Sight & Sound: 2022 Critics Poll

Top films as voted by international critics in 2022. The Sight & Sound poll is perhaps the most renowned film poll. Critic Roger Ebert described it as "...by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies – the only one most serious movie people take seriously."

# Film Year Country Director
1 Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1976 Belgium, France Chantal Akerman
2 Vertigo 1958 USA Alfred Hitchcock
3 Citizen Kane 1941 USA Orson Welles
4 Tokyo Story 1953 Japan Yasujirō Ozu
5 In the Mood for Love 2000 France, Hong Kong Wong Kar-wai
6 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
7 Beau Travail 2000 France Claire Denis
8 Mulholland Drive 2001 France, France, France, France, USA David Lynch
9 Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Soviet Union Dziga Vertov
10 Singin' in the Rain 1952 USA Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
11 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 USA F. W. Murnau
12 The Godfather 1972 USA Francis Ford Coppola
13 The Rules of the Game 1939 France Jean Renoir
14 Cléo from 5 to 7 1962 France, Italy Agnès Varda
15 The Searchers 1956 USA John Ford
16 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 USA Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
17 Close-Up 1990 Iran Abbas Kiarostami
18 Persona 1966 Sweden Ingmar Bergman
19 Apocalypse Now 1979 USA Francis Ford Coppola
20 Seven Samurai 1954 Japan Akira Kurosawa
21 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
22 Late Spring 1949 Japan Yasujirō Ozu
23 PlayTime 1967 France, Italy Jacques Tati
24 Do the Right Thing 1989 USA Spike Lee
25 Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 France, Sweden Robert Bresson
26 The Night of the Hunter 1955 USA Charles Laughton
27 Shoah 1985 France Claude Lanzmann
28 Daisies 1966 Czechoslovakia Věra Chytilová
29 Taxi Driver 1976 USA Martin Scorsese
30 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019 France, France Céline Sciamma
31 Mirror 1975 Soviet Union Andrei Tarkovsky
32 Psycho 1960 USA Alfred Hitchcock
33 8½ 1963 France, Italy Federico Fellini
34 L'Atalante 1934 France Jean Vigo
35 Pather Panchali 1955 India Satyajit Ray
36 City Lights 1931 USA Charlie Chaplin
37 M 1931 Germany Fritz Lang
38 Some Like It Hot 1959 USA Billy Wilder
39 Breathless 1960 France Jean-Luc Godard
40 Rear Window 1954 USA Alfred Hitchcock
41 Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy Vittorio De Sica
42 Rashomon 1950 Japan Akira Kurosawa
43 Killer of Sheep 1978 USA Charles Burnett
44 Stalker 1979 Soviet Union Andrei Tarkovsky
45 The Battle of Algiers 1966 Italy, Algeria Gillo Pontecorvo
46 North by Northwest 1959 USA Alfred Hitchcock
47 Barry Lyndon 1975 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
48 Wanda 1970 USA Barbara Loden
49 Ordet 1955 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
50 The 400 Blows 1959 France François Truffaut
51 The Piano 1993 France, New Zealand, Australia Jane Campion
52 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Germany Rainer Werner Fassbinder
53 News from Home 1977 Belgium, France, Germany Chantal Akerman
54 Blade Runner 1982 USA, Hong Kong, UK Ridley Scott
55 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein
56 Contempt 1963 France, Italy Jean-Luc Godard
57 Sherlock Jr. 1924 USA Buster Keaton
58 The Apartment 1960 USA, USA Billy Wilder
59 Sans Soleil 1983 France Chris Marker
60 Moonlight 2016 USA Barry Jenkins
61 La Dolce Vita 1960 France, Italy Federico Fellini
62 Daughters of the Dust 1991 USA Julie Dash
63 Casablanca 1943 USA Michael Curtiz
64 GoodFellas 1990 USA, USA, USA Martin Scorsese
65 The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
66 Touki Bouki 1973 Senegal Djibril Diop Mambéty
