Empire 100 Best Films of World Cinema

(American films excluded)

1. Seven Samurai
2. Amelie
3. Battleship Potemkin
4. The Bicycle Thief
5. Pan’s Labyrinth
6. The Battle of Algiers
7. City of God
8. The Seventh Seal
9. The Wages of Fear
10. Spirited Away
11. La Dolce Vita
12. Metropolis
13. The Rules of the Game
14. Three Colors Trilogy (Blue/White/Red)
15. Let The Right One In
16. Tokyo Story
17. The Apu Trilogy (Pather Panchali/Aparajito/The World of Apu)
18. Oldboy
19. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
20. Y Tu Mama Tambien
21. Nosferatu
22. Rashomon
23. The Spirit of The Beehive
24. Come and See
25. Das Boot
26. Beauty And The Beast
27. Cinema Paradiso
28. Raise the Red Lantern
29. The 400 Blows
30. Infernal Affairs
31. Godzilla
32. La Haine
33. M
34. Waltz With Bashir
35. The Grand Illusion
36. The Decalogue
37. Rome, Open City
38. Ashes and Diamonds
39. Le Samourai
40. L’Avventura
41. My Neighbour Totoro
42. In the Mood for Love
43. Cyrano de Bergerac
44. Ikiru
45. Suspiria
46. Jules and Jim
47. Ten
48. Downfall
49. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday
50. Closely Watched Trains
51. Akira
52. Touki Bouki
53. All About My Mother
54. The Celebration
55. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
56. Belle de Jour
57. Central Station
58. Persepolis
59. Heimat
60. Jean De Florette/Manon Des Sources
61. Knife in the Water
62. 8 1/2
63. A Prophet
64. Wings of Desire
65. Un Chien Andalou
66. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
67. The Vanishing
68. Solaris
69. Ringu
70. Hard Boiled
71. Persona
72. Ten Canoes
73. Cache
74. Devdas
75. Breathless
76. The Idiots
77. House of Flying Daggers
78. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
79. Band of Outsiders
80. Mother India
81. The Host
82. Battle Royale
83. Xala
84. Orpheus
85. The Conformist
86. Run Lola Run
87. Andrei Rublev
88. Leningrad Cowboys Go America
89. Loves of a Blonde
90. Rififi
91. Good Bye, Lenin!
92. Ghost in the Shell
93. The Fourth Man
94. Yeelen/Brightness
95. Way Of The Dragon
96. Delicatessen
97. Farewell My Concubine
98. Ran
99. Iron Monkey
100. Night Watch

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