Decades: 2020s, 2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, Pre-1920s
2023
- in water (Hong Sang-soo)
- John Wick: Chapter 4 (Chad Stahelski)
- Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shyamalan)
- Full River Red (Zhang Yimou)
- Passages (Ira Sachs)
- Fremont (Babak Jalali)
- Last Things (Deborah Stratman)
- A Common Sequence (Mary Helena Clark & Mike Gibisser)
- The Tuba Thieves (Alison O’Daniel)
- Gush (Fox Maxy)
2022
- Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo)
- Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
- The Novelist’s Film (Hong Sang-soo)
- EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
- The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
- Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
- Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
- De humani corporis fabrica (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
- The People You’re Paying to Be in Shorts (Jon Bois)
- Section 1 (Jon Bois)
- One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
- Diary of a Fleeting Affair (Emmanuel Mouret)
- Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
- RRR (S. S. Rajamouli)
- Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
- The United States of America (James Benning)
- Tales of the Purple House (Abbas Fahdel)
- TÁR (Todd Field)
- Stars at Noon (Claire Denis)
- Rewind & Play (Alain Gomis)
- Stonewalling (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji)
- White Noise (Noah Baumbach)
- Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
- Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
- Queens of the Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie)
- Nope (Jordan Peele)
- The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness (Lewis Klahr)
- Return to Seoul (Chou Davy)
- Armageddon Time (James Gray)
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
- Saturn Bowling (Patricia Mazuy)
- Matter Out of Place (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
- Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis)
- Riotsville, U.S.A. (Sierra Pettengill)
- Where Is This Street? or With No Before or After (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata)
- Nobody’s Hero (Alain Guiraudie)
- Human Flowers of Flesh (Helena Wittmann)
- Dry Ground Burning (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós)
- Don Juan (Serge Bozon)
- Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
- Amsterdam (David O. Russell)
- Relative (Michael Glover Smith)
- The Adventures of Gigi the Law (Alessandro Comodin)
- Will-o’-the-Wisp (João Pedro Rodrigues)
- Shin Ultraman (Higuchi Shinji)
- Ambulance (Michael Bay)
- Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski)
- A Human Position (Anders Emblem)
- Free Chol Soo Lee (Eugene Yi & Julie Ha)
- Glass Onion (Rian Johnson)
- Astrakan (David Depesseville)
- Call Jane (Phyllis Nagy)
- Every Day in Kaimukī (Alika Tengan)
- Mija (Isabel Castro)
- Kimi (Steven Soderbergh)
- Safe Place (Juraj Lerotić)
- It Is Night in America (Ana Vaz)
- Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
- Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller)
- Skinamarink (Kyle Edward Ball)
- Warriors of Future (Ng Yuen-fai)
- Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick? (Franciska Eliassen)
- Fairytale (Alexander Sokurov)
- The Batman (Matt Reeves)
- The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
- The City and the City (Christos Passalis & Syllas Tzoumerkas)
- Cette maison (2022, Miryam Charles) [January]
- Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
- God’s Creatures (Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer)
- Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (Park Sung-hoo)
- Something in the Dirt (Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead)
- A Love Song (Max Walker-Silverman)
- The Mission (Tania Anderson)
- The Exiles (Violet Columbus & Ben Klein)
- Divertimento (Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar)
- Close (Lukas Dhont)
- Athena (Romain Gavras)
- Framing Agnes (Chase Joynt)
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
- Elvis (Baz Luhrmann)
- Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
- The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)
- Babylon (Damien Chazelle)
2021
- Drive My Car (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
- Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
- Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World (Adam Curtis)
- Il buco (Michelangelo Frammartino)
- Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
- Who’s Stopping Us (Jonás Trueba)
- A New Old Play (Qiu Jiongjiong)
- West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
- A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (Zhu Shengze)
- Annette (Leos Carax)
- Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (Anno Hideaki)
- The Girl and the Spider (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher)
- In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
- Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude)
- Procession (Robert Greene)
- Topology of Sirens (Jonathan Davies)
- Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Introduction (Hong Sang-soo)
- France (Bruno Dumont)
- El Gran Movimiento (Kiro Russo)
- The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes)
- Medea (Alexander Zeldovich)
- The Cathedral (Ricky D’Ambrose)
- The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
- The Sacred Spirit (Chema García Ibarra)
- Haruhara-san’s Recorder (Sugita Kyoshi)
- Fabian, or Going to the Dogs (Dominik Graf)
- Benediction (Terence Davies)
- Red Rocket (Sean Baker)
- Wood and Water (Jonas Bak)
- Onoda (Arthur Harari)
- Ahed’s Knee (Nadav Lapid)
- Pebbles (PS Vinothraj)
- The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (Wes Anderson)
- The Souvenir: Part II (Joanna Hogg)
- Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
- FIRST TIME [The Time for All But Sunset – VIOLET] (Nicolaas Schmidt)
- Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
- A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia)
- Social Hygiene (Denis Côté)
- Virgin Blue (Niu Xiaoyu)
- Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (Edwin)
- Hit the Road (Panah Panahi)
- Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood)
- Deception (Arnaud Desplechin)
- Rampart (Marko Grba Singh)
- El Planeta (Amalia Ulman)
- Our Eternal Summer (Émilie Aussel)
- The Witches of the Orient (Julien Faraut)
- Belle (Hosoda Mamoru)
- Petite Solange (Axelle Ropert)
- Rock Bottom Riser (Fern Silva)
- Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)
- Come Here (Anocha Suwichakornpong)
- Singing in the Wilderness (Chen Dongnan)
- The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
- Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara)
- Terra Femme (Courtney Stephens)
- Nobody (Ilya Naishuller)
- Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)
- Wet Sand (Elene Naveriani)
- The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
- Cliff Walkers (Zhang Yimou)
- No Sudden Move (Steven Soderbergh)
- The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski)
- Titane (Julia Ducournau)
- I Was a Simple Man (Christopher Makoto Yogi)
- From the Planet of the Humans (Giovanni Cioni)
- Dune: Part One (Denis Villeneuve)
- Happening (Audrey Diwan)
- Eternals (Chloé Zhao)
- Dear Mr. Brody (Keith Maitland)
- Wrath of Man (Guy Ritchie)
- Old (M. Night Shyamalan)
- Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse (Stefano Sollima)
- The Woman in the Window (Joe Wright)
- The Soul (Cheng Wei-hao)
- Three Minutes: A Lengthening (Bianca Stigter)
- Casablanca Beats (Nabil Ayouch)
- The Green Knight (David Lowery)
- Home Sweet Home (Leste Chen)
- Spencer (Pablo Larraín)
- Pig (Michael Sarnoski)
- Life in a Day 2020 (Kevin Macdonald)
2020
- Days (Tsai Ming-liang)
- The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (C. W. Winter & Anders Edström)
- The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
- Short Vacation (Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol)
- Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
- Wife of a Spy (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
- Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu)
- Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
- Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (Jia Zhangke)
- The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)
- Tesla (Michael Almereyda)
- Fauna (Nicolás Pereda)
- There are not thirty-six ways of showing a man getting on a horse. (Nicolás Zukerfeld)
- The Last City (Heinz Emigholz)
- Notturno (Giancranco Rosi)
- City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
- Los Conductos (Camilo Restrepo)
- Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen)
- The Calming (Song Fang)
- Education (Steve McQueen)
- The Metamorphosis of Birds (Catarina Vasconcelos)
- Isabella (Matías Piñeiro)
- Expedition Content (Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati)
- Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill & Turner Ross)
- Mangrove (Steve McQueen)
- The Lobby (Heinz Emigholz)
- The Year of the Discovery (Luis López Carrasco)
- The Inheritance (Ephraim Asili)
- Monster Hunter (Paul W. S. Anderson)
- Time (Garrett Bradley)
- The Salt of Tears (Philippe Garrel)
- Her Socialist Smile (John Gianvito)
- małni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (Sky Hopinka)
- Alex Wheatle (Steve McQueen)
- Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)
- Atarrabi and Mikelats (Eugène Green)
- Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
- Undine (Christian Petzold)
- The American Sector (Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez)
- All the Light We Can See (Pablo Escoto Luna)
- Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirsten Johnson)
- Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (Lili Horvát)
- Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago (Rob Christopher)
- Radiograph of a Family (Firouzeh Khosrovani)
- s01e03 (Kurt Walker)
- Let Them All Talk a.k.a. The Fall of 2019 (Steven Soderbergh)
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)
- The Eight Hundred (Guan Hu)
- The Midnight Sky (George Clooney)
- Mank (David Fincher)
- One Second (Zhang Yimou)
- The Courier (Dominic Cooke)
- Tenet (Christopher Nolan)
- Greenland (Ric Roman Waugh)
- Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
- I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman)
- The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin)
- WW84 (Patty Jenkins)
- Hamilton (Thomas Kail)
- Mulan (Niki Caro)
2019
- Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
- I Heard You Paint Houses (Martin Scorsese)
- To the Ends of the Earth (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
- Fourteen (Dan Sallitt)
- Present.Perfect. (Zhu Shengze)
- Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
- Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie)
- I Was at Home, But… (Angela Schanelec)
- Synonyms (Nadav Lapid)
- A Voluntary Year (Ulrich Köhler & Henner Winckler)
- Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
- The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)
- Heimat Is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)
- Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream (Frank Beauvais)
- Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
- Cenote (Oda Kaori)
- First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
- Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
- The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu)
- Ghost Tropic (Bas Devos)
- Labyrinth of Cinema (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
- The August Virgin (Jonás Trueba)
- Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
- Liberté (Albert Serra)
- Belonging (Burak Çevik)
- Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
- A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick)
- Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar)
- The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan)
- Sibyl (Justine Triet)
- Chasing Dream (Johnnie To)
- Ad Astra (James Gray)
- Better Days (Derek Tsang)
- Gyopo (Samuel Kiehoon Lee)
- Richard Jewell (Clint Eastwood)
- Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
- Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello)
- Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
- Dark Waters (Todd Haynes)
- A Girl Missing (Fukada Koji)
- The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (Herman Yau)
- Ham on Rye (Tyler Taormina)
- Fire Will Come (Óliver Laxe)
- Motherless Brooklyn (Edward Norton)
- The Dead Don’t Die (Jim Jarmusch)
- John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (Chad Stahelski)
- The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
- Us (Jordan Peele)
- High Flying Bird (Steven Soderbergh)
- Domino (Brian De Palma)
- The Plagiarists (Peter Parlow)
- Collective (Alexander Nanau)
- Gemini Man (Ang Lee)
- Atlantics (Mati Diop)
- Conjuring the Rolling Thunder Re-vue (Martin Scorsese)
- Anne at 13,000 Feet. (Kazik Radwanski)
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (J. J. Abrams)
- Ready or Not (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett)
- Happy Death Day 2U (Christopher Landon)
- Glass (M. Night Shyamalan)
- MS Slavic 7 (Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell)
- Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov)
- 21 Bridges (Brian Kirk)
- Toy Story 4 (Josh Cooley)
- Oroslan (Matjaz Ivanisin)
- Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas)
- Alita: Battle Angel (Robert Rodriguez)
- Avengers: Endgame (Anthony & Joe Russo)
- Sunrise/Sunset (Jong Ougie Pak)
- Krabi, 2562 (Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong)
- Crawl (Alexandre Aja)
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
- The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers)
- Lingua Franca (Isabel Sandoval)
- Ema (Pablo Larraín)
- The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & Kathleen Hepburn)
- Sound of Metal (Darius Marder)
- 6 Underground (Michael Bay)
- The Farewell (Lulu Wang)
- The Last Vermeer (Dan Friedkin)
- Joker (Todd Phillips)
- A City Called Macau (Li Shaohong)
- Hustlers (Lorene Scafaria)
- Midsommar (Ari Aster)
- Booksmart (Olivia Wilde)
- Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi)
2018
- La flor (Mariano Llinás)
- Asako I & II (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
- Transit (Christian Petzold)
- Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)
