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Sight & Sound — Greatest Films of All Time (2022 Critics' Poll)

From https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time

BFI Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll, top 200 (ties collapsed to sequential ranks).

14 / 200 done · 7%

1

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Chantal Akerman

1975 · Belgium
2

Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock

1958 · USA
3

Citizen Kane

Orson Welles

1941 · USA
4

Tokyo Story

Yasujiro Ozu

1953 · Japan
5

In the Mood for Love

Wong Kar-wai

2000 · Hong Kong
6

2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick

1968 · UK/USA
7

Beau travail

Claire Denis

1999 · France
8

Mulholland Drive

David Lynch

2001 · USA
9

Man with a Movie Camera

Dziga Vertov

1929 · USSR
10

Singin' in the Rain

Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly

1952 · USA
11

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

F.W. Murnau

1927 · USA
12

The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola

1972 · USA
13

The Rules of the Game

Jean Renoir

1939 · France
14

Cléo from 5 to 7

Agnès Varda

1962 · France
15

The Searchers

John Ford

1956 · USA
16

Meshes of the Afternoon

Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid

1943 · USA
17

Close-Up

Abbas Kiarostami

1990 · Iran
18

Persona

Ingmar Bergman

1966 · Sweden
19

Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola

1979 · USA
20

Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa

1954 · Japan
21

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Carl Theodor Dreyer

1928 · France
22

Late Spring

Yasujiro Ozu

1949 · Japan
23

Playtime

Jacques Tati

1967 · France
24

Do the Right Thing

Spike Lee

1989 · USA
25

Au hasard Balthazar

Robert Bresson

1966 · France
26

The Night of the Hunter

Charles Laughton

1955 · USA
27

Shoah

Claude Lanzmann

1985 · France
28

Daisies

Věra Chytilová

1966 · Czechoslovakia
29

Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese

1976 · USA
30

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Céline Sciamma

2019 · France
31

Mirror

Andrei Tarkovsky

1975 · USSR
32

8½

Federico Fellini

1963 · Italy
33

Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock

1960 · USA
34

L'Atalante

Jean Vigo

1934 · France
35

Pather Panchali

Satyajit Ray

1955 · India
36

City Lights

Charlie Chaplin

1931 · USA
37

M

Fritz Lang

1931 · Germany
38

Breathless

Jean-Luc Godard

1960 · France
39

Some Like It Hot

Billy Wilder

1959 · USA
40

Rear Window

Alfred Hitchcock

1954 · USA
41

Bicycle Thieves

Vittorio De Sica

1948 · Italy
42

Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa

1950 · Japan
43

Stalker

Andrei Tarkovsky

1979 · USSR
44

Killer of Sheep

Charles Burnett

1978 · USA
45

North by Northwest

Alfred Hitchcock

1959 · USA
46

The Battle of Algiers

Gillo Pontecorvo

1966 · Italy/Algeria
47

Barry Lyndon

Stanley Kubrick

1975 · UK/USA
48

Wanda

Barbara Loden

1970 · USA
49

Ordet

Carl Theodor Dreyer

1955 · Denmark
50

The 400 Blows

François Truffaut

1959 · France
51

The Piano

Jane Campion

1993 · Australia/New Zealand
52

News from Home

Chantal Akerman

1976 · Belgium/France
53

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

1974 · West Germany
54

The Apartment

Billy Wilder

1960 · USA
55

Battleship Potemkin

Sergei Eisenstein

1925 · USSR
56

Sherlock Jr.