67 The Gleaners and I 2000 France Agnès Varda
68 La Jetée 1962 France Chris Marker
69 Andrei Rublev 1966 Soviet Union Andrei Tarkovsky
70 Metropolis 1927 Germany Fritz Lang
71 The Red Shoes 1948 UK Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
72 My Neighbor Totoro 1988 Japan Hayao Miyazaki
73 Journey to Italy 1954 France, Italy Roberto Rossellini
74 L'Avventura 1960 France, Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
75 Imitation of Life 1959 USA Douglas Sirk
76 Sansho the Bailiff 1954 Japan Kenji Mizoguchi
77 Spirited Away 2001 Japan Hayao Miyazaki
78 Satantango 1994 Germany, Hungary, Switzerland Béla Tarr
79 A Brighter Summer Day 1991 Taiwan Edward Yang
80 Céline and Julie Go Boating 1974 France Jacques Rivette
81 Sunset Boulevard 1950 USA, USA Billy Wilder
82 Modern Times 1936 USA Charlie Chaplin
83 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 UK Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
84 Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories 1989 France, Switzerland Jean-Luc Godard
85 Pierrot le Fou 1965 France, Italy Jean-Luc Godard
86 The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Spain Víctor Erice
87 Blue Velvet 1986 USA David Lynch
88 Chungking Express 1994 Hong Kong Wong Kar-wai
89 The Shining 1980 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
90 The Earrings of Madame de... 1953 France, Italy Max Ophüls
91 The Leopard 1963 France, Italy Luchino Visconti
92 Ugetsu 1953 Japan Kenji Mizoguchi
93 Yi Yi 2000 Japan, Taiwan Edward Yang
94 Parasite 2019 South Korea Bong Joon-ho
95 Get Out 2017 USA Jordan Peele
96 Tropical Malady 2004 France, Italy, Germany, Thailand Apichatpong Weerasethakul
97 Black Girl 1966 France, Senegal Ousmane Sembène
98 The General 1926 USA, UK Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
99 A Man Escaped 1956 France Robert Bresson
100 Once Upon a Time in the West 1968 USA, Italy Sergio Leone
101 Rio Bravo 1959 USA Howard Hawks
102 The House Is Black 1963 Iran Forugh Farrokhzad
103 Vagabond 1985 France, UK Agnès Varda
104 The Mother and the Whore 1973 France Jean Eustache
105 Come and See 1985 Soviet Union Elem Klimov
106 Jaws 1975 USA Steven Spielberg
107 The Godfather Part II 1974 USA, USA, USA Francis Ford Coppola
108 Goodbye, Dragon Inn 2003 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
109 The Wizard of Oz 1939 USA Victor Fleming
110 Wild Strawberries 1957 Sweden Ingmar Bergman
111 Touch of Evil 1958 USA Orson Welles
112 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 USA John Ford
113 Bringing Up Baby 1938 USA Howard Hawks
114 To Be or Not to Be 1942 USA Ernst Lubitsch
115 A Woman Under the Influence 1974 USA John Cassavetes
116 Nashville 1975 USA Robert Altman
117 Don't Look Now 1973 UK, Italy Nicolas Roeg
118 Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1972 Mexico, Germany, Germany, Peru Werner Herzog
119 The Conformist 1970 France, Italy, Germany Bernardo Bertolucci
120 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 USA, USA Tobe Hooper
121 The Thing 1982 USA John Carpenter
122 There Will Be Blood 2007 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
123 The Matrix 1999 USA Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
124 The Color of Pomegranates 1969 Soviet Union Sergei Parajanov
125 Johnny Guitar 1954 USA Nicholas Ray
126 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France, Germany Jacques Demy
127 Only Angels Have Wings 1939 USA Howard Hawks
128 The Ascent 1977 Soviet Union Larisa Shepitko
129 Fanny and Alexander 1982 France, Sweden, Germany Ingmar Bergman
130 His Girl Friday 1940 USA Howard Hawks
131 Raging Bull 1980 USA Martin Scorsese
132 Pulp Fiction 1994 USA Quentin Tarantino
133 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
