If you need to see these 102 movies to be movie-literate, I’ve still got a ways to go.
Blatantly stealing from kottke.org, I’ll list the movies and mark the ones that I’ve seen with an *. :)
\* 2001: A Space Odyssey The 400 Blows 8 1/2 \* Aguirre, the Wrath of God \* Alien All About Eve \* Annie Hall \* Apocalypse Now \* Bambi \* The Battleship Potemkin \* The Best Years of Our Lives \* The Big Red One The Bicycle Thief \* The Big Sleep \* Blade Runner Blowup \* Blue Velvet \* Bonnie and Clyde Breathless \* Bringing Up Baby Carrie \* Casablanca Un Chien Andalou Children of Paradise / Les Enfants du Paradis \* Chinatown \* Citizen Kane A Clockwork Orange \* The Crying Game \* The Day the Earth Stood Still Days of Heaven \* Dirty Harry The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie \* Do the Right Thing La Dolce Vita \* Double Indemnity \* Dr. Strangelove \* Duck Soup \* E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial Easy Rider \* The Empire Strikes Back The Exorcist \* Fargo Fight Club \* Frankenstein \* The General The Godfather, The Godfather, Part II \* Gone With the Wind GoodFellas The Graduate \* Halloween A Hard Day’s Night Intolerance It’s a Gift \* It’s a Wonderful Life \* Jaws The Lady Eve \* Lawrence of Arabia M \* Mad Max 2 / The Road Warrior \* The Maltese Falcon \* The Manchurian Candidate \* Metropolis \* Modern Times \* Monty Python and the Holy Grail Nashville \* The Night of the Hunter Night of the Living Dead \* North by Northwest \* Nosferatu On the Waterfront \* Once Upon a Time in the West Out of the Past Persona Pink Flamingos \* Psycho \* Pulp Fiction \* Rashomon \* Rear Window \* Rebel Without a Cause \* Red River Repulsion The Rules of the Game \* Scarface The Scarlet Empress Schindler’s List \* The Searchers \* The Seven Samurai \* Singin’ in the Rain \* Some Like It Hot A Star Is Born A Streetcar Named Desire Sunset Boulevard \* Taxi Driver \* The Third Man Tokyo Story \* Touch of Evil \* The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Trouble in Paradise \* Vertigo \* West Side Story \* The Wild Bunch \* The Wizard of Oz
Actually, looking back on it, it seems kind of weird what I’ve seen and what I haven’t. I’m missing some foreign-language films, but otherwise it’s just a scattering of movies across the past 100 years that you’d think I would have seen by now.