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. 36 -

    L'avventura

    1960 — a.k.a. L'Avventura, in 24 top lists Check
  2. 77 -

    Andrey Rublyov

    1966 — a.k.a. Andrei Rublev, in 29 top lists Check
  3. 80 -

    Hable con ella

    2002 — a.k.a. Talk to Her, in 12 top lists Check
  4. 99 -

    Ladri di biciclette

    1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check
  5. 84 -

    A Star Is Born

    1954, in 13 top lists Check
  6. 19 -

    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check
  7. 35 -

    The Deer Hunter

    1978, in 26 top lists Check
  8. 43 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  9. 66 -

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 38 top lists Check
  10. 67 -

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  11. 1 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  12. 40 -

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  13. 97 -

    The Gold Rush

    1925, in 29 top lists Check
  14. 68 -

    La grande illusion

    1937 — a.k.a. The Grand Illusion, in 30 top lists Check
  15. 56 -

    Laura

    1944, in 21 top lists Check
  16. 94 -

    Mulholland Dr.

    2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check
  17. 28 -

    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
  18. 38 -

    Notorious

    1946, in 24 top lists Check
  19. 10 -

    The Searchers

    1956, in 26 top lists Check
  20. 7 -

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  21. 8 -

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  22. 50 -

    Amarcord

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
  23. 31 -

    The Barefoot Contessa

    1954, in 8 top lists Check
  24. 37 -

    Bronenosets Potemkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check
  25. 59 -

    La dolce vita

    1960 — a.k.a. La Dolce Vita, in 22 top lists Check
  26. 24 -

    The Great Dictator

    1940, in 25 top lists Check
  27. 55 -

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  28. 89 -

    Once Upon a Time in America

    1984, in 19 top lists Check
  29. 81 -

    The Party

    1968, in 4 top lists Check
  30. 98 -

    Scarface

    1932, in 16 top lists Check
  31. 4 -

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  32. 65 -

    À bout de souffle

    1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check
  33. 6 -

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  34. 93 -

    Manhattan

    1979, in 20 top lists Check
  35. 2 -

    The Night of the Hunter

    1955, in 34 top lists Check
  36. 29 -

    Pickpocket

    1959, in 20 top lists Check
  37. 71 -

    Playtime

    1967, in 19 top lists Check
  38. 58 -

    Les quatre cents coups

    1959 — a.k.a. The 400 Blows, in 26 top lists Check
  39. 3 -

    La règle du jeu

    1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check
  40. 57 -

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  41. 52 -

    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
  42. 46 -

    8½

    1963, in 35 top lists Check
  43. 76 -

    An Affair to Remember

    1957, in 9 top lists Check
  44. 83 -

    The Band Wagon

    1953, in 14 top lists Check
  45. 9 -

    Les enfants du paradis

    1945 — a.k.a. Children of Paradise, in 21 top lists Check
  46. 18 -

    The General

    1926, in 33 top lists Check
  47. 54 -

    Gertrud

    1964, in 11 top lists Check
  48. 62 -

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  49. 85 -

    Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot

    1953 — a.k.a. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, in 22 top lists Check
  50. 17 -

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
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