Nicholas's Favorite Movies: List Of Films Considered The Best

While there is no general agreement upon the greatest film, many publications and organizations have tried to determine the films considered the best. Each film listed here has topped a notable survey—whether a popular poll or a poll among film reviewers—or is the highest ranked exponent of its genre or country in such a survey. Many of these sources focus on American films or were polls of English-speaking film-goers, but those considered the greatest within their respective countries are also included here. Many films are widely considered among the best ever made, whether they appear at #1 on each list or not. For example, many believe that Orson Welles' Citizen Kane is the best movie ever made, and it appears as #1 on AFI's Best Movies list, but it was displaced from the #1 position by Vertigo in the 2012 Sight & Sound decennial critics' poll.
None of the surveys that produced these citations should be viewed as a scientific measurement of the opinions of film viewers. Each may suffer the effects of vote stacking or skewed demographics. Internet-based surveys have a self-selected audience of unknown participants. The methodology of some surveys may be questionable. Sometimes (as in the case of the American Film Institute) voters were asked to select films from a limited list of entries.

Critics and filmmakers

Sight & Sound poll

Main articles: Sight & Sound and The Sight & Sound Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time

Every decade, the British film magazine Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for the greatest film of all time. The Sight & Sound accolade has come to be regarded as one of the most important of the "greatest ever film" lists. The American film critic Roger Ebert described it as "by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies—the only one most serious movie people take seriously."^[1]

Citizen Kane (1941) by Orson Welles was voted #1 in the five Sight & Sound critics' polls from 1962 to 2002.^[2] A separate Sight & Sound poll of established film directors, held for the first time in 1992, also placed Citizen Kane at the top in 1992 and 2002.^[2]
Bicycle Thieves (1948) by Vittorio De Sica topped the first Sight & Sound critics' poll, in 1952. It also came #7 in 1962 and #6 in 2002.^[2] It also came #10 in the 2012 directors' poll.^[3]
Tokyo Story (1953) by Yasujirō Ozu topped the Sight & Sound directors' poll in 2012, dethroning Citizen Kane.^[3] Tokyo Story also appeared in the Sight & Sound critics' poll at third place in 1992, fifth in 2002, and third in 2012.^[4]
Vertigo (1958) by Alfred Hitchcock topped the Sight & Sound critics' poll in 2012, dethroning Citizen Kane.^[3] It also came #7 in 1982, #4 in 1992, and #2 in 2002.^[2] In the directors' poll, it came #6 in 1992 and 2002,^[2] and #7 in 2012.^[3]
La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1939) by Jean Renoir is the only movie to have appeared in every one of the Sight & Sound critics' polls; its only appearance in the directors' poll was #9 in 2002.

Brussels World's Fair's international poll

Main article: Expo 58

The Brussels World's Fair, organized in 1958, offered the occasion for the organization by thousands of critics and filmmakers from all over the world, of the first universal film poll in history. Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film, Battleship Potemkin, was ranked in the top position.^[5]

Rotten Tomatoes

Main article: Rotten Tomatoes

In the Rotten Tomatoes aggregate score rankings, The Wizard of Oz (1939) is in 1st place. The Third Man—ranked in 2nd place overall—is the highest ranked film with a 100 percent rating.^[6]

Metacritic

Main article: Metacritic

Metacritic lists over 9,000 films ranked by aggregate score, which sees Boyhood (2014) ranked in the top position. Boyhood is also the only film on the Metacritic list to attain a perfect 100 score.^[7]

Audience polls

Casablanca (1942) was voted the greatest film by readers of the Los Angeles Daily News in 1997.^[8] It is also regarded the "best Hollywood movie of all time" by the influential Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide.^[9] On April 7, 2006, the Writers' Guild of America declared Casablanca's screenplay the best ever written.^[10]
Gone with the Wind (1939) was voted the favorite film of Americans in a poll undertaken by Harris Interactive in 2008, and again in a follow-up poll in 2014. In both instances Star Wars was ranked in second place.^[11]^[12] Gone with the Wind was also picked as the best film for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time.^[13]
Himala (Miracle) (1982) by Ishmael Bernal won the 2008 CNN Asia Pacific Screen Awards Viewers Choice as "Best Asia-Pacific Film of All Time" (voted for by thousands of film fans around the world).^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]
Raise the Red Lantern (1991) was voted the best Asian film in another audience poll conducted by MovieMail in 2000. It was followed by The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959) at second place.^[18]
Schindler's List (1993) was voted the best film ever made by the German film magazine Cinema.^[19]
Seven Samurai (1954) was voted #1 in an audience poll conducted by MovieMail in 2000. It was followed by The Third Man (1949) in second place.^[18]
Star Wars (1977) and its sequel The Empire Strikes Back (1980) were chosen as the greatest films by readers of Empire magazine in November 2001 and by voters in a Channel 4 (Film4) poll.^[20] Star Wars is also the highest ranking sci-fi film in both versions of the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest movies of all time (ranked #15 in the original list, and #13 in the updated list). The Empire Strikes Back was voted #1 in Total Film's Top 100 Movies of All Time,^[21] and #1 in the 2006 Empire "Greatest Movies Ever" special.^[22]
The Godfather (1972) was voted #1 by Entertainment Weekly's readers^[23] and voted as #1 in a Time Out readers' poll in 1998.^[24] The film was also voted as the "Greatest Movie of All Time" in September 2008 by 10,000 readers of Empire magazine, 150 people from the movie business and 50 film critics.^[25] The Godfather was selected as the best gangster movie ever by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top 10.^[26] In 2014, The Hollywood Reporter undertook an industry poll by sending a ballot to every studio, agency, publicity firm and production house in the Hollywood district. The Godfather was voted the top film by 2,120 industry members.^[27] It is the highest rated film on Metacritic with 100, tops the Rotten Tomatoes list of the best drama movies,^[28] and was chosen as the greatest crime film out of 25 movies by the IGN website in 2011.^[29] Its sequel, The Godfather Part II, (1974) was voted best movie ever by TV Guide readers^[30] in 1998.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003) was voted the most popular film of all time by an audience poll for the Australian television special My Favourite Film and by a poll cast by 120,000 German voters for the TV special "Die besten Filme aller Zeiten" (German "The best films of all time").^[31] Its first film, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), was the pick of readers in a poll by Empire magazine in November 2004.^[32]
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) was voted the best film not to have won an Academy Award in a 2004 Radio Times poll and again in 2008.^[33] The film is ranked #1 on FilmCrave.com's top 100 movies list.^[34]

Particular genres or media

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Action

Seven Samurai (1954) is the highest rated (100% positive) movie at Rotten Tomatoes, with the highest number of critics (57) voting as such, that is listed as an action movie on the site as of 2015–09.^[35]
Fist of Fury (1972),^[36] Enter the Dragon (1973),^[37] Five Deadly Venoms (1978),^[38] The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978),^[39] Magnificent Butcher (1979)^[40] and Drunken Master II (1994)^[41]^[42]^[43] have often been cited as the best action martial arts films. All of the aforementioned movies were Hong Kong productions except Enter The Dragon which was a co-production with Warner Bros.
Mad Max 2 (1981), also known as The Road Warrior, was claimed to be the greatest action film of all time in a poll by Rolling Stone magazine in 2015-01.^[44]
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) was chosen as the best action film for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time.^[45] Sites such Moviefone^[46] and IGN ^[47] also placed the film as the #1 greatest action movie of all time.
The Terminator (1984)^[35]^[48] along with its sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991),^[49]^[50] Aliens (1986),^[35]^[47]^[51] and The Matrix (1999) ^[46] are often the highest ranking and most positively reviewed action science fiction films.^[52]
Die Hard (1988) is often voted the greatest action film of all time. It is also considered to be a landmark in action film history.^[53]^[54]^[55]
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is the highest rated movie at Rotten Tomatoes, based on adjusted average over a large voting base (in this case, 300 critics), that is listed as an action movie on the site as of 2015–09.^[35]

