Joe Leydon's Guide to Essential Movies You Must See

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In his "Guide to Essential Movies You Must See: If You Read, Write About, or Make Movies", veteran film critic Joe Leydon analyzes the movies that have defined genres, influenced filmmakers and serve as standards by which other films are measured. (2004)

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    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 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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    The General

    1926, in 34 top lists Check
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    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
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    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

    1939, in 16 top lists Check
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    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
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    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
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    Rocky

    1976, in 20 top lists Check
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    All the President's Men

    1976, in 21 top lists Check
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    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
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    Smokey and the Bandit

    1977, in 2 top lists Check
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    Do the Right Thing

    1989, in 25 top lists Check
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    His Girl Friday

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
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    Dark Victory

    1939, in 6 top lists Check
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    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
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    Pillow Talk

    1959, in 6 top lists Check
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    42nd Street

    1933, in 12 top lists Check
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    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    1937, in 25 top lists Check
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    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
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    Cabaret

    1972, in 24 top lists Check
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    Stagecoach

    1939, in 21 top lists Check
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    High Noon

    1952, in 19 top lists Check
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    Shane

    1953, in 18 top lists Check
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    The Searchers

    1956, in 26 top lists Check
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    Rio Bravo

    1959, in 19 top lists Check
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    Per un pugno di dollari

    1964 — a.k.a. A Fistful of Dollars, in 10 top lists Check
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    The Wild Bunch

    1969, in 25 top lists Check
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    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
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    Frankenstein

    1931, in 18 top lists Check
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    Plan 9 from Outer Space

    1957, in 6 top lists Check
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    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
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    Star Wars

    1977, in 40 top lists Check
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    Halloween

    1978, in 17 top lists Check
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    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
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    Notorious

    1946, in 24 top lists Check
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    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
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    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
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    Psycho

    1960, in 39 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 Public Enemy

    1931, in 13 top lists Check
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    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 27 top lists Check
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    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
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    Detour

    1945, in 16 top lists Check
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    Bonnie and Clyde

    1967, in 28 top lists Check
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    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
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    Dip huet seung hung

    1989 — a.k.a. The Killer, in 16 top lists Check
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    Flash Gordon

    1936, in 2 top lists Check
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    Guadalcanal Diary

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
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    48 Hrs.

    1982, in 3 top lists Check
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