Sight & Sound Critics' Top 250 Films (2012) [List from IMDB]
Sight & Sound Critic's Top 250 Films (a worldwide poll voted by critics in order to decide which are the greatest films ever made) is considered the most important "Greatest Films of All Time" list. More info: http://www.bfi.org.uk/polls-surveys/greatest-films-all-time-2012. Original source: http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/critics.
[1-100] [101-200] [201-250]
[1-100] [101-200] [201-250]
position | Title | Directors | Year | Genres | Runtime |
1 | Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | 1958 | mystery, romance, thriller | 128 |
2 | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 | drama, mystery | 119 |
3 | Tokyo Story | Yasujirô Ozu | 1953 | drama | 136 |
4 | La Règle du Jeu | Jean Renoir | 1939 | comedy, drama | 110 |
5 | Sunrise | F.W. Murnau | 1927 | drama, romance | 94 |
6 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | 1968 | adventure, sci_fi | 141 |
7 | The Searchers | John Ford | 1956 | western | 119 |
8 | Man with a Movie Camera | Dziga Vertov | 1929 | documentary | 68 |
9 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Th. Dreyer | 1928 | biography, drama, history | 110 |
10 | 8½ | Federico Fellini | 1963 | drama, fantasy | 138 |
11 | Battleship Potemkin | S.M. Eisenstein | 1925 | drama, history | 75 |
12 | L'Atalante | Jean Vigo | 1934 | drama, romance | 89 |
13 | Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard | 1960 | crime, drama | 90 |
14 | Apocalypse Now | Francis Coppola | 1979 | drama, war | 153 |
15 | Late Spring | Yasujirô Ozu | 1949 | drama | 108 |
16 | Au Hasard Balthazar | Robert Bresson | 1966 | crime, drama | 95 |
17 | Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa | 1954 | action, adventure, drama | 207 |
18 | Persona | Ingmar Bergman | 1966 | drama | 85 |
19 | Mirror | Andrey Tarkovskiy | 1975 | biography, drama | 108 |
20 | Singin' in the Rain | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | 1952 | comedy, musical, romance | 103 |
21 | L'avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1960 | drama, mystery | 143 |
22 | The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola | 1972 | crime, drama | 175 |
23 | Le Mépris | Jean-Luc Godard | 1963 | drama | 103 |
24 | Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa | 1950 | crime, drama | 88 |
25 | Ordet | 1955 | drama | 126 | |
26 | In the Mood for Love | Kar Wai Wong | 2000 | drama, romance | 98 |
27 | Andrei Rublev | Andrey Tarkovskiy | 1966 | biography, drama, history, war | |
28 | Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | 2001 | drama, mystery, thriller | 147 |
29 | Stalker | Andrey Tarkovskiy | 1979 | adventure, drama, fantasy, mystery, sci_fi | 163 |
30 | Shoah | Claude Lanzmann | 1985 | documentary, history, war | |
31 | Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese | 1976 | drama | 113 |
32 | The Godfather: Part II | Francis Ford Coppola | 1974 | crime, drama | 200 |
33 | Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica | 1948 | crime, drama | 93 |
34 | Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | 1960 | horror, mystery, thriller | 109 |
35 | The General | Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | 1926 | action, adventure, comedy, romance, war | 107 |
36 | Sátántangó | Béla Tarr | 1994 | comedy, drama | 450 |
37 | Metropolis | Fritz Lang | 1927 | drama, sci_fi | 153 |
38 | Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | Chantal Anne Akerman | 1975 | drama | 201 |
39 | La Dolce Vita | Federico Fellini | 1960 | comedy, drama | 174 |
40 | The 400 Blows | François Truffaut | 1959 | crime, drama | 99 |
41 | Pather Panchali | Satyajit Ray | 1955 | drama | 119 |
42 | Journey to Italy | Roberto Rossellini | 1954 | drama | 85 |
43 | Pierrot le Fou | Jean-Luc Godard | 1965 | comedy, crime, drama, musical, romance | 110 |
44 | Close-Up | Abbas Kiarostami | 1990 | crime, drama | 98 |
45 | Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | 1959 | comedy | 120 |
46 | Playtime | Jacques Tati | 1967 | comedy | 115 |
47 | Gertrud | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1964 | drama | 119 |
48 | Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une histoire seule | 1989 | documentary | 42 | |
