Month: June 2021

Films by Release Year (Ineligible Films Only)

Ryan Swen Lists

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

Main list.
A version of this without films released more than two years after their premiere year.
The feature films I have seen that are not listed in the main list.

2024

  1. The End of Evangelion (1997, Anno Hideaki)

2023

  1. Passion (2008, Hamaguchi Ryusuke)
  2. Our House (2017, Kiyohara Yui)

2022

  1. Hanagatami (2017, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  2. Face (2009, Tsai Ming-liang)
  3. Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  4. Electra, My Love (1974, Jancsó Miklós)
  5. Seven Weeks (2014, Obayashi Nobuhiko)

2021

  1. Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976, Jacques Rivette)
  2. Tale of Cinema (2005, Hong Sang-soo)
  3. Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000, Hong Sang-soo)
  4. The Power of Kangwon Province (1998, Hong Sang-soo)
  5. Arrebato (1979, Iván Zulueta)
  6. Two Lottery Tickets (2016, Paul Negoescu)

2020

  1. Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo)
  2. The Hole (1998, Tsai Ming-liang)
  3. Hill of Freedom (2014, Hong Sang-soo)
  4. Made in Hong Kong (1997, Fruit Chan)
  5. Raining in the Mountain (1979, King Hu)
  6. I Wish I Knew (2010, Jia Zhangke)
  7. Mercury in Retrograde (2017, Michael Glover Smith)

2019

  1. The Fate of Lee Khan (1973, King Hu)
  2. Police Story (1985, Jackie Chan)
  3. Equation to an Unknown (1980, Dietrich de Velsa)
  4. The Competition (2016, Claire Simon)
  5. Police Story 2 (1988, Jackie Chan)
  6. Grave of the Fireflies (1988, Takahata Isao)

2018

  1. Legend of the Mountain (1979, King Hu)
  2. Cold Water (1994, Olivier Assayas)
  3. The Great Silence (1968, Sergio Corbucci)
  4. The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (1986, Jean-Luc Godard)

2017

  1. Taipei Story (1985, Edward Yang)
  2. Daughter of the Nile (1987, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. Chung Kuo—China (1972, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  4. i hate myself 🙂 (2013, Joanna Arnow)

2016

  1. A Touch of Zen (1971, King Hu)
  2. Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu)
  3. Terrorizers (1986, Edward Yang)
  4. Only Yesterday (1991, Takahata Isao)
  5. Belladonna of Sadness (1973, Yamamoto Eiichi)
  6. Là-bas (2006, Chantal Akerman)
  7. Los Sures (1984, Diego Echeverria)
  8. Mekong Hotel (2012, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  9. On the Silver Globe (1988, Andrzej Żuławski)

2015

  1. Out 1: Noli me tangere (1971, Jacques Rivette)
  2. Rebels of the Neon God (1992, Tsai Ming-liang)

2014

  1. Archipelago (2010, Joanna Hogg)
  2. Chantal Akerman, From Here (2010, Gustavo Beck & Leonardo Ferreira)
  3. Unrelated (2007, Joanna Hogg)

2012

  1. Pom Poko (1994, Takahata Isao)
  2. We Won’t Grow Old Together (1972, Maurice Pialat)
  3. Battle Royale (2000, Fukasaku Kinji)

2011

  1. A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang)
  2. Historias Extraordinarias (2008, Mariano Llinás)

2010

  1. World on a Wire (1973, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  2. House (1977, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  3. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2006, Jean-Marc Vallée)

2008

  1. As Tears Go By (1988, Wong Kar-wai)
  2. The Exiles (1961, Kent Mackenzie)

2007

  1. Ten Skies (2004, James Benning)
  2. Los muertos (2004, James Benning)

2006

  1. Sátántangó (1994, Tarr Béla)
  2. Army of Shadows (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville)

2005

  1. Pulse (2001, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  2. The Century of the Self (2002, Adam Curtis)
  3. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002, Park Chan-wook)
  4. Joint Security Area (2000, Park Chan-wook)
  5. Funny Ha Ha (2002, Andrew Bujalski)

2004

  1. Days of Being Wild (1990, Wong Kar-wai)
  2. Shaolin Soccer (2001, Stephen Chow)

2003

  1. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)

2002

  1. A Grin Without a Cat (1977, Chris Marker)

2001

  1. Cure (1997, Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  2. The River (1997, Tsai Ming-liang)

2000

  1. Drunken Master II (1994, Lau Kar-leung)

1999

  1. Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)

1998

  1. Fallen Angels (1995, Wong Kar-wai)

1995

  1. I Am Cuba (1964, Mikhail Kalatozov)
  2. Hyenas (1992, Djibril Diop Mambéty)
  3. Lessons of Darkness (1992, Werner Herzog)
  4. Pushing Hands (1991, Ang Lee)

1994

  1. The Devil, Probably (1977, Robert Bresson)

1993

  1. My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Miyazaki Hayao)

1992

  1. Andrei Rublev (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky)
  2. La Paloma (1974, Daniel Schmid)

1990

  1. American Boy: A Portrait of Steven Prince (1978, Martin Scorsese)

1989

  1. Peking Opera Blues (1986, Tsui Hark)
  2. Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986, Miyazaki Hayao)

1988

  1. Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1978, Chantal Akerman)
  2. Violence at Noon (1966, Oshima Nagisa)

1987

  1. The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978, Raúl Ruiz)
  2. Class Relations (1984, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  3. Barravento (1962, Glauber Rocha)

1985

  1. Night and Fog in Japan (1960, Oshima Nagisa)

1984

  1. Cruel Story of Youth (1960, Oshima Nagisa)
  2. A Bigger Splash (1973, Jack Hazan)

1983

  1. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
  2. The Traveling Players (1975, Theodoros Angelopoulos)
  3. Camera Buff (1979, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  4. The Constant Factor (1980, Krzysztof Zanussi)

1982

  1. Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)
  2. Without Anesthesia (1978, Andrzej Wajda)
  3. La commare secca (1962, Bernardo Bertolucci)

1981

  1. India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras)
  2. Like a Turtle on Its Back (1978, Luc Béraud)
  3. Made in U.S.A (1966, Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. The Lady Without Camelias (1953, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  5. Land of Silence and Darkness (1971, Werner Herzog)
  6. Camouflage (1977, Krzysztof Zanussi)
  7. Illustrious Corpses (1976, Francesco Rosi)

1980

  1. Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch)
  2. Floating Clouds (1955, Naruse Mikio)
  3. The Middleman (1976, Satyajit Ray)
  4. L’Âge d’or (1930, Luis Buñuel)
  5. The Apple Game (1977, Věra Chytilová)

1979

  1. Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell)
  2. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975, Peter Weir)

1978

  1. Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
  2. A Geisha (1953, Mizoguchi Kenji)
  3. Italianamerican (1974, Martin Scorsese)
  4. A Doll’s House (1973, Joseph Losey)

1977

  1. F for Fake (1973, Orson Welles)
  2. Alice in the Cities (1974, Wim Wenders)
  3. Ossessione (1943, Luchino Visconti)
  4. Conversation Piece (1974, Luchino Visconti)
  5. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)

1976

  1. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  2. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973, Víctor Erice)
  3. La Chienne (1931, Jean Renoir)
  4. Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)

1975

  1. La Rupture (1970, Claude Chabrol)
  2. Just Before Nightfall (1971, Claude Chabrol)

1974

  1. Death by Hanging (1968, Oshima Nagisa)
  2. Charulata (1964, Satyajit Ray)
  3. The Ceremony (1971, Oshima Nagisa)
  4. Lucía (1968, Humberto Solás)
  5. Partner. (1968, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  6. The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (1966, André Delvaux)

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. The Adversary (1970, Satyajit Ray)
  7. Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969, Oshima Nagisa)
  8. The Spider’s Stratagem (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  9. Happiness (1935, Aleksandr Medvedkin)

1972

  1. Late Spring (1949, Ozu Yasujiro)
  2. Tokyo Story (1953, Ozu Yasujiro)
  3. L’Amour fou (1969, Jacques Rivette)
  4. Je t’aime, je t’aime (1968, Alain Resnais)
  5. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969, Marcel Ophuls)
  6. Le Samouräi (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville)

1971

  1. La Collectionneuse (1967, Éric Rohmer)
  2. The Crucified Lovers (1954, Mizoguchi Kenji)
  3. The Nun (1966, Jacques Rivette)
  4. Black Peter (1964, Miloš Forman)

1970

  1. Au hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)
  2. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966, Roberto Rossellini)
  3. Mouchette (1967, Robert Bresson)
  4. The End of Summer (1961, Ozu Yasujiro)
  5. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)
  6. Pasazerka (1963, Andrzej Munk)
  7. Raven’s End (1963, Bo Widerberg)

1969

  1. Pierrot le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Mizoguchi Kenji)
  3. Lola Montès (1955, Max Ophuls)
  4. Not Reconciled (1965, Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  5. Black Girl (1966, Ousmane Sembène)
  6. Simon of the Desert (1965, Luis Buñuel)
  7. The Round-Up (1966, Jancsó Miklós)
  8. Walkover (1965, Jerzy Skolimowski)
  9. Six in Paris (1964, Omnibus)
  10. Intimate Lighting (1965, Ivan Passer)

1968

  1. Red Beard (1965, Kurosawa Akira)
  2. Les Carabiniers (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
  3. Accattone (1961, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  4. Identification Marks: None (1964, Jerzy Skolimowski)
  5. Fists in the Pocket (1965, Marco Bellocchio)

1967

  1. The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Buñuel)
  2. The Burmese Harp (1956, Ichikawa Kon)
  3. The Big City (1963, Satyajit Ray)
  4. Le Petit Soldat (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. She and He (1963, Hani Susumu)

1966

  1. Good Morning (1959, Ozu Yasujiro)
  2. Le Joli Mai (1962, Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme)

1965

  1. The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962, Robert Bresson)
  2. Chronicle of a Summer (1961, Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin)

1964

  1. Le Trou (1960, Jacques Becker)
  2. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1945, Robert Bresson)
  3. A Woman Is a Woman (1961, Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936, Jean Renoir)

1963

  1. Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson)
  2. The Bad Sleep Well (1960, Kurosawa Akira)

1962

  1. Mr. Arkadin (1955, Orson Welles)

1961

  1. Throne of Blood (1957, Kurosawa Akira)
  2. Elevator to the Gallows (1958, Louis Malle)

1960

  1. Ikiru (1952, Kurosawa Akira)

1959

  1. Drunken Angel (1948, Kurosawa Akira)
  2. Aparajito (1956, Satyajit Ray)

1958

  1. Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)

1956

  1. Awaara (1951, Raj Kapoor)

1955

  1. Othello (1951, Orson Welles)

1954

  1. Diary of a Country Priest (1951, Robert Bresson)
  2. La Ronde (1950, Max Ophuls)

1951

  1. The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947, Preston Sturges)

1950

  1. The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
  2. A Day in the Country (1936, Jean Renoir)
  3. Angels of Sin (1943, Robert Bresson)

1949

  1. Enamorada (1946, Emilio Fernández)

1947

  1. L’Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
  2. Zero for Conduct (1933, Jean Vigo)

1943

  1. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Fritz Lang)

1929

  1. Nosferatu (1922, F. W. Murnau)

Simple Top Tens (Shorts Only)

Ryan Swen Lists

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

Main list.
A version of this without television episodes, YouTube material, music videos, and other non-film media objects.
A version of this with feature films only.
A version of this with mid-length films only.

Ten Favorite Films

  1. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker)
  2. DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones)
  3. WORKERS LEAVING THE LUMIÈRE FACTORY IN LYON (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  4. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton)
  5. ALL MY LIFE (Bruce Baillie)
  6. NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais)
  7. OUTER SPACE (Peter Tscherkassky)
  8. THE HOUSE IS BLACK (Forough Farrokhzad)
  9. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)
  10. THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (D.W. Griffith)

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2020s

Best of the Decade

  1. EARTHEARTHEARTH (Saïto Daïchi)
  2. IF YOU COULD GO BACK, I WOULD SEE HER. (Joshua R. Troxler)
  3. LABOR OF LOVE (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
  4. POINT AND LINE TO PLANE (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
  5. EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart)
  6. THE BIG TRIM (John Magary)
  7. VISIT (Jia Zhangke)
  8. AUTOFICCIÓN (Laida Lertxundi)
  9. WHILE CURSED BY SPECTERS (Burak Çevik)
  10. ALFRED (Esther Urlus)

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2022

  1. EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart)
  2. STARFUCKERS (Antonio Marziale)
  3. THE HEADHUNTER’S DAUGHTER (Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan)

2021

  1. EARTHEARTHEARTH (Saïto Daïchi)
  2. THE CAPACITY FOR ADEQUATE ANGER (Vika Kirchenbauer)
  3. KICKING THE CLOUDS (Sky Hopinka)
  4. IMPERSONATOR (Andrew Norman Wilson)
  5. A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME HERE (Érica Sarnet)
  6. SOFT ANIMALS (Renee Zhan)
  7. DEAR CHANTAL (Nicolás Pereda)
  8. INNER OUTER SPACE (Laida Lertxundi)

2020

  1. IF YOU COULD GO BACK, I WOULD SEE HER. (Joshua R. Troxler)
  2. LABOR OF LOVE (Sylvia Schedelbauer)
  3. POINT AND LINE TO PLANE (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
  4. THE BIG TRIM (John Magary)
  5. VISIT (Jia Zhangke)
  6. AUTOFICCIÓN (Laida Lertxundi)
  7. WHILE CURSED BY SPECTERS (Burak Çevik)
  8. ALFRED (Esther Urlus)
  9. “THE RED FILTER IS WITHDRAWN.” (Kim Min-jung)
  10. NEVER REST/UNREST (Tiffany Sia)

2010s

Best of the Decade

  1. NO NO SLEEP (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. ENGRAM OF RETURNING (Saïto Daïchi)
  3. ARBORETUM CYCLE (Nathaniel Dorsky)
  4. TRANSFORMERS: THE PREMAKE (Kevin B. Lee)
  5. LIST (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. SHAKTI (Martín Rejtman)
  7. THE HEDONISTS (Jia Zhangke)
  8. REDEMPTION (Miguel Gomes)
  9. LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE (Jodie Mack)
  10. NIGHT WITHOUT DISTANCE (Lois Patiño)

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2019

  1. SHAKTI (Martín Rejtman)
  2. CITYSCAPE (Michael Snow)
  3. FOREIGN POWERS (Bingham Bryant)
  4. Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 MOD 2|-1: LAVENDER TOWN SYNDROME (Andrew Norman Wilson)
  5. THE SKY IS CLEAR AND BLUE TODAY (Ricky D’Ambrose)
  6. CATERINA (Dan Sallitt)
  7. BILLY (Zachary Epcar)
  8. Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 MOD 2|-1: THE OLD VICTROLA (Andrew Norman Wilson)
  9. SUBJECT TO REVIEW (Theo Anthony)
  10. I SHOT ANTOINE DOINEL (Nicolás Prividera)

2018

  1. PARSI (Eduardo Williams)
  2. CALYX (Nathaniel Dorsky)
  3. ROUND SEVEN (Kevin Jerome Everson)
  4. COLOPHON (Nathaniel Dorsky)
  5. FAINTING SPELLS (Sky Hopinka)
  6. DER KLANG, DIE WELT… (Robert Beavers)
  7. VESLEMØY’S SONG (Sofia Bohdanowicz)
  8. BLUE (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  9. LA CARTOGRAPHE (Nathan Douglas)
  10. ADA KALEH (Helena Wittmann)

2017

  1. ARBORETUM CYCLE (Nathaniel Dorsky)
  2. ANOTHER MOVIE (Morgan Fisher)
  3. SPIRAL JETTY (Ricky D’Ambrose)
  4. WATCHING THE DETECTIVES (Chris Kennedy)
  5. ROSE GOLD (Sara Cwynar)
  6. LA BOUCHE (Camilo Restrepo)
  7. AMONG THE EUCALYPTUSES (Robert Beavers)
  8. RAMS 23 BLUE BEARS 21 (Kevin Jerome Everson)
  9. WHAT DID JACK DO? (David Lynch)
  10. WASTELAND NO. 1: ARDENT, VERDANT (Jodie Mack)

2016

  1. THE HEDONISTS (Jia Zhangke)
  2. INDEFINITE PITCH (James N. Kienitz Wilkins)
  3. SECRET GOLDFISH (Bi Gan)
  4. HEAVEN IS STILL FAR AWAY (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  5. EARS, NOSE AND THROAT (Kevin Jerome Everson)
  6. FOYER (Ismaïl Bahri)
  7. CILAOS (Camilo Restrepo)
  8. AUTUMN (Nathaniel Dorsky)
  9. ODE TO SEEKERS 2012 (Andrew Norman Wilson)
  10. THE TREMBLING GIANT (Patrick Tarrant)

2015

  1. NO NO SLEEP (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. ENGRAM OF RETURNING (Saïto Daïchi)
  3. NIGHT WITHOUT DISTANCE (Lois Patiño)
  4. WORLD OF TOMORROW (Don Hertzfeldt)
  5. BAD AT DANCING (Joanna Arnow)
  6. SIX CENTS IN THE POCKET (Ricky D’Ambrose)
  7. INTIMATIONS (Nathaniel Dorsky)
  8. SOMETHING BETWEEN US (Jodie Mack)

2014

  1. TRANSFORMERS: THE PREMAKE (Kevin B. Lee)
  2. SPECTRUM REVERSE SPECTRUM (Margaret Honda)
  3. CAMERA FALLS FROM AIRPLANE AND LANDS IN PIG PEN–MUST WATCH END!! (Mia Munselle)
  4. SINGLE STREAM (Paweł Wojtasik & Toby Kim Lee & Ernst Karel)
  5. OCCIDENTE (Ana Vaz)
  6. TWELVE TALES TOLD (Johann Lurf)
  7. TAPROBANA (Gabriel Abrantes)
  8. JANUARY (Jhon Hernandez)
  9. CYCLOPS OBSERVES THE CELESTIAL BODIES (Ken Jacobs)

2013

  1. REDEMPTION (Miguel Gomes)
  2. LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE (Jodie Mack)
  3. BROUILLARD: PASSAGE #14 (Alexandre Larose)
  4. 50:50 (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. LISTENING TO THE SPACE IN MY ROOM (Robert Beavers)
  6. JG (Tacita Dean)
  7. PINBALL (Suzan Pitt)

2012

  1. WALKER (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. THE POET AND SINGER (Bi Gan)
  3. RELEASING HUMAN ENERGIES (Mark Toscano)

2011

  1. LIST (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. VISITATION (Suzan Pitt)

2010

  1. LADY BLUE SHANGHAI (David Lynch)
  2. 607 (Liu Jiayin)
  3. CRY WHEN IT HAPPENS (Laida Lertxundi)
  4. INFINITE DOORS (Takeshi Murata)
  5. THE SUPPLIANT (Robert Beavers)

2000s

Best of the Decade

  1. THE HEART OF THE WORLD (Guy Maddin)
  2. TREES OF SYNTAX, LEAVES OF AXIS (Saïto Daïchi)
  3. ORIGINS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. THE FOLLOW (Wong Kar-wai)
  5. THE SKYWALK IS GONE (Tsai Ming-liang)
  6. LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. ( ) (Morgan Fisher)
  8. CRY ME A RIVER (Jia Zhangke)
  9. TEXTISM (Hirabayashi Isamu)
  10. GREEN FUSE (Saïto Daïchi)

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2009

  1. TREES OF SYNTAX, LEAVES OF AXIS (Saïto Daïchi)
  2. LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS (Hong Sang-soo)

2008

  1. CRY ME A RIVER (Jia Zhangke)
  2. GREEN FUSE (Saïto Daïchi)
  3. FILM PERDUTO (Angela Ricci Lucchi & Yervant Giankian)

2007

  1. ARTIFICES #1 (Alexandre Larose)
  2. THE SECOND LINE (John Magary)

2006

  1. TEMPLE OF TORMENT (George Kuchar)
  2. CHINA GIRLS (Michelle Silva)

2003

  1. ( ) (Morgan Fisher)
  2. TEXTISM (Hirabayashi Isamu)
  3. EL DOCTOR (Suzan Pitt)

2002

  1. THE SKYWALK IS GONE (Tsai Ming-liang)

2001

  1. THE FOLLOW (Wong Kar-wai)
  2. DANS LE NOIR DU TEMPS (Jean-Luc Godard)

2000

  1. THE HEART OF THE WORLD (Guy Maddin)
  2. ORIGINS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (Jean-Luc Godard)

1990s

Best of the Decade

  1. OUTER SPACE (Peter Tscherkassky)
  2. JE VOUS SALUE, SARAJEVO (Jean-Luc Godard)
  3. PREMONITIONS FOLLOWING AN EVIL DEED (David Lynch)
  4. WHEN IT RAINS (Charles Burnett)
  5. AMBITION (Hal Hartley)
  6. BLACK ICE (Stan Brakhage)
  7. AM MEER (Ute Aurand)
  8. THE MAMMALS OF VICTORIA (Stan Brakhage)
  9. THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT (Hal Hartley)
  10. JOY STREET (Suzan Pitt)

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1999

  1. OUTER SPACE (Peter Tscherkassky)

1998

  1. VASSOURINHA: THE VOICE AND THE VOID (Carlos Adriano)
  2. THE STRANGER IN APARTMENT 9F (Mike Kuchar)

1997

  1. COMINGLED CONTAINERS (Stan Brakhage)
  2. YGGDRASILL: WHOSE ROOTS ARE STARS IN THE HUMAN MIND (Stan Brakhage)

1995

  1. PREMONITIONS FOLLOWING AN EVIL DEED (David Lynch)
  2. WHEN IT RAINS (Charles Burnett)
  3. AM MEER (Ute Aurand)
  4. JOY STREET (Suzan Pitt)

1994

  1. BLACK ICE (Stan Brakhage)
  2. THE MAMMALS OF VICTORIA (Stan Brakhage)

1993

  1. JE VOUS SALUE, SARAJEVO (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. STELLAR (Stan Brakhage)

1991

  1. AMBITION (Hal Hartley)
  2. THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT (Hal Hartley)

1980s

Best of the Decade

  1. STANDARD GAUGE (Morgan Fisher)
  2. NIGHT MUSIC (Stan Brakhage)
  3. EXPECTATIONS (Edward Yang)
  4. ORDERLY OR DISORDERLY (Abbas Kiarostami)
  5. CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC (Chris Marker)
  6. EIN BILD (Harun Farocki)
  7. THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (Stan Brakhage)
  8. THE BIRTH OF MAGELLAN I: CADENZA I (Hollis Frampton)
  9. EN RACHÂCHANT (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  10. NEW YORK STORY (Jackie Raynal)

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1988

  1. CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC (Chris Marker)

1986

  1. NIGHT MUSIC (Stan Brakhage)

1984

  1. STANDARD GAUGE (Morgan Fisher)

1983

  1. EIN BILD (Harun Farocki)
  2. CATTLE MUTILATIONS (George Kuchar)
  3. POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN (Cecelia Condit)

1982

  1. EXPECTATIONS (Edward Yang)
  2. EN RACHÂCHANT (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)

1981

  1. ORDERLY OR DISORDERLY (Abbas Kiarostami)
  2. THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (Stan Brakhage)

1980

  1. THE BIRTH OF MAGELLAN: CADENZA I (Hollis Frampton)
  2. NEW YORK STORY (Jackie Raynal)
  3. AMOR (Robert Beavers)

1970s

Best of the Decade

  1. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton)
  2. SERENE VELOCITY (Ernie Gehr)
  3. POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton)
  4. ASPARAGUS (Suzan Pitt)
  5. CRITICAL MASS (Hollis Frampton)
  6. ASSOCIATIONS (John Smith)
  7. INTRODUCTION TO ARNOLD SCHOENBERG’S “ACCOMPANIMENT TO A CINEMATOGRAPHIC SCENE” (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  8. PROJECTION INSTRUCTIONS (Morgan Fisher)
  9. LA SOUFRIÈRE (Werner Herzog)
  10. WONG SINSAANG (Eddie Wong)

—

1979

  1. ASPARAGUS (Suzan Pitt)

1977

  1. LA SOUFRIÈRE (Werner Herzog)

1976

  1. PROJECTION INSTRUCTIONS (Morgan Fisher)

1975

  1. ASSOCIATIONS (John Smith)

1974

  1. YUDIE (Mirra Bank)
  2. DYKETACTICS (Barbara Hammer)
  3. FROM THESE ROOTS (William Greaves)
  4. PASADENA FREEWAY STILLS (Gary Beydler)

1973

  1. INTRODUCTION TO ARNOLD SCHOENBERG’S “ACCOMPANIMENT TO A CINEMATOGRAPHIC SCENE” (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  2. JEFFERSON CIRCUS SONGS (Suzan Pitt)

1972

  1. POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton)
  2. THE WOLD SHADOW (Stan Brakhage)

1971

  1. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton)
  2. CRITICAL MASS (Hollis Frampton)
  3. WONG SINSAANG (Eddie Wong)

1970

  1. SERENE VELOCITY (Ernie Gehr)
  2. PRODUCTION STILLS (Morgan Fisher)
  3. THE GRANDMOTHER (David Lynch)

1960s

Best of the Decade

  1. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker)
  2. ALL MY LIFE (Bruce Baillie)
  3. THE HOUSE IS BLACK (Forough Farrokhzad)
  4. MOTHLIGHT (Stan Brakhage)
  5. ALLURES (Jordan Belson)
  6. DOG STAR MAN (Stan Brakhage)
  7. ARNULF RAINER (Peter Kubelka)
  8. COSMIC RAY (Bruce Conner)
  9. THE NAIL CLIPPERS (Jean-Claude Carriére)
  10. CASTRO STREET (Bruce Baillie)

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1969

  1. THE NAIL CLIPPERS (Jean-Claude Carriére)
  2. LEMON (Hollis Frampton)

1968

  1. THE BRIDEGROOM, THE ACTRESS, AND THE PIMP (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)

1967

  1. SURFACE TENSION (Hollis Frampton)
  2. THE BIG SHAVE (Martin Scorsese)
  3. SAILING WITH BUSHNELL KEELER (David Lynch)

1966

  1. ALL MY LIFE (Bruce Baillie)
  2. CASTRO STREET (Bruce Baillie)
  3. HOLD ME WHILE I’M NAKED (George Kuchar)
  4. MEET MARLON BRANDO (Albert & David Maysles)

1965

  1. LA MUETTE (Claude Chabrol)
  2. KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (Kenneth Anger)

1964

  1. DOG STAR MAN (Stan Brakhage)

1963

  1. THE HOUSE IS BLACK (Forough Farrokhzad)
  2. MOTHLIGHT (Stan Brakhage)
  3. THE NEW WORLD (Jean-Luc Godard)
  4. THE BAKERY GIRL OF MONCEAU (Éric Rohmer)
  5. MACHORKA-MUFF (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  6. BOROM SARRET (Ousmane Sembène)
  7. …A VALPARAISO (Joris Ivens)
  8. JOSEPH KILIAN (Pavel Juráček & Jan Schmidt)

1962

  1. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker)
  2. COSMIC RAY (Bruce Conner)
  3. ANTOINE AND COLETTE (François Truffaut)

1961

  1. ALLURES (Jordan Belson)

1960

  1. ARNULF RAINER (Peter Kubelka)

1950s

Best of the Decade

  1. DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones)
  2. NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais)
  3. LE CHANT DU STYRÈNE (Alain Resnais)
  4. DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24½TH CENTURY (Chuck Jones)
  5. RABBIT SEASONING (Chuck Jones)
  6. A MOVIE (Bruce Conner)
  7. RABBIT OF SEVILLE (Chuck Jones)
  8. PESCHERECCI (Vittorio De Seta)
  9. SURFARARA (Vittorio De Seta)
  10. OPERATION: RABBIT (Chuck Jones)

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1959

  1. LE CHANT DU STYRÈNE (Alain Resnais)
  2. WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (Stan Brakhage)
  3. I DIMENTICATI (Vittorio De Seta)

1958

  1. A MOVIE (Bruce Conner)
  2. PESCHERECCI (Vittorio De Seta)
  3. ROBIN HOOD DAFFY (Chuck Jones)
  4. UN GIORNO IN BARBAGIA (Vittorio De Seta)
  5. PASTORI DI ORGOSOLO (Vittorio De Seta)
  6. HARE-WAY TO THE STARS (Chuck Jones)

1957

  1. WHAT’S OPERA, DOC? (Chuck Jones)
  2. ALI BABA BUNNY (Chuck Jones)

1956

  1. NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais)
  2. TOUTE LA MÉMOIRE DU MONDE (Alain Resnais)

1955

  1. SURFARARA (Vittorio De Seta)
  2. REFLECTIONS ON BLACK (Stan Brakhage)
  3. PARABOLA D’ORO (Vittorio De Seta)
  4. CONTADINI DEL MARE (Vittorio De Seta)
  5. PASQUA IN SICILIA (Vittorio De Seta)
  6. ONE FROGGY EVENING (Chuck Jones)

1954

  1. LU TEMPU DI LI PISCI SPATA (Vittorio De Seta)
  2. ISOLE DI FUOCO (Vittorio De Seta)

1953

  1. DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones)
  2. DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24½TH CENTURY (Chuck Jones)
  3. DUCK! RABBIT, DUCK! (Chuck Jones)
  4. BULLY FOR BUGS (Chuck Jones)
  5. STATUES ALSO DIE (Alain Resnais & Chris Marker & Ghislain Cloquet)

1952

  1. RABBIT SEASONING (Chuck Jones)
  2. OPERATION: RABBIT (Chuck Jones)
  3. FEED THE KITTY (Chuck Jones)

1951

  1. RABBIT FIRE (Chuck Jones)

1950

  1. RABBIT OF SEVILLE (Chuck Jones)

1940s

Best of the Decade

  1. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)
  2. FIREWORKS (Kenneth Anger)
  3. RADIO DYNAMICS (Oskar Fischinger)

—

1947

  1. FIREWORKS (Kenneth Anger)

1943

  1. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid)

1942

  1. RADIO DYNAMICS (Oskar Fischinger)

1930s

Best of the Decade

  1. ROSE HOBART (Joseph Cornell)

—

1936

  1. ROSE HOBART (Joseph Cornell)

1920s

Best of the Decade

  1. UN CHIEN ANDALOU (Luis Buñuel)
  2. RAIN (Joris Ivens & Mannus Franken)
  3. MÉNILMONTANT (Dimitri Kirshoff)
  4. BALLET MÉCHANIQUE (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy)
  5. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413, A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich)
  6. LIBERTY (Leo McCarey)
  7. RECORD 957 (Germaine Dulac)
  8. BRUMES D’AUTOMNE (Dimitri Kirshoff)
  9. TOKYO MARCH (Kenji Mizoguchi)

—

1929

  1. UN CHIEN ANDALOU (Luis Buñuel)
  2. RAIN (Joris Ivens & Mannus Franken)
  3. LIBERTY (Leo McCarey)
  4. BRUMES D’AUTOMNE (Dimitri Kirshoff)
  5. TOKYO MARCH (Kenji Mizoguchi)

1928

  1. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413, A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich)
  2. RECORD 957 (Germaine Dulac)

1924

  1. MÉNILMONTANT (Dimitri Kirshoff)
  2. BALLET MÉCHANIQUE (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy)

Pre-1920s

Best of the Decade

  1. WORKERS LEAVING THE LUMIÈRE FACTORY IN LYON (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  2. THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (D.W. Griffith)
  3. THE ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT STATION (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  4. THE SPRINKLER SPRINKLED (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  5. TUNNELING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL (Georges Méliès)
  6. THE BLACK IMP (Georges Méliès)
  7. A TRIP TO THE MOON (Georges Méliès)
  8. THE BABY’S MEAL (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  9. BOAT LEAVING THE PORT (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  10. THE UNCHANGING SEA (D.W. Griffith)

—

1914

  1. KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE (Henry Lehrman)

1912

  1. THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (D.W. Griffith)

1910

  1. THE UNCHANGING SEA (D.W. Griffith)

1907

  1. TUNNELING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL (Georges Méliès)

1905

  1. THE BLACK IMP (Georges Méliès)

1904

  1. THE MERMAID (Georges Méliès)

1902

  1. A TRIP TO THE MOON (Georges Méliès)

1896

  1. THE ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT STATION (Louis & Auguste Lumière)

1895

  1. WORKERS LEAVING THE LUMIÈRE FACTORY IN LYON (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  2. THE SPRINKLER SPRINKLED (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  3. THE BABY’S MEAL (Louis & Auguste Lumière)
  4. BOAT LEAVING THE PORT (Louis & Auguste Lumière)

Favorite Films (Shorts Only)

Ryan Swen Lists

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

Main list.
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2024

  1. SPEAKING IN TONGUES: TAKE ONE (Christopher Harris, USA)

2023

  1. THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR (Wes Anderson, USA)
  2. THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
  3. WE DON’T TALK LIKE WE USED TO (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  4. TRAILER OF A FILM THAT WILL NEVER EXIST: PHONY WARS (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  5. PASSING TIME (Terence Davies, UK)
  6. POISON (Wes Anderson, USA)
  7. THE SWAN (Wes Anderson, USA)
  8. THE RAT CATCHER (Wes Anderson, USA)
  9. FILM SCULPTURE (4) (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  10. GREETINGS FROM CRÎNGAȘI! (Radu Jude, Romania)
  11. QUIET AS IT’S KEPT (Ja’Tovia Gary, USA)
  12. NǍI NAI & WÀI PÓ (Sean Wang, USA)
  13. ALPHA KINGS (Enrique Pedráza Botero & Faye Tsakas, USA)

2022

  1. A SHORT STORY (Bi Gan, China)
  2. THE SOWER OF STARS (Lois Patiño, Spain)
  3. THE POTEMKINISTS (Radu Jude, Romania)
  4. EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart, USA)
  5. NE CORRIDOR (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  6. WHERE DO YOU STAND, TSAI MING-LIANG? (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  7. MARIA SCHNEIDER, 1983 (Elisabeth Subrin, France)
  8. LAST SCREENING (Darezhan Omirbaev, Kazakhstan)
  9. DAUGHTER AND SON (Cheng Yu, China)
  10. DAYDREAMING SO VIVIDLY ABOUT OUR SPANISH HOLIDAYS (Christian Avilés, Spain)
  11. WILL YOU LOOK AT ME (Huang Shuli, China)
  12. GINKO YELLOW (Amy Halpern, USA)
  13. IS THERE A PINE ON THE MOUNTAIN (Liu Chongyan, France)
  14. STARFUCKERS (Antonio Marziale, USA)
  15. THE HEADHUNTER’S DAUGHTER (Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, Philippines)

2021

  1. EARTHEARTHEARTH (Saïto Daïchi, Canada)
  2. TRAIN AGAIN (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria)
  3. FIRE BELLY (Amy Halpern, USA)
  4. UNTITLED (34BSP) (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  5. THE CAPACITY FOR ADEQUATE ANGER (Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany)
  6. KICKING THE CLOUDS (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  7. IMPERSONATOR (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  8. A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME HERE (Érica Sarnet, Brazil)
  9. SOFT ANIMALS (Renee Zhan, UK)
  10. DEAR CHANTAL (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico)
  11. INNER OUTER SPACE (Laida Lertxundi, Spain)
  12. BIRDS IN THE WINDOW (Amy Halpern & David Lebrun)

