Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll 1962

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. L'Avventura (1960)
3. La Règle du Jeu (1939)
4. Greed (1924)
   Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
5. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
6. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
   Ivan the Terrible (1944-1946)
   La Terra Trema (1948)
7. L'Atalante (1934)
8. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
   Pather Panchali (1955)
   Zéro de Conduite (1933)
9. City Lights (1931)
   The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)
   The Gold Rush (1925)
10. Sunrise (1927)
11. Earth (1930)
    Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
12. The General (1927) ★★★
    La Grande Illusion (1937)
    Ikiru (1952)
    Nazarin (1959)
    October (1928)
    Umberto D. (1952)
13. Last Year in Marienbad (1961)
    Intolerance (1916)
    Limelight (1952)
    Night and Fog (1955)
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
    Pickpocket (1959)
    Tokyo Story (1953)
    Wild Strawberries (1957)

Selected individual lists:

Karel Reisz
Jacques Rivette
Eric Rohmer