Sight & Sound's Directors Poll

1925

  Battleship Potemkin

1927

  Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

1928

  The Passion of Joan of Arc

1931

  City Lights

1937

  Grand Illusion

1939

  The Rules of the Game

1939

  The Wizard of Oz

1941

  Citizen Kane

1942

  Casablanca

1945

  Children of Paradise

1948

  Bicycle Thieves

1948

  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1949

  The Third Man

1950

  Rashomon

1950

  Sunset Boulevard

1952

  Singin' in the Rain

1953

  Tokyo Story

1954

  La Strada

1954

  On the Waterfront

1954

  Seven Samurai

1956

  The Searchers

1957

  Sweet Smell of Success

1957

  The Seventh Seal

1958

  Touch of Evil

1958

  Vertigo

1959

  Pickpocket

1959

  Some Like It Hot

1960

  Breathless

1960

  L'avventura

1960

  La dolce vita

1960

  Psycho

1960

  The Apartment

1962

  Jules and Jim

1962

  Lawrence of Arabia

1963

  8½

1964

  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

1966

  Andrei Rublev

1966

  Persona

1968

  2001: A Space Odyssey

1968

  Once Upon a Time in the West

1970

  The Conformist

1972

  Aguirre: The Wrath of God

1973

  Amarcord

1974

  Chinatown

1975

  The Mirror

1976

  Taxi Driver

1979

  Apocalypse Now

1980

  Raging Bull

1982

  Fanny and Alexander

1985

  Ran