- Grass (Hong Sang-soo)
- Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
- Amanda (Mikhaël Hers)
- High Life (Claire Denis)
- The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
- An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
- In My Room (Ulrich Köhler)
- Liz and the Blue Bird (Yamada Naoko)
- Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry)
- The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)
- The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack)
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Hotel by the River (Hong Sang-soo)
- Bisbee ’17 (Robert Greene)
- “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” (Radu Jude)
- Unfriended: Dark Web (Stephen Susco)
- Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
- Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
- Too Late to Die Young (Dominga Sotomayor)
- What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)
- Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
- Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson)
- The Mule (Clint Eastwood)
- Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
- A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper)
- Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)
- Welcome to Marwen (Robert Zemeckis)
- 3 Faces (Jafar Panahi)
- Classical Period (Ted Fendt)
- Film Catastrophe (Paul Grivas)
- The Commuter (Jaume Collet-Serra)
- Infinite Football (Corneliu Porumboiu)
- The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier)
- A Family Tour (Ying Liang)
- Notes on an Appearance (Ricky D’Ambrose)
- BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)
- Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (Bruno Dumont)
- Ray & Liz (Richard Billingham)
- The World Is Full of Secrets (Graham Swon)
- Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
- Diamantino (Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt)
- Shoot the Moon Right Between the Eyes (Graham L. Carter)
- Feast of the Epiphany (Michael Koresky & Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman)
- A Faithful Man (Louis Garrel)
- Your Face (Tsai Ming-liang)
- Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino)
- The Load (Ognjen Glavonić)
- The Great Pretender (Nathan Silver)
- Shoplifters (Koreeda Hirokazu)
- The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos)
- Belmonte (Federico Veiroj)
- Den of Thieves (Christian Gudegast)
- Sophia Antipolis (Virgil Vernier)
- Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski)
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)
- Two Plains & a Fancy (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
- Game Night (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein)
- The 15:17 to Paris (Clint Eastwood)
- Ready Player One (Steven Spielberg)
- Relaxer (Joel Potrykus)
- Diane (Kent Jones)
- Climax (Gaspar Noé)
- Knife + Heart (Yann Gonzalez)
- Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy (Yuen Woo-ping)
- Black Panther (Ryan Coogler)
- Ant-Man and the Wasp (Peyton Reed)
- Dear Ex (Mag Hsu & Hsu Chih-yen)
- Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti & Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman)
- Minding the Gap (Bing Liu)
- Unsane (Steven Soderbergh)
- Yara (Abbas Fahdel)
- Dead Horse Nebula (Tarık Aktaş)
- Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird)
- Cam (Daniel Goldhaber)
- Solo: A Star Wars Story (Ron Howard)
- Acid Forest (Rugilė Barždziukaitė)
- The Guilty (Gustav Möller)
- Widows (Steve McQueen)
- Long Way Home (André Novais Oliveira)
- Fausto (Andrea Bussmann)
- The Old Man & the Gun (David Lowery)
- Avengers: Infinity War (Anthony & Joe Russo)
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan)
- Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)
- Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell)
- First Man (Damien Chazelle)
- The Land of Steady Habits (Nicole Holofcener)
- On Her Shoulders (Alexandria Bombach)
- Shirkers (Sandi Tan)
- A Bread Factory – Part Two: Walk With Me a While (Patrick Wang)
- A Bread Factory – Part One: For the Sake of Gold (Patrick Wang)
- Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker)
- Shadow (Zhang Yimou)
- Hereditary (Ari Aster)
- To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (Susan Johnson)
- People’s Republic of Desire (Wu Hao)
- Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
- Sunset (Nemes László)
- Forever Young (Li Fangfang)
- Searching (Aneesh Chaganty)
- In Fabric (Peter Strickland)
- My First Film (Zia Anger)
- Vice (Adam McKay)
- Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu)
2017
- Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
- Hanagatami (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
- On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sang-soo)
- The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)
- First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
- Claire’s Camera (Hong Sang-soo)
- ★ (Johann Lurf)
- Streetscapes [Dialogue] (Heniz Emigholz)
- Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone)
- Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR)
- Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie)
- Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
- The Work (Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous)
- Downsizing (Alexander Payne)
- Let the Sunshine In (Claire Denis)
- Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (S. S. Rajamouli)
- Before We Vanish (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
- Western (Valeska Grisebach)
- Golden Exits (Alex Ross Perry)
- Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach)
- 120 BPM (Beats per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
- Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda)
- Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
- The Post (Steven Spielberg)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson)
- Mrs. Hyde (Serge Bozon)
- Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)
- Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)
- Song to Song (Terrence Malick)
- The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
- Good Manners (Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra)
- Ismael’s Ghosts (Arnaud Desplechin)
- Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler)
- Person to Person (Dustin Guy Defa)
- Tonsler Park (Kevin Jerome Everson)
- John Wick: Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski)
- Get Out (Jordan Peele)
- Lover for a Day (Philippe Garrel)
- The Wandering Soap Opera (Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento)
- The Rider (Chloé Zhao)
- The Great Buddha+ (Huang Hsin-yao)
- Girls Trip (Malcolm D. Lee)
- Last Flag Flying (Richard Linklater)
- Drift (Helena Wittmann)
- Escapes (Michael Almereyda)
- SPL: Paradox (Wilson Yip)
- Mercury in Retrograde (Michael Glover Smith)
- Gemini (Aaron Katz)
- Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh)
- Caniba (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
- PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams)
- The Green Fog (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson)
- Thirst Street (Nathan Silver)
- Let the Corpses Tan (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
- The Wild Boys (Bertrand Mandico)
- The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki)
- The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola)
- Mudbound (Dee Rees)
- Félicité (Alain Gomis)
- Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott)
- Baby Driver (Edgar Wright)
- Okja (Bong Joon-ho)
- Milla (Valérie Massadian)
- Bronx Gothic (Andrew Rossi)
- Forest Movie (Matthew Taylor Blais)
- Maison du bonheur (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
- The Square (Ruben Östlund)
- Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Travis Wilkerson)
- 24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami)
- A Skin So Soft (Denis Côté)
- Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen)
- En el Séptimo Día (Jim McKay)
- Fail to Appear (Antoine Bourges)
- Last Men in Aleppo (Feras Fayyad)
- Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)
- Thelma (Joachim Trier)
- Ava (Sadaf Foroughi)
- All the Money in the World (Ridley Scott)
- Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)
- Jane (Brett Morgen)
- Radio Mary (Gary Walkow)
- Memoir of War (Emmanuel Finkiel)
- Columbus (Kogonada)
- Spettacolo (Jeff Malmberg & Chris Shellen)
- A Ghost Story (David Lowery)
- Happy Death Day (Christopher Landon)
- Coco (Lee Unkrich)
- Casting JonBenet (Kitty Green)
- The Fate of the Furious (F. Gary Gray)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (James Gunn)
- From Nine to Nine (Neil Bahadur)
- Beach Rats (Eliza Hittman)
- Orders (Eric Marsh & Andrew Stasiulis)
- The Lego Batman Movie (Chris McKay)
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)
- The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)
- Atomic Blonde (David Leitch)
- The Big Sick (Michael Showalter)
- Love, Cecil (Lisa Immordino Vreeland)
- 12 Days (Raymond Depardon)
- Wind River (Taylor Sheridan)
- Deidra & Laney Rob a Train (Sydney Freeland)
- The Disaster Artist (James Franco)
- Kong: Skull Island (Jordan Vogt-Roberts)
- Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer)
- Saving Brinton (Tommy Haines & John Richard & Andrew Sherburne)
- Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins)
- Logan (James Mangold)
- Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)
- Gook (Justin Chon)
- You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)
- I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie)
- mother! (Darren Aronofsky)
- Le Redoutable (Michel Hazanavicius)
2016
- Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)
- Silence (Martin Scorsese)
- Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
- Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
- Manchester By the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
- HyperNormalisation (Adam Curtis)
- Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
- The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams)
- Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
- Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)
- The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
- Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene)
- 20th Century Women (Mike Mills)
- O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
- Beduino (Júlio Bressane)
- By the Time It Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong)
- The Dreamed Path (Angela Schanelec)
- Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve)
- Creepy (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
- Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (Paul W. S. Anderson)
- Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
- The Shallows (Jaume Collet-Serra)
- Sully (Clint Eastwood)
- Shin Godzilla (Anno Hideaki and Higuchi Shinji)
- The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Fremon Craig)
- Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
- The Son of Joseph (Eugène Green)
- Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro)
- Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
- Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman)
- The Lost City of Z (James Gray)
- Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids (Jonathan Demme)
- I Am Not Madame Bovary (Feng Xiaogang)
- Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
- Allied (Robert Zemeckis)
- I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck)
- Victoria (Justine Triet)
- Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
- Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar)
- Another Year (Zhu Shengze)
- The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues)
- Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi)
- The Competition (Claire Simon)
- Tower (Keith Maitland)
- Rules Don’t Apply (Warren Beatty)
- Kubo and the Two Strings (Travis Knight)
- Starless Dreams (Mehrdad Oskouei)
- A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)
- The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
- Your Name. (Shinkai Makoto)
- Three (Johnnie To)
- The Illinois Parables (Deborah Stratman)
- Two Lottery Tickets (Paul Negoescu)
- Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone)
- Kékszakállú (Gastón Solnicki)
- Rat Film (Theo Anthony)
- Mimosas (Óliver Laxe)
- The Mermaid (Stephen Chow)
- The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)
- Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)
- My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (Dash Shaw)
- Dark Skull (Kiro Russo)
- Scarred Hearts (Radu Jude)
- Café Society (Woody Allen)
- Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Rogue One (Gareth Edwards)
- Weiner (Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg)
- Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison)
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Zack Snyder)
- Split (M. Night Shyamalan)
- A Cure for Wellness (Gore Verbinski)
- The Future Perfect (Nele Wohlatz)
- Bad Black (Nabwana IGG)
- Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie)
- Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)
- Always Shine (Sophia Takal)
- The Love Witch (Anna Biller)
- Neruda (Pablo Larraín)
- Don’t Breathe (Fede Álvarez)
- 4 Days in France (Jérôme Reybaud)
- Electro-Pythagoras: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett (Luke Fowler)
- Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (Terrence Malick)
- Lemonade (Kahlil Joseph and Beyoncé Knowles Carter)
- Harmonium (Fukada Koji)
- Graduation (Cristian Mungiu)
- Indignation (James Schamus)
- Moana (John Musker & Ron Clements)
- The Nice Guys (Shane Black)
- 10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg)
- Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson)
- I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)
- After the Storm (Koreeda Hirokazu)
- The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Juho Kuosmanen)
- Close Relations (Vitaly Mansky)
- Werewolf (Ashley McKenzie)
- The Great Wall (Zhang Yimou)
- Fences (Denzel Washington)
- Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (David Yates)
- Sing Street (John Carney)
- Raw (Julia Ducournau)
- Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (Nicholas Stoller)
- X-Men: Apocalypse (Bryan Singer)
- Captain America: Civil War (Anthony & Joe Russo)
- Looking at the Stars (Alexandre Peralta)
- Doctor Strange (Scott Derrickson)
- Deepwater Horizon (Peter Berg)
- Cézanne et moi (Danièle Thompson)
- Zootopia (Byron Howard & Rich Moore)
- The Jungle Book (Jon Favreau)
- American Honey (Andrea Arnold)
- The Magnificent Seven (Antoine Fuqua)
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi)
- The Void (Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski)
- Jason Bourne (Paul Greengrass)
- Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ang Lee)
- Nerve (Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman)
- Passengers (Morten Tyldum)
- A Monster Calls (J. A. Bayona)
- The Huntsman: Winter’s War (Cedric Nicolas-Troyan)
- Money Monster (Jodie Foster)
- Keanu (Peter Atencio)
- Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)
- 13th (Ava DuVernay)
- House of Little Deaths (Scout Tafoya)
- Ma’ Rosa (Brillante Mendoza)
- Lion (Garth Davis)
- La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
- As You Are (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte)
- Jackie (Pablo Larraín)
- Christine (Antonio Campos)
- Live by Night (Ben Affleck)
- Assassin’s Creed (Justin Kurzel)
- Hidden Figures (Theodore Melfi)
- Deadpool (Tim Miller)
- Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia)
- The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn)
- Now You See Me 2 (Jon M. Chu)
- Swiss Army Man (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
- Suicide Squad (David Ayer)
2015
- Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
- The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
- Carol (Todd Haynes)
- Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Blackhat (Michael Mann)
- Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
- Happy Hour (Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
- Journey to the Shore (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
- Afternoon (Tsai Ming-liang)
- SPL II: A Time for Consequences (Soi Cheang)
- Kaili Blues (Bi Gan)
- Aragane (Oda Kaori)
- Mistress America (Noah Baumbach)
- Bitter Lake (Adam Curtis)
- My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin)
- Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (Stephen Cone)
- Garoto (Júlio Bressane)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
- Aloha (Cameron Crowe)
- Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story (Michael Almereyda)
- Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie)
- Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs)
- The Other Side (Roberto Minervini)
- Sunset Song (Terence Davies)
- Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry)
- Office (Johnnie To)
- The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson)
- The Walk (Robert Zemeckis)
- Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
- Baahubali: The Beginning (S. S. Rajamouli)
- Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams)
- Results (Andrew Bujalski)
- In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel)
- John From (João Nicolau)
- Field Niggas (Khalik Allah)
- Lost and Beautiful (Pietro Marcello)
- The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
- Avengers: Age of Ultron (Joss Whedon)
- Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)
- Run All Night (Jaume Collet-Serra)
- In Transit (Albert Maysles & Lynn True & David Usui & Nelson Walker & Ben Wu)
- Creed (Ryan Coogler)
- The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu)
- Tangerine (Sean Baker)
- 45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
- Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
- Our Little Sister (Koreeda Hirokazu)
- Inside Out (Pete Docter)
- The Academy of Muses (José Luis Guerin)
- James White (Josh Mond)
- The Martian (Ridley Scott)
- Aferim! (Radu Jude)
- Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce)
- Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)
- Brooklyn (John Crowley)
- The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)
- Valley of Love (Guillaume Nicloux)
- De Palma (Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow)
- Joy (David O. Russell)
- Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier)
- The Invitation (Karyn Kusama)
- The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
- The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer)
- Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle)
- I Don’t Belong Anywhere: Le cinéma de Chantal Akerman (Marianne Lambert)
- A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino)
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (Francis Lawrence)
- April and the Extraordinary World (Christian Desmares & Franck Ekinci)
- 88:88 (Isiah Medina)
- Helios (Longman Leung & Sunny Luk)
- Everest (Baltasar Kormákur)
- Minotaur (Nicolás Pereda)
- Demolition (Jean-Marc Vallée)
- Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov)
- Trainwreck (Judd Apatow)
- No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
- Ant-Man (Peyton Reed)
- High-Rise (Ben Wheatley)
- Eye in the Sky (Gavin Hood)
- The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Ben Rivers)
- The Witch: A New-England Folktale (Robert Eggers)
- Krisha (Trey Edward Shults)
- Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra)
- Straight Outta Compton (F. Gary Gray)
- Furious 7 (James Wan)
- Room (Lenny Abrahamson)
- Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson)
- The Wolfpack (Crystal Moselle)
- Song of Lahore (Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & Andy Schocken)
- Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen)
- Spectre (Sam Mendes)
- Son of Saul (Nemes László)
- The Gift (Joel Edgerton)
- Cosmos (Andrzej Żuławski)
- Chi-Raq (Spike Lee)
- Macbeth (Justin Kurzel)
- The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
- Black Mass (Scott Cooper)
- In the Heart of the Sea (Ron Howard)
- Beasts of No Nation (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
- The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper)
- The Big Short (Adam McKay)
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)
- The Leisure Class (Jason Mann)
2014
- Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
- Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
- Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To)
- Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
- Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
- Gone Girl (David Fincher)
- The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro)
- Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry)
- Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
- Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
- Not My Type (Lucas Belvaux)
- Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman)
- Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang)
- L for Leisure (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
- Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf)
- The Mend (John Magary)
- The Midnight After (Fruit Chan)
- Non-Stop (Jaume Collet-Serra)
- Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
- John Wick (Chad Stahelski and David Leitch)
- When Marnie Was There (Yonebayashi Hiromasa)
- Polizeiruf 110: Smoke on the Water (Dominik Graf)
- Heaven Knows What (Josh & Benny Safdie)
- Unfriended (Leo Gabriadze)
- P’tit Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
- Buzzard (Joel Potrykus)
- Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)
- Actress (Robert Greene)
- Güeros (Alonso Ruizpalacios)
- Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed & Wiam Simav Bedirxan)
- Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
- Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)
- The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
- Seven Weeks (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
- Hit 2 Pass (Kurt Walker)
- It Follows (David Robert Mitchell)
- Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman)
- The Lego Movie (Phil Lord & Chris Miller)
- Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
- Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn)
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Anthony & Joe Russo)
- Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)
- What We Do in the Shadows (Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi)
- Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
- X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer)
- Selma (Ava DuVernay)
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (Francis Lawrence)
- Big Hero 6 (Don Hall & Chris Williams)
- Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad)
- Meet the Patels (Geeta V. Patel & Ravi V. Patel)
- The Distance (Sergio Caballero)
- Fury (David Ayer)
- The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum)
- Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
- The Theory of Everything (James Marsh)
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Marc Webb)
- Kingsman: The Secret Service (Matthew Vaughn)
2013
- Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
- Manakamana (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
- The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai)
- The Wind Rises (Miyazaki Hayao)
- Nobody’s Daughter Haewon (Hong Sang-soo)
- Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
- Bastards (Claire Denis)
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Takahata Isao)
- Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo)
- Tirez la langue, mademoiselle (Axelle Ropert)
- The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
- A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
- Blind Detective (Johnnie To)
- Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
- Coherence (James Ward Byrkit)
- The Immigrant (James Gray)
- Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski)
- Sentimental Education (Júlio Bressane)
- Exhibition (Joanna Hogg)
- The World’s End (Edgar Wright)
- The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola)
- Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho)
- Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
- The Guests (Ken Jacobs)
- Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt)
- 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
- Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
- Her (Spike Jonze)
- Upstream Color (Shane Carruth)
- Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass)
- Boy and the World (Alê Abreu)
- Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier)
- Locke (Steven Knight)
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Francis Lawrence)
- Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro)
- American Hustle (David O. Russell)
- Star Trek Into Darkness (J. J. Abrams)
- Frozen (Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee)
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Peter Jackson)
- Iron Man 3 (Shane Black)
- Man of Steel (Zack Snyder)
- Elysium (Neill Blomkamp)
- The Heat (Paul Feig)
- World War Z (Marc Forster)
- Monsters University (Dan Scanlon)
- The Wolverine (James Mangold)
- Now You See Me (Louis Leterrier)
- Thor: The Dark World (Alan Taylor)
- Olympus Has Fallen (Antoine Fuqua)
- Despicable Me 2 (Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud)
- Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)
2012
- Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
- Passion (Brian De Palma)
- Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To)
- Drug War (Johnnie To)
- In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo)
- Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
- Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
- Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
- Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
- differently, Molussia (Nicolas Rey)
- You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (Alain Resnais)
- The Unspeakable Act (Dan Sallitt)
- To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
- Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W. S. Anderson)
- The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Barbara (Christian Petzold)
- Casting Blossoms to the Sky (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
- Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (Anno Hideaki)
- It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)
- The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
- Motorway (Soi Cheang)
- Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)
- Cloud Atlas (Lana & Lilly Wachowski & Tom Tykwer)
- A Month in Thailand (Paul Negoescu)
- Viola (Matías Piñeiro)
- Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
- Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
- Prometheus (Ridley Scott)
- Skyfall (Sam Mendes)
- Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
- Easy Rider (James Benning)
- Dredd (Pete Travis)
- Argo (Ben Affleck)
- Life of Pi (Ang Lee)
- Looper (Rian Johnson)
- The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan)
- The Avengers (Joss Whedon)
- Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
- Mekong Hotel (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
- Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
- Krivina (Igor Drljaca)
- Simon Killer (Antonio Campos)
- The Hunger Games (Gary Ross)
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Peter Jackson)
- Me @ the Zoo (Chris Moukarbel & Valerie Veatch)
- The Amazing Spider-Man (Marc Webb)
- Les Misérables (Tom Hooper)
- The Words (Brian Klugman & Lee Sternthal)
- Game Change (Jay Roach)
2011
- The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
- The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
- Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Johnnie To)
- Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
- This Is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
- The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
- Dreileben: Beats Being Dead (Christian Petzold)
- Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around (Dominik Graf)
- The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry)
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher)
- The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)
- All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Adam Curtis)
- A World Without Women (Guillaume Brac)
- Low Life (Nicolas Klotz)
- The Pettifogger (Lewis Klahr)
- Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird)
- Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
- The Wise Kids (Stephen Cone)
- Slow Action (Ben Rivers)
- Unknown (Jaume Collet-Serra)
- Pina (Wim Wenders)
- Life Without Principle (Johnnie To)
- House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi (David Gelb)
- Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
- A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
