Published by the British Film Institute (BFI), who maintains the world's largest film archive, Sight & Sound magazine reviews films monthly including those with a limited release. International film professionals, including filmmakers and critics, routinely vote for their favorite films. Please scroll down for the following lists including: 50 Greatest Movies (2012), Filmmakers' Greatest Documentaries (2014), The Best Films of 2013, and Ten Greatest Films of All Time-Directors' Poll (2012).
Click on listed call numbers for additional information from DELCAT Discovery.
1. The Souvenir, dir. Joanna Hogg, DVD 21290
2. Parasite, dir. Bong Joon-ho, DVD 21978; HDDVD 839
3. The Irishman, dir. Martin Scorsese
4. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, dir. Quentin Tarantino, DVD 21254;
5. Portrait of a Lady on Fire, dir. Céline Sciamma
6. Pain and Glory, dir. Pedro Almodóvar, DVD 21639; HDDVD 810
7. Atlantics, dir. Mati Diop
8. Bait, dir. Mark Jenkin
9. Us, dir. Jordan Peele, eVideo; DVD 21041; HDDVD 692
10. Vitalina Varela dir. Pedro Costa
11. High Life, dir. Claire Denis, DVD 21058; HDDVD 712
12. Uncut Gems, dirs. Joshua & Benny Safdie, DVD 22054; HDDVD 874
13. Monos, dir. Alejandro Landes
14. Marriage Story, dir. Noah Baumbach
15. For Sama, dirs. Waad Al-Kateab & Edward Watts-DVD 21654
16. Midsommar, dir. Ari Aster-DVD 21194; HDDVD 765
17. The Lighthouse, dir. Robert Eggers-DVD 21781; HDDVD 813
18. Happy as Lazzaro, dir. Alice Rohrwacher
19. Hustlers, dir. Lorene Scafaria-DVD 21628; HDDVD 806
20. Martin Eden, dir. Pietro Marcello
21. Beanpole, dir. Kantemir Balagov
22. Border, dir. Ali Abbasi
23. Transit, dir. Christian Petzold, DVD 21280
24. A Hidden Life, dir. Terrence Malick, DVD 21995; HDDVD 859
25. The Farewell, dir. Lulu Wang, eVideo; DVD 21251; HDDVD 778
26. The Hottest August, dir. Brett Story
27. Ad Astra, dir. James Gray, DVD 21715; HDDVD 803
28. Varda by Agnès, dir. Agnès Varda
29. I Was at Home, But...., dir. Angela Schanelec
30. In Fabric, dir. Peter Strickland
31. Knives Out, dir. Rian Johnson, DVD 21793; HDDVD 838
32. Booksmart, dir. Olivia Wilde, DVD 21248; HDDVD 751
33. Ash is Purest White, dir. Jia Zhangke, DVD 21124; HDDVD 746
34. Synonyms, dir. Nadav Lapid, DVD 21821
35. Zombi Child, dir. Betrand Bonello
36. America, dir. Garrat Bradley
37. No Data Plan, dir. Miko Revereza
38. Eighth Grade, dir. Bo Burnham, eVideo; DVD 19971; HDDVD 614
39. Joker, dir. Todd Phillips, eVideo; DVD 21630; HDDVD 808
40. Ray & Liz, dir. Richard Billingham, DVD 21980
41. Hale County This Morning, This Evening, dir. RaMell Ross, DVD 20556
42. I Lost My Body, dir. Jérémy Clapin
43. Holiday, dir. Isabella Eklöf
44. Honeyland, dirs.Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov, DVD 21752
45. Rocks, dir. Sarah Gavron
46. Rose Plays Julie, dirs. Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor
47. If Beale Street Could Talk, dir. Barry Jenkins, eVideo; DVD 20371;
