# 2023 #

  • The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
  • Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)
  • Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
  • The Holdovers (Alexander Payne)
  • Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
  • Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  • Past Lives (Celine Song)
  • Maestro (Bradley Cooper)
  • (1) BARBIE (Greta Gerwig)
  • American Fiction (Cord Jefferson)
  • The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki)
  • Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
  • Io Capitano (Matteo Garrone)
  • Society of the Snow (J.A. Bayona)
  • Ferrari (Michael Mann)
  • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (Kelly Fremon Craig)
  • The Teachers' Lounge (Ilker Catak)
  • May December (Todd Haynes)
  • The Iron Claw (Sean Durkin)
  • Origin (Ava DuVernay)
  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson)
  • Air (Ben Affleck)
  • All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)
  • The Taste of Things (Anh Hung Tran)
  • Godzilla Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki)
  • Perfect Days (Wim Wenders)
  • (2) 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL (Mstyslav Chernov)
  • Tótem (Lila Avilés)
  • Blackberry (Matt Johnson)
  • You Hurt My Feelings (Nicole Holofcener)
  • The Green Border (Agnieszka Holland)
  • The Promised Land (Nikolaj Arcel)
  • Nyad (Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi)
  • El Conde (Pablo Larraín)
  • The Killer (David Fincher)
  • Memory (Michel Franco)
  • Priscilla (Sofia Coppola)
  • The Color Purple (Blitz Bazawule)
  • La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher)
  • Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
  • Joy Ride (Adele Lim)
  • Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (Christopher McQuarrie)
  • Adagio (Stefano Solima)
  • The Beast (Edoardo De Angelis)
  • DogMan (Luc Besson)
  • Enea (Pietro Castellitto)
  • Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
  • Finally Dawn (Saverio Costanzo)
  • Holly (Fien Troch)
  • Lubo (Giorgio Diritti)

# 2022 #

  • Tár (Todd Field)
  • Everything Everywhere All at Once (Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert)
  • The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
  • (1) THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (Martin McDonagh)
  • (2) TOP GUN: MAVERICK (Joseph Kosinski)
  • (3) AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (James Cameron)
  • EO (Jerzy Skolimowski)
  • (4) ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (Edward Berger)
  • Argentina, 1985 (Santiago Mitre)
  • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson)
  • Close (Lukas Dhont)
  • Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
  • Elvis (Baz Luhrmann)
  • Decision to Leave (Chan-wook Park)
  • Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
  • Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
  • Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)
  • Till (Chinonye Chukwu)
  • (5) RRR (S.S. Rajamouli)
  • All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
  • Nope (Jordan Peele)
  • The Quiet Girl (Colm Bairéad)
  • The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Ryan Coogler)
  • The Woman King (Gina Prince-Bythewood)
  • Living (Oliver Hermanus)
  • The Northman (Robert Eggers)
  • Corsage (Marie Kreuzer)
  • The Batman (Matt Reeves)
  • One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  • Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
  • Cha Cha Real Smooth (Cooper Raiff)
  • (6) GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO (Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson)
  • No Bears (Jafar Panahi)
  • Bardo (Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
  • Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (Anthony Fabian)
  • Babylon (Damien Chazelle)
  • Stars at Noon (Claire Denis)
  • (7) CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (David Cronenberg)
  • (8) LUCY AND DESI (Amy Poehler)
  • She Said (Maria Schrader)
  • Turning Red (Domee Shi)
  • Athena (Romain Gavras)
  • Beyond the Wall (Vahid Jalilvand)
  • (9) BLONDE (Andrew Dominik)
  • Chiara (Susanna Nicchiarelli)
  • The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
  • Il signore delle formiche (Gianni Amelio)
  • L'immensità (Emanuele Crialese)
  • Love Life (Koji Fukada)

# 2021 #

  • (1) THE POWER OF THE DOG (Jane Campion)
  • Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  • Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
  • (2) DUNE (Denis Villeneuve)
  • Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
  • (3) WEST SIDE STORY (Steven Spielberg)
  • The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
  • (4) THE HAND OF GOD (Paolo Sorrentino)
  • Don't Look Up (Adam McKay)
  • (5) KING RICHARD (Reinaldo Marcus Green)
  • Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King)
  • Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)
  • CODA (Sian Heder)
  • Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
  • Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
  • Nightmare Alley (Guillermo Del Toro)
  • A Hero (Asghar Farhadi)
  • Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (Questlove)
  • The Tragedy of Macbeth (Joel Coen)
  • Titane (Julia Ducournau)
  • (6) THE GREEN KNIGHT (David Lowery)
  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Dean Fleischer-Camp)
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home (Jon Watts)
  • Tick, Tick...Boom! (Lin-Manuel Miranda)
  • Red Rocket (Sean Baker)
  • Compartment Number 6 (Juho Kuosmanen)
  • Cyrano (Joe Wright)
  • The Last Duel (Ridley Scott)
  • The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
  • (7) THE LOST DAUGHTER (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
  • Annette (Leos Carax)
  • (8) THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES (Michael Rianda, Jeff Rowe)
  • Playground (Laura Wandel)
  • The Souvenir: Part II (Joanna Hogg)
  • (9) LUCA (Enrico Casarosa)
  • Spencer (Pablo Larraín)
  • Raya and the Last Dragon (Don Hall, Carlos Lopez Estrada, Paul Briggs, John Ripa)
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Destin Daniel Cretton)
  • Official Competition (Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat)
  • (10) THE WHITE TIGER (Ramin Bahrani)
  • Being the Ricardos (Aaron Sorkin)
  • (11) NO SUDDEN MOVE (Steven Soderbergh)
  • (12) PASSING (Rebecca Hall)
  • Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
  • Lamb (Valdimar Jóhannsson)
  • Lingui (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
  • (13) THE MAURITANIAN (Kevin Macdonald)
  • In the Heights (Jon M. Chu)
  • Happening (Audrey Diwan)
  • Candyman (Nia DaCosta)

# 2020 #

  • Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
  • Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
  • (1) PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (Emerald Fennell)
  • The Father (Florian Zeller)
  • (2) ANOTHER ROUND (Thomas Vinterberg)
  • Mank (David Fincher)
  • (3) THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (Aaron Sorkin)
  • One Night in Miami (Regina King)
  • Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Zbanic)
  • Hamilton (Thomas Kail)
  • Dear Comrades (Andrey Konchalovskiy)
  • (4) PALM SPRINGS (Max Barbakow)
  • (5) NEWS OF THE WORLD (Paul Greengrass)
  • (6) MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM (George C. Wolfe)
  • Soul (Pete Docter, Kemp Powers)
  • Da 5 Bloods (Spike Lee)
  • Onward (Dan Scanlon)
  • (7) THE LIFE AHEAD (Edoardo Ponti)
  • Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
  • (8) THE MIDNIGHT SKY (George Clooney)
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)
  • (9) PIECES OF A WOMAN (Kornél Mundruczó)
  • The Prom (Ryan Murphy)
  • David Byrne's American Utopia (Spike Lee)
  • (10) MANGROVE (Steve McQueen)
  • (11) BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM (Jason Woliner)
  • On the Rocks (Sofia Coppola)
  • (12) LET HIM GO (Thomas Bezucha)
  • A Quiet Place Part II (John Krasinski)
  • The Outpost (Rod Lurie)
  • Riders of Justice (Anders Thomas Jensen)
  • Boys State (Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss)
  • The Man Who Sold His Skin (Kaouther Ben Hania)
  • Apples (Christos Nikou)
  • The Forty-Year-Old Version (Radha Blank)
  • The Mole Agent (Maite Alberdi)
  • Night of the Kings (Philippe Lacôte)
  • (13) AMMONITE (Francis Lee)
  • (14) TENET (Christopher Nolan)
  • (15) TIME (Garrett Bradley)
  • (16) CRIP CAMP (James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham)
  • Falling (Viggo Mortensen)
  • (17) I CARE A LOT (J Blakeson)
  • (18) I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (Charlie Kaufman)
  • My Octopus Teacher (Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed)
  • And Tomorrow the Entire World (Julia von Heinz)
  • The Disciple (Chaitanya Tamhane)
  • In Between Dying (Hilal Baydarov)
  • Laila in Haifa (Amos Gitai)
  • Lovers (Nicole Garcia)

