few missing from the list, but they did only have 50 spaces.

Superman The Movie needs to be on there, arguably the most underated movie of all time!

seen 36 or so

they be very western - lol. missing half a world of cinema, they is

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Who makes these things up!?

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And did they just copy out the filmfour schedule in order 1-50 or memorise them and then try to recall them giving them an order that way.


Yes there are some greats in there, but there is so much filler in there too that showed be used for other true classic/industry changing films instead. It's shameful how much of an ad for filmfour it is.


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