Animation

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) by Walt Disney was selected as the best American animated movie ever by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top 10 in 2008.^[26]
Pinocchio (1940) by Walt Disney was ranked as the #1 greatest animated movie by Time magazine in 2011.^[56]
The Russian animated films Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) and Tale of Tales (1979) by Yuri Norshtein have been voted as the greatest animated films ever in particular festivals.^[57]
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his own 1982 manga of the same name, was the highest-ranked film in an audience poll of best anime movie/series conducted by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2007.^[58]
My Neighbor Totoro (1988) by Miyazaki was ranked at #1 in Time Out's list of top 50 greatest animated films.^[59] It is also the highest-ranking animated film in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll for the greatest films of all time.^[60]
Akira (1988) by Katsuhiro Otomo is considered the greatest anime film ever made on the top ten anime lists at MovieCricket^[61] and Screen Junkies.^[62]
Grave of the Fireflies (1988) by Isao Takahata topped the Rotten Tomatoes list of best anime films,^[63] and is the highest-ranking animation in Time Out magazine's "50 greatest World War II movies" list^[64] and Empire magazine's "Top 10 Depressing Movies" list.^[65]
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) is the highest rated live-action/animated hybrid film on film aggregate Rotten Tomatoes, and has scored an almost perfect rating of 98%.^[66] The film was also ranked as the best animated/live action hybrid film by Entertainment Weekly in 2011.^[67]
Beauty and the Beast (1991) is #1 on IGN's "Top 25 Animated Movies of All Time" list in 2010.^[68]
The Lion King (1994) was chosen as the best animated film for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time in 2011.^[69]
Ghost in the Shell (1995) is the highest-ranking anime on Rotten Tomatoes' "Comics & Graphic Novels Vs. The Critics" list.^[70]
Toy Story (1995) was voted #1 on the "Top 100 Animated Features of All Time" list by the Online Film Critics Society (published March 2003),^[71] and was ranked as the greatest animated movie by Moviefone^[72] and Total Film.^[73] Toy Story 2 (1999) topped a Rotten Tomatoes poll of the 50 "Best Animated Films",^[74] ranked #1 on their list of the best kids movies,^[75] and ranked #1 on the Movie Review Query Engine's list of the best animated movies.^[76] The original and the sequel hold a perfect 100% score at Rotten Tomatoes.^[77]^[78]
Spirited Away (2001) by Miyazaki is the highest-ranking animation in Empire magazine's "100 Best Films of World Cinema" list^[79] and the 2002 Sight & Sound critics' & directors' poll.^[80]
Persepolis (2007) is the highest ranking animation on Rotten Tomatoes' "Comics & Graphic Novels Vs. The Critics" list.^[70]
WALL-E (2008) was ranked as the greatest animated movie ever by Entertainment Weekly.^[81]
Inside Out (2015) topped Rotten Tomatoes' Top 100 Animation Movies list with a 98% score based on 315 reviews.^[82] The film also has the highest position of a 21st-century film on the site's Top 100 Movies of All Time list at number 9.^[83]

Christmas

A Christmas Story (1983) is AOL's #1 Christmas movie of all time^[84] and IGN's top holiday-themed movie of all time.^[85]
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) is #1 on the Movie Review Query Engine's list of the best holiday movies,^[86] and also topped AFI's 100 Years…100 Cheers list.^[87] It also tops Rotten Tomatoes' Best Christmas Movies list.^[88]
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) is ranked #7 on Rotten Tomatoes' Best Christmas Movies list.^[88]
Die Hard (1988) was voted Empire Magazine's "The Greatest Christmas Film of All Time" in 2010,^[89] and the eighth best in Rotten Tomatoes' list.^[88]
Lethal Weapon (1987) is commonly voted among the best action-Christmas films of all time.^[90]

Comedy

Airplane! (1980) was chosen as the best comedy for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time.^[91]
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) is the highest reviewed comedy movie at Rotten Tomatoes, with an almost perfect score of 99%.^[92] It also has a Metacritic score of 96/100, one of the website's highest rated comedy movies.^[93]
Ghostbusters (1984) was ranked first by IGN as the best comedy in their list of Top 25 Best Comedies Of All Time.^[94]
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) was named the best British comedy picture of all time in a 2004 poll by the UK arm of Amazon.^[95]
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) was voted the greatest comedy ever in polls conducted by Total Film magazine in 2000,^[96] the British TV networks Channel 4 in 2006 ^[97] and Five in 2007, and The Guardian newspaper in 2007.^[98]
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) was voted #1 on the Bravo list of funniest movies of all time.^[99]
Some Like It Hot (1959) was listed Best American Film Comedy by the American Film Institute in June 2000.^[100]
City Lights (1931) was selected as the best romantic comedy ever by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top 10.^[26]
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) is ranked sixth in the BFI Top 100 British films and is the highest ranked comedy.

