50 Best Movies You Shouldn't Die Without Seeing

We all like to see movies from time to time, be it in the cinema when it is released, on television or online on the pages that allow us to choose the movie we want instantly.

There are many good movies, and also many film genres to choose from: comedy, action, science fiction, horror, suspense…

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Admittedly, not all movies are great. However, there are some feature films that are worth remembering, that have marked an era or that are simply great for the most varied reasons.

If you want to know some of the best films in the history of cinema, Below you can find a list that can help you choose a movie to watch tonight.

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1. Star Wars (1977)

Few sagas have been as successful as Star Wars.. Directed by George Lucas. its first edition was already revolutionary. Star Wars is an interplanetary war full of magical moments. Currently, it is still valid, as the next edition will be released shortly. So far, this is the order of the collection:

• Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
• Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
• Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
• Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
• Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
• Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
• Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)

2. The Class (2008)

It is a French film based on the autobiographical novel of the experiences of François Bégaudeau as a literature teacher in a secondary school in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. An exquisite film that you cannot miss.

3. The Wizard of Oz (1939)

A true movie classic. It is based on a children's literature book written by Lyman Frank Baum that bears the same name.. The movie tells the story of a girl named Dorothy Gale in the land of Oz.

4. Memento (2000)

Memento is a film directed by Christopher Nolan., which is about a character who loses his memory after an accident in which his wife is raped and killed. Despite his limitations, he tries to find out who killed his wife.

5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Terminator is one of those movies that went down in history. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, it is the continuation of Terminator 1. This movie revolves around the story of the rebellion of the machines that are supposed to dominate the world in the future if a good Terminator, Sarah Connor and John Connor don't stop it.

6. Gladiators (2000)

A great movie that propelled Russell Crowe as a Hollywood star, as he won an Oscar. But this film will also be remembered for the death of Oliver Reed, who suffered a heart attack during filming.

7. The Pianist (2002)

The Pianist is a feature film directed by Roman PolanskYo. It is about the story of a brilliant Polish Jewish pianist, who witnesses the restrictions that the Germans impose on Jews in the capital of Poland. When his family is about to be transferred to Nazi labor camps, he flees to live in the ruins of Warsaw.

8. The Green Mile (1999)

Paul Edgecomb is a veteran prison security guard, and has been on death row since the 1930s., where he sees men live and die. A curious and gigantic character is imprisoned, supposedly for having killed two children, but he is afraid to even sleep with the light off. He doesn't look like a killer. The story is about the innocence of this character.

9. Psycho (1960)

A true classic of American terrestrial cinema, which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It all begins in the life of Marion Crane, who has experienced an eventful day that day. After stealing $40,000 from his boss's client, he packs his bags to meet his mistress. She stops at a distant motel, where Norman Bates, a shy young man, accompanies her to the room. It is there that she meets Mrs. Bates (listening only), who is Norman's mother. While taking a shower, a female silhouette surprises him and stabs him several times. Will it be Mrs. bats? This is one of the best known murders in the world of cinema.

10. Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

If you like adventure movies, there is one that has gone down in history and that you cannot miss. Harrison Ford is the protagonist of this true classic of modern adventure cinema.. A great work by Steven Spielberg.

11. Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Starring Tom Hanks, this is a great war film, in which a group of US soldiers go behind enemy lines to recover a paratrooper whose brothers have fallen in battle.

12. The Godfather (1972)

Directed by Francis Coppola, it is about the story of an aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty. which transfers control of the underground empire from him to his son.

13. Schindler's List (1993)

A true story about the enigmatic and opportunistic businessman Oskar Schindler, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. Schindler's List narrates the exploits of an exemplary man and the lives of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history.

14. Casablanca (1942)

Casablanca won three Oscars in 1942: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.. A masterful work in all respects. It tells a wonderful love story in troubled times.

15. Gone with the Wind (1939)

The epic tale of one woman's life during one of the most difficult periods in American history.. This film, taken from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell, narrates the experiences of Scarlett O'Hara.

16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

The film revolves around the life of McMurphy, an individual who is imprisoned again after various criminal acts.. He tries to make people think he's crazy to avoid prison work, but it backfires and he's taken to a mental hospital.

17. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Due to his knowledge of the Bedouin tribes, British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence is posted in Arabia for find Prince Faisal and become the link between the Arabs and the British in their fight against the Turks. In his adventure many anecdotes occur.

18. Forest Gump (1994)

Another of the movie classics, starring Tom Hanks. Forrest Gump is a story that everyone knows because it sends a message of self-improvement. It is about a boy who suffers from mental retardation.

19. The Sound of Music and Tears (1965)

One of the most famous musicals of all time set in Austria at the time of the Nazis, when Maria is sent to Captain Von Trapp's house to take care of her children.

20. A Clockwork Orange

This controversial work was directed by Stanley Kubrick. The protagonist, with possible antisocial disorder, is imprisoned for his criminal acts. It is then used to test a behavioral method to suppress impulses from him.

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21. My Fair Lady (1964)

This film is inspired by the play by the Irish writer G. b. Shaw (1856-1950), "The myth of Pygmalion". It is about how a linguist, amazed by the vulgar language of a flower girl, intends to teach her to speak and pass her off as a lady of high society in six months. All for a bet.

