Sight & Sound: 1962 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 L'Avventura 1960 France, Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
3 The Rules of the Game 1939 France Jean Renoir
4 Greed 1924 USA Erich von Stroheim
5 Ugetsu 1953 Japan Kenji Mizoguchi
6 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein
7 Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy Vittorio De Sica
8 Ivan the Terrible, Part I 1944 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein
9 The Earth Trembles 1949 Italy Luchino Visconti
10 L'Atalante 1934 France Jean Vigo
11 Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959 France, Japan Alain Resnais
12 Pather Panchali 1955 India Satyajit Ray
13 Zero for Conduct 1933 France Jean Vigo
14 City Lights 1931 USA Charlie Chaplin
15 The Childhood of Maxim Gorky 1938 Soviet Union Mark Donskoy
16 The Gold Rush 1925 USA Charlie Chaplin
17 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927 USA F. W. Murnau
18 Earth 1930 Soviet Union Oleksandr Dovzhenko
19 Monsieur Verdoux 1947 USA Charlie Chaplin
20 The General 1926 USA, UK Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
21 Grand Illusion 1937 France, France Jean Renoir
22 Ikiru 1952 Japan Akira Kurosawa
23 Nazarin 1959 Mexico Luis Buñuel
24 October (Ten Days that Shook the World) 1928 Soviet Union Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein
25 Umberto D. 1952 Italy Vittorio De Sica
26 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France, Italy Alain Resnais
27 Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916 USA D.W. Griffith
28 Limelight 1952 USA Charlie Chaplin
29 Night and Fog 1956 France Alain Resnais
30 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
31 Pickpocket 1959 France Robert Bresson
32 Tokyo Story 1953 Japan Yasujirō Ozu
33 Wild Strawberries 1957 Sweden Ingmar Bergman