Favorite Films (Features Only)

Ryan Swen Lists

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

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2025

  1. BLUE MOON (Richard Linklater, USA)
  2. IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
  3. THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME (Wes Anderson, USA)
  4. DEBUT, OR, OBJECTS OF THE FIELD OF DEBRIS AS CURRENTLY CATALOGUED (Julian Castronovo, USA)
  5. PREDATORS (David Osit, USA)
  6. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—THE FINAL RECKONING (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  7. SINNERS (Ryan Coogler, USA)
  8. VIDEOHEAVEN (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  9. THE SMASHING MACHINE (Benny Safdie, USA)
  10. JOHN LILLY AND THE EARTH COINCIDENCE CONTROL OFFICE (Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens, USA)
  11. BLACK BAG (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  12. AFTER THE HUNT (Luca Guadagnino, USA)
  13. IN THE LOST LANDS (Paul W. S. Anderson, USA)
  14. DEN OF THIEVES: PANTERA (Christian Gudegast, USA)

2024

  1. CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (Jia Zhangke, China)
  2. GRAND TOUR (Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
  3. MISERICORDIA (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  4. YOUTH (HOMECOMING) (Wang Bing, France)
  5. HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT (Alexander Horwath, Austria)
  6. YOUTH (HARD TIMES) (Wang Bing, France)
  7. THE SHROUDS (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  8. AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE (Albert Serra, Spain)
  9. IT’S NOT ME (Leos Carax, France)
  10. A TRAVELER’S NEEDS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  11. ANORA (Sean Baker, USA)
  12. BY THE STREAM (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  13. WHO BY FIRE (Philippe Lesage, Canada)
  14. NICKEL BOYS (RaMell Ross, USA)
  15. HARD TRUTHS (Mike Leigh, UK)
  16. DAHOMEY (Mati Diop, France)
  17. THE OTHER WAY AROUND (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
  18. ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (Payal Kapadia, India)
  19. THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR AND THREE MORE (Wes Anderson, USA)
  20. THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  21. DIRECT ACTION (Guillaume Cailleau & Ben Russell, France)
  22. THE BRUTALIST (Brady Corbet, USA)
  23. TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  24. CHIME (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  25. EEPHUS (Carson Lund, USA)
  26. A DIFFERENT MAN (Aaron Schimberg, USA)
  27. BETWEEN THE TEMPLES (Nathan Silver, USA)
  28. BROKEN RAGE (Kitano Takeshi, Japan)
  29. ABIDING NOWHERE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  30. THE SERPENT’S PATH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, France)
  31. MATT AND MARA (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
  32. THE COLORS WITHIN (Yamada Naoko, Japan)
  33. NO OTHER LAND (Basel Adra & Rachel Szor & Hamdan Ballal & Yuval Abraham, Palestine)
  34. JUROR #2 (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  35. CLOUD (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  36. CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT (Tyler Taormina, USA)
  37. OH, CANADA (Paul Schrader, USA)
  38. HERE (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  39. MEGALOPOLIS (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
  40. BLITZ (Steve McQueen, UK)
  41. FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA (George Miller, Australia)
  42. PAVEMENTS (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  43. INVENTION (Courtney Stephens, USA)
  44. FAMILIAR TOUCH (Sarah Friedland, USA)
  45. HAPPYEND (Sora Neo, Japan)
  46. FIRE OF WIND (Marta Mateus, Portugal)
  47. DESERT OF NAMIBIA (Yamanaka Yoko, Japan)
  48. THE DAMNED (Roberto Minervini, USA)
  49. STRANGER EYES (Yeo Siew Hua, Singapore)
  50. DREAM TEAM (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  51. CHALLENGERS (Luca Guadagnino, USA)
  52. NO SLEEP TILL (Alexandra Simpson, USA)
  53. CARRY-ON (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  54. YOU BURN ME (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  55. LITTLE, BIG, AND FAR (Jem Cohen, USA)
  56. PRESENCE (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  57. PEPE (Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias, Dominican Republic)
  58. CENT MILLE MILLIARDS (Virgil Vernier, France)
  59. COLLECTIVE MONOLOGUE (Jessica Sarah Rinland, Argentina)
  60. MEASURES FOR A FUNERAL (Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada)
  61. SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ÉTAT (Johan Grimonprez, Belgium)
  62. THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran)
  63. GOOD ONE (India Donaldson, USA)
  64. UNION (Brett Story & Stephen Maing, USA)
  65. THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, USA)
  66. BLACK BOX DIARIES (Ito Shiori, Japan)
  67. TRAP (M. Night Shyamalan, USA)
  68. BLUE SUN PALACE (Constance Tsang, USA)
  69. EAT THE NIGHT (Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, France)
  70. RUMOURS (Guy Maddin & Evan & Galen Johnson, Canada)
  71. I’M STILL HERE (Walter Salles, Brazil)
  72. SAVANNA AND THE MOUNTAIN (Paulo Carneiro, Portugal)
  73. A REAL PAIN (Jesse Eisenberg, USA)
  74. APRIL (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia)
  75. THE ORDER (Justin Kurzel, Canada)
  76. REBEL RIDGE (Jeremy Saulnier, USA)
  77. SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED (Hernán Rosselli, Argentina)
  78. ESCAPE FROM THE 21ST CENTURY (Li Yang, China)
  79. QUEER (Luca Guadagnino, Italy)
  80. BREATHLESS (James Benning, USA)
  81. SLEEP #2 (Radu Jude, Romania)
  82. EIGHT POSTCARDS FROM UTOPIA (Radu Jude & Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Romania)

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. THE HUMAN SURGE 3 (Eduardo Williams, Argentina)
  5. MUSIC (Angela Schanelec, Germany)
  6. MAY DECEMBER (Todd Haynes, USA)
  7. ANATOMY OF A FALL (Justine Triet, France)
  8. AFIRE (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  9. IN OUR DAY (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  10. LAST SUMMER (Catherine Breillat, France)
  11. FALLEN LEAVES (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland)
  12. YOUTH (SPRING) (Wang Bing, France)
  13. GIFT (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  14. ASTEROID CITY (Wes Anderson, USA)
  15. THE SHADOWLESS TOWER (Zhang Lu, China)
  16. IN WATER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  17. CLOSE YOUR EYES (Víctor Erice, Spain)
  18. EUREKA (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  19. HERE (Bas Devos, Belgium)
  20. THE DELINQUENTS (Rodrigo Moreno, Argentina)
  21. FERRARI (Michael Mann, USA)
  22. INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL (Phạm Thiên Ân, Vietnam)
  23. MENUS-PLAISIRS—LES TROISGROS (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  24. HOW DO YOU LIVE? (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  25. OCCUPIED CITY (Steve McQueen, UK)
  26. MAN IN BLACK (Wang Bing, France)
  27. THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED (Joanna Arnow, USA)
  28. HIT MAN (Richard Linklater, USA)
  29. THE ADULTS (Dustin Guy Defa, USA)
  30. STILL FILM (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  31. ALLENSWORTH (James Benning, USA)
  32. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—DEAD RECKONING PART ONE (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  33. PICTURES OF GHOSTS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
  34. PRISCILLA (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  35. LA CHIMERA (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy)
  36. THIS CLOSENESS (Kit Zauhar, USA)
  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. THE ZONE OF INTEREST (Jonathan Glazer, UK)
  45. THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE (Patric Chiha, France)
  46. THE SWEET EAST (Sean Price Williams, USA)
  47. THE KILLER (David Fincher, USA)
  48. JANET PLANET (Annie Baker, USA)
  49. AN EVENING SONG (FOR THREE VOICES) (Graham Swon, USA)
  50. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 (Chad Stahelski, USA)
  51. MAMBAR PIERRETTE (Rosine Mbakam, Cameroon)
  52. AGGRO DR1FT (Harmony Korine, USA)
  53. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  54. GODZILLA MINUS ONE (Yamazaki Takashi, Japan)
  55. GASOLINE RAINBOW (Bill & Turner Ross, USA)
  56. THE CAINE MUTINY COURT MARTIAL (William Friedkin, USA)
  57. PAST LIVES (Celine Song, USA)
  58. BARBIE (Greta Gerwig, USA)
  59. FOLLOWING THE SOUND (Sugita Kyoshi, Japan)
  60. KNOCK AT THE CABIN (M. Night Shyamalan, USA)
  61. FULL RIVER RED (Zhang Yimou, China)
  62. ROCKY AUR RANI KII PREM KAHAANI (Karan Johar, India)
  63. THE TASTE OF THINGS (Trần Anh Hùng, France)
  64. THE HOLDOVERS (Alexander Payne, USA)
  65. POOR THINGS (Yorgos Lanthimos, UK)
  66. ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT (Raven Jackson, USA)
  67. ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS (Wei Shujun, China)
  68. PASSAGES (Ira Sachs, France)
  69. LAST THINGS (Deborah Stratman, USA)
  70. MAESTRO (Bradley Cooper, USA)
  71. RED ISLAND (Robin Campillo, France)
  72. ABSENCE (Wu Lang, China)
  73. FREMONT (Babak Jalali, USA)
  74. PERFECT DAYS (Wim Wenders, Japan)
  75. HIS THREE DAUGHTERS (Azazel Jacobs, USA)
  76. DEADENDZ (Jon Jost, USA)

