*IMDB World Premiere Dates*
Some of these lists are thin or incomplete
- Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Thrice Upon a Time (Hideaki Anno)
- Annette (Leos Carax)
- The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski)
- North By Current (Angelo Madsen Minax)
- We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun)
- Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
- Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (Kier-La Janisse)
- Spencer (Pablo Larrain)
- The Last Duel (Ridley Scott)
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)
- Tommaso (Abel Ferrara)
- First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
- The Assistant (Kitty Green)
- The Empty Man (David Prior)
- Perparations to be Together For an Unknown Period of Time (Lili Horvat)
- Lingua Franca (Isabel Sandoval)
- The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo)
- The History of the Seattle Mariners (Jon Bois)
- last night i dreamt that somebody loved me (Haaniyah Angus)
2019
- The Irishman//I Heard You Paint Houses (Martin Scorsese)
- Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
- Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
- Uncut Gems (The Safdie Brothers)
- Dark Waters (Todd Haynes)
- Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu)
- Fourteen (Dan Sallitt)
- Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
- Fit Model (Myna Joseph)
- So Pretty (Jessica Rovinelli)
2018
- Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
- Devilman Crybaby (Masaaki Yuasa)
- Liz and the Blue Bird (Naoko Yamada)
- A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper)
- The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan)
- Beychella (Beyonce’)
- Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)
- Unsane (Stephen Soderbergh)
- The 15:17 to Paris (Clint Eastwood)
2017
- Twin Peaks (David Lynch)
- Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
- Milla (Valerie Massadian)
- Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-Soo)
- Ladybird (Greta Gerwig)
- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (Paul W.S. Anderson)
- Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Hagazussa (Lukas Feigelfeld)
- Night is Short, Walk on Girl (Masaaki Yuasa)
- Strong Island (Yance Ford)
2016
- Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
- Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
- Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
- Lemonade (Beyonce)
- Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
- O.J. Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
- Silence (Martin Scorsese)
- The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Femon Craig)
- Little Sister (Zack Clark)
- Nine Behind (Sophy Romvari)
2015
- No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
- By the Sea (Angelina Jolie)
- Carol (Todd Haynes)
- Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs)
- Mistress America (Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig)
- Blackhat (Michael Mann)
- The Assassin (Hou Hsien-Hsiao)
- Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
- 88:88 (Isiah Medina)
2014
- The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata)
- Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
- Pompeii (Paul W.S. Anderson)
- Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To)
- Heaven Knows What (Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie)
- Girlhood (Celine Sciamma)
- Two Days, One Night (The Dardenne Brothers)
- Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)
- Unfriended (Levan Gabriadze)
- Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg)
2013
- Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
- Top of the Lake (Jane Campion)
- Blind Detective (Johnnie To)
- The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
- The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Bros.)
