From Maxim.com. What movies would you add?
Comedies
Airplane! 1980
Animal House 1978
American Pie 1999
Anchorman 2004
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997
Bachelor Party 1984
Bananas 1971
Beverly Hills Cop 1984
The Big Lebowski 1998
Blazing Saddles 1974
Borat 2006
Caddyshack 1980
The Cannonball Run 1981
Clerks 1994
Dazed and Confused 1993
Duck Soup 1933
Dumb & Dumber 1994
Election 1999
The 40-Year-Old Virgin 2005
Ghostbusters 1984
Groundhog Day 1993
Happy Gilmore 1996
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle 2004
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963 (Not that funny anymore)
The Jerk 1979
Kingpin 1996
Modern Times 1936
Monty Python & The Holy Grail 1975
The Nutty Professor 1963
Office Space 1999 (YES!)
Old School 2003
The Pink Panther Strikes Again 1976
The Princess Bride 1987
Raising Arizona 1987
Sixteen Candles 1984
Some Like It Hot 1959
This Is Spinal Tap 1984
Trading Places 1983
Vacation 1983
Wedding Crashers 2005
Wet Hot American Summer 2001
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971
Young Frankenstein 1974
(They forgot: anything by Buster Keaton or Albert Brooks)
Buddy Movies
American Graffiti 1973
The Blues Brothers 1980
Breaking Away 1979
Deliverance 1972 (a great movie forever overshadowed by one unfortunate scene)
Glengarry GlenRoss 1992 (Buddy movie?)
The Goonies 1984
The Last Detail 1973
Lethal Weapon 1987
The Right Stuff 1983
Saturday Night Fever 1977
The Shawshank Redemption 1994
Stand by Me 1986
Stripes 1981
Superbad 2007
Swingers 1996
Top Gun 1986
The Warriors 1979
(They forgot: Thelma & Louise, Midnight Run)
Action
Batman 1989
Batman Begins 2005
Battle Royale 2000
Bourne trilogy 2002-07
Braveheart 1995
Clash of the Titans 1981
Die Hard 1988
Enter the Dragon 1973
Face/Off 1997
First Blood 1982
48 Hrs. 1982
Gladiator 2000
The Incredibles 2004
Kill Bill: Vol.1 & 2 2003-04
The Lord of the Rings trilogy 2001-03
The Matrix 1999
Predator 1987
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
The Road Warrior 1981
Rocky I-IV 1976-85
Speed 1994
Spider-Man 2002
(How can you include Clash Of The Titans but still forget: Bond. James Bond. Goldfinger? From Russia With Love? Casino Royale?)
War Movies
Apocalypse Now 1979 (haunted me after I saw it)
Black Hawk Down 2001
The Bridge On The River Kwai 1957 (Such a terrific film)
The Deer Hunter 1978 (haunted me after I saw it)
The Dirty Dozen 1967
Dr. Strangelove 1964
Gallipoli 1981
The Great Escape 1963
M*A*S*H 1970
Platoon 1986 (haunted me after I saw it)
Saving Private Ryan 1998 (Ugh. Just destroyed me.)
(They forgot: The Thin Red Line)
Westerns
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly 1966
High Noon 1952
High Plains Drifter 1973
Jeremiah Johnson 1972
The Searchers 1956
Tombstone 1993
True Grit 1969 (Nah, not that great)
Unforgiven 1992
The Wild Bunch 1969 (didn't love it)
(They forgot: Red River, The Outlaw Josey Wales)
Rebels
Billy Jack 1971 (belongs in comedies; incredibly dumb)
Cool Hand Luke 1967 (the best movie you've never seen)
Dirty Harry 1971
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry 1974
Easy Rider 1969
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 1986
The Graduate 1967 (you forget how frickin' funny it is)
A History of Violence 2005
The Hustler 1961
The King of Comedy 1983 (Scorcese's forgotten lark)
Network 1976
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1975
Raging Bull 1980
Risky Business 1983
Sid & Nancy 1986
Smokey and the Bandit 1977
Taxi Driver 1976
Three Days of the Condor 1975
Trainspotting 1996
(They forgot: Hud)
Cops
Bad Lieutenant 1992
Bullitt 1968 (take away the car chase and it's barely ordinary)
Chinatown 1974 (flawless storytelling; the movie you study in college screenwriting courses)
The Departed 2006
Donnie Brasco 1997
Fargo 1996
The French Connection 1971
Hard Boiled 1992
RoboCop 1987
Se7en 1995
Shaft 1971
The Silence of the Lambs 1991
To Live And Die In L.A. 1985
The Untouchables 1987 (a rare win from Mr. DePalma)
(They forgot: Serpico)
Criminals
Atlantic City 1980
Bad Boys 1983
Bloody Mama 1970 (Huh?)
