Films considered the greatest ever

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Note: This article does not include films that had the highest box office receipts. For this information see: List of highest-grossing films.

While there is no agreement upon the greatest film of all time, many publications and organizations have tried to determine the films considered the greatest ever. The films mentioned in this article have all been mentioned in a notable survey — be it a critics' poll or popular poll. Many of these sources focus on American films or were polls of English-speaking filmgoers, but those considered the greatest within their respective countries are also included here.

None of these citations should be viewed as scientific measures of the film-watching world. All the surveys are flawed in one way or another. They are often influenced by vote-stacking or they survey a population with skewed demographics. Internet-based surveys have a self-selecting audience of unknown participants. The methodology of some surveys may be questionable. Sometimes (like in the case of the American Film Institute) voters were asked to select films from a limited list of entries.

[edit] In polls of critics and filmmakers

The Brussels World’s Fair, organized in 1958, offered the occasion for the organization by thousands of critics and filmmakers from all over the world, of the first universal film poll in history.^[1]. These were the films chosen as most artistically fulfilled:

Rank	Film	Director	Year
1	Броненосец Потёмкин (The Battleship Potemkin)	Sergei Eisenstein	1925
2	The Gold Rush	Charles Chaplin	1925
3	Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves)	Vittorio De Sica	1948
4	La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc)	Carl Theodor Dreyer	1928
5	La Grande Illusion (Grand Illusion)	Jean Renoir	1937
6	Greed	Erich von Stroheim	1924
7	Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages	D. W. Griffith	1916
8	Мать (Mother)	Vsevolod Pudovkin	1926
9	Citizen Kane	Orson Welles	1941
10	Земля (Earth)	Alexander Dovzhenko	1930

• Ladri di Biciclette (Bicycle Thieves or The Bicycle Thief) was voted top film in a Sight & Sound magazine poll in 1952. Other than Citizen Kane, Bicycle Thieves is the only film to ever top the Sight and Sound poll.
• Orson Welles' Citizen Kane has been consistently voted number one in the Sight and Sound poll of film critics in each of the last five polls starting with the 1962 poll (the survey is carried out once every ten years). A separate poll of established film directors in the same magazine, held for the first time in 1992, also has placed Citizen Kane at the top. Influential critic Roger Ebert says that "The Sight and Sound poll is generally considered the most authoritative of all 'best film' lists". The film was selected as number one in a Village Voice critics' poll, number one in a Time Out critics' poll in 1995 and listed as the greatest American film ever by the American Film Institute in 1998 and 2007.

• On Metacritic, The Godfather is the all-time best-reviewed movie if reissues are not taken into account. If reissues are taken into account, the highest-scoring film is Au Hasard Balthazar. Both films score a perfect 100/100.
• Goodfellas was voted the greatest film of all time in 2005 by the editorial team of the magazine Total Film.^[2]
• La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) by director Jean Renoir was named best film by the French film magazine Positif in 1991. It also holds the number two spot in the Village Voice poll. Along with The Battleship Potemkin, it is one of only two films to have appeared in every one of Sight and Sound's six decennial polls.
• The Searchers is the film most often mentioned in a poll of the favorite films of directors by German language Steadycam magazine.^[3]
• According to the filmsite They Shoot Pictures Top 1000 Films which collates votes from well over 1600 different film lists, the top 10 films of all-time as of December 2007 are:

Rank	Film	Director	Year
1	Citizen Kane	Orson Welles	1941
2	Vertigo	Alfred Hitchcock	1958
3	La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game)	Jean Renoir	1939
4	2001: A Space Odyssey	Stanley Kubrick	1968
5	8½	Federico Fellini	1963
6	The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola	1972
7	The Searchers	John Ford	1956
8	七人の侍 (Seven Samurai)	Akira Kurosawa	1954
9	東京物語 (Tokyo Story)	Yasujiro Ozu	1953
10	Sunrise	F. W. Murnau	1927