2022

  1. PACIFICTION (Albert Serra, France)
  2. THE NOVELIST’S FILM (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  3. WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  4. SHOWING UP (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  5. NO BEARS (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
  6. DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, France)
  7. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)
  8. THE FABELMANS (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  9. TRENQUE LAUQUEN (Laura Citarella, Argentina)
  10. THE PEOPLE YOU’RE PAYING TO BE IN SHORTS (Jon Bois, USA)
  11. THE PLAINS (David Easteal, Australia)
  12. SECTION 1 (Jon Bois, USA)
  13. UNREST (Cyril Schäublin, Switzerland)
  14. ONE FINE MORNING (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
  15. DIARY OF A FLEETING AFFAIR (Emmanuel Mouret, France)
  16. CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  17. RRR (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
  18. DECISION TO LEAVE (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  19. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (James Benning, USA)
  20. COMA (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  21. YOU HAVE TO COME AND SEE IT (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
  22. TALES OF THE PURPLE HOUSE (Abbas Fahdel, Lebanon)
  23. TÁR (Todd Field, USA)
  24. STARS AT NOON (Claire Denis, France)
  25. QUEENS OF THE QING DYNASTY (Ashley McKenzie, Canada)
  26. NOPE (Jordan Peele, USA)
  27. STONEWALLING (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji, Japan)
  28. WHERE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  29. REWIND & PLAY (Alain Gomis, France)
  30. WHITE NOISE (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  31. SAINT OMER (Alice Diop, France)
  32. AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (James Cameron, USA)
  33. THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  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. MASTER GARDENER (Paul Schrader, USA)
  39. SATURN 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. RETURN TO DUST (Li Ruijun, China)
  46. NOBODY’S HERO (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  47. HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH (Helena Wittmann, Germany)
  48. DRY GROUND BURNING (Joana Pimenta & Adirley Queirós, Brazil)
  49. DON JUAN (Serge Bozon, France)
  50. AFTERSUN (Charlotte Wells, UK)
  51. HAPPER’S COMET (Tyler Taormina, USA)
  52. AMSTERDAM (David O. Russell, USA)
  53. RELATIVE (Michael Glover Smith, USA)
  54. THE ADVENTURES OF GIGI THE LAW (Alessandro Comodin, Italy)
  55. WILL-O’-THE-WISP (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
  56. SHIN ULTRAMAN (Higuchi Shinji, Japan)
  57. A WOMAN ESCAPES (Sofia Bohdanowicz & Burak Çevik & Blake Williams, Canada)
  58. FALL (Vadim Kostrov, Russia)
  59. THE MAIDEN (Graham Foy, Canada)
  60. A COUPLE (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  61. AMBULANCE (Michael Bay, USA)
  62. TOP GUN: MAVERICK (Joseph Kosinski, USA)
  63. A HUMAN POSITION (Anders Emblem, Norway)
  64. FREE CHOL SOO LEE (Eugene Yi & Julie Ha, USA)
  65. GLASS ONION (Rian Johnson, USA)
  66. ASTRAKAN (David Depesseville, France)
  67. CALL JANE (Phyllis Nagy, USA)
  68. HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (Mike Cheslik, USA)
  69. EVERY DAY IN KAIMUKĪ (Alika Tengan, USA)
  70. MIJA (Isabel Castro, USA)
  71. KIMI (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  72. SAFE PLACE (Juraj Lerotić, Croatia)
  73. ENYS MEN (Mark Jenkin, UK)
  74. IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA (Ana Vaz, Brazil)
  75. 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. IL BUCO (Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy)
  5. WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  6. CAN’T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD (Adam Curtis, UK)
  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. THE TSUGUA DIARIES (Maureen Fazendeiro & Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
  19. PROCESSION (Robert Greene, USA)
  20. TOPOLOGY OF SIRENS (Jonathan Davies, USA)
  21. LICORICE PIZZA (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  22. THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH (Joel Coen, USA)
  23. INTRODUCTION (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  24. EL GRAN MOVIMIENTO (Kiro Russo, Bolivia)
  25. RED ROCKET (Sean Baker, USA)
  26. THE CATHEDRAL (Ricky D’Ambrose, USA)
  27. THE FRENCH DISPATCH (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 POWER OF THE DOG (Jane Campion, New Zealand)
  33. THE SACRED SPIRIT (Chema García Ibarra, Spain)
  34. HARUHARA-SAN’S RECORDER (Sugita Kyoshi, Japan)
  35. BENEDICTION (Terence Davies, UK)
  36. WOOD AND WATER (Jonas Bak, Germany)
  37. ONODA (Arthur Harari, France)
  38. AHED’S KNEE (Nadav Lapid, Israel)
  39. PEBBLES (PS Vinothraj, India)
  40. THE SOUVENIR PART II (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  41. FIRST TIME [THE TIME FOR ALL BUT SUNSET – VIOLET] (Nicolaas Schmidt, Germany)
  42. PARALLEL MOTHERS (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  43. A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING (Payal Kapadia, India)
  44. RIPPLES OF LIFE (Wei Shujun, China)
  45. ACTUAL PEOPLE (Kit Zauhar, USA)
  46. HIT THE ROAD (Panah Panahi, Iran)
  47. SOCIAL HYGIENE (Denis Côté, Canada)
  48. VIRGIN BLUE (Niu Xiaoyu, China)
  49. VENGEANCE IS MINE, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH (Edwin, Indonesia)
  50. CRY MACHO (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  51. DECEPTION (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  52. RAMPART (Marko Grba Singh, Serbia)
  53. EL PLANETA (Amalia Ulman, Spain)
  54. SUMMER (Vadim Kostrov, Russia)
  55. OUR ETERNAL SUMMER (Émilie Aussel, France)
  56. THE WITCHES OF THE ORIENT (Julien Faraut, France)
  57. BELLE (Hosoda Mamoru, Japan)
  58. PETITE SOLANGE (Axelle Ropert, France)
  59. ROCK BOTTOM RISER (Fern Silva, USA)
  60. PETITE MAMAN (Céline Sciamma, France)
  61. COME HERE (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
  62. AFTER THE RAIN (Fan Jian, China)
  63. SINGING IN THE WILDERNESS (Chen Dongnan, China)
  64. THE CARD COUNTER (Paul Schrader, USA)
  65. ZEROS AND ONES (Abel Ferrara, USA)
  66. TERRA FEMME (Courtney Stephens, USA)
  67. A MARBLE TRAVELOGUE (Sean Wang, Netherlands)
  68. BERGMAN ISLAND (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
  69. THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Joachim Trier, Norway)
  70. WET SAND (Elene Naveriani, Georgia)
  71. CLIFF WALKERS (Zhang Yimou, China)
  72. 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. LOVE AFFAIR(S) (Emmanuel Mouret, France)
  4. THE WOMAN WHO RAN (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  5. SHORT VACATION (Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol, South Korea)
  6. BEGINNING (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia)
  7. WIFE OF A SPY (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  8. MALMKROG (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
  9. LOVERS ROCK (Steve McQueen, UK)
  10. MINAMATA MANDALA (Hara Kazuo, Japan)
  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. ISABELLA (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  15. TESLA (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  16. FAUNA (Nicolás Pereda, Mexico)
  17. THERE ARE NOT THIRTY-SIX WAYS OF SHOWING A MAN GETTING ON A HORSE. (Nicolás Zukerfeld, Argentina)
  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. THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS (Catarina Vasconcelos, Portugal)
  25. EXPEDITION CONTENT (Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati, USA)
  26. BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS (Bill & Turner Ross, USA)
