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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.

  • Do the Right Thing

    24

  • Shoah

    27

  • Blade Runner

    58

  • Sans Soleil

    59

  • My Neighbor Totoro

    72

  • Blue Velvet

    84

  • Histoire(s) du cinéma

    86

  • The Shining

    88

  • Vagabond

    101

  • Come and See

    104

  • The Thing

    118

  • Raging Bull

    131

  • Fanny and Alexander

    132

  • A City of Sadness

    157

  • Once Upon a Time in America

    162

  • Where Is the Friend's House?

    164

  • L'Argent

    179

  • Wings of Desire

    188

  • Ran

    189

  • Paris, Texas

    192

  • Love Streams

    195

  • Twenty Years Later

    223

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

    224

  • The Green Ray

    227

  • Grave of the Fireflies

    236

  • Distant Voices, Still Lives

    249

  • Born in Flames

    253

  • Possession

    263

  • Videodrome

    264