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200 Movies Worth Watching
Use this list as an antidote to wasting time scrolling through bad options on Netflix. We even organized it by release year!




Title | Director | Runtime | Release Year |
|---|---|---|---|
12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet | 1h36m | 1957 |
12 Years a Slave | Steve McQueen | 2h14m | 2013 |
1917 | Sam Mendes | 1h59m | 2019 |
2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | 2h29m | 1968 |
300 | Zack Snyder | 1h57m | 2006 |
A Beautiful Mind | Ron Howard | 2h15m | 2001 |
A Face in the Crowd | Elia Kazan | 2h06m | 1957 |
Akira | Katsuhiro Ôtomo | 2h04m | 1988 |
Alien | Ridley Scott | 1h57m | 1979 |
Aliens | James Cameron | 2h17m | 1986 |
All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 2h18m | 1950 |
American Beauty | Sam Mendes | 2h02m | 1999 |
Amores perros | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 2h34m | 2000 |
Annie Hall | Woody Allen | 1h33m | 1977 |
Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | 2h27m | 1979 |
Atonement | Joe Wright | 2h03m | 2007 |
Autumn Sonata | Ingmar Bergman | 1h39m | 1978 |
Avengers: Infinity War | Anthony Russo, Joe Russo | 2h29m | 2018 |
Back to the Future | Robert Zemeckis | 1h56m | 1985 |
Batman Begins | Christopher Nolan | 2h20m | 2005 |
Before Sunrise | Richard Linklater | 1h41m | 1995 |
Black Swan | Darren Aronofsky | 1h48m | 2010 |
Blade Runner | Ridley Scott | 1h57m | 1982 |
Blade Runner 2049 | Denis Villeneuve | 2h44m | 2017 |
Braveheart | Mel Gibson | 2h58m | 1995 |
Call Me by Your Name | Luca Guadagnino | 2h12m | 2017 |
Captain Fantastic | Matt Ross | 1h58m | 2016 |
Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 1h42m | 1942 |
Casino | Martin Scorsese | 2h58m | 1995 |
Casino Royale | Martin Campbell | 2h24m | 2006 |
Catch Me If You Can | Steven Spielberg | 2h21m | 2002 |
Children of Men | Alfonso Cuarón | 1h49m | 2006 |
Chinatown | Roman Polanski | 2h10m | 1974 |
Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1h59m | 1941 |
City of God | Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | 2h10m | 2002 |
Dial M for Murder | Alfred Hitchcock | 1h45m | 1954 |
Die Hard | John McTiernan | 2h12m | 1988 |
Django Unchained | Quentin Tarantino | 2h45m | 2012 |
Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 2h00m | 1989 |
Dog Day Afternoon | Sidney Lumet | 2h05m | 1975 |
Dogville | Lars von Trier | 2h51m | 2003 |
Double Indemnity | Billy Wilder | 1h47m | 1944 |
Downfall | Oliver Hirschbiegel | 2h36m | 2004 |
Dr. Strangelove | Stanley Kubrick | 1h35m | 1964 |
Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn | 1h40m | 2011 |
Dune: Part One | Denis Villeneuve | 2h35m | 2021 |
Dune: Part Two | Denis Villeneuve | 2h46m | 2024 |
Dunkirk | Christopher Nolan | 1h46m | 2017 |
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry | 1h48m | 2004 |
Ex Machina | Alex Garland | 1h48m | 2014 |
Fail-Safe | Sidney Lumet | 1h52m | 1964 |
Fargo | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | 1h38m | 1996 |
Fight Club | David Fincher | 2h19m | 1999 |
Ford v Ferrari | James Mangold | 2h32m | 2019 |
Forrest Gump | Robert Zemeckis | 2h22m | 1994 |
Get Out | Jordan Peele | 1h44m | 2017 |
Gladiator | Ridley Scott | 2h35m | 2000 |
Good Will Hunting | Gus Van Sant | 2h06m | 1997 |
GoodFellas | Martin Scorsese | 2h25m | 1990 |
Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón | 1h31m | 2013 |
Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio | Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson | 1h57m | 2022 |
Harakiri | Masaki Kobayashi | 2h13m | 1962 |
Heat | Michael Mann | 2h50m | 1995 |
Her | Spike Jonze | 2h06m | 2013 |
High and Low | Akira Kurosawa | 2h23m | 1963 |
Hotel Rwanda | Terry George | 2h01m | 2004 |
In Bruges | Martin McDonagh | 1h47m | 2008 |
In the Heat of the Night | Norman Jewison | 1h50m | 1967 |
In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-Wai | 1h38m | 2000 |
Incendies | Denis Villeneuve | 2h10m | 2010 |
Inception | Christopher Nolan | 2h28m | 2010 |
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | Steven Spielberg | 2h07m | 1989 |
Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | 2h33m | 2009 |
Interstellar | Christopher Nolan | 2h49m | 2014 |
Iron Man | Jon Favreau | 2h06m | 2008 |
It Happened One Night | Frank Capra | 1h45m | 1934 |
It's a Wonderful Life | Frank Capra | 2h10m | 1946 |
JFK | Oliver Stone | 3h09m | 1991 |
Jaws | Steven Spielberg | 2h04m | 1975 |
Joker | Todd Phillips | 2h14m | 2019 |
Judgment at Nuremberg | Stanley Kramer | 2h59m | 1961 |
Jurassic Park | Steven Spielberg | 2h07m | 1993 |
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | Quentin Tarantino | 1h51m | 2003 |
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | Quentin Tarantino | 2h17m | 2004 |
L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson | 2h18m | 1997 |
La La Land | Damien Chazelle | 2h08m | 2016 |
Late Spring | Yasujirô Ozu | 1h50m | 1949 |
Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | 3h47m | 1962 |
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Guy Ritchie | 1h47m | 1998 |
Logan | James Mangold | 2h17m | 2017 |
Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola | 1h42m | 2003 |
M | Fritz Lang | 1h57m | 1931 |
Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller | 2h00m | 2015 |
Manchester by the Sea | Kenneth Lonergan | 2h17m | 2016 |
Memento | Christopher Nolan | 1h53m | 2000 |
Million Dollar Baby | Clint Eastwood | 2h12m | 2004 |
Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1h47m | 1975 |
Moneyball | Bennett Miller | 2h13m | 2011 |
Moonlight | Barry Jenkins | 1h51m | 2016 |
Mulholland Dr. | David Lynch | 2h27m | 2001 |
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