Films by Release Year (Ineligible Films Only)

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

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

2025

  1. Shanghai Blues (1984, Tsui Hark)
  2. Rosa la rose, fille publique (1986, Paul Vecchiali)
  3. Compensation (1999, Zeinabu irene Davis)
  4. Love Hotel (1985, Somai Shinji)

2024

  1. Beijing Watermelon (1989, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  2. The End of Evangelion (1997, Anno Hideaki)
  3. Moving (1993, Somai Shinji)

2023

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

2022

  1. Rouge (1987, Stanley Kwan)
  2. Hanagatami (2017, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  3. Face (2009, Tsai Ming-liang)
  4. Casting Blossoms to the Sky (2012, Obayashi Nobuhiko)
  5. Electra, My Love (1974, Jancsó Miklós)
  6. The Heroic Trio (1993, Johnnie To)
  7. Seven Weeks (2014, Obayashi Nobuhiko)

2021

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

2020

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2012

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

2011

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

2010

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

2008

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

2007

  1. TEN SKIES (2004, James Benning)
  2. Los muertos (2004, Lisandro Alonso)

2006

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

2005

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

2004

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

2003

  1. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke)

2002

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

2001

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

2000

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

1999

  1. Close-Up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)

1998

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

1995

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

1994

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

1993

  1. My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Miyazaki Hayao)

1992

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

1990

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

1989

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

1988

  1. The Meetings of Anna (1978, Chantal Akerman)
  2. Violence at Noon (1966, Oshima Nagisa)

1987

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

1985

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

1984

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

1983

  1. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
  2. The Traveling Players (1975, Theodoros Angelopoulos)
  3. Camera Buff (1979, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  4. Duel (1971, Steven Spielberg)
  5. The Constant Factor (1980, Krzysztof Zanussi)

1982

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

1981

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

1980

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

1979

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

1978

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

1977

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

1976

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

1975

  1. The Breach (1970, Claude Chabrol)
  2. Just Before Nightfall (1971, Claude Chabrol)

1974

  1. Death by Hanging (1968, Oshima Nagisa)
  2. Charulata (1964, Satyajit Ray)
  3. The Ceremony (1971, Oshima Nagisa)
  4. Dodes’ka-den (1970, Kurosawa Akira)
  5. Lucía (1968, Humberto Solás)
  6. Partner. (1968, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  7. The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (1966, André Delvaux)

1973

  1. An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Ozu Yasujiro)
  2. PlayTime (1967, Jacques Tati)
  3. Late Autumn (1960, Ozu Yasujiro)
  4. Days and Nights in the Forest (1970, Satyajit Ray)
  5. Memories of Underdevelopment (1968, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
  6. The Adversary (1970, Satyajit Ray)
  7. Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969, Oshima Nagisa)
  8. The Spider’s Stratagem (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
  9. Happiness (1935, Aleksandr Medvedkin)

1972

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

1971

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

1970

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

1969

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

1968

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

1967

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

1966

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

1965

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

1964

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

1963

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

1962

  1. Mr. Arkadin (1955, Orson Welles)

1961

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

1960

  1. Ikiru (1952, Kurosawa Akira)

1959

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

1958

  1. Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray)

1956

  1. Awaara (1951, Raj Kapoor)

1955

  1. Othello (1951, Orson Welles)

1954

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

1951

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

1950

  1. The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
  2. A Day in the Country (1946, Jean Renoir)
  3. Angels of Sin (1943, Robert Bresson)

1949

  1. Enamorada (1946, Emilio Fernández)

1948

  1. Day of Wrath (1943, Carl Th. Dreyer)

1947

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

1943

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

1929

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