The Spectator's 50 Essential Films

Submitted by ejones on Sat, 08/08/2009 - 15:29
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  1. The Night of the Hunter, Laughton
  2. Apocalypse Now, Coppola
  3. Sunrise, Murnau
  4. Black Narcissus, Powell & Pressburger
  5. L'avventura, Antonioni
  6. The Searchers, Ford
  7. The Magnificent Ambersons, Welles
  8. The Seventh Seal , Bergman
  9. L'atalante, Vigo
  10. Rio Bravo, Hawks
  11. The Godfather: Part I and Part II, Coppola
  12. The Passion of Joan of Arc, Dreyer
  13. La Grande Illusion, Renoir
  14. Citizen Kane, Welles
  15. The Scarlett Empress, von Sternberg
  16. Tokyo Story, Ozu
  17. Blade Runner, Ridley Scott
  18. Rear Window, Hitchcock
  19. Point Blank, Boorman
  20. The Red Shoes, Powell & Pressburger
  21. The Earrings of Madame de..., Ophuls
  22. Shadows, Cassavetes
  23. Pickpocket, Bresson
  24. Viridiana, Bunuel
  25. Barry Lyndon, Kubrick
  26. City Lights, Chaplin
  27. Pierrot le Fou, Godard
  28. Sunset Boulevard, Wilder
  29. Notorious, Hitchcock
  30. M, Lang
  31. The Roaring Twenties, Walsh
  32. Singin' in the Rain, Donen and Kelly
  33. The Long Day Closes, Davies
  34. Killer of Sheep, Burnett
  35. Gun Crazy, Lewis
  36. Andrei Rublev, Tarkovsky
  37. Taxi Driver, Scorsese
  38. The 400 Blows, Truffaut
  39. Pulp Fiction, Tarantino
  40. Kind Hearts and Coronets, Hamer
  41. In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-Wai
  42. Sullivan's Travels, Sturges
  43. 8 1/2, Fellini
  44. Pinocchio, Disney
  45. Great Expectations, Lean
  46. Rome, Open City, Rossellini
  47. Duck Soup, McCarey
  48. Jaws, Spielberg
  49. Manhattan, Allen
  50. Out of the Past, Tourneur
Author Comments: 

(numbered films seen)