Maxim Goes To The Movies

This month's Maxim magazine is a special Maxim Goes To The Movies issue, and includes a list titled The 300 Movies You Must See Before You Die!, divided into genres and other (occasionally odd) categories. (Musicals have been deliberately excluded.)

There are actually slightly more than 300 films included, because original films and their sequels are counted as single entries. The Lord Of The Rings I, The Warriors, Fight Club, A History Of Violence, Star Wars V, and Terminator II all appear twice, each in two different categories.

Comedy

• The Big Lebowski
  
• Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy
  
• Kingpin
  
• Monty Python & The Holy Grail
  
• This Is Spinal Tap
  
• Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan
  
• Airplane!
  
• Animal House
  
• Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery
  
• American Pie
  
• Bachelor Party
  
• Bananas
  
• Beverly Hills Cop
  
• Blazing Saddles
  
• Caddyshack
  
• The Cannonball Run
  
• Clerks
  
• Dazed & Confused
  
• Duck Soup
  
• Dumb & Dumber
  
• Election
  
• The 40-Year-Old Virgin
  
• Ghostbusters
  
• Groundhog Day
  
• Happy Gilmore
  
• Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
  
• It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  
• The Jerk
  
• Modern Times
  
• The Nutty Professor
  
• Office Space
  
• Old School
  
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again
  
• The Princess Bride
  
• Raising Arizona
  
• Sixteen Candles
  
• Some Like It Hot
  
• Trading Places
  
• Vacation
  
• Wedding Crashers
  
• Wet Hot American Summer
  
• Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
  
• Young Frankenstein

The Master Class

• Breathless
  
• Citizen Kane
  
• La Dolce Vita
  
• Seven Samurai
  
• The 400 Blows
  
• The Seventh Seal
  
• Un Chien Andalou

War

• The Deer Hunter
  
• The Bridge On The River Kwai
  
• Dr Strangelove
  
• Apocalypse Now
  
• Black Hawk Down
  
• The Dirty Dozen
  
• Gallipoli
  
• The Great Escape
  
• M*A*S*H
  
• Platoon
  
• Saving Private Ryan

So Bad They're Good

• Glen Or Glenda?
  
• Showgirls
  
• Airport 1975
  
• Barbarella
  
• Battlefield Earth
  
• Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
  
• Death Race 2000
  
• Phantom Of The Paradise
  
• Reefer Madness
  
• Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
  
• The Toxic Avenger

Sequels That Are Better Than The Original

• Bride Of Frankenstein
  
• Evil Dead II
  
• Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
  
• Superman II
  
• Terminator II: Judgment Day
  
• Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back

Rebels

• Cool Hand Luke
  
• Taxi Driver
  
• Sid & Nancy
  
• Easy Rider
  
• Billy Jack
  
• Dirty Harry
  
• Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
  
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  
• The Graduate
  
• A History Of Violence
  
• The Hustler
  
• The King Of Comedy
  
• Network
  
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  
• Raging Bull
  
• Risky Business
  
• Smokey & The Bandit
  
• Three Days Of The Condor
  
• Trainspotting

Classics

• Lawrence Of Arabia
  
• Kind Hearts & Coronets
  
• The Adventures Of Robin Hood
  
• Ben-Hur: A Tale Of The Christ
  
• Casablanca
  
• Double Indemnity
  
• Metropolis
  
• The Night Of The Hunter
  
• On The Waterfront
  
• The Third Man
  
• Touch Of Evil
  
• Vertigo
  
• White Heat
  
• The Wizard Of Oz

Sci-Fi/Fantasy

• Starship Troopers
  
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
  
• Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
  
• Alien I-II
  
• Back To The Future
  
• Blade Runner
  
• Children Of Men
  
• Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
  
• ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
  
• King Kong
  
• Planet Of The Apes
  
• Star Wars IV: A New Hope
  
• Terminator I-II

Horror

• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  
• Night Of The Living Dead
  
• Dawn Of The Dead
  
• Carrie
  
• The Exorcist
  
• The Fly
  
• Halloween
  
• Jaws
  
• A Nightmare On Elm Street
  
• Psycho
  
• Rosemary's Baby
  
• The Shining
  
• 28 Days Later

Non-Boring Documentaries

• Brother's Keeper
  
• Don't Look Back
  
• Hoop Dreams
  
• Pumping Iron
  
• Richard Pryor: Live In Concert
  
• When We Were Kings

Conspicuously Gay Straight Movies (Beyond Top Gun)

