Monday, November 28, 2022

Polls Lists Eligible 11/28/22

Decades: 2020s, 2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, Pre-1920s

Main list.
A version of this with only films released more than two years after their premiere year.
The feature films I have seen that are not listed in the main list.

2023

  1. Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
  3. Human Flowers of Flesh (Helena Wittmann)
  4. Dry Ground Burning (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queiros)
  5. Will-o’-the-Wisp (João Pedro Rodrigues)

2022

  1. The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  3. Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
  4. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
  5. A New Old Play (Qiu Jiongjiong)
  6. RRR (S. S. Rajamouli)
  7. Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
  8. The Girl and the Spider (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher)
  9. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
  10. In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
  11. TÁR (Todd Field)
  12. Introduction (Hong Sang-soo)
  13. El Gran Movimiento (Kiro Russo)
  14. The Cathedral (Ricky D'Ambrose)
  15. Nope (Jordan Peele)
  16. Fabian, or Going to the Dogs (Domink Graf)
  17. Benediction (Terence Davies)
  18. Armageddon Time (James Gray)
  19. Los Conductos (Camilo Restrepo)
  20. Wood and Water (Jonas Bak)
  21. Onoda (Arthur Harari)
  22. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
  23. Ahed's Knee (Nadav Lapid)
  24. Riotsville, U.S.A. (Sierra Pettengill)
  25. A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)
  26. Expedition Content (Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati)
  27. Hit the Road (Panâh Panâhi)
  28. Amsterdam (David O. Russell)
  29. Belle (Hosoda Mamoru)
  30. Ambulance (Michael Bay)
  31. Rock Bottom Riser (Fern Silva)
  32. Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski)
  33. Call Jane (Phyllis Nagy)
  34. Free Chol Soo Lee (Eugene Yi & Julie Ha)
  35. Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
  36. Terra Femme (Courtney Stephens)
  37. Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller)
  38. Mija (Isabel Castro)
  39. Happening (Audrey Diwan)
  40. Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
  41. God's Creatures (Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer)
  42. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (Park Sung-hoo)
  43. Something in the Dirt (Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead)
  44. Dear Mr. Brody (Keith Maitland)
  45. A Love Song (Max Walker-Silverman)
  46. Three Minutes: A Lengthening (Bianca Stigter)
  47. Casablanca Beats (Nabil Ayouch)
  48. Framing Agnes (Chase Joynt)
  49. Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
  50. Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  51. The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)
  52. Babylon (Damien Chazelle)

2021

  1. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  2. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  3. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (C.W. Winter & Anders Edström)
  5. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
  6. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  8. Beginning (Déa Kulumbegashvili)
  9. West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
  10. Wife of a Spy (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  11. Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu)
  12. Just Don't Think I'll Scream (Frank Beauvais)
  13. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (Anno Hideaki)
  14. Labyrinth of Cinema (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  15. Annette (Leos Carax)
  16. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  17. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke)
  18. The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen)
  19. The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)
  20. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
  21. Procession (Robert Greene)
  22. The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes)
  23. France (Bruno Dumont)
  24. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
  25. Red Rocket (Sean Baker)
  26. Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi)
  27. The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (Wes Anderson)
  28. Fauna (Nicolás Pereda)
  29. The Souvenir: Part II (Joanna Hogg)
  30. The Metamorphosis of Birds (Catarina Vasconcelos)
  31. Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
  32. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
  33. The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili)
  34. Monster Hunter (Paul W.S. Anderson)
  35. Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood)
  36. Isabella (Matías Piñeiro)
  37. El Planeta (Amalia Ulman)
  38. The Witches of the Orient (Julien Faraut)
  39. The Salt of Tears (Philippe Garrel)
  40. Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)
  41. Her Socialist Smile (John Gianvito)
  42. małni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka)
  43. Undine (Christian Petzold)
  44. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
  45. The American Sector (Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez)
  46. Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara)
  47. The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
  48. Nobody (Ilya Naishuller)
  49. Cliff Walkers (Zhang Yimou)
  50. Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  51. The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski)
  52. No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh)
  53. Titane (Julia Ducournau)
  54. I Was a Simple Man (Christopher Makoto Yogi)
  55. Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (Horvát Lili)
  56. Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve)
  57. Eternals (Chloé Zhao)
  58. Wrath of Man (Guy Ritchie)
  59. Old (M. Night Shyamalan)
  60. Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (Stefano Sollima)
  61. The Woman in the Window (Joe Wright)
  62. The Courier (Dominic Cooke)
  63. The Green Knight (David Lowery)
  64. The Last Vermeer (Dan Friedkin)
  65. Spencer (Pablo Larraín)
  66. Pig (Michael Sarnoski)
  67. Life in a Day 2020 (Kevin Macdonald)

2020

  1. Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
  2. To the Ends of the Earth (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  3. Fourteen (Dan Sallitt)
  4. The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack)
  5. I Was at Home, But... (Angela Schanelec)
  6. The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)
  7. Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)
  8. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
  9. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
  10. The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu)
  11. Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
  12. Ghost Tropic (Bas Devos)
  13. Tesla (Michael Almereyda)
  14. Liberté (Albert Serra)
  15. Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
  16. The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan)
  17. City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
  18. Sibyl (Justine Triet)
  19. Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen)
  20. Education (Steve McQueen)
  21. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill & Turner Ross)
  22. Mangrove (Steve McQueen)
  23. Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello)
  24. Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  25. A Girl Missing (Fukada Kōji)
  26. Fire Will Come (Óliver Laxe)
  27. Time (Garrett Bradley)
  28. Alex Wheatle (Steve McQueen)
  29. Collective (Alexander Nanau)
  30. Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)
  31. Ham on Rye (Tyler Taormina)
  32. Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
  33. Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirsten Johnson)
  34. MS Slavic 7 (Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell)
  35. Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas)
  36. Sunrise/Sunset (Jong Ougie Pak)
  37. Let Them All Talk a.k.a. The Fall of 2019 (Steven Soderbergh)
  38. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)
  39. The Midnight Sky (George Clooney)
  40. Lingua Franca (Isabel Sandoval)
  41. Ema (Pablo Larraín)
  42. Mank (David Fincher)
  43. Sound of Metal (Darius Marder)
  44. Tenet (Christopher Nolan)
  45. Greenland (Ric Roman Waugh)
  46. Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
  47. I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman)
  48. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin)
  49. WW84 (Patty Jenkins)
  50. Hamilton (Thomas Kail)
  51. Mulan (Niki Caro)

2019

  1. La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
  2. Asako I & II (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  3. Transit (Christian Petzold)
  4. Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)
  5. I Heard You Paint Houses (Martin Scorsese)
  6. Grass (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
  8. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
  9. High Life (Claire Denis)
  10. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
  11. Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  12. Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry)
  13. In My Room (Ulrich Köhler)
  14. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
  15. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)
  16. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
  17. Hotel by the River (Hong Sang-soo)
  18. Synonyms (Nadav Lapid)
  19. "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians" (Radu Jude)
  20. Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
  21. Too Late to Die Young (Dominga Sotomayor)
  22. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)
  23. A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick)
  24. Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar)
  25. Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)
  26. Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
  27. 3 Faces (Jafar Panâhi)
  28. Ad Astra (James Gray)
  29. Better Days (Derek Tsang)
  30. Richard Jewell (Clint Eastwood)
  31. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (Chad Stahelski)
  32. Dark Waters (Todd Haynes)
  33. The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
  34. Us (Jordan Peele)
  35. Ray & Liz (Richard Billingham)
  36. The World Is Full of Secrets (Graham Swon)
  37. The Load (Ognjen Glavonić)
  38. The Dead Don't Die (Jim Jarmusch)
  39. Diamantino (Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt)
  40. Atlantics (Mati Diop)
  41. The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (Herman Yau)
  42. High Flying Bird (Steven Soderbergh)
  43. Two Plains & a Fancy (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
  44. The Wandering Soap Opera (Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento)
  45. Feast of the Epiphany (Michael Koresky & Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman)
  46. Conjuring the Rolling Thunder Re-vue (Martin Scorsese)
  47. Motherless Brooklyn (Edward Norton)
  48. Domino (Brian De Palma)
  49. The Plagiarists (Peter Parlow)
  50. A Faithful Man (Louis Garrel)
  51. Relaxer (Joel Potrykus)
  52. Diane (Kent Jones)
  53. Gemini Man (Ang Lee)
  54. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams)
  55. Ready or Not (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett)
  56. Happy Death Day 2U (Christopher Landon)
  57. Climax (Gaspar Noé)
  58. Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy (Yuen Woo-ping)
  59. Glass (M. Night Shyamalan)
  60. Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov)
  61. 21 Bridges (Brian Kirk)
  62. Knife + Heart (Yann Gonzalez)
  63. Toy Story 4 (Josh Cooley)
  64. Alita: Battle Angel (Robert Rodriguez)
  65. Avengers: Endgame (Anthony & Joe Russo)
  66. Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell)
  67. Crawl (Alexandre Aja)
  68. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
  69. The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers)
  70. The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & Kathleen Hepburn)
  71. 6 Underground (Michael Bay)
  72. The Farewell (Lulu Wang)
  73. Joker (Todd Phillips)
  74. Shadow (Zhang Yimou)
  75. Sunset (Nemes László)
  76. Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria)
  77. Midsommar (Ari Aster)
  78. In Fabric (Peter Strickland)
  79. Booksmart (Olivia Wilde)
  80. Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi)

2018

  1. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
  2. The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
  3. The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. Claire's Camera (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)
  6. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  7. Bisbee '17 (Robert Greene)
  8. Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)
  9. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
  10. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
  11. Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)
  12. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
  13. Before We Vanish (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  14. Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)
  15. Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
  16. Golden Exits (Alex Ross Perry)
  17. The Mule (Clint Eastwood)
  18. Unfriended: Dark Web (Stephen Susco)
  19. Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
  20. A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper)
  21. Mrs. Hyde (Serge Bozon)
  22. Welcome to Marwen (Robert Zemeckis)
  23. Good Manners (Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra)
  24. Western (Valeska Grisebach)
  25. Ismael's Ghosts (Arnaud Desplechin)
  26. The Commuter (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  27. Infinite Football (Corneliu Porumboiu)
  28. The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier)
  29. Caniba (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
  30. PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams)
  31. Notes on an Appearance (Ricky D'Ambrose)
  32. Classical Period (Ted Fendt)
  33. BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)
  34. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
  35. Lover for a Day (Philippe Garrel)
  36. Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino)
  37. The Rider (Chloé Zhao)
  38. The Great Pretender (Nathan Silver)
  39. Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)
  40. Shoplifters (Koreeda Hirokazu)
  41. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  42. Den of Thieves (Christian Gudegast)
  43. The Green Fog (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson)
  44. Game Night (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein)
  45. Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski)
  46. The Great Buddha+ (Huang Hsin-yao)
  47. Black Panther (Ryan Coogler)
  48. The 15:17 to Paris (Clint Eastwood)
  49. Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley)
  50. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti & Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman)
  51. Minding the Gap (Bing Liu)
  52. Gemini (Aaron Katz)
  53. Let the Corpses Tan (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
  54. Unsane (Steven Soderbergh)
  55. Scarred Hearts (Radu Jude)
  56. Milla (Valérie Massadian)
  57. Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg)
  58. The Wild Boys (Bertrand Mandico)
  59. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Travis Wilkerson)
  60. 24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami)
  61. Maison du bonheur (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
  62. En el Séptimo Día (Jim McKay)
  63. Electro-Pythagoras: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett (Luke Fowler)
  64. Ant-Man and the Wasp (Peyton Reed)
  65. Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird)
  66. Cam (Daniel Goldhaber)
  67. Solo: A Star Wars Story (Ron Howard)
  68. The Guilty (Gustav Möller)
  69. Widows (Steve McQueen)
  70. The Old Man & the Gun (David Lowery)
  71. Ava (Sadaf Foroughi)
  72. Memoir of War (Emmanuel Finkiel)
  73. Avengers: Infinity War (Anthony & Joe Russo)
  74. The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan)
  75. Werewolf (Ashley McKenzie)
  76. Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)
  77. First Man (Damien Chazelle)
  78. Orders (Eric Marsh & Andrew Stasiulis)
  79. The Land of Steady Habits (Nicole Holofcener)
  80. On Her Shoulders (Alexandria Bombach)
  81. Shirkers (Sandi Tan)
  82. A Bread Factory – Part Two: Walk With Me a While (Patrick Wang)
  83. Love, Cecil (Lisa Immordino Vreeland)
  84. A Bread Factory – Part One: For the Sake of Gold (Patrick Wang)
  85. 12 Days (Raymond Depardon)
  86. Madeline's Madeline (Josephine Decker)
  87. Saving Brinton (Tommy Haines & John Richard & Andrew Sherburne)
  88. Hereditary (Ari Aster)
  89. People's Republic of Desire (Wu Hao)
  90. Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
  91. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)
  92. Searching (Aneesh Chaganty)
  93. You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)
  94. Vice (Adam McKay)
  95. Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu)
  96. Le Redoutable (Michel Hazanavicius)

2017

  1. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams)
  3. The Work (Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous)
  4. Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR)
  5. Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone)
  6. Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  7. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  8. Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (S. S. Rajamouli)
  9. By the Time It Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong)
  10. The Post (Steven Spielberg)
  11. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (Paul W.S. Anderson)
  12. 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
  13. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson)
  14. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
  15. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach)
  16. The Son of Joseph (Eugène Green)
  17. Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
  18. The Lost City of Z (James Gray)
  19. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
  20. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
  21. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)
  22. Song to Song (Terrence Malick)
  23. John Wick: Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski)
  24. Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda)
  25. The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues)
  26. Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)
  27. The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
  28. Starless Dreams (Mehrdad Oskouei)
  29. Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler)
  30. Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro)
  31. Downsizing (Alexander Payne)
  32. Person to Person (Dustin Guy Defa)
  33. A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)
  34. Get Out (Jordan Peele)
  35. Escapes (Michael Almereyda)
  36. The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola)
  37. Your Name. (Shinkai Makoto)
  38. Last Flag Flying (Richard Linklater)
  39. The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  40. Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)
  41. Thirst Street (Nathan Silver)
  42. Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott)
  43. Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh)
  44. Baby Driver (Edgar Wright)
  45. Rat Film (Theo Anthony)
  46. Kékszakállú (Gastón Solnicki)
  47. Girls Trip (Malcolm D. Lee)
  48. Mudbound (Dee Rees)
  49. Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison)
  50. The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)
  51. In Transit (Albert Maysles & Lynn True & David Usui & Nelson Walker & Ben Wu)
  52. Félicité (Alain Gomis)
  53. Mimosas (Óliver Laxe)
  54. Split (M. Night Shyamalan)
  55. A Cure for Wellness (Gore Verbinski)
  56. Okja (Bong Joon-ho)
  57. The Future Perfect (Nele Wohlatz)
  58. Bronx Gothic (Andrew Rossi)
  59. The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki)
  60. The Square (Ruben Östlund)
  61. 4 Days in France (Jérôme Reybaud)
  62. My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (Dash Shaw)
  63. Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen)
  64. Harmonium (Fukada Kōji)
  65. Graduation (Cristian Mungiu)
  66. Last Men in Aleppo (Feras Fayyad)
  67. Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)
  68. Thelma (Joachim Trier)
  69. All the Money in the World (Ridley Scott)
  70. Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)
  71. Jane (Brett Morgen)
  72. After the Storm (Koreeda Hirokazu)
  73. Columbus (Kogonada)
  74. Spettacolo (Jeff Malmberg & Chris Shellen)
  75. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Juho Kuosmanen)
  76. The Great Wall (Zhang Yimou)
  77. A Ghost Story (David Lowery)
  78. Happy Death Day (Christopher Landon)
  79. Coco (Lee Unkrich)
  80. Casting JonBenet (Kitty Green)
  81. The Fate of the Furious (F. Gary Gray)
  82. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (James Gunn)
  83. Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman)
  84. The Lego Batman Movie (Chris McKay)
  85. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)
  86. The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)
  87. Raw (Julia Ducournau)
  88. Atomic Blonde (David Leitch)
  89. The Big Sick (Michael Showalter)
  90. Cézanne et moi (Danièle Thompson)
  91. The Void (Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski)
  92. Wind River (Taylor Sheridan)
  93. The Disaster Artist (James Franco)
  94. Kong: Skull Island (Jordan Vogt-Roberts)
  95. Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer)
  96. Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins)
  97. Logan (James Mangold)
  98. Gook (Justin Chon)
  99. As You Are (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte)
  100. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  101. I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie)
  102. mother! (Darren Aronofsky)

2016

  1. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. Silence (Martin Scorsese)
  3. Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
  4. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
  6. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
  7. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
  8. Happy Hour (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  9. My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin)
  10. Afternoon (Tsai Ming-liang)
  11. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
  12. The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
  13. O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
  14. SPL II: A Time for Consequences (Soi Cheang)
  15. Kaili Blues (Bi Gan)
  16. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
  17. Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene)
  18. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  19. Sunset Song (Terence Davies)
  20. Sully (Clint Eastwood)
  21. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
  22. Creepy (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  23. Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
  24. Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (Stephen Cone)
  25. I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck)
  26. The Shallows (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  27. Shin Godzilla (Anno Hideaki)
  28. Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
  29. Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman)
  30. The Other Side (Roberto Minervini)
  31. 20th Century Women (Mike Mills)
  32. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
  33. Three (Johnnie To)
  34. The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig)
  35. The Illinois Parables (Deborah Stratman)
  36. In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel)
  37. Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi)
  38. Tower (Keith Maitland)
  39. Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar)
  40. Kubo and the Two Strings (Travis Knight)
  41. Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  42. Allied (Robert Zemeckis)
  43. Rogue One (Gareth Edwards)
  44. Weiner (Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg)
  45. De Palma (Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow)
  46. Our Little Sister (Koreeda Hirokazu)
  47. I Am Not Madame Bovary (Feng Xiaogang)
  48. The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu)
  49. Rules Don't Apply (Warren Beatty)
  50. Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)
  51. Lost and Beautiful (Pietro Marcello)
  52. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Zack Snyder)
  53. The Academy of Muses (José Luis Guerín)
  54. Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie)
  55. Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
  56. Café Society (Woody Allen)
  57. Aferim! (Radu Jude)
  58. Always Shine (Sophia Takal)
  59. The Love Witch (Anna Biller)
  60. Neruda (Pablo Larraín)
  61. Don't Breathe (Fede Álvarez)
  62. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone)
  63. Valley of Love (Guillaume Nicloux)
  64. The Mermaid (Stephen Chow)
  65. Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (Terrence Malick)
  66. Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier)
  67. The Invitation (Karyn Kusama)
  68. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  69. Indignation (James Schamus)
  70. Moana (John Musker & Ron Clements)
  71. The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer)
  72. The Nice Guys (Shane Black)
  73. 10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg)
  74. Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson)
  75. I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (Marianne Lambert)
  76. I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)
  77. A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino)
  78. April and the Extraordinary World (Christian Desmares & Franck Ekinci)
  79. Fences (Denzel Washington)
  80. Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols)
  81. Demolition (Jean-Marc Vallée)
  82. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (David Yates)
  83. Sing Street (John Carney)
  84. Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov)
  85. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (Nicholas Stoller)
  86. X-Men: Apocalypse (Bryan Singer)
  87. Captain America: Civil War (Anthony & Joe Russo)
  88. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
  89. Doctor Strange (Scott Derrickson)
  90. Deepwater Horizon (Peter Berg)
  91. High-Rise (Ben Wheatley)
  92. Zootopia (Byron Howard & Rich Moore)
  93. The Jungle Book (Jon Favreau)
  94. American Honey (Andrea Arnold)
  95. The Magnificent Seven (Antoine Fuqua)
  96. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi)
  97. Jason Bourne (Paul Greengrass)
  98. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Ang Lee)
  99. Eye in the Sky (Gavin Hood)
  100. Nerve (Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman)
  101. The Witch: A New-England Folktale (Robert Eggers)
  102. Krisha (Trey Edward Shults)
  103. Passengers (Morten Tyldum)
  104. A Monster Calls (J.A. Bayona)
  105. Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra)
  106. The Huntsman: Winter's War (Cedric Nicolas-Troyan)
  107. Money Monster (Jodie Foster)
  108. Keanu (Peter Atencio)
  109. Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)
  110. 13th (Ava DuVernay)
  111. Lion (Garth Davis)
  112. La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
  113. Jackie (Pablo Larraín)
  114. Christine (Antonio Campos)
  115. Live by Night (Ben Affleck)
  116. Cosmos (Andrzej Żuławski)
  117. Assassin's Creed (Justin Kurzel)
  118. Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi)
  119. Deadpool (Tim Miller)
  120. Don't Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia)
  121. The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn)
  122. Now You See Me 2 (Jon M. Chu)
  123. Swiss Army Man (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
  124. Suicide Squad (David Ayer)