  27. MANGROVE (Steve McQueen, UK)
  28. THE LOBBY (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
  29. THE YEAR OF THE DISCOVERY (Luis López Carrasco, Spain)
  30. ON THE ROCKS (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  31. THE INHERITANCE (Ephraim Asili, USA)
  32. MONSTER HUNTER (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  33. TIME (Garrett Bradley, USA)
  34. THE SALT OF TEARS (Philippe Garrel, France)
  35. HER SOCIALIST SMILE (John Gianvito, USA)
  36. STRIDING INTO THE WIND (Wei Shujun, China)
  37. MAɬNI—TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE (Sky Hopinka, USA)
  38. ALEX WHEATLE (Steve McQueen, UK)
  39. DA 5 BLOODS (Spike Lee, USA)
  40. ATARRABI AND MIKELATS (Eugène Green, France)
  41. NOMADLAND (Chloé Zhao, USA)
  42. UNDINE (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  43. THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Courtney Stephens & Pacho Velez, USA)
  44. FRENCH EXIT (Azazel Jacobs, USA)
  45. ALL THE LIGHT WE CAN SEE (Pablo Escoto Luna, Mexico)
  46. 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. THE PLAGIARISTS (Peter Parlow and James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir, USA)
  12. I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  13. VITALINA VARELA (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
  14. A VOLUNTARY YEAR (Ulrich Köhler & Henner Winckler, Germany)
  15. THE TRAITOR (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
  16. ZOMBI CHILD (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  17. JUST DON’T THINK I’LL SCREAM (Frank Beauvais, France)
  18. CENOTE (Oda Kaori, Japan)
  19. FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  20. MARRIAGE STORY (Noah Baumbach, USA)
  21. THE WHISTLERS (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
  22. GHOST TROPIC (Bas Devos, Belgium)
  23. LABYRINTH OF CINEMA (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  24. THE AUGUST VIRGIN (Jonás Trueba, Spain)
  25. THOSE THAT, AT A DISTANCE, RESEMBLE ANOTHER (Jessica Sarah Rinland, UK)
  26. BACURAU (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles, Brazil)
  27. PAIN AND GLORY (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  28. LITTLE WOMEN (Greta Gerwig, USA)
  29. LIBERTÉ (Albert Serra, Spain)
  30. BELONGING (Burak Çevik, Turkey)
  31. A HIDDEN LIFE (Terrence Malick, USA)
  32. THE WILD GOOSE LAKE (Diao Yinan, China)
  33. SIBYL (Justine Triet, France)
  34. CHASING DREAM (Johnnie To, China)
  35. AD ASTRA (James Gray, USA)
  36. BETTER DAYS (Derek Tsang, China)
  37. GYOPO (Samuel Kiehoon Lee, South Korea)
  38. RICHARD JEWELL (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  39. YOUNG AHMED (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  40. ATLANTICS (Mati Diop, Senegal)
  41. HAM ON RYE (Tyler Taormina, USA)
  42. KNIVES OUT (Rian Johnson, USA)
  43. DARK WATERS (Todd Haynes, USA)
  44. A GIRL MISSING (Fukada Koji, Japan)
  45. THE WHITE STORM 2: DRUG LORDS (Herman Yau, Hong Kong)
  46. FIRE WILL COME (Óliver Laxe, Spain)
  47. HELLHOLE (Bas Devos, Belgium)
  48. MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN (Edward Norton, USA)
  49. THE DEAD DON’T DIE (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
  50. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3—PARABELLUM (Chad Stahelski, USA)
  51. THE SOUVENIR (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  52. US (Jordan Peele, USA)
  53. HIGH FLYING BIRD (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  54. DOMINO (Brian De Palma, Denmark)
  55. COLLECTIVE (Alexander Nanau, Romania)
  56. GEMINI MAN (Ang Lee, USA)
  57. CONJURING THE ROLLING THUNDER RE-VUE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  58. ANNE AT 13,000 FEET. (Kazik Radwanski, Canada)
  59. 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. CLASSICAL PERIOD (Ted Fendt, USA)
  12. IN MY ROOM (Ulrich Köhler, Germany)
  13. LIZ AND THE BLUE BIRD (Yamada Naoko, Japan)
  14. HER SMELL (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  15. THE IMAGE BOOK (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)
  16. WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD’S ON FIRE? (Roberto Minervini, USA)
  17. THE GRAND BIZARRE (Jodie Mack, USA)
  18. SAND (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  19. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—FALLOUT (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  20. THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  21. HOTEL BY THE RIVER (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  22. BISBEE ’17 (Robert Greene, USA)
  23. “I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS” (Radu Jude, Romania)
  24. UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB (Stephen Susco, USA)
  25. BURNING (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea)
  26. MONROVIA, INDIANA (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  27. NON-FICTION (Olivier Assayas, France)
  28. IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (Barry Jenkins, USA)
  29. TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG (Dominga Sotomayor, Chile)
  30. HAPPY AS LAZZARO (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy)
  31. ISLE OF DOGS (Wes Anderson, USA)
  32. THE MULE (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  33. SUPPORT THE GIRLS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  34. A STAR IS BORN (Bradley Cooper, USA)
  35. THE WORLD IS FULL OF SECRETS (Graham Swon, USA)
  36. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  37. WELCOME TO MARWEN (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  38. 3 FACES (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
  39. COINCOIN AND THE EXTRA-HUMANS (Bruno Dumont, France)
  40. GENÈSE (Philippe Lesage, Canada)
  41. A LAND IMAGINED (Yeo Siew Hua, Singapore)
  42. FILM CATASTROPHE (Paul Grivas, France)
  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. BLACKKKLANSMAN (Spike Lee, USA)
  48. RAY & LIZ (Richard Billingham, UK)
  49. ROMA (Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico)
  50. DIAMANTINO (Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt, Portugal)
  51. SHOOT THE MOON RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES (Graham L. Carter, USA)
  52. FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY (Michael Koresky & Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman, USA)
  53. A FAITHFUL MAN (Louis Garrel, France)
  54. YOUR FACE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  55. SUSPIRIA (Luca Guadagnino, Italy)
  56. THE LOAD (Ognjen Glavonić, Serbia)
  57. THE GREAT PRETENDER (Nathan Silver, USA)
  58. SHOPLIFTERS (Koreeda Hirokazu, Japan)
  59. THE FAVOURITE (Yorgos Lanthimos, UK)
  60. BELMONTE (Federico Veiroj, Uruguay)
  61. DEN OF THIEVES (Christian Gudegast, USA)
  62. SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS (Virgil Vernier, France)
  63. COLD WAR (Paweł Pawlikowski, Poland)
  64. HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING (RaMell Ross, USA)
  65. TWO PLAINS & A FANCY (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  66. GAME NIGHT (John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein, USA)
  67. THE 15:17 TO PARIS (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  68. READY PLAYER ONE (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  69. RELAXER (Joel Potrykus, USA)
  70. DIANE (Kent Jones, USA)
  71. CLIMAX (Gaspar Noé, France)
  72. KNIFE + HEART (Yann Gonzalez, France)
  73. MASTER Z: THE IP MAN LEGACY (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  74. PERMANENT GREEN LIGHT (Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley, France)
  75. BLACK PANTHER (Ryan Coogler, USA)
  76. ANT-MAN AND THE WASP (Peyton Reed, USA)
  77. SORRY TO BOTHER YOU (Boots Riley, USA)
  78. THE NIGHT COMES FOR US (Timo Tjahjanto, Indonesia)

