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