• 300
  
• Fight Club
  
• Spartacus
  
• The Bear
  
• The Lord Of The Rings I: The Fellowship Of The Ring
  
• The Warriors
  
• X-Men

Westerns

• The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
  
• The Searchers
  
• Jeremiah Johnson
  
• Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
  
• High Noon
  
• High Plains Drifter
  
• Tombstone
  
• True Grit
  
• Unforgiven
  
• The Wild Bunch

Buddy Movies

• The Last Detail
  
• Top Gun
  
• Superbad
  
• Deliverance
  
• American Graffiti
  
• The Blues Brothers
  
• Breaking Away
  
• Glengarry Glen Ross
  
• The Goonies
  
• Lethal Weapon
  
• The Right Stuff
  
• Saturday Night Fever
  
• The Shawshank Redemption
  
• Stand By Me
  
• Stripes
  
• Swingers
  
• The Warriors

Conspicuously Gay [Patrick] Swayze Movies

• Next Of Kin
  
• Red Dawn
  
• Road House
  
• The Outsiders
  
• Youngblood

Action

• The Matrix
  
• Rocky I-IV
  
• The Road Warrior
  
• Batman
  
• Batman Begins
  
• Battle Royale
  
• The Bourne Identity/Supremacy/Ultimatum
  
• Braveheart
  
• Clash Of The Titans
  
• Die Hard
  
• Enter The Dragon
  
• Face/Off
  
• First Blood
  
• 48 Hours
  
• Gladiator
  
• The Incredibles
  
• Kill Bill I-II
  
• The Lord Of The Rings I-III
  
• Predator
  
• Raiders Of The Lost Ark
  
• Speed
  
• Spider-Man

Non-Gratuitous Nudity!

• Wild Things
  
• Fast Times At Ridgemont High
  
• Carnal Knowledge
  
• Angel Heart
  
• Body Heat
  
• Boogie Nights
  
• Coffy
  
• Jackass: The Movie
  
• McCabe & Mrs Miller
  
• Mulholland Drive
  
• Poison Ivy: The New Seduction
  
• Revenge Of The Nerds
  
• Ten

Essential James Bond Movies

• Casino Royale
  
• Goldfinger
  
• The Spy Who Loved Me
  
• Live & Let Die
  
• You Only Live Twice

Arthouse

• City Of God
  
• A Clockwork Orange
  
• Annie Hall
  
• Withnail & I
  
• Midnight Cowboy
  
• Badlands
  
• Bicycle Thieves
  
• The Conversation
  
• Do The Right Thing
  
• The Elephant Man
  
• The Last Picture Show
  
• Repo Man
  
• Rushmore
  
• Short Cuts
  
• There Will Be Blood

Mindbenders

• Akira
  
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  
• Beetlejuice
  
• Blue Velvet
  
• Brazil
  
• Donnie Darko
  
• Edward Scissorhands
  
• Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
  
• Fight Club
  
• Memento
  
• Pink Floyd: The Wall
  
• The Manchurian Candidate

Best Movies With Puppets

• Being John Malkovich
  
• Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
  
• Team America: World Police
  
• The Dark Crystal
  
• The Muppet Movie
  
• Weekend At Bernie's

Cops

• To Live & Die In LA
  
• Bullitt
  
• Hard-Boiled
  
• Bad Lieutenant
  
• Chinatown
  
• The Departed
  
• Donnie Brasco
  
• Fargo
  
• The French Connection
  
• RoboCop
  
• Seven
  
• Shaft
  
• The Silence Of The Lambs
  
• The Untouchables

Criminals

• The Godfather I-II
  
• No Country For Old Men
  
• Bonnie & Clyde
  
• Reservoir Dogs
  
• Atlantic City
  
• Bad Boys
  
• Bloody Mamma
  
• The Boys From Brazil
  
• Boyz 'N The Hood
  
• Carlito's Way
  
• Casino
  
• Crimes & Misdemeanors
  
• Dog Day Afternoon
  
• The Getaway
  
• Get Carter
  
• GoodFellas
  
• Heat
  
• A History Of Violence
  
• In Cold Blood
  
• The Long Good Friday
  
• Mean Streets
  
• Midnight Express
  
• Natural Born Killers
  
• Pulp Fiction
  
• River's Edge
  
• Scarface
  
• Sexy Beast
  
• Sin City
  
• Super Fly
  
• True Romance

Movies You Need To See Once But Are
So Traumatic You Never Need To See Again

• Leaving Las Vegas
  
• Million Dollar Baby
  
• Requiem For A Dream
  
• Schindler's List
  
• United 93

Some Like It Hot is the 1959 comic masterpiece, not the obscure 1939 comedy. Casino Royale is [presumably] the recent version rather than the 1960s spoof, Ben-Hur is the William Wyler version, and Scarface is the Brian de Palma version instead of the Howard Hawks original, but otherwise the list is refreshingly free of remakes. Note that Carrie is de Palma's 1976 horror film, not William Wyler's 1952 romantic drama.