Must-See Movies

This list has been complied by Yahoo, however I agree that it does have quite a number of great films, but a few fantastic ones have been missed off. Despite this I am going to watch all the movies, and just like with the books, I shall review each one I watch. The ones I have already seen are again in green.


Goodfellas (Directed by: Martin Scorsese, Starring: Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci)
Misery (Directed by: Rob Reiner, Starring: James Caan, Kathy Bates
Beauty and the Beast (Directed by: Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale, Starring: Paige O'Hara, Robbie Benson
The Silence of the Lambs (Directed by: Jonathan Demme, Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Directed by: James Cameron, Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick)
Thelma & Louise (Directed by: Ridley Scott, Starring: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis)
Hard Boiled (Directed by: John Woo, Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai)
Malcolm X (Directed by: Spike Lee, Starring: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett)
The Player (Directed by: Robert Altman, Starring: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi)
Raise the Red Lantern (Directed by: Zhang Yimou, Starring: Gong Li, Ma Jingwu)
Supercop (Directed by: Stanley Tong, Starring: Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung)
Unforgiven (Directed by: Clint Eastwood, Starring: Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman)
Dazed and Confused (Directed by: Richard Linklater, Starring: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey)
Groundhog Day (Directed by: Harold Ramis, Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Stephen Tobolowsky)
Schindler's List (Directed by: Steven Spielberg, Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes)
Chungking Express (Directed by: Wong Kar-Wai, Starring: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong)
Ed Wood (Directed by: Tim Burton, Starring: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker)
Forrest Gump (Directed by: Robert Zemeckis, Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (Directed by: Mike Newell, Starring: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Simon Callow)
Pulp Fiction (Directed by: Quentin Tarantino, Starring: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis)
The Shawshank Redemption (Directed by: Frank Darabont, Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman)
Red (Directed by: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Starring: Irene Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant)
Babe (Directed by: Chris Noonan, Starring: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski)
Before Sunrise (Directed by: Richard Linklater, Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy)
Clueless (Directed by: Amy Heckerling, Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Brittany Murphy)
Heat (Directed by: Michael Mann, Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer)
Living in Oblivion (Directed by: Tom DeCillo, Starring: Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener)
Sense and Sensibility (Directed by: Ang Lee, Starring: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant)
Toy Story (Directed by: John Lasseter, Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen)
The Usual Suspects (Directed by: Bryan Singer, Starring: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri)
Big Night (Directed by: Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci, Starring: Tony Shaloub, Stanley Tucci, Ian Holm)
Dead Man (Directed by: Jim Jarmusch, Starring: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen)
Fargo (Directed by: Joel Coen, Starring: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy)
Ghost in the Shell (Directed by: Mamoru Oshii, Starring: Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Otsuka)
Lone Star (Directed by: John Sayles, Starring: Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Pena, Kris Kristofferson, Matthew McConaughey)
Scream (Directed by: Wes Craven, Starring: Neve Campbell, Drew Barrymore)
Secrets & Lies (Directed by: Mike Leigh, Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall)
Sling Blade (Directed by: Billy Bob Thornton, Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, Lucas Black)
Swingers (Directed by: Doug Liman, Starring: Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Heather Graham)
Trainspotting (Directed by: Danny Boyle, Starring: Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle)
Boogie Nights (Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson, Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore)
Eve's Bayou (Directed by: Kasi Lemmons, Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan)
L.A. Confidential (Directed by: Curtis Hanson, Starring: Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey)
The Sweet Hearafter (Directed by: Atom Egoyan, Starring: Ian Holm, Bruce Greenwood, Sarah Polley)
Titanic (Directed by: James Cameron, Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet)
The Big Lebowski (Directed by: Joel Coen, Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore)
Fireworks (Directed by: Takeshi Kitano, Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto)
Out of Sight (Directed by: Steven Soderbergh, Starring: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Catherine Keener)
Saving Private Ryan (Directed by: Steven Spielberg, Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore)
There's Something About Mary (Directed by: Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Starring: Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller)
All About My Mother (Directed by: Pedro Almodovar, Starring: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penelope Cruz)
American Beauty (Directed by: Sam Mendes, Starring: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch)
Being John Malkovich (Directed by: Spike Jonze, Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich)
Election (Directed by: Alexander Payne, Starring: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein)
Fight Club (Directed by: David Fincher, Starring: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton)
The Matrix (Directed by: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne)
Princess Mononoke (Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki, Starring: Yoji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida)
Run Lola Run (Directed by: Tom Tykwer, Starring: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu)
The Sixth Sense (Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan, Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette)
Memento (Directed by: Christopher Nolan, Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano)
Mulholland Drive (Directed by: David Lynch, Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Directed by: Wes Anderson, Starring: Gene Hackman, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow)
The Pianist (Directed by: Roman Polanski, Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Emilia Fox)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (Directed by: Alfonso Cuaron, Starring: Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna)
City of God (Directed by: Fernando Meirelles, Starring: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino De Hora Phellipe, Seu Jorge)
Elephant (Directed by: Gus Van Sant, Starring: Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson)
Finding Nemo (Directed by: Andrew Stanton, Starring: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Directed by: Adam McKay, Starring: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Directed by: Michel Gondry, Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet)
Shaun of the Dead (Directed by: Edgar Wright, Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield)
Sideways (Directed by: Alexander Payne, Starring: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen)
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Directed by: Judd Apatow, Starring: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Seth Rogen)
Brokeback Mountain (Directed by: Ang Lee, Starring: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal)
A History of Violence (Directed by: David Cronenberg, Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris)
Oldboy (Directed by: Park Chan-wook, Starring: Choi Min-shik, Kang Hye-jeong)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Directed by: Larry Charles, Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Kenneth Davitian)
Children of Men (Directed by: Alfonso Cuaron, Starring: Clive Owen, Michael Caine, Julianne Moore)
The Lives of Others (Directed by: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Starring: Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Muehe, Sebastian Koch)
Pan's Labyrinth (Directed by: Guillermo del Toro, Starring: Maribel Verdu, Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones)
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Directed by: Cristian Mungiu, Starring: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov)
The Bourne Ultimatum (Directed by: Paul Greengrass, Starring: Matt Damon, Joan Allen, David Strathairn)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Directed by: Julian Schnabel, Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze)
Michael Clayton (Directed by: Tony Gilroy, Starring: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton)
No Country for Old Men (Directed by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin)
There Will Be Blood (Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson, Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano)
The Dark Knight (Directed by: Christopher Nolan, Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart)
Slumdog Millionaire (Directed by: Danny Boyle, Starring: Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Freida Pinto)
WALL-E (Directed by: Andrew Stanton, Starring: Fred Willard, Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Garlin)
Avatar (Directed by: James Cameron, Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver)
The Hurt Locker (Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow, Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty)
Inglourious Basterds (Directed by: Quentin Tarantino, Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Melanie Laurent)

The Books

Here is a list of 100 books, some of which I have already read (those in green) many which I havent. I plan on reading these books at some point, and once I have I will post what I thought of them.
If you too, have read any of the listed books, or have any suggestions for other good reads then please contact me.
Off I go...



Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Bible
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
Great Epectations – Charles Dickens
Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
Emma – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Dune – Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Brave New World – Aldous Huley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo – Aleandre Dumas
On The Road – Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
Ulysses – James Joyce
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
Germinal – Emile Zola
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession – AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web – EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Eupery
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Watership Down – Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers – Aleandre Dumas
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo