Decades: 2020s, 2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, Pre-1920s
Ten Favorite Films
- MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
- YI YI (Edward Yang)
- SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
- THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
- A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
- IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
- THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
- THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
- VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
- CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)
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2020s
Best of the Decade
- CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: AN EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (Adam Curtis)
- DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang)
- BEGINNING (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
- THE HISTORY OF THE SEATTLE MARINERS (Jon Bois)
- THE WOMAN WHO RAN (Hong Sang-soo)
- WIFE OF A SPY (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- MALMKROG (Cristi Puiu)
- A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES (Shengze Zhu)
- “If you could go back, I would see her.” (Joshua R. Troxler)
- “Labor of Love” (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
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2021
- CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: AN EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (Adam Curtis)
- A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES (Shengze Zhu)
- COME HERE (Anocha Suwichakornpong)
2020
- DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang)
- BEGINNING (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
- THE HISTORY OF THE SEATTLE MARINERS (Jon Bois)
- THE WOMAN WHO RAN (Hong Sang-soo)
- WIFE OF A SPY (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- MALMKROG (Cristi Puiu)
- “If you could go back, I would see her.” (Joshua R. Troxler)
- “Labor of Love” (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
- SMALL AXE: LOVERS ROCK (Steve McQueen)
- SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE (Jia Zhangke)
2010s
Best of the Decade
- LA FLOR (Mariano Llinás)
- STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang)
- TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch)
- YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo)
- MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raúl Ruiz)
- LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami)
- ASAKO I & II (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
- MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke)
- THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong Sang-soo)
- THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
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2019
- MARTIN EDEN (Pietro Marcello)
- I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES (Martin Scorsese)
- TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- THE BOB EMERGENCY (Jon Bois)
- FOURTEEN (Dan Sallitt)
- PRESENT.PERFECT. (Shengze Zhu)
- PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho)
- UNCUT GEMS (Josh & Benny Safdie)
- I WAS AT HOME, BUT… (Angela Schanelec)
- “Shakti” (Martín Rejtman)
2018
- LA FLOR (Mariano Llinás)
- ASAKO I & II (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
- TRANSIT (Christian Petzold)
- LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Bi Gan)
- ASH IS PUREST WHITE (Jia Zhangke)
- GRASS (Hong Sang-soo)
- HIGH LIFE (Claire Denis)
- THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (Orson Welles)
- IN MY ROOM (Ulrich Köhler)
- AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL (Hu Bo)
2017
- TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch)
- FIRST REFORMED (Paul Schrader)
- ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (Hong Sang-soo)
- HANAGATAMI (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
- ARBORETUM CYCLE (Nathaniel Dorsky)
- THE DAY AFTER (Hong Sang-soo)
- STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE] (Heinz Emigholz)
- PRINCESS CYD (Stephen Cone)
- CLAIRE’S CAMERA (Hong Sang-soo)
- FACES PLACES (Agnès Varda & JR)
2016
- YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo)
- SILENCE (Martin Scorsese)
- CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson)
- MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan)
- TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade)
- HYPERNORMALISATION (Adam Curtis)
- CERTAIN WOMEN (Kelly Reichardt)
- THE HANDMAIDEN (Park Chan-wook)
- SIERANEVADA (Cristi Puiu)
- “The Hedonists” (Jia Zhangke)
2015
- MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke)
- THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
- CAROL (Todd Haynes)
- CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- BLACKHAT (Michael Mann)
- MISTRESS AMERICA (Noah Baumbach)
- HAPPY HOUR (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
- RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (Hong Sang-soo)
- JOURNEY TO THE SHORE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- AFTERNOON (Tsai Ming-liang)
2014
- PHOENIX (Christian Petzold)
- DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART 2 (Johnnie To)
- HORSE MONEY (Pedro Costa)
- INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (Jean-Luc Godard)
- THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson)
- GONE GIRL (David Fincher)
- THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE (Matías Piñeiro)
- HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo)
- JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso)
2013
- STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang)
- MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
- THE GRANDMASTER (Wong Kar-wai)
- THE WIND RISES (Hayao Miyazaki)
- BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Richard Linklater)
- BASTARDS (Claire Denis)
- THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (Isao Takahata)
- NOBODY’S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Hong Sang-soo)
- “Redemption” (Miguel Gomes)
- OUR SUNHI (Hong Sang-soo)
2012
- LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami)
- PASSION (Brian De Palma)
- DRUG WAR (Johnnie To)
- ROMANCING IN THIN AIR (Johnnie To)
- FRANCES HA (Noah Baumbach)
- TABU (Miguel Gomes)
- MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson)
- DIFFERENTLY, MOLUSSIA (Nicolas Rey)
- YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET (Alain Resnais)
- THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT (Dan Sallitt)
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)
- “List” (Hong Sang-soo)
- 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)
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)
- FILM SOCIALISME (Jean-Luc Godard)
- LOVE IN A PUFF (Pang Ho-cheung)
- THE GHOST WRITER (Roman Polanski)
- OKI’S MOVIE (Hong Sang-soo)
- THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA (Manoel de Oliveira)
2000s
Best of the Decade
- MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
- YI YI (Edward Yang)
- IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
- GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-liang)
- PLATFORM (Jia Zhangke)
- CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee)
- A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)
- SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- MIAMI VICE (Michael Mann)
- LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF (Thom Andersen)
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2009
- OXHIDE II (Liu Jiayin)
- IT FELT LIKE A KISS (Adam Curtis)
- DISORDER (Huang Weikai)
- ACCIDENT (Soi Cheang)
- PUBLIC ENEMIES (Michael Mann)
- ORPHAN (Jaume Collet-Serra)
- INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino)
- FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Wes Anderson)
- “Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis” (Daïchi Saïto)
- SWEETGRASS (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
2008
- SPARROW (Johnnie To)
- NIGHT AND DAY (Hong Sang-soo)
- 35 SHOTS OF RUM (Claire Denis)
- THE HEADLESS WOMAN (Lucrecia Martel)
- SPEED RACER (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
- HISTORIAS EXTRAORDINARIAS (Mariano Llinás)
- TWO LOVERS (James Gray)
- WENDY AND LUCY (Kelly Reichardt)
- 24 CITY (Jia Zhangke)
- L’IDIOT (Pierre Léon)
2007
- THE TRAP: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR DREAM OF FREEDOM (Adam Curtis)
- ZODIAC (David Fincher)
- DEATH PROOF (Quentin Tarantino)
- LA FRANCE (Serge Bozon)
- scenes from THE WIND (Edward Yang)
- 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)
2006
- SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- MIAMI VICE (Michael Mann)
- INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)
- ELECTION 2 (Johnnie To)
- STILL LIFE (Jia Zhangke)
- WOMAN ON THE BEACH (Hong Sang-soo)
- I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE (Tsai Ming-liang)
- EXILED (Johnnie To)
- OLD JOY (Kelly Reichardt)
- DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT (Julia Loktev)
2005
- 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)
2004
- 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
- BEFORE SUNSET (Richard Linklater)
- THROW DOWN (Johnnie To)
- TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- “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)
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)
- “( )” (Morgan Fisher)
- OLDBOY (Park Chan-wook)
- “Textism” (Isamu Hirabayashi)
2002
- FEMME FATALE (Brian De Palma)
- MY LEFT EYE SEES GHOSTS (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
- CHINESE ODYSSEY 2002 (Jeffrey Lau)
- HERO (Zhang Yimou)
- THE CENTURY OF THE SELF (Adam Curtis)
- FRIDAY NIGHT (Claire Denis)
- ON THE OCCASION OF REMEMBERING THE TURNING GATE (Hong Sang-soo)
- BLISSFULLY YOURS (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- UNKNOWN PLEASURES (Jia Zhangke)
