(Segments of) The Chinese Cinema

This list is no longer updated, and can be found on my main site here.

As inspired by Sean Gilman's essential list ranking the Chinese-language films he's seen, I've decided to make my own paltry list. Rankings are inexact, but will be regularly updated.

1. Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)
2. A Touch of Zen (1971, King Hu)
3. In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
4. A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang)
5. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang)
6. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
7. Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu)
8. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai)
9. Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai Ming-liang)
10. The Hole (1998, Tsai Ming-liang)
11. Mahjong (1996, Edward Yang)
12. A City of Sadness (1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
13. Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong Kar-wai)
14. Ashes of Time (1994, Wong Kar-wai)
15. The Terrorizers (1986, Edward Yang)
16. Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke)
17. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978, Lau Kar-leung)
18. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee)
19. A Confucian Confusion (1994, Edward Yang)
20. The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
21. Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018, Bi Gan)
22. Taipei Story (1985, Edward Yang)
23. Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011, Johnnie To)
24. That Day, on the Beach (1983, Edward Yang)
25. Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014, Johnnie To)
26. 2046 (2004, Wong Kar-wai)
27. Hard-Boiled (1992, John Woo)
28. The Fate of Lee Khan (1973, King Hu)
29. Bullet in the Head (1990, John Woo)
30. The River (1997, Tsai Ming-liang)
31. The Grandmaster (2013, Wong Kar-wai)
32. Millennium Mambo (2001, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
33. Still Life (2006, Jia Zhangke)
34. Drug War (2012, Johnnie To)
35. Fallen Angels (1995, Wong Kar-wai)
36. Romancing in Thin Air (2012, Johnnie To)
37. Happy Together (1997, Wong Kar-wai)
38. What Time Is It There? (2001, Tsai Ming-liang)
39. Police Story (1985, Jackie Chan)
40. Nomad (1982, Patrick Tam)
41. Ash Is Purest White (2018, Jia Zhangke)
42. Legend of the Mountain (1979, King Hu)
43. Oxhide II (2009, Liu Jiayin)
44. Dangerous Encounters – First Kind (1980, Tsui Hark)
45. Raining in the Mountain (1979, King Hu)
46. The Killer (1989, John Woo)
47. The World (2004, Jia Zhangke)
48. Hero (2002, Zhang Yimou)
49. An Elephant Sitting Still (2018, Hu Bo)
50. 24 City (2008, Jia Zhangke)
51. Vive L'Amour (1994, Tsai Ming-liang)
52. School on Fire (1988, Ringo Lam)
53. As Tears Go By (1988, Wong Kar-wai)
54. Kaili Blues (2015, Bi Gan)
55. The Hedonists (2016, Jia Zhangke)
56. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006, Tsai Ming-liang)
57. A Touch of Sin (2013, Jia Zhangke)
58. Kung Fu Hustle (2004, Stephen Chow)
59. Green Snake (1993, Tsui Hark)
60. One-Armed Swordsman (1967, Chang Cheh)
61. The Goddess (1934, Wu Yonggang)
62. Blind Detective (2013, Johnnie To)
63. Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
64. Exiled (2006, Johnnie To)
65. To Live (1994, Zhang Yimou)
66. Oxhide (2005, Liu Jiayin)
67. Unknown Pleasures (2002, Jia Zhangke)
68. Face (2009, Tsai Ming-liang)
69. The Odd One Dies (1997, Patrick Yau and Johnnie To)
70. Come Drink With Me (1966, King Hu)
71. The Wayward Cloud (2005, Tsai Ming-liang)
72. Daughter of the Nile (1987, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
73. City on Fire (1987, Ringo Lam)
74. Rebels of the Neon God (1992, Tsai Ming-liang)
75. Expectations (1982, Edward Yang)
76. My Blueberry Nights (2007, Wong Kar-wai)
77. SPL II: A Time for Consequences (2015, Soi Cheang)
78. Xiao Wu (1997, Jia Zhangke)
79. The Midnight After (2014, Fruit Chan)
80. Raise the Red Lantern (1991, Zhang Yimou)
81. The Mission (1999, Johnnie To)
82. A Better Tomorrow (1986, John Woo)
83. House of Flying Daggers (2004, Zhang Yimou)
84. Secret Goldfish (2016, Bi Gan)
85. Office (2015, Johnnie To)
86. Useless (2007, Jia Zhangke)
87. I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016, Feng Xiaogong)
88. Cry Me a River (2008, Jia Zhangke)
89. In the Heat of the Sun (1994, Jiang Wen)
90. I Wish I Knew (2010, Jia Zhangke)
91. Ju Dou (1990, Zhang Yimou)
92. A Family Tour (2018, Ying Liang)
93. Another Year (2016, Shengze Zhu)
94. In Our Time (1982, Tao Te-chen/Edward Yang/Ko I-chen/Chang Yi)
95. The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (2019, Herman Yau)
96. A Chinese Ghost Story (1987, Ching Siu-tung)
97. The Great Buddha+ (2017, Huang Hsin-yao)
98. Police Story 2 (1988, Jackie Chan)
99. The Poet and Singer (2012, Bi Gan)
100. Dong (2006, Jia Zhangke)
101. Three (2016, Johnnie To)
102. The Mermaid (2016, Stephen Chow)
103. Xiao Shan Going Home (1995, Jia Zhangke)
104. Mission: Impossible II (2000, John Woo)
105. Life Without Principle (2011, Johnnie To)
106. Red Sorghum (1987, Zhang Yimou)
107. The Wedding Banquet (1993, Ang Lee)
108. Turn Left, Turn Right (2003, Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
109. Red Cliff (2008, John Woo)
110. Red Cliff Part II (2009, John Woo)
111. The Great Wall (2016, Zhang Yimou)
112. Curse of the Golden Flower (2006, Zhang Yimou)
113. The Story of Qiu Ju (1992, Zhang Yimou)
114. A Taste of Killing and Romance (1994, Veronica Chan)
115. Pushing Hands (1991, Ang Lee)
116. Ip Man (2008, Wilson Yip)
117. Shower (1997, Zhang Yang)
118. Ip Man 2 (2010, Wilson Yip)
119. Cape No. 7 (2008, Wei Te-Sheng)
120. Secret (2007, Jay Chou)
121. Happy Times (2000, Zhang Yimou)
122. The Road Home (1999, Zhang Yimou)
123. Shadow (2018, Zhang Yimou)
124. A City Called Macau (2019, Li Shaohong)
125. People's Republic of Desire (2018, Hao Wu)
126. Forever Young (2018, Li Fangfang)
127. The Bucket (2019, Jia Zhangke)
128. Game of Death (1978, Robert Clouse)

The Extended Cinema

A non-exhaustive list of "notable" films running three hours (180 minutes) or longer, sorted by runtime. This is by no means complete, and the line between film and television, and singular films and series, is as hazy as ever.

Not included below but valid: Heimat, The Human Condition, Kill Bill, Nymphomaniac.

The Clock (2010, Christian Marclay)
Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, David Lynch)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Resan (1987, Peter Watkins)
La Flor (2018, Mariano Llinás)
Crude Oil (2008, Wang Bing)
How Yukong Moved the Mountains (1976, Joris Ivens)
Out 1: Noli me tangere (1971, Jacques Rivette)
A Retrospection of Leningrad (1990, Alexander Sokurov)
Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004, Lav Diaz)
Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication (1976, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville)
Dekalog (1989, Krzystof Kieślowski)
Shoah (1985, Claude Lanzmann)
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002, Wang Bing)
Heremias (2006, Lav Diaz)
Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Dead Souls (2018, Wang Bing)
Barrabas (1919, Louis Feuillade)
A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016, Lav Diaz)
Empire (1964, Andy Warhol)
Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World (2021, Adam Curtis)
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (2020, C.W. Winter & Anders Edström)
Park Lanes (2015, Kevin Jerome Everson)
8903 Empire (2015, Kevin Jerome Everson)
O.J.: Made in America (2016, Ezra Edelman)
Melancholia (2008, Lav Diaz)
Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)
Sátántangó (1994, Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
War and Peace (1966, Sergei Bondarchuk)
La Roue (1923, Abel Gance)
Tih Minh (1918, Louis Feuillade)
Les Vampires (1915, Louis Feuillade)
The Satin Slipper (1985, Manoel de Oliveira)
Star Spangled to Death (2004, Ken Jacobs)
Arabian Nights (2015, Miguel Gomes)
Minamata Mandala (2020, Hara Kazuo)
DAU. Degeneration (2020, Ilya Khrzhanovsky)
Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012, Lav Diaz)
Phantom India (1969, Louis Malle)
Century of Birthing (2011, Lav Diaz)
Near Death (1989, Frederick Wiseman)
Little Dorrit (1987, Christine Edzard)
Tanner '88 (1988, Robert Altman)
Angels in America (2003, Mike Nichols)
Top of the Lake (2013, Jane Campion)
Top of the Lake: China Girl (2017, Jane Campion)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000, Peter Watkins)
The Owl's Legacy (1989, Chris Marker)
From What Is Before (2014, Lav Diaz)
Spiritual Voices (1995, Alexander Sokurov)
Carlos (2010, Olivier Assayas)
Fantômas (1913, Louis Feuillade)
Mildred Pierce (2011, Todd Haynes)
Joan the Maid (1994, Jacques Rivette)
City So Real (2020, Steve James)
Homeland: Iraq Year Zero (2015, Abbas Fahdel)
Napoléon (1927, Abel Gance)
Sleep (1963, Andy Warhol)
1900 (1976, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Happy Hour (2015, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
Tsahal (1994, Claude Lanzmann)
Batang West Side (2001, Lav Diaz)
Fanny and Alexander (1983, Ingmar Bergman)
France/Tour/Detour/Deux/Enfants (1977, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville)
Penance (2012, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
Judex (1916, Louis Feuillade)
Smoking/No Smoking (1993, Alain Resnais)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000, Jonas Mekas)
Die Nibelungen (1924, Fritz Lang)
The Kingdom II (1997, Lars von Trier)
Scenes from a Marriage (1973, Ingmar Bergman)
Until the End of the World (1991, Wim Wenders)
The Memory of Justice (1976, Marcel Ophuls)
The Art of Vision (1965, Stan Brakhage)
The Halt (2019, Lav Diaz)
Bonaparte and the Revolution (1971, Abel Gance)
The Kingdom (1994, Lars von Trier)
Shoah: Four Sisters (2017, Claude Lanzmann)
City Hall (2020, Frederick Wiseman)
Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922, Fritz Lang)
"Rameau's Nephew" by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974, Michael Snow)
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988, Marcel Ophuls)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (1989, Jean-Luc Godard)
Out 1: Spectre (1972, Jacques Rivette)
The Hour of the Furnaces (1968, Octavio Getino & Fernando Solanas)
Doomed Love (1978, Manoel de Oliveira)
Che (2008, Steven Soderbergh)
Wormwood (2017, Errol Morris)
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006, Spike Lee)
The Age of the Medici (1972, Roberto Rossellini)
Parsifal (1982, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)
Route One/USA (1989, Robert Kramer)
Intimacies (2013, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
L'amour fou (1969, Jacques Rivette)
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969, Marcel Ophuls)
Norte, the End of History (2013, Lav Diaz)
Belfast, Maine (1999, Frederick Wiseman)
My Voyage to Italy (1999, Martin Scorsese)
Historias Extraordinarias (2008, Mariano Llinás)
At Berkeley (2013, Frederick Wiseman)
Hamlet (1996, Kenneth Branagh)
La Belle noiseuse (1991, Jacques Rivette)
Sangam (1964, Raj Kapoor)
A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang)
Love Exposure (2008, Sono Sion)
Ludwig (1973, Luchino Visconti)
The Century of the Self (2002, Adam Curtis)
Renaldo & Clara (1978, Bob Dylan)
An Elephant Sitting Still (2018, Hu Bo)
Season of the Devil (2018, Lav Diaz)
Gone With the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)
Burning Bush (2013, Agnieszka Holland)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Sergio Leone)
The Woman Who Left (2016, Lav Diaz)
'Til Madness Do Us Part (2013, Wang Bing)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995, Martin Scorsese)
Anna (1975, Alberto Grifi & Massimo Sarchielli)
Mera Naam Joker (1970, Raj Kapoor)
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001, Ashutosh Gowariker)
The Troubles We've Seen (1994, Marcel Ophuls)
