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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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There are 47 films in this list released in the 1960s.

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    6

  • Cléo from 5 to 7

    14

  • Persona

    18

  • PlayTime

    23

  • Au Hasard Balthazar

    25

  • Daisies

    28

  • 8½

    32

  • Psycho

    33

  • Breathless

    38

  • The Battle of Algiers

    46

  • The Apartment

    54

  • Contempt

    57

  • La Dolce Vita

    61

  • Andrei Rublev

    69

  • La Jetée

    71

  • L'Avventura

    74

  • Pierrot le Fou

    85

  • The Leopard

    91

  • Once Upon a Time in the West

    97

  • Black Girl

    99

  • The House Is Black

    102

  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

    110

  • The Color of Pomegranates

    126

  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

    127

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    134

  • The Wild Bunch

    139

  • Gertrud

    141

  • The Cloud-Capped Star

    153

  • Le Bonheur

    155

  • The Gospel According to Matthew

    158

  • Vivre Sa Vie

    166

  • The Exterminating Angel

    169

  • Last Year at Marienbad

    170

  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

    173

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    176

  • Memories of Underdevelopment

    182

  • Red Desert

    183

  • Charulata

    184

  • The Birds

    190

  • An Autumn Afternoon

    191

  • The Young Girls of Rochefort

    193

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

    198

  • L'Eclisse

    199

  • Wavelength

    200

  • Army of Shadows

    214

  • The Hour of the Furnaces

    238

  • Mouchette

    256