Sight & Sound: 1992 Critics Poll

Top films as voted by international critics. The Sight & Sound poll is probably the most renowned film poll. Critic Roger Ebert described it as "...by far the most respected of the countless polls of great movies – the only one most serious movie people take seriously."

# Film Year Country Director
1 Citizen Kane 1941 USA Orson Welles
2 The Rules of the Game 1939 France Jean Renoir
3 Tokyo Story 1953 Japan Yasujirō Ozu
4 Vertigo 1958 USA Alfred Hitchcock
5 The Searchers 1956 USA John Ford
6 L'Atalante 1934 France Jean Vigo
7 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
8 Pather Panchali 1955 India Satyajit Ray
9 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein
10 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 USA, UK Stanley Kubrick
11 Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy Vittorio De Sica
12 Singin' in the Rain 1952 USA Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen