Sight & Sound Directors' 100

Sight & Sound Directors' 100 is a ranked list published in 2022 — one of the 31 sources behind the film canon, weighted as major international poll. 85 of its 104 entries appear in the aggregated canon.

1. 12001: A Space Odyssey (1968)Canon #4
2. 2Citizen Kane (1941)Canon #1
3. 3The Godfather (1972)Canon #2
4. 4Tokyo Story (1953)Canon #10
5. 5Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)Canon #60
6. 6Vertigo (1958)Canon #3
7. 781⁄2 (1963)Canon #27
8. 8Mirror (1975)Canon #161
9. 9Persona (1966)Canon #31
10. 10In the Mood for Love (2000)Canon #20
11. 11Close-Up (1990)Canon #109
12. 12Taxi Driver (1976)Canon #14
13. 13Barry Lyndon (1975)Canon #51
14. 14Beau Travail (1999)Canon #86
15. 15Seven Samurai (1954)Canon #5
16. 16Breathless (1960)Canon #42
17. 17Stalker (1979)Canon #127
18. 18Apocalypse Now (1979)Canon #6
19. 19A Woman Under the Influence (1974)Canon #105
20. 20Rashomon (1950)Canon #29
21. 21Bicycle Thieves (1948)Canon #40
22. 22The Battle of Algiers (1966)Canon #61
23. 23Mulholland Drive (2001)Canon #28
24. 24Pather Panchali (1955)Canon #43
25. 25Raging Bull (1980)Canon #32
26. 26Andrei Rublev (1966)Canon #70
27. 27The Godfather Part II (1974)Canon #7
28. 28GoodFellas (1990)Canon #12
29. 29Do the Right Thing (1989)Canon #52
30. 30Ordet (1955)Canon #104
31. 31The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)Canon #25
32. 32Man with a Movie Camera (1929)Canon #67
33. 33Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)Canon #18
34. 34The 400 Blows (1959)Canon #24
35. 35La Jetée (1962)Canon #125
36. 36La Dolce Vita (1960)Canon #57
37. 37Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)Canon #111
38. 38La Strada (1954)Canon #227
39. 39The Rules of the Game (1939)Canon #15
40. 40L'Avventura (1960)Canon #59
41. 41PlayTime (1967)Canon #90
42. 42The Night of the Hunter (1955)Canon #34
43. 43A Man Escaped (1956)Canon #114
44. 44Vagabond (1985)Canon #192
45. 45Come and See (1985)Canon #103
46. 46Contempt (1963)Canon #74
47. 47Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)Canon #65
48. 48City Lights (1931)Canon #21
49. 49L'Atalante (1934)Canon #30
50. 50Psycho (1960)Canon #13
51. 51Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)Canon #47
52. 52Don't Look Now (1973)Canon #146
53. 53The Mother and the Whore (1973)Canon #164
54. 54Singin' in the Rain (1952)Canon #8
55. 55La Notte (1961)
56. 56The Piano (1993)Canon #129
57. 57Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)Canon #172
58. 58Viridiana (1961)Canon #153
59. 59Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)Canon #147
60. 60Fanny and Alexander (1982)Canon #91
61. 61Eraserhead (1977)
62. 62Late Spring (1949)Canon #196
63. 63Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
64. 64Sunset Boulevard (1950)Canon #33
65. 65La Ciénaga (2001)
66. 66Satantango (1994)Canon #214
67. 67Tropical Malady (2004)
68. 68Blade Runner (1982)Canon #45
69. 69Lawrence of Arabia (1962)Canon #11
70. 70Some Like It Hot (1959)Canon #16
71. 71Jaws (1975)Canon #35
72. 72Chinatown (1974)Canon #9
73. 73The Seventh Seal (1957)Canon #73
74. 74Ikiru (1952)Canon #139
75. 75L'Argent (1983)
76. 76The Conversation (1974)Canon #183
77. 77Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
78. 78A Separation (2011)Canon #116
79. 79Kes (1969)
80. 80Where Is the Friend's House? (1987)
81. 81The Searchers (1956)Canon #19
82. 82Touki Bouki (1973)
83. 83A Brighter Summer Day (1991)Canon #231
84. 84Sans Soleil (1983)
85. 85Modern Times (1936)Canon #135
86. 86News from Home (1976)
87. 87Blue Velvet (1986)Canon #102
88. 88The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)Canon #176
89. 89Shoah (1985)Canon #108
90. 90Wild Strawberries (1957)Canon #169
91. 91The Red Shoes (1948)Canon #78
92. 92The Ascent (1977)
93. 93Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)Canon #97
94. 94Moonlight (2016)Canon #89
95. 95The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
96. 96The Conformist (1970)Canon #87
97. 97Caché (2005)
98. 98Parasite (2019)Canon #80
99. 99Taste of Cherry (1997)
100. 100Wanda (1970)
101. 101Battleship Potemkin (1925)Canon #53
102. 102Pickpocket (1959)Canon #152
103. 103Yi Yi (2000)
104. 104Throne of Blood (1957)

List compiled and published by its original authors; positions shown as published. View the original at bfi.org.uk. Canon ranks link to each entry's full evidence page.