There Are “100 Movies to See Before You Die” and Yahoo! Has The List

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yahoo! Movies today unveiled what movie buffs, film fanatics and celluloid junkies everywhere will hail as the definitive guide to film: “100 Movies to See Before You Die” (http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/100-movies-to-see-before-you-die.html). These 100 titles, which were chosen by the Yahoo! Movies team of editors and film experts, represent the best of cinema from around the world regardless of release date, genre, country of origin, or budget. The list is a way for Yahoo! to connect its audience with some of the most memorable experiences from motion picture history.

“Movies are transformative experiences and these are certainly the most transformative movies”

From modern day films like “Die Hard” and “This is Spinal Tap” to classics like “Lawrence of Arabia” and “It’s a Wonderful Life,” Yahoo! Movies has assembled a list that represents a cross-section of the most significant and timeless movies - ever. Unlike previous film lists from publications and organizations, Yahoo! Movies did not focus solely on American fare — the “100” also includes foreign films from India, Germany, China, Taiwan, Italy and elsewhere. What further defines the Yahoo! Movies compilation is its diversity of movie genre and year. Running the gamut from the 1922 German horror flick “Nosferatu” to the 1964 British musical comedy “A Hard Day’s Night” to the 2001 blockbuster “The Lord of the Rings,” Yahoo! Movies takes a comprehensive view of the silver screen. For film aficionados seeking further insight into the selection process, Yahoo! Movies offers in-depth commentary and expert analysis on 25 of the chosen films.

The 1950’s emerged as the era that produced the most influential movies. Nineteen films from that decade appear on the list, including iconic titles such as “Rashomon,” “12 Angry Men,” “Vertigo” and “Some Like it Hot.” Of note, just three movies produced in the 21^st century made the list – “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “In the Mood For Love,” and “The Lord of the Rings.”

Steven Spielberg carried the mantle of the most influential director with five films spanning his three decade movie career, including “Jaws,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Saving Private Ryan,” “Schindler’s List” and “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial.”

“Movies are transformative experiences and these are certainly the most transformative movies,” said Sean Phillips, executive producer, Yahoo! Movies. “Our hope is that Yahoo! users will post this list on their refrigerators and cross the titles off one by one. These films will entertain, inform and move you, but you’ll need to see them before it’s too late!”

100 Movies to See Before You Die
Title		Director		Year		Country		Genre
12 Angry Men		Sidney Lumet		1957		USA		Drama
2001: A Space Odyssey		Stanley Kubrick		1968		USA		Sci-Fi
400 Blows		Francois Truffaut		1959		France		Foreign
8 ½		Federico Fellini		1963		Italy		Foreign
A Hard Day's Night		Richard Lester		1964		UK		Musical/Comedy
African Queen		John Huston		1952		USA		Drama/War
Alien		Ridley Scott		1979		USA		Sci-Fi/Horror
All About Eve		Joseph L. Mankiewicz		1950		USA		Drama
Annie Hall		Woody Allen		1977		USA		Comedy/Romance
Apocalypse Now		Francis Ford Coppola		1979		USA		War
Battle of Algiers		Gillo Pontecorvo		1967		Italy		War/Foreign
Bicycle Thief, The		Vittorio De Sica		1948		Italy		Foreign
Blade Runner		Ridley Scott		1982		USA		Sci-Fi
Blazing Saddles		Mel Brooks		1974		USA		Comedy
Blow Up		Michelangelo Antononi		1966		UK/Italy		Drama/Foreign
Blue Velvet		David Lynch		1986		USA		Thriller
Bonnie and Clyde		Arthur Penn		1967		USA		Drama/Crime
Breathless		Jean-Luc Godard		1960		France		Foreign
Bridge on the River Kwai		David Lean		1957		UK		War
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid		George Roy Hill		1969		USA		Western
Casablanca		Michael Curtiz		1942		USA		Drama/Romance
Chinatown		Roman Polanski		1974		USA		Drama/Crime
Citizen Kane		Orson Welles		1941		USA		Drama
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon		Ang Lee		2000		Taiwan		Kung Fu/Foreign
Die Hard		John McTiernan		1988		USA		Action
Do the Right Thing		Spike Lee		1988		USA		Drama
Double Indemnity		Billy Wilder		1944		USA		Drama/Crime
Dr. Strangelove		Stanley Kubrick		1964		USA		Comedy
Duck Soup		Leo McCarey		1933		USA		Comedy
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial		Steven Spielberg		1982		USA		Sci-Fi
Enter the Dragon		Robert Clouse		1973		USA		Kung Fu
Exorcist, The		William Friedkin		1973		USA		Horror
Fast Times At Ridgemont High		Amy Heckerling		1982		USA		Comedy
French Connection, The		William Friedkin		1971		USA		Drama/Crime
Godfather, Part II		Francis Ford Coppola		1974		USA		Drama
Godfather, The		Francis Ford Coppola		1972		USA		Drama
Goldfinger		Guy Hamilton		1964		USA/UK		Action/Adventure
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The		Sergio Leone		1968		Italy		Western
Goodfellas		Martin Scorsese		1990		USA		Drama/Crime
Graduate, The		Mike Nichols		1967		USA		Comedy/Romance
Grand Illusion		Jean Renoir		1938		France		Foreign
Groundhog Day		Harold Ramis		1993		USA		Comedy
In the Mood For Love		Wong Kar-Wai		2001		Hong Kong		Foreign
It Happened One Night		Frank Capra		1934		USA		Comedy
It's a Wonderful Life		Frank Capra		1946		USA		Drama
Jaws		Steven Spielberg		1975		USA		Horror
King Kong		Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Shoedsack		1933		USA		Action/Adventure
Lawrence of Arabia		David Lean		1962		UK		Drama/War
Lord of the Rings, The		Peter Jackson		2001		New Zealand/USA		Action/Adventure
M		Fritz Lang		1931		Germany		Drama/Crime
M*A*S*H		Robert Altman		1970		USA		War/Comedy
Maltese Falcon, The		John Huston		1941		USA		Drama/Crime
Matrix, The		Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski		1999		USA		Sci-Fi
Modern Times		Charlie Chaplin		1936		USA		Comedy
Monty Python and the Holy Grail		Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones		1975		UK		Comedy
National Lampoon's Animal House		John Landis		1978		USA		Comedy
Network		Sidney Lumet		1976		USA		Comedy
Nosferatu		F.W. Murnau		1922		Germany		Horror
On the Waterfront		Elia Kazan		1954		USA		Drama
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest		Milos Forman		1975		USA		Drama
Paths of Glory		Stanley Kubrick		1958		USA		War
Princess Mononoke		Hayao Miyazaki		1999		Japan		Animation
Psycho		Alfred Hitchcock		1960		USA		Horror
Pulp Fiction		Quentin Tarantino		1994		USA		Drama/Crime
Raging Bull		Martin Scorsese		1980		USA		Drama/Sports
Raiders of the Lost Ark		Steven Spielberg		1981		USA		Action/Adventure
Raise the Red Lantern		Zhang Yimou		1992		China		Foreign
Rashomon		Akira Kurosawa		1951		Japan		Foreign
Rear Window		Alfred Hitchcock		1954		USA		Thriller
Rebel Without a Cause		Nicholas Ray		1955		USA		Drama
Rocky		John Avildsen		1976		USA		Drama/Sports
Roman Holiday		Billy Wilder		1953		USA		Comedy/Romance
Saving Private Ryan		Steven Spielberg		1998		USA		War
Schindler's List		Steven Spielberg		1993		USA		Drama/War
Searchers, The		John Ford		1956		USA		Western
Seven Samurai		Akira Kurosawa		1954		Japan		Foreign
Shawshank Redemption, The		Frank Darabont		1994		USA		Drama
Silence of the Lambs, The		Jonathan Demme		1991		USA		Horror
Singin' in the Rain		Gene Kelley		1952		USA		Musical
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs		David Hand		1937		USA		Animation
Some Like It Hot		Billy Wilder		1959		USA		Comedy
Sound of Music, The		Robert Wise		1965		USA		Musical
Star Wars		George Lucas		1977		USA		Sci-Fi
Sullivan's Travels		Preston Sturges		1942		USA		Comedy
Sunset Blvd.		Billy Wilder		1950		USA		Drama
Terminator 2: Judgment Day		James Cameron		1991		USA		Sci-Fi
Third Man, The		Carol Reed		1949		UK		Drama
This is Spinal Tap		Rob Reiner		1984		USA		Comedy
Titanic		James Cameron		1997		USA		Drama
To Kill a Mockingbird		Robert Mulligan		1962		USA		Drama
Toy Story		John Lasseter		1995		USA		Animation
Usual Suspects, The		Bryan Singer		1995		USA		Drama/Crime
Vertigo		Alfred Hitchcock		1958		USA		Thriller
When Harry Met Sally...		Rob Reiner		1989		USA		Comedy/Romance
Wild Bunch, The		Sam Peckinpah		1969		USA		Western
Wild Strawberries		Ingmar Bergman		1957		Sweden		Foreign
Wings of Desire		Wim Wenders		1988		Germany		Foreign
Wizard of Oz, The		Victor Fleming		1939		USA		Musical
Woman On the Verge of Nervous Breakdown		Pedro Almodovar		1988		Spain		Foreign
World of Apu, The		Satyajit Ray		1959		India		Foreign

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