Comic/superhero

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) by Hayao Miyazaki: See acclaimed animated films section above.
Akira (1988) is the highest-ranking animated film on lists of best comic book movies published by Movie Review Query Engine,^[101] Film4^[102] and Total Film,^[103] as well as the highest-ranking comic book adaptation on IGN's top 25 animated movies of all time in 2010,^[68] and Complex magazine's Best Animated Movies of All Time list.^[104]
Ghost in the Shell (1995) is the highest-ranking film based on a manga comic on Rotten Tomatoes' "Comics & Graphic Novels Vs. The Critics" list in order of critical approval.^[70]
Oldboy (2003) is the highest ranking film based on a manga comic on Empire Magazine's lists of the 500 greatest movies of all time,^[105] as well as Empire's The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema list.^[106] It is the only comic book adaptation to be named one of the ten best Asian films ever made in a 2008 poll conducted by CNN.^[107]
X2 (2003) was voted #1 in Empire Magazine's list of the 20 Greatest Comic Book Movies in 2006.^[108]
Spider-Man 2 (2004) was #1 on Rotten Tomatoes' Comix Worst to Best list in 2007.^[109]
The Incredibles (2004) was ranked #1 in Time magazine's list of top ten greatest superhero films in 2011.^[110] It is also the highest ranking animated superhero film in a reader's poll conducted by Rolling Stone magazine,^[111] and on countdown lists published by media outlets such as IGN in 2010,^[68] SFX in 2012,^[112] The Guardian in 2013,^[113] and the Houston Chronicle in 2014.^[114]
The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–12) was collectively ranked as #1 on Newsarama's top ten comic book movies list.^[115] Batman Begins was voted one of the best comic book films of all time by Empire in 2006.^[116] The Dark Knight (2008) was voted the greatest superhero movie in a reader's poll conducted by Rolling Stone,^[111] and #1 on lists published by Rotten Tomatoes,^[117]^[70] Movie Review Query Engine,^[101] AskMen,^[118] IGN^[119] The Guardian,^[113] Total Film,^[103] and TheStreet.com.^[120] The Dark Knight Rises, the final installment, is considered the best comic book superhero movie in a list published by Forbes in 2012.^[121]
Death Note (2006) was chosen as the best live-action film based on a manga comic in a Japanese audience poll conducted by the Goo Research online monitor group.^[122]
Persepolis (2007) was the highest ranking graphic novel adaptation on a list of best animated movies ever published by Entertainment Weekly.^[123]
The Avengers (2012) was ranked #1 in the 2012 edition of SFX's Top 50 Superhero Movies Of All Time list,^[112] and the best comic book movie of all time in a list published by Film4 in order of critical approval.^[102]

Courtroom

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) was selected as the best courtroom drama ever by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top 10 list.^[26]
12 Angry Men (1957) was selected as the second-best courtroom drama ever by the American Film Institute during their AFI's 10 Top 10 list^[124] and is the highest courtroom drama on Rotten Tomatoes's Top 100 Movies of All Times.^[125]

Crime/gangster

See also The Godfather and The Godfather Part II in the Films acclaimed in audience polls section above.

Chinatown (1974) was named the best crime film of all time by The Guardian.^[126]
Pulp Fiction (1994) was ranked the greatest film of the past 25 years (1983–2008) by Entertainment Weekly.^[127]
Goodfellas (1990) was listed as the greatest film of all time by Total Film.^[128]

Disaster

The Poseidon Adventure (1972) was voted best disaster movie in a poll commissioned by UCI cinemas in May 2004.^[129]

Documentary

Man with a Movie Camera (1929) was voted the greatest documentary ever by 200 curators and critics and 100 film makers, many of whom were documentary specialists, in a 2014 poll organised by Sight & Sound.^[130] It is also the highest placed documentary in The Sight & Sound Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time.^[131]
Bowling for Columbine (2002), Michael Moore's controversial documentary relating to gun control and the culture of fear in the United States, heads the list of 20 all-time favorite non-fiction films selected by members of the International Documentary Association (IDA).^[132]^[133]
Grey Gardens (1975), the Maysles Brothers' documentary about former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's eccentric aunt and cousin Edith Bouvier Beale and Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, was ranked as one of the greatest documentaries of all time by the International Documentary Association.^[134] The film holds an 89% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.^[135]
The Seven Up! series (1964–) was voted as the greatest ever documentary in a Channel 4 poll of the 50 Greatest Documentaries in 2005.^[136]
The Last Waltz (1978) is considered one of the greatest concert documentaries ever created, and has been deemed as such by Total Film,^[137] Michael Worthington of the Chicago Tribune,^[138] and by Rotten Tomatoes, where it holds a 97% favorable rating.^[139]

