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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  1. 43 new

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  2. 53 new

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  3. 12 new

    Ben-Hur

    1959, in 22 top lists Check
  4. 83 new

    Shichinin no samurai

    1954 — a.k.a. Seven Samurai, in 36 top lists Check
  5. 42 new

    The Godfather Part II

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
  6. 31 new

    Doctor Zhivago

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  7. 79 new

    Schindler's List

    1993, in 35 top lists Check
  8. 39 new

    Gandhi

    1982, in 15 top lists Check
  9. 16 new

    Braveheart

    1995, in 19 top lists Check
  10. 19 new

    Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

    1966 — a.k.a. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, in 29 top lists Check
  11. 41 new

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  12. 69 new

    Patton

    1970, in 13 top lists Check
  13. 86 new

    The Sound of Music

    1965, in 25 top lists Check
  14. 60 new

    My Fair Lady

    1964, in 18 top lists Check
  15. 22 new

    C'era una volta il West

    1968 — a.k.a. Once Upon a Time in the West, in 29 top lists Check
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    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
  17. 91 new

    There Will Be Blood

    2007, in 20 top lists Check
  18. 73 new

    Pulp Fiction

    1994, in 38 top lists Check
  19. 58 new

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  20. 3 new

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  21. 9 new

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
  22. 44 new

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  23. 82 new

    The Shawshank Redemption

    1994, in 24 top lists Check
  24. 36 new

    Fight Club

    1999, in 19 top lists Check
  25. 1 new

    8½

    1963, in 35 top lists Check
  26. 6 new

    All the President's Men

    1976, in 21 top lists Check
  27. 26 new

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    1977, in 23 top lists Check
  28. 56 new

    The Matrix

    1999, in 30 top lists Check
  29. 65 new

    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
  30. 77 new

    The Red Shoes

    1948, in 27 top lists Check
  31. 67 new

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    1975, in 35 top lists Check
  32. 23 new

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
  33. 49 new

    It's a Wonderful Life

    1946, in 33 top lists Check
  34. 96 new

    Unforgiven

    1992, in 24 top lists Check
  35. 74 new

    Raging Bull

    1980, in 34 top lists Check
  36. 87 new

    The Sting

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
  37. 93 new

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    1962, in 18 top lists Check
  38. 97 new

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  39. 28 new

    Cool Hand Luke

    1967, in 13 top lists Check
  40. 95 new

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948, in 25 top lists Check
  41. 8 new

    The Apartment

    1960, in 28 top lists Check
  42. 81 new

    Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

    2001 — a.k.a. Spirited Away, in 39 top lists Check
  43. 50 new

    Jaws

    1975, in 29 top lists Check
  44. 64 new

    No Country for Old Men

    2007, in 23 top lists Check
  45. 61 new

    Network

    1976, in 14 top lists Check
  46. 78 new

    Rocky

    1976, in 20 top lists Check
  47. 24 new

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  48. 80 new

    The Searchers

    1956, in 26 top lists Check
  49. 5 new

    Alien

    1979, in 30 top lists Check
  50. 14 new

    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
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