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Critics’ Top 250 Films
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Mirror (1974)
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky drew on memories of a rural childhood before WWII for
this personal, impressionistic and unconventional film poem.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Histoire(s) du cinéma
Jean-Luc Godard
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Turin Horse, The
Béla Tarr
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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.
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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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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mirror (1974)
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Tarkovsky drew on memories of a rural childhood before WWII for
this personal, impressionistic and unconventional film poem.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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