2020

  1. IF YOU COULD GO BACK, I WOULD SEE HER. (Joshua R. Troxler, USA)
  2. LABOR OF LOVE (Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany)
  3. POINT AND LINE TO PLANE (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada)
  4. FIGURE MINUS FACT (Mary Helena Clark, USA)
  5. THE BIG TRIM (John Magary, USA)
  6. VISIT (Jia Zhangke, China)
  7. AUTOFICCIÓN (Laida Lertxundi, USA)
  8. WHILE CURSED BY SPECTERS (Burak Çevik, Turkey)
  9. DREAMS UNDER CONFINEMENT (Christopher Harris, USA)
  10. ALFRED (Esther Urlus, Netherlands)
  11. “THE RED FILTER IS WITHDRAWN.” (Kim Min-jung, South Korea)
  12. NEWT LEADERS (Amy Halpern, USA)
  13. THE HUMAN VOICE (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  14. NEVER REST/UNREST (Tiffany Sia, Hong Kong)
  15. STUMP THE GUESSER (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson, Canada)
  16. IN THE AIR TONIGHT (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  17. I WISH YOU WOULD (Ryland Walker Knight, USA)
  18. LA FRANCE CONTRE LES ROBOTS (Jean-Marie Straub, Switzerland)
  19. HALPATE (Adam Khalil & Adam Piron, USA)
  20. UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS (Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany)

2019

  1. SHAKTI (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
  2. CITYSCAPE (Michael Snow, Canada)
  3. FOREIGN POWERS (Bingham Bryant, USA)
  4. AUSTRIAN PAVILION (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  5. Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 MOD 2|-1: LAVENDER TOWN SYNDROME (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  6. THE SKY IS CLEAR AND BLUE TODAY (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  7. (TOURISM STUDIES) (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  8. CAVALCADE (Johann Lurf, Austria)
  9. CATERINA (Dan Sallitt, USA)
  10. BILLY (Zachary Epcar, USA)
  11. Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 MOD 2|-1: THE OLD VICTROLA (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  12. SUBJECT TO REVIEW (Theo Anthony, USA)
  13. I SHOT ANTOINE DOINEL (Nicolás Prividera, Argentina)
  14. CUBA SCALDS HIS HAND (Abby Sun & Daniel Garber, USA)
  15. LAYING OUT (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  16. FIT MODEL (Myna Joseph, USA)

2018

  1. THIS ACTION LIES (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  2. PARSI (Eduardo Williams, Argentina)
  3. CALYX (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  4. ROUND SEVEN (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  5. COLOPHON (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  6. FAINTING SPELLS (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  7. DER KLANG, DIE WELT… (Robert Beavers, USA)
  8. VESLEMØY’S SONG (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada)
  9. BLUE (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  10. LA CARTOGRAPHE (Nathan Douglas, Canada)
  11. ADA KALEH (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
  12. THREE ATLAS (Miryam Charles, Haïti)

2017

  1. ARBORETUM CYCLE (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  2. ANOTHER MOVIE (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  3. SPIRAL JETTY (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  4. WATCHING THE DETECTIVES (Chris Kennedy, Canada)
  5. ROSE GOLD (Sara Cwynar, USA)
  6. LA BOUCHE (Camilo Restrepo, France)
  7. AMONG THE EUCALYPTUSES (Robert Beavers, USA)
  8. RAMS 23 BLUE BEARS 21 (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  9. WHAT DID JACK DO? (David Lynch, USA)
  10. WASTELAND NO. 1: ARDENT, VERDANT (Jodie Mack, USA)
  11. MUMOK KINO (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)

2016

  1. THE HEDONISTS (Jia Zhangke, China)
  2. INDEFINITE PITCH (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  3. SECRET GOLDFISH (Bi Gan, China)
  4. HEAVEN IS STILL FAR AWAY (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  5. EARS, NOSE AND THROAT (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  6. FOYER (Ismaïl Bahri, Tunisia)
  7. LUNA E SANTUR (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  8. CILAOS (Camilo Restrepo, France)
  9. SARAH WINCHESTER: GHOST OPERA (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  10. HALIMUHFACK (Christopher Harris, USA)
  11. AUTUMN (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  12. ODE TO SEEKERS 2012 (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  13. THE TREMBLING GIANT (Patrick Tarrant, UK)
  14. OSCAR AT 8903 EMPIRE (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  15. BAGATELLE II (Jerome Hiler, USA)

2015

  1. NO NO SLEEP (Tsai Ming-liang, Japan)
  2. ENGRAM OF RETURNING (Saïto Daïchi, Canada)
  3. NIGHT WITHOUT DISTANCE (Lois Patiño, Portugal)
  4. BAD AT DANCING (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  5. WORLD OF TOMORROW (Don Hertzfeldt, USA)
  6. SIX CENTS IN THE POCKET (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  7. NAVIGATOR (Björn Kämmerer, Austria)
  8. INTIMATIONS (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  9. SOMETHING BETWEEN US (Jodie Mack, USA)

2014

  1. TRANSFORMERS: THE PREMAKE (Kevin B. Lee, USA)
  2. SPECTRUM REVERSE SPECTRUM (Margaret Honda, USA)
  3. CAMERA FALLS FROM AIRPLANE AND LANDS IN PIG PEN—MUST WATCH END!! (Mia Munselle, USA)
  4. SINGLE STREAM (Paweł Wojtasik & Toby Kim Lee & Ernst Karel, USA)
  5. OCCIDENTE (Ana Vaz, Brazil)
  6. TWELVE TALES TOLD (Johann Lurf, Austria)
  7. TAPROBANA (Gabriel Abrantes, Portugal)
  8. JANUARY (Jhon Hernandez, USA)
  9. CYCLOPS OBSERVES THE CELESTIAL BODIES (Ken Jacobs, USA)
  10. AGAINST LANDSCAPE (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)

2013

  1. LES TROIS DÉSASTRES (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  2. REDEMPTION (Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
  3. LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE (Jodie Mack, USA)
  4. BROUILLARD: PASSAGE #14 (Alexandre Larose, Canada)
  5. 50:50 (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  6. (IT’S NOT A PRISON IF YOU NEVER TRY THE DOOR) (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  7. LISTENING TO THE SPACE IN MY ROOM (Robert Beavers, USA)
  8. MAIN HALL (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  9. JG (Tacita Dean, UK)
  10. PINBALL (Suzan Pitt, USA)

2012

  1. WALKER (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  2. BY HALVES (Amy Halpern, USA)
  3. THE POET AND SINGER (Bi Gan, China)
  4. RELEASING HUMAN ENERGIES (Mark Toscano, USA)

2011

  1. LIST (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  2. COULD SEE A PUMA. (Eduardo Williams, Argentina)
  3. BURNING STAR (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  4. 28.IV.81 (DESCENDING FIGURES) (Christopher Harris, USA)
  5. VISITATION (Suzan Pitt, USA)

2010

  1. LADY BLUE SHANGHAI (David Lynch, France)
  2. 607 (Liu Jiayin, China)
  3. CRY WHEN IT HAPPENS (Laida Lertxundi, USA)
  4. OH SUPREME LIGHT (Jean-Marie Straub, Italy)
  5. THIS IS MY KINGDOM (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico)
  6. INFINITE DOORS (Murata Takeshi, USA)
  7. THE SUPPLIANT (Robert Beavers, USA)

2009

  1. TREES OF SYNTAX, LEAVES OF AXIS (Saïto Daïchi, Canada)
  2. LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)

2008

  1. CRY ME A RIVER (Jia Zhangke, China)
  2. GREEN FUSE (Saïto Daïchi, Canada)
  3. FILM PERDUTO (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Italy)

2007

  1. ARTIFICES #1 (Alexandre Larose, Canada)
  2. THE SECOND LINE (John Magary, USA)
  3. SUNSHINE STATE (EXTENDED FORECAST) (Christopher Harris, USA)

2006

  1. TEMPLE OF TORMENT (George Kuchar, USA)
  2. CHINA GIRLS (Michelle Silva, USA)

2004

  1. RECKLESS EYEBALLING (Christopher Harris, USA)

2003

  1. ( ) (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  2. TEXTISM (Hirabayashi Isamu, Japan)
  3. EL DOCTOR (Suzan Pitt, USA)

2002

  1. THE SKYWALK IS GONE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)

2001

  1. THE FOLLOW (Wong Kar-wai, USA)
  2. DANS LE NOIR DU TEMPS (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)

2000

  1. THE HEART OF THE WORLD (Guy Maddin, Canada)
  2. ORIGINS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)

1999

  1. OUTER SPACE (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria)

1998

  1. VASSOURINHA: THE VOICE AND THE VOID (Carlos Adriano, Brazil)
  2. THE STRANGER IN APARTMENT 9F (Mike Kuchar, USA)

1997

  1. SHULIE (Elisabeth Subrin, USA)
  2. COMINGLED CONTAINERS (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  3. YGGDRASILL: WHOSE ROOTS ARE STARS IN THE HUMAN MIND (Stan Brakhage, USA)

1995

  1. PREMONITIONS FOLLOWING AN EVIL DEED (David Lynch, USA)
  2. WHEN IT RAINS (Charles Burnett, USA)
  3. AM MEER (Ute Aurand, Germany)
  4. ZONE (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  5. JOY STREET (Suzan Pitt, USA)

1994

  1. BLACK ICE (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  2. THE MOON (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  3. THE MAMMALS OF VICTORIA (Stan Brakhage, USA)

1993

  1. JE VOUS SALUE, SARAJEVO (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  2. STELLAR (Stan Brakhage, USA)

1991

  1. AMBITION (Hal Hartley, USA)
  2. THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT (Hal Hartley, USA)

1990

  1. VENUS (Ito Takashi, Japan)

1989

  1. THE MUMMY’S DREAM (Ito Takashi, Japan)

1988

  1. CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC (Chris Marker, France)
  2. DEVIL’S CIRCUIT (Ito Takashi, Japan)

1987

  1. WALL (Ito Takashi, Japan)

1986

  1. NIGHT MUSIC (Stan Brakhage, USA)

1985

  1. GRIM (Ito Takashi, Japan)

1984

  1. STANDARD GAUGE (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  2. GHOST (Ito Takashi, Japan)

1983

  1. EIN BILD (Harun Farocki, West Germany)
  2. CATTLE MUTILATIONS (George Kuchar, USA)
  3. POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN (Cecelia Condit, USA)

1982

  1. THUNDER (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  2. EXPECTATIONS (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  3. BOX (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  4. EN RACHÂCHANT (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, France)

1981

  1. SPACY (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  2. ORDERLY OR DISORDERLY (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
  3. THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (Stan Brakhage, USA)

1980

  1. THE BIRTH OF MAGELLAN: CADENZA I (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  2. NEW YORK STORY (Jackie Raynal, France)
  3. AMOR (Robert Beavers, USA)

1979

  1. ASPARAGUS (Suzan Pitt, USA)

1977

  1. LA SOUFRIÈRE (Werner Herzog, West Germany)

1976

  1. PROJECTION INSTRUCTIONS (Morgan Fisher, USA)

1975

  1. ASSOCIATIONS (John Smith, USA)
  2. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (James Benning & Bette Gordon, USA)

1974

  1. YUDIE (Mirra Bank, USA)
  2. DYKETACTICS (Barbara Hammer, USA)
  3. FROM THESE ROOTS (William Greaves, USA)
  4. PASADENA FREEWAY STILLS (Gary Beydler, USA)

1973

  1. INTRODUCTION TO ARNOLD SCHOENBERG’S “ACCOMPANIMENT TO A CINEMATOGRAPHIC SCENE” (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  2. JEFFERSON CIRCUS SONGS (Suzan Pitt, USA)

1972

  1. POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  2. THE WOLD SHADOW (Stan Brakhage, USA)

1971

  1. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  2. CRITICAL MASS (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  3. WONG SINSAANG (Eddie Wong, USA)

1970

  1. SERENE VELOCITY (Ernie Gehr, USA)
  2. PRODUCTION STILLS (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  3. THE GRANDMOTHER (David Lynch, USA)

1969

  1. THE NAIL CLIPPERS (Jean-Claude Carriére, France)
  2. LEMON (Hollis Frampton, USA)

1968

  1. THE BRIDEGROOM, THE ACTRESS, AND THE PIMP (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  2. ABSTRACT FILM NO. 1 (Valie Export, Austria)

1967

  1. SURFACE TENSION (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  2. NIVEA (Peter Weibel, Austria)
  3. THE BIG SHAVE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  4. SAILING WITH BUSHNELL KEELER (David Lynch, USA)

1966

  1. ALL MY LIFE (Bruce Baillie, USA)
  2. CASTRO STREET (Bruce Baillie, USA)
  3. HOLD ME WHILE I’M NAKED (George Kuchar, USA)
  4. MEET MARLON BRANDO (Albert & David Maysles, USA)

1965

  1. LA MUETTE (Claude Chabrol, France)
  2. KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (Kenneth Anger, USA)

1964

  1. DOG STAR MAN (Stan Brakhage, USA)

1963

  1. THE HOUSE IS BLACK (Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran)
  2. MOTHLIGHT (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  3. THE NEW WORLD (Jean-Luc Godard, Italy)
  4. THE BAKERY GIRL OF MONCEAU (Éric Rohmer, France)
  5. MACHORKA-MUFF (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  6. BOROM SARRET (Ousmane Sembène, Senegal)
  7. …A VALPARAISO (Joris Ivens, France)
  8. JOSEPH KILIAN (Pavel Juráček & Jan Schmidt, Czechoslovakia)

1962

  1. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker, France)
  2. COSMIC RAY (Bruce Conner, USA)
  3. ANTOINE AND COLETTE (François Truffaut, France)

1961

  1. ALLURES (Jordan Belson, USA)

1960

  1. ARNULF RAINER (Peter Kubelka, Austria)

1959

  1. LE CHANT DU STYRÈNE (Alain Resnais, France)
  2. WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  3. I DIMENTICATI (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)

1958

  1. A MOVIE (Bruce Conner, USA)
  2. PESCHERECCI (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  3. ROBIN HOOD DAFFY (Chuck Jones, USA)
  4. UN GIORNO IN BARBAGIA (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  5. PASTORI DI ORGOSOLO (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  6. HARE-WAY TO THE STARS (Chuck Jones, USA)

1957

  1. WHAT’S OPERA, DOC? (Chuck Jones, USA)
  2. ALI BABA BUNNY (Chuck Jones, USA)

1956

  1. NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais, France)
  2. TOUTE LA MÉMOIRE DU MONDE (Alain Resnais, France)

1955

  1. SURFARARA (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  2. REFLECTIONS ON BLACK (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  3. PARABOLA D’ORO (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  4. CONTADINI DEL MARE (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  5. PASQUA IN SICILIA (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  6. ONE FROGGY EVENING (Chuck Jones, USA)

1954

  1. LU TEMPU DI LI PISCI SPATA (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  2. ISOLE DI FUOCO (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)

1953

  1. DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones, USA)
  2. DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24½TH CENTURY (Chuck Jones, USA)
  3. DUCK! RABBIT, DUCK! (Chuck Jones, USA)
  4. BULLY FOR BUGS (Chuck Jones, USA)
  5. STATUES ALSO DIE (Alain Resnais & Chris Marker & Ghislain Cloquet, France)
  6. EAUX D’ARTIFICE (Kenneth Anger, USA)

1952

  1. RABBIT SEASONING (Chuck Jones, USA)
  2. OPERATION: RABBIT (Chuck Jones, USA)
  3. FEED THE KITTY (Chuck Jones, USA)

1951

  1. RABBIT FIRE (Chuck Jones, USA)

1950

  1. RABBIT OF SEVILLE (Chuck Jones, USA)

1947

  1. FIREWORKS (Kenneth Anger, USA)

1943

  1. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, USA)

1942

  1. RADIO DYNAMICS (Oskar Fischinger, USA)

1936

  1. ROSE HOBART (Joseph Cornell, USA)

1929

  1. UN CHIEN ANDALOU (Luis Buñuel, France)
  2. RAIN (Joris Ivens & Mannus Franken, Netherlands)
  3. LIBERTY (Leo McCarey, USA)
  4. BRUMES D’AUTOMNE (Dimitri Kirsanoff, France)
  5. TOKYO MARCH (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)

1928

  1. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413, A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich, USA)
  2. RECORD 957 (Germaine Dulac, France)

1926

  1. MÉNILMONTANT (Dimitri Kirsanoff, France)

1924

  1. BALLET MÉCHANIQUE (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy, USA)

1914

  1. KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE (Henry Lehrman, USA)

1912

  1. THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (D. W. Griffith, USA)

1910

  1. THE UNCHANGING SEA (D. W. Griffith, USA)

1907

  1. TUNNELING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL (Georges Méliès, France)

1905

  1. THE BLACK IMP (Georges Méliès, France)

1904

  1. THE MERMAID (Georges Méliès, France)

1902

  1. A TRIP TO THE MOON (Georges Méliès, France)

1896

  1. THE ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT STATION (Louis & Auguste Lumière, France)

1895

  1. WORKERS LEAVING THE LUMIÈRE FACTORY IN LYON (Louis & Auguste Lumière, France)
  2. THE SPRINKLER SPRINKLED (Louis & Auguste Lumière, France)
  3. THE BABY’S MEAL (Louis & Auguste Lumière, France)
  4. BOAT LEAVING THE PORT (Louis & Auguste Lumière, France)

Favorite Films (Features Only)

Ryan Swen Lists

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

Main list.
A version of this without television episodes, YouTube material, music videos, and other non-film media objects.
A version of this with mid-length films only.
A version of this with shorts only.

2024

  1. BETWEEN THE TEMPLES (Nathan Silver, USA)
  2. DREAM TEAM (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  3. CHALLENGERS (Luca Guadagnino, USA)
  4. UNION (Brett Story & Stephen Maing, USA)

2023

  1. THE BEAST (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  2. DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (Radu Jude, Romania)
  3. EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  4. MUSIC (Angela Schanelec, Germany)
  5. THE HUMAN SURGE 3 (Eduardo Williams, Argentina)
  6. CLOSE YOUR EYES (Víctor Erice, Spain)
  7. ANATOMY OF A FALL (Justine Triet, France)
  8. MAY DECEMBER (Todd Haynes, USA)
  9. FALLEN LEAVES (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland)
  10. AFIRE (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  11. IN OUR DAY (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  12. YOUTH (SPRING) (Wang Bing, China)
  13. ASTEROID CITY (Wes Anderson, USA)
  14. THE SHADOWLESS TOWER (Zhang Lu, China)
  15. IN WATER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  16. EUREKA (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  17. THE DELINQUENTS (Rodrigo Moreno, Argentina)
  18. FERRARI (Michael Mann, USA)
  19. HERE (Bas Devos, Belgium)
  20. INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL (Phạm Thiên Ân, Vietnam)
  21. MENUS-PLAISIRS—LES TROISGROS (Frederick Wiseman, France)
  22. HOW DO YOU LIVE? (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  23. OCCUPIED CITY (Steve McQueen, UK)
  24. MAN IN BLACK (Wang Bing, France)
  25. THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  26. HIT MAN (Richard Linklater, USA)
  27. THE ADULTS (Dustin Guy Defa, USA)
  28. STILL FILM (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  29. ALLENSWORTH (James Benning, USA)
  30. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—DEAD RECKONING PART ONE (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  31. PICTURES OF GHOSTS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
  32. PRISCILLA (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  33. LA CHIMERA (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy)
  34. ALL OF US STRANGERS (Andrew Haigh, UK)
  35. NOWHERE NEAR (Miko Revereza, Philippines)
  36. ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET. (Kelly Fremon Craig, USA)
  37. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS (Sora Neo, Japan)
  38. SAMSARA (Lois Patiño, Spain)
  39. MAD FATE (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  40. THE PLOUGH (Philippe Garrel, France)
  41. THE ZONE OF INTEREST (Jonathan Glazer, UK)
  42. THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE (Patric Chiha, France)
  43. THE SWEET EAST (Sean Price Williams, USA)
  44. THE KILLER (David Fincher, USA)
  45. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  46. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 (Chad Stahelski, USA)
  47. MAMBAR PIERRETTE (Rosine Mbakam, Cameroon)
  48. AGGRO DR1FT (Harmony Korine, USA)
  49. GODZILLA MINUS ONE (Yamazaki Takashi, Japan)
  50. GASOLINE RAINBOW (Bill & Turner Ross, USA)
  51. THE CAINE MUTINY COURT MARTIAL (William Friedkin, USA)
  52. PAST LIVES (Celine Song, USA)
  53. BARBIE (Greta Gerwig, USA)
  54. FOLLOWING THE SOUND (Sugita Kyoshi, Japan)
  55. KNOCK AT THE CABIN (M. Night Shyamalan, USA)
  56. FULL RIVER RED (Zhang Yimou, China)
  57. ROCKY AUR RANI KII PREM KAHAANI (Karan Johar, India)
  58. THE TASTE OF THINGS (Trần Anh Hùng, France)
  59. THE HOLDOVERS (Alexander Payne, USA)
  60. POOR THINGS (Yorgos Lanthimos, UK)
  61. ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS (Wei Shujun, China)
  62. PASSAGES (Ira Sachs, France)
  63. LAST THINGS (Deborah Stratman, USA)
  64. MAESTRO (Bradley Cooper, USA)
  65. ABSENCE (Wu Lang, China)
  66. FREMONT (Babak Jalali, USA)
  67. PERFECT DAYS (Wim Wenders, Japan)

2022

  1. WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  2. PACIFICTION (Albert Serra, France)
  3. THE NOVELIST’S FILM (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  4. SHOWING UP (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  5. DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, France)
  6. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)
  7. THE FABELMANS (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  8. TRENQUE LAUQUEN (Laura Citarella, Argentina)
  9. THE PEOPLE YOU’RE PAYING TO BE IN SHORTS (Jon Bois, USA)
  10. SECTION 1 (Jon Bois, USA)
  11. ONE FINE MORNING (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
  12. DIARY OF A FLEETING AFFAIR (Emmanuel Mouret, France)
  13. CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  14. RRR (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
  15. DECISION TO LEAVE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  16. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (James Benning, USA)
  17. COMA (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  18. TALES OF THE PURPLE HOUSE (Abbas Fahdel, Lebanon)
  19. TÁR (Todd Field, USA)
  20. STARS AT NOON (Claire Denis, France)
  21. QUEENS OF THE QING DYNASTY (Ashley McKenzie, Canada)
  22. NOPE (Jordan Peele, USA)
  23. WHERE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  24. REWIND & PLAY (Alain Gomis, France)
  25. STONEWALLING (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji, Japan)
  26. WHITE NOISE (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  27. SAINT OMER (Alice Diop, France)
  28. AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (James Cameron, USA)
  29. THE BLUE ROSE OF FORGETFULNESS (Lewis Klahr, USA)
  30. RETURN TO SEOUL (Chou Davy, France)
  31. ARMAGEDDON TIME (James Gray, USA)
  32. ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (Laura Poitras, USA)
  33. SATURN BOWLING (Patricia Mazuy, France)
  34. MATTER OUT OF PLACE (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria)
  35. BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE (Claire Denis, France)
  36. RIOTSVILLE, U.S.A. (Sierra Pettengill, USA)
  37. WHERE IS THIS STREET? OR WITH NO BEFORE OR AFTER (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata)
  38. REMEMBERING EVERY NIGHT (Kiyohara Yui, Japan)
  39. RETURN TO DUST (Li Ruijun, Japan)
  40. NOBODY’S HERO (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  41. HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
  42. DRY GROUND BURNING (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós, Brazil)
  43. DON JUAN (Serge Bozon, France)
  44. AFTERSUN (Charlotte Wells, UK)
  45. HAPPER’S COMET (Tyler Taormina, USA)
  46. AMSTERDAM (David O. Russell)
  47. RELATIVE (Michael Glover Smith, USA)
  48. THE ADVENTURES OF GIGI THE LAW (Alessandro Comodin, Italy)
  49. WILL-O’-THE-WISP (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
  50. SHIN ULTRAMAN (Higuchi Shinji, Japan)
  51. A WOMAN ESCAPES (Sofia Bohdanowicz & Burak Çevik & Blake Williams, Canada)
  52. THE MAIDEN (Graham Foy, Canada)
  53. A COUPLE (Frederick Wiseman, France)
  54. AMBULANCE (Michael Bay, USA)
  55. TOP GUN: MAVERICK (Joseph Kosinski, USA)
  56. A HUMAN POSITION (Anders Emblem, Norway)
  57. FREE CHOL SOO LEE (Eugene Yi & Julie Ha, USA)
  58. GLASS ONION (Rian Johnson, USA)
  59. ASTRAKAN (David Depesseville, France)
  60. CALL JANE (Phyllis Nagy, USA)
  61. EVERY DAY IN KAIMUKĪ (Alika Tengan, USA)
  62. MIJA (Isabel Castro, USA)
  63. KIMI (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  64. SAFE PLACE (Juraj Lerotić, Croatia)
  65. ENYS MEN (Mark Jenkin, UK)
  66. IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA (Ana Vaz, Brazil)
  67. TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (Ruben Östlund, Sweden)

2021

  1. DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  2. MEMORIA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  3. WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Alexandre Koberidze, Georgia)
  4. CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: AN EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (Adam Curtis, UK)
  5. IL BUCO (Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy)
  6. WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  7. WHO’S STOPPING US (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
  8. A NEW OLD PLAY (Qiu Jiongjiong, Hong Kong)
  9. LIMBO (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  10. ANNETTE (Leos Carax, France)
  11. BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN (Radu Jude, Romania)
  12. WEST SIDE STORY (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  13. A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES (Zhu Shengze, USA)
  14. FRANCE (Bruno Dumont, France)
  15. EVANGELION: 3.0+1.0 THRICE UPON A TIME (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  16. THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher, Switzerland)
  17. IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  18. PROCESSION (Robert Greene, USA)
  19. TOPOLOGY OF SIRENS (Jonathan Davies, USA)
  20. LICORICE PIZZA (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  21. THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (Joel Coen, USA)
  22. INTRODUCTION (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  23. EL GRAN MOVIMIENTO (Kiro Russo, Bolivia)
  24. RED ROCKET (Sean Baker, USA)
  25. THE FRENCH DISPATCH OF THE LIBERTY, KANSAS EVENING SUN (Wes Anderson, USA)
  26. BENEDETTA (Paul Verhoeven, France)
  27. FABIAN, OR GOING TO THE DOGS (Domink Graf, Germany)
  28. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (Todd Haynes, USA)
  29. MEDEA (Alexander Zeldovich, Russia)
  30. THE CATHEDRAL (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  31. THE POWER OF THE DOG (Jane Campion, New Zealand)
  32. THE SACRED SPIRIT (Chema García Ibarra, Spain)
  33. HARUHARA-SAN’S RECORDER (Sugita Kyoshi, Japan)
  34. BENEDICTION (Terence Davies, UK)
  35. WOOD AND WATER (Jonas Bak, Germany)
  36. ONODA (Arthur Harari, France)
  37. AHED’S KNEE (Nadav Lapid, Israel)
  38. PEBBLES (PS Vinothraj, India)
  39. THE SOUVENIR PART II (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  40. FIRST TIME [THE TIME FOR ALL BUT SUNSET – VIOLET] (Nicolaas Schmidt, Germany)
  41. PARALLEL MOTHERS (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  42. A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING (Payal Kapadia, India)
  43. SOCIAL HYGIENE (Denis Côté, Canada)
  44. VIRGIN BLUE (Niu Xiaoyu, China)
  45. VENGEANCE IS MINE, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH (Edwin, Indonesia)
  46. HIT THE ROAD (Panah Panahi, Iran)
  47. CRY MACHO (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  48. DECEPTION (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  49. RAMPART (Marko Grba Singh, Serbia)
  50. EL PLANETA (Amalia Ulman, Spain)
  51. OUR ETERNAL SUMMER (Émilie Aussel, France)
  52. THE WITCHES OF THE ORIENT (Julien Faraut, France)
  53. BELLE (Hosoda Mamoru, Japan)
  54. PETITE SOLANGE (Axelle Ropert, France)
  55. ROCK BOTTOM RISER (Fern Silva, USA)
  56. PETITE MAMAN (Céline Sciamma, France)
  57. COME HERE (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
  58. SINGING IN THE WILDERNESS (Chen Dongnan, China)
  59. THE CARD COUNTER (Paul Schrader, USA)
  60. ZEROS AND ONES (Abel Ferrara, USA)
  61. TERRA FEMME (Courtney Stephens, USA)
  62. A MARBLE TRAVELOGUE (Sean Wang, Netherlands)
  63. NOBODY (Ilya Naishuller, USA)
  64. BERGMAN ISLAND (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
  65. THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Joachim Trier, Norway)
  66. WET SAND (Elene Naveriani, Georgia)
  67. CLIFF WALKERS (Zhang Yimou, China)
  68. NO SUDDEN MOVE (Steven Soderbergh, USA)

2020

  1. DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  2. THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN) (C. W. Winter & Anders Edström, USA)
  3. THE WOMAN WHO RAN (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  4. SHORT VACATION (Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol, South Korea)
  5. BEGINNING (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia)
  6. WIFE OF A SPY (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  7. MALMKROG (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
  8. LOVERS ROCK (Steve McQueen, UK)
  9. SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE (Jia Zhangke, China)
  10. THE DISCIPLE (Chaitanya Tamhane, India)
  11. THE LAST CITY (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
  12. TESLA (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  13. FAUNA (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico)
  14. THERE ARE NOT THIRTY-SIX WAYS OF SHOWING A MAN GETTING ON A HORSE. (Nicolás Zukerfeld, Argentina)
  15. NOTTURNO (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy)
  16. CITY HALL (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  17. LOS CONDUCTOS (Camilo Restrepo, Colombia)
  18. RED, WHITE AND BLUE (Steve McQueen, UK)
  19. THE CALMING (Song Fang, China)
  20. EDUCATION (Steve McQueen, UK)
  21. THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS (Catarina Vasconcelos, Portugal)
  22. ISABELLA (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  23. EXPEDITION CONTENT (Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati, USA)
  24. BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS (Bill & Turner Ross, USA)
  25. MANGROVE (Steve McQueen, UK)
  26. THE LOBBY (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
  27. THE YEAR OF THE DISCOVERY (Luis López Carrasco, Spain)
  28. ON THE ROCKS (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  29. THE INHERITANCE (Ephraim Asili, USA)
  30. MONSTER HUNTER (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  31. TIME (Garrett Bradley, USA)
  32. THE SALT OF TEARS (Philippe Garrel, France)
  33. HER SOCIALIST SMILE (John Gianvito, USA)
  34. MAŁNI—TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  35. ALEX WHEATLE (Steve McQueen, UK)
  36. DA 5 BLOODS (Spike Lee, USA)
  37. ATARRABI AND MIKELATS (Eugène Green, France)
  38. NOMADLAND (Chloé Zhao, USA)
  39. UNDINE (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  40. THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez, USA)
  41. ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN SEE (Pablo Escoto Luna, Mexico)
  42. DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (Kirsten Johnson, USA)

2019

  1. MARTIN EDEN (Pietro Marcello, Italy)
  2. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  3. ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  4. PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  5. I WAS AT HOME, BUT… (Angela Schanelec, Germany)
  6. SYNONYMS (Nadav Lapid, France)
  7. FOURTEEN (Dan Sallitt, USA)
  8. PRESENT.PERFECT. (Zhu Shengze, USA)
  9. UNCUT GEMS (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
  10. HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME (Thomas Heise, Germany)
  11. I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  12. VITALINA VARELA (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
  13. A VOLUNTARY YEAR (Ulrich Köhler & Henner Winckler, Germany)
  14. THE TRAITOR (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
  15. ZOMBI CHILD (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  16. JUST DON’T THINK I’LL SCREAM (Frank Beauvais, France)
  17. CENOTE (Oda Kaori, Japan)
  18. FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  19. MARRIAGE STORY (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  20. THE WHISTLERS (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
  21. GHOST TROPIC (Bas Devos, Belgium)
  22. LABYRINTH OF CINEMA (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  23. THE AUGUST VIRGIN (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
  24. LITTLE WOMEN (Greta Gerwig, USA)
  25. LIBERTÉ (Albert Serra, Spain)
  26. BELONGING (Burak Çevik, Turkey)
  27. BACURAU (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles, Brazil)
  28. A HIDDEN LIFE (Terrence Malick, USA)
  29. PAIN AND GLORY (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  30. THE WILD GOOSE LAKE (Diao Yinan, China)
  31. SIBYL (Justine Triet, France)
  32. CHASING DREAM (Johnnie To, China)
  33. AD ASTRA (James Gray, USA)
  34. BETTER DAYS (Derek Tsang, China)
  35. GYOPO (Samuel Kiehoon Lee, South Korea)
  36. RICHARD JEWELL (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  37. YOUNG AHMED (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  38. ATLANTICS (Mati Diop, Senegal)
  39. KNIVES OUT (Rian Johnson, USA)
  40. DARK WATERS (Todd Haynes, USA)
  41. A GIRL MISSING (Fukada Koji, Japan)
  42. THE WHITE STORM 2: DRUG LORDS (Herman Yau, Hong Kong)
  43. HAM ON RYE (Tyler Taormina, USA)
  44. FIRE WILL COME (Óliver Laxe, Spain)
  45. MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN (Edward Norton, USA)
  46. THE DEAD DON’T DIE (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
  47. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3—PARABELLUM (Chad Stahelski, USA)
  48. THE SOUVENIR (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  49. US (Jordan Peele, USA)
  50. HIGH FLYING BIRD (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  51. DOMINO (Brian De Palma, Denmark)
  52. THE PLAGIARISTS (Peter Parlow, USA)
  53. COLLECTIVE (Alexander Nanau, Romania)
  54. GEMINI MAN (Ang Lee, USA)
  55. CONJURING THE ROLLING THUNDER RE-VUE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  56. ANNE AT 13,000 FEET. (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
  57. STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (J. J. Abrams, USA)

2018

  1. LA FLOR (Mariano Llinás, Argentina)
  2. ASAKO I & II (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  3. TRANSIT (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  4. LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Bi Gan, China)
  5. GRASS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  6. ASH IS PUREST WHITE (Jia Zhangke, China)
  7. AMANDA (Mikhaël Hers, France)
  8. HIGH LIFE (Claire Denis, France)
  9. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (Orson Welles, USA)
  10. AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL (Hu Bo, China)
  11. IN MY ROOM (Ulrich Köhler, Germany)
  12. LIZ AND THE BLUE BIRD (Yamada Naoko, Japan)
  13. HER SMELL (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  14. THE IMAGE BOOK (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  15. CLASSICAL PERIOD (Ted Fendt, USA)
  16. THE GRAND BIZARRE (Jodie Mack, USA)
  17. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—FALLOUT (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  18. THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  19. HOTEL BY THE RIVER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  20. BISBEE ’17 (Robert Greene, USA)
  21. “I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS” (Radu Jude, Romania)
  22. UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB (Stephen Susco, USA)
  23. BURNING (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea)
  24. MONROVIA, INDIANA (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  25. NON-FICTION (Olivier Assayas, France)
  26. IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (Barry Jenkins, USA)
  27. TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG (Dominga Sotomayor, Chile)
  28. WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD’S ON FIRE? (Roberto Minervini, USA)
  29. HAPPY AS LAZZARO (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy)
  30. ISLE OF DOGS (Wes Anderson, USA)
  31. THE MULE (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  32. SUPPORT THE GIRLS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  33. A STAR IS BORN (Bradley Cooper, USA)
  34. THE WORLD IS FULL OF SECRETS (Graham Swon, USA)
  35. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  36. WELCOME TO MARWEN (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  37. 3 FACES (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
  38. COINCOIN AND THE EXTRA-HUMANS (Bruno Dumont, France)
  39. FILM CATASTROPHE (Paul Grivas, France)
  40. THE COMMUTER (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  41. INFINITE FOOTBALL (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
  42. A FAMILY TOUR (Ying Liang, Hong Kong)
  43. NOTES ON AN APPEARANCE (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  44. BLACKKKLANSMAN (Spike Lee, USA)
  45. RAY & LIZ (Richard Billingham, UK)
  46. ROMA (Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico)
  47. DIAMANTINO (Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt, Portugal)
  48. SHOOT THE MOON RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES (Graham L. Carter, USA)
  49. FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY (Michael Koresky & Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman, USA)
  50. A FAITHFUL MAN (Louis Garrel, France)
  51. YOUR FACE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  52. SUSPIRIA (Luca Guadagnino, USA)
  53. THE LOAD (Ognjen Glavonić, Serbia)
  54. THE GREAT PRETENDER (Nathan Silver, USA)
  55. SHOPLIFTERS (Koreeda Hirokazu, Japan)
  56. THE FAVOURITE (Yorgos Lanthimos, UK)
  57. BELMONTE (Federico Veiroj, Uruguay)
  58. DEN OF THIEVES (Christian Gudegast, USA)
  59. SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS (Virgil Vernier, France)
  60. COLD WAR (Paweł Pawlikowski, Poland)
  61. HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING (RaMell Ross, USA)
  62. TWO PLAINS & A FANCY (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  63. GAME NIGHT (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein, USA)
  64. THE 15:17 TO PARIS (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  65. READY PLAYER ONE (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  66. RELAXER (Joel Potrykus, USA)
  67. DIANE (Kent Jones, USA)
  68. CLIMAX (Gaspar Noé, France)
  69. KNIFE + HEART (Yann Gonzalez, France)
  70. MASTER Z: THE IP MAN LEGACY (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  71. BLACK PANTHER (Ryan Coogler, USA)
  72. ANT-MAN AND THE WASP (Peyton Reed, USA)
  73. SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (Boots Riley, USA)

2017

  1. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch, USA)
  2. HANAGATAMI (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  3. ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  4. THE DAY AFTER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  5. FIRST REFORMED (Paul Scharader, USA)
  6. CLAIRE’S CAMERA (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  7. ★ (Johann Lurf, Austria)
  8. STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE] (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
  9. DOWNSIZING (Alexander Payne, USA)
  10. PRINCESS CYD (Stephen Cone, USA)
  11. FACES PLACES (Agnès Varda & JR, France)
  12. GOOD TIME (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
  13. PHANTOM THREAD (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  14. ZAMA (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
  15. THE WORK (Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous, USA)
  16. LET THE SUNSHINE IN (Claire Denis, France)
  17. BAAHUBALI 2: THE CONCLUSION (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
  18. BEFORE WE VANISH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  19. WESTERN (Valeska Grisebach, Germany)
  20. GOLDEN EXITS (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  21. LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig, USA)
  22. THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED) (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  23. 120 BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE) (Robin Campillo, France)
  24. MARJORIE PRIME (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  25. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Luca Guadagnino, USA)
  26. THE POST (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  27. STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson, USA)
  28. MRS. HYDE (Serge Bozon, France)
  29. PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams, Canada)
  30. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 (Chad Stahelski, USA)
  31. THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker, USA)
  32. DRIFT (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
  33. TONSLER PARK (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  34. GET OUT (Jordan Peele, USA)
  35. EX LIBRIS—THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  36. WONDERSTRUCK (Todd Haynes, USA)
  37. SONG TO SONG (Terrence Malick, USA)
  38. GOOD MANNERS (Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra, Brazil)
  39. ISMAEL’S GHOSTS (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  40. BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (S. Craig Zahler, USA)
  41. PERSON TO PERSON (Dustin Guy Defa, USA)
  42. LOVER FOR A DAY (Philippe Garrel, France)
  43. OUR HOUSE (Kiyohara Yui, Japan)
  44. THE WANDERING SOAP OPERA (Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento, Chile)
  45. THE RIDER (Chloé Zhao, USA)
  46. THE GREAT BUDDHA+ (Huang Hsin-yao, Taiwan)
  47. GIRLS TRIP (Malcolm D. Lee, USA)
  48. LAST FLAG FLYING (Richard Linklater, USA)
  49. ESCAPES (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  50. SPL: PARADOX (Wilson Yip, Hong Kong)
  51. MERCURY IN RETROGRADE (Michael Glover Smith, USA)
  52. GEMINI (Aaron Katz, USA)
  53. LOGAN LUCKY (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  54. CANIBA (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, USA)
  55. THE GREEN FOG (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson, USA)
  56. THIRST STREET (Nathan Silver, USA)
  57. THE WILD BOYS (Bertrand Mandico, France)

2016

  1. YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  2. SILENCE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  3. TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade, Germany)
  4. NOCTURAMA (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  5. THE HUMAN SURGE (Eduardo Williams, Argentina)
  6. ELLE (Paul Verhoeven, France)
  7. CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson, USA)
  8. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
  9. HYPERNORMALISATION (Adam Curtis, UK)
  10. CERTAIN WOMEN (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  11. SIERANEVADA (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
  12. THE HANDMAIDEN (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  13. KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE (Robert Greene, USA)
  14. O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA (Ezra Edelman, USA)
  15. BEDUINO (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
  16. BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
  17. THE DREAMED PATH (Angela Schanelec, Germany)
  18. THINGS TO COME (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
  19. CREEPY (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  20. AQUARIUS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
  21. SHIN GODZILLA (Anno Hideaki and Higuchi Shinji, Japan)
  22. PERSONAL SHOPPER (Olivier Assayas, France)
  23. THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN (Kelly Fremon Craig, USA)
  24. 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (Mike Mills, USA)
  25. RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  26. I AM NOT MADAME BOVARY (Feng Xiaogang, China)
  27. THE SHALLOWS (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  28. SULLY (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  29. EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (Richard Linklater, USA)
  30. THE SON OF JOSEPH (Eugène Green, France)
  31. HERMIA & HELENA (Matías Piñeiro, USA)
  32. MOONLIGHT (Barry Jenkins, USA)
  33. LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (Whit Stillman, Ireland)
  34. THE LOST CITY OF Z (James Gray, USA)
  35. PATERSON (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
  36. A QUIET PASSION (Terence Davies, UK)
  37. THE UNKNOWN GIRL (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  38. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE + THE TENNESSEE KIDS (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  39. ALLIED (Robert Zemeckis, UK)
  40. I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (Raoul Peck, USA)
  41. VICTORIA (Justine Triet, France)
  42. JULIETA (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  43. ANOTHER YEAR (Zhu Shengze, China)
  44. THE ORNITHOLOGIST (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
  45. FIRE AT SEA (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy)
  46. THE COMPETITION (Claire Simon, France)
  47. TOWER (Keith Maitland, USA)
  48. RULES DON’T APPLY (Warren Beatty, USA)
  49. KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (Travis Knight, USA)
  50. STARLESS DREAMS (Mehrdad Oskouei, Iran)
  51. YOUR NAME. (Shinkai Makoto, Japan)
  52. THREE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  53. THE ILLINOIS PARABLES (Deborah Stratman, USA)
  54. TWO LOTTERY TICKETS (Paul Negoescu, Romania)
  55. POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone, USA)
  56. KÉKSZAKÁLLÚ (Gastón Solnicki, Argentina)
  57. RAT FILM (Theo Anthony, USA)
  58. MIMOSAS (Óliver Laxe, Spain)
  59. THE MERMAID (Stephen Chow, China)
  60. THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV (Albert Serra, France)
  61. STAYING VERTICAL (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  62. MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA (Dash Shaw, USA)
  63. DARK SKULL (Kiro Russo, Bolivia)

2015

  1. MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke, China)
  2. THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  3. CAROL (Todd Haynes, USA)
  4. CEMETERY OF SPLENDOR (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  5. BLACKHAT (Michael Mann, USA)
  6. RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  7. HAPPY HOUR (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  8. JOURNEY TO THE SHORE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  9. SPL II: A TIME FOR CONSEQUENCES (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  10. KAILI BLUES (Bi Gan, China)
  11. AFTERNOON (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  12. ARAGANE (Oda Kaori, Japan)
  13. MISTRESS AMERICA (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  14. BITTER LAKE (Adam Curtis, UK)
  15. MY GOLDEN DAYS (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  16. HENRY GAMBLE’S BIRTHDAY PARTY (Stephen Cone, USA)
  17. GAROTO (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
  18. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller, Australia)
  19. ALOHA (Cameron Crowe, USA)
  20. EXPERIMENTER: THE STANLEY MILGRAM STORY (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  21. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—ROGUE NATION (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  22. MAGIC MIKE XXL (Gregory Jacobs, USA)
  23. SUNSET SONG (Terence Davies, UK)
  24. IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN (Philippe Garrel, France)
  25. THE OTHER SIDE (Roberto Minervini, Italy)
  26. QUEEN OF EARTH (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  27. OFFICE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  28. THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson, Canada)
  29. THE WALK (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  30. THE HATEFUL EIGHT (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  31. BRIDGE OF SPIES (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  32. BAAHUBALI: THE BEGINNING (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
  33. SICARIO (Denis Villeneuve, USA)
  34. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (J. J. Abrams, USA)
  35. STINKING HEAVEN (Nathan Silver, USA)
  36. RESULTS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  37. JOHN FROM (João Nicolau, Portugal)
  38. FIELD NIGGAS (Khalik Allah, USA)
  39. LOST AND BEAUTIFUL (Pietro Marcello, Italy)
  40. AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (Joss Whedon, USA)
  41. KNIGHT OF CUPS (Terrence Malick, USA)
  42. RUN ALL NIGHT (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  43. IN TRANSIT (Albert Maysles & Lynn True & David Usui & Nelson Walker & Ben Wu, USA)
  44. CREED (Ryan Coogler, USA)

2014

  1. PHOENIX (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  2. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson, USA)
  3. DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART 2 (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  4. HORSE MONEY (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
  5. JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  6. INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  7. GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  8. HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  9. GONE GIRL (David Fincher, USA)
  10. THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  11. LISTEN UP PHILIP (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  12. BOYHOOD (Richard Linklater, USA)
  13. TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  14. NOT MY TYPE (Lucas Belvaux, France)
  15. THE MIDNIGHT AFTER (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  16. SAINT LAURENT (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  17. TWO SHOTS FIRED (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
  18. JOURNEY TO THE WEST (Tsai Ming-liang, France)
  19. L FOR LEISURE (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  20. BELOVED SISTERS (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  21. CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (Olivier Assayas, France)
  22. THE MEND (John Magary, USA)
  23. P’TIT QUINQUIN (Bruno Dumont, France)
  24. NON-STOP (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  25. JOHN WICK (Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, USA)
  26. WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE (Yonebayashi Hiromasa, Japan)
  27. HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
  28. POLIZEIRUF 110: SMOKE ON THE WATER (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  29. UNFRIENDED (Leo Gabriadze, USA)
  30. BUZZARD (Joel Potrykus, USA)
  31. ACTRESS (Robert Greene, USA)

2013

  1. STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  2. MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez, USA)
  3. THE GRANDMASTER (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  4. THE WIND RISES (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  5. NOBODY’S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  6. BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Richard Linklater, USA)
  7. BASTARDS (Claire Denis, France)
  8. THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (Takahata Isao, Japan)
  9. OUR SUNHI (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  10. TIREZ LA LANGUE, MADEMOISELLE (Axelle Ropert, France)
  11. EL FUTURO (Luis López Carrasco, Spain)
  12. THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT (Ramon Zürcher, Germany)
  13. INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  14. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  15. A TOUCH OF SIN (Jia Zhangke, China)
  16. BLIND DETECTIVE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  17. STRANGER BY THE LAKE (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  18. COMPUTER CHESS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  19. COHERENCE (James Ward Byrkit, USA)
  20. THE IMMIGRANT (James Gray, USA)
  21. I HATE MYSELF 🙂 (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  22. SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
  23. EXHIBITION (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  24. THE WORLD’S END (Edgar Wright, UK)
  25. THE BLING RING (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  26. SNOWPIERCER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  27. UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer, UK)
  28. THE GUESTS (Ken Jacobs, USA)

2012

  1. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami, Japan)
  2. ROMANCING IN THIN AIR (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  3. DRUG WAR (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  4. IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  5. LEVIATHAN (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel, USA)
  6. TABU (Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
  7. FRANCES HA (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  8. LINCOLN (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  9. MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson, USA)
  10. PASSION (Brian De Palma, Germany)
  11. DIFFERENTLY, MOLUSSIA (Nicolas Rey, France)
  12. HOLY MOTORS (Leos Carax, France)
  13. YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET (Alain Resnais, France)
  14. THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT (Dan Sallitt, USA)
  15. TO THE WONDER (Terrence Malick, USA)
  16. RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  17. THE MASTER (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  18. BARBARA (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  19. VIOLA (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  20. CASTING BLOSSOMS TO THE SKY (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  21. COSMOPOLIS (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  22. EVANGELION: 3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  23. IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY (Don Hertzfeldt, USA)
  24. THE ACT OF KILLING (Joshua Oppenheimer, Indonesia)
  25. MOTORWAY (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  26. DJANGO UNCHAINED (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  27. CLOUD ATLAS (Lana & Lilly Wachowski & Tom Tykwer, Germany)
  28. A MONTH IN THAILAND (Paul Negoescu, Romania)

2011

  1. THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  2. THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick, USA)
  3. DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  4. MARGARET (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
  5. THIS IS NOT A FILM (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Iran)
  6. HOUSE OF TOLERANCE (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  7. THE KID WITH A BIKE (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  8. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (David Fincher, USA)
  9. DREILEBEN: BEATS BEING DEAD (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  10. DREILEBEN: DON’T FOLLOW ME AROUND (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  11. THE COLOR WHEEL (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  12. THE LONELIEST PLANET (Julia Loktev, USA)
  13. ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE (Adam Curtis, UK)
  14. A WORLD WITHOUT WOMEN (Guillaume Brac, France)
  15. LOW LIFE (Nicolas Klotz, France)
  16. THE PETTIFOGGER (Lewis Klahr, USA)
  17. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—GHOST PROTOCOL (Brad Bird, USA)
  18. MELANCHOLIA (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  19. THE WISE KIDS (Stephen Cone, USA)
  20. PINA (Wim Wenders, Germany)
  21. SLOW ACTION (Ben Rivers, UK)
  22. UNKNOWN (Jaume Collet-Serra, Germany)
  23. LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)

2010

  1. MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raúl Ruiz, Portugal)
  2. CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami, France)
  3. MEEK’S CUTOFF (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  4. UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  5. HAHAHA (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  6. OKI’S MOVIE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  7. LOVE IN A PUFF (Pang Ho-cheung, Hong Kong)
  8. THE CITY BELOW (Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany)
  9. FILM SOCIALISME (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  10. THE GHOST WRITER (Roman Polański, Germany)
  11. THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal)
  12. SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (Edgar Wright, UK)
  13. THE SOCIAL NETWORK (David Fincher, USA)
  14. UNSTOPPABLE (Tony Scott, USA)
  15. I WISH I KNEW (Jia Zhangke, China)
  16. RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  17. TRUE GRIT (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  18. THE ARBOR (Clio Barnard, UK)

2009

  1. OXHIDE II (Liu Jiayin, China)
  2. IT FELT LIKE A KISS (Adam Curtis, UK)
  3. DISORDER (Huang Weikai, China)
  4. LIKE YOU KNOW IT ALL (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  5. ACCIDENT (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  6. FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Wes Anderson, USA)
  7. PUBLIC ENEMIES (Michael Mann, USA)
  8. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  9. SWEETGRASS (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, USA)
  10. MOTHER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  11. FACE (Tsai Ming-liang, France)
  12. ORPHAN (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  13. EVANGELION: 2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  14. MUNDANE HISTORY (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
  15. TRASH HUMPERS (Harmony Korine, USA)
  16. WHITE MATERIAL (Claire Denis, France)
  17. A SERIOUS MAN (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  18. DUPLICITY (Tony Gilroy, USA)
  19. IMPOLEX (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  20. BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  21. STAR TREK (J. J. Abrams, USA)

2008

  1. SPARROW (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  2. NIGHT AND DAY (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  3. 35 SHOTS OF RUM (Claire Denis, France)
  4. THE HEADLESS WOMAN (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
  5. TOKYO SONATA (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  6. SPEED RACER (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  7. HISTORIAS EXTRAORDINARIAS (Mariano Llinás, Argentina)
  8. 24 CITY (Jia Zhangke, China)
  9. LIVERPOOL (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  10. TWO LOVERS (James Gray, USA)
  11. WENDY AND LUCY (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  12. L’IDIOT (Pierre Léon, France)
  13. PASSION (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  14. AFTERSCHOOL (Antonio Campos, USA)
  15. BURN AFTER READING (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  16. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, USA)
  17. THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS (Agnès Varda, France)
  18. THE HURT LOCKER (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)

2007

  1. THE TRAP: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR DREAM OF FREEDOM (Adam Curtis, UK)
  2. LA FRANCE (Serge Bozon, France)
  3. ZODIAC (David Fincher, USA)
  4. DEATH PROOF (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  5. THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  6. MICHAEL CLAYTON (Tony Gilroy, USA)
  7. HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS (Joe Swanberg, USA)
  8. MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS (Wong Kar-wai, USA)
  9. PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND (John Gianvito, USA)
  10. THE DARJEELING LIMITED (Wes Anderson, USA)
  11. 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (Cristian Mungiu, Romania)
  12. USELESS (Jia Zhangke, China)
  13. EVANGELION: 1.0 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  14. HOT FUZZ (Edgar Wright, UK)
  15. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  16. PERSEPOLIS (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, France)
  17. RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION (Russell Mulcahy, Germany)
  18. LUST, CAUTION (Ang Lee, China)

2006

  1. SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  2. MIAMI VICE (Michael Mann, USA)
  3. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch, USA)
  4. ELECTION 2 (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  5. STILL LIFE (Jia Zhangke, China)
  6. DEJA VU (Tony Scott, USA)
  7. MARIE ANTOINETTE (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  8. WOMAN ON THE BEACH (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  9. I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE (Tsai Ming-liang, Malaysia)
  10. EXILED (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  11. OLD JOY (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  12. THE HOST (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  13. DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT (Julia Loktev, USA)
  14. CHILDREN OF MEN (Alfonso Cuarón, UK)
  15. DONG (Jia Zhangke, China)
  16. THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (David Frankel, USA)

2005

  1. L’ENFANT (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  2. THE NEW WORLD (Terrence Malick, USA)
  3. OXHIDE (Liu Jiayin, China)
  4. TALE OF CINEMA (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  5. THROUGH THE FOREST (Jean-Paul Civeyrac, France)
  6. THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
  7. CACHÉ (Michael Haneke, France)
  8. THE WAYWARD CLOUD (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  9. ELECTION (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  10. PERHAPS LOVE (Peter Chan, Hong Kong)
  11. THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  12. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (Ang Lee, USA)
  13. LADY VENGEANCE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  14. STAR WARS: EPISODE III—REVENGE OF THE SITH (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
  15. HOUSE OF WAX (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)

2004

  1. TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  2. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  3. BEFORE SUNSET (Richard Linklater, USA)
  4. THROW DOWN (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  5. KUNG FU HUSTLE (Stephen Chow, Hong Kong)
  6. THE HAND (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  7. THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES: THE RISE OF THE POLITICS OF FEAR (Adam Curtis, UK)
  8. THE WORLD (Jia Zhangke, China)
  9. TEN SKIES (James Benning, USA)
  10. LOS MUERTOS (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  11. VERA DRAKE (Mike Leigh, UK)
  12. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry, USA)
  13. COLLATERAL (Michael Mann, USA)
  14. KILL BILL VOL. 2 (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  15. VÉNUS ET FLEUR (Emmanuel Mouret, France)
  16. TRIPLE AGENT (Éric Rohmer, France)
  17. L’INTRUS (Claire Denis, France)
  18. THE INCREDIBLES (Brad Bird, USA)
  19. HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (Zhang Yimou, China)
  20. THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (Wes Anderson, USA)
  21. BREAKING NEWS (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  22. WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  23. PRIMER (Shane Carruth, USA)
  24. EROS (Wong Kar-wai/Steven Soderbergh/Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  25. SHAUN OF THE DEAD (Edgar Wright, UK)

2003

  1. GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  2. LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF (Thom Andersen, USA)
  3. PTU (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  4. CAFÉ LUMIÈRE (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Japan)
  5. LOST IN TRANSLATION (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  6. RUNNING ON KARMA (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  7. KILL BILL VOL. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  8. MEMORIES OF MURDER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  9. OLDBOY (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  10. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
  11. S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE (Panh Rithy, Cambodia)
  12. TARNATION (Jonathan Caouette, USA)
  13. THE MATRIX RELOADED (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  14. THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS (Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  15. THE SCHOOL OF ROCK (Richard Linklater, USA)
  16. INTOLERABLE CRUELTY (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)

2002

  1. FEMME FATALE (Brian De Palma, France)
  2. MY LEFT EYE SEES GHOSTS (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  3. BLISSFULLY YOURS (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  4. ON THE OCCASION OF REMEMBERING THE TURNING GATE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  5. CHINESE ODYSSEY 2002 (Jeffrey Lau, Hong Kong)
  6. HERO (Zhang Yimou, China)
  7. THE CENTURY OF THE SELF (Adam Curtis, UK)
  8. PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  9. FRIDAY NIGHT (Claire Denis, France)
  10. UNKNOWN PLEASURES (Jia Zhangke, China)
  11. MINORITY REPORT (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  12. THE FRIENDS OF THE FRIENDS (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  13. FAR FROM HEAVEN (Todd Haynes, USA)
  14. FROM THE OTHER SIDE (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  15. LOOKING FOR TSAI (Patrik Eriksson & Erik Hemmendorff, Sweden)
  16. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  17. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
  18. STAR WARS: EPISODE II—ATTACK OF THE CLONES (George Lucas, USA)
  19. RUSSIAN ARK (Alexander Sokurov, Russia)
  20. MISCHKA (Jean-François Stévenin, France)
  21. JACKASS: THE MOVIE (Jeff Tremaine, USA)
  22. GANGS OF NEW YORK (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  23. RESIDENT EVIL (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  24. INFERNAL AFFAIRS (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak, Hong Kong)
  25. SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  26. FUNNY HA HA (Andrew Bujalski, USA)

2001

  1. MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch, USA)
  2. A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  3. MILLENNIUM MAMBO (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  4. SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  5. PULSE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  6. THAT OLD DREAM THAT MOVES (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  7. LA LIBERTAD (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  8. WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  9. LA CIÉNAGA (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
  10. ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU (Iwai Shunji, Japan)
  11. WAKING LIFE (Richard Linklater, USA)
  12. THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (Wes Anderson, USA)
  13. ALI (Michael Mann, USA)
  14. HUSH! (Hashiguchi Ryosuke, Japan)
  15. TROUBLE EVERY DAY (Claire Denis, France)
  16. LOVE ON A DIET (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  17. SHAOLIN SOCCER (Stephen Chow, Hong Kong)
  18. THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  19. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (George Lucas, USA)
  20. COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE (Watanabe Shinichiro, Japan)
  21. A FINE DAY (Thomas Arslan, Germany)
  22. OCEAN’S ELEVEN (Steven Soderbergh, USA)

2000

  1. A ONE AND A TWO… (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  2. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  3. PLATFORM (Jia Zhangke, China)
  4. CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee, Taiwan)
  5. DURIAN DURIAN (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  6. BAMBOOZLED (Spike Lee, USA)
  7. THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE (Mark Dindal, USA)
  8. HAMLET (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  9. VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  10. YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
  11. THE STATE I AM IN (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  12. MISSION TO MARS (Brian De Palma, USA)
  13. MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  14. PETITE CONVERSATION FAMILIALE (Hélène Lapiower, France)
  15. DANCER IN THE DARK (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  16. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II (John Woo, USA)
  17. JOINT SECURITY AREA (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)

1999

  1. BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis, France)
  2. EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  3. GOHATTO (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  4. MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (Takahata Isao, Japan)
  5. THE MISSION (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  6. THE INSIDER (Michael Mann, USA)
  7. LITTLE CHEUNG (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  8. THE MATRIX (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  9. ROSETTA (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  10. POLA X (Leos Carax, France)
  11. SILVIA PRIETO (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
  12. EXISTENZ (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  13. STAR WARS: EPISODE I—THE PHANTOM MENACE (George Lucas, USA)
  14. THE STRAIGHT STORY (David Lynch, USA)
  15. EL VALLEY CENTRO (James Benning, USA)
  16. SOUTH (Chantal Akerman, USA)

1998

  1. THE HOLE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  2. FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  3. THE THIN RED LINE (Terrence Malick, USA)
  4. RUSHMORE (Wes Anderson, USA)
  5. THE LONGEST SUMMER (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  6. A HERO NEVER DIES (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  7. NEW ROSE HOTEL (Abel Ferrara, USA)
  8. THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  9. THE CELEBRATION (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark)
  10. BELLY (Hype Williams, USA)
  11. KNOCK OFF (Tsui Hark, USA)
  12. SNAKE EYES (Brian De Palma, USA)
  13. DIL SE.. (Mani Ratnam, India)

1997

  1. CURE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  2. HAPPY TOGETHER (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  3. THE RIVER (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  4. THE END OF EVANGELION (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  5. MADE IN HONG KONG (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  6. LOST HIGHWAY (David Lynch, USA)
  7. TOO MANY WAYS TO BE NO. 1 (Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  8. TASTE OF CHERRY (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
  9. FACE/OFF (John Woo, USA)
  10. THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
  11. STARSHIP TROOPERS (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
  12. XIAO WU (Jia Zhangke, China)
  13. PRINCESS MONONOKE (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  14. THE ODD ONE DIES (Patrick Yau and Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  15. GUMMO (Harmony Korine, USA)
  16. THE REVENGE: A VISIT FROM FATE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  17. MR. NICE GUY (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
  18. DOUBLE TEAM (Tsui Hark, USA)
  19. TITANIC (James Cameron, USA)
  20. JACKIE BROWN (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  21. BOOGIE NIGHTS (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)

1996

  1. COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY (Peter Chan, Hong Kong)
  2. MAHJONG (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  3. IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas, France)
  4. SECRETS & LIES (Mike Leigh, UK)
  5. VIVA EROTICA (Derek Yee & Lo Chi-leung, Hong Kong)
  6. GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  7. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (Brian De Palma, USA)
  8. BREAKING THE WAVES (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  9. FARGO (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  10. THE DAY A PIG FELL INTO THE WELL (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  11. BOUND (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  12. BOTTLE ROCKET (Wes Anderson, USA)
  13. NÉNETTE ET BONI (Claire Denis, France)

1995

  1. HEAT (Michael Mann, USA)
  2. LA CÉRÉMONIE (Claude Chabrol, France)
  3. STRANGE DAYS (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)
  4. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  5. FALLEN ANGELS (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  6. SAFE (Todd Haynes, USA)
  7. BEFORE SUNRISE (Richard Linklater, USA)
  8. CLUELESS (Amy Heckerling, USA)
  9. TATORT: FRAU BU LACHT (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  10. UNDERGROUND (Emir Kusturica, Serbia)
  11. XIAO SHAN GOING HOME (Jia Zhangke, China)

1994

  1. CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  2. ASHES OF TIME (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  3. A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  4. IN THE HEAT OF THE SUN (Jiang Wen, China)
  5. SÁTÁNTANGÓ (Tarr Béla, Hungary)
  6. VIVE L’AMOUR (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  7. POM POKO (Takahata Isao, Japan)
  8. DRUNKEN MASTER II (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
  9. WING CHUN (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  10. U.S. GO HOME (Claire Denis, France)
  11. COLD WATER (Olivier Assayas, France)
  12. TO LIVE (Zhang Yimou, China)
  13. THE INVINCIBLES (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  14. RIVER OF GRASS (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  15. THE GLASS SHIELD (Charles Burnett, USA)
  16. PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino, USA)

1993

  1. NAKED (Mike Leigh, UK)
  2. GREEN SNAKE (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  3. CARLITO’S WAY (Brian De Palma, USA)
  4. D’EST (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  5. DAZED AND CONFUSED (Richard Linklater, USA)
  6. SCHINDLER’S LIST (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  7. THREE COLORS: BLUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski, France)
  8. TAI-CHI MASTER (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  9. THE PIANO (Jane Campion, New Zealand)
  10. JURASSIC PARK (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  11. TRUE ROMANCE (Tony Scott, USA)

1992

  1. TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch, USA)
  2. THE ROCKING HORSEMEN (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  3. HARD-BOILED (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  4. THE LONG DAY CLOSES (Terence Davies, UK)
  5. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA II (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  6. FULL CONTACT (Ringo Lam, Hong Kong)
  7. UNFORGIVEN (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  8. MALCOLM X (Spike Lee, USA)
  9. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Michael Mann, USA)
  10. DEEP COVER (Bill Duke, USA)
  11. REBELS OF THE NEON GOD (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  12. SIMPLE MEN (Hal Hartley, USA)
  13. BASIC INSTINCT (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
  14. NITRATE KISSES (Barbara Hammer, USA)
  15. HYENAS (Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal)
  16. RAISING CAIN (Brian De Palma, USA)
  17. CANDYMAN (Bernard Rose, USA)

1991

  1. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  2. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  3. SURVIVING DESIRE (Hal Hartley, USA)
  4. ONLY YESTERDAY (Takahata Isao, Japan)
  5. BARTON FINK (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  6. LA VIE DES MORTS (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  7. UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (Wim Wenders, Germany)
  8. RAISE THE RED LANTERN (Zhang Yimou, China)
  9. THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland)
  10. TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (James Cameron, USA)
  11. SOME DIVINE WIND (Roddy Bogawa, USA)
  12. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (Jonathan Demme, USA)

1990

  1. TRUST (Hal Hartley, USA)
  2. DAYS OF BEING WILD (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  3. CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
  4. BULLET IN THE HEAD (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  5. WILD AT HEART (David Lynch, USA)
  6. TOTAL RECALL (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
  7. GOODFELLAS (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  8. TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (Charles Burnett, USA)
  9. THE NASTY GIRL (Michael Verhoeven, West Germany)
  10. JU DOU (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang, China)
  11. BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  12. PARIS IS BURNING (Jennie Livingston, USA)
  13. NO FEAR, NO DIE (Claire Denis, France)
  14. EUROPA EUROPA (Agnieszka Holland, France)

1989

  1. A CITY OF SADNESS (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  2. THE KILLER (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  3. BEIJING WATERMELON (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  4. PEDICAB DRIVER (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
  5. DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee, USA)
  6. THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH (Hal Hartley, USA)
  7. KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  8. CASUALTIES OF WAR (Brian De Palma, USA)
  9. LES SIÈGES DE L’ALCAZAR (Luc Moullet, France)
  10. INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  11. THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (Michael Haneke, Austria)
  12. SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  13. MEETING A MILESTONE (Goutam Ghose, India)
  14. BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II (Robert Zemeckis, USA)

1988

  1. MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  2. THE DISCARNATES (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  3. SCHOOL ON FIRE (Ringo Lam, Hong Kong)
  4. AS TEARS GO BY (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  5. 36 FILLETTE (Catherine Breillat, France)
  6. UMA PEDRA NO BOLSO (Joaquim Pinto, Portugal)
  7. MIRACLE MILE (Steve De Jarnatt, USA)
  8. DIE KATZE (Dominik Graf, West Germany)
  9. AKIRA (Otomo Katsuhiro, Japan)
  10. DIE HARD (John McTiernan, USA)
  11. CHOCOLAT (Claire Denis, France)
  12. RED SORGHUM (Zhang Yimou, China)
  13. POLICE STORY 2 (Jackie Chan, Hong Kong)

1987

  1. EASTERN CONDORS (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
  2. ISHTAR (Elaine May, USA)
  3. DAUGHTER OF THE NILE (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  4. 4 ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE (Éric Rohmer, France)
  5. CITY ON FIRE (Ringo Lam, Hong Kong)
  6. ROBOCOP (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
  7. WINGS OF DESIRE (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  8. RAISING ARIZONA (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  9. AN AUTUMN’S TALE (Mabel Cheung, Hong Kong)
  10. SIGN “O” THE TIMES (Prince, USA)
  11. THE DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  12. A BETTER TOMORROW II (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  13. A CHINESE GHOST STORY (Ching Siu-tung, Hong Kong)

1986

  1. PEKING OPERA BLUES (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  2. BLUE VELVET (David Lynch, USA)
  3. MANHUNTER (Michael Mann, USA)
  4. TERRORIZERS (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  5. BOUND FOR THE FIELDS, THE MOUNTAINS, AND THE SEACOAST (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  6. THE GREEN RAY (Éric Rohmer, France)
  7. ROSA LA ROSE, FILLE PUBLIQUE (Paul Vecchiali, France)
  8. FAUBOURG ST. MARTIN (Jean-Claude Guiguet, France)
  9. HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  10. LANDSCAPE SUICIDE (James Benning, USA)
  11. DOUBLE MESSIEURS (Jean-François Stévenin, France)
  12. SOMETHING WILD (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  13. A BETTER TOMORROW (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  14. ROUND MIDNIGHT (Bertrand Tavernier, France)
  15. ALIENS (James Cameron, USA)
  16. THE RISE AND FALL OF A SMALL FILM COMPANY (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  17. BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (John Carpenter, USA)
  18. LAPUTA: CASTLE IN THE SKY (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)

1985

  1. TAIPEI STORY (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  2. RAN (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  3. POLICE STORY (Jackie Chan, Hong Kong)
  4. CONTACT (Alan Clarke, UK)
  5. BACK TO THE FUTURE (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  6. DAY OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero, USA)
  7. BRAZIL (Terry Gilliam, UK)
  8. AFTER HOURS (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  9. MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (Stephen Frears, UK)
  10. TROUBLE IN MIND (Alan Rudolph, USA)
  11. WITNESS (Peter Weir, USA)

1984

  1. SHANGHAI BLUES (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  2. STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  3. PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  4. WHEELS ON MEALS (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
  5. LONG ARM OF THE LAW (Johnny Mak, Hong Kong)
  6. CHOOSE ME (Alan Rudolph, USA)
  7. INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  8. DUNE (David Lynch, USA)
  9. THE TERMINATOR (James Cameron, USA)
  10. CLASS RELATIONS (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  11. BODY DOUBLE (Brian De Palma, USA)
  12. GREMLINS (Joe Dante, USA)
  13. AMERICAN DREAMS (LOST AND FOUND) (James Benning, USA)
  14. REPO MAN (Alex Cox, USA)

1983

  1. SUNLESS (Chris Marker, France)
  2. L’ARGENT (Robert Bresson, France)
  3. THAT DAY, ON THE BEACH (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  4. VIDEODROME (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  5. PAULINE AT THE BEACH (Éric Rohmer, France)
  6. TESTAMENT (Lynne Littman, USA)
  7. THE KEEP (Michael Mann, USA)
  8. BORN IN FLAMES (Lizzie Borden, USA)
  9. AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS (Paul Vecchiali, France)
  10. BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS (Billy Woodberry, USA)
  11. RETURN OF THE JEDI (Richard Marquand, USA)
  12. MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  13. SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN (Alan Briggs, UK)

1982

  1. BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott, USA)
  2. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  3. NOMAD (Patrick Tam, Hong Kong)
  4. TOO EARLY/TOO LATE (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, France)
  5. BOAT PEOPLE (Ann Hui, Hong Kong)
  6. POLTERGEIST (Tobe Hooper, USA)
  7. THE THING (John Carpenter, USA)
  8. VERONIKA VOSS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  9. KOYAANISQATSI (Godfrey Reggio, USA)
  10. IN OUR TIME (Tao Te-chen/Edward Yang/Ko I-chen/Chang Yi, Taiwan)

1981

  1. THE AVIATOR’S WIFE (Éric Rohmer, France)
  2. TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (Nils Malmros, Denmark)
  3. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  4. MY YOUNG AUNTIE (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
  5. KAGERO-ZA (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  6. THIEF (Michael Mann, USA)
  7. BLOW OUT (Brian De Palma, USA)
  8. AT THIS LATE DATE, THE CHARLESTON (Okamoto Kihachi, Japan)
  9. POSSESSION (Andrzej Żuławski, West Germany)
  10. MERRY-GO-ROUND (Jacques Rivette, France)
  11. MAD MAX 2 (George Miller, Australia)

