List of movies considered the best

This is a **list of movies 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)

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*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 Guardian*'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 Godfathe*r (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 Exorcist* (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) 

## References
https://moviesgit.com/top-10-best-movies-of-all-time/