Top 10s

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2019

1. The Irishman//I Heard You Paint Houses (Martin Scorsese)
2. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino)
3. Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
4. Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)
5. Uncut Gems (The Safdie Brothers)
6. Dark Waters (Todd Haynes)
7. So Pretty (Jessicka Rovinelli)
8. Three From Hell (Rob Zombie)
9. Ad Astra (James Gray)
10. Alita: Battle Angel (Robert Rodriguez)

2018

1. Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski)
2. “Come Along With Me”- Adventure Time (Adam Muto)
3. A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper)
4. The Other Side of the Wind (Orson Welles)
5. Liz and the Blue Bird (Naoko Yamada)
6. Devilman Crybaby (Masaaki Yuasa)
7. Beychella (Beyonce’)
8. The Mule (Clint Eastwood)
9. The Tale (Jennifer Fox)
10. Leave No Trace (Debra Granik)

2017

1. Twin Peaks (David Lynch)
2. Milla (Valerie Massadian)
3. Ladybird (Greta Gerwig)
4. Strangely Ordinary, This Devotion (Dani Leventhal and Sheliah Wilson)
5. Good Time (Josh and Benny Safdie)
6. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
7. In This Corner of the World (Sunao Katabuchi)
8. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (Paul W.S. Anderson)
9. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
10. Hagazussa (Lukas Feigelfeld)

2016

1. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
2. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
3. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
4. Lemonade (Beyonce)
5. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
6. O.J. Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
7. Silence (Martin Scorsese)
8. The Edge of Seventeen (Kelly Femon Craig)
9. Sully (Clint Eastwood)
10. Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Koreeda)

2015

1. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
2. Carol (Todd Haynes)
3. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
4. Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs)
5. Mistress America (Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig)
6. Blackhat (Michael Mann)
7. 88:88 (Isiah Medina)
8. Creed (Ryan Coogler)
9. By the Sea (Angelina Jolie)
10. In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)

2014

1. The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata)
2. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Gone Girl (David Fincher)
4. Pompeii (Paul W.S. Anderson)
5. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To)
6. Heaven Knows What (Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie)
7. Girlhood (Celine Sciamma)
8. As the Gods Will (Takashi Miike)
9. Lucy (Luc Besson)
10. Beyond the Lights (Gina Prince-Bythewood)

2013

1. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
2. Top of the Lake (Jane Campion)
3. The Immigrant (James Gray)
4. Bastards (Claire Denis)
5. Blind Detective (Johnnie To)
6. Drug War (Johnnie To)
7. White Reindeer (Zach Clark)
8. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Bros.)
9. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
10. The World’s End (Edgar Wright)

2012

1. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig)
2. Romancing in Thin Air (Johnnie To)
3. The Lords of Salem (Rob Zombie)
4. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
5. Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine)
6. Wolf Children (Mamoru Hosada)
7. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
8. Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson)
9. The Unspeakable Act (Dan Sallitt)
10. Ace Attorney (Takashi Miike)

2011

1.  Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher)
3. K-On! The Movie (Naoko Yamada)
4. Tomboy (Celine Sciamma)
5. The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar)
6. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (Johnnie To)
7. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
8. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
9. Weekend (Andrew Haigh)
10. The Deep Blue Sea (Terrence Davies)

2010

1. Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
2. Somewhere (Sofia Coppola)
3. Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
4. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
5. Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
6. Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik)
7. Unstoppable (Tony Scott)
8. Resident Evil: Afterlife (Paul W.S. Anderson)
9. Poetry (Lee Chang Dong)
10. Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Joe)

2009

1. Halloween II: Director’s Cut (Rob Zombie)
2. Bright Star (Jane Campione
3. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
4. Alle Anderen (Maren Ade)
5. Adventureland (Greg Mottola)
6. The House of the Devil (Ti West)
7. Whip It! (Drew Barrymoore)
8. Two Lovers (James Gray)
9. A Perfect Getaway (David Twohy)
10. Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi)

2008

1. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
2. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
3. Sparrow (Johnnie To)
4. 35 Rhums (Claire Denis)
5. Martyrs (Pascal Laugier)
6. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
7. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
8. Speed Racer (Lily and Lana Wachowski)
9. My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-Wai)
10. The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)

2007

1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
2. Waitress (Adrienne Shelly)
3. Zodiac (David Fincher)
4. Inside (Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo)
5. Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
6. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
7. I’m Not There (Todd Haynes)
8. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
9. The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat)
10. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)

2006

1. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
2. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
3. The Lake House  (Alejandro Agresti)
4. Syndromes and a Century (Joe)
5. Triad Election (Johnnie To)
6. Deja Vu (Tony Scott)
7. A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
8. Friends with Money (Nicole Holofcener)
9. Silent Hill (Christophe Gans)
10. El Doctor (Suzan Pitt)

2005

1.  Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita)
2. Domino (Tony Scott)
3. Election (Johnnie To)
4. The Devil’s Rejects (Rob Zombie)
5. Three Times (Hsiao-Hsien Hou)
6. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
7. Cigarette Burns (John Carpenter)
8. Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (Michel Gondry)
9. Fever Pitch (The Farrely Brothers)
10. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)

2004

1. Innocence (Lucille Hadzihalilovic)
2. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
3. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
4. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
5. Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Collateral (Michael Mann)
7. Tomorrow We Move (Chantal Akerman)
8. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
9. Mindgame (Masaki Yuasa)
10. Birth (Jonathan Glazer)

2003

1. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
2. The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette)
3. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
4. Running on Karma (Johnnie To)
5. Dogville (Lars von Trier)
6. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-Ho)
7. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
8. In the Cut (Jane Campion)
9. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Anderson)
10. PTU (Johnnie To)

2002

1. Vendredi Soir (Claire Denis)
2. Funny Haha (Andrew Bujalski)
3. Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
4. Rabbits (David Lynch)
5. Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (Takashi Miike)
6. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
7. Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysoon)
8. Punch Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9. May (Lucky McKee)
10. Blue (Hiroshi Ando)

2001

1. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
2. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
3. The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike)
4. Take Care of My Cat (Jeong Jae-eun)
5. Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
6. Millennium Mambo (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
7. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
8. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
9. Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
10. Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

2000

1. In the Mood For Love (Kar-Wai Wong)
2. Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett)
3. The Day I Became a Woman (Marzieh Meshkini)
4. DOA 2: Birds (Takashi Miike)
5. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
6. Love and Basketball (Gina Price-Bythewood)
7. La Captive (Chantal Akerman)
8. Needing You (Johnnie To)
9. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
10. Suzhou River (Le You)

1999

1. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
3. The Straight Story (David Lynch)
4. Adolescence of Utena (Kunihiko Ikuhara)
5. Rosetta (The Dardennes)
6. Audition (Takashi Miike)
7. The Matrix (Lily and Lana Wachowski)
8. The Mission (Johnnie To)
9. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
10. I’ll Take You There (Adrienne Shelly)

1998

1. Histoire(s) du Cinema (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Fucking Amal (Lukas Moodysson)
3. The Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen)
4. The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman)
5. The Flowers of Shanghai (Hsiao-Hsien Hou)
6. Bride of Chucky (Ronny Yu)
7. Buffalo ’66 (Vincent Gallo)
8. Sombre (Phillipe Grandieux)
9. Small Soldiers  (Joe Dante)
10. Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore (Sarah Jacobson)

1997

1. The End of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno)
2. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
3. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
4. Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
5. Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
6. Career Girls (Mike Leigh)
7. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
8. Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion (David Mirkin)
9. Rainy Dog (Takashi Miike)
10. All Over Me (Alex Sichel)

1996

1. Crash (David Cronenberg)
2. Bound (Lana and Lily Wachowski)
3. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
4. Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen)
5. Fudoh: The New Generation (Takashi Miike)
6. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky)
7. Nenette et Boni (Claire Denis)
8. Sudden Manhattan (Adrienne Shelly)
9. Scream (Wes Craven)
10. Small Deaths (Lynne Ramsay)

1995

1. Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
2. The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
3. Up, Down, Fragile (Jacques Rivette)
4. Heat (Michael Mann)
5. [SAFE] (Todd Haynes)
6. Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven)
7. Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Ishii)
8. Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!!! The Heist (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
9. Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo)
10. The Blade (Hark Tsui)

1994

1. Jeanne la Pucelle (Jacques Rivette)
2. Little Women (Gillian Armstrong)
3. Portrait of a Young Girl in Brussels at the End of the 60s (Chantal Akerman)
4. Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
5. Chungking Express (Kar-Wai Wong)
6. In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter)
7. Speed (Jan De Bont)
8. Legend of Drunken Master (Kar-Lau Leung)
9. I Can’t Sleep (Claire Denis)
10. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)

1993

1. Green Snake (Hark Tsui) 
2. The Piano (Jane Campion)
3. Blue (Derek Jarman)
4. D’est (Chantal Akerman)
5. A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
6. Matinee (Joe Dante)
7. Je Vous Salue Sarajevo (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. “Blackout” (David Lynch)
9. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
10. The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park)

1992

1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
2. The Long Day Closes (Terrence Davies)
3. Nitrate Kisses (Barbara Hammer)
4. Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
5. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
6. Death Becomes Her (Robert Zemeckis)
7. Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (Leslie Harris)
8. Deep Cover (Bill Duke)
9. Orlando (Sally Potter)
10. Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)

1991

1. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
2. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
3. The Rapture (Michael Tolkin)
4. Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow)
5. Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise)
6. Barton Fink (Joel and Ethan Coen)
7. Flirting (John Duigan)
8. Dogfight (Nancy Savoca)
9. My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
10. Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata)

1990

1. Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston)
2. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante)
3. Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
4. An Angel at my Table (Jane Campion)
5. Blue Steel (Kathryn Bigelow)
6. Privilege (Yvonne Rainer)
7. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
8. No Fear, No Die (Claire Denis)
9. Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven)
10. To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett)

1989

1. Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)
2. Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette)
3. Sweetie (Jane Campion)
4. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
5. The Killer (John Woo)
6. A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon (Hark Tsui)
7. The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley)
8. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto)
9. For All Mankind (Al Reinert)
10. Heathers (Michael Lehmann)

1988

1. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
2. School on Fire (Ringo Lam)
3. Die Hard (John McTiernan)
4. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
5. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
6. Hairspray (John Waters)
7. Chocolat (Claire Denis)
8. The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
9. Akira (Katsuhio Otomo)
10. The Accused (Jonathan Kaplan)

1987

1. Broadcast News (James L. Brooks)
2. Sign O’ The Times (Prince)
3. Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter)
4. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)
5. RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)
6. City on Fire (Ringo Lam)
7. Where Is My Friend’s Home? (Abbas Kiarostami)
8. Two Friends (Jane Campion)
9. King Lear (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Stagefright: Aquarius (Michele Soavi)

1986

1. Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter)
2. The Terrorizers (Edward Yang)
3. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
4. The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer)
5. Working Girls (Lizzie Borden)
6. The Fly (David Cronenberg)
7. Peking Opera Blues (Hark Tsui)
8. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre II (Tobe Hooper)
9. Manhunter (Michael Mann)
10. His Motorbike, Her Island (Nobuhiko Obayashi)

1985

1. Angel’s Egg (Mamoru Oshii)
2. Police Story (Jackie Chan)
3. Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
4. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
5. Insignificance (Nicolas Roeg)
6. Taipei Story (Edward Yang)
7. Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
8. Vagabond (Agnes Varda)
9. Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Siedelman)

