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This list uses the hall of fame method: the top 10 films of the decade's poll, including the ties, are added to the hall of fame. Films are allowed to be listed only once.
1952
Bicycle Thieves (1948, De Sica)
2 = City Lights (1930, Chaplin)
2 = The Gold Rush (1925, Chaplin)
Battleship Potmekin (1925, Eisenstein)
5 = Intolerance (1916, Griffith)
5 = Louisiana Story (1949, Flaherty)
7 = Greed (1925, Stroheim)
7 = Le Jour se Leve (1939, Carne)
7 = Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Dreyer)
8 = Brief Encounter (1946, Lean)
8 = Le Million (1931, Clair)
8 = La Regle du Jeu (1939, Renoir)
1962
Citizen Kane (1941, Welles)
L’Avventura (1961, Antonioni)
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953, Mizoguchi)
Ivan the Terrible (1944 - 1958, Eisenstein)
La Terra Trema (1948, Visconti)
L’Atalante (1934, Vigo)
7 = Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959, Resnais)
7 = Pather Panchali (1955, Ray)
7 = Zero de Conduite (1932, Vigo)
10 = The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938, Donskoy)
1972
8 ½ (1963, Fellini)
Persona (1967, Bergman)
3 = The General (1927, Keaton and Bruckman)
3 = The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Welles)
Wild Strawberries (1957, Bergman)
6 = Ikiru (1952, Kurosawa)
6 = Pierrot le fou (1965, Godard)
6 = Vertigo (1958, Hitchcock)
9 = La Grande Illusion (1937, Renoir)
9 = Mouchette (1967, Bresson)
9 = The Searchers (1956, Ford)
9 = Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, Murnau)
9 = 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick)
9 = Viridiana (1961, Bunuel)
1982
1 = Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Donen & Kelly)
1 = Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa)
Andrei Roublev (1966, Tarkovsky)
4 = The Third Man (1949, Reed)
4 = Jules and Jim (1962, Truffaut)
The Godfather (1972, Coppola)
7 = Touch of Evil (1958, Welles)
7 = Tokyo Story (1953, Ozu)
9 = The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972, Buñuel)
9 = Children of Paradise (1945, Carne)
9 = The Earrings of Madame de… (1953, Ophüls)
9 = Contempt (1963, Godard)
9 = Modern Times (1936, Chaplin)
*1992
Raging Bull (1980, Scorsese)
2 = The Godfather Part II (1974, Coppola)
2 = Rashomon (1950, Kurosawa)
2 = La Strada (1954, Fellini)
5 = Breathless (1960, Godard)
5 = Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948, Ophuls)
5 = Paisan (1946, Rossellini)
8 = La Dolce Vita (1960, Fellini)
8 = Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Lean)
8 = Rear Window (1954, Hitchcock)
8 = Some Like It Hot (1959, Wilder)
8 =The Wizard of Oz (1939, Fleming)
*2002
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Kubrick)
2 = Psycho (1960, Hitchcock)
2 = Sunset Blvd. (1950, Wilder)
4 = Fanny and Alexander (1982, Bergman)
4 = Mirror (1975, Tarkovsky)
6 = The Apartment (1960, Wilder)
6 = Apocalypse Now (1979, Coppola)
6 = Au hazard Balthazar (1966, Bresson)
6 = The Seventh Seal (1957, Bergman)
6 = Taxi Driver (1976, Scorsese)
*2012
Man with a Movie Camera (1929, Vertov)
Ordet (1955, Dreyer)
The 400 Blows (1959, Truffaut)
Late Spring (1949, Ozu)
Stalker (1979, Tarkovsky)
In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong)
Shoah (1985, Lanzmann)
Mulholland Dr. (2001, Lynch)
The Battle of Algiers (1966, Pontecorvo)
Barry Lyndon (1975, Kubrick)
* = Combines both Critics and Directors' votes
Sources: BFI
The lists were combined on Reddit.
1952
Bicycle Thieves (1948, De Sica)
2 = City Lights (1930, Chaplin)
2 = The Gold Rush (1925, Chaplin)
Battleship Potmekin (1925, Eisenstein)
5 = Intolerance (1916, Griffith)
5 = Louisiana Story (1949, Flaherty)
7 = Greed (1925, Stroheim)
7 = Le Jour se Leve (1939, Carne)
7 = Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Dreyer)
8 = Brief Encounter (1946, Lean)
8 = Le Million (1931, Clair)
8 = La Regle du Jeu (1939, Renoir)
1962
Citizen Kane (1941, Welles)
L’Avventura (1961, Antonioni)
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953, Mizoguchi)
Ivan the Terrible (1944 - 1958, Eisenstein)
La Terra Trema (1948, Visconti)
L’Atalante (1934, Vigo)
7 = Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959, Resnais)
7 = Pather Panchali (1955, Ray)
7 = Zero de Conduite (1932, Vigo)
10 = The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938, Donskoy)
1972
8 ½ (1963, Fellini)
Persona (1967, Bergman)
3 = The General (1927, Keaton and Bruckman)
3 = The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Welles)
Wild Strawberries (1957, Bergman)
6 = Ikiru (1952, Kurosawa)
6 = Pierrot le fou (1965, Godard)
6 = Vertigo (1958, Hitchcock)
9 = La Grande Illusion (1937, Renoir)
9 = Mouchette (1967, Bresson)
9 = The Searchers (1956, Ford)
9 = Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, Murnau)
9 = 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick)
9 = Viridiana (1961, Bunuel)
1982
1 = Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Donen & Kelly)
1 = Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa)
Andrei Roublev (1966, Tarkovsky)
4 = The Third Man (1949, Reed)
4 = Jules and Jim (1962, Truffaut)
The Godfather (1972, Coppola)
7 = Touch of Evil (1958, Welles)
7 = Tokyo Story (1953, Ozu)
9 = The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972, Buñuel)
9 = Children of Paradise (1945, Carne)
9 = The Earrings of Madame de… (1953, Ophüls)
9 = Contempt (1963, Godard)
9 = Modern Times (1936, Chaplin)
*1992
Raging Bull (1980, Scorsese)
2 = The Godfather Part II (1974, Coppola)
2 = Rashomon (1950, Kurosawa)
2 = La Strada (1954, Fellini)
5 = Breathless (1960, Godard)
5 = Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948, Ophuls)
5 = Paisan (1946, Rossellini)
8 = La Dolce Vita (1960, Fellini)
8 = Lawrence of Arabia (1962, Lean)
8 = Rear Window (1954, Hitchcock)
8 = Some Like It Hot (1959, Wilder)
8 =The Wizard of Oz (1939, Fleming)
*2002
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Kubrick)
2 = Psycho (1960, Hitchcock)
2 = Sunset Blvd. (1950, Wilder)
4 = Fanny and Alexander (1982, Bergman)
4 = Mirror (1975, Tarkovsky)
6 = The Apartment (1960, Wilder)
6 = Apocalypse Now (1979, Coppola)
6 = Au hazard Balthazar (1966, Bresson)
6 = The Seventh Seal (1957, Bergman)
6 = Taxi Driver (1976, Scorsese)
*2012
Man with a Movie Camera (1929, Vertov)
Ordet (1955, Dreyer)
The 400 Blows (1959, Truffaut)
Late Spring (1949, Ozu)
Stalker (1979, Tarkovsky)
In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong)
Shoah (1985, Lanzmann)
Mulholland Dr. (2001, Lynch)
The Battle of Algiers (1966, Pontecorvo)
Barry Lyndon (1975, Kubrick)
* = Combines both Critics and Directors' votes
Sources: BFI
The lists were combined on Reddit.
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