...but I know what I like!

Before exploding in indignation as you read the following Top Tens / Fifteens / Whatevers (plus a bunch of Honourable Mentions), please bear in mind the following : (*)

(*) Written in 1997, just to make clear, and not necessarily valid now (e.g. the bit about my all-time Top 10). Though the total number of films seen is updated regularly.

I've seen about 10,250 films in my life, which is obviously a lot but still leaves out a number of well-loved classics (usually the lengthy ones, like GONE WITH THE WIND or REDS, that I'm always meaning to watch but somehow never get round to). So, when a particular year's Top Ten seems to be missing the most obvious choices, it's not always because I'm being perverse or idiosyncratic - sometimes I just haven't seen the movie(s) in question. Then again, just to complicate things, sometimes I am being perverse and idiosyncratic: well-known movies don't get an automatic berth on my list, nor am I exactly Mr. Consensus. Loads of famous and/or popular movies have left me cold or lukewarm, most of them cited under "What's The Big Deal?" in the lists below (films labelled "Need To See It Again" are also in the cold-or-lukewarm camp except I don't entirely trust my opinion, having seen them too long ago).

I did try to make year-by-year lists all the way back to Silent days, but I haven't seen enough of the really old stuff to make any meaningful listing. In the end I managed to make Top Tens all the way back to 1930, but the Silent era mostly gets reduced to a handful of faves per year. Like many buffs I tend to prefer old to new - most of my all-time Top 10 (which I won't bore you with here) would come from the 40s and 50s, and it just makes my blood boil to hear people being condescending about old movies - though I guess the Time-travel factor does give classics an advantage over the here-and-now.

Couple more caveats:

(a) I'm pretty flexible about release dates - sometimes I use the year a film was made, sometimes the European release, etc. etc. I know there's some pretty sad pedants out there (I'm just an ordinary pedant), so please spare me all the just-for-the-record postings about how ARIZONA DREAM was actually made in ninety-whatever, ok?

(b) Top Tens, being compiled with the benefit of hindsight, reflect how strong a memory a film has left with me, not always how objectively "good" it is. This is why the lists below don't always agree with my ratings, and why something like AUSTIN POWERS makes the cut despite only scoring in the mid-60s. Often, films are too patchy to get the high ratings - they don't really work as films - but the good bits stay with you long after many "better" films have faded. My general rule of thumb is, if a film has become part of my life, if I still quote from it and think about it years later, then that's a favourite film, irrespective of flaws.

(c) Obviously, I haven't seen all these films in the past few months, or even years : indeed, I saw many (if not most) when I was a very different person, and second viewing may reveal a very different movie. This is especially true of late 80s and early 90s films, most of which I haven't seen since I was in high school and college (when my taste was considerably more mainstream than it is now); I've tried to re-watch in recent years, and weeded out some of the more obvious anomalies (coughHEROcough), but I still wonder whether I'd be equally impressed with (say) CANDYMAN or THE USUAL SUSPECTS if I saw them now - and suspect I wouldn't be. Pinch of salt recommended, in other words.

And here we go...


2023

  1. THE HUMAN SURGE 3 (Eduardo Williams)
  2. ASTEROID CITY (Wes Anderson)
  3. THE ADULTS (Dustin Guy Defa)
  4. ABOUT DRY GRASSES (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
  5. THE TASTE OF THINGS (Tran Anh Hung)
  6. RED ROOMS (Pascal Plante)
  7. THE BEAST (Bertrand Bonello)
  8. DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (Radu Jude)
  9. ANATOMY OF A FALL (Justine Triet)
  10. GODZILLA MINUS ONE (Takashi Yamazaki)
  11. HIT MAN (Richard Linklater)
  12. FERRARI (Michael Mann)
  13. ABOUT THIRTY (Martin Shanly)
  14. JANET PLANET (Annie Baker)
  15. THE ROYAL HOTEL (Kitty Green)

2022

  1. ONE FINE MORNING (Mia Hansen-Love)
  2. DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel)
  3. EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  4. RRR (S.S. Rajamouli)
  5. FALCON LAKE (Charlotte Le Bon)
  6. UNREST (Cyril Schaublin)
  7. TAR (Todd Field)
  8. AFTERSUN (Charlotte Wells)
  9. DIARY OF A FLEETING AFFAIR (Emmanuel Mouret)
  10. THE BEASTS (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
  11. BARBARIAN (Zach Cregger)
  12. ENYS MEN (Mark Jenkin)
  13. SHOWING UP (Kelly Reichardt)
  14. ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (Laura Poitras)
  15. FLUX GOURMET (Peter Strickland)

2021

  1. THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER (Ramon Zurcher)
  2. ZEROS AND ONES (Abel Ferrara)
  3. AZOR (Andreas Fontana)
  4. ANNETTE (Leos Carax)
  5. MEMORIA (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  6. WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Aleksandre Koberidze)
  7. A HERO (Asghar Farhadi)
  8. FULL TIME (Eric Gravel)
  9. NEPTUNE FROST (Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman)
  10. THE SACRED SPIRIT (Chema Garcia Ibarra)
  11. WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR (Jane Schoenbrun)
  12. BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN (Radu Jude)
  13. BENEDICTION (Terence Davies)
  14. WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
  15. FRIENDS AND STRANGERS (James Vaughan)

2020

  1. LOVERS ROCK (Steve McQueen)
  2. ALL HANDS ON DECK (Guillaume Brac)
  3. TESLA (Michael Almereyda)
  4. THE THINGS WE SAY, THE THINGS WE DO (Emmanuel Mouret)
  5. THE DISCIPLE (Chaitanya Tamhane)
  6. DAU.NATASHA (Ilya Khrzhanovsky)
  7. SHORT VACATION (Kwon Min-pyo & Han-Sol Seo)
  8. CARELESS CRIME (Shahram Mokri)
  9. THE LAST CITY (Heinz Emigholz)
  10. THE NEST (Sean Durkin)
  11. RED MOON TIDE (Lois Patino)
  12. NASIR (Arun Karthick)
  13. ACASA, MY HOME (Radu Ciorniciuc)
  14. BEGINNING (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
  15. SPONTANEOUS (Brian Duffield)

2019

  1. FIRST COW (Kelly Reichardt)
  2. I WAS AT HOME, BUT... (Angela Schanelec)
  3. JEANNE (Bruno Dumont)
  4. LITTLE WOMEN (Greta Gerwig)
  5. KNIVES OUT (Rian Johnson)
  6. UNCUT GEMS (Josh & Benny Safdie)
  7. A VOLUNTARY YEAR (Ulrich Kohler & Henner Winckler)
  8. THE VAST OF NIGHT (Andrew Patterson)
  9. MARTIN EDEN (Pietro Marcello)
  10. LIBERTE (Albert Serra)
  11. LITIGANTE (Franco Lolli)
  12. GIVE ME LIBERTY (Kirill Mikhanovsky)
  13. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
  14. BAIT (Mark Jenkin)
  15. AD ASTRA (James Gray)

2018

  1. TRANSIT (Christian Petzold)
  2. DOVLATOV (Alexei German Jr.)
  3. THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  4. VOX LUX (Brady Corbet)
  5. AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL (Hu Bo)
  6. MADELINE'S MADELINE (Josephine Decker)
  7. HER SMELL (Alex Ross Perry)
  8. BURNING (Lee Chang-dong)
  9. RAY & LIZ (Richard Billingham)
  10. TREASURE ISLAND (Guillaume Brac)
  11. PETRA (Jaime Rosales)
  12. DIANE (Kent Jones)
  13. MANDY (Panos Cosmatos)
  14. CLIMAX (Gaspar Noé)
  15. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT (Christopher McQuarrie)

2017

  1. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Luca Guadagnino)
  2. BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (S. Craig Zahler)
  3. WESTERN (Valeska Grisebach)
  4. ZAMA (Lucrecia Martel)
  5. LUCKY (John Carroll Lynch)
  6. A GHOST STORY (David Lowery)
  7. MRS. FANG (Wang Bing)
  8. MOTHER! (Darren Aronofsky)
  9. GET OUT (Jordan Peele)
  10. FELICITE (Alain Gomis)
  11. YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (Lynne Ramsay)
  12. A GENTLE CREATURE (Sergei Loznitsa)
  13. THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker)
  14. MARJORIE PRIME (Michael Almereyda)
  15. THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER (Yorgos Lanthimos)

