Updated 3-9-2024.
2023
- Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
- Close (Lukas Dhont)
- The Holdovers (Alexander Payne)
- Ferrari (Michael Mann)
- Barbie (Greta Gerwig)
- The Killer (David Fincher)
- Reality (Tina Satter)
- Falcon Lake (Charlotte Le Bon)
- Last Summer (Catherine Breillat)
- Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
2022
- Vortex (Gaspar Noé)
- Tár (Todd Field)
- Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
- Sick of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli)
- Jackass Forever (Jeff Tremaine)
- Stutz (Jonah Hill)
- Tori and Lokita (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
- No Bears (Jafar Panahi)
- Babylon (Damien Chazelle)
- EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
2021
- Annette (Leos Carax)
- Titane (Julia Ducournau)
- Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
- Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Spencer (Pablo Larraín)
- France (Bruno Dumont)
- The Things We Say, the Things We Do (Emmanuel Mouret)
- Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
- Pig (Michael Sarnoski)
2020
- Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen)
- Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
- Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)
- Alex Wheatle (Steve McQueen)
- It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman)
- Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds (Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer)
- Swallow (Carlo Mirabella-Davis)
- Liberté (Albert Serra)
- Education (Steve McQueen)
- Tread (Paul Solet)
2019
- An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
- Uncut Gems (Josh and Benny Safdie)
- The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
- Parasite (Bong Joon-Ho)
- Light of My Life (Casey Affleck)
- Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
- The Mustang (Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre)
- A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick)
- American Factory (Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar)
- Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi)
2018
- Dovlatov (Aleksei German)
- They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (Morgan Neville)
- Won't You Be My Neighbor? (Morgan Neville)
- Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
- The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier)
- Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
- Green Book (Peter Farrelly)
- Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski)
- Lean on Pete (Andrew Haigh)
- Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
2017
- Get Me Roger Stone (Dylan Bank, Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme)
- The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola)
- The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)
- I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie)
- On Body and Soul (Ildikó Enyedi)
- Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
- Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
- Mother! (Darren Aronofsky)
- The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach)
- The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)
2016
- Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)
- La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
- Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
- Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi)
- Silence (Martin Scorsese)
- Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
- Rams (Grímur Hákonarson)
- The Nice Guys (Shane Black)
- Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
2015
- Inside Out (Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen)
- It Follows (David Robert Mitchell)
- Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
- The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
- The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
- Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara)
- Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
- Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
- Room (Lenny Abrahamson)
- Tangerine (Sean Baker)
2014
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
- Nymphomaniac Vol. I & II (Lars von Trier)
- We Are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson)
- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
- Jodorowsky's Dune (Frank Pavich)
- Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
- The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh)
- Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
- Ernest & Celestine (Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner)
- Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
2013
- Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
- The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn and Anonymous)
- Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu)
- Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche)
- The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
- Museum Hours (Jem Cohen)
- The Past (Asghar Farhadi)
- To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
- Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan)
- The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg)
2012
- Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
- Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
- Amour (Michael Haneke)
- Life of Pi (Ang Lee)
- The Imposter (Bart Layton)
- Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
- Bernie (Richard Linklater)
- The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
- Ted (Seth MacFarlane)
- Frankenweenie (Tim Burton)
2011
- The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
- Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
- A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
- House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)
- Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino)
- Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean)
- The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar)
- The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
- A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)
- Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán)
2010
- Father of My Children (Mia Hansen-Løve)
- How to Train Your Dragon (Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders)
- Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé)
- Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)
- Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg)
- Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
- A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
- True Grit (Joel and Ethan Coen)
- The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2009
- Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
- Bright Star (Jane Campion)
- Two Lovers (James Gray)
- Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore)
- Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Hayao Miyazaki)
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
- Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
- Up (Pete Docter and Bob Peterson)
- Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight (Wendy Keys)
- Valentino: The Last Emperor (Matt Tyrnauer)
2008
- WALL•E (Andrew Stanton)
- Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
- A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
- In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín)
- Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
- Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
- Before I Forget (Jacques Nolot)
- The Class (Laurent Cantet)
- The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
- Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
2007
- Time (Kim Ki-Duk)
- Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
- I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-Liang)
- Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright and Eli Roth)
- Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
- Sicko (Michael Moore)
- Flanders (Bruno Dumont)
- Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
- Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)
2006
- The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
- An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
- Inside Man (Spike Lee)
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tom Tykwer)
- Jackass Number Two (Jeff Tremaine)
- The Child (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles)
- Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
- Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
- Honor de Cavalleria (Albert Serra)
2005
- Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
- Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)
- 3-Iron (Kim Ki-Duk)
- Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney)
- Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
- The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-Liang)
- Munich (Steven Spielberg)
- Into Great Silence (Philip Gröning)
- A Hole in My Heart (Lukas Moodysson)
- Match Point (Woody Allen)
2004
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring (Kim Ki-Duk)
- Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
- Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess)
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)
- The Five Obstructions (Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier)
- Touching the Void (Kevin Macdonald)
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (Stephen Hillenburg)
- Sideways (Alexander Payne)
- Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Control Room (Jehane Noujaim)
2003
- Dogville (Lars von Trier)
- Irréversible (Gaspar Noé)
- Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)
- Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin)
- Kill Bill, Volume One (Quentin Tarantino)
- Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
- Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff)
- Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
- School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
- Phone Booth (Joel Schumacher)
2002
- What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-Liang)
- Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
- Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
- The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
- 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom)
- Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike)
- Visitor Q (Takashi Miike)
- Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
- Frailty (Bill Paxton)
- Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
2001
- Audition (Takashi Miike)
- Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
- Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
- Under the Sand (François Ozon)
- Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter)
- In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
- The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen)
- Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette)
- Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)
- I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira)
2000
- Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano)
- Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
- Taboo (Nagisa Oshima)
- Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin)
- Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
- American Psycho (Mary Harron)
- Quills (Philip Kaufman)
- You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
- Chopper (Andrew Dominik)
- Human Resources (Laurent Cantet)
1999
- Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
- Fight Club (David Fincher)
- Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter)
- The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
- Rosetta (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
- Titus (Julie Taymor)
- L'Humanite (Bruno Dumont)
- After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
- Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (Errol Morris)
1998
- Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
- The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
- The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
- Your Friends & Neighbors (Neil LaBute)
- Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano)
- Henry Fool (Hal Hartley)
- Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
- Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon)
- Dark City (Alex Proyas)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam)
1997
- In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
- Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- The Game (David Fincher)
- As Good as It Gets (James L. Brooks)
- Love and Death on Long Island (Richard Kwietniowski)
- The Wings of the Dove (Iain Softley)
- L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
- The Apostle (Robert Duvall)
- Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai)
- Titanic (James Cameron)
1996
- Fargo (Joel Coen)
- Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
- Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
- The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
- Shall We Dance? (Masayuki Suo)
- Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky)
- Conspirators of Pleasure (Jan Svankmajer)
- Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
- La Promesse (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
- Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen)
1995
- Heat (Michael Mann)
- Seven (David Fincher)
- Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
- Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow)
- Nixon (Oliver Stone)
- Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai)
- Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
- Safe (Todd Haynes)
- Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach)
- Smoke (Wayne Wang)
1994
- Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
- The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
- Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
- Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
- Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
- Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
- Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
- Nobody's Fool (Robert Benton)
- Sátántangó (Béla Tarr)
- Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-Liang)
1993
- Naked (Mike Leigh)
- Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
- Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)
- A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
- The Piano (Jane Campion)
- Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
- White (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick)
- Wittgenstein (Derek Jarman)
- Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Francois Girard)
1992
- Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
- Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
- Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
- Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
- Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (Peter Wintonick and Mark Achbar)
- Man Bites Dog (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde)
- The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
- Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-Liang)
- Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
- The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)
1991
- The Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax)
- Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
- The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
- The Hours and Times (Christopher Münch)
- Barton Fink (Joel Coen)
- Slacker (Richard Linklater)
- Proof (Jocelyn Moorhouse)
- La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
- Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat)
- The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
1990
- GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese)
- Trust (Hal Hartley)
- No, or the Vain Glory of Command (Manoel de Oliveira)
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton)
- Reversal of Fortune (Barbet Schroeder)
- Awakenings (Penny Marshall)
- Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner)
- An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion)
- The King of New York (Abel Ferrara)
- Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
1989
- The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
- Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)
- Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
- Say Anything... (Cameron Crowe)
- Jesus of Montreal (Denys Arcand)
- The Killer (John Woo)
- sex, lies and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
- Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)
- My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan)
1988
- Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
- My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
- Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
- Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore)
- Talk Radio (Oliver Stone)
- Things Change (David Mamet)
- Pelle the Conqueror (Bille August)
- Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo)
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Frank Oz)
- The Moderns (Alan Rudolph)
1987
- The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- Moonstruck (Norman Jewison)
- Radio Days (Woody Allen)
- The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara)
