In chronological order:

2010

The Kids Are All Right (dir. Lisa Cholodenko)
A Prophet (dir. Jacques Audiard)
The Ghost Writer (dir. Roman Polanski)
The Millennium Trilogy:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män Som Hatar Kvinnor) (dir. Niels Arden Oplev)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan Som Lekte Med Elden) (dir. Daniel Alfredson)
Farewell (dir. Christian Carion)
Temple Grandin (dir. Mick Jackson)
Greenberg (dir. Noah Baumbach)
I Am Love (dor. Luca Guadagnino)
Toy Story 3 (dir. Lee Unkrich)
The Secret in their Eyes (dir. Juan José Campanella)
Please Give (dir. Nicole Holofcener)
Salt (dir. Phillip Noyce)
Home (dir. Ursula Meier)
Fish Tank (dir. Andrea Arnold)
Mr. Nobody (dir. Jaco Van Dormael)
Mary and Max. (dir. Adam Elliot)
Mother (dir. Joon-ho Bong)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (dir. Banksy)
Winter’s Bone (dir. Debra Granik)
A Town Called Panic (dir. Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar)
The Maid (dir. Sebastián Silva)
Inception (dir. Christopher Nolan)
I Killed My Mother (dir. Xavier Dolan)
Idiots and Angels (dir. Bill Plympton)
Wild Grass (dir. Alain Resnais)
Agora (dir. Alejandro Amenábar)
Shutter Island (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Taxidermia (dir. György Pálfi)
Cyrus (dir. Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass)
Despicable Me (dir. Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud)
The Other Guys (dir. Adam McKay)
Alice in Wonderland (dir. Tim Burton)

2009

Moon (dir. Duncan Jones)
A Serious Man (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Goodbye Solo (dir. Ramin Bahrani)
In the Loop (dir. Armando Iannucci)
Inglourious Basterds (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Villa Amalia (dir. Benoît Jacquot)
(500) Days of Summer (dir. Marc Webb)
Broken Embraces (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
Nightwatching | Rembrandt’s J’Accuse… (dir. Peter Greenaway)
The Beaches of Agnès (dir. Agnès Varda)
For A Son (dir. Alix De Maistre)
Antichrist (dir. Lars von Trier)
The Hurt Locker (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
Disgrace (dir. Steve Jacobs)
Julia (dir. Erick Zonca)
Gomorrah (dir. Matteo Garrone)
Polytechnique (dir. Denis Villeneuve)
Adventureland (dir. Greg Mottola)
The White Ribbon (dir. Michael Haneke)
Summer Hours (dir. Olivier Assayas)
An Education (dir. Lone Scherfig)
The Girlfriend Experience | The Informant! (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Coraline (dir. Henry Selick)
District 9 (dir. Neill Blomkamp)
Collapse (dir. Chris Smith)
Capitalism: A Love Story (dir. Michael Moore)
Up (dir. Pete Docter and Bob Peterson)
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans (dir. Werner Herzog)
Two Lovers (dir. James Gray)
Up in the Air (dir. Jason Reitman)
Where the Wild Things Are (dir. Spike Jonze)
Ponyo (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
Silent Light (dir. Carlos Reygadas)
Knowing (dir. Alex Proyas)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (dir. Wes Anderson)
Tokyo Sonata (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Trick ‘r Treat (dir. Michael Dougherty)
A Single Man (dir. Tom Ford)
Revanche (dir. Götz Spielmann)
O’ Horten (dir. Bent Hamer)
Nothing But the Truth (dir. Rod Lurie)
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (dir. Lee Daniels)
Zombieland (dir. Ruben Fleischer)
Munyurangabo (dir. Lee Isaac Chung)
Trucker (dir. James Mottern)
Tulpan (dir. Sergei Dvortsevoy)
Crazy Heart (dir. Scott Cooper)
Avatar (dir. James Cameron)
Lymelife (with The Original Ending – Alternate Ending on DVD, dir. Derick Martini)
Drag Me To Hell (dir. Sam Raimi)
Watchmen (dir. Zack Snyder)

2008

Synecdoche, New York (dir. Charlie Kaufman)
In Bruges (dir. John McDonagh)
The Dark Knight (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Let the Right One In (dir. Tomas Alfredson)
Man on Wire (dir. James Marsh)
Happy-Go-Lucky (dir. Mike Leigh)
XXY (dir. Lucí­a Puenzo)
Milk (dir. Gus Van Sant)
The Fall (dir. Tarsem)
Wendy and Lucy (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
Tell No One (dir. Guillaume Canet)

2008 (revised)

Synecdoche, New York (dir. Charlie Kaufman)
In Bruges (dir. John McDonagh)
The Dark Knight (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Let the Right One In (dir. Tomas Alfredson)
Man on Wire (dir. James Marsh)
Revolutionary Road (dir. Sam Mendes)
Happy-Go-Lucky (dir. Mike Leigh)
XXY (dir. Lucí­a Puenzo)
Milk (dir. Gus Van Sant)
The Edge of Heaven (dir. Fatih Akin)
The Wrestler (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
Silent Light (dir. Carlos Reygadas)
Chop Shop (dir. Ramin Bahrani)
Tell No One (dir. Guillaume Canet)
My Winnipeg (dir. Guy Maddin)
Wendy and Lucy (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
Standard Operating Procedure (dir. Errol Morris)
Doubt (dir. John Patrick Shanley)
Shotgun Stories (dir. Jeff Nichols)
The Class (dir. Philippe Claudel)
The Fall (dir. Tarsem)
A Christmas Tale (dir. Arnaud Desplechin)
Ballast (dir. Lance Hammer)
Encounters at the End of the World (dir. Werner Herzog)
Wall•E (dir. Andrew Stanton)
Sita Sings the Blues (dir. Nina Paley)
Rachel Getting Married (dir. Jonathan Demme)
Iron Man (dir. Jon Favreau)
Kung-Fu Panda (dir. Mark Osborne and John Stevenson)
Che (dir. Steven Sodenbergh)
I’ve Loved You So Long (dir. Philippe Claudel)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (dir. Woody Allen)
Burn After Reading (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
The Flight of the Red Balloon (dir. Hsiao-hsien Hou)
Slumdog Millionaire (dir. Danny Boyle)
Definitely, Maybe (dir. Adam Brooks)
Gran Torino | Changeling (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Troubled Water (dir. Erik Poppe)
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (dir. Marina Zenovich)
Momma’s Man (dir. Azazel Jacobs)
The Reader (dir. Stephen Daldry)

2007

There Will Be Blood (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Zodiac (dir. David Fincher)
Once (dir. John Carney)
Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (dir. Tim Burton)
Ratatouille (dir. Brad Bird)
Brand Upon the Brain! (dir. Guy Maddin)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (dir. Cristian Mungiu)
Black Book (dir. Paul Verhoeven)
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Michael Clayton (dir. Tony Gilroy)
Zoo (dir. Robinson Devor)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (dir. Julian Schnabel)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (dir. Andrew Dominik)
Eastern Promises (dir. David Cronenberg)
The Lookout (dir. Scott Frank)
Grindhouse (dir. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino)
with a nod to Thanksgiving (dir. Eli Roth)
Starting Out in the Evening (dir. Andrew Wagner)
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (dir. Scott Hicks)
No Country for Old Men (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Away from Her (dir. Sarah Polley)
Sicko (dir. Michael Moore)
Persepolis (dir. Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud)
Lake of Fire (dir. Tony Kaye)
You, The Living (dir. Roy Andersson)
Waitress (dir. Adrienne Shelly)
The Savages (dir. Tamara Jenkins)
Charlie Wilson’s War (dir. Mike Nichols)
Hot Fuzz (dir. Edgar Wright)
Juno (dir. Jason Reitman)
Paris, Je T’aime (dir. 22 Filmmakers)
Margo at the Wedding (dir. Noah Baumbach)
Snow Angels (dir. David Gordon Green)
Frownland (dir. Ronald Bronstein)
The Mist (dir Frank Darabont)
In the Valley of Elah (dir. Paul Haggis)
Bridges to Terabithia (dir. Gabor Csupo)
Gone Baby Gone (dir. Ben Affleck)
La Vie en Rose (dir. Olivier Dahan)
No End in Sight (dir. Charles Ferguson)
Terror’s Advocate (dir. Barbet Schroeder)
Into the Wild (dir. Sean Penn)
Hairspray (dir. Adam Shankman)
Romance & Cigarettes (dir. John Turturro)
Atonement (dir. Joe Wright)
The Darjeeling Limited (dir. Wes Anderson)
1408 (dir. Mikael Håfström)
The Great Debaters (dir. Denzel Washington)
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (dir. Seth Gordon)
Shoot ‘Em Up (dir. Michael Davis)
Year of the Dog (dir. Mike White)
The Brave One (dir. Neil Jordon)

2006

Little Children (dir. Todd Field)
Pan’s Labyrinth (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
Children of Men (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
United 93 (dir. Paul Greengrass)
Paprika (dir. Satoshi Kon)
Tristram Shanty: A Cock and Bull Story (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
Man Push Cart (dir. Ramin Bahrani)
The King (dir. James Marsh)
The Descent (dir. Neil Marshall)
The Proposition (dir. John Hillcoat)
The Illusionist (dir. Neil Burger)
The Lives of Others (dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
Babel (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
The Departed (dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Queen (dir. Stephen Frears)
Stranger Than Fiction (dir. Marc Forster)
Little Miss Sunshine (dir. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
(dir. Larry Charles)
Inland Empire (dir. David Lynch)
Flags of Our Fathers | Letters from Iwo Jima (dir. Clint Eastwood)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (dir. Cristi Puiu)
Notes on a Scandal (dir. Richard Eyre)
Joshua (dir. George Ratliff)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (dir. Adam McKay)
Red Road (dir. Andrea Arnold)
Bubble (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
The Last King of Scotland (dir. Kevin Macdonald)
The Notorious Bettie Page (dir. Mary Harron)
Deliver Us from Evil (dir. Amy Berg)
Bug (dir. William Friedkin)
The Bridge (dir. Eric Steel)
Slither (dir. James Gunn)
Joyeux Noel (dir. Christian Carion)
Casino Royale (dir. Martin Campbell)
Blood Diamond (dir. Edward Zwick)
Edmond (dir. Stuart Gordon)
Marie Antoinette (dir. Sofia Coppola)
A Prairie Home Companion (dir. Robert Altman)
Half Nelson (dir. Ryan Fleck)
This Is England (dir. Shane Meadows)
Lassie (dir. Charles Sturridge)
Come Early Morning (dir. Joey Lauren Adams)
Old Joy (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
12 and Holding (dir. Michael Cuesta)
Monster House (dir. Gil Kenan)
Fast Food Nation | A Scanner Darkly (dir. Richard Linklater)
The Namesake (dir. Mira Nair)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (dir. Ken Loach)
Brick (dir. Rian Johnson)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (dir. Tom Tykwer)
Hollywoodland (dir. Allen Coulter)
Sherrybaby (dir. Laurie Collyer)
Strangers with Candy (dir. Paul Dinello)
Idiocracy (dir. Mike Judge)
Manderlay (dir. Lars von Trier)
Water (dir. Deepa Mehta)
This Film Is Not Yet Rated (dir. Kirby Dick)

2005

Capote (dir. Bennett Miller)
A History of Violence (dir. David Cronenberg)
The Best of Youth (dir. Marco Tullio Giordana)
Schultze Gets The Blues (dir. Michael Schorr)
Sin City (dir. Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (dir. Miranda July)
Duane Hopwood (dir. Matt Mulhern)
Mysterious Skin (dir. Gregg Araki)
Nine Lives (dir. Rodrigo Garcí­a)
Junebug (dir. Phil Morrison)
The Squid and the Whale (dir. Noah Baumbach)
Brokeback Mountain (dir. Ang Lee)
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (dir. Tommy Lee Jones)
Oldboy (dir. Chan-wook Park)
Munich (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Firecracker (dir. Steve Balderson)
Match Point (dir. Woody Allen)
Tokyo Godfathers (dir. Satoshi Kon)
Batman Begins (dir. Christopher Nolan)
The Weather Man (dir. Gore Verbinski)
Downfall (dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel)
Millions (dir. Danny Boyle)
The 40 Year Old Virgin (dir. Judd Apatow)
Volver (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (dir. Alex Gibney)
Crash (dir. Paul Haggis)
Eve and the Fire Horse (dir. Julia Kwan)
Yes (dir. Sally Potter)
The New World (dir. Terrance Malick)
Good Night, and Good Luck (dir. George Clooney)
Cache (dir. Michael Haneke)
Lord of War (dir. Andrew Niccol)
Thumbsucker (dir. Mike Mills)
Saraband (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Syriana (dir. Stephen Gaghan)
Three… Extremes (dir. Fruit Chan “Dumplings”, Chan-wook Park “Cut”, Takashi Miike “Box”)
Hard Candy (dir. David Slade)
L’enfant (dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (dir. Nick Park)
The Matador (dir. Richard Shepard)
Grizzly Man (dir. Werner Herzog)
North Country (dr. Niki Caro)
The Upside of Anger (dir. Mike Binder)
Hustle & Flow (dir. Craig Brewer)
King Kong (dir. Peter Jackson)
Three Times (dir. Hsiao-hsien Hou)
Lassie (dir. Charles Sturridge)
Thieves of Innocence (dir. Paul Arcand)
Murderball (dir. Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro)
Walk the Line (dir. James Mangold)
Pride & Prejudice (dir. Joe Wright)
Jarhead (dir. Sam Mendes)
Prime (dir. Ben Younger)
Where the Truth Lies (dir. Atom Egoyan)
March of the Penguins (dir. Luc Jacquet)
In Her Shoes (dir. Curtis Hanson)

Honourable Selection: The “Up” Documentaries

49 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 2005)
42 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 1998)
35 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 1991)
28 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 1984)
21 Up (dir. Michael Apted, 1977)
7 Plus Seven (dir. Michael Apted, 1970)
Seven Up! (dir. Paul Almond, 1964)

2004

Kill Bill Vol. I & II (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
The Fog of War (dir. Errol Morris)
Kinsey (dir. Bill Condon)
Spiderman 2 (dir. Sam Raimi)
Ripley’s Game (dir. Liliana Cavani)
Million Dollar Baby (dir. Clint Eastwood)
The Incredibles (dir. Brad Bird)
Baadasssss! (dir. Mario Van Peebles)
Finding Nemo (dir. Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich)
Vera Drake (dir. Mike Leigh)
Closer (dir. Mike Nichols)
Hotel Rwanda (dir. Terry George)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (dir. Michael Moore)
The Aviator (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Sideways (dir. Alexander Payne)
Young Adam (dir. David Mackenzie)
Before Sunset (dir. Richard Linklater)
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (dir. Niels Mueller)
Moolaadé (dir. Ousmane Sembene)
A Home at the End of the World (dir. Michael Mayer)
3-Iron (dir. Ki-duk Kim)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (dir. Michel Gondry)
King of the Corner (dir. Peter Riegert)
Undertow (dir. David Gordon Green)
House of Flying Daggers (dir. Yimou Zhang)
Maria Full of Grace (dir. Joshua Marston)
Brothers (dir. Susanne Bier)
Melinda and Melinda (dir. Woody Allen)
Primer (dir. Shane Carruth)
When Will I Be Loved (dir. James Toback)
Spartan (dir. David Mamet)
Down to the Bone (dir. Debra Granik)
The Woodsman (dir. Nicole Kassell)

2003

The Son (dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
The Barbarian Invasions (dir. Denys Arcand)
Lost in Translation (dir. Sofia Coppola)
City of God (dir. Fernando Meirelles)
Whale Rider (dir. Niki Caro)
American Splendor (dir. Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini)
House of Sand and Fog (dir. Vadim Perelman)
Northfork (dir. Michael and Mark Polish)
The Man on the Train (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Matchstick Men (dir. Ridley Scott)
Monster (dir. Patty Jenkins)
The Five Obstructions (dir. Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (dir. Peter Webber)
The Triplets of Belleville (dir. Sylvain Chomet)
May (dir. Lucky McKee)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring (dir. Ki-duk Kim)
School of Rock (dir. Richard Linklater)
Mystic River (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (dir. Peter Weir)
All the Real Girls (dir. David Gordon Green)
The Station Agent (dir. Thomas McCarthy)
The Saddest Music in the World (dir. Guy Maddin)
Touching The Void (dir. Kevin Macdonald)
Japanese Story (dir. Sue Brooks)
Thirteen (dir. Catherine Hardwicke)
The Shape of Things (dir. Neil Labute)
The Company (dir. Robert Altman)
Bad Santa (dir. Terry Zwigoff)
Dogville (dir. Lars von Trier)
Love Actually (dir. Richard Curtis)
The Cooler (dir. Wayne Kramer)
Together (dir. Kaige Chen)
The Mother (dir. Roger Michell)
The Return (dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev)
Free Radicals (dir. Barbara Albert)
Down with Love (dir. Peyton Reed)
Elephant (dir. Gus Van Sant)
The Dreamers (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (dir. Joe Dante)
The Matrix Reloaded (dir. Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski)
Open Water (dir. Chris Kentis)
Hulk (dir. Ang Lee)
Osama (dir. Siddiq Barmak)
Elf (dir. Jon Favreau)
Swimming Pool (dir. François Ozon)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (dir. Peter Jackson)
The Last Samurai (dir. Edward Zwick)
The Corporation (dir. Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott)

2002

Adaptation. (dir. Spike Jonze)
Punch Drunk Love (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Spirited Away (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
Lovely and Amazing (dir. Nicole Holofcener)
Invincible (dir. Werner Herzog)
13 Conversations About One Thing (dir. Jill Sprecher)
The Grey Zone (dir. Tim Blake Nelson)
Songs From The Second Floor (dir. Roy Andersson)
Frailty (dir. Bill Paxton)
Talk To Her (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
Last Orders (dir. Fred Schepisi)
Auto Focus (dir. Paul Schrader)
The Quiet American | Rabbit Proof Fence (dir. Phillip Noyce)
Y Tu Mamá También (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
Bowling for Columbine (dir. Michael Moore)
Tully (dir. Hilary Birmingham)
All or Nothing (dir. Mike Leigh)
The Man from Elysian Fields (dir. George Hickenlooper)
One Hour Photo (dir. Mark Romanek)
25th Hour (dir. Spike Lee)
Minority Report (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Frida (dir. Julie Taymore)
Changing Lanes (dir. Roger Michell)
The Kid Stays in the Pictures (dir. Nanette Burstein)
About Schmidt (dir. Alexander Payne)
In America (dir. Jim Sheridan)
Ivansxtc. (dir. Bernard Rose)
Dirty Pretty Things (dir. Stephen Frears)
About a Boy (dir. Chris Weitz)
Raising Victor Vargas (dir. Peter Sollett)
Solaris (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Far From Heaven (dir. Todd Haynes)
Femme Fatale (dir. Brian DePalma)
The Good Girl (dir. Miguel Arteta)
The Pianist (dir. Roman Polanski)
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (dir. Laetitia Colombani)
Irreversible (dir. Gaspar Noé)
The Hours (dir. Stephen Daldry)
Better Luck Tomorrow (dir. Justin Lin)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (dir. George Clooney)
Signs (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
24 Hour Party People (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
Insomnia (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Metropolis (dir. Rintaro)
The Cat Returns (dir. Hiroyuki Morita)
Secretary (dir. Steven Shainberg)
Eight Legged Freaks (dir. Ellory Elkayem)
Pumpkin (dir. Anthony Abrams and Adam Larson Broder)
Secret Things (dir. Jean-Claude Brisseau)
8 Women (dir. François Ozon)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (dir. Chan-wook Park)
Hukkle (dir. György Pálfi)

2001

Wit (dir. Mike Nichols)
Mulholland Drive (dir. David Lynch)
Ghost World (dir. Terry Zwigoff)
Innocence (dir. Paul Cox)
Waking Life (dir. Richard Linklater)
In The Bedroom (dir. Todd Field)
Gosford Park (dir. Robert Altman)
Storytelling (dir. Todd Solondz)
The Piano Teacher (dir. Michael Haneke)
A Beautiful Mind (dir. Ron Howard)
The Royal Tenenbaums (dir. Wes Anderson)
Moulin Rouge! (dir. Baz Luhrmann)
Fat Girl (dir. Catherine Breillat)
Monster’s Ball (dir. Marc Forster)
Millenium Actress (dir. Satoshi Kon)
The Majestic (dir. Frank Darabont)
Bully (dir. Larry Clark)
Donnie Darko (dir. Richard Kelly)
Lost and Delirious (dir. Léa Pool)
Metropolis (dir. Rintaro)
How I Killed My Father (dir. Anne Fontaine)
Amelie (dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (dir. Zacharias Kunuk)
Monsters Inc. (dir. Pete Docter)
Joy Ride (dir. John Dahl)
The Pledge (dir. Sean Penn)
From Hell (dir. Albert and Allen Hughes)
Me Without You (dir. Sandra Goldbacher)
Spy Kids (dir. Robert Rodriguez)
The Man Who Wasn’t There (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Shrek (dir. Andrew Adamson)
The Others (dir. Alejandro Amenábar)
Winged Migration (dir. Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud)
The Cat’s Meow (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
Visitor Q (dir. Takashi Miike)

2000

Werckmeister Harmonies (dir. Béla Tarr)
You Can Count On Me (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)
American Psycho (dir. Mary Harron)
Panic (dir. Henry Bromell)
The Terrorist (dir. Santosh Sivan)
Yi Yi (dir. Edward Yang)
Shadow of the Vampire (dir. E. Elias Merhige)
Girl on the Bridge (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Almost Famous (dir. Cameron Crowe)
Quills (dir. Philip Kaufman)
Requiem for a Dream (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
Traffic (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
George Washington (dir. David Gordon Green)
Wonder Boys (dir. Curtis Hanson)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (dir. Ang Lee)
Unbreakable (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Memento (dir. Christopher Nolan)
Dinner Rush (dir. Bob Giraldi)
Chicken Run (dir. Nick Park)
The Claim (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
Amores Perros (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu)
The Cell (dir. Tarsem)
My Dog Skip (dir. Jay Russell)
Diamond Men (dir. Dan Cohen)
Under the Sand (dir. François Ozon)
The Contender (dir. Rob Lurie)
Faithless (dir. Liv Ullmann)
The Emperor’s New Groove (dir. Mark Dindal)
The Dish (dir. Rob Sitch)
In the Mood for Love (dir. Kar Wai Wong)
Maelström (dir. Denis Villeneuve)
High Fidelity (dir. Stephen Frears)
Best in Show (dir. Christopher Guest)
Pollock (dir. Ed Harris)
Dancer in the Dark (dir. Lars von Trier)
Cast Away (The Island Scenes Only, dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Dr. T & the Women (dir. Robert Altman)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (dir. Joel Coen)

1999

Being John Malkovich (dir. Spike Jonze)
The Iron Giant (dir. Brad Bird)
Magnolia (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
After Life (dir. Hirokazu Koreeda)
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter Jr. (dir. Errol Morris)
The War Zone (dir. Tim Roth)
Election (dir. Alexander Payne)
Boys Don’t Cry (dir. Kimberly Peirce)
Toy Story 2 (dir. John Lasseter and Ash Brannon)
Titus (dir. Julie Taymor)
American Beauty (dir. Sam Mendes)
Three Kings (dir. David O. Russell)
Eyes Wide Shut (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
All About My Mother (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
Sleepy Hollow (dir. Tim Burton)
Ravenous (dir. Antonia Bird)
The Virgin Suicides (dir. Sofia Coppola)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (dir. Anthony Minghella)
Fight Club (dir. David Fincher)
Ratcatcher (dir. Lynne Ramsay)
Bringing Out the Dead (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Twin Falls Idaho (dir. Michael and Mark Polish)
Dogma (dir. Kevin Smith)
Topsy-Turvy (dir. Mike Leigh)
Wonderland (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
The Green Mile (dir. Frank Darabont)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (dir. Trey Parker)
eXistenZ (dir. David Cronenberg)
The Sixth Sense (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Rosetta (dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Guinevere (dir. Audrey Wells)
The General’s Daughter (dir. Simon West)
October Sky (dir. Joe Johnston)
The Straight Story (dir. David Lynch)
The Matrix (dir. Andy and Larry Wachowski)
The Big Kahuna (dir. John Swanbeck)
Bowfinger (dir. Frank Oz)
Romance (dir. Catherine Breillat)
Dick (dir. Andrew Fleming)
Julien Donkey-Boy (dir. Harmony Korine)

1998

A Simple Plan (dir. Sam Raimi)
Dark City (dir. Alex Proyas)
Love and Death on Long Island (dir. Richard Kwietniowski)
The Truman Show (dir. Peter Weir)
Pleasantville (dir. Gary Ross)
Babe: Pig in the City (dir. George Miller)
Affliction (dir. Paul Schrader)
Rushmore (dir. Wes Anderson)
Antz (dir. Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson)
Happiness (dir. Todd Solondz)
Hilary and Jackie (dir. Anand Tucker)
Gods and Monsters (dir. Bill Condon)
Saving Private Ryan (dir. Steven Spielberg)
The Red Violin (dir. (dir. François Girard)
The Prince of Egypt (dir. Brenda Chapman and Steve Hickner)
Pi (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
Life is Beautiful (dir. Roberto Begnini)
Claire Dolan (dir. Lodge Kerrigan)
Your Friends And Neighbors (dir. Neil LaBute)
The Spanish Prisoner (dir. David Mamet)
The Big Lebowski (dir. Joel Coen)
Nil by Mouth (dir. Gary Oldman)
Bulworth (dir. Warren Beatty)
The Thin Red Line (dir. Terrance Malick)
High Art (dir. Lisa Cholodenko)
Primary Colors (dir. Mike Nichols)
Living Out Loud (dir. Richard LaGravenese)
Perfect Blue (dir. Satoshi Kon)
Run Lola Run (dir. Tom Tykwer)
Insomnia (dir. Erik Skjoldbjaerg)
Out of Sight (dir. Steven Soderbergh)

1997

Gattaca (dir. Andrew Niccol)
Boogie Nights (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
L.A. Confidential (dir. Curtis Hanson)
In The Company of Men (dir. Neil LaBute)
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (dir. Errol Morris)
Children of Heaven (dir. Majid Majidi)
The Sweet Hereafter (dir. Atom Egoyan)
Men In Black (dir. Barry Sonnenfeld)
The Ice Storm (dir. Ang Lee)
Wag the Dog (dir. Barry Levinson)
Jackie Brown (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Princess Mononoke (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
The Apostle (dir. Robert Duvall)
Maborosi (dir. Hirokazu Kore-Eda)
Eve’s Bayou (dir. Kasi Lemmons)
Sick: The Life & Death Of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (dir. Kirby Dick)
Contact (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
Rosewood (dir. John Singleton)
The Butcher Boy (dir. Neil Jordan)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (dir. Jay Roach)
Funny Games (dir. Michael Haneke)
Kissed (dir. Lynne Stopkewich)
Kundun (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Chasing Amy (dir. Kevin Smith)
Ponette (dir. Jacques Doillon)
Shiloh (dir. Dale Rosenbloom)
Good Will Hunting (dir. Gus Van Sant)
Clockwatchers (dir. Jill Sprecher)
Career Girls (dir. Mike Leigh)
Breast Men (dir. Lawrence O’Neil)
Cube (dir. Vincenzo Natali)
Buffalo ’66 (dir. Vincent Gallo)
Taste of Cherry (dir. Abbas Kiarostami)
Shall We Dance (dir. Masayuki Suo)
Titanic (dir. James Cameron)
Bliss (dir. Lance Young)
The Full Monty (dir. Peter Cattaneo)
Anastasia (dir. Don Bluth)
As Good as It Gets (dir. James L. Brooks)
Microcosmos: Le Peuple de L’herbe (dir. Claude Nuridsany)
SubUrbia (dir. Richard Linklater)
Cube (dir. Vincenzo Natali)
My Best Friend’s Wedding (dir. PJ Hogan)

1996

Fargo (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Shine (dir. Scott Hicks)
Breaking the Waves (dir. Lars von Trier)
The People vs. Larry Flint (dir. Miloš Forman)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (dir. Todd Solondz)
Secrets and Lies (dir. Mike Leigh)
Sydney (aka Hard Eight) (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Bound (dir. Andy and Larry Wachowski)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (dir. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise)
Sling Blade (dir. Billy Bob Thornton)
Big Night (dir. Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott)
Freeway (dir. Matthew Bright)
The English Patient (dir. Anthony Minghella)
Lone Star (dir. John Sayles)
Hamlet (dir. Kenneth Branagh)
La Promesse (dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne)
Matilda (dir. Danny DeVito)
The Pillow Book (dir. Peter Greenaway)
The Frighteners (dir. Peter Jackson)
Walking and Talking (dir. Nicole Holofcener)
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (dir. Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky)
Looking for Richard (dir. Al Pacino)
Ridicule (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Courage Under Fire (dir. Edward Zwick)
Fear (dir. James Foley)
Bottle Rocket (dir. Wes Anderson)
Kissed (dir. Lynne Stopkewich)
The Portrait of a Lady (dir. Jane Campion)
Primal Fear (dir. Gregory Hoblit)
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (dir. Mike Judge)
Blood and Wine (dir. Bob Rafelson)
Trainspotting (dir. Danny Boyle)
That Thing You Do! (dir. Tom Hanks)
Fly Away Home (dir. Carroll Ballard)
Mother (dir. Albert Brooks)

1995

To Die For (dir. Gus Van Sant)
Crumb (dir. Terry Zwigoff)
Dolores Claiborne (dir. Taylor Hackford)
Dead Man Walking (dir. Tim Robbins)
Se7en (dir. David Fincher)
Leaving Las Vegas (dir. Mike Figgis)
Casino (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Nixon (dir. Oliver Stone)
Whisper of the Heart (dir. Yoshifumi Kondo)
Exotica (dir. Atom Egoyan)
La Cérémonie (dir. Claude Chabrol)
Muriel’s Wedding (dir. P.J. Hogan)
Strange Days (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
Richard III (dir. Richard Loncraine)
Babe (dir. Chris Noonan)
Toy Story (dir. John Lasseter)
Mr. Holland’s Opus (dir. Stephen Herek)
Carrington (dir. Christopher Hampton)
Before Sunrise (dir. Richard Linklater)
Kicking and Screaming (dir. Noah Baumbach)
Die Hard with a Vengeance (dir. John McTiernan)
Safe (dir. Todd Haynes)
Kids (dir. Larry Clark)
Margaret’s Museum (dir. Mort Ransen)
Rob Roy (dir. Michael Caton-Jones)
Twelve Monkeys (dir. Terry Gilliam)
A Walk in the Clouds (dir. Alfonso Arau)
The American President (dir. Rob Reiner)
A Little Princess (dir. Alfonso Cuarón)
The Secret of Roan Inish (dir. John Sayles)
Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (dir. Nick Broomfield)
Clueless (dir. Amy Heckerling)
Apollo 13 (dir. Ron Howard)
Dead Presidents (dir. Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes)
Heat (dir. Michael Mann)
Ghost in the Shell (dir. Mamoru Oshii)
La Haine (dir. Mathieu Kassovitz)

1994

Pulp Fiction (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
The Shawskank Redemption (dir. Frank Darabont)
Speed (dir. Jan de Bont)
The Last Seduction (dir. John Dahl)
The Hudsucker Proxy (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Ed Wood (dir. Tim Burton)
Heavenly Creatures (dir. Peter Jackson)
Household Saints (dir. Nancy Savoca)
32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (dir. François Girard)
Hoop Dreams (dir. Steve James)
Natural Born Killers (dir. Oliver Stone)
Forrest Gump (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
The Lion King (dir. Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff)
Vanya on 42nd Street (dir. Louis Malle)
Quiz Show (dir. Robert Redford)
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (dir. Neil Jordon)
Clerks (dir. Kevin Smith)
Nobody’s Fool (dir. Robert Benton)
Fun (dir. Rafal Zielinski)
Red Rock West (dir. John Dahl)
The Mask (dir. Chuck Russell)
Nobody’s Fool (dir. Robert Benton)
Serial Mom (dir. John Waters)
Fresh (dir. Boaz Yakin)
The Jungle Book (dir. Stephen Sommers)
Little Women (dir. Gillian Armstrong)
When a Man Loves a Woman (dir. Luis Mandoki)
The Paper (dir. Ron Howard)
Black Beauty (dir. Caroline Thompson)
Wolf (dir. Mike Nichols)
Dumb and Dumber (dir. Peter and Bobby Farrelly)
The New Age (dir. Michael Tolklin)
The Shadow (dir. Russell Mulcahy)
Shallow Grave (dir. Danny Boyle)
The Madness of King George (dir. Nicholas Hytner)

Honourable Selection: “Three Colors”

Red (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
White (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
Blue (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993)

1993

Schindler’s List (dir. Steven Speilberg)
The Joy Luck Club (dir. Wayne Wang)
The Fugitive (dir. Andrew Davis)
Shadowlands (dir. Richard Attenborough)
Matinee (dir. Joe Dante)
Naked (dir. Mike Leigh)
Short Cuts (dir. Robert Altman)
Menace II Society (dir. Albert and Allen Hughes)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (dir. Henry Selick)
Baraka (dir. Ron Fricke)
The Age of Innocence (dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Piano (dir. Jane Campion)
Groundhog Day (dir. Harold Ramis)
Kalifornia (dir. Dominic Sena)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (dir. Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm)
Searching For Bobby Fischer (dir. Steven Zaillian)
The Wrong Trousers (dir. Nick Park)
Army of Darkness (dir. Sam Raimi)
The Remains of the Day (dir. James Ivory)
Addams Family Values (dir. Barry Sonnenfeld)
The Baby of Mâcon (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Dazed and Confused (dir. Richard Linklater)
The Blue Kite (dir. Zhuangzhuang Tian)
Heaven & Earth (dir. Oliver Stone)
Clean, Shaven (dir. Lodge Kerrigan)
In the Line of Fire (dir. Wolfgang Petersen)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (dir. Lasse Hallström)
Dave (dir. Ivan Reitman)
This Boy’s Life (dir. Michael Caton-Jones)
A Perfect World (dir. Clint Eastwood)
True Romance (dir. Tony Scott)

1992

The Player (dir. Robert Altman)
Glenngarry Glen Ross (dir. James Foley)
The Crying Game (dir. Neil Jordan)
Orlando (dir. Sally Potter)
The Hairdresser’s Husband (dir. Patrice Leconte)
Raise The Red Lantern (dir. Yimou Zhang)
Damage (dir. Louis Malle)
Like Water for Chocolate (dir. Alfonso Arau)
One False Move (dir. Carl Franklin)
Unforgiven (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Flirting (dir. John Duigan)
Malcolm X (dir. Spike Lee)
Léolo (dir. Jean-Claude Lauzon)
Bad Lieutenant (dir. Abel Ferrara)
Candyman (dir. Bernard Rose)
Howard’s End (dir. James Ivory)
A League of Their Own (dir. Penny Marshall)
Un Coeur en Hiver (A Heart in Winter) (dir. Claude Sautet)
Aladdin (dir. Ron Clements and John Musker)
Scent of a Woman (dir. Martin Brest)
Wayne’s World (dir. Penelope Spheeris)
Reservoir Dogs (dir. Quentin Tarantino)

1991

Beauty and the Beast (dir. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise)
The Silence of the Lambs (dir. Jonathan Demme)
My Father’s Glory | My Mother’s Castle (dir. Yves Robert)
La Belle Noiseuse (dir. Jacques Rivette)
Barton Fink (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
JFK (dir. Oliver Stone)
The Rapture (dir. Michael Tolkin)
Grand Canyon (dir. Lawrence Kasdan)
The Double Life of Veronique (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The Man In The Moon (dir. Robert Mulligan)
Homicide (dir. David Mamet)
A Woman’s Tale (dir. Paul Cox)
Dogfight (dir. Nancy Savoca)
Terminator 2: Judgment day (dir. James Cameron)
Dead Again (dir. Kenneth Branagh)
Prospero’s Books (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Naked Lunch (dir. David Cronenberg)
A Brief History of Time (dir. Errol Morris)
Slacker (dir. Richard Linklater)
Life Is Sweet (dir. Mike Leigh)
Delicatessen (Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
The Commitments (dir. Alan Parker)

1990

Monsieur Hire (dir. Patrice Leconte)
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Goodfellas (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (dir. Uli Edel)
Darkman (dir. Sam Raimi)
The Grifters (dir. Stephen Frears)
Reversal of Fortune (dir. Barbet Schroeder)
Edward Scissorhands (dir. Tim Burton)
Santa Sangre (dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Days of Being Wild (dir. Kar Wai Wong)
Sweetie (dir. Jane Campion)
Vincent and Theo (dir. Robert Altman)
After Dark, My Sweet (dir. James Foley)
Metropolitan (dir. Whit Stillman)
Pump Up the Volume (dir. Allan Moyle)
An Angel at My Table (dir. Jane Champion)
Miller’s Crossing (dir. Joel Coen)
Jacob’s Ladder (dir. Adrian Lyne)
Europa Europa (dir. Lars von Trier)
The Reflecting Skin (dir. Philip Ridley)
La Femme Nikita (dir. Luc Besson)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (dir. Joe Dante)
Henry & June (dir. Philip Kaufman)
Joe Versus the Volcano (dir. John Patrick Shanley)
Cyrano de Bergerac (dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
Arachnophobia (dir. Frank Marshall)
Tremors (dir. Ron Underwood)

Honourable Selection: “The Decalogue”

Decalogue X (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue IX (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue VIII (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue VII (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue VI (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue V (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue IV (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue III (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue II (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1990)
Decalogue I (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1989)
“A Short Film About Love” (80 min. version of Decalogue VI, 1988)
“A Short Film About Killing” (80 min. version of Decalogue V, 1988)

1989

Do the Right Thing (dir. Spike Lee)
The Seventh Continent (dir. Michael Haneke)
Born on the Fourth of July (dir. Oliver Stone)
The War of the Roses (dir. Danny DeVito)
Say Anything! (dir. Cameron Crowe)
Drugstore Cowboy (dir. Gus Van Sant)
Roger and Me (dir. Michael Moore)
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (dir. Jim Sheridan)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (dir. Woody Allen)
Batman (dir. Tim Burton)
Driving Miss Daisy (dir. Bruce Beresford)
Sex, Lies and Videotape (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
The Little Mermaid (dir. Ron Clements and John Musker)
When Harry Met Sally… (dir. Rob Reiner)
Kiki’s Delivery Service (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
Parents (dir. Bob Balaban)
The Abyss (dir. James Cameron)

1988

Talk Radio (dir. Oliver Stone)
Grave of the Fireflies (dir. Isao Takahata)
The Vanishing (dir. George Sluizer)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
The Thin Blue Line (dir. Errol Morris)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (dir. Philip Kaufman)
Die Hard (dir. John McTiernan)
Dead Ringers (dir. David Cronenberg)
High Hopes (dir. Mike Leigh)
Beetlejuice (dir. Tim Burton)
Paperhouse (dir. Bernard Rose)
Drowning by Numbers (dir. Peter Greenaway)
My Neighbor Totoro (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
A Cry in the Dark (dir. Fred Schepisi)
Bull Durham (dir. Ron Shelton)
The Accidental Tourist (dir. Lawrence Kasdan)
Working Girl (dir. Mike Nichols)
Big (dir. Penny Marshall)
Akira (dir. Katsuhiro Otomo)
Mississippi Burning (dir. Alan Parker)
The Accused (dir. Jonathan Kaplan)

1987

Housekeeping (dir. Bill Forsyth)
Babette’s Feast (dir. Gabriel Axel)
House of Games (dir. David Mamet)
Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh (dir. Paul Cox)
Wings of Desire (dir. Wim Wenders)
Raising Arizona (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
The Untouchables (dir. Brian De Palma)
The Princess Bride (dir. Rob Reiner)
Broadcast News (dir. James L. Brooks)
The Last Emperor (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
Wall Street (dir. Oliver Stone)
The Belly of an Architect (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (dir. Louis Malle)
Moonstruck (dir. Norman Jewison)
Full Metal Jacket (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (dir. John Hughes)
The Witches of Eastwick (dir. George Miller)
Near Dark (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
Innerspace (dir. Joe Dante)
Withnail and I (dir. Bruce Robinson)
Robocop (dir. Paul Verhoeven)
Hamburger Hill (dir. John Irvin)
Evil Dead II (dir. Sam Raimi)
Hope and Glory (dir. John Boorman)
Lethal Weapon (dir. Richard Donner)

1986

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (dir. John McNaughton)
The Fly (dir. David Cronenberg)
Hannah and Her Sisters (dir. Woody Allen)
Sid and Nancy (dir. Alex Cox)
‘Round Midnight (dir. Bertrand Tavernier)
Aliens (dir. James Cameron)
True Stories (dir. David Byrne)
The Big Easy (dir. Jim McBride)
Vagabond (dir. Agnès Varda)
Blue Velvet (dir. David Lynch)
Platoon (dir. Oliver Stone)
Laputa: Castle in the Sky (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
Hoosiers (dir. David Anspaugh)
River’s Edge (dir. Tim Hunter)
The Great Mouse Detective (dir. Ron Clements and Burny Mattinson)
Little Shop of Horrors (dir. Frank Oz)
Mona Lisa (dir. Neil Jordan)
Peggy Sue Gets Married (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (dir. John Hughes)
Ruthless People (dir. Jim Abrahams)

1985

Mishima (dir. Paul Schrader)
A Zed and Two Noughts (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Come and See (dir. Elem Klimov)
Ran (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
The Color Purple (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Witness (dir. Peter Weir)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (dir. Woody Allen)
Prizzi’s Honor (dir. John Huston)
Back To The Future (dir. Robert Zemeckis)
After Hours (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Streetwise (dir. Martin Bell)
Re-Animator (dir. Stuart Gordon)
Mask (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
My Life as a Dog (dir. Lasse Hallström)

1984

Amadeus (dir. Miloš Forman)
Stranger Than Paradise (dir. Jim Jarmusch)
Gremlins (dir. Joe Dante)
Paris, Texas (dir. Wim Wenders)
The Terminator (dir. James Cameron)
Once Upon a Time in America (dir. Sergio Leone)
Blood Simple (dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
Secret Honor (dir. Robert Altman)
Ghostbusters (dir. Ivan Reitman)
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (dir. Tim Burton)
This Is Spinal Tap (dir. Rob Reiner)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (dir. Wes Craven)
Stop Making Sense (dir. Jonathan Demme)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (dir. Hayao Miyazaki)

1983

Koyaanisqatsi (dir. Godfrey Reggio)
El Norte (dir. Gregory Nava)
Testament (dir. Lynne Littman)
Moonlighting (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski)
Star 80 (dir. Bob Fosse)
The Right Stuff (dir. Philip Kaufman)
Fanny and Alexander (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Bad Boys (dir. Rick Rosenthal)
A Christmas Story (dir. Bob Clark)
Scarface (dir. Brian Depalma)
Local Hero (dir. Bill Forsyth)
Entre Nous (dir. Diane Kurys)
Terms of Endearment (dir. James L. Brooks)
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (dir. Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam)
Videodrome (dir. David Cronenberg)
The Entity (dir. Sidney J. Furie)
Risky Business (dir. Paul Brickman)

1982

Diva (dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix)
The Verdict (dir. Sidney Lumet)
E.T. (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Fitzcarraldo | Burden of Dreams (dir. Werner Herzog)
Tootsie (dir. Sydney Pollack)
The Secret of NIMH (dir. Don Bluth)
Sophie’s Choice (dir. Alan J. Pakula)
Diner (dir. Barry Levinson)
The Draughtsman’s Contract (dir. Peter Greenaway)
An Officer and A Gentleman (dir. Taylor Hackford)
Creepshow (dir. George A. Romero)
The Thing (dir. John Carpenter)
Blade Runner (dir. Ridley Scott)
Pink Floyd: The Wall (dir. Alan Parker)

1981

Raiders of the Lost Ark (dir. Steven Spielberg)
My Dinner With Andre (dir. Louis Malle)
Mephisto (dir. István Szabó)
Pennies from Heaven (dir. Herbert Ross)
Body Heat (dir. Lawrence Kasdan)
Pixote (dir. Hector Babenco)
Blind Chance (dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Quest for Fire (dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud)
Gregory’s Girl (dir. Bill Forsyth)
The Evil Dead (dir. Sam Raimi)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (dir. Karel Reisz)
Superman II (dir. Richard Lester)
Time Bandits (dir. Terry Gilliam)
Vernon, Florida (dir. Errol Morris)

1980

Raging Bull (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Mon oncle d’Amerique (dir. Alain Resnais)
The Empire Strikes Back (dir. Irvin Kershner)
The Elephant Man (dir. David Lynch)
Kagemusha (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
The Long Good Friday (dir. John Mackenzie)
The Shining (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
The Blues Brothers (dir. John Landis)
The Big Red One (dir. Samuel Fuller)
Ordinary People (dir. Robert Redford)
Atlantic City (dir. Louis Malle)
Airplane (dir. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker)
The Falls (dir. Peter Greenaway)
Altered States (dir. Ken Russell)
Forbidden Zone (dir. Richard Elfman)

1979

Alien (dir. Ridley Scott)
Apocalypse Now (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Manhattan (dir. Woody Allen)
Kramer vs. Kramer (dir. Robert Benton)
Being There (dir. Hal Ashby)
Nosferatu (dir. Werner Herzog)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (dir. Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam)
Vengeance Is Mine (dir. Shohei Imamura)
Scum (dir. Alan Clarke)
The Great Santini (dir. Lewis John Carlino)
The Black Stallion (dir. Carroll Ballard)
The Jerk (dir. Carl Reiner)
Woyzeck (dir. Werner Herzog)

1978

Days of Heaven (dir. Terrance Malick)
Gates of Heaven (dir. Errol Morris)
Halloween (dir. John Carpenter)
Dawn of the Dead (dir. George A. Romero)
Stroszek (dir. Werner Herzog)
Interiors (dir. Woody Allen)
An Unmarried Woman (dir. Paul Mazursky)
Superman (dir. Richard Donner)
The Deer Hunter (dir. Michael Cimino)
National Lampoon’s Animal House (dir. Ivan Reitman)
Grease (dir. Randal Kleiser)

1977

Annie Hall (dir. Woody Allen)
3 Women (dir. Robert Altman)
Hausu (dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi)
Eraserhead (dir. David Lynch)
Killer of Sheep (dir. Charles Burnett)
Star Wars (dir. George Lucas)
That Obscure Object of Desire (dir. Luis Buñuel)
Saturday Night Fever (dir. John Badham)
Harlan County, U.S.A. (dir. Barbara Kopple)
Suspiria (dir. Dario Argento)
In the Realm of the Senses (dir. Nagisa Ôshima)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (dir. Steven Spielberg)
New York, New York (dir. Martin Scorsese)

“(These) go up to eleven”
– Nigel Tufnel

1976

Taxi Driver (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Carrie (dir. Brian De Palma)
Network (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Rocky (dir. Sylvester Stallone)
All the President’s Men (dir. Alan J. Pakula)
The Omen (dir. Richard Donner)
Swept Away…by an unusual destiny in the blue sea of August (dir. Lina Wertmuller)
Obsession (dir. Brian De Palma)
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (dir. Nicolas Gessner)

1975

Nashville (dir. Robert Altman)
Barry Lyndon (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Dog Day Afternoon (dir. Sidney Lumet)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (dir. Miloš Forman)
Jaws (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (dir. Peter Weir)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (dir. Chantal Akerman)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (dir. Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones)
The Stepford Wives (dir. Bryan Forbes)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (dir. Jim Sharman)

1974

The Conversation (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Scenes from a Marriage (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
The Godfather Part II (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Chinatown (dir. Roman Polanski)
Young Frankenstein (dir. Mel Brooks)
My Uncle Antoine (dir. Claude Jutra)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
A Woman Under the Influence (dir. John Cassavetes)
Day for Night (dir. François Truffaut)
Amarcord (dir. Federico Fellini)
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (dir. Tobe Hooper)

1973

Cries and Whispers (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
The Wicker Man (dir. Robin Hardy)
Badlands (dir. Terrance Malick)
The Long Goodbye (dir. Robert Altman)
Mean Streets (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Paper Moon (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
The Exorcist (dir. William Friedkin)
American Graffiti (dir. George Lucas)
Sisters (dir. Brian De Palma)
The Day of the Jackal (dir. Fred Zinnemann)
Don’t Look Now (dir. Nicolas Roeg)

1972

The Godfather (dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (dir. Luis Buñuel)
Aguirre: Wrath of God (dir. Werner Herzog)
Last Tango in Paris (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
Chloe in the Afternoon (dir. Éric Rohmer)
The Other (dir. Robert Mulligan)
Boxcar Bertha (dir. Martin Scorsese)

1971

A Clockwork Orange (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (dir. Robert Altman)
Walkabout (dir. Nicolas Roeg)
Straw Dogs (dir. Sam Peckinpah)
The Beguiled (dir. Don Siegel)
The Last Picture Show (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
Murmur of the Heart (dir. Louis Malle)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (dir. Melvin Van Peebles)
Duel (dir. Steven Spielberg)
The French Connection (dir. William Friedkin)
Bleak Moments (dir. Mike Leigh)
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (dir. Dusan Makavejev)

1970

Patton (dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)
Five Easy Pieces (dir. Bob Rafelson)
M*A*S*H (dir. Robert Altman)
Le Cercle Rouge (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
Le Boucher (dir. Claude Chabrol)
Claire’s Knee (dir. Éric Rohmer)
Wanda (dir. Barbara Loden)
Woodstock (dir. Michael Wadleigh)
The Wild Child (dir. François Truffaut)

1969

Army of Shadows (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
Medium Cool (dir. Haskell Wexler)
Last Summer (dir. Frank Perry)
Midnight Cowboy (dir. John Schlesinger)
My Night at Maud’s (dir. Éric Rohmer)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (dir. Russ Meyers)
El Topo (dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Easy Rider (dir. Dennis Hopper)
The Wild Bunch (dir. Sam Peckinpah)

1968

2001: A Space Odyssey (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
If…. (dir. Lindsay Anderson)
Rosemary’s Baby (dir. Roman Polanski)
Night of the Living Dead (dir. George A. Romero)
Romeo and Juliet (dir. Franco Zeffirelli)
The Producers (dir. Mel Brooks)
Faces (dir. John Cassavetes)

1967

Bonnie and Clyde (dir. Arthur Penn)
Le Samourai (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
In Cold Blood (dir. Richard Brooks)
Cool Hand Luke (dir. Stuart Rosenberg)
Playtime (dir. Jacques Tati)
Belle de Jour (dir. Luis Buñuel)
The Battle of Algiers (dir. Gillo Pontecorvo)
Who’s That Knocking at My Door (dir. Martin Scorsese)
The Jungle Book (dir. Wolfgang Reitherman)
To Sir, with Love (dir. James Clavell)
The Graduate (dir. Mike Nichols)

