TIFF Essential 100

TIFF Essential 100 is a ranked list published in 2010 — one of the 31 sources behind the film canon, weighted as editorial list. 74 of its 100 entries appear in the aggregated canon.

1. 1The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)Canon #25
2. 2Citizen Kane (1941)Canon #1
3. 3L'Avventura (1960)Canon #59
4. 4The Godfather (1972)Canon #2
5. 5Pickpocket (1959)Canon #152
6. 6Seven Samurai (1954)Canon #5
7. 7Pather Panchali (1955)Canon #43
8. 8Casablanca (1942)Canon #17
9. 9Man with a Movie Camera (1929)Canon #67
10. 10Bicycle Thieves (1948)Canon #40
11. 11Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)Canon #172
12. 1281⁄2 (1963)Canon #27
13. 13Battleship Potemkin (1925)Canon #53
14. 14Rashomon (1950)Canon #29
15. 15Tokyo Story (1953)Canon #10
16. 16The 400 Blows (1959)Canon #24
17. 17Ugetsu (1953)Canon #66
18. 18Breathless (1960)Canon #42
19. 19L'Atalante (1934)Canon #30
20. 20Cinema Paradiso (1988)Canon #190
21. 21Grand Illusion (1937)Canon #77
22. 22Lawrence of Arabia (1962)Canon #11
23. 23Persona (1966)Canon #31
24. 24Gone with the Wind (1939)Canon #37
25. 25Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)Canon #18
26. 262001: A Space Odyssey (1968)Canon #4
27. 27Journey to Italy (1954)
28. 28Amélie (2001)
29. 29City Lights (1931)Canon #21
30. 30Star Wars (1977)
31. 31Sherlock Jr. (1924)Canon #155
32. 32The Rules of the Game (1939)Canon #15
33. 33The Leopard (1963)Canon #81
34. 34La Dolce Vita (1960)Canon #57
35. 35The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896)
36. 36The Wizard of Oz (1939)Canon #23
37. 37La Jetée (1962)Canon #125
38. 38Vertigo (1958)Canon #3
39. 39Night and Fog (1956)
40. 40Pulp Fiction (1994)Canon #22
41. 41The Searchers (1956)Canon #19
42. 42Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
43. 43The Conformist (1970)Canon #87
44. 44City of God (2002)Canon #166
45. 45Taxi Driver (1976)Canon #14
46. 46Apocalypse Now (1979)Canon #6
47. 47Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
48. 48The Seventh Seal (1957)Canon #73
49. 49A Trip to the Moon (1902)
50. 50Metropolis (1927)Canon #99
51. 51The Battle of Algiers (1966)Canon #61
52. 52In the Mood for Love (2000)Canon #20
53. 53Viridiana (1961)Canon #153
54. 54Life Is Beautiful (1997)
55. 55The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
56. 56Pan's Labyrinth (2006)Canon #226
57. 57The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)Canon #112
58. 58Blade Runner (1982)Canon #45
59. 59Through the Olive Trees (1994)
60. 60Children of Paradise (1945)Canon #68
61. 61Bringing Up Baby (1938)Canon #158
62. 62Singin' in the Rain (1952)Canon #8
63. 63Johnny Guitar (1954)Canon #160
64. 64A Clockwork Orange (1971)Canon #119
65. 65Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
66. 66M (1931)Canon #39
67. 67Scorpio Rising (1963)
68. 68Psycho (1960)Canon #13
69. 69Dust in the Wind (1986)
70. 70Schindler's List (1993)Canon #133
71. 71Nashville (1975)Canon #94
72. 72Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)Canon #202
73. 73Wavelength (1967)
74. 74Jules and Jim (1962)Canon #236
75. 75Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
76. 76The Lives of Others (2006)
77. 77Greed (1924)Canon #96
78. 78Some Like It Hot (1959)Canon #16
79. 79Jaws (1975)Canon #35
80. 80Annie Hall (1977)Canon #38
81. 81The Birth of a Nation (1915)Canon #194
82. 82Chungking Express (1994)
83. 83Black Girl (1966)
84. 84Raging Bull (1980)Canon #32
85. 85The Maltese Falcon (1941)Canon #140
86. 86Chinatown (1974)Canon #9
87. 87Andrei Rublev (1966)Canon #70
88. 88Wings of Desire (1987)Canon #182
89. 89Videodrome (1983)
90. 90Written on the Wind (1956)
91. 91The Third Man (1949)Canon #44
92. 92Blue Velvet (1986)Canon #102
93. 93The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)Canon #130
94. 94Breaking the Waves (1996)
95. 95A Nos Amours (1983)
96. 96Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)Canon #147
97. 97All About My Mother (1999)
98. 98Earth (1930)
99. 99Oldboy (2003)
100. 100PlayTime (1967)Canon #90

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