1984

1. Starman (John Carpenter) 
2. Wheels on Meals (Sammo Hung)
3. Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli)
4. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
5. Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
6. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
7. When the Tenth Month Comes (Dang Nhat Minh)
8. The Terminator (James Cameron)
9. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
10. Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer (Mamoru Oshii)

1983

1. Silkwood (Mike Nichols)
2. One Day Pina Asked (Chantal Akerman)
3. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
4. Christine (John Carpenter)
5. Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks)
6. Sheer Madness (Margarethe Von Trotta)
7. Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raoul Ruiz)
8. Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden)
9. Love Letters (Amy Holden Jones)
10. Possibly in Michigan (Cecelia Condit)

1982

1. Toute Une Nuit (Chantal Akerman)
2. Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Robert Altman)
3. The Thing (John Carpenter)
4. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
5. The Slumber Party Massacre (Amy Holden Jones)
6. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling)
7. Starstruck (Gillian Armstrong)
8. White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
9. Tenebrae (Dario Argento)
10. Next of Kin (Tony Williams)

1981

1. Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)
2. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski)
3. They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich)
4. Escape From New York (John Carpenter)
5. The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi)
6. Le Pont Du Nord (Jacques Rivette)
7. WMEN (Esther Regelson)
8. The Beyond (Lucio Fulci)
9. Girl Pack (Lisa Baumgardner)
10. Merry-Go-Round (Jacques Rivette)
    

1980

1. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
2. “Breathing” (Kate Bush)
3.  Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg)
4. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
5. Melvin & Howard (Jonathan Demme)
6. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
7. Inferno (Dario Argento)
8. Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato)
9. City of the Livind Dead (Lucio Fulci)
10. The Fog (John Carpenter)

1979

1. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. Alien (Ridley Scott)
3. My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong)
4. The Muppet Movie (Jim Henson)
5. Asparagus (Suzan Pitt)
6. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
7. The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki)
8. Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
9. Nosferatu: Phantom Der Nacht (Werner Herzog)
10. The Brood (David Cronenberg)

1978

1. The Meetings of Anna (Chantal Akerman)
2. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Lau-Kar Leung)
3. Girlfriends (Claudia Weill)
4. Coming Home (Hal Ashby)
5. Halloween (John Carpenter)
6. Alucarda (Juan Lopez Moctezuma)
7. Empire of Passion (Nagisa Oshima)
8. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
9. Renaldo & Clara (Bob Dylan)
10. An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky)

1977

1. News From Home (Chantal Akerman)
2. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
3. Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
4. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
5. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
6. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
7. 3 Women (Robert Altman)
8. Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
9. Martin (George A. Romero)
10. Emmett Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas (Jim Henson)

1976

1. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
2. Noroit (Jacques Rivette)
3. Carrie (Brian De Palma)
4. A Real Young Girl (Catherine Breillat)
5. Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
6. Duelle (Jacques Rivette)
7. Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter
8. Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May)
9. The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood)
10. Challenge of the Masters (Kar-Lau Leung)

1975

1. Jeanne Dielman: 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
2. Nashville (Robert Altman)
3. Love and Death (Woody Allen)
4. Black Moon (Louis Malle)
5. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
6. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman)
7. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
8. The Stepford Wives (Bryan Forbes)
9. Katie Tippel (Paul Verhoeven)
10. Graveyard of Honor (Kinji Fukusaku)

1974

1. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
2.  Je, Tu, Il, Elle (Chantal Akerman)
3. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
4. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
5. Dyketactics (Barbara Hammer)
6. Black Christmas (Bob Clark)
7. Female Trouble (John Waters)
8. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbender)
9. Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins)
10. Film About a Woman Who… (Yvonne Rainer)

1973

1. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (Shunya Ito)
2. Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita)
3. F For Fake (Orson Welles)
4. The Yakuza Papers, Vol 2.: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (Kinji Fukasaku)
5. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (D.A. Pennebaker)
6. Don’t Look Now (Nicholas Roeg)
7. Belladonna of Sadness (Eiichi Yamamoto)
8. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
9. Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)
10. Coffy (Jack Hill)

1972

1. Hotel Monterey (Chantal Akerman)
2. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbender)
3. Pink Flamingos (John Waters)
4. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (Shunya Ito)
5. Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (Shunya Ito)
6. Across 110th Street (Barry Shear)
7. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
8. La Chambre (Chantal Akerman)
9. The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May)
10. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgouisie (Luis Bunuel)

1971

1. Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
2. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
3. A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
4. Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff)
5. Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
6. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
7. Out 1 (Jacques Rivette)
8. A New Leaf (Elaine May)
9. Two Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
10. The Devils (Ken Russell)

1970

1. Wanda (Barbara Loden)
2. Gimme Shelter (Charlotte Zwerin, Albert and David Maysles)
3. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
4. Claire’s Knee (Eric Rohmer)
5. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires)
6.  The Fruit of the Paradise (Vera Chytilova)
7. Witches Hammer (Otakar Vavra)
8. Girly (Freddie Francis)
9. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento)
10. Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman)

1969

1. Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto)
2. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Sydney Pollack)
3. Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Nagisa Oshima)
4. L’amour Fou (Jacques Rivette)
5. Procile (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
6. Tenchu! (Hideo Gosha)
7. Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
8. Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler)
9. Une Femme Douce (Robert Bresson)
10. Pit Stop (Jack Hill)

1968

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski)
3. Death by Hanging (Nagisa Oshima)
4. High School (Frederick Wiseman)
5. The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci)
6. Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker)
7. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
8. The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
9. Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (Freddie Francis)
10. The Golden Swallow (Chang Cheh)

1967

1. Week-End (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
3. Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi)
4. Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Nagisa Oshima)
5. Two For the Road (Stanley Donen)
6. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
7. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
8. Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)
9. Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki)
10. Don’t Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker)

1966

1. Breakaway (Bruce Conner and Toni Basil)
2. Daisies (Vera Chytilova)
3. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
4. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
5. Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene)
6. Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki)
7. The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
8. The Nun (Jacques Rivette)
9. Come Drink With Me (King Hu)
10. Django (Sergio Corbucci)

1965

1.  Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda)
2. Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
4. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer)
5. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
6. A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez)
7. Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
8. Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman)
9. Simon of the Desert (Luis Bunuel)
10. Pleasures of the Flesh (Nagisa Oshima)

1964

1. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Red Desert (Michealangelo Antonioni)
3. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
4. Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
5. Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)
6. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
7. Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava)
8. The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman)
9. Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo)
10. Mothra vs. Godzilla (Ishiro Honda)

1963

1. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. The Haunting (Robert Wise)
3. The House is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad)
4. Matango (Ishiro Honda)
5. Charade (Stanley Donen)
6. Mothlight (Stan Brakhage)
7. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
8. Black Sabbath (Mario Bava)
9. Suzanne’s Career (Eric Rohmer)
10. I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)

1962

1. Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
2. Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)
3. The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
4. The Tale of Zatoichi (Kenji Misumi)
5. Vivre sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich)
7. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
8. The Exterminating Angel (Louis Bunuel)
9. The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Karel Zamen)
10. La Jatee (Chris Marker)

1961

1. Something Wild (Jack Garfein)
2. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
3. Cash on Demand (Quentin Lawrence)
4. Paris Belongs to Us (Jacques Rivette)
5. The Pit and the Pendulum (Roger Corman)
6. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
7. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
8. The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
9. Mothra (Ishiro Honda)
10.  The Children’s Hour (William Wyler)

1960

1. Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju)
2. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. L’aaventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
4. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
5. The Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
6. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
7. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
8. Black Sunday (Mario Bava)
9. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. The Brides of Dracula (Terrence Fisher)
    

1959

1. Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage)
   
2. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
3. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
4. Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi)
5. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
6. North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan (Nobuo Nakagawa)
8. Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu)
9. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Terrence Fisher)
10. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)

1958

1. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
2. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Bell, Book and Candle (Richard Quine)
4. Murder By Contract (Irving Lerner)
5. The Ballad of Narayama (Keisuke Kinoshita)
6. The Magician (Ingmar Bergman)
7. Horror of Dracula (Terrence Fisher)
8. The H-Man (Ishiro Honda)
9. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
10. The Revenge of Frankenstein (Terence Fisher)

1957

1. The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
   
2. The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
3. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
4. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
5. What’s Opera Doc? (Chuck Jones)
6. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander MacKendrick)
7. The Curse of Frankenstein (Terrence Fisher)
8. Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)
9. A King in New York (Charlie Chaplin)
10. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)

1956

1. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
2. The Searchers (John Ford)
3. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse)
5. The Girl Can’t Help It! (Frank Tashlin)
6. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegal)
7. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
8. Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur)
9. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
10. Deduce, you Say (Chuck Jones)

1955

1. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
2. All that Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
3. Lola Montes (Max Ophuls)
4. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
5. Rififi (Jules Dassin)
6. Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clozout)
7. It’s Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen)
8. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin)
9. To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles)

1954

1. Gojira (Ishiro Honda)
2. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
4. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
5. Sansho the Baliff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
6. A Star is Born (George Cukor)
7. Dial M For Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
9. Sabrina (Billy Wilder)
10. Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold)

1953

1. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
2. The Earrings of Madame De… (Max Ophuls)
3. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
4. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
5. White Mane (Albert Lamorisse)
6. The Tell-Tale Heart (Ted Parlamee)
7. Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)
8. Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
9. Give a Girl a Break (Stanley Donen)
10. The Bigamist (Ida Lupino)

1952

1. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
2. Limelight (Charlie Chaplin)
3. Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls)
4. Othello (Orson Welles)
5. Feed the Kitty (Chuck Jones)
6. Way of Gaucho (Jacques Tourneur)
7. Rabbit Seasoning (Chuck Jones)
8. Beep-Beep (Chuck Jones)
9. Bend of the River (Anthony Mann)
10. Trick or Treat (Jack Hannah)

1951

1. Hard, Fast & Beautiful (Ida Lupino)
2. The Tales of Hoffmann (Powell and Pressburger)
3. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
4. Anne of the Indies (Jacques Tourneur)
5. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. The Thing From Another World (Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks)
7. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
8. Alice in Wonderland (Various)
9. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (Jacques Tati)
10. A Streetcat Named Desire (Elia Kazan)

1950

1. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
2. Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
3. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
4. Stars in my Crown (Jacques Tourneur)
5. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
6. Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)
7. Winchester ’73 (Anthony Mann)
8. The Flame and the Arrow (Jacques Tourneur)
9. The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
10. Outrage (Ida Lupino)

1949

1. Caught (Max Ophuls) 
2. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
3. Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger)
4. Not Wanted (Ida Lupino)
5. I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks)
6. On the Town (Stanley Donen)
7. Jour de Fete (Jacques Tati)
8. Fast and Furryous (Chuck Jones)
9. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)
10. The Quiet Duel (Akira Kurosawa)

1948

1. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
2. Red River (Howard Hawks)
3. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
4. Woman (Keisuke Kinoshita)
5. Women of the Night (Kenji Mizoguchi)
6. Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa)
7. Macbeth (Orson Welles)
8. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
9. Meditation on Violence (Maya Deren)
10. The Storm Within (Jean Cocteau)

1947

1. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
2. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
3. Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin)
4. Desire Me (Unconfirmed)
5. The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles)
6. Rabbit Transit (Friz Freleng)
7. T-Men (Anthony Mann)
8. One Wonderful Sunday (Akira Kurosawa)
9. Dark Passage (Delmer Davies)
10. Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding)

1946

1. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
3. Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur)
4. No Regrets For Our Youth (Akira Kurosawa)
5. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
6. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
7. Baby Bottleneck//The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (Bob Clampett)
8. The Woman I Loved (Keisuke Kinoshita)
9. So Dark the Night (Joseph H. Lewis)
10. The Harvey Girls (George Sidney)

1945

1. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
2. The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise)
3. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
4. Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl)
5. My Name is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis)
6. Hare Tonic (Chuck Jones)
7. Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two (Akira Kurosawa)
8. Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson)
10. The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (Akira Kurosawa)

1944

1. The Curse of the Cat People (Robert Wise)
2. At Land (Maya Deren)
3. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincent Minnelli)
4. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
5. A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
6. Laura (Otto Preminger)
7. Gaslight (George Cukor)
8. The Old Grey Hare (Bob Clampett)
9. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. Witch’s Cradle (Maya Deren)

1943

1. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren)
2. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
3. I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
4. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
6. Porky Pig’s Feat. (Frank Tashlin)
7. Day of Wrath (Carl Th. Dreyer)
8. Sanshiro Sugata (Akira Kurosawa)
9. The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
10. Who Killed Who (Tex Avery)

1942

1. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
2. Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper)
3. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
4. Bambi (Various)
5. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
6. I Married a Witch (Rene Clair)
7. For Me and My Gal (Busby Berkley)
8. In This Our Life (William Wyler)
9. This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle)
10. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturgess)

1941

1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
3. Tortoise Beats Hare (Tex Avery)
4. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. Wabbit Twouble (Bob Clampett)
6. The Little Foxes (William Wyler)
7. The Wolf-Man (George Waggner)
8. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturgess)
9. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
10. Olive’s Sweepstake Ticket (Dave Fleischer)

1940

1. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
3. Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner)
4. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
5. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
6. The Letter (William Wyler)
7. The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)
8. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
9. Fantasia (Various)
10. A Wild Hare (Tex Avery)

1939

1. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
2. The Wizard of Oz (Various)
3. Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
4. Son of Frankenstein (Rowland V. Lee)
5. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
6. Stagecoach (John Ford)
7. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
8. The Women (George Cukor)
9. Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming)
10. Wuthering Heights (William Wyler)

1938

1. Mickey’s Trailer (Ben Sharpsteen)
2. Jezebel (William Wyler)
3. A Date to Skate (Dave Fleischer)
4. Wholly Smoke (Frank Tashlin)
5. Vivacious Lady (George Stevens)
6. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Plumbing is a Pipe (Dave Fleischer)
8. Daffy-Duck & Egghead (Tex Avery)
9. Brave Little Tailor (William Roberts)
10. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)

1937

1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand)
2. Dead End (William Wyler)
3. Porky’s Duck Hunt (Tex Avery)
4. Porky’s Romance (Frank Tashlin)
5. The Case of the Stuttering Pig (Frank Tashlin)
6. Paneless Window Washer (Dave Fleischer)
7. Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali-Baba’s Forty Thieves (Dave Fleischer)
8. Nothing Sacred (William A. Wellman)
9. A Star is Born (William A. Wellman)
10. N/A

1936

1. A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
2. Somewhere in Dreamland (Dave Fleischer)
3. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
4. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor (Dave Fleischer)
5. The Blow Out (Tex Avery)
6. I Love to Singa (Tex Avery)
7. Dracula’s Daughter (Lambert Hillyer)
8. Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)
9. Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)
10. The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo)

1935

1. The Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
2. The Band Concert (Wilfred Jackson)
3. King of the Mardi Gras (Dave Fleischer)
4. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. The Raven (Lew Landers)
6. Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
7. N/A
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. N/A

1934

1. The Scarlett Empress (Josef Von Sternberg)
2. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
3. Of Human Bondage (John Cromwell)
4. The Gambling Lady (Archie Mayo)
5. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
6. The Goddess (Yonggang Wu)
7. N/A
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. N/A

1933

1. The Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn Leroy)
2. 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon)
3. Snow White (Dave Fleischer)
4. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
5. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper)
6. The Invisible Man (James Whale)
7. Betty Boop’s May Party (Dave Fleischer)
8. Is My Palm Read? (Dave Fleischer)
9. Baby Face (Alfred E. Green)
10. The Old Man of the Mountain (Dave Fleischer)

1932

1. Shanghai Express (Josef Von Sternberg)
2. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
3. Minnie the Moocher (Dave Fleischer)
4. Vampyr (Carl Th. Dreyer)
5. What Price Hollywood? (George Cukor)
6. Betty Boop M.D. (Dave Fleischer)
7. A Hunting We Will Go (Dave Fleischer)
8. That Old Dark House (James Whale)
9. Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton)
10. Three on a Match (Mervyn LeRoy)

1931

1. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
2. Dishonored (Josef Von Sternberg)
3. Madchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan and Carl Froelich)
4. M. (Fritz Lang)
5. Frankenstein (James Whale)
6. Bimbo’s Initiation (Dave Fleischer & Grim Natwick)
7. Night Nurse (William A. Wellman)
8. Dizzy Red Riding Hood (Dave Fleischer)
9. The Miracle Woman (Frank Capra)
10. Dracula (Tod Browning)

1930

1. Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau)
2. Morocco (Josef Von Sternberg)
3. The Blue Angel (Josef Von Sternberg)
4. Swing You Sinners! (Dave Fleischer)
5. Ladies of Leisure (Frank Capra)
6. Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch)
7. L’age Dor (Luis Bunuel)
8. Dizzy Dishes (Dave Fleischer)
9. Barnacle Bill (Dave Fleischer)
10. The Divorcee (Robert Z. Leonard)

1929

1. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
2. Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dahli)
3. Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Rain (Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken)
5. Days of Youth (Yasujiro Ozu)
6. N/A
7. N/A
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. N/A

1928

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer)
2. Koko’s Earth Control (Dave Fleischer)
3. Steamboat Bill Jr. (Buster Keaton)
4. The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein)
5. Steamboat Willie (Ub Iwerks)
6. N/A
7. N/A
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. N/A

1927

1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau)
2. L’invitation au Voyage (Germaine Dulac)
3. Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
4. The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni)
6. N/A
7. N/A
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. N/A

1926

1. Faust (F.W. Murnau)
2. The General (Buster Keaton)
3. A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugaza)
4. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lottie Reineger, Karl Coch)
5. N/A
6. N/A
7. N/A
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. N/A

1925

1. Battleship Potempkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
2. Strike! (Sergei Eisenstein)
3. The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin)
4. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
5. N/A
6. N/A
7. N/A
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. N/A

1924

1. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
2. Ballet Mecanique (Fernand Ledger, Dudley Murphey)
3. N/A
4. N/A
5. N/A
6. N/A
7. N/A
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. N/A

1923

1. Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmayer, Sam Taylor)
2. A Woman of Paris (Charlie Chaplin)
3. N/A
4. N/A
5. N/A
6. N/A
7. N/A
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. N/A

1922

1. Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
2. Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (Benjamin Christensen)
3. Bubbles (Dave Fleischer)
4. Jumping Beans (Dave Fleischer)
5. N/A
6. N/A
7. N/A
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. N/A

1921

1. The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjolstrom)
2. The Kid (Charlie Chaplin)
3. Invisible Ink (Dave Fleischer)
4. Modeling (Dave Fleischer)
5. N/A
6. N/A
7. N/A
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. N/A

1920

1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
2. The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Paul Wegener)
3. Leaves out of the Book of Satan (Carl Th. Dreyer)
4. N/A
5. N/A
6. N/A
7. N/A
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. N/A

*There are other films I have seen before 1920, but compiling a list of those seems unreasonable at the moment. They may be added later. Feel free to recommend movies (especially for weaker lists!)