🍿 The Alamo 100

Chris DeLuca
Published in Movies
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Alamo Drafthouse put out a list of 100 movies they’d want on a desert island back in 2020. Sourced from all their creative directors across the country.

I thought it was an interesting place to find new movies, and was tracking my watches privately. Why private? Who knows. Now it’s public. You’re welcome.

Movies I haven’t seen

  1. Apocalypse Now
  2. Beaches of Agnes
  3. Big
  4. Black Lizard
  5. Bottle Rocket
  6. Carnival of Souls
  7. Christmas Story, A
  8. Daisies
  9. Danger: Diabolik
  10. Dirty Harry
  11. For A Few Dollars More
  12. Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The
  13. Hausu
  14. Johnny Guitar
  15. Jules and Jim
  16. Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains
  17. Leon: The Professional
  18. Napoleon
  19. Night of the Hunter, The
  20. Night To Dismember, A
  21. Ninotchka
  22. Notorious
  23. Playtime
  24. Pride & Prejudice
  25. Sixteen Candles
  26. Sons Of The Desert
  27. Step Up 2: The Streets
  28. Streets of Fire
  29. Succubus
  30. Testament of Dr. Mabuse
  31. Vampires, Les
  32. Woman Is A Woman, A aka Une Femme Est Une Femme

Movies I’ve already seen

These are movies on the list that I’ve personally seen at least once.

  1. 10 Things I Hate About You
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  3. 400 Blows, The
  4. Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The
  5. Alien
  6. Apartment, The
  7. Back to the Future
  8. Best Years of Our Lives, The
  9. Big Trouble in Little China
  10. Blade Runner
  11. Brazil
  12. Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, The
  13. Casablanca
  14. City Lights
  15. Clockwork Orange, A
  16. Clueless
  17. Dark Knight, The
  18. Dazed and Confused
  19. Delicatessen
  20. Double Indemnity
  21. Dr. Strangelove
  22. Duck Soup
  23. E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial
  24. Ed Wood
  25. Empire Strikes Back, The
  26. Escape From New York
  27. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  28. Evil Dead 2
  29. Fantastic Mr. Fox, The
  30. General, The
  31. Ghostbusters
  32. Godfather II, The
  33. Godfather, The
  34. Gold Rush, The
  35. Goonies, The
  36. Hannah And Her Sisters
  37. Home Alone
  38. Joe vs the Volcano
  39. Lord of the Rings, The
  40. Love Actually
  41. Mean Girls
  42. Modern Times
  43. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  44. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
  45. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
  46. Plan 9 From Outer Space
  47. Princess Bride, The
  48. Pulp Fiction
  49. Raging Bull
  50. Raiders of the Lost Ark
  51. Raising Arizona
  52. Road Warrior, The
  53. Robocop
  54. Royal Tennenbaums, The
  55. Rushmore
  56. Singin’ in the Rain
  57. Some Like it Hot
  58. Star Wars: A New Hope
  59. Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The
  60. Tommy Boy
  61. UHF
  62. Uncle Buck
  63. Vertigo
  64. Waiting for Guffman
  65. Warriors, The
  66. Wayne’s World
  67. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  68. You’ve Got Mail