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January
(2+8/+4)

Bodies (Marco Kreuzpaintner, Haolu Wang, 2023, UK) [7]
Carol & The End of The World (Cr. Dan Guterman, 2023, USA) [8]
For All Mankind: Season 4 (Various Directors, 2023-24, USA) [8]
Fargo: Season 5 (Various Directors, 2024, USA) [8]
The Marvels (Nia DaCosta, 2023, USA) [4]
Thanksgiving (Eli Roth, 2023, USA | Canada | Australia) [8]
Door (Banmei Takahashi, 1988, Japan) [7]
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957, USA) [8]
After the Curfew (Usmar Ismail, 1954, Indonesia) [8½]
Kanal (Andrzej Wajda, 1957, Poland) [8]
Ninja in the Claw of the CIA (John Liu, 1983, Spain | Hong Kong) [7]
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri, 1970, Italy) [8]
Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1959, Poland) [8½]
Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey, 1976, France | Italy) [8]

February
(2+41)

Land and Freedom (Ken Loach, 1995, UK | Spain | Germany | Italy | France | USA) [7]
The Beekeeper (David Ayer, 2024, USA | UK) [7]
The Emigrants (Jan Troell, 1971, Sweden) [8½]
The New Land (Jan Troell, 1972, Sweden) [8½]
Who Saw Him Die? (Jan Troell, 1968, Sweden) [8]
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991, Taiwan) [10] ✵
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000, Japan) [8]
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957, USA) [8]
A Time to Live, a Time to Die (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1985, Taiwan) [8]
Cría Cuervos (Carlos Saura, 1976, Spain) [8]
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982, USA) [8] ✵
Hukkle (György Pálfi, 2002, Hungary) [8½] ✵
Death of a Bureaucrat (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1966, Cuba) [8]
Marty (Delbert Mann, 1955, USA) [8]
A Question of Silence (Marleen Gorris, 1982, Netherlands) [8]
Still Life (Jia Zhangke, 2006, Hong Kong | China) [8½] ✵
Aliens (James Cameron, 1986, USA | UK) [8] ✵
My Bloody Valentine (George Mihalka, 1981, Canada) [6] ✵
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974, France) [9] ✵
3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977, USA) [10] ✵
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997, Iran | France) [8] ✵
Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee, 1994, Taiwan | USA) [9] ✵
The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984, UK | USA) [7] ✵
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011, Iran) [10] ✵
Perfect Days (Wim Wenders, 2023, Japan | Germany) [8]
RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987, USA) [8] ✵
The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966, Japan) [8] ✵
Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson, 2002, Sweden | Denmark) [8½] ✵
The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011, Hungary | France | Germany | Switz...) [8] ✵
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2004, Japan) [8] ✵
The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998, Denmark | Sweden) [8½] ✵
Inside Llewyn Davis (Ethan & Joel Coen, 2013, USA | France) [10] ✵
Thesis (Alejandro Amenábar, 1996, Spain) [7] ✵
The Family Game (Yoshimitsu Morita, 1983, Japan) [8½] ✵
Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux, 1998, France) [8] ✵
Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978, USA | Italy) [9] ✵
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) [10] ✵
Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999, France) [10] ✵
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015, Australia | USA) [9] ✵
Days Of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978, USA) [9] ✵
The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda, 2000, France) [9] ✵
The Bird People in China (Takashi Miike, 1998, Japan) [8] ✵
Chan Is Missing (Wayne Wang, 1982, USA) [8½] ✵

March
(1+53)

The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi, 1978, Italy) [9]
Goyokin (Hideo Gosha, 1969, Japan) [7]
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, 2006, Portugal | France | Switzerland) [8]
The Fiancés (Ermanno Olmi, 1963, Italy) [9]
Subarnarekha (Ritwik Ghatak, 1965, India) [8]
The Wishing Tree (Tengiz Abuladze, 1976, Soviet Union) [8]
India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975, France) [6]
Love Massacre (Patrick Tam, 1981, Hong Kong) [7]
Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat, 1991, France) [9]
Hardcore (Paul Schrader, 1979, USA) [8]
Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson, 1951, France) [7]
A Moment of Romance (Benny Chan, 1990, Hong Kong) [8½]
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, 1994, Iran | France) [8]
Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi, 1967, Japan) [8]
Chocolat (Claire Denis, 1988, France | West Germany | Cameroon) [8½]
The Holy Girl (Lucrecia Martel, 2004, Argentina | Italy | Netherlands | Spain) [7]
Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige, 1984, China) [8½]
Yol (Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney, 1982, Turkey | Switzerland) [8]
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Éric Rohmer, 1987, France) [8]
Election (Alexander Payne, 1999, USA) [9] ✵
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson, 1971, France) [7]
Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1954, Japan) [8]
La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960, Italy | France) [8½]
Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa, 1965, Japan) [8]
Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige, 1992, China | Hong Kong) [8]
Rosetta (Dardenne Brothers, 1999, France | Belgium) [8½] ✵
Sound and Fury (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1988, France) [8]
Time to Love (Metin Erksan, 1965, Turkey) [8]
The Last Dive (João César Monteiro, 1992, Portugal | France) [6]
Morning Patrol (Nikos Nikolaidis, 1987, Greece) [7]
The Weeping Meadow (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 2004, Greece | France | Italy |...) [8]
Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, 2004, Hong Kong | China) [8] ✵
The Girl (Márta Mészáros, 1968, Hungary) [8]
Travolta et moi (Patricia Mazuy, 1993, France) [9]
Bullet Ballet (Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 1998, Japan) [7]
Dune (David Lynch, 1984, USA | Mexico) [7]
Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974, West Germany) [8]
The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer, 1986, France) [8½] ✵
Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve, 2024, USA | Canada | UAE | Hungary | Italy |...) [9]
An Average Little Man (Mario Monicelli, 1977, Italy) [8]
Dillinger Is Dead (Marco Ferreri, 1969, Italy) [8]
We All Loved Each Other So Much (Ettore Scola, 1974, Italy) [8]
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (Philippe Garrel, 1991, France) [8½]
Yoyo (Pierre Étaix, 1965, France) [7]
When the Cat Comes (Vojtech Jasný, 1963, Czechoslovakia) [8]
Peppermint Soda (Diane Kurys, 1977, France) [8½]
News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1976, Belgium | France | West Germany) [6]
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton, 1986, USA) [8½] ✵
Padre Padrone (Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, 1977, Italy) [8]
Love Letter (Kinuyo Tanaka, 1953, Japan) [8] 
Moving (Shinji Sômai, 1993, Japan) [9]
Mahjong (Edward Yang, 1996, Taiwan) [10]
Il Sorpasso (Dino Risi, 1962, Italy) [8½]
Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark, 1986, Hong Kong) [8]

April
(0+18)

A Bittersweet Life (Kim Jee-woon, 2005, South Korea) [8]
Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1960, Soviet Union) [8]
Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong, 1999, South Korea | Japan) [8½]
The Executioner (Luis García Berlanga, 1963, Spain | Italy) [8]
Nomad (Patrick Tam, 1982, Hong Kong) [9]
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963, Italy | France) [7]
My Little Loves (Jean Eustache, 1974, France) [7]
An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky, 1978, USA) [8]
Trial of the Road (Aleksei German, 1971/1986, Soviet Union) [7]
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone, 2008, Italy | Belgium) [8] ✵
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010, USA) [8]
Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan, 1996, Hong Kong) [8½]
Time for Revenge (Adolfo Aristarain, 1981, Argentina) [8]
Rabid Dogs (Mario Bava, 1974, Italy) [6]
The Man from Majorca (Bo Widerberg, 1984, Sweden | Denmark) [8]
Zerograd (Karen Shakhnazarov, 1988, Soviet Union) [7]
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent, 1974, USA) [8½]
Love & Anarchy (Lina Wertmüller, 1973, Italy | France) [8]

May
(x)

Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963, USA) [8]
Szerelem [aka. Love] (Károly Makk, 1971, Hungary) [8]
Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (Eldar Shengelaia, 1983, Soviet Union) [8]
Ajantrik (Ritwik Ghatak, 1958, India) [8]
Iron Monkey (Yuen Woo-Ping, 1993, Hong Kong) [8]
Ordinary People (Robert Redford, 1980, USA) [8½]
A Special Day (Ettore Scola, 1977, Italy | Canada) [8½]
The Creatures (Agnès Varda, 1966, France) [8]
After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985, USA) [9]
Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986, USA | West Germany) [x] ✵

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Going Places (Bertrand Blier, 1974, France) [x] 1.57

Time Stands Still (Péter Gothár, 1982, Hungary) [x] 1.39
Caro diario (Nanni Moretti, 1993, Italy | France) [x] 1.40

The Captive (Chantal Akerman, 2000, France | Belgium) [x] 1.58
The Second Mother (Anna Muylaert, 2015, Brazil) [x] 1.52

Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955, France) [x] 1.58
Downpour (Bahram Beyzaie, 1972, Iran) [x] 2.08
Sorcerer (William Friedkin, 1977, USA) [x] 2.01

California Split (Robert Altman, 1974, USA) [x] 1.48
Profound Desires of the Gods (Shôhei Imamura, 1968, Japan) [x] 2.53

Happy Hour (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2015, Japan) [x]

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