Rank
|
Year
|
Country of Origin
|
Director
|
Film
|
1
|
1975
|
Belgium, France
|
Chantal Akerman
|
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
|
2
|
1958
|
United States
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
Vertigo
|
3
|
1941
|
United States
|
Orson Welles
|
Citizen Kane
|
4
|
1953
|
Japan
|
Yasujiro Ozu
|
Tokyo Story
|
5
|
2000
|
Hong Kong, France
|
Wong Kar Wai
|
In the Mood for Love
|
6
|
1968
|
United States, United Kingdom
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
2001: A Space Odyssey
|
7
|
1998
|
France
|
Claire Denis
|
Beau travail
|
8
|
2001
|
France, United States
|
David Lynch
|
Mulholland Dr.
|
9
|
1929
|
Soviet Union
|
Dziga Vertov
|
Man with a Movie Camera
|
10
|
1951
|
United States
|
Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
|
Singin' in the Rain
|
11
|
1927
|
United States
|
F.W. Murnau
|
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
|
12
|
1972
|
United States
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
The Godfather
|
13
|
1939
|
France
|
Jean Renoir
|
La Regle du jeu
|
14
|
1962
|
France, Italy
|
Agnes Varda
|
Cleo from 5 to 7
|
15
|
1956
|
United States
|
John Ford
|
The Searchers
|
16
|
1943
|
United States
|
Maya Deren, Alexander Hackenschmied
|
Meshes of the Afternoon
|
17
|
1989
|
Iran
|
Abbas Kiarostami
|
Close-up
|
18
|
1966
|
Sweden
|
Ingmar Bergman
|
Persona
|
19
|
1979
|
United States
|
Francis Ford Coppola
|
Apocalypse Now
|
20
|
1954
|
Japan
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
Seven Samurai
|
=21
|
1927
|
France
|
Carl Th. Dreyer
|
The Passion of Joan of Arc
|
=21
|
1949
|
Japan
|
Yasujiro Ozu
|
Late Spring
|
23
|
1967
|
France
|
Jacques Tati
|
Playtime
|
24
|
1989
|
United States
|
Spike Lee
|
Do the Right Thing
|
=25
|
1966
|
France, Sweden
|
Robert Bresson
|
Au hasard Balthazar
|
=25
|
1955
|
United States
|
Charles Laughton
|
The Night of the Hunter
|
27
|
1985
|
France
|
Claude Lanzmann
|
Shoah
|
28
|
1966
|
Czechoslovakia
|
Vera Chytilova
|
Daisies
|
29
|
1976
|
United States
|
Martin Scorsese
|
Taxi Driver
|
30
|
2019
|
France
|
Celine Sciamma
|
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
|
=31
|
1963
|
Italy, France
|
Federico Fellini
|
8½
|
=31
|
1975
|
Soviet Union
|
Andrei Tarkovsky
|
Mirror
|
=31
|
1960
|
United States
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
Psycho
|
34
|
1934
|
France
|
Jean Vigo
|
L'Atalante
|
35
|
1955
|
India
|
Satyajit Ray
|
Pather Panchali
|
=36
|
1931
|
United States
|
Charles Chaplin
|
City Lights
|
=36
|
1931
|
Germany
|
Fritz Lang
|
M
|
=38
|
1960
|
France
|
Jean-Luc Godard
|
À bout de souffle
|
=38
|
1959
|
United States
|
Billy Wilder
|
Some Like It Hot
|
=38
|
1954
|
United States
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
Rear Window
|
=41
|
1948
|
Italy
|
Vittorio de Sica
|
Bicycle Thieves
|
=41
|
1950
|
Japan
|
Akira Kurosawa
|
Rashomon
|
=43
|
1979
|
Soviet Union
|
Andrei Tarkovsky
|
Stalker
|
=43
|
1977
|
United States
|
Charles Burnett
|
Killer of Sheep
|
=45
|
1975
|
United States, United Kingdom
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
Barry Lyndon
|
=45
|
1966
|
Italy, Algeria
|
Gillo Pontecorvo
|
The Battle of Algiers
|
=45
|
1959
|
United States
|
Alfred Hitchcock
|
North by Northwest
|
=48
|
1955
|
Denmark
|
Carl Th. Dreyer
|
Ordet
|
=48
|
1970
|
United States
|
Barbara Loden
|
Wanda
|
=50
|
1959
|
France
|
Francois Truffaut
|
The 400 Blows
|
=50
|
1992
|
Australia, France
|
Jane Campion
|
The Piano
|
=52
|
1972
|
West Germany
|
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
|
Fear Eats the Soul
|
=52
|
1976
|
France, Belgium
|
Chantal Akerman
|
News from Home
|
=54
|
1963
|
France, Italy
|
Jean-Luc Godard
|
Le Mepris
|
=54
|
1982
|
United States, Hong Kong
|
Ridley Scott
|
Blade Runner
|
=54
|
1925
|
Soviet Union
|
Sergei M. Eisenstein
|
Battleship Potemkin
|
=54
|
1960
|
United States
|
Billy Wilder
|
The Apartment
|
=54
|
1924
|
United States
|
Buster Keaton
|
Sherlock Jr.