1980

  1. SIMONE BARBÈS OR VIRTUE (Marie-Claude Treilhou, France)
  2. KAGEMUSHA (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  3. DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS—1ST KIND (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  4. EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  5. THE SHINING (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  6. EQUATION TO AN UNKNOWN (Dietrich de Velsa, France)
  7. CRUISING (William Friedkin, USA)
  8. LOULOU (Maurice Pialat, France)
  9. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Irvin Kershner, USA)
  10. RAGING BULL (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  11. DRESSED TO KILL (Brian De Palma, USA)
  12. THE LAST METRO (François Truffaut, France)
  13. THE CONDUCTOR (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)
  14. THE ELEPHANT MAN (David Lynch, USA)
  15. CONFIDENCE (Szabó István, Hungary)
  16. MELVIN AND HOWARD (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  17. SPECIAL TREATMENT (Goran Paskaljević, Yugoslavia)
  18. HOME MOVIES (Brian De Palma, USA)
  19. THE CONSTANT FACTOR (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)

1979

  1. DIRTY HO (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
  2. THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  3. LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu, Taiwan)
  4. STALKER (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  5. APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
  6. RAINING IN THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu, Taiwan)
  7. THE BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER MOVIE (Chuck Jones, USA)
  8. ALIEN (Ridley Scott, USA)
  9. WISE BLOOD (John Huston, USA)
  10. THE BLACK STALLION (Carroll Ballard, USA)
  11. SHORT MEMORY (Eduardo de Gregorio, France)
  12. FROM THE CLOUD TO THE RESISTANCE (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Italy)
  13. ALEXANDRIA… WHY? (Youssef Chahine, Egypt)
  14. LE NAVIRE NIGHT (Marguerite Duras, France)
  15. ARREBATO (Iván Zulueta, Spain)
  16. BYE BYE BRAZIL (Carlos Diegues, Brazil)
  17. AND QUIET ROLLS THE DAWN (Mrinal Sen, India)
  18. A SCREAM FROM SILENCE (Anne Claire Poirier, Canada)
  19. NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  20. CAMERA BUFF (Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland)
  21. THE MUPPET MOVIE (James Frawley, USA)
  22. BLACK JACK (Ken Loach, UK)
  23. LA LUNA (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
  24. LOVE ON THE RUN (François Truffaut, France)

1978

  1. PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (Éric Rohmer, France)
  2. THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
  3. DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick, USA)
  4. DAWN OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero, USA)
  5. IN A YEAR WITH 13 MOONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  6. GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS (Bertrand Blier, France)
  7. THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING (Raúl Ruiz, France)
  8. REMEMBER MY NAME (Alan Rudolph, USA)
  9. LES RENDEZ-VOUS D’ANNA (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  10. THE GREEN ROOM (François Truffaut, France)
  11. DRUNKEN MASTER (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  12. DOSSIER 51 (Michel Deville, France)
  13. HALLOWEEN (John Carpenter, USA)
  14. OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY (Christian de Chalonge, France)
  15. GIRLFRIENDS (Claudia Weill, USA)
  16. LIKE A TURTLE ON ITS BACK (Luc Béraud, France)
  17. VIOLETTE NOZIÈRE (Claude Chabrol, France)
  18. THE LEFT-HANDED WOMAN (Peter Handke, West Germany)
  19. DESPAIR (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  20. GATES OF HEAVEN (Errol Morris, USA)
  21. THE SHOUT (Jerzy Skolimowski, UK)
  22. WITHOUT ANESTHESIA (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)
  23. AMERICAN BOY: A PORTRAIT OF STEVEN PRINCE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  24. MOLIÈRE (Ariane Mnouchkine, France)

1977

  1. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch, USA)
  2. THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (Robert Bresson, France)
  3. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  4. PROVIDENCE (Alain Resnais, France)
  5. 11 X 14 (James Benning, USA)
  6. ONE WAY BOOGIE WOOGIE (James Benning, USA)
  7. ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen, USA)
  8. HOUSE (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  9. THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (Luis Buñuel, France)
  10. THE AMERICAN FRIEND (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  11. STAR WARS (George Lucas, USA)
  12. SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento, Italy)
  13. KILLER OF SHEEP (Charles Burnett, USA)
  14. LE CAMION (Marguerite Duras, France)
  15. ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN’T (Agnès Varda, France)
  16. THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN (François Truffaut, France)
  17. PADRE PADRONE (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Italy)
  18. BETWEEN THE LINES (Joan Micklin Silver, USA)
  19. OMAR GATLATO (Merzak Allouache, Algeria)
  20. A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT (Chris Marker, France)
  21. TENT OF MIRACLES (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazil)
  22. SHORT EYES (Robert M. Young, USA)
  23. ROSELAND (James Ivory, USA)
  24. CAMOUFLAGE (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
  25. THE LACEMAKER (Claude Goretta, France)
  26. WOMEN (Mészarós Márta, Hungary)
  27. CITIZENS BAND (Jonathan Demme, USA)

1976

  1. NEWS FROM HOME (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  2. ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (John Carpenter, USA)
  3. DUELLE (UNE QUARANTAINE) (Jacques Rivette, France)
  4. THE MARQUISE OF O… (Éric Rohmer, West Germany)
  5. TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  6. IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  7. INSIANG (Lino Brocka, Philippines)
  8. ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (Alan J. Pakula, USA)
  9. NOROÎT (UNE VENGEANCE) (Jacques Rivette, France)
  10. CARRIE (Brian De Palma, USA)
  11. SÉRAIL (Eduardo de Gregorio, France)
  12. MIKEY AND NICKY (Elaine May, USA)
  13. HARLAN COUNTY U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple, USA)
  14. SMALL CHANGE (François Truffaut, France)
  15. BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR (Joan Micklin Silver, USA)
  16. JONAH WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 (Alain Tanner, Switzerland)
  17. THE MIDDLEMAN (Satyajit Ray, India)
  18. FORTINI/CANI (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Italy)
  19. THE MEMORY OF JUSTICE (Marcel Ophuls, USA)
  20. CAR WASH (Michael Schultz, USA)
  21. THE OPENING OF MISTY BEETHOVEN (Radley Metzger, USA)
  22. 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
  23. KINGS OF THE ROAD (Wim Wenders, West Germany)

1975

  1. INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras, France)
  2. MOSES AND AARON (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Austria)
  3. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  4. NASHVILLE (Robert Altman, USA)
  5. SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
  6. JAWS (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  7. DERSU UZALA (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  8. THE VALIANT ONES (King Hu, Taiwan)
  9. THE PASSENGER (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  10. FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  11. XALA (Ousmane Sembène, Senegal)
  12. THE TRAVELING PLAYERS (Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greece)
  13. GREY GARDENS (Albert & David Maysles & Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer, USA)
  14. THE STORY OF ADÈLE H. (François Truffaut, France)
  15. BARRY LYNDON (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  16. THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM (Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta, West Germany)
  17. FEAR OF FEAR (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)

1974

  1. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette, France)
  2. FEMMES FEMMES (Paul Vecchiali, France)
  3. THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (Tobe Hooper, USA)
  4. ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  5. LANCELOT DU LAC (Robert Bresson, France)
  6. A SIMPLE EVENT (Sohrab Shahid-Saless, Iran)
  7. THE CONVERSATION (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
  8. THE BENCH OF DESOLATION (Claude Chabrol, France)
  9. STAVISKY… (Alain Resnais, France)
  10. THE MOUTH AGAPE (Maurice Pialat, France)
  11. A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (John Cassavetes, USA)
  12. FEMALE TROUBLE (John Waters, USA)
  13. THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY (Luis Buñuel, France)
  14. PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Brian De Palma, USA)
  15. CHINATOWN (Roman Polański, USA)
  16. THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  17. ALICE IN THE CITIES (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  18. DAISY MILLER (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  19. THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD (Alain Tanner, Switzerland)
  20. ELECTRA, MY LOVE (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
  21. THE NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW (Sérgio Ricardo, Brazil)
  22. ITALIANAMERICAN (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  23. CONVERSATION PIECE (Luchino Visconti, Italy)
  24. LA PALOMA (Daniel Schmid, Switzerland)
  25. THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (Joseph Sargent, USA)
  26. THE GODFATHER PART II (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)

1973

  1. THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache, France)
  2. F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles, France)
  3. THE FATE OF LEE KHAN (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  4. BADLANDS (Terrence Malick, USA)
  5. WORLD ON A WIRE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  6. THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (Víctor Erice, Spain)
  7. MEAN STREETS (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  8. DAY FOR NIGHT (François Truffaut, France)
  9. PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
  10. A DOLL’S HOUSE (Joseph Losey, UK)
  11. THE ILLUMINATION (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
  12. ISRAEL, WHY (Claude Lanzmann, France)
  13. CHARLEY VARRICK (Don Siegel, USA)
  14. DISTANT THUNDER (Satyajit Ray, India)

1972

  1. OUT 1: SPECTRE (Jacques Rivette, France)
  2. THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  3. AVANTI! (Billy Wilder, USA)
  4. THE HEARTBREAK KID (Elaine May, USA)
  5. LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (Éric Rohmer, France)
  6. WE WON’T GROW OLD TOGETHER (Maurice Pialat, France)
  7. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (Luis Buñuel, France)
  8. NATHALIE GRANGER (Marguerite Duras, France)
  9. TOUT VA BIEN (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, France)
  10. PINK FLAMINGOS (John Waters, USA)
  11. GOODBYE CP (Hara Kazuo, Japan)
  12. HISTORY LESSONS (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Italy)
  13. REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (Jonas Mekas, USA)
  14. CHUNG KUO—CINA (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  15. RED PSALM (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
  16. JUNIOR BONNER (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
  17. LIZA WITH A Z (Bob Fosse, USA)
  18. THE INNER SCAR (Philippe Garrel, France)
  19. ULZANA’S RAID (Robert Aldrich, USA)
  20. A SENSE OF LOSS (Marcel Ophuls, UK)
  21. CABARET (Bob Fosse, USA)
  22. IMAGES (Robert Altman, UK)
  23. SOLARIS (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  24. AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  25. THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)

1971

  1. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu, Taiwan)
  2. OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE (Jacques Rivette, France)
  3. TWO ENGLISH GIRLS (François Truffaut, France)
  4. LA RÉGION CENTRALE (Michael Snow, Canada)
  5. A NEW LEAF (Elaine May, USA)
  6. PUNISHMENT PARK (Peter Watkins, USA)
  7. THE DEVILS (Ken Russell, UK)
  8. THE CEREMONY (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  9. FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER (Robert Bresson, France)
  10. JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL (Claude Chabrol, France)
  11. DIRTY HARRY (Don Siegel, USA)
  12. THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  13. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  14. PIONEERS IN INGOLSTADT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  15. MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (Robert Altman, USA)
  16. FATA MORGANA (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  17. THE DECAMERON (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
  18. A GIRL IS A GUN (Luc Moullet, France)
  19. KLUTE (Alan J. Pakula, USA)
  20. LOVE (Makk Károly, Hungary)
  21. W.R.: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM (Dušan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)
  22. MURMUR OF THE HEART (Louis Malle, France)
  23. DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  24. LAND OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  25. FAMILY LIFE (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
  26. IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
  27. WALKABOUT (Nicolas Roeg, UK)

1970

  1. ZORNS LEMMA (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  2. CLAIRE’S KNEE (Éric Rohmer, France)
  3. EYES DO NOT WANT TO CLOSE AT ALL TIMES (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Italy)
  4. LE BOUCHER (Claude Chabrol, France)
  5. DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (Satyajit Ray, India)
  6. LA RUPTURE (Claude Chabrol, France)
  7. THE CONFORMIST (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
  8. THE WILD CHILD (François Truffaut, France)
  9. DEEP END (Jerzy Skolimowski, UK)
  10. TRISTANA (Luis Buñuel, Spain)
  11. WANDA (Barbara Loden, USA)
  12. WIND FROM THE EAST (Groupe Dziga Vertov and Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, France)
  13. THE ADVERSARY (Satyajit Ray, India)
  14. DODES’KA-DEN (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  15. THE MAN WHO LEFT HIS WILL ON FILM (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  16. THE DEBUT (Gleb Panfilov, USSR)
  17. BED AND BOARD (François Truffaut, France)
  18. EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL (Werner Herzog, West Germany)

1969

  1. L’AMOUR FOU (Jacques Rivette, France)
  2. MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S (Éric Rohmer, France)
  3. THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (Sergei Parajanov, USSR)
  4. ARMY OF SHADOWS (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
  5. BOY (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  6. DESTROY, SHE SAID (Marguerite Duras, France)
  7. THE SORROW AND THE PITY (Marcel Ophuls, France)
  8. UNE FEMME DOUCE (Robert Bresson, France)
  9. DOUBLE SUICIDE (Shinoda Masahiro, Japan)
  10. BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (Paul Mazursky, USA)
  11. ÅDALEN 31 (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
  12. LE GAI SAVOIR (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  13. OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR (Richard Attenborough)
  14. THE JOKE (Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovakia)
  15. LIONS LOVE (Agnès Varda, USA)
  16. KES (Ken Loach, UK)

1968

  1. DEATH BY HANGING (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  2. JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME (Alain Resnais, France)
  3. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (Sergio Leone, Italy)
  4. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  5. THE IMMORTAL STORY (Orson Welles, France)
  6. GOLDEN SWALLOW (Chang Cheh, Hong Kong)
  7. LA CHAMADE (Alain Cavalier, France)
  8. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George A. Romero, USA)
  9. MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba)
  10. TARGETS (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  11. ROSEMARY’S BABY (Roman Polański, USA)
  12. CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  13. ONE PLUS ONE (Jean-Luc Godard, UK)
  14. THE BOSTON STRANGLER (Richard Fleischer, USA)
  15. L’ENFANCE NUE (Maurice Pialat, France)
  16. MANDABI (Ousmane Sembène, Senegal)
  17. LUCÍA (Humberto Solás, Cuba)
  18. THE GREAT SILENCE (Sergio Corbucci, Italy)
  19. LES BICHES (Claude Chabrol, France)
  20. THREE RESURRECTED DRUNKARDS (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  21. 24 HOURS IN THE LIFE OF A WOMAN (Dominique Delouche, France)
  22. ONE FINE DAY (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
  23. ARTISTS UNDER THE BIG TOP: PERPLEXED (Alexander Kluge, West Germany)
  24. PARTNER. (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
  25. STOLEN KISSES (François Truffaut, France)
  26. FACES (John Cassavetes, USA)

1967

  1. THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy, France)
  2. DRAGON INN (King Hu, Taiwan)
  3. WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow, Canada)
  4. PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati, France)
  5. WEEK-END (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  6. LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (Éric Rohmer, France)
  7. MOUCHETTE (Robert Bresson, France)
  8. ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (Chang Cheh, Hong Kong)
  9. THE RED AND THE WHITE (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
  10. POINT BLANK (John Boorman, USA)
  11. PORTRAIT OF JASON (Shirley Clarke, USA)
  12. LE DÉPART (Jerzy Skolimowski, Belgium)
  13. 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  14. FAR FROM VIETNAM (Jean-Luc Godard & Joris Ivens & William Klein & Claude Lelouch & Chris Marker & Alain Resnais & Agnès Varda, France)
  15. BELLE DE JOUR (Luis Buñuel, France)
  16. THE GRADUATE (Mike Nichols, USA)
  17. DONT LOOK BACK (D. A. Pennebaker, USA)
  18. SAMURAI REBELLION (Kobayashi Masaki, Japan)
  19. LA CHINOISE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  20. THE FIREMEN’S BALL (Miloš Forman, Czechoslovakia)
  21. LA MUSICA (Marguerite Duras & Paul Seban, France)
  22. LOVE AFFAIR, OR THE CASE OF THE MISSING SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR (Dušan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)
  23. BRANDED TO KILL (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  24. ELVIRA MADIGAN (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
  25. LE SAMOURAÏ (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
  26. JAPANESE SUMMER: DOUBLE SUICIDE (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)

1966

  1. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy)
  2. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson, France)
  3. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
  4. THE TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV (Roberto Rossellini, France)
  5. TOKYO DRIFTER (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  6. BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembène, France)
  7. ROGER LA HONTE (Riccardo Freda, France)
  8. COME DRINK WITH ME (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  9. THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone, Italy)
  10. THE NUN (Jacques Rivette, France)
  11. SECONDS (John Frankenheimer, USA)
  12. BLOWUP (Michelangelo Antonioni, UK)
  13. THE WAR IS OVER (Alain Resnais, France)
  14. ANDREI RUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  15. THE ROUND-UP (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
  16. MASCULIN FÉMININ (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  17. CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (Orson Welles, Spain)
  18. VIOLENCE AT NOON (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  19. MADE IN U.S.A (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  20. TROUBLEMAKERS (Norman Fruchter & Robert Machover, USA)
  21. YESTERDAY GIRL (Alexander Kluge, West Germany)

1965

  1. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  2. NOT RECONCILED (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  3. SONS OF THE GOOD EARTH (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  4. THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins, UK)
  5. SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
  6. TOKYO OLYMPIAD (Ichikawa Kon, Japan)
  7. RED BEARD (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  8. LE BONHEUR (Agnès Varda, France)
  9. THE KOUMIKO MYSTERY (Chris Marker, France)
  10. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (Sergei Parajanov, USSR)
  11. ALPHAVILLE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  12. BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL (Doris Wishman, USA)
  13. WALKOVER (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)
  14. LOVES OF A BLONDE (Miloš Forman, Czechoslovakia)
  15. THE SHAMELESS OLD LADY (René Allio, France)
  16. SHAKESPEARE WALLAH (James Ivory, USA)
  17. THE EPIC THAT NEVER WAS (Bill Duncalf, UK)
  18. MICKEY ONE (Arthur Penn, USA)

1964

  1. GERTRUD (Carl Th. Dreyer, Denmark)
  2. YEARNING (Naruse Mikio, Japan)
  3. THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy, France)
  4. WOMAN IN THE DUNES (Teshigahara Hiroshi, Japan)
  5. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
  6. MARNIE (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  7. CHARULATA (Satyajit Ray, India)
  8. NOTHING BUT A MAN (Michael Roemer, USA)
  9. A MARRIED WOMAN (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  10. THE STORY OF SUE SAN (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  11. THE BRIG (Jonas Mekas, USA)
  12. RED DESERT (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  13. I AM CUBA (Mikhail Kalatozov, Cuba)
  14. BRICK AND MIRROR (Ebrahim Golestan, Iran)
  15. DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  16. THE ENCHANTED DESNA (Yuliya Solntseva, USSR)
  17. HAMLET (Grigori Kozintsev, USSR)
  18. LIFE UPSIDE DOWN (Alain Jessua, France)
  19. BAND OF OUTSIDERS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  20. BEFORE THE REVOLUTION (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)

1963

  1. MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN (Alain Resnais, France)
  2. THE LOVE ETERNE (Li Han-hsiang, Hong Kong)
  3. HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  4. THE BIRDS (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  5. THE SERVANT (Joseph Losey, UK)
  6. BAY OF ANGELS (Jacques Demy, France)
  7. LE JOLI MAI (Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme, France)
  8. PASAZERKA (Andrzej Munk, Poland)
  9. LES CARABINIERS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  10. THE BIG CITY (Satyajit Ray, India)
  11. SUZANNE’S CAREER (Éric Rohmer, France)
  12. I FIDANZATI (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
  13. THE COOL WORLD (Shirley Clarke, USA)
  14. CONTEMPT (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  15. LE PETIT SOLDAT (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  16. RAVEN’S END (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
  17. IN THE MIDST OF LIFE (Robert Enrico, France)
  18. WINTER LIGHT (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)

1962

  1. AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  2. L’ECLISSE (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  3. CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (Agnès Varda, France)
  4. JULES ET JIM (François Truffaut, France)
  5. LOLITA (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  6. VIVRE SA VIE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  7. CARNIVAL OF SOULS (Herk Harvey, USA)
  8. THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
  9. HARAKIRI (Kobayashi Masaki, Japan)
  10. THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC (Robert Bresson, France)
  11. IL MARE (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Italy)
  12. THE SIGN OF LEO (Éric Rohmer, France)
  13. KNIFE IN THE WATER (Roman Polański, Poland)
  14. IVAN’S CHILDHOOD (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  15. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (David Lean, UK)

1961

  1. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais, France)
  2. LOLA (Jacques Demy, France)
  3. HERCULES CONQUERS ATLANTIS (Vittorio Cottafavi, Italy)
  4. PARIS BELONGS TO US (Jacques Rivette, France)
  5. THE END OF SUMMER (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  6. THE EXILES (Kent Mackenzie, USA)
  7. YOJIMBO (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  8. WEST SIDE STORY (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, USA)
  9. VIRIDIANA (Luis Buñuel, Spain)
  10. A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  11. LA NOTTE (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)

1960

  1. BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  2. LE TROU (Jacques Becker, France)
  3. L’AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  4. THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang, West Germany)
  5. LATE AUTUMN (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  6. PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  7. PEEPING TOM (Michael Powell, UK)
  8. THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder, USA)
  9. NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  10. THE BELLBOY (Jerry Lewis, USA)
  11. LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini, Italy)
  12. THE BAD SLEEP WELL (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  13. CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  14. SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (François Truffaut, France)
  15. THE GIANTS OF THESSALY (Riccardo Freda, Italy)

1959

  1. RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks, USA)
  2. IMITATION OF LIFE (Douglas Sirk, USA)
  3. THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut, France)
  4. HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (Alain Resnais, France)
  5. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  6. GOOD MORNING (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  7. SHADOWS (John Cassavetes, USA)
  8. PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson, France)
  9. APUR SANSAR (Satyajit Ray, India)
  10. UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE (Marcel Hanoun, France)
  11. THE HUMAN CONDITION I: NO GREATER LOVE (Kobayashi Masaki, Japan)

1958

  1. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  2. TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles, USA)
  3. LE BEAU SERGE (Claude Chabrol, France)
  4. ENJO (Ichikawa Kon, Japan)

1957

  1. PYAASA (Guru Dutt, India)
  2. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick, USA)
  3. FORTY GUNS (Samuel Fuller, USA)
  4. EIGHT HOURS OF TERROR (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  5. THRONE OF BLOOD (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  6. PATHS OF GLORY (Stanley Kubrick, USA)

1956

  1. A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson, France)
  2. THE WRONG MAN (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  3. THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  4. THE BURMESE HARP (Ichikawa Kon, Japan)
  5. THE SEARCHERS (John Ford, USA)
  6. APARAJITO (Satyajit Ray, India)

1955

  1. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton, USA)
  2. FLOATING CLOUDS (Naruse Mikio, Japan)
  3. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Nicholas Ray, USA)
  4. LOLA MONTÈS (Max Ophuls, France)
  5. THE LONG GRAY LINE (John Ford, USA)
  6. MOONFLEET (Fritz Lang, USA)
  7. MR. ARKADIN (Orson Welles, Spain)
  8. ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Douglas Sirk, USA)
  9. ARTISTS AND MODELS (Frank Tashlin, USA)
  10. KISS ME DEADLY (Robert Aldrich, USA)
  11. PATHER PANCHALI (Satyajit Ray, India)
  12. SHIN HEIKE MONOGATARI (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)

1954

  1. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  2. SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  3. JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray, USA)
  4. REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  5. A STAR IS BORN (George Cukor, USA)
  6. JOURNEY TO ITALY (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  7. GODZILLA (Honda Ishiro, Japan)
  8. THE CRUCIFIED LOVERS (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  9. MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (Douglas Sirk, USA)
  10. ON THE WATERFRONT (Elia Kazan, USA)

1953

  1. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Howard Hawks, USA)
  2. TOKYO STORY (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  3. THE SAGA OF ANATAHAN (Josef von Sternberg, Japan)
  4. UGETSU MONOGATARI (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  5. A GEISHA (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  6. THE BIG HEAT (Fritz Lang, USA)
  7. THE LADY WITHOUT CAMELIAS (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)

1952

  1. THE GOLDEN COACH (Jean Renoir, Italy)
  2. THE QUIET MAN (John Ford, USA)
  3. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, USA)
  4. THE LUSTY MEN (Nicholas Ray, USA)
  5. EUROPA ’51 (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  6. IKIRU (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)

1951

  1. DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Robert Bresson, France)
  2. AWAARA (Raj Kapoor, India)
  3. THE TALL TARGET (Anthony Mann, USA)
  4. OTHELLO (Orson Welles, Morocco)
  5. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Vincente Minnelli, USA)

1950

  1. LA RONDE (Max Ophuls, France)
  2. ALL ABOUT EVE (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
  3. SUNSET BLVD. (Billy Wilder, USA)
  4. RASHOMON (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  5. LOS OLVIDADOS (Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
  6. LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)

1949

  1. LATE SPRING (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  2. THE HEIRESS (William Wyler, USA)
  3. THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed, UK)
  4. A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
  5. I SHOT JESSE JAMES (Samuel Fuller, USA)

1948

  1. LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Max Ophuls, USA)
  2. SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN (Fei Mu, China)
  3. FORT APACHE (John Ford, USA)
  4. THE RED SHOES (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, UK)
  5. BERLIN EXPRESS (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  6. WOMEN OF THE NIGHT (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  7. DRUNKEN ANGEL (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  8. ROPE (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

1947

  1. OUT OF THE PAST (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  2. DAISY KENYON (Otto Preminger, USA)
  3. THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK (Preston Sturges, USA)

1946

  1. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  2. THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks, USA)
  3. CANYON PASSAGE (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  4. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra, USA)
  5. THE LOCKET (John Brahm, USA)
  6. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Jean Cocteau, France)
  7. ENAMORADA (Emilio Fernández, Mexico)

1945

  1. THE CLOCK (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
  2. BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean, UK)
  3. MILDRED PIERCE (Michael Curtiz, USA)
  4. DETOUR (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
  5. LES DAMES DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE (Robert Bresson, France)
  6. ROME, OPEN CITY (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  7. MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)

1944

  1. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
  2. GROSSE FREIHEIT NR. 7 (Helmut Käutner, Germany)
  3. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder, USA)
  4. LAURA (Otto Preminger, USA)

1943

  1. THE SEVENTH VICTIM (Mark Robson, USA)
  2. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  3. THE GANG’S ALL HERE (Busby Berkeley, USA)
  4. THE LEOPARD MAN (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  5. HEAVEN CAN WAIT (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
  6. ANGELS OF SIN (Robert Bresson, France)
  7. SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  8. OSSESSIONE (Luchino Visconti, Italy)

1942

  1. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles, USA)
  2. CAT PEOPLE (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  3. CASABLANCA (Michael Curtiz, USA)

1941

  1. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles, USA)

1940

  1. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks, USA)
  2. REBECCA (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

1939

  1. ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks, USA)
  2. THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir, France)
  3. STAGECOACH (John Ford, USA)
  4. THE WIZARD OF OZ (Victor Fleming, USA)
  5. THE WOMEN (George Cukor, USA)

1938

  1. HOLIDAY (George Cukor, USA)
  2. THE LADY VANISHES (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)

1937

  1. THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey, USA)
  2. MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (Leo McCarey, USA)
  3. GRAND ILLUSION (Jean Renoir, France)
  4. A STAR IS BORN (William A. Wellman, USA)

1936

  1. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir, France)
  2. FURY (Fritz Lang, USA)
  3. THE STORY OF A CHEAT (Sacha Guitry, France)
  4. SABOTAGE (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
  5. THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE (Jean Renoir, France)

1935

  1. RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Leo McCarey, USA)
  2. SYLVIA SCARLETT (George Cukor, USA)
  3. THE 39 STEPS (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
  4. TONI (Jean Renoir, France)

1934

  1. THE GODDESS (Wu Yonggang, China)
  2. L’ATALANTE (Jean Vigo, France)

1933

  1. THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang, Germany)
  2. ONLY YESTERDAY (John M. Stahl, USA)
  3. DRAGNET GIRL (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  4. LIEBELEI (Max Ophuls, Germany)
  5. DESIGN FOR LIVING (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
  6. ZERO FOR CONDUCT (Jean Vigo, France)

1932

  1. SHANGHAI EXPRESS (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
  2. TROUBLE IN PARADISE (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
  3. WHERE NOW ARE THE DREAMS OF YOUTH? (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  4. SCARFACE (Howard Hawks, USA)
  5. BLONDE VENUS (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
  6. THE MASK OF FU MANCHU (Charles Brabin, USA)

1931

  1. M (Fritz Lang, Germany)
  2. DISHONORED (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
  3. CITY LIGHTS (Charles Chaplin, USA)
  4. TABU: A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS (F. W. Murnau, USA)
  5. LA CHIENNE (Jean Renoir, France)
  6. FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale, USA)
  7. MARIUS (Alexander Korda, France)

1930

  1. MOROCCO (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
  2. EARTH (Alexander Dovzhenko, USSR)
  3. THE BIG TRAIL (Raoul Walsh, USA)
  4. THE BLUE ANGEL (Josef von Sternberg, Germany)

1929

  1. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov, USSR)
  2. APPLAUSE (Rouben Mamoulian, USA)
  3. THUNDERBOLT (Josef von Sternberg, USA)

1928

  1. SPIONE (Fritz Lang, Germany)
  2. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Th. Dreyer, France)
  3. THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
  4. STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton, USA)
  5. THE WEDDING MARCH (Erich von Stroheim, USA)
  6. SHOW PEOPLE (King Vidor, USA)

1927

  1. NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance, France)
  2. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F. W. Murnau, USA)
  3. METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang, Germany)
  4. THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (Germaine Dulac, France)

1926

  1. THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, USA)

1925

  1. SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton, USA)
  2. BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (Sergei Eisenstein, USSR)
  3. THE MERRY WIDOW (Erich von Stroheim, USA)

1924

  1. GREED (Erich von Stroheim, USA)
  2. SHERLOCK JR. (Buster Keaton, USA)
  3. THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (Raoul Walsh, USA)
  4. HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (Victor Sjöström, USA)

1923

  1. SAFETY LAST! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, USA)

1922

  1. DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (Fritz Lang, Germany)
  2. NOSFERATU (F. W. Murnau, Germany)
  3. NANOOK OF THE NORTH (Robert J. Flaherty, USA)

1918

  1. TIH-MINH (Louis Feuillade, France)

1915

  1. LES VAMPIRES (Louis Feuillade, France)
  2. THE BIRTH OF A NATION (D. W. Griffith, USA)

1913

  1. FANTÔMAS (Louis Feuillade, France)

Favorite Films (Films Only)

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

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2024

  1. BETWEEN THE TEMPLES (Nathan Silver, USA)
  2. DREAM TEAM (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  3. CHALLENGERS (Luca Guadagnino, USA)
  4. UNION (Brett Story & Stephen Maing, USA)
  5. SPEAKING IN TONGUES: TAKE ONE (Christopher Harris, USA)

2023

  1. THE BEAST (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  2. DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (Radu Jude, Romania)
  3. EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  4. MUSIC (Angela Schanelec, Germany)
  5. THE HUMAN SURGE 3 (Eduardo Williams, Argentina)
  6. CLOSE YOUR EYES (Víctor Erice, Spain)
  7. ANATOMY OF A FALL (Justine Triet, France)
  8. MAY DECEMBER (Todd Haynes, USA)
  9. FALLEN LEAVES (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland)
  10. AFIRE (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  11. IN OUR DAY (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  12. YOUTH (SPRING) (Wang Bing, China)
  13. ASTEROID CITY (Wes Anderson, USA)
  14. THE SHADOWLESS TOWER (Zhang Lu, China)
  15. IN WATER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  16. EUREKA (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  17. THE DELINQUENTS (Rodrigo Moreno, Argentina)
  18. THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR (Wes Anderson, USA)
  19. FERRARI (Michael Mann, USA)
  20. THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
  21. HERE (Bas Devos, Belgium)
  22. WE DON’T TALK LIKE WE USED TO (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  23. INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL (Phạm Thiên Ân, Vietnam)
  24. MENUS-PLAISIRS—LES TROISGROS (Frederick Wiseman, France)
  25. HOW DO YOU LIVE? (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  26. OCCUPIED CITY (Steve McQueen, UK)
  27. MAN IN BLACK (Wang Bing, France)
  28. THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  29. HIT MAN (Richard Linklater, USA)
  30. THE ADULTS (Dustin Guy Defa, USA)
  31. STILL FILM (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  32. ALLENSWORTH (James Benning, USA)
  33. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—DEAD RECKONING PART ONE (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  34. PICTURES OF GHOSTS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
  35. PRISCILLA (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  36. LA CHIMERA (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy)
  37. ALL OF US STRANGERS (Andrew Haigh, UK)
  38. NOWHERE NEAR (Miko Revereza, Philippines)
  39. ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET. (Kelly Fremon Craig, USA)
  40. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS (Sora Neo, Japan)
  41. SAMSARA (Lois Patiño, Spain)
  42. MAD FATE (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  43. THE PLOUGH (Philippe Garrel, France)
  44. TRAILER OF A FILM THAT WILL NEVER EXIST: PHONY WARS (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  45. THE ZONE OF INTEREST (Jonathan Glazer, UK)
  46. THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE (Patric Chiha, France)
  47. THE SWEET EAST (Sean Price Williams, USA)
  48. THE KILLER (David Fincher, USA)
  49. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  50. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 (Chad Stahelski, USA)
  51. MAMBAR PIERRETTE (Rosine Mbakam, Cameroon)
  52. PASSING TIME (Terence Davies, UK)
  53. AGGRO DR1FT (Harmony Korine, USA)
  54. POISON (Wes Anderson, USA)
  55. THE SWAN (Wes Anderson, USA)
  56. THE RAT CATCHER (Wes Anderson, USA)
  57. GODZILLA MINUS ONE (Yamazaki Takashi, Japan)
  58. GASOLINE RAINBOW (Bill & Turner Ross, USA)
  59. THE CAINE MUTINY COURT MARTIAL (William Friedkin, USA)
  60. FILM SCULPTURE (4) (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  61. PAST LIVES (Celine Song, USA)
  62. BARBIE (Greta Gerwig, USA)
  63. FOLLOWING THE SOUND (Sugita Kyoshi, Japan)
  64. GREETINGS FROM CRÎNGAȘI! (Radu Jude, Romania)
  65. KNOCK AT THE CABIN (M. Night Shyamalan, USA)
  66. FULL RIVER RED (Zhang Yimou, China)
  67. ROCKY AUR RANI KII PREM KAHAANI (Karan Johar, India)
  68. THE TASTE OF THINGS (Trần Anh Hùng, France)
  69. THE HOLDOVERS (Alexander Payne, USA)
  70. POOR THINGS (Yorgos Lanthimos, UK)
  71. ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS (Wei Shujun, China)
  72. QUIET AS IT’S KEPT (Ja’Tovia Gary, USA)
  73. NǍI NAI & WÀI PÓ (Sean Wang, USA)
  74. PASSAGES (Ira Sachs, France)
  75. LAST THINGS (Deborah Stratman, USA)
  76. MAESTRO (Bradley Cooper, USA)
  77. ABSENCE (Wu Lang, China)
  78. FREMONT (Babak Jalali, USA)
  79. PERFECT DAYS (Wim Wenders, Japan)
  80. ALPHA KINGS (Enrique Pedráza Botero & Faye Tsakas, USA)

2022

  1. WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  2. PACIFICTION (Albert Serra, France)
  3. THE NOVELIST’S FILM (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  4. SHOWING UP (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  5. DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, France)
  6. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)
  7. THE FABELMANS (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  8. TRENQUE LAUQUEN (Laura Citarella, Argentina)
  9. THE PEOPLE YOU’RE PAYING TO BE IN SHORTS (Jon Bois, USA)
  10. SECTION 1 (Jon Bois, USA)
  11. ONE FINE MORNING (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
  12. DIARY OF A FLEETING AFFAIR (Emmanuel Mouret, France)
  13. CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  14. A SHORT STORY (Bi Gan, China)
  15. RRR (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
  16. THE SOWER OF STARS (Lois Patiño, Spain)
  17. DECISION TO LEAVE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  18. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (James Benning, USA)
  19. COMA (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  20. TALES OF THE PURPLE HOUSE (Abbas Fahdel, Lebanon)
  21. TÁR (Todd Field, USA)
  22. STARS AT NOON (Claire Denis, France)
  23. QUEENS OF THE QING DYNASTY (Ashley McKenzie, Canada)
  24. THE POTEMKINISTS (Radu Jude, Romania)
  25. NOPE (Jordan Peele, USA)
  26. WHERE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  27. REWIND & PLAY (Alain Gomis, France)
  28. STONEWALLING (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji, Japan)
  29. WHITE NOISE (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  30. SAINT OMER (Alice Diop, France)
  31. AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (James Cameron, USA)
  32. EVENTIDE (Sharon Lockhart, USA)
  33. NE CORRIDOR (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  34. THE BLUE ROSE OF FORGETFULNESS (Lewis Klahr, USA)
  35. RETURN TO SEOUL (Chou Davy, France)
  36. ARMAGEDDON TIME (James Gray, USA)
  37. ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (Laura Poitras, USA)
  38. WHERE DO YOU STAND, TSAI MING-LIANG? (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  39. SATURDAY BOWLING (Patricia Mazuy, France)
  40. MATTER OUT OF PLACE (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria)
  41. BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE (Claire Denis, France)
  42. RIOTSVILLE, U.S.A. (Sierra Pettengill, USA)
  43. WHERE IS THIS STREET? OR WITH NO BEFORE OR AFTER (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata, Portugal)
  44. REMEMBERING EVERY NIGHT (Kiyohara Yui, Japan)
  45. MARIA SCHNEIDER, 1983 (Elisabeth Subrin, France)
  46. RETURN TO DUST (Li Ruijun, China)
  47. NOBODY’S HERO (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  48. LAST SCREENING (Darezhan Omirbaev, Kazakhstan)
  49. HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
  50. DRY GROUND BURNING (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós, Brazil)
  51. DON JUAN (Serge Bozon, France)
  52. AFTERSUN (Charlotte Wells, UK)
  53. HAPPER’S COMET (Tyler Taormina, USA)
  54. AMSTERDAM (David O. Russell, USA)
  55. RELATIVE (Michael Glover Smith, USA)
  56. THE ADVENTURES OF GIGI THE LAW (Alessandro Comodin, Italy)
  57. WILL-O’-THE-WISP (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
  58. SHIN ULTRAMAN (Higuchi Shinji, Japan)
  59. A WOMAN ESCAPES (Sofia Bohdanowicz & Burak Çevik & Blake Williams, Canada)
  60. THE MAIDEN (Graham Foy, Canada)
  61. A COUPLE (Frederick Wiseman, France)
  62. AMBULANCE (Michael Bay, USA)
  63. TOP GUN: MAVERICK (Joseph Kosinski, USA)
  64. A HUMAN POSITION (Anders Emblem, Norway)
  65. DAUGHTER AND SON (Cheng Yu, China)
  66. FREE CHOL SOO LEE (Eugene Yi & Julie Ha, USA)
  67. GLASS ONION (Rian Johnson, USA)
  68. ASTRAKAN (David Depesseville, France)
  69. CALL JANE (Phyllis Nagy, USA)
  70. EVERY DAY IN KAIMUKĪ (Alika Tengan, USA)
  71. MIJA (Isabel Castro, USA)
  72. DAYDREAMING SO VIVIDLY ABOUT OUR SPANISH HOLIDAYS (Christian Avilés, Spain)
  73. WILL YOU LOOK AT ME (Huang Shuli, China)
  74. GINKO YELLOW (Amy Halpern, USA)
  75. KIMI (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  76. SAFE PLACE (Juraj Lerotić, Croatia)
  77. ENYS MEN (Mark Jenkin, UK)
  78. IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA (Ana Vaz, Brazil)
  79. IS THERE A PINE ON THE MOUNTAIN (Liu Chongyan, France)
  80. STARFUCKERS (Antonio Marziale, USA)
  81. THE HEADHUNTER’S DAUGHTER (Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, Philippines)
  82. TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (Ruben Östlund, Sweden)

2021

  1. DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  2. MEMORIA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Colombia)
  3. WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Alexandre Koberidze, Georgia)
  4. CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: AN EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (Adam Curtis, UK)
  5. IL BUCO (Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy)
  6. WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  7. WHO’S STOPPING US (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
  8. A NEW OLD PLAY (Qiu Jiongjiong, Hong Kong)
  9. LIMBO (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  10. ANNETTE (Leos Carax, France)
  11. BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN (Radu Jude, Romania)
  12. EARTHEARTHEARTH (Saïto Daïchi, Canada)
  13. WEST SIDE STORY (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  14. A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES (Zhu Shengze, USA)
  15. FRANCE (Bruno Dumont, France)
  16. TRAIN AGAIN (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria)
  17. EVANGELION: 3.0+1.0 THRICE UPON A TIME (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  18. THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher, Switzerland)
  19. IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  20. PROCESSION (Robert Greene, USA)
  21. TOPOLOGY OF SIRENS (Jonathan Davies, USA)
  22. LICORICE PIZZA (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  23. THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (Joel Coen, USA)
  24. INTRODUCTION (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  25. EL GRAN MOVIMIENTO (Kiro Russo, Bolivia)
  26. RED ROCKET (Sean Baker, USA)
  27. THE FRENCH DISPATCH OF THE LIBERTY, KANSAS EVENING SUN (Wes Anderson, USA)
  28. BENEDETTA (Paul Verhoeven, France)
  29. FABIAN, OR GOING TO THE DOGS (Domink Graf, Germany)
  30. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (Todd Haynes, USA)
  31. MEDEA (Alexander Zeldovich, Russia)
  32. THE CATHEDRAL (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  33. THE POWER OF THE DOG (Jane Campion, New Zealand)
  34. THE SACRED SPIRIT (Chema García Ibarra, Spain)
  35. HARUHARA-SAN’S RECORDER (Sugita Kyoshi, Japan)
  36. BENEDICTION (Terence Davies, UK)
  37. WOOD AND WATER (Jonas Bak, Germany)
  38. ONODA (Arthur Harari, France)
  39. AHED’S KNEE (Nadav Lapid, Israel)
  40. PEBBLES (PS Vinothraj, India)
  41. THE SOUVENIR PART II (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  42. FIRST TIME [THE TIME FOR ALL BUT SUNSET – VIOLET] (Nicolaas Schmidt, Germany)
  43. PARALLEL MOTHERS (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  44. FIRE BELLY (Amy Halpern, USA)
  45. A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING (Payal Kapadia, India)
  46. SOCIAL HYGIENE (Denis Côté, Canada)
  47. VIRGIN BLUE (Niu Xiaoyu, China)
  48. VENGEANCE IS MINE, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH (Edwin, Indonesia)
  49. HIT THE ROAD (Panah Panahi, Iran)
  50. CRY MACHO (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  51. DECEPTION (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  52. UNTITLED (34BSP) (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  53. RAMPART (Marko Grba Singh, Serbia)
  54. EL PLANETA (Amalia Ulman, Spain)
  55. OUR ETERNAL SUMMER (Émilie Aussel, France)
  56. THE WITCHES OF THE ORIENT (Julien Faraut, France)
  57. BELLE (Hosoda Mamoru, Japan)
  58. THE CAPACITY FOR ADEQUATE ANGER (Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany)
  59. PETITE SOLANGE (Axelle Ropert, France)
  60. ROCK BOTTOM RISER (Fern Silva, USA)
  61. PETITE MAMAN (Céline Sciamma, France)
  62. KICKING THE CLOUDS (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  63. COME HERE (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
  64. SINGING IN THE WILDERNESS (Chen Dongnan, China)
  65. IMPERSONATOR (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  66. A WILD PATIENCE HAS TAKEN ME HERE (Érica Sarmet, Brazil)
  67. THE CARD COUNTER (Paul Schrader, USA)
  68. ZEROS AND ONES (Abel Ferrara, USA)
  69. SOFT ANIMALS (Renee Zhan, UK)
  70. DEAR CHANTAL (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico)
  71. TERRA FEMME (Courtney Stephens, USA)
  72. A MARBLE TRAVELOGUE (Sean Wang, Netherlands)
  73. INNER OUTER SPACE (Laida Lertxundi, Spain)
  74. NOBODY (Ilya Naishuller, USA)
  75. BERGMAN ISLAND (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
  76. BIRDS IN THE WINDOW (Amy Halpern & David Lebrun, USA)
  77. THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Joachim Trier, Norway)
  78. WET SAND (Elene Naveriani, Georgia)
  79. CLIFF WALKERS (Zhang Yimou, China)
  80. NO SUDDEN MOVE (Steven Soderbergh, USA)

2020

  1. DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  2. THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN) (C. W. Winter & Anders Edström, USA)
  3. THE WOMAN WHO RAN (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  4. SHORT VACATION (Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol, South Korea)
  5. BEGINNING (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia)
  6. WIFE OF A SPY (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  7. MALMKROG (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
  8. IF YOU COULD GO BACK, I WOULD SEE HER. (Joshua R. Troxler, USA)
  9. LABOR OF LOVE (Sylvia Schedelbauer, Germany)
  10. LOVERS ROCK (Steve McQueen, UK)
  11. SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE (Jia Zhangke, China)
  12. THE DISCIPLE (Chaitanya Tamhane, India)
  13. THE LAST CITY (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
  14. TESLA (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  15. FAUNA (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico)
  16. THERE ARE NOT THIRTY-SIX WAYS OF SHOWING A MAN GETTING ON A HORSE. (Nicolás Zukerfeld, Argentina)
  17. POINT AND LINE TO PLANE (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada)
  18. NOTTURNO (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy)
  19. CITY HALL (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  20. LOS CONDUCTOS (Camilo Restrepo, Colombia)
  21. RED, WHITE AND BLUE (Steve McQueen, UK)
  22. THE CALMING (Song Fang, China)
  23. EDUCATION (Steve McQueen, UK)
  24. FIGURE MINUS FACT (Mary Helena Clark, USA)
  25. THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS (Catarina Vasconcelos, Portugal)
  26. ISABELLA (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  27. EXPEDITION CONTENT (Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati, USA)
  28. BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS (Bill & Turner Ross, USA)
  29. THE BIG TRIM (John Magary, USA)
  30. MANGROVE (Steve McQueen, UK)
  31. VISIT (Jia Zhangke, China)
  32. THE LOBBY (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
  33. AUTOFICCIÓN (Laida Lertxundi, USA)
  34. THE YEAR OF THE DISCOVERY (Luis López Carrasco, Spain)
  35. ON THE ROCKS (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  36. THE INHERITANCE (Ephraim Asili, USA)
  37. WHILE CURSED BY SPECTERS (Burak Çevik, Turkey)
  38. DREAMS UNDER CONFINEMENT (Christopher Harris, USA)
  39. MONSTER HUNTER (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  40. ALFRED (Esther Urlus, Netherlands)
  41. “THE RED FILTER IS WITHDRAWN.” (Kim Min-jung, South Korea)
  42. NEWT LEADERS (Amy Halpern, USA)
  43. TIME (Garrett Bradley, USA)
  44. THE SALT OF TEARS (Philippe Garrel, France)
  45. HER SOCIALIST SMILE (John Gianvito, USA)
  46. THE HUMAN VOICE (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  47. MAŁNI—TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  48. NEVER REST/UNREST (Tiffany Sia, Hong Kong)
  49. ALEX WHEATLE (Steve McQueen, UK)
  50. STUMP THE GUESSER (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson, Canada)
  51. DA 5 BLOODS (Spike Lee, USA)
  52. ATARRABI AND MIKELATS (Eugène Green, France)
  53. NOMADLAND (Chloé Zhao, USA)
  54. UNDINE (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  55. THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez, USA)
  56. IN THE AIR TONIGHT (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  57. I WISH YOU WOULD (Ryland Walker Knight, USA)
  58. LA FRANCE CONTRE LES ROBOTS (Jean-Marie Straub, Switzerland)
  59. ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN SEE (Pablo Escoto Luna, Mexico)
  60. DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (Kirsten Johnson, USA)
  61. HALPATE (Adam Khalil & Adam Piron, USA)
  62. UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS (Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany)

2019

  1. MARTIN EDEN (Pietro Marcello, Italy)
  2. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  3. ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  4. PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  5. I WAS AT HOME, BUT… (Angela Schanelec, Germany)
  6. SYNONYMS (Nadav Lapid, France)
  7. FOURTEEN (Dan Sallitt, USA)
  8. PRESENT.PERFECT. (Zhu Shengze, USA)
  9. UNCUT GEMS (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
  10. HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME (Thomas Heise, Germany)
  11. I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  12. VITALINA VARELA (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
  13. SHAKTI (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
  14. A VOLUNTARY YEAR (Ulrich Köhler & Henner Winckler, Germany)
  15. THE TRAITOR (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
  16. ZOMBI CHILD (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  17. CITYSCAPE (Michael Snow, Canada)
  18. JUST DON’T THINK I’LL SCREAM (Frank Beauvais, France)
  19. FOREIGN POWERS (Bingham Bryant, USA)
  20. AUSTRIAN PAVILION (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  21. CENOTE (Oda Kaori, Japan)
  22. FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  23. MARRIAGE STORY (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  24. THE WHISTLERS (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
  25. GHOST TROPIC (Bas Devos, Belgium)
  26. LABYRINTH OF CINEMA (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  27. Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 MOD 2|-1: LAVENDER TOWN SYNDROME (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  28. THE AUGUST VIRGIN (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
  29. LITTLE WOMEN (Greta Gerwig, USA)
  30. LIBERTÉ (Albert Serra, Spain)
  31. BELONGING (Burak Çevik, Turkey)
  32. BACURAU (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles, Brazil)
  33. A HIDDEN LIFE (Terrence Malick, USA)
  34. PAIN AND GLORY (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  35. THE WILD GOOSE LAKE (Diao Yinan, China)
  36. SIBYL (Justine Triet, France)
  37. CHASING DREAM (Johnnie To, China)
  38. AD ASTRA (James Gray, USA)
  39. BETTER DAYS (Derek Tsang, China)
  40. GYOPO (Samuel Kiehoon Lee, South Korea)
  41. THE SKY IS CLEAR AND BLUE TODAY (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  42. (TOURISM STUDIES) (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  43. CAVALCADE (Johann Lurf, Austria)
  44. CATERINA (Dan Sallitt, USA)
  45. RICHARD JEWELL (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  46. YOUNG AHMED (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  47. ATLANTICS (Mati Diop, Senegal)
  48. BILLY (Zachary Epcar, USA)
  49. KNIVES OUT (Rian Johnson, USA)
  50. DARK WATERS (Todd Haynes, USA)
  51. A GIRL MISSING (Fukada Koji, Japan)
  52. THE WHITE STORM 2: DRUG LORDS (Herman Yau, Hong Kong)
  53. HAM ON RYE (Tyler Taormina, USA)
  54. FIRE WILL COME (Óliver Laxe, Spain)
  55. Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 MOD 2|-1: THE OLD VICTROLA (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  56. MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN (Edward Norton, USA)
  57. THE DEAD DON’T DIE (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
  58. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3—PARABELLUM (Chad Stahelski, USA)
  59. THE SOUVENIR (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  60. US (Jordan Peele, USA)
  61. HIGH FLYING BIRD (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  62. DOMINO (Brian De Palma, Denmark)
  63. THE PLAGIARISTS (Peter Parlow, USA)
  64. SUBJECT TO REVIEW (Theo Anthony, USA)
  65. I SHOT ANTOINE DOINEL (Nicolás Prividera, Argentina)
  66. CUBA SCALDS HIS HAND (Abby Sun & Daniel Garber, USA)
  67. COLLECTIVE (Alexander Nanau, Romania)
  68. LAYING OUT (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  69. FIT MODEL (Myna Joseph, USA)
  70. GEMINI MAN (Ang Lee, USA)
  71. CONJURING THE ROLLING THUNDER RE-VUE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  72. ANNE AT 13,000 FEET. (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
  73. STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (J. J. Abrams, USA)

2018

  1. LA FLOR (Mariano Llinás, Argentina)
  2. ASAKO I & II (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  3. TRANSIT (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  4. LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Bi Gan, China)
  5. GRASS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  6. ASH IS PUREST WHITE (Jia Zhangke, China)
  7. AMANDA (Mikhaël Hers, France)
  8. HIGH LIFE (Claire Denis, France)
  9. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (Orson Welles, USA)
  10. AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL (Hu Bo, China)
  11. IN MY ROOM (Ulrich Köhler, Germany)
  12. LIZ AND THE BLUE BIRD (Yamada Naoko, Japan)
  13. HER SMELL (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  14. THE IMAGE BOOK (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  15. CLASSICAL PERIOD (Ted Fendt, USA)
  16. THIS ACTION LIES (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  17. THE GRAND BIZARRE (Jodie Mack, USA)
  18. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—FALLOUT (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  19. THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  20. HOTEL BY THE RIVER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  21. BISBEE ’17 (Robert Greene, USA)
  22. “I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS” (Radu Jude, Romania)
  23. UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB (Stephen Susco, USA)
  24. BURNING (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea)
  25. MONROVIA, INDIANA (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  26. NON-FICTION (Olivier Assayas, France)
  27. PARSI (Eduardo Williams, Argentina)
  28. IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (Barry Jenkins, USA)
  29. TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG (Dominga Sotomayor, Chile)
  30. WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD’S ON FIRE? (Roberto Minervini, USA)
  31. HAPPY AS LAZZARO (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy)
  32. ISLE OF DOGS (Wes Anderson, USA)
  33. THE MULE (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  34. SUPPORT THE GIRLS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  35. A STAR IS BORN (Bradley Cooper, USA)
  36. THE WORLD IS FULL OF SECRETS (Graham Swon, USA)
  37. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  38. WELCOME TO MARWEN (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  39. 3 FACES (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
  40. COINCOIN AND THE EXTRA-HUMANS (Bruno Dumont, France)
  41. FILM CATASTROPHE (Paul Grivas, France)
  42. CALYX (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  43. THE COMMUTER (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  44. INFINITE FOOTBALL (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
  45. A FAMILY TOUR (Ying Liang, Hong Kong)
  46. NOTES ON AN APPEARANCE (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  47. ROUND SEVEN (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  48. BLACKKKLANSMAN (Spike Lee, USA)
  49. RAY & LIZ (Richard Billingham, UK)
  50. ROMA (Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico)
  51. DIAMANTINO (Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt, Portugal)
  52. COLOPHON (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  53. SHOOT THE MOON RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES (Graham L. Carter, USA)
  54. FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY (Michael Koresky & Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman, USA)
  55. FAINTING SPELLS (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  56. A FAITHFUL MAN (Louis Garrel, France)
  57. YOUR FACE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  58. SUSPIRIA (Luca Guadagnino, USA)
  59. THE LOAD (Ognjen Glavonić, Serbia)
  60. THE GREAT PRETENDER (Nathan Silver, USA)
  61. DER KLANG, DIE WELT… (Robert Beavers, USA)
  62. SHOPLIFTERS (Koreeda Hirokazu, Japan)
  63. THE FAVOURITE (Yorgos Lanthimos, UK)
  64. BELMONTE (Federico Veiroj, Uruguay)
  65. DEN OF THIEVES (Christian Gudegast, USA)
  66. VESLEMØY’S SONG (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada)
  67. SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS (Virgil Vernier, France)
  68. BLUE (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  69. COLD WAR (Paweł Pawlikowski, Poland)
  70. HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING (RaMell Ross, USA)
  71. LA CARTOGRAPHE (Nathan Douglas, Canada)
  72. TWO PLAINS & A FANCY (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  73. GAME NIGHT (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein, USA)
  74. THE 15:17 TO PARIS (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  75. READY PLAYER ONE (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  76. RELAXER (Joel Potrykus, USA)
  77. ADA KALEH (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
  78. DIANE (Kent Jones, USA)
  79. CLIMAX (Gaspar Noé, France)
  80. KNIFE + HEART (Yann Gonzalez, France)
  81. MASTER Z: THE IP MAN LEGACY (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  82. BLACK PANTHER (Ryan Coogler, USA)
  83. ANT-MAN AND THE WASP (Peyton Reed, USA)
  84. SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (Boots Riley, USA)
  85. THREE ATLAS (Miryam Charles, Haïti)

2017

  1. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch, USA)
  2. HANAGATAMI (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  3. ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  4. THE DAY AFTER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  5. ARBORETUM CYCLE (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  6. FIRST REFORMED (Paul Scharader, USA)
  7. CLAIRE’S CAMERA (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  8. ★ (Johann Lurf, Austria)
  9. STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE] (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
  10. DOWNSIZING (Alexander Payne, USA)
  11. PRINCESS CYD (Stephen Cone, USA)
  12. FACES PLACES (Agnès Varda & JR, France)
  13. GOOD TIME (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
  14. PHANTOM THREAD (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  15. ZAMA (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
  16. THE WORK (Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous, USA)
  17. LET THE SUNSHINE IN (Claire Denis, France)
  18. BAAHUBALI 2: THE CONCLUSION (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
  19. BEFORE WE VANISH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  20. WESTERN (Valeska Grisebach, Germany)
  21. GOLDEN EXITS (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  22. LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig, USA)
  23. THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED) (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  24. 120 BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE) (Robin Campillo, France)
  25. MARJORIE PRIME (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  26. ANOTHER MOVIE (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  27. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Luca Guadagnino, USA)
  28. THE POST (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  29. STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson, USA)
  30. MRS. HYDE (Serge Bozon, France)
  31. PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams, Canada)
  32. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 (Chad Stahelski, USA)
  33. SPIRAL JETTY (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  34. WATCHING THE DETECTIVES (Chris Kennedy, Canada)
  35. THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker, USA)
  36. DRIFT (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
  37. TONSLER PARK (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  38. GET OUT (Jordan Peele, USA)
  39. ROSE GOLD (Sara Cwynar, USA)
  40. EX LIBRIS—THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  41. WONDERSTRUCK (Todd Haynes, USA)
  42. SONG TO SONG (Terrence Malick, USA)
  43. LA BOUCHE (Camilo Restrepo, France)
  44. GOOD MANNERS (Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra, Brazil)
  45. ISMAEL’S GHOSTS (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  46. BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (S. Craig Zahler, USA)
  47. PERSON TO PERSON (Dustin Guy Defa, USA)
  48. LOVER FOR A DAY (Philippe Garrel, France)
  49. OUR HOUSE (Kiyohara Yui, Japan)
  50. THE WANDERING SOAP OPERA (Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento, Chile)
  51. THE RIDER (Chloé Zhao, USA)
  52. THE GREAT BUDDHA+ (Huang Hsin-yao, Taiwan)
  53. GIRLS TRIP (Malcolm D. Lee, USA)
  54. LAST FLAG FLYING (Richard Linklater, USA)
  55. AMONG THE EUCALYPTUSES (Robert Beavers, USA)
  56. ESCAPES (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  57. RAMS 23 BLUE BEARS 21 (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  58. SPL: PARADOX (Wilson Yip, Hong Kong)
  59. MERCURY IN RETROGRADE (Michael Glover Smith, USA)
  60. WHAT DID JACK DO? (David Lynch, USA)
  61. GEMINI (Aaron Katz, USA)
  62. LOGAN LUCKY (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  63. CANIBA (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, USA)
  64. WASTELAND NO. 1: ARDENT, VERDANT (Jodie Mack, USA)
  65. THE GREEN FOG (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson, USA)
  66. MUMOK KINO (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  67. THIRST STREET (Nathan Silver, USA)
  68. THE WILD BOYS (Bertrand Mandico, France)

2016

  1. YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  2. SILENCE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  3. TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade, Germany)
  4. NOCTURAMA (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  5. THE HUMAN SURGE (Eduardo Williams, Argentina)
  6. ELLE (Paul Verhoeven, France)
  7. CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson, USA)
  8. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
  9. HYPERNORMALISATION (Adam Curtis, UK)
  10. CERTAIN WOMEN (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  11. SIERANEVADA (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
  12. THE HEDONISTS (Jia Zhangke, China)
  13. THE HANDMAIDEN (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  14. KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE (Robert Greene, USA)
  15. O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA (Ezra Edelman, USA)
  16. BEDUINO (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
  17. BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
  18. THE DREAMED PATH (Angela Schanelec, Germany)
  19. THINGS TO COME (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
  20. CREEPY (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  21. INDEFINITE PITCH (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  22. AQUARIUS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
  23. SHIN GODZILLA (Anno Hideaki and Higuchi Shinji, Japan)
  24. PERSONAL SHOPPER (Olivier Assayas, France)
  25. SECRET GOLDFISH (Bi Gan, China)
  26. THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN (Kelly Fremon Craig, USA)
  27. 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (Mike Mills, USA)
  28. RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  29. I AM NOT MADAME BOVARY (Feng Xiaogang, China)
  30. THE SHALLOWS (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  31. SULLY (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  32. EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (Richard Linklater, USA)
  33. THE SON OF JOSEPH (Eugène Green, France)
  34. HERMIA & HELENA (Matías Piñeiro, USA)
  35. MOONLIGHT (Barry Jenkins, USA)
  36. LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (Whit Stillman, Ireland)
  37. THE LOST CITY OF Z (James Gray, USA)
  38. PATERSON (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
  39. A QUIET PASSION (Terence Davies, UK)
  40. THE UNKNOWN GIRL (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  41. HEAVEN IS STILL FAR AWAY (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  42. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE + THE TENNESSEE KIDS (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  43. EARS, NOSE AND THROAT (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  44. FOYER (Ismaïl Bahri, Tunisia)
  45. LUNA E SANTUR (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  46. ALLIED (Robert Zemeckis, UK)
  47. I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (Raoul Peck, USA)
  48. VICTORIA (Justine Triet, France)
  49. CILAOS (Camilo Restrepo, France)
  50. JULIETA (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  51. SARAH WINCHESTER: GHOST OPERA (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  52. ANOTHER YEAR (Zhu Shengze, China)
  53. THE ORNITHOLOGIST (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
  54. FIRE AT SEA (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy)
  55. THE COMPETITION (Claire Simon, France)
  56. HALIMUHFACK (Christopher Harris, USA)
  57. AUTUMN (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  58. ODE TO SEEKERS 2012 (Andrew Norman Wilson, USA)
  59. TOWER (Keith Maitland, USA)
  60. RULES DON’T APPLY (Warren Beatty, USA)
  61. KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (Travis Knight, USA)
  62. STARLESS DREAMS (Mehrdad Oskouei, Iran)
  63. YOUR NAME. (Shinkai Makoto, Japan)
  64. THE TREMBLING GIANT (Patrick Tarrant, UK)
  65. OSCAR AT 8903 EMPIRE (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  66. THREE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  67. THE ILLINOIS PARABLES (Deborah Stratman, USA)
  68. TWO LOTTERY TICKETS (Paul Negoescu, Romania)
  69. POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone, USA)
  70. KÉKSZAKÁLLÚ (Gastón Solnicki, Argentina)
  71. RAT FILM (Theo Anthony, USA)
  72. BAGATELLE II (Jerome Hiler, USA)
  73. MIMOSAS (Óliver Laxe, Spain)
  74. THE MERMAID (Stephen Chow, China)
  75. THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV (Albert Serra, France)
  76. STAYING VERTICAL (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  77. MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA (Dash Shaw, USA)
  78. DARK SKULL (Kiro Russo, Bolivia)

2015

  1. MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke, China)
  2. THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  3. CAROL (Todd Haynes, USA)
  4. CEMETERY OF SPLENDOR (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  5. BLACKHAT (Michael Mann, USA)
  6. RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  7. HAPPY HOUR (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  8. JOURNEY TO THE SHORE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  9. SPL II: A TIME FOR CONSEQUENCES (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  10. KAILI BLUES (Bi Gan, China)
  11. AFTERNOON (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  12. NO NO SLEEP (Tsai Ming-liang, Japan)
  13. ARAGANE (Oda Kaori, Japan)
  14. ENGRAM OF RETURNING (Saïto Daïchi, Canada)
  15. MISTRESS AMERICA (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  16. BITTER LAKE (Adam Curtis, UK)
  17. MY GOLDEN DAYS (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  18. HENRY GAMBLE’S BIRTHDAY PARTY (Stephen Cone, USA)
  19. GAROTO (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
  20. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller, Australia)
  21. NIGHT WITHOUT DISTANCE (Lois Patiño, Portugal)
  22. BAD AT DANCING (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  23. ALOHA (Cameron Crowe, USA)
  24. EXPERIMENTER: THE STANLEY MILGRAM STORY (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  25. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—ROGUE NATION (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  26. WORLD OF TOMORROW (Don Hertzfeldt, USA)
  27. MAGIC MIKE XXL (Gregory Jacobs, USA)
  28. SUNSET SONG (Terence Davies, UK)
  29. IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN (Philippe Garrel, France)
  30. THE OTHER SIDE (Roberto Minervini, Italy)
  31. QUEEN OF EARTH (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  32. SIX CENTS IN THE POCKET (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  33. OFFICE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  34. THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson, Canada)
  35. THE WALK (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  36. THE HATEFUL EIGHT (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  37. BRIDGE OF SPIES (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  38. NAVIGATOR (Björn Kämmerer, Austria)
  39. BAAHUBALI: THE BEGINNING (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
  40. INTIMATIONS (Nathaniel Dorsky, USA)
  41. SICARIO (Denis Villeneuve, USA)
  42. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (J. J. Abrams, USA)
  43. SOMETHING BETWEEN US (Jodie Mack, USA)
  44. STINKING HEAVEN (Nathan Silver, USA)
  45. RESULTS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  46. JOHN FROM (João Nicolau, Portugal)
  47. FIELD NIGGAS (Khalik Allah, USA)
  48. LOST AND BEAUTIFUL (Pietro Marcello, Italy)
  49. AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (Joss Whedon, USA)
  50. KNIGHT OF CUPS (Terrence Malick, USA)
  51. RUN ALL NIGHT (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  52. IN TRANSIT (Albert Maysles & Lynn True & David Usui & Nelson Walker & Ben Wu, USA)
  53. CREED (Ryan Coogler, USA)

2014

  1. PHOENIX (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  2. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson, USA)
  3. DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART 2 (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  4. HORSE MONEY (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
  5. JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  6. INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  7. GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  8. HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  9. GONE GIRL (David Fincher, USA)
  10. THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  11. LISTEN UP PHILIP (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  12. TRANSFORMERS: THE PREMAKE (Kevin B. Lee, USA)
  13. BOYHOOD (Richard Linklater, USA)
  14. TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  15. NOT MY TYPE (Lucas Belvaux, France)
  16. THE MIDNIGHT AFTER (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  17. SAINT LAURENT (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  18. TWO SHOTS FIRED (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
  19. JOURNEY TO THE WEST (Tsai Ming-liang, France)
  20. L FOR LEISURE (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  21. BELOVED SISTERS (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  22. CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (Olivier Assayas, France)
  23. THE MEND (John Magary, USA)
  24. P’TIT QUINQUIN (Bruno Dumont, France)
  25. SPECTRUM REVERSE SPECTRUM (Margaret Honda, USA)
  26. NON-STOP (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  27. JOHN WICK (Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, USA)
  28. CAMERA FALLS FROM AIRPLANE AND LANDS IN PIG PEN-MUST WATCH END!! (Mia Munselle, USA)
  29. WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE (Yonebayashi Hiromasa, Japan)
  30. HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
  31. POLIZEIRUF 110: SMOKE ON THE WATER (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  32. UNFRIENDED (Leo Gabriadze, USA)
  33. SINGLE STREAM (Paweł Wojtasik & Toby Kim Lee & Ernst Karel, USA)
  34. BUZZARD (Joel Potrykus, USA)
  35. OCCIDENTE (Ana Vaz, Brazil)
  36. TWELVE TALES TOLD (Johann Lurf, Austria)
  37. ACTRESS (Robert Greene, USA)
  38. TAPROBANA (Gabriel Abrantes, Portugal)
  39. JANUARY (Jhon Hernandez, USA)
  40. CYCLOPS OBSERVES THE CELESTIAL BODIES (Ken Jacobs, USA)
  41. AGAINST LANDSCAPE (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)

2013

  1. STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  2. MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez, USA)
  3. THE GRANDMASTER (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  4. THE WIND RISES (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  5. NOBODY’S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  6. BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Richard Linklater, USA)
  7. BASTARDS (Claire Denis, France)
  8. THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (Takahata Isao, Japan)
  9. LES TROIS DÉSASTRES (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  10. OUR SUNHI (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  11. TIREZ LA LANGUE, MADEMOISELLE (Axelle Ropert, France)
  12. REDEMPTION (Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
  13. EL FUTURO (Luis López Carrasco, Spain)
  14. THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT (Ramon Zürcher, Germany)
  15. LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE (Jodie Mack, USA)
  16. BROUILLARD: PASSAGE #14 (Alexandre Larose, Canada)
  17. INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  18. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  19. A TOUCH OF SIN (Jia Zhangke, China)
  20. BLIND DETECTIVE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  21. STRANGER BY THE LAKE (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  22. COMPUTER CHESS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  23. COHERENCE (James Ward Byrkit, USA)
  24. 50:50 (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  25. (IT’S NOT A PRISON IF YOU NEVER TRY THE DOOR) (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  26. LISTENING TO THE SPACE IN MY ROOM (Robert Beavers, USA)
  27. THE IMMIGRANT (James Gray, USA)
  28. MAIN HALL (Philipp Fleischmann, Austria)
  29. I HATE MYSELF 🙂 (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  30. SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
  31. EXHIBITION (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  32. THE WORLD’S END (Edgar Wright, UK)
  33. THE BLING RING (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  34. SNOWPIERCER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  35. JG (Tacita Dean, UK)
  36. PINBALL (Suzan Pitt, USA)
  37. UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer, UK)
  38. THE GUESTS (Ken Jacobs, USA)

2012

  1. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami, Japan)
  2. ROMANCING IN THIN AIR (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  3. DRUG WAR (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  4. IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  5. LEVIATHAN (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel, USA)
  6. TABU (Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
  7. FRANCES HA (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  8. LINCOLN (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  9. MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson, USA)
  10. PASSION (Brian De Palma, Germany)
  11. DIFFERENTLY, MOLUSSIA (Nicolas Rey, France)
  12. HOLY MOTORS (Leos Carax, France)
  13. YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET (Alain Resnais, France)
  14. THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT (Dan Sallitt, USA)
  15. TO THE WONDER (Terrence Malick, USA)
  16. RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  17. THE MASTER (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  18. BARBARA (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  19. WALKER (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  20. VIOLA (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  21. CASTING BLOSSOMS TO THE SKY (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  22. COSMOPOLIS (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  23. EVANGELION: 3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  24. IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY (Don Hertzfeldt, USA)
  25. THE ACT OF KILLING (Joshua Oppenheimer, Indonesia)
  26. MOTORWAY (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  27. BY HALVES (Amy Halpern, USA)
  28. DJANGO UNCHAINED (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  29. CLOUD ATLAS (Lana & Lilly Wachowski & Tom Tykwer, Germany)
  30. A MONTH IN THAILAND (Paul Negoescu, Romania)
  31. THE POET AND SINGER (Bi Gan, China)
  32. RELEASING HUMAN ENERGIES (Mark Toscano, USA)

2011

  1. THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  2. THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick, USA)
  3. DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  4. MARGARET (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
  5. THIS IS NOT A FILM (Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Iran)
  6. HOUSE OF TOLERANCE (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  7. THE KID WITH A BIKE (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  8. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (David Fincher, USA)
  9. DREILEBEN: BEATS BEING DEAD (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  10. LIST (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  11. DREILEBEN: DON’T FOLLOW ME AROUND (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  12. THE COLOR WHEEL (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  13. THE LONELIEST PLANET (Julia Loktev, USA)
  14. ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE (Adam Curtis, UK)
  15. COULD SEE A PUMA. (Eduardo Williams, Argentina)
  16. A WORLD WITHOUT WOMEN (Guillaume Brac, France)
  17. LOW LIFE (Nicolas Klotz, France)
  18. THE PETTIFOGGER (Lewis Klahr, USA)
  19. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—GHOST PROTOCOL (Brad Bird, USA)
  20. MELANCHOLIA (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  21. THE WISE KIDS (Stephen Cone, USA)
  22. PINA (Wim Wenders, Germany)
  23. SLOW ACTION (Ben Rivers, UK)
  24. BURNING STAR (Joshua Gen Solondz, USA)
  25. UNKNOWN (Jaume Collet-Serra, Germany)
  26. 28.IV.81 (DESCENDING FIGURES) (Christopher Harris, USA)
  27. VISITATION (Suzan Pitt, USA)
  28. LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)

2010

  1. MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raúl Ruiz, Portugal)
  2. CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami, France)
  3. MEEK’S CUTOFF (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  4. UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  5. HAHAHA (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  6. OKI’S MOVIE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  7. LOVE IN A PUFF (Pang Ho-cheung, Hong Kong)
  8. THE CITY BELOW (Christoph Hochhäusler, Germany)
  9. FILM SOCIALISME (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  10. THE GHOST WRITER (Roman Polański, Germany)
  11. THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal)
  12. SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (Edgar Wright, UK)
  13. THE SOCIAL NETWORK (David Fincher, USA)
  14. LADY BLUE SHANGHAI (David Lynch, China)
  15. UNSTOPPABLE (Tony Scott, USA)
  16. I WISH I KNEW (Jia Zhangke, China)
  17. 607 (Liu Jiayin, China)
  18. CRY WHEN IT HAPPENS (Laida Lertxundi, USA)
  19. RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  20. TRUE GRIT (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  21. OH SUPREME LIGHT (Jean-Marie Straub, Italy)
  22. THE ARBOR (Clio Barnard, UK)
  23. THIS IS MY KINGDOM (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico)
  24. INFINITE DOORS (Murata Takeshi, USA)
  25. THE SUPPLIANT (Robert Beavers, USA)

2009

  1. OXHIDE II (Liu Jiayin, China)
  2. IT FELT LIKE A KISS (Adam Curtis, UK)
  3. DISORDER (Huang Weikai, China)
  4. LIKE YOU KNOW IT ALL (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  5. ACCIDENT (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  6. FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Wes Anderson, USA)
  7. PUBLIC ENEMIES (Michael Mann, USA)
  8. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  9. TREES OF SYNTAX, LEAVES OF AXIS (Saïto Daïchi, Canada)
  10. SWEETGRASS (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, USA)
  11. MOTHER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  12. LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  13. FACE (Tsai Ming-liang, France)
  14. ORPHAN (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  15. EVANGELION: 2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  16. MUNDANE HISTORY (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
  17. TRASH HUMPERS (Harmony Korine, USA)
  18. WHITE MATERIAL (Claire Denis, France)
  19. A SERIOUS MAN (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  20. DUPLICITY (Tony Gilroy, USA)
  21. IMPOLEX (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  22. BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  23. STAR TREK (J. J. Abrams, USA)

2008

  1. SPARROW (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  2. NIGHT AND DAY (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  3. 35 SHOTS OF RUM (Claire Denis, France)
  4. THE HEADLESS WOMAN (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
  5. TOKYO SONATA (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  6. SPEED RACER (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  7. HISTORIAS EXTRAORDINARIAS (Mariano Llinás, Argentina)
  8. 24 CITY (Jia Zhangke, China)
  9. LIVERPOOL (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  10. TWO LOVERS (James Gray, USA)
  11. WENDY AND LUCY (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  12. L’IDIOT (Pierre Léon, France)
  13. CRY ME A RIVER (Jia Zhangke, China)
  14. GREEN FUSE (Saïto Daïchi, Canada)
  15. PASSION (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  16. AFTERSCHOOL (Antonio Campos, USA)
  17. BURN AFTER READING (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  18. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, USA)
  19. THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS (Agnès Varda, France)
  20. FILM PERDUTO (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Italy)
  21. THE HURT LOCKER (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)

2007

  1. THE TRAP: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR DREAM OF FREEDOM (Adam Curtis, UK)
  2. LA FRANCE (Serge Bozon, France)
  3. ZODIAC (David Fincher, USA)
  4. DEATH PROOF (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  5. THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  6. MICHAEL CLAYTON (Tony Gilroy, USA)
  7. HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS (Joe Swanberg, USA)
  8. MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS (Wong Kar-wai, USA)
  9. PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND (John Gianvito, USA)
  10. THE DARJEELING LIMITED (Wes Anderson, USA)
  11. 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (Cristian Mungiu, Romania)
  12. USELESS (Jia Zhangke, China)
  13. EVANGELION: 1.0 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  14. ARTIFICES #1 (Alexandre Larose, Canada)
  15. HOT FUZZ (Edgar Wright, UK)
  16. THE SECOND LINE (John Magary, USA)
  17. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  18. SUNSHINE STATE (EXTENDED FORECAST) (Christopher Harris, USA)
  19. PERSEPOLIS (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, France)
  20. RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION (Russell Mulcahy, Germany)
  21. LUST, CAUTION (Ang Lee, China)

2006

  1. SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  2. MIAMI VICE (Michael Mann, USA)
  3. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch, USA)
  4. ELECTION 2 (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  5. STILL LIFE (Jia Zhangke, China)
  6. DEJA VU (Tony Scott, USA)
  7. MARIE ANTOINETTE (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  8. WOMAN ON THE BEACH (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  9. I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE (Tsai Ming-liang, Malaysia)
  10. EXILED (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  11. OLD JOY (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  12. THE HOST (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  13. DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT (Julia Loktev, USA)
  14. CHILDREN OF MEN (Alfonso Cuarón, UK)
  15. TEMPLE OF TORMENT (George Kuchar, USA)
  16. DONG (Jia Zhangke, China)
  17. CHINA GIRLS (Michelle Silva, USA)
  18. THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (David Frankel, USA)

2005

  1. L’ENFANT (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  2. THE NEW WORLD (Terrence Malick, USA)
  3. OXHIDE (Liu Jiayin, China)
  4. TALE OF CINEMA (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  5. THROUGH THE FOREST (Jean-Paul Civeyrac, France)
  6. THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
  7. CACHÉ (Michael Haneke, France)
  8. THE WAYWARD CLOUD (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  9. ELECTION (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  10. PERHAPS LOVE (Peter Chan, Hong Kong)
  11. THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  12. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (Ang Lee, USA)
  13. LADY VENGEANCE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  14. STAR WARS: EPISODE III—REVENGE OF THE SITH (George Lucas, USA)
  15. HOUSE OF WAX (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)

2004

  1. TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  2. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  3. BEFORE SUNSET (Richard Linklater, USA)
  4. THROW DOWN (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  5. KUNG FU HUSTLE (Stephen Chow, Hong Kong)
  6. THE HAND (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  7. THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES: THE RISE OF THE POLITICS OF FEAR (Adam Curtis, UK)
  8. THE WORLD (Jia Zhangke, China)
  9. TEN SKIES (James Benning, USA)
  10. LOS MUERTOS (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  11. VERA DRAKE (Mike Leigh, UK)
  12. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry, USA)
  13. COLLATERAL (Michael Mann, USA)
  14. KILL BILL VOL. 2 (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  15. VÉNUS ET FLEUR (Emmanuel Mouret, France)
  16. TRIPLE AGENT (Éric Rohmer, France)
  17. L’INTRUS (Claire Denis, France)
  18. THE INCREDIBLES (Brad Bird, USA)
  19. HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (Zhang Yimou, China)
  20. THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (Wes Anderson, USA)
  21. BREAKING NEWS (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  22. WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  23. PRIMER (Shane Carruth, USA)
  24. EROS (Wong Kar-wai/Steven Soderbergh/Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  25. RECKLESS EYEBALLING (Christopher Harris, USA)
  26. SHAUN OF THE DEAD (Edgar Wright, UK)

2003

  1. GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  2. LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF (Thom Andersen, USA)
  3. PTU (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  4. CAFÉ LUMIÈRE (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Japan)
  5. LOST IN TRANSLATION (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  6. RUNNING ON KARMA (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  7. KILL BILL VOL. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  8. MEMORIES OF MURDER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  9. ( ) (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  10. OLDBOY (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  11. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
  12. TEXTISM (Hirabayashi Isamu, Japan)
  13. S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE (Panh Rithy, Cambodia)
  14. TARNATION (Jonathan Caouette, USA)
  15. THE MATRIX RELOADED (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  16. THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS (Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  17. THE SCHOOL OF ROCK (Richard Linklater, USA)
  18. INTOLERABLE CRUELTY (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  19. EL DOCTOR (Suzan Pitt, USA)

2002

  1. FEMME FATALE (Brian De Palma, France)
  2. MY LEFT EYE SEES GHOSTS (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  3. BLISSFULLY YOURS (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  4. ON THE OCCASION OF REMEMBERING THE TURNING GATE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  5. CHINESE ODYSSEY 2002 (Jeffrey Lau, Hong Kong)
  6. HERO (Zhang Yimou, China)
  7. THE CENTURY OF THE SELF (Adam Curtis, UK)
  8. PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  9. FRIDAY NIGHT (Claire Denis, France)
  10. UNKNOWN PLEASURES (Jia Zhangke, China)
  11. THE SKYWALK IS GONE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  12. MINORITY REPORT (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  13. THE FRIENDS OF THE FRIENDS (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  14. FAR FROM HEAVEN (Todd Haynes, USA)
  15. FROM THE OTHER SIDE (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  16. LOOKING FOR TSAI (Patrik Eriksson & Erik Hemmendorff, Sweden)
  17. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  18. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
  19. STAR WARS: EPISODE II—ATTACK OF THE CLONES (George Lucas, USA)
  20. RUSSIAN ARK (Alexander Sokurov, Russia)
  21. MISCHKA (Jean-François Stévenin, France)
  22. JACKASS: THE MOVIE (Jeff Tremaine, USA)
  23. GANGS OF NEW YORK (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  24. RESIDENT EVIL (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  25. INFERNAL AFFAIRS (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak, Hong Kong)
  26. SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  27. FUNNY HA HA (Andrew Bujalski, USA)

2001

  1. MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch, USA)
  2. A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  3. MILLENNIUM MAMBO (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  4. SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  5. PULSE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  6. THAT OLD DREAM THAT MOVES (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  7. LA LIBERTAD (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  8. WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  9. LA CIÉNAGA (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
  10. ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU (Iwai Shunji, Japan)
  11. WAKING LIFE (Richard Linklater, USA)
  12. THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (Wes Anderson, USA)
  13. ALI (Michael Mann, USA)
  14. HUSH! (Hashiguchi Ryosuke, Japan)
  15. TROUBLE EVERY DAY (Claire Denis, France)
  16. LOVE ON A DIET (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  17. SHAOLIN SOCCER (Stephen Chow, Hong Kong)
  18. THE FOLLOW (Wong Kar-wai, USA)
  19. THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  20. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
  21. COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE (Watanabe Shinichiro, Japan)
  22. A FINE DAY (Thomas Arslan, Germany)
  23. DANS LE NOIR DU TEMPS (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  24. OCEAN’S ELEVEN (Steven Soderbergh, USA)

2000

  1. A ONE AND A TWO… (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  2. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  3. PLATFORM (Jia Zhangke, China)
  4. CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee, Taiwan)
  5. DURIAN DURIAN (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  6. THE HEART OF THE WORLD (Guy Maddin, Canada)
  7. BAMBOOZLED (Spike Lee, USA)
  8. THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE (Mark Dindal, USA)
  9. HAMLET (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  10. VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  11. YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
  12. ORIGINS OF THE 21ST CENTURY (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  13. THE STATE I AM IN (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  14. MISSION TO MARS (Brian De Palma, USA)
  15. MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  16. PETITE CONVERSATION FAMILIALE (Hélène Lapiower, France)
  17. DANCER IN THE DARK (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  18. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II (John Woo, USA)
  19. JOINT SECURITY AREA (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)

1999

  1. BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis, France)
  2. EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  3. OUTER SPACE (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria)
  4. GOHATTO (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  5. MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (Takahata Isao, Japan)
  6. THE MISSION (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  7. THE INSIDER (Michael Mann, USA)
  8. LITTLE CHEUNG (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  9. THE MATRIX (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  10. ROSETTA (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  11. POLA X (Leos Carax, France)
  12. SILVIA PRIETO (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
  13. EXISTENZ (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  14. STAR WARS: EPISODE I—THE PHANTOM MENACE (George Lucas, USA)
  15. THE STRAIGHT STORY (David Lynch, USA)
  16. EL VALLEY CENTRO (James Benning, USA)
  17. SOUTH (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)

1998

  1. THE HOLE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  2. FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  3. THE THIN RED LINE (Terrence Malick, USA)
  4. RUSHMORE (Wes Anderson, USA)
  5. THE LONGEST SUMMER (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  6. A HERO NEVER DIES (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  7. NEW ROSE HOTEL (Abel Ferrara, USA)
  8. THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  9. THE CELEBRATION (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark)
  10. VASSOURINHA: THE VOICE AND THE VOID (Carlos Adriano, Brazil)
  11. BELLY (Hype Williams, USA)
  12. KNOCK OFF (Tsui Hark, USA)
  13. SNAKE EYES (Brian De Palma, USA)
  14. THE STRANGER IN APARTMENT 9F (Mike Kuchar, USA)
  15. DIL SE.. (Mani Ratnam, India)

1997

  1. CURE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  2. HAPPY TOGETHER (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  3. THE RIVER (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  4. THE END OF EVANGELION (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  5. MADE IN HONG KONG (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  6. LOST HIGHWAY (David Lynch, USA)
  7. TOO MANY WAYS TO BE NO. 1 (Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  8. TASTE OF CHERRY (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
  9. FACE/OFF (John Woo, USA)
  10. THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
  11. STARSHIP TROOPERS (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
  12. XIAO WU (Jia Zhangke, China)
  13. PRINCESS MONONOKE (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  14. THE ODD ONE DIES (Patrick Yau and Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  15. SHULIE (Elisabeth Subrin, USA)
  16. GUMMO (Harmony Korine, USA)
  17. THE REVENGE: A VISIT FROM FATE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  18. COMINGLED CONTAINERS (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  19. MR. NICE GUY (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
  20. DOUBLE TEAM (Tsui Hark, USA)
  21. YGGDRASILL: WHOSE ROOTS ARE STARS IN THE HUMAN MIND (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  22. TITANIC (James Cameron, USA)
  23. JACKIE BROWN (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  24. BOOGIE NIGHTS (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)

1996

  1. COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY (Peter Chan, Hong Kong)
  2. MAHJONG (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  3. IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas, France)
  4. SECRETS & LIES (Mike Leigh, UK)
  5. VIVA EROTICA (Derek Yee & Lo Chi-leung, Hong Kong)
  6. GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  7. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (Brian De Palma, USA)
  8. BREAKING THE WAVES (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  9. FARGO (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  10. THE DAY A PIG FELL INTO THE WELL (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  11. BOUND (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  12. BOTTLE ROCKET (Wes Anderson, USA)
  13. NÉNETTE ET BONI (Claire Denis, France)

1995

  1. HEAT (Michael Mann, USA)
  2. LA CÉRÉMONIE (Claude Chabrol, France)
  3. STRANGE DAYS (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)
  4. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  5. FALLEN ANGELS (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  6. SAFE (Todd Haynes, USA)
  7. BEFORE SUNRISE (Richard Linklater, USA)
  8. CLUELESS (Amy Heckerling, USA)
  9. TATORT: FRAU BU LACHT (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  10. PREMONITIONS FOLLOWING AN EVIL DEED (David Lynch, USA)
  11. WHEN IT RAINS (Charles Burnett, USA)
  12. AM MEER (Ute Aurand, Germany)
  13. UNDERGROUND (Emir Kusturica, Serbia)
  14. ZONE (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  15. JOY STREET (Suzan Pitt, USA)
  16. XIAO SHAN GOING HOME (Jia Zhangke, China)

1994

  1. CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  2. ASHES OF TIME (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  3. A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  4. IN THE HEAT OF THE SUN (Jiang Wen, China)
  5. SÁTÁNTANGÓ (Tarr Béla, Hungary)
  6. VIVE L’AMOUR (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  7. POM POKO (Takahata Isao, Japan)
  8. DRUNKEN MASTER II (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
  9. WING CHUN (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  10. BLACK ICE (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  11. U.S. GO HOME (Claire Denis, France)
  12. COLD WATER (Olivier Assayas, France)
  13. TO LIVE (Zhang Yimou, China)
  14. THE INVINCIBLES (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  15. THE MOON (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  16. RIVER OF GRASS (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  17. THE GLASS SHIELD (Charles Burnett, USA)
  18. PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  19. THE MAMMALS OF VICTORIA (Stan Brakhage, USA)

1993

  1. NAKED (Mike Leigh, UK)
  2. GREEN SNAKE (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  3. JE VOUS SALUE, SARAJEVO (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  4. CARLITO’S WAY (Brian De Palma, USA)
  5. D’EST (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  6. STELLAR (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  7. DAZED AND CONFUSED (Richard Linklater, USA)
  8. SCHINDLER’S LIST (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  9. THREE COLORS: BLUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski, France)
  10. TAI-CHI MASTER (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  11. THE PIANO (Jane Campion, New Zealand)
  12. JURASSIC PARK (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  13. TRUE ROMANCE (Tony Scott, USA)

1992

  1. TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch, USA)
  2. THE ROCKING HORSEMEN (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  3. HARD-BOILED (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  4. THE LONG DAY CLOSES (Terence Davies, UK)
  5. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA II (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  6. FULL CONTACT (Ringo Lam, Hong Kong)
  7. UNFORGIVEN (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  8. MALCOLM X (Spike Lee, USA)
  9. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Michael Mann, USA)
  10. DEEP COVER (Bill Duke, USA)
  11. REBELS OF THE NEON GOD (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  12. SIMPLE MEN (Hal Hartley, USA)
  13. BASIC INSTINCT (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
  14. NITRATE KISSES (Barbara Hammer, USA)
  15. HYENAS (Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal)
  16. RAISING CAIN (Brian De Palma, USA)
  17. CANDYMAN (Bernard Rose, USA)

1991

  1. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  2. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  3. SURVIVING DESIRE (Hal Hartley, USA)
  4. ONLY YESTERDAY (Takahata Isao, Japan)
  5. BARTON FINK (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  6. LA VIE DES MORTS (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  7. UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (Wim Wenders, Germany)
  8. AMBITION (Hal Hartley, USA)
  9. RAISE THE RED LANTERN (Zhang Yimou, China)
  10. THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland)
  11. THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT (Hal Hartley, USA)
  12. TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (James Cameron, USA)
  13. SOME DIVINE WIND (Roddy Bogawa, USA)
  14. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (Jonathan Demme, USA)

1990

  1. TRUST (Hal Hartley, USA)
  2. DAYS OF BEING WILD (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  3. CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
  4. BULLET IN THE HEAD (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  5. WILD AT HEART (David Lynch, USA)
  6. TOTAL RECALL (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
  7. GOODFELLAS (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  8. TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (Charles Burnett, USA)
  9. VENUS (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  10. THE NASTY GIRL (Michael Verhoeven, West Germany)
  11. JU DOU (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang, China)
  12. BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  13. PARIS IS BURNING (Jennie Livingston, USA)
  14. NO FEAR, NO DIE (Claire Denis, France)
  15. EUROPA EUROPA (Agnieszka Holland, France)

1989

  1. A CITY OF SADNESS (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  2. THE KILLER (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  3. BEIJING WATERMELON (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  4. PEDICAB DRIVER (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
  5. DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee, USA)
  6. THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH (Hal Hartley, USA)
  7. KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  8. CASUALTIES OF WAR (Brian De Palma, USA)
  9. LES SIÈGES DE L’ALCAZAR (Luc Moullet, France)
  10. INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  11. THE MUMMY’S DREAM (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  12. THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (Michael Haneke, Austria)
  13. SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  14. MEETING A MILESTONE (Goutam Ghose, India)
  15. BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II (Robert Zemeckis, USA)

1988

  1. MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  2. THE DISCARNATES (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  3. SCHOOL ON FIRE (Ringo Lam, Hong Kong)
  4. AS TEARS GO BY (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  5. 36 FILLETTE (Catherine Breillat, France)
  6. CAT LISTENING TO MUSIC (Chris Marker, France)
  7. UMA PEDRA NO BOLSO (Joaquim Pinto, Portugal)
  8. DEVIL’S CIRCUIT (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  9. MIRACLE MILE (Steve De Jarnatt, USA)
  10. DIE KATZE (Dominik Graf, West Germany)
  11. AKIRA (Otomo Katsuhiro, Japan)
  12. DIE HARD (John McTiernan, USA)
  13. CHOCOLAT (Claire Denis, France)
  14. RED SORGHUM (Zhang Yimou, China)
  15. POLICE STORY 2 (Jackie Chan, Hong Kong)

1987

  1. EASTERN CONDORS (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
  2. ISHTAR (Elaine May, USA)
  3. DAUGHTER OF THE NILE (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  4. 4 ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE (Éric Rohmer, France)
  5. CITY ON FIRE (Ringo Lam, Hong Kong)
  6. ROBOCOP (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
  7. WALL (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  8. WINGS OF DESIRE (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  9. RAISING ARIZONA (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  10. AN AUTUMN’S TALE (Mabel Cheung, Hong Kong)
  11. SIGN “O” THE TIMES (Prince, USA)
  12. THE DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  13. A BETTER TOMORROW II (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  14. A CHINESE GHOST STORY (Ching Siu-tung, Hong Kong)

1986

  1. PEKING OPERA BLUES (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  2. BLUE VELVET (David Lynch, USA)
  3. MANHUNTER (Michael Mann, USA)
  4. TERRORIZERS (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  5. BOUND FOR THE FIELDS, THE MOUNTAINS, AND THE SEACOAST (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  6. THE GREEN RAY (Éric Rohmer, France)
  7. ROSA LA ROSE, FILLE PUBLIQUE (Paul Vecchiali, France)
  8. FAUBOURG ST. MARTIN (Jean-Claude Guiguet, France)
  9. HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  10. LANDSCAPE SUICIDE (James Benning, USA)
  11. DOUBLE MESSIEURS (Jean-François Stévenin, France)
  12. SOMETHING WILD (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  13. NIGHT MUSIC (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  14. A BETTER TOMORROW (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  15. ROUND MIDNIGHT (Bertrand Tavernier, France)
  16. ALIENS (James Cameron, USA)
  17. THE RISE AND FALL OF A SMALL FILM COMPANY (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  18. BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (John Carpenter, USA)
  19. LAPUTA: CASTLE IN THE SKY (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)

1985

  1. TAIPEI STORY (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  2. RAN (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  3. POLICE STORY (Jackie Chan, Hong Kong)
  4. CONTACT (Alan Clarke, UK)
  5. BACK TO THE FUTURE (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  6. DAY OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero, USA)
  7. GRIM (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  8. BRAZIL (Terry Gilliam, UK)
  9. AFTER HOURS (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  10. MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (Stephen Frears, UK)
  11. TROUBLE IN MIND (Alan Rudolph, USA)
  12. WITNESS (Peter Weir, USA)

1984

  1. SHANGHAI BLUES (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  2. STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  3. PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  4. WHEELS ON MEALS (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
  5. STANDARD GAUGE (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  6. LONG ARM OF THE LAW (Johnny Mak, Hong Kong)
  7. CHOOSE ME (Alan Rudolph, USA)
  8. INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  9. DUNE (David Lynch, USA)
  10. THE TERMINATOR (James Cameron, USA)
  11. GHOST (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  12. CLASS RELATIONS (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  13. BODY DOUBLE (Brian De Palma, USA)
  14. GREMLINS (Joe Dante, USA)
  15. AMERICAN DREAMS (LOST AND FOUND) (James Benning, USA)
  16. REPO MAN (Alex Cox, USA)

1983

  1. SUNLESS (Chris Marker, France)
  2. L’ARGENT (Robert Bresson, France)
  3. THAT DAY, ON THE BEACH (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  4. VIDEODROME (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  5. PAULINE AT THE BEACH (Éric Rohmer, France)
  6. TESTAMENT (Lynne Littman, USA)
  7. EIN BILD (Harun Farocki, West Germany)
  8. THE KEEP (Michael Mann, USA)
  9. BORN IN FLAMES (Lizzie Borden, USA)
  10. AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS (Paul Vecchiali, France)
  11. BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS (Billy Woodberry, USA)
  12. RETURN OF THE JEDI (Richard Marquand, USA)
  13. MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  14. SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN (Alan Briggs, UK)
  15. CATTLE MUTILATIONS (George Kuchar, USA)
  16. POSSIBLY IN MICHIGAN (Cecelia Condit, USA)

1982

  1. BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott, USA)
  2. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  3. NOMAD (Patrick Tam, Hong Kong)
  4. TOO EARLY/TOO LATE (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, France)
  5. BOAT PEOPLE (Ann Hui, Hong Kong)
  6. THUNDER (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  7. POLTERGEIST (Tobe Hooper, USA)
  8. THE THING (John Carpenter, USA)
  9. EXPECTATIONS (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  10. VERONIKA VOSS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  11. BOX (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  12. KOYAANISQATSI (Godfrey Reggio, USA)
  13. EN RACHÂCHANT (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, France)
  14. IN OUR TIME (Tao Te-chen/Edward Yang/Ko I-chen/Chang Yi, Taiwan)

1981

  1. SPACY (Ito Takashi, Japan)
  2. THE AVIATOR’S WIFE (Éric Rohmer, France)
  3. TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (Nils Malmros, Denmark)
  4. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  5. MY YOUNG AUNTIE (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
  6. KAGERO-ZA (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  7. THIEF (Michael Mann, USA)
  8. BLOW OUT (Brian De Palma, USA)
  9. AT THIS LATE DATE, THE CHARLESTON (Okamoto Kihachi, Japan)
  10. ORDERLY OR DISORDERLY (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
  11. POSSESSION (Andrzej Żuławski, West Germany)
  12. THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  13. MERRY-GO-ROUND (Jacques Rivette, France)
  14. MAD MAX 2 (George Miller, Australia)

1980

  1. SIMONE BARBÈS OR VIRTUE (Marie-Claude Treilhou, France)
  2. KAGEMUSHA (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  3. DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS—1ST KIND (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  4. EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  5. THE SHINING (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  6. EQUATION TO AN UNKNOWN (Dietrich de Velsa, France)
  7. CRUISING (William Friedkin, USA)
  8. LOULOU (Maurice Pialat, France)
  9. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Irvin Kershner, USA)
  10. THE BIRTH OF MAGELLAN: CADENZA I (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  11. RAGING BULL (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  12. DRESSED TO KILL (Brian De Palma, USA)
  13. THE LAST METRO (François Truffaut, France)
  14. THE CONDUCTOR (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)
  15. THE ELEPHANT MAN (David Lynch, USA)
  16. CONFIDENCE (Szabó István, Hungary)
  17. MELVIN AND HOWARD (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  18. NEW YORK STORY (Jackie Raynal, USA)
  19. SPECIAL TREATMENT (Goran Paskaljević, Yugoslavia)
  20. HOME MOVIES (Brian De Palma, USA)
  21. AMOR (Robert Beavers, USA)
  22. THE CONSTANT FACTOR (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)

1979

  1. DIRTY HO (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
  2. THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  3. LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu, Taiwan)
  4. STALKER (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  5. APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
  6. RAINING IN THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu, Taiwan)
  7. THE BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER MOVIE (Chuck Jones, USA)
  8. ALIEN (Ridley Scott, USA)
  9. ASPARAGUS (Suzan Pitt, USA)
  10. WISE BLOOD (John Huston, USA)
  11. THE BLACK STALLION (Carroll Ballard, USA)
  12. SHORT MEMORY (Eduardo de Gregorio, France)
  13. FROM THE CLOUD TO THE RESISTANCE (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Italy)
  14. ALEXANDRIA… WHY? (Youssef Chahine, Egypt)
  15. LE NAVIRE NIGHT (Marguerite Duras, France)
  16. ARREBATO (Iván Zulueta, Spain)
  17. BYE BYE BRAZIL (Carlos Diegues, Brazil)
  18. AND QUIET ROLLS THE DAWN (Mrinal Sen, India)
  19. A SCREAM FROM SILENCE (Anne Claire Poirier, Canada)
  20. NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  21. CAMERA BUFF (Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland)
  22. THE MUPPET MOVIE (James Frawley, USA)
  23. BLACK JACK (Ken Loach, UK)
  24. LA LUNA (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
  25. LOVE ON THE RUN (François Truffaut, France)

1978

  1. PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (Éric Rohmer, France)
  2. THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
  3. DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick, USA)
  4. DAWN OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero, USA)
  5. IN A YEAR WITH 13 MOONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  6. GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS (Bertrand Blier, France)
  7. THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING (Raúl Ruiz, France)
  8. REMEMBER MY NAME (Alan Rudolph, USA)
  9. LES RENDEZ-VOUS D’ANNA (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  10. THE GREEN ROOM (François Truffaut, France)
  11. DRUNKEN MASTER (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  12. DOSSIER 51 (Michel Deville, France)
  13. HALLOWEEN (John Carpenter, USA)
  14. OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY (Christian de Chalonge, France)
  15. GIRLFRIENDS (Claudia Weill, USA)
  16. LIKE A TURTLE ON ITS BACK (Luc Béraud, France)
  17. VIOLETTE NOZIÈRE (Claude Chabrol, France)
  18. THE LEFT-HANDED WOMAN (Peter Handke, West Germany)
  19. DESPAIR (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  20. GATES OF HEAVEN (Errol Morris, USA)
  21. THE SHOUT (Jerzy Skolimowski, UK)
  22. WITHOUT ANESTHESIA (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)
  23. AMERICAN BOY: A PORTRAIT OF STEVEN PRINCE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  24. MOLIÈRE (Ariane Mnouchkine, France)

1977

  1. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch, USA)
  2. THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (Robert Bresson, France)
  3. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  4. PROVIDENCE (Alain Resnais, France)
  5. 11 X 14 (James Benning, USA)
  6. ONE WAY BOOGIE WOOGIE (James Benning, USA)
  7. ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen, USA)
  8. HOUSE (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  9. THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (Luis Buñuel, France)
  10. THE AMERICAN FRIEND (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  11. STAR WARS (George Lucas, USA)
  12. SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento, Italy)
  13. KILLER OF SHEEP (Charles Burnett, USA)
  14. LE CAMION (Marguerite Duras, France)
  15. ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN’T (Agnès Varda, France)
  16. THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN (François Truffaut, France)
  17. PADRE PADRONE (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Italy)
  18. BETWEEN THE LINES (Joan Micklin Silver, USA)
  19. OMAR GATLATO (Merzak Allouache, Algeria)
  20. A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT (Chris Marker, France)
  21. TENT OF MIRACLES (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazil)
  22. SHORT EYES (Robert M. Young, USA)
  23. ROSELAND (James Ivory, USA)
  24. LA SOUFRIÈRE (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  25. CAMOUFLAGE (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
  26. THE LACEMAKER (Claude Goretta, France)
  27. WOMEN (Mészarós Márta, Hungary)
  28. CITIZENS BAND (Jonathan Demme, USA)

1976

  1. NEWS FROM HOME (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  2. ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (John Carpenter, USA)
  3. DUELLE (UNE QUARANTAINE) (Jacques Rivette, France)
  4. THE MARQUISE OF O… (Éric Rohmer, West Germany)
  5. TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  6. IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  7. INSIANG (Lino Brocka, Philippines)
  8. ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (Alan J. Pakula, USA)
  9. NOROÎT (UNE VENGEANCE) (Jacques Rivette, France)
  10. CARRIE (Brian De Palma, USA)
  11. SÉRAIL (Eduardo de Gregorio, France)
  12. MIKEY AND NICKY (Elaine May, USA)
  13. HARLAN COUNTY U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple, USA)
  14. SMALL CHANGE (François Truffaut, France)
  15. BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR (Joan Micklin Silver, USA)
  16. JONAH WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 (Alain Tanner, Switzerland)
  17. THE MIDDLEMAN (Satyajit Ray, India)
  18. FORTINI/CANI (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Italy)
  19. THE MEMORY OF JUSTICE (Marcel Ophuls, USA)
  20. PROJECTION INSTRUCTIONS (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  21. CAR WASH (Michael Schultz, USA)
  22. THE OPENING OF MISTY BEETHOVEN (Radley Metzger, USA)
  23. 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
  24. KINGS OF THE ROAD (Wim Wenders, West Germany)

1975

  1. INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras, France)
  2. MOSES AND AARON (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Austria)
  3. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  4. NASHVILLE (Robert Altman, USA)
  5. SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
  6. JAWS (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  7. DERSU UZALA (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  8. THE VALIANT ONES (King Hu, Taiwan)
  9. THE PASSENGER (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  10. FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  11. ASSOCIATIONS (John Smith, USA)
  12. XALA (Ousmane Sembène, Senegal)
  13. THE TRAVELING PLAYERS (Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greece)
  14. GREY GARDENS (Albert & David Maysles & Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer, USA)
  15. THE STORY OF ADÈLE H. (François Truffaut, France)
  16. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (James Benning & Bette Gordon, USA)
  17. BARRY LYNDON (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  18. THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM (Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta, West Germany)
  19. FEAR OF FEAR (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)

1974

  1. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette, France)
  2. FEMMES FEMMES (Paul Vecchiali, France)
  3. THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (Tobe Hooper, USA)
  4. ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  5. LANCELOT DU LAC (Robert Bresson, France)
  6. A SIMPLE EVENT (Sohrab Shahid-Saless, Iran)
  7. THE CONVERSATION (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
  8. THE BENCH OF DESOLATION (Claude Chabrol, France)
  9. STAVISKY… (Alain Resnais, France)
  10. THE MOUTH AGAPE (Maurice Pialat, France)
  11. A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (John Cassavetes, USA)
  12. FEMALE TROUBLE (John Waters, USA)
  13. THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY (Luis Buñuel, France)
  14. PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Brian De Palma, USA)
  15. CHINATOWN (Roman Polański, USA)
  16. THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  17. ALICE IN THE CITIES (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  18. DAISY MILLER (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  19. THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD (Alain Tanner, Switzerland)
  20. YUDIE (Mirra Bank, USA)
  21. ELECTRA, MY LOVE (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
  22. DYKETACTICS (Barbara Hammer, USA)
  23. THE NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW (Sérgio Ricardo, Brazil)
  24. ITALIANAMERICAN (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  25. FROM THESE ROOTS (William Greaves, USA)
  26. CONVERSATION PIECE (Luchino Visconti, Italy)
  27. PASADENA FREEWAY STILLS (Gary Beydler, USA)
  28. LA PALOMA (Daniel Schmid, Switzerland)
  29. THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (Joseph Sargent, USA)
  30. THE GODFATHER PART II (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)

1973

  1. THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache, France)
  2. F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles, France)
  3. THE FATE OF LEE KHAN (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  4. BADLANDS (Terrence Malick, USA)
  5. WORLD ON A WIRE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  6. THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (Víctor Erice, Spain)
  7. MEAN STREETS (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  8. DAY FOR NIGHT (François Truffaut, France)
  9. PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
  10. INTRODUCTION TO ARNOLD SCHOENBERG’S “ACCOMPANIMENT TO A CINEMATOGRAPHIC SCENE” (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  11. A DOLL’S HOUSE (Joseph Losey, UK)
  12. THE ILLUMINATION (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
  13. ISRAEL, WHY (Claude Lanzmann, France)
  14. CHARLEY VARRICK (Don Siegel, USA)
  15. JEFFERSON CIRCUS SONGS (Suzan Pitt, USA)
  16. DISTANT THUNDER (Satyajit Ray, India)

1972

  1. OUT 1: SPECTRE (Jacques Rivette, France)
  2. THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  3. AVANTI! (Billy Wilder, USA)
  4. THE HEARTBREAK KID (Elaine May, USA)
  5. LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (Éric Rohmer, France)
  6. WE WON’T GROW OLD TOGETHER (Maurice Pialat, France)
  7. POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  8. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (Luis Buñuel, France)
  9. NATHALIE GRANGER (Marguerite Duras, France)
  10. TOUT VA BIEN (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, France)
  11. PINK FLAMINGOS (John Waters, USA)
  12. GOODBYE CP (Hara Kazuo, Japan)
  13. HISTORY LESSONS (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Italy)
  14. REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (Jonas Mekas, USA)
  15. CHUNG KUO—CINA (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  16. RED PSALM (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
  17. JUNIOR BONNER (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
  18. LIZA WITH A Z (Bob Fosse, USA)
  19. THE INNER SCAR (Philippe Garrel, France)
  20. ULZANA’S RAID (Robert Aldrich, USA)
  21. THE WOLD SHADOW (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  22. A SENSE OF LOSS (Marcel Ophuls, UK)
  23. CABARET (Bob Fosse, USA)
  24. IMAGES (Robert Altman, UK)
  25. SOLARIS (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  26. AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  27. THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)

1971

  1. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu, Taiwan)
  2. OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE (Jacques Rivette, France)
  3. (NOSTALGIA) (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  4. TWO ENGLISH GIRLS (François Truffaut, France)
  5. LA RÉGION CENTRALE (Michael Snow, Canada)
  6. A NEW LEAF (Elaine May, USA)
  7. PUNISHMENT PARK (Peter Watkins, USA)
  8. THE DEVILS (Ken Russell, UK)
  9. THE CEREMONY (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  10. FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER (Robert Bresson, France)
  11. JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL (Claude Chabrol, France)
  12. DIRTY HARRY (Don Siegel, USA)
  13. THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  14. CRITICAL MASS (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  15. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  16. PIONEERS IN INGOLSTADT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  17. MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (Robert Altman, USA)
  18. FATA MORGANA (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  19. THE DECAMERON (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
  20. WONG SINSAANG (Eddie Wong, USA)
  21. A GIRL IS A GUN (Luc Moullet, France)
  22. KLUTE (Alan J. Pakula, USA)
  23. LOVE (Makk Károly, Hungary)
  24. W.R.: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM (Dušan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)
  25. MURMUR OF THE HEART (Louis Malle, France)
  26. DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  27. LAND OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  28. FAMILY LIFE (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
  29. IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
  30. WALKABOUT (Nicolas Roeg, UK)

1970

  1. ZORNS LEMMA (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  2. CLAIRE’S KNEE (Éric Rohmer, France)
  3. EYES DO NOT WANT TO CLOSE AT ALL TIMES (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, Italy)
  4. SERENE VELOCITY (Ernie Gehr, USA)
  5. LE BOUCHER (Claude Chabrol, France)
  6. DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (Satyajit Ray, India)
  7. LA RUPTURE (Claude Chabrol, France)
  8. THE CONFORMIST (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
  9. THE WILD CHILD (François Truffaut, France)
  10. DEEP END (Jerzy Skolimowski, UK)
  11. TRISTANA (Luis Buñuel, Spain)
  12. WANDA (Barbara Loden, USA)
  13. WIND FROM THE EAST (Groupe Dziga Vertov and Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, France)
  14. PRODUCTION STILLS (Morgan Fisher, USA)
  15. THE ADVERSARY (Satyajit Ray, India)
  16. DODES’KA-DEN (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  17. THE MAN WHO LEFT HIS WILL ON FILM (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  18. THE DEBUT (Gleb Panfilov, USSR)
  19. THE GRANDMOTHER (David Lynch, USA)
  20. BED AND BOARD (François Truffaut, France)
  21. EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL (Werner Herzog, West Germany)

1969

  1. L’AMOUR FOU (Jacques Rivette, France)
  2. MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S (Éric Rohmer, France)
  3. THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (Sergei Parajanov, USSR)
  4. ARMY OF SHADOWS (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
  5. BOY (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  6. DESTROY, SHE SAID (Marguerite Duras, France)
  7. THE NAIL CLIPPERS (Jean-Claude Carriére, France)
  8. THE SORROW AND THE PITY (Marcel Ophuls, France)
  9. UNE FEMME DOUCE (Robert Bresson, France)
  10. LEMON (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  11. DOUBLE SUICIDE (Shinoda Masahiro, Japan)
  12. BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (Paul Mazursky, USA)
  13. ÅDALEN 31 (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
  14. LE GAI SAVOIR (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  15. OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR (Richard Attenborough)
  16. THE JOKE (Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovakia)
  17. LIONS LOVE (Agnès Varda, USA)
  18. KES (Ken Loach, UK)

1968

  1. DEATH BY HANGING (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  2. JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME (Alain Resnais, France)
  3. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (Sergio Leone, Italy)
  4. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  5. THE IMMORTAL STORY (Orson Welles, France)
  6. GOLDEN SWALLOW (Chang Cheh, Hong Kong)
  7. LA CHAMADE (Alain Cavalier, France)
  8. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George A. Romero, USA)
  9. MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba)
  10. TARGETS (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  11. ROSEMARY’S BABY (Roman Polański, USA)
  12. CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  13. ONE PLUS ONE (Jean-Luc Godard, UK)
  14. THE BOSTON STRANGLER (Richard Fleischer, USA)
  15. L’ENFANCE NUE (Maurice Pialat, France)
  16. MANDABI (Ousmane Sembène, Senegal)
  17. LUCÍA (Humberto Solás, Cuba)
  18. THE GREAT SILENCE (Sergio Corbucci, Italy)
  19. LES BICHES (Claude Chabrol, France)
  20. THREE RESURRECTED DRUNKARDS (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  21. 24 HOURS IN THE LIFE OF A WOMAN (Dominique Delouche, France)
  22. ONE FINE DAY (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
  23. THE BRIDEGROOM, THE ACTRESS, AND THE PIMP (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  24. ARTISTS UNDER THE BIG TOP: PERPLEXED (Alexander Kluge, West Germany)
  25. ABSTRACT FILM NO. 1 (Valie Export, Austria)
  26. PARTNER. (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
  27. STOLEN KISSES (François Truffaut, France)
  28. FACES (John Cassavetes, USA)

1967

  1. THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy, France)
  2. DRAGON INN (King Hu, Taiwan)
  3. WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow, Canada)
  4. PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati, France)
  5. WEEK-END (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  6. LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (Éric Rohmer, France)
  7. MOUCHETTE (Robert Bresson, France)
  8. ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (Chang Cheh, Hong Kong)
  9. THE RED AND THE WHITE (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
  10. POINT BLANK (John Boorman, USA)
  11. PORTRAIT OF JASON (Shirley Clarke, USA)
  12. LE DÉPART (Jerzy Skolimowski, Belgium)
  13. 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  14. FAR FROM VIETNAM (Jean-Luc Godard & Joris Ivens & William Klein & Claude Lelouch & Chris Marker & Alain Resnais & Agnès Varda, France)
  15. BELLE DE JOUR (Luis Buñuel, France)
  16. SURFACE TENSION (Hollis Frampton, USA)
  17. THE GRADUATE (Mike Nichols, USA)
  18. DONT LOOK BACK (D. A. Pennebaker, USA)
  19. SAMURAI REBELLION (Kobayashi Masaki, Japan)
  20. LA CHINOISE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  21. THE FIREMEN’S BALL (Miloš Forman, Czechoslovakia)
  22. LA MUSICA (Marguerite Duras & Paul Seban, France)
  23. NIVEA (Peter Weibel, Austria)
  24. THE BIG SHAVE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  25. LOVE AFFAIR, OR THE CASE OF THE MISSING SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR (Dušan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)
  26. SAILING WITH BUSHNELL KEELER (David Lynch, USA)
  27. BRANDED TO KILL (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  28. ELVIRA MADIGAN (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
  29. LE SAMOURAÏ (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
  30. JAPANESE SUMMER: DOUBLE SUICIDE (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)

1966

  1. ALL MY LIFE (Bruce Baillie, USA)
  2. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy)
  3. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson, France)
  4. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
  5. THE TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV (Roberto Rossellini, France)
  6. TOKYO DRIFTER (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  7. BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembène, France)
  8. ROGER LA HONTE (Riccardo Freda, France)
  9. COME DRINK WITH ME (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  10. THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone, Italy)
  11. THE NUN (Jacques Rivette, France)
  12. CASTRO STREET (Bruce Baillie, USA)
  13. SECONDS (John Frankenheimer, USA)
  14. BLOWUP (Michelangelo Antonioni, UK)
  15. HOLD ME WHILE I’M NAKED (George Kuchar, USA)
  16. THE WAR IS OVER (Alain Resnais, France)
  17. ANDREI RUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  18. THE ROUND-UP (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
  19. MASCULIN FÉMININ (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  20. CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (Orson Welles, Spain)
  21. VIOLENCE AT NOON (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  22. MEET MARLON BRANDO (Albert & David Maysles, USA)
  23. MADE IN U.S.A (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  24. TROUBLEMAKERS (Norman Fruchter & Robert Machover, USA)
  25. YESTERDAY GIRL (Alexander Kluge, West Germany)

1965

  1. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  2. NOT RECONCILED (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  3. SONS OF THE GOOD EARTH (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  4. THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins, UK)
  5. SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
  6. TOKYO OLYMPIAD (Ichikawa Kon, Japan)
  7. RED BEARD (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  8. LE BONHEUR (Agnès Varda, France)
  9. THE KOUMIKO MYSTERY (Chris Marker, France)
  10. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (Sergei Parajanov, USSR)
  11. ALPHAVILLE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  12. LA MUETTE (Claude Chabrol, France)
  13. BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL (Doris Wishman, USA)
  14. WALKOVER (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)
  15. LOVES OF A BLONDE (Miloš Forman, Czechoslovakia)
  16. KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (Kenneth Anger, USA)
  17. THE SHAMELESS OLD LADY (René Allio, France)
  18. SHAKESPEARE WALLAH (James Ivory, USA)
  19. THE EPIC THAT NEVER WAS (Bill Duncalf, UK)
  20. MICKEY ONE (Arthur Penn, USA)

1964

  1. GERTRUD (Carl Th. Dreyer, Denmark)
  2. YEARNING (Naruse Mikio, Japan)
  3. THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy, France)
  4. WOMAN IN THE DUNES (Teshigahara Hiroshi, Japan)
  5. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
  6. MARNIE (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  7. CHARULATA (Satyajit Ray, India)
  8. DOG STAR MAN (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  9. NOTHING BUT A MAN (Michael Roemer, USA)
  10. A MARRIED WOMAN (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  11. THE STORY OF SUE SAN (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  12. THE BRIG (Jonas Mekas, USA)
  13. RED DESERT (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  14. I AM CUBA (Mikhail Kalatozov, Cuba)
  15. BRICK AND MIRROR (Ebrahim Golestan, Iran)
  16. DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  17. THE ENCHANTED DESNA (Yuliya Solntseva, USSR)
  18. HAMLET (Grigori Kozintsev, USSR)
  19. LIFE UPSIDE DOWN (Alain Jessua, France)
  20. BAND OF OUTSIDERS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  21. BEFORE THE REVOLUTION (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)

1963

  1. MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN (Alain Resnais, France)
  2. THE LOVE ETERNE (Li Han-hsiang, Hong Kong)
  3. HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  4. THE BIRDS (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  5. THE HOUSE IS BLACK (Forugh Farrokhzad, Iran)
  6. MOTHLIGHT (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  7. THE SERVANT (Joseph Losey, UK)
  8. BAY OF ANGELS (Jacques Demy, France)
  9. LE JOLI MAI (Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme, France)
  10. PASAZERKA (Andrzej Munk, Poland)
  11. LES CARABINIERS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  12. THE BIG CITY (Satyajit Ray, India)
  13. SUZANNE’S CAREER (Éric Rohmer, France)
  14. I FIDANZATI (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
  15. THE NEW WORLD (Jean-Luc Godard, Italy)
  16. THE BAKERY GIRL OF MONCEAU (Éric Rohmer, France)
  17. MACHORKA-MUFF (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  18. BOROM SARRET (Ousmane Sembène, Senegal)
  19. THE COOL WORLD (Shirley Clarke, USA)
  20. CONTEMPT (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  21. …A VALPARAISO (Joris Ivens, France)
  22. LE PETIT SOLDAT (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  23. JOSEPH KILIAN (Pavel Juráček & Jan Schmidt, Czechoslovakia)
  24. RAVEN’S END (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
  25. IN THE MIDST OF LIFE (Robert Enrico, France)
  26. WINTER LIGHT (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)

1962

  1. LA JETÉE (Chris Marker, France)
  2. AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  3. COSMIC RAY (Bruce Conner, USA)
  4. L’ECLISSE (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  5. CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (Agnès Varda, France)
  6. JULES ET JIM (François Truffaut, France)
  7. LOLITA (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  8. VIVRE SA VIE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  9. CARNIVAL OF SOULS (Herk Harvey, USA)
  10. THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
  11. HARAKIRI (Kobayashi Masaki, Japan)
  12. THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC (Robert Bresson, France)
  13. IL MARE (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Italy)
  14. ANTOINE AND COLETTE (François Truffaut, France)
  15. THE SIGN OF LEO (Éric Rohmer, France)
  16. KNIFE IN THE WATER (Roman Polański, Poland)
  17. IVAN’S CHILDHOOD (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  18. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (David Lean, UK)

1961

  1. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais, France)
  2. ALLURES (Jordan Belson, USA)
  3. LOLA (Jacques Demy, France)
  4. HERCULES CONQUERS ATLANTIS (Vittorio Cottafavi, Italy)
  5. PARIS BELONGS TO US (Jacques Rivette, France)
  6. THE END OF SUMMER (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  7. THE EXILES (Kent Mackenzie, USA)
  8. YOJIMBO (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  9. WEST SIDE STORY (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, USA)
  10. VIRIDIANA (Luis Buñuel, Spain)
  11. A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  12. LA NOTTE (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)

1960

  1. BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  2. LE TROU (Jacques Becker, France)
  3. L’AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  4. THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang, West Germany)
  5. LATE AUTUMN (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  6. PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  7. PEEPING TOM (Michael Powell, UK)
  8. THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder, USA)
  9. ARNULF RAINER (Peter Kubelka, Austria)
  10. NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  11. THE BELLBOY (Jerry Lewis, USA)
  12. LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini, Italy)
  13. THE BAD SLEEP WELL (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  14. CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  15. SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (François Truffaut, France)
  16. THE GIANTS OF THESSALY (Riccardo Freda, Italy)

1959

  1. RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks, USA)
  2. IMITATION OF LIFE (Douglas Sirk, USA)
  3. THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut, France)
  4. HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (Alain Resnais, France)
  5. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  6. LE CHANT DU STYRÈNE (Alain Resnais, France)
  7. GOOD MORNING (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  8. SHADOWS (John Cassavetes, USA)
  9. PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson, France)
  10. APUR SANSAR (Satyajit Ray, India)
  11. WINDOW WATER BABY MOVING (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  12. I DIMENTICATI (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  13. UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE (Marcel Hanoun, France)
  14. THE HUMAN CONDITION I: NO GREATER LOVE (Kobayashi Masaki, Japan)

1958

  1. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  2. TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles, USA)
  3. LE BEAU SERGE (Claude Chabrol, France)
  4. A MOVIE (Bruce Conner, USA)
  5. PESCHERECCI (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  6. ROBIN HOOD DAFFY (Chuck Jones, USA)
  7. UN GIORNO IN BARBAGIA (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  8. PASTORI DI ORGOSOLO (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  9. HARE-WAY TO THE STARS (Chuck Jones, USA)
  10. ENJO (Ichikawa Kon, Japan)

1957

  1. PYAASA (Guru Dutt, India)
  2. WHAT’S OPERA, DOC? (Chuck Jones, USA)
  3. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick, USA)
  4. FORTY GUNS (Samuel Fuller, USA)
  5. EIGHT HOURS OF TERROR (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  6. THRONE OF BLOOD (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  7. PATHS OF GLORY (Stanley Kubrick, USA)
  8. ALI BABA BUNNY (Chuck Jones, USA)

1956

  1. A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson, France)
  2. NIGHT AND FOG (Alain Resnais, France)
  3. THE WRONG MAN (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  4. THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  5. THE BURMESE HARP (Ichikawa Kon, Japan)
  6. TOUTE LA MÉMOIRE DU MONDE (Alain Resnais, France)
  7. THE SEARCHERS (John Ford, USA)
  8. APARAJITO (Satyajit Ray, India)

1955

  1. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton, USA)
  2. FLOATING CLOUDS (Naruse Mikio, Japan)
  3. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Nicholas Ray, USA)
  4. LOLA MONTÈS (Max Ophuls, France)
  5. THE LONG GRAY LINE (John Ford, USA)
  6. MOONFLEET (Fritz Lang, USA)
  7. MR. ARKADIN (Orson Welles, Spain)
  8. ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Douglas Sirk, USA)
  9. ARTISTS AND MODELS (Frank Tashlin, USA)
  10. SURFARARA (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  11. KISS ME DEADLY (Robert Aldrich, USA)
  12. PATHER PANCHALI (Satyajit Ray, India)
  13. REFLECTIONS ON BLACK (Stan Brakhage, USA)
  14. PARABOLA D’ORO (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  15. CONTADINI DEL MARE (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  16. SHIN HEIKE MONOGATARI (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  17. PASQUA IN SICILIA (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  18. ONE FROGGY EVENING (Chuck Jones, USA)

1954

  1. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  2. SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  3. JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray, USA)
  4. REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  5. A STAR IS BORN (George Cukor, USA)
  6. JOURNEY TO ITALY (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  7. GODZILLA (Honda Ishiro, Japan)
  8. THE CRUCIFIED LOVERS (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  9. MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (Douglas Sirk, USA)
  10. LU TEMPU DI LI PISCI SPATA (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  11. ISOLE DI FUOCO (Vittorio De Seta, Italy)
  12. ON THE WATERFRONT (Elia Kazan, USA)

1953

  1. DUCK AMUCK (Chuck Jones, USA)
  2. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Howard Hawks, USA)
  3. TOKYO STORY (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  4. THE SAGA OF ANATAHAN (Josef von Sternberg, Japan)
  5. UGETSU MONOGATARI (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  6. DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24½TH CENTURY (Chuck Jones, USA)
  7. A GEISHA (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  8. DUCK! RABBIT, DUCK! (Chuck Jones, USA)
  9. BULLY FOR BUGS (Chuck Jones, USA)
  10. THE BIG HEAT (Fritz Lang, USA)
  11. STATUES ALSO DIE (Alain Resnais & Chris Marker & Ghislain Cloquet, France)
  12. THE LADY WITHOUT CAMELIAS (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  13. EAUX D’ARTIFICE (Kenneth Anger, USA)

1952

  1. THE GOLDEN COACH (Jean Renoir, Italy)
  2. THE QUIET MAN (John Ford, USA)
  3. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, USA)
  4. THE LUSTY MEN (Nicholas Ray, USA)
  5. RABBIT SEASONING (Chuck Jones, USA)
  6. OPERATION: RABBIT (Chuck Jones, USA)
  7. FEED THE KITTY (Chuck Jones, USA)
  8. EUROPA ’51 (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  9. IKIRU (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)

1951

  1. DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Robert Bresson, France)
  2. AWAARA (Raj Kapoor, India)
  3. THE TALL TARGET (Anthony Mann, USA)
  4. OTHELLO (Orson Welles, Morocco)
  5. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
  6. RABBIT FIRE (Chuck Jones, USA)

1950

  1. LA RONDE (Max Ophuls, France)
  2. RABBIT OF SEVILLE (Chuck Jones, USA)
  3. ALL ABOUT EVE (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
  4. SUNSET BLVD. (Billy Wilder, USA)
  5. RASHOMON (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  6. LOS OLVIDADOS (Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
  7. LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)

1949

  1. LATE SPRING (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  2. THE HEIRESS (William Wyler, USA)
  3. THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed, UK)
  4. A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
  5. I SHOT JESSE JAMES (Samuel Fuller, USA)

1948

  1. LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Max Ophuls, USA)
  2. SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN (Fei Mu, China)
  3. FORT APACHE (John Ford, USA)
  4. THE RED SHOES (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, UK)
  5. BERLIN EXPRESS (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  6. WOMEN OF THE NIGHT (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  7. DRUNKEN ANGEL (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  8. ROPE (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

1947

  1. OUT OF THE PAST (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  2. DAISY KENYON (Otto Preminger, USA)
  3. FIREWORKS (Kenneth Anger, USA)
  4. THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK (Preston Sturges, USA)

1946

  1. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  2. THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks, USA)
  3. CANYON PASSAGE (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  4. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra, USA)
  5. THE LOCKET (John Brahm, USA)
  6. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Jean Cocteau, France)
  7. ENAMORADA (Emilio Fernández, Mexico)

1945

  1. THE CLOCK (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
  2. BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean, UK)
  3. MILDRED PIERCE (Michael Curtiz, USA)
  4. DETOUR (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
  5. LES DAMES DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE (Robert Bresson, France)
  6. ROME, OPEN CITY (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  7. MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)

1944

  1. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
  2. GROSSE FREIHEIT NR. 7 (Helmut Käutner, Germany)
  3. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder, USA)
  4. LAURA (Otto Preminger, USA)

1943

  1. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, USA)
  2. THE SEVENTH VICTIM (Mark Robson, USA)
  3. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  4. THE GANG’S ALL HERE (Busby Berkeley, USA)
  5. THE LEOPARD MAN (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  6. HEAVEN CAN WAIT (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
  7. ANGELS OF SIN (Robert Bresson, France)
  8. SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  9. OSSESSIONE (Luchino Visconti, Italy)

1942

  1. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles, USA)
  2. CAT PEOPLE (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  3. CASABLANCA (Michael Curtiz, USA)
  4. RADIO DYNAMICS (Oskar Fischinger, USA)

1941

  1. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles, USA)

1940

  1. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks, USA)
  2. REBECCA (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

1939

  1. ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks, USA)
  2. THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir, France)
  3. STAGECOACH (John Ford, USA)
  4. THE WIZARD OF OZ (Victor Fleming, USA)
  5. THE WOMEN (George Cukor, USA)

1938

  1. HOLIDAY (George Cukor, USA)
  2. THE LADY VANISHES (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)

1937

  1. THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey, USA)
  2. MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (Leo McCarey, USA)
  3. GRAND ILLUSION (Jean Renoir, France)
  4. A STAR IS BORN (William A. Wellman, USA)

1936

  1. ROSE HOBART (Joseph Cornell, USA)
  2. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir, France)
  3. FURY (Fritz Lang, USA)
  4. THE STORY OF A CHEAT (Sacha Guitry, France)
  5. SABOTAGE (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
  6. THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE (Jean Renoir, France)

1935

  1. RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Leo McCarey, USA)
  2. SYLVIA SCARLETT (George Cukor, USA)
  3. THE 39 STEPS (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
  4. TONI (Jean Renoir, France)

1934

  1. THE GODDESS (Wu Yonggang, China)
  2. L’ATALANTE (Jean Vigo, France)

1933

  1. THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang, Germany)
  2. ONLY YESTERDAY (John M. Stahl, USA)
  3. DRAGNET GIRL (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  4. LIEBELEI (Max Ophuls, Germany)
  5. DESIGN FOR LIVING (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
  6. ZERO FOR CONDUCT (Jean Vigo, France)

1932

  1. SHANGHAI EXPRESS (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
  2. TROUBLE IN PARADISE (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
  3. WHERE NOW ARE THE DREAMS OF YOUTH? (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  4. SCARFACE (Howard Hawks, USA)
  5. BLONDE VENUS (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
  6. THE MASK OF FU MANCHU (Charles Brabin, USA)

1931

  1. M (Fritz Lang, Germany)
  2. DISHONORED (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
  3. CITY LIGHTS (Charles Chaplin, USA)
  4. TABU: A STORY OF THE SOUTH SEAS (F. W. Murnau, USA)
  5. LA CHIENNE (Jean Renoir, France)
  6. FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale, USA)
  7. MARIUS (Alexander Korda, France)

1930

  1. MOROCCO (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
  2. EARTH (Alexander Dovzhenko, USSR)
  3. THE BIG TRAIL (Raoul Walsh, USA)
  4. THE BLUE ANGEL (Josef von Sternberg, Germany)

1929

  1. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov, USSR)
  2. APPLAUSE (Rouben Mamoulian, USA)
  3. UN CHIEN ANDALOU (Luis Buñuel, France)
  4. RAIN (Joris Ivens & Mannus Franken, Netherlands)
  5. THUNDERBOLT (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
  6. LIBERTY (Leo McCarey, USA)
  7. BRUMES D’AUTOMNE (Dimitri Kirsanoff, France)
  8. TOKYO MARCH (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)

1928

  1. SPIONE (Fritz Lang, Germany)
  2. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Th. Dreyer, France)
  3. THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
  4. STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton, USA)
  5. THE WEDDING MARCH (Erich von Stroheim, USA)
  6. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413, A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich, USA)
  7. RECORD 957 (Germaine Dulac, France)
  8. SHOW PEOPLE (King Vidor, USA)

1927

  1. NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance, France)
  2. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F. W. Murnau, USA)
  3. METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang, Germany)
  4. THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (Germaine Dulac, France)

1926

  1. THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, USA)
  2. MÉNILMONTANT (Dimitri Kirsanoff, France)

1925

  1. SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton, USA)
  2. BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (Sergei Eisenstein, USSR)
  3. THE MERRY WIDOW (Erich von Stroheim, USA)

1924

  1. GREED (Erich von Stroheim, USA)
  2. SHERLOCK JR. (Buster Keaton, USA)
  3. THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (Raoul Walsh, USA)
  4. BALLET MÉCHANIQUE (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy, USA)
  5. HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (Victor Sjöström, USA)

1923

  1. SAFETY LAST! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, USA)

1922

  1. DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (Fritz Lang, Germany)
  2. NOSFERATU (F. W. Murnau, Germany)
  3. NANOOK OF THE NORTH (Robert J. Flaherty, USA)

1918

  1. TIH-MINH (Louis Feuillade, France)

1915

  1. LES VAMPIRES (Louis Feuillade, France)
  2. THE BIRTH OF A NATION (D. W. Griffith, USA)

1914

  1. KID AUTO RACES AT VENICE (Henry Lehrman, USA)

1913

  1. FANTÔMAS (Louis Feuillade, France)

1912

  1. THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (D. W. Griffith, USA)

1910

  1. THE UNCHANGING SEA (D. W. Griffith, USA)

1907

  1. TUNNELING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL (Georges Méliès, France)

1905

  1. THE BLACK IMP (Georges Méliès, France)

1904

  1. THE MERMAID (Georges Méliès, France)

1902

  1. A TRIP TO THE MOON (Georges Méliès, France)

1896

  1. THE ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN AT LA CIOTAT STATION (Louis & Auguste Lumière, France)

1895

  1. WORKERS LEAVING THE LUMIÈRE FACTORY IN LYON (Louis & Auguste Lumière, France)
  2. THE SPRINKLER SPRINKLED (Louis & Auguste Lumière, France)
  3. THE BABY’S MEAL (Louis & Auguste Lumière, France)
  4. BOAT LEAVING THE PORT (Louis & Auguste Lumière, France)

Simple Top Tens (Features Only)

Ryan Swen Lists

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

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Ten Favorite Films

  1. YI YI (Edward Yang)
  2. MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
  3. SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
  4. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
  5. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
  6. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
  7. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
  8. THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
  9. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
  10. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)

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2020s

Best of the Decade

  1. DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  2. CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: AN EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (Adam Curtis)
  3. MEMORIA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  4. WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. PACIFICTION (Albert Serra)
  6. THE NOVELIST’S FILM (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  8. DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang)
  9. THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN) (C.W. Winter & Anders Edström)
  10. WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Alexandre Koberidze)

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2022

  1. WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. PACIFICTION (Albert Serra)
  3. THE NOVELIST’S FILM (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  5. TRENQUE LAUQUEN (Laura Citarella, Argentina)
  6. SECTION 1 (Jon Bois)
  7. THE FABELMANS (Steven Spielberg)
  8. DIARY OF A FLEETING AFFAIR (Emmanuel Mouret)
  9. RRR (S. S. Rajamouli)
  10. THE PEOPLE YOU’RE PAYING TO BE IN SHORTS (Jon Bois)

2021

  1. DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  2. CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD: AN EMOTIONAL HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD (Adam Curtis)
  3. MEMORIA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  4. WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Alexandre Koberidze)
  5. IL BUCO (Michelangelo Frammartino)
  6. WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  7. WHO’S STOPPING US (Jonás Trueba)
  8. A NEW OLD PLAY (Qiu Jiongjiong)
  9. WEST SIDE STORY (Steven Spielberg)
  10. A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES (Zhu Shengze)

2020

  1. DAYS (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN) (C.W. Winter & Anders Edström)
  3. THE WOMAN WHO RAN (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. SHORT VACATION (Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol)
  5. BEGINNING (Déa Kulumbegashvili)
  6. WIFE OF A SPY (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  7. MALMKROG (Cristi Puiu)
  8. LOVERS ROCK (Steve McQueen)
  9. SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE (Jia Zhangke)
  10. THE DISCIPLE (Chaitanya Tamhane)

2010s

Best of the Decade

  1. LA FLOR (Mariano Llinás)
  2. YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch)
  5. MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke)
  6. MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raúl Ruiz)
  7. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami)
  8. ASAKO I & II (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  9. THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong Sang-soo)
  10. THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

—

2019

  1. MARTIN EDEN (Pietro Marcello)
  2. I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES (Martin Scorsese)
  3. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  4. FOURTEEN (Dan Sallitt)
  5. PRESENT.PERFECT. (Zhu Shengze)
  6. PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho)
  7. UNCUT GEMS (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  8. I WAS AT HOME, BUT… (Angela Schanelec)
  9. A VOLUNTARY YEAR (Ulrich Köhler & Henner Winckler)
  10. ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD (Quentin Tarantino)

2018

  1. LA FLOR (Mariano Llinás)
  2. ASAKO I & II (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  3. TRANSIT (Christian Petzold)
  4. LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Bi Gan)
  5. GRASS (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. ASH IS PUREST WHITE (Jia Zhangke)
  7. AMANDA (Mikhaël Hers)
  8. HIGH LIFE (Claire Denis)
  9. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (Orson Welles)
  10. AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL (Hu Bo)

2017

  1. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (David Lynch)
  2. FIRST REFORMED (Paul Schrader)
  3. HANAGATAMI (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  4. ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. THE DAY AFTER (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. ARBORETUM CYCLE (Nathaniel Dorsky)
  7. CLAIRE’S CAMERA (Hong Sang-soo)
  8. ★ (Johann Lurf)
  9. STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE] (Heinz Emigholz)
  10. PRINCESS CYD (Stephen Cone)

2016

  1. YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. SILENCE (Martin Scorsese)
  3. CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson)
  4. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan)
  5. TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade)
  6. HYPERNORMALISATION (Adam Curtis)
  7. CERTAIN WOMEN (Kelly Reichardt)
  8. THE HUMAN SURGE (Eduardo Williams)
  9. SIERANEVADA (Cristi Puiu)
  10. THE HANDMAIDEN (Park Chan-wook)

2015

  1. MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke)
  2. THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. CAROL (Todd Haynes)
  4. CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  5. BLACKHAT (Michael Mann)
  6. RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. MISTRESS AMERICA (Noah Baumbach)
  8. HAPPY HOUR (Hamaguchi Ryūsuke)
  9. JOURNEY TO THE SHORE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  10. AFTERNOON (Tsai Ming-liang)

2014

  1. PHOENIX (Christian Petzold)
  2. JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso)
  3. DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART 2 (Johnnie To)
  4. HORSE MONEY (Pedro Costa)
  5. INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  6. GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (Jean-Luc Godard)
  7. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson)
  8. HILL OF FREEDOM (Hong Sang-soo)
  9. GONE GIRL (David Fincher)
  10. THE PRINCESS OF FRANCE (Matías Piñeiro)

2013

  1. STRAY DOGS (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
  3. THE GRANDMASTER (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. THE WIND RISES (Miyazaki Hayao)
  5. NOBODY’S DAUGHTER HAEWON (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Richard Linklater)
  7. BASTARDS (Claire Denis)
  8. THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (Takahata Isao)
  9. OUR SUNHI (Hong Sang-soo)
  10. TIREZ LA LANGUE, MADEMOISELLE (Axelle Ropert)

2012

  1. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami)
  2. PASSION (Brian De Palma)
  3. DRUG WAR (Johnnie To)
  4. ROMANCING IN THIN AIR (Johnnie To)
  5. IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. FRANCES HA (Noah Baumbach)
  7. TABU (Miguel Gomes)
  8. LINCOLN (Steven Spielberg)
  9. MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson)
  10. DIFFERENTLY, MOLUSSIA (Nicolas Rey)

2011

  1. THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Hong Sang-soo)
  2. THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick)
  3. DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART (Johnnie To)
  4. MARGARET (Kenneth Lonergan)
  5. THIS IS NOT A FILM (Jafar Panâhi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
  6. DREILEBEN: BEATS BEING DEAD (Christian Petzold)
  7. DREILEBEN: DON’T FOLLOW ME AROUND (Dominik Graf)
  8. THE COLOR WHEEL (Alex Ross Perry)
  9. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (David Fincher)
  10. THE LONELIEST PLANET (Julia Loktev)

2010

  1. MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raúl Ruiz)
  2. CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami)
  3. MEEK’S CUTOFF (Kelly Reichardt)
  4. UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  5. HAHAHA (Hong Sang-soo)
  6. OKI’S MOVIE (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. THE CITY BELOW (Christoph Hochhäusler)
  8. FILM SOCIALISME (Jean-Luc Godard)
  9. LOVE IN A PUFF (Pang Ho-cheung)
  10. THE GHOST WRITER (Roman Polański)

2000s

Best of the Decade

  1. YI YI (Edward Yang)
  2. MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
  3. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-liang)
  5. PLATFORM (Jia Zhangke)
  6. CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee)
  7. OXHIDE II (Liu Jiayin)
  8. A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)
  9. SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao)
  10. SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

—

2009

  1. OXHIDE II (Liu Jiayin)
  2. IT FELT LIKE A KISS (Adam Curtis)
  3. DISORDER (Huang Weikai)
  4. LIKE YOU KNOW IT ALL (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. ACCIDENT (Soi Cheang)
  6. PUBLIC ENEMIES (Michael Mann)
  7. ORPHAN (Jaume Collet-Serra)
  8. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino)
  9. FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Wes Anderson)
  10. SWEETGRASS (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor)

