100 films for an ideal cinémathèque (Cahiers du cinéma)
The 2008 Cahiers du cinéma poll of 78 French critics and historians; the French canon of world cinema.
100 entries · 2 available to watch · Source: fr.wikipedia.org
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Citizen Kane
1941 · Orson Welles
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The Night of the Hunter
1955 · Charles Laughton
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The Rules of the Game
1939 · Jean Renoir
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 · Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
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L'Atalante
1934 · Jean Vigo
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M
1931 · Fritz Lang
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Singin' in the Rain
1952 · Stanley Donen et Gene Kelly
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Vertigo
1958 · Alfred Hitchcock
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Children of Paradise
1945 · Marcel Carné
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The Searchers
1956 · John Ford
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Greed
1924 · Erich von Stroheim
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Rio Bravo
1959 · Howard Hawks
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To Be or Not to Be
1942 · Ernst Lubitsch
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Tokyo Story
1953 · Yasujiro Ozu
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Contempt
1963 · Jean-Luc Godard
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Ugetsu
1953 · la lune vague après la pluie de Kenji Mizoguchi
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City Lights
1931 · la ville de Charles Chaplin
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The General (complete & clearer) (1926)Watch1926 · 1h 19m
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Nosferatu
1922 · Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
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Jalsaghar
1958 · musique de Satyajit Ray
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Freaks
1932 · Tod Browning
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Johnny Guitar
1954 · Nicholas Ray
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The Mother and the Whore
1973 · Jean Eustache
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The Great Dictator
1940 · Charles Chaplin
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The Leopard
1963 · Luchino Visconti
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Hiroshima mon amour
1959 · Alain Resnais
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Pandora's Box
1929 · G.W. Pabst
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North by Northwest
1959 · Alfred Hitchcock
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Pickpocket
1959 · Robert Bresson
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Casque d'Or
1952 · Or de Jacques Becker
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The Barefoot Contessa
1954 · Joseph Mankiewicz
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Moonfleet
1954 · Moonfleet de Fritz Lang
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The Earrings of Madame de...
1953 · ... de Max Ophüls
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Le Plaisir
1952 · Max Ophüls
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The Deer Hunter
1978 · l'enfer de Michael Cimino
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L'Avventura
1960 · Michelangelo Antonioni
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Battleship Potemkin
1925 · Sergueï Eisenstein
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Notorious
1946 · Alfred Hitchcock
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Ivan the Terrible
1944 · Sergueï Eisenstein
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The Godfather
1972 · Francis Ford Coppola
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Touch of Evil
1958 · Orson Welles
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The Wind
1928 · Victor Sjöström
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2001: A Space Odyssey
2001 · l'espace de Stanley Kubrick
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Fanny and Alexander
1982 · Ingmar Bergman
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The Crowd
1928 · King Vidor
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8½
1963 · Federico Fellini
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La Jetée
1962 · Chris Marker
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Pierrot le Fou
1965 · Jean-Luc Godard
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Confessions of a Cheat
1936 · un tricheur de Sacha Guitry
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Amarcord
1973 · Federico Fellini
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Beauty and the Beast
1946 · Jean Cocteau
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Some Like It Hot
1959 · Billy Wilder
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Some Came Running
1958 · Vincente Minnelli
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Gertrud
1964 · Carl Theodor Dreyer
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King Kong
1933 · Ernest B. Schoedsack et Merian C. Cooper
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Laura
1944 · Otto Preminger
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Seven Samurai
1954 · Akira Kurosawa
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The 400 Blows
1959 · François Truffaut
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La Dolce Vita
1960 · Federico Fellini
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The Dead
1987 · Dublin de John Huston
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List from fr.wikipedia.org, synced Sep 18, 2026.