49 | The Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo | 1966 | crime, drama, history, war | 121 |
50 | City Lights | Charles Chaplin | 1931 | comedy, drama, romance | 87 |
51 | Ugetsu Monogatari | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1953 | drama, fantasy, mystery | 96 |
52 | La Jetée | Chris Marker | 1962 | drama, romance, sci_fi | 28 |
53 | North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | 1959 | adventure, mystery, romance, thriller | 136 |
54 | Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | 1954 | mystery, thriller | 112 |
55 | Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | 1980 | biography, drama, sport | 129 |
56 | M | Fritz Lang | 1931 | drama, film_noir, thriller | 117 |
57 | The Leopard | Luchino Visconti | 1963 | drama | 187 |
58 | Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | 1958 | crime, film_noir, thriller | 95 |
59 | Sherlock Jr. | Buster Keaton | 1924 | comedy, fantasy | 45 |
60 | Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | 1975 | adventure, drama, romance, war | 184 |
61 | The Mother and the Whore | Jean Eustache | 1973 | drama, romance | 217 |
62 | Sansho the Bailiff | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1954 | drama | 124 |
63 | Wild Strawberries | Ingmar Bergman | 1957 | drama | 91 |
64 | Modern Times | Charlie Chaplin | 1936 | comedy, drama, family, romance | 87 |
65 | Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder | 1950 | drama, film_noir | 110 |
66 | The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | 1955 | drama, film_noir, thriller | 93 |
67 | Pickpocket | Robert Bresson | 1959 | crime, drama, thriller | 75 |
68 | Rio Bravo | Howard Hawks | 1959 | drama, western | 141 |
69 | Blade Runner | Ridley Scott | 1982 | drama, sci_fi, thriller | 117 |
70 | Blue Velvet | David Lynch | 1986 | crime, mystery, thriller | 120 |
71 | Sans Soleil | Chris. Marker | 1983 | documentary | 100 |
72 | A Man Escaped | Robert Bresson | 1956 | drama, thriller, war | 99 |
73 | The Third Man | Carol Reed | 1949 | film_noir, mystery, thriller | 104 |
74 | L'eclisse | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1962 | drama, romance | 126 |
75 | Les Enfants du Paradis | Marcel Carné | 1945 | drama, romance | 190 |
76 | La Grande Illusion | Jean Renoir | 1937 | drama, war | 114 |
77 | Nashville | Robert Altman | 1975 | drama, music | 159 |
78 | Chinatown | Roman Polanski | 1974 | drama, mystery | 130 |
79 | Beau Travail | Claire Denis | 1999 | drama | |
80 | Once Upon a Time in the West | Sergio Leone | 1968 | adventure, western | 175 |
81 | The Magnificent Ambersons | Orson Welles | 1942 | drama, romance | 88 |
82 | Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | 1962 | adventure, biography, drama, history, war | 216 |
83 | The Spirit of the Beehive | VÃctor Erice | 1973 | drama, fantasy | 97 |
84 | Fanny and Alexander | Ingmar Bergman | 1982 | drama, fantasy, mystery | 188 |
85 | Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 1942 | drama, romance, war | 102 |
86 | The Colour of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | 1968 | biography, drama, music | 79 |
87 | Greed | Erich von Stroheim | 1924 | drama | 140 |
88 | A Brighter Summer Day | Edward Yang | 1991 | crime, drama, romance | 237 |
89 | The Wild Bunch | Sam Peckinpah | 1969 | western | 145 |
90 | Partie de campagne | Jean Renoir | 1936 | drama, romance | 40 |
91 | Aguirre, Wrath of God | Werner Herzog | 1972 | adventure, drama, history | 93 |
92 | A Matter of Life and Death | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1946 | drama, fantasy, romance, war | 104 |
93 | The Seventh Seal | Ingmar Bergman | 1957 | drama, fantasy | 96 |
94 | Un Chien Andalou | Louis Bunuel | 1929 | fantasy | 16 |
95 | Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages | D.W. Griffith | 1916 | drama, history | 163 |
96 | A One and a Two (Yi Yi) | Edward Yang | 2000 | drama, music, romance | 173 |
97 | The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1943 | drama, romance, war | 163 |
98 | Touki Bouki | Djibril Diop Mambéty | 1973 | drama | 85 |
99 | Fear Eats the Soul | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1974 | drama | |
100 | Imitation of Life | Douglas Sirk | 1959 | drama, romance | 125 |
101 | Madame de... | Max Ophüls | 1953 | drama, romance | 105 |
102 | Wavelength | Michael Snow | 1967 | 45 | |
103 | The Conformist | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1970 | drama | 107 |
104 | The Travelling Players | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 1975 | drama, history, war | 230 |
105 | Meshes of the Afternoon | Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid | 1943 | 14 | |
106 | Two or Three Things I Know About Her... | Jean-Luc Godard | 1967 | comedy, drama | 87 |
107 | The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick | 2011 | drama, fantasy | 139 |
108 | Ivan the Terrible, Part I | Sergei Eisenstein | 1944 | biography, history | 103 |
109 | Last Year in Marienbad | Alain Resnais | 1961 | drama, mystery, romance | 94 |
110 | The Lady Eve | Preston Sturges | 1941 | comedy, crime, romance | 94 |
111 | Los olvidados | Luis Buñuel | 1950 | crime, drama | 85 |
112 | Bringing Up Baby | Howard Hawks | 1938 | comedy, romance | 102 |
113 | Performance | Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg | 1970 | crime, drama, music | 105 |
114 | The Passenger | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1975 | drama, mystery, romance, thriller | 126 |
115 | Viridiana | Luis Buñuel | 1961 | drama | 90 |
116 | L'Age d'Or | Luis Buñuel | 1930 | comedy, drama | 60 |
117 | A Canterbury Tale | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1944 | comedy, drama, mystery, war | 124 |
118 | Mouchette | Robert Bresson | 1967 | drama | 78 |
119 | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick | 1964 | comedy, war | 95 |
120 | Nosferatu | F.W. Murnau | 1922 | horror | 94 |
121 | The Red Shoes | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1948 | drama, music, musical, romance | 133 |
122 | Trouble in Paradise | Ernst Lubitsch | 1932 | comedy, crime, romance | 83 |
123 | A City of Sadness | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 1989 | drama | 157 |
124 | Amarcord | Federico Fellini | 1973 | comedy, drama | 123 |
125 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | John Ford | 1962 | drama, romance, western | 123 |
126 | Days of Heaven | Terrence Malick | 1978 | drama, romance | 94 |
127 | Xiao cheng zhi chun | Mu Fei | 1948 | drama, romance | 93 |
128 | Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 1989 | drama | 120 |
129 | Out 1 | Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman | 1971 | comedy, drama, thriller | 729 |
130 | Tropical Malady | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 2004 | drama, fantasy, romance | 118 |
131 | The River | Jean Renoir | 1951 | drama, romance | 99 |
132 | Jules and Jim | François Truffaut | 1962 | drama, romance | 105 |
133 | Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | 1994 | crime, thriller | 154 |
134 | Meet Me in St. Louis | Vincente Minnelli | 1944 | family, musical, romance | 113 |
135 | L'argent | Robert Bresson | 1983 | crime, drama | 85 |
136 | Ikiru | Akira Kurosawa | 1952 | drama | 143 |
137 | Three Colours: Blue | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1993 | drama, music, mystery, romance | 98 |
138 | Don't Look Now | Nicolas Roeg | 1973 | horror, mystery, thriller | 110 |
139 | Celine and Julie Go Boating | Jacques Rivette | 1974 | comedy, drama, fantasy, mystery | 193 |
140 | Annie Hall | Woody Allen | 1977 | comedy, drama, romance | 93 |
141 | The Apartment | Billy Wilder | 1960 | romance, comedy, drama | 125 |
142 | The Last Laugh | F.W. Murnau | 1924 | drama | 77 |
143 | Hiroshima Mon Amour | Alain Resnais | 1959 | drama, romance, war | 90 |
144 | Blow-Up | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1966 | drama, mystery, thriller | 111 |
145 | The Great Dictator | Charles Chaplin | 1940 | comedy, drama, war | 125 |
146 | Memories of Underdevelopment | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1968 | drama | 97 |
147 | Diary of a Country Priest | Robert Bresson | 1951 | drama, mystery | 115 |
148 | Chungking Express | Kar Wai Wong | 1994 | drama, mystery, romance | 98 |
149 | To Be or Not to Be | Ernst Lubitsch | 1942 | comedy, war | 99 |