The Travelling Players (1975, Theo Angelopoulos)
The 47 Ronin (1941, Kenji Mizoguchi)
La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué (1996, Frederick Wiseman)
Edvard Munch (1974, Peter Watkins)
The History of the Seattle Mariners (2020, Jon Bois)
High School II (1994, Frederick Wiseman)
Heaven's Gate (1980, Michael Cimino)
Eureka (2000, Aoyama Shinji)
Heimat Is a Space in Time (2019, Thomas Heise)
Mr. Bachmann and His Class (2021, Maria Speth)
State Legislature (2007, Frederick Wiseman)
Eros + Massacre (1969, Yoshida Yoshishige)
The Republic (2017, James N. Kienitz Wilkins)
The Lincoln Cycle (1917, Benjamin Chapin and John M. Stahl)
World on a Wire (1973, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)
Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo (2019, Abdellatif Kechiche)
Alexander the Great (1980, Theo Angelopoulos)
Chelsea Girls (1966, Andy Warhol)
The Last of the Unjust (2013, Claude Lanzmann)
The Irishman (2019, Martin Scorsese)
George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011, Martin Scorsese)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005, Martin Scorsese)
Exodus (1960, Otto Preminger)
War and Peace (1956, King Vidor)
Boccaccio '70 (1962, Mario Monicelli and Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica)
Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
The Mother and the Whore (1973, Jean Eustache)
Chung Kuo – Cina (1972, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Ryan's Daughter (1970, David Lean)
Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (2018, Bruno Dumont)
Sholay (1975, Ramesh Sippy)
Abraham's Valley (1973, Manoel de Oliveira)
The Godfather Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee)
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003, Peter Jackson)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
Giant (1956, George Stevens)
Doctor Zhivago (1965, David Lean)
The Year of the Discovery (2020, Luis López Carrasco)
Malmkrog (2020, Cristi Puiu)
P'tit Quinquin (2014, Bruno Dumont)
Public Housing (1997, Frederick Wiseman)
0.5mm (2014, Andō Momoko)
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember (1997, Anna Maria Tatò)
Spartacus (1960, Stanley Kubrick)
Intolerance (1916, D.W. Griffith)
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017, Frederick Wiseman)
Café Noir (2009, Jung Sung-il)
Winter Sleep (2014, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Reds (1981, Warren Beatty)
Domestic Violence (2001, Frederick Wiseman)
Domestic Violence II (2002, Frederick Wiseman)
Schindler's List (1993, Steven Spielberg)
The Falls (1980, Peter Greenaway)
Milestones (1975, Robert Kramer & John Douglas)
L'Argent (1928, Marcel L'Herbier)
Titanic (1997, James Cameron)
The Birth of a Nation (1915, D.W. Griffith)
The Right Stuff (1983, Philip Kaufman)
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
Awaara (1951, Raj Kapoor)
BNSF (2013, James Benning)
Nixon (1995, Oliver Stone)
Anjathe (2008, Mysskin)
Gandhi (1982, Richard Attenborough)
Grindhouse (2007, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez)
Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carné)
The Emigrants (1971, Jan Troell)
Legend of the Mountain (1979, King Hu)
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995, Aditya Chopra)
In Jackson Heights (2015, Frederick Wiseman)
My Journey Through French Cinema (2016, Bertrand Tavernier)
Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Green Mile (1999, Frank Darabont)
JFK (1991, Oliver Stone)
Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978, Prakash Mehra)
The Hateful Eight (2015, Quentin Tarantino)
The Wild Pear Tree (2018, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Kaos (1984, Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
Over the Years (2015, Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
Memories of Prison (1984, Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
King Kong (2005, Peter Jackson)
Short Cuts (1993, Robert Altman)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964, Anthony Mann)
Lamhe (1991, Yash Chopra)
Trimurti (1995, Mukul Anand)
The Leopard (1963, Luchino Visconti)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961, Stanley Kramer)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978, Ermanno Olmi)
Fengming: A Chinese Memoir (2007, Wang Bing)
Saagar (1985, Ramesh Sippy)
Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
Red Beard (1964, Akira Kurosawa)
So Long, My Son (2019, Wang Xiaoshuai)
Betty Blue (1986, Jean-Jacques Beineix)
Israel Why (1973, Claud Lanzmann)
La Région Centrale (1971, Michael Snow)
Amar Akbar Anthony (1977, Manmohan Desai)
Haqeeqat (1964, Chetan Anand)
The Deer Hunter (1978, Michael Cimino)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020, Burhan Qurbani)
Kwaidan (1965, Masaki Kobayashi)
O Lucky Man! (1973, Lindsay Anderson)
RRR (2022, S. S. Rajamouli)
Regular Lovers (2005, Philippe Garrel)
Comrades (1986, Bill Douglas)
A Fugitive from the Past (1965, Uchida Tomu)
Guide (1965, Vijay Anand)
Prem Rog (1982, Raj Kapoor)
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965, Wojciech Has)
El Cid (1961, Anthony Mann)
Aurora (2010, Cristi Puiu)
Anniyan (2005, S. Shankar)
The Plains (2022, David Easteal)
Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno (2017, Abdellatif Kechiche)
Another Year (2016, Zhu Shengze)
Beloved Sisters (2014, Dominik Graf)
National Gallery (2014, Frederick Wiseman)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013, Martin Scorsese)
Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013, Abdellatif Kechiche)
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007, Adam Curtis)
Inland Empire (2006, David Lynch)
The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (2004, Adam Curtis)
Sentimental Destinies (2000, Olivier Assayas)
Elective Affinities (1978, Gianni Amico)
A Grin Without a Cat (1977, Chris Marker)
A Touch of Zen (1971, King Hu)