Epic

Seven Samurai (1954) was the highest-ranking epic film in the 1982 Sight & Sound critics' poll.^[2]
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) was voted best epic by readers of Total Film in May 2004. It was selected as the best epic movie ever by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top 10.^[26]

Fantasy

The Wizard of Oz (1939) was selected as the best American fantasy movie ever by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top 10.^[26]
Spirited Away (2001) is the highest-ranking animated film on "The 25 best sci-fi and fantasy films of all time" list published by The Guardian, and the second highest-ranking fantasy film on the list after The Wizard of Oz.^[140]
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) It is the only film in the genre to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. It also won 11 Academy Awards, the highest number of any film ever made (tying with Ben-Hur and Titanic). It is also the only film in history having won Best Film awards from the Academy, BAFTA, Empire, Golden Globe, Hugo, MTV, and Saturn Awards.

High school

The Breakfast Club (1985) ranks at #1 on Entertainment Weekly's list of best high school movies.^[141] Other films written and directed by John Hughes, namely Weird Science, Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink, are also often considered epitomal high school, and by extension, teenage coming of age films,^[142] as are the other nicknamed "Brat Pack" '80s films.
Blackboard Jungle (1955) was listed as #1 best movie about high school on Newsweek/The Daily Beast.^[143]
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) was ranked #1 on Moviefone's list of Best High School Movies of All Time.^[144]

Historical/political

Seven Samurai (1954) was the highest-ranking historical period film in the 1982 Sight & Sound critics' poll.^[2]
Schindler's List (1993) was chosen as the best political/historical film for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time.^[145]

Horror/thriller

The Thing (1982) ranks #1 on The Boston Globe's list of the 50 scariest movies of all time.^[146]
The Shining (1980) ranks #1 on The Moving Arts Film Journal's list of the 25 greatest horror films.^[147]
The Exorcist (1973) was voted scariest movie of all time by viewers of AMC in 2006.^[148] It was also chosen as the best horror film for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time.^[149]
Psycho (1960), the Alfred Hitchcock classic, tops AFI's list of the 100 most thrilling American films.^[150]
King Kong (1933) ranked #1 in the Rotten Tomatoes list of the 50 best horror movies of all time.^[151]
Jaws (1975) was #1 in the Bravo network's five-hour miniseries The 100 Scariest Movie Moments in 2004.^[152] It was also ranked second on AFI's list for thrillers, 100 Years... 100 Thrills. It holds a 98% "Fresh" rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes.^[153]
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) ranks #1 on Total Film's list of the greatest horror films.^[154]
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) was chosen as the best suspense/thriller for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time.^[155]

Musical

Singin' in the Rain (1952) tops the American Film Institute's list of the 25 best American musicals.^[156]
West Side Story (1961) was chosen as the best screen musical by readers of The Observer in a 2007 poll.^[157]
The Sound of Music (1965) was chosen as the best musical for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time.^[158]
Cabaret (1972) topped The Guardian and The Observer's 2013 critic poll.^[159]

Mystery

Rear Window (1954) is #1 on the Rotten Tomatoes list of the best mystery/suspense films.^[160]
Vertigo (1958) was selected as the best mystery movie ever by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top 10.^[26]

Propaganda

The Battleship Potemkin (1925) has been called one of the most influential propaganda films of all time,^[161] and was named the greatest film of all time at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958.^[162]^[163]^[164]
Triumph of the Will (1935), Leni Riefenstahl's documentary film glorifying Adolf Hitler and the 1934 Nazi Party Convention, in Nuremberg is widely perceived, renowned and acknowledged as the best propaganda film ever,^[165] although Riefenstahl asserted she intended it only as a documentary.

Religious

In 1996, the Holy See released three lists of recommended films. The three different lists considered films of religious value, virtue (or moral value) and artistic merit. Among the list of 15 religious films considered by the Vatican to be the best ever were, in no particular order, William Wyler's Ben-Hur, The Mission, The Passion of Joan of Arc, and Fred Zinnemann's 1966 version of A Man for All Seasons.^[166]

Romance

Brokeback Mountain (2005) was voted the top film revolving around homosexual relationships by Thebacklot.com.^[167]
Casablanca (1942) was voted the top romantic American film on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions list.^[168]
Titanic (1997) is tied with both the most Academy Award wins (11) and nominations (14)—the only film to do so.

