ALL 264 ADDED, FULLY UPDATED WITH STATS

There are 264 films because of a 22-way tie for 243. The Sight and Sound Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time is conducted by Sight and Sound, a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). The once-a-decade poll has been ongoing since 1952. Taken from the BFI website.

Stats and facts

🏆 Past Decades:
1952 - Bicycle Thieves (1948)
1962-2002 - Citizen Kane (1941)
2012 - Vertigo (1958)

Directors with multiple films in the list:
(6) - Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
(5) - Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard.
(4) - Carl Theodor Dreyer, David Lynch, Jean Renoir, Agnès Varda, Akira Kurosawa, Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks.
(3) - Chantal Akerman, Orson Welles, Yasujirō Ozu, Wong Kar-wai, F. W. Murnau, Francis Ford Coppola, John Ford, Abbas Kiarostami, Martin Scorsese, Andrei Tarkovsky, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Rossellini, Sergio Leone, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lucrecia Martel, Luis Buñuel.
(2) - Claire Denis, Céline Sciamma, Satyajit Ray, Charlie Chaplin, Fritz Lang, Ridley Scott, Buster Keaton, Chris Marker, Hayao Miyazaki, Edward Yang, Béla Tarr, Kenji Mizoguchi, Douglas Sirk, Jacques Rivette, Víctor Erice, Max Ophüls, Steven Spielberg, Ernst Lubitsch, John Cassavetes, Nicholas Ray, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jacques Demy, David Lean, Med Hondo, Terrence Malick, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Alain Resnais, Wim Wenders, David Cronenberg.

Most-watched films:
1. Parasite (2019) (#90)
2. Pulp Fiction (1994) (#132)
3. Get Out (2017) (#100)
4. The Shining (1980) (#88)
5. The Matrix (1999) (#126)

Average rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + : 185
Average rating⭐⭐⭐: 79
Films in the Letterboxd's Top 250: 97
Films in the Criterion Collection: 149
Non-English language films: 146
Directed by women: 32 (11%)

Decades represented on this list:
2020s (1), 2010s (12), 2000s (17),
1990s (24), 1980s (28), 1970s (44),
1960s (47), 1950s (35), 1940s (26),
1930s (15), 1920s (14), 1910s (1).

Countries represented on this list:
United States - 94
France - 46
United Kingdom - 19
Italy - 17
Japan - 12
USSR - 10
Germany - 10
Taiwan - 6
Sweden - 5
India - 4
Iran - 4
Argentina - 4
Belgium - 3
Denmark - 3
Hong Kong - 3
Spain - 3
Thailand - 3
Canada - 3
Australia - 2
Hungary - 2
Senegal - 2
Cuba - 2
Mexico - 2
Brazil - 2
South Korea - 1
Czechoslovakia - 1
Angola - 1
China - 1
Switzerland - 1
Portugal - 1

Film with the highest, film with the lowest rating:
Come and See (1985) at ⭐ 4.58
Wavelength (1967) at ⭐ 3.42

Oldest, newest films on the list:
Petite Maman (2021)
Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)

The Winners – New entries within the Top 250
30. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
53. News from Home (1976)
61. Moonlight (2016)
62. Daughters of the Dust (1991)
70. The Gleaners and I (2000)
90. Parasite (2019)
98. Black Girl (1966)
100. Get Out (2017)
103. Vagabond (1985)
106. Jaws (1975)
108. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
121. The Thing (1982)
123. The Matrix (1999)
125. Johnny Guitar (1954)
128. The Ascent (1977)
135. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
136. La Ciénaga (2001)
139. Sambizanga (1972)
144. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
146. The Watermelon Woman (1996)
148. Alien (1979)
149. India Song (1975)
152. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)
153. West Indies (1979)
155. The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
156. Le Bonheur (1965)
158. All About My Mother (1999)
159. Orlando (1992)
161. Where Is My Friend’s House? (1987)
162. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
173. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
174. Heat (1995)
175. Under the Skin (2013)
180. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
181. Charulata (1964)
185. Magnolia (1999)
186. Wings of Desire (1987)
187. Pyaasa (1957)
188. Ran (1985)
193. The Birds (1963)
194. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
196. Paris Is Burning (1990)
197. The Headless Woman (2008)
200. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
201. Zama (2017)
205. Double Indemnity (1944)
210. One Way or Another (1977)
211. Limite (1931)
212. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
213. Pink Flamingos (1972)
214. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
215. Twenty Years Later (1984)
218. The Deer Hunter (1978)
219. Suspiria (1977)
221. All About Eve (1950)
224. By the Bluest of Seas (1936)
225. The Crowd (1928)
226. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
227. Blue (1993)
228. Crash (1996)
229. Happy Together (1997)
230. Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
231. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
232. Petite Maman (2021)
233. The Green Ray (1986)
234. Je, Tu, Il, Elle (1974)
237. Europe ’51 (1952)
238. The Hour of the Furnaces (1968)
242. Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
244. The Quince Tree Sun (1992)
245. Taste of Cherry (1997)
247. In Vanda’s Room (2000)
248. Morvern Callar (2002)
249. The Intruder (2004)
250. Syndromes and a Century (2006)
251. Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
253. Oh, Sun (1970)
254. Possession (1981)
260. Born in Flames (1983)
262. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
263. Pandora’s Box (1929)