# 2019 #

  • (1) PARASITE (Joon-ho Bong)
  • (2) PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (Céline Sciamma)
  • (3) THE IRISHMAN (Martin Scorsese)
  • Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach)
  • (4) ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (Quentin Tarantino)
  • 1917 (Sam Mendes)
  • (5) JOKER (Todd Phillips)
  • (6) PAIN AND GLORY (Pedro Almodóvar)
  • (7) JOJO RABBIT (Taika Waititi)
  • (8) LITTLE WOMEN (Greta Gerwig)
  • Les Misérables (Ladj Ly)
  • (9) UNCUT GEMS (Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie)
  • (10) FORD V FERRARI (James Mangold)
  • (11) KNIVES OUT (Rian Johnson)
  • Collective (Alexander Nanau)
  • (12) SOUND OF METAL (Darius Marder)
  • First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
  • The Farewell (Lulu Wang)
  • Avengers: Endgame (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo)
  • La Llorona (Jayro Bustamante)
  • (13) DOLEMITE IS MY NAME (Craig Brewer)
  • (14) ATLANTICS (Mati Diop)
  • (15) BOOKSMART (Olivia Wilde)
  • Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
  • Painted Bird (Václav Marhoul)
  • (16) AD ASTRA (James Gray)
  • The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers)
  • Toy Story 4 (Josh Cooley)
  • (17) THE TWO POPES (Fernando Meirelles)
  • (18) HUSTLERS (Lorene Scafaria)
  • Midsommar (Ari Aster)
  • Bacurau (Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonca Filho)
  • A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Marielle Heller)
  • Two of Us (Filippo Meneghetti)
  • (19) LATE NIGHT (Nisha Ganatra)
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield (Armando Iannucci)
  • (20) THE REPORT (Scott Z. Burns)
  • Corpus Christi (Jan Komasa)
  • One Child Nation (Zhang Lynn, Nanfu Wang)
  • (21) RICHARD JEWELL (Clint Eastwood)
  • Waves (Trey Edward Shults)
  • (22) HONEYLAND (Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov)
  • (23) US (Jordan Peele)
  • (24) THE MUSTANG (Laura de Clermont-Tonnerre)
  • (25) THE SOUVENIR (Joanna Hogg)
  • Bait (Mark Jenkin)
  • (26) IT CHAPTER TWO (Andy Muschietti)
  • Rocks (Sarah Gavron)
  • Babyteeth (Shannon Murphy)
  • The Truth (Hirokazu Koreeda)

# 2018 #

  • (1) ROMA (Alfonso Cuarón)
  • (2) COLD WAR (Pawel Pawlikowski)
  • (3) SHOPLIFTERS (Hirokazu Koreeda)
  • (4) GREEN BOOK (Peter Farrelly)
  • A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper)
  • (5) IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (Barry Jenkins)
  • (6) THE FAVOURITE (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  • BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)
  • (7) BLACK PANTHER (Ryan Coogler)
  • Capernaum (Nadine Labaki)
  • (8) VICE (Adam McKay)
  • (9) FIRST MAN (Damien Chazelle)
  • Burning (Chang-dong Lee)
  • (10) SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman)
  • Never Look Away (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
  • (11) A QUIET PLACE (John Krasinski)
  • (12) BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (Bryan Singer)
  • Mary Poppins Returns (Rob Marshall)
  • (13) AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo)
  • Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie)
  • (14) EIGHTH GRADE (Bo Burnham)
  • (15) THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
  • (16) CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (Marielle Heller)
  • Annihilation (Alex Garland)
  • (17) THE GUILTY (Gustav Möller)
  • (18) WIDOWS (Steve McQueen)
  • (19) LEAVE NO TRACE (Debra Granik)
  • (20) HEREDITARY (Ari Aster)
  • (21) CRAZY RICH ASIANS (Jon M. Chu)
  • Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher)
  • Won't You Be My Neighbor? (Morgan Neville)
  • (22) DOGMAN (Matteo Garrone)
  • The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.)
  • Vox Lux (Brady Corbet)
  • (23) THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM (John Chester)
  • Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (Mark Cousins)
  • (24) AT ETERNITY'S GATE (Julian Schnabel)
  • The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent)
  • Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)
  • (25) THE OLD MAN & THE GUN (David Lowery)
  • (26) THE SISTERS BROTHERS (Jacques Audiard)
  • Diane (Kent Jones)
  • Girl (Lukas Dhont)
  • (27) PETERLOO (Mike Leigh)
  • (28) STAN & OLLIE (Jon S. Baird)
  • (29) 22 JULY (Paul Greengrass)
  • Maiden (Alex Holmes)
  • (30) BORDER (Ali Abbasi)
  • (31) SEARCHING (Aneesh Chaganty)
  • Beautiful Boy (Felix van Groeningen)

# 2017 #

  • (1) THE SHAPE OF WATER (Guillermo del Toro)
  • (2) THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Martin McDonagh)
  • (3) CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Luca Guadagnino)
  • Get Out (Jordan Peele)
  • Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)
  • (4) LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig)
  • BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
  • Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
  • (5) THE SQUARE (Ruben Östlund)
  • The Post (Steven Spielberg)
  • Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  • The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
  • A Fantastic Woman (Sebastián Lelio)
  • Darkest Hour (Joe Wright)
  • (6) BABY DRIVER (Edgar Wright)
  • I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie)
  • (7) COCO (Adrian Molina, Lee Unkrich)
  • (8) LOGAN (James Mangold)
  • (9) DOWNSIZING (Alexander Payne)
  • (10) THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco)
  • (11) FIRST REFORMED (Paul Schrader)
  • The Rider (Chloé Zhao)
  • (12) BLADE RUNNER 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)
  • (13) THE DEATH OF STALIN (Armando Iannucci)
  • (14) THE BIG SICK (Michael Showalter)
  • The Insult (Ziad Doueiri)
  • (15) IN THE FADE (Fatih Akin)
  • (16) FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER (Angelina Jolie)
  • (17) PADDINGTON 2 (Paul King)
  • (18) FACES PLACES (JR, Agnès Varda)
  • (19) MUDBOUND (Dee Rees)
  • (20) THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  • On Body and Soul (Ildikó Enyedi)
  • Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz)
  • Zama (Lucrecia Martel)
  • Custody (Xavier Legrand)
  • You Were Never Really Here (Lynne Ramsay)
  • Wind River (Taylor Sheridan)
  • (21) HOSTILES (Scott Cooper)
  • (22) CITY OF GHOSTS (Matthew Heineman)
  • A Prayer Before Dawn (Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire)
  • (23) WONDER WOMAN (Patty Jenkins)
  • War for the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves)
  • The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki)
  • (24) MOLLY'S GAME (Aaron Sorkin)
  • Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton)
  • Lucky (John Carroll Lynch)
  • (25) MOTHER! (Darren Aronofsky)
  • The Wife (Björn Runge)
  • Human Flow (Ai Weiwei)

# 2016 #

  • (1) MOONLIGHT (Barry Jenkins)
  • (2) LA LA LAND (Damien Chazelle)
  • (3) TONI ERDMANN (Maren Ade)
  • (4) MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Kenneth Lonergan)
  • (5) ARRIVAL (Denis Villeneuve)
  • (6) THE HANDMAIDEN (Chan-wook Park)
  • (7) ELLE (Paul Verhoeven)
  • (8) HELL OR HIGH WATER (David Mackenzie)
  • The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi)
  • (9) FENCES (Denzel Washington)
  • (10) HACKSAW RIDGE (Mel Gibson)
  • (11) HIDDEN FIGURES (Theodore Melfi)
  • (12) LION (Garth Davis)
  • Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar)
  • (13) I, DANIEL BLAKE (Ken Loach)
  • (14) JACKIE (Pablo Larraín)
  • (15) NERUDA (Pablo Larraín)
  • (16) SULLY (Clint Eastwood)
  • (17) SING STREET (John Carney)
  • (18) HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE (Taika Waititi)
  • Captain America: Civil War (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo)
  • (19) PATRIOTS DAY (Peter Berg)
  • (20) SILENCE (Martin Scorsese)
  • (21) NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (Tom Ford)
  • (22) KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS (Travis Knight)
  • (23) DEADPOOL (Tim Miller)
  • (24) LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP (Whit Stillman)
  • My Life as a Zucchini (Claude Barras)
  • (25) 20TH CENTURY WOMEN (Mike Mills)
  • (26) THE BIRTH OF A NATION (Nate Parker)
  • (27) ZOOTOPIA (Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Rich Moore)
  • (28) THINGS TO COME (Mia Hansen-Løve)
  • (29) FINDING DORY (Angus MacLane, Andrew Stanton)
  • (30) MOANA (Ron Clements, Don Hall, John Musker, Chris Williams)
  • (31) THE JUNGLE BOOK (Jon Favreau)
  • (32) LOVING (Jeff Nichols)
  • Frantz (Francois Ozon)
  • (33) HAIL, CAESAR! (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
  • I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck)
  • Girl With All the Gifts (Colm McCarthy)
  • (34) SWISS ARMY MAN (Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert)
  • (35) UNDER THE SHADOW (Babak Anvari)
  • (36) YOUR NAME (Makoto Shinkai)
  • (37) THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN (Kelly Fremon Craig)
  • Graduation (Cristian Mungiu)
  • (38) FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS (Stephen Frears)
  • (39) DON'T THINK TWICE (Mike Birbiglia)
  • (40) EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (Richard Linklater)
  • (41) THE LOST CITY OF Z (James Gray)
  • (42) MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (Jeff Nichols)

