2005-10-11T20:29:00.003-07:00

In July 2007, I became one of several hundred few on earth,
who had seen all the movies on the IMDb Top 500 List.

Most admired directors:
#number in parenthesis denotes how many directorial works of the auteur I've seen

1. Stanley Kubrick (12)
2. Luis Buñuel (24)
3. Alfred Hitchcock (30)
4. Akira Kurosawa (22)
5. David Lean (10)
6. Sergei M. Eisenstein (8)
7. Jean Renoir (17)
8. Werner Herzog (21)
9. Ingmar Bergman (26)
10. F.W. Murnau (7)
11. Orson Welles (12)
12. Fritz Lang (14)
13. Federico Fellini (19)
14. Vittorio De Sica (10)
15. Satyajit Ray (7)
16. Martin Scorsese (15)
17. Bernardo Bertolucci (13)
18. Andrei Tarkovsky (8)
19. Krzysztof Kieslowski (14)
20. Robert Altman (11)
21. Rainer Werner Fassbinder (14)
22. Michelangelo Antonioni (14)
23. Theodoros Angelopoulos (7)
24. David Lynch (11)
25. Robert Bresson (13)
26. Jean-Luc Godard (24)
27. Lars von Trier (14)
28. Michael Powell (10)
29. François Truffaut (22)
30. Yimou Zhang (15)
31. Emir Kusturica (9)
32. Quentin Tarantino (9)
33. Roman Polanski (13)
34. Abbas Kiarostami (11)
35. Eric Rohmer (19)

Most admired actors:

Al Pacino
Marlon Brando
Humphrey Bogart
Samuel L Jackson
Clark Gable
Robert De Niro
Christian Bale
Dustin Hoffman
Peter Sellers
Edward Norton
Javier Bardem
Daniel Day - Lewis
Laurence Olivier
Morgan Freeman
Jack Nicholson

Most admired actresses:

Meryl Streep
Barbara Stanwyck
Liv Ullmann
Judy Garland
Gong Li
Anna Magnani
Natalie Portman
Marlene Dietrich
Audrey Hepburn
Naomi Watts
Ingrid Bergman
Greer Garson
Jodie Foster

Most admired action stars:

1. Bruce Lee
2. Jackie Chan
3. Jet Li , Tony Jaa
4. Donnie Yen

Most admired screen beauties:

1. Greta Garbo
2. Elizabeth Taylor
3. Marilyn Monroe
4. Bette Davis
5. Rita Hayworth
6. Lana Turner
7. Veronica Lake
8. Ava Gardner

Most admired dancers:

Gene Kelly
Fred Astaire
Donald O 'Connor
Eleanor Powell

Most admired comedians:

1. Charles Chaplin
2. Harold Lloyd
3. Buster Keaton
4. Marx Brothers
5. Woody Allen
6. Jim Carrey
7. Stephen Chow
8. Jacques Tati
9. Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
10. Laurel & Hardy
11. W.C. Fields
12. Harry Langdon

1902
A Trip to the Moon (1902, Georges Méliès)

1903
The Great Train Robbery (1903, Edwin S. Porter)

1915
The Vampires (1915, Louis Feuillade)
The Birth of a Nation (1915, D.W. Griffith)

1916
Intolerance (1916, D.W. Griffith)

1919
Broken Blossoms (1919, D.W. Griffith)

1920
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Robert Wiene)

1921
The Kid (1921, Charles Chaplin)

1922
Häxan (1922, Benjamin Christensen)
Nanook of the North (1922, Robert J. Flaherty)
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922, Fritz Lang)
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922, F.W. Murnau)

1923
Safety Last! (1923, Fred C. Newmeyer)
Our Hospitality (1923, John G. Blystone & Buster Keaton)

1924
Greed (1924, Erich von Stroheim)
Girl Shy (1924, Fred C. Newmeyer)
Sherlock, Jr. (1924, Buster Keaton)
The Last Laugh (1924, F.W. Murnau)
Nibelungen: Die Siegfried (1924, Fritz Lang)
Nibelungen: Die Kriemhilds Rache (1924, Fritz Lang)

1925
The Gold Rush (1925, Charles Chaplin)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925, Rupert Julian)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925, Fred Niblo)
The Freshman (1925, Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
Strike (1925, Sergei M. Eisenstein)
The Big Parade (1925, King Vidor)
Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei M. Eisenstein)

1926
Nana (1926, Jean Renoir)
Faust (1926, F.W. Murnau)
Mother, 1905 (1926, Vsevolod Pudovkin)
For Heaven's Sake (1926, Sam Taylor)
Flesh and the Devil (1926, Clarence Brown)

1927
Napoléon (1927, Abel Gance)
The General (1927, Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton)
The King of Kings (1927, Cecil B. DeMille)
Wings (1927, William A. Wellman)
The Jazz Singer (1927, Alan Crosland)
The End of St. Petersburg (1927, Vsevolod Pudovkin)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927, Walter Ruttmann)
The Kid Brother (1927, Ted Wilde & J.A. Howe)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, F.W. Murnau)
Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)

Honorable Mention:
The Lodger (1927, Alfred Hitchcock)

1928
Speedy (1928, Ted Wilde)
Spione (1928, Fritz Lang)
The Wind (1928, Victor Sjöström)
The Circus (1928, Charles Chaplin)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
The Little Match Girl (1928, Jean Renoir & Jean Tédesco)
Oktyabr (1928, Sergei M. Eisenstein & Grigori Aleksandrov)
Storm Over Asia (1928, Vsevolod Pudovkin)
La Chute de la maison Usher (1928, Jean Epstein)

1929
An Andalusian Dog (1929, Luis Buñuel)
The Man with a Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov)
Pandora's Box (1929, Georg Wilhelm Pabst)

1930
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930, Lewis Milestone)
Zemlya (1930, Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
L'Âge d'or (1930, Luis Buñuel)
The blood of a poet (1930, Jean Cocteau)
The Blue Angel (1930, Josef von Sternberg)

1931
Tabu (1931, F.W. Murnau)
Little Caesar (1931, Mervyn LeRoy)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931, Rouben Mamoulian)
M (1931, Fritz Lang)
Frankenstein (1931, James Whale)
City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin)
Liberty for Us (1931, René Clair)

1932
I Was Born, But... (1932, Yasujiro Ozu)
Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932, Jean Renoir)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932, Mervyn LeRoy)
Love Me Tonight (1932, Rouben Mamoulian)
Movie Crazy (1932, Clyde Bruckman)
Scarface (1932, Howard Hawks)
Shanghai Express (1932, Josef von Sternberg)
Freaks (1932, Tod Browning)
The Vampire (1932, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
The Most Dangerous Game (1932, Irving Pichel & Ernest B. Schoedsack)

1933
King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
The Invisible Man (1933, James Whale)
Baby Face (1933, Alfred E. Green)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Fritz Lang)
Queen Christina (1933, Rouben Mamoulian)
Zero for Conduct (1933, Jean Vigo)

1934
It Happened One Night (1934, Frank Capra)
The Cat's-Paw (1934, Sam Taylor)
L'Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)
The Thin Man (1934, W.S. Van Dyke)
A Story of Floating Weeds (1934, Yasujiro Ozu)
The Scarlet Empress (1934, Josef von Sternberg)

1935
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, Frank Lloyd)
A Tale of Two Cities (1935, Jack Conway)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale)
Triumph of the Will (1935, Leni Riefenstahl)
David Copperfield (1935, George Cukor)
Top Hat (1935, Mark Sandrich)
A Night at the Opera (1935, Sam Wood)
The 39 Steps (1935, Alfred Hitchcock)

1936
Modern Times (1936, Charles Chaplin)
The Only Son (1936, Yasujiro Ozu)
Swing Time (1936, George Stevens)
The Lower Depths (1936, Jean Renoir)
My Man Godfrey (1936, Gregory La Cava)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936, Frank Capra)

1937
Shall We Dance (1937, Mark Sandrich)
The Grand Illusion (1937, Jean Renoir)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, David Hand)
The Life of Emile Zola (1937, William Dieterle)
The Awful Truth (1937, Leo McCarey)
Pépé le Moko (1937, Julien Duvivier)

1938
La Marseillaise (1938, Jean Renoir)
Aleksandr Nevskiy (1938, Sergei M. Eisenstein)
You Can't Take It with You (1938, Frank Capra)
The Lady Vanishes (1938, Alfred Hitchcock)
Bringing Up Baby (1938, Howard Hawks)
The Human Beast (1938, Jean Renoir)
Pygmalion (1938, Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard)
Olympia, Parts 1 and 2 (1938, Leni Riefenstahl)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, Michael Curtiz & William Keighley)

1939
The Four Feathers (1939, Zoltan Korda)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, Frank Capra)
Gone with the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)
Wuthering Heights (1939, William Wyler)
The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939, Sidney Lanfield)
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
Stagecoach (1939, John Ford)
Ninotchka (1939, Ernst Lubitsch)

1940
The Grapes of Wrath (1940, John Ford)
Pinocchio (1940, Hamilton Luske)
Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Great Dictator (1940, Charles Chaplin)
His Girl Friday (1940, Howard Hawks)
Fantasia (1940, James Algar)
The Bank Dick (1940, Edward F. Cline)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940, Michael Powell)
Pride and Prejudice (1940, Robert Z. Leonard)
Foreign Correspondent (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)

Honorable Mention:
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940, Norman Taurog)

1941
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles)
The Lady Eve (1941, Preston Sturges)
49th Parallel (1941, Michael Powell)
How Green Was My Valley (1941, John Ford)
Sergeant York (1941, Howard Hawks)
The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston)
Suspicion (1941, Alfred Hitchcock)
Ball of Fire (1941, Howard Hawks)
Sullivan's Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)
The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941, Yasujiro Ozu)

1942
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942, Michael Curtiz)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles)
Mrs. Miniver (1942, William Wyler)
To Be or Not to Be (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)
Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
Woman of the Year (1942, George Stevens)

1943
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943, Michael Powell)
Heaven Can Wait (1943, Ernst Lubitsch)
Day of wrath (1943, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943, Alfred Hitchcock)
Ossessione (1943, Luchino Visconti)
Angels of the Streets (1943, Robert Bresson)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943, William A. Wellman)
The Seventh Victim (1943, Mark Robson)
Le Corbeau (1943, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Sugata Sanshiro (1943, Akira Kurosawa)

1944
Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)
Laura (1944, Otto Preminger)
Jane Eyre (1944, Robert Stevenson)
The Children Are Watching Us (1944, Vittorio De Sica)
Lifeboat (1944, Alfred Hitchcock)
Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944, Sergei M. Eisenstein)
A Canterbury Tale (1944, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Henry the Fifth (1944, Laurence Olivier)

1945
Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)
Children of Paradise (1945, Marcel Carné)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945, Elia Kazan)
'I Know Where I'm Going!' (1945, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Dead of Night (1945, Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden & Robert Hamer)
Mildred Pierce (1945, Michael Curtiz)
The Lost Weekend (1945, Billy Wilder)
Rome, Open City (1945, Roberto Rossellini)

1946
Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
La Belle et la bête (1946, Jean Cocteau)
The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks)
Shoe-Shine (1946, Vittorio De Sica)
My Darling Clementine (1946, John Ford)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
The Killers (1946, Robert Siodmak)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946, Tay Garnett)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946, William Wyler)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

Honorable Mention:
The Stranger (1946, Orson Welles)

1947
The Lady from Shanghai (1947, Orson Welles)
Out of the Past (1947, Jacques Tourneur)
Black Narcissus (1947, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Nightmare Alley (1947, Edmund Goulding)
Quai des Orfèvres (1947, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947, George Seaton)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947, Elia Kazan)

1948
Spring in a Small Town (1948, Fei Mu)
The Bicycle Thief (1948, Vittorio De Sica)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, John Huston)
Rope (1948, Alfred Hitchcock)
Hamlet (1948, Laurence Olivier)
Easter Parade (1948, Charles Walters)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948, Max Ophüls)
Germany Year Zero (1948, Roberto Rossellini)
Oliver Twist (1948, David Lean)
Red River (1948, Howard Hawks)

Honorable Mention:
Macbeth (1948, Orson Welles)
The Naked City (1948, Jules Dassin)
The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

1949
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949, Robert Hamer)
Late Spring (1949, Yasujiro Ozu)
The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)
Le Silence de La Mer (1949, Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Heiress (1949, William Wyler)
Thieves' Highway (1949, Jules Dassin)
Madame Bovary (1949, Vincente Minnelli)
Stray Dog (1949, Akira Kurosawa)
The Set-Up (1949, Robert Wise)
All the King's Men (1949, Robert Rossen)

Honorable Mention:
White Heat (1949, Raoul Walsh)

1950
The Asphalt Jungle (1950, John Huston)
All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Rashômon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)
Los Olvidados (1950, Luis Buñuel)
Sunset Blvd. (1950, Billy Wilder)
Night and the City (1950, Jules Dassin)
Orphée (1950, Jean Cocteau)
Story of a Love Affair (1950, Michelangelo Antonioni)
In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray)
The Flowers of St. Francis (1950, Roberto Rossellini)

Honorable Mention:
Harvey (1950, Henry Koster)
Les enfants terribles (1950, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Variety Lights (1950, Federico Fellini & Alberto Lattuada)

1951
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, Robert Wise)
Diary of a Country Priest (1951, Robert Bresson)
A Place in the Sun (1951, George Stevens)
The Browning Version (1951, Anthony Asquith)
The River (1951, Jean Renoir)
Strangers on a Train (1951, Alfred Hitchcock)
Miracle in Milan (1951, Vittorio De Sica)
Summer Interlude (1951, Ingmar Bergman)
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Ace in the Hole (1951, Billy Wilder)

Honorable Mention:
Scrooge (1951, Brian Desmond Hurst)
Bellissima (1951, Luchino Visconti)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Elia Kazan)
An American in Paris (1951, Vincente Minnelli)

1952
Umberto D. (1952, Vittorio De Sica)
Singin' in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1952, Orson Welles)
Limelight (1952, Charles Chaplin)
The Life of Oharu (1952, Kenji Mizoguchi)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952, Anthony Asquith)
High Noon (1952, Fred Zinnemann)
Forbidden Games (1952, René Clément)
Ikiru (1952, Akira Kurosawa)
Le Plaisir (1952, Max Ophüls)

Honorable Mention:
The Quiet Man (1952, John Ford)
On Dangerous Ground (1952, Nicholas Ray)
The Narrow Margin (1952, Richard Fleischer)

1953
The Wages of Fear (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Stalag 17 (1953, Billy Wilder)
Tales of Ugetsu (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)
I Vitelloni (1953, Federico Fellini)
Crin blanc: Le cheval sauvage (1953, Albert Lamorisse)
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953, Jacques Tati)
Madame de... (1953, Max Ophüls)
Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu)
The Golden Coach (1953, Jean Renoir)
Roman Holiday (1953, William Wyler)

Honorable Mention:
Shane (1953, George Stevens)
I Confess (1953, Alfred Hitchcock)
From Here to Eternity (1953, Fred Zinnemann)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953, Howard Hawks)

1954
Legend of Bailiff Sansho (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)
The Caine Mutiny (1954, Edward Dmytryk)
Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
Rear Window (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1954, Luis Buñuel)
On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)
La Strada (1954, Federico Fellini)
A Star Is Born (1954, George Cukor)
Senso (1954, Luchino Visconti)
Hobson's Choice (1954, David Lean)

Honorable Mention:
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954, Keisuke Kinoshita)
20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954, Richard Fleischer)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954, Stanley Donen)

1955
Les Diaboliques (1955, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Song of the Road (1955, Satyajit Ray)
Du rififi chez les hommes (1955, Jules Dassin)
Le Amiche (1955, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Ordet (1955, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
East of Eden (1955, Elia Kazan)
Night and Fog (1955, Alain Resnais)
The Swindle (1955, Federico Fellini)
All That Heaven Allows (1955, Douglas Sirk)
The Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton)

Honorable Mention:
Dreams (1955, Ingmar Bergman)
Oklahoma! (1955, Fred Zinnemann)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955, John Sturges)
Bob le flambeur (1955, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Death of a Cyclist (1955, Juan Antonio Bardem)

1956
The Killing (1956, Stanley Kubrick)
The Unvanquished (1956, Satyajit Ray)
A Man Escaped (1956, Robert Bresson)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel)
The Searchers (1956, John Ford)
Le ballon rouge (1956, Albert Lamorisse)
The Ten Commandments (1956, Cecil B. DeMille)
Written on the Wind (1956, Douglas Sirk)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956, Alfred Hitchcock)
Harp of Burma (1956, Kon Ichikawa)

Honorable Mention:
Giant (1956, George Stevens)
The King and I (1956, Walter Lang)
The Wrong Man (1956, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Mystery of Picasso (1956, Henri-Georges Clouzot)

1957
Wild Strawberries (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
Throne of Blood (1957, Akira Kurosawa)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, David Lean)
White Nights (1957, Luchino Visconti)
12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet)
Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957, Billy Wilder)
A Face in the Crowd (1957, Elia Kazan)
Kanal (1957, Andrzej Wajda)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957, Alexander Mackendrick)

Honorable Mention:
Funny Face (1957, Stanley Donen)
The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman)
Nights of Cabiria (1957, Federico Fellini)
The Cranes Are Flying (1957, Mikheil Kalatozishvili)

1958
Elevator to the Gallows (1958, Louis Malle)
The Music Room (1958, Satyajit Ray)
Ballad of Narayama (1958, Keisuke Kinoshita)
Touch of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)
The Hidden Fortress (1958, Akira Kurosawa)
Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958, Richard Brooks)
A Night to Remember (1958, Roy Ward Baker)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958, Mario Monicelli)
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958, Sergei M. Eisenstein)

Honorable Mention:
Mon oncle (1958, Jacques Tati)
The Magician (1958, Ingmar Bergman)
Giants and Toys (1958, Yasuzo Masumura)

1959
The World of Apu (1959, Satyajit Ray)
The 400 Blows (1959, François Truffaut)
Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson)
Nazarín (1959, Luis Buñuel)
Fires on the Plain (1959, Kon Ichikawa)
The Nun's Story (1959, Fred Zinnemann)
Hiroshima mon amour (1959, Alain Resnais)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959, Otto Preminger)
Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)
North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)

Honorable Mention:
Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)
Black Orpheus (1959, Marcel Camus)
Ride Lonesome (1959, Budd Boetticher)
Ballad of a Soldier (1959, Grigori Chukhrai)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
The Human Condition II The Road to Eternity (1959, Masaki Kobayashi)

1960
Orpheus (1960, Jean Cocteau)
Le trou (1960, Jacques Becker)
La dolce vita (1960, Federico Fellini)
Spartacus (1960, Stanley Kubrick)
L'Avventura (1960, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Eyes Without a Face (1960, Georges Franju)
Inherit the Wind (1960, Stanley Kramer)
Two Women (1960, Vittorio De Sica)
Psycho (1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
The Virgin Spring (1960, Ingmar Bergman)

Honorable Mention:
Breathless (1960, Jean-Luc Godard)
Peeping Tom (1960, Michael Powell)
The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder)
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960, Claude Chabrol)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960, Akira Kurosawa)
Rocco and His Brothers (1960, Luchino Visconti)

1961
Viridiana (1961, Luis Buñuel)
Blast of Silence (1961, Allen Baron)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1961, Agnès Varda)
La Notte (1961, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961, Blake Edwards)
Divorce - Italian Style (1961, Pietro Germi)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Alain Resnais)
A Woman Is a Woman (1961, Jean-Luc Godard)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961, Stanley Kramer)
The Human Condition III A Soldier's Prayer (1961, Masaki Kobayashi)

Honorable Mention:
The Hustler (1961, Robert Rossen)
The Innocents (1961, Jack Clayton)
The Guns of Navarone (1961, J. Lee Thompson)
Through a Glass Darkly (1961, Ingmar Bergman)
A Lustful Man (1961, Yasuzo Masumura)

1962
Pitfall (1962, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
The Exterminating Angel (1962, Luis Buñuel)
Lolita (1962, Stanley Kubrick)
L'Eclisse (1962, Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962, John Frankenheimer)
The Trial (1962, Orson Welles)
Harakiri (1962, Masaki Kobayashi)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
The Longest Day (1962, Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton & Bernhard Wicki)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962, Tony Richardson)

Honorable Mention:
La Jetée (1962, Chris Marker)
Love at Twenty (1962, François Truffaut)
Advise & Consent (1962, Otto Preminger)
My Life to Live (1962, Jean-Luc Godard)
Sundays and Cybele (1962, Serge Bourguignon)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962, Robert Mulligan)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, John Ford)
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1962, Robert Enrico)

1963
The Great Escape (1963, John Sturges)
Charade (1963, Stanley Donen)
8½ (1963, Federico Fellini)
The Carabineers (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
This Sporting Life (1963, Lindsay Anderson)
High and Low (1963, Akira Kurosawa)
The Birds (1963, Alfred Hitchcock)
Hud (1963, Martin Ritt)
The Leopard (1963, Luchino Visconti)
An Actor's Revenge (1963, Kon Ichikawa)

Honorable Mention:
Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard)
Tom Jones (1963, Tony Richardson)
The Silence (1963, Ingmar Bergman)
Lord of the Flies (1963, Peter Brook)
Muriel, or the Time of Return (1963, Alain Resnais)
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963, Vittorio De Sica)

1964
Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba (1964, Mikheil Kalatozishvili)
My Fair Lady (1964, George Cukor)
Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
Gertrud (1964, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Onibaba (1964, Kaneto Shindô)
Charulata (1964, Satyajit Ray)
Dr. Strangelove (1964, Stanley Kubrick)
Band of Outsiders (1964, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, Jacques Demy)
The Red Desert (1964, Michelangelo Antonioni)

Honorable Mention:
Zulu (1964, Cy Endfield)
Manji (1964, Yasuzo Masumura)
Fail-Safe (1964, Sidney Lumet)
Seven Days in May (1964, John Frankenheimer)
Before the Revolution (1964, Bernardo Bertolucci)

1965
The Shop on Main Street (1965, Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos)
For a Few Dollars More (1965, Sergio Leone)
Chimes at Midnight (1965, Orson Welles)
Pierrot le fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
Repulsion (1965, Roman Polanski)
Simon of the Desert (1965, Luis Buñuel)
Doctor Zhivago (1965, David Lean)
Seisaku's Wife (1965, Yasuzo Masumura)
The Sound of Music (1965, Robert Wise)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965, Federico Fellini)

