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While it is impossible to objectively determine the greatest [[film]] of all time, it is possible to discuss the '''films that have been regarded as the greatest ever'''. The important criterion for inclusion in this article is that the film is the "greatest" by some specific criterion or indicator — be it a critics' poll, popular poll, box office receipts or awards. Obviously, the criterion is tilted heavily towards American films. See below for list of best movies for respective countries.
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[[File:Citizen-Kane-Welles-Podium.jpg|thumb|''[[Citizen Kane]]'' (1941), starring and directed by [[Orson Welles]], has topped several international polls, including five consecutive decades at number 1 in the [[British Film Institute]]'s ''[[Sight and Sound]]'' decennial poll of critics.]]


This is a '''list of films voted the best''' in national and international [[Opinion poll|surveys]] of [[Film criticism|critics]] and the public.
==Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers==
[[Image:Citiza kane.jpg|thumb|right|''Citizen Kane'' tops many critics' lists]]
*[[Orson Welles]]' ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' has been voted number one in the ''[[Sight and Sound]]'' poll of film critics in each of the last five polls starting with the 1962 poll (the survey is carried out once every ten years). A separate poll of established film directors in the same magazine held for the first time in 1992 also has had ''Citizen Kane'' at the top. Influential critic [[Roger Ebert]] says that "The ''Sight and Sound'' poll is generally considered the most authoritative of all 'best film' lists". Perhaps not coincidentally, he considers ''Citizen Kane'' the best film ever. The film was also selected as number one in a ''[[Village Voice]]'' critics' poll, number one in a ''[[Time Out]]'' critics' poll in 1995 and listed as the greatest film ever by the [[American Film Institute]] in 1998. ''Citizen Kane'', however, did not win the [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for Best Picture, possibly because of extensive pressure exerted by [[William Randolph Hearst]] and his associates.{{citationneeded}}
*''[[The Rules of the Game|La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game)]]'' by director [[Jean Renoir]] was named best film by the French film magazine ''[[Positif (magazine)|Positif]]'' in 1991. It also holds the number two spot in the ''Village Voice'' poll. Along with ''[[Battleship Potemkin]]'', it is one of only two films to have appeared in every one of ''[[Sight and Sound|Sight and Sound's]]'' six [[wikt:decennial|decennial]] polls.
*''[[The Battleship Potemkin]]'' was voted best film ever by a panel of experts at the [[1958 World's Fair]]. {{fact}}
*''[[The Bicycle Thief|Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thief)]]'' was voted top film in a ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' magazine poll in [[1952 in film|1952]]. Other than ''Citizen Kane'', ''The Bicycle Thief'' is the only film to ever top the ''Sight and Sound'' poll.
*In the book ''Halliwell's Top 1000'' (ISBN 0007745117), the #1 film is [[Tokyo Story]]. The rest of the top five are La Règle du Jeu (#2), [[Lawrence of Arabia]] (#3), [[The Godfather|The Godfather Trilogy]] (#4) and [[The Seven Samurai]] (#5). Citizen Kane comes in at #6.


Some surveys focus on all films, while others focus on a particular genre or country. [[Electoral system|Voting systems]] differ, and some surveys suffer from biases such as [[Self-selection bias|self-selection]] or skewed [[Demography|demographics]], while others may be susceptible to forms of interference such as [[vote stacking]].
==Films acclaimed in audience polls==
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*''[[The Godfather]]'' has long stood atop [[Internet Movie Database|IMDb]]'s list of the top 250 films. It was also voted number one by ''Entertainment Weekly'' readers and number one in a ''Time Out'' Readers' poll in 1995.
*''[[The Godfather Part II]]'', sometimes considered better than the original film, was voted best ever by ''[[TV Guide]]'' readers in 1998.
*[[The Lord of the Rings film trilogy|The ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy]] was voted the most popular film of all time by an audience poll for the [[Australia]]n television special ''[[My Favourite Film]]''. Its first film, ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (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. All 3 pictures in the trilogy also place in the Top 20 on the [[Internet Movie Database|IMDb]]'s list of the top 250 films, a fact that is unprecedented for any other trilogy.
*''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'' (1942) is widely cited as the greatest film of all time and was voted as such by readers of the ''[[Los Angeles Daily News]]'' in 1997. It is also regarded the "best Hollywood movie of all time" by the influential ''[[Leonard Maltin]]'s Movie Guide''. On April 7, 2006, the Writer's Guild of America declared ''Casablanca''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s screenplay the best ever written.
*''[[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope|Star Wars]]'' (1977) was chosen by readers of ''Empire'' magazine in November 2001 and by voters in a [[Channel 4]]/''FilmFour'' poll [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1676023.stm].
*''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'', the #2 entry on the IMDb list, the highest rated film on [[Yahoo! Movies]] by [[Yahoo!]] users, and was voted the best film never to have won "Best Picture" in a 2005 [[BBC]] poll. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/entertainment/bestfilm/] In January 2006 ''Empire'' magazine readers named it the best film ever.
*''[[Goodfellas]]'' was voted the greatest film of all time by [http://www.totalfilm.com/movie_news/who_is_the_greatest Total Film].
* According to the IMDB's polls, as of August 2006, the top ten movies are:
**1. ''[[The Godfather]]''
**2. ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]''
**3. ''[[The Godfather Part II]]''
**4. ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]''
**5. ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]''
**6. ''[[Schindler's List]]''
**7. ''[[The Seven Samurai]]''
**8. ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]]''
**9. ''[[Pulp Fiction]]''
**10. ''[[Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back]]''


== Critics and filmmakers ==
==Biggest box office successes==
=== ''Sight and Sound'' ===
{{mainarticle|List of highest-grossing films}}
{{Main|Sight and Sound|The Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022}}
===Worldwide highest grossing films (Not adjusted for [[inflation]])===
[[File:Vertigo 1958 trailer Kim Novak at Golden Gate Bridge Fort Point.jpg|thumb|[[Vertigo (film)|''Vertigo'']] (1958) was ranked number one in the 2012 [[British Film Institute]]'s ''[[Sight and Sound]]'' decennial poll of critics and number two in their 2022 poll.]]
[[Image:Titanic poster.jpg|thumb|right|''Titanic'' broke box office records]]
Every decade, starting in 1952, the British film magazine ''Sight and Sound'' asks an international group of film critics to vote for the greatest film of all time. Since 1992, they have invited directors to vote in a separate poll. Sixty-three critics participated in 1952, 70 critics in 1962, 89 critics in 1972, 122 critics in 1982, 132 critics and 101 directors in 1992, 145 critics and 108 directors in 2002, 846 critics and 358 directors in 2012, and 1639 critics and 480 directors in 2022.<ref name="S&S">[[Sight and Sound#The Sight and Sound Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time|The ''Sight and Sound'' Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time]]
#''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'' ([[1997 in film|1997]]) $1,845,034,188
* {{cite web |title=1952 Critics' poll |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time/1952 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008052443/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/history/1952.html |archive-date=8 October 2014 |access-date=27 November 2016 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] }}
#''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'' ([[2003 in film|2003]]) $1,118,888,979
* {{cite magazine |date=October–December 1952 |title=As the Critics Like It |magazine=[[Sight & Sound]] |publisher=British Film Institute |volume=22 |issue=2 |page=58 |url=https://archive.org/details/Sight_and_Sound_1952_10_BFI_GB/page/n15/mode/2up?view=theater |access-date=2 December 2022 |via=[[Archive.org]] }}
#''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's (Sorcerer's) Stone]]'' ([[2001 in film|2001]]) $976,475,550
* {{cite web |title=1962 Critics' poll |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time/1962 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008051815/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/history/1962.html |archive-date=8 October 2014 |access-date=27 November 2016 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] }}
#''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers]]'' ([[2002 in film|2002]]) $926,287,400
* {{cite magazine |date=Winter 1961–1962 |title=Top/Ten |magazine=Sight & Sound |publisher=British Film Institute |volume=31 |issue=1 |page=10 |url=https://archive.org/details/Sight_and_Sound_1962_01_BFI_GB/page/n15/mode/2up?view=theater |access-date=3 December 2022 |via=[[Archive.org]] }}
#''[[Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace]]'' ([[1999 in film|1999]]) $924,317,558
* {{cite web |title=1972 Critics' poll |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time/1972 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008052122/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/history/1972.html |archive-date=8 October 2014 |access-date=27 November 2016 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] }}
#''[[Shrek 2]]'' ([[2004 in film|2004]]) $920,665,658
* {{cite magazine |date=Winter 1971–1972 |title=Top Ten 72 |magazine=Sight & Sound |publisher=British Film Institute |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=12–13 |url=https://archive.org/details/Sight_and_Sound_1972_01_BFI_GB/page/n21/mode/2up?view=theater |access-date=9 December 2022 |via=[[Archive.org]] }}
#''[[Jurassic Park (film)|Jurassic Park]]'' ([[1993 in film|1993]]) $914,691,118
* {{cite web |title=1982 Critics' poll |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time/1982 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008062954/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/history/1982.html |archive-date=8 October 2014 |access-date=27 November 2016 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] }}
#''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' ([[2005 in film|2005]]) $891,249,794
* {{cite magazine |date=Autumn 1982 |title=Top Ten 1982 |magazine=Sight & Sound |publisher=British Film Institute |volume=51 |issue=4 |page=243}}
#''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' ([[2002 in film|2002]]) $876,688,482
* {{cite web |title=1992 Directors' and Critics' poll |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time/1992 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008052127/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/history/1992.html |archive-date=8 October 2014 |access-date=27 November 2016 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] }}
#''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' ([[2001 in film|2001]]) $871,368,364
* {{cite magazine |date=December 1992 |title=Top Ten: 250 Verdicts |magazine=Sight & Sound |publisher=British Film Institute |volume=2 |issue=8 |pages=18–30}}
* {{cite web |title=2002 poll introduction |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time/introduction |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130716131639/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/ |archive-date=16 July 2013 |access-date=27 November 2016 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] }}
* {{cite web |title=2002 Critics' poll |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813112813/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/poll/critics-long.html |archive-date=13 August 2016 |access-date=27 November 2016 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] }}
* {{cite web |title=2002 Directors' poll |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time/directors-100-best |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201155933/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/poll/directors-long.html |archive-date=1 February 2017 |access-date=27 November 2016 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] }}
* {{cite web |title=2012 Critics' poll |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301135739/http://www.bfi.org.uk/greatest-films-all-time |archive-date=1 March 2017 |access-date=27 November 2016 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] }}
* {{cite web |title=2012 Directors' poll |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/greatest-films-all-time/directors-100-best |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120811100640/http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/sight-sound-2012-directors-top-ten |archive-date=11 August 2012 |access-date=27 November 2016 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] }}
* {{cite web |title=2022 Critics' poll |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time |access-date=1 December 2022 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |archive-date=18 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318214144/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/greatest-films-all-time |url-status=live }}
* {{cite web |title=2022 Directors' poll |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/directors-100-greatest-films-all-time |access-date=1 December 2022 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |archive-date=15 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231115142430/https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/directors-100-greatest-films-all-time |url-status=live }}</ref>


This poll is regarded as one of the most important "greatest ever film" lists. American 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."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/citizen-kane-fave-film-of-movie-elite |title='Citizen Kane' fave film of movie elite |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=11 August 2002 |website=[[RogerEbert.com]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417033104/https://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/citizen-kane-fave-film-of-movie-elite|archive-date=17 April 2019|url-status=live|access-date=17 April 2019}}</ref>
{{note|inflationnote}} Not adjusted for inflation. See the inflation-adjusted list for a more accurate gauge of commercial success.
* ''[[Bicycle Thieves]]'' (1948) topped the first poll in 1952 with 25 votes.<ref name="S&S" />
* ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' (1941) stood at number 1 for five consecutive polls, with 22 votes in 1962, 32 votes in 1972, 45 votes in 1982, 43 votes in 1992, and 46 votes in 2002. It also topped the first two directors' polls, with 30 votes in 1992 and 42 votes in 2002.<ref name="S&S" />
* ''[[Vertigo (film)|Vertigo]]'' (1958) topped [[The Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2012|the critics' poll in 2012]] with 191 votes, dethroning ''Citizen Kane''.<ref name="S&S" />
* ''[[Tokyo Story]]'' (1953) topped the directors' poll in 2012 with 48 votes, also dethroning ''Citizen Kane''.<ref name="S&S" />
* ''[[Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles]]'' (1975) topped the critics' poll in 2022.<ref name="S&S" />
* [[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|''2001: A Space Odyssey'']] (1968) topped the directors' poll in 2022.<ref name="S&S" />


===Prior highest-grossing films===
=== Other polls ===
[[File:The-Nihon-Eiiga-1953-August-3.jpg|thumb|''[[Seven Samurai]]'' (1954) topped the [[BBC]] poll of best foreign-language films as well as several Japanese polls.]]
* ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' ([[1915 in film|1915]]): Highest-grossing film until 1925. Director [[D.W. Griffith]] said in 1929 that the film had taken $10m worldwide. This has been reported as both an under-estimate and an over-estimate, and its true takings may never be known.
*''[[Battleship Potemkin]]'' (1925) was ranked number 1 with 32 votes when the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique asked 63 film professionals around the world, mostly directors, to vote for the best films of the half-century in 1951.<ref name="Referendum International">{{cite book |title=Referendum International |date=1951 |publisher=Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique |page=3 |url=http://www.cinematek.be/index.php?node=54&page=detail_book&searchtype=book&id=2822|access-date=15 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116163203/http://www.cinematek.be/index.php?node=54&page=detail_book&searchtype=book&id=2822|archive-date=16 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> It was also ranked number 1 when the [[Expo 58|Brussels World's Fair]] polled 117 experts from 26 countries in 1958.<ref name="Expo 58">{{cite web |url=https://www.filmsite.org/1958-filmhistory.html |title=Film History Milestones – 1958 |website=[[Filmsite.org]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417033106/https://www.filmsite.org/1958-filmhistory.html|archive-date=17 April 2019|url-status=live|access-date=17 April 2019}}</ref>
* ''[[The Big Parade]]'' ([[1925 in film|1925]]). The highest grossing silent film of all time, taking $22m world wide.
* ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' (1941) was ranked number 1 with 48 votes when French film magazine ''[[Cahiers du cinéma]]'' asked 78 French critics and historians to vote for the best films in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |title=100 Films |url=http://www.cahiersducinema.com/100-FILMS.html |website=Cahiers du cinéma |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730020620/http://www.cahiersducinema.com/100-FILMS.html |archive-date=30 July 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It was also ranked number 1 with 48 votes when Chinese website Cinephilia.net asked 135 Chinese-speaking critics, scholars, curators, and cultural workers to vote for the best films in 2012.<ref>''Cinephilia.net'' 10x10:
* ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' ([[1937 in film|1937]]): Highest grossing until 1939. Total gross $185m.
*{{cite web |url=http://cinephilia.net/10x10 |title=10x10: Introduction |website=Cinephilia.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406102521/http://cinephilia.net/10x10 |archive-date=6 April 2016 |url-status=dead}}
* ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' ([[1939 in film|1939]]): Highest grossing until 1966, when it was overtaken by ''[[The Sound of Music]]''. Following a re-release in 1971, ''Gone with the Wind'' retook the lead for a further year. Current total gross $198m.
*{{cite web |url=http://cinephilia.net/10x10/films |title=10x10: 10 Greatest Films |website=Cinephilia.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407091640/http://cinephilia.net/10x10/films |archive-date=7 April 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It was ranked number 1 with 49 votes when Spanish film magazine ''{{interlanguage link|lt=Nickel Odeon|Nickel Odeon (magazine)|es|Nickel Odeon (revista)}}'' asked 150 Spanish film experts to vote for the best films in 1999.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=Fall 1999 |title=Escrito De Orson Welles Cuando Citizen Kane, Fue Elegida Una De Las 12 Mejores Películas De La Historia Del Cine |magazine=Nickel Odeon |issue=16 |url=http://www.nickel-odeon.com/numeros/a16.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810044540/http://www.nickel-odeon.com/numeros/a16.htm |archive-date=10 August 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' ([[1965 in film|1965]]): Highest gross from August 1966 until the re-issue of ''Gone with the Wind'' in 1971. Current total gross $163m.
* ''[[Seven Samurai]]'' (1954) was voted the greatest foreign-language (non-English) film in [[BBC]]'s [[BBC's 100 Greatest Foreign-Language Films|2018 poll]] of 209 critics in 43 countries.<ref name="bbc" />
* ''[[The Godfather]]'' ([[1972 in film|1972]]): Highest grossing until 1975. Current total gross $134m.
*[[Vertigo (film)|''Vertigo'']] (1958) was ranked number 1 with 39 votes when German film magazine ''{{interlanguage link|lt=Steadycam|Steadycam (magazine)|de|Steadycam (Filmzeitschrift)}}'' asked 174 critics and filmmakers to vote for their favorite films in 2007.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=2007 |title=30 Lieblingsfilme |magazine=Steadycam |issue=50}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Emerson |first1=Jim |title=The Favoritest Movies (or Everybody Loves Lieblingsfilme) |url=https://rogerebert.com/scanners/the-favoritest-movies-or-everybody-loves-lieblingsfilme |website=RogerEbert.com |date=6 July 2007 |access-date=14 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116182625/https://rogerebert.com/scanners/the-favoritest-movies-or-everybody-loves-lieblingsfilme |archive-date=16 January 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was also ranked number 1 with 25 votes when Iranian film magazine ''[[Film (Iranian magazine)|Film]]'' asked 92 Iranian critics to vote for the best films in 2009.<ref name="Film (Iran)">{{cite web |url=http://www.film-magazine.com/archives/articles.asp?id=74 |title=بهترین فیلم‌های زندگی ما |website=Film Magazine |access-date=14 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116163013/http://www.film-magazine.com/archives/articles.asp?id=74|archive-date=16 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> It topped also the ''[[Télérama]]'' poll in 2018.<ref>{{cite web |title=Les 100 meilleurs films de l'histoire selon "Télérama" |url=https://www.telerama.fr/cinema/les-100-meilleurs-films-de-l-histoire-selon-telerama,149864.php |website=Télérama |date=16 November 2016 |access-date=2 January 2021 |archive-date=30 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030194837/https://www.telerama.fr/cinema/les-100-meilleurs-films-de-l-histoire-selon-telerama,149864.php |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' ([[1975 in film|1975]]): Highest grossing until 1977. Current total gross $470m.
*''[[8½]]'' (1963) was voted the best foreign (i.e. non-Swedish) sound film with 21 votes in a 1964 poll of 50 Swedish film professionals organized by Swedish film magazine ''{{interlanguage link|lt=Chaplin|Chaplin (magazine)|sv|Chaplin (filmtidskrift)}}''.<ref name="Chaplin">{{cite magazine |date=November 1964 |title=De bästa filmerna |magazine=Chaplin |publisher=Swedish Film Institute |pages=333–334}}</ref> It was also ranked number 1 when the {{interlanguage link|Museum of Cinematography in Łódź|pl|Muzeum Kinematografii w Łodzi}} asked 279 Polish film professionals (filmmakers, critics, and professors) to vote for the best films in 2015.<ref name="Łódź">*{{cite web |url=http://kinomuzeum.pl/?p=14471 |title=Wyniki ankiety: 12 filmów na 120-lecie kina |website=Muzeum Kinematografii w Łodzi |date=29 May 2016 |access-date=14 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160720154602/http://kinomuzeum.pl/?p=14471|archive-date=20 July 2016|url-status=live}}
* ''[[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope]]'' ([[1977 in film|1977]]): Highest grossing until January 1983. Current total gross $798m
*{{cite web |url=http://kinomuzeum.pl/?p=14473 |title=ŚWIAT – NAJLEPSZE FILMY według wszystkich ankietowanych |website=Muzeum Kinematografii w Łodzi |date=28 December 2015 |access-date=14 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007135049/http://kinomuzeum.pl/?p=14473|archive-date=7 October 2017|url-status=live}}
* ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]]'' ([[1982 in film|1982]]): Highest grossing until 1993. Current total gross $757m. (''Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope'' did not re-overtake ''E.T.'' until its re-release in 1997, by which time ''Jurassic Park'' had landed the top slot.)
*{{cite web |url=http://kinomuzeum.pl/?p=14515 |title=POLSKA – NAJLEPSZE FILMY według wszystkich ankietowanych |website=Muzeum Kinematografii w Łodzi |access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008163431/http://kinomuzeum.pl/?p=14515|archive-date=8 October 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Jurassic Park (film)|Jurassic Park]]'' ([[1993 in film|1993]]): Highest grossing until 1997. Current total gross $920m.<br clear="both"/>
*''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' (1939) was selected as the greatest film of the past half-century in a 1950 poll conducted by ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' of more than 200 professionals who worked in the film industry for over 25 years.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1950-02-23 |title=Variety poll, best actor, actress, and film of the past 50 years |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-birmingham-post-variety-poll-best-a/149104495/ |access-date=2024-06-11 |work=The Birmingham Post |pages=4}}</ref>
*''[[The Godfather]]'' (1972) was ranked number 1 when Japanese film magazine ''[[Kinema Junpo]]'' asked 114 Japanese critics and film professionals to vote for the best foreign (i.e. non-Japanese) films in 2009.<ref name="kinejun1">{{cite web |title=「オールタイム・ベスト 映画遺産200」全ランキング公開 |url=http://www.kinejun.jp/special/90alltimebest/index.html |website=Kinema Junpo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100501064506/http://www.kinejun.jp/special/90alltimebest/index.html |archive-date=1 May 2010 |url-status=dead |language=ja }}</ref> It was also voted the greatest film in a ''[[The Hollywood Reporter|Hollywood Reporter]]'' poll of 2120 industry members, including every studio, agency, publicity firm and production house in Hollywood in 2014.<ref name="hollywood">{{cite news |url=https://hollywoodreporter.com/list/100-greatest-films-all-time-713215 |title=Hollywood's 100 Favorite Films |date=25 June 2014 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=3 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221100526/https://hollywoodreporter.com/list/100-greatest-films-all-time-713215|archive-date=21 December 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[Boyz n the Hood]]'' (1991) topped the "Top Black Films of All Times" poll from the November 1998 edition of ''[[Ebony (magazine)|Ebony]]'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RQqGveI5oYIC&pg=PA154|title=Ebony|date=November 1998|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|pages=154–162|language=en}}</ref>
*''[[The Piano]]'' (1993) was voted the best film made by a [[Female directors|female director]] in a 2019 [[BBC]] poll of 368 film experts from 84 countries.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191125-the-100-greatest-films-directed-by-women-poll|title=The 100 greatest films directed by women|work=[[BBC]]|access-date=20 February 2020|language=en|archive-date=10 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191210142141/http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20191125-the-100-greatest-films-directed-by-women-poll|url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[Mulholland Drive (film)|Mulholland Drive]]'' (2001) topped [[BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century]] in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://collider.com/bbc-best-movies-21st-century-list/ |title=BBC unveils 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century List{{!}}Collider |website=[[Collider (website)|Collider]] |date=23 August 2016 |access-date=22 June 2023 |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803095205/https://collider.com/bbc-best-movies-21st-century-list/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


