Maxs Multitudinous List of Must-Sees

A.K.A The Classics

*** Personal Favorites

TV

30 Rock (Comedy)
Band of Brothers (WWII)
Battlestar Galactica (Sci-Fi Thriller)
Boardwalk Empire (20th Century Crime)
Breaking Bad (Comedy/Drama)***
Chuck (Action Comedy)
Dexter (Comedy/Drama)
Entourage (Comedy)
Firefly (Sci-Fi Western)***
Friends (Comedy)
Game of Thrones (Fantasy Drama)***
Homeland (Crime Drama)***
House of Cards (Political Drama)***
How I Met Your Mother (Comedy)
John Adams (Historical Drama)
Lost (Sci-Fi Thriller)***
Mad Men (1950s Drama)
Modern Family (Comedy)
Mr. Robot (Technological Drama)***
Narcos (Crime)
Orange is the New Black (Comedy/Drama)
Planet Earth (Documentary)
Scrubs (Comedy)***
Sherlock (Crime)***
Sonic Highways (Musical Documentary)
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (Comedy/Drama)***
Suits (Drama)
The Big Bang Theory (Comedy)
The Newsroom (Comedy/Political Drama)***
The Office (Comedy)
The Sopranos (Crime)
The West Wing (Political Drama)***
The Wire (Crime Drama)***

True Detective (Crime Drama)

Weeds (Comedy)

Movies

12 Angry Men (Drama)***

12 Years a Slave (Historical Drama)

127 Hours (Documentary)

2001: A Space Odyssey (Sci-Fi Thriller)

21 (Crime Drama)***

A Beautiful Mind (Drama)

A Clockwork Orange (Sci-Fi Comedy)

A Most Wanted Man (Crime Drama)***

Airplane! (Comedy)

Aladdin (Adventure)

Amadeus (Comedy Drama)***

Amelie (Comedy)

American Hustle (Crime Drama)***

American Sniper (War)

Analyze This (Crime Comedy)

Angels and Demons (Drama)

Apocalypse Now (War)

Argo (Drama)

Avatar (Fantasy Action)

Back to the Future (Sci-Fi Comedy)

Big Hero 6 (Action Comedy)

Birdman (Thriller)***

Black Swan (Drama)

Blade Runner (Sci-Fi Action)

Blazing Saddles (Comedy)

Blues Brothers (Music Comedy)***

Borat (Comedy)

Brave (Adventure Comedy)

Bruce Almighty (Comedy)

Captain America and its sequels (Action)

Captain Phillips (Drama)

Casablanca (Drama)

Castaway (Drama)

Catch Me If You Can (Crime Drama)

Citizen Kane (Drama)***

Cloud Atlas (Sci-Fi Drama)***

Cool Hand Luke (Drama)

Crimson Tide (Drama)

Dallas Buyers Club (Drama)

Deadpool (Action Comedy)

Die Hard (Action)

Dirty Dancing (Music Drama)

District 9 (Sci-Fi Action)

Django Unchained (Action)

Django Unchained (Western Drama)

Dog Day Afternoon (Drama)

Dr. Strangelove (Comedy Drama)

Easy A (Comedy)

Edge of Tomorrow (Sci-Fi Action)

Fargo (Comedy Drama)***

Fastest (Documentary)

Ferris Buellers Day Off (Comedy)

Field of Dreams (Sports)

Fight Club (Drama Thriller)***

Finding Nemo (Adventure Comedy)

Finding Nemo (Adventure)

Flight (Drama)

Forrest Gump (Adventure Comedy)***

Foxcatcher (Drama)***

Frozen (Adventure Comedy)

Full Metal Jacket (War)***

Galaxy Quest (Comedy)

Ghostbusters (Comedy)
Glory (War)

Gone Girl (Thriller)

Gone with the Wind (Drama)

Good Will Hunting (Drama)***

Goodfellas (Crime Drama)***

Gravity (Sci-Fi Drama)

Groundhog Day (Drama)

Guardians of the Galaxy (Sci-Fi Comedy)

Hancock (Action)

Harry Potter and its sequels (Fantasy Adventure)***

Heat (Crime Action)

Hot Fuzz (Action Comedy)***

How to Train Your Dragon and its sequels (Fantasy Adventure)

Howls Moving Castle (Fantasy)

I Am Legend (Drama)

Inception (Action Thriller)***

Independence Day (Sci-Fi Action)

Indiana Jones (1 and 3) (Adventure)

Inglourrious Basterds (Action Drama)***

Inside Out (Adventure Comedy)

Interstellar (Sci-Fi)***

Into the Wild (Adventure)

Iron Man and its sequels (Action)

Its a Wonderful Life (Drama)

Jaws (Drama)

Knight and Day (Action Comedy)

La Femme Nikita (Action Thriller)

La Haine (Crime Drama)

Lawrence of Arabia (Adventure Drama)

Life is Beautiful (Comedy Drama)

Life of Pi (Fantasy Adventure)***

Looper (Action)

Mad Max: Fury Road (Action)***

Meet the Robinsons (Sci-Fi Adventure)

Men in Black and its sequels (Action Comedy)

Midnight Run (Action Comedy)

Moneyball (Drama)

Monsters, Inc. (Adventure)***

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Comedy)

Monty Pythons Life of Brian (Comedy)

Mr. And Mrs. Smith (Action)

Mrs. Doubtfire (Comedy)

Jurassic Park (Sci-Fi Adventure)

Mud (Drama)

My Cousin Vinny (Comedy)

National Treasure (Adventure)
Oceans 11, 13 (Crime)***

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (Drama)***

Pineapple Express (Action Comedy)

Pink Floyd The Wall (Music Drama)***

Pirates of the Caribbean and its sequels (Fantasy Comedy)

Pulp Fiction (Drama)***

Raging Bull (Drama)

Ratatouille (Adventure Comedy)

Rear Window (Thriller)

RED (Action Comedy)

Remember The Titans (Sports)

Reservoir Dogs (Crime Drama)***

Road to Perdition (Crime Drama)

Sahara (Action Comedy)

Saving Private Ryan (War)***

Scarface (Crime Drama)

Schindlers List (Historical Drama)***

Se7en (Crime)

Selma (Historical Drama)

Serenity (Sci-Fi Action)***

Shaun of the Dead (Comedy)

Sherlock Holmes and its sequels (Mystery)

Shutter Island (Thriller)

Silver Linings Playbook (Comedy Drama)

Slumdog Millionare (Drama)***

Spaceballs (Comedy)

Spirited Away (Adventure)

Star Trek and its sequels (Action)

Star Wars and its sequels and maybe its prequels (Sci-Fi Action)***

Super 8 (Thriller)

Ted (Comedy)

Terminator and its sequels (Action)

The A-Team (Action)

The Avengers (Sci-Fi Action)

The Big Lebowski (Comedy)

The Big Short (Drama)***

The Blind Side (Drama)

The Bourne Identity and its sequels (Action)

The Breakfast Club (Comedy)

The Commitments (Music Drama)

The Dark Knight and its sequels (Action Drama)***

The DaVinci Code (Drama)***

The Departed (Crime Thriller)

The Descendants (Comedy Drama)

The Godfather (Crime Drama)***

The Godfather: Part II (Crime Drama)***

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Drama)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Drama Comedy)***

The Great Gatsby (Drama)

The Green Mile (Thriller)***

The Help (Historical Drama)

The Hunt for Red October (War)

The Hurricane (Drama)

The Hurt Locker (War)***

The Imitation Game (Drama)

The Incredibles (Action Comedy)***

The Inside Job (Crime)

The Intouchables (Comedy Drama)

The Italian Job (Crime)

The Kings Speech (Drama)

The Lego Movie (Adventure Comedy)

The Lion King (Adventure)

The Lord of the Rings and its sequels (Fantasy Action)***

The Martian (Sci-Fi Drama)

The Matrix and its sequels (Sci-Fi Action)

The Money Pit (Comedy)

The Other Guys (Crime Comedy)

The Pianist (Drama)

The Prestige (Drama)

The Princess and the Frog (Adventure Comedy)

The Princess Bride (Comedy)

The Rain Man (Crime)

The Revenant (Drama)

The Score (Drama)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Adventure Comedy)***

The Shawshank Redemption (Drama)***

The Shining (Drama Thriller)

The Silence of the Lambs (Thriller)

The Sixth Sense (Thriller)

The Truman Show (Drama)

The Usual Suspects (Crime Drama)***

The Wolf of Wall Street (Drama)***

This Is Spinal Tap (Music Comedy)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Crime Drama)

Titanic (Drama)

To Kill a Mockinbird (Crime Drama)

Toy Story and its sequels (Adventure)

Training Day (Crime Action)

Tropic Thunder (Action Comedy)

Up (Adventure Comedy)

V for Vendetta (Action Thriller)

WALL-E (Adventure)

We Are Marshall (Sports)

Where to Invade Next (Documentary)

Whiplash (Music Drama)***

World War Z (Action)

Zero Dark Thirty (Thriller)***

This list is, of course, incomplete. A whole host of content produced in years past has escaped
either my eyes or my memory - films and shows that are of equal importance in historical or
emotional measure. Many of these I pass through, labelling them simply as good movies/
shows, but a select few have truly influenced my personality and my perspective of the world. I
find the visual medium to be an incredibly effective way of conveying complex emotions, and
hope that by absorbing this wealth of information you will obtain a deeper understanding of
yourself and the world around you.