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. 15.
    The Scarlet Empress (The Criterion Collection)
    by Josef von Sternberg

  15. 16.
    Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu

  16. 17.

  17. 18.
    Rear Window (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  18. 19.
    Point Blank
    by John Boorman

  19. 20.
    The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell

  20. 21.
    Earrings of Madame de...
    by Max Ophuls

  21. 22.
    Shadows (The Criterion Collection)
    by John Cassavetes

  22. 23.

  23. 24.
    Viridiana (The Criterion Collection)
    by Luis Buñuel

  24. 25.
    Barry Lyndon

  25. 26.
    City Lights
    by Charles Chaplin

  26. 27.
    Pierrot le fou (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  27. 28.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

  28. 29.
    Notorious

  29. 30.
    M (The Criterion Collection)
    by Fritz Lang

  30. 31.
    The Roaring Twenties
    by Raoul Walsh

  31. 32.
    Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Gene Kelly

  32. 33.
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    The Long Day Closes
    by Terrence Davies

  33. 34.
    Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection
    by Charles Burnett

  34. 35.
    Gun Crazy
    by Joseph H. Lewis

  35. 36.
    Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  36. 38.
    The 400 Blows (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]
    by François Truffaut

  37. 39.
    Pulp Fiction
    by Quentin Tarantino

  38. 41.
    In the Mood for Love (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kar Wai Wong

  39. 42.
    Sullivan's Travels: The (The Criterion Collection)
    by Preston Sturges

  40. 43.
    8 1/2 (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini

  41. 44.
    Pinocchio (Two-Disc 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition)
    by Ben Sharpsteen

  42. 45.
    Great Expectations (The Criterion Collection)
    by David Lean

  43. 47.
    Duck Soup

  44. 48.
    Jaws (Two-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  45. 49.
    Manhattan
    by Woody Allen

  46. 50.
    Out of the Past

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Created by duggie2 on Jul 31, 2009.
 

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