- “The Skywalk Is Gone” (Tsai Ming-liang)
2001
- MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
- A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)
- PULSE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- MILLENNIUM MAMBO (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
- WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (Tsai Ming-liang)
- SPIRITED AWAY (Hayao Miyazaki)
- LA CIÉNAGA (Lucrecia Martel)
- ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU (Shunji Iwai)
- ALI (Michael Mann)
- TROUBLE EVERY DAY (Claire Denis)
2000
- YI YI (Edward Yang)
- IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
- PLATFORM (Jia Zhangke)
- CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee)
- “The Heart of the World” (Guy Maddin)
- THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE (Mark Dindal)
- YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (Kenneth Lonergan)
- HAMLET (Michael Almereyda)
- “Origins of the 21st Century” (Jean-Luc Godard)
- VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS (Hong Sang-soo)
1990s
Best of the Decade
- A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
- CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai)
- HEAT (Michael Mann)
- THE HOLE (Tsai Ming-liang)
- NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “Take care of yourself.” (Hideaki Anno)
- TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch)
- TRUST (Hal Hartley)
- MAHJONG (Edward Yang)
- CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarostami)
- DAYS OF BEING WILD (Wong Kar-wai)
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1999
- EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick)
- “Outer Space” (Peter Tscherkassky)
- BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis)
- GOHATTO (Nagisa Oshima)
- COWBOY BEBOP: “Pierrot le Fou” (Shinichiro Watanabe)
- THE INSIDER (Michael Mann)
- COWBOY BEBOP: “Speak Like a Child” (Shinichiro Watanabe)
- THE MATRIX (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
- POLA X (Leos Carax)
- THE MISSION (Johnnie To)
1998
- THE HOLE (Tsai Ming-liang)
- THE THIN RED LINE (Terrence Malick)
- A HERO NEVER DIES (Johnnie To)
- RUSHMORE (Wes Anderson)
- THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE (Hong Sang-soo)
- COWBOY BEBOP: “Sympathy for the Devil” (Shinichiro Watanabe)
- FESTEN (Thomas Vinterberg)
- “Vassourinha: The Voice and the Void” (Carlos Adriano)
- SNAKE EYES (Brian De Palma)
- COWBOY BEBOP: “Gateway Shuffle” (Shinichiro Watanabe)
1997
- THE END OF EVANGELION (Hideaki Anno)
- CURE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- THE RIVER (Tsai Ming-liang)
- LOST HIGHWAY (David Lynch)
- HAPPY TOGETHER (Wong Kar-wai)
- TOO MANY WAYS TO BE NO. 1 (Wai Ka-fai)
- TASTE OF CHERRY (Abbas Kiarostami)
- THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Atom Egoyan)
- STARSHIP TROOPERS (Paul Verhoeven)
- XIAO WU (Jia Zhangke)
1996
- NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “Take care of yourself.” (Hideaki Anno)
- MAHJONG (Edward Yang)
- NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “Do you love me?” (Hideaki Anno)
- NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “The Beginning and the End, or ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door’” (Hideaki Anno)
- NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “Weaving a Story 2: Oral Stage” (Hideaki Anno)
- SECRETS & LIES (Mike Leigh)
- VIVA EROTICA (Derek Yee & Lo Chi-leung)
- GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
- NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “Weaving a Story” (Hideaki Anno)
- NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “Don’t Be.” (Hideaki Anno)
1995
- HEAT (Michael Mann)
- FALLEN ANGELS (Wong Kar-wai)
- THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (Clint Eastwood)
- BEFORE SUNRISE (Richard Linklater)
- SAFE (Todd Haynes)
- STRANGE DAYS (Kathryn Bigelow)
- CLUELESS (Amy Heckerling)
- “Premonitions Following an Evil Deed” (David Lynch)
- “When It Rains” (Charles Burnett)
- NEON GENESIS EVANGELION: “Hedgehog’s Dilemma” (Hideaki Anno, Japan)
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 (Béla Tarr)
- VIVE L’AMOUR (Tsai Ming-liang)
- “Black Ice” (Stan Brakhage)
- U.S. GO HOME (Claire Denis)
- TO LIVE (Zhang Yimou)
- “The Mammals of Victoria” (Stan Brakhage)
1993
- GREEN SNAKE (Tsui Hark)
- NAKED (Mike Leigh)
- “Je vous salue, Sarajevo” (Jean-Luc Godard)
- CARLITO’S WAY (Brian De Palma)
- D’EST (Chantal Akerman)
- “Stellar” (Stan Brakhage)
- DAZED AND CONFUSED (Richard Linklater)
- THREE COLORS: BLUE (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
- JURASSIC PARK (Steven Spielberg)
1992
- TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch)
- THE ROCKING HORSEMEN (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
- HARD-BOILED (John Woo)
- THE LONG DAY CLOSES (Terence Davies)
- UNFORGIVEN (Clint Eastwood)
- DEEP COVER (Bill Duke)
