Top 50 Films of All Time

Every decade Sound & Sight magazine lists Top 50 films of All Time, for this decade it expanded the number of contributors.846 critics, programmers,academics and distributors have voted. Below is the list:

Rank	Film	Director/year
1.	Vertigo	Alfred Hitchcock / 1958
2.	Citizen Kane	Orson Welles / 1941
3.	Tokyo Story	Ozu Jasujiro / 1953
4.	La Regle du jeu	Jean Renoir /1939
5.	Sunrise:A song of two humans	FW Murnau / 1927
6.	2001:A Space Odyssey	Stanley Kubrick / 2001
7.	The Searchers	John Ford / 1956
8.	Man with a movie camera	Dziga Vertov / 1929
9.	The Passion of Joan of Arc	Carl Dreyer / 1927
10.	8 1/2	Federico Fellini  / 1963
11.	Battleship Potemkin	Sergei Eisenstein / 1925
12.	L'Atalante	Jean Virgo / 1934
13.	Breathless	Jean / 1953
14.	Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola /1979
15.	Late Spring	Ozu Jasujiro / 1949
16.	Au hasard Balthazar	Robert Bresson / 1966
17.	Seven Samurai	Kurosawa Akira / 1954
17.	Persona	Ingmar Bergman / 1966
19.	Mirror	Andrei Tarkovsky / 1974
20.	Singing in the rain	Stanley Donen&Gene Kelly  / 1951
21.	L'avventura	Michaelangelo Antonioni / 1960
21.	Le Mepris	Jean-Luc Godard / 1963
21.	The Godfather	Francis Ford Coppola / 1972
24.	Ordet	Carl Dreyer /1955
24.	In the mood for love	Wong Kar-wai / 2000
26.	Rashomon	Kurosawa Akira / 1950
26.	Andrei Rublev	Andrei Tarkovsky / 1966
28.	Mulholland Dr.	David Lynch / 2000
29.	Stalker	Andrei Tarkovsky /1979
29.	Shoah	Claude Lanzmann / 1985
31.	The Godfather part-II	Francis Ford Coppola / 1974
31.	Taxi Driver	Martin Scorsese / 1976
33.	Bicycle Thieves	Vittoria De Sica / 1948
34.	The General	Buster Keaton&Clyde Bruckman/1939
35.	Metropolis	Fritz Lang / 1927
35.	Psycho	Alfred Hitchcock / 1960
35.	Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles	Chantal Akerman/ 1975
35.	Satantango	Bela Tarr / 1994
39.	The 400 Blows	François Truffaut / 1959
49.	La dolce vita	Federico Fellini  / 1960
41.	Journey to Italy	Roberto Rossellini / 1954
42.	Pather Panchali	Satyajit Ray / 1955
42.	Some Like It Hot	Billy Wilder / 1959
42.	Gertrud	Carl Dreyer /1964
42.	Pierrot le fou	Jean-Luc Godard / 1965
42.	Play Time	Jacques Tati / 1967
42.	Close-Up	Abbas Kiarostami / 1990
48.	The Battle of Algiers	Gillo Pontecorvo / 1966
48.	Histoire(s) du cinéma	Jean-Luc Godard / 1998
50.	City Lights	Charlie Chaplin  / 1931
50.	Ugetsu monogatari	Mizoguchi Kenji / 1953
50.	La Jetée	Chris Marker / 1962

Good to see atleast one Indian movie in the list.The master story teller Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali is in the list.

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