Master Film List by year

Here is, more or less, every feature film and short I've seen, arranged by year. Shorts (less than 45 minutes) appear in italics. For consistency, I generally use the dates and titles from the Internet Movie Database, although I've consulted some other reference works for primitive cinema, an area in which the IMDb is weak.

1893

  1. Blacksmith Scene (William Heise) 50

1894

  1. Leaving the Factory (one horse) (Louis Lumière) 68
  2. The Boxing Cats (William Heise) 61
  3. Carmencita (William Heise) 60
  4. The Barbershop (William Heise) 59
  5. Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) (William Heise) 59
  6. Caicedo (with Pole) (William Heise) 58
  7. Luis Martinetti, Contortionist (William Heise) 58
  8. Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (William Heise) 58
  9. Sandow (William Heise) 58
  10. The Cock Fight (William Heise) 57
  11. Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (William Heise) 56

1895

  1. Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (Louis Lumière) 72
  2. Sprinkler Sprinkled, A (Louis Lumière) 68
  3. Demolition of a Wall (Louis Lumière) 68
  4. Carmaux: Cooling the Coke ( Lumière) 68
  5. Boat Leaving the Port (Louis Lumière) 68
  6. Swimming in the Sea (Louis Lumière) 68
  7. Children Digging For Clams ( Lumière) 68
  8. Leaving the Factory (two horses) (Louis Lumière) 67
  9. Leaving the Factory (no horses) (Louis Lumière) 67
  10. Place des Cordeliers (Louis Lumière) 67
  11. The Sack Race (Louis Lumière) 66
  12. Baby's Meal, A (Louis Lumière) 65
  13. Launching of a Ship (Louis Lumière) 64
  14. Mechanical Butcher Shop (Louis Lumière) 63
  15. Transformation By Hats (Louis Lumière) 62
  16. Acrobatic Horsemen (Louis Lumière) 62
  17. Childish Quarrel (Louis Lumière) 61
  18. The Babies' Snack (Louis Lumière) 60
  19. Card Game (Louis Lumière) 59
  20. Factory at La Ciotat (Louis Lumière) 58
  21. Loading a Boiler (Louis Lumière) 58
  22. Serpentine Dance (William Heise) 58
  23. Blanket Toss (Louis Lumière) 57
  24. Photograph (Louis Lumière) 56
  25. Lion, London Zoological Garden ( Lumière) 55
  26. Game of Balls (Louis Lumière) 54
  27. Neuville-sur-Saône: Debarking at the Congress of Photographers in Lyon (Louis Lumière) 53
  28. Rough Sea at Dover (R.W. Paul) 50

1896

  1. Snowball Fight ( Lumière) 71
  2. Children Playing Marbles ( Lumière) 68
  3. The Kiss (William Heise) 68
  4. Arrival By Train in Perrache ( Lumière) 67
  5. Dragoons Crossing the Saône ( Lumière) 67
  6. Russia: Moscow, Tverskaïa Street (Charles Moisson) 67
  7. Leaving Jerusalem By Railway (Alexandre Promio) 67
  8. Paris: Champs-élysées ( Lumière) 66
  9. Bicyclist ( Lumière) 66
  10. New York: Broadway at Union Square (Alexandre Promio) 66
  11. New York: Brooklyn Bridge (Alexandre Promio) 66
  12. Mexico: Bathing the Horses (Gabriel Veyre) 65
  13. Venice: View of the Grand Canal from a Boat (Alexandre Promio) 65
  14. Brooklyn: Fulton Street (Alexandre Promio) 65
  15. Arrival of a Train in Perrache ( Lumière) 64
  16. Grotesque Rollerskater ( Lumière) 64
  17. Writing Backwards ( Lumière) 64
  18. Promenade of Ostriches ( Lumière) 63
  19. Arab Cortege, Geneva (Alexandre Promio) 63
  20. Chicago: Parade of Policemen (Alexandre Promio) 62
  21. Jerusalem: Port of Jaffa, East Coast (Alexandre Promio) 62
  22. New York: Whitehall Street (Alexandre Promio) 61
  23. New York: Arrival of a Train at Battery Place (Alexandre Promio) 61
  24. Quay de L'Archevêché ( Lumière) 60
  25. Water Toboggan ( Lumière) 60
  26. Constantinople: Turkish Artillery (Alexandre Promio) 60
  27. Constantinople: View of the Come d'Or (Alexandre Promio) 60
  28. London: Arrival of the Cinématograph ( Lumière) 59
  29. Hitched to a Truck (The Stonecarver's Team) ( Lumière) 59
  30. The Nanny and the Soldier ( Lumière) 58
  31. Fire Run (Lyon), A ( Lumière) 57
  32. Berlin: Panoptikum Theatre - Friedrichstrasse (Alexandre Promio) 57
  33. Spain: Encampment Dance ( Lumière) 56
  34. Algeria: The Muezzin's Prayer ( Lumière) 56
  35. Poultry-yard ( Lumière) 55
  36. The Derby (R.W. Paul) 50
  37. Serpentine Dance by Annabell (William Heise) 49
  38. Feeding the Doves (William Heise) 48

1897

  1. Harvesters ( Lumière) 70
  2. Washerwomen on the River ( Lumière) 70
  3. Baby's First Steps (Louis Lumière) 69
  4. Pillow Fight (No. 2) ( Lumière) 69
  5. The Happy Skeleton ( Lumière) 68
  6. The Lover in the Bag (Georges Hatot) 67
  7. Egypt: The Pyramids (Alexandre Promio) 67
  8. Serpentine Dance ( Lumière) 66
  9. Soccer ( Lumière) 65
  10. African Knife Dance ( Lumière) 64
  11. Alpine Hunters: Boxing Lesson ( Lumière) 63
  12. Japan: Japanese Swordfighting (Constant Girel) 63
  13. Paving Machine on the Jonage Canal ( Lumière) 62
  14. Collecting the Ship's Laundry ( Lumière) 61
  15. Belfast: Practice Rescue (\"The Big Ladder\") (Alexandre Promio) 60
  16. Mattress-makers' Quarrel (Georges Hatot) 60
  17. Automobile Accident ( Lumière) 59
  18. The Music-loving Sawyer (Georges Hatot) 58
  19. Niagara Falls (Felix Mesguich) 57
  20. Dublin: Fire Engine (Alexandre Promio) 57
  21. Admiral Cigarette (William Heise) 56
  22. Billboard Posters (Georges Hatot) 55
  23. Pie Eating Contest ( Edison) 54
  24. Seminary Girls (William Heise) 53
  25. The Bitter Bit ( Bamforth and Company) 52
  26. Dewars Scotch Whiskey ( International Film Co.) 49
  27. President McKinley at Home (W.K.L. Dickson) 45
  28. Leander Sisters (Frederick Blechynden) 44
  29. Cattle Driven to Slaughter (William Heise) 43

1898

  1. The Four Troublesome Heads (Georges Méliès) 69
  2. Turkish Dance, Ella Lola ( Edison) 55
  3. Elopement on Horseback ( Edison) 54
  4. Pack Train at Chilkoot Pass (Thomas Crahan) 53
  5. The Miller and the Sweep (G.A. Smith) 52
  6. Come Along Do! (R.W. Paul) 51
  7. Sleighing Scene ( Edison) 50
  8. Going Through the Tunnel (Frederick Blechynden) 49
  9. Little Mischief (Albert E. Smith) 48
  10. Burial of the 'Maine' Victims (William S. Paley) 39
  11. Blanket-tossing a New Recruit (William S. Paley) 39
  12. Battleship 'Maine' (William S. Paley) 37
  13. Street Arab, A ( Edison) 36

1899

  1. Indochina: Namo Village, Panorama Taken from a Rickshaw (Gabriel Veyre) 74
  2. Indochina: Opium Den (Gabriel Veyre) 70
  3. Indochina: Children Gathering Rice Scattered by Western Women (Gabriel Veyre) 70
  4. Oil Wells of Bakou: Close View ( Lumière) 68
  5. The Little Girl and Her Cat ( Lumière) 66
  6. Procession of Baby Carriages at the Paris Nursery ( Lumière) 65
  7. Festival of Paris, 1899: Parade of Flowered Cars ( Lumière) 64
  8. The Kremos: Somersaults ( Lumière) 63
  9. Kremos: The Pyramid ( Lumière) 63
  10. Strange Adventure of New York Drummer (Edwin S. Porter) 56
  11. The Kiss in the Tunnel (G.A. Smith) 55
  12. Indochina: Loading a Cow on Ship (Gabriel Veyre) 55
  13. Mesmerist and Country Couple (Albert E. Smith) 54
  14. The Kiss in the Tunnel (and Company) 53
  15. King John (Walter Pfeffer Dando) 50
  16. Love and War (James H. White) 45
  17. Fun In Camp (James H. White) 44
  18. Trick Bears (James H. White) 43
  19. Advance of Kansas Volunteers at Caloocan (James H. White) 42
  20. Three Acrobats (James H. White) 40

1900

  1. View From a Whaling Boat ( Lumière) 67
  2. Spanish Bullfight ( Lumière) 67
  3. Place du Pont ( Lumière) 66
  4. Universal Exhibition, 1900: View of a Moving Sidewalk ( Lumière) 65
  5. The Enchanted Drawing (J. Stuart Blackton) 64
  6. The One-Man Band (Georges Méliès) 60
  7. Uncle Josh's Nightmare (Edwin S. Porter) 60
  8. Fat and Lean Wrestling Match (Georges Méliès) 59
  9. How it Feels To Be Run Over (Cecil M. Hepworth) 58
  10. Explosion of a Motor Car (Cecil M. Hepworth) 57
  11. Let Me Dream Again (G.A. Smith) 56
  12. The Big Swallow (James Williamson) 55
  13. Footit and Chocolate: Tipping Chair ( Lumière) 54
  14. As Seen Through a Telescope (G.A. Smith) 53
  15. Grandma's Reading Glass (G.A. Smith) 52
  16. Attack on a China Mission (James Williamson) 51
  17. Spain: Flamenco Dance ( Lumière) 51
  18. Ladies' Skirts Nailed to a Fence ( Bamforth and Company) 49

1901

  1. The Haunted Curiosity Shop (Walter R. Booth) 68
  2. Story of a Crime (Ferdinand Zecca) 68
  3. Bluebeard (Georges Méliès) 67
  4. The Man With the Rubber Head (Georges Méliès) 67
  5. The Execution of Czolgosz (Edwin S. Porter) 66
  6. Dream and Reality ( Pathé Freres) 65
  7. Kansas Saloon Smashers (Edwin S. Porter) 64
  8. The Finish of Bridget McKeen (Edwin S. Porter) 63
  9. Peeping Tom ( Pathé Frères) 62
  10. The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken (Edwin S. Porter) 61
  11. Love by the Light of the Moon (Edwin S. Porter) 60
  12. The Countryman and the Cinematograph ( R.W. Paul) 58
  13. Martyred Presidents (Edwin S. Porter) 57
  14. Stop Thief! (James Williamson) 55
  15. Fire! (James Williamson) 53
  16. Daring Daylight Burglary (Frank Mottershaw) 51
  17. Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King (Edwin S. Porter) 50
  18. Mont Blanc, the Alps ( Lumière) 50
  19. Capture of the Biddle Brothers (Edwin S. Porter) 49
  20. Sampson and Schley Controversy (Edwin S. Porter) 48
  21. Circular Panorama of the Electric Tower (Edwin S. Porter) 47
  22. Panorama of Esplenade by Night (Edwin S. Porter) 46
  23. Sampson and Schley Controversy - Tea Party (Edwin S. Porter) 45
  24. Star Theatre (Frederick S. Armitage) 44
  25. Taking President McKinley's Body From the Train (Edwin S. Porter) 43

1902

  1. Trip to the Moon, A (Georges Méliès) 72
  2. The Victims of Alcoholism (Ferdinand Zecca) 71
  3. Jack and the Beanstalk (Edwin S. Porter) 67
  4. Fun in a Bakery Shop (Edwin S. Porter) 66
  5. Quo Vadis? (Ferdinand Zecca) 64
  6. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Ferdinand Zecca) 64
  7. Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (Edwin S. Porter) 63
  8. The Twentieth Century Tramp (Edwin S. Porter) 62
  9. How They Do Things on the Bowery (Edwin S. Porter) 61
  10. Appointment By Telephone (Edwin S. Porter) 60
  11. Levi and Cohen, the Irish Comedians (Edwin S. Porter) 48
  12. Arrival of the Governor General, Lord Minto, at Quebec (William S. Paley) 45
  13. Bird's-Eye View of San Francisco, Cal., From a Balloon ( Edison) 44

1903

  1. Kingdom of the Fairies (Georges Méliès) 73
  2. The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter) 73
  3. The Enchanter Alcofisbas (Georges Méliès) 68
  4. Ten Ladies in One Umbrella (Georges Méliès) 67
  5. The Magic Lantern (Georges Méliès) 66
  6. The Spiritualist Photographer (Georges Méliès) 65
  7. The Inn Where No Man Rests (Georges Méliès) 64
  8. The 20th Century Illusionist (Georges Méliès) 63
  9. The Enchanted Well (Georges Méliès) 62
  10. The Gay Shoe Clerk (Edwin S. Porter) 62
  11. Life of an American Fireman (Edwin S. Porter) 62
  12. The Apparition (Georges Méliès) 61
  13. the Drawing Lesson (Georges Méliès) 60
  14. The Oracle of Delphi (Georges Méliès) 59
  15. Chess Dispute, A (R.W. Paul) 58
  16. The Infernal Cake-walk (Georges Méliès) 58
  17. The Music Lover (Georges Méliès) 57
  18. The Infernal Boiling Pot (Georges Méliès) 56
  19. Bob Kick, the Mischevious Kid (Georges Méliès) 55
  20. Le Tonnerre de Jupiter (Georges Méliès) 54
  21. Mary Jane's Mishap or Don't Fool With the Paraffin (G.A. Smith) 53
  22. Extraordinary Cab Accident (Walter R. Booth) 52
  23. Desperate Poaching Affray, A (Walter Haggar) 51
  24. Romance of the Rails (Edwin S. Porter) 50
  25. The Georgetown Loop (Colorado) (G.W. Bitzer) 49
  26. Sick Kitten (G.A. Smith) 48
  27. Move On (A.C. Abadie) 47
  28. Street Car Chivalry (Edwin S. Porter) 46
  29. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Edwin S. Porter) 45
  30. Skyscrapers of New York City From North River (G.A. Smith) 44
  31. From Show Girl to Burlesque Queen (A.E. Weed) 43

1904

  1. The Mermaid (Georges Méliès) 76
  2. The Impossible Voyage (Georges Méliès) 69
  3. The Hilarious Posters (Georges Méliès) 67
  4. Tit for Tat (Georges Méliès) 66
  5. The Living Playing Cards (Georges Méliès) 65
  6. The Wonderful Living Fan (Georges Méliès) 64
  7. The Clock Maker's Dream (Georges Méliès) 63
  8. Untamable Whiskers (Georges Méliès) 62
  9. The Cook in Trouble (Georges Méliès) 61
  10. Imperceptible Transmutations (Georges Méliès) 60
  11. Rescued by Rover (Cecil M. Hepworth) 59
  12. The Events in Odessa (Lucien Nonguet) 58
  13. The Jonah Man: or, the Traveller Bewitched (Cecil M. Hepworth) 57
  14. Fire in a Burlesque Theater, A (A.E. Weed) 56
  15. Buy Your Own Cherries ( R.W. Paul) 55
  16. Dog Factory (Edwin S. Porter) 54
  17. Troubles of a Manager of a Burlesque Show (A.E. Weed) 53
  18. An Interesting Story (James Williamson) 52
  19. European Rest Cure (Edwin S. Porter) 51
  20. Rounding Up at the \"Yeggman\" (Edwin S. Porter) 47

1905

  1. The Black Imp (Georges Méliès) 68
  2. The Enchanted Sedan Chair (Georges Méliès) 67
  3. The Scheming Gambler's Paradise (Georges Méliès) 66
  4. Father's Honor, A (Ferdinand Zecca) 65
  5. NY Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street (G.W. Bitzer) 64
  6. The Incendiary (Ferdinand Zecca) 63
  7. Paris to Monte Carlo (Georges Méliès) 62
  8. The Other Side of the Hedge (Lewin Fitzhamon) 61
  9. The Kleptomaniac (Edwin S. Porter) 60
  10. Airy Fairy Lillian Tries on Her New Corsets (F.A. Dobson) 59
  11. I.B. Dam and the Whole Dam Family ( Lubin Manufacturing Company) 57
  12. The Life of Charles Peace ( Haggar and Sons) 55
  13. How Jones Lost His Roll (Edwin S. Porter) 53
  14. Revolution in Odessa ( Pathé Frères) 50

1906

  1. The Mysterious Retort (Georges Méliès) 67
  2. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (J. Stuart Blackton) 66
  3. The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (Wallace McCutcheon) 65
  4. Aladdin or the Marvelous Lamp ( Pathé Frères) 64
  5. The '?' Motorist (Walter R. Booth) 60
  6. Seven Ages (Edwin S. Porter) 59
  7. Three American Beauties (Wallace McCutcheon) 57
  8. Visit to Peek Frean & Co.'s Biscuit Works, A (J.H. Martin) 54
  9. San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake ( Edison) 50
  10. San Francisco Disaster (G.W. Bitzer) 49
  11. Army Pack Train Bringing Supplies ( Edison) 45

1907

  1. Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (Georges Méliès) 69
  2. Scenes of Convict Life (Ferdinand Zecca) 68
  3. The Pumpkin Race (Romeo Bosetti) 67
  4. The 'Teddy' Bears (Edwin S. Porter) 62
  5. Good Glue Sticks (Georges Méliès) 61
  6. The Golden Beetle (Segundo de Chomón) 60
  7. Child of the Barracade (Alice Guy) 56
  8. The Runaway Horse (Ferdinand Zecca) 54
  9. That Fatal Sneeze (Lewin Fitzhamon) 51
  10. International Contest for the Heavyweight Championship - Quires vs. Bu (Herbert J. Miles) 48
  11. The Policemen's Little Run ( Pathé Frères) 46
  12. Pour Me a Drop of Burgundy ( Gaumont) 44

1908

  1. Long Distance Wireless Photography (Georges Méliès) 66
  2. Fantasy, A (Emile Cohl) 65
  3. Fish Factory in Astrakhan, A ( Pathé Frères) 60
  4. The Thieving Hand ( Vitagraph) 58
  5. Une Dame vraiment bien (Louis Feuillade) 57
  6. Madame a des envies (Alice Guy) 53
  7. The Narrow Escape ( Pathé Frères) 52
  8. Magic Bricks (Gaston Velle) 50
  9. The Adventures of Dollie (D.W. Griffith) 49
  10. The Ex-Convict (Edwin S. Porter) 48
  11. The Dog and His Various Merits ( Pathé Frères) 46
  12. Moscow Clad in Snow ( Pathé Frères) 45
  13. Troubles of a Grass Widower ( Pathé Frères) 44
  14. Drama in a Gypsy Camp Near Moscow (V. Siversen) 43
  15. Stenka Razin (Vladimir Romashkov) 42

1909

  1. Corner in Wheat, A (D.W. Griffith) 75
  2. The Sealed Room (D.W. Griffith) 72
  3. The Devilish Tenant (Georges Méliès) 68
  4. The Princess Nicotine or Smoke Fairy (J. Stuart Blackton) 66
  5. Le Ratelier de la belle-mère (Emile Cohl) 64
  6. The Jolly Germs (Emile Cohl) 63
  7. The Redman's View (D.W. Griffith) 61
  8. Trap for Santa Claus, A (D.W. Griffith) 60
  9. Midsummer Night's Dream, A (Charles Kent) 58
  10. Those Awful Hats (D.W. Griffith) 56
  11. Nero, or the Fall of Rome (Arturo Ambrosio) 52
  12. 16th Century Russian Wedding, A (Vasili Goncharov) 48

1910

  1. The Unchanging Sea (D.W. Griffith) 68
  2. The House with Closed Shutters (D.W. Griffith) 66
  3. The Honor of His Family (D.W. Griffith) 65
  4. In the Border States (D.W. Griffith) 63
  5. The Fugitive (D.W. Griffith) 60
  6. The Doctor's Secret (Georges Méliès) 58
  7. The Usurer (D.W. Griffith) 56
  8. Rusalka (Vasili Goncharov) 54
  9. Day in the Life of a Coal Miner, A ( Kineto) 49
  10. Aerplane Flight & Wreck(Piloted by M. Cody) ( ?) 40
  11. White Fawn's Devotion (James Young Deer) 36
  12. The Police Force of New York City ( Edison) 29
  13. Princess Tarakanova (Maurice Maître) 28

1911

  1. The Lonedale Operator (D.W. Griffith) 68
  2. La Chambre ensorcelée (Emile Cohl) 66
  3. Enoch Arden (D.W. Griffith) 65
  4. His Trust (D.W. Griffith) 64
  5. Swords and Hearts (D.W. Griffith) 63
  6. The Battle (D.W. Griffith) 62
  7. What Shall We Do With Our Old? (D.W. Griffith) 60
  8. Little Nemo (Stuart Blackton) 58
  9. The Miser's Heart (D.W. Griffith) 58
  10. The Last Drop of Water (D.W. Griffith) 57
  11. The Dream (George Loane Tucker) 55
  12. Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics (Winsor McCay) 53
  13. His Trust Fulfilled (D.W. Griffith) 50
  14. Richard III (Frank R. Benson) 45
  15. Romance with Double-Bass (Kai Hansen) 40
  16. Her Crowning Glory (Laurence Trimble) 38
  17. Alkali Ike's Auto (E. Mason Hopper) 36

1912

  1. The Musketeers of Pig Alley (D.W. Griffith) 74
  2. An Unseen Enemy (D.W. Griffith) 68
  3. The Female of the Species (D.W. Griffith) 67
  4. The Cameraman's Revenge (Ladislaw Starewicz) 66
  5. Iola's Promise (D.W. Griffith) 65
  6. Conquest of the Pole (Georges Méliès) 64
  7. For His Son (D.W. Griffith) 63
  8. The Painted Lady (D.W. Griffith) 62
  9. The Sunbeam (D.W. Griffith) 61
  10. The Burglar's Dilemma (D.W. Griffith) 60
  11. One is Business, the Other Crime (D.W. Griffith) 59
  12. The Narrow Road (D.W. Griffith) 58
  13. The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch (D.W. Griffith) 57
  14. The Girl and Her Trust (D.W. Griffith) 56
  15. The Automatic Moving Company (Romeo Bosetti) 55
  16. The Lesser Evil (D.W. Griffith) 54
  17. The New York Hat (D.W. Griffith) 53
  18. How a Mosquito Operates (Winsor McCay) 50
  19. Max and His Dog (Max Linder) 48
  20. Friends (D.W. Griffith) 47
  21. Onesime, Clockmaker (Jean Durand) 45

1913

  1. Death's Marathon (D.W. Griffith) 69
  2. The Mothering Heart (D.W. Griffith) 67
  3. Juve Against Fantomas (Louis Feuillade) 66
  4. The Student of Prague (Paul Wegener) 65
  5. The Insect's Christmas (Ladislaw Starewicz) 64
  6. The Massacre (D.W. Griffith) 62
  7. Traffic in Souls (George Loane Tucker) 60
  8. The House of Darkness (D.W. Griffith) 58
  9. He Poses for His Portrait (Emile Cohl) 55
  10. How Men Propose (Lois Weber) 50
  11. House Divided, A (Alice Guy-Blache) 48
  12. Matrimony's Speed Limit (Alice Guy-Blache) 45
  13. Bangville Police (Henry Lehrman) 38

1914

  1. Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone) 73
  2. Battle at Elderbush Gulch (D.W. Griffith) 72
  3. Home, Sweet Home (D.W. Griffith) 70
  4. The Rounders (Charles Chaplin) 69
  5. Those Love Pangs (Charles Chaplin) 68
  6. Kid Auto Races at Venice (Henry Lehrman) 66
  7. Film Johnnie, A (George Nicholls) 65
  8. Judith of Bethulia (D.W. Griffith) 63
  9. Busy Day, A (Charles Chaplin) 60
  10. The Masquerader (Charles Chaplin) 59
  11. Tillie's Punctured Romance (Mack Sennett) 58
  12. Between Showers (Henry Lehrman) 57
  13. Mabel's Married Life (Charles Chaplin) 56
  14. His New Profession (Charles Chaplin) 55
  15. Caught in a Cabaret (Mabel Normand) 54
  16. Tango Tangles (Mack Sennett) 53
  17. The Knockout (Charles Avery) 52
  18. The Star Boarder (George Nicholls) 51
  19. Laughing Gas (Charles Chaplin) 50
  20. Mabel's Busy Day (Mabel Normand) 49
  21. Mabel's Strange Predicament (Mack Sennett) 48
  22. Making a Living (Henry Lehrman) 47
  23. The Face on the Bar Room Floor (Charles Chaplin) 46
  24. His Trysting Place (Charles Chaplin) 45
  25. The New Janitor (Charles Chaplin) 44
  26. The Fatal Mallet (Mack Sennett) 43
  27. Mabel at the Wheel (Mack Sennett) 42
  28. Getting Acquainted (Charles Chaplin) 41
  29. Cruel, Cruel Love (George Nichols) 40
  30. The Perils of Pauline [serial] (Donald MacKenzie) 39
  31. Gertie the Dinosaur (Winsor McCay) 38

1915

  1. The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith) 69
  2. Les Vampires [serial] (Louis Feuillade) 68
  3. Night in the Show, A (Charles Chaplin) 67
  4. The Bank (Charles Chaplin) 66
  5. Shanghaied (Charles Chaplin) 65
  6. The Tramp (Charles Chaplin) 64
  7. The Champion (Charles Chaplin) 63
  8. The Cheat (Cecil B. DeMille) 62
  9. Work (Charles Chaplin) 61
  10. Jitney Elopement, A (Charles Chaplin) 60
  11. Charlie Chaplin's Burlesque on Carmen (Charles Chaplin) 59
  12. His New Job (Charles Chaplin) 58
  13. Night Out, A (Charles Chaplin) 57
  14. By the Sea (Charles Chaplin) 56
  15. Woman, A (Charles Chaplin) 55
  16. In the Park (Charles Chaplin) 54
  17. Regeneration (Raoul Walsh) 50
  18. La Folie du Docteur Tube (Abel Gance) 48
  19. His Regeneration (Gilbert M. \"Broncho Billy\" Anderson) 36
  20. Pool Sharks (Edwin Middleton) 31