2015

  1. Carol (Todd Haynes)
  2. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. Blackhat (Michael Mann)
  4. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
  5. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
  6. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
  7. Mistress America (Noah Baumbach)
  8. The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro)
  9. The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson)
  10. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
  11. Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman)
  12. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie)
  13. When Marnie Was There (Yonebayashi Hiromasa)
  14. Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
  15. Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs)
  16. Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf)
  17. Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story (Michael Almereyda)
  18. L for Leisure (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
  19. The Mend (John Magary)
  20. Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry)
  21. Office (Johnnie To)
  22. The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
  23. Aloha (Cameron Crowe)
  24. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams)
  25. Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
  26. Heaven Knows What (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  27. Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
  28. P'tit Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
  29. Buzzard (Joel Potrykus)
  30. Unfriended (Leo Gabriadze)
  31. Creed (Ryan Coogler)
  32. Tangerine (Sean Baker)
  33. Baahubali: The Beginning (S. S. Rajamouli)
  34. The Walk (Robert Zemeckis)
  35. Results (Andrew Bujalski)
  36. 45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
  37. Field Niggas (Khalik Allah)
  38. Mustang (Denis Gamze Ergüven)
  39. Run All Night (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  40. Inside Out (Pete Docter)
  41. James White (Josh Mond)
  42. The Martian (Ridley Scott)
  43. Güeros (Alonso Ruizpalacios)
  44. Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
  45. Brooklyn (John Crowley)
  46. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)
  47. Joy (David O. Russell)
  48. Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
  49. The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
  50. Avengers: Age of Ultron (Joss Whedon)
  51. Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle)
  52. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (Francis Lawrence)
  53. Boy and the World (Alê Abreu)
  54. Everest (Baltasar Kormákur)
  55. Trainwreck (Judd Apatow)
  56. Ant-Man (Peyton Reed)
  57. It Follows (David Robert Mitchell)
  58. What We Do in the Shadows (Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi)
  59. Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
  60. Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad)
  61. Straight Outta Compton (F. Gary Gray)
  62. Furious 7 (James Wan)
  63. Room (Lenny Abrahamson)
  64. Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman)
  65. Meet the Patels (Geeta V. Patel & Ravi V. Patel)
  66. The Wolfpack (Crystal Moselle)
  67. Song of Lahore (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Andy Schocken)
  68. Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen)
  69. Spectre (Sam Mendes)
  70. Son of Saul (Nemes László)
  71. The Gift (Joel Edgerton)
  72. Chi-Raq (Spike Lee)
  73. Macbeth (Justin Kurzel)
  74. The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  75. Black Mass (Scott Cooper)
  76. In the Heart of the Sea (Ron Howard)
  77. Beasts of No Nation (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
  78. The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper)
  79. The Big Short (Adam McKay)
  80. Kingsman: The Secret Service (Matthew Vaughn)
  81. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)

2014

  1. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To)
  3. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  4. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
  6. Gone Girl (David Fincher)
  7. Manakamana (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
  8. Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry)
  9. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
  10. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Takahata Isao)
  11. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  12. The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)
  13. The Immigrant (James Gray)
  14. Coherence (James Ward Byrkit)
  15. Non-Stop (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  16. John Wick (Chad Stahelski and David Leitch)
  17. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
  18. Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt)
  19. Exhibition (Joanna Hogg)
  20. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
  21. Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho)
  22. Actress (Robert Greene)
  23. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
  24. Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)
  25. Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman)
  26. The Lego Movie (Phil Lord & Chris Miller)
  27. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
  28. Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier)
  29. Locke (Steven Knight)
  30. Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn)
  31. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Anthony & Joe Russo)
  32. Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)
  33. X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer)
  34. Selma (Ava DuVernay)
  35. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (Francis Lawrence)
  36. Big Hero 6 (Don Hall & Chris Williams)
  37. Fury (David Ayer)
  38. The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum)
  39. Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  40. The Theory of Everything (James Marsh)
  41. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Marc Webb)

2013

  1. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
  2. Passion (Brian De Palma)
  3. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
  4. The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai)
  5. The Wind Rises (Miyazaki Hayao)
  6. Drug War (Johnnie To)
  7. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
  8. Bastards (Claire Denis)
  9. To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
  10. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
  11. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  12. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Alain Resnais)
  13. The Unspeakable Act (Dan Sallitt)
  14. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
  15. The World's End (Edgar Wright)
  16. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
  17. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
  18. Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski)
  19. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
  20. Gravity (Alfonso Cuáron)
  21. Viola (Matías Piñeiro)
  22. The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola)
  23. Her (Spike Jonze)
  24. Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
  25. Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass)
  26. Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
  27. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Francis Lawrence)
  28. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
  29. Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro)
  30. American Hustle (David O. Russell)
  31. Star Trek Into Darkness (J.J. Abrams)
  32. Frozen (Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee)
  33. Simon Killer (Antonio Campos)
  34. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Peter Jackson)
  35. Iron Man 3 (Shane Black)
  36. Man of Steel (Zack Snyder)
  37. Elysium (Neill Blomkamp)
  38. The Heat (Paul Feig)
  39. World War Z (Marc Forster)
  40. Monsters University (Dan Scanlon)
  41. The Wolverine (James Mangold)
  42. Now You See Me (Louis Leterrier)
  43. Thor: The Dark World (Alan Taylor)
  44. Olympus Has Fallen (Antoine Fuqua)
  45. Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud)
  46. Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)

2012

  1. The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
  4. Oki's Movie (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
  6. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
  7. This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panâhi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
  8. It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)
  9. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
  10. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  11. The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry)
  12. Barbara (Christian Petzold)
  13. The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)
  14. Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson)
  15. The Wise Kids (Stephen Cone)
  16. Looper (Rian Johnson)
  17. Cloud Atlas (Lana & Lilly Wachowski & Tom Tykwer)
  18. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
  19. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
  20. Prometheus (Ridley Scott)
  21. Skyfall (Sam Mendes)
  22. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
  23. Dredd (Pete Travis)
  24. Argo (Ben Affleck)
  25. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (David Gelb)
  26. Life of Pi (Ang Lee)
  27. The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan)
  28. The Avengers (Joss Whedon)
  29. The Hunger Games (Gary Ross)
  30. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Peter Jackson)
  31. The Amazing Spider-Man (Marc Webb)
  32. Les Misérables (Tom Hooper)
  33. The Words (Brian Klugman & Lee Sternthal)

2011

  1. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
  2. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
  3. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
  4. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
  5. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  6. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
  7. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
  8. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher)
  9. Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
  10. Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (Anno Hideaki)
  11. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird)
  12. The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
  13. House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)
  14. Pina (Wim Wenders)
  15. Unknown (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  16. Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
  17. Impolex (Alex Ross Perry)
  18. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
  19. Moneyball (Bennett Miller)
  20. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)
  21. Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
  22. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Guy Ritchie)
  23. Pariah (Dee Rees)
  24. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson)
  25. The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)
  26. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (David Yates)
  27. Ip Man 2 (Wilson Yip)
  28. Bridesmaids (Paul Feig)
  29. X-Men: First Class (Matthew Vaughn)
  30. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
  31. War Horse (Steven Spielberg)
  32. Life in a Day (Kevin Macdonald)
  33. Captain America: The First Avenger (Joe Johnston)
  34. Thor (Kenneth Branagh)

2010

  1. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright)
  2. The Social Network (David Fincher)
  3. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polański)
  4. The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
  5. Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
  6. Unstoppable (Tony Scott)
  7. Mundane History (Anocha Suwichakornpong)
  8. White Material (Claire Denis)
  9. Resident Evil: Afterlife (Paul W.S. Anderson)
  10. True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  11. Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)
  12. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
  13. Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  14. Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
  15. Inside Job (Charles Ferguson)
  16. Inception (Christopher Nolan)
  17. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
  18. Ip Man (Wilson Yip)
  19. The Fighter (David O. Russell)
  20. Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)
  21. 3 Idiots (Rajkumar Hirani)
  22. The King's Speech (Tom Hooper)
  23. Tangled (Nathan Greno & Byron Howard)
  24. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (David Yates)
  25. Despicable Me (Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud)
  26. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Michael Apted)
  27. The A-Team (Joe Carnahan)
  28. Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau)
  29. Mao's Last Dancer (Bruce Beresford)
  30. The Karate Kid (Harold Zwart)
  31. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (David Slade)
  32. Extraordinary Measures (Tom Vaughn)

2009

  1. Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. Public Enemies (Michael Mann)
  3. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
  4. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
  5. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  6. Two Lovers (James Gray)
  7. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
  8. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
  9. 24 City (Jia Zhangke)
  10. Up (Pete Docter)
  11. Orphan (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  12. The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda)
  13. Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (Anno Hideaki)
  14. Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
  15. A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  16. Duplicity (Tony Gilroy)
  17. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
  18. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams)
  19. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Tony Scott)
  20. Coraline (Henry Selick)
  21. Red Cliff (John Woo)
  22. Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie)
  23. Avatar (James Cameron)
  24. Taken (Pierre Morel)
  25. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates)
  26. Gamer (Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor)
  27. Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn)
  28. Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
  29. Invictus (Clint Eastwood)
  30. Angels & Demons (Ron Howard)
  31. Michael Jackson's This Is It (Kenny Ortega)
  32. 17 Again (Burr Steers)
  33. The Soloist (Joe Wright)
  34. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood)
  35. (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb)
  36. Bride Wars (Gary Winick)
  37. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay)

2008

  1. Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
  2. Speed Racer (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  3. La France (Serge Bozon)
  4. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
  5. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
  7. My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-wai)
  8. Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito)
  9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
  10. Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  11. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
  12. Iron Man (Jon Favreau)
  13. Viva (Anna Biller)
  14. Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
  15. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg)
  16. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
  17. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
  18. Bolt (Chris Williams & Byron Howard)
  19. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Andrew Adamson)
  20. The Forbidden Kingdom (Rob Minkoff)
  21. Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster)
  22. Hancock (Peter Berg)
  23. 27 Dresses (Anne Fletcher)
  24. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Rob Cohen)
  25. The Express (Gary Fleder)
  26. Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke)
  27. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Dave Filoni)
  28. Jumper (Doug Liman)

2007

  1. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. Election 2 (Johnnie To)
  3. Zodiac (David Fincher)
  4. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  5. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)
  6. Exiled (Johnnie To)
  7. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
  8. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)
  9. Hannah Takes the Stairs (Joe Swanberg)
  10. Election (Johnnie To)
  11. Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
  12. The Host (Bong Joon-ho)
  13. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
  14. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  15. Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud)
  16. Resident Evil: Extinction (Russell Mulcahy)
  17. Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
  18. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
  19. The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
  20. The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass)
  21. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (David Yates)
  22. Spider-Man 3 (Sam Raimi)
  23. National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Jon Turteltaub)
  24. Redacted (Brian De Palma)
  25. Live Free or Die Hard (Len Wiseman)
  26. Blades of Glory (Will Speck & Josh Gordon)
  27. Stardust (Matthew Vaughn)
  28. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Gore Verbinski)
  29. Rush Hour 3 (Brett Ratner)
  30. The Great Debaters (Denzel Washington)
  31. Mr. Bean's Holiday (Steve Bendelack)
  32. Shrek the Third (Chris Miller)
  33. Transformers (Michael Bay)
  34. The Game Plan (Andy Fickman)
  35. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Tim Story)
  36. The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz)
  37. The Last Mimzy (Bob Shaye)
  38. Evan Almighty (Tom Shadyac)
  39. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
  40. Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie)

2006

  1. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
  2. Miami Vice (Michael Mann)
  3. Deja Vu (Tony Scott)
  4. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
  5. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
  6. Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
  7. Breaking News (Johnnie To)
  8. Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
  9. Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)
  10. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
  11. The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma)
  12. Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)
  13. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
  14. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
  15. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
  16. The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel)
  17. Mission: Impossible III (J.J. Abrams)
  18. Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou)
  19. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski)
  20. Happy Feet (George Miller)
  21. Cars (John Lasseter)
  22. Night at the Museum (Shawn Levy)
  23. X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner)
  24. Monster House (Gil Kenan)
  25. The DaVinci Code (Ron Howard)
  26. Eragon (Stefan Fangmeier)

2005

  1. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. The New World (Terrence Malick)
  4. Throw Down (Johnnie To)
  5. The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (Adam Curtis)
  6. The World (Jia Zhangke)
  7. Caché (Michael Haneke)
  8. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
  9. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
  10. Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
  11. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
  12. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
  13. L'Intrus (Claire Denis)
  14. Eros (Omnibus)
  15. House of Wax (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  16. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
  17. King Kong (Peter Jackson)
  18. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
  19. Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
  20. Serenity (Joss Whedon)
  21. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas)
  22. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mike Newell)
  23. March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet)
  24. Cinderella Man (Ron Howard)
  25. Ong-Bak (Prachya Pinkaew)
  26. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson)
  27. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton)
  28. Madagascar (Eric Darnell & Tom McGarth)
  29. Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn)
  30. Zathura (Jon Favreau)
  31. Fantastic Four (Tim Story)
  32. Are We There Yet? (Brian Levant)

2004

  1. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
  3. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
  4. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  5. Hero (Zhang Yimou)
  6. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
  7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
  8. Collateral (Michael Mann)
  9. The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
  10. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
  11. Kill Bill: Volume 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
  12. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
  13. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
  14. S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Panh Rithy)
  15. Primer (Shane Carruth)
  16. The Five Obstructions (Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier)
  17. Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
  18. Zatoichi (Kitano Takeshi)
  19. Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak)
  20. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
  21. Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
  22. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón)
  23. The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)
  24. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Alexander Witt)
  25. The Ladykillers (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  26. Ray (Taylor Hackford)
  27. Mean Girls (Mark Waters)
  28. The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  29. National Treasure (Jon Turteltaub)
  30. Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson & Kelly Asbury & Conrad Vernon)
  31. The Final Cut (Omar Naim)
  32. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay)
  33. The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich)
  34. DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (Rawsom Marshall Thurber)
  35. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (Brad Silberling)
  36. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (Garry Marshall)
  37. Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock)

2003

  1. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
  2. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. Friday Night (Claire Denis)
  4. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
  5. Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke)
  6. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Watanabe Shinichirō)
  7. Intolerable Cruelty (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  8. From the Other Side (Chantal Akerman)
  9. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
  10. The School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
  11. The Matrix Reloaded (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  12. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)
  13. The Matrix Revolutions (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  14. X2 (Bryan Singer)
  15. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski)
  16. The Italian Job (F. Gary Gray)
  17. Big Fish (Tim Burton)
  18. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (Tim Johnson & Patrick Gilmore)
  19. Freaky Friday (Mark Waters)
  20. Phone Booth (Joel Schumacher)
  21. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Jonathan Mostow)
  22. Bruce Almighty (Tom Shadyac)
  23. Holes (Andrew Davis)
  24. The Haunted Mansion (Rob Minkoff)

2002

  1. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
  2. Spirited Away (Miyazaki Hayao)
  3. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. All About Lily Chou-Chou (Iwai Shunji)
  5. Hush! (Hashiguchi Ryōsuke)
  6. Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
  7. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  8. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
  9. Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
  10. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
  11. Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine)
  12. Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)
  13. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
  14. Resident Evil (Paul W.S. Anderson)
  15. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
  16. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
  17. Spider-Man (Sam Raimi)
  18. Lilo & Stitch (Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois)
  19. The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman)
  20. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Chris Columbus)
  21. Happy Times (Zhang Yimou)
  22. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (George Lucas)
  23. Equilibrium (Kurt Wimmer)
  24. Return to Never Land (Robin Budd)
  25. Ice Age (Chris Wedge)
  26. The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce)
  27. Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce)
  28. Scooby-Doo (Raja Gosnell)

2001

  1. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
  2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
  4. Ali (Michael Mann)
  5. La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel)
  6. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  7. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
  8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
  9. Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  10. Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh)
  11. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
  12. Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter)
  13. Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer)
  14. Lumumba (Raoul Peck)
  15. Shrek (Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson)
  16. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell)
  17. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Chris Columbus)
  18. The Road Home (Zhang Yimou)
  19. Rush Hour 2 (Brett Ratner)
  20. Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Kirk Wise & Gary Trousdale)
  21. The Princess Diaries (Garry Marshall)
  22. Osmosis Jones (Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly)

2000

  1. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
  2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
  3. Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
  4. Gohatto (Ōshima Nagisa)
  5. Bamboozled (Spike Lee)
  6. The Emperor's New Groove (Mark Dindal)
  7. Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)
  8. Pola X (Leos Carax)
  9. You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
  10. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
  11. Mission to Mars (Brian De Palma)
  12. Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
  13. Mission: Impossible II (John Woo)
  14. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  15. Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
  16. But I'm a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit)
  17. X-Men (Bryan Singer)
  18. Fantasia/2000 (Omnibus)
  19. American Psycho (Mary Harron)
  20. Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
  21. Shower (Zhang Yang)
  22. Gone in Sixty Seconds (Dominic Sena)
  23. Dinosaur (Ralph Zondag & Eric Leighton)
  24. Bring It On (Peyton Reed)
  25. Remember the Titans (Boaz Yakin)
  26. Battlefield Earth (Roger Christian)

1999

  1. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
  2. The Matrix (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  3. The Insider (Michael Mann)
  4. Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki Hayao)
  5. New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara)
  6. eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
  7. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  8. The Straight Story (David Lynch)
  9. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter)
  10. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
  11. Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders)
  12. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (George Lucas)
  13. Fight Club (David Fincher)

1998

  1. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan)
  2. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
  3. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
  4. Festen (Thomas Vinterberg)
  5. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
  6. Belly (Hype Williams)
  7. Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma)
  8. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
  9. The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  10. Ronin (John Frankenheimer)
  11. The Mask of Zorro (Martin Campbell)
  12. Mulan (Barry Cook & Tony Bancroft)
  13. The Prince of Egypt (Brenda Chapman & Steve Hickner & Simon Wells)
  14. Rush Hour (Brett Ratner)
  15. A Bug's Life (John Lasseter)
  16. The Parent Trap (Nancy Meyers)
  17. The Hanging Garden (Thom Fitzgerald)

1997

  1. Lost Highway (David Lynch)
  2. Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
  4. Face/Off (John Woo)
  5. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
  6. Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
  7. Underground (Emir Kusturica)
  8. Gummo (Harmony Korine)
  9. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
  10. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  11. Nénette et Boni (Claire Denis)
  12. Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  13. The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye)
  14. Fire (Deepa Mehta)
  15. Gattaca (Andrew Niccol)
  16. Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen)
  17. Contact (Robert Zemeckis)
  18. Anastasia (Don Bluth & Gary Goldman)
  19. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
  20. Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)
  21. Hercules (John Musker & Ron Clements)
  22. Batman & Robin (Joel Schumacher)

1996

  1. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
  2. Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
  4. Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang)
  5. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
  6. Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  7. Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma)
  8. Bound (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  9. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
  10. Ghost in the Shell (Oshii Mamoru)
  11. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
  12. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)
  13. Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann)
  14. The Rock (Michael Bay)
  15. Space Jam (Joe Pytka)
  16. Matilda (Danny DeVito)

1995

  1. Heat (Michael Mann)
  2. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
  3. Safe (Todd Haynes)
  4. Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow)
  5. The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
  6. Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
  7. Toy Story (John Lasseter)
  8. River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt)
  9. The Glass Shield (Charles Burnett)
  10. Die Hard With a Vengeance (John McTiernan)
  11. I Can't Sleep (Claire Denis)
  12. Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin)
  13. Pocahontas (Mike Gabriel & Eric Goldberg)
  14. Apollo 13 (Ron Howard)
  15. Balto (Simon Wells)
  16. Crimson Tide (Tony Scott)
  17. Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
  18. Jumanji (Joe Johnston)
  19. Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher)

1994

  1. To Live (Zhang Yimou)
  2. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
  3. Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  4. Speed (Jan de Bont)
  5. True Lies (James Cameron)
  6. Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce)
  7. Go Fish (Rose Troche)
  8. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
  9. Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle)
  10. The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  11. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
  12. The Lion King (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff)

1993

  1. Hard-Boiled (John Woo)
  2. Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)
  3. Naked (Mike Leigh)
  4. Once Upon a Time in China II (Tsui Hark)
  5. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)
  6. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  7. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
  8. The Piano (Jane Campion)
  9. Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
  10. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
  11. Nitrate Kisses (Barbara Hammer)
  12. True Romance (Tony Scott)
  13. The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee)
  14. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
  15. The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou)
  16. Baraka (Ron Fricke)
  17. Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron)
  18. Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh)
  19. Falling Down (Joel Schumacher)
  20. Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon)

1992

  1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
  2. Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui Hark)
  3. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
  4. Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
  5. The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
  6. Simple Men (Hal Hartley)
  7. Deep Cover (Bill Duke)
  8. Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
  9. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
  10. Raising Cain (Brian De Palma)
  11. No Fear, No Die (Claire Denis)
  12. Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash)
  13. Candyman (Bernard Rose)
  14. Batman Returns (Tim Burton)
  15. A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner)
  16. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
  17. Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce)
  18. Aladdin (John Musker & Ron Clements)
  19. Lorenzo's Oil (George Miller)

1991

  1. Trust (Hal Hartley)
  2. The Killer (John Woo)
  3. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  4. Barton Fink (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron)
  6. Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders)
  7. Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang)
  8. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
  9. Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston)
  10. Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)

1990

  1. The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
  2. Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
  3. Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)
  4. Akira (Ōtomo Katsuhiro)
  5. To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett)
  6. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
  7. The Nasty Girl (Michael Verhoeven)
  8. Back to the Future Part III (Robert Zemeckis)
  9. Miller's Crossing (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  10. The Hunt for Red October (John McTiernan)
  11. Die Hard 2 (Renny Harlin)
  12. The Bonfire of the Vanities (Brian De Palma)
  13. Home Alone (Chris Columbus)

1989

  1. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
  2. 4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Éric Rohmer)
  3. Casualties of War (Brian De Palma)
  4. 36 Fillette (Catherine Breillat)
  5. Miracle Mile (Steve De Jarnatt)
  6. Chocolat (Claire Denis)
  7. sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
  8. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
  9. Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis)
  10. When Harry Met Sally... (Rob Reiner)
  11. Batman (Tim Burton)
  12. The Little Mermaid (John Musker & Ron Clements)
  13. Glory (Edward Zwick)
  14. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah Chechik)

1988

  1. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
  2. The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)
  3. Die Hard (John McTiernan)
  4. Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou)
  5. The Land Before Time (Don Bluth)
  6. Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
  7. Big (Penny Marshall)
  8. Shoot to Kill (Roger Spottiswoode)

1987

  1. Ishtar (Elaine May)
  2. RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)
  3. Raising Arizona (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  4. Sign "O" the Times (Prince)
  5. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
  6. The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)
  7. Predator (John McTiernan)
  8. Tampopo (Itami Jūzō)
  9. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
  10. Maurice (James Ivory)
  11. River's Edge (Tim Hunter)
  12. Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson)

1986

  1. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
  2. Manhunter (Michael Mann)
  3. The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer)
  4. Something Wild (Jonathan Demme)
  5. Aliens (James Cameron)
  6. Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier)
  7. Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter)
  8. My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears)
  9. Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph)
  10. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes)
  11. Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch)
  12. Top Gun (Tony Scott)
  13. Wise Guys (Brian De Palma)

1985

  1. Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
  2. Ran (Kurosawa Akira)
  3. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
  4. Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
  5. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
  6. Witness (Peter Weir)
  7. Commando (Mark L. Lester)
  8. Blood Simple (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  9. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
  10. Rocky IV (Sylvester Stallone)

1984

  1. L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
  2. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
  3. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
  4. Choose Me (Alan Rudolph)
  5. The Terminator (James Cameron)
  6. Dune (David Lynch)
  7. Bless Their Little Hearts (Billy Woodberry)
  8. Body Double (Brian De Palma)
  9. Gremlins (Joe Dante)
  10. Repo Man (Alex Cox)
  11. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg)
  12. Amadeus (Milos Forman)
  13. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
  14. Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli)
  15. The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen)

1983

  1. Sans soleil (Chris Marker)
  2. Possession (Andrzej Żuławski)
  3. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
  4. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
  5. Pauline at the Beach (Éric Rohmer)
  6. Testament (Lynne Littman)
  7. Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden)
  8. Scarface (Brian De Palma)
  9. Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
  10. The Keep (Michael Mann)
  11. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Ōshima Nagisa)

1982

  1. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
  2. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
  3. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
  4. The Thing (John Carpenter)
  5. The Conductor (Andrzej Wajda)
  6. Mad Max 2 (George Miller)
  7. Special Treatment (Goran Paskaljević)
  8. Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen)
  9. First Blood (Ted Kotcheff)
  10. Tootsie (Sydney Pollack)
  11. Rocky III (Sylvester Stallone)
  12. Annie (John Huston)

1981

  1. The Aviator's Wife (Éric Rohmer)
  2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
  3. Thief (Michael Mann)
  4. Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
  5. The Last Metro (François Truffaut)
  6. Confidence (Szabó István)
  7. The Wobblies (Stewart Bird & Deborah Shaffer)
  8. Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
  9. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (Connie Field)
  10. Gallipoli (Peter Weir)

1980

  1. Kagemusha (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
  3. In a Year With 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  4. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
  5. Every Man for Himself (Jean-Luc Godard)
  6. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
  7. Wise Blood (John Huston)
  8. Cruising (William Friedkin)
  9. Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
  10. The Left-Handed Woman (Peter Handke)
  11. Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
  12. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
  13. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
  14. Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
  15. Bye Bye Brazil (Carlos Diegues)
  16. My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong)
  17. Home Movies (Brian De Palma)
  18. Angi Vera (Gabór Pál)
  19. Best Boy (Ira Wohl)
  20. Mad Max (George Miller)
  21. It's My Turn (Claudia Weill)
  22. The Blues Brothers (John Landis)

1979

  1. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  2. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
  3. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (Chuck Jones)
  4. Remember My Name (Alan Rudolph)
  5. Alien (Ridley Scott)
  6. The Green Room (François Truffaut)
  7. The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard)
  8. Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
  9. Tent of Miracles (Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
  10. Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  11. The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  12. The Muppet Movie (James Frawley)
  13. La Luna (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  14. With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade (Lorraine Gray)
  15. Love on the Run (François Truffaut)
  16. Newsfront (Phillip Noyce)
  17. The Europeans (James Ivory)
  18. Rocky II (Sylvester Stallone)

1978

  1. Perceval le Gallois (Éric Rohmer)
  2. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
  3. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
  4. Halloween (John Carpenter)
  5. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier)
  6. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
  7. Dossier 51 (Michel Deville)
  8. Girlfriends (Claudia Weill)
  9. Violette Nozière (Claude Chabrol)
  10. The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
  11. Women (Mészáros Márta)
  12. The Fury (Brian De Palma)
  13. Riddles of the Sphinx (Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen)
  14. A Wedding (Robert Altman)
  15. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
  16. Bloodbrothers (Robert Mulligan)
  17. Jaws 2 (Jeannot Szwarc)

1977

  1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
  2. Providence (Alain Resnais)
  3. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  4. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
  5. Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa Akira)
  6. In the Realm of the Senses (Ōshima Nagisa)
  7. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
  8. The American Friend (Wim Wenders)
  9. Star Wars (George Lucas)
  10. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
  11. One Sings, the Other Doesn't (Agnès Varda)
  12. Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
  13. Between the Lines (Joan Micklin Silver)
  14. The Man Who Loved Women (François Truffaut)
  15. Padre Padrone (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
  16. Short Eyes (Robert M. Young)
  17. Roseland (James Ivory)
  18. 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  19. The Lacemaker (Claude Goretta)
  20. Citizens Band (Jonathan Demme)
  21. The Wonderful Crook (Claude Goretta)
  22. Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog)
  23. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (John Lounsbery & Wolfgang Reitherman)

1976

  1. The Marquise of O... (Éric Rohmer)
  2. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
  3. All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula)
  4. Carrie (Brian De Palma)
  5. Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  6. Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May)
  7. Sérail (Eduardo de Gregorio)
  8. Small Change (François Truffaut)
  9. Grey Gardens (Albert Maysles & David Maysles & Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer)
  10. Network (Sidney Lumet)
  11. The Memory of Justice (Marcel Ophuls)
  12. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Alain Tanner)
  13. Car Wash (Michael Schultz)
  14. Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
  15. Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
  16. Obsession (Brian De Palma)
  17. A Star Is Born (Frank Pierson)

1975

  1. Nashville (Robert Altman)
  2. Moses und Aron (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  3. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
  4. Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson)
  5. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  6. Female Trouble (John Waters)
  7. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
  8. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
  9. Xala (Ousmane Sembène)
  10. The Middle of the World (Alain Tanner)
  11. The Story of Adèle H. (François Truffaut)
  12. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)
  13. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta)
  14. Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray)
  15. Smile (Michael Ritchie)
  16. Hearts of the West (Howard Zieff)
  17. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
  18. Black Moon (Louis Malle)

1974

  1. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
  2. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
  3. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  4. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
  5. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
  6. Stavisky... (Alain Resnais)
  7. Chinatown (Roman Polański)
  8. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
  9. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)
  10. Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma)
  11. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas)
  12. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
  13. Daisy Miller (Peter Bogdanovich)
  14. Dodes'ka-den (Kurosawa Akira)
  15. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)
  16. Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle)
  17. Old-Fashioned Woman (Martha Coolidge)

1973

  1. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
  2. Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)
  3. Day for Night (François Truffaut)
  4. Pink Flamingos (John Waters)
  5. The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  6. Red Psalm (Jancsó Miklós)
  7. Sisters (Brian De Palma)
  8. Love (Makk Károly)
  9. American Graffiti (George Lucas)
  10. Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
  11. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  12. Kid Blue (James Frawley)
  13. Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse)
  14. Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox)
  15. Get to Know Your Rabbit (Brian De Palma)

1972

  1. Two English Girls (François Truffaut)
  2. Avanti! (Billy Wilder)
  3. The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May)
  4. Love in the Afternoon (Éric Rohmer)
  5. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
  6. Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson)
  7. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
  8. Junior Bonner (Sam Peckinpah)
  9. Ulzana's Raid (Robert Aldrich)
  10. A Sense of Loss (Marcel Ophuls)
  11. Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
  12. Images (Robert Altman)
  13. The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson)
  14. Prime Cut (Michael Ritchie)
  15. Heat (Paul Morrissey)
  16. Play It As It Lays (Frank Perry)
  17. The Assassination of Trotsky (Joseph Losey)
  18. Family Life (Ken Loach)
  19. Bad Company (Robert Benton)

1971

  1. A New Leaf (Elaine May)
  2. The Devils (Ken Russell)
  3. Claire's Knee (Éric Rohmer)
  4. Othon (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  5. Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
  6. Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol)
  7. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  8. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
  9. Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  10. Une femme douce (Robert Bresson)
  11. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
  12. Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda)
  13. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
  14. Wanda (Barbara Loden)
  15. The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  16. Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
  17. W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev)
  18. Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
  19. The Debut (Gleb Panfilov)
  20. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog)
  21. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
  22. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles)
  23. Bed and Board (François Truffaut)
  24. The Garden of Delights (Carlos Saura)
  25. A Safe Place (Henry Jaglom)
  26. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
  27. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
  28. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
  29. Born to Win (Ivan Passer)

1970

  1. My Night at Maud's (Éric Rohmer)
  2. Boy (Ōshima Nagisa)
  3. Destroy, She Said (Marguerite Duras)
  4. The Wild Child (François Truffaut)
  5. One Plus One (Jean-Luc Godard)
  6. Tristana (Luis Buñuel)
  7. Le Gai Savoir (Jean-Luc Godard)
  8. L'Enfance nue (Maurice Pialat)
  9. Mandabi (Ousmane Sembène)
  10. Kes (Ken Loach)
  11. The Joke (Jaromil Jireš)
  12. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
  13. Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  14. Dionysus in '69 (Brian De Palma)
  15. Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma)
  16. The Aristocats (Wolfgang Reitherman)
  17. The Christine Jorgensen Story (Irving Rapper)
  18. The Boys in the Band (William Friedkin)

1969

  1. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
  2. The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
  3. La Chamade (Alain Cavalier)
  4. The Red and the White (Jancsó Miklós)
  5. Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  6. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky)
  7. Ådalen 31 (Bo Widerberg)
  8. Oh! What a Lovely War (Richard Attenborough)
  9. Lions Love (Agnès Varda)
  10. Duet for Cannibals (Susan Sontag)
  11. Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut)
  12. Model Shop (Jacques Demy)
  13. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
  14. Les Créatures (Agnès Varda)
  15. The Wedding Party (Brian De Palma & Wilford Leach & Cynthia Munroe)

1968

  1. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanely Kubrick)
  3. Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
  5. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
  6. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polański)
  7. Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel)
  8. Far From Vietnam (Jean-Luc Godard & Joris Ivens & William Klein & Claude Lelouch & Chris Marker & Alain Resnais & Agnès Varda)
  9. Le Départ (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  10. Samurai Rebellion (Kobayashi Masaki)
  11. The Boston Strangler (Richard Fleischer)
  12. La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
  13. Les Biches (Claude Chabrol)
  14. The Firemen's Ball (Milos Forman)
  15. Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dušan Makavejev)
  16. Faces (John Cassavetes)
  17. Greetings (Brian De Palma)
  18. Hunger (Henning Carlsen)
  19. Young Törless (Volker Schlöndorff)
  20. Capricious Summer (Jiří Menzel)
  21. Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli)
  22. Murder à la Mod (Brian De Palma)
  23. A Report on the Party and the Guests (Jan Němec)

1967

  1. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
  2. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
  3. The War Game (Peter Watkins)
  4. Point Blank (John Boorman)
  5. The Koumiko Mystery (Chris Marker)
  6. The War Is Over (Alain Resnais)
  7. Portrait of Jason (Shirley Clarke)
  8. The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
  9. Dont Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker)
  10. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
  11. Elvira Madigan (Bo Widerberg)
  12. The Hunt (Carlos Saura)
  13. The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  14. Three (Aleksandar Petrović)
  15. Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)
  16. Father (Szabó István)
  17. Daisies (Věra Chytilová)
  18. The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman)

1966

  1. Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  2. The Gospel According to St. Mathew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  3. Tokyo Olympiad (Ichikawa Kon)
  4. Le bonheur (Agnès Varda)
  5. Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
  6. Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  7. The Brig (Jonas Mekas)
  8. Masculin féminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
  9. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev)
  11. Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman)
  12. Shakespeare Wallah (James Ivory)
  13. The Shameless Old Lady (René Allio)
  14. King & Country (Joseph Losey)
  15. Sandra (Luchino Visconti)

1965

  1. The Love Eterne (Li Han-hsiang)
  2. Une femme mariée (Jean-Luc Godard)
  3. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  5. Life Upside Down (Alain Jessua)
  6. Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel)
  7. Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  8. The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
  9. Mickey One (Arthur Penn)
  10. Nobody Waved Good-bye (Don Owen)

1964

  1. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
  2. Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara Hiroshi)
  3. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer)
  5. The Servant (Joseph Losey)
  6. Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy)
  7. Harakiri (Kobayashi Masaki)
  8. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
  9. The Cool World (Shirley Clarke)
  10. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
  11. A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
  12. I fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
  13. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)
  14. Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet)
  15. Alone Across the Pacific (Ichikawa Kon)
  16. Lilith (Robert Rossen)
  17. Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)

1963

  1. High and Low (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. Muriel, or the Time of Return (Alain Resnais)
  3. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. 8½ (Federico Fellini)
  6. Knife in the Water (Roman Polański)
  7. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
  8. Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  9. Dr. No (Terence Young)
  10. Hallelujah the Hills (Adolfas Mekas)
  11. All the Way Home (Alex Segal)
  12. The Sword in the Stone (Wolfgang Reitherman)

1962

  1. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
  2. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
  3. Lola (Jacques Demy)
  4. Cléo From 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda)
  5. Paris Belongs to Us (Jacques Rivette)
  6. Jules et Jim (François Truffaut)
  7. Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
  8. Yojimbo (Akira Kuorsawa)
  9. L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  10. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
  11. La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  12. Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut)

1961

  1. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  3. West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
  4. Shadows (John Cassavetes)
  5. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
  6. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Wolfgang Reitherman & Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi)

1960

  1. Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
  2. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
  4. The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)
  5. The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis)
  6. Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)
  7. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)

1959

  1. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
  2. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
  3. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol)
  5. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
  6. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Kobayashi Masaki)
  7. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
  8. Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi)

1958

  1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
  3. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)

1957

  1. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
  2. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
  3. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)

1956

  1. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. The Searchers (John Ford)
  4. Godzilla (Honda Ishirō)
  5. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
  6. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)
  7. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
  8. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)

1955

  1. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
  2. Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
  3. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
  4. The Long Gray Line (John Ford)
  5. Moonfleet (Fritz Lang)
  6. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin)
  7. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
  8. To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
  9. Lady and the Tramp (Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson)
  10. Killer's Kiss (Stanley Kubrick)

1954

  1. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. A Star Is Born (George Cukor)
  3. The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)
  4. The Saga of Anatahan (Josef von Sternberg)
  5. Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  6. Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)
  7. Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini)
  8. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
  9. Knave of Hearts (René Clément)

1953

  1. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
  2. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
  3. I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. Peter Pan (Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson)

1952

  1. The Quiet Man (John Ford)
  2. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
  3. The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
  4. Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
  5. Les Enfants Terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville)
  6. High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)

1951

  1. Rashomon (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. The Tall Target (Anthony Mann)
  3. An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)
  4. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi & Hamilton Luske & Wilfred Jackson)

1950

  1. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
  2. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  3. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
  4. Cinderella (Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi)
  5. No Way Out (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

1949

  1. The Heiress (William Wyler)
  2. A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  3. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
  4. I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller)
  5. Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann)

1948

  1. Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
  2. Fort Apache (John Ford)
  3. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  4. Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur)
  5. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
  6. T-Men (Anthony Mann)

1947

  1. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
  2. Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
  3. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)

1946

  1. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
  3. Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur)
  4. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
  5. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
  6. Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
  7. The Locket (John Brahm)
  8. Gilda (Charles Vidor)

1945

  1. The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
  2. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
  3. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
  4. My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis)

1944

  1. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
  2. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
  3. Laura (Otto Preminger)

1943

  1. The Seventh Victim (Josef von Sternberg)
  2. I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
  3. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
  4. The Gang's All Here (Busby Berkeley)
  5. The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
  6. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
  7. Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
  8. Bataan (Tay Garnett)

1942

  1. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
  2. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
  3. Bambi (David Hand)
  4. Quiet Please, Murder (John Larkin)

1941

  1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
  2. Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
  3. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
  5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Victor Fleming)

1940

  1. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
  2. Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske)
  3. Fantasia (Omnibus)
  4. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster)

1939

  1. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
  2. Stagecoach (John Ford)
  3. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
  4. The Women (George Cukor)
  5. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
  6. Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock)

1938

  1. The Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)
  2. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. Holiday (George Cukor)
  4. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand)
  5. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)

1937

  1. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
  2. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
  4. A Star Is Born (William A. Wellman)

1936

  1. Fury (Fritz Lang)
  2. Toni (Jean Renoir)
  3. Allá en el Rancho Grande (Fernando de Fuentes)

1935

  1. Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
  2. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)

1934

  1. Fantômas (Fejős Pál)

1933

  1. M (Fritz Lang)
  2. Only Yesterday (John M. Stahl)
  3. Liebelei (Max Ophuls)
  4. Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
  5. Marius (Alexander Korda)
  6. 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon)

1932

  1. Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)
  2. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
  3. Scarface (Howard Hawks)
  4. Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg)
  5. The Mask of Fu Manchu (Charles Brabin)
  6. The Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille)

1931

  1. City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
  2. Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg)
  3. Tabu (F.W. Murnau)
  4. Frankenstein (James Whale)
  5. The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman)

1930

  1. Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
  2. Earth (Alexander Dovzhenko)
  3. The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)
  4. The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)

1929

  1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  2. Napoléon (Abel Gance)
  3. Spione (Fritz Lang)
  4. Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
  5. Applause (Rouben Mamoulian)
  6. Thunderbolt (Josef von Sternberg)

1928

  1. The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
  2. The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim)
  3. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton)
  4. Show People (King Vidor)
  5. The Circus (Charles Chaplin)

1927

  1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau)
  2. The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
  3. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang)
  4. Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
  5. It (Clarence Badger)

1926

  1. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
  2. Silence (Rupert Julian)

1925

  1. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
  2. The Merry Widow (Erich von Stroheim)
  3. The Miracle of the Wolves (Raymond Bernard)

1924

  1. Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
  2. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
  3. The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh)
  4. HE Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjöström)
  5. The Marriage Circle (Ernst Lubitsch)

1923

  1. Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)

1922

  1. Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty)

1921

  1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)

1920

  1. Tih-Minh (Louis Feuillade)

1918

  1. Mickey (F. Richard Jones & James Young)

1916

  1. Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)

1915

  1. The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith)
  2. The Cheat (Cecil B. DeMille)

1914

  1. Fantômas (Louis Feuillade)

1913

  1. The Last Days of Pompeii (Mario Caserini & Eleuterio Rodolfi)

Polls Lists 11/28/22

Decades: 2020s, 2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, Pre-1920s

A version of this without films released more than two years after their premiere year.
A version of this with only films released more than two years after their premiere year.
The feature films I have seen that have not received a US commercial release.

