Movie watching is one of the ways some authors get ideas to write books, because let’s face it, there ain’t nothing new under the sun so far as plotlines go. But it’s how an author puts their twist or spin on a plotline that makes the difference. And really, imaginations are limitless and so there are a lot of ways to movies to make a book.

According to IMDb this is the list of 100 movies you should see before you die. They are in order as listed on the IMDb page., but they say this movie listing is “…not ranked in order of importance, popularity or anything, except regular ol’ randomness.”

I have seen 24 out of 100 so about 1/4 of these movies. That’s not a lot of movies watched on this list, folks. I am thinking about trying to see more movies in 2015 – as my reading list has been proven for two years now that I read a lot.

How many of these movies have you seen?

Bringing Up Baby
Aladdin
The Goonies
The Pursuit of Happyness
Rain Man
Moon
Solaris
JFK
Munich
Four Lions
Once
The Room
Life of Pi
Clue
Stairway to Heaven
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
La Grande Illusion
Limitless
Rushmore
Boogie Nights
Chungking Express
Blood Simple.
Night of the Living Dead
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Starbuck
The Player
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Blues Brothers
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Halloween
The Cabin in the Woods
Wet Hot American Summer
Animal House
A Prophet
Dogma
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Airplane!
Shaun of the Dead
Brazil
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Harold and Maude
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
The Producers
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Seconds
Beginners
The World’s End
I’m Not Scared
Children of Heaven
Truly Madly Deeply
House of Games
Thursday
The Hudsucker Proxy
Dead Poets Society
Fiddler on the Roof
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Blue Velvet
The Fifth Element
Underground
Wings of Desire
Arsenic and Old Lace
La Dolce Vita
Akira
The Limey
The Straight Story
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Dick
Man on the Moon
Contact
Blue Jasmine
High and Low
Black Orpheus
Spellbound
Duck Soup
Delicatessen
The Company of Wolves
Beauty and the Beast
The Wicker Man
The Pink Panther
Wait Until Dark
A Night at the Opera
The Secret of Kells
Being John Malkovich
Enter the Dragon
Bullet in the Head
Hard Boiled
The Last Seduction
Do the Right Thing
The Sweet Hereafter
Sleuth
The Wrong Man
Ship of Theseus
Like Father, Like Son
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
Little Miss Sunshine
The Jerk
The In-Laws
The Secret of NIMH
The Dark Crystal