Toronto International Film Festival's 100 essential films

By: Malcolm Tent

Picked by both experts and the public and then melded to create this list. In order.
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• 01
  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 02
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 03
  L'avventura
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 04
  The Godfather
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 05
  Pickpocket
  Robert Bresson
• 06
  Seven Samurai
  Akira Kurosawa
• 07
  Pather Panchali
  Satyajit Ray
• 08
  Casablanca
  Michael Curtiz
• 09
  Man with a movie camera
  Dziga Vertov
• 10
  Bicycle Thieves
  Vittorio De Sica
• 11
  Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 12
  8½
  Federico Fellini
• 13
  Battleship Potemkin
  Sergei Eisenstein
• 14
  Rashômon
  Akira Kurosawa
• 15
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 16
  The 400 Blows
  François Truffaut
• 17
  Ugetsu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 18
  Breathless
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 19
  L'Atalante
  Jean Vigo
• 20
  Cinema Paradiso
  Giuseppe Tornatore
• 21
  Grand Illusion
  Jean Renoir
• 22
  Lawrence of Arabia
  David Lean
• 23
  Persona
  Ingmar Bergman
• 24
  Gone with the Wind
  Victor Fleming
• 25
  Sunrise
  F.W. Murnau
• 26
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Stanley Kubrick
• 27
  Voyage to Italy
  Roberto Rossellini
• 28
  Amélie
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• 29
  City Lights
  Charlie Chaplin
• 30
  Star Wars
  George Lucas
• 31
  Sherlock Jr.
  Buster Keaton
• 32
  The Rules of the Game
  Jean Renoir
• 33
  The Leopard
  Luchino Visconti
• 34
  La dolce vita
  Federico Fellini
• 35
  Arrival of a Train
  Auguste Lumière
• 36
  The Wizard of Oz
  Victor Fleming
• 37
  La jetée
  Chris Marker
• 38
  Vertigo
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 39
  Night and Fog
  Alain Resnais
• 40
  Pulp Fiction
  Quentin Tarantino
• 41
  The Searchers
  John Ford
• 42
  Slumdog Millionaire
  Danny Boyle
• 43
  The Conformist
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 44
  City of God
  Fernando Meirelles
• 45
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 46
  Apocalypse Now
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 47
  Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 48
  The Seventh Seal
  Ingmar Bergman
• 49
  A Trip to the Moon
  Georges Méliès
• 50
  Metropolis
  Fritz Lang
• 51
  The Battle of Algiers
  Gillo Pontecorvo
• 52
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 53
  Viridiana
  Luis Buñuel
• 54
  Life Is Beautiful
  Roberto Benigni
• 55
  The Sorrow and the Pity
  Marcel Ophüls
• 56
  Pan's Labyrinth
  Guillermo del Toro
• 57
  The Earrings of Madame de...
  Max Ophüls
• 58
  Blade Runner
  Ridley Scott
• 59
  Through the Olive Trees
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 60
  Children of Paradise
  Marcel Carné
• 61
  Bringing Up Baby
  Howard Hawks
• 62
  Singin' in the Rain
  Stanley Donen
• 63
  Johnny Guitar
  Nicholas Ray
• 64
  A Clockwork Orange
  Stanley Kubrick
• 65
  Memories of Underdevelopment
  Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
• 66
  M
  Fritz Lang
• 67
  Scorpio Rising
  Kenneth Anger
• 68
  Psycho
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 69
  Dust in the Wind
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 70
  Schindler's List
  Steven Spielberg
• 71
  Nashville
  Robert Altman
• 72
  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  Ang Lee
• 73
  Wavelength
  Michael Snow
• 74
  Jules and Jim
  François Truffaut
• 75
  Chronicle of a Summer
  Edgar Morin
• 76
  The Lives of Others
  Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• 77
  Greed
  Erich von Stroheim
• 78
  Some Like It Hot
  Billy Wilder
• 79
  Jaws
  Steven Spielberg
• 80
  Annie Hall
  Woody Allen
• 81
  The Birth of a Nation
  D.W. Griffith
• 82
  Chungking Express
  Wong Kar-wai
• 83
  Black Girl
  Ousmane Sembène
• 84
  Raging Bull
  Martin Scorsese
• 85
  The Maltese Falcon
  John Huston
• 86
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 87
  Andrei Rublev
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 88
  Wings of Desire
  Wim Wenders
• 89
  Videodrome
  David Cronenberg
• 90
  Written on the Wind
  Douglas Sirk
• 91
  The Third Man
  Carol Reed
• 92
  Blue Velvet
  David Lynch
• 93
  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  Sergio Leone
• 94
  Breaking the Waves
  Lars von Trier
• 95
  À nos amours
  Maurice Pialat
• 96
  Cléo from 5 to 7
  Agnès Varda
• 97
  All About My Mother
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 98
  Oldboy
  Park Chan-wook
• 99
  Playtime
  Jacques Tati