Top 10: #1 Romantic Comedy Film The Village Voice ranked the film at number 37 in its Top 250 "Best Films of the Century" list in 1999, based on a poll of critics. The film was included in Times All-Time 100 best movies list in 2005. In 2006, Premiere issued its list of "The 100 Greatest Performances of all Time", putting Chaplin's performance as "The Tramp" at No. 44. City Lights was ranked seventeenth on Cahiers du cinémas 100 Greatest Films, a 2008 poll of 78 film historians and critics organized by Claude-Jean Philippe. In the 2012 Sight & Sound polls, it was ranked the 50th-greatest film ever made in the critics' poll and 30th in the directors' poll. In the earlier 2002 version of the list the film ranked 45th among critics and 19th among directors. In 2015, City Lights ranked 18th on BBC's "100 Greatest American Films" list, voted on by film critics from around the world. The film was voted at No. 21 on the list of "The 100 greatest comedies of all time" by a poll of 253 film critics from 52 countries conducted by the BBC in 2017. In 2021 the film ranked 16th on Time Out magazine's list of The 100 best movies of all time. See also List of United States comedy films References Bibliography External links City Lights essay on the National Film Registry web site City Lights essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 , pages 180-11 Filming City Lights City Lights: The Immortal Tramp an essay by Gary Giddins at the Criterion Collection 1931 films 1930s romantic comedy-drama films American romantic comedy-drama films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Films about blind people Films about alcoholism Films set in country houses United Artists films Films directed by Charlie Chaplin United States National Film Registry films 1931 comedy films 1931 drama films 1930s American films 1930s English-language films Silent romantic comedy-drama films Silent American comedy-drama films