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Greatest Films of All Time Top 20

This ranking synthesizes authoritative polls including Sight & Sound's decennial critics' survey, Academy Awards for Best Picture, and Palme d'Or winners, selecting twenty landmark films based on artistic achievement, cultural impact, and technical innovation.

Current #1
Citizen Kane (1941/Orson Welles)
RankFilm (Year/Director)Composite ScoreMajor Accolades
1
Citizen Kane (1941/Orson Welles)
9.8Sight & Sound 2012 Critics' Poll #1
2
Tokyo Story (1953/Yasujirō Ozu)
9.7Sight & Sound 2012 Directors' Poll #1
3
The Godfather (1972/Francis Ford Coppola)
9.6Academy Award: Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay
4
4
Vertigo (1958/Alfred Hitchcock)
9.5Sight & Sound 2012 Critics' Poll #1
5
5
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968/Stanley Kubrick)
9.5Academy Award: Best Visual Effects
6
6
Casablanca (1942/Michael Curtiz)
9.4Academy Awards: Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay
7
7
Seven Samurai (1954/Akira Kurosawa)
9.4Venice Film Festival Silver Lion
8
8
Battleship Potemkin (1925/Sergei Eisenstein)
9.3Foundational work of montage theory
9
9
The Searchers (1956/John Ford)
9.3AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies #7
10
10
Singin' in the Rain (1952/Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen)
9.2AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals #1
11
11
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927/F.W. Murnau)
9.21st Academy Awards: Best Actress, Cinematography
12
12
The Rules of the Game (1939/Jean Renoir)
9.1Venice Film Festival Honorary Award
13
13
The Godfather Part II (1974/Francis Ford Coppola)
9.1Academy Awards: 6 wins including Best Picture, Director
14
14
Lawrence of Arabia (1962/David Lean)
9Academy Awards: 7 wins including Best Picture, Director
15
15
Raging Bull (1980/Martin Scorsese)
9Academy Awards: Best Actor, Film Editing
16
16
Man with a Movie Camera (1929/Dziga Vertov)
8.9Pioneering work of documentary aesthetics
17
17
Psycho (1960/Alfred Hitchcock)
8.9Golden Globe: Best Supporting Actress
18
18
The Shawshank Redemption (1994/Frank Darabont)
8.8Long-standing #1 on IMDb user ratings
19
19
Pulp Fiction (1994/Quentin Tarantino)
8.8Palme d'Or, Academy Award: Best Original Screenplay
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20
Apocalypse Now (1979/Francis Ford Coppola)
8.7Palme d'Or, Academy Awards: Cinematography, Sound

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