Sight and Sound Critics' and Directors' Polls 1952-2022
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- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy ComingoreFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'#11= 1952 critics 9 votes
#1 1962 critics 22 votes
#1 1972 critics 32 votes
#1 1982 critics 45 votes
#1 1992 critics 43 votes
#1 1992 directors 30 votes
#1 2002 critics 46 votes
#1 2002 directors 42 votes
#2 2012 critics 157 votes
#2= 2012 directors 42 votes
#3 2022 critics 163 votes
#2 2022 directors 52 votes (683) - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartKim NovakBarbara Bel GeddesA former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.#12= 1972 critics 8 votes
#7= 1982 critics 12 votes
#4 1992 critics 18 votes
#6= 1992 directors 10 votes
#2 2002 critics 41 votes
#6= 2002 directors 13 votes
#1 2012 critics 191 votes
#7= 2012 directors 31 votes
#2 2022 critics 208 votes
#6= 2022 directors 37 votes (569) - DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChishû RyûChieko HigashiyamaSô YamamuraAn old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.#26= 1962 critics 6 votes
#3 1992 critics 22 votes
#5 2002 critics 22 votes
#16= 2002 directors 9 votes
#3 2012 critics 107 votes
#1 2012 directors 48 votes
#4 2022 critics 144 votes
#4= 2022 directors 46 votes (404) - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsKeir DulleaGary LockwoodWilliam SylvesterAfter uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.#18= 1972 critics 7 votes
#12= 1982 critics 10 votes
#10 1992 critics 14 votes
#6 2002 critics 21 votes
#12= 2002 directors 11 votes
#6 2012 critics 90 votes
#2= 2012 directors 42 votes
#6 2022 critics 130 votes
#1 2022 directors 62 votes (387) - DirectorJean RenoirStarsMarcel DalioNora GregorPaulette DubostA bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.La Règle du jeu
#10= 1952 critics 10 votes
#3 1962 critics 19 votes
#2 1972 critics 28 votes
#2 1982 critics 31 votes
#2 1992 critics 32 votes
#3 2002 critics 30 votes
#9= 2002 directors 12 votes
#4 2012 critics 100 votes
#22= 2012 directors 17 votes
#13 2022 critics 87 votes
#38= 2022 directors 15 votes (381) - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnouk AiméeClaudia CardinaleA harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.8½
#4 1972 critics 15 votes
#5 1982 critics 14 votes
#2= 1992 directors 16 votes
#9 2002 critics 18 votes
#3 2002 directors 19 votes
#10 2012 critics 64 votes
#4 2012 directors 40 votes
#31= 2022 critics 59 votes
#6= 2022 directors 37 votes (282) - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMarlon BrandoAl PacinoJames CaanThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.#6= 1992 directors 10 votes
#4= 2002 critics 23 votes
#2= 2002 directors 28 votes
#21= 2012 critics 43 votes
#7= 2012 directors 31 votes
#12 2022 critics 94 votes
#3 2022 directors 47 votes (276) - DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGeorge O'BrienJanet GaynorMargaret LivingstonA sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.Sunrise
#17 1962 critics 9 votes
#18= 1972 critics 7 votes
#7= 2002 critics 19 votes
#41= 2002 directors 5 votes
#5 2012 critics 93 votes
#22= 2012 directors 17 votes
#11 2022 critics 98 votes
#33= 2022 directors 18 votes (266) - DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneJeffrey HunterVera MilesAn American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.#18= 1972 critics 7 votes
#10= 1982 critics 11 votes
#5 1992 critics 17 votes
#11= 2002 critics 15 votes
#24= 2002 directors 7 votes
#7 2012 critics 78 votes
#47= 2012 directors 11 votes
#15 2022 critics 80 votes
#72= 2022 directors 10 votes (236) - DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsMaria FalconettiEugene SilvainAndré BerleyIn 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.#7= 1952 critics 11 votes
#26= 1962 critics 6 votes
#7 1972 critics 11 votes
#6= 1992 critics 15 votes
#9= 1992 directors 9 votes
#14 2002 critics 12 votes
#31= 2002 directors 6 votes
#9 2012 critics 65 votes
#37= 2012 directors 13 votes
#21= 2022 critics 70 votes
