The Film-Lover's Check List: Sight & Sound Critics & Directors Lists Combined

2002 Sight & Sound Top Films Survey

as voted by of 253 International Critics & Film Directors.

88 Votes


	Citizen Kane (1941)

54 Votes


	Vertigo (1958)

42 Votes


	The Rules of the Game (1939)

37 Votes


	8 1/2 (1963)

36 Votes


	The Godfather (1972)

32 Votes


	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

31 Votes


	Tokyo Story (1953)
	The Godfather, Part II (1974)

27 Votes


	The Seven Samurai (1954)

26 Votes


	Rashomon (1950)

25 Votes


	Battleship Potemkin (1925)
	Singin' In the Rain (1952)

24 Votes


	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

22 Votes


	The Searchers (1956)

21 Votes


	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

18 Votes


	The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
	The Bicycle Thief (1948)
	La Dolce Vita (1960)

17 Votes


	Touch of Evil (1958)
	Breathless (1960)
	L'Avventura (1960)

16 Votes


	Jules and Jim (1962)
	Dr. Strangelove (1964)
	Raging Bull (1980)

15 Votes


	L'Atalante (1934)
	Sunset Boulevard (1950)
	Psycho (1960)

14 Votes


	The General (1927)
	Pather Panchali (1955)
	Some Like It Hot (1959)
	The Mirror (1975)
	Fanny and Alexander (1982)

13 Votes


	City Lights (1931)
	Grand Illusion (1937)
	Children of Paradise (1945)
	Andrei Rublev (1966)

12 Votes


	The Seventh Seal (1957)
	The Apartment (1960)
	Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
	Taxi Driver (1976)
	Apocalypse Now (1979)

11 Votes


	Casablanca (1942)
	The Third Man (1949)
	Ugetsu (1953)
	Contempt (1963)
	Chinatown (1974)

10 Votes


	Metropolis (1927)
	Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944)

9 Votes


	Intolerance (1916)
	M (1931)
	Ordet (1955)
	Wild Strawberries (1957)
	The 400 Blows (1959)

8 Votes


	Modern Times (1936)
	The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
	On the Waterfront (1954)
	La Strada (1954)
	North By Northwest (1959)
	Persona (1966)
	The Conformist (1970)
	Amarcord (1973)
	Barry Lyndon (1975)

7 Votes


	Greed (1924)
	The Gold Rush (1925)
	Napoleon (1927)
	Man With the Movie Camera (1929)
	L'Age D'Or (1930)
	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
	The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
	Rear Window (1954)
	Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
	Pickpocket (1959)
	Rio Bravo (1959)
	Last Year At Marienbad (1961)
	The Battle of Algiers (1966)
	Once Upon a Time In the West (1968)
	The Wild Bunch (1969)
	Nashville (1975)
	Blade Runner (1982)
	Pulp Fiction (1994)

6 Votes


	Ikiru (1952)
	Voyage To Italy (1954)
	Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
	The Night of the Hunter (1955)
	Viridiana (1961)
	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
	The Leopard (1963)
	A Clockwork Orange (1971)
	The Travelling Players (1975)
	Ran (1985)
	The Decalogue (1989)
	A City of Sadness (1989)
	Goodfellas (1990)

5 Votes


	Nosferatu (1922)
	Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
	Gone With the Wind (1939)
	Stagecoach (1939)
	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
	His Girl Friday (1940)
	The Lady Eve (1941)
	Double Indemnity (1944)
	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
	A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
	My Darling Clementine (1946)
	Notorious (1946)
	Black Narcissus (1947)
	Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
	El (1953)
	The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
	The World of Apu (1959)
	My Life To Live (1962)
	The Gospel According To St. Matthew (1964)
	Pierrot Le Fou (1965)
	Chimes At Midnight (1965)
	Two Or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
	McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
	Don't Look Now (1973)
	L'Argent (1983)
	Once Upon a Time In America (1984)
	Shoah (1985)
	Blue Velvet (1986)
	Blue (1993)
	Breaking the Waves (1996)

4 Votes


	Un Chien Andalou (1929)
	Earth (1930)
	Duck Soup (1933)
	King Kong (1933)
	Alexander Nevsky (1938)
	A Canterbury Tale (1944)
	Brief Encounter (1945)
	Rome, Open City (1945)
	Beauty and the Beast (1946)
	Red River (1948)
	Late Spring (1949)
	All About Eve (1950)
	Los Olvidados (1950)
	Umberto D (1952)
	Floating Clouds (1955)
	A Man Escaped (1956)
	Throne of Blood (1957)
	The Music Room (1958)
	L'Eclisse (1962)
	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
	Gertrud (1964)
	Marnie (1964)
	A Blonde In Love (1965)
	Satyricon (1969)
	Tristana (1970)
	Cries and Whispers (1972)
	Solaris (1972)
	The Exorcist (1973)
	Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
	A Time To Live and a Time To Die (1985)
	Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
	Close-Up (1990)
	Red (1994)
	White (1994)
	All About My Mother (1999)
	Yi Yi (2000)

3 Votes


	Broken Blossoms (1919)
	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
	Trouble In Paradise (1932)
	The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
	The Great Dictator (1940)
	Sullivan's Travels (1941)
	The Palm Beach Story (1942)
	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
	Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
	To Have and Have Not (1944)
	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
	Paisan (1946)
	Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
	Out of the Past (1947)
	The Red Shoes (1948)
	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
	Life of Oharu (1952)
	Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)
	The Wages of Fear (1953)
	A Star Is Born (1954)
	Aparajito (1956)
	Written On the Wind (1956)
	The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
	Paths of Glory (1957)
	Pyaasa (1957)
	Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
	Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959)
	Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
	Spartacus (1960)
	The Exterminating Angel (1962)
	La Jetee (1962)
	Black God, White Devil (1964)
	Charulata (1964)
	The Rise of Louis Xiv (1966)
	Belle de Jour (1967)
	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
	Playtime (1967)
	Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
	The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
	Badlands (1973)
	The Mother and the Whore (1973)
	Day For Night (1973)
	Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
	The Conversation (1974)
	Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
	India Song (1975)
	Jaws (1975)
	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
	Salo, Or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
	In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
	Providence (1977)
	Star Wars (1977)
	That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
	Days of Heaven (1978)
	In a Year With 13 Moons (1978)
	Stalker (1979)
	Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
	E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
	Brazil (1985)
	Do the Right Thing (1989)
	The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
	Unforgiven (1992)
	The Piano (1993)
	Chungking Express (1994)
	Through the Olive Trees (1994)
	Taste of Cherry (1997)
	Eternity and a Day (1998)
	The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
	In the Mood For Love (2000)
	Spirited Away (2001)