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List of Essential Movies Lyrics by Spike Lee

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1. Bad Lieutenant
2. Rashomon
3. Yojimbo
4. Ran
5. Rear Window
6. Vertigo
7. North by Northwest
8. Bonnie and Clyde
9. The Conformist
10. Last Tango in Paris
11. Ace in the Hole
12. Some Like It Hot
13. Killer of Sheep
14. The Night of the Hunter
15. Raising Arizona
16. The Bridge on the River Kwai
17. Lawrence of Arabia
18. On the Waterfront
19. A Face in the Crowd
20. La Strada
21. La Dolce Vita
22. 8½
23. City of God
24. The Godfather
25. The Godfather: Part II
26. The 400 Blows
27. Day for Night
28. Patton
29. Mad Max
30. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
31. The Battle of Algiers
32. The Last Detail
33. Breathless
34. West Side Story
35. Stranger Than Paradise
36. The Train
37. The Maltese Falcon
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
39. Fat City
40. Midnight Cowboy
41. Marathon Man
42. Boyz n the Hood
43. Los Olvidados
44. Black Orpheus
45. Home of the Brave
46. Mean Streets
47. Raging Bull
48. Apocalypto
49. Casablanca
50. Thief
51. The Red Shoes
52. Cooley High
53. I Am Cuba
54. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
55. District 9
56. In the Heat of the Night
57. Touch of Evil
58. Blue Collar
59. White Heat
60. Is Paris Burning?
61. MASH
62. To Kill a Mockingbird
63. Rome, Open City
64. Paisan
65. Chinatown
66. Black Rain
67. Dog Day Afternoon
68. Singin' in the Rain
69. Paths of Glory
70. Spartacus
71. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
72. Kung Fu Hustle
73. Dirty Pretty Things
74. Hoop Dreams
75. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
76. Empire of the Sun
77. Cool Hand Luke
78. Badlands
79. Days of Heaven
80. The Wizard of Oz
81. An American in Paris
82. Lust for Life
83. Bicycle Thieves
84. Miracle in Milan
85. Dead End
86. Zelig
Addendum (AKA the women he left out):The Piano, Jane Campion
Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash
The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow
The Seduction of Mimi, Lina Wertmuller
Love and Anarchy, Lina Wertmuller
Swept Away, Lina Wertmuller
Seven Beauties, Lina Wertmuller
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Spike Lee

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