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Critical Response - Other
100 Greatest Films (Cahiers du Cinéma)
This list features movies that have been rated as the greatest films of all time by Cahiers du Cinéma.
RANK | FILMS | VOTES | YEAR |
1 | Citizen Kane | 48 | 1941 |
2 | Night of the Hunter | 47 | 1955 |
3 | Rules of the Game | 47 | 1939 |
4 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | 46 | 1927 |
5 | L’Atalante | 43 | 1934 |
6 | M | 40 | 1931 |
7 | Singin’ in the Rain | 39 | 1952 |
8 | Vertigo | 35 | 1958 |
9 | Children of Paradise | 34 | 1945 |
10 | The Searchers | 34 | 1956 |
11 | Greed | 34 | 1924 |
12 | Rio Bravo | 33 | 1959 |
13 | To Be or Not to Be | 33 | 1942 |
14 | Tokyo Story | 29 | 1953 |
15 | Contempt | 28 | 1963 |
16 | Ugetsu Monogatari | 27 | 1953 |
17 | City Lights | 27 | 1931 |
18 | The General | 27 | 1926 |
19 | Nosferatu | 27 | 1922 |
20 | The Music Room | 27 | 1958 |
21 | Freaks | 26 | 1932 |
22 | Johnny Guitar | 26 | 1954 |
23 | La Maman et la Putain | 26 | 1973 |
24 | The Dictator | 25 | 1940 |
25 | The Leopard | 25 | 1963 |
26 | Hiroshima Mon Amour | 25 | 1959 |
27 | Pandora’s Box | 25 | 1929 |
28 | North by Northwest | 25 | 1959 |
29 | Pickpocket | 25 | 1959 |
30 | Casque d’or | 24 | 1952 |
31 | The Barefoot Contessa | 24 | 1954 |
32 | Moonfleet | 24 | 1955 |
33 | Madame de… | 24 | 1953 |
34 | Le Plaisir | 24 | 1952 |
35 | The Deer Hunter | 24 | 1978 |
36 | L’Avventura | 23 | 1960 |
37 | Battleship Potemkin | 23 | 1925 |
38 | Notorious | 23 | 1946 |
39 | Ivan the Terrible | 23 | 1944 |
40 | The Godfather | 23 | 1972 |
41 | Touch of Evil | 23 | 1958 |
42 | The Wind | 23 | 1928 |
43 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 22 | 1968 |
44 | Fanny & Alexander | 22 | 1982 |
45 | The Crowd | 21 | 1928 |
46 | 81/2 | 21 | 1963 |
47 | La Jetée | 21 | 1962 |
48 | Pierrot le Fou | 21 | 1965 |
49 | Story of a Cheat | 21 | 1936 |
50 | Amarcord | 20 | 1973 |
51 | Beauty and the Beast | 20 | 1946 |
52 | Some Like It Hot | 20 | 1959 |
53 | Some Came Running | 20 | 1958 |
54 | Gertrud | 20 | 1964 |
55 | King Kong | 20 | 1933 |
56 | Laura | 20 | 1944 |
57 | Seven Samurai | 20 | 1954 |
58 | The 400 Blows | 19 | 1959 |
59 | La Dolce Vita | 19 | 1960 |
60 | The Dead | 19 | 1987 |
61 | Trouble in Paradise | 19 | 1932 |
62 | It’s a Wonderful Life | 19 | 1946 |
63 | Monsieur Verdoux | 19 | 1947 |
64 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 19 | 1928 |
65 | À Bout de Souffle | 18 | 1960 |
66 | Apocalypse Now | 18 | 1979 |
67 | Barry Lyndon | 18 | 1975 |
68 | La Grande Illusion | 18 | 1937 |
69 | Intolerance | 18 | 1916 |
70 | Partie de campagne | 18 | 1936 |
71 | Playtime | 18 | 1967 |
72 | Rome, Open City | 18 | 1945 |
73 | Senso | 18 | 1954 |
74 | Modern Times | 18 | 1936 |
75 | Van Gogh | 18 | 1991 |
76 | An Affair to Remember | 17 | 1957 |
77 | Andrei Rublev | 17 | 1966 |
78 | The Scarlet Empress | 17 | 1934 |
79 | Sansho the Bailiff | 17 | 1954 |
80 | Talk To Her | 17 | 2002 |
81 | The Party | 17 | 1968 |
82 | Tabu | 17 | 1931 |
83 | The Bandwagon | 17 | 1953 |
84 | A Star Is Born | 17 | 1954 |
85 | Mr. Hulot’s Holiday | 17 | 1953 |
86 | America America | 16 | 1963 |
87 | El | 16 | 1953 |
88 | Kiss Me Deadly | 16 | 1955 |
89 | Once Upon a Time in America | 16 | 1984 |
90 | Le Jour se lève | 16 | 1939 |
91 | Letter From An Unknown Woman | 16 | 1948 |
92 | Lola | 16 | 1961 |
93 | Manhattan | 16 | 1979 |
94 | Mulholland Drive | 16 | 2001 |
95 | My Nighy at Maud’s | 16 | 1969 |
96 | Night and Fog | 16 | 1956 |
97 | The Gold Rush | 16 | 1925 |
98 | Scarface | 16 | 1932 |
99 | The Bicycle Thieves | 16 | 1948 |
100 | Napoléon | 16 | 1927 |
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