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Yearly Top 10

This list will grow retroactively with other past years as I plan to tackle it gradually in coming weeks, months, years.

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2008

1. 35 Rhums - Denis
2. Un Lac - Grandrieux
3. Synecdoche, New York - Kaufman
4. Our Beloved Month of August - Gomes
5. Liverpool - Alonso
6. Waltz with Bashir - Folman
7. Hunger - McQueen
8. Che Part 1 & 2 - Soderberg
9. La Belle Personne - Honoré
10. A Christmas Tale - Desplechin

2007

1. No Country for Old Men - Coen
2. The Mourning Forest - Kawase
3. There Will be Blood - Anderson
4. Assassination of Jessie James by Coward Robert Ford - Dominik
5. Zodiac - Fincher
6. Death Proof - Tarantino
7. Love Songs - Honoré
8. Up the Yangtze - Chang
9. Silent Light - Reygadas
10. You, The Living - Andersson

2006

1. Colossal Youth - Costa
2. Syndromes and a Century - Weerasethakul
3. Still Life - Jia
4. Reprise - Trier
5. Madeinusa - Llosa
6. The Winds that Shakes the Valley - Loach
7. Summer Palace - Lou
8. Red Road - Arnold
9. The Pervert's Guide to Cinema - Fiennes
10. Pan's Labyrinth - Del Toro

2005

1. A History of Violence - Cronenberg
2. Grizzly Man - Herzog
3. Gespenster - Petzold
4. Caché - Haneke
5. The New World - Malick
6. Last Days - Van Sant
7. The Three Burials of Malquiades Estrada - Jones
8. Bashing - Kobayashi
9. The Beat That My Heart Skipped - Auidard
10. I am Guilty - Hochhäusler

2004

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Gondry
2. Innocence - Hadzihallilovic
3. Tropical Malady - Weerasethakul
4. Notre Musique - Godard
5. L'intrus - Denis
6. Five - Kiarostami
7. Motorcycle Diaries - Salles
8. Exils - Gatlif
9. Le Pont des Arts - Green
10. 3-Iron - Kim

2003

1. Cafe Lumiere - Hou
2. Los Muertos - Alonso
3. Lost in Translation - Coppola
4. Dogville - von Trier
5. Young Adam - Mackenzie
6. Memories of Murder - Bong
7. Code 46 - Winterbottom
8. Goodbye Dragon Inn - Tsai
9. Five Obstructions - von Trier
10. Bright Future - Kurosawa

2002

1. Blissfully Yours - Weersethakul
2. Movern Callar - Ramsay
3. Spirited Away - Miyazaki
4. Friday Night - Denis
5. To Be and To Have - Philibert
6. Minority Report - Spielberg
7. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - Park
8. Talk to Her - Almodovar
9. Heaven - Tykwer
10. 25th Hour - Lee

2001

1. Mulholland Dr. - Lynch
2. Trouble Every Day - Denis
3. The Days Between - Speth
4. Millenium Mambo - Hou
5. Élogie de l'amour - Godard
6. The Piano Teacher - Haneke
7. Donnie Darko - Kelly
8. Rivers and Tides - Riedelsheimer
9. Read My Lips - Auidard
10. The Deep End - McGehee

2000

1. Werckmeister Harmonies - Tarr
2. Code Unknown - Haneke
3. In Vanda's Room - Costa
4. A Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors - Hong
5. Yi Yi - Yang
6. Eureka - Aoyama
7. Dancer in the Dark - von Trier
8. Songs from the Second Floor - Andersson
9. Suzhou River - Lou
10. George Washington - Green

1999

1. Peppermint Candy - Lee
2. Beau Travail - Denis
3. The Wind Will Carry Us - Kiarostami
4. Limbo - Sayles
5. Ratcatcher - Ramsay
6. All about My Mother - Almodovar
7. Eyes Wide Shut - Kubrick
8. Pola X - Carax
9. Rosetta - Dardenne
10. Kikujiro - Kitano

