For these tables, older voters are those born before 1960. Younger voters were born in 1960 or later.
Rank |
Title |
Year |
Director |
Total votes |
% of ballots |
1 |
Citizen Kane |
1941 |
Orson Welles |
39 |
20.1% |
2 |
Vertigo |
1958 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
30 |
15.5% |
3 |
Tokyo Story |
1953 |
Ozu Yasujirô |
26 |
13.4% |
4 |
Règle du jeu, La |
1939 |
Jean Renoir |
24 |
12.4% |
5 |
Sunrise |
1927 |
F. W. Murnau |
22 |
11.3% |
6 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
1968 |
Stanley Kubrick |
18 |
9.3% |
= |
Searchers, The |
1956 |
John Ford |
18 |
9.3% |
= |
Seven Samurai |
1954 |
Akira Kurosawa |
18 |
9.3% |
9 |
8½ |
1963 |
Federico Fellini |
17 |
8.8% |
10 |
Passion of Joan of Arc |
1927 |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
16 |
8.2% |
= |
Persona |
1966 |
Ingmar Bergman |
16 |
8.2% |
12 |
Andrei Rublev |
1966 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
15 |
7.7% |
= |
Bicycle Thieves, The |
1948 |
Vittorio de Sica |
15 |
7.7% |
14 |
Au Hasard Balthazar |
1966 |
Robert Bresson |
14 |
7.2% |
= |
Breathless |
1960 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
14 |
7.2% |
16 |
Atalante, L' |
1934 |
Jean Vigo |
13 |
6.7% |
= |
Mirror |
1974 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
13 |
6.7% |
= |
Some Like It Hot |
1959 |
Billy Wilder |
13 |
6.7% |
19 |
Avventura, L' |
1960 |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
12 |
6.2% |
= |
dolce vita, La |
1960 |
Federico Fellini |
12 |
6.2% |
= |
Godfather: Part I, The |
1972 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
12 |
6.2% |
= |
grande illusion, La |
1937 |
Jean Renoir |
12 |
6.2% |
23 |
Fanny and Alexander |
1984 |
Ingmar Bergman |
11 |
5.7% |
= |
Godfather: Part II, The |
1974 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
11 |
5.7% |
= |
Lawrence of Arabia |
1962 |
David Lean |
11 |
5.7% |
= |
Raging Bull |
1980 |
Martin Scorsese |
11 |
5.7% |
= |
Seventh Seal, The |
1957 |
Ingmar Bergman |
11 |
5.7% |
= |
strada, La |
1954 |
Federico Fellini |
11 |
5.7% |
= |
Ugetsu Monogatari |
1953 |
Mizoguchi Kenji |
11 |
5.7% |
30 |
Apocalypse Now |
1979 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
10 |
5.2% |
= |
Battleship Potemkin |
1925 |
Sergei M Eisenstein |
10 |
5.2% |
= |
Man with a Movie Camera |
1929 |
Dziga Vertov |
10 |
5.2% |
= |
Ordet |
1955 |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
10 |
5.2% |
= |
Psycho |
1960 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
10 |
5.2% |
= |
Rashomon |
1950 |
Akira Kurosawa |
10 |
5.2% |
= |
Singin' in the Rain |
1951 |
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly |
10 |
5.2% |
= |
Touch of Evil |
1958 |
Orson Welles |
10 |
5.2% |
38 |
Battle of Algiers, The |
1966 |
Gillo Pontecorvo |
9 |
4.6% |
= |
General, The |
1926 |
Buster Keaton |
9 |
4.6% |
= |
M |
1931 |
Fritz Lang |
9 |
4.6% |
= |
mépris, Le |
1963 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
9 |
4.6% |
= |
Pierrot le Fou |
1965 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
9 |
4.6% |
= |
Viridiana |
1961 |
Luis Buñuel |
9 |
4.6% |
44 |
400 Blows, The |
1959 |
François Truffaut |
8 |
4.1% |
= |
Barry Lyndon |
1975 |
Stanley Kubrick |
8 |
4.1% |
= |
eclisse, L' |
1962 |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
8 |
4.1% |
= |
Gertrud |
1964 |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
8 |
4.1% |
= |
Once Upon a Time in the West |
1968 |
Sergio Leone |
8 |
4.1% |
= |
Pather Panchali |
1955 |
Satyajit Ray |
8 |
4.1% |
= |
Rear Window |
1954 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
8 |
4.1% |
= |
Shoah |
1985 |
Claude Lanzmann |
8 |
4.1% |
52 |
Hour of the Wolf |
1968 |
Ingmar Bergman |
7 |
3.6% |
= |
Mouchette |
1966 |
Robert Bresson |
7 |
3.6% |
= |
Night of the Hunter, The |
1955 |
Charles Laughton |
7 |
3.6% |
= |
Playtime |
1967 |
Jacques Tati |
7 |
3.6% |
= |
Stalker |
1979 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
7 |
3.6% |
= |
Wild Bunch, The |
1969 |
Sam Peckinpah |
7 |
3.6% |
58 |
Amarcord |
1972 |
Federico Fellini |
6 |
3.1% |
= |
Conformist, The |
1970 |
Bernardo Bertolucci |
6 |
3.1% |
= |
Gospel According to St Matthew, The |
1964 |
Pier Paolo Pasolini |
6 |
3.1% |
= |
Hiroshima Mon Amour |
1959 |
Alain Resnais |
6 |
3.1% |
= |
Ikiru |
1952 |
Akira Kurosawa |
6 |
3.1% |
= |
Journey to Italy |
1954 |
Roberto Rossellini |
6 |
3.1% |
= |
Late Spring |
1949 |
Ozu Yasujirô |
6 |
