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2014
1 Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
2 The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
3 Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)
4 Birdman (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
5 Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
6 Nymphomaniac, Part 1 (Lars von Trier)
7 Why Don't You Play in Hell (Sion Sono)
8 Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)
9 The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
10 Stranger By the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
11 The Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
12 Gone Girl (David Fincher)
13 Two Days, One Night (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
14 Camille Claudel, 1915 (Bruno Dumont)
15 We Are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson)
16 Heli (Amat Escalante)
17 Mistaken For Strangers (Tom Berninger)
18 Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry)
19 Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn)
20 Joe (David Gordon Green)
21 The Double (Richard Ayoade)
2013
1 The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer)
2 Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche)
3 Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
4 Her (Spike Jonze)
5 The Hunt (Tomas Vinterberg)
6 The Past (Asghar Farhadi)
7 Like Father Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
8 Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron)
9 Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
10 Beyond the Hills (Christian Mungiu)
11 Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
12 Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
13 Drug War (Johnnie To)
14 The Conjuring (James Wan)
15 A Hijacking (Tobias Lindholm)
16 To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
17 The Spectacular Now (James Ponsoldt)
2012
1 It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Herzfeldt)
2 Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel)
3 The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4 Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
5 Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl)
6 Whore's Glory (Michael Glowagger)
7 Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
8 Amour (Michael Haneke)
9 Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)
10 Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
11 The Comedy (Rick Alverson)
12 Sister (Ursula Meier)
13 Snowtown (Justin Kurzel)
14 Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Love)
15 Cloud Atlas (Larry & Lana Wachowski & Tom Tywker)
16 The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
17 Keep the Lights On (Ira Sachs)
18 Killer Joe (William Friedkin)
19 This is 40 (Judd Apatow)
20 In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo)
21 The Imposter (Burt Layton)
22 I Wish (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
23 Life Without Principle (Johnnie To)
24 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bulge Ceylan)
25 Haywire (Steven Soderbergh)
2011
1 The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
2 A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
3 Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzman)
4 Drive (Nicholas Winding Refn)
5 Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin)
6 Senna (Asif Kapadi)
7 Tomboy (Celine Sciamma)
8 The Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz)
9 Rango (Gore Verbinski)
10 Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve)
11 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike)
12 The Kid With a Bike (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
13 The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar)
14 Attack the Block (Joe Cornish)
15 Love Exposure (Sion Sono)
16 Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski)
17 Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
18 The Descendants (Alexander Payne)
19 Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
20 The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
21 Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
22 Of Gods & Men (Xavier Dolan)
23 Terri (Azazel Jacobs)
24 Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki)
25 Shame (Steve McQueen)
26 Curling (Denis Côte)
27 Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
2010
1 Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe)
2 Dogtooth (George Lanthimos)
3 Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
4 Hahaha (Hong Sang-soo)
5 Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
6 Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
7 Valhalla Rising (Nicholas Winding Refn)
8 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul)
9 Inception (Christopher Nolan)
10 Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
11 October Country (Donal Mosher & Michael Palimeiri)
12 Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
13 Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
14 Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont)
15 Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)
16 Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
17 White Material (Claire Denis)
18 Mother (Joon-ho Bong)
19 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Edgar Wright)
20 True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen)
2009
1 Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
2 Two Lovers (James Gray)
3 Two-Legged Horse (Samira Makmahlbaf)
4 Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
5 The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
6 Julia (Erick Zonca)
7 Lorna's Silence (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
8 Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
9 Achilles and the Tortoise (Takeshi Kitano)
10 Coraline (Henry Selick)
11 Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
12 Moon (Duncan Jones)
13 Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
14 (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb)
15 I Love You, Man (John Hamburg)
2008
1 A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
2 Man on Wire (James Marsh)
3 Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
4 Hunger (Steve McQueen)
5 In the City of Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin)
6 The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
7 Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke)
8 Wendy & Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
9 Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
10 Tell No One (Guillaume Canet)
11 The Witnesses (André Téchiné)
12 Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
13 Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
14 Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl)
15 Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
16 Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
17 You the Living (Roy Andersson)
18 The Band's Visit (Eran Kolirin)
19 [Rec] (Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza)
20 Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
21 Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman)
22 The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
23 I Served the King of England (Jiri Menzel)
24 The Class (Laurent Cantet)
25 Che: The Argentine (Steven Soderbergh)
26 Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)
27 Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
28 The Man from London (Bela Tarr)
1 It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Herzfeldt)
2 Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel)
3 The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4 Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
5 Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl)
6 Whore's Glory (Michael Glowagger)
7 Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
8 Amour (Michael Haneke)
9 Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)
10 Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
11 The Comedy (Rick Alverson)
12 Sister (Ursula Meier)
13 Snowtown (Justin Kurzel)
14 Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Love)
15 Cloud Atlas (Larry & Lana Wachowski & Tom Tywker)
16 The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
17 Keep the Lights On (Ira Sachs)
18 Killer Joe (William Friedkin)
19 This is 40 (Judd Apatow)
20 In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo)
21 The Imposter (Burt Layton)
22 I Wish (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
23 Life Without Principle (Johnnie To)
24 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bulge Ceylan)
25 Haywire (Steven Soderbergh)
2011
1 The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
2 A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
3 Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzman)
4 Drive (Nicholas Winding Refn)
5 Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin)
6 Senna (Asif Kapadi)
7 Tomboy (Celine Sciamma)
8 The Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz)
9 Rango (Gore Verbinski)
10 Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve)
11 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike)
12 The Kid With a Bike (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
13 The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar)
14 Attack the Block (Joe Cornish)
15 Love Exposure (Sion Sono)
16 Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski)
17 Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
18 The Descendants (Alexander Payne)
19 Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
20 The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
21 Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
22 Of Gods & Men (Xavier Dolan)
23 Terri (Azazel Jacobs)
24 Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki)
25 Shame (Steve McQueen)
26 Curling (Denis Côte)
27 Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
2010
1 Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe)
2 Dogtooth (George Lanthimos)
3 Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
4 Hahaha (Hong Sang-soo)
5 Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
6 Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
7 Valhalla Rising (Nicholas Winding Refn)
8 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul)
9 Inception (Christopher Nolan)
10 Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
11 October Country (Donal Mosher & Michael Palimeiri)
12 Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
13 Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
14 Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont)
15 Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)
16 Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
17 White Material (Claire Denis)
18 Mother (Joon-ho Bong)
19 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Edgar Wright)
20 True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen)
2009
1 Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
2 Two Lovers (James Gray)
3 Two-Legged Horse (Samira Makmahlbaf)
4 Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
5 The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
6 Julia (Erick Zonca)
7 Lorna's Silence (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
8 Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
9 Achilles and the Tortoise (Takeshi Kitano)
10 Coraline (Henry Selick)
11 Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
12 Moon (Duncan Jones)
13 Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
14 (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb)
15 I Love You, Man (John Hamburg)
2008
1 A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
2 Man on Wire (James Marsh)
3 Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
4 Hunger (Steve McQueen)
5 In the City of Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin)
6 The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
7 Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke)
8 Wendy & Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
9 Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
10 Tell No One (Guillaume Canet)
11 The Witnesses (André Téchiné)
12 Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
13 Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
14 Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl)
15 Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
16 Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
17 You the Living (Roy Andersson)
18 The Band's Visit (Eran Kolirin)
19 [Rec] (Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza)
20 Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
21 Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman)
22 The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
23 I Served the King of England (Jiri Menzel)
24 The Class (Laurent Cantet)
25 Che: The Argentine (Steven Soderbergh)
26 Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)
27 Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
28 The Man from London (Bela Tarr)
2007
1 There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2 I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
3 The Host (Joon-ho Bong)
4 No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen)
5 5 Centimeters Per Second (Makoto Shinkai)
6 Time (Kim Ki-duk)
7 Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran)
8 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
9 Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
10 Mad Detective (Johnnie To)
11 Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
12 Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
13 Redacted (Brian De Palma)
14 Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais)
15 Brand Upon the Brain (Guy Maddin)
16 The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
17 Zodiac (David Fincher)
18 Quiet City (Aaron Katz)
19 Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
20 Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Parronaud)
21 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
22 Away from Her (Sarah Polley)
23 Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
24 Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
25 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
26 The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon)
27 Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
2 I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
3 The Host (Joon-ho Bong)
4 No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen)
5 5 Centimeters Per Second (Makoto Shinkai)
6 Time (Kim Ki-duk)
7 Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran)
8 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
9 Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
10 Mad Detective (Johnnie To)
11 Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
12 Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
13 Redacted (Brian De Palma)
14 Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais)
15 Brand Upon the Brain (Guy Maddin)
16 The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
17 Zodiac (David Fincher)
18 Quiet City (Aaron Katz)
19 Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
20 Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Parronaud)
21 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
22 Away from Her (Sarah Polley)
23 Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
24 Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
25 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
26 The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon)
27 Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
2006
1 The Intruder (Claire Denis)
2 Inland Empire (David Lynch)
3 Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
4 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Christi Puiu)
5 Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
6 The Queen (Stephen Frears)
7 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles)
8 The Child (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
9 Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
10 Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
11 Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski)
12 The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
13 Three Times (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
14 Gabrielle (Patrice Chereau)
15 The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
16 Brick (Rian Johnson)
17 The Good Shepherd (Robert De Niro)
18 Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
19 The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig)
20 Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom)
21 A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
22 Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
2 Inland Empire (David Lynch)
3 Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
4 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Christi Puiu)
5 Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
6 The Queen (Stephen Frears)
7 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles)
8 The Child (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
9 Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
10 Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
11 Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski)
12 The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
13 Three Times (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
14 Gabrielle (Patrice Chereau)
15 The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
16 Brick (Rian Johnson)
17 The Good Shepherd (Robert De Niro)
18 Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
19 The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig)
20 Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom)
21 A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
22 Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
2005
1 The New World (Terrence Malick)
2 Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
3 Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
4 C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallée)
5 The World (Jia Zhang-ke)
6 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)
7 Noriko's Dinner Table (Sion Sono)
8 Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
9 Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski)
10 The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
11 Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