1916

  1. One A.M. (Charles Chaplin) 90
  2. Intolerance (D.W. Griffith) 70
  3. Judex [serial] (Louis Feuillade) 69
  4. The Pawnshop (Charles Chaplin) 68
  5. Behind the Screen (Charles Chaplin) 67
  6. The Fireman (Charles Chaplin) 66
  7. The Rink (Charles Chaplin) 65
  8. The Count (Charles Chaplin) 64
  9. The Vagabond (Charles Chaplin) 63
  10. The Floorwalker (Charles Chaplin) 62
  11. Police (Charles Chaplin) 61

1917

  1. Easy Street (Charles Chaplin) 84
  2. The Adventurer (Charles Chaplin) 68
  3. The Cure (Charles Chaplin) 67
  4. The Immigrant (Charles Chaplin) 66
  5. Thomas Graal's Best Film (Mauritz Stiller) 65
  6. Coney Island (Roscoe Arbuckle) 63
  7. The Butcher Boy (Roscoe Arbuckle) 62
  8. The Rough House (Roscoe Arbuckle) 61
  9. Oh Doctor! (Roscoe Arbuckle) 58
  10. His Wedding Night (Roscoe Arbuckle) 56
  11. Reckless Romeo, A (Roscoe Arbuckle) 54
  12. For Happiness (Yevgeni Bauer) 37

1918

  1. The Outlaw and His Wife (Victor Sjöström) 87
  2. The Bell Boy (Roscoe Arbuckle) 76
  3. Dog's Life, A (Charles Chaplin) 67
  4. The Cook (Roscoe Arbuckle) 66
  5. Shoulder Arms (Charles Chaplin) 65
  6. Thomas Graal's Best Child (Mauritz Stiller) 60
  7. Good Night, Nurse! (Roscoe Arbuckle) 58
  8. Out West (Roscoe Arbuckle) 56
  9. Carmen (Ernst Lubitsch) 54
  10. Moonshine (Roscoe Arbuckle) 50
  11. Triple Trouble (Leo White) 36

1919

  1. Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith) 87
  2. Back Stage (Roscoe Arbuckle) 65
  3. Day's Pleasure, A (Charles Chaplin) 63
  4. Male and Female (Cecil B. DeMille) 62
  5. Blind Husbands (Erich von Stroheim) 61
  6. Sunnyside (Charles Chaplin) 60
  7. Spiders, Part 1: The Golden Lake (Fritz Lang) 58
  8. Ask Father (H.M. Walker) 56
  9. The Hayseed (Roscoe Arbuckle) 55
  10. The Garage (Roscoe Arbuckle) 50
  11. The Tantilizing Fly (Dave Fleischer) 48

1920

  1. One Week (Buster Keaton) 90
  2. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene) 88
  3. The Scarecrow (Buster Keaton) 68
  4. Convict 13 (Buster Keaton) 67
  5. Number, Please? (Hal Roach) 64
  6. Neighbors (Buster Keaton) 63
  7. Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship (Fritz Lang) 59
  8. The Parson's Widow (Carl Theodor Dreyer) 58
  9. The Clown's Little Brother (Dave Fleischer) 55
  10. The Ouija Board (Dave Fleischer) 54
  11. Perpetual Motion (Dave Fleischer) 53
  12. Eastern Westerner, An (Hal Roach) 51
  13. Way Down East (D.W. Griffith) 50
  14. The Monastary of Sendomir (Victor Sjöström) 49
  15. The Saphead (Herbert Blaché) 44

1921

  1. The High Sign (Buster Keaton) 89
  2. The Goat (Mal St. Clair) 70
  3. The Haunted House (Buster Keaton) 68
  4. Fièvre (Louis Delluc) 67
  5. The Boat (Buster Keaton) 66
  6. Orphans of the Storm (D.W. Griffith) 65
  7. The Phantom Chariot (Victor Sjöström) 64
  8. The Playhouse (Buster Keaton) 63
  9. Hard Luck (Buster Keaton) 61
  10. Leaves From Satan's Book (Carl Theodor Dreyer) 60
  11. Destiny (Fritz Lang) 60
  12. Opus I (Walter Ruttmann ) 55
  13. The Idle Class (Charles Chaplin) 53
  14. Manhatta (Paul Strand) 50
  15. The Kid (Charles Chaplin) 50
  16. Modeling (Dave Fleischer) 48

1922

  1. Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim) 88
  2. Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau) 85
  3. Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty) 84
  4. Cops (Buster Keaton) 75
  5. Pay Day (Charles Chaplin) 72
  6. Häxan (Benjamen Christensen) 69
  7. The Smiling Madame Boudet (Germaine Dulac) 68
  8. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Fritz Lang) 67
  9. The Paleface (Buster Keaton) 66
  10. My Wife's Relations (Buster Keaton) 63
  11. The Electric House (Buster Keaton) 60
  12. The Frozen North (Buster Keaton) 59
  13. Day Dreams (Buster Keaton) 58
  14. The Blacksmith (Mal St. Clair) 57
  15. Bubbles (Dave Fleischer) 50

1923

  1. Our Hospitality (John G. Blystone) 95
  2. Safety Last (Sam Taylor) 81
  3. Woman of Paris, A (Charles Chaplin) 79
  4. The Balloonatic (Buster Keaton) 67
  5. The Love Nest (Buster Keaton) 66
  6. The Three Ages (Buster Keaton) 58
  7. The Pilgrim (Charles Chaplin) 55
  8. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wallace Worsley) 54
  9. Voice of the Nightingale (Wladyslaw Starewicz) 53
  10. The Frogs Who Wanted a King (Wladyslaw Starewicz) 52

1924

  1. Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton) 94
  2. The Navigator (Buster Keaton) 77
  3. The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau) 76
  4. The Marriage Circle (Ernst Lubitsch) 67
  5. Girl Shy (Sam Taylor) 66
  6. The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh) 65
  7. Isn't Life Wonderful (D.W. Griffith) 64
  8. Kriemhild's Revenge (Fritz Lang) 63
  9. Siegfried (Fritz Lang) 58
  10. Kino-Eye (Dziga Vertov) 57
  11. Entr'acte (René Clair) 56
  12. The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Lev Kuleshov) 50
  13. America (D.W. Griffith) 48
  14. Aelita: Queen of Mars (Yakov Protazanov) 47

1925

  1. Greed (Erich von Stroheim) 94
  2. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton) 88
  3. The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin) 81
  4. Lady Windermere's Fan (Ernst Lubitsch) 79
  5. The Big Parade (King Vidor) 77
  6. Go West (Buster Keaton) 68
  7. The Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein) 66
  8. Strike (Sergei Eisenstein) 65
  9. The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian) 62
  10. The Crazy Ray (René Clair) 61
  11. Sally of the Sawdust (D.W. Griffith) 60
  12. The Lost World (Harry O. Hoyt) 58
  13. The Joyless Street (G.W. Pabst) 56
  14. Tumbleweeds (King Baggot) 55
  15. Kino Pravda (Dziga Vertov) 42
  16. Chess Fever (Nikolai Shpikovsky) 37

1926

  1. Faust (F.W. Murnau) 66
  2. Mother (Vsevolod Pudovkin) 65
  3. Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff) 64
  4. Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown) 62
  5. The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock) 61
  6. By the Law (Lev Kuleshov) 60
  7. Battling Butler (Buster Keaton) 58
  8. The Strong Man (Frank Capra) 57
  9. Tartuffe (F.W. Murnau) 53
  10. Love Berry (Alexander Dovzhenko) 39

1927

  1. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau) 96
  2. The General (Buster Keaton) 94
  3. Metropolis (Fritz Lang) 84
  4. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch) 83
  5. The Unknown (Tod Browning) 74
  6. College (Buster Keaton) 73
  7. Easy Virtue (Alfred Hitchcock) 66
  8. The Love of Jeanne Ney (G.W. Pabst) 65
  9. Chang (Ernest B. Schoedsack) 64
  10. It (Clarence G. Badger) 63
  11. Underworld (Josef von Sternberg) 63
  12. Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttmann) 62
  13. October (Grigori Alexandrov) 61
  14. The End of St. Petersburg (V.I. Pudovkin) 60
  15. The Kid Brother (Ted Wilde) 59
  16. Napoleon (Abel Gance) 54
  17. Italian Straw Hat, An (René Clair) 53
  18. Wings (William Wellman) 52
  19. The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland) 44
  20. Charleston (Jean Renoir) 42
  21. Diplomatic Pouch (Alexander Dovzhenko) 40
  22. The Ring (Alfred Hitchcock) 38
  23. Downhill (Alfred Hitchcock) 36

1928

  1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer) 94
  2. The Wind (Victor Sjöström) 85
  3. Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg) 80
  4. The Last Command (Josef von Sternberg) 75
  5. The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick) 71
  6. Spies (Fritz Lang) 67
  7. Überfall (Ernö Metzner) 66
  8. The Fall of the House of Usher (Melville Webber) 65
  9. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner) 65
  10. The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra (Slavko Vorkapich) 64
  11. The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein) 63
  12. Storm Over Asia (Vsevolod Pudovkin) 62
  13. Zvenigora (Alexander Dovzhenko) 61
  14. The Crowd (King Vidor) 60
  15. Arsenal (Alexander Dovzhenko) 59
  16. The Little Match Girl (Jean Renoir) 57
  17. The Circus (Charles Chaplin) 55
  18. The Farmer's Wife (Alfred Hitchcock) 53
  19. The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim) 43

1929

  1. Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel) 91
  2. Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst) 87
  3. The Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov) 86
  4. Eternal Love (Ernst Lubitsch) 79
  5. The Cocoanuts (Joseph Santley) 73
  6. The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch) 72
  7. Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock) 68
  8. Spite Marriage (Edward Sedgwick) 66
  9. Queen Kelly (Erich von Stroheim) 64
  10. The Manxman (Alfred Hitchcock) 62
  11. H2O (Ralph Steiner) 50
  12. Diary of a Lost Girl (G.W. Pabst) 41
  13. Woman in the Moon (Fritz Lang) 35

1930

  1. L'Âge d'or (Luis Buñuel) 76
  2. All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone) 75
  3. Morocco (Josef von Sternberg) 74
  4. The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg) 74
  5. Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman) 73
  6. Earth (Alexander Dovzhenko) 71
  7. À propos de Nice (Jean Vigo) 70
  8. Swing You Sinners (Dave Fleischer) 66
  9. Under the Roofs of Paris (René Clair) 62
  10. Murder! (Alfred Hitchcock) 62
  11. The Golf Specialist (Monte Brice) 60
  12. Mechanical Principles (Ralph Steiner) 50
  13. Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau) 50
  14. Juno and the Paycock (Alfred Hitchcock) 48
  15. Sentimental Romance (Grigori Aleksandrov) 47
  16. Aimless Walk (Alexander Hammid) 42
  17. Surf and Seaweed (Ralph Steiner) 41

1931

  1. M (Fritz Lang) 88
  2. City Lights (Charles Chaplin) 86
  3. Bimbo's Initiation (Dave Fleischer) 79
  4. Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod) 78
  5. Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg) 73
  6. The Public Enemy (William Wellman) 71
  7. Frankenstein (James Whale) 69
  8. The Criminal Code (Howard Hawks) 68
  9. Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy) 52
  10. Possessed (Clarence Brown) 50
  11. Windy Riley Goes Hollywood (Roscoe Arbuckle) 19

1932

  1. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch) 97
  2. Freaks (Tod Browning) 80
  3. Horsefeathers (Norman Z. McLeod) 78
  4. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer) 74
  5. Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg) 69
  6. Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle (Dave Fleischer) 68
  7. Down Among the Sugar Cane (Dave Fleischer) 67
  8. Ivan (Alexander Dovzhenko) 57
  9. The Music Box (James Parrott) 50
  10. Santa (Antonio Moreno) 46

1933

  1. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey) 100
  2. Zero For Conduct (Jean Vigo) 92
  3. Counsellor at Law (William Wyler) 86
  4. King Kong (Ernest B. Schoedsack) 72
  5. 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon) 70
  6. The Fatal Glass of Beer (Clyde Bruckman) 68
  7. Lot in Sodom (Melville Webber) 67
  8. Dinner at Eight (George Cukor) 65
  9. International House (A. Edward Sutherland) 56
  10. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang) 49

1934

  1. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo) 93
  2. Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks) 89
  3. La Signora di tutti (Max Ophüls) 87
  4. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra) 83
  5. It's a Gift (Norman Z. McLeod) 77
  6. The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke) 73
  7. Hearts of Age (Orson Welles) 68
  8. Imitation of Life (John M. Stahl) 65
  9. Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg) 60
  10. The Woman of the Port (Raphael J. Sevilla) 45

1935

  1. Night at the Opera, A (Sam Wood) 92
  2. Top Hat (Mark Sandrich) 71
  3. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale) 67
  4. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock) 66
  5. Pie in the Sky (Ralph Steiner) 64
  6. Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey) 64
  7. Captain Blood (Michael Curtiz) 62
  8. Vámonos con Pancho Villa (Fernando de Fuentes) 60
  9. Synchromy, No. 2 (Ted Nemeth) 56
  10. David Copperfield (George Cukor) 49

1936

  1. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin) 86
  2. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir) 80
  3. Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell) 78
  4. Day in the Country, A (Jean Renoir) 74
  5. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava) 73
  6. Fury (Fritz Lang) 65
  7. Allá en el Rancho Grande (Fernando de Fuentes) 51
  8. Cesar (Marcel Pagnol) 50
  9. The Devil Doll (Tod Browning) 48
  10. Allegretto (Oskar Fischinger) 47

1937

  1. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey) 93
  2. Angel (Ernst Lubitsch) 89
  3. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir) 84
  4. Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen) 69
  5. Day at the Races, A (Sam Wood) 67
  6. Camille (George Cukor) 67
  7. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand) 66
  8. Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier) 66
  9. You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang) 64
  10. Nothing Sacred (William Wellman) 49

1938

  1. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock) 91
  2. Holiday (George Cukor) 90
  3. La Bête humaine (Jean Renoir) 82
  4. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks) 81
  5. The Adventures of Robin Hood (William Keighly) 78
  6. You and Me (Fritz Lang) 65
  7. J'accuse! (Abel Gance) 62
  8. You Can't Take It With You (Frank Capra) 61
  9. Alexander Nevsky (Dmitri Vasilyev) 61
  10. Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz) 60
  11. Room Service (William A. Seiter) 35
  12. Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb (Del Lord) 31

1939

  1. Stagecoach (John Ford) 83
  2. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir) 80
  3. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming) 80
  4. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks) 70
  5. Destry Rides Again (George Marshall) 69
  6. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra) 69
  7. Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch) 64
  8. The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh) 64
  9. Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming) 63
  10. Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford) 55

1940

  1. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks) 97
  2. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor) 91
  3. Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen) 89
  4. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock) 84
  5. The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges) 73
  6. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch) 70
  7. The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin) 68
  8. Fantasia (Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Jim Handley, Hamilton Luske, Ford Bee) 67
  9. They Drive by Night (Raoul Walsh) 62
  10. The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline) 61
  11. The Pursuit of Happiness (Rudy Burckhardt) 60
  12. An American March (Oskar Fischinger) 50
  13. Ahí está en detalle (Juan Bustillo Oro) 48
  14. The Devil Bat (Jean Yarbrough) 46
  15. Go West (Edward Buzzell) 40
  16. The Shadow, Part 14: The Sealed Room (James W. Horne) 35
  17. The Shadow, Part 2: The Shadow Attacks (James W. Horne) 35
  18. The Shadow, Part 8: The Shadow Rides the Rails (James W. Horne) 35
  19. The Shadow, Part 13: The Wheels of Death (James W. Horne) 35

1941

  1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles) 100
  2. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges) 92
  3. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges) 88
  4. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston) 85
  5. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks) 75
  6. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford) 75
  7. Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen) 72
  8. Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Alexander Hall) 69
  9. Tobacco Road (John Ford) 65
  10. 49th Parallel (Michael Powell) 65
  11. High Sierra (Raoul Walsh) 64

1942

  1. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles) 93
  2. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz) 93
  3. To Be or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch) 91
  4. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges) 89
  5. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur) 85
  6. Bambi (David D. Hand) 66
  7. Gentleman Jim (Raoul Walsh) 65
  8. Radio Dynamics (Oskar Fischinger) 54
  9. Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock) 50

1943

  1. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren) 91
  2. Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer) 91
  3. The Raven (Henri-Georges Clouzot) 86
  4. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock) 82
  5. Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak) 74
  6. Geography of the Body (Willard Maas) 62
  7. The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur) 61
  8. Another Dawn (Julio Bracho) 52
  9. Wild Flower (Emilio Fernández) 50

1944

  1. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder) 99
  2. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli) 90
  3. Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges) 88
  4. Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges) 87
  5. At Land (Maya Deren) 83
  6. Laura (Otto Preminger) 77
  7. Henry V (Laurence Olivier) 65
  8. The Uninvited (Lewis Allen) 63
  9. Bon Voyage (Alfred Hitchcock) 47
  10. Aventure malgache (Alfred Hitchcock) 46

1945

  1. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné) 91
  2. Dead of Night (Charles Chrichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer) 90
  3. Detour (Edward G. Ulmer) 87
  4. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson) 86
  5. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz) 80
  6. Brief Encounter (David Lean) 78
  7. Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock) 71
  8. My Name is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis) 60
  9. Campeón sin corona (Alejandro Galindo) 52

1946

  1. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau) 91
  2. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks) 91
  3. Open City (Roberto Rossellini) 90
  4. Matter of Life and Death, A (Emeric Pressburger) 84
  5. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock) 83
  6. Gilda (King Vidor) 71
  7. The Killers (Robert Sidomak) 69
  8. It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra) 67
  9. The Potted Psalm (James Broughton) 64
  10. Duel in the Sun (King Vidor) 60
  11. Ritual in Transfigured Time (Maya Deren) 59
  12. Night in Casablanca, A (Archie Mayo) 45

1947

  1. Fireworks (Kenneth Anger) 90
  2. Black Narcissus (Emeric Pressburger) 89
  3. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur) 88
  4. Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger) 84
  5. Dead Reckoning (John Cromwell) 74
  6. Dark Passage (Delmer Daves) 63
  7. Miracle on 34th St. (George Seaton) 54
  8. Hidden River (Emilio Fernández) 52

1948

  1. The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica) 93
  2. Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls) 91
  3. The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles) 89
  4. Foreign Affair, A (Billy Wilder) 87
  5. Jour de fête [color version] (Jaques Tati) 81
  6. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston) 80
  7. Key Largo (John Huston) 71
  8. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock) 70
  9. The Big Clock (John Farrow) 65
  10. Hamlet (Laurence Olivier) 59
  11. Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa) 58
  12. They Caught the Ferry (Carl Theodor Dreyer) 46
  13. Maclovia (Emilio Fernández) 45
  14. Hot Cross Bunny (Robert McKimson) 44
  15. Color Rhapsodie (Ted Nemeth) 43

1949

  1. They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray) 90
  2. The Third Man (Carol Reed) 90
  3. Orpheus (Jean Cocteau) 89
  4. White Heat (Raoul Walsh) 81
  5. Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak) 70
  6. Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger) 64
  7. Adam's Rib (George Cukor) 63
  8. Caught (Max Ohpuls) 60
  9. For Scent-imental Reasons (Chuck Jones) 56
  10. Pueblerina (Emilio Fernández) 50

1950

  1. Les Enfants terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville) 92
  2. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz) 91
  3. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder) 90
  4. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray) 83
  5. Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson) 82
  6. La Ronde (Max Ophüls) 66
  7. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa) 64
  8. Aventurera (Alberto Gout) 57
  9. Rabbit's Moon (Kenneth Anger) 56
  10. Hypo-condri-cat (Chuck Jones) 50
  11. Bunker Hill Bunny (Friz Freleng) 48

1951

  1. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock) 89
  2. Streetcar Named Desire, A (Elia Kazan) 73
  3. The African Queen (John Huston) 66
  4. An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli) 65
  5. The Big Carnival (Billy Wilder) 64
  6. The Thing From Another World (Christian Nyby) 63

1952

  1. Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica) 91
  2. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa) 85
  3. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen) 84
  4. The Importance of Being Earnest (Anthony Asquith) 66
  5. Color Cry (Len Lye) 56
  6. Scandal Sheet (Phil Karlson) 55
  7. Abstronic (Ted Nemeth) 54

1953

  1. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi) 92
  2. Madame de... (Max Ophüls) 91
  3. Tokyo Story (Yasijiro Ozu) 86
  4. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang) 79
  5. Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati) 76
  6. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks) 76
  7. How to Marry a Millionaire (Jean Negulesco) 67
  8. From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinneman) 66
  9. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (Roy Rowland) 65
  10. Under the Brooklyn Bridge (Rudy Burckhardt) 64
  11. Eaux d'artifice (Kenneth Anger) 63
  12. Mood Contrasts (Ted Nemeth) 62
  13. I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock) 59
  14. Espaldas mojadas (Alejandro Galindo) 51

1954

  1. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa) 92
  2. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray) 91
  3. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock) 89
  4. La Strada (Frederico Fellini) 81
  5. Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk) 74
  6. Les Maîtres fous (Jean Rouch) 73
  7. The Way to Shadow Garden (Stan Brakhage) 72
  8. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan) 68
  9. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger) 66
  10. Sabrina (Billy Wilder) 64
  11. Human Desire (Fritz Lang) 58

1955

  1. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton) 94
  2. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich) 91
  3. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk) 90
  4. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer) 89
  5. Night and Fog (Alain Resnais) 85
  6. The Ladykillers (Alexander MacKendrick) 84
  7. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray) 82
  8. Reflections in Black (Stan Brakhage) 81
  9. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray) 70
  10. Lola Montès (Max Ophüls) 69
  11. To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock) 68
  12. It's Always Fair Weather (Gene Kelly) 66
  13. One Froggy Evening (Chuck Jones) 65
  14. Rififi (Jules Dassin) 64
  15. The Trouble With Harry (Alfred Hitchcock) 63
  16. The Man With the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger) 62
  17. Aviary (Joseph Cornell) 56
  18. Bride of the Monster (Jr.) 44
  19. Lady and the Tramp (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson) 43

1956

  1. Man Escaped, A (Robert Bresson) 93
  2. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk) 91
  3. The Searchers (John Ford) 90
  4. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick) 71
  5. The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin) 70
  6. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray) 67
  7. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock) 64
  8. The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille) 38

1957

  1. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick) 92
  2. Nights of Cabiria (Frederico Fellini) 91
  3. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick) 91
  4. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman) 88
  5. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa) 78
  6. Les Mistons (François Truffaut) 76
  7. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman) 75
  8. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin) 71
  9. The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk) 66
  10. Zoom and Bored (Chuck Jones) 53
  11. Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice (Ken Jacobs) 52
  12. Little Cobra Dance (Ken Jacobs) 51
  13. Nymphlight (Joseph Cornell) 50
  14. Legend for Fountains (Fragments), A (Joseph Cornell) 49

1958

  1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock) 100
  2. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles) 91
  3. Movie, A (Bruce Connor) 91
  4. Mon oncle (Jacques Tati) 77
  5. Bridges Go Round (Shirley Clarke) 71
  6. Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol) 70
  7. Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda) 66
  8. The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa) 65
  9. Gigi (Vincente Minnelli) 60
  10. Party Girl (Nicholas Ray) 59

1959

  1. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock) 100
  2. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson) 93
  3. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut) 92
  4. Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder) 91
  5. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger) 87
  6. Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais) 79
  7. Les Cousins (Claude Chabrol) 78
  8. Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage) 77
  9. Shadows (John Cassavetes) 70
  10. Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu) 69
  11. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju) 68
  12. The Tiger of Eschnapur (Fritz Lang) 60
  13. Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus) 59
  14. Science Friction (Stan Vanderbeek) 58
  15. Darby O'Gill and the Little People (Robert Stevenson) 57
  16. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk) 56
  17. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher) 55
  18. Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi) 53
  19. Ben-Hur (William Wyler) 44
  20. Edge of Eternity (Don Siegel) 43

1960

  1. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard) 93
  2. Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut) 92
  3. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock) 91
  4. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni) 87
  5. The Apartment (Billy Wilder) 85
  6. La Dolce vita (Frederico Fellini) 83
  7. Les Bonnes femmes (Claude Chabrol) 82
  8. La Dolce vita (Federico Fellini) 82
  9. Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima) 75
  10. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell) 74
  11. Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti) 71
  12. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman) 66
  13. Comanche Station (Budd Boetticher) 54
  14. Munro (Gene Deitch) 47
  15. Star Spangled to Death [excerpts, 58-60] (Ken Jacobs) 40
  16. Pollyanna (David Swift) 36

1961

  1. Jules and Jim (François Truffaut) 96
  2. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Robert Enrico) 86
  3. Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith) 84
  4. Woman is a Woman, A (Jean-Luc Godard) 83
  5. Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville) 78
  6. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards) 77
  7. Pigs and Battleships (Shohei Imamura) 71
  8. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais) 70
  9. Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini) 68
  10. Ursula (Lloyd Michael Williams) 66
  11. West Side Story (Robert Wise) 64
  12. The Death of P'town (Ken Jacobs) 50
  13. Scotch Tape (Jack Smith) 48
  14. Arabesque For Kenneth Anger (Marie Menken) 46
  15. The Parent Trap (David Swift) 39

1962

  1. Jetée, La (Chris Marker) 93
  2. My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard) 93
  3. Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski) 84
  4. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer) 83
  5. Sundays and Cybele (Serge Bourguignon) 82
  6. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel) 81
  7. Blonde Cobra (Ken Jacobs) 80
  8. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean) 75
  9. The House is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad) 73
  10. The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson) 72
  11. Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey) 68
  12. My Name is Ivan (Andrei Tarkovsky) 65
  13. Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah) 64
  14. Playboy of the Western World (Brian Desmond Hurst) 58
  15. P.M. (Sabá Cabrera) 57
  16. Long Day's Journey Into Night (Sydney Lumet) 56

1963

  1. Little Stabs at Happiness (Ken Jacobs) 91
  2. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard) 90
  3. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock) 87
  4. 8 1/2 (Frederico Fellini) 86
  5. Muriel (Alain Resnais) 85
  6. Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard) 84
  7. Mothlight (Stan Brakhage) 78
  8. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa) 74
  9. Borom Sarret (Ousmane Sembene) 68
  10. The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura) 67
  11. Towers Open Fire (William S. Burroughs) 65
  12. Blow Job (Andy Warhol) 65
  13. Hud (Martin Ritt) 64
  14. The Trial (Orson Welles) 63
  15. Eve (Joseph Losey) 62
  16. The Cool World (Shirley Clarke) 61
  17. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer) 56
  18. Overstimulated [60-63] (Jack Smith) 50
  19. Normal Love (Jack Smith) 49
  20. Normal Love Addendum Reel (Jack Smith) 46
  21. Blood Feast (Herschell Gordon Lewis) 46
  22. The Silence (Ingmar Bergman) 45

1964

  1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick) 92
  2. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy) 92
  3. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara) 91
  4. I Am Cuba (Mikheil Kalatozov) 90
  5. Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger) 89
  6. The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller) 83
  7. Hard Day's Night, A (Richard Lester) 82
  8. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock) 82
  9. Kiss Me, Stupid (Billy Wilder) 78
  10. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni) 71
  11. Yoko Ono Film No. 4 (Yoko Ono) 66
  12. Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone) 65
  13. Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage) 64
  14. Mario Banana (No. 1) (Andy Warhol) 64
  15. Mario Banana (No. 2) (Andy Warhol) 64
  16. Fist Fight (Robert Breer) 63
  17. The Pumpkin Eater (Jack Clayton) 62
  18. Zorba the Greek (Michael Cacoyannis) 61
  19. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton) 60
  20. Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel) 59
  21. Lilith (Robert Rossen) 58
  22. Becket (Peter Glenville) 55
  23. Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson) 54
  24. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (Nicholas Webster) 32

1965

  1. Repulsion (Roman Polanski) 90
  2. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard) 84
  3. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard) 83
  4. The Saragossa Manuscript (Wojciech Has) 83
  5. The Koumiko Mystery (Chris Marker) 81
  6. Disappearaing Music For Face (Mieko Shiomi) 77
  7. Man is not a Bird (Dusan Makavejev) 76
  8. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo) 75
  9. Juliet of the Spirits (Frederico Fellini) 70
  10. Oh Dem Watermelons (Robert Nelson) 69
  11. Poor Little Rich Girl (Andy Warhol) 69
  12. Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger) 66
  13. Gymnopedies (Larry Jordan) 56
  14. Six in Paris (Jean Douchet, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Eric Rohmer, Jean Rouch) 54
  15. The Sound of Music (Robert Wise) 46
  16. Thunderball (Terence Young) 45

1966

  1. Persona (Ingmar Bergman) 89
  2. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson) 87
  3. Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (Jean Eustache) 84
  4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone) 84
  5. Hold Me While I'm Naked (George Kuchar) 82
  6. Ray Gun Virus (Paul Sharits) 78
  7. Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka) 77
  8. Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene) 74
  9. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols) 70
  10. What's Up Tiger Lily? (Woody Allen) 69
  11. Masculine-Feminine (Jean-Luc Godard) 68
  12. Outer and Inner Space (Andy Warhol) 68
  13. Film (Alan Schneider) 67
  14. Castro Street (Bruce Baillie) 66
  15. Hall of Mirrors (Warren Sonbert) 63
  16. Who Ho Ray No. 1 (Stan Vanderbeek) 62
  17. Respectable Creatures (Jack Smith) 60
  18. All My Life (Bruce Baillie) 59
  19. King of Hearts (Phillipe de Broca) 55
  20. The Little Chaos (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 54
  21. Six Figures Getting Sick (Six Times) (David Lynch) 54
  22. The City Tramp (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 52
  23. Black Tight Killers (Yasuharu Hasebe) 49

1967

  1. Playtime (Jacques Tati) 92
  2. Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel) 91
  3. Mouchette (Robert Bresson) 87
  4. Week-End (Jean-Luc Godard) 86
  5. Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville) 85
  6. Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki) 84
  7. Wavelength (Michael Snow) 83
  8. Point Blank (John Boorman) 82
  9. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn) 81
  10. The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó) 80
  11. Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev) 79
  12. Fearless Vampire Killers, or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth are in my Neck (Roman Polanski) 67
  13. The Graduate (Mike Nichols) 66
  14. Don't Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker) 66
  15. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard) 66
  16. In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks) 65
  17. Two for the Road (Stanley Donen) 64
  18. Four Girls (Keewatin Dewdney) 63
  19. Sailboat (Joyce Wieland) 60
  20. Ulysses (Joseph Strick) 59
  21. Barefoot in the Park (Gene Saks) 56
  22. Made in U.S.A. (Jean-Luc Godard) 52
  23. Reefers of Technicolor Island (Jack Smith) 50
  24. Por Primera Vez (Octavio Cortázar) 45

1968

  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick) 100
  2. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski) 91
  3. Faces (John Cassavetes) 83
  4. Innocence Unprotected (Dusan Makavejev) 74
  5. If... (Lindsay Anderson) 72
  6. Night of the Living Dead (George Romero) 71
  7. The Alphabet (David Lynch) 68
  8. The Profound Desire of the Gods (Shohei Imamura) 65
  9. Rat Life and Diet in North America (Joyce Wieland) 64
  10. The Virgin of Pessac (Jean Eustache) 62
  11. Barbarella (Roger Vadim) 54
  12. Midsummer Night's Dream, A (Peter Hall) 50
  13. Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli) 40

1969

  1. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky) 93
  2. My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer) 93
  3. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah) 91
  4. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville) 81
  5. Une Femme douce (Robert Bresson) 80
  6. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger) 79
  7. Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen) 66
  8. The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (Les Blank) 66
  9. My Name is Oona (Gunvor Nelson) 65
  10. Z ( Costa-Gavras) 65
  11. Mississippi Mermaid (François Truffaut) 64
  12. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky) 63
  13. Invocation of My Demon Brother (Kenneth Anger) 62
  14. Satyricon (Frederico Fellini) 58
  15. King Lear (Iosef Shapiro) 56
  16. Reason Over Passion (Joyce Wieland) 50
  17. Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 49
  18. Mondo Trasho (John Waters) 48
  19. Bambi Meets Godzilla (Marv Newland) 33

1970

  1. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci) 91
  2. Zorn's Lemma (Hollis Frampton) 91
  3. Tristana (Luis Buñuel) 83
  4. Husbands (John Cassavetes) 80
  5. Trash (Paul Morrissey) 77
  6. Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr) 75
  7. Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog) 74
  8. Cercle Rouge, Le (Jean-Pierre Melville) 72
  9. Necrology (Standish Lawder) 71
  10. THX 1138 (George Lucas) 68
  11. Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Michael Fengler) 67
  12. The Pig (Jean-Michel Barjol) 66
  13. The Grandmother (David Lynch) 66
  14. Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger) 65
  15. Fogline (Larry Gottheim) 65
  16. Gimme Shelter (David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin) 64
  17. MASH (Robert Altman) 64
  18. Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman) 64
  19. Bread and Alley (Abbas Kiarostami) 63
  20. Song For Rent [70s] (Jack Smith) 54
  21. Bowery Dawn [70s] (Jack Smith) 52
  22. Hot Air Specialists [70s] (Jack Smith) 51
  23. The Aristocats (Wolfgang Reitherman) 38

1971

  1. Nostalgia (Hollis Frampton) 93
  2. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman) 84
  3. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman) 83
  4. W.R.--Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev) 82
  5. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich) 81
  6. The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda) 80
  7. Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes) 75
  8. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel) 73
  9. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby) 72
  10. Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 70
  11. Klute (Alan J. Pakula) 69
  12. Clockwork Orange, A (Stanley Kubrick) 68
  13. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart) 66
  14. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles) 60
  15. Bananas (Woody Allen) 59
  16. Serpent (Scott Bartlett) 50
  17. Diamonds are Forever (Guy Hamilton) 46

1972

  1. Aguirre, Wrath of God (Werner Herzog) 91
  2. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 91
  3. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) 90
  4. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise (Luis Buñuel) 80
  5. Love in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer) 79
  6. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky) 77
  7. Pink Flamingos (John Waters) 76
  8. Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard) 74
  9. The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 71
  10. Sambizanga (Sarah Maldoror) 70
  11. Cabaret (Bob Fosse) 68
  12. Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci) 68
  13. Sky Blue Water Light Sign (J.J. Murphy) 67
  14. Play it Again, Sam (Herbert Ross) 66
  15. Break Time (Abbas Kiarostami) 58
  16. Female Convict \"Scorpion\"--Jailhouse 41 (Shunya Ito) 57
  17. History Lessons (Danièle Huillet) 56
  18. Super Fly (Gordon Parks Jr.) 55
  19. Behind the Green Door (James L. Mitchell) 54
  20. Jesus Christ Superstar (Norman Jewison) 53

1973

  1. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache) 95
  2. Badlands (Terrence Malick) 94
  3. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman) 89
  4. Scenes From a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman) 88
  5. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese) 87
  6. Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 75
  7. Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg) 73
  8. Casual Relations (Mark Rappaport) 70
  9. Day For Night (François Truffaut) 66
  10. The Last Detail (Hal Ashby) 65
  11. Sleeper (Woody Allen) 64
  12. Love and Anarchy (Lina Wertmüller) 60
  13. The Experience (Abbas Kiarostami) 57
  14. The Exorcist (William Friedkin) 56
  15. Fantastic Planet (René Laloux) 55
  16. Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse) 54
  17. Terminal Island (Stephanie Rothman) 45
  18. Detroit 9000 (Arthur Marks) 40

1974

  1. Chinatown (Roman Polanski) 99
  2. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola) 94
  3. Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette) 93
  4. Sweet Movie (Dusan Makavejev) 91
  5. The Godfather, Part II (Francis Ford Copolla) 90
  6. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 86
  7. Woman Under the Influence, A (John Cassavetes) 84
  8. Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson) 82
  9. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper) 82
  10. Every Man For Himself and God Against All (Werner Herzog) 75
  11. The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula) 75
  12. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel) 74
  13. Effi Briest (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 71
  14. 'Rameau's Nephew' by Diderot, Thanx to Dennis Young, by Wilma Schoen (Michael Snow) 69
  15. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky) 68
  16. Mes petites amoureuses (Jean Eustache) 67
  17. California Split (Robert Altman) 66
  18. The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner (Werner Herzog) 65
  19. The Amputee (David Lynch) 62
  20. Zardoz (John Boorman) 57
  21. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks) 56
  22. Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks) 55
  23. Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (Paul Morrissey) 54

1975

  1. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman) 90
  2. Shivers (David Cronenberg) 89
  3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones) 80
  4. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick) 78
  5. Jaws (Steven Spielberg) 77
  6. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir) 76
  7. Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 75
  8. Shampoo (Hal Ashby) 73
  9. Love and Death (Woody Allen) 71
  10. Xala (Ousmane Sembene) 70
  11. Nashville (Robert Altman) 70
  12. Female Trouble (John Waters) 69
  13. Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 68
  14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman) 66
  15. The Passenger (Michaelangelo Antonioni) 65
  16. The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston) 62
  17. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky) 60
  18. Two Solutions for One Problem (Abbas Kiarostami) 50
  19. So Can I (Abbas Kiarostami) 49
  20. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman) 48

1976

  1. Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May) 78
  2. Lost,Lost,Lost (Jonas Mekas) 77
  3. I Only Want You To Love Me (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 74
  4. Satan's Brew (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 69
  5. Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter) 69
  6. Breakfast (Table Top Dolly) (Michael Snow) 68
  7. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese) 66
  8. Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (Bruce Connor) 66
  9. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes) 66
  10. In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima) 65
  11. 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci) 65
  12. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Alain Tanner) 64
  13. The Wedding Suit (Abbas Kiarostami) 62
  14. Carrie (Brian DePalma) 61
  15. Network (Sydney Lumet) 60
  16. Obsession (Brian DePalma) 58
  17. How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck... (Werner Herzog) 57
  18. The Opening of Misty Beethoven (Radley Metzger) 55
  19. The Omen (Richard Donner) 50
  20. Johan Nama Palace (Abbas Kiarostami) 48
  21. Colors (Abbas Kiarostami) 46
  22. King Kong (John Guillermin) 40

1977

  1. Annie Hall (Woody Allen) 92
  2. Stroszek (Werner Herzog) 91
  3. Eraserhead (David Lynch) 90
  4. Perfumed Nightmare (Kidlak Tahimik) 89
  5. The Devil Probably (Robert Bresson) 83
  6. Providence (Alain Resnais) 76
  7. 3 Women (Robert Altman) 71
  8. The American Friend (Wim Wenders) 70
  9. Une sale histoire (Jean Eustache) 69
  10. News From Home (Chantal Akerman) 68
  11. Desperate Living (John Waters) 67
  12. The Last Wave (Peter Weir) 66
  13. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett) 65
  14. Matinée (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo) 64
  15. Star Wars (George Lucas) 63
  16. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg) 62
  17. New York, New York (Martin Scorsese) 62
  18. 11 x 17 (James Benning) 56
  19. Suspiria (Dario Argento) 53
  20. Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (Sam Wannamaker) 48
  21. The Horse (Charles Burnett) 47
  22. Freaky Friday (Gary Nelson) 46
  23. Oh, God! (Carl Reiner) 40
  24. Smokey and the Bandit (Hal Needham) 39
  25. The Rescuers (John Lounsbery, Art Stevens) 38

1978

  1. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick) 93
  2. In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 88
  3. Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris) 87
  4. Dawn of the Dead (George Romero) 74
  5. Ceddo (Ousmane Sembene) 73
  6. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman) 72
  7. Wedding, A (Robert Altman) 71
  8. Halloween (John Carpenter) 70
  9. China 9, Liberty 37 (Monte Hellman) 69
  10. The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese) 68
  11. Girlfriends (Claudia Weill) 66
  12. The Solution (Abbas Kiarostami) 62
  13. National Lampoon's Animal House (John Landis) 61
  14. Superman (Richard Donner) 58
  15. Grease (Randal Kleiser) 50
  16. The Lord of the Rings (Ralph Bakshi) 49
  17. Riverdogs (Robb Moss) 48
  18. The Deer Hunter (Miahael Cimino) 42
  19. Coma (Michael Crichton) 40
  20. Death on the Nile (John Guillerman) 39
  21. Every Which Way but Loose (James Fargo) 38
  22. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (John DeBello) 27
  23. Jaws 2 (Jeannot Szware) 19

1979

  1. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola) 92
  2. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 91
  3. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky) 89
  4. Manhattan (Woody Allen) 88
  5. Life of Brian (Terry Jones) 82
  6. Alien (Ridley Scott) 79
  7. Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura) 72
  8. Tess (Roman Polanski) 66
  9. Nosferatu (Werner Herzog) 65
  10. The Muppet Movie (James Frawley) 65
  11. The Great Santini (Lewis John Carlino) 64
  12. Cool Hands, Warm Heart (Su Friedrich) 60
  13. The Virgin of Pessac 79 (Jean Eustache) 59
  14. Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Vladimir Menshov) 50
  15. The Star Trek: Motion Picture (Robert Wise) 49
  16. Rocky II (Sylvester Stallone) 45
  17. The Amityville Horror (Stuart Rosenberg) 29
  18. Scavenger Hunt (Michael Schultz) 25

1980

  1. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese) 92
  2. The Elephant Man (David Lynch) 91
  3. Airplane! (David Zucker, Jerry Zucker) 90
  4. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa) 87
  5. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick) 85
  6. Loulou (Maurice Pialat) 80
  7. Death Watch (Bertrand Tavernier) 73
  8. The Aviator's Wife (Eric Rohmer) 72
  9. Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood) 69
  10. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme) 68
  11. The Return of the Secaucus Seven (John Sayles) 67
  12. Atlantic City (Louis Malle) 66
  13. The Stunt Man (Richard Rush) 66
  14. The Empire Strikes Back (Irwin Kirshner) 66
  15. Superman II (Richard Lester) 66
  16. The Garden of Earthly Delights of Jérôme Busch (Jean Eustache) 65
  17. City of Women (Frederico Fellini) 64
  18. Breaker Morant (Bruce Beresford) 64
  19. The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty) 64
  20. Altered States (Ken Russell) 64
  21. Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam) 63
  22. Stardust Memories (Woody Allen) 62
  23. Popeye (Robert Altman) 62
  24. The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller) 61
  25. Taxi zum Klo (Frank Ripploh) 61
  26. The Last Metro (François Truffaut) 60
  27. Cruising (William Friedkin) 59
  28. Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino) 58
  29. Les Photos d'Alix (Jean Eustache) 57
  30. Hopscotch (Ronald Neame) 57
  31. The Long Riders (Walter Hill) 56
  32. Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma) 56
  33. Coal Miner's Daughter (Michael Apted) 55
  34. Ordinary People (Robert Redford) 55
  35. Honeysuckle Rose (Jerry Schatzburg) 55
  36. Divine Madness! (Michael Ritchie) 54
  37. The Fog (John Carpenter) 54
  38. The Changeling (Peter Medak) 53
  39. The Passage of the Bride (Phil Solomon) 52
  40. Somewhere in Time (Jeannot Szware) 52
  41. Used Cars (Robert Zemeckis) 52
  42. Brubaker (Stuart Rosenberg) 51
  43. ffolkes (Andrew V. McLaglen) 50
  44. Fame (Alan Parker) 50
  45. Foxes (Adrian Lyne) 50
  46. The Dogs of War (John Irvin) 49
  47. Tooth Ache (Abbas Kiarostami) 48
  48. The Competition (Joel Oliansky) 47
  49. Where the Buffalo Roam (Art Linson) 46
  50. American Gigolo (Paul Schrader) 45
  51. My Bodyguard (Tony Bill) 44
  52. Urban Cowboy (James Bridges) 43
  53. Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges) 42
  54. The Blue Lagoon (Randal Kleiser) 41
  55. 9 to 5 (Colin Higgins) 40
  56. Xanadu (Robert Greenwald) 39
  57. Private Benjamin (Howard Zieff) 38
  58. The Blues Brothers (John Landis) 37
  59. Caddyshack (Harold Ramis) 36
  60. Friday the 13th (Sean S. Cunningham) 35
  61. The Gods Must Be Crazy (Jamie Uys) 34
  62. Oh God! Book II (Gilbert Cates) 27
  63. The Nude Bomb (Richard Donner) 23
  64. Oh Heavenly Dog! (Joe Camp) 17

1981

  1. My Dinner With André (Louis Malle) 88
  2. Blow-out (Brian De Palma) 87
  3. Modern Romance (Albert Brooks) 86
  4. Cutter's Way (Ivan Passer) 76
  5. Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix) 71
  6. Gently Down the Stream (Su Friedrich) 68
  7. Montenegro (Dusan Makavejev) 67
  8. Reds (Warren Beatty) 66
  9. Gallipoli (Peter Weir) 65
  10. Polyester (John Waters) 64
  11. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg) 64
  12. The Great Muppet Caper (Jim Henson) 63
  13. Eijanaika (Shohei Imamura) 62
  14. Chariots of Fire (Hugh Hudson) 61
  15. Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan) 60
  16. Absence of Malice (Sydney Pollack) 59
  17. The Beyond (Lucio Fulci) 58
  18. Clash of the Titans (Desmond Davis) 57
  19. Arthur (Steve Gordon) 56
  20. The French Lieutenant's Woman (Karel Reisz) 55
  21. Escape From New York (John Carpenter) 54
  22. Doubt (Jay Rosenblatt) 53
  23. Regularly or Irregularly (Abbas Kiarostami) 52
  24. S.O.B. (Blake Edwards) 51
  25. Taps (Harold Becker) 50
  26. Stripes (Ivan Reitman) 49
  27. Quest For Fire (Jean-Jacques Annaud) 48
  28. Ghost Story (John Irvin) 47
  29. The Fox and the Hound (Richard Rich, Art Stevens) 46
  30. Only When I Laugh (Glenn Jordan) 45
  31. The Legend of the Lone Ranger (William A. Fraker) 44
  32. An American Werewolf in London (John Landis) 43
  33. The Devil and Max Devlin (Steven Hilliard Stern) 38
  34. Conan the Barbarian (John Milius) 37
  35. The Cannonball Run (Hal Needham) 33
  36. Tribute (Bob Clark) 30

1982

  1. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman) 89
  2. Sans soleil (Chris Marker) 88
  3. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott) 87
  4. Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) 86
  5. The E.T. Extra Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg) 75
  6. Tootsie (Sydney Pollack) 74
  7. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper) 73
  8. The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway) 72
  9. Angel (Neil Jordan) 70
  10. The Return of Martin Guerre (Daniel Vigne) 69
  11. Jom (Ababacar Samb-Makharam) 68
  12. The Dark Crystal (Frank Oz) 67
  13. Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, A (Woody Allen) 66
  14. Degrees of Limitation (Scott Stark) 66
  15. Peel (Jane Campion) 65
  16. The Atomic Cafe (Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty) 64
  17. The Chorus (Abbas Kiarostami) 63
  18. Cafe Flesh (F.X. Pope) 62
  19. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog) 61
  20. Diner (Berry Levinson) 61
  21. The Star Trek: Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer) 60
  22. The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth) 59
  23. Tron (Steven Lisberger) 58
  24. The Thing (John Carpenter) 57
  25. Gandhi (Richard Attenborough) 56
  26. Creepshow (Geroge Romero) 55
  27. 48 HRS. (Walter Hill) 54
  28. The Wall (Alan Parker) 53
  29. The Five Minute Films (Mike Leigh) 52
  30. The Airplane II: Sequel (Ken Filkleman) 51
  31. The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (Colin Higgins) 50
  32. Annie (John Huston) 45
  33. Rocky III (Sylvester Stallone) 40
  34. Young Doctors in Love (Garry Marshall) 35
  35. The Toy (Richard Donner) 34
  36. Savannah Smiles (Pierre De Moro) 20

1983

  1. L'Argent (Robert Bresson) 91
  2. Videodrome (David Cronenberg) 88
  3. Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer) 86
  4. That Day, at the Beach (Edward Yang) 83
  5. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese) 77
  6. Zelig (Woody Allen) 74
  7. Local Hero (Bill Forsyth) 73
  8. First Name: Carmen (Jean-Luc Godard) 66
  9. Passionless Moments (Gerard Lee) 65
  10. Hell Spit Flexion (Stan Brakhage) 64
  11. Ariel (Nathaniel Dorsky) 63
  12. Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark) 62
  13. The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman) 62
  14. Seventeen (Jeff Kreines) 61
  15. Geek Maggot Bingo (Nick Zedd) 60
  16. Poetry in Motion (Ron Mann) 59
  17. The Monty Python's Meaning of Life (Terry Jones) 58
  18. The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg) 57
  19. Sugar Cane Alley (Euzhan Palcy) 56
  20. Something Wicked This Way Comes (Jack Clayton) 55
  21. Brainstorm (Douglas Trumbull) 54
  22. Trading Places (John Landis) 53
  23. Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand) 52
  24. Betrayal (David Hugh Jones) 51
  25. Christmas Story, A (Bob Clark) 50
  26. Never Cry Wolf (Carroll Ballard) 49
  27. WarGames (John Badham) 48
  28. Strange Brew (Dave Thomas) 47
  29. Risky Business (Paul Brickman) 46
  30. Phar Lap (Simon Wincer) 45
  31. Christine (John Carpenter) 44
  32. Never Say Never Again (Irwin Kershner) 43
  33. Superman III (Richard Lester) 42
  34. Cujo (Lewis Teague) 41
  35. High Road to China (Brian G. Hutton) 40
  36. Jaws 3-D (Joe Alves) 30
  37. Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (Lamont Johnson) 25
  38. Mr. Mom (Stan Dragoti) 20

1984

  1. Next of Kin (Atom Egoyan) 90
  2. Girl's Own Story, A (Jane Campion) 89
  3. Love Streams (John Cassavetes) 88
  4. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders) 87
  5. Heimat (Edgar Reitz) 86
  6. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme) 85
  7. Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch) 84
  8. Blood Simple (Joel Coen) 83
  9. This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner) 82
  10. Amadeus (Milos Forman) 82
  11. Repo Man (Paul Cox) 75
  12. The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (Brothers Quay) 74
  13. Peggy and Fred in Hell (Peggy Thorton) 73
  14. After Hours (Martin Scorsese) 72
  15. The Terminator (James Cameron) 71
  16. Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen) 70
  17. Antonio Gaudí (Hiroshi Teshigahara) 69
  18. The Brother From Another Planet (John Sayles) 68
  19. Places in the Heart (Robert Benton) 67
  20. Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli) 66
  21. Choose Me (Alan Rudolph) 65
  22. Dune (David Lynch) 64
  23. Dreamscape (Joseph Ruben) 63
  24. Top Secret! (David Zucker, Jerry Zucker) 62
  25. Doll House (Barbara Hammer) 61
  26. Frankenweenie (Tim Burton) 60
  27. The Muppets Take Manhattan (Frank Oz) 59
  28. The Flamingo Kid (Garry Marshall) 58
  29. The NeverEnding Story (Wolfgang Petersen) 57
  30. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman) 56
  31. Gremlins (Joe Dante) 55
  32. Nightmare on Elm Street, A (Wes Craven) 54
  33. Teachers (Arthur Hiller) 53
  34. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg) 52
  35. Starman (John Carpenter) 51
  36. Iceman (Fred Schepisi) 50
  37. Beverly Hills Cop (Martin Brest) 49
  38. Splash (Ron Howard) 47
  39. The Natural (Barry Levinson) 46
  40. Sixteen Candles (John Hughes) 46
  41. The Razor's Edge (John Byrum) 45
  42. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Leonard Nimoy) 44
  43. My Brother's Wedding (Charles Burnett) 43
  44. Firestarter (Richard Lester) 42
  45. The Last Starfighter (Nick Castle) 41
  46. Oh God! You Devil (Paul Bogart) 40
  47. Micki + Maude (Blake Edwards) 39
  48. Revenge of the Nerds (Jeff Kanew) 38
  49. Red Dawn (John Milius) 37
  50. Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis) 36
  51. Police Academy (Hugh Wilson) 35
  52. Johnny Dangerously (Amy Heckerling) 34
  53. The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen) 33
  54. Supergirl (Jeannot Szware) 16
  55. Irreconcilable Differences (Charles Shyer) 5

1985

  1. Vagabond (Agnes Varda) 88
  2. Brazil (Terry Gilliam) 87
  3. Lost in America (Albert Brooks) 86
  4. Ran (Akira Kurosawa) 79
  5. Zed and Two Naughts, A (Peter Greenaway) 78
  6. Time to Live and a Time to Die, A (Hou Hsiao-hsien) 72
  7. This Unnameable Little Broom (Brothers Quay) 71
  8. Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard) 70
  9. Pee-wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton) 70
  10. Water, Wind, Dust (Amir Naderi) 69
  11. The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan) 68
  12. Prizzi's Honor (John Huston) 68
  13. Taipei Story (Edward Yang) 67
  14. My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears) 66
  15. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen) 65
  16. 26 Bathrooms (Peter Greenaway) 64
  17. Kiss of the Spider Woman (Hector Babenco) 63
  18. Fool for Love (Robert Altman) 62
  19. Witness (Peter Weir) 61
  20. Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman) 60
  21. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis) 59
  22. Optic Nerve (Barbara Hammer) 58
  23. Thrust in Me (Nick Zedd) 57
  24. Three Men and a Cradle (Coline Serreau) 56
  25. Fright Night (Agnieska Holland) 55
  26. Better Off Dead (Savage Steve Holland) 54
  27. Weird Science (John Hughes) 53
  28. Young Sherlock Holmes (Barry Levinson) 52
  29. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (George Ogilvie) 51
  30. Teen Wolf (Rod Daniel) 50
  31. Cat's Eye (Lewis Teague) 49
  32. St. Elmo's Fire (Joel Schumacher) 48
  33. Jagged Edge (Richard Marquand) 47
  34. Return to Oz (Walter Murch) 46
  35. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes) 45
  36. View to a Kill, A (John Glen) 44
  37. Nightmare on Elm Street, Part 2: Freddy's Revenge, A (Jack Sholder) 43
  38. The Black Cauldron (Richard Rich) 42
  39. Cocoon (Ron Howard) 41
  40. Brewster's Millions (Walter Hill) 40
  41. The Return of the Living Dead (Dan O'Bannon) 39
  42. The Jewel of the Nile (Lewis Teague) 38
  43. Clue (Jonathan Lynn) 37
  44. Rocky IV (Sylvester Stallone) 36
  45. Enemy Mine (Wolfgang Petersen) 35
  46. Baby...Secret of the Lost Legend (Bill L. Norton) 19
  47. Silver Bullet (Daniel Attias) 13
  48. Santa Claus (Jeannot Szware) 7

1986

  1. Blue Velvet (David Lynch) 97
  2. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky) 88
  3. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen) 87
  4. Summer (Eric Rohmer) 86
  5. Manhunter (Michael Mann) 85
  6. Two Friends (Jane Campion) 80
  7. Bad Blood (Leos Carax) 76
  8. Street of Crocodiles (Brothers Quay) 75
  9. Better Tomorrow, A (John Woo) 74
  10. Betty Blue (Jean-Jacques Beineix) 73
  11. The Fly (David Cronenberg) 72
  12. Aliens (James Cameron) 71
  13. Mammame (Raoul Ruiz) 70
  14. River's Edge (Tim Hunter) 69
  15. Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan) 68
  16. Something Wild (Jonathan Demme) 67
  17. Sid and Nancy (Paul Cox) 66
  18. The Realm of Fortune (Arturo Ripstein) 65
  19. She's Gotta Have it (Spike Lee) 64
  20. Air (Scott Stark) 64
  21. Room With a View, A (James Ivory) 63
  22. True Stories (David Byrne) 62
  23. Tampopo (Juzo Itami) 61
  24. Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien) 60
  25. Platoon (Oliver Stone) 59
  26. The Color of Money (Martin Scorsese) 58
  27. Ruthless People (David Zucker, Jerry Zucker) 57
  28. Children of a Lesser God (Randa Haines) 56
  29. Luxo, Jr. (John Lasseter) 55
  30. Stand by Me (Rob Reiner) 54
  31. The Morning After (Sydney Lumet) 53
  32. Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola) 52
  33. Labyrinth (Jim Henson) 51
  34. Brighton Beach Memoirs (Gene Saks) 50
  35. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes) 49
  36. Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz) 48
  37. Crocodile Dundee (Peter Faiman) 47
  38. Invaders From Mars (Tobe Hooper) 46
  39. The Money Pit (Richard Benjamin) 45
  40. Pretty in Pink (Howard Deutsh) 44
  41. The Great Mouse Detective (Ron Clements, David Michener, Burny Mattinson) 43
  42. House (Steve Miner) 42
  43. The Three Amigos! (John Landis) 41
  44. Hoosiers (David Anspaugh) 40
  45. The Star Trek IV: Voyage Home (Leonard Nimoy) 39
  46. Wise Guys (Brian De Palma) 38
  47. SpaceCamp (Harry Winer) 37
  48. An American Tail (Don Bluth) 36
  49. Short Circuit (John Badham) 35
  50. Nothing in Common (Garry Marshall) 26
  51. Poltergeist II: The Other Side (Brian Gibson) 25
  52. Top Gun (Tony Scott) 24
  53. Maximum Overdrive (Stephen King) 11

1987

  1. Yeelen (Souleymane Cissé) 92
  2. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders) 91
  3. Broadcast News (Albert Brooks) 83
  4. Camp de Thiaroye (Thierno Faty Sow) 82
  5. Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Eric Rohmer) 78
  6. Near Dark (Katheryn Bigelow) 77
  7. Intervista (Frederico Fellini) 76
  8. Rouge (Stanley Kwan) 75
  9. Medea (Lars von Trier) 74
  10. House of Games (David Mamet) 73
  11. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes) 72
  12. Mournful Indifference (Aleksandr Sokurov) 71
  13. Prick Up Your Ears (Stephen Frears) 70
  14. The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci) 69
  15. Family Viewing (Atom Egoyan) 68
  16. The Belly of an Architect (Peter Greenaway) 67
  17. Raising Arizona (Joel Coen) 66
  18. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick) 65
  19. Barfly (Barbet Schroeder) 64
  20. Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth) 63
  21. Hope and Glory (John Boorman) 62
  22. Robocop (Paul Verhoeven) 61
  23. Radio Days (Woody Allen) 60
  24. Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle) 59
  25. The Dead (John Huston) 58
  26. Damned if You Don't (Su Friedrich) 57
  27. Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi) 56
  28. Better Tomorrow II, A (John Woo) 55
  29. Babette's Feast (Gabriel Avel) 54
  30. The Glass Menagerie (Paul Newman) 53
  31. Angel Heart (Alan Parker) 52
  32. The Running Man (Paul Michael Glaser) 51
  33. Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A (Chuck Russell) 50
  34. The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner) 49
  35. The Witches of Eastwick (George Miller) 48
  36. Predator (John McTiernan) 47
  37. The Bedroom Window (Curtis Hanson) 46
  38. The Big Easy (Jim McBride) 45
  39. Nekromantik (Jorg Buttgereit) 44
  40. Innerspace (Joe Dante) 43
  41. The Short and Curlies (Mike Leigh) 42
  42. Aria (Bruce Beresford, Bill Bryden, Derek Jarman, Jean-Luc Godard, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Charles Stu) 41
  43. Roxanne (Fred Schepisi) 40
  44. The Untouchables (Brian De Palma) 39
  45. Tin Men (Barry Levinson) 38
  46. The Stepfather (Joseph Ruben) 37
  47. Wall Street (Oliver Stone) 36
  48. Gothic (Ken Russell) 35
  49. Dead of Winter (Arthur Penn) 34
  50. Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne) 33
  51. No Way Out (Roger Donaldson) 32
  52. Throw Mama From the Train (Danny DeVito) 31
  53. Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner) 30
  54. The Living Daylights (John Glen) 29
  55. Creepshow 2 (Michael Gornick) 28
  56. Can't Buy Me Love (Steve Rash) 27
  57. Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino) 26
  58. Someone to Watch Over Me (Ridley Scott) 25
  59. The Secret of My Success (Herbert Ross) 24
  60. Black Widow (Bob Rafelson) 23
  61. The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher) 22
  62. Good Morning Vietnam (Barry Levinson) 21
  63. Three Men and a Baby (Leonard Nimoy) 20
  64. The Superman IV: Quest for Peace (Sydney J. Furie) 19
  65. Beverly Hills Cop II (Tony Scott) 13
  66. Summer School (Carl Reiner) 12
  67. The Pick-Up Artist (James Toback) 8
  68. Hello Again (Frank Perry) 4

1988

  1. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies) 91
  2. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg) 91
  3. Drowning By Numbers (Peter Greenaway) 90
  4. Decalogue One (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 90
  5. Decalogue Five (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 89
  6. Decalogue Three (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 88
  7. The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris) 87
  8. Decalogue Two (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 86
  9. Decalogue Four (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 85
  10. My Neighbor Totoro (Hiyao Miyazaki) 84
  11. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman) 74
  12. Dangerous Liasons (Stephen Frears) 73
  13. Rehearsals For Extinct Anatomies (Brothers Quay) 72
  14. Tales From the Gimli Hospital (Guy Maddin) 72
  15. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodóvar) 70
  16. Bull Durham (Ron Shelton) 70
  17. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese) 69
  18. Zan Boko (Gaston Kaboré) 68
  19. The Vanishing (George Sluizer) 68
  20. Comic Book Confidential (Ron Mann) 67
  21. It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (Richard Linklater) 66
  22. Chocolat (Claire Denis) 65
  23. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Robert Zemeckis) 64
  24. Hairspray (John Waters) 63
  25. Fish Called Wanda, A (Charles Crichton) 63
  26. Die Hard (John McTiernan) 62
  27. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (David Zucker) 62
  28. Gap-Toothed Women (Les Blank) 61
  29. The Milagro Beanfield War (Robert Redford) 60
  30. The Lair of the White Worm (Ken Russell) 59
  31. Biloxi Blues (Mike Nichols) 58
  32. Working Girl (Mike Nichols) 57
  33. Married to the Mob (Jonathan Demme) 56
  34. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore) 55
  35. Bagdad Cafe (Percy Adlon) 55
  36. Frantic (Roman Polanski) 54
  37. Beetlejuice (Tim Burton) 53
  38. Big (Penny Marshall) 52
  39. Tequila Sunrise (Robert Towne) 51
  40. D.O.A. (Annabel Jankel) 50
  41. The Moderns (Alan Rudolph) 49
  42. The Serpent and the Rainbow (Wes Craven) 48
  43. Colors (Dennis Hopper) 47
  44. Torch Song Trilogy (Paul Bogart) 46
  45. Big Top Pee-Wee (Randal Kleiser) 45
  46. Rain Man (Barry Levinson) 44
  47. Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker) 43
  48. The Cowboy and the Frenchman (David Lynch) 43
  49. Cocktail (Roger Donaldson) 42
  50. Spaceballs (Mel Brooks) 41
  51. Clean and Sober (Glenn Gordon Caron) 40
  52. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Frank Oz) 39
  53. Crocodile Dundee II (John Cornell) 38
  54. Oliver & Company (George Scribner) 37
  55. Punchline (David Seltzer) 36
  56. Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A (Renny Harlin) 35
  57. Tapeheads (Bill Fishman) 34
  58. Stealing Home (William Porter) 18
  59. Fresh Horses (David Anspaugh) 17

1989

  1. Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant) 92
  2. The Killer (John Woo) 90
  3. Sweetie (Jane Campion) 88
  4. The Asthenic Syndrome (Kira Muratova) 85
  5. The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke) 84
  6. Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte) 78
  7. Too Beautiful For You (Bertrand Blier) 75
  8. The Icicle Thief (Mauritzio Nichetti) 74
  9. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen) 73
  10. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) 73
  11. Henry V (Kenneth Branagh) 72
  12. The Tetsuo: Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto) 72
  13. My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan) 72
  14. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway) 71
  15. Speaking Parts (Atom Egoyan) 71
  16. sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh) 70
  17. Say Anything (Cameron Crowe) 70
  18. Santa sangre (Alejandro Jodorowski) 69
  19. Roger and Me (Michael Moore) 68
  20. Elephant (Alan Clarke) 68
  21. Enemies, a Love Story (Paul Mazursky) 67
  22. The Fabulous Baker Boys (Steve Kloves) 66
  23. The Exquisite Hour (Phil Solomon) 65
  24. Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki) 65
  25. Glory (Edward Zwick) 64
  26. The Abyss (James Cameron) 63
  27. Last Exit to Brooklyn (Uli Edel) 62
  28. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam) 61
  29. Batman (Tim Burton) 60
  30. New York Stories (Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese) 59
  31. May Fools (Louis Malle) 58
  32. The War of the Roses (Danny DeVito) 57
  33. Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford) 56
  34. Road House (Rowdy Herrington) 55
  35. When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner) 54
  36. Sea of Love (Harold Becker) 53
  37. Dead Calm (Phillip Noyce) 52
  38. Kitchen Sink (Alison Maclean) 51
  39. Heathers (Michael Lehmann) 50
  40. Parents (Bob Balaban) 49
  41. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg) 48
  42. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (Joe Johnston) 47
  43. Three Bewildered People in the Night (Gregg Araki) 46
  44. Next of Kin (John Irvin) 45
  45. Pet Sematary (Mary Lambert) 44
  46. Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson) 43
  47. Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir) 42
  48. She-devil (Susan Siedelman) 41
  49. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (William Shatner) 40
  50. Pink Cadillac (Buddy Van Horn) 39
  51. Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone) 38
  52. Weekend at Bernie's (Ted Kotchoff) 37
  53. Parenthood (Ron Howard) 36
  54. Lethal Weapon 2 (Richard Donner) 35
  55. Great Balls of Fire! (Jim McBride) 34
  56. License to Kill (John Glen) 33
  57. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (Steven Herek) 32
  58. Ghostbusters II (Ivan Reitman) 31
  59. Steel Magnolias (Herbert Ross) 15

1990

  1. Short of Breath (Jay Rosenblatt) 94
  2. Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich) 91
  3. Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh) 90
  4. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese) 90
  5. The Grifters (Stephen Frears) 86
  6. Paris is Burning (Jenny Livingston) 80
  7. Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou) 76
  8. An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion) 75
  9. American Dream (Barbara Kopple) 74
  10. The Second Circle (Aleksandr Sokurov) 73
  11. Reversal of Fortune (Barbet Schroeder) 72
  12. Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen) 72
  13. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman) 71
  14. Wild at Heart (David Lynch) 71
  15. The Exorcist III (William Peter Blatty) 70
  16. Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton) 70
  17. Brain in the Desert (Jennifer Frame) 69
  18. The Garden (Derek Jarman) 69
  19. Singapore Sling (Nikos Nikolaidis) 69
  20. Miami Blues (George Armitage) 69
  21. Jollies (Sadie Benning) 68
  22. Europa Europa (Agnieszka Holland) 67
  23. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Tom Stoppard) 66
  24. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante) 66
  25. The Disenchanted (Benoit Jacquot) 65
  26. The Godfather (Coppola) 64
  27. After Dark, My Sweet (James Foley) 63
  28. The Comfort of Strangers (Paul Schrader) 62
  29. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (Akira Kurosawa) 61
  30. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton) 60
  31. Joe Versus the Volcano (John Patrick Shanley) 59
  32. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Pedro Almodóvar) 58
  33. Nikita (Luc Besson) 57
  34. The Reflecting Skin (Philip Ridley) 57
  35. Henry and June (Philip Kaufman) 56
  36. To Sleep With Anger (Charles Burnett) 56
  37. Misery (Rob Reiner) 55
  38. King of New York (Abel Ferrara) 55
  39. Alice (Woody Allen) 54
  40. The Russia House (Fred Schepisi) 54
  41. Postcards From the Edge (Mike Nichols) 53
  42. The Freshman (Andrew Bergman) 53
  43. Presumed Innocent (Alan J. Pakula) 52
  44. Cyrano de Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau) 52
  45. Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven) 51
  46. The Hunt for Red October (John McTiernan) 51
  47. The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley) 50
  48. Hamlet (Franco Zeffirelli) 50
  49. Flatliners (Joel Schumacher) 49
  50. Internal Affairs (Mike Figgis) 49
  51. Memphis Belle (Michael Caton-Jones) 48
  52. Mermaids (Richard Benjamin) 47
  53. Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (James Ivory) 47
  54. Arachnophobia (Frank Marshall) 46
  55. Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty) 46
  56. Tune in Tomorrow... (Jon Amiel) 45
  57. Ghost (Jerry Zucker) 43
  58. The Rescuers Down Under (Mike Gabriel) 42
  59. Narrow Margin (Peter Hyams) 41
  60. Days of Thunder (Tony Scott) 40
  61. The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter (George Miller) 39
  62. Shipwrecked (Nils Gaup) 38
  63. My Blue Heaven (Herbert Ross) 37
  64. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Steve Barron) 36
  65. Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner) 35
  66. Awakenings (Penny Marshall) 34
  67. Kindergarten Cop (Ivan Reitman) 33
  68. Home Alone (Chris Columbus) 32
  69. Rocky V (John G. Avildsen) 31
  70. Die Hard 2 (Renny Harlin) 28
  71. Robocop 2 (Irvin Kershner) 25
  72. Night of the Living Dead (Tom Savini) 25
  73. Lionheart (Sheldon Lettich) 23
  74. Pretty Woman (Garry Marshall) 22
  75. Opportunity Knocks (Donald Petrie) 20
  76. Another 48 HRS. (Walter Hill) 17
  77. Graveyard Shift (Ralph S. Singleton) 14
  78. Bird on a Wire (John Badham) 12
  79. Sibling Rivalry (Carl Reiner) 10

1991

  1. Slacker (Richard Linklater) 92
  2. Brighter Summer Day, A (Edward Yang) 90
  3. Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (Leos Carax) 89
  4. Barton Fink (Joel Coen) 88
  5. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 87
  6. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou) 83
  7. La Belle noiseuse (Jacques Rivette) 82
  8. Europa (Lars Von Trier) 80
  9. My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant) 79
  10. The Adjuster (Atom Egoyan) 76
  11. One False Move (Carl Franklin) 70
  12. Begotten (E. Elias Merhige) 68
  13. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme) 67
  14. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (George Hickenlooper) 67
  15. Olivier, Olivier (Agnieszka Holland) 66
  16. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai) 65
  17. City of Hope (John Sayles) 65
  18. Prospero's Books (Peter Greenaway) 64
  19. Homo Faber (Volker Schlöndorff) 64
  20. Edward II (Derek Jarman) 63
  21. Kafka (Steven Soderbergh) 63
  22. Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll (John McNaughton) 62
  23. Sango Malo (Bassek Ba Kobhio) 62
  24. Thelma and Louise (Ridley Scott) 61
  25. Delicatessen (Marc Caro) 61
  26. Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders) 60
  27. Midnight Clear, A (Stuart Gordon) 60
  28. Rambling Rose (Martha Coolidge) 59
  29. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (James Cameron) 59
  30. High Heels (Pedro Almodóvar) 58
  31. Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui Hark) 58
  32. North on Evers (James Benning) 57
  33. Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese) 57
  34. Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton) 56
  35. JFK (Oliver Stone) 56
  36. Madonna: Truth or Dare (Alek Keshishian) 55
  37. Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks) 55
  38. Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris Jr.) 54
  39. Bugsy (Barry Levinson) 54
  40. Dead Again (Kenneth Branagh) 53
  41. First Comes Love (Su Friedrich) 53
  42. Johnny Stecchino (Roberto Benigni) 52
  43. The Tourist (Robb Moss) 52
  44. New Jack City (Mario Van Peebles) 51
  45. Homicide (David Mamet) 51
  46. Intestinal Fortitude (Colin Barton) 50
  47. The Doctor (Randa Haines) 50
  48. Backdraft (Ron Howard) 49
  49. Body Parts (Eric Red) 49
  50. The Doors (Oliver Stone) 48
  51. Jungle Fever (Spike Lee) 48
  52. Beauty and the Beast (Kirk Wise) 47
  53. The Last Boy Scout (Tony Scott) 47
  54. Frankie and Johnny (Garry Marshall) 46
  55. Point Break (Katheryn Bigelow) 46
  56. The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam) 45
  57. Nekromantik 2 (Jorg Buttgereit) 45
  58. Enchanted April (Mike Newell) 44
  59. Mortal Thoughts (Alan Rudloph) 44
  60. The Commitments (Alan Parker) 43
  61. White Palace (Luis Mandoki) 43
  62. Class Action (Michael Apted) 42
  63. The Rocketeer (Joe Johnston) 42
  64. The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (David Zucker) 41
  65. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Nicholas Meyer) 41
  66. Hudson Hawk (Michael Lehmann) 40
  67. Hot Shots! (Jim Abrahams) 40
  68. Grand Canyon (Lawrence Kasdan) 39
  69. An American Tail: Feivel Goes West (Simon Wells) 39
  70. Straight out of Brooklyn (Matty Rich) 38
  71. The Five Heartbeats (Robert Townsend) 38
  72. The Addam's Family (Barry Sonnenfeld) 37
  73. Other People's Money (Norman Jewison) 37
  74. Doc Hollywood (Michael Caton-Jones) 36
  75. Prince of Tides (Barbara Streisand) 36
  76. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Kevin Reynolds) 35
  77. Paradise (Mary Agnes Donoghue) 35
  78. Hook (Steven Spielberg) 34
  79. Regarding Henry (Mike Nichols) 34
  80. Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (Stephen Herek) 33
  81. Taking Care of Business (Arthur Hiller) 33
  82. Sleeping With the Enemy (Joseph Ruben) 32
  83. Fatal Instinct (John Dirlam) 32
  84. Turtle Beach (Stephen Wallace) 31
  85. My Girl (Howard Zieff) 31
  86. Whore (Ken Russell) 30
  87. What About Bob? (Frank Oz) 30
  88. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze (Michael Pressman) 29
  89. Father of the Bride (Charles Shyer) 29
  90. The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (Curtis Hanson) 28
  91. City Slickers (Blair Underwood) 28
  92. Fried Green Tomatoes (Jon Avnet) 27
  93. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (Stuart Rosenberg) 27
  94. Double Impact (Sheldon Lettich) 26
  95. Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (Simon Wincer) 26
  96. Ernest Scared Stupid (John R. Cherry III) 25
  97. Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (Rachel Talalay) 25
  98. Necessary Roughness (Stan Dragoti) 24
  99. Out for Justice (John Flynn) 24
  100. All I Want For Christmas (Robert Lieberman) 23
  101. Career Opportunities (Bryan Gordon) 23
  102. King Ralph (David S. Ward) 22
  103. Quigley Down Under (simon Wincer) 21
  104. Nothing But Trouble (Dan Aykroyd) 16
  105. The Super (Rod Daniel) 15
  106. Only the Lonely (Chris Columbus) 13
  107. Drop Dead Fred (Ate de Jong) 12
  108. Dutch (Peter Faiman) 11
  109. Pure Luck (Nadia Tass) 10
  110. Another You (Maurice Phillips) 9
  111. Curly Sue (John Hughes) 8

1992

  1. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino) 91
  2. The Player (Robert Altman) 91
  3. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies) 90
  4. The Crying Game (Neil Jordan) 88
  5. Hard Boiled (John Woo) 87
  6. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen) 80
  7. Un coeur en hiver (Claude Sautet) 79
  8. The Hours and Times (Christopher Münch) 77
  9. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch) 77
  10. Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambéty) 76
  11. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood) 76
  12. Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg) 75
  13. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley) 75
  14. The Oak (Lucian Pintilie) 74
  15. Brother's Keeper (Bruce Sinofsky) 74
  16. Careful (Guy Maddin) 73
  17. Howard's End (James Ivory) 73
  18. Winter's Tale, A (Eric Rohmer) 72
  19. Gas Food Lodging (Allison Anders) 72
  20. The Stolen Children (Gianni Amelio) 71
  21. Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon) 71
  22. The Visions of Light: Art of Cinematography (Todd McCarthy, Stuart Samuels) 70
  23. Man Bites Dog (André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde) 70
  24. Benny's Video (Michael Haneke) 70
  25. Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembene) 69
  26. Betty (Claude Chabrol) 69
  27. The Story of Qui Ju (Zhang Yimou) 69
  28. Highway Patrolman (Paul Cox) 68
  29. The Jar (Ebrahim Forouzesh) 68
  30. Mammals That Gnaw (Chris Smith) 68
  31. The Best Intentions (Bille August) 67
  32. March Comes in Like a Lion (Hitoshi Yazaki) 67
  33. Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (Shinya Tsukamoto) 67
  34. El Mariachi (Robert Rodriguez) 66
  35. Braindead (Peter Jackson) 66
  36. Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski) 65
  37. The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann) 65
  38. Tom Wheeler (Chris Smith) 65
  39. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (Peter Wintonick) 64
  40. Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara) 64
  41. Romper Stomper (Geoffrey Wright) 63
  42. Malcolm X (Spike Lee) 63
  43. Singles (Cameron Crowe) 62
  44. Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven) 62
  45. Police Story 3: Supercop (Stanley Tong) 61
  46. I'll Love You Forever...Tonight (Edgar Michael Bravo) 61
  47. Cronos (Guillermo del Toro) 60
  48. Flaming Ears (A. Hans Scheirl, Dietmar Schipek) 60
  49. Baraka (Ron Fricke) 59
  50. Map of the Human Heart (Vincent Ward) 59
  51. Batman Returns (Tim Burton) 58
  52. Like Water For Chocolate (Alfonso Arau) 58
  53. Alien3 (David Fincher) 57
  54. Red Rock West (John Dahl) 57
  55. The Playboys (Gillies MacKinnon) 56
  56. Tokyo Decadence (Ryu Murakami) 56
  57. Hero (Stephen Frears) 55
  58. Sneakers (Phil Alden Robinson) 55
  59. Night and the City (Irvin Winkler) 54
  60. Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola) 54
  61. The Lawnmower Man (Brett Leonard) 53
  62. White Men Can't Jump (Ron Shelton) 53
  63. Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris) 52
  64. Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen) 52
  65. Few Good Men, A (Rob Reiner) 51
  66. The Mambo Kings (Arne Glimcher) 51
  67. The Muppet Christmas Carol (Jim Henson) 50
  68. An Aria on Gaze (Hisayasu Sato) 50
  69. Aladdin (John Musker) 49
  70. River Runs Through It, A (Robert Redford) 49
  71. Scent of a Woman (Martin Brest) 48
  72. Medicine Man (John McTiernan) 48
  73. The Cutting Edge (Paul Michael Glaser) 47
  74. Far and Away (Ron Howard) 47
  75. Death Becomes Her (Robert Zemeckis) 46
  76. Mr. Baseball (Fred Schepisi) 46
  77. Pet Sematary II (Mary Lambert) 45
  78. League of Their Own, A (Penny Marshall) 45
  79. School Ties (Robert Mandel) 44
  80. The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (Allan Moyle) 44
  81. Under Siege (Andrew Davis) 43
  82. Unlawful Entry (Jonathan Kaplan) 43
  83. Passenger 57 (Kevin Hooks) 42
  84. Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (Randal Kleiser) 42
  85. Roadside Prophets (Abbe Wool) 41
  86. Toys (Barry Levinson) 41
  87. The Tom and Jerry: Movie (Phil Roman) 40
  88. The Mighty Ducks (Stephen Herek) 40
  89. Honeymoon in Vegas (Andrew Bergman) 39
  90. Sleepwalkers (Mick Garris) 39
  91. Single White Female (Barbet Schroeder) 38
  92. Sister Act (Emile Ardolino) 38
  93. Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce) 37
  94. Twin Dragons (Tsui Hark) 37
  95. Ferngully, the Last Rainforest (Bill Kroyer) 36
  96. Rock-a-doodle (Don Bluth) 36
  97. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Chris Columbus) 35
  98. Housesitter (Frank Oz) 35
  99. Boomerang (Reginald Hudlin) 34
  100. Beethoven (Brian Levant) 34
  101. Forever Young (Steve Miner) 33
  102. The Bodyguard (Mick Jackson) 33
  103. Buffy, the Vampire Slayer (Fran Rubel Kuzui) 32
  104. Straight Talk (Barnet Kellman) 32
  105. Memoirs of an Invisible Man (John Carpenter) 31
  106. Rapid Fire (Dwight H. Little) 31
  107. Universal Soldier (Roland Emmerich) 30
  108. Pure Country (Christopher Cain) 30
  109. Encino Man (Les Mayfield) 29
  110. Child's Play 3 (Jack Bender) 27
  111. 3 Ninjas (Jon Turteltaub) 25
  112. Consenting Adults (Alan J. Pakula) 22
  113. Innocent Blood (John Landis) 21
  114. Ladybugs (Sydney J. Furie) 20
  115. Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (John Glen) 19
  116. Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot (Roger Spottiswoode) 17
  117. Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner) 15

1993

  1. Calendar (Atom Egoyan) 91
  2. Short Cuts (Robert Altman) 91
  3. The Piano (Jane Campion) 88
  4. Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 87
  5. Passage à l'acte (Matthew Arnold) 85
  6. Naked (Mike Leigh) 84
  7. King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh) 83
  8. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater) 82
  9. 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (François Girard) 80
  10. Ma Saison préférée (André Téchiné) 78
  11. Latcho Drom (Tony Gatlif) 76
  12. Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (Steven M. Martin) 74
  13. Dottie Gets Spanked (Todd Haynes) 72
  14. Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano) 72
  15. Malice (Harold Becker) 71
  16. Hélas pour moi (Jean-Luc Godard) 70
  17. In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan) 70
  18. The Scent of Green Papaya (Anh Hung Tran) 69
  19. The Snapper (Stephen Frears) 69
  20. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese) 69
  21. Farewell, My Concubine (Kaige Chen) 68
  22. Blue (Derek Jarman) 68
  23. Madadayo (Akira Kurosawa) 67
  24. Perfect World, A (Clint Eastwood) 67
  25. The Puppetmaster (Hsiao-hsien Hou) 67
  26. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg) 66
  27. Iron Monkey (Woo-ping Yuen) 66
  28. Once a Cop (Stanley Tong) 66
  29. Executioners (Johnny To) 66
  30. The Boys of St. Vincent (John N. Smith) 65
  31. Samba Traore (Idrissa Ouedraogo) 65
  32. Backbeat (Iain Softley) 65
  33. Strawberry and Chocolate (Juan Carlos Tabío) 65
  34. Faraway, So Close! (Wim Wenders) 64
  35. Household Saints (Nancy Savoca) 64
  36. In the Land of the Deaf (Nicolas Philibert) 64
  37. Menace II Society (Hughes) 64
  38. Wittgenstein (Derek Jarman) 63
  39. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick) 63
  40. Zero Patience (John Greyson) 63
  41. D'Est (Chantal Akerman) 63
  42. Six Degrees of Separation (Fred Schepisi) 62
  43. Matinee (Joe Dante) 62
  44. The Music of Chance (Philip Haas) 62
  45. The Wonderful (Müller) 62
  46. True Romance (Tony Scott) 61
  47. Hard Target (John Woo) 61
  48. The Harrowing (Stan Brakhage) 61
  49. Stellar (Stan Brakhage) 61
  50. Study in Color and Black and White (Stan Brakhage) 61
  51. Searching for Bobby Fischer (Steven Zaillian) 60
  52. Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh) 60
  53. Kika (Pedro Amodóvar) 60
  54. Mi vida loca (Allison Anders) 60
  55. Naked in New York (Daniel Algrant) 59
  56. Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara) 59
  57. Little Buddha (Bernardo Bertolucci) 59
  58. The Summer House (Waris Hussein) 59
  59. Fearless (Peter Weir) 58
  60. M. Butterfly (David Cronenberg) 58
  61. Road Scholar (Roger Weisberg) 58
  62. Totally F**ked Up (Gregg Araki) 58
  63. Germinal (Claude Berri) 57
  64. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Gus Van Sant) 57
  65. The Birth of Love (Philippe Garrel) 57
  66. Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme) 57
  67. Dave (Ivan Reitman) 56
  68. Bronx Tale, A (Robert DeNiro) 56
  69. Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen) 56
  70. Anna (Nikita Mikhalkov) 56
  71. Bodies, Rest and Motion (Michael Steinberg) 55
  72. The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee) 55
  73. Orlando (Sally Potter) 55
  74. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis) 55
  75. The House of the Spirits (Bille August) 54
  76. This Boy's Life (Brian Caton-Jones) 54
  77. Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg) 54
  78. Rising Sun (Philip Kaufman) 54
  79. Untamed Heart (Tony Bill) 53
  80. Sommersby (Jon Amiel) 53
  81. The Good Son (Joseph Ruben) 53
  82. Shadowlands (Richard Attenborough) 53
  83. What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (Lasse Hallström) 52
  84. Addam's Family Values (Barry Sonnenfeld) 52
  85. Alive (Frank Marshall) 52
  86. Jack the Bear (Marshall Herskowitz) 52
  87. The Fugitive (Andrew Davis) 51
  88. Indian Summer (Mike Binder) 51
  89. Benny and Joon (Jeremiah Chechik) 51
  90. Ethan Frome (John Madden) 51
  91. Aspen Extreme (Patrick Hasburgh) 50
  92. Three of Hearts (Yurek Bogayevicz) 50
  93. Mad Dog and Glory (John McNaughton) 50
  94. The Sandlot (David M. Evans) 50
  95. Carlito's Way (Brian DePalma) 50
  96. In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen) 49
  97. What's Love Got to Do With It? (Brian Gibson) 49
  98. If Andy Warhol's Super-8 Camera Could Talk (Randy Bogawa) 49
  99. The Joy Luck Club (Wayne Wang) 49
  100. Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (Duwayne Dunham) 48
  101. Guilty as Sin (Sydney Lumet) 48
  102. Heaven and Earth (Oliver Stone) 48
  103. Flesh and Bone (Steve Kloves) 48
  104. Sleepless In Seattle (Nora Ephron) 48
  105. Hot Shots! Part Deux (Jim Abrahams) 47
  106. Boxing Helena (Jennifer Chambers Lynch) 47
  107. The Firm (Sydney Pollack) 47
  108. Poetic Justice (John Singleton) 47
  109. Last Action Hero (John McTiernan) 47
  110. The Coneheads (Steve Barron) 46
  111. So I Married an Axe Murderer (Thomas Schlamme) 46
  112. Meteor Man (Robert Townsend) 46
  113. Another Stakeout (John Badham) 45
  114. Son In Law (Steve Rash) 45
  115. Free Willy (Simon Wincer) 45
  116. Dragon, the Bruce Lee Story (Rob Cohen) 45
  117. Kalifornia (Dominic Sena) 44
  118. Posse (Mario Van Peebles) 44
  119. Tombstone (George P. Cosmatos) 44
  120. Sliver (Phillip Noyce) 43
  121. Indecent Proposal (Adrian Lyne) 43
  122. Grumpy Old Men (Donald Petrie) 43
  123. Robin Hood: Men in Tights (Mel Brooks) 43
  124. Cliffhanger (Renny Harlin) 42
  125. Wayne's World 2 (Stephen Surjik) 42
  126. My Boyfriend's Back (Bob Balaban) 42
  127. Point of No Return (John Badham) 41
  128. The Vanishing (George Sluizer) 41
  129. Final Analysis (Phil Juanou) 40
  130. The Pelican Brief (Alan J. Pakula) 39
  131. Who's the Man? (Ted Demme) 38
  132. Made in America (Richard Benjamin) 37
  133. Life With Mikey (James Lapine) 36
  134. Super Mario Bros. (Rocky Morton) 34
  135. Rookie of the Year (Daniel Stern) 32
  136. Hocus Pocus (Kenny Ortega) 31
  137. The Adventres of Huck Finn (Stephen Sommers) 30
  138. Born Yesterday (Louis Mandoki) 28
  139. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (Stuart Gillard) 26
  140. Once Upon a Forest (David Michener) 24
  141. Loaded Weapon I (Gene Quintano) 22
  142. Cop and a Half (Henry Winkler) 20
  143. Weekend at Bernies (Robert Klane) 19
  144. Far Off Place, A (Mikael Salomon) 17
  145. Body of Evidence (Uli Edel) 15
  146. Dennis the Menace (Nick Castle) 9
  147. Mrs. Doubtfire (Chris Columbus) 8

1994

  1. Exotica (Atom Egoyan) 95
  2. Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 94
  3. Crumb (Terry Zwigoff) 91
  4. Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson) 91
  5. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino) 91
  6. Chungking Express (Kar-wai Wong) 90
  7. Sátántángo (Béla Tarr) 89
  8. Vanya on 42nd St. (Louis Malle) 88
  9. Cold Water (Olivier Assayas) 86
  10. I'll Walk With God (Scott Stark) 86
  11. Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami) 84
  12. Wild Reeds (André Téchiné) 81
  13. Caro diario (Nanni Moretti) 79
  14. Lamerica (Gianni Amelio) 78
  15. Ashes of Time (Kar-wai Wong) 77
  16. Ladybird, Ladybird (Ken Loach) 76
  17. To Live (Zhang Yimou) 74
  18. White (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 72
  19. The Legend of Drunken Master (Chia-Liang Liu) 71
  20. The Smell of Burning Ants (Jay Rosenblatt) 71
  21. Hoop Dreams (Steve James) 70
  22. Little Women (Gillian Armstrong) 70
  23. La Séparation (Christian Vincent) 70
  24. L'Enfer (Claude Chabrol) 69
  25. Vive L'Amour (Ming-Liang Tsai) 69
  26. JLG/JLG (Jean-Luc Godard) 69
  27. Ed Wood (Tim Burton) 68
  28. Speed (Jan de Bont) 68
  29. Charlie Chimp (Chris Smith) 68
  30. Before the Rain (Milcho Manchevski) 68
  31. Fate (Fred Kelemen) 67
  32. Nobody Loves Me (Doris Dörrie) 67
  33. Ermo (Xiaowen Zhou) 67
  34. Barcelona (Whit Stillman) 67
  35. Quiz Show (Robert Redford) 66
  36. The Last Seduction (John Dahl) 66
  37. Spanking the Monkey (David O. Russell) 66
  38. The Day the Sun Turned Cold (Yim Ho) 66
  39. Black Ice (Stan Brakhage) 65
  40. Burnt By the Sun (Nikita Mikhalkov) 65
  41. The Madness of King George (Nicholas Hytner) 65
  42. Lisbon Story (Wim Wenders) 65
  43. Death and the Maiden (Roman Polanski) 64
  44. Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen) 64
  45. What Happened Was... (Tom Noonan) 64
  46. Tom's Flesh (Tom DiMaria) 64
  47. River of Grass (Kelly Reichardt) 64
  48. Swimming With Sharks (George Huang) 63
  49. Clerks (Kevin Smith) 63
  50. The Postman (Il Postino) (Michael Radford) 63
  51. Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori) 63
  52. Priest (Antonia Bird) 62
  53. Four Weddings and a Funeral (Mike Newell) 62
  54. Sirens (John Duigan) 62
  55. Tom and Viv (Brian Gilbert) 62
  56. The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Durabont) 61
  57. Nobody's Fool (Robert Benton) 61
  58. Clear and Present Danger (Philip Noyce) 61
  59. The Rook (Eran Palatnik) 61
  60. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliot) 60
  61. Faust (Ernst Gossner) 60
  62. The Ref (Ted Demme) 60
  63. The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel Coen) 60
  64. The New Age (Michael Tolkin) 59
  65. Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (Ang Lee) 59
  66. Amateur (Hal Hartley) 59
  67. Dolores Clairborne (Taylor Hackford) 59
  68. Muriel's Wedding (P.J. Hogan) 58
  69. Serial Mom (John Waters) 58
  70. The Professional (Luc Besson) 58
  71. The Paper (Ron Howard) 58
  72. Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone) 57
  73. Interview With the Vampire (Neil Jordan) 57
  74. Pigalle (Karim Dridi) 57
  75. The Bowery (Sara Driver) 57
  76. Immortal Beloved (Bernard Rose) 56
  77. Wolf (Mike Nichols) 56
  78. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh) 56
  79. The Road to Wellville (Alan Parker) 56
  80. Ready To Wear (Prêt-à-Porter) (Robert Altman) 55
  81. Go Fish (Rose Troche) 55
  82. Dumb and Dumber (Bobby Farrelly) 55
  83. Threesome (Andrew Fleming) 55
  84. Reality Bites (Ben Stiller) 54
  85. Maybe, Maybe Not (Sönke Wortmann) 54
  86. Cabin Boy (Adam Resnick) 54
  87. Jimmy Hollywood (Barry Levinson) 54
  88. The Mask (Chuck Russell) 53
  89. The Naked Gun 33 1/3: Final Insult (Peter Segal) 53
  90. Blink (Michael Apted) 53
  91. Maverick (Richard Donner) 53
  92. Star Trek: Generations (David Carson) 52
  93. True Lies (James Cameron) 52
  94. The Omaha: Movie (Dan Mirvish) 52
  95. I'll Do Anything (James L. Brooks) 52
  96. Blown Away (Stephen Hopkins) 51
  97. Guarding Tess (Hugh Wilson) 51
  98. Blue Chips (William Friedkin) 51
  99. Angie (Martha Coolidge) 51
  100. The Lion King (Rob Minkoff) 50
  101. Miracle on 34th St. (Les Mayfield) 50
  102. When a Man Loves a Woman (Luis Mandoki) 50
  103. The Jungle Book (Stephen Sommers) 50
  104. My Girl 2 (Howard Zieff) 49
  105. The Chase (Adam Rifkin) 49
  106. Nell (Michael Apted) 49
  107. Disclosure (Barry Levinson) 49
  108. The River Wild (Curtis Hanson) 48
  109. No Escape (Martin Campbell) 48
  110. The Shadow (Russell Mulcahy) 48
  111. White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (Ken Olin) 48
  112. Streetfighter (Steven E. de Souza) 47
  113. Brainscan (John Flynn) 47
  114. Speechless (Ron Underwood) 47
  115. Radioland Murders (Mel Smith) 47
  116. Andre (George Miller) 46
  117. Cemetery Man (Michele Soavi) 46
  118. It Could Happen to You (Andrew Bergman) 46
  119. The Client (Joel Schumacher) 46
  120. Color of Night (Richard Rush) 45
  121. Only You (Norman Jewison) 45
  122. I Love Trouble (Charles Shyer) 45
  123. Little Big League (Andrew Scheinman) 45
  124. The Little Rascals (Penelope Spheeris) 44
  125. The Swan Princess (Richard Rich) 44
  126. Silent Fall (Bruce Beresford) 44
  127. Milk Money (Richard Benjamin) 44
  128. The War (Jon Avnet) 43
  129. Major Payne (Nick Castle) 43
  130. Wyatt Earp (Lawrence Kasdan) 43
  131. Junior (Ivan Reitman) 43
  132. Greedy (Jonathan Lynn) 42
  133. The Cowboy Way (Gregg Champion) 42
  134. Drop Zone (John Badham) 42
  135. I.Q. (Fred Schepisi) 42
  136. City Slickers 2: The Legend of Curly's Gold (Paul Weiland) 41
  137. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (Tom Shadyac) 41
  138. Mixed Nuts (Nora Ephron) 41
  139. Corrina, Corrina (Jessie Nelson) 41
  140. Terminal Velocity (Deran Serafian) 40
  141. Clifford (Paul Flaherty) 40
  142. The Specialist (Luis Llosa) 40
  143. Time Cop (Peter Hyams) 40
  144. North (Rob Reiner) 39
  145. The Santa Clause (John Pasquin) 39
  146. Clean Slate (Mick Jackson) 39
  147. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis) 39
  148. The Getaway (Roger Donaldson) 38
  149. The Scout (Michael Ritchie) 38
  150. Airheads (Michael Lehmann) 38
  151. PCU (Hart Bochner) 38
  152. Killing Zoe (Roger Avery) 37
  153. Legends of the Fall (Edward Zwick) 37
  154. Lassie (Daniel Petrie) 37
  155. Black Beauty (Caroline Thompson) 37
  156. The Next Karate Kid (Christopher Cain) 36
  157. The Favor (Donald Petrie) 36
  158. Trial by Jury (Heywood Gould) 36
  159. Blankman (Mike Binder) 36
  160. The Crow (Alex Proyas) 35
  161. The Flintstones (Brian Levant) 35
  162. Blank Check (Rupert Wainwright) 35
  163. Low Down Dirty Shame, A (Keenen Ivory Wayans) 35
  164. Exit to Eden (Garry Marshall) 34
  165. Renaissance Man (Penny Marshall) 34
  166. Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (Xavier Koller) 34
  167. Bad Girls (Jonathan Kaplan) 34
  168. Richie Rich (Donald Petrie) 33
  169. Angels in the Outfield (William Dear) 32
  170. Wes Craven's New Nightmare (Wes Craven) 31
  171. In the Army Now (Daniel Petrie Jr.) 30
  172. StarGate (Roland Emmerich) 29
  173. With Honors (Alek Keshishian) 28
  174. Major League II (David S. Ward) 27
  175. The D2: Mighty Ducks (Sam Weisman) 26
  176. Highlander III: The Sorcerer (Andrew Morahan) 25
  177. Tall Tale (Jeremiah Chechik) 24
  178. Baby's Day Out (Patrick Read Johnson) 23
  179. Little Giants (Duwayne Dunham) 21
  180. Thumbelina (Gary Goldman) 19
  181. On Deadly Ground (Steven Seagal) 18
  182. My Father, the Hero (Steve Miner) 16
  183. Cops and Robbersons (Michael Ritchie) 14
  184. Trapped in Paradise (George Gallo) 12
  185. Wagons East! (Peter Markle) 10
  186. Beverly Hills Cop III (John Landis) 6

1995

  1. From the Journals of Jean Seberg (Mark Rappaport) 91
  2. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater) 91
  3. Odilon Redon (Guy Maddin) 90
  4. Shanghai Triad (Zhang Yimou) 85
  5. Persuasion (Roger Michell) 84
  6. Safe (Todd Haynes) 83
  7. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch) 82
  8. Underground (Emir Kusturica) 82
  9. American Job (Chris Smith) 81
  10. The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi) 81
  11. Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach) 80
  12. The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood) 80
  13. Fallen Angels (Kar-wai Wong) 79
  14. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-wai) 79
  15. La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol) 78
  16. Cyclo (Anh Hung Tran) 77
  17. Kids (Larry Clark) 74
  18. Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (Quay) 74
  19. Hate (Mathieu Kassovitz) 73
  20. Land and Freedom (Ken Loach) 73
  21. Se7en (David Fincher) 72
  22. Maborosi (Hirokazu Kore-eda) 71
  23. Babe (Chris Noonan) 71
  24. 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam) 70
  25. Living in Oblivion (Tom DeCillo) 69
  26. Toy Story (John Lasseter) 69
  27. German Song (Sadie Benning) 68
  28. The Judy Spots (Sadie Benning) 68
  29. The Underneath (Steven Soderbergh) 68
  30. The Celluloid Closet (Robert Epstein) 67
  31. Desperado (Robert Rodriguez) 67
  32. Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz) 67
  33. The Pillow Book (Peter Greenaway) 66
  34. The Neon Bible (Terence Davies) 66
  35. Ulysses' Gaze (Theo Angelopolous) 66
  36. Lumiere and Company (Theo Angelopoulos, Vicente Aranda, Gabriel Axel, Bigos Luna, John Boorman, Youssef Chahine, Alaine) 66
  37. Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld) 65
  38. Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins) 65
  39. Clockers (Spike Lee) 65
  40. The Flower of My Secret (Pedro Almodóvar) 65
  41. The Addiction (Abel Ferrara) 64
  42. Little Princess, A (Alfonso Cuaron) 64
  43. Rumble in the Bronx (Stanley Tong) 64
  44. Angels and Insects (Philip Haas) 64
  45. Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee) 63
  46. The City of Lost Children (Marc Caro) 63
  47. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis) 63
  48. Guimba the Tyrant (Cheick Oumar Sissoko) 63
  49. Funny Bones (Peter Chelsom) 62
  50. Georgia (Ulu Grosbard) 62
  51. Apollo 13 (Ron Howard) 62
  52. Bang ( Ash) 62
  53. The Escape (Chris Smith) 61
  54. Pasolini (Tullio Giordana) 61
  55. Young Poisoner's Handbook (Benjamin Ross) 61
  56. Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle) 61
  57. Hackers (Ian Softley) 60
  58. Kiss of Death (Barbet Schroeder) 60
  59. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer) 60
  60. Carrington (Christopher Hampton) 60
  61. Unzipped (Douglas Keeve) 59
  62. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times (Don Was) 59
  63. Casino (Martin Scorsese) 59
  64. Clueless (Amy Heckerling) 59
  65. To Die For (Gus Van Sant) 58
  66. Smoke (Wayne Wang) 58
  67. Heat (Michael Mann) 58
  68. Jeffrey (Christopher Ashley) 58
  69. Party Girl (Daisy von Sherler Mayer) 57
  70. The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki) 57
  71. The Brady Bunch Movie (Betty Thomas) 57
  72. Crimson Tide (Tony Scott) 57
  73. When It Rains (Charles Burnett) 56
  74. Braveheart (Mel Gibson) 56
  75. Wigstock (Barry Shils) 56
  76. Strange Days (Katheryn Bigelow) 56
  77. The Quick and the Dead (Sam Raimi) 55
  78. Rob Roy (Michael Caton-Jones) 55
  79. Beyond the Clouds (Wim Wenders) 55
  80. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (Geoff Murphy) 55
  81. First Knight (Jerry Zucker) 54
  82. Hideaway (Brett Leonard) 54
  83. Outbreak (Wolfgang Petersen) 54
  84. Bye Bye Love (Sam Weisman) 54
  85. The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love (Maria Maggenti) 53
  86. The Brothers McMullen (Edward Burns) 53
  87. Antonia's Line (Marleen Gorris) 53
  88. Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin) 53
  89. The Last Supper (Stacy Title) 52
  90. Home For the Holidays (Jodie Foster) 52
  91. Die Hard With a Vengeance (John McTiernan) 52
  92. Screamers (Christian Duguay) 52
  93. When Night is Falling (Patricia Rozema) 51
  94. Circle of Friends (Pat O'Connor) 51
  95. Mighty Aphrodite (Woody Allen) 51
  96. Species (Roger Donaldson) 51
  97. Mortal Kombat (Paul Anderson) 50
  98. Higher Learning (John Singleton) 50
  99. Fluke (Carlo Carlei) 50
  100. The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (Christopher Monger) 50
  101. Without Air (Neil Abramson) 49
  102. GoldenEye (Martin Campbell) 49
  103. Sudden Death (Peter Hyams) 49
  104. Tank Girl (Rachel Talalay) 49
  105. Mr. Holland's Opus (Stephen Herek) 48
  106. Murder in the First (Marc Rocco) 48
  107. Don Juan DeMarco (Jeremy Leven) 48
  108. Batman Forever (Joel Schumacher) 48
  109. Losing Isiaih (Irwin Winkler) 47
  110. French Kiss (Lawrence Kasdan) 47
  111. Delinquent (Peter Hall) 47
  112. The Net (Irwin Winkler) 47
  113. The American President (Rob Reiner) 46
  114. Dead Presidents (Hughes) 46
  115. Goofy Movie, A (Kevin Lima) 46
  116. Lord of Illusions (Clive Barker) 46
  117. Pocahontas (Eric Goldberg) 45
  118. Jumanji (Joe Johnston) 45
  119. Grumpier Old Men (Howard Deutch) 45
  120. Walk in the Clouds, A (Alfonso Arau) 45
  121. Balto (Simon Wells) 44
  122. How to Make an American Quilt (Jocelyn Moorhouse) 44
  123. While You Were Sleeping (Jon Turteltaub) 44
  124. Money Train (Joseph Ruben) 44
  125. Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven) 43
  126. Something to Talk About (Lasse Hallström) 43
  127. Just Cause (Arne Glimcher) 43
  128. Sabrina (Sydney Pollack) 43
  129. Unforgettable (John Dahl) 42
  130. Small Domain (Britta Sjogren) 42
  131. Three Wishes (Martha Coolidge) 42
  132. Waiting to Exhale (Forest Whitaker) 42
  133. Village of the Damned (John Carpenter) 41
  134. The Indian in the Cupboard (Frank Oz) 41
  135. Moonlight and Valentino (David Anspaugh) 41
  136. Beyond Rangoon (John Boorman) 41
  137. Mad Love (Antonia Bird) 40
  138. Now and Then (Lesli Linka Glatter) 40
  139. Powder (Victor Salva) 40
  140. Tales From the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (Ernest R. Dickerson) 40
  141. Bandwagon (John Schultz) 39
  142. The Far From Home: Adventures of Yellow Dog (Phillip Borsos) 39
  143. Forget Paris (Billy Crystal) 39
  144. Casper (Brad Siberling) 39
  145. Steal Big, Steal Little (Andrew Davis) 38
  146. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Movie (Bryan Spicer) 38
  147. Waterworld (Kevin Reynolds) 38
  148. Boys on the Side (Herbert Ross) 38
  149. White Man's Burden (Desmond Nakano) 37
  150. Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls (Steve Oedekerk) 37
  151. Copycat (Jon Amiel) 37
  152. Dracula: Dead and Loving It (Mel Brooks) 37
  153. Judge Dredd (Danny Cannon) 36
  154. Johnny Mnemonic (Robert Longo) 36
  155. The Babysitter's Club (Melanie Mayron) 36
  156. Operation Dumbo Drop (Simon Wincer) 36
  157. Virtuosity (Brett Leonard) 35
  158. Born To Be Wild (John Gray) 35
  159. Cutthroat Island (Renny Harlin) 35
  160. Congo (Frank Marshall) 35
  161. The Jerky Boys (James Melkanian) 34
  162. Never Talk to Strangers (Peter Hall) 34
  163. Fair Game (Andrew Sipes) 34
  164. Jade (William Friedkin) 34
  165. Tommy Boy (Peter Segal) 33
  166. Nick of Time (John Badham) 33
  167. Billy Madison (Tamra Davis) 33
  168. Dangerous Minds (John N. Smith) 33
  169. The Free Willy 2: Adventure Home (Dwight H. Little) 32
  170. Assassins (Richard Donner) 31
  171. The Gold Diggers: Secret of Bear Mountain (Kevin James Dobson) 30
  172. Last of the Dogmen (Tab Murphy) 29
  173. The Tie that Binds (Wesley Strick) 28
  174. To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar (Beeban Kidron) 27
  175. National Lampoon's Senior Trip (Alan Smithee) 26
  176. Vampire in Brooklyn, A (Wes Craven) 25
  177. Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (Bill Condon) 24
  178. Tom and Huck (Peter Hewitt) 23
  179. The Scarlet Letter (Roland Joffé) 22
  180. The Big Green (Holly Goldberg Sloan) 20
  181. It Takes Two (Andy Tennant) 18
  182. Father of the Bride, Part II (Charles Shyer) 16
  183. Man of the House (James Orr) 15
  184. Big Bully (Steve Miner) 14
  185. Jury Duty (John Fontenberry) 10
  186. Nine Months (Chris Columbus) 9

1996

  1. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas) 92
  2. Lumiere (David Lynch) 92
  3. Big Night (Campbell Scott) 91
  4. La Promesse (Luc Dardenne) 90
  5. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier) 89
  6. Un air de famille (Cédric Klapisch) 87
  7. My Sex Life...or How I Got Into an Argument (Arnaud Desplechin) 86
  8. Nenette and Boni (Claire Denis) 85
  9. Thieves (Les Voleurs) (André Téchiné) 83
  10. Fargo (Joel Coen) 81
  11. Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh) 80
  12. Crash (David Cronenberg) 79
  13. Will It Snow For Christmas? (Sandrine Veysset) 78
  14. Conspirators of Pleasure (Jan Svankmajer) 77
  15. Hands on a Hardbody, the Documentary (Mike Bindler) 75
  16. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson) 74
  17. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle) 73
  18. When the Cat's Away (Cédric Klapisch) 72
  19. Trees Lounge (Steve Buscemi) 71
  20. The Paradise Lost: Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Bruce Sinofsky) 71
  21. Ponette (Jacques Doillon) 70
  22. Ridicule (Patrice Leconte) 70
  23. Gray's Anatomy (Steven Soderbergh) 70
  24. Single Girl, A (Benoit Jacquot) 70
  25. Mahjong (Edward Yang) 69
  26. The Portrait of a Lady (Jane Campion) 69
  27. When We Were Kings (Leon Gast) 69
  28. Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Srdjan Dragojevic) 69
  29. Capiatine Conan (Bertrand Tavernier) 68
  30. Eastern Elegy (Aleksandr Sokurov) 68
  31. Self-Made Hero, A (Jacques Audiard) 68
  32. Forgotten Silver (Peter Jackson) 68
  33. Gabbeh (Mohsen Moukmanbaf) 68
  34. Full Speed (Gaël Morel) 67
  35. Walking and Talking (Nicole Holofcener) 67
  36. Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (Chantal Akerman) 67
  37. The Funeral (Abel Ferrara) 67
  38. I Shot Andy Warhol (Mary Harron) 67
  39. Swingers (Doug Liman) 66
  40. Mother (Albert Brooks) 66
  41. Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson) 66
  42. Sudden Manhattan (Adrienne Shelly) 66
  43. Jude (Michael Winterbottom) 65
  44. Bound (The Brothers Wachowski) 65
  45. Flirting With Disaster (David O. Russell) 65
  46. From Dusk Till Dawn (Robert Rodriguez) 65
  47. Lone Star (John Sayles) 65
  48. Chronicle of a Disappearance (Elia Suleiman) 65
  49. Mon homme (Bertrand Blier) 64
  50. Lilies (John Grayson) 64
  51. Beautiful Thing (Hettie MacDonald) 64
  52. Temptress Moon (Chen Kaige) 64
  53. Summer Dress, A (François Ozon) 64
  54. Female Perversions (Susen Strietfield) 63
  55. Hardwood Process (David Gatten) 63
  56. The Daytrippers (Greg Mottola) 63
  57. Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton) 63
  58. Schizopolis (Steven Soderbergh) 63
  59. Eye of God (Tim Blake Nelson) 63
  60. Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne) 62
  61. Children of the Revolution (Peter Duncan) 62
  62. Three Lives and Only One Death (Raoul Ruiz) 62
  63. Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day (Christopher Münch) 62
  64. Love Serenade (Shirley Barrett) 61
  65. Basquiat (Julian Schnabel) 61
  66. The Whole Wide World (Dan Ireland) 61
  67. The Delta (Ira Sachs) 61
  68. Dead Heart (Nick Parsons) 61
  69. Microcosmos (Marie Pérennou) 60
  70. The English Patient (Anthony Minghella) 60
  71. Michael Collins (Neil Jordan) 60
  72. Stealing Beauty (Bernardo Bertolucci) 60
  73. Tin Cup (Ron Shelton) 60
  74. The People vs. Larry Flynt (Milos Forman) 59
  75. The Ogre (Volker Schlöndorff) 59
  76. Non-stop ( Sabu) 59
  77. The Leading Man (John Duigan) 59
  78. Pretty Vacant (Jim Mendiola) 58
  79. For Ever Mozart (Jean-Luc Godard) 58
  80. The Eighteenth (Anders Rønnow-Klarlund) 58
  81. Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton) 58
  82. Ripe (Mo Ogrodnik) 57
  83. Illtown (Nick Gomez) 57
  84. Kolya (Jan Sverák) 57
  85. Shine (Scott Hicks) 57
  86. The Crucible (Nicholas Hytner) 57
  87. Fly Away Home (Carroll Ballard) 56
  88. Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe) 56
  89. Waiting for Guffman (Christopher Guest) 56
  90. Kingpin (Bobby Farrelly) 56
  91. The Nutty Professor (Tom Shadyac) 56
  92. The Substance of Fire (Daniel J. Sullivan) 55
  93. Set it Off (F. Gary Gray) 55
  94. Scream (Wes Craven) 55
  95. The Last of the Great Escapists (Salvatore Botti) 55
  96. Emma (Douglas McGrath) 55
  97. Surviving Picasso (James Ivory) 54
  98. Manny and Lo (Lisa Krueger) 54
  99. Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen) 54
  100. Hype! (Doug Pray) 54
  101. Get on the Bus (Spike Lee) 54
  102. The Frighteners (Peter Jackson) 53
  103. Family Thing, A (Richard Pearce) 53
  104. Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (Jim Mallon) 53
  105. The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage (Paul Seydor) 53
  106. 2 or 3 Things, But Nothing For Sure (Tina DiFeliciantonio) 53
  107. The King of Masks (Tian-Ming Wu) 52
  108. Twister (Jan DeBont) 52
  109. Courage Under Fire (Edward Zwick) 52
  110. Muppet Treasure Island (Jim Henson) 52
  111. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Kirk Wise) 52
  112. The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Michael Lehmann) 51
  113. The Long Kiss Goodnight (Renny Harlin) 51
  114. Small Time (Shane Meadows) 51
  115. Independence Day (Roland Emmerich) 51
  116. Star Trek: First Contact (Jonathan Frakes) 50
  117. Mission: Impossible (Brian DePalma) 50
  118. The Birdcage (Mike Nichols) 50
  119. Primal Fear (Gregory Hoblit) 50
  120. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh) 50
  121. Love and Other Catastrophes (Emma-Kate Croghan) 49
  122. Fear (James Foley) 49
  123. Joe's Apartment (John Payson) 49
  124. Girl 6 (Spike Lee) 49
  125. The Island of Dr. Moreau (John Frankenheimer) 49
  126. The Quiet Room (Rolf de Heer) 48
  127. Signing Off (Robert Sarkies) 48
  128. Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (Kelly Makin) 48
  129. Harriet the Spy (Bronwen Hughes) 48
  130. James and the Giant Peach (Henry Selick) 48
  131. White Squall (Ridley Scott) 47
  132. Before and After (Barbet Schroeder) 47
  133. Marvin's Room (Jerry Zaks) 47
  134. Escape From L.A. (John Carpenter) 47
  135. Jane Eyre (Franco Zeffirelli) 47
  136. The Pallbearer (Matt Reeves) 46
  137. Mulholland Falls (Lee Tamahori) 46
  138. Matilda (Danny DeVito) 46
  139. One Fine Day (Michael Hoffman) 46
  140. Where's the Money, Ronnie? (Shane Meadows) 45
  141. The Arrival (David N. Twohy) 45
  142. House Arrest (Harry Winer) 45
  143. Extreme Measures (Michael Apted) 45
  144. That Thing You Do! (Tom Hanks) 45
  145. The Cable Guy (Ben Stiller) 44
  146. Heaven's Prisoners (Phil Joanou) 44
  147. She's the One (Edward Burns) 44
  148. Ransom (Ron Howard) 44
  149. Multiplicity (Harold Ramis) 44
  150. The Mirror Has Two Faces (Barbra Streisand) 43
  151. Striptease (Andrew Bergman) 43
  152. Bed of Roses (Michael Goldenberg) 43
  153. Evita (Alan Parker) 43
  154. In Love and War (Richard Attenborough) 43
  155. Daylight (Rob Cohen) 42
  156. Broken Arrow (John Woo) 42
  157. Maximum Risk (Ringo Lam) 42
  158. Eraser (Chuck Russell) 42
  159. Sgt. Bilko (Jonathan Lynn) 42
  160. Unforgettable (John Dahl) 41
  161. Black Mask (Daniel Lee) 41
  162. Michael (Nora Ephron) 41
  163. Sleepers (Barry Levinson) 41
  164. The Rock (Michael Bay) 41
  165. Last Man Standing (Walter Hill) 40
  166. Executive Decision (Stuart Baird) 40
  167. Solo (Norberto Barba) 40
  168. Diabolique (Jeremiah Chechik) 40
  169. William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann) 40
  170. Dragonheart (Rob Cohen) 39
  171. Jingle All the Way (Brian Levant) 39
  172. The Adventures of Pinocchio (Steve Barron) 39
  173. The First Wives Club (Hugh Wilson) 39
  174. If Lucy Fell (Eric Schaeffer) 39
  175. The Substitute (Robert Mandel) 38
  176. Mr. Wrong (Nick Castle) 38
  177. Two if By Sea (Bill Bennett) 38
  178. The Great White Hype (Reginald Hudlin) 38
  179. The Ghost and the Darkness (Stephen Hopkins) 38
  180. Chain Reaction (Andrew Davis) 37
  181. Eddie (Steve Rash) 37
  182. The Fan (Tony Scott) 37
  183. Ghosts of Mississippi (Rob Reiner) 37
  184. The Chamber (James Foley) 37
  185. The Preacher's Wife (Penny Marshall) 36
  186. My Fellow Americans (Peter Segal) 36
  187. First Kid (David M. Evans) 36
  188. The Associate (Donald Petrie) 36
  189. Spy Hard (Rick Friedberg) 36
  190. The Phantom (Simon Wincer) 35
  191. Thinner (Tom Holland) 35
  192. Phenomenon (Jon Turteltaub) 35
  193. Very Brady Sequel, A (Arlene Sanford) 35
  194. Up Close and Personal (Jon Avnet) 35
  195. Last Dance (Bruce Beresford) 34
  196. All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 (Paul Sabella) 34
  197. Down Periscope (David S. Ward) 34
  198. Happy Gilmore (Dennis Dugan) 34
  199. Time to Kill, A (Joel Schumacher) 33
  200. Race the Sun (Charles T. Kanganis) 33
  201. The Juror (Brian Gibson) 32
  202. Bogus (Norman Jewison) 31
  203. 101 Dalmations (Stephen Herek) 30
  204. The Crow: City of Angels (Tim Pope) 29
  205. Flipper (Alan Shapiro) 28
  206. Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (David R. Ellis) 27
  207. Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (Farhad Mann) 26
  208. The Quest (Jean-Claude Van Damme) 25
  209. Tales From the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood (Gilbert Adler) 24
  210. Ed (Bill Couturié) 23
  211. Bulletproof (Ernest Dickerson) 22
  212. The Glimmer Man (John Gray) 21
  213. Celtic Pride (Tom DeCherchio) 20
  214. Jack (Francis Ford Coppola) 19
  215. High School High (Hart Bochner) 18
  216. Kazaam (Paul Michael Glaser) 17
  217. Thin Line Between Love and Hate, A (Martin Lawrence) 16
  218. Space Jam (Joe Pytka) 15
  219. Carpool (Arthur Hiller) 13
  220. The D3: Mighty Ducks (Robert Lieberman) 12
  221. Black Sheep (Penelpoe Spheeris) 9
  222. An Eye For an Eye (John Schlesinger) 7

1997

  1. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan) 93
  2. Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (Errol Morris) 91
  3. Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (Kirby Dick) 88
  4. Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov) 85
  5. Love and Death on Long Island (Richard Kwietniowski) 84
  6. Nil by Mouth (Gary Oldman) 83
  7. Fireworks (Hana-bi) (Takeshi Kitano) 82
  8. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami) 81
  9. Henry Fool (Hal Hartley) 80
  10. In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute) 79
  11. Funny Games (Michael Haneke) 78
  12. The Mirror (Jafar Panahi) 77
  13. Lost Highway (David Lynch) 76
  14. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson) 75
  15. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino) 74
  16. The Ice Storm (Ang Lee) 73
  17. Career Girls (Mike Leigh) 72
  18. Western (Manuel Poirier) 71
  19. Marius and Jeannette (Robert Guédiguian) 71
  20. Happy Together (Kar-wai Wong) 70
  21. Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell) 70
  22. The Swindle (Claude Chabrol) 69
  23. Creosote (Eric Saks) 69
  24. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki) 69
  25. All Over Me (Alex Sichel) 69
  26. SubUrbia (Richard Linklater) 68
  27. Gummo (Harmony Korine) 68
  28. Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven) 68
  29. Cure (Akira Kurosawa) 68
  30. Friend of the Deceased, A (Vyacheslav Krishtofovich) 68
  31. The Apostle (Robert Duvall) 67
  32. Affliction (Paul Schrader) 67
  33. The Delicate Art of the Rifle (D.W. Harper) 67
  34. Men With Guns (John Sayles) 67
  35. Ulee's Gold (Victor Nunez) 66
  36. Grosse Point Blank (George Armitage) 66
  37. Ma vie en rose (Alain Berliner) 66
  38. Gadjo dilo (Tony Gatlif) 66
  39. Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith) 65
  40. She's So Lovely (John Cassavetes) 65
  41. The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo) 65
  42. Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson) 65
  43. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson) 64
  44. Destiny (Youssef Chahine) 64
  45. Clockwatchers (Jill Sprecher) 64
  46. Four Corners (James Benning) 64
  47. Life is Beautiful (La Vita è bella) (Roberto Benigni) 63
  48. Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant) 63
  49. Calendar the Siamese (Lewis Klahr) 63
  50. Six O'Clock News (Ross McElwee) 63
  51. The Big One (Michael Moore) 62
  52. 4 Little Girls (Spike Lee) 62
  53. Same Old Song (Alain Resnais) 62
  54. See the Sea (François Ozon) 62
  55. Orphans (Peter Mullan) 61
  56. Post Coitum (Brigitte Roüan) 61
  57. I Went Down (Paddy Breathnach) 61
  58. The Boxer (James Sheridan) 61
  59. The Edge (Lee Tamahori) 60
  60. Welcome to Sarajevo (Michael Winterbottom) 60
  61. Persecution in Paradise (Martha Colburn) 60
  62. The Winter Guest (Alan Rickman) 60
  63. Winter Sleepers (Tom Tykwer) 59
  64. Un©ut (John Greyson) 59
  65. Afterglow (Alan Rudloph) 59
  66. The Tango Lesson (Sally Potter) 59
  67. Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen) 58
  68. Live Flesh (Pedro Almodóvar) 58
  69. Ägypten (Kathrin Resetarits) 58
  70. The Real Blonde (Tom DeCillo) 58
  71. Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld) 57
  72. The Game (David Fincher) 57
  73. Face/Off (John Woo) 57
  74. Gattaca (Andrew Nicchol) 57
  75. Bent (Sean Mathias) 56
  76. Oscar and Lucinda (Gillian Armstrong) 56
  77. Kundun (Martin Scorsese) 56
  78. The Chambermaid of the Titanic (Bigas Luna) 56
  79. Junk Mail (Pal Sletaune) 55
  80. Regeneration (Gillies MacKinnon) 55
  81. Lucie Aubrac (Claude Berri) 55
  82. The Fetishist (Jim Trainor) 55
  83. Insomnia (Erik Skjoldbjærg) 54
  84. Kiss or Kill (Bill Bennett) 54
  85. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (Jay Roach) 54
  86. Mr. Jealousy (Noah Baumbach) 54
  87. Contact (Robert Zemeckis) 53
  88. Washington Square (Agnieszka Holland) 53
  89. Amistad (Steven Spielberg) 53
  90. Trial and Error (Jonathan Lynn) 53
  91. As Good as it Gets (James L. Brooks) 52
  92. The Wings of the Dove (Iain Softley) 52
  93. Mrs. Brown (John Madden) 52
  94. Fierce Creatures (Robert Young) 52
  95. Titanic (James Cameron) 51
  96. Night Falls on Manhattan (Sydney Lumet) 51
  97. The Thief (Pavel Chukhraj) 51
  98. Niagara, Niagara (Bob Gosse) 51
  99. Marie baie des anges (Manuel Pradal) 50
  100. Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi) 50
  101. Hav Plenty (Christopher Scott Cherot) 50
  102. The Long Way Home (Mark Jonathan Harris) 50
  103. Event Horizon (Paul Anderson) 49
  104. The Devil's Advocate (Taylor Hackford) 49
  105. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg) 49
  106. The Rainmaker (Francis Ford Copolla) 49
  107. Wilde (Brian Gilbert) 48
  108. In & Out (Paul Rudnick) 48
  109. Mrs. Dalloway (Marleen Gorris) 48
  110. Lawn Dogs (John Duigan) 48
  111. The Hanging Garden (Thom Fitzgerald) 47
  112. Geri's Game (Jan Pinkava) 47
  113. Character (Karin Schagen) 47
  114. The End of Violence (Wim Wenders) 47
  115. Conspiracy Theory (Richard Donner) 46
  116. The Fifth Element (Luc Besson) 46
  117. Hercules (John Musker) 46
  118. The Harmonists (Joseph Vilsmaier) 46
  119. Artemisia (Agnès Merlet) 45
  120. Dante's Peak (Roger Donaldson) 45
  121. Alien: Ressurection (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) 45
  122. Four Ways He Tried to Tell You (Jennet Thomas) 45
  123. Addicted to Love (Griffin Dunne) 44
  124. Anaconda (Luis Llosa) 44
  125. Breakdown (Jonathan Mostow) 44
  126. I Think I Do (Brian Sloan) 44
  127. The Devil's Own (Alan J. Pakula) 43
  128. Eve's Bayou (Kasi Lemmons) 43
  129. Making Sandwiches (Sandra Bullock) 43
  130. G.I. Jane (Ridley Scott) 43
  131. The MatchMaker (Mark Joffe) 42
  132. Mimic (Guillermo del Toro) 42
  133. Under the Skin (Carine Adler) 42
  134. Private Parts (Betty Thomas) 42
  135. My Best Friend's Wedding (P.J. Hogan) 41
  136. Scream 2 (Wes Craven) 41
  137. Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion (David Mirkin) 41
  138. Anthem (Kristin Hahn) 41
  139. Rosewood (John Singleton) 40
  140. Smilla's Sense of Snow (Bille August) 40
  141. East Palace, West Palace (Zhang Yuan) 40
  142. Selena (Gregory Nava) 39
  143. Gossamer (Patrick Cady) 38
  144. I Know What You Did Last Summer (Jim Gillespie) 37
  145. U Turn (Oliver Stone) 36
  146. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Clint Eastwood) 35
  147. Conceiving Ada (Lynn Hershmann-Leeson) 34
  148. Inventing the Abbots (Pat O'Connor) 33
  149. The Final Insult (Charles Burnett) 32
  150. Sliding Doors (Peter Howitt) 31
  151. Picture Perfect (Glenn Gordon Caron) 30
  152. Cop Land (James Mangold) 29
  153. Absolute Power (Clint Eastwood) 28
  154. Speed 2: Cruise Control (Jan DeBont) 27
  155. Con Air (Simon West) 26
  156. Liar, Liar (Tom Shadyac) 25
  157. Tomorrow Never Dies (Roger Spottiswoode) 24
  158. That Darn Cat (Bob Spiers) 23
  159. Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen) 22
  160. Bliss (Lance Young) 19
  161. The Pest (Paul Miller) 17
  162. Batman and Robin (Joel Schumacher) 15
  163. Kiss the Girls (Gary Fleder) 13
  164. Beverly Hills Ninja (Dennis Dugan) 11
  165. Metro (Thomas Carter) 10
  166. Bubba and Ike (Whitney Smith) 7

1998

  1. Rushmore (Wes Anderson) 94
  2. Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold) 90
  3. The General (John Boorman) 88
  4. After Life (Kore-eda Hirokazu) 80
  5. The Idiots (Lars Von Trier) 80
  6. The Hole (Ming-Liang Tsai) 79
  7. The Dreamlife of Angels (Eric Zonca) 79
  8. Human Remains (Jay Rosenblatt) 78
  9. Flowers of Shanghai (Hsiao-hsien Hou) 77
  10. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg) 77
  11. My Name is Joe (Ken Loach) 76
  12. Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh) 75
  13. The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman) 75
  14. Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo) 75
  15. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen) 73
  16. Dr. Akagi (Shohei Imamura) 72
  17. Simple Plan, A (Sam Raimi) 72
  18. Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer) 72
  19. The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan) 72
  20. My Son the Fanatic (Udayan Prasad) 71
  21. The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (Mark Rappaport) 71
  22. I Stand Alone (Gaspar Noé) 71
  23. Late August, Early September (Olivier Assayas) 71
  24. Happiness (Todd Solondz) 70
  25. Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes) 70
  26. Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson) 70
  27. Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (Patrice Chéreau) 70
  28. Open Your Eyes (Alejandro Amenábar) 69
  29. Flat is Beautiful (Sadie Benning) 69
  30. Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer) 69
  31. L'Arrivée (Peter Tscherkassky) 69
  32. Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller) 68
  33. Organ Cranker (Jon Foulk) 68
  34. Bug's Life, A (Andrew Stanton) 68
  35. High Art (Lisa Cholodenko) 67
  36. The Gingerbread Man (Robert Altman) 67
  37. Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica) 67
  38. The Book of Life (Hal Hartley) 66
  39. Ring (Hideo Nakata) 66
  40. Hideous Kinky (Gillies MacKinnon) 65
  41. Besieged (Bernardo Bertolucci) 65
  42. Hurlyburly (Anthony Drazan) 65
  43. Your Friends & Neighbors (Neil LaBute) 65
  44. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg) 65
  45. The School of Flesh (Benoît Jacquot) 65
  46. The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf) 65
  47. Sitcom (François Ozon) 65
  48. The Spanish Prisoner (David Mamet) 64
  49. Alice and Martin (André Téchiné) 64
  50. Primary Colors (Mike Nichols) 64
  51. Bulworth (Warren Beatty) 64
  52. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam) 64
  53. Brakhage (Jim Shedden) 64
  54. Titanic Town (Roger Michell) 64
  55. 42 Up (Michael Apted) 64
  56. Following (Christopher Nolan) 63
  57. Regret to Inform (Barbara Sonneborn) 63
  58. Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie) 63
  59. The Cruise (Bennett Miller) 63
  60. The Last Days (James Moll) 63
  61. The Impostors (Stanley Tucci) 62
  62. There's Something About Mary (Bobby Farrelly) 62
  63. Kurt and Courtney (Nick Broomfield) 62
  64. Zero Effect (Jake Kasdan) 62
  65. Les Misérables (Bille August) 61
  66. Pi (Darren Aronofsky) 61
  67. Last Night (Don McKellar) 61
  68. Life on Earth (Abderrahmane Sissako) 61
  69. Les Sanguinaires (Laurent Cantet) 61
  70. The First Night of My Life (Luis Miguel Albaladejo) 60
  71. The Inheritors (Stefan Ruzowitzky) 60
  72. The Object of My Affection (Nicolas Hytner) 60
  73. Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, A (James Ivory) 60
  74. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick) 60
  75. Nocturne (Peggy Ahwesh) 59
  76. Central Station (Walter Salles) 59
  77. American History X (Tony Kaye) 59
  78. Hilary and Jackie (Anand Tucker) 59
  79. Shakespeare in Love (John Madden) 58
  80. Croupier (Mike Hodges) 58
  81. God Said \"Ha!\" (Julia Sweeney) 58
  82. The Interview (Craig Monahan) 58
  83. Xiu Xiu: The Sent-down Girl (Joan Chen) 57
  84. Paulina (Vicky Funari) 57
  85. Place Called Chiapas, A (Nettie Wild) 57
  86. Civil Action, A (Steven Zaillian) 56
  87. Home Page (Doug Block) 56
  88. Mulan (Barry Cook) 56
  89. Return With Honor (Terry Sanders) 56
  90. Illuminata (John Turturro) 56
  91. Shattered Image (Raoul Ruiz) 56
  92. The Newton Boys (Richard Linklater) 56
  93. Playing By Heart (Willard Carroll) 55
  94. Bad Manners (Jonathan Kaufer) 55
  95. One True Thing (Carl Franklin) 55
  96. Another Day in Paradise (Larry Clark) 55
  97. The Opposite of Sex (Don Roos) 55
  98. Twilight (Robert Benton) 55
  99. Wild Things (John McNaughton) 55
  100. New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara) 55
  101. The Faculty (Robert Rodriguez) 54
  102. Rounders (John Dahl) 54
  103. Living Out Loud (Richard LaGravenese) 54
  104. One (Tony Barbieri) 54
  105. Slums of Beverly Hills (Tamara Jenkins) 53
  106. Radiation (Michael Galinsky) 53
  107. Radiohead: Meeting People is Easy (Grant Gee) 53
  108. Eternity and a Day (Theo Angelopoulos) 53
  109. Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes (Cass Paley) 52
  110. Destroying Angel (Wayne Salazar) 52
  111. Secret People (John Anderson) 52
  112. The Truman Show (Peter Weir) 51
  113. The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (Stuart Gordon) 51
  114. Beloved (Jonathan Demme) 51
  115. The Prince of Egypt (Steve Hickner, Simon Wells) 50
  116. Snake Eyes (Brian DePalma) 50
  117. Ring 2 (Hideo Nakata) 50
  118. Cousin Bette (Des McAnuff) 50
  119. The Horse Whisperer (Robert Redford) 49
  120. Very Bad Things (Peter Berg) 48
  121. Celebrity (Woody Allen) 48
  122. Wild Man Blues (Barbara Kopple) 48
  123. Le Violon rouge (François Girard) 48
  124. The Mighty (Peter Chelsom) 47
  125. The Mask of Zorro (Martin Campbell) 47
  126. Next Stop Wonderland (Brad Anderson) 47
  127. Small Soldiers (Joe Dante) 46
  128. Deep Impact (Mimi Leder) 46
  129. Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur) 46
  130. La Ciudad (The City) (David Riker) 45
  131. Desert Blue (Morgan J. Freeman) 44
  132. Dangerous Beauty (Marshall Herkowitz) 43
  133. In Flagrante (Tom Chamberlain) 43
  134. Dark City (Alex Proyas) 42
  135. The X Files (Rob Bowman) 42
  136. Some Nudity Required (Odette Springer) 41
  137. The Wall (Alain Berliner) 41
  138. Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (Tim McCanlies) 41
  139. La Cucaracha (Jack Perez) 40
  140. You've Got Mail (Nora Ephron) 39
  141. Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon) 39
  142. Antz (Tim Johnson) 37
  143. Pleasantville (Gary Ross) 36
  144. Tango (Carlos Saura) 36
  145. Psycho (Gus Van Sant) 35
  146. Little Voice (Mark Herman) 34
  147. He Got Game (Spike Lee) 32
  148. Enemy of the State (Tony Scott) 30
  149. Shirtsleeves (Bruce Bennett) 30
  150. The Red Button (Marc-Olivier Picron) 30
  151. Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre) 28
  152. Waking Ned Devine (Kirk Jones) 27
  153. Can't Hardly Wait (Deborah Kaplan) 24
  154. Meet Joe Black (Martin Brest) 23
  155. Nightwatch (Ole Bornedal) 20
  156. City of Angels (Brad Silberling) 14

1999

  1. Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky) 92
  2. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze) 89
  3. Jesus' Son (Alison Maclean) 88
  4. Beau travail (Claire Denis) 87
  5. American Movie (Chris Smith) 86
  6. The Blair Witch Project (Eduardo Sánchez) 85
  7. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne) 85
  8. Audition (Takashi Miike) 84
  9. The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami) 79
  10. Pola X (Leos Carax) 79
  11. Election (Alexander Payne) 77
  12. Fight Club (David Fincher) 77
  13. Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh) 76
  14. Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano) 75
  15. Humanité (Bruno Dumont) 75
  16. An Affair of Love (Frédéric Fonteyne) 73
  17. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick) 73
  18. The Limey (Steven Soderbergh) 72
  19. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr. (Errol Morris) 72
  20. Dead or Alive (Takashi Miike) 72
  21. Restricted (Jay Rosenblatt) 72
  22. Joe Gould's Secret (Stanley Tucci) 71
  23. The End of the Affair (Neil Jordan) 71
  24. The Iron Giant (Brad Bird) 71
  25. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter) 71
  26. Blood Orange Sky (Jem Cohen) 70
  27. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson) 70
  28. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (Trey Parker) 70
  29. Titus (Julie Taymor) 70
  30. The Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch) 70
  31. Not One Less (Zhang Yimou) 69
  32. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola) 69
  33. Nowhere to Hide (Myung-se Lee) 69
  34. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar) 69
  35. The Straight Story (David Lynch) 68
  36. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella) 68
  37. Three Kings (David O. Russell) 68
  38. The Taste of Others (Agnès Jaoui) 68
  39. Ratcatcher (Lynn Ramsay) 67
  40. American Beauty (Sam Mendes) 67
  41. The Insider (Michael Mann) 67
  42. Go (Doug Liman) 67
  43. Aimée & Jaguar (Max Färberböck) 66
  44. Water Drops on Burning Rocks (François Ozon) 66
  45. One Day in September (Kevin Macdonald) 66
  46. Lies (Sun-Woo Jang) 66
  47. Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce) 65
  48. The Winslow Boy (David Mamet) 65
  49. The Lost Days (Laura Waddington) 65
  50. Wonderland (Michael Winterbottom) 65
  51. Limbo (John Sayles) 64
  52. Ravenous (Antonia Bird) 64
  53. My Best Fiend (Werner Herzog) 64
  54. The Emperor and the Assassin (Kaige Chen) 64
  55. Wisconsin Death Trip (James Marsh) 63
  56. Matter of Taste, A (Bernard Rapp) 63
  57. Kaleid (Jessica Barst) 63
  58. Sadisinfectenz (Giulia Frati) 63
  59. Blink (Katherine Gibson) 63
  60. Nest of Tens (Miranda July) 63
  61. Mirror (Ketih Sanborn) 63
  62. What the Water Said, Nos. 1-3 (David Gatten) 63
  63. American Hollow (Rory Kennedy) 62
  64. Gohatto (Nagisa Oshima) 62
  65. Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese) 62
  66. The Matrix (Brothers Wachowski) 62
  67. New Waterford Girl (Allan Moyle) 61
  68. The Legend of Rita (Volker Schlöndorff) 61
  69. The Book of Stars (Michael Miner) 61
  70. Human Resources (Laurent Cantet) 61
  71. Xenia-The Sacred Lady of St. Petersburg (Katariina Lillqvist) 61
  72. Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz) 60
  73. Treasure Island (Scott King) 60
  74. eXistenZ (David Cronenberg) 60
  75. julien donkey-boy (Harmony Korine) 60
  76. Adrenaline Drive (Shinobu Yaguchi) 60
  77. Romance (Catherine Breillat) 59
  78. The War Zone (Tim Roth) 59
  79. Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton) 59
  80. The Source (Chuck Workman) 59
  81. Felicia's Journey (Atom Egoyan) 58
  82. Ride With the Devil (Ang Lee) 58
  83. Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen) 58
  84. The Woman Chaser (Robinson Devor) 58
  85. Girl on the Bridge (Patrice Leconte) 58
  86. The Ninth Gate (Roman Polanski) 58
  87. Tuvalu (Veit Helmer) 57
  88. American Pimp (Hughes Brothers) 57
  89. Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders) 57
  90. The Perfect Specimen (Steve Mims) 56
  91. Walk on the Moon, A (Tony Goldwyn) 56
  92. Splendor (Gregg Araki) 56
  93. GalaxyQuest (Dean Parisot) 56
  94. Set Me Free (Léa Pool) 56
  95. The Loss of Sexual Innocence (Mike Figgis) 56
  96. The Sex: Annabel Chong Story (Gough Lewis) 56
  97. House Sitting (Tony Gault) 56
  98. Voyages (Emmanuel Finkiel) 56
  99. Tumbleweeds (Gavin O'Connor) 56
  100. Office Space (Mike Judge) 56
  101. Man on the Moon (Milos Forman) 56
  102. The Cider House Rules (Lasse Hallström) 55
  103. The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan) 55
  104. Judy Berlin (Eric Mendelsohn) 55
  105. I Created Lancelot Link (Jeff Krulik) 54
  106. Mumford (Lawrence Kasdan) 54
  107. Mystery Men (Kinka Usher) 54
  108. Cradle Will Rock (Tim Robbins) 54
  109. Holy Smoke (Jane Campion) 54
  110. Genghis Blues (Roko Belic) 53
  111. Summer of Sam (Spike Lee) 53
  112. The Austin Powers: Spy Who Shagged Me (Jay Roach) 53
  113. The Thomas Crown Affair (John McTiernan) 53
  114. Babie (Jonathan Michals) 52
  115. Airtime Rights (Stephen Hutchinson) 52
  116. Arlington Road (Mark Pellington) 52
  117. Trick (Jim Fall) 52
  118. Three Seasons (Tony Bui) 51
  119. The Love Letter (Peter Chan) 51
  120. The Green Mile (Frank Darabont) 51
  121. Snow Falling on Cedars (Scott Hicks) 51
  122. Map of the World, A (Scott Elliott) 50
  123. 8 ½ Women (Peter Greenaway) 50
  124. Guinevere (Audrey Wells) 50
  125. The Eden Myth (Mark Edlitz) 50
  126. Abstractions of Light and Motion in the City at Night (Jen Proctor) 49
  127. Square Circle Triangle (Jen Proctor) 49
  128. Ode (Kelly Reichardt) 49
  129. Slipping Down Life, A (Toni Kalem) 49
  130. Dick (Andrew Fleming) 48
  131. An Ideal Husband (Oliver Parker) 48
  132. Girl, Interrupted (James Mangold) 47
  133. Got Your Money (Hype Williams, Scott Kalvert, D'Urville Martin) 47
  134. The Mummy (Stephen Sommers) 47
  135. Bowfinger (Steve Martin) 47
  136. American Pie (Paul Weitz) 46
  137. Deep Blue Sea (Renny Harlin) 46
  138. The Star Wars: Episode I - Phantom Menace (George Lucas) 45
  139. The Muse (Albert Brooks) 45
  140. Beautiful People (Jasmin Dizdar) 44
  141. East is East (Damien O'Donnell) 44
  142. The Road Home (Zhang Yimou) 43
  143. Mifune (Soren Kragh-Jacobsen) 43
  144. Hand to Mouth, Volume I (Michel Chevalier) 43
  145. Twin Falls Idaho (Michael Polish) 42
  146. Pushing Tin (Mike Newell) 42
  147. Blast From the Past (Hugh Wilson) 42
  148. 10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger) 41
  149. Notting Hill (Roger Michell) 41
  150. Goodbye Lover (Roland Joffé) 40
  151. The General's Daughter (Simon West) 39
  152. Tarzan (Kevin Lima) 38
  153. The Bone Collector (Philip Noyce) 37
  154. True Crime (Clint Eastwood) 37
  155. Dogma (Kevin Smith) 36
  156. Dill Scallion (Jordan Brady) 33
  157. In Dreams (Neil Jordan) 32
  158. The Hurricane (Norman Jewison) 30
  159. Payback (Brian Helgeland) 27
  160. Wildflowers (Melissa Painter) 25
  161. Wednesday's Child (Brad Marlowe) 24
  162. 200 Cigarettes (Risa Bramon Garcia) 23
  163. Never Been Kissed (Raja Gosnell) 22
  164. Break and Enter (Amanda Brotchie) 20
  165. The Last Real Cowboys (Jeff Lester) 13
  166. Peep Show (Charlie Call) 12
  167. Happy, Texas (Mark Illsley) 11
  168. There's No Fish Food in Heaven (Eleanor Gaver) 10
  169. Natural Selection (Mark Lambert Bristol) 2
  170. La Ultima Aceituna (Alicia Scherson) 2

2000

  1. Yi Yi (A One and a Two...) (Edward Yang) 89
  2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee) 85
  3. Memento (Christopher Nolan) 84
  4. The House of Mirth (Terence Davies) 83
  5. You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan) 82
  6. In the Mood for Love (Kar-wai Wong) 81
  7. Battle Royale (Kenji Fukasaku) 80
  8. Code inconnu (Michael Haneke) 79
  9. Songs From the Second Floor (Roy Andersson) 78
  10. State and Main (David Mamet) 77
  11. Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen) 77
  12. Les Destinées (Olivier Assayas) 76
  13. Camera (David Cronenberg) 76
  14. Eureka (Shinji Aoyama) 76
  15. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh) 75
  16. Faithless (Liv Ullmann) 75
  17. Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr) 75
  18. Chopper (Andrew Dominik) 74
  19. The Circle (Jafar Panahi) 73
  20. King of the Jews (Jay Rosenblatt) 72
  21. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen) 72
  22. Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu) 72
  23. Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin) 72
  24. Last Resort (Pawel Pawlikowski) 71
  25. Vertical Ray of the Sun (Tran Anh Hung) 71
  26. With a Friend Like Harry (Dominik Moll) 71
  27. Bullet in the Brain (David Van Ancken) 70
  28. Two Family House (Raymond De Felitta) 70
  29. Hamlet (Michael Almereyda) 70
  30. George Washington (David Gordon Green) 70
  31. Together (Lucas Moodysson) 70
  32. Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer) 70
  33. The City of Lost Souls (Takashi Miike) 69
  34. Thomas in Love (Pierre-Paul Renders) 69
  35. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell) 68
  36. The Widow of Saint-Pierre (Patrice Leconte) 68
  37. Under the Sand (François Ozon) 68
  38. The Emperor's New Groove (Mark Dindal) 68
  39. The New Country (Geir Hansteen Jorgensen) 68
  40. Little Flags (Jem Cohen) 67
  41. The Target Shoots First (Christopher Wilcha) 67
  42. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe) 67
  43. The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda) 67
  44. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier) 67
  45. The Claim (Michael Winterbottom) 66
  46. Two Upbuilding Discourses (John Davis) 66
  47. Undivided Attention (David Ellsworth) 66
  48. Dark Days (Marc Singer) 66
  49. The Filth and the Fury (Julian Temple) 65
  50. Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis) 65
  51. Sound and Fury (Josh Aronson) 65
  52. Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett) 65
  53. La Captive (Chantal Akerman) 64
  54. The Glass System (Mark Lapore) 64
  55. Intimacy (Patrice Chéreau) 63
  56. The Journal of Andrei Arsenevich (Chris Marker) 63
  57. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson) 63
  58. Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer) 63
  59. Our Song (Jim McKay) 62
  60. Uzumaki ( Higuchinsky) 62
  61. Urbania (Jon Shear) 62
  62. Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (George Butler) 62
  63. Outlet (Robert Banks Jr.) 61
  64. County Road 459C (Jenny Stark) 61
  65. Chuck & Buck (Miguel Arteta) 61
  66. Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh) 61
  67. The Yards (James Gray) 61
  68. Chicken Run (Nick Park) 61
  69. 101 Reykjavik (Baltasar Kormákur) 61
  70. Time and Tide (Tsui Hark) 60
  71. The Natural History of the Chicken (Mark Lewis) 60
  72. The Day I Became a Woman (Marzieh Meshkini) 60
  73. Murderous Maids (Jean-Pierre Denis) 60
  74. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky) 60
  75. The Original Kings of Comedy (Spike Lee) 59
  76. Merci pour le chocolat (Claude Chabrol) 59
  77. The Slow Business of Going (Athina Rachel Tsangari) 58
  78. Bardos (Claudia X. Valdes) 58
  79. Arrhythmia (Jonathan Thornhill, Toto Miranda) 58
  80. Graveyard Jamboree with Mysterious Mose (Seamus Walsh) 58
  81. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears) 58
  82. Gladiator (Ridley Scott) 57
  83. Time for Drunken Horses, A (Bahman Ghobadi) 57
  84. Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel) 57
  85. Pollock (Ed Harris) 57
  86. Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan) 57
  87. Brother (Takeshi Kitano) 57
  88. Charlie's Angels ( McG) 56
  89. Thirteen Days (Roger Donaldson) 56
  90. Quills (Phillip Kaufman) 56
  91. Snatch (Guy Ritchie) 56
  92. Baise-moi (Coralie Trinh Thi) 56
  93. The Golden Bowl (James Ivory) 54
  94. Bread and Roses (Ken Loach) 54
  95. Vengo (Tony Gatlif) 54
  96. American Psycho (Mary Harron) 53
  97. Thermostat ( Everson) 53
  98. Space Needle (Twice Around) ( Picard) 53
  99. Bread and Chocolate = Cake ( Thalhuber) 53
  100. Nurse Betty (Neil LaBute) 52
  101. The Way of the Gun (Christopher McQuarrie) 52
  102. Keeping the Faith (Edward Norton) 52
  103. Hollow Man (Paul Verhoeven) 52
  104. Meet the Parents (Jay Roach) 51
  105. Bread & Tulips (Silvio Soldini) 51
  106. Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (Bahman Farmanara) 51
  107. Best in Show (Christopher Guest) 51
  108. Nico and Dani (\"Krámpack\") (Cesc Gay) 50
  109. Cecil B. Demented (John Waters) 50
  110. 73 Suspect Words (Peggy Ahwesh) 50
  111. Panzano (Ulrike Molsen) 50
  112. The Two Boys (Jason Livingston) 50
  113. Balloon Fish (Mark Miller) 50
  114. Boiler Room (Ben Younger) 49
  115. Small Time Crooks (Woody Allen) 49
  116. The Gift (Sam Raimi) 49
  117. Dr. T and the Women (Robert Altman) 49
  118. The Beach (Danny Boyle) 48
  119. Me, Myself & Irene (Bobby Farrelly) 48
  120. The Contender (Rod Lurie) 48
  121. Space Cowboys (Clint Eastwood) 47
  122. The Cell ( Tarsem) 47
  123. Love (Salvatore Botti) 47
  124. Glances of Despair (Salvatore Botti) 47
  125. Pendulum (Jen Proctor) 47
  126. Girlfight (Karyn Kusama) 46
  127. Shadow of the Vampire (E. Elias Merhige) 45
  128. Mission to Mars (Brian DePalma) 45
  129. What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis) 44
  130. All the Pretty Horses (Billy Bob Thornton) 43
  131. Caesar's Park (Sarah Price) 43
  132. The Ruination of Man (Arturo Ripstein) 43
  133. Birthday Girl (Jez Butterworth) 42
  134. Naked States (Arlene Donnelly) 42
  135. Sweet or Spicy? (Kip Fulbeck) 42
  136. Just, Melvin (James Ronald Whitney) 41
  137. Time Code (Mike Figgis) 41
  138. Pitch Black (David N. Twohy) 41
  139. The Perfect Storm (Wolfgang Petersen) 40
  140. Loser (Amy Heckerling) 39
  141. Shanghai Noon (Tom Dey) 39
  142. Final Destination (James Wong) 38
  143. Mission: Impossible II (John Woo) 38
  144. Bounce (Don Roos) 37
  145. Las Papas del Papa (Alex Rivera) 36
  146. Texas 42 (Tasca Shadix) 35
  147. Bread Alone (Andre Silva) 34
  148. Nu (Marah Strauch) 33
  149. Santiago vs. Wigface (Rusty Nails) 32
  150. Animated Corpse (Rusty Nails) 31
  151. Pay It Forward (Mimi Leder) 30
  152. 28 Days (Betty Thomas) 29
  153. Return to Me (Bonnie Hunt) 28
  154. What Women Want (Nancy Meyers) 27
  155. Duets (Bruce Paltrow) 27
  156. Cookies for Harry (Nicholas Peterson) 23
  157. Billy Elliot (Stephen Daldry) 20
  158. Autumn in New York (Joan Chen) 15
  159. Where the Heart Is (Matt Williams) 9

2001

  1. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch) 98
  2. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen) 94
  3. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff) 88
  4. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff) 87
  5. Late Marriage (Dover Koshashvili) 87
  6. All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai) 82
  7. Time Out (Laurent Cantet) 81
  8. Bad Guy (Ki-duk Kim) 81
  9. What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang) 79
  10. Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón) 78
  11. The Son's Room (Nanni Moretti) 77
  12. No Such Thing (Hal Hartley) 76
  13. Angel Beach (Scott Stark) 75
  14. Intacto (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo) 74
  15. Waking Life (Richard Linklater) 73
  16. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg) 72
  17. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) 72
  18. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly) 71
  19. Ali (Michael Mann) 71
  20. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson) 71
  21. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke) 71
  22. The Lady and the Duke (Eric Rohmer) 70
  23. Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis) 70
  24. Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki) 70
  25. Session 9 (Brad Anderson) 69
  26. Read My Lips (Jacques Audiard) 69
  27. Ichi the Killer (Takashi Miike) 69
  28. Promises (B.Z. Goldberg) 68
  29. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki) 68
  30. CQ (Roman Coppola) 68
  31. Lovely & Amazing (Nicole Holofcener) 67
  32. Dogtown and Z-Boys (Stacy Peralta) 67
  33. Tape (Richard Linklater) 67
  34. Bully (Larry Clark) 67
  35. Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh) 67
  36. No Man's Land (Danis Tanovic) 67
  37. Monsters, Inc. (Pete Doctor) 66
  38. Gosford Park (Robert Altman) 66
  39. Scratch (Doug Pray) 66
  40. Southern Comfort (Kate Davis) 66
  41. Chain Camera (Kirby Dick) 66
  42. Visitor Q (Takashi Miike) 66
  43. In the Bedroom (Todd Field) 66
  44. In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard) 66
  45. Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin) 66
  46. Millennium Mambo (Hsiao-hsien Hou) 66
  47. Training Day (Antoine Fuqua) 65
  48. Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette) 65
  49. The Others (Alejandro Amenábar) 65
  50. Startup.com (Jehane Noujaim) 64
  51. Hell House (George Ratliff) 64
  52. Divine Intervention (Elia Suleiman) 64
  53. I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira) 63
  54. The Fast and the Furious (Rob Cohen) 63
  55. The Atanarjuat: Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk) 62
  56. Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) 62
  57. Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair) 62
  58. Metropolis ( Rintaro) 62
  59. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Shohei Imamura) 62
  60. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) 61
  61. The Score (Frank Oz) 61
  62. Go Tigers! (Kenneth A. Carlson) 61
  63. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat) 61
  64. Winged Migration (Jacques Perrin) 61
  65. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson) 60
  66. The Pledge (Sean Penn) 60
  67. Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow) 60
  68. The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro) 59
  69. Human Nature (Michel Gondry) 59
  70. Freddy Got Fingered (Tom Green) 59
  71. Monster's Ball (Marc Forster) 58
  72. Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott) 58
  73. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (Ashutosh Gowariker) 58
  74. Home Movie (Chris Smith) 57
  75. The Believer (Henry Bean) 57
  76. Alias Betty (Claude Miller) 57
  77. Das Experiment (Oliver Hirschbiegel) 57
  78. Brotherhood of the Wolf (Christophe Gans) 57
  79. Last Orders (Fred Schepisi) 57
  80. Series 7: The Contenders (Daniel Minahan) 56
  81. A.B.C Africa (Abbas Kiarostami) 56
  82. 'R Xmas (Abel Ferrara) 56
  83. Heist (David Mamet) 55
  84. Joy Ride (John Dahl) 55
  85. The Anniversary Party (Jennifer Jason Leigh) 55
  86. Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann) 55
  87. Down From the Mountain (Chris Hegedus, Nick Doob) 55
  88. Lantana (Ray Lawrence) 54
  89. Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe) 54
  90. Josie and the Pussycats (Harry Elfont) 53
  91. Shallow Hal (Peter Farrelly) 53
  92. Made (Jon Favreau) 53
  93. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Chris Columbus) 53
  94. Spy Kids (Robert Rodriguez) 52
  95. Storytelling (Todd Solondz) 52
  96. Standing By Yourself (Josh Koury) 52
  97. Jeepers Creepers (Victor Salva) 51
  98. The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike) 51
  99. Wendigo (Larry Fessenden) 50
  100. Serendipity (Peter Chelsom) 49
  101. Pootie Tang (Louis C.K.) 49
  102. Zoolander (Ben Stiller) 49
  103. The Deep End (David Siegel) 48
  104. The Tailor of Panama (John Boorman) 48
  105. Hannibal (Ridley Scott) 47
  106. Frontier (David Zellner) 46
  107. The Sleepy Time Gal (Christopher Munch) 45
  108. From Hell (Hughes) 44
  109. Bartleby (Jonathan Parker) 42
  110. Shrek (Vicky Jenson) 40
  111. Bridget Jones's Diary (Sharon Maguire) 40
  112. Rock Star (Stephen Herek) 37
  113. The Mexican (Gore Verbinski) 33
  114. Beautiful Mind, A (Ron Howard) 28
  115. Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton) 26
  116. Blow (Ted Demme) 20
  117. America's Sweethearts (Joe Roth) 11