Honorable Mention:
Le Bonheur (1965, Agnès Varda)
Tokyo Olympiad (1965, Kon Ichikawa)
Red Beard (1965, Akira Kurosawa)
The Loves of a Blonde (1965, Milos Forman)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965, Russ Meyer)

1966
Paddle to the Sea (1966, Bill Mason)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
The Round-Up (1966, Miklós Jancsó)
Akai tenshi (1966, Yasuzo Masumura)
The Battle of Algiers (1966, Gillo Pontecorvo)
Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman)
Closely Watched Trains (1966, Jirí Menzel)
The Face of Another (1966, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
Blowup (1966, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Au hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)

Honorable Mention:
Cul-de-sac (1966, Roman Polanski)
Young Torless (1966, Volker Schlöndorff)
The Pornographers (1966, Shohei Imamura)
The War Is Over (1966, Alain Resnais)
A Man for All Seasons (1966, Fred Zinnemann)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966, Mike Nichols)

1967
Belle de jour (1967, Luis Buñuel)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn)
Week End (1967, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols)
Mouchette (1967, Robert Bresson)
The Red and the White (1967, Miklós Jancsó)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, Jacques Demy & Agnès Varda)
Japan's Longest Day (1967, Kihachi Okamoto)
I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967, Vilgot Sjöman)
In Cold Blood (1967, Richard Brooks)

Honorable Mention:
Play Time (1967, Jacques Tati)
Dont Look Back (1967, D.A. Pennebaker)
Cool Hand Luke (1967, Stuart Rosenberg)
The Dirty Dozen (1967, Robert Aldrich)
Le Samouraï (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Firemen's Ball (1967, Milos Forman)
La Collectionneuse (1967, Eric Rohmer)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967, Stanley Kramer)

1968
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
War and Peace (1968, Sergei Bondarchuk)
The Cremator (1968, Juraj Herz)
Teorema (1968, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
In the Year of the Pig (1968, Emile de Antonio)
Shame (1968, Ingmar Bergman)
Oliver! (1968, Carol Reed)
Lucía (1968, Humberto Solás)
Romeo and Juliet (1968, Franco Zeffirelli)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Sergio Leone)

Honorable Mention:
If.... (1968, Lindsay Anderson)
The Producers (1968, Mel Brooks)
Monterey Pop (1968, D.A. Pennebaker)
Stolen Kisses (1968, François Truffaut)
Night of the Living Dead (1968, George A. Romero)
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)

1969
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969, Marcel Ophüls)
Andrey Rublyov (1969, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Z (1969, Costa-Gavras)
Kes (1969, Ken Loach)
A Touch of Zen (1969, King Hu)
The Passion of Anna (1969, Ingmar Bergman)
Army of Shadows (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969, Ronald Neame)
Easy Rider (1969, Dennis Hopper)
The Milky Way (1969, Luis Buñuel)

Honorable Mention:
Salesman (1969, Maysles Brothers)
The Damned (1969, Luchino Visconti)
Blind Beast (1969, Yasuzo Masumura)
The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)
A Gentle Woman (1969, Robert Bresson)
My Night at Maud's (1969, Eric Rohmer)

1970
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970, Elio Petri)
Patton (1970, Franklin J. Schaffner)
Zabriskie Point (1970, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Woodstock, 3 Days of Peace & Music (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
Ryan's Daughter (1970, David Lean)
MASH (1970, Robert Altman)
The Things of Life (1970, Claude Sautet)
The Honeymoon Killers (1970, Leonard Kastle)
Little Big Man (1970, Arthur Penn)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970, Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku & Toshio Masuda)

Honorable Mention:
Love Story (1970, Arthur Hiller)
Claire's Knee (1970, Eric Rohmer)
Five Easy Pieces (1970, Bob Rafelson)
Bed and Board (1970, François Truffaut)
The Wild Child (1970, François Truffaut)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970, Vittorio De Sica)
Gimme Shelter (1970, Maysles Brothers & Charlotte Zwerin)

1971
A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
The Last Picture Show (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)
The Decameron (1971, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971, Norman Jewison)
Dirty Harry (1971, Don Siegel)
Harold and Maude (1971, Hal Ashby)
Punishment Park (1971, Peter Watkins)
Death in Venice (1971, Luchino Visconti)
Walkabout (1971, Nicolas Roeg)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman)

Honorable Mention:
Melody (1971, Waris Hussein)
Straw Dogs (1971, Sam Peckinpah)
Johnny Got His Gun (1971, Dalton Trumbo)
Vanishing Point (1971, Richard C. Sarafian)
The French Connection (1971, William Friedkin)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971, Robert Bresson)
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971, Dusan Makavejev)

1972
Cries and Whispers (1972, Ingmar Bergman)
Red Psalm (1972, Miklós Jancsó)
Roma (1972, Federico Fellini)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972, Luis Buñuel)
Last Tango in Paris (1972, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)
The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972, Stanislav Rostotsky)
The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
Ludwig (1972, Luchino Visconti)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Honorable Mention:
Cabaret (1972, Bob Fosse)
Sleuth (1972, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Deliverance (1972, John Boorman)
Solyaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Les Misérables (1972, Marcel Bluwal)
The Ruling Class (1972, Peter Medak)
What's Up, Doc? (1972, Peter Bogdanovich)
Love in the Afternoon (1972, Eric Rohmer)
The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

1973
The Day of the Jackal (1973, Fred Zinnemann)
Day for Night (1973, François Truffaut)
Papillon (1973, Franklin J. Schaffner)
Amarcord (1973, Federico Fellini)
The Sting (1973, George Roy Hill)
F for Fake (1973, Orson Welles)
Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick)
The Wicker Man (1973, Robin Hardy)
Scenes from a Marriage (1973, Ingmar Bergman)
The Holy Mountain (1973, Alejandro Jodorowsky)

Honorable Mention:
Don't Look Now (1973, Nicolas Roeg)
The Long Goodbye (1973, Robert Altman)
The Mother and the Whore (1973, Jean Eustache)
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973, Víctor Erice)

1974
Lenny (1974, Bob Fosse)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974, John Cassavetes)
Swept Away... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August (1974, Lina Wertmüller)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
The Godfather: Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
Lacombe Lucien (1974, Louis Malle)
Alice in the Cities (1974, Wim Wenders)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974, Luis Buñuel)
F for Fake (1974, Orson Welles)
The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)

Honorable Mention:
Hearts and Minds (1974, Peter Davis)
That's Entertainment! (1974, Jack Haley Jr.)
General Idi Amin Dada (1974, Barbet Schroeder)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

1975
Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
The Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
Overlord (1975, Stuart Cooper)
The Magic Flute (1975, Ingmar Bergman)
Seven Beauties (1975, Lina Wertmüller)
Dersu Uzala (1975, Akira Kurosawa)
Fox and His Friends (1975, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, Milos Forman)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)

Honorable Mention:
Nashville (1975, Robert Altman)
The Wrong Move (1975, Wim Wenders)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975, Sidney Lumet)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975, Peter Weir)
Professione: reporter (1975, Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975, Volker Schlöndorff)

1976
1900 (1976, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Network (1976, Sidney Lumet)
Chinese Roulette (1976, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Omen (1976, Richard Donner)
Harlan County U.S.A. (1976, Barbara Kopple)
The Tenant (1976, Roman Polanski)
Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese)
Rocky (1976, John G. Avildsen)
Kings of the Road (1976, Wim Wenders)
The Message (1976, Moustapha Akkad)

Honorable Mention:
Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma)
The Scar (1976, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Small Change (1976, François Truffaut)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976, Clint Eastwood)
All the President's Men (1976, Alan J. Pakula)
Black and White in Color (1976, Jean-Jacques Annaud)

