Title: List of movies considered the best Content: This is a list of films considered the best based on various polls. These are polls for critics and the public. Votes are subjective and can be biased. == American and British Critics and Filmmakers == Sight & Sound 100 Greatest Films of all Time 2012: * 1. Vertigo (1958) * 2. Citizen Kane (1941) * 3. Tokyo Story (1953) Time Out 100 Best Movies of All Time: * 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) * 2. The Godfather (1972) * 3. Citizen Kane (1941) AFI'S 100 YEARS...100 MOVIES — 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION * 1. Citizen Kane (1941) * 2. The Godfather (1972) * 3. Casablanca (1942) The Village Voice 100 Greatest Films * 1. Citizen Kane (1941) * 2. The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir) * 3. Vertigo (1958) * Entertainment Weekly 100 Greatest Movies of All Time * 1. The Godfather (1972) * 2. Citizen Kane (1941) * 3. Casablanca (1942) IndieWire's 50 Best Movies of All Time: * 1. Citizen Kane (1941) * 2. Vertigo (1958) * 3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) BBC's The 100 greatest films directed by women: * 1. The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993) * 2. Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962) * 3. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975) Ebony's 1998 "Top Black Films of All Times": * 1. Boyz N the Hood (1991) * 2. Do the Right Thing (1989) * 3. Malcolm X (1992) == International Critics and Filmmakers == Brussels World's Fair of 1958 - The 12 Best Films of All Time * 1. Battleship Potemkin (1925) * 2. The Gold Rush (1925) * 3. Bicycle Thieves (1948) Cahiers du cinéma's 100 films pour une cinémathèque idéale * 1. Citizen Kane (1941) * 2. The Night of the Hunter (1955) * 3. The Rules of the Game (1939) Télérama Les 100 meilleurs films de tous les temps: * 1. Vertigo (1958) * 2. Citizen Kane (1941) * 3. Tokyo Story (1953) Le Temps The Fifty Best Films according to Swiss Critics * 1. Citizen Kane (1941) * 2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) * 3. Apocalypse Now (1979) Cinephilia.net Critics' 10 Greatest Films 2012: * 1. Citizen Kane (1941) * 2. The Godfather (1972) * 3. A Bright Summer Day (1991) Steadycam Critic's 30 Favorite Films 2007: * 1. The Searchers (1956) * 2. Taxi Driver (1976) * 3. Vertigo (1958) Film Magazine Critics' Best Foreign Movies Poll: * 1. Vertigo (1958) * 2. Citizen Kane (1941) * 3. Tokyo Story (1953) Kinema Junpo Critics' Best Foreign Movies: * 1. The Godfather (1972) * 2. Taxi Driver (1975) * 3. West Side Story (1961) == Audience Polls == Empire Magazine 50 Best Movies 2001: * 1. Star Wars (1977) * 2. The Empire Strikes Back (1980) * 3. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Empire's 500 Greatest Movies of All Time 2008: * 1. The Godfather (1972) * 2. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) * 3. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Harris Interactive Survey Poll 2008: * 1. Gone With the Wind (1939) * 2. Star Wars (1977) * 3. Titanic (1997) Time Out Top 100 Films Reader's Poll 1998: * 1. The Godfather (1972) * 2. Casablanca (1942) * 3. Citizen Kane (1941) IMDb Reader's Top 250 Movies: * 1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) * 2. The Godfather (1972) * 3. The Dark Knight (2008) Cinema's Readers Best Films of All Time 2000: * 1. Schindler's List (1993) * 2. Titanic (1997) * 3. Pulp Fiction (1994) == Best Movies of the 21st Century == BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century: * 1. Mulholland Drive (2001) * 2. In the Mood for Love (2000) * 3. There Will be Blood (2007) Time Out's The 100 best movies of the 21st century: * 1. Mulholland Drive (2001) * 2. There Will be Blood (2008) * 3. The Act of Killing (2013) The Gaurdian's The 100 best films of the 21st century * There Will be Blood (2007) * 12 Years a Slave (2013) * Boyhood (2014) == Best Movies by Genre or Media == === Action === Time Out New York 100 Best Action Movies 2014: * 1. Die Hard (1988) * 2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) * 3. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) Time Out The 101 best action movies of all time 2022: * 1. Aliens (1986) * 2. Seven Samurai (1954) * 3. The Wild Bunch (1969) === Animation === Time Out The 100 best animated films of all time: * 1. Pinocchio (1940) * 2. Spirited Away (2001) * 3. My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Animation Films in BBC's The 21st Century’s 100 greatest films: * WALL-E (2008) * Ratatouille (2007) * Finding Nemo (2003) === Christmas === Greatest Christmas Films Excluding Die Hard by Axios and SurveyMonkey 2018: * 1. It's A Wonderful Life (1946) * 2. A Christmas Story (1983) * 3. Home Alone (1990) Empire's Greatest Christmas Movies 2015: * Die Hard (1988) * It's a Wonderful Life (1946) * Gremlins (1984) === Comedy === AFI's 100 YEARS...100 LAUGHS: * 1. Some Like it Hot (1959) * 2. Tootsie (1982) * 3. Dr. Strangelove (1964) Rolling Stone's Readers’ Poll: The 25 Funniest Movies of All Time 2014: * 1. Blazing Saddles (1974) * 2. Airplane! (1979) * 3. 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' (1975) === Crime === Time Out The 50 best gangster movies of all time: * 1. The Godfather (1972) * 2. The Killing (1956) * 3. Goodfellas (1990) AFI's 10 TOP 10 Gangster Films: * 1. The Godfather (1972) * 2. Goodfellas (1990) * 2. The Godfather Part II (1974) Business Insider Critics 100 Best Crime Movies of all Time: * 1. The Godfather (1972) * 2. The Night of the Hunter (1955) * 3. Touch of Evil (1958) === Documentary === Critics’ 50 Greatest Documentaries of All Time Sight & Sound * 1. Man with a Movie Camera (1929) * 2. Shoah (1985) * 3. Sans Soleil (1982) === Fantasy === TimeOut The 50 best fantasy movies of all time * 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) * 2. King Kong (1933) * 3. Onward (2020) === Horror === TimeOut The 100 best horror movies of all time * 1. The Excorcist (1973) * 2. The Shining (1980) * 3. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Empire Magazine The 50 Best Horror Movies * 1. The Shining (1980) * 2. Alien (1979) * 3. Scream (1996)