- Moneyball (Bennett Miller)
- Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Guy Ritchie)
- Rosalinda (Matías Piñeiro)
- Pariah (Dee Rees)
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson)
- The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (David Yates)
- Bridesmaids (Paul Feig)
- Dreileben: One Minute of Darkness (Christoph Hochhäusler)
- Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution (Lav Diaz)
- X-Men: First Class (Matthew Vaughn)
- Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
- War Horse (Steven Spielberg)
- Life in a Day (Kevin Macdonald)
- Captain America: The First Avenger (Joe Johnston)
- Thor (Kenneth Branagh)
2010
- Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
- Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
- Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Hahaha (Hong Sang-soo)
- Oki’s Movie (Hong Sang-soo)
- Love in a Puff (Pang Ho-cheung)
- The City Below (Christoph Hochhäusler)
- Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
- The Ghost Writer (Roman Polański)
- The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright)
- The Social Network (David Fincher)
- Unstoppable (Tony Scott)
- I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhangke)
- Resident Evil: Afterlife (Paul W. S. Anderson)
- True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
- Archipelago (Joanna Hogg)
- Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
- Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik)
- Inside Job (Charles Ferguson)
- Chantal Akerman, From Here (Gustavo Beck & Leonardo Ferreira)
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)
- Inception (Christopher Nolan)
- Ip Man 2 (Wilson Yip)
- Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
- The Fighter (David O. Russell)
- ANPO: Art X War (Linda Hoaglund)
- The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper)
- Tangled (Nathan Greno & Byron Howard)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (David Yates)
- Despicable Me (Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud)
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Michael Apted)
- The A-Team (Joe Carnahan)
- Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau)
- The Karate Kid (Harold Zwart)
- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (David Slade)
- Love Sex Aur Dhokha (Dibakar Banerjee)
- Extraordinary Measures (Tom Vaughan)
2009
- Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin)
- It Felt Like a Kiss (Adam Curtis)
- Disorder (Huang Weikai)
- Like You Know It All (Hong Sang-soo)
- Accident (Soi Cheang)
- Public Enemies (Michael Mann)
- Orphan (Jaume Collet-Serra)
- Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
- Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
- Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
- Face (Tsai Ming-liang)
- Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (Anno Hideaki)
- Mundane History (Anocha Suwichakorpong)
- Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)
- White Material (Claire Denis)
- Duplicity (Tony Gilroy)
- Impolex (Alex Ross Perry)
- Blondes in the Jungle (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
- A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Up (Pete Docter)
- Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)
- Star Trek (J. J. Abrams)
- The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Tony Scott)
- Coraline (Henry Selick)
- Red Cliff Part II (John Woo)
- Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie)
- Avatar (James Cameron)
- Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates)
- 3 Idiots (Rajkumar Hirani)
- The Rules of Film Noir (Elaine Donnelly Pieper)
- Gamer (Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor)
- Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
- Invictus (Clint Eastwood)
- Angels & Demons (Ron Howard)
- Mao’s Last Dancer (Bruce Beresford)
- Michael Jackson’s This Is It (Kenny Ortega)
- 17 Again (Burr Steers)
- The Soloist (Joe Wright)
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood)
- (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb)
- Bride Wars (Gary Winick)
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Michael Bay)
2008
- Sparrow (Johnnie To)
- Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo)
- 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
- The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
- Tokyo Sonata (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
- Speed Racer (Antonio Campos)
- Historias extraordinarias (Mariano Llinás)
- Two Lovers (James Gray)
- Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
- 24 City (Jia Zhangke)
- L’Idiot (Pierre Léon)
- Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
- Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
- The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda)
- The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
- Red Cliff (John Woo)
- Ip Man (Wilson Yip)
- Cape No. 7 (Wei Te-sheng)
- The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
- Iron Man (Jon Favreau)
- Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
- Taken (Pierre Morel)
- Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn)
- Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
- Bolt (Chris Williams & Byron Howard)
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Andrew Adamson)
- 102 Minutes That Changed America (Nicole Rittenmeyer & Seth Skundrick)
- The Forbidden Kingdom (Rob Minkoff)
- Quantum of Solace (Marc Forster)
- Hancock (Peter Berg)
- 27 Dresses (Anne Fletcher)
- The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Rob Cohen)
- The Express (Gary Fleder)
- Twilight (Catherine Hardwicke)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Dave Filoni)
- Jumper (Doug Liman)
2007
- The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (Adam Curtis)
- La France (Serge Bozon)
- Zodiac (David Fincher)
- Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
- Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
- Hannah Takes the Stairs (Joe Swanberg)
- My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-wai)
- There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Profit motive and the whispering wind (John Gianvito)
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
- Useless (Jia Zhangke)
- Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (Anno Hideaki)
- Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
- The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
- No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud)
- Resident Evil: Extinction (Russell Mulcahy)
- Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
- Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass)
- Secret (Jay Chou)
- Unrelated (Joanna Hogg)
- Viva (Anna Biller)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (David Yates)
- Spider-Man 3 (Sam Raimi)
- National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Jon Turteltaub)
- Redacted (Brian De Palma)
- Flash Point (Wilson Yip)
- Live Free or Die Hard (Len Wiseman)
- Blades of Glory (Will Speck & Josh Gordon)
- Stardust (Matthew Vaughn)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Gore Verbinski)
- Rush Hour 3 (Brett Ratner)
- The Great Debaters (Denzel Washington)
- Mr. Bean’s Holiday (Steve Bendelack)
- Shrek the Third (Chris Miller)
- Transformers (Michael Bay)
- The Game Plan (Andy Fickman)
- Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Tim Story)
- The Golden Compass (Chris Weitz)
- The Last Mimzy (Bob Shaye)
- Evan Almighty (Tom Shadyac)
- Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie)
2006
- Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Miami Vice (Michael Mann)
- Inland Empire (David Lynch)
- Election 2 (Johnnie To)
- Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
- Deja Vu (Tony Scott)
- Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
- Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
- I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)
- Exiled (Johnnie To)
- Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
- The Host (Bong Joon-ho)
- Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
- Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
- Dong (Jia Zhangke)
- The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel)
- Là-bas (Chantal Akerman)
- The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma)
- Casino Royale (Martin Campbell)
- Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
- The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
- The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
- Mission: Impossible III (J. J. Abrams)
- Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Gore Verbinski)
- Happy Feet (George Miller)
- Cars (John Lasseter)
- Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (Lisa Ades & Lesli Klainberg)
- Night at the Museum (Shawn Levy)
- X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner)
- Monster House (Gil Kenan)
- The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard)
- Eragon (Stefan Fangmeier)
- Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
- Live Freaky! Die Freaky! (John Roecker)
2005
- L’Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
- The New World (Terrence Malick)
- Oxhide (Liu Jiayin)
- Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)
- Through the Forest (Jean-Paul Civeyrac)
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
- Caché (Michael Haneke)
- The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)
- Election (Johnnie To)
- Perhaps Love (Peter Chan)
- The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
- Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
- Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)
- House of Wax (Jaume Collet-Serra)
- King Kong (Peter Jackson)
- Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
- Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright)
- SPL: Kill Zone (Wilson Yip)
- Serenity (Joss Whedon)
- Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mike Newell)
- March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet)
- Cinderella Man (Ron Howard)
- C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallée)
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton)
- Madagascar (Eric Darnell & Tom McGarth)
- Zathura: A Space Adventure (Jon Favreau)
- Fantastic Four (Tim Story)
- Are We There Yet? (Brian Levant)
2004
- Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
- Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
- Throw Down (Johnnie To)
- The Hand (Wong Kar-wai)
- The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (Adam Curtis)
- Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
- The World (Jia Zhangke)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
- Collateral (Michael Mann)
- Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
- Ten Skies (James Benning)
- Vénus et Fleur (Emmanuel Mouret)
- Triple Agent (Éric Rohmer)
- The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
- House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
- Breaking News (Johnnie To)
- Woman Is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
- Kill Bill: Volume 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
- Primer (Shane Carruth)
- L’Intrus (Claire Denis)
- The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
- Eros (Wong Kar-wai/Steven Soderbergh/Michelangelo Antonioni)
- Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
- Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
- Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón)
- The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)
- Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Alexander Witt)
- The Ladykillers (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Ray (Taylor Hackford)
- Mean Girls (Mark Waters)
- National Treasure (Jon Turteltaub)
- Shrek 2 (Andrew Adamson & Kelly Asbury & Conrad Vernon)
- The Final Cut (Omar Naim)
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay)
- The Day After Tomorrow (Roland Emmerich)
- DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story (Rawson Marshall Thurber)
- Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (Brad Siberling)
- The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (Garry Marshall)
- Mulan II (Darrell Rooney & Lynne Southerland)
- Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn)
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Lloyd Kramer)
- Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock)
2003
- Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
- Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
- PTU (Johnnie To)
- Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
- Running on Karma (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
- Kill Bill: Volume 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
- Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
- Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
- S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Panh Rithy)
- Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette)
- The Matrix Reloaded (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
- The Five Obstructions (Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier)
- The School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
- Intolerable Cruelty (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Zatoichi (Kitano Takeshi)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
- Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)
- Turn Left, Turn Right (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
- The Matrix Revolutions (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
- X2 (Bryan Singer)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski)
- The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- The Italian Job (F. Gary Gray)
- Big Fish (Tim Burton)
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (Tim Johnson & Patrick Gilmore)
- Freaky Friday (Mark Waters)
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Jonathan Mostow)
- Ong-Bak (Prachya Pinkaew)
- Bruce Almighty (Tom Shadyac)
- Holes (Andrew Davis)
- The Haunted Mansion (Rob Minkoff)
- The Room (Tommy Wiseau)
2002
- Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
- My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
- Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo)
- Chinese Odyssey 2002 (Jeffrey Lau)
- Hero (Zhang Yimou)
- The Century of the Self (Adam Curtis)
- Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Friday Night (Claire Denis)
- Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke)
- Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
- The Friends of the Friends (Dominik Graf)
- Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
- From the Other Side (Chantal Akerman)
- Looking for Tsai (Patrik Eriksson & Erik Hemmendorff)
- Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
- Mischka (Jean-François Stévenin)
- Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine)
- Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese)
- Resident Evil (Paul W. S. Anderson)
- Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak)
- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Park Chan-wook)
- Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski)
- Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
- Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
- Spider-Man (Sam Raimi)
- Film ist. 7-12 (Gustav Deutsch)
- Lilo & Stitch (Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois)
- The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Chris Columbus)
- Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (George Lucas)
- Equilibrium (Kurt Wimmer)
- Return to Never Land (Robin Budd)
- Ice Age (Chris Wedge)
- The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce)
- Phone Booth (Joel Schumacher)
- Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce)
- Scooby-Doo (Raja Gosnell)
2001
- Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
- Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsein)
- Spirited Away (Miyazaki Hayao)
- Pulse (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
- That Old Dream That Moves (Alain Guiraudie)
- La libertad (Lisandro Alonso)
- What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
- La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel)
- All About Lily Chou-Chou (Iwai Shunji)
- The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
- Ali (Michael Mann)
- Hush! (Hashiguchi Ryosuke)
- Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
- Love on a Diet (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
- Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow)
- The Man Who Wasn’t There (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Watanabe Shinichiro)
- A Fine Day (Thomas Arslan)
- Ocean’s Eleven (Steven Soderbergh)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
- Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter)
- Shrek (Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson)
- Batang West Side (Lav Diaz)
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Chris Columbus)
- Rush Hour 2 (Brett Ratner)
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Kirk Wise & Gary Trousdale)
- The Princess Diaries (Garry Marshall)
- Desperado Square (Benny Toraty)
- Osmosis Jones (Peter & Bobby Farrelly)
2000
- Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
- In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
- Platform (Jia Zhangke)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
- Bamboozled (Spike Lee)
- The Emperor’s New Groove (Mark Dindal)
- Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)
- Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo)
- You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
- The State I Am In (Christian Petzold)
- Mission to Mars (Brian De Palma)
- Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Petite conversation familiale (Hélène Lapiower)
- Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
- Mission: Impossible II (John Woo)
- Joint Security Area (Park Chan-wook)
- Battle Royale (Fukasaku Kinji)
- Memento (Christopher Nolan)
- Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
- Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer)
- Lumumba (Raoul Peck)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Gladiator (Ridley Scott)
- Happy Times (Zhang Yimou)
- X-Men (Bryan Singer)
- Joseph: King of Dreams (Rob LaDuca & Robert C. Ramirez)
- American Psycho (Mary Harron)
- Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
- Gone in 60 Seconds (Dominic Sena)
- Dinosaur (Ralph Zondag & Eric Leighton)
- Bring It On (Peyton Reed)
- Remember the Titans (Boaz Yakin)
- The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (Jim Kammerud & Brian Smith)
- Battlefield Earth (Roger Christian)
1999
- Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
- Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
- Gohatto (Oshima Nagisa)
- My Neighbors the Yamadas (Takahata Isao)
- The Insider (Michael Mann)
- The Matrix (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
- Rosetta (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
- Pola X (Leos Carax)
- The Mission (Johnnie To)
- Silvia Prieto (Martín Rejtman)
- eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
- The Straight Story (David Lynch)
- El Valley Centro (James Benning)
- South (Chantal Akerman)
- Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter)
- Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
- But I’m a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit)
- The Road Home (Zhang Yimou)
- Fantasia 2000 (Don Hahn/Pixote Hunt/Hendel Butoy/Eric Goldberg/James Algar/Francis Glebas/Paul Brizzi/Gaëtan Brizzi)
- Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders)
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (George Lucas)
- Shower (Zhang Yang)
- Fight Club (David Fincher)
1998
- The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
- Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
- The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
- Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
- A Hero Never Dies (Johnnie To)
- New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara)
- The Power of Kangwon Province (Hong Sang-soo)
- Festen (Thomas Vinterberg)
- Belly (Hype Williams)
- Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma)
- Dil Se.. (Mani Ratnam)
- Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
- The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Ronin (John Frankenheimer)
- Film ist. 1-6 (Gustav Deutsch)
- The Mask of Zorro (Martin Campbell)
- Mulan (Barry Cook & Tony Bancroft)
- The Prince of Egypt (Brenda Chapman & Steve Hickner & Simon Wells)
- Rush Hour (Brett Ratner)
- A Bug’s Life (John Lasseter)
- The Parent Trap (Nancy Meyers)
- Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (Tom Ellery & Bradley Raymond)
1997
- Cure (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
- Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)
- The River (Tsai Ming-liang)
- The End of Evangelion (Anno Hideaki)
- Lost Highway (David Lynch)
- Too Many Ways to Be No. 1 (Wai Ka-fai)
- Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
- Face/Off (John Woo)
- The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
- Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
- Xiao Wu (Jia Zhangke)
- Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki Hayao)
- The Odd One Dies (Patrick Yau and Johnnie To)
- Gummo (Harmony Korine)
- The Revenge: A Visit From Fate (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
- Titanic (James Cameron)
- Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
- Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Gattaca (Andrew Niccol)
- Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen)
- Contact (Robert Zemeckis)
- Anastasia (Don Bluth & Gary Goldman)
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
- Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (Karl Geurs)
- Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)
- Pride Divide (Paris Poirier)
- Hercules (John Musker & Ron Clements)
- The Hanging Garden (Thom Fitzgerald)
- Batman & Robin (Joel Schumacher)
1996
- Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan)
- Mahjong (Edward Yang)
- Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
- Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
- Viva Erotica (Derek Yee & Lo Chi-leung)
- Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
- Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma)
- Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
- Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (Hong Sang-soo)
- Bound (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
- Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
- Nénette et Boni (Claire Denis)
- Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye)
- Fire (Deepa Mehta)
- Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)
- William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet (Baz Luhrmann)
- The Rock (Michael Bay)
- The Battle of Brazil: A Video History (Jack Mathews)
- Roam Sweet Home (Ellen Spiro)
- Space Jam (Joe Pytka)
- Matilda (Danny DeVito)
1995
- Heat (Michael Mann)
- La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol)
- Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow)
- The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
- Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-wai)
- Safe (Todd Haynes)
- Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
- Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
- Tatort: Frau Bu lacht (Dominik Graf)
- Underground (Emir Kusturica)
- Xiao Shan Going Home (Jia Zhangke)
- Toy Story (John Lasseter)
- Ghost in the Shell (Oshii Mamoru)
- Die Hard With a Vengeance (John McTiernan)
- Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin)
- Pocahontas (Mike Gabriel & Eric Goldberg)
- Apollo 13 (Ron Howard)
- Balto (Simon Wells)
- Crimson Tide (Tony Scott)
- Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
- The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (Roy Allen Smith)
- Jumanji (Joe Johnston)
- Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher)
1994
- Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai)
- Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai)
- A Confucian Confusion (Edward Yang)
- In the Heat of the Sun (Jiang Wen)
- Sátántangó (Tarr Béla)
- Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-liang)
- Pom Poko (Takahata Isao)
- Wing Chun (Yuen Woo-ping)
- U.S. Go Home (Claire Denis)
- Cold Water (Olivier Assayas)
- To Live (Zhang Yimou)
- The Invincibles (Dominik Graf)
- River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt)
- The Glass Shield (Charles Burnett)
- Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
- I Can’t Sleep (Claire Denis)
- Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
- 100 Years of Japanese Cinema (Oshima Nagisa)
- Speed (Jan de Bont)
- True Lies (James Cameron)
- A Taste of Killing and Romance (Veronica Chan)
- Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce)
- Go Fish (Rose Troche)
- The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
- Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle)
- The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
- The Lion King (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff)
1993
- Naked (Mike Leigh)
- Green Snake (Tsui Hark)
- Carlito’s Way (Brian De Palma)
- D’Est (Chantal Akerman)
- Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
- Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg)
- Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
- Tai-Chi Master (Yuen Woo-ping)
- The Piano (Jane Campion)
- Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
- True Romance (Tony Scott)
- The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee)
- Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
- Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (Alanis Obomsawin)
- Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron)
- Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh)
- Falling Down (Joel Schumacher)
1992
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
- The Rocking Horsemen (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
- Hard-Boiled (John Woo)
- The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)
- Once Upon a Time in China II (Tsui Hark)
- Full Contact (Ringo Lam)
- Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
- Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
- The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
- Deep Cover (Bill Duke)
- Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang)
- Simple Men (Hal Hartley)
- Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
- Nitrate Kisses (Barbara Hammer)
- Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambéty)
- Raising Cain (Brian De Palma)
- Candyman (Bernard Rose)
- The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou)
- Nemesis (Albert Pyun)
- Batman Returns (Tim Burton)
- Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
- A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner)
- Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
- Baraka (Ron Fricke)
- Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce)
- Aladdin (John Musker & Ron Clements)
- Lorenzo’s Oil (George Miller)
- Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon)
1991
- A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
- Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui Hark)
- Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley)
- Only Yesterday (Takahata Isao)
- Barton Fink (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- La Vie des morts (Arnaud Desplechin)
- Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders)
- Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
- The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron)
- Some Divine Wind (Roddy Bogawa)
- The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
- Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash)
- To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror (Michael Snow)
- Keep It for Yourself (Claire Denis)
- Pushing Hands (Ang Lee)
- Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)
- Sisters in the Struggle (Dionne Brand & Ginny Stikeman)
1990
- Trust (Hal Hartley)
- Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai)
- Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
- Bullet in the Head (John Woo)
- Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
- Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)
- GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese)
- To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett)
- Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang)
- The Nasty Girl (Michael Verhoeven)
- Back to the Future Part III (Robert Zemeckis)
- Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston)
- No Fear, No Die (Claire Denis)
- Miller’s Crossing (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- The Hunt for Red October (John McTiernan)
- Die Hard 2 (Renny Harlin)
- The Bonfire of the Vanities (Brian De Palma)
- Empire of the Dark (Steve Barkett)