#30= 2022 directors 19 votes (237) - DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsAleksandr AntonovVladimir BarskiyGrigoriy AleksandrovIn the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.#4 1952 critics 16 votes
#6= 1962 critics 16 votes
#3 1972 critics 16 votes
#6 1982 critics 13 votes
#6= 1992 critics 15 votes
#7= 2002 critics 19 votes
#31= 2002 directors 6 votes
#11 2012 critics 63 votes
#75= 2012 directors 8 votes
#54= 2022 critics 44 votes
#93= 2022 directors 9 votes (225) - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneTakashi ShimuraKeiko TsushimaFarmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.#3= 1982 critics 15 votes
#9= 1992 directors 9 votes
#11= 2002 critics 15 votes
#9= 2002 directors 12 votes
#17= 2012 critics 48 votes
#17 2012 directors 22 votes
#20 2022 critics 71 votes
#14= 2022 directors 28 votes (220) - DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsLamberto MaggioraniEnzo StaiolaLianella CarellIn post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.#1 1952 critics 25 votes
#6= 1962 critics 16 votes
#11= 1992 critics 10 votes
#45= 2002 critics 5 votes
#6= 2002 directors 13 votes
#33 2012 critics 37 votes
#10 2012 directors 29 votes
#41= 2022 critics 52 votes
#20= 2022 directors 24 votes (211) - DirectorStanley DonenGene KellyStarsGene KellyDonald O'ConnorDebbie ReynoldsA silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.#3= 1982 critics 15 votes
#11= 1992 critics 10 votes
#10 2002 critics 17 votes
#19= 2002 directors 8 votes
#20 2012 critics 46 votes
#67= 2012 directors 9 votes
#10 2022 critics 99 votes
#52= 2022 directors 12 votes (216) - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBibi AnderssonLiv UllmannMargaretha KrookA nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.#5= 1972 critics 12 votes
#41= 2002 directors 5 votes
#17= 2012 critics 48 votes
#15= 2012 directors 24 votes
#18 2022 critics 77 votes
#9= 2022 directors 33 votes (199) - DirectorDziga VertovStarsMikhail KaufmanElizaveta SvilovaA man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.#27= 2002 critics 7 votes
#8 2012 critics 68 votes
#47= 2012 directors 11 votes
#9 2022 critics 100 votes
#30= 2022 directors 19 votes (205) - DirectorJean VigoStarsDita ParloJean DastéGilles MargaritisNewly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.#10 1962 critics 13 votes
#6= 1992 critics 15 votes
#5 1992 directors 11 votes
#15= 2002 critics 11 votes
#12 2012 critics 58 votes
#22= 2012 directors 17 votes
#34 2022 critics 58 votes
#46= 2022 directors 13 votes (196) - DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsMargarita TerekhovaFilipp YankovskiyIgnat DaniltsevA dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.#45= 2002 critics 5 votes
#16= 2002 directors 9 votes
#19 2012 critics 47 votes
#9 2012 directors 30 votes
#31= 2022 critics 59 votes
#8 2022 directors 34 votes (184) - DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Paul BelmondoJean SebergVan DoudeA small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.À bout de souffle
#15= 2002 critics 11 votes
#31= 2002 directors 6 votes
#13 2012 critics 57 votes
#11 2012 directors 27 votes
#38= 2022 critics 53 votes
#14= 2022 directors 28 votes (182) - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert DuvallA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.#19= 2002 directors 8 votes
#14 2012 critics 53 votes
#6 2012 directors 33 votes
#19 2022 critics 72 votes
#18= 2022 directors 27 votes (193) - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMachiko KyôMasayuki MoriThe rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.#9= 1992 directors 9 votes
#13 2002 critics 14 votes
#9= 2002 directors 12 votes
#24= 2012 critics 42 votes
#18 2012 directors 21 votes
#41= 2022 critics 52 votes
#20= 2022 directors 24 votes (174) - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.#35= 2002 critics 6 votes
#31= 2002 directors 6 votes
#31= 2012 critics 38 votes
#5 2012 directors 34 votes
#29 2022 critics 62 votes
#12= 2022 directors 29 votes (175) - DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsGabriele FerzettiMonica VittiLea MassariA woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.#2 1962 critics 20 votes
#5= 1972 critics 12 votes