12 Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)
13 A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
14 Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
15 Head-On (Fatih Akin)
16 Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)
17 Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
18 Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
19 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Shane Black)
20 Good Night and Good Luck (George Clooney)
21 Rize (David LaChapelle)
22 Downfall (Oliver Hirschbeigel)
23 Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
24 Oldboy (Chan-wook Park)
25 Election (Johnnie To)
26 The 40 Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow)
27 La Moustache (Emmanuel Carrère)
28 Junebug (Phil Morrison)
29 Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
30 Café Lumière (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
2004
1 Dogville (Lars von Trier)
2 Millennium Mambo (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
3 Light is Calling (Bill Morrison)
4 I ♥ Huckabees (David O. Russell)
5 The Corporation (Jennifer Abbott & Mark Achbar)
6 Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
7 Oasis (Lee Chang-dong)
8 Kill Bill: Volume 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
9 Secret Things (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
10 The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme)
11 We Don't Live Here Anymore (John Curran)
12 The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
13 Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
14 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
15 The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin)
16 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michael Gondry)
17 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy (Adam McKay)
18 Intimate Strangers (Patrice Leconte)
19 Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
20 Tropical Malady (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul)
21 Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar)
22 Spartan (David Mamet)
23 The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)
24 Henri Langois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque (Jacques Richard)
25 Father and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
26 Woman is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
27 Mean Girls (Mark Waters)
28 3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk)
29 Control Room (Jehane Noujaim)
30 The Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke)
31 Primer (Shane Carruth)
2003
2 Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
3 Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
4 C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallée)
5 The World (Jia Zhang-ke)
6 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)
7 Noriko's Dinner Table (Sion Sono)
8 Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
9 Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski)
10 The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
11 Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
12 Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)
13 A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
14 Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
15 Head-On (Fatih Akin)
16 Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)
17 Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
18 Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
19 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Shane Black)
20 Good Night and Good Luck (George Clooney)
21 Rize (David LaChapelle)
22 Downfall (Oliver Hirschbeigel)
23 Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
24 Oldboy (Chan-wook Park)
25 Election (Johnnie To)
26 The 40 Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow)
27 La Moustache (Emmanuel Carrère)
28 Junebug (Phil Morrison)
29 Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
30 Café Lumière (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
2004
1 Dogville (Lars von Trier)
2 Millennium Mambo (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
3 Light is Calling (Bill Morrison)
4 I ♥ Huckabees (David O. Russell)
5 The Corporation (Jennifer Abbott & Mark Achbar)
6 Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
7 Oasis (Lee Chang-dong)
8 Kill Bill: Volume 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
9 Secret Things (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
10 The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme)
11 We Don't Live Here Anymore (John Curran)
12 The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
13 Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
14 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
15 The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin)
16 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michael Gondry)
17 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy (Adam McKay)
18 Intimate Strangers (Patrice Leconte)
19 Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
20 Tropical Malady (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul)
21 Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar)
22 Spartan (David Mamet)
23 The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)
24 Henri Langois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque (Jacques Richard)
25 Father and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
26 Woman is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
27 Mean Girls (Mark Waters)
28 3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk)
29 Control Room (Jehane Noujaim)
30 The Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke)
31 Primer (Shane Carruth)
2003
1 Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
2 Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney)
3 Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
4 Spider (David Cronenberg)
5 The Company (Robert Altman)
6 Kill Bill, Volume 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
7 The Triplet's of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)
8 Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong)
9 All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
10 Capturing the Friedman's (Andrew Jarecki)
11 Hulk (Ang Lee)
12 The School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
13 Lost in Translation (Sophia Coppola)
14 Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett)
15 Stuck On You (Peter & Bobby Farrelly)
16 American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini)
17 Friday Night (Claire Denis)
18 Doppelganger (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
19 Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
20 Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows)
21 The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy)
22 X2 (Bryan Singer)
23 Open Range (Kevin Costner)
24 The Man on the Train (Patrice Leconte)
2 Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney)
3 Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
4 Spider (David Cronenberg)
5 The Company (Robert Altman)
6 Kill Bill, Volume 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
7 The Triplet's of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)
8 Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong)
9 All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
10 Capturing the Friedman's (Andrew Jarecki)
11 Hulk (Ang Lee)
12 The School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
13 Lost in Translation (Sophia Coppola)
14 Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett)
15 Stuck On You (Peter & Bobby Farrelly)
16 American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini)
17 Friday Night (Claire Denis)
18 Doppelganger (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
19 Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
20 Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows)
21 The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy)
22 X2 (Bryan Singer)
23 Open Range (Kevin Costner)
24 The Man on the Train (Patrice Leconte)
2002
1 Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2 Decasia (Bill Morrison)
3 Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
4 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
5 The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
6 Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
7 Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
8 Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
9 Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk)
10 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Chan-wook Park)
11 Changing Lanes (Roger Michell)
12 Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
13 Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
14 Y tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)
15 Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson)
16 Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
17 Read My Lips (Jacques Audiard)
18 Catch Me if You Can (Steven Spielberg)
19 Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)
20 About a Boy (Chris & Paul Weitz)
21 Happy Here and Now (Michael Almereyda)
22 In This World (Michael Winterbottom)
23 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
24 Forza Bastia (Jacques Tati & Sophie Tatischeff)
25 Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore)
26 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (George Lucas)
27 Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
28 Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (Steve Oedekerk)
2001
1 Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
2 In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
3 The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
4 Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
5 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
6 Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
7 Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
8 What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-Liang)
9 Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
10 Tape (Richard Linklater)
11 Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain)
12 Memento (Christopher Nolan)
13 The Pledge (Sean Penn)
14 Storytelling (Todd Solondz)
15 Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
16 Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
17 Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
18 In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
19 Monster's Ball (Marc Forster)
20 Monster's Inc. (Peter Doctor, David Silverman & Lee Unkrich)
2000
1 Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
2 Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)
3 Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
4 As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas)
5 In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
6 Eureka (Shinji Aoyama)
7 Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)
8 You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
9 Vertical Ray of the Sun (Anh Hung Tran)
10 Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
11 Platform (Jia Zhang-ke)
12 The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)
13 Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
14 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo)
15 High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
16 Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
17 Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)
18 Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin)
19 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen)
20 Best in Show (Christopher Guest)
21 The Way of the Gun (Christopher McQuarrie)
22 Dark Days (Marc Singer)
23 Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
24 Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
25 X-Men (Bryan Singer)
26 Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong)
27 Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
28 George Washington (David Gordon Green)
29 The Mission (Johnnie To)
30 American Psycho (Mary Harron)
31 The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)
1999
1 Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2 Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
3 Rosetta (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
4 Fight Club (David Fincher)
5 The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
6 The Straight Story (David Lynch)
7 The Insider (Michael Mann)
8 Three Kings (David O. Russell)
9 Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
10 Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen)
11 Election (Alexander Payne)
12 eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
13 Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese)
14 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
15 The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers)
16 American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
17 South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker and Matt Stone)
18 The Limey (Steven Soderbergh)
19 American Movie (Chris Smith)
20 The Virgin Suicides (Sophia Coppola)
21 Toy Story 2 (Ash Brannon, John Lasseter & Lee Unkrich)
22 Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
23 Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)
1998
1 Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
2 Histoire(s) du Cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard)
3 Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica)
4 The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
5 The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen)
6 Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
7 He Got Game (Spike Lee)
8 Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
9 Pi (Darren Aronofsky)
10 The Silence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
11 The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
12 The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
13 Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller)
14 Rounders (John Dahl)
15 Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)
16 Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma)
17 American History X (Tony Kaye)
18 There's Something About Mary (Peter and Bobby Farrelly)
19 Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon)
1997
1 The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
2 Ossos (Pedro Costa)
3 Mother & Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
4 L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
5 Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
6 Lost Highway (David Lynch)
7 Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
8 Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9 Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
10 In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
11 Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar)
12 The Game (David Fincher)
13 Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
14 The Life of Jesus (Bruno Dumont)
15 The River (Tsai Ming-Liang)
16 As Good as it Gets (James L. Brooks)
17 Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)
18 The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
1996
1 Fargo (Joel Coen)
2 Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thorton)
3 La Promesse (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
4 Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh)
5 Waiting for Guffman (Christopher Guest)
6 Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
7 Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
8 Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9 My Sex Life...Or How I Got Into an Argument (Arnaud Desplechin)
10 Flirting with Disaster (David O. Russell)
11 Kingpin (Peter and Bobby Farrelly)
12 Lone Star (John Sayles)
13 Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
14 The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (Hong Sang-soo)
15 Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
16 Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe)
17 Shine (Scott Hicks)
18 Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
1995
1 Underground (Emir Kusturica)
2 Heat (Michael Mann)
3 Cyclo (Anh Hung Tran)
4 Safe (Todd Haynes)
5 Clockers (Spike Lee)
6 Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
7 Se7en (David Fincher)
8 Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo)
9 Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
10 Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
11 The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi)
12 Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
13 Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai)
14 Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
15 Toy Story (John Lasseter)
16 Casino (Martin Scosese)
17 Nixon (Oliver Stone)
18 Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
19 Babe (Chris Noonan)
20 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
21 Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
22 Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins)
23 The Celluloid Closet (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman)
24 Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (Nick Park)
25 Die Hard: With a Vengeance (John McTiernan)
1994
1 Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
2 Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
3 Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
4 Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
5 Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
6 Exotica (Atom Egoyan)7 Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
8 Fresh (Boaz Yakin)
9 Wild Reeds (André Téchiné)
10 Joan the Maid: The Prisons (Jacques Rivette)
11 Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
12 Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
13 Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone)
14 To Live (Yimou Zhang)
15 Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
16 Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
17 Amateur (Hal Hartley)
18 Joan the Maid: The Battles (Jacques Rivette)
19 Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
20 Immortal Beloved (Bernard Rose)
21 Reality Bites (Ben Stiller)
22 Léon: The Professional (Luc Besson)
1993
1 Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2 Naked (Mike Leigh)
3 Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
4 Blue (Derek Jarman)
5 Farewell My Concubine (Kaige Chen)
6 The Scent of Green Papaya (Anh Hung Tran)
7 Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park)
8 Abraham's Valley (Manoel de Oliveira)
9 Bad Boy Bubby (Rolf de Heer)
10 The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
11 Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
12 The Piano (Jane Campion)
13 Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
14 Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
15 The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick)
16 Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)
17 Fearless (Peter Weir)
18 Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara)
19 Searching for Bobby Fisher (Steven Zaillian)
20 Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi)
21 Spanking the Monkey (David O. Russell)
22 Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen)
23 Menace II Society (Albert & Allen Hughes)
24 Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
1992
1 The Player (Robert Altman)
2 Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
3 Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
4 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch)
5 Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
6 Damage (Louis Malle)
7 Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
8 Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins)
9 Benny's Video (Michael Haneke)
10 Braindead (Peter Jackson)
11 The Long Day Closes (Terrence Davies)
12 Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen)
13 The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
14 The Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson)
15 Crimson Pig (Hayao Miyazaki)
16 Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
17 Batman Returns (Tim Burton)
1991
1 Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang)
2 Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley)
3 Barton Fink (Joel Coen)
4 A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
5 Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
6 Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata)
7 JFK (Oliver Stone)
8 Rush (Lili Fini Zanuck)
9 Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai)
10 Theory of Achievement (Hal Hartley)
11 Flirting (John Duigan)
12 Hot Shots! (Jim Abrahams)
13 Terminator 2: Judgement Day (James Cameron)
14 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper & Eleanor Coppola)
15 The Stranger (Satyajit Ray)
16 La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
17 Ambition (Hal Hartley)
18 Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (Jean-Luc Godard)
19 Slacker (Richard Linklater)
1990
1 Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
2 Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard)
3 Trust (Hal Hartley)
4 Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
5 Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
6 Twin Peaks: Pilot (David Lynch)
7 Miami Blues (George Armitage)
8 White Hunter Black Heart (Clint Eastwood)
9 Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh)
10 The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
11 Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
12 The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismaki)
13 The Grifters (Stephen Frears)
14 Vincent & Theo (Robert Altman)
15 Reversal of Fortune (Barbet Schroeder)
16 Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen)
1989
1 Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
2 The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
3 Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Yong-Kyun Bae)
4 Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)
5 Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch)
6 Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
7 Black Rain (Shohei Imamura)
8 Say Anything... (Cameron Crowe)
9 Elephant (Alan Clarke)
10 A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
11 The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
12 Heathers (Michael Lehmann)
13 Sweetie (Jane Campion)
14 Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir)
15 Batman (Tim Burton)
1988
1 Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)
2 The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)
3 Die Hard (John McTiernan)
4 Powaqqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
5 Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears)
6 The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
7 My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
8 The Naked Gun (David Zucker)
9 Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
10 The Firm (Alan Clarke)
11 Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica)
12 A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
13 The Vanishing (George Sluizer)
14 They Live (John Carpenter)
15 High Hopes (Mike Leigh)
16 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam)
17 Beetlejuice (Tim Burton)
18 Big (Penny Marshall)
19 Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Robert Zemeckis)
20 Hairspray (John Waters)
21 Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
22 Coming to America (John Landis)
23 Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
1987
1 The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2 Raising Arizona (Joel Coen)
3 Where is my Friend's House? (Abbas Kiarostami)
4 Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)
5 The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)
6 The Man Who Planted Trees (Frédéric Back)
7 Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
8 Damnation (Béla Tarr)
9 Radio Days (Woody Allen)
10 Matewan (John Sayles)
11 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)
12 In a Glass Cage (Augustin Villaronga)
13 House of Games (David Mamet)
14 Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth)
15 Opera (Dario Argento)
16 The Dead (John Huston)
17 Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)
18 Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)
19 Indoctrination (Harun Farocki)
20 Wall Street (Oliver Stone)
21 Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (John Hughes)
1986
1 Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
2 Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch)
3 Platoon (Oliver Stone)
4 Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
5 Aliens (James Cameron)
6 Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
7 The Fly (David Cronenberg)
8 A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
9 The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
10 Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes)
11 Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan)
12 Stand By Me (Rob Reiner)
13 Hoosiers (David Anspaugh)
1985
1 Vagabond (Agnes Varda)
2 Come and See (Elim Klimov)
3 Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton)
4 Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
5 Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
6 Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
7 The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
8 Broken Down Film (Osamu Tezuka)
9 A Zed & Two Naughts (Peter Greenaway)
10 Almanac of Fall (Béla Tarr)
11 My Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallstrom)
12 Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
13 Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard)
14 Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
1984
1 Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
2 The NeverEnding Story (Wolfgang Petersen)
3 Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
4 Body Double (Brian De Palma)
5 Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
6 Amadeus (Milos Forman)
7 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (Hayao Miyazaki)
8 Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
9 A Girl's Own Story (Jane Campion)
10 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Michael Radford)
11 Gremlins (Joe Dante)
12 Repo Man (Alex Cox)
13 This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
14 The Terminator (James Cameron)
15 Voyage to Cythera (Theo Angelopoulos)
16 Jumping (Osamu Tezuka)
17 Ghost Busters (Ivan Reitman)
1983
1 Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2 L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
3 El Sur (Victor Erice)
4 Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
5 Zelig (Woody Allen)
6 Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
7 A Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat)
8 Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
9 A Christmas Story (Bob Clark)
10 Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
11 The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
12 Christine (John Carpenter)
13 Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
14 Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)
15 First Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard)
16 Passionless Moments (Jane Campion)
1982
1 Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
2 Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
3 Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
4 White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
5 Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
6 The Thing (John Carpenter)
7 The Atomic Cafe (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty & Pierce Rafferty)
8 Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
9 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
10 Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)
11 Pink Floyd: The Wall (Alan Parker)
12 Passion (Jean-Luc Godard)
13 The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway)
14 Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
15 Veronicka Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1981
1 The Road Warrior (George Miller)
2 Southern Comfort (Walter Hill)
3 America is Waiting (Bruce Conner)
4 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
5 Excalibur (John Boorman)
6 Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
7 Modern Romance (Albert Brooks)
8 Scanners (David Cronenberg)
9 Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)
10 Possession (Andrzej Zulawski)
1980
1 Airplane! (Jim Abrahams)
2 Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
3 The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
4 Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
5 The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
6 The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
7 Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
8 Caddyshack (Harold Ramis)
9 Cruising (William Friedkin)
10 The Falls (Peter Greenaway)
11 Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
12 The Fog (John Carpenter)
13 The Blues Brothers (John Landis)
14 The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller)
1979
1 Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
2 The Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
3 Manhattan (Woody Allen)
4 Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
5 All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
6 Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
7 The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
8 Alien (Ridley Scott)
9 Love on the Run (Francois Truffaut)
10 The Jerk (Carl Reiner)
11 Woyzeck (Werner Herzog)
12 The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki)
13 Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
13 Real Life (Albert Brooks)
1978
1 Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
2 Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
3 In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4 A Wedding (Robert Altman)
5 Fingers (James Toback)
6 The Driver (Walter Hill)
7 The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Phillip Kaufman)
8 The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
9 Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
10 Vertical Features Remake (Peter Greenaway)
11 Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
12 Comment ca va? (Jean-Luc Godard)
13 Halloween (John Carpenter)
1977
1 That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
2 A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker)
3 Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
4 Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
5 The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko)
6 Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
7 Eraserhead (David Lynch)
8 Star Wars (George Lucas)
9 Providence (Alain Resnais)
10 The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson)
1976
1 Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
2 Ici et Ailleurs (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Anne-Marie Mieville & Groupe Dziga Vertov)
3 Network (Sydney Lumet)
4 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
5 Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
6 The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer)
7 Buffalo Bill and the Indians Or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (Robert Altman)
8 Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
9 Cria Cuervos (Carlos Saura)
10 Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey)
11 Small Change (Francois Truffaut)
12 The Tenant (Roman Polanski)
13 Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
14 The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston)
15 God Told Me To (Larry Cohen)
16 All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula)
1975
1 Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
2 Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
3 Deep Red (Dario Argento)
4 Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
5 Jeanne Dielman, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
6 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones)
7 The Story of Adele H. (Francois Truffaut)
8 Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
9 Dog Day Afternoon (Sydney Lumet)
10 Nashville (Robert Altman)
11 Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
12 Numero Deux (Jean-Luc Godard)
13 Grey Gardens (Albert & David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, & Muffie Meyer)
14 The Travelling Players (Theo Angelopoulos)
15 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
16 Xala (Ousmane Sembene)
17 Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1974
1 The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
2 The Godfather, Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
3 Parade (Jacques Tati)
4 F for Fake (Orson Welles)
5 Lancelot of the Lake (Robert Bresson)
6 Swept Away (Lina Wertmueller)
7 Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
8 Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
9 Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks)
10 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
11 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
12 Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
13 Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
14 Lenny (Bob Fosse)
15 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbiner)
1973
1 Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
2 The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
3 World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4 O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson)
5 The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
6 The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
7 Fantastic Planet (René Laloux)
8 The Age of the Medici (Roberto Rossellini)
9 Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
10 The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)
11 Day for Night (Francois Truffaut)
12 Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
13 Coffy (Jack Hill)
14 Breezy (Clint Eastwood)
1972
1 The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
2 Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
3 Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
4 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5 Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger)
6 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
7 Nathalie Granger (Marguerite Duras)
8 The Boxer from Shantung (Chang Cheh)9 Tout va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin & Groupe Dziga Vertov)10 Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
11 The Devil (Andrzej Zulawski)
12 Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill)
13 Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer)
14 Fat City (John Huston)
15 Deliverance (John Boorman)
16 Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville)
17 Snoopy, Come Home (Bill Melendez)
1971
1 McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
2 The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima)
3 The Hour of the Furnaces (Octavio Getino & Fernando E. Solanas)4 Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
5 A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)6 WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev)
7 Trafic (Jacques Tati)
8 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
9 Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
10 Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog)
11 Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes)
12 Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg)
13 Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
14 Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski)
15 Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)
16 Trial on the Road (Alexei German)
17 The French Connection (William Friedkin)
1970
1 The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
2 Les Habitants (Artavazd Peleshyan)
3 A Swedish Love Story (Roy Andersson)
4 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica)
5 Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
6 Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)
7 Wanda (Barbara Loden)
8 Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
9 Husbands (John Cassavetes)
10 Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma)
11 Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)
12 Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Mayles & Charlotte Zwerin)
13 Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh)
14 The Grandmother (David Lynch)
15 Dodesukaden (Akira Kurosawa)
1969
1 Une Femme Douce (Robert Bresson)
2 Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
3 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
4 Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin)
5 Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda)
6 Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
7 Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
8 Boy (Nagisa Oshima)
9 Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
10 Kes (Ken Loach)
11 A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
12 The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
13 Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger)
14 My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
1968
1 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
2 Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
3 The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
4 Je t'aime, je t'aime (Alain Resnais)
5 Death By Hanging (Nagisa Oshima)
6 Les Biches (Claude Chabrol)
6 High School (Frederick Wiseman)
7 Death Rides a Horse (Sergio Corbucci)
8 Sympathy for the Devil (Jean-Luc Godard)
9 Yellow Submarine (George Dunning)
10 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (Bill Greaves)
11 The Producers (Mel Brooks)
12 Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
13 Secret Ceremony (Joseph Losey)
14 Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman)
15 Pas de Deux (Norman McLaren)
16 L'Enfance Nue (Maurice Pialat)
17 Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
18 Shame (Ingmar Bergman)
19 If.... (Lindsay Anderson)
1967
1 Playtime (Jacques Tati)
2 Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
3 Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
4 Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel)
5 Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
6 The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
7 Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville)
8 The Red and the White (Miklós Janscó )
9 Week End (Jean-Luc Godard)
10 Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
11 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
12 Love Affair or Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev)
13 Eye Myth (Stan Brakhage)
14 El Dorado (Howard Hawks)
15 The Shooting (Monte Hellman)
16 Point Blank (John Boorman)
17 Peppermint Frappe (Carlos Saura)
18 The Crush (Ermanno Olmi)
19 La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
20 Accident (Joseph Losey)
1966
1 Au hasard, Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
2 Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
3 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
4 Trans-Europ-Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
5 Breakaway (Bruce Conner)
6 Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
7 Violence at High Noon (Nagisa Oshima)
8 La Caza (Carlos Saura)
9 La Religieuse (Jacques Rivette)
10 Masculine-Feminine (Jean-Luc Godard)
11 Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Vaclav Vorlicek)
12 Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis)
13 Kill Baby...Kill! (Mario Bava)
14 It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez)
15 Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel)
16 How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Chuck Jones)
17 Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
18 Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto)
19 The Rise of Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
1965
1 Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
2 The Shop on Main Street (Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos)
3 Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
4 The Round-Up (Miklós Janscó)
5 Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
6 Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
7 A Thousand Clowns (Fred Coe)
8 Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
9 Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger)
10 Dr. Zhivago (David Lean)
11 Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellochio)
12 A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez)
13 For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
14 The War Game (Peter Watkins)
15 Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
16 Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman)
17 Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda)
1964
1 Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
2 Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
3 Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
4 Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
5 Yearning (Mikio Naruse)
6 Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
7 Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
8 Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer)
9 Hamlet (Gregori Kosintsev)
10 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
11 A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
12 The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
13 The Patsy (Jerry Lewis)
14 Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo)
15 Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Paradjanov)
16 The Soft Skin (Francois Truffaut)
17 Man's Favorite Sport (Howard Hawks)
18 A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
19 Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
20 I Am Cuba (Mikheil Kalatozishvili)
1963
1 Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
2 An Actor's Revenge (Kon Ichikawa)
3 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
4 The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
5 Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
6 High & Low (Akira Kurosawa)
7 The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)
8 The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura)
9 The House is Black (Farough Farrokhzad)
10 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer)
11 The Girl at the Monceau Bakery (Eric Rohmer)
12 Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
13 The Haunting (Robert Wise)
1962
1 The Trial (Orson Welles)
2 La Jetée (Chris Marker)
3 My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard)
4 L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5 The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
6 The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
7 Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut)
8 Hatari! (Howard Hawks)
9 Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
10 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (John Ford)
11 Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
11 Advise and Consent (Otto Preminger)
12 Her Lonely Lane (Mikio Naruse)
13 The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
14 Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
15 Cosmic Ray (Bruce Conner)
16 Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
17 To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
18 Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)
19 Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah)
20 Two Weeks in Another Town (Vincente Minnelli)
1961
1 Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
2 Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
3 The Ladies Man (Jerry Lewis)
4 Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
5 A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
6 Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller)
7 The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
8 La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
9 Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
10 One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
1960
1 L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2 Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut)
3 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
4 Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo)
5 Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
6 Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
7 Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
8 Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima)
9 Devi (Satyajit Ray)
10 The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
11 La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
12 The Housemaid (Ki-young Kim)
13 The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
14 Night and Fog in Japan (Nagisa Oshima)
15 The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis)
16 The Savage Innocents (Nicholas Ray)
17 Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
18 Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
19 L'Amour Existe (Maurice Pialat)
20 Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard)
21 The Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
1959
1 Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
2 Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Masaki Kobayashi)
3 North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity (Masaki Kobayashi)
5 The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
6 The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)
7 Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)
8 Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
9 Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
10 Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
11 Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise)
12 Shadows (John Cassavetes)
13 Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
14 Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
15 Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus)
16 Day of the Outlaw (Andre De Toth)
17 Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
18 Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronomi)
19 Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)
1958
1 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
2 Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
3 The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
4 Party Girl (Nicholas Ray)
5 The Music Room (Satyajit Ray)
6 The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
7 Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
8 Giants & Toys (Yasuzo Masumura)
9 Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
10 Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
11 Ivan the Terrible, Part II (Sergei Eisenstein)
12 A Movie (Bruce Conner)
1957
1 The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
2 Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray)
3 Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
4 Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
5 Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
6 The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
7 The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
8 Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
9 Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
10 Men in War (Anthony Mann)
11 Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
12 Le Notti Bianche (Luchino Visconti)
13 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
14 Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
15 Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)
16 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
1956
1 The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
2 A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
3 The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
4 Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
5 Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
6 There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk)
7 Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli)
8 The Searchers (John Ford)
9 Seven Men from Now (Budd Boetticher)
10 The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
11 Attack! (Robert Aldrich)
12 Hot Blood (Nicholas Ray)
13 Sudden Rain (Mikio Naruse)
14 The King and I (Walter Lang)
15 Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island (Hiroshi Inagaki)
1955
1 Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
2 Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)
3 Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
4 Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
5 Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
6 Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
7 The Man from Laramie (Anthony Mann)
8 French Cancan (Jean Renoir)
9 Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
10 Rififi (Jules Dassin)
11 Lola Montes (Max Ophuls)
12 All that Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
13 The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich)
14 To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
15 Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
16 The Indian Fighter (Andre De Toth)
17 Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
18 Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi)
19 East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
20 House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller)
1954
1 Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
2 Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3 Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
4 Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
5 Twenty Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita)
6 On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
7 A Star is Born (George Cukor)
8 Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse)
9 Sabrina (Billy Wilder)
10 Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
11 Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
12 Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse)
13 The Far Country (Anthony Mann)
14 Salt of the Earth (Herbert J. Biberman)
15 Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (Hiroshi Inagaki)
16 Crucified Lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1953
1 The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophuls)
2 Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3 Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
4 All I Desire (Douglas Sirk)
5 A Geisha (Kenji Mizoguchi)
6 The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)
7 Monika (Ingmar Bergman)
8 Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
9 Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)
10 The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
11 The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
12 A Japanese Tragedy (Keisuke Kinoshita)
13 I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
14 The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford)
15 Peter Pan (Geronomi, Luske & Jackson)
1952
1 On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)
2 The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3 El: This Strange Passion (Luis Buñuel)
4 Lightning (Mikio Naruse)
5 Forbidden Games (Réné Clement)
6 My Son John (Leo McCarey)
7 Casque d'or (Jacques Becker)
8 Feed the Kitty (Chuck Jones)
9 The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
10 Mother (Mikio Naruse)
11 Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini)
12 Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica)
13 Park Row (Samuel Fuller)
14 Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
15 The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer)
16 Water, Water Every Hare (Chuck Jones)
17 Rabbit Seasoning (Chuck Jones)
18 The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
1951
1 Miss Julie (Alf Sjöberg)
2 Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
3 The Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
4 A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
5 Alice in Wonderland (Geronomi, Luske & Jackson)
6 Repast (Mikio Naruse)
7 The 13th Letter (Otto Preminger)
8 The Thing From Another World (Howard Hawks & Christian Nyby)
9 The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
10 The Tall Target (Anthony Mann)
1950
1 Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
2 In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
3 Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini)
4 Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
5 Born to be Bad (Nicholas Ray)
6 Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
7 Un Chant d'amour (Jean Genet)
8 Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)
9 All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
10 Rabbit of Seville (Chuck Jones)
11 Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann)
12 Night and the City (Jules Dassin)
13 Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock)
14 The Gunfighter (Henry King)
1949
1 The Heiress (William Wyler)
2 Third Man (Carol Reed)
3 Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
4 The Reckless Moment (Max Ophuls)
5 Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
6 Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
7 Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
8 I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller)
9 I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks)
10 The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica)
11 White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
12 They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray)
13 Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger)
14 Caught (Max Ophuls)
1948
1 Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
2 La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti)
3 Red River (Howard Hawks)
4 Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
5 The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed)
6 The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
7 Oliver Twist (David Lean)
8 Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges)
9 Jour de Fete (Jacques Tati)
10 He Walked By Night (Alfred Werker & Anthony Mann)
1947
1 Quai des Orfevres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
2 Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger)
3 Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
4 Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
5 Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
6 Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
7 Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding)
8 The Paradine Case (Alfred Hitchcock)
9 The Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir)
10 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1946
1 Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
2 It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
