British Film Institute 100 Greatest Movies -- 2012 Poll

Added on by C. Maoxian.

It’s a pity they gave multiple entries to single directors… ideally they could come up with a 100 Greatest Movies from 100 Different Directors list.

  1. Vertigo, 1958, Hitchcock

  2. Citizen Kane, 1941, Welles

  3. Tokyo Story, 1953, Ozu

  4. La regle du jeu, 1939, Renoir

  5. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, 1927, Murnau

  6. 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968, Kubrick

  7. The Searchers, 1956, Ford

  8. Man with a Movie Camera, 1929, Vertov

  9. The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1927, Dreyer

  10. 8 1/2, 1963, Fellini

  11. Battleship Potemkin, 1915, Eisenstein

  12. L’atalante, 1934, Vigo

  13. Breathless, 1960, Godard

  14. Apocalypse Now, 1979, Coppola

  15. Late Spring, 1949, Ozu

  16. Au hasard Balthazar, 1966, Bresson

  17. Seven Samurai, 1954, Kurosawa

  18. Persona, 1966, Bergman

  19. Mirror, 1974, Tarkovsky

  20. Singin’ in the Rain, 1951, Donen

  21. L’avventura, 1960, Antonioni

  22. Le mepris, 1963, Godard

  23. The Godfather, 1972, Coppola

  24. Ordet, 1955, Dreyer

  25. In the Mood for Love, 2000, Wong

  26. Rashomon, 1950, Kurosawa

  27. Andrei Rublev, 1966, Tarkovsky

  28. Mulholland Drive, 2001, Lynch

  29. Stalker, 1979, Tarkovsky

  30. Shoah, 1985, Lanzmann

  31. The Godfather Part II, 1974, Coppola

  32. Taxi Driver, 1976, Scorsese

  33. Bicycle Thieves, 1948, De Sica

  34. Psycho, 1960, Hitchcock

  35. The General, 1926, Keaton

  36. Metropolis, 1927, Lang

  37. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, 1975, Akerman

  38. Satantango, 1994, Tarr

  39. The 400 Blows, 1959, Truffaut

  40. La dolce vita, 1960, Fellini

  41. Journey to Italy, 1954, Rossellini

  42. Pather Panchali, 1955, Ray

  43. Some Like It Hot, 1959, Wilder

  44. Gertrud, 1964. Dreyer

  45. Pierrot le fou, 1965, Godard

  46. Play Time, 1967, Tati

  47. Close-Up, 1990, Kiarostami

  48. The Battle of Algiers, 1966, Pontecorvo

  49. Histoire(s) du cinema, 1998, Godard

  50. City Lights, 1931, Chaplin

  51. Ugetsu monogatari, 1953, Mizoguchi

  52. La jetee, 1962, Marker

  53. North by Northwest, 1959, Hitchcock

  54. Rear Window, 1954, Hitchcock

  55. Raging Bull, 1980, Scorsese

  56. M, 1931, Lang

  57. The Leopard, 1963, Visconti

  58. Touch of Evil, 1958, Welles

  59. Sherlock Jr., 1924, Keaton

  60. Barry Lyndon, 1975, Kubrick

  61. La maman et la putain, 1973, Eustache

  62. Sansho Dayu, 1954, Mizoguchi

  63. Wild Strawberries, 1957, Bergman

  64. Modern Times, 1936, Chaplin

  65. Sunset Blvd., 1950, Wilder

  66. The Night of the Hunter, 1955, Laughton

  67. Pickpocket, 1959, Bresson

  68. Rio Bravo, 1958, Hawks

  69. Blade Runner, 1982, Scott

  70. Blue Velvet, 1986, Lynch

  71. Sans soleil, 1982, Marker

  72. A Man Escaped, 1956, Bresson

  73. The Third Man, 1949, Reed

  74. L’eclisse, 1962, Antonioni

  75. Les enfants du paradis, 1945, Carné

  76. La grande illusion, 1937, Renoir

  77. Nashville, 1975, Altman

  78. Chinatown, 1974, Polanski

  79. Beau travail, 1988, Denis

  80. Once upon a Time in the West, 1968, Leone

  81. The Magnificent Ambersons, 1942, Welles

  82. Lawrence of Arabia, 1962, Lean

  83. The Spirit of the Beehive, 1973, Erice

  84. Fanny and Alexander, 1984, Bergman

  85. Casablanca, 1942, Curtiz

  86. The Colour of Pomegranates, 1968, Parajanov

  87. Greed, 1925, von Stroheim

  88. A Brighter Summer Day, 1991, Yang

  89. The Wild Bunch, 1969, Peckinpah

  90. Partie de campagne, 1936, Renoir

  91. Aguirre: Wrath of God, 1972, Herzog

  92. A Matter of Life and Death, 1946, Powell & Pressburger

  93. The Seventh Seal, 1957, Bergman

  94. Un chien andalou, 1928, Buñuel

  95. Intolerance, 1916, Griffith

  96. A One and a Two, 1999, Yang

  97. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943, Powell & Pressburger

  98. Touki Bouki, 1973, Mambéty

  99. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, 1974, Fassbinder

  100. Imitation of Life, 1959, Sirk

  101. Madame de…, 1953, Ophüls