Village Voice Critics' Poll: The 100 Best Films of the 20th Century


  1. Citizen Kane (1941)
  2. La Règle du Jeu (1939)
  3. Vertigo (1958)
  4. The Searchers (1956)
  5. Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
  6. Sunrise (1927)
  7. L'Atalante (1934)
  8. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
  9. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
  10. Rashomon (1950)
  11. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  12. The Godfather (1972
  13. Pather Panchali (1955)
  14. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
  15. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  16. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  17. Ordet (1955)
  18. Intolerance (1916)
  19. Jeanne Dielman (1975)
  20. Psycho (1960)
  21. Chinatown (1974)
  22. M (1931)
  23. Seven Samurai (1954)
  24. Madame de... (1953)
  25. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
  26. A Man Escaped (1956)
  27. Broken Blossoms (1919)
  28. Greed (1924)
  29. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
  30. The Third Man (1949)
  31. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  32. The General (1927)
  33. The Seventh Seal (1957)
  34. Taxi Driver (1976)
  35. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  36. Tokyo Story (1953)
  37. Bicycle Thieves (1949)
  38. City Lights (1931)
  39. King Kong (1933)
  40. Metropolis (1927)
  41. Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
  42. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
  43. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
  44. Duck Soup (1933)
  45. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  46. Barry Lyndon (1975)
  47. The Four Hundred Blows (1959)
  48. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
  49. Contempt (1963)
  50. The Gold Rush (1925)
  51. North by Northwest (1959)
  52. Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966)
  53. La Prise de Pouvoir par Louis XIV (1966)
  54. Pather Panchali (1955)
    Aparajito (1956)
    The World of Apu (1959)
  55. Touch of Evil (1958)
  56. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
  57. The Lady Eve (1941)
  58. The Conformist (1970)
  59. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
  60. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
  61. Pickpocket (1959)
  62. An Actor's Revenge (1963)
  63. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
  64. Close-Up (1990)
  65. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
  66. La Jetée (1962)
  67. Modern Times (1936)
  68. October (1928)
  69. Los Olvidados (1950)
  70. Paisan (1946)
  71. Performance (1970)
  72. Shoah (1985)
  73. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
  74. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)
  75. Umberto D. (1952)
  76. Les Vampires (1915)
  77. All About Eve (1950)
  78. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
  79. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
  80. Notorious (1946)
  81. Pierrot le Fou (1965)
  82. Fox and His Friends (1975)
  83. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
  84. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
  85. Wavelength (1967)
  86. Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
  87. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
  88. The Golden Coach (1952)
  89. Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
  90. Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)
  91. Masculine, Feminine (1966)
  92. Nosferatu (1922)
  93. Star Wars (1977)
  94. Blade Runner (1982)
  95. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
  96. Jules and Jim (1962)
  97. Landscape in the Mist (1988)
  98. Mean Streets (1973)
  99. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
  100. Suspiria (1977)