The Guardian's 1000 Films to See Before You Die

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"Well over a century has passed since the Lumière brothers frightened the life out of Parisians with The Arrival of a Train at a Station, and well over a million titles have since been recorded - if the Internet Movie Database is anything to go by.

Out of these million-plus movies, our team of experts has picked what we believe is the essential 1,000 - those that best sum up the dazzling achievement and variety of the movies."

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  1. 104 -

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  2. 443 +4

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    1916, in 24 top lists Check
  3. 835 +4

    South

    1919, in 3 top lists Check
  4. 151 -

    Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

    1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 30 top lists Check
  5. 359 +4

    Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam

    1920 — a.k.a. The Golem, in 9 top lists Check
  6. 960 +4

    Way Down East

    1920, in 7 top lists Check
  7. 329 +4

    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    1921, in 7 top lists Check
  8. 392 +4

    Häxan

    1922, in 17 top lists Check
  9. 619 +4

    Nanook of the North

    1922, in 17 top lists Check
  10. 638 +4

    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check
  11. 373 +4

    Greed

    1924, in 21 top lists Check
  12. 99 -

    The Big Parade

    1925, in 13 top lists Check
  13. 142 -

    Bronenosets Potemkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 28 top lists Check
  14. 542 +4

    The Lost World

    1925, in 6 top lists Check
  15. 340 +4

    The General

    1926, in 33 top lists Check
  16. 529 +4

    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    1927, in 12 top lists Check
  17. 581 +4

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  18. 620 +4

    Napoléon vu par Abel Gance

    1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check
  19. 861 +4

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  20. 680 +4

    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
  21. 851 +4

    Steamboat Bill, Jr.

    1928, in 13 top lists Check
  22. 976 +4

    The Wind

    1928, in 14 top lists Check
  23. 174 -

    Chelovek s kino-apparatom

    1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
  24. 176 -

    Un chien andalou

    1929 — a.k.a. An Andalusian Dog, in 25 top lists Check
  25. 143 -

    Die Büchse der Pandora

    1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check
  26. 692 +4

    Piccadilly

    1929, in 5 top lists Check
  27. 108 -

    Der blaue Engel

    1930 — a.k.a. The Blue Angel, in 18 top lists Check
  28. 578 +4

    Menschen am Sonntag

    1930 — a.k.a. People on Sunday, in 12 top lists Check
  29. 330 +4

    Frankenstein

    1931, in 18 top lists Check
  30. 527 +4

    Little Caesar

    1931, in 10 top lists Check
  31. 545 +4

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  32. 720 +4

    The Public Enemy

    1931, in 13 top lists Check
  33. 331 +4

    Freaks

    1932, in 19 top lists Check
  34. 274 +4

    Duck Soup

    1933, in 24 top lists Check
  35. 483 +4

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  36. 1002 +4

    Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège

    1933 — a.k.a. Zero for Conduct, in 17 top lists Check
  37. 450 +4

    It Happened One Night

    1934, in 29 top lists Check
  38. 55 -

    L'Atalante

    1934, in 21 top lists Check
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    The 39 Steps

    1935, in 16 top lists Check
  40. 134 -

    Bride of Frankenstein

    1935, in 19 top lists Check
  41. 626 +4

    A Night at the Opera

    1935, in 17 top lists Check
  42. 925 +4

    Triumph des Willens

    1935 — a.k.a. Triumph of the Will, in 16 top lists Check
  43. 592 +4

    Modern Times

    1936, in 30 top lists Check
  44. 891 +4

    Things to Come

    1936, in 8 top lists Check
  45. 367 +4

    La grande illusion

    1937 — a.k.a. The Grand Illusion, in 30 top lists Check
  46. 684 +4

    Pépé le Moko

    1937, in 10 top lists Check
  47. 758 +4

    Le roman de Renard

    1937 — a.k.a. The Story of the Fox, in 4 top lists Check
  48. 828 +4

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    1937, in 25 top lists Check
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    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    1938, in 17 top lists Check
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    Aleksandr Nevskiy

    1938 — a.k.a. Alexander Nevsky, in 11 top lists Check
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