Sight & Sound: 1982 Critics Poll

Top films as voted by international critics. The Sight & Sound poll is probably 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 Citizen Kane 1941 USA Orson Welles
2 The Rules of the Game 1939 France Jean Renoir
3 Seven Samurai 1954 Japan Akira Kurosawa
4 Singin' in the Rain 1952 USA Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
5 1963 France, Italy Federico Fellini
6 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein
7 L'Avventura 1960 France, Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
8 The Magnificent Ambersons 1942 USA Orson Welles
9 Vertigo 1958 USA Alfred Hitchcock
10 The General 1926 USA, UK Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
11 The Searchers 1956 USA John Ford
12 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
13 Andrei Rublev 1966 Soviet Union Andrei Tarkovsky
14 Greed 1924 USA Erich von Stroheim
15 Jules and Jim 1962 France, France François Truffaut
16 The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed