If you watch these 3 movies it's exactly like going to film school.

Godfather
Raging bull
Breathless

Done: 1920,1930,1940,1950,1960,1970,1980, 2010,2000,1990

1920's

1. The Kid
2. Nosferatu
3. Safety Last
4. Greed
5. The Battleship Potemkin
6. The Gold Rush
7. Sunrise
8. Metropolis
9. The Passion of Joan of Arc

1930's

10.All Quiet on the Western Front

11.City Lights
12.M
13.Duck Soup
14.It Happened One Night
15.The 39 Steps
16.Modern Times
17.Bringing Up Baby
18.Gone With the Wind
19.Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
20.Wizard of Oz
21.The Rules of the Game
1940's

22.The Grapes of Wrath

23.Citizen Kane
24.Casablanca
25.Double Indemnity
26.It's a Wonderful Life
27.The Best Years of Our Lives
28.The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
29.The Bicycle Thieves
30.Rope
31.The Third Man
32.Notorious, Rebecca
33.The Maltese Falcon

1950's

34.Sunset Blvd.
35.Rashomon
36.Strangers on a Train
37.High Noon
38.Rear Window
39.12 Angry Men
40.The Seventh Seal
41.Paths of Glory
42.Vertigo
43.Some Like it Hot
44.A Streetcar Named Desire
45.Ugetsu
46.Seven Samurai
47.Touch of Evil
48.Ben Hur
49.The Night of the Hunter
1960's

50.Psycho (classic)
51.The Apartment
52.To Kill a Mockingbird
53.Lawrence of Arabia
54.Dr. Strangelove
55.The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
56.Bonnie and Clyde
57.Once Upon a Time in the West
58.2001: A Space Odyssey
59.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
60.My Fair Lady _____pending
61.For a Few Dollars More
62.The Graduate
63.Midnight Cowboy
64.8 ½
65.The sound of music
66.Andrei Rublev
67.Persona
68.Breathless

1970's

69.A Clockwork Orange

70.The Godfather
71.The Exorcist
72.The Godfather Part II
73.Chinatown
74.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
75.Monty Python and the Holy Grail
76.Taxi Driver
77.Star Wars
78.Apocalypse Now
79.Patton
80.Annie Hall
 81.The Deer Hunter
82.Star Wars
83.Rocky
84.Jaws

1980's

85.The Shining
86.Raiders of the Lost Ark
87.The Thing
88.Scarface
89.Amadeus
90.Once Upon a Time in America
91.Platoon
92.Full Metal Jacket
93.Die Hard
94.Glory
95.Back To The Future (iconic)

96.Raging Bull (apotheosis of its genre)

97.Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back (classic)

98.E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial (most popular)

99.The Breakfast Club

100. Blue Velvet
101. Fanny and Alexander
102. Blade Runner
103. Grave of the Fireflies
104. Cinema Paradiso

1990's

105. Goodfellas
 106. The Silence of the Lambs
107. Unforgiven
108. Shindler's List
109. Pulp Fiction
110. The Shawshank Redemption
111. Se7en
112. Fargo
113. Saving Private Ryan
114. The Big Lebowski
115. Fight Club
116. The Matrix (apotheosis of its genre)
117. Forrest Gump (most popular)

118. The Piano(France)

119. The Thin Red Line
120. Breaking the Waves

2000's

121. Memento
122. Requiem for a Dream
123. Amelie (French)
124. City of God (portuges)
125. LOTR: Return of the King
126. The Departed
127. There Will Be Blood
128. No Country For Old Men
129. The Dark Knight
130. Inglorious Basterds
131. Brokeback Mountain
132. Cache( French)
133. Mullholland Drive
134. In the Mood for Love (Hong Kong film)
 135. The Pianist(polland)
136. Spirited Away
137. Children of Men (primal work of art)
138. Oldboy(2003) (apotheosis of its genre)
139. Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind

2010's

140. Inception
141. Drive
142. A Separation
143. Django Unchained
144. Moonrise Kingdom
145. The Wolf of Wall Street
146. Her
147. Whiplash
148. Inherent Vice
149. Boyhood
150. The Social Network (iconic)
151. La La Land (primal work of art)
152. Gravity (most popular)
153. Birdman
Kannada must watch movies:

Out of the many number of great films releasing every decade, it is quite difficult
to just name one among them. So, I have classified the best movies into 5
categories:

