Top 10s

Release years are determined by each film's premiere date

1910

1. The Unchanging Sea (D. W. Griffith)
2. The Abyss (Urban Gad)
3. A Marriage in the Moon (Enrico Novelli)
4. Frankenstein (J. Searle Dawley)
5. Spirochoeta pallida (de la syphilis) (Jean Comandon)

1911

1. Max Takes Tonics (Max Linder)
2. Enoch Arden (D. W. Griffith)
3. The Beauties of Italy, Triptych of Picturesque Views (Piero Morelli)
4. Banks of the Nile (Charles Urban)
5. Defence of Sevastopol (Vasiliy Goncharov, Aleksandr Khanzhonkov)

1912

1. The Thief's Wife (Allan Dwan)
2. The Jester's Joke (Walter R. Booth)
3. The Heart and the Money (Louis Feuillade, Léonce Perret)
4. Maiden and Men (Allan Dwan)
5. A Suffragette in Spite of Himself (Bannister Merwin)

1913

1. Fantômas (Louis Feuillade)
2. Protéa (Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset)
3. Suspense. (Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley)
4. Tragic Error (Louis Feuillade)
5. The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola (Marcel Perez, Luigi Maggi)

1914

1. Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone)
2. Judith of Bethulia (D. W. Griffith)
3. Kid Auto Races at Venice (Henry Lehrman)
4. The Last of the Line (Thomas H. Ince, Jay Hunt)
5. The Mysterious X (Benjamin Christensen)

1915

1. Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)
2. Filibus (Mario Roncoroni)
3. The Cheat (Cecil B. DeMille)
4. L'X Noir (Léonce Perret)
5. After Death (Yevgeni Bauer)

1916

1. Intolerance (D. W. Griffith)
2. The Fire (Giovanni Pastrone)
3. Hell's Hinges (Charles Swickard)
4. One A.M. (Charlie Chaplin)
5. The Rink (Charlie Chaplin)

1917

1. Satan's Rhapsody (Nina Oxilia)
2. The Clown (A. W. Sandberg)
3. Bucking Broadway (John Ford)
4. The Immigrant (Charlie Chaplin)
5. Easy Street (Charlie Chaplin)

1918

1. The Blue Bird (Maurice Tourneur)
2. A Dog's Life (Charlie Chaplin)
3. Shoulder Arms (Charlie Chaplin)
4. The Bell Boy (Roscoe Arbuckle)
5. The Birth of Shri Krishna (Dhundiraj Govind Phalke)

1919

1. Broken Blossoms (D. W. Griffith)
2. Blind Husbands (Erich von Stroheim)
3. The Doll (Ernst Lubitsch)
4. Sons of Ingmar (Victor Sjöström)
5. The Grim Game (Irvin Willat)

1920

1. One Week (Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline)
2. The Penalty (Wallace Worsley)
3. Outside the Law (Tod Browning)
4. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
5. Way Down East (D. W. Griffith)
6. Narayana (Léon Poirier)
7. The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Carl Boese, Paul Wegener)
8. Das Wunder des Schneeschuhs (Arnold Fanck, Odo Deodatus Tauern)
9. The Man of the Sea (Marcel L'Herbier)
10. Travail (Henri Pouctal)

1921

1. Tol'able David (Henry King)
2. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Rex Ingram)
3. Lost Colony (Elizabeth Grimball)
4. Destiny (Fritz Lang)
5. Backstairs (Leopold Jessner, Paul Leni)
6. Hamlet (Svend Gade, Heinz Schall)
7. For Don Carlos (Musidora, Jacques Lasseyne)
8. The Indian Tomb Pt. I & II (Joe May)
9. Orphans of the Storm (D. W. Griffith)
10. The Sky Pilot (King Vidor)

1922

1. Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau)
2. Cops (Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton)
3. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang)
4. Salomé (Charles Bryant)
5. Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim)
6. Häxan (Benjamin Christensen)
7. Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty)
8. The Lighthouse Keepers (Maurice Mariaud)
9. Zohra (Albert Samama Chikly)
10. The Betrothed (Mario Bonnard)

1923

1. La roue (Abel Gance)
2. The White Sister (Henry King)
3. News Item (Claude Autant-Lara)
4. Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone)
5. Os Lobos (Rino Lupo)
6. Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor)
7. The Ascent of the Great Pyramid of Giza by Prince Leopold III (Tullio Chiarini)
8. North of Hudson Bay (John Ford)
9. Earth Spirit (Leopold Jessner)
10. The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille)

1924

1. Die Nibelungen (Fritz Lang)
2. The Iron Horse (John Ford)
3. New Year's Eve (Lupu Pick)
4. He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjöström)
5. Helena (Manfred Noa)
6. The Great White Silence (Herbert G. Ponting)
7. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
8. Romola (Henry King)
9. Wild Oranges (King Vidor)
10. The Hands of Orlac (Robert Wiene)

1925

1. The Big Parade (King Vidor)
2. Ways to Strength and Beauty (Nicholas Kaufmann, Wilhelm Prager)
3. In Youth, Beside the Lonely Sea (Winston Miller)
4. Games on Reflection and Speed (Henri Chomette)
5. Our Heavenly Bodies (Hanns Walter Kornblum)
6. The Crazy Ray (René Clair)
7. Stage Struck (Allan Dwan)
8. Variety (E. A. Dupont)
9. The Bear's Wedding (Vladimir Gardin, Konstantin Eggert)
10. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)

1926

1. The Winning of Barbara Worth (Henry King)
2. By the Law (Lev Kuleshov)
3. Michel Strogoff (Viktor Tourjansky)
4. The Magician (Rex Ingram)
5. Sparrows (William Beaudine)
6. A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
7. The Bridal Party in Hardanger (Rasmus Breistein)
8. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (Harry Edwards)
9. The Great K&A Train Robbery (Lewis Seiler)
10. The Imaginary Voyage (René Clair)

