2008

1. The Class (s: François Bégaudeau, Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet; d: L.C.)
Entre les murs

2007

1. We Own the Night (James Gray)
2. Sicko (Michael Moore)

2005

1."Rome" [TV-series] (Season 1) (several directors)
2.The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
Moartea domnului Lazarescu
3.Bubble (w Coleman Hough, d Steven Soderbergh)
4.Wah-Wah (Richard E. Grant)

2004

1.Equilibrium (Steven Soderbergh) [in Eros]
2. The Hand (Kar Wai Wong) [in Eros]
3.The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel)
La niña santa
4.The Staircase (Jean-Xavier de Lestrade) (TV)
Soupçons
5.Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
Der Untergang
6.Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore)

2003

1.Games of Love and Chance (Abdel Kechiche)
L'esquive
2.The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain)
Chavez: Inside the Coup
3.Monster (Patty Jenkins)
4.Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)

2002

1.Spider (d David Cronenberg, sc Patrick McGrath)
2.The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
3.Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg)
4.Respiro (Emanuele Crialese)
5.Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
6.About a Boy (Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz)
7.City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
Cidade de Deus
8.May (Lucky McKee)
9.Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes)
10.The Salton Sea (d D.J. Caruso, sc Tony Gayton)
11.Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
12. Julie Walking Home (Agnieszka Holland)
13.The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan)
14.Cherish (Finn Taylor)

2001

1.Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
2.Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
3.Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
4.Lantana (Ray Lawrence, sc Andrew Bovell)
5.The Business of Strangers (Patrick Stettner)
6.Monster's Ball (Marc Forster)
7.Tape (Richard Linklater, sc Stephen Belber)
8."The Office" [TV-series] (Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant)
9.The Fast and the Furious (Rob Cohen)
10.Wendigo (Larry Fessenden)
11.Happy Accidents (Brad Anderson)
12.Baran (Majid Majidi)
13.The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen)
14.Don's Plum (R.D. Robb)
15.In the Bedroom (Todd Field)

2000

1.Memento (Christopher Nolan)
2.Vatel (Roland Joffé) (sc Jeanne Labrune)
3.Liam (Stephen Frears) (sc Jimmy McGovern)
4.You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
5.Sound and Fury (Josh Aronson)
6.With a Friend Like Harry... (Dominik Moll)
Harry un ami qui vous veut du bien
7.Up at the Villa (Philip Haas)
8.The King's Daughters (Patricia Mazuy)
Saint-Cyr
9.American Psycho (Mary Harron)
10.Barking Dogs Never Bite (Joon-ho Bong)
Flandersui gae
11.Paragraph 175 (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman)
12.Boiler Room (Ben Younger)

1999

1.Election (Alexander Payne)
2.Kadosh (Amos Gitai)
3.Wonderland (Michael Winterbottom)
4.Judy Berlin (Eric Mendelsohn)
5.Taboo (Nagisa Oshima)
Gohatto
6.Mifune's Last Song (Søren Kragh-Jacobsen)
Mifunes sidste sang
7.Rien sur Robert (Pascal Bonitzer)
8.Gregory's Two Girls (Bill Forsyth)
9.Whatever (Philippe Harel)
Extension du domaine de la lutte
10.Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton)
11.Ride with the Devil (Ang Lee)
12.The Thomas Crown Affair (John McTiernan)
13.The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
Bad ma ra khahad bord
14.The Loss of Sexual Innocence (Mike Figgis)
15.The Traveler (Paulo Cezar Saraceni)
O Viajante
16.American Beauty (Sam Mendes) (sc Alan Ball)
17.The Hurricane (Norman Jewison)
18.Angela's Ashes (Alan Parker)
19.Fantasia 2000 (James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, Francis Glebas, Eric Goldberg, Don Hahn and Pixote Hunt)
20.News from a Personal War (João Moreira Salles and Kátia Lund)
Notícias de uma Guerra Particular

1998

1.The Dreamlife of Angels (Erick Zonca)
La vie rêvée des anges
2.Happiness (Todd Solondz)
3.Celebrity (Woody Allen)
4.Divorce Iranian Style (Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini)
5.Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
6.The Class Trip (Claude Miller)
La classe de neige
7.Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson)
Fucking Åmål
8.Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma)
9.Rounders (John Dahl)
10.Your Friends & Neighbors (Neil LaBute)
11.There's Something About Mary (Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly)
12.The Emperor and the Assassin (Kaige Chen)
Jing ke ci qin wang
13.Bulworth (Warren Beatty)
14.A Bug's Life (John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton)
15.This Is My Father (Paul Quinn)
16.The Opposite of Sex (Don Roos)
17. The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman)
18.He Got Game (Spike Lee)
19.Buffalo '66 (Vincent Gallo)

Outstanding First Act: Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg). If it were a movie by itself, it would rank as number 2.

1997

1.The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan)
2.L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
3.Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
4.Mrs. Dalloway (Marleen Gorris)
5.The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
6.Affliction (Paul Schrader)
7.The Thief (Pavel Chukhraj)
Vor
8.Happy Together (Kar Wai Wong)
Cheun gwong tsa sit
9.Nil by Mouth (Gary Oldman)
10.Welcome to Sarajevo (Michael Winterbottom)
11.Lawn Dogs (John Duigan) (sc Naomi Wallace)
12.Eye of God (Tim Blake Nelson)
13.Ulee's Gold (Victor Nuñez)
14.My Son the Fanatic (Udayan Prasad) (sc Hanif Kureishi)
15.Telling Lies in America (Guy Ferland) (sc Joe Eszterhas)
16.Eve's Bayou (Kasi Lemmons)
17.A Thousand Acres (Jocelyn Moorhouse)
18.G.I. Jane (Ridley Scott)
19.The Apostle (Robert Duvall)
20.Gridlock'd (Vondie Curtis-Hall)
21.Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith)
22.A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
Ta'm e guilass
23SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground (TV) (Bob Balaban, Patricia Benoit, Julie Dash, Jonathan Demme, Ted Demme, Abel Ferrara, Alison Maclean, Craig McKay, Lucas Platt and Seth Zvi Rosenfeld)
24.The Big One (Michael Moore)
25.Career Girls (Mike Leigh)