2023

  1. Walk Up (2022, Hong Sang-soo)
  2. Pacifiction (2022, Albert Serra)
  3. Human Flowers of Flesh (2022, Helena Wittmann)
  4. Dry Ground Burning (2022, Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós)
  5. Will-o’-the-Wisp (2022, João Pedro Rodrigues)

2022

  1. The Novelist's Film (2022, Hong Sang-soo)
  2. EO (2022, Jerzy Skolimowski)
  3. Hanagatami (2017, Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  4. Il buco (2021, Michelangelo Frammartino)
  5. The Fabelmans (2022, Steven Spielberg)
  6. A New Old Play (2021, Qiu Jiongjiong)
  7. RRR (2022, S. S. Rajamouli)
  8. Decision to Leave (2022, Park Chan-wook)
  9. Face (2009, Tsai Ming-liang)
  10. The Girl and the Spider (2021, Ramon and Silvan Zürcher)
  11. Crimes of the Future (2022, David Cronenberg)
  12. In Front of Your Face (2021, Hong Sang-soo)
  13. TÁR (2022, Todd Field)
  14. Introduction (2021, Hong Sang-soo)
  15. El Gran Movimiento (2021, Kiro Russo)
  16. The Cathedral (2021, Ricky D'Ambrose)
  17. Nope (2022, Jordan Peele)
  18. Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012, Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  19. Fabian, or Going to the Dogs (2021, Domink Graf)
  20. Benediction (2021, Terence Davies)
  21. Armageddon Time (2022, James Gray)
  22. Los Conductos (2020, Camilo Restrepo)
  23. Wood and Water (2021, Jonas Bak)
  24. Onoda (2021, Arthur Harari)
  25. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022, Laura Poitras)
  26. Ahed's Knee (2021, Nadav Lapid)
  27. Riotsville, U.S.A. (2022, Sierra Pettengill)
  28. A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021, Payal Kapadia)
  29. Electra, My Love (1974, Jancsó Miklós)
  30. Expedition Content (2020, Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati)
  31. Hit the Road (2021, Panâh Panâhi)
  32. Amsterdam (2022, David O. Russell)
  33. Belle (2021, Hosoda Mamoru)
  34. Ambulance (2022, Michael Bay)
  35. Rock Bottom Riser (2021, Fern Silva)
  36. Top Gun: Maverick (2022, Joseph Kosinski)
  37. Call Jane (2022, Phyllis Nagy)
  38. Free Chol Soo Lee (2022, Eugene Yi & Julie Ha)
  39. Triangle of Sadness (2022, Ruben Östlund)
  40. Terra Femme (2021, Courtney Stephens)
  41. Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022, George Miller)
  42. Mija (2022, Isabel Castro)
  43. Seven Weeks (2014, Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  44. Happening (2021, Audrey Diwan)
  45. Bones and All (2022, Luca Guadagnino)
  46. God's Creatures (2022, Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer)
  47. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2022, Park Sung-hoo)
  48. Something in the Dirt (2022, Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead)
  49. Dear Mr. Brody (2021, Keith Maitland)
  50. A Love Song (2022, Max Walker-Silverman)
  51. Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2021, Bianca Stigter)
  52. Casablanca Beats (2021, Nabil Ayouch)
  53. Framing Agnes (2022, Chase Joynt)
  54. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022, Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
  55. Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  56. The Whale (2022, Darren Aronofsky)
  57. Babylon (2022, Damien Chazelle)

2021

  1. Drive My Car (2021, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  2. Memoria (2021, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  3. Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976, Jacques Rivette)
  4. Tale of Cinema (2005, Hong Sang-soo)
  5. Days (2020, Tsai Ming-liang)
  6. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (2020, C.W. Winter & Anders Edström)
  7. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021, Alexandre Koberidze)
  8. The Woman Who Ran (2020, Hong Sang-soo)
  9. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  10. Beginning (2020, Déa Kulumbegashvili)
  11. West Side Story (2021, Steven Spielberg)
  12. Wife of a Spy (2020, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  13. Malmkrog (2020, Cristi Puiu)
  14. Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000, Hong Sang-soo)
  15. Just Don't Think I'll Scream (2019, Frank Beauvais)
  16. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021, Anno Hideaki)
  17. Labyrinth of Cinema (2019, Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  18. Annette (2021, Leos Carax)
  19. Licorice Pizza (2021, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  20. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2020, Jia Zhangke)
  21. The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021, Joel Coen)
  22. The Disciple (2020, Chaitanya Tamhane)
  23. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021, Radu Jude)
  24. Procession (2021, Robert Greene)
  25. The Velvet Underground (2021, Todd Haynes)
  26. France (2021, Bruno Dumont)
  27. The Power of the Dog (2021, Jane Campion)
  28. The Power of Kangwon Province (1998, Hong Sang-soo)
  29. Red Rocket (2021, Sean Baker)
  30. Notturno (2020, Gianfranco Rosi)
  31. The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021, Wes Anderson)
  32. Fauna (2020, Nicolás Pereda)
  33. The Souvenir: Part II (2021, Joanna Hogg)
  34. The Metamorphosis of Birds (2020, Catarina Vasconcelos)
  35. Benedetta (2021, Paul Verhoeven)
  36. Parallel Mothers (2021, Pedro Almodóvar)
  37. Arrebato (1979, Iván Zulueta)
  38. The Inheritance (2020, Ephraim Asili)
  39. Monster Hunter (2020, Paul W.S. Anderson)
  40. Cry Macho (2021, Clint Eastwood)
  41. Isabella (2020, Matías Piñeiro)
  42. El Planeta (2021, Amalia Ulman)
  43. The Witches of the Orient (2021, Julien Faraut)
  44. Two Lottery Tickets (2016, Paul Negoescu)
  45. The Salt of Tears (2020, Philippe Garrel)
  46. Petite Maman (2021, Céline Sciamma)
  47. Her Socialist Smile (2020, John Gianvito)
  48. małni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (2020, Sky Hopinka)
  49. Undine (2020, Christian Petzold)
  50. The Card Counter (2021, Paul Schrader)
  51. The American Sector (2020, Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez)
  52. Zeros and Ones (2021, Abel Ferrara)
  53. The Worst Person in the World (2021, Joachim Trier)
  54. Nobody (2021, Ilya Naishuller)
  55. Cliff Walkers (2021, Zhang Yimou)
  56. Bergman Island (2021, Mia Hansen-Løve)
  57. The Matrix Resurrections (2021, Lana Wachowski)
  58. No Sudden Move (2021, Steven Soderbergh)
  59. Titane (2021, Julia Ducournau)
  60. I Was a Simple Man (2021, Christopher Makoto Yogi)
  61. Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (2020, Horvát Lili)
  62. Dune: Part One (2021, Denis Villeneuve)
  63. Eternals (2021, Chloé Zhao)
  64. Wrath of Man (2021, Guy Ritchie)
  65. Old (2021, M. Night Shyamalan)
  66. Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021, Stefano Sollima)
  67. The Woman in the Window (2021, Joe Wright)
  68. The Courier (2020, Dominic Cooke)
  69. The Green Knight (2021, David Lowery)
  70. The Last Vermeer (2019, Dan Friedkin)
  71. Spencer (2021, Pablo Larraín)
  72. Pig (2021, Michael Sarnoski)
  73. Life in a Day 2020 (2021, Kevin Macdonald)

2020

  1. Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo)
  2. The Hole (1998, Tsai Ming-liang)
  3. Martin Eden (2019, Pietro Marcello)
  4. To the Ends of the Earth (2019, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  5. Hill of Freedom (2014, Hong Sang-soo)
  6. Fourteen (2019, Dan Sallitt)
  7. Raining in the Mountain (1979, King Hu)
  8. The Grand Bizarre (2018, Jodie Mack)
  9. I Was at Home, But... (2019, Angela Schanelec)
  10. The Traitor (2019, Marco Bellocchio)
  11. Heimat Is a Space in Time (2019, Thomas Heise)
  12. First Cow (2019, Kelly Reichardt)
  13. Vitalina Varela (2019, Pedro Costa)
  14. The Whistlers (2019, Corneliu Porumboiu)
  15. Lovers Rock (2020, Steve McQueen)
  16. Ghost Tropic (2019, Bas Devos)
  17. Tesla (2020, Michael Almereyda)
  18. Liberté (2019, Albert Serra)
  19. Bacurau (2019, Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
  20. The Wild Goose Lake (2019, Diao Yinan)
  21. City Hall (2020, Frederick Wiseman)
  22. Sibyl (2019, Justine Triet)
  23. Red, White and Blue (2020, Steve McQueen)
  24. Education (2020, Steve McQueen)
  25. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020, Bill & Turner Ross)
  26. Mangrove (2020, Steve McQueen)
  27. Zombi Child (2019, Bertrand Bonello)
  28. I Wish I Knew (2010, Jia Zhangke)
  29. Young Ahmed (2019, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  30. A Girl Missing (2019, Kōji Fukada)
  31. Fire Will Come (2019, Óliver Laxe)
  32. Time (2020, Garrett Bradley)
  33. Alex Wheatle (2020, Steve McQueen)
  34. Collective (2019, Alexander Nanau)
  35. Da 5 Bloods (2020, Spike Lee)
  36. Ham on Rye (2019, Tyler Taormina)
  37. Nomadland (2020, Chloé Zhao)
  38. Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020, Kirsten Johnson)
  39. Mercury in Retrograde (2017, Michael Glover Smith)
  40. MS Slavic 7 (2019, Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell)
  41. Wasp Network (2019, Olivier Assayas)
  42. Sunrise/Sunset (2019, Jong Ougie Pak)
  43. Let Them All Talk a.k.a. The Fall of 2019 (2020, Steven Soderbergh)
  44. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020, Eliza Hittman)
  45. The Midnight Sky (2020, George Clooney)
  46. Lingua Franca (2019, Isabel Sandoval)
  47. Ema (2019, Pablo Larraín)
  48. Mank (2020, David Fincher)
  49. Sound of Metal (2019, Darius Marder)
  50. Tenet (2020, Christopher Nolan)
  51. Greenland (2020, Ric Roman Waugh)
  52. Minari (2020, Lee Isaac Chung)
  53. I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020, Charlie Kaufman)
  54. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020, Aaron Sorkin)
  55. WW84 (2020, Patty Jenkins)
  56. Hamilton (2020, Thomas Kail)
  57. Mulan (2020, Niki Caro)

2019

  1. La Flor (2018, Mariano Llinás)
  2. Asako I & II (2018, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  3. Transit (2018, Christian Petzold)
  4. Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018, Bi Gan)
  5. I Heard You Paint Houses (2019, Martin Scorsese)
  6. Grass (2018, Hong Sang-soo)
  7. The Fate of Lee Khan (1973, King Hu)
  8. Ash Is Purest White (2018, Jia Zhangke)
  9. Parasite (2019, Bong Joon-ho)
  10. High Life (2018, Claire Denis)
  11. Police Story (1985, Jackie Chan)
  12. An Elephant Sitting Still (2018, Hu Bo)
  13. Uncut Gems (2019, Josh & Benny Safdie)
  14. Her Smell (2018, Alex Ross Perry)
  15. In My Room (2018, Ulrich Köhler)
  16. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (2019, Quentin Tarantino)
  17. The Image Book (2018, Jean-Luc Godard)
  18. Equation to an Unknown (1980, Dietrich de Velsa)
  19. Marriage Story (2019, Noah Baumbach)
  20. Hotel by the River (2018, Hong Sang-soo)
  21. Synonyms (2019, Nadav Lapid)
  22. "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians" (2018, Radu Jude)
  23. Little Women (2019, Greta Gerwig)
  24. Too Late to Die Young (2018, Dominga Sotomayor)
  25. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (2018, Roberto Minervini)
  26. A Hidden Life (2019, Terrence Malick)
  27. Pain and Glory (2019, Pedro Almodóvar)
  28. Non-Fiction (2018, Olivier Assayas)
  29. Knives Out (2019, Rian Johnson)
  30. 3 Faces (2018, Jafar Panâhi)
  31. Ad Astra (2019, James Gray)
  32. Better Days (2019, Derek Tsang)
  33. Richard Jewell (2019, Clint Eastwood)
  34. John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019, Chad Stahelski)
  35. Dark Waters (2019, Todd Haynes)
  36. The Souvenir (2019, Joanna Hogg)
  37. Us (2019, Jordan Peele)
  38. Ray & Liz (2018, Richard Billingham)
  39. The Competition (2016, Claire Simon)
  40. The World Is Full of Secrets (2018, Graham Swon)
  41. Police Story 2 (1988, Jackie Chan)
  42. The Load (2018, Ognjen Glavonić)
  43. The Dead Don't Die (2019, Jim Jarmusch)
  44. Diamantino (2018, Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt)
  45. Atlantics (2019, Mati Diop)
  46. The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (2019, Herman Yau)
  47. High Flying Bird (2019, Steven Soderbergh)
  48. Two Plains & a Fancy (2018, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
  49. The Wandering Soap Opera (2017, Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento)
  50. Feast of the Epiphany (2018, Michael Koresky & Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman)
  51. Conjuring the Rolling Thunder Re-vue (2019, Martin Scorsese)
  52. Motherless Brooklyn (2019, Edward Norton)
  53. Domino (2019, Brian De Palma)
  54. The Plagiarists (2019, Peter Parlow)
  55. A Faithful Man (2018, Louis Garrel)
  56. Relaxer (2018, Joel Potrykus)
  57. Diane (2018, Kent Jones)
  58. Gemini Man (2019, Ang Lee)
  59. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019, J.J. Abrams)
  60. Ready or Not (2019, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett)
  61. Happy Death Day 2U (2019, Christopher Landon)
  62. Climax (2018, Gaspar Noé)
  63. Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy (2018, Yuen Woo-ping)
  64. Glass (2019, M. Night Shyamalan)
  65. Honeyland (2019, Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov)
  66. 21 Bridges (2019, Brian Kirk)
  67. Knife + Heart (2018, Yann Gonzalez)
  68. Toy Story 4 (2019, Josh Cooley)
  69. Alita: Battle Angel (2019, Robert Rodriguez)
  70. Avengers: Endgame (2019, Anthony & Joe Russo)
  71. Under the Silver Lake (2018, David Robert Mitchell)
  72. Crawl (2019, Alexandre Aja)
  73. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019, Céline Sciamma)
  74. The Lighthouse (2019, Robert Eggers)
  75. The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & Kathleen Hepburn)
  76. Grave of the Fireflies (1988, Takahata Isao)
  77. 6 Underground (2019, Michael Bay)
  78. The Farewell (2019, Lulu Wang)
  79. Joker (2019, Todd Phillips)
  80. Shadow (2018, Zhang Yimou)
  81. Sunset (2018, László Nemes)
  82. Hustlers (2019, Lorene Scafaria)
  83. Midsommar (2019, Ari Aster)
  84. In Fabric (2018, Peter Strickland)
  85. Booksmart (2019, Olivia Wilde)
  86. Jojo Rabbit (2019, Taika Waititi)

2018

  1. Legend of the Mountain (1979, King Hu)
  2. First Reformed (2017, Paul Schrader)
  3. The Other Side of the Wind (2018, Orson Welles)
  4. The Day After (2017, Hong Sang-soo)
  5. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018, Christopher McQuarrie)
  6. Claire's Camera (2017, Hong Sang-soo)
  7. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  8. Bisbee '17 (2018, Robert Greene)
  9. Monrovia, Indiana (2018, Frederick Wiseman)
  10. Burning (2018, Lee Chang-dong)
  11. Zama (2017, Lucrecia Martel)
  12. Let the Sunshine In (2017, Claire Denis)
  13. Cold Water (1994, Olivier Assayas)
  14. If Beale Street Could Talk (2018, Barry Jenkins)
  15. Before We Vanish (2017, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  16. Isle of Dogs (2018, Wes Anderson)
  17. Happy as Lazzaro (2018, Alice Rohrwacher)
  18. Golden Exits (2017, Alex Ross Perry)
  19. The Mule (2018, Clint Eastwood)
  20. Unfriended: Dark Web (2018, Stephen Susco)
  21. Support the Girls (2018, Andrew Bujalski)
  22. A Star Is Born (2018, Bradley Cooper)
  23. Mrs. Hyde (2017, Serge Bozon)
  24. Welcome to Marwen (2018, Robert Zemeckis)
  25. The Great Silence (1968, Sergio Corbucci)
  26. The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (1986, Jean-Luc Godard)
  27. Good Manners (2017, Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra)
  28. Western (2017, Valeska Grisebach)
  29. Ismael's Ghosts (2017, Arnaud Desplechin)
  30. The Commuter (2018, Jaume Collet-Serra)
  31. Infinite Football (2018, Corneliu Porumboiu)
  32. The House That Jack Built (2018, Lars von Trier)
  33. Caniba (2017, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
  34. PROTOTYPE (2017, Blake Williams)
  35. Notes on an Appearance (2018, Ricky D'Ambrose)
  36. Classical Period (2018, Ted Fendt)
  37. BlacKkKlansman (2018, Spike Lee)
  38. Roma (2018, Alfonso Cuarón)
  39. Lover for a Day (2017, Philippe Garrel)
  40. Suspiria (2018, Luca Guadagnino)
  41. The Rider (2017, Chloé Zhao)
  42. The Great Pretender (2018, Nathan Silver)
  43. Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018, RaMell Ross)
  44. Shoplifters (2018, Koreeda Hirokazu)
  45. The Favourite (2018, Yorgos Lanthimos)
  46. Den of Thieves (2018, Christian Gudegast)
  47. The Green Fog (2017, Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson)
  48. Game Night (2018, John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein)
  49. Cold War (2018, Paweł Pawlikowski)
  50. The Great Buddha+ (2017, Huang Hsin-yao)
  51. Black Panther (2018, Ryan Coogler)
  52. The 15:17 to Paris (2018, Clint Eastwood)
  53. Sorry to Bother You (2018, Boots Riley)
  54. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018, Bob Persichetti & Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman)
  55. Minding the Gap (2018, Bing Liu)
  56. Gemini (2017, Aaron Katz)
  57. Let the Corpses Tan (2017, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
  58. Unsane (2018, Steven Soderbergh)
  59. Scarred Hearts (2016, Radu Jude)
  60. Milla (2018, Valérie Massadian)
  61. Ready Player One (2018, Steven Spielberg)
  62. The Wild Boys (2017, Bertrand Mandico)
  63. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (2017, Travis Wilkerson)
  64. 24 Frames (2017, Abbas Kiarostami)
  65. Maison du bonheur (2017, Sofia Bohdanowicz)
  66. En el Séptimo Día (2017, Jim McKay)
  67. Electro-Pythagoras: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett (2016, Luke Fowler)
  68. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018, Peyton Reed)
  69. Incredibles 2 (2018, Brad Bird)
  70. Cam (2018, Daniel Goldhaber)
  71. Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018, Ron Howard)
  72. The Guilty (2018, Gustav Möller)
  73. Widows (2018, Steve McQueen)
  74. The Old Man & the Gun (2018, David Lowery)
  75. Ava (2017, Sadaf Foroughi)
  76. Memoir of War (2017, Emmanuel Finkiel)
  77. Avengers: Infinity War (2018, Anthony & Joe Russo)
  78. The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018, Desiree Akhavan)
  79. Werewolf (2016, Ashley McKenzie)
  80. Leave No Trace (2018, Debra Granik)
  81. First Man (2018, Damien Chazelle)
  82. Orders (2017, Eric Marsh & Andrew Stasiulis)
  83. The Land of Steady Habits (2018, Nicole Holofcener)
  84. On Her Shoulders (2018, Alexandria Bombach)
  85. Shirkers (2018, Sandi Tan)
  86. A Bread Factory – Part Two: Walk With Me a While (2018, Patrick Wang)
  87. Love, Cecil (2017, Lisa Immordino Vreeland)
  88. A Bread Factory – Part One: For the Sake of Gold (2018, Patrick Wang)
  89. 12 Days (2017, Raymond Depardon)
  90. Madeline's Madeline (2018, Josephine Decker)
  91. Saving Brinton (2017, Tommy Haines & John Richard & Andrew Sherburne)
  92. Hereditary (2018, Ari Aster)
  93. People's Republic of Desire (2018, Wu Hao)
  94. Eighth Grade (2018, Bo Burnham)
  95. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017, Bruno Dumont)
  96. Searching (2018, Aneesh Chaganty)
  97. You Were Never Really Here (2017, Lynne Ramsay)
  98. Vice (2018, Adam McKay)
  99. Crazy Rich Asians (2018, Jon M. Chu)
  100. Le Redoutable (2017, Michel Hazanavicius)

2017

  1. Taipei Story (1985, Edward Yang)
  2. On the Beach at Night Alone (2017, Hong Sang-soo)
  3. Daughter of the Nile (1987, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  4. The Human Surge (2016, Eduardo Williams)
  5. The Work (2017, Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous)
  6. Faces Places (2017, Agnès Varda & JR)
  7. Princess Cyd (2017, Stephen Cone)
  8. Good Time (2017, Josh & Benny Safdie)
  9. Phantom Thread (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  10. Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017, S. S. Rajamouli)
  11. By the Time It Gets Dark (2016, Anocha Suwichakornpong)
  12. The Post (2017, Steven Spielberg)
  13. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016, Paul W.S. Anderson)
  14. 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017, Robin Campillo)
  15. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017, Rian Johnson)
  16. Chung Kuo – China (1972, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  17. Lady Bird (2017, Greta Gerwig)
  18. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017, Noah Baumbach)
  19. The Son of Joseph (2016, Eugène Green)
  20. Call Me by Your Name (2017, Luca Guadagnino)
  21. The Lost City of Z (2016, James Gray)
  22. Personal Shopper (2016, Olivier Assayas)
  23. Nocturama (2016, Bertrand Bonello)
  24. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017, Frederick Wiseman)
  25. Song to Song (2017, Terrence Malick)
  26. John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017, Chad Stahelski)
  27. Marjorie Prime (2017, Michael Almereyda)
  28. The Ornithologist (2016, João Pedro Rodrigues)
  29. Wonderstruck (2017, Todd Haynes)
  30. The Florida Project (2017, Sean Baker)
  31. Starless Dreams (2016, Mehrdad Oskouei)
  32. Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017, S. Craig Zahler)
  33. Hermia & Helena (2016, Matías Piñeiro)
  34. Downsizing (2017, Alexander Payne)
  35. Person to Person (2017, Dustin Guy Defa)
  36. A Quiet Passion (2016, Terence Davies)
  37. Get Out (2017, Jordan Peele)
  38. Escapes (2017, Michael Almereyda)
  39. The Beguiled (2017, Sofia Coppola)
  40. Your Name. (2016, Shinkai Makoto)
  41. Last Flag Flying (2017, Richard Linklater)
  42. The Unknown Girl (2016, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  43. Staying Vertical (2016, Alain Guiraudie)
  44. Thirst Street (2017, Nathan Silver)
  45. Alien: Covenant (2017, Ridley Scott)
  46. Logan Lucky (2017, Steven Soderbergh)
  47. Baby Driver (2017, Edgar Wright)
  48. Rat Film (2016, Theo Anthony)
  49. Kékszakállú (2016, Gastón Solnicki)
  50. Girls Trip (2017, Malcolm D. Lee)
  51. Mudbound (2017, Dee Rees)
  52. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016, Bill Morrison)
  53. The Death of Louis XIV (2016, Albert Serra)
  54. In Transit (2015, Albert Maysles & Lynn True & David Usui & Nelson Walker & Ben Wu)
  55. Félicité (2017, Alain Gomis)
  56. Mimosas (2016, Óliver Laxe)
  57. Split (2016, M. Night Shyamalan)
  58. A Cure for Wellness (2016, Gore Verbinski)
  59. Okja (2017, Bong Joon-ho)
  60. The Future Perfect (2016, Nele Wohlatz)
  61. Bronx Gothic (2017, Andrew Rossi)
  62. The Other Side of Hope (2017, Aki Kaurismäki)
  63. The Square (2017, Ruben Östlund)
  64. 4 Days in France (2016, Jérôme Reybaud)
  65. My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (2016, Dash Shaw)
  66. Wonder Wheel (2017, Woody Allen)
  67. Harmonium (2016, Kōji Fukada)
  68. Graduation (2016, Cristian Mungiu)
  69. Last Men in Aleppo (2017, Feras Fayyad)
  70. Blade Runner 2049 (2017, Denis Villeneuve)
  71. Thelma (2017, Joachim Trier)
  72. All the Money in the World (2017, Ridley Scott)
  73. Dunkirk (2017, Christopher Nolan)
  74. Jane (2017, Brett Morgen)
  75. After the Storm (2016, Koreeda Hirokazu)
  76. Columbus (2017, Kogonada)
  77. Spettacolo (2017, Jeff Malmberg & Chris Shellen)
  78. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (2016, Juho Kuosmanen)
  79. The Great Wall (2016, Zhang Yimou)
  80. A Ghost Story (2017, David Lowery)
  81. Happy Death Day (2017, Christopher Landon)
  82. Coco (2017, Lee Unkrich)
  83. Casting JonBenet (2017, Kitty Green)
  84. The Fate of the Furious (2017, F. Gary Gray)
  85. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017, James Gunn)
  86. Beach Rats (2017, Eliza Hittman)
  87. The Lego Batman Movie (2017, Chris McKay)
  88. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017, Martin McDonagh)
  89. The Shape of Water (2017, Guillermo del Toro)
  90. Raw (2016, Julia Ducournau)
  91. Atomic Blonde (2017, David Leitch)
  92. The Big Sick (2017, Michael Showalter)
  93. Cézanne et moi (2016, Danièle Thompson)
  94. The Void (2016, Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski)
  95. Wind River (2017, Taylor Sheridan)
  96. The Disaster Artist (2017, James Franco)
  97. Kong: Skull Island (2017, Jordan Vogt-Roberts)
  98. Ingrid Goes West (2017, Matt Spicer)
  99. Wonder Woman (2017, Patty Jenkins)
  100. Logan (2017, James Mangold)
  101. Gook (2017, Justin Chon)
  102. As You Are (2016, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte)
  103. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017, Yorgos Lanthimos)
  104. I, Tonya (2017, Craig Gillespie)
  105. mother! (2017, Darren Aronofsky)

2016

  1. A Touch of Zen (1971, King Hu)
  2. Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu)
  3. The Terrorizers (1986, Edward Yang)
  4. Cemetery of Splendour (2015, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  5. Silence (2016, Martin Scorsese)
  6. Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke)
  7. Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong Sang-soo)
  8. Manchester by the Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan)
  9. Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson)
  10. Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade)
  11. Happy Hour (2015, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  12. My Golden Days (2015, Arnaud Desplechin)
  13. Afternoon (2015, Tsai Ming-liang)
  14. Certain Women (2016, Kelly Reichardt)
  15. Only Yesterday (1991, Takahata Isao)
  16. The Handmaiden (2016, Park Chan-wook)
  17. O.J.: Made in America (2016, Ezra Edelman)
  18. SPL II: A Time for Consequences (2015, Soi Cheang)
  19. Kaili Blues (2015, Bi Gan)
  20. Elle (2016, Paul Verhoeven)
  21. Kate Plays Christine (2016, Robert Greene)
  22. Things to Come (2016, Mia Hansen-Løve)
  23. Sunset Song (2015, Terence Davies)
  24. Sully (2016, Clint Eastwood)
  25. Paterson (2016, Jim Jarmusch)
  26. Creepy (2016, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  27. Aquarius (2016, Kleber Mendonça Filho)
  28. Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (2015, Stephen Cone)
  29. I Am Not Your Negro (2016, Raoul Peck)
  30. The Shallows (2016, Jaume Collet-Serra)
  31. Shin Godzilla (2016, Anno Hideaki)
  32. Everybody Wants Some!! (2016, Richard Linklater)
  33. Love & Friendship (2016, Whit Stillman)
  34. The Other Side (2015, Roberto Minervini)
  35. 20th Century Women (2016, Mike Mills)
  36. Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins)
  37. Three (2016, Johnnie To)
  38. The Edge of Seventeen (2016, Kelly Fremon Craig)
  39. The Illinois Parables (2016, Deborah Stratman)
  40. In the Shadow of Women (2015, Philippe Garrel)
  41. Fire at Sea (2016, Gianfranco Rosi)
  42. Belladonna of Sadness (1973, Yamamoto Eiichi)
  43. Tower (2016, Keith Maitland)
  44. Julieta (2016, Pedro Almodóvar)
  45. Kubo and the Two Strings (2016, Travis Knight)
  46. Hail, Caesar! (2016, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  47. Allied (2016, Robert Zemeckis)
  48. Rogue One (2016, Gareth Edwards)
  49. Weiner (2016, Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg)
  50. De Palma (2015, Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow)
  51. Our Little Sister (2015, Koreeda Hirokazu)
  52. I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016, Feng Xiaogang)
  53. The Treasure (2015, Corneliu Porumboiu)
  54. Rules Don't Apply (2016, Warren Beatty)
  55. Knight of Cups (2015, Terrence Malick)
  56. Lost and Beautiful (2015, Pietro Marcello)
  57. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016, Zack Snyder)
  58. The Academy of Muses (2016, José Luis Guerín)
  59. Hell or High Water (2016, David Mackenzie)
  60. Arrival (2016, Denis Villeneuve)
  61. Café Society (2016, Woody Allen)
  62. Aferim! (2015, Radu Jude)
  63. Always Shine (2016, Sophia Takal)
  64. The Love Witch (2016, Anna Biller)
  65. Neruda (2016, Pablo Larraín)
  66. Don't Breathe (2016, Fede Álvarez)
  67. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016, Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone)
  68. Valley of Love (2015, Guillaume Nicloux)
  69. The Mermaid (2016, Stephen Chow)
  70. Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (2016, Terrence Malick)
  71. Green Room (2015, Jeremy Saulnier)
  72. The Invitation (2015, Karyn Kusama)
  73. The Lobster (2015, Yorgos Lanthimos)
  74. Indignation (2016, James Schamus)
  75. Moana (2016, John Musker & Ron Clements)
  76. The Fits (2015, Anna Rose Holmer)
  77. The Nice Guys (2016, Shane Black)
  78. Là-bas (2006, Chantal Akerman)
  79. Los Sures (1984, Diego Echeverria)
  80. 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016, Dan Trachtenberg)
  81. Hacksaw Ridge (2016, Mel Gibson)
  82. I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (2015, Marianne Lambert)
  83. I, Daniel Blake (2016, Ken Loach)
  84. Mekong Hotel (2012, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  85. A Bigger Splash (2015, Luca Guadagnino)
  86. April and the Extraordinary World (2015, Christian Desmares & Franck Ekinci)
  87. Fences (2016, Denzel Washington)
  88. Midnight Special (2016, Jeff Nichols)
  89. Demolition (2015, Jean-Marc Vallée)
  90. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016, David Yates)
  91. Sing Street (2016, John Carney)
  92. Francofonia (2015, Alexander Sokurov)
  93. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016, Nicholas Stoller)
  94. X-Men: Apocalypse (2016, Bryan Singer)
  95. Captain America: Civil War (2016, Anthony & Joe Russo)
  96. No Home Movie (2015, Chantal Akerman)
  97. Doctor Strange (2016, Scott Derrickson)
  98. Deepwater Horizon (2016, Peter Berg)
  99. High-Rise (2015, Ben Wheatley)
  100. Zootopia (2016, Byron Howard & Rich Moore)
  101. The Jungle Book (2016, Jon Favreau)
  102. American Honey (2016, Andrea Arnold)
  103. The Magnificent Seven (2016, Antoine Fuqua)
  104. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016, Taika Waititi)
  105. Jason Bourne (2016, Paul Greengrass)
  106. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016, Ang Lee)
  107. Eye in the Sky (2015, Gavin Hood)
  108. Nerve (2016, Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman)
  109. The Witch: A New-England Folktale (2015, Robert Eggers)
  110. Krisha (2015, Trey Edward Shults)
  111. Passengers (2016, Morten Tyldum)
  112. A Monster Calls (2016, J.A. Bayona)
  113. Embrace of the Serpent (2015, Ciro Guerra)
  114. The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan)
  115. Money Monster (2016, Jodie Foster)
  116. Keanu (2016, Peter Atencio)
  117. Nocturnal Animals (2016, Tom Ford)
  118. 13th (2016, Ava DuVernay)
  119. Lion (2016, Garth Davis)
  120. La La Land (2016, Damien Chazelle)
  121. Jackie (2016, Pablo Larraín)
  122. Christine (2016, Antonio Campos)
  123. Live by Night (2016, Ben Affleck)
  124. Cosmos (2015, Andrzej Żuławski)
  125. Assassin's Creed (2016, Justin Kurzel)
  126. On the Silver Globe (1988, Andrzej Żuławski)
  127. Hidden Figures (2016, Theodore Melfi)
  128. Deadpool (2016, Tim Miller)
  129. Don't Think Twice (2016, Mike Birbiglia)
  130. The Neon Demon (2016, Nicolas Winding Refn)
  131. Now You See Me 2 (2016, Jon M. Chu)
  132. Swiss Army Man (2016, Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
  133. Suicide Squad (2016, David Ayer)

2015

  1. Out 1: Noli me tangere (1971, Jacques Rivette)
  2. Carol (2015, Todd Haynes)
  3. The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  4. Blackhat (2015, Michael Mann)
  5. Phoenix (2014, Christian Petzold)
  6. Jauja (2014, Lisandro Alonso)
  7. Horse Money (2014, Pedro Costa)
  8. Mistress America (2015, Noah Baumbach)
  9. The Princess of France (2014, Matías Piñeiro)
  10. The Forbidden Room (2015, Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson)
  11. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, George Miller)
  12. Two Shots Fired (2014, Martín Rejtman)
  13. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015, Christopher McQuarrie)
  14. When Marnie Was There (2014, Yonebayashi Hiromasa)
  15. Sicario (2015, Denis Villeneuve)
  16. Rebels of the Neon God (1992, Tsai Ming-liang)
  17. Magic Mike XXL (2015, Gregory Jacobs)
  18. Beloved Sisters (2014, Dominik Graf)
  19. Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story (2015, Michael Almereyda)
  20. L for Leisure (2014, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
  21. The Mend (2014, John Magary)
  22. Queen of Earth (2015, Alex Ross Perry)
  23. Office (2015, Johnnie To)
  24. The Hateful Eight (2015, Quentin Tarantino)
  25. Aloha (2015, Cameron Crowe)
  26. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015, J.J. Abrams)
  27. Clouds of Sils Maria (2014, Olivier Assayas)
  28. Heaven Knows What (2014, Josh & Benny Safdie)
  29. Bridge of Spies (2015, Steven Spielberg)
  30. P'tit Quinquin (2014, Bruno Dumont)
  31. Buzzard (2014, Joel Potrykus)
  32. Unfriended (2014, Leo Gabriadze)
  33. Creed (2015, Ryan Coogler)
  34. Tangerine (2015, Sean Baker)
  35. Baahubali: The Beginning (2015, S. S. Rajamouli)
  36. The Walk (2015, Robert Zemeckis)
  37. Results (2015, Andrew Bujalski)
  38. 45 Years (2015, Andrew Haigh)
  39. Field Niggas (2015, Khalik Allah)
  40. Mustang (2015, Denis Gamze Ergüven)
  41. Run All Night (2015, Jaume Collet-Serra)
  42. Inside Out (2015, Pete Docter)
  43. James White (2015, Josh Mond)
  44. The Martian (2015, Ridley Scott)
  45. Güeros (2014, Alonso Ruizpalacios)
  46. Spotlight (2015, Tom McCarthy)
  47. Brooklyn (2015, John Crowley)
  48. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015, Marielle Heller)
  49. Joy (2015, David O. Russell)
  50. Saint Laurent (2014, Bertrand Bonello)
  51. The Duke of Burgundy (2014, Peter Strickland)
  52. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015, Joss Whedon)
  53. Steve Jobs (2015, Danny Boyle)
  54. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015, Francis Lawrence)
  55. Boy and the World (2013, Alê Abreu)
  56. Everest (2015, Baltasar Kormákur)
  57. Trainwreck (2015, Judd Apatow)
  58. Ant-Man (2015, Peyton Reed)
  59. It Follows (2014, David Robert Mitchell)
  60. What We Do in the Shadows (2014, Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi)
  61. Ex Machina (2014, Alex Garland)
  62. Love & Mercy (2014, Bill Pohlad)
  63. Straight Outta Compton (2015, F. Gary Gray)
  64. Furious 7 (2015, James Wan)
  65. Room (2015, Lenny Abrahamson)
  66. Anomalisa (2015, Charlie Kaufman)
  67. Meet the Patels (2014, Geeta V. Patel & Ravi V. Patel)
  68. The Wolfpack (2015, Crystal Moselle)
  69. Song of Lahore (2015, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Andy Schocken)
  70. Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015, Brett Morgen)
  71. Spectre (2015, Sam Mendes)
  72. Son of Saul (2015, László Nemes)
  73. The Gift (2015, Joel Edgerton)
  74. Chi-Raq (2015, Spike Lee)
  75. Macbeth (2015, Justin Kurzel)
  76. The Revenant (2015, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  77. Black Mass (2015, Scott Cooper)
  78. In the Heart of the Sea (2015, Ron Howard)
  79. Beasts of No Nation (2015, Cary Joji Fukunaga)
  80. The Danish Girl (2015, Tom Hooper)
  81. The Big Short (2015, Adam McKay)
  82. Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014, Matthew Vaughn)
  83. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)

2014

  1. Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014, Johnnie To)
  3. Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  4. Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson)
  6. Gone Girl (2014, David Fincher)
  7. Manakamana (2013, Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
  8. Listen Up Philip (2014, Alex Ross Perry)
  9. Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater)
  10. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013, Takahata Isao)
  11. Two Days, One Night (2014, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  12. The Strange Little Cat (2013, Ramon Zürcher)
  13. The Immigrant (2013, James Gray)
  14. Coherence (2013, James Ward Byrkit)
  15. Non-Stop (2014, Jaume Collet-Serra)
  16. John Wick (2014, Chad Stahelski and David Leitch)
  17. Stranger by the Lake (2013, Alain Guiraudie)
  18. Night Moves (2013, Kelly Reichardt)
  19. Exhibition (2013, Joanna Hogg)
  20. Under the Skin (2013, Jonathan Glazer)
  21. Snowpiercer (2013, Bong Joon-ho)
  22. Actress (2014, Robert Greene)
  23. Whiplash (2014, Damien Chazelle)
  24. Archipelago (2010, Joanna Hogg)
  25. Nightcrawler (2014, Dan Gilroy)
  26. Chantal Akerman, From Here (2010, Gustavo Beck & Leonardo Ferreira)
  27. Edge of Tomorrow (2014, Doug Liman)
  28. The Lego Movie (2014, Phil Lord & Chris Miller)
  29. Unrelated (2007, Joanna Hogg)
  30. Interstellar (2014, Christopher Nolan)
  31. Blue Ruin (2013, Jeremy Saulnier)
  32. Locke (2013, Steven Knight)
  33. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014, James Gunn)
  34. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014, Anthony & Joe Russo)
  35. Foxcatcher (2014, Bennett Miller)
  36. X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014, Bryan Singer)
  37. Selma (2014, Ava DuVernay)
  38. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014, Francis Lawrence)
  39. Big Hero 6 (2014, Don Hall & Chris Williams)
  40. Fury (2014, David Ayer)
  41. The Imitation Game (2014, Morten Tyldum)
  42. Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  43. The Theory of Everything (2014, James Marsh)
  44. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014, Marc Webb)

2013

  1. Like Someone in Love (2012, Abbas Kiarostami)
  2. Passion (2012, Brian De Palma)
  3. Before Midnight (2013, Richard Linklater)
  4. The Grandmaster (2013, Wong Kar-wai)
  5. The Wind Rises (2013, Miyazaki Hayao)
  6. Drug War (2012, Johnnie To)
  7. Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach)
  8. Bastards (2013, Claire Denis)
  9. To the Wonder (2012, Terrence Malick)
  10. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013, Martin Scorsese)
  11. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  12. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012, Alain Resnais)
  13. The Unspeakable Act (2012, Dan Sallitt)
  14. A Touch of Sin (2013, Jia Zhangke)
  15. The World's End (2013, Edgar Wright)
  16. The Act of Killing (2012, Joshua Oppenheimer)
  17. Leviathan (2012, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
  18. Computer Chess (2013, Andrew Bujalski)
  19. 12 Years a Slave (2013, Steve McQueen)
  20. Gravity (2013, Alfonso Cuáron)
  21. Viola (2012, Matías Piñeiro)
  22. The Bling Ring (2013, Sofia Coppola)
  23. Her (2013, Spike Jonze)
  24. Upstream Color (2013, Shane Carruth)
  25. Captain Phillips (2013, Paul Greengrass)
  26. Stories We Tell (2012, Sarah Polley)
  27. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013, Francis Lawrence)
  28. Spring Breakers (2012, Harmony Korine)
  29. Pacific Rim (2013, Guillermo del Toro)
  30. American Hustle (2013, David O. Russell)
  31. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013, J.J. Abrams)
  32. Frozen (2013, Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee)
  33. Simon Killer (2012, Antonio Campos)
  34. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013, Peter Jackson)
  35. Iron Man 3 (2013, Shane Black)
  36. Man of Steel (2013, Zack Snyder)
  37. Elysium (2013, Neill Blomkamp)
  38. The Heat (2013, Paul Feig)
  39. World War Z (2013, Marc Forster)
  40. Monsters University (2013, Dan Scanlon)
  41. The Wolverine (2013, James Mangold)
  42. Now You See Me (2013, Louis Leterrier)
  43. Thor: The Dark World (2013, Alan Taylor)
  44. Olympus Has Fallen (2013, Antoine Fuqua)
  45. Despicable Me 2 (2013, Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud)
  46. Only God Forgives (2013, Nicolas Winding Refn)

2012

  1. The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo)
  2. Pom Poko (1994, Takahata Isao)
  3. In Another Country (2012, Hong Sang-soo)
  4. Tabu (2012, Miguel Gomes)
  5. Oki's Movie (2010, Hong Sang-soo)
  6. Lincoln (2012, Steven Spielberg)
  7. Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Wes Anderson)
  8. This Is Not a Film (2011, Jafar Panâhi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
  9. It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012, Don Hertzfeldt)
  10. We Won't Grow Old Together (1972, Maurice Pialat)
  11. Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax)
  12. The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  13. The Color Wheel (2011, Alex Ross Perry)
  14. Barbara (2012, Christian Petzold)
  15. The Loneliest Planet (2011, Julia Loktev)
  16. Resident Evil: Retribution (2012, Paul W.S. Anderson)
  17. The Wise Kids (2011, Stephen Cone)
  18. Looper (2012, Rian Johnson)
  19. Cloud Atlas (2012, Lana & Lilly Wachowski & Tom Tykwer)
  20. Cosmopolis (2012, David Cronenberg)
  21. Zero Dark Thirty (2012, Kathryn Bigelow)
  22. Prometheus (2012, Ridley Scott)
  23. Skyfall (2012, Sam Mendes)
  24. Battle Royale (2000, Fukasaku Kinji)
  25. Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino)
  26. Dredd (2012, Pete Travis)
  27. Argo (2012, Ben Affleck)
  28. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011, David Gelb)
  29. Life of Pi (2012, Ang Lee)
  30. The Dark Knight Rises (2012, Christopher Nolan)
  31. The Avengers (2012, Joss Whedon)
  32. The Hunger Games (2012, Gary Ross)
  33. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012, Peter Jackson)
  34. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012, Marc Webb)
  35. Les Misérables (2012, Tom Hooper)
  36. The Words (2012, Brian Klugman & Lee Sternthal)

2011

  1. A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang)
  2. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)
  3. The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
  4. Certified Copy (2010, Abbas Kiarostami)
  5. Meek's Cutoff (2010, Kelly Reichardt)
  6. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  7. Margaret (2011, Kenneth Lonergan)
  8. Historias extraordinarias (2008, Mariano Llinás)
  9. Film Socialisme (2010, Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011, David Fincher)
  11. Melancholia (2011, Lars von Trier)
  12. Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009, Anno Hideaki)
  13. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011, Brad Bird)
  14. The Arbor (2010, Clio Barnard)
  15. House of Tolerance (2011, Bertrand Bonello)
  16. Pina (2011, Wim Wenders)
  17. Unknown (2011, Jaume Collet-Serra)
  18. Midnight in Paris (2011, Woody Allen)
  19. Impolex (2009, Alex Ross Perry)
  20. A Separation (2011, Asghar Farhadi)
  21. Moneyball (2011, Bennett Miller)
  22. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010, Werner Herzog)
  23. Hugo (2011, Martin Scorsese)
  24. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011, Guy Ritchie)
  25. Pariah (2011, Dee Rees)
  26. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011, Tomas Alfredson)
  27. The Artist (2011, Michel Hazanavicius)
  28. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011, David Yates)
  29. Ip Man 2 (2010, Wilson Yip)
  30. Bridesmaids (2011, Paul Feig)
  31. X-Men: First Class (2011, Matthew Vaughn)
  32. Drive (2011, Nicolas Winding Refn)
  33. War Horse (2011, Steven Spielberg)
  34. Life in a Day (2011, Kevin Macdonald)
  35. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011, Joe Johnston)
  36. Thor (2011, Kenneth Branagh)

2010

  1. World on a Wire (1973, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  2. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010, Edgar Wright)
  3. The Social Network (2010, David Fincher)
  4. The Ghost Writer (2010, Roman Polański)
  5. The Strange Case of Angelica (2010, Manoel de Oliveira)
  6. House (1977, Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  7. Sweetgrass (2009, Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
  8. Unstoppable (2010, Tony Scott)
  9. Mundane History (2009, Anocha Suwichakornpong)
  10. White Material (2009, Claire Denis)
  11. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010, Paul W.S. Anderson)
  12. True Grit (2010, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  13. Trash Humpers (2009, Harmony Korine)
  14. Toy Story 3 (2010, Lee Unkrich)
  15. Dogtooth (2009, Yorgos Lanthimos)
  16. Winter's Bone (2010, Debra Granik)
  17. Inside Job (2010, Charles Ferguson)
  18. Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)
  19. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010, Banksy)
  20. Ip Man (2008, Wilson Yip)
  21. The Fighter (2010, David O. Russell)
  22. Fish Tank (2009, Andrea Arnold)
  23. 3 Idiots (2009, Rajkumar Hirani)
  24. The King's Speech (2010, Tom Hooper)
  25. Tangled (2010, Nathan Greno & Byron Howard)
  26. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010, David Yates)
  27. Despicable Me (2010, Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud)
  28. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2006, Jean-Marc Vallée)
  29. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010, Michael Apted)
  30. The A-Team (2010, Joe Carnahan)
  31. Iron Man 2 (2010, Jon Favreau)
  32. Mao's Last Dancer (2009, Bruce Beresford)
  33. The Karate Kid (2010, Harold Zwart)
  34. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010, David Slade)
  35. Extraordinary Measures (2010, Tom Vaughn)

2009

  1. Night and Day (2008, Hong Sang-soo)
  2. Public Enemies (2009, Michael Mann)
  3. 35 Shots of Rum (2008, Claire Denis)
  4. The Headless Woman (2008, Lucrecia Martel)
  5. Tokyo Sonata (2008, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  6. Two Lovers (2008, James Gray)
  7. Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino)
  8. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009, Wes Anderson)
  9. 24 City (2008, Jia Zhangke)
  10. Up (2009, Pete Docter)
  11. Orphan (2009, Jaume Collet-Serra)
  12. The Beaches of Agnès (2008, Agnès Varda)
  13. Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007, Anno Hideaki)
  14. Afterschool (2008, Antonio Campos)
  15. A Serious Man (2009, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  16. Duplicity (2009, Tony Gilroy)
  17. The Hurt Locker (2008, Kathryn Bigelow)
  18. Star Trek (2009, J.J. Abrams)
  19. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009, Tony Scott)
  20. Coraline (2009, Henry Selick)
  21. Red Cliff (2008, John Woo)
  22. Sherlock Holmes (2009, Guy Ritchie)
  23. Avatar (2009, James Cameron)
  24. Taken (2008, Pierre Morel)
  25. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, David Yates)
  26. Gamer (2009, Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor)
  27. Bronson (2008, Nicolas Winding Refn)
  28. Up in the Air (2009, Jason Reitman)
  29. Invictus (2009, Clint Eastwood)
  30. Angels & Demons (2009, Ron Howard)
  31. Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009, Kenny Ortega)
  32. 17 Again (2009, Burr Steers)
  33. The Soloist (2009, Joe Wright)
  34. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Gavin Hood)
  35. (500) Days of Summer (2009, Marc Webb)
  36. Bride Wars (2009, Gary Winick)
  37. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Michael Bay)

2008

  1. Still Life (2006, Jia Zhangke)
  2. Speed Racer (2008, Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  3. La France (2007, Serge Bozon)
  4. WALL-E (2008, Andrew Stanton)
  5. Woman on the Beach (2006, Hong Sang-soo)
  6. Wendy and Lucy (2008, Kelly Reichardt)
  7. As Tears Go By (1988, Wong Kar-wai)
  8. The Exiles (1961, Kent Mackenzie)
  9. My Blueberry Nights (2007, Wong Kar-wai)
  10. Profit motive and the whispering wind (2007, John Gianvito)
  11. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, Cristian Mungiu)
  12. Burn After Reading (2008, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  13. The Dark Knight (2008, Christopher Nolan)
  14. Iron Man (2008, Jon Favreau)
  15. Viva (2007, Anna Biller)
  16. Cloverfield (2008, Matt Reeves)
  17. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008, Steven Spielberg)
  18. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008, David Fincher)
  19. Synecdoche, New York (2008, Charlie Kaufman)
  20. Bolt (2008, Chris Williams & Byron Howard)
  21. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008, Andrew Adamson)
  22. The Forbidden Kingdom (2008, Rob Minkoff)
  23. Quantum of Solace (2008, Marc Forster)
  24. Hancock (2008, Peter Berg)
  25. 27 Dresses (2008, Anne Fletcher)
  26. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008, Rob Cohen)
  27. The Express (2008, Gary Fleder)
  28. Twilight (2008, Catherine Hardwicke)
  29. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008, Dave Filoni)
  30. Jumper (2008, Doug Liman)

2007

  1. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. Election 2 (2006, Johnnie To)
  3. Zodiac (2007, David Fincher)
  4. There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  5. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006, Tsai Ming-liang)
  6. Exiled (2006, Johnnie To)
  7. Michael Clayton (2007, Tony Gilroy)
  8. The Wayward Cloud (2005, Tsai Ming-liang)
  9. Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007, Joe Swanberg)
  10. Ten Skies (2004, James Benning)
  11. Election (2005, Johnnie To)
  12. Day Night Day Night (2006, Julia Loktev)
  13. The Host (2006, Bong Joon-ho)
  14. Hot Fuzz (2007, Edgar Wright)
  15. No Country for Old Men (2007, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  16. Persepolis (2007, Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud)
  17. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007, Russell Mulcahy)
  18. Lust, Caution (2007, Ang Lee)
  19. Ratatouille (2007, Brad Bird)
  20. The Darjeeling Limited (2007, Wes Anderson)
  21. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007, Paul Greengrass)
  22. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007, David Yates)
  23. Spider-Man 3 (2007, Sam Raimi)
  24. National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007, Jon Turteltaub)
  25. Redacted (2007, Brian De Palma)
  26. Live Free or Die Hard (2007, Len Wiseman)
  27. Blades of Glory (2007, Will Speck & Josh Gordon)
  28. Stardust (2007, Matthew Vaughn)
  29. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007, Gore Verbinski)
  30. Rush Hour 3 (2007, Brett Ratner)
  31. The Great Debaters (2007, Denzel Washington)
  32. Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007, Steve Bendelack)
  33. Shrek the Third (2007, Chris Miller)
  34. Transformers (2007, Michael Bay)
  35. The Game Plan (2007, Andy Fickman)
  36. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007, Tim Story)
  37. The Golden Compass (2007, Chris Weitz)
  38. The Last Mimzy (2007, Bob Shaye)
  39. Evan Almighty (2007, Tom Shadyac)
  40. Southland Tales (2006, Richard Kelly)
  41. Lars and the Real Girl (2007, Craig Gillespie)

2006

  1. Inland Empire (2006, David Lynch)
  2. Miami Vice (2006, Michael Mann)
  3. Sátántangó (1994, Tarr Béla)
  4. Deja Vu (2006, Tony Scott)
  5. Marie Antoinette (2006, Sofia Coppola)
  6. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu)
  7. Old Joy (2006, Kelly Reichardt)
  8. Breaking News (2004, Johnnie To)
  9. Woman Is the Future of Man (2004, Hong Sang-soo)
  10. Lady Vengeance (2005, Park Chan-wook)
  11. Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuarón)
  12. The Black Dahlia (2006, Brian De Palma)
  13. Casino Royale (2006, Martin Campbell)
  14. Army of Shadows (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville)
  15. Pan's Labyrinth (2006, Guillermo del Toro)
  16. The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan)
  17. The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese)
  18. The Devil Wears Prada (2006, David Frankel)
  19. Mission: Impossible III (2006, J.J. Abrams)
  20. Curse of the Golden Flower (2006, Zhang Yimou)
  21. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006, Gore Verbinski)
  22. Happy Feet (2006, George Miller)
  23. Cars (2006, John Lasseter)
  24. Night at the Museum (2006, Shawn Levy)
  25. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006, Brett Ratner)
  26. Monster House (2006, Gil Kenan)
  27. The DaVinci Code (2006, Ron Howard)
  28. Eragon (2006, Stefan Fangmeier)

2005

  1. Tropical Malady (2004, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. 2046 (2004, Wong Kar-wai)
  3. The New World (2005, Terrence Malick)
  4. Pulse (2001, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  5. Throw Down (2004, Johnnie To)
  6. The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (2004, Adam Curtis)
  7. The Century of the Self (2002, Adam Curtis)
  8. The World (2004, Jia Zhangke)
  9. Caché (2005, Michael Haneke)
  10. Memories of Murder (2003, Bong Joon-ho)
  11. Oldboy (2003, Park Chan-wook)
  12. Kung Fu Hustle (2004, Stephen Chow)
  13. The Squid and the Whale (2005, Noah Baumbach)
  14. Brokeback Mountain (2005, Ang Lee)
  15. L'Intrus (2004, Claire Denis)
  16. Eros (2004, Omnibus)
  17. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002, Park Chan-wook)
  18. Joint Security Area (2000, Park Chan-wook)
  19. Funny Ha Ha (2002, Andrew Bujalski)
  20. House of Wax (2005, Jaume Collet-Serra)
  21. Mysterious Skin (2004, Gregg Araki)
  22. King Kong (2005, Peter Jackson)
  23. Batman Begins (2005, Christopher Nolan)
  24. Pride & Prejudice (2005, Joe Wright)
  25. Serenity (2005, Joss Whedon)
  26. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005, George Lucas)
  27. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005, Mike Newell)
  28. March of the Penguins (2005, Luc Jacquet)
  29. Cinderella Man (2005, Ron Howard)
  30. Ong-Bak (2003, Prachya Pinkaew)
  31. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005, Andrew Adamson)
  32. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005, Tim Burton)
  33. Madagascar (2005, Eric Darnell & Tom McGarth)
  34. Layer Cake (2004, Matthew Vaughn)
  35. Zathura (2005, Jon Favreau)
  36. Fantastic Four (2005, Tim Story)
  37. Are We There Yet? (2005, Brian Levant)

2004

  1. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong Kar-wai)
  3. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen)
  4. Before Sunset (2004, Richard Linklater)
  5. Blissfully Yours (2002, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  6. Hero (2002, Zhang Yimou)
  7. Vera Drake (2004, Mike Leigh)
  8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
  9. Collateral (2004, Michael Mann)
  10. Shaolin Soccer (2001, Stephen Chow)
  11. The Incredibles (2004, Brad Bird)
  12. House of Flying Daggers (2004, Zhang Yimou)
  13. Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004, Quentin Tarantino)
  14. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004, Wes Anderson)
  15. Shaun of the Dead (2004, Edgar Wright)
  16. S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003, Panh Rithy)
  17. Primer (2004, Shane Carruth)
  18. The Five Obstructions (2003, Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier)
  19. Tarnation (2003, Jonathan Caouette)
  20. Zatoichi (2003, Kitano Takeshi)
  21. Infernal Affairs (2002, Andrew Lau & Alan Mak)
  22. Million Dollar Baby (2004, Clint Eastwood)
  23. Spider-Man 2 (2004, Sam Raimi)
  24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004, Alfonso Cuarón)
  25. The Bourne Supremacy (2004, Paul Greengrass)
  26. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004, Alexander Witt)
  27. The Ladykillers (2004, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  28. Ray (2004, Taylor Hackford)
  29. Mean Girls (2004, Mark Waters)
  30. The Dreamers (2003, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  31. National Treasure (2004, Jon Turteltaub)
  32. Shrek 2 (2004, Andrew Adamson & Kelly Asbury & Conrad Vernon)
  33. The Final Cut (2004, Omar Naim)
  34. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004, Adam McKay)
  35. The Day After Tomorrow (2004, Roland Emmerich)
  36. DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (2004, Rawsom Marshall Thurber)
  37. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004, Brad Silberling)
  38. The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004, Garry Marshall)
  39. Super Size Me (2004, Morgan Spurlock)

2003

  1. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
  2. Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola)
  3. Millennium Mambo (2001, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  4. Friday Night (2002, Claire Denis)
  5. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino)
  6. Unknown Pleasures (2002, Jia Zhangke)
  7. Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001, Watanabe Shinichirō)
  8. Intolerable Cruelty (2003, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  9. From the Other Side (2002, Chantal Akerman)
  10. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, Peter Jackson)
  11. The School of Rock (2003, Richard Linklater)
  12. The Matrix Reloaded (2003, Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  13. Finding Nemo (2003, Andrew Stanton)
  14. The Matrix Revolutions (2003, Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  15. X2 (2003, Bryan Singer)
  16. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003, Gore Verbinski)
  17. The Italian Job (2003, F. Gary Gray)
  18. Big Fish (2003, Tim Burton)
  19. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003, Tim Johnson & Patrick Gilmore)
  20. Freaky Friday (2003, Mark Waters)
  21. Phone Booth (2002, Joel Schumacher)
  22. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003, Jonathan Mostow)
  23. Bruce Almighty (2003, Tom Shadyac)
  24. Holes (2003, Andrew Davis)
  25. The Haunted Mansion (2003, Rob Minkoff)

2002

  1. Spirited Away (2001, Miyazaki Hayao)
  2. Femme Fatale (2002, Brian De Palma)
  3. What Time Is It There? (2001, Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001, Iwai Shunji)
  5. Hush! (2001, Hashiguchi Ryōsuke)
  6. Trouble Every Day (2001, Claire Denis)
  7. Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  8. Far From Heaven (2002, Todd Haynes)
  9. Catch Me If You Can (2002, Steven Spielberg)
  10. A Grin Without a Cat (1977, Chris Marker)
  11. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002, Peter Jackson)
  12. Jackass: The Movie (2002, Jeff Tremaine)
  13. Russian Ark (2002, Alexander Sokurov)
  14. Gangs of New York (2002, Martin Scorsese)
  15. Resident Evil (2002, Paul W.S. Anderson)
  16. Minority Report (2002, Steven Spielberg)
  17. Adaptation. (2002, Spike Jonze)
  18. Spider-Man (2002, Sam Raimi)
  19. Lilo & Stitch (2002, Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois)
  20. The Bourne Identity (2002, Doug Liman)
  21. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002, Chris Columbus)
  22. Happy Times (2000, Zhang Yimou)
  23. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002, George Lucas)
  24. Equilibrium (2002, Kurt Wimmer)
  25. Return to Never Land (2002, Robin Budd)
  26. Ice Age (2002, Chris Wedge)
  27. The Quiet American (2002, Phillip Noyce)
  28. Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002, Phillip Noyce)
  29. Scooby-Doo (2002, Raja Gosnell)

2001

  1. Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch)
  2. In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
  3. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg)
  4. Cure (1997, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  5. The River (1997, Tsai Ming-liang)
  6. Ali (2001, Michael Mann)
  7. La Ciénaga (2001, Lucrecia Martel)
  8. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  9. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)
  10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, Peter Jackson)
  11. Mysterious Object at Noon (2000, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  12. Ocean's Eleven (2001, Steven Soderbergh)
  13. Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan)
  14. Monsters, Inc. (2001, Pete Docter)
  15. Sexy Beast (2000, Jonathan Glazer)
  16. Lumumba (2000, Raoul Peck)
  17. Shrek (2001, Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson)
  18. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001, John Cameron Mitchell)
  19. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001, Chris Columbus)
  20. The Road Home (1999, Zhang Yimou)
  21. Rush Hour 2 (2001, Brett Ratner)
  22. Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001, Kirk Wise & Gary Trousdale)
  23. The Princess Diaries (2001, Garry Marshall)
  24. Osmosis Jones (2001, Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly)

2000

  1. Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)
  2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee)
  3. Beau Travail (1999, Claire Denis)
  4. Gohatto (1999, Ōshima Nagisa)
  5. Bamboozled (2000, Spike Lee)
  6. The Emperor's New Groove (2000, Mark Dindal)
  7. Hamlet (2000, Michael Almereyda)
  8. Pola X (1999, Leos Carax)
  9. You Can Count on Me (2000, Kenneth Lonergan)
  10. Dancer in the Dark (2000, Lars von Trier)
  11. Mission to Mars (2000, Brian De Palma)
  12. Unbreakable (2000, M. Night Shyamalan)
  13. Mission: Impossible II (2000, John Woo)
  14. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  15. Gladiator (2000, Ridley Scott)
  16. But I'm a Cheerleader (1999, Jamie Babbit)
  17. X-Men (2000, Bryan Singer)
  18. Fantasia/2000 (1999, Omnibus)
  19. American Psycho (2000, Mary Harron)
  20. Cast Away (2000, Robert Zemeckis)
  21. Shower (1999, Zhang Yang)
  22. Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000, Dominic Sena)
  23. Dinosaur (2000, Ralph Zondag & Eric Leighton)
  24. Bring It On (2000, Peyton Reed)
  25. Remember the Titans (2000, Boaz Yakin)
  26. Battlefield Earth (2000, Roger Christian)

1999

  1. Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)
  2. Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Stanley Kubrick)
  3. The Matrix (1999, Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  4. The Insider (1999, Michael Mann)
  5. Princess Mononoke (1997, Miyazaki Hayao)
  6. New Rose Hotel (1998, Abel Ferrara)
  7. eXistenZ (1999, David Cronenberg)
  8. Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  9. The Straight Story (1999, David Lynch)
  10. Toy Story 2 (1999, John Lasseter)
  11. Being John Malkovich (1999, Spike Jonze)
  12. Buena Vista Social Club (1999, Wim Wenders)
  13. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999, George Lucas)
  14. Fight Club (1999, David Fincher)

1998

  1. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996, Peter Chan)
  2. The Thin Red Line (1998, Terrence Malick)
  3. Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami)
  4. Fallen Angels (1995, Wong Kar-wai)
  5. Festen (1998, Thomas Vinterberg)
  6. Rushmore (1998, Wes Anderson)
  7. Belly (1998, Hype Williams)
  8. Snake Eyes (1998, Brian De Palma)
  9. Saving Private Ryan (1998, Steven Spielberg)
  10. The Big Lebowski (1998, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  11. Ronin (1998, John Frankenheimer)
  12. The Mask of Zorro (1998, Martin Campbell)
  13. Mulan (1998, Barry Cook & Tony Bancroft)
  14. The Prince of Egypt (1998, Brenda Chapman & Steve Hickner & Simon Wells)
  15. Rush Hour (1998, Brett Ratner)
  16. A Bug's Life (1998, John Lasseter)
  17. The Parent Trap (1998, Nancy Meyers)
  18. The Hanging Garden (1997, Thom Fitzgerald)

1997

  1. Lost Highway (1997, David Lynch)
  2. Happy Together (1997, Wong Kar-wai)
  3. Irma Vep (1996, Olivier Assayas)
  4. Face/Off (1997, John Woo)
  5. The Sweet Hereafter (1997, Atom Egoyan)
  6. Starship Troopers (1997, Paul Verhoeven)
  7. Underground (1995, Emir Kusturica)
  8. Gummo (1997, Harmony Korine)
  9. Jackie Brown (1997, Quentin Tarantino)
  10. Boogie Nights (1997, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  11. Nénette et Boni (1996, Claire Denis)
  12. Hard Eight (1996, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  13. The Watermelon Woman (1996, Cheryl Dunye)
  14. Fire (1996, Deepa Mehta)
  15. Gattaca (1997, Andrew Niccol)
  16. Air Force One (1997, Wolfgang Petersen)
  17. Contact (1997, Robert Zemeckis)
  18. Anastasia (1997, Don Bluth & Gary Goldman)
  19. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997, Steven Spielberg)
  20. Good Will Hunting (1997, Gus Van Sant)
  21. Hercules (1997, John Musker & Ron Clements)
  22. Batman & Robin (1997, Joel Schumacher)

1996

  1. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai)
  2. Ashes of Time (1994, Wong Kar-wai)
  3. Breaking the Waves (1996, Lars von Trier)
  4. Vive L'Amour (1994, Tsai Ming-liang)
  5. Secrets & Lies (1996, Mike Leigh)
  6. Fargo (1996, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  7. Mission: Impossible (1996, Brian De Palma)
  8. Bound (1996, Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  9. Bottle Rocket (1996, Wes Anderson)
  10. Ghost in the Shell (1995, Oshii Mamoru)
  11. Hamlet (1996, Kenneth Branagh)
  12. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996, Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)
  13. Romeo + Juliet (1996, Baz Luhrmann)
  14. The Rock (1996, Michael Bay)
  15. Space Jam (1996, Joe Pytka)
  16. Matilda (1996, Danny DeVito)

1995

  1. Heat (1995, Michael Mann)
  2. Before Sunrise (1995, Richard Linklater)
  3. Safe (1995, Todd Haynes)
  4. Strange Days (1995, Kathryn Bigelow)
  5. The Bridges of Madison County (1995, Clint Eastwood)
  6. Clueless (1995, Amy Heckerling)
  7. Toy Story (1995, John Lasseter)
  8. I Am Cuba (1964, Mikhail Kalatozov)
  9. Hyenas (1992, Djibril Diop Mambéty)
  10. River of Grass (1994, Kelly Reichardt)
  11. The Glass Shield (1994, Charles Burnett)
  12. Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995, John McTiernan)
  13. I Can't Sleep (1994, Claire Denis)
  14. Lessons of Darkness (1992, Werner Herzog)
  15. Devil in a Blue Dress (1995, Carl Franklin)
  16. Pocahontas (1995, Mike Gabriel & Eric Goldberg)
  17. Apollo 13 (1995, Ron Howard)
  18. Balto (1995, Simon Wells)
  19. Crimson Tide (1995, Tony Scott)
  20. Pushing Hands (1991, Ang Lee)
  21. Braveheart (1995, Mel Gibson)
  22. Jumanji (1995, Joe Johnston)
  23. Batman Forever (1995, Joel Schumacher)

1994

  1. The Devil, Probably (1977, Robert Bresson)
  2. To Live (1994, Zhang Yimou)
  3. Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
  4. Three Colors: White (1994, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  5. Speed (1994, Jan de Bont)
  6. True Lies (1994, James Cameron)
  7. Clear and Present Danger (1994, Phillip Noyce)
  8. Go Fish (1994, Rose Troche)
  9. The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)
  10. Vanya on 42nd Street (1994, Louis Malle)
  11. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  12. Forrest Gump (1994, Robert Zemeckis)
  13. The Lion King (1994, Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff)

1993

  1. My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Miyazaki Hayao)
  2. Hard-Boiled (1992, John Woo)
  3. Carlito's Way (1993, Brian De Palma)
  4. Naked (1993, Mike Leigh)
  5. Once Upon a Time in China II (1992, Tsui Hark)
  6. The Long Day Closes (1992, Terence Davies)
  7. Three Colors: Blue (1993, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  8. Schindler's List (1993, Steven Spielberg)
  9. The Piano (1993, Jane Campion)
  10. Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg)
  11. Dazed and Confused (1993, Richard Linklater)
  12. Nitrate Kisses (1992, Barbara Hammer)
  13. True Romance (1993, Tony Scott)
  14. The Wedding Banquet (1993, Ang Lee)
  15. Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)
  16. The Story of Qiu Ju (1992, Zhang Yimou)
  17. Baraka (1992, Ron Fricke)
  18. Sleepless in Seattle (1993, Nora Ephron)
  19. Much Ado About Nothing (1993, Kenneth Branagh)
  20. Falling Down (1993, Joel Schumacher)
  21. Léolo (1992, Jean-Claude Lauzon)

1992

  1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992, David Lynch)
  2. Once Upon a Time in China (1991, Tsui Hark)
  3. Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood)
  4. Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee)
  5. The Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann)
  6. Simple Men (1992, Hal Hartley)
  7. Deep Cover (1992, Bill Duke)
  8. Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)
  9. Basic Instinct (1992, Paul Verhoeven)
  10. Raise the Red Lantern (1991, Zhang Yimou)
  11. Raising Cain (1992, Brian De Palma)
  12. No Fear, No Die (1990, Claire Denis)
  13. La Paloma (1974, Daniel Schmid)
  14. Daughters of the Dust (1991, Julie Dash)
  15. Candyman (1992, Bernard Rose)
  16. Batman Returns (1992, Tim Burton)
  17. A Few Good Men (1992, Rob Reiner)
  18. Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino)
  19. Patriot Games (1992, Phillip Noyce)
  20. Aladdin (1992, John Musker & Ron Clements)
  21. Lorenzo's Oil (1992, George Miller)

1991

  1. Trust (1990, Hal Hartley)
  2. The Killer (1989, John Woo)
  3. The Double Life of Veronique (1991, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  4. Barton Fink (1991, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, James Cameron)
  6. Until the End of the World (1991, Wim Wenders)
  7. Ju Dou (1990, Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang)
  8. The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme)
  9. Paris Is Burning (1990, Jennie Livingston)
  10. Beauty and the Beast (1991, Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)

1990

  1. The Unbelievable Truth (1989, Hal Hartley)
  2. Wild at Heart (1990, David Lynch)
  3. Total Recall (1990, Paul Verhoeven)
  4. Akira (1988, Ōtomo Katsuhiro)
  5. To Sleep With Anger (1990, Charles Burnett)
  6. Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)
  7. The Nasty Girl (1990, Michael Verhoeven)
  8. Back to the Future Part III (1990, Robert Zemeckis)
  9. American Boy: A Portrait of Steven Prince (1978, Martin Scorsese)
  10. Miller's Crossing (1990, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  11. The Hunt for Red October (1990, John McTiernan)
  12. Die Hard 2 (1990, Renny Harlin)
  13. The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990, Brian De Palma)
  14. Home Alone (1990, Chris Columbus)

1989

  1. Peking Opera Blues (1986, Tsui Hark)
  2. Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
  3. 4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987, Éric Rohmer)
  4. Casualties of War (1989, Brian De Palma)
  5. 36 Fillette (1988, Catherine Breillat)
  6. Miracle Mile (1988, Steve De Jarnatt)
  7. Chocolat (1988, Claire Denis)
  8. sex, lies, and videotape (1989, Steven Soderbergh)
  9. Castle in the Sky (1986, Miyazaki Hayao)
  10. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989, Steven Spielberg)
  11. Back to the Future Part II (1989, Robert Zemeckis)
  12. When Harry Met Sally... (1989, Rob Reiner)
  13. Batman (1989, Tim Burton)
  14. The Little Mermaid (1989, John Musker & Ron Clements)
  15. Glory (1989, Edward Zwick)
  16. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989, Jeremiah Chechik)

1988

  1. Wings of Desire (1987, Wim Wenders)
  2. Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978, Chantal Akerman)
  3. The Thin Blue Line (1988, Errol Morris)
  4. Die Hard (1988, John McTiernan)
  5. Violence at Noon (1966, Ōshima Nagisa)
  6. Red Sorghum (1987, Zhang Yimou)
  7. The Land Before Time (1988, Don Bluth)
  8. Rain Man (1988, Barry Levinson)
  9. Big (1988, Penny Marshall)
  10. Shoot to Kill (1988, Roger Spottiswoode)

1987

  1. Ishtar (1987, Elaine May)
  2. RoboCop (1987, Paul Verhoeven)
  3. The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978, Raúl Ruiz)
  4. Raising Arizona (1987, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  5. Class Relations (1984, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  6. Sign "O" the Times (1987, Prince)
  7. Full Metal Jacket (1987, Stanley Kubrick)
  8. The Princess Bride (1987, Rob Reiner)
  9. Predator (1987, John McTiernan)
  10. Tampopo (1985, Itami Jūzō)
  11. The Untouchables (1987, Brian De Palma)
  12. Maurice (1987, James Ivory)
  13. Barravento (1962, Glauber Rocha)
  14. River's Edge (1986, Tim Hunter)
  15. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987, Barry Levinson)

1986

  1. Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
  2. Manhunter (1986, Michael Mann)
  3. The Green Ray (1986, Éric Rohmer)
  4. Something Wild (1986, Jonathan Demme)
  5. Aliens (1986, James Cameron)
  6. Round Midnight (1986, Bertrand Tavernier)
  7. Big Trouble in Little China (1986, John Carpenter)
  8. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985, Stephen Frears)
  9. Trouble in Mind (1985, Alan Rudolph)
  10. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986, John Hughes)
  11. Desert Hearts (1985, Donna Deitch)
  12. Top Gun (1986, Tony Scott)
  13. Wise Guys (1986, Brian De Palma)

1985

  1. Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam)
  2. Ran (1985, Kurosawa Akira)
  3. Back to the Future (1985, Robert Zemeckis)
  4. Day of the Dead (1985, George A. Romero)
  5. After Hours (1985, Martin Scorsese)
  6. Night and Fog in Japan (1960, Ōshima Nagisa)
  7. Witness (1985, Peter Weir)
  8. Commando (1985, Mark L. Lester)
  9. Blood Simple (1984, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  10. The Breakfast Club (1985, John Hughes)
  11. Rocky IV (1985, Sylvester Stallone)

1984

  1. L'Argent (1983, Robert Bresson)
  2. Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders)
  3. Stop Making Sense (1984, Jonathan Demme)
  4. Choose Me (1984, Alan Rudolph)
  5. The Terminator (1984, James Cameron)
  6. Dune (1984, David Lynch)
  7. Bless Their Little Hearts (1983, Billy Woodberry)
  8. Body Double (1984, Brian De Palma)
  9. Gremlins (1984, Joe Dante)
  10. Cruel Story of Youth (1960, Ōshima Nagisa)
  11. Repo Man (1984, Alex Cox)
  12. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984, Steven Spielberg)
  13. Amadeus (1984, Miloš Forman)
  14. A Bigger Splash (1973, Jack Hazan)
  15. Ghostbusters (1984, Ivan Reitman)
  16. Purple Rain (1984, Albert Magnoli)
  17. The Karate Kid (1984, John G. Avildsen)

1983

  1. Sans soleil (1983, Chris Marker)
  2. Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
  3. Possession (1981, Andrzej Żuławski)
  4. Koyaanisqatsi (1982, Godfrey Reggio)
  5. Videodrome (1983, David Cronenberg)
  6. Pauline at the Beach (1983, Éric Rohmer)
  7. Testament (1983, Lynne Littman)
  8. Born in Flames (1983, Lizzie Borden)
  9. Scarface (1983, Brian De Palma)
  10. Return of the Jedi (1983, Richard Marquand)
  11. The Keep (1983, Michael Mann)
  12. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983, Ōshima Nagisa)
  13. Camera Buff (1979, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  14. The Constant Factor (1980, Krzysztof Zanussi)

1982

  1. Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
  2. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982, Steven Spielberg)
  3. Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)
  4. Poltergeist (1982, Tobe Hooper)
  5. The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
  6. The Conductor (1980, Andrzej Wajda)
  7. Mad Max 2 (1981, George Miller)
  8. Without Anesthesia (1978, Andrzej Wajda)
  9. Special Treatment (1980, Goran Paskaljević)
  10. Das Boot (1981, Wolfgang Petersen)
  11. La commare secca (1962, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  12. First Blood (1982, Ted Kotcheff)
  13. Tootsie (1982, Sydney Pollack)
  14. Rocky III (1982, Sylvester Stallone)
  15. Annie (1982, John Huston)

1981

  1. India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras)
  2. The Aviator's Wife (1981, Éric Rohmer)
  3. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
  4. Thief (1981, Michael Mann)
  5. Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma)
  6. The Last Metro (1980, François Truffaut)
  7. Like a Turtle on Its Back (1978, Luc Béraud)
  8. Made in U.S.A (1966, Jean-Luc Godard)
  9. Confidence (1980, Szabó István)
  10. The Lady Without Camelias (1953, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  11. Land of Silence and Darkness (1971, Werner Herzog)
  12. Camouflage (1977, Krzysztof Zanussi)
  13. The Wobblies (1979, Stewart Bird & Deborah Shaffer)
  14. Chariots of Fire (1981, Hugh Hudson)
  15. Illustrious Corpses (1976, Francesco Rosi)
  16. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980, Connie Field)
  17. Gallipoli (1981, Peter Weir)

1980

  1. Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch)
  2. Kagemusha (1980, Kurosawa Akira)
  3. The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
  4. Floating Clouds (1955, Naruse Mikio)
  5. In a Year With 13 Moons (1978, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  6. The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)
  7. Every Man for Himself (1980, Jean-Luc Godard)
  8. Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
  9. Wise Blood (1979, John Huston)
  10. Cruising (1980, William Friedkin)
  11. Loulou (1980, Maurice Pialat)
  12. The Left-Handed Woman (1978, Peter Handke)
  13. Dressed to Kill (1980, Brian De Palma)
  14. The Elephant Man (1980, David Lynch)
  15. The Middleman (1976, Satyajit Ray)
  16. Melvin and Howard (1980, Jonathan Demme)
  17. Gates of Heaven (1978, Errol Morris)
  18. Bye Bye Brazil (1979, Carlos Diegues)
  19. My Brilliant Career (1979, Gillian Armstrong)
  20. Home Movies (1980, Brian De Palma)
  21. Angi Vera (1978, Gabór Pál)
  22. L'Âge d'Or (1930, Luis Buñuel)
  23. Best Boy (1979, Ira Wohl)
  24. Mad Max (1979, George Miller)
  25. It's My Turn (1980, Claudia Weill)
  26. The Blues Brothers (1980, John Landis)
  27. The Apple Game (1977, Věra Chytilová)

1979

  1. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  2. Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
  3. Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell)
  4. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979, Chuck Jones)
  5. Remember My Name (1978, Alan Rudolph)
  6. Alien (1979, Ridley Scott)
  7. The Green Room (1978, François Truffaut)
  8. The Black Stallion (1979, Carroll Ballard)
  9. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979, Werner Herzog)
  10. Tent of Miracles (1977, Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
  11. Despair (1978, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  12. The Shout (1978, Jerzy Skolimowski)
  13. The Muppet Movie (1979, James Frawley)
  14. La Luna (1979, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  15. With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade (1978, Lorraine Gray)
  16. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975, Peter Weir)
  17. Love on the Run (1979, François Truffaut)
  18. Newsfront (1978, Phillip Noyce)
  19. The Europeans (1979, James Ivory)
  20. Rocky II (1979, Sylvester Stallone)

1978

  1. Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
  2. Perceval le Gallois (1978, Éric Rohmer)
  3. Days of Heaven (1978, Terrence Malick)
  4. Dawn of the Dead (1978, George A. Romero)
  5. Halloween (1978, John Carpenter)
  6. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978, Bertrand Blier)
  7. Killer of Sheep (1977, Charles Burnett)
  8. Dossier 51 (1978, Michel Deville)
  9. A Geisha (1953, Mizoguchi Kenji)
  10. Girlfriends (1978, Claudia Weill)
  11. Violette Nozière (1978, Claude Chabrol)
  12. The Deer Hunter (1978, Michael Cimino)
  13. Italianamerican (1974, Martin Scorsese)
  14. A Doll's House (1973, Joseph Losey)
  15. Women (1977, Mészáros Márta)
  16. The Fury (1978, Brian De Palma)
  17. Riddles of the Sphinx (1977, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen)
  18. A Wedding (1978, Robert Altman)
  19. Autumn Sonata (1978, Ingmar Bergman)
  20. Bloodbrothers (1978, Robert Mulligan)
  21. Jaws 2 (1978, Jeannot Szwarc)

1977

  1. F for Fake (1973, Orson Welles)
  2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg)
  3. Providence (1977, Alain Resnais)
  4. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  5. Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
  6. Dersu Uzala (1975, Kurosawa Akira)
  7. In the Realm of the Senses (1976, Ōshima Nagisa)
  8. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, Luis Buñuel)
  9. The American Friend (1977, Wim Wenders)
  10. Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)
  11. Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento)
  12. One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977, Agnès Varda)
  13. Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976, Barbara Kopple)
  14. Between the Lines (1977, Joan Micklin Silver)
  15. The Man Who Loved Women (1977, François Truffaut)
  16. Alice in the Cities (1974, Wim Wenders)
  17. Padre Padrone (1977, Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
  18. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)
  19. Ossessione (1943, Luchino Visconti)
  20. Short Eyes (1977, Robert M. Young)
  21. Roseland (1977, James Ivory)
  22. 1900 (1976, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  23. The Lacemaker (1977, Claude Goretta)
  24. Conversation Piece (1974, Luchino Visconti)
  25. Citizens Band (1977, Jonathan Demme)
  26. The Wonderful Crook (1975, Claude Goretta)
  27. Heart of Glass (1976, Werner Herzog)
  28. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977, John Lounsbery & Wolfgang Reitherman)

1976

  1. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  2. The Marquise of O... (1976, Éric Rohmer)
  3. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
  4. All the President's Men (1976, Alan J. Pakula)
  5. Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma)
  6. La Chienne (1931, Jean Renoir)
  7. Fox and His Friends (1975, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  8. Mikey and Nicky (1976, Elaine May)
  9. Sérail (1976, Eduardo de Gregorio)
  10. Small Change (1976, François Truffaut)
  11. Grey Gardens (1975, Albert Maysles & David Maysles & Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer)
  12. Network (1976, Sidney Lumet)
  13. The Memory of Justice (1976, Marcel Ophuls)
  14. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976, Alain Tanner)
  15. Car Wash (1976, Michael Schultz)
  16. Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)
  17. Kings of the Road (1976, Wim Wenders)
  18. Rocky (1976, John G. Avildsen)
  19. Obsession (1976, Brian De Palma)
  20. A Star Is Born (1976, Frank Pierson)

1975

  1. Nashville (1975, Robert Altman)
  2. Moses und Aron (1975, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  3. Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
  4. Lancelot du Lac (1974, Robert Bresson)
  5. La Rupture (1970, Claude Chabrol)
  6. Just Before Nightfall (1971, Claude Chabrol)
  7. The Passenger (1975, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  8. Female Trouble (1974, John Waters)
  9. Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
  10. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974, Werner Herzog)
  11. Xala (1975, Ousmane Sembène)
  12. The Middle of the World (1974, Alain Tanner)
  13. The Story of Adèle H. (1975, François Truffaut)
  14. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)
  15. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975, Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta)
  16. Distant Thunder (1973, Satyajit Ray)
  17. Smile (1975, Michael Ritchie)
  18. Hearts of the West (1975, Howard Zieff)
  19. Dog Day Afternoon (1975, Sidney Lumet)
  20. Black Moon (1975, Louis Malle)

1974

  1. The Mother and the Whore (1973, Jean Eustache)
  2. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper)
  3. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  4. Death by Hanging (1968, Ōshima Nagisa)
  5. Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick)
  6. Charulata (1964, Satyajit Ray)
  7. The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
  8. Stavisky... (1974, Alain Resnais)
  9. Chinatown (1974, Roman Polański)
  10. The Ceremony (1971, Ōshima Nagisa)
  11. A Woman Under the Influence (1974, John Cassavetes)
  12. The Phantom of Liberty (1974, Luis Buñuel)
  13. Phantom of the Paradise (1974, Brian De Palma)
  14. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972, Jonas Mekas)
  15. The Godfather Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
  16. Daisy Miller (1974, Peter Bogdanovich)
  17. Lucía (1968, Humberto Solás)
  18. Dodes'ka-den (1970, Kurosawa Akira)
  19. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974, Joseph Sargent)
  20. Partner. (1968, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  21. Lacombe Lucien (1974, Louis Malle)
  22. The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (1966, André Delvaux)
  23. Old-Fashioned Woman (1974, Martha Coolidge)

1973

  1. An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Ozu Yasujirō)
  2. Playtime (1967, Jacques Tati)
  3. Memories of Underdevelopment (1968, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
  4. Days and Nights in the Forest (1970, Satyajit Ray)
  5. Mean Streets (1973, Martin Scorsese)
  6. Tout va bien (1972, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)
  7. Day for Night (1973, François Truffaut)
  8. Pink Flamingos (1972, John Waters)
  9. The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  10. Red Psalm (1972, Jancsó Miklós)
  11. Sisters (1972, Brian De Palma)
  12. Love (1971, Makk Károly)
  13. American Graffiti (1973, George Lucas)
  14. The Adversary (1970, Satyajit Ray)
  15. Charley Varrick (1973, Don Siegel)
  16. Last Tango in Paris (1972, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  17. Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969, Ōshima Nagisa)
  18. The Spider's Stratagem (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  19. Kid Blue (1973, James Frawley)
  20. Happiness (1935, Aleksandr Medvedkin)
  21. Enter the Dragon (1973, Robert Clouse)
  22. Theatre of Blood (1973, Douglas Hickox)
  23. Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972, Brian De Palma)

1972

  1. Late Spring (1949, Ozu Yasujirō)
  2. Tokyo Story (1953, Ozu Yasujirō)
  3. Two English Girls (1971, François Truffaut)
  4. Avanti! (1972, Billy Wilder)
  5. L'Amour fou (1969, Jacques Rivette)
  6. Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968, Alain Resnais)
  7. The Heartbreak Kid (1972, Elaine May)
  8. Love in the Afternoon (1972, Éric Rohmer)
  9. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972, Luis Buñuel)
  10. Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971, Robert Bresson)
  11. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969, Marcel Ophuls)
  12. The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
  13. Junior Bonner (1972, Sam Peckinpah)
  14. Ulzana's Raid (1972, Robert Aldrich)
  15. A Sense of Loss (1972, Marcel Ophuls)
  16. Cabaret (1972, Bob Fosse)
  17. Images (1972, Robert Altman)
  18. Le Samouräi (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville)
  19. The King of Marvin Gardens (1972, Bob Rafelson)
  20. Prime Cut (1972, Michael Ritchie)
  21. Heat (1972, Paul Morrissey)
  22. Play It As It Lays (1972, Frank Perry)
  23. The Assassination of Trotsky (1972, Joseph Losey)
  24. Family Life (1971, Ken Loach)
  25. Bad Company (1972, Robert Benton)

1971

  1. A New Leaf (1971, Elaine May)
  2. The Devils (1971, Ken Russell)
  3. La Collectionneuse (1967, Éric Rohmer)
  4. Claire's Knee (1970, Éric Rohmer)
  5. Othon (1970, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  6. Punishment Park (1971, Peter Watkins)
  7. Le Boucher (1970, Claude Chabrol)
  8. The Crucified Lovers (1954, Mizoguchi Kenji)
  9. The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  10. Dirty Harry (1971, Don Siegel)
  11. Deep End (1970, Jerzy Skolimowski)
  12. The Nun (1966, Jacques Rivette)
  13. Une femme douce (1969, Robert Bresson)
  14. The Last Picture Show (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)
  15. Double Suicide (1969, Masahiro Shinoda)
  16. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman)
  17. Wanda (1970, Barbara Loden)
  18. The Decameron (1971, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  19. Klute (1971, Alan J. Pakula)
  20. W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971, Dušan Makavejev)
  21. Murmur of the Heart (1971, Louis Malle)
  22. The Debut (1970, Gleb Panfilov)
  23. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970, Werner Herzog)
  24. Walkabout (1971, Nicolas Roeg)
  25. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971, Melvin Van Peebles)
  26. Bed and Board (1970, François Truffaut)
  27. The Garden of Delights (1970, Carlos Saura)
  28. A Safe Place (1971, Henry Jaglom)
  29. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971, Mel Stuart)
  30. Harold and Maude (1971, Hal Ashby)
  31. A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
  32. Black Peter (1964, Miloš Forman)
  33. Born to Win (1971, Ivan Passer)

1970

  1. Au hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)
  2. My Night at Maud's (1969, Éric Rohmer)
  3. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966, Roberto Rossellini)
  4. Mouchette (1967, Robert Bresson)
  5. Boy (1969, Ōshima Nagisa)
  6. Destroy, She Said (1969, Marguerite Duras)
  7. The Wild Child (1970, François Truffaut)
  8. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)
  9. One Plus One (1968, Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. Tristana (1970, Luis Buñuel)
  11. Le Gai Savoir (1969, Jean-Luc Godard)
  12. Pasazerka (1963, Andrzej Munk)
  13. L'Enfance nue (1968, Maurice Pialat)
  14. Mandabi (1968, Ousmane Sembène)
  15. Kes (1969, Ken Loach)
  16. The Joke (1969, Jaromil Jireš)
  17. Five Easy Pieces (1970, Bob Rafelson)
  18. Raven's End (1963, Bo Widerberg)
  19. Zabriskie Point (1970, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  20. Dionysus in '69 (1970, Brian De Palma)
  21. Hi, Mom! (1970, Brian De Palma)
  22. The Aristocats (1970, Wolfgang Reitherman)
  23. The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970, Irving Rapper)
  24. The Boys in the Band (1970, William Friedkin)

1969

  1. Pierrot le fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Mizoguchi Kenji)
  3. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Sergio Leone)
  4. Lola Montès (1955, Max Ophuls)
  5. The Immortal Story (1968, Orson Welles)
  6. La Chamade (1968, Alain Cavalier)
  7. Simon of the Desert (1965, Luis Buñuel)
  8. The Red and the White (1967, Jancsó Miklós)
  9. Black Girl (1966, Ousmane Sembène)
  10. Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  11. Not Reconciled (1965, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  12. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969, Paul Mazursky)
  13. The Round-Up (1966, Jancsó Miklós)
  14. Ådalen 31 (1969, Bo Widerberg)
  15. Walkover (1965, Jerzy Skolimowski)
  16. Oh! What a Lovely War (1969, Richard Attenborough)
  17. Lions Love (1969, Agnès Varda)
  18. Six in Paris (1964, Omnibus)
  19. Duet for Cannibals (1969, Susan Sontag)
  20. Stolen Kisses (1968, François Truffaut)
  21. Model Shop (1969, Jacques Demy)
  22. Easy Rider (1969, Dennis Hopper)
  23. Les Créatures (1966, Agnès Varda)
  24. Intimate Lighting (1965, Ivan Passer)
  25. The Wedding Party (1969, Brian De Palma & Wilford Leach & Cynthia Munroe)

1968

  1. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, Jacques Demy)
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanely Kubrick)
  3. Weekend (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
  5. Red Beard (1965, Kurosawa Akira)
  6. Night of the Living Dead (1968, George A. Romero)
  7. Rosemary's Baby (1968, Roman Polański)
  8. Belle de Jour (1967, Luis Buñuel)
  9. Far From Vietnam (1967, Jean-Luc Godard & Joris Ivens & William Klein & Claude Lelouch & Chris Marker & Alain Resnais & Agnès Varda)
  10. Le Départ (1967, Jerzy Skolimowski)
  11. Les Carabiniers (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
  12. Samurai Rebellion (1967, Kobayashi Masaki)
  13. The Boston Strangler (1968, Richard Fleischer)
  14. La Chinoise (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)
  15. Les Biches (1968, Claude Chabrol)
  16. The Firemen's Ball (1967, Miloš Forman)
  17. Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967, Dušan Makavejev)
  18. Faces (1968, John Cassavetes)
  19. Accattone (1961, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  20. Identification Marks: None (1964, Jerzy Skolimowski)
  21. Greetings (1968, Brian De Palma)
  22. Fists in the Pocket (1965, Marco Bellocchio)
  23. Hunger (1966, Henning Carlsen)
  24. Young Törless (1966, Volker Schlöndorff)
  25. Capricious Summer (1968, Jiří Menzel)
  26. Romeo and Juliet (1968, Franco Zeffirelli)
  27. Murder à la Mod (1968, Brian De Palma)
  28. A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966, Jan Němec)

1967

  1. Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)
  2. The Battle of Algiers (1966, Gillo Pontecorvo)
  3. The War Game (1965, Peter Watkins)
  4. Point Blank (1967, John Boorman)
  5. The Koumiko Mystery (1965, Chris Marker)
  6. The War Is Over (1966, Alain Resnais)
  7. The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Buñuel)
  8. Portrait of Jason (1967, Shirley Clarke)
  9. The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols)
  10. Dont Look Back (1967, D.A. Pennebaker)
  11. Le Petit Soldat (1960, Jean-Luc Godard)
  12. Chimes at Midnight (1965, Orson Welles)
  13. The Burmese Harp (1956, Ichikawa Kon)
  14. The Big City (1963, Satyajit Ray)
  15. Elvira Madigan (1967, Bo Widerberg)
  16. The Hunt (1966, Carlos Saura)
  17. The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  18. She and He (1963, Hani Susumu)
  19. Three (1965, Aleksandar Petrović)
  20. Titicut Follies (1967, Frederick Wiseman)
  21. Father (1966, Szabó István)
  22. Daisies (1966, Věra Chytilová)
  23. The Jungle Book (1967, Wolfgang Reitherman)

1966

  1. Gertrud (1964, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  2. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  3. Tokyo Olympiad (1965, Ichikawa Kon)
  4. Le bonheur (1965, Agnès Varda)
  5. Seconds (1966, John Frankenheimer)
  6. Blowup (1966, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  7. The Brig (1964, Jonas Mekas)
  8. Le Joli Mai (1962, Chris Marker)
  9. Masculin féminin (1966, Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. Band of Outsiders (1964, Jean-Luc Godard)
  11. Hamlet (1964, Grigori Kozintsev)
  12. Loves of a Blonde (1965, Miloš Forman)
  13. Shakespeare Wallah (1965, James Ivory)
  14. The Shameless Old Lady (1965, René Allio)
  15. King & Country (1964, Joseph Losey)
  16. Sandra (1965, Luchino Visconti)

1965

  1. The Love Eterne (1963, Li Han-hsiang)
  2. Une femme mariée (1964, Jean-Luc Godard)
  3. Alphaville (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. Red Desert (1964, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  5. The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962, Robert Bresson)
  6. Chronicle of a Summer (1961, Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin)
  7. Life Upside Down (1964, Alain Jessua)
  8. Diary of a Chambermaid (1964, Luis Buñuel)
  9. Before the Revolution (1964, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  10. The Sound of Music (1965, Robert Wise)
  11. Mickey One (1965, Arthur Penn)
  12. Nobody Waved Good-bye (1964, Don Owen)

1964

  1. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)
  2. Woman in the Dunes (1964, Teshigahara Hiroshi)
  3. Marnie (1964, Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. Nothing But a Man (1964, Michael Roemer)
  5. The Servant (1963, Joseph Losey)
  6. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945, Robert Bresson)
  7. Bay of Angels (1963, Jacques Demy)
  8. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936, Jean Renoir)
  9. Harakiri (1962, Kobayashi Masaki)
  10. A Woman Is a Woman (1961, Jean-Luc Godard)
  11. Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
  12. The Cool World (1963, Shirley Clarke)
  13. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
  14. A Hard Day's Night (1964, Richard Lester)
  15. I fidanzati (1963, Ermanno Olmi)
  16. Goldfinger (1964, Guy Hamilton)
  17. Fail-Safe (1964, Sidney Lumet)
  18. Alone Across the Pacific (1963, Ichikawa Kon)
  19. Lilith (1964, Robert Rossen)
  20. Salvatore Giuliano (1962, Francesco Rosi)

1963

  1. High and Low (1963, Kurosawa Akira)
  2. Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963, Alain Resnais)
  3. The Birds (1963, Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. Vivre sa vie (1962, Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson)
  6. The Bad Sleep Well (1960, Kurosawa Akira)
  7. 8½ (1963, Federico Fellini)
  8. Knife in the Water (1962, Roman Polański)
  9. Winter Light (1963, Ingmar Bergman)
  10. Ivan's Childhood (1962, Andrei Tarkovsky)
  11. Dr. No (1962, Terence Young)
  12. Hallelujah the Hills (1963, Adolfas Mekas)
  13. All the Way Home (1963, Alex Segal)
  14. The Sword in the Stone (1963, Wolfgang Reitherman)

1962

  1. Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais)
  2. Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
  3. Lola (1961, Jacques Demy)
  4. Cléo From 5 to 7 (1962, Agnès Varda)
  5. Paris Belongs to Us (1961, Jacques Rivette)
  6. Jules et Jim (1962, François Truffaut)
  7. Lolita (1962, Stanley Kubrick)
  8. Mr. Arkadin (1955, Orson Welles)
  9. Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kuorsawa)
  10. L'Eclisse (1962, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  11. Viridiana (1961, Luis Buñuel)
  12. La Notte (1961, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  13. Shoot the Piano Player (1960, François Truffaut)

1961

  1. Breathless (1960, Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. L'Avventura (1960, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  3. West Side Story (1961, Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
  4. Shadows (1959, John Cassavetes)
  5. Throne of Blood (1957, Kurosawa Akira)
  6. La Dolce Vita (1960, Federico Fellini)
  7. Elevator to the Gallows (1958, Louis Malle)
  8. One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961, Wolfgang Reitherman & Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi)

1960

  1. Hiroshima mon amour (1959, Alain Resnais)
  2. Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)
  4. The World of Apu (1959, Satyajit Ray)
  5. The Bellboy (1960, Jerry Lewis)
  6. Ikiru (1952, Kurosawa Akira)
  7. Spartacus (1960, Stanley Kubrick)
  8. The Virgin Spring (1960, Ingmar Bergman)

1959

  1. Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)
  2. The 400 Blows (1959, François Truffaut)
  3. North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. Le Beau Serge (1958, Claude Chabrol)
  5. Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder)
  6. Drunken Angel (1948, Kurosawa Akira)
  7. Aparajito (1956, Satyajit Ray)
  8. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959, Kobayashi Masaki)
  9. Wild Strawberries (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
  10. Sleeping Beauty (1959, Clyde Geronimi)

1958

  1. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
  3. Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)
  4. The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman)

1957

  1. A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson)
  2. Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)
  3. Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Alexander Mackendrick)

1956

  1. Seven Samurai (1954, Kurosawa Akira)
  2. The Wrong Man (1956, Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. The Searchers (1956, John Ford)
  4. Godzilla (1954, Ishiro Honda)
  5. All That Heaven Allows (1955, Douglas Sirk)
  6. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956, Alfred Hitchcock)
  7. Awaara (1951, Raj Kapoor)
  8. The Killing (1956, Stanley Kubrick)
  9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel)

1955

  1. The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)
  2. Journey to Italy (1954, Roberto Rossellini)
  3. Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Nicholas Ray)
  4. The Long Gray Line (1955, John Ford)
  5. Moonfleet (1955, Fritz Lang)
  6. Artists and Models (1955, Frank Tashlin)
  7. Othello (1951, Orson Welles)
  8. Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich)
  9. To Catch a Thief (1955, Alfred Hitchcock)
  10. Lady and the Tramp (1955, Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson)
  11. Killer's Kiss (1955, Stanley Kubrick)

1954

  1. Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. A Star Is Born (1954, George Cukor)
  3. Diary of a Country Priest (1951, Robert Bresson)
  4. The Golden Coach (1952, Jean Renoir)
  5. The Saga of Anatahan (1953, Josef von Sternberg)
  6. Ugetsu Monogatari (1953, Mizoguchi Kenji)
  7. La Ronde (1950, Max Ophuls)
  8. Magnificent Obsession (1954, Douglas Sirk)
  9. Europa '51 (1952, Roberto Rossellini)
  10. On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)
  11. Knave of Hearts (1954, René Clément)

1953

  1. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953, Howard Hawks)
  2. The Big Heat (1953, Fritz Lang)
  3. I Confess (1953, Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. Peter Pan (1953, Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson)

1952

  1. The Quiet Man (1952, John Ford)
  2. Singin' in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
  3. The Lusty Men (1952, Nicholas Ray)
  4. Los Olvidados (1950, Luis Buñuel)
  5. Les Enfants Terribles (1950, Jean-Pierre Melville)
  6. High Noon (1952, Fred Zinnemann)

1951

  1. Rashomon (1950, Kurosawa Akira)
  2. The Tall Target (1951, Anthony Mann)
  3. An American in Paris (1951, Vincente Minnelli)
  4. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947, Preston Sturges)
  5. Strangers on a Train (1951, Alfred Hitchcock)
  6. Alice in Wonderland (1951, Clyde Geronimi & Hamilton Luske & Wilfred Jackson)

1950

  1. The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
  2. A Day in the Country (1936, Jean Renoir)
  3. The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)
  4. All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  5. Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder)
  6. Angels of Sin (1943, Robert Bresson)
  7. Cinderella (1950, Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi)
  8. No Way Out (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

1949

  1. The Heiress (1949, William Wyler)
  2. A Letter to Three Wives (1949, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  3. Bicycle Thieves (1948, Vittorio De Sica)
  4. I Shot Jesse James (1949, Samuel Fuller)
  5. Enamorada (1946, Emilio Fernández)
  6. Act of Violence (1949, Fred Zinnemann)

1948

  1. Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophuls)
  2. Fort Apache (1948, John Ford)
  3. The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  4. Berlin Express (1948, Jacques Tourneur)
  5. Rope (1948, Alfred Hitchcock)
  6. T-Men (1947, Anthony Mann)

1947

  1. Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur)
  2. Daisy Kenyon (1947, Otto Preminger)
  3. L'Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
  4. Beauty and the Beast (1946, Jean Cocteau)
  5. Zero for Conduct (1933, Jean Vigo)

1946

  1. Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks)
  3. Canyon Passage (1946, Jacques Tourneur)
  4. Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)
  5. It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
  6. Rome, Open City (1945, Roberto Rossellini)
  7. The Locket (1946, John Brahm)
  8. Gilda (1946, Charles Vidor)

1945

  1. The Clock (1945, Vincente Minnelli)
  2. Detour (1945, Edgar G. Ulmer)
  3. Mildred Pierce (1945, Michael Curtiz)
  4. My Name Is Julia Ross (1945, Joseph H. Lewis)

1944

  1. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli)
  2. Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
  3. Laura (1944, Otto Preminger)

1943

  1. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Fritz Lang)
  2. The Seventh Victim (1943, Mark Robson)
  3. I Walked With a Zombie (1943, Jacques Tourneur)
  4. Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
  5. The Gang's All Here (1943, Busby Berkeley)
  6. The Leopard Man (1943, Jacques Tourneur)
  7. Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock)
  8. Heaven Can Wait (1943, Ernst Lubitsch)
  9. Bataan (1943, Tay Garnett)

1942

  1. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles)
  2. Cat People (1942, Jacques Tourneur)
  3. Bambi (1942, David Hand)
  4. Quiet Please, Murder (1942, John Larkin)

1941

  1. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
  2. Dumbo (1941, Ben Sharpsteen)
  3. Suspicion (1941, Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston)
  5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941, Victor Fleming)

1940

  1. His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
  2. Pinocchio (1940, Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske)
  3. Fantasia (1940, Omnibus)
  4. Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. Stranger on the Third Floor (1940, Boris Ingster)

1939

  1. Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks)
  2. Stagecoach (1939, John Ford)
  3. The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
  4. The Women (1939, George Cukor)
  5. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Frank Capra)
  6. Jamaica Inn (1939, Alfred Hitchcock)

1938

  1. The Story of a Cheat (1936, Sacha Guitry)
  2. The Lady Vanishes (1938, Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. Holiday (1938, George Cukor)
  4. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, David Hand)
  5. Grand Illusion (1937, Jean Renoir)

1937

  1. The Awful Truth (1937, Leo McCarey)
  2. Sabotage (1936, Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937, Leo McCarey)
  4. A Star Is Born (1937, William A. Wellman)

1936

  1. Fury (1936, Fritz Lang)
  2. Toni (1935, Jean Renoir)
  3. Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936, Fernando de Fuentes)

1935

  1. Ruggles of Red Gap (1935, Leo McCarey)
  2. The 39 Steps (1935, Alfred Hitchcock)

1934

  1. Fantômas (1932, Fejős Pál)

1933

  1. M (1931, Fritz Lang)
  2. Only Yesterday (1933, John M. Stahl)
  3. Liebelei (1933, Max Ophuls)
  4. Design for Living (1933, Ernst Lubitsch)
  5. Marius (1931, Alexander Korda)
  6. 42nd Street (1933, Lloyd Bacon)

1932

  1. Shanghai Express (1932, Josef von Sternberg)
  2. Trouble in Paradise (1932, Ernst Lubitsch)
  3. Scarface (1932, Howard Hawks)
  4. Blonde Venus (1932, Josef von Sternberg)
  5. The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932, Charles Brabin)
  6. The Sign of the Cross (1932, Cecil B. DeMille)

1931

  1. City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
  2. Dishonored (1931, Josef von Sternberg)
  3. Tabu (1931, F.W. Murnau)
  4. Frankenstein (1931, James Whale)
  5. The Public Enemy (1931, William A. Wellman)

1930

  1. Morocco (1930, Josef von Sternberg)
  2. Earth (1930, Alexander Dovzhenko)
  3. The Big Trail (1930, Raoul Walsh)
  4. The Blue Angel (1930, Josef von Sternberg)

1929

  1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  2. Napoléon (1927, Abel Gance)
  3. Spione (1928, Fritz Lang)
  4. Man With a Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov)
  5. Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau)
  6. Applause (1929, Rouben Mamoulian)
  7. Thunderbolt (1929, Josef von Sternberg)

1928

  1. The Docks of New York (1928, Josef von Sternberg)
  2. The Wedding March (1928, Erich von Stroheim)
  3. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928, Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton)
  4. Show People (1928, King Vidor)
  5. The Circus (1928, Charles Chaplin)

1927

  1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, F.W. Murnau)
  2. The General (1926, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
  3. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922, Fritz Lang)
  4. Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)
  5. It (1927, Clarence Badger)

1926

  1. Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)
  2. Silence (1926, Rupert Julian)

1925

  1. Seven Chances (1925, Buster Keaton)
  2. The Merry Widow (1925, Erich von Stroheim)
  3. The Miracle of the Wolves (1924, Raymond Bernard)

1924

  1. Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim)
  2. Sherlock Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)
  3. The Thief of Bagdad (1924, Raoul Walsh)
  4. HE Who Gets Slapped (1924, Victor Sjöström)
  5. The Marriage Circle (1924, Ernst Lubitsch)

1923

  1. Safety Last! (1923, Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)

1922

  1. Nanook of the North (1922, Robert J. Flaherty)

1921

  1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Robert Wiene)

1920

  1. Tih-Minh (1918, Louis Feuillade)

1918

  1. Mickey (1918, F. Richard Jones & James Young)

1916

  1. Les Vampires (1915, Louis Feuillade)

1915

  1. The Birth of a Nation (1915, D.W. Griffith)
  2. The Cheat (1915, Cecil B. DeMille)

1914

  1. Fantômas (1913, Louis Feuillade)

1913

  1. The Last Days of Pompeii (1913, Mario Caserini & Eleuterio Rodolfi)