[edit] In audience polls

• Casablanca (1942) is widely cited as the greatest film of all time and was voted as such by readers of the Los Angeles Daily News in 1997. It is also regarded the "best Hollywood movie of all time" by the influential Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide. On April 7, 2006, the Writer's Guild of America declared Casablanca's screenplay the best ever written.
• Cross of Iron 1977 directed by Sam Peckinpah. Voted greatest film of all time by Cinemag 1977 for its realistic combat scenes and all star cast.^{[citation needed]}
• The Godfather has long stood on the top of the IMDb's list of the top 250 films. It was also voted number one by Entertainment Weekly readers, listed as number one in Entertainment Weekly's 1999 book about the top 100 films^[4] and voted number one in a Time Out readers' poll in 1998.^[5]
• The Godfather Part II was voted best ever by TV Guide readers^[6] in 1998.
• Gone with the Wind was ranked Number One in a "What are the favorite movies of all time?" poll surveyed by Harris Interactive between January 15 and 22, 2008. In the second place came Star Wars while Casablanca was number three.
• The Lord of the Rings trilogy was voted the most popular film of all time by an audience poll for the Australian television special My Favourite Film and by a poll casted by 120,000 German voters for the TV special "Die besten Filme aller Zeiten" (the best films of all time).^[7] Its first film, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), was the pick of readers in a poll by Empire magazine in November 2004. The third film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, was voted the best movie of all time by Movies.com's annual reader's poll in 2006 and in 2007. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is also the all-time top rated movie by boxofficemojo's user grades.^[8] It is the only trilogy to have all 3 pictures in the Top 30 of the IMDb's list of top 250 films.
• Schindler's List was voted the best film ever made by the German film magazine Cinema.^[9]
• The Shawshank Redemption is the highest rated film on Yahoo! Movies by Yahoo! users and is listed second on the highest rated film list on the IMDb. It was voted the best film never to have won Best Picture in a 2005 BBC poll.^[10] In January 2006 Empire magazine readers named it the best film ever.
• Star Wars (1977) was chosen by readers of Empire magazine in November 2001 and by voters in a Channel 4/FilmFour poll [1]. It was voted number one in the 2007 Empire "Greatest 100 Movies" poll.^[11]
• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) was voted number 1 in Total Film's Top 100 Movies of All Time and number 1 in the 2006 Empire "Greatest Movies Ever" special.^[12]
• As of June 11, 2008, the following are the 10 films atop the IMDB's list of the top 250:

Rank	Film	Year	Rating
1	The Godfather	1972	9.1
2	The Shawshank Redemption	1994	9.1
3	The Godfather: Part II	1974	9.0
4	Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il	1966	8.9
5	Pulp Fiction	1994	8.9
6	Schindler's List	1993	8.8
7	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975	8.8
8	Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back	1980	8.8
9	Casablanca	1942	8.8
10	Star Wars	1977	8.8

[edit] In particular genres or media

[edit] Action

• Die Hard (1988) was voted greatest action movie of all time by both Entertainment Weekly and music channel MTV2.

[edit] Animation

• Akira (1988) was chosen as the top anime ever by Anime Insider in fall 2001.
• Tale of Tales (Сказка сказок) (1979): Yuriy Norshteyn's short film was voted by a large international jury to be the greatest animated film of all time at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympiad of Animation and the 2002 Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films.^[13][14]
• Toy Story (1995) was voted #1 on the Top 100 Animated Features of All Time by the Online Film Critics Society (list published March 2003).^[15]
• What's Opera, Doc? (1957), directed by Chuck Jones, was voted the greatest animated short of all time in animation historian Jerry Beck's 1994 poll of animators, film historians and directors.^[16]

[edit] Comedy

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) A 2004 poll by UK arm of Amazon and the Internet Movie Database named Monty Python and the Holy Grail as the best British comedy picture of all time
• Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) was voted the greatest comedy ever by viewers of Channel 4 in 2005.^[17] It also was rated #1 comedy of all time from a poll conducted by Total Film Magazine.
• National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) was voted #1 on the Bravo list of funniest movies of all time, and was #36 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs.
• Some Like It Hot (1959) was listed Best American Film Comedy by the American Film Institute in June 2000.