2008

  1. SPARROW (Johnnie To)
  2. NIGHT AND DAY (Hong Sang-soo)
  3. 35 SHOTS OF RUM (Claire Denis)
  4. THE HEADLESS WOMAN (Lucrecia Martel)
  5. TOKYO SONATA (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  6. SPEED RACER (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  7. HISTORIAS EXTRAORDINARIAS (Mariano Llinás)
  8. TWO LOVERS (James Gray)
  9. WENDY AND LUCY (Kelly Reichardt)
  10. 24 CITY (Jia Zhangke)

2007

  1. THE TRAP: WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR DREAM OF FREEDOM (Adam Curtis)
  2. ZODIAC (David Fincher)
  3. DEATH PROOF (Quentin Tarantino)
  4. LA FRANCE (Serge Bozon)
  5. MICHAEL CLAYTON (Tony Gilroy)
  6. HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS (Joe Swanberg)
  7. MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS (Wong Kar-wai)
  8. THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  9. PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND (John Gianvito)
  10. 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (Cristian Mungiu)

2006

  1. SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. MIAMI VICE (Michael Mann)
  3. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)
  4. ELECTION 2 (Johnnie To)
  5. STILL LIFE (Jia Zhangke)
  6. DEJA VU (Tony Scott)
  7. MARIE ANTOINETTE (Sofia Coppola)
  8. WOMAN ON THE BEACH (Hong Sang-soo)
  9. I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE (Tsai Ming-liang)
  10. EXILED (Johnnie To)

2005

  1. THE NEW WORLD (Terrence Malick)
  2. OXHIDE (Liu Jiayin)
  3. TALE OF CINEMA (Hong Sang-soo)
  4. THROUGH THE FOREST (Jean-Paul Civeyrac)
  5. THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU (Cristi Puiu)
  6. CACHÉ (Michael Haneke)
  7. THE WAYWARD CLOUD (Tsai Ming-liang)
  8. ELECTION (Johnnie To)
  9. PERHAPS LOVE (Peter Chan)
  10. THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (Noah Baumbach)

2004

  1. TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. BEFORE SUNSET (Richard Linklater)
  4. THROW DOWN (Johnnie To)
  5. THE HAND (Wong Kar-wai)
  6. THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES: THE RISE OF THE POLITICS OF FEAR (Adam Curtis)
  7. VERA DRAKE (Mike Leigh)
  8. THE WORLD (Jia Zhangke)
  9. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry)
  10. COLLATERAL (Michael Mann)

2003

  1. GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF (Thom Andersen)
  3. PTU (Johnnie To)
  4. LOST IN TRANSLATION (Sofia Coppola)
  5. RUNNING ON KARMA (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
  6. KILL BILL: VOLUME 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
  7. MEMORIES OF MURDER (Bong Joon-ho)
  8. OLDBOY (Park Chan-wook)
  9. S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE (Panh Rithy)
  10. TARNATION (Jonathan Caouette)

2002

  1. FEMME FATALE (Brian De Palma)
  2. MY LEFT EYE SEES GHOSTS (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai)
  3. BLISSFULLY YOURS (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  4. ON THE OCCASION OF REMEMBERING THE TURNING GATE (Hong Sang-soo)
  5. CHINESE ODYSSEY 2002 (Jeffrey Lau)
  6. HERO (Zhang Yimou)
  7. THE CENTURY OF THE SELF (Adam Curtis)
  8. FRIDAY NIGHT (Claire Denis)
  9. UNKNOWN PLEASURES (Jia Zhangke)
  10. PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (Paul Thomas Anderson)

2001

  1. MULHOLLAND DR. (David Lynch)
  2. A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)
  3. SPIRITED AWAY (Miyazaki Hayao)
  4. PULSE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  5. MILLENNIUM MAMBO (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  6. LA LIBERTAD (Lisandro Alonso)
  7. WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (Tsai Ming-liang)
  8. LA CIÉNAGA (Lucrecia Martel)
  9. ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU (Iwai Shunji)
  10. ALI (Michael Mann)

2000

  1. YI YI (Edward Yang)
  2. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. PLATFORM (Jia Zhangke)
  4. CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee)
  5. BAMBOOZLED (Spike Lee)
  6. THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE (Mark Dindal)
  7. HAMLET (Michael Almereyda)
  8. VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS (Hong Sang-soo)
  9. YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (Kenneth Lonergan)
  10. THE STATE I AM IN (Christian Petzold)

1990s

Best of the Decade

  1. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
  2. CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. HEAT (Michael Mann)
  4. THE HOLE (Tsai Ming-liang)
  5. COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY (Peter Chan)
  6. TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch)
  7. TRUST (Hal Hartley)
  8. MAHJONG (Edward Yang)
  9. CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarostami)
  10. DAYS OF BEING WILD (Wong Kar-wai)

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1999

  1. EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick)
  2. BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis)
  3. GOHATTO (Ōshima Nagisa)
  4. MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (Takahata Isao)
  5. THE INSIDER (Michael Mann)
  6. THE MATRIX (Lana & Lilly Wachowski)
  7. POLA X (Leos Carax)
  8. THE MISSION (Johnnie To)
  9. SILVIA PRIETO (Martín Rejtman)
  10. EXISTENZ (David Cronenberg)

1998

  1. THE HOLE (Tsai Ming-liang)
  2. FLOWERS OF SHANGHAI (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. THE THIN RED LINE (Terrence Malick)
  4. A HERO NEVER DIES (Johnnie To)
  5. RUSHMORE (Wes Anderson)
  6. NEW ROSE HOTEL (Abel Ferrara)
  7. THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE (Hong Sang-soo)
  8. FESTEN (Thomas Vinterberg)
  9. BELLY (Hype Williams)
  10. SNAKE EYES (Brian De Palma)

1997

  1. THE END OF EVANGELION (Anno Hideaki)
  2. CURE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
  3. THE RIVER (Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. LOST HIGHWAY (David Lynch)
  5. HAPPY TOGETHER (Wong Kar-wai)
  6. TOO MANY WAYS TO BE NO. 1 (Wai Ka-fai)
  7. TASTE OF CHERRY (Abbas Kiarostami)
  8. FACE/OFF (John Woo)
  9. THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Atom Egoyan)
  10. STARSHIP TROOPERS (Paul Verhoeven)

1996

  1. MAHJONG (Edward Yang)
  2. COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY (Peter Chan)
  3. IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas)
  4. SECRETS & LIES (Mike Leigh)
  5. VIVA EROTICA (Derek Yee & Lo Chi-leung)
  6. GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  7. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (Brian De Palma)
  8. BREAKING THE WAVES (Lars von Trier)
  9. FARGO (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  10. THE DAY A PIG FELL INTO THE WELL (Hong Sang-soo)

1995

  1. HEAT (Michael Mann)
  2. STRANGE DAYS (Kathryn Bigelow)
  3. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (Clint Eastwood)
  4. FALLEN ANGELS (Wong Kar-wai)
  5. SAFE (Todd Haynes)
  6. BEFORE SUNRISE (Richard Linklater)
  7. CLUELESS (Amy Heckerling)
  8. TATORT: FRAU BU LACHT (Dominik Graf)
  9. UNDERGROUND (Emir Kursturica)
  10. XIAO SHAN GOING HOME (Jia Zhangke)

1994

  1. CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai)
  2. ASHES OF TIME (Wong Kar-wai)
  3. A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION (Edward Yang)
  4. IN THE HEAT OF THE SUN (Jiang Wen)
  5. SÁTÁNTANGÓ (Tarr Béla)
  6. VIVE L’AMOUR (Tsai Ming-liang)
  7. POM POKO (Takahata Isao)
  8. WING CHUN (Yuen Woo-ping)
  9. U.S. GO HOME (Claire Denis)
  10. TO LIVE (Zhang Yimou)

1993

  1. GREEN SNAKE (Tsui Hark)
  2. NAKED (Mike Leigh)
  3. CARLITO’S WAY (Brian De Palma)
  4. D’EST (Chantal Akerman)
  5. DAZED AND CONFUSED (Richard Linklater)
  6. THREE COLORS: BLUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  7. TAI-CHI MASTER (Yuen Woo-ping)
  8. THE PIANO (Jane Campion)
  9. TRUE ROMANCE (Tony Scott)
  10. JURASSIC PARK (Steven Spielberg)

1992

  1. TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch)
  2. THE ROCKING HORSEMEN (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  3. HARD-BOILED (John Woo)
  4. THE LONG DAY CLOSES (Terence Davies)
  5. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA II (Tsui Hark)
  6. UNFORGIVEN (Clint Eastwood)
  7. MALCOLM X (Spike Lee)
  8. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Michael Mann)
  9. DEEP COVER (Bill Duke)
  10. REBELS OF THE NEON GOD (Tsai Ming-liang)

1991

  1. A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Edward Yang)
  2. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA (Tsui Hark)
  3. SURVIVING DESIRE (Hal Hartley)
  4. ONLY YESTERDAY (Takahata Isao)
  5. BARTON FINK (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  6. LA VIE DES MORTS (Arnaud Desplechin)
  7. UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (Wim Wenders)
  8. RAISE THE RED LANTERN (Zhang Yimou)
  9. THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  10. TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (James Cameron)

1990

  1. TRUST (Hal Hartley)
  2. CLOSE-UP (Abbas Kiarostami)
  3. DAYS OF BEING WILD (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. BULLET IN THE HEAD (John Woo)
  5. WILD AT HEART (David Lynch)
  6. TOTAL RECALL (Paul Verhoeven)
  7. TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (Charles Burnett)
  8. GOODFELLAS (Martin Scorsese)
  9. JU DOU (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang)
  10. THE NASTY GIRL (Michael Verhoeven)

1980s

Best of the Decade

  1. SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
  2. L’ARGENT (Robert Bresson)
  3. BLUE VELVET (David Lynch)
  4. THE KILLER (John Woo)
  5. A CITY OF SADNESS (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  6. BEIJING WATERMELON (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  7. PEKING OPERA BLUES (Tsui Hark)
  8. PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders)
  9. MANHUNTER (Michael Mann)
  10. STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme)

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1989

  1. THE KILLER (John Woo)
  2. A CITY OF SADNESS (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  3. BEIJING WATERMELON (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  4. PEDICAB DRIVER (Sammo Hung)
  5. DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee)
  6. THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH (Hal Hartley)
  7. KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (Miyazaki Hayao)
  8. CASUALTIES OF WAR (Brian De Palma)
  9. LES SIÈGES DE L’ALCAZAR (Luc Moullet)
  10. THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (Michael Haneke)

1988

  1. MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Miyazaki Hayao)
  2. SCHOOL ON FIRE (Ringo Lam)
  3. AS TEARS GO BY (Wong Kar-wai)
  4. 36 FILLETTE (Catherine Breillat)
  5. UMA PEDRA NO BOLSO (Joaquim Pinto)
  6. MIRACLE MILE (Steve De Jarnatt)
  7. DIE KATZE (Dominik Graf)
  8. AKIRA (Ōtomo Katsuhiro)
  9. DIE HARD (John McTiernan)
  10. CHOCOLAT (Claire Denis)

1987

  1. EASTERN CONDORS (Sammo Hung)
  2. ISHTAR (Elaine May)
  3. DAUGHTER OF THE NILE (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  4. 4 ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE (Éric Rohmer)
  5. CITY ON FIRE (Ringo Lam)
  6. WINGS OF DESIRE (Wim Wenders)
  7. ROBOCOP (Paul Verhoeven)
  8. RAISING ARIZONA (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  9. AN AUTUMN’S TALE (Mabel Cheung)
  10. SIGN “O” THE TIMES (Prince)

1986

  1. BLUE VELVET (David Lynch)
  2. PEKING OPERA BLUES (Tsui Hark)
  3. MANHUNTER (Michael Mann)
  4. THE TERRORIZERS (Edward Yang)
  5. BOUND FOR THE FIELDS, THE MOUNTAINS, AND THE SEACOAST (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  6. THE GREEN RAY (Éric Rohmer)
  7. ROSA LA ROSE, FILLE PUBLIQUE (Paul Vecchiali)
  8. FAUBOURG ST. MARTIN (Jean-Claude Guiguet)
  9. HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  10. DOUBLE MESSIEURS (Jean-François Stévenin)

1985

  1. TAIPEI STORY (Edward Yang)
  2. RAN (Kurosawa Akira)
  3. POLICE STORY (Jackie Chan)
  4. CONTACT (Alan Clarke)
  5. DAY OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero)
  6. BRAZIL (Terry Gilliam)
  7. AFTER HOURS (Martin Scorsese)
  8. MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (Stephen Frears)
  9. TROUBLE IN MIND (Alan Rudolph)

1984

  1. PARIS, TEXAS (Wim Wenders)
  2. STOP MAKING SENSE (Jonathan Demme)
  3. SHANGHAI BLUES (Tsui Hark)
  4. WHEELS ON MEALS (Sammo Hung)
  5. CHOOSE ME (Alan Rudolph)
  6. DUNE (David Lynch)
  7. THE TERMINATOR (James Cameron)
  8. CLASS RELATIONS (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  9. BODY DOUBLE (Brian De Palma)
  10. GREMLINS (Joe Dante)

1983

  1. SANS SOLEIL (Chris Marker)
  2. L’ARGENT (Robert Bresson)
  3. THAT DAY, ON THE BEACH (Edward Yang)
  4. VIDEODROME (David Cronenberg)
  5. PAULINE AT THE BEACH (Éric Rohmer)
  6. TESTAMENT (Lynne Littman)
  7. THE KEEP (Michael Mann)
  8. BORN IN FLAMES (Lizzie Borden)
  9. AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS (Paul Vecchiali)
  10. BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS (Billy Woodberry)

1982

  1. BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott)
  2. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (Steven Spielberg)
  3. NOMAD (Patrick Tam)
  4. POLTERGEIST (Tobe Hooper)
  5. TOO EARLY/TOO LATE (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  6. THE THING (John Carpenter)
  7. KOYAANISQATSI (Godfrey Reggio)
  8. IN OUR TIME (Tao Te-chen/Edward Yang/Ko I-chen/Chang Yi)

1981

  1. THE AVIATOR’S WIFE (Éric Rohmer)
  2. TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (Nils Malmros)
  3. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (Steven Spielberg)
  4. MY YOUNG AUNTIE (Lau Kar-leung)
  5. THIEF (Michael Mann)
  6. BLOW OUT (Brian De Palma)
  7. AT THIS LATE DATE, THE CHARLESTON (Okamoto Kihachi)
  8. POSSESSION (Andrzej Żuławski)
  9. MERRY-GO-ROUND (Jacques Rivette)
  10. MAD MAX 2 (George Miller)

1980

  1. KAGEMUSHA (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. SIMONE BARBÈS OR VIRTUE (Marie-Claude Treilhou)
  3. DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS – FIRST KIND (Tsui Hark)
  4. EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF (Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. THE SHINING (Stanley Kubrick)
  6. EQUATION TO AN UNKNOWN (Dietrich de Velsa)
  7. CRUISING (William Friedkin)
  8. LOULOU (Maurice Pialat)
  9. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (Irvin Kershner)
  10. RAGING BULL (Martin Scorsese)

1970s

Best of the Decade

  1. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
  2. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)
  3. OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE (Jacques Rivette)
  4. THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache)
  5. PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (Éric Rohmer)
  6. FEMMES FEMMES (Paul Vecchiali)
  7. INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras)
  8. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch)
  9. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman)
  10. DIRTY HO (Lau Kar-leung)

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1979

  1. DIRTY HO (Lau Kar-leung)
  2. THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  3. LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu)
  4. STALKER (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  5. APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola)
  6. RAINING IN THE MOUNTAIN (King Hu)
  7. THE BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER MOVIE (Chuck Jones)
  8. ALIEN (Ridley Scott)
  9. WISE BLOOD (John Huston)
  10. THE BLACK STALLION (Carroll Ballard)

1978

  1. PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (Éric Rohmer)
  2. THE 36TH CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN (Lau Kar-leung)
  3. DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick)
  4. DAWN OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero)
  5. IN A YEAR WITH 13 MOONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  6. GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS (Bertrand Blier)
  7. THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING (Raúl Ruiz)
  8. REMEMBER MY NAME (Alan Rudolph)
  9. LES RENDEZ-VOUS D’ANNA (Chantal Akerman)
  10. THE GREEN ROOM (François Truffaut)

1977

  1. ERASERHEAD (David Lynch)
  2. THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (Robert Bresson)
  3. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (Steven Spielberg)
  4. PROVIDENCE (Alain Resnais)
  5. ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen)
  6. HOUSE (Ōbayashi Nobuhiko)
  7. THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (Luis Buñuel)
  8. THE AMERICAN FRIEND (Wim Wenders)
  9. STAR WARS (George Lucas)
  10. SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento)

1976

  1. ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (John Carpenter)
  2. DUELLE (UNE QUARANTAINE) (Jacques Rivette)
  3. THE MARQUISE OF O… (Éric Rohmer)
  4. TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese)
  5. IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Ōshima Nagisa)
  6. INSIANG (Lino Brocka)
  7. ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (Alan J. Pakula)
  8. NOROÎT (UNE VENGEANCE) (Jacques Rivette)
  9. CARRIE (Brian De Palma)
  10. SÉRAIL (Eduardo de Gregorio)

1975

  1. INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras)
  2. JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman)
  3. NASHVILLE (Robert Altman)
  4. MOSES UND ARON (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  5. SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  6. JAWS (Steven Spielberg)
  7. THE VALIANT ONES (King Hu)
  8. DERSU UZALA (Kurosawa Akira)
  9. THE PASSENGER (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  10. FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

1974

  1. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)
  2. FEMMES FEMMES (Paul Vecchiali)
  3. THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (Tobe Hooper)
  4. ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  5. LANCELOT DU LAC (Robert Bresson)
  6. A SIMPLE EVENT (Sohrab Shahid-Saless)
  7. THE CONVERSATION (Francis Ford Coppola)
  8. THE BENCH OF DESOLATION (Claude Chabrol)
  9. STAVISKY… (Alain Resnais)
  10. THE MOUTH AGAPE (Maurice Pialat)

1973

  1. THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache)
  2. F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles)
  3. THE FATE OF LEE KHAN (King Hu)
  4. BADLANDS (Terrence Malick)
  5. WORLD ON A WIRE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  6. MEAN STREETS (Martin Scorsese)
  7. DAY FOR NIGHT (François Truffaut)
  8. A DOLL’S HOUSE (Joseph Losey)
  9. THE ILLUMINATION (Krzysztof Zanussi)
  10. ISRAEL, WHY (Claude Lanzmann)

1972

  1. OUT 1: SPECTRE (Jacques Rivette)
  2. THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  3. AVANTI! (Billy Wilder)
  4. THE HEARTBREAK KID (Elaine May)
  5. LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (Éric Rohmer)
  6. WE WON’T GROW OLD TOGETHER (Maurice Pialat)
  7. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (Luis Buñuel)
  8. NATHALIE GRANGER (Marguerite Duras)
  9. TOUT VA BIEN (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)
  10. PINK FLAMINGOS (John Waters)

1971

  1. A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
  2. OUT 1: NOLI ME TANGERE (Jacques Rivette)
  3. A NEW LEAF (Elaine May)
  4. TWO ENGLISH GIRLS (François Truffaut)
  5. THE DEVILS (Ken Russell)
  6. PUNISHMENT PARK (Peter Watkins)
  7. THE CEREMONY (Ōshima Nagisa)
  8. FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER (Robert Bresson)
  9. JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL (Claude Chabrol)
  10. DIRTY HARRY (Don Siegel)

1970

  1. ZORNS LEMMA (Hollis Frampton)
  2. CLAIRE’S KNEE (Éric Rohmer)
  3. EYES DO NOT WANT TO CLOSE AT ALL TIMES, OR PERHAPS ONE DAY ROME WILL PERMIT HERSELF TO CHOOSE IN HER TURN (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  4. LE BOUCHER (Claude Chabrol)
  5. LA RUPTURE (Claude Chabrol)
  6. THE CONFORMIST (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  7. DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (Satyajit Ray)
  8. THE WILD CHILD (François Truffaut)
  9. DEEP END (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  10. TRISTANA (Luis Buñuel)

1960s

Best of the Decade

  1. THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
  2. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais)
  3. DRAGON INN (King Hu)
  4. MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN (Alain Resnais)
  5. GERTRUD (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  6. WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)
  7. HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa Akira)
  8. THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy)
  9. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. THE LOVE ETERNE (Li Han-hsiang)

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1969

  1. MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S (Éric Rohmer)
  2. L’AMOUR FOU (Jacques Rivette)
  3. THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (Sergei Parajanov)
  4. BOY (Ōshima Nagisa)
  5. DESTROY, SHE SAID (Marguerite Duras)
  6. THE SORROW AND THE PITY (Marcel Ophuls)
  7. UNE FEMME DOUCE (Robert Bresson)
  8. DOUBLE SUICIDE (Masahiro Shinoda)
  9. BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (Paul Mazursky)
  10. ÅDALEN 31 (Bo Widerberg)

1968

  1. DEATH BY HANGING (Ōshima Nagisa)
  2. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (Sergio Leone)
  3. JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME (Alain Resnais)
  4. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick)
  5. THE IMMORTAL STORY (Orson Welles)
  6. GOLDEN SWALLOW (Chang Cheh)
  7. LA CHAMADE (Alain Cavalier)
  8. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George A. Romero)
  9. MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
  10. ROSEMARY’S BABY (Roman Polański)

1967

  1. THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
  2. DRAGON INN (King Hu)
  3. WAVELENGTH (Michael Snow)
  4. WEEKEND (Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (Éric Rohmer)
  6. MOUCHETTE (Robert Bresson)
  7. ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (Chang Cheh)
  8. THE RED AND THE WHITE (Jancsó Miklós)
  9. POINT BLANK (John Boorman)
  10. LE DÉPART (Jerzy Skolimowski)

1966

  1. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman)
  2. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gillo Pontecorvo)
  3. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson)
  4. THE TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
  5. BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembène)
  6. ROGER LA HONTE (Riccardo Freda)
  7. COME DRINK WITH ME (King Hu)
  8. THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone)
  9. THE NUN (Jacques Rivette)
  10. SECONDS (John Frankenheimer)

1965

  1. PIERROT LE FOU (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. SONS OF THE GOOD EARTH (King Hu)
  3. NOT RECONCILED (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
  4. THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins)
  5. SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Buñuel)
  6. TOKYO OLYMPIAD (Ichikawa Kon)
  7. RED BEARD (Kurosawa Akira)
  8. LE BONHEUR (Agnès Varda)
  9. THE KOUMIKO MYSTERY (Chris Marker)
  10. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (Sergei Parajanov)

1964

  1. GERTRUD (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  2. THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy)
  3. YEARNING (Naruse Mikio)
  4. WOMAN IN THE DUNES (Teshigahara Hiroshi)
  5. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  6. MARNIE (Alfred Hitchcock)
  7. CHARULATA (Satyajit Ray)
  8. DOG STAR MAN (Stan Brakhage)
  9. NOTHING BUT A MAN (Michael Roemer)
  10. UNE FEMME MARIÉE (Jean-Luc Godard)

1963

  1. MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN (Alain Resnais)
  2. HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa Akira)
  3. THE LOVE ETERNE (Li Han-hsiang)
  4. THE BIRDS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. THE SERVANT (Joseph Losey)
  6. BAY OF ANGELS (Jacques Demy)
  7. LE JOLI MAI (Chris Marker)
  8. PASAZERKA (Andrzej Munk)
  9. LES CARABINIERS (Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. THE BIG CITY (Satyajit Ray)

1962

  1. AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Ozu Yasujirō)
  2. L’ECLISSE (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  3. CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (Agnès Varda)
  4. JULES ET JIM (François Truffaut)
  5. LOLITA (Stanley Kubrick)
  6. VIVRE SA VIE (Jean-Luc Godard)
  7. CARNIVAL OF SOULS (Herk Harvey)
  8. THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Luis Buñuel)
  9. HARAKIRI (Kobayashi Masaki)
  10. THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC (Robert Bresson)

1961

  1. LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais)
  2. LOLA (Jacques Demy)
  3. HERCULES CONQUERS ATLANTIS (Vittorio Cottafavi)
  4. PARIS BELONGS TO US (Jacques Rivette)
  5. THE EXILES (Kent Mackenzie)
  6. YOJIMBO (Kurosawa Akira)
  7. WEST SIDE STORY (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
  8. VIRIDIANA (Luis Buñuel)
  9. A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. LA NOTTE (Michelangelo Antonioni)

1960

  1. BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard)
  2. THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
  3. PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. L’AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  5. PEEPING TOM (Michael Powell)
  6. THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder)
  7. NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN (Ōshima Nagisa)
  8. THE BELLBOY (Jerry Lewis)
  9. LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini)
  10. THE BAD SLEEP WELL (Kurosawa Akira)

1950s

Best of the Decade

  1. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
  2. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira)
  4. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Howard Hawks)
  5. SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  6. RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks)
  7. TOKYO STORY (Ozu Yasujirō)
  8. REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock)
  9. A STAR IS BORN (George Cukor)
  10. PYAASA (Guru Dutt)

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1959

  1. RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks)
  2. THE 400 BLOWS (François Truffaut)
  3. HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (Alain Resnais)
  4. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. SHADOWS (John Cassavetes)
  6. PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson)
  7. THE WORLD OF APU (Satyajit Ray)
  8. UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE (Marcel Hanoun)

1958

  1. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles)
  3. LE BEAU SERGE (Claude Chabrol)
  4. ENJO (Ichikawa Kon)

1957

  1. PYAASA (Guru Dutt)
  2. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick)
  3. EIGHT HOURS OF TERROR (Suzuki Seijun)
  4. THRONE OF BLOOD (Kurosawa Akira)
  5. PATHS OF GLORY (Stanley Kubrick)

1956

  1. A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson)
  2. THE WRONG MAN (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. THE BURMESE HARP (Ichikawa Kon)
  5. THE SEARCHERS (John Ford)

1955

  1. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
  2. FLOATING CLOUDS (Naruse Mikio)
  3. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Nicholas Ray)
  4. LOLA MONTÈS (Max Ophuls)
  5. THE LONG GRAY LINE (John Ford)
  6. MOONFLEET (Fritz Lang)
  7. MR. ARKADIN (Orson Welles)
  8. ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Douglas Sirk)
  9. ARTISTS AND MODELS (Frank Tashlin)
  10. KISS ME DEADLY (Robert Aldrich)

1954

  1. SEVEN SAMURAI (Kurosawa Akira)
  2. SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  3. REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. A STAR IS BORN (George Cukor)
  5. JOURNEY TO ITALY (Roberto Rossellini)
  6. GODZILLA (Honda Ishirō)
  7. THE CRUCIFIED LOVERS (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  8. MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (Douglas Sirk)

1953

  1. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Howard Hawks)
  2. TOKYO STORY (Ozu Yasujirō)
  3. THE SAGA OF ANATAHAN (Josef von Sternberg)
  4. UGETSU MONOGATARI (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  5. A GEISHA (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  6. THE BIG HEAT (Fritz Lang)
  7. THE LADY WITHOUT CAMELIAS (Michelangelo Antonioni)

1952

  1. THE GOLDEN COACH (Jean Renoir)
  2. THE QUIET MAN (John Ford)
  3. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
  4. THE LUSTY MEN (Nicholas Ray)
  5. EUROPA ’51 (Roberto Rossellini)
  6. IKIRU (Kurosawa Akira)

1951

  1. DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Robert Bresson)
  2. AWAARA (Raj Kapoor)
  3. THE TALL TARGET (Anthony Mann)
  4. OTHELLO (Orson Welles)
  5. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Vincente Minnelli)

1950

  1. LA RONDE (Max Ophuls)
  2. ALL ABOUT EVE (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  3. SUNSET BLVD. (Billy Wilder)
  4. RASHOMON (Kurosawa Akira)
  5. LOS OLVIDADOS (Luis Buñuel)
  6. LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES (Jean-Pierre Melville)

1940s

Best of the Decade

  1. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
  2. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli)
  3. LATE SPRING (Ozu Yasujirō)
  4. LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Max Ophuls)
  5. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)
  6. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks)
  7. THE HEIRESS (William Wyler)
  8. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  9. SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN (Fei Mu)
  10. THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)

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1949

  1. LATE SPRING (Ozu Yasujirō)
  2. THE HEIRESS (William Wyler)
  3. THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed)
  4. A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

1948

  1. LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Max Ophuls)
  2. SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN (Fei Mu)
  3. FORT APACHE (John Ford)
  4. THE RED SHOES (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  5. BERLIN EXPRESS (Jacques Tourneur)
  6. WOMEN OF THE NIGHT (Mizoguchi Kenji)
  7. DRUNKEN ANGEL (Kurosawa Akira)
  8. ROPE (Alfred Hitchcock)

1947

  1. OUT OF THE PAST (Jacques Tourneur)
  2. DAISY KENYON (Otto Preminger)
  3. THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK (Preston Sturges)

1946

  1. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)
  3. CANYON PASSAGE (Jacques Tourneur)
  4. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra)
  5. THE LOCKET (John Brahm)
  6. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Jean Cocteau)
  7. ENAMORADA (Emilio Fernández)

1945

  1. THE CLOCK (Vincente Minnelli)
  2. BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean)
  3. DETOUR (Edgar G. Ulmer)
  4. LES DAMES DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE (Robert Bresson)
  5. MILDRED PIERCE (Michael Curtiz)
  6. ROME, OPEN CITY (Roberto Rossellini)
  7. MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (Joseph H. Lewis)

1944

  1. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli)
  2. GROSSE FREIHEIT NR. 7 (Helmut Käutner)
  3. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder)
  4. LAURA (Otto Preminger)

1943

  1. THE SEVENTH VICTIM (Mark Robson)
  2. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Jacques Tourneur)
  3. THE GANG’S ALL HERE (Busby Berkeley)
  4. THE LEOPARD MAN (Jacques Tourneur)
  5. HEAVEN CAN WAIT (Ernst Lubitsch)
  6. ANGELS OF SIN (Robert Bresson)
  7. SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Alfred Hitchcock)
  8. OSSESSIONE (Luchino Visconti)

1942

  1. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
  2. CAT PEOPLE (Jacques Tourneur)
  3. CASABLANCA (Michael Curtiz)

1941

  1. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)

1940

  1. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks)
  2. REBECCA (Alfred Hitchcock)

1930s

Best of the Decade

  1. ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks)
  2. THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir)
  3. THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
  4. RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Leo McCarey)
  5. THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey)
  6. M (Fritz Lang)
  7. SHANGHAI EXPRESS (Josef von Sternberg)
  8. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir)
  9. MOROCCO (Josef von Sternberg)
  10. FURY (Fritz Lang)

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1939

  1. ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks)
  2. THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir)
  3. STAGECOACH (John Ford)
  4. THE WIZARD OF OZ (Victor Fleming)
  5. THE WOMEN (George Cukor)

1938

  1. HOLIDAY (George Cukor)
  2. THE LADY VANISHES (Alfred Hitchcock)

1937

  1. THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey)
  2. MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (Leo McCarey)
  3. GRAND ILLUSION (Jean Renoir)
  4. A STAR IS BORN (William A. Wellman)

1936

  1. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir)
  2. FURY (Fritz Lang)
  3. THE STORY OF A CHEAT (Sacha Guitry)
  4. SABOTAGE (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE (Jean Renoir)

1935

  1. RUGGLES OF RED GAP (Leo McCarey)
  2. THE 39 STEPS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. TONI (Jean Renoir)

1934

  1. THE GODDESS (Wu Yonggang)
  2. L’ATALANTE (Jean Vigo)

1933

  1. THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
  2. ONLY YESTERDAY (John M. Stahl)
  3. DRAGNET GIRL (Ozu Yasujirō)
  4. LIEBELEI (Max Ophuls)
  5. DESIGN FOR LIVING (Ernst Lubitsch)

1932

  1. SHANGHAI EXPRESS (Josef von Sternberg)
  2. TROUBLE IN PARADISE (Ernst Lubitsch)
  3. WHERE NOW ARE THE DREAMS OF YOUTH? (Ozu Yasujirō)
  4. SCARFACE (Howard Hawks)
  5. BLONDE VENUS (Josef von Sternberg)
  6. THE MASK OF FU MANCHU (Charles Brabin)

1931

  1. M (Fritz Lang)
  2. DISHONORED (Josef von Sternberg)
  3. CITY LIGHTS (Charles Chaplin)
  4. TABU (F.W. Murnau)
  5. LA CHIENNE (Jean Renoir)
  6. FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale)
  7. MARIUS (Alexander Korda)

1930

  1. MOROCCO (Josef von Sternberg)
  2. EARTH (Alexander Dovzhenko)
  3. THE BIG TRAIL (Raoul Walsh)
  4. THE BLUE ANGEL (Josef von Sternberg)

1920s

Best of the Decade

  1. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F.W. Murnau)
  2. NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance)
  3. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  4. SPIONE (Fritz Lang)
  5. THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton)
  6. GREED (Erich von Stroheim)
  7. THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg)
  8. DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (Fritz Lang)
  9. SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton)
  10. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)

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1929

  1. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)
  2. APPLAUSE (Rouben Mamoulian)
  3. THUNDERBOLT (Josef von Sternberg)

1928

  1. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  2. SPIONE (Fritz Lang)
  3. THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg)
  4. STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton)
  5. THE WEDDING MARCH (Erich von Stroheim)
  6. SHOW PEOPLE (King Vidor)

1927

  1. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F.W. Murnau)
  2. NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance)
  3. METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang)
  4. THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (Germaine Dulac)

1926

  1. THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton)

1925

  1. SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton)
  2. BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (Sergei Eisenstein)
  3. THE MERRY WIDOW (Erich von Stroheim)

1924

  1. GREED (Erich von Stroheim)
  2. SHERLOCK JR. (Buster Keaton)
  3. THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (Raoul Walsh)
  4. HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (Victor Sjöström)

1923

  1. SAFETY LAST! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)

1922

  1. DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (Fritz Lang)
  2. NOSFERATU (F.W. Murnau)
  3. NANOOK OF THE NORTH (Robert J. Flaherty)

Pre-1920s

Best Before 1920

  1. LES VAMPIRES (Louis Feuillade)
  2. TIH-MINH (Louis Feuillade)
  3. FANTÔMAS (Louis Feuillade)
  4. THE BIRTH OF A NATION (D.W. Griffith)

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1918

  1. TIH-MINH (Louis Feuillade)

1915

  1. LES VAMPIRES (Louis Feuillade)
  2. THE BIRTH OF A NATION (D.W. Griffith)

1913

  1. FANTÔMAS (Louis Feuillade)

2021 Reading Log

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1. The Crying of Lot 49 (1965, Thomas Pynchon): 5/1/21-6/7/21
The structure threw me off, and while I’m not attributing my repeated failed attempts to begin reading this book to anything except my current living situation, it only became more inexplicable the further I read. The central enigma of the muted post horn and the Tristero only truly emerges around the halfway mark, and a great deal of this is spent in the weeds, the minutiae — not only Pynchon’s numerous historical and literary inventions, but the actual interactions. Indeed, that totally remarkable aspect will stick with me as much as the frightful paranoia that Oedipa eventually undergoes, and the two are inextricably intertwined after a certain point, especially in that nocturnal series of encounters in San Francisco, so utterly dreamlike, yet initially launched into with such a sudden lurch. The irresolution was maybe expected after a certain point, but the way it’s carried out, especially after maybe an overabundance of syntactical curlicues, is unbelievably impactful.