The Winners – New entries within the Top 100
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), ranked #14
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), ranked #16
Do the Right Thing (1989), ranked #24
Daisies (1966), ranked #28
Portrait of a Lady on Fire 2019 (2019), ranked #30
Killer of Sheep (1978), ranked #44
Wanda (1970), ranked #49
The Piano (1993), ranked #51
News from Home (1976), ranked #53
The Apartment (1960), ranked #57
Moonlight (2016), ranked #61
Daughters of the Dust (1991), ranked #62
GoodFellas (1990), ranked #63
The Red Shoes (1948), ranked #69
The Gleaners and I (2000), ranked #70
My Neighbor Totoro (1988), ranked #74
Spirited Away (2001), ranked #75
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974), ranked #83
The Shining (1980), ranked #88
Chungking Express (1994), ranked #89
Parasite (2019), ranked #90
Tropical Malady (2004), ranked #97
Black Girl (1966), ranked #98
Get Out (2017), ranked #100

The Losers – Fallers from the top 250
104. The Travelling Players (1975)
106. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
108. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)
110. The Lady Eve (1941)
113. Performance (1970)
114. The Passenger (1975)
115. Viridiana (1961)
116. L’Âge d’Or (1930)
127. Spring in a Small Town (1948)
132. Jules and Jim (1962)
134. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
137. Three Colors: Blue (1993)
144. Blow-Up (1966)
145. The Great Dictator (1940)
147. Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
154. Marketa Lazarová (1967)
155. Caché (2005)
157. Solaris (1972)
158. Chimes at Midnight (1965)
159. The Gold Rush (1925)
171. King Kong (1933)
178. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
179. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
180. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
181. Tabu (1931)
183. Breaking the Waves (1996)
184. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
186. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
187. Rome, Open City (1945)
188. Faces (1968)
189. The Music Room (1958)
190. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
192. Listen to Britain (1942)
193. Day of Wrath (1943)
194. The Thin Red Line (1998)
195. Eraserhead (1977)
197. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
198. The Conversation (1974)
200. I Was Born, But… (1932)
202. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)
204. Chelsea Girls (1966)
205. Badlands (1973)
206. Kings of the Road (1976)
208. WALL·E (2008)
209. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
213. Manhattan (1979)
216. Russian Ark (2002)
217. Tale of Tales (1979)
219. La Strada (1954)
221. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
222. The Big Sleep (1946)
225. Germany Year Zero (1948)
226. The Life of Oharu (1952)
228. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
230. The Devil, Probably (1977)
231. The Turin Horse (2011)
234. Floating Clouds (1955)
236. Gone with the Wind (1939)
239. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
240. Red River (1948)
242. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
244. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
245. Apur Sansar (1959)
246. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
248. The Double Life of Véronique (1991)
249. Kes (1969)
250. Three Colors: Red (1994)

The Losers – Fallers from the top 100
The Godfather: Part II (1974), was ranked #31
Gertrud (1964), was ranked #44
Raging Bull (1980), was ranked #55
Touch of Evil (1958), was ranked #58
The Mother and the Whore (1973), was ranked #61
Wild Strawberries (1957), was ranked #63
Pickpocket (1959), was ranked #67
Rio Bravo (1959), was ranked #68
L’Eclisse (1962), was ranked #74
Children of Paradise (1945), was ranked #75
Grand Illusion (1937), was ranked #76
Nashville (1975), was ranked #77
Chinatown (1974), was ranked #78
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), was ranked #81
Lawrence of Arabia (1962), was ranked #82
Fanny and Alexander (1982), was ranked #84
The Color of Pomegranates (1969), was ranked #86
Greed (1924), was ranked #87
The Wild Bunch (1969), was ranked #89
A Day in the Country (1946), was ranked #90
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), was ranked #91
The Seventh Seal (1957), was ranked #93
Un Chien Andalou (1929), was ranked #94
Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916), was ranked #95
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), was ranked #97

The Winners – Top Climbers within the top 100
Beau Travail (1998), 78 to 7 (up 71)
Fear Eats the Soul (1974), 93 to 52 (up 41)
The Night of the Hunter (1955). 63 to 25 (up 38)
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel (1975), 35 to 1 (up 34)
Close-Up (1989), 42 to 17 (up 25)

The Losers – Biggest Fallers within the top 100
L’avventura (1960), 21 to 72 (down 51)
Battleship Potemkin (1925), 11 to 54 (down 43)
Sátántangó (1994), 35 to 78 (down 43)
Andrei Rublev (1966), 26 to 67 (down 41)
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953), 50 to 90 (down 40)

Films in the Top 100 Directors' list, not in this list (11)
38. La Strada (1954)
55. La Notte (1961)
58. Viridiana (1961)
61. Eraserhead (1977)
76. The Conversation (1974)
77. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
78. A Separation (2011)
79. Kes (1969)
93. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
97. Caché (2005)
104. Throne of Blood (1957)

Films in this list's Top 100, not in the Directors' list (34)
Daisies (1966), ranked #28
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), ranked #30
M (1931), ranked #36
Rear Window (1954), ranked #38
Killer of Sheep (1978), ranked #43
North by Northwest (1959), ranked #45
The Apartment (1960), ranked #54
Sherlock, Jr. (1924), ranked #54
Daughters of the Dust (1991), ranked #60
The Third Man (1949), ranked #63
Casablanca (1942), ranked #63
The Gleaners and I (2000), ranked #67
Metropolis (1927), ranked #67
Journey to Italy (1954), ranked #72
My Neighbor Totoro (1988), ranked #72
Spirited Away (2001), ranked #75
Imitation of Life (1959), ranked #75
Sansho the Bailiff (1954), ranked #75
A Matter of Life and Death (1946), ranked #78
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974), ranked #78
Pierrot le Fou (1965), ranked #84
Histoire(s) du cinéma (1998), ranked #84
The Shining (1980), ranked #88
Chungking Express (1994), ranked #88
Ugetsu (1953), ranked 90
The Leopard (1963), ranked #90
The Earrings of Madame de… (1953), ranked #90
Black Girl (1966), ranked #95
The General (1926), ranked #95
Get Out (2017), ranked #95