- Drug War (Johnnie To)
- Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat)
- White Reindeer (Zach Clark)
- Enough Said (Nicole Holofcener)
2012
- Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
- Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To)
- The Lords of Salem (Rob Zombie)
- Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson)
- Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
- Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig)
- The Unspeakable Act (Dan Sallitt)
- Dredd (Pete Travis)
- Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
- Wolf Children (Mamoru Hosada)
2011
- Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher)
- K-On! The Movie (Naoko Yamada)
- Kotoko (Shinya Tsukamoto)
- Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Johnnie To)
- A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
- The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
- House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)
- Weekend (Andrew Haigh)
- Pariah (Dee Rees)
2010
- Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
- Somewhere (Sofia Coppola)
- Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
- Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
- Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik)
- Unstoppable (Tony Scott)
- The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira)
- Poetry (Lee Chang Dong)
- Mysteries of Lisbon (Raoul Ruiz)
- Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Frammartino)
2009
- Halloween II: Director’s Cut (Rob Zombie)
- Bright Star (Jane Campione
- Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
- Alle Anderen (Maren Ade)
- Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
- The House of the Devil (Ti West)
- Whip It! (Drew Barrymoore)
- Two Lovers (James Gray)
- A Perfect Getaway (David Twohy)
- Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi)
2008
- Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
- Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
- Sparrow (Johnnie To)
- 35 Rhums (Claire Denis)
- Martyrs (Pascal Laugier)
- Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
- The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
- 24 City (Jia Zhangke)
- Speed Racer (Lily and Lana Wachowski)
- My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-Wai)
2007
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
- Waitress (Adrienne Shelly)
- Zodiac (David Fincher)
- Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
- More Things that Happened (David Lynch)
- No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
- I’m Not There (Todd Haynes)
- The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
- Stuck (Stuart Gordon)
- My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
2006
- Inland Empire (David Lynch)
- Exiled (Johnnie To)
- Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
- Still City (Jia Zhangke)
- The Lake House (Alejandro Agresti)
- Syndromes and a Century (Joe)
- Triad Election (Johnnie To)
- Deja Vu (Tony Scott)
- Silent Hill (Christophe Gans)
- Friends with Money (Nicole Holofcener)
2005
- Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita)
- Domino (Tony Scott)
- Election (Johnnie To)
- The Devil’s Rejects (Rob Zombie)
- Three Times (Hsiao-Hsien Hou)
- A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
- Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
- Cigarette Burns (John Carpenter)
- Haze (Shinya Tsukamoto)
- Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (Michel Gondry)
2004
- Innocence (Lucille Hadzihalilovic)
- Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
- Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
- Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
- Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Collateral (Michael Mann)
- Tomorrow We Move (Chantal Akerman)
- Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
- Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson)
2003
- Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
- The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette)
- Running on Karma (Johnnie To)
- Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-Ho)
- Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
- In the Cut (Jane Campion)
- The Matrix Reloaded (The Wachowski Sisters)
- Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
- Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Anderson)
- Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon)
2002
- A Snake of June (Shinya Tsukamoto)
- Vendredi Soir (Claire Denis)
- Funny Haha (Andrew Bujalski)
- Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
- Rabbits (David Lynch)
- Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (Takashi Miike)
- Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
- Signs (M. Night Shyamalan)
- May (Lucky McKee)
- Blue (Hiroshi Ando)
2001
- Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
- Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
- Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike)
- Take Care of My Cat (Jeong Jae-eun)
- Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
- Millennium Mambo (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
- Things Behind the Sun (Alison Anders)
- Avalon (Mamoru Oshii)
- Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
2000
- In the Mood For Love (Kar-Wai Wong)
- Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett)
- The Day I Became a Woman (Marzieh Meshkini)
- DOA 2: Birds (Takashi Miike)
- Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
- Love and Basketball (Gina Price-Bythewood)
- Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine (Gee-Woong Nam)
- La Captive (Chantal Akerman)
- Needing You (Johnnie To)
- As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas)
