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501 BOOKS

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Above the Dark Circus, Hugh Walpole
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400521h.html
The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler
The Accursed Kings, Druon
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Age of Cathedrals, Georges Duby
The Alexandria Quartet, Lawerence Durrell
Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Among the Believers: an Islamic Journey, Naipaul
And to think That I saw it on Mulberry Stree, Dr. Seuss (a.k.a. Theodor Seuss
Geisel)
Andre, Journals, Gide
An Angel at my Table, Frame
Annals of Imperial Rome, Tacitus (in my to be read pile as an ebook)
Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Arctic Dreams, Lopez
At the Back of the North Wind, MacDonald
Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald
Autobiographies, Yeats
Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Cellini
Auto-da-Fe, Canetti
Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope
Barneys Version Richler
The Beast Must Die, Blake
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Berlin the Downfall, Beevor
Berlin Alexanderplatz, Doblin
Berlin Stories, Isherwoord
The Big Clock, Fearing
Birdsong, Sebastien Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Black Like Me, Griffin
The Blind Owl, Hedayat
Bliss and Other Stories, Mansfield
Blood Sport, Francis
The Bloody Chamber, Carter
The Blue Flower, Fitzgerald
Bones and Silence, Hill
Bonjour Tristesse, Sagan
The Book of Margary Kempe, Kempe
Born Victim, Waugh
Borrowed Time, Monette
Boy:Tales of the Childhood, Roald Dahl
Brain Wave, Anderson
Brave New World, Adlous Huxley
The Bride War Black, Woolrich
Brideshead Revisisted, Waugh
Brief Lives, Aubrey
Cairo Trilogy, Mahfouz
Cakes and Ale Maugham
Candide or Optimism, Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
A Canticle for Liebowitz, Miller
Captain Corellis Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
The Castle of Otranto, Walpole
Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
Changing Places, David Lodge
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl (review due to be posted)
Charlottes Web EB White
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, Anderson
The Cheese and The Worms, Ginsberg
Cheri, Colette
Childhood, Youth and Exile, Herzen
Childrens and Household Tales, Brothers Grimm
The Chinese Orange Mystery, Queen
Chinese Shadows, Leys
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Citizens A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Schama
City, Sheckley
The Civilization of tte Rennaissance in Italy, Burckhardt
Clarrissa, Richardson
A Clockwork Orange, Burgess
Cold Heaven, Moore
The Collected Stories, Chekhov
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, Ferguson
The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Complete Nonsense Book, Edward Lear
Confessions, Augustine (review pending)
Confessions, Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Conscience of Zeno, Svevo
The Corrections, Franzen
Cosmiconmics, Calvino
Couples, John Updike
Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky
The Cruise of the Snark, London
The Crusades through Arab Eyes, Maalouf
The Crystal World, Ballard
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Haddon
Daily Life in Ancient Rome, Carcopino
The Danube, Magris
The Daughter of Time, Tey
The Day of the Triffids, Wyndham
De Profundis, Oscar Wilde
Dead Mans Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson, Nicholas Rankin
Deadlock, Paretsky
Death in the Wrong Room, Gilbert
Death of my Aunt, Kitchin
Declares Pereira, Tabucchi
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon
The Decline of the West, Spengler
Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Mattingly
The Demolished Man, Bester
Destinations: Esaays from Rolling Stone, Morris
Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly, Bardin
Diaries 1919-23, Kafka
Diary, Samuel Pepys
The Diary of Alice James, James
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Tuchman
The Diviners, Laurence
Dr. Dolittle, Lofting
Dona Flor and her Two Husbands, Amado
Donovans Brain, Siodmak
Double Indemnity, James M. Cain (in my to be read pile)
Dover One, Porter
Down and Out in Paris and London, Orwell