1998

1. La Vie rêvée des anges - Zonca
2. After Life - Kore-eda
3. The Apple - Makhmalbaf
4. Los Amants del circulo polar - Medem
5. Sombre - Grandrieux
6. Crna macka, beli macor - Kusturica
7. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Gilliam
8. Velvet Goldmine - Haynes
9. The Idiots - von Trier
10. Love is the Devil - Maybury

1997

1. Tren de Sombras - Guerin
2. Taste of Cherry - Kiarostami
3. Princess Mononoke - Miyazaki
4. Decontructing Harry - Allen
5. Happy Together - Wong
6. Forever Mozart - Godard
7. The Cure - Kurosawa
8. Funny Games - Haneke
9. The Sweet Hereafter - Egoyan
10. Carne Tremula - Almodovar

1996

1. Few of Us - Bartas
2. Crash - Cronenberg
3. La Promesse - Dardenne
4. Fargo - Coen
5. When We were Kings - Gast
6. Hamlet - Brannagh
7. Lone Star - Sayles
8. Secrets and Lies - Leigh
9. Goodbye South, Goodbye - Hou
10. Ponette - Doillon

1995

1. Institute Benjamenta - Quay
2. Maborosi - Kore-Eda
3. Fallen Angels - Wong
4. Underground - Kusturica
5. Cyclo - Tran
6. Dead Man - Jarmusch
7. Ghost in the Shell - Oshii
8. Safe - Haynes
9. La Céremonie - Chabrol
10. The City of Lost Children - Jeunet, Caro

1994

1. Chunking Express - Wong
2. Red - Kieslowski
3. Satantango - Tarr
4. Exotica - Egoyan
5. US Go Home - Denis
6. Faust - Svankmajer
7. I Can't Sleep - Denis
8. Queen Margot - Chéreau
9. Before the Rain - Manchevsky
10. Burnt by the Sun - Mikhalkov

1993

1. Moving - Sômai
2. Blue - Kieslowski
3. Naked - Leigh
4. Bells from the Deep - Herzog
5. Hellas pour Moi - Godard
6. Farewell My Concubine - Kaige
7. The Piano - Campion
8. My Favorite Season - Téchiné
9. Thirty Two Short Stories about Glenn Gould - Girard
10. The Scent of Green Papaya - Tran

1992

1. Life and Nothing More... - Kiarostami
2. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me - Lynch
3. Malcolm X - Lee
4. Orlando - Porter
5. Crying Game - Jordan
6. Reservoir Dogs - Tarantino
7. Unforgiven - Eastwood
8. American Heart - Bell
9. Un Coeur en hiver - Sautet
10. Deep Cover - Duke

1991

1. Les amants du Pont-Neuf - Carax
2. La double vie de Veronique - Kieslowski
3. Three Days - Bartas
4. Malina - Schroeter
5. Silence of the Lambs - Demme
6. Naked Lunch - Cronenberg
7. La Belle Noiseuse - Rivette
8. Europa - von Trier
9. Barton Fink - Coen
10. My Own Private Idaho - Van Sant

1990

1. Nouvelle Vague - Godard
2. Close-Up - Kiarostami
3. Days of Being Wild - Wong
4. The Sheltering Sky- Bertolucci
5. Miller's Crossing - Coen
6. A Brighter Summer Day - Yang
7. La captive du desert - Depardon
8. Wild at Heart - Lynch
9. No Fear, No Die - Denis
10. Leben - BRD - Farocki

1989

1. A City of Sadness - Hou
2. Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours - Zulawski
3. Do The Right Thing - Lee
4. Chameleon Street - Harris Jr.
5. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - Greenaway
6. La bande des quatre - Rivette
7. J'ai été au Bal/I Went to the Ball - Blank
8. Mystery Train - Jarmusch
9. Sex, Lies and Videotape - Soderbergh
10. Crimes and Misdemeanors - Allen

1988

1. The Days of Eclipse - Sokurov
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kaufman
3. Time of the Gypsies - Kusturica
4. Drowning by Numbers - Greenaway
5. Chocolat - Denis
6. Dead Ringers - Cronenberg
7. Die Hard - McTiernan
8. Akira - Otomo
9. My Neighbor Totoro - Miyazaki
10 Alice - Svankmajer

1987

1. Wings of Desire - Wenders
2. Full Metal Jacket - Kubrick
3. Matewan - Sayles
4. Emperor's Naked Army Marches on - Hara
5. The Last Emperor - Bertolucci
6. Slam Dance - Wang
7. Robocop - Verehoeven
8. Yeelen - Cissé
9. Walker - Cox
10. Near Dark - Bigelow

1986

1. Mauvais Sang - Carax
2. Blue Velvet - Lynch
3. Thérèse - Cavalier
5. Sacrifice - Tarkovsky
4. Down by Law - Jarmusch
5. 37.2 le matin - Beineix
6. Caravaggio - Jarman
7. Aliens - Cameron
8. The Fly - Cronenberg
9. Manhunter - Mann
10. Hannah and Her Sisters - Allen

1985

1. Je vous salue, Marie - Godard
2. Vagabond - Varda
3. Terrorizers - Yang
4. Typhoon Club - Sômai
5. L'amour braque - Zulawski
6. Ran - Kurosawa
7. détective - Godard
8. Le rayon vert - Rohmer
9. Police - Pialat
10. Rendez-vous - Techiné

1984

1. Paris Texas - Wenders
2. Element of Crime - von Trier
3. The Company of Wolves - Jordan
4. Dune - Lynch
5. Sprout Wings and Fly - Blank
6. The Public Woman - Zulawski
6. Repo Man - Cox
7. Love Streams - Cassavetes
8. Nightmare on Elm Street - Craven
9. The Brother from Another Planet - Sayles
10. Vigil - Ward

1983

1. Sans soleil - Marker
2. A nous amours - Pialat
3. Born in Flames - Borden
4. Die Macht der Gefühle - Kluge
5. Rumble Fish - Coppola
6. City of Pirates - Ruiz
7. Nostalghia - Tarkovsky
8. Videodrome - Cronenberg
9. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence - Oshima
10. Prenom: Carmen - Godard

1982

1. Blade Runner - Scott
2. The Thing - Carpenter
3. Toute une nuit - Akerman
4. Fanny och Alexander - Bergman
5. Passion - Godard
6. Burden of Dreams - Blank
7. Liquid Sky - Tsukerman
8. Fitzcarraldo - Herzog
9. Cat People - Schrader
10. Still of the Night - Benton

1981

1. Possession - Zulawski
2. Le pont du nord - Rivette
3. Coup de torchon - Tavernier
4. Das Boot - Petersen
5. Mephisto - Szabó
6. Mandala - Im
7. Reds - Beatty
8. American Werewolf in London - Landis
9. Wolfen - Wadleigh
10. Light Years Away - Tanner

1980

1. Mon Oncle Amerique - Resnais
2. The Fog - Carpenter
3. The Elephant Man - Lynch
4. Bad Timing - Roeg
5. Sauve Qui Peut (la vie) - Godard
6. Loulou - Pialat
7. City of Women - Fellini
8. Stardust Memories - Allen
9. Inferno - Argento
10. Gloria - Cassavetes

1979

1. Alien - Scott
2. Nosferatu - Herzog
3. Stalker - Tarkovsky
4. All That Jazz
5. Apocalypse Now! - Coppola
6. Manhattan - Allen
7. The Tin Drum - Schlöndorff
8. The Brood - Cronenberg
9. Quadrophenia - Roddam
10. Saint Jack - Bogdanovich

1978

1. Days of Heaven - Malick
2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Kaufman
3. Alucarda - Moctezuma
4. Dawn of the Dead - Romero
5. Halloween - Carpenter
6. In a Year of 13 Moons - Fassbinder
7. The Driver - Hill
8. Empire of Passion - Oshima
9. Fingers - Toback
10. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin - Liu

1977

1. Stroszek - Herzog
2. L'une chante, l'autre pas - Varda
3. Suspiria - Argento
4. The American Friend - Wenders
5. The Devil Probably - Bresson
6. Rabid - Cronenberg
7. Sorcerer - Friedkin
8. That Obscure Object of Desire - Bunuel
9. Eraserhead - Lynch
10. Martin - Romero

1976

1. Network - Lumet
2. Harlan County USA - Koppel
3. Heart of Glass- Herzog
4. Taxi Driver - Scorsese
5. The Tenant - Polanski
6. Casanova - Fellini
7. In the Realm of the Senses - Oshima
8. Bound for Glory - Ashby
9. Marathon Man - Schlesinger
10. The Man Who Fell to Earth - Roeg

1975

1. The Mirror - Tarkovsky
2. Jaws - Spielberg
3. Dersu Uzala - Kurosawa
4. The Passenger - Antonioni
5. Nashville - Altman
6. Dog Day Afternoon - Lumet
7. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Foreman
8. The Wrong Move - Wenders
9. L'important c'est d'aimer - Zulawski
10. The Day of the Locusts - Schlesinger

1974

1. Celine & Julie Go Boating - Rivette
2. Pastoral: To Die in a Country - Terayama
3. A Woman Under the Influence - Cassavettes
4. The Night Porter - Cavani
5. The Space is the Place - Coney
6. Alice in the Cities - Wenders
7. Chinatown - Polanski
8. Cockfighter - Hellman
9. Arabian Nights - Pasolini
10. The Conversation - Coppola

1973

1. The Holy Mountain - Jodorowsky
2. Touki Bouki - Membéty
3. The Long Goodbye - Altman
4. The Spirit of the Beehive - Erice
5. The Last Detail - Ashby
6. The Exorcist - Friedkin
7. Amarcord - Fellini
8. The Spook Who Sat by the Door - Dixon
9. Iron Rose - Rollin
10. Dry Wood - Blank

1972

1. Aguirre, the Wrath of God - Herzog
2. Last Tango in Paris - Bertolucci
3. Cries and Whispers - Bergman
4. Cabaret - Fosse
5. We Weren't Grow Old Together - Pialat
6. Solaris - Tarkovsky
7. The Ruling Class - Medak
8. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Bunuel
9. All the Colors of the Dark - Martino
10. The King of Marvin Gardens - Rafelson

1971

1. Two Lane Blacktop - Hellman
2. Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets - Terayama
3. A Clockwork Orange - Kubrick
4. The Devils - Russell
5. McCabe and Mrs. Miller - Altman
6. Walkabout - Roeg
7. Harold and Maude - Ashby
8. The French Connection - Friedkin
9. Little Murders - Arkin
10. Get Garter - Hodges

1970

1. Five Easy Pieces - Rafelson
2. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders - Jires
3. El Topo - Jodorowski
4. La vampire nue - Rollin
5. Fruit of Paradise - Chytilova
6. The Conformist - Bertolucci
7. Wanda - Loden
8. Even the Dwarfs Started Small - Herzog
9. En Kärlekshistoria/A Swedish Love Story - Andersson
10. The Dunwich Horror - Haller

1969

1. Running in Madness, Dying in Love - Wakamatsu
2. Go Go, Second Time Virgin - Wakamatsu
3. Midnight Cowboy - Schlesinger
4. Cremator - Herz
5. Two or Three Things I Know about Her - Godard
6. The Damned - Visconti
7. La madriguera - Saura
8. The Passion of Anna - Bergman
9. La Piscine - Deray
10. The Magic Christian - McGrath

1968

1. Shame - Bergman
2. 2001 Space Odyssey - Kubrick
3. Je t'aime, je t'aime - Resnais
4. If.... - Anderson
1. Shame - Bergman
5. Rosmary's Baby - Polanski
6. Teorema - Pasolini
7. The Lion in Winter - Harvey
8. Night of the Living Dead - Romero
9. Black Cat - Shindo
10. Vargtimmen/Hour of the Wolf - Bergman

1967

1. Week End - Godard
2. Peppermint Frappé - Saura
3. Koumiko Mystery - Marker
4. Branded to Kill - Suzuki
5. La Collectionneuse - Rohmer
6. Sing a Song of Sex - Oshima
7. A Man Vanishes - Imamura
8. In the Heat of the Night - Jewison
9. Ljubavni slucaj ili tragedija sluzbenice P.T.T. - Makavejev
10. Le Samurai - Melville

1966

1. Daisies - Chytilova
2. Andrei Rublev - Tarkovsky
3. Au Hasard Balthazar - Bresson
4. Persona - Bergman
5. The Face of Another - Teshigahara
6. Blow Up - Antonioni
7. The Battle of Algiers - Pontecorvo
8. 10:30PM, Summer - Dassin
9. Sword of Doom - Okamoto
10. Alice in Wonderland - Miller

1965

1. Pierrot le fou - Godard
2. Le bonheur - Varda
3. Red Beard - Kurosawa
4. Chimes at Midnight - Welles
5. The Hill - Lumet
6. Alphaville - Godard
7. Repulsion - Polanski
8. The Hill - Lumet
9. The Collector - Wyler
10. Man is Not a Bird - Makavejev

1964

1. Woman in the Dunes - Teshigahara
2. Red Desert - Antonioni
3. Dr. Strangelove - Kubrick
4. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Parajanov
5. Yearning - Naruse
6. Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Demy
7. Kwaidan - Kobayashi
8. Onibaba - Shindo
9. The Cool World - Clark
10. The Naked Kiss - Fuller

1963

1. 8 1/2 - Fellini
2. Contempt - Godard
3. Muriel - Resnais
4. High and Low - Kurosawa
5. This Sporting Life - Anderson
6. I Fidanzati - Olmi
7. The Birds - Hitchcock
8. Lord of the Flies - Brook
9. The Haunting - Wise
10. Shock Corridor - Fuller

1962

1. The Trial - Welles
2. L'Eclisse - Antonioni
3. Vivre sa vie - Godard
4. Ivan's Childhood - Tarkovsky
5. Lawrence of Arabia - Lean
6. Jules et Jim - Truffaut
7. Lolita - Kubrick
8. Phaedra - Dassin
9. Harakiri - Kobayashi
10. The Exterminating Angel - Buñuel

1961

1. A Woman is a Woman - Godard
2. Through a Glass Darkly - Bergman
3. Last Year at Marienbad - Resnais
4. L'Immortelle - Robbe-Grillet
5. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - Richardson
6. Yojimbo - Kurosawa
7. Il Posto - Olmi
8. Goodbye Again - Litvak
9. Mother Joan of Angels - Kawalerowicz
10. Pit and the Pendulum - Corman

1960

1. L'Avventura - Antonioni
2. Breathless - Godard
3. Rocco e i suoi fratelli - Visconti
4. La Dolce Vita - Fellini
5. Psycho - Hitchcock
6. Housemaid - Kim
7. Peeping Tom - Powell
8. Purple Noon - Clément
9. Black Sunday - Bava
10. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Reisz

1959

1. Hiroshima mon amour - Resnais
2. 400 Blows - Truffaut
3. Fires on the Plain - Ichikawa
4. North by Northwest - Hitchcock
5. Odds Against Tomorrow - Wise
6. Some Like It Hot - Wilder
7. Compulsion - Fleischer
8. A Bucket of Blood - Corman

1958

1. Vertigo - Hitchcock
2. Touch of Evil - Welles
3. The Hidden Fortress - Kurosawa
4. Elevator to the Gallows - Malle
5. Mon oncle - Tati

1957

1. Le Notti Bianche - Visconti
2. Paths of Glory - Kubrick
3. Le Notti di Cabiria - Fellini
4. Wild Strawberries - Bergman
5. Throne of Blood - Kurosawa
6. The Seventh Seal - Bergman
7. The Bridge on the River Kwai - Lean
8. 12 Angry Men - Lumet
9. Sweet Smell of Success - MacKendrick
10. Across the Bridge - Annakin

1956

1. The Red Balloon - Lamorisse
2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Siegel
3. The Killing - Kubrick
4. Sunday in Peking - Marker
5. Giant - Stevens
6. Forbidden Planet - Wilcox

1955

1. Kiss Me Deadly - Aldrich
2. The Night of the Hunter - Laughton
3. Viggio in Italia - Rossellini
4. Rebel Without a Cause - Ray
5. Bad Day at Black Rock - Sturges
6. Rififi - Dassin
7. The Big Combo - Lewis
8. Les Diaboliques - Clouzot
9. Killer's Kiss - Kubrick

1954

1. Johnny Guitar - Ray
2. Rear Window - Hitchcock
3. Seven Samurai - Kurosawa
4. On the Waterfront - Kazan
5. La Strada - Fellini
6. Another Sky - Lambert
7. Dial M for Murder - Hitchcock
8. 20.000 Leagues Under the Sea - Fleischer
9. The Creature from the Black Lagoon - Arnold
10. Godzila - Honda

1953

1. Pickup on South Street - Fuller
2. Wages of Fear - Clouzot
3. Niagara - Hathaway
4. Summer with Monika - Bergman
5. Ugetsu - Mizoguchi
6. Big Heat - Lang
7. White Mane - Lamorrise
8. Tokyo Story - Ozu
9. The Little Fugitive - Ashley/Engel/Orkin
10. Shane - Stevens

1952

1. Ikiru - Kurosawa
2. Umberto D. - De Sica
3. High Noon - Zinnemann
4. Children of Hiroshima - Shindo
5. Singin' in the Rain - Donen

1951

1. On Dangerous Ground - Ray
2. Ace In the Hole - Wilder
3. Strangers on a Train - Hitchcock
4. A Street Car Named Desire - Kazan
5. Alice in Wonderland - Geronimi, Jackson, Luske

1950

1. Night and the City - Dassin
2. Stromboli - Rosellini
3. Los Olvidados - Buñuel
4. Sunset Boulevard - Wilder
5. The Asphalt Jungle - Huston
6. In a Lonely Place - Ray
7. Gun Crazy - Lewis
8. No Way Out - Mankiewicz
9. Panic in the Streets - Kazan
10. Rashomon - Kurosawa

1949

1. The Third Man - Reed
2. Stray Dog - Kurosawa
3. They Live by Night - Ray
4. The Set-Up - Wise
5. Criss Cross - Robson

1948

1. The Red Shoes - Powell, Pressburger
2. Yellow Sky - Wellman
3. The Tresure of the Sierra Madre - Huston
4. Rope - Hitchcock
5. Raw Deal - Mann
6. He Walked by Night - Mann
7. Bicycle Thief - De Sica
8. The Naked City - Dassin

1947

1. Black Narcissus - Powell, Pressburger
2. Out of the Past - Tourneur
3. The Lady from Shanghai - Welles
4. Kiss of Death - Hathaway
5. Odd Man Out - Reed

1946

1. La Belle et la bete - Cocteau
2. The Big Sleep - Hawks
3. The Killers - Siodmak
4. A Matter of Life and Death - Powell, Pressburger
5. Notorious - Hitchcock

1945

1. Brief Encounter - Lean
2. Leave Her to Heaven - Stalh
3. Mildred Pierce - Curtiz
4. Spellbound - Hitchcock
5. Isle of the Dead - Robson
6. Scarlet Street - Lang

1944

1. Laura -Preminger
2. To Have and Have Not - Hawks
3. Ministry of Fear - Lang
4. Double Indemnity - Wilder
5. Lifeboat - Hitchcock

1943

1. I walked with a Zombie - Tourneur
2. Shadow of a Doubt - Hitchcock
3. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Powell, Pressberger
4. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Wood
5. The Ox-Bow Incident - Wellman
6. Seventh Victim - Robson

1942

1. Casablanca - Curtiz
2. Cat People - Tourneur

1941

1. Remorques - Grémillon
2. Citizen Kane - Welles
3. Suspicion - Hitchcock
4. The 47 Ronin - Mizoguchi
5. The Maltese Falcon - Huston
6. High Sierra - Walsh

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