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Critics’ Top 250 Films

1

Vertigo (1958)

Alfred Hitchcock
A former detective with a fear of heights is hired to follow a woman apparently possessed by the past, in Alfred Hitchcock’s timeless thriller about obsession.
2

Citizen Kane (1941)

Orson Welles
Given extraordinary freedom by Hollywood studio RKO for his debut film, boy wonder Welles created a modernist masterpiece that is regularly voted the best film ever made.
3

Tokyo Story (1953)

Ozu Yasujirô
The final part of Yasujiro Ozu’s loosely connected ‘Noriko’ trilogy is a devastating story of elderly grandparents brushed aside by their self-involved family.
4

Règle du jeu, La (1939)

Jean Renoir
Made on the cusp of WWII, Jean Renoir’s satire of the upper-middle classes was banned as demoralising by the French government for two decades after its release.
5

Sunrise (1927)

F. W. Murnau
Lured to Hollywood by producer William Fox, German Expressionist filmmaker F.W. Murnau created one of the silent cinema’s last and most luminous masterpieces.
6

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Stanley Kubrick
Adapting Arthur C. Clarke’s novel, Kubrick took science fiction cinema in a grandly intelligent new direction with this epic story of man’s quest for knowledge.
7

Searchers, The (1956)

John Ford
John Ford created perhaps the greatest of all westerns with this tale of a Civil War veteran doggedly hunting the Comanche who have kidnapped his niece.
8

Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

Dziga Vertov
An impression of city life in the Soviet Union, The Man with a Movie Camera is the best-known film of experimental documentary pioneer Dziga Vertov.
9

Passion of Joan of Arc (1927)

Carl Theodor Dreyer
Silent cinema at its most sublimely expressive, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterpiece is an austere but hugely affecting dramatisation of the trial of St Joan.
10

8½ (1963)

Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini triumphantly conjured himself out of a bad case of creative block with this autobiographical magnum opus about a film director experiencing creative block.
11

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Sergei M Eisenstein
A fixture in the critical canon almost since its premiere, Sergei Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary in both form and content.
12

Atalante, L' (1934)

Jean Vigo
Newly-weds begin their life together on a working barge in this luminous and poetic romance, the only feature film by director Jean Vigo.
13

Breathless (1960)

Jean-Luc Godard
14

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Francis Ford Coppola
Transplanting the story of Joseph Conrad’s colonial-era novel Heart of Darkness to Vietnam, Francis Ford Coppola created a visually mesmerising fantasia on the spectacle of war.
15

Late Spring (1949)

Ozu Yasujirô
16

Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)

Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson’s distinctive pared down style elicits extraordinary pathos from this devastating tale of an abused donkey passing from owner to owner.
=17

Seven Samurai (1954)

Akira Kurosawa
Rice farmers hire a band of samurai to defend them against marauding bandits in Akira Kurosawa’s influential epic, a touchstone for action movies ever since.
=17

Persona (1966)

Ingmar Bergman
A nurse (Bibi Andersson) and an actress who refuses to speak (Liv Ullmann) seem to fuse identities in Ingmar Bergman’s disturbing, formally experimental psychological drama.
19

Mirror (1974)

Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky drew on memories of a rural childhood before WWII for this personal, impressionistic and unconventional film poem.
20

Singin' in the Rain (1951)

Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly
Hollywood’s troubled transition from silent to talking pictures at the end of the 1920s provided the inspiration for perhaps the greatest of movie musicals.
=21

Avventura, L' (1960)

Michelangelo Antonioni
In Michelangelo Antonioni’s groundbreaking and controversial arthouse milestone, the mystery of a woman’s disappearance from a Mediterranean island is left unresolved.
=21

Godfather: Part I, The (1972)

Francis Ford Coppola
The first of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic trilogy about the Corleone crime family is the disturbing story of a son drawn inexorably into his father’s Mafia affairs.
=21

mépris, Le (1963)

Jean-Luc Godard
Working with his biggest budget to date, Jean-Luc Godard created a sublime widescreen drama about marital breakdown, set during pre-production on a film shoot.
=24

Rashomon (1950)

Akira Kurosawa
Credited with bringing Japanese cinema to worldwide audiences, Akira Kurosawa’s breakthrough tells the story of a murder in the woods from four differing perspectives.
=24

Ordet (1955)

Carl Theodor Dreyer
The penultimate film by the Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer is a parable on the power of faith, set in a remote religious community.
=24
27

Andrei Rublev (1966)

Andrei Tarkovsky
The life of a 15th century icon painter takes centre stage in Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic meditation on the place of art in turbulent times.
28

Mulholland Dr (2003)

David Lynch
=29

Stalker (1979)

Andrei Tarkovsky
=29

Shoah (1985)

Claude Lanzmann
=31

Taxi Driver (1976)

Martin Scorsese
Martin’s Scorsese’s unsettling story of disturbed New York cab driver Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is a classic of 70s cinema.
=31

Godfather: Part II, The (1974)

Francis Ford Coppola
The expansive second part of Francis Ford Coppola’s Mafia saga continues the Corleone family story, charting in parallel young Vito’s earlier rise to prominence.
33

Bicycle Thieves, The (1948)

Vittorio de Sica
Vittorio De Sica’s story of a father and son searching for a stolen bicycle on the streets of Rome is a classic of post-war Italian cinema.
=34

Psycho (1960)

Alfred Hitchcock
=34

General, The (1926)

Buster Keaton
Train driver Buster Keaton gives chase when Union agents steal his locomotive in this classic silent comedy set at the time of the American Civil War.
=36
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Metropolis (1927)

Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang’s epic vision of a futuristic city where workers toil for their domineering overseers has proved an immeasurable influence on science-fiction filmmaking.
=39

dolce vita, La (1960)

Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini’s epic charts a week in the life of a tabloid journalist (Marcello Mastroianni) as the excesses of modern Roman life go on around him.
=39

400 Blows, The (1959)

François Truffaut
The directorial debut of film critic François Truffaut, this autobiographical story of a wayward child marked a fresh start for French cinema.
=41

Pather Panchali (1955)

Satyajit Ray
The first part of Satyajit Ray’s acclaimed Apu Trilogy is a lyrical, closely observed story of a peasant family in 1920s rural India.
=41

Journey to Italy (1954)

Roberto Rossellini
This devastating study of a marriage coming apart during a holiday in Italy is the best known of the films Roberto Rossellini made with his wife Ingrid Bergman.
=43

Pierrot le Fou (1965)

Jean-Luc Godard
Riffing on the classic couple-on-the run movie, enfant terrible Jean-Luc Godard took the narrative innovations of the French New Wave close to breaking point.
=43

Close-Up (1989)

Abbas Kiarostami
=43

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Billy Wilder
On the run from Chicago mobsters, two musicians don drag to join an all-girl jazz band fronted by Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe) in Billy Wilder’s hugely popular comedy.
=43

Playtime (1967)

Jacques Tati
=43

Gertrud (1964)

Carl Theodor Dreyer
=48

Histoire(s) du cinéma

Jean-Luc Godard
=48

Battle of Algiers, The (1966)

Gillo Pontecorvo
Gillo Pontecorvo’s masterpiece about the turbulent last years of French colonial rule in Algeria, seen from the perspective of both the guerrilla revolutionaries and the French authorities.
50

City Lights (1931)

Charles Chaplin
The Tramp wins the affections of a blind flower seller (Virginia Cherrill) in this hilarious but heartbreaking comedy – one of Charlie Chaplin’s uncontested masterpieces.
=50

Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)

Mizoguchi Kenji
In war-torn 16th-century Japan, two men leave their wives to seek wealth and glory in Kenji Mizoguchi’s tragic supernatural classic.
=50

Jetée, La (1962)

Chris Marker
=53

North by Northwest (1959)

Alfred Hitchcock
=53

Rear Window (1954)

Alfred Hitchcock
=53

Raging Bull (1980)

Martin Scorsese
Starring Robert De Niro as the middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, Scorsese’s biopic is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest films of the 1980s.
56

M (1931)

Fritz Lang
For his first sound film Fritz Lang turned to the story of a child killer (Peter Lorre), who is hunted down by police and underworld alike.
=57

Leopard, The (1963)

Luchino Visconti
=57

Touch of Evil (1958)

Orson Welles
Orson Welles’ return to Hollywood after ten years working in Europe is a sleazy border tale in which he takes centre stage as gargantuan detective Hank Quinlan.
=59

Sherlock Jr (1924)

Buster Keaton
Keaton’s third feature is a breathtakingly virtuosic display of every silent comedy technique imaginable, from his own formidable physical skills to some then-groundbreaking camera trickery.
=59

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick’s exquisitely detailed adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel about the picaresque exploits of an 18th century Irish adventurer.
=59
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Sansho Dayu (1954)

Mizoguchi Kenji
This sweeping historical tragedy about two children separated from their parents and sold into slavery continued a run of late masterpieces from Kenji Mizoguchi.
=63

Wild Strawberries (1957)

Ingmar Bergman
On a road trip to receive an honorary degree, an elderly academic (Victor Sjöstrom) looks back over his life in Ingmar Bergman’s art-cinema classic.
=63

Modern Times (1936)

Charles Chaplin
The final outing for Charlie Chaplin’s beloved Tramp character finds him enduring the pratfalls and humiliations of work in an increasingly mechanised society.
=63

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Billy Wilder
The most caustic of European émigré directors, Wilder explored the movie industry and the delusions of stardom in Hollywood’s great poison pen letter to itself.
=63

Night of the Hunter, The (1955)

Charles Laughton
Actor Charles Laughton’s only film as a director is a complete one-off, a terrifying parable of the corruption of innocence featuring a career-best performance from Robert Mitchum.
=63

Pickpocket (1959)