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Dune, Herbert
Dwellers in the Mirage, Merritt
84 Charing Cross Road, Hanff
Embers, Marai
Emil and the Detectives, Koostner
The End of History and the Last Man, Fukuyama
Enduring Love, McEwan
The Engineer of Human Souls, Skvorecky
The English Patient, Ondaatje
Eothan, Kinglake
The Epic of Gilgamesh, Anon
Erewhon, Butler
The Executioners Song, Mailer
Fairy Tales, Andersen
Fairy Tales, Charles Perrault
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Cleland
Farewell, my Lovely, Chandler
The Fatal Shore, Hughes
Father and Son, a Study of Two Temperaments, Gosse
Felicias Journey, William Trevor
The Fellowship of the Ring, JRR Tolkien
FerdyDurke, Gombrowicz
Ficciones, Borges
Fifth Business, Davies
The File on H, Kadare
Final Curtain, Marsh
A Fine Balance, Mistry
Five Children and It, E Nesbit
Flesh in the Age of Reason, Porter
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley
From the Fifteenth District, Gallant
Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money, Buchan
Gaudy Night, Sayers
Giovannis Room, Baldwin
The Glass Bead Game, Hesse
The Glass-sided Ants Nest, Dickinson
Gods First Love, Heer
Gods Grace, Malamud
Golden Earth: Travels in Burma, Lewis
The Golden Notebook, Lessing
The Golem, Singer
A Good Man is Hard to Find, OConnor
The Good Soldier, Ford
Gormenghast, Peake
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Railway Bazaar, Paul Theroux
The Green Child, Reed
A Grief Observed, Lewis
The Group, McCarthy
Gullivers Travels, Jonathon Swift
Hadrian the Seventh, Rolfe
Hamlet, Revenge!, Innes
The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Happy Prince and Other Tales, Oscar Wilde
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, JK Rowling (note: its Socerers
Stone in America)
The Haunted Man, Charles Dickens
He Who Whispers, Carr
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, McCullers
Heart of Darkness, Conrad (in to be read pile on ipad)
Heidi, Spyri
Herzog, Bellow
A High Wind in Jamaica, Hughes
Hiroshima, Hersey
Histories, Heredotus
The History of Tom Jones, Fielding
A History of Warfare, Keegan
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Hitler and Stalin Parallel Lives, Bullock
The Holocaust a Jewish Tradegy, Gilbert
The Horses Mouth, Carey
Hothouse, Aldiss
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hour of Our Death, Aries
A House and its Head, Compton-Burnett
House for Mr Biswas, Naipaul
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
How Like an Angel, Millar
Howards End, EM Forster
The Human Comedy, Saroyan
The Human Stain, Roth
A Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez
Hunger, Hamsun
I am Legend, Richard Matheson
I, Robot, Issac Asimov
I will bear Witness, Klemperer
If on a Winters Night a Traveller, Calvino
Illiad, Homer
An Imaginary Life, Malouf
In the Castle of my Skin, Lamming
In the Last Analysis, Cross
In Patagonia, Chatwin
In Praise of Older Women, Vizinczey
In Search of Lost Time, Proust
Interview with a Vampire, Anne Rice
Into the Heart of Borneo, OHanlon
The Invention of More!, Casares
The Inverted World, Priest
Islam in History, Lewis
The Island of Dr. Moreau, Wells
Islandia, Wright
It, Stephen King
Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang, Richler
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Journal Intime, Amiel
Journal of a Solitude, Sarton
Journal of Katherine Mansfield, Mansfield
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, Speke
Journey to the End of the Night, Celine
Journey to the Hebrides, Johnson and Boswell
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
A Judgement in Stone, Rendell
Julys People, Gordimer
Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
Kim, Kipling
The King of the Golden River, Ruskin
King Solomons Mines, Haggard
The Kingdom of this World, Carpentier
Kon Tiki, Heyerdahl
La Bete Humaine, Zola (The Human Beast)
La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, Parkman
Lady Audleys Secret, Braddon
LAmant, Durse (The Lover)
The Last Detective, Lovesey
Last Exit to Brooklyn, Selby
Last and First Men, Stapledon
The Last Place on Earth, Huntford
The Last Unicorn, Beagle
The Laughing Policeman, Sjowall and Wahloo
The Laxian Key, Simak
Le Grand Meaulnes, Alain-Fournien
Left Hand of Darkness, LeGuin
