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Top 250 Movies: The Quest

I got inspired by @ruhee_ (her 250 list here) to catalogue and watch the IMDB Top 250 movies of all time.

i have seen 120/250 (Feb 19, 2013 - changed 218 to 120 oops.)
for some reason, I didn’t check of Psycho (Apr 1 - checked off Psycho, now at 121/250)

Jesus I have watched a lot of movies.

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. The Godfather
3. The Godfather: Part II
4. Pulp Fiction
5. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
6. 12 Angry Men
7. Schindler’s List
8. The Dark Knight
9. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 
10. Fight Club
11. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 
12. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
14. Inception
15. Goodfellas
16. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope 
17. Seven Samurai
18. The Matrix
19. Forrest Gump
20. City of God
21. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
22. Once Upon a Time in the West
23. Se7en
24. Casablanca
25. The Silence of the Lambs
26. Raiders of the Lost Ark
27. The Usual Suspects
28. Rear Window
29. The Dark Knight Rises
30. Psycho
31. It’s a Wonderful Life
32. Léon: The Professional
33. Sunset Blvd.
34. Memento
35. American History X
36. Apocalypse Now
37. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
38. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
39. Saving Private Ryan
40. Alien
41. North by Northwest
42. City Lights
43. Spirited Away
44. Citizen Kane
45. Modern Times
46. The Shining
47. Vertigo
48. American Beauty
49. Taxi Driver
50. Back to the Future
51. The Pianist
52. The Departed
53. M
54. Toy Story 3
55. Paths of Glory
56. Double Indemnity
57. Aliens
58. Life is Beautiful
59. Wall-E
60. The Lives of Others
61. A Clockwork Orange
62. Amélie
63. Gladiator
64. Lawrence of Arabia
65. To Kill a Mockingbird
66. The Green Mile
67. The Prestige
68. The Great Dictator
69. Intouchables
70. Reservoir Dogs
71. Das Boot
72. Requiem for a Dream
73. The Third Man
74. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
75. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
76. Cinema Paradiso
77. Chinatown
78. Once Upon a Time in America
79. L.A. Confidential
80. Full Metal Jacket
81. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
82. The Lion King
83. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
84. Braveheart
85. Singin’ in the Rain
86. Some Like It Hot
87. Oldboy
88. Amadeus
89. Metropolis
90. Rashômon
91. Bicycle Thieves
92. Unforgiven
93. All About Eve
94. 2001: A Space Odyssey
95. The Apartment
96. Raging Bull
97. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
98. Bridge on the River Kwai
99. The Sting
100. Princess Mononoke
101. A Separation
102. Die Hard
103. Witness for the Prosecution
104. Pan’s Labyrinth
105. Batman Begins
106. Downfall
107. Grave of the Fireflies
108. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
109. The Great Escape
110. Yojimbo
111. For a Few Dollars More
112. Snatch.
113. Inglourious Basterds
114. Up
115. The Elephant Man
116. On the Waterfront
117. The Seventh Seal
118. The Avengers
119. The Maltese Falcon
120. Heat
121. Toy Story
122. The General
123. Gran Torino
124. Rebecca
125. Blade Runner
126. Wild Strawberries
127. Fargo
128. The Kid
129. Touch of Evil
130. The Big Lebowski
131. Scarface
132. Ran
133. The Deer Hunter
134. Cool Hand Luke
135. Sin City
136. The Gold Rush
137. Strangers on a Train
138. Jaws
139. No Country for Old Men
140. It Happened One Night
141. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
142. Hotel Rwanda
143. The Sixth Sense
144. High Noon
145. Platoon
146. The Thing
147. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
148. The Wizard of Oz
149. Trainspotting
150. Casino
151. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
152. Warrior
153. Notorious
154. Annie Hall
155. The Secret in Their Eyes
156. The King’s Speech
157. Gone With the Wind
158. The Grapes of Wrath
159. Good Will Hunting
160. Into the Wild
161. Life of Brian
162. Finding Nemo
163. How to Train Your Dragon
164. V for Vendetta
165. The Big Sleep
166. Black Swan
167. My Neighbor Totoro
168. Dial M for Murder
169. The Terminator
170. Ben-Hur
171. Network
172. Million Dollar Baby
173. The Night of the Hunter
174. Donnie Darko
175. Stand By Me
176. There Will Be Blood
177. Groundhog Day
178. Dog Day Afternoon
179. Twelve Monkeys
180. Amores perros
181. The Bourne Ultimatum
182. The Graduate
183. Mary and Max
184. The 400 Blows
185. Persona
186. The Artist
187. Gandhi
188. The Killing
189. 8 1/2
190. The Princess Bride
191. Slumdog Millionaire
192. Howl’s Moving Castle
193. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
194. The Manchurian Candidate
195. La strada
196. The Hustler
197. The Wild Bunch
198. A Beautiful Mind
199. Rocky
200. Stalag 17
201. Anatomy of a Murder
202. The Exorcist
203. Barry Lyndon
204. District 9
205. Rope
206. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
207. Stalker
208. Roman Holiday
209. Infernal Affairs
210. Ratatouille
211. The Truman Show
212. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
213. Ip Man
214. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
215. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
216. A Streetcar Named Desire
217. A Fistful of Dollars
218. Star Trek
219. Monsters, Inc.
220. Rosemary’s Baby
221. Beauty and the Beast
222. The Wrestler
223. Harvey
224. In the Name of the Father
225. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
226. All Quiet on the Western Front
227. La haine
228. Bringing Up Baby
229. Nosferatu
230. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring
231. Skyfall
232. Rain Man
233. Manhattan
234. Shutter Island
235. Shadow of a Doubt
236. Mystic River
237. Let the Right One In
238. Big Fish
239. Castle in the Sky
240. In the Heat of the Night
241. The Nightmare Before Christmas
242. The Untouchables
243. Papillon
244. Arsenic and Old Lace
245. Jurassic Park
246. The Searchers
247. In the Mood for Love
248. La Dolce Vita
249. Rio Bravo
250. King Kong