50 Movies to Watch Before You Die

Here's a list of 50 movies you need to watch before you die.

AKA 50 of my favorite movies (not necessarily the best of all time, but my favorite films).

Here's the full list:
Emperor’s New Groove
Whiplash
Inglorious Basterds
The Batman
Revenge of the Sith
Empire Strikes Back
Fight Club
Dune
Ratatouille
Into the Spider-Verse
Avatar & Avatar 2
Saving Private Ryan
Logan
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Revenant
Thor: Ragnarok
Avengers Infinity War & Endgame
The Dark Knight
Good Will Hunting
The Wolf of Wall Street
Ready Player One
Back to the Future
Inception
The Martian
The Prestige
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
La La Land
Little Women
Knives Out
Deadpool
Spiderman: No Way Home
Oceans Eleven
Black Panther 1 & 2
Iron Man
Rogue One
Interstellar
A Quiet Place
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Coco
Jurassic Park
John Wick
Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049
The Social Network
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Se7en
Gladiator
Dead Poets Society

Honorable Mentions:
The Princess Bride
Catch Me If You Can
The Shawshank Redemption
Schindler’s List
The Breakfast Club
The Truman Show
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Terminator & T2: Judgement Day

There are plenty of AMAZING films that aren't on this list, so I may end up updating it at a later date. Comment below if you have a favorite movie you think should be added!

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[kapilraj]

In my opinion, If anyone doesn't mention "Shashank Redemption" in their list. The list is incompleted.

[mushroom]

Im so happy ratatouille was on this list. I feel like it doesn't get as much love as it should, even the music is spot on

[vangoghloverforever]

•Good Will Hunting. (Robin Williams is such an amazing actor)
•The Party.
•Forrest Gump
•On The Count of Three
•The Green Mile
•Being John Malkovich (surprisingly good??)
•Taxi Driver
•Dead Poets Society
•Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind(watch a comedy after it)
•Everything Everywhere All at Once.
•Interstellar (best and most complex sci Fi and space movie remains in my top ten)
•The Martian
•All Quiet on The Western Front.
•1917
•Hacksaw Ridge
•Lolita(made me physically ill but the movie romanticizes it a bit so go read the book to get an actual idea)
•When Harry Met Sally
•Fight Club
•As You Are
•Perks of Being a Wallflower(overrated bas still a good movie)
•Coraline(I love Coraline)
•My Own Private Idaho
•Watchmen
•Memento
•I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
•A Silent Voice
•Ferris Buellers Day Off
•Requiem for a Dream
•Brothers
•The Interview
•Old Boy
•Gran Torino
•The Pianist
•Whiplash
•Shawshank Redemption
•Southpaw
•Spirited Away.
•Howl's Moving Castle.
•Saving Private Ryan
•Gravity
•Arrival
•Inception
•The Matrix
•Aliens
•The Best Year of Our Lives
•Casablanca
•Shutter Island
•Se7en
•Prisoners
•The Departed
•A Beautiful Mind
•Silence of The Lambs
•Die Hard
•300
•Bohemian Rhaspody
•Elvis
•Braveheart
•Ths Irishman
•Ths Social Network
•Hereditary
•Black Swan
•The Truman Show
•I, Tonya
•Night Crawler
•The Prestige
•Vincent Van Gogh
•Nocturne
•The Pursuit of Happyness
•Coach Carter
•Kill Your Darlings
•The Whale
•Loving Vincent (AHHHH I LOVE VINCENT VAN GOGH!!!!)
•American Beauty
•Fatherhood
•The Shining
•Lady bird
•Precious
•The Theory of Everything
•Detachment(Adrien Brody is so amazing in every movie he's in, ex: The Pianist, Houdini, just to name two)
•Houdini
•Melancholia
•Vortex
•17 again
•Begin Again (cute romance it's actually so cute)
•Come and See
•The White Ribbon
•Au Revoir Les Enfants (so far so good[AMAZING 😭😭😭😭])
•There Will Be Blood.
•Shoah (tears were shed)
•Ida
•Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (actually fuck off it's so sad I hate it and love it)
•Hiroshima
•Grave of The Fireflies (struck my heart)
•Life is Beautiful (loveloveloveit titles mislead you wouldn't think it's a war movie)
•Memories of Murder
•Bram Stokers Dracula (Gary Oldman)
•Brokeback Mountain (why don't I just kill myself)
•Shame.
•Schindler's List
•Ivans Childhood (it's making me ill)
•Adieu Philippine
•Kyrie
•A Woman is A Woman
•La Haine
•Le Bonheur
•Tokyo Godfathers (lowkey kinda funny)
•Only Lovers Left Alive (I LOVE TILDA SWINTON)
•Madam Bovary (Isabelle huppert is such an underrated actress)
•Autumn Sonata
•Annie Hall
•Reds
•The Shape of Water
•The Unbearable Lightness of Being (ITS SOSOSOSOSOSKO GOOD)
•The Lyrics on The Bridge. (SAME ACTRESS AS THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS KF BEING)
•Jojo Rabbit (never thought a comedy about Hitler being some kids imaginary friend in the 1940's would be this depressing)
•Saló
•Fleabag (actually altered the course of my life)
•What We do In The Shadows (not a movie but it's really funny)
•Sophie's Choice (sobbed my way through it)
•Billy Elliot (go little ballet boy)
•Cunk on Earth (again, not a movie, bas it's one of me and my sisters favourite shows)
•Paths of Glory.
•On The Silver Globe
•Spirits of The Dead
•La Notte
•Liverleaf
•La Religieuse
I have more but I didn't want to write the rest 😔‼️‼️‼️‼️
The rest:
•The Truman Show (Arguably one of Jim Carrey's best movies)
•Children of Men(it was so good??)
•Ce Que le Jour Doit a La Nuit(what the day owes the night)
•Stand By Me
•Sleepers (They didn't deserve that ☹️)
•Beautiful Boy.
•Thirteen.
•The Florida Project.
•Green Street. (ITS A FUN MOVIE)
•A Street Cat Named Bob. (I love Bob)
•Love and Pop
•Je Tu il Elle
•Vagabond
•Portrait of a Lady on Fire
•Belladona of Sadness
•Angel's Egg
•وهلأ لوين؟( HONORARY MENTION TO AN AMAZING ARAB FILM BECAUSE I'M ARAB AND I LOVE IT‼️‼️‼️?Where do we go now)
•For Sama (it's sosisisososo good.)
•The Prophet/Al Nabee (gibran Khalil gibrans work adapted into a movie)
•You Will Die at Twenty (It's a must watch.)
•A Feeling Greater Then Love (talks about the labor movement in Lebanon and it's really good)
•A Suspended Life.
•Theeb.
•West Beirut

[michaellopez]

these are just the greatest blockbusters of the last couple decades. I think movies to watch before you die are ones that leave lessons and that you’ll think about on a daily basis

[Epz]

The Revenant absolutely. The most stunning emotion and film environment you will likely ever see. Surprised it isn't talked about as much these days.

[jasp]

Some of the newer movies are a bit 6/10 but some of the classics are straight up 11/10

[dxctr_master]

The Perks of being a wallflower omg I cried at it

[egluxrl]

I’d put “No Country for old men” in there before any of the Star Wars movies

[TeshiKyoshi]

Just watched the prestige...what a masterpiece

[realkingofantarctica]

A movie someone has to watch "in their lifetime" is a very different thing to telling someone to watch the best movies ever. While there is overlap, a movie to watch "before you die" or before you are no longer a human being, has to be something that instills a great deal of human emotion within you.

Whether it be a sad movie, a happy movie, a funny movie, a goofy movie, a movie that shows the evil of humanity, a movie that shows our undying goodness, these movies have to be ones that can guide you through life and help you to understand and reflect on the world we're stuck with.

[manhig]

Forrest Gump not being here is a crime

[berkavci]

Even though, I am not fully agree with your movie selections I appreciate the lenght and music of the video. Its refreshing to watch a list video without tiktok music.

[GDFR]

The Truman show, green book, dances with wolves, castaway, braveheart, and Forrest gump should be on here. They are timeless classics

[stianhaland]

loved your list, you have basically the same taste in movies as me. I think I've watched 46 or something out of the 50 movies, so omw to watch the 4 I hadnt seen

[gerrardharry]

coco made me cry inside, my throat is filled with pain and tears

[Genesizs]

My top 12 watch before die is :

1:Good Fellas
2:Fight Club
3:Pulp Fiction
4:Snatch
5:Memento
6:Natural Born Killers (1994)
7:Léon (Léon the Professional
7:Looper (2012)
8:The Conjuring
9:American History X
10:Forrest Gump
11:The Departed
12:The Matrix (1999)

[sylverserf]

The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, The Wizard of Oz, you didn't go back far enough.

[confused]

In no particular order, I'd like to recommend:
- Ghost in the Shell (1995)
- Hoop Dreams (1994)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Akira (1988)
- Birdman (2014)
- Network (1976)
- Oldboy (2003)
- High and Low (1963)
- No Country for Old Men (2007)

[ashokdey]

What about Pursuit of Happyness, Forrest Gump, Life of Pi, Once Upon a Time in America ? These movies deserves a place in this list.

[lobot]

Jurassic Park, Shin Godzilla, Bladerunner, The Goonies, No Country For Old Men, LotR trilogy, The Matrix, Spiderman 1&2, Cinderella Man, Master and Commander, Indiana Jones 1-3, Star Wars 3-6, Gran Torino, The Sandlot, Harry Potter movies, Ghost Busters, Star Trek Wrath of Khan, Silence of the Lambs, Top Gun 1&2, X-Men 1-2 and Days of Future Past, The Northman, Predator, Alien 1&2, Contact, Signs, Life Aquatic, Dead Pool, Fargo, Parasite, Sicario, Braveheart, Tropic Thunder, The Mummy, The Thing, Miracle, Dark Knight trilogy, Gladiator, Pans Labyrinth, Ex Machina, The Big Lebowski, Apollo 13, Logan, District 9, Office Space, Tomb Stone, The Prestige, Saving Private Ryan, The Last Samurai, Gangs of New York, Snatch, Monty Python, Life of Brian, John Wick and Starship Troopers.

I could probably think of a few more, but those are among my favorites.