50 Films to See Before You Die was a programme shown on Channel 4 on Saturday 22 July 2006, to celebrate the relaunch of Film4 as a free-to-air channel available to digital terrestrial homes in the United Kingdom. It consisted of a countdown of, as the name suggests, a list of 50 films recommended to see before you die, as compiled by various film critics, experts and personalities. Each film was supposed to be “chosen as a paragon of a particular genre or style”. The list is as follows:
- Apocalypse Now
- The Apartment
- City of God
- Chinatown
- Sexy Beast
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- North by Northwest
- À bout de souffle
- Donnie Darko
- Back to the Future
- Alien
- Lost in Translation
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Lagaan
- Pulp Fiction
- Touch of Evil
- Walkabout
- Black Narcissus
- Boyz N the Hood
- The Player
- Come and See
- Heavenly Creatures
- A Night at the Opera
- Erin Brockovich
- Trainspotting
- Hero
- The Breakfast Club
- Fanny and Alexander
- Pink Flamingos
- All About Eve
- Scarface
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Three Colors: Blue
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- The Ladykillers
- Fight Club
- The Searchers
- Mulholland Drive
- The IPCRESS File
- The King of Comedy
- Manhunter
- Dawn of the Dead
- Princess Mononoke
- Raising Arizona
- Cabaret
- This Sporting Life
- Brazil
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God
- Secrets & Lies
- Badlands



















i dont claim i know all the movies here…but the only movies really worth seeing here are fightclub and dawn of the dead! i’ll die a happy man if i dont watch erin brokovich! and where the hell is max payne ? a man apart ? the green mile? and a bunch of other movies! the ppl who made the list are clearly putties…