== Audience polls ==
===Highest USA grossing film adjusted for inflation ===
* ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' (1939) was voted the favorite film of Americans in a poll of 2,279 adults taken by [[Harris Insights & Analytics|Harris Interactive]] in 2008,<ref name="Harris 2008">{{cite web |url=http://www.harrisinteractive.com/vault/Harris-Interactive-Poll-Research-Frankly-My-Dear-The-Force-is-With-Them-as-Gone-Wit-2008-02.pdf |title=Frankly My Dear, The Force is With Them as Gone With the Wind and Star Wars are the Top Two All Time Favorite Movies |last=Corso |first=Regina A. |date=21 February 2008 |publisher=[[Harris Insights & Analytics|Harris Interactive]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614055709/http://www.harrisinteractive.com/vault/Harris-Interactive-Poll-Research-Frankly-My-Dear-The-Force-is-With-Them-as-Gone-Wit-2008-02.pdf|archive-date=14 June 2013|access-date=13 July 2014}}</ref> and again in a follow-up poll of 2,276 adults in 2014.<ref name="Harris 2014">{{cite web |url=http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/447/ctl/ReadCustom%20Default/mid/1508/ArticleId/1535/Default.aspx |title=Gone but Not Forgotten: Gone with the Wind is Still America's Favorite Movie |last=Shannon-Missal |first=Larry |date=17 December 2014 |publisher=[[Harris Insights & Analytics|Harris Interactive]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228064846/http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/447/ctl/ReadCustom%20Default/mid/1508/ArticleId/1535/Default.aspx|archive-date=28 December 2014|access-date=13 February 2015}}</ref>
[[Image:Gwtw-original-poster.jpg|thumb|right|''Gone with the Wind'' is the highest grossing film ever, when adjusted for inflation]]
* ''[[Roman Holiday]]'' (1953) was voted the best foreign (i.e. non-Japanese) film of all time in a 1990 poll of about a million people organized by Japanese public broadcaster [[NHK]].<ref name="NHK">{{cite web |title=国内外の名画がずらり!『衛星映画劇場』(前編) |url=http://www.nhk.or.jp/archives-blog/genre/movie/157299.html |date=31 May 2013 |website=NHK |access-date=23 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202015451/http://www.nhk.or.jp/archives-blog/genre/movie/157299.html |archive-date=2 February 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
By adjusting for inflated ticket prices, the popularity of films released at different times can be compared. This list estimates the number of admissions for each film by using the average ticket price at the time of each release [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm]. ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'', when adjusted for inflation is still the highest grossing film ever. The film has had at least four substantial releases worldwide (in 1939, 1954, 1961 and 1971). The adjusted for inflation value of these releases is $3.8bn worldwide, $1.3bn in the United States (2004 dollars).
* ''[[The Godfather]]'' (1972) was voted number 1 by ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''{{'}}s readers in 1999<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmsite.org/ew100.html |title=posting about Entertainment Weekly's book |website=Filmsite.org |access-date=4 August 2011 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140331185517/http://www.filmsite.org/ew100.html | archive-date= 31 March 2014 | url-status=live}}</ref> and voted as number 1 in a ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' readers' poll in 1998.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmsite.org/timeout2.html |title=posting about ''Time out'' reader's poll |website=Filmsite.org |access-date=4 August 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140718213202/http://www.filmsite.org/timeout2.html |archive-date= 18 July 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> The film was voted the "Greatest Movie of All Time" in September 2008 by 10,000 readers of ''[[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine, 150 people from the movie business, and 50 film critics.<ref>{{cite web |date=3 October 2008 |url=https://empireonline.com/500/99.asp |title=The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time |work=Empire |access-date=4 August 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140708071008/https://empireonline.com/500/99.asp |archive-date= 8 July 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref> It also topped ''Empire''{{'}}s June 2017 poll of 20,000 readers.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-movies/ |title=The 100 Greatest Movies |website=Empire |language=en|access-date=7 June 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20171129203213/https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-movies/|archive-date=29 November 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/the-godfather-tops-empire-magazines-best-film-poll/ |title=The Godfather tops Empire Magazine's best film poll – Sunday Post |work=Sunday Post|access-date=7 June 2018 |language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143702/https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/the-godfather-tops-empire-magazines-best-film-poll/|archive-date=12 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' (1980) was voted the best film of all time by over 250,000 readers of the ''Empire'' film magazine in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |title=250,000 movie fans voted The Empire Strikes Back the greatest film of all time |date=2 June 2014 |website=[[Business Insider]] |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/empire-strikes-back-voted-greatest-movie-ever-2014-6 |access-date=10 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111094621/http://www.businessinsider.com/empire-strikes-back-voted-greatest-movie-ever-2014-6 |archive-date=11 November 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Himala]]'' (''Miracle'', 1982) 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).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/enews/movies/ASIA-PACIFIC-SCREEN-AWARDS-WINNERS-ANNOUNCED-121108.html |title=Asia Pacific Screen Awards Winners Announced |date=12 November 2008 |website=ebroadcast.com.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205030830/http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/enews/movies/ASIA-PACIFIC-SCREEN-AWARDS-WINNERS-ANNOUNCED-121108.html |archive-date=5 December 2008}}</ref>
* ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' (1994) was voted the greatest film of all time by ''Empire'' readers in "The 201 Greatest Movies of All Time" poll taken in March 2006.<ref>{{cite news |title=Shawshank is 'best ever film' |date=27 January 2006 |work=[[London Evening Standard]] |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/film/shawshank-is-best-ever-film-7277210.html |access-date=7 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108035126/https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/film/shawshank-is-best-ever-film-7277210.html |archive-date=8 November 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Titanic (1997 film)|''Titanic'']] (1997) was voted the greatest hit of all time in a poll of 6,000 movie fans conducted by English-language newspaper ''[[China Daily]]'' in March 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/entertainment/2008-03/17/content_6542932.htm |title='Titanic' named greatest blockbuster of alltime |website=Chinadaily |language=en |access-date=20 August 2019 |archive-date=20 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820133552/http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/entertainment/2008-03/17/content_6542932.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Shiri (film)|''Shiri'']] (1999) was voted the favorite film of South Koreans with 11,918 votes in a 2002 online poll of 54,013 people conducted by South Korean movie channel [[Orion Cinema Network]].<ref name="OCN">* {{cite web |title="한국인의 100대 영화" 결과 발표 |url=http://www.onocn.com/special/movie100/movie100.asp |website=OCN |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020711110140/http://www.onocn.com/special/movie100/movie100.asp |archive-date=11 July 2002 |url-status=dead}}
* {{cite web |title=100대 영화 결과 보기 |url=http://www.onocn.com/special/movie100/movie100_list.html |website=OCN |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020803195829/http://www.onocn.com/special/movie100/movie100_list.html |archive-date=3 August 2002 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|The ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy]] (2001–2003) was voted the favorite film of Australians in an audience poll for the Australian television special ''[[My Favourite Film]]'' in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |title=My Favourite Film – Top 100 |website=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |url=http://www.abc.net.au/myfavouritefilm/top100.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110423123739/http://www.abc.net.au/myfavouritefilm/top100.htm |archive-date=23 April 2011}}</ref> It was also voted the best film in a poll of 120,000 German voters for the TV special ''Die besten Filme aller Zeiten'' ("The best films of all time") in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|title=Er ist der Beste: "Herr der Ringe"-Trilogie vor ''Star Wars'' und ''Forrest Gump'' zum "besten Film aller Zeiten" gewählt: Kabel 1 präsentierte Top 20-Spielfilme und internationale Stars|trans-title=It is the best: ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy voted "the best film of all time" ahead of ''Star Wars'' and ''Forrest Gump'': Kabel 1 presented top 20 feature films and international stars|url=http://www.presseportal.de/pm/7841/623493/kabel_eins/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813054535/http://www.presseportal.de/pm/7841/623493/kabel_eins|archive-date=13 August 2011|access-date=4 August 2011|website=presseportal.de|date=December 2004 |language=de}}</ref>


== Genres or media ==
# ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' ([[1939 in film|1939]]) $1,293,085,600
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# ''[[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope]]'' ([[1977]]) $1,139,965,400
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==Films that have received the most Academy Awards==
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Ever since their inception in [[1928 in film|1928]], the [[Academy Awards]] (the "Oscars") have been seen as the most significant of the film award ceremonies. The first film to dominate an Oscars ceremony was [[Frank Capra|Frank Capra's]] ''[[It Happened One Night]]'' in [[1935 in film|1935]]. It was the first film to win five awards. Moreover it won the "Oscar grand slam" by winning Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay&mdash;a feat that has been repeated only twice more, by ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)|One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]'' in [[1976 in film|1976]] and by ''[[Silence of the Lambs]]'' in [[1992 in film|1992]].
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In [[1939 in film|1939]], ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' was nominated for 13 awards and two special citations. It won eight of the Awards to beat ''It Happened One Night'''s record. ''[[All About Eve]]'' ([[1950 in film|1950]]) broke the nominations record with 14, and won in six categories.
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''[[Gigi (1958 film)|Gigi]]'' was the film to break ''Gone with the Wind'''s record, winning in all nine of its nominated categories at the ceremony for films made in [[1958 in film|1958]]. However, its moment at the top was short-lived, as the epic ''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]'' went on to win 11 Oscars from 12 nominations the following year.
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''Ben-Hur'''s eleven Oscars remains the record. This achievement in turn has been equalled twice&mdash;by ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'' in [[1997 in film|1997]] with 11 awards from 14 nominations, and by ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (film)|The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]'', which won in all 11 of its nominated categories in [[2003 in film|2003]] in the greatest 'sweep' in the history of the [[Academy Awards]].
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===Achievements===
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*'''Most nominations''' - [[All About Eve]], [[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]] - 14
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*'''Most awards''' - [[Ben Hur]], [[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]], [[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (film)|Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]. - 11
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==Films that are considered the greatest in their particular genre==
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===Animation ===
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*''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' ([[1937 in film|1937]]) is the highest-grossing animated film of all time when adjusted for inflation. ''Snow White'' also appeared at #49 on the [[American Film Institute]]'s list of the [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies|100 greatest American movies]] (compiled in 1998), higher than any other animated film.
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*''[[Tale of Tales]]'' (''Сказка сказок'') ([[1979 in film|1979]]) - [[Yuriy Norshteyn]]'s short film was voted by a large international jury to be the greatest animated film of all time at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympiad of Animation and the 2002 Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1460940,00.html] [http://context.themoscowtimes.com/print.php?aid=141447]
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*''[[Akira (film)|Akira]]'' (アキラ) ([[1988 in film|1988]]) was chosen as the top [[anime]] ever by ''Anime Insider'' in fall 2001.
*''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and the Beast]]'' ([[1991 in film|1991]]), is the only fully-animated movie (computerized or not) to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. It has also been nominated for a total of six Oscars, more than any other animated film. It was also the first animated movie to win the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical.
*''[[Aladdin (film)|Aladdin]]'' ([[1992 in film|1992]]) is the only animated movie to win an [[Academy Award]], [[Golden Globe]], [[Grammy]], [[MTV Movie Award]] and Movie Of The Year.
*''[[Lion King]]'' The highest grossing traditionally animated movie of all time. Won a [[Golden Globe]].
* ''[[Toy Story]]'' ([[1995 in film|1995]]) was voted #1 on the [[Top 100 Animated Features of All Time]] by the Online Film Critics Society (list published March 2003). ''Toy Story'' was also the first animated movie to be nominated for a Best Screenplay award at the Oscars.
*''[[Spirited Away]]'' (千と千尋の神隠し) (2001) was voted best animated movie by IMDb users. It was the first [[anime]] (Japanese animation) film to win an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]]. It is the only movie to earn $250M before its US release.
*''[[Shrek 2]]'' ([[2004 in film|2004]]) is the highest-grossing animated film of all time without correcting for inflation.
*''[[The Incredibles]]'' (2004), was nominated for 16 Annie Awards (the top award ceremony honoring animation), more than any other film. It also has won 10 of its nominations, another record. It also won the Best Animated Feature Oscar, and became one of only four animated movies ever to be nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar.


===Comedy===
===Action===
* ''[[Mad Max 2]]'' (1981) was voted the greatest [[action film]] of all time in a readers' poll by American magazine ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' in 2015.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Andy |last=Greene |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/readers-poll-the-10-best-action-movies-of-all-time-20150114 |title=Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Action Movies of All Time |date=14 January 2015 |magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=30 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211219161555/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-lists/readers-poll-the-10-best-action-movies-of-all-time-152907/die-hard-170459/|archive-date=19 December 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[It Happened One Night]]'' ([[1937 in film|1937]]) is the only comedy (and one of only three movies) to win Best Leading Actor, Best Leading Actress, Best Picture and Best Director at the Academy Awards.
* ''[[Die Hard]]'' (1988) was voted the best action film of all time with 21 votes in a 2014 poll of 50 directors, actors, critics, and experts conducted by ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] New York''.<ref>* {{cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/best-action-movies |title=The 100 best action movies ever made |website=Time Out New York |access-date=16 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141106073021/http://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/best-action-movies |archive-date=6 November 2014 |url-status=dead}}
* ''[[Some Like It Hot]]'' ([[1959 in film|1959]]) was listed Best Comedy by the [[American Film Institute]] in June 2000.
* {{cite web |url=http://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/the-100-best-action-movies-who-voted |title=The 100 best action movies: who voted? |website=Time Out New York |access-date=16 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107165029/http://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/the-100-best-action-movies-who-voted |archive-date=7 November 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb]]'' ([[1964 in film|1964]]) is listed as the highest rated "Comedy" title by the IMDb and was #3 on AFI's "100 Years...100 Laughs". It was also the highest-rated comedy on the [http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/directors-long.html 2002 ''Sight and Sound'' Director's Poll].
* ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]'' ([[1979 in film|1979]]) was voted the greatest comedy ever by viewers of [[Channel 4]] in 2005.[http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/G/greatest-comedyfilms/results/5-1.html]
* ''[[National Lampoon's Animal House]]'' ([[1978 in film|1978]]) was voted #1 on the [[Bravo]] list of funniest movies of all time, and was #36 on AFI's "100 Years...100 Laughs".
* ''[[Bruce Almighty]]'' ([[2003 in film|2003]])The highest-grossing live action comedy ever.


=== Animation (shorts and features) ===
===Concert===
* ''[[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio]]'' (1940) was voted the best [[animated movie]] ever made in a 2014 poll of animators, filmmakers, critics, journalists, and experts conducted by ''Time Out''.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/the-100-best-animated-movies |title=The 100 best animated movies ever made |work=Time Out New York|access-date=24 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625021925/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/the-100-best-animated-movies|archive-date=25 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/the-100-best-animated-movies-who-voted |title=The 100 best animated movies: who voted? |work=Time Out New York|access-date=24 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625021920/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/the-100-best-animated-movies-who-voted|archive-date=25 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[The Last Waltz]]'' ([[1978 in film|1978]]), [[Martin Scorsese]]'s chronicling of [[The Band]]'s farewell concert on [[Thanksgiving|Thanksgiving Day]] in 1976. Michael Wilmington of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' calls it "The greatest rock concert movie ever made -- and maybe the best rock movie, period." Terry Lawson of the ''[[Detroit Free Press]]'' comments that "This is one of the great movie experiences." [http://ae.freep.com/entertainment/ui/michigan/movie.html?id=61794&reviewId=8681] The review at ''[[Total Film]]'' comments "In what is rightly considered the greatest concert film ever shot . . ." [http://www.totalfilm.com/dvd_reviews/the_last_waltz]
* ''[[What's Opera, Doc?]]'' (1957), a [[Bugs Bunny]] cartoon, was selected as the greatest animated short film of all time by 1,000 animation professionals in the 1994 book ''[[The 50 Greatest Cartoons]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The 50 Greatest Cartoons, as selected by 1,000 animation professionals. |last=Beck |first=Jerry |publisher=Turner Publishing |year=1994 }}</ref>
*''[[Stop Making Sense]]'' ([[1984 in film|1984]]) Film critic James Berardinelli wrote that [[Jonathan Demme]]'s capturing of the Talking Heads in concert was "the best concert film to date when it first came out, and nothing in the past decade-and-a-half has come close to toppling it from that position." Edward Guthmann of the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' had similar praise: "Has there ever been a live concert film as vibrant or as brilliantly realized? I don't think so."
* ''[[Hedgehog in the Fog]]'' (1975) was ranked number 1 in a poll at the 2003 Laputa Animation Festival where 140 animators from around the world voted for the best animated films of all time.<ref>{{cite book |title=世界と日本のアニメーションベスト150 |date=2003 |publisher=ふゅーじょんぷろだくと |id={{ASIN|4893933671|country=jp}} }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.4/articles/deneroffini1.4.html|title=The Olympiad of Animation: An Interview With Fini Littlejohn|website=www.awn.com|access-date=8 May 2020|archive-date=29 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181229170906/https://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.4/articles/deneroffini1.4.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Tale of Tales (1979 film)|Tale of Tales]]'' (1979) was ranked number 1 with 17 votes in a poll at the Olympiad of Animation in 1984 where an international panel of 35 journalists, scholars, festival directors, and animation programmers voted for the best animated films.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Deneroff |first1=Harvey |title=The Olympiad of Animation: An Interview With Fini Littlejohn |url=http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.4/articles/deneroffini1.4.html |website=Animation World Network |access-date=16 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421092334/http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.4/articles/deneroffini1.4.html|archive-date=21 April 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Tale of Tales">{{cite book |last1=Kitson |first1=Clare |title=Yuri Norstein and Tale of Tales: An Animator's Journey |date=2005 |publisher=John Libbey Publishing |pages=2–3 |isbn=0253218381 }}</ref> It was also ranked number 1 in a poll organized by the [[Channel 4]] animation magazine ''Dope Sheet'' in 1997, as well as a poll organized by the [[Animafest Zagreb|Zagreb International Animation Festival]], which announced the results in 2002.<ref name="Tale of Tales" />
* ''[[Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)|Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind]]'' (1984) was the highest-ranking film in a 2006 poll of the greatest animations conducted at the [[Japan Media Arts Festival]], voted by 80,000 attendees.<ref name="JMA">{{cite web |url=http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/hundred/bumon_anime.html |script-title=ja:文化庁メディア芸術祭10周年企画アンケート日本のメディア芸術100選 結果発表 |publisher=Japan Media Arts Plaza |language=ja |access-date=12 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913111243/http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/hundred/bumon_anime.html |archive-date=13 September 2008}}</ref>
* ''[[Castle in the Sky]]'' (1986) was voted first place in a 2008 animation audience poll conducted by [[Oricon]] in Japan.<ref>{{cite news |title=面白かったアニメ映画、宮崎作品が人気 |url=http://life.oricon.co.jp/news/080502.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080506094052/http://life.oricon.co.jp/news/080502.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=6 May 2008 |access-date=6 May 2008 |publisher=[[Oricon]] |date=1 May 2008}}</ref>
* ''[[Toy Story]]'' (1995) was voted number 1 on the "Top 100 Animated Features of All Time" list by the [[Online Film Critics Society]] (published March 2003). Voters chose from a reminder list of more than 350 films.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ofcs.org/ofcs-top-100-top-100-animated-features/ |title=OFCS Top 100 Animated Features |website=ofcs.org |date=29 September 2010 |publisher=[[Online Film Critics Society]]|access-date=30 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170117140109/http://ofcs.org/ofcs-top-100-top-100-animated-features/|archive-date=17 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> It also topped a poll of 4,000 film fans for "greatest animated film of all time" in 2009, when it was [[Toy Story#3-D re-release|re-released in 3D]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/6343915/Toy-Story-voted-greatest-ever-animated-film.html |title=Toy Story voted greatest ever animated film |work=Telegraph.co.uk|access-date=17 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020071845/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/6343915/Toy-Story-voted-greatest-ever-animated-film.html|archive-date=20 October 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>


===Disaster===
=== Christmas ===
* ''[[It's a Wonderful Life]]'' (1946) was voted the greatest [[Christmas film]] by an audience poll conducted by [[Axios (website)|Axios]] and [[SurveyMonkey]] in 2018.<ref name="axioschristmas">{{cite web |last1=Nather |first1=David |title=Everyone's favorite Christmas movie that isn't Die Hard |url=https://www.axios.com/everyones-favorite-christmas-movies-surveymonkey-f6019eaf-4a4c-4d47-b634-26bcebb90706.html |website=Axios |date=25 December 2018 |access-date=21 December 2019 |language=en |archive-date=25 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725211817/https://www.axios.com/everyones-favorite-christmas-movies-surveymonkey-f6019eaf-4a4c-4d47-b634-26bcebb90706.html |url-status=live }}</ref><!--don't let the title fool you, Die Hard was NOT excluded as an answer, and finished 9th-->
*''[[The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)|The Poseidon Adventure]]'' ([[1972 in film|1972]]) was voted best disaster movie in a consumer poll commissioned by UCI cinemas in May 2004.
* ''[[Die Hard]]'' (1988) was voted the greatest Christmas movie by British film magazine ''[[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]]'' readers in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/empire-30-best-christmas-movies/|title=The 30 Best Christmas Movies Ever|date=22 December 2016|work=Empire|access-date=6 October 2019|archive-date=31 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200731001025/https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/empire-30-best-christmas-movies/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'' ([[1997 in film|1997]]) (See [[#Biggest box office successes|Box office success]] and [[#Films that have received the most Academy Awards|Academy Award]] sections above).


===Documentary===
=== Comedy ===
* ''[[Some Like It Hot]]'' (1959) was voted the best [[comedy film]] of all time in a poll of 253 film critics from 52 countries conducted by the [[BBC]] in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170821-the-100-greatest-comedies-of-all-time |title=The 100 greatest comedies of all time |date=22 August 2017 |website=BBC Culture|access-date=8 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180111175543/http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170821-the-100-greatest-comedies-of-all-time|archive-date=11 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[Man with the Movie Camera]]'', [[Dziga Vertov]]'s classic experimental [[silent film|silent]], was the highest rated documentary on the [http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/critics-long.html 2002 Sight and Sound critic's poll], and made Time Magazine's [http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/the_complete_list.html All-Time 100 Movies] list.
* ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'' (1974) was voted the funniest movie of all time in a 2014 readers' poll by American magazine ''[[Rolling Stone]]''.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/pictures/readers-poll-the-25-funniest-movies-of-all-time-20140521 |title=Readers' Poll: The 25 Funniest Movies of All Time |magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=7 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143954/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/pictures/readers-poll-the-25-funniest-movies-of-all-time-20140521|archive-date=12 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[Bowling for Columbine]]'', [[Michael Moore]]'s controversial documentary relating gun control and the ''[[fear culture|culture of fear]]'' in the United States, heads the list of [http://www.lib.cwu.edu/media/intnationaldoc20.htm 20 all-time favorite non-fiction films] selected by members of the International Documentary Association (IDA). [http://www.documentary.org]
* ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]'' (1979) was voted the greatest comedy of all time in a poll of over 22,000 people conducted by the British TV network [[Channel 4]] in 2006.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4573444.stm |work=BBC News |title=Life of Brian named best comedy |date=1 January 2006 |access-date=2 May 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090331174611/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4573444.stm | archive-date=31 March 2009 | url-status=live}}</ref> It was also voted the greatest comedy film in polls conducted by British film magazine ''[[Total Film]]'' in 2000,<ref>{{cite news |title=Life of Brian tops comedy poll |work=BBC News |date=29 September 2000 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/948331.stm |access-date=3 April 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101023333/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/948331.stm|archive-date=1 January 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> and British newspaper ''[[The Guardian]]'' in 2007.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2131880,00.html |work=The Guardian |location=London |title=The last laugh: your favourite 50 |first=Philip |last=French |date=22 July 2007 |access-date=2 May 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080707124543/http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2131880,00.html | archive-date=7 July 2008 | url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[The Thin Blue Line (documentary)|The Thin Blue Line]]'', [[Errol Morris]]' [[1988 in film|1988]] film, has long been considered one of the greatest documentaries ever made. It is actually credited not only with solving a murder case, but also as the major factor in freeing an innocent man from prison in [[Texas]]. It was voted number two by the IDA.
* ''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]'' (1984) was voted the best comedy movie of all time in a poll of over 70 stand-up comedians, actors, writers, and directors conducted by ''Time Out London'' in 2016.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/100-best-comedy-movies |title=The 100 best comedy movies |work=Time Out London|access-date=7 June 2018 |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141601/https://www.timeout.com/london/film/100-best-comedy-movies|archive-date=12 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/100-best-comedy-movies-contributors-index |title=The 100 best comedy movies: who voted? |work=Time Out London|access-date=7 June 2018 |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140856/https://www.timeout.com/london/film/100-best-comedy-movies-contributors-index|archive-date=12 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[The Sorrow and the Pity]]'' is the highest rated documentary at the IMDb.
*''[[Seven Up!]]'' was voted as the greatest ever documentary in a [[Channel 4]] poll of the [[50 Greatest Documentaries]] in 2005.
*''[[Fahrenheit 9/11]]'', also by [[Michael Moore]], won the [[Palme d'Or]] at [[Cannes Film Festival|Cannes]]. It then became "the highest-grossing documentary in its opening weekend"[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361596/trivia] by breaking the old record held by ''Bowling for Columbine''. It went on to become the "first ever documentary to cross the $100 million mark in the United States." [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361596/trivia]


===Epic===
=== Disaster ===
* ''[[The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)|The Poseidon Adventure]]'' (1972) was voted best [[disaster movie]] in a poll of 500 members of the [[UCI Cinemas]] staff in May 2004.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3720347.stm |title=Poseidon Adventure tops film poll |work=BBC News |date=17 May 2004 |access-date=4 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120409090050/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3720347.stm |archive-date=9 April 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'' Voted best epic by readers of ''Total Film'' in May 2004. In addition it won 7 academy awards including best picture.
*''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]'' ([[1959]])- Collected 11 academy awards, matched by ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'' and ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King]]''. (See [[#Biggest box office successes|Box office success]] and [[#Films that have received the most Academy Awards|Academy Award]] sections above).


===Fantasy===
=== Documentary ===
* ''[[Man with a Movie Camera]]'' (1929) was voted the greatest [[documentary film]] of all time with 125 votes (100 critics and 25 filmmakers) in a [[Sight and Sound#Greatest Documentaries of All Time|2014 ''Sight and Sound'' poll]] of 238 critics, curators, and academics (including many documentary specialists) and 103 filmmakers.<ref>* {{cite web |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk//sight-sound-magazine/greatest-docs |title=Critics' 50 Greatest Documentaries of All Time |publisher=BFI |access-date=27 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126070334/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-magazine/greatest-docs |archive-date=26 January 2017 |url-status=live}}
* [[Victor Fleming]]'s acclaimed adaptation of [[L. Frank Baum]]'s ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]]'' filmed in 1939 as ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' is regarded as a landmark in film history and frequently appears on lists of greatest American movies of all time.
* {{cite web |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-magazine/greatest-docs-full-poll/ |title=The Greatest Documentaries of All Time – all the votes |publisher=BFI |access-date=17 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170125053036/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-magazine/greatest-docs-full-poll/|archive-date=25 January 2017|url-status=live}}
* [[Peter Jackson]]'s highly acclaimed [[The Lord of the Rings film trilogy|''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy]] earned 17 [[Oscars]] with [[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (film)|''The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'']] becoming the first fantasy film to win an Academy Award for [[Best Picture]]. All three films as of [[2006]] [http://www.imdb.com/chart/top] are in the top 20 of the IMDb Top 250 films which is selected by user votings. Furthermore it was included as a single entry in the [[Time magazine top 100]] films of all time as selected by critics of [[Time]] magazine &mdash; [[Richard Corliss]] and [[Richard Schickel]].
* {{cite web |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys/documentary-poll-acknowledgements |title=The Sight & Sound Documentary Poll: acknowledgements |publisher=BFI |access-date=17 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219194719/http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys/documentary-poll-acknowledgements|archive-date=19 December 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Hoop Dreams]]'' (1994) was ranked as the greatest documentary of all time by the [[International Documentary Association]] (IDA) in 2007. Voters selected from a list of over 700 films.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.documentary.org/content/top-25-docs |title=IDA's Top 25 Documentaries |newspaper=International Documentary Association|access-date=28 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129083022/http://www.documentary.org/content/top-25-docs|archive-date=29 November 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Bowling for Columbine]]'' (2002) heads the list of 20 all-time favorite non-fiction films selected by members of the IDA in 2002.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aabowlingawardnews.htm |title="Bowling for Columbine" Named Best Documentary Film |date=12 December 2002 |publisher=About.com |access-date=18 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830151715/http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aabowlingawardnews.htm|archive-date=30 August 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>


===Film noir===
=== Fantasy ===
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' (2001) was voted the greatest [[fantasy movie]] of all time in a reader's poll conducted by American magazine ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' in 2012, with its sequels ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers|The Two Towers]]'' (2002) and ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King|The Return of the King]]'' (2003) placing fourth and third respectively.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gilsdorf |first=Ethan|author-link=Ethan Gilsdorf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161222061621/http://www.wired.com/2012/12/winners-fantasy-movies/ |url=https://www.wired.com/2012/12/winners-fantasy-movies/ |title=And the Winner Is... Reader's Choice for Top 10 Fantasy Movies |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |date=30 December 2012 |archive-date=22 December 2016|access-date=25 May 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[Sunset Boulevard (film)|Sunset Boulevard]]'': Voted the best [[film noir]] of all-time by IMDb users.


=== Horror ===
{{Main|List of horror films voted the best}}
* ''[[The Exorcist]]'' (1973) was voted the best [[horror film]] of all time with 53 votes in a 2012 poll of 150 experts conducted by ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] London''.<ref>* {{cite web |url=http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-horror-films-the-full-list |title=The 100 best horror films: the full list |website=Time Out London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120015808/http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-horror-films-the-full-list |archive-date=20 January 2013 |url-status=dead}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-horror-films-contributors |title=The 100 best horror films: contributors |website=Time Out London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118144214/http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-horror-films-contributors |archive-date=18 January 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It was also voted the best horror film with 67 votes in a 2015 poll of 104 horror professionals conducted by ''[[HitFix]]'',<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://uproxx.com/hitfix/hitfixs-ultimate-halloween-poll-the-100-greatest-horror-movies-of-all-time/ |title=The 100 Greatest Horror Films of All Time, Voted on by Over 100 Experts |date=21 October 2015 |work=UPROXX|access-date=8 June 2018 |language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612135954/https://uproxx.com/hitfix/hitfixs-ultimate-halloween-poll-the-100-greatest-horror-movies-of-all-time/|archive-date=12 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://uproxx.com/hitfix/horror-poll-post-mortem-the-unbeatable-exorcist-and-why-near-dark-stands-alone/ |title=Post-Mortem: Breaking down our Ultimate Horror Movie Poll |date=23 October 2015 |work=UPROXX|access-date=8 June 2018 |language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142154/https://uproxx.com/hitfix/horror-poll-post-mortem-the-unbeatable-exorcist-and-why-near-dark-stands-alone/|archive-date=12 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> and topped a readers' poll by ''Rolling Stone'' magazine in 2014.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/readers-poll-best-horror-movies-of-all-time-20141008 |title=The 10 Best Horror Movies of All Time |magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=8 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612145744/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/readers-poll-best-horror-movies-of-all-time-20141008|archive-date=12 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[The Texas Chain Saw Massacre]]'' (1974) was ranked number 1 on British film magazine ''[[Total Film]]''{{'}}s 2005 list of the greatest horror films.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4323968.stm |title=Texas Massacre tops horror poll |work=BBC News |access-date=22 November 2009 |date=9 October 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831121239/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4323968.stm|archive-date=31 August 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2010 it was voted into first place in an additional ''Total Film'' poll of leading directors and stars of horror films.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/8033019/Texas-Chain-Saw-Massacre-voted-greatest-ever-horror-film.html |title=Texas Chain Saw Massacre voted greatest ever horror film |newspaper=The Telegraph |access-date=11 August 2018 |date=30 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180811200457/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/8033019/Texas-Chain-Saw-Massacre-voted-greatest-ever-horror-film.html|archive-date=11 August 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>


=== LGBT ===
*''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' (2005) was ranked as the top [[LGBT film]] in a 2016 poll of 28 directors, actors, and screenwriters, conducted by ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out London]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-50-best-gay-movies-the-best-in-lgbt-film-making |title=The 50 best gay movies – the most essential LGBT+ films ever made |website=Time Out London |language=en|access-date=7 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180531150813/https://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-50-best-gay-movies-the-best-in-lgbt-film-making|archive-date=31 May 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-50-best-gay-movies-contributors |title=The 50 best gay movies: contributors |website=Time Out London |date=24 May 2018 |language=en|access-date=7 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190707225100/https://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-50-best-gay-movies-contributors|archive-date=7 July 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[Carol (film)|Carol]]'' (2015) was ranked as the top LGBT film in a 2016 poll of more than 100 critics, filmmakers, programmers, writers, curators, and academics conducted by the [[British Film Institute]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/30-best-lgbt-films-all-time |title=The 30 Best LGBTQ+ Films of All Time |date=15 March 2016 |website=[[British Film Institute]] |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315160307/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/30-best-lgbt-films-all-time|archive-date=15 March 2016|url-status=live|access-date=7 July 2019}}</ref><!--Use only the original published date, not post-publication updates.--><ref>{{cite web|title=All voters and votes: The 30 Best LGBT Films of All Time |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/all-voters-votes-30-best-lgbt-films-all-time |website=[[British Film Institute]] |date=15 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317032822/http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/all-voters-votes-30-best-lgbt-films-all-time |archive-date=17 March 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>


===Horror/thriller===
=== Musical ===
* ''[[West Side Story (1961 film)|West Side Story]]'' (1961) was chosen as the best [[Musical film|screen musical]] by readers of British newspaper ''[[The Observer]]'' in a 2007 poll.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/02/19/west_side_story_tops_best_movie_musical_/ |title=West Side Story Tops Best Movie Musical |date=19 February 2007 |publisher=Starpulse.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222014926/http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/02/19/west_side_story_tops_best_movie_musical_|archive-date=22 February 2007 |access-date=4 August 2011}}</ref>
[[Image:Psycho (1960).jpg|thumb|right|[[Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]] tops several lists]]
* ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' (1975) was voted the best movie musical by readers of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' in a 2017 poll.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/readers-poll-5-best-movie-musicals-w462727 |title=Readers' Poll: 5 Best Movie Musicals |date=25 January 2017 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=8 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909053036/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/readers-poll-5-best-movie-musicals-w462727|archive-date=9 September 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]]'': the [[Alfred Hitchcock]] classic was voted the best horror film by IMDb users. Tops [[American Film Institute|AFI]]’s list of the 100 most thrilling American films.
*''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]'': the only movie classified as "horror" to ever win the "Best Picture" Oscar. One of only 3 movies to win the top 5 Oscars. Is at #2 in the list of best horror films, as voted by IMDb voters, and at #5 in the [[American Film Institute|AFI]]’s list of the [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills|100 most thrilling American films]]. The movie is perhaps most famous for [[Anthony Hopkins]]' brilliant performance as the spine-chilling [[Hannibal Lecter|Dr. Hannibal Lecter]]. Apart from imprinting itself in [[popular culture]], the portrayal tops the AFI's list of [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains|the greatest villains of all time]]. [[Jodie Foster]]'s [[Clarice Starling]] made it to #6 in the AFI's [[AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains|greatest heroes]] list.
*''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'': Voted best horror film of all time by readers of [[SFX magazine|''SFX'']] magazine in June 2004. Also was the most "profitable" film of all time (lowest production cost vs. highest box office gross) until surpassed in 1990 by ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]].'' This, in turn, was overtaken by ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]'' in 1999. Before ''Halloween,'' the most profitable film was ''[[Easy Rider]].''
*''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'': Voted by ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'', the second scariest film of all time, making it runner up to the Exorcist. It is also one of the most profitable independent horror films, produced on a budget of $140,000 and grossing $31 million at the US box office.
*''[[The Exorcist (film)|The Exorcist]]'': Voted scariest movie of all time by ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''. Was notorious for its ability to make moviegoers pass out and vomit in the cinema.
*''[[The Shining (film)|The Shining]]'': Stanley Kubrick's haunting ''The Shining'' was calculated to be the perfect scary movie[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3537938.stm].


===Musical===
=== Romance ===
* [[Casablanca (film)|''Casablanca'']] (1942) was voted the best [[romance film]] of all time with 56 votes in a 1996 poll of 100 experts organized by Spanish film magazine ''{{interlanguage link|lt=Nickel Odeon|Nickel Odeon (magazine)|es|Nickel Odeon (revista)}}''.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=Spring 1996 |title=Cien Españoles y el Cine Romántico |magazine=Nickel Odeon |issue=2 |url=http://www.nickel-odeon.com/numeros/a02.htm|access-date=30 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819080117/http://www.nickel-odeon.com/numeros/a02.htm|archive-date=19 August 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Singin' in the Rain (film)|Singin' in the Rain]]'' The highest rated movie musical at the IMDb. Highest ranked musical at the 2002 ''Sight and Sound'' poll.
* ''[[Brief Encounter]]'' (1945) was voted the best romance film of all time with 25 votes in a 2013 poll of 101 experts conducted by ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] London''.<ref>* {{cite web |url=http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-romantic-movies |title=The 100 best romantic movies |website=Time Out London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425211536/http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-romantic-movies |archive-date=25 April 2013 |url-status=dead}}
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' The highest ranked musical on AFI's list of the 100 best American films.
* {{cite web |url=http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-romantic-movies-contributors |title=The 100 best romantic movies: contributors |website=Time Out London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130426193513/http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-romantic-movies-contributors |archive-date=26 April 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Grease (film)|Grease]]'' was voted the greatest musical by viewers of [[Channel 4]] in 2003.
* [[Titanic (1997 film)|''Titanic'']] (1997) was voted the most romantic film of all time in a poll conducted by [[Fandango Media|Fandango]] in February 2011.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=Winter 2011 |title=Titanic voted most romantic film of all times |magazine=Indian Express |url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/titanic-voted-most-romantic-film-of-all-times/748886 |access-date=20 August 2019 |archive-date=25 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225044303/http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/titanic-voted-most-romantic-film-of-all-times/748886 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' is the highest grossing musical when adjusted for inflation.
* ''[[West Side Story]]'' is the winner of the most Academy Awards of any movie musical (10).


===Propaganda===
=== Science fiction ===
* ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' (1968) was voted the best [[science fiction film]] of all time with 73 votes in a 2014 poll of 136 science fiction experts, filmmakers, science fiction writers, film critics, and scientists conducted by ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] London''.<ref>*{{cite web |url=http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-sci-fi-movies |title=The 100 best sci-fi movies |website=Time Out London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140721062753/http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-sci-fi-movies |archive-date=21 July 2014 |url-status=dead}}
*''[[Triumph of the Will]]'', [[Leni Riefenstahl]]'s documentary film glorifying [[Hitler]] and the 1934 [[Nazi Party]] [[Political convention|Convention]], in [[Nuremberg]] is widely renowned and reviled as the best [[propaganda]] film ever [http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1039001,00.html], although Riefenstahl claimed she intended it only as a documentary.
*{{cite web |url=http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-sci-fi-movies-who-voted |title=The 100 best sci-fi movies: who voted? |website=Time Out London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729135009/http://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-sci-fi-movies-who-voted |archive-date=29 July 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It was voted the best science fiction film of all time by 115 members of the [[Online Film Critics Society]] in 2002.<ref>{{cite web |title=OFCS Top 100: Top 100 Sci-Fi Films |url=http://www.ofcs.org/2010/09/ofcs-top-100-top-100-sci-fi-films.html |website=Online Film Critics Society |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722174905/http://www.ofcs.org/2010/09/ofcs-top-100-top-100-sci-fi-films.html |archive-date=22 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It topped a readers' poll conducted by ''Rolling Stone'' magazine in 2014.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/readers-poll-the-10-best-science-fiction-movies-20141112 |title=Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Science Fiction Movies |magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=8 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612145542/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/readers-poll-the-10-best-science-fiction-movies-20141112|archive-date=12 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Battleship Potemkin]]'' (see [[#Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers|Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers]] above.)
* ''[[Blade Runner]]'' (1982) was voted the best science fiction film by a panel of 56 scientists assembled by the British newspaper ''[[The Guardian]]'' in 2004.<ref>* {{cite news |author=Alok Jha|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk_news/story/0,3604,1290823,00.html |title=Scientists vote Blade Runner best sci-fi film of all time |newspaper=Guardian |date=26 August 2004 |access-date=4 August 2011}}
* {{cite web |title=How we did it |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/aug/26/sciencefictionspecial2 |website=The Guardian |date=26 August 2004 |access-date=17 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726163356/http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2004/aug/26/sciencefictionspecial2|archive-date=26 July 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> In British magazine ''[[New Scientist]]'', ''Blade Runner'' was voted "all-time favourite science fiction film" in the readers' poll in 2008, with 12 percent of thousands of votes.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=New Scientist |title=Sci-fi special: Your all-time favourite science fiction |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026826.300-scifi-special-your-alltime-favourite-science-fiction.html |issue=2682 |first=Alison |last=George |date=12 November 2008 |publisher=Reed Business Information|doi=10.1016/S0262-4079(08)62908-5 |access-date=3 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140406224932/http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026826.300-scifi-special-your-alltime-favourite-science-fiction.html|archive-date=6 April 2014|url-status=live|issn=0262-4079 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> It topped a 2011 poll by ''[[Total Film]]'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/entertainment/blade-runner-tops-sci-fi-film-poll-511750.html |title='Blade Runner' tops sci-fi film poll |date=6 July 2011|access-date=8 June 2018}}</ref>
* ''[[Serenity (2005 film)|Serenity]]'' (2005) was voted the best science fiction movie in a 2007 poll of 3,000 people conducted by ''[[SFX (magazine)|SFX]]'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6517155.stm |title=Serenity named top sci-fi movie |date=2 April 2007|access-date=8 June 2018 |language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070416101011/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6517155.stm|archive-date=16 April 2007|url-status=live}}</ref>


===Romance===
=== Silent ===
* ''[[Battleship Potemkin]]'' (1925) was voted the best [[silent film]] with 32 votes in a 1964 poll of 50 Swedish film professionals organized by Swedish film magazine ''{{interlanguage link|lt=Chaplin|Chaplin (magazine)|sv|Chaplin (filmtidskrift)}}''.<ref name="Chaplin" />
* ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'' - Voted best American-based film in which there is "a romantic bond between two or more characters, whose actions and/or intentions provide the heart of the film’s narrative" by the AFI.
* ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'', considered to be one of the greatest films of all time. After adjusting for inflation, it is the [[#Highest_USA_grossing_film_adjusted_for_inflation|highest grossing film]] ever. The AFI voted it as the fourth greatest film of all time.


===Science fiction===
=== Sports ===
* ''[[Rocky]]'' (1976) topped British website [[Digital Spy]]'s "greatest ever [[sports movie]]" online poll in 2012, with 18.7% of the votes. Voters chose from a list of 25 films.<ref>* {{cite web |title='Rocky' voted greatest ever sports movie by Digital Spy readers |url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a395451/rocky-voted-greatest-ever-sports-movie-by-digital-spy-readers.html |website=[[Digital Spy]] |access-date=26 August 2012 |date=27 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829113625/http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a395451/rocky-voted-greatest-ever-sports-movie-by-digital-spy-readers.html |archive-date=29 August 2012 |url-status=live}}
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* {{cite web |title=Olympics special: Vote for the greatest ever sports movie – poll |url=http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/at-the-movies/a392360/olympics-special-vote-for-the-greatest-ever-sports-movie-poll.html |website=[[Digital Spy]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120725112836/http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/at-the-movies/a392360/olympics-special-vote-for-the-greatest-ever-sports-movie-poll.html |archive-date=25 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It was also voted the best sports movie of all time in a 2020 poll organized by ''[[The Athletic]]''. They asked 120 panelists to nominate their favorite sports movies, and then to rate each nomination from 1 to 100. Movies with at least 10 ratings qualified for the final list. ''Rocky'' had the highest average rating, 91.04.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://theathletic.com/1703442/2020/03/30/the-athletics-top-100-sports-movies/ |title=The Athletic's Top 100 Sports Movies |publisher=The Athletic |access-date=20 May 2021 |archive-date=20 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520055816/https://theathletic.com/1703442/2020/03/30/the-athletics-top-100-sports-movies/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', a popular and influential film directed by [[Stanley Kubrick]]. The highest ranked science fiction film (#11) on the Village Voice 100 Best films of the 20th century list. Also the only Science Fiction film to make the [[Sight and Sound]] Top Ten Poll. [http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/critics.html]
*''[[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope]]'' ([[1977 in film|1977]]) - the highest-grossing sci-fi film ever.
*''[[Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back]]'' ([[1980 in film|1980]]) - the highest-rated sci-fi film on the IMDb.
*''[[Blade Runner]]'' - Voted the best science fiction film by a panel of scientists assembled by the British newspaper ''[[The Guardian]]'' in 2004. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1290823,00.html]


===Silent===
=== Superhero ===
* ''[[Battleship Potemkin]]'' (see [[#Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers|Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers]] above.)
* ''[[Greed (film)|Greed]]'', [[Erich von Stroheim]]'s 1924 film has been included in numerous [[Sight and Sound]] Top Ten polls. It was the highest rated silent film (number four overall) in the 1962 poll.
* ''[[Modern Times (film)|Modern Times]]'', the last major American film to make use of silent film conventions such as title cards for dialogue, is the highest-rated silent film on the IMDb. There is a recorded soundtrack; one scene has dialogue spoken over an intercom, and [[Charlie Chaplin]] sings nonsense lyrics to a song at the end. ''[[City Lights]]'', another of Chaplin's films, is the highest-rated movie without any dialogue, spoken or sung. It too has a recorded soundtrack. ''[[Metropolis (1927 movie)|Metropolis]]'' is the highest-rated movie that was totally silent when released. However, IMDb viewers most likely watched the restored version which has a recorded soundtrack.
* ''[[The Big Parade]]'' is the highest-grossing silent film of all time, taking $22m world wide.
* ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' ([[1915 in film|1915]]) - In the 1920s the ''[[New York Mail]]'' described the movie as "the supreme picture of all time".