1996

1.Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
2.I Shot Andy Warhol (Mary Harron)
3.Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen)
4.Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma)
5.When the Cat's Away (Cédric Klapisch)
Chacun cherche son chat
6.Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
7.Thieves (André Téchiné)
Les voleurs
8.Bound (Larry Wachowski and Andy Wachowski)
9.The Quiet Room (Rolf de Heer)
10.Fly Away Home (Carroll Ballard)
11.Love Serenade (Shirley Barrett)
12.The Crucible (Nicholas Hytner) (sc Arthur Miller)
13.It's My Party (Randal Kleiser)
14.Lone Star (John Sayles)
15.Head Above Water (Jim Wilson)
16.Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
17.Love, etc. (Marion Vernoux)

1995

1.Safe (Todd Haynes)
2.An Awfully Big Adventure (Mike Newell)
3.Casino (Martin Scorsese)
4.Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins)
5.Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)
6.Georgia (Ulu Grosbard) (sc Barbara Turner)
7.Apollo 13 (Ron Howard)
8.Toy Story (John Lasseter)
9.A Judgement in Stone (Claude Chabrol)
La cérémonie
10.Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
11.Homage (Ross Kagan Marks) (sc Mark Medoff)
12.Ridicule (Patrice Leconte)
13.Kids (Larry Clark)
14.The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi) (sc Abbas Kiarostami)
Badkonake sefid
15.The Wife (Tom Noonan)
16.Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
17.The Flower of My Secret (Pedro Almodóvar)
La flor de mi secreto
18.Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (Nick Park)
19.Denise Calls Up (Hal Salwen)

1994

1.I Can't Sleep (Claire Denis)
J'ai pas sommeil
2.Tom & Viv (Brian Gilbert)
3.Bosna! (Bernard-Henri Lévy)
4.Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
5.Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle) (sc John Hodge)
6.The Wild Reeds (André Téchiné)
Les roseaux sauvages
7.Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle)
8.Spanking the Monkey (David O. Russell)
9.Dear Diary (Nanni Moretti)
Caro diario
10.Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Alan Rudolph)
11.The Separation (Christian Vincent)
La séparation
12.Doomsday Gun (TV) (Robert Young)
13.Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
14.Fresh (Boaz Yakin)
15.Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
16.Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
17.Serial Mom (John Waters)
18.What Happened Was... (Tom Noonan)

1993

1.Dottie Gets Spanked (Todd Haynes) (TV)
2.Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
3.The Myth of the Male Orgasm (John Hamilton)
4.Six Degrees of Separation (Fred Schepisi) (sc John Guare)
5.The Snapper (TV) (Stephen Frears) (sc Roddy Doyle)
6.Golden Balls (J.J. Bigas Luna)
Huevos de oro
7.Lipstick on Your Collar (Renny Rye) (sc Dennis Potter) (TV)
8.The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick)
9.Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park)
10.Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
11.M. Butterfly (David Cronenberg) (sc David Henry Hwang)
12.Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
13.The Fugitive (Andrew Davis)
14.The Cement Garden (Andrew Birkin)
15.The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
16.Ethan Frome (John Madden)
17.Shadowlands (Richard Attenborough)
18.The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (Michael Ritchie) (sc Jane Anderson) (TV)
19.Twenty Bucks (Keva Rosenfeld)
20.The Joy Luck Club (Wayne Wang)
21.The Piano (Jane Campion)
22.Fearless (Peter Weir) (sc Rafael Yglesias)
23.Hotel Room (David Lynch and James Signorelli) (TV)
24.Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)
25.King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh)
26.Mad Dog and Glory (John McNaughton) (sc Richard Price)
27.What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström) (sc Peter Hedges)
28.Gettysburg (Ronald F. Maxwell)
29.Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen)
30.Naked (Mike Leigh)
31.Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
32.Shades of Doubt (Aline Issermann)
L'ombre du doute
33.The Remains of the Day (James Ivory)
34.August (José Henrique Fonseca, Paulo José and Denise Saraceni) (TV)
Agosto

1992

1.Howards End (James Ivory)
2.Olivier, Olivier (Agnieszka Holland)
3.Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
4.Waterland (Stephen Gyllenhaal)
5.Ham Ham (J.J. Bigas Luna)
Jamón, jamón
6.Deep Cover (Bill Duke)
7.White Sands (Roger Donaldson) (sc Daniel Pyne)
8.Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood) (sc David Webb Peoples)
9.Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley) (sc David Mamet)
10.The Player (Robert Altman) (sc Michael Tolkin)
11.The Stolen Children (Gianni Amelio)
Il ladro di bambini
12.Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski)
13.My New Gun (Stacy Cochran)
14.The Public Eye (Howard Franklin)
15.Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
16.The Best Intentions (Bille August) (sc Ingmar Bergman)
Den goda viljan
17.Hero (Stephen Frears)
18.The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies)
19.Bad Behaviour (Les Blair)
20.Laws of Gravity (Nick Gomez)
21.Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader)
22.Of Mice and Men (Gary Sinise)
23.Daens (Stijn Coninx)
24.The Distinguished Gentleman (Jonathan Lynn)