Robert Bresson
This examination of the method and morality of a pickpocket on the streets of Paris marked a refinement of Robert Bresson’s spare, unsentimental aesthetic.
=63

Rio Bravo (1958)

Howard Hawks
A decade after Red River (1947), Howard Hawks reteamed with John Wayne for this rambling western riffing on the director’s usual themes of friendship and professionalism.
=69

Blade Runner (1982)

Ridley Scott
Loosely adapted from a novel by Phillip K. Dick, Ridley Scott’s dark, saturated vision of 2019 Los Angeles is a classic of popular science-fiction cinema.
=69

Blue Velvet (1986)

David Lynch
In David Lynch’s idiosyncratic drama, a young man’s curiosity draws him into the twisted criminal sub-culture operating beneath the placid surface of his cosy hometown.
=69

Sans Soleil (1982)

Chris Marker
=69

Man Escaped, A (1956)

Robert Bresson
=73

Third Man, The (1949)

Carol Reed
An American abroad in post-war Vienna pursues his missing friend down a rabbit hole of intrigue and moral corruption in Carol Reed’s masterpiece of European noir.
=73

eclisse, L' (1962)

Michelangelo Antonioni
=73

enfants du paradis, Les (1945)

Marcel Carné
Made during the Nazi occupation of France, Marcel Carne’s romantic epic of the 19th-century theatre world is a life-affirming tribute to love, Paris and the stage.
=73

grande illusion, La (1937)

Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir’s pacifist classic is set in a German prisoner-of-war camp during WWI, where class kinship is felt across national boundaries.
=73

Nashville (1975)

Robert Altman
Made to celebrate the bicentennial of American Independence, Robert Altman’s footloose epic blends the lives of 24 characters in the capital of country music.
=78

Chinatown (1974)

Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski’s brilliant thriller stars Jack Nicholson as a private eye uncovering corruption in 1930s Los Angeles, a desert town where water equals power.
=78

Beau Travail (1998)

Claire Denis
=78

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Sergio Leone
The railroad rushes westward, bringing power and progress with it, in Sergio Leone’s grandest spaghetti western, an operatic homage to Hollywood’s mythology of the Old West.
=81

Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)

Orson Welles
Among the most famous of broken films, Orson Welles’ masterful follow-up to Citizen Kane was taken out of his control and re-edited by the studio.
=81

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

David Lean
An eccentric English officer inspires the Arabs to unite against the Turks during WWI in David Lean’s seven Oscar-winner, an epic in every sense.
=84

Fanny and Alexander (1984)

Ingmar Bergman
The grand summation of Ingmar Bergman’s career, this epic family drama drew on the director’s own childhood experiences in early 20th century Sweden.
=84

Casablanca (1942)

Michael Curtiz
Everybody comes to Rick’s bar, including expat Rick’s (Humphrey Bogart) former lover Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), in one of Hollywood’s most-loved romantic melodramas.
=84
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Greed (1925)

Erich von Stroheim
Silent cinema’s most famous ‘lost’ film, Von Stroheim’s monumental study of three ordinary lives destroyed by avarice was ruinously edited down by the studio.
=84

Wild Bunch, The (1969)

Sam Peckinpah
A gang of outlaws goes out in a blaze of violence and glory in Sam Peckinpah’s elegiac film about the dying days of the wild west.
90
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Matter of Life and Death, A (1946)

Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s audacious Technicolor fantasy, WWII airman David Niven finds himself summoned to heaven after surviving a plane crash that should have killed him.
=93

Seventh Seal, The (1957)

Ingmar Bergman
During the plague-ravaged middle ages, a knight buys time for himself by playing chess with Death in Bergman’s much-imitated arthouse classic.
=93
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Intolerance (1916)

D.W. Griffith
Responding to criticisms of racism for his record-breaking The Birth of a Nation, film-making pioneer D.W. Griffith made this epic drama depicting intolerance through the ages.
=93
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Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943)

Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
=93

Touki Bouki (1973)

Djibril Diop Mambéty
=93

Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
=93
93

Madame de… (1953)

Max Ophüls
Tragic consequences ensue when a society woman pawns the earrings her husband gave her, in Max Ophuls’ graceful and opulent period drama.
=102

Wavelength (1967)

Michael Snow
=102

Conformist, The (1970)

Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci’s stylish period thriller stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as a repressed bureaucrat in Mussolini’s Italy who is assigned to kill his former professor.
=102

Travelling Players, The (1975)

Theodoros Angelopoulos
Weaving together recent Greek history and the wanderings of a travelling theatre troupe, Theo Angelopoulos’ four-hour epic posited a new form of storytelling.
=102

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

Maya Deren/Alexander Hammid
=102

Two or Three Things I Know About Her… (1967)

Jean-Luc Godard
Moving ever further away from narrative, Jean-Luc Godard equates consumerism with prostitution in this radical portrait of a day in the life of a Parisian call girl.
=102

Tree of Life, The (2010)

Terrence Malick
=102

Ivan the Terrible (1945)

Sergei M Eisenstein
The first part of Sergei Eisenstein’s truncated masterpiece about the 16th-century Russian Tsar sees young Ivan attempting to unite Russia under a single ruler.
=102

Last Year At Marienbad (1961)

Alain Resnais
In Alain Resnais’ infamous art-house teaser, from a screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet, a male guest at a chateau claims he met a woman there the year before.
110

Lady Eve, The (1941)

Preston Sturges
Glamorous conwoman Barbara Stanwyck gets millionaire boffin Henry Fonda in her sights in Preston Sturges’s sparkling screwball comedy.
=110

olvidados, Los (1995)

Luis Buñuel
=110
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Performance (1970)

Donald Cammell/Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg’s directing career began with this explicit and experimental thriller about a hunted gangster taking refuge with a reclusive rock star.
=110

Passenger, The (1974)

Michelangelo Antonioni
=110

Viridiana (1961)

Luis Buñuel
In Luis Buñuel’s controversial masterpiece, a novice nun gets more than she bargains for when she turns her dead uncle’s estate into a home for beggars.
=110

Age d'Or, L' (1930)

Luis Buñuel
Banned for decades, Buñuel’s feature debut is a gleefully inventive, wickedly funny and still profoundly disturbing Surrealist assault on every social and moral convention imaginable.
=117

Canterbury Tale, A (1944)

Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
=117

Mouchette (1966)

Robert Bresson
=117

Dr. Strangelove (1963)

Stanley Kubrick
Peter Sellers plays three separate roles in Stanley Kubrick’s mordant Cold War comedy in which insanity and political manoeuvrings lead to nuclear meltdown.
=117

Nosferatu (1922)

F. W. Murnau
Cinema’s original vampire movie, this copyright-infringing adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula is one of the great classics of German expressionist cinema.
=117

Red Shoes, The (1948)

Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s visually ravishing Technicolor masterpiece, a young ballerina is torn between the demands of love and art.
=117
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City of Sadness, A (1989)

Hsiao-hsien Hou
=117

Amarcord (1972)

Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini returned for inspiration to his own childhood in 1930s Rimini for this colourful comedy-drama about life in a small seaside town under Fascist rule.
=117

Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The (1962)

John Ford
The coming of civilisation brings an end to the wildness of the west in John Ford’s elegiac late film teaming John Wayne and James Stewart.
=117

Days of Heaven (1978)

Terrence Malick
=127

Do The Right Thing (1989)

Spike Lee
On the hottest day of the summer New Yorkers’ similarly overheated tempers catalyse a full-scale race riot in Spike Lee’s breakthrough film, still all too relevant today.
=127

Out 1 (1990)

Jacques Rivette
=127

Tropical Malady (2004)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
=127

River, The (1951)

Jean Renoir
=127

Jules et Jim (1962)

François Truffaut
Two friends fall for the same woman (Jeanne Moreau) in this effervescent French drama set at the time of the Great War.
=127

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Quentin Tarantino
=127

Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)

Vincente Minnelli
=127

argent, L' (1983)

Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson’s last film turns a Tolstoy novella about a forged banknote into a formidably focused meditation on the supposed root of all evil.
=127

Ikiru (1952)

Akira Kurosawa
This study of a terminally ill civil servant seeking meaning in his life is one of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s finest achievements.
=127

Three Colours: Blue (1993)

Krzysztof Kieslowski
=127

Don't Look Now (1973)

Nicolas Roeg
Set in off-season Venice, British director Nicolas Roeg’s tragedy combines an acute study of grief with a supernaturally charged thriller plot, to beautiful and devastating effect.
=127
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Annie Hall (1977)

Woody Allen
Woody Allen’s breakthrough as a ‘serious’ filmmaker is a sublimely funny romantic comedy about an overly anxious comedian’s relationship with Diane Keaton’s ditzy eccentric.
=127

Apartment, The (1960)

Billy Wilder
In Wilder’s Oscar-winning comedy, Jack Lemmon plays an office worker who lends his apartment to adulterous superiors in order to get ahead.
=127

Last Laugh, The (1924)

F. W. Murnau
=127
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Blow Up (1966)

Michelangelo Antonioni
The refined visual style of Italian maestro Michelangelo Antonioni collides with swinging 60s London in this story of a man who may have unwittingly photographed a murder.
=144

Great Dictator, The (1940)

Charles Chaplin
=144

Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
=144
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To Be or Not To Be (1942)

Ernst Lubitsch
=144

Napoleon (1927)

Abel Gance
=144

Vivre Sa Vie (1962)

Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard’s fourth feature – his third with wife and muse Anna Karina – charts in 12 tableaux a would-be actress’s descent into prostitution.
=144

Wizard of Oz, The (1939)

Victor Fleming
Whisked by a tornado from Kansas to the colourful Land of Oz, Dorothy soon learns there’s no place like home in MGM’s immortal musical fantasy.
=154

Marketa Lazarová (1967)