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. ZAMA (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
  7. PHANTOM THREAD (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  8. CLAIRE’S CAMERA (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  9. ★ (Johann Lurf, Austria)
  10. STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE] (Heinz Emigholz, Germany)
  11. DOWNSIZING (Alexander Payne, USA)
  12. PRINCESS CYD (Stephen Cone, USA)
  13. FACES PLACES (Agnès Varda & JR, France)
  14. GOOD TIME (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
  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, Italy)
  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. COMMON CARRIER (James N. Kienitz Wilkins, USA)
  50. ESCAPES (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  51. SPL: PARADOX (Wilson Yip, Hong Kong)
  52. THE FOOLISH BIRD (Huang Ji & Otsuka Ryuji, China)
  53. AMIKO (Yamanaka Yoko, Japan)
  54. MERCURY IN RETROGRADE (Michael Glover Smith, USA)
  55. GEMINI (Aaron Katz, USA)
  56. LOGAN LUCKY (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  57. CANIBA (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, USA)
  58. THE GREEN FOG (Guy Maddin & Evan & Galen Johnson, USA)
  59. THIRST STREET (Nathan Silver, USA)
  60. THE WILD BOYS (Bertrand Mandico, France)
  61. THE SQUARE (Ruben Östlund, Sweden)

2016

  1. YOURSELF AND YOURS (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  2. NOCTURAMA (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  3. SILENCE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  4. TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade, Germany)
  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. HERMIA & HELENA (Matías Piñeiro, USA)
  13. A SILENT VOICE (Yamada Naoko, Japan)
  14. THE HANDMAIDEN (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  15. KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE (Robert Greene, USA)
  16. O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA (Ezra Edelman, USA)
  17. BEDUINO (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
  18. BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand)
  19. THE DREAMED PATH (Angela Schanelec, Germany)
  20. THINGS TO COME (Mia Hansen-Løve, France)
  21. CREEPY (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  22. AQUARIUS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
  23. SHIN GODZILLA (Anno Hideaki and Higuchi Shinji, Japan)
  24. PERSONAL SHOPPER (Olivier Assayas, France)
  25. THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN (Kelly Fremon Craig, USA)
  26. 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (Mike Mills, USA)
  27. RESIDENT EVIL: THE FINAL CHAPTER (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  28. I AM NOT MADAME BOVARY (Feng Xiaogang, China)
  29. THE SHALLOWS (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  30. SULLY (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  31. EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (Richard Linklater, USA)
  32. THE SON OF JOSEPH (Eugène Green, France)
  33. MOONLIGHT (Barry Jenkins, USA)
  34. LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (Whit Stillman, Ireland)
  35. THE LOST CITY OF Z (James Gray, USA)
  36. PATERSON (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
  37. A QUIET PASSION (Terence Davies, UK)
  38. THE UNKNOWN GIRL (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  39. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE + THE TENNESSEE KIDS (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  40. ALLIED (Robert Zemeckis, UK)
  41. FIRE AT SEA (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy)
  42. I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (Raoul Peck, USA)
  43. SHORT STAY (Ted Fendt, USA)
  44. VICTORIA (Justine Triet, France)
  45. JULIETA (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
  46. ANOTHER YEAR (Zhu Shengze, China)
  47. THE ORNITHOLOGIST (João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal)
  48. THE COMPETITION (Claire Simon, France)
  49. TOWER (Keith Maitland, USA)
  50. RULES DON’T APPLY (Warren Beatty, USA)
  51. KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (Travis Knight, USA)
  52. STARLESS DREAMS (Mehrdad Oskouei, Iran)
  53. YOUR NAME. (Shinkai Makoto, Japan)
  54. THREE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  55. THE ILLINOIS PARABLES (Deborah Stratman, USA)
  56. TWO LOTTERY TICKETS (Paul Negoescu, Romania)
  57. POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone, USA)
  58. KÉKSZAKÁLLÚ (Gastón Solnicki, Argentina)
  59. RAT FILM (Theo Anthony, USA)
  60. MIMOSAS (Óliver Laxe, Spain)
  61. THE MERMAID (Stephen Chow, China)
  62. THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV (Albert Serra, France)
  63. STAYING VERTICAL (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  64. MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA (Dash Shaw, USA)
  65. 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. THE OTHER SIDE (Roberto Minervini, USA)
  18. GAROTO (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
  19. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller, Australia)
  20. ALOHA (Cameron Crowe, USA)
  21. EXPERIMENTER (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  22. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—ROGUE NATION (Christopher McQuarrie, USA)
  23. MAGIC MIKE XXL (Gregory Jacobs, USA)
  24. SUNSET SONG (Terence Davies, UK)
  25. THE HATEFUL EIGHT (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  26. IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN (Philippe Garrel, France)
  27. DESPITE THE NIGHT (Philippe Grandrieux, France)
  28. QUEEN OF EARTH (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  29. OFFICE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  30. THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson, Canada)
  31. THE WALK (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  32. BRIDGE OF SPIES (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  33. BAAHUBALI: THE BEGINNING (S. S. Rajamouli, India)
  34. SICARIO (Denis Villeneuve, USA)
  35. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (J. J. Abrams, USA)
  36. STINKING HEAVEN (Nathan Silver, USA)
  37. RESULTS (Andrew Bujalski, USA)
  38. JOHN FROM (João Nicolau, Portugal)
  39. BLUE STRAIT (Jon Jost, USA)
  40. FIELD NIGGAS (Khalik Allah, USA)
  41. LOST AND BEAUTIFUL (Pietro Marcello, Italy)
  42. AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (Joss Whedon, USA)
  43. KNIGHT OF CUPS (Terrence Malick, USA)
  44. RUN ALL NIGHT (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  45. IN TRANSIT (Albert Maysles & Lynn True & David Usui & Nelson Walker & Ben Wu, USA)
  46. CREED (Ryan Coogler, USA)
  47. INSIDE OUT (Pete Docter, USA)

2014

  1. PHOENIX (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  2. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson, USA)
  3. HORSE MONEY (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
  4. JAUJA (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  5. INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  6. DON’T GO BREAKING MY HEART 2 (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  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. JOURNEY TO THE WEST (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  13. L FOR LEISURE (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  14. BOYHOOD (Richard Linklater, USA)
  15. TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  16. NOT MY TYPE (Lucas Belvaux, France)
  17. THE MIDNIGHT AFTER (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  18. SAINT LAURENT (Bertrand Bonello, France)
  19. TWO SHOTS FIRED (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
  20. BELOVED SISTERS (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  21. CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (Olivier Assayas, France)
  22. THE MEND (John Magary, USA)
  23. LI’L QUINQUIN (Bruno Dumont, France)
  24. THE LOOK OF SILENCE (Joshua Oppenheimer, Indonesia)
  25. NON-STOP (Jaume Collet-Serra, USA)
  26. JOHN WICK (Chad Stahelski and David Leitch, USA)
  27. WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE (Yonebayashi Hiromasa, Japan)
  28. HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT (Josh & Benny Safdie, USA)
  29. POLIZEIRUF 110: SMOKE ON THE WATER (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  30. UNFRIENDED (Leo Gabriadze, USA)
  31. BUZZARD (Joel Potrykus, USA)
  32. ACTRESS (Robert Greene, USA)
  33. VIOLET (Bas Devos, Belgium)

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. A TOUCH OF SIN (Jia Zhangke, China)
  10. STRANGER BY THE LAKE (Alain Guiraudie, France)
  11. OUR SUNHI (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  12. MISS AND THE DOCTORS (Axelle Ropert, France)
  13. EL FUTURO (Luis López Carrasco, Spain)
  14. THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT (Ramon Zürcher, Germany)
  15. INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  16. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  17. BLIND DETECTIVE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  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. COMING TO TERMS (Jon Jost, USA)
  23. SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION (Júlio Bressane, Brazil)
  24. EXHIBITION (Joanna Hogg, UK)
  25. TOUCHING THE SKIN OF EERINESS (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  26. THE WORLD’S END (Edgar Wright, UK)
  27. THE BLING RING (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  28. SNOWPIERCER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  29. UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer, UK)
  30. THE GUESTS (Ken Jacobs, USA)

2012

  1. LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE (Abbas Kiarostami, Japan)
  2. TABU (Miguel Gomes, Portugal)
  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. LEVIATHAN (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel, USA)
  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. TO THE WONDER (Terrence Malick, USA)
  14. RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  15. THE MASTER (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  16. NEIGHBORING SOUNDS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil)
  17. VIOLA (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  18. YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET (Alain Resnais, France)
  19. THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT (Dan Sallitt, USA)
  20. BARBARA (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  21. CASTING BLOSSOMS TO THE SKY (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  22. COSMOPOLIS (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  23. EGG AND STONE (Huang Ji, China)
  24. EVANGELION: 3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  25. IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY (Don Hertzfeldt, USA)
  26. THE ACT OF KILLING (Joshua Oppenheimer, Indonesia)
  27. MOTORWAY (Soi Cheang, Hong Kong)
  28. DJANGO UNCHAINED (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  29. CLOUD ATLAS (Lana & Lilly Wachowski & Tom Tykwer, Germany)
  30. 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. MELANCHOLIA (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  10. DREILEBEN: BEATS BEING DEAD (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  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. A WORLD WITHOUT WOMEN (Guillaume Brac, France)
  16. LOW LIFE (Nicolas Klotz, France)
  17. THE PETTIFOGGER (Lewis Klahr, USA)
  18. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—GHOST PROTOCOL (Brad Bird, USA)
  19. THE WISE KIDS (Stephen Cone, USA)
  20. PINA (Wim Wenders, Germany)
  21. THE PASSAGE (Roberto Minervini, USA)
  22. UNKNOWN (Jaume Collet-Serra, Germany)
  23. LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  24. ROSALINDA (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)

2010

  1. MYSTERIES OF LISBON (Raúl Ruiz, Portugal)
  2. MEEK’S CUTOFF (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  3. UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
  4. CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami, France)
  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. SLOW ACTION (Ben Rivers, UK)
  17. RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (Paul W. S. Anderson, Germany)
  18. TRUE GRIT (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  19. 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, Taiwan)
  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. THEY ALL LIE (Matías Piñeiro, Argentina)
  20. IMPOLEX (Alex Ross Perry, USA)
  21. BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, USA)
  22. STAR TREK (J. J. Abrams, USA)
  23. UP (Pete Docter, 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. EXTRAORDINARY STORIES (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. A LAKE (Philippe Grandrieux, France)
  14. PARKING (Chung Mong-hong, Taiwan)
  15. BURN AFTER READING (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  16. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, USA)
  17. PASSION (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  18. AFTERSCHOOL (Antonio Campos, USA)
  19. THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS (Agnès Varda, France)
  20. THE HURT LOCKER (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)

2007

  1. THE TRAP (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. I’M NOT THERE (Todd Haynes, USA)
  8. HANNAH TAKES THE STAIRS (Joe Swanberg, USA)
  9. MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS (Wong Kar-wai, USA)
  10. PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND (John Gianvito, USA)
  11. THE DARJEELING LIMITED (Wes Anderson, USA)
  12. 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (Cristian Mungiu, Romania)
  13. USELESS (Jia Zhangke, China)
  14. HELP ME EROS (Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan)
  15. EVANGELION: 1.0 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE (Anno Hideaki, Japan)
  16. HOT FUZZ (Edgar Wright, UK)
  17. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  18. PERSEPOLIS (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, France)
  19. RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION (Russell Mulcahy, Germany)
  20. LUST, CAUTION (Ang Lee, China)
  21. RATATOUILLE (Brad Bird, USA)

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. EXILED (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  7. DEJA VU (Tony Scott, USA)
  8. MARIE ANTOINETTE (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  9. WOMAN ON THE BEACH (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  10. I DON’T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  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. THE CHILD (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. THE WAYWARD CLOUD (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  6. THROUGH THE FOREST (Jean Paul Civeyrac, France)
  7. THE DEATH OF MR. LĂZĂRESCU (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
  8. CACHÉ (Michael Haneke, France)
  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. LAST DAYS (Gus Van Sant, USA)
  16. 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 (Adam Curtis, UK)
  8. THE WORLD (Jia Zhangke, China)
  9. TEN SKIES (James Benning, USA)
  10. LOS MUERTOS (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  11. KILL BILL (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  12. VERA DRAKE (Mike Leigh, UK)
  13. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry, USA)
  14. COLLATERAL (Michael Mann, USA)
  15. SIDEWAYS (Alexander Payne, USA)
  16. THE INCREDIBLES (Brad Bird, USA)
  17. VÉNUS AND FLEUR (Emmanuel Mouret, France)
  18. TRIPLE AGENT (Éric Rohmer, France)
  19. THE INTRUDER (Claire Denis, France)
  20. HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (Zhang Yimou, China)
  21. THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (Wes Anderson, USA)
  22. BREAKING NEWS (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  23. WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
  24. PRIMER (Shane Carruth, USA)
  25. MR. 3000 (Charles Stone III, USA)
  26. MY STINKING KID (Lee Kang-sheng & Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  27. EROS (Wong Kar-wai/Steven Soderbergh/Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  28. 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. MEMORIES OF MURDER (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
  8. LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED (Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Japan)
  9. THE MISSING (Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan)
  10. OLDBOY (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
  11. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
  12. S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE (Panh Rithy, Cambodia)
  13. TARNATION (Jonathan Caouette, USA)
  14. THE MATRIX RELOADED (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  15. THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS (Jørgen Leth & Lars von Trier, Denmark)
  16. LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE (Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand)
  17. THE SCHOOL OF ROCK (Richard Linklater, USA)
  18. INTOLERABLE CRUELTY (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  19. FINDING NEMO (Andrew Stanton, USA)

2002

  1. MY LEFT EYE SEES GHOSTS (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  2. FEMME FATALE (Brian De Palma, France)
  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. PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
  8. THE CENTURY OF THE SELF (Adam Curtis, UK)
  9. FRIDAY NIGHT (Claire Denis, France)
  10. UNKNOWN PLEASURES (Jia Zhangke, China)
  11. FAR FROM HEAVEN (Todd Haynes, USA)
  12. MINORITY REPORT (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  13. THE FRIENDS OF THE FRIENDS (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  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. A NEW LIFE (Philippe Grandrieux, France)
  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 DRIVE (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. FAT GIRL (Catherine Breillat, France)
  8. LA LIBERTAD (Lisandro Alonso, Argentina)
  9. WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
  10. LA CIÉNAGA (Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
  11. ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU (Iwai Shunji, Japan)
  12. WAKING LIFE (Richard Linklater, USA)
  13. THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (Wes Anderson, USA)
  14. ALI (Michael Mann, USA)
  15. TROUBLE EVERY DAY (Claire Denis, France)
  16. HUSH! (Hashiguchi Ryosuke, Japan)
  17. LOVE ON A DIET (Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong)
  18. SHAOLIN SOCCER (Stephen Chow, Hong Kong)
  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. OCEAN’S ELEVEN (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  24. SHREK (Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson, USA)
  25. MONSTERS, INC. (Pete Docter, 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. IN VANDA’S ROOM (Pedro Costa, Portugal)
  6. DURIAN DURIAN (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  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. THE STATE I AM IN (Christian Petzold, Germany)
  13. BATTLE ROYALE (Fukasaku Kinji, Japan)
  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. GOHATTO (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  4. MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (Takahata Isao, Japan)
  5. THE INSIDER (Michael Mann, USA)
  6. THE STRAIGHT STORY (David Lynch, USA)
  7. THE MISSION (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
  8. COMPENSATION (Zeinabu irene Davis, USA)
  9. LITTLE CHEUNG (Fruit Chan, Hong Kong)
  10. THE MATRIX (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
  11. THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (Sofia Coppola, USA)
  12. ROSETTA (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
  13. POLA X (Leos Carax, France)
  14. SILVIA PRIETO (Martín Rejtman, Argentina)
  15. EXISTENZ (David Cronenberg, Canada)
  16. STAR WARS: EPISODE I—THE PHANTOM MENACE (George Lucas, USA)
  17. EL VALLEY CENTRO (James Benning, USA)
  18. SOUTH (Chantal Akerman, USA)
  19. THE IRON GIANT (Brad Bird, 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. SERPENT’S PATH (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  10. THE CELEBRATION (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark)
  11. BELLY (Hype Williams, USA)
  12. KNOCK OFF (Tsui Hark, USA)
  13. SNAKE EYES (Brian De Palma, USA)
  14. EYES OF THE SPIDER (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Japan)
  15. DIL SE.. (Mani Ratnam, India)
  16. SOMBRE (Philippe Grandrieux, France)

1997

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

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 AND BONI (Claire Denis, France)

1995

  1. HEAT (Michael Mann, USA)
  2. THE CEREMONY (Claude Chabrol, France)
  3. SAFE (Todd Haynes, USA)
  4. STRANGE DAYS (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)
  5. THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  6. FALLEN ANGELS (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
  7. BEFORE SUNRISE (Richard Linklater, USA)
  8. CLUELESS (Amy Heckerling, USA)
  9. TATORT: FRAU BU LACHT (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  10. SE7EN (David Fincher, USA)
  11. UNDERGROUND (Emir Kusturica, Serbia)
  12. DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Carl Franklin, USA)
  13. DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (John McTiernan, USA)
  14. 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. COLD WATER (Olivier Assayas, France)
  10. U.S. GO HOME (Claire Denis, France)
  11. PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  12. WING CHUN (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  13. NADJA (Michael Almereyda, USA)
  14. TO LIVE (Zhang Yimou, China)
  15. THE INVINCIBLES (Dominik Graf, Germany)
  16. RIVER OF GRASS (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
  17. THE GLASS SHIELD (Charles Burnett, USA)

1993

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

1992

  1. TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME (David Lynch, USA)
  2. HARD-BOILED (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  3. THE ROCKING HORSEMEN (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  4. THE LONG DAY CLOSES (Terence Davies, UK)
  5. ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA II (Tsui Hark, Hong Kong)
  6. UNFORGIVEN (Clint Eastwood, USA)
  7. FULL CONTACT (Ringo Lam, Hong Kong)
  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. ONE FALSE MOVE (Carl Franklin, USA)
  15. NITRATE KISSES (Barbara Hammer, USA)
  16. HYENAS (Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal)
  17. FALLING LESSONS (Amy Halpern, USA)
  18. RESERVOIR DOGS (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
  19. RAISING CAIN (Brian De Palma, USA)
  20. 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. POINT BREAK (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)
  6. BARTON FINK (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  7. THE LIFE OF THE DEAD (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
  8. UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (Wim Wenders, Germany)
  9. RAISE THE RED LANTERN (Zhang Yimou, China)
  10. THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (Krzysztof Kieślowski, Poland)
  11. DIRTY LIKE AN ANGEL (Catherine Breillat, France)
  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. PUMP UP THE VOLUME (Allan Moyle, USA)
  9. TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (Charles Burnett, USA)
  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. WATER AND POWER (Pat O’Neill, USA)
  9. THE ABYSS (James Cameron, USA)
  10. CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (Woody Allen, USA)
  11. CASUALTIES OF WAR (Brian De Palma, USA)
  12. LES SIÈGES DE L’ALCAZAR (Luc Moullet, France)
  13. TONGUES UNTIED (Marlon Riggs, USA)
  14. AMERICAN STORIES: FOOD, FAMILY AND PHILOSOPHY (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  15. INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  16. THE SEVENTH CONTINENT (Michael Haneke, Austria)
  17. SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
  18. MEETING A MILESTONE (Goutam Ghose, India)
  19. 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. THE CAT (Dominik Graf, West Germany)
  9. THE THIN BLUE LINE (Errol Morris, USA)
  10. DIE HARD (John McTiernan, USA)
  11. AKIRA (Otomo Katsuhiro, Japan)
  12. CHOCOLAT (Claire Denis, France)
  13. RED SORGHUM (Zhang Yimou, China)
  14. POLICE STORY 2 (Jackie Chan, Hong Kong)

1987

  1. ROUGE (Stanley Kwan, Hong Kong)
  2. EASTERN CONDORS (Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
  3. THE EMPEROR’S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON (Hara Kazuo, Japan)
  4. ISHTAR (Elaine May, USA)
  5. DAUGHTER OF THE NILE (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
  6. ROBOCOP (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
  7. 4 ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE (Éric Rohmer, France)
  8. CITY ON FIRE (Ringo Lam, Hong Kong)
  9. AN AUTUMN’S TALE (Mabel Cheung, Hong Kong)
  10. WINGS OF DESIRE (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  11. RAISING ARIZONA (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA)
  12. SIGN “O” THE TIMES (Prince, USA)
  13. THE DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  14. A BETTER TOMORROW II (John Woo, Hong Kong)
  15. 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 SAINT-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. BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (John Carpenter, USA)
  17. THE RISE AND FALL OF A SMALL FILM COMPANY (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  18. LAPUTA: CASTLE IN THE SKY (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan)
  19. THE MISSION (Roland Joffé, UK)

