List: Top 10 Films Of Every Year, By Year Of Production

I thought I’d keep something I could update on a semi-regular basis on here, showing my favourite films from each calendar year, separated by year of production (differing from my end-of-year lists, which favour UK release). I’m going back as far as 1940 for now, largely because the number of films per year that I’ve seen before that starts to rapidly diminish. That’s something I hope to rectify over time, and hopefully I’ll eventually update this page, stretching further into the past. It’s an idea I’ve stole wholesale from Vadim Rizov, whose intellectual integrity when writing about film is downright intimidating. Anyway, here’s where I am right now.

1940

1. Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen)
2. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
3. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage)
5. The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)
6. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
7. The Westerner (William Wyler)
8. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
9. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
10. My Favourite Wife (Garson Kanin)

1941

1. Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges)
2. All That Money Can Buy (William Dieterle)
3. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)
4. Hellzapoppin’ (H.C. Potter)
5. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
6. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
7. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
8. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
9. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
10. Meet John Doe (Frank Capra)

1942

1. Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper)
2. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
3. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
4. There Was A Father (Yasujiro Ozu)
5. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
6. Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle)
8. To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
9. Mrs Miniver (William Wyler)
10. You Were Never Lovelier (William A Seiter)

1943

1. The Ox-Bow Incident (William A Wellman)
2. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
4. I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
5. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
6. The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
7. Hangmen Also Die! (Fritz Lang)
8. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
9. Stormy Weather (Andrew L Stone)
10. Cabin in the Sky (Vincente Minnelli / Busby Berkeley)

1944

1. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
2. The Curse of the Cat People (Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch)
3. Christmas Holiday (Robert Siodmak)
4. Gaslight (George Cukor)
5. Laura (Otto Preminger)
6. A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
7. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
8. Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk)
9. The Uninvited (Lewis Allen)
10. The Lodger (John Brahm)

1945

1. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
2. I Know Where I’m Going! (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
3. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
4. Leave Her to Heaven (John M Stahl)
5. Detour (Edgar G Ulmer)
6. The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder)
7. Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
8. Anchors Aweigh (George Sidney)
9. Hangover Square (John Brahm)
10. My Name is Julia Ross (Joseph H Lewis)

1946

1. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett)
2. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
3. Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
4. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
5. Let There Be Light (John Huston)
6. The Strange Love of Martha Ives (Lewis Milestone)
7. The Dark Corner (Henry Hathaway)
8. The Dark Mirror (Robert Siodmak)
9. The Killers (Robert Siodmak)
10. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)

1947

1. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
2. The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles)
3. Dark Passage (Delmer Daves)
4. Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
5. Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu)
6. Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway)
7. Framed (Richard Wallace)
8. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
9. Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk)
10. Down to Earth (Alexander Hall)

1948

1. Yellow Sky (William A Wellman)
2. The Last Stage (Wanda Jakubowska)
3. A Hen in the Wind (Yasujiro Ozu)
4. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
5. Pitfall (Andre de Toth)
6. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
7. Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann)
8. Fort Apache (John Ford)
9. A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder)
10. Raw Deal (Anthony Mann)

1949

1. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
2. D.O.A. (Rudolph Maté)
3. The Heiress (William Wyler)
4. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
5. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
6. On the Town (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
7. Colorado Territory (Raoul Walsh)
8. Thirst (Ingmar Bergman)
9. Border Incident (Anthony Mann)
10. I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller)

1950

1. The Furies (Anthony Mann)
2. Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini)
3. Winchester ’73 (Anthony Mann)
4. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
5. Gun Crazy (Joseph H Lewis)
6. House by the River (Fritz Lang)
7. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
8. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
9. Woman on the Run (Norman Foster)
10. No Man of Her Own (Mitchell Leisen)

1951

1. Fixed Bayonets! (Samuel Fuller)
2. The Tales of Hoffman (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)
3. Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
4. Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
5. Rawhide (Henry Hathaway)
6. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
7. The Prowler (Joseph Losey)
8. Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson)
9. Awaara (Raj Kapoor)
10. The Day The Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)

1952

1. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)
2. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
3. The Flavour of Green Tea Over Rice (Yasujiro Ozu)
4. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
5. Bend of the River (Anthony Mann)
6. The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
7. The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
8. Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang)
9. Million Dollar Mermaid (Mervyn LeRoy)
10. Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (Douglas Sirk)

1953

1. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
2. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann)
3. Niagara (Henry Hathaway)
4. The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino)
5. Tokyo Story (Yasujro Ozu)
6. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
7. Calamity Jane (David Butler)
8. Glen or Glenda (Edward D. Wood, Jr.)
9. Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman)
10. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli)

1954

1. Godzilla (Ishirô Honda)
2. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
3. Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)
4. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. Crime Wave (Andre de Toth)
6. Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Jacques Becker)
7. La Strada (Federico Fellini)
8. Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. Carmen Jones (Otto Preminger)
10. Human Desire (Fritz Lang)

1955

1. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
2. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
3. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
4. Man Without a Star (King Vidor)
5. Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
6. Lola Montès (Max Ophüls)
7. The Big Combo (Joseph H Lewis)
8. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
9. House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller)
10. Rififi (Jules Dassin)

1956

1. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
2. Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli)
3. Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
4. Giant (George Stevens)
5. 7 Men from Now (Budd Boetticher)
6. Early Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
7. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
8. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
9. Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
10. The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)

1957

1. The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
2. The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
3. The Tall T (Budd Boetticher)
4. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
5. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
6. Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
7. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
8. Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)
9. Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu)
10. The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold)

1958

1. Equinox Flower (Yasujio Ozu)
2. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk)
3. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
4. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. King Creole (Michael Curtiz)
6. Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine)
7. The Music Room (Satyajit Ray)
8. The Big Country (William Wyler)
9. Shadows (John Cassevetes)
10. Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)

1959

1. Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
2. The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (Masaki Kobayashi)
3. Day of the Outlaw (André de Toth)
4. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Masaki Kobayashi)
5. The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller)
6. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
7. Apur Sansar (Satyajit Ray)
8. Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu)
9. The Wayward Girl (Edith Carlmar)
10. Last Train from Gun Hill (John Sturges)

1960

1. L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
3. Devi (Satyajit Ray)
4. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
5. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju)
7. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
8. Blood and Roses (Roger Vadim)
9. The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa)
10. Village of the Damned (Wolf Rilla)

1961

1. Mother Joan of the Angels (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
2. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
3. La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
4. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
5. Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
6. The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
7. Léon Morin, Priest (Jean-Pierre Melville)
8. The Misfits (John Huston)
9. The Children’s Hour (William Wyler)
10. A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson)

1962

1. Vivre Sa Vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
3. Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey)
4. L’Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5. Cape Fear (J Lee Thompson)
6. Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa)
7. Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)
8. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
9. Stark Fear (Ned Hockman)
10. Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah)

1963

1. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
2. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
3. The Demon (Brunello Rondi)
4. Judex (Georges Franju)
5. The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
6. The Whip and the Body (Mario Bava)
7. Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
8. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
9. Le Mepris (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Cleopatra (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian)

1964

1. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2. The Gospel According to Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
3. Onibaba (Kaneto Shindō)
4. The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller)
5. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
6. Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
7. The Pumpkin Eater (Jack Clayton)
8. I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov)
9. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
10. My Fair Lady (George Cukor)

1965

1. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer)
2. Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
3. Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda)
4. Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
5. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. A Story Written with Water (Yoshishige Yoshida)
7. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
8. The Nest of the Cuckoos Birds (Bert Williams)
9. Sandra (Luchino Visconti)
10. The Sons of Katie Elder (Henry Hathaway)

1966

1. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
2. Daisies (Vera Chytilová)
3. The Nun (Jacques Rivette)
4. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
5. Red Angel (Yasuzo Masumura)
6. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
7. Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène)
8. Come Drink with Me (King Hu)
9. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
10. Red Roses of Passion (Joseph W. Sarno)

1967

1. Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki)
2. La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks)
4. Viy (Georgi Keopachyov, Konstantin Yershov)
5. Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville)
6. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
7. Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands (Atsushi Yamatoya)
8. Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)
9. Spring Night, Summer Night (Joseph L. Anderson)
10. Accident (Joseph Losey)

1968

1. Theorem (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
2. Night of the Living Dead (George A Romero)
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
4. The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey)
5. Vibrations (Joseph W. Sarno)
6. Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski)
7. Mandabi (Ousmane Sembène)
8. Kuroneko (Kaneti Shindo)
9. High School (Frederick Wiseman)
10. The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher)

1969

1. L’Amour Fou (Jacques Rivette)
2. Blind Beast (Yasuzo Masumura)
3. Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto)
4. Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)
5. Eros + Massacre (Yoshishige Yoshida)
6. Fellini Satyricon (Federico Fellini)
7. Model Shop (Jacques Demy)
8. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
9. Sweet Charity (Bob Fosse)
10. The Cow (Dariush Mehrjui)

1970

1. The Vampire Lovers (Roy Ward Baker)
2. The Things of Life (Claude Sautet)
3. Catch-22 (Mike Nichols)
4. Wanda (Barbara Loden)
5. Ucho [The Ear] (Karel Kachyna)
6. Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (Yasuharu Hasebe)
7. Hospital (Frederick Wiseman)
8. Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh)
9. Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter (Yasuharu Hasebe)
10. Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)

1971

1. Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (John D. Hancock)
2. Klute (Alan J Pakula)
3. The Shiver of the Vampires (Jean Rollin)
4. A New Leaf (Elaine May)
5. Out 1 (Jacques Rivette)
6. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
7. Vanishing Point (Richard C Sarafian)
8. Bushman (David Schickele)
9. Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff)
10. Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

1972

1. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (Shunya Ito)
2. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
3. Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Sergio Martino)
4. Poem (Akio Jissoji)
5. What Have You Done to Solange? (Massimo Dallamano)
6. Morgiana (Juraj Herz)
7. The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Paul Newman)
8. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
9. Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (Shunya Ito)
10. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)

1973

1. Coffy (Jack Hill)
2. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (Shunya Ito)
3. Hotel Monterey (Chantal Akerman)
4. The Iron Rose (Jean Rollin)
5. Torso (Sergio Martino)
6. The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy)
7. The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Ivan Dixon)
8. Serpico (Sidney Lumet)
9. Belladonna of Sadness (Eiichi Yamamoto)
10. Ganja & Hess (Bill Gunn)

1974

1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
2. Messiah of Evil (Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck)
3. Je Tu Il Elle (Chantal Akerman)
4. Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
5. Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins)
6. Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis)
7. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (Werner Herzog)
8. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
9. The Swinging Cheerleaders (Jack Hill)
10. Identikit (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi)

1975

1. Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
2. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
3. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
4. Nashville (Robert Altman)
5. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
6. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
7. Lips of Blood (Jean Rollin)
8. Supervixens (Russ Meyer)
9. Shivers (David Cronenberg)
10. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)

1976

1. Duelle (une quarantine) (Jacques Rivette)
2. News from Home (Chantal Akerman)
3. Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4. Harlan County, U.S.A (Barbara Kopple)
5. Dark August (Martin G. Goldman)
6. The Witch Who Came from the Sea (Matt Cimber)
7. Black Emmanuelle, White Emmanuelle (Brunoello Rondi)
8. The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg)
9. Carrie (Brian de Palma)
10. All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula)

1977

1. 3 Women (Robert Altman)
2. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
3. Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
4. The Ascent (Larisa Sheptiko)
5. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
6. One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (Agnès Varda)
7. Rabid (David Cronenberg)
8. The Child (Robert Voskanian)
9. Gay USA (Arthur J Bressan Jr.)
10. Scalpel (John Grissmer)

1978

1. Halloween (John Carpenter)
2. Beauty and the Beast (Juraj Herz)
3. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
4. Girlfriends (Claudia Weill)
5. A Wedding (Robert Altman)
6. The Meetings of Anna (Chantal Akerman)
7. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Liu Chia-Laing)
8. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
9. Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
10. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)

1979

1. Alien (Ridley Scott)
2. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
3. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
4. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
5. Is This Fate? (Helge Reidemeister)
6. Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog)
7. Legend of the Mountain (King Hu)
8. The Muppet Movie (James Frawley)
9. Dirty Ho (Lau Kar-leung)
10. Van Nuys Blvd. (William Sachs)

1980

1. The Night of the Hunted (Jean Rollin)
2. The Fog (John Carpenter)
3. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
4. Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
5. Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper)
6. Nightmare City (Umberto Lenzi)
7. Clan of the White Lotus (Lo Lieh)
8. 9 to 5 (Colin Higgins)
9. Inferno (Dario Argento)
10. Bronco Billy (Clint Eastwood)

1981

1. Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)
2. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski)
3. Halloween II (Rick Rosenthal)
4. The Beyond (Lucio Fulci)
5. Kagero-Za (Seijun Suzuki)
6. The War of the Worlds: Next Century (Piotr Szulkin)
7. Friday the 13th Part 2 (Steve Miner)
8. Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
9. One from the Heart (Francis Ford Coppola)
10. Blind Spot (Claudia von Alemann)

1982

1. Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins)
2. The Thing (John Carpenter)
3. Toute une Nuit (Chantal Akerman)
4. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
5. Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
6. The Slayer (J.S. Cardone)
7. Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Tommy Lee Wallace)
8. Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Robert Altman)
9. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
10. Violence in a Women’s Prison (Bruno Mattei)

1983

1. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
2. Variety (Bette Gordon)
3. Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden)
4. Pauline at the Beach (Éric Rohmer)
5. The Hunger (Tony Scott)
6. Christine (John Carpenter)
7. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima)
8. L’Argent (Robert Bresson)
9. Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)
10. The Store (Frederick Wiseman)

1984

1. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
2. Blood Simple (Joel Coen)
3. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
4. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
5. The Terminator (James Cameron)
6. Streetwise (Martin Bell)
7. Body Double (Brian De Palma)
8. Special Effects (Larry Cohen)
9. Hotel New York (Jackie Raynal)
10. Silent Night, Deadly Night (Charles E. Sellier, Jr.)

1985

1. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)
2. Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
3. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
4. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader)
5. Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch)
6. A Zed & Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway)
7. Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
8. Pale Rider (Clint Eastwood)
9. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
10. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (Jack Sholder)

1986

1. Working Girls (Lizzie Borden)
2. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
3. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
4. Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax)
5. From Beyond (Stuart Gordon)
6. Golden Eighties (Chantal Akerman)
7. The Green Ray (Éric Rohmer)
8. Terrorizers (Edward Yang)
9. Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter)
10. Aliens (James Cameron)

1987

1. Where is the Friend’s House? (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. Daughter of the Nile (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
3. Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Éric Rohmer)
4. Cobra Verde (Werner Herzog)
5. Delirium: Photo of Gioia (Lamberto Bava)
6. Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth)
7. Robocop (Paul Verhoeven)
8. Rouge (Stanley Kwan)
9. Diary for my Loves (Márta Mészáros)
10. Family Viewing (Atom Egoyan)

1988

1. My Neighbour Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
2. The Vanishing (George Sluizer)
3. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
4. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (James Signorelli)
5. Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo)
6. Jane B. par Agnès V. (Agnès Varda)
7. As Tears Go By (Wong Kar Wai)
8. Door (Banmei Takahashi)
9. Alice (Jan Svankmajer)
10. Story of Women (Claude Chabrol)

1989

1. My Twentieth Century (Ildikó Enyedi)
2. sex, lies and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
3. Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee)
4. Tetsuo: the Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto)
5. American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy (Chantal Akerman)
6. Speaking Parts (Atom Egoyan)
7. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
8. Patlabor: The Movie (Mamoru Oshii)
9. For All Mankind (Al Reinert)
10. Kiki’s Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki)

1990

1. Twilight / Szürkület (György Fehér)
2. Miller’s Crossing (Joel Coen)
3. The Exorcist III (William Peter Blatty)
4. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
5. Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
6. Maniac Cop 2 (William Lustig)
7. White Hunter, Black Heart (Clint Eastwood)
8. Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston)
9. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante)
10. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai)

1991

1. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
2. Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott)
3. Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)
4. Boyz N The Hood (John Singleton)
5. Clearcut (Ryszard Bugajski)
6. Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch)
7. Yumeji (Seijun Suzuki)
8. The Stranger (Satyajit Ray)
9. Jacquot de Nantes (Agnès Varda)
10. One False Move (Carl Franklin)

1992

1. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
2. And Life Goes On (Abbas Kiarostami)
3. Orlando (Sally Potter)
4. Alien³ (David Fincher)
5. Candyman (Bernard Rose)
6. Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader)
7. The Living End (Gregg Araki)
8. Juice (Ernest Dickerson)
9. Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
10. Rebels of a Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang)

1993

1. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
2. Patlabor 2 (Mamoru Oshii)
3. Return of the Living Dead 3 (Brian Yuzna)
4. Three Colours: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
5. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
6. Menace II Society (Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes)
7. Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg)
8. Calendar (Atom Egoyan)
9. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara)
10. Poetic Justice (John Singleton)

1994

1. Vive L’Amour (Tsai Ming-liang)
2. Sátántangó (Béla Tarr)
3. Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
4. Amateur (Hal Hartley)
5. Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai)
6. The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel Coen)
7. Speed (Jan De Bont)
8. Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
9. The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott)
10. New Nightmare (Wes Craven)

1995

1. Maborosi (Hirokazu Kore-Eda)
2. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar Wai)
3. Tales from the Hood (Rusty Cundieff)
4. Tank Girl (Rachel Talalay)
5. The Addiction (Abel Ferrara)
6. Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii)
7. Safe (Todd Haynes)
8. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
9. Clockers (Spike Lee)
10. Welcome II The Terrordome (Ngozi Onwurah)

1996

1. Crash (David Cronenberg)
2. Bound (Lana Wachowski, Lily Wachowski)
3. Set it Off (F Gary Gray)
4. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
5. Fargo (Joel Coen)
6. Barb Wire (David Hogan)
7. Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
8. The Funeral (Abel Ferrara)
9. Nenette and Boni (Claire Denis)
10. The Delta (Ira Sachs)

1997

1. Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion (David Mirkin)
2. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
3. Lost Highway (David Lynch)
4. Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
5. Eve’s Bayou (Kasi Lemmons)
6. I Know What You Did Last Summer (Jim Gillespie)
7. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
8. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
9. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Clint Eastwood)
10. Nowhere (Gregg Araki)

1998

1. After Life (Hirokazu Kore-Eda)
2. Bride of Chucky (Ronny Yu)
3. The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
4. New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara)
5. The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf)
6. Wild Things (John McNaughton)
7. Ring (Hideo Nakata)
8. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen)
9. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
10. Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson)

1999

1. Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
2. eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
3. Audition (Takashi Miike)
4. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)
5. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
6. The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
7. The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez)
8. The Straight Story (David Lynch)
9. The Insider (Michael Mann)
10. But I’m a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit)

2000

1. Cecil B. Demented (John Waters)
2. Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky)
3. The Captive (Chantal Akerman)
4. Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett)
5. In The Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
6. Bamboozled (Spike Lee)
7. Shadow of the Vampire (E. Elias Merhige)
8. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
9. Disappearing Acts (Gina Prince-Bythewood)
10. Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)

2001

1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2. Josie and the Pussycats (Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont)
3. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
4. The Man Who Wasn’t There (Joel Coen)
5. Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)
6. What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
7. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
9. La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel)
10. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

2002

1. In My Skin (Marina de Van)
2. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4. Panic Room (David Fincher)
5. Vendredi soir (Claire Denis)
6. May (Lucky McKee)
7. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
8. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe)
9. Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
10. Ju-On: The Grudge (Takashi Shimizu)

2003

1. Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
2. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
3. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-Ho)
4. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
5. The Matrix Reloaded (Lana Wachowski, Lily Wachowski)
6. Gozu (Takashi Miike)
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
8. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)
9. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
10. Kill Bill vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)

2004

1. Box (Takashi Miike) [segment of the anthology film ‘Three… Extremes’]
2. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
3. 2046 (Wong Kar Wai)
4. Take Out (Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou)
5. Seed of Chucky (Don Mancini)
6. Innocence (Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
7. Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
8. A Dirty Shame (John Waters)
9. Saw (James Wan)
10. The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino)

2005

1. The Bloodettes (Jean-Pierre Bekolo)
2. House of Wax (Jaume Collet-Serra)
3. Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)
4. Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney)
5. War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg)
6. Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-Wook)
7. Munich (Steven Spielberg)
8. Caché [Hidden] (Michael Haneke)
9. The Quiet (Jamie Babbit)
10. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang)

2006

1. The Lighthouse (Maria Saakyan)
2. Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
3. Volver (Pedro Almodóvar)
4. Retribution (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
5. Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
6. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
7. A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater)
8. INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch)
9. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang)
10. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

2007

1. Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino)
2. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
4. Zodiac (David Fincher)
5. Hostel Part II (Eli Roth)
6. All is Forgiven (Mia Hansen-Love)
7. Go-Go Tales (Abel Ferrara)
8. Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
9. Water Lilies (Céline Sciamma)
10. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)

2008

1. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
2. Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
3. Home (Ursula Meier)
4. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
5. The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martell)
6. Martyrs (Pascal Laugier)
7. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
8. Revanche (Gotz Spielmann)
9. Hunger (Steve McQueen)
10. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)

2009

1. Katalin Varga (Peter Strickland)
2. The House of the Devil (Ti West)
3. A Serious Man (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
4. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
5. The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch)
6. The Happiest Girl in the World (Radu Jude)
7. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
8. Lourdes (Jessica Hausner)
9. The Father of my Children (Mia Hansen-Love)
10. Thirst (Park Chan-wook)

2010

1. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2. The Oath (Laura Poitras)
3. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
4. Resident Evil: Afterlife (Paul W.S. Anderson)
5. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)
6. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
7. El Sicario, Room 164 (Gianfranco Rosi)
8. Somewhere (Sofia Coppola)
9. Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
10. Piranha 3D (Alexandre Aja)

2011

1. The Woman (Lucky McKee)
2. House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello)
3. Showgirls 2: Penny’s From Heaven (Rena Riffel)
4. Scream 4 (Wes Craven)
5. You’re Next (Adam Wingard)
6. Goodbye, First Love (Mia Hansen-Love)
7. Pariah (Dee Rees)
8. Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
9. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
10. The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar)

2012

1. Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson)
2. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
3. Post Tenebras Lux (Carlos Reygadas)
4. Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel)
5. Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
6. American Mary (Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska)
7. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (John Hyams)
8. Excision (Richard Bates, Jr.)
9. Prometheus (Ridley Scott)
10. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, Anonymous)

2013

1. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
2. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. Bastards (Claire Denis)
4. Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
5. Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt)
6. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
7. Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn)
8. Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski)
9. The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola)
10. Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)

2014

1. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. Girlhood (Céline Sciamma)
3. It Follows (David Robert Mitchell)
4. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
5. Selma (Ava DuVernay)
6. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
7. Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
8. Heaven Knows What (Benny Safdie, Joshua Safdie)
9. The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)
10. Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)

2015

1. Carol (Todd Haynes)
2. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
3. Tangerine (Sean Baker)
4. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
5. Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs)
6. The Witch (Robert Eggers)
7. Mistress America (Noah Baumbach)
8. Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
9. Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhang-ke)
10. Taxi Tehran (Jafar Panahi)

2016

1. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
2. Jackie (Pablo Larraín)
3. Raw (Julia Ducournau)
4. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
5. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
6. Hail, Caesar! (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
7. Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
8. American Honey (Andrea Arnold)
9. Lovesong (So Yong Kim)
10. Loving (Jeff Nichols)

2017

1. Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott)
2. Get Out (Jordan Peele)
3. Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo)
5. Virus Tropical (Santiago Caicedo)
6. Happy Death Day (Christopher Landon)
7. On Body and Soul (Ildikó Enyedi)
8. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)
9. The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
10. John Wick Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski)

2018

1. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)
2. Long Day’s Journey into Night (Bi Gan)
3. Suspiria (Luca Guadagnino)
4. Annihilation (Alex Garland)
5. The Strangers: Prey at Night (Johannes Roberts)
6. In Fabric (Peter Strickland)
7. First Man (Damien Chazelle)
8. Burning (Lee Chang-dong)
9. Holiday (Isabella Eklof)
10. Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)

2019

1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
2. Homecoming – A Film by Beyoncé (Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Ed Burke)
3. Us (Jordan Peele)
4. The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg)
5. The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
6. A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick)
7. Swallow (Carlos Mirabella-Davis)
8. An Easy Girl (Rebecca Zlotowski)
9. Ema (Pablo Larraín)
10. The Farewell (Lulu Wang)

2020

1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman)
2. Malmkrog (Cristi Puiu)
3. Zola (Janicza Bravo)
4. Purple Sea (Amel Alzakout, Khaled Abdulwahed)
5. Relic (Natalie Erika James)
6. Lovers Rock (Steve McQueen)
7. Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
8. Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi)
9. I’m thinking of ending things (Charlie Kaufman)
10. Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman)

2021

1. The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski)
2. Malignant (James Wan)
3. Happening (Audrey Diwan)
4. Great Freedom (Sebastian Meise)
5. Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)
6. Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
7. Titane (Julia Ducournau)
8. Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
9. Censor (Prano Bailey-Bond)
10. Azor (Andreas Fontana)

2022

1. One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Love)
2. Pacifiction (Albert Serra)
3. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)
4. Both Sides of the Blade (Claire Denis)
5. Nope (Jordan Peele)
6. Flux Gourmet (Peter Strickland)
7. R.M.N. (Cristian Mungiu)
8. Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg)
9. The People’s Joker (Vera Drew)
10. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)

2023

1. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)
2. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
3. Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
4. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)
5. Priscilla (Sofia Coppola)
6. May December (Todd Haynes)
7. Earth Mama (Savanah Leaf)
8. Ferrari (Michael Mann)
9. Hoard (Luna Carmoon)
10. All Dirt Roads Taste Like Salt (Raven Jackson)

2024

1. I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun)
2. Furiosa – A Mad Max Saga (George Miller)
3. The First Omen (Arkasha Stevenson)
4. April (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
5. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
6. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)
7. Grand Theft Hamlet (Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls)
8. No Other Land (Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra)
9. Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos)
10. Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood)

2025

1. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)
3. No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)
4. Hamnet (Chloé Zhao)
5. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
6. It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
7. Eddington (Ari Aster)
8. The Ice Tower (Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
9. Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay)
10. Sinners (Ryan Coogler)