2016

  1. CAMERAPERSON (Kirsten Johnson)
  2. LA LA LAND (Damien Chazelle)
  3. PATERSON (Jim Jarmusch)
  4. NOCTURAMA (Bertrand Bonello)
  5. THE NEON DEMON (Nicolas Winding Refn)
  6. AQUARIUS (Kleber Mendonca Filho)
  7. A WOMAN'S LIFE (Stephane Brize)
  8. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan)
  9. PERSONAL SHOPPER (Olivier Assayas)
  10. INDIGNATION (James Schamus)
  11. 20th CENTURY WOMEN (Mike Mills)
  12. ELLE (Paul Verhoeven)
  13. ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING (Andrew Dominik)
  14. WOLF AND SHEEP (Shahrbanoo Sadat)
  15. STAYING VERTICAL (Alain Guiraudie)

2015

  1. THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (Guy Maddin)
  2. THE WITCH (Robert Eggers)
  3. BLOOD OF MY BLOOD (Marco Bellocchio)
  4. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller)
  5. MY GOLDEN DAYS (Arnaud Desplechin)
  6. THE OTHER SIDE (Roberto Minervini)
  7. MISTRESS AMERICA (Noah Baumbach)
  8. CAROL (Todd Haynes)
  9. AFERIM! (Radu Jude)
  10. MUSTANG (Deniz Gamze Erguven)
  11. ONE FLOOR BELOW (Radu Muntean)
  12. CREED (Ryan Coogler)
  13. HEART OF A DOG (Laurie Anderson)
  14. MARYLAND (Alice Winocour)
  15. TIKKUN (Avishai Sivan)

2014

  1. BIRD PEOPLE (Pascale Ferran)
  2. LEVIATHAN (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
  3. WHIPLASH (Damien Chazelle)
  4. THE MEND (John Magary)
  5. IT FOLLOWS (David Robert Mitchell)
  6. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson)
  7. PHOENIX (Christian Petzold)
  8. WELCOME TO NEW YORK (Abel Ferrara)
  9. CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (Olivier Assayas)
  10. COURT (Chaitanya Tamhane)
  11. ANGELS OF REVOLUTION (Alexei Fedorchenko)
  12. THE IRON MINISTRY (J.P. Sniadecki)
  13. FORCE MAJEURE (Ruben Ostlund)
  14. L FOR LEISURE (Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn)
  15. '71 (Yann Demange)

2013

  1. COMPUTER CHESS (Andrew Bujalski)
  2. BLUE JASMINE (Woody Allen)
  3. THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT (Ramon Zurcher)
  4. ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (Jim Jarmusch)
  5. INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Joel & Ethan Coen)
  6. THE WIND RISES (Hayao Miyazaki)
  7. CHILD'S POSE (Calin Peter Netzer)
  8. THE GREAT BEAUTY (Paolo Sorrentino)
  9. THESE BIRDS WALK (Omar Mullick & Bassam Tariq)
  10. THE WORLD'S END (Edgar Wright)
  11. HER (Spike Jonze)
  12. UNDER THE SKIN (Jonathan Glazer)
  13. CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915 (Bruno Dumont)
  14. MOUTON (Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone)
  15. STOKER (Park Chan-wook)

2012

  1. LEVIATHAN (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel)
  2. FRANCES HA (Noah Baumbach)
  3. MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson)
  4. FIRST COUSIN ONCE REMOVED (Alan Berliner)
  5. TABU (Miguel Gomes)
  6. NEIGHBOURHOOD SOUNDS (Kleber Mendonca Filho)
  7. MUSEUM HOURS (Jem Cohen)
  8. PARADISE: LOVE (Ulrich Seidl)
  9. THE MASTER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  10. SPRING BREAKERS (Harmony Korine)
  11. DORMANT BEAUTY (Marco Bellocchio)
  12. JUST THE WIND (Benedek Fliegauf)
  13. OUR CHILDREN (Joachim Lafosse)
  14. ROOM 237 (Rodney Ascher)
  15. COSMOPOLIS (David Cronenberg)

2011

  1. MARGARET (Kenneth Lonergan)
  2. THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick)
  3. DRIVE (Nicolas Winding Refn)
  4. A SEPARATION (Asghar Farhadi)
  5. ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
  6. SLEEPING SICKNESS (Ulrich Kohler)
  7. HOUSE OF TOLERANCE (Bertrand Bonello)
  8. BEGINNERS (Mike Mills)
  9. PLAY (Ruben Ostlund)
  10. THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY (Hiromasa Yonebayashi)
  11. TAKE SHELTER (Jeff Nichols)
  12. WHORES' GLORY (Michael Glawogger)
  13. THE DESCENDANTS (Alexander Payne)
  14. MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (Sean Durkin)
  15. THE KID WITH A BIKE (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)

2010

  1. BLACK SWAN (Darren Aronofsky)
  2. PUTTY HILL (Matthew Porterfield)
  3. UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  4. TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS (Radu Muntean)
  5. GREENBERG (Noah Baumbach)
  6. CATFISH (Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman)
  7. MEEK'S CUTOFF (Kelly Reichardt)
  8. THE SOCIAL NETWORK (David Fincher)
  9. SILENT SOULS (Alexei Fedorchenko)
  10. AMER (Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
  11. GUEST (Jose Luis Guerin)
  12. CONFESSIONS (Tetsuya Nakashima)
  13. ENVY (Zeki Demirkubuz)
  14. LAST TRAIN HOME (Fan Lixin)
  15. THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA (Manoel de Oliveira)

2009

  1. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino)
  2. WILD GRASS (Alain Resnais)
  3. THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN (Mia Hansen-Love)
  4. RAPT (Lucas Belvaux)
  5. DUPLICITY (Tony Gilroy)
  6. HADEWIJCH (Bruno Dumont)
  7. EVERYONE ELSE (Maren Ade)
  8. ANTICHRIST (Lars Von Trier)
  9. THE EXPLODING GIRL (Bradley Rust Gray)
  10. THE WHITE RIBBON (Michael Haneke)
  11. HUMPDAY (Lynn Shelton)
  12. VALHALLA RISING (Nicolas Winding Refn)
  13. DOGTOOTH (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  14. MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE (Werner Herzog)
  15. UP (Pete Docter)

2008

  1. SUMMER HOURS (Olivier Assayas)
  2. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
  3. IL DIVO (Paolo Sorrentino)
  4. CHANGELING (Clint Eastwood)
  5. FROWNLAND (Ronald Bronstein)
  6. PAPER SOLDIER (Alexei German Jr.)
  7. TWO LOVERS (James Gray)
  8. A WEEK ALONE (Celina Murga)
  9. JULIA (Erick Zonca)
  10. SITA SINGS THE BLUES (Nina Paley)
  11. STELLA (Sylvie Verheyde)
  12. VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (Woody Allen)
  13. THE BEACHES OF AGNES (Agnes Varda)
  14. STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (Errol Morris)
  15. THE CLASS (Laurent Cantet)

2007

  1. IN THE CITY OF SYLVIA (Jose Luis Guerin)
  2. THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (Andrew Dominik)
  3. MY WINNIPEG (Guy Maddin)
  4. MARGOT AT THE WEDDING (Noah Baumbach)
  5. THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN (Abdellatif Kechiche)
  6. PARANOID PARK (Gus Van Sant)
  7. IMPORT EXPORT (Ulrich Seidl)
  8. GRINDHOUSE (Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino et al.)
  9. ALL IS FORGIVEN (Mia Hansen-Love)
  10. I'M NOT THERE (Todd Haynes)
  11. FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  12. GONE BABY GONE (Ben Affleck)
  13. RATATOUILLE (Brad Bird)
  14. GOLDEN DOOR (Emanuele Crialese)
  15. A MIGHTY HEART (Michael Winterbottom)