Science fiction

See Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back in the Films acclaimed in audience polls section above.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) tops the Online Film Critics Society list of greatest science fiction films of all time,^[169] and was also named the best science fiction film of all time by The Guardian.^[170] It is also the only science fiction film to make the Sight and Sound poll for ten best movies, and was selected as the best science fiction movie ever by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top 10.^[26]
Blade Runner (1982) was voted the best science fiction film by a panel of scientists assembled by the British newspaper The Guardian in 2004.^[171] In New Scientist, Blade Runner was voted "all-time favourite science fiction film" in both the staff,^[172] and reader's 2008 polls.^[173]
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) topped a Rotten Tomatoes poll of the 100 best Science Fiction movies ever made.^[174]
Akira (1988) has been ranked as the best animated science fiction film in several lists.^[175]^[176]^[177]^[178]
Metropolis (1927) took the 12th place in Empire's 100 Greatest Films of World Cinema poll.^[179]

Sports

Rocky (1976) topped Digital Spy's "greatest ever sports movie" audience poll in 2012.^[180]
Raging Bull (1980) was selected as the best sports movie by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top 10,^[26]
Murderball (2005) is #1 on the Rotten Tomatoes countdown of the top sports movies.^[181]
Senna (2010) is on the list of best sports movies of all time on the site Rotten Tomatoes.^[182] Voted the 4th best sports movies of all time by the Empire Magazine.^[183] Voted the 9th best sports movies of all time by the Rolling Stone.^[184]

War

See Gone with the Wind, Casablanca and Schindler's List in the Films acclaimed in audience polls section above.

Paths of Glory (1957) is #1 on the Movie Review Query Engine's list of the best military movies.^[185]
The Longest Day (1962) topped the list of the Moviefone 25 Best War Movies.^[186]
Apocalypse Now (1979) was ranked as the #1 greatest war movie by The Guardian in a 2013 critics poll with The Observer.^[187] The film also topped on Channel 4's 50 Films To See Before You Die.^[188] It is the second rated war movie of all time based on the Movifone list (after The Longest Day).^[186]
Come and See (1985) was listed as the #1 greatest World War II film by Time Out.^[189]
Saving Private Ryan (1998) was voted as the greatest war film in a 2008 Channel 4 poll of the 100 greatest war films.^[190]

Western

Classic Western

The Searchers (1956) was selected as the best western movie ever by the American Film Institute during their 10 Top 10.^[26] (See also: Polls of critics and filmmakers above).
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) was chosen as the best western film for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time.^[191]

Spaghetti Western

Countries

Afghanistan

Antigua and Barbuda

Redemption of Paradise (2011) directed by Noel Howell won three awards at Jamaica Reggae Film Festival.^[196]

Argentina

Aruba

Australia

Bangladesh

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Remake (2003) was voted the best Bosnian all time movie by the audience and critics. Remake was extremely popular and had a huge success at the box office in Bosnia and Herzegovina and worldwide. The film won numerous awards at prestigious international film festivals, including the prize at the Berlin International Film Festival. It was screened at over forty most prestigious international film festivals around the world including International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and many others. In 2003 it was the most-watched motion picture from their home country and is one of the most-popular, most-watched, most-expensive, most-profitable and most-awarded Bosnian films ever.^[206]^[207]^[208]

Brazil

Ônibus 174 (Bus 174), Directed by José Padilha & Felipe Lacerda (2002), a documentary about a bus hijacking, is the highest rated foreign film at Rotten Tomatoes.^[209]
Cidade de Deus (City of God), directed by Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund (2002) is the highest-ranked Brazilian film on Empire magazine's "100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010.^[210]
Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (Black God, White Devil), Directed by Glauber Rocha (1964) has been selected by Brazilian critics as the best film of all time several times, such as the 27th edition of Brazilian film magazine Contracampo.^[211]

Bulgaria

The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner is the only Bulgarian film that was shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film award.