1927

1. Napoléon (Abel Gance)
2. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F. W. Murnau)
3. Belphégor (Henri Desfontaines)
4. Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
5. The Unknown (Tod Browning)
6. Boxing Match (Charles Dekeukeleire)
7. The Ghost Train (Géza von Bolváry)
8. Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttmann)
9. Prelude (Castleton Knight)
10. 7th Heaven (Frank Borzage)

1928

1. The Wind (Victor Sjöström)
2. The Crowd (King Vidor)
3. West of Zanzibar (Tod Browning)
4. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
5. The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
6. Four Sons (John Ford)
7. The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein)
8. The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni)
9. Laugh, Clown, Laugh (Herbert Brenon)
10. Zvenigora (Oleksandr Dovzhenko)

1929

1. Hell's Heroes (William Wyler)
2. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
3. My Grandmother (Kote Mikaberidze)
4. Arsenal (Oleksandr Dovzhenko)
5. Un chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel)
6. The Lighthouse Keepers (Jean Grémillon)
7. Mother Krause’s Journey to Happiness (Phil Jutzi)
8. The House on the Volcano (Hamo Bek-Nazaryan)
9. Applause (Rouben Mamoulian)
10. Piccadilly (E. A. Dupont)

1930

1. The Bat Whispers (Roland West)
2. The Dawn Patrol (Howard Hawks)
3. Salt for Svanetia (Mikhail Kalatozov)
4. All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
5. Earth (Oleksandr Dovzhenko)
6. Swing You Sinners! (Dave Fleischer)
7. Maria of the Sea (José Leitão de Barros)
8. The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)
9. Yoshie Fujiwara’s Hometown (Kenji Mizoguchi)
10. Hell Harbor (Henry King)

1931

1. The Spider (William Cameron Menzies)
2. The Last Flight (William Dieterle)
3. Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg)
4. Quick Millions (Rowland Brown)
5. Over the Hill (Henry King)
6. The Disaster in Oaxaca (Sergei Eisenstein)
7. Street Scene (King Vidor)
8. Transatlantic (William K. Howard)
9. Night Nurse (William A. Wellman)
10. Frankenstein (James Whale)

1932

1. Freaks (Tod Browning)
2. Night at the Crossroads (Jean Renoir)
3. Jewel Robbery (William Dieterle)
4. Skyscraper Souls (Edgar Selwyn)
5. Night World (Hobart Henley)
6. Hell's Highway (Rowland Brown)
7. Letty Lynton (Clarence Brown)
8. Back Street (John M. Stahl)
9. Downstairs (Monta Bell)
10. Chandu the Magician (William Cameron Menzies, Marcel Varnel)

1933

1. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
2. Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz)
3. The Man Who Has a Camera (Liu Na’ou)
4. The Stranger's Return (King Vidor)
5. State Fair (Henry King)
6. Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (Lewis Milestone)
7. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack)
8. The Kiss Before the Mirror (James Whale)
9. Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy)
10. I Am Suzanne! (Rowland V. Lee)

1934

1. Tomatos Another Day (James Sibley Watson)
2. Crime Without Passion (Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Lee Garmes)
3. Double Door (Charles Vidor)
4. The Woman of the Port (Raphael J. Sevilla, Arkady Boytler)
5. Everybody's Woman (Max Ophüls)
6. Cheerless (Nutsa Ghoghoberidze)
7. Our Daily Bread (King Vidor)
8. The Wedding of Palo (Friedrich Dalsheim)
9. Heat Lightning (Mervyn LeRoy)
10. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)

1935

1. Golgotha (Julien Duvivier)
2. The Devil Is a Woman (Josef von Sternberg)
3. Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
4. Mad Love (Karl Freund)
5. Happiness (Aleksandr Medvedkin)
6. Okoto and Sasuke (Yasujiro Shimazu)
7. Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Sadao Yamanaka)
8. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
9. Merlusse (Marcel Pagnol)
10. The Wedding Night (King Vidor)

1936

1. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (Dave Fleischer)
2. The Gay Desperado (Rouben Mamoulian)
3. Fury (Fritz Lang)
4. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
5. By the Bluest of Seas (Boris Barnet)
6. Dracula's Daughter (Lambert Hillyer)
7. The Kaiser of California (Luis Trenker)
8. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (Ubaldo Magnaghi, Gianni Hoepli)
9. Come and Get It (William Wyler, Howard Hawks)
10. Things to Come (William Cameron Menzies)

1937

1. Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka)
2. Mr. Fantômas (Ernst Moerman)
3. Wee Willie Winkie (John Ford)
4. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
5. Early One Morning (Gösta Roosling)
6. Stella Dallas (King Vidor)
7. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
8. The Edge of the World (Michael Powell)
9. The Last Gangster (Edward Ludwig)
10. Thank You, Mr. Moto (Norman Foster)

1938

1. The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen (Kiyohiko Ushihara)
2. Jezebel (William Wyler)
3. The Song of the Scarlet Flower (Teuvo Tulio)
4. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
5. Holiday (George Cukor)
6. The Stolen Death (Nyrki Tapiovaara)
7. La Marseillaise (Jean Renoir)
8. The Citadel (King Vidor)
9. The Five Scouts (Tomotaka Tasaka)
10. The Mad Miss Manton (Leigh Jason)

1939

1. Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
2. Stagecoach (John Ford)
3. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
4. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi)
5. Jesse James (Henry King)
6. Midnight (Mitchell Leisen)
7. Fighting Soldiers (Fumio Kamei)
8. Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee)
9. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
10. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)

1940

1. Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen)
2. Confucius (Fei Mu)
3. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. The Ghoul (Sodsri Phakdeechit)
5. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
6. Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner)
7. The Mark of Zorro (Rouben Mamoulian)
8. The Philadephia Story (George Cukor)
9. Arise, My Love (Mitchell Leisen)
10. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)

1941

1. Hellzapoppin' (H. C. Potter)
2. Blood and Sand (Rouben Mamoulian)
3. Kannapolis (N.C.), 1941 (H. Lee Waters)
4. Swamp Water (Jean Renoir)
5. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)
6. The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi)
7. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
8. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
9. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (Edward F. Cline)
10. The Iron Crown (Alessandro Blasetti)

1942

1. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
2. Malombra (Mario Soldati)
3. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
4. Went the Day Well? (Alberto Cavalcanti)
5. I Married a Witch (René Clair)
6. There Was a Father (Yasujiro Ozu)
7. Who Done It? (Erle C. Kenton)
8. Thunder Birds (William A. Wellman)
9. To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
10. The Black Swan (Henry King)

1943

1. The Ghost Ship (Mark Robson)
2. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren)
3. The Gang's All Here (Busby Berkeley)
4. Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
5. Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
6. The Life of Matsu the Untamed (Hiroshi Inagaki)
7. The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)
8. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
9. Stormy Weather (Andrew L. Stone)
10. Du Barry Was a Lady (Roy Del Ruth)

1944

1. An American Romance (King Vidor)
2. The Way You Wanted Me (Teuvo Tulio)
3. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
4. The Mask of Dimitrios (Jean Negulesco)
5. Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra)
6. Port of Freedom (Helmut Käutner)
7. Laura (Otto Preminger)
8. Address Unknown (William Cameron Menzies)
9. None Shall Escape (André de Toth)
10. The Scarlet Claw (Roy William Neill)

1945

1. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné)
2. The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
3. The Bride of Darkness (Serge de Poligny)
4. Hangover Square (John Brahm)
5. Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl)
6. The Southerner (Jean Renoir)
7. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
8. Murder, He Says (George Marshall)
9. Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson)
10. The Cheaters (Joseph Kane)

1946

1. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
2. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
3. Under the Bridges (Helmut Käutner)
4. Deadline at Dawn (Harold Clurman)
5. My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
6. Iris and the Lieutenant (Alf Sjöberg)
7. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
8. A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
9. Margie (Henry King)
10. So Dark the Night (Joseph H. Lewis)

1947

1. Passionate Power (Teuvo Tulio)
2. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
3. Driftwood (Allan Dwan)
4. They Made Me a Fugitive (Alberto Cavalvanti)
5. Uncle Silas (Charles Frank)
6. The Unsuspected (Michael Curtiz)
7. Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin)
8. The Gangster (Gordon Wiles)
9. Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
10. Captain from Castile (Henry King)

1948

1. The Original Sin (Helmut Käutner)
2. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
3. Women of the Night (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4. Wake of the Red Witch (Edward Ludwig)
5. Louisiana Story (Robert Flaherty)
6. Yellow Sky (William A. Wellman)
7. He Walked by Night (Alfred L. Werker)
8. Macbeth (Orson Welles)
9. Maclovia (Emilio Fernández)
10. Road House (Jean Negulesco)

1949

1. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)
2. Mahal (Kamal Amrohi)
3. Intruder in the Dust (Clarence Brown)
4. Battleground (William A. Wellman)
5. Reign of Terror (Anthony Mann)
6. A Hometown in Heart (Yoon yong-gyu)
7. Bitter Rice (Giuseppe De Santis)
8. Prince of Foxes (Henry King)
9. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
10. Maya (Raymond Bernard)

1950

1. Wagon Master (John Ford)
2. The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)
3. Caged (John Cromwell)
4. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
5. Dial 1119 (Gerald Mayer)
6. The Sound of Fury (Cy Endfield)
7. Night and the City (Jules Dassin)
8. Gone to Earth (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
9. A Lady Without Passport (Joseph H. Lewis)
10. Portrait of Madame Yuki (Kenji Mizoguchi)

1951

1. I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (Henry King)
2. Westward the Women (William A. Wellman)
3. Bullfighter and the Lady (Budd Boetticher)
4. Apache Drums (Hugo Fregonese)
5. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin)
6. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
7. The Tales of Hoffmann (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
8. Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
9. The Forbidden Christ (Curzio Malaparte)
10. Five (Arch Oboler)

1952

1. The White Reindeer (Erik Blomberg)
2. Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (Henry King)
3. The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4. The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
5. Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson)
6. The Quiet Man (John Ford)
7. Ruby Gentry (King Vidor)
8. If I Should Die Before I Wake (Carlos Hugo Christensen)
9. Park Row (Samuel Fuller)
10. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)

1953

1. 99 River Street (Phil Karlson)
2. The Ship of Condemned Women (Raffaello Matarazzo)
3. Little Fugitive (Ray Ashley, Ruth Orkin, Morris Engel)
4. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
5. Invaders from Mars (William Cameron Menzies)
6. Barabbas (Alf Sjöberg)
7. The Black Vampire (Román Viñoly Barreto)
8. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
9. The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophüls)
10. Arena (Richard Fleischer)

1954

1. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3. Silver Lode (Allan Dwan)
4. Brigadoon (Vincente Minelli)
5. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
6. The Crucified Lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi)
7. Track of the Cat (William A. Wellman)
8. An Inn at Osaka (Heinosuke Gosho)
9. Suddenly (Lewis Allen)
10. Executive Suite (Robert Wise)

1955

1. The Long Gray Line (John Ford)
2. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
3. The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson)
4. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
5. Violent Saturday (Richard Fleischer)
6. French Cancan (Jean Renoir)
7. Tennessee's Partner (Allan Dwan)
8. Summertime (David Lean)
9. The Counterfeit Coin (Yorgos Tzavellas)
10. Magdana's Donkey (Rezo Chkheidze, Tengiz Abuladze)

1956

1. Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minelli)
2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
3. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
4. Good-bye, My Lady (William A. Wellman)
5. Crazed Fruit (Ko Nakahira)
6. Beyond Oblivion (Hugo del Carril)
7. Yield to the Night (J. Lee Thompson)
8. The Searchers (John Ford)
9. No. 11: Mirror Animations (Harry Smith)
10. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)

1957

1. Wings of Eagles (John Ford)
2. Run of the Arrow (Samuel Fuller)
3. Plunder Road (Hubert Cornfield)
4. Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)
5. Snow Country (Shiro Toyoda)
6. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
7. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
8. The House of the Angel (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson)
9. A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (Yuzo Kawashima)
10. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)