#7= 1982 critics 12 votes
#19= 2002 critics 10 votes
#24= 2002 directors 7 votes
#21= 2012 critics 43 votes
#30= 2012 directors 14 votes
#72= 2022 critics 37 votes
#38= 2022 directors 15 votes (170) - DirectorRobert BressonStarsAnne WiazemskyWalter GreenFrançois LafargeThe story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.Au hasard Balthazar
#19= 2002 critics 10 votes
#16 2012 critics 49 votes
#21 2012 directors 18 votes
#25= 2022 critics 66 votes
#37 2022 directors 16 votes (159) - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinVirginia CherrillFlorence LeeWith the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.#2= 1952 critics 19 votes
#14= 1962 critics 10 votes
#45= 2002 critics 5 votes
#19= 2002 directors 8 votes
#50= 2012 critics 29 votes
#30= 2012 directors 14 votes
#36= 2022 critics 55 votes
#52= 2022 directors 12 votes (152) - DirectorSatyajit RayStarsKanu BannerjeeKaruna BannerjeeSubir BanerjeeImpoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.#11= 1962 critics 11 votes
#6= 1992 critics 15 votes
#22= 2002 critics 9 votes
#41= 2012 critics 32 votes
#47= 2012 directors 11 votes
#35 2022 critics 56 votes
#22= 2022 directors 23 votes (157) - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroRobert DuvallThe early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.#9= 1992 directors 9 votes
#4= 2002 critics 23 votes
#2= 2002 directors 28 votes
#31= 2012 critics 38 votes
#30= 2012 directors 14 votes
(#104= 2022)
#26= 2022 directors 22 votes (134) - DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynIvan LapikovNikolay GrinkoThe life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.Andrei Roublev
#12= 1982 critics 10 votes
#35= 2002 critics 6 votes
#24= 2002 directors 7 votes
#27 2012 critics 41 votes
#13= 2012 directors 25 votes
#67= 2022 critics 38 votes
#26= 2022 directors 22 votes (149) - DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsHenrik MalbergEmil Hass ChristensenPreben Lerdorff RyeFollows the lives of the Borgen family, as they deal with inner conflict, as well as religious conflict with each other, and the rest of the town.#45= 2002 critics 5 votes
#24= 2012 critics 42 votes
#19= 2012 directors 19 votes
#48= 2022 critics 48 votes
#30= 2022 directors 19 votes (133) - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera MilesA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.#35= 2002 critics 6 votes
#16= 2002 directors 9 votes
#34= 2012 critics 35 votes
#47= 2012 directors 11 votes
#31= 2022 critics 59 votes
#46= 2022 directors 13 votes (133) - DirectorClaude LanzmannStarsSimon SrebnikMichael PodchlebnikMotke ZaïdlClaude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.#45= 2002 critics 5 votes
#29= 2012 critics 39 votes
#47= 2012 directors 11 votes
#27 2022 critics 64 votes
#72= 2022 directors 10 votes (129) - DirectorStanley KubrickStarsRyan O'NealMarisa BerensonPatrick MageeAn Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.#27= 2002 critics 7 votes
#59= 2012 critics 25 votes
#19= 2012 directors 19 votes
#45= 2022 critics 49 votes
#12= 2022 directors 29 votes (129) - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnita EkbergAnouk AiméeA series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.#24= 2002 critics 8 votes
#14= 2002 directors 10 votes
#39= 2012 critics 33 votes
#37= 2012 directors 13 votes
#60= 2022 critics 42 votes
#35= 2022 directors 17 votes (123) - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJean-Pierre LéaudAlbert RémyClaire MaurierA young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.#35= 2002 critics 6 votes
#39= 2012 critics 33 votes
#13= 2012 directors 25 votes
#50= 2022 critics 46 votes
#33= 2022 directors 18 votes (128) - DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsBrigitte BardotJack PalanceMichel PiccoliA French writer's marriage deteriorates while working on Fritz Lang's version of "The Odyssey", as his wife accuses him of using her to court favor with the film's brash American producer.Le Mépris
#22= 2002 critics 9 votes
#21= 2012 critics 43 votes
#44= 2012 directors 12 votes
#54= 2022 critics 44 votes
