Films by Release Year

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

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

2024

  1. The End of Evangelion (1997, Anno Hideaki)
  2. The Beast (2023, Bertrand Bonello)
  3. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (2023, Radu Jude)
  4. Evil Does Not Exist (2023, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  5. Music (2023, Angela Schanelec)
  6. The Human Surge 3 (2023, Eduardo Williams)
  7. Close Your Eyes (2023, Víctor Erice)
  8. In Our Day (2023, Hong Sang-soo)
  9. The Shadowless Tower (2023, Zhang Lu)
  10. Eureka (2023, Lisandro Alonso)
  11. Here (2023, Bas Devos)
  12. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023, Phạm Thiên Ân)
  13. Coma (2022, Bertrand Bonello)
  14. The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023, Joanna Arnow)
  15. Hit Man (2023, Richard Linklater)
  16. Pictures of Ghosts (2023, Kleber Mendonça Filho)
  17. Between the Temples (2024, Nathan Silver)
  18. Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus (2023, Sora Neo)
  19. Mambar Pierrette (2023, Rosine Mbakam)
  20. AGGRO DR1FT (2023, Harmony Korine)
  21. Dream Team (2024, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
  22. Challengers (2024, Luca Guadagnino)
  23. Gasoline Rainbow (2023, Bill & Turner Ross)
  24. Only the River Flows (2023, Wei Shujun)
  25. Last Things (2023, Deborah Stratman)
  26. Coconut Head Generation (2023, Alain Kassanda)
  27. I Saw the TV Glow (2024, Jane Schoenbrun)
  28. Dune: Part Two (2024, Denis Villeneuve)
  29. Stress Positions (2024, Theda Hammel)
  30. The Tuba Thieves (2023, Alison O’Daniel)
  31. Kneecap (2024, Rich Peppiatt)
  32. Fairytale (2022, Alexander Sokurov)
  33. Love Lies Bleeding (2024, Rose Glass)
  34. The People’s Joker (2022, Vera Drew)
  35. Drive-Away Dykes (2024, Ethan Coen)
  36. Dìdi (2024, Sean Wang)
  37. Ibelin (2024, Benjamin Ree)

2023

  1. Walk Up (2022, Hong Sang-soo)
  2. Pacifiction (2022, Albert Serra)
  3. Showing Up (2022, Kelly Reichardt)
  4. Anatomy of a Fall (2023, Justine Triet)
  5. May December (2023, Todd Haynes)
  6. Fallen Leaves (2023, Aki Kaurismäki)
  7. Afire (2023, Christian Petzold)
  8. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022, Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
  9. Youth (Spring) (2023, Wang Bing)
  10. Asteroid City (2023, Wes Anderson)
  11. Trenque Lauquen (2022, Laura Citarella)
  12. in water (2023, Hong Sang-soo)
  13. The Delinquents (2023, Rodrigo Moreno)
  14. Ferrari (2023, Michael Mann)
  15. Menus-Plaisirs—Les Troisgros (2023, Frederick Wiseman)
  16. How Do You Live? (2023, Miyazaki Hayao)
  17. Occupied City (2023, Steve McQueen)
  18. The Adults (2023, Dustin Guy Defa)
  19. Still Film (2023, James N. Kienitz Wilkins)
  20. Queens of the Qing Dynasty (2022, Ashley McKenzie)
  21. Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One (2023, Christopher McQuarrie)
  22. Priscilla (2023, Sofia Coppola)
  23. La chimera (2023, Alice Rohrwacher)
  24. All of Us Strangers (2023, Andrew Haigh)
  25. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (2023, Kelly Fremon Craig)
  26. Rewind & Play (2022, Alain Gomis)
  27. Stonewalling (2022, Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji)
  28. Mad Fate (2023, Soi Cheang)
  29. The Zone of Interest (2023, Jonathan Glazer)
  30. The Sweet East (2023, Sean Price Williams)
  31. The Killer (2023, David Fincher)
  32. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023, Martin Scorsese)
  33. John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023, Chad Stahleski)
  34. Saturn Bowling (2022, Patricia Mazuy)
  35. Matter Out of Place (2022, Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
  36. Remembering Every Night (2022, Kiyohara Yui)
  37. Return to Dust (2022, Li Ruijun)
  38. Nobody’s Hero (2022, Alain Guiraudie)
  39. Human Flowers of Flesh (2022, Helena Wittmann)
  40. Dry Ground Burning (2022, Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós)
  41. Godzilla Minus One (2023, Yamazaki Takashi)
  42. Will-o’-the-Wisp (2022, João Pedro Rodrigues)
  43. Petite Solange (2021, Axelle Ropert)
  44. Passion (2008, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  45. Our House (2017, Kiyohara Yui)
  46. Happer’s Comet (2022, Tyler Taormina)
  47. Past Lives (2023, Celine Song)
  48. Barbie (2023, Greta Gerwig)
  49. A Woman Escapes (2022, Sofia Bohdanowicz & Burak Çevik & Blake Williams)
  50. Knock at the Cabin (2023, M. Night Shyamalan)
  51. Full River Red (2023, Zhang Yimou)
  52. Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (2023, Karan Johar)
  53. The Taste of Things (2023, Trần Anh Hùng)
  54. The Holdovers (2023, Alexander Payne)
  55. Poor Things (2023, Yorgos Lanthimos)
  56. Passages (2023, Ira Sachs)
  57. Maestro (2023, Bradley Cooper)
  58. Fremont (2023, Babak Jalali)
  59. Perfect Days (2023, Wim Wenders)
  60. Enys Men (2022, Mark Jenkin)
  61. Oppenheimer (2023, Christopher Nolan)
  62. Skinamarink (2022, Kyle Edward Ball)
  63. Anselm (2023, Wim Wenders)
  64. Tótem (2023, Lila Avilés)
  65. Bottoms (2023, Emma Seligman)
  66. American Fiction (2023, Cord Jefferson)
  67. A Thousand and One (2023, A. V. Rockwell)
  68. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023, Joaquim Dos Santos & Kemp Powers & Justin K. Thompson)
  69. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023, James Mangold)
  70. Talk to Me (2022, Danny & Michael Philippou)

