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Check off every film that you've watched all the way through.
Everett Collection Intolerance (1916)Everett Collection
Everett Collection The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)Everett Collection
United Artists The Gold Rush (1925)United Artists
Kino International Battleship Potemkin (1925)Kino International
Kino International The General (1926)Kino International
20th Century Fox Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)20th Century Fox
Warner Bros. Pictures The Jazz Singer (1927)Warner Bros. Pictures
Kino International Metropolis (1927)Kino International
Kino International Man with a Movie Camera (1929)Kino International
Everett Collection All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)Everett Collection
Universal Pictures Frankenstein (1931)Universal Pictures
Paramount Pictures M (1931)Paramount Pictures
Warner Home Video King Kong (1933)Warner Home Video
Universal Studios Home Entertainment Duck Soup (1933)Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Warner Home Video Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)Warner Home Video
Warner Bros. Pictures Modern Times (1936)Warner Bros. Pictures
Warner Bros. Pictures Swing Time (1936)Warner Bros. Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)Walt Disney Pictures
Everett Collection Bringing Up Baby (1938)Everett Collection
Everett Collection The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)Everett Collection
Warner Home Video Gone with the Wind (1939)Warner Home Video
Warner Home Video The Wizard of Oz (1939)Warner Home Video
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Everett Collection The Rules of the Game (1939)Everett Collection
20th Century Fox Film Corp. / Everett Collection The Grapes of Wrath (1940)20th Century Fox Film Corp. / Everett Collection
Warner Bros. Pictures The Philadelphia Story (1940)Warner Bros. Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures Fantasia (1940)Walt Disney Pictures
United Artists The Great Dictator (1940)United Artists
Everett Collection Citizen Kane (1941)Everett Collection
Warner Home Video The Maltese Falcon (1941)Warner Home Video
Universal Studios Home Entertainment Sullivan's Travels (1941)Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Warner Home Entertainment Casablanca (1942)Warner Home Entertainment
Mary Evans / Ronald Grant / Everett Collection Double Indemnity (1944)Mary Evans / Ronald Grant / Everett Collection
Pathé Children of Paradise (1945)Pathé
Paramount Home Entertainment It's a Wonderful Life (1946)Paramount Home Entertainment
Everett Collection The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)Everett Collection
Warner Home Video The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)Warner Home Video
Corinth Films Bicycle Thieves (1948)Corinth Films
Mary Evans / Ronald Grant / Everett Collection The Third Man (1949)Mary Evans / Ronald Grant / Everett Collection
Paramount Pictures Sunset Boulevard (1950)Paramount Pictures
Twentieth Century Fox All About Eve (1950)Twentieth Century Fox
United Artists The African Queen (1951)United Artists
Warner Home Video A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)Warner Home Video
Warner Home Video / Via dvdbeaver.com An American in Paris (1951)Warner Home Video / Via dvdbeaver.com
Warner Home Video Singin' in the Rain (1952)Warner Home Video
Mary Evans / Ronald Grant / Everett Collection High Noon (1952)Mary Evans / Ronald Grant / Everett Collection
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment From Here to Eternity (1953)Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Paramount Home Entertainment Shane (1953)Paramount Home Entertainment
Shôchiku Eiga Tokyo Story (1953)Shôchiku Eiga
Shôchiku Eiga Ugetsu (1953)Shôchiku Eiga
Everett Collection On the Waterfront (1954)Everett Collection
Paramount Pictures Rear Window (1954)Paramount Pictures
Mary Evans / Toho Company / Ronald Grant / Everett Collection Seven Samurai (1954)Mary Evans / Toho Company / Ronald Grant / Everett Collection
Warner Home Video / Via danielsclassicfilms.blogspot.com Rebel Without a Cause (1955)Warner Home Video / Via danielsclassicfilms.blogspot.com
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment / Via trigon-film.org Pather Panchali (1955)Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment / Via trigon-film.org
Warner Home Video The Searchers (1956)Warner Home Video
Paramount Pictures The Ten Commandments (1956)Paramount Pictures
Columbia Pictures The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)Columbia Pictures
Mary Evans / Orion-Nova Productions / Ronald Grant / Everett Collection 12 Angry Men (1957)Mary Evans / Orion-Nova Productions / Ronald Grant / Everett Collection
Paramount Pictures Vertigo (1958)Paramount Pictures
Universal Studios Home Entertainment / Via twscritic.com Touch of Evil (1958)Universal Studios Home Entertainment / Via twscritic.com
Everett Collection Some Like It Hot (1959)Everett Collection
Warner Home Video North by Northwest (1959)Warner Home Video
Warner Bros. Pictures Ben-Hur (1959)Warner Bros. Pictures
Criterion Collection The 400 Blows (1959)Criterion Collection
Paramount Pictures Psycho (1960)Paramount Pictures
MGM Spartacus (1960)MGM
MGM The Apartment (1960)MGM
Cineteca di Bologna / Reporters Associati La Dolce Vita (1960)Cineteca di Bologna / Reporters Associati
Criterion Collection Breathless (1960)Criterion Collection
Cino del Duca L'Avventura (1960)Cino del Duca
1961 West Side Story (1961)1961
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Lawrence of Arabia (1962)Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Universal Pictures To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)Universal Pictures
MGM The Manchurian Candidate (1962)MGM
Corinth Films 8½ (1963)Corinth Films
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
MGM Goldfinger (1964)MGM
Walt Disney Studios A Hard Day's Night (1964)Walt Disney Studios
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment The Sound of Music (1965)20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Warner Bros. Pictures Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)Warner Bros. Pictures
MGM The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)MGM
Argent Films The Battle of Algiers (1966)Argent Films
Criterion Collection Persona (1966)Criterion Collection
Criterion Collection / Via screenwritingfoxhole.blogspot.com Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)Criterion Collection / Via screenwritingfoxhole.blogspot.com
Kino International Andrei Rublev (1966)Kino International
MGM The Graduate (1967)MGM
Warner Home Video Bonnie and Clyde (1967)Warner Home Video
MGM In the Heat of the Night (1967)MGM
Specta Films Playtime (1967)Specta Films
Warner Home Video 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)Warner Home Video
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Midnight Cowboy (1969)Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
20th Century Fox Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)20th Century Fox
Warner Home Video The Wild Bunch (1969)Warner Home Video
Columbia Pictures Easy Rider (1969)Columbia Pictures
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Via dvdbeaver.com Patton (1970)20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Via dvdbeaver.com
Warner Bros. Pictures A Clockwork Orange (1971)Warner Bros. Pictures
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment The French Connection20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Columbia Pictures The Last Picture Show (1971)Columbia Pictures
Paramount Pictures The Godfather (1972)Paramount Pictures
Criterion Collection The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)Criterion Collection
Universal Studios Home Entertainment American Graffiti (1973)Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Universal Pictures The Sting (1973)Universal Pictures
Cinematograph AB Scenes from a Marriage (1973)Cinematograph AB
Warner Bros. Pictures The Exorcist (1973)Warner Bros. Pictures
Paramount Pictures Chinatown (1974)Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures The Godfather Part II (1974)Paramount Pictures
Janus Films/Criterion Amarcord (1974)Janus Films/Criterion
Warner Home Video Blazing Saddles (1974)Warner Home Video
Warner Bros. Pictures One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)Warner Bros. Pictures
Universal Pictures Jaws (1975)Universal Pictures
Paramount Pictures Nashville (1975)Paramount Pictures
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Warner Bros. Pictures Dog Day Afternoon (1975)Warner Bros. Pictures
Portrait Films Grey Gardens (1975)Portrait Films
Criterion Collection Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)Criterion Collection
Columbia/TriStar Taxi Driver (1976)Columbia/TriStar
Warner Home Video Network (1976)Warner Home Video
Warner Home Video All the President's Men (1976)Warner Home Video
MGM Rocky (1976)MGM
Criterion Collection Harlan County, USA (1976)Criterion Collection
Mary Evans / Lucasfilm / Ronald Grant / Everett Collection The first Star Wars trilogy (1977-1983)Mary Evans / Lucasfilm / Ronald Grant / Everett Collection
MGM Annie Hall (1977)MGM
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Via dvdbeaver.com Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Via dvdbeaver.com
Universal Pictures The Deer Hunter (1978)Universal Pictures
Criterion Collection / Via en.wikipedia.org Days of Heaven (1978)Criterion Collection / Via en.wikipedia.org
United Artists Apocalypse Now (1979)United Artists
Paramount Home Entertainment Alien (1979)Paramount Home Entertainment
Raging Bull Raging Bull (1980)Raging Bull
Warner Home Video The Shining (1980)Warner Home Video
Lucasfilm Ltd. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)Lucasfilm Ltd.
Universal Studios E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)Universal Studios
Columbia Pictures Tootsie (1982)Columbia Pictures
Warner Home Video Blade Runner (1982)Warner Home Video
Universal Pictures Scarface (1983)Universal Pictures
Warner Bros. Pictures Amadeus (1984)Warner Bros. Pictures
MGM The Terminator (1984)MGM
Criterion Collection The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)Criterion Collection
Universal Studios Back to the Future (1985)Universal Studios
Criterion Collection Shoah (1985)Criterion Collection
20th Century Fox Aliens (1986)20th Century Fox
MGM Blue Velvet (1986)MGM
20th Century Fox Broadcast News (1987)20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox Die Hard (1988)20th Century Fox
MGM The Thin Blue Line (1988)MGM
Universal Studios Home Entertainment Do the Right Thing (1989)Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Warner Home Video Roger & Me (1989)Warner Home Video
Warner Home Video Goodfellas (1990)Warner Home Video
Criterion Collection Close-Up (1990)Criterion Collection
MGM Home Entertainment The Silence of the Lambs (1991)MGM Home Entertainment
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Beauty and the Beast (1991)Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Miramax Home Entertainment Paris Is Burning (1991)Miramax Home Entertainment
Columbia Pictures Boyz n the Hood (1991)Columbia Pictures
MGM Home Entertainment Raise the Red Lantern (1991)MGM Home Entertainment
Warner Home Video Unforgiven (1992)Warner Home Video
Universal Studios Home Video Schindler's List (1993)Universal Studios Home Video
Universal Studios Dazed and Confused (1993)Universal Studios
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Groundhog Day (1993)Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Miramax Films Farewell My Concubine (1993)Miramax Films
Miramax Films The Piano (1993)Miramax Films
Paramount Home Entertainment Forrest Gump (1994)Paramount Home Entertainment
Warner Home Video The Shawshank Redemption (1994)Warner Home Video
Lionsgate Home Entertainment Pulp Fiction (1994)Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Walt Disney Home Video The Lion King (1994)Walt Disney Home Video
Criterion Collection Hoop Dreams (1994)Criterion Collection
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment The Toy Story trilogy (1995–2010)Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
MGM Fargo (1996)MGM
Criterion Collection Trainspotting (1996)Criterion Collection
Paramount Pictures Titanic (1997)Paramount Pictures
New Line Home Entertainment The Sweet Hereafter (1997)New Line Home Entertainment
Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment Saving Private Ryan (1998)Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment
Universal Studios Home Entertainment The Big Lebowski (1998)Universal Studios Home Entertainment
October Films The Celebration (1998)October Films
Warner Home Video The Matrix (1999)Warner Home Video
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment All About My Mother (1999)Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
New Yorker Films Beau Travail (1999)New Yorker Films
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Memento (2000)Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Criterion Collection In the Mood For Love (2000)Criterion Collection
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
New Line Home Video The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003)New Line Home Video
Walt Disney Home Video Spirited Away (2001)Walt Disney Home Video
Lionsgate Home Entertainment Amélie (2001)Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Oldboy (2003)Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Universal Studios Home Entertainment Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Universal Studios The Bourne Supremacy (2004)Universal Studios
Universal Studios Home Entertainment Brokeback Mountain (2005)Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment The Lives of Others (2006)Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
New Line Home Video Pan's Labyrinth (2006)New Line Home Video
Universal Pictures United 93 (2006)Universal Pictures
Miramax Films No Country for Old Men (2007)Miramax Films
Paramount Home Entertainment There Will Be Blood (2007)Paramount Home Entertainment
Warner Home Video The Dark Knight (2008)Warner Home Video
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures WALL•E (2008)Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Slumdog Millionaire (2008)20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Summit Home Entertainment The Hurt Locker (2009)Summit Home Entertainment
Fox Searchlight The Tree of Life (2011)Fox Searchlight
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment A Separation (2011)Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 12 Years a Slave (2013)20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group Gravity (2013)Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group
Which Classic Movies Have You Seen?
Film doesn't really seem to be your thing — you’ve seen the occasional movie here and there, but you’d rather focus on other pursuits, like reading, cooking, gardening, zombie fighting, etc. And that’s OK!
You like going to the movies, but you've just started working your way through the classics. And you're off to a good start!
You’ve clearly put some time in with TCM — you’ve watched not just the new classics, but great films from past decades too. But reading through this list has probably reminded you of all the other great films you’d love to see soon!
You have an amazing DVD/Blu-ray collection, and you’re probably a regular at your local revival house. There are a few holes in your film knowledge, but you expertly talk around them when discussing film with your cinephile friends.
You are the linchpin of your movie trivia team. You may not have seen everything (yet!), but you definitely know your classic cinema — so much so that you're already thinking about the films that didn't make this list.
From the early silents to the French New Wave, from 1970s New Hollywood to 12 Years a Slave, you know so much about film canon, you could teach it. And maybe you do!
