My Movie To-Do List

I'm pretty certain I'm not the only one who does this; your friend, coworker or family member brings up a movie that's near and dear to their heart so instead of telling them you missed that one when it was in theaters you simply nod in agreement while trying to change the subject fast enough that they never notice.

I consider myself somewhat of a film buff and have seen an average of 50 movies a year for the last 15 years but that doesn't mean I've seen everything. In fact, in looking over the list of the top 100 film at the domestic box office all-time, I've missed 36 of them. There are many, many of those movies I don't like to admit I've never seen and some which are more embarrassing omissions than others. I decided to compile a list of the films on the AFI Top 100 and the IMDb Top 250 that I've never seen. I will make it my goal to see at least one of these movies a week for the next year and I will update the list to cross off the movie I've seen.

AFI Top 100:
Singin' in the Rain*
Gone With The Wind*
Lawrence of Arabia*
City Lights*
The Searchers
Sunset Blvd.*
The Graduate
The General*
On The Waterfront*
The Grapes of Wrath*
High Noon*
All About Eve*
Annie Hall*
The Bride on the River Kwai*
The Best Years of Our Lives*
The Sound of Music
Midnight Cowboy
The Philadelphia Story
Shane
It Happened One Night*
A Streetcar Named Desire
Intolerance
M*A*S*H
The Gold Rush*
Nashville
Sullivan's Travels
Cabaret
The African Queen
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid*
In The Heat of the Night
All the President's Men
Modern Times*
The Wild Bunch*
The Apartment*
Spartacus
Sunrise*
A Night at the Opera
12 Angry Men*
Bringing Up Baby
Swingtime
Sophie's Choice
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Ben-Hur*

IMDb Top 250:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Seven Samurai
Once Upon a Time in the West
M
Paths of Glory
The Pianist
Amelie
The Lives of Others
Aliens
Das Boot
A Separation
Cinema Paradiso
The Great Dictator
Bicycle Thieves
Amadeus
Metropolis
Old Boy
Unforgiven
The Sting
The Untouchables
Downfall
Die Hard
Grave of the Fireflies
The Seventh Seal
The Elephant Man
The Great Escape
Yojimbo
Rebecca
Witness for the Prosecution
For a Few Dollars More
Ran
Wild Strawberries
Ikiru
Cool Hand Luke
Strangers on a Train
The Kid
The Wages of Fear
The Secret in Their Eyes
Donnie Darko
The Thing
Notorious
Diabolique
Life of Brian
My Neighbor Totoro
Amores Perros
How to Train Your Dragon
The Terminator
Judgement at Nuremberg
The Manchurian Candidate
The 400 Blows
The Night of the Hunter
Mary and Max
Harakiri
Gandhi
Persona
The Battle of Algiers
The Killing
8½
La Strada
The Hustler
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Howl's Moving Castle
Sherlock Jr.
Ratatouille
Fanny and Alexander
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Stalag 17
Barry Lyndon
Night of Cabiria
All Quiet on the Western Front
Infernal Affairs
Rope
Roman Holiday
Tokyo Story
Ip Man
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
High and Low
Come and See
Stalker
Rosemary's Baby
The Celebration
Let the Right One In
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Anatomy of a Murder
Throne of Blood
In the Mood for Love
La Haine
3 Idiots


(* means the film appears on both the AFI Top 100 and the IMDb Top 250)