This list has been compiled from numerous lists found online naming films that everyone should see.
Classics I have seen
- Airplane! (1980)
- Alien (1979)
- American Beauty (1999)
- Annie Hall (1977)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Apollo 13 (1995)
- Arthur (1981)
- Babe (1995)
- Back to the Future (1985)
- Bambi (1942)
- Beauty and the Beast (1991)
- The Birds (1963)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Blue Velvet (1986)
- Braveheart (1995)
- Brazil (1985)
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
- Cabaret (1972)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
- Chinatown (1974)
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- The Color Purple (1985)
- The Crying Game (1992)
- Do the Right Thing (1989)
- Dr No (1962)
- Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
- Easy Rider (1969)
- The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- E.T. – The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
- Fantasia (1940)
- Fargo (1996)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- The Full Monty (1997)
- Gone With The Wind (1939)
- Goldfinger (1964)
- The Graduate (1967)
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- Halloween (1978)
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
- Harvey (1950)
- High Noon (1952)
- Jaws (1975)
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- The King and I (1956)
- King Kong (1933)
- King of Comedy (1983)
- L.A. Confidential (1997)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- The Lion King (1994)
- Lolita (1962)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Manhattan (1979)
- Mary Poppins (1964)
- The Matrix (1999)
- Memento (2000)
- Metropolis (1927)
- Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
- Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
- My Fair Lady (1964)
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
- Nosferatu (1922)
- Oklahoma! (1955)
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
- The Piano (1993)
- Pinocchio (1940)
- The Princess Bride (1987)
- The Producers (1968)
- Psycho (1940)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Rain Man (1988)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
- Requiem for a Dream (2000)
- Rocky (1976)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- Saturday Night Fever (1977)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Schindler’s List (1993)
- Shakespeare In Love (1998)
- The Shining (1980)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Sin City (2005)
- Singin’ In The Rain (1952)
- Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- Spartacus (1960)
- Star Wars (1977)
- The Terminator (1984)
- Thelma and Louise (1991)
- Titanic (1997)
- Tootsie (1982)
- Toy Story (1995)
- Toy Story 2 (1999)
- Trainspotting (1996)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- The Usual Suspects (1995)
- Vertigo (1958)
- West Side Story (1961)
- When Harry Met Sally (1989)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Young Frankenstein (1974)
Classics I have not seen and definitely want to some day
- The African Queen (1951)
- American Graffiti (1973)
- The Apartment (1960)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- Bus Stop (1956)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- Chariots of Fire (1981)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- Deliverance (1972)
- Dial M for Murder (1954)
- The Dirty Dozen (1967)
- Dirty Harry (1971)
- Dinner at Eight (1933)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- Dracula (1931)
- Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
- Enter the Dragon (1973)
- The Exorcist (1973)
- Field of Dreams (1989)
- A Fish Called Wanda (1989)
- Frankenstein (1931)
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- From Russia With Love (1963)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Gandhi (1982)
- The Godfather (1972)
- The Godfather, Part II (1974)
- GoodFellas (1990)
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
- The Great Escape (1963)
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- Hell’s Angels (1930)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
- The Italian Job (1969)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
- Life is Beautiful (1997)
- Mad Max (1979)
- Magnolia (1999)
- My Darling Clementine (1946)
- My Man Godfrey (1936)
- North By Northwest (1959)
- The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- Poltergeist (1982)
- Secrets and Lies (1996)
- Stagecoach (1939)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- The Ten Commandments (1956)
- Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
- The Thin Man (1934)
- The 39 Steps (1935)
- To Catch A Thief (1955)
- To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)