The Leopard, Tomasi di Lampedusa
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Lest Darkness Fall, Campo
Letters, Pliny the Younger
Leviathan and the Air Pump, Shapin
Life of Pi, Martel
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lolita, Nabokov
London The Biography, Ackroyd
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Lost Horizon, Hilton
Madam Bovary, Flaubert
The Magic Mountain, Mann
The Magician of Lublin, Singer
Malice Aforethought, Iles
The Man in the Net, Quentin
The Man who Killed Himself, Symons
The Man who Loved Children, Stead
The Man who was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers
The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov (currently reading)
The Master, Toibin
Medieval Cities: Their Origin and the Revival of Trade, Pirenne
The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Reign of Phillip II,
Braudel
Memoirs, Neruda
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, De Beauvoir
Memoirs of Hadrian, Yourcenar
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Jung
The Messiah of Stockholm, Ozick
Middlemarch: A study in Provincial Life, Eliot
Millennium, Ferdinandez-Armesto
The Misfortunes of Sophie, Segur
Miss Smilla Feeling for Snow, Peter Hoeg
Mr Hires Engagement, Simenon
Mr Westons Good Wine, Powys
Moby-Dick or The Whale, Herman Melville
The Moonstone, a Romance, Wilkie Collins
More than Human, Theodore Sturgeon (in my to be read pile)
More work for the Undertaker, Allingham
The Moving Toyshop, Edmund Crispin
The Murder of Roger Ackyroyd, Agatha Christie
The Murder Room, James
My Family and Other Animals, Laurence Durrell
My Journey to Lhasa, David-Neel
My Left Foot, Christie Brown
My Place, Morgan
The Mystery of the Yellow Room, Leroux
Nadja, Breton
The Naked Heart, Gay
The Naked Lunch, Burroughs
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe
The Nephew, Purdy
Neuromancer, Gibson
Never Cry Wolf, Mowat
Neverending Story, Ende
The New York Trilogy, Auster
1984, George Orwell
No orchids for Miss Blandish, Chase
Nobodys Boy, Malot
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell
Northern Lights, Philip Pullman
Old Goriot, Balzac
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
On Fiji Islands, Wright
On the Narrow Road to the Deep North, Downer
Once were Warriors, Duff
Oranges are not the Only Fruit, Winterson
The Origins of the Second World War, Taylor
The Ornament of the World, Menocal
Oscar and Lucinda, Carey
Our Lady of the Flowers, Genet
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
Out of the Silent Planet, Lewis
The Outsider, Camus
An Oxford Tragedy, Masterman
Pagans and Christians, Fox
The Palm-Wine Drinkard, Tutuola
Pandemonium, Jennings
Parallel Lives, Plutarch
Passage to India, E.M. Forester
Paula, Allende
Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire, Morris
Pedro Paramo, Rulfo
Pentimento, Hellman
A Peoples History of the United States, Zinn
Perfume, Suskind
The Periodic Table, Levi
Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
The Pilgrims Progress, Bunyan
A Pin to See the Peep-Show, Jesse
Pinocchio, Collodi
Pippi Longstocking, Lindgren
Planet of the Apes, Boulle
The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century,
Brewer
Poetry and Truth: From my Own Life, Goethe
The Poisoned Chocolates Case, Berkeley
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
Possession, A.S. Byatt
Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, Machado
The Power and the Glory, Greene
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Spark
The Progress of Love, Munro
Psycho, Bloch
The Purple Land, Hudson
The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
Quiet as a Nun, Fraser
The Radetzky March, Roth
A Rage in Harlem, Himes
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Nafisi
Rebecca, Daphe Du Maurier
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Wiggin
The Red and the Black, Stendhal
The Red Box, Stout
A Red Death, Mosley
Red Harvest, Hammett
The Red House Mystery, A.A. Milne
Regeneration Trilogy, Barker
The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro
Ringworld, Niven
Rites of Spring, Eksteins
The Road to Oxiana, Byron
Roads to Santiago, Nooteboom
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
Rose at Ten, Denevi
A Rose for Winter, Lee
Running in the Family, Ondaatje
