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Citizen Kane (1941), starring and directed by Orson Welles, has topped several international polls, including five consecutive decades at number 1 in the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound decennial poll of critics.

The following films have been voted the best in national and international surveys of critics and the public.

Some surveys focus on all films, while others focus on a particular genre or country. Voting systems differ, and some surveys suffer from biases such as self-selection or skewed demographics, while others may be susceptible to forms of interference such as vote stacking. Template:TOC limit

Critics and filmmakers

Sight and Sound

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Vertigo (1958) was ranked number one in the 2012 British Film Institute's Sight and Sound decennial poll of critics and number two in their 2022 poll.

Every decade, starting in 1952, the British film magazine Sight and Sound asks an international group of film critics to vote for the greatest film of all time. Since 1992, they have invited directors to vote in a separate poll. Sixty-three critics participated in 1952, 70 critics in 1962, 89 critics in 1972, 122 critics in 1982, 132 critics and 101 directors in 1992, 145 critics and 108 directors in 2002, 846 critics and 358 directors in 2012, and 1639 critics and 480 directors in 2022.<ref name="S&S">The Sight and Sound Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time

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This poll is regarded as one of the most important "greatest ever film" lists. American 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."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

  • Bicycle Thieves (1948) topped the first poll in 1952 with 25 votes.<ref name="S&S" />
  • Citizen Kane (1941) stood at number 1 for five consecutive polls, with 22 votes in 1962, 32 votes in 1972, 45 votes in 1982, 43 votes in 1992, and 46 votes in 2002. It also topped the first two directors' polls, with 30 votes in 1992 and 42 votes in 2002.<ref name="S&S" />
  • Vertigo (1958) topped the critics' poll in 2012 with 191 votes, dethroning Citizen Kane.<ref name="S&S" />
  • Tokyo Story (1953) topped the directors' poll in 2012 with 48 votes, also dethroning Citizen Kane.<ref name="S&S" />
  • Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) topped the critics' poll in 2022.<ref name="S&S" />
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) topped the directors' poll in 2022.<ref name="S&S" />

Other polls

Seven Samurai (1954) topped the BBC poll of best foreign-language films as well as several Japanese polls.
  • Battleship Potemkin (1925) was ranked number 1 with 32 votes when the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique asked 63 film professionals around the world, mostly directors, to vote for the best films of the half-century in 1951.<ref name="Referendum International">Template:Cite book</ref> It was also ranked number 1 when the Brussels World's Fair polled 117 experts from 26 countries in 1958.<ref name="Expo 58">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Citizen Kane (1941) was ranked number 1 with 48 votes when French film magazine Cahiers du cinéma asked 78 French critics and historians to vote for the best films in 2007.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Gone with the Wind (1939) was selected as the greatest film of the past half-century in a 1950 poll conducted by Variety of more than 200 professionals who worked in the film industry for over 25 years.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • The Godfather (1972) was ranked number 1 when Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo asked 114 Japanese critics and film professionals to vote for the best foreign (i.e. non-Japanese) films in 2009.<ref name="kinejun1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Audience polls

  • Gone with the Wind (1939) was voted the favorite film of Americans in a poll of 2,279 adults taken by Harris Interactive in 2008,<ref name="Harris 2008">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Roman Holiday (1953) was voted the best foreign (i.e. non-Japanese) film of all time in a 1990 poll of about a million people organized by Japanese public broadcaster NHK.<ref name="NHK">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • The Empire Strikes Back (1980) was voted the best film of all time by over 250,000 readers of the Empire film magazine in 2015.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Himala (Miracle, 1982) won the 2008 CNN Asia Pacific Screen Awards Viewers Choice as "Best Asia-Pacific Film of All Time" (voted for by thousands of film fans around the world).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • The Shawshank Redemption (1994) was voted the greatest film of all time by Empire readers in "The 201 Greatest Movies of All Time" poll taken in March 2006.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Titanic (1997) was voted the greatest hit of all time in a poll of 6,000 movie fans conducted by English-language newspaper China Daily in March 2008.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Shiri (1999) was voted the favorite film of South Koreans with 11,918 votes in a 2002 online poll of 54,013 people conducted by South Korean movie channel Orion Cinema Network.<ref name="OCN">* {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Genres or media

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Action

  • Mad Max 2 (1981) was voted the greatest action film of all time in a readers' poll by American magazine Rolling Stone in 2015.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
  • Die Hard (1988) was voted the best action film of all time with 21 votes in a 2014 poll of 50 directors, actors, critics, and experts conducted by Time Out New York.<ref>* {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Animation (shorts and features)

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  • Tale of Tales (1979) was ranked number 1 with 17 votes in a poll at the Olympiad of Animation in 1984 where an international panel of 35 journalists, scholars, festival directors, and animation programmers voted for the best animated films.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Christmas

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  • Die Hard (1988) was voted the greatest Christmas movie by British film magazine Empire readers in 2015.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Comedy

  • Some Like It Hot (1959) was voted the best comedy film of all time in a poll of 253 film critics from 52 countries conducted by the BBC in 2017.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Disaster

Documentary

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Fantasy

Horror

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  • The Exorcist (1973) was voted the best horror film of all time with 53 votes in a 2012 poll of 150 experts conducted by Time Out London.<ref>* {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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LGBT

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  • Carol (2015) was ranked as the top LGBT film in a 2016 poll of more than 100 critics, filmmakers, programmers, writers, curators, and academics conducted by the British Film Institute.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Musical

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Romance

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Science fiction

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) was voted the best science fiction film of all time with 73 votes in a 2014 poll of 136 science fiction experts, filmmakers, science fiction writers, film critics, and scientists conducted by Time Out London.<ref>*{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Silent

Sports

  • Rocky (1976) topped British website Digital Spy's "greatest ever sports movie" online poll in 2012, with 18.7% of the votes. Voters chose from a list of 25 films.<ref>* {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Superhero

War

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Western

National polls

Argentina

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Australia

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Bangladesh

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Belarus

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

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  • Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981) was voted the best Bosnian film of all time in a 2003 poll of 13 film professionals organized by The National Film Archive of Bosnia and Herzegovina.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Brazil

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  • Limite (1931) was voted the best Brazilian film of all time in a 1995 national survey of critics by Folha de S.Paulo.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Black God, White Devil (1964) was voted the best Brazilian film of all time in a 2001 poll of 108 critics and film professionals organized by Brazilian film magazine Contracampo.<ref>
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  • The Red Light Bandit (1968) was voted the best Brazilian film of all time in a 2011 poll of 102 critics, researchers, and professionals organized by Brazilian film magazine Filme Cultura.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Bulgaria

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Canada

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  • Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001) was voted the best Canadian film of all time with 94 votes in a 2015 poll of 220 filmmakers, critics, programmers, and academics organized by the Toronto International Film Festival, dethroning Mon oncle Antoine which won the previous three polls.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Chile

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  • Jackal of Nahueltoro (1969) was voted the best Chilean film of all time with 57 votes in a 2016 poll of 77 directors, actors, programmers, scholars, journalists, and critics organized by CineChile.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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China

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  • Farewell My Concubine (霸王别姬; 1993) was voted the best Mainland Chinese film of all time by 88 international film experts in a poll conducted by Time Out Shanghai and Time Out Beijing.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Colombia

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  • The Strategy of the Snail (1993) was voted the best Colombian film of all time with 38 votes in a 2015 poll of 65 critics and journalists organized by Colombian magazine Semana.<ref>* {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Croatia

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  • Tko pjeva zlo ne misli (One Who Sings Means No Harm, 1970) was voted the best Croatian film of all time by 44 Croatian film critics in 1999, in a poll organized by the Croatian magazine Hollywood. It was also voted the best Croatian film by HollywoodTemplate:'s readers.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • H-8 (1958) was voted the best Croatian feature film of all time by 38 Croatian film critics and scholars in a 2020 poll.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Cuba