1958

1. Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner)
2. Bell, Book and Candle (Richard Quine)
3. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Poem of the Sea (Yuliya Solntseva)
5. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
6. Nowhere to Go (Seth Holt)
7. H-8... (Nikola Tanhofer)
8. The Magician (Ingmar Bergman)
9. End of Desire (Alexandre Astruc)
10. Curse of the Oily Man (P. Ramlee)

1959

1. Day of the Outlaw (André de Toth)
2. The Beast Shall Die (Eizo Sugawa)
3. Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage)
4. Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
5. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
6. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
8. The World, the Flesh and the Devil (Ranald MacDougall)
9. Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu)
10. The Tiger of Eschnapur (Fritz Lang)

1960

1. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2. Wild River (Elia Kazan)
3. Beat Girl (Edmond T. Gréville)
4. The Hole (Jacques Becker)
5. Home from the Hill (Vincente Minnelli)
6. Inspector Palmu's Error (Matti Kassila)
7. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
9. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
10. The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis)

1961

1. Barabbas (Richard Fleischer)
2. The Girl with the Golden Eyes (Jean-Gabriel Albicocco)
3. The Ladies Man (Jerry Lewis)
4. Black Gravel (Helmut Käutner)
5. Mother Joan of the Angels (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
6. Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller)
7. Kukuli (Luis Figueroa Yábar, Eulogio Nishiyama, César Villanuevad)
8. Five Minutes to Live (Bill Karn)
9. The Errand Boy (Jerry Lewis)
10. Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (Aleksandr Rou)

1962

1. The Devil's Trap (František Vláčil)
2. Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence (John Ford)
4. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
5. Advise & Consent (Otto Preminger)
6. The World's Greatest Sinner (Timothy Carey)
7. The Fifth Power (Alberto Pieralisi)
8. Tocaia no Asfalto (Roberto Pires)
9. Experiment in Terror (Blake Edwards)
10. The Parallel Street (Ferdinand Khittl)

1963

1. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
2. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
3. Acto da Primavera (Manoel de Oliveira)
4. The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad)
5. The High Lonesome Sound (John Cohen)
6. Goryeojang (Kim Ki-young)
7. The Sun in a Net (Štefan Uher)
8. The Golden Fern (Jiří Weiss)
9. Donovan's Reef (John Ford)
10. A King Without Distraction (François Leterrier)

1964

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
2. The Crime of Aldeia Velha (Manuel Guimarães)
3. Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev)
4. Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer)
5. Man's Favorite Sport? (Howard Hawks)
6. The Girl and the Echo (Arūnas Žebriūnas, Regina Vosyliūtė)
7. Yearning (Mikio Naruse)
8. Two Thousand Maniacs! (Herschell Gordon Lewis)
9. Bassae (Jean-Daniel Pollet)
10. The Patsy (Jerry Lewis)

1965

1. The Fool Killer (Servando González)
2. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov)
3. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
4. 7 Women (John Ford)
5. Yoyo (Pierre Étaix)
6. The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (Zbyněk Brynych)
7. Enchanted Isles (Carlos Vilardebó)
8. The Heights of Cumanday (Gabriela Samper, Ray Witlin)
9. The Crown Jewels of Iran (Ebrahim Golestan)
10. Inside Daisy Clover (Robert Mulligan)

1966

1. The Laughing Man (Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann)
2. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
3. The Bite (Kan Mukai)
4. Ming Green (Gregory J. Markopoulos)
5. El Dorado (Howard Hawks)
6. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
7. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
8. Batman (Leslie H. Martinson)
9. Electronic Moon No. 2 (Jud Yalkut, Nam June Paik)
10. Daisies (Věra Chytilová)

1967

1. Wavelength (Michael Snow)
2. Heraclitus the Dark (Patrick Deval)
3. The Tied Up Balloon (Binka Zhelyazkova)
4. The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó)
5. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
6. Marketa Lazarová (František Vláčil)
7. Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville)
8. La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. Crosses Over the Wasteland (Alberto Mariscal)
10. Love for an Idiot (Yasuzo Masumura)

1968

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava)
3. Elvis: The '68 Comeback Special (Steve Binder)
4. Johnny Hamlet (Enzo G. Castellari)
5. The Arch (Tang Shu-Shuen)
6. The Valley of the Bees (František Vláčil)
7. Profound Desires of the Gods (Shohei Imamura)
8. Shame (Ingmar Bergman)
9. Whistle and I'll Come to You (Jonathan Miller)
10. LBJ (Santiago Álvarez)

1969

1. The End of an Old Song (John Cohen)
2. Watersmith (Will Hindle)
3. Invasion (Hugo Santiago)
4. East Coast, West Coast (Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson)
5. The Night of Counting the Years (Shadi Abdel Salam)
6. Georgian Ancient Songs (Otar Iosseliani)
7. The Most Holy Brotherhood (Gabriela Samper, Rebecca Puche, Hernando Sabogal)
8. Hermógenes Cayo (Imaginero) (Jorge Prelorán)
9. Aido: Slave of Love (Susumu Hani)
10. Coming Apart (Milton Moses Ginsberg)

1970

1. Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr)
2. Mera Naam Joker (Raj Kapoor)
3. The Eloquent Peasant (Shadi Abdal Salam)
4. Don't Cry, Pretty Girls! (Márta Mészáros)
5. Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma)
6. Jonathan (Hans W. Geißendörfer)
7. La Fin des Pyrénées (Jean-Pierre Lajournade)
8. Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman)
9. Ryan's Daughter (David Lean)
10. Bloody Mama (Roger Corman)

1971

1. A Well Spent Life (Les Blank)
2. Something Self Explanatory (15x) (Harun Farocki, Hartmut Bitomsky)
3. Macbeth (Roman Polanski)
4. La Région Centrale (Michael Snow)
5. Cuadecuc, vampir (Pere Portabella)
6. Near Orouët (Jacques Rozier)
7. Sometimes a Great Notion (Paul Newman)
8. Out 1 (Jacques Rivette)
9. Bang Bang (Andrea Tonacci)
10. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)

1972

1. The Age of the Medici (Roberto Rossellini)
2. Vertical Roll (Joan Jonas)
3. TV In and TV Out (Keith Sonnier)
4. The Suns of Easter Island (Pierre Kast)
5. Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)
6. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
7. Tombs of the Blind Dead (Amando de Ossorio)
8. Landscape for Fire (Anthony McCall)
9. The Outside Man (Jacques Deray)
10. The Goat Horn (Metodi Andonov)

1973

1. Line Describing a Cone (Anthony McCall)
2. The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy)
3. Juvenile Court (Frederick Wiseman)
4. The Mongols (Parviz Kimiavi)
5. Payday (Daryl Duke)
6. Mr. O's Book of the Dead (Chiaki Nagano)
7. Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (René Viénet)
8. Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox)
9. Alabama's Ghost (Fredric Hobbs)
10. The Iron Rose (Jean Rollin)

1974

1. Electra, My Love (Miklós Jancsó)
2. ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (Michael Snow)
3. Rome Wants Another Caesar (Miklós Jancsó)
4. Cockfighter (Monte Hellman)
5. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)
6. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
7. The Girls of Kamare (René Viénet)
8. The Colors of Iris (Nikos Panayotopoulos)
9. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
10. My Little Loves (Jean Eustache)

1975

1. Winstanley (Kevin Brownlow)
2. Film Emigration from Nazi Germany (Günter Peter Straschek)
3. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
4. Orlando furioso (Luca Ronconi)
5. The United States of America (Bette Gordon, James Benning)
6. The Messiah (Roberto Rossellini)
7. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
8. Energy Charge (Ana Mendieta)
9. The Shiranui Sea (Noriaki Tsuchimoto)
10. Moses and Aaron (Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet)

1976

1. Railroad Turnbridge (Richard Serra)
2. The Garden of Stones (Parviz Kimiavi)
3. This Is a Television Receiver (David Hall)
4. Mal-ander (Paul de Mol)
5. The Girl Chewing Gum (John Smith)
6. Vigilante Force (George Armitage)
7. The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir (José Fonseca e Costa)
8. A$$untina of the Amerikas (Luiz Rosemberg Filho)
9. Doriana Grey (Jesús Franco)
10. The Animal (Walter Ungerer)

1977

1. Chinois, encore un effort pour être révolutionnaires (René Viénet)
2. Smokey and the Bandit (Hal Needham)
3. Ghost Trio (Samuel Beckett)
4. The Itch Scratch Itch Cycle (Manuel DeLanda)
5. Saturday Night Fever (John Badham)
6. The Japanese Belly Button (Eizo Sugawa)
7. Between the Lines (Joan Micklin Silver)
8. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
9. Canal Zone (Frederick Wiseman)
10. The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson)

1978

1. Convoy (Sam Peckinpah)
2. Always for Pleasure (Les Blank)
3. Perceval (Éric Rohmer)
4. The Bright Night (Marcel Hanoun)
5. Molière (Ariane Mnouchkine)
6. Doomed Love (Manoel de Oliveira)
7. It Is Not Enough for God to Be with the Poor (Borhane Alaouié, Lotfi Thabet)
8. Bruges-La-Morte (Ronald Chase)
9. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
10. O Construtor de Anjos (Luís Noronha da Costa)

1979

1. West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (Med Hondo)
2. Ballad of Tara (Bahram Beyzai)
3. The Land Where the Blues Began (Alan Lomax)
4. Murder by Decree (Bob Clark)
5. Description of an Island (Rudolf Thome, Cynthia Beatt)
6. Schalcken the Painter (Leslie Megahey)
7. Over the Edge (Jonathan Kaplan)
8. Volcán (Ana Mendieta)
9. North Dallas Forty (Ted Kotcheff)
10. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)

1980

1. Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood)
2. The Small Life of Small Urban Spaces (William H. Whyte)
3. Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino)
4. Narcissus and Psyche (Gábor Bódy)
5. Wagner: Die Walküre (Brian Large)
6. It's Grits (Stan Woodward)
7. The Last Witness (Lee Doo-yong)
8. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
9. Night of the Juggler (Robert Butler)
10. Four Seasons: Natsuko (Yoichi Higashi)

1981

1. Silvestre (João César Monteiro)
2. Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet)
3. The Minamata Mural (Noriaki Tsuchimoto)
4. Possession (Andrzej Żuławski)
5. The Way Home (Aleqsandre Rekhviashvili)
6. Excalibur (John Boorman)
7. Shamans of the Blind Country (Michael Oppitz)
8. Day Dream (Tetsuji Takechi)
9. The Games of Countess Dolingen (Catherine Binet)
10. Modern Romance (Albert Brooks)

1982

1. Pourvoir (Patrice Énard)
2. Death of Yazdgerd (Bahram Beyzai)
3. Island of Loves (Paulo Rocha)
4. Parsifal (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg)
5. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Tommy Lee Wallace)
6. Selva. A Portrait of Parvaneh Navaï (Maria Klonaris)
7. The Poem of Hayachine Valley (Sumiko Haneda)
8. Five and the Skin (Pierre Rissient)
9. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
10. One from the Heart (Francis Ford Coppola)

1983

1. Blood Beat (Fabrice A. Zaphiratos)
2. The Beast and the Magic Sword (Paul Naschy)
3. Smorgasbord (Jerry Lewis)
4. Duel to the Death (Tony Ching Siu-Tung)
5. The Pressures of the Text (Peter Rose)
6. Holy Flame of the Martial World (Tony Lou Chun-Ku)
7. Golgo 13: The Professional (Osamu Dezaki)
8. The Right Way (Peter Fischli, David Weiss)
9. Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raúl Ruiz)
10. Handgun (Tony Garnett)

