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101 [Genre] Movies You Must See Before You Die[]

The same people who brought us the 1,001 Movies books have also produced six other books for the 101 Action, Cult, Gangster, Horror, Sci-Fi, and War Movies we must see before we die. Some of these movies cross over to the 1,001 Movies list, but many are unique to these books.

Viewable and downloadable tracking sheets for all six of these sets of movies, complete with columns indicating which movies are also in the 1,001 Movies list, can be found here: http://www.listsfromchip.blogspot.com/2012/05/1001-movies-you-must-see-before-you-die.html

In addition, the same link above has a consolidated tracking sheet of the 348 unique movies that are in these six volumes, but not in the 1001 Movies list. This sheet can be viewed and downloaded.


101 Action Movies You Must See Before You Die[]

This book was published in 2010 and has films ranging from 1903 to 2009. There are actually 102 movies on it because Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 are listed as a single entry in the book. Twenty-four cross over with the 1,001 Movies list, while 78 are unique.

101 Action

101 Action Movies

Great Train Robbery, The 1903
Perils of Pauline, The 1914
Safety Last! 1923
Thief of Bagdad, The 1924
Captain Blood 1935
Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The 1935
Adventures of Robin Hood, The 1938
Mark of Zorro, The 1940
Three Musketeers, The 1948
Wages of Fear, The 1953
North by Northwest 1959
From Russia with Love 1963
Goldfinger 1964
Thunderball 1965
Come Drink with Me 1966
Our Man Flint 1966
On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969
Airport 1970
Anderson Tapes, The 1971
Diamonds Are Forever 1971
Dirty Harry 1971
Five Fingers of Death 1972
Getaway, The 1972
Poseidon Adventure, The 1972
Slaughter 1972
Enter the Dragon 1973
Foxy Brown 1974
Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The 1974
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 1974
Towering Inferno, The 1974
Death Race 2000 1975
Rollerball 1975
Assault on Precinct 13 1976
Cannonball 1976
Spy Who Loved Me, The 1977
Driver, The 1978
Drunken Master 1978
Five Deadly Venoms 1978
Superman 1978
For Your Eyes Only 1981
Knightriders 1981
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
48 Hrs. 1982
First Blood 1982
Shaolin Temple, The 1982
Commando 1985
Police Story 1985
Top Gun 1986
Lethal Weapon 1987
Bloodsport 1988
Die Hard 1988
Batman 1989
Killer, The 1989
La Femme Nikita 1990
Hunt for Red October, The 1990
Point Break 1991
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
Patriot Games 1992
Under Siege 1992
Fugitive, The 1993
Heroic Trio, The 1993
In the Line of Fire 1993
Iron Monkey 1993
Clear and Present Danger 1994
Crow, The 1994
Fist of Legend 1994
Léon: The Professional 1994
Speed 1994
True Lies 1994
Bad Boys 1995
Desperado 1995
GoldenEye 1995
Mission: Impossible 1996
Rock, The 1996
Air Force One 1997
Con Air 1997
Face/Off 1997
Armageddon 1998
Blade 1998
Ronin 1998
Taxi 1998
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000
Gladiator 2000
X-Men 2000
Fast and the Furious, The 2001
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 2001
Spider-Man 2002
Transporter, The 2002
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003
Lord of the Rings, The: The Return of the King 2003
Ong-Bak 2003
Bourne Supremacy, The 2004
District B13 2004
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004
300 2006
Casino Royale 2006
Bourne Ultimatum, The 2007
Hot Fuzz 2007
Dark Knight, The 2008
Iron Man 2008
Taken 2008
Avatar 2009


101 Cult Movies You Must See Before You Die[]

This book was published in 2010 and has films ranging from 1928 to 2005. Forty-four of the 101 cross over with the 1,001 Movies list, while 57 are unique.