1977
Man of Marble (1977, Andrzej Wajda)
Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen)
3 Women (1977, Robert Altman)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977, Luis Buñuel)
Jubilee (1977, Derek Jarman)
Providence (1977, Alain Resnais)
Soldier of Orange (1977, Paul Verhoeven)
The American Friend (1977, Wim Wenders)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg)
Stroszek (1977, Werner Herzog)

Honorable Mention:
Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)
Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch)
The Man Who Loved Women (1977, François Truffaut)

1978
Autumn Sonata (1978, Ingmar Bergman)
Days of Heaven (1978, Terrence Malick)
In a Year of 13 Moons (1978, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978, Ermanno Olmi)
Animal House (1978, John Landis)
Halloween (1978, John Carpenter)
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978, Bertrand Blier)
Orchestra Rehearsal (1978, Federico Fellini)
Midnight Express (1978, Alan Parker)
The Deer Hunter (1978, Michael Cimino)

Honorable Mention:
The Last Waltz (1978, Martin Scorsese)

1979
Life of Brian (1979, Terry Jones)
All That Jazz (1979, Bob Fosse)
Manhattan (1979, Woody Allen)
Being There (1979, Hal Ashby)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979, Don Siegel)
¡Que Viva Mexico! (1979, Sergei M. Eisenstein)
Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola)
Love on the Run (1979, François Truffaut)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979, Robert Benton)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Honorable Mention:
Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)

1980
Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese)
My American Uncle (1980, Alain Resnais)
The Blues Brothers (1980, John Landis)
'Breaker' Morant (1980, Bruce Beresford)
From the Life of the Marionettes (1980, Ingmar Bergman)
The Elephant Man (1980, David Lynch)
Ordinary People (1980, Robert Redford)
Atlantic City (1980, Louis Malle)
Shadow Warrior (1980, Akira Kurosawa)
The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)

Honorable Mention:
The Big Red One (1980, Samuel Fuller)
Airplane! (1980, Jim Abrahams & Zucker Brothers)

1981
Das Boot (1981, Wolfgang Petersen)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
Lola (1981, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
An American Werewolf in London (1981, John Landis)
On Golden Pond (1981, Mark Rydell)
Why Not? (1981, Shohei Imamura)
Mephisto (1981, István Szabó)
Reds (1981, Warren Beatty)
Man of Iron (1981, Andrzej Wajda)
Mad Max 2 (1981, George Miller)

1982
Fitzcarraldo (1982, Werner Herzog)
Gandhi (1982, Richard Attenborough)
Yol (1982, Serif Gören)
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
Pink Floyd The Wall (1982, Alan Parker)
The Verdict (1982, Sidney Lumet)
Fanny and Alexander (1982, Ingmar Bergman)
Koyaanisqatsi (1982, Godfrey Reggio)
Veronika Voss (1982, Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
The Marathon Family (1982, Slobodan Sijan)

Honorable Mention:
Poltergeist (1982, Tobe Hooper)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982, Amy Heckerling)

1983
Scarface (1983, Brian De Palma)
Zelig (1983, Woody Allen)
The Right Stuff (1983, Philip Kaufman)
L'Argent (1983, Robert Bresson)
The 4th Man (1983, Paul Verhoeven)
Nostalghia (1983, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Crime and Punishment (1983, Aki Kaurismäki)
The Dead Zone (1983, David Cronenberg)
And the Ship Sails On (1983, Federico Fellini)
Terms of Endearment (1983, James L. Brooks)

Honorable Mention:
A Christmas Story (1983, Bob Clark)
Videodrome (1983, David Cronenberg)
First Name: Carmen (1983, Jean-Luc Godard)
The Meaning of Life (1983, Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam)

1984
The Killing Fields (1984, Roland Joffé)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984, Rob Reiner)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984, Steven Spielberg)
Amadeus (1984, Milos Forman)
A Passage to India (1984, David Lean)
Secret Honor (1984, Robert Altman)
Blood Simple. (1984, Coen Brothers)
Paris, Texas (1984, Wim Wenders)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Sergio Leone)
Voyage to Cythera (1984, Theodoros Angelopoulos)

Honorable Mention:
Birdy (1984, Alan Parker)
Boy Meets Girl (1984, Leos Carax)
Antonio Gaudí (1984, Hiroshi Teshigahara)
The Element of Crime (1984, Lars von Trier)
Stranger Than Paradise (1984, Jim Jarmusch)
The NeverEnding Story (1984, Wolfgang Petersen)

1985
Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
Come and see (1985, Elem Klimov)
Death of a Salesman (1985, Volker Schlöndorff)
The Official Story (1985, Luis Puenzo)
Out of Africa (1985, Sydney Pollack)
The Color Purple (1985, Steven Spielberg)
No End (1985, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
When Father Was Away on Business (1985, Emir Kusturica)
Day of the Dead (1985, George A. Romero)
Vagabond (1985, Agnès Varda)

1986
Castle in the Sky (1986, Hayao Miyazaki)
The Fly (1986, David Cronenberg)
Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
The Assault (1986, Fons Rademakers)
Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone)
The Green Ray (1986, Eric Rohmer)
The Mission (1986, Roland Joffé)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986, Woody Allen)
The Name of the Rose (1986, Jean-Jacques Annaud)
The Sacrifice (1986, Andrei Tarkovsky)

Honorable Mention:
Stand by Me (1986, Rob Reiner)
The Singing Detective (1986, Jon Amiel)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986, John Hughes)

1987
Empire of the Sun (1987, Steven Spielberg)
Red Sorghum (1987, Zhang Yimou)
House of Games (1987, David Mamet)
Pelle the Conqueror (1987, Bille August)
Babette's Feast (1987, Gabriel Axel)
A Chinese Ghost Story (1987, Ching Siu-Tung)
The Last Emperor (1987, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987, Barry Levinson)
Blind Chance (1987, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Goodbye, Children (1987, Louis Malle)

Honorable Mention:
Maurice (1987, James Ivory)
Epidemic (1987, Lars von Trier)
Cobra Verde (1987, Werner Herzog)
Evil Dead II (1987, Sam Raimi)
Angel Heart (1987, Alan Parker)
Wings of Desire (1987, Wim Wenders)
Raising Arizona (1987, Coen Brothers)
The Wicked City (1987, Yoshiaki Kawajiri)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987, John Hughes)

1988
Landscape in the Mist (1988, Theodoros Angelopoulos)
My Neighbor Totoro (1988, Hayao Miyazaki)
Powaqqatsi (1988, Godfrey Reggio)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988, Martin Scorsese)
A Short Film About Love (1988, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988, Isao Takahata)
The Vanishing (1988, George Sluizer)
Cinema Paradiso (1988, Giuseppe Tornatore)
Time of the Gypsies (1988, Emir Kusturica)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988, Philip Kaufman)

Honorable Mention:
Medea (1988, Lars von Trier)
Akira (1988, Katsuhiro Ôtomo)
The Big Blue (1988, Luc Besson)
Mississippi Burning (1988, Alan Parker)
A Short Film About Killing (1988, Krzysztof Kieslowski)

1989
Dekalog (1989, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
A City of Sadness (1989, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989, Steven Spielberg)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, Woody Allen)
The Seventh Continent (1989, Michael Haneke)
Holy Blood (1989, Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee)
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989, Peter Greenaway)
Henry V (1989, Kenneth Branagh)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989, Bruce Beresford)

Honorable Mention:
Glory (1989, Edward Zwick)
Mystery Train (1989, Jim Jarmusch)
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989, Jim Sheridan)

1990
Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)
Journey of Hope (1990, Xavier Koller)
Wild at Heart (1990, David Lynch)
Close up (1990, Abbas Kiarostami)
Dances with Wolves (1990, Kevin Costner)
Ju Dou (1990, Zhang Yimou)
Dreams (1990, Akira Kurosawa)
Awakenings (1990, Penny Marshall)
Jacob's Ladder (1990, Adrian Lyne)
Henry & June (1990, Philip Kaufman)

Honorable Mention:
Metropolitan (1990, Whit Stillman)
A Tale of Springtime (1990, Eric Rohmer)
A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990, Ching Siu-Tung)

1991
Days of Being Wild (1991, Wong Kar Wai)
A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Edward Yang)
My Own Private Idaho (1991, Gus Van Sant)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991, Zhang yimou)
Europa (1991, Lars von Trier)
Slacker (1991, Richard Linklater)
The Commitments (1991, Alan Parker)
And Life Goes on... (1991, Abbas Kiarostami)
JFK (1991, Oliver Stone)
The Double Life of Veronique (1991, Krzysztof Kieslowski)

Honorable Mention:
Edward II (1991, Derek Jarman)
Delicatessen (1991, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
Mediterraneo (1991, Gabriele Salvatores)
Boyz n the Hood (1991, John Singleton)
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991, Jon Avnet)
La belle noiseuse (1991, Jacques Rivette)
A Scene at the Sea (1991, Takeshi Kitano)
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991, Leos Carax)

1992
The Story of Qiu Ju (1992, Zhang Yimou)
A Winter's Tale (1992, Eric Rohmer)
Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino)
Man Bites Dog (1992, Rémy Belvaux & André Bonzel)
Malcolm X (1992, Spike Lee)
Baraka (1992, Ron Fricke)
Indochine (1992, Régis Wargnier)
Unforgiven (1992, Clint Eastwood)
Lessons of Darkness (1992, Werner Herzog)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992, Michael Mann)

Honorable Mention:
Braindead (1992, Peter Jackson)
The Player (1992, Robert Altman)
Romper Stomper (1992, Geoffrey Wright)
Scent of a Woman (1992, Martin Brest)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992, James Foley)

1993
Schindler's List (1993, Steven Spielberg)
The Red Squirrel (1993, Julio Medem)
Smoking/No Smoking (1993, Alain Resnais)
The Blue Kite (1993, Tian Zhuangzhuang)
The Piano (1993, Jane Campion)
The Remains of the Day (1993, James Ivory)
Farewell My Concubine (1993, Chen Kaige)
Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)
The Scent of Green Papaya (1993, Anh Hung Tran)
Menace II Society (1993, Allen Hughes & Albert Hughes)

Honorable Mention:
Naked (1993, Mike Leigh)
Short Cuts (1993, Robert Altman)
Blue (1993, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Iron Monkey (1993, Yuen Woo-ping)
Tombstone (1993, George P. Cosmatos)
Carlito's Way (1993, Brian De Palma)
Ninja Scroll (1993, Yoshiaki Kawajiri)
Little Buddha (1993, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Dazed and Confused (1993, Richard Linklater)
In the Line of Fire (1993, Wolfgang Petersen)
Much Ado About Nothing (1993, Kenneth Branagh)
In the Name of the Father (1993, Jim Sheridan)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993, Lasse Hallström)

1994
To Live (1994, Zhang Yimou)
Red (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Quiz Show (1994, Robert Redford)
Ashes of Time (1994, Wong Kar Wai)
Forrest Gump (1994, Robert Zemeckis)
Before the Rain (1994, Milcho Manchevski)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont)
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994, Ang Lee)
In the Heat of the Sun (1994, Jiang Wen)
Once Were Warriors (1994, Lee Tamahori)

Honorable Mention:
Léon (1994, Luc Besson)
Undo (1994, Shunji Iwai)
Jizda (1994, Jan Sverák)
Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)
Riget (1994, Lars von Trier)
L'Enfer (1994, Claude Chabrol)
Hoop Dreams (1994, Steve James)
White (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Drunken Master II (1994, Liu Chia-Liang)
Heavenly Creatures (1994, Peter Jackson)
Natural Born Killers (1994, Oliver Stone)
Death and the Maiden (1994, Roman Polanski)

1995
Heat (1995, Michael Mann)
Se7en (1995, David Fincher)
Casino (1995, Martin Scorsese)
Antonia (1995, Marleen Gorris)
Twelve Monkeys (1995, Terry Gilliam)
Sense and Sensibility (1995, Ang Lee)
Before Sunrise (1995, Richard Linklater)
The Usual Suspects (1995, Bryan Singer)
La Haine (1995, Mathieu Kassovitz)
Underground (1995, Emir Kusturica)

Honorable Mention:
Dead Man (1995, Jim Jarmusch)
Toy Story (1995, John Lasseter)
Persuasion (1995, Roger Michell)
Fallen Angels (1995, Wong Kar Wai)
Land and Freedom (1995, Ken Loach)
Shanghai Triad (1995, Zhang Yimou)
La Cérémonie (1995, Claude Chabrol)
Shao Nu xiao yu (1995, Sylvia Chang)
Ghost in the Shell (1995, Mamoru Oshii)

1996
Kolya (1996, Jan Sverák)
Fargo (1996, Coen Brothers)
Trainspotting (1996, Danny Boyle)
Kids Return (1996, Takeshi Kitano)
Hamlet (1996, Kenneth Branagh)
The King of Masks (1996, Wu Tian-Ming)
Breaking the Waves (1996, Lars von Trier)
Shall we dansu? (1996, Masayuki Suo)
L'Appartement (1996, Gilles Mimouni)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996, Milos Forman)

Honorable Mention:
Tierra (1996, Julio Medem)
Picnic (1996, Shunji Iwai)
Lone Star (1996, John Sayles)
Crash (1996, David Cronenberg)
Bound (1996, Wachowski Brothers)
Secrets & Lies (1996, Mike Leigh)
Jerry Maguire (1996, Cameron Crowe)
A Summer's Tale (1996, Eric Rohmer)
Sling Blade (1996, Billy Bob Thornton)
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996, Robert Rodriguez)
The English Patient (1996, Anthony Minghella)

1997
Live Flesh (1997, Pedro Almodóvar)
Wag the Dog (1997, Barry Levinson)
The Eel (1997, Shohei Imamura)
Sweet Hereafter (1997, Atom Egoyan)
Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami)
Cube (1997, Vincenzo Natali)
Lost Highway (1997, David Lynch)
Contact (1997, Robert Zemeckis)
Karakter (1997, Mike van Diem)
Happy Together (1997, Wong Kar Wai)

Honorable Mention:
Keep Cool (1997, Zhang Yimou)
Chasing Amy (1997, Kevin Smith)
Riget II (1997, Lars von Trier)
Amistad (1997, Steven Spielberg)
Same Old Song (1997, Alain Resnais)
The Spanish Prisoner (1997, David Mamet)
Jackie Brown (1997, Quentin Tarantino)
Life Is Beautiful (1997, Roberto Benigni)

1998
The Red Violin (1998, François Girard)
Saving Private Ryan (1998, Steven Spielberg)
American History X (1998, Tony Kaye)
The Legend of 1900 (1998, Giuseppe Tornatore)
Happiness (1998, Todd Solondz)
The Truman Show (1998, Peter Weir)
Run, Lola, Run (1998, Tom Tykwer)
Fucking Åmål (1998, Lukas Moodysson)
Elizabeth (1998, Shekhar Kapur)
Tango, no me dejes nunca (1998, Carlos Saura)

Honorable Mention:
Earth (1998, Deepa Mehta)
Dark City (1998, Alex Proyas)
April Story (1998, Shunji Iwai)
A Simple Plan (1998, Sam Raimi)
Perfect Blue (1998, Satoshi Kon)
Hilary and Jackie (1998, Anand Tucker)
The Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998, Julio Medem)

1999
American Beauty (1999, Sam Mendes)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Stanley Kubrick)
Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Matrix (1999, Wachowski brothers)
The Insider (1999, Michael Mann)
Boys Don't Cry (1999, Kimberly Peirce)
The Color of Paradise (1999, Majid Majidi)
Not One Less (1999, Zhang Yimou)
Titus (1999, Julie Taymor)
Fight Club (1999, David Fincher)

Honorable Mention:
Office Space (1999, Mike Judge)
Sleepy Hollow (1999, Tim Burton)
Toy Story 2 (1999, John Lasseter)
The Green Mile (1999, Frank Darabont)
An Ideal Husband (1999, Oliver Parker)
The Boondock Saints (1999, Troy Duffy)
Wonderland (1999, Michael Winterbottom)
Being John Malkovich (1999, Spike Jonze)
My Voyage to Italy (1999, Martin Scorsese)
Buena Vista Social Club (1999, Wim Wenders)
The Wind Will Carry Us (1999, Abbas Kiarostami)

2000
Devils on the Doorstep (2000, Jiang Wen)
Princes et princesses (2000, Michel Ocelot)
Platform (2000, Jia zhangke)
Memento (2000, Christopher Nolan)
Love's a Bitch (2000, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Requiem for a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky)
High Fidelity (2000, Stephen Frears)
Malèna (2000, Giuseppe Tornatore)
Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (2000, Bahman Farmanara)
Dancer in the Dark (2000, Lars von Trier)

Honorable Mention:
Yi yi (2000, Edward Yang)
Chunhyang (2000, Im Kwon-taek)
Chocolat (2000, Lasse Hallström)
Almost Famous (2000, Cameron Crowe)
American Psycho (2000, Mary Harron)
In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar Wai)
Vampire Hunter D (2000, Yoshiaki Kawajiri)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000, Ang Lee)
Songs from the Second Floor (2000, Roy Andersson)
J.S.A.: Joint Security Area (2000, Park Chan-wook)

2001
Moulin Rouge! (2001, Baz Luhrmann)
All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001, Shunji Iwai)
The Piano Teacher (2001, Michael Haneke)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, Peter Jackson)
Waking Life (2001, Richard Linklater)
Nowhere in Africa (2001, Caroline Link)
In the Bedroom (2001, Todd Field)
Amélie (2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
Kandahar (2001, Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
The Travelling Birds (2001, Jacques Perrin)

Honorable Mention:
Samsara (2001, Pan Nalin)
Ghost World (2001, Terry Zwigoff)
Mulholland Dr. (2001, David Lynch)
Sex and Lucia (2001, Julio Medem)
Monsters, Inc. (2001, Pete Docter)
Gosford Park (2001, Robert Altman)
No Man's Land (2001, Danis Tanovic)
Monster's Ball (2001, Marc Forster)
Super 8 Stories (2001, Emir Kusturica)
Millennium Actress (2001, Satoshi Kon)
Y tu mamá también (2001, Alfonso Cuarón)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001, John Cameron Mitchell)

2002
City of God (2002, Fernando Meirelles)
Talk to Her (2002, Pedro Almodóvar)
The Hours (2002, Stephen Daldry)
In America (2002, Jim Sheridan)
To Be and to Have (2002, Nicolas Philibert)
The Magdalene Sisters (2002, Peter Mullan)
In This World (2002, Michael Winterbottom)
Bowling for Columbine (2002, Michael Moore)
Irréversible (2002, Gaspar Noé)
25th Hour (2002, Spike Lee)

Honorable Mention:
Frida (2002, Julie Taymor)
Uzak (2002, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
The Pianist (2002, Roman Polanski)
Naqoyqatsi (2002, Godfrey Reggio)
Drumline (2002, Charles Stone III)
Russian Ark (2002, Aleksandr Sokurov)
Lilja 4-ever (2002, Lukas Moodysson)
Far from Heaven (2002, Todd Haynes)
28 Days Later... (2002, Danny Boyle)
Infernal Affairs (2002, Lau Wai Keung)
Gangs of New York (2002, Martin Scorsese)
Xiao cheng zhi chun (2002, Tian Zhuangzhuang)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002, Park Chan-wook)
24 Hour Party People (2002, Michael Winterbottom)
The Crime of Father Amaro (2002, Carlos Carrera)

2003
Dogville (2003, Lars von Trier)
Elephant (2003, Gus Van Sant)
Blind Shaft (2003, Li Yang)
Carandiru (2003, Hector Babenco)
Big Fish (2003, Tim Burton)
21 Grams (2003, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Capturing the Friedmans (2003, Andrew Jarecki)
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (2003, Kim Ki-duk)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, Peter Jackson)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino)

Honorable Mention:
PTU (2003, Johnny To)
Identity (2003, James Mangold)
Shattered Glass (2003, Billy Ray)
Finding Nemo (2003, Andrew Stanton)
The Dreamers (2003, Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Return (2003, Andrei Zvyagintsev)
The Last Samurai (2003, Edward Zwick)
The Soul of a Man (2003, Wim Wenders)
Good Bye Lenin! (2003, Wolfgang Becker)
Memories of Murder (2003, Bong Joon-ho)
A Touch of Spice (2003, Tassos Boulmetis)
Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola)
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003, Jim Jarmusch)
The Best of Youth (2003, Marco Tullio Giordana)
To Live Is Better Than to Die (2003, Chen Weijun)
The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003, Byambasuren Davaa)

2004
Mysterious Skin (2004, Gregg Araki)
Innocent Voices (2004, Luis Mandoki)
2046 (2004, Wong Kar Wai)
Gegen die Wand (2004, Fatih Akin)
Summer Storm (2004, Marco Kreuzpaintner)
Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo (2004, Kang Je-gyu)
Tropical Malady (2004, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
Nobody Knows (2004, Hirokazu Koreeda)
Life Is a Miracle (2004, Emir Kusturica)

Honorable Mention:
3-Iron (2004, Kim Ki-duk)
Crash (2004, Paul Haggis)
Kekexili (2004, Lu Chuan)
Closer (2004, Mike Nichols)
The World (2004, Jia zhangke)
Vera Drake (2004, Mike Leigh)
Sideways (2004, Alexander Payne)
The Machinist (2004, Brad Anderson)
Downfall (2004, Oliver Hirschbiegel)
The Notebook (2004, Nick Cassavetes)
The Aviator (2004, Martin Scorsese)
Hotel Rwanda (2004, Terry George)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004, Michael Moore)
Dawn of the Dead (2004, Zack Snyder)
Before Sunset (2004, Richard Linklater)
Ima, ai ni yukimasu (2004, Nobuhiro Doi)
The Sea Inside (2004, Alejandro Amenábar)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004, Quentin Tarantino)
The Phantom of the Opera (2004, Joel Schumacher)
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004, Mamoru Oshii)

2005
C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005, Jean-Marc Vallée)
Fateless (2005, Lajos Koltai)
Hidden (2005, Michael Haneke)
Match Point (2005, Woody Allen)
Manderlay (2005, Lars von Trier)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005, Cristi Puiu)
The Constant Gardener (2005, Fernando Meirelles)
Munich (2005, Steven Spielberg)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005, Martin Scorsese)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005, Alex Gibney)

Honorable Mention:
Water (2005, Deepa Mehta)
Election (2005, Johnny To)
Syriana (2005, Stephen Gaghan)
Qing hong (2005, Wang Xiaoshuai)
Grizzly Man (2005, Werner Herzog)
Ru guo · Ai (2005, Peter Chan)
Brokeback Mountain (2005, Ang Lee)
Oliver Twist (2005, Roman Polanski)
Cinderella Man (2005, Ron Howard)
V for Vendetta (2005, James McTeigue)
Pride & Prejudice (2005, Joe Wright)
Who's Camus Anyway? (2005, Mitsuo Yanagimachi)
Everything Is Illuminated (2005, Liev Schreiber)
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005, George Clooney)
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005, Marc Rothemund)
Ballets russes (2005, Daniel Geller & Dayna Goldfine)
The World's Fastest Indian (2005, Roger Donaldson)
The Cave of the Yellow Dog (2005, Byambasuren Davaa)
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005, Fatih Akin)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005, George Lucas)
Sin City (2005, Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino)

2006
Sanxia haoren (2006, Jia zhangke)
Babel (2006, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuarón)
The Painted Veil (2006, John Curran)
Inland Empire (2006, David Lynch)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006, Clint Eastwood)
The Free Will (2006, Matthias Glasner)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006, Tom Tykwer)
Apocalypto (2006, Mel Gibson)
The Lives of Others (2006, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)

Honorable Mention:
Once (2006, John Carney)
Deja Vu (2006, Tony Scott)
Paprika (2006, Satoshi Kon)
Cashback (2006, Sean Ellis)
Inside Man (2006, Spike Lee)
Election 2 (2006, Johnny To)
The Fall (2006, Tarsem Singh)
The Host (2006, Bong Joon-ho)
Grbavica (2006, Jasmila Zbanic)
Taxidermia (2006, György Pálfi)
United 93 (2006, Paul Greengrass)
Eight Below (2006, Frank Marshall)
Away from Her (2006, Sarah Polley)
Blood Diamond (2006, Edward Zwick)
Tuya's Marriage (2006, Wang Quanan)
The Fountain (2006, Darren Aronofsky)
This Is England (2006, Shane Meadows)
Days of Glory (2006, Rachid Bouchareb)
Marie Antoinette (2006, Sofia Coppola)
Renaissance (2006, Christian Volckman)
Notes on a Scandal (2006, Richard Eyre)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006, Guillermo del Toro)
A Scanner Darkly (2006, Richard Linklater)
The Science of Sleep (2006, Michel Gondry)
Stranger Than Fiction (2006, Marc Forster)
Memories of Matsuko (2006, Tetsuya Nakashima)
Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006, Jonathan Demme)
Deep Water (2006, Louise Osmond & Jerry Rothwell)
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006, Gabriele Muccino)
The Last King of Scotland (2006, Kevin Macdonald)
The Road to Guantanamo (2006, Michael Winterbottom)

2007
Sicko (2007, Michael Moore)
Zodiac (2007, David Fincher)
Blind Mountain (2007, Li Yang)
Atonement (2007, Joe Wright)
Into the Wild (2007, Sean Penn)
The Kite Runner (2007, Marc Forster)
The Counterfeiters (2007, Stefan Ruzowitzky)
There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007, Julian Schnabel)
California Dreamin' (Nesfarsit) (2007, Cristian Nemescu)

Honorable Mention:
Juno (2007, Jason Reitman)
Ratatouille (2007, Brad Bird)
Control (2007, Anton Corbijn)
Nanking (2007, Bill Guttentag)
Hot Fuzz (2007, Edgar Wright)
La Môme (2007, Olivier Dahan)
Elite Squad (2007, José Padilha)
The Mist (2007, Frank Darabont)
The Warlords (2007, Peter Chan)
Stardust (2007, Matthew Vaughn)
Persepolis (2007, Vincent Paronnaud)
The Sun Also Rises (2007, Jiang Wen)
The Edge of Heaven (2007, Fatih Akin)
Cassandra's Dream (2007, Woody Allen)
American Gangster (2007, Ridley Scott)
Secret Sunshine (2007, Lee Chang-dong)
Across the Universe (2007, Julie Taymor)
Bridge to Terabithia (2007, Gabor Csupo)
Taxi to the Dark Side (2007, Alex Gibney)
Eastern Promises (2007, David Cronenberg)
Live Free or Die Hard (2007, Len Wiseman)
[Rec] (2007, Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza)
The Simpsons Movie (2007, David Silverman)
The Darjeeling Limited (2007, Wes Anderson)
No Country for Old Men (2007, Coen Brothers)
Mad Detective (2007, Johnny To & Wai Ka-Fai)
The Great Debaters (2007, Denzel Washington)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, Cristian Mungiu)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007, Sidney Lumet)
Grindhouse (2007, Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007, Tim Burton)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007, Andrew Dominik)

2008
The Chaser (2008, Na Hong-jin)
Gomorra (2008, Matteo Garrone)
Man on Wire (2008, James Marsh)
Food, Inc. (2008, Robert Kenner)
Doubt (2008, John Patrick Shanley)
Waltz with Bashir (2008, Ari Folman)
The Wrestler (2008, Darren Aronofsky)
Revolutionary Road (2008, Sam Mendes)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Danny Boyle)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008, David Fincher)

Honorable Mention:
Milk (2008, Gus Van Sant)
Ip Man (2008, Wilson Yip)
Cloverfield (2008, Matt Reeves)
WALL·E (2008, Andrew Stanton)
Frost/Nixon (2008, Ron Howard)
The Class (2008, Laurent Cantet)
Body of Lies (2008, Ridley Scott)
Changeling (2008, Clint Eastwood)
The Reader (2008, Stephen Daldry)
Gran Torino (2008, Clint Eastwood)
Frozen River (2008, Courtney Hunt)
Shine a Light (2008, Martin Scorsese)
The Hurt Locker (2008, Kathryn Bigelow)
Burn After Reading (2008, Coen Brothers)
The Dark Knight (2008, Christopher Nolan)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008, Woody Allen)
Synecdoche, New York (2008, Charlie Kaufman)
I've Loved You So Long (2008, Philippe Claudel)
Rachel Getting Married (2008, Jonathan Demme)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008, Nicholas Stoller)

2009
Moon (2009, Duncan Jones)
Mother (2009, Joon-ho Bong)
A Prophet (2009, Jacques Audiard)
Antichrist (2009, Lars von Trier)
The Hangover (2009, Todd Phillips)
Mary and Max (2009, Adam Elliot)
Whatever Works (2009, Woody Allen)
The White Ribbon (2009, Michael Haneke)
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009, Michael Moore)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009, Niels Arden Oplev)

Honorable Mention:
Coraline (2009, Henry Selick)
District 9 (2009, Neill Blomkamp)
A Serious Man (2009, Coen Brothers)
Up in the Air (2009, Jason Reitman)
The Secret in Their Eyes (2009, Juan José Campanella)

2010
127 Hours (2010, Danny Boyle)
True Grit (2010, Coen Brothers)
Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)
Black Swan (2010, Darren Aronofsky)
Inside Job (2010, Charles Ferguson)
Shutter Island (2010, Martin Scorsese)
Alice in Wonderland (2010, Tim Burton)
Echoes of the Rainbow (2010, Alex Law)
The Social Network (2010, David Fincher)
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010, Tsui Hark)

Honorable Mention:
I Saw the Devil (2010, Kim Jee-woon)
The Ghost Writer (2010, Roman Polanski)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010, Edgar Wright)
How to Train Your Dragon (2010, Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders)

2011
Warrior (2011, Gavin O'Connor)
Melancholia (2011, Lars von Trier)
A Separation (2011, Asghar Farhadi)
Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
The Ides of March (2011, George Clooney)

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