Use Standard List Controllers

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<apex:page standardController="Contact" recordSetVar="contacts">
    <apex:form>
        <apex:pageBlock title="Contacts List" id="contacts_list">
        
            Filter: 
            <apex:selectList value="{! filterId }" size="1">
                <apex:selectOptions value="{! listViewOptions }"/>
                <apex:actionSupport event="onchange" reRender="contacts_list"/>
            </apex:selectList>
            <!-- Contacts List -->
            <apex:pageBlockTable value="{! contacts }" var="ct">
                <apex:column value="{! ct.FirstName }"/>
                <apex:column value="{! ct.LastName }"/>
                <apex:column value="{! ct.Email }"/>
                <apex:column value="{! ct.Account.Name }"/>
            </apex:pageBlockTable>
            
        </apex:pageBlock>
    </apex:form>
</apex:page>

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Create a Visualforce page which shows a list of Accounts linked to their record pages