Frantisek Vlácil
=154

Hidden (2004)

Michael Haneke
=154

Shining, The (1980)

Stanley Kubrick
=154

Solaris (1972)

Andrei Tarkovsky
=154
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Gold Rush, The (1925)

Charles Chaplin
=154

Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)

Max Ophüls
Max Ophuls brought his trademark flowing camera style and a taste of the old Vienna to Hollywood for this tragic story of unrequited love.
=154

Brief Encounter (1945)

David Lean
Turbulent passion and middle-class restraint combine in uniquely English style when a married woman falls for a doctor she meets at a railway station.
=154
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Black Narcissus (1947)

Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
=154
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Vampyr (1932)

Carl Theodor Dreyer
=154

Come And See (1985)

Elem Klimov
=154

Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

Terence Davies
Post-war working-class Liverpool life is impressionistically evoked in Terence Davies’ two-part film, by turns lyrical, humorous and horrific.
=154

Cries and Whispers (1957)

Ingmar Bergman
=171

King Kong (1933)

Merian C. Cooper/Ernest B. Schoedsack
=171

Star Wars (1997)

George Lucas
=171

Notorious (1946)

Alfred Hitchcock
In one of Hitchcock’s darkest thrillers, a traitor’s daughter is engaged by an American agent to get close to one of her father’s Nazi associates.
=171

His Girl Friday (1939)

Howard Hawks
=171

Goodfellas (1990)

Martin Scorsese
=171

Trip to the Moon, A (1902)

Georges Méliès
=171

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Alexander Mackendrick
Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis play tabloid baron J.J. Hunsecker and grasping press agent Sidney Falco in this jet-black satire on the venality of the newspaper business.
=171

Tabu (1931)

F. W. Murnau
=171

Earth (1930)

Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Commissioned to make propaganda for Stalin’s farm collectivisations, the Soviet cinema’s great visual poet Alexander Dovzhenko instead delivered an impassioned hymn to nature.
=183

Breaking the Waves (1996)

Lars von Trier
=183

Grapes of Wrath, The (1940)

John Ford
Novelist John Steinbeck’s great chronicle of Depression-era America reached the screen in director John Ford’s stark and powerful adaptation.
=183

Paris, Texas (1984)

Wim Wenders
=183

E.T. (1982)

Steven Spielberg
=183

Rome Open City (1945)

Roberto Rossellini
=183

Faces (1968)

John Cassavetes
=183

Music Room, The (1958)

Satyajit Ray
=183

Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, The (1939)

Mizoguchi Kenji
A 19th-century kabuki theatre is the setting for this early Kenji Mizoguchi masterpiece about a woman’s selfless sacrifice for her mediocre actor husband.
=183
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Listen to Britain (1942)

Humphrey Jennings/Stewart McAllister
=183

Day of Wrath (1943)

Carl Theodor Dreyer
=183

Thin Red Line, The (1998)

Terrence Malick
=183

Eraserhead (1976)

David Lynch
=183

Conversation, The (1974)

Francis Ford Coppola
=183

Out of the Past (1947)

Jacques Tourneur
=183
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"I Know Where I'm Going!" (1945)

Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger
=202

Death of Mr Lazarescu, The (2005)

Cristi Puiu
The film that brought the Romanian New Wave to global attention was this almost real-time drama about the last hours of a reluctant hospital in-patient.
=202

Red Desert (1964)

Michelangelo Antonioni
=202

Chelsea Girls (1966)

Andy Warhol/Paul Morrissey
=202

Badlands (1973)

Terrence Malick
=202
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There Will Be Blood (2007)

Paul Thomas Anderson
This operatic portrait of a diabolical oil baron is a formal tour de force and a compelling portrait of all-American 20th century sociopathy.
=202

WALL-E (2008)

Andrew Stanton
=202

Berlin Alexanderplatz ()

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
=202

Videodrome (1983)

David Cronenberg
=202

Daisies (1966)

Vera Chytilová
=202

Manhattan (1979)

Woody Allen
Filmed in black and white and filled with Ira Gershwin tunes, Manhattan is Woody Allen’s rhapsodic tribute to New York City.
=202
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Russian Ark (2002)

Aleksandr Sokurov
=202

Tale of Tales, A (1979)

Yuri Norstein
=202

Spirited Away (2001)

Miyazaki Hayao
=202

strada, La (1954)

Federico Fellini
A brutish travelling strongman (Anthony Quinn) acquires a waif-like young assistant (Giulietta Masina) before taking to the road in Federico Fellini’s acclaimed neo-realist fable.
=202

Paisà (1946)

Roberto Rossellini
=202

Big Sleep, The (1946)

Howard Hawks
Howard Hawks reteamed Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall for this stylish and seductive adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s labyrinthine private-eye novel.
=202

Killer of Sheep (1977)

Charles Burnett
=202

Wanda (1970)

Barbara Loden
=202

Germany Year Zero (1948)

Roberto Rossellini
=202

Life of Oharu, The (1952)

