Movies that people would expect a "cinephile" to have seen that you haven't gotten around to for one reason or another. Some big ones I have yet to knock off my list:

1. Aliens
2. Dirty Dancing
3. Cool Hand Luke
4. East of Eden (waiting to read book)
5. Miller’s Crossing
6. Barton Fink
7. Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolfe (watched half)
8. Independence Day
9. Bad Boys
10. Black Hawk Down
11. Dead Poets Society
12. Wall Street
13. Network (got halfway through)
14. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
15. Sophie's Choice
16. Platoon
17. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
18. Scent of a Woman
19. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
20. The Exorcist
21. Patton
22. Dances With Wolves
23. Footloose
24. Beverly Hills Cop
25. Lethal Weapon 2
26. Clueless (halfway through)
27. Stand By Me
28. The Rock
29. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
30. The Fifth Element
31. Thin Red Line
32. The Crying Game
33. Total Recall
34. Blues Brothers
35. Leon the Professional
36. Das Boot
37. Last of the Mohicans
38. The Ten Commandments
39. High Noon
40. On the Waterfront
41. Ben Hur
42. Easy Rider
43. Cape Fear
44. Midnight Cowboy
45. The Grapes of Wrath (waiting to read book)
46. Double Indemnity
47. Bullet

Classic musicals are a blind spot for me. I still haven't seen these:

Cabaret
Camelot
My Fair Lady
Oliver!
Singing in the Rain
The King and I
The Music Man
Yankee Doodle Dandy

Malcolm X
Once Upon a Time in America

Those are the only two major ones I can think of that I haven’t seen.

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I've yet to see ONE Kurosawa film. I've decided this is the year that changes!

I haven't seen those either. Nor have I seen The Dark Knight or Fury Road. I tried watching them both but walked away from after 10 minutes.


I love old classic musicals, those are all good! The Music Man was my nomination in the 20th HoF.

You're really well watched I noticed:up: I might have seen Malcom X but not Once Upon a Time in America.

I need to see more of those too!

I am excited for you. Anywhere is a good place to start since his movies are pretty much all good, but I think Rashomon is a good place to start. I think it's a good gateway Kurosawa movie because it shows off enough of his style for you to know what you're in for if you wish to continue, if that makes sense.

My plan is to work by decade. Watch all of his 40s stuff, take a break, watch all the 50s stuff, and so on. Looking forward to it. Everything I've seen/read suggests that he's right up my alley.

I also agree "Rashomon" is a great movie to start out with.. "Seven Samurai" would be another one.

Citizen Kane.
I keep saving it for... something.

Ditto, Lawrence Of Arabia.
Oh and The Seven Samurai.

I dunno if this one counts, but I never saw Saving Private Ryan. Just never had any interest and still don't.

Oh and I walked out of Titanic, so I've never seen the ship sink or the thing with the wood-raft thing or whatever.

If I may, I think it would help to watch one just easy crowd-pleaser first.
And I say this because I found Kurosawa daunting for years and then I watched The Hidden Fortress and because it's such an adventure-type film, really like a 70s or even 80s Spielberg or Lucas movie in a lot of ways, it was super-easy to get into and that made watching other movies of his easier.
Throne Of Blood would be a great place to start if you ask me. Not too long, easy viewing, Mifune, just an all-around good pic that's worthy of greatness but doesn't ask too much of the viewer.
I liked Rashomon a lot but if I had started with it I think I would have had a harder time to keep going because of the era of filmmaking. Going back to it with at least one crowd-pleaser under my belt made it really easy to get into.

I strongly like or love every one of those movies except maybe The King And I (which I did like when I was younger but haven't seen in a very long time so maybe I still would).
The Music Man is one of my favorite movies ever and if I knew I was dying this weekend it would absolutely be one of the movies I watched between now and then. It just makes me feel good. Between Robert Preston's charisma and Shirley Jones' voice, you just can't go wrong.
I am also one of the few remaining fans of Camelot.
And as sexist as My Fair Lady is, it's a helluva good movie.

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I've yet to watch the first two Godfather films, though I plan to knock them out this year.

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Cinephillic classics that I am embarrassed at having not seen:


Jules et Jim
a bande apart
Shame
Cool Hand Luke
Alphaville
Shock corridor
Kagemusha
The Wild Pear Tree
Bell de Jour
The searchers
The Sacrifice
Loads of Eric Rohmer
The films of Chantal Ackerman
The films of lav diaz
Angelopoulos' Trilogy of Light
The films of Pasolini
The apartment
Alice in the Cities
Through a glass darkly
Network
Loads of Sang-soo Hong
Winter Sleep
Loads of Hitchcock (the 39 steps, the wrong man, shadow of a doubt, to catch a thief)
The last temptation of christ
Lots of Iranian cinema from Kiarostami, Makmalbhaf and Jafar Panahi
Loads of Japanese cinema (oharo, street of shame, yearning)
Loads of Edward Yang
And on and on and on


Not sure if the average person is 'expected' to have seen these but they should be on the watchlist of a film enthusiast

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Barry Lyndon is the one I'm always saying I'm going to watch but never do.

City Lights but I'm not much of a Chaplin fan.

Birth of a Nation Not interested in it at all.

It's a Wonderful Life I'll see this...eventually.

And I need to see something from Fellini. I may have seen Satyricon but if I did I don't remember it.

None of Andrei Tarkovsky movies. Kinda intrigued after seeing him being held so highly in the recently concluded list.

Food for thought, I might give that a try. :up:

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I think these are my main omissions...

• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Whiplash
• Most of the Harry Potter franchise (seen only the first one, and half of the second one)
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• Her
• City Lights
• The Battle of Algiers
• Brazil
• Sunrise
• Easy Rider
• Bicycle Thieves
• Any Marx Brothers film
• Any John Cassavetes film
• Any Jim Jarmusch film
• Any Wim Wenders film
• A lot of Tarkovsky (seen only one)
• A lot of Woody Allen's (seen only three)
• A lot of Wes Anderson's (seen only two)
• A lot of Kurosawa (seen only four)
• A lot of Bergman (seen only four)
• Any of the DCEU? :shrug:
• Many other renowned foreign filmmakers (Varda, Godard, Truffaut*, Denis*, Passolini, Kiarostami)

*I've only seen Truffaut's The 400 Blows and Denis' High Life.

ouch

Just a few that don't appeal to me

The Artist
The Pianist
Driving Miss Daisy
Schindler's List
La La Land
Moonlight
12 Years A Slave
Beautiful Boy
Parasite
Last Of The Mohicans
My Left Foot

Basically the majority of Oscar winners, Woody Allen's complete works and anything Mark Kermode or Paul Gambiacini endorsed. :D

I too have these omissions. Don't judge me. Provide recommendations instead.

Possibly my favorite German director. As much as I love Werner Herzog and his movies, I think Wenders is just as deserving of attention and recognition. Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire, The American Friend and his documentary The Salt of the Earth are all great.