Compiled for the run-up to the end-of-the-decade, will be updated until the end of the 2019 list-making season.

1. La Flor (2018, Mariano Llinás)
2. Stray Dogs (2013, Tsai Ming-liang)
3. Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, David Lynch)
4. Yourself and Yours (2016, Hong Sang-soo)
5. Mysteries of Lisbon (2010, Raúl Ruiz)
6. Like Someone in Love (2012, Abbas Kiarostami)
7. Asako I & II (2018, Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
8. Mountains May Depart (2015, Jia Zhangke)
9. Carol (2015, Todd Haynes)
10. The Assassin (2015, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
11. Transit (2018, Christian Petzold)
12. Cemetery of Splendour (2015, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
13. Silence (2016, Martin Scorsese)
14. Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018, Bi Gan)
15. Martin Eden (2019, Pietro Marcello)
16. The Day He Arrives (2011, Hong Sang-soo)
17. Blackhat (2015, Michael Mann)
18. Phoenix (2014, Christian Petzold)
19. The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
20. Certified Copy (2010, Abbas Kiarostami)
21. Meek’s Cutoff (2010, Kelly Reichardt)
22. I Heard You Paint Houses (2019, Martin Scorsese)
23. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
24. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (2011, Johnnie To)
25. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014, Johnnie To)
26. Passion (2012, Brian De Palma)
27. Horse Money (2014, Pedro Costa)
28. Margaret (2011, Kenneth Lonergan)
29. Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson)
30. Manakamana (2013, Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
31. To the Ends of the Earth (2019, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
32. Mistress America (2015, Noah Baumbach)
33. Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson)
34. The Grandmaster (2013, Wong Kar-wai)
35. Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard)
36. Drug War (2012, Johnnie To)
37. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson)
38. The Wind Rises (2013, Hayao Miyazaki)
39. Happy Hour (2015, Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
40. Romancing in Thin Air (2012, Johnnie To)
41. Before Midnight (2013, Richard Linklater)
42. Ash Is Purest White (2018, Jia Zhangke)
43. Grass (2018, Hong Sang-soo)
44. Right Now, Wrong Then (2015, Hong Sang-soo)
45. Manchester by the Sea (2016, Kenneth Lonergan)
46. Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach)
47. Gone Girl (2014, David Fincher)
48. Toni Erdmann (2016, Maren Ade)
49. First Reformed (2017, Paul Schrader)
50. The Princess of France (2014, Matías Piñeiro)
51. Tabu (2012, Miguel Gomes)
52. Parasite (2019, Bong Joon-ho)
53. On the Beach at Night Alone (2017, Hong Sang-soo)
54. High Life (2018, Claire Denis)
55. Hill of Freedom (2014, Hong Sang-soo)
56. Jauja (2014, Lisandro Alonso)
57. Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Wes Anderson)
58. Hanagatami (2017, Nobuhiko Obayashi)
59. The Other Side of the Wind (2018, Orson Welles)
60. Listen Up Philip (2014, Alex Ross Perry)
61. This Is Not a Film (2011, Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
62. No No Sleep (2015, Tsai Ming-liang)
63. Bastards (2013, Claire Denis)
64. Hahaha (2010, Hong Sang-soo)
65. Arboretum Cycle (2017, Nathaniel Dorsky)
66. Uncut Gems (2019, Josh & Benny Safdie)
67. SPL II: A Time for Consequences (2015, Soi Cheang)
68. In My Room (2018, Ulrich Köhler)
69. I Was at Home, But… (2019, Angela Schanelec)
70. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013, Isao Takahata)
71. Oki’s Movie (2010, Hong Sang-soo)
72. Shakti (2019, Martín Rejtman)
73. The Day After (2017, Hong Sang-soo)
74. Her Smell (2018, Alex Ross Perry)
75. An Elephant Sitting Still (2018, Hu Bo)
76. differently, Molussia (2012, Nicolas Rey)
77. List (2011, Hong Sang-soo)
78. Nobody’s Daughter Haewon (2013, Hong Sang-soo)
79. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019, Quentin Tarantino)
80. My Golden Days (2015, Arnaud Desplechin)
81. The Traitor (2019, Marco Bellocchio)
82. The Image Book (2018, Jean-Luc Godard)
83. Kaili Blues (2015, Bi Gan)
84. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (2012, Alain Resnais)
85. Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater)
86. The Handmaiden (2016, Park Chan-wook)
87. Two Days, One Night (2014, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
88. Two Shots Fired (2014, Martín Rejtman)
89. The Unspeakable Act (2012, Dan Sallitt)
90. To the Wonder (2012, Terrence Malick)
91. Sieranevada (2016, Cristi Puiu)
92. The Color Wheel (2011, Alex Ross Perry)
93. The Work (2017, Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous)
94. The Grand Bizarre (2018, Jodie Mack)
95. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018, Christopher McQuarrie)
96. The Hedonists (2016, Jia Zhangke)
97. Faces Places (2017, Agnès Varda & JR)
98. In Another Country (2012, Hong Sang-soo)
99. Kate Plays Christine (2016, Robert Greene)
100. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018, Joel & Ethan Coen)