1966

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (dir. Sergio Leone)
Au Hasard Balthazar (dir. Robert Bresson)
Persona (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Blowup (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (dir. Mike Nichols)
Seconds (dir. John Frankenheimer)
Made in U.S.A (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)

1965

Juliet of the Spirits (dir. Federico Fellini)
The Sound of Music (dir. Robert Wise)
A Patch of Blue (dir. Guy Green)
Repulsion (dir. Roman Polanski)
Doctor Zhivago (dir. David Lean)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (dir. Russ Meyer)
Pierrot le Fou (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)

1964

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(dir. Stanley Kubrick)
My Fair Lady (dir. George Cukor)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (dir. Jacques Demy)
Woman in the Dunes (dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara)
A Hard Day’s Night (dir. Richard Lester)
Fail-Safe (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Mary Poppins (dir. Robert Stevenson)
Kwaidan (dir. Masaki Kobayashi)
Marnie (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

1963

8 ½ (dir. Federico Fellini)
High and Low (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
The Silence (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Contempt (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
The Great Escape (dir. John Sturges)
The Leopard (dir. Luchino Visconti)
The Birds (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

1962

Lawrence of Arabia {dir. David Lean)
Ivan’s Childhood (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Manchurian Candidate (dir. John Frankenheimer)
Jules and Jim (dir. François Truffaut)
My Life to Live (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
To Kill a Mockingbird (dir. Robert Mulligan)
Cape Fear (dir. J. Lee Thompson)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (dir. Robert Aldrich)
Lolita (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (dir. Robert Bresson)
The Miracle Worker (dir. Arthur Penn)
Carnival of Souls (dir. Herk Harvey)

1961

Last Year at Marienbad (dir. Alain Resnais)
La Dolce Vita (dir. Federico Fellini)
Yojimbo (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Through a Glass Darkly (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
The Hustler (dir. Robert Rossen)
Viridiana (dir. Luis Buñuel)
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (dir. Clyde Geronimi and Hamilton Luske)
West Side Story (dir. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins)
The Exiles (dir. Kent MacKenzie)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (dir. Blake Edwards)

Honourable Selection: “The Human Condition”

Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer (dir. Masaki Kobayashi, 1961)
Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (dir. Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)
Human Condition I: No Greater Love (dir. Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)

1960

Psycho (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
The Apartment (dir. Billy Wilder)
Rocco and His Brothers (dir. Luchino Visconti)
Peeping Tom (dir. Michael Powell)
Breathless (dir. Jean-Luc Goddard)
Eyes Without A Face (dir. Georges Franju)
L’avventura (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Virgin Spring (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (dir. Mikio Naruse)
Swiss Family Robinson (dir. Ken Annakin)

1959

The 400 Blows (dir. François Truffaut)
North by Northwest (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Some Like It Hot (dir. Billy Wilder)
Hiroshima Mon Amour (dir. Alain Resnais)
Floating Weeds (dir. Yasujiro Ozu)
Wild Strawberries (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Fires on the Plain (dir. Kon Ichikawa)
Rio Bravo (dir. Howard Hawks)
Anatomy of a Murder (dir. Otto Preminger)
Sleeping Beauty (dir. Clyde Geronimi)
Imitation of Life (dir. Douglas Sirk)

Honourable Selection: “The Apu Trilogy”

Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1959)
Aparajito (The Unvanquished) (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1956)
Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1955)

1958

Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Mon Oncle (dir. Jacques Tati)
Touch of Evil (dir. Orson Welles)
The Big Country (dir. William Wyler)
The Long, Hot Summer (dir. Martin Ritt)

1957

12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet)
Paths of Glory (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
The Seventh Seal (dir. Ingmar Bergman)
What’s Opera, Doc? (dir. Chuck Jones)
Sweet Smell of Success (dir. Alexander Mackendrick)
Witness for the Prosecution (dir. Billy Wilder)

1956

The Searchers (dir. John Ford)
The Bad Seed (dir. Mervyn LeRoy)
The Red Balloon (dir. Albert Lamorisse)
Giant (dir. George Stevens)
Written on the Wind (dir. Douglas Sirk)

1955

Ordet (dir. Carl Dreyer)
Marty (dir. Delbert Mann)
Bob le Flambeur (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)
Lady and the Tramp (dir. Clyde Geronimi)
Rififi (dir. Jules Dassin)
Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (dir. Jacques Tati)
Rebel Without a Cause (dir. Nicholas Ray)
All That Heaven Allows (dir. Douglas Sirk)

1954

Seven Samurai (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Rear Window (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (dir. Jacques Becker)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (dir. Stanley Donen)
La Strada (dir. Federico Fellini)
On the Waterfront (dir. Elia Kazan)
Hobson’s Choice (dir. David Lean)
Twenty-Four Eyes (dir. Keisuke Kinoshita)
A Star Is Born (dir. George Cukor)
Dial M for Murder (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

1953

The Earrings of Madame de… (dir. Max Ophuls)
Tokyo Story (dir. Yasujiro Ozu)
The Big Heat (dir. Fritz Lang)
Ugetsu (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
Beat the Devil (dir. John Huston)
The Band Wagon (dir. Vincente Minnelli)
I Vitelloni (dir. Federico Fellini)
Roman Holiday (dir. William Wyler)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (dir. Howard Hawks)
The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. (dir. Roy Rowland)
Peter Pan (dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske)
Little Fugitive (dir. Ray Ashley)
Calamity Jane (dir. David Butler)

1952

Singin’ in the Rain (dir. Stanley Donen)
Ikiru (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Forbidden Games (dir. Edward Holzman)
Umberto D. (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
The Importance of Being Earnest (dir. Anthony Asquith)

1951

Ace in the Hole (dir. Billy Wilder)
A Streetcar Named Desire (dir. Elia Kazan)
Strangers on a Train (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (dir. Robert Wise)
The African Queen (dir. John Huston)
A Place in the Sun (dir. George Stevens)
An American in Paris (dir. Vincente Minnelli)

1950

Sunset Boulevard (dir. Billy Wilder)
All About Eve (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Rashomon (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
In a Lonely Place (dir. (dir. Nicholas Ray)
Cinderella (dir. Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson)
The Asphalt Jungle (dir. John Huston)

1949

The Third Man (dir. Carol Reed)
The Heiress (dir. William Wyler)
A Letter to Three Wives (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

1948

The Red Shoes (dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
Bicycle Thieves (dir. Vittorio De Sica)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (dir. John Huston)
The Lady from Shanghai (dir. Orson Welles)
Joan of Arc (dir. Victor Fleming)
Duel in the Sun (dir. David O. Selznick)

1947

Out of the Past (dir. Jacques Tourneur)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

1946

Beauty and the Beast (dir. Jean Cocteau)
Notorious (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
It’s a Wonderful Life (dir. Frank Capra)
The Best Years of Our Lives (dir. William Wyler)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (dir. Tay Garnett)

1945

Mildred Pierce (dir. Michael Curtiz)
Detour (dir. Edgar G. Ulmer)

1944

Double Indemnity (dir. Billy Wilder)
Laura (dir. Otto Preminger)
Gaslight (dir. George Cukor)
Since You Went Away (dir. John Cromwell)



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