2022

  1. The Novelist’s Film (2022, Hong Sang-soo)
  2. Hanagatami (2017, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  3. EO (2022, Jerzy Skolimowski)
  4. The Fabelmans (2022, Steven Spielberg)
  5. Il buco (2021, Michelangelo Frammartino)
  6. A New Old Play (2021, Qiu Jiongjiong)
  7. One Fine Morning (2022, Mia Hansen-Løve)
  8. Crimes of the Future (2022, David Cronenberg)
  9. RRR (2022, S. S. Rajamouli)
  10. Decision to Leave (2022, Park Chan-wook)
  11. Face (2009, Tsai Ming-liang)
  12. The Girl and the Spider (2021, Ramon and Silvan Zürcher)
  13. In Front of Your Face (2021, Hong Sang-soo)
  14. TÁR (2022, Todd Field)
  15. Stars at Noon (2022, Claire Denis)
  16. Introduction (2021, Hong Sang-soo)
  17. Nope (2022, Jordan Peele)
  18. White Noise (2022, Noah Baumbach)
  19. El gran movimiento (2021, Kiro Russo)
  20. Fabian, or Going to the Dogs (2021, Domink Graf)
  21. Saint Omer (2022, Alice Diop)
  22. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022, James Cameron)
  23. The Cathedral (2021, Ricky D’Ambrose)
  24. Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  25. Return to Seoul (2022, Chou Davy)
  26. Benediction (2021, Terence Davies)
  27. Armageddon Time (2022, James Gray)
  28. Los conductos (2020, Camilo Restrepo)
  29. Wood and Water (2021, Jonas Bak)
  30. Onoda (2021, Arthur Harari)
  31. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022, Laura Poitras)
  32. Ahed’s Knee (2021, Nadav Lapid)
  33. Both Sides of the Blade (2022, Claire Denis)
  34. Riotsville, U.S.A. (2022, Sierra Pettengill)
  35. Expedition Content (2020, Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati)
  36. A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021, Payal Kapadia)
  37. Aftersun (2022, Charlotte Wells)
  38. Electra, My Love (1974, Jancsó Miklós)
  39. Hit the Road (2021, Panah Panahi)
  40. Amsterdam (2022, David O. Russell)
  41. Belle (2021, Hosoda Mamoru)
  42. A Couple (2022, Frederick Wiseman)
  43. Ambulance (2022, Michael Bay)
  44. Rock Bottom Riser (2021, Fern Silva)
  45. Top Gun: Maverick (2022, Joseph Kosinski)
  46. Free Chol Soo Lee (2022, Eugene Yi & Julie Ha)
  47. Glass Onion (2022, Rian Johnson)
  48. Call Jane (2022, Phyllis Nagy)
  49. Mija (2022, Isabel Castro)
  50. Terra Femme (2021, Courtney Stephens)
  51. Triangle of Sadness (2022, Ruben Östlund)
  52. Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022, George Miller)
  53. Seven Weeks (2014, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  54. We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (2021, Jane Schoenbrun)
  55. The Batman (2022, Matt Reeves)
  56. Happening (2021, Audrey Diwan)
  57. The Banshees of Inisherin (2022, Martin McDonagh)
  58. Bones and All (2022, Luca Guadagnino)
  59. God’s Creatures (2022, Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer)
  60. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2022, Park Sung-hoo)
  61. Something in the Dirt (2022, Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead)
  62. Dear Mr. Brody (2021, Keith Maitland)
  63. A Love Song (2022, Max Walker-Silverman)
  64. Three Minutes: A Lengthening (2021, Bianca Stigter)
  65. Casablanca Beats (2021, Nabil Ayouch)
  66. Close (2022, Lukas Dhont)
  67. Athena (2022, Romain Gavras)
  68. Framing Agnes (2022, Chase Joynt)
  69. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022, Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert)
  70. Elvis (2022, Baz Luhrmann)
  71. Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  72. The Whale (2022, Darren Aronofsky)
  73. Babylon (2022, Damien Chazelle)

