IMDb Top 250: 82 to go!

So I looked through the Top 250 movies on IMDb and there are some glaring omissions in my movie viewing history, some of which make me quite ashamed to call myself a movie geek. But fear not! I will watch all these movies before 2012. So here it is, 82 movies to see in 2011:


1. City of God (2002)
2. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
3. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
4. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
5. Black Swan (2010)
6. The Pianist (2002)
7. City Lights (1931)
8. The Lives of Others (2006)
9. Modern Times (1936)
10. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
11. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
12. Cinema Paradiso (1988)
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
14. All About Eve (1950)
15. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
16. The Great Dictator (1940)
17. Downfall (2004)
18. The Elephant Man (1980)
19. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
20. On the Waterfront (1954)
21. Rebecca (1940)
22. The Seventh Seal (1957)
23. Hotel Rwanda (2004)
24. Touch of Evil (1958)
25. Yojimbo (1961)
26. Ran (1985)
27. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
28. Wild Strawberries (1957)
29. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
30. It Happened One Night (1934)
31. Notorious (1946)
32. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
33. Gone with the Wind (1939)
34. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
35. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
36. Ben-Hur (1959)
37. The King's Speech (2010)
38. The Big Sleep (1946)
39. The Graduate (1967)
40. Amores Perros (2000)
41. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
42. The Kid (1921)
43. Ikiru (1952)
44. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
45. Gandhi (1982)
46. 8½ (1963)
47. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
48. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
49. True Grit (2010)
50. The Killing (1956)
51. La Strada (1954)
52. The 400 Blows (1959)
53. Network (1976)
54. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
55. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
56. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
57. Persona (1966)
58. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
59. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
60. 127 Hours (2010)
61. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
62. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
63. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
64. Mary and Max (2009)
65. Manhattan (1979)
66. Barry Lyndon (1975)
67. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
68. The Celebration (1998)
69. Patton (1970)
70. The Fighter (2010)
71. Roman Holiday (1953)
72. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
73. Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
74. In the Mood for Love (2000)
75. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
76. Harvey (1950)
77. Crash (2004)
78. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
79. A Christmas Story (1983)
80. Three Colors: Red (1994)
81. Rope (1948)
82. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)