3.1% |
= |
Leopard, The |
1963 |
Luchino Visconti |
6 |
3.1% |
= |
Magnificent Ambersons, The |
1942 |
Orson Welles |
6 |
3.1% |
= |
Man Escaped, A |
1956 |
Robert Bresson |
6 |
3.1% |
= |
Pickpocket |
1959 |
Robert Bresson |
6 |
3.1% |
= |
Sansho Dayu |
1954 |
Mizoguchi Kenji |
6 |
3.1% |
= |
Third Man, The |
1949 |
Carol Reed |
6 |
3.1% |
71 |
Aguirre, Wrath of God |
1972 |
Werner Herzog |
5 |
2.6% |
= |
Casablanca |
1942 |
Michael Curtiz |
5 |
2.6% |
= |
Dr. Strangelove |
1963 |
Stanley Kubrick |
5 |
2.6% |
= |
enfants du paradis, Les |
1945 |
Marcel Carné |
5 |
2.6% |
= |
Germany Year Zero |
1948 |
Roberto Rossellini |
5 |
2.6% |
= |
Gold Rush, The |
1925 |
Charles Chaplin |
5 |
2.6% |
= |
Goodfellas |
1990 |
Martin Scorsese |
5 |
2.6% |
= |
In The Mood For Love |
2000 |
Wong Kar Wai |
5 |
2.6% |
= |
Intolerance |
1916 |
D.W. Griffith |
5 |
2.6% |
= |
Jules et Jim |
1962 |
François Truffaut |
5 |
2.6% |
= |
Letter From an Unknown Woman |
1948 |
Max Ophüls |
5 |
2.6% |
= |
Metropolis |
1927 |
Fritz Lang |
5 |
2.6% |
= |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
1975 |
Milos Forman |
5 |
2.6% |
= |
Travelling Players, The |
1975 |
Theodoros Angelopoulos |
5 |
2.6% |
= |
Tree of Life, The |
2010 |
Terrence Malick |
5 |
2.6% |
= |
Two or Three Things I Know About Her… |
1967 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
5 |
2.6% |
= |
Vivre Sa Vie |
1962 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
5 |
2.6% |
88 |
Age d'Or, L' |
1930 |
Luis Buñuel |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Ashes and Diamonds |
1958 |
Andrzej Wajda |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Celine and Julie Go Boating |
1974 |
Jacques Rivette |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Chimes at Midnight |
1966 |
Orson Welles |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Chinatown |
1974 |
Roman Polanski |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
City Lights |
1931 |
Charles Chaplin |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Day of Wrath |
1943 |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The |
1972 |
Luis Buñuel |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Imitation of Life |
1959 |
Douglas Sirk |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Ivan the Terrible |
1945 |
Sergei M Eisenstein |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Kes |
1969 |
Ken Loach |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Madame de… |
1953 |
Max Ophüls |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Mulholland Dr |
2003 |
David Lynch |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
My Darling Clementine |
1946 |
John Ford |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Nights of Cabiria |
1957 |
Federico Fellini |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
North by Northwest |
1959 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
olvidados, Los |
1950 |
Luis Buñuel |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Orphée |
1950 |
Jean Cocteau |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Pandora's Box |
1928 |
G W Pabst |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
River, The |
1951 |
Jean Renoir |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Rome Open City |
1945 |
Roberto Rossellini |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Shop Around the Corner, The |
1940 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Sunset Blvd. |
1950 |
Billy Wilder |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Trouble in Paradise |
1932 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Turin Horse, The |
2011 |
Béla Tarr |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Umberto D |
1952 |
Vittorio de Sica |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Wavelength |
1967 |
Michael Snow |
4 |
2.1% |
= |
Zero de Conduite |
1933 |
Jean Vigo |
4 |
2.1% |
Rank |
Title |
Year |
Director |
Total votes |
% of ballots |
1 |
Tokyo Story |
1953 |
Ozu Yasujirô |
28 |
14.1% |
2 |
Taxi Driver |
1976 |
Martin Scorsese |
27 |
13.6% |
3 |
Vertigo |
1958 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
25 |
12.6% |
4 |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
1968 |
Stanley Kubrick |
22 |
11.1% |
5 |
Citizen Kane |
1941 |
Orson Welles |
21 |
10.6% |
6 |
8½ |
1963 |
Federico Fellini |
19 |
9.6% |
= |
Apocalypse Now |
1979 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
19 |
9.6% |