- REBELS OF THE NEON GOD (Tsai Ming-liang)
- SIMPLE MEN (Hal Hartley)
- NITRATE KISSES (Barbara Hammer)
- HYENAS (Djibril Diop Mambéty)
1991
- A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
- SURVIVING DESIRE (Hal Hartley)
- THE SIMPSONS: “One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish” (Wes Archer)
- BARTON FINK (Joel & Ethan Coen)
- UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (Wim Wenders)
- “Ambition” (Hal Hartley)
- TWIN PEAKS: “Beyond Life and Death” (David Lynch)
- RAISE THE RED LANTERN (Zhang Yimou)
- THE SIMPSONS: “Brush With Greatness” (Jim Reardon)
- SEINFELD: “The Parking Garage” (Tom Cherones)
1990
- TRUST (Hal Hartley)
- CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarostami)
- DAYS OF BEING WILD (Wong Kar-wai)
- BULLET IN THE HEAD (John Woo)
- TWIN PEAKS: “Lonely Souls” (David Lynch)
- TOTAL RECALL (Paul Verhoeven)
- WILD AT HEART (David Lynch)
- TWIN PEAKS: “Pilot” (David Lynch)
- THE SIMPSONS: “Treehouse of Horror” (Wes Archer & Rich Moore & David Silverman)
- THE SIMPSONS: “Itchy & Scratchy & Marge” (Jim Reardon)
1980s
Best of the Decade
- SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
- BLUE VELVET (David Lynch)
- A CITY OF SADNESS (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
- BEIJING WATERMELON (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
- PEKING OPERA BLUES (Tsui Hark)
- PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders)
- MANHUNTER (Michael Mann)
- STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme)
- PEDICAB DRIVER (Sammo Hung)
- THE TERRORIZERS (Edward Yang)
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1989
- A CITY OF SADNESS (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
- BEIJING WATERMELON (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
- PEDICAB DRIVER (Sammo Hung)
- DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee)
- THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH (Hal Hartley)
- THE KILLER (John Woo)
- CASUALTIES OF WAR (Brian De Palma)
- KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (Hayao Miyazaki)
- LES SIÈGES DE L’ALCAZAR (Luc Moullet)
- THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (Michael Haneke)
1988
- MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Hayao Miyazaki)
- SCHOOL ON FIRE (Ringo Lam)
- AS TEARS GO BY (Wong Kar-wai)
- 36 FILLETTE (Catherine Breillat)
- “Cat Listening to Music” (Chris Marker)
- UMA PEDRA NO BOLSO (Joaquim Pinto)
- AKIRA (Katsuhiro Otomo)
- DIE HARD (John McTiernan)
- CHOCOLAT (Claire Denis)
- POLICE STORY 2 (Jackie Chan)
1987
- EASTERN CONDORS (Sammo Hung)
- ISHTAR (Elaine May)
- DAUGHTER OF THE NILE (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
- 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)
1986
- BLUE VELVET (David Lynch)
- PEKING OPERA BLUES (Tsui Hark)
- MANHUNTER (Michael Mann)
- THE TERRORIZERS (Edward Yang)
- BOUND FOR THE FIELDS, THE MOUNTAINS, AND THE SEACOAST (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
- THE GREEN RAY (Eric Rohmer)
- FAUBOURG ST. MARTIN (Jean-Claude Guiguet)
- HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
- SOMETHING WILD (Jonathan Demme)
- DOUBLE MESSIEURS (Jean-François Stévenin)
1985
- TAIPEI STORY (Edward Yang)
- RAN (Akira Kurosawa)
- POLICE STORY (Jackie Chan)
- CONTACT (Alan Clarke)
- DAY OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero)
- BRAZIL (Terry Gilliam)
- AFTER HOURS (Martin Scorsese)
- MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (Stephen Frears)
- TROUBLE IN MIND (Alan Rudolph)
1984
- PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders)
- STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme)
- WHEELS ON MEALS (Sammo Hung)
- DUNE (David Lynch)
- “Standard Gauge” (Morgan Fisher)
- 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)
1983
- SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
- THAT DAY, ON THE BEACH (Edward Yang)
- PAULINE AT THE BEACH (Eric 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)
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)
- “Expectations” (Edward Yang)
- KOYAANISQATSI (Godfrey Reggio)
- “En rachâchant” (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
- IN OUR TIME (Tao Te-chen/Edward Yang/Ko I-chen/Chang Yi)
1981
- RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (Steven Spielberg)
- MY YOUNG AUNTIE (Lau Kar-leung)
- THIEF (Michael Mann)
- BLOW OUT (Brian De Palma)
- AT THIS LATE DATE, THE CHARLESTON (Kihachi Okamoto)
- “Orderly or Disorderly” (Abbas Kiarostami)
- POSSESSION (Andrzej Zulawski)
- “The Garden of Earthly Delights” (Stan Brakhage)
- MERRY-GO-ROUND (Jacques Rivette)
- MAD MAX 2 (George Miller)
1980
- SIMONE BARBÈS OR VIRTUE (Marie-Claude Treilhou)
- DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS – FIRST KIND (Tsui Hark)
- THE SHINING (Stanley Kubrick)
- CRUISING (William Friedkin)
- THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Irvin Kershner)
- “The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I” (Hollis Frampton)