[edit] Concert

• The Last Waltz: Martin Scorsese's chronicling of The Band's farewell concert on Thanksgiving Day in 1976. Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune calls it "The greatest rock concert movie ever made -- and maybe the best rock movie, period." Terry Lawson of the Detroit Free Press comments that "This is one of the great movie experiences."^[18] The review at Total Film comments "In what is rightly considered the greatest concert film ever shot...."^[19] Rolling Stone dubbed it the greatest film about music ever made. All Movie Guide said that the film is "considered to be [one] of the best-looking and sounding rock films ever".^[20]
• Stop Making Sense (1984): Film critic James Berardinelli wrote that Jonathan Demme's capturing of the Talking Heads in concert was "the best concert film to date when it first came out, and nothing in the past decade-and-a-half has come close to toppling it from that position." Edward Guthmann of the San Francisco Chronicle had similar praise: "Has there ever been a live concert film as vibrant or as brilliantly realized? I don't think so."

[edit] Disaster

• The Poseidon Adventure (1972) was voted best disaster movie in a poll commissioned by UCI cinemas in May 2004.^[21]

[edit] Documentary

• Bowling for Columbine (2002), Michael Moore's controversial documentary relating gun control and the culture of fear in the United States, heads the list of 20 all-time favorite non-fiction films selected by members of the International Documentary Association (IDA).^[22]
• Seven Up! (1964) was voted as the greatest ever documentary in a Channel 4 poll of the 50 Greatest Documentaries in 2005.

[edit] Epic

• Lawrence of Arabia (1962) was voted best epic by readers of Total Film in May 2004. In addition, Peter O'Toole's performance as T.E. Lawrence was ranked number one in Premiere magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.

[edit] High School/Teen Film

• The Breakfast Club (1985) was included as number one on Entertainment Weekly's list of 50 best high school films of all time in 2006/2007. ^[23]

[edit] Horror

• The Exorcist (1973): Voted scariest movie of all time by Entertainment Weekly and Movies.com, also listed on AFI's most thrilling films ever.
• Halloween (1978): Voted best horror film of all time by readers of SFX magazine in June 2004, listed as one of AFI's most thrilling films ever, Empire Magazine's "50 Greatest Horror Movies" as well as Premiere Magazine's "Top 10 Horror Films of All Time",
• Psycho (1960): The Alfred Hitchcock classic tops AFI’s list of the 100 most thrilling American films and Rotten Tomatoes list of the 50 greatest horror movies.
• The Shining (1980): Voted scariest movie of all time by Channel 4. [2]
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974): Voted greatest horror movie of all time on Total Film's 50 Greatest Horror Movies of all Time^[24], Empire Magazine's 50 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time, and Premiere Magazine's Top 10 Horror Films of All Time.

[edit] Independent Film

• Reservoir Dogs (1992): Was listed as the number one film on a list by Empire Magazine of the '50 Greatest Independent Films'. ^[25]

[edit] Musical

• Singin' in the Rain (1952) tops the American Film Institute's list of the 25 best American musicals of all time.^[26]
• West Side Story (1961) was chosen as the best screen musical by readers of The Observer in a 2007 poll.^[27]

[edit] Propaganda

• Triumph of the Will (1935), Leni Riefenstahl's documentary film glorifying Adolf Hitler and the 1934 Nazi Party Convention, in Nuremberg is widely perceived, renowned and acknowledged as the best propaganda film ever,^[28] although Riefenstahl asserted she intended it only as a documentary.

[edit] Romance

• Casablanca (1942) is the top film on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions list.
• In the realm of the senses 1976 by Truefilm magazine

[edit] Television Adaptation

• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) was ranked #1 on Rotten Tomatoes 'The 50 Best TV Adaptations of All Time'.^[29]
• Noon wine by Morefilm magazine 1968, aired on american television. Directed by Sam Peckinpah

[edit] Science fiction

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) tops the Online Film Critics Society list of greatest science fiction films of all time.^[30] It is also the only science fiction film to make the Sight and Sound poll for ten best movies.
• Blade Runner (1982) was voted the best science fiction film by a panel of scientists assembled by the British newspaper The Guardian in 2004.^[31]
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) topped a Rotten Tomatoes poll of the 100 best Science Fiction movies ever made. ^[32]
• The Matrix (1999) was voted the greatest science fiction film of the last 25 years by Entertainment Weekly.

[edit] Superhero/Comic book adaptations

• Batman Begins (2005) listed as #1 on the best of IGN's list of the 'Best & Worst Comic-Book Movies'. ^[33]
• Ghost World (2001) topped MSN Movies' list of the 'Top 10 Comic Book Movies' ^[34] and Fandango's 'The Fantastic 10: The Top Comic Book Movies of All Time' ^[35]
• Sin City (2005) placed first on AOL's list of the 'Best Films Based on Comic Books' ^[36]
• Spider-Man 2 (2004) was selected the number one comic-to-cinema adaption in a poll of critics at rottentomatoes.com.^[37] and was named as the greatest superhero movie ever made by film critic Roger Ebert.
• X2 (2003) was voted greatest comic book film of all time by Empire Magazine.^[38]

[edit] Sport

• Bull Durham (1988) was number 1 on the Rotten Tomatoes countdown of the top sports movies. ^[39]
• Rocky (1976) was also listed as the number 1 sports movie of all time by MovieFone. ^[40]

[edit] War

• Apocalypse Now (1979) was listed as the number 1 war film of all time by MovieFone and MSN Movies.^[41][42]
• Saving Private Ryan (1998) was voted as the greatest war film in a 2008 Channel 4 poll of the 100 greatest war films.^[43]
• Cross of Iron 1977 by Sam Peckinpah voted greatest war film of all time by sightsense magazine in 1983 for its portrayal of Germans and the battles on the Eastern Front in 1943

[edit] Western

• The Searchers (1956) was voted the greatest Western of all time by Entertainment Weekly. (See also: films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers above).

[edit] In particular countries

[edit] Australia

See also: Cinema of Australia

• Mad Max (1979): voted the best Australian film ever by the Australian Film Institute. Nominated for four Australian Film Institute Awards.^{[citation needed]}
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975): voted No. 1 of the Top 10 best-ever Australian films at 1995 centenary of Australian cinema.^[44]

[edit] Brazil

See also: Cinema of Brazil

• City of God (2002) is the highest rated Brazilian film according to IMDB users. Brazilian critics, however, have selected Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (1964) as the best film of all several times, such as the 27th edition of Brazilian film magazine Contracampo^[45] and a special issue of the magazine Bravo, entitled "100 essential films". The other Brazilian films included in Bravo's list are City of God, Pixote and Lavoura Arcaica, in that order.

[edit] Canada

See also: Cinema of Canada

• Jésus de Montréal: Ranked second on the All Time TIFF list since its release, and a winner of 12 Genie Awards.
• Mon oncle Antoine: A poll of critics at the 1984 Toronto International Film Festival and again at the 1993 and 2004 festivals named the greatest Canadian film of all time.

[edit] China

See also: Cinema of China

• Spring in a Small Town (小城之春): This 1948 film was voted the best Chinese film ever made by Hong Kong Film Awards Association in 2005. A Better Tomorrow (英雄本色) (1986) came in second.

[edit] Egypt

See also: Cinema of Egypt

• The Yacoubian Building Winner of various awards and acclaimed by Cairo International Film Festival .^{[citation needed]}

[edit] France

See also: Cinema of France

• Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945/1946): Voted "Best French Film of the Century" in a poll of 600 French critics and professionals in the late 1990s.^{[citation needed]}
• La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1939/1950): see films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers

[edit] Germany

See also: Cinema of Germany

• M, Fritz Lang's 1931 classic crime film, is currently the highest rated German film in the IMDB top 250 films (rated by users). The 2007 Academy award winner for best foreign language film The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) is second followed by Downfall (Der Untergang), a 2004 German World War II epic which depicts the final days of the Third Reich in Adolf Hitler's bunker. Das Boot, a 1981 film retelling the story of Unterseeboot 96 during World War II, places fourth.
• F. W. Murnau's silent film Nosferatu is regarded by acclaimed German director Werner Herzog as the greatest German movie of all time.^[46]

[edit] India

See also: Cinema of India

See also: Lists of Indian films

• Nayakan (1987), Pyaasa (1957) and The Apu Trilogy are the only three Indian films listed in the "All-Time 100 Best Films", as rated by TIME magazine.
• Pather Panchali (1955) is the first film of director Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy (1955-1959). It appeared on Sight and Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll (ranked #9 in 1992) and the Village Voice 100 Best Films of the 20th Century Critics' Poll (ranked #13 in 2001). It was ranked the top Indian film in an Internet popularity poll conducted by the British Film Institute (BFI) in 2002.
• Sholay (1975) was declared the "Film of the Millennium" by BBC India in 2005^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Iran

See also: Cinema of Iran

• Bashu, the Little Stranger Voted "Best Iranian Film of all time" in November of 1999 by a Persian movie magazine "Picture world" poll of 150 Iranian critics and professionals.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Ireland

• The Commitments (1991) was voted the best Irish film of all time in a 2005 Jameson Whiskey poll of 10,000 Irish people, with My Left Foot coming second. 24

[edit] Israel

See also: Cinema of Israel

• Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona (1976) was voted "Favorite Israeli Film of all time" in a 2004 poll by Ynet, the web site of Israel's most popular newspaper. The film got 25,000 votes.

[edit] Italy

See also: Cinema of Italy

• 8½ – Director Federico Fellini's 1963 film about filmmaking was the highest rated Italian film in the 2002 Sight & Sound poll of the best films of all time.
• Ladri di Biciclette (Bicycle Thieves) (See: In polls of critics and filmmakers section above.)
• Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) (1966) is the highest-ranked non-American film on the IMDB Top 250, where it is listed as the 4th best film ever.

[edit] Japan

See also: Cinema of Japan

• Rashomon (羅生門): This 1950 film by Akira Kurosawa was the first Japanese film to gain world-wide acclaim. The highest-ranked Japanese film (#10) on the Village Voice list of 100 Best Films of the 20th Century. It was also the highest-ranked Japanese film on the Sight and Sound 2002 Directors' Top Ten Poll.
• Seven Samurai (七人の侍 Shichinin no samurai), 1954: Also by Kurosawa, this period adventure film is frequently cited as the greatest Japanese film ever; at #10, it is the highest ranked Japanese film in the IMDB Top 250 (as of March 2007). It tied Rashomon on the Sight & Sound poll.
• Tokyo Story (東京物語 Tokyo Monogatari), 1953. This film by Yasujiro Ozu about an aging couple as they journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in postwar Tokyo was declared the greatest film ever by Halliwell's Film Guide in 2005.^[47] It was also the highest-ranked Japanese film on the Sight and Sound 2002 Critics' Top Ten Poll.

[edit] South Korea

See also: Cinema of Korea

• Obaltan (오발탄): Released in 1960. This film is widely regarded as the best South Korean film of all time. It also listed as No.1 in "The Best Korean Films" by Film 2.0 Magazine. ^[48]
• Oldboy (올드보이): This 2003 South Korean film is the highest rated Korean language film on the IMDB top 250 list. It also won the Grand Prix of the jury at Cannes.

[edit] Mexico

See also: Cinema of Mexico

• El callejón de los milagros (Miracle Alley) is the most awarded film in Mexican history with 49 international awards.^{[citation needed]}
• Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) is the highest rated film in Spanish on IMDb. While this film is set in Spain and primarily features Spanish actors, it was written and produced in Mexico and is considered a Mexican film.

