Cahiers du cinéma’s 100 Greatest Films

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The List:

1. Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
   
2. The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton
3. The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu) - Jean Renoir
4. Sunrise - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
5. L’Atalante - Jean Vigo
6. M - Fritz Lang
7. Singin’ in the Rain - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
8. Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
9. Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis) - Marcel Carné
10. The Searchers - John Ford
11. Greed - Erich von Stroheim
12. Rio Bravo - Howard Hawkes
13. To Be or Not to Be - Ernst Lubitsch
14. Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu
15. Contempt (Le Mépris) - Jean-Luc Godard
16. Tales of Ugetsu (Ugetsu monogatari) - Kenji Mizoguchi
17. City Lights - Charlie Chaplin
18. The General - Buster Keaton
19. Nosferatu the Vampire - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
20. The Music Room - Satyajit Ray
21. Freaks - Tod Browning
22. Johnny Guitar - Nicholas Ray
23. The Mother and the Whore (La Maman et la Putain) - Jean Eustache
24. The Great Dictator - Charlie Chaplin
25. The Leopard (Le Guépard) - Luchino Visconti
26. Hiroshima, My Love - Alain Resnais
27. The Box of Pandora (Loulou) - Georg Wilhelm Pabst
28. North by Northwest - Alfred Hitchcock
29. Pickpocket - Robert Bresson
30. Golden Helmet (Casque d’or) - Jacques Becker
31. The Barefoot Contessa - Joseph Mankiewitz
32. Moonfleet - Fritz Lang
33. Diamond Earrings (Madame de…) - Max Ophüls
34. Pleasure - Max Ophüls
35. The Deer Hunter - Michael Cimino
36. The Adventure - Michelangelo Antonioni
37. Battleship Potemkin - Sergei M. Eisenstein
38. Notorious - Alfred Hitchcock
39. Ivan the Terrible - Sergei M. Eisenstein
40. The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola
41. Touch of Evil - Orson Welles
42. The Wind - Victor Sjöström
43. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
44. Fanny and Alexander - Ingmar Bergman
45. The Crowd - King Vidor
46. 8 1/2 - Federico Fellini
47. La Jetée - Chris Marker
48. Pierrot le Fou - Jean-Luc Godard
49. Confessions of a Cheat (Le Roman d’un tricheur) - Sacha Guitry
50. Amarcord - Federico Fellini
51. Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) - Jean Cocteau
52. Some Like It Hot - Billy Wilder
53. Some Came Running - Vincente Minnelli
54. Gertrud - Carl Theodor Dreyer
55. King Kong - Ernst Shoedsack & Merian J. Cooper
56. Laura - Otto Preminger
57. The Seven Samurai - Akira Kurosawa
58. The 400 Blows - François Truffaut
59. La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini
60. The Dead - John Huston
61. Trouble in Paradise - Ernst Lubitsch
62. It’s a Wonderful Life - Frank Capra
63. Monsieur Verdoux - Charlie Chaplin
64. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Theodor Dreyer
65. À bout de souffle - Jean-Luc Godard
66. Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola
67. Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick
68. La Grande Illusion - Jean Renoir
69. Intolerance - David Wark Griffith
70. A Day in the Country (Partie de campagne) - Jean Renoir
71. Playtime - Jacques Tati
72. Rome, Open City - Roberto Rossellini
73. Livia (Senso) - Luchino Visconti
74. Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin
75. Van Gogh - Maurice Pialat
76. An Affair to Remember - Leo McCarey
77. Andrei Rublev - Andrei Tarkovsky
78. The Scarlet Empress - Joseph von Sternberg
79. Sansho the Bailiff - Kenji Mizoguchi
80. Talk to Her - Pedro Almodóvar
81. The Party - Blake Edwards
82. Tabu - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
83. The Bandwagon - Vincente Minnelli
84. A Star Is Born - George Cukor
85. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday - Jacques Tati
86. America, America - Elia Kazan
87. El - Luis Buñuel
88. Kiss Me Deadly - Robert Aldrich
89. Once Upon a Time in America - Sergio Leone
90. Daybreak (Le Jour se lève) - Marcel Carné
91. Letter from an Unknown Woman - Max Ophüls
92. Lola - Jacques Demy
93. Manhattan - Woody Allen
94. Mulholland Dr. - David Lynch
95. My Night at Maud’s (Ma nuit chez Maud) - Eric Rohmer
96. Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) - Alain Resnais
97. The Gold Rush - Charlie Chaplin
98. Scarface - Howard Hawks
99. Bicycle Thieves - Vittorio de Sica
100. Napoléon - Abel Gance

Couple of French guys picked this list, it's not as much fun as the Empire 500, more on that later if you haven't seen it.