BFI Top 50 Greatest Films
A list created by sleestakk
Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time according to a worldwide opinion poll of 846 critics, programmers, academics, and distributors conducted by Sight and Sound Magazine and published in the journal’s September 2012 issue. Sight and Sound, published by the British Film Institute, has conducted a poll of the greatest films every 10 years since 1952.
Movies on BFI Top 50 Greatest Films List| 1 | Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | 1958 |
| 2 | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 |
| 3 | Tokyo Story | Yasujirō Ozu | 1953 |
| 4 | Rules of the Game, The | Jean Renoir | 1939 |
| 5 | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | F.W. Murnau | 1927 |
| 6 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | 1968 |
| 7 | Searchers, The | John Ford | 1956 |
| 8 | Man with a Movie Camera | Dziga Vertov | 1929 |
| 9 | Passion of Joan of Arc, The | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1928 |
| 10 | 8½ | Federico Fellini | 1963 |
| 11 | Battleship Potemkin | Sergei Eisenstein | 1925 |
| 12 | L'Atalante | Jean Vigo | 1934 |
| 13 | Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard | 1960 |
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| 15 | Late Spring | Yasujirō Ozu | 1949 |
| 16 | Au Hasard Balthazar | Robert Bresson | 1966 |
| 17 | Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa | 1954 |
| 18 | Persona | Ingmar Bergman | 1966 |
| 19 | Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1975 |
| 20 | Singin' in the Rain | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | 1952 |
| 21 | L'Avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1960 |
| 22 | Contempt | Jean-Luc Godard | 1963 |
| 23 | Godfather, The | Francis Ford Coppola | 1972 |
| 24 | Ordet | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1955 |
| 25 | In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-wai | 2000 |
| 26 | Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa | 1950 |
| 27 | Andrei Rublev | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1966 |
| 28 | Mulholland Dr. | David Lynch | 1999 |
| 29 | Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1979 |
| 30 | Shoah | Claude Lanzmann | 1985 |
| 31 | Godfather Part II, The | Francis Ford Coppola | 1974 |
| 32 | Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese | 1976 |
| 33 | Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica | 1948 |
| 34 | General, The | Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman | 1926 |
| 35 | Metropolis | Fritz Lang | 1927 |
| 36 | Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | 1960 |
| 37 | Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | Chantal Akerman | 1976 |
| 38 | Satantango | Béla Tarr | 1994 |
| 39 | 400 Blows, The | François Truffaut | 1959 |
| 40 | La Dolce Vita | Federico Fellini | 1960 |
| 41 | Journey to Italy | Roberto Rossellini | 1954 |
| 42 | Pather Panchali | Satyajit Ray | 1955 |
| 43 | Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | 1959 |
| 44 | Gertrud | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 1964 |
| 45 | Pierrot le Fou | Jean-Luc Godard | 1965 |
| 46 | PlayTime | Jacques Tati | 1967 |
| 47 | Close-Up | Abbas Kiarostami | 1990 |
| 48 | Battle of Algiers, The | Gillo Pontecorvo | 1966 |
| 49 | Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories | Jean-Luc Godard | 1989 |
| 50 | City Lights | Charlie Chaplin | 1931 |
| 51 | Ugetsu | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1953 |
| 52 | La Jetée | Chris Marker | 1962 |