Full list with ups and downs (to be updated later with all 264)
1. “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxel” (Chantal Akerman, 1975) (↑ 34)
2. “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) (↓ 1)
3. “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941) (↓ 1)
4. “Tokyo Story” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953) (↓ 1)
5. “In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai, 2001) (↑ 19)
6. “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) (—)
7. “Beau travail” (Claire Denis, 1998) (↑ 71)
8. “Mulholland Dr.” (David Lynch, 2001) (↑ 20)
9. “Man with a Movie Camera” (Dziga Vertov, 1929) (↓ 1)
10. “Singin’ in the Rain” (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1951) (↑ 10)
11. “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans” (F.W. Murnau, 1927) (↓ 6)
12. “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) (↑ 9)
13. “La Règle du Jeu” (Jean Renoir, 1939) (↓ 9)
14. “Cléo from 5 to 7” (Agnès Varda, 1962) (new)
15. “The Searchers” (John Ford, 1956) (↓ 8)
16. “Meshes of the Afternoon” (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943) (new)
17. “Close-Up” (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989) (↑ 25)
18. “Persona” (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) (↓ 1)
19. “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) (↓ 5)
20. “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) (↓ 3)
21. (TIE) “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1927) (↓ 12)
21. (TIE) “Late Spring” (Ozu Yasujiro, 1949) (↓ 6)
23. “Playtime” (Jacques Tati, 1967) (↑ 14)
24. “Do the Right Thing” (Spike Lee, 1989) (new)
25. “Au Hasard Balthazar” (Robert Bresson, 1966) (↓ 9)
25. The Night of the Hunter” (Charles Laughton, 1955) (↑ 38)
27. “Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985) (↑ 3)
28. “Daisies” (Věra Chytilová, 1966) (new)
29. “Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976) (↑ 2)
30. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Céline Sciamma, 2019) (new)
31. “Mirror” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) (↓ 12)
31. “8½” (Federico Fellini, 1963) (↓ 21)
31. “Psycho” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) (↑ 4)
34. “L’Atalante” (Jean Vigo, 1934) (↓ 22)
35. “Pather Panchali” (Satyajit Ray, 1955) (↑ 7)
36. “City Lights” (Charlie Chaplin, 1931) (↑ 14)
36. “M” (Fritz Lang, 1931) (↑ 20)
38. “À bout de souffle” (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) (↓ 25)
38. “Some Like It Hot” (Billy Wilder, 1959) (↑ 4)
38. “Rear Window” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) (↑ 15)
41. “Bicycle Thieves” (Vittorio De Sica, 1948) (↓ 7)
41. “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) (↓ 15)
43. “Stalker” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) (↓ 14)
43. “Killer of Sheep” (Charles Burnett, 1977) (new)
45. “North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) (↑ 8)
45. “The Battle of Algiers” (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) (↑ 3)
45. “Barry Lyndon” (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) (↑ 14)
48. “Wanda” (Barbara Loden, 1970) (new)
48. “Ordet” (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955) (↓ 24)
50. “The 400 Blows” (François Truffaut, 1959) (↓ 11)
50. “The Piano” (Jane Campion, 1992) (new)
52. “News from Home” (Chantal Akerman, 1976) (new)
52. “Fear Eats the Soul” (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) (↑ 41)
54. “The Apartment” (Billy Wilder, 1960) (new)
54. “Battleship Potemkin” (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) (↓ 43)
54. “Sherlock Jr.” (Buster Keaton, 1924) (↑ 5)
54. “Le Mépris” (Jean-Luc Godard 1963) (↓ 33)
54. “Blade Runner” (Ridley Scott 1982) (↑ 15)
59. “Sans soleil” (Chris Marker 1982) (↑ 10)
60. “Daughters of the Dust” (Julie Dash 1991) (new)
60. “La dolce vita” (Federico Fellini 1960) (↓ 21)
60. “Moonlight” (Barry Jenkins 2016) (new)
63. “Casablanca” (Michael Curtiz 1942) (↑ 19)
63. “GoodFellas” (Martin Scorsese 1990) (new)
63. “The Third Man” (Carol Reed 1949) (↑ 10)
66. “Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty 1973) (↑ 13)
67. “The Gleaners and I” (Agnès Varda 2000) (new)
67. “Metropolis” (Fritz Lang 1927) (↓ 32)
67. “Andrei Rublev” (Andrei Tarkovsky 1966) (↓ 41)
67. “The Red Shoes” (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger 1948) (new)
67. “La Jetée” (Chris Marker 1962) (↓ 17)
72. “My Neighbour Totoro” (Miyazaki Hayao 1988) (new)
72. “Journey to Italy” (Roberto Rossellini 1954) (↓ 31)
72. “L’avventura” (Michelangelo Antonioni 1960) (↓ 51)
75. “Imitation of Life” (Douglas Sirk 1959) (↑ 18)
75. “Sansho the Bailiff” (Mizoguchi Kenji 1954) (↓ 16)
75. “Spirited Away” (Miyazaki Hayao 2001) (new)
78. “A Brighter Summer Day” (Edward Yang 1991) (↑ 8)
78. “Sátántangó” (Béla Tarr 1994) (↓ 43)
78. “Céline and Julie Go Boating” (Jacques Rivette 1974) (new)
78. “Modern Times “(Charlie Chaplin 1936) (↓ 15)
78. “Sunset Blvd.” (Billy Wilder 1950) (↓ 15)
78. “A Matter of Life and Death” (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger 1946) (↑ 12)
84. “Blue Velvet” (David Lynch 1986) (↑ 15)
84. “Pierrot le fou” (Jean-Luc Godard 1965) (↓ 7)
84. “Histoire(s) du cinéma” (Jean-Luc Godard 1988-1998) (↓ 36)
84. “The Spirit of the Beehive” (Victor Erice, 1973) (↓ 3)
88. “The Shining” (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) (new)
88. “Chungking Express” (Wong Kar Wai, 1994) (new)
90. “Madame de…” (Max Ophüls, 1953) (↑ 3)
90. “The Leopard” (Luchino Visconti, 1962) (↓ 33)
90. “Ugetsu” (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1953) (↓ 40)
90. “Parasite” (Bong Joon Ho, 2019) (new)
90. “Yi Yi” (Edward Yang, 1999) (↑ 3)
95. “A Man Escaped” (Robert Bresson, 1956) (↓ 26)
95. “The General” (Buster Keaton, 1926) (↓ 20)
95. “Once upon a Time in the West” (Sergio Leone, 1968) (↓ 17)
95. “Black Girl” (Ousmane Sembène, 1965) (new)
95. “Tropical Malady” (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004) (new)
95. “Get Out” (Jordan Peele, 2017) (new)