About the Lists, and Index

Hi, my name is Adam, and I am a total list fiend.

In an attempt to consolidate my favorite films and such, this companion blog to Film at 11 will house my Top 11 movies of each year, along with Honorable Mentions, possibly a Least Favorite, and a select list of films I have yet to see from that year that I would like to. Films I've reviewed will get linked from here to F@11. If I have not seen enough from a given year to make a Top 11, I shall post what I have seen and liked. Dates are according to the IMDb.

If there are less than 11 flicks listed in a year, that's all I've seen or can usefully remember. And this is far from everything I've seen from every year, so there are a good amount of middling movies not listed. And a short is considered 60 minutes or less.

In addition, I will include directly below any new entries if and when they are added.

NEWEST ADDITIONS: 11/3 - Goodbye Solo (08, Bahrani), The House of Mirth (00, Davies), Three Businessmen (98, Cox), Habit (96, Fessenden), Thief (81, Mann), Grown-Ups (80, Leigh), Wise Blood (79, Huston), Cockfighter (74, Peckinpah), Privilege (67, Watkins), La ricotta [short] (63, Pasolini), The Exiles (61, Mackenzie), Good Morning (59, Ozu), Les maitres fous [short] (55, Rouch), The Flame and the Arrow (50, Tourneur), Hellzapoppin' (41, Potter).

2008

1. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
2. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
3. Hunger (Steve McQueen)
4. Two Lovers (James Gray)
5. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
6. Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
7. CJ7 (Stephen Chow)
8. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
9. Burn After Reading (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
10. Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani)
10. Sparrow (Johnnie To)

Almost There: Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt), Redbelt (David Mamet), Splinter (Toby Wilkins), Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Guillermo Del Toro), Lorna's Silence (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne), Man on Wire (James Marsh), The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel), Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green), The Order of Myths (Margaret Brown), The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson).

Have Yet to See: A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin), Che (Steven Soderbergh), 24 City (Jia Zhang-ke), Miracle at St. Anna's (Spike Lee).

2007

1. Zodiac (David Fincher)
2. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
4. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
5. The Band’s Visit (Eran Kolirin)
6. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
7. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
8. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
9. The Mist (Frank Darabont)
10. I’m Not There (Todd Haynes)
11. Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi)

Almost There: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu), Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog), Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck), Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino, Edgar Wright, Rob Zombie), In the City of Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin), Mad Detective (Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai), My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin), Son of Rambow (Garth Jennings), The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat), We Own the Night (James Gray), Stuck (Stuart Gordon).

Least Favorite: 300 (Zack Snyder).

2006

1. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
2. Borat (Larry Charles)
3. The Host (Bong Joon-ho)
4. Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme)
5. A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman)
6. Paprika (Satoshi Kon)
7. Offside (Jafar Panahi)
8. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
9. Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
10. Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
11. Slither (James Gunn)

Almost There: United 93 (Paul Greengrass), A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater), Steel City (Brian Jun), Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry), Inside Man (Spike Lee), The Last Winter (Larry Fessenden), Infamous (Douglas McGrath), Bug (William Friedkin), Exiled (Johnnie To), Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo).

Least Favorite: The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard).

Have Yet to See: Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck), Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell), Happy Feet (George Miller), Reprise (Joachim Trier).

2005

1. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
2. Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park, Steve Box)
3. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
4. 49 Up (Michael Apted)
5. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
6. King Kong (Peter Jackson)
7. Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney)
8. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
9. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
10. Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)
11. Capote (Bennett Miller)

Almost There: The Descent (Neil Marshall), Caché (Michael Haneke), L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne), The Ice Harvest (Harold Ramis), War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg), Serenity (Joss Whedon), The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black), The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones), Romantico (Mark Becker).

Least Favorite: The Longest Yard (Peter Segal).

Have Yet to See: Junebug (Phil Morrison), Sophie Scholl - The Final Days (Marc Rothemund), Pride & Prejudice (Joe Wright), The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang).

2004

1. Primer (Shane Carruth)
2. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
3. Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
4. The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
5. Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene)
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
7. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
8. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda)
9. Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
10. Sideways (Alexander Payne)
11. Kinsey (Bill Condon)

Almost There: Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson), The Aviator (Martin Scorsese), Team America: World Police (Trey Parker), Collateral (Michael Mann), Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (Danny Leiner), Cellular (David Ellis), Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), The Ladykillers (Joel Coen), The Case of the Grinning Cat [short] (Chris Marker), Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro).

Least Favorite: Meet the Fockers (Jay Roach).

Have Yet to See: Palindromes (Todd Solondz), Control Room (Jehane Noujaim), Tony Takitani (Jun Ichikawa), Vera Drake (Mike Leigh), Millions (Danny Boyle).

2003

1. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho)
2. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki)
3. Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
4. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)
5. American Splendor (Shari Springer Bergman, Robert Pulcini)
6. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen)
6. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich)
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
8. The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin)
9. A Mighty Wind (Christopher Guest)
10. Bright Leaves (Ross McElwee)

Almost There: The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet), BAADASSSSS! (Mario Van Peebles), Big Fish (Tim Burton), Dogville (Lars von Trier), Hulk (Ang Lee), Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino), End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones (Jim Fields and Michael Gramaglia), School of Rock (Richard Linklater), Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon), X2: X-Men United (Bryan Singer), Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano).

Least Favorite: Wrong Turn (Rob Schmidt).

Have Yet to See: Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall...and Spring (Kim Ki-duk), All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green), Peter Pan (P.J. Hogan), A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-woon).

2002

1. The Son (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
2. 28 Days Later... (Danny Boyle)
3. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
4. Spider (David Cronenberg)
5. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
6. Bubba Ho-tep (Don Coscarelli)
7. Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma)
8. Lost in La Mancha (Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe)
9. The Tracker (Rolf de Heer)
10. The Twilight Samurai (Yôji Yamada)
11. About a Boy (Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz)

Almost There: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson), Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore), Hero (Zhang Yimou), Bend it Like Beckham (Gurinder Chanda), Standing in the Shadows of Motown (Paul Justman).

Least Favorite: The Tuxedo (Kevin Donovan).

Have Yet to See: Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass), May (Lucky McKee), Sunshine State (John Sayles).

2001

1. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
2. Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
3. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
5. The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro)
6. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
7. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
8. Monsters, Inc. (Peter Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich)
9. Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
10. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
11. I'm Going Home (Manoel de Oliveira)

Almost There: Frailty (Bill Paxton), Y tu mama, tambien (Alfonso Cuarón), Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow), Artificial Intelligence: AI (Steven Spielberg), Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann), Shrek (Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson), Ali (Michael Mann), Fulltime Killer (Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai), Pistol Opera (Seijun Suzuki), Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis), The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke).

Least Favorite: Jurassic Park III (Jim Johnston).

