Greatest: The 50 Best European Films!

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  • 01. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (UK)
  • 02. The Third Man (1949)(UK)
  • 03. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) (UK)
  • 04. La Règle du Jeu (1939) (The Rules of the Game) (F)
  • 05. La Dolce Vita (1960) (The Sweet Life) (I)
  • 06. Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) (The Children of Paradise)(F)
  • 07. L'Atalante (1934) (F)
  • 08. C'era una volta il west (Once Upon a Time in the West) (1968)(I)
  • 09. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) (1966) (I)
  • 10. Ladri di bicilette (The Bicycle Thief) (1947)(I)
  • 11. Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal) (1957)(S)
  • 12. M- Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931) (D)
  • 13. Il Conformista (The Conformist) (1969) (I)
  • 14. 8 1/2 (1963) (I)
  • 15. Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin) (1927) (RUS)
  • 16. Léon (1994) (F)
  • 17. A bout de souffle (Breathless) (1960) (F)
  • 18. Les 400 coups (The 400 Blows) (1959) (F)
  • 19. A Matter of Life and Death (1946) (UK)
  • 20. La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc) (1931) (F)
  • 21. Trois couleurs: Rouge (Three coulours: Red) (1994) (F)
  • 22. Jules et Jim (1962) (F)
  • 23. Ordet (1955) (DK)
  • 24. Au hasard Balthazar (1965) (F)
  • 25. Performance (1970) (UK)
  • 26. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso) (1989) (I)
  • 27. The Earrings of Madame de... (19..) (F)
  • 28. The Shining (1980) (UK)
  • 29. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) (UK)
  • 30. Manon des sources (1987) (F)
  • 31. Jean de Florette (1989) (F)
  • 32. La Grande Illusion (The Great Illusion) (1937) (F)
  • 33. Dekalog (Decalogue) (1988) (POL)
  • 34. Persona (1966) (S)
  • 35. Das Boot (The Boat) (1981) (D)
  • 36. Pickpocket (1959) (F)
  • 37. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie) (2001) (F)
  • 38. Chelovek s kinoapparatom (The Man with the Movie Camera) (1929) (RUS)
  • 39. Pierrot le fou (1960) (F)
  • 40. Aguirre: Der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre: The Wrath of God) (1972) (D)
  • 41. Trois couleurs: Bleu (Three coulours: Blue) (1994) (F)
  • 42. Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire) (1987) (D)
  • 43. Zerkalo (Mirror) (19..) (RUS)
  • 44. A Fish Called Wanda (1988) (UK)
  • 45. L'Avventura (The Adventure) (1960) (I)
  • 46. Barry Lyndon (1975) (UK)
  • 47. Les Diaboliques (1954) (F)
  • 48. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) (B)
  • 49. The Full Monty (1997) (UK)
  • 50. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) (UK)
Author Comments: 

How many have you seen?
Which films are you missing?
Which films are you surprised to see on the list?

United Kingdom: 11
Russia: 3
France: 19
Germany: 4
Italy: 8
Sweden: 2
Denmark: 1
Belgium: 1

Bergman: 2
Kieslowski: 3
Truffaut: 2
Godard: 2
Leone: 2
Kubrick: 2
Lean: 2
Renoir: 2
Fellini: 2
Dreyer: 2
Bresson: 2

This was my last contribution to listology.com for 2004. Therefore I wish you a happy new year 2005!

Have you seen all these, or did you rip these from somewhere?

Oh no! I wish I had seen all of them. I based this list on the same system as this one .