- RAGING BULL (Martin Scorsese)
- DRESSED TO KILL (Brian De Palma)
- THE ELEPHANT MAN (David Lynch)
- MELVIN AND HOWARD (Jonathan Demme)
1970s
Best of the Decade
- A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
- CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)
- OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE (Jacques Rivette)
- THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache)
- PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (Eric Rohmer)
- FEMMES FEMMES (Paul Vecchiali)
- INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras)
- ERASERHEAD (David Lynch)
- “(nostalgia)” (Hollis Frampton)
- JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman)
—
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)
- “Asparagus” (Suzan Pitt)
- WISE BLOOD (John Huston)
1978
- PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (Eric 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)
- LES RENDEZ-VOUS D’ANNA (Chantal Akerman)
- THE GREEN ROOM (François Truffaut)
- DOSSIER 51 (Michel Deville)
1977
- ERASERHEAD (David Lynch)
- CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Steven Spielberg)
- THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (Robert Bresson)
- PROVIDENCE (Alain Resnais)
- ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen)
- HOUSE (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
- THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (Luis Buñuel)
- THE AMERICAN FRIEND (Wim Wenders)
- STAR WARS (George Lucas)
- SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento)
1976
- DUELLE (UNE QUARANTAINE) (Jacques Rivette)
- THE MARQUISE OF O… (Eric Rohmer)
- TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese)
- IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Nagisa Oshima)
- 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)
1975
- INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras)
- JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman)
- NASHVILLE (Robert Altman)
- MOSES UND ARON (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
- SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- JAWS (Steven Spielberg)
- THE VALIANT ONES (King Hu)
- DERSU UZALA (Akira Kurosawa)
- THE PASSENGER (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
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 BENCH OF DESOLATION (Claude Chabrol)
- STAVISKY… (Alain Resnais)
- THE MOUTH AGAPE (Maurice Pialat)
- A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (John Cassavetes)
1973
- THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache)
- F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles)
- THE FATE OF LEE KHAN (King Hu)
- BADLANDS (Terrence Malick)
- MEAN STREETS (Martin Scorsese)
- DAY FOR NIGHT (François Truffaut)
- “Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s ‘Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene’” (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
- A DOLL’S HOUSE (Joseph Losey)
- THE ILLUMINATION (Krzysztof Zanussi)
- ISRAEL, WHY (Claude Lanzmann)
1972
- OUT 1: SPECTRE (Jacques Rivette)
- THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- THE HEARTBREAK KID (Elaine May)
- LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (Eric Rohmer)
- WE WON’T GROW OLD TOGETHER (Maurice Pialat)
- “Poetic Justice” (Hollis Frampton)
- 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)
1971
- A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
- OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE (Jacques Rivette)
- “(nostalgia)” (Hollis Frampton)
- A NEW LEAF (Elaine May)
- TWO ENGLISH GIRLS (François Truffaut)
- THE DEVILS (Ken Russell)
- PUNISHMENT PARK (Peter Watkins)
- THE CEREMONY (Nagisa Oshima)
- FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER (Robert Bresson)
- JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL (Claude Chabrol)
1970
- ZORNS LEMMA (Hollis Frampton)
- CLAIRE’S KNEE (Eric Rohmer)
- EYES DO NOT WANT TO CLOSE AT ALL TIMES, OR PERHAPS ONE DAY ROME WILL PERMIT HERSELF TO CHOOSE IN HER TURN (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
- “Serene Velocity” (Ernie Gehr)
- LE BOUCHER (Claude Chabrol)
- LA RUPTURE (Claude Chabrol)
- THE CONFORMIST (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (Satyajit Ray)
- THE WILD CHILD (François Truffaut)
- TRISTANA (Luis Buñuel)
1960s
Best of the Decade
- THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
- “La jetée” (Chris Marker)
- LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais)
- DRAGON INN (King Hu)
- MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN (Alain Resnais)
- GERTRUD (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)
- HIGH AND LOW (Akira Kurosawa)
- THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy)
- PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard)
—
1969
- MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S (Eric Rohmer)
- L’AMOUR FOU (Jacques Rivette)
- BOY (Nagisa Oshima)
