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. 11 -

    Greed

    1924, in 21 top lists Check
  2. 100 -

    Napoléon vu par Abel Gance

    1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check
  3. 36 -

    L'avventura

    1960 — a.k.a. L'Avventura, in 24 top lists Check
  4. 3 -

    La règle du jeu

    1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check
  5. 87 -

    Él

    1953 — a.k.a. El, in 8 top lists Check
  6. 39 -

    Ivan Groznyy

    1944 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part I, in 19 top lists Check
  7. 42 -

    The Wind

    1928, in 14 top lists Check
  8. 63 -

    Monsieur Verdoux

    1947, in 11 top lists Check
  9. 21 -

    Freaks

    1932, in 19 top lists Check
  10. 85 -

    Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot

    1953 — a.k.a. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, in 22 top lists Check
  11. 38 -

    Notorious

    1946, in 24 top lists Check
  12. 79 -

    Sanshô dayû

    1954 — a.k.a. Sansho the Bailiff, in 21 top lists Check
  13. 71 -

    Playtime

    1967, in 19 top lists Check
  14. 80 -

    Hable con ella

    2002 — a.k.a. Talk to Her, in 12 top lists Check
  15. 72 -

    Roma città aperta

    1945 — a.k.a. Rome, Open City, in 23 top lists Check
  16. 69 -

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    1916, in 24 top lists Check
  17. 51 -

    La belle et la bête

    1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check
  18. 94 -

    Mulholland Dr.

    2001 — a.k.a. Mulholland Drive, in 26 top lists Check
  19. 62 -

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  20. 16 -

    Ugetsu monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Ugetsu, in 25 top lists Check
  21. 93 -

    Manhattan

    1979, in 20 top lists Check
  22. 64 -

    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
  23. 28 -

    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
  24. 5 -

    L'Atalante

    1934, in 21 top lists Check
  25. 68 -

    La grande illusion

    1937 — a.k.a. The Grand Illusion, in 30 top lists Check
  26. 14 -

    Tôkyô monogatari

    1953 — a.k.a. Tokyo Story, in 27 top lists Check
  27. 41 -

    Touch of Evil

    1958, in 30 top lists Check
  28. 66 -

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
  29. 4 -

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  30. 46 -

    8½

    1963, in 35 top lists Check
  31. 83 -

    The Band Wagon

    1953, in 14 top lists Check
  32. 61 -

    Trouble in Paradise

    1932, in 17 top lists Check
  33. 10 -

    The Searchers

    1956, in 26 top lists Check
  34. 57 -

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  35. 18 -

    The General

    1926, in 33 top lists Check
  36. 82 -

    Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

    1931, in 11 top lists Check
  37. 96 -

    Nuit et brouillard

    1956 — a.k.a. Night and Fog, in 17 top lists Check
  38. 67 -

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  39. 97 -

    The Gold Rush

    1925, in 29 top lists Check
  40. 70 -

    Partie de campagne

    1946 — a.k.a. A Day in the Country, in 13 top lists Check
  41. 12 -

    Rio Bravo

    1959, in 20 top lists Check
  42. 7 -

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  43. 55 -

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  44. 77 -

    Andrey Rublyov

    1966 — a.k.a. Andrei Rublev, in 29 top lists Check
  45. 25 -

    Il gattopardo

    1963 — a.k.a. The Leopard, in 18 top lists Check
  46. 26 -

    Hiroshima mon amour

    1959 — a.k.a. Hiroshima Mon Amour, in 17 top lists Check
  47. 50 -

    Amarcord

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
  48. 13 -

    To Be or Not to Be

    1942, in 24 top lists Check
  49. 37 -

    Bronenosets Potemkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check
  50. 47 -

    La jetée

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