Vertigo (1958)

Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 psychological thriller starring James Stewart and Kim Novak was a box office disappointment on release but was voted the greatest film of all time in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, ending Citizen Kane's 50-year reign. The "Dolly zoom" (the "Vertigo effect") camera technique, invented for this film, has since appeared in hundreds of films including Jaws, Goodfellas, and Lord of the Rings. Bernard Herrmann's score is ranked among the most influential in film history.