Day: June 25, 2021

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.

2023

  1. IN WATER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  2. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 (Chad Stahelski, USA)
  3. KNOCK AT THE CABIN (M. Night Shyamalan, USA)
  4. FULL RIVER RED (Zhang Yimou, China)
  5. PASSAGES (Ira Sachs, France)
  6. FREMONT (Babak Jalali, 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. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)
  5. THE FABELMANS (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  6. SHOWING UP (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  7. TRENQUE LAUQUEN (Laura Citarella, Argentina)
  8. DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, France)
  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. TALES OF THE PURPLE HOUSE (Abbas Fahdel, Lebanon)
  18. TÁR (Todd Field, USA)
  19. STARS AT NOON (Claire Denis, France)
  20. REWIND & PLAY (Alain Gomis, France)
  21. STONEWALLING (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji, Japan)
  22. WHITE NOISE (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  23. SAINT OMER (Alice Diop, France)
  24. AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (James Cameron, USA)
  25. QUEENS OF THE QING DYNASTY (Ashley McKenzie, Canada)
  26. NOPE (Jordan Peele, USA)
  27. THE BLUE ROSE OF FORGETFULNESS (Lewis Klahr, USA)
  28. RETURN TO SEOUL (Chou Davy, France)
  29. ARMAGEDDON TIME (James Gray, USA)
  30. ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (Laura Poitras, USA)
  31. SATURN BOWLING (Patricia Mazuy, France)
  32. MATTER OUT OF PLACE (Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria)
  33. BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE (Claire Denis, France)
  34. RIOTSVILLE, U.S.A. (Sierra Pettengill, USA)
  35. WHERE IS THIS STREET? OR WITH NO BEFORE OR AFTER (João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata)
  36. NOBODY’S HERO (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  37. HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
  38. DRY GROUND BURNING (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós, Brazil)
  39. DON JUAN (Serge Bozon, France)
  40. AFTERSUN (Charlotte Wells, UK)
  41. AMSTERDAM (David O. Russell)
  42. RELATIVE (Michael Glover Smith, USA)
  43. THE ADVENTURES OF GIGI THE LAW (Alessandro Comodin, Italy)
  44. WILL-O’-THE-WISP (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
  45. SHIN ULTRAMAN (Higuchi Shinji, Japan)
  46. AMBULANCE (Michael Bay, USA)
  47. TOP GUN: MAVERICK (Joseph Kosinski, USA)
  48. A HUMAN POSITION (Anders Emblem, Norway)
  49. FREE CHOL SOO LEE (Eugene Yi & Julie Ha, USA)
  50. GLASS ONION (Rian Johnson, USA)
  51. ASTRAKAN (David Depesseville, France)
  52. CALL JANE (Phyllis Nagy, USA)
  53. EVERY DAY IN KAIMUKĪ (Alika Tengan, USA)
  54. MIJA (Isabel Castro, USA)
  55. KIMI (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  56. SAFE PLACE (Juraj Lerotić, Croatia)
  57. IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA (Ana Vaz, Brazil)

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. WEST SIDE STORY (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  10. A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES (Zhu Shengze, USA)
  11. ANNETTE (Leos Carax, France)
  12. EVANGELION: 3.0+1.0 THRICE UPON A TIME (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  13. THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER (Ramon and Silvan Zürcher, Switzerland)
  14. IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  15. BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN (Radu Jude, Romania)
  16. PROCESSION (Robert Greene, USA)
  17. TOPOLOGY OF SIRENS (Jonathan Davies, USA)
  18. LICORICE PIZZA (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  19. THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (Joel Coen, USA)
  20. INTRODUCTION (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  21. FRANCE (Bruno Dumont, France)
  22. EL GRAN MOVIMIENTO (Kiro Russo, Bolivia)
  23. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (Todd Haynes, USA)
  24. MEDEA (Alexander Zeldovich, Russia)
  25. THE CATHEDRAL (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  26. THE POWER OF THE DOG (Jane Campion, New Zealand)
  27. THE SACRED SPIRIT (Chema García Ibarra, Spain)
  28. HARUHARA-SAN’S RECORDER (Sugita Kyoshi, Japan)
  29. FABIAN, OR GOING TO THE DOGS (Domink Graf, Germany)
  30. BENEDICTION (Terence Davies, UK)
  31. RED ROCKET (Sean Baker, USA)
  32. WOOD AND WATER (Jonas Bak, Germany)
  33. ONODA (Arthur Harari, France)
  34. AHED’S KNEE (Nadav Lapid, Israel)
  35. PEBBLES (PS Vinothraj, India)
  36. THE FRENCH DISPATCH OF THE LIBERTY, KANSAS EVENING SUN (Wes Anderson, USA)
  37. THE SOUVENIR: PART II (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  38. BENEDETTA (Paul Verhoeven, France)
  39. FIRST TIME [THE TIME FOR ALL BUT SUNSET – VIOLET] (Nicolaas Schmidt, Germany)
  40. PARALLEL MOTHERS (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  41. A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING (Payal Kapadia, India)
  42. SOCIAL HYGIENE (Denis Côté, Canada)
  43. VIRGIN BLUE (Niu Xiaoyu, China)
  44. VENGEANCE IS MINE, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH (Edwin, Indonesia)
  45. HIT THE ROAD (Panah Panahi, Iran)
  46. CRY MACHO (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  47. DECEPTION (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  48. RAMPART (Marko Grba Singh, Serbia)
  49. EL PLANETA (Amalia Ulman, Spain)
  50. OUR ETERNAL SUMMER (Émilie Aussel, France)
  51. THE WITCHES OF THE ORIENT (Julien Faraut, France)
  52. BELLE (Hosoda Mamoru, Japan)
  53. PETITE SOLANGE (Axelle Ropert, France)
  54. ROCK BOTTOM RISER (Fern Silva, USA)
  55. PETITE MAMAN (Céline Sciamma, France)
  56. COME HERE (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
  57. SINGING IN THE WILDERNESS (Chen Dongnan, China)
  58. THE CARD COUNTER (Paul Schrader, USA)
  59. ZEROS AND ONES (Abel Ferrara, USA)
  60. TERRA FEMME (Courtney Stephens, USA)
  61. NOBODY (Ilya Naishuller, USA)
  62. BERGMAN ISLAND (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
  63. WET SAND (Elene Naveriani, Georgia)

THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Joachim Trier, Norway)

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. TESLA (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  12. FAUNA (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico)
  13. THERE ARE NOT THIRTY-SIX WAYS OF SHOWING A MAN GETTING ON A HORSE. (Nicolás Zukerfeld, Argentina)
  14. THE LAST CITY (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
  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. THE INHERITANCE (Ephraim Asili, USA)
  29. MONSTER HUNTER (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  30. TIME (Garrett Bradley, USA)
  31. THE SALT OF TEARS (Philippe Garrel, France)
  32. HER SOCIALIST SMILE (John Gianvito, USA)
  33. MAŁNI – TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  34. ALEX WHEATLE (Steve McQueen, UK)
  35. DA 5 BLOODS (Spike Lee, USA)
  36. ATARRABI AND MIKELATS (Eugène Green, France)
  37. NOMADLAND (Chloé Zhao, USA)
  38. UNDINE (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  39. THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez, USA)
  40. ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN SEE (Pablo Escoto Luna, Mexico)
  41. DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (Kirsten Johnson, USA)

2019

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

ANNE AT 13,000 FEET. (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
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. THE GRAND BIZARRE (Jodie Mack, USA)
  16. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  17. THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  18. HOTEL BY THE RIVER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  19. BISBEE ’17 (Robert Greene, USA)
  20. “I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS” (Radu Jude, Romania)
  21. UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB (Stephen Susco, USA)
  22. MONROVIA, INDIANA (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  23. BURNING (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea)
  24. IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (Barry Jenkins, USA)
  25. TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG (Dominga Sotomayor, Chile)
  26. WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD’S ON FIRE? (Roberto Minervini, USA)
  27. HAPPY AS LAZZARO (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy)
  28. ISLE OF DOGS (Wes Anderson, USA)
  29. THE MULE (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  30. SUPPORT THE GIRLS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  31. A STAR IS BORN (Bradley Cooper, USA)
  32. NON-FICTION (Olivier Assayas, France)
  33. WELCOME TO MARWEN (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  34. 3 FACES (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
  35. CLASSICAL PERIOD (Ted Fendt, USA)
  36. FILM CATASTROPHE (Paul Grivas, France)
  37. THE COMMUTER (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  38. INFINITE FOOTBALL (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
  39. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  40. A FAMILY TOUR (Ying Liang, Hong Kong)
  41. NOTES ON AN APPEARANCE (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  42. BLACKKKLANSMAN (Spike Lee, USA)
  43. COINCOIN AND THE EXTRA-HUMANS (Bruno Dumont, France)
  44. RAY & LIZ (Richard Billingham, UK)
  45. THE WORLD IS FULL OF SECRETS (Graham Swon, USA)
  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, Ireland)
  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)

DEAR EX (Mag Hsu & Hsu Chih-yen, Taiwan)
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. PRINCESS CYD (Stephen Cone, USA)
  10. FACES PLACES (Agnès Varda & JR, France)
  11. GOOD TIME (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
  12. PHANTOM THREAD (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  13. ZAMA (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
  14. THE WORK (Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous, USA)
  15. DOWNSIZING (Alexander Payne, 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. EX LIBRIS: THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  30. WONDERSTRUCK (Todd Haynes, USA)
  31. SONG TO SONG (Terrence Malick, USA)
  32. THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker, USA)
  33. GOOD MANNERS (Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra, Brazil)
  34. ISMAEL’S GHOSTS (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  35. BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (S. Craig Zahler, USA)
  36. PERSON TO PERSON (Dustin Guy Defa, USA)
  37. TONSLER PARK (Kevin Jerome Everson, USA)
  38. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 (Chad Stahelski, USA)
  39. GET OUT (Jordan Peele, USA)
  40. LOVER FOR A DAY (Philippe Garrel, France)
  41. THE WANDERING SOAP OPERA (Raúl Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento, Chile)
  42. THE RIDER (Chloé Zhao, USA)
  43. THE GREAT BUDDHA+ (Huang Hsin-yao, Taiwan)
  44. GIRLS TRIP (Malcolm D. Lee, USA)
  45. LAST FLAG FLYING (Richard Linklater, USA)
  46. DRIFT (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
  47. ESCAPES (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  48. SPL: PARADOX (Wilson Yip, Hong Kong)
  49. MERCURY IN RETROGRADE (Michael Glover Smith, USA)
  50. GEMINI (Aaron Katz, USA)
  51. LOGAN LUCKY (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  52. CANIBA (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel, USA)
  53. PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams, Canada)
  54. THE GREEN FOG (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson, USA)
  55. THIRST STREET (Nathan Silver, USA)

LET THE CORPSES TAN (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, Belgium)
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. CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson, USA)
  5. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
  6. HYPERNORMALISATION (Adam Curtis, UK)
  7. CERTAIN WOMEN (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  8. THE HUMAN SURGE (Eduardo Williams, Argentina)
  9. ELLE (Paul Verhoeven, France)
  10. SIERANEVADA (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
  11. THE HANDMAIDEN (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  12. KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE (Robert Greene, USA)
  13. 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (Mike Mills, 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. NOCTURAMA (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  21. RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  22. AQUARIUS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
  23. THE SHALLOWS (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  24. SULLY (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  25. SHIN GODZILLA (Anno Hideaki and Higuchi Shinji, Japan)
  26. THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN (Kelly Fremon Craig, USA)
  27. EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (Richard Linklater, USA)
  28. THE SON OF JOSEPH (Eugène Green, France)
  29. HERMIA & HELENA (Matías Piñeiro, USA)
  30. MOONLIGHT (Barry Jenkins, USA)
  31. LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (Whit Stillman, Ireland)
  32. THE LOST CITY OF Z (James Gray, USA)
  33. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE + THE TENNESSEE KIDS (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  34. I AM NOT MADAME BOVARY (Feng Xiaogang, China)
  35. PERSONAL SHOPPER (Olivier Assayas, France)
  36. ALLIED (Robert Zemeckis, UK)
  37. I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (Raoul Peck, USA)
  38. VICTORIA (Justine Triet, France)
  39. PATERSON (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
  40. JULIETA (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  41. ANOTHER YEAR (Zhu Shengze, China)
  42. THE ORNITHOLOGIST (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
  43. FIRE AT SEA (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy)
  44. THE COMPETITION (Claire Simon, France)
  45. TOWER (Keith Maitland, USA)
  46. RULES DON’T APPLY (Warren Beatty, USA)
  47. KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (Travis Knight, USA)
  48. STARLESS DREAMS (Mehrdad Oskouei, Iran)
  49. A QUIET PASSION (Terence Davies, UK)
  50. THE UNKNOWN GIRL (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  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)

THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV (Albert Serra, France)
STAYING VERTICAL (Alain Guiraudie)
MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA (Dash Shaw, USA)
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. AFTERNOON (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  10. SPL II: A TIME FOR CONSEQUENCES (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  11. KAILI BLUES (Bi Gan, China)
  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. THE OTHER SIDE (Roberto Minervini, Italy)
  24. SUNSET SONG (Terence Davies, UK)
  25. QUEEN OF EARTH (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  26. OFFICE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  27. THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson, Canada)
  28. THE WALK (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  29. BRIDGE OF SPIES (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  30. BAAHUBALI: THE BEGINNING (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
  31. SICARIO (Denis Villeneuve, USA)
  32. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (J. J. Abrams, USA)
  33. RESULTS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  34. IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN (Philippe Garrel)
  35. JOHN FROM (João Nicolau, Portugal)
  36. FIELD NIGGAS (Khalik Allah, USA)
  37. LOST AND BEAUTIFUL (Pietro Marcello, Italy)
  38. THE HATEFUL EIGHT (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  39. AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (Joss Whedon, USA)
  40. KNIGHT OF CUPS (Terrence Malick, USA)
  41. RUN ALL NIGHT (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  42. IN TRANSIT (Albert Maysles & Lynn True & David Usui & Nelson Walker & Ben Wu, USA)

CREED (Ryan Coogler, USA)

2014

  1. PHOENIX (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  2. JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  3. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson, USA)
  4. DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART 2 (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  5. HORSE MONEY (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
  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. TWO SHOTS FIRED (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
  16. JOURNEY TO THE WEST (Tsai Ming-liang, France)
  17. L FOR LEISURE (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  18. BELOVED SISTERS (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  19. THE MEND (John Magary, USA)
  20. THE MIDNIGHT AFTER (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  21. NON-STOP (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  22. CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (Olivier Assayas, France)
  23. JOHN WICK (Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, USA)
  24. WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE (Yonebayashi Hiromasa, Japan)
  25. POLIZEIRUF 110: SMOKE ON THE WATER (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  26. HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
  27. UNFRIENDED (Leo Gabriadze, USA)
  28. P’TIT QUINQUIN (Bruno Dumont, France)
  29. BUZZARD (Joel Potrykus, USA)
  30. SAINT LAURENT (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  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. THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT (Ramon Zürcher, Germany)
  12. INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  13. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  14. A TOUCH OF SIN (Jia Zhangke, China)
  15. BLIND DETECTIVE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  16. STRANGER BY THE LAKE (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  17. COHERENCE (James Ward Byrkit, USA)
  18. THE IMMIGRANT (James Gray, USA)
  19. COMPUTER CHESS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  20. SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
  21. EXHIBITION (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  22. THE WORLD’S END (Edgar Wright, UK)
  23. THE BLING RING (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  24. SNOWPIERCER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  25. UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer, UK)
  26. THE GUESTS (Ken Jacobs, USA)

2012

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

COSMOPOLIS (David Cronenberg, Canada)

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. THE KID WITH A BIKE (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  7. DREILEBEN: BEATS BEING DEAD (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  8. DREILEBEN: DON’T FOLLOW ME AROUND (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  9. THE COLOR WHEEL (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  10. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (David Fincher, USA)
  11. THE LONELIEST PLANET (Julia Loktev, USA)
  12. ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE (Adam Curtis, UK)
  13. A WORLD WITHOUT WOMEN (Guillaume Brac, France)
  14. LOW LIFE (Nicolas Klotz, France)
  15. THE PETTIFOGGER (Lewis Klahr, USA)
  16. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (Brad Bird, USA)
  17. MELANCHOLIA (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  18. THE WISE KIDS (Stephen Cone, USA)
  19. SLOW ACTION (Ben Rivers, UK)
  20. UNKNOWN (Jaume Collet-Serra, Germany)
  21. PINA (Wim Wenders, Germany)
  22. LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)

HOUSE OF TOLERANCE (Bertrand Bonello, France)

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. PUBLIC ENEMIES (Michael Mann, USA)
  7. ORPHAN (Jaume Collet-Serra, Canada)
  8. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  9. FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Wes Anderson, USA)
  10. SWEETGRASS (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, USA)
  11. MOTHER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  12. FACE (Tsai Ming-liang, France)
  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. DUPLICITY (Tony Gilroy, USA)
  18. IMPOLEX (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  19. BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, 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. TWO LOVERS (James Gray, USA)
  9. WENDY AND LUCY (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  10. 24 CITY (Jia Zhangke, China)
  11. L’IDIOT (Pierre Léon, France)
  12. AFTERSCHOOL (Antonio Campos, USA)
  13. BURN AFTER READING (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  14. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, USA)
  15. THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS (Agnès Varda, France)

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. MICHAEL CLAYTON (Tony Gilroy, USA)
  6. HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS (Joe Swanberg, USA)
  7. MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS (Wong Kar-wai, USA)
  8. THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  9. PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND (John Gianvito, USA)
  10. 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (Cristian Mungiu, Romania)
  11. USELESS (Jia Zhangke, China)
  12. EVANGELION: 1.0 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  13. HOT FUZZ (Edgar Wright, UK)
  14. THE DARJEELING LIMITED (Wes Anderson, USA)
  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. 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. THE HAND (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  6. THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES: THE RISE OF THE POLITICS OF FEAR (Adam Curtis, UK)
  7. VERA DRAKE (Mike Leigh, UK)
  8. THE WORLD (Jia Zhangke, China)
  9. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry, USA)
  10. COLLATERAL (Michael Mann, USA)
  11. KUNG FU HUSTLE (Stephen Chow, Hong Kong)
  12. TEN SKIES (James Benning, USA)
  13. VÉNUS ET FLEUR (Emmanuel Mouret, France)
  14. TRIPLE AGENT (Éric Rohmer, France)
  15. THE INCREDIBLES (Brad Bird, USA)
  16. HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (Zhang Yimou, China)
  17. BREAKING NEWS (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  18. WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  19. KILL BILL: VOLUME 2 (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  20. PRIMER (Shane Carruth, USA)
  21. L’INTRUS (Claire Denis, France)
  22. THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (Wes Anderson, USA)
  23. EROS (Wong Kar-wai/Steven Soderbergh/Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  24. 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. LOST IN TRANSLATION (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  5. RUNNING ON KARMA (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  6. KILL BILL: VOLUME 1 (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  7. MEMORIES OF MURDER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  8. OLDBOY (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  9. S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE (Panh Rithy, Cambodia)
  10. TARNATION (Jonathan Caouette, USA)
  11. THE MATRIX RELOADED (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  12. THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS (Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  13. THE SCHOOL OF ROCK (Richard Linklater, USA)
  14. 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. MISCHKA (Jean-François Stévenin, France)
  18. JACKASS: THE MOVIE (Jeff Tremaine, USA)
  19. GANGS OF NEW YORK (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  20. RESIDENT EVIL (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  21. INFERNAL AFFAIRS (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak, Hong Kong)
  22. SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  23. 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. THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (Wes Anderson, USA)
  12. ALI (Michael Mann, USA)
  13. HUSH! (Hashiguchi Ryosuke, Japan)
  14. TROUBLE EVERY DAY (Claire Denis, France)
  15. LOVE ON A DIET (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  16. SHAOLIN SOCCER (Stephen Chow, Hong Kong)
  17. THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  18. COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE (Watanabe Shinichiro, Japan)
  19. A FINE DAY (Thomas Arslan, Germany)
  20. OCEAN’S ELEVEN (Steven Soderbergh, USA)

2000

  1. YI YI (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. BAMBOOZLED (Spike Lee, USA)
  6. THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE (Mark Dindal, USA)
  7. HAMLET (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  8. VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  9. YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
  10. THE STATE I AM IN (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  11. MISSION TO MARS (Brian De Palma, USA)
  12. MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  13. PETITE CONVERSATION FAMILIALE (Hélène Lapiower, France)
  14. DANCER IN THE DARK (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  15. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II (John Woo, USA)
  16. JOINT SECURITY AREA (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)

1999

  1. EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  2. BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis, France)
  3. GOHATTO (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  4. MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (Takahata Isao, Japan)
  5. THE INSIDER (Michael Mann, USA)
  6. THE MATRIX (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  7. ROSETTA (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  8. POLA X (Leos Carax, France)
  9. THE MISSION (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  10. SILVIA PRIETO (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
  11. EXISTENZ (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  12. THE STRAIGHT STORY (David Lynch, USA)
  13. EL VALLEY CENTRO (James Benning, USA)
  14. 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. A HERO NEVER DIES (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  6. NEW ROSE HOTEL (Abel Ferrara, USA)
  7. THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  8. FESTEN (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark)
  9. BELLY (Hype Williams, USA)
  10. SNAKE EYES (Brian De Palma, USA)
  11. 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. LOST HIGHWAY (David Lynch, USA)
  6. TOO MANY WAYS TO BE NO. 1 (Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  7. TASTE OF CHERRY (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
  8. FACE/OFF (John Woo, USA)
  9. THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
  10. STARSHIP TROOPERS (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
  11. XIAO WU (Jia Zhangke, China)
  12. PRINCESS MONONOKE (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  13. THE ODD ONE DIES (Patrick Yau and Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  14. GUMMO (Harmony Korine, USA)
  15. THE REVENGE: A VISIT FROM FATE (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  16. TITANIC (James Cameron, 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. WING CHUN (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  9. U.S. GO HOME (Claire Denis, France)
  10. COLD WATER (Olivier Assayas, France)
  11. TO LIVE (Zhang Yimou, China)
  12. THE INVINCIBLES (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  13. RIVER OF GRASS (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  14. THE GLASS SHIELD (Charles Burnett, 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, France)
  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)

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. JU DOU (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang, China)
  10. THE NASTY GIRL (Michael Verhoeven, West Germany)
  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)

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. SCHOOL ON FIRE (Ringo Lam, Hong Kong)
  3. AS TEARS GO BY (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  4. 36 FILLETTE (Catherine Breillat, France)
  5. UMA PEDRA NO BOLSO (Joaquim Pinto, Portugal)
  6. MIRACLE MILE (Steve De Jarnatt, USA)
  7. DIE KATZE (Dominik Graf, West Germany)
  8. AKIRA (Otomo Katsuhiro, Japan)
  9. DIE HARD (John McTiernan, USA)
  10. CHOCOLAT (Claire Denis, France)
  11. 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. WINGS OF DESIRE (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  7. ROBOCOP (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
  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. THE 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. DOUBLE MESSIEURS (Jean-François Stévenin, France)
  11. SOMETHING WILD (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  12. A BETTER TOMORROW (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  13. ROUND MIDNIGHT (Bertrand Tavernier, France)
  14. ALIENS (James Cameron, USA)
  15. THE RISE AND FALL OF A SMALL FILM COMPANY (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  16. BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (John Carpenter, USA)
  17. 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)

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. CHOOSE ME (Alan Rudolph, USA)
  6. INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  7. DUNE (David Lynch, USA)
  8. THE TERMINATOR (James Cameron, USA)
  9. CLASS RELATIONS (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  10. BODY DOUBLE (Brian De Palma, USA)
  11. GREMLINS (Joe Dante, USA)
  12. AMERICAN DREAMS (LOST AND FOUND) (James Benning, USA)
  13. REPO MAN (Alex Cox, USA)

1983

  1. SANS SOLEIL (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. SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN (Alan Briggs, UK)

MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR. LAWRENCE (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)

1982

  1. BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott, USA)
  2. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  3. NOMAD (Patrick Tam, Hong Kong)
  4. POLTERGEIST (Tobe Hooper, USA)
  5. TOO EARLY/TOO LATE (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, France)
  6. THE THING (John Carpenter, USA)
  7. KOYAANISQATSI (Godfrey Reggio, USA)
  8. 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 – FIRST 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)

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 CLOUDS 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)

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. DOSSIER 51 (Michel Deville, France)
  12. HALLOWEEN (John Carpenter, USA)
  13. OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY (Christian de Chalonge, France)
  14. GIRLFRIENDS (Claudia Weill, USA)
  15. LIKE A TURTLE ON ITS BACK (Luc Béraud, France)
  16. VIOLETTE NOZIÈRE (Claude Chabrol, France)
  17. THE LEFT-HANDED WOMAN (Peter Handke, West Germany)
  18. DESPAIR (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  19. GATES OF HEAVEN (Errol Morris, USA)
  20. THE SHOUT (Jerzy Skolimowski, UK)
  21. WITHOUT ANESTHESIA (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)
  22. AMERICAN BOY: A PORTRAIT OF STEVEN PRINCE (Martin Scorsese, USA)

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. ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen, USA)
  6. HOUSE (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  7. THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (Luis Buñuel, France)
  8. THE AMERICAN FRIEND (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  9. STAR WARS (George Lucas, USA)
  10. SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento, Italy)
  11. KILLER OF SHEEP (Charles Burnett, USA)
  12. LE CAMION (Marguerite Duras, France)
  13. ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN’T (Agnès Varda, France)
  14. THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN (François Truffaut, France)
  15. PADRE PADRONE (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Italy)
  16. BETWEEN THE LINES (Joan Micklin Silver, USA)
  17. OMAR GATLATO (Merzak Allouache, Algeria)
  18. A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT (Chris Marker, France)
  19. TENT OF MIRACLES (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazil)
  20. SHORT EYES (Robert M. Young, USA)
  21. ROSELAND (James Ivory, USA)
  22. CAMOUFLAGE (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
  23. THE LACEMAKER (Claude Goretta, France)
  24. WOMEN (Mészarós Márta, Hungary)

CITIZENS BAND (Jonathan Demme, USA)

1976

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

KINGS OF THE ROAD (Wim Wenders, West Germany)

1975

  1. INDIA SONG (Marguerite Duras, France)
  2. MOSES AND AARON (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  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. THE VALIANT ONES (King Hu, Taiwan)
  8. DERSU UZALA (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  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 Maysles & 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)

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. MEAN STREETS (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  7. DAY FOR NIGHT (François Truffaut, France)
  8. A DOLL’S HOUSE (Joseph Losey, UK)
  9. THE ILLUMINATION (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
  10. ISRAEL, WHY (Claude Lanzmann, France)
  11. CHARLEY VARRICK (Don Siegel, USA)

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)

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

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, OR PERHAPS ONE DAY ROME WILL PERMIT HERSELF TO CHOOSE IN HER TURN (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)

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. BOY (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  5. DESTROY, SHE SAID (Marguerite Duras, France)
  6. THE SORROW AND THE PITY (Marcel Ophuls, France)
  7. UNE FEMME DOUCE (Robert Bresson, France)
  8. DOUBLE SUICIDE (Shinoda Masahiro, Japan)
  9. BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (Paul Mazursky, USA)
  10. ÅDALEN 31 (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
  11. LE GAI SAVOIR (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  12. OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR (Richard Attenborough)
  13. THE JOKE (Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovakia)
  14. LIONS LOVE (Agnès Varda, USA)
  15. KES (Ken Loach, UK)

1968

  1. DEATH BY HANGING (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  2. ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (Sergio Leone, Italy)
  3. JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME (Alain Resnais, France)
  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. LUCÍA (Humberto Solás, Cuba)
  17. MANDABI (Ousmane Sembène, Senegal)
  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)

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. LE DÉPART (Jerzy Skolimowski, Belgium)
  12. 2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  13. PORTRAIT OF JASON (Shirley Clarke, USA)
  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)

ELVIRA MADIGAN (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
LE SAMOURAÏ (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
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. VIOLENCE AT NOON (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  18. MADE IN U.S.A (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  19. TROUBLEMAKERS (Norman Fruchter & Robert Machover, USA)
  20. 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. CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (Orson Welles, Spain)
  13. BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL (Doris Wishman, USA)
  14. WALKOVER (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)
  15. LOVES OF A BLONDE (Miloš Forman, Czechoslovakia)
  16. THE SHAMELESS OLD LADY (René Allio, France)

SHAKESPEARE WALLAH (James Ivory, USA)
THE EPIC THAT NEVER WAS (Bill Duncalf, UK)
MICKEY ONE (Arthur Penn, USA)

1964

  1. GERTRUD (Carl Theodor 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, 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. THE COOL WORLD (Shirley Clarke, USA)
  13. CONTEMPT (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  14. I FIDANZATI (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
  15. LE PETIT SOLDAT (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  16. RAVEN’S END (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
  17. IN THE MIDST OF LIFE (Robert Enrico, France)

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)

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 EXILES (Kent Mackenzie, USA)
  6. YOJIMBO (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  7. WEST SIDE STORY (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, USA)
  8. VIRIDIANA (Luis Buñuel, Spain)
  9. A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  10. LA NOTTE (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)

1960

  1. BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  2. L’AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  3. THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang, West Germany)
  4. PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  5. PEEPING TOM (Michael Powell, UK)
  6. THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder, USA)
  7. NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  8. THE BELLBOY (Jerry Lewis, USA)
  9. LA DOLCE VITA (Federico Fellini, Italy)
  10. THE BAD SLEEP WELL (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  11. CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  12. SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (François Truffaut, France)
  13. 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. SHADOWS (John Cassavetes, USA)
  7. PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson, France)
  8. APUR SANSAR (Satyajit Ray, India)
  9. UNE SIMPLE HISTOIRE (Marcel Hanoun, France)

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. EIGHT HOURS OF TERROR (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  4. THRONE OF BLOOD (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  5. 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)

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. REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  4. A STAR IS BORN (George Cukor, USA)
  5. JOURNEY TO ITALY (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  6. GODZILLA (Honda Ishiro, Japan)
  7. THE CRUCIFIED LOVERS (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  8. MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (Douglas Sirk, USA)

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 Lubistch, 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. THE 39 STEPS (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
  3. 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)

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 Theodor 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)