Brussels Referendum 1952


  1. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  2. The Gold Rush (1925)
  3. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  4. City Lights (1931)
  5. La Grande Illusion (1937)
  6. Le million (1931)
  7. Greed (1924)
  8. Hallelujah! (1929)
  9. The Threepenny Opera (1931)
    Brief Encounter (1945)
    Intolerance (1916)
    Man of Aran (1934)
Selected individual lists:

Jacques Becker
  1. The Pilgrim (1923)
  2. City Lights (1931)
  3. Modern Times (1936)
  4. Foolish Wives (1922)
  5. Greed (1924)
  6. The Wedding March (1928)
  7. Lonesome (1928)
  8. The Crowd (1928)
  9. M (1931)

Robert Bresson
  1. The Gold Rush (1925)
  2. City Lights (1931)
  3. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  4. Brief Encounter (1945)
  5. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  6. Man of Aran (1934)
  7. Louisiana Story (1948)

Luis Buñuel
  1. Underworld (1927)
  2. The Gold Rush (1925)
  3. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  4. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  5. Portrait of Jennie (1948)
  6. Cavalcade (1933)
  7. White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)
  8. Dead of Night (1945)
  9. L'Âge d’Or (1930)
  10. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

Vittorio De Sica
  1. Man of Aran (1934)
  2. The Kid (1921)
  3. La Chienne (1931)
  4. Le Million (1931)
  5. L'Atalante (1934)
  6. Kameradschaft (1931)
  7. Storm Over Asia (1928)
  8. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  9. Hallelujah! (1929)
  10. La Kermesse Héroïque (1935)

Carl Th. Dreyer
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)
  • Arne's Treasure (1919)
  • Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  • The Gold Rush (1925)
  • Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)
  • Le Quai des Brumes (1938)
  • Brief Encounter (1945)
  • Henry V (1944)
  • The Petrified Forest (1936)
  • Rome, Open City (1945)

Elia Kazan
  1. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  2. Aerograd (1935)
  3. The Gold Rush (1925)
  4. Flesh and the Devil (1926)
  5. Rome, Open City (1945)
  6. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
  7. Shoulder Arms (1918)
  8. Target for Tonight (1941)
  9. La Femme du Boulanger (1938)
  10. Marius (1931)
    Fanny (1933)
    Cesar (1936)

David Lean
  1. Intolerance (1916)
  2. Varieté (1925)
  3. The Crowd (1928)
  4. City Lights (1931)
  5. The White Shadows (1923)
  6. À Nous la Liberté (1931)
  7. La Grande Illusion (1937)
  8. Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
  9. Le Jour se Lève (1939)
  10. Citizen Kane (1941)

Carol Reed
  1. City Lights (1931)
  2. Ninotchka (1939)
  3. Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
  4. Gone with the Wind (1939)
  5. La Ronde (1950)
  6. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
  7. La Kermesse Héroïque (1935)
  8. Varieté (1925)
  9. La Femme du Boulanger (1938)
  10. Pygmalion (1938)

King Vidor
  1. Intolerance (1916)
  2. Sunrise (1927)
  3. The Last Laugh (1924)
  4. The Big Parade (1925)
  5. Brief Encounter (1945)
  6. The Red Shoes (1948)
  7. Rome, Open City (1945)
  8. City Lights (1931)
  9. Citizen Kane (1941)
  10. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Luchino Visconti
  1. La Grande Illusion (1937)
  2. Greed (1924)
  3. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  4. Que Viva Mexico! (1932)
  5. Hallelujah! (1929)
  6. Stagecoach (1939)
  7. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
  8. Tabu (1931)
  9. The Lost Weekend (1945)
  10. Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)

Orson Welles
  1. City Lights (1931)
  2. Greed (1924)
  3. Intolerance (1916)
  4. Nanook of the North (1922)
  5. Shoeshine (1946)
  6. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  7. La Femme du Boulanger (1938)
  8. La Grande Illusion (1937)
  9. Stagecoach (1939)
  10. Our Daily Bread (1934)

Billy Wilder
  • Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  • Greed (1924)
  • Varieté (1925)
  • The Gold Rush (1925)
  • The Crowd (1928)
  • La Grande Illusion (1937)
  • The Informer (1935)
  • Ninotchka (1939)
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  • Bicycle Thieves (1948)
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