- “The Nail Clippers” (Jean-Claude Carriére)
- THE SORROW AND THE PITY (Marcel Ophuls)
- UNE FEMME DOUCE (Robert Bresson)
- DESTROY, SHE SAID (Marguerite Duras)
- “Lemon” (Hollis Frampton)
- DOUBLE SUICIDE (Masahiro Shinoda)
- BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (Paul Mazursky)
1968
- DEATH BY HANGING (Nagisa Oshima)
- 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)
- ROSEMARY’S BABY (Roman Polanski)
- THE CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
1967
- THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
- DRAGON INN (King Hu)
- WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)
- WEEKEND (Jean-Luc Godard)
- LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (Eric Rohmer)
- ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (Chang Cheh)
- THE RED AND THE WHITE (Miklós Jancsó)
- MOUCHETTE (Robert Bresson)
- LE DÉPART (Jerzy Skolimowski)
- 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (Jean-Luc Godard)
1966
- “All My Life” (Bruce Baillie)
- PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman)
- THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gillo Pontecorvo)
- THE TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
- AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson)
- 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)
1965
- PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard)
- SONS OF THE GOOD EARTH (King Hu)
- NOT RECONCILED (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
- THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins)
- SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Buñuel)
- TOKYO OLYMPIAD (Kon Ichikawa)
- RED BEARD (Akira Kurosawa)
- LE BONHEUR (Agnès Varda)
- THE KOUMIKO MYSTERY (Chris Marker)
- SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (Sergei Parajanov)
1964
- GERTRUD (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy)
- YEARNING (Mikio Naruse)
- WOMAN IN THE DUNES (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
- MARNIE (Alfred Hitchcock)
- CHARULATA (Satyajit Ray)
- NOTHING BUT A MAN (Michael Roemer)
- THE STORY OF SUE SAN (King Hu)
- UNE FEMME MARIÉE (Jean-Luc Godard)
- THE BRIG (Jonas Mekas)
1963
- MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN (Alain Resnais)
- HIGH AND LOW (Akira Kurosawa)
- THE LOVE ETERNE (Li Han-hsiang)
- THE BIRDS (Alfred Hitchcock)
- “The House Is Black” (Forough Farrokhzad)
- “Mothlight” (Stan Brakhage)
- THE SERVANT (Joseph Losey)
- BAY OF ANGELS (Jacques Demy)
- LE JOLI MAI (Chris Marker)
- PASAZERKA (Andrzej Munk)
1962
- “La jetée” (Chris Marker)
- LOLITA (Stanley Kubrick)
- AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Yasujiro Ozu)
- “Cosmic Ray” (Bruce Conner)
- L’ECLISSE (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (Agnès Varda)
- JULES ET JIM (François Truffaut)
- VIVRE SA VIE (Jean-Luc Godard)
- THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Luis Buñuel)
- HARAKIRI (Masaki Kobayashi)
1961
- LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais)
- “Allures” (Jordan Belson)
- LOLA (Jacques Demy)
- HERCULES CONQUERS ATLANTIS (Vittorio Cottafavi)
- PARIS BELONGS TO US (Jacques Rivette)
- YOJIMBO (Akira Kurosawa)
- WEST SIDE STORY (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
- VIRIDIANA (Luis Buñuel)
- “Prelude: Dog Star Man” (Stan Brakhage)
- A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (Jean-Luc Godard)
1960
- BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard)
- THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
- PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock)
- L’AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- PEEPING TOM (Michael Powell)
- THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder)
- “Arnulf Rainer” (Peter Kubelka)
- NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN (Nagisa Oshima)
- THE BELLBOY (Jerry Lewis)
- LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini)
1950s
Best of the Decade
- THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
- VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
- SEVEN SAMURAI (Akira Kurosawa)
- “Duck Amuck” (Chuck Jones)
- SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Kenji Mizoguchi)
- TOKYO STORY (Yasujiro Ozu)
- REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock)
- RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks)
- A STAR IS BORN (George Cukor)
- PYAASA (Guru Dutt)
—
1959
- RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks)
- THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut)
- HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (Alain Resnais)
- NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Alfred Hitchcock)
- “Le Chant du styrène” (Alain Resnais)
- SHADOWS (John Cassavetes)
- PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson)
- THE WORLD OF APU (Satyajit Ray)
- “Window Water Baby Moving” (Stan Brakhage)
- “I dimenticati” (Vittorio De Seta)
1958
- VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
- TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles)
- LE BEAU SERGE (Claude Chabrol)
- “A Movie” (Bruce Conner)
- “Pescherecci” (Vittorio De Seta)
- “Robin Hood Daffy” (Chuck Jones)
- “Un giorno in Barbagia” (Vittorio De Seta)
- “Pastori di Orgosolo” (Vittorio De Seta)
- “Hare-Way to the Stars” (Chuck Jones)
- ENJO (Kon Ichikawa)
1957
- PYAASA (Guru Dutt)
- SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick)
- EIGHT HOURS OF TERROR (Seijun Suzuki)
- “What’s Opera, Doc?” (Chuck Jones)
- THRONE OF BLOOD (Akira Kurosawa)
- PATHS OF GLORY (Stanley Kubrick)
- “Ali Baba Bunny” (Chuck Jones)
1956
- “Night and Fog” (Alain Resnais)
- THE WRONG MAN (Alfred Hitchcock)
- A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson)
- THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Alfred Hitchcock)
- THE BURMESE HARP (Kon Ichikawa)
- “Toute la mémoire du monde” (Alain Resnais)
- THE SEARCHERS (John Ford)
1955
- THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
- FLOATING CLOUDS (Mikio Naruse)
- 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)
- “Surfarara” (Vittorio De Seta)
1954
- SEVEN SAMURAI (Akira Kurosawa)
- SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Kenji Mizoguchi)
- REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock)
- A STAR IS BORN (George Cukor)
- JOURNEY TO ITALY (Roberto Rossellini)
- GODZILLA (Ishiro Honda)
- THE CRUCIFIED LOVERS (Kenji Mizoguchi)
- MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (Douglas Sirk)
- “Lu tempu di li pisci spata” (Vittorio De Seta)
- “Isole di fuoco” (Vittorio De Seta)
1953
- “Duck Amuck” (Chuck Jones)
- TOKYO STORY (Yasujiro Ozu)
- THE SAGA OF ANATAHAN (Josef von Sternberg)
- UGETSU (Kenji Mizoguchi)
- “Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century” (Chuck Jones)
- A GEISHA (Kenji Mizoguchi)
- “Duck! Rabbit, Duck!” (Chuck Jones)
- THE BIG HEAT (Fritz Lang)
- “Bully for Bugs” (Chuck Jones)
- “Statues Also Die” (Alain Resnais & Chris Marker & Ghislain Cloquet)
- THE LADY WITHOUT CAMELIAS (Michelangelo Antonioni)
1952
- THE GOLDEN COACH (Jean Renoir)
- THE QUIET MAN (John Ford)
- SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
- THE LUSTY MEN (Nicholas Ray)
- “Rabbit Seasoning” (Chuck Jones)
- “Operation: Rabbit” (Chuck Jones)
- “Feed the Kitty” (Chuck Jones)
- IKIRU (Akira Kurosawa)
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)
- “Rabbit Fire” (Chuck Jones)
1950
- SUNSET BLVD. (Billy Wilder)
- LA RONDE (Max Ophuls)
- “Rabbit of Seville” (Chuck Jones)
- ALL ABOUT EVE (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
- RASHOMON (Akira Kurosawa)
- LOS OLVIDADOS (Luis Buñuel)
- LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES (Jean-Pierre Melville)
1940s
Best of the Decade
- THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
- MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli)
- LATE SPRING (Yasujiro Ozu)
- CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)
- HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks)
- NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
- SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN (Fei Mu)
- FORT APACHE (John Ford)
- THE CLOCK (Vincente Minnelli)
- THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)
—
1949
- LATE SPRING (Yasujiro Ozu)
- THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed)
- A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1948
- SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN (Fei Mu)
- FORT APACHE (John Ford)
- BERLIN EXPRESS (Jacques Tourneur)
- WOMEN OF THE NIGHT (Kenji Mizoguchi)
- ROPE (Alfred Hitchcock)
1947
- OUT OF THE PAST (Jacques Tourneur)
- DAISY KENYON (Otto Preminger)
- “Fireworks” (Kenneth Anger)
- THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK (Preston Sturges)
1946
- NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
- THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)
- IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra)
- THE LOCKET (John Brahm)
- BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Jean Cocteau)
- ENAMORADA (Emilio Fernández)
1945
- THE CLOCK (Vincente Minnelli)
- BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean)
- DETOUR (Edgar G. Ulmer)
- MILDRED PIERCE (Michael Curtiz)
- 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
- “Meshes of the Afternoon” (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)
- I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Jacques Tourneur)
- THE GANG’S ALL HERE (Busby Berkeley)
- HEAVEN CAN WAIT (Ernst Lubitsch)
- ANGELS OF SIN (Robert Bresson)
- SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Alfred Hitchcock)
- OSSESSIONE (Luchino Visconti)
1942
- THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
- CAT PEOPLE (Jacques Tourneur)
- CASABLANCA (Michael Curtiz)
- “Radio Dynamics” (Oskar Fischinger)
1941
- CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)
1940
- HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks)
