Cahiers du Cinéma's 100 Films for an Ideal Cinematheque

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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.

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  1. 1 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
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    The Night of the Hunter

    1955, in 35 top lists Check
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    La règle du jeu

    1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check
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    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
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    L'Atalante

    1934, in 21 top lists Check
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    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
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    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
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    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
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    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
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    The Searchers

    1956, in 26 top lists Check
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    Greed

    1924, in 21 top lists Check
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    Rio Bravo

    1959, in 20 top lists Check
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    To Be or Not to Be

    1942, in 24 top lists Check
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    Tôkyô monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Tokyo Story, in 27 top lists Check
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    Le mépris

    1963 — a.k.a. Contempt, in 17 top lists Check
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    Ugetsu monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Ugetsu, in 25 top lists Check
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    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
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    The General

    1926, in 34 top lists Check
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    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check
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    Jalsaghar

    1958 — a.k.a. The Music Room, in 14 top lists Check
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    Freaks

    1932, in 19 top lists Check
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    Johnny Guitar

    1954, in 21 top lists Check
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    La maman et la putain

    1973 — a.k.a. The Mother and the Whore, in 15 top lists Check
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    The Great Dictator

    1940, in 25 top lists Check
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    Il gattopardo

    1963 — a.k.a. The Leopard, in 18 top lists Check
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    Hiroshima mon amour

    1959 — a.k.a. Hiroshima Mon Amour, in 17 top lists Check
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    Die Büchse der Pandora

    1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check
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    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
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    Pickpocket

    1959, in 20 top lists Check
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    Casque d'or

    1952 — a.k.a. Casque d'Or, in 9 top lists Check
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    The Barefoot Contessa

    1954, in 8 top lists Check
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    Moonfleet

    1955, in 4 top lists Check
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    Madame de...

    1953 — a.k.a. The Earrings of Madame De..., in 13 top lists Check
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    Le plaisir

    1952 — a.k.a. Le Plaisir, in 6 top lists Check
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    The Deer Hunter

    1978, in 26 top lists Check
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    L'avventura

    1960 — a.k.a. L'Avventura, in 24 top lists Check
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    Bronenosets Potyomkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check
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    Notorious

    1946, in 24 top lists Check
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    Ivan Groznyy

    1944 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part I, in 19 top lists Check
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    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
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    Touch of Evil

    1958, in 31 top lists Check
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    The Wind

    1928, in 14 top lists Check
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    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
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    Fanny och Alexander

    1982 — a.k.a. Fanny and Alexander, in 25 top lists Check
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    The Crowd

    1928, in 20 top lists Check
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    1963, in 35 top lists Check
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    La jetée

    1962 — a.k.a. La Jetée, in 19 top lists Check
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    Pierrot le fou

    1965 — a.k.a. Pierrot le Fou, in 16 top lists Check
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    Le roman d'un tricheur

    1936 — a.k.a. The Story of a Cheat, in 7 top lists Check
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    Amarcord

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
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