8 |
Mirror |
1974 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
17 |
8.6% |
9 |
Godfather: Part I, The |
1972 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
16 |
8.1% |
10 |
Bicycle Thieves, The |
1948 |
Vittorio de Sica |
15 |
7.6% |
= |
Persona |
1966 |
Ingmar Bergman |
15 |
7.6% |
= |
Raging Bull |
1980 |
Martin Scorsese |
15 |
7.6% |
13 |
400 Blows, The |
1959 |
François Truffaut |
13 |
6.6% |
= |
Modern Times |
1936 |
Charles Chaplin |
13 |
6.6% |
15 |
Barry Lyndon |
1975 |
Stanley Kubrick |
12 |
6.1% |
16 |
Apartment, The |
1960 |
Billy Wilder |
11 |
5.6% |
= |
Au Hasard Balthazar |
1966 |
Robert Bresson |
11 |
5.6% |
= |
mépris, Le |
1963 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
11 |
5.6% |
= |
Règle du jeu, La |
1939 |
Jean Renoir |
11 |
5.6% |
20 |
Andrei Rublev |
1966 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
10 |
5.1% |
= |
Come And See |
1985 |
Elem Klimov |
10 |
5.1% |
= |
Fanny and Alexander |
1984 |
Ingmar Bergman |
10 |
5.1% |
= |
Godfather: Part II, The |
1974 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
10 |
5.1% |
= |
Man Escaped, A |
1956 |
Robert Bresson |
10 |
5.1% |
= |
Rashomon |
1950 |
Akira Kurosawa |
10 |
5.1% |
= |
Seven Samurai |
1954 |
Akira Kurosawa |
10 |
5.1% |
27 |
Aguirre, Wrath of God |
1972 |
Werner Herzog |
9 |
4.5% |
= |
Breathless |
1960 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
9 |
4.5% |
= |
Close-Up |
1989 |
Abbas Kiarostami |
9 |
4.5% |
= |
Ordet |
1955 |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
9 |
4.5% |
31 |
Atalante, L' |
1934 |
Jean Vigo |
8 |
4.0% |
= |
Blue Velvet |
1986 |
David Lynch |
8 |
4.0% |
= |
Sunrise |
1927 |
F. W. Murnau |
8 |
4.0% |
34 |
Avventura, L' |
1960 |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
7 |
3.5% |
= |
Battle of Algiers, The |
1966 |
Gillo Pontecorvo |
7 |
3.5% |
= |
Beau Travail |
1998 |
Claire Denis |
7 |
3.5% |
= |
City Lights |
1931 |
Charles Chaplin |
7 |
3.5% |
= |
dolce vita, La |
1960 |
Federico Fellini |
7 |
3.5% |
= |
Maman et la putain, La |
1973 |
Jean Eustache |
7 |
3.5% |
= |
Manhattan |
1979 |
Woody Allen |
7 |
3.5% |
= |
Once Upon a Time in the West |
1968 |
Sergio Leone |
7 |
3.5% |
= |
Sátántangó |
1994 |
Béla Tarr |
7 |
3.5% |
= |
Stalker |
1979 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
7 |
3.5% |
= |
There Will Be Blood |
2007 |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
7 |
3.5% |
45 |
Badlands |
1973 |
Terrence Malick |
6 |
3.0% |
= |
Battleship Potemkin |
1925 |
Sergei M Eisenstein |
6 |
3.0% |
= |
Blade Runner |
1982 |
Ridley Scott |
6 |
3.0% |
= |
Faces |
1968 |
John Cassavetes |
6 |
3.0% |
= |
Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The |
1966 |
Sergio Leone |
6 |
3.0% |
= |
Gospel According to St Matthew, The |
1964 |
Pier Paolo Pasolini |
6 |
3.0% |
= |
Husbands |
1970 |
John Cassavetes |
6 |
3.0% |
= |
olvidados, Los |
1950 |
Luis Buñuel |
6 |
3.0% |
= |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
1975 |
Milos Forman |
6 |
3.0% |
= |
Shoah |
1985 |
Claude Lanzmann |
6 |
3.0% |
= |
To Be or Not To Be |
1942 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
6 |
3.0% |
= |
Vivre Sa Vie |
1962 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
6 |
3.0% |
= |
Woman Under the Influence, A |
1974 |
John Cassavetes |
6 |
3.0% |
58 |
Annie Hall |
1977 |
Woody Allen |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Conformist, The |
1970 |
Bernardo Bertolucci |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Deer Hunter, The |
1977 |
Michael Cimino |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Don't Look Now |
1973 |
Nicolas Roeg |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
E.T. |
1982 |
Steven Spielberg |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
eclisse, L' |
1962 |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Fear Eats the Soul |
1974 |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Goodfellas |
1990 |
Martin Scorsese |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
In The Mood For Love |
2000 |
Wong Kar Wai |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Jaws |
1975 |
Steven Spielberg |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Journey to Italy |
1954 |
Roberto Rossellini |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The |
1976 |
John Cassavetes |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Last Year At Marienbad |
1961 |
