Movie Bucket List - 20 Must-See Movies

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Movie Bucket List - 20 Must-See Movies

So, sit back, relax, and get ready to embark on a journey through the some of the greatest films of all time.

1. The Godfather (1972)
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan

2. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.
Director: Frank Darabont Stars: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton

3. Raging Bull (1980)
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Director: Martin Scorsese Stars: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci

4. Casablanca (1942)
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Director: Michael Curtiz Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

5. Se7en (1995)
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
Director: David Fincher Stars: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey

6. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.
Director: Milos Forman Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman

7. Star Wars
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.
Director: George Lucas Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing

8. Seven Samurai (1954)
Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.
Director: Akira Kurosawa Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima

9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
Director: Stanley Kubrick Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

10. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Director: Jonathan Demme Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn

11. Gladiator (2000)
A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.
Director: Ridley Scott Stars: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen

12. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
Director: Steven Spielberg Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore

13. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.
Director: Steven Spielberg Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman

14. Jaws (1975)
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Director: Steven Spielberg Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

15 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
Director: Sergio Leone Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef

16. Jurassic Park (1993)
A pragmatic palaeontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
Director: Steven Spielberg Stars: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum

17. Alien (1979)
Sci-fi horror follows the crew of a spaceship as they are stalked to death by a highly aggressive extraterrestrial creature.
Director: Ridley Scott Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt

18. Back to the Future (1985)
 Marty McFly who goes back in time to 1955. There, he meets his future parents and accidentally becomes his mum’s crush.
Director: Robert Zemeckis Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson

19. The Terminator (1984)
A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.
Director: James Cameron Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn

20. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.
Director: Wes Anderson Stars: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric