این فهرست در سال "2012" طبق یک نظرسنجی از تعداد زیادی از منتقدان سینما بدست آمده است و با وجود تمام کم کاستی‌هایش بدون شک یکی از بهترین‌ها در زمینه سینماست. حضور 2 فیلم از سینمای ایران قابل توجه می‌باشد. فهرست کامل به شرح زیر می‌باشد:

 

1. VERTIGO ALFRED HITCHCOCK

 

2. CITIZEN KANE ORSON WELLES

 

3. TOKYO STORY YASUJIRÔ OZU

 

4. THE RULES OF THE GAME JEAN RENOIR

 

5. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS F.W. MURNAU

 

6. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY STANLEY KUBRICK

 

7. THE SEARCHERS JOHN FORD

 

8. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA DZIGA VERTOV

 

9. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC CARL THEODOR DREYER

 

10. 8½ FEDERICO FELLINI

 

11. BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN SERGEI EISENSTEIN

 

12. L'ATALANTE JEAN VIGO

 

13. BREATHLESS JEAN-LUC GODARD

 

14. APOCALYPSE NOW FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

 

15. LATE SPRING YASUJIRÔ OZU

 

16. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR

ROBERT BRESSON

 

17. SEVEN SAMURAI AKIRA KUROSAWA

 

18. PERSONA INGMAR BERGMAN

 

19. THE MIRROR ANDREI TARKOVSKY

 

20. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN STANLEY DONEN, GENE KELLY

 

21. L'AVVENTURA MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI

 

22. CONTEMPT JEAN-LUC GODARD

 

23. THE GODFATHER FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

 

24. ORDET CARL THEODOR DREYER

 

25. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE WONG KAR-WAI

 

26. RASHÔMON AKIRA KUROSAWA

 

27. ANDREI RUBLEV ANDREI TARKOVSKY

 

28. MULHOLLAND DRIVE DAVID LYNCH

 

29. STALKER ANDREI TARKOVSKY

 

30. SHOAH CLAUDE LANZMANN

 

31. THE GODFATHER: PART II FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

 

32. TAXI DRIVER MARTIN SCORSESE

 

33. BICYCLE THIEVES VITTORIO DE SICA

 

34. THE GENERAL BUSTER KEATON, CLYDE BRUCKMAN

 

35  PSYCHO ALFRED HITCHCOCK

 

36. METROPOLIS FRITZ LANG

 

37. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES CHANTAL AKERMAN

 

38. SÁTÁNTANGÓ BÉLA TARR

 

39. THE 400 BLOWS FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT

 

40. LA DOLCE VITA FEDERICO FELLINI

 

41. JOURNEY TO ITALY ROBERTO ROSSELLINI

 

42. PATHER PANCHALI SATYAJIT RAY

 

43. SOME LIKE IT HOT BILLY WILDER

 

44. GERTRUD CARL THEODOR DREYER

 

45. PIERROT LE FOU JEAN-LUC GODARD

 

46. PLAYTIME JACQUES TATI

 

47. CLOSE-UP ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

 

48. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS GILLO PONTECORVO

 

49. HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA JEAN-LUC GODARD

 

50. CITY LIGHTS CHARLIE CHAPLIN

 

51. UGETSU KENJI MIZOGUCHI

 

52. LA JETÉE CHRIS MARKER

 

53. REAR WINDOW ALFRED HITCHCOCK

 

54. NORTH BY NORTHWEST ALFRED HITCHCOCK

 

55. RAGING BULL MARTIN SCORSESE

 

56. M FRITZ LANG

 

57. TOUCH OF EVIL ORSON WELLES

 

58. THE LEOPARD LUCHINO VISCONTI

 

59. SHERLOCK JR. BUSTER KEATON

 

60. SANSHO THE BAILIFF KENJI MIZOGUCHI

 

61. THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE JEAN EUSTACHE

 

62. BARRY LYNDON STANLEY KUBRICK

 

63. MODERN TIMES CHARLIE CHAPLIN

 

64. SUNSET BLVD. BILLY WILDER

 

65. WILD STRAWBERRIES INGMAR BERGMAN

 

66. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER CHARLES LAUGHTON

 

67. PICKPOCKET ROBERT BRESSON

 

68. RIO BRAVO HOWARD HAWKS

 

69. BLADE RUNNER RIDLEY SCOTT

 

70. BLUE VELVET DAVID LYNCH

 

71. SANS SOLEIL CHRIS MARKER

 

72. A MAN ESCAPED ROBERT BRESSON

 

73. THE THIRD MAN CAROL REED

 

74. L'ECLISSE MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI

 

75. CHILDREN OF PARADISE

MARCEL CARNÉ

 

76. GRAND ILLUSION JEAN RENOIR

 

77. NASHVILLE ROBERT ALTMAN

 

78. CHINATOWN ROMAN POLANSKI

 

79. BEAU TRAVAIL CLAIRE DENIS

 

80. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST SERGIO LEONE

 

81. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS ORSON WELLES

 

82. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA DAVID LEAN

 

83. THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE VÍCTOR ERICE

 

84. FANNY AND ALEXANDER INGMAR BERGMAN

 

85. CASABLANCA MICHAEL CURTIZ

 

86. THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES SERGEI PARAJANOV

 

87. GREED ERICH VON STROHEIM

 

88. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY EDWARD YANG

 

89. THE WILD BUNCH SAM PECKINPAH

 

90. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY JEAN RENOIR

 

91. AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD WERNER HERZOG

 

92. A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH MICHAEL POWELL

 

93. THE SEVENTH SEAL INGMAR BERGMAN

 

94. UN CHIEN ANDALOU LUIS BUÑUEL

 

95. INTOLERANCE D.W. GRIFFITH

 

96. YI YI EDWARD YANG

 

97. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP MICHAEL POWELL, EMERIC PRESSBURGER

 

98. TOUKI BOUKI DJIBRIL DIOP MAMBÉTY

 

99. ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER

 

100. IMITATION OF LIFE DOUGLAS SIRK

 

101. THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... MAX OPHÜLS

 

102. WAVELENGTH MICHAEL SNOW

 

103. THE CONFORMIST BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

 

104. THE TRAVELLING PLAYERS THEODOROS ANGELOPOULOS

 

105. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON MAYA DEREN, ALEXANDER HAMMID

 

106. 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER JEAN-LUC GODARD

 

107. THE TREE OF LIFE TERRENCE MALICK

 

108. IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART I SERGEI EISENSTEIN

 

109. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD ALAIN RESNAIS

 

110. THE LADY EVE PRESTON STURGES

 

111. LOS OLVIDADOS LUIS BUÑUEL

 

112. BRINGING UP BABY HOWARD HAWKS

 

113. PERFORMANCE DONALD CAMMELL, NICOLAS ROEG

 

114. THE PASSENGER MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI

 

115. VIRIDIANA LUIS BUÑUEL

 

116. L'AGE D'OR LUIS BUÑUEL

 

117. A CANTERBURY TALE MICHAEL POWELL, EMERIC PRESSBURGER

 

118. MOUCHETTE ROBERT BRESSON

 

119. DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB STANLEY KUBRICK

 

120. NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE WERNER HERZOG

 

121. THE RED SHOES MICHAEL POWELL, EMERIC PRESSBURGER

 

122. TROUBLE IN PARADISE ERNST LUBITSCH

 

123. A CITY OF SADNESS HOU HSIAO-HSIEN

 

124. AMARCORD FEDERICO FELLINI

 

125. THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE JOHN FORD

 

126. DAYS OF HEAVEN TERRENCE MALICK

 

127. SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN MU FE

 

128. DO THE RIGHT THING SPIKE LEE

 

129. OUT 1 JACQUES RIVETTE, SUZANNE SCHIFFMAN

 

130. TROPICAL MALADY APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL

 

131. THE RIVER JEAN RENOIR

 

132. JULES AND JIM FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT

 

133. PULP FICTION QUENTIN TARANTINO

 

134. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS VINCENTE MINNELLI

 

135. L'ARGENT ROBERT BRESSON

 

136. IKIRU AKIRA KUROSAWA

 

137. THREE COLORS: BLUE KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI

 

138. DON'T LOOK NOW NICOLAS ROEG

 

139. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING JACQUES RIVETTE

 

140. ANNIE HALL WOODY ALLEN

 

141. THE APARTMENT BILLY WILDER

 

142. THE LAST LAUGH F.W. MURNAU

 

143. HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR ALAIN RESNAIS

 

144. BLOW-UP MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI

 

145. THE GREAT DICTATOR CHARLIE CHAPLIN

 

146. MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT TOMÁS GUTIÉRREZ ALEA

 

147. CHUNGKING EXPRESS WONG KAR-WAI

 

148. DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST ROBERT BRESSON

 

149. TO BE OR NOT TO BE ERNST LUBITSCH

 

150. A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE JOHN CASSAVETES

 

151. NAPOLÉON ABEL GANCE

 

152. VIVRE SA VIE JEAN-LUC GODARD

 

153. THE WIZARD OF OZ VICTOR FLEMING

 

154. MARKETA LAZAROVÁ FRANTIŠEK VLÁČIL

 

155. HIDDEN MICHAEL HANEKE

 

156. THE SHINING STANLEY KUBRICK

 

157. SOLARIS ANDREI TARKOVSKY

 

158. CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT ORSON WELLES

 

159. THE GOLD RUSH CHARLIE CHAPLIN

 

160. LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN MAX OPHÜLS

 

161. BRIEF ENCOUNTER DAVID LEAN

 

162. IN A LONELY PLACE NICHOLAS RAY

 

163. BLACK NARCISSUS MICHAEL POWELL, EMERIC PRESSBURGER

 

164. MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO HAYAO MIYAZAKI

 

165. ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS HOWARD HAWKS

 

