COLE SMITHEY’S BEST 100 MOVIES

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100. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)

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99. The Tenant (Polanski)

98. Lolita (Lyne)

96. The African Queen (Huston)

95. City Lights (Chaplin)

94. The General (Keaton)

93. Three Colors (Blue) (Kieslowski)

92. Mean Streets (Scorsese)

91. 8 1/2 (Fellini)

90. Don’t Look Now (Roeg)

89. Duck Soup (McCarey)

88. All About Eve (Mankiewicz)

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87. The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Loach)

86. Double Indemnity (Wilder)

85. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Huston)

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84. The Leopard (Visconti)

83. The Damned (Visconti)

82. Harold And Maude (Ashby)

81. Wild Strawberries (Bergman)

80. Ikiru (Kurosawa)

79. The Seventh Seal (Bergman)

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78. M (Lang)

77. Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick)

76. Mephisto (Szabo)

75. Das Boot (Petersen)

74. Serpico (Lumet)

73. The Godfather I & II (Coppola)

72. West Side Story (Wise/Robbins)

71. Cabaret (Fosse)

70. Macbeth (Polanski)

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69. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)

68. Z (Costa-Gavras)

67. Nights Of Cabiria (Fellini)

66. Senso (Visconti)

65. Casque d’Or (Becker)

64. The Wizard Of Oz (Vidor)

63. Casablanca (Curtiz)

62. The Big Heat (Lang)

61. Vertigo (Hitchcock)

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60. La Strada (Fellini)

59. Diabolique (Clouzot)

58. The Tin Drum (Schlondorff)

57. A Man Escaped (Bresson)

56. Ashes And Diamonds (Wajda)

55. Diary Of A Chambermaid (Bunuel)

54. Pollock (Harris)

53. Boyz N The Hood (Singleton)

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52. Blue Velvet (Lynch)

51. Matewan (Sales)

50. Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah)

49. Pixote (Babenco)

48. Touch Of Evil (Welles)

47. The Rules Of The Game (Renoir)

46. Children Of Paradise (Carne)

45. The Blue Angel (Von Sternberg)

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44. La Dolce Vita (Fellini)

43. Diamond Earrings (Ophuls)

42. Last Year At Marienbad (Resnais)

41. Greed (von Stronheim)

40. Grand Illusion (Renoir)

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39. The Night Of The Living Dead (Romero)

38. Tokyo Story (Ozu)

37. La Terra Trema (Visconti)

36. The Third Man (Reed)

35. Rashomon (Kurosawa)

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34. Psycho (Hitchcock)

33. The Bicycle Thief (De Sica)

32. Apu Trilogy (Ray)

31. The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel)

30. Young Frankenstein (Brooks)

 

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29. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Sharman)

28. Starship Troopers (Verhoeven)

27. The 400 Blows (Truffaut)

26. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)

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25. Salo (Pasolini)

24. The Conformist (Bertolucci)

23. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)

22. Once Upon A Time In America (Leone)

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21. The Great Dictator (Chaplin)

20. Belle De Jour (Bunuel)

19. City Of Women (Fellini)

18. Breaking The Waves (Von Trier)

17. Rosemary’s Baby (Polanski)

16. Viridiana (Bunuel)

15. Los Olvidados (Bunuel)

14. The Battle Of Algiers (Pontecorvo)

13. Night Of The Hunter (Laughton)

12. The Exorcist (Friedkin)

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11. That Obscure Object Of Desire (Bunuel)

10. Ace In The Hole (Wilder)

9. Faster Pussycat, Kill! … Kill! (Meyer)

8. Come And See (Klimov)

7. Secrets & Lies (Leigh)

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6. The Wages Of Fear (Clouzot)

5. The Fog Of War (Morris)

4. A Woman Under The Influence (Cassavetes)

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3. The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (Dreyer)

2. The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (Bunuel)

1. 1900 (Bertolucci)

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