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2000s: Bow, The (Kim Ki-duk, 2005)
, Broken Wings (Nir Bergman, 2004), City of God (Fernando Meirelles, 2003), Control Room (Jehane Noujaim, 2004), Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The (Cristi Puiu, 2006), Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2005), Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003), Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski, 2005), Gabrielle (Patrice Chereau, 2006), Garden State (Zach Braff, 2004), Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005), The Host (Joon Bong-Ho, 2007), Hulk (Ang Lee, 2003), I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell, 2004), In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard, 2002), Last Days (Gus Van Sant, 2005), Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The (Wes Anderson, 2004), Little Children (Todd Field, 2006), Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, 2006), Mad Hot Ballroom (Marilyn Agrelo, 2005), Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 2005), New World, The (Terrence Malick, 2005), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen, 2000), Prairie Home Companion, A (Robert Altman, 2006), Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004), Rize (David LaChapelle, 2005), Solitary Fracture (Deniz Michael, 2004), Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, 2000), What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2001), Where the Truth Lies (Atom Egoyan, 2005)World, The (Jia Zhang-ke, 2005)

1990s: Age of Innocence, The (Martin Scorsese, 1993), Benny's Video (Michael Haneke, 1992), The Bloody Child (Nina Menkes, 1996), Heat (Michael Mann, 1995), Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1992), Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999), Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard, 1990), Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997), Rosetta (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, 1999), Sweet Hereafter, The (Atom Egoyan, 1997), Tape (Richard Linklater, 2001), Trust (Hal Hartley, 1990)

1980s: Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988), Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986), Firm, The (Alan Clarke, 1988), Indoctrination (Harun Farocki, 1987), Qatsi Trilogy, The (Godfrey Reggio, 1983/1988/2002), Seventh Continent, The (Michael Haneke, 1989), They Live (John Carpenter, 1988)

1970s: Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974), Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog, 1971), Ici et Ailleurs (Jean-Luc Godard, 1976), Parade (Jacques Tati, 1974), Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975), Trafic (Jacques Tati, 1971), Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970)

1960s: Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965), Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968), Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967), Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967), Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Vaclav Vorlicek, 1966)

1950s: 13th Letter, The (Otto Preminger, 1951), All I Desire (Douglas Sirk, 1953), Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray, 1957), Geisha, A (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953), Miss Julie (Alf Sjöberg, 1951)

1940s: Air Force (Howard Hawks, 1943), How Green Was My Valley (John Ford, 1941), This Land is Mine (Jean Renoir, 1946), To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942)

1930s: Tiger Shark (Howard Hawks, 1932), Top Hat (Mark Sandrich, 1935)

1920s: Pandora's Box (G. W. Pabst, 1929)

1910s: Birth of a Nation, The (D.W. Griffith, 1915)