1 The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin)
2 Hard to Be a God (Alexei German)
3 The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
4 World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt)
5 Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
6 Carol (Todd Haynes)
7 The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
8 Son of Saul (Lazlo Nemes)
9 In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)
10 The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
11 Sicario (Dennis Villeneuve)
12 Mistress America (Noah Baumbauch)
13 The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
14 Listen to Me Marlon (Stevan Riley)
15 Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
16 Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
17 Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry)
18 The End of the Tour (James Ponsoldt)
19 A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Contemplating Existence (Roy Andersson)
20 Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
21 Mustang (Deniz Gamze Erguven)
22 It Follows (David Robert Mitchell)
23 Inside Out (Pete Doctor & Ronnie del Carmen)
24 Creed (Ryan Coogler)
25 Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs)
26 Faults (Riley Stearns)
2014
1 Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
2 The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
3 Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)
4 Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
5 Why Don't You Play in Hell (Sion Sono)
6 Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)
7 Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-Liang)
8 Nymphomaniac, Part 1 (Lars von Trier)
8 Birdman (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)9 Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
11 The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
12 Stranger By the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
13 The Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
14 Gone Girl (David Fincher)
15 Two Days, One Night (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
16 Camille Claudel, 1915 (Bruno Dumont)
17 Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
18 We Are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson)
19 Citizenfour (Laura Poitras)
20 Heli (Amat Escalante)
21 Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry)
22 Paddington (Paul King)
23 Guardians of the Galaxy (James Gunn)
24 Mistaken For Strangers (Tom Berninger)
25 Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
26 Nymphomaniac, Part 2 (Lars von Trier)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 Let the Fire Burn (Jason Osder)
8 Like Father Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
9 Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron)
10 Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
11 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
12 Beyond the Hills (Christian Mungiu)
13 Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)
14 Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
15 Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
16 Drug War (Johnnie To)
17 The Conjuring (James Wan)
18 A Hijacking (Tobias Lindholm)
19 Sightseers (Ben Wheatley)
20 To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
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 Keep the Lights On (Ira Sachs)
17 Killer Joe (William Friedkin)
18 This is 40 (Judd Apatow)
19 In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo)
20 The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
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 Nostalghia for the Light (Patricio Guzman)
4 Drive (Nicholas Winding Refn)
5 Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
6 Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin)
7 Senna (Asif Kapadi)
8 Tomboy (Celine Sciamma)
9 The Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz)
10 Rango (Gore Verbinski)
11 Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve)
12 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike)
13 The Kid With a Bike (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
14 The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar)
15 Attack the Block (Joe Cornish)
16 Love Exposure (Sion Sono)
17 Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski)
18 Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
19 The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
20 The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
21 Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
22 Of Gods & Men (Xavier Beauvois)
23 Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
24 Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki)
25 Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
2010
1 Dogtooth (George Lanthimos)
2 Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
3 Hahaha (Hong Sang-soo)
4 Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
5 Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe)
6 Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
7 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul)
8 Valhalla Rising (Nicholas Winding Refn)
9 Inception (Christopher Nolan)
10 Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
11 Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
12 Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
13 October Country (Donal Mosher & Michael Palimeiri)
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)
2009
1 Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
2 Two Lovers (James Gray)
3 Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
4 Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
5 Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
6 A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
7 Julia (Erick Zonca)
8 Lorna's Silence (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
9 Two-Legged Horse (Samira Makmahlbaf)
10 The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
11 Coraline (Henry Selick)
12 About Elly (Asghar Farhadi)
13 Revanche (Gotz Spielmann)
14 Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
15 Achilles and the Tortoise (Takeshi Kitano)
16 Moon (Duncan Jones)
17 Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
18 (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb)
19 I Love You, Man (John Hamburg)
2008
1 A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
2 Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
3 Sparrow (Johnnie To)
4 Man on Wire (James Marsh)
5 Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
6 In the City of Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin)
7 Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
8 Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke)
9 Hunger (Steve McQueen)
10 Wendy & Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
11 Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
12 Tell No One (Guillaume Canet)
13 The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
14 The Witnesses (André Téchiné)
15 Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
16 Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl)
17 Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
18 Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
19 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
20 You the Living (Roy Andersson)
21 In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
22 Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
23 [Rec] (Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza)
24 Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman)
25 The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
26 The Class (Laurent Cantet)
27 Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)
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 Keep the Lights On (Ira Sachs)
17 Killer Joe (William Friedkin)
18 This is 40 (Judd Apatow)
19 In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo)
20 The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
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 Nostalghia for the Light (Patricio Guzman)
4 Drive (Nicholas Winding Refn)
5 Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
6 Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin)
7 Senna (Asif Kapadi)
8 Tomboy (Celine Sciamma)
9 The Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz)
10 Rango (Gore Verbinski)
11 Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve)
12 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike)
13 The Kid With a Bike (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
14 The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar)
15 Attack the Block (Joe Cornish)
16 Love Exposure (Sion Sono)
17 Essential Killing (Jerzy Skolimowski)
18 Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
19 The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
20 The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
21 Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
22 Of Gods & Men (Xavier Beauvois)
23 Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
24 Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki)
25 Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
2010
1 Dogtooth (George Lanthimos)
2 Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
3 Hahaha (Hong Sang-soo)
4 Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
5 Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe)
6 Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
7 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul)
8 Valhalla Rising (Nicholas Winding Refn)
9 Inception (Christopher Nolan)
10 Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
11 Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
12 Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
13 October Country (Donal Mosher & Michael Palimeiri)
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)
2009
1 Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
2 Two Lovers (James Gray)
3 Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
4 Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
5 Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
6 A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
7 Julia (Erick Zonca)
8 Lorna's Silence (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
9 Two-Legged Horse (Samira Makmahlbaf)
10 The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
11 Coraline (Henry Selick)
12 About Elly (Asghar Farhadi)
13 Revanche (Gotz Spielmann)
14 Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
15 Achilles and the Tortoise (Takeshi Kitano)
16 Moon (Duncan Jones)
17 Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
18 (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb)
19 I Love You, Man (John Hamburg)
2008
1 A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
2 Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
3 Sparrow (Johnnie To)
4 Man on Wire (James Marsh)
5 Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
6 In the City of Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin)
7 Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
8 Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke)
9 Hunger (Steve McQueen)
10 Wendy & Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
11 Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
12 Tell No One (Guillaume Canet)
13 The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
14 The Witnesses (André Téchiné)
15 Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
16 Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl)
17 Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
18 Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
19 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
20 You the Living (Roy Andersson)
21 In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
22 Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
23 [Rec] (Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza)
24 Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman)
25 The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
26 The Class (Laurent Cantet)
27 Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)
28 The Man from London (Bela Tarr)
2007
1 There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2 The Host (Joon-ho Bong)
3 5 Centimeters Per Second (Makoto Shinkai)
4 Zodiac (David Fincher)
5 No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen)
6 Time (Kim Ki-duk)
7 Mad Detective (Johnnie To)
8 Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
9 I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
10 At Sea (Peter B. Hutton)
11 Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
12 Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran)
13 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
14 Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
15 Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais)
16 My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
17 The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
18 Redacted (Brian De Palma)
19 Quiet City (Aaron Katz)
20 Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
21 Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Parronaud)
22 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
23 Away from Her (Sarah Polley)
24 Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
25 The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon)
2 The Host (Joon-ho Bong)
3 5 Centimeters Per Second (Makoto Shinkai)
4 Zodiac (David Fincher)
5 No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen)
6 Time (Kim Ki-duk)
7 Mad Detective (Johnnie To)
8 Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
9 I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
10 At Sea (Peter B. Hutton)
11 Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
12 Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran)
13 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
14 Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
15 Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais)
16 My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
17 The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
18 Redacted (Brian De Palma)
19 Quiet City (Aaron Katz)
20 Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
21 Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Parronaud)
22 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
23 Away from Her (Sarah Polley)
24 Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
25 The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon)
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 Marie Antoinette (Sophia Coppola)
7 The Child (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
8 Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
9 Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski)
10 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles)
11 The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
12 Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin)
13 Three Times (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
14 Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
15 Gabrielle (Patrice Chereau)
16 The Queen (Stephen Frears)
17 The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
18 Brick (Rian Johnson)
19 The Good Shepherd (Robert De Niro)
20 Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
21 The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig)
22 Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom)
23 A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
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 Marie Antoinette (Sophia Coppola)
7 The Child (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
8 Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
9 Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski)
10 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles)
11 The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
12 Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin)
13 Three Times (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
14 Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
15 Gabrielle (Patrice Chereau)
16 The Queen (Stephen Frears)
17 The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
18 Brick (Rian Johnson)
19 The Good Shepherd (Robert De Niro)
20 Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
21 The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig)
22 Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom)
23 A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
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 The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
10 Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
11 Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)
12 A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
13 Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
14 Head-On (Fatih Akin)
15 Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)
16 Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
17 Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
18 The Meaning of Life (Don Hertzfeldt)
19 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Shane Black)
20 Downfall (Oliver Hirschbeigel)
21 Election (Johnnie To)
22 My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me (Shinji Aoyama)
23 The 40 Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow)
24 La Moustache (Emmanuel Carrère)
25 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 Tropical Malady (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul)
8 The White Diamond (Werner Herzog)
9 The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
10 Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar)
11 Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
12 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
13 Kill Bill: Volume 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
14 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michael Gondry)
15 The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme)
16 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy (Adam McKay)
17 Spartan (David Mamet)
18 The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)
19 The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin)
20 Father and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
21 Woman is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
22 Mean Girls (Mark Waters)
23 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 The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
10 Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
11 Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)
12 A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
13 Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
14 Head-On (Fatih Akin)
15 Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)
16 Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
17 Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
18 The Meaning of Life (Don Hertzfeldt)
19 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Shane Black)
20 Downfall (Oliver Hirschbeigel)
21 Election (Johnnie To)
22 My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me (Shinji Aoyama)
23 The 40 Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow)
24 La Moustache (Emmanuel Carrère)
25 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 Tropical Malady (Apitchatpong Weerasethakul)
8 The White Diamond (Werner Herzog)
9 The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
10 Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar)
11 Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
12 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
13 Kill Bill: Volume 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
14 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michael Gondry)
15 The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme)
16 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy (Adam McKay)
17 Spartan (David Mamet)
18 The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)
19 The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin)
20 Father and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
21 Woman is the Future of Man (Hong Sang-soo)
22 Mean Girls (Mark Waters)
23 Primer (Shane Carruth)
2003
1 Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
2 Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
3 The Company (Robert Altman)
4 Kill Bill, Volume 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
5 Oldboy (Chan-wook Park)
6 The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)
7 Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong)
8 Spider (David Cronenberg)
9 Hulk (Ang Lee)
10 Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
11 All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
12 The School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
13 Lost in Translation (Sophia Coppola)
14 Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)
15 Friday Night (Claire Denis)
16 Doppelganger (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
17 Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows)
18 The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy)
19 X2 (Bryan Singer)
20 Open Range (Kevin Costner)
2 Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
3 The Company (Robert Altman)
4 Kill Bill, Volume 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
5 Oldboy (Chan-wook Park)
6 The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)
7 Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong)
8 Spider (David Cronenberg)
9 Hulk (Ang Lee)
10 Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
11 All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
12 The School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
13 Lost in Translation (Sophia Coppola)
14 Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)
15 Friday Night (Claire Denis)
16 Doppelganger (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
17 Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows)
18 The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy)
19 X2 (Bryan Singer)
20 Open Range (Kevin Costner)
2002
1 Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2 Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
3 Decasia (Bill Morrison)
4 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
5 Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney)
6 Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
7 Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
8 Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
9 Dream Work (Peter Tscherkassky)
10 Oasis (Lee Chang-dong)
11 All or Nothing (Mike Leigh)
12 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Chan-wook Park)
13 On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo)
14 Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski)
15 Secret Things (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
16 Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
17 Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)
18 Read My Lips (Jacques Audiard)
19 Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
20 Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
21 Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
22 Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson)
23 Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
24 Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)
25 Happy Here and Now (Michael Almereyda)
26 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
2001
1 Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
2 Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
3 In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
4 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
5 Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
6 The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
7 Dream Work (Peter Tscherkassky)
8 What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-Liang)
9 The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
10 La Cienega (Lucretia Martel)
11 Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain)
12 Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
13 The Pledge (Sean Penn)
14 Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
15 Memento (Christopher Nolan)
16 Storytelling (Todd Solondz)
17 Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk)
18 Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
19 Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
20 Monster's Inc. (Peter Doctor, David Silverman & Lee Unkrich)
21 Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
2000
1 Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)
2 Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
3 As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas)
4 Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
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 The Yards (James Gray)
10 Platform (Jia Zhang-ke)
11 The Gleaners & I (Agnes Varda)
12 The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)
13 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo)
14 High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
15 Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
16 Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin)
17 Vertical Ray of the Sun (Anh Hung Tran)
18 Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
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 Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
27 George Washington (David Gordon Green)
28 Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
29 The Mission (Johnnie To)
30 American Psycho (Mary Harron)
31 The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)
32 Rejected (Don Hertzfeldt)
1999
1 Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
2 Rosetta (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
3 Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
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 Election (Alexander Payne)
11 Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)
12 Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese)
13 Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen)
14 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
15 The Matrix (Lana & Andy Wachowski)
16 South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker and Matt Stone)
17 Toy Story 2 (Ash Brannon, John Lasseter & Lee Unkrich)
18 Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)
27 eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
1998
1 Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
2 Histoire(s) du Cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard)
3 The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
4 The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen)
5 Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
6 The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf)
7 Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica)
8 He Got Game (Spike Lee)
9 Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
10 Pi (Darren Aronofsky)
11 The Silence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
12 The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
13 The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
14 Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller)
15 An Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer)
16 Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)
17 Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (Patrice Chereau)
18 Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma)
19 Rounders (John Dahl)
20 American History X (Tony Kaye)
1997
1 The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
2 Ossos (Pedro Costa)
3 Lost Highway (David Lynch)
4 Mother & Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
5 Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
6 L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
7 Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
8 Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9 Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
10 The Mirror (Jafar Panahi)
11 In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
12 Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar)
13 The Game (David Fincher)
14 The Castle (Michael Haneke)
15 Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
16 The Life of Jesus (Bruno Dumont)
17 The River (Tsai Ming-Liang)
18 Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)
1996
1 A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
2 Fargo (Joel Coen)
3 La Promesse (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
4 Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh)
5 My Sex Life...Or How I Got Into an Argument (Arnaud Desplechin)
6 Waiting for Guffman (Christopher Guest)
7 Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thorton)
8 Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
9 Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
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 A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer)
15 Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)
16 The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (Hong Sang-soo)
17 Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
18 Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
1995
1 Underground (Emir Kusturica)
2 Heat (Michael Mann)
3 Safe (Todd Haynes)
4 Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
5 Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo)
6 Clockers (Spike Lee)
7 Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
8 Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai)
9 Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
10 Seven (David Fincher)
11 Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
12 The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi)
13 Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
14 Toy Story (John Lasseter)
15 Casino (Martin Scosese)
16 Cyclo (Anh Hung Tran)
17 Nixon (Oliver Stone)
18 Babe (Chris Noonan)
19 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
20 Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
21 Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins)
22 The Celluloid Closet (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman)
23 Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (Nick Park)
24 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 Satantango (Bela Tarr)
5 Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
6 Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
7 Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
8 Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
9 Fresh (Boaz Yakin)
10 Wild Reeds (André Téchiné)
11 Joan the Maid: The Prisons (Jacques Rivette)
12 Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
13 Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
14 Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone)
15 To Live (Yimou Zhang)
16 Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
17 Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
18 Amateur (Hal Hartley)
19 Joan the Maid: The Battles (Jacques Rivette)
20 Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
21 Immortal Beloved (Bernard Rose)
22 Reality Bites (Ben Stiller)
23 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 Red Rock West (John Dahl)
18 Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara)
19 Abraham's Valley (Manoel de Oliveira)
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 Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
4 The Quince Tree Sun (Victor Erice)
5 The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
6 Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
7 Baraka (Ron Fricke)
8 Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins)
9 Crimson Pig (Hayao Miyazaki)
10 Benny's Video (Michael Haneke)
11 Braindead (Peter Jackson)
12 Damage (Louis Malle)
13 The Long Day Closes (Terrence Davies)
14 Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
15 The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
16 The Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson)
17 Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
18 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
1991
1 The Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax)
2 Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang)
3 Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley)
4 Barton Fink (Joel Coen)
5 A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
6 Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
7 Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata)
8 Theory of Achievement (Hal Hartley)
9 JFK (Oliver Stone)
10 Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch)
11 Rush (Lili Fini Zanuck)
12 Flirting (John Duigan)
13 Hot Shots! (Jim Abrahams)
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 Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen)
19 Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (Jean-Luc Godard)
20 Slacker (Richard Linklater)
21 Terminator 2: Judgement Day (James Cameron)
1990
1 Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
2 Trust (Hal Hartley)
3 Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard)
4 Twin Peaks: Pilot (David Lynch)
5 Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston)
8 Miami Blues (George Armitage)
9 Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai)
10 White Hunter Black Heart (Clint Eastwood)
11 Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh)
12 To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett)
13 Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
14 The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismaki)
15 The Second Circle (Aleksandr Sokurov)
16 The Grifters (Stephen Frears)
17 Vincent & Theo (Robert Altman)
18 Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking (Les Blank)
1989
1 O Sangue (Pedro Costa)
2 The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3 Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
4 The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
5 Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Yong-Kyun Bae)
6 Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch)
7 Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
8 Black Rain (Shohei Imamura)
9 The Firm (Alan Clarke)
12 A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
13 Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)
14 The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
15 The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
16 Sweetie (Jane Campion)
17 Herdsmen of the Sun (Werner Herzog)
18 Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)
19 Roger & Me (Michael Moore)
1988
1 Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)
2 The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)
3 Die Hard (John McTiernan)
4 My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
5 Powaqqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
8 The Naked Gun (David Zucker)
9 Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
10 Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica)
11 They Live (John Carpenter)
12 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)
13 Story of Women (Claude Chabrol)
14 Damnation (Béla Tarr)
15 A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
16 Coming to America (John Landis)
17 The Vanishing (George Sluizer)
18 High Hopes (Mike Leigh)
19 Alice (Jan Svankmajer)
20 Ghosts...of the Civil Dead (John Hillcoat)
21 Beetlejuice (Tim Burton)
22 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam)
23 Heathers (Michael Lehmann)
24 Days of Eclipse (Aleksandr Sokurov)
25 Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
26 Ashik Kerib (Sergei Parajanov)
1987
1 Raising Arizona (Joel Coen)
2 Where is my Friend's House? (Abbas Kiarostami)
3 Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)
4 The Man Who Planted Trees (Frederic Back)
5 Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
6 Radio Days (Woody Allen)
7 Predator (John McTiernan)
8 Matewan (John Sayles)
9 Road (Alan Clarke)
10 House of Games (David Mamet)
11 The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)
12 Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth)
13 Opera (Dario Argento)
14 In a Glass Cage (Augustin Villaronga)
15 The Dead (John Huston)
16 Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)
17 Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)
18 Rouge (Stanley Kwan)
19 Indoctrination (Harun Farocki)
1986
1 Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax)
2 Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
3 Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch)
4 The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer)
