1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die is a film reference book edited by Steven Jay Schneider with original essays on each film contributed by over 70 film critics. It is a part of a series designed and produced by Quintessence Editions, a London-based company, and published in English-language versions by Cassell Illustrated (UK), ABC Books (the publishing division of Australian Broadcasting Corporation), and Barron's (US). The first edition was published in 2003; the most recent edition was published in 2021.
1008 individual movies listed because the following are listed as one item in the book:
- Leni Riefenstah Olympia Part 1 & Part 2
- Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible Part I & Part II
- All four Toy Stroy movies
- Lord of the Rings trilogy
Changes for 2021 Edition:
Removals:
- Lamerica (1994)
- Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
- 13th (2016)
- The Handmaiden (2016)
- Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
- Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
- Hereditary (2018)
- The Favourite (2018)
- Sorry to Bother You (2018)
- Avengers - Endgame (2019)
- Monos (2019)
Additions:
- The Blue Kite (La Feng Sheng) (1993) *
- The Vast of Night (2019)
- The Assistant (2019)
- Rocks (2019)
- Saint Maud (2019)
- Tenet (2020)
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
- Soul (2020)
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
- Lovers Rock [Episode 2 of Small Axe] (2020)
- Nomadland (2020)
* re-added
