Cahiers du Cinéma: 100 Greatest Films

In 2007, cult French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma compiled a list of the 100 greatest films of all time, based on the votes of 76 French film directors, critics, and industry executives. Each voter was asked to name their top 100 films.

# Film Year Country Director
1 Citizen Kane 1941 USA Orson Welles
2 The Night of the Hunter 1955 USA Charles Laughton
3 The Rules of the Game 1939 France Jean Renoir
4 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 USA F. W. Murnau
5 L'Atalante 1934 France Jean Vigo
6 M 1931 Germany Fritz Lang
7 Singin' in the Rain 1952 USA Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
8 Vertigo 1958 USA Alfred Hitchcock
9 Children of Paradise 1945 France Marcel Carné
10 The Searchers 1956 USA John Ford
11 Greed 1924 USA Erich von Stroheim
12 Rio Bravo 1959 USA Howard Hawks
13 To Be or Not to Be 1942 USA Ernst Lubitsch
14 Tokyo Story 1953 Japan Yasujirō Ozu
15 Contempt 1963 France, Italy Jean-Luc Godard
16 Ugetsu 1953 Japan Kenji Mizoguchi
17 City Lights 1931 USA Charlie Chaplin
18 The General 1926 USA, UK Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
19 Nosferatu 1922 Germany F. W. Murnau
20 The Music Room 1958 India Satyajit Ray
21 Freaks 1932 USA Tod Browning
22 Johnny Guitar 1954 USA Nicholas Ray
23 The Mother and the Whore 1973 France Jean Eustache
24 The Great Dictator 1940 USA Charlie Chaplin
25 The Leopard 1963 France, Italy Luchino Visconti
26 Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959 France, Japan Alain Resnais
27 Pandora's Box 1929 Germany G.W. Pabst
28 North by Northwest 1959 USA Alfred Hitchcock
29 Pickpocket 1959 France Robert Bresson
30 Casque d'Or 1952 France Jacques Becker
31 The Barefoot Contessa 1954 USA, Italy Joseph L. Mankiewicz
32 Moonfleet 1955 USA Fritz Lang
33 The Earrings of Madame de... 1953 France, Italy Max Ophüls
34 Le Plaisir 1952 France Max Ophüls
35 The Deer Hunter 1978 USA, UK Michael Cimino
36 L'Avventura 1960 France, Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
37 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein
38 Notorious 1946 USA Alfred Hitchcock
39 Ivan the Terrible, Part I 1944 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein
40 The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Coppola
41 Touch of Evil 1958 USA Orson Welles
42 The Wind 1928 USA Victor Sjöström
43 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
44 Fanny and Alexander 1982 France, Sweden, Germany Ingmar Bergman
45 The Crowd 1928 USA King Vidor
46 8½ 1963 France, Italy Federico Fellini
47 La Jetée 1962 France Chris Marker
48 Pierrot le Fou 1965 France, Italy Jean-Luc Godard
49 The Story of a Cheat 1936 France Sacha Guitry
50 Amarcord 1973 France, Italy Federico Fellini
51 Beauty and the Beast 1946 France Jean Cocteau
52 Some Like It Hot 1959 USA Billy Wilder
53 Some Came Running 1958 USA Vincente Minnelli
54 Gertrud 1964 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
55 King Kong 1933 USA Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
56 Laura 1944 USA Otto Preminger
57 Seven Samurai 1954 Japan Akira Kurosawa
58 The 400 Blows 1959 France François Truffaut
59 La Dolce Vita 1960 France, Italy Federico Fellini
60 The Dead 1987 UK, Ireland John Huston
61 Trouble in Paradise 1932 USA Ernst Lubitsch
62 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 USA Frank Capra
63 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 USA Charlie Chaplin
64 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
65 Breathless 1960 France Jean-Luc Godard
66 Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Coppola
67 Barry Lyndon 1975 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
68 Grand Illusion 1937 France, France Jean Renoir
69 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916 USA D.W. Griffith
70 A Day in the Country 1946 France Jean Renoir
71 PlayTime 1967 France, Italy Jacques Tati
72 Rome, Open City 1945 Italy Roberto Rossellini
73 Senso 1954 Italy Luchino Visconti
74 Modern Times 1936 USA Charlie Chaplin
75 Van Gogh 1991 France Maurice Pialat
76 An Affair to Remember 1957 USA Leo McCarey
77 Andrei Rublev 1966 Soviet Union Andrei Tarkovsky
78 The Scarlet Empress 1934 USA Josef von Sternberg
79 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Japan Kenji Mizoguchi
80 Talk to Her 2002 Spain Pedro Almodóvar
81 The Party 1968 USA Blake Edwards
82 Tabu 1931 USA F. W. Murnau
83 The Band Wagon 1953 USA Vincente Minnelli
84 A Star Is Born 1954 USA George Cukor
85 Monsieur Hulot's Holiday 1953 France Jacques Tati
86 America America 1963 USA Elia Kazan
87 Él 1953 Mexico Luis Buñuel
88 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 USA Robert Aldrich
89 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 USA, Italy Sergio Leone
90 Daybreak 1939 France Marcel Carné
91 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 USA Max Ophüls
92 Lola 1961 France, Italy Jacques Demy
93 Manhattan 1979 USA Woody Allen
94 Mulholland Drive 2001 France, France, France, France, USA David Lynch
95 My Night at Maud's 1969 France Éric Rohmer
96 Night and Fog 1956 France Alain Resnais
97 The Gold Rush 1925 USA Charlie Chaplin
98 Scarface 1932 USA Howard Hawks
99 Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy Vittorio De Sica
100 Napoléon 1927 France Abel Gance