3 The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
4 Shoe-Shine (Vittorio De Sica)
5 La Belle et la Bête (Jean Cocteau)
6 Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
7 Great Expectations (David Lean)
8 The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
9 Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch)
10 The Stranger (Orson Welles)
11 My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
12 The Killers (Robert Siodmak)
1945
1 Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné)
2 The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
3 The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)
4 Les Dames du Bois de Bologne (Robert Bresson)
5 A Study in Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren)
6 The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin)
7 Detour (Edward G. Ulmer)
8 Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock)
9 Brief Encounter (David Lean)
10 The Southerner (Jean Renoir)
1944
1 Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
2 Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Sergei Eisenstein)
3 At Land (Maya Deren)
4 Curse of the Cat People (Robert Wise)
5 None Shall Escape (Andre De Toth)
6 Miracle at Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)
7 Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
8 Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
9 Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)
10 Laura (Otto Preminger)
11 Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk)
12 To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
1943
1 This Land is Mine (Jean Renoir)
2 Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren)
3 The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
4 Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
5 The Raven (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
6 Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
7 The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
8 Air Force (Howard Hawks)
9 Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
10 Les Anges du Peche (Robert Bresson)
11 The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
1942
1 Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
2 The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
3 To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
4 The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
5 Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
6 Bambi (David Hand)
7 The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
8 Cat People (Jaques Tourneur)
9 Yankee Doodle Dandy (Michael Curtiz)
10 Talk of the Town (George Stevens)
1941
1 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2 The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3 Wabbit Twouble (Robert Clampett)
4 The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
5 That Uncertain Feeling (Ernst Lubitsch)
6 The Devil & Daniel Webster (William Dieterle)
7 Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
8 Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
9 The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
10 Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
1940
1 The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
2 Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
3 Fantasia (Disney, various)
4 The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
5 Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
6 The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
7 Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen)
8 The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline)
9 Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
10 The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)
1939
1 The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi)
2 The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
3 The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
4 Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming)
5 Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
6 Wuthering Heights (William Wyler)
7 Midnight (Mitchell Leisen)
8 Destry Rides Again (George Marshall)
9 Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
10 Stagecoach (John Ford)
1938
1 Holiday (George Cukor)
2 Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz)
3 The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 Le Quai des Brumes (Marcel Carne)
5 Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
6 Four Daughters (Michael Curtiz)
7 La Bête Humaine (Jean Renoir)
8 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Ernst Lubitsch)
9 Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein)
10 You Can't Take it With You (Frank Capra)
1937
1 Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
2 You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
3 History is Made at Night (Frank Borzage)
4 Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (Disney, various)
5 Stage Door (Gregory La Cava)
6 The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
7 Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen)8 The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
9 Angel (Ernst Lubitsch)
10 Pepe le Moko (Julien Duvivier)
11 Mannequin (Frank Borzage)
1936
1 Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
2 Fury (Fritz Lang)
3 Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell)
4 A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
5 Dodsworth (William Wyler)
6 My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
7 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra)
8 Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)
9 After the Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke)
10 Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1935
1 Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
2 Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
3 The Devil Is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg)
4 Wife, Be Like a Rose (Mikio Naruse)
5 The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)6 The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
7 A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
8 Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd)
1934
1 L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
2 The Scarlett Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
3 The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
4 La Signora di Tutti (Max Ophuls)
5 It's a Gift (Norman McLeod)
6 The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch)
7 It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
8 Our Daily Bread (King Vidor)
9 Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)
10 The Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke)
1933
1 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
2 Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
3 Counsellor at Law (William Wyler)
4 Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)
5 Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
6 Lady for a Day (Frank Capra)
7 The Invisible Man (James Whale)
8 Outskirts (Boris Barnet)
9 Land Without Bread (Luis Buñuel)
10 King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
1932
1 Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
2 Freaks (Tod Browning)
3 Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
4 Scarface (Howard Hawks)
5 Tiger Shark (Howard Hawks)
6 Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)
7 The Crowd Roars (Howard Hawks)
8 Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
9 I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu)
10 Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)
1931
1 City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
2 M (Fritz Lang)
3 An American Tragedy (Josef von Sternberg)
4 A Nous la Liberte (Rene Clair)
5 Le Million (Rene Clair)
6 Tabu: A Tale of the South Seas (F.W. Murnau)
7 The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)
8 Frankenstein (James Whale)
9 Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod)
10 La Chienne (Jean Renoir)
1930
1 Earth (Alexander Dovzhenko)
2 L'Âge D'or (Luis Buñuel)
3 Á Propos de Nice (Jean Vigo)
4 City Girl (F. W. Murnau)
5 All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
6 Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
7 Blood of the Poet (Jean Cocteau)
8 Autumn Fire (Herman G. Weinberg)
9 Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman)
10 Romance Sentimentale (Grigori Aleksandrov & Sergei Eisenstein)
1929
1 Pandora's Box (G. W. Pabst)
2 Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
3 Diary of a Lost Girl (G. W. Pabst)
4 Thunderbolt (Josef von Sternberg)
5 Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel)
6 H2O (Ralph Steiner)
7 Applause (Rouben Mamoulian)
8 Regen (Joris Ivens)
9 Brumes D'Automne (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
10 Queen Kelly (Erich von Stroheim)
1928
1 The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
2 The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich)
3 The Crowd (King Vidor)
4 The Wind (Victor Sjostrom)
5 The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
6 Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
7 The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
8 The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein & Luis Buñuel)
9 Speedy (Ted Wilde)
10 L'Étoile de mer (Man Ray)
11 The Seashell & the Clergyman (Germain Dulac)
12 The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton)
1927
1 Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
2 Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
3 La glace a trois faces (Jean Epstein)
4 The General (Buster Keaton)
5 The Girl With the Hatbox (Boris Barnet)
6 October (Sergei Eisenstein)
7 The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)
8 College (James W. Horne)
9 The Student Prince at Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch)
10 The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland)
1926
1 A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
2 By the Law (Lev Kuleshov)
3 The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 Emak-Bakia (Man Ray)
5 Menilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
6 The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Karl Koch & Lotte Reiniger)
7 Anémic cinéma (Marcel Duchamp)
8 Faust (F.W. Murnau)
1925
1 Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
2 The Big Parade (King Vidor)
3 The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)
4 Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
5 Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
6 Go West (Buster Keaton)
1924
1 Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
2 The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau)
3 Entr'Acte (Rene Clair)
4 Ballet Mécanique (Fernand Leger & Dudley Murphy)
5 Girl Shy (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
6 Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Fritz Lang)
7 He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjostrom)
8 Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (Fritz Lang)
9 The Navigator (Donald Crisp & Buster Keaton)
10 Michael (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1923
1 Our Hospitality (John Blystone & Buster Keaton)
2 Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
3 Why Worry? (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
4 The Balloonatic (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
5 Three Ages (Buster Keaton)
6 Le Retour à la raison (Man Ray)
1922
1 Cops (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
2 Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty)
3 Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
4 The Electric House (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
5 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Fritz Lang)
6 The Blacksmith (Buster Keaton & Malcolm St. Clair)
7 Daydreams (Buster Keaton)
8 My Wife's Relations (Buster Keaton)
9 The Paleface (Buster Keaton)
1921
1 The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström)
2 The Goat (Buster Keaton & Malcolm St. Clair)
3 The Play House (Buster Keaton)
4 The Kid (Charles Chaplin)
5 Leaves from Satan's Book (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
6 Hard Luck (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
7 Now or Never (Hal Roach & Fred C. Newmeyer)
8 Manhatta (Paul Strand & Charles Sheeler)
9 Never Weaken (Fred C. Newmeyer)
10 The Idle Class (Charles Chaplin)
1920
1 Convict 13 (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
2 Neighbors (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
3 The Parson's Widow (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
4 The Scarecrow (Buster Keaton)
5 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine)
Pre-1920s
1 Fantomas (Louis Fieullade, 1913)
2 Les Vampires (Louis Fieullade, 1915)
3 After Death (Yevgeni Bauer, 1915)
4 The Dying Swan (Yevgeni Bauer, 1917)
5 Judex (Louis Fieullade, 1916)
6 Intolerance (D. W. Griffith, 1916)
7 Daydreams (Yevgeni Bauer, 1915)
8 Broken Blossoms (D. W. Griffith, 1919)
9 The Golden Beetle (Segundo de Chamón, 1907)
10 Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, 1914)
The Great Train Robbery (Siegmund Lubin, 1904)
The Impossible Voyage (Georges Méliès, 1904)
1 Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2 Decasia (Bill Morrison)
3 Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
4 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
5 The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
6 Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
7 Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
8 Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
9 Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk)
10 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Chan-wook Park)
11 Changing Lanes (Roger Michell)
12 Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
13 Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
14 Y tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)
15 Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson)
16 Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
17 Read My Lips (Jacques Audiard)
18 Catch Me if You Can (Steven Spielberg)
19 Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)
20 About a Boy (Chris & Paul Weitz)
21 Happy Here and Now (Michael Almereyda)
22 In This World (Michael Winterbottom)
23 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
24 Forza Bastia (Jacques Tati & Sophie Tatischeff)
25 Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore)
26 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (George Lucas)
27 Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
28 Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (Steve Oedekerk)
2001
1 Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
2 In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
3 The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
4 Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
5 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
6 Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
7 Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
8 What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-Liang)
9 Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
10 Tape (Richard Linklater)
11 Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain)
12 Memento (Christopher Nolan)
13 The Pledge (Sean Penn)
14 Storytelling (Todd Solondz)
15 Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
16 Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
17 Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
18 In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
19 Monster's Ball (Marc Forster)
20 Monster's Inc. (Peter Doctor, David Silverman & Lee Unkrich)
2000
1 Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
2 Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)
3 Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
4 As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas)
5 In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
6 Eureka (Shinji Aoyama)
7 Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)
8 You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
9 Vertical Ray of the Sun (Anh Hung Tran)
10 Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
11 Platform (Jia Zhang-ke)
12 The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)
13 Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
14 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo)
15 High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
16 Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
17 Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)
18 Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin)
19 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen)
20 Best in Show (Christopher Guest)
21 The Way of the Gun (Christopher McQuarrie)
22 Dark Days (Marc Singer)
23 Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
24 Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
25 X-Men (Bryan Singer)
26 Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong)
27 Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
28 George Washington (David Gordon Green)
29 The Mission (Johnnie To)
30 American Psycho (Mary Harron)
31 The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)
1999
1 Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2 Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
3 Rosetta (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
4 Fight Club (David Fincher)
5 The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
6 The Straight Story (David Lynch)
7 The Insider (Michael Mann)
8 Three Kings (David O. Russell)
9 Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
10 Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen)
11 Election (Alexander Payne)
12 eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
13 Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese)
14 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
15 The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers)
16 American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
17 South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker and Matt Stone)
18 The Limey (Steven Soderbergh)
19 American Movie (Chris Smith)
20 The Virgin Suicides (Sophia Coppola)
21 Toy Story 2 (Ash Brannon, John Lasseter & Lee Unkrich)
22 Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
23 Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)
