Cahiers du Cinéma's Annual Top 10 Lists
Appearance
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 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | The River | Jean Renoir | France |
2. | Diary of a Country Priest | Robert Bresson | |
3. | Miracle in Milan | Vittorio de Sica | Italy |
4. | Los Olvidados | Luis Buñuel | Mexico |
5. | All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
6. | Miss Julie | Alf Sjöberg | Sweden |
7. | Story of a Love Affair | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy |
8. | Sunset Boulevard | Billy Wilder | United States |
9. | Edward and Caroline | Jacques Becker | France |
10. | The Flowers of St. Francis | Roberto Rossellini | Italy |
No lists from 1952 through 1953.
1954 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | El | Luis Bunuel | Mexico |
2. | Touchez pas au grisbi | Jacques Becker | France |
3. | Knave of Hearts | René Clément | |
4. | The Wild One | László Benedek | United States |
5. | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Howard Hawks | |
6. | I Vitelloni | Federico Fellini | Italy |
7. | It Should Happen to You | George Cukor | United States |
8. | The Blue Gardenia | Fritz Lang | |
9. | Robinson Crusoe | Luis Bunuel | Mexico |
10. | Mother | Mikio Naruse | Japan |
1955 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Voyage to Italy | Roberto Rossellini | Italy |
2. | Ordet | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Denmark |
3. | The Big Knife | Robert Aldrich | United States |
4. | Lola Montès | Max Ophüls | France |
5. | Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
6. | Bad Liaisons | Alexandre Astruc | France |
7. | La Strada | Federico Fellini | Italy |
8. | The Barefoot Contessa | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
9. | Johnny Guitar | Nicholas Ray | |
10. | Kiss Me Deadly | Robert Aldrich |
1956 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | A Man Escaped | Robert Bresson | France |
2. | Elena and Her Men | Jean Renoir | |
3. | Rebel Without a Cause | Nicholas Ray | United States |
4. | Confidential Report | Orson Welles | |
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 | |
9. | Picnic | Joshua Logan | US |
10. | Fear | Roberto Rossellini | Italy |
1957 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | A King in New York | Charlie Chaplin | United Kingdom |
2. | Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? | Frank Tashlin | United States |
3. | Nights of Cabiria | Federico Fellini | Italy |
4. | The Wrong Man | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
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 | United States |
8. | The Girl Can't Help It | Frank Tashlin | |
9. | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Fritz Lang | |
10. | 12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet |
1958 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | United States |
2. | The Seventh Seal | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
3. | White Nights | Luchino Visconti | Italy |
4. | Il Grido | Michelangelo Antonioni | |
5. | Bonjour Tristesse | Otto Preminger | United Kingdom, United States |
6. | Journey into Autumn | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
7. | One Life | Alexandre Astruc | France |
8. | Mon Oncle | Jacques Tati | |
9. | The Quiet American | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
10. | Summer Interlude | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
1959 | |||
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# | 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 | |
6. | Rio Bravo | Howard Hawks | United States |
7. | Wild Strawberries | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
8. | Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
9. | Princess Yang Kwei Fei | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
10. | The Tiger of Eschnapur | Fritz Lang | West Germany |
1960s
1960 | |||
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# | 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 | |
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 | United States |
9. | Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | |
10. | Le Trou | Jacques Becker | France |
1961 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Lola | Jacques Demy | France |
2. | A Woman Is a Woman | Jean-Luc Godard | |
3. | Paris Belongs to Us | Jacques Rivette | |
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 | United States |
10. | Two Rode Together | John Ford |
1962 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | My Life to Live | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
2. | Jules and Jim | François Truffaut | |
3. | Hatari! | Howard Hawks | United States |
4. | Viridiana | Luis Buñuel | Mexico |
5. | Le Signe du Lion | Éric Rohmer | France |
6. | Wild River | Elia Kazan | United States |
7. | The Trial | Orson Welles | |
8. | Through a Glass Darkly | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
9. | The Elusive Corporal | Jean Renoir | France |
10. | Vanina Vanini | Roberto Rossellini | Italy |
1963 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Contempt | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
2. | The Birds | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
3. | The Exterminating Angel | Luis Buñuel | Mexico |
4. | Adieu Philippine | Jacques Rozier | France |
5. | The Trial of Joan of Arc | Robert Bresson | |
6. | Muriel | Alain Resnais | |
7. | The Nutty Professor | Jerry Lewis | United States |
8. | The Carabineers | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
9. | Salvatore Giuliano | Francesco Rosi | Italy |
10. | 8½ | Federico Fellini |
1964 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Band of Outsiders | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
2. | Gertrud | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Denmark |
3. | Marnie | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
4. | A Married Woman | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
5. | Man's Favourite Sport? | Howard Hawks | United States |
6. | Red Desert | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy |
7. | America, America | Elia Kazan | United States |
8. | The Silence | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
9. | Now About These Women | ||
10. | The Servant | Joseph Losey | United Kingdom |
1965 | |||
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# | 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 | |
6. | Lilith | Robert Rossen | United States |
7. | Shock Corridor | Sam Fuller | |
8. | The Family Jewels | Jerry Lewis | |
9. | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy |
10. | Le Bonheur | Agnès Varda | France |
1966 | |||
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# | 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 | United States |
7. | The Taking of Power by Louis XIV | Roberto Rossellini | Italy |
8. | Torn Curtain | Alfred Hitchcock | United States |
9. | Red Line 7000 | Howard Hawks | |
10. | Fists in the Pocket | Marco Bellocchio | Italy |
1967 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Persona | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
2. | Belle de Jour | Luis Buñuel | France |
3. | Weekend | Jean-Luc Godard | |
4. | Lion Hunting with Bow and Arrow | Jean Rouch | |
5. | Playtime | Jacques Tati | |
6. | The Big Mouth | Jerry Lewis | United States |
7. | Daisies | Vera Chytilova | Czechoslovakia |
The Nun | Jacques Rivette | France | |
9. | 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her | Jean-Luc Godard | |
10. | La Chinoise | Jean-Luc Godard |
1968 | |||
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# | 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 | United States |
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 | |
7. | Barrier | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland |
8. | Stolen Kisses | François Truffaut | France |
9. | Ride in the Whirlwind | Monte Hellman | United States |
10. | The Bride Wore Black | François Truffaut | France |
Les Contrebandières | Luc Moullet |
No list for 1969.
1970s
No lists for the 1970s.
1980s
No list for 1980.
1981 | |||
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# | 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 | United States | |
10. | Gloria | John Cassavetes | |
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 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | A Room in Town | Jacques Demy | France |
2. | Moonlighting | Jerzy Skolimowski | United Kingdom |
Passion | Jean-Luc Godard | France | |
4. | White Dog | Sam Fuller | United States |
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 |
1983 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | À Nos Amours | Maurice Pialat | France |
L'Argent | Robert Bresson | ||
3. | Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | Nagisa Oshima | United Kingdom, Japan |
Un jeu Brutal | Jean-Claude Brisseau | France | |
5. | The King of Comedy | Martin Scorsese | United States |
Pauline at the Beach | Éric Rohmer | France | |
7. | L'Enfant Secret | Philippe Garrel | |
Faux-Fuyants | Alain Bergala & Jean-Pierre Limosin | ||
Three Crowns of the Sailor | Raúl Ruiz | ||
10. | Cracking Up | Jerry Lewis | United States |
Fanny And Alexander | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
1984 | |||
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# | 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 | ||
Liberté, la nuit | Philippe Garrel | ||
6. | Rumble Fish | Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
7. | And the Ship Sails On | Federico Fellini | Italy |
Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | West Germany | |
The Right Stuff | Philip Kaufman | United States | |
10. | Once Upon a Time in America | Sergio Leone | Italy, United States |
1985 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Hail Mary | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
2. | Détective | Jean-Luc Godard | |
3. | Year of the Dragon | Michael Cimino | United States |
4. | After the Rehearsal | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
5. | Love Streams | John Cassavetes | United States |
6. | The Home and the World | Satyajit Ray | India |
7. | Les Amants terribles | Danièle Dubroux | France |
8. | The Children | Marguerite Duras | |
9. | Ran | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
10. | Favorites of the Moon | Otar Iosseliani | France |
Rendez-vous | André Téchiné |
1986 | |||
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# | 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 | |
Maine-Ocean Express | Jacques Rozier | ||
7. | Thérèse | Alain Cavalier | |
8. | Scene of the Crime | André Téchiné | |
9. | After Hours | Martin Scorsese | United States |
Alpine Fire | Fredi M. Murer | Switzerland | |
Disorder | Olivier Assayas | France | |
Gardien de la nuit | Jean-Pierre Limosin | ||
Rise and Fall of a Small Cinema Company | Jean-Luc Godard |
1987 | |||
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# | 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, United Kingdom, Italy |
6. | Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle | Éric Rohmer | France |
Full Metal Jacket | Stanley Kubrick | United Kingdom,
United States | |
Yeelen | Souleymane Cissé | Mali | |
9. | The Mass Is Ended | Nanni Moretti | Italy |
10. | Blue Velvet | David Lynch | United States |
The Color of Money | Martin Scorsese | ||
King Lear | Jean-Luc Godard | ||
Um Adeus Português | João Botelho | Portugal | |
Wedding in Galilee | Michel Khleifi | Palestine |
1988 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | A Short Film About Killing | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Poland |
2. | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Philip Kaufman | United States |
3. | The Dead | John Huston | |
4. | Urgences | Raymond Depardon | France |
5. | Bird | Clint Eastwood | United States |
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 | United States |
9. | Les Innocents | André Téchiné | France |
10. | Story of Women | Claude Chabrol |
1989 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | United States |
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 | United States |
I Want to Go Home | Alain Resnais | France | |
Time of the Gypsies | Emir Kusturica | Yugoslavia |
1990s
1990 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Freeze Die Come to Life | Vitali Kanevsky | Soviet Union |
The Little Gangster | Jacques Doillon | France | |
3. | Goodfellas | Martin Scorsese | United States |
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 | United States |
La Désenchantée | Benoît Jacquot | France | |
Dreams | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
1991 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Van Gogh | Maurice Pialat | France |
2. | Miller's Crossing | Coen Brothers | United States |
3. | Barton Fink | Coen Brothers | |
4. | The Godfather Part III | Francis Ford Coppola | |
5. | Close-Up | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
6. | J'entends plus la guitare | Philippe Garrel | France |
7. | Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton | United States |
8. | Rhapsody in August | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
9. | Les Amants du Pont-Neuf | Leos Carax | France |
10. | Paris s'éveille | Olivier Assayas | France |
1992 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Unforgiven | Clint Eastwood | United States |
2. | Agantuk | Satyajit Ray | India |
3. | Life, and Nothing More... | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
4. | Husbands and Wives | Woody Allen | United States |
5. | Border Line | Danièle Dubroux | France |
Savage Nights | Cyril Collard | ||
The Sentinel | Arnaud Desplechin | ||
8. | La Chasse aux papillons | Otar Iosseliani | |
A Tale of Winter | Éric Rohmer | ||
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 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | A Perfect World | Clint Eastwood | United States |
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 | |
5. | In the Land of the Deaf | Nicolas Philibert | |
6. | Aranyer Din Ratri | Satyajit Ray | India |
7. | Mad Dog and Glory | John McNaughton | United States |
8. | Innocent Blood | John Landis | |
9. | Bad Lieutenant | Abel Ferrara | |
10. | Hélas pour moi | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
1994 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Caro diario | Nanni Moretti | Italy |
2. | I Can't Sleep | Claire Denis | France |
3. | Carlito's Way | Brian De Palma | United States |
4. | Wild Reeds | André Téchiné | France |
5. | The Nightmare Before Christmas | Henry Selick | United States |
6. | Travolta and Me | Patricia Mazuy | France |
7. | L'Enfer | Claude Chabrol | |
8. | Joan the Maiden | Jacques Rivette | |
9. | US Go Home | Claire Denis | |
10. | Coming to Terms with the Dead | Pascale Ferran | |
M. Butterfly | David Cronenberg | US |
1995 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | La Cérémonie | Claude Chabrol | France |
2. | Le Garçu | Maurice Pialat | |
3. | Waati | Souleymane Cissé | Mali |
4. | The Bridges of Madison County | Clint Eastwood | United States |
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 | United States |
9. | Through the Olive Trees | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
10. | In the Mouth of Madness | John Carpenter | United States |
1996 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Crash | David Cronenberg | Canada |
2. | For Ever Mozart | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
3. | Casino | Martin Scorsese | United States |
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 | United States |
7. | Thieves | André Téchiné | France |
8. | Mission: Impossible | Brian De Palma | United States |
9. | Encore | Pascal Bonitzer | France |
Parfait amour! | Catherine Breillat | ||
11. | Don't Forget You're Going to Die | Xavier Beauvois |
1997 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Hana-bi | Takeshi Kitano | Japan |
2. | Goodbye South, Goodbye | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
3. | Lost Highway | David Lynch | United States |
4. | The Eel | Shohei Imamura | Japan |
The River | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan | |
6. | Same Old Song | Alain Resnais | France |
Seventh Heaven | Benoît Jacquot | ||
Taste of Cherry | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | |
9. | Face/Off | John Woo | United States |
Happy Together | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong | |
Scream | Wes Craven | United States |
1998 | |||
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# | 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 | United States | |
5. | Anxiety | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
Sue Lost in Manhattan | Amos Kollek | United States | |
7. | L'Ennui | Cédric Kahn | France |
Velvet Goldmine | Todd Haynes | United States | |
9. | Snake Eyes | Brian De Palma | |
10. | L'arrière-pays | Jacques Nolot | France |
Jackie Brown | Quentin Tarantino | United States | |
Ossos | Pedro Costa | Portugal | |
Titanic | James Cameron | United States |
1999 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | United States |
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 | United States |
7. | The Letter | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
8. | The Straight Story | David Lynch | United States |
9. | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Jim Jarmusch | |
10. | As Bodas de Deus | João César Monteiro | Portugal |
1990s (1990–1999) | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | The Bridges of Madison County | Clint Eastwood | United States |
Carlito's Way | Brian De Palma | ||
Goodbye South, Goodbye | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan | |
4. | Close-Up | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | United States | |
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me | David Lynch | ||
Unforgiven | Clint Eastwood | ||
8. | Crash | David Cronenberg | Canada |
Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton | United States | |
The River | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |
2000s
2000 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Esther Kahn | Arnaud Desplechin | France |
2. | The Captive | Chantal Akerman | Belgium |
3. | Man on the Moon | Miloš Forman | United States |
4. | Mission to Mars | Brian De Palma | |
5. | In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong |
6. | M/Other | Nobuhiro Suwa | Japan |
7. | The Virgin Suicides | Sofia Coppola | United States |
Yi Yi | Edward Yang | Taiwan | |
9. | Space Cowboys | Clint Eastwood | United States |
10. | Workers for the Good Lord | Jean-Claude Brisseau | France |
2001 | |||
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# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | United States |
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 | United States |
2002 | |||
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# | 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 | United States |
Gerry | Gus Van Sant |
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 | United States | |
5. | Shara | Naomi Kawase | Japan |
6. | The Brown Bunny | Vincent Gallo | United States |
Gerry | Gus Van Sant | ||
Kings and Queen | Arnaud Desplechin | France | |
9. | Café Lumière | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Japan Taiwan |
Kill Bill: Volume 2 | Quentin Tarantino | United States | |
Saraband | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
2005 | |||
---|---|---|---|
# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Last Days | Gus Van Sant | United States |
2. | A History of Violence | David Cronenberg | |
Regular Lovers | Philippe Garrel | France | |
4. | 1/3 of the Eyes | Olivier Zabat | |
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 | United States | |
Sin City | Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez | ||
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 | United States |
These Encounters of Theirs | Straub–Huillet | France Italy | |
Lady in the Water | M. Night Shyamalan | United States | |
9. | The Departed | Martin Scorsese | |
10. | Flags of Our Fathers | Clint Eastwood | |
The New World | Terrence Malick |
2007 | |||
---|---|---|---|
# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Paranoid Park | Gus Van Sant | United States |
2. | Death Proof | Quentin Tarantino | |
Inland Empire | David Lynch | ||
Still Life | Jia Zhangke | China | |
5. | La France | Serge Bozon | France |
Zodiac | David Fincher | United States | |
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 | |
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 | United States |
2. | Colossal Youth | Pedro Costa | Portugal |
3. | Cloverfield | Matt Reeves | United States |
4. | No Country for Old Men | Coen Brothers | |
5. | Two Lovers | James Gray | |
6. | Waltz with Bashir | Ari Folman | Israel |
7. | Dernier maquis | Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche | Algeria France |
8. | Hunger | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom |
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 | United States |
4. | Gran Torino | Clint Eastwood | |
5. | Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
6. | Tetro | Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
7. | The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow | |
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 | United States |
2. | Elephant | Gus Van Sant | |
3. | Tropical Malady | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand |
4. | The Host | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea |
5. | A History of Violence | David Cronenberg | United States |
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 | United States |
9. | The New World | Terrence Malick | |
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 | United States |
3. | Film Socialisme | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
4. | Toy Story 3 | Lee Unkrich | United States |
5. | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Wes Anderson | |
6. | A Serious Man | Coen Brothers | |
7. | To Die Like a Man | João Pedro Rodrigues | Portugal |
8. | The Social Network | David Fincher | United States |
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 | United States | |
4. | Essential Killing | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland |
Outside Satan | Bruno Dumont | France | |
6. | A Burning Hot Summer | Philippe Garrel | |
Melancholia | Lars von Trier | Denmark | |
8. | House of Tolerance | Bertrand Bonello | France |
Meek's Cutoff | Kelly Reichardt | United States | |
Super 8 | J. J. Abrams |
2012[5] | |||
---|---|---|---|
# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Holy Motors | Leos Carax | France |
2. | Cosmopolis | David Cronenberg | Canada |
3. | Twixt | Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
4. | 4:44 Last Day on Earth | Abel Ferrara | |
5. | In Another Country | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
6. | Take Shelter | Jeff Nichols | United States |
7. | Go Go Tales | Abel Ferrara | |
8. | Tabu | Miguel Gomes | Portugal |
9. | Faust | Alexander Sokurov | Russia |
10. | Keep the Lights On | Ira Sachs | United States |
2013[6] | |||
---|---|---|---|
# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Stranger by the Lake | Alain Guiraudie | France |
2. | Spring Breakers | Harmony Korine | United States |
3. | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | Abdellatif Kechiche | France |
4. | Gravity | Alfonso Cuarón | United Kingdom, United States |
5. | A Touch of Sin | Jia Zhangke | China |
6. | Lincoln | Steven Spielberg | United States |
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 |
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 | United Kingdom |
4. | Maps to the Stars | David Cronenberg | Canada |
5. | The Wind Rises | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
6. | Nymphomaniac | Lars von Trier | Denmark, United Kingdom |
7. | Mommy | Xavier Dolan | Canada |
8. | Love Is Strange | Ira Sachs | United States |
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, United States |
6. | Jauja | Lisandro Alonso | Argentina, Denmark |
7. | Inherent Vice | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States |
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, United States |
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 | |
9. | Carol | Todd Haynes | United States, United Kingdom |
10. | Le Bois Dont Les Rêves Sont Faits | Claire Simon | France |
2017[10] | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
# | Film | Director | Country | |
1. | Twin Peaks: The Return | David Lynch | United States | |
2. | Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc | Bruno Dumont | France | |
3. | Certain Women | Kelly Reichardt | United States | |
4. | Get Out | Jordan Peele | ||
5. | The Day After | Hong Sang-Soo | South Korea | |
6. | Lover for a Day | Philippe Garrel | France | |
7. | Good Time | Ben and Josh Safdie | United States | |
8. | Split | M. Night Shyamalan | ||
9. | Jackie | Pablo Larraín | United States, Chile, France | |
10. | Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | Ang Lee | Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States |
2018[11][12] | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
# | Film | Director | Country | |
1. | The Wild Boys | Bertrand Mandico | France | |
2. | Coincoin and the Extra-Humans | Bruno Dumont | ||
3. | Phantom Thread | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States | |
4. | Burning | Lee Chang-dong | South Korea | |
5. | Paul Sanchez est revenu! | Patricia Mazuy | France | |
6. | The Post | Steven Spielberg | United States | |
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 | United States | |
9. | Joker | Todd Phillips | ||
10. | The Irishman | Martin Scorsese |
2010s (2010–2019)[15] | |||
---|---|---|---|
# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Twin Peaks: The Return | David Lynch | United States |
2. | Holy Motors | Leos Carax | France |
3. | Li'l Quinquin | Bruno Dumont | |
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 | United States |
2. | The Woman Who Ran | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
3. | Uncut Gems | Benny Safdie and Joshua Safdie | United States |
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 |
2021[17] | |||
---|---|---|---|
# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | First Cow | Kelly Reichardt | United States |
2. | Annette | Leos Carax | France |
3. | Memoria | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Colombia |
4. | Drive My Car | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
5. | France | Bruno Dumont | France |
6. | The French Dispatch | Wes Anderson | United States |
7. | All Hands on Deck | Guillaume Brac | France |
8. | The Girl and the Spider | Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher | Switzerland |
9. | The Card Counter | Paul Schrader | United States |
10. | Benedetta | Paul Verhoeven | France |
2022[18] | |||
---|---|---|---|
# | Film | Director | Country |
1. | Pacifiction | Albert Serra | France, Spain, Germany, Portugal |
2. | Licorice Pizza | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States, Canada |
3. | Nope | Jordan Peele | United States |
4. | EO | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland, Italy |
5. | Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
6. | Saturn Bowling | Patricia Mazuy | France, Belgium |
7. | Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood | Richard Linklater | United States |
8. | Introduction | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
9. | Nobody's Hero | Alain Guiraudie | France |
10. | Who's Stopping Us | Jonás Trueba | Spain |
Filmmakers with multiple works on the lists
- Jean-Luc Godard - 25
- Ingmar Bergman - 14
- Éric Rohmer - 12
- Philippe Garrel - 11
- Manoel de Oliveira - 10
- Clint Eastwood - 10
- Hong Sang-soo - 9
- Martin Scorsese - 9
- David Cronenberg - 8
- David Lynch - 8
- Bruno Dumont - 8
- Alain Resnais - 8
- Federico Fellini - 7
- Alfred Hitchcock - 7
- Nanni Moretti - 6
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul - 6
- Michelangelo Antonioni - 6
- Robert Bresson - 6
- Luis Buñuel - 6
- Abbas Kiarostami - 6
- Jacques Rivette - 6
- Roberto Rossellini - 6
- François Truffaut - 6
- André Téchiné - 6
- Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet - 6
- Brian De Palma - 5
- Hou Hsiao-Hsien - 5
- Jerzy Skolimowski - 5
- Pedro Almodóvar - 4
- Jean-Claude Brisseau - 4
- Leos Carax - 4
- Coen Brothers - 4
- Francis Ford Coppola - 4
- Claude Chabrol - 4
- Arnaud Desplechin - 4
- Abel Ferrara - 4
- Alain Guiraudie - 4
- Howard Hawks - 4
- Jia Zhangke - 4
- Jerry Lewis - 4
- Patricia Mazuy - 4
- Kenji Mizoguchi - 4
- Maurice Pialat - 4
- Satyajit Ray - 4
- Quentin Tarantino - 4
- Gus Van Sant - 4
- Luchino Visconti - 4
- Paul Thomas Anderson - 3
- Bong Joon-Ho - 3
- Marco Bellocchio - 3
- Bernardo Bertolucci - 3
- Shohei Imamura - 3
- Benoît Jacquot - 3
- Akira Kurosawa - 3
- Fritz Lang - 3
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 3
- Nicholas Ray - 3
- Jean Renoir - 3
- Steven Spielberg - 3
- M. Night Shyamalan - 3
- Lars von Trier - 3
- Orson Welles - 3
- Kelly Reichardt - 3
See also
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