150 | A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes | 1974 | drama, romance | 155 |
151 | Napoleon | Abel Gance | 1927 | biography, drama, history, war | 240 |
152 | Vivre Sa Vie | Jean-Luc Godard | 1962 | drama | 80 |
153 | The Wizard of Oz | Victor Fleming | 1939 | adventure, family, fantasy, musical | 101 |
154 | Marketa Lazarová | Frantisek Vlácil | 1967 | drama, history, romance | 162 |
155 | Hidden (Caché) | Michael Haneke | 2005 | drama, mystery, thriller | 117 |
156 | The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | 1980 | horror, mystery | |
157 | Solaris | Andrey Tarkovskiy | 1972 | drama, mystery, sci_fi | 167 |
158 | Falstaff - Chimes at Midnight | Orson Welles | 1965 | comedy, drama, war | 113 |
159 | The Gold Rush | Charles Chaplin | 1925 | adventure, comedy, family, romance, western | |
160 | Letter from an Unknown Woman | Max Opuls | 1948 | drama, romance | 86 |
161 | Brief Encounter | David Lean | 1945 | romance, drama | 86 |
162 | In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | 1950 | drama, film_noir, mystery, romance, thriller | 94 |
163 | Black Narcissus | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1947 | drama | 100 |
164 | My Neighbour Totoro | Hayao Miyazaki | 1988 | animation, adventure, family, fantasy | 86 |
165 | Only Angels Have Wings | Howard Hawks | 1939 | drama, adventure, romance | 121 |
166 | Vampyr | Carl Th. Dreyer | 1932 | horror | 83 |
167 | Come and See | E. Klimov | 1985 | drama, history, war | 136 |
168 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | Terence Davies | 1988 | drama | 85 |
169 | Once Upon a Time in America | Sergio Leone | 1984 | crime, drama | 229 |
170 | Cries and Whispers | Ingmar Bergman | 1972 | drama, romance | 91 |
171 | King Kong | 1933 | adventure, fantasy, horror | 100 | |
172 | Werckmeister Harmonies | Béla Tarr, Ãgnes Hranitzky | 2000 | drama, mystery | 145 |
173 | Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope | George Lucas | 1977 | action, adventure, fantasy, sci_fi | 121 |
174 | Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | 1946 | film_noir, romance, thriller | 101 |
175 | His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks | 1940 | comedy, drama, romance | 92 |
176 | Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese | 1990 | biography, crime, drama, thriller | 146 |
177 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Jacques Demy | 1964 | drama, musical, romance | 91 |
178 | A Trip to the Moon | 1902 | adventure, fantasy, sci_fi | ||
179 | Sweet Smell of Success | Alexander Mackendrick | 1957 | drama, film_noir | 96 |
180 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | Robert Hamer | 1949 | comedy, crime | 106 |
181 | Tabu: A Story of the South Seas | F.W. Murnau | 1931 | drama, romance, adventure | 84 |
182 | Earth | Aleksandr Dovzhenko | 1930 | drama | 75 |
183 | Breaking the Waves | Lars Von Trier | 1996 | drama, romance | 159 |
184 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Ford | 1940 | drama | 129 |
185 | Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | 1984 | drama | 147 |
186 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Steven Spielberg | 1982 | adventure, drama, family, fantasy, sci_fi | 115 |
187 | Rome, Open City | Roberto Rossellini | 1945 | drama, war | 100 |
188 | Faces | John Cassavetes | 1968 | drama | 130 |
189 | The Music Room | Satyajit Ray | 1958 | drama, music | 100 |
190 | The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1939 | drama | 142 |
191 | A Touch of Zen | King Hu | 1971 | action, adventure | 200 |
192 | Listen to Britain | Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister | 1942 | documentary | 20 |
193 | Day of Wrath | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1943 | drama, romance | 97 |
194 | The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick | 1998 | drama, war | 170 |
195 | Eraserhead | David Lynch | 1977 | fantasy, horror, sci_fi | 85 |
196 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | Tobe Hooper | 1974 | horror, thriller | 83 |
197 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | Luis Bunuel | 1972 | comedy, drama, fantasy | 102 |
198 | The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola | 1974 | drama, mystery | 113 |