# 2015 #

  • (1) MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller)
  • (2) SPOTLIGHT (Tom McCarthy)
  • (3) SON OF SAUL (László Nemes)
  • (4) THE REVENANT (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  • (5) CAROL (Todd Haynes)
  • (6) ROOM (Lenny Abrahamson)
  • (7) THE MARTIAN (Ridley Scott)
  • (8) INSIDE OUT (Ronaldo Del Carmen, Pete Docter)
  • (9) THE BIG SHORT (Adam McKay)
  • (10) BROOKLYN (John Crowley)
  • (11) BRIDGE OF SPIES (Steven Spielberg)
  • (12) MUSTANG (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
  • (13) SICARIO (Denis Villeneuve)
  • The Assassin (Hsiao-Hsien Hou)
  • (14) STEVE JOBS (Danny Boyle)
  • (15) STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON (F. Gary Gray)
  • (16) DHEEPAN (Jacques Audiard)
  • (17) ANOMALISA (Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman)
  • (18) LAND OF MINE (Martin Zandvliet)
  • (19) BEASTS OF NO NATION (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
  • (20) THE LOBSTER (Yorgos Lanthimos)
  • (21) ME & EARL & THE DYING GIRL (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)
  • (22) CREED (Ryan Coogler)
  • (23) EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (Ciro Guerra)
  • (24) STAR WARS: EPISODE VII - THE FORCE AWAKENS (J.J. Abrams)
  • (25) THE SECOND MOTHER (Anna Muylaert)
  • (26) TRAINWRECK (Judd Apatow)
  • Victoria (Sebastian Schipper)
  • (27) A BIGGER SPLASH (Luca Guadagnino)
  • (28) YOUTH (Paolo Sorrentino)
  • (29) THE DANISH GIRL (Tom Hooper)
  • (30) SPY (Paul Feig)
  • (31) THE HATEFUL EIGHT (Quentin Tarantino)
  • (32) SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE (Mark Burton, Richard Starzak)
  • (33) EX MACHINA (Alex Garland)
  • (34) HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT (Kent Jones)
  • (35) A WAR (Tobias Lindholm)
  • (36) EYE IN THE SKY (Gavin Hood)
  • (37) MACBETH (Justin Kurzel)
  • Marguerite (Xavier Giannoli)
  • Remember (Atom Egoyan)
  • Born to be Blue (Robert Budreau)
  • Listen to Me Marlon (Stevan Riley)
  • (38) BLACK MASS (Scott Cooper)
  • (39) THE END OF THE TOUR (James Ponsoldt)
  • 45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
  • (40) FURIOUS 7 (James Wan)
  • (41) MISSISSIPPI GRIND (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck)
  • (42) AMY (Asif Kapadia)
  • (43) MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION (Christopher McQuarrie)

# 2014 #

  • (1) BOYHOOD (Richard Linklater)
  • (2) BIRDMAN (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  • (3) LEVIATHAN (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
  • (4) THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson)
  • (5) THE IMITATION GAME (Morten Tyldum)
  • Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
  • (6) TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
  • (7) WHIPLASH (Damien Chazelle)
  • (8) AMERICAN SNIPER (Clint Eastwood)
  • (9) THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (James Marsh)
  • (10) FORCE MAJEURE (Ruben Östlund)
  • (11) NIGHTCRAWLER (Dan Gilroy)
  • (12) WILD TALES (Damián Szifrón)
  • (13) SELMA (Ava DuVernay)
  • (14) GONE GIRL (David Fincher)
  • (15) THE LOOK OF SILENCE (Joshua Oppenheimer)
  • (16) MR. TURNER (Mike Leigh)
  • (17) A MOST VIOLENT YEAR (J.C. Chandor)
  • (18) STILL ALICE (Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland)
  • (19) CALVARY (John Michael McDonagh)
  • (20) GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (Jean-Luc Godard)
  • (21) FOXCATCHER (Bennett Miller)
  • (22) INTERSTELLAR (Christopher Nolan)
  • (23) THE LEGO MOVIE (Phil Lord, Christopher Miller)
  • (24) INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  • (25) WINTER SLEEP (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
  • (26) UNBROKEN (Angelina Jolie)
  • (27) PRIDE (Matthew Warchus)
  • (28) LIFE ITSELF (Steve James)
  • (29) THEEB (Naji Abu Nowar)
  • (30) THE BABADOOK (Jennifer King)
  • (31) PADDINGTON (Paul King)
  • (32) ST. VINCENT (Theodore Melfi)
  • (33) MOMMY (Xavier Dolan)
  • (34) GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (James Gunn)
  • (35) EDGE OF TOMORROW (Doug Liman)
  • (36) CITIZENFOUR (Laura Poitras)
  • (37) HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (Dean DeBlois)
  • (38) RED ARMY (Gabe Polsky)
  • (39) A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTANCE (Roy Andersson)
  • (40) GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM (Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz)
  • (41) PHOENIX (Christian Petzold)
  • The Tribe (Miroslav Slaboshpitsky)
  • Goodnight Mommy (Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz)
  • The Raid 2 (Gareth Evans)
  • (42) THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY (Peter Strickland)
  • The Salt of the Earth (Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders)
  • Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore)
  • Tony Benn: Will and Testament (Skip Kite)
  • (43) X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (Bryan Singer)

# 2013 #

  • (1) 12 YEARS A SLAVE (Steve McQueen)
  • (2) BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR (Abdellatif Kechiche)
  • (3) GRAVITY (Alfonso Cuarón)
  • (4) IDA (Pawel Pawlikowski)
  • (5) THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (Martin Scorsese)
  • (6) THE GREAT BEAUTY (Paolo Sorrentino)
  • (7) HER (Spike Jonze)
  • (8) INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
  • (9) CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (Paul Greengrass)
  • (10) NEBRASKA (Alexander Payne)
  • (11) AMERICAN HUSTLE (David O. Russell)
  • (12) PHILOMENA (Stephen Frears)
  • Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
  • (13) BLUE JASMINE (Woody Allen)
  • (14) THE PAST (Asghar Farhadi)
  • (15) DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (Jean-Marc Vallée)
  • (16) SHORT TERM 12 (Destin Cretton)
  • (17) FRUITVALE STATION (Ryan Coogler)
  • (18) SAVING MR. BANKS (John Lee Hancock)
  • (19) THE WIND RISES (Hayao Miyazaki)
  • (20) ALL IS LOST (J.C. Chandor)
  • (21) SIDE EFFECTS (Steven Soderbergh)
  • (22) PRISONERS (Denis Villeneuve)
  • (23) TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM (Morgan Neville)
  • (24) THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (Francis Lawrence)
  • (25) RUSH (Ron Howard)
  • (26) TANGERINES (Zaza Urushadze)
  • (27) ENOUGH SAID (Nicole Holofcener)
  • (28) STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (J.J. Abrams)
  • (29) TIM'S VERMEER (Teller)
  • (30) OMAR (Hany Abu-Assad)
  • (31) THE LUNCHBOX (Ritesh Batra)
  • (32) WE ARE THE BEST! (Lukas Moodysson)
  • (33) BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Richard Linklater)
  • (34) THE WAY, WAY BACK (Nat Faxon, Jim Rash)
  • The Spectacular Now (James Ponsoldt)
  • (35) ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (Jim Jarmusch)
  • (36) BIG BAD WOLVES (Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado)
  • (37) THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (Peter Jackson)
  • (38) ONLY GOD FORGIVES (Nicolas Winding Refn)
  • (39) STOKER (Chan-wook Park)
  • Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
  • (40) LOCKE (Steven Knight)
  • Bless Me, Ultima (Carl Franklin)
  • (41) JOE (David Gordon Green)
  • (42) PARKLAND (Peter Landesman)
  • (43) TRACKS (John Curran)
  • (44) FROZEN (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee)
  • (45) DON JON (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
  • (46) ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME (Chiemi Karasawa)

# 2012 #

  • (1) AMOUR (Michael Haneke)
  • (2) ZERO DARK THIRTY (Kathryn Bigelow)
  • (3) ARGO (Ben Affleck)
  • (4) LINCOLN (Steven Spielberg)
  • (5) LIFE OF PI (Ang Lee)
  • (6) BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (Benh Zeitlin)
  • (7) THE MASTER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  • (8) SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (David O. Russell)
  • (9) LES MISERABLES (Tom Hooper)
  • (10) HOLY MOTORS (Leos Carax)
  • (11) THE HUNT (Thomas Vinterberg)
  • (12) MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson)
  • (13) DJANGO UNCHAINED (Quentin Tarantino)
  • (14) STORIES WE TELL (Sarah Polley)
  • (15) LOOPER (Rian Johnson)
  • (16) A ROYAL AFFAIR (Nikolaj Arcel)
  • The Act of Killing (Christine Cynn, Joshua Oppenheimer)
  • (17) THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (Christopher Nolan)
  • (18) SKYFALL (Sam Mendes)
  • (19) NO (Pablo Larraín)
  • (20) THE GATEKEEPERS (Dror Moreh)
  • (21) THE SESSIONS (Ben Lewin)
  • (22) WADJDA (Haifaa Al-Mansour)
  • (23) BARBARA (Christian Petzold)
  • (24) THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (Stephen Chbosky)
  • (25) END OF WATCH (David Ayer)
  • (26) WAR WITCH (Kim Nguyen)
  • (27) FLIGHT (Robert Zemeckis)
  • (28) KON-TIKI (Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg)
  • (29) THE HOUSE I LIVE IN (Eugene Jarecki)
  • (30) RUST AND BONE (Jacques Audiard)
  • (31) WEST OF MEMPHIS (Amy Berg)
  • (32) SPRING BREAKERS (Harmony Korine)
  • (33) MARLEY (Kevin Macdonald)
  • (34) THE AVENGERS (Joss Whedon)
  • (35) IN THE HOUSE (Francois Ozon)
  • (36) ROOM 237 (Rodney Ascher)
  • (37) THE IMPOSSIBLE (Juan Antonio Bayona)
  • (38) ARBITRAGE (Nicholas Jarecki)
  • (39) THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN (Felix van Groeningen)
  • (40) MUD (Jeff Nichols)
  • (41) FRANKENWEENIE (Tim Burton)
  • Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
  • (42) A HIJACKING (Tobias Lindholm)
  • (43) AT ANY PRICE (Ramin Bahrani)
  • (44) EXCISION (Richard Bates Jr)
  • (45) THE IMPOSTER (Bart Layton)
  • Blancanieves (Pablo Berger)
  • (46) CLOUD ATLAS (Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski)
  • (47) PROMETHEUS (Ridley Scott)

# 2011 #

  • (1) A SEPARATION (Asghar Farhadi)
  • (2) THE ARTIST (Michel Hazanavicius)
  • (3) THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick)
  • (4) HUGO (Martin Scorsese)
  • (5) THE DESCENDANTS (Alexander Payne)
  • (6) MELANCHOLIA (Lars von Trier)
  • (7) MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (Woody Allen)
  • (8) WAR HORSE (Steven Spielberg)
  • Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan)
  • (9) THE KID WITH A BIKE (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
  • (10) MONEYBALL (Bennett Miller)
  • (11) THE INTOUCHABLES (Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano)
  • (12) DRIVE (Nicolas Winding Refn)
  • (13) LE HAVRE (Aki Kaurismäki)
  • (14) THE HELP (Tate Taylor)
  • (15) THE IDES OF MARCH (George Clooney)
  • (16) SHAME (Steve McQueen)
  • (17) TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (Tomas Alfredson)
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (David Yates)
  • (18) FOOTNOTE (Joseph Cedar)
  • (19) MONSIEUR LAZHAR (Philippe Falardeau)
  • (20) THE GUARD (John Michael McDonagh)
  • (21) MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (Sean Durkin)
  • (22) 50/50 (Jonathan Levine)
  • (23) THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (David Fincher)
  • (24) THE SKIN I LIVE IN (Pedro Almodóvar)
  • (25) PARIAH (Dee Rees)
  • (26) A DANGEROUS METHOD (David Cronenberg)
  • (27) MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (Simon Curtis)
  • (28) PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES (Andrew Rossi)
  • (29) BUCK (Cindy Meehl)
  • The Turin Horse (Ágnes Hranìtzky, Béla Tarr)
  • In Darkness (Angieszka Holland)
  • (30) PINA (Wim Wenders)
  • (31) HEADHUNTERS (Morten Tyldum)
  • (32) SUPER 8 (J.J. Abrams)
  • (33) EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE (Stephen Daldry)
  • A Simple Life (Ann Hui)
  • (34) TAKE SHELTER (Jeff Nichols)
  • (35) BRIDESMAIDS (Paul Feig)
  • Coriolanus (Ralph Fiennes)
  • Higher Ground (Vera Farmiga)
  • (36) MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL (Brad Bird)
  • (37) POLISSE (Maïwenn Le Besco)
  • (38) TERRI (Azazel Jacobs)
  • (39) WIN WIN (Tom McCarthy)
  • (40) X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (Matthew Vaughn)
  • (41) PROJECT NIM (James Marsh)
  • Bullhead (Michael R. Roskam)
  • (42) BEING ELMO: A PUPPETEER'S JOURNEY (Constance Marks, Philip Shane)

# 2010 #

  • (1) THE SOCIAL NETWORK (David Fincher)
  • (2) THE KING'S SPEECH (Tom Hooper)
  • (3) INCEPTION (Christopher Nolan)
  • (4) BLACK SWAN (Darren Aronofsky)
  • (5) TRUE GRIT (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
  • (6) WINTER'S BONE (Debra Granik)
  • (7) TOY STORY 3 (Lee Unkrich)
  • (8) THE FIGHTER (David O. Russell)
  • (9) INCENDIES (Denis Villeneuve)
  • (10) OF GODS AND MEN (Xavier Beauvois)
  • (11) THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (Lisa Cholodenko)
  • (12) UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  • (13) CARLOS (Olivier Assayas)
  • (14) MONSTERS (Gareth Edwards)
  • (15) ANOTHER YEAR (Mike Leigh)
  • (16) 127 HOURS (Danny Boyle)
  • (17) THE TOWN (Ben Affleck)
  • Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
  • (18) IN A BETTER WORLD (Susanne Bier)
  • (19) BIUTIFUL (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  • (20) THE GHOST WRITER (Roman Polanski)
  • (21) MEEK'S CUTOFF (Kelly Reichardt)
  • (22) SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (Edgar Wright)
  • (23) LIFE, ABOVE ALL (Olivier Schmitz)
  • (24) CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami)
  • (25) FOUR LIONS (Christopher Morris)
  • 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike)
  • (26) KICK-ASS (Matthew Vaughn)
  • (27) SHUTTER ISLAND (Martin Scorsese)
  • (28) CYRUS (Jay Duplass, Mike Duplass)
  • (29) RABBIT HOLE (John Cameron Mitchell)
  • (30) BARNEY'S VERSION (Richard J. Lewis)
  • (31) NEVER LET ME GO (Mark Romanek)
  • (32) CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (Werner Herzog)
  • (33) ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Tim Burton)
  • (34) THE AMERICAN (Anton Corbijn)
  • (35) JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK (Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg)
  • Please Give (Nicole Holofcener)
  • The Karate Kid (Harald Zwart)
  • Waste Land (Karen Harley, João Jardin, Lucy Walker)
  • (36) HEREAFTER (Clint Eastwood)
  • (37) POTICHE (Francois Ozon)
  • (38) ANIMAL KINGDOM (David Michôd)
  • Mysteries of Lisbon (Raoul Ruiz)
  • (39) SOMEWHERE (Sofia Coppola)
  • (40) FLIPPED (Rob Reiner)
  • (41) BLUE VALENTINE (Derek Cianfrance)
  • Silent Souls (Aleksei Fedorchenko)
  • (42) HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders)
  • Bill Cunningham New York (Richard Press)

# 2009 #

  • (1) A PROPHET (Jacques Audiard)
  • (2) THE WHITE RIBBON (Michael Haneke)
  • (3) AVATAR (James Cameron)
  • (4) INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino)
  • (5) UP IN THE AIR (Jason Reitman)
  • (6) PRECIOUS (Lee Daniels)
  • (7) THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (Juan José Campanella)
  • (8) A SERIOUS MAN (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
  • (9) FISH TANK (Andrea Arnold)
  • (10) AN EDUCATION (Lone Scherfig)
  • (11) DISTRICT 9 (Neill Blomkamp)
  • (12) UP (Pete Docter, Bob Peterson)
  • (13) THE HANGOVER (Todd Phillips)
  • (14) THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (Niels Arden Oplev)
  • (15) I AM LOVE (Luca Guadagnino)
  • (16) WHITE MATERIAL (Claire Denis)
  • (17) INVICTUS (Clint Eastwood)
  • Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar)
  • (18) (500) DAYS OF SUMMER (Marc Webb)
  • (19) STAR TREK (J.J. Abrams)
  • (20) BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL - NEW ORLEANS (Werner Herzog)
  • (21) IN THE LOOP (Armando Iannucci)
  • (22) THE MESSENGER (Oren Moverman)
  • Mother (Joon-ho Bong)
  • (23) FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Wes Anderson)
  • (24) CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY (Michael Moore)
  • (25) COCO BEFORE CHANEL (Anne Fontaine)
  • The Maid (Sebastián Silva)
  • (26) SIN NOMBRE (Cary Fukunaga)
  • (27) CORALINE (Henry Selick)
  • (28) MOON (Duncan Jones)
  • (29) PUBLIC ENEMIES (Michael Mann)
  • The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh)
  • (30) CRAZY HEART (Scott Cooper)
  • Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akin)
  • (31) THE BLIND SIDE (John Lee Hancock)
  • (32) THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (Ron Clements, John Musker)
  • (33) LEBANON (Samuel Maoz, Shmulik Maoz)
  • (34) NINE (Rob Marshall)
  • (35) THE ROAD (John Hillcoat)
  • (36) THIS IS IT (Kenny Ortega)
  • City of Life and Death (Chuan Lu)
  • (37) A SINGLE MAN (Tom Ford)
  • (38) AWAY WE GO (Sam Mendes)
  • That Evening Sun (Scott Teems)
  • (39) BRUNO (Larry Charles)
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates)
  • Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)
  • The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey)
  • (40) WATCHMEN (Zack Snyder)

# 2008 #

  • (1) THE HURT LOCKER (Kathryn Bigelow)
  • (2) LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (Tomas Alfredson)
  • (3) SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan)
  • (4) WALTZ WITH BASHIR (Ari Folman)
  • (5) THE DARK KNIGHT (Christopher Nolan)
  • (6) WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
  • (7) MILK (Gus Van Sant)
  • (8) FROST/NIXON (Ron Howard)
  • (9) THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (David Fincher)
  • (10) GOMORRAH (Matteo Garrone)
  • (11) THE READER (Stephen Daldry)
  • (12) THE WRESTLER (Darren Aronofsky)
  • (13) THE CLASS (Laurent Cantet)
  • (14) HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (Mike Leigh)
  • (15) CHANGELING (Clint Eastwood)
  • Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
  • (16) ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL (Sacha Gervasi)
  • I've Loved You So Long (Philippe Claudel)
  • (17) DEPARTURES (Yojiro Takita)
  • (18) GRAN TORINO (Clint Eastwood)
  • (19) IRON MAN (Jon Favreau)
  • Trouble the Water (Carl Deal, Tia Lessin)
  • (20) SUMMER HOURS (Olivier Assayas)
  • 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
  • (21) DOUBT (John Patrick Shanley)
  • (22) PONYO (Hayao Miyazaki)
  • (23) EVERLASTING MOMENTS (Jan Troell)
  • (24) MAN ON WIRE (James Marsh)
  • (25) SHINE A LIGHT (Martin Scorsese)
  • (26) REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (Sam Mendes)
  • (27) THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX (Uli Edel)
  • The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
  • (28) REVANCHE (Götz Spielmann)
  • A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
  • Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
  • (29) RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (Jonathan Demme)
  • (30) FROZEN RIVER (Courtney Hunt)
  • Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino)
  • (31) THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD (Jee-woon Kim)
  • Hunger (Steve McQueen)
  • (32) INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (Steven Spielberg)
  • Of Time and the City (Terence Davies)
  • (33) IN BRUGES (Martin McDonagh)
  • Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani)
  • Julia (Erick Zonca)
  • Trucker (James Mottern)
  • (34) CLOVERFIELD (Matt Reeves)
  • (35) ME AND ORSON WELLES (Richard Linklater)
  • Sugar (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck)
  • (36) DISGRACE (Steve Jacobs)

# 2007 #

  • (1) NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
  • (2) THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel)
  • 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
  • (3) PERSEPOLIS (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi)
  • (4) ATONEMENT (Joe Wright)
  • (5) JUNO (Jason Reitman)
  • Into the Wild (Sean Penn)
  • La Vie en Rose (Olivier Dahan)
  • (6) MICHAEL CLAYTON (Tony Gilroy)
  • (7) RATATOUILLE (Brad Bird)
  • (8) THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (Andrew Dominik)
  • Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
  • (9) SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (Tim Burton)
  • (10) THE KITE RUNNER (Marc Foster)
  • (11) ZODIAC (David Fincher)
  • (12) THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM (Paul Greengrass)
  • Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
  • The Band's Visit (Eran Kolirin)
  • (13) THE COUNTERFEITERS (Stefan Ruzowitzky)
  • Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney)
  • (14) AMERICAN GANGSTER (Ridley Scott)
  • (15) MONGOL: THE RISE OF GENGHIS KHAN (Sergei Bodrov)
  • (16) LARS AND THE REAL GIRL (Craig Gillespie)
  • (17) CONTROL (Anton Corbijn)
  • (18) SICKO (Michael Moore)
  • (19) THE SAVAGES (Tamara Jenkins)
  • (20) PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (Oren Peli)
  • (21) THE DARJEELING LIMITED (Wes Anderson)
  • In the Shadow of the Moon (David Sington)
  • (22) YOU, THE LIVING (Roy Andersson)
  • (23) IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH (Paul Haggis)
  • The Great Debaters (Denzel Washington)
  • The Visitor (Tom McCarthy)
  • (24) THE EDGE OF HEAVEN (Fatih Akin)
  • Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)
  • (25) HAIRSPRAY (Adam Shankman)
  • (26) I'M NOT THERE (Todd Haynes)
  • (27) THE ORPHANAGE (Juan Antonio Bayona)
  • 12 (Nikita Mikhalkov)
  • No End in Sight (Charles Ferguson)
  • (28) CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR (Mike Nichols)
  • Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
  • Chop Shop (Ramin Bahrani)
  • Starting Out in the Evening (Andrew Wagner)
  • Waitress (Adrienne Shelley)
  • The Lookout (Scott Frank)
  • (29) KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS (Seth Gordon)
  • (30) GONE BABY GONE (Ben Affleck)
  • (31) THE BRAVE ONE (Neil Jordan)

# 2006 #

  • (1) PAN'S LABYRINTH (Guillermo del Toro)
  • (2) THE LIVES OF OTHERS (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
  • (3) THE QUEEN (Stephen Frears)
  • (4) THE DEPARTED (Martin Scorsese)
  • (5) LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris)
  • (6) BABEL (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  • (7) THE HOST (Joon-ho Bong)
  • (8) VOLVER (Pedro Almodóvar)
  • (9) BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNING OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN (Larry Charles)
  • (10) LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (Clint Eastwood)
  • (11) UNITED 93 (Paul Greengrass)
  • (12) APOCALYPTO (Mel Gibson)
  • (13) CHILDREN OF MEN (Alfonso Cuarón)
  • Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr)
  • (14) ONCE (John Carney)
  • Days of Glory (Rachid Bouchareb)
  • (15) DREAMGIRLS (Bill Condon)
  • (16) FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS (Clint Eastwood)
  • (17) LITTLE CHILDREN (Todd Field)
  • (18) A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION (Robert Altman)
  • (19) INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)
  • Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  • (20) BLACK BOOK (Paul Verhoeven)
  • Shut Up and Sing (Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck)
  • (21) NOTES ON A SCANDAL (Richard Eyre)
  • The Painted Veil (John Curran)
  • (22) MARIE ANTOINETTE (Sofia Coppola)
  • Superman Returns (Bryan Singer)
  • (23) THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND (Kevin Macdonald)
  • (24) CASINO ROYALE (Martin Campbell)
  • (25) BLOOD DIAMOND (Edward Zwick)
  • (26) THIS IS ENGLAND (Shane Meadows)
  • Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme)
  • (27) AWAY FROM HER (Sarah Polley)
  • The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)
  • (28) CARS (John Lasseter)
  • (29) WORLD TRADE CENTER (Oliver Stone)
  • (30) THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (David Frankel)
  • (31) HOLLYWOODLAND (Allen Coulter)
  • (32) THE GROUND TRUTH (Patricia Foulkrod)
  • (33) LAKE OF FIRE (Tony Kaye)
  • (34) AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (Davis Guggenheim)
  • The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach)
  • Offside (Jafar Panahi)
  • Still Life (Zhang Ke Jia)
  • God Grew Tired of Us (Christopher Dillon Quinn, Tommy Walker)
  • The Fall (Tarsem Singh)
  • Tell No One (Guillaume Canet)
  • 300 (Zack Snyder)
  • (35) AFTER THE WEDDING (Susanne Bier)

# 2005 #

  • (1) BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (Ang Lee)
  • (2) CACHÉ (Michael Haneke)
  • (3) GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK (George Clooney)
  • (4) A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (David Cronenberg)
  • (5) CAPOTE (Bennett Miller)
  • Tsotsi (Gavin Hood)
  • (6) MUNICH (Steven Spielberg)
  • Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad)
  • (7) THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA (Tommy Lee Jones)
  • (8) GRIZZLY MAN (Werner Herzog)
  • (9) KING KONG (Peter Jackson, Bryan Singer)
  • (10) THE CONSTANT GARDENER (Fernando Meirelles)
  • (11) WALK THE LINE (James Mangold)
  • L'enfant (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
  • (12) SYRIANA (Stephen Gaghan)
  • (13) THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (Noah Baumbach)
  • (14) MATCH POINT (Woody Allen)
  • (15) JOYEUX NOËL (Christian Carion)
  • (16) THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU (Cristi Puiu)
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney)
  • (17) MURDERBALL (Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro)
  • (18) WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT (Steve Box, Nick Park)
  • (19) BROKEN FLOWERS (Jim Jarmusch)
  • (20) BATMAN BEGINS (Christopher Nolan)
  • (21) THE NEW WORLD (Terrence Malick)
  • (22) ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW (Miranda July)
  • Junebug (Phil Morrison)
  • (23) HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (Mike Newell)
  • Sophie Scholl - The Final Days (Marc Rothemund)
  • (24) PRIDE & PREJUDICE (Joe Wright)
  • Nine Lives (Rodrigo García)
  • (25) C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallée)
  • (26) SIN CITY (Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez)
  • Water (Deepa Mehta)
  • (27) V FOR VENDETTA (James McTeigue)
  • Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas)
  • The Upside of Anger (Mike Binder)
  • (28) THANK YOU FOR SMOKING (Jason Reitman)
  • Look Both Ways (Sarah Watt)
  • (29) CINDERELLA MAN (Ron Howard)
  • (30) THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED (Jacques Audiard)
  • Live and Become (Radu Mihaileanu
  • (31) PROOF (John Madden)
  • Memoirs of a Geisha (Rob Marshall)
  • The Heart of the Game (Ward Serrill)
  • (32) THE WEATHER MAN (Gore Verbinski)
  • Hustle & Flow (Craig Brewer)
  • (33) THE 40-YEAR OLD VIRGIN (Judd Apatow)
  • Last Days (Gus Van Sant)
  • (34) BREAKFAST ON PLUTO (Neil Jordan)

# 2004 #

  • (1) SIDEWAYS (Alexander Payne)
  • (2) DOWNFALL (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
  • (3) MILLION DOLLAR BABY (Clint Eastwood)
  • (4) THE AVIATOR (Martin Scorsese)
  • (5) CRASH (Paul Haggis)
  • House of Flying Daggers (Yimou Zhang)
  • (6) ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Michel Gondry)
  • (7) FINDING NEVERLAND (Marc Forster)
  • (8) VERA DRAKE (Mike Leigh)
  • Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar)
  • (9) THE SEA INSIDE (Alejandro Amenábar)
  • (10) FAHRENHEIT 9/11 (Michael Moore)
  • (11) BEFORE SUNSET (Richard Linklater)
  • Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)
  • Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene)
  • 2046 (Kar Wai Wong)
  • The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles)
  • Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
  • Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  • (12) RAY (Taylor Hackford)
  • (13) THE INCREDIBLES (Brad Bird)
  • Night Watch (Timur Bekmambetov)
  • Head-On (Fatih Akin)
  • 3-Iron (Ki-duk Kim)
  • (14) MARIA FULL OF GRACE (Joshua Marston)
  • (15) COLLATERAL (Michael Mann)
  • The Chorus (Christophe Barratier)
  • A Very Long Engagement (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
  • (16) KINSEY (Bill Condon)
  • (17) KILL BILL: VOLUME 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
  • Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
  • Brothers (Susanne Bier)
  • (18) THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST (Mel Gibson)
  • (19) HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE (Hayao Miyazaki)
  • Born Into Brothels (Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman)
  • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Kerry Conran)
  • (20) CLOSER (Mike Nichols)
  • The Intruder (Claire Denis)
  • Primer (Shane Carruth)
  • (21) HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (Alfonso Cuarón)
  • Yes (Sally Potter)
  • Gunner Palace (Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker)
  • Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
  • My Summer of Love (Pawel Pawlikowski)
  • (22) THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (Jonathan Demme)
  • (23) SHAUN OF THE DEAD (Edgar Wright)
  • (24) I HEART HUCKABEES (David O. Russell)
  • Le grand voyage (Ismaël Ferroukhi)
  • (25) THE POLAR EXPRESS (Robert Zemeckis)
  • Riding Giants (Stacy Peralta)

# 2003 #

  • (1) THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Peter Jackson)
  • (2) LOST IN TRANSLATION (Sofia Coppola)
  • (3) OLDBOY (Chan-wook Park)
  • The Barbarian Invasions (Denys Arcand)
  • (4) DOGVILLE (Lars von Trier)
  • (5) MYSTIC RIVER (Clint Eastwood)
  • (6) GOODBYE, LENIN! (Wolfgang Becker)
  • (7) MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (Peter Weir)
  • (8) FINDING NEMO (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich)
  • (9) THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE (Sylvain Chomet)
  • The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
  • (10) AMERICAN SPLENDOR (Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini)
  • (11) KILL BILL: VOLUME 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
  • (12) CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS (Andrew Jarecki)
  • Seabiscuit (Gary Ross)
  • The Fog of War (Errol Morris)
  • (13) TOUCHING THE VOID (Kevin Macdonald)
  • (14) COLD MOUNTAIN (Anthony Minghella)
  • Spring Summer Fall Winter...and Spring (Ki-duk Kim)
  • (15) ELEPHANT (Gus Van Sant)
  • The Last Samurai (Edward Zwick)
  • (16) BIG FISH (Tim Burton)
  • My Architect: A Son's Journey (Nathaniel Kahn)
  • House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman)
  • The Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (Takeshi Kitano)
  • (17) PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (Gore Verbinski)
  • Osama (Siddiq Barmak)
  • 21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  • Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Ming-liang Tsai)
  • (18) OPEN RANGE (Kevin Costner)
  • (19) THIRTEEN (Catherine Hardwicke)
  • The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
  • (20) THE STATION AGENT (Tom McCarthy)
  • Owning Mahowny (Richard Kwietniowski)
  • The Corporation (Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar)
  • Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott)
  • (21) THE SCHOOL OF ROCK (Richard Linklater)
  • Baadasssss! (Mario Van Peebles)
  • Tokyo Godfathers (Shogo Furuya, Satoshi Kon)
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring (Peter Webber)
  • Kohi jiko (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
  • (22) MONSTER (Patty Jenkins)
  • The Agronomist (Jonathan Demme)
  • The Human Stain (Robert Benton)
  • (23) OFF THE MAP (Scott Campbell)
  • Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (Rick McKay)
  • Something's Gotta Give (Nancy Meyers)
  • (24) COFFEE AND CIGARETTES (Jim Jarmusch)
  • The Five Obstructions (Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier)
  • (25) LOVE ACTUALLY (Richard Curtis)

# 2002 #

  • (1) CITY OF GOD (Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles)
  • (2) THE PIANIST (Roman Polanski)
  • (3) THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (Peter Jackson)
  • Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
  • Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
  • (4) GANGS OF NEW YORK (Martin Scorsese)
  • (5) ADAPTATION (Spike Jonze)
  • (6) THE HOURS (Stephen Daldry)
  • Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
  • Chicago (Rob Marshall)
  • About Schmidt (Alexander Payne)
  • Hero (Yimou Zhang)
  • Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
  • Devdas (Sanjay Leela Bhansali)
  • (7) RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (Phillip Noyce)
  • Infernal Affairs (Wai Keung Lau, Siu Fai Mak)
  • The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki)
  • (8) IRREVERSIBLE (Gaspar Noé)
  • The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce)
  • (9) ROAD TO PERDITION (Sam Mendes)
  • (10) BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE (Michael Moore)
  • (11) MINORITY REPORT (Steven Spielberg)
  • The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan)
  • The Son (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
  • Whale Rider (Niki Caro)
  • In America (Jim Sheridan)
  • Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)
  • 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
  • Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
  • Sunshine State (John Sayles)
  • The Man on the Train (Patrice Leconte)
  • (12) 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE (Michael Winterbottom)
  • To Be and To Have (Nicolas Philibert)
  • (13) SPIDER-MAN (Sam Raimi)
  • (14) INSOMNIA (Christopher Nolan)
  • Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz)
  • Spider (David Cronenberg)
  • Bend it Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha)
  • (15) PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  • Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (George Lucas)
  • Frida (Julie Taymor)
  • Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass)
  • Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears)
  • The Crime of Padre Amaro (Carlos Carrera)
  • (16) ONE HOUR PHOTO (Mark Romanek)
  • The Good Girl (Miguel Arteta)
  • (17) THE BOURNE IDENTITY (Doug Liman)
  • Nicholas Nickleby (Douglas McGrath)
  • After Life (Lucas Belvaux)
  • An Amazing Couple (Lucas Belvaux)

# 2001 #

  • (1) MULHOLLAND DRIVE (David Lynch)
  • Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón)
  • Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
  • (2) AMÉLIE (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
  • (3) THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (Peter Jackson)
  • (4) MOULIN ROUGE! (Baz Luhrmann)
  • Lagaan (Ashutosh Gowariker)
  • (5) SHREK (Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson)
  • No Man's Land (Danis Tanovic)
  • (6) THE PIANO TEACHER (Michael Haneke)
  • (7) GOSFORD PARK (Robert Altman)
  • The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk)
  • Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair)
  • The Son's Room (Nanni Moretti)
  • In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
  • (8) GHOST WORLD (Terry Zwigoff)
  • (9) A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Steven Spielberg)
  • Lantana (Ray Lawrence)
  • (10) A BEAUTIFUL MIND (Ron Howard)
  • Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
  • (11) THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
  • (12) DONNIE DARKO (Richard Kelly)
  • Nowhere in Africa (Caroline Link)
  • Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
  • (13) THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS (Wes Anderson)
  • What Time Is It There? (Ming-liang Tsai)
  • Behind the Sun (Walter Salles)
  • Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
  • Last Orders (Fred Schepisi)
  • (14) OCEAN'S ELEVEN (Steven Soderbergh)
  • Dogtown and Z-Boys (Stacy Peralta)
  • Monster's Ball (Marc Forster)
  • (15) BLACK HAWK DOWN (Ridley Scott)
  • Read My Lips (Jacques Audiard)
  • La ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel)
  • (16) THE OTHERS (Alejandro Amenábar)
  • (17) MONSTERS, INC. (Pete Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich)
  • Winged Migration (Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats, Jacques Perrin)
  • Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
  • The Grey Zone (Tim Blake Nelson)
  • (18) BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY (Sharon Maguire)
  • Baran (Majid Majidi)
  • The Pledge (Sean Penn)
  • Lovely & Amazing (Nicole Holofcener)
  • 13 Conversations About One Thing (Jill Sprecher)
  • (19) STORYTELLING (Todd Solondz)
  • I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira)
  • (20) THE EXPERIMENT (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
  • (21) HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE (Chris Columbus)
  • Me Without You (Sandra Goldbacher)

# 2000 #

  • In the Mood for Love (Kar Wai Wong)
  • (1) CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Ang Lee)
  • Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
  • (2) GLADIATOR (Ridley Scott)
  • (3) AMORES PERROS (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
  • (4) MEMENTO (Christopher Nolan)
  • (5) TRAFFIC (Steven Soderbergh)
  • (6) BILLY ELLIOT (Stephen Daldry)
  • (7) ALMOST FAMOUS (Cameron Crowe)
  • (8) CHICKEN RUN (Peter Lord, Nick Park)
  • Werckmeister Harmonies (Ágnes Hrantzky, Béla Tarr)
  • The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda)
  • (9) ERIN BROCKOVICH (Steven Soderbergh)
  • Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
  • (10) REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (Darren Aronofsky)
  • (11) BATTLE ROYALE (Kinji Fukasaku)
  • (12) O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
  • Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
  • The Circle (Jafar Panahi)
  • You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
  • Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
  • Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer)
  • A Time for Drunken Horses (Bahman Ghobadi)
  • (13) TOGETHER (Lukas Moodysson)
  • Innocence (Paul Cox)
  • (14) MEET THE PARENTS (Jay Roach)
  • Platform (Zhang Ke Jia)
  • (15) POLLOCK (Ed Harris)
  • Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel)
  • (16) BEST IN SHOW (Christopher Guest)
  • The Day I Became a Woman (Marzieh Meshkini)
  • (17) CHOCOLAT (Lasse Hallström)
  • Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (Mark Jonathan Harris)
  • Nine Queens (Fabián Bielinsky)
  • Calle 54 (Fernando Trueba)
  • Faithless (Liv Ullmann)
  • Lumumba (Raoul Peck)
  • Divided We Fall (Jan Hrebejk)
  • (18) MALÈNA (Giuseppe Tornatore)
  • George Washington (David Gordon Green)
  • Quills (Philip Kaufman)
  • Chunhyang (Im Kwon-taek)
  • Kippur (Amos Gitai)
  • The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)
  • Last Resort (Pawel Pawlikowski)
  • Shadow of the Vampire (E. Elias Merhige)
  • (19) CAST AWAY (Robert Zemeckis)
  • Ali Zaoua, prince de la rue (Nabil Ayouch)
  • La Captive (Chantal Akerman)
  • Signs & Wonders (Jonathan Nossiter)

# 1999 #

  • (1) ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (Pedro Almodóvar)
  • (2) AMERICAN BEAUTY (Sam Mendes)
  • (3) BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (Spike Jonze)
  • (4) THE INSIDER (Michael Mann)
  • (5) THE MATRIX (Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski)
  • Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
  • (6) THE SIXTH SENSE (M. Night Shyamalan)
  • (7) MAGNOLIA (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  • (8) THREE KINGS (David O. Russell)
  • Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)
  • Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
  • The Straight Story (David Lynch)
  • (9) THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez)
  • Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce)
  • Audition (Takashi Miike)
  • Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz)
  • (10) ELECTION (Alexander Payne)
  • (11) FIGHT CLUB (David Fincher)
  • (12) TOY STORY 2 (Ash Brannon, John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich)
  • (13) THE CIDER HOUSE RULES (Lasse Hallström)
  • American Movie (Chris Smith)
  • (14) THE IRON GIANT (Brad Bird)
  • The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
  • (15) EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick)
  • (16) THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY (Anthony Minghella)
  • Felicia's Journey (Atom Egoyan)
  • Girl on the Bridge (Patrice Leconte)
  • (17) GHOST DOG: WAY OF THE SAMURAI (Jim Jarmusch)
  • (18) BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (Wim Wenders)
  • Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese)
  • Cradle Will Rock (Tim Robbins)
  • (19) EAST IS EAST (Damien O'Donnell)
  • The War Zone (Tim Roth)
  • The Green Mile (Frank Darabont)
  • October Sky (Joe Johnston)
  • East-West (Régis Wargnier)
  • Tarzan (Chris Buck, Kevin Lima)
  • The Color of Paradise (Majid Majidi)
  • Kadosh (Amos Gitai)
  • (20) THE HURRICANE (Norman Jewison)
  • The Cup (Khyentse Norbu)
  • Go (Doug Liman)
  • Les Enfants du Marais (Jean Becker)
  • Taboo (Nagisa Oshima)
  • Sunshine (István Szabó)
  • On the Ropes (Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen)
  • The Emperor and the Assassin (Kaige Chen)
  • (21) MAN ON THE MOON (Milos Forman)
  • Shower (Yang Zhang)
  • Spring Forward (Tom Gilroy)

# 1998 #

  • (1) SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (Steven Spielberg)
  • (2) THE CELEBRATION (Thomas Vinterberg)
  • (3) SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (John Madden)
  • (4) THE THIN RED LINE (Terrence Malick)
  • (5) RUN LOLA RUN (Tom Tykwer)
  • Central Station (Walter Salles)
  • Happiness (Todd Solondz)
  • (6) RUSHMORE (Wes Anderson)
  • The Idiots (Lars von Trier)
  • Ringu (Hideo Nakata)
  • (7) THE TRUMAN SHOW (Peter Weir)
  • The Dreamlife of Angels (Erick Zonca)
  • (8) ELIZABETH (Shekhar Kapur)
  • (9) THE BIG LEBOWSKI (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
  • (10) THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly)
  • Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon)
  • Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
  • After Life (Hirokazu Koreeda)
  • Bulworth (Warren Beatty)
  • A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi)
  • The Opposite of Sex (Don Roos)
  • The General (John Boorman)
  • Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer)
  • Cabaret Balkan (Goran Paskaljevic)
  • (11) PI (Darren Aronofsky)
  • Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Julio Medem)
  • My Name is Joe (Ken Loach)
  • Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard)
  • A Bug's Life (John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton)
  • (12) BUFFALO '66 (Vincent Gallo)
  • (13) HILARY AND JACKIE (Anand Tucker)
  • (14) PRIMARY COLORS (Mike Nichols)
  • Croupier (Mike Hodges)
  • Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (Patrice Chéreau)
  • Dark City (Alex Proyas)
  • Tango (Carlos Saura)
  • The Horse Whisperer (Robert Redford)
  • The Last Days (James Moll)
  • The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf)
  • Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux)
  • High Art (Lisa Cholodenko)
  • (15) PLEASANTVILLE (Gary Ross)
  • 42: Forty Two Up (Michael Apted)
  • A Civil Action (Steven Zaillian)
  • (16) MULAN (Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook)
  • Black Cat White Cat (Emir Kusturica)
  • Slam (Marc Levin)
  • Love Is the Devil (John Maybury)
  • Under the Sun (Colin Nutley)
  • The Mighty (Peter Chelsom)

# 1997 #

  • L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
  • (1) TITANIC (James Cameron)
  • (2) BOOGIE NIGHTS (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  • Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
  • (3) THE FULL MONTY (Peter Cattaneo)
  • (4) THE SWEET HEREAFTER (Atom Egoyan)
  • (5) LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (Roberto Benigni)
  • The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan)
  • (6) AS GOOD AS IT GETS (James L. Brooks)
  • (7) DONNIE BRASCO (Mike Newell)
  • Happy Together (Kar Wai Wong)
  • (8) GOOD WILL HUNTING (Gus Van Sant)
  • Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
  • The Thief (Pavel Chukhraj)
  • (9) FUNNY GAMES (Michael Haneke)
  • Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
  • (10) DECONSTRUCTING HARRY (Woody Allen)
  • The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
  • Live Flesh (Pedro Almodóvar)
  • Ulee's Gold (Victor Nunez)
  • (11) MRS. BROWN (John Madden)
  • Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris)
  • (12) AMISTAD (Steven Spielberg)
  • The Wings of the Dove (Iain Softley)
  • Affliction (Paul Schrader)
  • Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven)
  • 4 Little Girls (Spike Lee)
  • (13) WAG THE DOG (Barry Levinson)
  • Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
  • Character (Mike van Diem)
  • Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano)
  • The Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi)
  • (14) THE GAME (David Fincher)
  • The Apostle (Robert Duvall)
  • Love and Death on Long Island (Richard Kwietniowski)
  • (15) THE RAINMAKER (Francis Ford Coppola)
  • In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
  • Ma Vie en Rose (Alain Berliner)
  • Open Your Eyes (Alejandro Amenábar)
  • The Fifth Element (Luc Besson)
  • (16) FACE/OFF (John Woo)
  • Men with Guns (John Sayles)
  • Eve's Bayou (Kasi Lemmons)
  • Con Air (Simon West)
  • (17) LOLITA (Adrian Lyne)
  • (18) CHASING AMY (Kevin Smith)
  • (19) CONTACT (Robert Zemeckis)
  • (20) AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY (Jay Roach)
  • Deja Vu (Henry Jaglom)
  • Nil by Mouth (Gary Oldman)

# 1996 #

  • (1) FARGO (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
  • (2) SECRETS & LIES (Mike Leigh)
  • (3) THE ENGLISH PATIENT (Anthony Minghella)
  • (4) SHINE (Scott Hicks)
  • Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
  • (5) TRAINSPOTTING (Danny Boyle)
  • Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe)
  • Kolya (Jan Sverák)
  • Lone Star (John Sayles)
  • (6) THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT (Milos Forman)
  • (7) INDEPENDENCE DAY (Roland Emmerich)
  • Ridicule (Patrice Leconte)
  • Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen)
  • (8) SLING BLADE (Billy Bob Thornton)
  • (9) IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas)
  • Big Night (Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci)
  • (10) CRASH (David Cronenberg)
  • Ponette (Jacques Doillon)
  • (11) ROMEO + JULIET (Baz Luhrmann)
  • (12) EVITA (Alan Parker)
  • Prisoner of the Mountains (Sergei Bodrov)
  • La Promesse (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
  • When We Were Kings (Leon Gast)
  • Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
  • Shall We Dance? (Masayuki Suo)
  • A Self-Made Hero (Jacques Audiard)
  • (13) SCREAM (Wes Craven)
  • Microcosmos (Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou)
  • Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
  • Courage Under Fire (Edward Zwick)
  • Beyond Silence (Caroline Link)
  • Pretty Village Pretty Flame (Srdjan Dragojevic)
  • Small Faces (Gillies MacKinnon)
  • Three Lives and Only One Death (Raoul Ruiz)
  • Will It Snow For Christmas? (Sandrine Veysset)
  • Marvin's Room (Jerry Zaks)
  • L'Appartement (Gilles Mimouni)
  • Thieves (André Téchiné)
  • The Pillow Book (Peter Greenaway)
  • Mother (Albert Brooks)
  • The Crucible (Nicholas Hytner)
  • The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye)
  • (14) FLIRTING WITH DISASTER (David O. Russell)
  • Mary Reilly (Stephen Frears)
  • Swingers (Doug Liman)
  • Trees Lounge (Steve Buscemi)
  • (15) HAMSUN (Jan Troell)
  • The Leopard Son (Hugo Van Lawick)
  • (16) THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY (Jane Campion)
  • Bound (Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski)

# 1995 #

  • (1) TOY STORY (John Lasseter)
  • The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
  • (2) SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (Ang Lee)
  • (3) BRAVEHEART (Mel Gibson)
  • (4) BABE (Chris Noonan)
  • (5) CASINO (Martin Scorsese)
  • (6) APOLLO 13 (Ron Howard)
  • Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
  • (7) SEVEN (David Fincher)
  • (8) HEAT (Michael Mann)
  • (9) LA HAINE (Mathieu Kassovitz)
  • La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol)
  • Safe (Todd Haynes)
  • (10) CLUELESS (Amy Heckerling)
  • Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
  • Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii)
  • Les Misérables (Claude Lelouch)
  • Underground (Emir Kusturica)
  • Antonia's Line (Marleen Gorris)
  • Nixon (Oliver Stone)
  • (11) DEAD MAN WALKING (Tim Robbins)
  • Smoke (Paul Auster, Wayne Wang)
  • (12) WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE (Todd Solondz)
  • Carrington (Christopher Hampton)
  • 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
  • Cyclo (Anh Hung Tran)
  • Richard III (Richard Loncraine)
  • The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi)
  • Land and Freedom (Ken Loach)
  • Persuasion (Roger Michell)
  • Shanghai Triad (Yimou Zhang)
  • Fallen Angels (Kar Wai Wong)
  • Ulysses' Gaze (Theo Angelopoulos)
  • (13) BEFORE SUNRISE (Richard Linklater)
  • (14) ALL THINGS FAIR (Bo Widerberg)
  • Deseret (James Benning)
  • Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (Aditya Chopra)
  • Zero Kelvin (Hans Petter Moland)
  • Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin)
  • (15) THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (Rob Reiner)
  • Rendezvous in Paris (Eric Rohmer)
  • To Die For (Gus Van Sant)
  • Maborosi (Hirokazu Koreeda)
  • (16) KIDS (Larry Clark)
  • The Star Maker (Giuseppe Tornatore)
  • Funny Bones (Peter Chelsom)
  • Living in Oblivion (Tom DiCillo)
  • Anne Frank Remembered (Jon Blair)
  • A Single Girl (Benoit Jacquot)
  • The City of Lost Children (Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)

# 1994 #

  • (1) PULP FICTION (Quentin Tarantino)
  • (2) RED (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
  • (3) THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (Frank Darabont)
  • (4) FORREST GUMP (Robert Zemeckis)
  • (5) WHITE (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
  • Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
  • Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
  • Lamerica (Gianni Amelio)
  • (6) FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (Mike Newell)
  • (7) CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Kar Wai Wong)
  • (8) QUIZ SHOW (Robert Redford)
  • (9) THE LION KING (Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff)
  • Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
  • Wild Reeds (André Téchiné)
  • The Last Seduction (John Dahl)
  • To Live (Yimou Zhang)
  • Sátántangó (Béla Tarr)
  • Speed (Jan de Bont)
  • Before the Rain (Milcho Manchevski)
  • (10) IL POSTINO (Michael Radford)
  • (11) THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE (Nicholas Hytner)
  • Burnt by the Sun (Nikita Mikhalkov)
  • Clerks (Kevin Smith)
  • Caro diario (Nanni Moretti)
  • Muriel's Wedding (P.J. Hogan)
  • Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee)
  • (12) NATURAL BORN KILLERS (Oliver Stone)
  • Nobody's Fool (Robert Benton)
  • (13) ED WOOD (Tim Burton)
  • Queen Margot (Patrice Chéreau)
  • Once Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori)
  • Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
  • Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle)
  • Little Women (Gillian Armstrong)
  • Fresh (Boaz Yakin)
  • Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
  • The Legend of Drunken Master (Jackie Chan, Chia-Liang Liu)
  • Léon: The Professional (Luc Besson)
  • The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott)
  • That's Entertainment III (Bud Friedgen, Michael J. Sheridan)
  • Strawberry and Chocolate (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío)
  • Ladybird, Ladybird (Ken Loach)
  • Ermo (Xiaowen Zhou)
  • The New Age (Michael Tolkin)
  • Priest (Antonia Bird)
  • A Great Day in Harlem (Jean Bach)
  • Farinelli: Il Castrato (Gérard Corbiau)
  • Crooklyn (Spike Lee)
  • (14) BULLETS OVER BROADWAY (Woody Allen)
  • Moving the Mountain (Michael Apted)

# 1993 #

  • (1) SCHINDLER'S LIST (Steven Spielberg)
  • (2) THE PIANO (Jane Campion)
  • Farewell My Concubine (Kaige Chen)
  • (3) BLUE (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
  • (4) GROUNDHOG DAY (Harold Ramis)
  • Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
  • (5) JURASSIC PARK (Steven Spielberg)
  • (6) THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (James Ivory)
  • The Fugitive (Andrew Davis)
  • (7) THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (Martin Scorsese)
  • The Puppetmaster (Hsiao-hsien Hou)
  • The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee)
  • The Blue Kite (Zhuangzhuang Tian)
  • (8) NAKED (Mike Leigh)
  • Shadowlands (Richard Attenborough)
  • Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (Francois Girard)
  • (9) IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (Jim Sheridan)
  • Iron Monkey (Woo-ping Yuen)
  • (10) THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (Henry Selick)
  • (11) PHILADELPHIA (Jonathan Demme)
  • The Scent of Green Papaya (Anh Hung Tran)
  • The Joy Luck Club (Wayne Wang)
  • In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen)
  • Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh)
  • (12) WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE (Lasse Hallström)
  • Germinal (Claude Berri)
  • Tango (Patrice Leconte)
  • A Bronx Tale (Robert De Niro)
  • King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh)
  • Household Saints (Nancy Savoca)
  • Ruby in Paradise (Victor Nunez)
  • Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)
  • Searching for Bobby Fischer (Steven Zaillian)
  • This Boy's Life (Michael Caton-Jones)
  • Dave (Ivan Reitman)
  • (13) DAZED AND CONFUSED (Richard Linklater)
  • Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
  • Tombstone (George P. Cosmatos)
  • Fearless (Peter Weir)
  • Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron)
  • Gettysburg (Ronald F. Maxwell)
  • My Favorite Season (André Téchiné)
  • D'Est (Chantal Akerman)
  • Raining Stones (Ken Loach)
  • Son of the Shark (Angès Merlet)
  • Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee)
  • Menace II Society (Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes)
  • The Cement Garden (Andrew Birkin)
  • Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski, Bruce W. Timm)
  • The Snapper (Stephen Frears)

# 1992 #

  • (1) UNFORGIVEN (Clint Eastwood)
  • (2) THE PLAYER (Robert Altman)
  • The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
  • (3) RESERVOIR DOGS (Quentin Tarantino)
  • Howards End (James Ivory)
  • (4) MALCOLM X (Spike Lee)
  • One False Move (Carl Franklin)
  • The Story of Qiu Ju (Yimou Zhang)
  • Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann)
  • Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
  • (5) ALADDIN (Ron Clements, John Musker)
  • Hard Boiled (John Woo)
  • Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
  • (6) THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Michael Mann)
  • The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)
  • (7) MAN BITES DOG (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde)
  • Like Water for Chocolate (Alfonso Arau)
  • Un Coeur en hiver (Claude Sautet)
  • The Stolen Children (Gianni Amelio)
  • A Tale of Winter (Eric Rohmer)
  • Indochine (Régis Wargnier)
  • Dream of Light (Víctor Erice)
  • Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon)
  • Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
  • Brother's Keeper (Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky)
  • A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner)
  • The Best Intentions (Bille August)
  • Centre Stage (Stanley Kwan)
  • Belle Epoque (Fernando Trueba)
  • Peter's Friends (Kenneth Branagh)
  • Gas Food Lodging (Allison Anders)
  • Orlando (Sally Potter)
  • (8) EL MARIACHI (Robert Rodriguez)
  • (9) SCENT OF A WOMAN (Martin Brest)
  • Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (Nick Broomfield)
  • (10) ROMPER STOMPER (Geoffrey Wright)
  • A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall)
  • Enchanted April (Mike Newell)
  • The Fencing Master (Pedro Olea)
  • (11) HOFFA (Danny DeVito)
  • The Waterdance (Neal Jimenez, Michael Steinberg)
  • (12) BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (Francis Ford Coppola)
  • Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography (Andrew Glassman, Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Stuart Samuels)
  • Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader)
  • Red Rock West (John Dahl)
  • The Accompanist (Claude Miller)
  • Schtonk! (Helmut Dietl)
  • Olivier Olivier (Agnieszka Holland)
  • Khuda Gawah (Mukul Anand)
  • A Question of Attribution (John Schlesinger)
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