Sight and Sound's Greatest Films of All Time (Chronological sort)

Added on by C. Maoxian.

There’s a lot of bad, bad movies on their list, but it’s still worth looking at chronologically. Only a handful of these movies make my Top 500 list, let alone the Top 100:

  • Sherlock Jr 1924

  • Battleship Potemkin 1925

  • The General 1926

  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927

  • The Passion of Joan of Arc 1927

  • Metropolis 1927

  • Man with a Movie Camera 1929

  • City Lights 1931

  • M 1931

  • L'atalante 1934

  • Modern Times 1936

  • La Regle du jeu 1939

  • Citizen Kane 1941

  • Casablanca 1942

  • Meshes of the Afternoon 1943

  • A Matter of Life and Death 1946

  • Bicycle Thieves 1948

  • The Red Shoes 1948

  • Late Spring 1949

  • The Third Man 1949

  • Rashomon 1950

  • Singin' in the Rain 1951

  • Tokyo Story 1953

  • Ugetsu Monogatari 1953

  • Madame de 1953

  • Seven Samurai 1954

  • Rear Window 1954

  • Journey to Italy 1954

  • The Night of the Hunter 1955

  • Pather Panchali 1955

  • Ordet 1955

  • The Searchers 1956

  • A Man Escaped 1956

  • Vertigo 1958

  • Some Like It Hot 1959

  • North by Northwest 1959

  • The 400 Blows 1959

  • Imitation of Life 1959

  • Psycho 1960

  • A bout de souffle 1960

  • The Apartment 1960

  • La dolce vita 1960

  • L'avventura 1960

  • Cleo from 5 to 7 1962

  • La Jetee 1962

  • 8 1/2 1963

  • Le Mepris 1963

  • The Leopard 1963

  • Pierrot le fou 1965

  • Black Girl 1965

  • Persona 1966

  • Au hasard Balthazar 1966

  • Daisies 1966

  • The Battle of Algiers 1966

  • Andrei Rublev 1966

  • Playtime 1967

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

  • Once Upon a Time in the West 1968

  • Wanda 1970

  • The Godfather 1972

  • Touki Bouki 1973

  • The Spirit of the Beehive 1973

  • Fear Eats the Soul 1974

  • Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974

  • Jeanne Dielman 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975

  • Mirror 1975

  • Barry Lyndon 1975

  • Taxi Driver 1976

  • News from Home 1976

  • Killer of Sheep 1977

  • Apocalypse Now 1979

  • Stalker 1979

  • The Shining 1980

  • Blade Runner 1982

  • Sans Soleil 1982

  • Shoah 1985

  • Blue Velvet 1986

  • My Neighbour Totoro 1988

  • Histoire(s) de Cinema 1988

  • Close-up 1989

  • Do the Right Thing 1989

  • GoodFellas 1990

  • Daughters of the Dust 1991

  • A Brighter Summer Day 1991

  • The Piano 1992

  • Satantango 1994

  • Chungking Express 1994

  • Beau Travail 1998

  • Yi Yi 1999

  • In the Mood for Love 2000

  • The Gleaners and I 2000

  • Mulholland Drive 2001

  • Spirited Away 2001

  • Tropical Malady 2004

  • Moonlight 2016

  • Get Out 2017

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019

  • Parasite 2019