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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)