Canada

Czech Republic

Chile

China

Colombia

Croatia

Denmark

Egypt

To mark the centennial of Egyptian cinema, Al Ahram daily newspaper asked the country's top 20 critics to choose the best 15 best Egyptian films of all time. The Mummy (Al-Mummia, 1969), directed by Chadi Abdel Salam topped the poll (first published July 12, 2007).^{[citation needed]}

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hong Kong

Hungary

Szegénylegények (The Round-Up, 1965) directed by Miklós Jancsó was chosen as the best Hugarian film in by Hungarian film film critics in 2000.^[232]
Of all Hungarian filmmakers, Béla Tarr has arguably the most recognition among English-language critics; his films Satan's Tango (1994) and Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) both ranked in the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound critics' poll—at #36 and #171 respectively.^[233]^[234]

India

See also: Cinema of India and Lists of Indian films

The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959), a Bengali film trilogy directed by Satyajit Ray, appeared on the 1992 edition of the Sight & Sound Critics' Poll (ranked #88)^[235] and on The Village Voice's top 250 "Best Films of the Century" critics' poll (ranked #54).^[236]^[237] It is the highest-ranking trilogy in both polls.
- Pather Panchali (1955), the first part of The Apu Trilogy and Satyajit Ray's debut film, appeared on the Sight & Sound Critics' Poll several times, in 1962 (ranked #11),^[235] 1992 (ranked #6),^[238]^[239] 2002 (ranked #22)^[240]^[241] and 2012 (ranked #42).^[242] It also appeared on The Village Voice top 250 "Best Films of the Century" critics' poll (tied at #12 with The Godfather).^[236]^[237]
- Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (1959), the final part of Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy, was the highest-ranking Indian film in the 1982 Sight & Sound Critics' Poll (ranked #42), followed by two other Ray films The Music Room (1958) and Charulata (1964) tied at #56.^[243]
The Hindi film Pyaasa (1957) was listed on Time magazine's All-Time 100 Movies list.^[41]
The Tamil film Nayagan (1987) was listed on Time magazine's All-Time 100 Movies list.^[41]
Sholay (1975), a "Curry Western" Hindi film directed by Ramesh Sippy, topped the British Film Institute's poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time.^[244]
Gandhi (1982), an Indian English biographical film about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi directed by Richard Attenborough, won 8 Academy Awards including the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Mayabazar (1957), directed by Kadiri Venkata Reddy and produced by B. Nagi Reddy, Aluri Chakrapani is a Telugu mythological film. The critically acclaimed Mayabazar is considered one of the enduring classics of Indian Cinema. IBN Live listed it as the greatest Indian film of all time.^[245]^[246]^[247]

Iran

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Japan

Latvia

Macedonia

Before the Rain (1994) is a Milčo Mančevski film, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Mali

Yeelen is the best African film according to a Mubi poll.^[267]

Malta

Simshar is the first Maltese film to be submitted for the Best Foreign Language Oscar.

Mexico

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

Pakistan

Philippines

Poland

Romania

Russia

Броненосец Потёмкин (Battleship Potemkin): see Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers above.

Serbia

See also: Cinema of Serbia and Cinema of Yugoslavia

Who's That Singing Over There (Ko to tamo peva, 1980) was in 1996 voted the best Serbian movie made in the 1947–95 period by the members of the Yugoslavian Board of the Academy of Film Art and Science (AFUN).^[285]
Underground by Emir Kusturica won the Palme d'Or in the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.^[286]

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

See You in the Next War (Nasvidenje v naslednji vojni, 1980), voted the best Slovenian film of all times in the poll among contemporary film critics, conducted in 2012 by Dnevnik newspaper.^[292]

South Africa

South Korea

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sweden

Taiwan

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom

United States

Since 1998, the American Film Institute has assembled juries of film community leaders and polled them for a series of top 100 lists. Two of the lists from the series, 100 Years... 100 Movies from 1998 and 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) from 2007, identified Citizen Kane as the best American film ever. In other years, AFI's jury members selected Some Like It Hot the greatest American comedy, Psycho as the most thrilling American movie, Casablanca as the greatest American love story, Singin' in the Rain as the greatest American film musical, and It's a Wonderful Life as the most inspiring American film.^[309]

Vertigo (1958) by Alfred Hitchcock topped the Sight & Sound critics' poll in 2012, dethroning Citizen Kane at the top of the critics' poll for the first time in 50 years since 1962. It has also been voted #8 in the directors' poll.^[3]

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