*''[[Superman (1978 film)|Superman]]'' (1978) was voted the greatest [[superhero movie]] in a poll of 1000 British adults conducted by [[Virgin Media]] in 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/superman-christopher-reeve-best-superhero-film-poll-batman-spiderman-deadpool-a8381856.html|title=Superman tops poll of greatest superhero films of all time|work=The Independent|access-date=7 June 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612151507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/superman-christopher-reeve-best-superhero-film-poll-batman-spiderman-deadpool-a8381856.html|archive-date=12 June 2018|language=en-GB}}</ref>
===War===
*''[[The Dark Knight]]'' (2008) was voted the greatest superhero movie in a reader's poll conducted by American magazine ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' in 2014.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/pictures/readers-poll-the-15-greatest-superhero-movies-20140409/|title=Readers' Poll: The 15 Greatest Superhero Movies|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=13 June 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523235918/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/pictures/readers-poll-the-15-greatest-superhero-movies-20140409|archive-date=23 May 2014}}</ref>
*''[[Schindler's List]]'' is the number one film on IMDb's list of top rated war titles.
*In 2005 ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'' was voted as the greatest ever war film in a [[Channel 4]] poll of the 100 Greatest ever war films.
*Critic [[Gabriel J. Wallace]] regards the World War I film ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' as being the greatest movie ever made.
*''[[From Here to Eternity]]'' won eight Academy Awards from 13 nominations, the most of any war film.
*''[[Patton (film)|Patton]]'' won seven Academy Awards.


===Western===
=== War ===
*''[[The Searchers (film)|The Searchers]]'' was voted the greatest Western of all time by ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''. (See also: [[#Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers|films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers]] above).
*''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly]]'' is listed as Best Western by the IMDb's list of Top Rated "Western" Titles. ''[[Once Upon a Time in the West]]'' is listed second. Both films appear on the [[Time magazine top 100|Time]] magazine poll.
*''[[Dances with Wolves]]'' is the highest grossing Western of all time, taking nearly $184 million in US box office sales [http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross]. It was nominated for 11 Oscars and won seven.


* ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'' (1998) was voted as the greatest [[war film]] in a 2008 [[Channel 4]] poll of the 100 greatest war films.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.channel4.com:80/film/newsfeatures/microsites/W/greatest_warfilms/results/5-1.html |title=100 Greatest War Films |website=[[Channel 4]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318022704/http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/W/greatest_warfilms/results/5-1.html|archive-date=18 March 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==In particular countries==
===Australia===
{{seealso|Cinema of Australia}}
*''[[Mad Max]]'': voted the best [[Australian]] film ever by the [[Australian Film Institute]] Nominated for four [[Australian Film Institute Awards]], and collecting over [[Australian dollar|AUD]] $100 million worldwide. It was shot on a budget of only AUD $300,000.


===Brazil===
=== Western ===
* [[Stagecoach (1939 film)|''Stagecoach'']] (1939) was voted the best [[western film]] of all time with 54 votes in a 1996 poll of 100 experts organized by Spanish film magazine ''{{interlanguage link|lt=Nickel Odeon|Nickel Odeon (magazine)|es|Nickel Odeon (revista)}}''.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=Fall 1996 |title=Cien Españoles y el "Western" |magazine=Nickel Odeon |issue=4 |url=http://www.nickel-odeon.com/numeros/a04.htm|access-date=30 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404063045/http://www.nickel-odeon.com/numeros/a04.htm|archive-date=4 April 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
{{seealso|Cinema of Brazil}}
* ''[[Johnny Guitar]]'' (1954) was the most cited film in the "Ten Best Westerns" lists of 27 French critics in ''Le Western''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cawelti |first1=John |title=The Six-Gun Mystique Sequel |date=1999 |publisher=Popular Press |page=202 |isbn=0879727861 }}</ref>
[[Image:City of God movie.jpg|thumb|right|'''City of God''' is the highest ranked Brazilian film in the IMDb]]
*''[[City of God (film)|City of God]]'' (''Cidade de Deus'' in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]), is the highest ranking Brazilian film featured in TIME magazine's 100 best movies of all-time list [http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/0,23220,city_of_god,00.html]. It is also the highest ranked (#18) in IMDb's top 250 list.
*''[[Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol]]'' (English: ''God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun'', also known as ''Black God, White Devil'') an example of Brazilian cinema movement known as [[Cinema Novo]], is considered by many critics to be the best Brazilian movie of all time[http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/05/rocha.html]; was named as such from a poll conducted by the Brazilian cinema magazine ''Contracampo'' (no. 27) [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://www.contracampo.com.br/27/frames.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=3&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DContracampo%2B27%26hl%3Den%26hs%3DJ5u%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official Click on "articles"].


== National polls ==
===Canada===
=== Argentina ===
{{seealso|Cinema of Canada}}
{{Main|The 100 Greatest Films of Argentine Cinema}}
*''[[Mon oncle Antoine]]'': A poll of critics at the 1984 [[Toronto International Film Festival]] and again at the 1993 and 2004 festivals named this [[TIFF List of Canada's Top Ten Films of All Time|the greatest Canadian film of all time]].
* ''[[Prisioneros de la tierra]]'' was voted as the greatest Argentine film of all time in two polls carried out by the [[Museo del Cine Pablo Ducros Hicken]] in 1977 and 1984.<ref name="lamiradacautiva">{{cite journal|url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ITZbOc_XZnbJ1W2a9Lq9Zk8xJRrWrzPg/view|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221121182959/https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ITZbOc_XZnbJ1W2a9Lq9Zk8xJRrWrzPg/view|archive-date=21 November 2022|accessdate=21 November 2022|year=2000|issue=3|journal=La Mirada Cautiva|location=Buenos Aires|publisher=[[Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken]]|via=[[Encuesta de cine argentino|Encuesta de cine argentino 2022]]|pages=6–14|title=Las 100 mejores del periodo 1933-1999 del Cine Argentino}}</ref>
*''[[Un Zoo la Nuit]]'': Winner of the most [[Genie Awards]] with 13.
* ''[[Crónica de un niño solo]]'' (1965) was voted as the greatest Argentine film of all time in a poll carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducros Hicken in 2000.<ref name="lamiradacautiva"/>
* ''[[La Ciénaga (film)|La Ciénaga]]'' (2001) was voted as the greatest Argentine film of all time in a 2022 poll organized by film magazines ''La vida útil'', ''Taipei'' and ''La tierra quema''— inspired by the previous lists by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken—which was presented at the [[Mar del Plata International Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://encuestadecineargentino.com/top-100/|title=Top 100|language=es|accessdate=13 November 2022|date=11 November 2022|publisher=[[Encuesta de cine argentino|Encuesta de cine argentino 2022]]|archive-date=30 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530153727/https://encuestadecineargentino.com/top-100/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|language=es|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/cine/festival-de-mar-del-plata-2022-se-eligieron-las-100-mejores-peliculas-de-la-historia-del-cine-nid11112022/|work=[[La Nación]]|date=11 November 2022|first=Astrid|last=Riehn|title=Festival de Mar del Plata 2022: se eligieron las 100 mejores películas de la historia del cine argentino|accessdate=13 November 2022|archive-date=13 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113034624/https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/cine/festival-de-mar-del-plata-2022-se-eligieron-las-100-mejores-peliculas-de-la-historia-del-cine-nid11112022/|url-status=live}}</ref>


===China===
=== Australia ===
{{seealso|Cinema of China}}
*''[[Spring in a Small Town]]'' (小城之春): This [[1948 in film|1948]] film was voted the best Chinese film ever made by [[Hong Kong Film Award]]s Association in 2005.


{{See also|Cinema of Australia}}
===Finland===
* ''[[Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)|Picnic at Hanging Rock]]'' (1975) was voted the best Australian film of all time by members of the Australian Film Institute, industry guilds and unions, film critics and reviewers, academics and media teachers, and Kookaburra Card members of the [[National Film and Sound Archive]] (NFSA), in a 1996 poll organized by the Victorian Centenary of Cinema Committee and the NFSA.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Berryman |first1=Ken |date=February 1996 |title=100 Key Australian Films |magazine=Cinema Papers |issue=108 |page=23}}</ref>
{{seealso|Cinema of Finland}}
* ''[[The Castle (1997 Australian film)|The Castle]]'' (1997) was selected by the public as Australia's favourite film in a 2008 online poll conducted by the [[Australian Film Institute]], in collaboration with [[Australia Post]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.org.au/AM/ContentManagerNet/HTMLDisplay.aspx?ContentID=5318&Section=Australia_s_Favourite_Film1 |title=Australia's Favourite Film |publisher=Australian Film Institute|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307060302/http://www.afi.org.au/AM/ContentManagerNet/HTMLDisplay.aspx?ContentID=5318&Section=Australia_s_Favourite_Film1|archive-date=7 March 2011 |access-date=15 July 2014}}</ref> The [[Adelaide Film Festival|Adelaide film festival]] ran a public vote, that again voted it as the greatest Australian film ever in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kornits|first=Dov|date=31 August 2018|title=The Castle voted Top Australian Film #YouMustSee by Adelaide Film Festival|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/castlevoted-top-australian-film-youmustsee-adelaide-film-festival/|access-date=27 October 2020|website=FilmInk|language=en-AU|archive-date=31 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031080306/https://www.filmink.com.au/castlevoted-top-australian-film-youmustsee-adelaide-film-festival/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[The Unknown Soldier (1955 film)|The Unknown Soldier]]'' (''Tuntematon Sotilas'' in [[Finnish language|Finnish]]), holds the record for the highest grossing domestic film in Finland, and received seven "[[Jussi]]" (Finnish Oscar) statuettes [http://www.sea.fi/lahikuvassa/katsotuimmat_kotimaiset.html].
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===France===
=== Bangladesh ===
{{seealso|Cinema of France}}
{{See also|Cinema of Bangladesh}}
* ''[[Titash Ekti Nadir Naam]]'' (1973) topped the list of 10 best Bangladeshi films in the audience and critics' polls conducted by the [[British Film Institute]] in 2002.<ref>{{cite web |title=Top 10 Bangladeshi Films |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/bangladesh/index.html |publisher=British Film Institute |access-date=8 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070527232052/http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/bangladesh/index.html |archive-date=27 May 2007}}</ref>
*''[[Children of Paradise|Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise)]]'': Voted "Best French Film of the Century" in a poll of 600 French critics and professionals in the late 1990s.
*''[[The Rules of the Game|La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game)]]'': see [[#Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers|films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers]]


===Germany===
=== Belarus ===
{{seealso|Cinema of Germany}}
{{See also|Cinema of Belarus}}
* [[Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau]]'s famed [[silent film]] ''[[Nosferatu]]'' is regarded by critics and acclaimed German director [[Werner Herzog]] as the greatest German movie of all time. {{citationneeded}}
*''[[Der Untergang|Der Untergang (Downfall)]]'': This German [[World War II]] epic depicts the final days of the [[Third Reich]] in [[Adolf Hitler]]'s bunker. It is currently the highest-ranked German film in the IMDb (as of June 2006)[http://www.imdb.com/chart/top]. ''[[Das Boot]]'', a [[World War II]] epic film about life on a [[u-boat|submarine]], is the second highest.


* ''[[Come and See]]'' (1985) was voted the best Belarusian film of all time in a 2024 poll of 49 film experts organized by the {{Interlanguage link|Belarusian Independent Film Academy|qid=Q121315947}}.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The 50 Greatest Belarusian Films |url=https://belfilmacademy.com/en/fifty-best-films |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250120022512/https://belfilmacademy.com/en/fifty-best-films |archive-date=2025-01-20 |access-date=2025-05-27 |website=Belarusian Independent Film Academy}}</ref>
===India===
{{seealso|Cinema of India}}
{{seealso|List of popular Bollywood films}}
{{seealso|List of popular Kollywood films}}
{{seealso|List of popular Tollywood films}}
[[Image:PatherDVD.jpg|thumb|right]]
*''[[Pather Panchali]]'' (1955) is the only Indian film to have ever appeared on ''Sight and Sound'' Critics's Top Ten Poll (ranked #9 in 1992). It was ranked the top Indian film in a 2002 popularity poll by the British Film Institute (BFI) conducted on the web, and number two in the BFI critics' poll in which critics were asked to compile a list of 50 best Indian as well as South Asian films [http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/02dec20/national.htm]. ''Pather Panchali'' is the first film of director [[Satyajit Ray]]'s ''[[Apu trilogy]]'' (1955-1959, which are the only Indian films in the "top 100 best movies in the world", as rated by TIME magazine. [http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/0,23220,nayakan,00.html]
*''[[Pushpak]]'' (The Love Chariot), from 1988, is the highest rated Indian film on IMDb.com.
*''[[Gandhi (film)|Gandhi]]'' (1982), an Anglo-Indian production, received eight awards and eleven nominations at the Academy Awards.
*''[[Sholay]]'' is the highest grossing movie of all time in India. It was also the top film selected in the 2002 BFI critics' poll.
*''[[Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge]]'' (1995) is the longest running movie ever, released in 1995 and still running endlessly since 1995 in a theater in [[Mumbai]]. This is also the greatest earning movie of all time in the history of Indian cinema.
*''[[Hum Aapke Hain Koun]]''(1994) is the second most highest grossing movie in india(unadjusted).
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=== Bosnia and Herzegovina ===
===Ireland===
{{See also|List of Bosnia and Herzegovina films}}
*''[[The Commitments]]'' (1991) was voted the best Irish film of all time in a 2005 [[Jameson Whiskey]] poll of 10,000 Irish people, with ''[[My Left Foot (film)|My Left Foot]]'' coming second. [http://www.thecommitments.net/pdf_files/best_film.pdf 24]
* ''[[Do You Remember Dolly Bell?]]'' (1981) was voted the best Bosnian film of all time in a 2003 poll of 13 film professionals organized by The National Film Archive of Bosnia and Herzegovina.<ref>{{cite web |title=50 godina BiH kinematografije – 10 najboljih filmova |url=http://www.culturenet.hr/default.aspx?id=2132 |website=Culturenet.hr |access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118230052/http://www.culturenet.hr/default.aspx?id=2132|archive-date=18 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>


===Italy===
=== Brazil ===
{{See also|Cinema of Brazil}}
*''[[The Bicycle Thief|Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thief)]]'' (See: [[#Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers|Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers]] section above.)
[[File:Limite scene, by Peixoto.jpg|thumb|''[[Limite]]'' (1931) was voted best Brazilian film by the {{ill|Brazilian Film Critics Association|pt|Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Cinema}}.]]
*''[[8½]]'' – Director [[Federico Fellini]]'s 1963 film about filmmaking was the highest rated Italian film in the 2002 ''Sight & Sound'' poll of the best films of all time.
* ''[[Limite]]'' (1931) was voted the best Brazilian film of all time in a 1995 national survey of critics by ''[[Folha de S.Paulo]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/1995/11/30/caderno_especial/18.html |title='Limite' é o melhor filme brasileiro |date=November 30, 1995 |website=[[Folha de S.Paulo]] |access-date=July 14, 2024 |language=pt}}</ref> It is ranked number 1 on the [[Abraccine Top 100 Brazilian films|Brazilian Film Critics Association's list of the top 100 Brazilian films]], voted by its 100 members in 2015.<ref>
* {{cite web |title=Abraccine organiza ranking dos 100 melhores filmes brasileiros |url=https://abraccine.org/2015/11/27/abraccine-organiza-ranking-dos-100-melhores-filmes-brasileiros/ |date=27 November 2015 |website=Abraccine |access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011005540/https://abraccine.org/2015/11/27/abraccine-organiza-ranking-dos-100-melhores-filmes-brasileiros/|archive-date=11 October 2016|url-status=live}}
* {{cite web |title=Abraccine lança "100 melhores filmes brasileiros" no Festival de Gramado |url=https://abraccine.org/2016/09/04/abraccine-lanca-100-melhores-filmes-brasileiros-no-festival-de-gramado/ |date=4 September 2016 |website=Abraccine |access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205212909/https://abraccine.org/2016/09/04/abraccine-lanca-100-melhores-filmes-brasileiros-no-festival-de-gramado/|archive-date=5 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Black God, White Devil]]'' (1964) was voted the best Brazilian film of all time in a 2001 poll of 108 critics and film professionals organized by Brazilian film magazine ''Contracampo''.<ref>
* {{cite web |title=Os filmes mais citados |url=http://www.contracampo.com.br/27/filmesmaiscitados.htm |website=Contracampo |access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041111232658/http://www.contracampo.com.br/27/filmesmaiscitados.htm|archive-date=11 November 2004|url-status=live}}
* {{cite web |title=Todas as 108 listas |url=http://www.contracampo.com.br/27/votantes.htm |website=Contracampo |access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512105946/http://www.contracampo.com.br/27/votantes.htm|archive-date=12 May 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[The Red Light Bandit]]'' (1968) was voted the best Brazilian film of all time in a 2011 poll of 102 critics, researchers, and professionals organized by Brazilian film magazine ''Filme Cultura''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Os 10 filmes brasileiros do coração |url=http://filmecultura.org.br/06/2012/edicao-53-os-10-filmes-brasileiros-do-cora |website=Filme Cultura |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121227060701/http://filmecultura.org.br/06/2012/edicao-53-os-10-filmes-brasileiros-do-coracao/ |archive-date=27 December 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=January 2011 |title=Os Filmos Mais Queridos Do Cinema Braseiro |magazine=Filme Cultura |issue=53 |page=98}}</ref>


===Japan===
=== Bulgaria ===
{{seealso|Cinema of Japan}}
{{See also|Lists of Bulgarian films}}
* ''[[Time of Violence]]'' (1988) was voted the best Bulgarian film of all time in an audience poll organized by the [[Bulgarian National Television]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bnt.bg/bg/a/lachenite-obuvki-na-ba-lgarskoto-kino-35583 |title=BNT - Best Bulgarian movie of all times |access-date=16 January 2020 |archive-date=21 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021073812/https://bnt.bg/bg/a/lachenite-obuvki-na-ba-lgarskoto-kino-35583 |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[Image:SevenSamurai(ITA).jpg|thumb|right|The Seven Samurai]]
* ''[[Rashomon (movie)|Rashōmon]]'' (羅生門): This [[1950 in film|1950]] film by [[Akira Kurosawa]] was the first Japanese film to gain world-wide acclaim. The highest-ranked Japanese film (#10) on the ''Village Voice'' list of 100 Best Films of the 20th Century. It was also the highest-ranked Japanese film on the [[Sight and Sound]] [http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/directors.html 2002 Directors' Top Ten Poll].
* ''[[Tokyo Story]]'' (東京物語 ''Tokyo Monogatari''), [[1953 in film|1953]]. This film by [[Yasujiro Ozu]] about an aging couple as they journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in postwar [[Tokyo]] was declared the greatest film ever by [[Halliwell's Film Guide]] in 2005 [http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1503313,00.html 25]. It was also the highest-ranked Japanese film on the [[Sight and Sound]] [http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/critics.html 2002 Critics' Top Ten Poll]. (As well as the only non-Kurosawa Japanese film in any of its polls.)
* ''[[The Seven Samurai]]'' (七人の侍 ''Shichinin no samurai''), 1954: Also by Kurosawa, this period adventure film is frequently cited as the greatest Japanese film ever; consistently the highest-rated foreign-made (outside of the [[United States]]) film on the IMDb Top 250, appropriately enough it is ranked #7 (as of June 2006).


===Russia===
=== Canada ===
{{seealso|Cinema of Russia and Soviet Union}}
{{See also|Cinema of Canada}}
* ''[[Mon oncle Antoine]]'' (1971) was named first in the [[Toronto International Film Festival]]'s [[Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time]] in 1984, 1993 and 2004.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/top-10-canadian-films-of-all-time |title=Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time |encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] |access-date=17 March 2013| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130703002312/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/top-10-canadian-films-of-all-time| archive-date= 3 July 2013| url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''[[Battleship Potemkin|Броненосец Потёмкин (Battleship Potemkin)]]'' see: [[#Films_acclaimed_by_critics_and_filmmakers|Films acclaimed by critics and filmakers]] above.
* ''[[The Sweet Hereafter (film)|The Sweet Hereafter]]'' (1997) was voted the best Canadian film by readers of ''[[Playback (magazine)|Playback]]'' in 2002 in an online poll. More than 500 industry respondents participated in the poll.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.playbackonline.ca/articles/magazine/20020902/best.html |title=Egoyan tops Canada's all-time best movies list |work=[[Playback (magazine)|Playback]] |date=2 September 2002 |access-date=2 August 2016}}</ref>
* ''[[Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner]]'' (2001) was voted the best Canadian film of all time with 94 votes in a 2015 poll of 220 filmmakers, critics, programmers, and academics organized by the [[Toronto International Film Festival]], dethroning ''Mon oncle Antoine'' which won the previous three polls.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tiff.net/canadas-all-time-top-ten |title=Canada's All Time Top Ten |publisher=[[Toronto International Film Festival]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018031846/http://tiff.net/canadas-all-time-top-ten|archive-date=18 October 2015|access-date=29 March 2018}}</ref>


===Sweden===
=== Chile ===
{{seealso|Cinema of Sweden}}
{{See also|Cinema of Chile}}
* ''[[Jackal of Nahueltoro]]'' (1969) was voted the best Chilean film of all time with 57 votes in a 2016 poll of 77 directors, actors, programmers, scholars, journalists, and critics organized by CineChile.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Morales |first1=Marcelo |title=Las 50 mejores películas chilenas de todos los tiempos |url=http://cinechile.cl/crit&estud-510 |website=CineChile |access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118074712/http://cinechile.cl/crit%26estud-510|archive-date=18 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[The Emigrants]]'' (''Utvandrarna''): [[Jan Troell]]'s naturalist masterwork was the first Scandinavian film to receive Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, and it is often cited in Sweden as the greatest Swedish film of all-time. {{citationneeded}}
* ''[[Julio comienza en julio]]'' (1979) was chosen in 1999 as the "Best Chilean Film of the Century" in a vote organized by the [[Santiago (commune)|Municipality of Santiago]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/temas/dest.asp?id=cinech50julio |title=Memoria Chilena – Presentación |website=Memoriachilena.cl |access-date=29 September 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120804045658/http://www.memoriachilena.cl/temas/dest.asp?id=cinech50julio |archive-date=4 August 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[Persona (film)|Persona]]'': voted "Best Picture" by US National Society of Film Critics. This film by acclaimed director [[Ingmar Bergman]] also reached the highest position (#5) of any Swedish film on Sight & Sound's 1972 list of greatest films of all time.
*''[[The Seventh Seal]]'': also directed by [[Ingmar Bergman]], is the highest rated Swedish film on the IMDB.