2006

  1. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)
  2. SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  3. BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! (Guy Maddin)
  4. WHITE PALMS (Szabolcs Hajdu)
  5. OFFSIDE (Jafar Panahi)
  6. I AM A SEX ADDICT (Caveh Zahedi)
  7. THE PRESTIGE (Christopher Nolan)
  8. WOMAN ON THE BEACH (Hong Sang-soo)
  9. THE DEPARTED (Martin Scorsese)
  10. DAY NIGHT DAY NIGHT (Julia Loktev)
  11. THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING (Marwan Hamed)
  12. I DON'T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE (Tsai Ming-liang)
  13. THE RIGHT OF THE WEAKEST (Lucas Belvaux)
  14. THE GOOD SHEPHERD (Robert De Niro)
  15. SLEEPING DOGS LIE (Bobcat Goldthwait)

2005

  1. THE SQUID AND THE THE WHALE (Noah Baumbach)
  2. LAST DAYS (Gus van Sant)
  3. REGULAR LOVERS (Philippe Garrel)
  4. SIN CITY (Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller)
  5. BRICK (Rian Johnson)
  6. THE CHILD (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
  7. WORKINGMAN'S DEATH (Michael Glawogger)
  8. KISS KISS BANG BANG (Shane Black)
  9. GABRIELLE (Patrice Chéreau)
  10. LAND OF THE DEAD (George Romero)
  11. PRINCESS RACCOON (Seijun Suzuki)
  12. THE 3 ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA (Pirjo Honkasalo)
  13. CORPSE BRIDE (Mike Johnson & Tim Burton)
  14. THE TIME WE KILLED (Jennifer Todd Reeves)
  15. ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW (Miranda July)

 2004

  1. TROPICAL MALADY (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  2. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry)
  3. HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE (Hayao Miyazaki)
  4. BEFORE SUNSET (Richard Linklater)
  5. THE INCREDIBLES (Brad Bird)
  6. CLOSER (Mike Nichols)
  7. THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (Lech Majewski)
  8. TRIPLE AGENT (Eric Rohmer)
  9. RED LIGHTS (Cédric Kahn)
  10. DOWNFALL (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
  11. KEANE (Lodge Kerrigan)
  12. VERA DRAKE (Mike Leigh)
  13. DUCK SEASON (Fernando Eimbcke)
  14. I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD (Mike Hodges)
  15. PRIMER (Shane Carruth)

2003

  1. CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS (Andrew Jarecki)
  2. THE RETURN (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
  3. KILL BILL, VOL. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
  4. THE FOG OF WAR (Errol Morris)
  5. DOGVILLE (Lars Von Trier)
  6. MEMORIES OF MURDER (Bong Joon-ho)
  7. NO REST FOR THE BRAVE (Alain Guiraudie)
  8. CRIMSON GOLD (Jafar Panahi)
  9. MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (Peter Weir)
  10. RAJA (Jacques Doillon)
  11. BAD SANTA (Terry Zwigoff)
  12. THE SCHOOL OF ROCK (Richard Linklater)
  13. NOT ON THE LIPS (Alain Resnais)
  14. GOOD MORNING, NIGHT (Marco Bellocchio)
  15. SHARA (Naomi Kawase)

2002

  1. IRREVERSIBLE (Gaspar Noé)
  2. DEMONLOVER (Olivier Assayas)
  3. SPIRITED AWAY (Hayao Miyazaki)
  4. THE SON (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
  5. THE RELIGION HOUR (MY MOTHER'S SMILE) (Marco Bellocchio)
  6. 25th HOUR (Spike Lee)
  7. GERRY (Gus van Sant)
  8. 8 WOMEN (François Ozon)
  9. ROGER DODGER (Dylan Kidd)
  10. THE GREY ZONE (Tim Blake Nelson)
  11. 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE (Michael Winterbottom)
  12. SAFE CONDUCT (Bertrand Tavernier)
  13. ADAPTATION (Spike Jonze)
  14. CITY OF GOD (Fernando Meirelles)
  15. BETTY FISHER AND OTHER STORIES (Claude Miller)

2001

  1. THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE (Joel Coen)
  2. WAKING LIFE (Richard Linklater)
  3. Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN (Alfonso Cuaron)
  4. GOSFORD PARK (Robert Altman)
  5. MULHOLLAND DRIVE (David Lynch)
  6. ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU (Shunji Iwai)
  7. OCEAN'S ELEVEN (Steven Soderbergh)
  8. A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)
  9. THE BELIEVER (Henry Bean)
  10. TRAINING DAY (Antoine Fuqua)
  11. THE PIANO TEACHER (Michael Haneke)
  12. ROBERTO SUCCO (Cédric Kahn)
  13. GHOST WORLD (Terry Zwigoff)
  14. I'M GOING HOME (Manoel de Oliveira)
  15. MONSTERS INC. (Pete Docter)

2000

  1. MEMENTO (Christopher Nolan)
  2. O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (Joel Coen)
  3. CODE UNKNOWN (Michael Haneke)
  4. YI YI (Edward Yang)
  5. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH (Terence Davies)
  6. YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (Kenneth Lonergan)
  7. THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (Sofia Coppola)
  8. SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR (Roy Andersson)
  9. BATTLE ROYALE (Kinji Fukasaku)
  10. ESTHER KAHN (Arnaud Desplechin)
  11. THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE (Mark Dindal)
  12. CAST AWAY (Robert Zemeckis)
  13. GLADIATOR (Ridley Scott)
  14. TIME REGAINED (Raul Ruiz)
  15. THIRTEEN DAYS (Roger Donaldson)

1999

  1. TOPSY-TURVY (Mike Leigh)
  2. FIGHT CLUB (David Fincher)
  3. MAGNOLIA (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  4. THE STRAIGHT STORY (David Lynch)
  5. MR. DEATH: THE RISE AND FALL OF FRED A. LEUCHTER, JR. (Errol Morris)
  6. ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (Pedro Almodovar)
  7. EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick)
  8. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (Daniel Myrick / Eduardo Sanchez)
  9. SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER AND UNCUT (Trey Parker)
  10. BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (Spike Jonze)
  11. LA MALADIE DE SACHS (Michel Deville)
  12. THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (Anthony Minghella)
  13. SKIN OF MAN, HEART OF BEAST (Helene Angel)
  14. AMERICAN MOVIE (Chris Smith)
  15. THE IRON GIANT (Brad Bird)

1998

  1. LATE AUGUST, EARLY SEPTEMBER (Olivier Assayas)
  2. AUTUMN TALE (Eric Rohmer)
  3. THE THIN RED LINE (Terrence Malick)
  4. SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (Steven Spielberg)
  5. SHOW ME LOVE (Lukas Moodysson)
  6. THE CELEBRATION (Thomas Vinterberg)
  7. THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE (Hong Sang-Soo)
  8. THE BIG LEBOWSKI (Joel Coen)
  9. THE DREAMLIFE OF ANGELS (Erick Zonca)
  10. BUFFALO '66 (Vincent Gallo)
  11. RUN LOLA RUN (Tom Tykwer)
  12. I STAND ALONE (Gaspar Noé)
  13. LA CLASSE DE NEIGE (Claude Miller)
  14. MY NAME IS JOE (Ken Loach)
  15. HAPPINESS (Todd Solondz)

1997

  1. BOOGIE NIGHTS (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  2. L. A. CONFIDENTIAL (Curtis Hanson)
  3. FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL (Errol Morris)
  4. FUNNY GAMES (Michael Haneke)
  5. THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Atom Egoyan)
  6. KUNDUN (Martin Scorsese)
  7. STARSHIP TROOPERS (Paul Verhoeven)
  8. HENRY FOOL (Hal Hartley)
  9. THE APOSTLE (Robert Duvall)
  10. TASTE OF CHERRY (Abbas Kiarostami)
  11. NIL BY MOUTH (Gary Oldman)
  12. THE ICE STORM (Ang Lee)
  13. LEILA (Dariush Mehrjui)
  14. CAPITAINE CONAN (Bertrand Tavernier)
  15. WILL IT SNOW FOR CHRISTMAS? (Sandrine Veysset)

1996

  1. IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas)
  2. PARADISE LOST : THE CHILD MURDERS AT ROBIN HOOD HILLS (Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky)
  3. LA PROMESSE (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
  4. SLING BLADE (Billy Bob Thornton)
  5. BREAKING THE WAVES (Lars von Trier)
  6. FLIRTING WITH DISASTER (David O. Russell)
  7. EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU (Woody Allen)
  8. JERRY MAGUIRE (Cameron Crowe)
  9. GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
  10. SECRETS AND LIES (Mike Leigh)
  11. COMRADES, ALMOST A LOVE STORY (Peter Chan)
  12. MARS ATTACKS! (Tim Burton)
  13. LES VOLEURS (André Téchiné)
  14. A SUMMER'S TALE (Eric Rohmer)
  15. WHEN WE WERE KINGS (Leon Gast)

1995

  1. LAND AND FREEDOM (Ken Loach)
  2. SE7EN (David Fincher)
  3. SAFE (Todd Haynes)
  4. BEFORE SUNRISE (Richard Linklater)
  5. TOY STORY (John Lasseter)
  6. DEAD MAN (Jim Jarmusch)
  7. LE GARCU (Maurice Pialat)
  8. SALAAM CINEMA (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
  9. HEAT (Michael Mann)
  10. ARIZONA DREAM (Emir Kusturica)
  11. CRIMSON TIDE (Tony Scott)
  12. LEAVING LAS VEGAS (Mike Figgis)
  13. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (Ang Lee)
  14. APOLLO 13 (Ron Howard)
  15. TWELVE MONKEYS (Terry Gilliam)

1994

  1. PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino)
  2. COLD WATER (Olivier Assayas)
  3. ED WOOD (Tim Burton)
  4. NOBODY'S FOOL (Robert Benton)
  5. CLERKS (Kevin Smith)
  6. THE HUDSUCKER PROXY (Joel Coen)
  7. THREE COLOURS: RED (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
  8. 71 FRAGMENTS OF A CHRONOLOGY OF CHANCE (Michael Haneke)
  9. AN UNFORGETTABLE SUMMER (Lucien Pintillie)
  10. BURNT BY THE SUN and ANNA 6-18 (Nikita Mikhalkov)
  11. QUIZ SHOW (Robert Redford)
  12. THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES (Abbas Kiarostami)
  13. BEING HUMAN (Bill Forsyth)
  14. I LIKE IT LIKE THAT (Darnell Martin)
  15. FRESH (Boaz Yakin)

1993

  1. SHORT CUTS (Robert Altman)
  2. NAKED (Mike Leigh)
  3. GROUNDHOG DAY (Harold Ramis)
  4. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (Martin Scorsese)
  5. SCHINDLER'S LIST (Steven Spielberg)
  6. DAZED AND CONFUSED (Richard Linklater)
  7. UN COEUR EN HIVER (Claude Sautet)
  8. THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (James Ivory)
  9. FEARLESS (Peter Weir)
  10. THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (Henry Selick)
  11. EQUINOX (Alan Rudolph)
  12. 32 SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD (Francois Girard)
  13. MATINEE (Joe Dante)
  14. THREE COLOURS: BLUE (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
  15. BODY SNATCHERS (Abel Ferrara)

1992

  1. UNFORGIVEN (Clint Eastwood)
  2. RESERVOIR DOGS (Quentin Tarantino)
  3. LORENZO'S OIL (George Miller)
  4. GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (James Foley)
  5. THE STOLEN CHILDREN (Gianni Amelio)
  6. CAREFUL (Guy Maddin)
  7. SAVAGE NIGHTS (Cyril Collard)
  8. ALADDIN (John Musker & Ron Clements)
  9. THE PLAYER (Robert Altman)
  10. THE HAIRDRESSER'S HUSBAND (Patrice Leconte)
  11. BAD LIEUTENANT (Abel Ferrara)
  12. LEOLO (Jean-Claude Lauzon)
  13. L.627 (Bertrand Tavernier)
  14. ONE FALSE MOVE (Carl Franklin)
  15. BAXTER (Jerome Boivin)

1991

  1. BARTON FINK (Joel Coen)
  2. JFK (Oliver Stone)
  3. THE RAPTURE (Michael Tolkin)
  4. THELMA AND LOUISE (Ridley Scott)
  5. HOMICIDE (David Mamet)
  6. BLACK ROBE (Bruce Beresford)
  7. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (Jonathan Demme)
  8. RIFF-RAFF (Ken Loach)
  9. TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (James Cameron)
  10. THE COMMITMENTS (Alan Parker)
  11. JACQUOT DE NANTES (Agnes Varda)
  12. DELICATESSEN (Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro)
  13. TOTO LE HEROS (Jaco van Dormael)
  14. ARMOUR OF GOD II: OPERATION CONDOR (Jackie Chan)
  15. SLACKER (Richard Linklater)

1990

  1. TRUST (Hal Hartley)
  2. MILLER'S CROSSING (Joel Coen)
  3. AVALON (Barry Levinson)
  4. GOODFELLAS (Martin Scorsese)
  5. METROPOLITAN (Whit Stillman)
  6. GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (Joe Dante)
  7. BULLET IN THE HEAD (John Woo)
  8. TREMORS (Ron Underwood)
  9. THE GRIFTERS (Stephen Frears)
  10. SINGAPORE SLING (Nikos Nikolaidis)
  11. DANCES WITH WOLVES (Kevin Costner) 
  12. REVERSAL OF FORTUNE (Barbet Schroeder)
  13. SURE FIRE (Jon Jost)
  14. DARKMAN (Sam Raimi)
  15. FLIRTING (John Duigan)

1989

  1. DO THE RIGHT THING (Spike Lee)
  2. TIME OF THE GYPSIES (Emir Kusturica)
  3. THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS (Steve Kloves)
  4. KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE (Hayao Miyazaki)
  5. CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (Woody Allen)
  6. ROGER AND ME (Michael Moore)
  7. HEATHERS (Michael Lehmann)
  8. THE ASTHENIC SYNDROME (Kira Muratova)
  9. LIFE AND NOTHING BUT (Bertrand Tavernier)
  10. MYSTERY TRAIN (Jim Jarmusch)
  11. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... (Rob Reiner)
  12. SANTA SANGRE (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
  13. THE CYCLIST (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
  14. THE NAVIGATOR: A MEDIEVAL ODYSSEY (Vincent Ward)
  15. BREAKING IN (Bill Forsyth)

1988

  1. THE THIN BLUE LINE (Errol Morris)
  2. A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
  3. BIRD (Clint Eastwood)
  4. HIGH HOPES (Mike Leigh)
  5. DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES (Terence Davies)
  6. THE MODERNS (Alan Rudolph)
  7. DEAD RINGERS (David Cronenberg)
  8. THE VANISHING (George Sluizer)
  9. DIE HARD (John McTiernan)
  10. MONKEY SHINES (George Romero)
  11. DANGEROUS LIAISONS (Stephen Frears)
  12. PELLE THE CONQUEROR (Bille August)
  13. A CRY IN THE DARK (Fred Schepisi)
  14. THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (Martin Scorsese)
  15. BEETLEJUICE (Tim Burton)

1987

  1. THE DEAD (John Huston)
  2. HOUSEKEEPING (Bill Forsyth)
  3. HOPE AND GLORY (John Boorman)
  4. FULL METAL JACKET (Stanley Kubrick)
  5. MATEWAN (John Sayles)
  6. BROADCAST NEWS (James L. Brooks)
  7. AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS (Louis Malle)
  8. RADIO DAYS (Woody Allen)
  9. ROBOCOP (Paul Verhoeven)
  10. LONG LIVE THE LADY! (Ermanno Olmi)
  11. HOUSE OF GAMES (David Mamet)
  12. RAISING ARIZONA (Joel Coen)
  13. BABETTE'S FEAST (Gabriel Axel)
  14. THE YEAR MY VOICE BROKE (John Duigan)
  15. MORNING PATROL (Nikos Nikolaidis)

1986

  1. BLUE VELVET (David Lynch)
  2. SALVADOR (Oliver Stone)
  3. THE FLY (David Cronenberg)
  4. SOMETHING WILD (Jonathan Demme)
  5. THE GREEN RAY (Eric Rohmer)
  6. HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (John McNaughton)
  7. LAPUTA: CASTLE IN THE SKY (Hayao Miyazaki)
  8. RIVER'S EDGE (Tim Hunter)
  9. HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (Woody Allen)  
  10. LANDSCAPE SUICIDE (James Benning)
  11. TRUE STORIES (David Byrne)
  12. THE COLOR OF MONEY (Martin Scorsese)
  13. WORKING GIRLS (Lizzie Borden)
  14. TENUE DE SOIREE / MENAGE (Bertrand Blier)
  15. 4 ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE (Eric Rohmer)

1985

  1. AFTER HOURS (Martin Scorsese)
  2. RAN (Akira Kurosawa) 
  3. DAY OF THE DEAD (George Romero)
  4. PRIZZI'S HONOR (John Huston)
  5. COME AND SEE (Elem Klimov)
  6. THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (Woody Allen)
  7. BACK TO THE FUTURE (Robert Zemeckis)
  8. WETHERBY (David Hare)
  9. A TIME TO LIVE AND A TIME TO DIE (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
  10. CONTACT (Alan Clarke)

1984

  1. UTU (Geoff Murphy)
  2. BLOOD SIMPLE (Joel Coen)
  3. CHOOSE ME (Alan Rudolph)
  4. FULL MOON IN PARIS (Eric Rohmer)
  5. A SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY (Bertrand Tavernier)
  6. THIS IS SPINAL TAP (Rob Reiner)
  7. PLACES IN THE HEART (Robert Benton)
  8. L'AMOUR A MORT (Alain Resnais)
  9. COMFORT AND JOY (Bill Forsyth)
  10. ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (Sergio Leone)

1983

  1. LOCAL HERO (Bill Forsyth)
  2. ZELIG (Woody Allen)
  3. GET CRAZY (Allan Arkush)
  4. TENDER MERCIES (Bruce Beresford)
  5. PAULINE AT THE BEACH (Eric Rohmer)
  6. DEADLY CIRCUIT (Claude Miller)
  7. THREE CROWNS OF THE SAILOR (Raul Ruiz)
  8. RISKY BUSINESS (Paul Brickman)
  9. THE BIG CHILL (Lawrence Kasdan)
  10. THE KING OF COMEDY (Martin Scorsese)

1982

  1. FANNY AND ALEXANDER (Ingmar Bergman)
  2. MY FAVORITE YEAR (Richard Benjamin)
  3. YOL: THE WAY (Serif Goren & Yilmaz Guney)
  4. DINER (Barry Levinson)
  5. THE STATE OF THINGS (Wim Wenders)
  6. BLADE RUNNER (Ridley Scott)
  7. LIQUID SKY (Slava Tsukerman)
  8. TOUTE UNE NUIT (Chantal Akerman)
  9. E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (Steven Spielberg)
  10. SHOOT THE MOON (Alan Parker)

1981

  1. MODERN ROMANCE (Albert Brooks)
  2. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (Steven Spielberg)
  3. THE AVIATOR'S WIFE (Eric Rohmer)
  4. MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (George Miller)
  5. THE GAMES OF COUNTESS DOLINGEN (Catherine Binet)
  6. SMASH PALACE (Roger Donaldson)
  7. LOLA (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  8. DIVA (Jean-Jacques Beineix)
  9. SOUTHERN COMFORT (Walter Hill)
  10. CUTTER'S WAY (Ivan Passer)

1980

  1. DRESSED TO KILL (Brian de Palma)
  2. MON ONCLE D'AMERIQUE (Alain Resnais)
  3. THE RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN (John Sayles)
  4. THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY (John Mackenzie)
  5. AIRPLANE! (Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker and David Zucker)
  6. BLOODY KIDS (Stephen Frears)
  7. THE BIG RED ONE [162-minute version] (Sam Fuller)
  8. THE NINTH CONFIGURATION (William Peter Blatty)
  9. THE FALLS (Peter Greenaway)
  10. PROSTITUTE (Tony Garnett)

1979

  1. APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Coppola)
  2. THE BLACK STALLION (Carroll Ballard)
  3. OVER THE EDGE (Jonathan Kaplan)
  4. SAINT JACK (Peter Bogdanovich)
  5. BEING THERE (Hal Ashby)
  6. ALL THAT JAZZ (Bob Fosse)
  7. MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (Terry Jones)
  8. L'ENFANT SECRET (Philippe Garrel)
  9. BYE BYE BRAZIL (Carlos Diegues)
  10. WISE BLOOD (John Huston)

1978

  1. DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick)
  2. THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS (Ermanno Olmi)
  3. DOSSIER 51 (Michel Deville)
  4. IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  5. THE DEER HUNTER (Michael Cimino)
  6. MOVIE MOVIE (Stanley Donen)
  7. DAWN OF THE DEAD (George Romero)
  8. HALLOWEEN (John Carpenter)
  9. BLUE COLLAR (Paul Schrader)
  10. FINGERS (James Toback)

1977

  1. 3 WOMEN (Robert Altman)
  2. ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen)
  3. AN AVERAGE LITTLE MAN (Mario Monicelli)
  4. PROVIDENCE (Alain Resnais)
  5. AMAR AKBAR ANTHONY (Manmohan Desai)
  6. LAST CHANTS FOR A SLOW DANCE (Jon Jost)
  7. MARTIN (George Romero)
  8. THE DUELLISTS (Ridley Scott)
  9. JULIA (Fred Zinnemann)
  10. DESPERATE LIVING (John Waters)

1976

  1. ILLUSTRIOUS CORPSES (Francesco Rosi)
  2. ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (Alan J. Pakula)
  3. ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (John Carpenter)
  4. CARRIE (Brian De Palma)
  5. STAY HUNGRY (Bob Rafelson)
  6. GOD TOLD ME TO (Larry Cohen)
  7. CRIA CUERVOS (Carlos Saura)
  8. JONAH WHO WILL BE 25 IN THE YEAR 2000 (Alain Tanner)
  9. THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND (Fred Schepisi)
  10. BOUND FOR GLORY (Hal Ashby)

1975

  1. JAWS (Steven Spielberg)
  2. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (Terry Gilliam / Terry Jones)
  3. NASHVILLE (Robert Altman)
  4. THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (John Huston)
  5. BARRY LYNDON (Stanley Kubrick)
  6. DOG DAY AFTERNOON (Sidney Lumet)
  7. LOVE AND DEATH (Woody Allen)
  8. HESTER STREET (Joan Micklin Silver)
  9. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (Milos Forman)
  10. THE PASSENGER (Michelangelo Antonioni)

1974

  1. CHINATOWN (Roman Polanski)
  2. JUGGERNAUT (Richard Lester)
  3. CALIFORNIA SPLIT (Robert Altman)
  4. FEAR EATS THE SOUL (RainerWerner Fassbinder)
  5. THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (Joseph Sargent)
  6. THE GODFATHER, PART II (Francis Ford Coppola)
  7. NADA (Claude Chabrol)
  8. THE PARALLAX VIEW (Alan J. Pakula)
  9. THE MOUTH AGAPE (Maurice Pialat)
  10. DEATHDREAM (Bob Clark)

1973

  1. MEAN STREETS (Martin Scorsese)
  2. THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (Peter Yates)
  3. PAPER MOON (Peter Bogdanovich)
  4. THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache)
  5. F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles)
  6. PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID (Sam Peckinpah)
  7. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (George Lucas)
  8. TURKISH DELIGHT (Paul Verhoeven)
  9. THE STING (George Roy Hill)
  10. CHARLEY VARRICK (Don Siegel)

1972

  1. CABARET (Bob Fosse)
  2. FAT CITY (John Huston)
  3. THE GODFATHER (Francis Ford Coppola)
  4. THE HEARTBREAK KID (Elaine May)
  5. SALOME (Carmelo Bene)
  6. DELIVERANCE (John Boorman)
  7. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (Luis Bunuel)
  8. ACROSS 110th STREET (Barry Shear)
  9. ULZANA'S RAID (Robert Aldrich)
  10. SEASON OF THE WITCH (George Romero)

1971

  1. MURMUR OF THE HEART (Louis Malle)
  2. McCABE AND MRS. MILLER (Robert Altman)
  3. LOVE (Karoly Makk)
  4. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (Peter Bogdanovich)
  5. THE HOSPITAL (Arthur Hiller)
  6. FATA MORGANA (Werner Herzog)
  7. THE LONG FAREWELL (Kira Muratova)
  8. WAKE IN FRIGHT (Ted Kotcheff)
  9. THE BEGUILED (Don Siegel)
  10. THE DEVILS (Ken Russell)

1970

  1. DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST (Satyajit Ray)
  2. LA RUPTURE (Claude Chabrol)
  3. THE WILD CHILD (Francois Truffaut)
  4. CLAIRE'S KNEE (Eric Rohmer)
  5. LE BOUCHER (Claude Chabrol)
  6. DEEP END (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  7. WANDA (Barbara Loden)
  8. I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER (Gilbert Cates)
  9. PERFORMANCE (Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg)
  10. EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL (Werner Herzog)

1969

  1. KES (Ken Loach)
  2. MY NIGHT AT MAUD'S (Eric Rohmer)
  3. MEDIUM COOL (Haskell Wexler)
  4. EASY RIDER (Dennis Hopper)
  5. MIDNIGHT COWBOY (John Schlesinger)
  6. Z (Costa-Gavras)
  7. A MARRIED COUPLE (Allan King)
  8. THE COW (Dariush Mehrjui)
  9. ONE FINE DAY (Ermanno Olmi)
  10. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (George Roy Hill)

1968

  1. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick)
  2. MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (Tomas Guiterrez Alea)
  3. HEAD (Bob Rafelson)
  4. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George Romero)
  5. OLIVER! (Carol Reed)
  6. RACHEL, RACHEL (Paul Newman)
  7. SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE (William Greaves)
  8. THE PRODUCERS (Mel Brooks)
  9. TARGETS (Peter Bogdanovich)
  10. ROSEMARY'S BABY (Roman Polanski)

1967

  1. BONNIE AND CLYDE (Arthur Penn)
  2. THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Jacques Demy)
  3. THE GRADUATE (Mike Nichols)
  4. EL DORADO (Howard Hawks)
  5. HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING (David Swift)
  6. TITICUT FOLLIES (Frederick Wiseman)
  7. POINT BLANK (John Boorman)
  8. DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY (Jim McBride)
  9. TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (Jean-Luc Godard)
  10. BELLE DE JOUR (Luis Bunuel)

1966

  1. PERSONA (Ingmar Bergman)
  2. SECONDS (John Frankenheimer)
  3. THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone)
  4. THE HAWKS AND THE SPARROWS (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  5. MASCULIN FEMININ (Jean-Luc Godard)
  6. ANDREI RUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky)
  7. L'ARMATA BRANCALEONE (Mario Monicelli)
  8. A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (Fred Zinnemann)
  9. THE FORTUNE COOKIE (Billy Wilder)
  10. KILL, BABY ... KILL! (Mario Bava)

1965

  1. REPULSION (Roman Polanski)
  2. THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD (Martin Ritt)
  3. BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING (Otto Preminger)
  4. CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (Orson Welles)
  5. THE KNACK (Richard Lester)
  6. THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET (Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos)
  7. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (Robert Wise)
  8. LOVES OF A BLONDE (Milos Forman)
  9. THE SLEEPING CAR MURDERS (Costa-Gavras)
  10. THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT (Wojciech Has)

1964

  1. THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (Jacques Demy)
  2. DR. STRANGELOVE (Stanley Kubrick)
  3. CHARULATA (Satyajit Ray)
  4. THAT MAN FROM RIO (Philippe de Broca)
  5. THE BEST MAN (Franklin J. Schaffner)
  6. FAIL-SAFE (Sidney Lumet)
  7. KISS ME, STUPID (Billy Wilder)
  8. SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON (Bryan Forbes)
  9. THE KILLERS (Don Siegel)
  10. THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (John Huston)

1963

  1. CHARADE (Stanley Donen)
  2. THE SILENCE (Ingmar Bergman)
  3. THE BIRDS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. BILLY LIAR (John Schlesinger)
  5. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
  6. MURIEL (Alain Resnais)
  7. AMERICA, AMERICA (Elia Kazan)
  8. SHOCK CORRIDOR (Samuel Fuller)
  9. LA VISITA (Antonio Pietrangeli)
  10. WINTER LIGHT (Ingmar Bergman)

1962

  1. HARAKIRI (Masaki Kobayashi)
  2. THE EASY LIFE (Dino Risi)
  3. ADVISE AND CONSENT (Otto Preminger)
  4. AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Yasujiro Ozu)
  5. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (John Frankenheimer)
  6. THE TRIAL (Orson Welles)
  7. I FIDANZATI (Ermanno Olmi)
  8. THE MIRACLE WORKER (Arthur Penn)
  9. THE MUSIC MAN (Morton da Costa)
  10. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Robert Mulligan)

1961

  1. LOLA (Jacques Demy)
  2. IL POSTO (Ermanno Olmi)
  3. THE EXILES (Kent MacKenzie)
  4. ONE, TWO, THREE (Billy Wilder)
  5. VIRIDIANA (Luis Bunuel)
  6. THE HUSTLER (Robert Rossen)
  7. THE INNOCENTS (Jack Clayton)
  8. SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (Elia Kazan)
  9. PIGS AND BATTLESHIPS (Shohei Imamura)
  10. A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (Jean-Luc Godard)

1960

  1. THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder)
  2. L'AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  3. LES BONNES FEMMES (Claude Chabrol)
  4. PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock)
  5. BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard)
  6. SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (Francois Truffaut)
  7. LE TROU (Jacques Becker)
  8. EYES WITHOUT A FACE (Georges Franju)
  9. ZAZIE DANS LE METRO (Louis Malle)
  10. THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (Roger Corman)

1959

  1. ANATOMY OF A MURDER (Otto Preminger)
  2. SOME LIKE IT HOT (Billy Wilder)
  3. RIO BRAVO (Howard Hawks)
  4. THE WORLD OF APU (Satyajit Ray)
  5. TIME STOOD STILL (Ermanno Olmi)
  6. THE 400 BLOWS (Francois Truffaut)
  7. HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (Alain Resnais)
  8. SHADOWS (John Cassavetes)
  9. I'M ALL RIGHT JACK (John Boulting)
  10. RIDE LONESOME (Budd Boetticher)

1958

  1. ASHES AND DIAMONDS (Andrezj Wajda)
  2. TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles)
  3. MURDER BY CONTRACT (Irving Lerner)
  4. THE TARNISHED ANGELS (Douglas Sirk)
  5. MAN OF THE WEST (Anthony Mann)
  6. GIGI (Vincente Minnelli)
  7. VERTIGO (Alfred Hitchcock)
  8. THE MUSIC ROOM (Satyajit Ray)
  9. GIANTS AND TOYS (Yasuzo Masumura)
  10. THE VIKINGS (Richard Fleischer)

1957

  1. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Alexander Mackendrick)
  2. 12 ANGRY MEN (Sidney Lumet)
  3. THE PAJAMA GAME (George Abbott / Stanley Donen)
  4. A MATTER OF DIGNITY (Michael Cacoyannis)
  5. THE SEVENTH SEAL (Ingmar Bergman)
  6. PATHS OF GLORY (Stanley Kubrick)
  7. THE TALL T (Budd Boetticher)
  8. PYAASA (Guru Dutt)
  9. THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (Jack Arnold)
  10. SNOW COUNTRY (Shiro Toyoda)

1956

  1. A MAN ESCAPED (Robert Bresson)
  2. THE SEARCHERS (John Ford)
  3. ATTACK! (Robert Aldrich)
  4. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (Don Siegel)
  5. THE KILLING (Stanley Kubrick)
  6. SEVEN MEN FROM NOW (Budd Boetticher)
  7. THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW (Douglas Sirk)
  8. THE WRONG MAN (Alfred Hitchcock)
  9. SHOZO, A CAT AND TWO WOMEN (Shiro Toyoda)
  10. FRIENDLY PERSUASION (William Wyler)

1955

  1. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton)
  2. KISS ME DEADLY (Robert Aldrich)
  3. ORDET (Carl Dreyer)
  4. BOB LE FLAMBEUR (Jean-Pierre Melville)
  5. LE AMICHE (Michelangelo Antonioni)
  6. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Nicholas Ray)
  7. SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT (Ingmar Bergman)
  8. THE BIG COMBO (Joseph H. Lewis)
  9. FLOATING CLOUDS (Mikio Naruse)
  10. LES GRANDES MANOEUVRES (René Clair)

1954

  1. REAR WINDOW (Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (Stanley Donen)
  3. THE RAID (Hugo Fregonese)
  4. CAMILLA (Luciano Emmer)
  5. JOHNNY GUITAR (Nicholas Ray)
  6. DIAL M FOR MURDER (Alfred Hitchcock)
  7. SENSO (Luchino Visconti)
  8. THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  9. SANSHO THE BAILIFF (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  10. VERA CRUZ (Robert Aldrich)

1953

  1. THE WAGES OF FEAR (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
  2. UGETSU (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  3. BEAT THE DEVIL (John Huston)
  4. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Howard Hawks)
  5. THE BAND WAGON (Vincente Minnelli)
  6. THE NAKED SPUR (Anthony Mann)
  7. THE BIG HEAT (Fritz Lang)
  8. GENEVIEVE (Henry Cornelius)
  9. EL (Luis Bunuel)
  10. KISS ME KATE (George Sidney)

1952

  1. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
  2. UMBERTO D. (Vittorio de Sica)
  3. FORBIDDEN GAMES (René Clement)
  4. FIVE FINGERS (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  5. THE CRIMSON PIRATE (Robert Siodmak)
  6. HIGH NOON (Fred Zinnemann)
  7. IKIRU (Akira Kurosawa)
  8. THE NARROW MARGIN (Richard Fleischer)
  9. THE GOLDEN COACH (Jean Renoir)
  10. SCANDAL SHEET (Phil Karlson)

1951

  1. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Elia Kazan)
  2. THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (Christian Nyby)
  3. STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (Alfred Hitchcock)
  4. THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE (John Huston)
  5. HIS KIND OF WOMAN (John Farrow)
  6. OTHELLO (Orson Welles)
  7. ON DANGEROUS GROUND (Nicholas Ray)
  8. THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (Charles Crichton)
  9. A PLACE IN THE SUN (George Stevens)
  10. OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS (Carol Reed)

1950

  1. DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Robert Bresson)
  2. IN A LONELY PLACE (Nicholas Ray)
  3. ALL ABOUT EVE (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  4. THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (John Huston)
  5. THE GUNFIGHTER (Henry King)
  6. STARS IN MY CROWN (Jacques Tourneur)
  7. RASHOMON (Akira Kurosawa)
  8. WINCHESTER '73 (Anthony Mann)
  9. WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (Otto Preminger)
  10. THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE (Frank Launder)

1949

  1. THE THIRD MAN (Carol Reed)
  2. THE SET-UP (Robert Wise)
  3. THE WINDOW (Ted Tetzlaff)
  4. INTRUDER IN THE DUST (Clarence Brown)
  5. WHITE HEAT (Raoul Walsh)
  6. A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  7. ACT OF VIOLENCE (Fred Zinnemann)
  8. CRISS CROSS (Robert Siodmak)
  9. STRAY DOG (Akira Kurosawa)
  10. KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (Robert Hamer)

1948

  1. BICYCLE THIEVES (Vittorio de Sica)
  2. TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (John Huston)
  3. UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (Preston Sturges)
  4. A FOREIGN AFFAIR (Billy Wilder)
  5. BRIGHTON ROCK (John Boulting)
  6. THE RED SHOES (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  7. THE SEARCH (Fred Zinnemann)
  8. THE FALLEN IDOL (Carol Reed)
  9. LA TERRA TREMA (Luchino Visconti)
  10. PITFALL (Andre de Toth)

1947

  1. ODD MAN OUT (Carol Reed)
  2. BLACK NARCISSUS (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  3. DAISY KENYON (Otto Preminger)
  4. THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  5. OUT OF THE PAST (Jacques Tourneur)
  6. MONSIEUR VERDOUX (Charles Chaplin)
  7. MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (George Seaton)
  8. GERMANY YEAR ZERO (Roberto Rossellini)
  9. ANTOINE AND ANTOINETTE (Jacques Becker)
  10. NIGHTMARE ALLEY (Edmund Goulding)

1946

  1. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Frank Capra)
  2. MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (John Ford)
  3. THE BIG SLEEP (Howard Hawks)
  4. GREAT EXPECTATIONS (David Lean)
  5. PAISA (Roberto Rossellini)
  6. NOTORIOUS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  7. A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  8. CANYON PASSAGE (Jacques Tourneur)
  9. GREEN FOR DANGER (Sidney Gilliat)
  10. CLUNY BROWN (Ernst Lubitsch)

1945

  1. A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN (Elia Kazan)
  2. BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean)
  3. AND THEN THERE WERE NONE (René Clair)
  4. OBJECTIVE BURMA! (Raoul Walsh)
  5. DETOUR (Edgar G. Ulmer)
  6. SCARLET STREET (Fritz Lang)
  7. OUR VINES HAVE TENDER GRAPES (Roy Rowland)
  8. THEY WERE EXPENDABLE (John Ford)
  9. WONDER MAN (Bruce Humberstone)
  10. PRIDE OF THE MARINES (Delmer Daves)

1944

  1. THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (Preston Sturges)
  2. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wilder)
  3. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (Vincente Minnelli)
  4. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (Howard Hawks)
  5. HENRY V (Laurence Olivier)
  6. HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (Preston Sturges)
  7. THE UNINVITED (Lewis Allen)
  8. ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (Frank Capra)
  9. THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE (Robert Wise & Gunter von Fritsch)
  10. THE WAY AHEAD (Carol Reed)

1943

  1. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
  2. SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. THE OX-BOW INCIDENT (William Wellman)
  4. LE CORBEAU (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
  5. FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO (Billy Wilder)
  6. THE HUMAN COMEDY (Clarence Brown)
  7. AIR FORCE (Howard Hawks)
  8. MY LEARNED FRIEND (Will Hay & Basil Dearden)
  9. MUNCHHAUSEN (Josef von Baky)
  10. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Jacques Tourneur)

1942

  1. CASABLANCA (Michael Curtiz)
  2. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Orson Welles)
  3. SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (Preston Sturges)
  4. KINGS ROW (Sam Wood)
  5. GENTLEMAN JIM (Raoul Walsh)
  6. THIS GUN FOR HIRE (Frank Tuttle)
  7. WENT THE DAY WELL? (Cavalcanti)
  8. THE PALM BEACH STORY (Preston Sturges)
  9. ROXIE HART (William Wellman)
  10. JOURNEY INTO FEAR (Norman Foster)

1941

  1. THE MALTESE FALCON (John Huston)
  2. CITIZEN KANE (Orson Welles)
  3. HELLZAPOPPIN' (H.C. Potter)
  4. THE LITTLE FOXES (William Wyler)
  5. HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (John Ford)
  6. NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK (Edward Cline)
  7. THE STRAWBERRY BLONDE (Raoul Walsh)
  8. THE LADY EVE (Preston Sturges)
  9. BALL OF FIRE (Howard Hawks)
  10. SUSPICION (Alfred Hitchcock)

1940

  1. THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (Ernst Lubitsch)
  2. HIS GIRL FRIDAY (Howard Hawks)
  3. THE BANK DICK (Edward Cline)
  4. THE GRAPES OF WRATH (John Ford)
  5. CHRISTMAS IN JULY (Preston Sturges)
  6. FANTASIA (Ben Sharpsteen)
  7. THE LETTER (William Wyler)
  8. PINOCCHIO (Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske)
  9. THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT (Raoul Walsh)
  10. THE SEA HAWK (Michael Curtiz)

1939

  1. THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir)
  2. ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (Howard Hawks)
  3. DESTRY RIDES AGAIN (George Marshall)
  4. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (Frank Capra)
  5. LE JOUR SE LEVE (Marcel Carné)
  6. NINOTCHKA (Ernst Lubitsch)
  7. OF MICE AND MEN (Lewis Milestone)
  8. THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (William Dieterle)
  9. DARK VICTORY (Edmund Goulding)
  10. STAGECOACH (John Ford)

1938

  1. BRINGING-UP BABY (Howard Hawks)
  2. THE LADY VANISHES (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. THE CHILDHOOD OF MAXIM GORKI (Mark Donskoi)
  4. LA BETE HUMAINE (Jean Renoir)
  5. A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER (Lloyd Bacon)
  6. ALEXANDER NEVSKY (Sergei Eisenstein)
  7. ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (Michael Curtiz)
  8. HOLIDAY (George Cukor)
  9. JEZEBEL (William Wyler)
  10. LES DISPARUS DE ST. AGIL (Christian-Jaque)

1937

  1. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (David Hand)
  2. THE HURRICANE (John Ford)
  3. ANGEL (Ernst Lubitsch)
  4. THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey)
  5. LA GRANDE ILLUSION (Jean Renoir)
  6. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS (Victor Fleming)
  7. ONE HUNDRED MEN AND A GIRL (Henry Koster)
  8. THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (John Cromwell)
  9. STAGE DOOR (Gregory La Cava)
  10. THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (Michael Powell)

1936

  1. MODERN TIMES (Charles Chaplin)
  2. FURY (Fritz Lang)
  3. SWING TIME (George Stevens)
  4. MY MAN GODFREY (Gregory LaCava)
  5. THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE (Jean Renoir)
  6. OUR RELATIONS (Harry Lachman)
  7. MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (Frank Capra)
  8. SHOWBOAT (James Whale)
  9. THE DEVIL-DOLL (Tod Browning)
  10. THREE SMART GIRLS (Henry Koster)

1935

  1. A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (Sam Wood)
  2. THE 39 STEPS (Alfred Hitchcock)
  3. TOP HAT (Mark Sandrich)
  4. DAVID COPPERFIELD (George Cukor)
  5. CARNIVAL IN FLANDERS (Jacques Feyder)
  6. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (Frank Lloyd)
  7. CHINA SEAS (Tay Garnett)
  8. BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (James Whale)
  9. LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER (Henry Hathaway)
  10. HANDS ACROSS THE TABLE (Mitchell Leisen)

1934

  1. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (Frank Capra)
  2. THE GAY DIVORCEE (Mark Sandrich)
  3. LE GRAND JEU (Jacques Feyder)
  4. MASKERADE (Willi Forst)
  5. WONDER BAR (Lloyd Bacon)
  6. LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? (Frank Borzage)
  7. THE SCARLET EMPRESS (Josef Von Sternberg)
  8. THE BLACK CAT (Edgar G. Ulmer) 
  9. TWENTIETH CENTURY (Howard Hawks)
  10. SING AS WE GO (Basil Dean)

1933

  1. DUCK SOUP (Leo McCarey)
  2. HARD TO HANDLE (Mervyn Le Roy)
  3. THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN (Frank Capra)
  4. FOOTLIGHT PARADE (Lloyd Bacon)
  5. HALLELUJAH I'M A BUM (Lewis Milestone)
  6. GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (Mervyn Le Roy)
  7. COUNSELLOR AT LAW (William Wyler)
  8. BOMBSHELL (Victor Fleming)
  9. STATE FAIR (Henry King)
  10. DINNER AT EIGHT (George Cukor)

1932

  1. I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (Mervyn Le Roy)
  2. LOVE ME TONIGHT (Rouben Mamoulian)
  3. RED DUST (Victor Fleming)
  4. FREAKS (Tod Browning)
  5. SHANGHAI EXPRESS (Josef von Sternberg)
  6. VAMPYR (Carl Dreyer)
  7. I WAS BORN, BUT... (Yasujiro Ozu)
  8. BLESSED EVENT (Roy Del Ruth)
  9. TROUBLE IN PARADISE (Ernst Lubitsch)
  10. THE SIGN OF THE CROSS (Cecil B. DeMille)

1931

  1. M (Fritz Lang)
  2. THE PUBLIC ENEMY (William A. Wellman)
  3. TABU (F.W. Murnau)
  4. BLONDE CRAZY (Roy Del Ruth)
  5. THE LAST FLIGHT (William Dieterle)
  6. MONKEY BUSINESS (Norman Z. McLeod)
  7. CITY LIGHTS (Charles Chaplin)
  8. SAFE IN HELL (William A. Wellman)
  9. CITY STREETS (Rouben Mamoulian)
  10. LE MILLION (René Clair)

1930

  1. EARTH (Alexander Dovzhenko)
  2. MOROCCO (Josef von Sternberg)
  3. ANIMAL CRACKERS (Victor Heerman)
  4. MONTE CARLO (Ernst Lubitsch)
  5. PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (Robert Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer)
  6. BEAUTY PRIZE (Augusto Genina)
  7. LAUGHTER (Harry d'Abbabie d'Arrast)
  8. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (Lewis Milestone)
  9. LITTLE CAESAR (Mervyn LeRoy)
  10. ABSCHIED (Robert Siodmak)

1929

  1. THE IRON MASK (Allan Dwan)
  2. PANDORA'S BOX (G.W. Pabst)
  3. HARBOUR DRIFT (Leo Mittler)
  4. THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Dziga Vertov)
  5. THE GODLESS GIRL (Cecil B. DeMille)
  6. BROADWAY BABIES (Mervyn LeRoy)

1928

  1. THE CROWD (King Vidor)
  2. THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg)
  3. THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Dreyer)
  4. L'ARGENT (Marcel L'Herbier)
  5. THE MYSTERIOUS LADY (Fred Niblo)
  6. SHOW PEOPLE (King Vidor)
  7. WEST OF ZANZIBAR (Tod Browning)
  8. STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Charles Reisner)
  9. THE WIND (Victor Sjostrom)
  10. THE CIRCUS (Charles Chaplin)

Honourable Mention (ranked): STORM OVER ASIA (Vsevolod Pudovkin)

1927

  1. SUNRISE (F.W. Murnau)
  2. METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang)
  3. BERLIN, SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (Walter Ruttman)
  4. THE KID BROTHER (Ted Wilde)
  5. BED AND SOFA (Abram Room)
  6. THE LOVE OF JEANNE NEY (G.W. Pabst)
  7. THE UNKNOWN (Tod Browning)
  8. OCTOBER (Sergei Eisenstein)

1926

  1. MOTHER (Vsevolod Pudovkin)
  2. FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE (Sam Taylor)
  3. EXIT SMILING (Sam Taylor)
  4. THE BLACKBIRD (Tod Browning)
  5. THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
  6. MANTRAP (Victor Fleming)

1925

  1. THE GOLD RUSH (Charles Chaplin)
  2. SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton)
  3. VARIETE (E.A. Dupont)
  4. STRIKE (Sergei Eisenstein)
  5. THE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (Sergei Eisenstein)
  6. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Rupert Julian)
  7. TUMBLEWEEDS (William S. Hart & King Baggot)

1924

  1. SHERLOCK JUNIOR (Buster Keaton)
  2. GREED (Erich Von Stroheim)
  3. THE NAVIGATOR (Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp)
  4. GIRL SHY (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
  5. HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (Victor Sjostrom)

up to 1923

  1. THE OUTLAW AND HIS WIFE (Victor Sjostrom, 1918)
  2. INTOLERANCE (D.W. Griffith, 1916)
  3. THE PENALTY (Wallace Worsley, 1920)
  4. SAFETY LAST (Fred Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, 1923)
  5. NOSFERATU (F.W. Murnau, 1922)
  6. THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (Victor Sjostrom, 1921)
  7. THE STREET (Karl Grune, 1923)
  8. THE OYSTER PRINCESS (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)
  9. WHY WORRY? (Fred Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, 1923)
  10. OUR HOSPITALITY (Buster Keaton & John G. Blystone, 1923)