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
84
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
#2
88
Citizen Kane
1941
#3
93
The Godfather
1972
#4
82
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
1975
#5
86
Tokyo Story
1953
#6
84
8½
1963
AD
#7
87
Vertigo
1958
#8
82
Mirror
1975
#9
83
Persona
1966
#10
84
In the Mood for Love
2000
#11
82
Close-Up
1990
#12
85
Taxi Driver
1976
#13
82
Barry Lyndon
1975
#14
90
Seven Samurai
1954
AD
#15
84
Stalker
1979
#16
82
Breathless
1960
#17
79
Beau Travail
1999
#18
87
Apocalypse Now
1979
#19
81
A Woman Under the Influence
1974
#20
86
Rashomon
1950
AD
#21
84
Bicycle Thieves
1948
AD
#22
86
The Battle of Algiers
1966
AD
#23
84
Raging Bull
1980
AD
#24
81
Pather Panchali
1955
AD
#25
82
Mulholland Drive
2001
#26
91
The Godfather Part II
1974
#27
81
Andrei Rublev
1966
#28
89
GoodFellas
1990
#29
84
Do the Right Thing
1989
#30
84
Man with a Movie Camera
1929
AD
#31
85
The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928
AD
#32
81
Ordet
1955
#33
83
Sunrise
1927
AD
#34
83
The 400 Blows
1959
AD
#35
La Jetée
1962
#36
84
La Dolce Vita
1960
#37
83
Au hasard Balthazar
1966
#38
83
The Rules of the Game
1939
#39
78
L'Avventura
1960
#40
81
La Strada
1954
#41
84
The Night of the Hunter
1955
AD
#42
83
Playtime
1967
#43
84
Come and See
1985
#44
79
Vagabond
1985
#45
81
A Man Escaped
1956
#46
80
Don't Look Now
1973
#47
76
Contempt
1963
AD
#48
89
Psycho
1960
#49
78
L'Atalante
1934
#50
88
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964
#51
85
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968
#52
80
Cleo from 5 to 7
1962
#53
79
The Mother and the Whore
1973
#54
88
Singin' in the Rain
1952
#55
79
Viridiana
1961
#56
77
La Notte
1961
#57
78
Eraserhead
1977
AD
#58
87
City Lights
1931
ADAD
#59
80
Fear Eats the Soul
1974
#60
79
The Piano
1993
#61
86
Fanny and Alexander
1982
AD
#62
75
Tropical Malady
2004
#63
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943
#64
80
Satantango
1994
#65
83
Jaws
1975
#66
83
Late Spring
1949
#67
87
Sunset Boulevard
1950
#68
87
Some Like It Hot
1959
AD
#69
83
Blade Runner
1982
#70
67
Purely Belter
2000
AD
#71
88
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
#72
80
The Spirit of the Beehive
1973
#73
83
A Brighter Summer Day
1991
#74
65
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976
#75
87
A Separation
2011
#76
80
Kes
1969
AD
#77
86
Ikiru
1952
#78
81
The Conversation
1974
ADAD
#79
88
Modern Times
1936
AD
#80
72
L'Argent
1983
#81
84
The Seventh Seal
1957
AD
#82
81
Where Is the Friend's House?
1987
#83
83
Wild Strawberries
1957
#84
86
Chinatown
1974
#85
79
Blue Velvet
1986
AD
#86
80
The Ascent
1977
#87
78
News from Home
1976
#88
84
Shoah
1985
#89
82
The Red Shoes
1948
ADAD
#90
74
Journey of the Hyena
1973
#91
77
Sans Soleil
1983
#92
80
The Searchers
1956
#93
85
Moonlight
2016
#94
76
Pickpocket
1959
#95
83
Battleship Potemkin
1925
AD
#96
75
Wanda
1970
#97
85
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
#98
81
Throne of Blood
1957
#99
84
The Conformist
1970
#100
78
Taste of Cherry
1997
#101
77
The Color of Pomegranates
1969
#102
82
Yi Yi
2000
#103
79
Caché
2005
#104
90
Parasite
2019