Sailing Along aroudn teh World, Slocum
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
The Scarlet Letter, Nathanial Hawthorne (in to be read pile on ipad)
The Scorpion Fish, Bouvier
The Sea of Fertility, Mishima
The Sea, The Sea, Murdoch
The Seasick Whale, Kishon
The Secret Garden, Elisaabeth Burnett
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Seven Gothic Tales, Dinesen
The Seven Per Cent Solution, Meyer
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence
The Seven Storey Mountain, Merton
Seven Years in Tibet, Harrer
The Sheep Look Up, Brunner
Shikasta, Lessing
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Casas
Short Stories, Saki
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, Newby
A Sicilian Romance, Radcliffe
Stan, Van Vogt
Slaughterhouse Five, or The Childrens Crusade, Kurt Vonnegut
The Sleeping-Car Murders, Japrisot
The Snow Leopard, Matthiessen
Solaris, Lem
Soldiers of Salamis, Cercas
Sophies Choice, Styron
Sophies World, Jostein Gaarder
The Sorrows of Young Werther, Goethe
The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner
Southern Cross to Pole Star, Tschiffely
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, Nabokov
The Spy who Came in from the Cold, Le Carre
Staying On, Scott
The Steam Pig, McClure
The Stepford Wives, Levin
The Stories of John Cheever, Cheever
The Story of English, McCrum
The Story of My Life, Keller
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stevenson
Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, De Mille
Stranger in a Strange Land, Heinlein
The Stripping of the Altars, Duffy
Suicide Excepted, Hare
The Sunday Woman, Fruttero
Surfacing, Atwood
Swallows and Amazons, Ransome
The Sweet Heather, Banks
The Sword in the Stone, White
Take a Girl Like You, Amis
The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, Poe
Tales of Odessa, Babel
Things Fall Apart, Achebe
The Third Policeman, Flann OBrian
The Thousand and One Nights, anonymous
Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K Jerome
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich, Dick
Thus was Adonis Murdered, Caudwell
The Time of the Hero, Llosa
The Time Traders, Norton
The Tin Drum, Grass
To the Lighthouse, Virgina Wolfe
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Farmer
Toms Midnight Garden, Pearce
The Towars of Trebizond, Macauley
A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain
The Travellers Tree, Fermor
Travels, Battuta
The Travels, Marco Polo
Travels with Charley, Steinbeck
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, Stevenson
Treasure Island, Stevenson
Trents Last Case, Bentley
The Trial, Kafka
Trial and Error, Berkeley
The Trial of Socrates, Stone
Two Planets, Lasswitz
2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke
Ulysses, James Joyce
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Kundera
Underworld, Delillo
Unless, Shields
Unnatural Exposure, Patricia Cornwell
Unquiet Grave: A World Cycle by Palinurus, Connolly
Utopia, More
The Valley of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels, Stark
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
Vathek: An Arabian Tale, Beckford
Vendetta, Michael Dibdin
The Vicar of Wakefield, Oliver Goldsmith
Victory, Conrad
Video Night in Kathmandu, Iyer
Voss, White
Voyage on HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin
Walden; or Life in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau
The War of the Buttons, Pergaud
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
The Wars, Findley
Waverley, Walter Scott
Ways of Escape, Greene
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, Garner
What we Talk About when we Talk about Love, Carver
Where the Jackals Howl, Oz
Where the Wild Things Are, Sendak
The White Hotel, Thomas
Who Goes There, Campbell
Wildlife, Ford
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Winesburg, Ohio, Anderson
Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
The Womens History of the World, Miles
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Baum (in to be read pile on ipad)
Words, Sartre
The World According to Garp, John Irving
The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon
A Wrinkle in Time, LEngle
Wuthering Heights, Bronte
clearly I have missed out one during typing up this list. It will show up,
eventually!