1999
- The Straight Story (David Lynch)
- Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
- Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
- Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese)
- Audition (Takashi Miike)
- The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
- The Matrix (Lily and Lana Wachowski)
- Gohatto (Nagisa Oshima)
- Adolescence of Utena (Kunihiko Ikuhara)
1998
- Histoire(s) du Cinema (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Fucking Amal (Lukas Moodysson)
- The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen)
- The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman)
- The Flowers of Shanghai (Hsiao-Hsien Hou)
- Bride of Chucky (Ronny Yu)
- Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (Takashi Anno)
- Sombre (Phillipe Grandieux)
- Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore (Sarah Jacobson)
- Bullet Ballet (Shinya Tsukamoto)
1997
- The End of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno)
- Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
- Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
- Xiao Wu (Jia Zhangke)
- Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
- Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (Chantal Akerman)
- Career Girls (Mike Leigh)
- Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion (David Mirkin)
- Rainy Dog (Takashi Miike)
1996
- Crash (David Cronenberg)
- The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye)
- Bound (Lana and Lily Wachowski)
- Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen)
- Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
- Fudoh: The New Generation (Takashi Miike)
- Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky)
- Nenette et Boni (Claire Denis)
- Sudden Manhattan (Adrienne Shelly)
- Scream (Wes Craven)
1995
- Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
- The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
- Up, Down, Fragile (Jacques Rivette)
- Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Ishii)
- Heat (Michael Mann)
- [SAFE] (Todd Haynes)
- Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven)
- To Die For (Gus Van Zant)
- Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!!! The Heist (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
- The Blade (Hark Tsui)
1994
- Jeanne la Pucelle (Jacques Rivette)
- Little Women (Gillian Armstrong)
- Portrait of a Young Girl in Brussels at the End of the 60s (Chantal Akerman)
- Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
- Chungking Express (Kar-Wai Wong)
- Which Way is East: Notebooks From Vietnam (Lynne Sachs)
- Speed (Jan De Bont)
- Legend of Drunken Master (Kar-Lau Leung)
- Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
- Angel Dust (Gakuryu Ishii)
1993
- Green Snake (Hark Tsui)
- The Piano (Jane Campion)
- Blue (Derek Jarman)
- D’est (Chantal Akerman)
- A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
- Madadayo (Akira Kurosawa)
- Matinee (Joe Dante)
- Je Vous Salue Sarajevo (Jean-Luc Godard)
- “Blackout” (David Lynch)
- The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
1992
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
- The Long Day Closes (Terrence Davies)
- Nitrate Kisses (Barbara Hammer)
- Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
- Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
- Death Becomes Her (Robert Zemeckis)
- Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (Leslie Harris)
- I Am My Own Woman (Rosa Von Praunheim)
- Deep Cover (Bill Duke)
- Orlando (Sally Potter)
1991
- The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
- A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
- Dogfight (Nancy Savoca)
- The Rapture (Michael Tolkin)
- Rhapsody in August (Akira Kurosawa)
- Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise)
- I Am Wanda (Katja Raganelli)
- Barton Fink (Joel and Ethan Coen)
- My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
- Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata)
1990
- Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston)
- King of New York (Abel Ferrara)
- Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
- Privilege (Yvonne Rainer)
- Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante)
- Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
- An Angel at my Table (Jane Campion)
- Janine (Cheryl Dunye)
- Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)
1989
- Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette)
- Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto)
- Tongues Untied (Marlon Riggs)
- Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
- Sweetie (Jane Campion)
- The Killer (John Woo)
- A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (Hark Tsui)
- The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
- The Woman in Black (Herbert Wise)
1988
- My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
- School on Fire (Ringo Lam)
- Die Hard (John McTiernan)
- The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
- Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
- Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
- Face Like a Frog (Sallu Cruikshank)
- Hairspray (John Waters)
- Akira (Katsuhio Otomo)
- Bloodsport (Newt Arnold)
1987
- Broadcast News (James L. Brooks)
- Sign O’ The Times (Prince)
- Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter)
- Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)
- RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)
- City on Fire (Ringo Lam)
- Where Is My Friend’s Home? (Abbas Kiarostami)
- The Adventures of Denchu-Kozo (Shin’ya Tsukamoto)
- King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard)
- No No Nooky T.V. (Barbara Hammer)
1986
- The Terrorizers (Edward Yang)
- Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter)
- Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
- The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer)
- Working Girls (Lizzie Borden)
- The Fly (David Cronenberg)
- Peking Opera Blues (Hark Tsui)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre II (Tobe Hooper)
- Manhunter (Michael Mann)
- His Motorbike, Her Island (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
1985
- Angel’s Egg (Mamoru Oshii)
- Police Story (Jackie Chan)
- Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
- Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
- Insignificance (Nicolas Roeg)
- Taipei Story (Edward Yang)
- Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
- Vagabond (Agnes Varda)
- Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Siedelman)
1984
- Starman (John Carpenter)
- Wheels on Meals (Sammo Hung)
- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
- Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli)
- Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
- Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
- When the Tenth Month Comes (Dang Nhat Minh)
- Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
- Mermaid Legend (Toshiharu Ikeda)
- Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer (Mamoru Oshii)
1983
- Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
- Silkwood (Mike Nichols)
- One Day Pina Asked (Chantal Akerman)
- Christine (John Carpenter)
- Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
- Sheer Madness (Margarethe Von Trotta)
- Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raoul Ruiz)
- Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden)
- Love Letters (Amy Holden Jones)
- Possibly in Michigan (Cecelia Condit)
1982
- Toute Une Nuit (Chantal Akerman)
- Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Robert Altman)
- The Thing (John Carpenter)
- Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
- The Fan (Eckhart Schmidt)
- Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins)
- The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth)
- The Slumber Party Massacre (Amy Holden Jones)
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling)
- Starstruck (Gillian Armstrong)
1981
- Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)
- Possession (Andrzej Zulawski)
- WMEN (Esther Regelson)
- They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich)
- Escape From New York (John Carpenter)
- The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi)
- You Are Not I (Sara Driver)
- Le Pont Du Nord (Jacques Rivette)
- The Beyond (Lucio Fulci)
- Audience (Barbara Hammer)
1980
- The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
- “Breathing” (Kate Bush)
- Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg)
- Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
- The Fog (John Carpenter)
- Melvin & Howard (Jonathan Demme)
- The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
- A Week’s Vacation (Bertrand Tavernier)
- City of the Livind Dead (Lucio Fulci)
- Simone Barbes de Virtue (Marie-Claude Treilhou)
1979
- Soft Fiction (Chick Strand)
- Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
- Alien (Ridley Scott)
- Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Asparagus (Suzan Pitt)
- My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong)
- The Brood (David Cronenberg)
- The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki)
- Saint Jack (Peter Bogdanovich)
- Real Life (Albert Brooks)
1978
- The Meetings of Anna (Chantal Akerman)
- The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Lau-Kar Leung)
- Girlfriends (Claudia Weill)
- Coming Home (Hal Ashby)
- Halloween (John Carpenter)
- Alucarda (Juan Lopez Moctezuma)
- Empire of Passion (Nagisa Oshima)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
- Renaldo & Clara (Bob Dylan)
- An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky)
1977
- News From Home (Chantal Akerman)
- Suspiria (Dario Argento)
- Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
- Eraserhead (David Lynch)
- Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
- Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
- 3 Women (Robert Altman)
- Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
- Martin (George A. Romero)
- Emmett Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas (Jim Henson)
1976
- Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
- Noroit (Jacques Rivette)
- Carrie (Brian De Palma)
- Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
- Duelle (Jacques Rivette)
- Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
- The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood)
- Shaolin Temple (Cheh Chang)
- Challenge of the Masters (Kar-Lau Leung)
- Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Joan Macklin Silver)
1975
- Jeanne Dielman: 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
- Nashville (Robert Altman)
- Jaws (Stephen Spielberg)
- Girls at 12 (Joyce Chopra)
- Dersu Uzuala (Akira Kurosawa)
- Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
- Graveyard of Honor (Kinji Fukusaku)
- Black Moon (Louis Malle)
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
- The Stepford Wives (Bryan Forbes)
1974
- Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
- Je, Tu, Il, Elle (Chantal Akerman)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
- A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
- Dyketactics (Barbara Hammer)
- Black Christmas (Bob Clark)
- Female Trouble (John Waters)
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbender)
- Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins)
- Five Shaolin Masters (Chang Cheh)
1973
- Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (Shunya Ito)
- Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita)
- F For Fake (Orson Welles)
- The Yakuza Papers, Vol 2.: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (Kinji Fukasaku)
- Don’t Look Now (Nicholas Roeg)
- Belladonna of Sadness (Eiichi Yamamoto)
- The Fate of Lee Khan (King Hu)
- The Crazies (George A. Romero)
- The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
- Ganja and Hess (Bill Gunn)
1972
- Hotel Monterey (Chantal Akerman)
- Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (Shunya Ito)
- Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (Shunya Ito)
- Betty Tells Her Story (Liane Brandon)
- The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbender)
- Pink Flamingos (John Waters)
- Across 110th Street (Barry Shear)
- Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
- La Chambre (Chantal Akerman)
- Street Mobster (Kinji Fukasaku)
1971
- Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
- The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
- A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
- Joyce at 34 (Joyce Chopra and Claudia Weill)
- Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff)
- McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
- The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (Sergio Martino)
- Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
- A New Leaf (Elaine May)
- Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
1970
- The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
- Wanda (Barbara Loden)
- Gimme Shelter (Charlotte Zwerin, Albert and David Maysles)
- Claire’s Knee (Eric Rohmer)
- Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires)
- This Transient Life (Akio Jissoji)
- Multiple Maniacs (John Waters)
- Robin Redbreast (James MacTaggart)
- The Fruit of the Paradise (Vera Chytilova)
1969
- Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto)
- Eros + Massacre (Yoshige Yoshida)
- They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Sydney Pollack)
- Nissan Ariana Window (Ken Jacobs)
- Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Nagisa Oshima)
- Blind Beast (Yasuzo Masamura)
- L’amour Fou (Jacques Rivette)
- Procile (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler)
- Pit Stop (Jack Hill)
1968
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
- Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker)
- Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski)
- Death by Hanging (Nagisa Oshima)
- Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
- High School (Frederick Wiseman)
- Black Panthers (Agnes Varda)
- The Ballad of Crowfoot (Willie Dunn)
- The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci)
- The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
1967
- Week-End (Jean-Luc Godard)
- The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
- Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi)
- Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Nagisa Oshima)
- Two For the Road (Stanley Donen)
- Playtime (Jacques Tati)
- The One Armed Swordsman (Chang Cheh)
- Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
- Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)
- Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki)
1966
- Breakaway (Bruce Conner and Toni Basil)
- Daisies (Vera Chytilova)
- The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
- The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
- The Big Gundown (Sergio Solllima)
- Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
- Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
- Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene)
- Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki)
- Come Drink With Me (King Hu)
1965
- Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda)
- Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
- Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
- Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
- Pleasures of the Flesh (Nagisa Oshima)
- Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer)
- For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
- A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez)
- Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
- Report (Bruce Conner)
1964
- Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Red Desert (Michealangelo Antonioni)
- The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller)
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
- Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
- Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)
- The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
- Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
- Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava)
- The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman)
1963
- High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
- The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
- The Haunting (Robert Wise)
- The House is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad)
- Il Demonia (Brunello Rondi)
- Matango (Ishiro Honda)
- Charade (Stanley Donen)
- Mothlight (Stan Brakhage)
- Black Sabbath (Mario Bava)
- The Great Escape (John Sturges)
1962
- Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
- Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)
- The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
- The Exterminating Angel (Louis Bunuel)
- The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Karel Zamen)
- The Whale God (Tokuzo Tanaka)
- Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa)
- La Jatee (Chris Marker)
- The Tale of Zatoichi (Kenji Misumi)
- Vivre sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
1961
- Something Wild (Jack Garfein)
- Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
- Divino Amore (Cecilia Mangini)
- Cash on Demand (Quentin Lawrence)
- Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
- The Pit and the Pendulum (Roger Corman)
- Mothra (Ishiro Honda)
- Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
- The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
- Paris Belongs to Us (Jacques Rivette)
1960
- Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju)
- Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
- L’aaventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
- The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
- The Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
- The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
- Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
- Black Sunday (Mario Bava)
- Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
- The Brides of Dracula (Terrence Fisher)
1959
- Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage)
- Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
- Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
- Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi)
- The Day of the Outlaw (Andre de Toth)
- North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
- Jazz on a Summer’s Day (Aram Avakian and Bert Stern)
- The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller)
- Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan (Nobuo Nakagawa)
1958
- Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)(
- Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Anticipation of the Night (Stan Brakhage)
- Diary of a Pregnant Woman (Agnes Varda)
- Bell, Book and Candle (Richard Quine)
- Bounjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
- Murder By Contract (Irving Lerner)
- The Ballad of Narayama (Keisuke Kinoshita)
- The H-Man (Ishiro Honda)
- Conflagration (Kon Ichikawa)
1957
- The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
- The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
- Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
- What’s Opera Doc? (Chuck Jones)
- Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander MacKendrick)
- The Tall T and Decision at Sundown (Budd Boetticher)
- The Curse of Frankenstein (Terrence Fisher)
- Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)
- Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
- 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
1956
- The Searchers (John Ford)
- Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
- The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
- The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse)
- The Girl Can’t Help It! (Frank Tashlin)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegal)
- Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
- Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher)
- Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur)
- Rodan (Ishiro Honda)
1955
- The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
- The Age of Swordfish//Sea Countrymen//Islands of Fire//Surfarara (Vittorio De Seta)
- All that Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
- Lola Montes (Max Ophuls)
- Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
- Rififi (Jules Dassin)
- The Cobweb (Vincente Minnelli)
- Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
- Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clozout)
- It’s Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen)
1954
- Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
- Gojira (Ishiro Honda)
- Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Senso (Luchino Visconti)
- Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
- Sansho the Baliff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
- Riding Shotgun (Andre de Toth)
- A Star is Born (George Cukor)
- On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
- Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold)
1953
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
- Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
- The Earrings of Madame De… (Max Ophuls)
- Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
- Pickup on South Street (Sam Fuller)
- White Mane (Albert Lamorisse)
- The Tell-Tale Heart (Ted Parlamee)
- Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)
- Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
- Give a Girl a Break (Stanley Donen)
1952
- The Quiet Man (John Ford)
- The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
- Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
- Limelight (Charlie Chaplin)
- Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls)
- Othello (Orson Welles)
- Feed the Kitty (Chuck Jones)
- Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
- Park Row (Samuel Fuller)
- Bend of the River (Anthony Mann)
1951
- Anne of the Indies (Jacques Tourneur)
- Fixed Bayonets! (Samuel Fuller)
- The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)
- Hard, Fast & Beautiful (Ida Lupino)
- The Tales of Hoffmann (Powell and Pressburger)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
- Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
- The Thing From Another World (Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks)
- Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
- Alice in Wonderland (Various)
1950
- In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
- Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
- Wagon Master (John Ford)
- All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
- Stars in my Crown (Jacques Tourneur)
- Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
- Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)
- Winchester ’73 (Anthony Mann)
- The Furies (Anthony Mann)
- Outrage (Ida Lupino)
1949
- Caught (Max Ophuls)
- Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger)
- Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)
- Inspirace (Karel Zeman)
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)
- Not Wanted (Ida Lupino)
- The Third Man (Carol Reed)
- The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
- On the Town (Stanley Donen)
- Jour de Fete (Jacques Tati)
1948
- The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
- Red River (Howard Hawks)
- Fort Apache (John Ford)
- Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
- Woman (Keisuke Kinoshita)
- Women of the Night (Kenji Mizoguchi)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
- Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa)
- Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
- Meditation on Violence (Maya Deren)
1947
- Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
- Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
- Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
- Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin)
- Desire Me (Unconfirmed)
- The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles)
- Rabbit Transit (Friz Freleng)
- T-Men (Anthony Mann)
- One Wonderful Sunday (Akira Kurosawa)
- Dark Passage (Delmer Davies)
1946
- Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch)
- My Darling Celementine (John Ford)
- Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
- The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
- Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur)
- No Regrets For Our Youth (Akira Kurosawa)
- Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
- Baby Bottleneck//The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (Bob Clampett)
- Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
1945
- Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
- Brief Encounter (David Lean)
- The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise)
- The Clock (Vincente Minnelli)
- Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl)
- My Name is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis)
- Rome Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
- Hare Tonic (Chuck Jones)
- Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two (Akira Kurosawa)
- Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock)
1944
- The Curse of the Cat People (Robert Wise)
- At Land (Maya Deren)
- Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincent Minnelli)
- Gaslight (George Cukor)
- To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
- A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
- Laura (Otto Preminger)
- The Old Grey Hare (Bob Clampett)
- Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Witch’s Cradle (Maya Deren)
1943
- Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren)
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
- Porky Pig’s Feat. (Frank Tashlin)
- The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)
- I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
- The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
- The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges)
- Day of Wrath (Carl Th. Dreyer)
- Falling Hare (Bob Clampett)
- Sanshiro Sugata (Akira Kurosawa)
1942
- Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
- Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper)
- The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
- Bambi (Disney)
- The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
- Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
- I Married a Witch (Rene Clair)
- For Me and My Gal (Busby Berkley)
- In This Our Life (William Wyler)
- This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle)
1941
- Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
- The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
- How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
- Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)
- Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges)
- The Little Foxes (William Wyler)
- The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
- Tortoise Beats Hare (Tex Avery)
- Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Wabbit Twouble (Bob Clampett)
1940
- His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
- Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
- The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
- Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner)
- The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
- Fantasia (Various)
- The Letter (William Wyler)
- The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)
- Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
- A Wild Hare (Tex Avery)
1939
- Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
- Stagecoach (John Ford)
- The Wizard of Oz (Various)
- Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
- The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle)
- The Women (George Cukor)
- Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee)
- Drums Along the Mohawk (John Ford)
- Destry Rides Again (George Marshall)
1938
- Jezebel (William Wyler)
- Mickey’s Trailer (Ben Sharpsteen)
- A Date to Skate (Dave Fleischer)
- Wholly Smoke (Frank Tashlin)
- Vivacious Lady (George Stevens)
- The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Plumbing is a Pipe (Dave Fleischer)
- Daffy-Duck & Egghead (Tex Avery)
- Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz)
1937
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand)
- Stella Dallas (King Vidor)
- Dead End (William Wyler)
- Porky’s Duck Hunt (Tex Avery)
- The Old Mill (Wilfred Jackson)
- The Case of the Stuttering Pig (Frank Tashlin)
- Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali-Baba’s Forty Thieves (Dave Fleischer)
- Nothing Sacred (William A. Wellman)
- A Day at the Races (Sam Wood)
- A Star is Born (William A. Wellman)
1936
- A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
- Somewhere in Dreamland (Dave Fleischer)
- Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
- Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor (Dave Fleischer)
- The Blow Out (Tex Avery)
- Dracula’s Daughter (Lambert Hillyer)
- Paging Miss Glory (Tex Avery)
- Fury (Fritz Lang)
- Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1935
- The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
- The Band Concert (Wilfred Jackson)
- Mad Love (Karl Freund)
- A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
- The Whole Town’s Talking (John Ford)
- King of the Mardi Gras (Dave Fleischer)
- The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Balloon Land (Ub Iwerks)
- Dancing on the Moon (Dave Fleischer)
- Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
1934
- The Scarlett Empress (Josef Von Sternberg)
- The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
- L’atalante (Jean Vigo)
- Ha! Ha! Ha! (Dave Fleischer)
- Of Human Bondage (John Cromwell)
- The Gambling Lady (Archie Mayo)
- It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
- The Goddess (Yonggang Wu)
1933
- The Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn Leroy)
- 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon)
- Snow White (Dave Fleischer)
- King Kong (Merian C. Cooper)
- The Invisible Man (James Whale)
- Every Night Dreams (Mikio Naruse)
- Baby Face (Alfred E. Green)
- Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
- Blondie Johnson (Ray Enright)
- Betty Boop’s May Party (Dave Fleischer)
1932
- Shanghai Express (Josef Von Sternberg)
- Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
- Minnie the Moocher (Dave Fleischer)
- No Blood Relation (Mikio Naruse)
- Vampyr (Carl Th. Dreyer)
- I Was Born, But (Yasujiro Ozu)
- What Price Hollywood? (George Cukor)
- Betty Boop M.D. (Dave Fleischer)
- Scarface (Howard Hawks)
- Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton)
1931
- City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
- Dishonored (Josef Von Sternberg)
- Madchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan and Carl Froelich)
- M. (Fritz Lang)
- Tabu (F.W. Murnau)
- Frankenstein (James Whale)
- Bimbo’s Initiation (Dave Fleischer & Grim Natwick)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian)
- Night Nurse (William A. Wellman)
- The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman)
1930
- Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau)
- Morocco (Josef Von Sternberg)
- The Blue Angel (Josef Von Sternberg)
- Swing You Sinners! (Dave Fleischer)
- That Night’s Wife (Yasujiro Ozu)
- Ladies of Leisure (Frank Capra)
- L’age Dor (Luis Bunuel)
- Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch)
- Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman)
- Dizzy Dishes (Dave Fleischer)
1929
- Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
- Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dahli)
- Tokyo March (Kenji Mizoguchi)
- Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock)
- Rain (Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken)
- Days of Youth (Yasujiro Ozu)
1928
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer)
- The Wind (Victor Sjolstrom)
- The White Stadium (Arnold Fanck and Othmar Gurtner)
- Koko’s Earth Control (Dave Fleischer)
- The Crowd (King Vidor)
- Steamboat Bill Jr. (Buster Keaton)
- The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein)
- Steamboat Willie (Ub Iwerks)
1927
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau)
- L’invitation au Voyage (Germaine Dulac)
- Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
- The Unknown (Tod Browning)
- The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)
- The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni)
1926
- Faust (F.W. Murnau)
- The General (Buster Keaton)
- A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugaza)
- 3 Bad Men (John Ford)
- The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjostrom)
- The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lottie Reineger, Karl Coch)
- It’s the Cats! (Dave Fleischer)
1925
- Battleship Potempkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
- Strike! (Sergei Eisenstein)
- The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin)
- Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
- Song of Home (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1924
- Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
- Ballet Mecanique (Fernand Ledger, Dudley Murphey)
1923
- Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmayer, Sam Taylor)
- A Woman of Paris (Charlie Chaplin)
- Three Ages (Buster Keaton)
1922
- Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
- Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (Benjamin Christensen)
- Cops (Buster Keaton)
- Day Dreams (Buster Keaton)
- The Frozen North (Buster Keaton)
- Bubbles (Dave Fleischer)
- Jumping Beans (Dave Fleischer)
- My Wife’s Relations (Buster Keaton)
- The Electric House (Buster Keaton)
1921
- The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjolstrom)
- The High Sign (Buster Keaton)
- The Kid (Charlie Chaplin)
- Destiny (Fritz Lang)
- The Boat (Buster Keaton)
- The Play House (Buster Keaton)
- Invisible Ink (Dave Fleischer)
- Modeling (Dave Fleischer)
1920
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
- One Week (Buster Keaton)
- The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Paul Wegener)
- Leaves out of the Book of Satan (Carl Th. Dreyer)
- The Scarecrow (Buster Keaton)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (John S. Robertson)
- Convict 13 (Buster Keaton)
- Neighbors (Buster Keaton)
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