Have Yet to See: L.I.E. (Michael Cuesta), Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf).

2000

1. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai)
2. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
4. The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)
5. George Washington (David Gordon Green)
6. Best in Show (Christopher Guest)
7. Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)
8. The Big Animal (Jerzy Stuhr)
9. The Heart of the World [short] (Guy Maddin)
10. Seance (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
11. Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer)

Almost There: Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe), The Gleaners & I (Agnès Varda), High Fidelity (Stephen Frears), The Legend of Rita (Volker Schlöndorff), Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku), Chicken Run (Peter Lord, Nick Park), Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel and Ethan Coen), The Yards (James Gray), Suzhou River (Lou Ye).

Least Favorite: Pay it Forward (Mimi Leder).

Have Yet to See: You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan), Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett), Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier).

1999

1. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
2. Audition (Takashi Miike)
3. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
4. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
5. American Movie (Chris Smith)
6. The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
7. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter (Errol Morris)
8. The King of Comedy (Stephen Chow)
9. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
10. Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay)
11. Election (Alexander Payne)

Almost There: The Insider (Michael Mann), All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar), Charisma (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh), Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen), Galaxy Quest (Dean Parisot), The Straight Story (David Lynch), Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne), The Limey (Steven Soderbergh), The Matrix (Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski), eXistenZ (David Cronenberg).

Least Favorite: Wild Wild West (Barry Sonnenfeld).

Have Yet to See: Go (Doug Liman), Titus (Julie Taymor), Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce), Beau Travail (Claire Denis).

1998

1. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
2. The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen)
3. After Life (Hirokazu Koreeda)
4. The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang)
5. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
6. Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
7. Hilary and Jackie (Anand Tucker)
8. The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
9. 42 Up (Michael Apted)
10. Pleasantvillle (Gary Ross)
11. Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon)

Almost There: Pi (Darren Aronofsky), Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh), Zero Effect (Jake Kasdan), Run, Lola, Run (Tom Tykwer), Little Voice (Mark Herman), Dark City (Alex Proyas), The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman), Three Businessmen (Alex Cox).

Least Favorite: Godzilla (Roland Emmerich).

Have Yet to See: The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg), Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur), The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf), Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes), The Dreamlife of Angels (Erick Zonca).

1997

1. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
2. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
3. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog)
4. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Errol Morris)
5. Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai)
6. Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano)
7. A Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
8. The Eel (Shohei Imamura)
9. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
10. Love and Death on Long Island (Richard Kwietniowski)
11. Lost Highway (David Lynch)

Almost There: Funny Games (Michael Haneke), LA Confidential (Curtis Hanson), Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld), Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith), The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo), The Fifth Element (Luc Besson), Eve's Bayou (Kasi Lemmons), The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan).

Least Favorite: Batman and Robin (Joel Schumacher).

Have Yet to See: Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell), Henry Fool (Hal Hartley), The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan), The Mirror (Jafar Panahi), The River (Tsai Ming-liang).

1996

1. A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
2. Crash (David Cronenberg)
3. When We Were Kings (Leon Gast)
4. Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
5. God of Cookery (Stephen Chow, Lik-Chi Lee)
6. La Promesse (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
7. Waiting for Guffman (Christopher Guest)
8. Comrades, Almost a Love Story (Peter Chan)
9. Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
10. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
11. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)

Almost There: Bound (The Wachowski Brothers), Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne), Fargo (Joel Coen), Trainspotting (Danny Boyle), Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton), Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (Jim Mallon), Star Trek: First Contact (Jonathan Frakes), The Frighteners (Peter Jackson), Saint Clara (Ari Folman and Ori Sivan), Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson), Habit (Larry Fessenden).

Have Yet to See: Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier), Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh), Kansas City (Robert Altman), Big Night (Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci), Mahjong (Edward Yang).

1995

1. Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo)
2. Safe (Todd Haynes)
3. Wallace and Gromit in A Close Shave [short] (Nick Park)
4. Toy Story (John Lasseter)
5. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
6. La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol)
7. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
8. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar Wai)
9. Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin)
10. Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
11. Se7en (David Fincher)

Almost There: Babe (Chris Noonan), Clueless (Amy Heckerling), La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz), Die Hard with a Vengeance (John McTiernan), Sixty Million Dollar Man (Jing Wong and Wai Man Yip), The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer), Welcome to the Doll House (Todd Solondz), Apollo 13 (Ron Howard), Heat (Michael Mann), Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam), Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii).

Have Yet to See: Underground (Emir Kusturica), Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins), The Neon Bible (Terence Davies), The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi), Clockers (Spike Lee).

1994

1. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
2. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
3. Three Colors: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
4. Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai)
5. Clerks (Kevin Smith)
6. Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
7. Drunken Master II (Liu Chia-Liang)
8. Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
9. From Beijing with Love (Stephen Chow and Lik-Chi Lee)
10. Little Odessa (James Gray)
11. Exotica (Atom Egoyan)

Almost There: The Lion King (Roger Allers and Ron Minkoff), Muriel's Wedding (P.J. Hogan), The Hudsucker Proxy (Joel Coen), Lisbon Story (Wim Wenders), Quiz Show (Robert Redford), Clean, Shaven (Lodge Kerrigan), New Nightmare (Wes Craven), True Lies (James Cameron), Bullets over Broadway (Woody Allen), Barcelona (Whit Stillman).

Have Yet to See: Satantango (Bela Tarr), Crumb (Terry Zwigoff), Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone), Faust (Jan Svankmajer), Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami).

1993

1. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
2. The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
3. The Wrong Trousers [short] (Nick Park)
4. Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
5. Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
6. Cronos (Guillermo del Toro)
7. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
8. Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee)
9. Much ado about Nothing (Kenneth Branagh)
10. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
11. The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (Ray Muller)

Almost There: Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg), Matinee (Joe Dante), In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen), The Fugitive (Andrew Davis), Iron Monkey (Yuen Woo-ping).

Have Yet to See: King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh), Fearless (Peter Weir), Madadayo (Akira Kurosawa), A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood).

1992

1. Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki)
2. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
3. The Last Bolshevik (Chris Marker)
4. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
5. Dead Alive (Peter Jackson)
6. Hard Boiled (John Woo)
7. The Player (Robert Altman)
8. Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi)
9. One False Move (Carl Franklin)
10. Minbo (Juzo Itami)
11. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)

Almost There: Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch), Man Bites Dog (Remy Belveaux, Andre Bonzel, and Benoit Poelvoorde), El Mariachi (Robert Rodriguez), Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley), Batman Returns (Tim Burton), Visions of Light (Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, and Stuart Samuels), Benny's Video (Michael Haneke), Un coeur en hiver (Claude Sautet).

Have Yet to See: The Crying Game (Neil Jordan), Howard's End (James Ivory), Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembene), Baraka (Ron Fricke), Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara).

1991

1. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
2. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
3. The Commitments (Alan Parker)
4. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
5. Dogfight (Nancy Savoca)
6. Barton Fink (Joel Coen)
7. The Rapture (Michael Tolkin)
8. Proof (Jocelyn Moorhouse)
9. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron)
10. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai)
11. Slacker (Richard Linklater)

Almost There: Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg), Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet), Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper), My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant), The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme).

Have Yet to See: JFK (Oliver Stone), Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders), The Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax), Dead Again (Kenneth Branagh), I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (Philippe Garrel).

1990

1. Close Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett)
3. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
4. Miller’s Crossing (Joel Coen)
5. An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion)
6. Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
7. Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
8. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante)
9. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
10. La Femme Nikita (Luc Besson)
11. Jacob’s Ladder (Adrian Lyne)

Almost There: Darkman (Sam Raimi), Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven), Wild at Heart (David Lynch).

Have Yet to See: King of New York (Abel Ferrara), Bullet in the Head (John Woo), Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh), Trust (Hal Hartley), Texasville (Peter Bogdanovich).

1989

1. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
2. Heathers (Michael Lehmann)
3. The Killer (John Woo)
4. Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch)
5. Sweetie (Jane Campion)
6. The Abyss (James Cameron)
7. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway)
8. Creature Comforts [short] (Nick Park)
9. The Icicle Thief (Maurizio Nichetti)
10. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
11. sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)

Almost There: Roger & Me (Michael Moore), Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen), Batman (Tim Burton), Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson), The Tall Guy (Mel Smith), Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (Werner Herzog), A Grand Day Out [short] (Nick Park), Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Aki Kaurismaki), How to Get Ahead in Advertising (Bruce Robinson).

Have Yet to See: Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki), The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Casualties of War (Brian De Palma), Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano), Black Rain (Shohei Imamura).

1988

1. Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg)
2. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. Beetle Juice (Tim Burton)
4. The Vanishing (George Sluizer)
5. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis)
6. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam)
7. A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton)
8. A Taxing Woman's Return (Juzo Itami)
9. The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)
10. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies)
11. As Tears Go By (Wong Kar Wai)

Almost There: Bull Durham (Ron Shelton), Akira (Katsuhiro Ôtomo), The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (David Zucker), Die Hard (John McTiernan), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman), They Live (John Carpenter), Hairspray (John Waters), A Short Film about Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski), A Short Film about Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Medea (Lars von Trier).

Have Yet to See: Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar), Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears), Talk Radio (Oliver Stone), Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica).

1987

1. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
2. Raising Arizona (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
3. Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi)
4. The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara)
5. Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth)
6. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)
7. Where is the Friend’s House? (Abbas Kiarostami)
8. RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)
9. Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)
10. A Taxing Woman (Juzo Itami)
11. Walker (Alex Cox)

Almost There: Au revoir, les enfants (Louis Malle), Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg), Ishtar (Elaine May), Missile (Frederick Wiseman), The Dead (John Huston), The Man who Planted Trees [short] (Frederic Back), The Untouchables (Brian De Palma), Yeelen (Souleymane Cisse), Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou), Straight to Hell (Alex Cox), Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme).

Have Yet to See: Barfly (Barbet Schroeder), Radio Days (Woody Allen), Law of Desire (Pedro Almodovar), Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Eric Rohmer), OC & Stiggs (Robert Altman).

1986

1. The Fly (David Cronenberg)
2. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
3. Sherman's March (Ross McElwee)
4. Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)
5. Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter)
6. The Horse Thief (Tian Zhuangzhuang)
7. Manhunter (Michael Mann)
8. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (John Hughes)
9. Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan)
10. Matador (Pedro Almodovar)
11. Aliens (James Cameron)

Almost There: The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir), She's Gotta Have It (Spike Lee), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Leonard Nimoy), Scene of the Crime (André Téchiné), Melo (Alain Resnais).

Have Yet to See: Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox), The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer), The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky), At Close Range (James Foley), Something Wild (Jonathan Demme).

1985

1. Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
2. Tampopo (Juzo Itami)
3. 28 Up (Michael Apted)
4. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
5. After Hours (Martin Scorsese)
6. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
7. The Time to Live and the Time to Die (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
8. Day of the Dead (George Romero)
9. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton)
10. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader)
11. Mix-up (Francoise Romand)

Almost There: The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen), A Zed & Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway), Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky), Police Story (Jackie Chan), Witness (Peter Weir), Fright Night (Tom Holland), The Breakfast Club (John Hughes), Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon), No End (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Come and See (Elim Klimov), Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant).

Have Yet to See: Shoah (Claude Lanzmann), My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears), Caravaggio (Derek Jarman), Phenomena (Dario Argento), Vagabond (Agnes Varda).

1984

1. Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
2. This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
3. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
4. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
5. Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
6. The Funeral (Juzo Itami)
7. The Brother from Another Planet (John Sayles)
8. Repo Man (Alex Cox)
9. The Terminator (James Cameron)
10. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
11. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (W.D. Richter)

Almost There: Blood Simple (Joel Coen), Love Streams (John Cassavetes), Top Secret! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker), Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige), The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer [short] (Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay, and Timothy Quay), Secret Honor (Robert Altman), A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven), Sixteen Candles (John Hughes), All of Me (Carl Reiner), Amadeus (Milos Forman), A Summer at Grandpa's (Hou Hsiao-hsien).

Have Yet to See: Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen), Body Double (Brian De Palma), Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone), The Cotton Club (Francis Ford Coppola).

1983

1. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
2. Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
3. Local Hero (Bill Forsyth)
4. The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam)
5. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
6. A nos amours (Maurice Pialat)
7. Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
8. Zelig (Woody Allen)
9. The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)
10. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
11. The Fourth Man (Paul Verhoeven)

Almost There: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand), L'Argent (Robert Bresson), Project A (Jackie Chan), The Dresser (Peter Yates), Christine (John Carpenter), The Big Chill (Lawrence Kasdan), The Man with Two Brains (Carl Reiner), Twilight Zone: The Movie [segment four] (George Miller), The Store (Frederick Wiseman), The Hunger (Tony Scott), The Boys from Fengkuei (Hou Hsiao-hsien).

Have Yet to See: A Christmas Story (Bob Clark), The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman), Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola), El Sur (Victor Erice).

1982

1. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
2. The Thing (John Carpenter)
3. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
4. Diner (Barry Levinson)
5. Chan is Missing (Wayne Wang)
6. Moonlighting (Jerzy Skolimowski)
7. Burden of Dreams (Les Blank)
8. Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper)
9. White Dog (Samuel Fuller)
10. Eating Raoul (Paul Bartel)
11. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicolas Meyer)

Almost There: The Draughtsman’s Contract (Peter Greenaway), Fall Guy (Kinji Fukasaku), Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling), First Blood (Ted Kotcheff), Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio), Tootsie (Sydney Pollack), Barbarosa (Fred Schepisi), Tenebre (Dario Argento), The Atomic Café (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty), The Verdict (Sidney Lumet), Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris).

Have Yet to See: Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman), My Favorite Year (Richard Benjamin), Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Night of the Shooting Stars (Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani), The Shape of Things (Wim Wenders).

1981

1. An American Werewolf in London (John Landis)
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg)
3. Mad Max 2 (George Miller)
4. Cutter's Way (Ivan Passer)
5. Coup de Torchon (Bertrand Tavernier)
6. Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam)
7. Southern Comfort (Walter Hill)
8. The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi)
9. My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle)
10. Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)
11. Thief (Michael Mann)

Almost There: Escape from New York (John Carpenter), Gallipoli (Peter Weir), Tango [short] (Zbigniew Rybczynski), Outland (Peter Hyams), Stripes (Ivan Reitman).

Have Yet to See: Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Blow Out (Brian De Palma), Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet), Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen), Pennies from Heaven (Herbert Ross).

1980

1. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
2. Airplane! (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker)
3. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
4. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
5. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
6. Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma)
7. The Blues Brothers (John Landis)
8. The Stunt Man (Richard Rush)
9. Return of the Secaucus 7 (John Sayles)
10. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
11. Grown-Ups (Mike Leigh)

Almost There: Altered States (Ken Russell), The Fog (John Carpenter), Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg), The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty), Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe [short] (Les Blank), Lightning over Water (Nicholas Ray and Wim Wenders), Hopscotch (Ronald Neame), Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper).

Have Yet to See: Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa), The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller), The Long Riders (Walter Hill), Mon Oncle d'Amerique (Alain Resnais), The Changeling (Peter Medak).

1979

1. Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
2. The Brood (David Cronenberg)
3. Alien (Ridley Scott)
4. Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
5. Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam)
6. The Kids are Alright (Jeff Stein)
7. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse)
8. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
9. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
10. Vengeance is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
11. Wise Blood (John Huston)

Almost There: The In-Laws (Arthur Hiller), Rock 'n' Roll High School (Allan Arkush), Breaking Away (Peter Yates), Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola), The Warriors (Walter Hill), Kramer vs. Kramer (Robert Benton), Fast Company (David Cronenberg), Woyzeck (Werner Herzog), Being There (Hal Ashby), The Butterfly Murders (Tsui Hark), Last Embrace (Jonathan Demme).

Have Yet to See: Real Life (Albert Brooks), The Muppet Movie (James Frawley), Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog), The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder).

1978

1. The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi)
2. The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese)
3. Halloween (John Carpenter)
4. National Lampoon's Animal House (John Landis)
5. Dawn of the Dead (George Romero)
6. Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris)
7. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman)
8. The Fury (Brian De Palma)
9. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
10. Five Deadly Venoms (Chang Cheh)
11. Who'll Stop the Rain? (Karol Reisz)

Almost There: The Buddy Holly Story (Steve Rash), Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick), Superman (Richard Donner), Revenge of the Pink Panther (Blake Edwards), Interiors (Woody Allen), The Driver (Walter Hill), The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski), Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard).

Have Yet to See: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Liu Chia-Liang), Blue Collar (Paul Schrader), In a Year of 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Bertrand Blier), Watership Down (Martin Rosen).

1977

1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
2. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
3. Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
4. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
5. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
6. Citizens Band (Jonathan Demme)
7. 3 Women (Robert Altman)
8. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
9. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
10. Martin (George A. Romero)
11. Star Wars (George Lucas)

Almost There: The American Friend (Wim Wenders), The Last Wave (Peter Weir), Rabid (David Cronenberg), The Spy who Loved Me (Lewis Gilbert), 21 Up (Michael Apted), The Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis), Slap Shot (George Roy Hill), One Sings, the Other Doesn't (Agnes Varda), The Duellists (Ridley Scott), The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson), The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko).

Have Yet to See: Opening Night (John Cassavetes), New York, New York (Martin Scorsese), Sorcerer (William Friedkin), Providence (Alain Resnais), News from Home (Chantal Akerman).

1976

1. The Tenant (Roman Polanski)
2. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
3. Rocky (John G. Avildsen)
4. Carrie (Brian De Palma)
5. Harlan County U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
6. All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula)
7. Mikey and Nickey (Elaine May)
8. Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter)
9. Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
10. Bound for Glory (Hal Ashby)
11. Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Almost There: The Front (Herbert Ross), Network (Sidney Lumet), Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (Robert Altman), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Herbert Ross), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (Blake Edwards).

Have Yet to See: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman), Small Change (Francois Truffaut), The Shootist (Don Siegel), Stay Hungry (Bob Rafelson), 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci).

1975

1. Nashville (Robert Altman)
2. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam)
4. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
5. Night Moves (Arthur Penn)
6. Love and Death (Woody Allen)
7. Welfare (Frederick Wiseman)
8. Xala (Ousmane Sembene)
9. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
10. Deep Red (Dario Argento)
11. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman)

Almost There: Shivers (David Cronenberg), Two Solutions for One Problem [short] (Abbas Kiarostami), Grey Gardens (Muffie Meyer, Susan Froemke, David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Ellen Hovde), The Man who Would Be King (John Huston), French Connection II (John Frankenheimer), God Told Me To (Larry Cohen).

Have Yet to See: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta), The Killer Elite (Sam Peckinpah), Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa), The Day of the Locust (John Schlesinger), Mandingo (Richard Fleischer).

1974

1. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
2. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
3. California Split (Robert Altman)
4. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
5. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
6. Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman)
7. Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
8. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
9. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
10. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)
11. Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Almost There: Dark Star (John Carpenter), Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma), The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg), F for Fake (Orson Welles), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent), Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah), Black Christmas (Bob Clark), Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks), Parade (Jacques Tati), Cockfighter (Monte Hellman).

Have Yet to See: Hearts and Minds (Peter David), Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle), Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Stavisky (Alain Resnais).

1973

1. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
2. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
3. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
4. Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
5. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
6. Sleeper (Woody Allen)
7. American Graffiti (George Lucas)
8. The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy)
9. Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse)
10. The Sting (George Roy Hill)
11. Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg)

Almost There: Serpico (Sidney Lumet), Sisters (Brian De Palma), The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice), Fantastic Planet (Rene Laloux), O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson), Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich), Turkish Delight (Paul Verhoeven), The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann), Wattstax (Mel Stuart), Lady Snowblood (Fujita Toshiya).

Have Yet to See: Day for Night (Francois Truffaut), Amarcord (Federico Fellini), The Last Detail (Hal Ashby), The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache), The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky).

1972

1. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
2. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
3. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
4. Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. Fat City (John Huston)
6. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
7. Play it Again, Sam (Herbert Ross)
8. The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May)
9. Last House on the Left (Wes Craven)
10. The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson)
11. Images (Robert Altman)

Almost There: Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), The Ruling Class (Peter Medak), Heat (Paul Morrissey), Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill), Roma (Federico Fellini), Boxcar Bertha (Martin Scorsese), Season of the Witch (George A. Romero).

Have Yet to See: Across 110th Street (Barry Shear), Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer), What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich), The Merchant of Four Seasons and The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder).

1971

1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
2. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
3. Basic Training (Frederick Wiseman)
4. THX-1138 (George Lucas)
5. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
6. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
7. The French Connection (William Friedkin)
8. Mon oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra)
9. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
10. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
11. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)

Almost There: Duel (Steven Spielberg), W.R. – Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev), A New Leaf (Elaine May), Get Carter (Mike Hodges), Klute (Alan J. Pakula), Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes), Shaft (Gordon Parks), Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah), The Hospital (Arthur Hiller), Trafic (Jacques Tati).

Have Yet to See: Macbeth (Roman Polanski), Duck You Sucker (Sergio Leone), Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo), Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog), Bay of Blood (Mario Bava).

1970

1. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
2. MASH (Robert Altman)
3. Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh)
4. Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
5. Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol)
6. Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma)
7. Hospital (Fredrick Wiseman)
8. Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
9. Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman)
10. Performance (Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg)
11. Le cercle rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)

Almost There: Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Ranier Werner Fassbinder), Patton (Franklin Schaffner), Little Big Man (Arthur Penn), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah), Catch-22 (Mike Nichols), Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin), Wanda (Barbara Loden), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder), The Little Theater of Jean Renoir (Jean Renoir).

Have Yet to See: El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky), Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray), Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer), The Garden of the Fitzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica), Trash (Paul Morrissey).

1969

1. Kes (Ken Loach)
2. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
3. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
5. La femme infidele (Claude Chabrol)
6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter Hunt)
7. Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler)
8. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
9. Putney Swope (Robert Downey)
10. Z (Costa-Gavras)
11. Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen)

Almost There: Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Alice's Restaurant (Arthur Penn), Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper), Age of Consent (Michael Powell), The Wedding Party (Brian De Palma, Wilford Leach, Cynthia Munroe), Une Femme Douce (Robert Bresson), Law and Order (Frederick Wiseman), Blind Beast (Yasuzo Masumura), Boy (Nagisa Oshima).

Have Yet to See: Andrei Roublev (Andrei Tarkovsky), My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer), The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls), The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman), Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda).

1968

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Night of the Living Dead (George Romero)
3. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
4. High School (Frederick Wiseman)
5. Mandabi (Ousmane Sembene)
6. The Plot against Harry (Michael Roemer, release in 1989)
7. Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomas Gutierrez Alea)
8. Death by Hanging (Nagisa Oshima)
9. Stolen Kisses (Francois Truffaut)
10. Monterey Pop (D.A. Pennebaker)
11. The Producers (Mel Brooks)

Almost There: Les Biches (Claude Chabrol), If... (Lindsay Anderson), Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin), Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone), Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves), Bullitt (Peter Yates), Planet of the Apes (Franklin Schaffner), Offon [short] (Scott Bartlett), Petulia (Richard Lester).

Have Yet to See: The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov), The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey), Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (William Greaves), Yellow Submarine (George Dunning), Rachel, Rachel (Paul Newman).

1967

1. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
2. Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)
3. Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)
4. Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville)
5. Don’t Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker)
6. The Firemen’s Ball (Milos Forman)
7. Point Blank (John Boorman)
8. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
9. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, Agnes Varda)
10. In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks)
11. The Shooting (Monte Hellman)

Almost There: The Flim-Flam Man (Irvin Kershner), The Graduate (Mike Nichols), The President’s Analyst (Theodore J. Flicker), Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard), Mouchette (Robert Bresson), The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich), The Fearless Vampire Killers (Roman Polanski), Wait Until Dark (Terence Young), You Only Live Twice (Lewis Gilbert), Privilege (Peter Watkins).

Have Yet to See: The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó), Marat/Sade (Peter Brook), La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer), Accident (Joseph Losey), 2 or 3 Things I Know about Her (Jean-Luc Godard).

1966

1. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
2. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
4. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
5. Masculin feminine (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
7. The Rise to Power of Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
8. Black Girl [short] (Ousmane Sembene)
9. Wings (Larisa Sheptiko)
10. Fighting Elegy (Seijun Suzuki)
11. King of Hearts (Philippe de Broca)

Almost There: Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel), Fahrenheit 451 (Francois Truffaut), Made in USA (Jean-Luc Godard), What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (Woody Allen), Borom sarret [short] (Ousmane Sembene), How the Grinch Stole Christmas! [short] (Chuck Jones), Seconds (John Frankenheimer), Seven Women (John Ford), The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto), Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki).

Have Yet to See: The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura), Kill, Baby...Kill! (Mario Bava), The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara), A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch).

1965

1. The War Game [short] (Peter Watkins)
2. Simon of the Desert [short] (Luis Bunuel)
3. Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
5. For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone)
6. Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
7. Ride in the Whirlwind (Monte Hellman)
8. It Happened Here (Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo)
9. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics [short] (Chuck Jones)
11. The Man who Had His Hair Cut Short (Andre Delvaux)

Almost There: The Spy who came in From the Cold (Martin Ritt), Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger), Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein), Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles), Help! (Richard Lester), Le Mystère Koumiko [short] (Chris Marker), Kustom Kar Kommandos [short] (Kenneth Anger), Thunderball (Terence Young).

Have Yet to See: Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman), The Saragossa Manuscript (Wojciech Has), Darling (John Schlesinger), Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa), Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda).

1964

1. A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
2. Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
3. The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller)
4. Culloden [short] (Peter Watkins)
5. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
6. Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
7. A Shot in the Dark (Blake Edwards)
8. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)
9. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
11. Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha)

Almost There: The Soft Skin (Francois Truffaut), The Flower and the Angry Waves (Seijun Suzuki), Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock), Seven Up! [short] (Paul Almond), A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone), Zulu (Cy Endfield), Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson).

Have Yet to See: Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara), Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi), I am Cuba (Mikheil Kalatozishvili), The Gospel According to Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô).

1963

1. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
2. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
4. The House is Black [short] (Forugh Farrokhzad)
5. An Actor's Revenge (Kon Ichikawa)
6. The Haunting (Robert Wise)
7. Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
8. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. The Great Escape (John Sturges)
10. La ricotta [short] (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
11. From Russia with Love (Terence Young)

Almost There: The Servant (Joseph Losey), Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy), The Silence (Ingmar Bergman), La petit soldat (Jean-Luc Godard), Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki), Hud (Martin Ritt), The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards).

Have Yet to See: Charade (Stanley Donen), The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura), The Leopard (Luchino Visconti), Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard).

1962

1. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
2. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
3. La Jetée [short] (Chris Marker)
4. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
5. The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
6. Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski)
7. I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi)
8. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman)
9. Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah)
10. Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville)
11. The Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)

Almost There: Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut), Dr. No (Terence Young), Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky), My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard), Mafioso (Alberto Lattuada), The Trial (Orson Welles), To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan).

Have Yet to See: Advise and Consent (Otto Preminger), Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa), Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi), L'Ecclise (Michelangelo Antonioni), The Elusive Corporal (Jean Renoir).

1961

1. Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi)
2. Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
3. Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)
4. The Hustler (Robert Rossen)
5. Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller)
6. The Exiles (Kent Mackenzie)
7. Too Late Blues (John Cassavetes)
8. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
9. One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder)
10. The Ladies’ Man (Jerry Lewis)
11. The Innocents (Jack Clayton)

Almost There: A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard), Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman), Divorce, Italian Style (Pietro Germi), Two Rode Together (John Ford), The Fat and the Lean [short] (Roman Polanski), The Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson).

Have Yet to See: Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards), El Cid (Anthony Mann), One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando), King of Kings (Nicolas Ray), The Misfits (John Huston).

1960

1. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
3. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
5. The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
6. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
7. The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
8. Eyes without a Face (Georges Franju)
9. The Steamroller and the Violin [short] (Andrei Tarkovsky)
10. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
11. Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut)

Almost There: The Devil's Eye (Ingmar Bergman), Zazie dans le metro (Louis Malle), The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges), Jigoku (Nobuo Nakagawa).

Have Yet to See: Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti), Late Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu), The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa), Black Sunday (Mario Bava), The Young One (Luis Buñuel).

1959

1. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
2. The Four Hundred Blows (Francois Truffaut)
3. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Shadows (John Cassavetes)
5. Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)
6. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
7. Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu)
8. Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
9. The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb (Fritz Lang)
10. Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus)
11. Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais)

Almost There: Nazarín (Luis Buñuel), Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi), The Mouse That Roared (Jack Arnold), Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson).

Have Yet to See: Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger), The Tingler (William Castle), The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray), Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk), Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu).

1958

1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
3. Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu)
4. Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
5. The Horse’s Mouth (Ronald Neame)
6. Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda)
7. The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
8. The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
9. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
10. Party Girl(Nicholas Ray)
11. The Magician (Ingmar Bergman)

Almost There: Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli), Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle), Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars’ Plot (Sergei Eisenstein), The Fly (Kurt Neumann), Fiend without a Face (Arthur Crabtree), The Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer), Gigi (Vincente Minnelli), Brink of Life (Ingmar Bergman), Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol), A Movie [short] (Bruce Conner).

Have Yet to See: Man of the West (Anthony Mann), Separate Tables (Delbert Mann), The Music Room (Satyajit Ray), Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher), The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller).

1957

1. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
3. The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
4. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
5. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
6. What’s Opera, Doc? [short] (Chuck Jones)
7. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
8. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
9. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
10. Curse of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
11. Lured (Douglas Sirk)

Almost There: 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet), A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan), White Night (Luchino Visconti), Run of the Arrow (Samuel Fuller), A King in New York (Charles Chaplin), Charlotte and Veronique, or All the Boys are Called Patrick [short] (Jean-Luc Godard).

Have Yet to See: Aparajito (Satyajit Ray), Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder), Funny Face (Stanley Donen), 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves), Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray).

1956

1. The Searchers (John Ford)
2. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
4. Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
5. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
6. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
7. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)
8. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
9. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
10. Elena and her Men (Jean Renoir)
11. Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox)

Almost There: Attack! (Robert Aldrich), Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang), The Court Jester (Norman Panama, Melvin Frank), The Man who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock), Autumn Leaves (Robert Aldrich), While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang).

Have Yet to See: The Girl Can’t Help It (Frank Tashlin), The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa), Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli), Bus Stop (Joshua Logan), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (Nunnally Johnson).

1955

1. Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
2. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
3. All that Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
4. French Cancan(Jean Renoir)
5. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Bunuel)
6. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
7. Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
8. Rififi (Jules Dassin)
9. Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
10. One Froggy Evening [short] (Chuck Jones)
11. Night and Fog [short] (Alain Resnais)

Almost There: Rebel without a Cause (Nicholas Ray), East of Eden (Elia Kazan), Lola Montes (Max Ophüls), The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick), Lady and the Tramp (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske), Dreams (Ingmar Bergman), Princess Yang Kwei Fei (Kenji Mizoguchi), Moonfleet (Fritz Lang), House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller), Les maitres fous (Jean Rouch).

Have Yet to See: The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger), Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse), Summertime (David Lean), Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin).

1954

1. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
3. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4. Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
5. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
6. La Strada (Federico Fellini)
7. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
8. Godzilla (Ishiro Honda)
9. La Pointe-courte (Agnes Varda)
10. Track of the Cat (William Wellman)
11. Human Desire (Fritz Lang)

Almost There: Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock), The Caine Mutiny (Edward Dmytryk), Them! (Gordon Douglas), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Richard Fleischer), Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold), Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome [short] (Kenneth Anger).

Have Yet to See: Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse), Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk), A Star is Born (George Cukor), Hobson’s Choice (David Lean).

1953

1. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
2. Ugetsu monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (Jacques Tati)
4. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks)
5. Duck Amuck [short] (Chuck Jones)
6. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
7. Madame de... (Max Ophüls)
8. The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)
9. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli)
10. Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)
11. A Geisha (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Almost There: I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock), The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann), The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino), The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot), Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman), Beat the Devil (John Huston), Duck Dodgers in the 24 ½th Century (Chuck Jones), Bully for Bugs (Chuck Jones), The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang), The Lady without Camelias (Michelangelo Antonioni).

Have Yet to See: El and The Brute (Luis Buñuel), Summer with Monika (Ingmar Bergman), I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini), The Actress (George Cukor).

1952

1. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly)
2. The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3. Casque d’or (Jacques Becker)
4. The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
5. The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice (Yasujiro Ozu)
6. Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls)
7. Limelight (Charles Chaplin)
8. Feed the Kitty [short] (Chuck Jones)
9. The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Orson Welles)
10. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)
11. Park Row (Samuel Fuller)

Almost There: Forbidden Games (Rene Clement), High Noon (Fred Zinnemann), Clash by Night (Fritz Lang), Bend of the River (Anthony Mann), Pat and Mike (George Cukor), Rabbit Seasoning [short] (Chuck Jones), Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang), The Big Sky (Howard Hawks).

Have Yet to See: Ruby Gentry (King Vidor), On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray), Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa).

1951

1. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
2. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
3. The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)
4. Repast (Mikio Naruse)
5. The Thing from Another World (Christian Nyby)
6. An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)
7. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
8. The River (Jean Renoir)
9. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
10. The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton)
11. Rabbit Fire [short] (Chuck Jones)

Almost There: Fixed Bayonets! (Samuel Fuller), The Idiot (Akira Kurosawa), The African Queen (John Huston), The Browning Version (Anthony Asquith), Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske).

Have Yet to See: Detective Story (William Wyler), Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De Sica), The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick), Tales of Hoffmann (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), The Prowler (Joseph Losey).

1950

1. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
2. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
3. Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
4. Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)
5. The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)
6. Rabbit of Seville [short] (Chuck Jones)
7. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
8. Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan)
9. The Furies (Anthony Mann)
10. Stars in My Crown (Jacques Tourneur)
11. Night and the City (Jules Dassin)

Almost There: All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Cinderella (Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi), D.O.A. (Rudolph Mate), Harvey (Henry Koster), House by the River (Fritz Lang), Guernica [short] (Alan Resnais and Robert Hessens), Born Yesterday (George Cukor), The Baron of Arizona (Samuel Fuller), The Flame and the Arrow (Jacques Tourneur).

Have Yet to See: Wincester ‘73 (Anthony Mann), The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston), Orpheus (Jean Cocteau), Les Enfants terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville), The Breaking Point (Michael Curtiz).

1949

1. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
2. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
3. Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)
4. Jour de Fête (Jacques Tati)
5. The Great Madcap (Luis Buñuel)
6. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
7. The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
8. Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)
9. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford)
10. Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin)
11. The Reckless Moment (Max Ophuls)

Almost There: Caught (Max Ophuls), I Shot Jesse James (Samuel Fuller), Crows and Sparrows (Junli Zheng), The Small Back Room (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), Under Capricorn (Alfred Hitchcock), Knock on Any Door (Nicholas Ray).

Have Yet to See: White Heat (Raoul Walsh), Twelve O’Clock High (Henry King), Adam’s Rib (George Cukor), I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks), La Silence de la Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville).

1948

1. Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
2. The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica)
3. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
4. Raw Deal (Anthony Mann)
5. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
6. Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle)
7. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
8. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed)
10. Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
11. Louisiana Story (Robert Flaherty)

Almost There: Port of Call (Ingmar Bergman), Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock), Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa), Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges), Secret Beyond the Door (Fritz Lang), The Naked City (Jules Dassin).

Have Yet to See: Red River (Howard Hawks), Oliver Twist (David Lean), They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray), La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti), Moonrise (Frank Borzage).

1947

1. Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
2. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
3. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
4. Born to Kill (Robert Wise)
5. Pursued (Raoul Walsh)
6. The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
7. Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
8. T-Men (Anthony Mann)
9. Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir)
10. Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
11. Fireworks [short] (Kenneth Anger)

Almost There: Desperate (Anthony Mann), The Paradine Case (Alfred Hitchcock).

Have Yet to See: Body and Soul (Robert Rossen), Quai des Orfevres (Henri-Georges Clouzot), Brute Force (Jules Dassin), Gentlemen’s Agreement (Elia Kazan), Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway).

1946

1. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
2. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
4. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
5. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
6. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett)
7. Great Expectations (David Lean)
8. Utamaro and His Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi)
9. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery [short](Bob Clampett)
10. Crisis (Ingmar Bergman)
11. Green for Danger (Sidney Gilliat)

Almost There: Diary of a Chambermaid (Jean Renoir), Book Revue [short] (Bob Clampett), Cloak and Dagger (Fritz Lang), A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), The Stranger (Orson Welles), Ritual in Transfigured Time [short] (Maya Deren).

Have Yet to See: Gilda (Charles Vidor), Duel in the Sun (King Vidor), No Regrets for Our Youth (Akira Kurosawa), Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica), The Killers (Richard Siodmak).

1945

1. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne)
2. Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)
3. Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
4. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
5. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
6. I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
7. Les dames du bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson)
8. Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl)
9. Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson)
10. Hare Tonic [short] (Chuck Jones)
11. Draftee Daffy [short] (Bob Clampett)

Almost There: Hare Conditioned [short] (Chuck Jones), Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock).

Have Yet to See: Objective, Burma! (Raoul Walsh), The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder), Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz), They Were Expendable (John Ford), The Southerner (Jean Renoir).

1944

1. Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Sergei Eisenstein)
2. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges)
3. Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang)
4. Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)
5. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
6. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
7. Laura (Otto Preminger)
8. The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)
9. Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra)
10. At Land [short] (Maya Deren)
11. Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk)

Almost There: Phantom Lady (Robert Sidomak), Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock), Gaslight (George Cukor).

Have Yet to See: A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), The Children are Watching Us (Vittorio De Sica), Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli), Henry V (Laurence Olivier), Curse of the Cat People (Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise).

1943

1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
2. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
4. I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
5. Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
6. Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
7. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
8. Hangmen Also Die (Fritz Lang)
9. The Ox-Bow Incident (William Wellman)
10. The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
11. Who Killed Who [short] (Tex Avery)

Almost There: Sugata Sanshiro (Akira Kurosawa), Meshes of the Afternoon [short] (Maya Deren), Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs [short] (Bob Clampett), Super-Rabbit [short] (Chuck Jones).

Have Yet to See: The More the Merrier (George Stevens), Air Force (Howard Hawks), The Human Comedy (Clarence Brown), A Night to Remember (Richard Wallace).

1942

1. To Be or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
2. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
3. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
4. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
5. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
6. One of Our Aircraft is Missing (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
7. Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. Listen to Britain [short] (Humphrey Jennings)
9. A Tale of Two Kitties [short] (Bob Clampett)
10. Bambi (David Hand)
11. The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall [short] (Chuck Jones)

Almost There: Yankee Doodle Dandy (Michael Curtiz).

Have Yet to See: Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy), Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper), In Which We Serve (Noel Coward and David Lean), My Favorite Blonde (Sidney Lanfield), The Major and the Minor (Billy Wilder).

1941

1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2. Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges)
3. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
4. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
5. Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
6. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)
7. 49th Parallel (Michael Powell)
8. Tortoise Beats Hare [short] (Tex Avery)
9. Hellzapoppin' (H.C. Potter)
10. San Pietro [short] (John Huston)
11. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)

Almost There: The Wolf Man (George Waggner), The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle).

Have Yet to See: The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi), The Sea Wolf (Michael Curtiz), How Green was My Valley (John Ford), Meet John Doe (Frank Capra), The Little Foxes (William Wyler).

1940

1. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
2. Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
3. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
4. The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
5. Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske)
6. Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage)
8. Fantasia (various)
9. The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline)
10. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
11. Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner)

Almost There: Contraband (Michael Powell), The Thief of Baghdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan), My Little Chickadee (Edward F. Cline), The Mark of Zorro (Rouben Mamoulian), The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges), The Return of Frank James (Fritz Lang), The Letter (William Wyler).

Have Yet to See: They Drive By Night (Raoul Walsh), Kitty Foyle (Sam Wood), Northwest Passage (King Vidor), Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen), The Long Voyage Home (John Ford).

1939

1. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
2. Stagecoach (John Ford)
3. The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3. The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)
4. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
5. Daybreak (Marcel Carne)
6. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
7. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)
8. Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
9. Destry Rides Again (George Stevens)
10. Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming)
11. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (H.C Potter)

Have Yet to See: Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding), The Women (George Cukor), The Spy in Black (Michael Powell), Gunga Din (George Stevens).

1938

1. La bete humaine (Jean Renoir)
2. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
3. Holiday (George Cukor)
4. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz and William Keighley)
5. Jezebel (William Wyler)
6. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz)
8. Porky in Wackyland [short] (Bob Clampett)

Have Yet to See: Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev), You Can’t Take it with You (Frank Capra), Port of Shadows (Marcel Carne), Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl), The Mad Miss Manton (Leigh Jason).

1937

1. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
2. History is Made at Night (Frank Borzage)
3. You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
4. Stage Door (Gregory La Cava)
5. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (various)
6. Pepe le Moko (Julien Duvivier)
7. The Great Garrick (James Whale)
8. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
9. Shall We Dance (Mark Sandrich)
10. The Edge of the World (Michael Powell)
11. Mannequin (Frank Borzage)

Almost There: Lost Horizon (Frank Capra), Young and Innocent (Alfred Hitchcock).

Have Yet to See: Nothing Sacred (William Wellman), Angel (Ernst Lubitsch), Topper (Norman Z. McLeod), Stella Dallas (King Vidor), Captains Courageous (Victor Fleming).

1936

1. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
2. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
3. Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4. A Day in the Country [short] (Jean Renoir)
5. Swing Time (George Stevens)
6. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
7. Desire (Frank Borzage)
8. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. Come and Get It (Howard Hawks and William Wyler)
10. Rose Hobart [short] (Joseph Cornell)
11. The Lower Depths (Jean Renoir)

Have Yet to See: Dodsworth (William Wyler), Follow the Fleet (Mark Sandrich), Camille (George Cukor), Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi), Things to Come (William Cameron Menzies).

1935

1. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
2. A Night at the Opera (Edmund Goulding and Sam Wood)
3. The Devil is a Woman (Josef Von Sternberg)
4. Top Hat (Mark Sandrich)
5. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Crime and Punishment (Josef Von Sternberg)
7. Mad Love (Carl Freund)
8. Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd)

Have Yet to See: The Informer (John Ford), Toni (Jean Renoir), Anna Karenina (Clarence Brown), Roberta (William A. Seiter).

1934

1. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo)
2. The Scarlet Empress (Josef Von Sternberg)
3. A Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)
4. It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
5. Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)
6. The Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich)
7. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
8. Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty)
9. Judge Priest (John Ford)
10. It’s a Gift (Norman Z. McLeod)
11. The Man who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)

Have Yet to See: Imitation of Life (John M. Stahl), Sadie McKee (Clarence Brown), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (Sidney Franklin), Liliom (Fritz Lang).

1933

1. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
2. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schodessack)
3. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
4. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Frank Capra)
5. 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon)
6. Dinner at Eight (George Cukor)
7. Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (Lewis Milestone)
8. Land without Bread [short] (Luis Bunuel)
9. Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)
10. The Fatal Glass of Beer [short] (Clyde Bruckman)
11. The Emperor Jones (Dudley Murphy)

Almost There: The Song of Songs (Rouben Mamoulian), Flying Down to Rio (Thronton Freeland).

Have Yet to See: Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy), Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch), Passing Fancy (Yasujiro Ozu), Queen Christine (Rouben Mamoulian).

1932

1. Freaks (Tod Browning)
2. I Was Born, But… (Yasujiro Ozu)
3. Scarface (Howard Hawks)
4. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
5. Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)
6. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
7. Horse Feathers (Norman Z. McLeod)
8. Blonde Venus (Josef Von Sternberg)
9. Wooden Crosses (Raymond Bernard)
10. Happiness (Alekandr Medvedkin)
11. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)

Almost There: Shanghai Express (Josef Von Sternberg), Number Seventeen (Alfred Hitchcock), Broken Lullaby (Ernst Lubitsch).

Have Yet to See: I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy), The Old Dark House (James Whale), A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage), Red Dust (Victor Fleming), One Hour with You (Ernst Lubitsch).

1931

1. M (Fritz Lang)
2. City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
3. Le Million (René Clair)
4. La Chienne (Jean Renoir)
5. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (F.W. Murnau)
6. Dishonored (Josef Von Sternberg)
7. Frankenstein (James Whale)
8. Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod)
9. Kameradschaft (G.W. Pabst)
10. Arrowsmith (John Ford)
11. À nous la liberté (René Clair)

Almost There: Rich and Strange (Alfred Hitchcock), Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy), Mata Hari (George Fitzmaurice), Susan Lenox (Her Rise and Fall) (Robert Z. Leonard).

Have Yet to See: The Public Enemy (William Wellman), The Front Page (Lewis Milestone), The Champ (King Vidor), Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra), The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch).

1930

1. The Blue Angel (Josef Von Sternberg)
2. A propos de Nice [short] (Jean Vigo)
3. Under the Roofs of Paris (Rene Clair)
4. All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
5. The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau)
6. Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
7. Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman)
8. Morocco (Josef Von Sternberg)
9. Anna Christie (Clarence Brown)
10. L’age D’or (Luis Buñuel)

Have Yet to See: Hell's Angels (Howard Hughes), City Girl (F.W. Murnau), The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh), People on Sunday (Kurt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, and Fred Zinnemann).

1928

1. The Crowd (King Vidor)
2. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
3. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Charles Reisner)
4. The Wind (Victor Sjostrom)
5. The Last Command (Josef von Sternberg)
6. The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick)
7. The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg)
8. Arsenal (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
9. The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein)
10. A Girl in Every Port (Howard Hawks)
11. The Fall of the House of Usher [short] (James Sibley Watson, Jr.)

Almost There: The Little Match Girl [short] (Jean Renoir).

Have Yet to See: Show People (King Vidor), Street Angel (Frank Borzage), Spies (Fritz Lang), The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim).

1927

1. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
2. The General (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton)
3. Napoleon (Abel Gance)
4. Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
5. The Love of Jeanne Ney (G.W. Pabst)
6. The Unknown (Tod Browning)
7. Charleston [short] (Jean Renoir)
8. The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. The Red Mill (Roscoe Arbuckle)
10. October (Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov)
11. The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland)

Have Yet to See: Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage), Berlin: Symphony of a City (Walter Ruttmann), The Kid Brother (J.A. Howe and Ted Wilde), Underworld (Josef Von Sternberg), Hindle Wakes (Maurice Elvey).