Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time

1 – Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
2 – Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
3 – Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953)
4 – La Règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939)
5 – Sunrise: a Song for Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)
6 – 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
7 – The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
8 – Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929)
9 – The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1927)
10 – 8 ½ (Fellini, 1963)
11 – Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)
12 – L’Atalante (Vigo, 1934)
13 – Breathless (Godard, 1960)
14 – Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
15 – Late Spring (Ozu, 1949)
16 – Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson, 1966)
17 – Persona
17 – Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
19 – Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1974)
20 – Singin’ in the Rain (Donen & Kelly, 1951)
21 – L’avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
21 – The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
21 – Le Mépris (Godard, 1963)
24 – Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950)

63 – Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950)

24 – In the Mood for Love (Wong, 2000)
24 – Ordet (Dreyer, 1955) [42 votes]
27 – Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 1966)
28 – Mulholland Drive (Lynch, 2001)
29 – Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
29 – Shoah (Lanzmann, 1985)
31 – The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)
31 – Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
33 – Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948)
34 – The General (Keaton & Bruckman, 1926)
34 – Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960)
36 – Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman, 1975)
36 – Metropolis (Lang, 1927)
36 – Sátántangó (Tarr, 1994)
39 – The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959)
39 – La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960)
41 – Pather Panchali (Ray, 1955)
41 – Journey to Italy (Rossellini, 1954)
43 – Pierrot le fou (Godard, 1965)
43 – Play Time (Tati, 1967)
43 – Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959)
43 – Gertrud (Dreyer, 1964)
43 – Close-Up (Kiarostami, 1990)
48 – The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966)
48 – Histoire(s) du cinéma (Godard, 1998)
50 – La Jetée (Marker, 1962)
50 – City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
50 – Ugetsu monogatari (Mizoguchi, 1953)
53 – Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
53 – North By Northwest (Hitchcock, 1959)
53 – Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
56 – M (Lang, 1931)
57 – The Leopard (Visconti, 1963)
57 – Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
59 – Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
59 – Sherlock Jr (Keaton, 1924)
59 – Sansho Dayu (Mizoguchi, 1955)
59 – La Maman et la Putain (Eustache, 1973)
63 – The Night of The Hunter (Laughton, 1955)
63 – Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936)
63 – Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1959)
63 – Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)
63 – Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950)
63 – Pickpocket (Bresson, 1963)
69 – A Man Escaped (Bresson, 1956)
69 – Blue Velvet (Lynch, 1986)
69 – Sans Soleil (Marker, 1983)
69 – Blade Runner (Scott, 1982)
73 – L’Eclisse (Antonioni, 1962)
73 – Nashville (Altman, 1975)
73 – The Third Man (Reed, 1959)
73 – Les Enfants du Paradis (Carné, 1945)
78 – Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968)
78 – Chinatown (Dunaway, 1974)
84 – Casablanca with David Bordwell (Curtiz, 1943)
144 – A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974/ Faces (1968)
117 – Trouble In Paradise with Joseph McBride (Lubitsch, 1932)
127 – Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
81 – Magnificent Ambersons with Joseph McBride (Welles, 1942)
73 – La Grande Illusion
78 – Beau Travail
81 – Lawrence of Arabia
