108 Essential Movies

Another quiz by a similar format of my book quiz. Name not in any particular order the best movies if I were for some reason asked. I did some editing, looked on Reddit and listchallenges.com.

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Director	Movie
Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C Clarke, Ray Lovejoy	2001: A Space Odyssey
Quentin Tarantino, Sally Menke	Pulp Fiction
David Fincher, Jim Ulhs, James Haygood	Fight Club
Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Aram Avakian	Godfather I
Andrew Stanton, Jim Stewart, Pete Docter	Monsters Inc
John Lasseter, Joel Cohen, Lee Unkrich,	Toy Story (1 and 2)
Jim Reardon, Danielle Feinberg, Stephen Schaffer	Wall-E
Brad Bird, Patrick Jimenez, Stephen Schaffer	The Incredibles
George Lucas	Star Wars Original Trilogy
Francis Ford Coppola, Lisa Frutchman	Apocalypse Now
Christopher Nolan	Dark Knight
Christopher Nolan	Inception
Charlie Chaplin	The Great Dictator
Charlie Chaplin	City Lights
Stanley Kubrick, Peter George	Dr Strangelove
David Fincher, Aaron Sorkin, Kirk Baxter	The Social Network
Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Marcia Lucas	Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker	Goodfellas
Ingmar Bergman, Lennart Wallman	The Seventh Seal
Stanley Kubrick, Tony Lawson	Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson, Ray Lovejoy	The Shining
Roman Polanski	Rosemary's Baby
Steven Spielberg, Micheal Kahn	Schindler's List
Woody Allen, Wendy Green Bricmont	Annie Hall
Spike Jonze, Jeff Buchannan	Her
Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise	Spirited Away
Jonathan Demme, Craig McKay	Silence of the Lambs
Spike Lee	Do the Right Thing
Alfred Hitchcock	Rear Window
Akira Kurosawa	Rashomon
Edward Zwick	Glory
Abderrahmane Sissako	Timbuktu
Steve McQueen	Twelve Years a Slave

Director	Movie
Barry Levinson, Stu Linder	Rain Man
Paul Thomas Anderson, Dylan Thicenor	Boogie Nights
Damien Chazelle, Tom Cross	Whiplash
Oliver Hirschbiegel, Hans Funck	Downfall
Ava DuVernay	Selma
Alejandro González Iñárritu	Birdman
Richard Linklater, Sandra Adair	Before Sunrise
Sidney Lumet, Reginald Rose	Twelve Angry Men
Sidney Lumet, Paddy Chayefsky	Network
Victor Fleming, Mervyn LeRoy, King Vidor, George Cukor, Norman Taurog	Wizard of Oz
Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood	Gone With The Wind
Steven Spielberg, Micheal Kahn	Saving Private Ryan
Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones	Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Sergio Leone	The Good, the bad and the Ugly
Peter Weir, Andrew Niccol,	The Truman Show
Michael Curtiz	Casablanca
Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund	City of God
Harold Ramis	Groundhog Day
Destin Daniel Cretton	Short Term 12
Wes Anderson	Moonrise Kingdom
Denis Villeneuve, Joe Walker	Arrival
Richard Linklater, Sandra Adair	Boyhood
Jean Renoir	The Rules of the Game
David Lean, Anne V Coates	Lawrence of Arabia
Costa Gavras	Z
Asghar Farhadi	A Seperation
Billy Wilder	The Apartment
Bong Joon Ho	Parasite
Sebastián Lelio	A Fantastic Woman
Giuseppe Tornatore	Cinema Paradiso
George Miller, Margaret Sixel	Mad Max: Fury Road
Sean Baker	Florida Project
Roberto Galvadon	Macairo
Giuseppe Rotunno, Luchino Visconti, Enrico Mendoli	The Leopard
Akira Kurosawa	Ikiru
Celine Sciamma, Julien Lacharay	Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Robert Zemeckis, Eric Roth, Arthur Schmidt	Forrest Gump

Director	Movie
Tomas Alfredson, John Ajvide Lindqvist	Let the Right One in
Paweł Pawlikowski, Jaroslaw Kaminski	Ida
James Cameron	Terminator 2
Terry Jones	Monty Pythons: Life of Brian
Frank Capra, William Hornbeck	It's a Wonderful Life
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen	Singing in the Rain
Stuart Rosenberg, Sam O'Steen	Cool Hand Luke
Frank Darabont, Richard Bruce	Shawshank Redemption
Fritz Lang	M
Terry George, Naomi Geraghty	Hotel Rwanda
Federico Fellini, Leo Cattozo	8 1/2
Billy Wilder	Sunset Boulevard
Tim Burton, Caroline Thompson	Edward Scissor Hands
Greta Gerwig, Nick Houy	Lady Bird
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Herve Schneid	Ameile
Neeraj Ghawyan	Masaan
Ramesh Joshi, Dinen Gupta, Ritwik Ghatka	Cloud Capped Star
Mathieu Kassovitz	La Haine
Orson Welles	Citizen Kane
Barry Jenkins	Moonlight
Coen Brothers	No Country for Old Men
Wong Kar-wai	In the Mood for Love
Mike Nichols, Edward Albee	Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Elem Kilmov	Come and See
Ousmane Sembène	Moolaade
Noah Baumbach	Marriage Story
Jordan Peele	Get Out
Isao Takahata	Princess Kaguya
Danny Boyle, John Hodge	Trainspotting
Joseph Mankiewicz	All About Eve
Danis Tanović	No Man's Land
Edward Wang	Yi Yi
Andrei Tarkovsky	Stalker
Hirokazu Koreeda	Still Walking
Gillo Pontecorvo	The Battle of Algiers
Park Chan Hook	Handmaiden
Wolfgang Petersen, Jost Vocano	Das Boot
Chen Kaige	Yellow Earth

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