- Troll 2 (Claudio Fragasso)
- Home Alone (Chris Columbus)
1989
- A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
- The Killer (John Woo)
- Beijing Watermelon (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
- Pedicab Driver (Sammo Hung)
- Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
- The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
- Kiki’s Delivery Service (Miyazaki Hayao)
- Casualties of War (Brian De Palma)
- Les Sièges de l’Alcazar (Luc Moullet)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
- The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
- sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
- Meeting a Milestone (Goutam Ghose)
- Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis)
- When Harry Met Sally… (Rob Reiner)
- Batman (Tim Burton)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (Stephen Hopkins)
- The Little Mermaid (John Musker & Ron Clements)
- Glory (Edward Zwick)
- National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah Chechik)
1988
- My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki Hayao)
- School on Fire (Ringo Lam)
- As Tears Go By (Wong Kar-wai)
- 36 Fillette (Catherine Breillat)
- Uma Pedra no Bolso (Joaquim Pinto)
- Miracle Mile (Steve De Jarnatt)
- Die Katze (Dominik Graf)
- Akira (Otomo Katsuhiro)
- Die Hard (John McTiernan)
- Chocolat (Claire Denis)
- Police Story 2 (Jackie Chan)
- Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata Isao)
- The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)
- Grotesque (Joe Tornatore)
- The Land Before Time (Don Bluth)
- Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
- Dangerous Game (Stephen Hopkins)
- Big (Penny Marshall)
- Shoot to Kill (Roger Spottiswoode)
- On the Silver Globe (Andrzej Żuławski)
1987
- Eastern Condors (Sammo Hung)
- Ishtar (Elaine May)
- Daughter of the Nile (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
- 4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Éric Rohmer)
- City on Fire (Ringo Lam)
- Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
- RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)
- Raising Arizona (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- An Autumn’s Tale (Mabel Cheung)
- Sign “O” the Times (Prince)
- The Death of Empedocles (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
- A Better Tomorrow II (John Woo)
- A Chinese Ghost Story (Ching Siu-tung)
- Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou)
- Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
- The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)
- Predator (John McTiernan)
- The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
- Maurice (James Ivory)
- Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson)
1986
- Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark)
- Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
- Manhunter (Michael Mann)
- The Terrorizers (Edward Yang)
- Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
- The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer)
- Rosa la rose, fille publique (Paul Vecchiali)
- Faubourg St. Martin (Jean-Claude Guiguet)
- His Motorbike, Her Island (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
- Double messieurs (Jean-François Stévenin)
- Something Wild (Jonathan Demme)
- A Better Tomorrow (John Woo)
- Round Midnight (Bertrand Tavernier)
- Aliens (James Cameron)
- The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter)
- Castle in the Sky (Miyazaki Hayao)
- River’s Edge (Tim Hunter)
- Qui trop embrasse… (Jacques Davila)
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes)
- Top Gun (Tony Scott)
- Wise Guys (Brian De Palma)
1985
- Taipei Story (Edward Yang)
- Ran (Kurosawa Akira)
- Police Story (Jackie Chan)
- Contact (Alan Clarke)
- Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
- Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
- Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
- After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
- My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears)
- Trouble in Mind (Alan Rudolph)
- Witness (Peter Weir)
- Commando (Mark L. Lester)
- Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch)
- Tampopo (Itami Juzo)
- The Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
- Rocky IV (Sylvester Stallone)
1984
- Shanghai Blues (Tsui Hark)
- Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
- Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
- Wheels on Meals (Sammo Hung)
- Choose Me (Alan Rudolph)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg)
- Dune (David Lynch)
- The Terminator (James Cameron)
- Class Relations (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
- Body Double (Brian De Palma)
- Gremlins (Joe Dante)
- American Dreams (Lost and Found) (James Benning)
- Repo Man (Alex Cox)
- Amadeus (Miloš Forman)
- Blood Simple (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- Los Sures (Diego Echeverria)
- Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
- Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli)
- The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen)
- We Will Rock You (Saul Swimmer)
1983
- Sans soleil (Chris Marker)
- L’Argent (Robert Bresson)
- That Day, on the Beach (Edward Yang)
- Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
- Pauline at the Beach (Éric Rohmer)
- Testament (Lynne Littman)
- The Keep (Michael Mann)
- Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden)
- At the Top of the Stairs (Paul Vecchiali)
- Bless Their Little Hearts (Billy Woodberry)
- Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
- Suffer Little Children (Alan Briggs)
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Oshima Nagisa)
- Scarface (Brian De Palma)
1982
- Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
- Nomad (Patrick Tam)
- Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
- Too Early/Too Late (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
- The Thing (John Carpenter)
- Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
- In Our Time (Tao Te-chen/Edward Yang/Ko I-chen/Chang Yi)
- First Blood (Ted Kotcheff)
- Tootsie (Sydney Pollack)
- Rocky III (Sylvester Stallone)
- Annie (John Huston)
1981
- The Aviator’s Wife (Éric Rohmer)
- Tree of Knowledge (Nils Malmros)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
- My Young Auntie (Lau Kar-leung)
- Kagero-za (Suzuki Seijun)
- Thief (Michael Mann)
- Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
- At This Late Date, the Charleston (Okamoto Kihachi)
- Possession (Andrzej Żuławski)
- Merry-Go-Round (Jacques Rivette)
- Mad Max 2 (George Miller)
- Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen)
- Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
- Gallipoli (Peter Weir)
1980
- Simone Barbès or Virtue (Marie-Claude Treilhou)
- Kagemusha (Kurosawa Akira)
- Dangerous Encounters – First Kind (Tsui Hark)
- Every Man for Himself (Jean-Luc Godard)
- The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
- Equation to an Unknown (Dietrich de Velsa)
- Cruising (William Friedkin)
- Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
- The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
- Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
- Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
- The Last Metro (François Truffaut)
- The Conductor (Andrzej Wajda)
- The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
- Confidence (Szabó István)
- Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
- Special Treatment (Goran Paskaljević)
- Home Movies (Brian De Palma)
- The Constant Factor (Krzysztof Zanussi)
- Here’s looking at you, kid. (William Edgar Cohen)
- It’s My Turn (Claudia Weill)
- Sunday Daughters (Rózsa Janós)
- Nights at O’Rear’s (Robert Mandel)
- The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (Connie Field)
- The Blues Brothers (John Landis)
1979
- Dirty Ho (Lau Kar-leung)
- The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Legend of the Mountain (King Hu)
- Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
- Raining in the Mountain (King Hu)
- The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (Chuck Jones)
- Alien (Ridley Scott)
- Wise Blood (John Huston)
- The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard)
- Short Memory (Eduardo de Gregorio)
- From the Clouds to the Resistance (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
- Alexandria… Why? (Youssef Chahine)
- Le Navire Night (Marguerite Duras)
- Arrebato (Iván Zulueta)
- Bye Bye Brazil (Carlos Diegues)
- And Quiet Rolls the Dawn (Mrinal Sen)
- A Scream From Silence (Anne Claire Poirier)
- Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
- Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
- The Muppet Movie (James Frawley)
- Black Jack (Ken Loach)
- La Luna (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- Love on the Run (François Truffaut)
- My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong)
- The Wobblies (Stewart Bird & Deborah Shaffer)
- The Maids of Wilko (Andrzej Wajda)
- Best Boy (Ira Wohl)
- Mad Max (George Miller)
- The Europeans (James Ivory)
- Rocky II (Sylvester Stallone)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (Delbert Mann)
1978
- Perceval le Gallois (Éric Rohmer)
- The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Lau Kar-leung)
- Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
- Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
- In a Year With 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier)
- The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Raúl Ruiz)
- Remember My Name (Alan Rudolph)
- Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (Chantal Akerman)
- The Green Room (François Truffaut)
- Dossier 51 (Michel Deville)
- Halloween (John Carpenter)
- Other People’s Money (Christian de Chalonge)
- Girlfriends (Claudia Weill)
- Like a Turtle on Its Back (Luc Béraud)
- Violette Nozière (Peter Handke)
- The Left-Handed Woman (Peter Handke)
- Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
- The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski)
- Without Anesthesia (Andrzej Wajda)
- American Boy: A Portrait of Steven Prince (Martin Scorsese)
- Molière (Ariane Mnuochkine)
- The Fury (Brian De Palma)
- With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade (Lorraine Gray)
- Angi Vera (Gabór Pál)
- Newsfront (Phillip Noyce)
- The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
- A Wedding (Robert Altman)
- They Are Their Own Gifts (Lucille Rhodes & Margaret Murphy)
- Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
- The Star Wars Holiday Special (Steve Binder)
- Bloodbrothers (Robert Mulligan)
- Jaws 2 (Jeannot Szwarc)
- Game of Death (Robert Clouse)
1977
- Eraserhead (David Lynch)
- The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
- Providence (Alain Resnais)
- Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
- House (Obayashi Nobuhiko)
- That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
- The American Friend (Wim Wenders)
- Star Wars (George Lucas)
- Suspiria (Dario Argento)
- Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
- Le Camion (Marguerite Duras)
- One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (Agnès Varda)
- The Man Who Loved Women (François Truffaut)
- Padre Padrone (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
- Between the Lines (Joan Micklin Silver)
- Omar Gatlato (Merzak Allouache)
- A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker)
- Tent of Miracles (Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
- Short Eyes (Robert M. Young)
- Roseland (James Ivory)
- Camouflage (Krzysztof Zanussi)
- The Lacemaker (Claude Goretta)
- Women (Mészáros Márta)
- Citizens Band (Jonathan Demme)
- Riddles of the Sphinx (Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen)
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (John Lounsbery & Wolfgang Reitherman)
- Skip Tracer (Zale Dalen)
- Hot Tomorrows (Martin Brest)
- The Apple Game (Věra Chytilová)
- Pafnucio Santo (Rafael Corkidi)
1976
- Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
- Duelle (une quarantaine) (Jacques Rivette)
- The Marquise of O… (Éric Rohmer)
- Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
- In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima Nagisa)
- Insiang (Lino Brocka)
- All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula)
- Noroît (une vengeance) (Jacques Rivette)
- Carrie (Brian De Palma)
- Sérail (Eduardo de Gregorio)
- Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May)
- Harlan County U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
- Small Change (François Truffaut)
- Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Joan Micklin Silver)
- Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Alain Tanner)
- The Middleman (Satyajit Ray)
- Fortini/Cani (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
- The Memory of Justice (Marcel Ophuls)
- Car Wash (Michael Schultz)
- The Opening of Misty Beethoven (Radley Metzger)
- 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
- Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
- Network (Sidney Lumet)
- Obsession (Brian De Palma)
- Illustrious Corpses (Francesco Rosi)
- Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog)
- A Star Is Born (Frank Pierson)
1975
- India Song (Marguerite Duras)
- Moses and Aaron (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
- Nashville (Robert Altman)
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
- The Valiant Ones (King Hu)
- Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa Akira)
- The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Xala (Ousmane Sembène)
- The Traveling Players (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
- Grey Gardens (Albert Maysles & David Maysles & Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer)
- The Story of Adèle H. (François Truffaut)
- Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
- The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta)
- Fear of Fear (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Smile (Michael Ritchie)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)
- The Wonderful Crook (Claude Goretta)
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
- Hearts of the West (Howard Zieff)
- Autobiography of a Princess (James Ivory)
- Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
- Compañero: Victor Jara of Chile (Stanley Forman & Martin Smith)
- Black Moon (Louis Malle)
1974
- Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
- Femmes Femmes (Paul Vecchiali)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson)