48. Just Don't Think I'll Scream, dir. Frank Beauvais
49. The Favourite, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, DVD 20335; HDDVD 617
1. Roma, dir. Alfonso Cuarón, DVD 21808; HDDVD 842 (38 votes)
2. Phantom Thread, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, DVD 19583; HDDVD 564 (30 votes)
3. Burning, dir. Lee Chang-dong, DVD 20663; HDDVD 633 (25 votes)
4. Cold War, dir. Paweł Pawlikowski, DVD 21411; HDDVD 788 (21 votes)
5. First Reformed, dir. Paul Schrader, DVD 19849 (20 votes)
6. Leave No Trace, dir. Debra Granik, DVD 19978 (17 votes)
7. The Favourite, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, DVD 20335; HDDVD 617 (16 votes)
tie. You Were Never Really Here, dir. Lynne Ramsay, eVideo; DVD 19689 (16 votes)
9. Happy as Lazzaro, dir. Alice Rohrwacher (15 votes)
tie. Zama, dir. Lucrecia Martel, DVD 19962 (15 votes)
11. The Image Book, dir. Jean-Luc Godard, DVD 21103 (14 votes)
12. If Beale Street Could Talk, dir. Barry Jenkins, eVideo; DVD 20371;
HDDVD 613 (12 votes)
13. BlacKkKlansman, dir. Spike Lee, eVideo; DVD 20034; HDDVD 635 (11 votes)
14. The Other Side of the Wind, dir. Orson Welles (10 votes)
tie. Shirkers, dir. Sandi Tan (11 votes)
tie. Shoplifters, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, DVD 20534 (10 votes)
17. Sorry to Bother You, dir. Boots Riley, DVD 19991 (9 votes)
18. Faces Places, dirs. Agnès Varda & J.R., DVD 19521 (9 votes)
tie. The Rider, dir. Chloé Zhao, eVideo; DVD 19878 (8 votes)
tie. Western, dir. Valeska Griesbach, DVD 20027 (8 votes)
21. BPM (Beats per Minute) dir. Robin Campillo, DVD 19585 (7 votes)
tie La Flor, dir. Mariano Llinás (7 votes)
tie. Hereditary, dir. Ari Aster, DVD 19929 (7 votes)
tie. High Life, dir. Claire Denis-DVD 21058; HDDVD 712 (7 votes)
tie. Isle of Dogs, dir. Wes Anderson-DVD 19734; HDDVD 579 (7 votes)
tie. Madeline's Madeline, dir. Josephine Decker-DVD 20037; HDDVD 628 (7 votes)
tie. Transit, dir. Christian Petzold-DVD 21280 (7 votes)
28. Ash is Purest White, dir. Jia Zhangke-DVD 21124; HDDVD 746 (6 votes)
tie. Hale County This Morning, This Evening, dir. RaMell Ross-DVD 20556 (6 votes)
tie. Lady Bird, dir. Greta Gerwig, eVideo; DVD 19548; HDDVD 560 (6 votes)
tie. Loveless, dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev, eVideo; HDDVD 594 (6 votes)
tie. Ray & Liz, dir. Richard Billingham, DVD 21980 (6 votes)
tie. A Star is Born, dir. Bradley Cooper, DVD 20831; HDDVD 649 (6 votes)
tie. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, dir. Martin McDonagh, DVD 19539;
HDDVD 554 (6 votes)
tie. The Wild Pear Tree = Ahlat ağacı, dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan, DVD 21201 (6 votes)
35. Apostasy, dir. Daniel Kokotajlo, eVideo (5 votes)
tie. Climax, dir. Gaspar Noé, DVD 21053 (5 votes)
tie. Killing Eve, dirs. various, DVD 20379 (5 votes)
tie. Let the Sunshine In = Un beau soleil intérieur, dir. Claire Denis, DVD 21060;
HDDVD 761 (5 votes)