2021

  1. Drive My Car (2021, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  2. Memoria (2021, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  3. Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976, Jacques Rivette)
  4. Tale of Cinema (2005, Hong Sang-soo)
  5. Days (2020, Tsai Ming-liang)
  6. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021, Alexandre Koberidze)
  7. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (2020, C. W. Winter & Anders Edström)
  8. The Woman Who Ran (2020, Hong Sang-soo)
  9. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  10. Annette (2021, Leos Carax)
  11. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021, Radu Jude)
  12. Beginning (2020, Dea Kulumbegashvili)
  13. West Side Story (2021, Steven Spielberg)
  14. Wife of a Spy (2020, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  15. Malmkrog (2020, Cristi Puiu)
  16. Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000, Hong Sang-soo)
  17. France (2021, Bruno Dumont)
  18. Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream (2019, Frank Beauvais)
  19. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (2021, Anno Hideaki)
  20. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2020, Jia Zhangke)
  21. The Disciple (2020, Chaitanya Tamhane)
  22. Procession (2021, Robert Greene)
  23. Licorice Pizza (2021, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  24. The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021, Joel Coen)
  25. Labyrinth of Cinema (2019, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  26. Red Rocket (2021, Sean Baker)
  27. The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021, Wes Anderson)
  28. Benedetta (2021, Paul Verhoeven)
  29. The Velvet Underground (2021, Todd Haynes)
  30. The Power of the Dog (2021, Jane Campion)
  31. The Power of Kangwon Province (1998, Hong Sang-soo)
  32. Fauna (2020, Nicolás Pereda)
  33. Notturno (2020, Gianfranco Rosi)
  34. The Souvenir Part II (2021, Joanna Hogg)
  35. The Metamorphosis of Birds (2020, Catarina Vasconcelos)
  36. Parallel Mothers (2021, Pedro Almodóvar)
  37. Isabella (2020, Matías Piñeiro)
  38. Arrebato (1979, Iván Zulueta)
  39. The Inheritance (2020, Ephraim Asili)
  40. Monster Hunter (2020, Paul W. S. Anderson)
  41. Cry Macho (2021, Clint Eastwood)
  42. El Planeta (2021, Amalia Ulman)
  43. The Witches of the Orient (2021, Julien Faraut)
  44. Two Lottery Tickets (2016, Paul Negoescu)
  45. The Salt of Tears (2020, Philippe Garrel)
  46. Petite Maman (2021, Céline Sciamma)
  47. Her Socialist Smile (2020, John Gianvito)
  48. małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore (2020, Sky Hopinka)
  49. Undine (2020, Christian Petzold)
  50. The Card Counter (2021, Paul Schrader)
  51. The American Sector (2020, Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez)
  52. Zeros and Ones (2021, Abel Ferrara)
  53. Nobody (2021, Ilya Naishuller)
  54. Bergman Island (2021, Mia Hansen-Løve)
  55. The Worst Person in the World (2021, Joachim Trier)
  56. Cliff Walkers (2021, Zhang Yimou)
  57. No Sudden Move (2021, Steven Soderbergh)
  58. Anne at 13,000 Feet. (2019, Kazik Radwanski)
  59. The Matrix Resurrections (2021, Lana Wachowski)
  60. Titane (2021, Julia Ducournau)
  61. I Was a Simple Man (2021, Christopher Makoto Yogi)
  62. Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (2020, Horvát Lili)
  63. Dune: Part One (2021, Denis Villeneuve)
  64. Eternals (2021, Chloé Zhao)
  65. Ema (2019, Pablo Larraín)
  66. Wrath of Man (2021, Guy Ritchie)
  67. Old (2021, M. Night Shyamalan)
  68. Shiva Baby (2020, Emma Seligman)
  69. Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse (2021, Stefano Sollima)
  70. The Woman in the Window (2021, Joe Wright)
  71. The Courier (2020, Dominic Cooke)
  72. The Green Knight (2021, David Lowery)
  73. The Last Vermeer (2019, Dan Friedkin)
  74. Spencer (2021, Pablo Larraín)
  75. Pig (2021, Michael Sarnoski)
  76. Life in a Day 2020 (2021, Kevin Macdonald)

