Updated 3-9-2024.

2023

  1. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
  2. Close (Lukas Dhont)
  3. The Holdovers (Alexander Payne)
  4. Ferrari (Michael Mann)
  5. Barbie (Greta Gerwig)
  6. The Killer (David Fincher)
  7. Reality (Tina Satter)
  8. Falcon Lake (Charlotte Le Bon)
  9. Last Summer (Catherine Breillat)
  10. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)

 

2022

  1. Vortex (Gaspar Noé)
  2. Tár (Todd Field)
  3. Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
  4. Sick of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli)
  5. Jackass Forever (Jeff Tremaine)
  6. Stutz (Jonah Hill)
  7. Tori and Lokita (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
  8. No Bears (Jafar Panahi)
  9. Babylon (Damien Chazelle)
  10. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)

 

2021

  1. Annette (Leos Carax)
  2. Titane (Julia Ducournau)
  3. Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
  4. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  5. Spencer (Pablo Larraín)
  6. France (Bruno Dumont)
  7. The Things We Say, the Things We Do (Emmanuel Mouret)
  8. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  9. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
  10. Pig (Michael Sarnoski)

 

2020

  1. Red, White and Blue (Steve McQueen)
  2. Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
  3. Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)
  4. Alex Wheatle (Steve McQueen)
  5. It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman)
  6. Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds (Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer)
  7. Swallow (Carlo Mirabella-Davis)
  8. Liberté (Albert Serra)
  9. Education (Steve McQueen)
  10. Tread (Paul Solet)

 

2019

  1. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)
  2. Uncut Gems (Josh and Benny Safdie)
  3. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
  4. Parasite (Bong Joon-Ho)
  5. Light of My Life (Casey Affleck)
  6. Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
  7. The Mustang (Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre)
  8. A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick)
  9. American Factory (Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar)
  10. Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi)

 

2018

  1. Dovlatov (Aleksei German)
  2. They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (Morgan Neville)
  3. Won't You Be My Neighbor? (Morgan Neville)
  4. Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
  5. The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier)
  6. Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
  7. Green Book (Peter Farrelly)
  8. Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski)
  9. Lean on Pete (Andrew Haigh)
  10. Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)

 

2017

  1. Get Me Roger Stone (Dylan Bank, Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme)
  2. The Beguiled (Sofia Coppola)
  3. The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)
  4. I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie)
  5. On Body and Soul (Ildikó Enyedi)
  6. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
  7. Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)
  8. Mother! (Darren Aronofsky)
  9. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (Noah Baumbach)
  10. The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)

 

2016

  1. Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)
  2. La La Land (Damien Chazelle)
  3. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
  4. Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  5. The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi)
  6. Silence (Martin Scorsese)
  7. Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
  8. Rams (Grímur Hákonarson)
  9. The Nice Guys (Shane Black)
  10. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)

 

2015

  1. Inside Out (Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen)
  2. It Follows (David Robert Mitchell)
  3. Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
  4. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  5. The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
  6. Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara)
  7. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
  8. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
  9. Room (Lenny Abrahamson)
  10. Tangerine (Sean Baker)

 

2014

  1. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
  2. Nymphomaniac Vol. I & II (Lars von Trier)
  3. We Are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson)
  4. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  5. Jodorowsky's Dune (Frank Pavich)
  6. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
  7. The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh)
  8. Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
  9. Ernest & Celestine (Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner)
  10. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)

 

2013

  1. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
  2. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn and Anonymous)
  3. Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu)
  4. Blue Is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche)
  5. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
  6. Museum Hours (Jem Cohen)
  7. The Past (Asghar Farhadi)
  8. To the Wonder (Terrence Malick)
  9. Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan)
  10. The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg)

 

2012

  1. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
  2. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
  3. Amour (Michael Haneke)
  4. Life of Pi (Ang Lee)
  5. The Imposter (Bart Layton)
  6. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
  7. Bernie (Richard Linklater)
  8. The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
  9. Ted (Seth MacFarlane)
  10. Frankenweenie (Tim Burton)

 

2011

  1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
  2. Melancholia (Lars von Trier)
  3. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
  4. House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)
  5. Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino)
  6. Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean)
  7. The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar)
  8. The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
  9. A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg)
  10. Nostalgia for the Light (Patricio Guzmán)

 

2010

  1. Father of My Children (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  2. How to Train Your Dragon (Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders)
  3. Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé)
  4. Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  5. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg)
  6. Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
  7. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
  8. True Grit (Joel and Ethan Coen)
  9. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
  10. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

 

2009

  1. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
  2. Bright Star (Jane Campion)
  3. Two Lovers (James Gray)
  4. Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore)
  5. Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Hayao Miyazaki)
  6. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
  7. Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
  8. Up (Pete Docter and Bob Peterson)
  9. Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight (Wendy Keys)
  10. Valentino: The Last Emperor (Matt Tyrnauer)

 

2008

  1. WALL•E (Andrew Stanton)
  2. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
  3. A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
  4. In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín)
  5. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
  6. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
  7. Before I Forget (Jacques Nolot)
  8. The Class (Laurent Cantet)
  9. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
  10. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)

 

2007

  1. Time (Kim Ki-Duk)
  2. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
  3. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-Liang)
  4. Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright and Eli Roth)
  5. Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
  6. Sicko (Michael Moore)
  7. Flanders (Bruno Dumont)
  8. Black Book (Paul Verhoeven)
  9. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
  10. Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck)

 

2006

  1. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
  2. An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
  3. Inside Man (Spike Lee)
  4. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tom Tykwer)
  5. Jackass Number Two (Jeff Tremaine)
  6. The Child (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
  7. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles)
  8. Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)
  9. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
  10. Honor de Cavalleria (Albert Serra)

 

2005

  1. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
  2. Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki)
  3. 3-Iron (Kim Ki-Duk)
  4. Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney)
  5. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  6. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-Liang)
  7. Munich (Steven Spielberg)
  8. Into Great Silence (Philip Gröning)
  9. A Hole in My Heart (Lukas Moodysson)
  10. Match Point (Woody Allen)

 

2004

  1. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring (Kim Ki-Duk)
  2. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
  3. Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess)
  4. Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)
  5. The Five Obstructions (Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier)
  6. Touching the Void (Kevin Macdonald)
  7. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (Stephen Hillenburg)
  8. Sideways (Alexander Payne)
  9. Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. Control Room (Jehane Noujaim)

 

2003

  1. Dogville (Lars von Trier)
  2. Irréversible (Gaspar Noé)
  3. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)
  4. Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin)
  5. Kill Bill, Volume One (Quentin Tarantino)
  6. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
  7. Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff)
  8. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
  9. School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
  10. Phone Booth (Joel Schumacher)

 

2002

  1. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-Liang)
  2. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
  3. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
  4. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
  5. 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom)
  6. Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike)
  7. Visitor Q (Takashi Miike)
  8. Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
  9. Frailty (Bill Paxton)
  10. Time Out (Laurent Cantet)

 

2001

  1. Audition (Takashi Miike)
  2. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
  3. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
  4. Under the Sand (François Ozon)
  5. Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter)
  6. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
  7. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen)
  8. Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette)
  9. Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)
  10. I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira)

 

2000

  1. Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano)
  2. Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
  3. Taboo (Nagisa Oshima)
  4. Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin)
  5. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
  6. American Psycho (Mary Harron)
  7. Quills (Philip Kaufman)
  8. You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
  9. Chopper (Andrew Dominik)
  10. Human Resources (Laurent Cantet)

 

1999

  1. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
  2. Fight Club (David Fincher)
  3. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  4. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter)
  5. The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
  6. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
  7. Titus (Julie Taymor)
  8. L'Humanite (Bruno Dumont)
  9. After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
  10. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (Errol Morris)

 

1998

  1. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
  2. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
  3. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
  4. Your Friends & Neighbors (Neil LaBute)
  5. Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano)
  6. Henry Fool (Hal Hartley)
  7. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
  8. Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon)
  9. Dark City (Alex Proyas)
  10. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam)

 

1997

  1. In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
  2. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  3. The Game (David Fincher)
  4. As Good as It Gets (James L. Brooks)
  5. Love and Death on Long Island (Richard Kwietniowski)
  6. The Wings of the Dove (Iain Softley)
  7. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
  8. The Apostle (Robert Duvall)
  9. Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai)
  10. Titanic (James Cameron)

 

