Sight and Sound 2022 Poll
- Booking Information

Following the publication of Sight and Sound’s 2022 Greatest Films of All Time Critics’ Poll, we’ve put together a list of the UK rights holders for the top 100 films to help you to share these titles, as well as those beyond the list, with your audiences.

Please note that while we have strived to make this list as accurate as possible, there may be occasions where the rights for a film no longer lie where they once did. If you find that the information we have listed for a title is incorrect, please get in touch so that we can update it.

Please also note: We have listed films’ theatrical rights holders below. For some films, non-theatrical exhibitors will need to book elsewhere. See our List of distributors to find out which companies handle non-theatrical (Blu-ray/DVD) bookings on behalf of those listed below, or email us to query specific titles.

Looking to screen a title that’s not in this list? Send us an email, we may be able to point you in the right direction.

Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time Critics’ Poll – Top 100

1. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles | Chantal Akerman | 1975 | Belgian Cinematek
2. Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | 1958 | Park Circus
3. Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 | BFI Distribution
4. Tokyo Story | Yasujirō Ozu | 1953 | BFI Distribution
5. In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-wai | 2000 | Janus Films
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | 1968 | Park Circus
7. Beau Travail | Claire Denis | 1998 | Janus Films
8. Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | 2001 | Park Circus
9. Man with a Movie Camera | Dziga Vertov | 1929 | BFI Distribution
10. Singin’ in the Rain | Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen | 1951 | Park Circus
11. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans | F. W. Murnau | 1927 | Park Circus
12. The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola | 1972 | Park Circus
13. La Règle du Jeu | Jean Renoir | 1939 | BFI Distribution
14. Cléo from 5 to 7 | Agnès Varda | 1962 | Curzon Film
15. The Searchers | John Ford | 1956 | Park Circus
16. Meshes of the Afternoon | Maya Deren, Alexander Hackenschmied | 1943 | LUX Moving Image
17. Close-Up | Abbas Kiarostami | 1989 | Janus Films
18. Persona | Ingmar Bergman | 1966 | BFI Distribution
19. Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | 1979 | Park Circus
20. Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa | 1954 | BFI Distribution
21. The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Th. Dreyer | 1927 | Eureka
22. Late Spring | Yasujirō Ozu | 1949 | BFI Distribution
23. Playtime | Jacques Tati | 1967 | Park Circus
24. Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 1989 | Park Circus
25. Au hasard Balthazar | Robert Bresson | 1966 | Janus Films
26. The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | 1955 | Park Circus
27. Shoah | Claude Lanzmann | 1985 | Why Not Productions
28. Daisies | Věra Chytilová | 1966 | Czech State Fund for Cinematography
29. Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese | 1976 | Park Circus
30. Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Céline Sciamma | 2019 | Curzon Film
31. 8 1/2 | Federico Fellini | 1963 | BFI Distribution
32. Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1975 | Curzon Film
33. Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | 1960 | Park Circus
34. L’Atalante | Jean Vigo | 1934 | Curzon Film
35. Pather Panchali | Satyajit Ray | 1955 | Janus Films
36. City Lights | Charles Chaplin | 1931 | Janus Films
37. M | Fritz Lang | 1931 | BFI Distribution
38. À bout de souffle | Jean-Luc Godard | 1960 | Park Circus
39. Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | 1959 | Park Circus
40. Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | 1954 | Park Circus
41. Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica | 1948 | Arrow Films
42. Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa | 1950 | BFI Distribution
43. Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1979 | Curzon Film
44. Killer of Sheep | Charles Burnett | 1977 | Kino Lorber
45. Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | 1975 | Park Circus
46. The Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo | 1966 | Cult Films
47. North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | 1959 | Park Circus
48. Ordet | Carl Th. Dreyer | 1955 | BFI Distribution
49. Wanda | Barbara Loden | 1970 | Janus Films
50. The 400 Blows | François Truffaut | 1959 | BFI Distribution
51. The Piano | Jane Campion | 1992 | Park Circus
52. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Rainer Werner Fassbiner | 1974 | Arrow Films
53. News from Home | Chantal Akerman | 1976 | Belgian Cinematek
54. Le Mépris | Jean-Luc Godard | 1963 | BFI Distribution
55. Blade Runner | Ridley Scott | 1982 | Park Circus
56. Battleship Potemkin | Sergei M. Eisenstein | 1925 | BFI Distribution
57. The Apartment | Billy Wilder | 1960 | Park Circus
58. Sherlock Jr. | Buster Keaton | 1924 | Eureka
59. Sans Soleil | Chris Marker | 1982 | Janus Films
60. La dolce vita | Federico Fellini | 1960 | Janus Films
61. Moonlight | Barry Jenkins | 2016 | Altitude Films
62. Daughters of the Dust | Julie Dash | 1991 | BFI Distribution
63. GoodFellas | Martin Scorsese | 1990 | Park Circus
64. The Third Man | Carol Reed | 1949 | Park Circus
65. Casablanca | Michael Curtiz | 1942 | Park Circus
66. Touki Bouki | Djibril Diop Mambéty | 1973 | Cineteca di Bologna
67. Andrei Rublev | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1966 | Curzon Film
68. La Jetée | Chris Marker | 1962 | Argos Films
69. The Red Shoes | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1948 | Park Circus
70. The Gleaners and I | Agnès Varda | 2000 | Curzon Film
71. Metropolis | Fritz Lang | 1927 | Eureka
72. L’avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1960 | Société Cinématographique LYRE
73. Journey to Italy | Roberto Rossellini | 1954 | BFI Distribution
74. My Neighbour Totoro | Hayao Miyazaki | 1988 | Wild Bunch
75. Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki | 2001 | Wild Bunch
76. Imitation of Life | Douglas Sirk | 1959 | Park Circus
77. Sansho the Bailiff | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1954 | Janus Films
78. Sunset Blvd. | Billy Wilder | 1950 | Park Circus
79. Sátántangó | Béla Tarr | 1994 | Curzon Film
80. A Brighter Summer Day | Edward Yang | 1991 | Janus Films
81. Modern Times | Charles Chaplin | 1936 | Janus Films
82. A Matter of Life and Death | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1946 | Park Circus
83. Céline and Julie Go Boating | Jacques Rivette | 1974 | BFI Distribution
84. Blue Velvet | David Lynch | 1986 | Park Circus
85. The Spirit of the Beehive | Victor Erice | 1973 | Tamasa Distribution
86. Pierrot le fou | Jean-Luc Godard | 1965 | BFI Distribution
87. Histoire(s) du Cinéma | Jean-Luc Godard | 1988 | Gaumont
88. The Shining | Stanley Kubrick | 1980 | Park Circus
89. Chunking Express | Wong Kar-wai | 1994 | Janus Films
90. Parasite | Bong Joon-ho | 2019 | Curzon Film
91. Yi Yi | Edward Yang | 1999 | Janus Films
92. Ugetsu Monogatari | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1953 | Janus Films
93. The Leopard | Luchino Visconti | 1963 | Park Circus
94. Madame de… | Max Ophuls | 1953 | BFI Distribution
95. A Man Escaped | Robert Bresson | 1956 | Curzon Film
96. Once Upon a Time in the West | Sergio Leone | 1968 | Park Circus
97. Tropical Malady | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 2004 | Second Run
98. Black Girl | Ousmane Sembène | 1965 | Janus Films
99. The General | Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman | 1926 | Park Circus
100. Get Out | Jordan Peele | 2017 | Park Circus

Header image: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (dir. Chantal Akerman)