166. VAMPYR CARL THEODOR DREYER

 

167. COME AND SEE ELEM KLIMOV

 

168. DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES TERENCE DAVIES

 

169. ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA SERGIO LEONE

 

170. CRIES AND WHISPERS INGMAR BERGMAN

 

171. KING KONG MERIAN C. COOPER

 

172. WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES BÉLA TARR, ÁGNES HRANITZKY

 

173. STAR WARS GEORGE LUCAS

 

174. NOTORIOUS ALFRED HITCHCOCK

 

175. HIS GIRL FRIDAY HOWARD HAWKS

 

176. GOODFELLAS MARTIN SCORSESE

 

177. THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG JACQUES DEMY

 

178. A TRIP TO THE MOON GEORGES MÉLIÈS

 

179. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS ALEXANDER MACKENDRICK

 

180. KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS ROBERT HAMER

 

181. TABU: A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS F.W. MURNAU

 

182. EARTH ALEKSANDR DOVZHENKO

 

183. BREAKING THE WAVES LARS VON TRIER

 

184. THE GRAPES OF WRATH JOHN FORD

 

185. PARIS, TEXAS WIM WENDERS

 

186. E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL STEVEN SPIELBERG

 

187. ROME, OPEN CITY ROBERTO ROSSELLINI

 

188. FACES JOHN CASSAVETES

 

189. THE MUSIC ROOM SATYAJIT RAY

 

190. THE STORY OF THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUMS KENJI MIZOGUCHI

 

191. A TOUCH OF ZEN KING HU

 

192. LISTEN TO BRITAIN HUMPHREY JENNINGS

 

193. DAY OF WRATH CARL THEODOR DREYER

 

194. THE THIN RED LINE TERRENCE MALICK

 

195. ERASERHEAD DAVID LYNCH

 

196. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE TOBE HOOPER

 

197. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE LUIS BUÑUEL

 

198. THE CONVERSATION FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

 

199. OUT OF THE PAST JACQUES TOURNEUR

 

200. I WAS BORN, BUT... YASUJIRÔ OZU

 

201. I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING! MICHAEL POWELL, EMERIC PRESSBURGER

 

202. THE DEATH OF MR. LĂZĂRESCU CRISTI PUIU

 

203. RED DESERT MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI

 

204. THE CHELSEA GIRLS ANDY WARHOL

 

205. BADLANDS TERRENCE MALICK

 

206. KINGS OF THE ROAD WIM WENDERS

 

207. THERE WILL BE BLOOD PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON

 

208. WALL•E ANDREW STANTON

 

209. BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER

 

210. VIDEODROME DAVID CRONENBERG

 

211. DAISIES VĚRA CHYTILOVÁ

 

212. UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL

 

213. MANHATTAN WOODY ALLEN

 

214. CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 AGNÈS VARDA

 

215. TIE XI QU: WEST OF THE TRACKS - PART 1: RUST WANG BING

 

216. RUSSIAN ARK ALEKSANDR SOKUROV

 

217. TALE OF TALES YURIY NORSHTEYN

 

218. SPIRITED AWAY HAYAO MIYAZAKI

 

219. LA STRADA FEDERICO FELLINI

 

220. PAISAN ROBERTO ROSSELLINI

 

221. THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER ERNST LUBITSCH

 

222. THE BIG SLEEP HOWARD HAWKS

 

223. KILLER OF SHEEP CHARLES BURNETT

 

224. WANDA BARBARA LODEN

 

225. GERMANY YEAR ZERO ROBERTO ROSSELLINI

 

226. THE LIFE OF OHARU KENJI MIZOGU

 

227. ARMY OF SHADOWS JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE

 

228. SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

 

229. DUCK SOUP LEO MCCAREY

 

230. THE DEVIL, PROBABLY ROBERT BRESSON

 

231. THE TURIN HORSE BÉLA TARR

 

232. LOVE STREAMS JOHN CASSAVETES

 

233. THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL LUIS BUÑUEL

 

234. FLOATING CLOUDS MIKIO NARUSE

 

235. THE PIANO JANE CAMPION

 

236. GONE WITH THE WIND VICTOR FLEMING

 

237. MELANCHOLIA LARS VON TRIER

 

238. THE HOUSE IS BLACK FORUGH FARROKHZAD

 

239. THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI ROBERT WIENE

 

240. RED RIVER HOWARD HAWKS, ARTHUR ROSSON

 

241. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE STANLEY KUBRICK

 

242. TWO-LANE BLACKTOP MONTE HELLMAN

 

243. AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON YASUJIRÔ OZU

 

244. THE THIN BLUE LINE ERROL MORRIS

 

245. THE WORLD OF APU SATYAJIT RAY

 

246. THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE FRITZ LANG

 

247. MY DARLING CLEMENTINE JOHN FORD

 

248. THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VÉRONIQUE KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI

 

249. KES KEN LOACH

 

250. THREE COLORS: RED KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI