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where I've seen less than 10 "list-worthy" films.
2009
1
Inglourious Basterds
(Quentin Tarantino)
2 Two Lovers (James Gray)
3 Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
4 Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
5 Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
6 The Hurt Locker
(Kathryn Bigelow)
7 Film IST. a girl and a gun
(Gustav Deutsch)
8 A Serious Man (Joel
& Ethan Coen)
9 Bright Star (Jane
Campion)
10 Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi
Kurosawa)
11 Where the Wild Things Are
(Spike Jonze)
12 Lorna's Silence (Luc &
Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
13 35 Shots of Rum (Claire
Denis)
14 Julia (Erick Zonca)
15 Coraline (Henry Selick)
16 Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
17 Moon (Duncan Jones)
18 Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
19 In the Loop (Armondo Ianucci)
20 Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
21 The Limits of Control (Jim
Jarmusch)
22 Revanche
(Gotz Spielmann)
23 The Box (Richard Kelly)
24 The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call -
New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
25 I Love You, Man (John
Hamburg)
26 Adoration (Atom Egoyan)
27 Avatar (James Cameron)
2008
1 A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
2 Man on Wire (James Marsh)
3 Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
4
Hunger (Steve McQueen)
5 In the City of Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin)
6 The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
7 Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke)
8 Wendy & Lucy
(Kelly Reichardt)
9 Woman on the Beach
(Hong Sang-soo)
10 Tell No One (Guillaume Canet)
11
The Witnesses (André Téchiné)
12 Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
13 Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
14 Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl)
15
Synecdoche,
New York (Charlie Kaufman)
16 Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
17 You
the Living (Roy Andersson)
18
The Band's Visit
(Eran Kolirin)
19 [Rec] (Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza)
20 Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
21 Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman)
22 The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
23 I Served the King of England (Jiri Menzel)
24 The Class (Laurent Cantet)
25
Che: The Argentine
(Steven Soderbergh)
26 Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong)
27 Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
28 The Man from London (Bela Tarr)
2007
1 There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2 I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
3 The Host (Bong
Joon-ho)
4 No Country for Old
Men (Joel Coen)
5 Time (Kim Ki-duk)
6 Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran)
7 The Diving Bell
and the Butterfly (Julian
Schnabel)
8 Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
9 Paprika
(Satoshi
Kon)
10 Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
11 Redacted
(Brian De Palma)
12 Private
Fears in Public
Places (Alain Resnais)
13 Brand Upon the Brain (Guy
Maddin)
14 The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
15 Zodiac (David Fincher)
16 The Wackness (Jonathan
Levine)
17 Quiet City (Aaron Katz)
18 Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
19 Persepolis (Marjane
Satrapi & Vincent Parronaud)
20 The
Assassination of Jesse
James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
21 Away from Her (Sarah
Polley)
22 Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
23 Death
Proof (Quentin
Tarantino)
24 Before the Devil Knows
You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
25 The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon)
26 Margot at the Wedding (Noah
Baumbach)
2006
1
The Intruder (Claire Denis)
2 Inland
Empire
(David Lynch)
3 Children of Men
(Alfonso Cuarón)
4 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Christi
Puiu)
5 Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
6 The Queen (Stephen Frears)
7
The Child (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
8 Colossal Youth (Pedro
Costa)
9 Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
10 Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
11
Mutual
Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski)
12 The Proposition (John Hillcoat)
13
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America
for Make Benefit
Glorious
Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry
Charles)
14
Three Times (Hsiao-hsien
Hou)
15
Gabrielle (Patrice Chereau)
16 The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel
von Donnersmarck)
17
Brick (Rian Johnson)
18
The Good Shepherd (Robert De Niro)
19
Letters
from Iwo
Jima
(Clint Eastwood)
20
The Devil
and Daniel Johnston
(Jeff Feuerzeig)
21 Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story (Michael
Winterbottom)
22 A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
23
Marie
Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
2005
1
The New World (Terrence Malick)
2 Last
Days
(Gus Van Sant)
3 Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
4 C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallée)
5 The World (Jia Zhang-ke)
6 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)
7 Noriko's Dinner Table
(Sion Sono)
8
A
History of Violence
(David Cronenberg)
9 Grizzly
Man (Werner Herzog)
10 Funny
Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski)
11 The Squid and the
Whale (Noah Baumbach)
12 Mysterious
Skin
(Gregg
Araki)
13 Tale of Cinema (Hong
Sang-soo)
14 Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen
Chow)
15 Head-On (Fatih Akin)
16
Howl's Moving
Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)
17
Best of Youth
(Marco Tullio
Giordana)
18
Nobody Knows
(Hirokazu Kore-eda)
19 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
(Shane Black)
20 Good Night and Good Luck
(George Clooney)
21 Rize (David LaChapelle)
22 Downfall (Oliver
Hirschbeigel)
23 Me and You and Everyone We
Know (Miranda July)
24
Oldboy (Chan-wook
Park)
25 The 40 Year Old Virgin
(Judd Apatow)
26 La Moustache (Emmanuel
Carrère)
27 My God, My God, Why Hast Thou
Forsaken Me? (Shinji Aoyama)
28 Junebug (Phil Morrison)
29 Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
30 Café Lumière
(Hsiao-hsien Hou)
2004
1 Dogville (Lars von Trier)
2 Millennium Mambo
(Hsiao-hsien Hou)
3
Light is Calling (Bill
Morrison)
4 I ♥
Huckabees
(David O. Russell)
5 The
Corporation (Jennifer
Abbott & Mark Achbar)
6 Before Sunset (Richard
Linklater)
7
Oasis (Lee
Chang-dong)
8 Kill Bill: Volume 2 (Quentin
Tarantino)
9 Secret Things
(Jean-Claude Brisseau)
10 The Manchurian Candidate
(Jonathan Demme)
11 We Don't Live Here
Anymore
(John Curran)
12 The Aviator (Martin
Scorsese)
13 Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
14 The Life Aquatic
with Steve Zissou
(Wes Anderson)
15
The Saddest Music in the
World (Guy Maddin)
16
Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind (Michael Gondry)
17 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron
Burgandy (Adam McKay)
18 Intimate Strangers (Patrice
Leconte)
19 Million Dollar Baby (Clint
Eastwood)
20 Tropical Malady
(Apitchatpong Weerasethakul)
21 Bad Education (Pedro
Almodovar)
22 Spartan (David
Mamet)
23 The Bourne Supremacy (Paul
Greengrass)
24 Father and Son (Aleksandr
Sokurov)
25 Woman is the Future of Man
(Hong Sang-soo)
26 Mean Girls (Mark Waters)
27
3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk)
28
Control Room
(Jehane
Noujaim)
29 The Time of the Wolf
(Michael Haneke)
30 Primer (Shane Carruth)
2003
1 Elephant (Gus
Van Sant)
2 Cremaster
3
(Matthew Barney)
3 Mystic
River (Clint
Eastwood)
4 Spider (David Cronenberg)
5 The Company
(Robert Altman)
6 Kill Bill,
Volume 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
7 The Triplet's of Belleville
(Sylvain Chomet)
8 All the
Real
Girls (David Gordon Green)
9 Capturing
the Friedman's (Andrew
Jarecki)
10 Hulk
(Ang Lee)
11 The
School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
12 Lost in
Translation
(Sophia Coppola)
13 Raising Victor
Vargas (Peter Sollett)
14 Stuck On You (Peter & Bobby
Farrelly)
15 American
Splendor (Shari Springer
Berman & Robert Pulcini)
16 Friday
Night (Claire
Denis)
17 Doppelganger (Kiyoshi
Kurosawa)
18 Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
19 Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows)
20 The
Station
Agent
(Thomas McCarthy)
21 X2 (Bryan Singer)
22
Open Range (Kevin
Costner)
23 The Man on the Train
(Patrice
Leconte)
2002
1 Punch-Drunk Love
(Paul Thomas Anderson)
2 Decasia (Bill Morrison)
3 Spirited
Away
(Hayao Miyazaki)
4 25th Hour
(Spike Lee)
5 The Piano Teacher
(Michael Haneke)
6 Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
7 Far From Heaven
(Todd Haynes)
8 Russian Ark
(Aleksandr Sokurov)
9 Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
(Zacharias Kunuk)
10 Changing Lanes
(Roger Michell)
11 Adaptation (Spike
Jonze)
12 Solaris (Steven Soderbergh)
13 Y tu Mama Tambien
(Alfonso Cuaron)
14 Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas
Moodysson)
15 Ten (Abbas
Kiarostami)
16 Read
My Lips
(Jacques Audiard)
17 Bowling
for Columbine
(Michael Moore)
18 Catch
Me if You
Can (Steven Spielberg)
19 Talk
to Her (Pedro
Almodovar)
20 About a Boy
(Chris & Paul Weitz)
21 Happy Here and Now (Michael
Almereyda)
22 In
This World (Michael Winterbottom)
23 The
Lord
of the Rings: The Two
Towers (Peter Jackson)
24 Forza Bastia (Jacques Tati
& Sophie Tatischeff)
25 Star
Wars: Episode II -
Attack of the Clones (George Lucas)
26 Morvern Callar (Lynne
Ramsay)
27 Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
(Steve Oedekerk)
2001
1 Mulholland
Dr. (David Lynch)
2 In
Praise of Love (Jean-Luc
Godard)
3 The
Royal Tenenbaums
(Wes Anderson)
4 Waking Life (Richard
Linklater)
5 A.I.
Artificial
Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
6 Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
7 Ghost World (Terry
Zwigoff)
8 What Time is
it There? (Tsai Ming-Liang)
9
Amélie (Jean-Pierre
Jeunet)
10 Tape
(Richard
Linklater)
11 Wet Hot American
Summer (David Wain)
12 Memento
(Christopher
Nolan)
13 The Pledge (Sean Penn)
14 Storytelling (Todd Solondz)
15 Trouble Every Day (Claire
Denis)
16 The Others (Alejandro
Amenabar)
17
Lord of the Rings:
Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
18 Fat Girl (Catherine
Breillat)
19
In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
20 Monster's Ball
(Marc Forster)
21 Monster's Inc.
(Peter Doctor, David Silverman & Lee Unkrich)
2000
1 Code Unknown
(Michael Haneke)
2 Werckmeister Harmonies
(Béla Tarr)
3 Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
4 In the Mood for Love
(Wong Kar-Wai)
5 Eureka (Shinji Aoyama)
6 Hamlet
(Michael
Almereyda)
7 You Can Count on Me
(Kenneth Lonergan)
8
Vertical Ray of the Sun
(Anh Hung Tran)
9 Wonder Boys (Curtis
Hanson)
10 Platform (Jia Zhang-ke)
11 The Heart of the World
(Guy Maddin)
12 Almost Famous
(Cameron Crowe)
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 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
(Joel Coen)
18
Best in Show (Christopher
Guest)
19 The Way of the Gun (Christopher
McQuarrie)
20 Dark Days (Marc
Singer)
21
Requiem for a
Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
22
Traffic (Steven
Soderbergh)
23 X-Men (Bryan Singer)
24 Peppermint Candy (Lee
Chang-dong)
25 Dancer
in the
Dark (Lars von Trier)
26 George Washington (David
Gordon Green)
27
American
Psycho (Mary
Harron)
28 The House of Mirth (Terence
Davies)
1999
1 Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2 Eyes
Wide
Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
3 Rosetta
(Luc
and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
4 Fight
Club
(David Fincher)
5 The Wind
Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
6 The
Straight Story (David Lynch)
7 The
Insider
(Michael Mann)
8 Three Kings (David O. Russell)
9 Being
John
Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
10 Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)
11 Sweet and
Lowdown (Woody Allen)
12 Election (Alexander Payne)
13 eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
14 Bringing
Out the
Dead (Martin Scorsese)
15 Ghost
Dog: The
Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
16 American
Beauty (Sam Mendes)
17 South
Park:
Bigger Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker and Matt Stone)
18 The
Limey
(Steven Soderbergh)
19 American Movie
(Chris Smith)
20 The
Virgin
Suicides (Sophia Coppola)
21 Toy Story 2
(Ash
Brannon, John Lasseter & Lee Unkrich)
22 Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
23 Topsy-Turvy
(Mike Leigh)
1998
1
Rushmore (Wes
Anderson)
2 Histoire(s) du Cinéma (Jean-Luc
Godard)
3 Black Cat,
White Cat (Emir Kusturica)
4 The Thin
Red Line (Terrence Malick)
5 The
Big
Lebowski (Joel Coen)
6 Saving
Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
7 He Got Game
(Spike Lee)
8 Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
9 Pi (Darren
Aronofsky)
10 The Silence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
11 The Celebration
(Thomas Vinterberg)
12 The Truman
Show (Peter Weir)
13 The Last Days of Disco (Whit
Stillman)
14 Gods
and
Monsters (Bill Condon)
15 Rounders (John
Dahl)
16 Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)
17 Snake
Eyes
(Brian De Palma)
18 Your Friends & Neighbors
(Neil LaBute)
19 American
History
X (Tony Kaye)
20
There's
Something About Mary (Peter and Bobby Farrelly)
1997
1
The Sweet
Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
2 Mother &
Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
3 Jackie
Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
4 Lost
Highway (David Lynch)
5 Grosse Point Blank
(George Armitage)
6
L.A.
