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Top Criterion Films

by William Ragunas

Created 03/13/18

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1.
Tokyo Story

Yasujiro Ozu
2.
The Rules of the Game

Jean Renoir
3.
8½

Federico Fellini
4.
Breathless

Jean-Luc Godard
5.
The Passion of Joan of Arc

Carl Th. Dreyer
6.
L’Atalante

Jean Vigo
7.
Persona

Ingmar Bergman
8.
Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa
9.
Au hasard Balthazar

Robert Bresson
10.
Bicycle Thieves

Vittorio De Sica
11.
Andrei Rublev

Andrei Tarkovsky
12.
Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa
13.
Ordet

Carl Th. Dreyer
14.
The 400 Blows

François Truffaut
15.
L’avventura

Michelangelo Antonioni
16.
Contempt

Jean-Luc Godard
17.
Late Spring

Yasujiro Ozu
18.
Stalker

Andrei Tarkovsky
19.
In the Mood for Love

Wong Kar-wai
20.
Shoah

Claude Lanzmann
21.
Mulholland Dr.

David Lynch
22.
La dolce vita

Federico Fellini
23.
The Battle of Algiers

Gillo Pontecorvo
24.
PlayTime

Jacques Tati
25.
Barry Lyndon

Stanley Kubrick
26.
Close-up

Abbas Kiarostami
27.
City Lights

Charles Chaplin
28.
Pather Panchali

Satyajit Ray
29.
Fanny and Alexander — The Television Version

Ingmar Bergman
30.
Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin
31.
Journey to Italy

Roberto Rossellini
32.
Gertrud

Carl Th. Dreyer
33.
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Chantal Akerman
34.
The Night of the Hunter

Charles Laughton
35.
Ugetsu

Kenji Mizoguchi
36.
Pierrot le fou

Jean-Luc Godard
37.
A Man Escaped

Robert Bresson
38.
M

Fritz Lang
39.
Pickpocket

Robert Bresson
40.
La Jetée

Chris Marker
41.
L’eclisse

Michelangelo Antonioni
42.
Grand Illusion

Jean Renoir
43.
The Leopard

Luchino Visconti
44.
Sans Soleil

Chris Marker
45.
The Third Man

Carol Reed
46.
Sansho the Bailiff

Kenji Mizoguchi
47.
Viridiana

Luis Buñuel
48.
Amarcord

Federico Fellini
49.
Nashville

Robert Altman
50.
The Spirit of the Beehive

Víctor Erice
51.
Children of Paradise

Marcel Carné
52.
The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman
53.
Wild Strawberries

Ingmar Bergman
54.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
55.
A Brighter Summer Day

Edward Yang
56.
La strada

Federico Fellini
57.
Last Year at Marienbad

Alain Resnais
58.
Blow-Up

Michelangelo Antonioni
59.
The Color of Pomegranates

Sergei Parajanov
60.
Touki bouki

Djibril Diop Mambéty
61.
A Woman Under the Influence

John Cassavetes
62.
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
63.
Vivre sa vie

Jean-Luc Godard
64.
A Day in the Country

Jean Renoir
65.
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Stanley Kubrick
66.
Mouchette

Robert Bresson
67.
Don't Look Now

Nicolas Roeg
68.
L’argent

Robert Bresson
69.
Yi Yi

Edward Yang
70.
Trouble in Paradise

Ernst Lubitsch
71.
The Lady Eve

Preston Sturges
72.
The River

Jean Renoir
73.
Jules and Jim

François Truffaut
74.
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

Jean-Luc Godard
75.
Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick
76.
The Gold Rush

Charles Chaplin
77.
Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Sergei Eisenstein
78.
Ikiru

Akira Kurosawa
79.
The Earrings of Madame de . . .

Max Ophuls
80.
Do the Right Thing

Spike Lee
81.
To Be or Not to Be

Ernst Lubitsch
82.
Hiroshima mon amour

Alain Resnais
83.
Badlands

Terrence Malick
84.
The Great Dictator

Charles Chaplin
85.
Black Narcissus

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
86.
The Red Shoes

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
87.
Three Colors: Blue

Krzysztof Kieślowski
88.
Vampyr

Carl Th. Dreyer
89.
A Canterbury Tale

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
90.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Jacques Demy
91.
Faces

John Cassavetes
92.
Kes

Ken Loach
93.
Chungking Express

Wong Kar-wai
94.
Breaking the Waves

Lars von Trier
95.
Rome Open City

Roberto Rossellini
96.
Brief Encounter

David Lean
97.
Diary of a Country Priest

Robert Bresson
98.
Le samouraï

Jean-Pierre Melville
99.
Solaris

Andrei Tarkovsky
100.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Luis Buñuel
101.
Cries and Whispers

Ingmar Bergman
102.
The Thin Red Line

Terrence Malick
103.
Germany Year Zero

Roberto Rossellini
104.
Kind Hearts and Coronets

Robert Hamer
105.
The Exterminating Angel

Luis Buñuel
106.
Chimes at Midnight

Orson Welles
107.
Marketa Lazarová

František Vláčil
108.
Zéro de conduite

Jean Vigo
109.
Only Angels Have Wings

Howard Hawks
110.
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

Kenji Mizoguchi
111.
Day of Wrath

Carl Th. Dreyer
112.
Notorious

Alfred Hitchcock
113.
My Darling Clementine

John Ford
114.
In a Lonely Place

Nicholas Ray
115.
The Life of Oharu

Kenji Mizoguchi
116.
Sweet Smell of Success

Alexander Mackendrick
117.
Belle de jour

Luis Buñuel
118.
Eraserhead

David Lynch
119.
Videodrome

David Cronenberg
120.
His Girl Friday

Howard Hawks
121.
Paisan

Roberto Rossellini
122.
Umberto D.

Vittorio De Sica
123.
Ashes and Diamonds

Andrzej Wajda
124.
The Music Room

Satyajit Ray
125.
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

John Cassavetes
126.
Opening Night

John Cassavetes
127.
Berlin Alexanderplatz

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
128.
Love Streams

John Cassavetes
129.
The Thin Blue Line

Errol Morris
130.
Pandora’s Box

Georg Wilhelm Pabst
131.
I Was Born, But . . .

Yasujiro Ozu
132.
Red River

Howard Hawks
133.
Night and Fog

Alain Resnais
134.
Nights of Cabiria

Federico Fellini
135.
Paths of Glory

Stanley Kubrick
136.
La notte

Michelangelo Antonioni
137.
Rosemary’s Baby

Roman Polanski
138.
My Night at Maud’s

Eric Rohmer
139.
Army of Shadows

Jean-Pierre Melville
140.
À nos amours

Maurice Pialat
141.
Wings of Desire

Wim Wenders
142.
Three Colors: Red

Krzysztof Kieślowski
143.
Nanook of the North

Robert Flaherty
144.
I Know Where I’m Going!

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
145.
Ivan’s Childhood

Andrei Tarkovsky
146.
Cléo from 5 to 7

Agnès Varda
147.
A Touch of Zen

King Hu
148.
F for Fake

Orson Welles
149.
Kings of the Road

Wim Wenders
150.
Paris, Texas

Wim Wenders
151.
The Double Life of Véronique

Krzysztof Kieślowski
152.
Colossal Youth

Pedro Costa
153.
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

Fritz Lang
154.
Stromboli

Roberto Rossellini
155.
Throne of Blood

Akira Kurosawa
156.
Apur Sansar

Satyajit Ray
157.
Shadows

John Cassavetes
158.
An Autumn Afternoon

Yasujiro Ozu
159.
Red Desert

Michelangelo Antonioni
160.
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV

Roberto Rossellini
161.
Daisies

Věra Chytilová
162.
Walkabout

Nicolas Roeg
163.
Taste of Cherry

Abbas Kiarostami
164.
Rosetta

Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
165.
The Kid

Charlie Chaplin
166.
Boudu Saved from Drowning

Jean Renoir
167.
Make Way for Tomorrow

Leo McCarey
168.
Stagecoach

John Ford
169.
Sullivan’s Travels

Preston Sturges
170.
Early Summer

Yasujiro Ozu
171.
Le plaisir

Max Ophuls
172.
French Cancan

Jean Renoir
173.
All That Heaven Allows

Douglas Sirk
174.
The Cranes Are Flying

Mikhail Kalatozov
175.
Eyes Without a Face

Georges Franju
176.
High and Low

Akira Kurosawa
177.
Black Girl

Ousmane Sembène
178.
The Young Girls of Rochefort

Jacques Demy
179.
If....

Lindsay Anderson
180.
Five Easy Pieces

Bob Rafelson
181.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Robert Altman
182.
Two-Lane Blacktop

Monte Hellman
183.
The Last Picture Show

Peter Bogdanovich
184.
Koyaanisqatsi

Godfrey Reggio
185.
Dekalog

Krzysztof Kieślowski
186.
Safe

Todd Haynes

1 comment

By Popcorn Reviews
March 13, 2018
09:17 PM

Lots of great films are on here.
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