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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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References

Historum. (n.d.) Cahiers du Cinema 100 Greatest Films [online]. Available at: https://historum.com/t/cahiers-du-cinema-100-greatest-films.172097/ (Accessed 1 December 2025). IMDb. (n.d.) IMDb List: ls050032005 [online]. Available at: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls050032005/ (Accessed 1 December 2025). OTHEMTS. (2013) Cahiers du Cinema's 100 Greatest Films of All Time [online]. Available at: https://othemts.wordpress.com/movie-reviews/cahiers-du-cinema-greatest-films-of-all-time/ (Accessed 1 December 2025).
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