#46= 2022 directors 13 votes (121) - DirectorKar-Wai WongStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiMaggie CheungSiu Ping-LamTwo neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.#24= 2012 critics 42 votes
#67= 2012 directors 9 votes
#5 2022 critics 141 votes
#9= 2022 directors 33 votes (225) - DirectorBilly WilderStarsMarilyn MonroeTony CurtisJack LemmonAfter two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.#27= 2002 critics 7 votes
#24= 2002 directors 7 votes
#43= 2012 critics 31 votes
#37= 2012 directors 13 votes
#38= 2022 critics 53 votes
#62= 2022 directors 11 votes (122) - DirectorYasujirô OzuStarsChishû RyûSetsuko HaraYumeji TsukiokaSeveral people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.#15 2012 critics 50 votes
#21= 2022 critics 70 votes
#62= 2022 directors 11 votes (131) - DirectorClyde BruckmanBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonMarion MackGlen CavenderAfter being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.#20= 1962 critics 7 votes
#8= 1972 critics 10 votes
#10= 1982 critics 11 votes
#15= 2002 critics 11 votes
#34= 2012 critics 35 votes
#75= 2012 directors 8 votes
#95= 2022 critics 31 votes (113) - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroCathy MoriartyJoe PesciThe life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.#2= 1992 directors 16 votes
#6= 2002 directors 13 votes
#53= 2012 critics 28 votes
#12 2012 directors 26 votes
#22= 2022 directors 23 votes (106) - DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsMasayuki MoriMachiko KyôKinuyo TanakaA tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.Ugetsu monogatari
#4= 1962 critics 17 votes
#10= 1972 critics 9 votes
#27= 2002 critics 7 votes
#50= 2012 critics 29 votes
#67= 2012 directors 9 votes
#90= 2022 critics 32 votes (103) - DirectorDavid LynchStarsNaomi WattsLaura HarringJustin TherouxAfter a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.#28 2012 critics 40 votes
#75= 2012 directors 8 votes
#8 2022 critics 105 votes
#22= 2022 directors 23 votes (176) - DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr KaydanovskiyAnatoliy SolonitsynA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.#29= 2012 critics 39 votes
#30= 2012 directors 14 votes
#43= 2022 critics 51 votes
#14= 2022 directors 28 votes (132) - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPaulette GoddardHenry BergmanThe Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.#6= 1992 directors 10 votes
#35= 2002 critics 6 votes
#63= 2012 critics 24 votes
#22= 2012 directors 17 votes
#78= 2022 critics 35 votes
#72= 2022 directors 10 votes (102) - DirectorFritz LangStarsPeter LorreEllen WidmannInge LandgutWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.#24= 2002 critics 8 votes
#56 2012 critics 27 votes
#75= 2012 directors 8 votes
#36= 2022 critics 55 votes (98) - DirectorChantal AkermanStarsDelphine SeyrigJan DecorteHenri StorckA lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. However, something happens that changes her safe routine.#36= 2012 critics 34 votes
#1 2022 critics 215 votes
#4= 2022 directors 46 votes (295) - DirectorRidley ScottStarsHarrison FordRutger HauerSean YoungA blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.#45= 2002 critics 5 votes
#69= 2012 critics 23 votes
#67= 2012 directors 9 votes
#54= 2022 critics 44 votes
#62= 2022 directors 11 votes (92) - DirectorBilly WilderStarsWilliam HoldenGloria SwansonErich von StroheimA screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.#12= 2002 directors 11 votes
#63= 2012 critics 24 votes
#67= 2012 directors 9 votes
#78= 2022 critics 35 votes
#62= 2022 directors 11 votes (90) - DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Paul BelmondoAnna KarinaGraziella GalvaniPierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.#12= 1972 critics 8 votes
#45= 2002 critics 5 votes
#43= 2012 critics 31 votes
#91= 2012 directors 7 votes
#85= 2022 critics 34 votes (85) - DirectorCarol ReedStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenAlida ValliPulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.#14= 1982 critics 9 votes
#35= 2002 critics 6 votes
#41= 2002 directors 5 votes
#73= 2012 critics 22 votes
#63= 2022 critics 40 votes (82) - DirectorFritz LangStarsBrigitte HelmAlfred AbelGustav FröhlichIn a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.#27= 2002 critics 7 votes
#36= 2012 critics 34 votes
#67= 2022 critics 38 votes (79) - DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiBarbara DennekRita MaidenMonsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.#43= 2012 critics 31 votes
#37= 2012 directors 13 votes
#23 2022 critics 68 votes
#41= 2022 directors 14 votes (126) - DirectorSergio LeoneStarsHenry FondaCharles BronsonClaudia CardinaleA mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.#41= 2002 directors 5 votes
#78= 2012 critics 21 votes
#44= 2012 directors 12 votes
#95= 2022 critics 31 votes
#46= 2022 directors 13 votes (82) - DirectorRoberto RosselliniStarsIngrid BergmanGeorge SandersMaria MaubanAn unhappily married couple attempts to find direction and insight while vacationing in Naples.Journey to Italy
#41= 2012 critics 32 votes
#67= 2012 directors 9 votes
#72= 2022 critics 37 votes (78) - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBertil GuvePernilla AllwinKristina AdolphsonTwo young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.#35= 2002 critics 6 votes
#19= 2002 directors 8 votes
#84= 2012 critics 19 votes
#15= 2012 directors 24 votes
#52= 2022 directors 12 votes (69) - DirectorBéla TarrStarsMihály VigPutyi HorváthLászló feLugossyOn the eve of a large payment, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is returning to the community.#36= 2012 critics 34 votes
#78= 2022 critics 35 votes
#62= 2022 directors 11 votes (80) - DirectorJean RenoirStarsJean GabinDita ParloPierre FresnayDuring WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.#11= 1952 critics 9 votes
#20= 1962 critics 7 votes
#18= 1972 critics 7 votes
#35= 2002 critics 6 votes
#24= 2002 directors 7 votes
#73= 2012 critics 22 votes
#59= 2012 directors 10 votes (68) - DirectorAbbas KiarostamiStarsHossain SabzianMohsen MakhmalbafAbolfazl AhankhahThe true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film.#43= 2012 critics 31 votes
#37= 2012 directors 13 votes
#17 2022 critics 78 votes
#9= 2022 directors 33 votes (155) - DirectorGillo PontecorvoStarsBrahim HadjadjJean MartinYacef SaadiIn the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.#48= 2012 critics 30 votes
#26= 2012 directors 15 votes
#45= 2022 critics 49 votes
#22= 2022 directors 23 votes (117) - DirectorKenji MizoguchiStarsKinuyo TanakaYoshiaki HanayagiKyôko KagawaIn medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.Sansho the Bailiff
#45= 2002 critics 5 votes
#59= 2012 critics 25 votes
#75= 2022 critics 36 votes (66) - DirectorDavid LeanStarsPeter O'TooleAlec GuinnessAnthony QuinnThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.#45= 2002 critics 5 votes
#4 2002 directors 16 votes
#81= 2012 critics 20 votes
#47= 2012 directors 11 votes
#62= 2022 directors 11 votes (63) - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul HenreidA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.#19= 2002 directors 8 votes
#84= 2012 critics 19 votes
#63= 2022 critics 40 votes (67) - DirectorErich von StroheimStarsGibson GowlandZasu PittsJean HersholtThe sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.#7= 1952 critics 11 votes
#4= 1962 critics 17 votes
#14= 1982 critics 9 votes
#45= 2002 critics 5 votes
#84= 2012 critics 19 votes (61) - DirectorChris MarkerStarsÉtienne BeckerJean NégroniHélène ChatelainThe story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.#50= 2012 critics 29 votes
#67= 2022 critics 38 votes
#35= 2022 directors 17 votes (84) - DirectorOrson WellesStarsCharlton HestonOrson WellesJanet LeighA stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.#15= 2002 critics 11 votes
#31= 2002 directors 6 votes
#57= 2012 critics 26 votes
#26= 2012 directors 15 votes (58)
(#108= 2022) - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsCary GrantEva Marie SaintJames MasonA New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.#53= 2012 critics 28 votes
#45= 2022 critics 49 votes (77) - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsVictor SjöströmBibi AnderssonIngrid ThulinAfter living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.#26= 1962 critics 6 votes
#10= 1972 critics 9 votes
#27= 2002 critics 7 votes
#63= 2012 critics 24 votes
(#108= 2022)
#72= 2022 directors 10 votes (56) - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartGrace KellyWendell CoreyA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.#53= 2012 critics 28 votes
#47= 2012 directors 11 votes
#38= 2022 critics 53 votes (92) - DirectorRobert BressonStarsMartin LaSalleMarika GreenJean PélégriMichel passes the time by picking pockets, careful to never be caught despite being watched by the police. His friend Jacques may suspect, while both men may have their eyes on Jeanne, the pretty neighbor of Michel's ailing mother.#26= 1962 critics 6 votes
#41= 2002 directors 5 votes
#63= 2012 critics 24 votes
#47= 2012 directors 11 votes
#93= 2022 directors 9 votes (55) - DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAnthony QuinnGiulietta MasinaRichard BasehartA care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.La Strada
#4 1992 directors 12 votes
#24= 2002 directors 7 votes
#26= 2012 directors 15 votes
#38= 2022 directors 15 votes (49) - DirectorOrson WellesFred FleckRobert WiseStarsTim HoltJoseph CottenDolores CostelloThe spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.#8= 1972 critics 10 votes
#7= 1982 critics 12 votes
#35= 2002 critics 6 votes
#81= 2012 critics 20 votes (48) - DirectorCharles LaughtonStarsRobert MitchumShelley WintersLillian GishA self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.#63= 2012 critics 24 votes
#26= 2012 directors 15 votes
#25= 2022 critics 66 votes
#41= 2022 directors 14 votes (119) - DirectorBilly WilderStarsJack LemmonShirley MacLaineFred MacMurrayA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.#14= 2002 directors 10 votes
#44= 2012 directors 12 votes
#54= 2022 critics 44 votes (66) - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowGunnar BjörnstrandBengt EkerotA knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.#35= 2002 critics 6 votes
#31= 2002 directors 6 votes
#93= 2012 critics 17 votes
#75= 2012 directors 8 votes
#72= 2022 directors 10 votes (47) - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMack SwainTom MurrayA prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.#2= 1952 critics 19 votes
#14= 1962 critics 10 votes
#12= 1972 critics 8 votes
#91= 2012 directors 7 votes (44) - DirectorRobert BressonStarsFrançois LeterrierCharles Le ClaincheMaurice BeerblockA captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.#69= 2012 critics 23 votes
#37= 2012 directors 13 votes
#95= 2022 critics 31 votes
#41= 2022 directors 14 votes (81) - DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishRobert HarronMae MarshThe story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.Intolerance
#5= 1952 critics 12 votes
#26= 1962 critics 6 votes
#45= 2002 critics 5 votes
#93= 2012 critics 17 votes (40) - DirectorDavid LynchStarsIsabella RosselliniKyle MacLachlanDennis HopperThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.#69= 2012 critics 23 votes
#59= 2012 directors 10 votes
#85= 2022 critics 34 votes
#72= 2022 directors 10 votes (77) - StarsJean-Luc GodardAlain CunyJulie DelpyAn 8-part documentary chronicling the history of cinema, examining the history of the concept of cinema and how both relates to the 20th century.#48= 2012 critics 30 votes
#78= 2022 critics 35 votes (65) - DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsJack NicholsonFaye DunawayJohn HustonA private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.#24= 2002 directors 7 votes
#78= 2012 critics 21 votes
#91= 2012 directors 7 votes
#72= 2022 directors 10 votes (45) - DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovLyudmila TselikovskayaSerafima BirmanDuring the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.Ivan the Terrible
#6= 1962 critics 16 votes
#12= 1972 critics 8 votes
#27= 2002 critics 7 votes (31) - DirectorClaire DenisStarsDenis LavantMichel SuborGrégoire ColinAn ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti.#78= 2012 critics 21 votes
#91= 2012 directors 7 votes
#7 2022 critics 106 votes
#14= 2022 directors 28 votes (166) - DirectorJean VigoStarsJean DastéRobert le FlonLouis LefebvreIn a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day.#17= 1952 critics 7 votes
#11= 1962 critics 11 votes
#91= 2012 directors 7 votes (25) - DirectorChris MarkerStarsAmilcar CabralFlorence DelayArielle DombasleA woman narrates the contemplative writings of a seasoned world traveler, focusing on contemporary Japan.#69= 2012 critics 23 votes
#91= 2012 directors 7 votes
#59 2022 critics 43 votes
#72= 2022 directors 10 votes (83) - DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsNina Pens RodeBendt RotheEbbe RodeIn the elegant world of artists and musicians, Gertrud ends her marriage to Gustav and takes a lover, the composer Erland Jansson.#43= 2012 critics 31 votes
#59= 2012 directors 10 votes (41) - DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsBurt LancasterAlain DelonClaudia CardinaleThe Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.#57= 2012 critics 26 votes
#90= 2022 critics 32 votes (58) - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJeanne MoreauOskar WernerHenri SerreDecades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.Jules et Jim
#14= 1982 critics 9 votes
#19= 2002 critics 10 votes
#31= 2002 directors 6 votes (25) - DirectorMarcel CarnéStarsArlettyJean-Louis BarraultPierre BrasseurThe theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.Les enfants du paradis
#27= 2002 critics 7 votes
#31= 2002 directors 6 votes
#73= 2012 critics 22 votes (35) - DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsEmmanuelle RivaEiji OkadaStella DassasA French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.#11= 1962 critics 11 votes
#12= 1972 critics 8 votes (19) - DirectorBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonKathryn McGuireJoe KeatonA film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.#59= 2012 critics 25 votes
#54= 2022 critics 44 votes (69) - DirectorMark DonskoyStarsAleksei LyarskyVarvara MassalitinovaMikhail TroyanovskiyA drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
#14= 1952 critics 8 votes
#14= 1962 critics 10 votes (18) - DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsBrigitte MiraEl Hedi ben SalemBarbara ValentinA lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.#93= 2012 critics 17 votes
#75= 2012 directors 8 votes
#52= 2022 critics 45 votes
#52= 2022 directors 12 votes (82) - DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMady CorrellAllison RoddanA suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.#14= 1952 critics 8 votes
#18= 1962 critics 8 votes (16) - DirectorJean EustacheStarsBernadette LafontJean-Pierre LéaudFrançoise LebrunThe chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.La Maman et la Putain
#59= 2012 critics 25 votes
#91= 2012 directors 7 votes
(#104= 2022)
#52= 2022 directors 12 votes (44) - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTakashi ShimuraNobuo KanekoShin'ichi HimoriA bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.#20= 1962 critics 7 votes
#12= 1972 critics 8 votes
#72= 2022 directors 10 votes (25) - DirectorVíctor EriceStarsFernando Fernán GómezTeresa GimperaAna TorrentIn 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.#81= 2012 critics 20 votes
#85= 2022 critics 34 votes
#72= 2022 directors 10 votes (64) - DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsMonica VittiAlain DelonFrancisco RabalA young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.#73= 2012 critics 22 votes
#47= 2012 directors 11 votes (33) - DirectorEdward YangStarsChang ChenLisa YangKuo-Chu ChangBased on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.#84= 2012 critics 19 votes
#78= 2022 critics 35 votes
#72= 2022 directors 10 votes (64) - DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsStepan ShkuratSemyon SvashenkoYuliya SolntsevaIn the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.#17= 1952 critics 7 votes
#18= 1962 critics 8 votes (15) - DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsDavid NivenKim HunterRobert CooteA British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.A Matter of Life and Death
#90= 2012 critics 18 votes
#78= 2022 critics 35 votes (53)