Sight & Sound 2022 — Directors' Poll
The 100 greatest films of all time as voted by working directors in Sight & Sound's 2022 poll.
104 movies
#1
83
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
#2
88
Citizen Kane
1941
#3
94
The Godfather
1972
#4
79
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
1975
#5
84
Tokyo Story
1953
#6
83
8½
1963
AD
#7
87
Vertigo
1958
#8
79
Mirror
1975
#9
80
Persona
1966
#10
81
In the Mood for Love
2000
#11
79
Close-Up
1990
#12
85
Taxi Driver
1976
#13
80
Barry Lyndon
1975
#14
89
Seven Samurai
1954
AD
#15
77
Beau Travail
1999
#16
81
Breathless
1960
#17
81
Stalker
1979
#18
78
A Woman Under the Influence
1974
#19
86
Apocalypse Now
1979
#20
82
Bicycle Thieves
1948
AD
#21
85
Rashomon
1950
AD
#22
83
The Battle of Algiers
1966
AD
#23
77
Pather Panchali
1955
AD
#24
83
Raging Bull
1980
AD
#25
81
Mulholland Drive
2001
#26
90
The Godfather Part II
1974
#27
77
Andrei Rublev
1966
#28
88
GoodFellas
1990
#29
82
Do the Right Thing
1989
#30
76
Ordet
1955
#31
82
Man with a Movie Camera
1929
AD
#32
83
The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928
AD
#33
80
The 400 Blows
1959
AD
#34
82
Sunrise
1927
AD
#35
82
La Dolce Vita
1960
#36
La Jetée
1962
#37
81
Au hasard Balthazar
1966
#38
75
L'Avventura
1960
#39
78
La Strada
1954
#40
82
The Rules of the Game
1939
#41
75
Vagabond
1985
#42
83
The Night of the Hunter
1955
ADAD
#43
77
A Man Escaped
1956
#44
79
Come and See
1985
#45
82
Playtime
1967
#46
84
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
#47
87
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964
#48
79
Don't Look Now
1973
#49
74
Contempt
1963
#50
89
Psycho
1960
#51
76
L'Atalante
1934
#52
78
Cleo from 5 to 7
1962
#53
87
City Lights
1931
ADAD
#54
87
Singin' in the Rain
1952
#55
76
Viridiana
1961
#56
76
Fear Eats the Soul
1974
#57
73
La Notte
1961
#58
84
Fanny and Alexander
1982
AD
#59
79
The Piano
1993
#60
78
The Mother and the Whore
1973
#61
77
Eraserhead
1977
AD
#62
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943
#63
73
Tropical Malady
2004
#64
87
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
#65
68
Purely Belter
2000
AD
#66
82
Blade Runner
1982
#67
86
Sunset Boulevard
1950
#68
86
Some Like It Hot
1959
ADAD
#69
76
Satantango
1994
#70
81
Late Spring
1949
#71
84
Jaws
1975
#72
73
Sans Soleil
1983
#73
80
A Brighter Summer Day
1991
#74
81
Wild Strawberries
1957
#75
82
The Seventh Seal
1957
AD
#76
85
Chinatown
1974
#77
77
The Spirit of the Beehive
1973
#78
65
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976
#79
72
Journey of the Hyena
1973
#80
83
Ikiru
1952
#81
75
News from Home
1976
#82
76
Kes
1969
AD
#83
76
Where Is the Friend's House?
1987
#84
86
A Separation
2011
#85
77
Blue Velvet
1986
AD
#86
69
L'Argent
1983
#87
87
Modern Times
1936
AD
#88
77
The Red Shoes
1948
ADAD
#89
76
The Ascent
1977
#90
82
Shoah
1985
#91
80
The Conversation
1974
ADAD
#92
80
The Searchers
1956
#93
74
Pickpocket
1959
#94
75
Taste of Cherry
1997
#95
73
Wanda
1970
#96
83
Moonlight
2016
#97
78
Yi Yi
2000
#98
82
The Conformist
1970
#99
74
The Color of Pomegranates
1969
#100
83
Battleship Potemkin
1925
AD
#101
77
Caché
2005
#102
85
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
#103
89
Parasite
2019
#104
77
Throne of Blood
1957