Featured in Sight & Sound: The Greatest Films of All Time
Once every decade, Sight and Sound magazine polls film critics from around the world and issues a list of the 100 greatest films of all time. The 2022 edition features 62 films available from Criterion, including the one voted the greatest film of all time!
| Spine # | Title | Director | Country | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 484 |
|
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | Chantal Akerman | France, | 1975 |
| 1104 |
|
Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | United States, | 1941 |
| 217 |
|
Tokyo Story | Yasujiro Ozu | Japan, | 1953 |
| 147 |
|
In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar Wai | Hong Kong, | 2000 |
| 1042 |
|
Beau travail | Claire Denis | France, | 1999 |
| 779 |
|
Mulholland Dr. | David Lynch | United States, | 2001 |
| 216 |
|
The Rules of the Game | Jean Renoir | France, | 1939 |
| 73 |
|
Cléo from 5 to 7 | Agnès Varda | France, | 1962 |
| 519 |
|
Close-up | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran, | 1990 |
| 701 |
|
Persona | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden, | 1966 |
| 2 |
|
Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa | Japan, | 1954 |
| 62 |
|
The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Th. Dreyer | France, | 1928 |
| 331 |
|
Late Spring | Yasujiro Ozu | Japan, | 1949 |
| 112 |
|
PlayTime | Jacques Tati | Italy, | 1967 |
| 97 |
|
Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | United States, | 1989 |
| 297 |
|
Au hasard Balthazar | Robert Bresson | France, | 1966 |
| 541 |
|
The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | United States, | 1955 |
| 663 |
|
Shoah | Claude Lanzmann | France, | 1985 |
| 1157 |
|
Daisies | Věra Chytilová | Czechoslovakia, | 1966 |
| 1034 |
|
Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Céline Sciamma | France, | 2019 |
| 140 |
|
8½ | Federico Fellini | Italy, | 1963 |
| 1084 |
|
Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union, | 1975 |
|
L’Atalante | Jean Vigo | France, | 1934 | |
| 783 |
|
Pather Panchali | Satyajit Ray | India, | 1955 |
| 680 |
|
City Lights | Charles Chaplin | United States, | 1931 |
| 30 |
|
M | Fritz Lang | Germany, | 1931 |
| 408 |
|
Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard | France, | 1960 |
| 950 |
|
Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | United States, | 1959 |
| 374 |
|
Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica | Italy, | 1948 |
| 138 |
|
Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa | Japan, | 1950 |
| 888 |
|
Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union, | 1979 |
| 897 |
|
Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | United States, | 1975 |
| 249 |
|
The Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo | Italy, | 1966 |
| 965 |
|
Wanda | Barbara Loden | United States, | 1970 |
| 5 |
|
The 400 Blows | François Truffaut | France, | 1959 |
| 1110 |
|
The Piano | Jane Campion | New Zealand, | 1993 |
| 198 |
|
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Germany, | 1974 |
|
News from Home | Chantal Akerman | France, | 1976 | |
|
Sans Soleil | Chris Marker | France, | 1983 | |
| 733 |
|
La dolce vita | Federico Fellini | Italy, | 1960 |
| 685 |
|
Touki bouki | Djibril Diop Mambéty | Senegal, | 1973 |
| 34 |
|
Andrei Rublev | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union, | 1966 |
|
La Jetée | Chris Marker | France, | 1963 | |
| 44 |
|
The Red Shoes | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | United Kingdom, | 1948 |
|
The Gleaners and I | Agnès Varda | France, | 2000 | |
| 98 |
|
L’avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy, | 1960 |
| 675 |
|
Journey to Italy | Roberto Rossellini | Italy, | 1954 |
| 386 |
|
Sansho the Bailiff | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan, | 1954 |
| 804 |
|
A Brighter Summer Day | Edward Yang | Taiwan, | 1991 |
| 543 |
|
Modern Times | Charles Chaplin | United States, | 1936 |
| 939 |
|
A Matter of Life and Death | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | United Kingdom, | 1946 |
| 1069 |
|
Céline and Julie Go Boating | Jacques Rivette | France, | 1974 |
| 977 |
|
Blue Velvet | David Lynch | United States, | 1986 |
| 351 |
|
The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor Erice | Spain, | 1973 |
| 421 |
|
Pierrot le fou | Jean-Luc Godard | France, | 1965 |
| 453 |
|
Chungking Express | Wong Kar Wai | Hong Kong, | 1994 |
| 1054 |
|
Parasite | Bong Joon Ho | South Korea, | 2019 |
| 339 |
|
Yi Yi | Edward Yang | Taiwan, | 2000 |
| 309 |
|
Ugetsu | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan, | 1953 |
| 235 |
|
The Leopard | Luchino Visconti | Italy, | 1963 |
| 445 |
|
The Earrings of Madame de . . . | Max Ophuls | France, | 1953 |
| 852 |
|
Black Girl | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal, | 1966 |
| 650 |
|
A Man Escaped | Robert Bresson | France, | 1956 |