2023

• About Dry Grasses / Nuri Bilge Ceylan

• All of Us Strangers / Andrew Haigh

• Anatomy of a Fall / Justine Triet

• Asteroid City / Wes Anderson

• Barbie / Greta Gerwig

• La Chimera / Alice Rohwacher

• Fallen Leaves / Aki Kaurismäki

• Godzilla Minus One / Takashi Yakazaki

• in water / Hong Sangsoo

• Killers of the Flower Moon / Martin Scorsese

• Kokomo City / D. Smith

• May December / Todd Haynes

• Priscilla / Sofia Coppola

• R.M.N. / Cristian Mungiu

• The Zone of Interest / Jonathan Glazer

2022

• Aftersun / Charlotte Wells

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed / Laura Poitras

• Ambulance / Michael Bay

• Babylon / Damien Chazelle

• Il Buco / Michelangelo Frammartino

• The Eternal Daughter / Joanna Hogg

• Everything Everywhere All at Once / Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan

• The Fabelmans / Steven Spielberg

• In Front of Your Face / Hong Sangsoo

• No Bears / Jafar Panahi

• The Novelist's Film / Hong Sangsoo

• The Quiet Girl / Colm Bairéad

• Return to Seoul / Davy Chou

• Tár / Todd Field

• Three Minutes: A Lengthening / Bianca Stiger

2021

• Benedetta / Paul Verhoeven

• C'mon C'mon / Mike Mills

• Cry Macho / Clint Eastwood

• Days / Tsai Ming-Liang

• Drive My Car / Ryusuke Hamaguchi

• The French Dispatch / Wes Anderson

• Her Socialist Smile / Jean Gianvito

• Licorice Pizza / Paul Thomas Anderson

• Memoria / Apichatpong Weerasethakul

• Petite Maman / Céline Sciamma

• The Power of the Dog / Jane Campion

• This is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection / Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese

• Titane / Julia Ducournau

• What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? / Alexandre Koberidze

• The Worst Person in the World / Joachim Trier

2020

• Ammonite / Francis Lee

• City Hall / Frederick Wiseman

• Da 5 Bloods / Spike Lee

• Dick Johnson is Dead / Kirsten JohnsonThe Father / Florian Zeller

• First Cow / Kelly Reichhardt

• Free Time / Manfred Kirchheimer

• The Grand Bizarre / Jodie Mack

• I'm Thinking of Ending Things / Charlie Kaufman

• Lovers Rock / Steve McQueen

• Never Rarely Sometimes Always / Eliza Hittman

• Nomadland / Chloé Zhao

• Soul / Pete Docter

• To the Ends of the Earth / Kiyoshi Kurosawa

• Yourself and Yours / Hong Sangsoo

Decade (2010-2019)

1. The Tree of Life / Terrence Malick
2. The Turin Horse / Béla Tarr
3. Carol / Todd Haynes
4. The Other Side of the Wind / Orson Welles
5. The Immigrant / James Gray
6. Lourdes / Jessica Hausner
7. The Irishman / Martin Scorsese
8. Leviathan / Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel
9. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives / Apichatpong Weerasethakul
10. Call Me By Your Name / Luca Guadagnino
11. The Act of Killing / Joshua Oppenheimer
12. Poetry / Lee Chang-Dong
13. Le Quattro Volte / Michelangelo Frammartino
14. 12 Years a Slave / Steve McQueen
15. It's Such a Beautiful Day / Don Hertzfeldt
16. Phantom Thread / Paul Thomas Anderson
17. Margaret / Kenneth Lonergan
18. A Separation / Asghar Farhadi
19. Certified Copy / Abbas Kiarostami
20. Holy Motors / Leos Carax

2019

• Ad Astra / James Gray

• A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood / Marielle Heller

• Black Mother / Khalik Allah

• Climax / Gaspar Noë

• An Elephant Sitting Still / Hu Bo

• The Farewell / Lulu Wang

• Hotel by the River / Hong Sang-soo

• The Image Book / Jean-Luc Godard

• The Irishman / Martin Scorsese

• The Last Black Man in San Francisco / Joe Talbot

• Long Day's Journey into Night / Bi Gan

• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood / Quentin Tarantino

• Pain and Glory / Pedro Almodóvar

• Parasite / Bong Joon-ho

• The Two Popes / Fernando Meirelles 

2018

• 24 Frames / Abbas Kiarostami

• A Bread Factory / Patrick Wang

• Dead Souls / Wang Bing 

• Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? / Travis Wilkerson 

• El Mar La Mar / J.P. Sniadecki, Joshua Bonnetta 

• First Man / Damien Chazelle 

• Happy as Lazzaro / Alice Rohrwacher 

• If Beale Street Could Talk / Barry Jenkins 

• Let the Sunshine In / Claire Denis 

• The Other Side of the Wind / Orson Welles 

• PROTOTYPE / Blake Williams 

• The Rider / Chloé Zhao 

• Shoplifters / Hirokazu Kore-eda 

• Support the Girls / Andrew Bujalski 

• Zama / Lucretia Martel

2017

• 4 Days in France / Jérôme Reybaud

• Call Me By Your Name / Luca Guadagnino

• Dawson City: Frozen Time / Bill Morrison

• The Death of Louis XIV / Albert Serra

• Dunkirk / Christopher Nolan

• Faces Places / Agnès Varda, JR

• The Florida Project / Sean Baker

• God's Own Country / Francis Lee

• Good Time / Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie

• Nocturama / Bertrand Bonello

• On the Beach at Night Alone / Hong Sangsoo

• Personal Shopper / Olivier Assayas

• Phantom Thread / Paul Thomas Anderson

• The Post / Steven Spielberg

• A Quiet Passion / Terrence Davies

2016

• Cemetery of Splendor / Apichatpong Weerasethakul

• Elle / Paul Verhoeven

• Embrace of the Serpent / Ciro Guerra

• Jackie / Pablo Larrain

• Kubo and the Two Strings / Travis Knight

• La La Land / Damien Chazelle

• Manchester by the Sea / Kenneth Lonergan

• Moonlight / Barry Jenkins

• Nocturnal Animals / Tom Ford

• O.J. Made in America / Ezra Edelman

• Paterson / Jim Jarmusch

• Things to Come / Mia Hansen-Løve

• Toni Erdmann / Maren Ade

• The Witch / Robert Eggers

• Your Name / Makoto Shinkai

2015

• 45 Years / Andrew Haigh

• The Assassin / Hou Hsiao-Hsien

• Bridge of Spies / Steven Spielberg

• Carol / Todd Haynes

• Chi-Raq / Spike Lee

• Creed / Ryan Coogler

• Heart of a Dog / Laurie Anderson

• Horse Money / Pedro Costa

• Inside Out / Pete Docter

• The Look of Silence / Joshua Oppenheimer

• Mad Max: Fury Road / George Miller

• The Revenant / Alejandro González Iñárritu

• Taxi / Jafar Panahi

• The Tribe / Miroslav Slaboshpitskiy

• World of Tomorrow / Don Hertzfeldt

2014

• American Sniper / Clint Eastwood

• Boyhood / Richard Linklater

• Goodbye to Language / Jean-Luc Godard

• The Grand Budapest Hotel / Wes Anderson

• The Immigrant / James Gray

• The Last of the Unjust / Claude Lanzmann

• Mr. Turner / Mike Leigh

• Selma / Ava DuVernay

• Stranger by the Lake / Alain Guiraurdie

• Stray Dogs / Tsai Ming-Liang

• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya / Isao Takahata

• Two Days, One Night / Jean Pierre & Luc Dardenne

• Under the Skin / Jonathan Glazer

• The Way He Looks / Daniel Ribeiro

• Winter Sleep / Nuri Bilge Ceylan

2013

• 12 Years a Slave / Steve McQueen

• The Act of Killing / Joshua Oppenheimer

• At Berkeley / Frederick Wiseman

• Before Midnight / Richard Linklater

• Blue is the Warmest Color / Abdellatif Kechiche

• The Grandmaster / Wong Kar-Wai

• The Great Beauty / Paolo Sorrentino

• Her / Spike Jonze

• Leviathan / Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel

• Like Someone In Love / Abbas Kiarostami

• Museum Hours / Jem Cohen

• Spring Breakers / Harmony Korine

• To the Wonder / Terrence Malick

• Welcome to Pine Hill / Keith Miller

• The Wind Rises / Hayao Miyazaki

2012

• Amour / Michael Haneke

• Barbara / Christian Petzold

• Beyond the Black Rainbow / Panos Cosmatos

• The Deep Blue Sea / Terrence Davies

• Girl Walk//All Day / Jacob Krupnick

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey / Peter Jackson

• Holy Motors / Leos Carax

• It's Such a Beautiful Day / Don Hertzfeldt

• Lincoln / Steven Spielberg

• The Master / Paul Thomas Anderson

• Oslo, August 31st / Joachim Trier

• Tabu / Miguel Gomes

• This is Not a Film / Jafar Panahi

• The Turin Horse / Béla Tarr

• Zero Dark Thirty / Kathryn Bigelow

2011

• Armadillo / Janusz Metz

• Certified Copy / Abbas Kiarostami

• City of Life and Death / Lu Chuan

• Drive / Nicholas Winding Refn

• Hugo / Martin Scorsese

• In the Family / Patrick Wang

• Le Quattro Volte / Michelangelo Frammartino

• Margaret / Kenneth Lonergan

• Mysteries of Lisbon / Raul Ruiz

• Of Gods and Men / Xavier Beauvois

• Poetry / Lee Chang-dong

• A Separation / Asghar Farhadi

• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy / Tomas Alfredson

• The Tree of Life / Terrence Malick

• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives / Apichatpong Weerasethakul

2010

• Alamar / Pedro González-Rubio

• Around a Small Mountain / Jacques Rivette

• Black Swan / Darren Aronofsky

• Carlos / Olivier Assayas

• Dogtooth / Yorgos Lanthimos

• Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl / Manoel de Oliveira

• Letters to Father Jacob / Kläus Haro

• Lourdes / Jessica Hausner

• Prince of Broadway / Sean Baker

• The Red Chapel / Mads Brugger

• Secret Sunshine / Lee Chang-dong

• The Strange Case of Angelica / Manoel de Oliveira

• Toy Story 3 / Lee Unkrich

• White Material / Claire Denis

• Winter’s Bone / Debra Granik

Decade (2000 - 2009)

1. There Will Be Blood / Paul Thomas Anderson

2. Dogville / Lars von Trier

3. Mulholland Dr. / David Lynch

4. "The Lord of the Rings" / Peter Jackson

5. "The Battle of Iwo Jima" / Clint Eastwood

6. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Ang Lee

7. Spirited Away / Hayao Miyazaki

8. Silent Light / Carlos Reygadas

9. Tropical Malady / Apichatpong Weerasethekul

10. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days / Cristian Mungiu

11. Gosford Park / Robert Altman

12. The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford / Andrew Dominick

13. Children of Men / Alfonso Cuaron

14. The New World / Terrence Malick

15. Dancer in the Dark / Lars von Trier

16. Yi Yi: A One and a Two.../ Edward Yang

17. Werckmeister Harmonies / Bela Tarr

18. Inland Empire / David Lynch

19. Eureka / Shinji Aoyama

20. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu / Cristi Puiu

2009

• 35 Shots of Rum / Claire Denis

• Antichrist / Lars von Trier

• Fantastic Mr. Fox / Wes Anderson

• Goodbye Solo / Ramin BahraniLiverpool / Lisandro Alonso

• Mary and Max / Adam Elliot

• Munyurangabo / Lee Isaac Chung

• Revanche / Gotz Spielmann

• Silent Light / Carlos Reygadas

• Still Walking / Hirokazu Kore-eda

• Summer Hours / Olivier Assayas

• Tokyo Sonata / Kiyoshi Kurosawa

• Unmistaken Child / Nati Baratz

• Where the Wild Things Are / Spike Jonze

• The White Ribbon / Michael Haneke

2008

• 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days / Cristian Mungiu

• The Band’s Visit / Eran Kolirin

• Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father / Kurt Kuenne

• Flight of the Red Balloon / Hou Hsiao-hsien

• Gran Torino / Clint Eastwood

• Hunger / Steve McQueen

• In the City of Sylvia / José Luis Guerin

• Let the Right One In / Tomas Alfredson

• Love Songs / Christophe Honoré

• Patti Smith: Dream of Life / Steven Sebring

• Still Life / Jia Zhang-ke

• Synecdoche, New York / Charlie Kaufman

• WALL•E / Andrew Stanton

• Waltz With Bashir / Ari Folman

• XXY / Lucia Puenzo

2007

• 12:08 East of Bucharest / Corneliu Porumboiu

• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford / Andrew Dominick

• Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead / Sidney Lumet

• Control / Anton Corbijn

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / Julian Schnabel 

• Into the Wild / Sean Penn

• The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters / Seth Gordon

• Michael Clayton / Tony Gilroy

• No Country for Old Men / Joel & Ethan Coen

• Ratatouille / Brad Bird

• Persepolis / Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street / Tim Burton

• Syndromes and a Century / Apichatpong Weerasethakul

• There Will Be Blood / Paul Thomas Anderson

• Zodiac / David Fincher

2006

• Babel / Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

• Brick / Rian Johnson

• Children of Men / Alfonso Cuaron

• The Death of Mr. Lazarescu / Cristi Puiu

• The Descent / Neil Marshall

• Flags of Our Fathers / Clint Eastwood

• House of Sand / Andrucha Waddington

• Inland Empire / David Lynch

• Letters From Iwo Jima / Clint Eastwood

• The Lives of Others / Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

• Marie Antoinette / Sofia Coppola

• Old Joy / Kelly Reichardt

• Pan’s Labyrinth / Guillermo Del Toro

• A Prairie Home Companion / Robert Altman

• Shortbus / John Cameron Mitchell

2005

• 2046 / Wong Kar-wai

• The 40-Year-Old Virgin / Judd Apatow

• Brokeback Mountain / Ang Lee

• Downfall / Oliver Hirschbiegel

• A History of Violence / David Cronenberg

• King Kong / Peter Jackson

• Me and You and Everyone We Know / Miranda July

• Munich / Steven Spielberg

• The New World / Terrence Malick

• Paradise Now / Hany Abu-Assad

• Pride & Prejudice / Joe Wright

• The Squid and the Whale / Noah Baumbach

• Tropical Malady / Apichatpong Weerasethakul

• The White Diamond / Werner Herzog

• The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill / Judy Irving

2004

• Bad Education / Pedro Almodovar

• Before Sunset / Richard Linklater

• Cowards Bend the Knee / Guy Maddin 

• Dogville / Lars von Trier 

• The Door in the Floor / Tod Williams

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind / Michel Gondry

• Goodbye, Dragon Inn / Tsai Ming-Liang 

• I Heart Huckabees / David O. Russell 

• Kill Bill, Vol. 2 / Quentin Tarantino 

• The Motorcycle Diaries / Walter Salles

• The Return / Andrey Zvyagintsev 

• Sideways / Alexander Payne 

• Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring / Kim Ki-duk 

• The Story of the Weeping Camel / Luigi Falorni 

• Vera Drake / Mike Leigh

2003

• The Barbarian Invasions / Denys Arcand 

• Capturing the Friedmans / Andrew Jarecki 

• Divine Intervention / Elia Suleiman 

• Finding Nemo / Andrew Stanton 

• In America / Jim Sheridan Japón / Carlos Reygadas

• Kill Bill, Vol. 1 / Quentin Tarantino 

• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King / Peter Jackson 

• Lost in Translation / Sofia Coppola 

• Lilya 4-Ever / Lukas Moodysoon 

• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World / Peter Weir 

• Millennium Actress / Satoshi Kon 

• Millennium Mambo / Hou Hsiao-hsien 

• Mystic River / Clint Eastwood 

• The Triplets of Belleville / Sylvain Chomet

2002

• About Schmidt / Alexander Payne

• Adaptation. / Spike Jonze

• Blissfully Yours / Apichatpong Weerasethakul

• Bowling for Columbine / Michael Moore

• Far From Heaven / Todd Haynes

• The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) / Zacharias Kunuk

• The Hours / Stephen Daldry

• Late Marriage / Dover Kosashvili

• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers / Peter Jackson

• On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate / Hong Sangsoo

• The Pianist / Roman Polanski

• Spirited Away / Hayao Miyazaki

• Talk to Her / Pedro Almodovar

• What Time is it There? / Tsai Ming-Liang

• Y Tu Mamá También / Alfonso Cuaron

2001

• A.I. Artificial Intelligence / Steven Spielberg

• Amélie / Jean-Pierre Jeunet

• Black Hawk Down / Ridley Scott

• Eureka / Shinji Aoyama

• Ghost World / Terry Zwigoff

• Gosford Park / Robert Altman

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch / John Cameron Mitchell

• In the Bedroom / Todd Field

• In the Mood for Love / Wong Kar-wai

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring / Peter Jackson

• The Man Who Wasn’t There / Joel Coen

• Moulin Rouge! / Baz Luhrmann

• Mulholland Dr. / David Lynch

• The Royal Tenenbaums / Wes Anderson

• Werckmeister Harmonies / Béla Tarr

2000

• Almost Famous / Cameron Crowe

• Bamboozled / Spike Lee

• Beau Travail / Claire Denis

• Best in Show / Christopher Guest

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Ang Lee

• Dancer in the Dark / Lars von Trier

• Gladiator / Ridley Scott

• The Heart of the World / Guy Maddin

• Mysterious Object at Noon / Apichatpong Weerasethakul

• O Brother, Where Art Thou? /  Joel Coen

• Requiem for a Dream / Darren Aronofsky

• Traffic / Steven Soderbergh

• Unbreakable / M. Night Shyamalan

• Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors / Hong Sangsoo

• Yi Yi: A One and a Two… / Edward Yang