Confidential (Curtis
Hanson)
7 Princess
Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
8 Boogie
Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9 Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
10 In the Company of Men
(Neil LaBute)
11
As
Good as
it Gets (James L. Brooks)
12 Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar)
13 The Game
(David Fincher)
14 Deconstructing Harry (Woody
Allen)
15 The River (Tsai Ming-Liang)
16 Life
is
Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)
17 The Ice Storm
(Ang Lee)
1996
1 Fargo (Joel
Coen)
2 Sling Blade
(Billy Bob Thorton)
3 La Promesse
(Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
4 Secrets and
Lies (Mike Leigh)
5 Waiting for
Guffman (Christopher Guest)
6 Bottle
Rocket (Wes Anderson)
7 Irma Vep (Olivier
Assayas)
8 Hard Eight
(Paul Thomas Anderson)
9 Shine (Scott Hicks)
10 Flirting
with Disaster (David O. Russell)
11 Kingpin (Peter
and Bobby Farrelly)
12 Lone Star (John Sayles)
13 Mother (Albert Brooks)
14 Goodbye
South,
Goodbye (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
15 The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
(Hong Sang-soo)
16 Breaking the
Waves (Lars von Trier)
17 Trainspotting
(Danny Boyle)
1995
1 Underground (Emir Kusturica)
2 Heat (Michael Mann)
3 Cyclo (Anh
Hung Tran)
4 Safe (Todd
Haynes)
5 Clockers (Spike Lee)
6 Before Sunrise
(Richard Linklater)
7
Se7en (David
Fincher)
8 Whisper of the Heart
(Yoshifumi Kondo)
9 Welcome to the
Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
10 The White
Balloon (Jafar Panahi)
11 A Personal Journey with Martin
Scorsese Through American Cinema (Martin Scorsese & Michael
Henry Wilson)
12 Fallen
Angels
(Wong Kar-Wai)
13 Dead Man (Jim
Jarmusch)
14 Toy
Story (John
Lasseter)
15 Leaving
Las Vegas (Mike
Figgis)
16 Casino (Martin
Scosese)
17 Nixon (Oliver Stone)
18 Braveheart (Mel
Gibson)
19 Babe (Chris
Noonan)
20 I Can't Sleep (Claire Denis)
21 12 Monkeys
(Terry Gilliam)
22 Clueless (Amy
Heckerling)
23 Dead Man
Walking (Tim Robbins)
24 The Celluloid Closet (Rob
Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman)
25 Wallace &
Gromit: A Close Shave (Nick Park)
26 Die
Hard: With
a Vengeance (John McTiernan)
1994
1 Pulp Fiction
(Quentin Tarantino)
2 Chungking
Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
3 Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof
Kieslowski)
4 Three Colors: White (Krzysztof
Kieslowski)
5 Hoop
Dreams
(Steve James)
6 Exotica
(Atom Egoyan)
7 Natural
Born Killers (Oliver Stone)
8 Crumb
(Terry Zwigoff)
9 Welcome to
the Dollhouse (Todd
Solondz)
10 To
Live (Yimou Zhang)
11 Through the
Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
12 Fresh (Boaz Yakin)
13 Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
14 Ed
Wood (Tim
Burton)
15 Amateur (Hal Hartley)
16 Quiz
Show
(Robert Redford)
17 Immortal Beloved
(Bernard Rose)
18 Reality Bites
(Ben Stiller)
19 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 Bad Boy Bubby (Rolf de Heer)
9 The
Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick)
10 The Age of Innocence
(Martin Scorsese)
11 The
Piano (Jane Campion)
12 Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
13 Short Cuts
(Robert Altman)
14 Groundhog Day (Harold
Ramis)
15 Carlito's
Way
(Brian De Palma)
16 Fearless (Peter Weir)
17 Searching
for
Bobby Fisher (Steven Zaillian)
18 Army of Darkness
(Sam Raimi)
19 Spanking the Monkey (David
O. Russell)
20 Manhattan
Murder Mystery (Woody Allen)
21 Menace II
Society (Albert & Allen Hughes)
22 Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
1992
1 The Player
(Robert Altman)
2 Malcolm
X
(Spike Lee)
3 Last of the
Mohicans (Michael Mann)
4 Twin Peaks:
Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch)
5 Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
6 Damage (Louis Malle)
7 Lessons of Darkness
(Werner Herzog)
8 Benny's Video (Michael Haneke)
9 Dead Alive (Peter
Jackson)
10 The Long Day Closes
(Terrence Davies)
11 Shadows and
Fog (Woody Allen)
12 The Crying
Game (Neil Jordan)
13 The Muppet
Christmas Carol (Brian Henson)
14 Crimson Pig
(Hayao Miyazaki)
15 Husbands and
Wives (Woody Allen)
16 Batman
Returns (Tim Burton)
1991
1 Raise the Red
Lantern (Yimou Zhang)
2 Surviving
Desire (Hal
Hartley)
3 Barton
Fink
(Joel Coen)
4 A Brighter Summer Day
(Edward Yang)
5 Silence of
the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
6 Only
Yesterday (Isao Takahata)
7 JFK (Oliver
Stone)
8 Rush (Lili
Fini Zanuck)
9 Days of
Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai)
10 Theory of Achievement (Hal Hartley)
11 Flirting (John Duigan)
12 City of Hope (John Sayles)
13 Hot
Shots!
(Jim Abrahams)
14 Terminator
2:
Judgement Day (James Cameron)
15 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's
Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper & Eleanor Coppola)
16 The
Stranger
(Satyajit Ray)
17 Ambition (Hal Hartley)
18 Germany Year 90
Nine Zero (Jean-Luc Godard)
19 Slacker
(Richard Linklater)
1990
1 Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
2 Nouvelle
Vague (Jean-Luc Godard)
3 Trust (Hal Hartley)
4 Close-Up
(Abbas Kiarostami)
5
Edward
Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
6 Twin Peaks: Pilot (David Lynch)
7 Miami Blues (George Armitage)
8 Life is
Sweet (Mike Leigh)
9 The
Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
10 Metropolitan
(Whit Stillman)
11 The Grifters (Stephen
Frears)
12 Vincent & Theo (Robert
Altman)
13 Reversal of
Fortune (Barbet
Schroeder)
14 Miller's
Crossing (Joel Coen)
1989
1 O Sangue (Pedro Costa)
2 Do the
Right Thing (Spike Lee)
3 The Seventh
Continent (Michael Haneke)
4 Why
Has
Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Yong-Kyun Bae)
5 Born on the
Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)
6 Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch)
7 Crimes and
Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
8 Black Rain (Shohei
Imamura)
9 Say
Anything... (Cameron Crowe)
10 Elephant
(Alan Clarke)
11 The Cook, The Thief, His Wife
& Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
12 Heathers (Michael Lehmann)
13 Sweetie (Jane Campion)
14 Dead Poets
Society (Peter Weir)
15 Batman (Tim
Burton)
1988
1 Distant Voices, Still Lives
(Terence Davies)
2 The
Thin
Blue Line (Errol Morris)
3 Die Hard
(John McTiernan)
4 Powaqqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
5 Dangerous
Liaisons (Stephen Frears)
6 The
Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
7 My Neighbor Totoro
(Hayao Miyazaki)
8 The
Naked
Gun (David Zucker)
9 Grave of the
Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
10 The Firm (Alan Clarke)
11 Time of the
Gypsies (Emir Kusturica)
12 A Short Film
About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
13 The
Vanishing (George Sluizer)
14 They Live (John Carpenter)
15 High Hopes (Mike Leigh)
16 The
Adventures
of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam)
17 Beetlejuice
(Tim Burton)
18 Big (Penny
Marshall)
19 Who
Framed
Roger Rabbit? (Robert Zemeckis)
20 Hairspray (John
Waters)
21 Rain Man
(Barry Levinson)
22 Coming to America (John
Landis)
23 Dead
Ringers
(David Cronenberg)
1987
1 The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2 Raising Arizona (Joel
Coen)
3 Where is my
Friend's House? (Abbas Kiarostami)
4 Au revoir les
enfants
(Louis Malle)
5 The Princess
Bride (Rob Reiner)
6 The Man Who Planted Trees
(Frédéric Back)
7 Full Metal
Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
8 Damnation (Béla
Tarr)
9 Radio Days (Woody
Allen)
10 Matewan (John Sayles)
11 Superstar:
The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)
12 In a Glass Cage (Augustin
Villaronga)
13 House of Games (David Mamet)
14 Housekeeping (Bill
Forsyth)
15 Opera (Dario Argento)
16 Wall Street
(Oliver Stone)
17 Withnail
& I (Bruce Robinson)
