Bicycle Thieves 1948

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/200-essential-movies-to-watch-now/

Movies I want to see in order to write a convincing cinephile character. This list is a mix of these two:

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls000656362/
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls074063990/

I've got the 10th edition of the German translation of "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die". It's a 960-paged book edited by Steven Jay Schneider, containing the combined knowledge of 77 internationally renowned movie ciritics, with short one to half-sided essays, movie credits, and trivia, throughout all genres and countries.

There are already a number of lists out, however, this book is reviewed every year, and as far as I can tell (I did go through a lot of these lists) non depicts the 2013 edition I possess, which ends with Life of Pi. I then thought of the ideal list being on that includes all movies, starting from the original list from 2003, with all the editions but non of the removals since then. Thanks to the internet, such list exists and therefore I will be adding these here, one by one. I did not "rank" them, because actually the book doesn't either - they are ordered by year and that is as meaningful as any other order I guess. Also, the "ranked lists" all have the problem that some movies are removed, which is why a number of people think about how to renumber this list probably... all things I deem unnecessary.

And yes, I intend to watch them all! If you watch one of them every week, it's just a 20 years task :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Movies_You_Must_See_Before_You_Die

http://1001films.wikia.com/wiki/The_List

Mix of AFI top 100 and BFI top 50. I took the Top 100 from the American Film Institute and the Top 50 from the British Film Institute and mixed the list.

www.afi.com/100years/movies10.aspx

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time

MSN list
http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/gallery/53-movies-you-need-to-see-in-your-lifetime/ss-BBA0RB6?li=BBnb2gh&ocid=iehp#image=54

All the movies on our list

A selection of the most iconic films of the twentieth century.