The Spectator's "50 Essential Films"

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List compiled by Matthew d’Anacona and Peter Hoskin.

  1. 1.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

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  2. 2.
    Apocalypse Now

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  3. 3.
    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

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  4. 4.
    Black Narcissus - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell

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  5. 5.
    L'Avventura - Criterion Collection
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

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  6. 6.
    The Searchers (Blu-Ray)

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  7. 7.
    The Magnificent Ambersons

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  8. 8.
    The Seventh Seal [Blu-ray]
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  9. 9.
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    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

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  10. 10.
    Rio Bravo [Blu-ray]
    by Howard Hawks

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  12. 12.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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  13. 13.
    Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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  14. 14.
    Citizen Kane
    by Orson Welles

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  15. 15.
    The Scarlet Empress - Criterion Collection
    by Josef von Sternberg

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  16. 16.
    Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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  17. 17.
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  18. 18.
    Rear Window

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  19. 19.
    Point Blank
    by John Boorman

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  20. 20.
    The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
    by Emeric Pressburger

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  21. 22.
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    SHADOWS (1959) -John Cassavetes

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  22. 23.
    Pickpocket - Criterion Collection

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  23. 24.
    Viridiana - Criterion Collection
    by Luis Buñuel

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  24. 25.
    Barry Lyndon
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  25. 26.
    City Lights

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  26. 28.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

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  27. 29.
    Notorious

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  28. 31.
    The Roaring Twenties
    by Raoul Walsh

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  29. 32.
    Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Donen, Stanley

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  30. 33.
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    The Long Day Closes
    by Terrence Davies

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  31. 34.
    Killer of Sheep

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  32. 35.
    Gun Crazy
    by Joseph H. Lewis

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  33. 36.
    Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  34. 38.
    The 400 Blows [Blu-ray]
    by François Truffaut

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  35. 39.
    Pulp Fiction

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  36. 40.
    Kind Hearts and Coronets - Criterion Collection
    by Robert Hamer

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  37. 41.
    In the Mood for Love - Criterion Collection
    by Kar Wai Wong

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  38. 43.
    8 1/2 - Criterion Collection

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  39. 44.
    Pinocchio
    by Ben Sharpsteen;Hamilton S. Luske

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  40. 45.
    Great Expectations - Criterion Collection
    by David Lean

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  41. 46.
    Roma, Città Aperta (Open City) in Original Italian
    by Roberto Rossellini

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  42. 47.
    Duck Soup
    by Leo McCarey

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  43. 48.
    Jaws (30th Anniversary Edition)

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  44. 49.
    Manhattan
    by Woody Allen

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  45. 50.
    Out of the Past
    by Jacques Tourneur

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