22. Rambo

One of the great films of Sylvester Stallone, who plays John Rambo, a Green Beret veteran who remembers the torture he suffered in Vietnam. The collection has 4 feature films.

23. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

It is based on the 1961 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Harper Lee., and is about the life of Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the fictional town of Maycomb. Set in the 1930s, Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman.

24. Rocky (1976)

Another of the great classics of cinema and one of the films that brought Sylvester Stallone to stardom. The feature film narrates the search for the American dream by Rocky Balboa, a boxer.

25. West Side Story (1961)

A musical that revolves around a modern version of Romeo and Juliet, in which the protagonists are involved in street gangs in New York. In the streets of the New York city, a series of battles between gangs in search of territorial control and respect take place.

26. No Forgiveness (1992)

A film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, about a retired gunslinger from the Wild West, William Munny, who reluctantly takes one last job, with the help of his old partner.

27. Titanic (1997)

Titanic has been one of the great movies of all time.. Based on true events and starring Leonardo Di Caprio, it was a real box office success.

28. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Another of the most successful sagas of all time, which are based on the homonymous novel by South African writer J. R. R. Tolkien. It comprises epic movies that everyone should see.

29. With skirts and like crazy (1959)

A comedy from 1959 that has gone down in history, largely because of its protagonist: the great Marilyn Monroe. Billy Wilder is the director of this formidable feature film.

30. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

A film starring Anthony Hopkins who plays Dr. Hannibal "the cannibal" Lecter. A brilliant and renowned psychiatrist turned psychopath. A macabre but intriguing film.

31. E.T. The Alien (1982)

E.T. is a myth in science fiction cinema. It's about a troubled boy who helps his alien friend get back into his house.

32. Modern Times (1936)

A film directed and starring Charles Chaplin, and that it is one of the great silent film classics that only includes a sung sequence that, curiously, is the funniest part of the film. This work is a satirical vision of industrial mechanics.

33. American History X (1998)

A film that shows racial violence and the laws that govern slums. An exquisite film that shows how prejudices turn people into soulless individuals.

34. Life is Beautiful (1997)

Roberto Benigni directs a great film that he plays himself. He plays a Jewish librarian who is a victim of the Holocaust with his son. He uses a perfect mix of will, humor and imagination to protect his descendant from the dangers that surround his camp.

35. Seven (1995)

A film directed by David Fincher and with a great cast: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, among others. An abstract film with improbable and incoherent moments, but one that simply must be seen.

36. Usual Suspects (1995)

Director Bryan Singer's second film is simply exquisite. A great thriller that has excellent actors. A feature film to applaud.

37. Matrix (1999)

Keanu Reeves stars in one of the greatest hits of recent years. His special effects combined with touches of oriental action cinema, all within an extreme technological environment. A peculiar film, in the purest cybernetic style.

38. Goodfellas (1990)

A great Martin Scorsese movie, in which well-known actors such as Joe Pesci or Robert De Niro participate. Scorsese borders on mastery with this work, set in a mafia environment.

39. The Seven Samurai (1954)

One of the films that reminds us of its director, Akira Kurosawa. The story centers on a village attacked by bandits, in which it is necessary to recruit seven unemployed samurai to help defend them.

40. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

This Stanley Kubrick film marks a before and after in the world of cinema for its visual communication and its special effects. An epic science fiction film depicting man's eternal search for knowledge.

41. Vertigo (1958)

A great Alfred Hitchcock film about a detective who must follow a woman possessed by her past.. A suspense film, in the purest Hitchcock style.

42. Citizen Kane (1941)

It is about a group of journalists who try to find the meaning of the last word that a well-known tycoon uttered before he died.

43. City of God (2002)

It tells the story of a group of children raised in one of the violent neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro., and many of them carry out delinquent behavior as adults. Instead, one of them becomes a photographer and later tells what happened in that neighborhood and how this type of Marginal life leads individuals down the path of crime despite having been innocent children once time.

44. Pulp Fiction (1994)

The director and co-writer Quentin Tarantino is the creator of this great film, one of the most influential of the nineties. A gangster-cop feature film, starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, among others. Nominated for seven Oscars.

45. Fight Club (1999)

An action movie in which actors like Brad Pitt or Edward Norton participate. It is about a person who, bored with his life, decides to create an "underground" fight club.

46. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Three different men with different tastes and personalities get involved in a long battle. and full of adventures to find a fortune in gold.

47. Life imprisonment (1994)

A film that tells the experience of an ex-banker who ends up as a prisoner in jail for a crime he did not commit. Throughout the film many things happen, such as the fact that he becomes friends with some fellow prisoners.

48. Ghost (1995)

Ghost is a film that is somewhere between romantic and fantasy, and in which Patrick Swayze plays a character who, after his death, continues in contact with his love interest.

49. beautiful woman

Julia Roberts and Richard Gere star in one of the highest grossing hits of all time and one of the great classics of cinema. Gere is a rich man and she is a prostitute. Together they live a love story.

50. Dirty Dancing

The now deceased Patrick Swayze will always be remembered for this film, full of incredible moments and the most sensual dances.