1 Apocalypse Now
2 The Apartment
3 City of God
4 Chinatown
5 Sexy Beast
6 2001: A Space Odyssey
7 North by Northwest
8 A Bout de Souffle
9 Donnie Darko
10 Manhattan
11 Alien
12 Lost in Translation
13 The Shawshank Redemption
14 Lagaan: Once Upon A Time in India
15 Pulp Fiction
16 Touch of Evil
17 Walkabout
18 Black Narcissus
19 Boyzn the Hood
20 The Player
21 Come and See
22 Heavenly Creatures
23 A Night at the Opera
24 Erin Brockovich
25 Trainspotting
26 The Breakfast Club
27 Hero
28 Fanny and Alexander
29 Pink Flamingos
30 All About Eve
31 Scarface
32 Terminator 2
33 Three Colours: Blue
34 The Royal Tenen-baums
35 The Ladykillers
36 Fight Club
37 The Searchers
38 Mulholland Drive
39 The Ipcress File
40 The King of Comedy
41 Manhunter
42 Dawn of the Dead
43 Princess Mononoke
44 Raising Arizona
45 Cabaret
46 This Sporting Life
47 Brazil
48 Aguirre: The Wrath of God
49 Secrets and Lies
50 Badlands
can't help you much on the 50 films to see before you die... but i can give you my top 10 films to see whilst you are still alive!!
Here they are in no particular order:
-shallow grave
-ghost in the shell
-warriors of the wind
-some like it hot
-dancer in the dark
-blade runner (directors cut)
-dead poets society
- the shawshank redemption
-in the name of the rose
-the abyss
Were the producers of the show just trying to provoke an argument? About 50% of that list was OK but their selection of works is curious; (to give one example) there are about half a dozen Hitchcocks I'd recommend to anyone before they see N by NW (which is really just an extended chase).
What a cruddy list! Where is Casablanca, where is Some Like it Hot, where is Brief Encounter, where is Million Dollar Baby, where is The Sound of Music.....!