tie. The Miseducation of Cameron Post, dir. Desiree Akhavan, DVD 20046 (5 votes)
tie. Widows, dir. Steve McQueen-DVD 20347; HDDVD 608 (5 votes)
1. Get Out, dir. Jordan Peele, eVideo; DVD 18780; HDDVD 522 (37 votes)
2. Twin Peaks: The Return, creators Mark Frost and
David Lynch, DVD 19302 (31 votes)
3. Call Me by Your Name, dir. Luca Guadagnino, eVideo; DVD 19553;
HDDVD 559 (30 votes)
4. Zama, dir. Lucrecia Martel, DVD 19962 (27 votes)
5. Western, dir. Valeska Grisebach, DVD 20027 (25 votes)
6. Faces Places = Visages Villages, dirs. Agnès Varda & JR, DVD 19521 (17 votes)
7. Good Time, dirs. Josh and Benny Safdie, DVD 19423 (16 votes)
8. Loveless, dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev, eVideo; HDDVD 594 (15 votes)
9. Dunkirk, dir. Christopher Nolan, eVideo; DVD 19223; HDDVD 549 (14 votes)
tie. The Florida Project, dir. Sean Baker, eVideo; DVD 19523 (14 votes)
11. A Ghost Story, dir. David Lowery, DVD 19065 (11 votes)
12. Lady Macbeth, dir. William Oldroyd, DVD 19473 (12 votes)
tie. 120 BPM, dir. Robin Campillo, DVD 19585 (12 votes)
tie. You Were Never Really Here, dir. Lynne Ramsay, DVD 19689 (12 votes)
15. God's Own Country, dir. Francis Lee, DVD 19264 (11 votes)
16. Personal Shopper, dir. Olivier Assayas, DVD 19139 (10 votes)
tie. The Shape of Water, dir. Guillermo del Toro, DVD 19558; HDDVD 562 (10 votes)
tie. Strong Island, dir. Yance Ford (10 votes)
19. I Am Not Your Negro, dir. Raoul Peck, eVideo; DVD 18748 (9 votes)
tie. Lady Bird, dir. Greta Gerwig, eVideo; DVD 19548; HDDVD 560 (9 votes)
tie. Let the Sunshine In, dir. Claire Denis, DVD 21060 (9 votes)
tie. Moonlight, dir. Barry Jenkins, eVideo; DVD 18538; HDDVD 483 (9 votes)
tie. Mother!, dir. Darren Aronofsky, DVD 19433 (9 votes)
tie. Mudbound, dir. Dee Rees (9 votes)
25. The Other Side of Hope = Toivon tuolla puolen, dir. Aki Kaurismäki,
DVD 19592 (8 votes)
tie. Silence, dir. Martin Scorsese, eVideo; DVD 18753 (8 votes)
1. Toni Erdmann, dir. Maren Ade, eVideo; DVD 18752 (49 votes)
2. Moonlight, dir. Barry Jenkins, eVideo; DVD 18538; HDDVD 483 (34 votes)
3. Elle, dir. Paul Verhoeven, DVD 18608 (33 votes)
4. Certain Women, dir. Kelly Reichardt, DVD 19013 (25 votes)
5. American Honey, dir. Andrea Arnold, eVideo; DVD 18311 (20 votes)
6. I, Daniel Blake, dir. Ken Loach, DVD 19453 (17 votes)
7. Manchester by the Sea, dir. Kenneth Lonergan, DVD 18517;
HDDVD 481 (16 votes)
8. Things to Come = L'Avenir, dir. Mia Hansen-Løve, DVD 18751 (15 votes)
9. Paterson, dir. Jim Jarmusch, DVD 18730 (14 votes)
10. The Death of Louis XIV, dir. Albert Serra, DVD 19580 (13 votes)
11. Personal Shopper, dir. Olivier Assayas, DVD 19139 (12 votes)
tie Sieranevada, dir. Cristi Puiu (12 votes)
13. Fire at Sea =Fuocoammare, dir. Gianfranco Rosi, eVideo; DVD 18643 (11 votes)
tie Julieta, dir. Pedro Almodóvar, eVideo; DVD 18749 (11 votes)
tie. Nocturama, dir. Bertrand Bonello, DVD 19579 (11 votes)
16. Cameraperson, dir. Kirsten Johnson, DVD 18478 (10 votes)