===United Kingdom===
=== China ===
{{seealso|Cinema of the United Kingdom}}
{{See also|Cinema of China}}
[[File:Spring in a Small Town poster.jpg|thumb|upright|''[[Spring in a Small Town]]'' (1948)]]
*''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'': voted "best British film of all time" in August of 2004 by a [[London]] ''[[Sunday Telegraph]]'' poll of Britain's leading filmmakers. (See also: [[#Epic|Epic]] above).
* ''[[Spring in a Small Town]]'' (小城之春; 1948) was ranked number 1 on the [[Hong Kong Film Award]]s Association's [[Hong Kong Film Award#Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures|Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures]] list in 2005.<ref name=HKFA /> It was also voted the best Chinese film of all time with 25 votes in a 2010 poll of 37 critics organized by the [[Hong Kong Film Critics Society]].<ref name="HKFCS">
*''[[The Third Man]]'': Voted best British film ever by members of the [[British Film Institute]] in 1999.
* {{cite web |title=「十大香港電影」及「十大華語電影」名單公佈 |url=http://www.filmcritics.org.hk/node/856 |website=Hong Kong Film Critics Society |access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170119051712/http://www.filmcritics.org.hk/node/856|archive-date=19 January 2017|url-status=live}}
* {{cite web |title=經典10+10 |url=http://www.filmcritics.org.hk/hkinema/hkinema12.pdf |website=Hong Kong Film Critics Society |access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110901075656/http://www.filmcritics.org.hk/hkinema/hkinema12.pdf|archive-date=1 September 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Farewell My Concubine (film)|Farewell My Concubine]]'' (霸王别姬; 1993) was voted the best Mainland Chinese film of all time by 88 international film experts in a poll conducted by ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] Shanghai'' and ''Time Out Beijing''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.timeoutbeijing.com/features/Books__Film-Interviews__Features/28697/The-100-best-Mainland-Chinese-Films-the-full-list.html |title=The 100 best Mainland Chinese Films: the full list |work=TimeOut Beijing |date=4 April 2014| access-date= 1 April 2015| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150402124450/http://www.timeoutbeijing.com/features/Books__Film-Interviews__Features/28697/The-100-best-Mainland-Chinese-Films-the-full-list.html| archive-date= 2 April 2015| url-status=live}}</ref>


===United States===
=== Colombia ===
{{seealso|Cinema of the United States}}
{{See also|Cinema of Colombia}}
* ''[[The Strategy of the Snail]]'' (1993) was voted the best Colombian film of all time with 38 votes in a 2015 poll of 65 critics and journalists organized by Colombian magazine ''[[Semana]]''.<ref>* {{cite web |title=Así votaron los críticos |url=http://static.iris.net.co/semana/upload/documents/Documento_420072_20150306.pdf |website=Semana |access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118142202/http://static.iris.net.co/semana/upload/documents/Documento_420072_20150306.pdf|archive-date=18 January 2017|url-status=live}}
*''[[Citizen Kane]]'': voted the best [[United States|American]] film ever by the [[American Features Institute]]. (See also: [[#Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers|Films acclaimed by critics and filmmakers]] section above).
* {{cite web |title=Las 50 grandes películas del cine colombiano |url=http://www.semana.com/cultura/las-50-grandes-peliculas-del-cine-colombiano-/articulo/lo-mejor-del-cine-colombiano/420031-3 |date=6 March 2015 |website=Semana |access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118224240/http://www.semana.com/cultura/las-50-grandes-peliculas-del-cine-colombiano-/articulo/lo-mejor-del-cine-colombiano/420031-3|archive-date=18 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' is considered by some critics, including the late Gene Siskel, to be the greatest film ever made, American or otherwise. Roger Ebert has also cited it in his top ten.
*See also: ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'', ''[[The Godfather]]'', ''[[The Godfather Part II]]'', ''[[Goodfellas]]'', ''[[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope|Star Wars]]'' and ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' in the [[#Films acclaimed in audience polls|Films acclaimed in audience polls]] section above.
*See also: ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'' and ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' in the [[#Biggest box office successes|Biggest box office successes]] section above.
*See also: ''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]'' and ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'' in the [[#Films that have received the most Academy Awards|Films that have received the most Academy Awards]] section above.


=== Croatia ===
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{{See also|Cinema of Croatia}}
* ''[[Tko pjeva zlo ne misli]]'' (''One Who Sings Means No Harm'', 1970) was voted the best Croatian film of all time by 44 Croatian film critics in 1999, in a poll organized by the Croatian magazine ''Hollywood''. It was also voted the best Croatian film by ''Hollywood''{{'}}s readers.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://arhiv.slobodnadalmacija.hr/19991128/kultura.htm |title="Tko pjeva, zlo ne misli" najbolji hrvatski film svih vremena! |date=28 November 1999 |newspaper=[[Slobodna Dalmacija]] |language=hr |access-date=8 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170124051035/http://arhiv.slobodnadalmacija.hr/19991128/kultura.htm|archive-date=24 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[H-8 (film)|H-8]]'' (1958) was voted the best Croatian feature film of all time by 38 Croatian film critics and scholars in a 2020 poll.<ref>{{Cite web|last=B.|first=R. P.|date=24 November 2020|title=Filmski kritičari i filmolozi izabrali najbolji domaći igrani, dokumentarni i animirani film|url=https://www.culturenet.hr/default.aspx?id=101181|access-date=7 May 2021|website=Culturnet.hr|archive-date=6 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506225928/https://www.culturenet.hr/default.aspx?id=101181|url-status=live}}</ref>


==See also==
=== Cuba ===
{{See also|Cinema of Cuba}}
*[[List of film-related topics]]
* ''[[Memories of Underdevelopment]]'' (1968) was voted the best Latin American film of all time with 30 votes in a 1999 poll of 36 critics and film specialists from 11 countries organized by critics Carlos Galiano and Rufo Caballero.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Galiano |first1=Carlos |last2=Caballero |first2=Rufo |title=Cien años sin soledad : las mejores películas latinoamericanas de todos los tiempos |date=1999 |publisher=Letras Cubanos}}</ref> It was also voted the best [[Ibero-America]]n film of all time in a 2009 poll of more than 500 film professionals, critics, journalists, festival organizers, and fans around the world organized by Spanish magazine ''Noticine''.<ref>{{cite web |title=La cubana "Memorias del subdesarrollo", mejor película iberoamericana de la Historia |url=http://noticine.com/iberoamerica/36-iberoamerica/10752-la-cubana-qmemorias-del-subdesarrolloq-mejor-pelicula-iberoamericana-de-la-historia.html |website=Noticine |access-date=19 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131201110/http://noticine.com/iberoamerica/36-iberoamerica/10752-la-cubana-qmemorias-del-subdesarrolloq-mejor-pelicula-iberoamericana-de-la-historia.html|archive-date=31 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Films considered the worst ever]]
*[[List of films preserved in the United States National Film Registry]]
*[[100 Years Series|AFI List of top 100 American movies]]
*[[Computer and video games that have been considered the greatest ever]]
*[[Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Movies]]


=== Czech Republic ===
==References==
{{See also|Cinema of the Czech Republic|List of Czech films considered the best}}
*[http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/bfi100/ BFI List of top 100 British movies]
{{Further|#Czechoslovakia}}<!--Leave this separate, it deserves to stand alone-->
*[http://imdb.com/top_250_films IMDb Top 250]
* ''[[Kristián (film)|Christian]]'' (1939) was voted best Czech film of all time in a poll held by Media Desk and ''Týden'' magazine in 2010.<ref name="Poll: best Czech film of all time is 1939 Kristián Radio Prague">{{cite web |title=Poll: best Czech film of all time is 1939 "Kristián" |url=http://www.radio.cz/en/section/news/poll-best-czech-film-of-all-time-is-1939-kristian |website=Radio.cz |date=3 July 2010 |access-date=5 October 2017 |language=en}}</ref>
*[http://www.channel4.com/film/newsfeatures/microsites/G/greatest/results/control.jsp?resultspage=01 Channel 4 poll: 100 Greatest Films]
* ''[[Marketa Lazarova]]'' (1967) was voted the best Czech film of all time by Czech journalists during the [[Karlovy Vary International Film Festival]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web |title=Marketa Lazarová — Česká televize |url=http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/16266-marketa-lazarova/29238361722/ |website=Česká televize |access-date=18 November 2017 |language=cs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007221523/http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/16266-marketa-lazarova/29238361722/|archive-date=7 October 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Novotny |first1=Michal |title=Festivalové ozvěny: 20. týden – filmserver.cz |url=http://filmserver.cz/clanek/1637/festivalove-ozveny-20-tyden/ |website=filmserver.cz |access-date=6 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306211143/http://filmserver.cz/clanek/1637/festivalove-ozveny-20-tyden/|archive-date=6 March 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Slavný český film Marketa Lazarová prochází digitálním restaurováním |url=http://www.rozhlas.cz/zpravy/film/_zprava/slavny-cesky-film-marketa-lazarova-prochazi-digitalnim-restaurovanim--890681 |website=Rozhlas.cz |access-date=6 March 2017 |language=cs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306211906/http://www.rozhlas.cz/zpravy/film/_zprava/slavny-cesky-film-marketa-lazarova-prochazi-digitalnim-restaurovanim--890681|archive-date=6 March 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Markéta Lazarová |url=http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/16266-marketa-lazarova/ |website=Česká televize |access-date=6 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809041618/http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/16266-marketa-lazarova/|archive-date=9 August 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> It also topped 1998 poll of Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists during the 1998 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.<ref name="Markéta Lazarová vyhrála anketu kritiků">{{cite web |title=Markéta Lazarová vyhrála anketu kritiků |url=https://kultura.zpravy.idnes.cz/marketa-lazarova-vyhrala-anketu-kritiku-ffz-/filmvideo.aspx?c=990128_212352_filmvideo_ond |website=iDNES.cz |access-date=21 August 2018 |date=14 February 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822015013/https://kultura.zpravy.idnes.cz/marketa-lazarova-vyhrala-anketu-kritiku-ffz-/filmvideo.aspx?c=990128_212352_filmvideo_ond |archive-date=22 August 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/ ''Sight and Sound'' magazine best films of all time polls]
* ''[[The Firemen's Ball]]'' (1967) was voted the best Czech film in a 2018 poll of 20 Czech historians, theorists and critics.<ref name="Století českého filmu. Vybíráme kanonická díla moderní české státnosti">{{cite web |title=Století českého filmu. Vybíráme kanonická díla moderní české státnosti |url=https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/stoleti-ceskeho-filmu-vybirame-kanonicka-dila-moderni-ceske-statnosti-7554989 |website=Vltava |access-date=18 September 2018 |language=cs |date=27 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918230927/https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/stoleti-ceskeho-filmu-vybirame-kanonicka-dila-moderni-ceske-statnosti-7554989 |archive-date=18 September 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/take/one/full_list.php3?category=10 ''Village Voice'' 100 Best films of the 20th century list]
* ''[[The Cremator]]'' (1969) was voted the best Czech film by public in a 2018 poll, ''Kánon 100''.<ref name="Spalovač mrtvol a Válka s mloky. V anketě Kánon 100 Češi vybrali nejzásadnější díla za sto let">{{cite web |title=Spalovač mrtvol a Válka s mloky. V anketě Kánon 100 Češi vybrali nejzásadnější díla za sto let |url=https://www.irozhlas.cz/kultura/kanon100-ceske-umeni-anketa-veletrzni-palac-praha_1810281450_ado |website=iROZHLAS |date=28 October 2018 |access-date=28 October 2018 |language=cs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181028225609/https://www.irozhlas.cz/kultura/kanon100-ceske-umeni-anketa-veletrzni-palac-praha_1810281450_ado |archive-date=28 October 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Osvobozené divadlo, Ještěd, Válka s mloky. Posluchačské hlasování Kánon100 zná své vítěze">{{cite web |title=Osvobozené divadlo, Ještěd, Válka s mloky. Posluchačské hlasování Kánon100 zná své vítěze |url=https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/osvobozene-divadlo-jested-valka-s-mloky-posluchacske-hlasovani-kanon100-zna-sve-7664133 |website=Vltava |access-date=29 October 2018 |language=cs |date=28 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128034938/https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/osvobozene-divadlo-jested-valka-s-mloky-posluchacske-hlasovani-kanon100-zna-sve-7664133 |archive-date=28 November 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[http://www.filmsite.org/greatlists2.html Links to more lists from filmsite.org]
* ''[[Cosy Dens]]'' (1999) was voted the best Czech film with 622 votes in a readers' poll by ''Reflex'' magazine in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.reflex.cz/clanek/kultura-archiv/43009/10-nejlepsich-ceskych-filmu-podle-ctenaru-reflexu-nejradeji-mate-pelisky.html |title=10 nejlepších českých filmů podle čtenářů Reflexu. Nejraději máte Pelíšky! |website=Reflex.cz |date=24 August 2011 |language=cs |access-date=28 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170928052310/http://www.reflex.cz/clanek/kultura-archiv/43009/10-nejlepsich-ceskych-filmu-podle-ctenaru-reflexu-nejradeji-mate-pelisky.html|archive-date=28 September 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[http://www.bestonly.com/movies.htm Links to more lists from bestonly.com]
*[http://listsofbests.com/lists/2/ Links to more lists from listsofbests.com]
*[http://www.everyonesacritic.net/movie_rank.asp ''The Top 200'' at everyonesacritic.net]
*[http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm Meta-list compiling over a thousand critic's lists together from theyshootpictures.com]


=== Czechoslovakia ===
[[Category:Lists of films|Greatest]]
{{Further|#Czech Republic|#Slovakia}}
[[Category:Lists of top achievements|Films, greatest]]
* ''[[Marketa Lazarova]]'' (1967) was voted the best Czech-Slovak film of all time in a 1998 poll of 55 Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists, receiving 41 votes.<ref name="CZSK">{{cite web |url=http://www.uh.cz/p100/p100/anketa.htm |title=Top 10 Cesko-Slovenskeho Hraneho Filmu |year=1998 |work=Mestska kina Uherske Hradiste |language=cs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991002160851/http://www.uh.cz/p100/p100/anketa.htm |archive-date=2 October 1999}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.uh.cz/p100/p100/anketa.htm |title=Top 10 Cesko-Slovenskeho Hraneho Filmu |year=1998 |work=Tipy jednotlivych ucastniku ankety |language=cs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000116060308/http://www.uh.cz/p100/p100/tipy.htm |archive-date=16 January 2000 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[The Firemen's Ball]]'' (1967) was voted the best Czech-Slovak film of all time with 33 votes in a 2007 poll of 53 experts (mostly from the Czech Republic, but also from Slovakia and Poland) titled "Filmové dědictví česko-slovenské kinematografie".<ref name="nostalghia2007">{{cite web |title=Filmové dědictví 2007 |url=http://nostalghia.cz/pages/archiv/udalosti/2007/070406.php |website=Nostalghia.cz |access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118225416/http://nostalghia.cz/pages/archiv/udalosti/2007/070406.php|archive-date=18 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[The Elementary School]]'' (1991) was voted the best Czech-Slovak film with 192 votes in a 2007 public poll of "Filmové dědictví česko-slovenské kinematografie".<ref name="nostalghia2007" />

=== Denmark ===
{{Main|Cinema of Denmark}}
* ''[[Flickering Lights|Blinkende lygter]]'' (''Flickering Lights'', 2000) was voted best movie in Denmark by interviewing over 1500 people, reported by the analysis institute ''YouGov'' on behalf of the streamingservice ''Nordic Film+''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Munk |first1=Majken |title=Er du enig? Her er de 10 bedste danske film nogensinde - ifølge danskerne selv |url=https://via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddelelse/13734231/danskernes-favoritfilm-er-fundet?publisherId=13561688&lang=da |access-date=20 January 2024 |archive-date=31 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131133145/https://via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddelelse/13734231/danskernes-favoritfilm-er-fundet?publisherId=13561688&lang=da |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Egypt ===
{{See also|Cinema of Egypt}}
* ''[[The Night of Counting the Years]]'' (1969) was voted the best Arab film of all time (i.e. the best film made in an [[List of Arab countries by population|Arab country]]) in a 2013 poll of 475 film critics, writers, novelists, academics, and other arts professionals organized by the [[Dubai International Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Dubai International Film Festival Releases The 100 Greatest Arab Films|url=https://dubaifilmfest.com/en/news/17/134572/dubai_international_film_festival_releases_the_100_greatest_arab_films.html|website=Dubai International Film Festival|access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118224231/https://dubaifilmfest.com/en/news/17/134572/dubai_international_film_festival_releases_the_100_greatest_arab_films.html|archive-date=18 January 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Hamad |first1=Marwa |title=Dubai International Film Festival picks top 100 Arab films |url=http://m.gulfnews.com/leisure/movies/news/dubai-international-film-festival-picks-top-100-arab-films-1.1251874 |website=Gulf News |date=6 November 2013 |access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170120225102/http://m.gulfnews.com/leisure/movies/news/dubai-international-film-festival-picks-top-100-arab-films-1.1251874|archive-date=20 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Estonia ===
{{See also|Cinema of Estonia}}
* ''[[Spring (1969 film)|Kevade]]'' (''Spring'', 1969) received first place in the Estonian feature films Top Ten Poll in 2002 held by Estonian film critics and journalists.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tallinnfilm.ee/index.php?page=67& |title=Tallinnfilm |publisher=Tallinnfilm.ee |language=et|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080324021805/http://www.tallinnfilm.ee/index.php?page=67&|archive-date=24 March 2008 |access-date=4 August 2011}}</ref>
* ''[[Autumn Ball]]'' (2007) was voted the best Estonian film of all time with 29 votes in a 2011 poll of 33 film writers and film scholars organized by the Estonian Association of Film Journalists.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ruus |first1=Jaan |title=Sajandi kümme parimat Eesti filmi |url=http://ekspress.delfi.ee/areen/sajandi-kumme-parimat-eesti-filmi?id=62602624 |date=6 December 2011 |website=Eesti Express |access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118081352/http://ekspress.delfi.ee/areen/sajandi-kumme-parimat-eesti-filmi?id=62602624|archive-date=18 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Finland ===
{{See also|Cinema of Finland}}
* ''[[The Unknown Soldier (1955 film)|The Unknown Soldier]]'' (1955) was voted the best Finnish movie by 1213 respondents in an Internet poll by ''[[Helsingin Sanomat]]'' in 2007.<ref>* {{cite web |url=http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/Tuntematon+sotilas+on+lukijoiden+mielest%C3%A4+yh%C3%A4+paras/1135227575816 |title=Tuntematon sotilas on lukijoiden mielestä yhä paras – HS.fi – Kulttuuri |date=28 May 2007 |publisher=HS.fi |language=fi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070531030837/http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/Tuntematon%2Bsotilas%2Bon%2Blukijoiden%2Bmielest%C3%A4%2Byh%C3%A4%2Bparas/1135227575816 |archive-date=31 May 2007 |author=Jyrki Räikkä Kirjoittaja on kulttuuritoimittaja. |access-date=4 August 2011 |url-status=dead}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.hs.fi/keskustelu/thread.jspa?threadID=58678&tstart=0 |title=Mikä on Suomen paras elokuva? |date=14 May 2007 |website=Helsingin Sanomat |language=fi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621121013/http://www.hs.fi/keskustelu/thread.jspa?threadID=58678&tstart=0 |archive-date=21 June 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Inspector Palmu's Mistake (film)|Inspector Palmu's Mistake]]'' (1960) was chosen as the best Finnish fictional movie of all time in a poll of 48 critics by [[Yle]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://yle.fi/uutiset/3-6372726 |title=Kriitikot valitsivat kaikkien aikojen parhaan kotimaisen elokuvan |date=12 November 2012 |website=yle.fi |publisher=[[Yle]] |language=fi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226085424/http://yle.fi/uutiset/3-6372726 |archive-date=26 December 2016 |access-date=26 December 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== France ===
{{See also|Cinema of France}}
* ''[[The Rules of the Game]]'' (1939) was voted the best French film of all time with 15 votes in a 2012 poll of 85 film professionals conducted by ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] Paris''.<ref>* {{cite web |title=Les 100 meilleurs films français |url=https://www.timeout.fr/paris/films/100-meilleurs-films-francais-home |website=Time Out Paris |access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317153731/https://www.timeout.fr/paris/films/100-meilleurs-films-francais-home|archive-date=17 March 2017|url-status=live}}
* {{cite web |title=Le Jury |url=https://www.timeout.fr/paris/films/contributeurs |website=Time Out Paris |date=21 November 2016 |access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203040735/https://www.timeout.fr/paris/films/contributeurs|archive-date=3 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> It was voted the best European film of all time with 56 votes (tied with the German film ''[[Nosferatu]]'') in a 1994 poll of 70 critics and film historians organized by [[Cinemateca Portuguesa]].<ref name="Cinemateca Portuguesa">{{cite book |last1=Costa |first1=João Bénard da |title=100 dias 100 filmes |date=1994 |publisher=Cinemateca Portuguesa}}</ref>

=== Georgia ===
{{See also|Cinema of Georgia}}
* ''[[Eliso]]'' (1928) was voted the best Georgian film of all time in a critic poll organized by Tbilisi Intermedia.<ref>{{cite web |last1=გველესიანი |first1=სალომე |date=18 June 2012 |title=ყველა დროის საუკეთესო ქართული ფილმები |url=http://www.tbiliselebi.ge/?mas_id=14850 |website=Tbilisi |access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118181500/http://www.tbiliselebi.ge/?mas_id=14850|archive-date=18 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Germany ===
{{See also|Cinema of Germany}}
[[File:Nosferatu poster (Albin Grau, 1922) 1.jpg|thumb|''[[Nosferatu]]'' (1922)]]
* ''[[Nosferatu]]'' (1922) was voted the best European film of all time with 56 votes (tied with the French film ''[[The Rules of the Game]]'') in a 1994 poll of 70 critics and film historians organized by [[Cinemateca Portuguesa]].<ref name="Cinemateca Portuguesa" />
* ''[[M (1931 film)|M]]'' (1931) was voted the best German film of all time with 306 votes in a 1994 poll of 324 film journalists, film critics, filmmakers, and cineastes organized by the {{interlanguage link|Association of German Cinémathèques|de|Deutscher Kinematheksverbund}}.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The 100 Most Important German Films |url=http://www.fiafnet.org/pdf/uk/fiaf54.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150605042344/http://www.fiafnet.org/pdf/uk/fiaf54.pdf |archive-date=5 June 2015 |journal=Journal of Film Preservation |date=April 1997 |issue=54 |page=41 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Greece ===
{{See also|Cinema of Greece}}
* [[The Ogre of Athens|''O Drakos'']] (1956) was voted the best Greek film of all time by members of the [[Greek Film Critics Association]] in 2006.<ref name="PEKK">{{cite web|title=Τα top 10 της ΠΕΚΚ|url=http://www.pekk.gr/index.php/awards/oi-kalyteres-ellinikes-tainies|website=Πανελλήνια Ένωση Κριτικών Κινηματογράφου|access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321204923/http://pekk.gr/index.php/awards/oi-kalyteres-ellinikes-tainies|archive-date=21 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Evdokia (film)|''Evdokia'']] (1971) was voted the best Greek film of all time by members of the [[Greek Film Critics Association]] in 1986.<ref name="PEKK" />