1984

1. Heimat (Edgar Reitz)
2. Leila and the Wolves (Heiny Srour)
3. Tightrope (Richard Tuggle)
4. The Annunciation (András Jeles)
5. Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest)
6. Wheels on Meals (Sammo Hung)
7. Starman (John Carpenter)
8. American Dreams (Lost and Found) (James Benning)
9. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
10. Highway Hypnosis (Ken Camp)

1985

1. Brás Cubas (Júlio Bressane)
2. The Satin Slipper (Manoel de Oliveira)
3. Sherman's March (Ross McElwee)
4. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
5. Régime sans pain (Raúl Ruiz)
6. The Legend of Suram Fortress (Sergei Parajanov)
7. Perinbaba (Juraj Jakubisko)
8. Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
9. O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization (Piotr Szulkin)
10. And Then (Yoshimitsu Morita)

1986

1. Mammame (Raúl Ruiz)
2. Hovering Over the Water (João César Monteiro)
3. The Singing Detective (Jon Amiel)
4. The Big Easy (Jim McBride)
5. In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (Pierre Clémenti)
6. River's Edge (Tim Hunter)
7. The Sea and Poison (Kei Kumai)
8. Just Like Weather (Allen Fong)
9. Poison for the Fairies (Carlos Enrique Taboada)
10. Maine-Ocean Express (Jacques Rozier)

1987

1. The Black Tower (John Smith)
2. Magino Village: A Tale (Shinsuke Ogawa)
3. The Story of Yanagawa's Canals (Isao Takahata)
4. Ice Palace (Per Blom)
5. Gap-Toothed Women (Les Blank)
6. The Flying Luna Clipper (Ikko Ohno)
7. Hard Ticket to Hawaii (Andy Sidaris)
8. Talking Feet (Mike Seeger)
9. The Man with Three Coffins (Lee Jang-ho)
10. Slumber Party Massacre II (Deborah Brock)

1988

1. On the Silver Globe (Andrzej Żuławski)
2. Door (Banmei Takahashi)
3. Earth Girls Are Easy (Julien Temple)
4. Talking to Strangers (Rob Tregenza)
5. Komitas (Don Askarian)
6. Images of the World and the Inscription of War (Harun Farocki)
7. Sound and Fury (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
8. La Lectrice (Michel Deville)
9. A Tale of the Wind (Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan-Ivens)
10. Steel Mask Versus Blue Abyss (Paulo Rocha)

1989

1. Begotten (E. Elias Merhige)
2. Near Death (Frederick Wiseman)
3. The Iconographic Journey: The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (Eric Pauwels)
4. Rosa de Areia (Margarida Cordeiro, António Reis)
5. The Seats of the Alcazar (Luc Moullet)
6. Society (Brian Yuzna)
7. Nostos: The Return (Franco Piavoli)
8. Spontaneous Combustion (Tobe Hooper)
9. Tabula Rasa (Peter Tscherkassky)
10. Route One/USA (Robert Kramer)

1990

1. Twilight (György Fehér)
2. No, or the Vain Glory of Command (Manoel de Oliveira)
3. A TV Dante (Peter Greenaway, Tom Phillips)
4. Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)
5. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
6. The Origins of Scientific Cinematography (Virgilio Tosi)
7. Innisfree (José Luis Guerín)
8. Texasville (Peter Bogdanovich)
9. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
10. The Night Before the Strike (Chang Youn-hyun, Lee Eun, Jang Dong-hong, Lee Jae-gu)

1991

1. The Annunciation of Marie (Alain Cuny)
2. Tiananmen (Shi Jian, Chen Jue)
3. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
4. Barton Fink (Joel Coen)
5. Turtle Vision (Hisayasu Sato)
6. La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
7. Daddy, Father Frost Is Dead (Evgeny Yufit)
8. Bhavantarana (Kumar Shahani)
9. To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror (Michael Snow)
10. Fly High, Run Far (Im Kwon-taek)

1992

1. North on Evers (James Benning)
2. Antigone (Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet)
3. Avetik (Don Askarian)
4. Die UFA (Hartmut Bitomsky)
5. Deep Blues (Robert Mugge)
6. Dream of Light (Víctor Erice)
7. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch)
8. Taiga (Ulrike Ottinger)
9. Side/Walk/Shuttle (Ernie Gehr)
10. Malcolm X (Spike Lee)

1993

1. Kyrie Eleison (Hisayasu Sato)
2. Abraham's Valley (Manoel de Oliveira)
3. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
4. NEKO-MIMI (Jun Kurosawa)
5. The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
6. Winter Journey (Robert Cahen)
7. Blue (Derek Jarman)
8. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara)
9. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski)
10. Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara)

1994

1. Sátántangó (Béla Tarr)
2. High School II (Frederick Wiseman)
3. Caught in the Acts (Raymond Depardon)
4. A Borrowed Life (Wu Nien-jen)
5. Love on Delivery (Lee Lik-Chi)
6. True Lies (James Cameron)
7. The Lullaby (Nana Janelidze)
8. The Cloud Door (Mani Kaul)
9. The Most Terrible Time in My Life (Kaizo Hiyashi)
10. Angel Dust (Gakuryu Ishii)

1995

1. The People in White (Bae Yong-kyun)
2. Signer's Suitcase (Peter Liechti)
3. God's Comedy (João César Monteiro)
4. The Enclosed Valley (Jean-Claude Rousseau)
5. Georgia, Alone (Otar Iosseliani)
6. The Christ of Nanjing (Tony Au Ting-Ping)
7. Chants (Martine Rousset)
8. Marble Ass (Želimir Žilnik)
9. The Tale of Himeji Castle (Tamasaburō Bandō V)
10. From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rappaport)

1996

1. Aristotle's Plot (Jean-Pierre Bekolo)
2. XX: Beautiful Killing Machine (Takahito Hara)
3. Lone Star (John Sayles)
4. For Ever Mozart (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. Night of Body's Model (Hisayasu Sato)
6. The Great Brain Death (Miklós Jancsó)
7. The God of Cookery (Lee Lik-Chi, Stephen Chow)
8. Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan Ho-Sun)
9. A Summer's Tale (Éric Rohmer)
10. Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen)