tie La La Land, dir. Damien Chazelle, eVideo; DVD 18746; HDDVD 495 (10 votes)
18. Love & Friendship, dir. Whit Stillman, DVD 17876 (9 votes)
19. Aquarius, dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho, DVD 19554 (8 votes)
tie Victoria, dir. Sebastian Schipper, DVD 17667 (8 votes)
21. Embrace of the Serpent, dir. Ciro Guerra, eVideo; DVD 17613 (7 votes)
tie Everybody Wants Some!!, dir. Richard Linklater, DVD 17658 (7 votes)
tie. Evolution, dir. Lucile Hadzihalilovic, HDDVD 567 (7 votes)
tie. Hell or High Water, dir. David Mackenzie, eVideo; DVD 18265 (7 votes)
tie O.J.: Made in America, dir. Ezra Edelman, DVD 17963 (7 votes)
26. Lemonade, dirs. Beyoncé Knowles Carter and Kahlil Joseph with Jonas
Åkerlund, Melina Matsoukas, Dikayl Rimmasch, Mark Romanek and
Tod Tourso, DVD 17674 (6 votes)
tie Nocturnal Animals, dir. Tom Ford, DVD 18529 (6 votes)
tie The Ornithologist = O Ornitólogo, dir. João Pedro Rodrigues, DVD 19578 (6 votes)
tie Raw = Grave, dir. Julia Ducournau, DVD 19066 (6 votes)
tie Neruda dir. Pablo Larraín, DVD 19039 (6 votes)
1. The Assassin = Nie Yinniang, dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien, DVD 17192 (38 votes)
2. Carol, dir. Todd Haynes, eVideo; DVD 17283; HDDVD 444 (35 votes)
3. Mad Max: Fury Road, dir. George Miller, DVD 16585; HDDVD 422 (33 votes)
4. Arabian Nights = As mil e uma noites, dir. Miguel Gomes, DVD 17510 (23 votes)
5. Cemetery of Splendour = Rak ti khon kaen, dir. Apichatpong
Weerasethakul, DVD 17629 (18 votes)
6. No Home Movie, dir. Chantal Akerman, eVideo; DVD 17564 (17 votes)
7. 45 Years, dir. Andrew Haigh, DVD 17558 (16 votes)
8. Son of Saul = Saul fia, dir. Laszlo Nemes, eVideo; DVD 17524 (14 votes)
9. Amy, dir. Asif Kapadia, eVideo; DVD 16901 (13 votes)
10. Inherent Vice, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, DVD 15920 (12 votes)
11. Anomalisa, dirs. Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson, DVD 17563 (11 votes)
tie It Follows, dir. David Robert Mitchell, eVideo; DVD 16417 (11 votes)
13. Phoenix, dir. Christian Petzold, eVideo; DVD 17437 (10 votes)
14. Girlhood, dir. Céline Sciamma, DVD 17310 (9 votes)
tie. Hard to Be a god = Trudno bytʹ bogom, dir. Aleksei German,
DVD 16464 (9 votes)
tie. Inside Out, dir. Pete Docter, eVideo; DVD 16871; HDDVD 432 (9 votes)
tie. Tangerine, dir. Sean Baker, eVideo; DVD 16948 (9 votes)
tie. Taxi Tehran, dir. Jafar Panahi, DVD 17285 (9 votes)
19. Horse Money = Cavalo Dinheiro, dir. Pedro Costa, DVD 17559 (8 votes)
tie. The Look of Silence, dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, eVideo; DVD 17121 (8 votes)
1. Boyhood, dir. Richard Linklater, DVD 15297; HDDVD 369 (42 votes)
2. Goodbye to Language 3D = Adieu la langage, DVD 17172, dir. Jean-Luc
Godard (21 votes)
3. Leviathan, dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev, eVideo; DVD 16029 (18 votes)
tie Horse Money = Cavalo Dinheiro, dir. Pedro Costa, DVD 17559 (18 votes)
