All-Time

(chronicle order)

1910s
Les vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915, France)

1920s
Häxan (Benjamin Christensen, 1922, Sweden | Denmark)
Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1923, USA)
Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924, USA)
Battleship Potemkin (Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925, Soviet Union)
A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926, Japan)
Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1926, France)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau, 1927, USA)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927, Germany)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928, France)
The Man with the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929, Soviet Union)
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929, France) [x]

1930s
L'Age d'Or (Luis Buñuel, 1930, France)
Limite (Mario Peixoto, 1931, Brazil)
City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931, USA)
M (Fritz Lamg, 1931, Germany)
Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932, Germany | France)
I Was Born, But... (Yasujirô Ozu, 1932, Japan)
King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933, USA)
L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934, France)
Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935, USA)
The Only Son (Yasujirô Ozu, 1936, Japan)
Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936, USA)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Multiple Directors, 1937, USA)
The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937, France)
The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939, USA)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939, France)

1940s
Fantasia (Various Directors, 1940, USA)
Citizen Kane (Orson welles, 1941, USA)
Hellzapoppin' (H.C. Potter, 1941, USA)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942, USA)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, 1943, USA)
At Land (Maya Deren, 1944, USA) 
It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946, USA)
Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946, France)
The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947, USA)
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948, Italy)
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948, USA)
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1948, UK)
Late Spring (Yasujirô Ozu, 1949, Japan)

1950s
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950, USA)
Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, 1950, France)
The Young and the Damned (Luis Buñuel, 1950, Mexico)
The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa, 1951, Japan)
Singin' In The Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1952, USA)
The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952, Japan)
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica, 1952, Italy)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (Roy Rowland, 1953, USA)
Tokyo Story (Yasujirô Ozu, 1953, Japan)
The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953, France | Italy)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954, USA)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954, Japan)
La strada (Federico Fellini, 1954, Italy)
Godzilla (Ishirō Honda, 1954, Japan)
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954, Japan)
Twenty-Four Eyes (Keisuke Kinoshitam, 1954, Japan)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955, USA)
Death of a Cyclist (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955, Spain | Italy)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955, India)
Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955, Japan)
Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955, France)
Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955, Denmark)
Forever a Woman (Kinuyo Tanaka, 1955, Japan)
Marty (Delbert Mann, 1955, USA)
The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, 1956, France)
Aparajito (Satyajit Ray, 1956, India)
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956, France)
The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa, 1956, Japan)
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956, USA)
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957, Italy | France)
12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957, USA)
The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957, Soviet Union)
The Sun Legend Of The End Of The Tokugawa Era (Yûzô Kawashima, 1957, Japan)
Hell Hotel [Rong Ram Narok] (Ratana Pestonji, 1957, Thailand)
Tokyo Twilight (Yasujirô Ozu, 1957, Japan)
Pyaasa (Guru Dutt, 1957, India)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1957, USA)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957, USA)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, USA)
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, 1958, France)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958, USA)
Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958, Egypt)
The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958, India)
Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati, 1958, France)
Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958, Poland)
Giants and Toys (Yasuzô Masumura, 1958, Japan)
Floating Weeds (Yasujirô Ozu, 1959, Japan)
Good Morning (Yasujirô Ozu, 1959, Japan)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959, France)
The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray, 1959, India)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959, USA)
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959, USA)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959, Japan)
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959, Japan)
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959, USA)
Kaagaz Ke Phool [aka. Paper Flowers] (Guru Dutt, 1959, India)

1960s
Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1960, Soviet Union)
The Warped Ones (Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1960, Japan)
L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960, Italy | France)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960, USA)
Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960, Italy | France)
The Naked Island (Kaneto Shindô, 1960, Japan)
La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960, Italy | France)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960, USA)
Le Trou (Jacques Becker, 1960, France | Italy)
Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960, France)
Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960, France | Italy)
The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak, 1960, India)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (Masaki Kobayashi, 1961, Japan)
Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961, Spain | Mexico)
Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961, Italy)
Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961, France | Italy)
A Wife Confesses (Yasuzô Masumura, 1961, Japan)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961, France)
La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961, Italy | France)
L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962, Italy | France)
La Jetee (Chris Marker, 1962, France)
Il Sorpasso (Dino Risi, 1962, Italy)
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962, Mexico)
Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962, USA)
Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962, Italy)
The Trial (Orson Welles, 1962, France | Italy | West Germany)
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujirô Ozu, 1962, Japan)
Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara,1962)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962, France)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962, UK)
The Fire Within (Louis Malle, 1963, France)
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (Stanley Kramer, 1963, USA)
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963, Japan)
Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy, 1963, France | Monaco)
The Sun in a Net (Stefan Uher, 1963, Czechoslovakia)
The Big City (Satyajit Ray, 1963, India)
8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963, Italy | France)
The Executioner (Luis García Berlanga, 1963, Spain | Italy)
The Fiancés (Ermanno Olmi, 1963, Italy)
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963, Italy | France)
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964, Japan)
When the Cat Comes (Vojtech Jasný, 1963, Czechoslovakia)
I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964, Cuba | Soviet Union)
Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964, Denmark)
A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester, 1964, UK)
Yearning (Mikio Naruse, 1964, Japan)
Bande à part (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964, France)
Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda, 1964, Japan)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to... (Stanley Kubrick, 1964, USA | UK)
Three Outlaw Samurai (Hideo Gosha, 1964, Japan)
Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964, India)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez, 1965, USA)
Sword of the Beast (Hideo Gosha, 1965, Japan)
Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio, 1965, Italy)
Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965, UK)
Time to Love (Metin Erksan, 1965, Turkey)
A Fugitive From The Past  (Tomu Uchida, 1965, Japan)
Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966, France)
Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966, UK | Italy | USA)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966, USA)
Woman of the Lake (Yoshishige Yoshida, 1966, Japan)
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966, Soviet Union)
Death of a Bureaucrat (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1966, Cuba)
Daisies (Vera Chytilová, 1966, Czechoslovakia)
Wings (Larisa Shepitko, 1966, Soviet Union)
The Creatures (Agnès Varda, 1966, France)
The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966, Japan)
The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966, Japan)
Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel, 1966, Czechoslovakia)
Thirst For Love (Koreyoshi Kurahara, 1966, Japan)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966, Sweden)
Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, 1966, Japan)
The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó, 1966, Hungary)
Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967, France)
Branded To Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967, Japan)
Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi, 1967, Japan)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967, France)
A Colt Is My Passport (Takashi Nomura, 1967, Japan)
In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks, 1967, USA)
Dragon Inn (King Hu, 1967, Taiwan)
Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967, France)
Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1967, Japan)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968, USA | UK)
Salesman (Albert & David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, 1968, USA)
Targets (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968, USA)
The Swimmer (Frank Perry, 1968, USA)
Kill! (Kihachi Okamoto, 1968, Japan)
Peppermint Frappé (Carlos Saura, 1967, Spain)
Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1968, Cuba)
Je t'aime, je t'aime (Alain Resnais, 1968, France)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (William Greaves, 1968, USA)
Head (Bob Rafelson, 1968, USA)
Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968, USA)
The Girl (Márta Mészáros, 1968, Hungary)
Blind Beast (Yasuzô Masumura, 1969, Japan)
My Night at Maud's (Éric Rohmer, 1969, France)
The Cremator (Juraj Herz, 1969, Czechoslovakia)
The Night of Counting the Years (Shadi Abdel Salam, 1969, Egypt)
Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969, France | Italy)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969, USA)
Kes (Ken Loach, 1969, UK)
The Cow (Dariush Mehrjui, 1969, Iran)
Boy (Nagisa Ôshima, 1969, Japan)
Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969, France | Algeria)

1970s
El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1970, Mexico)
Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970, UK | West Germany)
Pratidwandi [aka. The Adversary] (Satyajit Ray, 1970, India)
This Transient Life (Akio Jissôji, 1970, Japan)
Claire's Knee (Éric Rohmer, 1970, France)
The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle, 1970, USA)
The Ear (Karel Kachyna, 1970/1990, Czechoslovakia)
The Third Part of the Night (Andrzej Zulawski, 1971, Poland)
The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971, UK)
Little Murders (Alan Arkin, 1971, USA)
Seemabaddha [aka. Company Limited] (Satyajit Ray, 1971, India)
The Panic in Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg, 1971, USA)
Demons (Toshio Matsumoto, 1971, Japan)
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971, USA)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971, UK | USA)
Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971, Australia | USA | UK)
The Emigrants (Jan Troell, 1971, Sweden)
The New Land (Jan Troell, 1972, Sweden)
Snoopy Come Home (Bill Melendez, 1972, USA)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972, USA)
State of Siege (Costa-Gavras, 1972, France | Italy | West Germany)
Diabel [aka. The Devil] (Andrzej Zulawski, 1972, Poland)
Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972, West Germany)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel, 1972, France)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (Kinji Fukasaku, 1973-1974, Japan)
The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973, Mexico | USA)
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973, USA)
Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973, Senegal)
The Hourglass Sanatorium (Wojciech Has, 1973, Poland)
The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel, 1974, France | Italy)
Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (Leonid Gaidai, 1973, Soviet Union)
World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973, West Germany)
A Simple Event (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1973, Iran)
Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita, 1973, Japan)
A Simple Event (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1973, Iran)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974, USA)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974, USA)
Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974, Sweden | Norway)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, USA)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974, France)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent, 1974, USA)
Final Episode (Kinji Fukasaku, 1974, Japan)
The Man Who Sleeps (Georges Perec, Bernard Queysanne, 1974, France | Tunisia)
The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, USA)
We All Loved Each Other So Much (Ettore Scola, 1974, Italy)
Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, 1974, West Germany)
The Mouth Agape (Maurice Pialat, 1974, France)
Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (Yukio Noda, 1974, Japan)
Cops vs Thugs (Kinji Fukasaku, 1975, Japan)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975, UK | USA)
Adoption (Márta Mészáros, 1975, Hungary)
Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975, Soviet Union)
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975, Italy | France)
Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmüller, 1975, Italy)
Jana Aranya [aka. The Middleman] (Satyajit Ray, 1975, India)
The Travelling Players (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1975, Greece)
Sholay (Ramesh Sippy, 1975, India)
Manila in the Claws of Light (Lino Brocka, 1975, Philippines)
Rocky (John G. Avildsen, 1976, USA)
Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, 1976, USA)
The Wishing Tree (Tengiz Abuladze, 1976, Soviet Union)
Insiang (Lino Brocka, 1976, Philippines)
Duelle (Jacques Rivette, 1976, France)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (Chantal Akerman, 1975, Belgium | France)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976, USA)
Master of the Flying Guillotine (Jimmy Wang Yu, 1976, Taiwan | Hong Kong)
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Bruno Barreto, 1976, Brazil)
Executioners from Shaolin (Liu Chia-Liang, 1977, Hong Kong)
An Average Little Man (Mario Monicelli, 1977, Italy)
Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977, USA)
Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977, USA)
Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977, West Germany)
One Sings The Other Doesn't (Agnès Varda, 1977, France)
Peppermint Soda (Diane Kurys, 1977, France)
The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko,1977, Soviet Union)
That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel, 1977, France | Spain)
A Special Day (Ettore Scola, 1977, Italy | Canada)
3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977, USA)
House (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, 1977, Japan)
An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky, 1978, USA)
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Liu Chia-Liang, 1978, Hong Kong)
Days Of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978, USA)
Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1978, USA | Italy)
The Silent Partner (Daryl Duke, 1978, Canada)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi, 1978, Italy)
Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, 1978, West Germany | UK)
Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979, USA)
Scum (Alan Clarke, 1979, UK)
Rock 'n' Roll High School (Allan Arkush, 1979, USA)
Serie Noire (Alain Corneau, 1979, France)
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979, Soviet Union)
Hardcore (Paul Schrader, 1979, USA)
Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (Grigori Kromanov, 1979, Soviet Union | Estonia)

1980s
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980, USA)
Ordinary People (Robert Redford, 1980, USA)
Who's Singin' Over There? (Slobodan Sijan, 1980, Yugoslavia)
Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (Tsui Hark, 1980, Hong Kong)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980, West Germany | Italy)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980, UK | USA)
Popeye (Robert Altman, 1980, USA)
My American Uncle (Alain Resnais, 1980, France)
Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981, France | West Germany)
My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle, 1981, USA)
My Bloody Valentine (George Mihalka, 1981, Canada)
Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981, USA)
Polyester (John Waters, 1981, USA)
The Aviator's Wife (Éric Rohmer, 1981, France)
Roar (Noel Marshall, 1981, USA)
Time for Revenge (Adolfo Aristarain, 1981, Argentina)
Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982, USA)
Chan Is Missing (Wayne Wang, 1982, USA)
The Entity (Sidney J. Furie, 1982, USA)
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982, Sweden | France | West Germany)
Class of 1984 (Mark L. Lester, 1982, USA)
The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982, USA)
The Marathon Family (Slobodan Sijan, 1982, Yugoslavia)
Yol (Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney, 1982, Turkey | Switzerland)
A Question of Silence (Marleen Gorris, 1982, Netherlands)
The Fan (Eckhart Schmidt, 1982, West Germany)
Nomad (Patrick Tam, 1982, Hong Kong)
Scarface (Brian De Palma, 1983, USA)
Three Crowns of the Sailor (Raúl Ruiz, 1983, France)
El Sur (Víctor Erice, 1983, Spain | France)
Duel to the Death (Ching Siu-Tung, 1983, Hong Kong)
The Family Game (Yoshimitsu Morita, 1983, Japan)
Angst (Gerald Kargl, 1983, Austria)
Pauline At The Beach (Eric Rohmer, 1983, France)
Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (Eldar Shengelaia, 1983, Soviet Union)
The 4th Man (Paul Verhoeven, 1983, Netherlands)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983, Canada)
Utopia (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1983, West Germany)
The Boxer’s Omen (Kuei Chih-Hung, 1983, Hong Kong)
À Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983, France)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984, West Germany-France)
Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984, USA)
The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984, UK | USA)
Manuel on the Island of Wonders (Raúl Ruiz, 1984, Portugal | France)
Streetwise (Martin Bell, 1984, USA)
Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984, USA)
Mermaid Legend (Toshiharu Ikeda, 1984, Japan)
Strangler vs. Strangler (Slobodan Sijan, 1984, Yugoslavia)
Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984, USA)
The Crazy Family (Sogo Ishii, 1984, Japan)
Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige, 1984, China)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985, USA | Japan)
Back to the Future Trilogy (Robert Zemeckis, 1985, 1989, 1990, USA)
Vagabond (Agnès Varda, 1985, France)
Tampopo (Jûzô Itami, 1985, Japan)
Taipei Story (Edward Yang, 1985, Taiwan)
After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985, USA)
Butterfly and Flowers (Euthana Mukdasanit, 1985, Thailand)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985, UK | USA)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986, USA)
Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1986, USA)
Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986, Taiwan)
Something Wild (Jonathan Demme, 1986, USA)
River's Edge (Tim Hunter, 1986, USA)
Aliens (James Cameron, 1986, USA | UK)
Down By Law (Jim Jarmusch, 1986, USA | West Germany)
A Better Tomorrow (John Woo, 1986, Hong Kong)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton, 1986, USA)
Friday the 13th part VI: Jason Lives (Tom McLoughlin, 1986, USA)
Kin-dza-dza! (Georgiy Daneliya, 1986, Soviet Union)
Chopping Mall (Jim Wynorski, 1986, USA)
His Motorbike, Her Island (Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, 1986, Japan)
Demons (Lamberto Bava, 1986, Italy)
The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986, France)
Anguish (Bigas Luna, 1987, Spain)
Rouge (Stanley Kwan, 1987, Hong Kong)
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Éric Rohmer, 1987, France)
RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987, USA)
Babette's Feast (Gabriel Axel, 1987, Denmark)
Road (Alan Clarke, 1987, UK)
Prison on Fire (Ringo Lam, 1987, Hong Kong)
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (Bruce Pittman, 1987, Canada)
Miami Connection (Richard Park, Y.K. Kim, 1987, USA)
Anantaram [aka. Monologue] (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 1987, India)
Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1987, Taiwan)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988, USA)
Drowning by Numbers (Peter Greenaway, 1988, UK | Netherlands)
Spoorloos (George Sluizer, 1988, Netherlands | France)
Akira (Katsuhiro Ohtomo, 1988, Japan)
School on Fire (Ringo Lam, 1988, Hong Kong)
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (Bruce Robinson, 1988, UK)
They Live (John Carpenter, 1988, USA)
Landscape in the Mist (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1988, Greece | France | Italy)
Evil Dead Trap (Toshiharu Ikeda, 1988, Japan)
Sound and Fury (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1988, France)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodóvar, 1988, Spain)
Damnation (Béla Tarr, 1988, Hungary)
Door (Banmei Takahashi, 1988, Japan)
Tetsuo, the Iron Man (Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 1989, Japan)
Recollections of the Yellow House (João César Monteiro, 1989, Portugal)
The Meeting Place (Goran Markovic, 1989, Yugoslavia)
Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano, 1989, Japan)
Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989, Japan)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989, USA)
In the Line of Duty IV (Yuen Woo-Ping, 1989, Hong Kong)
Visitor of a Museum (Konstantin Lopushanskiy, 1989, Soviet Union | West Germany | Switzerland)
Deadly Games [aka. 36.15 code Père Noël] (René Manzor, 1989, France)
Interrogation (Ryszard Bugajski, 1982/1989, Poland)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (Peter Greenaway, 1989, Netherlands | UK | France)
Pedicab Driver (Sammo Hung, 1989, Hong Kong)
Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1989, Mexico | Italy)
The Asthenic Syndrome (Kira Muratova, 1989, Soviet Union)

1990s
Maniac Cop 2 (William Lustig, 1990, USA)
To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett, 1990, USA)
Life Is Sweet (Mike Leigh, 1990, UK)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990, USA)
Revenge (Yermek Shinarbayev, 1990, Soviet Union)
Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1990, USA)
A Moment of Romance (Benny Chan, 1990, Hong Kong)
The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismäki, 1990, Finland | Sweden)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante, 1990, USA)
King of New York (Abel Ferrara, 1990, Italy | USA)
La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991, France)
Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat, 1991, France)
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (Philippe Garrel, 1991, France)
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (Lam Nai-choi, 1991, Hong Kong)
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991, Taiwan)
Children of Nature (Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, 1991, Iceland | Norway | Germany)
Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah (Kazuki Ohmori, 1991, Japan)
Raise The Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991, Hong Kong | China)
The Lovers On The Bridge (Leos Carax, 1991, France)
Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders, 1991, Germany | France | Australia | USA)
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991, USA)
Aladdin (Ron Clements, John Musker, 1992, USA)
Hard Boiled (John Woo, 1992, Hong Kong)
Man Bites Dog (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde, 1992, Belgium)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992, USA | France)
Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang, 1992, Taiwan)
Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki, 1992, Japan)
Full Contact (Ringo Lam, 1992, Hong Kong | Thailand)
Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, 1993, Japan)
Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993, France | Poland | Switzerland)
Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993, USA)
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993, UK)
Iron Monkey (Yuen Woo-Ping, 1993, Hong Kong)
Travolta et moi (Patricia Mazuy, 1993, France)
The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran Anh Hung, 1993, Vietnam | France)
The Most Terrible Time in My Life (Kaizô Hayashi, 1993, Japan)
Moving (Shinji Sômai, 1993, Japan)
Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee, 1994, Taiwan | USA)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994, Hong Kong)
Torment [aka. L'enfer] (Claude Chabrol, 1994, France)
In the Heat of the Sun (Jiang Wen, 1994, China | Hong Kong)
Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994, Taiwan)
The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli, 1994, Tunisia | France)
Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994, France | Switzerland | Poland)
Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994, France | Switzerland | Poland)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994, USA)
Angel Dust (Sogo Ishii, 1994, Japan)
Casa de Lava [aka. Down to Earth] (Pedro Costa, 1994, Portugal | France | Germany)
I Can't Sleep (Claire Denis, 1994, France | Germany | Switzerland)
Satantango (Béla Tarr, 1994, Hungary | Germany | Switzerland)
Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels (Chantal Akerman, 1994, France)
La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995, France | Germany)
Maborosi (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1995, Japan)
Heat (Michael Mann, 1995, USA)
Underground (Emir Kusturica, 1995, Yugoslavia | France | Germany | Bulgaria | Czech...)
Die Hard with a Vengeance (John McTiernan, 1995, USA)
God's Comedy (João César Monteiro, 1995, Portugal | France | Italy | Denmark)
Gummo (Harmony Korine, 1995, USA)
Up, Down, Fragile (Jacques Rivette, 1995, France | Switzerland)
La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995, France)
Cyclo (Tran Anh Hung, 1995, Vietnam | France | Hong Kong)
Tokyo Fist (Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 1995, Japan)
Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan, 1996, Hong Kong)
A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer, 1996, France)
Thesis (Alejandro Amenábar, 1996, Spain)
Mahjong (Edward Yang, 1996, Taiwan)
Fargo (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, 1996, USA | UK)
Conspirators of Pleasure (Jan Svankmajer, 1996, Czech Republic | Switzerland | UK)
Kids Return (Takeshi Kitano, 1996, Japan)
Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996, UK | Canada)
The God Of Cookery (Stephen Chow, Li Lik-Chi, 1996, Hong Kong)
Independence Day (Roland Emmerich, 1996, USA)
The Rock (Michael Bay, 1996, USA) 
Scream (Wes Carven, 1996, USA)
Scream 2 (Wes Carven, 1997, USA)
Masumiyet [aka. Innocence] (Zeki Demirkubuz, 1997, Turkey)
Postman Blues (Sabu, 1997, Japan)
Ossos (Pedro Costa, 1997, Portugal | France | Denmark)
Face/Off (John Woo, 1997, USA)
Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997, USA)
Cube (Vincenzo Natali, 1997, Canada)
Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano, 1997, Japan)
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997, Iran | France)
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997, Japan)
The Mirror (Jafar Panahi, 1997, Iran)
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997, Japan)
Labyrinth of Dreams (Gakuryû Ishii, 1997, Japan)
Suzaku (Naomi Kawase, 1997, Japan)
Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux, 1998, France)
Happiness (Todd Solondz, 1998, USA)
After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998, Japan)
Love & Pop (Hideaki Anno, 1998, Japan)
The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998, Denmark | Sweden)
Khrustalyov, My Car! (Aleksey German, 1998, Russia | France)
The Bird People in China (Takashi Miike, 1998, Japan)
Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica, 1998, France | Germany | Yugoslavia | Austria | Greece)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998, USA)
Pi (Darren Aronofsky, 1998, USA)
Eternity and a Day (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1998, France | Italy | Greece | Germany)
Rosetta (Dardenne Brothers, 1999, France | Belgium)
American Movie (Chris Smith, 1999, USA)
Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999, Japan)
King of Comedy (Stephen Chow, Lee Lik-Chi, 1999, Hong Kong)
The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers, 1999, USA)
Election (Alexander Payne, 1999, USA)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999, UK | USA)
Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay, 1999, UK | France)
Humanity (Bruno Dumont, 1999, France)
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999, USA)
Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong, 1999, South Korea | Japan)
Sicily! (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, 1999, Italy | France | Germany) 
The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, 1999, Iran | France)

2000s
The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda, 2000, France)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000, Hong Kong | China)
In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa, 2000, Portugal | Germany | Switzerland)
Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2000, Thailand | Netherlands)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky, 2000, Hungary | Italy | Germany | France)
Platform (Jia Zhangke, 2000, China | Hong Kong | Japan | France)
Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000, Japan)
Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen, 2000, China)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000, Taiwan | Japan)
Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, 2000, Sweden | Norway | Denmark)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000, Taiwan | Hong Kong | USA | China) 
Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, 2000, France | Austria | Romania | Germany)
Eureka (Shinji Aoyama, 2000, Japan)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001, Japan)
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001, France | Italy)
La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001, Argentina | France | Spain | Japan)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001, France | USA)
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2001, Taiwan | France)
Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow, 2001, Hong Kong | China)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takeshi Miike, 2001, Japan)
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001, USA)
What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang, 2001, Taiwan)
Kairo (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001, Japan)
Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002, USA)
Demonlover (Olivier Assayas, 2002, France | Mexico)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002, USA)
The Son (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 2002, Belgium | France)
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002, Turkey)
A New Life (Philippe Grandrieux, 2002, France | Bulgaria)
All or Nothing (Mike Leigh, 2002, UK | France)
Lilya 4-Ever (Lukas Moodysson, 2002, Sweden | Denmark)
The Century of the Self (Adam Curtis, 2002, UK)
The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki, 2002, Finland | Germany | France)
Springtime in a Small Town (2002, Tian Zhuangzhuang, China | HK | France | Netherlands)
Hukkle (György Pálfi, 2002, Hungary)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003, USA)
Evil (Mikael Håfström, 2003, Sweden | Denmark)
Kitchen Stories (Bent Hamer, 2003, Norway | Sweden)
School of Rock (Richard Linklater, 2003, USA)
Noi the Albino (Dagur Kári, 2003, Iceland | Germany | UK | Denmark)
The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003, Italy)
Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch, 2003, USA)
Swimming Pool (François Ozon, 2003, France | UK)
The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003, France | UK | Italy)
The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2003, Russia)
Shara (Naomi Kawase, 2003, Japan)
Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, 2003, South Korea)
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi, 2003, Iran)
Kontroll (Nimrod Antal, 2003, Hungary)
Infernal Affairs II (Andrew Lau Wai-Keung, Alan Mak, 2003, Hong Kong)
Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003, USA)
Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano, 2003, Japan)
21 Grams (Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2003, USA)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, 2003, South Korea)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003, Taiwan)
3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk, 2004, South Korea | Japan)
Duck Season (Fernando Eimbcke, 2004, Mexico | USA)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004, USA)
Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, 2004, USA)
The Intruder (Claire Denis, 2004, France)
The World (Jia Zhangke, 2004, China | Japan | France)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004, Thailand | France | Germany | Italy)
Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004, USA)
The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino, 2004, Italy)
Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, 2004, Hong Kong | China)
Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Ghobadi, 2004, Iran)
Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, 2004, USA)
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2004, Japan)
Born to Fight (Panna Rittikrai, 2004, Thailand)
The Weeping Meadow (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 2004, Greece | France | Italy |...)
Survive Style 5+ (Gen Sekiguchi, 2004, Japan)
Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005, USA)
Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005, France | Austria | Germany | Italy)
Pusher II (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2004, Denmark)
Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2005, Japan)
Pusher 3 (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2005, Denmark)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005, USA | UK | Canada | Germany)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005, Romania)
49 Up (Michael Apted, 2005, UK)
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig, 2005, USA)
12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2006, Romania)
Offside (Jafar Panahi, 2006, Iran)
The Boss of it all (Lars von Trier, 2006, Denmark)
United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006, USA | UK | France)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for... (Larry Charles, 2006, USA | UK)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006, Thailand | France | Austria)
Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006, USA)
Still Life (Jia Zhangke, 2006, Hong Kong | China)
Destiny (Zeki Demirkubuz, 2006, Turkey | Greece)
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, 2006, Portugal | France | Switzerland)
Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006, France | Poland | USA)
In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín, 2007, Spain | France)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007, Romania | Belgium)
Timecrimes (Nacho Vigalondo, 2007, Spain)
The Man from London (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky, 2007, Hungary | Germany | France | Italy)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007, Mexico | France | Netherlands | Germany)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007, USA)
Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007, USA)
Secret Sunshine (Lee Chang-dong, 2007, South Korea)
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007, UK | Canada | USA)
Control (Anton Corbijn, 2007, UK | USA | Australia | Japan | France)
Martyrs (Pascal Laugier, 2008, France | Canada)
35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis, 2008, France)
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone, 2008, Italy | Belgium)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008, USA)
Revanche (Götz Spielmann, 2008, Austria)
Love Exposure (Sion Sono, 2008, Japan)
Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008, Argentina | France | Italy | Spain)
Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2008, Japan)
Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki, 2008, Japan)
Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008, Japan)
Dogtooth (Giorgos Lanthimos, 2009, Greece)
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009. Austria | Germany | France | Italy)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009, Germany | USA)
Tales from the Golden Age (Cristian Mungiu & Co., 2009, Romania | France)
I Killed My Mother (Xavier Dolan, 2009, Canada)
About Elly (Asghar Farhadi, 2009, Iran | France)
Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé, 2009, France | Germany | Italy | Canada | Japan)