Buster Keaton

1924 · USA
57

Contempt

Jean-Luc Godard

1963 · France
58

Blade Runner

Ridley Scott

1982 · USA
59

Sans soleil

Chris Marker

1983 · France
60

Daughters of the Dust

Julie Dash

1991 · USA
61

La Dolce Vita

Federico Fellini

1960 · Italy
62

Moonlight

Barry Jenkins

2016 · USA
63

Casablanca

Michael Curtiz

1942 · USA
64

GoodFellas

Martin Scorsese

1990 · USA
65

The Third Man

Carol Reed

1949 · UK
66

Touki Bouki

Djibril Diop Mambéty

1973 · Senegal
67

The Gleaners and I

Agnès Varda

2000 · France
68

Metropolis

Fritz Lang

1927 · Germany
69

Andrei Rublev

Andrei Tarkovsky

1966 · USSR
70

The Red Shoes

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

1948 · UK
71

La Jetée

Chris Marker

1962 · France
72

My Neighbor Totoro

Hayao Miyazaki

1988 · Japan
73

Journey to Italy

Roberto Rossellini

1954 · Italy
74

L'Avventura

Michelangelo Antonioni

1960 · Italy
75

Imitation of Life

Douglas Sirk

1959 · USA
76

Sansho the Bailiff

Kenji Mizoguchi

1954 · Japan
77

Spirited Away

Hayao Miyazaki

2001 · Japan
78

A Brighter Summer Day

Edward Yang

1991 · Taiwan
79

Sátántangó

Béla Tarr

1994 · Hungary
80

Céline and Julie Go Boating

Jacques Rivette

1974 · France
81

Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin

1936 · USA
82

Sunset Boulevard

Billy Wilder

1950 · USA
83

A Matter of Life and Death

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

1946 · UK
84

Blue Velvet

David Lynch

1986 · USA
85

Pierrot le fou

Jean-Luc Godard

1965 · France
86

Histoire(s) du cinéma

Jean-Luc Godard

1998 · France
87

The Spirit of the Beehive

Víctor Erice

1973 · Spain
88

The Shining

Stanley Kubrick

1980 · UK/USA
89

Chungking Express

Wong Kar-wai

1994 · Hong Kong
90

The Earrings of Madame de...

Max Ophüls

1953 · France
91

The Leopard

Luchino Visconti

1963 · Italy
92

Ugetsu

Kenji Mizoguchi

1953 · Japan
93

Parasite

Bong Joon-ho

2019 · South Korea
94

Yi Yi

Edward Yang

2000 · Taiwan
95

A Man Escaped

Robert Bresson

1956 · France
96

The General

Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman

1926 · USA
97

Once Upon a Time in the West

Sergio Leone

1968 · Italy/USA
98

Get Out

Jordan Peele

2017 · USA
99

Black Girl

Ousmane Sembène

1966 · Senegal
100

Tropical Malady

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

2004 · Thailand
101

Vagabond

Agnès Varda

1985 · France
102

The House Is Black

Forough Farrokhzad

1963 · Iran
103

Rio Bravo

Howard Hawks

1959 · USA
104

Come and See

Elem Klimov

1985 · USSR
105

The Godfather Part II

Francis Ford Coppola

1974 · USA
106

The Mother and the Whore

Jean Eustache

1973 · France
107

Jaws

Steven Spielberg

1975 · USA
108

Wild Strawberries

Ingmar Bergman

1957 · Sweden
109

Bringing Up Baby

Howard Hawks

1938 · USA
110

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

John Ford

1962 · USA
111

The Wizard of Oz

Victor Fleming

1939 · USA
112

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Tsai Ming-liang

2003 · Taiwan
113

Touch of Evil

Orson Welles

1958 · USA
114

Don't Look Now

Nicolas Roeg

1973 · UK/Italy
115

To Be or Not to Be

Ernst Lubitsch

1942 · USA
116

A Woman Under the Influence

John Cassavetes

1974 · USA
117

Nashville

Robert Altman

1975 · USA
118

The Thing

John Carpenter

1982 · USA
119

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Werner Herzog

1972 · West Germany
120

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Tobe Hooper

1974 · USA
121

The Conformist

Bernardo Bertolucci

1970 · Italy
122

Only Angels Have Wings

Howard Hawks

1939 · USA
123

The Matrix

Lana & Lilly Wachowski

1999 · USA
124

There Will Be Blood

Paul Thomas Anderson

2007 · USA
125

Johnny Guitar

Nicholas Ray

1954 · USA
126

The Color of Pomegranates

Sergei Parajanov

1969 · USSR
127

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Jacques Demy

1964 · France
128

The Ascent

Larisa Shepitko

1977 · USSR
129

His Girl Friday

Howard Hawks

1940 · USA
130

Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino

1994 · USA
131

Raging Bull

Martin Scorsese

1980 · USA
132

Fanny and Alexander

Ingmar Bergman

1982 · Sweden
133

Notorious

Alfred Hitchcock

1946 · USA
134

Lawrence of Arabia

David Lean

1962 · UK
135

It's a Wonderful Life

Frank Capra

1946 · USA
136

A Day in the Country

Jean Renoir

1946 · France
137

Children of Paradise

Marcel Carné

1945 · France
138

Trouble in Paradise

Ernst Lubitsch

1932 · USA
139

The Wild Bunch

Sam Peckinpah

1969 · USA
140

La Ciénaga

Lucrecia Martel

2001 · Argentina
141

Gertrud

Carl Theodor Dreyer

1964 · Denmark
142

The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman

1957 · Sweden
143

Sambizanga

Sarah Maldoror

1972 · Angola/France
144

Pickpocket

Robert Bresson

1959 · France
145

All That Heaven Allows

Douglas Sirk

1955 · USA
146

Alien

Ridley Scott

1979 · UK/USA
147

The Watermelon Woman

Cheryl Dunye

1996 · USA
148

Grand Illusion

Jean Renoir

1937 · France
149

Vampyr

Carl Theodor Dreyer

1932 · Germany/France
150

India Song

Marguerite Duras

1975 · France
151

Chinatown

Roman Polanski

1974 · USA
152

Twin Peaks: The Return

David Lynch

2017 · USA
153

The Cloud-Capped Star

Ritwik Ghatak

1960 · India
154

Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick

1978 · USA
155

Le Bonheur

Agnès Varda

1965 · France
156

West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty

Med Hondo

1979 · Mauritania/France
157

A City of Sadness

Hou Hsiao-hsien

1989 · Taiwan
158

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

Pier Paolo Pasolini

1964 · Italy
159

All About My Mother

Pedro Almodóvar

1999 · Spain
160

Ikiru

Akira Kurosawa

1952 · Japan
161

Los Olvidados

Luis Buñuel

1950 · Mexico
162

Once Upon a Time in America

Sergio Leone

1984 · USA/Italy
163

Out of the Past

Jacques Tourneur

1947 · USA
164

Where Is the Friend's House?

Abbas Kiarostami

1987 · Iran
165

Orlando

Sally Potter

1992 · UK
166

Vivre Sa Vie

Jean-Luc Godard

1962 · France
167

Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

Wang Bing

2002 · China
168

Amarcord

Federico Fellini

1973 · Italy
169

The Exterminating Angel

Luis Buñuel

1962 · Mexico
170

Last Year at Marienbad

Alain Resnais

1961 · France
171

Out 1

Jacques Rivette

1971 · France
172

Un Chien Andalou

Luis Buñuel

1929 · France
173

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

William Greaves

1968 · USA
174

Heat

Michael Mann

1995 · USA
175

Under the Skin

Jonathan Glazer

2013 · UK
176

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sergio Leone

1966 · Italy
177

Hiroshima Mon Amour

Alain Resnais

1959 · France/Japan
178

The Magnificent Ambersons

Orson Welles

1942 · USA
179

L'Argent

Robert Bresson

1983 · France
180

Black Narcissus

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

1947 · UK
181

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Max Ophüls

1948 · USA
182

Memories of Underdevelopment

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

1968 · Cuba
183

Red Desert

Michelangelo Antonioni

1964 · Italy
184

Charulata

Satyajit Ray

1964 · India
185

Pyaasa

Guru Dutt

1957 · India
186

Magnolia

Paul Thomas Anderson

1999 · USA
187

Greed

Erich von Stroheim

1924 · USA
188

Wings of Desire

Wim Wenders

1987 · West Germany
189

Ran

Akira Kurosawa

1985 · Japan
190

The Birds

Alfred Hitchcock

1963 · USA
191

An Autumn Afternoon

Yasujiro Ozu

1962 · Japan
192

Paris, Texas

Wim Wenders

1984 · West Germany/France
193

The Young Girls of Rochefort

Jacques Demy

1967 · France
194

The River

Jean Renoir

1951 · France/India/USA
195

Love Streams

John Cassavetes

1984 · USA
196

Paisan

Roberto Rossellini

1946 · Italy
197

The Headless Woman

Lucrecia Martel

2008 · Argentina
198

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Stanley Kubrick

1964 · UK/USA
199

L'Eclisse

Michelangelo Antonioni

1962 · Italy
200

Wavelength

Michael Snow

1967 · Canada/USA