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Cahiers du cinéma 100 top movies

The top 100 most essential films of 78 French film directors, critics and industry executives. The list was compiled for and published in the French Cahiers du cinéma film magazine. — Author: iCheckMovies

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    Citizen Kane

    1941
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    The Night of the Hunter

    1955
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    La règle du jeu

    1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game
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    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927
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    L'atalante

    1934 — a.k.a. Le chaland qui passe
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    M

    1931
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    Singin' in the Rain

    1952
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    Vertigo

    1958
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    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise
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    The Searchers

    1956
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    Greed

    1924
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    Rio Bravo

    1959
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    To Be or Not to Be

    1942
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    Tôkyô monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Tokyo Story
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    Le mépris

    1963 — a.k.a. Contempt
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    Ugetsu monogatari

    1953
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    City Lights

    1931
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    The General

    1926
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    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu the Vampire
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    Jalsaghar

    1958 — a.k.a. The Music Room
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    Freaks

    1932 — a.k.a. The Monster Show
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    Johnny Guitar

    1954
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    La maman et la putain

    1973 — a.k.a. The Mother and the Whore
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    The Great Dictator

    1940
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    Il gattopardo

    1963 — a.k.a. The Leopard
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    Hiroshima mon amour

    1959 — a.k.a. Hiroshima, My Love
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    Die Büchse der Pandora

    1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box
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    North by Northwest

    1959
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    Pickpocket

    1959
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    Casque d'or

    1952 — a.k.a. Golden Marie
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    The Barefoot Contessa

    1954
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    Moonfleet

    1955
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    Madame de...

    1953 — a.k.a. Diamond Earrings
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    Le plaisir

    1952 — a.k.a. House of Pleasure
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    The Deer Hunter

    1978
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    L'avventura

    1960
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    Bronenosets Potyomkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin
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    Notorious

    1946
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    Ivan Groznyy I

    1944 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part One
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    The Godfather

    1972
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    Touch of Evil

    1958
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    The Wind

    1928
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    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968
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    Fanny och Alexander

    1982 — a.k.a. Fanny and Alexander
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    The Crowd

    1928
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    1963 — a.k.a. Federico Fellini's 8 1/2
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    La jetée

    1962 — a.k.a. The Pier
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    Pierrot le fou

    1965 — a.k.a. Crazy Pete
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    Le roman d'un tricheur

    1936 — a.k.a. The Story of a Cheat
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    Amarcord

    1973

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