- REBECCA (Alfred Hitchcock)
1930s
Best of the Decade
- ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks)
- THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir)
- THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
- THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey)
- M (Fritz Lang)
- A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir)
- FURY (Fritz Lang)
- EARTH (Alexander Dovzhenko)
- HOLIDAY (George Cukor)
- SABOTAGE (Alfred Hitchcock)
—
1939
- ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks)
- THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir)
- STAGECOACH (John Ford)
- THE WIZARD OF OZ (Victor Fleming)
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)
1936
- A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir)
- FURY (Fritz Lang)
- THE STORY OF A CHEAT (Sacha Guitry)
- SABOTAGE (Alfred Hitchcock)
- “Rose Hobart” (Joseph Cornell)
- THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE (Jean Renoir)
1935
- THE 39 STEPS (Alfred Hitchcock)
- TONI (Jean Renoir)
1934
- THE GODDESS (Wu Yonggang)
- L’ATALANTE (Jean Vigo)
1933
- THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
- ONLY YESTERDAY (John M. Stahl)
- DRAGNET GIRL (Yasujiro Ozu)
- LIEBELEI (Max Ophuls)
- DESIGN FOR LIVING (Ernst Lubitsch)
1932
- TROUBLE IN PARADISE (Ernst Lubitsch)
- WHERE NOW ARE THE DREAMS OF YOUTH? (Yasujiro Ozu)
- SCARFACE (Howard Hawks)
1931
- M (Fritz Lang)
- CITY LIGHTS (Charles Chaplin)
- TABU (F.W. Murnau)
- LA CHIENNE (Jean Renoir)
- FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale)
- DISHONORED (Josef von Sternberg)
- MARIUS (Alexander Korda)
1930
- EARTH (Alexander Dovzhenko)
- THE BIG TRAIL (Raoul Walsh)
- THE BLUE ANGEL (Josef von Sternberg)
- MOROCCO (Josef von Sternberg)
1920s
- SUNRISE (F.W. Murnau)
- NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance)
- THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- SPIONE (Fritz Lang)
- THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton)
- DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (Fritz Lang)
- SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton)
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)
- GREED (Erich von Stroheim)
- NOSFERATU (F.W. Murnau)
—
1929
- MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)
- APPLAUSE (Rouben Mamoulian)
- “Un chien andalou” (Luis Buñuel)
- “Rain” (Joris Ivens & Mannus Franken)
- “Liberty” (Leo McCarey)
- “Brumes d’automne” (Dimitri Kirshoff)
- “Tokyo March” (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1928
- THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- SPIONE (Fritz Lang)
- STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton)
- THE WEDDING MARCH (Erich von Stroheim)
- “The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra” (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich)
- “Record 957” (Germaine Dulac)
- SHOW PEOPLE (King Vidor)
1927
- SUNRISE (F.W. Murnau)
- NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance)
- METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang)
- THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (Germaine Dulac)
1926
- THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton)
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)
- “Ménilmontant” (Dimitri Kirshoff)
- “Ballet mécanique” (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy)
- HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (Victor Sjöström)
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)
Pre-1920s
- LES VAMPIRES (Louis Feuillade)
- “Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon” (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
- FANTÔMAS (Louis Feuillade)
- “The Musketeers of Pig Alley” (D.W. Griffith)
- “The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
- “The Sprinkler Sprinkled” (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
- “Tunneling the English Channel” (Georges Méliès)
- “The Black Imp” (Georges Méliès)
- “A Trip to the Moon” (Georges Méliès)
- “The Baby’s Meal” (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
—
1915
- LES VAMPIRES (Louis Feuillade)
- THE BIRTH OF A NATION (D.W. Griffith)
1914
- “Kid Auto Races at Venice” (Henry Lehrman)
1913
- FANTÔMAS (Louis Feuillade)
1912
- “The Musketeers of Pig Alley” (D.W. Griffith)
1910
- “The Unchanging Sea” (D.W. Griffith)
1907
- “Tunneling the English Channel” (Georges Méliès)
1905
- “The Black Imp” (Georges Méliès)
1904
- “The Mermaid” (Georges Méliès)
1902
- “A Trip to the Moon” (Georges Méliès)
1896
- “The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station” (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
1895
- “Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon” (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
- “The Sprinkler Sprinkled” (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
- “The Baby’s Meal” (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
- “Boat Leaving the Port” (Louis & Auguste Lumière)