5. Under the Skin, dir. Jonathan Glazer, eVideo; DVD 14938; HDDVD 356 (16 votes)
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel, dir. Wes Anderson, DVD 14618;
HDDVD 333 (15 votes)
7. Winter Sleep = Kis uykusu, dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan, DVD 16477 (13 votes)
8. The Tribe = Plemya, dir. Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, DVD 17346 (12 votes)
9. Ida, dir. Pawel Pawlikowski, eVideo; DVD 15086; HDDVD 398 (10 votes)
tie Jauja, dir. Lisandro Alonso, DVD 16722 (10 votes)
11. Mr. Turner, dir. Mike Leigh, eVideo; DVD 15975; HDDVD 414 (9 votes)
tie. National Gallery, dir. Frederick Wiseman (9 votes)
tie. The Wolf of Wall Street, dir. Martin Scorsese, DVD 14360;
HDDVD 306 (9 votes)
tie. Whiplash, dir. Damien Chazelle, DVD 15571; HDDVD 384 (9 votes)
15. The Duke of Burgundy, dir. Peter Strickland, HDDVD 429 (8 votes)
16. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), dir. Alejandro
González Iñárritu, DVD 15492; HDDVD 401 (7 votes)
tie. Two Days, One Night, = Deux jours, une nuit, dirs. Jean-Pierre Dardenne &
Luc Dardenne, DVD 16563 (7 votes)
18. Citizenfour, dir. Laura Poitras, eVideo; DVD 16559; HDDVD 421 (6 votes)
tie. The Look of Silence, dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, eVideo; DVD 17121 (6 votes)
tie. The Wind Rises = Kaze tachinu, dir. Miyazaki Hayao, DVD 15223;
HDDVD 366 (6 votes)
1. The Act of Killing, dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, eVideo; DVD 13976 (23 votes)
2. Gravity, dir. Alfonso Cuarón; DVD 14274; HDDVD 310 (18 votes)
3. Blue is the Warmest Colour, dir. Abdellatif Kechiche; DVD 14976 (17 votes)
4. The Great Beauty, dir. Paolo Sorrentino; DVD 14356; HDDVD 347 (15 votes)
5. Frances Ha, dir. Noah Baumbach; HDDVD 283 (14 votes)
6. A Touch of Sin, dir. Jia Zhangke; DVD 15290 (13 votes)
7. Upstream Color, dir. Shane Carruth; DVD 13263 (13 votes)
8. The Selfish Giant, dir. Clio Barnard; DVD 15335 (12 votes)
9. Norte, the End of History, dir. Lav Diaz; DVD 15367 (11 votes)
tie Stranger by the Lake, dir. Alain Guiraudie; DVD 15127 (11 votes)
1. Tokyo Story = Tōkyō monogatari (1953), dir. Ozu Yasujirô, eVideo; DVD 925;
HDDVD 368 (48 votes)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), dir. Stanley Kubrick, eVideo; DVD 104;
HDDVD 19 (42 votes)
tie Citizen Kane (1941), dir. Orson Welles, eVideo; DVD 430; HDDVD 76 (42 votes)
4. 8½ (1963), dir. Federico Fellini, DVD 493; HDDVD 345 (40 votes)
5. Taxi Driver (1976), dir. Martin Scorsese, eVideo; DVD 15267;
HDDVD 132 (34 votes)
6. Apocalypse Now (1976), dir. Francis Ford Coppola, DVD 4116;
HDDVD 51 (33 votes)
7. The Godfather (1972), dir. Francis Ford Coppola, eVideo; DVD 13282;
HDDVD 83 (31 votes)
tie Vertigo (1958), dir. Alfred Hitchcock, DVD 10704; HDDVD 595 (31 votes)
9. Mirror (1974), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, DVD 3545 (30 votes)
10. Bicycle Thieves = Ladri de biciclette, (1949) dir. Vittorio De Sica, DVD 17581;
HDDVD 457 (29 votes)