Some of our favourite movie from the past century or so.
1916 – Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (D. W. Griffith)
1917 – The Immigrant (Charles Chaplin)
1920 – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
1920 – The Golem (Carl Boese)
1921 – The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström)
1922 – Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Fritz Lang)
1922 – Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau)
1922 – Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty)
1923 – The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wallace Worsley)
1924 – Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
1924 – The Last Laugh (F. W. Murnau)
1925 – Battleship Potemkin (Sergei M. Eisenstein)
1925 – The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)
1925 – Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
1926 – The General (Buster Keaton)
1926 – Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (Lotte Reiniger)
1926 – Faust (F. W. Murnau)
1926 – The Black Pirate (Albert Parker)
1927 – Sunrise (F. W. Murnau)
1927 – Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
1927 – Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttmann)
1927 – Wings (William A. Wellman)
1927 – The Unknown (Tod Browning)
1928 – The Crowd (King Vidor)
1928 – The Last Command (Josef von Sternberg)
1928 – The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1928 – The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
1928 – The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim)
1928 – Sadie Thompson (Raoul Walsh)
1928 – Beggars of Life (William A. Wellman)
1929 – Pandora’s Box (Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
1929 – Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
1929 – Diary of a Lost Girl (Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
1930 – All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
1930 – The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)
1930 – Min and Bill (George W. Hill)
1930 – Hell’s Angels (Howard Hughes)
1930 – The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)
1931 – City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
1931 – Dracula (Tod Browning)
1931 – Frankenstein (James Whale)
1931 – Le million (René Clair)
1931 – À Nous la Liberté (René Clair)
1931 – The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman)
1931 – M (Fritz Lang)
1931 – Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg)
1931 – Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy)
1931 – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian)
1931 – La Chienne (Jean Renoir)
1931 – Night Nurse (William A. Wellman)
1931 – City Streets (Rouben Mamoulian)
1931 – Safe in Hell (William A. Wellman)
1931 – Marius (Alexander Korda)
1931 – Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (F. W. Murnau)
1932 – Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
1932 – Scarface (Howard Hawks)
1932 – I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy)
1932 – Island of Lost Souls (Erie Kenton)
1932 – Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
1932 – Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg)
1932 – Red Dust (Victor Fleming)
1932 – I Was Born, But… (Yasujirô Ozu)
1932 – Freaks (Tod Browning)
1932 – Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1932 – Million Dollar Legs (Edward Cline)
1932 – Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding)
1932 – Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg)
1932 – Murders in the Rue Morgue (Robert Florey)
1932 – Fanny (Marc Allégret)
1933 – King Kong (Merian C. Cooper)
1933 – Baby Face (Alfted Green)
1933 – 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon)
1933 – The Invisible Man (James Whale)
1933 – Dinner at Eight (George Cukor)
1933 – Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian)
1933 – Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)
1933 – Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
1933 – Heroes for Sale (William A. Wellman)
1933 – Ecstasy (Gustav Machatý)
1934 – The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
1934 – It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
1934 – Treasure Island (Victor Fleming)
1934 – L’Atalante (Jean Vigo)
1934 – A Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujirô Ozu)
1934 – Lieutenant Kije (Aleksandr Faintsimmer)
1934 – Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)
1934 – The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
1935 – Les Misérables (Richard Boleslawski)
1935 – Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd)
1935 – The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
1935 – The Informer (John Ford)
1935 – Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey)
1935 – A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
1935 – Crime and Punishment (Josef von Sternberg)
1936 – The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
1936 – Dodsworth (William Wyler)
1936 – Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
1936 – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra)
1936 – The Lower Depths (Jean Renoir)
1936 – The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo)
1936 – Wife vs. Secretary (Clarence Brown)
1936 – Show Boat (James Whale)
1937 – La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir)
1937 – Captains Courageous (Victor Fleming)
1937 – Angel (Ernst Lubitsch)
1937 – Marked Woman (Lloyd Bacon)
1937 – Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier)
1937 – The Prisoner of Zenda (John Cromwell)
1938 – La bête humaine (Jean Renoir)
1938 – Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz)
1938 – The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
1938 – Hôtel du Nord (Marcel Carné)
1938 – Pygmalion (Anthony Asquith)
1938 – The Big Broadcast of 1938 (Mitchell Leisen)
1939 – Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming)
1939 – The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
1939 – Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
1939 – The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
1939 – Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding)
1939 – The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)
1939 – Le Jour se Leve (Marcel Carné)
1939 – The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1939 – La fin du jour (Julien Duvivier)
1940 – The Westerner (William Wyler)
1940 – His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
1940 – The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
1940 – The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
1940 – Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
1940 – The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
1940 – Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
1940 – Waterloo Bridge (Mervyn LeRoy)
1940 – The Mark of Zorro (Rouben Mamoulian)
1940 – Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen)
1940 – The Ghost Breakers (George Marshall)
1941 – Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
1941 – The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
1941 – Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock)
1941 – The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
1941 – The Little Foxes (William Wyler)
1941 – High Sierra (Raoul Walsh)
1941 – The Strawberry Blonde (Raoul Walsh)
1941 – Swamp Water (Jean Renoir)
1941 – The Sea Wolf (Michael Curtiz)
1942 – Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
1942 – The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
1942 – Yankee Doodle Dandy (Michael Curtiz)
1942 – Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
1942 – Gentleman Jim (Raoul Walsh)
1942 – Crossroads (Jack Conway)
1942 – Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy)
1943 – The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell)
1943 – Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
1943 – The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)
1943 – Tarzan Triumphs (Wilhelm Thiele)
1943 – Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1943 – Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
1944 – Laura (Otto Preminger)
1944 – The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)
1944 – Ivan the Terrible, Part I (Sergei M. Eisenstein)
1944 – To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
1944 – Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
1944 – The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges)
1944 – Gaslight (George Cukor)
1944 – Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk)
1944 – The Suspect (Robert Siodmak)
1945 – Detour (Edgar Ulmer)
1945 – Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)
1945 – Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
1945 – And Then There Were None (René Clair)
1945 – Brief Encounter (David Lean)
1945 – Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné)
1945 – The Southerner (Jean Renoir)
1945 – Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcanti)
1946 – Gilda (Charles Vidor)
1946 – La belle et la bête (Jean Cocteau)
1946 – Great Expectations (David Lean)
1946 – My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
1946 – Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
1946 – It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
1946 – The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
1946 – The Stranger (Orson Welles)
1946 – The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
1946 – Green for Danger (Sidney Gilliat)
1946 – Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica)
1947 – Brute Force (Jules Dassin)
1947 – Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
1947 – Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding)
1947 – Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
1947 – Quai des Orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
1948 – Red River (Howard Hawks)
1948 – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
1948 – Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls)
1948 – Hamlet (Laurence Olivier)
1948 – Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
1948 – Macbeth (Orson Welles)
1948 – The Red Shoes (Michael Powell)
1948 – The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed)
1948 – Oliver Twist (David Lean)
1948 – I Remember Mama (George Stevens)
1949 – White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
1949 – Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)
1949 – The Third Man (Carol Reed)
1949 – The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
1949 – Thieves’ Highway (Jules Dassin)
1949 – Le Silence de la Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville)
1949 – The Heiress (William Wyler)
1950 – Rashômon (Akira Kurosawa)
1950 – Last Holiday (Henry Cass)
1950 – Born Yesterday (George Cukor)
1950 – Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
1950 – All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1950 – Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
1950 – The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston)
1950 – La ronde (Max Ophüls)
1951 – Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
1951 – A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
1951 – The Thing from Another World (Christian Nyby)
1951 – Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
1951 – The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick)
1951 – The African Queen (John Huston)
1951 – The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton)
1951 – La Poison (Sacha Guitry)
1951 – Early Summer (Yasujirô Ozu)
1952 – Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
1952 – Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)
1952 – Clash by Night (Fritz Lang)
1952 – Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls)
1952 – High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)
1952 – Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen)
1952 – Casque d’Or (Jacques Becker)
1952 – Forbidden Games (René Clément)
1952 – Othello (Orson Welles)
1953 – The Earrings of Madame de… (Max Ophüls)
1953 – Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (Jacques Tati)
1953 – Tokyo Story (Yasujirô Ozu)
1953 – Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1953 – Roman Holiday (William Wyler)
1953 – The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
1953 – Shane (George Stevens)
1953 – The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
1953 – Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder)
1953 – I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini)
1953 – Inferno (Roy Ward Baker)
1954 – Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
1954 – On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
1954 – Human Desire (Fritz Lang)
1954 – La Strada (Federico Fellini)
1954 – Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold)
1954 – Godzilla (Ishirô Honda)
1954 – Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1954 – Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
1954 – Hobson’s Choice (David Lean)
1954 – French Cancan (Jean Renoir)
1954 – An Inspector Calls (Guy Hamilton)
1955 – The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick)
1955 – Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
1955 – The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
1955 – Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
1955 – Marty (Delbert Mann)
1955 – Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
1955 – Du rififi chez les hommes (Jules Dassin)
1955 – Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1955 – Lola Montès (Max Ophüls)
1955 – The Swindle (Federico Fellini)
1956 – Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
1956 – Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
1956 – 7 Men from Now (Budd Boetticher)
1956 – Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox)
1956 – The Searchers (John Ford)
1956 – The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
1956 – Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
1956 – The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse)
1956 – The Harder They Fall (Mark Robson)
1956 – Requiem for a Heavyweight (Ralph Nelson)
1957 – The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
1957 – The Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
1957 – The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
1957 – Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
1957 – Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
1957 – 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
1957 – A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan)
1957 – Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder)
1957 – Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
1957 – Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
1957 – The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
1957 – A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
1957 – Le Notti Bianche (Luchino Visconti)
1958 – Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
1958 – Jalsaghar (Satyajit Ray)
1958 – Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
1958 – The Magician (Ingmar Bergman)
1958 – The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
1958 – A Night to Remember (Roy Ward Baker)
1958 – Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli)
1958 – Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle)
1958 – Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine)
1958 – Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda)
1959 – The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
1959 – Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
1959 – The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (Masaki Kobayashi)
1959 – The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (Masaki Kobayashi)
1959 – Ballad of a Soldier (Grigoriy Chukhray)
1959 – The Bridge (Bernhard Wicki)
1959 – Apur Sansar (Satyajit Ray)
1959 – Our Man in Havana (Carol Reed)
1960 – La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
1960 – Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
1960 – The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)
1960 – Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks)
1960 – Tunes of Glory (Ronald Neame)
1960 – Le Trou (Jacques Becker)
1960 – The League of Gentlemen (Basil Dearden)
1960 – The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
1961 – Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
1961 – Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
1961 – The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer (Masaki Kobayashi)
1961 – Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
1961 – Cash on Demand (Quentin Lawrence)
1962 – Billy Budd (Peter Ustinov)
1962 – Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa)
1962 – Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
1962 – Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
1962 – The Trial (Orson Welles)
1962 – The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
1962 – Jules and Jim (François Truffaut)
1962 – To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
1962 – The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
1962 – Birdman of Alcatraz (John Frankenheimer)
1962 – La Jetée (Chris Marker)
1962 – Sundays and Cybèle (Serge Bourguignon)
1962 – Requiem for a Heavyweight (Ralph Nelson)
1962 – Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards)
1963 – 8½ (Federico Fellini)
1963 – This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson)
1963 – High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
1963 – Pour la suite du monde (Michel Brault)
1963 – The Haunting (Robert Wise)
1963 – Yukinojô henge (Kon Ichikawa)
1963 – Billy Liar (John Schlesinger)
1963 – I compagni (Mario Monicelli)
1963 – Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy)
1963 – The Big City (Satyajit Ray)
1964 – Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
1964 – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
1964 – Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô)
1964 – Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer)
1964 – Seance on a Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes)
1964 – Charulata (Satyajit Ray)
1964 – My Fair Lady (George Cukor)
1964 – Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi)
1964 – Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer)
1965 – Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini)
1965 – Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
1965 – Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa)
1965 – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Martin Ritt)
1965 – Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov)
1965 – Chimes at Midnight (Falstaff) (Orson Welles)
1966 – Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
1966 – Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel)
1966 – The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
1966 – Nayak (Satyajit Ray)
1967 – War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk)
1967 – In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks)
1967 – Playtime (Jacques Tati)
1967 – Marketa Lazarová (Frantisek Vlácil)
1967 – Viy (Konstantin Ershov)
1967 – Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi)
1968 – Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli)
1968 – 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
1968 – Bullitt (Peter Yates)
1968 – Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
1968 – Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski)
1969 – Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
1969 – The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophüls)
1969 – Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
1969 – Z (Costa-Gavras)
1969 – Salesman (Albert Maysles)
1970 – Goin’ Down the Road (Donald Shebib)
1970 – Ryan’s Daughter (David Lean)
1970 – Aranyer Din Ratri (Satyajit Ray)
1970 – Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
1971 – McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
1971 – Mon oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra)
1971 – A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
1971 – King Lear (Grigori Kozintsev)
1972 – Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
1972 – The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
1972 – Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1972 – The Seduction of Mimi (Lina Wertmüller)
1973 – Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
1973 – Day for Night (François Truffaut)
1973 – Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
1973 – Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
1973 – Magnum Force (Ted Post)
1973 – The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann)
1973 – O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson)
1973 – El espíritu de la colmena (Víctor Erice)
1973 – Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)
1974 – Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1975 – Nashville (Robert Altman)
1975 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman)
1975 – Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)
1975 – Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
1975 – Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
1975 – The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston)
1975 – Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmüller)
1976 – Eraserhead (David Lynch)
1976 – The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood)
1976 – Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
1976 – Harlan County U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple)
1976 – Jana Aranya (Satyajit Ray)
1977 – Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
1977 – Sorcerer (William Friedkin)
1977 – Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
1977 – Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
1977 – That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
1977 – The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko)
1977 – The Chess Players (Satyajit Ray)
1977 – Providence (Alain Resnais)
1978 – Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman)
1978 – The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1979 – Being There (Hal Ashby)
1979 – Vengeance Is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
1980 – Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
1980 – The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
1980 – City of Women (Federico Fellini)
1981 – Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen)
1982 – Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
1982 – The Verdict (Sidney Lumet)
1982 – Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio)
1982 – Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
1982 – Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1983 – The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman)
1983 – And the Ship Sails On (Federico Fellini)
1983 – Narayama bushikô (Shohei Imamura)
1983 – The Dresser (Peter Yates)
1984 – Ghare-Baire (Satyajit Ray)
1984 – Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
1985 – Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
1985 – Runaway Train (Andrey Konchalovskiy)
1985 – Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
1985 – Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis)
1985 – Come and See (Elem Klimov)
1986 – The Singing Detective (Jon Amiel)
1986 – Jean de Florette (Claude Berri)
1986 – Manon of the Spring (Claude Berri)
1986 – Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter)
1986 – Manhunter (Michael Mann)
1986 – Ginger and Fred (Federico Fellini)
1986 – Trial on the Road (Aleksei German)
1987 – Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
1987 – Nayakan (Mani Ratnam)
1987 – Au Revoir les Enfants (Louis Malle)
1987 – Babette’s Feast (Gabriel Axel)
1987 – Predator (John McTiernan)
1987 – The Dead (John Huston)
1988 – Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
1988 – Heart of a Dog (Vladimir Bortko)
1988 – Salaam Bombay! (Mira Nair)
1988 – Hell Comes to Frogtown (Donald G. Jackson)
1989 – Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
1990 – Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
1990 – Jacob’s Ladder (Adrian Lyne)
1990 – Ju Dou (Yimou Zhang)
1990 – My Mother’s Castle (Yves Robert)
1991 – The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
1991 – The Stranger (Satyajit Ray)
1992 – Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
1992 – Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
1993 – Lan feng zheng (Zhuangzhuang Tian)
1993 – Farewell My Concubine (Kaige Chen)
1993 – Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
1993 – In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan)
1993 – Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh)
1993 – Falling Down (Joel Schumacher)
1993 – The Fugitive (Andrew Davis)
1994 – Chungking Express (Kar Wai Wong)
1994 – Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
1994 – To Live (Yimou Zhang)
1994 – Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
1994 – The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
1994 – Burnt by the Sun (Nikita Mikhalkov)
1994 – Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle)
1994 – Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
1995 – La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz)
1995 – The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
1995 – Se7en (David Fincher)
1995 – Underground (Emir Kusturica)
1996 – Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton)
1996 – Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
1996 – When We Were Kings (Leon Gast)
1996 – Microcosmos (Claude Nuridsany)
1996 – The Cable Guy (Ben Stiller)
1997 – The Eel (Shohei Imamura)
1997 – Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell)
1997 – The Fifth Element (Luc Besson)
1997 – Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld)
1998 – The Big Lebowski (Brothers Coen)
1998 – Festen (Thomas Vinterberg )
1998 – Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica)
1999 – Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
2000 – Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
2000 – Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
2000 – Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
2000 – You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
2000 – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
2001 – Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk)
2002 – Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
2002 – City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
2002 – Hero (Yimou Zhang)
2002 – The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
2002 – Infernal Affairs (Wai-keung Lau)
2002 – Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
2003 – The Return (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
2003 – The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)
2003 – American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman)
2003 – Dogville (Lars von Trier)
2003 – Monster (Patty Jenkins)
2003 – Oldeuboi (Chan-wook Park)
2003 – The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
2003 – Evil (Mikael Håfström)
2003 – Slings and Arrows (tv series)
2004 – Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
2004 – Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
2004 – Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn)
2004 – Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
2004 – The Chorus (Christophe Barratier)
2004 – Head-On (Fatih Akin)
2005 – No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (Martin Scorsese)
2005 – Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney)
2005 – C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallée)
2006 – Bug (William Friedkin)
2006 – In Search of Mozart (Phil Grabsky)
2006 – Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
2006 – The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
2006 – Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
2006 – Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
2006 – Jar City (Baltasar Kormákur)
2006 – Fireworks Wednesday (Asghar Farhadi)
2007 – 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
2007 – [Rec] (Jaume Balagueró)
2007 – Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan (Sergey Bodrov)
2007 – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)
2007 – No Country for Old Men (Brothers Coen)
2007 – Atonement (Joe Wright)
2007 – Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (Marc Rothemund)
2007 – L’âge des ténèbres (Denys Arcand)
2007 – My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
2007 – The Banishment (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
2008 – Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
2008 – Revanche (Götz Spielmann)
2008 – Yip Man (Wilson Yip)
2008 – The Chaser (Hong-jin Na)
2008 – Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Joss Whedon)
2008 – Everlasting Moments (Jan Troell)
2008 – In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
2008 – Ce qu’il faut pour vivre (Benoît Pilon)
2008 – Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
2008 – Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
2008 – Le jour avant le lendemain (Marie-Hélène Cousineau)
2009 – In Search of Beethoven (Phil Grabsky)
2009 – A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
2009 – The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella)
2009 – Mother (Joon-ho Bong)
2009 – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Niels Arden Oplev)
2009 – The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
2009 – Watchmen (Zack Snyder)
2009 – District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)
2009 – The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Daniel Alfredson)
2009 – Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
2009 – Darbareye Elly (Asghar Farhadi)
2010 – The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
2010 – Enthiran (S. Shankar)
2010 – Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
2010 – Trollhunter (André Øvredal)
2010 – Luther (Neil Cross)
2011 – Source Code (Duncan Jones)
2011 – Contagion (Steven Soderbergh)
2011 – A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
2011 – Jazz (Ken Burns)
2011 – Downton Abbey (Julian Fellowes)
2011 – Frozen Planet (BBC)
2011 – Haywire (Steven Soderbergh)
2011 – Elena (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
2011 – Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (Joe Berlinger)
2011 – We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)
2011 – Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird)
2011 – Hodejegerne (Morten Tyldum)
2011 – Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
2011 – The Intouchables (Olivier Nakache)
2011 – Oslo, 31. august (Joachim Trier)
2011 – Homeland (tv series)
2012 – Looper (Rian Johnson)
2012 – No (Pablo Larraín)
2012 – Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul)
2012 – Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)
2012 – Jack Reacher (Christopher McQuarrie)
2012 – Chasing Ice (Jeff Orlowski)
2012 – The Hunt (Thomas Vinterberg )
2012 – Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan)
2013 – Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
2013 – Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve)
2013 – Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
2013 – Europa Report (Sebastián Cordero)
2013 – American Hustle (David O. Russell)
2013 – The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)
2013 – The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra)
2013 – Enemy (Denis Villeneuve)
2013 – Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)
2013 – Mandariinid (Zaza Urushadze)
2013 – Le passé (Asghar Farhadi)
2013 – Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda)
2014 – The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
2014 – True Detective (tv series)
2014 – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
2014 – Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund)
2014 – Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
2014 – The Theory of Everything (James Marsh)
2014 – Selma (Ava DuVernay)
2014 – Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
2014 – Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
2014 – Pride (Matthew Warchus)
2015 – Blackhat (Michael Mann)
2015 – Room (Lenny Abrahamson)
2015 – Black Mass (Scott Cooper)
2015 – Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
2015 – Brooklyn (John Crowley)
2015 – Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra)
2015 – High-Rise (Ben Wheatley)
2015 – Chappie (Neill Blomkamp)
2015 – An Inspector Calls (Aisling Walsh)
2016 – Forushande (Asghar Farhadi)
2016 – O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman)
2016 – 13th (Ava DuVernay)
2016 – I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck)
2017 – Loveless (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
2017 – The Square (Ruben Östlund)
2017 – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)
2017 – The Insult (Ziad Doueiriht)
2017 – Loving Vincent (Dorota Kobiela)
2017 – The Rider (Chloé Zhao)
2017 – Indian Horse (Stephen S. Campanelli)
2017 – Salyut-7 (Klim Shipenko)
2018 – The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
2018 – Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)
2018 – BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee)
2018 – Minding the Gap (Bing Liu)
2018 – Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski)
2018 – Shoplifters (Hirokazu Koreeda)
2018 – Capernaum (Nadine Labaki)
2019 – Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller)
2019 – Chernobyl (tv series)
2019 – The Irishman (Martin Scorsese)
2019 – Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi)
2019 – Truth and Justice (Tanel Toom)
2019 – Sound of Metal (Darius Marder)
2020 – The Social Dilemma (Jeff Orlowski)
2020 – Mank (David Fincher)
2020 – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin)
2020 – Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
2021 – JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (Oliver Stone)
2021 – The Rescue (Jimmy Chin)
2021 – The Tragedy of Macbeth (Brothers Coen)
2021 – A Hero (Asghar Farhadi)