=== Hong Kong ===
{{See also|Cinema of Hong Kong}}
* ''[[A Better Tomorrow]]'' (英雄本色; 1986), filmed and produced in Hong Kong, was voted [[Hong Kong Film Awards#Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures|the second-best Chinese film ever made]] by the Hong Kong Film Awards Association in 2005.<ref name="HKFA">{{cite web |url=http://www.hkfaa.com/news/100films.html |title=Welcome to the Hong Kong Film Awards |year=2004 |language=zh |access-date=4 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110126120711/http://www.hkfaa.com/news/100films.html|archive-date=26 January 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Days of Being Wild]]'' (阿飛正傳; 1990) was voted the best Hong Kong film of all time with 16 votes in a 2010 poll of 37 critics organized by the [[Hong Kong Film Critics Society]].<ref name="HKFCS" />
* ''[[In the Mood for Love]]'' (花樣年華; 2000) reached the highest position (number 5 in 2022) of any Hong Kong film on the 2022 ''Sight & Sound'' poll's lists of greatest films of all time.<ref name="S&S" />

=== Hungary ===
{{See also|Budapest Twelve|Cinema of Hungary|53 Hungarian Films}}
* ''[[The Round-Up (1966 film)|The Round-Up]]'' (1965) was chosen as the best Hungarian film in a 2000 Hungarian film critics' poll.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sulinet.hu/tovabbtan/felveteli/2001/23het/kommunikacio/komm23.html |title=Budapesti 12 |publisher=Sulinet.hu |language=hu |access-date=4 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617100104/http://www.sulinet.hu/tovabbtan/felveteli/2001/23het/kommunikacio/komm23.html|archive-date=17 June 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Iceland ===
* ''[[Children of Nature]]'' (1991) was voted the best Icelandic film of all time in a Stockfish poll of 12 film experts.<ref name="The Best Film of Iceland's Cinematic History">{{cite web |title=The Best Film of Iceland's Cinematic History |url=http://stockfishfestival.is/the-best-film-of-icelands-cinematic-history/?lang=en |website=Stockfish Film Festival |access-date=2 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002181050/http://stockfishfestival.is/the-best-film-of-icelands-cinematic-history/?lang=en |archive-date=2 October 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== India ===
{{See also|Cinema of India}}
* ''[[Pather Panchali]]'' (1955) topped the [[British Film Institute]]'s user poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time in 2002.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/userpoll/india.html |title=User Poll: Indian Top 10 |date=2002 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080530205427/http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/userpoll/india.html|archive-date=30 May 2008}}</ref>
* ''[[Mayabazar]]'' (1957) was chosen as the greatest Indian film of all time with 16,960 votes in an online poll conducted by [[IBN Live]] in 2013. Voters select from a list of 100 films from different Indian languages, and 70,926 votes were cast.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/mayabazar-is-indias-greatest-film-ever-ibnlive-poll/391184-8-66.html |title='Mayabazar' is India's greatest film ever: IBNLive poll |publisher=Ibnlive.in.com |access-date=29 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204142913/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/mayabazar-is-indias-greatest-film-ever-ibnlive-poll/391184-8-66.html |archive-date=4 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Which should be the No. 1 film of this list? |url=https://polldaddy.com/poll/7060916/ |website=Polldaddy |access-date=22 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116135241/https://polldaddy.com/poll/7060916/|archive-date=16 January 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Sholay]]'' (1975) topped the British Film Institute's critics' poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time in 2002.<ref>{{cite web |title=Top 10 Indian Films |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |year=2002 |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/india |access-date=14 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515101729/http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/india/ |archive-date=15 May 2011}}</ref>

==== Bollywood ====
* ''[[Mother India]]'' (1957) was voted the best [[Bollywood]] film of all time with 15 votes in a 2003 poll of 25 directors organized by Indian magazine ''[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?220089 |title=Bollywood's Best Films |access-date=21 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027170450/http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?220089 |archive-date=27 October 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Sholay]]'' (1975) was voted the best Bollywood film of all time with 17 votes in a 2015 poll of 27 Bollywood experts organized by ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]] London''.<ref>* {{cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-bollywood-movies-the-list-at-a-glance |title=The 100 best Bollywood movies: the list at a glance |work=Time Out London |date=5 March 2015 |access-date=21 May 2021 |archive-date=10 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310091142/https://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-bollywood-movies-the-list-at-a-glance |url-status=live }}
* {{cite web |url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-bollywood-movies-who-voted |title=The 100 best Bollywood movies: who voted? |work=Time Out London |date=5 March 2015 |access-date=21 May 2021 |archive-date=21 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210521220629/https://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-100-best-bollywood-movies-who-voted |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Iran ===
{{See also|Cinema of Iran}}
* ''[[The Deer (1974 film)|The Deer]]'' (1974) was voted the best Iranian film of all time with 33 votes in a 2009 poll of 92 critics organized by Iranian film magazine ''[[Film (Iranian magazine)|Film]]'',<ref name="Film (Iran)" /> and again in a follow-up poll of 140 critics in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.film-magazine.com/archive/558/ |title=شماره ۵۵۸ - خرداد ۱۳۹۸ |publisher=Film Magazine |access-date=19 May 2021 |archive-date=19 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519071753/https://www.film-magazine.com/archive/558/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[Bashu, the Little Stranger]]'' (1986) was voted "Best Iranian Film of all time" in November 1999 by a Persian movie magazine ''Picture World'' poll of 150 Iranian critics and professionals.<ref>''Picture World'' (''Donyaye Tassvir''), No. 74, November 1999, {{ISSN|1023-2613}}</ref>
* ''[[Close-Up (1990 film)|Close-Up]]'' (1990) reached the highest position (number 17 in 2022) of Iranian film on the 2022 ''Sight & Sound'' poll<nowiki>'</nowiki>s lists of greatest films of all time.<ref name="S&S" />

=== Ireland ===
{{See also|Cinema of Ireland}}
* ''[[The Commitments (film)|The Commitments]]'' (1991) was voted the best Irish film of all time in a 2005 [[Jameson Whiskey]] online poll of over 10,000 Irish people.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.thecommitments.net/pdf_files/best_film.pdf |date=14 July 2005 |title=And The Winner Is... |website=TheCommitments.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051219220507/http://www.thecommitments.net/pdf_files/best_film.pdf |archive-date=19 December 2005 |url-status=usurped | access-date= 27 October 2016}}</ref>
* ''[[The Quiet Girl|An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl)]]'' (2022) was voted by 30 film-makers and critics as the best Irish film for the ''[[Irish Independent]]'' in 2023.<ref>{{cite web |title=The best Irish films of all time: the definitive top 30 |publisher=[[Irish Independent]] |date=2023-11-11 |url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/the-best-irish-films-of-all-time-the-definitive-top-30/a172569609.html |access-date=2024-10-22 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20231112184549/https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/the-best-irish-films-of-all-time-the-definitive-top-30/a172569609.html |archive-date=2023-11-12 }}</ref>

=== Israel ===
{{See also|Cinema of Israel}}
* ''[[Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona]]'' (1976) was voted "Favorite Israeli Film of All Time" in a 2004 poll by Ynet, the platform of the Israeli newspaper [[Yediot Ahronot]]. The film received votes from 25,000 web users.<ref name="yediot">{{cite news |url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2907674,00.html |title=העם בחר סרג'יו|trans-title= The people elected Sergio |newspaper=Ynet |date=20 June 1995 |access-date=4 August 2011 |language=he|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120226215104/http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2907674,00.html|archive-date= 26 February 2012|url-status=live|last1=דובדבני |first1=שמוליק }}</ref>
* ''[[Avanti Popolo (1986 film)|Avanti Popolo]]'' (1986) was voted "Greatest Israeli Film of All Time" in a 2013 poll of 20 Israeli film experts by [[Maariv (newspaper)|NRG Ma'ariv]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nrg.co.il/online/47/ART2/460/462.html |title=פרויקט הסרטים הגדול: חמשת הגדולים| trans-title= Great films project: the Big Five |work=[[NRG Ma'ariv]] |language=he |date=15 April 2013| access-date= 27 October 2016| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161028152542/http://www.nrg.co.il/online/47/ART2/460/462.html| archive-date= 28 October 2016| url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=nrg>{{cite web |url=http://www.nrg.co.il/online/47/ART2/459/815.html |title=הסרט הדברות: פרויקט הסרטים הישראלים הגדול |language=he|trans-title=Movie dialogue: the great Israeli film project|access-date=27 October 2016 |work=NRG Ma'ariv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161028152243/http://www.nrg.co.il/online/47/ART2/459/815.html|archive-date=28 October 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Italy ===
{{See also|Cinema of Italy}}
[[File:Mastroianni ottomez.jpg|thumb|right|''[[8½]]'' (1963) was the highest-ranked Italian film in many international professional polls.]]
* ''[[Bicycle Thieves]]'' (1948) topped the first ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' critics' poll in 1952.<ref name="S&S" />
* ''[[8½]]'' (1963) was voted the best foreign (i.e. non-Swedish) sound film with 21 votes in a 1964 poll of 50 Swedish film professionals organized by Swedish film magazine ''{{interlanguage link|lt=Chaplin|Chaplin (magazine)|sv|Chaplin (filmtidskrift)}}''.<ref name="Chaplin" /> It was also ranked number 1 when the {{interlanguage link|Museum of Cinematography in Łódź|pl|Muzeum Kinematografii w Łodzi}} asked 279 Polish film professionals (filmmakers, critics, and professors) to vote for the best films in 2015.<ref name="Łódź"/>

=== Japan ===
{{See also|Cinema of Japan}}
[[File:So Yamamura 3.jpg|thumb|right|''[[Tokyo Story]]'' (1953) topped several international polls, including the [[The Sight & Sound Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time|2012 ''Sight & Sound'' directors' poll]].]]

* ''[[Rashomon]]'' (1950) was ranked joint tenth in the 1992 ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' directors' poll, and joint ninth in 2002.<ref name="S&S" />
* ''[[Tokyo Story]]'' (東京物語; 1953) topped the ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' directors' poll with 48 votes and was number 3 in the critics' poll with 107 votes in 2012.<ref name="S&S" /> It was also voted the best Japanese film of all time in a 2009 poll of 114 critics and film professionals organized by Japanese film magazine ''[[Kinema Junpo]]''.<ref name="kinejun1" /> It was voted the best Asian film of all time in a 2015 poll of 73 film critics, festival executives, programmers, and directors from around the world, organized by the [[Busan International Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Asian Cinema 100 |url=http://www.biff.kr/Template/Builder/00000001/page.asp?page_num=5865 |website=Busan International Film Festival |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151031145338/http://www.biff.kr/Template/Builder/00000001/page.asp?page_num=5865 |archive-date=31 October 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Seven Samurai]]'' (1954) was voted the best Japanese film of all time in a 1989 poll of 372 celebrities for a book published by [[Bungeishunjū]].<ref>{{cite book |title=大アンケートによる日本映画ベスト150 |date=1989 |publisher=文藝春秋 |id={{ASIN|4168116093|country=jp}} }}</ref> It was voted the best Japanese film of all time in a 1990 poll of about a million people organized by [[NHK]].<ref name="NHK" /> It was the greatest foreign-language film in BBC Culture's 2018 poll of 209 critics in 43 countries.<ref name="bbc">{{Cite web |url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20181029-the-100-greatest-foreign-language-films |title=The 100 greatest foreign-language films |website=BBC Culture |date=29 October 2018 |language=en|access-date=1 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181101011949/http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20181029-the-100-greatest-foreign-language-films|archive-date=1 November 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Mexico ===

{{See also|Cinema of Mexico}}
* ''[[Let's Go with Pancho Villa|Vámonos con Pancho Villa]]'' (1936) was ranked number 1 Mexican film of all time in a 1994 poll of 25 critics and journalists organized by Mexican magazine ''Somos''.<ref name="MEX">{{cite web |title=Las 100 mejores películas del cine mexicano |url=http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/pelicula1.html |website=cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx |access-date=16 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100208075046/http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/pelicula1.html|archive-date=8 February 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Los Olvidados]]'' (1950) was voted the best Mexican film of all time in a 2020 poll of 27 critics and journalists organized by ''Sector Cine'' online magazine.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Las 100 mejores películas mexicanas de la historia|url=https://www.sectorcine.com/noticias-nota/las-100-mejores-peliculas-mexicanas/|access-date=8 September 2020|website=Sector Cine|language=es-MX|archive-date=20 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720034038/https://www.sectorcine.com/noticias-nota/las-100-mejores-peliculas-mexicanas/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Netherlands ===
{{See also|Cinema of the Netherlands}}
* ''[[Turkish Delight (1973 film)|Turkish Delight]]'' (1973) was voted the best Dutch film of the 20th century in a 1999 poll organized by the [[Netherlands Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barton-Fumo |first1=Margaret |title=Paul Verhoeven: Interviews |date=2016 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-4968-1016-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SBCrDgAAQBAJ&q=best+dutch++film+voted&pg=PT23 |access-date=13 October 2017 |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181101095557/https://books.google.cz/books?id=SBCrDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT23&lpg=PT23&dq=best+dutch++film+voted#v=onepage&q=best%20dutch%20%20film%20voted|archive-date=1 November 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Soldaat van Oranje]]'' (''Soldier of Orange'', 1977) was voted the best Dutch film of all time by nearly 9,000 people in a 2006 online poll organized by the now defunct Dutch website Filmwereld.net.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nu.nl/achterklap/710293/soldaat-van-oranje-beste-nederlandse-film.html |title=Soldaat van Oranje beste film aller tijden |newspaper=NU.nl |language=nl-NL |access-date=8 October 2019 |archive-date=25 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925044830/https://www.nu.nl/achterklap/710293/soldaat-van-oranje-beste-nederlandse-film.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[Zwartboek]]'' (''Black Book'', 2006) was voted the best Dutch film of all time at the 2008 [[Netherlands Film Festival]] by nearly 15,000 members of the public.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.cinema.nl/artikelen/4084816/zwartboek-beste-film-aller-tijden |title=Zwartboek beste film aller tijden |newspaper=VPRO |language=nl-NL|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929153735/http://www.cinema.nl/artikelen/4084816/zwartboek-beste-film-aller-tijden|archive-date=29 September 2011|access-date=4 December 2016 }}</ref>

=== New Zealand ===
{{See also|Cinema of New Zealand}}
* ''[[Once Were Warriors (film)|Once Were Warriors]]'' (1994) was voted the best New Zealand film of all time in a 2014 online poll organized by [[Fairfax Media]]. More than 500 people voted, including about 100 film professionals and 15 critics.<ref>{{cite web |title=Best Kiwi Films of All Time |url=http://movies.interactives.co.nz/top50.php |website=Fairfax Media |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140129034259/http://movies.interactives.co.nz/top50.php |archive-date=29 January 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== North Korea ===
{{See also|Cinema of North Korea}}
* ''[[Hong Kil-dong (1986 film)|Hong Kil-dong]]'' (1986) was voted the "best North Korean film ever" in a 2002 poll of [[North Koreans in South Korea]], organized by newspaper ''[[The Chosun Ilbo]]''.<ref>{{cite book |title=North Korean Cinema: A History |date=2012 |last=Schönherr |first=Johannes |publisher=McFarland |page=101}}</ref>

=== Norway ===
{{See also|Cinema of Norway}}
* ''[[Nine Lives (1957 film)|Ni Liv]]'' (''Nine Lives'', 1957) was the critics' choice for "Best Norwegian Film of All Time" during the 2005 Bergen International Film Festival.<ref name="Norway" />
* ''[[The Chasers (1959 film)|The Chasers]]'' (1959) was voted the best Norwegian film of all time with 23 votes in a 2011 poll of 32 critics and experts organized by Norwegian film magazine ''{{interlanguage link|Rushprint|no|Rushprint}}''.<ref>* {{cite web |title="Jakten" er tidenes norske kinofilm |url=http://rushprint.no/2011/12/jakten-er-tidenes-norske-kinofilm/ |website=Rushprint |date=21 December 2011 |access-date=19 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230074218/http://rushprint.no/2011/12/jakten-er-tidenes-norske-kinofilm/|archive-date=30 December 2016|url-status=live}}
* {{cite web |title=Juryens lister fra kåringen av "Jakten" |url=http://rushprint.no/2011/12/juryens-lister-fra-karingen-av-jakten/ |website=Rushprint |date=22 December 2011 |access-date=19 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008025855/http://rushprint.no/2011/12/juryens-lister-fra-karingen-av-jakten/|archive-date=8 October 2017|url-status=live}}
* {{cite web |title=Juryens lister fra kåringen av "Jakten". |url=http://rushprint.no/2011/12/juryens-lister-fra-karingen-av-jakten-2/ |website=Rushprint |date=22 December 2011 |access-date=19 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007221332/http://rushprint.no/2011/12/juryens-lister-fra-karingen-av-jakten-2/|archive-date=7 October 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Flåklypa Grand Prix]]'' (''Pinchcliffe Grand Prix'', 1975) was the people's choice for "Best Norwegian Film of All Time" during the 2005 Bergen International Film Festival.<ref name="Norway">{{cite web |title=Norsk film i 100 |date=23 October 2005 |url=http://www.biff.no/2005/index.php3?ID=Nyhet&Eng=&ID2=Vis&counter=67 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060218205635/http://www.biff.no/2005/index.php3?ID=Nyhet&Eng=&ID2=Vis&counter=67 |archive-date=18 February 2006}}</ref>

=== Pakistan ===
{{See also|Cinema of Pakistan}}
* ''[[Baji (1963 film)|Baji]]'' (1963) topped the [[British Film Institute]]'s critics' poll of "Top 10 Pakistani Films" of all time in 2002.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/pakistan |title=Top 10 Pakistani Films |year=2002 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012005242/http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/pakistan/|archive-date=12 October 2008 |access-date=14 March 2009}}</ref>
* ''[[Aina (1977 film)|Aina]]'' (1977) topped the British Film Institute's user poll of "Top 10 Pakistani Films" of all time in 2002.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/userpoll/pakistan.html |title=User Poll: Pakistani Top 10 |year=2002 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011064058/http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/userpoll/pakistan.html|archive-date=11 October 2008 |access-date=15 March 2009}}</ref>

=== Philippines ===
{{See also|Cinema of the Philippines}}
* ''[[Manila in the Claws of Light|Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag]]'' (Manila in the Claws of Light, 1975) was voted the best Filipino film of all time in a 2013 poll of 81 critics, filmmakers, archivists, and academics organized by Pinoy Rebyu.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Labastilla |first=Skilty C. |date=November 2017 |title=On Film Polls and Pinoy Rebyu |url=http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/on-film-polls/ |journal=Plaridel |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=195–205 |doi=10.52518/2017.14.2-15cmpos |s2cid=245578823 |access-date=13 June 2021 |doi-access=free |archive-date=13 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613214825/http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/on-film-polls/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It was also voted the best Filipino film of all time with 16 votes (tied with ''[[Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon]]'') in a 1989 poll of 28 filmmakers and critics, organized by Joel David and his UP film criticism class, and published in Philippine magazine ''National Midweek''. The article also included a list of the most common number-one choices (topped by ''[[Manila in the Claws of Light]]''), as well as an alternate version of the top 10 (topped by ''[[Manila by Night]]'') which was ordered by average rank.<ref>{{cite web |last1=David |first1=Joel |title=Fields of Vision – Ten Best Filipino Films Up to 1990 |url=https://amauteurish.com/2014/05/04/ten-best-filipino-films-up-to-1990/ |website=Amauteurish! |date=3 May 2014 |access-date=19 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202021628/https://amauteurish.com/2014/05/04/ten-best-filipino-films-up-to-1990/|archive-date=2 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Poland ===
{{See also|Cinema of Poland}}
* [[The Promised Land (1975 film)|''The Promised Land'']] (1975) was voted the best Polish film of all time in a 2015 poll of 279 Polish film professionals organized by the {{interlanguage link|Museum of Cinematography in Łódź|pl|Muzeum Kinematografii w Łodzi}}.<ref name="Łódź"/>
* ''[[Teddy Bear (1981 film)|Teddy Bear]]'' (1981) was voted by the public of 2013 Filmfest PL as the best movie of all time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://stopklatka.pl/wiadomosci/-/59278707,50-najlepszych-polskich-filmow-wszech-czasow |title=50. najlepszych polskich filmów wszech czasów |trans-title=The 50 best Polish films of all time |language=pl |publisher=Stopklatka.pl |access-date=17 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140515075817/http://stopklatka.pl/wiadomosci/-/59278707,50-najlepszych-polskich-filmow-wszech-czasow |archive-date=15 May 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Portugal ===
{{See also|Cinema of Portugal}}
* ''[[Os Verdes Anos]]'' (1963) was voted the best Portuguese film of all time in a 2020 poll of 122 critics and film professionals organized by filmSPOT.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://filmspot.pt/artigo/os-10-melhores-filmes-portugueses-de-sempre-11789/ |title=Os 10 Melhores Filmes Portugueses de Sempre |language=pt |publisher=filmSPOT.pt |access-date=19 May 2021 |archive-date=18 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518084114/https://filmspot.pt/artigo/os-10-melhores-filmes-portugueses-de-sempre-11789/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Romania ===
{{See also|Cinema of Romania}}
* ''[[The Reenactment|Reconstituirea]]'' (''The Reenactment'', 1968) was selected as the best Romanian film by 40 film critics in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dob.ro/Articole/Entertainment/1736/Cele-mai-bune-10-filme-romanesti-%28?!%29 |title=Cele mai bune 10 filme romanesti (?!) |publisher=Dob.ro |language=ro |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118153847/http://www.dob.ro/Articole/Entertainment/1736/Cele-mai-bune-10-filme-romanesti-%28?%21%29 |archive-date=18 January 2012 |access-date=4 August 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Russia ===
{{See also|Cinema of Russia}}
{{Further|#Soviet Union}}
* ''[[My Friend Ivan Lapshin]]'' (1985) was voted the best Russian film of all time with 47 votes in a 2008 poll of 100 filmmakers and critics, organized by Russian film magazine ''{{interlanguage link|lt=Seance|Seance (magazine)|ru|Сеанс (журнал)}}''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Помогая Михалкову |url=http://seance.ru/blog/100/ |date=5 July 2012 |website=Seance |access-date=19 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803052413/http://seance.ru/blog/100 |archive-date=3 August 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Serbia ===
{{See also|Cinema of Serbia}}
* ''[[Who's Singin' Over There?]]'' (1980) was voted by Serbian critics the best Serbian film of all time.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gocić |first1=Goran |title=Notes from the Underground: The Cinema of Emir Kusturica |date=2001 |publisher=Wallflower Press |isbn=978-1-903364-14-7 |page=172 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IDktuer8qcAC&q=best+serbian+film+voted&pg=PA172 |language=en|access-date=13 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181101095555/https://books.google.cz/books?id=IDktuer8qcAC&pg=PA172&lpg=PA172&dq=best+serbian+film+voted#v=onepage&q=best%20serbian%20film%20voted|archive-date=1 November 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Slovakia ===
{{See also|Cinema of Slovakia}}
{{Further|#Czechoslovakia}}
* ''[[Pictures of the Old World]]'' (1972) was voted the best Slovak film of all time by Slovak critics in 2000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://casffa.com.au/event/pictures-of-the-old-world/ |title=Czech and Slovak Film Festival |website=Pictures of the Old World |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160208120813/http://casffa.com.au/event/pictures-of-the-old-world/|archive-date=8 February 2016 |access-date=4 February 2016}}</ref>

