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This top ten is built according to a utilitarian point of view or, more precisely, to a ‘meliorist’ approach to every spectator’s bildung. Stanley Cavell, among other scholars, coined this term in relation to the power of film (Martha Nussbaum studied it in the case of litterature, John Dewey in the case of art). Each teenager who is able to see these ten movies with the proper gaze (ie to see beyond their old-fashioned audiovisual and acting style to understand the life lessons they deliver) will do make choices in her or his personal life.