Cahiers du Cinéma 100

Cahiers du Cinéma 100 is a ranked list published in 2008 — one of the 31 sources behind the film canon, weighted as major international poll. 63 of its 100 entries appear in the aggregated canon.

1. 1Citizen Kane (1941)Canon #1
2. 2The Night of the Hunter (1955)Canon #34
3. 3The Rules of the Game (1939)Canon #15
4. 4Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)Canon #18
5. 5L'Atalante (1934)Canon #30
6. 6M (1931)Canon #39
7. 7Singin' in the Rain (1952)Canon #8
8. 8Vertigo (1958)Canon #3
9. 9Children of Paradise (1945)Canon #68
10. 10The Searchers (1956)Canon #19
11. 11Greed (1924)Canon #96
12. 12Rio Bravo (1959)Canon #142
13. 13To Be or Not to Be (1942)Canon #88
14. 14Tokyo Story (1953)Canon #10
15. 15Contempt (1963)Canon #74
16. 16Ugetsu (1953)Canon #66
17. 17City Lights (1931)Canon #21
18. 18The General (1926)Canon #58
19. 19Nosferatu (1922)Canon #124
20. 20The Music Room (1958)
21. 21Freaks (1932)
22. 22Johnny Guitar (1954)Canon #160
23. 23The Mother and the Whore (1973)Canon #164
24. 24The Great Dictator (1940)
25. 25The Leopard (1963)Canon #81
26. 26Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)Canon #186
27. 27Pandora's Box (1929)
28. 28North by Northwest (1959)Canon #26
29. 29Pickpocket (1959)Canon #152
30. 30Casque d'Or (1952)
31. 31The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
32. 32Moonfleet (1955)
33. 33The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)Canon #112
34. 34Le Plaisir (1952)
35. 35The Deer Hunter (1978)Canon #150
36. 36L'Avventura (1960)Canon #59
37. 37Battleship Potemkin (1925)Canon #53
38. 38Notorious (1946)Canon #75
39. 39Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
40. 40The Godfather (1972)Canon #2
41. 41Touch of Evil (1958)Canon #48
42. 42The Wind (1928)
43. 432001: A Space Odyssey (1968)Canon #4
44. 44Fanny and Alexander (1982)Canon #91
45. 45The Crowd (1928)Canon #198
46. 4681⁄2 (1963)Canon #27
47. 47La Jetée (1962)Canon #125
48. 48Pierrot le Fou (1965)
49. 49The Story of a Cheat (1936)
50. 50Amarcord (1973)Canon #177
51. 51Beauty and the Beast (1946)Canon #205
52. 52Some Like It Hot (1959)Canon #16
53. 53Some Came Running (1958)
54. 54Gertrud (1964)
55. 55King Kong (1933)Canon #84
56. 56Laura (1944)
57. 57Seven Samurai (1954)Canon #5
58. 58The 400 Blows (1959)Canon #24
59. 59La Dolce Vita (1960)Canon #57
60. 60The Dead (1987)
61. 61Trouble in Paradise (1932)Canon #145
62. 62It's a Wonderful Life (1946)Canon #36
63. 63Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
64. 64The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)Canon #25
65. 65Breathless (1960)Canon #42
66. 66Apocalypse Now (1979)Canon #6
67. 67Barry Lyndon (1975)Canon #51
68. 68Grand Illusion (1937)Canon #77
69. 69Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)Canon #126
70. 70A Day in the Country (1946)
71. 71PlayTime (1967)Canon #90
72. 72Rome, Open City (1945)Canon #228
73. 73Senso (1954)
74. 74Modern Times (1936)Canon #135
75. 75Van Gogh (1991)
76. 76An Affair to Remember (1957)
77. 77Andrei Rublev (1966)Canon #70
78. 78The Scarlet Empress (1934)
79. 79Sansho the Bailiff (1954)Canon #107
80. 80Talk to Her (2002)
81. 81The Party (1968)
82. 82Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
83. 83The Band Wagon (1953)
84. 84A Star Is Born (1954)
85. 85Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)Canon #224
86. 86America America (1963)
87. 87The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)
88. 88Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
89. 89Once Upon a Time in America (1984)Canon #163
90. 90Daybreak (1939)
91. 91Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
92. 92Lola (1961)
93. 93Manhattan (1979)Canon #121
94. 94Mulholland Drive (2001)Canon #28
95. 95My Night at Maud's (1969)
96. 96Night and Fog (1956)
97. 97The Gold Rush (1925)Canon #171
98. 98Scarface (1983)
99. 99Bicycle Thieves (1948)Canon #40
100. 100Napoleon (1927)

List compiled and published by its original authors; positions shown as published. Canon ranks link to each entry's full evidence page.