18 Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)
19 Barfly (Barbet Schroeder)
20 Indoctrination (Harun
Farocki)
21 Planes, Trains,
and Automobiles (John Hughes)
1986
1 Blue Velvet
(David Lynch)
2 Down By Law
(Jim Jarmusch)
3 Platoon (Oliver Stone)
4 Laputa:
Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
5 Aliens (James Cameron)
6 Stand By Me (Rob Reiner)
7 Hannah and
Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
8 The Fly (David
Cronenberg)
9 The
Sacrifice
(Andrei Tarkovsky)
10 Ferris
Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes)
11 Hoosiers (David
Anspaugh)
12 Kin Dza Dza (Georgi
Daneliya)
1985
1 Vagabond (Agnes Varda)
2 Come and See (Elim
Klimov)
3 Ran (Akira
Kurosawa)
4 Pee Wee's Big Adventure
(Tim Burton)
5 Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
6 Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
7 The Purple Rose of Cairo
(Woody Allen)
8 Broken Down Film
(Osamu Tezuka)
9 A Zed & Two
Naughts (Peter Greenaway)
10 Almanac of Fall (Béla Tarr)
11 Day
of the Dead
(George A. Romero)
12 Hail Mary
(Jean-Luc Godard)
13 Back to the
Future (Robert Zemeckis)
14 My Life as
a Dog (Lasse Hallstrom)
1984
1 Once Upon a
Time in America (Sergio Leone)
2 The
NeverEnding Story (Wolfgang Petersen)
3 Blood Simple
(Joel Coen)
4 Body Double (Brian De Palma)
5 Paris,
Texas (Wim Wenders)
6 Streets of Fire
(Walter Hill)
7 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (Hayao
Miyazaki)
8 Amadeus (Milos Forman)
9
A Girl's Own Story
(Jane Campion)
10 Nineteen
Eighty-Four (Michael Radford)
11 Repo Man
(Alex Cox)
12 Gremlins (Joe Dante)
13 This is Spinal
Tap (Rob Reiner)
14 The Terminator
(James Cameron)
15 Jumping (Osamu Tezuka)
16 Ghost Busters
(Ivan Reitman)
1983
1 Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2 L'Argent (Robert
Bresson)
3 El Sur (Victor Erice)
4 Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
5 Zelig (Woody Allen)
6 Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
7 A Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat)
8 Videodrome (David
Cronenberg)
9 A Christmas
Story (Bob Clark)
10 Return
of
the Jedi (Richard Marquand)
11 48 Hrs. (Walter Hill)
12 The
King of
Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
13 Christine (John Carpenter)
14 Stranger
than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
15 Rumble
Fish (Francis Ford
Coppola)
16 First Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard)
17
Passionless Moments (Jane
Campion)
1982
1 Fanny and
Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
2 Blade Runner
(Ridley Scott)
3 Fitzcarraldo
(Werner Herzog)
4 White Dog
(Samuel Fuller)
5 Ballad of
Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
6 The Thing (John
Carpenter)
7 The Atomic
Cafe (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty & Pierce
Rafferty)
8 Sans Soleil (Chris
Marker)
9 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
(Steven Spielberg)
10 Moonlighting (Jerzy
Skolimowski)
11 The Verditct (Sidney Lumet)
12
Pink Floyd: The
Wall (Alan
Parker)
13 Passion (Jean-Luc
Godard)
14 The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter
Greenaway)
15 Burden of
Dreams (Les Blank)
16 Veronicka
Voss (Rainer Werner
Fassbinder)
1981
1 The Road Warrior (George Miller)
2 Southern Comfort (Walter
Hill)
3 America is
Waiting (Bruce Conner)
4 Raiders of
the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
5 Excalibur (John
Boorman)
6 Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
7 Modern Romance (Albert
Brooks)
8 Scanners (David Cronenberg)
9 Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)
10 Stripes (Harold Ramis)
1980
1 Airplane! (Jim Abrahams)
2 Berlin
Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
3 The Shining
(Stanley Kubrick)
4 Raging Bull (Martin
Scorsese)
5 The Empire
Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
6 The
Elephant Man (David Lynch)
7 Dressed
to Kill (Brian De Palma)
8 Caddyshack (Harold Ramis)
9 The Falls (Peter
Greenaway)
10 Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
11 The Fog
(John Carpenter)
12 The Blues
Brothers (John Landis)
13 The Big
Red One (Samuel Fuller)
1979
1 Apocalypse
Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
2 The Life of Brian
(Terry Jones)
3 Manhattan
(Woody
Allen)
4 Nosferatu the Vampyre
(Werner Herzog)
5 All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
6 Stalker (Andrei
Tarkovsky)
7 The
Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
8 Alien (Ridley Scott)
9 Love
on the Run
(Francois Truffaut)
10 The Jerk (Carl Reiner)
11 Woyzeck (Werner Herzog)
12 The Castle of Cagliostro
(Hayao Miyazaki)
13 Vengeance is Mine (Shohei
Imamura)
14 Real Life (Albert Brooks)
15 The Warriors (Walter Hill)
1978
1 Days of
Heaven (Terrence Malick)
2 Autumn Sonata
(Ingmar Bergman)
3
In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4 A Wedding (Robert
Altman)
5 Fingers (James Toback)
6 The Driver (Walter
Hill)
7 The Deer
Hunter (Michael Cimino)
8 Dawn
of the
Dead (George A. Romero)
9 Blue Collar (Paul
Schrader)
10 Vertical Features Remake (Peter
Greenaway)
11 Gates of Heaven (Errol
Morris)
12 Comment ca
va? (Jean-Luc Godard)
13 Halloween (John
Carpenter)
1977
1 That
Obscure Object of
Desire (Luis Buñuel)
2 Grin Without a Cat
(Chris Marker)
3 Annie
Hall
(Woody Allen)
4 Opening
Night (John Cassavetes)
5 The Ascent (Larisa
Shepitko)
6 Killer of Sheep
(Charles Burnett)
7 Eraserhead (David
Lynch)
8 Star Wars
(George Lucas)
9 Providence (Alain
Resnais)
10 The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson)
11 Hausu (Nabuhiko Obayashi)
1976
1 Taxi Driver
(Martin Scorsese)
2
Ici et Ailleurs (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre
Gorin,
Anne-Marie Mieville & Groupe Dziga Vertov)
3 Network (Sydney
Lumet)
4 The Killing of a Chinese
Bookie (John Cassavetes)
5 Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara
Kopple)
6 The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer)
7 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 Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey)
11 Small Change (Francois
Truffaut)
12 The
Tenant (Roman Polanski)
13 Chinese Roulette (Rainer
Werner
Fassbinder)
14 The Man Who Would Be King
(John Huston)
15 God Told Me To (Larry Cohen)
16 All the President's Men
(Alan J. Pakula)
1975
1 Dersu Uzala
(Akira Kurosawa)
2 Mirror (Andrei
Tarkovsky)
3 Deep Red (Dario
Argento)
4 Salo, or
The 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
5 Monty Python and the Holy
Grail (Terry Jones)
6 The
Story of
Adele H. (Francois Truffaut)
7 Barry Lyndon
(Stanley Kubrick)
8 Dog Day
Afternoon (Sydney Lumet)
9 Nashville (Robert Altman)
10 Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
11 Numero Deux
(Jean-Luc Godard)
12 Grey Gardens (Albert &
David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, & Muffie
Meyer)
13 One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
14 Xala (Ousmane Sembene)
15 Mother Kusters Goes to
Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1974
1 The
Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
2 The Godfather, Part II
(Francis Ford Coppola)
3 Parade (Jacques Tati)
4 Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5 Lancelot of
the Lake (Robert Bresson)
6
F for Fake (Orson
Welles)
7 Swept Away (Lina
Wertmueller)
8 Chinatown (Roman
Polanski)
9 Hearts & Minds (Peter Davis)
10 Celine
and Julie Go Boating (Jacques
Rivette)
11 Blazing
Saddles
(Mel Brooks)
12 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
(Werner Herzog)
13 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
(Tobe Hooper)
14 Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
15 Alice
in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
16 Lenny (Bob
Fosse)
17 Ali:
Fear Eats the Soul
(Rainer Werner Fassbiner)
1973
1
Scenes from a
Marriage
(Ingmar Bergman)
2 The Long Goodbye
(Robert Altman)
