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Sight and Sound's Greatest Films of All Time 2022

Every decade the Sight and Sound team asks critics to name the greatest films of all time. Here are the results of the 2022 poll – the largest ever, with 1,639 critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics each submitting their top ten ballot - and now updated with the complete list.

Check out Sight and Sound for the complete breakdown, including where films received the same number of votes.

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  • Videodrome

    264

  • Possession

    263

  • Taste of Cherry

    262

  • The Last Laugh

    261

  • A Clockwork Orange

    260

  • A Canterbury Tale

    259

  • Nostalgia for the Light

    258

  • Werckmeister Harmonies

    257

  • Mouchette

    256

  • Earth

    255

  • Syndromes and a Century

    254

  • Born in Flames

    253

  • The Intruder

    252

  • Sullivan's Travels

    251

  • Morvern Callar

    250

  • Distant Voices, Still Lives

    249

  • Oh, Sun

    248

  • Pandora's Box

    247

  • Annie Hall

    246

  • Dream of Light

    245

  • My Darling Clementine

    244

  • In Vanda's Room

    243

  • Petite Maman

    242

  • Je Tu Il Elle

    241

  • The Crowd

    240

  • Cries and Whispers

    239

  • The Hour of the Furnaces

    238

  • Crash

    237

  • Grave of the Fireflies

    236

  • Europe '51

    235

  • As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    234

  • Flowers of Shanghai

    233

  • Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    232

  • Napoleon

    231

  • Blue

    230

  • Star Wars

    229

  • Happy Together

    228

  • The Green Ray

    227

  • A Touch of Zen

    226

  • Harlan County U.S.A.

    225

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

    224

  • Twenty Years Later

    223

  • Melancholia

    222

  • Duck Soup

    221

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

    220

  • The Deer Hunter

    219

  • Pink Flamingos

    218

  • In a Lonely Place

    217

  • Limite

    216

  • All About Eve

    215

  • Army of Shadows

    214

  • Brief Encounter

    213

  • Suspiria

    212

  • By the Bluest of Seas

    211

  • Mad Max: Fury Road

    210

  • One Way or Another

    209

  • Zama

    208

  • The Tree of Life

    207

  • Paris Is Burning

    206

  • The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    205

  • Double Indemnity

    204

  • I Know Where I'm Going!

    203

  • Nosferatu

    202

  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

    201

  • Wavelength

    200

  • L'Eclisse

    199

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

    198

  • The Headless Woman

    197

  • Paisan

    196

  • Love Streams

    195

  • The River

    194

  • The Young Girls of Rochefort

    193

  • Paris, Texas

    192

  • An Autumn Afternoon

    191

  • The Birds

    190

  • Ran

    189

  • Wings of Desire

    188

  • Greed

    187

  • Magnolia

    186

  • Pyaasa

    185

  • Charulata

    184

  • Red Desert

    183

  • Memories of Underdevelopment

    182

  • Letter from an Unknown Woman

    181

  • Black Narcissus

    180

  • L'Argent

    179

  • The Magnificent Ambersons

    178

  • Hiroshima Mon Amour

    177

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    176

  • Under the Skin

    175

  • Heat

    174

  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

    173

  • Un Chien Andalou

    172

  • Out 1

    171

  • Last Year at Marienbad

    170

  • The Exterminating Angel

    169

  • Amarcord

    168

  • Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

    167

  • Vivre Sa Vie

    166

  • Orlando

    165