Alain Resnais |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Night of the Hunter, The |
1955 |
Charles Laughton |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Passion of Joan of Arc |
1927 |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Pickpocket |
1959 |
Robert Bresson |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Psycho |
1960 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Rear Window |
1954 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom |
1975 |
Pier Paolo Pasolini |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
strada, La |
1954 |
Federico Fellini |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Third Man, The |
1949 |
Carol Reed |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Touch of Evil |
1958 |
Orson Welles |
5 |
2.5% |
= |
Videodrome |
1983 |
David Cronenberg |
5 |
2.5% |
81 |
Amarcord |
1972 |
Federico Fellini |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
argent, L' |
1928 |
Marcel L'Herbier |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Big Lebowski, The |
1998 |
Joel & Ethan Coen |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Breaking the Waves |
1996 |
Lars von Trier |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Clockwork Orange, A |
1971 |
Stanley Kubrick |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Days of Heaven |
1978 |
Terrence Malick |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Eraserhead |
1976 |
David Lynch |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Graduate, The |
1967 |
Mike Nichols |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Hidden |
2004 |
Michael Haneke |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Hour of the Wolf |
1968 |
Ingmar Bergman |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
I am Cuba |
1964 |
Mikhail Kalatozov |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
It's a Wonderful Life |
1947 |
Frank Capra |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles |
1975 |
Chantal Akerman |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Jetée, La |
1962 |
Chris Marker |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Kes |
1969 |
Ken Loach |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Last Picture Show, The |
1971 |
Peter Bogdanovich |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Late Spring |
1949 |
Ozu Yasujirô |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Lawrence of Arabia |
1962 |
David Lean |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
M |
1931 |
Fritz Lang |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The |
1962 |
John Ford |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Metropolis |
1927 |
Fritz Lang |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Mulholland Dr |
2003 |
David Lynch |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
My Neighbour Totoro |
1988 |
Miyazaki Hayao |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Napoleon |
1927 |
Abel Gance |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Nashville |
1975 |
Robert Altman |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
notte, La |
1961 |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Once Upon a Time in America |
1983 |
Sergio Leone |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Opening Night |
1977 |
John Cassavetes |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Pather Panchali |
1955 |
Satyajit Ray |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Pulp Fiction |
1994 |
Quentin Tarantino |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Sans Soleil |
1982 |
Chris Marker |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Searchers, The |
1956 |
John Ford |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Singin' in the Rain |
1951 |
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Spirit of the Beehive, The |
1973 |
Víctor Erice |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Sunset Blvd. |
1950 |
Billy Wilder |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Thin Blue Line, The |
1989 |
Errol Morris |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Tropical Malady |
2004 |
Apichatpong Weerasethakul |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Underground |
1995 |
Emir Kusturica |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Veronika Voss |
1982 |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
4 |
2.0% |
= |
Woman of the Dunes |
1964 |
Teshigahara Hiroshi |
4 |
2.0% |