Sight and Sound Critics' and Directors' Polls 1952-2022
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1. Citizen Kane (1941)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 466,079 | Gross: $1.59M
#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)
2. Vertigo (1958)
PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Votes: 427,060 | Gross: $3.20M
#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)
3. Tokyo Story (1953)
Not Rated | 136 min | Drama
An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura, Setsuko Hara
Votes: 68,638
#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)
4. The Rules of the Game (1939)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély
Votes: 31,335
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)
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
After 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.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter
Votes: 719,766 | Gross: $56.95M
#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)
6. 8½ (1963)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo
Votes: 125,228 | Gross: $0.05M
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)
7. The Godfather (1972)
R | 175 min | Crime, Drama
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton
Votes: 2,013,290 | Gross: $134.97M
#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)
8. The Searchers (1956)
Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
An 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.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Votes: 96,328
#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)
9. Sunrise (1927)
Passed | 94 min | Drama, Romance
A 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.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing
Votes: 53,856 | Gross: $0.54M
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)
10. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Not Rated | 66 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In 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.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov
Votes: 61,459 | Gross: $0.05M
#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)
11. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Passed | 114 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 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.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Votes: 60,686 | Gross: $0.02M
#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)
12. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
In 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.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri
Votes: 175,205 | Gross: $0.33M
#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)
13. Seven Samurai (1954)
Not Rated | 207 min | Action, Drama
Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki
Votes: 366,937 | Gross: $0.27M
#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)
14. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
G | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A 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.
Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen
Votes: 260,737 | Gross: $8.82M
#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)
15. Persona (1966)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Thriller
A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand
Votes: 130,965
#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)
16. L'Atalante (1934)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Newly 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.
Director: Jean Vigo | Stars: Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre
Votes: 17,476
#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)
17. Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova
Votes: 27,998
#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)
18. Breathless (1960)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
A 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.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Van Doude, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 87,953 | Gross: $0.34M
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)
19. Mirror (1975)
Not Rated | 107 min | Biography, Drama
A 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.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev, Oleg Yankovskiy
Votes: 52,266 | Gross: $0.18M
#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)
20. Rashomon (1950)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The 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.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 180,530 | Gross: $0.10M
#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)
21. Apocalypse Now (1979)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 710,498 | Gross: $83.47M
#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)
22. L'Avventura (1960)
Not Rated | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar
Votes: 32,646
#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)
23. Taxi Driver (1976)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama
A 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.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks
Votes: 921,085 | Gross: $28.26M
#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)
24. City Lights (1931)
G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
With 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.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers
Votes: 196,085 | Gross: $0.02M
#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)
25. Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green, François Lafarge, Jean-Claude Guilbert
Votes: 22,834 | Gross: $0.04M
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)
26. The Godfather Part II (1974)
R | 202 min | Crime, Drama
The 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.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Votes: 1,364,674 | Gross: $57.30M
#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)
27. Pather Panchali (1955)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Banerjee, Chunibala Devi
Votes: 38,562 | Gross: $0.54M
#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)
28. Andrei Rublev (1966)
R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Nikolay Sergeev
Votes: 57,069 | Gross: $0.10M
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)
29. Ordet (1955)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama
Follows 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.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Hanne Aagesen
Votes: 17,414
#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)
30. Shoah (1985)
Not Rated | 566 min | Documentary, History, War
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl, Hanna Zaïdl
Votes: 10,557 | Gross: $0.02M
#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)
31. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 718,500 | Gross: $32.00M
#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)
32. La Dolce Vita (1960)
Not Rated | 174 min | Comedy, Drama
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux
Votes: 78,223 | Gross: $19.52M
#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)
33. Barry Lyndon (1975)
PG | 185 min | Adventure, Drama, War
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger
Votes: 183,138
#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)
34. Contempt (1963)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance
A 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.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Giorgia Moll
Votes: 36,047 | Gross: $0.04M
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)
35. The 400 Blows (1959)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama
A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, Claire Maurier, Guy Decomble
Votes: 128,097
#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)
36. In the Mood for Love (2000)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Romance
Two 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.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Siu Ping-Lam, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
Votes: 166,946 | Gross: $2.73M
#24= 2012 critics 42 votes #67= 2012 directors 9 votes #5 2022 critics 141 votes #9= 2022 directors 33 votes (225)
37. Some Like It Hot (1959)
Passed | 121 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft
Votes: 283,605 | Gross: $25.00M
#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)
38. The General (1926)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After 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.
Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley
Votes: 98,167 | Gross: $1.03M
#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)
39. Late Spring (1949)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
Several people try to talk 27-year-old Noriko into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura
Votes: 19,347
#15 2012 critics 50 votes #21= 2022 critics 70 votes #62= 2022 directors 11 votes (131)
40. Ugetsu (1953)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito
Votes: 25,823 | Gross: $0.01M
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)
41. Raging Bull (1980)
R | 129 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent
Votes: 380,348 | Gross: $23.38M
#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)
42. Mulholland Drive (2001)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After 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.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates
Votes: 383,965 | Gross: $7.22M
#28 2012 critics 40 votes #75= 2012 directors 8 votes #8 2022 critics 105 votes #22= 2022 directors 23 votes (176)
43. Stalker (1979)
Not Rated | 162 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko
Votes: 144,809 | Gross: $0.23M
#29= 2012 critics 39 votes #30= 2012 directors 14 votes #43= 2022 critics 51 votes #14= 2022 directors 28 votes (132)
44. M (1931)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 168,505 | Gross: $0.03M
#24= 2002 critics 8 votes #56 2012 critics 27 votes #75= 2012 directors 8 votes #36= 2022 critics 55 votes (98)
45. Modern Times (1936)
G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford
Votes: 259,542 | Gross: $0.16M
#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)
46. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Not Rated | 202 min | Drama
A 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.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Stars: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Votes: 13,918 | Gross: $0.02M
#36= 2012 critics 34 votes #1 2022 critics 215 votes #4= 2022 directors 46 votes (295)
47. Blade Runner (1982)
R | 117 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 823,335 | Gross: $32.87M
#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)
48. Pierrot the Fool (1965)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Pierrot 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.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani, Aicha Abadir
Votes: 36,951
#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)
49. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Votes: 236,514
#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)
50. The Third Man (1949)
Approved | 93 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard
Votes: 181,870 | Gross: $0.45M
#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)
51. Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In 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.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes: 185,575 | Gross: $1.24M
#27= 2002 critics 7 votes #36= 2012 critics 34 votes #67= 2022 critics 38 votes (79)
52. Playtime (1967)
Not Rated | 155 min | Comedy
Monsieur 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.
Director: Jacques Tati | Stars: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden, France Rumilly
Votes: 25,956
#43= 2012 critics 31 votes #37= 2012 directors 13 votes #23 2022 critics 68 votes #41= 2022 directors 14 votes (126)
53. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
PG-13 | 166 min | Western
A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards
Votes: 349,168 | Gross: $5.32M
#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)
54. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
R | 188 min | Drama
Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Kristina Adolphson, Börje Ahlstedt
Votes: 67,511 | Gross: $4.97M
#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)
55. Journey to Italy (1954)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Romance
An unhappily married couple attempts to find direction and insight while vacationing in Naples.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban, Anna Proclemer
Votes: 12,256
Journey to Italy #41= 2012 critics 32 votes #67= 2012 directors 9 votes #72= 2022 critics 37 votes (78)
56. The Grand Illusion (1937)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, War
During 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.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim
Votes: 38,869 | Gross: $0.17M
#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)
57. Satantango (1994)
Not Rated | 439 min | Drama
On 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.
