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Gerald Peary's "100 Films For Film Literacy"

As chosen by film critic Gerald Peary. [Webmaster’s note: There’s actually more than 100 movies here, but Mr. Peary at times gave choices "MOVIE A or MOVIE B", and I just put all the choices in this list.]

(found at: http://www.geraldpeary.com/miscellany/100films.html)

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1. 2001 - A Space Odyssey
by Stanley Kubrick
  
2.
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 21 Up
by Michael Apted
  
3. The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection  
4. Adam's Rib
by George Cukor
  
5. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
by Werner Herzog
  
6. Airplane!
by David Zucker
  
7. Ali - Fear Eats the Soul - Criterion Collection  
8.
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 Alice In The Cities (Alice in den Städten)
by Wim Wenders
  
9. The American Friend  
10. Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
11. Annie Hall  
12. Ashes and Diamonds
by Andrzej Wajda
  
13. Battleship Potemkin
by Grigori Aleksandrov
  
14. Belle de Jour  
15. The Bicycle Thief
by Vittorio De Sica
  
16. The Big Sleep (Snap case)
by Howard Hawks
  
17. The Birth of a Nation  
18. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
by Ridley Scott
  
19. Blow Up
by Michelangelo Antonioni
  
20. The Blue Angel
by Josef von Sternberg
  
21. Blue Velvet (Special Edition)
by David Lynch
  
22. Bonnie and Clyde
by Arthur Penn
  
23. Breathless  
24. Bringing Up Baby (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Howard Hawks
  
25. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
by Robert Wiene
  
26. Casablanca
by Michael Curtiz
  
27.
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 The Chelsea Girls
by Paul Morrissey / Andy Warhol
  
28. Citizen Kane
by Orson Welles
  
29. City Lights  
30.
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 The Conformist
by Bernardo Bertolucci
  
31. Contempt - Criterion Collection  
32. Dead (1987) / Movie
by John Huston
  
33. The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie - Criterion Collection
by Luis Buñuel
  
34. Diva
by Jean-Jacques Beineix
  
35. Do The Right Thing - Criterion Collection  
36. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition)
by Stanley Kubrick
  
37. Double Indemnity
by Billy Wilder
  
38. The Double Life of Veronique - Criterion Collection
by Krzysztof Kieslowski
  
39. The General
by Clyde Bruckman
  
40. The Godfather DVD Collection  
41. Gold Diggers of 1933
by Mervyn LeRoy
  
42. The Gold Rush  
43. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
by Sergio Leone
  
44. The Graduate (Special Edition)
by Mike Nichols
  
45. Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
by Jean Renoir
  
46. Greed (75th Anniversary Restoration)  
47. Hannah and Her Sisters  
48.
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 High School (1968 Documentary)
by Frederick Wiseman
  
49. His Girl Friday
by Howard Hawks
  
50. Ikiru - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa
  
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