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

  2. 2.
    Apocalypse Now
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  3. 4.
    Black Narcissus (The Criterion Collection)
    by Emeric Pressburger

  4. 5.
    L'Avventura (The Criterion Collection)
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

  5. 6.
    The Searchers [Blu-ray]

  6. 7.
    The Magnificent Ambersons
    by Orson Welles

  7. 8.
    The Seventh Seal (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
    by Ingmar Bergman

  8. 9.
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    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

  9. 10.
    Rio Bravo [Blu-ray]
    by Howard Hawks

  10. 11.
    The Godfather Collection (The Coppola Restoration) [Blu-ray]
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  11. 12.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

  12. 13.
    Grand Illusion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir

  13. 14.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles

  14. 16.
    Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu

  15. 17.

  16. 18.
    Rear Window (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  17. 19.
    Point Blank
    by John Boorman

  18. 20.
    The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell

  19. 21.
    Earrings of Madame de...
    by Max Ophuls

  20. 22.
    Shadows (The Criterion Collection)
    by John Cassavetes

  21. 23.

  22. 24.

  23. 25.
    Barry Lyndon

  24. 26.
    City Lights
    by Charles Chaplin

  25. 27.
    Pierrot le fou (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
    by Jean-Luc Godard

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

  27. 29.
    Notorious

  28. 30.
    M (The Criterion Collection)
    by Fritz Lang

  29. 31.
    The Roaring Twenties
    by Lloyd French

  30. 32.
    Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Gene Kelly

  31. 33.
    ?
    The Long Day Closes
    by Terrence Davies

  32. 34.
    Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection
    by Charles Burnett

  33. 35.
    Gun Crazy
    by Joseph H. Lewis

  34. 36.
    Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  35. 38.
    The 400 Blows (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
    by François Truffaut

  36. 39.
    Pulp Fiction
    by Quentin Tarantino

  37. 42.
    Sullivan's Travels: The (The Criterion Collection)
    by Preston Sturges

  38. 43.
    8 1/2 (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini

  39. 44.
    Pinocchio (Two-Disc 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition)
    by Ben Sharpsteen

  40. 47.
    Duck Soup

  41. 48.
    Jaws (Two-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  42. 49.
    Manhattan
    by Woody Allen

  43. 50.
    Out of the Past

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Created by duggie2 on Jul 31, 2009.
 

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