Trevor Morris

This was an idea taken from Neil’s World who often does these “meme” things. This meme is where you take the top 250 films on IMDB and highlight the films you’ve seen. This’ll be an interesting exercise for myself, to see how many films I’ve actually seen. Films I have watched are in bold bold and those that I own are also italicised.

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)*
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
4. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
5. Seven Samurai (1954)
6. Casablanca (1942)
7. Schindler’s List (1993)
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
9. Citizen Kane (1941)
10. Star Wars (1977)
11. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
12. Pulp Fiction (1994)*
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
14. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
15. Rear Window (1954)
16. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
17. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
18. The Usual Suspects (1995)
19. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
20. City of God (2002)
21. 12 Angry Men (1957)
22. Memento (2000)
23. Psycho (1960)
24. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
25. North by Northwest (1959)
26. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
27. Am?lie (2001)
28. Goodfellas (1990)
29. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
30. Sunset Boulevard. (1950)
31. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
32. American Beauty (1999)
33. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
34. Apocalypse Now (1979)
35. The Matrix (1999)
36. Paths of Glory (1957)
37. Fight Club (1999)
38. Vertigo (1958)
39. The Third Man (1949)
40. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
41. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
42. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
43. Double Indemnity (1944)
44. Das Boot (1981)
45. Taxi Driver (1976)
46. M (1931)
47. The Pianist (2002)
48. Rash?mon (1950)
49. Se7en (1995)
50. All About Eve (1950)
51. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
52. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
53. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
54. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
55. Chinatown (1974)
56. Some Like It Hot (1959)
57. L.A. Confidential (1997)
58. L?on (1994)
59. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
60. Alien (1979)**
61. American History X (1998)
62. Modern Times (1936)
63. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
64. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
65. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
66. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
67. The Sting (1973)
68. On the Waterfront (1954)
69. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)***
70. Raging Bull (1980)
71. Ran (1985)
72. Amadeus (1984)
73. Life is Beautiful (1997)
74. Touch of Evil (1958)
75. The Great Escape (1963)
76. A Clockwork Orange (1971)*
77. City Lights (1931)
78. Reservoir Dogs (1992)*
79. The Apartment (1960)
80. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
81. Metropolis (1927)
82. The Shining (1980)
83. High Noon (1952)
84. Jaws (1975)
85. Aliens (1986)**
86. Finding Nemo (2003)*
87. Annie Hall (1977)
88. Braveheart (1995)
89. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
90. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)
91. Fargo (1996)
92. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)***
93. Oldboy (2003)
94. Yojimbo (1961)
95. The Incredibles (2004)*
96. Blade Runner (1982)
97. Strangers on a Train (1951)
98. Donnie Darko (2001)
99. The Sixth Sense (1999)*
100. The Princess Bride (1987)
101. The Seventh Seal (1957)
102. The Great Dictator (1940)
103. It Happened One Night (1934)
104. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
105. Forrest Gump (1994)
106. Before Sunset (2004)
107. Cinema Paradiso (1989)
108. The General (1927)
109. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
110. Mononoke-hime (1997)
111. Rebecca (1940)
112. Duck Soup (1933)
113. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
114. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
115. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
116. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
117. The Big Sleep (1946)
118. Notorious (1946)
119. Smultronst?llet (1957)
120. The Graduate (1967)
121. Hero (2002)
122. Unforgiven (1992)
123. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
124. The Deer Hunter (1978)
125. Patton (1970)
126. Run Lola Run (1998)
127. Toy Story 2 (1999)*
128. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
129. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
130. The Gold Rush (1925)
131. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
132. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
133. The Elephant Man (1980)
134. Back to the Future (1985)
135. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
136. Glory (1989)
137. The Green Mile (1999)
138. Ben-Hur (1959)
139. Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)
140. Grande illusion, La (1937)
141. Manhattan (1979)
142. Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
143. Platoon (1986)
144. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
145. Gone with the Wind (1939)
146. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
147. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
148. Shrek (2001)
149. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
150. The African Queen (1951)
151. His Girl Friday (1940)
152. Ikiru (1952)
153. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
154. The Searchers (1956)
155. Mystic River (2003)
156. Die Hard (1988)**
157. Amores perros (2000)
158. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
159. Hotaru no haka (1988)
160. A Christmas Story (1983)
161. The Wild Bunch (1969)
162. Life of Brian (1979)
163. Stalag 17 (1953)
164. Big Fish (2003)
165. The Hustler (1961)
166. Charade (1963)
167. Gladiator (2000)
168. Young Frankenstein (1974)
169. Sideways (2004)
170. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
171. The Straight Story (1999)
172. Talk to Her (2002)
173. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
174. The Killing (1956)
175. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
176. A Night at the Opera (1935)
177. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
178. Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, La (1928)
179. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
180. Spartacus (1960)
181. Lost in Translation (2003)
182. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
183. Magnolia (1999)
184. Harvey (1950)
185. Strada, La (1954)
186. Ed Wood (1994)
187. Sling Blade (1996)
188. The Terminator (1984)
189. Toy Story (1995)
190. Groundhog Day (1993)
191. Untergang, Der (2004)
192. All the President’s Men (1976)
193. The Lion in Winter (1968)
194. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
195. Roman Holiday (1953)
196. Festen (1998)
197. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
198. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
199. Trainspotting (1996)
200. 8? (1963)
201. Finding Neverland (2004)
202. Laura (1944)
203. Brazil (1985)
204. The Conversation (1974)
205. Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994)
206. The Insider (1999)
207. Almost Famous (2000)
208. Dogville (2003)
209. The Station Agent (2003)
210. Gandhi (1982)
211. Stand by Me (1986)
212. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
213. Persona (1966)
214. King Kong (1933)
215. Fanny och Alexander (1982)
216. The Exorcist (1973)
217. The 39 Steps (1935)
218. Rain Man (1988)
219. Mulholland Drive (2001)
220. Stagecoach (1939)
221. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
222. Being John Malkovich (1999)
223. The Big Lebowski (1998)
224. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)**
225. Rio Bravo (1959)
226. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
227. Network (1976)
228. Snatch. (2000)
229. 21 Grams (2003)
230. The Thin Man (1934)
231. For a Few Dollars More (1965)
232. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
233. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
234. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
235. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
236. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
237. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
238. The Right Stuff (1983)
239. Barry Lyndon (1975)
240. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
241. This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
242. Miller’s Crossing (1990)
243. Garden State (2004)
244. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
245. Spider-Man 2 (2004)**
246. The Untouchables (1987)
247. Heat (1995)
248. The Last Picture Show (1971)
249. Fa yeung nin wa (2000)
250. Kumonosu j? (1957)

• * - Films I’ll buy eventually.
• ** - Waiting for a good boxset of the series.
• *** - Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair — both movies together.

Ok, that’s the list. Looks like I’ve seen 53 of the top 250 films. That’s over 20% of them, not as many as I expected but not too bad.

It’s interesting to compare which films you’ve seen, or haven’t, to their rating on IMDB and to other people who have done this meme. It looks like not many people, including myself, have seen the top rated film of all time; The Godfather.

Out of the bottom 100 films I’ve seen only 3. These three movies are all in the same series; Police Academy. These movies are just pure cheese, but good fun!