National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films

  • À Bout de Souffle (1960)
  • All About Eve (1950)
  • Annie Hall (1977)
  • Aparajito (1956)
  • Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
  • L'Atalante (1934)
  • The Bank Dick (1940)
  • Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)
  • Blow Up (1966)
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  • Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
  • Bringing Up Baby (1938)
  • Casablanca (1942)
  • The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)
  • Chinatown (1974)
  • Citizen Kane (1941)
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
  • Closely Observed Trains (1966)
  • Close-Up (1990)
  • Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
  • Dekalog (1989)
  • Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
  • Diner (1982)
  • Do the Right Thing (1989)
  • La Dolce Vita (1960)
  • Double Indemnity (1944)
  • Duck Soup (1933)
  • Easy Rider (1969)
  • Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
  • Enter the Dragon (1973)
  • The Entertainer (1960)
  • The Exorcist (1973)
  • Faces (1968)
  • Fargo (1996)
  • 42nd Street (1933)
  • The Four Hundred Blows (1959)
  • Frankenstein (1931)
  • The General (1927)
  • The Godfather (1972)
  • The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  • Gone with the Wind (1939)
  • The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
  • The Graduate (1967)
  • Greed (1924)
  • Happy Together (1997)
  • High Noon (1952)
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
  • Jailhouse Rock (1957)
  • Ju Dou (1990)
  • Killer of Sheep (1977)
  • L.A. Confidential (1997)
  • Landscape in the Mist (1988)
  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  • M (1931)
  • The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  • Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
  • The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
  • Metropolis (1927)
  • Modern Times (1936)
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
  • Nashville (1975)
  • The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  • Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  • Nights of Cabiria (1957)
  • Nosferatu (1922)
  • Los Olvidados (1950)
  • On the Waterfront (1954)
  • The Palm Beach Story (1942)
  • Pandora's Box (1929)
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
  • Pather Panchali (1955)
  • The Piano (1993)
  • Psycho (1960)
  • The Public Enemy (1931)
  • Pulp Fiction (1994)
  • Raging Bull (1980)
  • Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
  • Rashomon (1950)
  • Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
  • Red Sorghum (1987)
  • La Règle du Jeu (1939)
  • Rome, Open City (1945)
  • Schindler's List (1993)
  • The Searchers (1956)
  • Seven Samurai (1954)
  • Singin' in the Rain (1952)
  • Star Wars (1977)
  • La Strada (1954)
  • Sunrise (1927)
  • Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  • The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
  • Tokyo Story (1953)
  • Top Hat (1935)
  • Touch of Evil (1958)
  • Trouble in Paradise (1932)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
  • Unforgiven (1992)
  • Vertigo (1958)
  • The Wild Bunch (1969)
  • Winchester '73 (1950)
  • The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  • The World of Apu (1959)
  • Written on the Wind (1956)
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