134 Notorious 1946 USA Alfred Hitchcock
135 It's a Wonderful Life 1946 USA Frank Capra
136 La Ciénaga 2001 France, Japan, Spain, Argentina Lucrecia Martel
137 Children of Paradise 1945 France Marcel Carné
138 The Wild Bunch 1969 USA Sam Peckinpah
139 Sambizanga 1973 France, Angola, Congo Sarah Maldoror
140 Trouble in Paradise 1932 USA Ernst Lubitsch
141 The Seventh Seal 1957 Sweden Ingmar Bergman
142 Pickpocket 1959 France Robert Bresson
143 A Day in the Country 1946 France Jean Renoir
144 All That Heaven Allows 1955 USA Douglas Sirk
145 Gertrud 1964 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
146 The Watermelon Woman 1996 USA Cheryl Dunye
147 Vampyr 1932 France, USA, Denmark, Germany Carl Theodor Dreyer
148 Alien 1979 USA, UK Ridley Scott
149 India Song 1975 France Marguerite Duras
150 Grand Illusion 1937 France, France Jean Renoir
151 Chinatown 1974 USA Roman Polanski
152 Twin Peaks 1989 USA David Lynch
153 West Indies 1979 France, Algeria, Mauritania Med Hondo
154 Days of Heaven 1978 USA Terrence Malick
155 The Cloud-Capped Star 1960 India Ritwik Kumar Ghatak
156 Happiness 1965 France Agnès Varda
157 Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks 2002 Netherlands, China Wang Bing
158 Orlando 1992 France, UK, Italy, Netherlands, Russia Sally Potter
159 A City of Sadness 1989 Hong Kong, Taiwan Hou Hsiao-hsien
160 All About My Mother 1999 France, Spain Pedro Almodóvar
161 Where Is My Friend's House? 1987 Iran, Iran Abbas Kiarostami
162 The Gospel According to Matthew 1965 France, Italy Pier Paolo Pasolini
163 Once Upon a Time in America 1984 USA, Italy Sergio Leone
164 Amarcord 1973 France, Italy Federico Fellini
165 Vivre Sa Vie 1962 France Jean-Luc Godard
166 Out of the Past 1947 USA Jacques Tourneur
167 Ikiru 1952 Japan Akira Kurosawa
168 The Young and the Damned 1950 Mexico Luis Buñuel
169 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France, Italy Alain Resnais
170 L'Argent 1983 France, Switzerland Robert Bresson
171 Un Chien Andalou 1929 France Luis Buñuel
172 Out 1 1971 France Jacques Rivette
173 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One 1968 USA William Greaves
174 Heat 1995 USA Michael Mann
175 Under the Skin 2014 USA, USA, UK, UK, Switzerland Jonathan Glazer
176 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Mexico Luis Buñuel
177 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Cuba Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
178 Black Narcissus 1947 UK Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
179 Red Desert 1964 France, Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
180 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966 USA, USA, Italy, Italy, Spain Sergio Leone
181 Charulata 1964 India Satyajit Ray
182 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 USA Max Ophüls
183 Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959 France, Japan Alain Resnais
184 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 USA Orson Welles
185 Magnolia 1999 USA Paul Thomas Anderson
186 Wings of Desire 1987 France, Germany Wim Wenders
187 Pyaasa 1957 India Guru Dutt
188 Ran 1985 France, Japan Akira Kurosawa
189 Greed 1924 USA Erich von Stroheim
190 Love Streams 1984 USA John Cassavetes
191 An Autumn Afternoon 1962 Japan Yasujirō Ozu
192 The River 1951 France, USA, India Jean Renoir
193 The Birds 1963 USA Alfred Hitchcock
194 The Young Girls of Rochefort 1967 France Jacques Demy
195 Paris, Texas 1984 France, UK, Germany Wim Wenders
196 Paris Is Burning 1991 USA, UK Jennie Livingston
197 The Headless Woman 2008 France, USA, Italy, Spain, Argentina Lucrecia Martel
198 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 2010 France, UK, Spain, Germany, Thailand Apichatpong Weerasethakul