1998
1 Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
2 Histoire(s) du Cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard)
3 Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica)
4 The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
5 The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen)
6 Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
7 He Got Game (Spike Lee)
8 Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
9 Pi (Darren Aronofsky)
10 The Silence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
11 The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
12 The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
13 Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller)
14 Rounders (John Dahl)
15 Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)
16 Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma)
17 American History X (Tony Kaye)
18 There's Something About Mary (Peter and Bobby Farrelly)
19 Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon)
1997
1 The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
2 Ossos (Pedro Costa)
3 Mother & Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
4 L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
5 Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
6 Lost Highway (David Lynch)
7 Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
8 Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9 Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
10 In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
11 Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar)
12 The Game (David Fincher)
13 Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
14 The Life of Jesus (Bruno Dumont)
15 The River (Tsai Ming-Liang)
16 As Good as it Gets (James L. Brooks)
17 Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)
18 The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
1996
1 Fargo (Joel Coen)
2 Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thorton)
3 La Promesse (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
4 Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh)
5 Waiting for Guffman (Christopher Guest)
6 Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
7 Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
8 Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9 My Sex Life...Or How I Got Into an Argument (Arnaud Desplechin)
10 Flirting with Disaster (David O. Russell)
11 Kingpin (Peter and Bobby Farrelly)
12 Lone Star (John Sayles)
13 Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
14 The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (Hong Sang-soo)
15 Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
16 Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe)
17 Shine (Scott Hicks)
18 Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
1995
1 Underground (Emir Kusturica)
2 Heat (Michael Mann)
3 Cyclo (Anh Hung Tran)
4 Safe (Todd Haynes)
5 Clockers (Spike Lee)
6 Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
7 Se7en (David Fincher)
8 Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo)
9 Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
10 Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
11 The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi)
12 Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
13 Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai)
14 Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
15 Toy Story (John Lasseter)
16 Casino (Martin Scosese)
17 Nixon (Oliver Stone)
18 Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
19 Babe (Chris Noonan)
20 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
21 Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
22 Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins)
23 The Celluloid Closet (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman)
24 Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (Nick Park)
25 Die Hard: With a Vengeance (John McTiernan)
1994
1 Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
2 Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
3 Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
4 Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
5 Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
6 Exotica (Atom Egoyan)7 Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
8 Fresh (Boaz Yakin)
9 Wild Reeds (André Téchiné)
10 Joan the Maid: The Prisons (Jacques Rivette)
11 Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
12 Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
13 Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone)
14 To Live (Yimou Zhang)
15 Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
16 Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
17 Amateur (Hal Hartley)
18 Joan the Maid: The Battles (Jacques Rivette)
19 Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
20 Immortal Beloved (Bernard Rose)
21 Reality Bites (Ben Stiller)
22 Léon: The Professional (Luc Besson)
1993
1 Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2 Naked (Mike Leigh)
3 Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
4 Blue (Derek Jarman)
5 Farewell My Concubine (Kaige Chen)
6 The Scent of Green Papaya (Anh Hung Tran)
7 Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park)
8 Abraham's Valley (Manoel de Oliveira)
9 Bad Boy Bubby (Rolf de Heer)
10 The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
11 Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
12 The Piano (Jane Campion)
13 Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
14 Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
15 The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick)
16 Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)
17 Fearless (Peter Weir)
18 Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara)
19 Searching for Bobby Fisher (Steven Zaillian)
20 Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi)
21 Spanking the Monkey (David O. Russell)
22 Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen)
23 Menace II Society (Albert & Allen Hughes)
24 Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
1992
1 The Player (Robert Altman)
2 Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
3 Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
4 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch)
5 Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
6 Damage (Louis Malle)
7 Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
8 Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins)
9 Benny's Video (Michael Haneke)
10 Braindead (Peter Jackson)
11 The Long Day Closes (Terrence Davies)
12 Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen)
13 The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
14 The Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson)
15 Crimson Pig (Hayao Miyazaki)
16 Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
17 Batman Returns (Tim Burton)
1991
1 Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang)
2 Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley)
3 Barton Fink (Joel Coen)
4 A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
5 Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
6 Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata)
7 JFK (Oliver Stone)
8 Rush (Lili Fini Zanuck)
9 Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai)
10 Theory of Achievement (Hal Hartley)
11 Flirting (John Duigan)
12 Hot Shots! (Jim Abrahams)
13 Terminator 2: Judgement Day (James Cameron)
14 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper & Eleanor Coppola)
15 The Stranger (Satyajit Ray)
16 La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
17 Ambition (Hal Hartley)
18 Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (Jean-Luc Godard)
19 Slacker (Richard Linklater)
1990
1 Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
2 Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard)
3 Trust (Hal Hartley)
4 Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
5 Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
6 Twin Peaks: Pilot (David Lynch)
7 Miami Blues (George Armitage)
8 White Hunter Black Heart (Clint Eastwood)
9 Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh)
10 The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
11 Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
12 The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismaki)
13 The Grifters (Stephen Frears)
14 Vincent & Theo (Robert Altman)
15 Reversal of Fortune (Barbet Schroeder)
16 Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen)
1989
1 Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
2 The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
3 Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Yong-Kyun Bae)
4 Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)
5 Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch)
6 Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
7 Black Rain (Shohei Imamura)
8 Say Anything... (Cameron Crowe)
9 Elephant (Alan Clarke)
10 A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
11 The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
12 Heathers (Michael Lehmann)
13 Sweetie (Jane Campion)
14 Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir)
15 Batman (Tim Burton)
1988
1 Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)
2 The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)
3 Die Hard (John McTiernan)
4 Powaqqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
5 Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears)
6 The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
7 My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
8 The Naked Gun (David Zucker)
9 Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
10 The Firm (Alan Clarke)
11 Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica)
12 A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
13 The Vanishing (George Sluizer)
14 They Live (John Carpenter)
15 High Hopes (Mike Leigh)
16 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam)
17 Beetlejuice (Tim Burton)
18 Big (Penny Marshall)
19 Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Robert Zemeckis)
20 Hairspray (John Waters)
21 Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
22 Coming to America (John Landis)
23 Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
1987
1 The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2 Raising Arizona (Joel Coen)
3 Where is my Friend's House? (Abbas Kiarostami)
4 Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)
5 The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)
6 The Man Who Planted Trees (Frédéric Back)
7 Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
8 Damnation (Béla Tarr)
9 Radio Days (Woody Allen)
10 Matewan (John Sayles)
11 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)
12 In a Glass Cage (Augustin Villaronga)
13 House of Games (David Mamet)
14 Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth)
15 Opera (Dario Argento)
16 The Dead (John Huston)
17 Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)
18 Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)
19 Indoctrination (Harun Farocki)
20 Wall Street (Oliver Stone)
21 Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (John Hughes)
1986
1 Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
2 Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch)
3 Platoon (Oliver Stone)
4 Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
5 Aliens (James Cameron)
6 Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
7 The Fly (David Cronenberg)
8 A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
9 The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
10 Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes)
11 Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan)
12 Stand By Me (Rob Reiner)
13 Hoosiers (David Anspaugh)
1985
1 Vagabond (Agnes Varda)
2 Come and See (Elim Klimov)
3 Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton)
4 Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
5 Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
6 Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
7 The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
8 Broken Down Film (Osamu Tezuka)
9 A Zed & Two Naughts (Peter Greenaway)
10 Almanac of Fall (Béla Tarr)
11 My Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallstrom)
12 Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
13 Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard)
14 Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
1984
1 Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
2 The NeverEnding Story (Wolfgang Petersen)
3 Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
4 Body Double (Brian De Palma)
5 Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
6 Amadeus (Milos Forman)
7 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (Hayao Miyazaki)
8 Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
9 A Girl's Own Story (Jane Campion)
10 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Michael Radford)
11 Gremlins (Joe Dante)
12 Repo Man (Alex Cox)
13 This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
14 The Terminator (James Cameron)
15 Voyage to Cythera (Theo Angelopoulos)
16 Jumping (Osamu Tezuka)
17 Ghost Busters (Ivan Reitman)
1983
1 Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2 L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
3 El Sur (Victor Erice)
4 Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
5 Zelig (Woody Allen)
6 Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
7 A Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat)
8 Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
9 A Christmas Story (Bob Clark)
10 Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
11 The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
12 Christine (John Carpenter)
13 Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
14 Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)
15 First Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard)
16 Passionless Moments (Jane Campion)
1982
1 Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
2 Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
3 Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
4 White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
5 Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
6 The Thing (John Carpenter)
7 The Atomic Cafe (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty & Pierce Rafferty)
8 Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
9 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
10 Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)
11 Pink Floyd: The Wall (Alan Parker)
12 Passion (Jean-Luc Godard)
13 The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway)
14 Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
15 Veronicka Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1981
1 The Road Warrior (George Miller)
2 Southern Comfort (Walter Hill)
3 America is Waiting (Bruce Conner)
4 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
5 Excalibur (John Boorman)
6 Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
7 Modern Romance (Albert Brooks)
8 Scanners (David Cronenberg)
9 Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)
10 Possession (Andrzej Zulawski)
1980
1 Airplane! (Jim Abrahams)
2 Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
3 The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
4 Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
5 The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
6 The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
7 Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
8 Caddyshack (Harold Ramis)
9 Cruising (William Friedkin)
10 The Falls (Peter Greenaway)
11 Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
12 The Fog (John Carpenter)
13 The Blues Brothers (John Landis)
14 The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller)
1979
1 Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
2 The Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
3 Manhattan (Woody Allen)
4 Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
5 All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
6 Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
7 The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
8 Alien (Ridley Scott)
9 Love on the Run (Francois Truffaut)
10 The Jerk (Carl Reiner)
11 Woyzeck (Werner Herzog)
12 The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki)
13 Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
13 Real Life (Albert Brooks)
1978
1 Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
2 Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
3 In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4 A Wedding (Robert Altman)
5 Fingers (James Toback)
6 The Driver (Walter Hill)
7 The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Phillip Kaufman)
8 The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
9 Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
10 Vertical Features Remake (Peter Greenaway)
11 Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
12 Comment ca va? (Jean-Luc Godard)
13 Halloween (John Carpenter)
1977
1 That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
2 A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker)
3 Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
4 Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
5 The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko)
6 Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
7 Eraserhead (David Lynch)
8 Star Wars (George Lucas)
9 Providence (Alain Resnais)
10 The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson)
1976
1 Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
2 Ici et Ailleurs (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Anne-Marie Mieville & Groupe Dziga Vertov)
3 Network (Sydney Lumet)
4 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
5 Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
6 The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer)
7 Buffalo Bill and the Indians Or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (Robert Altman)
8 Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
9 Cria Cuervos (Carlos Saura)
10 Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey)
11 Small Change (Francois Truffaut)
12 The Tenant (Roman Polanski)
