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Movies everyone should watch at least once during their lifetime

I asked reddit what’s one movie everyone should watch at least once in their lifetime to compile a list of movies that everyone should watch.
Link to reddit threads www.reddit.com/r/Letterboxd/comments/1745vgp/whats_one_movie_you_think_everyone_should_watch/

www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/178uqki/whats_a_movie_you_think_everyone_has_to_watch_at/

Feel free to comment on any movies you think should be added or maybe even removed. Thanks.

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There are 137 films in this list released in the 2000s.

  • Spirited Away
  • Children of Men
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • City of God
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Finding Nemo
  • Kung Fu Panda
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Memento
  • Up
  • Millennium Actress
  • Amélie
  • In the Mood for Love
  • The Dark Knight
  • Cast Away
  • The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
  • Mean Girls
  • Y Tu Mamá También
  • Ratatouille
  • Spider-Man 2
  • The Notebook
  • The Pursuit of Happyness
  • Speed Racer
  • Mulholland Drive
  • Shrek
  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • Mr. Nobody
  • The Best of Youth
  • Remember the Titans
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • The Room
  • A Knight's Tale
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Hot Fuzz
  • A Prophet
  • Gladiator
  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1
  • Training Day
  • Memories of Murder
  • The Lives of Others
  • The Departed
  • Superbad
  • The Princess Diaries
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Step Brothers
  • WALL·E
  • Let the Right One In
  • Catch Me If You Can
  • Oldboy
  • Amores Perros
  • The Terminal
  • Howl's Moving Castle
  • Pride & Prejudice
  • Chicago
  • Flame & Citron
  • In Bruges
  • The Secret in Their Eyes
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • No Country for Old Men
  • Donnie Darko
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • Snatch
  • Idiocracy
  • Kung Fu Hustle
  • Big Fish
  • Monsters, Inc.
  • The Prestige
  • 13 Going on 30
  • A Serious Man
  • Lost in Translation
  • The Pianist
  • Yi Yi
  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Almost Famous
  • 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  • Love Actually
  • Lilya 4-ever
  • Adaptation.
  • Mystic River
  • Thirteen
  • Mother
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  • La Ciénaga
  • Into the Wild
  • A Beautiful Mind
  • Moulin Rouge!
  • Napoleon Dynamite
  • Billy Elliot
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • Ponyo
  • Malena
  • The Incredibles
  • Shaolin Soccer
  • Uptown Girls
  • The Motorcycle Diaries
  • Hachi: A Dog's Tale
  • Paprika