The 20 Greatest Films
Positif Magazine
In 1991, the French film magazine conducted a poll of the greatest films and published
this modest top 20 list. I have included links to my own reviews of the films.
- The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
- Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
- Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
- L'Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
- 8 1/2 (1963, Federico Fellini)
- Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
- Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
- The General (1927, Buster Keaton)
- Sansho Dayu (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)
- Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau)
- Le Plaisir (1951, Max Ophuls)
- Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
- Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)
- M (1931, Fritz Lang)
- Children of Paradise (1945 , Marcel Carne)
- Ugetsu (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
- Senso (1954, Luchino Visconti)
- To Be or Not to Be (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)
- Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)
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