5 Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
6 Aliens (James Cameron)
7 Something Wild (Jonathan Demme)
8 The Fly (David Cronenberg)
9 A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
10 The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
11 The Terrorizers (Edward Yang)
12 The Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
13 Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
14 Platoon (Oliver Stone)
15 Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes)
16 Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan)
1985
1 Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
2 Vagabond (Agnes Varda)
3 Come and See (Elim Klimov)
4 Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton)
5 Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
6 Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
7 Lost in America (Albert Brooks)
8 The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
9 Broken Down Film (Osamu Tezuka)
10 A Zed & Two Naughts (Peter Greenaway)
11 A Time to Live, a Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
12 My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Alexei German)
13 Almanac of Fall (Béla Tarr)
14 Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood)
15 Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
16 Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard)
17 Sherman's March (Ross McElwee)
18 Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
1984
1 Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
2 Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
3 Streetwise (Martin Bell)
4 The NeverEnding Story (Wolfgang Petersen)
5 Body Double (Brian De Palma)
6 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (Hayao Miyazaki)
7 Ghost (Takashi Ito)
8 Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
9 Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
10 A Girl's Own Story (Jane Campion)
11 Love Streams (John Casavetes)
12 Streets of Fire (Walter Hill)
13 Amadeus (Milos Forman)
14 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Michael Radford)
15 Gremlins (Joe Dante)
16 Repo Man (Alex Cox)
17 A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
18 This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
19 The Terminator (James Cameron)
20 Voyage to Cythera (Theo Angelopoulos)
21 Jumping (Osamu Tezuka)
22 Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
1983
1 Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2 L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
3 El Sur (Victor Erice)
4 Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
5 Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
6 Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
7 A Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat)
8 Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
9 Zelig (Woody Allen)
10 Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
11 A Christmas Story (Bob Clark)
12 Christine (John Carpenter)
13 Angst (Gerald Kargl)
14 Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
15 Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
16 That Day, On the Beach (Edward Yang)
17 Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)
18 First Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard)
19 Passionless Moments (Jane Campion)
1982
1 Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
2 Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
3 Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
4 The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
5 The Thing (John Carpenter)
6 Koyaanisqatsi Godfrey Reggio)
7 White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
8 Thunder (Takashi Ito)
9 Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)
10 Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
11 The Atomic Cafe (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty & Pierce Rafferty)
12 The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
13 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
14 The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway)
15 Veronicka Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
16 48 Hours (Walter Hill)
17 The Verdict (Sydney Lumet)
18 Passion (Jean-Luc Godard)
19 Pink Floyd: The Wall (Alan Parker)
1981
1 The Road Warrior (George Miller)
2 Southern Comfort (Walter Hill)
3 The Aviator's Wife (Eric Rohmer)
4 America is Waiting (Bruce Conner)
5 Modern Romance (Albert Brooks)
6 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
7 Excalibur (John Boorman)
8 Spacy (Takashi Ito)
9 Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
10 Scanners (David Cronenberg)
11 Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)
12 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 Popeye (Robert Altman)
8 Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
9 Caddyshack (Harold Ramis)
10 Cruising (William Friedkin)
11 The Falls (Peter Greenaway)
12 Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
13 The Fog (John Carpenter)
14 The Blues Brothers (John Landis)
15 Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers (Les Blank)
16 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 All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
5 Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
6 Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
7 The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
8 Alien (Ridley Scott)
9 The Third Generation (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
10 Real Life (Albert Brooks)
11 The Jerk (Carl Reiner)
12 Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
13 Woyzeck (Werner Herzog)
1978
1 Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
2 Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
3 Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
4 In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5 A Wedding (Robert Altman)
6 Fingers (James Toback)
7 The Driver (Walter Hill)
8 Always for Pleasure (Les Blank)
9 Blue Collar (Paul Schrader)
10 The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Phillip Kaufman)
11 The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
12 Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
13 Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
14 The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese)
15 Halloween (John Carpenter)
16 Comment ca va? (Jean-Luc Godard)
17 Vertical Features Remake (Peter Greenaway)
1977
1 Eraserhead (David Lynch)
2 Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
3 A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker)
4 Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
5 That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel)
6 Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
7 The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko)
8 Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
9 Star Wars (George Lucas)
10 Providence (Alain Resnais)
11 The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson)
1976
1 Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
2 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
3 Ici et Ailleurs (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Anne-Marie Mieville & Groupe Dziga Vertov)
4 Network (Sydney Lumet)
5 Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
6 The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer)
7 The Shootist (Don Siegel)
8 Buffalo Bill and the Indians Or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (Robert Altman)
9 Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
10 Cria Cuervos (Carlos Saura)
11 Duelle (Une Quarantine) (Jacques Rivette)
12 Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey)
13 Small Change (Francois Truffaut)
14 The Little Mermaid (Karel Kachyna)
15 The Tenant (Roman Polanski)
16 Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
17 God Told Me To (Larry Cohen)
18 All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula)
1975
1 Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2 Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
3 Deep Red (Dario Argento)
4 Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
5 Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
6 Jeanne Dielman, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
7 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones)
8 The Story of Adele H. (Francois Truffaut)
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 The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston)
18 Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1974
1 Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins)
2 The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
3 Parade (Jacques Tati)
7 Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
8 California Split (Robert Altman)
9 The Man Who Sleeps (Bernard Queysanne)
10 The Mouth Agape (Maurice Pialat)
11 Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
12 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
13 Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis)
14 Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks)
15 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
16 Mes Petites Amoureuses (Jean Eustache)
19 Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
20 Swept Away (Lina Wertmueller)
21 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbiner)
22 Lenny (Bob Fosse)
23 Sweet Movie (Dusan Makavejev)
1973
1 Badlands (Terrence Malick)
2 The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
3 World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4 The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
5 F for Fake (Orson Welles)
6 Fantastic Planet (Rene Laloux)
7 O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson)
8 The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
9 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah)
10 The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates)
11 The Age of the Medici (Roberto Rossellini)
12 Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
13 Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambety)
14 Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
15 Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
16 The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)
17 Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
18 Day for Night (Francois Truffaut)
19 Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
20 Coffy (Jack Hill)
21 Juvenile Court (Frederick Wiseman)
22 Electra Glide in Blue (James William Guercio)
23 Breezy (Clint Eastwood)
1972
1 The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
2 Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
3 Cousin Jules (Dominique Benicheti)
4 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5 Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
6 Bad Company (Robert Benton)
7 Nathalie Granger (Marguerite Duras)
8 The Boxer from Shantung (Chang Cheh & Hsueh Li Pao)
9 Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger)
10 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
11 Tout va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin & Groupe Dziga Vertov)
12 Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
13 The Devil (Andrzej Zulawski)
14 Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill)
15 We Won't Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat)
16 Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer)
17 Fat City (John Huston)
18 Deliverance (John Boorman)
19 Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville)
20 Snoopy, Come Home (Bill Melendez)
1971
1 McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
2 The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima)
3 The Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog)
4 A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
5 WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev)
6 Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
7 Trafic (Jacques Tati)
8 Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
9 The Devils (Ken Russell)
10 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
11 Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes)
12 A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
13 Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg)
14 The Beguiled (Don Siegel)
15 Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
16 Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski)
17 Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff)
18 The Tragedy of Macbeth (Roman Polanski)
19 Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)
20 Trial on the Road (Alexei German)
21 The French Connection (William Friedkin)
22 Rabbit's Moon (Kenneth Anger)
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 El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
11 Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma)
12 The Spider's Strategem (Bernardo Bertolucci)
13 The Wild Child (Francois Truffaut)14 Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)
15 Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh)
16 The Grandmother (David Lynch)
17 Dodesukaden (Akira Kurosawa)
18 Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Mayles & Charlotte Zwerin)
1969
1 Une Femme Douce (Robert Bresson)
2 Play Dirty (Andre De Toth)
3 The Cow (Dariush Mehrjui)
4 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
5 Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
6 The Cremator (Juraj Herz)
7 Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda)
8 Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
9 Boy (Nagisa Oshima)
10 Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
11 Kes (Ken Loach)
12 The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
13 Le Grand Amour (Pierre Etaix)
14 The Joke (Jaromil Jires)
15 My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
16 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack)
17 Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto)
18 The Milky Way (Luis Bunuel)
19 Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger)
1968
1 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
2 Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
3 The Hour of the Furnaces (Octavio Getino & Fernando E. Solanas)
4 Death By Hanging (Nagisa Oshima)
5 The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
6 Je t'aime, je t'aime (Alain Resnais)
7 Profound Desires of the Gods (Shohei Imamura)
8 Les Biches (Claude Chabrol)
9 The Swimmer (Frank Perry)
10 High School (Frederick Wiseman)
11 Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin)
12 Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
13 Sympathy for the Devil (Jean-Luc Godard)
14 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (Bill Greaves)
15 The Producers (Mel Brooks)
16 The Blues According to Lightnin' Hopkins (Les Blank)
17 Yellow Submarine (George Dunning)
18 Secret Ceremony (Joseph Losey)
19 Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman)
20 Pas de Deux (Norman McLaren)
21 L'Enfance Nue (Maurice Pialat)
22 Shame (Ingmar Bergman)
23 Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
24 If.... (Lindsay Anderson)
1967
1 Playtime (Jacques Tati)
2 Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
3 Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi)
4 Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
5 Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)
6 Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville)
7 The Red and the White (Miklós Janscó )
8 Week End (Jean-Luc Godard)
9 Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil)
10 Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
11 Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
12 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
13 The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
14 Love Affair or Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev)
15 Eye Myth (Stan Brakhage)
16 The Shooting (Monte Hellman)
17 Point Blank (John Boorman)
18 Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)
19 Peppermint Frappe (Carlos Saura)
20 The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
21 Don't Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker)
22 The Crush (Ermanno Olmi)
23 La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
24 Accident (Joseph Losey)
1966
1 Au hasard, Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
2 Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
3 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
4 Trans-Europ-Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
5 Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
6 Breakaway (Bruce Conner)
7 Violence at High Noon (Nagisa Oshima)
8 Death Rides a Horse (Sergio Corbucci)
9 La Caza (Carlos Saura)
10 Masculin-Feminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
11 Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
12 La Religieuse (Jacques Rivette)
13 Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Vaclav Vorlicek)
14 Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis)
15 Kill Baby...Kill! (Mario Bava)
16 Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel)
17 Le Deuxieme Souffle (Jean-Pierre Melville)
18 How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Chuck Jones)
19 Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
20 Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene)
21 Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto)
22 The Rise of Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
1965
1 The Shop on Main Street (Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos)
2 Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
3 The Round-Up (Miklós Janscó)
4 Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
5 Yoyo (Pierre Etaix)
6 Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
7 A Thousand Clowns (Fred Coe)
8 In Harm's Way (Otto Preminger)
9 Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
10 The Hand (Jiri Trnka)
11 Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger)
12 Dr. Zhivago (David Lean)
13 Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellochio)
14 A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez)
15 Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Paradjanov)
16 For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
17 The War Game (Peter Watkins)
18 Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
19 Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
20 Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman)
21 Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
22 Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda)
1964
1 Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
2 Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
3 Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
4 Yearning (Mikio Naruse)
5 Zulu (Cy Endfield)
6 Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
7 Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
8 Cheyenne Autumn (John Ford)
9 Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer)
10 Hamlet (Gregori Kosintsev)
11 Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
12 Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
13 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
14 A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
15 The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
16 The Patsy (Jerry Lewis)
17 Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo)
18 I Am Cuba (Mikheil Kalatozov)
19 The Soft Skin (Francois Truffaut)
20 Man's Favorite Sport (Howard Hawks)
21 Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha)
22 Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda)
23 Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava)
24 The Killers (Don Siegel)
25 A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
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 Hud (Martin Ritt)
7 High & Low (Akira Kurosawa)
8 The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)
9 The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura)
10 The House is Black (Farough Farrokhzad)
11 This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson)
12 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer)
13 The Girl at the Monceau Bakery (Eric Rohmer)
14 The Haunting (Robert Wise)
15 21-87 (Arthur Lipsett)
16 Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
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 Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
6 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (John Ford)
7 The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
8 Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut)
9 Hatari! (Howard Hawks)
10 Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
11 Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
12 Advise and Consent (Otto Preminger)
13 Her Lonely Lane (Mikio Naruse)
14 The Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
15 An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu)
16 The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
17 Cosmic Ray (Bruce Conner)
18 The Given Word (Anselmo Duarte)
19 Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
20 To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
21 Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)
22 Hell is for Heroes (Don Siegel)
23 Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah)
24 Two Weeks in Another Town (Vincente Minnelli)
25 The Suitor (Pierre Etaix)
26 Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
1961
1 Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
2 The Ladies Man (Jerry Lewis)
3 Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
4 Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
5 A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
6 Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller)
7 La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
8 Leon Morin, Priest (Jean-Pierre Melville)
9 Pigs & Battleships (Shohei Imamura)
10 Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
11 The Misfits (John Huston)
12 The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
13 The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
14 Paris Nous Appartient (Jacques Rivette)
15 One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando)
16 One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
1960
1 The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak)
2 Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut)
3 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
4 L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5 Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
6 The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo)
7 Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
8 Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
9 The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa)
10 Devi (Satyajit Ray)
11 Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima)
12 The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
13 La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
14 The Housemaid (Ki-young Kim)
15 The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
16 The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
17 Night and Fog in Japan (Nagisa Oshima)
18 The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis)
19 The Savage Innocents (Nicholas Ray)
20 Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
21 Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
22 L'Amour Existe (Maurice Pialat)
23 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 Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
8 Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)
9 Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
10 Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
11 Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
12 Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise)
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 Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu)
18 Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)
19 The Hanging Tree (Delmer Daves)
20 A Bucket of Blood (Roger Corman)
21 Shadows (John Cassavetes)
22 Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage)
1958
1 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
2 Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
3 The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
4 Party Girl (Nicholas Ray)
5 The Pathetic Fallacy (Ritwik Ghatak)
6 The Music Room (Satyajit Ray)
7 Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
8 Giants & Toys (Yasuzo Masumura)
9 Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
10 Rosaura a las Diez (Mario Soffici)
11 Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine)
12 Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
13 A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk)
14 Une Vie (Alexandre Astruc)
15 Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu)
16 Endless Desire (Shohei Imamura)
17 Wind Across the Everglades (Nicholas Ray)
18 Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher)
19 Ivan the Terrible, Part II (Sergei Eisenstein)
20 Summer Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
21 A Movie (Bruce Conner)
1957
1 Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray)
2 Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
3 Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
4 The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
5 Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
6 The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
7 The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
8 The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
9 Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
10 Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
11 The Tall T (Budd Boetticher)
12 Men in War (Anthony Mann)
13 Le Notti Bianche (Luchino Visconti)
14 Nine Lives (Arne Skouen)
15 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
16 A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan)
17 Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)
18 Kanal (Andrzej Wajda)
19 Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
20 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
21 Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu)
22 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves)
23 Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder)
1956
1 The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
2 A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
3 Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
4 Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
9 There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk)
10 Baby Doll (Elia Kazan)
11 Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli)
12 Seven Men from Now (Budd Boetticher)
13 The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
14 Attack! (Robert Aldrich)
15 Hot Blood (Nicholas Ray)
16 Jubal (Delmer Daves)
17 Sudden Rain (Mikio Naruse)
18 Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
19 Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island (Hiroshi Inagaki)
1955
1 Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
2 All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
3 Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)
4 Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
5 Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
6 Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
7 Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
8 The Man from Laramie (Anthony Mann)
9 French Cancan (Jean Renoir)
10 Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
11 Rififi (Jules Dassin)
12 Lola Montes (Max Ophuls)
13 The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich)
14 To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
15 The Indian Fighter (Andre De Toth)
16 Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
17 Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem)
18 Taira Clan Saga (Kenji Mizoguchi)
19 Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin)
20 The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson)
21 Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi)
22 East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
23 House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller)
1954
1 Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
2 Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
3 Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
4 An Inn at Osaka (Heinosuke Gosho)
5 Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
6 Twenty Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita)
7 On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
8 A Star is Born (George Cukor)
9 Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse)
10 Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
11 Sabrina (Billy Wilder)
12 Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse)
13 The Far Country (Anthony Mann)
14 The Crucified Lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi)
15 Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
16 Salt of the Earth (Herbert J. Biberman)
17 The Way to the Shadow Garden (Stan Brakhage)
18 Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (Hiroshi Inagaki)
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 99 River Street (Phil Karlson)
16 Peter Pan (Geronomi, Luske & Jackson)
1952
1 The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
2 El: This Strange Passion (Luis Buñuel)
3 Lightning (Mikio Naruse)
4 Forbidden Games (Réné Clement)
5 My Son John (Leo McCarey)
6 Casque d'or (Jacques Becker)
7 Feed the Kitty (Chuck Jones)
8 The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
9 Mother (Mikio Naruse)
10 Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini)
11 Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica)
12 Park Row (Samuel Fuller)
13 Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
14 The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer)
15 Water, Water Every Hare (Chuck Jones)
16 Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson)
17 Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Yasujiro Ozu)
18 Rabbit Seasoning (Chuck Jones)
19 The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
1951
1 On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)
2 Miss Julie (Alf Sjöberg)
3 Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 The Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
5 A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
6 Alice in Wonderland (Geronomi, Luske & Jackson)
7 Repast (Mikio Naruse)
8 Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
9 The Prowler (Joseph Losey)
10 Dispersed Clouds (Heinosuke Gosho)
11 The 13th Letter (Otto Preminger)
12 M (Joseph Losey)
13 The Thing From Another World (Howard Hawks & Christian Nyby)
14 The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
15 The Tall Target (Anthony Mann)
1950
1 In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
2 Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
3 Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini)
4 All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
5 Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
6 Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
7 Born to be Bad (Nicholas Ray)
8 Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
9 Un Chant d'amour (Jean Genet)
10 Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)
11 The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)
12 The Sound of Fury (Cy Endfield)
13 Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann)
14 Wagon Master (John Ford)
15 Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan)
16 Night and the City (Jules Dassin)
17 D.O.A. (Rudolph Mate)
18 Rabbit of Seville (Chuck Jones)
19 Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock)
20 The Gunfighter (Henry King)
21 The Furies (Anthony Mann)
1949
1 The Third Man (Carol Reed)
2 The Heiress (William Wyler)
3 Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
4 The Reckless Moment (Max Ophuls)
5 Mr. Shosuke Ohara (Hiroshi Shimizu)
6 Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
7 I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller)
8 Le Silence de la Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville)
9 I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks)
10 White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
11 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)
12 The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
13 The Big Steal (Don Siegel)
14 Colorado Territory (Raoul Walsh)
15 Caught (Max Ophuls)
16 Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak)
17 Jour de Fete (Jacques Tati)
18 Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger)
19 Begone Dull Care (Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambert)
1948
1 Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
2 Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
3 La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti)
4 Red River (Howard Hawks)
5 Moonrise (Frank Borzage)
6 Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)
7 Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann)
8 Fort Apache (John Ford)
9 Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
10 The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed)
11 Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
12 Yellow Sky (William Wellman)
13 Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
14 Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges)
15 Children of the Beehive (Hiroshi Shimizu)
16 They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray)
17 The Big Clock (John Farrow)
18 Good Sam (Leo McCarey)
19 Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
20 Oliver Twist (David Lean)
21 He Walked By Night (Alfred Werker & Anthony Mann)
1947
1 Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu)
2 Quai des Orfevres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
3 Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger)
4 Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
5 Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
6 The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
7 Desert Fury (Lewis Allen)
8 Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
9 Pursued (Raoul Walsh)
10 Brighton Rock (John Boulting)
11 Body and Soul (Robert Rossen)
12 House of Cards (Joseph Vogel)
13 Brute Force (Jacques Tourneur)
14 Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding)
1946
1 It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
2 The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
3 Shoe-Shine (Vittorio De Sica)
4 Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur)
5 Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
6 Under the Bridges (Helmut Kautner)
7 Gilda (Charles Vidor)
8 La Belle et la Bête (Jean Cocteau)
9 Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
10 The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
11 Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch)
12 Utamaro and His Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi)
13 The Stranger (Orson Welles)
14 My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
15 The Killers (Robert Siodmak)
16 Great Expectations (David Lean)
1945
1 Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Sergei Eisenstein)
2 Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné)
3 The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
4 Detour (Edward G. Ulmer)
5 Crepusculo (Julio Bracho)
6 Rome: Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
7 Les Dames du Bois de Bologne (Robert Bresson)
8 The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin)
9 A Study in Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren)
10 Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
11 Brief Encounter (David Lean)
1944
1 Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
2 At Land (Maya Deren)
3 Curse of the Cat People (Robert Wise)
4 None Shall Escape (Andre De Toth)
5 Miracle at Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)
6 Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
7 Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)
8 Laura (Otto Preminger)
9 The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)
10 Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
11 Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang)
14 Le ciel est a vous (Jean Gremillon)
15 Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk)
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 Romance in a Minor Key (Helmut Kautner)
8 The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
9 Air Force (Howard Hawks)
10 Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
11 Journey Into Fear (Norman Foster & Orson Welles)
12 Les Anges du Peche (Robert Bresson)
13 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 Les Visiteurs du Soir (Marcel Carné)
6 Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
7 Gentleman Jim (Raoul Walsh)
8 Bambi (David Hand)
9 I Married a Witch (Rene Clair)
10 Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
1941
1 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2 Hellzapoppin' (W.C. Potter)
3 The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4 Wabbit Twouble (Robert Clampett)
5 The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
6 That Uncertain Feeling (Ernst Lubitsch)
7 Remorques (Jean Gremillon)
8 The Little Foxes (William Wyler)
9 The Devil & Daniel Webster (William Dieterle)
10 Ornamental Hairpin (Hiroshi Shimizu)
11 Strawberry Blonde (Raoul Walsh)
12 The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
13 Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
14 Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
1940
1 The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
2 The Long Voyage Home (John Ford)
3 Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 Fantasia (Disney, various)
5 The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
6 Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
7 The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
8 Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen)
9 The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage)
10 The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline)
11 Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
12 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 Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
5 Wuthering Heights (William Wyler)
6 Midnight (Mitchell Leisen)
7 The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)
8 Destry Rides Again (George Marshall)
9 Stagecoach (John Ford)
10 The Women (George Cukor)
11 Le Jour se Leve (Marcel Carne)
12 Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming)
13 Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
14 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle)
1938
1 Holiday (George Cukor)
2 Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz)
3 The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 The Masseurs and a Woman (Hiroshi Shimizu)
5 Stolen Death (Nyrki Tapiovaara)
6 Port of Shadows (Marcel Carné)
9 You and Me (Fritz Lang)
10 L'etrange Monsieur Victor (Jean Gremillon)
11 La Bete Humaine (Jean Renoir)
12 Porky in Wackyland (Robert Clampett)
1937
1 Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
2 You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
3 History is Made at Night (Frank Borzage)
4 Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka)
5 Stage Door (Gregory La Cava)
6 The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
7 Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen)
8 Lady Killer (Jean Gremillion)
9 Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (Disney, various)
10 The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
11 Angel (Ernst Lubitsch)
12 Pepe le Moko (Julien Duvivier)
13 Stella Dallas (King Vidor)
14 What Did the Lady Forget? (Yasujiro Ozu)
15 Mannequin (Frank Borzage)
1936
1 Fury (Fritz Lang)
2 Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
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 The Story of a Cheat (Sasha Guitry)
10 Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu)
11 After the Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke)
12 Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1935
1 Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
2 Toni (Jean Renoir)
3 Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
4 Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Sadao Yamanaka)
5 Burden of Life (Heinesuke Gosho)
6 The Devil is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg)
7 Wife, Be Like a Rose! (Mikio Naruse)
8 The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
9 The Girl in the Rumor (Mikio Naruse)
10 Carnival in Flanders (Jacques Feyder)
11 Peter Ibbetson (Henry Hathaway)
1934
1 L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
2 The Scarlett Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
3 Rapt (Dmitri Kirsanoff)
4 The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
5 La Signora di Tutti (Max Ophuls)
6 It's a Gift (Norman McLeod)
7 The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch)
8 It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
9 Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)
10 The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
11 Our Daily Bread (King Vidor)
1933
1 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
2 Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
3 Japanese Girls at the Harbor (Hiroshi Shimizu)
4 Counsellor at Law (William Wyler)
5 Heroes for Sale (William Wellman)
6 Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)
7 Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
8 Lady for a Day (Frank Capra)
9 The Invisible Man (James Whale)
10 Outskirts (Boris Barnet)
11 Wild Boys of the Road (William Wellman)
12 The Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy)
13 Man's Castle (Frank Borzage)
14 Every-Night Dreams (Mikio Naruse)
15 The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Frank Capra)
16 Passing Fancy (Yasujiro Ozu)
17 Liebelei (Max Ophuls)
1932
1 Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
2 Freaks (Tod Browning)
3 Poil de Carotte (Julien Duvivier)
4 Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
5 One Way Passage (Tay Garnett)
6 Scarface (Howard Hawks)
7 Tiger Shark (Howard Hawks)
8 Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)
9 The Crowd Roars (Howard Hawks)
10 Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
11 A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage)
12 I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu)
13 Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)
14 Blood of the Poet (Jean Cocteau)
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 Street Scene (King Vidor)
6 Le Million (Rene Clair)
7 Madchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan & Carl Froelich)
8 Tabu: A Tale of the South Seas (F.W. Murnau)
9 The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)
10 Frankenstein (James Whale)
1930
1 Earth (Alexander Dovzhenko)
2 L'Âge D'or (Luis Buñuel)
3 The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)
4 A Propos de Nice (Jean Vigo)
5 City Girl (F. W. Murnau)
6 People on Sunday (Curt & Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Fred Zinneman)
7 Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
8 La Petite Lise (Jean Gremillon)
9 Salt for Svanetia (Mikhail Kalazatov)
10 Westfront 1918 (G.W. Pabst)
11 All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
1929
1 Pandora's Box (G. W. Pabst)
2 Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
3 Finis Terrae (Jean Epstein)
4 Diary of a Lost Girl (G. W. Pabst)
5 Thunderbolt (Josef von Sternberg)
6 Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel)
7 H2O (Ralph Steiner)
8 Applause (Rouben Mamoulian)
9 Regen (Joris Ivens)
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 L'Argent (Marcel L'Herbier)
5 The Wind (Victor Sjostrom)
6 The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
7 Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
8 The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
9 The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein & Luis Buñuel)
10 Speedy (Ted Wilde)
11 L'Étoile de mer (Man Ray)
12 The Seashell & the Clergyman (Germain Dulac)
13 The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton)
1927
1 Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
2 Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
3 7th Heaven (Frank Borzage)
4 La glace a trois faces (Jean Epstein)
5 The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)
6 The General (Buster Keaton)
7 The Girl With the Hatbox (Boris Barnet)
8 October (Sergei Eisenstein)
9 College (James W. Horne)
10 The Student Prince at Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch)
1926
1 A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
2 By the Law (Lev Kuleshov)
3 Menilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
4 Emak-Bakia (Man Ray)
5 The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Karl Koch & Lotte Reiniger)
6 Anémic cinéma (Marcel Duchamp)
7 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 The Marriage Circle (Ernst Lubitsch)
9 Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (Fritz Lang)
10 The Navigator (Donald Crisp & Buster Keaton)
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 Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim)
2 Cops (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
3 Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty)
4 Pay Day (Charles Chaplin)
5 Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
6 The Electric House (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
7 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Fritz Lang)
8 The Frozen North (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
9 The Blacksmith (Buster Keaton & Malcolm St. Clair)
10 Daydreams (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 Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine)
5 The Scarecrow (Buster Keaton)
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 A Man There Was (Victor Sjostrom, 1917)
7 Daydreams (Yevgeni Bauer, 1915)
8 Intolerance (D. W. Griffith, 1916)
9 The Trust, or The Battle of Money (Louis Feuillade, 1911)
10 For Happiness (Yevgeni Bauer, 1917)
11 The Golden Beetle (Segundo de Chamón, 1907)
12 A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, 1914)
13 Enoch Arden (D.W. Griffith, 1911)
14 Broken Blossoms (D. W. Griffith, 1919)
The Great Train Robbery (Siegmund Lubin, 1904)
The Impossible Voyage (Georges Méliès, 1904)
1 Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2 Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
3 Decasia (Bill Morrison)
4 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
5 Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney)
6 Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
7 Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
8 Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
9 Dream Work (Peter Tscherkassky)
10 Oasis (Lee Chang-dong)
11 All or Nothing (Mike Leigh)
12 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Chan-wook Park)
13 On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo)
14 Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski)
15 Secret Things (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
16 Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
17 Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)
18 Read My Lips (Jacques Audiard)
19 Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
20 Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
21 Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
22 Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson)
23 Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
24 Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)
25 Happy Here and Now (Michael Almereyda)
26 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
2001
1 Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
2 Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
3 In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
4 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
5 Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
6 The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
7 Dream Work (Peter Tscherkassky)
8 What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-Liang)
9 The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
10 La Cienega (Lucretia Martel)
11 Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain)
12 Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
13 The Pledge (Sean Penn)
14 Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
15 Memento (Christopher Nolan)
16 Storytelling (Todd Solondz)
17 Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk)
18 Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
19 Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
20 Monster's Inc. (Peter Doctor, David Silverman & Lee Unkrich)
21 Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
2000
1 Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)
2 Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
3 As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas)
4 Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
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 The Yards (James Gray)
10 Platform (Jia Zhang-ke)
11 The Gleaners & I (Agnes Varda)
12 The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)
13 Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo)
14 High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
15 Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
16 Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin)
17 Vertical Ray of the Sun (Anh Hung Tran)
18 Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
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 Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
27 George Washington (David Gordon Green)
28 Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
29 The Mission (Johnnie To)
30 American Psycho (Mary Harron)
31 The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)
32 Rejected (Don Hertzfeldt)
1999
1 Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
2 Rosetta (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
3 Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
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 Election (Alexander Payne)
11 Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)
12 Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese)
13 Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen)
14 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
15 The Matrix (Lana & Andy Wachowski)
16 South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker and Matt Stone)
17 Toy Story 2 (Ash Brannon, John Lasseter & Lee Unkrich)
18 Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)
19 Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
20 Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong)
21 Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay)
22 The Limey (Steven Soderbergh)
23 Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (Errol Morris)
20 Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong)
21 Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay)
22 The Limey (Steven Soderbergh)
23 Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (Errol Morris)
24 American Movie (Chris Smith)
25 The Virgin Suicides (Sophia Coppola)
26 American Beauty (Sam Mendes)27 eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
1 Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
2 Histoire(s) du Cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard)
3 The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
4 The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen)
5 Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
6 The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf)
7 Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica)
8 He Got Game (Spike Lee)
9 Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
10 Pi (Darren Aronofsky)
11 The Silence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
12 The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
13 The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
14 Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller)
15 An Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer)
16 Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)
17 Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (Patrice Chereau)
18 Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma)
19 Rounders (John Dahl)
20 American History X (Tony Kaye)
1997
1 The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
2 Ossos (Pedro Costa)
3 Lost Highway (David Lynch)
4 Mother & Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
5 Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
6 L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
7 Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
8 Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9 Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
10 The Mirror (Jafar Panahi)
11 In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
12 Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar)
13 The Game (David Fincher)
14 The Castle (Michael Haneke)
15 Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
16 The Life of Jesus (Bruno Dumont)
17 The River (Tsai Ming-Liang)
18 Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)
1996
1 A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
2 Fargo (Joel Coen)
3 La Promesse (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
4 Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh)
5 My Sex Life...Or How I Got Into an Argument (Arnaud Desplechin)
6 Waiting for Guffman (Christopher Guest)
7 Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thorton)
8 Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
9 Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
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 A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer)
15 Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)
16 The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well (Hong Sang-soo)
17 Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
18 Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
1995
1 Underground (Emir Kusturica)
2 Heat (Michael Mann)
3 Safe (Todd Haynes)
4 Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
5 Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo)
6 Clockers (Spike Lee)
7 Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
8 Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai)
9 Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
10 Seven (David Fincher)
11 Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
12 The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi)
