Steven Gaydos

Executive Editor of VARIETY, also screenwriter of "All Men Are Mortal," "Iguana," "Better Watch Out" and "One Month Later."

Here are 50 essential movies for my own health and well-being:

• The Wild Bunch (1969) .. Sam Peckinpah
• Stavisky (1974) .. Alain Resnais
• Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) .. Monte Hellman
• The Lady Eve (1941) .. Preston Sturges
• 8½ (1963) .. Federico Fellini
• Three Colours: Blue (1993) .. Krzysztof Kieslowski
  Three Colours: White (1994) .. Krzysztof Kieslowski
  Three Colours: Red (1994) .. Krzysztof Kieslowski
• Talk to Her (2002)_Pedro Almodóvar
• Vertigo (1958) .. Alfred Hitchcock
• The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice
• Young Frankenstein (1974) .. Mel Brooks
• Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) .. Adam McKay
• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) .. Sam Peckinpah
• Straw Dogs (1971) .. Sam Peckinpah
• Last Year in Marienbad (1961) .. Alain Resnais
• The Dream Life of Angels (1998) .. Eric Zorca
• The Asphalt Jungle (1950) .. John Huston
• Under the Volcano (1984) .. John Huston
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) .. John Huston
• The Maltese Falcon (1941) .. John Huston
• Ride the High Country (1962) .. Sam Peckinpah
• Dirty Harry (1971) .. Don Siegel
• Bullitt (1968) .. Peter Yates
• To Be or Not to Be (1942) .. Ernst Lubitsch
• Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) .. Alexander Hall
• Raining Stones (1993) .. Ken Loach
• Ladybird Ladybird (1994) .. Ken Loach
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) .. Martin Ritt
• Hud (1963) .. Martin Ritt
• The Night of the Iguana (1964) .. John Huston
• The Lives of Others (2006) .. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• The Shootist (1976) .. Don Siegel
• Charley Varrick (1973) .. Don Siegel
• Who'll Stop the Rain (1978) .. Karel Reisz
• The Shooting (1967) .. Monte Hellman
• Ride in the Whirlwind (1965) .. Monte Hellman
• Morocco (1930) .. Josef von Sternberg
• Duel in the Sun (1946) .. King Vidor
• Man of the West (1958) .. Anthony Mann
• Cool Hand Luke (1967) .. Stuart Rosenberg
• Hour of the Wolf (1968) .. Ingmar Bergman
• Apocalypto (2006) .. Mel Gibson
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) .. Sam Peckinpah
• Touch of Evil (1958) .. Orson Welles
• Juliet of the Spirits (1965) .. Federico Fellini
• The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) .. Ermanno Olmi
• One Hundred Nails (2007) .. Ermanno Olmi
• Singing Behind Screens (2003) .. Ermanno Olmi
• The Third Man (1949) .. Carol Reed
• Outcast of the Islands (1952) .. Carol Reed
• All About Eve (1950) .. Joseph L. Mankiewicz