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Rotten Tomatoes recently put together a truly epic list of films for FandangoNOW they’re calling ‘200 Essential Movies to Watch Now’ so get ready to get your binge on this weekend.
The 200 films, hand-picked by Rotten Tomatoes editors from their “Certified Fresh” titles (films which have scored at least 75% on the Tomatometer), range from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) to Clint Eastwood in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) to Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017).
“We are obsessed with movies so a lot of love went into creating this list,” said Rotten Tomatoes Editor Alex Vo. “It was important to us to find best-in-category films covering a wide range of genres, diversity in casts and subject matter, including coming of age stories. Above all, we wanted this list to present a fun challenge where people can share the Rotten Tomatoes ‘200 Essentials’ list with others, check off which classics they’ve seen, and discover great new movies with friends and family.”
Another really cool thing about this list is that they’ve all been gathered up into one collection over at FandangoNOW and right now you can get 20% off on any rental or purchase of each film on the list.
Here are the Top 100 on the list…
1. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
2. Citizen Kane (1941)
3. The Third Man (1949)
4. Get Out (2017)
5. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
6. All About Eve (1950)
7. Inside Out (2015)
8. The Godfather (1972)
9. Metropolis (1927)
10. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
11. It Happened One Night (1934)
12. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
13. Casablanca (1942)
14. Moonlight (2016)
15. A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
16. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
17. North by Northwest (1959)
18. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
19. King Kong (1933)
20. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
21. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
22. Psycho (1960)
23. Selma (2014)
24. Rear Window (1954)
25. Taxi Driver (1976)
26. Alien (1979)
27. Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) (1956)
28. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
29. Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) (1949)
30. The 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups) (1959)
31. 12 Angry Men (Twelve Angry Men) (1957)
32. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
33. Vertigo (1958)
34. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
35. The Dark Knight (2008)
36. Gone With the Wind (1939)
37. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
38. Tokyo Story (Tôkyô monogatari) (1953)
39. High Noon (1952)
40. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
41. Roman Holiday (1953)
42. On the Waterfront (1954)
43. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
44. Toy Story (1995)
45. Jaws (1975)
46. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
47. Chinatown (1974)
48. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
49. La Dolce Vita (1960)
50. The Searchers (1956)
51. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
52. The Red Shoes (1948)
53. The Terminator (1984)
54. Apocalypse Now (1979)
55. Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
56. Let the Right One In (2008)
57. Playtime (1973)
58. Annie Hall (1977)
59. The French Connection (1971)
60. City Lights (1931)
61. The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu) (1939)
62. Iron Man (2008)
63. Double Indemnity (1944)
64. Aliens (1986)
65. Carol (2015)
66. Breathless (1961)
67. Badlands (1974)
68. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
69. GoodFellas (1990)
70. Tampopo (1985)
71. Casino Royale (2006)
72. Pather Panchali (1955)
73. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
74 The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
75. Forbidden Planet (1956)
76. Ghostbusters (1984)
77. Airplane! (1980)
78. Duck Soup (1933)
79. Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
80. Some Like It Hot (1959)
81. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
82. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)
83. Back to the Future (1985)
84. The Princess Bride (1987)
85. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
86. Zero Dark Thirty (2013)
87. Schindler’s List (1993)
88. Amadeus (1984)
89. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
90. The Player (1992)
91. Gojira (1956)
92. Once (2007)
93. Solaris (1976)
94. Jurassic Park (1993)
95. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2001)
96. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
97. Goldfinger (1964)
98. Boyz n the Hood (1991)
99. Repo Man (1984)
100. Don’t Look Now (1973)
Check out the rest of the list here and watch a special video that mashes-up some of the greatest movies on the list below.