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  • Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) was voted the best Latin American film of all time with 30 votes in a 1999 poll of 36 critics and film specialists from 11 countries organized by critics Carlos Galiano and Rufo Caballero.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> It was also voted the best Ibero-American film of all time in a 2009 poll of more than 500 film professionals, critics, journalists, festival organizers, and fans around the world organized by Spanish magazine Noticine.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Czech Republic

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  • Christian (1939) was voted best Czech film of all time in a poll held by Media Desk and Týden magazine in 2010.<ref name="Poll: best Czech film of all time is 1939 Kristián Radio Prague">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • The Firemen's Ball (1967) was voted the best Czech film in a 2018 poll of 20 Czech historians, theorists and critics.<ref name="Století českého filmu. Vybíráme kanonická díla moderní české státnosti">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • The Cremator (1969) was voted the best Czech film by public in a 2018 poll, Kánon 100.<ref name="Spalovač mrtvol a Válka s mloky. V anketě Kánon 100 Češi vybrali nejzásadnější díla za sto let">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Cosy Dens (1999) was voted the best Czech film with 622 votes in a readers' poll by Reflex magazine in 2011.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Czechoslovakia

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  • Marketa Lazarova (1967) was voted the best Czech-Slovak film of all time in a 1998 poll of 55 Czech and Slovak film critics and publicists, receiving 41 votes.<ref name="CZSK">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • The Firemen's Ball (1967) was voted the best Czech-Slovak film of all time with 33 votes in a 2007 poll of 53 experts (mostly from the Czech Republic, but also from Slovakia and Poland) titled "Filmové dědictví česko-slovenské kinematografie".<ref name="nostalghia2007">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • The Elementary School (1991) was voted the best Czech-Slovak film with 192 votes in a 2007 public poll of "Filmové dědictví česko-slovenské kinematografie".<ref name="nostalghia2007" />

Denmark

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  • Blinkende lygter (Flickering Lights, 2000) was voted best movie in Denmark by interviewing over 1500 people, reported by the analysis institute YouGov on behalf of the streamingservice Nordic Film+.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Egypt

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Estonia

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Finland

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France

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Georgia

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  • Eliso (1928) was voted the best Georgian film of all time in a critic poll organized by Tbilisi Intermedia.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Germany

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Greece

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Hong Kong

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  • Days of Being Wild (阿飛正傳; 1990) was voted the best Hong Kong film of all time with 16 votes in a 2010 poll of 37 critics organized by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society.<ref name="HKFCS" />
  • In the Mood for Love (花樣年華; 2000) reached the highest position (number 5 in 2022) of any Hong Kong film on the 2022 Sight & Sound poll's lists of greatest films of all time.<ref name="S&S" />

Hungary

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Iceland

  • Children of Nature (1991) was voted the best Icelandic film of all time in a Stockfish poll of 12 film experts.<ref name="The Best Film of Iceland's Cinematic History">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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India

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  • Mayabazar (1957) was chosen as the greatest Indian film of all time with 16,960 votes in an online poll conducted by IBN Live in 2013. Voters select from a list of 100 films from different Indian languages, and 70,926 votes were cast.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Bollywood

  • Mother India (1957) was voted the best Bollywood film of all time with 15 votes in a 2003 poll of 25 directors organized by Indian magazine Outlook.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Sholay (1975) was voted the best Bollywood film of all time with 17 votes in a 2015 poll of 27 Bollywood experts organized by Time Out London.<ref>* {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Iran

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  • Bashu, the Little Stranger (1986) was voted "Best Iranian Film of all time" in November 1999 by a Persian movie magazine Picture World poll of 150 Iranian critics and professionals.<ref>Picture World (Donyaye Tassvir), No. 74, November 1999, Template:ISSN</ref>
  • Close-Up (1990) reached the highest position (number 17 in 2022) of Iranian film on the 2022 Sight & Sound poll's lists of greatest films of all time.<ref name="S&S" />

