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21st Century Sight and Sound Lists Combined

Top 250 from the 2000, 2012, 2022 lists using Directors and Critics combined. For 2000 critics used all films receiving at least three votes from either list respectively.

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  • Persona

    1

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    2

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    3

  • Citizen Kane

    4

  • The Godfather

    5

  • Ran

    6

  • The Godfather Part II

    7

  • Raging Bull

    8

  • Shoah

    9

  • The Thing

    10

  • Beau Travail

    11

  • Bicycle Thieves

    12

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    13

  • The Seventh Seal

    14

  • The Night of the Hunter

    15

  • Touki Bouki

    16

  • Casablanca

    17

  • The Matrix

    18

  • M

    19

  • Heat

    20

  • The Exorcist

    21

  • Blade Runner

    22

  • The Shining

    23

  • Throne of Blood

    24

  • Chimes at Midnight

    25

  • GoodFellas

    26

  • Alien

    27

  • Mulholland Drive

    28

  • Once Upon a Time in the West

    29

  • There Will Be Blood

    30

  • The Wild Bunch

    31

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    32

  • The Passion of Joan of Arc

    33

  • Man with a Movie Camera

    34

  • Taxi Driver

    35

  • Twin Peaks: The Return

    36

  • Aguirre, the Wrath of God

    37

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

    38

  • Vertigo

    39

  • Hour of the Wolf

    40

  • Cléo from 5 to 7

    41

  • Seven Samurai

    42

  • Eraserhead

    43

  • The 400 Blows

    44

  • Apocalypse Now

    45

  • Chinatown

    46

  • Parasite

    47

  • Sunset Boulevard

    48

  • Solaris

    49

  • Paths of Glory

    50

  • The Third Man

    51

  • Meshes of the Afternoon

    52

  • The Ascent

    53

  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    54

  • Rear Window

    55

  • Blue Velvet

    56

  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    57

  • Under the Skin

    58

  • Le Samouraï

    59

  • Spirited Away

    60

  • Mad Max: Fury Road

    61

  • Rashomon

    62

  • The Wizard of Oz

    63

  • Suspiria

    64

  • Paris, Texas

    65

  • The Conversation

    66

  • Psycho

    67

  • Pulp Fiction

    68

  • The Big Sleep

    69

  • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

    70

  • The Birds

    71

  • Sherlock Jr.

    72

  • Breathless

    73

  • Jaws

    74

  • Moonlight

    75

  • Gone with the Wind

    76

  • The Searchers

    77

  • Stagecoach

    78

  • The Great Dictator

    79

  • Star Wars

    80

  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

    81

  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    82

  • Get Out

    83

  • Red River

    84

  • A Clockwork Orange

    85

  • Battleship Potemkin

    86

  • Wanda

    87

  • WALL·E

    88

  • Grave of the Fireflies

    89

  • On the Waterfront

    90

  • Rio Bravo

    91

  • Un Chien Andalou

    92

  • Vampyr

    93

  • Nosferatu

    94

  • Once Upon a Time in America

    95

  • North by Northwest

    96

  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    97

  • City Lights

    98

  • Duck Soup

    99

  • The Deer Hunter

    100

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