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Movies to Watch in Your Lifetime: A Long List of My Favorites



Lately I've been obsessed with watching movies as I've been watching up to five movies a week. Here's the looooong list of movies you should definitely watch in no particular order. My favorite movies will either make you laugh, cry, think, or all three. Enjoy! And remember movies can be more than just pure entertainment.

  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 1986

  • Love Actually, 2003

  • American Psycho, 2000

  • Perks of Being a Wallflower, 2012

  • P.S I Love You, 2007

  • The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, 2017

  • Donnie Darko, 2001

  • Election, 1999

  • Synecdoche, New York, 2008

  • The Spectacular Now, 2013

  • Silver Linings Playbook, 2012

  • Charlie St. Cloud, 2010

  • Paper Towns, 2015

  • Diehard, 1988

  • The Lovely Bones, 2009

  • The Fault in Our Stars, 2014

  • The Shining, 1980

  • Barry Lyndon, 1975

  • Blockers, 2018

  • Schindler's List, 1993

  • Forrest Gump, 1994

  • Room, 2015

  • The Impossible, 2012

  • Clueless, 1995

  • La La Land, 2016

  • A Walk to Remember, 2002

  • The Devil Wears Prada, 2006

  • Boyhood, 2014

  • Dead Poets Society, 1989

  • Good Will Hunting, 1997

  • Pulp Fiction, 1994

  • Begin Again, 2014

  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, 2011

  • 10 Things I Hate About You, 1999

  • Black Swan, 2010

  • Lincoln, 2012

  • The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas, 2008

  • V for Vendetta, 2006

  • Divergent, 2014

  • If I Stay, 2014

  • The Silence of the Lambs, 1991

  • Inception, 2010

  • Paris, Je T'aime, 2010

  • Titantic, 1997

  • Monsters Inc, 2001

  • The Six Sense, 1999

  • E.T the Extra-Terrestrial, 1982

  • The Breakfast Club, 1985

  • To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962

  • Stuck in Love, 2013

  • Love, Rosie, 2014

  • Up, 2009

  • Saving Private Ryan, 1998

  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, 1989

  • Shutter Island, 2010

  • Enchanted, 2007

  • The Danish Girl, 2015

  • Into the Wild, 2007

  • Hotel Rwanda, 2004

  • Jumanji, 1995

  • Meet the Parents, 2000

  • The Ring, 2002

  • Interstellar, 2014

  • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, 2015

  • It's Kind of a Funny Story, 2010

  • Carol, 2015

  • The Outsiders, 1983

  • Prisoners, 2013

  • The Butterfly Effect, 2004

  • The Edge of Seventeen, 2016

  • Seven Pounds, 2008

  • Amélie, 2001

  • Moulin Rouge!, 2001

  • The Neon Demon, 2016

  • Manchester by the Sea, 2016

  • Okja, 2017

  • Zodiac, 2007

  • Big Fish, 2003

  • The Shape of Water, 2017

  • The Theory of Everything, 2014

  • Eyes Wide Shut, 1999

  • Moonrise Kingdom, 2012

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014

  • The Florida Project, 2017

  • Lady Bird, 2017

  • Call Me By Your Name, 2017

  • Mulholland Drive, 2001

  • The Thing, 1982

  • Full Metal Jacket, 1987

  • Harold and Maude, 1971

  • Goodnight Mommy, 2014

  • Funny Games, 2007

  • Thoroughbreds, 2017

  • Arrival, 2016

  • The Witch, 2015

  • Ex Machina, 2014

  • Carrie, 1976

  • The Before Trilogy, 1995, 2004, 2013

  • The Tree Of Life, 2011

  • No Country For Old Men, 2007

  • Little Miss Sunshine, 2006

  • Lost In Translation, 2003

  • But I'm A Cheerleader, 2000

  • Fight Club, 1999

  • Magnolia, 1999

  • The Big Sick, 2017

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968

  • Garden State, 2004

  • The Exorcist, 1973

  • Love, Simon, 2018

  • A Quiet Place, 2018

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox, 2009

  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, 1975

  • The Dreamers, 2004

  • Requiem For A Dream, 2000

  • (500) Days Of Summer, 2009

  • Perks Of Being A Wallflower, 2012

  • Brokeback Mountain, 2005

  • Dunkirk, 2017

  • Baby Driver, 2017

  • Blue Velvet, 1986

  • Nocturnal Animals, 2016

  • Paris, Texas, 1984

  • The Godfather, 1972

  • Lolita, 1962

  • American Beauty, 1999

  • The Virgin Suicides, 1999

  • The Truman Show, 1998

And that's it. You don't have to watch all these movies, but these are all the ones I loved, cried over, obsessed over, and I have probably seen some of these multiple times (aka the Shining and the Fault in Our Stars.) ENJOY!!!

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