13 Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
14 Toy Story (John Lasseter)
15 Casino (Martin Scosese)
16 Cyclo (Anh Hung Tran)
17 Nixon (Oliver Stone)
18 Babe (Chris Noonan)
19 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
20 Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
21 Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins)
22 The Celluloid Closet (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman)
23 Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (Nick Park)
24 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 Satantango (Bela Tarr)
5 Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
6 Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
7 Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
8 Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
9 Fresh (Boaz Yakin)
10 Wild Reeds (André Téchiné)
11 Joan the Maid: The Prisons (Jacques Rivette)
12 Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
13 Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
14 Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone)
15 To Live (Yimou Zhang)
16 Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
17 Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
18 Amateur (Hal Hartley)
19 Joan the Maid: The Battles (Jacques Rivette)
20 Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
21 Immortal Beloved (Bernard Rose)
22 Reality Bites (Ben Stiller)
23 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 Red Rock West (John Dahl)
18 Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara)
19 Abraham's Valley (Manoel de Oliveira)
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 Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
4 The Quince Tree Sun (Victor Erice)
5 The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
6 Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
7 Baraka (Ron Fricke)
8 Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins)
9 Crimson Pig (Hayao Miyazaki)
10 Benny's Video (Michael Haneke)
11 Braindead (Peter Jackson)
12 Damage (Louis Malle)
13 The Long Day Closes (Terrence Davies)
14 Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
15 The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
16 The Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson)
17 Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
18 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
1991
1 The Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax)
2 Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang)
3 Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley)
4 Barton Fink (Joel Coen)
5 A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
6 Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
7 Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata)
8 Theory of Achievement (Hal Hartley)
9 JFK (Oliver Stone)
10 Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch)
11 Rush (Lili Fini Zanuck)
12 Flirting (John Duigan)
13 Hot Shots! (Jim Abrahams)
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 Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen)
19 Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (Jean-Luc Godard)
20 Slacker (Richard Linklater)
21 Terminator 2: Judgement Day (James Cameron)
1990
1 Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
2 Trust (Hal Hartley)
3 Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard)
4 Twin Peaks: Pilot (David Lynch)
5 Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston)
6 Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
7 Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)8 Miami Blues (George Armitage)
9 Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai)
10 White Hunter Black Heart (Clint Eastwood)
11 Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh)
12 To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett)
13 Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
14 The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismaki)
15 The Second Circle (Aleksandr Sokurov)
16 The Grifters (Stephen Frears)
17 Vincent & Theo (Robert Altman)
18 Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking (Les Blank)
19 Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen)
1989
1 O Sangue (Pedro Costa)
2 The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3 Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
4 The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
5 Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Yong-Kyun Bae)
6 Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch)
7 Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
8 Black Rain (Shohei Imamura)
9 The Firm (Alan Clarke)
10 Say Anything... (Cameron Crowe)
11 Elephant (Alan Clarke)12 A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
13 Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)
14 The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
15 The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
16 Sweetie (Jane Campion)
17 Herdsmen of the Sun (Werner Herzog)
18 Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)
19 Roger & Me (Michael Moore)
1988
1 Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)
2 The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)
3 Die Hard (John McTiernan)
4 My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
5 Powaqqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
6 The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
7 On the Silver Globe (Andrzej Zulawski)8 The Naked Gun (David Zucker)
9 Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
10 Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica)
11 They Live (John Carpenter)
12 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)
13 Story of Women (Claude Chabrol)
14 Damnation (Béla Tarr)
15 A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
16 Coming to America (John Landis)
17 The Vanishing (George Sluizer)
18 High Hopes (Mike Leigh)
19 Alice (Jan Svankmajer)
20 Ghosts...of the Civil Dead (John Hillcoat)
21 Beetlejuice (Tim Burton)
22 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam)
23 Heathers (Michael Lehmann)
24 Days of Eclipse (Aleksandr Sokurov)
25 Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
26 Ashik Kerib (Sergei Parajanov)
1987
1 Raising Arizona (Joel Coen)
2 Where is my Friend's House? (Abbas Kiarostami)
3 Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle)
4 The Man Who Planted Trees (Frederic Back)
5 Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
6 Radio Days (Woody Allen)
7 Predator (John McTiernan)
8 Matewan (John Sayles)
9 Road (Alan Clarke)
10 House of Games (David Mamet)
11 The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)
12 Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth)
13 Opera (Dario Argento)
14 In a Glass Cage (Augustin Villaronga)
15 The Dead (John Huston)
16 Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)
17 Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)
18 Rouge (Stanley Kwan)
19 Indoctrination (Harun Farocki)
1986
1 Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax)
2 Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
3 Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch)
4 The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer)
5 Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
6 Aliens (James Cameron)
7 Something Wild (Jonathan Demme)
8 The Fly (David Cronenberg)
9 A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
10 The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
11 The Terrorizers (Edward Yang)
12 The Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
13 Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
14 Platoon (Oliver Stone)
15 Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes)
16 Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan)
1985
1 Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
2 Vagabond (Agnes Varda)
3 Come and See (Elim Klimov)
4 Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton)
5 Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
6 Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
7 Lost in America (Albert Brooks)
8 The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
9 Broken Down Film (Osamu Tezuka)
10 A Zed & Two Naughts (Peter Greenaway)
11 A Time to Live, a Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
12 My Friend Ivan Lapshin (Alexei German)
13 Almanac of Fall (Béla Tarr)
14 Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood)
15 Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
16 Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard)
17 Sherman's March (Ross McElwee)
18 Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
1984
1 Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
2 Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
3 Streetwise (Martin Bell)
4 The NeverEnding Story (Wolfgang Petersen)
5 Body Double (Brian De Palma)
6 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (Hayao Miyazaki)
7 Ghost (Takashi Ito)
8 Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
9 Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
10 A Girl's Own Story (Jane Campion)
11 Love Streams (John Casavetes)
12 Streets of Fire (Walter Hill)
13 Amadeus (Milos Forman)
14 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Michael Radford)
15 Gremlins (Joe Dante)
16 Repo Man (Alex Cox)
17 A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
18 This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
19 The Terminator (James Cameron)
20 Voyage to Cythera (Theo Angelopoulos)
21 Jumping (Osamu Tezuka)
22 Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
1983
1 Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2 L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
3 El Sur (Victor Erice)
4 Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
5 Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
6 Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
7 A Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat)
8 Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
9 Zelig (Woody Allen)
10 Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
11 A Christmas Story (Bob Clark)
12 Christine (John Carpenter)
13 Angst (Gerald Kargl)
14 Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
15 Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
16 That Day, On the Beach (Edward Yang)
17 Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)
18 First Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard)
19 Passionless Moments (Jane Campion)
1982
1 Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
2 Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
3 Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
4 The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
5 The Thing (John Carpenter)
6 Koyaanisqatsi Godfrey Reggio)
7 White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
8 Thunder (Takashi Ito)
9 Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)
10 Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
11 The Atomic Cafe (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty & Pierce Rafferty)
12 The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
13 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
14 The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway)
15 Veronicka Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
16 48 Hours (Walter Hill)
17 The Verdict (Sydney Lumet)
18 Passion (Jean-Luc Godard)
19 Pink Floyd: The Wall (Alan Parker)
1981
1 The Road Warrior (George Miller)
2 Southern Comfort (Walter Hill)
3 The Aviator's Wife (Eric Rohmer)
4 America is Waiting (Bruce Conner)
5 Modern Romance (Albert Brooks)
6 Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
7 Excalibur (John Boorman)
8 Spacy (Takashi Ito)
9 Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
10 Scanners (David Cronenberg)
11 Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)
12 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 Popeye (Robert Altman)
8 Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
9 Caddyshack (Harold Ramis)
10 Cruising (William Friedkin)
11 The Falls (Peter Greenaway)
12 Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
13 The Fog (John Carpenter)
14 The Blues Brothers (John Landis)
15 Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers (Les Blank)
16 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 All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
5 Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
6 Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
7 The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
8 Alien (Ridley Scott)
9 The Third Generation (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
10 Real Life (Albert Brooks)
11 The Jerk (Carl Reiner)
12 Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
13 Woyzeck (Werner Herzog)
14 The Warriors (Walter Hill)
15 Scum (Alan Clarke)
16 The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki)
17 Love on the Run (Francois Truffaut)15 Scum (Alan Clarke)
16 The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki)
1978
1 Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
2 Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
3 Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
4 In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5 A Wedding (Robert Altman)
6 Fingers (James Toback)
7 The Driver (Walter Hill)
8 Always for Pleasure (Les Blank)
9 Blue Collar (Paul Schrader)
10 The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Phillip Kaufman)
11 The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino)
12 Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
13 Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
14 The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese)
15 Halloween (John Carpenter)
16 Comment ca va? (Jean-Luc Godard)
17 Vertical Features Remake (Peter Greenaway)
1977
1 Eraserhead (David Lynch)
2 Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
3 A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker)
4 Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
5 That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel)
6 Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
7 The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko)
8 Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
9 Star Wars (George Lucas)
10 Providence (Alain Resnais)
11 The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson)
1976
1 Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
2 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
3 Ici et Ailleurs (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Anne-Marie Mieville & Groupe Dziga Vertov)
4 Network (Sydney Lumet)
5 Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
6 The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer)
7 The Shootist (Don Siegel)
8 Buffalo Bill and the Indians Or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (Robert Altman)
9 Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
10 Cria Cuervos (Carlos Saura)
11 Duelle (Une Quarantine) (Jacques Rivette)
12 Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey)
13 Small Change (Francois Truffaut)
14 The Little Mermaid (Karel Kachyna)
15 The Tenant (Roman Polanski)
16 Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
17 God Told Me To (Larry Cohen)
18 All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula)
1975
1 Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2 Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
3 Deep Red (Dario Argento)
4 Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
5 Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
6 Jeanne Dielman, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
7 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones)
8 The Story of Adele H. (Francois Truffaut)
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 The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston)
18 Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1974
1 Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins)
2 The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
3 Parade (Jacques Tati)
4 The Godfather, Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
5 Lancelot of the Lake (Robert Bresson)
6 Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)7 Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
8 California Split (Robert Altman)
9 The Man Who Sleeps (Bernard Queysanne)
10 The Mouth Agape (Maurice Pialat)
11 Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
12 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
13 Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis)
14 Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks)
15 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
16 Mes Petites Amoureuses (Jean Eustache)
17 Femmes Femmes (Paul Vecchiali)
18 Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)19 Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
20 Swept Away (Lina Wertmueller)
21 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbiner)
22 Lenny (Bob Fosse)
23 Sweet Movie (Dusan Makavejev)
1973
1 Badlands (Terrence Malick)
2 The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
3 World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4 The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
5 F for Fake (Orson Welles)
6 Fantastic Planet (Rene Laloux)
7 O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson)
8 The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
9 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah)
10 The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates)
11 The Age of the Medici (Roberto Rossellini)
12 Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
13 Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambety)
14 Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
15 Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
16 The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)
17 Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
18 Day for Night (Francois Truffaut)
19 Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
20 Coffy (Jack Hill)
21 Juvenile Court (Frederick Wiseman)
22 Electra Glide in Blue (James William Guercio)
23 Breezy (Clint Eastwood)
1972
1 The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