101 Cult

101 Cult Movies

Un Chien Andalou 1928
Reefer Madness 1936
Sullivan's Travels 1941
Out Of The Past 1947
Sunset Boulevard 1950
Night Of The Hunter, The 1955
Rebel Without A Cause 1955
Blob, The 1958
Plan 9 From Outer Space 1959
Jazz On A Summer's Day 1960
Servant, The 1963
Shock Corridor 1963
Bande A Part 1964
Scorpio Rising 1964
Faster, Pussycat - Kill! Kill! 1965
Blow-Up 1966
Chelsea Girls 1966
Persona 1966
Barbarella 1968
Les Idoles 1968
Easy Rider 1969
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls 1970
El Topo 1970
Le Boucher 1970
Lickerish Quartet, The 1970
Performance 1970
Harold and Maude 1971
Two Lane Blacktop 1971
Vampyros Lesbos 1971
Vanishing Point 1971
Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie, The 1972
Harder They Come, The 1972
Pink Flamingos 1972
Superfly 1972
Sisters 1973
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia 1974
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul 1974
Night Porter, The 1974
Phantom Of The Paradise 1974
Grey Gardens 1975
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The 1975
Sholay 1975
Tommy 1975
Last Wave, The 1977
Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes 1978
I Spit On Your Grave 1978
Wiz, The 1978
Zoltan, Hound Of Dracula 1978
Mad Max 1979
Life Of Brian 1979
Warriors, The 1979
Blues Brothers, The 1980
Ms. 45 1981
Time Bandits 1981
Basket Case 1982
Fitzcarraldo 1982
Wild Style 1983
Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai, The 1984
This Is Spinal Tap 1984
Toxic Avenger, The 1984
Blue Velvet 1986
Hitcher, The 1986
Manhunter 1986
Withnail And I 1987
Amazon Women On The Moon 1987
Barfly 1987
Princess Bride, The 1987
Wings Of Desire 1987
Decline Of Western Civilization Part II, The: The Metal Years 1988
Hairspray 1988
Alice (Neco Z Alenky) 1988
Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown 1988
Heathers 1989
Mystery Train 1989
Frankenhooker 1990
Barton Fink 1991
Braindead 1992
Dazed And Confused 1993
Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, The 1994
Clerks 1994
Shallow Grave 1995
City Of Lost Children, The 1995
La Haine 1995
Showgirls 1995
Crash 1996
Twilight Of The Ice Nymphs 1997
Big Lebowski, The 1998
Buffalo '66 1998
Le Diner Des Cons 1998
Run Lola Run 1998
Rushmore 1998
Office Space 1999
Battle Royale 2000
Memento 2000
Donnie Darko 2001
Hedwig And The Angry Inch 2001
Ichi The Killer 2001
Room, The 2003
Kamikaze Girls 2004
Napoleon Dynamite 2004
Brick 2005


101 Gangster Movies You Must See Before You Die[]

This book was published in 2009 and has films ranging from 1912 to 2006. Thirty-nine of the 101 cross over with the 1,001 Movies list, while 62 are unique.

101 Gangster

101 Gangster Movies

Musketeers Of Pig Alley, The 1912
Regeneration 1915
Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler 1922
Underworld 1927
Racket, The 1928
Little Caesar 1931
City Streets 1931
Public Enemy, The 1931
Scarface: The Shame Of A Nation 1932
Testament Of Dr. Mabuse, The 1933
Manhattan Melodrama 1933
G-Men 1935
Petrified Forest, The 1936
Bullets Or Ballots 1936
Pepe Le Moko 1937
Marked Woman 1937
Dead End 1937
Angels With Dirty Faces 1938
Each Dawn I Die 1939
Roaring Twenties, The 1939
High Sierra 1941
This Gun For Hire 1942
Glass Key, The 1942
Killers, The 1946
Big Sleep, The 1946
Kiss Of Death 1947
Brighton Rock 1947
T-Men 1947
I Walk Alone 1948
Drunken Angel 1948
Key Largo 1948
Force Of Evil 1948
White Heat 1949
They Live By Night 1949
Gun Crazy 1950
Enforcer, The 1951
Lavender Hill Mob, The 1951
Big Heat, The 1953
Big Combo, The 1955
Rififi 1955
Killing, The 1956
Bob Le Flambeur 1956
Touch Of Evil 1958
Al Capone 1959
Rise And Fall Of Legs Diamond, The 1960
1,000 Eyes Of Dr. Mabuse, The 1960
Underworld USA 1961
Branded To Kill 1967
St. Valentine's Day Massacre, The 1967
Bonnie And Clyde 1967
Point Blank 1967
Bullitt 1968
Brotherhood, The 1968
Bloody Mama 1970
Get Carter 1971
Shaft 1971
French Connection, The 1971
Godfather, The 1972
Dillinger 1973
Mean Streets 1973
Thieves Like Us 1974
Godfather Part II, The 1974
Bugsy Malone 1976
Atlantic City 1980
Long Good Friday, The 1980
Scarface 1983
Once Upon A Time In America 1984
Prizzi's Honor 1985
Better Tomorrow, A 1986
Untouchables, The 1987
Krays, The 1990
Goodfellas 1990
King Of New York 1990
Miller's Crossing 1990
Grifters, The 1990
New Jack City 1991
Boyz N The Hood 1991
Bugsy 1991
American Me 1992
Hard-Boiled 1992
Reservoir Dogs 1992
Menace II Society 1992
Sonatine 1993
Bronx Tale, A 1993
Carlito's Way 1993
Pulp Fiction 1994
Usual Suspects, The 1995
Get Shorty 1995
Casino 1995
Heat 1995
Donnie Brasco 1997
L.A. Confidential 1997
Short Sharp Shock 1998
Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels 1998
Brother 2000
Sexy Beast 2001
Road To Perdition 2002
Infernal Affairs 2002
Gangs Of New York 2002
Departed, The 2006
Eastern Promises 2006


101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die[]

This book was published in 2009 and has films ranging from 1919 to 2007. Sixty-one of the 101 cross over with the 1,001 Movies list, while 40 are unique.