2020

  1. Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo)
  2. The Hole (1998, Tsai Ming-liang)
  3. Martin Eden (2019, Pietro Marcello)
  4. Hill of Freedom (2014, Hong Sang-soo)
  5. Made in Hong Kong (1997, Fruit Chan)
  6. To the Ends of the Earth (2019, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  7. I Was at Home, But… (2019, Angela Schanelec)
  8. Fourteen (2019, Dan Sallitt)
  9. Raining in the Mountain (1979, King Hu)
  10. Heimat Is a Space in Time (2019, Thomas Heise)
  11. Vitalina Varela (2019, Pedro Costa)
  12. The Traitor (2019, Marco Bellocchio)
  13. Zombi Child (2019, Bertrand Bonello)
  14. The Grand Bizarre (2018, Jodie Mack)
  15. First Cow (2019, Kelly Reichardt)
  16. The Whistlers (2019, Corneliu Porumboiu)
  17. Lovers Rock (2020, Steve McQueen)
  18. Ghost Tropic (2019, Bas Devos)
  19. Tesla (2020, Michael Almereyda)
  20. The August Virgin (2019, Jonás Trueba)
  21. Liberté (2019, Albert Serra)
  22. Bacurau (2019, Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
  23. The Wild Goose Lake (2019, Diao Yinan)
  24. City Hall (2020, Frederick Wiseman)
  25. Sibyl (2019, Justine Triet)
  26. Red, White and Blue (2020, Steve McQueen)
  27. Education (2020, Steve McQueen)
  28. I Wish I Knew (2010, Jia Zhangke)
  29. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020, Bill & Turner Ross)
  30. Mangrove (2020, Steve McQueen)
  31. On the Rocks (2020, Sofia Coppola)
  32. Young Ahmed (2019, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  33. A Girl Missing (2019, Fukada Koji)
  34. Ham on Rye (2019, Tyler Taormina)
  35. Fire Will Come (2019, Óliver Laxe)
  36. Time (2020, Garrett Bradley)
  37. Alex Wheatle (2020, Steve McQueen)
  38. Collective (2019, Alexander Nanau)
  39. Da 5 Bloods (2020, Spike Lee)
  40. Nomadland (2020, Chloé Zhao)
  41. Mercury in Retrograde (2017, Michael Glover Smith)
  42. Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020, Kirsten Johnson)
  43. MS Slavic 7 (2019, Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell)
  44. Wasp Network (2019, Olivier Assayas)
  45. Sunrise/Sunset (2019, Jong Ougie Pak)
  46. Let Them All Talk a.k.a. The Fall of 2019 (2020, Steven Soderbergh)
  47. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020, Eliza Hittman)
  48. The Midnight Sky (2020, George Clooney)
  49. Lingua Franca (2019, Isabel Sandoval)
  50. Mank (2020, David Fincher)
  51. Sound of Metal (2019, Darius Marder)
  52. Tenet (2020, Christopher Nolan)
  53. Greenland (2020, Ric Roman Waugh)
  54. Minari (2020, Lee Isaac Chung)
  55. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020, Charlie Kaufman)
  56. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020, Aaron Sorkin)
  57. WW84 (2020, Patty Jenkins)
  58. Hamilton (2020, Thomas Kail)
  59. Mulan (2020, Niki Caro)

2019

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

2018

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

2017

  1. Taipei Story (1985, Edward Yang)
  2. Nocturama (2016, Bertrand Bonello)
  3. On the Beach at Night Alone (2017, Hong Sang-soo)
  4. The Human Surge (2016, Eduardo Williams)
  5. Daughter of the Nile (1987, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  6. Downsizing (2017, Alexander Payne)
  7. Princess Cyd (2017, Stephen Cone)
  8. Faces Places (2017, Agnès Varda & JR)
  9. Good Time (2017, Josh & Benny Safdie)
  10. By the Time It Gets Dark (2016, Anocha Suwichakornpong)
  11. Phantom Thread (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  12. Personal Shopper (2016, Olivier Assayas)
  13. The Work (2017, Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous)
  14. Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017, S. S. Rajamouli)
  15. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016, Paul W. S. Anderson)
  16. Lady Bird (2017, Greta Gerwig)
  17. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017, Noah Baumbach)
  18. 120 BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017, Robin Campillo)
  19. Marjorie Prime (2017, Michael Almereyda)
  20. The Son of Joseph (2016, Eugène Green)
  21. Call Me by Your Name (2017, Luca Guadagnino)
  22. The Post (2017, Steven Spielberg)
  23. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017, Rian Johnson)
  24. Hermia & Helena (2016, Matías Piñeiro)
  25. Chung Kuo—China (1972, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  26. The Lost City of Z (2016, James Gray)
  27. A Quiet Passion (2016, Terence Davies)
  28. The Unknown Girl (2016, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
  29. John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017, Chad Stahelski)
  30. The Florida Project (2017, Sean Baker)
  31. Get Out (2017, Jordan Peele)
  32. i hate myself (2013, Joanna Arnow)
  33. Ex Libris—The New York Public Library (2017, Frederick Wiseman)
  34. Wonderstruck (2017, Todd Haynes)
  35. Song to Song (2017, Terrence Malick)
  36. The Ornithologist (2016, João Pedro Rodrigues)
  37. Starless Dreams (2016, Mehrdad Oskouei)
  38. Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017, S. Craig Zahler)
  39. Person to Person (2017, Dustin Guy Defa)
  40. Girls Trip (2017, Malcolm D. Lee)
  41. Last Flag Flying (2017, Richard Linklater)
  42. Escapes (2017, Michael Almereyda)
  43. Logan Lucky (2017, Steven Soderbergh)
  44. Your Name. (2016, Shinkai Makoto)
  45. Kékszakállú (2016, Gastón Solnicki)
  46. Rat Film (2016, Theo Anthony)
  47. In Transit (2015, Albert Maysles & Lynn True & David Usui & Nelson Walker & Ben Wu)
  48. Mimosas (2016, Óliver Laxe)
  49. Thirst Street (2017, Nathan Silver)
  50. The Death of Louis XIV (2016, Albert Serra)
  51. Staying Vertical (2016, Alain Guiraudie)
  52. My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (2016, Dash Shaw)
  53. The Other Side of Hope (2017, Aki Kaurismäki)
  54. The Beguiled (2017, Sofia Coppola)
  55. Mudbound (2017, Dee Rees)
  56. Félicité (2017, Alain Gomis)
  57. Alien: Covenant (2017, Ridley Scott)
  58. Baby Driver (2017, Edgar Wright)
  59. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016, Bill Morrison)
  60. Split (2016, M. Night Shyamalan)
  61. A Cure for Wellness (2016, Gore Verbinski)
  62. Okja (2017, Bong Joon-ho)
  63. The Future Perfect (2016, Nele Wohlatz)
  64. Bronx Gothic (2017, Andrew Rossi)
  65. The Square (2017, Ruben Östlund)
  66. 4 Days in France (2016, Jérôme Reybaud)
  67. Wonder Wheel (2017, Woody Allen)
  68. Harmonium (2016, Fukada Koji)
  69. Graduation (2016, Cristian Mungiu)
  70. Last Men in Aleppo (2017, Feras Fayyad)
  71. Blade Runner 2049 (2017, Denis Villeneuve)
  72. Thelma (2017, Joachim Trier)
  73. All the Money in the World (2017, Ridley Scott)
  74. Dunkirk (2017, Christopher Nolan)
  75. Jane (2017, Brett Morgen)
  76. After the Storm (2016, Koreeda Hirokazu)
  77. Columbus (2017, Kogonada)
  78. Spettacolo (2017, Jeff Malmberg & Chris Shellen)
  79. The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (2016, Juho Kuosmanen)
  80. The Great Wall (2016, Zhang Yimou)
  81. A Ghost Story (2017, David Lowery)
  82. Happy Death Day (2017, Christopher Landon)
  83. Coco (2017, Lee Unkrich)
  84. Casting JonBenet (2017, Kitty Green)
  85. The Fate of the Furious (2017, F. Gary Gray)
  86. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017, James Gunn)
  87. Beach Rats (2017, Eliza Hittman)
  88. The Lego Batman Movie (2017, Chris McKay)
  89. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017, Martin McDonagh)
  90. The Shape of Water (2017, Guillermo del Toro)
  91. Raw (2016, Julia Ducournau)
  92. Atomic Blonde (2017, David Leitch)
  93. The Big Sick (2017, Michael Showalter)
  94. Cézanne et moi (2016, Danièle Thompson)
  95. The Void (2016, Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski)
  96. Wind River (2017, Taylor Sheridan)
  97. The Disaster Artist (2017, James Franco)
  98. Kong: Skull Island (2017, Jordan Vogt-Roberts)
  99. Ingrid Goes West (2017, Matt Spicer)
  100. Wonder Woman (2017, Patty Jenkins)
  101. Logan (2017, James Mangold)
  102. Gook (2017, Justin Chon)
  103. As You Are (2016, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte)
  104. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017, Yorgos Lanthimos)
  105. I, Tonya (2017, Craig Gillespie)
  106. mother! (2017, Darren Aronofsky)

