International cinephile community A Band Apart in august of 2011 has organized voting in order to make the list of the greatest films in history of a cinema (Greatest Films Poll 2011). The sample took place with the participation of 125 film critics, bloggers, journalists and several directors from 18 countries of the world (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Estonia, USA, Canada, Indonesia, Philippines, India, Brazil, UK, Greece, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Netherlands and France). The wide geography of composers has provided a variety of tastes and opinions. In the final list there are presented 130 films from 17 countries and four parts of the world. In the top-list there are mentioned all decades, since 1920's. Also there is maintained balance between English-speaking and non-English-speaking films. All individual lists of participants can be looked here.

The first place in the top-list has taken by Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, which outstripped in the general offset Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. Top-5 has completed with Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker and Ingmar Bergman’s Persona. The best film of 21 century by quantity of mentions has turned out to be David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. (6th place).

The oldest film of the list has appeared to be a silent movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), and the newest – 2011 Palme d'Or winner Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. The list included 7 films of Stanley Kubrick, 5 films of Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky, 4 films of David Lynch, Krzysztof Kieslowski and Terrence Malick at once. On the basis of mentions, in lists has also been made top-50 of best directors. In total, by composers in their lists have been mentioned 3469 films and over 1500 directors.

The final list included at once 9 pictures of the Soviet production. Except Andrei Tarkovsky’s 4 pictures, there are Sergei Eisenstein, Elem Klimov, Larisa Shepitko, Dziga Vertov, and Mikhail Kalatozov movies at the list. Also have been mentioned films of Parajanov, Muratova, Sokurov, Aleksei German, Kozincev, Dovzhenko, Balabanov, Shaunas Bartas and other directors of the Soviet and post-Soviet cinema.

P.S. The community A Band Apart has been created in 2009 in order to popularize little-known pictures, to exchange impressions of cinema and to make top-lists of the best films. Sample of 2011 has already become the third annual. By results of the first sample in 2009, has been made the list of 59 films (the winner was Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction). By results of the second sample in 2010, has been made the list of 120 films (the winner was Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver).

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(#1) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

                                                  62 mentions (of 125)

2. Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Tarantino, USA (57 mentions)
3. Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese, USA (53 mentions)
4. Stalker (1979) Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union (51 mentions)
5. Persona (1966) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden (50 mentions)
6. Mulholland Dr. (2001) David Lynch, USA (49 mentions)
7. Zerkalo (1975) Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union (48 mentions)
8. City Lights (1931) Charles Chaplin, USA (47 mentions)
9. The Godfather (1972) Francis Ford Coppola, USA (47 mentions)
10. Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola, USA (46 mentions)
11. À bout de souffle (1960) Jean-Luc Godard, France (45 mentions)
12. Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock, USA (45 mentions)
13. A Clockwork Orange (1971) Stanley Kubrick, UK (44 mentions)
14. (1963) Federico Fellini, Italy (44 mentions)
15. Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles, USA (43 mentions)
16. Andrei Rublev (1966) Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union (42 mentions)
17. Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock, USA (42 mentions)
18. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) Milos Forman, USA (39 mentions)
19. Idi i smotri (1985) Elem Klimov, Soviet Union (38 mentions)
20. M (1931) Fritz Lang, Germany (38 mentions)
21. Det sjunde inseglet (1957) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden (38 mentions)
22. The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick, USA  (37 mentions)
23. Smultronstallet (1957) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden  (36 mentions)
24. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972) Werner Herzog, Germany (36 mentions)
25. La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928) Carl Theodor Dreyer, France (36 mentions)
26. Shichinin no samurai (1954) Akira Kurosawa, Japan (36 mentions)
27. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Peter Weir, Australia  (35 mentions)
28. Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang, Germany (35 mentions)
29. Fa yeung nin wa (2000) Kar Wai Wong, Hong Kong (35 mentions)
30. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Stanley Kubrick, USA (35 mentions)
31. Blowup (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni, UK (34 mentions)
32. La Dolce Vita (1960) Federico Fellini, Italy (34 mentions)
33. Casablanca (1942) Michael Curtiz, USA (34 mentions)
34. Blue Velvet (1986) David Lynch, USA (34 mentions)
35. Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966) Sergio Leone, Italy (34 mentions)
36. Fanny och Alexander (1982) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden  (33 mentions)
37. Dead Man (1995) Jim Jarmusch, USA (33 mentions)
38. Vivre Sa Vie (1962) Jean-Luc Godard, France (33 mentions)
39. Les quatre cents coups (1959) Francois Truffaut , France  (32 mentions)
40. Barry Lyndon (1975) Stanley Kubrick, UK (32 mentions)
41. Der Himmel über Berlin (1987) Wim Wenders, Germany (32 mentions)
42. Goodfellas (1990) Martin Scorsese, USA (32 mentions)
43. Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski, USA (32 mentions)
44. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) F.W. Murnau, USA (32 mentions)
45. 12 Angry Men (1957) Sidney Lumet, USA  (31 mentions)
46. Blade Runner (1982) Ridley Scott, USA (31 mentions)  
47. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, USA (31 mentions)  
48. The Big Lebowski (1998) Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, USA (31 mentions)  
49. Ladri di biciclette (1948) Vittorio De Sica, Italy (30 mentions)
50. L'eclisse (1962) Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy (30 mentions)
51. Rashômon (1950) Akira Kurosawa, Japan (30 mentions)
52. Dr. Strangelove (1963) Stanley Kubrick, UK (30 mentions)
53. Le Samouraï (1967) Jean-Pierre Melville, France  (29 mentions)
54. Il conformista (1970) Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy (29 mentions)
55. The Third Man (1949) Carol Reed, UK (29 mentions)
56. Satantango (1994) Bela Tarr, Hungary  (28 mentions)
57. Solyaris (1972) Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet Union (28 mentions)
58. The Godfather: Part II (1974) Francis Ford Coppola, USA (28 mentions)
59. Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock, USA (28 mentions)
60. Double Indemnity (1944) Billy Wilder, USA (27 mentions)
61. L’année dernière à Marienbad (1961) Alain Resnais, France (27 mentions)
62. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) Sergio Leone, USA  (26 mentions)
63. Raging Bull (1980) Martin Scorsese, USA (26 mentions)
64. Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972) Luis Buñuel, France (26 mentions)
65. El Espiritu de la Colmena (1973) Victor Erice, Spain (26 mentions)
66. Ordet (1955) Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark (26 mentions)
67. Paths of Glory (1957) Stanley Kubrick, USA (25 mentions)
68. C'era una volta il West (1968) Sergio Leone, Italy (25 mentions)
69. Schindler’s List (1993) Steven Spielberg, USA (25 mentions)
70. Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929) Dziga Vertov, Soviet Union (25 mentions)
71. Tokyo Monogatari (1953) Yasujirô Ozu, Japan (25 mentions)
72. Some Like it Hot (1959) Billy Wilder, USA  (24 mentions)
73. Sunset Blvd. (1950) Billy Wilder, USA   (24 mentions)
74. Modern Times (1936) Charles Chaplin, USA   (24 mentions)
75. Se7en (1995) David Fincher, USA   (24 mentions)
76. Dogville (2003) Lars von Trier, Denmark   (23 mentions)
77. La Double Vie de Véronique (1991) Krzysztof Kieslowski, France (23 mentions)
78. Viridiana (1961) Luis Buñuel, Spain (23 mentions)
79. Hiroshima mon amour (1959) Alain Resnais, France (23 mentions)
80. Annie Hall (1977) Woody Allen, USA (23 mentions)
81. L’Atalante (1934) Jean Vigo, France (23 mentions)
82. Dekalog (1989) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland (22 mentions)
83. Letyat zhuravli (1957) Mikhail Kalatozov, Soviet Union (22 mentions)
84. Suna no onna (1964) Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan (22 mentions)
85. There Will Be Blood (2007) Paul Thomas Anderson, USA (22 mentions)
86. Reservoir Dogs (1992) Quentin Tarantino, USA (22 mentions)
87. Chung Hing sam Iam (1994) Kar Wai Wong, Hong Kong  (22 mentions) 
88. Pather Panchali (1955) Satyajit Ray, India (22 mentions)
89. Werckmeister Harmoniak (2000) Bela Tarr, Agnes Hranitsky, Hungary (22 mentions)
90. Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. (1920) Robert Wiene, Germany (22 mentions)
91. Days of Heaven (1978) Terrence Malick, USA (22 mentions)
92. Badlands (1973) Terrence Malick, USA (21 mentions)
93. Alien (1979) Ridley Scott, USA (21 mentions)
94. L'avventura (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy (21 mentions)
95. Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union (21 mentions)
96. Fight Club (1999) David Fincher, USA (21 mentions)
97. Manhattan (1979) Woody Allen, USA (21 mentions)
98. Voskhozhdeniye (1976) Larisa Shepitko, Soviet Union  (20 mentions)
99. Viskningar och rop (1972) Ingmar Bergman, Sweden (20 mentions)  
100. The Thin Red Line (1998) Terrence Malick, USA (20 mentions)  
101. Topio stin omichli (1988) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greece (20 mentions)  
102. The Last Picture Show (1971) Peter Bogdanovich, USA (20 mentions)  
103. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan (20 mentions)  
104. La Regle du Jeu (1939) Jean Renoir, France (20 mentions)  
105. The Graduate (1967) Mike Nichols, USA (20 mentions)  
106. Playtime (1967) Jacques Tati, France (20 mentions)  
107. The General (1926) Buster Keaton, USA (20 mentions)  
108. Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993) Krzysztof Kieslowski, France (19 mentions)  
109. The Tree of Life (2011) Terrence Malick, USA (19 mentions)
110. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Jonathan Demme, USA  (19 mentions)
111. Back to The Future (1985) Robert Zemeckis, USA  (19 mentions)
112. Morte a Venezia (1971) Luchino Visconti, Italy  (19 mentions)
113. The Great Dictator (1940) Charles Chaplin, USA  (19 mentions)
114. Léon (1994) Luc Besson, France   (19 mentions) 
115. The Maltese Falcon (1941) John Huston, USA  (19 mentions)
116. Bringing Up Baby (1938) Howard Hawks, USA  (19 mentions)
117. Au hasard Balthazar (1966) Robert Bresson, France  (19 mentions)
118. Fargo (1996) Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, USA (19 mentions)
119. Cidade de Deus (2002) Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund, Brazil (19 mentions)
120. The Night of the Hunter (1955) Charles Laughton, USA (19 mentions)
121. Offret (1986) Andrey Tarkovskiy, Sweden (18 mentions)
122. Lost Highway (1997) David Lynch, USA (18 mentions)
123. Amadeus (1984) Milos Forman, USA (18 mentions)
124. Sansho Dayu (1954) Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan (18 mentions)
125. Orphee (1950) Jean Cocteau, France (18 mentions)
126. Ultimo tango a Parigi (1972) Bernardo Bertolucci, France (18 mentions)
127. Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) F.W. Murnau, Germany (18 mentions)
128. Eraserhead (1977) David Lynch, USA (18 mentions)
129. Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) Krzysztof Kieslowski, France (18 mentions)
130. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Frank Capra, USA (18 mentions)