501 MOVIES
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Action/Adventure and Epic

Napoleon (1927)
Cleopatra (1934)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Wages of Fear (1953)
The Seven Samurai (1954)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
War and Peace (1956)
The Vikings (1958)
North by Northwest (1959)
Ben Hur (1959)
Spartacus (1960)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Zulu (1964)
Dr. Zhivago (1965)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
The Lion In Winter (1968)
Waterloo (1970)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Papillon (1973)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Gandhi (1982)

The Right Stuff (1983)


The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants
(based on or using intuition and experience rather than a plan or method) approach
to the space program.

A Passage To India (1984)


Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India
between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and
an English educator.

Ran (1985)
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three
sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them
and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

The Mission (1986)


18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in
danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.

Top Gun (1986)


The Last Emperor (1987)
Die Hard (1988)
Speed (1994)
True Lies (1994)
Braveheart (1995)
The Mummy (1999)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Gladiator (2000)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
Troy (2004)
300 (2006)
Crank (2006)
Iron Man (2008)
Watchmen (2009)

Comedy

Safety Last (1923)


The General (1927)
Duck Soup (1933)
It's a Gift (1934)
Modern Times (1936)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
Way Out West (1937)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Born Yesterday (1950)
Les Vacances de M. Hulot (Mr. Hulot's Holiday) (1953)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Move Over, Darling (1963)
The Pink Panther (1964)
The Producers (1968)
The Odd Couple (1968)
Harold and Maude (1971)
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (but Were Afraid To Ask) (1972)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Animal House (1978)
Airplane! (1980)
Tootsie (1982)
Trading Places (1983)
All of Me (1984)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (1988)
Big (1988)
Home Alone (1990)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Grosse Point Blank (1997)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
There's Something About Mary (1998)
Amelie (2001)
Lost In Translation (2003)
Shaun of The Dead (2004)
Anchorman (2004)
A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Borat : Cultural Learning of America... (2006)
Juno (2007)
Knocked Up (2007)

Drama

Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)


The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Great Expectations (1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Bicycle Thief (1948)
All About Eve (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Ace In the Hole (1951)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Vertigo (1958)
A bout de Souffle (1960)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
8 1/2 (1963)
Belle de Jour (1967)
The Graduate (1967)
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)
Easy Rider (1969)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Nashville (1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
All the President's Men (1976)
Rocky (1976)
Raging Bull (1980)
The King of Comedy (1983)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Rain Man (1988)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
The Player (1992)
Forrest Gump (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Shakespeare In Love (1998)
All About My Mother (1999)
American Beauty (1999)
Traffic (2000)
Vera Drake (2004)
The Lives of Others (2006)
Volver (2006)
United 93 (2006)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Atonement (2007)
The Reader (2008)

Horror

Nosferatu, a Symphony of Terror (1922)


The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Freaks (1932)
King Kong (1933)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Dead of Night (1945)
Les Diaboliques (1955)
Dracula (1958)
Psycho (1960)
Peeping Tom (1960)
Village of the Damned (1960)
The Birds (1963)
The Haunting (1963)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The Exorcist (1973)
Don't Look Now (1973)
The Wicker Man (1973)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Jaws (1975)
The Omen (1976)
Carrie (1976)
Eraserhead (1977)
Halloween (1978)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
The Shining (1980)
Friday the 13th (1980)
The Fog (1980)
An American Werewolf In London (1981)
The Thing (1982)
Poltergeist (1982)
A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
The Fly (1986)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Angel Heart (1987)
Misery (1990)
Tremors (1990)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Scream (1996)
Ringu (1998)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Audition (1999)
The Others (2001)
28 Days Later (2002)
Saw (2004)
The Descent (2005)
The Orphanage (2007)
Let The Right One In (2008)
Drag Me To Hell (2009)

Musical

42nd Street (1933)


Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Top Hat (1935)
Show Boat (1936)
Alexander's Ragtime Banda (1938)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
The Gang's All Here (1943)
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
The Red Shoes (1948)
On the Town (1949)
An American In Paris (1951)
Singin' In the Rain (1952)
The Band Wagon (1953)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)
A Star Is Born (1954)
Oklahoma! (1955)
High Society (1956)
The King and I (1956)
Funny Face (1957)
Pal Joey (1957)
South Pacific (1958)
West Side Story (1961)
Viva Las Vegas (1964)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Mary Poppins (1964)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Funny Girl (1968)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
Woodstock (1970)
Cabaret (1972)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
New York, New York (1977)
Grease (1978)
All That Jazz (1979)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Fame (1980)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Chicago (2002)
Once (2006)
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
High School Musical 3 : Senior Year (2008)
Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Mamma Mia! (2008)