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

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

2011

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

2010

  1. World on a Wire (1973, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  2. The Ghost Writer (2010, Roman Polański)
  3. The Strange Case of Angelica (2010, Manoel de Oliveira)
  4. House (1977, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  5. Sweetgrass (2009, Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
  6. Mother (2009, Bong Joon-ho)
  7. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010, Edgar Wright)
  8. The Social Network (2010, David Fincher)
  9. Unstoppable (2010, Tony Scott)
  10. Mundane History (2009, Anocha Suwichakornpong)
  11. Trash Humpers (2009, Harmony Korine)
  12. White Material (2009, Claire Denis)
  13. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010, Paul W. S. Anderson)
  14. True Grit (2010, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  15. Toy Story 3 (2010, Lee Unkrich)
  16. Dogtooth (2009, Yorgos Lanthimos)
  17. Winter’s Bone (2010, Debra Granik)
  18. Inside Job (2010, Charles Ferguson)
  19. Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)
  20. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010, Banksy)
  21. Ip Man (2008, Wilson Yip)
  22. The Fighter (2010, David O. Russell)
  23. Fish Tank (2009, Andrea Arnold)
  24. 3 Idiots (2009, Rajkumar Hirani)
  25. The King’s Speech (2010, Tom Hooper)
  26. Tangled (2010, Nathan Greno & Byron Howard)
  27. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010, David Yates)
  28. Despicable Me (2010, Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud)
  29. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005, Jean-Marc Vallée)
  30. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010, Michael Apted)
  31. The A-Team (2010, Joe Carnahan)
  32. Iron Man 2 (2010, Jon Favreau)
  33. Mao’s Last Dancer (2009, Bruce Beresford)
  34. The Karate Kid (2010, Harold Zwart)
  35. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010, David Slade)
  36. Extraordinary Measures (2010, Tom Vaughn)

2009

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

2008

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

2007

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

2006

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

2005

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

2004

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

2003

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

2002

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

2001

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

2000

  1. A One and a Two… (2000, Edward Yang)
  2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee)
  3. Beau Travail (1999, Claire Denis)
  4. Gohatto (1999, Oshima Nagisa)
  5. Drunken Master II (1994, Lau Kar-leung)
  6. Bamboozled (2000, Spike Lee)
  7. The Emperor’s New Groove (2000, Mark Dindal)
  8. Hamlet (2000, Michael Almereyda)
  9. You Can Count on Me (2000, Kenneth Lonergan)
  10. Pola X (1999, Leos Carax)
  11. Mission to Mars (2000, Brian De Palma)
  12. Dancer in the Dark (2000, Lars von Trier)
  13. Mission: Impossible II (2000, John Woo)
  14. Unbreakable (2000, M. Night Shyamalan)
  15. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, Joel & Ethan Coen)
  16. Gladiator (2000, Ridley Scott)
  17. But I’m a Cheerleader (1999, Jamie Babbit)
  18. X-Men (2000, Bryan Singer)
  19. Fantasia/2000 (1999, Don Hahn/Pixote Hunt/Hendel Butoy/Eric Goldberg/James Algar/Francis Glebas/Paul Brizzi/Gaëtan Brizzi)
  20. American Psycho (2000, Mary Harron)
  21. Cast Away (2000, Robert Zemeckis)
  22. Shower (1999, Zhang Yang)
  23. Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000, Dominic Sena)
  24. Dinosaur (2000, Ralph Zondag & Eric Leighton)
  25. Bring It On (2000, Peyton Reed)
  26. Remember the Titans (2000, Boaz Yakin)
  27. Battlefield Earth (2000, Roger Christian)

1999

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

1998

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

1997

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

1996

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

1995

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

1994

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

1993

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

1992

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

1991

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

1990

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

1989

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

1988

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

1987

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

1986

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

1985

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

1984

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

1983

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

1982

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

1981

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

1980

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

1979

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

1978

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

1977

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

1976

  1. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  2. The Marquise of O… (1976, Éric Rohmer)
  3. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
  4. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973, Víctor Erice)
  5. All the President’s Men (1976, Alan J. Pakula)
  6. Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma)
  7. La Chienne (1931, Jean Renoir)
  8. Fox and His Friends (1975, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  9. Sérail (1976, Eduardo de Gregorio)
  10. Mikey and Nicky (1976, Elaine May)
  11. Small Change (1976, François Truffaut)
  12. Grey Gardens (1975, Albert & David Maysles & Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer)
  13. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976, Alain Tanner)
  14. The Memory of Justice (1976, Marcel Ophuls)
  15. Car Wash (1976, Michael Schultz)
  16. Kings of the Road (1976, Wim Wenders)
  17. Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)
  18. Rocky (1976, John G. Avildsen)
  19. Network (1976, Sidney Lumet)
  20. Obsession (1976, Brian De Palma)
  21. A Star Is Born (1976, Frank Pierson)

1975

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

1974

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

1973

  1. An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Ozu Yasujiro)
  2. PlayTime (1967, Jacques Tati)
  3. Late Autumn (1960, Ozu Yasujiro)
  4. Days and Nights in the Forest (1970, Satyajit Ray)
  5. Memories of Underdevelopment (1968, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
  6. Mean Streets (1973, Martin Scorsese)
  7. Tout va bien (1972, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)
  8. Day for Night (1973, François Truffaut)
  9. Pink Flamingos (1972, John Waters)
  10. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973, Sam Peckinpah)
  11. The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  12. Red Psalm (1972, Jancsó Miklós)
  13. Sisters (1972, Brian De Palma)
  14. Love (1971, Makk Károly)
  15. The Adversary (1970, Satyajit Ray)
  16. Charley Varrick (1973, Don Siegel)
  17. Last Tango in Paris (1972, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  18. American Graffiti (1973, George Lucas)
  19. Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969, Oshima Nagisa)
  20. The Spider’s Stratagem (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  21. Kid Blue (1973, James Frawley)
  22. Happiness (1935, Aleksandr Medvedkin)
  23. Enter the Dragon (1973, Robert Clouse)
  24. Theatre of Blood (1973, Douglas Hickox)
  25. Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972, Brian De Palma)

1972

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

1971

  1. A New Leaf (1971, Elaine May)
  2. La Collectionneuse (1967, Éric Rohmer)
  3. Claire’s Knee (1970, Éric Rohmer)
  4. Eyes Do Not Want to Close at All Times (1970, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  5. Punishment Park (1971, Peter Watkins)
  6. Le Boucher (1970, Claude Chabrol)
  7. The Devils (1971, Ken Russell)
  8. The Crucified Lovers (1954, Mizoguchi Kenji)
  9. The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  10. Dirty Harry (1971, Don Siegel)
  11. Deep End (1970, Jerzy Skolimowski)
  12. The Nun (1966, Jacques Rivette)
  13. Une femme douce (1969, Robert Bresson)
  14. The Last Picture Show (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)
  15. Double Suicide (1969, Shinoda Masahiro)
  16. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman)
  17. Wanda (1970, Barbara Loden)
  18. The Decameron (1971, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  19. Klute (1971, Alan J. Pakula)
  20. W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971, Dušan Makavejev)
  21. Murmur of the Heart (1971, Louis Malle)
  22. The Debut (1970, Gleb Panfilov)
  23. Bed and Board (1970, François Truffaut)
  24. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970, Werner Herzog)
  25. Walkabout (1971, Nicolas Roeg)
  26. Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971, Melvin Van Peebles)
  27. The Garden of Delights (1970, Carlos Saura)
  28. A Safe Place (1971, Henry Jaglom)
  29. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971, Mel Stuart)
  30. Harold and Maude (1971, Hal Ashby)
  31. A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
  32. Black Peter (1964, Miloš Forman)
  33. Born to Win (1971, Ivan Passer)

1970

  1. Au hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)
  2. My Night at Maud’s (1969, Éric Rohmer)
  3. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966, Roberto Rossellini)
  4. Mouchette (1967, Robert Bresson)
  5. Boy (1969, Oshima Nagisa)
  6. The End of Summer (1961, Ozu Yasujiro)
  7. Destroy, She Said (1969, Marguerite Duras)
  8. The Wild Child (1970, François Truffaut)
  9. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. One Plus One (1968, Jean-Luc Godard)
  11. Tristana (1970, Luis Buñuel)
  12. Le Gai Savoir (1969, Jean-Luc Godard)
  13. Pasazerka (1963, Andrzej Munk)
  14. L’Enfance nue (1968, Maurice Pialat)
  15. Mandabi (1968, Ousmane Sembène)
  16. The Joke (1969, Jaromil Jireš)
  17. Kes (1969, Ken Loach)
  18. Five Easy Pieces (1970, Bob Rafelson)
  19. Raven’s End (1963, Bo Widerberg)
  20. Zabriskie Point (1970, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  21. Dionysus in ’69 (1970, Brian De Palma)
  22. Hi, Mom! (1970, Brian De Palma)
  23. The Aristocats (1970, Wolfgang Reitherman)
  24. The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970, Irving Rapper)
  25. The Boys in the Band (1970, William Friedkin)

1969

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

1968

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

1967

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

1966

  1. Gertrud (1964, Carl Th. Dreyer)
  2. The Gospel According to Matthew (1964, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  3. Good Morning (1959, Ozu Yasujiro)
  4. Tokyo Olympiad (1965, Ichikawa Kon)
  5. Le Bonheur (1965, Agnès Varda)
  6. Seconds (1966, John Frankenheimer)
  7. Blowup (1966, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  8. The Brig (1964, Jonas Mekas)
  9. Le Joli Mai (1962, Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme)
  10. Masculin féminin (1966, Jean-Luc Godard)
  11. Hamlet (1964, Grigori Kozintsev)
  12. Band of Outsiders (1964, Jean-Luc Godard)
  13. Loves of a Blonde (1965, Miloš Forman)
  14. The Shameless Old Lady (1965, René Allio)
  15. Shakespeare Wallah (1965, James Ivory)
  16. King & Country (1964, Joseph Losey)
  17. Sandra (1965, Luchino Visconti)

1965

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

1964

  1. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)
  2. Le Trou (1960, Jacques Becker)
  3. Woman in the Dunes (1964, Teshigahara Hiroshi)
  4. Marnie (1964, Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. Nothing But a Man (1964, Michael Roemer)
  6. The Servant (1963, Joseph Losey)
  7. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945, Robert Bresson)
  8. Bay of Angels (1963, Jacques Demy)
  9. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936, Jean Renoir)
  10. Harakiri (1962, Kobayashi Masaki)
  11. I fidanzati (1963, Ermanno Olmi)
  12. A Woman Is a Woman (1961, Jean-Luc Godard)
  13. The Cool World (1963, Shirley Clarke)
  14. Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
  15. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
  16. A Hard Day’s Night (1964, Richard Lester)
  17. Goldfinger (1964, Guy Hamilton)
  18. Fail-Safe (1964, Sidney Lumet)
  19. Alone Across the Pacific (1963, Ichikawa Kon)
  20. Lilith (1964, Robert Rossen)
  21. Salvatore Giuliano (1962, Francesco Rosi)

1963

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

1962

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

1961

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

1960

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

1959

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

1958

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

1957

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

1956

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

1955

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

1954

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

1953

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

1952

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

1951

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

1950

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

1949

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

1948

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

1947

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

1946

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

1945

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

1944

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

1943

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

1942

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

1941

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

1940

  1. His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
  2. Pinocchio (1940, Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske)
  3. Fantasia (1940, Ben Sharpsteen/Samuel Armstrong/James Algar/Bill Roberts & Paul Satterfield/Ford Beebe, Jr. & Jim Handley & Hamilton Luske/Norm Ferguson & T. Hee/Wilfred Jackson)
  4. Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. Stranger on the Third Floor (1940, Boris Ingster)

1939

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

1938

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

1937

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

1936

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

1935

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

1934

  1. Fantômas (1932, Fejős Pál)

1933

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

1932

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

1931

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

1930

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

1929

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

1928

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

1927

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

1926

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

1925

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

1924

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

1923

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

1922

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

1921

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

1920

  1. Tih-Minh (1918, Louis Feuillade)

1918

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

1916

  1. Les Vampires (1915, Louis Feuillade)

1915

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

1914

  1. Fantômas (1913, Louis Feuillade)

1913

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