125 Movies Everyone Should Watch

Bobby’s blogs on the best movie characters of all time inspired me to share this list. For the past few years, I’ve kept a running list of movies I think everyone should watch at one point in their life. There’s no particular order to this list. I’ve just been adding movies as I think of them or as I see them, and right now we’re at 125. I’ve even included the genre of each kind of movie so that if you end up deciding to pick some off of this list, you can go based on your feel. Enjoy.

1. The Departed – Crime/Drama/Thriller
2. The Shawshank Redemption – Drama/Thriller
3. Goodfellas – Crime/Drama/Thriller
4. Good Will Hunting – Drama
5. Reservoir Dogs – Crime/Drama/Thriller
6. Dead Poets Society – Drama
7. The Wolf of Wall Street – Drama/Biopic
8. The Hangover – Comedy
9. Step Brothers – Comedy
10. Superbad – Comedy
11. National Lampoon’s Animal House – Comedy
12. Old School – Comedy
13. We’re the Millers – Comedy
14. Wedding Crashers – Comedy
15. The Bourne Series – Action/Thriller
16. Batman Trilogy (Christopher Nolan) – Crime/Thriller/Action
17. Star Wars (Original Trilogy) – Sci-fi/Action
18. Indiana Jones Series – Action/Adventure
19. Die Hard – Action/Adventure
20. The Fugitive – Action/Adventure
21. Air Force One – Action/Adventure
22. Braveheart – Drama/War/Action
23. Forrest Gump – Drama/Comedy
24. To Kill a Mockingbird – Drama
25. The Silence of the Lambs – Mystery/Thriller
26. Se7en – Mystery/Thriller
27. Rocky – Sports/Drama
28. Gladiator – Drama/Action
29. The Terminator – Action/Sci-fi
30. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy – Comedy
31. Napoleon Dynamite – Comedy
32. Tommy Boy – Comedy
33. Happy Gilmore – Comedy
34. Billy Madison – Comedy
35. Saving Private Ryan – War/Action/Drama
36. Fight Club – Drama/Thriller/Mindfuck
37. The Usual Suspects – Drama/Thriller/Mindfuck
38. The Godfather Trilogy – Drama/Crime
39. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood… Drama/Comedy/Action
40. No Country for Old Men – Drama/Thriller
41. A Few Good Men – Drama/Thriller
42. Inception – Thriller/Mindfuck
43. Shutter Island – Thriller/Mindfuck
44. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Drama
45. Interstellar – Sci-fi/Action/Thriller/Drama
46. Back to the Future Trilogy – Comedy/Drama/Action/Sci-Fi
47. Monty Python and the Holy Grail – Comedy
48. The Grand Budapest Hotel – Comedy/Drama
49. The Sixth Sense – Paranormal/Thriller/Mindfuck
50. The Big Lebowski – Comedy
51. Stand by Me – Comedy/Drama
52. Blade Runner – Sci-fi/Action/Thriller
53. Little Miss Sunshine – Drama/Comedy
54. Taken Trilogy – Action
55. Toy Story – Children’s movie
56. Up – Children’s movie
57. The Incredibles – Children’s movie
58. Monsters, Inc. – Children’s movie
59. The Breakfast Club – Drama/Comedy
60. Sixteen Candles – Comedy/Drama
61. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – Comedy
62. Rain Man – Drama
63. Office Space – Comedy
64. The Outsiders – Drama
65. The Forty-Year-Old Virgin – Comedy
66. Mystic River – Crime/Mystery/Thriller/Drama
67. Knives Out – Mystery/Thriller/Comedy
68. Caddyshack – Comedy
69. The Blues Brothers – Comedy
70. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles – Comedy/Drama
71. Uncle Buck – Comedy/Drama
72. Mean Girls – Comedy/Drama
73. Mrs. Doubtfire – Comedy/Drama
74. 21 Jump Street/22 Jump Street – Comedy
75. American Pie – Comedy
76. Stripes – Comedy/War
77. Tropic Thunder – Comedy/War
78. Good Morning, Vietnam – Drama/Comedy
79. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby – Comedy
80. Dumb and Dumber – Comedy
81. Ghost Busters – Comedy/Paranormal
82. There’s Something About Mary – Comedy
83. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story – Comedy
84. Meet the Parents – Comedy
85. Yes Man – Comedy
86. Paul Blart: Mall Cop – Comedy
87. Gone Baby Gone – Mystery/Crime/Drama/Thriller
88. Remember the Titans – Sports/Drama
89. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective – Comedy
90. Ocean’s Trilogy – Crime/Action
91. Field of Dreams – Sports/Drama
92. The Sandlot – Sports/Comedy
93. Wayne’s World – Comedy
94. Austin Powers Trilogy – Comedy
95. Shrek – Children’s movie
96. Finding Nemo – Children’s movie
97.  Zoolander – Comedy
98.  Memento – Mystery/Thriller/Mindfuck
99.  Elf – Christmas/Comedy
100.  National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation – Christmas/Comedy
101.  A Christmas Story – Christmas/Comedy
102.  Space Balls – Comedy
103.  Miracle – Sports/Drama
104.  Hoosiers – Sports/Drama
105.  Invincible – Sports/Drama
106.  The Blind Side – Sports/Drama
107.  The Natural – Sports/Drama
108.  Major League – Sports/Comedy/Drama
109.  The Bad News Bears (1976) – Sports/Comedy
110.  Cinderella Man – Sports/Biopic/Drama
111.  This Is 40 – Comedy/Drama
112.  I Love You, Man – Comedy
113. The Hateful Eight – Drama/Crime/Comedy
114.  Harry Potter Series – You should know what that is
115.  Get Out – Thriller/Drama
116.  Us – Thriller/Drama/Mindfuck
117.  Home Alone – Comedy/Christmas
118.  The Goonies – Comedy/Adventure/Drama
119.  The Gentlemen – Crime/Action/Comedy
120.  Tenet – Thriller/Mindfuck
121.  Hall Pass – Comedy
122.  Due Date – Comedy
123.  Vacation (2018) – Comedy
124.  The Way Way Back – Comedy/Drama
125.  Django Unchained – Western/Drama