The Critics' Poll
1. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
2. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
3. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
4. Tokyo Story (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953)
5. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2001)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
7. Beau travail (Claire Denis, 1998)
8. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001)
9. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
10. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951)
11. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
12. The Godfather”(Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
13. La Règle du Jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)
14. Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)
15. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
16. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943)
17. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
18. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
19. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
20. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
21. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1927)
21. Late Spring (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949)
23. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
24. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
25. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
25. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
27. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
28. Daisies (Věra Chytilová, 1966)
29. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
30. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
31. Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
31. 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
31. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
34. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
35. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
36. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
36. M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
38. À bout de souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
38. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
38. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
41. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
41. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
43. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
43. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977)
45. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
45. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
45. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
48. Wanda (Barbara Loden, 1970)
48. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
50. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
50. The Piano (Jane Campion, 1992)
52. News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1976)
52. Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
54. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
54. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
54. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
54. Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
54. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott,1982)
59. Sans soleil (Chris Marker, 1982)
60. Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991)
60. La dolce vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
60. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)
63. Casablanca” (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
63. GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
63. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
66. Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty ,1973)
67. The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda, 2000)
67. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
67. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)
67. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
67. La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
72. My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki Hayao, 1988)
72. Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
72. L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
75. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
75. Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1954)
75. Spirited Away (Miyazaki Hayao, 2001)
78. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
78. Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)
78. Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
78. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
78. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
78. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1946)
84. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
84. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
84. Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard,1988-1998)
84. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
88. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
88. Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai, 1994)
90. Madame de… (Max Ophüls, 1953)
90. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1962)
90. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1953)
90. Parasite (Bong Joon Ho, 2019)
90. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 1999)
95. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)
95. The General (Buster Keaton, 1926)
95. Once upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
95. Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)
95. Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène, 1965)
95. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
101. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks,1959)
101. The House is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad, 1963)
101. Vagabond (Agnès Varda, 1985)
104. Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)
104. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
104. The Godfather: Part II (Ford Coppola, 1974)
104. La Maman et la Putain (“The Mother and the Whore “) (Jean Eustache, 1973)
108. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
108. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)
108. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
108. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
108. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
108. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
114. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
114. Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
114. Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
114. To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)
118. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
118. The Conformists (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
118. The Matrix (Lilly Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, 1999)
118. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
118. The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
123. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
123. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
123. Colour of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1968)
123.The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)
123. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
128. The Ascent (Larissa Shepitko, 1967)
129. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
129. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
129. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
129. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
133. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1947)
133. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
133. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
136. A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir, 1946)
136. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955)
136. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné, 1945)
136. Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
136. La ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001)
136. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
136. Sambizanga (Sarah Maldoror, 1972)
136. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
136. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
136. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
146. Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979)
146. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
146. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
146. India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975)
146. The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996)
146. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch, 2017)
146. Vampyr (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932)
153. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
153. Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda, 1965)
153. The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak, 1960)
153. West Indies (Med Hondo, 1979)
157. A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)
157. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999)
157. Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973)
157. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
157. Los olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950)
157. Once upon a Time America (Sergio Leone, 1984)
157. Orlando (Sally Potter, 1992)
157. Out 1 (Jacques Rivette, 1971)
157. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
157. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964)
157. Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
157. Where's the Friend's House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
169. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
169. Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964)
169. Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
169. Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
169. L'Argent (Robert Bresson, 1984)
169. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
169. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)
169. Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1968)
169. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
169. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (William Greaves, 1968)
169. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962)
169. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
169. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
169. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Wang Bing, 2002)
169. Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929)
169. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
185. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujirô Ozu, 1962)
185. Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
185. Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
185. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
185. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
185. Pyaasa (Guru Dutt, 1957)
185. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
185.The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
185. The River (Jean Renoir, 1951)
185. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967)
185. Wings of Desire (Win Wenders, 1987)
196. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
196. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1963)
196.I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1945)
196. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
196. Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
196. One Way or Another (Sara Gómez, 1977)
196. Paisan (Roberto Rossellini, 1946)
196. Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990)
196. The Eclipse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
196. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008)
196. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
196. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
196. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
196. Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)
196. Zama (Lucrecia Martel, 2017)
211. All about Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
211. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)
211. Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
211. By the Bluest of Seas (Boris Barnet, 1936)
211. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
211. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
211. Limit (Mário Peixoto, 1931)
211. Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
211. Pink Flamingos (John Waters, 1972)
211. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
211. Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
211. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978)
211. The Hour of the Furnaces (Octavio Getino and Fernando E. Solanas, 1968)
211. Twenty Years Later (Eduardo Coutinho, 1984)
211. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch, 1992)
226. A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1971)
226. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)
226. Blue (Derek Jarman, 1993)
226. Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983)
226. Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996)
226. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972)
226. Europe '51 (Roberto Rossellini, 1952)
226. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1998)
226. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)
226. Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai, 1997)
226. Harlan County USA (Barbara Kopple, 1976)
226. Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
226. Je tu il elle (Chantal Akerman, 1974)
226. Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927)
226. Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021)
226. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977)
226. The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928)
226. The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer, 1986)
244. A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1944)
244. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
244. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
244. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988)
244. Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930)
244. In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa, 2000)
244. Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002)
244. Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967)
244. My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
244. Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán, 2010)
244. Oh, Sun (Med Hondo, 1970)
244. Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst, 1929)
244. Possession (Andrzej Żuławski, 1981)
244. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
244. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
244. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1977)
244. The Intruder (Claire Denis, 2004)