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Taschen 100 All-time favorite movies top movies

This list contains the 100 finest examples of 20th century filmmaking, according to Taschen. From horror to romance, noir to slapstick, adventure to tragedy, epic to musical, western to new wave, all genres are represented in this wide-ranging compendium. — Author: iCheckMovies

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    The Birth of a Nation

    1915
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    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu the Vampire
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    The Ten Commandments

    1923
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    The Gold Rush

    1925
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    Bronenosets Potyomkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin
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    The General

    1926
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    Metropolis

    1927
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    Der blaue Engel

    1930 — a.k.a. The Blue Angel
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    Sous les toits de Paris

    1930 — a.k.a. Under the Roofs of Paris
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    1931
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    Duck Soup

    1933
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    King Kong

    1933 — a.k.a. The Eighth Wonder
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    Modern Times

    1936
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    La grande illusion

    1937 — a.k.a. The Grand Illusion
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    Gone with the Wind

    1939
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    Fantasia

    1940
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    Citizen Kane

    1941
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    To Be or Not to Be

    1942
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    Casablanca

    1942
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    The Big Sleep

    1946
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    La belle et la bête

    1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast
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    Notorious

    1946
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    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948
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    Ladri di biciclette

    1948 — a.k.a. The Bicycle Thief
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    The Third Man

    1949
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    All About Eve

    1950
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    Rashômon

    1950 — a.k.a. In the Woods
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    Los olvidados

    1950 — a.k.a. The Young and the Damned
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    Sunset Blvd.

    1950 — a.k.a. Sunset Boulevard
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    A Streetcar Named Desire

    1951
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    The African Queen

    1951
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    High Noon

    1952
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    Fanfan la Tulipe

    1952 — a.k.a. Fan-Fan the Tulip
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    Le salaire de la peur

    1953 — a.k.a. The Wages of Fear
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    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. The Seven Samurai
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    La strada

    1954
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    Rebel Without a Cause

    1955
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    The Night of the Hunter

    1955
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    Giant

    1956
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    The Searchers

    1956
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    Smultronstället

    1957 — a.k.a. Wild Strawberries
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    Ascenseur pour l'échafaud

    1958 — a.k.a. Frantic
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    Vertigo

    1958
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    Les quatre cents coups

    1959 — a.k.a. The 400 Blows
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    Some Like It Hot

    1959
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    Ben-Hur

    1959
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    La dolce vita

    1960
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    L'avventura

    1960
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    Psycho

    1960
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    Breakfast at Tiffany's

    1961

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