Bonnie & Clyde 1967
The Boys From Brazil 1978
Boyz N the Hood 1991 (too hard to watch more than once)
Carlito’s Way 1993
Casino 1995
Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989 (Woody's most underrated movie)
Dog Day Afternoon 1975
The Getaway 1972
Get Carter 1971
The Godfather I & II 1972-74
Goodfellas 1990
Heat 1995
A History of Violence 2005
In Cold Blood 1967 (zzzzzzzzzzzz)
The Long Good Friday 1980
Mean Streets 1973
Midnight Express 1978
Natural Born Killers 1994
No Country For Old Men 2007
Pulp Fiction 1994
Reservoir Dogs 1992 (hate it)
River’s Edge 1986
Scarface 1983 (sucks!)
Sexy Beast 2000
Sin City 2005
Super Fly 1972
True Romance 1993
(I can't believe they actually forgot: The Usual Suspects)
Horror
Carrie 1976 (belongs in the nudity category for the opening sequence alone; you could sod a football field with the amount of 70s power-bush in that scene)
Dawn Of The Dead 1978
The Exorcist 1973
The Fly 1986
Halloween 1978
Jaws 1975
A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984
Night Of The Living Dead 1968
Psycho 1960
Rosemary’s Baby 1968
The Shining 1980
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974
28 Days Later 2002
Sci-Fi
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
Alien/Aliens 1979, 1986
Back to the Future 1985
Blade Runner 1982
Children of Men 2006
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
The Empire Strikes Back 1980
E.T. 1982
King Kong 1933
Planet of the Apes 1968
Starship Troopers 1997
Star Wars 1977
Terminator/T2 1984, 1991
Art House
Annie Hall 1977
Badlands 1973
The Bicycle Thief 1948
City Of God 2002
A Clockwork Orange 1971
The Conversation 1974 (Coppola's underrated gem)
Do the Right Thing 1989
Elephant Man 1980
The Last Picture Show 1971 (a favorite of insomniacs everywhere)
Midnight Cowboy 1969
Repo Man 1984
Rushmore 1998
Short Cuts 1993
There Will Be Blood 2007
Withnail And I 1987
Mindbenders
Akira 1988
Beetlejuice 1988
Blue Velvet 1986
Brazil 1985
Donnie Darko 2001
Edward Scissorhands 1990 (Burton at his peak)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
Fight Club 1999
The Manchurian Candidate 1962 (YES! Great flick)
Memento 2000
Pink Floyd: The Wall 1982
The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975
Classics
The Adventures Of Robin Hood 1938
Ben-Hur 1959
Casablanca 1942
Double Indemnity 1944
Kind Hearts And Coronets 1949
Lawrence Of Arabia 1962 (Epic, long, slow at times.. and amazing)
Metropolis 1927
The Night of the Hunter 1955
On the Waterfront 1954
The Third Man 1949
Touch of Evil 1958
Vertigo 1958
White Heat 1949
The Wizard of Oz 1939
(They forgot: Rear Window, All About Eve)
Nudity
Angel Heart 1987
Body Heat 1981
Boogie Nights 1997
Carnal Knowledge 1971
Coffy 1973
Fast Times At Ridgemont High 1982
Jackass: The Movie 2002
McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971
Mulholland Drive 2001
Poison Ivy: The New Seduction 1997
Revenge of the Nerds 1984
10 1979 (I saw this in the theater at age 14 and remember my loins aching so much I thought I would spontaneously combust)
Wild Things 1998
(They forgot: Porky's, Last Tango In Paris, Swimming Pool)
So Bad They're Good
Airport 1975 1974
Barbarella 1968
Battlefield Earth 2000 (No. Just bad.)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970
Death Race 2000 1975
Glen Or Glenda? 1953
Phantom of the Paradise 1974
Reefer Madness 1936
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 1978
Showgirls 1995 (No. Just bad.)
The Toxic Avenger 1985
(They forgot: Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte)
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