Discover the latest ranking of the 100 greatest films of all time, chosen by 480 leading
directors for the legendary Sight and Sound poll, updated just once every decade.
Rank (1-100)
Title (A-Z)
Year (Newest)
Director (A-Z)
100 films
1
2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick•1968•United Kingdom/United States
2
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles•1941•United States
3
The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola•1972•United States
4
Tokyo Story
Yasujirō Ozu•1953•Japan
5
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
F. W. Murnau•1927•United States
6
La Règle du jeu
Jean Renoir•1939•France
7
Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola•1979•United States
8
Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock•1958•United States
9
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Carl Theodor Dreyer•1928•France
10
8½
Federico Fellini•1963•Italy
11
Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese•1976•United States
12
Breathless
Jean-Luc Godard•1960•France
13
Persona
Ingmar Bergman•1966•Sweden
14
Mirror
Andrei Tarkovsky•1975•Soviet Union
15
The Searchers
John Ford•1956•United States
16
Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock•1960•United States
17
Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa•1954•Japan
18
Singin’ in the Rain
Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen•1952•United States
19
Rashomon
Akira Kurosawa•1950•Japan
20
Goodfellas
Martin Scorsese•1990•United States
21
The Third Man
Carol Reed•1949•United Kingdom
22
La Dolce Vita
Federico Fellini•1960•Italy
23
Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick•1975•United Kingdom
24
The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo•1966•Italy/Algeria
25
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut•1959•France
26
Stalker
Andrei Tarkovsky•1979•Soviet Union
27
Pather Panchali
Satyajit Ray•1955•India
28
Lawrence of Arabia
David Lean•1962•United Kingdom
29
Raging Bull
Martin Scorsese•1980•United States
30
Casablanca
Michael Curtiz•1942•United States
31
Mulholland Drive
David Lynch•2001•United States
32
Modern Times
Charlie Chaplin•1936•United States
33
City Lights
Charlie Chaplin•1931•United States
34
Rio Bravo
Howard Hawks•1959•United States
35
L’Avventura
Michelangelo Antonioni•1960•Italy
36
Wild Strawberries
Ingmar Bergman•1957•Sweden
37
The General
Buster Keaton•1926•United States
38
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Tarkovsky•1966•Soviet Union
39
Jules and Jim
François Truffaut•1962•France
40
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston•1948•United States
41
Some Like It Hot
Billy Wilder•1959•United States
42
The Best Years of Our Lives
William Wyler•1946•United States
43
Bicycle Thieves
Vittorio De Sica•1948•Italy
44
Amour
Michael Haneke•2012•France/Germany/Austria
45
In the Mood for Love
Wong Kar-wai•2000•Hong Kong
46
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Robert Altman•1971•United States
47
The Man with a Movie Camera
Dziga Vertov•1929•Soviet Union
48
Ordet
Carl Theodor Dreyer•1955•Denmark
49
The Spirit of the Beehive
Víctor Erice•1973•Spain
50
Close-Up
Abbas Kiarostami•1990•Iran
51
Au hasard Balthazar
Robert Bresson•1966•France
52
Contempt
Jean-Luc Godard•1963•France/Italy
53
Chungking Express
Wong Kar-wai•1994•Hong Kong
54
The Wild Bunch
Sam Peckinpah•1969•United States
55
Playtime
Jacques Tati•1967•France
56
Fear Eats the Soul
Rainer Werner Fassbinder•1974•West Germany
57
The Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin•1925•United States
58
Pierrot le Fou
Jean-Luc Godard•1965•France
59
Late Spring
Yasujirō Ozu•1949•Japan
60
M
Fritz Lang•1931•Germany
61
Touch of Evil
Orson Welles•1958•United States
62
L’Atalante
Jean Vigo•1934•France
63
North by Northwest
Alfred Hitchcock•1959•United States
64
Satantango
Béla Tarr•1994•Hungary
65
Ugetsu
Kenji Mizoguchi•1953•Japan
66
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick•1971•United Kingdom
67
Only Angels Have Wings
Howard Hawks•1939•United States
68
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick•2011•United States
69
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Jacques Rivette•1974•France
70
The Big Sleep
Howard Hawks•1946•United States
71
The Leopard
Luchino Visconti•1963•Italy
72
Nashville
Robert Altman•1975•United States
73
The Night of the Hunter
Charles Laughton•1955•United States
74
Notorious
Alfred Hitchcock•1946•United States
75
The Apartment
Billy Wilder•1960•United States
76
Metropolis
Fritz Lang•1927•Germany
77
Chinatown
Roman Polanski•1974•United States
78
Vivre Sa Vie
Jean-Luc Godard•1962•France
79
Gone with the Wind
Victor Fleming•1939•United States
80
Red River
Howard Hawks•1948•United States
81
Bonnie and Clyde
Arthur Penn•1967•United States
82
An Autumn Afternoon
Yasujirō Ozu•1962•Japan
83
The Conformist
Bernardo Bertolucci•1970•Italy
84
The Magnificent Ambersons
Orson Welles•1942•United States
85
Sansho the Bailiff
Kenji Mizoguchi•1954•Japan
86
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