|
59
|
1982
|
France
|
Chris Marker
|
Sans Soleil
|
=60
|
1960
|
Italy, France
|
Federico Fellini
|
La dolce vita
|
=60
|
2016
|
United States
|
Barry Jenkins
|
Moonlight
|
=60
|
1991
|
United States
|
Julie Dash
|
Daughters of the Dust
|
=63
|
1990
|
United States
|
Martin Scorsese
|
GoodFellas
|
=63
|
1949
|
United Kingdom
|
Carol Reed
|
The Third Man
|
=63
|
1942
|
United States
|
Michael Curtiz
|
Casablanca
|
66
|
1973
|
Senegal
|
Djibril Diop Mambety
|
Touki Bouki
|
=67
|
1966
|
Soviet Union
|
Andrei Tarkovsky
|
Andrei Rublev
|
=67
|
1962
|
France
|
Chris Marker
|
La Jetee
|
=67
|
1948
|
United Kingdom
|
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
|
The Red Shoes
|
=67
|
2000
|
France
|
Agnes Varda
|
The Gleaners and I
|
=67
|
1927
|
Germany
|
Fritz Lang
|
Metropolis
|
=72
|
1960
|
Italy, France
|
Michelangelo Antonioni
|
L'avventura
|
=72
|
1954
|
Italy, France
|
Roberto Rossellini
|
Journey to Italy
|
=72
|
1988
|
Japan
|
Hayao Miyazaki
|
My Neighbour Totoro
|
=75
|
2001
|
Japan
|
Hayao Miyazaki
|
Spirited Away
|
=75
|
1959
|
United States
|
Douglas Sirk
|
Imitation of Life
|
=75
|
1954
|
Japan
|
Kenji Mizoguchi
|
Sansho the Bailiff
|
=78
|
1950
|
United States
|
Billy Wilder
|
Sunset Blvd.
|
=78
|
1994
|
Hungary, Germany, Switzerland
|
Bela Tarr
|
Sátántangó
|
=78
|
1991
|
Taiwan
|
Edward Yang
|
A Brighter Summer Day
|
=78
|
1936
|
United States
|
Charles Chaplin
|
Modern Times
|
=78
|
1946
|
United Kingdom
|
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
|
A Matter of Life and Death
|
=78
|
1974
|
France
|
Jacques Rivette
|
Celine and Julie Go Boating
|
=84
|
1986
|
United States
|
David Lynch
|
Blue Velvet
|
=84
|
1973
|
Spain
|
Victor Erice
|
The Spirit of the Beehive
|
=84
|
1965
|
France, Italy
|
Jean-Luc Godard
|
Pierrot le Fou
|
=84
|
1988
|
France, Switzerland
|
Jean-Luc Godard
|
Histoire(s) du cinéma
|
=88
|
1980
|
United States, United Kingdom
|
Stanley Kubrick
|
The Shining
|
=88
|
1994
|
Hong Kong
|
Wong Kar Wai
|
Chungking Express
|
=90
|
2019
|
South Korea
|
Bong Joon-ho
|
Parasite
|
=90
|
1999
|
Taiwan, Japan
|
Edward Yang
|
Yi Yi
|
=90
|
1953
|
Japan
|
Kenji Mizoguchi
|
Ugetsu Monogatari
|
=90
|
1963
|
Italy, France
|
Luchino Visconti
|
The Leopard
|
=90
|
1953
|
France, Italy
|
Max Ophuls
|
Madame de...
|
=95
|
1956
|
France
|
Robert Bresson
|
A Man Escaped
|
=95
|
1968
|
Italy, United States
|
Sergio Leone
|
Once upon a Time in the West
|
=95
|
2004
|
France, Thailand, Germany, Italy, Switzerland
|
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
|
Tropical Malady
|
=95
|
1965
|
Senegal, France
|
Ousmane Sembene
|
Black Girl
|
=95
|
1926
|
United States
|
Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
|
The General
|
=95
|
2017
|
United States, Japan
|
Jordan Peele
|
Get Out
|
|