2 Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
3 Cousin Jules (Dominique Benicheti)
4 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5 Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
6 Bad Company (Robert Benton)
7 Nathalie Granger (Marguerite Duras)
8 The Boxer from Shantung (Chang Cheh & Hsueh Li Pao)
9 Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger)
10 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
11 Tout va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin & Groupe Dziga Vertov)
12 Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
13 The Devil (Andrzej Zulawski)
14 Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill)
15 We Won't Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat)
16 Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer)
17 Fat City (John Huston)
18 Deliverance (John Boorman)
19 Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville)
20 Snoopy, Come Home (Bill Melendez)
1971
1 McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
2 The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima)
3 The Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog)
4 A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
5 WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev)
6 Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
7 Trafic (Jacques Tati)
8 Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
9 The Devils (Ken Russell)
10 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
11 Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes)
12 A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
13 Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg)
14 The Beguiled (Don Siegel)
15 Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
16 Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski)
17 Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff)
18 The Tragedy of Macbeth (Roman Polanski)
19 Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)
20 Trial on the Road (Alexei German)
21 The French Connection (William Friedkin)
22 Rabbit's Moon (Kenneth Anger)
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 El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
11 Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma)
12 The Spider's Strategem (Bernardo Bertolucci)
13 The Wild Child (Francois Truffaut)14 Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)
15 Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh)
16 The Grandmother (David Lynch)
17 Dodesukaden (Akira Kurosawa)
18 Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Mayles & Charlotte Zwerin)
1969
1 Une Femme Douce (Robert Bresson)
2 Play Dirty (Andre De Toth)
3 The Cow (Dariush Mehrjui)
4 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
5 Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
6 The Cremator (Juraj Herz)
7 Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda)
8 Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
9 Boy (Nagisa Oshima)
10 Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
11 Kes (Ken Loach)
12 The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
13 Le Grand Amour (Pierre Etaix)
14 The Joke (Jaromil Jires)
15 My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
16 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack)
17 Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto)
18 The Milky Way (Luis Bunuel)
19 Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger)
1968
1 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
2 Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
3 The Hour of the Furnaces (Octavio Getino & Fernando E. Solanas)
4 Death By Hanging (Nagisa Oshima)
5 The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
6 Je t'aime, je t'aime (Alain Resnais)
7 Profound Desires of the Gods (Shohei Imamura)
8 Les Biches (Claude Chabrol)
9 The Swimmer (Frank Perry)
10 High School (Frederick Wiseman)
11 Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin)
12 Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
13 Sympathy for the Devil (Jean-Luc Godard)
14 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (Bill Greaves)
15 The Producers (Mel Brooks)
16 The Blues According to Lightnin' Hopkins (Les Blank)
17 Yellow Submarine (George Dunning)
18 Secret Ceremony (Joseph Losey)
19 Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman)
20 Pas de Deux (Norman McLaren)
21 L'Enfance Nue (Maurice Pialat)
22 Shame (Ingmar Bergman)
23 Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
24 If.... (Lindsay Anderson)
1967
1 Playtime (Jacques Tati)
2 Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
3 Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi)
4 Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
5 Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)
6 Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville)
7 The Red and the White (Miklós Janscó )
8 Week End (Jean-Luc Godard)
9 Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlacil)
10 Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
11 Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
12 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
13 The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
14 Love Affair or Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev)
15 Eye Myth (Stan Brakhage)
16 The Shooting (Monte Hellman)
17 Point Blank (John Boorman)
18 Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)
19 Peppermint Frappe (Carlos Saura)
20 The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
21 Don't Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker)
22 The Crush (Ermanno Olmi)
23 La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
24 Accident (Joseph Losey)
1966
1 Au hasard, Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
2 Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
3 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
4 Trans-Europ-Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
5 Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
6 Breakaway (Bruce Conner)
7 Violence at High Noon (Nagisa Oshima)
8 Death Rides a Horse (Sergio Corbucci)
9 La Caza (Carlos Saura)
10 Masculin-Feminin (Jean-Luc Godard)
11 Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
12 La Religieuse (Jacques Rivette)
13 Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Vaclav Vorlicek)
14 Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis)
15 Kill Baby...Kill! (Mario Bava)
16 Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel)
17 Le Deuxieme Souffle (Jean-Pierre Melville)
18 How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Chuck Jones)
19 Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
20 Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene)
21 Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto)
22 The Rise of Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
23 El Dorado (Howard Hawks)
24 It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez)
25 7 Women (John Ford)1965
1 The Shop on Main Street (Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos)
2 Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
3 The Round-Up (Miklós Janscó)
4 Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
5 Yoyo (Pierre Etaix)
6 Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
7 A Thousand Clowns (Fred Coe)
8 In Harm's Way (Otto Preminger)
9 Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
10 The Hand (Jiri Trnka)
11 Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger)
12 Dr. Zhivago (David Lean)
13 Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellochio)
14 A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez)
15 Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Paradjanov)
16 For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
17 The War Game (Peter Watkins)
18 Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
19 Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
20 Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman)
21 Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
22 Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda)
1964
1 Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
2 Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
3 Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
4 Yearning (Mikio Naruse)
5 Zulu (Cy Endfield)
6 Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
7 Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
8 Cheyenne Autumn (John Ford)
9 Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer)
10 Hamlet (Gregori Kosintsev)
11 Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
12 Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
13 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
14 A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
15 The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
16 The Patsy (Jerry Lewis)
17 Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo)
18 I Am Cuba (Mikheil Kalatozov)
19 The Soft Skin (Francois Truffaut)
20 Man's Favorite Sport (Howard Hawks)
21 Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha)
22 Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda)
23 Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava)
24 The Killers (Don Siegel)
25 A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
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 Hud (Martin Ritt)
7 High & Low (Akira Kurosawa)
8 The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)
9 The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura)
10 The House is Black (Farough Farrokhzad)
11 This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson)
12 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer)
13 The Girl at the Monceau Bakery (Eric Rohmer)
14 The Haunting (Robert Wise)
15 21-87 (Arthur Lipsett)
16 Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
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 Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
6 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (John Ford)
7 The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
8 Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut)
9 Hatari! (Howard Hawks)
10 Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
11 Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
12 Advise and Consent (Otto Preminger)
13 Her Lonely Lane (Mikio Naruse)
14 The Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
15 An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu)
16 The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
17 Cosmic Ray (Bruce Conner)
18 The Given Word (Anselmo Duarte)
19 Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
20 To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
21 Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)
22 Hell is for Heroes (Don Siegel)
23 Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah)
24 Two Weeks in Another Town (Vincente Minnelli)
25 The Suitor (Pierre Etaix)
26 Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
1961
1 Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
2 The Ladies Man (Jerry Lewis)
3 Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
4 Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
5 A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
6 Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller)
7 La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
8 Leon Morin, Priest (Jean-Pierre Melville)
9 Pigs & Battleships (Shohei Imamura)
10 Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
11 The Misfits (John Huston)
12 The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
13 The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
14 Paris Nous Appartient (Jacques Rivette)
15 One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando)
16 One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
1960
1 The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak)
2 Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut)
3 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
4 L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5 Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
6 The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindo)
7 Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
8 Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
9 The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa)
10 Devi (Satyajit Ray)
11 Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima)
12 The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
13 La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
14 The Housemaid (Ki-young Kim)
15 The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
16 The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
17 Night and Fog in Japan (Nagisa Oshima)
18 The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis)
19 The Savage Innocents (Nicholas Ray)
20 Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
21 Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
22 L'Amour Existe (Maurice Pialat)
23 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 Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
8 Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)
9 Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
10 Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
11 Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
12 Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise)
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 Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu)
18 Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)
19 The Hanging Tree (Delmer Daves)
20 A Bucket of Blood (Roger Corman)
21 Shadows (John Cassavetes)
22 Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage)
1958
1 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
2 Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
3 The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
4 Party Girl (Nicholas Ray)
5 The Pathetic Fallacy (Ritwik Ghatak)
6 The Music Room (Satyajit Ray)
7 Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
8 Giants & Toys (Yasuzo Masumura)
9 Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
10 Rosaura a las Diez (Mario Soffici)
11 Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine)
12 Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
13 A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk)
14 Une Vie (Alexandre Astruc)
15 Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu)
16 Endless Desire (Shohei Imamura)
17 Wind Across the Everglades (Nicholas Ray)
18 Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher)
19 Ivan the Terrible, Part II (Sergei Eisenstein)
20 Summer Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
21 A Movie (Bruce Conner)
1957
1 Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray)
2 Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
3 Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
4 The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
5 Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
6 The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
7 The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
8 The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
9 Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
10 Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
11 The Tall T (Budd Boetticher)
12 Men in War (Anthony Mann)
13 Le Notti Bianche (Luchino Visconti)
14 Nine Lives (Arne Skouen)
15 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
16 A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan)
17 Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)
18 Kanal (Andrzej Wajda)
19 Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
20 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
21 Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu)
22 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves)
23 Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder)
1956
1 The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
2 A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
3 Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
4 Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
5 Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
6 Merry-Go-Round (Zoltan Fabri)
6 Merry-Go-Round (Zoltan Fabri)
7 The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
8 The Searchers (John Ford)9 There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk)
10 Baby Doll (Elia Kazan)
11 Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli)
12 Seven Men from Now (Budd Boetticher)
13 The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
14 Attack! (Robert Aldrich)
15 Hot Blood (Nicholas Ray)
16 Jubal (Delmer Daves)
17 Sudden Rain (Mikio Naruse)
18 Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
19 Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island (Hiroshi Inagaki)
1955
1 Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
2 All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
3 Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)
4 Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
5 Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
6 Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
7 Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
8 The Man from Laramie (Anthony Mann)
9 French Cancan (Jean Renoir)
10 Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
11 Rififi (Jules Dassin)
12 Lola Montes (Max Ophuls)
13 The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich)
14 To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
15 The Indian Fighter (Andre De Toth)
16 Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
17 Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem)
18 Taira Clan Saga (Kenji Mizoguchi)
19 Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin)
20 The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson)
21 Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi)
22 East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
23 House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller)
1954
1 Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
2 Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
3 Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
4 An Inn at Osaka (Heinosuke Gosho)
5 Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
6 Twenty Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita)