- Au Revoir les Enfants (Louis Malle)
- Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)
- House of Games (David Mamet)
- Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
- Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth)
- Yeelen (Souleymane Cissé)
1986
- Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
- Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
- Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring (Claude Berri)
- The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
- The Decline of the American Empire (Denys Arcand)
- Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan)
- Aliens (James Cameron)
- Ruthless People (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker)
- Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
1985
- Come and See (Elem Klimov)
- Kiss of the Spider Woman (Héctor Babenco)
- Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader)
- Vagabond (Agnès Varda)
- A Zed & Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway)
- After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
- Lost in America (Albert Brooks)
- The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
- Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky)
1984
- Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
- Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
- Amadeus (Milos Forman)
- Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)
- Body Double (Brian De Palma)
- The Times of Harvey Milk (Robert Epstein)
- Choose Me (Alan Rudolph)
- Repo Man (Alex Cox)
- What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Pedro Almodóvar)
- Phenomena (Dario Argento)
1983
- Scarface (Brian De Palma)
- L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
- El Norte (Gregory Nava)
- Star 80 (Bob Fosse)
- Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
- The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)
- Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
- Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
- Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones)
- Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
1982
- Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
- Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
- The Verdict (Sidney Lumet)
- The Atomic Café (Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader and Pierce Rafferty)
- My Favorite Year (Richard Benjamin)
- Diner (Barry Levinson)
- Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
- Hammett (Wim Wenders)
- White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
- Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)
1981
- Possession (Andrzej Żuławski)
- Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen)
- Coup de Torchon (Bertrand Tavernier)
- Beau Père (Bertrand Blier)
- Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
- Tales of Ordinary Madness (Marco Ferreri)
- Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan)
- History of the World, Part I (Mel Brooks)
- My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle)
- The Beyond (Lucio Fulci)
1980
- The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
- Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
- Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
- Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
- The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller)
- Mon Oncle d'Amérique (Alain Resnais)
- The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
- The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie)
- Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)
- Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino)
1979
- Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
- Manhattan (Woody Allen)
- The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Vengeance Is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
- Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
- Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- The Tempest (Derek Jarman)
- Real Life (Albert Brooks)
- Saint Jack (Peter Bogdanovich)
- Alien (Ridley Scott)
1978
- Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
- Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
- In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (Guy Debord)
- The Driver (Walter Hill)
- Genesis of a Meal (Luc Moullet)
- Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier)
- Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (Chantal Akerman)
- In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
- The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski)
1977
- That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
- Hitler, A Film From Germany (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)
- Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
- Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
- Eraserhead (David Lynch)
- Providence (Alain Resnais)
- Rabid (David Cronenberg)
- Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
- The Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis)
1976
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
- Small Change (François Truffaut)
- Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
- Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
- All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula)
- The Innocent (Luchino Visconti)
- Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
- Bound for Glory (Hal Ashby)
- Carrie (Brian De Palma)
- Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Bruno Barreto)
1975
- Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- Mandingo (Richard Fleischer)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
- Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
- Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
- Shivers (David Cronenberg)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones)
- The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston)
- Love and Death (Woody Allen)
- Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
1974
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
- The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)
- A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
- Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis)
- Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
- The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani)
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- General Idi Amin Dada: A Self-Portrait (Barbet Schroeder)
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese)
1973
- The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
- Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
- The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
- Sleeper (Woody Allen)
- The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
- The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)
- American Graffiti (George Lucas)
- F for Fake (Orson Welles)
- Badlands (Terrence Malick)
- The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
1972
- The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
- Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
- Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
- Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- Deliverance (John Boorman)
- The Ruling Class (Peter Medak)
- Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
- The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May)
- The Inner Scar (Philippe Garrel)
- Tout Va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin)
1971
- Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
- Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
- Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)
- The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
- A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
- Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson)
- Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
- A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
- W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev)
1970
- Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
- M*A*S*H (Robert Altman)
- Performance (Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg)
- Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin)
- Husbands (John Cassavetes)
- El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
- Bed and Board (François Truffaut)
- Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Shūji Terayama)
- The Wild Child (François Truffaut)
- I Never Sang for My Father (Gilbert Cates)
1969
- The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Ronald Neame)
- Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen)
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack)
- Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
- Antonio das Mortes (Glauber Rocha)
- L'Amour Fou (Jacques Rivette)
- Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
- Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto)
- Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
1968
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
- Faces (John Cassavetes)
- Shame (Ingmar Bergman)
- if.... (Lindsay Anderson)
- The Swimmer (Frank Perry and Sydney Pollack)
- Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
- Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey)
- Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Robert Ellis Miller)
1967
- Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville)
- Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel)
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (David Swift)
- Point Blank (John Boorman)
- Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
- In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison)
- Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
- Oedipus Rex (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Wavelength (Michael Snow)
1966
- Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
- The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
- Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
- Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
- La Guerre Est Finie (Alain Resnais)
- Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
- The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
- A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann)
1965
- A Thousand Clowns (Fred Coe)
- King Rat (Bryan Forbes)
- Doctor Zhivago (David Lean)
- Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
- The Collector (William Wyler)
- Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio)
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (Martin Ritt)
- Loves of a Blonde (Miloš Forman)
- Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
1964
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
- The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- Séance on a Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes)
- Zulu (Cy Endfield)
- Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
- The Train (John Frankenheimer)
- Topkapi (Jules Dassin)
- Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)
- Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi)
1963
- The Servant (Joseph Losey)
- The Great Escape (John Sturges)
- Charade (Stanley Donen)
- 8½ (Federico Fellini)
- The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Hud (Martin Ritt)
- The Organizer (Mario Monicelli)
- I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
- Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder)
- Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
1962
- Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
- The Trial (Orson Welles)
- Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
- Jules and Jim (François Truffaut)
- L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson)
- The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
- Il Sorpasso (Dino Risi)
- Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
1961
- Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
- Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
- Through a Glass, Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
- The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
- The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)
- Blast of Silence (Allen Baron)
- One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
- Chronicle of a Summer (Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch)
- Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi)
1960
- The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
- Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut)
- Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
- The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
- Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
- La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz)
- L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- The Young One (Luis Buñuel)
1959
- The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
- North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
- Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
- Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
- Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
- Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
- Good Morning (Yasujirō Ozu)
- Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Shadows (John Cassavetes)
1958
- Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
- Brink of Life (Ingmar Bergman)
- The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
- The Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer)
- Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks)
- Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner)
- Damn Yankees (George Abbott and Stanley Donen)
- Mädchen in Uniform (Géza von Rádvanyi)
1957
- The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
- Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
- 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
- Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
- Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
- 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves)
- Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
- The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder)
- Letter From Siberia (Chris Marker)
1956
- A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
- Giant (George Stevens)
- The Searchers (John Ford)
- The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
- The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
- Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
- The Mystery of Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
- Baby Doll (Elia Kazan)
- Around the World in Eighty Days (Michael Anderson)
1955
- Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
- Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
- Mister Roberts (Mervyn LeRoy and John Ford)
- All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
- The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder)
- The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
- Lady and the Tramp (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske)
- Rififi (Jules Dassin)
- Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
1954
- Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
- Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
- Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
- Riot in Cell Block 11 (Don Siegel)
- Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
- Sabrina (Billy Wilder)
- Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
- It Should Happen to You (George Cukor)
- Robinson Crusoe (Luis Buñuel)
1953
- Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi)
- Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)
- Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)
- The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
- Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
- Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
- The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophüls)
- Él (Luis Buñuel)
- Thérèse Raquin (Marcel Carné)
- Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman)
1952
- Forbidden Games (René Clément)
- Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini)
- The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
- The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
- High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)
- Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (Anthony Asquith)
- Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls)
- Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson)
- Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)
1951
- Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
- The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)
- The African Queen (John Huston)
- Bellissima (Luchino Visconti)
- An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)
- Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
- Miss Julie (Alf Sjöberg)
- La Poison (Sacha Guitry)
- Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman)
1950
- The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)
- Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
- Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
- The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
- The Gunfighter (Henry King)
- Harvey (Henry Koster)
- Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
- The Flame and the Arrow (Jacques Tourneur)
- All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
- La Ronde (Max Ophüls)