Cahiers du cinéma 100
The top 100 most essential films of 78 French film directors, critics and industry executives. The list was compiled for and published in the French Cahiers du cinéma film magazine.
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The Band Wagon (1953)
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
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America America (1963)
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.
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Él (1953)
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
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Daybreak (1939)
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.
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Night and Fog (1956)
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
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The Gold Rush (1925)
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
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