101 Horror

101 Horror Movies

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The 1919
Golem, The 1920
Nosferatu 1922
Häxan 1922
Phantom of the Opera, The 1925
Dracula 1931
M 1931
Frankenstein 1931
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1931
Freaks 1932
Vampyr 1932
White Zombie 1932
Old Dark House, The 1932
Island of Lost Souls 1932
King Kong 1933
Black Cat, The 1934
Bride of Frankenstein, The 1935
Wolf Man, The 1941
Cat People 1942
I Walked with a Zombie 1943
Diabolique 1955
Bad Seed, The 1956
Curse of Frankenstein, The 1957
Horror of Dracula, The 1958
Tingler, The 1959
Eyes Without a Face 1959
Peeping Tom 1960
Psycho 1960
Black Sunday 1960
Innocents, The 1961
Carnival of Souls 1962
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962
Birds, The 1963
Haunting, The 1963
Onibaba 1964
Masque of the Red Death, The 1964
Repulsion 1965
Viy 1967
Hour of the Wolf 1968
Rosemary's Baby 1968
Devil Rides Out, The 1968
Night of the Living Dead 1968
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders 1970
Abominable Dr. Phibes, The 1971
Daughters of Darkness 1971
Blacula 1972
Last House on the Left, The 1972
Don't Look Now 1973
Exorcist, The 1973
Wicker Man, The 1973
Deathdream 1974
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The 1974
Deep Red 1975
Jaws 1975
Omen, The 1976
Carrie 1976
Suspiria 1977
Eraserhead 1977
Hills Have Eyes, The 1977
Dawn of the Dead 1978
Halloween 1978
Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979
Phantasm 1979
Brood, The 1979
Cannibal Holocaust 1980
Friday the 13th 1980
Shining, The 1980
Dressed to Kill 1980
Howling, The 1981
Beyond, The 1981
American Werewolf in London, An 1981
Poltergeist 1982
Hunger, The 1983
Nightmare on Elm Street, A 1984
Re-Animator 1985
Fly, The 1986
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn 1987
Chinese Ghost Story, A 1987
Hellraiser 1987
Vanishing, The 1988
Jacob's Ladder 1990
Silence of the Lambs, The 1991
Man Bites Dog 1992
Candyman 1992
Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992
Cemetery Man 1994
Scream 1996
Ringu 1998
Blair Witch Project, The 1999
Sixth Sense, The 1999
Audition 1999
Devil's Backbone, The 2001
Others, The 2001
28 Days Later 2002
Tale of Two Sisters, A 2003
High Tension 2003
Ju-on 2003
Saw 2004
Descent, The 2005
Orphanage, The 2007


101 Sci-Fi Movies You Must See Before You Die[]

This book was published in 2009 and has films ranging from 1902 to 2006. Forty-four of the 101 cross over with the 1,001 Movies list, while 57 are unique.