[edit] Morocco

Ali Zaoua is considered one of the greatest Moroccan films ever the movie is Gorgeously shot and terrifically engrossing tale of life among the street children of Morocco^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] The Netherlands

See also: Cinema of the Netherlands

• Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange - 1977 - Paul Verhoeven): Voted best Dutch film ever made in a 2006 internet poll by online film magazine Filmwereld.nl.^{[citation needed]}
• Spoorloos (The Vanishing - 1988 - George Sluizer): One of the highest rated Dutch films on IMDb and the highest (and only) on the 1000 greatest films list of the They Shoot Pictures filmsite. ^[49]
• Turks Fruit (Turkish Delight - 1973 - Paul Verhoeven): Voted best Dutch film of the 20th century at the 1999 Netherlands Film Festival.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] New Zealand

See also: Cinema of New Zealand

See : Lord of the Rings in the Films acclaimed in audience polls section above.

[edit] Norway

See also: Cinema of Norway

• Flåklypa Grand Prix (Pinchcliffe Grand Prix - 1975 - Ivo Caprino): The people's choice for "Best Norwegian Film of the Century" during the 2005 Bergen International Film Festival.^[50]
• Ni Liv (Nine Lives - 1957 - Arne Skouen): The critics' choice for "Best Norwegian Film of the Century" during the 2005 Bergen International Film Festival.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] The Philippines

See also: Cinema of the Philippines

• Maynila: Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag (Manila in the Claws of Neon): Cited in numerous film anthologies and critical polls.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Russia

See also: Cinema of Russia and Soviet Union

• Броненосец Потёмкин (Battleship Potemkin): see Films acclaimed by critics and filmakers above.

[edit] Sweden

See also: Cinema of Sweden

• The Emigrants (Utvandrarna): Jan Troell's naturalist masterwork is often cited in Sweden as the greatest Swedish film of all-time.^{[citation needed]}
• Persona: Acclaimed director Ingmar Bergman's movie reached the highest position (#5 in 1972) of any Swedish film on any of Sight & Sound's lists of greatest films of all time.
• The Seventh Seal, also directed by Ingmar Bergman, is the highest rated Swedish film on the IMDB.

[edit] United Kingdom

See also: Cinema of the United Kingdom

• Get Carter (1971): Named best British film by Total Film in 2004.^{[citation needed]}
• Lawrence of Arabia: voted "best British film of all time" in August of 2004 by a London Sunday Telegraph poll of Britain's leading filmmakers.^{[citation needed]} (See also: Epic above).
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail was voted the best British picture of all time by a 2004 poll by the UK arm of Amazon and Internet Movie Database.^[51]
• Trainspotting: Named best British film by a Channel 4 poll in 2005.^{[citation needed]}
• The Third Man: Voted best British film ever by members of the British Film Institute in 1999.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] United States

See also: Cinema of the United States and National Film Registry

Since 1998, the American Film Institute has assembled juries of film community leaders and polled them for a series of top 100 lists. Two of the lists from the series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies from 1998 and AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) from 2007, identified Citizen Kane as the best American film ever. In other years, AFI's jury members selected Some Like It Hot the greatest American comedy, Psycho as the greatest American thriller, Casablanca as the greatest American love story, Singin' in the Rain as the greatest American film musical, and It's a Wonderful Life as the most inspiring American film.^[52]

• See also: Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, and The Shawshank Redemption in the Films acclaimed in audience polls section above.

[edit] See also

• List of highest-grossing films
• List of film-related topics
• Films considered the worst ever
• List of films preserved in the United States National Film Registry
• AFI 100 Years... series

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies
• BFI List of top 100 British movies
• IMDb Top 250
• Channel 4 poll: 100 Greatest Films
• Sight and Sound magazine best films of all time polls
• Village Voice 100 Best films of the 20th century list
• Links to more lists from filmsite.org
• Directory of film websites at films101.com
• Meta-list compiling over a thousand critic's lists together from theyshootpictures.com