Christopher Null's 300 Essential Films

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List of 300 essential films for new, modern film critics. List is complied by film critic Christopher Null. This list appears in Nulls' book "Five Stars! How to Become a Film Critic, the World's Great Job."

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  1. 121 new

    The Great Train Robbery

    1903, in 11 top lists Check
  2. 29 new

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  3. 44 new

    Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

    1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 30 top lists Check
  4. 243 new

    The Sheik

    1921, in 3 top lists Check
  5. 187 new

    Nanook of the North

    1922, in 17 top lists Check
  6. 191 new

    Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

    1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check
  7. 24 new

    Bronenosets Potemkin

    1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check
  8. 112 new

    The Gold Rush

    1925, in 29 top lists Check
  9. 106 new

    The General

    1926, in 33 top lists Check
  10. 148 new

    The Jazz Singer

    1927, in 6 top lists Check
  11. 178 new

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  12. 194 new

    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
  13. 167 new

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  14. 99 new

    Freaks

    1932, in 19 top lists Check
  15. 117 new

    Grand Hotel

    1932, in 4 top lists Check
  16. 76 new

    Duck Soup

    1933, in 24 top lists Check
  17. 154 new

    King Kong

    1933, in 26 top lists Check
  18. 144 new

    It Happened One Night

    1934, in 29 top lists Check
  19. 41 new

    Bride of Frankenstein

    1935, in 19 top lists Check
  20. 279 new

    Triumph des Willens

    1935 — a.k.a. Triumph of the Will, in 16 top lists Check
  21. 103 new

    Fury

    1936, in 11 top lists Check
  22. 182 new

    Modern Times

    1936, in 30 top lists Check
  23. 186 new

    My Man Godfrey

    1936, in 12 top lists Check
  24. 216 new

    Tell Your Children

    1936 — a.k.a. Reefer Madness, in 2 top lists Check
  25. 118 new

    La grande illusion

    1937 — a.k.a. The Grand Illusion, in 30 top lists Check
  26. 251 new

    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    1937, in 25 top lists Check
  27. 113 new

    Gone with the Wind

    1939, in 31 top lists Check
  28. 227 new

    La règle du jeu

    1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check
  29. 299 new

    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 37 top lists Check
  30. 93 new

    Fantasia

    1940, in 20 top lists Check
  31. 119 new

    The Grapes of Wrath

    1940, in 24 top lists Check
  32. 196 new

    The Philadelphia Story

    1940, in 22 top lists Check
  33. 200 new

    Pinocchio

    1940, in 16 top lists Check
  34. 51 new

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  35. 170 new

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 26 top lists Check
  36. 262 new

    Sullivan's Travels

    1941, in 24 top lists Check
  37. 47 new

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  38. 239 new

    Shadow of a Doubt

    1943, in 15 top lists Check
  39. 74 new

    Double Indemnity

    1944, in 37 top lists Check
  40. 105 new

    Gaslight

    1944, in 11 top lists Check
  41. 219 new

    Road to Utopia

    1945, in 1 top list Check
  42. 27 new

    Ladri di biciclette

    1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check
  43. 224 new

    Rope

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  44. 277 new

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948, in 25 top lists Check
  45. 293 new

    White Heat

    1949, in 15 top lists Check
  46. 10 new

    All About Eve

    1950, in 25 top lists Check
  47. 213 new

    Rashômon

    1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check
  48. 5 new

    The African Queen

    1951, in 11 top lists Check
  49. 64 new

    The Day the Earth Stood Still

    1951, in 12 top lists Check
  50. 261 new

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    1951, in 15 top lists Check
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