13 Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
14 The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston)
15 God Told Me To (Larry Cohen)
16 All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula)
1975
1 Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
2 Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
3 Deep Red (Dario Argento)
4 Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
5 Jeanne Dielman, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
6 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones)
7 The Story of Adele H. (Francois Truffaut)
8 Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
9 Dog Day Afternoon (Sydney Lumet)
10 Nashville (Robert Altman)
11 Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
12 Numero Deux (Jean-Luc Godard)
13 Grey Gardens (Albert & David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, & Muffie Meyer)
14 The Travelling Players (Theo Angelopoulos)
15 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
16 Xala (Ousmane Sembene)
17 Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1974
1 The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
2 The Godfather, Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
3 Parade (Jacques Tati)
4 F for Fake (Orson Welles)
5 Lancelot of the Lake (Robert Bresson)
6 Swept Away (Lina Wertmueller)
7 Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
8 Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
9 Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks)
10 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
11 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
12 Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
13 Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
14 Lenny (Bob Fosse)
15 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbiner)
1973
1 Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
2 The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
3 World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4 O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson)
5 The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
6 The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
7 Fantastic Planet (René Laloux)
8 The Age of the Medici (Roberto Rossellini)
9 Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
10 The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)
11 Day for Night (Francois Truffaut)
12 Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
13 Coffy (Jack Hill)
14 Breezy (Clint Eastwood)
1972
1 The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
2 Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
3 Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
4 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5 Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger)
6 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
7 Nathalie Granger (Marguerite Duras)
8 The Boxer from Shantung (Chang Cheh)9 Tout va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin & Groupe Dziga Vertov)10 Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
11 The Devil (Andrzej Zulawski)
12 Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill)
13 Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer)
14 Fat City (John Huston)
15 Deliverance (John Boorman)
16 Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville)
17 Snoopy, Come Home (Bill Melendez)
1971
1 McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
2 The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima)
3 The Hour of the Furnaces (Octavio Getino & Fernando E. Solanas)4 Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
5 A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)6 WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev)
7 Trafic (Jacques Tati)
8 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
9 Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
10 Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog)
11 Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes)
12 Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg)
13 Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
14 Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski)
15 Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)
16 Trial on the Road (Alexei German)
17 The French Connection (William Friedkin)
1970
1 The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
2 Les Habitants (Artavazd Peleshyan)
3 A Swedish Love Story (Roy Andersson)
4 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica)
5 Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
6 Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)
7 Wanda (Barbara Loden)
8 Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
9 Husbands (John Cassavetes)
10 Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma)
11 Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)
12 Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Mayles & Charlotte Zwerin)
13 Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh)
14 The Grandmother (David Lynch)
15 Dodesukaden (Akira Kurosawa)
1969
1 Une Femme Douce (Robert Bresson)
2 Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
3 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
4 Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin)
5 Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda)
6 Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
7 Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
8 Boy (Nagisa Oshima)
9 Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
10 Kes (Ken Loach)
11 A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
12 The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
13 Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger)
14 My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
1968
1 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
2 Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
3 The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
4 Je t'aime, je t'aime (Alain Resnais)
5 Death By Hanging (Nagisa Oshima)
6 Les Biches (Claude Chabrol)
6 High School (Frederick Wiseman)
7 Death Rides a Horse (Sergio Corbucci)
8 Sympathy for the Devil (Jean-Luc Godard)
9 Yellow Submarine (George Dunning)
10 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (Bill Greaves)
11 The Producers (Mel Brooks)
12 Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
13 Secret Ceremony (Joseph Losey)
14 Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman)
15 Pas de Deux (Norman McLaren)
16 L'Enfance Nue (Maurice Pialat)
17 Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
18 Shame (Ingmar Bergman)
19 If.... (Lindsay Anderson)
1967
1 Playtime (Jacques Tati)
2 Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
3 Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
4 Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel)
5 Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
6 The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
7 Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville)
8 The Red and the White (Miklós Janscó )
9 Week End (Jean-Luc Godard)
10 Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
11 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
12 Love Affair or Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev)
13 Eye Myth (Stan Brakhage)
14 El Dorado (Howard Hawks)
15 The Shooting (Monte Hellman)
16 Point Blank (John Boorman)
17 Peppermint Frappe (Carlos Saura)
18 The Crush (Ermanno Olmi)
19 La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
20 Accident (Joseph Losey)
1966
1 Au hasard, Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
2 Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
3 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
4 Trans-Europ-Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
5 Breakaway (Bruce Conner)
6 Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
7 Violence at High Noon (Nagisa Oshima)
8 La Caza (Carlos Saura)
9 La Religieuse (Jacques Rivette)
10 Masculine-Feminine (Jean-Luc Godard)
11 Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Vaclav Vorlicek)
12 Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis)
13 Kill Baby...Kill! (Mario Bava)
14 It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez)
15 Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel)
16 How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Chuck Jones)
17 Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
18 Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto)
19 The Rise of Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
1965
1 Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
2 The Shop on Main Street (Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos)
3 Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
4 The Round-Up (Miklós Janscó)
5 Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
6 Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
7 A Thousand Clowns (Fred Coe)
8 Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
9 Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger)
10 Dr. Zhivago (David Lean)
11 Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellochio)
12 A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez)
13 For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
14 The War Game (Peter Watkins)
15 Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
16 Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman)
17 Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda)
1964
1 Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
2 Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
3 Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
4 Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
5 Yearning (Mikio Naruse)
6 Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
7 Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
8 Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer)
9 Hamlet (Gregori Kosintsev)
10 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
11 A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
12 The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
13 The Patsy (Jerry Lewis)
14 Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo)
15 Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Paradjanov)
16 The Soft Skin (Francois Truffaut)
17 Man's Favorite Sport (Howard Hawks)
18 A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
19 Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
20 I Am Cuba (Mikheil Kalatozishvili)
1963
1 Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
2 An Actor's Revenge (Kon Ichikawa)
3 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
4 The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
5 Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
6 High & Low (Akira Kurosawa)
7 The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)
8 The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura)
9 The House is Black (Farough Farrokhzad)
10 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer)
11 The Girl at the Monceau Bakery (Eric Rohmer)
12 Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
13 The Haunting (Robert Wise)
1962
1 The Trial (Orson Welles)
2 La Jetée (Chris Marker)
3 My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard)
4 L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5 The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
6 The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
7 Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut)
8 Hatari! (Howard Hawks)
9 Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
10 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (John Ford)
11 Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
11 Advise and Consent (Otto Preminger)
12 Her Lonely Lane (Mikio Naruse)
13 The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
14 Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
15 Cosmic Ray (Bruce Conner)
16 Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
17 To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
18 Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)
19 Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah)
20 Two Weeks in Another Town (Vincente Minnelli)
1961
1 Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
2 Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
3 The Ladies Man (Jerry Lewis)
4 Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
5 A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
6 Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller)
7 The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
8 La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
9 Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
10 One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
1960
1 L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2 Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut)
3 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
4 Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo)
5 Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
6 Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
7 Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
8 Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima)
9 Devi (Satyajit Ray)
10 The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
11 La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
12 The Housemaid (Ki-young Kim)
13 The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
14 Night and Fog in Japan (Nagisa Oshima)
15 The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis)
16 The Savage Innocents (Nicholas Ray)
17 Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
18 Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
19 L'Amour Existe (Maurice Pialat)
20 Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard)
21 The Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
1959
1 Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
2 Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Masaki Kobayashi)
3 North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity (Masaki Kobayashi)
5 The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
6 The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)
7 Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)
8 Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
9 Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
10 Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
11 Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise)
12 Shadows (John Cassavetes)
13 Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
14 Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
15 Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus)
16 Day of the Outlaw (Andre De Toth)
17 Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
18 Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronomi)
19 Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)
1958
1 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
2 Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
3 The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
4 Party Girl (Nicholas Ray)
5 The Music Room (Satyajit Ray)
6 The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
7 Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
8 Giants & Toys (Yasuzo Masumura)
9 Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
10 Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
11 Ivan the Terrible, Part II (Sergei Eisenstein)
12 A Movie (Bruce Conner)
1957
1 The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
2 Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray)
3 Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
4 Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
5 Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
6 The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
7 The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
8 Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
9 Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
10 Men in War (Anthony Mann)
11 Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
12 Le Notti Bianche (Luchino Visconti)
13 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
14 Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
15 Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)
16 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
1956
1 The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
2 A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
3 The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
4 Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
5 Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
6 There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk)
7 Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli)
8 The Searchers (John Ford)
9 Seven Men from Now (Budd Boetticher)
10 The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
11 Attack! (Robert Aldrich)
12 Hot Blood (Nicholas Ray)
13 Sudden Rain (Mikio Naruse)
14 The King and I (Walter Lang)
15 Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island (Hiroshi Inagaki)
1955
1 Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
2 Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)
3 Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
4 Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
5 Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
6 Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
7 The Man from Laramie (Anthony Mann)
8 French Cancan (Jean Renoir)
9 Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
10 Rififi (Jules Dassin)
11 Lola Montes (Max Ophuls)
12 All that Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
13 The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich)
14 To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
15 Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
16 The Indian Fighter (Andre De Toth)
17 Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
18 Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi)
19 East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
20 House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller)
1954
1 Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
2 Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3 Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
4 Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
5 Twenty Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita)
6 On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
7 A Star is Born (George Cukor)
8 Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse)
9 Sabrina (Billy Wilder)
10 Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
11 Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
12 Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse)
13 The Far Country (Anthony Mann)
14 Salt of the Earth (Herbert J. Biberman)
15 Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (Hiroshi Inagaki)
16 Crucified Lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1953
1 The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophuls)
2 Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3 Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
4 All I Desire (Douglas Sirk)
5 A Geisha (Kenji Mizoguchi)
6 The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)
7 Monika (Ingmar Bergman)
8 Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
9 Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)
10 The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
11 The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
12 A Japanese Tragedy (Keisuke Kinoshita)
13 I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
14 The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford)
15 Peter Pan (Geronomi, Luske & Jackson)
1952
1 On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)
2 The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3 El: This Strange Passion (Luis Buñuel)
4 Lightning (Mikio Naruse)
5 Forbidden Games (Réné Clement)
6 My Son John (Leo McCarey)
7 Casque d'or (Jacques Becker)
8 Feed the Kitty (Chuck Jones)
9 The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
10 Mother (Mikio Naruse)
11 Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini)
12 Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica)
13 Park Row (Samuel Fuller)
14 Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
15 The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer)
16 Water, Water Every Hare (Chuck Jones)
17 Rabbit Seasoning (Chuck Jones)
18 The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
1951
1 Miss Julie (Alf Sjöberg)
2 Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
3 The Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
4 A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
5 Alice in Wonderland (Geronomi, Luske & Jackson)
6 Repast (Mikio Naruse)
7 The 13th Letter (Otto Preminger)
8 The Thing From Another World (Howard Hawks & Christian Nyby)
9 The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
10 The Tall Target (Anthony Mann)
1950
1 Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
2 In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
3 Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini)
4 Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
5 Born to be Bad (Nicholas Ray)
6 Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
7 Un Chant d'amour (Jean Genet)
8 Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)
9 All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
10 Rabbit of Seville (Chuck Jones)
11 Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann)
12 Night and the City (Jules Dassin)
13 Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock)
14 The Gunfighter (Henry King)
1949
1 The Heiress (William Wyler)
2 Third Man (Carol Reed)
3 Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
4 The Reckless Moment (Max Ophuls)
5 Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
6 Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
7 Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
8 I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller)
9 I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks)
10 The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica)
11 White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
12 They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray)
13 Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger)
14 Caught (Max Ophuls)
1948
1 Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
2 La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti)
3 Red River (Howard Hawks)
4 Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
5 The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed)
6 The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
7 Oliver Twist (David Lean)
8 Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges)
9 Jour de Fete (Jacques Tati)
10 He Walked By Night (Alfred Werker & Anthony Mann)
1947
1 Quai des Orfevres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
2 Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger)
3 Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
4 Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
5 Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
6 Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
7 Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding)
8 The Paradine Case (Alfred Hitchcock)
9 The Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir)
10 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1946
1 Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
2 It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
3 The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
4 Shoe-Shine (Vittorio De Sica)
5 La Belle et la Bête (Jean Cocteau)
6 Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
7 Great Expectations (David Lean)
8 The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
9 Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch)
10 The Stranger (Orson Welles)
11 My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
12 The Killers (Robert Siodmak)
1945
1 Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné)
2 The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
3 The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)
4 Les Dames du Bois de Bologne (Robert Bresson)
5 A Study in Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren)
6 The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin)
7 Detour (Edward G. Ulmer)
8 Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock)
9 Brief Encounter (David Lean)
10 The Southerner (Jean Renoir)
1944
1 Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
2 Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Sergei Eisenstein)
3 At Land (Maya Deren)
4 Curse of the Cat People (Robert Wise)
5 None Shall Escape (Andre De Toth)
6 Miracle at Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)
7 Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
8 Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
9 Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)
10 Laura (Otto Preminger)
11 Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk)
12 To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
1943
1 This Land is Mine (Jean Renoir)
2 Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren)
3 The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
4 Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
5 The Raven (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
6 Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
7 The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
8 Air Force (Howard Hawks)
9 Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
10 Les Anges du Peche (Robert Bresson)
11 The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
1942
1 Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
2 The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
3 To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
4 The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
5 Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
6 Bambi (David Hand)
7 The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
8 Cat People (Jaques Tourneur)
9 Yankee Doodle Dandy (Michael Curtiz)
10 Talk of the Town (George Stevens)
1941
1 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2 The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3 Wabbit Twouble (Robert Clampett)
4 The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
5 That Uncertain Feeling (Ernst Lubitsch)
6 The Devil & Daniel Webster (William Dieterle)
7 Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
8 Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
9 The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
10 Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
1940
1 The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
2 Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
3 Fantasia (Disney, various)
4 The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
5 Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
6 The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
7 Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen)
8 The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline)
9 Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
10 The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)
1939
1 The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi)
2 The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
3 The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
4 Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming)
5 Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
6 Wuthering Heights (William Wyler)
7 Midnight (Mitchell Leisen)
8 Destry Rides Again (George Marshall)
9 Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
10 Stagecoach (John Ford)
1938
1 Holiday (George Cukor)
2 Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz)
3 The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 Le Quai des Brumes (Marcel Carne)
5 Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
6 Four Daughters (Michael Curtiz)
7 La Bête Humaine (Jean Renoir)
8 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Ernst Lubitsch)
9 Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein)
10 You Can't Take it With You (Frank Capra)
1937
1 Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
2 You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
3 History is Made at Night (Frank Borzage)
4 Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (Disney, various)
5 Stage Door (Gregory La Cava)
6 The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
7 Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen)8 The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
9 Angel (Ernst Lubitsch)
10 Pepe le Moko (Julien Duvivier)
11 Mannequin (Frank Borzage)
1936
1 Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
2 Fury (Fritz Lang)
3 Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell)
4 A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
5 Dodsworth (William Wyler)
6 My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
7 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra)
8 Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)
9 After the Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke)
10 Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1935
1 Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
2 Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
3 The Devil Is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg)
4 Wife, Be Like a Rose (Mikio Naruse)
5 The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)6 The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
7 A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
8 Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd)
1934
1 L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
2 The Scarlett Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
3 The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
4 La Signora di Tutti (Max Ophuls)
5 It's a Gift (Norman McLeod)
6 The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch)
7 It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
8 Our Daily Bread (King Vidor)
9 Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)
10 The Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke)
1933
1 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
2 Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
3 Counsellor at Law (William Wyler)
4 Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)
5 Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
6 Lady for a Day (Frank Capra)
7 The Invisible Man (James Whale)
8 Outskirts (Boris Barnet)
9 Land Without Bread (Luis Buñuel)
10 King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
1932
1 Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
2 Freaks (Tod Browning)
3 Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
4 Scarface (Howard Hawks)
5 Tiger Shark (Howard Hawks)
6 Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)
7 The Crowd Roars (Howard Hawks)
8 Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
9 I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu)
10 Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)
1931
1 City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
2 M (Fritz Lang)
3 An American Tragedy (Josef von Sternberg)
4 A Nous la Liberte (Rene Clair)
5 Le Million (Rene Clair)
6 Tabu: A Tale of the South Seas (F.W. Murnau)
7 The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)
8 Frankenstein (James Whale)
9 Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod)
10 La Chienne (Jean Renoir)
1930
1 Earth (Alexander Dovzhenko)
2 L'Âge D'or (Luis Buñuel)
3 Á Propos de Nice (Jean Vigo)
4 City Girl (F. W. Murnau)
5 All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
6 Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
7 Blood of the Poet (Jean Cocteau)
8 Autumn Fire (Herman G. Weinberg)
9 Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman)
10 Romance Sentimentale (Grigori Aleksandrov & Sergei Eisenstein)
1929
1 Pandora's Box (G. W. Pabst)
2 Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
3 Diary of a Lost Girl (G. W. Pabst)
4 Thunderbolt (Josef von Sternberg)
5 Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel)
6 H2O (Ralph Steiner)
7 Applause (Rouben Mamoulian)
8 Regen (Joris Ivens)
9 Brumes D'Automne (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
10 Queen Kelly (Erich von Stroheim)
1928
1 The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
2 The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (Robert Florey & Slavko Vorkapich)
3 The Crowd (King Vidor)
4 The Wind (Victor Sjostrom)
5 The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
6 Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
7 The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
8 The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein & Luis Buñuel)
9 Speedy (Ted Wilde)
10 L'Étoile de mer (Man Ray)
11 The Seashell & the Clergyman (Germain Dulac)
12 The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton)
1927
1 Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
2 Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
3 La glace a trois faces (Jean Epstein)
4 The General (Buster Keaton)
5 The Girl With the Hatbox (Boris Barnet)
6 October (Sergei Eisenstein)
7 The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)
8 College (James W. Horne)
9 The Student Prince at Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch)
10 The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland)
1926
1 A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
2 By the Law (Lev Kuleshov)
3 The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 Emak-Bakia (Man Ray)
5 Menilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
6 The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Karl Koch & Lotte Reiniger)
7 Anémic cinéma (Marcel Duchamp)
8 Faust (F.W. Murnau)
1925
1 Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
2 The Big Parade (King Vidor)
3 The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)
4 Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
5 Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
6 Go West (Buster Keaton)
1924
1 Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
2 The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau)
3 Entr'Acte (Rene Clair)
4 Ballet Mécanique (Fernand Leger & Dudley Murphy)
5 Girl Shy (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
6 Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Fritz Lang)
7 He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjostrom)
8 Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (Fritz Lang)
9 The Navigator (Donald Crisp & Buster Keaton)
10 Michael (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1923
1 Our Hospitality (John Blystone & Buster Keaton)
2 Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
3 Why Worry? (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
4 The Balloonatic (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
5 Three Ages (Buster Keaton)
6 Le Retour à la raison (Man Ray)
1922
1 Cops (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
2 Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty)
3 Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
4 The Electric House (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
5 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Fritz Lang)
6 The Blacksmith (Buster Keaton & Malcolm St. Clair)
7 Daydreams (Buster Keaton)
8 My Wife's Relations (Buster Keaton)
9 The Paleface (Buster Keaton)
1921
1 The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström)
2 The Goat (Buster Keaton & Malcolm St. Clair)
3 The Play House (Buster Keaton)
4 The Kid (Charles Chaplin)
5 Leaves from Satan's Book (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
6 Hard Luck (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
7 Now or Never (Hal Roach & Fred C. Newmeyer)
8 Manhatta (Paul Strand & Charles Sheeler)
9 Never Weaken (Fred C. Newmeyer)
10 The Idle Class (Charles Chaplin)
1920
1 Convict 13 (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
2 Neighbors (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
3 The Parson's Widow (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
4 The Scarecrow (Buster Keaton)
5 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine)
Pre-1920s
1 Fantomas (Louis Fieullade, 1913)
2 Les Vampires (Louis Fieullade, 1915)
3 After Death (Yevgeni Bauer, 1915)
4 The Dying Swan (Yevgeni Bauer, 1917)
5 Judex (Louis Fieullade, 1916)
6 Intolerance (D. W. Griffith, 1916)
7 Daydreams (Yevgeni Bauer, 1915)
8 Broken Blossoms (D. W. Griffith, 1919)
9 The Golden Beetle (Segundo de Chamón, 1907)
10 Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, 1914)
The Great Train Robbery (Siegmund Lubin, 1904)
The Impossible Voyage (Georges Méliès, 1904)
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