1996

  1. Fargo (Joel Coen)
  2. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
  3. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
  4. The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
  5. Shall We Dance? (Masayuki Suo)
  6. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky)
  7. Conspirators of Pleasure (Jan Svankmajer)
  8. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
  9. La Promesse (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
  10. Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen)

 

1995

  1. Heat (Michael Mann)
  2. Seven (David Fincher)
  3. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
  4. Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow)
  5. Nixon (Oliver Stone)
  6. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai)
  7. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
  8. Safe (Todd Haynes)
  9. Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach)
  10. Smoke (Wayne Wang)

 

1994

  1. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
  2. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
  3. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
  4. Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
  5. Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
  6. Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  7. Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
  8. Nobody's Fool (Robert Benton)
  9. Sátántangó (Béla Tarr)
  10. Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-Liang)

 

1993

  1. Naked (Mike Leigh)
  2. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
  3. Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)
  4. A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
  5. The Piano (Jane Campion)
  6. Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
  7. White (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  8. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick)
  9. Wittgenstein (Derek Jarman)
  10. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Francois Girard)

 

1992

  1. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
  2. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
  3. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
  4. Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
  5. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (Peter Wintonick and Mark Achbar)
  6. Man Bites Dog (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde)
  7. The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
  8. Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-Liang)
  9. Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
  10. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)

 

1991

  1. The Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax)
  2. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
  3. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
  4. The Hours and Times (Christopher Münch)
  5. Barton Fink (Joel Coen)
  6. Slacker (Richard Linklater)
  7. Proof (Jocelyn Moorhouse)
  8. La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
  9. Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat)
  10. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski)

 

1990

  1. GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese)
  2. Trust (Hal Hartley)
  3. No, or the Vain Glory of Command (Manoel de Oliveira)
  4. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton)
  5. Reversal of Fortune (Barbet Schroeder)
  6. Awakenings (Penny Marshall)
  7. Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner)
  8. An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion)
  9. The King of New York (Abel Ferrara)
  10. Wild at Heart (David Lynch)

 

1989

  1. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
  2. Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)
  3. Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
  4. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
  5. Say Anything... (Cameron Crowe)
  6. Jesus of Montreal (Denys Arcand)
  7. The Killer (John Woo)
  8. sex, lies and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
  9. Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)
  10. My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan)

 

1988

  1. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
  2. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
  3. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
  4. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore)
  5. Talk Radio (Oliver Stone)
  6. Things Change (David Mamet)
  7. Pelle the Conqueror (Bille August)
  8. Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo)
  9. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Frank Oz)
  10. The Moderns (Alan Rudolph)

 

1987

  1. The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  2. Moonstruck (Norman Jewison)
  3. Radio Days (Woody Allen)
  4. The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara)
  5. Au Revoir les Enfants (Louis Malle)
  6. Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)
  7. House of Games (David Mamet)
  8. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
  9. Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth)
  10. Yeelen (Souleymane Cissé)

 

1986

  1. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
  2. Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
  3. Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring (Claude Berri)
  4. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  5. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
  6. The Decline of the American Empire (Denys Arcand)
  7. Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan)
  8. Aliens (James Cameron)
  9. Ruthless People (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker)
  10. Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)

 

1985

  1. Come and See (Elem Klimov)
  2. Kiss of the Spider Woman (Héctor Babenco)
  3. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
  4. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader)
  5. Vagabond (Agnès Varda)
  6. A Zed & Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway)
  7. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
  8. Lost in America (Albert Brooks)
  9. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
  10. Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky)

 

1984

  1. Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone)
  2. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
  3. Amadeus (Milos Forman)
  4. Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)
  5. Body Double (Brian De Palma)
  6. The Times of Harvey Milk (Robert Epstein)
  7. Choose Me (Alan Rudolph)
  8. Repo Man (Alex Cox)
  9. What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Pedro Almodóvar)
  10. Phenomena (Dario Argento)

 

1983

  1. Scarface (Brian De Palma)
  2. L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
  3. El Norte (Gregory Nava)
  4. Star 80 (Bob Fosse)
  5. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
  6. The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)
  7. Risky Business (Paul Brickman)
  8. Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
  9. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones)
  10. Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)

 

1982

  1. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
  2. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
  3. The Verdict (Sidney Lumet)
  4. The Atomic Café (Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader and Pierce Rafferty)
  5. My Favorite Year (Richard Benjamin)
  6. Diner (Barry Levinson)
  7. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
  8. Hammett (Wim Wenders)
  9. White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
  10. Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)

 

1981

  1. Possession (Andrzej Żuławski)
  2. Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen)
  3. Coup de Torchon (Bertrand Tavernier)
  4. Beau Père (Bertrand Blier)
  5. Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson)
  6. Tales of Ordinary Madness (Marco Ferreri)
  7. Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan)
  8. History of the World, Part I (Mel Brooks)
  9. My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle)
  10. The Beyond (Lucio Fulci)

 

1980

  1. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
  2. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
  3. Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
  4. Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
  5. The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller)
  6. Mon Oncle d'Amérique (Alain Resnais)
  7. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
  8. The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie)
  9. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)
  10. Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino)

 

1979

  1. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
  2. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
  3. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  4. Vengeance Is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
  5. Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton)
  6. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  7. The Tempest (Derek Jarman)
  8. Real Life (Albert Brooks)
  9. Saint Jack (Peter Bogdanovich)
  10. Alien (Ridley Scott)

 

1978

  1. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
  2. Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
  3. In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (Guy Debord)
  4. The Driver (Walter Hill)
  5. Genesis of a Meal (Luc Moullet)
  6. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier)
  7. Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (Chantal Akerman)
  8. In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  9. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
  10. The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski)

 

1977

  1. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
  2. Hitler, A Film From Germany (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)
  3. Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
  4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
  5. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
  6. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
  7. Providence (Alain Resnais)
  8. Rabid (David Cronenberg)
  9. Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
  10. The Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis)

 

1976

  1. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)
  2. Small Change (François Truffaut)
  3. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
  4. Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
  5. All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula)
  6. The Innocent (Luchino Visconti)
  7. Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
  8. Bound for Glory (Hal Ashby)
  9. Carrie (Brian De Palma)
  10. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Bruno Barreto)

 

1975

  1. Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  2. Mandingo (Richard Fleischer)
  3. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
  4. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
  5. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
  6. Shivers (David Cronenberg)
  7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones)
  8. The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston)
  9. Love and Death (Woody Allen)
  10. Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)

 

1974

  1. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
  2. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)
  3. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
  4. Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis)
  5. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
  6. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
  7. The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani)
  8. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)  
  9. General Idi Amin Dada: A Self-Portrait (Barbet Schroeder)
  10. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese)

 

1973

  1. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
  2. Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
  3. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
  4. Sleeper (Woody Allen)
  5. The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
  6. The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)
  7. American Graffiti (George Lucas)
  8. F for Fake (Orson Welles)
  9. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
  10. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)

 

1972

  1. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
  2. Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
  3. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
  4. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
  5. Deliverance (John Boorman)
  6. The Ruling Class (Peter Medak)
  7. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
  8. The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May)
  9. The Inner Scar (Philippe Garrel)
  10. Tout Va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin)

 

1971

  1. Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
  2. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
  3. Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)
  4. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
  5. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
  6. Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson)
  7. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
  8. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
  9. A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
  10. W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev)

 

1970

  1. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
  2. M*A*S*H (Robert Altman)
  3. Performance (Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg)
  4. Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin)
  5. Husbands (John Cassavetes)
  6. El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
  7. Bed and Board (François Truffaut)
  8. Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Shūji Terayama)
  9. The Wild Child (François Truffaut)
  10. I Never Sang for My Father (Gilbert Cates)

 

1969

  1. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
  2. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Ronald Neame)
  3. Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen)
  4. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack)
  5. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
  6. Antonio das Mortes (Glauber Rocha)
  7. L'Amour Fou (Jacques Rivette)
  8. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
  9. Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto)
  10. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)

 

1968

  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
  2. Faces (John Cassavetes)
  3. Shame (Ingmar Bergman)
  4. if.... (Lindsay Anderson)
  5. The Swimmer (Frank Perry and Sydney Pollack)
  6. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
  7. Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  8. The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey)
  9. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
  10. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Robert Ellis Miller)

 

1967

  1. Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville)
  2. Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel)
  3. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (David Swift)
  4. Point Blank (John Boorman)
  5. Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
  6. In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison)
  7. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
  8. Oedipus Rex (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  9. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. Wavelength (Michael Snow)

 

1966

  1. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
  3. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
  4. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
  5. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
  6. La Guerre Est Finie (Alain Resnais)
  7. Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  8. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
  9. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
  10. A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann)

 

1965

  1. A Thousand Clowns (Fred Coe)
  2. King Rat (Bryan Forbes)
  3. Doctor Zhivago (David Lean)
  4. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
  5. The Collector (William Wyler)
  6. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
  7. Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio)
  8. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (Martin Ritt)
  9. Loves of a Blonde (Miloš Forman)
  10. Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)

 

1964

  1. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
  2. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  3. Séance on a Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes)
  4. Zulu (Cy Endfield)
  5. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
  6. The Train (John Frankenheimer)
  7. Topkapi (Jules Dassin)
  8. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
  9. Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)
  10. Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi)

 

1963

  1. The Servant (Joseph Losey)
  2. The Great Escape (John Sturges)
  3. Charade (Stanley Donen)
  4. 8½ (Federico Fellini)
  5. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
  6. Hud (Martin Ritt)
  7. The Organizer (Mario Monicelli)
  8. I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
  9. Irma la Douce (Billy Wilder)
  10. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)

 

1962

  1. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
  2. The Trial (Orson Welles)
  3. Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  4. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
  5. Jules and Jim (François Truffaut)
  6. L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  7. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson)
  8. The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
  9. Il Sorpasso (Dino Risi)
  10. Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)

 

1961

  1. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
  2. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
  3. Through a Glass, Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
  4. The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
  5. The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
  6. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)
  7. Blast of Silence (Allen Baron)
  8. One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
  9. Chronicle of a Summer (Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch)
  10. Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi)

 

1960

  1. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
  2. Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut)
  3. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
  5. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
  6. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
  7. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
  8. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz)
  9. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  10. The Young One (Luis Buñuel)

 

1959

  1. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
  2. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
  4. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
  5. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
  6. Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
  7. Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
  8. Good Morning (Yasujirō Ozu)
  9. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. Shadows (John Cassavetes)

 

1958

  1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
  3. Brink of Life (Ingmar Bergman)
  4. The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
  5. The Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer)
  6. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
  7. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks)
  8. Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner)
  9. Damn Yankees (George Abbott and Stanley Donen)
  10. Mädchen in Uniform (Géza von Rádvanyi)

 

1957

  1. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
  2. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
  3. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
  4. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
  5. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
  6. 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves)
  7. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
  8. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
  9. Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder)
  10. Letter From Siberia (Chris Marker)

 

1956

  1. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
  2. Giant (George Stevens)
  3. The Searchers (John Ford)
  4. The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
  5. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
  6. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
  7. The Mystery of Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
  8. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
  9. Baby Doll (Elia Kazan)
  10. Around the World in Eighty Days (Michael Anderson)

 

1955

  1. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
  2. Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
  3. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
  4. Mister Roberts (Mervyn LeRoy and John Ford)
  5. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
  6. The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder)
  7. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
  8. Lady and the Tramp (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske)
  9. Rififi (Jules Dassin)
  10. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)

 

1954

  1. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  3. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
  4. Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
  5. Riot in Cell Block 11 (Don Siegel)
  6. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
  7. Sabrina (Billy Wilder)
  8. Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
  9. It Should Happen to You (George Cukor)
  10. Robinson Crusoe (Luis Buñuel)

 

1953

  1. Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  2. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)
  3. Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)
  4. The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
  5. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
  6. Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
  7. The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophüls)
  8. Él (Luis Buñuel)
  9. Thérèse Raquin (Marcel Carné)
  10. Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman)

 

1952

  1. Forbidden Games (René Clément)
  2. Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini)
  3. The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  4. The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
  5. High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)
  6. Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen)
  7. The Importance of Being Earnest (Anthony Asquith)
  8. Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls)
  9. Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson)
  10. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)

 

1951

  1. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
  3. The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)
  4. The African Queen (John Huston)
  5. Bellissima (Luchino Visconti)
  6. An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)
  7. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
  8. Miss Julie (Alf Sjöberg)
  9. La Poison (Sacha Guitry)
  10. Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman)

 

1950

  1. The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)
  2. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
  3. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
  4. The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
  5. The Gunfighter (Henry King)
  6. Harvey (Henry Koster)
  7. Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
  8. The Flame and the Arrow (Jacques Tourneur)
  9. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  10. La Ronde (Max Ophüls)