1985

  1. TAIPEI STORY (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
  2. RAN (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  3. POLICE STORY (Jackie Chan, Hong Kong)
  4. VAGABOND (Agnès Varda, France)
  5. CONTACT (Alan Clarke, UK)
  6. BACK TO THE FUTURE (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
  7. DAY OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero, USA)
  8. LOST IN AMERICA (Albert Brooks, USA)
  9. LOVE HOTEL (Somai Shinji, Japan)
  10. BRAZIL (Terry Gilliam, UK)
  11. AFTER HOURS (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  12. KUEI-MEI, A WOMAN (Chang Yi, Taiwan)
  13. MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (Stephen Frears, UK)
  14. TROUBLE IN MIND (Alan Rudolph, USA)
  15. 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. STRANGER THAN PARADISE (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
  6. THE TERMINATOR (James Cameron, USA)
  7. LONG ARM OF THE LAW (Johnny Mak, Hong Kong)
  8. CHOOSE ME (Alan Rudolph, USA)
  9. INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  10. DUNE (David Lynch, USA)
  11. CLASS RELATIONS (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, West Germany)
  12. BODY DOUBLE (Brian De Palma, USA)
  13. GREMLINS (Joe Dante, USA)
  14. AMERICAN DREAMS (LOST AND FOUND) (James Benning, USA)
  15. 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. NOMAD (Patrick Tam, Hong Kong)
  3. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  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. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  3. TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (Nils Malmros, Denmark)
  4. MY YOUNG AUNTIE (Lau Kar-leung, Hong Kong)
  5. KAGERO-ZA (Suzuki Seijun, Japan)
  6. THIEF (Michael Mann, USA)
  7. MODERN ROMANCE (Albert Brooks, USA)
  8. BLOW OUT (Brian De Palma, USA)
  9. AT THIS LATE DATE, THE CHARLESTON (Okamoto Kihachi, Japan)
  10. NIGHTSHIFT (Robina Rose, UK)
  11. POSSESSION (Andrzej Żuławski, West Germany)
  12. MERRY-GO-ROUND (Jacques Rivette, France)
  13. RICH AND FAMOUS (George Cukor, USA)
  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 ELEPHANT MAN (David Lynch, 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. CONFIDENCE (Szabó István, Hungary)
  16. MELVIN AND HOWARD (Jonathan Demme, USA)
  17. AMERICAN GIGOLO (Paul Schrader, USA)
  18. SPECIAL TREATMENT (Goran Paskaljević, Yugoslavia)
  19. TIMES SQUARE (Allan Moyle, USA)
  20. 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. HOME MOVIES (Brian De Palma, USA)
  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. THE GREEN ROOM (François Truffaut, France)
  9. BLUE COLLAR (Paul Schrader, USA)
  10. HALLOWEEN (John Carpenter, USA)
  11. REMEMBER MY NAME (Alan Rudolph, USA)
  12. THE MEETINGS OF ANNA (Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
  13. DRUNKEN MASTER (Yuen Woo-ping, Hong Kong)
  14. LE DOSSIER 51 (Michel Deville, France)
  15. OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY (Christian de Chalonge, France)
  16. GIRLFRIENDS (Claudia Weill, USA)
  17. LIKE A TURTLE ON ITS BACK (Luc Béraud, France)
  18. VIOLETTE NOZIÈRE (Claude Chabrol, France)
  19. THE LEFT-HANDED WOMAN (Peter Handke, West Germany)
  20. DESPAIR (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  21. GATES OF HEAVEN (Errol Morris, USA)
  22. THE SHOUT (Jerzy Skolimowski, UK)
  23. WITHOUT ANESTHESIA (Andrzej Wajda, Poland)
  24. AMERICAN BOY: A PORTRAIT OF STEVEN PRINCE (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  25. 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. LAST CHANTS FOR A SLOW DANCE (Jon Jost, USA)
  7. ONE WAY BOOGIE WOOGIE (James Benning, USA)
  8. ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen, USA)
  9. HOUSE (Obayashi Nobuhiko, Japan)
  10. THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (Luis Buñuel, France)
  11. SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (John Badham, USA)
  12. THE AMERICAN FRIEND (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  13. STAR WARS (George Lucas, USA)
  14. SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento, Italy)
  15. KILLER OF SHEEP (Charles Burnett, USA)
  16. THE TRUCK (Marguerite Duras, France)
  17. ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN’T (Agnès Varda, France)
  18. THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN (François Truffaut, France)
  19. PADRE PADRONE (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, Italy)
  20. BETWEEN THE LINES (Joan Micklin Silver, USA)
  21. OMAR GATLATO (Merzak Allouache, Algeria)
  22. A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT (Chris Marker, France)
  23. TENT OF MIRACLES (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazil)
  24. SHORT EYES (Robert M. Young, USA)
  25. ROSELAND (James Ivory, USA)
  26. CAMOUFLAGE (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
  27. THE LACEMAKER (Claude Goretta, France)
  28. WOMEN (Mészarós Márta, Hungary)
  29. 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. DERSU UZALA (Kurosawa Akira, USSR)
  7. JAWS (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  8. THE VALIANT ONES (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  9. THE PASSENGER (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
  10. FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  11. XALA (Ousmane Sembène, Senegal)
  12. BARRY LYNDON (Stanley Kubrick, UK)
  13. THE TRAVELING PLAYERS (Theodoros Angelopoulos, Greece)
  14. GREY GARDENS (David & Albert Maysles & Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer, USA)
  15. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, UK)
  16. THE STORY OF ADÈLE H. (François Truffaut, France)
  17. THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM (Volker Schlöndorff & Margarethe von Trotta, West Germany)
  18. FEAR OF FEAR (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  19. SMILE (Michael Ritchie, USA)
  20. DOG DAY AFTERNOON (Sidney Lumet, USA)

1974

  1. CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette, France)
  2. FEMMES FEMMES (Paul Vecchiali, France)
  3. ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  4. THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (Tobe Hooper, USA)
  5. LANCELOT DU LAC (Robert Bresson, France)
  6. CHINATOWN (Roman Polański, USA)
  7. EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: LOVE SONG 1974 (Hara Kazuo, Japan)
  8. THE CONVERSATION (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
  9. THE BENCH OF DESOLATION (Claude Chabrol, France)
  10. STAVISKY… (Alain Resnais, France)
  11. THE MOUTH AGAPE (Maurice Pialat, France)
  12. A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (John Cassavetes, USA)
  13. FEMALE TROUBLE (John Waters, USA)
  14. THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  15. THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY (Luis Buñuel, France)
  16. PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Brian De Palma, USA)
  17. THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  18. ALICE IN THE CITIES (Wim Wenders, West Germany)
  19. DAISY MILLER (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  20. THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD (Alain Tanner, Switzerland)
  21. ELECTRA, MY LOVE (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
  22. THE NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW (Sérgio Ricardo, Brazil)
  23. ITALIANAMERICAN (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  24. CONVERSATION PIECE (Luchino Visconti, Italy)
  25. LA PALOMA (Daniel Schmid, Switzerland)
  26. THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT (Michael Cimino, USA)
  27. THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (Joseph Sargent, USA)
  28. 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. CHARLEY VARRICK (Don Siegel, USA)
  6. WORLD ON A WIRE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  7. THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (Víctor Erice, Spain)
  8. A SIMPLE EVENT (Sohrab Shahid-Saless, Iran)
  9. MEAN STREETS (Martin Scorsese, USA)
  10. DAY FOR NIGHT (François Truffaut, France)
  11. PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
  12. A DOLL’S HOUSE (Joseph Losey, UK)
  13. THE ILLUMINATION (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
  14. ISRAEL, WHY (Claude Lanzmann, France)
  15. DISTANT THUNDER (Satyajit Ray, India)

