This article was last modified on February 14, 2012.


100 Films to Watch in 2012

Watched

  1. 1915 – Birth of a Nation (Griffith)
  2. 1932 – Horse Feathers (McLeod)
  3. 1935 – Mutiny on the Bounty (Lloyd)
  4. 1937 – The Life of Emile Zola (Dieterle)
  5. 1938 – The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock)
  6. 1939 – The Roaring Twenties (Walsh)
  7. 1945 – Scarlet Street (Lang)
  8. 1946 – Great Expectations (Lean)
  9. 1950 – All About Eve (Mankiewicz)
  10. 1951 – African Queen (Huston)

Haven’t Watched

  1. 1931 – Little Caesar (Leroy)
  2. 1931 – Public Enemy (Wellman)
  3. 1939 – Young Mr Lincoln (Ford)
  4. 1940 – The Mortal Storm (Borzage)
  5. 1940 – The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch)
  6. 1942 – Yankee Doodle Dandy (Curtiz)
  7. 1944 – Gaslight (Cukor)
  8. 1944 – Lifeboat (Hitchcock)
  9. 1946 – The Big Sleep (Hawks)
  10. 1947 – The Lady From Shanghai (Welles)
  11. 1949 – Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer)
  12. 1950 – In a Lonely Place (Ray)
  13. 1951 – A Place in the Sun (Stevens)
  14. 1952 – Viva Zapata (Kazan)
  15. 1953 – The Naked Spur (Man)
  16. 1953 – Roman Holiday (Wyler)
  17. 1953 – The Wild One (Benedek)
  18. 1954 – The Country Girl (Seaton)
  19. 1955 – The Lady Killers (Mackendrick)
  20. 1955 – The Man With the Golden Arm (Preminger)
  21. 1955 – Mister Roberts (Ford / Leroy)
  22. 1956 – High Society (Walters)
  23. 1956 – The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock)
  24. 1956 – The Wrong Man (Hitchcock)
  25. 1957 – A Face in the Crowd (Kazan)
  26. 1957 – Funny Face (Donen)
  27. 1957 – Love in the Afternoon (Wilder)
  28. 1957 – Shane (Stevens)
  29. 1957 – The Spirit of St. Louis (Wilder)
  30. 1957 – 3:10 to Yuma (Daves)
  31. 1958 – Bell Book and Candle (Quine)
  32. 1958 – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brooks)
  33. 1959 – Ben Hur (Wyler)
  34. 1959 – Suddenly Last Summer (Mankiewicz)
  35. 1960 – Exodus (Preminger)
  36. 1961 – Judgment at Nuremburg (Kramer)
  37. 1961 – The Misfits (Huston)
  38. 1961 – One Two Three (Wilder)
  39. 1961 – West Side Story (Robbins/Wise)
  40. 1962 – Birdman of Alcatraz (Frankenheimer)
  41. 1963 – Charade (Donen)
  42. 1963 – Hud (Ritt)
  43. 1963 – Pink Panther (Edwards)
  44. 1965 – Help (Lester)
  45. 1965 – How to Murder Your Wife (Quine)
  46. 1965 – Sons of Katie Elder (Hathaway)
  47. 1966 – Casino Royale (Guest, Hughes, Huston, McGrath)
  48. 1966 – How To Steal a Million (Wyler)
  49. 1967 – Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Kramer)
  50. 1969 – The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
  51. 1971 – Fiddler on the Roof (Jewison)
  52. 1971 – The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich)
  53. 1971 – Straw Dogs (Peckinpah)
  54. 1973 – American Graffiti (Lucas)
  55. 1973 – Papillon (Schaffer)
  56. 1974 – The Conversation (Coppola)
  57. 1974 – The Front Page (Wilder)
  58. 1976 – The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (Gessner)
  59. 1976 – The Outlaw Josey Wales (Eastwood)
  60. 1977 – Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg)
  61. 1979 – …And Justice For All (Jewison)
  62. 1979 – Kramer vs Kramer (Benton)
  63. 1980 – Raging Bull (Scorsese)
  64. 1982 – Tootsie (Pollak)
  65. 1982 – The Verdict (Lumet)
  66. 1985 – Pale Rider (Eastwood)
  67. 1987 – Lethal Weapon (Donner)
  68. 1988 – Rain Man (Levinson)
  69. 1989 – My Left Foot (Sheridan)
  70. 1990 – Awakenings (Marshall)
  71. 1992 – Glengarry Glen Ross (Foley)
  72. 1992 – Romper Stomper (Wright)
  73. 1992 – Last of the Mohicans (Mann)
  74. 1993 – Manhattan Murder Mystery (Allen)
  75. 1995 – Bridges of Madison County (Eastwood)
  76. 1995 – Desperado (Rodriguez)
  77. 1995 – Dead Man (Jarmusch)
  78. 1997 – The Brave (Depp)
  79. 1999 – Analyze this (Ramis)
  80. 2000 – Chinese Coffee (Pacino)
  81. 2003 – Goodbye Lenin (Becker)
  82. 2004 – Finding Neverland (Foster)
  83. 2004 – Mean Creek (Estes)
  84. 2006 – The Last King of Scotland (Macdonald)
  85. 2007 – Death at a Funeral (Oz)
  86. 2008 – The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas (Herman)
  87. 2008 – Changeling (Eastwood)
  88. 2009 – Public Enemies (Mann)
  89. 2009 – Up in the Air (Reitman)
  90. 2010 – Biutiful (Inarritu)

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