1997

1. Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki)
2. Inside/Out (Rob Tregenza)
3. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
4. The Hips of J. W. (João César Monteiro)
5. Still Life (Harun Farocki)
6. An Ambiguous Report About the End of the World (Juraj Jakubisko)
7. The House (Šarūnas Bartas)
8. Touch (Paul Schrader)
9. Public Housing (Frederick Wiseman)
10. Raigyo (Takahisa Zeze)

1998

1. Killer (Darezhan Omirbayev)
2. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
3. The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman)
4. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
5. Strike! (Sarah Kernochan)
6. Passion (György Fehér)
7. New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara)
8. Khrustalyov, My Car! (Aleksei German)
9. Enemy of the State (Tony Scott)
10. Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux)

1999

1. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
2. As Bodas de Deus (João César Monteiro)
3. Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)
4. Genesis (Cheick Oumar Sissoko)
5. Belfast, Maine (Frederick Wiseman)
6. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
7. Psalm II: Walking Distance (Phil Solomon)
8. The Matrix (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski)
9. The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (Djibril Diop Mambéty)
10. Julien Donkey-Boy (Harmony Korine)

2000

1. Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)
2. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen)
3. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
4. Origins of the 21st Century (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. Word and Utopia (Manoel de Oliveira)
6. In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa)
7. Dude, Where's My Car? (Danny Leiner)
8. The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda)
9. As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas)
10. The Emperor's New Groove (Mark Dindal)

2001

1. Sia, the Myth of the Python (Dani Kouyaté)
2. Thief or Reality (Antoinetta Angelidi)
3. Daddy and Them (Billy Bob Thornton)
4. The Lady and the Duke (Éric Rohmer)
5. B-52 (Hartmut Bitomsky)
6. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
7. Killing Mad Dogs (Bahram Beyzai)
8. The Fourth Dimension (Trịnh T. Minh-hà)
9. The Old Believers (Jana Ševčíková)
10. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)

2002

1. An Injury to One (Travis Wilkerson)
2. Deanimated: The Invisible Ghost (Martin Arnold)
3. TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - C.#01 CESENA (Romeo Castellucci)
4. *Corpus Callosum (Michael Snow)
5. The Mothman Prophecies (Mark Pellington)
6. Man's Gentle Love (Jean-Paul Civeyrac)
7. The Ring (Gore Verbinski)
8. In the Darkness of Time (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. Jackass: The Movie (Jeff Tremaine)
10. Porn Theatre (Jacques Nolot)

2003

1. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
2. Come and Go (João César Monteiro)
3. Final Destination 2 (David R. Ellis)
4. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
5. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
6. David Blaine: Above the Below (Harmony Korine)
7. Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee)
8. The Magic Gloves (Martín Rejtman)
9. Ana and the Others (Celina Murga)
10. Down with Love (Peyton Reed)

2004

1. Wolff Von Amerongen: Did He Commit Bankruptcy Offences? (Gerhard Friedl)
2. The 10th District Court: Moments of Trial (Raymond Depardon)
3. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Mamoru Oshii)
4. Don't Fuck with the Lewises (Ronny Kristofferson)
5. November (Hito Steyerl)
6. Border (Laura Waddington)
7. TRAGEDIA ENDOGONIDIA - M.#10 MARSEILLE (Romeo Castellucci, Stefano Franceschetti, Cristiano Carloni)
8. Skagafjördur (Peter Hutton)
9. Star Spangled to Death (Ken Jacobs)
10. Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest, Part II (Yang Fudong)

2005

1. Stranded in Canton (William Eggleston)
2. Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas)
3. War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg)
4. D'Annunzio's Cave (Heinz Emigholz)
5. The New World (Terrence Malick)
6. Through the Forest (Jean-Paul Civeyrac)
7. The Zero Years (Nikos Nikolaidis)
8. Magic Mirror (Manoel de Oliveira)
9. Wave (Shiho Kano)
10. Cigarette Burns (John Carpenter)

2006

1. The Action Art of Hermann Nitsch from Past to Present (N/A)
2. Jackass Number Two (Jeff Tremaine)
3. Le dernier caravansérail (Odyssées) (Ariane Mnouchkine)
4. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
5. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Spike Lee)
6. Déjà Vu (Tony Scott)
7. These Encounters of Theirs (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub)
8. The Wars (Oscar van Alphen)
9. The Holiday (Nancy Meyers)
10. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

2007

1. Casting a Glance (James Benning)
2. Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (John Gianvito)
3. Deep Play (Harun Farocki)
4. Last Days in a Lonely Place (Phil Solomon)
5. Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola)
6. RR (James Benning)
7. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (Adam Curtis)
8. The Duchess of Langeais (Jacques Rivette)
9. Zodiac (David Fincher)
10. No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)

2008

1. Inferno (Romeo Castellucci)
2. Aka Ana (Antoine D’Agata)
3. Helsinki, Forever (Peter von Bagh)
4. Extraordinary Stories (Mariano Llinás)
5. Artemide's Knee (Jean-Marie Straub)
6. Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo)
7. Burn After Reading (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
8. I Am So Proud of You (Don Hertzfeldt)
9. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
10. Cobra Mist (Emily Richardson)

2009

1. I Come with the Rain (Trần Anh Hùng)
2. Melody for a Street Organ (Kira Muratova)
3. The Mask of Medusa (Jean Rollin)
4. Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin)
5. Please, Please Me! (Emmanuel Mouret)
6. In Comparison (Harun Farocki)
7. Crank: High Voltage (Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor)
8. Disorder (Huang Weikai)
9. Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Daïchi Saïto)
10. The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch)

2010

1. If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (Spike Lee)
2. May They Rest in Revolt (Sylvain George)
3. Mysteries of Lisbon (Raúl Ruiz)
4. Jackass 3D (Jeff Tremaine)
5. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
6. Infinite Doors (Takeshi Murata)
7. Shibuya - Tokyo (Tomonari Nishikawa)
8. The Forgotten Space (Allan Sekula, Noël Burch)
9. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
10. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

2011

1. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
2. Seeking the Monkey King (Ken Jacobs)
3. It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)
4. Workers Leaving the Googleplex (Andrew Norman Wilson)
5. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
6. The Tragedy of Man (Marcell Jankovics)
7. Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
8. In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails (Fern Silva)
9. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Adam Curtis)
10. Serious Games I-IV (Harun Farocki)

2012

1. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel)
2. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
3. A Woman's Revenge (Rita Azevedo Gomes)
4. Differently, Molussia (Nicolas Rey)
5. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
6. The Woolworths Choir of 1979 (Elizabeth Price)
7. Tchoupitoulas (Bill Ross, Turner Ross)
8. Jajouka, Something Good Comes to You (Éric Hurtado, Marc Hurtado)
9. La Madre (Jean-Marie Straub)
10. Dredd (Pete Travis)

2013

1. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
2. Police Mortality (Anti-Banality Union)
3. Hard To Be a God (Aleksei German)
4. Let Your Light Shine (Jodie Mack)
5. Brouillard #14 (Alexadre Larose)
6. Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits (Tiane Doan na Champassak, Jean Dubrel)
7. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
8. Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (Jodie Mack)
9. At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman)
10. Stop the Pounding Heart (Roberto Minervini)

2014

1. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. A Minute Ago (Rachel Rose)
3. Socialism (Peter von Bagh)
4. Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg)
5. Parallel I-IV (Harun Farocki)
6. Amour Fou (Jessica Hausner)
7. Crazy World (Nabwana IGG)
8. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
9. La Sapienza (Eugène Green)
10. Horse Money (Pedro Costa)

2015

1. Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs)
2. Engram of Returning (Daïchi Saïto)
3. Neither God Nor Santa María (Samuel M. Delgado, Helena Girón)
4. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
5. Space Noise (Takashi Makino)
6. The Other Side (Roberto Minervini)
7. Night Without Distance (Lois Patiño)
8. Cosmos (Andrzej Żuławski)
9. In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)
10. #Horror (Tara Subkoff)

2016

1. Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
2. A Restoration (Elizabeth Price)
3. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
4. As Without So Within (Manuela de Laborde)
5. The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams)
6. Burning Mountains That Spew Flame (Samuel M. Delgado, Helena Girón)
7. Artist of Fasting (Masao Adachi)
8. Forgetting Vietnam (Trịnh T. Minh-hà)
9. Boo! A Madea Halloween (Tyler Perry)
10. Turtles Are Always Home (Rawane Nassif)

2017

1. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch)
2. Rose Gold (Sara Cwynar)
3. PROTOTYPE (Blake Williams)
4. First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
5. Bad Genius (Nattawut Poonpiriya)
6. Onward Lossless Follows (Michael Robinson)
7. Namme (Zaza Khalvashi)
8. Keep That Dream Burning (Rainer Kohlberger)
9. Tremble All You Want (Akiko Ohku)
10. Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death (Arthur Jafa)

2018

1. Unfriended: Dark Web (Stephen Susco)
2. The Portuguese Woman (Rita Azevedo Gomes)
3. KOHL (Elizabeth Price)
4. The House That Jack Built (Lars von Trier)
5. Chinese Portrait (Wang Xiaoshuai)
6. Seduction of the Flesh (Júlio Bressane)
7. Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)
8. Dragged Across Concrete (S. Craig Zahler)
9. Truth or Dare (Jeff Wadlow)
10. Cyclone Tracery (Richard Tuohy, Dianna Barrie)

2019

1. The Beach Bum (Harmony Korine)
2. Red Film (Sara Cwynar)
3. Democracy in America (Romeo Castellucci)
4. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
5. White Noise (Antoine D’Agata)
6. Gemini Man (Ang Lee)
7. Subject to Review (Theo Anthony)
8. The Plagiarists (Peter Parlow)
9. Labyrinth of Cinema (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
10. Green Ash (Pablo Mazzolo)

2020

1. The Empty Man (David Prior)
2. Progressive Touch (Michael Portnoy)
3. City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
4. Expedition Content (Veronika Kusumaryati, Ernst Karel)
5. Inventing the Future (Isiah Medina)
6. The Invisible Man (Leigh Whannell)
7. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Bill Ross, Turner Ross)
8. Dancing at Dusk – A Moment with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring (Florian Heinzen-Ziob)
9. In the Air Tonight (Andrew Norman Wilson)
10. Caveat (Damian McCarthy)

2021

1. Can’t Get You Out of My Head (Adam Curtis)
2. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze)
3. Old (M. Night Shyamalan)
4. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
5. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time (Katsuichi Nakayama, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Mahiro Maeda, Hideaki Anno)
6. All Light, Everywhere (Theo Anthony)
7. Glass Life (Sara Cwynar)
8. West Side Story (Steven Spielberg)
9. The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)
10. Theta (Lawrence Lek)

2022

1. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
2. Jackass Forever (Jeff Tremaine)
3. The Plains (David Easteal)
4. Ambulance (Michael Bay)
5. Constant (Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner)
6. Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt)
7. TÁR (Todd Field)
8. Elvis (Baz Luhrmann)
9. The Munsters (Rob Zombie)
10. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel)

2023

1. Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice)
2. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
3. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
4. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
5. Hit Man (Richard Linklater)
6. Wagner: Das Rheingold (Romeo Castellucci)
7. The Human Surge 3 (Eduardo Williams)
8. Red Rooms (Pascal Plante)
9. Dear Kaita Ablaze (Hisayasu Sato)
10. Anselm (Wim Wenders)

2024

1. Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)
2. The Fishing Place (Rob Tregenza)
3. Henry Fonda for President (Alexander Horwath)
4. Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
5. The Periphery of the Base (Zhou Tao)
6. Lázaro at Night (Nicolás Pereda)
7. The Sparrow in the Chimney (Ramon Zürcher)
8. Smile 2 (Parker Finn)
9. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)
10. Bramayugam (Rahul Sadasivan)