Ireland

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Israel

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  • Giv'at Halfon Eina Ona (1976) was voted "Favorite Israeli Film of All Time" in a 2004 poll by Ynet, the platform of the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot. The film received votes from 25,000 web users.<ref name="yediot">Template:Cite news</ref>
  • Avanti Popolo (1986) was voted "Greatest Israeli Film of All Time" in a 2013 poll of 20 Israeli film experts by NRG Ma'ariv.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Italy

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Japan

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Tokyo Story (1953) topped several international polls, including the 2012 Sight & Sound directors' poll.
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  • Seven Samurai (1954) was voted the best Japanese film of all time in a 1989 poll of 372 celebrities for a book published by Bungeishunjū.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> It was voted the best Japanese film of all time in a 1990 poll of about a million people organized by NHK.<ref name="NHK" /> It was the greatest foreign-language film in BBC Culture's 2018 poll of 209 critics in 43 countries.<ref name="bbc">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Mexico

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  • Vámonos con Pancho Villa (1936) was ranked number 1 Mexican film of all time in a 1994 poll of 25 critics and journalists organized by Mexican magazine Somos.<ref name="MEX">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Los Olvidados (1950) was voted the best Mexican film of all time in a 2020 poll of 27 critics and journalists organized by Sector Cine online magazine.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Netherlands

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New Zealand

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  • Once Were Warriors (1994) was voted the best New Zealand film of all time in a 2014 online poll organized by Fairfax Media. More than 500 people voted, including about 100 film professionals and 15 critics.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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North Korea

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Norway

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  • Ni Liv (Nine Lives, 1957) was the critics' choice for "Best Norwegian Film of All Time" during the 2005 Bergen International Film Festival.<ref name="Norway" />
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  • Flåklypa Grand Prix (Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, 1975) was the people's choice for "Best Norwegian Film of All Time" during the 2005 Bergen International Film Festival.<ref name="Norway">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Pakistan

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  • Baji (1963) topped the British Film Institute's critics' poll of "Top 10 Pakistani Films" of all time in 2002.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Aina (1977) topped the British Film Institute's user poll of "Top 10 Pakistani Films" of all time in 2002.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Philippines

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  • Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag (Manila in the Claws of Light, 1975) was voted the best Filipino film of all time in a 2013 poll of 81 critics, filmmakers, archivists, and academics organized by Pinoy Rebyu.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> It was also voted the best Filipino film of all time with 16 votes (tied with Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon) in a 1989 poll of 28 filmmakers and critics, organized by Joel David and his UP film criticism class, and published in Philippine magazine National Midweek. The article also included a list of the most common number-one choices (topped by Manila in the Claws of Light), as well as an alternate version of the top 10 (topped by Manila by Night) which was ordered by average rank.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon (This Was How We Were Then... How Are You Doing Now?, 1976) was voted the best Filipino film of all time with 16 votes (tied with Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag) in a 1989 poll of 28 filmmakers and critics, organized by Joel David and his UP film criticism class, and published in Philippine magazine National Midweek.<ref name=":0" />

Poland

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  • The Promised Land (1975) was voted the best Polish film of all time in a 2015 poll of 279 Polish film professionals organized by the Template:Interlanguage link.<ref name="Łódź"/>
  • Teddy Bear (1981) was voted by the public of 2013 Filmfest PL as the best movie of all time.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Portugal

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  • Os Verdes Anos (1963) was voted the best Portuguese film of all time in a 2020 poll of 122 critics and film professionals organized by filmSPOT.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Romania

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  • Reconstituirea (The Reenactment, 1968) was selected as the best Romanian film by 40 film critics in 2008.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Russia

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Serbia

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Slovakia

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  • Pictures of the Old World (1972) was voted the best Slovak film of all time by Slovak critics in 2000.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Slovenia

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  • Dancing in the Rain (1961) was voted the best Slovenian film of all time in a poll by Slovenian critics.<ref name="Slovenian New Wave – Canadian Film Institute – Institut canadien du film">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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South Korea