1972

  1. THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
  2. OUT 1: SPECTRE (Jacques Rivette, France)
  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. GOODBYE CP (Hara Kazuo, Japan)
  9. NATHALIE GRANGER (Marguerite Duras, France)
  10. TOUT VA BIEN (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin, France)
  11. PINK FLAMINGOS (John Waters, USA)
  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 (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. DUEL (Steven Spielberg, USA)
  21. LOVE (Makk Károly, Hungary)
  22. W.R.: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM (Dušan Makavejev, Yugoslavia)
  23. MURMUR OF THE HEART (Louis Malle, France)
  24. DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
  25. LAND OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
  26. FAMILY LIFE (Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
  27. IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (Marco Bellocchio, Italy)
  28. 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. THE BUTCHER (Claude Chabrol, France)
  5. DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (Satyajit Ray, India)
  6. THE BREACH (Claude Chabrol, France)
  7. THE CONFORMIST (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
  8. THE WILD CHILD (François Truffaut, France)
  9. DEEP END (Jerzy Skolimowski, UK)
  10. DODES’KA-DEN (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  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. THE ADVERSARY (Satyajit Ray, India)
  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. DOUBLE SUICIDE (Shinoda Masahiro, Japan)
  7. DESTROY, SHE SAID (Marguerite Duras, France)
  8. THE SORROW AND THE PITY (Marcel Ophuls, France)
  9. A GENTLE WOMAN (Robert Bresson, France)
  10. BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE (Paul Mazursky, USA)
  11. ÅDALEN 31 (Bo Widerberg, Sweden)
  12. LE GAI SAVOIR (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  13. LAW AND ORDER (Frederick Wiseman, USA)
  14. OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR (Richard Attenborough, UK)
  15. THE JOKE (Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovakia)
  16. LIONS LOVE (Agnès Varda, USA)
  17. 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. HEARTBEAT (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. NAKED CHILDHOOD (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. THE DEPARTURE (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. COME DRINK WITH ME (King Hu, Hong Kong)
  8. THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins, UK)
  9. ROGER LA HONTE (Riccardo Freda, France)
  10. THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone, Italy)
  11. THE NUN (Jacques Rivette, France)
  12. SECONDS (John Frankenheimer, USA)
  13. BLOWUP (Michelangelo Antonioni, UK)
  14. THE WAR IS OVER (Alain Resnais, France)
  15. ANDREI RUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
  16. THE ROUND-UP (Jancsó Miklós, Hungary)
  17. MASCULIN FÉMININ (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  18. CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (Orson Welles, Spain)
  19. VIOLENCE AT NOON (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  20. MADE IN U.S.A (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  21. TROUBLEMAKERS (Norman Fruchter & Robert Machover, USA)
  22. 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. SIMON OF THE DESERT (Luis Buñuel, Mexico)
  5. TOKYO OLYMPIAD (Ichikawa Kon, Japan)
  6. RED BEARD (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  7. LE BONHEUR (Agnès Varda, France)
  8. THE KOUMIKO MYSTERY (Chris Marker, France)
  9. SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (Sergei Parajanov, USSR)
  10. ALPHAVILLE (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  11. BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL (Doris Wishman, USA)
  12. WALKOVER (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland)
  13. LOVES OF A BLONDE (Miloš Forman, Czechoslovakia)
  14. THE SHAMELESS OLD LADY (René Allio, France)
  15. SHAKESPEARE WALLAH (James Ivory, USA)
  16. THE EPIC THAT NEVER WAS (Bill Duncalf, UK)
  17. 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. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
  5. WOMAN IN THE DUNES (Teshigahara Hiroshi, Japan)
  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. PASSENGER (Andrzej Munk, Poland)
  9. THE CARABINEERS (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  10. THE BIG CITY (Satyajit Ray, India)
  11. SUZANNE’S CAREER (Éric Rohmer, France)
  12. THE FIANCÉS (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
  13. THE COOL WORLD (Shirley Clarke, USA)
  14. CONTEMPT (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
  15. THE LITTLE SOLDIER (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 AND 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. THE SEA (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. THE BELLBOY (Jerry Lewis, USA)
  10. NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN (Oshima Nagisa, Japan)
  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. ANATOMY OF A MURDER (Otto Preminger, USA)
  6. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
  7. GOOD MORNING (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  8. PICKPOCKET (Robert Bresson, France)
  9. SHADOWS (John Cassavetes, USA)
  10. APUR SANSAR (Satyajit Ray, India)
  11. A SIMPLE STORY (Marcel Hanoun, France)
  12. 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. CONFLAGRATION (Ichikawa Kon, Japan)

1957

  1. PYAASA (Guru Dutt, India)
  2. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick, USA)
  3. FORTY GUNS (Samuel Fuller, USA)
  4. 8 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. ORDET (Carl Th. Dreyer, Denmark)
  2. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton, USA)
  3. FLOATING CLOUDS (Naruse Mikio, Japan)
  4. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Nicholas Ray, USA)
  5. LOLA MONTÈS (Max Ophuls, France)
  6. THE LONG GRAY LINE (John Ford, USA)
  7. MOONFLEET (Fritz Lang, USA)
  8. MR. ARKADIN (Orson Welles, Spain)
  9. ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Douglas Sirk, USA)
  10. ARTISTS AND MODELS (Frank Tashlin, USA)
  11. KISS ME DEADLY (Robert Aldrich, USA)
  12. PATHER PANCHALI (Satyajit Ray, India)
  13. 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. MADAME DE… (Max Ophuls, France)
  6. A GEISHA (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  7. THE BIG HEAT (Fritz Lang, USA)
  8. 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 (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, USA)
  4. THE LUSTY MEN (Nicholas Ray, USA)
  5. EUROPE ’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. THE BREAKING POINT (Michael Curtiz, USA)
  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. GERMANY YEAR ZERO (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  6. BERLIN EXPRESS (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  7. WOMEN OF THE NIGHT (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan)
  8. DRUNKEN ANGEL (Kurosawa Akira, Japan)
  9. ROPE (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

1947

  1. OUT OF THE PAST (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
  2. DAISY KENYON (Otto Preminger, USA)
  3. BLACK NARCISSUS (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, UK)
  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. A DAY IN THE COUNTRY (Jean Renoir, France)
  5. PAISAN (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
  6. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra, USA)
  7. THE LOCKET (John Brahm, USA)
  8. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Jean Cocteau, France)
  9. 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. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (Howard Hawks, USA)
  3. GREAT FREEDOM NO. 7 (Helmut Käutner, Germany)
  4. HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (Preston Sturges, USA)
  5. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder, USA)
  6. LAURA (Otto Preminger, USA)

1943

  1. DAY OF WRATH (Carl Th. Dreyer, Denmark)
  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)

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. EASY LIVING (Mitchell Leisen, USA)
  4. GRAND ILLUSION (Jean Renoir, France)
  5. A STAR IS BORN (William A. Wellman, USA)

1936

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

1935

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

1934

  1. THE BLACK CAT (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
  2. THE GODDESS (Wu Yonggang, China)
  3. L’ATALANTE (Jean Vigo, France)
  4. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (Frank Capra, USA)

1933

  1. THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang, Germany)
  2. DUCK SOUP (Leo McCarey, USA)
  3. ONLY YESTERDAY (John M. Stahl, USA)
  4. DRAGNET GIRL (Ozu Yasujiro, Japan)
  5. LIEBELEI (Max Ophuls, Germany)
  6. DESIGN FOR LIVING (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
  7. 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. MONKEY BUSINESS (Norman Z. McLeod, USA)
  8. 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. SPIES (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 SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (Germaine Dulac, France)
  7. SHOW PEOPLE (King Vidor, USA)

1927

  1. SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (F. W. Murnau, USA)
  2. NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance, France)
  3. METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang, Germany)

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)