2002

  1. Gerry (Gus Van Sant) 88
  2. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar) 87
  3. 25th Hour (Spike Lee) 85
  4. Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 82
  5. The Son (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) 81
  6. demonlover (Olivier Assayas) 80
  7. The Secret Lives of Dentists (Alan Rudolph) 79
  8. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze) 78
  9. Irreversible (Gaspar Noé) 78
  10. 8 Women (François Ozon) 76
  11. Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay) 75
  12. Unknown Pleasures (Zhang Ke Jia) 75
  13. In My Skin (Marina de Van) 74
  14. Bus 174 (Felipe Lacerda) 74
  15. Daughter From Danang (Vicente Franco) 73
  16. Solaris (Steven Soderbergh) 72
  17. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes) 72
  18. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson) 72
  19. Roger Dodger (Dylan Kidd) 71
  20. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson) 71
  21. City of God (Fernando Meirelles) 71
  22. The Twilight Samurai (Yoji Yamada) 71
  23. Insomnia (Christopher Nolan) 70
  24. The Kid Stays in the Picture (Brett Morgen) 70
  25. Amazing Couple, An (Lucas Belvaux) 70
  26. Russian Ark (Alexander Sukorov) 69
  27. 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom) 69
  28. Injury to One, An (Travis Wilkerson) 69
  29. The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki) 68
  30. The Weather Underground (Bill Siegel) 68
  31. Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach) 68
  32. To Be and to Have (Nicolas Philibert) 68
  33. Secret Things (Jean-Claude Brisseau) 68
  34. Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg) 67
  35. The Pianist (Roman Polanski) 67
  36. The Rules of Attraction (Roger Avary) 67
  37. Friday Night (Claire Denis) 67
  38. Hero (Yimou Zhang) 67
  39. Heaven (Tom Tykwer) 66
  40. Jackass the Movie (Jeff Tremaine) 66
  41. The Good Thief (Neil Jordan) 66
  42. In America (Jim Sheridan) 66
  43. After the Life (Lucas Belvaux) 66
  44. On the Run (Lucas Belvaux) 66
  45. Bowling For Columbine (Michael Moore) 65
  46. Charlotte Sometimes (Eric Byler) 65
  47. Oasis (Chang-dong Lee) 65
  48. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne) 64
  49. Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes) 64
  50. Chicago (Rob Marshall) 64
  51. The Truth About Charlie (Jonathan Demme) 64
  52. Panic Room (David Fincher) 64
  53. Spider-Man (Sam Raimi) 64
  54. Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett) 64
  55. Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears) 64
  56. Infernal Affairs (Alan Mak) 64
  57. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese) 63
  58. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma) 63
  59. Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass) 62
  60. 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle) 62
  61. Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce) 61
  62. Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz) 61
  63. Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney) 61
  64. All or Nothing (Mike Leigh) 60
  65. 10 (Abbas Kiarostami) 60
  66. Dark Water (Hideo Nakata) 59
  67. Derrida (Amy Ziering Kofman) 59
  68. Last Orders (Fred Schepisi) 59
  69. Blade II (Guillermo del Toro) 58
  70. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg) 58
  71. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney) 58
  72. Auto Focus (Paul Schrader) 57
  73. Japón (Carlos Reygadas) 57
  74. Happy Here and Now (Michael Almareyda) 56
  75. Sister Helen (Rob Fruchtman) 56
  76. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (Sam Jones) 55
  77. Lost in La Mancha (Louis Pepe) 55
  78. Moonlight Mile (Brad Silberling) 55
  79. Full Frontal (Steven Soderbergh) 54
  80. The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce) 53
  81. Signs (M. Night Shyamalan) 53
  82. The Ring (Gore Verbinski) 53
  83. The Mothman Prophecies (Mark Pellington) 52
  84. Gentle-Man (Tom Meeten) 51
  85. Unfaithful (Adrian Lyne) 51
  86. Sunshine State (John Sayles) 51
  87. Possession (Neil LaBute) 51
  88. The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman) 51
  89. Secretary (Steven Shainberg) 51
  90. Run Ronnie Run! (Troy Miller) 51
  91. Blue Crush (John Stockwell) 50
  92. Spider (David Cronenberg) 50
  93. Undercover Brother (Malcolm D. Lee) 49
  94. Austin Powers in Goldmember (Jay Roach) 49
  95. Narc (Joe Carnahan) 49
  96. 8 Mile (Curtis Hanson) 48
  97. One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek) 48
  98. Lilya 4-ever (Lukas Moodysson) 48
  99. Two Weeks Notice (Marc Lawrence) 47
  100. Undisputed (Walter Hill) 47
  101. Dahmer (David Jacobson) 46
  102. Frida (Julie Taymor) 44
  103. The Good Girl (Miguel Arteta) 43
  104. The Hours (Stephen Daldry) 42
  105. Orange County (Jake Kasdan) 41
  106. P.I.F. (Tom Meeten) 40
  107. The Count of Monte Cristo (Kevin Reynolds) 39
  108. Frailty (Bill Paxton) 39
  109. About a Boy (Chris Weitz) 38
  110. Igby Goes Down (Burr Steers) 36
  111. My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Joel Zwick) 26
  112. Changing Lanes (Roger Michell) 25
  113. The Free Man (Frank Westermeyer) 25
  114. Kalkitos (Miguel Gomes) 24
  115. Stealing Harvard (Bruce McCulloch) 17
  116. Phone Booth (Joel Schumacher) 15

2003

  1. Dogville (Lars von Trier) 92
  2. Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino) 87
  3. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen) 83
  4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson) 82
  5. Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi) 81
  6. The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade) 81
  7. Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong) 78
  8. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola) 77
  9. Cowards Bend the Knee (Guy Maddin) 76
  10. To Love or To Die (Scott Stark) 76
  11. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki) 75
  12. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (Ki-duk Kim) 75
  13. Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff) 73
  14. The Return (Andrei Zvyaginstev) 71
  15. The Company (Robert Altman) 70
  16. Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke) 70
  17. Oldboy (Chan-wook Park) 70
  18. Touching the Void (Kevin Macdonald) 69
  19. The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo) 69
  20. The Five Obstructions (Lars von Trier) 69
  21. Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee) 69
  22. Raja (Jacques Doillon) 69
  23. Dallas 362 (Scott Caan) 69
  24. Finding Nemo (Lee Unkrich) 68
  25. The School of Rock (Richard Linklater) 68
  26. The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin) 68
  27. Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott) 67
  28. Stevie (Steve James) 67
  29. Tarnation (Jonathan Caouette) 67
  30. Shattered Glass (Billy Ray) 66
  31. Owning Mahowny (Richard Kwietniowski) 66
  32. Chiquitita and The Soft Escape (Michael Robinson) 66
  33. The Hunted (William Friedkin) 65
  34. American Splendor (Robert Pulcini) 65
  35. 21 Grams (Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu) 65
  36. The Corporation (Mark Achbar) 65
  37. Melvin Goes to Dinner (Bob Odenkirk) 64
  38. S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Rithy Panh) 64
  39. Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski) 64
  40. Down With Love (Peyton Reed) 63
  41. Intolerable Cruelty (Joel Coen) 63
  42. The Fog of War (Errol Morris) 63
  43. Tale of Two Sisters, A (Ji-woon Kim) 63
  44. X2 (Bryan Singer) 62
  45. Gozu (Takashi Miike) 62
  46. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green) 61
  47. The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano) 61
  48. Blind Shaft (Yang Li) 61
  49. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood) 60
  50. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir) 60
  51. Twentynine Palms (Bruno Dumont) 60
  52. The Matrix Reloaded ( The Wachowski Brothers) 59
  53. The Phantom Museum: Random Forays Into the Vaults of Sir Henry Wellcome's Medical Collection (Brothers Quay) 59
  54. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Donnacha O'Briain) 58
  55. Chop (Scott Stark) 58
  56. Stuck on You (Bobby Farrelly) 57
  57. Code 46 (Michael Winterbottom) 57
  58. Live From Shiva's Dancefloor (Richard Linklater) 56
  59. Monster (Patty Jenkins) 56
  60. The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet) 56
  61. The Flower of Evil (Claude Chabrol) 54
  62. Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella) 52
  63. Hulk (Ang Lee) 51
  64. Love Actually (Richard Curtis) 51
  65. Elephant (Gus Van Sant) 50
  66. Le Divorce (James Ivory) 49
  67. Ju-on: The Grudge (Takashi Shimizu) 49
  68. The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci) 48
  69. Identity (James Mangold) 47
  70. The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy) 47
  71. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (Joan Churchill) 46
  72. Mighty Wind, A (Christopher Guest) 45
  73. Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski) 45
  74. House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman) 45
  75. Ong-bak (Prachya Pinkaew) 44
  76. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman) 44
  77. Seabiscuit (Gary Ross) 43
  78. Duplex (Danny DeVito) 40
  79. Open Water (Laura Lau) 21

2004

  1. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 89
  2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry) 88
  3. Primer (Shane Carruth) 84
  4. Sideways (Alexander Payne) 79
  5. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson) 79
  6. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater) 77
  7. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh) 76
  8. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki) 76
  9. Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino) 74
  10. Red Lights (Cédric Kahn) 74
  11. The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass) 73
  12. House of Flying Daggers (Yimou Zhang) 73
  13. Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar) 72
  14. The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel) 72
  15. Head-On (Fatih Akin) 70
  16. Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow) 69
  17. 3-Iron (Ki-duk Kim) 69
  18. Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi) 68
  19. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda) 68
  20. Tony Takitani (Jun Ichikawa) 68
  21. Darwin's Nightmare (Hubert Sauper) 68
  22. Spartan (David Mamet) 67
  23. Control Room (Jehane Noujaim) 67
  24. 2046 (Wong Kar Wai) 67
  25. Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin) 67
  26. Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder) 66
  27. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuarón) 66
  28. Look at Me (Agnès Jaoui) 66
  29. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (Bruce Sinofsky) 65
  30. The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme) 65
  31. Closer (Mike Nichols) 65
  32. Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki) 65
  33. My Summer of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski) 65
  34. Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock) 64
  35. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (Stephen Hillenburg) 64
  36. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright) 63
  37. Birth (Jonathan Glazer) 63
  38. Clean (Olivier Assayas) 63
  39. The World (Zhang-ke Jia) 62
  40. Duck Season (Fernando Eimbcke) 62
  41. Dig! (Ondi Timoner) 61
  42. District B13 (Pierre Morel) 61
  43. Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston) 60
  44. Farenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore) 59
  45. Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess) 59
  46. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood) 58
  47. Millions (Danny Boyle) 57
  48. 50 First Dates (Peter Segal) 56
  49. The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (Asia Argento) 56
  50. Mean Girls (Mark Waters) 55
  51. The Incredibles (Brad Bird) 54
  52. Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh) 51
  53. The Door in the Floor (Tod Williams) 51
  54. Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch) 48
  55. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese) 48
  56. The Ladykillers (Ethan Coen) 47
  57. In Good Company (Paul Weitz) 47
  58. Troy (Wolfgang Petersen) 45
  59. The Butterfly Effect (J. Mackye Gruber) 45
  60. The Polar Express [IMAX 3D version] (Robert Zemeckis) 44
  61. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay) 40
  62. The Village (M. Night Shyamalan) 40
  63. Collateral (Michael Mann) 37
  64. Grande école (Robert Salis) 35
  65. The Big Bounce (George Armitage) 34
  66. Along Came Polly (John Hamburg) 31

2005

  1. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog) 85
  2. Brick (Rian Johnson) 81
  3. Mutual Appreciation (Andrew Bujalski) 80
  4. Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel) 80
  5. Serenity (Joss Whedon) 79
  6. The Wayward Cloud (Ming-liang Tsai) 78
  7. Untitled (for David Gatten) (Phil Solomon and Mark Lapore) 78
  8. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach) 77
  9. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee) 75
  10. Caché (Hidden) (Michael Haneke) 75
  11. Who's Camus Anyway? (Mitsuo Yanagimachi) 74
  12. Frank Miller's Sin City (Robert Rodriguez) 71
  13. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black) 71
  14. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu) 71
  15. The New World (Terrence Malick) 70
  16. L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) 69
  17. War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg) 68
  18. The Matador (Richard Shepard) 68
  19. Down in the Valley (David Jacobson) 68
  20. King Kong (Peter Jackson) 67
  21. The Descent (Neil Marshall) 67
  22. Gabrielle (Patrice Chéreau) 67
  23. You Don't Bring Me Flowers (Michael Robinson) 67
  24. History of Violence, A (David Cronenberg) 66
  25. Munich (Steven Spielberg) 66
  26. Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry) 66
  27. The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig) 66
  28. The Devil's Rejects (Rob Zombie) 65
  29. Match Point (Woody Allen) 65
  30. Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright) 65
  31. I am a Sex Addict (Caveh Zahedi) 65
  32. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan) 64
  33. Last Days (Gus Van Sant) 64
  34. Three Times (Hsiao-hsien Hou) 64
  35. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch) 63
  36. The Aristocrats (Paul Provenza) 63
  37. Mirrormask (Dave McKean) 63
  38. Bubble (Steven Soderbergh) 63
  39. March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet) 62
  40. The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Steve Box) 62
  41. Keane (Lodge Kerrigan) 62
  42. Election (Johnny To) 62
  43. The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard) 61
  44. Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (Tim Burton) 61
  45. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July) 60
  46. The 40 Year-Old Virgin (Judd Apatow) 59
  47. Sky High (Mike Mitchell) 57
  48. Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney) 57
  49. Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas) 56
  50. Cock and Bull Story, A (Michael Winterbottom) 54
  51. Murderball (Dana Adam Shapiro) 53
  52. Manderlay (Lars von Trier) 51
  53. Red Eye (Wes Craven) 50
  54. Land of the Dead (George Romero) 49
  55. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton) 49
  56. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones) 49
  57. Capote (Bennett Miller) 47
  58. Walk the Line (James Mangold) 46
  59. The Jacket (John Maybury) 43
  60. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas) 42
  61. Cinderella Man (Ron Howard) 41

2006

  1. Everything Will Be Ok (Don Hertzfeldt) 84
  2. Marie Antoinette (Sophia Coppola) 82
  3. The Host (Joon-ho Bong) 80
  4. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan) 80
  5. Woman on the Beach (Sang-soo Hong) 80
  6. Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt) 79
  7. Inland Empire (David Lynch) 79
  8. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón) 77
  9. Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 75
  10. The Departed (Martin Scorsese) 74
  11. Prairie Home Companion, A (Robert Altman) 73
  12. Black Book (Paul Verhoeven) 73
  13. Exiled (Johnny To) 73
  14. Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev) 72
  15. Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck) 71
  16. 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu) 71
  17. Time (Ki-duk Kim) 71
  18. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 70
  19. The Boss of It All (Lars Von Trier) 70
  20. More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda (Scott Stark) 70
  21. United 93 (Paul Greengrass) 69
  22. Miami Vice (Michael Mann) 69
  23. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tom Tykwer) 69
  24. Volver (Pedro Almodóvar) 69
  25. Still Life (Zhang Ke Jia) 69
  26. Container (Lukas Moodysson) 68
  27. The General Returns From One Place to Another (Michael Robinson) 68
  28. Scanner Darkly, A (Richard Linklater) 67
  29. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro) 67
  30. Away From Her (Sarah Polley) 67
  31. Offside (Jafar Panahi) 67
  32. In Between Days (So Yong Kim) 67
  33. And We All Shine On (Michael Robinson) 67
  34. Apocalypto (Mel Gibson) 66
  35. Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin) 66
  36. Inside Man (Spike Lee) 65
  37. Inconvenient Truth, An (Davis Guggenheim) 64
  38. Jackass Number Two (Jeff Tremaine) 64
  39. The Puffy Chair (Jay Duplass) 64
  40. Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal) 64
  41. Summer '04 (Stefan Krohmer) 64
  42. Wordplay (Patrick Creadon) 63
  43. Once (John Carney) 63
  44. This is England (Shane Meadows) 63
  45. Cars (John Lasseter) 62
  46. Friends With Money (Nicole Holofcener) 62
  47. Election 2 (Johnny To) 62
  48. Paprika (Satoshi Kon) 62
  49. Casino Royale (Martin Campbell) 61
  50. Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood) 61
  51. Bug (William Friedkin) 61
  52. Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako) 61
  53. Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell) 60
  54. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach) 60
  55. Reprise (Joachim Trier) 60
  56. Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme) 59
  57. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles) 59
  58. Charlotte's Web (Gary Winick) 59
  59. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) 59
  60. Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais) 58
  61. The Good Shepherd (Robert De Niro) 57
  62. The Good Shepherd (Robert De Niro) 57
  63. Tell No One (Guillaume Canet) 57
  64. Sleeping Dogs Lie. (Bobcat Goldthwait) 54
  65. Mission: Impossible III (J.J. Abrams) 53
  66. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Adam McKay) 53
  67. Black Snake Moan (Craig Brewer) 52
  68. The Queen (Stephen Frears) 51
  69. Idiocracy (Mike Judge) 49
  70. Happy Feet (George Miller) 47
  71. The Notorious Bettie Page (Mary Harron) 45
  72. Monster House (Gil Kenan) 45
  73. The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma) 44
  74. Failure to Launch (Tom Dey) 36
  75. Curious George (Matthew O'Callaghan) 35

2007

  1. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas) 84
  2. Joshua (George Ratliff) 82
  3. The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik) 82
  4. Funny Games (Michael Haneke) 81
  5. In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín) 81
  6. Victory Over the Sun (Michael Robinson) 80
  7. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hsiao-hsien Hou) 80
  8. Rehearsals for Retirement (Phil Solomon) 80
  9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu) 79
  10. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin) 79
  11. Last Days in a Lonely Place (Phil Solomon) 79
  12. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson) 78
  13. Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog) 77
  14. My Kid Could Paint That (Amir Bar-Lev) 76
  15. Grindhouse (Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright, Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino) 75
  16. No Country For Old Men (Ethan Coen) 75
  17. Zodiac (David Fincher) 74
  18. The Secret of the Grain (Abdel Kechiche) 74
  19. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy) 73
  20. Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant) 73
  21. Import Export (Ulrich Seidl) 72
  22. The Duchess of Langeais (Jacques Rivette) 71
  23. Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck) 70
  24. Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach) 69
  25. Light is Waiting (Michael Robinson) 69
  26. Atonement (Joe Wright) 68
  27. You the Living (Roy Andersson) 68
  28. The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin) 67
  29. The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Eric Rohmer) 67
  30. Knocked Up (Judd Apatow) 66
  31. Sicko (Michael Moore) 66
  32. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton) 66
  33. The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat) 66
  34. Days and Clouds (Silvio Soldini) 66
  35. The Savages (Tamara Jenkins) 65
  36. Chicago 10 (Brett Morgen) 65
  37. Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani) 65
  38. Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney) 65
  39. Superbad (Greg Mottola) 64
  40. Sunshine (Danny Boyle) 64
  41. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon) 64
  42. The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass) 63
  43. Lust, Caution (Ang Lee) 63
  44. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel) 63
  45. Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (John Gianvito) 63
  46. 3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold) 61
  47. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright) 60
  48. I'm Not There (Todd Haynes) 60
  49. Ratatouille (Brad Bird) 59
  50. The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman) 59
  51. Secret Sunshine (Chang-dong Lee) 59
  52. Fracture (Gregory Hoblit) 58
  53. I Am Legend (Francis Lawrence) 58
  54. Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi) 58
  55. Mad Detective (Wai Ka-Fai) 58
  56. My Blueberry Nights (Kar Wai Wong) 57
  57. Mr. Brooks (Bruce A. Evans) 56
  58. Vacancy (Nimród Antal) 55
  59. Juno (Jason Reitman) 54
  60. The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (Jay Russell) 54
  61. Stuck (Stuart Gordon) 54
  62. No End in Sight (Charles Ferguson) 53
  63. Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols) 53
  64. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg) 52
  65. Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog) 51
  66. Before I Forget (Jacques Nolot) 51
  67. Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli) 49
  68. The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson) 48
  69. Into the Wild (Sean Penn) 46
  70. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet) 45
  71. Breach (Billy Ray) 44
  72. 28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo) 43

2008

  1. The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson) 83
  2. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas) 81
  3. Julia (Erick Zonca) 79
  4. Burn After Reading (Ethan Coen) 78
  5. Christmas Tale, A (Arnaud Desplechin) 78
  6. Home (Ursula Meier) 78
  7. Afterschool (Antonio Campos) 76
  8. Wall•E (Andrew Stanton) 75
  9. Lorna's Silence (Luc Dardenne) 71
  10. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) 70
  11. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme) 70
  12. Revanche (Götz Spielmann) 70
  13. Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo) 70
  14. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel) 69
  15. The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky) 68
  16. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis) 68
  17. Hunger (Steve McQueen) 67
  18. All Through the Night (Michael Robinson) 67
  19. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson) 66
  20. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh) 66
  21. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt) 66
  22. Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman) 66
  23. Ballast (Lance Hammer) 66
  24. Two Lovers (James Gray) 66
  25. Hold Me Now (Michael Robinson) 66
  26. Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda) 66
  27. The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda) 66
  28. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman) 65
  29. Bigger Stronger Faster* (* The Side Effects of Being American) (Chris Bell) 65
  30. Doubt (John Patrick Shanley) 65
  31. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes) 65
  32. The Class (Laurent Cantet) 65
  33. Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley) 65
  34. BirdWatchers (Marco Bechis) 65
  35. Carol Anne is Dead (Michael Robinson) 65
  36. Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris) 64
  37. Man on Wire (James Marsh) 64
  38. Che: Part One (Steven Soderbergh) 64
  39. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow) 64
  40. Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (Mark Hartley) 64
  41. Gommorah (Matteo Garrone) 62
  42. Kung Fu Panda (John Stevenson) 61
  43. Jerichow (Christian Petzold) 60
  44. Che: Part Two (Steven Soderbergh) 60
  45. Momma's Man (Azazel Jacobs) 59
  46. Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino) 59
  47. Frozen River (Courtney Hunt) 58
  48. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) 58
  49. Pontypool (Bruce McDonald) 58
  50. Baghead (Mark Duplass) 57
  51. Anvil: The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi) 57
  52. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen) 56
  53. The Strangers (Bryan Bertino) 55
  54. Iron Man (John Favreau) 53
  55. Ponyo (Hiyao Miyazaki) 53
  56. Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn) 53
  57. Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola) 53
  58. Red Cliff (John Woo) 53
  59. Milk (Gus Van Sant) 52
  60. Somers Town (Shane Meadows) 52
  61. Shine a Light (Martin Scorsese) 50
  62. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller) 49
  63. Ghost Town (David Koepp) 47
  64. The Ruins (Carter Smith) 45
  65. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh) 42
  66. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard) 41
  67. Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle) 41
  68. Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green) 40
  69. Role Models (David Wain) 40
  70. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (Peter Sollett) 38
  71. The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan) 26

2009

  1. Everyone Else (Maren Ade) 81
  2. Duplicity (Tony Gilroy) 80
  3. Dogtooth (Giorgos Lanthimos) 79
  4. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson) 77
  5. Humpday (Lynn Shelton) 76
  6. In the Loop (Armando Iannucci) 75
  7. Up (Pete Docter) 73
  8. Passing Strange (Spike Lee) 72
  9. Still Raining, Still Dreaming (Phil Solomon) 72
  10. It Felt Like a Kiss (Adam Curtis) 72
  11. Mother (Bong Joon-ho) 71
  12. Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu) 71
  13. A Serious Man (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen) 70
  14. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese) 70
  15. Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi) 69
  16. Coraline (Henry Selick) 68
  17. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) 68
  18. Vincere (Marco Bellocchio) 68
  19. The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh) 67
  20. Beeswax (Andrew Bujalski) 67
  21. The Bad Lieutenant -- Port of Call: New Orleans (Werner Herzog) 66
  22. Antichrist (Lars Von Trier) 65
  23. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke) 65
  24. District 9 (Neill Blomkamp) 64
  25. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Chris Miller & Phil Lord) 64
  26. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard) 64
  27. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (Werner Herzog) 63
  28. Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar) 63
  29. Wild Grass (Alain Resnais) 62
  30. Bright Star (Jane Campion) 58
  31. Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat) 58
  32. Star Trek (J.J. Abrams) 57
  33. Up in the Air (Jason Reitman) 57
  34. The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh) 56
  35. Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze) 56
  36. Moon (Duncan Jones) 56
  37. (500) Days of Summer (Marc Webb) 55
  38. A Town Called Panic (Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar) 55
  39. Adventureland (Greg Mottola) 54
  40. Crank 2: High Voltage (Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor) 53
  41. Disney's A Christmas Carol (Robert Zemeckis) 52
  42. Watchmen (Zack Snyder) 51
  43. Public Enemies (Michael Mann) 50
  44. An Education (Lone Scherfig) 44
  45. Avatar (James Cameron) 43
  46. The Hangover (Todd Phillips) 26

2010

  1. Inception (Christopher Nolan) 70
  2. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich) 69
  3. Greenberg (Noah Baumbach) 67
  4. Winter's Bone (Debra Granik) 64
  5. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski) 60