199 The Tree of Life 2011 USA, USA, USA, USA, USA Terrence Malick
200 Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 USA, USA, Australia, Australia, South Africa George Miller
201 Zama 2017 France, USA, Spain, Mexico, Argentina Lucrecia Martel
202 Paisan 1946 Italy Roberto Rossellini
203 Nosferatu 1922 Germany F. W. Murnau
204 One Way or Another 1977 Cuba Sara Gómez
205 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 USA, UK, UK Stanley Kubrick
206 Double Indemnity 1944 USA Billy Wilder
207 L'Eclisse 1962 France, Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
208 I Know Where I'm Going! 1945 UK Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
209 Wavelength 1967 USA, Canada Michael Snow
210 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 UK Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
211 Limite 1931 Brazil Mário Peixoto
212 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 USA Steven Spielberg
213 Pink Flamingos 1972 USA John Waters
214 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 France, USA David Lynch
215 Twenty Years Later 1984 Brazil Eduardo Coutinho
216 Melancholia 2011 France, Sweden, Denmark, Germany Lars von Trier
217 Army of Shadows 1969 France, Italy Jean-Pierre Melville
218 The Deer Hunter 1978 USA, UK Michael Cimino
219 In a Lonely Place 1950 USA Nicholas Ray
220 Suspiria 1977 Italy Dario Argento
221 Brief Encounter 1945 UK David Lean
222 All About Eve 1950 USA Joseph L. Mankiewicz
223 Duck Soup 1933 USA Leo McCarey
224 By the Bluest of Seas 1936 Soviet Union Boris Barnet
225 The Green Ray 1986 France Éric Rohmer
226 Grave of the Fireflies 1988 Japan Isao Takahata
227 Blue 1993 UK Derek Jarman
228 Crash 1996 USA, UK, Canada David Cronenberg
229 Happy Together 1997 Japan, Hong Kong, Argentina Wong Kar-wai
230 Flowers of Shanghai 1998 Japan, Taiwan Hou Hsiao-hsien
231 As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000 USA Jonas Mekas
232 Petite Maman 2021 France, France, France, USA Céline Sciamma
233 Je Tu Il Elle 1974 Belgium, France Chantal Akerman
234 A Touch of Zen 1971 Hong Kong, Taiwan King Hu
235 The Crowd 1928 USA King Vidor
236 Napoléon 1927 France Abel Gance
237 Europe '51 1952 Italy Roberto Rossellini
238 The Hour of the Furnaces 1968 Argentina Fernando E. Solanas, Octavio Getino
239 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916 USA D.W. Griffith
240 Star Wars 1977 USA, USA, USA George Lucas
241 Cries and Whispers 1972 Sweden Ingmar Bergman
242 Harlan County U.S.A. 1977 USA Barbara Kopple
243 The Last Laugh 1924 Germany F. W. Murnau
244 Dream of Light 1992 Spain Víctor Erice
245 Taste of Cherry 1997 France, Iran Abbas Kiarostami
246 Werckmeister Harmonies 2001 France, Italy, Germany, Hungary Béla Tarr
247 In Vanda's Room 2001 Germany, Switzerland, Portugal Pedro Costa
248 Morvern Callar 2002 UK, Canada Lynne Ramsay
249 The Intruder 2005 France Claire Denis
250 Syndromes and a Century 2006 France, Austria, Thailand Apichatpong Weerasethakul
251 Nostalgia for the Light 2010 France, USA, Spain, Germany, Chile Patricio Guzmán
252 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 UK, Germany Terence Davies
253 Oh, Sun 1973 France, Mauritania Med Hondo
254 Possession 1981 France, Germany Andrzej Żuławski
255 Videodrome 1983 Canada David Cronenberg
256 A Canterbury Tale 1944 UK Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
257 A Clockwork Orange 1971 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
258 Mouchette 1967 France Robert Bresson
259 My Darling Clementine 1946 USA John Ford
260 Earth 1930 Soviet Union Oleksandr Dovzhenko
261 Annie Hall 1977 USA Woody Allen
262 Sullivan's Travels 1941 USA Preston Sturges
263 Pandora's Box 1929 Germany G.W. Pabst
264 Born in Flames 1983 USA Lizzie Borden