Mizoguchi Kenji
=202

Army of Shadows (1969)

Jean-Pierre Melville
=202
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Duck Soup (1933)

Leo McCarey
=202
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Turin Horse, The

Béla Tarr
=202

Love Streams (1984)

John Cassavetes
=202

Floating Clouds (1955)

Naruse Mikio
=235

Piano, The (1992)

Jane Campion
=235

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Victor Fleming
An epic romance set against the backdrop of the American Civil War which broke box-office records and swept the board at the 1939 Academy Awards.
=235

Melancholia (2011)

Lars von Trier
=235

House is Black, The (1962)

Forough Farrokhzad
=235

Red River (1947)

Howard Hawks/Arthur Rosson
=235

Clockwork Orange, A (1971)

Stanley Kubrick
A dystopian future London is the playground of a teenage gang leader in Stanley Kubrick’s stylish, controversial take on Anthony Burgess’s novel about violence and free will.
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Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

Monte Hellman
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Kes (1969)

Ken Loach
The tough, touching story of a northern schoolboy and the kestrel that brings hope to his hardscrabble life remains the most widely admired of Ken Loach’s films.
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Three Colours: Red (1994)

Krzysztof Kieslowski








Directors’ Top 100 Films

1

Tokyo Story (1953)

Ozu Yasujirô
The final part of Yasujiro Ozu’s loosely connected ‘Noriko’ trilogy is a devastating story of elderly grandparents brushed aside by their self-involved family.
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Stanley Kubrick
Adapting Arthur C. Clarke’s novel, Kubrick took science fiction cinema in a grandly intelligent new direction with this epic story of man’s quest for knowledge.
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Citizen Kane (1941)

Orson Welles
Given extraordinary freedom by Hollywood studio RKO for his debut film, boy wonder Welles created a modernist masterpiece that is regularly voted the best film ever made.
4

8½ (1963)

Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini triumphantly conjured himself out of a bad case of creative block with this autobiographical magnum opus about a film director experiencing creative block.
5

Taxi Driver (1976)

Martin Scorsese
Martin’s Scorsese’s unsettling story of disturbed New York cab driver Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is a classic of 70s cinema.
6

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Francis Ford Coppola
Transplanting the story of Joseph Conrad’s colonial-era novel Heart of Darkness to Vietnam, Francis Ford Coppola created a visually mesmerising fantasia on the spectacle of war.
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Vertigo (1958)

Alfred Hitchcock
A former detective with a fear of heights is hired to follow a woman apparently possessed by the past, in Alfred Hitchcock’s timeless thriller about obsession.
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Godfather: Part I, The (1972)

Francis Ford Coppola
The first of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic trilogy about the Corleone crime family is the disturbing story of a son drawn inexorably into his father’s Mafia affairs.
9

Mirror (1974)

Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky drew on memories of a rural childhood before WWII for this personal, impressionistic and unconventional film poem.
10

Bicycle Thieves, The (1948)

Vittorio de Sica
Vittorio De Sica’s story of a father and son searching for a stolen bicycle on the streets of Rome is a classic of post-war Italian cinema.
11

Breathless (1960)

Jean-Luc Godard
12

Raging Bull (1980)

Martin Scorsese
Starring Robert De Niro as the middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, Scorsese’s biopic is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest films of the 1980s.
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Persona (1966)

Ingmar Bergman
A nurse (Bibi Andersson) and an actress who refuses to speak (Liv Ullmann) seem to fuse identities in Ingmar Bergman’s disturbing, formally experimental psychological drama.
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400 Blows, The (1959)

François Truffaut
The directorial debut of film critic François Truffaut, this autobiographical story of a wayward child marked a fresh start for French cinema.
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Andrei Rublev (1966)

Andrei Tarkovsky
The life of a 15th century icon painter takes centre stage in Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic meditation on the place of art in turbulent times.
16

Fanny and Alexander (1984)

Ingmar Bergman
The grand summation of Ingmar Bergman’s career, this epic family drama drew on the director’s own childhood experiences in early 20th century Sweden.
17

Seven Samurai (1954)

Akira Kurosawa
Rice farmers hire a band of samurai to defend them against marauding bandits in Akira Kurosawa’s influential epic, a touchstone for action movies ever since.
18

Rashomon (1950)

Akira Kurosawa
Credited with bringing Japanese cinema to worldwide audiences, Akira Kurosawa’s breakthrough tells the story of a murder in the woods from four differing perspectives.
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Barry Lyndon (1975)

Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick’s exquisitely detailed adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel about the picaresque exploits of an 18th century Irish adventurer.
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Ordet (1955)

Carl Theodor Dreyer
The penultimate film by the Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer is a parable on the power of faith, set in a remote religious community.
21

Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)

Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson’s distinctive pared down style elicits extraordinary pathos from this devastating tale of an abused donkey passing from owner to owner.
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Modern Times (1936)

Charles Chaplin
The final outing for Charlie Chaplin’s beloved Tramp character finds him enduring the pratfalls and humiliations of work in an increasingly mechanised society.
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Atalante, L' (1934)

Jean Vigo
Newly-weds begin their life together on a working barge in this luminous and poetic romance, the only feature film by director Jean Vigo.
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Sunrise (1927)

F. W. Murnau
Lured to Hollywood by producer William Fox, German Expressionist filmmaker F.W. Murnau created one of the silent cinema’s last and most luminous masterpieces.
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Règle du jeu, La (1939)

Jean Renoir
Made on the cusp of WWII, Jean Renoir’s satire of the upper-middle classes was banned as demoralising by the French government for two decades after its release.
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Touch of Evil (1958)

Orson Welles
Orson Welles’ return to Hollywood after ten years working in Europe is a sleazy border tale in which he takes centre stage as gargantuan detective Hank Quinlan.
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Night of the Hunter, The (1955)

Charles Laughton
Actor Charles Laughton’s only film as a director is a complete one-off, a terrifying parable of the corruption of innocence featuring a career-best performance from Robert Mitchum.
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Battle of Algiers, The (1966)

Gillo Pontecorvo
Gillo Pontecorvo’s masterpiece about the turbulent last years of French colonial rule in Algeria, seen from the perspective of both the guerrilla revolutionaries and the French authorities.
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strada, La (1954)

Federico Fellini
A brutish travelling strongman (Anthony Quinn) acquires a waif-like young assistant (Giulietta Masina) before taking to the road in Federico Fellini’s acclaimed neo-realist fable.
30

Stalker (1979)

Andrei Tarkovsky
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City Lights (1931)

Charles Chaplin
The Tramp wins the affections of a blind flower seller (Virginia Cherrill) in this hilarious but heartbreaking comedy – one of Charlie Chaplin’s uncontested masterpieces.
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Avventura, L' (1960)

Michelangelo Antonioni
In Michelangelo Antonioni’s groundbreaking and controversial arthouse milestone, the mystery of a woman’s disappearance from a Mediterranean island is left unresolved.
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Amarcord (1972)

Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini returned for inspiration to his own childhood in 1930s Rimini for this colourful comedy-drama about life in a small seaside town under Fascist rule.
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Gospel According to St Matthew, The (1964)

Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s third feature abandons the profane in favour of the sacred in a documentary-like retelling of the story of Christ.
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Godfather: Part II, The (1974)

Francis Ford Coppola
The expansive second part of Francis Ford Coppola’s Mafia saga continues the Corleone family story, charting in parallel young Vito’s earlier rise to prominence.
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Come And See (1985)

Elem Klimov
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Close-Up (1989)

Abbas Kiarostami
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Some Like It Hot (1959)

Billy Wilder
On the run from Chicago mobsters, two musicians don drag to join an all-girl jazz band fronted by Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe) in Billy Wilder’s hugely popular comedy.
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dolce vita, La (1960)

Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini’s epic charts a week in the life of a tabloid journalist (Marcello Mastroianni) as the excesses of modern Roman life go on around him.
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Passion of Joan of Arc (1927)

Carl Theodor Dreyer
Silent cinema at its most sublimely expressive, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterpiece is an austere but hugely affecting dramatisation of the trial of St Joan.
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Playtime (1967)

Jacques Tati
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Man Escaped, A (1956)

Robert Bresson
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Viridiana (1961)

Luis Buñuel
In Luis Buñuel’s controversial masterpiece, a novice nun gets more than she bargains for when she turns her dead uncle’s estate into a home for beggars.
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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Sergio Leone
The railroad rushes westward, bringing power and progress with it, in Sergio Leone’s grandest spaghetti western, an operatic homage to Hollywood’s mythology of the Old West.
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mépris, Le (1963)

Jean-Luc Godard
Working with his biggest budget to date, Jean-Luc Godard created a sublime widescreen drama about marital breakdown, set during pre-production on a film shoot.
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Apartment, The (1960)

Billy Wilder
In Wilder’s Oscar-winning comedy, Jack Lemmon plays an office worker who lends his apartment to adulterous superiors in order to get ahead.
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Hour of the Wolf (1968)

Ingmar Bergman
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Searchers, The (1956)

John Ford
John Ford created perhaps the greatest of all westerns with this tale of a Civil War veteran doggedly hunting the Comanche who have kidnapped his niece.
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Psycho (1960)

Alfred Hitchcock
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Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

Dziga Vertov
An impression of city life in the Soviet Union, The Man with a Movie Camera is the best-known film of experimental documentary pioneer Dziga Vertov.
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Shoah (1985)

Claude Lanzmann
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

David Lean
An eccentric English officer inspires the Arabs to unite against the Turks during WWI in David Lean’s seven Oscar-winner, an epic in every sense.
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eclisse, L' (1962)

Michelangelo Antonioni
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Pickpocket (1959)

Robert Bresson
This examination of the method and morality of a pickpocket on the streets of Paris marked a refinement of Robert Bresson’s spare, unsentimental aesthetic.
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Pather Panchali (1955)

