Cahiers du Cinéma's Annual Top 10 Lists
The following is a list of the top 10 films chosen annually by the critics of Cahiers du Cinéma, a French film magazine. The magazine started the lists in 1951, but did not publish a list from 1952 to 1953 and from 1969 to 1980.[1]
1950s
| 1951 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | The River | Jean Renoir | France |
| 2. | Diary of a Country Priest | Robert Bresson | France |
| 3. | Miracle in Milan | Vittorio de Sica | Italy |
| 4. | Los Olvidados | Luis Buñuel | Mexico |
| 5. | All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | US |
| 6. | Miss Julie | Alf Sjöberg | Sweden |
| 7. | Story of a Love Affair | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy |
| 8. | Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder | US |
| 9. | Edward and Caroline | Jacques Becker | France |
| 10. | The Flowers of St. Francis | Roberto Rossellini | Italy |
No lists from 1952 through 1953.
| 1954 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | El | Luis Bunuel | Mexico |
| 2. | Touchez pas au grisbi | Jacques Becker | France |
| 3. | Knave of Hearts | René Clément | France |
| 4. | The Wild One | László Benedek | US |
| 5. | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Howard Hawks | US |
| 6. | I Vitelloni | Federico Fellini | Italy |
| 7. | It Should Happen to You | George Cukor | US |
| 8. | The Blue Gardenia | Fritz Lang | US |
| 9. | Robinson Crusoe | Luis Bunuel | Mexico |
| 10. | Mother | Mikio Naruse | Japan |
| 1955 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Voyage to Italy | Roberto Rossellini | Italy |
| 2. | Ordet | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Denmark |
| 3. | The Big Knife | Robert Aldrich | US |
| 4. | Lola Montès | Max Ophüls | France |
| 5. | Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | US |
| 6. | Bad Liaisons | Alexandre Astruc | France |
| 7. | La Strada | Federico Fellini | Italy |
| 8. | The Barefoot Contessa | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | US |
| 9. | Johnny Guitar | Nicholas Ray | US |
| 10. | Kiss Me Deadly | Robert Aldrich | US |
| 1956 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | A Man Escaped | Robert Bresson | France |
| 2. | Elena and Her Men | Jean Renoir | France |
| 3. | Rebel Without a Cause | Nicholas Ray | US |
| 4. | Confidential Report | Orson Welles | US |
| 5. | Senso | Luchino Visconti | Italy |
| 6. | Smiles of a Summer Night | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| 7. | Il bidone | Federico Fellini | Italy |
| 8. | L'Amore | Roberto Rossellini | Italy |
| 9. | Picnic | Joshua Logan | US |
| 10. | Fear | Roberto Rossellini | Italy |
| 1957 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | A King in New York | Charlie Chaplin | UK |
| 2. | Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | Frank Tashlin | US |
| 3. | Nights of Cabiria | Federico Fellini | Italy |
| 4. | The Wrong Man | Alfred Hitchcock | US |
| 5. | The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz | Luis Buñuel | Mexico |
| 6. | Sawdust and Tinsel | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| 7. | Bigger Than Life | Nicholas Ray | US |
| 8. | The Girl Can't Help It | Frank Tashlin | US |
| 9. | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Fritz Lang | US |
| 10. | 12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet | US |
| 1958 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | US |
| 2. | The Seventh Seal | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| 3. | White Nights | Luchino Visconti | Italy |
| 4. | Il Grido | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy |
| 5. | Bonjour Tristesse | Otto Preminger | UK US |
| 6. | Journey into Autumn | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| 7. | One Life | Alexandre Astruc | France |
| 8. | Mon Oncle | Jacques Tati | France |
| 9. | The Quiet American | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | US |
| 10. | Summer Interlude | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| 1959 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Ugetsu Monogatari | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
| 2. | Hiroshima mon Amour | Alain Resnais | France |
| 3. | Ivan the Terrible | Sergei Eisenstein | Soviet Union |
| 4. | Pickpocket | Robert Bresson | France |
| 5. | The 400 Blows | François Truffaut | France |
| 6. | Rio Bravo | Howard Hawks | US |
| 7. | Wild Strawberries | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| 8. | Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | US |
| 9. | Princess Yang Kwei Fei | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
| 10. | The Tiger of Eschnapur | Fritz Lang | West Germany |
1960s
| 1960 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Sansho the Bailiff | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
| 2. | L'Avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy |
| 3. | Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 4. | Shoot the Piano Player | François Truffaut | France |
| 5. | Poem of the Sea | Alexander Dovzhenko & Yuliya Solntseva | Soviet Union |
| 6. | Les Bonnes Femmes | Claude Chabrol | France |
| Nazarin | Luis Buñuel | Spain, Mexico | |
| 8. | Moonfleet | Fritz Lang | US |
| 9. | Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | US |
| 10. | Le Trou | Jacques Becker | France |
| 1961 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Lola | Jacques Demy | France |
| 2. | A Woman Is a Woman | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 3. | Paris Belongs to Us | Jacques Rivette | France |
| 4. | Rocco and His Brothers | Luchino Visconti | Italy |
| 5. | Shin Heike Monogatari | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
| 6. | At Great Cost | Mark Donskoy | Soviet Union |
| 7. | La Notte | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy |
| 8. | Last Year at Marienbad | Alain Resnais | France |
| 9. | Elmer Gantry | Richard Brooks | US |
| 10. | Two Rode Together | John Ford | US |
| 1962 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | My Life to Live | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 2. | Jules and Jim | François Truffaut | France |
| 3. | Hatari! | Howard Hawks | US |
| 4. | Viridiana | Luis Buñuel | Mexico |
| 5. | Le Signe du Lion | Éric Rohmer | France |
| 6. | Wild River | Elia Kazan | US |
| 7. | The Trial | Orson Welles | US |
| 8. | Through a Glass Darkly | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| 9. | The Elusive Corporal | Jean Renoir | France |
| 10. | Vanina Vanini | Roberto Rossellini | Italy |
| 1963 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Contempt | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 2. | The Birds | Alfred Hitchcock | US |
| 3. | The Exterminating Angel | Luis Buñuel | Mexico |
| 4. | Adieu Philippine | Jacques Rozier | France |
| 5. | The Trial of Joan of Arc | Robert Bresson | France |
| 6. | Muriel | Alain Resnais | France |
| 7. | The Nutty Professor | Jerry Lewis | US |
| 8. | The Carabineers | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 9. | Salvatore Giuliano | Francesco Rosi | Italy |
| 10. | 8½ | Federico Fellini | Italy |
| 1964 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Band of Outsiders | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 2. | Gertrud | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Denmark |
| 3. | Marnie | Alfred Hitchcock | US |
| 4. | A Married Woman | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 5. | Man's Favourite Sport? | Howard Hawks | US |
| 6. | Red Desert | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy |
| 7. | America, America | Elia Kazan | US |
| 8. | The Silence | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| 9. | Now About These Women | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| 10. | The Servant | Joseph Losey | UK |
| 1965 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Pierrot le Fou | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 2. | Sandra | Luchino Visconti | Italy |
| 3. | Winter Light | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| 4. | Six in Paris: "Gare du Nord" segment | Jean Rouch | France |
| 5. | Alphaville | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 6. | Lilith | Robert Rossen | US |
| 7. | Shock Corridor | Sam Fuller | US |
| 8. | The Family Jewels | Jerry Lewis | US |
| 9. | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy |
| 10. | Le Bonheur | Agnès Varda | France |
| 1966 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Au Hasard Balthazar | Robert Bresson | France |
| 2. | Walkover | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland |
| 3. | Not Reconciled | Jean-Marie Straub | West Germany |
| 4. | Masculin Féminin | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 5. | The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short | André Delvaux | Belgium |
| 6. | Seven Women | John Ford | US |
| 7. | The Taking of Power by Louis XIV | Roberto Rossellini | Italy |
| 8. | Torn Curtain | Alfred Hitchcock | US |
| 9. | Red Line 7000 | Howard Hawks | US |
| 10. | Fists in the Pocket | Marco Bellochio | Italy |
| 1967 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Persona | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| 2. | Belle de Jour | Luis Buñuel | France |
| 3. | Weekend | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 4. | Lion Hunting with Bow and Arrow | Jean Rouch | France |
| 5. | Playtime | Jacques Tati | France |
| 6. | The Big Mouth | Jerry Lewis | US |
| 7. | Daisies | Vera Chytilova | Czechoslovakia |
| The Nun | Jacques Rivette | France | |
| 9. | 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 10. | La Chinoise | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 1968 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach | Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet | West Germany |
| 2. | Before the Revolution | Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy |
| 3. | The Edge | Robert Kramer | US |
| 4. | Spirits of the Dead: "Toby Dammit" segment | Federico Fellini | Italy |
| 5. | Don't Let It Kill You | Jean-Pierre Lefebvre | Canada |
| 6. | The Times That Are | Pierre Perrault | Canada |
| 7. | Barrier | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland |
| 8. | Stolen Kisses | François Truffaut | France |
| 9. | Ride in the Whirlwind | Monte Hellman | US |
| 10. | The Bride Wore Black | François Truffaut | France |
| Les Contrebandières | Luc Moullet | France | |
No list for 1969.
1970s
No lists for the 1970s.
1980s
No list for 1980.
| 1981 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | The Aviator's Wife | Éric Rohmer | France |
| Francisca | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal | |
| 3. | Hotel America | André Téchiné | France |
| Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man | Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy | |
| 5. | Germany, Pale Mother | Helma Sanders-Brahms | West Germany |
| The Woman Next Door | François Truffaut | France | |
| 7. | Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union |
| 8. | The Music Room | Satyajit Ray | India |
| Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | US | |
| 10. | Gloria | John Cassavetes | US |
| In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni | Guy Debord | France | |
| Palermo or Wolfsburg | Werner Schroeter | West Germany | |
| The Wings of the Dove | Benoît Jacquot | France | |
| 1982 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | A Room in Town | Jacques Demy | France |
| 2. | Moonlighting | Jerzy Skolimowski | UK |
| Passion | Jean-Luc Godard | France | |
| 4. | White Dog | Sam Fuller | US |
| 5. | The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | Soviet Union |
| Identification of a Woman | Michaelangelo Antonioni | Italy | |
| Le Pont du Nord | Jacques Rivette | France | |
| 8. | Parsifal | Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | West Germany |
| 9. | Three Crowns of the Sailor | Raúl Ruiz | France |
| 10. | Le Beau Mariage | Éric Rohmer | France |
| 1983 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | À Nos Amours | Maurice Pialat | France |
| L'Argent | Robert Bresson | France | |
| 3. | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Nagisa Oshima | UK Japan |
| Un jeu Brutal | Jean-Claude Brisseau | France | |
| 5. | The King of Comedy | Martin Scorsese | US |
| Pauline at the Beach | Éric Rohmer | France | |
| 7. | L'Enfant Secret | Philippe Garrel | France |
| Faux-Fuyants | Alain Bergala & Jean-Pierre Limosin | France | |
| Three Crowns of the Sailor | Raúl Ruiz | France | |
| 10. | Cracking Up | Jerry Lewis | US |
| Fanny And Alexander | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | |
| 1984 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Full Moon in Paris | Éric Rohmer | France |
| 2. | Class Relations | Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet | West Germany |
| 3. | Biquefarre | Georges Rouquier | France |
| First Name: Carmen | Jean-Luc Godard | France | |
| Liberté, la nuit | Philippe Garrel | France | |
| 6. | Rumble Fish | Francis Ford Coppola | US |
| 7. | And the Ship Sails On | Federico Fellini | Italy |
| Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | West Germany | |
| The Right Stuff | Philip Kaufman | US | |
| 10. | Once Upon a Time in America | Sergio Leone | Italy US |
| 1985 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Hail Mary | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 2. | Détective | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 3. | Year of the Dragon | Michael Cimino | US |
| 4. | After the Rehearsal | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| 5. | Love Streams | John Cassavetes | US |
| 6. | The Home and the World | Satyajit Ray | India |
| 7. | Les Amants terribles | Danièle Dubroux | France |
| 8. | The Children | Marguerite Duras | France |
| 9. | Ran | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| 10. | Favorites of the Moon | Otar Iosseliani | France |
| Rendez-vous | André Téchiné | France | |
| 1986 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | The Green Ray | Éric Rohmer | France |
| 2. | Legend of Suram Fortress | Sergei Parajanov | Soviet Union |
| The Sacrifice | Andrei Tarkovsky | Sweden | |
| 4. | Double Messieurs | Jean-François Stévenin | France |
| 5. | Bad Blood | Leos Carax | France |
| Maine-Ocean Express | Jacques Rozier | France | |
| 7. | Thérèse | Alain Cavalier | France |
| 8. | Scene of the Crime | André Téchiné | France |
| 9. | After Hours | Martin Scorsese | US |
| Alpine Fire | Fredi M. Murer | Switzerland | |
| Disorder | Olivier Assayas | France | |
| Gardien de la nuit | Jean-Pierre Limosin | France | |
| Rise and Fall of a Small Cinema Company | Jean-Luc Godard | France | |
| 1987 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Under the Sun of Satan | Maurice Pialat | France |
| 2. | The Death of Empedocles | Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet | West Germany |
| Intervista | Federico Fellini | Italy | |
| Wings Of Desire | Wim Wenders | West Germany | |
| 5. | The Last Emperor | Bernardo Bertolucci | China UK Italy |
| 6. | Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle | Éric Rohmer | France |
| Full Metal Jacket | Stanley Kubrick | UK US | |
| Yeelen | Souleymane Cissé | Mali | |
| 9. | The Mass Is Ended | Nanni Moretti | Italy |
| 10. | Blue Velvet | David Lynch | US |
| The Color of Money | Martin Scorsese | US | |
| King Lear | Jean-Luc Godard | US | |
| Um Adeus Português | João Botelho | Portugal | |
| Wedding in Galilee | Michel Khleifi | Palestine | |
| 1988 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | A Short Film About Killing | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Poland |
| 2. | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip Kaufman | US |
| 3. | The Dead | John Huston | US |
| 4. | Urgences | Raymond Depardon | France |
| 5. | Bird | Clint Eastwood | US |
| 6. | Landscape in the Mist | Theo Angelopoulos | Greece |
| 7. | De bruit et de fureur | Jean-Claude Brisseau | France |
| 8. | The Last Temptation of Christ | Martin Scorsese | US |
| 9. | Les Innocents | André Téchiné | France |
| 10. | Story of Women | Claude Chabrol | France |
| 1989 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | US |
| Red Wood Pigeon | Nanni Moretti | Italy | |
| 3. | Gang of Four | Jacques Rivette | France |
| Dead Ringers | David Cronenberg | Canada | |
| 5. | The Cannibals | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
| Yaaba | Idrissa Ouedraogo | Burkina Faso | |
| 7. | Black Rain | Shohei Imamura | Japan |
| Thick Skinned | Patricia Mazuy | France | |
| Little Vera | Vasili Pichul | Soviet Union | |
| 10. | The Accidental Tourist | Lawrence Kasdan | US |
| I Want to Go Home | Alain Resnais | France | |
| Time of the Gypsies | Emir Kusturica | Yugoslavia | |
1990s
| 1990 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Freeze Die Come to Life | Vitali Kanevsky | Soviet Union |
| The Little Gangster | Jacques Doillon | France | |
| 3. | Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese | US |
| Nouvelle Vague | Jean-Luc Godard | France | |
| 5. | Alexandria Again and Forever | Youssef Chahine | Egypt |
| Meghe Dhaka Tara | Ritwik Ghatak | India | |
| No, or the Vain Glory of Command | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal | |
| 8. | Crimes and Misdemeanors | Woody Allen | US |
| La Désenchantée | Benoît Jacquot | France | |
| Dreams | Akira Kurosawa | Japan | |
| 1991 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Van Gogh | Maurice Pialat | France |
| 2. | Miller's Crossing | Coen Brothers | US |
| 3. | Barton Fink | Coen Brothers | US |
| 4. | The Godfather Part III | Francis Ford Coppola | US |
| 5. | Close-Up | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
| 6. | J'entends plus la guitare | Philippe Garrel | France |
| 7. | Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton | US |
| 8. | Rhapsody in August | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| 9. | Les Amants du Pont-Neuf | Leos Carax | France |
| 10. | Paris s'éveille | Olivier Assayas | France |
| 1992 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Unforgiven | Clint Eastwood | US |
| 2. | Agantuk | Satyajit Ray | India |
| 3. | Life, and Nothing More... | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
| 4. | Husbands and Wives | Woody Allen | US |
| 5. | Border Line | Danièle Dubroux | France |
| Savage Nights | Cyril Collard | France | |
| The Sentinel | Arnaud Desplechin | France | |
| 8. | La Chasse aux papillons | Otar Iosseliani | France |
| A Tale of Winter | Éric Rohmer | France | |
| 10. | A Brighter Summer Day | Edward Yang | Taiwan |
| The House of Smiles | Marco Ferreri | Italy | |
| Le mirage | Jean-Claude Guiguet | France | |
| The Oak | Lucian Pintilie | Romania | |
| 1993 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | A Perfect World | Clint Eastwood | US |
| 2. | Abraham's Valley | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
| 3. | L'Arbre, le maire et la médiathèque | Éric Rohmer | France |
| 4. | Smoking/No Smoking | Alain Resnais | France |
| 5. | In the Land of the Deaf | Nicolas Philibert | France |
| 6. | Aranyer Din Ratri | Satyajit Ray | India |
| 7. | Mad Dog and Glory | John McNaughton | US |
| 8. | Innocent Blood | John Landis | US |
| 9. | Bad Lieutenant | Abel Ferrara | US |
| 10. | Hélas pour moi | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 1994 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Caro diario | Nanni Moretti | Italy |
| 2. | I Can't Sleep | Claire Denis | France |
| 3. | Carlito's Way | Brian De Palma | US |
| 4. | Wild Reeds | André Téchiné | France |
| 5. | The Nightmare Before Christmas | Henry Selick | US |
| 6. | Travolta and Me | Patricia Mazuy | France |
| 7. | L'Enfer | Claude Chabrol | France |
| 8. | Joan the Maiden | Jacques Rivette | France |
| 9. | US Go Home | Claire Denis | France |
| 10. | Coming to Terms with the Dead | Pascale Ferran | France |
| M. Butterfly | David Cronenberg | US | |
| 1995 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | La Cérémonie | Claude Chabrol | France |
| 2. | Le Garçu | Maurice Pialat | France |
| 3. | Waati | Souleymane Cissé | Mali |
| 4. | The Bridges of Madison County | Clint Eastwood | US |
| 5. | Oublie-moi | Noémie Lvovsky | France |
| 6. | The Flower of My Secret | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 7. | Sonatine | Takeshi Kitano | Japan |
| 8. | Ed Wood | Tim Burton | US |
| 9. | Through the Olive Trees | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
| 10. | In the Mouth of Madness | John Carpenter | US |
| 1996 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Crash | David Cronenberg | Canada |
| 2. | For Ever Mozart | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 3. | Casino | Martin Scorsese | US |
| 4. | My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument | Arnaud Desplechin | France |
| 5. | God's Comedy | João César Monteiro | Portugal |
| 6. | Dead Man | Jim Jarmusch | US |
| 7. | Thieves | André Téchiné | France |
| 8. | Mission: Impossible | Brian De Palma | US |
| 9. | Encore | Pascal Bonitzer | France |
| Parfait amour! | Catherine Breillat | France | |
| 11. | Don't Forget You're Going to Die | Xavier Beauvois | France |
| 1997 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Hana-bi | Takeshi Kitano | Japan |
| 2. | Goodbye South, Goodbye | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
| 3. | Lost Highway | David Lynch | US |
| 4. | The Eel | Shohei Imamura | Japan |
| The River | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan | |
| 6. | Same Old Song | Alain Resnais | France |
| Seventh Heaven | Benoît Jacquot | France | |
| Taste of Cherry | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | |
| 9. | Face/Off | John Woo | US |
| Happy Together | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong | |
| Scream | Wes Craven | US | |
| 1998 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Flowers of Shanghai | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
| 2. | Dr. Akagi | Shohei Imamura | Japan |
| 3. | Autumn Tale | Éric Rohmer | France |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Clint Eastwood | US | |
| 5. | Anxiety | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
| Sue Lost in Manhattan | Amos Kollek | US | |
| 7. | L'Ennui | Cédric Kahn | France |
| Velvet Goldmine | Todd Haynes | US | |
| 9. | Snake Eyes | Brian De Palma | US |
| 10. | L'arrière-pays | Jacques Nolot | France |
| Jackie Brown | Quentin Tarantino | US | |
| Ossos | Pedro Costa | Portugal | |
| Titanic | James Cameron | US | |
| 1999 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | US |
| 2. | The Wind Will Carry Us | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
| 3. | Sicilia! | Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet | Italy |
| 4. | eXistenZ | David Cronenberg | Canada |
| 5. | Le vent de la nuit | Philippe Garrel | France |
| 6. | True Crime | Clint Eastwood | US |
| 7. | The Letter | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
| 8. | The Straight Story | David Lynch | US |
| 9. | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Jim Jarmusch | US |
| 10. | As Bodas de Deus | João César Monteiro | Portugal |
| 1990s (1990–1999) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | The Bridges of Madison County | Clint Eastwood | US |
| Carlito's Way | Brian De Palma | US | |
| Goodbye South, Goodbye | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan | |
| 4. | Close-Up | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
| Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | US | |
| Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me | David Lynch | US | |
| Unforgiven | Clint Eastwood | US | |
| 8. | Crash | David Cronenberg | Canada |
| Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton | US | |
| The River | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan | |
2000s
| 2000 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Esther Kahn | Arnaud Desplechin | France |
| 2. | The Captive | Chantal Akerman | Belgium |
| 3. | Man on the Moon | Miloš Forman | US |
| 4. | Mission to Mars | Brian De Palma | US |
| 5. | In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong |
| 6. | M/Other | Nobuhiro Suwa | Japan |
| 7. | The Virgin Suicides | Sofia Coppola | US |
| Yi Yi | Edward Yang | Taiwan | |
| 9. | Space Cowboys | Clint Eastwood | US |
| 10. | Workers for the Good Lord | Jean-Claude Brisseau | France |
| 2001 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | US |
| 2. | The Lady and the Duke | Éric Rohmer | France |
| 3. | Millennium Mambo | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
| 4. | Time and Tide | Tsui Hark | Hong Kong |
| 5. | I'm Going Home | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
| 6. | Platform | Jia Zhangke | China |
| Wild Innocence | Philippe Garrel | France | |
| 8. | Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. | Claude Lanzmann | France |
| 9. | The Son's Room | Nanni Moretti | Italy |
| 10. | 'R Xmas | Abel Ferrara | US |
| 2002 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Secret Things | Jean-Claude Brisseau | France |
| Ten | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | |
| 3. | Blissfully Yours | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand |
| 4. | From the Other Side | Chantal Akerman | Belgium |
| 5. | The Uncertainty Principle | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
| 6. | My Mother's Smile | Marco Bellocchio | Italy |
| 7. | Talk to Her | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 8. | Spider | David Cronenberg | Canada |
| Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan | |
| 10. | 24 | N/A | US |
| Gerry | Gus Van Sant | US | |
| 2004 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Tropical Malady | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand |
| 2. | S-21 | Rithy Panh | Cambodia |
| Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks | Wang Bing | China | |
| The Village | M. Night Shyamalan | US | |
| 5. | Shara | Naomi Kawase | Japan |
| 6. | The Brown Bunny | Vincent Gallo | US |
| Gerry | Gus Van Sant | US | |
| Kings and Queen | Arnaud Desplechin | France | |
| 9. | Café Lumière | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Japan Taiwan |
| Kill Bill: Volume 2 | Quentin Tarantino | US | |
| Saraband | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | |
| 2005 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Last Days | Gus Van Sant | US |
| 2. | A History of Violence | David Cronenberg | US |
| Regular Lovers | Philippe Garrel | France | |
| 4. | 1/3 of the Eyes | Olivier Zabat | France |
| Three Times | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan | |
| The World | Jia Zhangke | China | |
| The Young Lieutenant | Xavier Beauvois | France | |
| 8. | Be with Me | Eric Khoo | Singapore |
| Grizzly Man | Werner Herzog | US | |
| Sin City | Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez | US | |
| Tale of Cinema | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea | |
| 2006 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Private Fears in Public Places | Alain Resnais | France |
| The Sun | Alexander Sokurov | Russia | |
| 3. | The Host | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea |
| 4. | Lady Chatterley | Pascale Ferran | France |
| 5. | A Perfect Couple | Nobuhiro Suwa | Japan France |
| 6. | Capote | Bennett Miller | US |
| These Encounters of Theirs | Straub–Huillet | France Italy | |
| Lady in the Water | M. Night Shyamalan | US | |
| 9. | The Departed | Martin Scorsese | US |
| 10. | Flags of Our Fathers | Clint Eastwood | US |
| The New World | Terrence Malick | US | |
| 2007 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Paranoid Park | Gus Van Sant | US |
| 2. | Death Proof | Quentin Tarantino | US |
| Inland Empire | David Lynch | US | |
| Still Life | Jia Zhangke | China | |
| 5. | La France | Serge Bozon | France |
| Zodiac | David Fincher | US | |
| 7. | Before I Forget | Jacques Nolot | France |
| Honor of the Knights (Quixotic) | Albert Serra | Spain | |
| Romance of Astree and Celadon | Éric Rohmer | France | |
| 10. | The Duchess of Langeais | Jacques Rivette | France |
| I Don't Want to Sleep Alone | Tsai Ming-liang | Malaysia Taiwan | |
| Syndromes and a Century | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand | |
| 2008 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Redacted | Brian De Palma | US |
| 2. | Colossal Youth | Pedro Costa | Portugal |
| 3. | Cloverfield | Matt Reeves | US |
| 4. | No Country for Old Men | Coen Brothers | US |
| 5. | Two Lovers | James Gray | US |
| 6. | Waltz with Bashir | Ari Folman | Israel |
| 7. | Dernier maquis | Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche | Algeria France |
| 8. | Hunger | Steve McQueen | UK |
| 9. | A Short Film About the Indio Nacional | Raya Martin | Philippines |
| 10. | On War | Bertrand Bonello | France |
| 2009 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Wild Grass | Alain Resnais | France |
| 2. | Vincere | Marco Bellocchio | Italy |
| 3. | Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | US |
| 4. | Gran Torino | Clint Eastwood | US |
| 5. | Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
| 6. | Tetro | Francis Ford Coppola | US |
| 7. | The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow | US |
| 8. | King of Escape | Alain Guiraudie | France |
| 9. | Tokyo Sonata | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan |
| 10. | Hadewijch | Bruno Dumont | France |
| 2000s (2000–2009) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | US |
| 2. | Elephant | Gus Van Sant | US |
| 3. | Tropical Malady | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand |
| 4. | The Host | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea |
| 5. | A History of Violence | David Cronenberg | US |
| 6. | The Secret of the Grain | Abdellatif Kechiche | France |
| 7. | Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks | Wang Bing | China |
| 8. | War of the Worlds | Steven Spielberg | US |
| 9. | The New World | Terrence Malick | US |
| 10. | Ten | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
2010s
| 2010[2][3] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand |
| 2. | Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | Werner Herzog | US |
| 3. | Film Socialisme | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 4. | Toy Story 3 | Lee Unkrich | US |
| 5. | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Wes Anderson | US |
| 6. | A Serious Man | Coen Brothers | US |
| 7. | To Die Like a Man | João Pedro Rodrigues | Portugal |
| 8. | The Social Network | David Fincher | US |
| 9. | Chouga | Darezhan Omirbayev | Kazakhstan |
| 10. | Mother | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea |
| 2011[4] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | We Have a Pope | Nanni Moretti | Italy |
| 2. | The Strange Case of Angelica | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
| The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick | US | |
| 4. | Essential Killing | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland |
| Outside Satan | Bruno Dumont | France | |
| 6. | A Burning Hot Summer | Philippe Garrel | France |
| Melancholia | Lars von Trier | Denmark | |
| 8. | House of Tolerance | Bertrand Bonello | France |
| Meek's Cutoff | Kelly Reichardt | US | |
| Super 8 | J.J. Abrams | US | |
| 2012[5] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Holy Motors | Leos Carax | France |
| 2. | Cosmopolis | David Cronenberg | Canada |
| 3. | Twixt | Francis Ford Coppola | US |
| 4. | 4:44 Last Day on Earth | Abel Ferrara | US |
| 5. | In Another Country | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| 6. | Take Shelter | Jeff Nichols | US |
| 7. | Go Go Tales | Abel Ferrara | US |
| 8. | Tabu | Miguel Gomes | Portugal |
| 9. | Faust | Alexander Sokurov | Russia |
| 10. | Keep the Lights On | Ira Sachs | US |
| 2013[6] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Stranger by the Lake | Alain Guiraudie | France |
| 2. | Spring Breakers | Harmony Korine | US |
| 3. | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | Abdellatif Kechiche | France |
| 4. | Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón | UK US |
| 5. | A Touch of Sin | Jia Zhangke | China |
| 6. | Lincoln | Steven Spielberg | US |
| 7. | Jealousy | Philippe Garrel | France |
| 8. | Nobody's Daughter Haewon | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| 9. | You and the Night | Yann Gonzalez | France |
| 10. | Age of Panic | Justine Triet | France |
| 2014[7] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Li'l Quinquin | Bruno Dumont | France |
| 2. | Goodbye to Language | Jean-Luc Godard | France Switzerland |
| 3. | Under the Skin | Jonathan Glazer | UK |
| 4. | Maps to the Stars | David Cronenberg | Canada |
| 5. | The Wind Rises | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
| 6. | Nymphomaniac | Lars von Trier | Denmark UK |
| 7. | Mommy | Xavier Dolan | Canada |
| 8. | Love Is Strange | Ira Sachs | US |
| 9. | Paradise | Alain Cavalier | France |
| 10. | Our Sunhi | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| 2015[8] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Mia Madre | Nanni Moretti | France Italy |
| 2. | Cemetery of Splendour | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand |
| 3. | In the Shadow of Women | Philippe Garrel | France Switzerland |
| 4. | The Smell of Us | Larry Clark | France |
| 5. | Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller | Australia US |
| 6. | Jauja | Lisandro Alonso | Argentina Denmark |
| 7. | Inherent Vice | Paul Thomas Anderson | US |
| 8. | Arabian Nights | Miguel Gomes | Portugal |
| 9. | The Summer of Sangailė | Alantė Kavaitė | Lithuania |
| 10. | Journey to the Shore | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan |
| 2016[9] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country | |
| 1. | Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | Germany Austria | |
| 2. | Elle | Paul Verhoeven | France | |
| 3. | The Neon Demon | Nicolas Winding Refn | Denmark France US | |
| 4. | Aquarius | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil | |
| 5. | Slack Bay | Bruno Dumont | France | |
| 6. | Julieta | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | |
| 7. | Staying Vertical | Alain Guiraudie | France | |
| 8. | La Loi de la jungle | Antonin Peretjatko | France | |
| 9. | Carol | Todd Haynes | US UK | |
| 10. | Le Bois Dont Les Rêves Sont Faits | Claire Simon | France | |
| 2017[10] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country | |
| 1. | Twin Peaks: The Return | David Lynch | US | |
| 2. | Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc | Bruno Dumont | France | |
| 3. | Certain Women | Kelly Reichardt | US | |
| 4. | Get Out | Jordan Peele | US | |
| 5. | The Day After | Hong Sang-Soo | South Korea | |
| 6. | Lover for a Day | Philippe Garrel | France | |
| 7. | Good Time | Ben and Josh Safdie | US | |
| 8. | Split | M. Night Shyamalan | US | |
| 9. | Jackie | Pablo Larraín | US Chile France | |
| 10. | Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | Ang Lee | China UK US | |
| 2018[11][12] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country | |
| 1. | The Wild Boys | Bertrand Mandico | France | |
| 2. | Coincoin and the Extra-Humans | Bruno Dumont | France | |
| 3. | Phantom Thread | Paul Thomas Anderson | US | |
| 4. | Burning | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea | |
| 5. | Paul Sanchez est revenu! | Patricia Mazuy | France | |
| 6. | The Post | Steven Spielberg | US | |
| 7. | On the Beach at Night Alone | Hong Sang-Soo | South Korea | |
| 8. | The House That Jack Built | Lars von Trier | Denmark | |
| 9. | Leto | Kirill Serebrennikov | Russia | |
| 10. | Treasure Island | Guillaume Brac | France | |
| 2019[13][14] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country | |
| 1. | The Image Book | Jean-Luc Godard | France Switzerland | |
| 2. | Parasite | Bong Joon-Ho | South Korea | |
| 3. | Synonyms | Nadav Lapid | France Israel | |
| 4. | Bacurau | Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles | Brazil | |
| 5. | Jeanne | Bruno Dumont | France | |
| 6. | Pain and Glory | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | |
| 7. | Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | France | |
| 8. | The Mule | Clint Eastwood | US | |
| 9. | Joker | Todd Phillips | US | |
| 10. | The Irishman | Martin Scorsese | US | |
| 2010s (2010–2019)[15] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | Twin Peaks: The Return | David Lynch | US |
| 2. | Holy Motors | Leos Carax | France |
| 3. | Li'l Quinquin | Bruno Dumont | France |
| 4. | Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand |
| 5. | The Image Book | Jean-Luc Godard | France Switzerland |
| 6. | Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | Germany Austria |
| 7. | Mia Madre | Nanni Moretti | Italy |
| 8. | Melancholia | Lars von Trier | Denmark |
| 9. | Under the Skin | Jonathan Glazer | United Kingdom |
| 10. | The Strange Case of Angelica | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
2020s
| 2020[16] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Film | Director | Country |
| 1. | City Hall | Frederick Wiseman | US |
| 2. | The Woman Who Ran | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| 3. | Uncut Gems | Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie | US |
| 4. | Malmkrog | Cristi Puiu | Romania |
| 5. | The Things We Say, the Things We Do | Emmanuel Mouret | France |
| 6. | Hotel by the River | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| 7. | Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains | Gu Xiaogang | China |
| 8. | The Salt of Tears | Philippe Garrel | France Switzerland |
| 9. | Enormous | Sophie Letourneur | France |
| 10. | The August Virgin | Jonás Trueba | Spain |
Filmmakers with 3 or more works on the lists
- Jean-Luc Godard - 26
- Ingmar Bergman - 14
- Clint Eastwood - 12
- Éric Rohmer - 12
- Philippe Garrel - 11
- Manoel de Oliveira - 11
- David Cronenberg - 10
- David Lynch - 9
- Martin Scorsese - 9
- Bruno Dumont - 8
- Alain Resnais - 8
- Hong Sang-soo - 8
- Federico Fellini - 7
- Alfred Hitchcock - 7
- Nanni Moretti - 7
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul - 7
- Michelangelo Antonioni - 6
- Robert Bresson - 6
- Luis Buñuel - 6
- Brian De Palma - 6
- Hou Hsiao-Hsien - 6
- Abbas Kiarostami - 6
- Jacques Rivette - 6
- Roberto Rossellini - 6
- François Truffaut - 6
- André Téchiné - 6
- Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet - 6
- Pedro Almodóvar - 4
- Jean-Claude Brisseau - 4
- Bong Joon-Ho - 4
- Leos Carax - 4
- Coen Brothers - 4
- Francis Ford Coppola - 4
- Claude Chabrol - 4
- Arnaud Desplechin - 4
- Abel Ferrara - 4
- Howard Hawks - 4
- Jia Zhangke - 4
- Jerry Lewis - 4
- Kenji Mizoguchi - 4
- Maurice Pialat - 4
- Satyajit Ray - 4
- Jerzy Skolimowski - 4
- Quentin Tarantino - 4
- Lars von Trier - 4
- Gus Van Sant - 4
- Luchino Visconti - 4
- Marco Bellocchio - 3
- Bernardo Bertolucci - 3
- Tim Burton - 3
- Alain Guiraudie - 3
- Shohei Imamura - 3
- Benoît Jacquot - 3
- Akira Kurosawa - 3
- Stanley Kubrick - 3
- Fritz Lang - 3
- Terrence Malick - 3
- Patricia Mazuy - 3
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 3
- Nicholas Ray - 3
- Jean Renoir - 3
- Steven Spielberg - 3
- M. Night Shyamalan - 3
- Orson Welles - 3
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