By Year
2014
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
2. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
3. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
4. Edge Of Tomorrow (Doug Liman)
2013
1. The Past (Asghar Farhadi)
2. Her (Spike Jonze)
3. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
4. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)
5. All Is Lost (J.C. Chandor)
6. Blue Is The Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche)
7. Under The Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
8. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen)
9. Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski)
10. The Wolf Of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
Notable: American Hustle (David O. Russell), Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron), 20 Feet From Stardom (Morgan Neville), The World's End (Edgar Wright)
2012
1. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
2. The Imposter (Bart Layton)
3. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
4. Looper (Rian Johnson)
5. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
6. Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
7. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
8. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9. Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh)
Notable: The Amazing Spider-Man (Marc Webb), Brave (Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, & Steve Purcell), Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)
2011
1. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
2. The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar)
3. Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
4. The Kid With The Bike (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
5. Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo)
6. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
7. This Is Not A Film (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb & Jafar Panahi)
8. Elena (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
9. Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin)
10. The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
Notable: The Cabin In The Woods (Drew Goddard), Haywire (Steven Soderbergh), Hugo (Martin Scorsese), Melancholia (Lars von Trier), Midnight In Paris (Woody Allen), Moneyball (Bennett Miller), The Tree Of Life (Terrence Malick)
2010
1. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
3. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
4. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
6. Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
7. The Social Network (David Fincher)
8. Shit Year (Cam Archer)
9. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
10. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
Notable: Exit Through The Gift Shop (Banksy), Hahaha (Hong Sang-soo), Inception (Christopher Nolan), The Last Exorcism (Daniel Stamm), Tabloid (Errol Morris), True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen)
2009
1. Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
3. Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
4. In The Loop (Armando Iannucci)
5. Duplicity (Tony Gilroy)
6. The House Of The Devil (Ti West)
7. Dogtooth (Giorgos Lanthimos)
8. Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
9. A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
10. Humpday (Lynn Shelton)
Notable: Beeswax (Andrew Bujalski), Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar), Coraline (Henry Selick), Eccentricities Of A Blonde-Haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira), The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh), The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh), A Prophet (Jacques Audiard), Up (Pete Docter), The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
2008
1. A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
2. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
3. The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson)
4. Afterschool (Antonio Campos)
5. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
6. Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
7. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
8. Julia (Erick Zonca)
9. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
10. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
Notable: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller), The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow), In Bruges (Martin McDonagh), Lorna's Silence (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne), Pontypool (Bruce McDonald), Revanche (Gotz Spielmann), Sita Sings The Blues (Nina Paley), Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris), WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
2007
1. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
2. I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
3. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. In The City Of Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin)
5. Zodiac (David Fincher)
6. No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
7. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
8. Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
9. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
10. Funny Games U.S. (Michael Haneke)
Notable: The Banishment (Andrei Zvyagintsev), The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass), Breath (Kim Ki-duk), Days & Clouds (Silvio Soldini), Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg), Encounters At The End Of The World (Werner Herzog), Exiled (Johnnie To), Flight Of The Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien), 4 Months, 3 Weeks, & 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu), Go-Go Tales (Abel Ferrera), Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck), Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright), Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl), Joshua (George Ratliff), The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat), The Man From London (Agnes Hranitzky & Bela Tarr), Margot At The Wedding (Noah Baumbach), Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy), My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev), Profit Motive & The Whispering Wind (John Gianvito), The Romance Of Astrea & Celadon (Eric Rohmer), The Secret Of The Grain (Abdellatif Kechiche), Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
2006
1. Syndromes & A Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan)
3. Woman On The Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
4. Fay Grim (Hal Hartley)
5. When The Levees Broke (Spike Lee)
6. The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
7. The Boss Of It All (Lars von Trier)
8. Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev)
9. Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (Douglas Gordon & Philippe Parreno)
10. Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
Notable: Brand Upon The Brain! (Guy Maddin), Casino Royale (Martin Campbell), Children Of Men (Alfonso Cuaron), Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan), The Good German (Steven Soderbergh), The Host (Joon-ho Bong), I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang), An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim), Inland Empire (David Lynch), Inside Man (Spike Lee), Iraq In Fragments (James Longley), Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola), Offside (Jafar Panahi), Private Fears In Public Places (Alain Resnais), The Pursuit Of Happyness (Gabriele Muccino), A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater), Sleeping Dogs Lie (Bobcat Goldthwait), Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke), Volver (Pedro Almodovar), The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Ken Loach), 12:08 East Of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu)
Shorts: Everything Will Be Okay (Don Hertzfeldt)
2005
1. Brick (Rian Johnson)
2. Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel)
3. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)
4. The Squid & The Whale (Noah Baumbach)
5. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
6. Tale Of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)
7. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
8. Who's Camus Anyway? (Mitsuo Yanagimachi)
9. Cache (Michael Haneke)
10. Down In The Valley (David Jacobson)
Notable: Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan), The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard), Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch), Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry), L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne), 49 Up (Michael Apted), Gabrielle (Patrice Chereau), The Girl From Monday (Hal Hartley), A History Of Violence (David Cronenberg), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black), Land Of The Dead (George A. Romero), Last Days (Gus Van Sant), Manderlay (Lars von Trier), Match Point (Woody Allen), Me And You And Everyone We Know (Miranda July), MirrorMask (Dave McKean), Munich (Steven Spielberg), Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalksi), The New World (Terrence Malick), Pretty Persuasion (Marcos Siega), The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones), Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom), War Of The Worlds (Steven Spielberg)
2004
1. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)
2. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
3. The Life Aquatic (Wes Anderson)
4. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
5. I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell)
6. Primer (Shane Carruth)
7. Kings & Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
8. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasathakul)
9. Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky)
10. Head-On (Fatih Akin)
Notable: Anchorman (Adam McKay), Antares (Gotz Spielmann), Azumi (Ryuhei Kitamura), Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar), The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass), Clean (Olivier Assayas), Collateral (Michael Mann), Control Room (Jehane Noujaim), The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel), House Of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou), Kung-Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow), Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess), Red Lights (Cedric Kahn), Shaun Of The Dead (Edgar Wright), Sideways (Alexander Payne), Spartan (David Mamet), Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi), Sucker Free City (Spike Lee), 3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk), Tony Takitani (Jun Ichikawa), Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
Shorts: ! (Tony Cokes), Equilibrium (Steven Soderbergh), The Hand (Wong Kar-Wai), Magda (Chel White)
2003
1. Dogville (Lars von Trier)
2. The Tulse Luper Suitcases (Peter Greenaway)
3. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
4. Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola)
5. Kill Bill: Volume 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
6. Pirates Of The Caribbean (Gore Verbinski)
7. The Saddest Music In The World (Guy Maddin)
8. Cowards Bend The Knee (Guy Maddin)
9. The Five Obstructions (Jorgen Leth & Lars von Trier)
10. Memories Of Murder (Joon-ho Bong)
Notable: Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff), Big Fish (Tim Burton), Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee), Capturing The Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki), The Corporation (Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott), Elephant (Gus Van Sant), Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton), The Fog Of War (Errol Morris), The Forest For The Trees (Maren Ade), Infernal Affairs II (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak), Infernal Affairs III (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak), Intermission (John Crowley), Last Life In The Universe (Pen-ek Ratanaruang), The Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King (Peter Jackson), The Man Without A Past (Aki Kaurismaki), Master & Commander (Peter Weir), Not On The Lips (Alain Resnais), The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev), The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Kim Bartley & Donnacha O’Briain), School Of Rock (Richard Linklater), Stander (Bronwen Hughes), The Triplets Of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet), Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano)
Shorts: Destino (Dominique Monfery)
2002
1. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
3. 8 Women (Francois Ozon)
4. 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
5. Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
6. Friday Night (Claire Denis)
7. The Trilogy (Lucas Belvaux)
8. Bus 174 (Felipe Lacerda & Jose Padilha)
9. Talk To Her (Pedro Almodovar)
10. Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak)
Notable: About A Boy (Chris & Paul Weitz), Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman), Bowling For Columbine (Michael Moore), Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg), Comedian (Christian Charles), Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan), Dolls (Takeshi Kitano), Dracula: Pages From A Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin), Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes), Hero (Zhang Yimou), Irreversible (Gasper Noe), The Kid Stays In The Picture (Nanette Burstein & Brett Morgan), Lilya 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson), The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson), The Man Without A Past (Aki Kaurismaki), Minority Report (Steven Spielberg), Narc (Joe Carnahan), Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett), The Ring (Gore Verbinski), Road To Perdition (Sam Mendes), Roger Dodger (Dylan Kidd), Russian Ark (Alexandr Sokurov), The Salton Sea (D.J. Caruso), The Secret Lives of Dentists (Alan Rudolph), The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne), Spider-Man (Sam Raimi), To Be & To Have (Nicholas Philibert), 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle), 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom), The Twilight Samurai (Yoji Yamada)
Shorts: The Skywalk Is Gone (Tsai Ming-liang)
2001
1. Happiness Of The Katakuris (Takashi Miike)
2. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
3. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
4. The Man Who Wasn’t There (Joel Coen)
5. Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette)
6. No Such Thing (Hal Hartley)
7. Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin)
8. Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)
9. Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
10. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Notable: AI (Steven Spielberg), The American Astronaut (Cory McAbee), The Cat's Meow (Peter Bogdanovich), CQ (Roman Coppola), Das Experiment (Oliver Hirschbiegel), Gosford Park (Robert Altman), In The Bedroom (Todd Field), The Lady & The Duke (Eric Rohmer), Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili), The Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring (Peter Jackson), Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair), Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter), Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann), Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch), No Man’s Land (Danis Tanovic), The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke), Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow), Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki), Tape (Richard Linklater), Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain), What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
Shorts: Giant Steps (Michael Levy)
2000
1. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
2. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
3. Bamboozled (Spike Lee)
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou (Joel Coen)
5. Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)
6. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
7. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
8. The House Of Mirth (Terence Davies)
9. Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
10. You Can Count On Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
Notable: American Psycho (Mary Harron), Amores Perros (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu), Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee), The Dish (Rob Sitch), George Washington (David Gordon Green), Mysterious Object At Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), Requiem For A Dream (Darren Aronofsky), Songs From The Second Floor (Roy Andersson), State & Main (David Mamet), Tigerland (Joel Schumacher), Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
Shorts: The Heart Of The World (Guy Maddin)
1999
1. Fight Club (David Fincher)
2. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter)
3. Three Kings (David O. Russell)
4. The Limey (Steven Soderbergh)
5. Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano)
6. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
7. Go (Doug Liman)
8. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)
9. Mr. Death (Errol Morris)
10. Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)
Notable: All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar), American Beauty (Sam Mendes), Audition (Takashi Miike), Election (Alexander Payne), Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick), 42 Up (Michael Apted), Ghost Dog (Jim Jarmusch), The Insider (Michael Mann), The Iron Giant (Brad Bird), Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson), Office Space (Mike Judge), Sweet & Lowdown (Woody Allen), The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Mingella), The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami), The Winslow Boy (David Mamet)
1998
1. Out Of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
2. The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
3. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen)
4. Late August, Early September (Olivier Assayas)
5. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
6. Buffalo 66 (Vincent Gallo)
7. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
8. Croupier (Mike Hodges)
9. Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam)
10. The Last Days Of Disco (Whit Stillman)
Notable: A Bug's Life (John Lasseter), Flowers Of Shanghai (Hsiao-hsien Hou), Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg), The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick), The Truman Show (Peter Weir), Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes), Zero Effect (Jake Kasden)
Shorts: Human Remains (Jay Rosenblatt)
1997
1. Funny Games (Michael Haneke)
2. Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano)
3. Henry Fool (Hal Hartley)
4. Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai)
5. Fast, Cheap, & Out Of Control (Errol Morris)
6. Same Old Song (Alain Resnais)
7. The River (Tsai Ming-liang)
8. The Game (David Fincher)
9. Live Flesh (Pedro Almodovar)
10. Mr. Jealousy (Noah Baumbach)
Notable: Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (Jay Roach), Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson), The Eel (Shohei Imamura), 4 Little Girls (Spike Lee), Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant), Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage), The Ice Storm (Ang Lee), Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino), The Kingdom II (Morten Arnfred & Lars von Trier), LA Confidential (Curtis Hanson), Nil By Mouth (Gary Oldman), Princess Mononoke (Hiyao Miyazaki), The Spanish Prisoner (David Mamet), Taste Of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
1996
1. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders At Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky)
2. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
3. Schizopolis (Steven Soderbergh)
4. My Sex Life ... Or How I Got Into An Argument (Arnaud Desplechin)
5. A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer)
6. La Promesse (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
7. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
8. Fargo (Joel Coen)
9. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
10. Flirting With Disaster (David O. Russell)
Notable: Breaking The Waves (Lars von Trier), Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne), The God Of Cookery (Stephen Chaiu), Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson), Waiting For Guffman (Christopher Guest)
1995
1. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai)
2. Seven (David Fincher)
3. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
4. Toy Story (John Lasseter)
5. La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz)
6. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
7. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
8. Safe (Todd Haynes)
9. Kicking & Screaming (Noah Baumbach)
10. Shanghai Triad (Zhang Yimou)
Notable: Clockers (Spike Lee), Flirt (Hal Hartley), Heat (Michael Mann), Rendezvous In Paris (Eric Rohmer), A Single Girl (Benoit Jacquot), To Die For (Gus Van Sant), Underground (Emir Kusturica)
1994
1. Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
2. Barcelona (Whit Stillman)
3. Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
4. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
5. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
6. The Kingdom (Morten Arnfred & Lars von Trier)
7. Amateur (Hal Hartley)
8. Wild Reeds (Andre Techine)
9. Cold Water (Olivier Assayas)
10. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
Notable: Ashes Of Time (Wong Kar-Wai), Four Weddings & A Funeral (Mike Newell), Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson), The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel Coen), Oleanna (David Mamet), Quiz Show (Robert Redford), 71 Fragments Of Chronology & Chance (Michael Haneke)
1993
1. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Francois Girard)
2. The Age Of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
3. Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg)
4. Dazed & Confused (Richard Linklater)
5. Clean, Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan)
6. The Thief & The Cobbler (Richard Williams)
7. Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Shorts: Three Homerics (Stan Brakhage)
1992
1. Simple Men (Hal Hartley)
2. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
3. Husbands & Wives (Woody Allen)
4. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
5. La Sentinelle (Arnaud Desplechin)
6. Un Couer En Hiver (Claude Sautet)
7. La Vie De Boheme (Aki Kaurismaki)
8. Brother's Keeper (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky)
9. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
10. Man Bites Dog (Remy Belvaux, Andre Banzel, & Benoit Poelvoorde)
Notable: Hard Boiled (John Woo), Malcolm X (Spike Lee), 35 Up (Michael Apted)
1991
1. Homicide (David Mamet)
2. My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
3. The Double Life Of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
4. Zentropa (Lars von Trier)
5. High Heels (Pedro Almodovar)
6. Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley)
7. I Can No Longer Hear The Guitar (Philippe Garrel)
8. La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
9. Barton Fink (Joel Coen)
Notable: Slacker (Richard Linklater)
1990
1. Miller’s Crossing (Joel Coen)
2. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
3. Trust (Hal Hartley)
4. A Tale Of Springtime (Eric Rohmer)
5. Days Of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai)
6. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
7. Die Hard II: Die Harder (Renny Harlin)
Notable: Cry-Baby (John Waters)
1989
1. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Pedro Almodovar)
2. Crimes & Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
3. Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
4. Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee)
5. The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
6. The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
7. Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte)
8. Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
9. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
10. The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke)
Notable: For All Mankind (Al Reinert), The Killer (John Woo), Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch), Roger & Me (Michael Moore), When Harry Met Sally... (Rob Reiner)
Shorts: Darkness/Light/Darkness (Jan Svenkmajer)
1988
1. Die Hard (John McTiernan)
2. The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)
3. Chocolat (Claire Denis)
4. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (Philip Kaufman)
Notable: Eight Men Out (John Sayles), Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar)
1987
1. Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle)
2. Epidemic (Lars von Trier)
3. House Of Games (David Mamet)
4. Raising Arizona (Joel Coen)
5. Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)
6. Evil Dead 2 (Sam Raimi)
7. Wings Of Desire (Wim Wenders)
8. Boyfriends & Girlfriends (Eric Rohmer)
Notable: Law Of Desire (Pedro Almodovar)
Shorts: Breakfast On The Grass (Priit Parn)
1986
1. Matador (Pedro Almodovar)
2. Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch)
3. Hannah & Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
4. Sherman's March (Ross McElwee)
5. Summer (Eric Rohmer)
6. Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant)
7. Melo (Alain Resnais)
Notable: ...And The Pursuit Of Happiness (Louis Malle), Jean De Florette (Claude Berri), Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan), Stand By Me (Rob Reiner)
1985
1. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
2. Rendez-vous (Andre Techine)
Notable: 28 Up (Michael Apted)
1984
1. Full Moon In Paris (Eric Rohmer)
2. The Element Of Crime (Lars von Trier)
3. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
4. Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
5. Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
6. A Sunday In The Country (Bertrand Tavernier)
7. Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax)
8. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
9. Love Unto Death (Alain Resnais)
10. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
Notable: Amadeus (Milos Forman), Antonio Gaudi (Hiroshi Teshigahara), Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen), Meantime (Mike Leigh)
1983
1. Pauline At The Beach (Eric Rohmer)
2. Life Is A Bed Of Roses (Alain Resnais)
3. Star Wars, Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi (Richard Marquand)
4. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
Notable: The King Of Comedy (Martin Scorsese), Monty Python’s Meaning Of Life (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)
1982
1. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
2. Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
3. A Good Marriage (Eric Rohmer)
4. La Truite (Joseph Losey)
5. Fanny & Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
6. Burden Of Dreams (Les Blank)
1981
1. Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
2. Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan)
3. The Aviator's Wife (Eric Rohmer)
4. Gallipoli (Peter Weir)
5. Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
6. Coup De Torchon (Bertrand Travernier)
7. Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam)
Shorts: Commuter (Michael Patterson), Crac (Frederic Back)
1980
1. Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
2. The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie)
3. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
4. Mon Oncle D'Amerique (Alain Resnais)
5. The Falls (Peter Greenaway)
6. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
7. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
8. Grown Ups (Mike Leigh)
9. The Last Metro (Francois Truffaut)
10. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)
Notable: Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg), The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller)
1979
1. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
2. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
3. Vengeance Is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
4. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
5. Killer Of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
6. The Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara)
7. The Warriors (Walter Hill)
8. Being There (Hal Ashby)
9. Escape From Alcatraz (Don Siegel)
10. Nosferatu The Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
Notable: Monty Python's The Life Of Brian (Terry Jones), The Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorff), Woyzeck (Werner Herzog)
Shorts: Tale Of Tales (Yuriy Norshteyn)
1978
1. The Whole Shootin' Match (Eagle Pennell)
2. Dawn Of The Dead (George A. Romero)
3. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
4. Days Of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
5. Gates Of Heaven (Errol Morris)
Notable: Death Force (Cirio H. Santiago), Perceval (Eric Rohmer)
1977
1. Star Wars (George Lucas)
2. That Obscure Object Of Desire (Luis Bunuel)
3. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
4. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
5. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
6. Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
Notable: 21 (Michael Apted)
1976
1. Assault On Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
2. Network (Sidney Lumet)
3. Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
4. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
5. Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Coup de Grace (Volker Schlondorff)
Notable: Cria Cuervos (Carlos Saura), Harlan County USA (Barbara Kopple), The Man Who Fell To Earth (Nicolas Roeg)
1975
1. Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
3. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
4. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
5. Grey Gardens (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, & Muffie Meyer)
6. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
7. Overlord (Stuart Cooper)
8. Monty Python & The Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)
9. Picnic At Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
10. Nashville (Robert Altman)
Notable: Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa), The Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlondorff & Margarethe von Trotta), The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni), Shampoo (Hal Ashby)
Shorts: Hedgehog In The Myst (Yuriy Norshteyn)
1974
1. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
2. The Godfather II (Francis Ford Coppola)
3. California Split (Robert Altman)
4. Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle)
5. Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)
6. The Phantom Of Liberty (Luis Bunuel)
7. A Woman Under The Influence (John Cassavetes)
8. Celine & Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
9. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
10. Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Notable: General Idi Amin Dada (Barbet Schroeder)
1973
1. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
2. Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
3. F For Fake (Orson Welles)
4. Day For Night (Francois Truffaut)
5. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
6. Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (Sam Peckinpah)
7. Touki-Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambety)
8. High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood)
9. Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
Notable: Badlands (Terrence Malick), Sleeper (Woody Allen)
1972
1. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
3. The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
4. The Ruling Class (Peter Medak)
5. Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Across 110th Street (Barry Shear)
7. The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
8. Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville)
9. The School That Couldn't Scream (Massimo Dallamano)
10. Fat City (John Huston)
Notable: Aguirre, The Wrath Of God (Werner Herzog), Chloe In The Afternoon (Eric Rohmer), The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah), Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
1971
1. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
2. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
3. Harold & Maude (Hal Ashby)
4. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
5. Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Schlesinger)
6. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
7. The French Connection (William Friedkin)
8. Bananas (Woody Allen)
Notable: The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
1970
1. Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)
2. Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
3. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
4. Tristana (Luis Bunuel)
5. The American Soldier (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
6. M*A*S*H (Robert Altman)
7. Bed & Board (Francois Truffaut)
8. Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)
9. La Rupture (Claude Chabrol)
Notable: 7 Plus Seven (Michael Apted)
1969
1. Mississippi Mermaid (Francois Truffaut)
2. My Night At Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
3. Army Of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
4. Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda)
5. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
6. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
Notable: The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle), The Milky Way (Luis Bunuel), Take The Money & Run (Woody Allen)
1968
1. Stolen Kisses (Francois Truffaut)
2. Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)
3. Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
5. Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomas Gutierrez Alea)
6. Bullitt (Peter Yates)
7. The Bride Wore Black (Francois Truffaut)
8. Night Of The Living Dead (George A. Romero)
9. Once Upon A Time In The West (Sergio Leone)
1967
1. The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
2. Accident (Joseph Losey)
3. Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville)
4. Branded To Kill (Seijun Suzuki)
5. Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi)
6. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
7. Belle De Jour (Luis Bunuel)
8. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
9. Point Blank (John Boorman)
10. La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer)
Notable: The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich), The Fearless Vampire Killers (Roman Polanski)
Shorts: Wavelength (Michael Snow)
1966
1. Battle Of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
2. La Guerre Est Finie (Alain Resnais)
3. Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki)
4. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
5. Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
6. Le Deuxieme Souffle (Jean-Pierre Melville)
7. Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
8. The Sword Of Doom (Kihachi Okamato)
9. The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly (Sergio Leone)
10. Fighting Elegy (Seijun Suzuki)
Notable: A Man & A Woman (Claude Lelouch), Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
1965
1. Pierrot Le Feu (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. For A Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
3. Juliet Of The Spirits (Federico Fellini)
4. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (Martin Ritt)
6. Samurai Spy (Masahiro Shinoda)
7. Samurai Assassin (Kihachi Okamoto)
8. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
Notable: Bunny Lake Is Missing (Otto Preminger), Simon Of The Desert (Luis Bunuel), Tattooed Life (Seijun Suzuki), Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa)
Shorts: A (Jan Lenica), The Hand (Jiri Trnka)
1964
1. I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov)
2. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
3. Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda)
4. Kiss Me Stupid (Billy Wilder)
5. Band Of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. A Fistful Of Dollars (Sergio Leone)
7. The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
8. Gertrud (Carl Th. Dreyer)
9. The Soft Skin (Francois Truffaut)
10. Diary Of A Chambermaid (Luis Bunuel)
Notable: Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)
Shorts: Seven Up! (Paul Almond)
1963
1. 8 ½ (Federico Fellini)
2. High & Low (Akira Kurosawa)
3. I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
4. Youth Of The Beast (Seijun Suzuki)
5. Billy Liar (John Schlesinger)
6. Muriel (Alain Resnais)
7. The Servant (Joseph Losey)
8. Hands Over The City (Francesco Rosi)
9. Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
10. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
Notable: Charade (Stanley Donen), Dry Summer (Metin Erksan), Irma La Douce (Billy Wilder), Kanto Wanderer (Seijun Suzuki), Lord Of The Flies (Peter Brook)
Shorts: The Girl From Monceau Bakery (Eric Rohmer)
1962
1. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
2. Jules Et Jim (Francois Truffaut)
3. Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi)
4. Advise & Consent (Otto Preminger)
5. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu)
6. Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
7. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
8. Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa)
9. Knife In The Water (Roman Polanski)
10. Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville)
Notable: Carnival Of Souls (Herk Harvey), Cleo From 5 To 7 (Agnes Varda), Harakari (Masaki Kobayashi), Hatari! (Howard Hawks), La Commare Secca (Bernardo Bertolucci), Lawrence Of Arabia (David Lean), My Life To Live (Jean-Luc Godard), Ride The High Country (Sam Peckinpah)
Shorts: La Jetee (Chris Marker), Vive Le Tour (Louis Malle)
1961
1. Lola (Jacques Demy)
2. Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi)
3. A Woman Is A Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
5. La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
6. The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
7. Paris Nous Appartient (Jacques Rivette)
8. Last Year At Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
9. Blast Of Silence (Allen Baron)
10. Viridania (Luis Bunuel)
Notable: The End Of Summer (Yasujiro Ozu), One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
1960
1. Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
2. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
3. Zazie Dans Le Metro (Louis Malle)
4. Shoot The Piano Player (Francois Truffaut)
5. L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
6. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
7. When A Woman Ascends The Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
8. Testament Of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
9. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
10. The 1000 Eyes Of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
Notable: The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa), Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher), The Housemaid (Ki-Young Kim), Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu), Peeping Tom (Michael Powell), Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock), Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick), Tunes Of Glory (Ronald Naeme), The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
1959
1. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
2. Anatomy Of A Murder (Otto Preminger)
3. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
4. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
5. North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. The World Of Apu (Satyajit Ray)
7. Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)
8. Imitation Of Life (Douglas Sirk)
9. Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
10. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)
Notable: Fires On The Plain (Kon Ichikawa), Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu)
Shorts: Monsieur Tete (Jan Lenica & Henri Greul)
1958
1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Touch Of Evil (Orson Welles)
3. Ashes & Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda)
4. Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher)
5. The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
6. The Horse's Mouth (Ronald Neame)
7. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
Notable: A Night To Remember (Roy Ward Baker), Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu), Fiend Without A Face (Arthur Crabtree), Ivan The Terrible, Part 2 (Sergei Eisenstein)
1957
1. The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
2. Paths Of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
3. Sweet Smell Of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
4. The Bridge On The River Kwai (David Lean)
5. Witness For The Prosecution (Billy Wilder)
6. A Face In The Crowd (Elia Kazan)
7. Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray)
8. The Tall T (Budd Boetticher)
9. Kanal (Andrzej Wajda)
10. Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)
Notable: Decision At Sundown (Budd Boetticher), Gunfight At The OK Corral (John Sturges), Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni), The Lower Depths (Akira Kurosawa), Nights Of Cabiria (Federico Fellini), 3:10 To Yuma (Delmer Davies), Throne Of Blood (Akira Kurosawa), Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu), 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
1956
1. Baby Doll (Elia Kazan)
2. Early Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
3. Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher)
4. Bob Le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
5. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
7. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
9. Samurai III - Duel At Ganryu Island (Hiroshi Inagaki)
10. The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
1955
1. The Trouble With Harry (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
3. Night Of The Hunter (Charles Laughton)
4. Rififi (Jules Dassin)
5. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
6. Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles)
7. Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
8. East Of Eden (Elia Kazan)
9. Samurai II - Duel At Ichijoji Temple (Hiroshi Inagaki)
10. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
Notable: The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis), The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick), The Man With The Golden Arm (Otto Preminger), Richard III (Laurence Olivier), To Catch A Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
Shorts: Blinkety Blank (Norman McLaren), Night & Fog (Alain Resnais)
1954
1. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
3. Sabrina (Billy Wilder)
4. Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (Jacques Becker)
5. Sansho The Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
6. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
7. Dial M For Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. La Strada (Federico Fellini)
9. River Of No Return (Otto Preminger)
10. The Caine Mutiny (Edward Dmytryk)
Notable: The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), On The Waterfront (Elia Kazan), Samurai I - Musashi Miyamoto (Hiroshi Inagaki)
1953
1. The Wages Of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
2. Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)
3. I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
5. The Man Between (Carol Reed)
6. Pickup On South Street (Samuel Fuller)
7. The Earrings Of Madame De ... (Max Ophuls)
8. The 5000 Fingers Of Dr. T (Roy Rowland)
9. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
10. I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini)
Notable: Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
Shorts: Daybreak Express (D.A. Pennebaker)
1952
1. Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls)
2. Sudden Fear (David Miller)
3. Casque D'or (Jacques Becker)
4. The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer)
5. Singin In The Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
6. Bend Of The River (Anthony Mann)
7. Angel Face (Otto Preminger)
8. The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
9. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)
Notable: The Tragedy Of Othello: The Moor Of Venice (Orson Welles)
1951
1. Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
2. Strangers On A Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Ace In The Hole (Billy Wilder)
4. Decision Before Dawn (Anatole Litvak)
5. The Browning Version (Anthony Asquith)
6. Diary Of A Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
Notable: The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton)
Shorts: Gerald McBoing-Boing (Robert Cannon)
1950
1. Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
2. Night & The City (Jules Dassin)
3. In A Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
4. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
5. La Ronde (Max Ophuls)
6. The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
7. Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)
9. Les Enfants Terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville)
10. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
Notable: The Flowers Of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini), Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
Shorts: It's Hummer Time (Robert McKimson)
1949
1. The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
2. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
3. White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
4. The Small Back Room (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
5. Kind Hearts & Coronets (Richard Hamer)
6. Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak)
Notable: Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu), Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin), Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock)
1948
1. The Big Clock (John Farrow)
2. The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed)
3. Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges)
4. Force Of Evil (Abraham Polonski)
5. Red River (Howard Hawks)
6. Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak)
7. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (John Huston)
8. Key Largo (John Huston)
9. Oliver Twist (David Lean)
Notable: Hamlet (Laurence Olivier), Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
1947
1. Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
2. Pursued (Raoul Walsh)
3. Quai Des Orfevres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
4. The Long Night (Anatole Litvak)
5. Out Of The Past (Jacques Tourneur)
6. Brute Force (Jules Dassin)
7. The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
8. A Double Life (George Cukor)
9. The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles)
10. The Paradine Case (Alfred Hitchcock)
Notable: Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger), T-Men (Anthony Mann)
1946
1. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Green For Danger (Sidney Gilliat)
3. Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch)
4. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
5. The Killers (Robert Siodmak)
6. Beauty & The Beast (Jean Cocteau)
7. The Stranger (Orson Welles)
8. Great Expectations (David Lean)
9. Gilda (Charles Vidor)
10. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett)
1945
1. The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)
2. Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne (Robert Bresson)
3. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
4. Detour (Edgar Ulmer)
5. Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)
Notable: The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise), Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock), The Thin Man Goes Home (Richard Thorpe)
1944
1. Laura (Otto Preminger)
2. Arsenic & Old Lace (Frank Capra)
3. To Have & Have Not (Howard Hawks)
4. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
6. Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk)
7. Ivan The Terrible, Part 1 (Sergei Eisenstein)
8. The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)
Notable: Curse Of The Cat People (Gunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise), Gaslight (George Cukor)
1943
1. Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
2. Shadow Of A Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
4. Hangmen Also Die (Fritz Lang)
5. Day Of Wrath (Carl Th. Dreyer)
6. Stormy Weather (Andrew L. Stone)
Notable: Cabin In The Sky (Vincente Minnelli), The Life & Death Of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger), The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)
Shorts: Meshes Of The Afternoon (Maya Deren)
1942
1. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
2. To Be Or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
3. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
4. Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
Notable: Cat People (Jacques Tourneur), The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles), Woman Of The Year (George Stevens)
1941
1. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
2. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
3. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
4. Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges)
5. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
6. Ball Of Fire (Howard Hawks)
7. That Uncertain Feeling (Ernst Lubitsch)
8. Shadow Of The Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke II)
Notable: High Sierra (Raoul Walsh), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Alfred Hitchcock), Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
1940
1. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
2. The Shop Around The Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
3. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
Notable: The Bank Dick (Edward Cline), Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
1939
1. The Rules Of The Game (Jean Renoir)
2. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
3. Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)
4. Another Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke II)
5. The Women (George Cukor)
Notable: Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock)
1938
1. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks
3. Port Of Shadows (Marcel Carne)
4. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Ernst Lubitsch)
5. La Bete Humaine (Jean Renoir)
6. The Adventures Of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz & William Keighley)
Notable: Pygmalion (Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard)
1937
1. Angel (Ernst Lubitsch)
2. Grand Illusion (Jean Renior)
3. Pepe Le Moko (Julien Duvivier)
4. La Habanera (Douglas Sirk)
5. Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
Notable: The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
1936
1. The Crime Of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
2. After The Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke)
3. The Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Fury (Fritz Lang)
5. Swing Time (George Stevens)
6. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
7. The Lower Depths (Jean Renoir)
Shorts: Allegretto (Oskar Fischinger)
1935
1. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
Shorts: Komposition In Blau (Oskar Fischinger)
1934
1. The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch)
2. The Thin Man (W. S. Van Dyke)
3. It's A Gift (Norman McLeod)
4. Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)
5. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
6. A Story Of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)
Notable: The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
1933
1. The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
2. Design For Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
3. Gold Diggers Of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy)
4. Counsellor At Law (William Wyler)
5. Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon)
6. The Bitter Tea Of General Yen (Frank Capra)
7. 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon)
8. Hallelujah, I'm A Bum! (Lewis Milestone)
Notable: Duck Soup (Leo McCarey), I'm No Angel (Wesley Ruggles), King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
1932
1. Trouble In Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
2. Red Dust (Victor Fleming)
3. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
4. One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch)
5. I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy)
6. Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg)
7. Horse Feathers (Norman McLeod)
8. Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding)
9. Scarface (Howard Hawks)
Notable: Boudu Saved From Drowning (Jean Renoir), The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel & Ernst B. Schoedsack)
1931
1. M (Fritz Lang)
2. The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)
3. City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
4. Monkey Business (Norman McLeod)
5. Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg)
6. Dracula (Tod Browning)
7. Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy)
Notable: Le Million (Rene Clair), The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman)
Shorts: Bimbo's Initiation (Dave Fleischer)
1930
1. Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman)
2. Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch)
3. Under The Roofs Of Paris (Rene Clair)
4. Murder! (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. Blood Of A Poet (Jean Cocteau)
Notable: The Big House (George W. Hill), The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg), Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
1929
1. The Man With The Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
2. Woman In The Moon (Fritz Lang)
3. The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch)
Shorts: Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel)
1928
1. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Chas. F. Reisner)
2. The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer)
1927
1. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
2. Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
3. The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)
1926
1. The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
1925
1. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
1924
1. The Thief Of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh)
2. The Marriage Circle (Ernst Lubitsch)
Shorts: Ballet Mechanique (Fernand Leger & Dudley Murphy), Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton), Symphonie Diagonale (Viking Eggeling)
1923
1. Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmayer & Sam Taylor)
2. Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton & Jack Blystone)
1922
1. Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (Fritz Lang)
1921
Shorts: The Playhouse (Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
1920
1. The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
Shorts: An Eastern Westerner (Hal Roach), Convict 13 (Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
1908
Shorts: Fantasmagorie (Emile Cohl)
1902
Shorts: A Trip To The Moon (George Melies)