Satyajit Ray
The first part of Satyajit Ray’s acclaimed Apu Trilogy is a lyrical, closely observed story of a peasant family in 1920s rural India.
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Rear Window (1954)

Alfred Hitchcock
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Goodfellas (1990)

Martin Scorsese
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Blow Up (1966)

Michelangelo Antonioni
The refined visual style of Italian maestro Michelangelo Antonioni collides with swinging 60s London in this story of a man who may have unwittingly photographed a murder.
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Conformist, The (1970)

Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci’s stylish period thriller stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as a repressed bureaucrat in Mussolini’s Italy who is assigned to kill his former professor.
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Gertrud (1964)

Carl Theodor Dreyer
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Blue Velvet (1986)

David Lynch
In David Lynch’s idiosyncratic drama, a young man’s curiosity draws him into the twisted criminal sub-culture operating beneath the placid surface of his cosy hometown.
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grande illusion, La (1937)

Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir’s pacifist classic is set in a German prisoner-of-war camp during WWI, where class kinship is felt across national boundaries.
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Badlands (1973)

Terrence Malick
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Blade Runner (1982)

Ridley Scott
Loosely adapted from a novel by Phillip K. Dick, Ridley Scott’s dark, saturated vision of 2019 Los Angeles is a classic of popular science-fiction cinema.
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Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Billy Wilder
The most caustic of European émigré directors, Wilder explored the movie industry and the delusions of stardom in Hollywood’s great poison pen letter to itself.
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Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)

Mizoguchi Kenji
In war-torn 16th-century Japan, two men leave their wives to seek wealth and glory in Kenji Mizoguchi’s tragic supernatural classic.
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Singin' in the Rain (1951)

Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly
Hollywood’s troubled transition from silent to talking pictures at the end of the 1920s provided the inspiration for perhaps the greatest of movie musicals.
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Journey to Italy (1954)

Roberto Rossellini
This devastating study of a marriage coming apart during a holiday in Italy is the best known of the films Roberto Rossellini made with his wife Ingrid Bergman.
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Vivre Sa Vie (1962)

Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard’s fourth feature – his third with wife and muse Anna Karina – charts in 12 tableaux a would-be actress’s descent into prostitution.
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Seventh Seal, The (1957)

Ingmar Bergman
During the plague-ravaged middle ages, a knight buys time for himself by playing chess with Death in Bergman’s much-imitated arthouse classic.
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Hidden (2004)

Michael Haneke
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Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Sergei M Eisenstein
A fixture in the critical canon almost since its premiere, Sergei Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary in both form and content.
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M (1931)

Fritz Lang
For his first sound film Fritz Lang turned to the story of a child killer (Peter Lorre), who is hunted down by police and underworld alike.
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There Will Be Blood (2007)

Paul Thomas Anderson
This operatic portrait of a diabolical oil baron is a formal tour de force and a compelling portrait of all-American 20th century sociopathy.
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Shining, The (1980)

Stanley Kubrick
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General, The (1926)

Buster Keaton
Train driver Buster Keaton gives chase when Union agents steal his locomotive in this classic silent comedy set at the time of the American Civil War.
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Mulholland Dr (2003)

David Lynch
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Clockwork Orange, A (1971)

Stanley Kubrick
A dystopian future London is the playground of a teenage gang leader in Stanley Kubrick’s stylish, controversial take on Anthony Burgess’s novel about violence and free will.
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Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Kes (1969)

Ken Loach
The tough, touching story of a northern schoolboy and the kestrel that brings hope to his hardscrabble life remains the most widely admired of Ken Loach’s films.
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Husbands (1970)

John Cassavetes
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Wild Bunch, The (1969)

Sam Peckinpah
A gang of outlaws goes out in a blaze of violence and glory in Sam Peckinpah’s elegiac film about the dying days of the wild west.
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Jaws (1975)

Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg laid the template for the modern summer blockbuster with this expert thriller about the hunt for a man-eating great white shark.
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Los Olvidados (1950)

Luis Buñuel
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Pierrot le Fou (1965)

Jean-Luc Godard
Riffing on the classic couple-on-the run movie, enfant terrible Jean-Luc Godard took the narrative innovations of the French New Wave close to breaking point.
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Chinatown (1974)

Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski’s brilliant thriller stars Jack Nicholson as a private eye uncovering corruption in 1930s Los Angeles, a desert town where water equals power.
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Beau Travail (1998)

Claire Denis
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Opening Night (1977)

John Cassavetes
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Gold Rush, The (1925)

Charles Chaplin
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Deer Hunter, The (1977)

Michael Cimino
Along with Apocalypse Now, Michael Cimino’s brutal but ultimately contemplative war movie is a key American cinematic take on the Vietnam conflict.
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argent, L' (1983)

Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson’s last film turns a Tolstoy novella about a forged banknote into a formidably focused meditation on the supposed root of all evil.



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