New York Film Festival Main Slates

1st (1963):

1. Muriel, or the Time of Return (Alain Resnais)
2. An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu Yasujiro)
3. The Servant (Joseph Losey)
4. Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme)
5. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
6. Harakiri (Kobayashi Masaki)
7. The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
8. I fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
9. Il mare (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi)
10. Knife in the Water (Roman Polański)
11. Ro.Go.Pa.G (Roberto Rossellini/Jean-Luc Godard/Pier Paolo Pasolini/Ugo Gregoretti)
12. In the Midst of Life (Robert Enrico)
13. Glory Sky (Takis Kanellopoulos)
14. Barravento (Glauber Rocha)
15. Hallelujah the Hills (Adolfas Mekas)
16. All the Way Home (Alex Segal)
17. Magnet of Doom (Jean-Pierre Melville)

2nd (1964):

1. Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara Hiroshi)
2. Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer)
3. The Brig (Jonas Mekas)
4. Pasazerka (Andrzej Munk)
5. The Big City (Satyajit Ray)
6. A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
7. ...A Valparaiso (Joris Ivens)
8. Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev)
9. Shin Heike Monogatari (Mizoguchi Kenji)
10. Life Upside Down (Alain Jessua)
11. Joseph Kilian (Pavel Juráček & Jan Schmidt)
12. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
13. Enjo (Ichikawa Kon)
14. Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci)
15. King & Country (Joseph Losey)
16. Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel)
17. L'Âge d'or (Luis Buñuel)
18. She and He (Hani Susumu)
19. Hands Over the City (Francesco Rosi)
20. Alone Across the Pacific (Ichikawa Kon)
21. Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet)
22. Nobody Waved Good-bye (Don Owen)
23. Lilith (Robert Rossen)
24. Siberian Lady Macbeth (Andrzej Wajda)
25. The Last Clean Shirt (Alfred Leslie)
26. Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)

3rd (1965):

1. Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)
2. Gertrud (Carl Th. Dreyer)
3. Not Reconciled (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
4. Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
5. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
6. Red Beard (Kurosawa Akira)
7. The Koumiko Mystery (Chris Marker)
8. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim)
10. The Lady Without Camelias (Michelangelo Antonioni)
11. Walkover (Jerzy Skolimowski)
12. Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard)
13. Raven's End (Bo Widerberg)
14. Shakespeare Wallah (James Ivory)
15. Mickey One (Arthur Penn)
16. Identification Marks: None (Jerzy Skolimowski)
17. Six in Paris (Jean Douchet/Jean Rouch/Jean-Daniel Pollet/Éric Rohmer/Jean-Luc Godard/Claude Chabrol)
18. Sandra (Luchino Visconti)
19. Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio)
20. Knave of Hearts (René Clément)
21. Film (Alan Schneider)
22. The Railrodder (Gerald Potterton)
23. Black Peter (Miloš Forman)

4th (1966):

1. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
3. The War Game (Peter Watkins)
4. Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
5. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov)
6. La Chienne (Jean Renoir)
7. The War Is Over (Alain Resnais)
8. The Round-Up (Jancsó Miklós)
9. Masculin féminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa Kon)
11. Loves of a Blonde (Miloš Forman)
12. Meet Marlon Brando (Albert & David Maysles)
13. Troublemakers (Norman Fruchter & Robert Machover)
14. The Shameless Old Lady (René Allio)
15. Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
16. The Hunt (Carlos Saura)
17. The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
18. The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (André Delvaux)
19. La commare secca (Bernardo Bertolucci)
20. The Cheat (Cecil B. DeMille)
21. Les Créatures (Agnès Varda)
22. Three (Aleksandar Petrović)
23. Wholly Communion (Peter Whitehead)
24. Hunger (Henning Carlsen)
25. Intimate Lighting (Ivan Passer)
26. Pearls of the Deep (Jiří Menzel/Jan Němec/Evald Schorm/Věra Chytilová/Jaromil Jireš)
27. Almost a Man (Vittorio De Seta)

5th (1967):

1. Napoléon (Abel Gance)
2. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
3. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
4. Portrait of Jason (Shirley Clarke)
5. Le Départ (Jerzy Skolimowski)
6. Applause (Rouben Mamoulian)
7. Far From Vietnam (Jean-Luc Godard & Joris Ivens & William Klein & Claude Lelouch & Chris Marker & Alain Resnais & Agnès Varda)
8. Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. Samurai Rebellion (Kobayashi Masaki)
10. Made in U.S.A (Jean-Luc Godard)
11. Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dušan Makavejev)
12. Yesterday Girl (Alexander Kluge)
13. Show People (King Vidor)
14. Elvira Madigan (Bo Widerberg)
15. Barrier (Jerzy Skolimowski)
16. Father (Szabó István)
17. Young Törless (Volker Schlöndorff)
18. The Lion Hunters (Jean Rouch)
19. Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (Peter Whitehead)
20. Memorandum (Donald Brittain & John Spotton)

6th (1968):

1. Week-end (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Lola Montès (Max Ophuls)
3. Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
4. The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
5. The Nun (Jacques Rivette)
6. The Red and the White (Jancsó Miklós)
7. Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
8. One Plus One (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Toni (Jean Renoir)
11. L'Enfance nue (Maurice Pialat)
12. Les Biches (Claude Chabrol)
13. The Firemen's Ball (Miloš Forman)
14. 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (Dominique Delouche)
15. Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (Alexander Kluge)
16. Partner. (Bernardo Bertolucci)
17. Faces (John Cassavetes)
18. L'Argent (Marcel L'Herbier)
19. Signs of Life (Werner Herzog)
20. Hugo and Josephine (Kjell Grede)
21. Capricious Summer (Jiří Menzel)
22. Oratorio for Prague (Jan Němec)
23. A Report on the Party and the Guests (Jan Němec)

7th (1969):

1. My Night at Maud's (Éric Rohmer)
2. Boy (Oshima Nagisa)
3. La Ronde (Max Ophuls)
4. Destroy, She Said (Marguerite Duras)
5. Une femme douce (Robert Bresson)
6. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky)
7. Ådalen 31 (Bo Widerberg)
8. Le Gai Savoir (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. Mandabi (Ousmane Sembène)
10. HE Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjöstrom)
11. The Merry Widow (Erich von Stroheim)
12. One Fine Day (Ermanno Olmi)
13. Oh! What a Lovely War (Richard Attenborough)
14. The Joke (Jaromil Jireš)
15. Lions Love (Agnès Varda)
16. The Epic That Never Was (Bill Duncalf)
17. Duet for Cannibals (Susan Sontag)
18. The Rite (Ingmar Bergman)
19. Porcile (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
20. Goto, Island of Love (Walerian Borowczyk)

8th (1970):

1. Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton)
2. Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
3. Je t'aime, je t'aime (Alain Resnais)
4. Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol)
5. Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray)
6. The Crucified Lovers (Mizoguchi Kenji)
7. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
8. The Wild Child (François Truffaut)
9. Tristana (Luis Buñuel)
10. Wind From the East (Groupe Dziga Vertov and Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin)
11. La Musica (Marguerite Duras & Paul Seban)
12. Une simple histoire (Marcel Hanoun)
13. Kes (Ken Loach)
14. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog)
15. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
16. The Scavengers (Ermanno Olmi)
17. The Spider's Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci)
18. The Garden of Delights (Carlos Saura)
19. The Cannibals (Liliana Cavani)
20. Langlois (Elia Hershon & Roberto Guerra)
21. Comrades (Marin Karmitz)
22. Harry Munter (Kjell Grede)

9th (1971):

1. Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
2. Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson)
3. The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls)
4. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
5. Pioneers in Ingolstadt (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
6. Dodes'ka-den (Kurosawa Akira)
7. Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)
8. The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
9. W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev)
10. The Debut (Gleb Panfilov)
11. Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
12. Directed by John Ford (Peter Bogdanovich)
13. Family Life (Krzysztof Zanussi)
14. In the Name of the Father (Marco Bellocchio)
15. A Safe Place (Henry Jaglom)
16. Born to Win (Ivan Passer)

10th (1972):

1. Two English Girls (François Truffaut)
2. L'Amour fou (Jacques Rivette)
3. Love in the Afternoon (Éric Rohmer)
4. We Won't Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat)
5. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
6. Nathalie Granger (Marguerite Duras)
7. Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)
8. The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
9. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas)
10. Red Psalm (Jancsó Miklós)
11. The Inner Scar (Philippe Garrel)
12. The Adversary (Satyajit Ray)
13. The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson)
14. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
15. Love (Makk Károly)
16. A Sense of Loss (Marcel Ophuls)
17. Images (Robert Altman)
18. Heat (Paul Morrissey)
19. The Assassination of Trotsky (Joseph Losey)
20. Going Home (Adolfas Mekas)
21. Bad Company (Robert Benton)
22. Summer Soldiers (Teshigahara Hiroshi)
23. Family Life (Ken Loach)

11th (1973):

1. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
2. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang)
3. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
5. La Rupture (Claude Chabrol)
6. Just Before Nightfall (Claude Chabrol)
7. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
8. Day for Night (François Truffaut)
9. History Lessons (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
10. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
11. Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's "Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
12. A Doll's House (Joseph Losey)
13. The Illumination (Krzysztof Zanussi)
14. Israel, Why (Claude Lanzmann)
15. Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog)
16. Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray)
17. Kid Blue (James Frawley)
18. Réjanne Padovani (Denys Arcand)

12th (1974):

1. Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
2. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
3. Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson)
4. Out 1: Spectre (Jacques Rivette)
5. The Bench of Desolation (Claude Chabrol)
6. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
7. Stavisky... (Alain Resnais)
8. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
9. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
10. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)
11. Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
12. Liebelei (Max Ophuls)
13. The Middle of the World (Alain Tanner)
14. Yudie (Mirra Bank)
15. The Night of the Scarecrow (Sérgio Ricardo)
16. Italianamerican (Martin Scorsese)
17. From These Roots (William Greaves)
18. La Paloma (Daniel Schmid)
19. Les Enfants Terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville)
20. A Bigger Splash (Jack Hazan)
21. L'Âge d'or (Luis Buñuel)
22. Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (Alexander Kluge)
23. Old-Fashioned Woman (Martha Coolidge)
24. Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle)

13th (1975):

1. India Song (Marguerite Duras)
2. Moses and Aaron (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
3. F for Fake (Orson Welles)
4. Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5. La Chienne (Jean Renoir)
6. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
7. Xala (Ousmane Sembène)
8. Grey Gardens (Albert & David Maysles & Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer)
9. The Story of Adèle H. (François Truffaut)
10. Electra, My Love (Jancsó Miklós)
11. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta)
12. Conversation Piece (Luchino Visconti)
13. Smile (Michael Ritchie)
14. The Wonderful Crook (Claude Goretta)
15. Hearts of the West (Howard Zieff)
16. Autobiography of a Princess (James Ivory)
17. Compañero: Victor Jara of Chile (Stanley Forman & Martin Smith)
18. Black Moon (Louis Malle)

14th (1976):

1. A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
2. Duelle (une quarantaine) (Jacques Rivette)
3. The Marquise of O... (Éric Rohmer)
4. Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa Akira)
5. In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima Nagisa)
6. The Ceremony (Oshima Nagisa)
7. Sérail (Eduardo de Gregorio)
8. Harlan County U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
9. Small Change (François Truffaut)
10. Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Joan Micklin Silver)
11. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Alain Tanner)
12. The Middleman (Satyajit Ray)
13. Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
14. The Memory of Justice (Marcel Ophuls)
15. Fear of Fear (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
16. Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
17. Illustrious Corpses (Francesco Rosi)

15th (1977):

1. The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson)
2. Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
3. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
4. The American Friend (Wim Wenders)
5. Le Camion (Marguerite Duras)
6. One Sings, the Other Doesn't (Agnès Varda)
7. The Man Who Loved Women (François Truffaut)
8. Padre Padrone (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
9. Omar Gatlato (Merzak Allouache)
10. Tent of Miracles (Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
11. Short Eyes (Robert M. Young)
12. Roseland (James Ivory)
13. La Soufrière (Werner Herzog)
14. The Lacemaker (Claude Goretta)
15. 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci)
16. Women (Mészáros Márta)
17. Citizens Band (Jonathan Demme)
18. Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog)
19. L'Enfant de Paris (Léonce Perret)
20. Hot Tomorrows (Martin Brest)
21. My Grandmother (Kote Mikaberidze)
22. Pafnucio Santo (Rafael Corkidi)

16th (1978):

1. Perceval le Gallois (Éric Rohmer)
2. Spione (Fritz Lang)
3. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier)
4. The Green Room (François Truffaut)
5. Dossier 51 (Michel Deville)
6. Like a Turtle on Its Back (Luc Béraud)
7. Violette Nozière (Claude Chabrol)
8. The Left-Handed Woman (Peter Handke)
9. Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
10. Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
11. The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski)
12. Camouflage (Krzysztof Zanussi)
13. American Boy: A Portrait of Steven Prince (Martin Scorsese)
14. With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade (Lorraine Gray)
15. Newsfront (Phillip Noyce)
16. Skip Tracer (Zale Dalen)
17. A Wedding (Robert Altman)
18. They Are Their Own Gifts (Lucille Rhodes & Margaret Murphy)
19. The Miracle of the Wolves (Raymond Bernard)
20. The Apple Game (Věra Chytilová)
21. Bloodbrothers (Robert Mulligan)

17th (1979):

1. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
2. The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)
3. In a Year With 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
5. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (Chuck Jones)
6. Wise Blood (John Huston)
7. The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard)
8. Short Memory (Eduardo de Gregorio)
9. Alexandria... Why? (Youssef Chahine)
10. Other People's Money (Christian de Chalonge)
11. Scarface (Howard Hawks)
12. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (Preston Sturges)
13. A Scream From Silence (Anne Claire Poirier)
14. Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
15. Black Jack (Ken Loach)
16. Without Anesthesia (Andrzej Wajda)
17. La luna (Bernardo Bertolucci)
18. Molière (Ariane Mnouchkine)
19. My Briliant Career (Gillian Armstrong)
20. The Wobblies (Stewart Bird & Deborah Shaffer)
21. Angi Vera (Gabór Pál)
22. The Maids of Wilko (Andrzej Wajda)
23. Best Boy (Ira Wohl)
24. The Europeans (James Ivory)

18th (1980):

1. Tih-Minh (Louis Feuillade)
2. Kagemusha (Kurosawa Akira)
3. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
4. The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov)
5. Every Man for Himself (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
7. Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini)
8. The Last Metro (François Truffaut)
9. The Conductor (Andrzej Wajda)
10. Bye Bye Brazil (Carlos Diegues)
11. And Quiet Rolls the Dawn (Mrinal Sen)
12. Confidence (Szabó István)
13. Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
14. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
15. New York Story (Jackie Raynal)
16. Special Treatment (Goran Paskaljević)
17. The Constant Factor (Krzysztof Zanussi)
18. Here's looking at you, kid. (William Edgar Cohen)
19. Sunday Daughters (Rózsa Janós)
20. Nights at O'Rear's (Robert Mandel)
21. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (Connie Field)

19th (1981):

1. The Aviator's Wife (Éric Rohmer)
2. Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)

20th (1982):

1. Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
2. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)

21st (1983):

1. L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
2. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Boat People (Ann Hui)

22nd (1984):

1. Two English Girls (François Truffaut)
2. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
3. Tokyo Olympiad (Ichikawa Kon)
4. Class Relations (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
5. Blood Simple (Joel & Ethan Coen)
6. Los Sures (Diego Echeverria)

23rd (1985):

1. Ran (Kurosawa Akira)

24th (1986):

1. Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier)
2. The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim)

25th (1987):

1. Police Story (Jackie Chan)

26th (1988):

1. Daughter of the Nile (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. 36 Fillette (Catherine Breillat)
3. Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou)

27th (1989):

1. A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. Rain (Joris Ivens)

28th (1990):

1. To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett)
2. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
3. Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang)
4. The Nasty Girl (Michael Verhoeven)
5. Miller's Crossing (Joel & Ethan Coen)

29th (1991):

1. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski)

30th (1992):

1. Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambéty)
2. The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou)
3. Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon)

31st (1993):

1. Naked (Mike Leigh)
2. The Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)
3. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
4. The Piano (Jane Campion)

32nd (1994):

1. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
2. A Confucian Confusion (Edward Yang)
3. Sátántangó (Tarr Béla)
4. Cold Water (Olivier Assayas)
5. To Live (Zhang Yimou)
6. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)

33rd (1995):

1. Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow)
2. Zone (Ito Takashi)
3. Joy Street (Suzan Pitt)
4. Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)

34th (1996):

1. Mahjong (Edward Yang)
2. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
3. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
4. Underground (Emir Kusturica)
5. Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
6. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
7. Fire (Deepa Mehta)

35th (1997):

1. Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
2. The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhszad)
3. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
4. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-wai)
5. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
6. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)

36th (1998):

1. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
3. Point Blank (John Boorman)
4. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)

37th (1999):

1. Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
2. Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki Hayao)
3. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
4. Pola X (Leos Carax)
5. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)

38th (2000):

1. A One and a Two... (Edward Yang)
2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
3. Platform (Jia Zhangke)
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
5. Gohatto (Oshima Nagisa)
6. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)

39th (2001):

1. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
2. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
3. That Old Dream That Moves (Alain Guiraudie)
4. La libertad (Lisandro Alonso)
5. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
6. La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel)
7. All About Lily Chou-Chou (Iwai Shunji)
8. Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
9. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)

40th (2002):

1. On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo)
2. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Friday Night (Claire Denis)
4. Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke)
5. Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)

41st (2003):

1. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
2. PTU (Johnnie To)
3. S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Panh Rithy)

42nd (2004):

1. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
3. The World (Jia Zhangke)
4. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
5. Triple Agent (Éric Rohmer)
6. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
7. Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
8. Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)

43rd (2005):

1. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
2. Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)
3. Through the Forest (Jean-Paul Civeyrac)
4. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
5. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
6. Caché (Michael Haneke)
7. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
8. Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)

44th (2006):

1. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
2. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. Election 2 (Johnnie To)
4. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
5. Insiang (Lino Brocka)
6. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
7. The Host (Bong Joon-ho)
8. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)

45th (2007):

1. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
2. The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
4. Useless (Jia Zhangke)
5. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
6. Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud)
7. Redacted (Brian De Palma)

46th (2008):

1. Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo)
2. Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai)
3. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
4. Lola Montès (Max Ophuls)
5. Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
6. 24 City (Jia Zhangke)
7. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
8. Afterschool (Antonio Campos)

47th (2009):

1. Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
2. Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
3. Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)
4. White Material (Claire Denis)
5. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)

48th (2010):

1. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
2. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
3. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Oki's Movie (Hong Sang-soo)
6. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
7. The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
8. The Social Network (David Fincher)
9. Inside Job (Charles Ferguson)

49th (2011):

1. This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
2. The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
3. The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)
4. Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
5. Pina (Wim Wenders)
6. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
7. The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)

50th (2012):

1. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
3. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
4. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
5. Passion (Brian De Palma)
6. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
7. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Alain Resnais)
8. Barbara (Christian Petzold)
9. Life of Pi (Ang Lee)

51st (2013):

1. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
2. The Wind Rises (Miyazaki Hayao)
3. Nobody's Daughter Haewon (Hong Sang-soo)
4. Bastards (Claire Denis)
5. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
6. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
7. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
8. The Immigrant (James Gray)
9. Her (Spike Jonze)
10. Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass)

52nd (2014):

1. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
2. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
3. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
6. Gone Girl (David Fincher)
7. The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro)
8. Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry)
9. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
10. Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
11. Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman)
12. Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf)
13. Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
14. Heaven Knows What (Josh & Benny Safdie)
15. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
16. Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)
17. Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro González Iñárritu)

53rd (2015):

1. Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
2. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
3. Carol (Todd Haynes)
4. Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
6. Journey to the Shore (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
7. My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin)
8. Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story (Michael Almereyda)
9. In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel)
10. The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson)
11. The Walk (Robert Zemeckis)
12. Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
13. The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu)
14. Brooklyn (John Crowley)
15. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
16. Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle)
17. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)

54th (2016):

1. Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)
2. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
3. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
4. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
5. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
6. Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)
7. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve)
8. Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
9. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
10. 20th Century Women (Mike Mills)
11. The Son of Joseph (Eugéne Green)
12. Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro)
13. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
14. The Lost City of Z (James Gray)
15. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
16. The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
17. Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar)
18. Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi)
19. Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)
20. My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (Dash Shaw)
21. Neruda (Pablo Larraín)
22. Graduation (Cristian Mungiu)
23. I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)
24. 13th (Ava DuVernay)

55th (2017):

1. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
2. The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
3. Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR)
4. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
5. Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)
6. Before We Vanish (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
7. Western (Valeska Grisebach)
8. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
9. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach)
10. 120 BPM (Beats per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
11. Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
12. Mrs. Hyde (Serge Bozon)
13. The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
14. Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)
15. Ismael's Ghosts (Arnaud Desplechin)
16. Lover for a Day (Philippe Garrel)
17. The Rider (Chloé Zhao)
18. Last Flag Flying (Richard Linklater)
19. The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki)
20. Mudbound (Dee Rees)
21. Félicité (Alain Gomis)
22. The Square (Ruben Östlund)
23. Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen)
24. Thelma (Joachim Trier)

56th (2018):

1. La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
2. Asako I & II (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
3. Transit (Christian Petzold)
4. Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)
5. Grass (Hong Sang-soo)
6. Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
7. High Life (Claire Denis)
8. In My Room (Ulrich Köhler)
9. Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry)
10. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)
11. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen)
12. Hotel by the River (Hong Sang-soo)
13. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
14. Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)
15. Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)
16. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
17. Too Late to Die Young (Dominga Sotomayor)
18. Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
19. 3 Faces (Jafar Panahi)
20. A Family Tour (Ying Liang)
21. Ray & Liz (Richard Billingham)
22. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
23. A Faithful Man (Louis Garrel)
24. Shoplifters (Koreeda Hirokazu)
25. The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
26. Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski)

57th (2019):

1. Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
2. To the Ends of the Earth (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
3. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
4. I Was at Home, But... (Angela Schanelec)
5. Synonyms (Nadav Lapid)
6. I Heard You Paint Houses (Martin Scorsese)
7. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
8. The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)
9. Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello)
10. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
11. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
12. The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu)
13. Liberté (Albert Serra)
14. Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
15. Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar)
16. The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan)
17. Sibyl (Justine Triet)
18. Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
19. Atlantics (Mati Diop)
20. A Girl Missing Fukada Koji)
21. Fire Will Come (Óliver Laxe)
22. Motherless Brooklyn (Edward Norton)
23. Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas)
24. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)

58th (2020):

1. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
2. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
3. Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
4. Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu)
5. Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
6. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke)
7. The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)
8. Notturno (Giancranco Rosi)
9. City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
10. Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen)
11. The Calming (Song Fang)
12. Isabella (Matías Piñeiro)
13. Mangrove (Steve McQueen)
14. Time (Garrett Bradley)
15. The Salt of Tears (Philippe Garrel)
16. Atarrabi and Mikelats (Eugène Green)
17. Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
18. Undine (Christian Petzold)

59th (2021):

1. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
2. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
4. Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
5. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
6. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
7. France (Bruno Dumont)
8. The Girl and the Spider (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher)
9. In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
10. The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel & Ethan Coen)
11. Introduction (Hong Sang-soo)
12. Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
13. The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes)
14. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
15. Ahed's Knee (Nadav Lapid)
16. The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg)
17. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
18. Hit the Road (Panah Panahi)
19. Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)
20. Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)
21. The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
22. Titane (Julia Ducournau)

60th (2022):

1. Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo)
2. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
3. The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang-soo)
4. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
5. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
6. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
7. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
8. One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
9. Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
10. TÁR (Todd Field)
11. Stars at Noon (Claire Denis)
12. Stonewalling (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji)
13. White Noise (Noah Baumbach)
14. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
15. Return to Seoul (Chou Davy)
16. Armageddon Time (James Gray)
17. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
18. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
19. A Couple (Frederick Wiseman)
20. Enys Men (Mark Jenkin)
21. Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)

61st (2023):

1. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
2. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Radu Jude)
3. Music (Angela Schanelec)
4. Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice)
5. Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
6. May December (Todd Haynes)
7. Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
8. In Our Day (Hong Sang-soo)
9. Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing)
10. The Shadowless Tower (Zhang Lu)
11. in water (Hong Sang-soo)
12. Eureka (Lisandro Alonso)
13. The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno)
14. Ferrari (Michael Mann)
15. Here (Bas Devos)
16. Pictures of Ghosts (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
17. Priscilla (Sofia Coppola)
18. La chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
19. All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)
20. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
21. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
22. Perfect Days (Wim Wenders)