1991

1.Raise the Red Lantern (Yimou Zhang)
Da hong deng long gao gao gua
2.The Indian Runner (Sean Penn)
3.The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Simon Callow)
4.Barton Fink (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
5.Jungle Fever (Spike Lee)
6.Homo Novus (Pál Erdöss) (sc Zoya Coudrie)
7.Madame Bovary (Claude Chabrol)
8.The Miracle (Neil Jordan)
9.Highway Patrolman (Alex Cox) (sc Lorenzo O'Brien)
El patrullero
10.Black Robe (Bruce Beresford) (sc Brian Moore)
11.The Rapture (Michael Tolkin)
12.The Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax)
Les amants du Pont-Neuf
13.Toto the Hero (Jaco van Dormael)
Toto le héros
14.As Happy as Larry (Riju Ramrakha)
15.Guilty by Suspicion (Irwin Winkler)
16.Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules (TV) (Walter Bernstein, Mike Figgis and Kristi Zea)
17.Scenes from a Mall (Paul Mazursky)
18.City of Hope (John Sayles)
19.A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris)
20.Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard)
21.Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat)
22.Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro)
23.Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (Nick Park)

1990

1.Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
2.A Tale of Springtime (Eric Rohmer)
Conte de printemps
3.The Sting of Death (Kôhei Oguri)
Shi no toge
4.The Discreet (Christian Vincent)
La discrète
5.Uranus (Claude Berri)
6.The Grifters (Stephen Frears)
7.Internal Affairs (Mike Figgis) (sc Henry Bean)
8.Night Sun (Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani)
Il sole anche di notte
9.Trust (Hal Hartley)
10.Mountains of the Moon (Bob Rafelson)
11.Hamlet (Franco Zeffirelli)
12.To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett)
13.White Hunter Black Heart (Clint Eastwood)
14.Henry & June (Philip Kaufman)
15.Mister Johnson (Bruce Beresford)
16.The Reflecting Skin (Philip Ridley)
17.No, or The Vain Glory of Command (Manoel de Oliveira)
'Non', ou A Vã Glória de Mandar
18.Berdel (Atif Yilmaz) (sc Yildirim Turker)
19.Miami Blues (George Armitage)
20.The Witches (Nicolas Roeg)
21.Reversal of Fortune (Barbet Schroeder)
22.The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismäki)
Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö
23.Hello Hemingway (Fernando Pérez) (sc Maydo Royero)
24.Close Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
Nema-ye Nazdik
25.May Fools (Louis Malle)
Milou en mai
26.Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (James Ivory)
27.The Little Gangster (Jacques Doillon)
Le petit criminel
28.Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (TV) (Frederic Raphael, Tony Richardson and Ken Russell)
29.Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne) (sc Bruce Joel Rubin)
30.Awakenings (Penny Marshall)
31.The Bonfire of the Vanities (Brian De Palma)
32.Green Card (Peter Weir)

1989

1.Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
2.Heathers (Michael Lehmann) (sc Daniel Waters)
3.I'm the King of the Castle (Régis Wargnier)
Je suis le seigneur du château
4.Last Exit to Brooklyn (Ulrich Edel)
5.Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
6.Roger & Me (Michael Moore)
7.Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
8.We're No Angels (Neil Jordan)
9.Torrents of Spring (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Acque di primavera
10.Wait Until Spring, Bandini (Dominique Deruddere)
11.The Fabulous Baker Boys (Steven Kloves)
12.White Wedding (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
Noce blanche
13.Yaaba (Idrissa Ouedraogo)
14.Reunion (Jerry Schatzberg)
15.Music Box (Costa-Gavras) (sc Joe Eszterhas)
16.Say Anything... (Cameron Crowe)
17.Vampire's Kiss (Robert Bierman) (sc Joseph Minion)
18.Society (Brian Yuzna)
19.The Architecture of Doom (Peter Cohen)
Undergångens arkitektur
20.Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)
21.Sex, Lies and Videotape (Steven Soderbergh)

1988

1.Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
2.Little Vera (Vasili Pichul, sc Mariya Khmelik)
Malenkaya Vera
3.Story of Women (Claude Chabrol)
Une affaire de femmes
4.A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Krótki film o zabijaniu
5.A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Krótki film o milosci
6.A Handful of Dust (Charles Sturridge)
7.The Firm (TV) (Alan Clarke, sc Al Ashton)
8.Chocolat (Claire Denis)
9.Track 29 (Nicolas Roeg, sc Dennis Potter)
10.The Little Thief (Claude Miller)
La petite voleuse
11.Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears)
12.Evil Angels (Fred Schepisi)
13.Midnight Run (Martin Brest, sc George Gallo)
14.My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
Tonari no Totoro
15.Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (Marcel Ophüls)
Hôtel Terminus
16.Colors (Dennis Hopper)
17.Tucker: The Man and His Dream (Francis Ford Coppola)
18.Working Girl (Mike Nichols, sc Kevin Wade)
19.The Vanishing (George Sluizer)
Spoorloos
20.A World Apart (Chris Menges, sc Shawn Slovo)
21.Gorillas in the Mist (Michael Apted)
22.The Moderns (Alan Rudolph)
23.The Tenth Man (TV) (Jack Gold, sc Lee Langley fr Graham Greene)
24.Stand and Deliver (Ramón Menéndez)
25.The Blob (Chuck Russell)
26.Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis)

1987

1.House of Games (David Mamet)
2.Five Corners (Tony Bill)
3.White Mischief (Michael Radford)
4.Decalogue (TV) (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Dekalog
5.Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth)
6.Pelle the Conqueror (Bille August)
Pelle erobreren
7.Hope and Glory (John Boorman)
8.No Way Out (Roger Donaldson)
9.Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (Stephen Frears)
10.Tin Men (Barry Levinson)
11.White of the Eye (Donald Cammell)
12.Goodbye Children (Louis Malle)
Au revoir les enfants
13.Repentance (Tengiz Abuladze)
Monanieba
14.Wall Street (Oliver Stone)
15.Overboard (Garry Marshall)
16.Where Is the Friend's Home? (Abbas Kiarostami)
Khane-ye doust kodjast?
17.Raising Arizona (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
18.Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson)
19.Amazing Grace and Chuck (Mike Newell)

Outstanding First Act: Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick). If it were a movie by itself, it would rank as number 18.

1986

1.Stand by Me (Rob Reiner)
2.Thérèse (Alain Cavalier)
3.At Close Range (James Foley)
4.Jean de Florette AND Manon of the Spring (Claude Berri)
Jean de Florette AND Manon des sources
5.The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir)
6.Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)
7.Brighton Beach Memoirs (Gene Saks)
8.Desert Bloom (Eugene Corr)
9.Salvador (Oliver Stone)
10.Church of the Oppressed (Jorge Bodanzky)
Igreja dos Oprimidos
11.Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton)
12.Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
13.Pirates (Roman Polanski)
14.The Decline of the American Empire (Denys Arcand)
Le déclin de l'empire américain

1985

1.Graduation Party (Pupi Avati)
Festa di laurea
2.Streetwise (Martin Bell)
3.Hour of the Star (Suzana Amaral)
A Hora da Estrela
4.Dance with a Stranger (Mike Newell)
5.Little Fires (Peter Del Monte)
Piccoli fuochi
6.Into the Night (John Landis)
7.Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
8.Colonel Redl (István Szabó)
Oberst Redl
9.Prizzi's Honor (John Huston)
10.Crimewave (Sam Raimi)
11.Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch)
12.After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
13.The Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
14.The Flight of the Condor (TV) (Michael Andrews)

1984

1.A Sunday in the Country (Bertrand Tavernier)
Un dimanche à la campagne
2.Vigil (Vincent Ward)
3.The River (Mark Rydell)
4.Love Streams (John Cassavetes)
5.Choose Me (Alan Rudolph)
6.P'tang Yang Kipperbang (TV) (Michael Apted)
7.Country (Richard Pearce)
8.The Ebony Tower (TV) (Robert Knights)
9.The Holy Innocents (Mario Camus)
Los santos inocentes
10.After the Rehearsal (TV) (Ingmar Bergman)
Efter repetitionen
11.Micki + Maude (Blake Edwards)
12.Under the Volcano (John Huston)
13.Marlene (Maximilian Schell)
14.A Passage to India (David Lean)
15.Blood Simple. (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
16.The Terminator (James Cameron)
17.Protocol (Herbert Ross)
18.Birdy (Alan Parker)
19.The Killing Fields (Roland Joffé)
20.Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)

1983

1.The Hunger (Tony Scott)
2.To Our Loves (Maurice Pialat)
À nos amours
3.Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)
4.A Love in Germany (Andrzej Wajda)
Eine Liebe in Deutschland
5.The Ploughman's Lunch (Richard Eyre)
6.The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
7.Don Quijote de la Mancha (TV) (Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón)
El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
8.Under Fire (Roger Spottiswoode)
9.Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima)
10.Local Hero (Bill Forsyth)
11.Breathless (Jim McBride)
12.Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
13.The Outsiders (Francis Ford Coppola)
14.The Man with Two Brains (Carl Reiner)
15.Heat and Dust (James Ivory)
16.Zelig (Woody Allen)
17.Lianna (John Sayles)

1982

1.Shoot the Moon (Alan Parker)
2.A Good Marriage (Eric Rohmer)
Le beau mariage
3.That Night in Varennes (Ettore Scola)
La nuit de Varennes
4.My Favorite Year (Richard Benjamin)
5.Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
Narayama bushiko
6.White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
7.The Hatter's Ghost (Claude Chabrol)
Les fantômes du chapelier
8.Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)
9.Sophie's Choice (Alan J. Pakula)
10.I Ought to Be in Pictures (Herbert Ross)
11.The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth)
12.Missing (Costa-Gavras)
13.Frances (Graeme Clifford)
14.Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
Fanny och Alexander
15.A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (Woody Allen)
16.Tootsie (Sydney Pollack)

1981

1.Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet)
2.Quest for Fire (Jean-Jacques Annaud)
La guerre du feu
3.The Aviator's Wife (Eric Rohmer)
La femme de l'aviateur
4.Gregory's Girl (Bill Forsyth)
5.Tales of Ordinary Madness (Marco Ferreri)
Storia di ordinaria follia
6.Montenegro (Dusan Makavejev)
7.Cutter's Way (Ivan Passer)
8.Beau Pere (Bertrand Blier)
Beau-père
9.True Confessions (Ulu Grosbard)
10.Hôtel des Amériques (André Téchiné)
11.Pennies from Heaven (Herbert Ross)
12.Heavy Metal (Gerald Potterton and Jimmy T. Murakami)
13.Dead & Buried (Gary Sherman)
14.Possession (Andrzej Zulawski)
15.Deep Water (Michel Deville)
Eaux profondes
16.Mommie Dearest (Frank Perry)
17.My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle)
18.Gangster Wars (Richard T. Sarafian)
19.Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
20.Marianne and Juliane (Margarethe von Trotta)
Die bleierne Zeit
21.Mephisto (István Szabó)
22.Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan)
23.On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell)
24.Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (George Miller)

1980

1.The Stunt Man (Richard Rush)
2.Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
3.Germany Pale Mother (Helma Sanders-Brahms)
Deutschland bleiche Mutter
4.Gloria (John Cassavetes)
5.Lady of the Camelias (Mauro Bolognini)
La dame aux camélias
6.Cream in My Coffee (TV) (Gavin Millar)
7.From the Life of the Marionettes (Ingmar Bergman)
Aus dem Leben der Marionetten
8.The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
9.The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
10.Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
11.Loulou (Maurice Pialat)
12.Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg)

1979

1.Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (Margarethe von Trotta)
Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks
2.Bye Bye Brazil (Carlos Diegues)
Bye Bye Brasil
3.Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
4.The Europeans (James Ivory)
5.Norma Rae (Martin Ritt)
6.The China Syndrome (James Bridges)
7.The Brood (David Cronenberg)
8.Tess (Roman Polanski)
9.Without Anesthesia (Andrzej Wajda)
Bez znieczulenia
10.Alien (Ridley Scott)
11.Breaking Away (Peter Yates)
12.Vengeance Is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
Fukushû suruwa wareniari
13.The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Die Ehe der Maria Braun
14.Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
15.It's Nice to Meet You (David Neves)
Muito Prazer
16.I Am What My Films Are (Erwin Keusch and Christian Weisenborn)
Was ich bin, sind meine Filme
17.Being There (Hal Ashby)

1978

1.Midnight Express (Alan Parker)
2.Fingers (James Toback)
3.Blue Collar (Paul Schrader)
4.Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard)
5.Movie Movie (Stanley Donen)
6.Capricorn One (Peter Hyams)
7.A Wedding (Robert Altman)
8.The Thirty-Nine Steps (Don Sharp)
9.Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
Höstsonaten
10.Remember My Name (Alan Rudolph)
11.The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi)
L'albero degli zoccoli
12.Pretty Baby (Louis Malle)
13.Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)

1977

1.Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
2.The American Friend (Wim Wenders)
Der amerikanische Freund
3.The Lacemaker (Claude Goretta)
La dentellière
4.A Special Day (Ettore Scola)
Una giornata particolare
5.Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (Nikita Mikhalkov)
Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino
6.Fun with Dick and Jane (Ted Kotcheff)
7.The Serpent's Egg (Ingmar Bergman)
8.Cross of Iron (Sam Peckinpah)

1976

1.Down and Dirty (Ettore Scola)
Brutti sporchi e cattivi
2.Cria! (Carlos Saura)
Cría cuervos
3.The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg)
4.Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
5.Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Alain Tanner)
Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000
6.Black and White in Color (Jean-Jacques Annaud)
Noirs et blancs en couleur
7.Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Chinesisches Roulette
8.The Tenant (Roman Polanski)
Le locataire
9.F for Fake (Orson Welles)
Vérités et mensonges
10.Fellini's Casanova (Federico Fellini)
Il Casanova di Federico Fellini
11.The Front (Martin Ritt)
12.Face to Face (Ingmar Bergman)
Ansikte mot ansikte
13.Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey)
Monsieur Klein

1975

1.False Movement (Wim Wenders)
Falsche Bewegung
2.The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston)
3.Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
4.The Story of Adele H (François Truffaut)
L'histoire d'Adèle H.
5.That Most Important Thing: Love (Andrzej Zulawski)
L'important c'est d'aimer
6.Conjugal Warfare (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade)
Guerra Conjugal
7.The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman)
8.The Day of the Locust (John Schlesinger)
9.The Sunshine Boys (Herbert Ross)
10.Farewell, My Lovely (Dick Richards)
11.One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)
12.The Yakuza (Sydney Pollack)
13.Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones)

1974

1.Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle)
Lacombe Lucien
2.The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
3.Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma)
4.My Little Loves (Jean Eustache)
Mes petites amoureuses
5.Daisy Miller (Peter Bogdanovich)
6.Immoral Tales (Walerian Borowczyk)
Contes immoraux
7.The Brutalisation of Franz Blum (Reinhard Hauff)
Die Verrohung des Franz Blum
8.The Front Page (Billy Wilder)
9.The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)
10.The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog)
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
11.The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Ted Kotcheff)
12.The Gambler (Karel Reisz)
13.Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
14.Badlands (Terrence Malick)
15.The Terminal Man (Michael Hodges)
16.Juggernaut (Richard Lester)
17.The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
18.It's Alive (Larry Cohen)
19.Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese)

1973

1.Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
2.Wedding in Blood (Claude Chabrol)
Les noces rouges
3.The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates)
4.Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
Scener ur ett äktenskap
5.Emperor of the North Pole (Robert Aldrich)
6.The Monk (Adonis Kyrou)
Le moine
7.The Sting (George Roy Hill)
8.Serpico (Sidney Lumet)
9.The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
El espiritu de la colmena
10.Westworld (Michael Crichton)
11.The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann)
12.Love and Anarchy (Lina Wertmüller)
Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero 'stamattina alle 10 in via dei Fiori nella nota casa di tolleranza...'
13.Going Places (Bertrand Blier)
Les valseuses
14.Anna and the Wolves (Carlos Saura)
Ana y los lobos

1972

1.The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Der Händler der vier Jahreszeiten
2.Deliverance (John Boorman)
3.The New Land (Jan Troell)
Nybyggarna
4.Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock)
5.What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich)
6.Ludwig (Luchino Visconti)
7.Fat City (John Huston)
8.The Other (Robert Mulligan)
9.We Will Not Grow Old Together (Maurice Pialat)
Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble
10.Jeremiah Johnson (Sydney Pollack)
11.Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (Woody Allen)
12.The Mechanic (Michael Winner)
13.Pulp (Mike Hodges)
14.The Candidate (Michael Ritchie)
15.The Hot Rock (Peter Yates)
16.Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
17.Play It Again, Sam (Herbert Ross)

1971

1.Family Life (Ken Loach)
2.Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti)
Morte a Venezia
3.Summer of '42 (Robert Mulligan)
4.Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols)
5.10 Rillington Place (Richard Fleischer)
6.The Devils (Ken Russell)
7.The Beguiled (Don Siegel)
8.The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
9.Wild Rovers (Blake Edwards)
10.The Working Class Goes to Heaven (Elio Petri)
La classe operaia va in paradiso
11.Get Carter (Mike Hodges)
12.The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (Wim Wenders)
Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter
13.Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kümel)
Les lèvres rouges
14.The French Connection (William Friedkin)
15.What's the Matter with Helen? (Curtis Harrington)
16.Twins of Evil (John Hough)
17. Taking Off (Milos Forman)
18.The Hellstrom Chronicle (Walon Green)
19.The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda)
20.McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
21.The Panic in Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg)
22.Lust for a Vampire (Jimmy Sangster)
23.Bananas (Woody Allen)
24.São Bernardo (Leon Hirszman)

1970

1.Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski)
2.The Molly Maguires (Martin Ritt)
3.Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman)
4.Figures in a Landscape (Joseph Losey)
5.The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah)
6.Dodes'ka-den (Akira Kurosawa)
Dô desu ka den
7.Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
8.Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma)
9.Little Big Man (Arthur Penn)
10.Performance (Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg)
11.Tristana (Luis Buñuel)
12.The Confession (Costa-Gavras)
L'aveu
13.Drama of Jealousy (Ettore Scola)
Drama della gelosia - tutti i particolari in cronaca
14.Catch-22 (Mike Nichols)
15.Ryan's Daughter (David Lean)
16.The Twelve Chairs (Mel Brooks)
17.The Movie Murderer (TV) (Boris Sagal)
18.Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)

1969

1.Burn! (Gillo Pontecorvo)
Queimada
2.The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
3.My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
Ma nuit chez Maud
4.The Wild Child (François Truffaut)
L'enfant sauvage
5.Killed the Family and Went to the Movies (Júlio Bressane)
Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema
6.The Fifth Day of Peace (Giuliano Montaldo)
Dio è con noi
7.Charles, Dead or Alive (Alain Tanner)
Charles mort ou vif
8.The Sterile Cuckoo (Alan J. Pakula)
9.Mississippi Mermaid (François Truffaut)
La sirène du Mississippi
10.The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Ronald Neame)
11.Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)

1968

1.Me (Maurice Pialat)
L'enfance nue
2.The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Robert Ellis Miller)
3.The Party (Blake Edwards)
4.Pretty Poison (Noel Black)
5.Will Penny (Tom Gries)
6.The Producers (Mel Brooks)
7.The Thomas Crown Affair (Norman Jewison)
8.Yellow Submarine (George Dunning)
9.Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli)
10.Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman)
Vargtimmen
11.Hell in the Pacific (John Boorman)
12.5 Card Stud (Henry Hathaway)
13.I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (Hy Averback)
14.Charly (Ralph Nelson)
15.The Magus (Guy Green)

Outstanding First Act: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick) (up until the throwing of the club, including the fusion with the spaceship). If it were a movie by itself, it would rank as number 7.

1967

1.Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
2.Reflections in a Golden Eye (John Huston)
3.A Public Opinion (Arnaldo Jabor)
A Opinião Pública
4.Week End (Jean-Luc Godard)
5.How I Won the War (Richard Lester)
6.Thoroughly Modern Millie (George Roy Hill)
7.Playtime (Jacques Tati)
8.La chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
9.Hombre (Martin Ritt)
10.Toby Dammit (in "Spirits of the Dead") (Federico Fellini)
Toby Dammit (in "Histoires extraordinaires")
11.Our Mother's House (Jack Clayton)
12.The Margin (Ozualdo Candeias)
A Margem
13.The Whisperers (Bryan Forbes)
14.Torture Garden (Freddie Francis)
15.In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks)

1966

1.Young Torless (Volker Schlöndorff)
Der junge Törless
2.Alfie (Lewis Gilbert)
3.Mademoiselle (Tony Richardson)
4.Funeral in Berlin (Guy Hamilton)
5.Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
Au hasard Balthazar
6.The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo
7.You're a Big Boy Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
8.The Fortune Cookie (Billy Wilder)
9.The Chase (Arthur Penn)
10.Masculine-Feminine (Jean-Luc Godard)
Masculin, féminin: 15 faits précis

1965

1.Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
Giulietta degli spiriti
2.The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (Martin Ritt)
3.The Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman)
Lásky jedné plavovlásky
4.The Hour and Time of Augusto Matraga (Roberto Santos)
A Hora e Vez de Augusto Matraga
5.Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
6.The Hill (Sidney Lumet)
7.The Death (Leon Hirszman)
A Falecida
8.The Shop on Main Street (Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos)
Obchod na korze
9.The Tomb of Ligeia (Roger Corman)
10.The Collector (William Wyler)
11.The Sound of Music (Robert Wise)
12.Major Dundee (Sam Peckinpah)
13.The War Game (Peter Watkins)

1964

1.Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
2.Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov)
Tini zabutykh predkiv
3.The Killers (Don Siegel)
4.King & Country (Joseph Losey)
5.The Lonely Wife (Satyajit Ray)
Charulata
6.The Obsessed of Catale (Anselmo Duarte)
Vereda da Salvação
7.The Outrage (Martin Ritt)
8.Eros (Walter Hugo Khouri)
Noite Vazia
9.Sex and the Single Girl (Richard Quine)
10.Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)
11.The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet)
12.At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (José Mojica Marins)
À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma

1963

1.The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)
2.Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
Le mépris
3.Love with the Proper Stranger (Robert Mulligan)
4.Hud (Martin Ritt)
5.Tom Jones (Tony Richardson)
6.Charade (Stanley Donen)
7.The Big City (Satyajit Ray)
Mahanagar
8.The Servant (Joseph Losey)
9.The Haunting (Robert Wise)
10.Barren Lives (Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
Vidas Secas

1962

1.The Pier (Chris Marker)
La jetée
2.Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
Procès de Jeanne d'Arc
3.The Given Word (Anselmo Duarte)
O Pagador de Promessas
4.Requiem for a Heavyweight (Ralph Nelson)
5.Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards)
6.Tender Is the Night (Henry King)
7.Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson)
8.Only Two Can Play (Sidney Gilliat)
9.Assault on the Pay Train (Roberto Farias)
Assalto ao Trem Pagador
10.Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
11.To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
12.Hatari! (Howard Hawks)
13.Birdman of Alcatraz (John Frankenheimer)

1961

1.Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
2.The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
3.The Night (Michelangelo Antonioni)
La notte
4.The Sound of Trumpets (Ermanno Olmi)
Il posto
5.Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
L'année dernière à Marienbad
6.Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
7.The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
8.One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
9.Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
10.Joan of the Angels (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
Matka Joanna od aniolow
11.Early Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu)
Kohayagawa-ke no aki
12.Three Daughters (Satyajit Ray)
Teen Kanya
13.The Children's Hour (William Wyler)
14.Summer and Smoke (Peter Glenville)

1960

1.Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
À bout de souffle
2.The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
Jungfrukällan
3.The Sweet Life (Federico Fellini)
La dolce vita
4.Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz)
5.Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks)
6.The Rat Race (Robert Mulligan)
7.Dialogue with the Carmelites (Philippe Agostini and P. Bruckberger)
Le dialogue des Carmélites
8.The Unforgiven (John Huston)
9.The Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman)
10.The Adventure (Michelangelo Antonioni)
L'avventura
11.Studs Lonigan (Irving Lerner)
12.The Trials of Oscar Wilde (Ken Hughes)
13. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
Le yeux sans visage
14.Blood and Roses (Roger Vadim)
Et mourir de plaisir
15.Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
16. The Lady with the Dog (Iosif Kheifits)
Dama s sobachkoy

1959

1.The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
Les quatre cents coups
2.The Cousins (Claude Chabrol)
Les cousins
3.Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
4.I'm All Right Jack (Roy Boulting)
5.Ask Any Girl (Charles Walters)
6.Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
7.The Nun's Story (Fred Zinnemann)
8.The World, the Flesh and the Devil (Ranald MacDougall)
9.Pillow Talk (Michael Gordon)
10.North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
11.Warlock (Edward Dmytryk)
12.The Mouse That Roared (Jack Arnold)
13.The Tingler (William Castle)

1958

1.Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
2.The Music Room (Satyajit Ray)
Jalsaghar
3.Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda)
Popiól i diament
4.My Uncle (Jacques Tati)
Mon oncle
5.The Rickshaw Man (Hiroshi Inagaki)
Muhomatsu no issho
6.Separate Tables (Delbert Mann)
7.The Lovers (Louis Malle)
Les amants
8.Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
9.I Want to Live! (Robert Wise)
10.Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
11.The Brothers Karamazov (Richard Brooks)

1957

1.Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
Le notti di Cabiria
2.Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
3.Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
Kumonosu jô
4.3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves)
5.Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
6.The Three Faces of Eve (Nunnally Johnson)
7.Crime of Passion (Gerd Oswald)
8.Osso, Amor e Papagaios (César Memolo e Carlos Alberto de Souza Barros)
9.The Unvanquished (Satyajit Ray)
Aparajito
10.The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
Det sjunde inseglet
11.12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
12.Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
13.Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
Smultronstället
14.The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold)

1956

1.The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
2.Four Bags Full (Claude Autant-Lara)
La traversée de Paris
3.The Searchers (John Ford)
4.Moby Dick (John Huston)
5.Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli)
6.Carousel (Henry King)
7.Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang)
8.Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli)

1955

1.Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
2.The Naked Dawn (Edgar G. Ulmer)
3.The Lament of the Path (Satyajit Ray)
Pather Panchali
4.Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
5.The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
6.The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder)
7.The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick)
8.Rififi (Jules Dassin)
Du rififi chez les hommes
9.Night and Fog (Alain Resnais)
Nuit et brouillard
10.Marty (Delbert Mann)
11.The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger)
12.Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Les diaboliques
13.Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
Sommarnattens leende
14.Moonfleet (Fritz Lang)
15.Mister Roberts (Mervyn LeRoy and John Ford)

1954

1.La strada (Federico Fellini)
2.Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
3.River of No Return (Otto Preminger)
4.The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
Shichinin no samurai
5.Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich)
6.The Naked Jungle (Byron Haskin)
7.The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

1953

1.Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Ugetsu monogatari
2.The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)
3.Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)
4.Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
5.Lili (Charles Walters)
6.The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Le salaire de la peur
7.Mogambo (John Ford)
8.The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophüls)
Madame de...
9.Beat the Devil (John Huston)
10.Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
Tokyo monogatari
11.The Wild One (László Benedek)

1952

1.Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Saikaku ichidai onna
2.Forbidden Games (René Clément)
Jeux interdits
3.The Quiet Man (John Ford)
4.Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly)
5.Umberto D. (Vittorio de Sica)
6.The Member of the Wedding (Fred Zinnemann)
7.The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Orson Welles)
8.Golden Helmet (Jacques Becker)
Casque d'or
9.The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
10.5 Fingers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
11.Simon the One-Eyed (Alberto Cavalcanti)
Simão, o Caolho
12.Pleasure (Max Ophüls)
Le plaisir
13.The Truth About Bebe Donge (Henri Decoin)
La vérité sur Bébé Donge
14.Beauties of the Night (René Clair)
Les belles de nuit
15.Bend of the River (Anthony Mann)

1951

1.Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
2.The African Queen (John Huston)
3.The Thing from Another World (Christian Nyby and Howard Hawks)
4.Sirocco (Curtis Bernhardt)
5.A Place in the Sun (George Stevens)
6.Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
7.The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick)
8.Bellissima (Luchino Visconti)

1950

1.All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
2.Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
3.Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann)
4.Roundabout (Max Ophüls)
La ronde
5.Born Yesterday (George Cukor)
6.The Young and the Damned (Luis Buñuel)
Los olvidados
7.Rashômon (Akira Kurosawa)
8.In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
9.The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)

1949

1.The Third Man (Carol Reed)
2.Yellow Sky (William A. Wellman)
3.House of Strangers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
4.A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
5.White Paws (Jean Grémillon)
Pattes blanches
6.Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock)

1948

1.The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
2.Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle)
3.Red River (Howard Hawks)
4.The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio de Sica)
Ladri di biciclette
5.Hamlet (Laurence Olivier)

1947

1.Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
2.The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
3.Nicholas Nickleby (Alberto Cavalcanti)
4.Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
5.Life with Father (Michael Curtiz)

1946

1.Great Expectations (David Lean)
2.The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett)
3.Song of the South (Wilfred Jackson and Harve Foster)
4.Gilda (Charles Vidor)
5.My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
6.The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak)

1945

1.Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné)
Les enfants du paradis
2.Dead of Night (Robert Hamer, Basil Dearden, Charles Crichton, and Alberto Cavalcanti)
3.The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise)
4.A Walk in the Sun (Lewis Milestone)
5.The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)
6.The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin)
7.Brief Encounter (David Lean)

1944

1.Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
2.Laura (Otto Preminger and Rouben Mamoulian)
3.Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
4.Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)
5.The Princess and the Pirate (David Butler and Sidney Lanfield)

1943

1.The Raven (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Le corbeau
2.The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)
3.Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)

1942

1.Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
2.Mrs. Miniver (William Wyler)

1941

1.Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2.The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
3.Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Victor Fleming)

1940

1.The Stars Look Down (Carol Reed)
2.Fantasia (Ben Sharpsteen and others)
3.The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
4.The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
5.The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline)
6.Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen)
7.A Chump at Oxford (Alfred J. Goulding)
8.His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)

1939

1.The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
La règle du jeu
2.Midnight (Mitchell Leisen)
3.Stagecoach (John Ford)
4.Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
5.Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
6.Wuthering Heights (William Wyler)
7.Of Mice and Men (Lewis Milestone)

1938

1.The Baker's Wife (Marcel Pagnol)
La femme du boulanger
2.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Norman Taurog, George Cukor, H.C. Potter and William A. Wellman)
3.Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)

1937

1.Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand)
2.Way Out West (James W. Horne)

1936

1.A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
Partie de campagne
2.Dodsworth (William Wyler)
3.The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo)
4.Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
5.Our Relations (Harry Lachman)
6.The Devil-Doll (Tod Browning)

1935

1.Alice Adams (George Stevens)
2.The Ghost Goes West (René Clair)

1934

1.L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
2.The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
3.Treasure Island (Victor Fleming)
4.The Count of Monte Cristo (Rowland V. Lee)

1933

1.Employees' Entrance (Roy Del Ruth)
2.King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack)
3.Sons of the Desert (William A. Seiter)
4.Dirty Work (Lloyd French)
5.Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)

1932

1.Not Against the Flesh (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey
2.Freaks (Tod Browning)
3.Scarface (Howard Hawks)
4.Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
5.The Music Box (James Parrott)
6.Helpmates (James Parrott)

1931

1.City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
2.Frankenstein (James Whale)

1930

1.The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)
Der blaue Engel
2.All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)

1929

1.Pandora's Box (Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
Die Büchse der Pandora
2.Perfect Day (James Parrott)
3.Wrong Again (Leo McCarey)

3 Honorable Mentions: Diary of a Lost Girl (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen); Blackmail; An Andalusian Dog (Un chien andalou).

1928

1.The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
La passion de Jeanne d'Arc
2.The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton)
3.Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton)
4.Spies (Fritz Lang)
Spione
5.Ten Days That Shook the World (Sergei Eisenstein)
Oktyabr

4 Honorable Mentions: The Wind (1928/I); The Circus; The Wedding March; Braza Dormida.

1927

No great film.

7 Honorable Mentions: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans; The General; Napoleon (Napoléon); Metropolis; The Lodger; With Love and Hisses; Flying Elephants.

1926

1.Faust (F.W. Murnau)
2.Tartüff (F.W. Murnau)
Herr Tartüff
3.Mother (Vsevolod Pudovkin)
Mat

1925

1.The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)

4 Honorable Mentions: The Joyless Street (Die Freudlose Gasse); The Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin); Strike (Stachka); The Phantom of the Opera.

1924

1.Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
2.Siegfried (Fritz Lang)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

2 Honorable Mentions: The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann); Kriemhild's Revenge (Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache).

1923

No great film.

3 Honorable Mentions: The Ballonatic; Our Hospitality; A Woman of Paris.

1922

1.Cops (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton)

4 Honorable Mentions: Nanook of the North; Nosferatu the Vampire (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens); Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler) (I have seen the first part only); The Blacksmith.

1921

No great film.
5 Honorable Mentions: The Kid; The Idle Class; Between Two Worlds (Der Müde Tod); Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Flying House; Gertie on Tour [fragment].

1920

No great films.
2 Honorable Mentions: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari); The Mark of Zorro.

1919

1.Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith)

Honorable Mention: Sunnyside.

1918

I have seen no great film from this year. An honorable mention: The Sinking of the Lusitania.

1917

1917
1.The Adventurer (Charles Chaplin)
2.The Immigrant (Charles Chaplin)