=== Slovenia ===
{{See also|List of Slovenian films}}
* ''[[Dancing in the Rain (1961 film)|Dancing in the Rain]]'' (1961) was voted the best Slovenian film of all time in a poll by Slovenian critics.<ref name="Slovenian New Wave – Canadian Film Institute – Institut canadien du film">{{cite web |title=Slovenian New Wave – Canadian Film Institute – Institut canadien du film |url=http://www.cfi-icf.ca/index.php?option=com_cfi&task=showevent&id=18&Itemid=179 |website=www.cfi-icf.ca |access-date=13 October 2017 |language=en-CA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014083428/http://www.cfi-icf.ca/index.php?option=com_cfi&task=showevent&id=18&Itemid=179|archive-date=14 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== South Korea ===
{{See also|Cinema of South Korea}}
* ''[[Obaltan]]'' (1961) was voted the best South Korean film of all time with 48 votes in a 1999 poll of 140 filmmakers organized by South Korean newspaper ''[[The Chosun Ilbo]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=영화전문가 1백1명이 뽑은 「20세기 한국 最高의 영화·감독·배우」 |url=http://monthly.chosun.com/Client/News/viw.asp?ctcd=&nNewsNumb=199912100037 |date=December 1999 |website=The Chosun Ilbo |access-date=20 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170121011651/http://monthly.chosun.com/Client/News/viw.asp?ctcd=&nNewsNumb=199912100037|archive-date=21 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> It was also voted the best South Korean film of all time (tied with [[The Housemaid (1960 film)|''The Housemaid'']] and ''[[The March of Fools]]'' in a 2014 poll of 62 film scholars, critics, film professionals, researchers, and programmers organized by the [[Korean Film Archive]].<ref>* {{cite web |title=[100선]한국영화사의 찬란한 순간들을 그러모으다 |url=http://koreafilm.or.kr/webzine/section_view.asp?Section=36&UpSeq=1564&downSeq=3024&intGroupNum=4 |date=8 April 2014 |website=Korean Film Archive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150514135019/http://koreafilm.or.kr/webzine/section_view.asp?Section=36&UpSeq=1564&downSeq=3024&intGroupNum=4 |archive-date=14 May 2015 |url-status=dead}}
* {{cite web |last1=Conran |first1=Pierce |title=KOFA Releases Top 100 Korean Films List |url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/news.jsp?mode=VIEW&seq=2879 |date=16 January 2014 |website=Korean Film Biz Zone |access-date=20 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170120205706/http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/news.jsp?mode=VIEW&seq=2879 |archive-date=20 January 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Shiri (film)|''Shiri'']] (1999) was voted the favorite film of South Koreans with 11,918 votes in a 2002 online poll of 54,013 people conducted by South Korean movie channel [[Orion Cinema Network]].<ref name="OCN" />
* ''[[Memories of Murder]]'' (2003) was voted the best South Korean film of all time with 806 votes in a 2014 audience poll of 1462 people organized by the [[Korean Film Archive]].<ref>{{cite web |title=[100선]관객이 뽑은 역대 최고의 한국영화는? |url=http://koreafilm.or.kr/webzine/section_view.asp?Section=36&UpSeq=1564&downSeq=3055&intGroupNum=4 |date=21 April 2014 |website=Korean Film Archive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150514125755/http://koreafilm.or.kr/webzine/section_view.asp?Section=36&UpSeq=1564&downSeq=3055&intGroupNum=4 |archive-date=14 May 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Burning (2018 film)|Burning]]'' (2018) was voted the best South Korean film of all time in a 2021 poll of 158 critics from 28 countries organized by Korean Screen.<ref>* {{cite web |url=https://www.koreanscreen.com/100-greatest-korean-films-50-1 |title=100 Greatest Korean Films Ever (50-1) |publisher=Korean Screen |access-date=22 June 2021 |archive-date=24 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624205010/https://www.koreanscreen.com/100-greatest-korean-films-50-1 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite web |url=https://www.koreanscreen.com/100-greatest-korean-films-how-made |title=How we made the 100 Greatest Korean Films Ever list |publisher=Korean Screen |access-date=22 June 2021 |archive-date=2 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220902123551/https://www.koreanscreen.com/100-greatest-korean-films-how-made |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[The Housemaid (1960 film)|The Housemaid]]'' was voted best South Korean film of all time in a 2024 poll by the Korean Film Archive of 240 critics.<ref>{{Cite web |last=최 |first=민지 |date=2024-06-02 |title=영화인들이 뽑은 역대 한국 영화 1위는? |url=https://www.khan.co.kr/culture/culture-general/article/202406021709001 |access-date=2024-11-26 |website=[[Kyunghyang Shinmun]] |language=ko}}</ref>

=== Soviet Union ===
{{See also|Cinema of the Soviet Union}}
{{Further|#Russia}}
[[File:odessastepsbaby.jpg|thumb|''[[Battleship Potemkin]]'' (1925) was an early favorite and the top [[silent film]].]]
* ''[[Battleship Potemkin]]'' (1925) was ranked number 1 with 32 votes when the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique asked 63 film professionals around the world, mostly directors, to vote for the best films of the half-century in 1951.<ref name="Referendum International" /> It was ranked number 1 when the [[Expo 58|Brussels World's Fair]] polled 117 experts from 26 countries in 1958.<ref name="Expo 58" />
* ''[[Man with a Movie Camera]]'' (1929) was voted the eighth greatest film ever made in the British Film Institute's 2012 ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' poll.<ref name="The 50 Greatest Films of All Time Sight & Sound">{{cite web |title=The 50 Greatest Films of All Time |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time |website=British Film Institute |access-date=5 October 2017 |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301135739/http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/50-greatest-films-all-time|archive-date=1 March 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Mirror (1975 film)|Mirror]]'' (1975) ranked 9th in the 2012 ''Sight & Sound'' directors' poll.<ref name="Directors' top 100 BFI">{{cite web |title=Directors' top 100 {{!}} BFI|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/directors|website=www.bfi.org.uk|access-date=5 October 2017|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160209010504/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/sightandsoundpoll2012/directors|archive-date=9 February 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Spain ===
{{See also|Cinema of Spain}}
* ''[[Viridiana]]'' (1961) was voted the best Spanish film of all time with 227 votes in a 2016 poll of 350 experts organized by Spanish film magazine ''Caimán Cuadernos de Cine''.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=May 2016 |title=100 películas |magazine=Caimán Cuadernos de Cine |issue=49 |pages=8–9 |url=https://www.caimanediciones.es/la-encuesta-caiman-listado-completo/|access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118202952/https://www.caimanediciones.es/la-encuesta-caiman-listado-completo/|archive-date=18 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[The Executioner (1963 film)|''El verdugo'']] (1963) was voted the best Spanish film of all time with 77 votes in a 1995 poll of 100 critics and film professionals organized by Spanish film magazine ''{{interlanguage link|lt=Nickel Odeon|Nickel Odeon (magazine)|es|Nickel Odeon (revista)}}''.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=Winter 1995 |title=Cien españoles y el cine español |magazine=Nickel Odeon |issue=1 |url=http://www.nickel-odeon.com/numeros/a01.htm|access-date=18 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404064103/http://www.nickel-odeon.com/numeros/a01.htm|archive-date=4 April 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Sri Lanka ===
{{See also|Cinema of Sri Lanka}}
* ''[[Anantha Rathriya|Anantha Rathiriya]]'' (1995) topped the [[British Film Institute]]'s user poll of "Top 10 Sri Lankan Films" of all time in 2002.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/userpoll/srilanka.html |title=User Poll: Sri Lankan Top 10 |year=2002 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120084309/http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/userpoll/srilanka.html|archive-date=20 November 2008 |access-date=15 March 2009}}</ref>
* ''[[Purahanda Kaluwara|Pura Handa Kaluwara]]'' (1997) topped the [[British Film Institute]]'s critics' poll of "Top 10 Sri Lankan Films" of all time in 2002.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/srilanka |title=Top 10 Sri Lankan Films |year=2002 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071120182647/http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/imagineasia/guide/poll/srilanka/|archive-date=20 November 2007 |access-date=14 March 2009}}</ref>

=== Sweden ===
{{See also|Cinema of Sweden}}
[[File:Korkarlen (1921) - Aug 1922 Photoplay.jpg|thumb|''[[The Phantom Carriage]]'' (1921) was voted best Swedish film by critics and academics in FLM's poll.]]
* ''[[The Phantom Carriage]]'' (''Körkarlen'', 1921) was voted the best Swedish film of all time with 30 votes in a poll of 50 film critics and academics conducted by film magazine ''FLM'' in 2012.<ref>* {{cite web |url=http://www.flm.nu/2012/08/de-25-basta-svenska-filmerna-genom-tiderna/ |title=De 25 bästa svenska filmerna genom tiderna |date=30 August 2012 |access-date=2 May 2014 |language=sv | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307224850/http://www.flm.nu/2012/08/de-25-basta-svenska-filmerna-genom-tiderna/ | archive-date=7 March 2014 | url-status=live}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.flm.nu/tag/flm-topp-25/ |title=FLM topp 25 |date=2012 |access-date=19 January 2017 |language=sv | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160614113927/http://www.flm.nu/tag/flm-topp-25/ | archive-date=14 June 2016 | url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Persona (1966 film)|Persona]]'' (1966) reached the highest position (number 5 in 1972) of any Swedish film on any of ''Sight & Sound''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s lists of greatest films of all time.<ref name="S&S" />

=== Switzerland ===
{{See also|Cinema of Switzerland}}
* ''[[Alpine Fire]]'' (1985) was voted the best Swiss film of all time in 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016, in polls organized by Swiss newspaper ''{{interlanguage link|SonntagsZeitung|de}}''. 31 experts participated in 2011, and 36 experts in 2016.<ref>* {{cite web |url=http://aeppli.ch/Film/Abf/SonntagsZeitung_2011.pdf |title=Das "Höhenfeuer" glüht und glüht |language=de |access-date=21 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101211031/http://aeppli.ch/Film/Abf/SonntagsZeitung_2011.pdf |archive-date=1 November 2014 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite web |url=https://interaktiv.tagesanzeiger.ch/2016/100filme/ |title=Die 100 besten Schweizer Filme |language=de |access-date=21 May 2021 |archive-date=11 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411150736/https://interaktiv.tagesanzeiger.ch/2016/100filme/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Taiwan ===
{{See also|Cinema of Taiwan}}
* ''[[A City of Sadness]]'' ({{lang|zh-hant|悲情城市}}; 1989) was voted the best Chinese-language film of all time with 73 votes in a 2010 poll of 122 film professionals organized by the [[Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards|Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival]].<ref>* {{cite web|title=100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films|url=http://100.goldenhorse.org.tw/|website=Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival|access-date=20 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021082357/http://100.goldenhorse.org.tw/|archive-date=21 October 2016|url-status=dead}}
* {{cite web|title=100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films: Juries|url=http://100.goldenhorse.org.tw/juries/|website=Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival|access-date=20 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126073919/http://100.goldenhorse.org.tw/juries/|archive-date=26 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> It was also number 5, the highest ranked Taiwanese film, on the Hong Kong Film Awards' list of the [[Hong Kong Film Awards#Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures|Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures]], voted by 101 filmmakers, critics, and scholars.<ref name=HKFA />

=== Turkey ===
{{See also|Cinema of Turkey}}
* ''[[Dry Summer]]'' (1963) was voted the best Turkish film released between 1923 and 2013 in a 2014 poll launched by the Turkish Ministry of Tourism.<ref>{{cite web |title='Dry summer' best ever Turkish film |url=https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/dry-summer-selected-best-movie-in-turkish-cinema-71173 |date=2 September 2014 |access-date=23 August 2020 |archive-date=10 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210233948/http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/dry-summer-selected-best-movie-in-turkish-cinema-71173 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''[[Umut (film)|Umut]]'' (1970) was voted the best Turkish film of all time in a poll of 100 directors, actors, producers, and film writers organized by the Turkish newspaper ''[[Hürriyet]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kelebek/keyif/sinemamizin-en-iyi-100-filmi-40406722 |title=Sinemamızın en iyi 100 filmi |date=29 March 2017 |language=tr |publisher=Hürriyet |access-date=19 May 2021 |archive-date=19 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519064240/https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kelebek/keyif/sinemamizin-en-iyi-100-filmi-40406722 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*''[[Yol (film)|Yol]]'' (1982) was voted the best Turkish film of all time in a 2016 poll of 383 experts organized by Turkish magazine ''Notos''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Türk Sineması'nda yüzyılın en iyi filmleri seçildi! |url=http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yuzyilin-en-iyi-turk-filmleri-secildi-yol-filmi-birinci-40046444 |date=28 January 2016 |website=Hürriyet |access-date=19 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201233754/http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yuzyilin-en-iyi-turk-filmleri-secildi-yol-filmi-birinci-40046444|archive-date=1 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> It was also selected as the best Turkish film in a 2003 poll undertaken by Ankara Sinema Derneği (Ankara Association for Cinema Culture) of people interested in cinema professionally.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://arsiv.ntvmsnbc.com/news/232930.asp |title='En İyi On Türk Filmi' belirlendi |publisher=Arsiv.ntvmsnbc.com |language=tr |access-date=4 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110730075142/http://arsiv.ntvmsnbc.com/news/232930.asp|archive-date=30 July 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Ukraine ===
{{See also|Cinema of Ukraine}}
* ''[[Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors]]'' (1965) was voted the best Ukrainian film of all time with 30 votes in a 2012 poll of about 100 journalists organized by the Cinema Journalism Bureau of Ukraine and the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine.<ref>{{cite web |title=Названы лучшие украинские фильмы 2011 года и последнего 20-летия |url=https://delo.ua/lifestyle/nazvany-luchshie-ukrainskie-filmy-2011-goda-i-poslednego-20-letija-175332/ |date=23 March 2012 |website=delo.ua |access-date=19 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202002131/https://delo.ua/lifestyle/nazvany-luchshie-ukrainskie-filmy-2011-goda-i-poslednego-20-letija-175332/|archive-date=2 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== United Kingdom ===
{{See also|Cinema of the United Kingdom}}
[[File:Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia.png|thumb|''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'' (1962) was voted the "best British film of all time" by Great Britain's leading filmmakers.|alt=Peter O'Toole from the trailer for the film Lawrence of Arabia]]
* ''[[The Third Man]]'' (1949) was voted the best British film ever by 1000 industry professionals, academics, and critics in a [[British Film Institute]] poll conducted in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/bfi100/ |title=The BFI 100 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080701090244/http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/bfi100/|archive-date=1 July 2008}}</ref>
* ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'' (1962) was voted the "best British film of all time" in August 2004 by over 200 respondents in a ''[[Sunday Telegraph]]'' poll of Britain's leading filmmakers.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1469436/Stars-vote-Lawrence-of-Arabia-the-best-British-film-of-all-time.html |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |title=Stars vote Lawrence of Arabia the best British film of all time |first1=Chris |last1=Hastings |first2=Fiona |last2=Govan |date=15 August 2004 |access-date=2 May 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090706021548/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1469436/Stars-vote-Lawrence-of-Arabia-the-best-British-film-of-all-time.html | archive-date=6 July 2009 | url-status=live}}</ref>
*''[[The Italian Job]]'' (1969) was voted the best British film in a poll of film fans conducted by Sky Movies HD in 2011 when it received 15% of votes.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.sky.com/story/just-the-job-caine-classic-tops-movie-poll-10490084 |title=Just The Job: Caine Classic Tops Movie Poll |last=Sinclair |first=Lulu |date=9 January 2011 |website=Sky News |access-date=24 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624131219/https://news.sky.com/story/just-the-job-caine-classic-tops-movie-poll-10490084|archive-date=24 June 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> It also topped a 2017 survey by [[Vue Cinemas|Vue Entertainment]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.aol.co.uk/cars/2017/07/12/the-italian-job-named-the-best-british-film-of-all-time/ |title='The Italian Job' named the best British film of all-time |last1=Healy |first1=Jack |date=12 July 2017 |publisher=AOL UK |access-date=14 October 2017 |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015044253/https://www.aol.co.uk/cars/2017/07/12/the-italian-job-named-the-best-british-film-of-all-time/|archive-date=15 October 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Get Carter]]'' (1971) was voted the best British film ever in a 2003 poll by ''[[Hotdog (magazine)|Hotdog]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fitzgerald |first1=Martin |title=Orson Welles: The Pocket Essential Guide |date=2000 |publisher=Summersdale Publishers Limited |isbn=978-1-84839-680-7 |page=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5P_zCQAAQBAJ&q=get+carter+voted+best+british+film+hotdog&pg=PA95 |access-date=14 October 2017 |language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181101095542/https://books.google.cz/books?id=5P_zCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA95&lpg=PA95&dq=get+carter+voted+best+british+film+hotdog#v=onepage&q=get%20carter%20voted%20best%20british%20film%20hotdog|archive-date=1 November 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> It also topped the 2004 poll of 25 film critics conducted by ''[[Total Film]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dent |first1=Jackie |title=Get Carter voted best British film |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/oct/04/film.filmnews |website=The Guardian |access-date=14 October 2017 |date=4 October 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171015094901/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/oct/04/film.filmnews|archive-date=15 October 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Don't Look Now]]'' (1973) was named the best British film in a poll of 150 film industry experts conducted by ''[[Time Out London]]'' in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.timeout.com/london/feature/855/100-best-british-films-the-list/20#bestOf-1 |title=100 best British films: The list |website=Time Out London |access-date=15 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106181757/http://www.timeout.com/london/feature/855/100-best-british-films-the-list/20#bestOf-1|archive-date=6 January 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' (1975) was voted the best British picture of all time by 7,000 film fans in a 2004 poll by the UK arm of Amazon and Internet Movie Database.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3482029.stm "Python's Grail 'best Brit film{{'"}}]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080120061938/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3482029.stm |date=20 January 2008 }}. ''BBC News'' (12 February 2004).</ref>

=== United States ===
{{See also|Cinema of the United States}}
[[File:Gone With The Wind 1967 re-release.jpg|thumb|upright|''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' (1939) has topped several US audience polls.|alt=Poster shows Rhett Butler carrying Scarlett O'Hara against a backdrop of the Burning of Atlanta]]
* ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'' (1939) was voted the favorite film of Americans in a poll of 2,279 adults undertaken by [[Harris Insights & Analytics|Harris Interactive]] in 2008,<ref name="Harris 2008" /> and again in a follow-up poll of 2,276 adults in 2014.<ref name="Harris 2014" /> It was also voted the best American film of all time by 35,000 members of the [[American Film Institute]] in 1977.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wexman |first1=Virginia |title=Greatest Movie Polls: What Do They Mean? |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/06/28/greatest-movie-polls-what-do-they-mean/ |date=28 June 1998 |website=Chicago Tribune |access-date=20 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201233753/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-06-28/news/9806280333_1_film-and-television-executives-movies-critics-and-exhibitors|archive-date=1 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> It was picked in 2011 as the best film for ''Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time'', an online poll in which over 500,000 votes were cast. Voters chose from a list of 10 English-language films selected by film industry experts.<ref>* {{cite web |url=http://abcnewsradioonline.com/entertainment-news/best-in-film-the-greatest-movies-of-our-time.html |title=Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time – Entertainment News – ABC News Radio |website=ABC News Radio |access-date=30 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419103617/http://abcnewsradioonline.com/entertainment-news/best-in-film-the-greatest-movies-of-our-time.html |archive-date=19 April 2017 |url-status=live}}
* {{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/entertainment/best_film/fullpage?id=12214551 |title=Welcome to the Best in Film Vote |website=ABC News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130050825/https://abcnews.go.com/entertainment/best_film/fullpage?id=12214551 |archive-date=30 November 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' (1941) was selected as the greatest American film in 2015 by sixty-two international film critics surveyed by the BBC.<ref>{{cite web |title=The 100 greatest American films |date=20 July 2015 |publisher=BBC |url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150720-the-100-greatest-american-films |access-date=23 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916105535/http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150720-the-100-greatest-american-films |archive-date=16 September 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> It was also ranked top in every ''Sight & Sound'' critics' poll between 1962 and 2002, and the directors' poll in 1992 and 2002.<ref name="S&S" /> The [[American Film Institute]] polled 1,500 film community leaders for the lists ''[[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies|100 Years...100 Movies]]'' and ''[[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)|the 10th Anniversary Edition]]'' in 1998 and 2007 respectively, asking voters to choose from a list of 400 nominations. Both polls identified ''Citizen Kane'' as the best [[:Category:American films|American film]] ever.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/100years/movies.aspx |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies |website=www.afi.com|access-date=4 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529012109/http://www.afi.com/100Years/movies.aspx|archive-date=29 May 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/100years/movies10.aspx |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – 10th Anniversary Edition |website=www.afi.com|access-date=4 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607064632/http://www.afi.com/100years/movies10.aspx|archive-date=7 June 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> It was voted the best American film of all time with 156 votes in a 1977 poll of 203 experts from 22 countries (116 Americans and 87 non-Americans). The poll was organized by the [[Cinematek|Royal Belgian Film Archive]] and titled "The most important and misappreciated American films", and they were looking for subjective choices.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Most Important and Misappreciated American Films Since the Beginning of the Cinema |date=1978 |publisher=Royal Film Archive of Belgium}}</ref>
* ''[[Casablanca (film)|Casablanca]]'' (1942) was voted the greatest American film by readers of the ''[[Los Angeles Daily News]]'' in 1997.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmsite.org/dailynews.html |title=''Los Angeles Daily News'' film poll (1997) |date=3 December 1997 |publisher=Filmsite.org |access-date=4 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809082926/http://www.filmsite.org/dailynews.html|archive-date=9 August 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[Vertigo (film)|Vertigo]]'' (1958) topped the ''Sight & Sound'' critics' poll in 2012 with 191 votes.<ref name="S&S" />
* ''[[The Godfather]]'' (1972) was selected as the greatest film by 2,120 industry professionals in a [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] survey undertaken by ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' in 2014.<ref name="hollywood" />

=== Uruguay ===
{{See also|Cinema of Uruguay}}
* [[Whisky (film)|''Whisky'']] (2004) was voted the best Uruguayan film of all time by 22 members of the [[:Category:Uruguayan Film Critics Association Awards|Uruguayan Film Critics Association]] in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Solomita |first1=Mariangel |title=Whisky: es la mejor película nacional |url=http://www.elpais.com.uy/divertite/cine/whisky-mejor-pelicula-nacional-ranking.html |date=10 December 2015 |website=El País |access-date=20 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201235101/http://www.elpais.com.uy/divertite/cine/whisky-mejor-pelicula-nacional-ranking.html|archive-date=1 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Venezuela ===
{{See also|Cinema of Venezuela}}
* ''[[El Pez que Fuma]]'' (1977) was voted the best Venezuelan film of all time with 22 votes in a 1987 poll of 29 experts organized by ''Imagen'' magazine.<ref name="Fundación Cinemateca Nacional">{{cite magazine |last1=Izaguirre |first1=Rodolfo |date=May 2016 |title=50 Aniversario De La Fundación Cinemateca Nacional |magazine=Fundación Cinemateca Nacional |issue=296 |pages=7–8}}</ref> It was also voted the best Venezuelan film of all time with 33 votes in a 2016 poll of 41 experts organized by the [[Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela|Fundación Cinemateca Nacional]].<ref name="Fundación Cinemateca Nacional" />

== See also ==
{{portal|Film}}
* [[Best Picture|List of best picture awards]]
* [[List of film awards]]
* [[List of highest-grossing films]]
* [[List of film-related topics]]
* [[List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes]]
* [[List of films considered the worst]]

== References ==
{{reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
* [http://theyshootpictures.com/gf1000_all1000films.htm "The 1,000 Greatest Films"] at ''They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?''
* [https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movies/ The American Film Institute's ''100 Years, 100 Movies'']
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100903142959/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/ ''Sight & Sound'' magazine: The 50 Greatest Films of All Time]
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Citizen Kane (1941), starring and directed by Orson Welles, has topped several international polls, including five consecutive decades at number 1 in the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound decennial poll of critics.

This is a list of films voted the best in national and international surveys of critics and the public.

Some surveys focus on all films, while others focus on a particular genre or country. Voting systems differ, and some surveys suffer from biases such as self-selection or skewed demographics, while others may be susceptible to forms of interference such as vote stacking.

Critics and filmmakers

Sight and Sound

Vertigo (1958) was ranked number one in the 2012 British Film Institute's Sight and Sound decennial poll of critics and number two in their 2022 poll.

Every decade, starting in 1952, the British film magazine Sight and Sound asks an international group of film critics to vote for the greatest film of all time. Since 1992, they have invited directors to vote in a separate poll. Sixty-three critics participated in 1952, 70 critics in 1962, 89 critics in 1972, 122 critics in 1982, 132 critics and 101 directors in 1992, 145 critics and 108 directors in 2002, 846 critics and 358 directors in 2012, and 1639 critics and 480 directors in 2022.[1]

This poll is regarded as one of the most important "greatest ever film" lists. American 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."[2]

Other polls

Seven Samurai (1954) topped the BBC poll of best foreign-language films as well as several Japanese polls.
  • Battleship Potemkin (1925) was ranked number 1 with 32 votes when the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique asked 63 film professionals around the world, mostly directors, to vote for the best films of the half-century in 1951.[3] It was also ranked number 1 when the Brussels World's Fair polled 117 experts from 26 countries in 1958.[4]
  • Citizen Kane (1941) was ranked number 1 with 48 votes when French film magazine Cahiers du cinéma asked 78 French critics and historians to vote for the best films in 2007.[5] It was also ranked number 1 with 48 votes when Chinese website Cinephilia.net asked 135 Chinese-speaking critics, scholars, curators, and cultural workers to vote for the best films in 2012.[6] It was ranked number 1 with 49 votes when Spanish film magazine Nickel Odeon [es] asked 150 Spanish film experts to vote for the best films in 1999.[7]
  • Seven Samurai (1954) was voted the greatest foreign-language (non-English) film in BBC's 2018 poll of 209 critics in 43 countries.[8]
  • Vertigo (1958) was ranked number 1 with 39 votes when German film magazine Steadycam [de] asked 174 critics and filmmakers to vote for their favorite films in 2007.[9][10] It was also ranked number 1 with 25 votes when Iranian film magazine Film asked 92 Iranian critics to vote for the best films in 2009.[11] It topped also the Télérama poll in 2018.[12]
  • (1963) was voted the best foreign (i.e. non-Swedish) sound film with 21 votes in a 1964 poll of 50 Swedish film professionals organized by Swedish film magazine Chaplin [sv].[13] It was also ranked number 1 when the Museum of Cinematography in Łódź [pl] asked 279 Polish film professionals (filmmakers, critics, and professors) to vote for the best films in 2015.[14]
  • Gone with the Wind (1939) was selected as the greatest film of the past half-century in a 1950 poll conducted by Variety of more than 200 professionals who worked in the film industry for over 25 years.[15]
  • The Godfather (1972) was ranked number 1 when Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo asked 114 Japanese critics and film professionals to vote for the best foreign (i.e. non-Japanese) films in 2009.[16] It was also voted the greatest film in a Hollywood Reporter poll of 2120 industry members, including every studio, agency, publicity firm and production house in Hollywood in 2014.[17]
  • Boyz n the Hood (1991) topped the "Top Black Films of All Times" poll from the November 1998 edition of Ebony magazine.[18]
  • The Piano (1993) was voted the best film made by a female director in a 2019 BBC poll of 368 film experts from 84 countries.[19]
  • Mulholland Drive (2001) topped BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century in 2016.[20]

Audience polls

  • Gone with the Wind (1939) was voted the favorite film of Americans in a poll of 2,279 adults taken by Harris Interactive in 2008,[21] and again in a follow-up poll of 2,276 adults in 2014.[22]
  • Roman Holiday (1953) was voted the best foreign (i.e. non-Japanese) film of all time in a 1990 poll of about a million people organized by Japanese public broadcaster NHK.[23]
  • The Godfather (1972) was voted number 1 by Entertainment Weekly's readers in 1999[24] and voted as number 1 in a Time Out readers' poll in 1998.[25] The film was voted 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.[26] It also topped Empire's June 2017 poll of 20,000 readers.[27][28]
  • The Empire Strikes Back (1980) was voted the best film of all time by over 250,000 readers of the Empire film magazine in 2015.[29]
  • Himala (Miracle, 1982) 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).[30]
  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994) was voted the greatest film of all time by Empire readers in "The 201 Greatest Movies of All Time" poll taken in March 2006.[31]
  • Titanic (1997) was voted the greatest hit of all time in a poll of 6,000 movie fans conducted by English-language newspaper China Daily in March 2008.[32]
  • Shiri (1999) was voted the favorite film of South Koreans with 11,918 votes in a 2002 online poll of 54,013 people conducted by South Korean movie channel Orion Cinema Network.[33]
  • The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003) was voted the favorite film of Australians in an audience poll for the Australian television special My Favourite Film in 2005.[34] It was also voted the best film in a poll of 120,000 German voters for the TV special Die besten Filme aller Zeiten ("The best films of all time") in 2004.[35]

Genres or media

Pinocchio (1940) was voted the best animated film in a 2014 poll conducted by Time Out
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) was voted the best Christmas film by an audience poll conducted by Axios and SurveyMonkey in 2018
Some Like It Hot (1959) was critics' choice in BBC's 2017 poll for best comedy
Man with a Movie Camera (1929) topped 2014 Sight and Sound poll of experts
The Exorcist (1973) was voted the best horror film of all time in several polls
The 1961 film adaptation of West Side Story was voted the best musical film ever made in a 2007 poll by The Observer
Casablanca (1942) was voted the best romance film in a 1996 poll organized by the Spanish film magazine Nickel Odeon
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) has been frequently cited and voted as the best science fiction film of all time
Stagecoach (1939) was voted the best western film in a 1996 poll organized by the Spanish film magazine Nickel Odeon

Action

  • Mad Max 2 (1981) was voted the greatest action film of all time in a readers' poll by American magazine Rolling Stone in 2015.[36]
  • Die Hard (1988) was voted the best action film of all time with 21 votes in a 2014 poll of 50 directors, actors, critics, and experts conducted by Time Out New York.[37]

Animation (shorts and features)

Christmas

Comedy

Disaster

Documentary

Fantasy

Horror

  • The Exorcist (1973) was voted the best horror film of all time with 53 votes in a 2012 poll of 150 experts conducted by Time Out London.[63] It was also voted the best horror film with 67 votes in a 2015 poll of 104 horror professionals conducted by HitFix,[64][65] and topped a readers' poll by Rolling Stone magazine in 2014.[66]
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) was ranked number 1 on British film magazine Total Film's 2005 list of the greatest horror films.[67] In 2010 it was voted into first place in an additional Total Film poll of leading directors and stars of horror films.[68]

LGBT

Musical

Romance

Science fiction

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) was voted the best science fiction film of all time with 73 votes in a 2014 poll of 136 science fiction experts, filmmakers, science fiction writers, film critics, and scientists conducted by Time Out London.[78] It was voted the best science fiction film of all time by 115 members of the Online Film Critics Society in 2002.[79] It topped a readers' poll conducted by Rolling Stone magazine in 2014.[80]
  • Blade Runner (1982) was voted the best science fiction film by a panel of 56 scientists assembled by the British newspaper The Guardian in 2004.[81] In British magazine New Scientist, Blade Runner was voted "all-time favourite science fiction film" in the readers' poll in 2008, with 12 percent of thousands of votes.[82] It topped a 2011 poll by Total Film magazine.[83]
  • Serenity (2005) was voted the best science fiction movie in a 2007 poll of 3,000 people conducted by SFX magazine.[84]

Silent

Sports

  • Rocky (1976) topped British website Digital Spy's "greatest ever sports movie" online poll in 2012, with 18.7% of the votes. Voters chose from a list of 25 films.[85] It was also voted the best sports movie of all time in a 2020 poll organized by The Athletic. They asked 120 panelists to nominate their favorite sports movies, and then to rate each nomination from 1 to 100. Movies with at least 10 ratings qualified for the final list. Rocky had the highest average rating, 91.04.[86]

Superhero

War

Western

National polls

Argentina

Australia

Bangladesh

Belarus

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981) was voted the best Bosnian film of all time in a 2003 poll of 13 film professionals organized by The National Film Archive of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[100]

Brazil

Limite (1931) was voted best Brazilian film by the Brazilian Film Critics Association [pt].

Bulgaria

Canada

Chile

China

Spring in a Small Town (1948)

Colombia

  • The Strategy of the Snail (1993) was voted the best Colombian film of all time with 38 votes in a 2015 poll of 65 critics and journalists organized by Colombian magazine Semana.[115]

Croatia

  • Tko pjeva zlo ne misli (One Who Sings Means No Harm, 1970) was voted the best Croatian film of all time by 44 Croatian film critics in 1999, in a poll organized by the Croatian magazine Hollywood. It was also voted the best Croatian film by Hollywood's readers.[116]
  • H-8 (1958) was voted the best Croatian feature film of all time by 38 Croatian film critics and scholars in a 2020 poll.[117]

Cuba

  • Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) was voted the best Latin American film of all time with 30 votes in a 1999 poll of 36 critics and film specialists from 11 countries organized by critics Carlos Galiano and Rufo Caballero.[118] It was also voted the best Ibero-American film of all time in a 2009 poll of more than 500 film professionals, critics, journalists, festival organizers, and fans around the world organized by Spanish magazine Noticine.[119]

Czech Republic

Czechoslovakia

  • Marketa Lazarova (1967) was voted the best Czech-Slovak film of all time in a 1998 poll of 55 Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists, receiving 41 votes.[130]
  • The Firemen's Ball (1967) was voted the best Czech-Slovak film of all time with 33 votes in a 2007 poll of 53 experts (mostly from the Czech Republic, but also from Slovakia and Poland) titled "Filmové dědictví česko-slovenské kinematografie".[131]
  • The Elementary School (1991) was voted the best Czech-Slovak film with 192 votes in a 2007 public poll of "Filmové dědictví česko-slovenské kinematografie".[131]

Denmark

  • Blinkende lygter (Flickering Lights, 2000) was voted best movie in Denmark by interviewing over 1500 people, reported by the analysis institute YouGov on behalf of the streamingservice Nordic Film+.[132]

Egypt

Estonia

  • Kevade (Spring, 1969) received first place in the Estonian feature films Top Ten Poll in 2002 held by Estonian film critics and journalists.[135]
  • Autumn Ball (2007) was voted the best Estonian film of all time with 29 votes in a 2011 poll of 33 film writers and film scholars organized by the Estonian Association of Film Journalists.[136]

Finland

France

  • The Rules of the Game (1939) was voted the best French film of all time with 15 votes in a 2012 poll of 85 film professionals conducted by Time Out Paris.[139] It was voted the best European film of all time with 56 votes (tied with the German film Nosferatu) in a 1994 poll of 70 critics and film historians organized by Cinemateca Portuguesa.[140]

Georgia

  • Eliso (1928) was voted the best Georgian film of all time in a critic poll organized by Tbilisi Intermedia.[141]

Germany

Nosferatu (1922)

Greece

Hong Kong

Hungary

  • The Round-Up (1965) was chosen as the best Hungarian film in a 2000 Hungarian film critics' poll.[144]

Iceland

  • Children of Nature (1991) was voted the best Icelandic film of all time in a Stockfish poll of 12 film experts.[145]

India

  • Pather Panchali (1955) topped the British Film Institute's user poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time in 2002.[146]
  • Mayabazar (1957) was chosen as the greatest Indian film of all time with 16,960 votes in an online poll conducted by IBN Live in 2013. Voters select from a list of 100 films from different Indian languages, and 70,926 votes were cast.[147][148]
  • Sholay (1975) topped the British Film Institute's critics' poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time in 2002.[149]

Bollywood

  • Mother India (1957) was voted the best Bollywood film of all time with 15 votes in a 2003 poll of 25 directors organized by Indian magazine Outlook.[150]
  • Sholay (1975) was voted the best Bollywood film of all time with 17 votes in a 2015 poll of 27 Bollywood experts organized by Time Out London.[151]

Iran

  • The Deer (1974) was voted the best Iranian film of all time with 33 votes in a 2009 poll of 92 critics organized by Iranian film magazine Film,[11] and again in a follow-up poll of 140 critics in 2019.[152]
  • Bashu, the Little Stranger (1986) was voted "Best Iranian Film of all time" in November 1999 by a Persian movie magazine Picture World poll of 150 Iranian critics and professionals.[153]
  • Close-Up (1990) reached the highest position (number 17 in 2022) of Iranian film on the 2022 Sight & Sound poll's lists of greatest films of all time.[1]

Ireland

Israel

Italy

(1963) was the highest-ranked Italian film in many international professional polls.
  • Bicycle Thieves (1948) topped the first Sight & Sound critics' poll in 1952.[1]
  • (1963) was voted the best foreign (i.e. non-Swedish) sound film with 21 votes in a 1964 poll of 50 Swedish film professionals organized by Swedish film magazine Chaplin [sv].[13] It was also ranked number 1 when the Museum of Cinematography in Łódź [pl] asked 279 Polish film professionals (filmmakers, critics, and professors) to vote for the best films in 2015.[14]

Japan

Tokyo Story (1953) topped several international polls, including the 2012 Sight & Sound directors' poll.
  • Rashomon (1950) was ranked joint tenth in the 1992 Sight & Sound directors' poll, and joint ninth in 2002.[1]
  • Tokyo Story (東京物語; 1953) topped the Sight & Sound directors' poll with 48 votes and was number 3 in the critics' poll with 107 votes in 2012.[1] It was also voted the best Japanese film of all time in a 2009 poll of 114 critics and film professionals organized by Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo.[16] It was voted the best Asian film of all time in a 2015 poll of 73 film critics, festival executives, programmers, and directors from around the world, organized by the Busan International Film Festival.[159]
  • Seven Samurai (1954) was voted the best Japanese film of all time in a 1989 poll of 372 celebrities for a book published by Bungeishunjū.[160] It was voted the best Japanese film of all time in a 1990 poll of about a million people organized by NHK.[23] It was the greatest foreign-language film in BBC Culture's 2018 poll of 209 critics in 43 countries.[8]

Mexico

  • Vámonos con Pancho Villa (1936) was ranked number 1 Mexican film of all time in a 1994 poll of 25 critics and journalists organized by Mexican magazine Somos.[161]
  • Los Olvidados (1950) was voted the best Mexican film of all time in a 2020 poll of 27 critics and journalists organized by Sector Cine online magazine.[162]

Netherlands

New Zealand

  • Once Were Warriors (1994) was voted the best New Zealand film of all time in a 2014 online poll organized by Fairfax Media. More than 500 people voted, including about 100 film professionals and 15 critics.[166]

North Korea

Norway

  • Ni Liv (Nine Lives, 1957) was the critics' choice for "Best Norwegian Film of All Time" during the 2005 Bergen International Film Festival.[168]
  • The Chasers (1959) was voted the best Norwegian film of all time with 23 votes in a 2011 poll of 32 critics and experts organized by Norwegian film magazine Rushprint [no].[169]
  • Flåklypa Grand Prix (Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, 1975) was the people's choice for "Best Norwegian Film of All Time" during the 2005 Bergen International Film Festival.[168]

Pakistan

  • Baji (1963) topped the British Film Institute's critics' poll of "Top 10 Pakistani Films" of all time in 2002.[170]
  • Aina (1977) topped the British Film Institute's user poll of "Top 10 Pakistani Films" of all time in 2002.[171]

Philippines

  • Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag (Manila in the Claws of Light, 1975) was voted the best Filipino film of all time in a 2013 poll of 81 critics, filmmakers, archivists, and academics organized by Pinoy Rebyu.[172] It was also voted the best Filipino film of all time with 16 votes (tied with Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon) in a 1989 poll of 28 filmmakers and critics, organized by Joel David and his UP film criticism class, and published in Philippine magazine National Midweek. The article also included a list of the most common number-one choices (topped by Manila in the Claws of Light), as well as an alternate version of the top 10 (topped by Manila by Night) which was ordered by average rank.[173]

Poland

Portugal

  • Os Verdes Anos (1963) was voted the best Portuguese film of all time in a 2020 poll of 122 critics and film professionals organized by filmSPOT.[175]

Romania

  • Reconstituirea (The Reenactment, 1968) was selected as the best Romanian film by 40 film critics in 2008.[176]

Russia

  • My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985) was voted the best Russian film of all time with 47 votes in a 2008 poll of 100 filmmakers and critics, organized by Russian film magazine Seance [ru].[177]

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

South Korea

  • Obaltan (1961) was voted the best South Korean film of all time with 48 votes in a 1999 poll of 140 filmmakers organized by South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo.[181] It was also voted the best South Korean film of all time (tied with The Housemaid and The March of Fools in a 2014 poll of 62 film scholars, critics, film professionals, researchers, and programmers organized by the Korean Film Archive.[182]
  • Shiri (1999) was voted the favorite film of South Koreans with 11,918 votes in a 2002 online poll of 54,013 people conducted by South Korean movie channel Orion Cinema Network.[33]
  • Memories of Murder (2003) was voted the best South Korean film of all time with 806 votes in a 2014 audience poll of 1462 people organized by the Korean Film Archive.[183]
  • Burning (2018) was voted the best South Korean film of all time in a 2021 poll of 158 critics from 28 countries organized by Korean Screen.[184]
  • The Housemaid was voted best South Korean film of all time in a 2024 poll by the Korean Film Archive of 240 critics.[185]

Soviet Union

Battleship Potemkin (1925) was an early favorite and the top silent film.
  • Battleship Potemkin (1925) was ranked number 1 with 32 votes when the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique asked 63 film professionals around the world, mostly directors, to vote for the best films of the half-century in 1951.[3] It was ranked number 1 when the Brussels World's Fair polled 117 experts from 26 countries in 1958.[4]
  • Man with a Movie Camera (1929) was voted the eighth greatest film ever made in the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound poll.[186]
  • Mirror (1975) ranked 9th in the 2012 Sight & Sound directors' poll.[187]

Spain

  • Viridiana (1961) was voted the best Spanish film of all time with 227 votes in a 2016 poll of 350 experts organized by Spanish film magazine Caimán Cuadernos de Cine.[188]
  • El verdugo (1963) was voted the best Spanish film of all time with 77 votes in a 1995 poll of 100 critics and film professionals organized by Spanish film magazine Nickel Odeon [es].[189]

Sri Lanka

Sweden

The Phantom Carriage (1921) was voted best Swedish film by critics and academics in FLM's poll.
  • The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen, 1921) was voted the best Swedish film of all time with 30 votes in a poll of 50 film critics and academics conducted by film magazine FLM in 2012.[192]
  • Persona (1966) reached the highest position (number 5 in 1972) of any Swedish film on any of Sight & Sound's lists of greatest films of all time.[1]

Switzerland

  • Alpine Fire (1985) was voted the best Swiss film of all time in 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016, in polls organized by Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung [de]. 31 experts participated in 2011, and 36 experts in 2016.[193]

Taiwan

Turkey

  • Dry Summer (1963) was voted the best Turkish film released between 1923 and 2013 in a 2014 poll launched by the Turkish Ministry of Tourism.[195]
  • Umut (1970) was voted the best Turkish film of all time in a poll of 100 directors, actors, producers, and film writers organized by the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.[196]
  • Yol (1982) was voted the best Turkish film of all time in a 2016 poll of 383 experts organized by Turkish magazine Notos.[197] It was also selected as the best Turkish film in a 2003 poll undertaken by Ankara Sinema Derneği (Ankara Association for Cinema Culture) of people interested in cinema professionally.[198]

Ukraine

  • Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) was voted the best Ukrainian film of all time with 30 votes in a 2012 poll of about 100 journalists organized by the Cinema Journalism Bureau of Ukraine and the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine.[199]

United Kingdom

Peter O'Toole from the trailer for the film Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) was voted the "best British film of all time" by Great Britain's leading filmmakers.

United States

Poster shows Rhett Butler carrying Scarlett O'Hara against a backdrop of the Burning of Atlanta
Gone with the Wind (1939) has topped several US audience polls.
  • Gone with the Wind (1939) was voted the favorite film of Americans in a poll of 2,279 adults undertaken by Harris Interactive in 2008,[21] and again in a follow-up poll of 2,276 adults in 2014.[22] It was also voted the best American film of all time by 35,000 members of the American Film Institute in 1977.[208] It was picked in 2011 as the best film for Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time, an online poll in which over 500,000 votes were cast. Voters chose from a list of 10 English-language films selected by film industry experts.[209]
  • Citizen Kane (1941) was selected as the greatest American film in 2015 by sixty-two international film critics surveyed by the BBC.[210] It was also ranked top in every Sight & Sound critics' poll between 1962 and 2002, and the directors' poll in 1992 and 2002.[1] The American Film Institute polled 1,500 film community leaders for the lists 100 Years...100 Movies and the 10th Anniversary Edition in 1998 and 2007 respectively, asking voters to choose from a list of 400 nominations. Both polls identified Citizen Kane as the best American film ever.[211][212] It was voted the best American film of all time with 156 votes in a 1977 poll of 203 experts from 22 countries (116 Americans and 87 non-Americans). The poll was organized by the Royal Belgian Film Archive and titled "The most important and misappreciated American films", and they were looking for subjective choices.[213]
  • Casablanca (1942) was voted the greatest American film by readers of the Los Angeles Daily News in 1997.[214]
  • Vertigo (1958) topped the Sight & Sound critics' poll in 2012 with 191 votes.[1]
  • The Godfather (1972) was selected as the greatest film by 2,120 industry professionals in a Hollywood survey undertaken by The Hollywood Reporter in 2014.[17]

Uruguay

Venezuela

  • El Pez que Fuma (1977) was voted the best Venezuelan film of all time with 22 votes in a 1987 poll of 29 experts organized by Imagen magazine.[216] It was also voted the best Venezuelan film of all time with 33 votes in a 2016 poll of 41 experts organized by the Fundación Cinemateca Nacional.[216]

See also

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