the definitive list - 32 films to watch before you die (because why not 32?)

1. Citizen Kane (1941) - Orson Welles
2. Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock
3. Chinatown (1974) - Roman Polanski
4. Casablanca (1942) - Michael Curtiz
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Stanley Kubrick
6. Apocalypse Now (1979) - Francis Ford Coppola
7. The Godfather (1972)
8. Alien (1979) - Ridley Scott
9. Double Indemnity (1944) - Billy Wilder
10. Trainspotting (1996) - Danny Boyle
11. This Is Spinal Tap (1984) - Rob Reiner
12. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - Frank Darabont
13. Psycho (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock
14. Scarface (1983) - Brian De Palma
15. The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Victor Fleming
16. Secrets & Lies (1996) - Mike Leigh
17. The Breakfast Club (1985) - John Hughes
18. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - David Lean
19. Gandhi (1982) - Richard Attenborough
20. The Silence Of The Lambs (1990) - Jonathan Demme
21. Dr. Strangelove (1964) - Stanley Kubrick
22. Pulp Fiction (1994) - Quentin Tarantino
23. American Beauty (1999) - Sam Mendes
24. Brazil (1985) - Terry Gilliam
25. Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) - Terry Jones
26. It's A Wonderful Life (1946) - Frank Capra
27. Donnie Darko (2001) - Richard Kelly
28. Rosemary's Baby (1968) - Roman Polanski
29. The Sixth Sense (1999) - M. Night Shyamalan
30. The Matrix (1999) - Andy and Lana Wachowski
31. Up (2009) - Bob Peterson and Pete Docter
32. The Big Lebowski (1998) - Joel Coen