199 | Out of the Past | Jacques Tourneur | 1947 | drama, film_noir, thriller | 97 |
200 | I Was Born, But... | Yasujirô Ozu | 1932 | comedy, drama | 100 |
201 | 'I Know Where I'm Going!' | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1945 | drama, romance | 91 |
202 | The Death of Mr. Lazarescu | Cristi Puiu | 2005 | drama | 150 |
203 | Red Desert | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1964 | drama | 117 |
204 | Chelsea Girls | Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol | 1966 | drama | 210 |
205 | Badlands | Terrence Malick | 1973 | crime, drama | 94 |
206 | Kings of the Road | Wim Wenders | 1976 | drama | 175 |
207 | There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2007 | drama | 158 |
208 | WALL·E | Andrew Stanton | 2008 | animation, adventure, family, romance, sci_fi | 98 |
209 | Berlin Alexanderplatz | 1980 | drama | 910 | |
210 | Videodrome | David Cronenberg | 1983 | drama, horror, sci_fi | 87 |
211 | Sedmikrásky | Vera Chytilová | 1966 | comedy, drama | 74 |
212 | Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 2010 | drama, fantasy | 114 |
213 | Manhattan | Woody Allen | 1979 | comedy, drama, romance | 96 |
214 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | Agnès Varda | 1962 | comedy, drama, music | 90 |
215 | Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks | Bing Wang | 2003 | documentary | |
216 | Russian Ark | Aleksandr Sokurov | 2002 | drama, fantasy, history, mystery | 99 |
217 | Tale of Tales | Yu. Norshteyn | 1979 | animation | 29 |
218 | Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki | 2001 | animation, adventure, family, fantasy | 125 |
219 | La Strada | Federico Fellini | 1954 | drama | 108 |
220 | Paisà | Roberto Rossellini | 1946 | war, drama | 125 |
221 | The Shop Around the Corner | Ernst Lubitsch | 1940 | comedy, romance, drama | 99 |
222 | The Big Sleep | Howard Hawks | 1946 | crime, film_noir, mystery, thriller | 114 |
223 | Killer of Sheep | Charles Burnett | 1979 | drama | 83 |
224 | Wanda | Barbara Loden | 1970 | crime, drama | 102 |
225 | Germany Year Zero | Roberto Rossellini | 1948 | drama | 78 |
226 | The Life of Oharu | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1952 | drama | 148 |
227 | Army of Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1969 | drama, war | |
228 | Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1975 | drama, thriller, war | 116 |
229 | Duck Soup | Leo McCarey | 1933 | comedy, musical | 68 |
230 | Le diable probablement | Robert Bresson | 1977 | drama | 95 |
231 | The Turin Horse | Béla Tarr, Ãgnes Hranitzky | 2011 | drama | 146 |
232 | Love Streams | John Cassavetes | 1984 | comedy, drama | 141 |
233 | The Exterminating Angel | Luis Buñuel | 1962 | comedy, drama, fantasy, mystery | 95 |
234 | Floating Clouds | Mikio Naruse | 1955 | drama, romance | 123 |
235 | The Piano | Jane Campion | 1993 | drama, romance | 121 |
236 | Gone with the Wind | Victor Fleming | 1939 | drama, romance, war | 238 |
237 | Melancholia | Lars von Trier | 2011 | drama, sci_fi | 136 |
238 | The House Is Black | Forugh Farrokhzad | 1963 | documentary | 20 |
239 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Robert Wiene | 1920 | horror | |
240 | Red River | Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson | 1948 | action, adventure, romance, western | 133 |
241 | A Clockwork Orange | Stanley Kubrick | 1971 | crime, drama, sci_fi | 136 |
242 | Two-Lane Blacktop | Monte Hellman | 1971 | drama | 102 |
243 | An Autumn Afternoon | Yasujirô Ozu | 1962 | drama | 112 |
244 | The Thin Blue Line | Errol Morris | 1988 | documentary, crime, mystery | 103 |
245 | The World of Apu | Satyajit Ray | 1959 | drama | 105 |
246 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | Fritz Lang | 1933 | crime, fantasy | 122 |
247 | My Darling Clementine | John Ford | 1946 | drama, western | 97 |
248 | The Double Life of Veronique | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1991 | drama, fantasy, music, romance | 98 |
249 | Kes | Kenneth Loach | 1969 | drama | 110 |
250 | Three Colours: Red | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1994 | drama, mystery, romance | 99 |