As with my Rock 101 list, I'm making a list of movies that a young person (like Noah) should see eventually.

• 2001: a Space Odyssey
• 8 1/2
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Amadeus
• Apocalypse Now
• Back to the Future
• Badlands
• Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
• Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Birth of a Nation
• Blazing Saddles
• Bowling for Columbine
• Bull Durham
• Casablanca
• Children of Paradise
• Chinatown
• Citizen Kane
• City Lights
• Contagion (thriller)
• Crimes and Misdemnors
• Diehard
• Diva
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Dr. Strangelove
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Fargo
• Fletch
• Gallipoli (WWI)
• Goodfellas
• Grizzly Man
• Hellboy (comic)
• High Noon
• Independence Day (sci-fi schlock)
• It Happened One Night
• Jaws
• Jojo Rabbit (boy in Nazi Germany)
• L.A. Confidential
• Lawrence of Arabia
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller
• Meshes of the Afternoon
• Mulholland Drive
• My Darling Clementine
• My Dinner with Andre
• Nashville
• North by Northwest
• Oh Brother Where art Thou
• On the Waterfront
• Patton
• Raging Bull
• Rashomon
• Rear Window
• Rosemary's Baby
• Run Lola Run
• Seven Samurai
• Shadow of a Doubt
• Southern Hospitality
• Stagecoach
• Sullivan's Travels
• Taxi Driver
• Terminator 1/2
• The 400 Blows
• The African Queen
• The Bandwagon
• The Bank Dick
• The Big Lebowski
• The General
• The Godfather (1 and 2)
• The Gold Rush
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• The Last Wave
• The Man who shot Liberty Valance
• The Matrix (schlock)
• The Mummy (1999)
• The Night of the Hunter
• The Palm Beach Story
• The Rules of the Game
• The Searchers
• The Seventh Seal
• The Shawshank Redemption
• The Shining
• The Shootist
• The Sting
• The Terminator (1 and 2)
• The Tree of Life
• Thin Red Line
• To Be or Not to Be
• Tokyo Story
• Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
• Toy Story
• Treasure of Sierra Madre
• Unforgiven