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List of Top 10: 100 Most Essential Viewings for a Cinephile
Ranking | Items |
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#1 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) |
#2 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) |
#3 | Casablanca (1942) |
#4 | The Elephant Man (1980) |
#5 | It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) |
#6 | Psycho (1960) |
#7 | Schindler’s List (1993) |
#8 | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) |
#9 | The Shining (1980) |
#10 | Sunset Boulevard (1950) |

100 Most Essential Viewings for a Cinephile
Rank | Items |
---|---|
#1 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) |
#2 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) |
#3 | Casablanca (1942) |
#4 | The Elephant Man (1980) |
#5 | It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) |
#6 | Psycho (1960) |
#7 | Schindler’s List (1993) |
#8 | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) |
#9 | The Shining (1980) |
#10 | Sunset Boulevard (1950) |
#11 | 12 Angry Men (1957) |
#12 | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
#13 | All About Eve (1950) |
#14 | The Apartment (1960) |
#15 | Apocalypse Now (1979) |
#16 | The Big Lebowski (1998) |
#17 | Citizen Kane (1941) |
#18 | City Lights (1931) |
#19 | A Clockwork Orange (1971) |
#20 | Dog Day Afternoon (1975) |
#21 | Double Indemnity (1944) |
#22 | Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) |
#23 | Fargo (1996) |
#24 | The Gold Rush (1925) |
#25 | The Great Dictator (1940) |
#26 | Memento (2000) |
#27 | No Country for Old Men (2007) |
#28 | North by Northwest (1959) |
#29 | Parasite (2019) |
#30 | Rashomon (1950) |
#31 | Rear Window (1954) |
#32 | Rosemary’s Baby (1968) |
#33 | Seven Samurai (1954) |
#34 | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) |
#35 | Singin’ in the Rain (1952) |
#36 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) |
#37 | Spirited Away (2001) |
#38 | The Thing (1982) |
#39 | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) |
#40 | Vertigo (1958) |
#41 | WALL·E (2008) |
#42 | The 400 Blows (1959) |
#43 | Alien (1979) |
#44 | Annie Hall (1977) |
#45 | Barry Lyndon (1975) |
#46 | Bicycle Thieves (1948) |
#47 | Blade Runner (1982) |
#48 | Chinatown (1974) |
#49 | The Deer Hunter (1978) |
#50 | Eraserhead (1977) |
#51 | Full Metal Jacket (1987) |
#52 | The Godfather (1972) |
#53 | The Godfather: Part II (1974) |
#54 | The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) |
#55 | Goodfellas (1990) |
#56 | Grave of the Fireflies (1988) |
#57 | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) |
#58 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) |
#59 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) |
#60 | M (1931) |
#61 | Modern Times (1936) |
#62 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) |
#63 | Mulholland Drive (2001) |
#64 | My Neighbor Totoro (1988) |
#65 | Once Upon a Time in America (1984) |
#66 | Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) |
#67 | Paths of Glory (1957) |
#68 | A Separation (2011) |
#69 | The Seventh Seal (1957) |
#70 | Stalker (1979) |
#71 | Taxi Driver (1976) |
#72 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) |
#73 | There Will Be Blood (2007) |
#74 | Wild Strawberries (1957) |
#75 | Yojimbo (1961) |
#76 | 8½ (1963) |
#77 | Akira (1988) |
#78 | Blue Velvet (1986) |
#79 | City of God (2002) |
#80 | Das Boot (1981) |
#81 | The Empire Strikes Back (1980) |
#82 | For a Few Dollars More (1965) |
#83 | In the Mood for Love (2000) |
#84 | Memories of Murder (2003) |
#85 | Metropolis (1927) |
#86 | Oldboy (2003) |
#87 | Persona (1966) |
#88 | Princess Mononoke (1997) |
#89 | Pulp Fiction (1994) |
#90 | Raging Bull (1980) |
#91 | Ran (1985) |
#92 | Reservoir Dogs (1992) |
#93 | The Third Man (1949) |
#94 | Touch of Evil (1958) |
#95 | Before Sunrise (1995) |
#96 | Fight Club (1999) |
#97 | The Lighthouse (2019) |
#98 | Star Wars (1977) |
#99 | Trainspotting (1996) |
#100 | Uncut Gems (2019) |