101 Sci-Fi

101 Sci-Fi Movies

Trip to the Moon, A 1902
Trip to Mars, A 1918
Aelita 1924
Paris Asleep 1925
Metropolis 1927
Invisible Man, The 1933
Things to Come 1936
Thing from Another World, The 1951
When Worlds Collide 1951
Day the Earth Stood Still, The 1951
Invaders From Mars 1953
It Came from Outer Space 1953
War of the Worlds, The 1953
Them! 1954
Gojira 1954
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1954
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956
Forbidden Planet 1956
Incredible Shrinking Man, The 1957
Journey to the Center of the Earth 1959
Time Machine, The 1960
Amphibian Man, The 1962
La Jetée 1962
Robinson Crusoe on Mars 1964
Alphaville 1965
Tenth Victim, The 1965
Fahrenheit 451 1966
Seconds 1966
Fantastic Voyage 1966
Who Killed Jessie? 1966
Quatermass and the Pit 1967
Planet of the Apes 1968
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
Clockwork Orange, A 1971
THX 1138 1971
Silent Running 1972
Slaughterhouse-Five 1972
Solaris 1972
Fantastic Planet, The 1973
Sleeper 1973
Soylent Green 1973
Westworld 1973
Dark Star 1974
Man Who Fell to Earth, The 1976
Logan's Run 1976
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
Star Wars 1977
Stalker 1979
Time After Time 1979
Alien 1979
Empire Strikes Back, The 1980
Flash Gordon 1980
Scanners 1981
Escape from New York 1981
Road Warrior, The 1981
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 1982
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 1982
Blade Runner 1982
Thing, The 1982
Tron 1982
Videodrome 1983
Last Battle, The 1983
Return of the Jedi 1983
Repo Man 1984
Brother from Another Planet, The 1984
1984 1984
Terminator, The 1984
Dune 1984
Starman 1984
Brazil 1985
Back to the Future 1985
Quiet Earth, The 1985
Aliens 1986
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986
Predator 1987
Robocop 1987
Akira 1988
Navigator, The 1988
Tetsuo 1989
Abyss, The 1989
Total Recall 1990
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991
Jurassic Park 1993
Ghost in the Shell 1995
12 Monkeys 1995
Independence Day 1996
Fifth Element, The 1997
Men in Black 1997
Gattaca 1997
Starship Troopers 1997
Open Your Eyes 1997
Pi 1998
Matrix, The 1999
Galaxy Quest 1999
Signs 2002
Code 46 2003
Primer 2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
I, Robot 2004
Host, The 2006
Children of Men 2006

2016 Edition[]

Additions:

Avatar 2009

Attack the Block 2011

Gravity 2013

Removals:

Fifth Element, The 1997

Signs 2002

Code 46 2003

101 War Movies You Must See Before You Die[]

This book was published in 2009 and has films ranging from 1915 to 2007. Forty-seven of the 101 cross over with the 1,001 Movies list, while 54 are unique.

101 War

101 War Movies

Birth of a Nation, The 1915
Battle of the Somme, The 1916
Big Parade, The 1925
General, The 1927
Napoleon 1927
Wings 1927
All Quiet on the Western Front 1930
Charge of the Light Brigade, The 1936
Grand Illusion 1937
Great Dictator, The 1940
Buck Privates 1941
Sergeant York 1941
49th Parallel 1941
To Be or Not to Be 1942
Mrs. Miniver 1942
In Which We Serve 1942
Went the Day Well? 1942
Rome, Open City 1945
Matter of Life and Death, A 1946
Sands of Iwo Jima 1949
Red Badge of Courage, The 1951
Cruel Sea, The 1953
Stalag 17 1953
From Here to Eternity 1953
Dam Busters, The 1955
Hill 24 Doesn't Answer 1955
Throne of Blood 1957
Kanal 1957
Bridge on the River Kwai, The 1957
Cranes Are Flying, The 1957
Paths of Glory 1957
Ice Cold in Alex 1958
Ashes and Diamonds 1958
Ballad of a Soldier 1959
Two Women 1960
Guns of Navarone, The 1961
Ivan's Childhood 1962
Longest Day, The 1962
Lawrence of Arabia 1962
Great Escape, The 1963
Zulu 1964
Dr. Strangelove 1964
Shop on Main Street, The 1965
Battle of Algiers, The 1966
Closely Watched Trains 1966
Dirty Dozen, The 1967
Where Eagles Dare 1968
Hell in the Pacific 1968
Oh! What a Lovely War 1969
Army of Shadows 1969
Battle of Britain 1969
MASH 1970
Patton 1970
Catch-22 1970
Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970
Lacombe Lucien 1974
Eagle Has Landed, The 1976
Cross of Iron 1977
Bridge Too Far, A 1977
Deer Hunter, The 1978
Apocalypse Now 1979
Big Red One, The 1980
Gallipoli 1981
Das Boot 1981
Killing Fields, The 1984
Ran 1985
Come and See 1985
Salvador 1986
Platoon 1986
Full Metal Jacket 1987
Hope and Glory 1987
Empire of the Sun 1987
Good Morning, Vietnam 1987
Grave of the Fireflies 1988
Glory 1989
Europa, Europa 1991
Last of the Mohicans, The 1992
Stalingrad 1993
Schindler's List 1993
Land and Freedom 1995
Welcome to Sarajevo 1997
Regeneration 1997
Life is Beautiful 1997
Saving Private Ryan 1998
Thin Red Line, The 1998
Three Kings 1999
Ride with the Devil 1999
Divided We Fall 2000
Devils on the Doorstep 2000
Dark Blue World 2001
No Man's Land 2001
Enigma 2001
Black Hawk Down 2001
Pianist, The 2002
Master and Commander 2003
Brotherhood 2004
Downfall 2004
Hotel Rwanda 2004
Merry Christmas 2005
Black Book 2006
Counterfeiters, The 2007
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