81 – Spirit of the Beehive
84 – Greed
84 – Color of Pomegranates
84 – The Wild Bunch
84 – Fanny & Alexander
84 – A Brighter Summer Day
90 – Partie de campagne
90 – A Matter of Life and Death
90 – Aguirre, the Wrath of God
93 – Intolerance
93 – Un chien andalou
93 – Colonel Blimp
93 – Madame de…
93 – Seventh Seal
93 – Imitation of Life
93 – Touki-Bouki
93 – A One and a Two
93 – Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
102 – Wavelength
102 – The Conformist
102 – The Traveling Players
102 – Meshes of the Afternoon
102 – Last Year At Marienbad
102 – Tree of Life
102 – Two or Three Things I Know About Her
102 – Ivan the Terrible
110 – The Lady Eve
110 – Los Olividados
110 – Bringing Up Baby
110 – Performance
110 – The Passenger
110 – Viridiana
110 – L’Age d’Or
117 – A Canterbury Tale
117 – Mouchette
117 – Dr. Strangelove
117 – Nosferatu
117 – The Red Shoes
117 – A City of Sadness
117 – Amacord
117 – The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
117 – Days of Heaven
127 – Spring In a Small Town
127 – Do the Right Thing
127 – Out 1
127 – Tropical Malady
127 – The River
127 – Jules et Jim
127 – Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
127 – Meet Me In St. Louis
127 – L’Argent
127 – Ikiru
127 – Three Colours: Blue
127 – Don’t Look Now
127 – Celine and Julie Go Boating
127 – Annie Hall
127 – The Apartment
127 – The Last Laugh
127 – Hiroshima Mon Amour
144 – Blow-Up
144 – The Great Dictator
144 – Memories of Underdevelopment
144 – Diary of a Country Priest
144 – Chungking Express
144 – To Be or Not to Be
144 – A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes, 1974/ Faces (1968)
144 – Napoleon
144 – Vivre Sa Vie
144 – The Wizard of Oz
154 – Marketa Lazarová
154 – Hidden
154 – The Shining
154 – Solaris
154 – Chimes at Midnight
154 – The Gold Rush
154 – Letter From an Unknown Woman
154 – Brief Encounter
154 – In a Lonely Place
154 – Black Narcissus
154 – My Neighbor Totoro
154 – Only Angels Have Wings
154 – Vampyr
154 – Come and See
154 – Distant Voices, Still Lives
154 – Once Upon a Time in America
154 – Cries and Whispers
171 – King Kong
171 – The Werkmeister Harmonies
171 – Star Wars
171 – Notorious
171 – His Girl Friday
171 – Goodfellas
171 – The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
171 – A Trip To the Moon
171 – Sweet Smell of Success
171 – Kind Hearts and Coronets
171 – Tabu
171 – Earth
183 – Breaking the Waves
183 – The Grapes of Wrath
183 – Paris, Texas
183 – E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
183 – Faces (Cassavetes, 1968)
183 – Rome, Open City
183 – The Music Room
183 – The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
183 – A Touch of Zen
183 – Listen to Britain
183 – Day of Wrath
183 – The Thin Red Line
183 – Eraserhead
183 – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
183 – The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
183 – The Conversation
183 – Out of the Past
183 – I Was Born, But…
183 – I Know Where I’m Going
202 – The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
202 – Red Desert
202 – Chelsea Girls
202 – Badlands
202 – Kings of the Road
202 – There Will Be Blood
202 – WALL-E
202 – Berlin Alexanderplatz
202 – Videodrome
202 – Daisies
202 – Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
202 – Manhattan
202 – Cleo from 5 to 7
202 – West of the Tracks
202 – Russian Ark
202 – A Tale of Tales
202 – Spirited Away
202 – La Strada
202 – Paisà
202 – The Shop Around the Corner
202 – The Big Sleep
202 – Killer of Sheep
202 – Wanda
202 – Germany Year Zero
202 – The Life of Oharu
202 – Army of Shadows
202 – Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
202 – Duck Soup
202 – The Devil Probably
202 – The Turin Horse
202 – Love Streams
202 – The Exterminating Angel
202 – Floating Clouds
235 – The Piano
235 – Gone With the Wind
235 – Melancholia
235 – The House is Black
235 – The Cabinet of Dr – Caligari
235 – Red River
235 – A Clockwork Orange
235 – Two-Lane Blacktop
235 – An Autumn Afternoon
235 – The Thin Blue Line
235 – The World of Apu
235 – The Testament of Dr – Mabuse
235 – My Darling Clementine
235 – The Double Life of Veronique
235 – Kes
235 – Three Colours: Red
235 – The Big Lebowski
235 – The White Ribbon