Director: Béla Tarr | Stars: Mihály Vig, Putyi Horváth, László feLugossy, Éva Almássy Albert
Votes: 12,587
#36= 2012 critics 34 votes #78= 2022 critics 35 votes #62= 2022 directors 11 votes (80)
58. Close-Up (1990)
Not Rated | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The 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.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfazl Ahankhah, Mehrdad Ahankhah
Votes: 23,029 | Gross: $0.00M
#43= 2012 critics 31 votes #37= 2012 directors 13 votes #17 2022 critics 78 votes #9= 2022 directors 33 votes (155)
59. The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, War
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo | Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash
Votes: 65,683 | Gross: $0.06M
#48= 2012 critics 30 votes #26= 2012 directors 15 votes #45= 2022 critics 49 votes #22= 2022 directors 23 votes (117)
60. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama
In 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.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô
Votes: 18,237
Sansho the Bailiff #45= 2002 critics 5 votes #59= 2012 critics 25 votes #75= 2022 critics 36 votes (66)
61. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Approved | 218 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The 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.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 314,467 | Gross: $44.82M
#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)
62. Greed (1924)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Dale Fuller
Votes: 10,766 | Gross: $0.16M
#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)
63. Casablanca (1942)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War
A 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.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Votes: 606,167 | Gross: $1.02M
#19= 2002 directors 8 votes #84= 2012 critics 19 votes #63= 2022 critics 40 votes (67)
64. Touch of Evil (1958)
PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 109,828 | Gross: $2.24M
#15= 2002 critics 11 votes #31= 2002 directors 6 votes #57= 2012 critics 26 votes #26= 2012 directors 15 votes (58) (#108= 2022)
65. La Jetée (1962)
Not Rated | 28 min | Short, Drama, Romance
The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Étienne Becker, Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich
Votes: 37,070
#50= 2012 critics 29 votes #67= 2022 critics 38 votes #35= 2022 directors 17 votes (84)
66. Wild Strawberries (1957)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand
Votes: 115,007
#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)
67. North by Northwest (1959)
Approved | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
A 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.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis
Votes: 346,277 | Gross: $13.28M
#53= 2012 critics 28 votes #45= 2022 critics 49 votes (77)
68. Pickpocket (1959)
Not Rated | 76 min | Crime, Drama
Michel 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.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pélégri, Dolly Scal
Votes: 25,366
#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)
69. Rear Window (1954)
PG | 112 min | Mystery, Thriller
A 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.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 522,235 | Gross: $36.76M
#53= 2012 critics 28 votes #47= 2012 directors 11 votes #38= 2022 critics 53 votes (92)
70. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Romance
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Directors: Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise | Stars: Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter
Votes: 26,763
#8= 1972 critics 10 votes #7= 1982 critics 12 votes #35= 2002 critics 6 votes #81= 2012 critics 20 votes (48)
71. The Road (1954)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani
Votes: 66,599
La Strada #4 1992 directors 12 votes #24= 2002 directors 7 votes #26= 2012 directors 15 votes #38= 2022 directors 15 votes (49)
72. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A 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.
Director: Charles Laughton | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason
Votes: 97,387 | Gross: $0.65M
#63= 2012 critics 24 votes #26= 2012 directors 15 votes #25= 2022 critics 66 votes #41= 2022 directors 14 votes (119)
73. The Apartment (1960)
Approved | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A 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.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston
Votes: 196,908 | Gross: $18.60M
#14= 2002 directors 10 votes #44= 2012 directors 12 votes #54= 2022 critics 44 votes (66)
74. The Gold Rush (1925)
Passed | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A 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.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman
Votes: 118,668 | Gross: $5.45M
#2= 1952 critics 19 votes #14= 1962 critics 10 votes #12= 1972 critics 8 votes #91= 2012 directors 7 votes (44)
75. The Seventh Seal (1957)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy
A 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.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe
Votes: 198,521
#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)
76. Intolerance (1916)
Passed | 163 min | Drama, History
The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, F.A. Turner
Votes: 16,727 | Gross: $2.18M
Intolerance #5= 1952 critics 12 votes #26= 1962 critics 6 votes #45= 2002 critics 5 votes #93= 2012 critics 17 votes (40)
77. A Man Escaped (1956)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod
Votes: 25,012
#69= 2012 critics 23 votes #37= 2012 directors 13 votes #95= 2022 critics 31 votes #41= 2022 directors 14 votes (81)
78. Histoire(s) du cinéma (1989–1999)
267 min | Documentary
An 8-part documentary chronicling the history of cinema, examining the history of the concept of cinema and how both relates to the 20th century.
Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Cuny, Julie Delpy, Sabine Azéma
Votes: 801
#48= 2012 critics 30 votes #78= 2022 critics 35 votes (65)
79. Blue Velvet (1986)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The 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.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern
Votes: 215,779 | Gross: $8.55M
#69= 2012 critics 23 votes #59= 2012 directors 10 votes #85= 2022 critics 34 votes #72= 2022 directors 10 votes (77)
80. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History
During 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.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman, Mikhail Nazvanov
Votes: 10,866
Ivan the Terrible #6= 1962 critics 16 votes #12= 1972 critics 8 votes #27= 2002 critics 7 votes (31)
81. Chinatown (1974)
R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez
Votes: 349,957
#24= 2002 directors 7 votes #78= 2012 critics 21 votes #91= 2012 directors 7 votes #72= 2022 directors 10 votes (45)
82. Beau Travail (1999)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama, War
An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet
Votes: 14,585 | Gross: $0.25M
#78= 2012 critics 21 votes #91= 2012 directors 7 votes #7 2022 critics 106 votes #14= 2022 directors 28 votes (166)
83. Zero for Conduct (1933)
Not Rated | 47 min | Drama
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day.
Director: Jean Vigo | Stars: Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Louis Lefebvre, Du Verron
Votes: 9,365
#17= 1952 critics 7 votes #11= 1962 critics 11 votes #91= 2012 directors 7 votes (25)
84. Gertrud (1964)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama, Romance
In the elegant world of artists and musicians, Gertrud ends her marriage to Gustav and takes a lover, the composer Erland Jansson.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Nina Pens Rode, Bendt Rothe, Ebbe Rode, Baard Owe
Votes: 6,815
#43= 2012 critics 31 votes #59= 2012 directors 10 votes (41)
85. Sans Soleil (1983)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, Drama
A woman narrates the contemplative writings of a seasoned world traveler, focusing on contemporary Japan.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Amilcar Cabral, Florence Delay, Arielle Dombasle, Riyoko Ikeda
Votes: 12,135 | Gross: $0.03M
#69= 2012 critics 23 votes #91= 2012 directors 7 votes #59 2022 critics 43 votes #72= 2022 directors 10 votes (83)
86. Jules and Jim (1962)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Romance
Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino
Votes: 44,426
Jules et Jim #14= 1982 critics 9 votes #19= 2002 critics 10 votes #31= 2002 directors 6 votes (25)
87. The Leopard (1963)
PG | 186 min | Drama, History
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa
Votes: 28,835
#57= 2012 critics 26 votes #90= 2022 critics 32 votes (58)
88. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A 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.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud
Votes: 35,901 | Gross: $0.09M
#11= 1962 critics 11 votes #12= 1972 critics 8 votes (19)
89. Children of Paradise (1945)
Not Rated | 189 min | Drama, Romance
The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir
Votes: 21,172
Les enfants du paradis #27= 2002 critics 7 votes #31= 2002 directors 6 votes #73= 2012 critics 22 votes (35)
90. Gorky 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)
98 min | Biography, Drama
A drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.
Director: Mark Donskoy | Stars: Aleksei Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Troyanovskiy, Elizaveta Alekseeva
Votes: 779
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky #14= 1952 critics 8 votes #14= 1962 critics 10 votes (18)
91. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Passed | 45 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
A 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.
Director: Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly
Votes: 57,031 | Gross: $0.98M
#59= 2012 critics 25 votes #54= 2022 critics 44 votes (69)
92. Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Passed | 124 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mady Correll, Allison Roddan, Robert Lewis
Votes: 19,133 | Gross: $0.33M
#14= 1952 critics 8 votes #18= 1962 critics 8 votes (16)
93. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance
A 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.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann
Votes: 23,865
#93= 2012 critics 17 votes #75= 2012 directors 8 votes #52= 2022 critics 45 votes #52= 2022 directors 12 votes (82)
94. Ikiru (1952)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama
A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka
Votes: 87,598 | Gross: $0.06M
#20= 1962 critics 7 votes #12= 1972 critics 8 votes #72= 2022 directors 10 votes (25)
95. The Mother and the Whore (1973)
210 min | Drama, Romance
The chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.
Director: Jean Eustache | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten
Votes: 6,702
La Maman et la Putain #59= 2012 critics 25 votes #91= 2012 directors 7 votes (#104= 2022) #52= 2022 directors 12 votes (44)
96. L'Eclisse (1962)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone
Votes: 22,080
#73= 2012 critics 22 votes #47= 2012 directors 11 votes (33)
97. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy
In 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.
Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería
Votes: 20,681
#81= 2012 critics 20 votes #85= 2022 critics 34 votes #72= 2022 directors 10 votes (64)
98. Earth (1930)
Unrated | 75 min | Drama
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova
Votes: 6,403
#17= 1952 critics 7 votes #18= 1962 critics 8 votes (15)
99. A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
Not Rated | 237 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Based 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.
Director: Edward Yang | Stars: Chang Chen, Lisa Yang, Kuo-Chu Chang, Elaine Jin
Votes: 12,783
#84= 2012 critics 19 votes #78= 2022 critics 35 votes #72= 2022 directors 10 votes (64)
100. La Terra Trema (1948)
Not Rated | 160 min | Drama
In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Antonio Arcidiacono, Giuseppe Arcidiacono
Votes: 5,596
#9 1962 critics 14 votes
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