A Top 100 of the 2010s

This list is no longer updated.

Compiled for the run-up to the end-of-the-decade, will be updated until the end of the 2019 list-making season.

1. La Flor (2018, Mariano Llinás)
2. Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai Ming-liang)
3. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, David Lynch)
4. Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo)
5. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)
6. Asako I & II (2018, Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
7. Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke)
8. Carol (2015, Todd Haynes)
9. The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
10. Cemetery of Splendour (2015, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
11. Silence (2016, Martin Scorsese)
12. Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018, Bi Gan)
13. Martin Eden (2019, Pietro Marcello)
14. The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
15. The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo)
16. Blackhat (2015, Michael Mann)
17. Certified Copy (2010, Abbas Kiarostami)
18. I Heard You Paint Houses (2019, Martin Scorsese)
19. Meek's Cutoff (2010, Kelly Reichardt)
20. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
21. Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011, Johnnie To)
22. Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014, Johnnie To)
23. Passion (2012, Brian De Palma)
24. Horse Money (2014, Pedro Costa)
25. Margaret (2011, Kenneth Lonergan)
26. Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson)
27. Phoenix (2014, Christian Petzold)
28. Manakamana (2013, Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
29. To the Ends of the Earth (2019, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
30. Mistress America (2015, Noah Baumbach)
31. Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson)
32. Transit (2018, Christian Petzold)
33. The Grandmaster (2013, Wong Kar-wai)
34. Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard)
35. Drug War (2012, Johnnie To)
36. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson)
37. The Wind Rises (2013, Hayao Miyazaki)
38. Happy Hour (2015, Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
39. Romancing in Thin Air (2012, Johnnie To)
40. Before Midnight (2013, Richard Linklater)
41. Ash Is Purest White (2018, Jia Zhangke)
42. Grass (2018, Hong Sang-soo)
43. Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong Sang-soo)
44. Manchester by the Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan)
45. Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach)
46. Gone Girl (2014, David Fincher)
47. Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade)
48. First Reformed (2017, Paul Schrader)
49. The Princess of France (2014, Matías Piñeiro)
50. Parasite (2019, Bong Joon-ho)
51. On the Beach at Night Alone (2017, Hong Sang-soo)
52. High Life (2018, Claire Denis)
53. Hill of Freedom (2014, Hong Sang-soo)
54. Jauja (2014, Lisandro Alonso)
55. Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Wes Anderson)
56. The Other Side of the Wind (2018, Orson Welles)
57. Listen Up Philip (2014, Alex Ross Perry)
58. This Is Not a Film (2011, Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
59. Bastards (2013, Claire Denis)
60. Hahaha (2010, Hong Sang-soo)
61. Arboretum Cycle (2017, Nathaniel Dorsky)
62. Uncut Gems (2019, Josh & Benny Safdie)
63. In My Room (2018, Ulrich Köhler)
64. I Was at Home, But... (2019, Angela Schanelec)
65. Oki's Movie (2010, Hong Sang-soo)
66. Shakti (2019, Martín Rejtman)
67. The Day After (2017, Hong Sang-soo)
68. Her Smell (2018, Alex Ross Perry)
69. An Elephant Sitting Still (2018, Hu Bo)
70. differently, Molussia (2012, Nicolas Rey)
71. List (2011, Hong Sang-soo)
72. Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013, Hong Sang-soo)
73. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (2019, Quentin Tarantino)
74. My Golden Days (2015, Arnaud Desplechin)
75. The Traitor (2019, Marco Bellocchio)
76. The Image Book (2018, Jean-Luc Godard)
77. Kaili Blues (2015, Bi Gan)
78. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012, Alain Resnais)
79. Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater)
80. The Handmaiden (2016, Park Chan-wook)
81. Two Days, One Night (2014, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
82. Two Shots Fired (2014, Martín Rejtman)
83. The Unspeakable Act (2012, Dan Sallitt)
84. To the Wonder (2012, Terrence Malick)
85. Sieranevada (2016, Cristi Puiu)
86. The Color Wheel (2011, Alex Ross Perry)
87. The Work (2017, Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous)
88. The Grand Bizarre (2018, Jodie Mack)
89. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018, Christopher McQuarrie)
90. The Hedonists (2016, Jia Zhangke)
91. Faces Places (2017, Agnès Varda & JR)
92. In Another Country (2012, Hong Sang-soo)
93. Kate Plays Christine (2016, Robert Greene)
94. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018, Joel & Ethan Coen)
95. Princess Cyd (2017, Stephen Cone)
96. Synonyms (2019, Nadav Lapid)
97. Our Sunhi (2013, Hong Sang-soo)
98. Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (2015, Stephen Cone)
99. The Strange Little Cat (2013, Ramon Zürcher)
100. Garoto (2015, Júlio Bressane)

Top 20 Performances

1. Kyle MacLachlan, Twin Peaks: The Return
2. Laura Paredes, La Flor
3. Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
4. Rooney Mara, Carol
5. Zhao Tao, Mountains May Depart
6. Joaquin Phoenix, Inherent Vice
7. Luca Marinelli, Martin Eden
8. Peter Simonischek, Toni Erdmann
9. Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
10. Franz Rogowski, Transit
11. Hong Chau, Downsizing
12. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
13. John Huston, The Other Side of the Wind
14. Lee Yoo-young, Yourself and Yours
15. Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
16. Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel
17. Kim Min-hee, On the Beach at Night Alone
18. Lee Kang-sheng, Stray Dogs
19. Anna Paquin, Margaret
20. Kate Lyn Sheil, Kate Plays Christine

A Top 100 Films of All-Time (Text Only)

No longer updated.

100. The General (1926, Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
99. The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo)
98. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
97. The Terrorizers (1986, Edward Yang)
96. Out 1: Spectre (1972, Jacques Rivette)
95. Pedicab Driver (1989, Sammo Hung)
94. Two English Girls (1971, François Truffaut)
93. A Star Is Born (1954, George Cukor)
92. Stop Making Sense (1984, Jonathan Demme)
91. Manhunter (1986, Michael Mann)
90. Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders)
89. Sparrow (2008, Johnnie To)
88. The Rocking Horsemen (1992, Nobuhiko Obayshi)
87. A New Leaf (1971, Elaine May)
86. Cure (1997, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
85. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007, Adam Curtis)
84. Dirty Ho (1979, Lau Kar-leung)
83. All My Life (1966, Bruce Baillie)
82. Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)
81. Yearning (1964, Mikio Naruse)
80. Inland Empire (2006, David Lynch)
79. Peking Opera Blues (1986, Tsui Hark)
78. The End of Evangelion (1997, Hideaki Anno)
77. Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke)
76. Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
75. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen)
74. Spione (1928, Fritz Lang)
73. Miami Vice (2006, Michael Mann)
72. The Love Eterne (1963, Li Han-hsiang)
71. Asako I & II (2018, Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
70. Like Someone in Love (2012, Abbas Kiarostami)
69. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
68. Ashes of Time (1994, Wong Kar-wai)
67. Pierrot le fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
66. Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
65. Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong Kar-wai)
64. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)
63. His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
62. Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)
61. Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu)
60. Beijing Watermelon (1989, Nobuhiko Obayashi)
59. (nostalgia) (1971, Hollis Frampton)
58. A City of Sadness (1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
57. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg)
56. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
55. M (1931, Fritz Lang)
54. Mahjong (1996, Edward Yang)
53. The Awful Truth (1937, Leo McCarey)
52. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)
51. Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
50. Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch)
49. High and Low (1963, Akira Kurosawa)
48. Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
47. India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras)
46. Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow)
45. Trust (1990, Hal Hartley)
44. Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)
43. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992, David Lynch)
42. Napoléon (1927, Abel Gance)
41. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee)
40. Neon Genesis Evangelion: Take care of yourself. (1996, Hideaki Anno)
39. Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
38. Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon (1895, Louis & Auguste Lumière)
37. Gertrud (1964, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
36. Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo)
35. Femmes Femmes (1974, Paul Vecchiali)
34. The Hole (1998, Tsai Ming-liang)
33. Heat (1995, Michael Mann)
32. Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963, Alain Resnais)
31. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Fritz Lang)
30. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, David Lynch)
29. Perceval le Gallois (1978, Eric Rohmer)
28. The Mother and the Whore (1973, Jean Eustache)
27. Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai Ming-liang)
26. Duck Amuck (1953, Chuck Jones)
25. Les Vampires (1915, Louis Feuillade)
24. Late Spring (1949, Yasujiro Ozu)
23. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai)
22. Dragon Inn (1966, King Hu)
21. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
20. Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais)
19. La Flor (2018, Mariano Llinás)
18. The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
17. A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang)
16. La jetée (1962, Chris Marker)
15. Out 1: Noli me tangere (1971, Jacques Rivette)
14. Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks)
13. Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
12. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli)
11. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming-liang)
10. Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
9. Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
8. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, Jacques Demy)
7. The Night of the Hunter (1954, Charles Laughton)
6. In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-wai)
5. A Touch of Zen (1971, King Hu)
4. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles)
3. Sans soleil (1983, Chris Marker)
2. Yi Yi (2000, Edward Yang)
1. Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch)

Various Critics' Top Ten Lists

Justin Chang

Jordan Cronk

Filipe Furtado

Eric Hynes

Kent Jones

Michael Koresky

Dennis Lim

Adam Nayman

Andréa Picard

Nick Pinkerton

James Quandt

Jordan Cronk Top Ten Lists

These lists are sourced from Patreon from 2015 onwards, and by release year until 2015, and by premiere year onwards. Rankings from 2023 on are speculative.

2012 [Unknown via CriticsTop10]

1. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
2. The Turin Horse (Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
3. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
4. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
5. This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
6. Almayer's Folly (Chantal Akerman)
7. Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers)
8. The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
9. The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
10. 4:44: Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara)

2013 [Slant]

1. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
2. Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas)
3. The Last Time I Saw Macao (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata)
4. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
5. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
6. Bastards (Claire Denis)
7. Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu)
8. Drug War (Johnnie To)
9. Night Across the Street (Raúl Ruiz)
10. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Alain Resnais)

2014 [Unknown via CriticsTop10]

1. Story of My Death (Albert Serra)
2. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz)
4. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
5. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
6. Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi)
7. What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto)
8. Life of Riley (Alain Resnais)
9. The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann)
10. A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Russell & Ben Rivers)

2015

1. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes)
4. 88:88 (Isiah Medina)
5. Lost and Beautiful (Pietro Marcello)
6. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
7. In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel)
8. Visit, or Memories and Confessions (Manoel de Oliveira)
9. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
10. Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)

2016

1. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
2. Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)
3. The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)
4. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
5. The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues)
6. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
7. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
8. The Dreamed Path (Angela Schanelec)
9. The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams)
10. Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)

2017

1. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
2. Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)
3. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
4. Western (Valeska Grisebach)
5. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
6. Good Luck (Ben Russell)
7. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
8. Lover for a Day (Philippe Garrel)
9. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
10. El mar la mar (Joshua Bonnetta & J.P. Sniadecki)

2018

1. The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
2. High Life (Claire Denis)
3. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)
5. La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
6. Dead Souls (Wang Bing)
7. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)
8. Infinite Football (Corneliu Porumboiu)
9. Arboretum Cycle (Nathaniel Dorsky)
10. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)

2019

1. I Was at Home, But... (Angela Schanelec)
2. Liberté (Albert Serra)
3. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
4. Synonyms (Nadav Lapid)
5. Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
6. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
7. State Funeral (Sergei Loznitsa)
8. Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello)
9. Tommaso (Abel Ferrara)
10. Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)

2010s [Patreon]

1. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, David Lynch)
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. The Strange Case of Angelica (2010, Manoel de Oliveira)
4. Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard)
5. No Home Movie (2015, Chantal Akerman)
6. House of Tolerance (2011, Bertrand Bonello)
7. Horse Money (2014, Pedro Costa)
8. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)
9. Holy Motors (2012, Leos Carax)
10. The Turin Horse (2011, Tarr Béla and Hranitsky Ágnes)

2020

1. DAU. (Ilya Khrzhanovsky)
2. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
3. Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu)
4. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (C. W. Winter & Anders Edström)
5. Beginning (Déa Kulumbegashvili)
6. Her Socialist Smile (John Gianvito)
7. The Salt of Tears (Philippe Garrel)
8. Siberia (Abel Ferrara)
9. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
10. The Year of the Discovery (Luis López Carrasco)

2021

1. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
2. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. France (Bruno Dumont)
4. Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
5. Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
6. In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
7. Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
8. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
9. Annette (Leos Carax)
10. Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood)

2022

1. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
2. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
3. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
4. The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang-soo)
5. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
6. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
7. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
8. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
9. Human Flowers of Flesh (Helena Wittmann)
10. Tales of the Purple House (Abbas Fahdel)

2023

• Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Radu Jude)
• Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice)
• The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
• Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
• Eureka (Lisandro Alonso)
• The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
• Music (Angela Schanelec)
• Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
• Youth (Spring) (Wang Bing)
• The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno)

2024

• Scénarios (Jean-Luc Godard)
• It's Not Me (Leos Carax)
• The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)
• exergue—on documenta 14 (Dimitris Athiridis)
• Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)
• Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
• Henry Fonda for President (Alexander Horwath)
• Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
• Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
• By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo)

2025

• Sirāt (Óliver Laxe)
• Dry Leaf (Alexandre Koberidze)
• Yes (Nadav Lapid)
• One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
• Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)
• The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
• Kontinental '25 (Radu Jude)
• What Does That Nature Say to You (Hong Sang-soo)
• Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold)
• Videoheaven (Alex Ross Perry)

James Quandt Top Ten Lists

All of these lists are sourced from Artforum, except as noted, and after 2002 are (roughly) by premiere year.

2002 [Village Voice]

• *Corpus Callosum (Michael Snow)
• Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk)
• I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira)
• In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
• La Captive (Chantal Akerman)
• The Orphan of Anyang (Wang Chao)
• Platform (Jia Zhangke)
• Remembrance of Things to Come (Chris Marker & Yannick Bellon)
• Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
• What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)

2003

1. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. Come and Go (João César Monteiro)
3. Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
4. The Ground/The Hedge Theater (Robert Beavers)
5. The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki)
6. Model Shop (Jacques Demy)
7. Remembrance of Things to Come (Chris Marker & Yannick Bellon)
8. The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
9. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
10. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)

2004

1. The World (Jia Zhangke)
2. Notre musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. 10e Chambre, Instant d'audiences (Raymond Depardon)
4. Rheimetall/Victoria 8 (Rodney Graham)
5. Café Lumière (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
6. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
7. Vento di terra (Vincenzo Marra)
8. La Blessure (Nicolas Klotz)
9. The Big Red One: The Reconstruction (Samuel Fuller)
10. Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (Theo Angelopoulos)

2005

1. The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu (Cristi Puiu)
2. Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
3. The Sun (Aleksandr Sokurov)
4. Garlands (T.J. Wilcox)
5. Palast (Tacita Dean)
6. Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (Peter Tscherkassky)
7. Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. La Trahison (Philippe Faucon)
9. Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
10. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)

2006

1. Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)
2. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
4. Kodak (Tacita Dean)
5. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
6. Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako)
7. Magic Mirror (Manoel de Oliveira)
8. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)
9. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
10. Kristall (Matthias Müller & Christoph Girardet)

2007

1. These Encounters of Theirs (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
2. Pour vos beaux yeux (Henri Storck)
3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
4. Useless (Jia Zhangke)
5. Tarahi V (Haris Epaminonda)
6. La Morte rouge (Víctor Erice)
7. Fengming, a Chinese Memoir (Wang Bing)
8. The Romance of Astrée and Céladon (Éric Rohmer)
9. Alexandra (Aleksandr Sokurov)
10. At Sea (Peter Hutton)

2008

1. Itinerary of Jean Bricard (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
2. Artemide's Knee (Jean-Marie Straub)
3. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
4. Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso)
5. Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín)
6. 24 City (Jia Zhangke)
7. United Red Army (Wakamatsu Kōji)
8. Wonderful Town (Aditya Assarat)
9. Cleópatra (Júlio Bressane)
10. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)

2009

1. Wilhelm Noack oHG (Simon Starling)
2. Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)
3. To Die Like a Man (João Pedro Rodrigues)
4. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
5. Giardini (Steve McQueen)
6. Like You Know It All (Hong Sang-soo)
7. In Comparison (Harun Farocki)
8. Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira)
9. Track of the Cat (William Wellman)
10. Huacho (Alejandro Fernández Almendras)

2000s [IndieWire]

1. These Encounters of Theirs (2006, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
2. In Praise of Love (2001, Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)
4. Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu (2005, Cristi Puiu)
6. In Vanda's Room (2000, Pedro Costa)
7. The Headless Woman (2008, Lucrecia Martel)
8. La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000, Peter Watkins)
9. Come and Go (2003, João César Monteiro)
10. La Blessure (2004, Nicolas Klotz)

2010

1. Rite of Spring (Manoel de Oliveira)
   The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
2. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4. Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. Aurora (Cristi Puiu)
6. Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
7. Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino)
8. The Mouth of the Wolf (Pietro Marcello)
9. The Wanderer (Avishai Sivan)
10. Static (Steve McQueen)

2011

1. Eika Katappa (Werner Schroeter)
   The Death of Maria Malibran (Werner Schroeter)
2. The Clock (Christian Marclay)
3. Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki)
4. This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
5. The Turin Horse (Tarr Béla and Hranitzky Ágnes)
6. Play (Ruben Östlund)
7. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
8. Blood of My Blood (João Canijo)
9. Aita (José María de Orbe)
10. Porfirio (Alejandro Landres)

2012

1. Night Across the Street (Raúl Ruiz)
   La Maleta (Raúl Ruiz)
2. The Last Time I Saw Macao (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata)
3. In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo)
4. No (Pablo Larraín)
5. Perret in France and Algeria (Heinz Emigholz)
6. The Repentant (Merzak Allouache)
7. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
8. Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
9. Wild Girl (Raoul Walsh)
10. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)

2013

1. Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz)
2. 'Til Madness Do Us Part (Wang Bing)
3. Three Exercises of Interpretation (Cristi Puiu)
4. What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto)
5. The King's Body (João Pedro Rodrigues)
6. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
   Manuscripts Don't Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof)
7. Ravel Ravel (Anri Sala)
8. The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann)
9. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
10. Salvation Army (Abdellah Taïa)

2014

1. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Amour Fou (Jessica Hausner)
3. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
4. Das Spektrum Europas (Cristi Puiu)
5. Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
6. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
7. The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy)
8. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
9. Above and Below the Minhocão (Mark Lewis)
10. August Winds (Gabriel Mascaro)

2015

1. Labour in a Single Shot (Harun Farocki & Antje Ehmann)
2. Visit, or Memories and Confessions (Manoel de Oliveira)
3. Bleak Street (Arturo Ripstein)
4. Singularity (Albert Serra)
5. Neon Bull (Gabriel Mascaro)
6. Ashes (Steve McQueen)
7. The Films and Videos of Michaël Borremans
8. Lost and Beautiful (Pietro Marcello)
9. Actua 1 (Philippe Garrel)
10. "The Owners of Dixie," from The Arabian Nights Trilogy, Vol. 2, The Desolate One (Miguel Gomes)

2016

1. Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
2. From the Branches Drops the Withered Blossom (Paul Meyer)
3. Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)
4. The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)
5. The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues)
6. Ma' Rosa (Brillante Mendoza)
7. Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)
8. Neruda (Pablo Larraín)
9. Kékszakállú (Gaston Solnicki)
10. As Without So Within (Manuela De Laborde)

2017

1. "The Boat Is Leaking. The Captain Lied." (Fondazione Prada, Venice)
2. Jean Vigo (Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy)
3. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
4. Western (Valeska Grisebach)
5. The Nothing Factory (Pedro Pinho)
6. Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR)
7. Closeness (Kantemir Balagov)
8. 12 Days (Raymond Depardon)
9. Caniba (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
10. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)

2018

1. Dead Souls (Wang Bing)
2. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. A Man Walks in the City (Marcello Pagliero)
4. Thomas Bayrle (New Museum, New York)
5. The Manet and Ravel Sequences from La Flor (Mariano Llinás)
6. Elegant Beast (Kawashima Yūzō)
7. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
8. The Load (Ognjen Glavonić)
9. Ayka (Sergey Dvortsevoy)
10. The Black Book (Valeria Sarmiento)

2019

1. Luc Tuymans (Palazzo Grassi, Venice)
   The White Album (Arthur Jafa)
2. Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
3. Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov)
4. State Funeral (Sergei Loznitsa)
5. Collective (Alexander Nanau)
6. Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
7. Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)
8. Invisible Life (Karim Aïnouz)
9. Fire Will Come (Oliver Laxe)
10. Nana (Jean Renoir)

2010s [Film Comment]

1. Zama (2017, Lucrecia Martel)
2. Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Norte, the End of History (2013, Lav Diaz)
4. Film Socialisme (2010, Jean-Luc Godard)
5. Vitalina Varela/Horse Money (2019/2014, Pedro Costa)
6. Amour Fou (2014, Jessica Hausner)
7. Sieranevada (2016, Cristi Puiu)
8. The Death of Louis XIV (2016, Albert Serra)
9. The Strange Case of Angelica (2010, Manoel de Oliveira)
10. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)

2020

1. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
2. Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
3. The Year of the Discovery (Luis López Carrasco)
4. Xiao Wu (Jia Zhangke)
5. A Night at the Opera (Sergei Loznitsa)
6. The Monopoly of Violence (David Dufresne)
7. Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu)
8. Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi)
9. While Cursed by Specters (Burak Çevik)
10. Gunda (Victor Kossakovsky)

2021

1. Introduction (Hong Sang-soo)
2. In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
3. The Round-Up (Jancsó Miklós)
4. Ahed's Knee (Nadav Lapid)
5. Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
6. Întregalde (Radu Muntean)
7. Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
8. Returning to Reims (Jean-Gabriel Périot)
9. Unclenching the Fists (Kira Kovalenko)
10. Dog Star Descending (Aykan Safoğlu)

2022

1. Where Is This Street? Or With No Before and After (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata)
2. The Novelist's Film (Hong Sang-soo)
3. The Adventures of Gigi the Law (Alessandro Comodin)
4. Unrest (Cyril Schäublin)
5. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
6. Stonewalling (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji)
7. Autobiography (Makbul Mubarak)
8. The Long Farewell (Kira Muratova)
9. Pier Paolo Pasolini – Agnès Varda – New York – 1967 (Agnès Varda)
10. Dry Ground Burning (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós)