100 Classics for New Cinephiles
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So you want to be considered a cinephile, huh? These films are the absolute essentials that you must have seen before you can start acting like a film snob.
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8½
1963, in 35 top lists Check -
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12 Angry Men
1957, in 30 top lists Check -
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968, in 45 top lists Check -
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938, in 17 top lists Check -
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Alien
1979, in 30 top lists Check -
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All the President's Men
1976, in 21 top lists Check -
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Annie Hall
1977, in 34 top lists Check -
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The Apartment
1960, in 28 top lists Check -
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Apocalypse Now
1979, in 38 top lists Check -
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Back to the Future
1985, in 25 top lists Check -
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Badlands
1973, in 23 top lists Check -
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Ben-Hur
1959, in 22 top lists Check -
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The Big Sleep
1946, in 22 top lists Check -
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Blade Runner
1982, in 36 top lists Check -
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Bonnie and Clyde
1967, in 28 top lists Check -
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Braveheart
1995, in 19 top lists Check -
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957, in 32 top lists Check -
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Brief Encounter
1945, in 22 top lists Check -
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Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
1966 — a.k.a. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, in 28 top lists Check -
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969, in 21 top lists Check -
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Casablanca
1942, in 39 top lists Check -
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C'era una volta il West
1968 — a.k.a. Once Upon a Time in the West, in 28 top lists Check -
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Chinatown
1974, in 31 top lists Check -
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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
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City Lights
1931, in 34 top lists Check -
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977, in 23 top lists Check -
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The Conversation
1974, in 23 top lists Check -
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Cool Hand Luke
1967, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951, in 12 top lists Check -
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Det sjunde inseglet
1957 — a.k.a. The Seventh Seal, in 25 top lists Check -
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Doctor Zhivago
1965, in 17 top lists Check -
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Double Indemnity
1944, in 37 top lists Check -
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...
1964, in 37 top lists Check -
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982, in 31 top lists Check -
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Fargo
1996, in 27 top lists Check -
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Fight Club
1999, in 19 top lists Check -
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Frankenstein
1931, in 18 top lists Check -
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The French Connection
1971, in 23 top lists Check -
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Gandhi
1982, in 15 top lists Check -
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The General
1926, in 33 top lists Check -
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The Godfather
1972, in 42 top lists Check -
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The Godfather Part II
1974, in 32 top lists Check -
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Gone with the Wind
1939, in 31 top lists Check -
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Goodfellas
1990, in 31 top lists Check -
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The Graduate
1967, in 29 top lists Check -
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Groundhog Day
1993, in 22 top lists Check -
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High Noon
1952, in 19 top lists Check -
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In the Heat of the Night
1967, in 17 top lists Check -
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It's a Wonderful Life
1946, in 33 top lists Check -
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Jaws
1975, in 28 top lists Check
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