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The Filmatic 100

100 films by 68 directors
March 2026 Edition

01

The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola · 1972 · 2h 55m

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02

The Godfather Part II

1974

Francis Ford Coppola

03

2001: A Space Odyssey

1968

Stanley Kubrick

04

Vertigo

1958

Alfred Hitchcock

05

Citizen Kane

1941

Orson Welles

06

Seven Samurai

1954

Akira Kurosawa

07

Taxi Driver

1976

Martin Scorsese

08

The Shining

1980

Stanley Kubrick

09

Apocalypse Now

1979

Francis Ford Coppola

10

Pulp Fiction

1994

Quentin Tarantino

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