7 On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
8 A Star is Born (George Cukor)
9 Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse)
10 Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
11 Sabrina (Billy Wilder)
12 Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse)
13 The Far Country (Anthony Mann)
14 The Crucified Lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi)
15 Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
16 Salt of the Earth (Herbert J. Biberman)
17 The Way to the Shadow Garden (Stan Brakhage)
18 Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (Hiroshi Inagaki)
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 99 River Street (Phil Karlson)
16 Peter Pan (Geronomi, Luske & Jackson)
1952
1 The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
2 El: This Strange Passion (Luis Buñuel)
3 Lightning (Mikio Naruse)
4 Forbidden Games (Réné Clement)
5 My Son John (Leo McCarey)
6 Casque d'or (Jacques Becker)
7 Feed the Kitty (Chuck Jones)
8 The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
9 Mother (Mikio Naruse)
10 Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini)
11 Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica)
12 Park Row (Samuel Fuller)
13 Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
14 The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer)
15 Water, Water Every Hare (Chuck Jones)
16 Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson)
17 Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Yasujiro Ozu)
18 Rabbit Seasoning (Chuck Jones)
19 The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
1951
1 On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)
2 Miss Julie (Alf Sjöberg)
3 Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 The Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
5 A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
6 Alice in Wonderland (Geronomi, Luske & Jackson)
7 Repast (Mikio Naruse)
8 Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
9 The Prowler (Joseph Losey)
10 Dispersed Clouds (Heinosuke Gosho)
11 The 13th Letter (Otto Preminger)
12 M (Joseph Losey)
13 The Thing From Another World (Howard Hawks & Christian Nyby)
14 The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
15 The Tall Target (Anthony Mann)
1950
1 In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
2 Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
3 Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini)
4 All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
5 Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
6 Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
7 Born to be Bad (Nicholas Ray)
8 Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
9 Un Chant d'amour (Jean Genet)
10 Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)
11 The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)
12 The Sound of Fury (Cy Endfield)
13 Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann)
14 Wagon Master (John Ford)
15 Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan)
16 Night and the City (Jules Dassin)
17 D.O.A. (Rudolph Mate)
18 Rabbit of Seville (Chuck Jones)
19 Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock)
20 The Gunfighter (Henry King)
21 The Furies (Anthony Mann)
1949
1 The Third Man (Carol Reed)
2 The Heiress (William Wyler)
3 Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
4 The Reckless Moment (Max Ophuls)
5 Mr. Shosuke Ohara (Hiroshi Shimizu)
6 Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
7 I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller)
8 Le Silence de la Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville)
9 I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks)
10 White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
11 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)
12 The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
13 The Big Steal (Don Siegel)
14 Colorado Territory (Raoul Walsh)
15 Caught (Max Ophuls)
16 Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak)
17 Jour de Fete (Jacques Tati)
18 Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger)
19 Begone Dull Care (Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambert)
1948
1 Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
2 Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
3 La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti)
4 Red River (Howard Hawks)
5 Moonrise (Frank Borzage)
6 Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)
7 Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann)
8 Fort Apache (John Ford)
9 Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
10 The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed)
11 Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
12 Yellow Sky (William Wellman)
13 Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
14 Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges)
15 Children of the Beehive (Hiroshi Shimizu)
16 They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray)
17 The Big Clock (John Farrow)
18 Good Sam (Leo McCarey)
19 Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
20 Oliver Twist (David Lean)
21 He Walked By Night (Alfred Werker & Anthony Mann)
1947
1 Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu)
2 Quai des Orfevres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
3 Black Narcissus (Powell & Pressburger)
4 Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
5 Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
6 The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
7 Desert Fury (Lewis Allen)
8 Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
9 Pursued (Raoul Walsh)
10 Brighton Rock (John Boulting)
11 Body and Soul (Robert Rossen)
12 House of Cards (Joseph Vogel)
13 Brute Force (Jacques Tourneur)
14 Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding)
1946
1 It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
2 The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
3 Shoe-Shine (Vittorio De Sica)
4 Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur)
5 Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
6 Under the Bridges (Helmut Kautner)
7 Gilda (Charles Vidor)
8 La Belle et la Bête (Jean Cocteau)
9 Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
10 The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
11 Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch)
12 Utamaro and His Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi)
13 The Stranger (Orson Welles)
14 My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
15 The Killers (Robert Siodmak)
16 Great Expectations (David Lean)
1945
1 Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Sergei Eisenstein)
2 Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné)
3 The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
4 Detour (Edward G. Ulmer)
5 Crepusculo (Julio Bracho)
6 Rome: Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
7 Les Dames du Bois de Bologne (Robert Bresson)
8 The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin)
9 A Study in Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren)
10 Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
11 Brief Encounter (David Lean)
1944
1 Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
2 At Land (Maya Deren)
3 Curse of the Cat People (Robert Wise)
4 None Shall Escape (Andre De Toth)
5 Miracle at Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)
6 Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
7 Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)
8 Laura (Otto Preminger)
9 The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)
10 Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
11 Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang)
12 To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
13 Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak)14 Le ciel est a vous (Jean Gremillon)
15 Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk)
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 Romance in a Minor Key (Helmut Kautner)
8 The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
9 Air Force (Howard Hawks)
10 Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
11 Journey Into Fear (Norman Foster & Orson Welles)
12 Les Anges du Peche (Robert Bresson)
13 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 Les Visiteurs du Soir (Marcel Carné)
6 Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
7 Gentleman Jim (Raoul Walsh)
8 Bambi (David Hand)
9 I Married a Witch (Rene Clair)
10 Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
1941
1 Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2 Hellzapoppin' (W.C. Potter)
3 The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4 Wabbit Twouble (Robert Clampett)
5 The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
6 That Uncertain Feeling (Ernst Lubitsch)
7 Remorques (Jean Gremillon)
8 The Little Foxes (William Wyler)
9 The Devil & Daniel Webster (William Dieterle)
10 Ornamental Hairpin (Hiroshi Shimizu)
11 Strawberry Blonde (Raoul Walsh)
12 The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
13 Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
14 Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
1940
1 The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
2 The Long Voyage Home (John Ford)
3 Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 Fantasia (Disney, various)
5 The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
6 Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
7 The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
8 Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen)
9 The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage)
10 The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline)
11 Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
12 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 Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
5 Wuthering Heights (William Wyler)
6 Midnight (Mitchell Leisen)
7 The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)
8 Destry Rides Again (George Marshall)
9 Stagecoach (John Ford)
10 The Women (George Cukor)
11 Le Jour se Leve (Marcel Carne)
12 Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming)
13 Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
14 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle)
1938
1 Holiday (George Cukor)
2 Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz)
3 The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 The Masseurs and a Woman (Hiroshi Shimizu)
5 Stolen Death (Nyrki Tapiovaara)
6 Port of Shadows (Marcel Carné)
7 Hotel du Nord (Marcel Carne)
8 Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)9 You and Me (Fritz Lang)
10 L'etrange Monsieur Victor (Jean Gremillon)
11 La Bete Humaine (Jean Renoir)
12 Porky in Wackyland (Robert Clampett)
13 Three Comrades (Frank Borzage)
1937
1 Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
2 You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
3 History is Made at Night (Frank Borzage)
4 Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka)
5 Stage Door (Gregory La Cava)
6 The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
7 Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen)
8 Lady Killer (Jean Gremillion)
9 Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (Disney, various)
10 The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
11 Angel (Ernst Lubitsch)
12 Pepe le Moko (Julien Duvivier)
13 Stella Dallas (King Vidor)
14 What Did the Lady Forget? (Yasujiro Ozu)
15 Mannequin (Frank Borzage)
1936
1 Fury (Fritz Lang)
2 Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
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 The Story of a Cheat (Sasha Guitry)
10 Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu)
11 After the Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke)
12 Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1935
1 Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
2 Toni (Jean Renoir)
3 Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
4 Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Sadao Yamanaka)
5 Burden of Life (Heinesuke Gosho)
6 The Devil is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg)
7 Wife, Be Like a Rose! (Mikio Naruse)
8 The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
9 The Girl in the Rumor (Mikio Naruse)
10 Carnival in Flanders (Jacques Feyder)
11 Peter Ibbetson (Henry Hathaway)
1934
1 L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
2 The Scarlett Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
3 Rapt (Dmitri Kirsanoff)
4 The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
5 La Signora di Tutti (Max Ophuls)
6 It's a Gift (Norman McLeod)
7 The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch)
8 It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
9 Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)
10 The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
11 Our Daily Bread (King Vidor)
1 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
2 Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
3 Japanese Girls at the Harbor (Hiroshi Shimizu)
4 Counsellor at Law (William Wyler)
5 Heroes for Sale (William Wellman)
6 Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)
7 Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
8 Lady for a Day (Frank Capra)
9 The Invisible Man (James Whale)
10 Outskirts (Boris Barnet)
11 Wild Boys of the Road (William Wellman)
12 The Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy)
13 Man's Castle (Frank Borzage)
14 Every-Night Dreams (Mikio Naruse)
15 The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Frank Capra)
16 Passing Fancy (Yasujiro Ozu)
17 Liebelei (Max Ophuls)
1932
1 Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
2 Freaks (Tod Browning)
3 Poil de Carotte (Julien Duvivier)
4 Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
5 One Way Passage (Tay Garnett)
6 Scarface (Howard Hawks)
7 Tiger Shark (Howard Hawks)
8 Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)
9 The Crowd Roars (Howard Hawks)
10 Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
11 A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage)
12 I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu)
13 Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)
14 Blood of the Poet (Jean Cocteau)
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 Street Scene (King Vidor)
6 Le Million (Rene Clair)
7 Madchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan & Carl Froelich)
8 Tabu: A Tale of the South Seas (F.W. Murnau)
9 The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)
10 Frankenstein (James Whale)
1930
1 Earth (Alexander Dovzhenko)
2 L'Âge D'or (Luis Buñuel)
3 The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)
4 A Propos de Nice (Jean Vigo)
5 City Girl (F. W. Murnau)
6 People on Sunday (Curt & Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Fred Zinneman)
7 Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
8 La Petite Lise (Jean Gremillon)
9 Salt for Svanetia (Mikhail Kalazatov)
10 Westfront 1918 (G.W. Pabst)
11 All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
1929
1 Pandora's Box (G. W. Pabst)
2 Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
3 Finis Terrae (Jean Epstein)
4 Diary of a Lost Girl (G. W. Pabst)
5 Thunderbolt (Josef von Sternberg)
6 Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel)
7 H2O (Ralph Steiner)
8 Applause (Rouben Mamoulian)
9 Regen (Joris Ivens)
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 L'Argent (Marcel L'Herbier)
5 The Wind (Victor Sjostrom)
6 The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
7 Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
8 The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
9 The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein & Luis Buñuel)
10 Speedy (Ted Wilde)
11 L'Étoile de mer (Man Ray)
12 The Seashell & the Clergyman (Germain Dulac)
13 The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton)
1927
1 Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
2 Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
3 7th Heaven (Frank Borzage)
4 La glace a trois faces (Jean Epstein)
5 The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)
6 The General (Buster Keaton)
7 The Girl With the Hatbox (Boris Barnet)
8 October (Sergei Eisenstein)
9 College (James W. Horne)
10 The Student Prince at Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch)
1926
1 A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
2 By the Law (Lev Kuleshov)
3 Menilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
4 Emak-Bakia (Man Ray)
5 The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Karl Koch & Lotte Reiniger)
6 Anémic cinéma (Marcel Duchamp)
7 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 The Marriage Circle (Ernst Lubitsch)
9 Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (Fritz Lang)
10 The Navigator (Donald Crisp & Buster Keaton)
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 Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim)
2 Cops (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
3 Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty)
4 Pay Day (Charles Chaplin)
5 Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
6 The Electric House (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
7 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Fritz Lang)
8 The Frozen North (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
9 The Blacksmith (Buster Keaton & Malcolm St. Clair)
10 Daydreams (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 Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine)
5 The Scarecrow (Buster Keaton)
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 A Man There Was (Victor Sjostrom, 1917)
7 Daydreams (Yevgeni Bauer, 1915)
8 Intolerance (D. W. Griffith, 1916)
9 The Trust, or The Battle of Money (Louis Feuillade, 1911)
10 For Happiness (Yevgeni Bauer, 1917)
11 The Golden Beetle (Segundo de Chamón, 1907)
12 A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, 1914)
13 Enoch Arden (D.W. Griffith, 1911)
14 Broken Blossoms (D. W. Griffith, 1919)
The Great Train Robbery (Siegmund Lubin, 1904)
The Impossible Voyage (Georges Méliès, 1904)
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