This is a list of films 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.

Critics and filmmakers

Sight and Sound

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 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."

Other polls

Audience polls

Genres or media

Action

Animation (shorts and features)

Christmas

Comedy

Disaster

Documentary

Fantasy

Horror

LGBT

Musical

Romance

Science fiction

Silent

Sports

Superhero

War

Western

National polls

Argentina

Australia

Bangladesh

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brazil

Bulgaria

Canada

Chile

China

Colombia

Croatia

Cuba

Czech Republic

Czechoslovakia

Denmark

Egypt

Estonia

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Hong Kong

Hungary

Iceland

India

Bollywood

Iran

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Japan

Mexico

Netherlands

New Zealand

North Korea

Norway

Pakistan

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russia

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

South Korea

Soviet Union

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sweden

Switzerland

Taiwan

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom

United States

Uruguay

Venezuela