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Total: 445  
Seen: 366 (82.2%)
See Again: 2 (0.4%)
Unseen: 77 (17.3%)

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Essential films

(Films classified as 'Essential' at Jinni.com)

The White Ribbon (2009)
Flatland (2007)
Borat (2006)
Casino Royale (2006)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Batman Begins (2005)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
American Splendor (2003)
Bowling For Columbine (2002)
Chicago (2002)
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Spirited Away (2001)
Billy Elliot (2000)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
The Day I Became a Woman (2000)
American Beauty (1999)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Office Space (1999)
American History X (1998)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Happiness (1998)
Pi (1998)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Truman Show (1998)
Boogie Nights (1997)
The Full Monty (1997)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Titanic (1997)
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Fargo (1996)
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Trainspotting (1996)
Waiting For Guffman (1996)
Underground (1995)
Clerks (1994)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Reality Bites (1994)
Red (1994)
White (1994)
Blue (1993)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Falling Down (1993)
Short Cuts (1993)
Sonatine (1993)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Husbands and Wives (1992)
Of Mice and Men (1992)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Singles (1992)
Barton Fink (1991)
Boyz N the Hood (1991)
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
JFK (1991)
Bullet In the Head (1990)
Goodfellas (1990)
La Femme Nikita (1990)
Larks On a String (1990)
Misery (1990)
A City of Sadness (1989)
Born On the Fourth of July (1989)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Interrogation (1989)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
The Accused (1988)
Akira (1988)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Die Hard (1988)
Frantic (1988)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Babette's Feast (1987)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Aliens (1986)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Platoon (1986)
Top Gun (1986)
Peking Opera Blues (1986)
Brazil (1985)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Come and See (1985)
Krush Groove (1985)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Shoah (1985)
Blood Simple (1984)
A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
The Killing Fields (1984)
La Traviata (1983)
Rumble Fish (1983)
Videodrome (1983)
Zelig (1983)
Blade Runner (1982)
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
48 Hrs. (1982)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
The King of Comedy (1982)
Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Poltergeist (1982)
Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
An American Werewolf In London (1981)
Blow Out (1981)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Das Boot (1981)
The Evil Dead (1981)
Gallipoli (1981)
Pixote (1981)
Reds (1981)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Melvin and Howard (1980)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Black Stallion (1979)
Hair (1979)
Life of Brian (1979)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Coming Home (1978)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Grease (1978)
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Animal House (1978)
Superman (1978)
Annie Hall (1977)
Eraserhead (1977)
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Star Wars (1977)
All the President's Men (1976)
Carrie (1976)
Marathon Man (1976)
Network (1976)
1900 (1976)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Tenant (1976)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Jaws (1975)
Love and Death (1975)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Night Moves (1975)
The Stepford Wives (1975)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Chinatown (1974)
The Conversation (1974)
Death Wish (1974)
The Longest Yard (1974)
The Parallax View (1974)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
American Graffiti (1973)
Distant Thunder (1973)
Badlands (1973)
Charlotte's Web (1973)
Day For Night (1973)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
The Last Detail (1973)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Mean Streets (1973)
O Lucky Man! (1973)
Serpico (1973)
Sleeper (1973)
Soylent Green (1973)
The Way We Were (1973)
The Wicker Man (1973)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
The Candidate (1972)
Chloe In the Afternoon (1972)
Deliverance (1972)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex * But Were Afraid To Ask (1972)
Frenzy (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
Last Tango In Paris (1972)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
The Ruling Class (1972)
Solaris (1972)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Duel (1971)
Harold and Maude (1971)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Shaft (1971)
Straw Dogs (1971)
Vanishing Point (1971)
Walkabout (1971)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Airport (1970)
Catch-22 (1970)
The Conformist (1970)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
Little Big Man (1970)
Tristana (1970)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Easy Rider (1969)
My Night At Maud's (1969)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
True Grit (1969)
Z (1969)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
Funny Girl (1968)
Color of Pomegranates (1968)
If.... (1968)
The Odd Couple (1968)
Once Upon a Time In the West (1968)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Casino Royale (1967)
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)
In Cold Blood (1967)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Mouchette (1967)
Le Samourai (1967)
Point Blank (1967)
Bedazzled (1967)
Wavelength (1967)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Blowup (1966)
Come Drink With Me (1966)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
A Man For All Seasons (1966)
Masculine-Feminine (1966)
This Property Is Condemned (1966)
Alphaville (1965)
Chimes At Midnight (1965)
A Blonde In Love (1965)
Pierrot Le Fou (1965)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Becket (1964)
Red Desert (1964)
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Marnie (1964)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Woman In the Dunes (1964)
Zorba the Greek (1964)
The Birds (1963)
Charade (1963)
Cleopatra (1963)
Contempt (1963)
8 1/2 (1963)
Hud (1963)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
Lord of the Flies (1963)
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Cleo From 5 To 7 (1962)
Dr. No (1962)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Jules and Jim (1962)
Knife In the Water (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
My Life To Live (1962)
The Tale of Zatoichi (1962)
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Last Year At Marienbad (1961)
One, Two, Three (1961)
The Misfits (1961)
West Side Story (1961)
A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Viridiana (1961)
L'Avventura (1960)
Breathless (1960)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Ben-Hur (1959)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
North By Northwest (1959)
Our Man In Havana (1959)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Gigi (1958)
The Music Room (1958)
The Rickshaw Man (1958)
The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Love In the Afternoon (1957)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Quatermass 2 (1957)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Witness For the Prosecution (1957)
Giant (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Killing (1956)
Death of a Cyclist (1955)
East of Eden (1955)
Guys and Dolls (1955)
Lola Montes (1955)
Marty (1955)
Pather Panchali (1955)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The Rose Tattoo (1955)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Diabolique (1955)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Dial M For Murder (1954)
Godzilla (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
La Strada (1954)
Sabrina (1954)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (1954)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
From Here To Eternity (1953)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)
Shane (1953)
Stalag 17 (1953)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
The Wild One (1953)
Tokyo Story (1953)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
Pat and Mike (1952)
Umberto D (1952)
Alice In Wonderland (1951)
An American In Paris (1951)
A Place In the Sun (1951)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Father of the Bride (1950)
Harvey (1950)
The Third Man (1949)
White Heat (1949)
The Bicycle Thief (1948)
The Fallen Idol (1948)
Key Largo (1948)
Red River (1948)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Rope (1948)
Brute Force (1947)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Shoe-Shine (1946)
Children of Paradise (1945)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944)
Lifeboat (1944)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Bambi (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Saboteur (1942)
Woman of the Year (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Wolf Man (1941)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
His Girl Friday (1940)
Pinocchio (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Le Jour Se Leve (1939)
Ninotchka (1939)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Stagecoach (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Algiers (1938)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The Good Earth (1937)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
You Only Live Once (1937)
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
Modern Times (1936)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Sabotage (1936)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Mutiny On the Bounty (1935)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Duck Soup (1933)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Lady For a Day (1933)
The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Freaks (1932)
Love Me Tonight (1932)
Scarface (1932)
City Lights (1931)
Dracula (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
A Nous La Liberte (1931)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
L'Age D'Or (1930)
All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)
Morocco (1930)
Man With the Movie Camera (1929)
Pandora's Box (1929)
The Crowd (1928)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)
The General (1927)
Metropolis (1927)
Napoleon (1927)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
The Big Parade (1925)
Strike (1925)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Safety Last (1923)
Nanook of the North (1922)
Nosferatu (1922)
Robin Hood (1922)
Intolerance (1916)
Cabiria (1914)