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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 29 films in this list released in the 1980s.

  • Come and See

    104

  • Shoah

    27

  • Ran

    189

  • Grave of the Fireflies

    236

  • Fanny and Alexander

    132

  • Do the Right Thing

    24

  • Paris, Texas

    192

  • Where Is the Friend's House?

    164

  • The Thing

    118

  • Twenty Years Later

    223

  • Wings of Desire

    188

  • Raging Bull

    131

  • The Shining

    88

  • Once Upon a Time in America

    162

  • Sans Soleil

    59

  • My Neighbor Totoro

    72

  • Love Streams

    195

  • The Green Ray

    227

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

    224

  • Histoire(s) du cinéma

    86

  • A City of Sadness

    157

  • Blade Runner

    58

  • Vagabond

    101

  • Blue Velvet

    84

  • Possession

    263

  • Distant Voices, Still Lives

    249

  • L'Argent

    179

  • Born in Flames

    253

  • Videodrome

    264