3 O Lucky Man!
(Lindsay Anderson)
4 The Spirit of the Beehive
(Victor Erice)
5 Fantastic Planet (René Laloux)
6 The Age of
the Medici (Roberto Rossellini)
7 Mean
Streets (Martin Scorsese)
8 Day for Night
(Francois Truffaut)
9 Amarcord (Federico
Fellini)
10 Coffy (Jack Hill)
11 Breezy (Clint
Eastwood)
1972
1 The Godfather
(Francis Ford Coppola)
2 Solaris (Andrei
Tarkovsky)
3 Aguirre: The
Wrath of God (Werner
Herzog)
4 The Bitter
Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5 Bad Company (Robert Benton)
6 Lucifer Rising (Kenneth
Anger)
7 The Discreet Charm of the
Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
8 Nathalie Granger
(Marguerite Duras)
9 Tout va Bien
(Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin & Groupe Dziga Vertov)
10 Last Tango in Paris
(Bernardo Bertolucci)
11 The
Devil (Andrzej Zulawski)
12 Slaughterhouse-Five
(George Roy Hill)
13 Chloe in the Afternoon
(Eric Rohmer)
14 Fat City (John Huston)
15 Deliverance (John
Boorman)
16 Snoopy, Come Home (Bill
Melendez)
1971
1 McCabe &
Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
2 The Ceremony (Nagisa
Oshima)
3 Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
4 A Clockwork
Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
5 WR:
Mysteries of the
Organism (Dusan Makavejev)
6 Trafic (Jacques
Tati)
7 Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
8
Two-Lane Blacktop
(Monte Hellman)
9 Land of Silence and Darkness
(Werner Herzog)
10
Minnie and
Moskowitz (John
Cassavetes)
11
Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg)
12 Harold and Maude (Hal
Ashby)
13 Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski)
14 Fata
Morgana (Werner
Herzog)
15 The
French
Connection (William Friedkin)
1970
1 The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
2 Les
Habitants (Artavazd Peleshyan)
3 A
Swedish Love Story (Roy Andersson)
4 The Garden
of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica)
5 Five Easy
Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
6 Le Cercle
Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)
7 Wanda (Barbara Loden)
8 Why Does
Herr R. Run Amok? (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
9 Husbands (John
Cassavetes)
10 Hi, Mom! (Brian De
Palma)
11 Zabriskie Point
(Michelangelo Antonioni)
12 Gimme
Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Mayles &
Charlotte Zwerin)
13 Woodstock
(Michael
Wadleigh)
14 The Grandmother (David
Lynch)
15 Dodesukaden (Akira
Kurosawa)
1969
1 Une
Femme Douce (Robert Bresson)
2 Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
3 Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
4 Salesman (Albert Maysles,
David Maysles &
Charlotte Zwerin)
5 Double Suicide
(Masahiro Shinoda)
6 Andrei
Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
7 Midnight
Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
8 Boy (Nagisa Oshima)
9 Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre
Melville)
10 Kes (Ken Loach)
11 A Touch of Zen (King
Hu)
12 The Wild
Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
13 Invocation of My Demon Brother
(Kenneth Anger)
14 My Night
at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
1968
1 2001: A Space
Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
2 Once Upon a
Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
3 The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
4 Je t'aime, je t'aime
(Alain Resnais)
5 Death By Hanging
(Nagisa Oshima)
6 High School (Frederick
Wiseman)
7 Sympathy
for the Devil (Jean-Luc Godard)
8 Yellow
Submarine (George Dunning)
9 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
(Bill Greaves)
10 The
Producers (Mel Brooks)
11
Memories
of Underdevelopment (Tomás
Gutiérrez Alea)
12 Secret
Ceremony (Joseph Losey)
13 Hour of
the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman)
14 Pas de Deux (Norman McLaren)
15 Rosemary's
Baby (Roman Polanski)
16 Shame (Ingmar Bergman)
17 If.... (Lindsay Anderson)
1967
1
Playtime (Jacques Tati)
2 Mouchette
(Robert Bresson)
3
Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
4 Belle de Jour
(Luis Buñuel)
5
Bonnie and
Clyde (Arthur Penn)
6 The
Graduate
(Mike Nichols)
7 Le Samourai
(Jean-Pierre Melville)
8 The Red and
the White (Miklós Janscó)
9 Week End
(Jean-Luc Godard)
10 Cool Hand
Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
11 2 or 3 Things I
Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
12 Love Affair or
Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan
Makavejev)
13 Eye Myth (Stan
Brakhage)
14 El Dorado (Howard Hawks)
15 The Shooting (Monte Hellman)
16 Point Blank
(John Boorman)
17 Peppermint Frappe (Carlos
Saura)
18 The Crush (Ermanno Olmi)
19 La Chinoise (Jean-Luc
Godard)
1966
1 Au hasard,
Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
2 Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
3 The Good,
the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
4 Trans-Europ-Express
(Alain Robbe-Grillet)
5 Breakaway (Bruce
Conner)
6 Blowup
(Michelangelo Antonioni)
7 Violence at High Noon
(Nagisa Oshima)
8 La Caza (Carlos Saura)
9 La Religieuse (Jacques
Rivette)
10 Masculine-Feminine (Jean-Luc
Godard)
11 Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Vaclav
Vorlicek)
12 Three
on a Couch (Jerry Lewis)
13 Kill Baby...Kill! (Mario
Bava)
14 Come Drink With Me (King Hu)
15 The Face of Another
(Hiroshi Teshigahara)
16 It's
the
Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez)
17 Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel)
18 How the
Grinch Stole Christmas (Chuck Jones)
19 Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
20 The Rise of Louis XIV
(Roberto Rossellini)
1965
1 Pierrot
le
Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
2 The Shop on
Main Street (Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos)
3 Alphaville (Jean-Luc
Godard)
4 The Round-Up (Miklós Janscó)
5
Battle
of Algiers (Gillo
Pontecorvo)
6 Simon of the Desert
(Luis Buñuel)
7 A Thousand
Clowns (Fred Coe)
8 Repulsion
(Roman Polanski)
9 Bunny Lake is Missing
(Otto Preminger)
10 Dr.
Zhivago
(David Lean)
11 Fists in the Pocket (Marco
Bellochio)
12 A
Charlie
Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez)
13 For a Few
Dollars More (Sergio
Leone)
14 In Harm's Way (Otto
Preminger)
15 The War Game (Peter
Watkins)
16 King Rat (Bryan Forbes)
17 Juliet
of
the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
18 Loves
of a
Blonde (Milos Forman)
19 Le Bonheur (Agnès
Varda)
1964
1 Woman in the Dunes
(Hiroshi Teshigahara)
2 Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
3 Band of Outsiders
(Jean-Luc Godard)
4 Charulata (Satyajit
Ray)
5 Yearning (Mikio Naruse)
6 Dr.
Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(Stanley Kubrick)
7 Red Desert
(Michelangelo Antonioni)
8 Nothing But a Man
(Michael Roemer)
9 Hamlet (Gregori
Kosintsev)
10 The
Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
11 A Fistful of Dollars
(Sergio Leone)
12 The Gospel
According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
13 The Patsy (Jerry Lewis)
14 Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo)
15 The Soft Skin
(Francois Truffaut)
16 A Hard Day's
Night (Richard Lester)
17 Gertrud (Carl
Theodor Dreyer)
18 I Am Cuba (Mikheil
Kalatozishvili)
1963
1 Contempt (Jean-Luc
Godard)
2 An Actor's Revenge
(Kon Ichikawa)
3 8 1/2 (Federico
Fellini)
4 Shock Corridor
(Samuel Fuller)
5 Hud (Martin Ritt)
6 High & Low
(Akira Kurosawa)
7 The Birds
(Alfred Hitchcock)
8 The House is Black (Farough
Farrokhzad)
9 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad
World (Stanley Kramer)
10 The Girl at
the Monceau Bakery (Eric Rohmer)
11 Les
Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
12 The
Haunting (Robert Wise)
1962
1 The Trial (Orson
Welles)
2 La Jetée (Chris
Marker)
3 My
Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard)
4 L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5 The
Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
6 The Exterminating Angel
(Luis Buñuel)
7 Jules
and Jim (Francois Truffaut)
8 Hatari!
(Howard Hawks)
9 Lawrence of
Arabia (David Lean)
10 The Man Who Shot Liberty
Valence (John Ford)
11
Advise
and Consent
(Otto Preminger)
12 Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
13 Her
Lonely Lane (Mikio
Naruse)
14 The Trial of
Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
15
Lolita (Stanley
Kubrick)
16 Cosmic Ray
(Bruce Conner)
17
Ivan's
Childhood
(Andrei Tarkovsky)
18 To Kill a Mockingbird
(Robert Mulligan)
19 Knife in the Water
(Roman Polanski)
20 Ride the High Country (Sam
Peckinpah)
21 Two Weeks in Another Town
(Vincente Minnelli)
22 Hell is for Heroes (Don
Siegel)
1961
1 Yojimbo (Akira
Kurosawa)
2 Last Year at Marienbad
(Alain Resnais)
3 Accattone
(Pier Paolo Pasolini)
4 A
Woman is a Woman
(Jean-Luc Godard)
5 Underworld U.S.A.
(Samuel Fuller)
6 The Ladies' Man (Jerry
Lewis)
7 The
Hustler (Robert
Rossen)
8 La Notte
(Michelangelo Antonioni)
9
Through a Glass Darkly
(Ingmar Bergman)
10 One, Two, Three (Billy
Wilder)
1960
1 L'Avventura
(Michelangelo Antonioni)
2 Shoot the Piano Player
(Francois Truffaut)
3 When a Woman Ascends the
Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
4 Naked Island
(Kaneto Shindo)
5 Le Trou (Jacques
Becker)
6 Psycho
(Alfred
Hitchcock)
7 Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima)
8 Devi (Satyajit Ray)
9 The Virgin Spring
(Ingmar Bergman)
10
La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
11 The Apartment
(Billy Wilder)
12 Night and Fog in
Japan (Nagisa Oshima)
13 The
Savage
Innocents (Nicholas Ray)
14 Eyes
Without a Face (Georges Franju)
15 Peeping Tom
(Michael Powell)
16 Le Petit Soldat
(Jean-Luc Godard)
17 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
Pickpocket
(Robert
Bresson)
5
Human Condition II: The
Road
to Eternity (Masaki Kobayashi)
6 The 400 Blows
(Francois Truffaut)
7 The World of Apu
(Satyajit Ray)
8
Some Like it Hot
(Billy Wilder)
9 Breathless (Jean-Luc
Godard)
10 Anatomy
of a
Murder (Otto Preminger)
11 Night Train (Jerzy
Kawalerowicz)
12 Shadows (John
Cassavetes)
13 Imitation of Life
(Douglas Sirk)
14 Fires
on the Plain
(Kon Ichikawa)
15 Day of the Outlaw (Andre De Toth)
16 Hiroshima, Mon
Amour (Alain
Resnais)
17 Sleeping Beauty
(Clyde Geronomi)
18 Ride Lonesome (Budd
Boetticher)
1958
1 Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
2 Touch of Evil
(Orson Welles)
3 The Hidden Fortress
(Akira Kurosawa)
4 Party Girl (Nicholas
Ray)
5 The Music
Room (Satyajit Ray)
6 The
Tarnished Angels (Douglas
Sirk)
7 Mon Oncle (Jacques
Tati)
8 Giants & Toys
(Yasuzo Masumura)
9 Buchanan Rides Alone
(Bud Boetticher)
10 Bonjour Tristesse
(Otto Preminger)
11 Man of the
West (Anthony Mann)
12 Ivan the Terrible,
Part II (Sergei Eisenstein)
13 A Movie (Bruce
Conner)
1957
1
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
2 Bitter Victory
(Nicholas Ray)
3 Throne of Blood
(Akira Kurosawa)
4 Nights of Cabiria
(Federico Fellini)
5 Sweet Smell of Success
(Alexander Mackendrick)
6 The
Bridge on the River
Kwai (David Lean)
7 The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail
Kalatozov)
8 Wild Strawberries
(Ingmar Bergman)
9 Paths of Glory
(Stanley Kubrick)
10 Men in War (Anthony
Mann)
11 The Tin Star (Anthony Mann)
12 Il
Grido (Michelangelo
Antonioni)
13 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
(Frank Tashlin)
14 Aparajito (Satyajit
Ray)
15 Forty Guns (Samuel
Fuller)
16 12 Angry Men
(Sidney Lumet)
1956
1 The Wrong Man
(Alfred Hitchcock)
2 A Man Escaped
(Robert Bresson)
3 The Searchers (John
Ford)
4 The
Burmese Harp
(Kon Ichikawa)
5 Written on the Wind
(Douglas Sirk)
6 Bigger Than Life
(Nicholas Ray)
7 There's Always
Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk)
8 Baby Doll (Elia Kazan)
9 Lust
for Life (Vincente Minnelli)
10 Seven
Men from Now (Budd Boetticher)
11 The Killing (Stanley
Kubrick)
12 Hot Blood (Nicholas Ray)
13 The King and I
(Walter Lang)
14 Samurai
III: Duel on Ganryu Island (Hiroshi Inagaki)
1955
1 Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
2 Night and Fog
(Alain Resnais)
3 Pather
Panchali
(Satyajit Ray)
4 Ordet (Carl
Theodor Dreyer)
5 Rebel Without a
Cause
(Nicholas Ray)
6 Les Diaboliques
(Henri-Georges Clouzot)
7 The Man from Laramie
(Anthony Mann)
8 French Cancan (Jean
Renoir)
9 Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
10 Rififi (Jules Dassin)
11 Lola Montes
(Max Ophuls)
12 All
that
Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
13 To
Catch a
Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
14 Bob le Flambeur
(Jean-Pierre Melville)
15 The Indian Fighter (Andre
De Toth)
16 Night of the Hunter
(Charles Laughton)
17 Princess
Yang Kwei Fei
(Kenji Mizoguchi)
18 East
of
Eden (Elia Kazan)
1954
1 Rear Window (Alfred
Hitchcock)
2 Sansho the
Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3 Seven Samurai
(Akira Kurosawa)
4 Johnny Guitar
(Nicholas Ray)
5 Twenty Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita)
6 On the Waterfront
(Elia Kazan)
7
A Star is Born
(George Cukor)
8 Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse)
9 Sabrina (Billy Wilder)
10 Dial M for
Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
11 Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
12 Sound
of the Mountain
(Mikio Naruse)
13 The Far Country
(Anthony Mann)
14 Salt of
the Earth (Herbert J. Biberman)
15 Samurai
I:
Musashi Miyamoto (Hiroshi Inagaki)
16 Crucified
Lovers
(Kenji Mizoguchi)
1953
1 The Earrings of Madame
de... (Max Ophuls)
2 Ugetsu (Kenji
Mizoguchi)
3 Pickup on South Street
(Samuel Fuller)
4 All I Desire (Douglas Sirk)
5 A Geisha
(Kenji Mizoguchi)
6 The Naked
Spur (Anthony Mann)
7 Monika (Ingmar Bergman)
8 Roman
Holiday (William Wyler)
9 Duck Amuck (Chuck
Jones)
10 The
Big Heat (Fritz
Lang)
11 The Wages of
Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
12 I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
13 The Sun Shines Bright (John
Ford)
14 Peter
Pan
(Geronomi, Luske &
Jackson)
1952
1 On Dangerous Ground
(Nicholas Ray)
2 The Life of Oharu
(Kenji Mizoguchi)
3 El: This
Strange Passion (Luis Buñuel)
4 Lightning (Mikio
Naruse)
5 Forbidden
Games (Réné
Clement)
6 Casque d'or (Jacques
Becker)
7 Feed
the Kitty (Chuck Jones)
8 The
Lusty
Men (Nicholas Ray)
9 Europa '51 (Roberto
Rossellini)
10 Umberto
D (Vittorio
De Sica)
11 Park Row (Samuel Fuller)
12 Singin'
in the Rain
(Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
13 The Narrow Margin (Richard
Fleischer)
14 Water, Water Every Hare
(Chuck Jones)
15 Kansas City Confidential
(Phil Karlson)
16 Rabbit Seasoning (Chuck
Jones)
17 The Bad and the Beautiful
(Vincente Minnelli)
1951
1 Miss Julie (Alf Sjöberg)
2 Strangers on a Train
(Alfred Hitchcock)
3 Diary
of a Country Priest
(Robert Bresson)
4 A Streetcar Named Desire
(Elia Kazan)
5 Alice in Wonderland
(Geronomi, Luske &
Jackson)
6 Repast (Mikio Naruse)
7 The
13th
Letter
(Otto Preminger)
8 The Thing From Another World (Howard
Hawks & Christian Nyby)
9 The Day the Earth Stood Still
(Robert Wise)
10 The Tall Target
(Anthony Mann)
1950
1 Sunset Boulevard
(Billy Wilder)
2 In a Lonely Place
(Nicholas Ray)
3 Stromboli (Roberto
Rossellini)
4
Los
Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
5 Born to be Bad
(Nicholas Ray)
6 Rashomon (Akira
Kurosawa)
7 Un
Chant d'amour (Jean Genet)
8 Gun
Crazy
(Joseph H. Lewis)
9 All About Eve
(Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
10 Rabbit of Seville (Chuck
Jones)
11 Winchester '73
(Anthony Mann)
12 Night and the City (Jules Dassin)
13 Panic in the Streets (Elia
Kazan)
14 Where the Sidewalk Ends
(Otto Preminger)
15 DOA (Rudolph Maté)
16 Stage
Fright (Alfred Hitchcock)
17 The Gunfighter
(Henry King)
1949
1 The Third
Man (Carol Reed)
2 Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
3 The Reckless Moment
(Max Ophuls)
4 Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
5 Force of Evil (Abraham
Polonsky)
6 Kind Hearts
and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
7 I Shot
Jesse James (Samuel Fuller)
8 I Was a Male
War Bride (Howard Hawks)
9 The Bicycle Thief
(Vittorio De Sica)
10 White Heat (Raoul
Walsh)
11 Colorado Territory (Raoul
Walsh)
12 Puce
Moment (Kenneth Anger)
13 Caught (Max Ophuls)
1948
1 Treasure of
the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
2 La Terra
Trema (Luchino Visconti)
3 Red River
(Howard Hawks)
4 Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
5 The Lady
from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
6 Moonrise (Frank
Borzage)
7 Oliver
Twist (David Lean)
8 Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges)
9 Jour de
Fete (Jacques Tati)
10 They
Live
By Night (Nicholas Ray)
11 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 Germany
Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
5 Daisy Kenyon (Otto
Preminger)
6 Out of the
Past (Jacques Tourneur)
7 Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
8 Brighton Rock (John
Boulting)
9 Nightmare
Alley (Edmund Goulding)
10 The
Paradine Case (Alfred Hitchcock)
1946
1 Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
2 It's a
Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
3 The Big Sleep
(Howard Hawks)
4 Shoe-Shine
(Vittorio De Sica)
5 La Belle et
la Bête (Jean Cocteau)
6 Paisan (Roberto
Rossellini)
7 Great
Expectations (David Lean)
8 The Best
Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
9 Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch)
10 The Stranger (Orson Welles)
11 My Darling
Clementine (John Ford)
12 The Killers (Robert Siodmak)
1945
1 Children of
Paradise (Marcel Carné)
2 The Clock
(Vincente Minnelli)
3 The Woman in the Window
(Fritz Lang)
4 Les Dames
du Bois de Bologne (Robert Bresson)
5 A Study in
Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren)
6 The
Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin)
7 Detour (Edward G. Ulmer)
8 Spellbound
(Alfred
Hitchcock)
9 Brief
Encounter (David Lean)
10 The Southerner
(Jean Renoir)
1944
1 Double
Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
2 Ivan the
Terrible, Part I (Sergei Eisenstein)
3 At Land
(Maya Deren)
4 Curse of
the Cat People (Robert Wise)
5 None Shall Escape
(Andre De Toth)
6 Miracle at
Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)
7 Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
8 Meet
Me in
St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
9 Hail the
Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)
10 Laura (Otto
Preminger)
11 Murder, My
Sweet (Edward Dmytryk)
12 To
Have and
Have Not (Howard Hawks)
1943
1 This Land
is Mine (Jean Renoir)
2 Meshes of
the Afternoon (Maya Deren)
3 The Seventh Victim
(Mark Robson)
4
Shadow of a
Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
5 The Raven
(Henri-Georges Clouzot)
6 Day of
Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
7 The
Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric
Pressburger)
8 Air Force (Howard
Hawks)
9 Heaven
Can
Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
10 Les Anges du Peche (Robert Bresson)
11 The Leopard Man
(Jacques Tourneur)
1942
1 Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
2 The
Magnificent Ambersons
(Orson Welles)
3 To Be or
Not
to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
4
The Palm Beach Story
(Preston Sturges)
5 Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
6 Gentleman Jim (Raoul
Walsh)
7 Bambi (David Hand)
8 The
Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
9
Cat People
(Jaques Tourneur)
10 Yankee
Doodle Dandy
(Michael Curtiz)
1941
1 Citizen Kane
(Orson Welles)
2 The 47
Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3 Wabbit Twouble (Robert
Clampett)
4 The Maltese
Falcon (John Huston)
5 That
Uncertain Feeling (Ernst Lubitsch)
6 The Devil & Daniel Webster
(William Dieterle)
7 Sullivan's
Travels (Preston Sturges)
8 Dumbo (Ben
Sharpsteen)
9 The
Lady Eve (Preston
Sturges)
10
Suspicion (Alfred
Hitchcock)
1940
1 The
Shop
Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
2 Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
3 Fantasia (Disney, various)
4 The
Philadelphia
Story (George Cukor)
5 Foreign
Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
6 The Grapes of Wrath (John
Ford)
7 Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske & Ben
Sharpsteen)
8 The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage)
9 The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline)
10 Christmas
in July (Preston Sturges)
11 The Great McGinty (Preston
Sturges)
1939
1 The
Story of
the Last Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi)
2 The Rules
of
the Game
(Jean Renoir)
3 The Wizard of Oz (Victor
Fleming)
4 Gone with
the Wind (Victor Fleming)
5 Only
Angels Have
Wings (Howard Hawks)
6 Wuthering
Heights (William Wyler)
7 Midnight (Mitchell Leisen)
8 Destry
Rides Again (George Marshall)
9 The Roaring Twenties
(Raoul Walsh)
10 Young Mr. Lincoln
(John Ford)
11 Stagecoach (John Ford)
1938
1 Angels with Dirty
Faces (Michael Curtiz)
2 Holiday (George Cukor)
3 The Lady
Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
4 Le Quai
des Brumes (Marcel Carne)
5 Bringing
Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
6 Four Daughters
(Michael Curtiz)
7 La Bête Humaine (Jean Renoir)
8 Bluebeard's Eighth
Wife
(Ernst Lubitsch)
9 Alexander
Nevsky
(Sergei Eisenstein)
10 You Can't Take it With You (Frank
Capra)
1937
1 Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo
McCarey)
2 You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
3 History is Made at Night (Frank
Borzage)
4 Snow
White
and the Seven Dwarves
(Disney, various)
5 Humanity
& Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka)
6 Stage Door (Gregory La
Cava)
7 The Grand
Illusion (Jean Renoir)
8 The Awful
Truth (Leo McCarey)
9 Angel (Ernst Lubitsch)
10 Pepe le
Moko (Julien Duvivier)
11 Mannequin (Frank Borzage)
1936
1 Modern Times
(Charles Chaplin)
2 Fury (Fritz
Lang)
3 Rose Hobart (Joseph
Cornell)
4 A Day in the
Country (Jean Renoir)
5 Dodsworth (William
Wyler)
6
My Man Godfrey
(Gregory La Cava)
7 Mr. Deeds
Goes to Town (Frank Capra)
8 Osaka Elegy (Kenji
Mizoguchi)
9 After the Thin Man (W.
S. Van Dyke)
10 Sisters of
the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1935
1
Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
2 Ruggles of Red Gap
(Leo
McCarey)
3 The Devil Is a
Woman (Josef von
Sternberg)
4 The 39 Steps (Alfred
Hitchcock)
5 The Bride of
Frankenstein
(James Whale)
6 A Night at the Opera
(Sam Wood)
7 Mutiny
on the Bounty (Frank
Lloyd)
1934
1 L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
2 The
Scarlett Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
3 The Black
Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
4 La Signora di Tutti
(Max Ophuls)
5 It's a Gift (Norman McLeod)
6 The Merry
Widow (Ernst Lubitsch)
7 It Happened
One Night (Frank Capra)
8 Our Daily
Bread (King Vidor)
9 Twentieth
Century (Howard Hawks)
10 The Thin Man (W. S.
Van Dyke)
1933
1 The Testament
of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
2 Design
for Living (Ernst
Lubitsch)
3 Counsellor
at Law (William Wyler)
4 Zero for
Conduct (Jean Vigo)
5 Duck Soup
(Leo McCarey)
6 Lady for a Day (Frank Capra)
7 Outskirts (Boris
Barnet)
8 Liebelei (Max Ophuls)
9 Land Without Bread
(Luis Buñuel)
10 King Kong
(Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
1932
1 Trouble in
Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
2 Freaks (Tod
Browning)
3 Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
4 Scarface (Howard
Hawks)
5 Tiger Shark (Howard Hawks)
6 Boudu Saved from Drowning
(Jean Renoir)
7 The
Crowd Roars (Howard Hawks)
8 Vampyr (Carl Theodor
Dreyer)
9 I Was Born, But...
(Yasujiro Ozu)
10 Shanghai
Express (Josef von Sternberg)
1931
1 City Lights
(Charles Chaplin)
2 M (Fritz
Lang)
3 An American Tragedy (Josef von
Sternberg)
4 A Nous la
Liberte (Rene Clair)
5 Le Million
(Rene Clair)
6 Tabu: A
Tale of the South Seas (F.W. Murnau)
7 The Smiling Lieutenant
(Ernst Lubitsch)
8
Frankenstein (James Whale)
9 Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod)
10 La Chienne (Jean
Renoir)
1930
1 Earth (Alexander Dovzhenko)
2 L'Âge
D'or (Luis
Buñuel)
3 Á Propos de Nice
(Jean Vigo)
4 City Girl (F. W. Murnau)
5 All Quiet
on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
6
Morocco (Josef von
Sternberg)
7 Blood of the Poet
(Jean Cocteau)
8 Autumn Fire (Herman G. Weinberg)
9 Animal Crackers
(Victor Heerman)
10 Romance
Sentimentale (Grigori
Aleksandrov & Sergei Eisenstein)
1929
1 Pandora's Box (G. W. Pabst)
2 Man With the Movie Camera
(Dziga Vertov)
3 Diary of a Lost Girl
(G. W. Pabst)
4 Thunderbolt (Josef von Sternberg)
5 Un Chien Andalou (Luis
Buñuel)
6 H2O (Ralph Steiner)
7 Regen (Joris
Ivens)
8 Brumes
D'Automne
(Dimitri Kirsanoff)
9 Queen Kelly (Erich von Stroheim)
10 Les
Mystères du château de
Dé (Man Ray)
1928
1 The Passion of Joan of Arc
(Carl Theodor Dreyer)
2
The
Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood
Extra (Robert Florey
& Slavko Vorkapich)
3 The Crowd (King
Vidor)
4 The Wind (Victor
Sjostrom)
5 The Docks of New York
(Josef von Sternberg)
6 Steamboat Bill, Jr.
(Buster Keaton)
7 The Circus (Charles
Chaplin)
8 The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean
Epstein & Luis Buñuel)
9 Speedy (Ted Wilde)
10 L'Étoile de mer (Man Ray)
11 The Seashell & the Clergyman
(Germain Dulac)
12 The
Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton)
1927
1 Metropolis (Fritz
Lang)
2 Sunrise (F.W.
Murnau)
3 La glace a trois
faces (Jean Epstein)
4 The General (Buster
Keaton)
5 The Girl With the
Hatbox
(Boris Barnet)
6 October (Sergei
Eisenstein)
7
College (James W. Horne)
8 The Student Prince at Old
Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch)
9 The
Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland)
1926
1 By the Law (Lev Kuleshov)
2 Emak-Bakia (Man Ray)
3 Menilmontant
(Dimitri
Kirsanoff)
4 The Adventures of Prince
Achmed
(Karl Koch & Lotte Reiniger)
5 Anémic
cinéma (Marcel Duchamp)
6
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 Strike (Sergei
Eisenstein)
7
Go West (Buster
Keaton)
1924
1 Sherlock, Jr.
(Buster Keaton)
2 The Last Laugh
(F.W. Murnau)
3 Entr'Acte (Rene
Clair)
4 Ballet
Mécanique (Fernand
Leger
& Dudley Murphy)
5 Girl Shy
(Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
6 Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
(Fritz Lang)
7 He Who Gets Slapped (Victor
Sjostrom)
8 Die Nibelungen:
Kriemhild's Revenge (Fritz Lang)
9 The Navigator (Donald
Crisp & Buster Keaton)
10
Michael
(Carl
Theodor Dreyer)
1923
1 Our Hospitality (John Blystone & Buster Keaton)
2 Safety Last! (Fred C.
Newmeyer
& Sam Taylor)
3 The Smiling
Madame Beudet (Germaine
Dulac)
4 Why
Worry? (Fred C. Newmeyer &
Sam Taylor)
4 The Balloonatic (Edward F. Cline
& Buster Keaton)
6 Three Ages (Buster
Keaton)
7 Le Retour à la raison (Man
Ray)
1922
1 Cops (Edward F. Cline & Buster
Keaton)
2 Nanook of the North
(Robert Flaherty)
3 Nosferatu (F.W.
Murnau)
4 The Electric House
(Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton)
5 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler
(Fritz Lang)
6 The Blacksmith (Buster Keaton &
Malcolm St. Clair)
7 Daydreams (Buster
Keaton)
8 My Wife's Relations
(Buster Keaton)
9 The Paleface (Buster Keaton)
1921
1 The Goat (Buster Keaton & Malcolm St.
Clair)
2 The Play House (Buster Keaton)
3 The Kid (Charles
Chaplin)
4 Leaves
from Satan's Book (Carl
Theodor Dreyer)
5 Hard Luck (Edward F.
Cline & Buster Keaton)
6 Now or Never (Hal
Roach & Fred C. Newmeyer)
7 Manhatta (Paul Strand
& Charles Sheeler)
8 Never Weaken (Fred C.
Newmeyer)
9 The Idle Class
(Charles Chaplin)
10 Rhythmus 21 (Hans Richter)
1920
1 Convict 13 (Edward F. Cline &
Buster
Keaton)
2 Neighbors (Edward F.
Cline & Buster Keaton)
3 The Parson's Widow
(Carl Theodor Dreyer)
4 The
Scarecrow (Buster Keaton)
5 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(Robert Weine)
Pre-1920s
1 Intolerance (D. W. Griffith,
1916)
2 Broken Blossoms
(D. W. Griffith, 1919)
3 The Golden Beetle
(Segundo de Chamón, 1907)
4 A Trip to the Moon
(Georges Méliès, 1914)
5 The Great Train Robbery
(Siegmund Lubin, 1904)
6 The Impossible Voyage (Georges
Méliès, 1904)
7 A Dog's Life (Charles
Chaplin, 1918)
8 The Mermaid
(Georges
Méliès, 1904)
9 Falling Leaves (Alice
Guy-Blaché, 1912)
10 Nero, Or the Fall of Rome
(Luigi Maggi, 1909)
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