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  • Obaltan (1961) was voted the best South Korean film of all time with 48 votes in a 1999 poll of 140 filmmakers organized by South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Shiri (1999) was voted the favorite film of South Koreans with 11,918 votes in a 2002 online poll of 54,013 people conducted by South Korean movie channel Orion Cinema Network.<ref name="OCN" />
  • Memories of Murder (2003) was voted the best South Korean film of all time with 806 votes in a 2014 audience poll of 1462 people organized by the Korean Film Archive.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Burning (2018) was voted the best South Korean film of all time in a 2021 poll of 158 critics from 28 countries organized by Korean Screen.<ref>* {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Soviet Union

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Battleship Potemkin (1925) was an early favorite and the top silent film.
  • Battleship Potemkin (1925) was ranked number 1 with 32 votes when the Festival Mondial du Film et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique asked 63 film professionals around the world, mostly directors, to vote for the best films of the half-century in 1951.<ref name="Referendum International" /> It was ranked number 1 when the Brussels World's Fair polled 117 experts from 26 countries in 1958.<ref name="Expo 58" />
  • Man with a Movie Camera (1929) was voted the eighth greatest film ever made in the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound poll.<ref name="The 50 Greatest Films of All Time Sight & Sound">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Spain

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Sweden

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The Phantom Carriage (1921) was voted best Swedish film by critics and academics in FLM's poll.
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  • Persona (1966) reached the highest position (number 5 in 1972) of any Swedish film on any of Sight & Sound's lists of greatest films of all time.<ref name="S&S" />

Switzerland

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  • Alpine Fire (1985) was voted the best Swiss film of all time in 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016, in polls organized by Swiss newspaper Template:Interlanguage link. 31 experts participated in 2011, and 36 experts in 2016.<ref>* {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Taiwan

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Turkey

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  • Dry Summer (1963) was voted the best Turkish film released between 1923 and 2013 in a 2014 poll launched by the Turkish Ministry of Tourism.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Umut (1970) was voted the best Turkish film of all time in a poll of 100 directors, actors, producers, and film writers organized by the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Yol (1982) was voted the best Turkish film of all time in a 2016 poll of 383 experts organized by Turkish magazine Notos.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Ukraine

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  • Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) was voted the best Ukrainian film of all time with 30 votes in a 2012 poll of about 100 journalists organized by the Cinema Journalism Bureau of Ukraine and the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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United Kingdom

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962) was voted the "best British film of all time" by Great Britain's leading filmmakers.
  • The Third Man (1949) was voted the best British film ever by 1000 industry professionals, academics, and critics in a British Film Institute poll conducted in 1999.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Lawrence of Arabia (1962) was voted the "best British film of all time" in August 2004 by over 200 respondents in a Sunday Telegraph poll of Britain's leading filmmakers.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
  • The Italian Job (1969) was voted the best British film in a poll of film fans conducted by Sky Movies HD in 2011 when it received 15% of votes.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Get Carter (1971) was voted the best British film ever in a 2003 poll by Hotdog magazine.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> It also topped the 2004 poll of 25 film critics conducted by Total Film.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Don't Look Now (1973) was named the best British film in a poll of 150 film industry experts conducted by Time Out London in 2011.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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United States

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Gone with the Wind (1939) has topped several US audience polls.
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  • Citizen Kane (1941) was selected as the greatest American film in 2015 by sixty-two international film critics surveyed by the BBC.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Vertigo (1958) topped the Sight & Sound critics' poll in 2012 with 191 votes.<ref name="S&S" />
  • The Godfather (1972) was selected as the greatest film by 2,120 industry professionals in a Hollywood survey undertaken by The Hollywood Reporter in 2014.<ref name="hollywood" />

Uruguay

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Venezuela

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  • El Pez que Fuma (1977) was voted the best Venezuelan film of all time with 22 votes in a 1987 poll of 29 experts organized by Imagen magazine.<ref name="Fundación Cinemateca Nacional">Template:Cite magazine</ref> It was also voted the best Venezuelan film of all time with 33 votes in a 2016 poll of 41 experts organized by the Fundación Cinemateca Nacional.<ref name="Fundación Cinemateca Nacional" />

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