Top 25 Performances

1. Kyle MacLachlan, Twin Peaks: The Return
2. Laura Paredes, La Flor
3. Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
4. Rooney Mara, Carol
5. Zhao Tao, Mountains May Depart
6. Joaquin Phoenix, Inherent Vice
7. Luca Marinelli, Martin Eden
8. Peter Simonischek, Toni Erdmann
9. Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
10. Franz Rogowski, Transit
11. Hong Chau, Downsizing
12. Patrick d’Assumçao, Stranger by the Lake
13. John Huston, The Other Side of the Wind
14. Lee Yoo-young, Yourself and Yours
15. Shu Qi, The Assassin
16. Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
17. Kim Min-hee, On the Beach at Night Alone
18. Nina Hoss, Phoenix
19. Lee Kang-sheng, Stray Dogs
20. Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
21. Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel
22. Anna Paquin, Margaret
23. Rin Takanashi, Like Someone in Love
24. Kate Lyn Sheil, Kate Plays Christine
25. Louis Koo, Romancing in Thin Air

Honorable Mentions (not strict runners-up but rather films that have stuck with me)

• Aloha (2015, Cameron Crowe)
• Another Movie (2018, Morgan Fisher)
• Aquarius (2016, Kleber Mendonça Filho)
• Bad at Dancing (2015, Joanna Arnow)
• Belonging (2019, Burak Çevik)
• Brouillard: Passage #14 (Alexandre Larose)
• Burning (2018, Lee Chang-dong)
• By the Time It Gets Dark (2016, Anocha Suwichakornpong)
• Camera falls from airplane and lands in pig pen–MUST WATCH END!! (2014, Mia Munselle)
• Classical Period (2018, Ted Fendt)
• Clouds of Sils Maria (2014, Olivier Assayas
• Coherence (2013, James Ward Byrkit)
• Downsizing (2018, Alexander Payne)
• Elle (2016, Paul Verhoeven)
• Garoto (2015, Júlio Bressane)
• The Ghost Writer (2010, Roman Polanski)
• Heaven Knows What (2014, Josh & Benny Safdie)
• Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (2015, Stephen Cone)
• The Human Surge (2016, Eduardo Williams)
• I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016, Feng Xiaogang)
• “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” (2018, Radu Jude)
• Journey to the West (2014, Tsai Ming-liang)
• L for Leisure (2014, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
• Let Your Light Shine (2013, Jodie Mack)
• The Lost City of Z (2016, James Gray)
• The Mend (2014, John Magary)
• The Midnight After (2014, Fruit Chan)
• Mrs. Hyde (2017, Serge Bozon)
• Night Without Distance (2015, Lois Patiño)
• Nocturama (2016, Eduardo Williams)
• Non-Fiction (2018, Olivier Assayas)
• P’tit Quinquin (2014, Bruno Dumont)
• Personal Shopper (2016, Olivier Assayas)
• Princess Cyd (2018, Stephen Cone)
• Resident Evil: Retribution (2012, Paul W.S. Anderson)
• Six Cents in the Pocket (2015, Ricky D’Ambrose)
• The Strange Little Cat (2013, Ramon Zürcher)
• The Social Network (2010, David Fincher)
• The Son of Joseph (2016, Eugène Green)
• Stranger by the Lake (2013, Alain Guiraudie)
• A Touch of Sin (2013, Jia Zhangke)
• 20th Century Women (2016, Mike Mills)
• Unfriended: Dark Web (2018, Stephen Susco)
• Western (2017, Valeska Grisebach)
• Zama (2017, Lucrecia Martel)