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. 65 -

    À bout de souffle

    1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check
  2. 4 -

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  3. 77 -

    Andrey Rublyov

    1966 — a.k.a. Andrei Rublev, in 29 top lists Check
  4. 64 -

    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
  5. 44 -

    Fanny och Alexander

    1982 — a.k.a. Fanny and Alexander, in 25 top lists Check
  6. 24 -

    The Great Dictator

    1940, in 25 top lists Check
  7. 14 -

    Tôkyô monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Tokyo Story, in 27 top lists Check
  8. 17 -

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  9. 55 -

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  10. 7 -

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  11. 58 -

    Les quatre cents coups

    1959 — a.k.a. The 400 Blows, in 26 top lists Check
  12. 93 -

    Manhattan

    1979, in 20 top lists Check
  13. 89 -

    Once Upon a Time in America

    1984, in 19 top lists Check
  14. 35 -

    The Deer Hunter

    1978, in 26 top lists Check
  15. 2 -

    The Night of the Hunter

    1955, in 34 top lists Check
  16. 62 -

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  17. 94 -

    Mulholland Dr.

    2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check
  18. 41 -

    Touch of Evil

    1958, in 31 top lists Check
  19. 10 -

    The Searchers

    1956, in 26 top lists Check
  20. 46 -

    8½

    1963, in 35 top lists Check
  21. 74 -

    Modern Times

    1936, in 30 top lists Check
  22. 80 -

    Hable con ella

    2002 — a.k.a. Talk to Her, in 12 top lists Check
  23. 50 -

    Amarcord

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
  24. 37 -

    Bronenosets Potemkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check
  25. 47 -

    La jetée

    1962 — a.k.a. La Jetée, in 19 top lists Check
  26. 21 -

    Freaks

    1932, in 19 top lists Check
  27. 19 -

    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check
  28. 67 -

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  29. 99 -

    Ladri di biciclette

    1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check
  30. 52 -

    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
  31. 6 -

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  32. 8 -

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  33. 28 -

    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
  34. 1 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  35. 66 -

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
  36. 57 -

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  37. 40 -

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  38. 43 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  39. 76 -

    An Affair to Remember

    1957, in 9 top lists Check
  40. 86 -

    America America

    1963, in 7 top lists Check
  41. 83 -

    The Band Wagon

    1953, in 14 top lists Check
  42. 31 -

    The Barefoot Contessa

    1954, in 8 top lists Check
  43. 51 -

    La belle et la bête

    1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check
  44. 30 -

    Casque d'or

    1952 — a.k.a. Casque d'Or, in 9 top lists Check
  45. 45 -

    The Crowd

    1928, in 20 top lists Check
  46. 60 -

    The Dead

    1987, in 9 top lists Check
  47. 27 -

    Die Büchse der Pandora

    1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check
  48. 59 -

    La dolce vita

    1960 — a.k.a. La Dolce Vita, in 22 top lists Check
  49. 87 -

    Él

    1953 — a.k.a. El, in 8 top lists Check
  50. 9 -

    Les enfants du paradis

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