100 Films Incontournables

100 Films Incontournables, by Emmanuelle Le Roy Poncet, is a guide to 100 classic films, listed chronologically. Each director was restricted to a single entry.

The 100 Films Incontournables are as follows:

• City Lights
  
• Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs
  
• Port Of Shadows
  
• Gone With The Wind
  
• The Rules Of The Game
  
• Citizen Kane
  
• Casablanca
  
• Rome: Open City
  
• La Belle & La Bete
  
• Kind Hearts & Coronets
  
• All About Eve
  
• A Streetcar Named Desire
  
• Jeux Interdits
  
• Tokyo Story
  
• Seven Samurai
  
• Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
  
• & God Created Woman
  
• The Searchers
  
• Vertigo
  
• Some Like It Hot
  
• The 400 Blows
  
• Rio Bravo
  
• La Dolce Vita
  
• War Of The Buttons
  
• Lawrence Of Arabia
  
• Le Mepris
  
• Les Tontons Flingeurs
  
• Le Grand Vadrouille
  
• A Man & A Woman
  
• Belle De Jour
  
• The Young Girls Of Rochefort
  
• The Graduate
  
• Le Cercle Rouge
  
• The Things Of Life
  
• Love Story
  
• Death In Venice
  
• The Godfather
  
• Cabaret
  
• Deliverance
  
• Last Tango In Paris
  
• The Sting
  
• The Way We Were
  
• A Woman Under The Influence
  
• Barry Lyndon
  
• The Old Gun
  
• That Most Important Thing: Love
• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  
• Cria Cuervos
  
• Annie Hall
  
• Star Wars IV: A New Hope
  
• The Deer Hunter
  
• Alien
  
• The Marriage Of Maria Braun
  
• Serie Noire
  
• La Boum
  
• Garde A Vue
• Raiders Of The Lost Ark
  
• Identification Of A Woman
  
• Fanny & Alexander
  
• A Nos Amours
  
• Pauline At The Beach
  
• So Long, Stooge
  
• Once Upon A Time In America
  
• Paris, Texas
  
• A Sunday In The Country
  
• Brazil
  
• Shoah
  
• Au Revoir, Les Enfants
  
• The Big Blue
  
• Die Hard
  
• Dead Poets Society
• GoodFellas
  
• Pretty Woman
  
• Edward Scissorhands
  
• Basic Instinct
  
• Three Colours: Blue
  
• La Reine Margot
  
• Wild Reeds
  
• Pulp Fiction
  
• Four Weddings & A Funeral
  
• La Ceremonie
  
• The Usual Suspects
  
• Life Is Beautiful
  
• The Big Lebowski
  
• Titanic
  
• Fight Club
  
• The Virgin Suicides
  
• Dancer In The Dark
  
• In The Mood For Love
  
• Amelie
  
• The Lord Of The Rings I: The Fellowship Of The Ring
  
• Mulholland Drive
  
• Asterix & Obelisk Meet Cleopatra
  
• L'Auberge Espagnole
  
• The Pianist
  
• Talk To Her
  
• Million Dollar Baby
  
• Brokeback Mountain
  
• Pan's Labyrinth
• The Lives Of Others

[Note that Some Like It Hot is the classic Billy Wilder comedy, and Titanic is the James Cameron blockbuster.] Clearly, the list has a French bias: more than a third of the entries are French-language films.