 Iconic - etched in our memory for its iconic dialogues and scenes
 Primal work of art - brilliance in every craft
 Apotheosis of its genre - the pinnacle in the respective genre
 Classic - most influential
 Most Popular - popular among audience, minting huge money

1970s
1. Annie Hall (iconic)
2. Apocalypse Now (primal work of art)
3. Taxi Driver (apotheosis of its genre)
4. The Godfather (classic)
5. Jaws (most popular)
Special Mention: Chinatown

1980s
1. Back To The Future (iconic)
2. The Shining (primal work of art)
3. Raging Bull (apotheosis of its genre)
4. Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back (classic)
5. E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial (most popular)
Special Mention: The Breakfast Club

1990s
 1. Pulp Fiction (iconic)
2. Schindler’s List (primal work of art)
3. The Matrix (apotheosis of its genre)
4. Goodfellas, The Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club (classic)
5. Forrest Gump (most popular)
Special Mention: The Silence of the Lambs

2000s

1. No Country for Old Men (iconic)

2. Children of Men (primal work of art)
3. Oldboy(2003) (apotheosis of its genre)
4. The Dark Knight (classic)
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (most popular)
Special Mentions: Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind, Inglourious Basterds

2010s so far

1. The Social Network (iconic)

2. La La Land (primal work of art)
3. Inception (apotheosis of its genre)
4. Boyhood (classic)
5. Gravity (most popular)
Special Mentions: Birdman, A Separation

If you want me to pick just one for each decade, then my personal picks would be:

1960s - Psycho

1970s - The Godfather

1980s - Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back

1990s - Pulp Fiction

2000s - The Dark Knight
2010s - The Social Network

1960s: The Critics and Scholars

5. Andrei Rublev

4. Persona

3. Breathless

2. 8 1/2
1. 2001: A space Odyssey
1960s: The Film Buffs

5. Lawrence of Arabia

4. Dr. Strangelove

3. Psycho
2. Once Upon a Time in the West
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
We’ll have to go deeper. Psycho is 6th on the critics’ list … but 2001 is 7th on the
film buffs’. It’s very close, but …

The consensus best film of the 1960s was 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley
Kubrick, 1968).

1970s: The Critics and Scholars

5. Chinatown

4. The Godfather Part II

3. Taxi Driver
2. Apocalypse Now
1. The Godfather

1970s: The Film Buffs

5. Apocalypse Now

4. Star Wars [: Episode IV—A New Hope]

3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

2. The Godfather Part II

1. The Godfather

The consensus best film of the 1970s (to the surprise of exactly zero people on
planet Earth) was The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972). Coppola has three
films that made both lists, a feat accomplished by only two other films in this fifty-
year span! Will we ever see a decade like that again?

1980s: The Critics and Scholars

5. The Shining

4. Blue Velvet
3. Fanny and Alexander
2. Blade Runner

1. Raging Bull

1980s: The Film Buffs

5. Grave of the Fireflies

4. Cinema Paradiso

3. Back to the Future

2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
1. Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back
On the critics and scholars’ list, Raiders is 11th, Cinema Paradiso is 14th, The
Empire Strikes Back is 16th, and Back to the Future is 18th.

On the film buffs’ list, The Shining is 6th, Raging Bull is 14th, and Blade Runner
is 18th.
Raiders of the Lost Ark gives it a run for its money, but ..

The consensus best film of the 1980s was The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980).

1990s: The Critics and Scholars

5. The Piano
4. The Thin Red Line

3. Breaking the Waves

2. Pulp Fiction

1. GoodFellas

1990s: The Film Buffs

5. Forrest Gump
4. Fight Club

3. Pulp Fiction

2. Schindler’s List

1. The Shawshank Redemption

It’s worth noting that GoodFellas is 6th on the film buffs’ list and Schindler’s List
is 6th on the critics’. But …

The consensus best film of the 1990s was Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarrentino, 1994).
For the 2000s, we’ll treat the three installments of Peter Jackson’s epic as one
entry.

2000s: The Critics and Scholars

5. Brokeback Mountain

4. The Lord of the Rings

3. Cache

2. Mullholland Drive

1. In the Mood for Love

2000s: The Film Buffs
5. The Pianist

4. Spirited Away
3. City of God

2. The Lord of the Rings

1. The Dark Knight