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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Senso
1954, in 12 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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Johnny Guitar
1954, in 22 top lists Check -
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Scarface
1932, in 16 top lists Check -
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Lola
1961, in 10 top lists Check -
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To Be or Not to Be
1942, in 24 top lists Check -
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Trouble in Paradise
1932, in 17 top lists Check -
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La grande illusion
1937 — a.k.a. The Grand Illusion, in 30 top lists Check -
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Freaks
1932, in 19 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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The Party
1968, in 4 top lists Check -
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King Kong
1933, in 26 top lists Check -
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Dead
1987, in 9 top lists Check -
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Amarcord
1973, in 17 top lists Check -
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La jetée
1962 — a.k.a. La Jetée, in 19 top lists Check -
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La dolce vita
1960 — a.k.a. La Dolce Vita, in 22 top lists Check -
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La belle et la bête
1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check -
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Touch of Evil
1958, in 31 top lists Check -
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Sanshô dayû
1954 — a.k.a. Sansho the Bailiff, in 21 top lists Check -
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Manhattan
1979, in 20 top lists Check -
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The Wind
1928, in 14 top lists Check -
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North by Northwest
1959, in 30 top lists Check -
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Tôkyô monogatari
1953 — a.k.a. Tokyo Story, in 27 top lists Check -
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8½
1963, in 35 top lists Check -
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Laura
1944, in 21 top lists Check -
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L'avventura
1960 — a.k.a. L'Avventura, in 24 top lists Check -
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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
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Ugetsu monogatari
1953 — a.k.a. Ugetsu, in 25 top lists Check -
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Kiss Me Deadly
1955, in 20 top lists Check -
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Pickpocket
1959, in 20 top lists Check -
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Playtime
1967, in 19 top lists Check -
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The Night of the Hunter
1955, in 34 top lists Check -
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Some Like It Hot
1959, in 35 top lists Check -
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Les quatre cents coups
1959 — a.k.a. The 400 Blows, in 26 top lists Check -
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La passion de Jeanne d'Arc
1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 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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Monsieur Verdoux
1947, in 11 top lists Check -
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Apocalypse Now
1979, in 37 top lists Check -
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The Godfather
1972, in 42 top lists Check -
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À bout de souffle
1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check -
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The Great Dictator
1940, in 25 top lists Check -
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The General
1926, in 33 top lists Check -
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Modern Times
1936, in 30 top lists Check -
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Notorious
1946, in 24 top lists Check -
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City Lights
1931, in 34 top lists Check -
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968, in 45 top lists Check -
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Vertigo
1958, in 42 top lists Check -
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It's a Wonderful Life
1946, in 33 top lists Check -
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The Gold Rush
1925, in 30 top lists Check
Last updated on Dec 15, 2009; source