This list is no longer updated.
Compiled for the run-up to the end-of-the-decade, will be updated until the end of the 2019 list-making season.
- La Flor (2018, Mariano Llinás)
- Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai Ming-liang)
- Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, David Lynch)
- Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo)
- Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)
- Asako I & II (2018, Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
- Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke)
- Carol (2015, Todd Haynes)
- The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
- Cemetery of Splendour (2015, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Silence (2016, Martin Scorsese)
- Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018, Bi Gan)
- Martin Eden (2019, Pietro Marcello)
- The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
- The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo)
- Blackhat (2015, Michael Mann)
- Certified Copy (2010, Abbas Kiarostami)
- I Heard You Paint Houses (2019, Martin Scorsese)
- Meek's Cutoff (2010, Kelly Reichardt)
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011, Johnnie To)
- Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014, Johnnie To)
- Passion (2012, Brian De Palma)
- Horse Money (2014, Pedro Costa)
- Margaret (2011, Kenneth Lonergan)
- Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Phoenix (2014, Christian Petzold)
- Manakamana (2013, Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
- To the Ends of the Earth (2019, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- Mistress America (2015, Noah Baumbach)
- Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson)
- Transit (2018, Christian Petzold)
- The Grandmaster (2013, Wong Kar-wai)
- Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard)
- Drug War (2012, Johnnie To)
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson)
- The Wind Rises (2013, Hayao Miyazaki)
- Happy Hour (2015, Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
- Romancing in Thin Air (2012, Johnnie To)
- Before Midnight (2013, Richard Linklater)
- Ash Is Purest White (2018, Jia Zhangke)
- Grass (2018, Hong Sang-soo)
- Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong Sang-soo)
- Manchester by the Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan)
- Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach)
- Gone Girl (2014, David Fincher)
- Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade)
- First Reformed (2017, Paul Schrader)
- The Princess of France (2014, Matías Piñeiro)
- Parasite (2019, Bong Joon-ho)
- On the Beach at Night Alone (2017, Hong Sang-soo)
- High Life (2018, Claire Denis)
- Hill of Freedom (2014, Hong Sang-soo)
- Jauja (2014, Lisandro Alonso)
- Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Wes Anderson)
- The Other Side of the Wind (2018, Orson Welles)
- Listen Up Philip (2014, Alex Ross Perry)
- This Is Not a Film (2011, Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
- Bastards (2013, Claire Denis)
- Hahaha (2010, Hong Sang-soo)
- Arboretum Cycle (2017, Nathaniel Dorsky)
- Uncut Gems (2019, Josh & Benny Safdie)
- In My Room (2018, Ulrich Köhler)
- I Was at Home, But... (2019, Angela Schanelec)
- Oki's Movie (2010, Hong Sang-soo)
- Shakti (2019, Martín Rejtman)
- The Day After (2017, Hong Sang-soo)
- Her Smell (2018, Alex Ross Perry)
- An Elephant Sitting Still (2018, Hu Bo)
- differently, Molussia (2012, Nicolas Rey)
- List (2011, Hong Sang-soo)
- Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013, Hong Sang-soo)
- Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (2019, Quentin Tarantino)
- My Golden Days (2015, Arnaud Desplechin)
- The Traitor (2019, Marco Bellocchio)
- The Image Book (2018, Jean-Luc Godard)
- Kaili Blues (2015, Bi Gan)
- You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012, Alain Resnais)
- Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater)
- The Handmaiden (2016, Park Chan-wook)
- Two Days, One Night (2014, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
- Two Shots Fired (2014, Martín Rejtman)
- The Unspeakable Act (2012, Dan Sallitt)
- To the Wonder (2012, Terrence Malick)
- Sieranevada (2016, Cristi Puiu)
- The Color Wheel (2011, Alex Ross Perry)
- The Work (2017, Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous)
- The Grand Bizarre (2018, Jodie Mack)
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018, Christopher McQuarrie)
- The Hedonists (2016, Jia Zhangke)
- Faces Places (2017, Agnès Varda & JR)
- In Another Country (2012, Hong Sang-soo)
- Kate Plays Christine (2016, Robert Greene)
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018, Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Princess Cyd (2017, Stephen Cone)
- Synonyms (2019, Nadav Lapid)
- Our Sunhi (2013, Hong Sang-soo)
- Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (2015, Stephen Cone)
- The Strange Little Cat (2013, Ramon Zürcher)
- Garoto (2015, Júlio Bressane)
Top 20 Performances
- Kyle MacLachlan, Twin Peaks: The Return
- Laura Paredes, La Flor
- Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
- Rooney Mara, Carol
- Zhao Tao, Mountains May Depart
- Joaquin Phoenix, Inherent Vice
- Luca Marinelli, Martin Eden
- Peter Simonischek, Toni Erdmann
- Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
- Franz Rogowski, Transit
- Hong Chau, Downsizing
- Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
- John Huston, The Other Side of the Wind
- Lee Yoo-young, Yourself and Yours
- Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
- Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Kim Min-hee, On the Beach at Night Alone
- Lee Kang-sheng, Stray Dogs
- Anna Paquin, Margaret
- Kate Lyn Sheil, Kate Plays Christine