Romance

Sunrise (1927)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Camille (1936)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
Now, Voyager (1942)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Adam's Rib (1949)
The Quiet Man (1952)
Roman Holiday (1953)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
An Affair To Remember (1957)
The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
Pillow Talk (1959)
The Apartment (1960)
Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)
Un Homme Et Une Femme (1966)
Barefoot In the Park (1967)
Love Story (1970)
A New Leaf (1971)
The Way We Were (1973)
Annie Hall (1977)
10 (1979)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Out of Africa (1985)
Nine Weeks (1986)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Dirty Dancing (1987)
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Pretty Woman (1990)
Ghost (1990)
Green Card (1990)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Sleepless In Seattle (1993)
Romeo and Juliet (1996)
The English Patient (1996)
Titanic (1997)
As Good As It Gets (1997)
Hua Yang De Nian Hua (2000)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
Before Sunset (2004)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

Science Fiction / Fantasy

Metropolis (1927)
Lost Horizon (1937)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Silent Running (1972)
Solaris (1972)
Sleeper (1973)
Westworld (1973)
Dark Star (1974)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
Superman (1978)
Alien (1979)
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Scanners (1981)
Time Bandits (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Tron (1982)
Ghostbusters (1984)
The Terminator (1984)
Back To the Future (1985)
Brazil (1985)
Aliens (1986)
Robocop (1987)
Batman (1989)
Total Recall (1990)
Naked Lunch (1991)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Independence Day (1996)
Men In Black (1997)
The Matrix (1999)
X-Men (2000)
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
Spiderman (2002)
Serenity (2005)
Children of Men (2006)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
The Dark Night (2008)
District 9 (2009)

Mystery / Thriller

Little Caesar (1930)


The Public Enemy (1931)
Rebecca (1940)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Double Indemnity (1944)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Kiss of Death (1947)
The Third Man (1949)
Strangers On a Train (1951)
The Big Heat (1953)
Rear Window (1954)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Rififi (1955)
The Killing (1956)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Goldfinger (1964)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Point Blank (1967)
Bullitt (1968)
The Italian Job (1969)
Dirty Harry (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
Mean Streets (1973)
The Sting (1973)
Chinatown (1974)
The Conversation (1974)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Scarface (1983)
Witness (1985)
The Untouchables (1987)
Goodfellas (1990)
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Lon (1994)
Seven (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Fargo (1996)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Memento (2000)
City of God (2002)
Oldboy (2003)
Cache (2005)
Casino Royale (2006)
The Departed (2006)
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

War

Wings (1927)
All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)
Grand Illusion (1937)
In Which We Serve (1942)
Five Graves To Cairo (1943)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Rome, Open City (1945)
They Were Expendable (1945)
Battleground (1949)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
The Desert Fox (1951)
The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
The Cruel Sea (1952)
From Here To Eternity (1953)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Mister Roberts (1955)
Attack! (1956)
The Burmese Harp (1956)
The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
The Longest Day (1962)
The Great Escape (1963)
The Train (1964)
The Bedford Incident (1965)
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Hell In the Pacific (1968)
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Catch-22 (1970)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
M*A*S*H (1970)
Patton (1970)
Cross of Iron (1977)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Big Red One (1980)
Das Boot (1981)
The Killing Fields (1984)
Come and See (1985)
Platoon (1986)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Schindler's List (1993)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Downfall (2004)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
The Hurt Locker (2009)

Western

Union Pacific (1939)


Stagecoach (1939)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Duel In the Sun (1946)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Fort Apache (1948)
Red River (1948)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
The Gunfighter (1950)
Winchester '73 (1950)
Bend of the River (1952)
High Noon (1952)
The Naked Spur (1953)
Shane (1953)
The Searchers (1956)
The Tall T (1957)
3:10 To Yuma (1957)
Forty Guns (1957)
The Big Country (1958)
Man of the West (1958)
Last Train From Gun Hill (1959)
Rio Bravo (1959)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Ride the High Country (1962)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
The Professionals (1966)
Once Upon a Time In the West (1968)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
True Grit (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
Little Big Man (1970)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
Bad Company (1972)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Ulzana's Raid (1972)
High Plains Drifter (1972)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
The Shootist (1976)
The Long Riders (1980)
Young Guns (1988)
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Unforgiven (1992)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
The Proposition (2005)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
No Country for Old Men (2007)

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