- A Simple Event (Sohrab Shahid-Saless)
- The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
- The Bench of Desolation (Claude Chabrol)
- Stavisky… (Alain Resnais)
- The Mouth Agape (Maurice Pialat)
- A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
- Female Trouble (John Waters)
- The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)
- Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma)
- Chinatown (Roman Polański)
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
- Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
- Daisy Miller (Peter Bogdanovich)
- The Middle of the World (Alain Tanner)
- Electra, My Love (Jancsó Miklós)
- The Night of the Scarecrow (Sérgio Ricardo)
- Italianamerican (Martin Scorsese)
- Conversation Piece (Luchino Visconti)
- La Paloma (Daniel Schmid)
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)
- The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
- Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle)
- Old-Fashioned Woman (Martha Coolidge)
1973
- The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
- F for Fake (Orson Welles)
- The Fate of Lee Khan (King Hu)
- Badlands (Terrence Malick)
- World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
- Day for Night (François Truffaut)
- A Doll’s House (Joseph Losey)
- The Illumination (Krzysztof Zanussi)
- Israel, Why (Claude Lanzmann)
- Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
- Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray)
- American Graffiti (George Lucas)
- Belladonna of Sadness (Yamamoto Eiichi)
- A Bigger Splash (Jack Hazan)
- Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (Alexander Kluge)
- Kid Blue (James Frawley)
- Réjeanne Padovani (Denys Arcand)
- Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse)
- Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox)
1972
- Out 1: Spectre (Jacques Rivette)
- The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Jancsó Miklós)
- Avanti! (Billy Wilder)
- The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May)
- Love in the Afternoon (Éric Rohmer)
- We Won’t Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat)
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
- Nathalie Granger (Marguerite Duras)
- Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)
- Pink Flamingos (John Waters)
- Goodbye CP (Hara Kazuo)
- History Lessons (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
- Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas)
- Chung Kuo – Cina (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- Red Psalm (Jancsó Miklós)
- Junior Bonner (Sam Peckinpah)
- Liza With a Z (Bob Fosse)
- The Inner Scar (Philippe Garrel)
- Ulzana’s Raid (Robert Aldrich)
- A Sense of Loss (Marcel Ophuls)
- Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
- Images (Robert Altman)
- Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
- The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
- Sisters (Brian De Palma)
- The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson)
- Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- Prime Cut (Michael Ritchie)
- Heat (Paul Morrissey)
- Play It As It Lays (Frank Perry)
- The Assassination of Trotsky (Joseph Losey)
- Going Home (Adolfas Mekas)
- Bad Company (Robert Benton)
- Summer Soldiers (Teshigahara Hiroshi)
- The Way of the Dragon (Bruce Lee)
- Get to Know Your Rabbit (Brian De Palma)
1971
- A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
- Out 1: Noli me tangere (Jacques Rivette)
- Two English Girls (François Truffaut)
- A New Leaf (Elaine May)
- The Devils (Ken Russell)
- Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
- The Ceremony (Oshima Nagisa)
- Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson)
- Just Before Nightfall (Claude Chabrol)
- Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
- The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
- Pioneers in Ingolstadt (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
- Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)
- The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- A Girl Is a Gun (Luc Moullet)
- Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
- Love (Makk Károly)
- W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev)
- Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
- Directed by John Ford (Peter Bogdanovich)
- Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog)
- Family Life (Krzysztof Zanussi)
- In the Name of the Father (Marco Bellocchio)
- Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
- Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles)
- A Safe Place (Henry Jaglom)
- Family Life (Ken Loach)
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
- Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
- A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
- Born to Win (Ivan Passer)
1970
- Zorns Lemma (Hollis Frampton)
- Claire’s Knee (Éric Rohmer)
- Othon (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
- Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol)
- Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray)
- La Rupture (Claude Chabrol)
- The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- The Wild Child (François Truffaut)
- Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski)
- Tristana (Luis Buñuel)
- Wanda (Barbara Loden)
- Wind From the East (Groupe Dziga Vertov and Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin)
- The Adversary (Satyajit Ray)
- Dodes’ka-den (Kurosawa Akira)
- The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Oshima Nagisa)
- The Debut (Gleb Panfilov)
- Bed and Board (François Truffaut)
- Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog)
- Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
- Hospital (Frederick Wiseman)
- The Scavengers (Ermanno Olmi)
- The Spider’s Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- The Garden of Delights (Carlos Saura)
- The Cannibals (Liliana Cavani)
- Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- Langlois (Eila Hershon & Roberto Guerra)
- The Aristocats (Wolfgang Reitherman)
- Dionysus in ’69 (Brian De Palma)
- Comrades (Marin Karmitz)
- Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma)
- The Christine Jorgensen Story (Irving Rapper)
- The Boys in the Band (William Friedkin)
1969
- L’Amour fou (Jacques Rivette)
- My Night at Maud’s (Éric Rohmer)
- The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov)
- Boy (Oshima Nagisa)
- Destroy, She Said (Marguerite Duras)
- The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls)
- Une femme douce (Robert Bresson)
- Double Suicide (Shinoda Masahiro)
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky)
- Ådalen 31 (Bo Widerberg)
- Le Gai Savoir (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Oh! What a Lovely War (Richard Attenborough)
- The Joke (Jaromil Jireš)
- Lions Love (Agnès Varda)
- Kes (Ken Loach)
- Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
- Duet for Cannibals (Susan Sontag)
- Model Shop (Jacques Demy)
- Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
- Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Oshima Nagisa)
- The Rite (Ingmar Bergman)
- Pigsty (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- Goto, Island of Love (Walerian Borowczyk)
- Harry Munter (Kjell Grede)
- The Wedding Party (Brian De Palma & Wilford Leach & Cynthia Munroe)
1968
- Death by Hanging (Oshima Nagisa)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
- Je t’aime, je t’aime (Alain Resnais)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
- The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
- Golden Swallow (Chang Cheh)
- La Chamade (Alain Cavalier)
- Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
- Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
- Targets (Peter Bogdanovich)
- Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polański)
- Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
- One Plus One (Jean-Luc Godard)
- The Boston Strangler (Richard Fleischer)
- L’Enfance nue (Maurice Pialat)
- Lucía (Humberto Solás)
- Mandabi (Ousmane Sembène)
- The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci)
- Les Biches (Claude Chabrol)
- Three Resurrected Drunkards (Oshima Nagisa)
- 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (Dominique Delouche)
- One Fine Day (Ermanno Olmi)
- Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (Alexander Kluge)
- Partner. (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut)
- Faces (John Cassavetes)
- Greetings (Brian De Palma)
- High School (Frederick Wiseman)
- Signs of Life (Werner Herzog)
- Capricious Summer (Jiří Menzel)
- Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli)
- Murder à la Mod (Brian De Palma)
1967
- The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
- Dragon Inn (King Hu)
- Wavelength (Michael Snow)
- PlayTime (Jacques Tati)
- Week-end (Jean-Luc Godard)
- La Collectionneuse (Éric Rohmer)
- Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
- One-Armed Swordsman (Chang Cheh)
- The Red and the White (Jancsó Miklós)
- Point Blank (John Boorman)
- Le Départ (Jerzy Skolmowski)
- 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Portrait of Jason (Shirley Clarke)
- Far From Vietnam (Jean-Luc Godard & Joris Ivens & William Klein & Claude Lelouch & Chris Marker & Alain Resnais & Agnès Varda)
- Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel)
- The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
- Dont Look Back (D. A. Pennebaker)
- Samurai Rebellion (Kobayashi Masaki)
- La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
- The Firemen’s Ball (Miloš Forman)
- La Musica (Marguerite Duras & Paul Seban)
- Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dušan Makavejev)
- Branded to Kill (Suzuki Seijun)
- Elvira Madigan (Bo Widerberg)
- Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville)
- Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Oshima Nagisa)
- Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)
- Hugo and Josephine (Kjell Grede)
- The Jungle Book (Wolfgang Reitherman)
- Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (Peter Whitehead)
1966
- The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
- Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
- Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
- The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
- Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki Seijun)
- Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène)
- Roger la Honte (Riccardo Freda)
- Come Drink With Me (King Hu)
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
- The Nun (Jacques Rivette)
- Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
- Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- The War Is Over (Alain Resnais)
- Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- The Round-Up (Jancsó Miklós)
- Masculin féminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Violence at Noon (Oshima Nagisa)
- Made in U.S.A (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Troublemakers (Norman Fruchter & Robert Machover)
- Yesterday Girl (Alexander Kluge)
- The Hunt (Carlos Saura)
- Hedy (Andy Warhol)
- The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- Barrier (Jerzy Skolimowski)
- The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (André Delvaux)
- Father (Szabó István)
- Hunger (Henning Carlsen)
- Les Créatures (Agnès Varda)
- Young Törless (Volker Schlöndorff)
- Daisies (Věra Chytilová)
- Pearls of the Deep (Jiří Menzel/Jan Němec/Evald Schorm/Věra Chytilová/Jaromil Jireš)
- A Report on the Party and the Guests (Jan Němec)
- Almost a Man (Vittorio De Seta)
1965
- Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Not Reconciled (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
- Sons of the Good Earth (King Hu)
- The War Game (Peter Watkins)
- Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
- Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa)
- Red Beard (Kurosawa Akira)
- Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda)
- The Koumiko Mystery (Chris Marker)
- Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov)
- Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
- Bad Girls Go to Hell (Doris Wishman)
- Walkover (Jerzy Skolimowski)
- Loves of a Blonde (Miloš Forman)
- The Shameless Old Lady (René Allio)
- Shakespeare Wallah (James Ivory)
- The Epic That Never Was (Bill Duncalf)
- Mickey One (Arthur Penn)
- Six in Paris (Jean Douchet/Jean Rouch/Jean-Daniel Pollet/Éric Rohmer/Jean-Luc Godard/Claude Chabrol)
- The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
- Sandra (Luchino Visconti)
- Three (Aleksandar Petrović)
- Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio)
- The Lion Hunters (Jean Rouch)
- Intimate Lighting (Ivan Passer)
- Memorandum (Donald Brittain & John Spotton)
1964
- Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- Yearning (Naruse Mikio)
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
- Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara Hiroshi)
- The Gospel According to Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
- Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer)
- A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
- The Story of Sue San (King Hu)
- The Brig (Jonas Mekas)
- Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov)
- Brick and Mirror (Ebrahim Golestan)
- Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
- The Enchanted Desna (Yuliya Solntseva)
- Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev)
- Life Upside Down (Alain Jessua)
- Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester)
- King & Country (Joseph Losey)
- Identification Marks: None (Jerzy Skolimowski)
- Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel)
- Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)
- Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet)
- Nobody Waved Good-bye (Don Owen)
- Lilith (Robert Rossen)
- The Last Clean Shirt (Alfred Leslie)
- Black Peter (Miloš Forman)
1963
- Muriel, or the Time of Return (Alain Resnais)
- The Love Eterne (Li Han-hsiang)
- High and Low (Kurosawa Akira)
- The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
- The Servant (Joseph Losey)
- Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy)
- Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker)
- Pasazerka (Andrzej Munk)
- Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
- The Big City (Satyajit Ray)
- Suzanne’s Career (Éric Rohmer)
- The Cool World (Shirley Clarke)
- Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
- I fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
- Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Raven’s End (Bo Widerberg)
- In the Midst of Life (Robert Enrico)
- Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
- 8½ (Federico Fellini)
- Ro.Go.Pa.G (Roberto Rossellini/Jean-Luc Godard/Pier Paolo Pasolini/Ugo Gregoretti)
- She and He (Hani Susumu)
- Hallelujah the Hills (Adolfas Mekas)
- Hands Over the City (Francesco Rosi)
- Alone Across the Pacific (Kon Ichikawa)
- All the Way Home (Alex Segal)
- Magnet of Doom (Jean-Pierre Melville)
- The Sword in the Stone (Wolfgang Reitherman)
1962
- An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu Yasujiro)
- L’eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- Cléo From 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda)
- Jules et Jim (François Truffaut)
- Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
- Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey)
- The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
- Harakiri (Kobayashi Masaki)
- The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
- Il mare (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi)
- The Sign of Leo (Éric Rohmer)
- Knife in the Water (Roman Polański)
- Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
- Dr. No (Terence Young)
- Glory Sky (Takis Kanellopoulos)
- Garrincha: Hero of the Jungle (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade)
- Barravento (Glauber Rocha)
- La commare secca (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- Siberian Lady Macbeth (Andrzej Wajda)
- Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)
1961
- Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
- Lola (Jacques Demy)
- Hercules Conquers Atlantis (Vittorio Cottafavi)
- Paris Belongs to Us (Jacques Rivette)
- The Exiles (Kent Mackenzie)
- Yojimbo (Kurosawa Akira)
- West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
- Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
- A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
- La notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin)
- Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- The Story of the Flaming Years (Yuliya Solntseva)
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians (Wolfgang Reitherman & Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi)
1960
- Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
- L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
- Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
- The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
- Night and Fog in Japan (Oshima Nagisa)
- The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis)
- La dolce vita (Federico Fellini)
- The Bad Sleep Well (Kurosawa Akira)
- Cruel Story of Youth (Oshima Nagisa)
- Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut)
- The Giants of Thessaly (Riccardo Freda)
- Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)
- The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
1959
- Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
- Imitation of Life (Sirk)
- The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
- Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)
- North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Shadows (John Cassavetes)
- Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
- Apur Sansar (Satyajit Ray)
- Une simple histoire (Marcel Hanoun)
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Kobayashi Masaki)
- Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi)
- Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
1958
- Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
- Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol)
- Enjo (Kon Ichikawa)
- Poem of an Inland Sea (Yuliya Solntseva)
- Ajantrik (Ritwik Ghatak)
- Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)
1957
- Pyaasa (Guru Dutt)
- Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
- Eight Hours of Terror (Suzuki Seijun)
- Throne of Blood (Kurosawa Akira)
- Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
- The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
- Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
1956
- A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
- The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)
- The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
- The Searchers (John Ford)
- The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
- Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
1955
- The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
- Floating Clouds (Naruse Mikio)
- Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
- Lola Montès (Max Ophuls)
- The Long Gray Line (John Ford)
- Moonfleet (Fritz Lang)
- Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles)
- All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
- Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin)
- Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
- Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
- Shin Heike Monogatari (Mizoguchi Kenji)
- To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Lady and the Tramp (Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson)
- Killer’s Kiss (Stanley Kubrick)
1954
- Seven Samurai (Kurosawa Akira)
- Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi Kenji)
- Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
- A Star Is Born (George Cukor)
- Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
- Godzilla (Honda Ishiro)
- The Crucified Lovers (Mizoguchi Kenji)
- Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)
- On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
- Knave of Hearts (René Clément)
1953
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
- Tokyo Story (Ozu Yasujiro)
- The Saga of Anatahan (Josef von Sternberg)
- Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi Kenji)
- A Geisha (Mizoguchi Kenji)
- The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
- The Lady Without Camelias (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Peter Pan (Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson)
1952
- The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)
- The Quiet Man (John Ford)
- Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
- The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
- Europa ’51 (Roberto Rossellini)
- Ikiru (Kurosawa Akira)
- High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)
1951
- Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
- Awaara (Raj Kapoor)
- The Tall Target (Anthony Mann)
- Othello (Orson Welles)
- An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)
- Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi & Hamilton Luske & Wilfred Jackson)
1950
- La Ronde (Max Ophuls)
- All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
- Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
- Rashomon (Kurosawa Akira)
- Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
- Les Enfants Terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville)
- Cinderella (Wilfred Jackson & Hamilton Luske & Clyde Geronimi)
- No Way Out (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1949
- Late Spring (Ozu Yasujiro)
- The Heiress (William Wyler)
- The Third Man (Carol Reed)
- A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
- I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller)
- Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann)
1948
- Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
- Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)
- Fort Apache (John Ford)
- The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
- Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur)
- Women of the Night (Mizoguchi Kenji)
- Drunken Angel (Kurosawa Akira)
- Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
1947
- Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
- Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
- The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (Preston Sturges)
- T-Men (Anthony Mann)
1946
- Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
- The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
- Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
- The Locket (John Brahm)
- Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
- Enamorada (Emilio Fernández)
- Gilda (Charles Vidor)
1945
- The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
- Brief Encounter (David Lean)
- Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
- Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
- Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson)
- Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
- My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis)
1944
- Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
- Grosse Freiheit Nr. 7 (Helmut Käutner)
- Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
- Laura (Otto Preminger)
1943
- The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
- I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
- The Gang’s All Here (Busby Berkeley)
- The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
- Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
- Angels of Sin (Robert Bresson)
- Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
- Bataan (Tay Garnett)
1942
- The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
- Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
- Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
- Bambi (David Hand)
- Quiet Please, Murder (John Larkin)
1941
- Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
- Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
- Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
- The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Victor Fleming)
1940
- His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
- Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske)
- Fantasia (Ben Sharpsteen/Samuel Armstrong/James Algar/Bill Roberts & Paul Satterfield/Ford Beebe, Jr. & Jim Handley & Hamilton Luske/Norm Ferguson & T. Hee/Wilfred Jackson)
- Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster)
1939
- Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
- The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
- Stagecoach (John Ford)
- The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
- The Women (George Cukor)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
- Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock)
1938
- Holiday (George Cukor)
- The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
1937
- The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
- Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
- Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
- A Star Is Born (William A. Wellman)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand)
1936
- A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
- Fury (Fritz Lang)
- The Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)
- Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
- The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
- Allá en el Rancho Grande (Fernando de Fuentes)
1935
- Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
- The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Toni (Jean Renoir)
- Happiness (Aleksandr Medvedkin)
1934
- The Goddess (Wu Yonggang)
- L’Atalante (Jean Vigo)
- Bad Seed (Billy Wilder and Alexander Esway)
1933
- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
- Only Yesterday (John M. Stahl)
- Dragnet Girl (Ozu Yasujiro)
- Liebelei (Max Ophuls)
- Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
- Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)
- 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon)
1932
- Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)
- Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
- Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (Ozu Yasujiro)
- Scarface (Howard Hawks)
- Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg)
- The Mask of Fu Manchu (Charles Brabin)
- The Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille)
- Fantômas (Fejős Pál)
1931
- M (Fritz Lang)
- Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg)
- City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
- Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (F. W. Murnau)
- La Chienne (Jean Renoir)
- Frankenstein (James Whale)
- Marius (Alexander Korda)
- The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman)
1930
- Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
- Earth (Alexander Dovzhenko)
- The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)
- The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)
- L’Âge d’Or (Luis Buñuel)
1929
- Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
- Applause (Rouben Mamoulian)
- Thunderbolt (Josef von Sternberg)
- My Grandmother (Kote Mikaberidze)
1928
- Spione (Fritz Lang)
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
- Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton)
- The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim)
- Show People (King Vidor)
- The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
- L’Argent (Marcel L’Herbier)
1927
- Napoléon (Abel Gance)
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau)
- Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
- The Seashell and the Clergyman (Germaine Dulac)
- It (Clarence Badger)
1926
- The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
- Silence (Rupert Julian)
1925
- Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
- Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
- The Merry Widow (Erich von Stroheim)
1924
- Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
- Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
- The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh)
- HE Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjöström)
- The Marriage Circle (Ernst Lubitsch)
- The Miracle of the Wolves (Raymond Bernard)
1923
- Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
1922
- Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang)
- Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau)
- Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty)
1920
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
1918
- Tih-Minh (Louis Feuillade)
- Mickey (F. Richard Jones & James Young)
1915
- Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)
- The Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith)
- The Cheat (Cecil B. DeMille)
1913
- Fantômas (Louis Feuillade)
- L’Enfant de Paris (Léonce Perret)
- The Last Days of Pompeii (Mario Caserini & Eleuterio Rodolfi)