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The results of all the previous film-polls in one place.

1896]
1
L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat

2
Demolicion d'un mur - Lumiere

3
Serpentine Dance - Lumiere

4
Panorama du grand Canal pris d'un bateau (promio)
A seacave near Lisbon (paul)

6
Le cauchemar - Melies
La fee aux choux - Guy
Le manoir du diable - Melies

9
Duele au pistolet - Veyre
Sandow - Dickson

11
The Kiss
le ring (lumieres)
The Vanishing Lady (Georges Melies) 1897

14
blackfriars bridge (paul)
Labourage - Lumiere
Néron essayant des poisons sur des esclaves - Hatot
Une nuit terrible - Melies
panorama de l’arrivée en gare de perrache pris du train (lumiere)
Rip Van Winkle (series) - Dickson

20
Serpentine Dance By Annabelle -- Dickson
Défense d'afficher - Melies
London Street Dancers (Lumiere)
Partie de boules (Lumiere)
new york: broadway at union square (promio)
Partie d'écarté, lumière
Barque sortant du port [Boat Leaving the Port] - Louis Lumière
laveuses (lumière)*
salida de misa de doce del pilar de zaragoza (jimeno)
le président en promenade (veyre)

1897]
1
bataille de boules de neige - louis lumière
laveuses sur la rivière - lumières
Leaving Jerusalem By Railway - Promio

4
Cupid At The Washtub - Paul
The Miller And The Sweep - Smith

6
After The Ball - Melies
Between Calais And Dover - Melies
danse serpentine: loie fuller - demeny R
kørsel med grønlandske hunde - elfelt
Making Sausages - Smith
The X-Ray Fiend - Smith

12
Arrest In Chinatown, San Francisco Cal - White
The Bewitched Inn - Melies
Bathing In A Stream - Guy
boxeurs en tonneaux
colleurs d'affiches - promio
niagara falls/les chutes
Robbery - Paul
The Surrender Of Tournevos - Melies
The Vanishing Lady - Paul

1898
1
Un Homme De Tetes - Melies
La Lune A Un Metre - Melies

3
Santa Claus - Smith

4
Le Magicien - Melies

5
La tentacion de Saint Antoine - Melies

6
Adventures Of William Tell - Melies
Come Along. Do - Paul
Launch Of The HMS Albion - Paul
A Switchback Railway - paul
The Launch of HMS Albion at Blackwall (E.P. Prestwich)
Visite sous-marine du "Maine" - Melies
What Demoralized The Barber Shop - Heise

13
L'aveugle fin de siecle - Guy
Comic Faces/Old Man Drinking - Smith
Ella Lola, a la Trilby (James White)
Panorama pris de un train en marche -
Passage d’un tunnel en chemin de fer (Lumiere)
Shooting Captured Insurgents - White
Le squelette joyeux - Lumiere
Surprise d'un maison au petit jour - Guy
View from an Engine Front: Barnstaple
Wash Day In Mexico

1899 poll
1
Cendrillon -

2
La petite fille et son chat - Lumiere

3
Kiss In The Tunnel - Smith
reveil chrysis

5
Défilé de voitures de bébés à la pouponnière de Paris - Lumiere
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies (Booth)
Wonderful Absinthe - Guy

8
"The Devil in a Convent " (Georges Méliès, 1899)
Ladies' Skirts nailed To A Fence -

10-14
La colonne de feu (Méliès)
Ilusioniste fin de siecle - Melies
Intérieur d'une imprimerie (tirage d'une épreuve) (Lumière)
Summoning The Spirits - Melies
Voltige à cheval à Prague (Lumière)

1900 poll
1
How It Feels To Be Run Over - Hepworth

2
Exploson Of A Motor Car - Hepworth

3
As Seen Through a Telescope - Smith
The Enchanted Drawing - Blackton
nouvelles luttes extravagantes (melies) 1901

6
Jeanne d'Arc - Melies

7
le déshabillage impossible (melies)
The one-man band - Melies
Let Me Dream Again - Smith
le livre magique (melies)

11
Attack on a China Mission - Williamson
At The Bal De Flore - Guy
Grandma's Reading Glass - Smith
How They Rob Men in Chicago - McCutcheon
Neptune's Daughters
A Storm at Sea
Le village de Namo – Panorama pris d’une chaise à porteurs - Veyre

18
Addition and Subtraction - Melies
Cyrano de Bergerac - Maurice
Davey Jones' Locker (Frederick Armitage)
A Fantastical Meal - Melies
Faust And Marguerite - Porter
fin-de-siecle chirurgie (Alice Guy-Blache)
Hooligan Assists the Magician (J Stuart Blackton/Albert E Smith)
The House that Jack Built (George Albert Smith)
How He Missed His Train - Melies
Kobelkoff - ?
Little Tich and his Funny Feet (Alice Guy-Blache)
A Nymph of the Waves (Frederick Armitage)
Pierrete's Escapades - Guy
Sherlock Holmes Baffled (Arthur Marvin)
Uncle Joshs Nightmare - Porter

1901 poll
1902 poll
1
The Little Match Seller - James Williamson

2
A Trip To The Moon - George Melies

3
How To Stop A Motorcar - Percy Stowe

4
Jack And The Beanstalk - Edwin S Porter
Midwife To The Upper Class/Sage-Femme de Premiere Classe - Alice Guy

6 - 13
Alfred Raymond, Agnes May, & Wilfred Sydney (Edward Raymond Turner)
Ali baba And The Forty Theives - Ferdinand Zecca
Danses cosmopolites à transformation (Pathé Frères)
Foxy Grandpa and Polly in a Little Hilarity (Bonine)
Miss Dundee and Her Performing Dogs (Alice Guy-Blaché)
The Spring Fairy (de Chomón)
Starting a Skyscraper (Bonine)
The Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelee and Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique (Melies)

1903 poll
1
Akt-Sculpturen
The Great Train Robbery - Porter
Royaume des fees - Melies

4
Life Of An American Fireman - Porter

5
Skyscrapers Of New York City, From The North River

6
a daring daylight burglary
a desperate poaching affray
La vie et la passion de Jésus Christ - Nonguet, Zecca
Mary Jane's Mishap
Old London Street Scenes

11
Alice In Wonderland
Faust In Hell
The Gay Shoe Clerk
Le Melomane - Melies
The Monster

16
An Extraordinary Cab Accident - Booth/Paul
The Cheese Mites - Duncan
Le Chaudron Infernale - Melies
Puss In Boots
Rube And mandy At Coney Island - Porter
The Sick Kitten
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What Happened In The Tunnel - Porter
William Tell

1904 poll
1905 poll
1
The King Of Dollars-
new york subway (billy bitzer)
The Night Before Christmas - Porter

4
Coney Island At Night

5
the flower fairy / la fée aux fleurs (gaston velle)
The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach -
Rescued By Rover-
The White Caps- Porter, McCutcheon

9 - 14
The Hen That Laid The Golden Eggs - Gasron Velle
the living playing cards / les cartes vivantes (méliès)
christian martyrs / martyrs chrétiens (lucien nonguet)
the wonderful album / l'album merveilleux (gaston velle)
Le diable noir (Georges Méliès)
The Hairdresser

1906 poll
1
The ? Motorist - Walter Booth
A Trip Down Market St. before the Fire (Miles)

3
The Consequences Of Feminism - Alice Guy

4
Dream Of A Rarebit Fiend - McCutcheon/Porter
From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies (Francis J. Marion , Wallace McCutcheon)
The Hilarious Posters (Georges Melies)

7
Aladdin and His Magic Lamp (Albert Capellani)
Le Dirigible Fantastique (Georges Melies)
Une histoire roulante (Guy-Blaché)
Humorous Phases Of Funny Faces - J S Blackton
Plongeur Fantastique (Segundo de Chomon)
Is Spiritualism A Fraud? -
The Talion Punishment (Gaston Velle)
La Vie Du Christ - Alice Guy

15 - 29
Ah! La Barbe! (Segundo de Chomon)
Une Femme Collante (Alice Guy)
Getting Evidence - McCutcheon/Porter
The Haunted Hotel
La Hierarchie Dans L'Amour - Alice Guy
How The Office Boy Saw The Ball Game - McCutcheon/Porter
Lilliputian Dance (?)
Magic Roses (Segundo de Chomón)
Police Chasing Scorching Auto (Wallace McCutcheon/Edwin S Porter)
San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake
Story Of The Kelly Gang - Tait
Tartans of Scottish Clans
The Troubadour (Segundo de Chomón)
Voyage Around a Star (Gaston Velle)
Wales v. Ireland at Wrexham (?)

1907 poll
1
Le Spectre Rouge - de Chomon

2
Le piano irresistible

3
Le Recit Du Colonel - Feuillade

4
Le Cochon Danseur

5
La glu - Guy
Les Kiriki, acrobates japonais (de Chomón)

7
Une Heroine De Quatre Ans - Guy, Feuillade
Le scarabée d'or (de Chomón)
Les tulipes
Tunneling The English Channel

11
El ciego de la aldea (Cardona/Cuesta)
Eclipsse: Courtship Of The Sun And Moon - Melies
En avant la musique (de Chomón)
Le Frotteur - Feuillade

15
Les Debuts D'un Patineur
L'Enfant De La Barricade - Guy
Express Sculptor
Joined Lips - Guy
Laughing Gas
Madame A Des Envies - Guy
Les Oeufs De Paques
Pour la Fete de sa Mere (Lucien Nonguet)
Th Skipping Cheeses
The Teddy Bears
Les Terroristes En Russie - Feuillade
That Fatal Sneeze
A Trip Through British North Borneo (Lomas)
20000 Leagues Under The Sea

1908 poll
1
Fantasmagorie - Cohl
The House Of Ghosts (1907)

3
Le bon invalide et les enfants - de Chomon
The Theiving Hand - Blackton

5
The Adventures Of Dollie - Griffith
L'Asssassinat du Duc de Guise - Calmettes, le Bargy
L'Assomoir
Une dame vraiment bien

9
L'Araignee d'Or
La Bonne bergere Et La Mauvoise Princesse
Diabolical Pickpocket - de Chomon
Don Juan Tenorio - de Banos, marro
El hotel electrico
La legende du fantome
Max Learns To Skate
The vacuum cleaner

17
The Last Days Of Pompeii - Ambrosio, Maggi
Buying A Cow -
Le costume blanc
The Dog Outwits The Kidnapper - Fitzhomon
Une Drame Chez Les Fantoches - Cohl
Dreams Of Toyland - Cooper
Les freres Boutdebois/Acrobatic Toys - Cohl
The Frog - de Chomon
L'hotel du silence
Madame L'Avocat -
Le medecin du chateau
Le petit soldat qui devient Dieu - Cohl
Rescued From An Eagle's Nest - Griffith
Sleeping Beauty - Capellani, de Chomon
Stenka Razin
Vive La Vie De Garcon/Troubles Of A Grass Widower - Linder

1909 poll
1
Le Moulin Maudit - Machin

2
A Corner In Wheat - Griffith

3
Une Excursion Incoherente - de Chomon

4
Those Awful Hats - griffith

5
A Battle In The Clouds (The Airship Destroyer) - Booth
The Devilish Tenant - Melies
Fairy Of The Surf - Feuillade
Princess Nicotine or The Snoke Fairy - Blackton
Slippery Jim - de Chomon

10
The Lonely Villa - Griffith
The Son's Return - Griffith

12
The Country Doctor - griffith
The Crimes Of Diogo Alves - Correira, Ferreira
The Curtain Pole - griffith
The Golden Louis - griffith
La Lecoin De Musiqu - de Chomon
Moscou Sous la Neige - Mundwiler
Le Papillkon Fantastique - melies
Pippa Passes - Griffith
Le Printemps, ep,.1 - Feuillade
The Sealed Room - Griffith
Spergiura! - Ambrosio/Maggi
Le Voleur Invisible - de chomon

1910 poll
1
The Oval Portrait - Perret

2
The Abyss - Urban Gad

3
The Unchanging Sea (D.W. Griffith)

4
From Sorrento to Amalfi (Piero Marelli)
The Italian Switzerland (Piero Marelli)
Santa Lucia (Piero Marelli, Italy)
Suffragette Demonstration in London (June 1910) (Pathe, UK)
La tournee des grands ducs -
A Trip through Berlin (Deutsche Mutoskop und Biograph, Germany)
When We Were In Our Teens - Frank Powell

11
The Automatic Moving Company
C�mo la gula arruin� la Navidad - (Cretinetti series)
a day in the life of a coal miner
Den Hvilde Slavehandel/White Slave Trade - August Blom
impressions of spain - marelli
King Lear (Gerolamo Lo Savio)
London. Suffragette Riots at Westminster (Pathe, UK)
Mass Meeting of Suffragettes (Pathe, UK)
Le placier est tenace - Emile Cohl
Les timidités de Rigadin (Georges Monca, France)
SS Olympic (Unknown)
A Trip to Mars (Ashley Miller)
wolf-hunting in russia

1911 poll
1
Le trust, ou les batailles de l'argent (Feuillade)

2
Dante's Inferno
Den Sorte Drom - Gad
Enoch Arden
The Hallucinations of Baron Munchausen (Melies)

6
The Lonedale Operator (Griffith)
Max Takes Tonics

8
Banks of the Nile (Urban)
Heliogabale - Feuillade
Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics (Little Nemo) (McCay/Blackton)

11
Burgos (de Chomón)
Lighthouse by the Sea (Edwin S. Porter)
La madre e la morte
What shall we do with our old? (Griffith)

15
The Automatic Motorist (Walter R. Booth)
Balletdanserinden (Blom)
The Colleen Bawn - Olcott
the miser's heart
Roman s kontrabasom (Hansen)

1912 poll
1
The Musketers Of Pig Alley - Griffith

2
The Land Beyond The Sunset - Harold Shaw

3
The Cameraman's Revenge
Le coeur et l'argent - Feuillade
Das M�dchen ohne Vaterland - Urban Gad

6
Bandits En Automobile -
Falling Leaves - Guy Blache

8
The Girl and Her Trust (D.W. Griffith, USA)
De molens die juichen en weenen/Mills, Joy, Sorrow - Alfred Machin
Le myst�re des roches de Kador - L�once Perret

11
Le bellezze d'Italia - marelli

12
L'Ame des moulins
The New York Hat - Griffith
Onesime, Horloger - Jean Durand
Parsifal - Caserini
The Sunbeam - Griffith

17 - 48
die arme jenny - gad/asta nielsen
Arthème avale sa clarinette (Ernest Servaès, France)
The Ascent of The Matterhorn
Aux feux de la rampe (Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, France)
The Beautiful Leukanida
Bj�rnet�mmeren/Bear Tamer - Alfred Lind
Cagliostro's Folding Screen
The Confederate Ironclad -
The Conquest of the Pole (George Melies, France)
Dodsspring til hest fra cirkuskuple "The Great Circus Catastrophe" (Eduard Schnedler-Sorensen)
Den flyvende cirkus - Alfred Lind
From the Manger to the Cross - Olcott
Le garde-meubles automaqtique - Bosetti
Gerone, la venise espagnole - de Chomon
Help! Help! (Mack Sennett, USA)
The Invaders - Francis Ford
L'Iris Fantastique - de Chomon
The Lieutenant's Last Fight - Ince
Man's Calling - Allan Dwan
The Massacre - Griffith
Metamorphoses - de Chomon
The Miracle - Carre, Karton
Mr. Bolter's Infatuation
The Painted Lady (D.W. Griffith, USA)
Petticoat Camp (Thanhouser, USA)
Supersticion Andaluza - de Chomon
Tr�dg�rdsm�staren/The Gardener? - Victor Sj�str�m
Tripoli - Marelli
Two Little Rangers (Alice Guy-Blaché, USA)
An Unseen Enemy (D.W. Griffith, USA)
de wigwam - ivens

1913 poll
1914 poll

1 The Mysterious X/ Sealed Orders - benjamin Christensen

2
Fantomas
Sangue blu/Blue Blood (Nino Oxilia)

4
Cabiria (Pastrone)
Le Roman de un mousse - Perret

6
The Avenging Conscience - D W Griffith
Cinderella - James Kirkwood
Maudite soit La Guerre - Machin
Mute Witnesses - Bauer
Zapatas Bande/Zapata's Gang (Urban Gad)

11
Child Of The Big City - Bauer
In The Land Of The Headhunters - Edwin Curtis
Kid Auto Races at Venice (Henry Lehrman)
Max Speaks English

15
The Bargain (Reginald Barker)
Le Chevalier Du Maison Rouge - Capellani
Engelein (Urban Gad)
A Florida Enchantment
Lay Down Your Arms -
Ma l'amor mio non muore/Love Everlasting (Mario Caserini)
Misterio de dolor/Mystery of Pain (Adrià Gual)
The Rounders (Charlie Chaplin)
The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England
The Wrath Of The Gods - Barker

1915 poll
1
Les Vampires

2
After Death

3
Regeneration - Walsh

4
Une Page De Gloire - Perret
Young Romance - William DeMille

6
The Cheat (Cecil B. DeMille)
Hypocrites - Lois Weber

8
The Captive -
Carmen - de Mille
Daydreams -
a fool there was

12
Alias Jimmy Valentine - Tourneur
assunta spina
The Birth of a Nation
The Italian - Ince
THE MADNESS OF DR. TUBE (Abel Gance)
On The Firing Line With The Germans -
Der Tunnel -
The Undesirable (Michael Curtiz)

20 - 31
Civilization - Ince
Dutch Types (Gaumont)
FANCHON, THE CRICKET (James Kirkwood)
filibus
The Golden Chance - de Mille
Mabel's Wilful Way (Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mack Sennett)
The Magic Brew (Victor Bergdahl)
(Marvelous) Maciste
MISS STICKY-MOUFIE-KISS (Sidney Drew)
Pool Sharks (Edwin Middleton)
THE TRAMP
Two Knights of Vaudeville (Historical Feature Film Company–Ebony Film Company)

1916 poll
1
Judex - Feuillade

2
Hell's Hinges - Hart

3
Intolerance

4
One AM - Chaplin
Shoes - Weber
Tigre Reale - pastrone

7
Christus - Antamoro
The End Of The World - Blom
Hævnens nat [Blind Justice] - Benjamin Christensen
The Mystery Of The Leaping Fish - Cabanne,
Queen Of Spades - Protazanov
The Return Of Draw Egan - Hart

13
Her Sister's Rival - Bauer
Joan The Woman - de Mille
The Rink - Chaplin

16
Il Fuoco
The Half-Breed - Dwan
The Ocean Waif - Guy
The Pilgrim - Borzage

20
Battle Of The Somme
Fatty And Mabel Adrift
la pied qui étraint (feyder)
Police - Chaplin
20000 Leagues Under The Sea - Paton

1917 poll
1
Terje Vigen - Sjostrom

2
The Dying Swan - Bauer
The Immigrant - Chaplin

4
Easy Street - Chaplin

5
Bucking Broadway - Ford
Rapsodia Satanica -

7
For Happiness - Bauer
Until They Get Me - Borzage

9
Straight Shooting - Ford

10
The Adventurer - Chaplin
Malombra -

12
The Butcher Boy -
Tosen Fran Stormyrtorpet - sjostrom

14
Alexander den Store - Stiller
La guerra e il sogno di Momi
Harom Het -
Teddy At The Throttle -

18
By The Sad Sea Waves
The Cure - Chaplin
Il Fauno
His Wedding Night -
The Merry Jail - Lubitsch
A Modern Musketeer
Raffles The Amateur Cracksman -
Revolutionary - Bauer
The Rough House -
Satan Triumphant -
Thais - Bragaglia

1918 poll
1
Ich möchte kein Mann sein - Lubitsch

2
Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru/ Outlaw, Wife -Victor Sj�str�m

3
Tih Minh

4
A Dog's Life

5
Molchi, grust, molchi/ Be Silent My Sorrow Be Silent - Pyotr Chardynin & Cheslav Sabinsky
Shoulder Arms - Chaplin

7
Les enfants de France pendant la guerre -
Fyrvaktarens dotter (The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter)
Hell Bent - Ford

10
The Blue Bird - Tourneur
Blue blazes Rawden
Le Dixieme Symphonie - Gance
Father Sergius - Protazanov
Hearts Of The World - Griffith
The Life Story of David Lloyd George - Maurice Elvey
Mr Fix-It
Old Wives for New - Cecil B. DeMille

18 - 39
Die Augen Der Mumie Ma
Baryshnya i khuligan - Yevgeni Slavinsky & Vladimir Mayakovsky
the birth of shri krishna (phalke)
The Bond - Chaplin
Branding Broadway (William S. Hart, 1918)
Bud's Recruit
Carnavalesca -
Dream Lady
Dunces and Dangers (Larry Semon)
Frauds and Frenzies (Larry Semon)
Himmelskibet/Trip To Mars - Holger-Madsen
Johanna Enlists
Mickey (F Richard Jones/James Young)
The Non-Stop Kid (Gilbert Pratt)
One Hundred Percent American -
The Rose of Rhodesia - Harold M. Shaw
Sanz y el secreto de su arte
Thomas Graals b�sta barn /TGs Best Kid - Stiller
Two-Gun Gussie (Alfred Goulding)
Vendemiere
The Whispering Chorus - Cecil B. DeMille

1919 poll
1
Die Austernprinzessin

2
J'Accuse - Gance

3
Sir Arne's Treasure

4
The Doll - Lubitsch

5
Blind Husbands - von Stroheim

6
True Heart Susie

7
Broken Blossoms - Griffith

8
Nerves - Reinert
Praesidenten

10
Ingmarssonerna
South - Hurley
The Wicked Darling - Browning

13
Different From The Others - Oswald
Male And female - de Mille
Rose-France
Sangen om den eldroda blomman
Victory - Tourneur

18
Barrabbas - Feuillade
Daddy Long-Legs - Neilan
Jön az öcsém - Michael Curtiz
Die Pest In Florenz - Rippert
Die Spinnen 1 - Lang
The tantalizing fly - fleischer

23
El Automovil Gris
Az aranyember (Man of Gold) [incomplete]
The Grocery Clerk (Larry Semon)
Heart o' the Hills (Joseph De Grasse/Sidney Franklin, USA)
kaliya mardan - Phalke
The sentimental Bloke -
Sunnyside
Synnöve Solbakken (John W. Brunius)

1920 poll
1
Cabinet Of Dr Caligari -Wiese

2
The Parson's Widow - Dreyer

3
The Golem

4
L'Hirondelle et la mesange - Antoine
L'homme Du Large - l'Herbier

6
Kohlheisel's Daughters - Lubitsch
Neighbors (Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton)
One Week (Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton)
The Penalty - Worsley

10
Fante-Anne
The Scarecrow (Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton)

12
Masterman - Sjostrom

13
From Morn To Midnight - Martin
Klostret i Sendomir (1920, Victor Sjöström)
The Mark Of Zorro - Niblo
Way Down East

17
Convict 13 ( Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton)
Erotikon - Stiller
Last Of The Mohicans - Brown/Tourneur
Leaves From Satan's Book - Dreyer
Within Our Gates - Michaux
Why Change Your Wife - deMille

23
Genuine - Wiene
High and Dizzy (Hal Roach)
The Saphead
The Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship (Fritz Lang)
Sumurun - Lubitsch

28
Anne Boleyn - Lubitsch
Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
The Flapper - Crosland
Just Pals (John Ford)
Karin Daughter of Ingmar (Seastrom)
Outside the law - Browning
Something to Think About (DeMille)
The Toll Gate (Lambert Hillyer)

36
Algol, Tragedy Of Power - Werckmeister
Conrad in Quest of His Youth
The County Fair - Mortimer/Tourneur
Dla ciebie, Polsko / For You, Poland (1920, Antoni Bednarczyk)
An Eastern Westerner (Hal Roach)
The Garage (Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle)
Haunted Spooks (Alfred J. Goulding, Hal Roach)
His Royal Slyness (Hal Roach)
Humoresque - Borzage
The Love Flower (Griffith)
Married to Order (Charley Chase)
The Mollycoddle (Victor Fleming)
Number, Please? (Hal Roach, Fred C. Newmeyer, 1920)
Nurse Marjorie
Pollyanna
Romeo und Julia im Schnee
Something New - Shipman/VanTuyle
La storia di una donna / A Woman’s Story (1920, Eugenio Perego)
The Tiger’s Coat (Roy Clements)
What Happened to Rosa - Schertzinger

1921 poll
The Kid Charlie Chaplin13
The Phantom CarriageVictor Sjostrom13

The Wildcat Ernst Lubitsch12

Destiny/Der müde Tod Fritz Lang9
The High SignBuster Keaton/Edward Cline9
Tol'able David Henry King9

Miss Lulu Bett William DeMille6
The Orphans of the StormD.W. Griffith6

Seven Years Bad Luck Max Linder5
The GoatBuster Keaton/Edward Cline5
L’atalantide Jacques Feyder5
The Ace of HeartsWallace Worsley5
ManhattaPaul Strand,Charles Sheeler5
The PlayhouseBuster Keaton/Edward Cline5

Backstairs Leopold Jessner, Paul Leni 4
The Boat Buster Keaton/Edward Cline 4
The Four Horsemen of the ApocalypseRex Ingram 4

Wally of the Vultures Ewald Andre Dupont3
The Haunted HouseBuster Keaton/Edward Cline3
The Haunted Castle F.W. Murbau3
The Soul of the Cypress Dudley Murphy3
Hamlet Svend Gade,Heinz Schall 3
Invisible Ink David Fleischer3
Never Weaken Fred C Newmeyer3
Scherben Lupu Pick3

1922 poll
1. Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror - F. W. Murnau

2. Foolish Wives - Erich von Stroheim

3. Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Fritz Lang)

4. Cops (Edward F. Cline/Buster Keaton, 1922)

5. Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty)

6. Häxan (Benjamin Christensen)

7. Pay Day (Charlie Chaplin)

8. (tie) The Blacksmith (Buster Keaton, Mal St.Clair)
The Suram Fortress - Ivan Perestiani

9. (tie) Aschenputtel (Lotte Reiniger)
Lorna Doone
Phantom (Murnau)
Robin Hood (Allan Dwan)
Salome - Bryant
The Electric House (Buster Keaton/Edward Cline)
The Paleface (Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline)

1923 poll
1
Our Hospitality

2
Coeur Fidele - Epstein

3
La Souriante madame Beudet -

4
La Roue - Gance

5
A Woman Of Paris - Chaplin

6
Warning Shadows

7
The Hell Ship -
Retour A La Raison - Man Ray

9
The Covered Wagon - Cruze
The Three Ages -

11
Le Brasiere Ardent
Os Lobos - Lupo
Merry-Go-Round
The Pilgrim
Scaramouche - Ingram

16
Fait-Divers - Claude Autant-Lara
Hunchback Of Notre Dame
Souls For Sale
gunnar hede's saga
Rhythmus 21 (Hans Richter)
Die Strasse - Grune

22
The Extra Girl
House of Mystery (Volkoff)
Raskolnikow/Crime And Punishment - Wiene

25 - 34
the ancient law (dupont)
L'Auberge Rouge
frozen hearts
It's A Gift
La Legende De Soeur Beatriz - de baroncelli
The Love Nest
Rhythmus 23 (Hans Richter)
The Shock -
Ten Commandments - de Mille
Why Worry

1924 poll
1
Sherlock Jr - Keaton

2
The Last Laugh - Murnau

3
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried - lang

4
Greed - von Stroheim

5
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's revenge - Lang

6
The Navigator - Keaton, Crisp

7
the great white silence (ponting)

8
He Who Gets Slapped - Sjostrom
L'Inhumaine - L'Herbier
The Marriage Circle - Lubitsch

11
Entracte - Clair
The Iron Horse -- Ford
The Thief Of Bagdad - Walsh

14
Au Secours - Gance
Girl Shy -- Newmeyer, Taylor
Michael - Dreyer
Paris Qui Dort - Clair

18
Ballet Mecanique - Leger, Murphy
The Hands Of Orlac - Wiene
The saga Of Gosta Berling - Stiller
Waxworks - Leni, Bininsky

22
Isn't Life Wonderful? - Grffith
The Lion Of The Moguls - Epstein
Manhandled - Dwan
Wild Oranges - Vidor

26
Aelita, Queen Of Mars - Protazanov
Cloud Phenomena of Maloja (Fanck)
The Epic Of Everest - Noel
the flood (delluc)
La galerie Des Monstres - Catelain
The Red Lily - Niblo
Romola - King

33
The Cigarette Girl Of Someplace
The Extraordinary Adventures Of Mr West In The Land Of The Bolsheviks - Kuleshov
The Fugitive Futurist
Husbands Or Lovers - Czinner
new year's eve/sylvester (pick)*
The Sea Hawk - Lloyd

1925 poll
1. The Gold Rush

2. Seven Chances

3. Battleship Potemkin

4. (tie) Go West
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Strike
The Big Parade
The Merry Widow
The Phantom of the Opera

10. (tie) Chess Fever
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
Tartuffe
The Salvation Hunters

14. The Freshman

15. (tie) Master of the House
The Lost World
Varieté (Jealousy)
Visages d'enfants (Faces of Children)

19. (tie) Lichtspiel: Opus IV
The Joyless Street
The Unholy Three
Whirlpool of Fate
Wunder der Schöpfung [Our Heavenly Bodies]

1926 poll
The General - Bruckman/Keaton

2
Faust - Murnau
A Page Of Madness

4
Menilmontant - Kirsanoff

5
3 Bad Men - Ford

6
By The Law - Kuleshov

7
The Adventures Of Prince Achmed
Bardelys The Magnificent - Vidor
Battling Butler - Bruckman/Keaton
Glomdalsbruden - Dreyer

11
Feu Matthias Pascal - L'Herbier
Flesh And The Devil - Brown
The Open Road - Friese-Greene

14
Miss Mend
Moana - Flaherty
Mother - Pudovkin
Sparrows

18
emak bakia (ray)
Gribiche - Feyder
Mauprat (Jean Epstein)
The Winning of Barbara Worth
Rien que les heures - Cavalcanti

23
Anemic Cinema - Duchamp
The Black Pirate - parker
the faun of the mountains (vieira)
Film Study
For heaven Sake - Taylor
Die letzte Droschke von Berlin - Boese
The Overcoat - Kozintsov
The Scarlet Letter
So's Your Old Man - LaCava

32
The Bells - Young
la boheme (vidor)
The great K&A Train Robbery - Sieler
Hands Up
Der Heilige Berg - Fanck
klovnen (sandberg)
lásky kačenky strnadové -
Mantrap
Mare Nostrum - Ingram
Mighty Like a Moose
Moonland
Nana - Renoir
Secrets Of A Soul - Pabst
Sorrows of Satan
tell it to the marines (hill)
The Volga Boatman

1927 poll
1
Sunrise - Murnau

2
metropolis

3
7th Heaven
The Unknown - Browning

5
The Lodger

6
Underworld - von Sternberg

7
Bed and Sofa
Walking from Munich to Berlin (Fischinger)
Napoleon (Gance)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Lubitsch)

11
L'Invitation Au Voyage - Dulac
It - Badger
The Kid Brother (Wilde, Howe)
The Love of Jeanne Ney (Pabst)

15
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Ruttmann)

16
The Girl with the Hat Box (Barnet)
Sur Un Air De Charleston - Renoir
wings (wellman)

19
The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni)
Two Days -

21
Chicago -
La Glace A Trois Faces/Three-Sided Mirror - Epstein
Hindle Wakes -

24 -34
Chang
College (Keaton, Horne)
emak-bakia (ray)
The Gaucho
The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland)
Little Devil-May-Care
My Best Girl (1927, Sam Taylor)
October (S. M. Eisenstein)
The Show (Todd Browning)
Six et demi onze (1927, Jean Epstein)
Women of Ryasan

1928 poll
1
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc - Dreyer

2
Docks Of New York - von Sternberg
The Wind - Sjostrom

4
Steamboat Bill Jr - Keaton

5
The Circus - Chaplin
The Crowd - Vidor

7
The Last Command - von Sternberg

8
The Cameraman -
Lonesome - Fejos
Street Angel - Borzage

11
The Seashell And The Clergyman - Dulac

12
L'argent - L'Herbier
The Man Who Laughs - Leni
Underground - Asquith

15
October - Eisenstein
Spies - Lang
The Wedding March (Stroheim)
Zvenigora - Dovzhenko

19
Fall Of The House Of Usher - Epstein

20
Beggars of Life - Wellman
Four Sons - Ford

22
Speedy - Wilde
Storm Over Asia - Pudovkin
West Of Zanzibar - Browning

25
Ghosts Before Breakfast - Richter
Jujiro - Kinugasa
Show People - Vidor
White Shadows In The South Seas - Van Dyke, Flaherty

29
The Fall Of The House Of Usher - Webber, Watson
Une femme a passé (A Woman Passed By)
The House On Trubnaya - barnet
Life And Death Of 9413 - Florey
maldone (grémillon)
The Mysterious Lady (Fred Niblo / USA)
Sadie Thompson - Walsh

1929 poll
1. (tie) Lucky Star
Un Chien Andalou

3. Man with a Movie Camera

4. (tie) A Cottage on Dartmoor
Pandora's Box
Queen Kelly

7. (tie) The Love Parade
The River

9. (tie) Erotikon
Diary of a Lost Girl
Finis terrae
Woman in the Moon
The General Line
The New Babylon
La Perle
Thunderbolt
The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna

18. (tie) Arsenal
Asphalt
Histoire de Détective
Piccadilly

22. (tie) Applause
Blackmail
My Grandmother
Days of Youth
The Lighthouse Keepers
The Organist at St. Vitus' Cathedral
Regen
El sexto sentido

1930 poll
1st place
City Girl - Murnau
Morocco - von Sternberg

3
The Blue Angel - von Sternberg

4
Earth - Dovzhenko

5
All Quiet On The Western Front - Milestone

6
L'Age d'Or - Bunuel

7
The Big Trail - Walsh

8
Menschen am Sonntag - Siodmak/Ulmer

9
A Propos de Nice - Vigo
Under the Roofs of Paris (René Clair)

11
Le roman de Renard / The Story of the Fox (Irene Starewicz & Wladyslaw Starewicz)

12
Borderline - McPherson
The Dawn Patrol (Howard Hawks)
Her Man (Garnett)
Laughter (Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast)
Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch)
La Petite Lise - Gremillon
Prix de beaute (Genina)

19
Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman)
Salt for Svanetia (Kalatozov)
Westfront 1918 - Pabst

22
Au Bonheur Des Dames (Duvivier)
The Bat Whispers - West
The Divorcée (Robert Z. Leonard)
Ladies Of Leisure - Capra

26
Abraham Lincoln (Griffith)
La aldea maldita / The Cursed Village (Florián Rey)
Hell's Angels - Hughes
Madame Satan - de Mille
Sono yo no tsuma / That Night's Wife (Yasujirô Ozu)
Tonka of the Gallows (Anton)
Walk Cheerfully (Yasujirô Ozu)

1931 poll
1. M

2. City Lights

3. (tie) Dishonored
Frankenstein

5. (tie) The Smiling Lieutenant
Tabu: Story of South Seas

7. (tie) À nous lliberté (Clair)
Dracula (Tod Browning)

9. (tie) Limite (Peixoto)
Public Enemy
Safe in Hell (William Wellman)

12. (tie) 3 Penny Opera (Pabst)
The CONGRESS DANCES (Charell)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian)
Flunky, Work Hard! (Naruse)
Monkey Business
Night Nurse (William A. Wellman)

18. La Chienne

19. (tie) An American Tragedy (Josef von Sternberg)
From Saturday to Sunday
Kameradschaft (G.W. Pabst)
Last Flight (dieterle)
Le Million (Clair)
Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy)
Marius (Korda)
Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra)
Street Scene (Vidor)

28. (tie) Alone (Kozintsev & Trauberg)
Ariane (Czinner)
Autumn Fire
Berlin – Alexanderplatz
Douro, FainFluvial (Manoel de Oliveira)
Entuziazm (Vertov)
Mädchen in Uniform (Sagan)
Maltese Falcon (Roy Del Ruth)
Resurrectio (blasetti)
Struggle (Griffith)

1932 poll
1. Trouble In Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)

2. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

3. Boudu Saved from Drowning (Jean Renoir)

4. Shangai Express - Josef von Sternberg

5. Scarface (Howard Hawks)

6. One Way Passage (Tay Garnett)

7. Freaks (Browning)

8. I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy)

9. (tie) Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg)
I Was Born But… (Ozu)

11. (tie) Daïnah la métisse (Jean Gremillon)
Night at the Crossroads - Jean Renoir

13. (tie) One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack)

15. (tie) Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
While Paris Sleeps (Dwan)

17. (tie) A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage)
Broken Lullaby - Ernst Lubitsch
Horse Feathers (Norman Z. McLeod)

20. (tie) Gli uomini, che mascalzoni (What Scoundrels Men Are!)
Grand Hotel (Goulding)
Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton)
No Blood Relation (Mikio Naruse)
The Mummy (Freund)
Tiger Shark (Howard Hawks)

26. (tie) ¡Que viva Mexico! - Sergei Eisenstein
Hell's Highway (Rowland Brown)
L'Atlantide - G.W. Pabst
Red Dust (Victor Fleming)
Tarzan, the Ape Man (W.S. Van Dyke)
The Bartered Bride (Ophuls)
The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau)
The Blue Light (Leni Reifenstahl)
The Old Dark House (James Whale)
White Zombie (Victor Halperin)
Woman's World- Efim Dzigan

37. (tie) 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (Michael Curtiz)
American Madness (Frank Capra)
Me and My Gal (Raoul Walsh)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (Robert Florey)
Razzia in St. Pauli (Hochbaum)
Taxi! - Roy Del Ruth
Wooden Crosses (Raymond Bernard)

1933 poll
1
The Testament Of Dr Mabuse

2
Design For Living

3
Liebelei (Ophüls)

4
Zero de conduite

5
Ganga Bruta - mauro
Japanese girls At The Harbor - Shimizu
marie, legende hongroise - fejos

8.
Gold Diggers Of 1933

9
The Bitter Tea Of general yen
Man's Castle - Borzage

11
Duck Soup
Heroes For Sale - Wellman
King Kong
treno popolare - matarazzo

15
Las Hurdes

16
Apart From You - naruse
Baby face
Deserter - Pudovkin
Outskirts -- Barnet
Pilgrimage - Ford

21
Dekigokoro (Passing fancy) - Ozu
Ecstacy
The Invisible Man
14 Juillet

25
Bombshell
Footlight Parade
Forty-Second Street
Life Begins Tomorrow • Werner Hochbaum
Only Yesterday • John M. Stahl
Queen Christina
Wild Boys Of The Road

32
Blood Money
Dancing Girl Of Izu - Gosho
employees entrance - del ruth
Eskimo - Van Dyke
Every Night Dreams - Naruse
Keisatsukan "Policeman" (Tomu Uchida, Japan)
She Done Him Wrong
Sons of the Desert
LA TETE D'UN HOMME (julien duvivier)

41
Christopher Strong
Counsellor at Law (William Wyler)
Dinner At Eight
Dr. Bull
Hallelujah I'm A Bum - Milestone
Lady For A Day
The Lady Who Wept in Spring
La Maternelle
Misere Au Borinage - Ivens, Storck
Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz, USA)
Oramunde - Emlen Etting
Snow-White (Fleischer)
three cornered moon
Tianming - Yu Sun
tugboat M17 - george/hochbaum

1934 poll
1. L'atalante

2. It Happened One Night

3. The Scarlet Empress

4. The Thin Man

5. (tie) A Story of Floating Weeds
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Twentieth Century

8. (tie) Compadre Mendoza
Judge Priest

10. The Black Cat

11. (tie) Chanson D' Armor
The Goddess
Lac aux dames
Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
The Lost Patrol
The Mascot
The Merry Widow

18. (tie) Man of Aran
Maskerade
Waltzes from Vienna

1935 poll
1
Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (Yamanaka)
the 39 steps (alfred hitchcock)

3
Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935)

4
The Bride Of Frankenstein - Whale
Happiness/Schaste - Medvedkin

6
Steamboat 'Round the Bend

7
An Inn In Tokyo - Ozu

8
Mad Love -
Wife! Be Like a Rose!

10
Captain Blood - Curtiz
the devil is a woman - von sternberg
the informer (john ford)
La kermesse héroïque / Carnival in Flanders (1935, Jacques Feyder)
Top Hat

15
The Good Fairy
Sylvia Scarlett - Cukor
Toni (Renoir)

18
The Big Road
The Girl In The Rumor
i'll give a million - camerini
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, 1935)

22
Frontier/Aerograd - Dovzhenko
Crime And Punishment - Chenal
G-Men - Keighley
the girl from the marsh croft - sirk
Hands Across The Table - Leisen
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Hathaway)
Mutiny on the Bounty
Peter Ibbetson
Remous
Das Stahltier
Vibration of Granada (Val del Omar)

33 - 45
The Band Concert (Wilfred Jackson, USA)
les berceaux - kirsanoff
Burden of Life (Gosho)
A Colour Box (Len Lye)
The Downfall of Osen (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1935)
flight into darkness - litvak
A Hero of Tokyo
janitzio (navarro)
Justin de Marseille - Tourneur
Mazurka (Forst)
A Strict Young Man - Abram Room
surburban cabaret - hochbaum
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (Mikio Naruse, 1935)

1936 poll
1
Modern Times
My Man Godfrey

3
Mr. Thank You

4
Dodsworth - Wyler

5
The Story Of A Cheat

6
Fury - Lang
The Only Son
Sabotage - Hitchcock

9
Swing Time

10
By The Bluest Of Seas
Ceiling Zero - Hawks
The Crime Of Monsieur Lange
A Day In The Country
Ferryman Maria (Frank Wisbar)
Osaka Elegy
the prisoner of shark island (ford)
Sisters Of The Gion
Vamonos Con Pancho Villa - de Fuentes

19
Mr Deeds Goes To Town

20
Cesar
Craig's Wife (Dorothy Arzner)
Dracula's Daughter
Redes - Fred Zinnemann, E. Gomez Muriel

25
La belle équipe (They Were Five)
Devil Doll - Browning
Rose Hobart
Secret Agent- Hitchcock

29
Mayerling
Things To Come

31
desire - borzage
Follow The Fleet -
Libeled Lady
I Love To Singa
The Lower Depths
das mädchen irene / the girl irene
Petrified Forest
Show Boat (James Whale)

39 - 47
Alla En El Rancho Grande -
The CooCoo Nut Grove (Friz Freleng)
The Final Chord (Sirk)
La Fontaine d'Aréthuse (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
Intermezzo (Gustaf Molander)
Jánošík (Martin Frič)
Lloyds of London (King)
May / Máj (E.F. Burian, Čeněk Zahradníček)
the new road - gosho

1937 poll
1. (tie) Humanity and Paper Balloons
Grand Illusion

3. Angel

4. (tie) Children in the Wind
Make Way for Tomorrow
You Only Live Once

7. The Awful Truth

8.Stage Door

9. (tie) History Is Made at Night
Pepe le Moko
Street Angel
The Edge of the World
What Did the Lady Forget?

14. (tie) Easy Living
Lost Horizon
Nothing Sacred
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Straits of Love and Hate

19. (tie) A Star Athlete
The Blood Stain
Forget Love for Now
Knight Without Armour
The Prisoner of Zenda
Stella Dallas
The Great Garrick
Topper
Young and Innocent

27. (tie) A Star Is Born
A Woman's Sorrows
Drole de Drame
The Dybbuk
Night Must Fall
The Pearls of the Crown
The Spanish Earth
Tovarich
Trade Tattoo
Way Out West

1938 poll
1
The Lady Vanishes - Hitchcock
Masseurs And A Woman - Shimizu

3
Port of Shadows (Marcel Carn�)

4
Alexander Nevsky - Eisenstein
Holiday - Cukor
You And Me - Lang

7
Bringing Up Baby - Hawks

8
The Adventures Of Robin Hood - Curtiz
Hotel Du Nord - carne

10
La B�te Humaine (Jean Renoir)

11
Jezebel (William Wyler)

12
Angels With Dirty faces - Curtiz
bluebeard's eighth wife - lubitsch

14
Porky in Wackyland (Bob Clampett)
Pygmalion - Asquith

16
childhood Of Maxim Gorky - Donskoy
Mollenard - Siodmak
Three Comrades - Borzage

19
The Baker's Wife - Pagnol
La Marseilleise - Renoir
You Can't Take It With You
The Young in Heart (Richard Wallace)

23
J'Accuse - Gance
The Rage Of Paris - Koster
le roman de werther - ophuls
st martins lane - whelan
stolen death - tapiovaara
Vivacious Lady - stevens

29
Bank Holiday
Les Disparus De St Agil -
Jack's Dream
Shopworn Angel
Tsuzurikata kyoshitsu / Composition Class - Yamamoto

1939 poll
1
Only Angels Have Wings - Hawks
The Rules Of The Game - Renoir

3
Ninotchka - Lubitsch

4
Stagecoach - Ford

5
Midnight - Leisen
Story Of The Last Chrysanthemum - Mizoguchi

7
Le Jour Se Leve - Carne

8
The Roaring Twenties - Walsh
Young Mister Lincoln - Ford

10
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington - Capra

11
Destry Rides Again - Marshall
The Wizard Of Oz - Fleming +

13
Wuthering Heights - Wyler

14
Four Feathers - Korda
Four Seasons Of Children - Shimizu
Gone With The Wind - Fleming +
There's No Tomorrow - Ophuls
The Women - Cukor

19
El Azima
Bachelor Mother - Kanin
Gunga Din
Love Affair - McCarey

23
Earth - Uchida
Manoos - Shantaram

25
Beau Geste
Cossacks In Exile
Dodge City
Good Girls Go To Paris
Jamaica Inn
Je T'Attendre
Jesse James
Sincerity
Son Of Frankenstein
The Spy In Black
Union Pacific

36
Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
aldeia da roupa branca (garcia)
A Brother And His Younger Sister
Cada Loco Con Su temaDepartment Store
Drums Along The Mohawk
Fifth Avenue Girl
Five Came back
Frontier Marshall
Goodbye Mr chips
Hunchback Of Notre Dame
Ispaniya - shub
Let Us Live
Man In The Iron mask
Okayo No Kakugo -
Singing Lovebirds
Tatakau Hentai - kamei
When Tomorrow Comes - Stahl

1940 poll
1
the shop around the corner (lubitsch)

2
his girl friday (hawks)

3
rebecca (hitchcock)

4
the long voyage home (ford)

5
The grapes of wrath (ford)

6
Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)

7
The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)
night train to munich (reed)
remember the night (leisen)
They Drive by Night (Raoul Walsh)

11
the philadelphia story (cukor)
The Thief of Bagdad (Powell, 1940)

13
fantasia (various)
The Mortal Storm (Borzage)
Nobuko (Shimizu, 1940)
the westerner (wyler)

17
Christmas in July (USA, Paramount, Sturges)
In the Fields of Dreams (Tulio, 1940)
Menaces (Edmond T. Gr�ville)
pinocchio (luske, sharpsteen)
Stranger On The Third Floor - Ingster

22
The Great McGinty (Sturges, 1940)
The Letter (Wyler, 1940)
The Sea Hawk (Curtiz)
Travelling Actors (Naruse, 1940)

26
Dance Girl, Dance (Arzner, 1940)
Strange Cargo - Borzage
The Well-Digger�s Daughter (Pagnol, 1940)

29
Battement De Coeur - Decoin
dark command (walsh)
Paradis Perdu/Four Flights To Heaven - Gance
the postmaster (ucicky)
three faces west (vorhaus)

34 - 39
All This, and Heaven Too (Anatole Litvak)
City for Conquest (Anatole Litvak)
The Mark of Zorro (Mamoulian)
Spring Parade
The Stars Look Down -
Waterloo Bridge (LeRoy)

1941 poll
1
Citizen Kane (28)

2
The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
Ornamental Hairpin (Hiroshi Shimizu) (23)

4
Remorques (20)

5
How Green Was My Valley (17)

6
Sullivan's Travels
Suspicion (14)

8
Ball of Fire (Hawks) (12)

9
Dumbo
Strawberry Blonde - Walsh (11)

11
The 47 Ronin - Mizoguchi (10)

12
Hellzapoppin
Swamp Water - Renoir*
Maltese Falcon (9)

15
49th Parallel - Powell
The Devil and Daniel Webster (Dieterle)
Man Hunt - Lang

18
Hideko The Bus Conductress - Naruse
The Little Foxes (Wyler) (7)

20
High Sierra (Raoul Walsh)
Ladies in Retirement (Charles Vidor)
The Sea Wolf (Curtiz)
The Shanghai Gesture (von Sternberg)
The Wolf Man (George Waggner)

25
Hold Back the Dawn (Mitchell Leisen)
Meet John Doe (Frank Capra)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Alfred Hitchcock)
They Died with Their Boots On (Walsh)

29
I Wake Up Screaming
Notes of an Itinerant Performer (Shimizu)

31
Blind Venus (Gance)
The Blood of Jesus (Williams)
introspection tower (shimizu)*
johnny eager - leroy
Manpower
Never Give A Sucker An Even Break
The Old Jockey/Staryy naezdnik - Barnet
Piccolo mondo antico (Old-Fashioned World)
Sergeant York
That Uncertain Feeling (Lubitsch)
Tobacco Road
Todake no kyodai (The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family)
Western Union • Lang

1942 poll
1
To Be Or Not To Be -- Lubitsch

2
Casablanca - Curtiz

3
Cat People - Tourrneur

4
Emberek A Havason
The Magnificent Ambersons - Welles

6
Palm Beach Story
There Was A Father - ozu

8
Aniki Bobo - de Oliveira
Saboteur - hitchcock

10
Went The Day Well?

11
Gentleman Jim
I Married A Witch - Clair
Les Visiteurs Du Soir - Carne

14
Symphonie Fantastique - L'Herbier
This Gun For Hire
We make Music

17
L'Assassin Habite au 21 - Clouzot
Bambi
Four Steps In The Clouds - Blasetti
The Major And The Minor - Wilder
Malombra
Son Of Fury - Cromwell

23
Afsporet
By Night With Torch And Spear - Cornell
Mashenka -
Now Voyager - Rapper

27
Ala-arriba - de barros
The Black Swan
In Which We Serve - Coward, Lean
King's Row
Listen to Britain (Jennings)
Mrs Miniver - Wyler
One Of Our Aircraft Is issing
Random harvest
Reaap The Wild Wind - de Mille
Roti - M. Khan
Roxie Hart
The Talk Of The Town - Stevens

1943 poll
day of wrath (22)
shadow of a doubt (19)
i walked with a zombie (15)
the seventh victim (15)
colonel blimp (13)
le corbeau (13)
the leopard man (12)
the oxbow incident (11)
heaven can wait (10)
ossessione (9)
meshes of the afternoon (8)
hangmen also die! (7)
a good lad (6)
the ghost ship (6)
jane eyre (6)
this land is mine (6)
lumiere d'ete (5)
five graves to cairo (5)
flor silvestre (5)
air force (5)
dona barbara (4)
romance in a minor key (4)
angels of sin (4)
the more the merrier (4)
the gang's all here (3)
journey into fear (3)
sahara (3)
carnival of sinners (3)
distinto amanecer (3)

1944 poll
1
Double Indemnity - Wilder
To Have And Have Not - Hawks

3
Laura - Preminger

4
Ministry Of Fear - Lang

5
Lifeboat - Hitchcock
Meet Me In St Louis - Minnelli
The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek - Sturges

8
Grosse Freiheit No. 7 - Kautner
The Woman In The Window - Lang

10
The Curse Of The Cat People- von Fritsch, Wise
Hail The Conquering Hero - Sturges

12
Arsenic And Old Lace - Capra
A Canterbury Tale - Powell

14
Le ciel est à vous [The Sky Is Yours] - Jean Grémillon
Murder My Sweet - Dmytryk
Phantom Lady - Siodmak
Torment - Sjoberg

18
The Children Are Watching Us - de sica
Gaslight - Cukor
the way you wanted me (tulio)

21
Jammin the Blues (Mili)
The Lodger - Brahm
None Shall Escape - de Toth
Sorelle Materassi - Poggioli
Symphonie Paysanne - Storck
The Uninvited - Allen

27
Christmas Holiday - Siodmak
ivan the terrible
La Torre de los siete jorobados - Neville

29
Dark Waters - de Toth
Experiment Perilous - Tourneur
Maria Candelaria - Fernandez
Opfergang - Harlan
Private Life Of A Cat - Hammid, Deren
Rainbow (Donskoi)
The Suspect - Siodmak
Towards the Light (Bimal Roy)

37
Bluebeard - Ulmer
Bon Voyage
Buffalo Bill - Wellman
el clavo (gil)
Going My Way - McCarey
It Happened Tomorrow - Clair
Ramshastri
Traumerei - Braun

1945 poll
1
Children Of Paradise - Carne (20)

2
Rome Open City - Rossellini (19)

3
Detour - Ulmer (17)

4
Brief Encounter - Lean (16)

5
Scarlet Street - Lang (15)

6
I Know Where I'm Going - Powell (14)

7
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne - Bresson
Mildred Pierce - Curtiz (12)

9
Spellbound - Hitchcock (11)

10
The Lost Weekend - Wilder (10)

11
Ivan The Terrible Part 1 - Eisenstein
Leave Her To Heaven - Stahl (9)

13
The Clock - Minnelli
They Were Expendable - Ford (8)

15
Fallen Angel - Preminger (7)

16
And Then There Were None - Clair
The Bells Of St Mary's - McCarey
Dead Of Night - Cavalcanti a.o.
L'Espoir - Malraux/Peskine
Hangover Square - Brahm
Objective Burma - Walsh (6)

22
Bugambilia - Fernandez
Crepusculo - Bracho
Paris frills - Becker
The Southerner - Renoir
The Spiral Staircase - Siodmak (5)

27
The Body Snatcher - Wise
A Tree grows In Brooklyn - Kazan (4)

29
Anchors Aweigh - Sidney
La Barraca - Gavaldon
Dark Is The Night - Barnett
My Name Is Julia Ross - Lewis
The Story Of G I Joe - Wellman
Two People - Dreyer (3)

1946 poll
1. My Darling Clementine

2. Notorious

3. (tie) Beauty and the Beast
The Big Sleep

5. (tie) Canyon Passage
Paisà

6. The Best Years of Our Lives

7. (tie) Enamorada
Gilda
The Killers

10. Cluny Brown

11. (tie) Diary Of A Chambermaid
It’s A Wonderful Life
Under the Bridges

15. (tie) A Matter of Life and Death
Black Angel
Panique

18. Great Expectations

19. (tie) From This Day Forward
La Otra
Specter Of The Rose
The Girl I Loved
Utamaro and His Five Women

24. (tie) Green for Danger
Ritual In Transfigured Time
Shoeshine
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Stranger

29. (tie) A Scandal in Paris
Bedlam
Decoy
Duel in the Sun
Let There Be Light
Restless Blood
The Dark Corner
The Razor's Edge

1947 poll
1. The Lady from Shanghai (Welles)

2. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)

3. Black Narcissus (Powell and Pressburger)

4. Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin)

5. (tie) Le Tempestaire (Epstein)
Odd Man Out (Reed)

7. (tie) Brute Force (Dassin)
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Ozu)
Ride the Pink Horse (Montgomery)

10. Daisy Kenyon (Preminger)

11. (tie) Body and Soul (Robert Rossen)
Forever Amber • Preminger
Nightmare Alley - Goulding
Quai des Orfevres (Clouzot)

15. (tie) Kiss of Death (Hathaway)
The Ball at Anjo House

17. (tie) Captain from Castile • King
Fireworks (Anger)
Lady In The Lake - Montgomery
Secret Beyond the Door (Lang)
Spring Awakens (Naruse)
The Devil Thumbs a Ride (Felix Feist)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Mankiewicz)
The Woman on the Beach (Renoir)

25. (tie) Antoine and Antoinette (Becker)
Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk)
Dark Passage (Delmer Daves)
Dreams That Money Can Buy (Hans Richter)
La perla (The Pearl)
Pursued (Walsh)
The Unsuspected (Curtiz)
T-Men (Anthony Mann)

33. (tie) Born to Kill (Robert Wise)
Desert Fury (Lewis Allen)
Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan)
Lured - Sirk
Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton)
One Wonderful Sunday (Akira Kurosawa)
Ramrod (de Toth)
The Fugitive - Ford
Unconquered (DeMille)

1948 poll

1
Bicycle Thieves

2
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)

3
The Red Shoes (Powell and Pressburger)

4
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre

5
Fort Apache (Ford)

6
Red River

7
children of the beehive - shimizu
Rope
Spring in a Small Town (Fei)

9
they live by night (ray)

10
Portrait of Jennie (Dieterle)

11
The Pirate

12
The Big Clock (John Farrow)
the fallen idol (reed)
force of evil
germany year zero (rossellini)
Key Largo (John Huston)
Macbeth - Welles
la terra trema
yellow sky (wellman)

20
drunken angel
Moonrise (Borzage)
Raw Deal (Anthony Mann)
Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak)
Three Godfathers

25
Fuga in Francia (1948, Soldati)
louisiana story
pitfall


28
Cry of the City (1948, Robert Siodmak)
hamlet (olivier)
He Walked by Night (Anthony Mann, Alfred L. Werker, 1948)
A Hen In The wind - Ozu
ostatni etap (the last stage)
The Snake Pit (Anatole Litvak)
Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges)
women of the night (mizoguchi)

36 - 46
the argyle secrets
Berlin Express (Tourneur)
border street/ulica graniczna
Call Northside 777 (Hathaway)
krakatit
Myriad Of Lights
Les parents terribles / The Terrible Parents (1948, Jean Cocteau)
romance on the high seas
The Search (Zinnemann)
Sleep, My Love (Douglas Sirk, 1948)
they caught the ferry (dreyer)

1949 poll
1
Third Man - reed

2
Late Spring - Ozu

3
Riso Amaro - de Santis
Stray Dog - Kurosawa
Thieves' Highway - Dassin

6
Mr. Shoshuke Ohara - Shimizu
Pattes Blanches - Gremillon
La Silence De La Mer - Melville

9
Criss-Cross - Siodmak
The Set-Up - Wise

11
Intruder in the Dust (Clarence Brown)
Twelve O'Clock High (Henry King)
Under Capricorn - Hitchcock
White Heat - Walsh

15
The Heiress
kind hearts and coronets (hamer)
Une si jolie petite plage - Allegret
The Small Back Room - Powell/Pressburger

19
Døden er et kjærtegn (1949, Edith Carlmar)
In The Name Of The Law - Germi
life in the shadows (llorenç llobet-graciá)
Mahal
The reckless Moment - Ophuls
Rendezvous En Juillet - Beckr
Salon Mexico - fernandez

26
act of violence
Adam's Rib (George Cukor)
Battleground (William Wellman)
I Shot Jesse james - Fuller
Jour de fete - Tati
maeumui gohyang/a hometown in heart (yoon yong-kyu)
Manon - Clouzot
Blood of the Beasts (Georges Franju, 1949)
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon - Ford
Shockproof - Sirk
Waga Koi Wa Moenu / My Love Burns - Mizoguchi

37 - 44
DOA - Mate
Hellfire (R.G. Springsteen)
House of Strangers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Madame Bovary - Minnelli
Mura de Malapaga -Clement
The Passionate Friends (David Lean, 1949)
Reign Of terror - Anthony Mann
Whirlpool - Preminger

1950 poll
1
In A Lonely Place - Ray (26)

2
Sunset Blvd - Wilder (22)

3
Los Olvidados - Bunuel (20)

4
Wagon Master - Ford (18)

5
Gun Crazy - Lewis
Stromboli - Rossellini (17)

7
The Flowers Of St Francis - Rossellini
Orpheus - Cocteau
Rashomon - Kurosawa
Stars In My Crown - Tourneur (16)

11
Winchester 73 - Mann (14)

12
All About Eve - Mankiewicz
The Asphalt Jungle - Huston (10)

14
Aventurera - Gout
La Ronde - Ophuls

16
DOA - Mate
The Gunfighter - King

18
Afrique 50 - Vaultier
caged (cromwell)
Un Chant D'Amour - Genet
Harvey (Henry Koster)
Night and the City (Jules Dassin)
Rio Grande - Ford

24
Les Enfants terribles / The Stange Ones (1950, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Panic in the Streets (Kazan)
Sierra - Green
Woman on the Run (Norman Foster)

28
Armored Car Robbery (Richard Fleischer)
The Flame and the Arrow • Tourneur
the furies (mann)
House By The River - Lang
One Way Street (Fregonese)
Rabbit's Moon (Kenneth Anger)
Union Station (Rudolph Maté)

35
girl with hyacinths (ekman)
Mirror of Holland • Bert Haanstra
Path of Hope (Germi)
story of a love affair (antonioni)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Otto Preminger)

40
Born Yesterday
The Fall Of Berlin - Chiareuli
Father of the Bride (Vincente Minnelli)
Gone to Earth • Powell & Pressburger
Variety Lights - Fellini

1951 poll
1
Strangers On A Train - Hitchcock

2
Awaara - Kapoor

3
Early Summer - ozu
Journal d'un cure de campagne - Bresson

5
Ace In The Hole - Wilder

6
The River - Renoir

7
Miss Oyu
Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman)

9
on dangerous ground

10
Steel Helmet - Fuller
A Streetcar Named Desire - Kazan

12
Anne Of The Indies - Tourneur
Susana - Bunuel

14
Edward And Caroline - becker
a place in the sun (stevens)

16
The Lavender Hill Gang - Crichton
the prowler

18
African Queen - Huston
The Day The Earth Stood Still - Wise
Juliette, or Key of Dreams (Marcel Carne)
Miracle In Milan - de Sica
Othello - Welles
repast (naruse)
The Thing - Nyby/Hawks

25
Apache Drums - fregonese
The Tales Of Hoffman - P&P
The Tall Target (Anthony Mann)

28
Bellissima - Visconti
Il cristo proibito (Malaparte)
Dispersed Clouds - Gosho
Victimas del pecado - Fernandez

32
The Browning Version - Asquith
Fixed Bayonets - Fuller
Ginza Cosmetics (Mikio Naruse)
outcast of the islands (reed)*

36
The Man in the White Suit (Mackendrick)

37
An American In Paris - Minnelli
Baazi
Decision Before Dawn - Litvak
Poison (Guitry)
St Benny The Dip - Ulmer

42
furrows (nieves conde)
miss Julie

44
Alice In Wonderland - (Disney)
carmen comes home
the black crown (saslavsky)
Cry Danger (Robert Parrish)
En la palma de tu mano - gavaldon
Hakuchi/The Idiot - Kurosawa
Pool Of London - Dearden
The Well - Popkin

52
I Figli de nessuno - Matarazzo
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman - Albert Lewin

1952 poll
1. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)

2. (tie) Bend of the River (Anthony Mann)
The Life Of Oharu - Mizoguchi
The Quiet Man (Ford)
Umberto D. (De Sica)

6. Way of a Gaucho • Tourneur

7. The Golden Coach • Renoir

8. Singin' in the Rain (Donen/Kelly)

9. (tie) Angel Face (Otto Preminger)
Casque d'or (Becker)
Forbidden Games (Clément)
High Noon (Fred Zinneman)
Subida Al Cielo - Bunuel
The Big Sky - Hawks

15. (tie) Le Plaisir (Ophuls)
Mother (Naruse)
Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang)
The Lusty Men - Ray
The Narrow Margin (Fleischer)

20. (tie) Flavor Of Green Tea Over rice - Ozu
Othello (Welles)
Ruby Gentry • Vidor

23. (tie) Europa '51 (Rossellini)
Kansas City Confidential (Karlson)
Lightning • Naruse
LIMELIGHT (Chaplin)
My Son John • McCarey
Scaramouche (Sidney)
The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli)
The Crimson Pirate (Robert Siodmak)
Two Cents Worth of Hope (Castellani)

32. (tie) Clash By Night - Lang
Nagarik - Ghatak
Park Row (Samuel Fuller)

1953 poll
1
The Wages Of Fear - Clouzot

2
Tokyo Story - Ozu

3
Anatahan - von Sternberg

4
Rue de l'Estrapade - Becker
Ugetsu - Mizoguchi

6
Pickup On South Street - Fuller

7
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Hawks

8
The Earrings Of Madame De... - Ophuls
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday - Tati
The Sun Shines Bright - Ford

11
The Naked Spur - Mann
Summer With Monika - Bergman

13
The Bigamist - Lupino
El - Bunuel
I Vitelloni - Fellini
Where Chimneys Are Seen (Heinosuke Gosho)

17
Roman Holiday - Wyler

18
The Big Heat - Lang
Woman They Almost Lynched - Dwan

20
The Band Wagon - Minnelli
The Little Fugitive - Ashley, Engel, Orkin

22
From Here To Eternity - Zimmerman
Traviata '53 (Vittorio Cottafavi)

24
Angel Face - Preminger
Blowing Wild - Fregonese
El Bruto - Bunuel
gion bayashi (mizoguchi)
The Hitch-Hiker - Lupino
Stalag 17 - Wilder
Wife (Naruse)

31
Appointment In Honduras - Tourneur
Duck Amuck (Jones)
99 River Street - Karlson
Shane - Stevens
Welcome, Mr.. Marshall - Berlanga

36
All I Desire - Sirk
Baaz - Dutt
Crime Wave - de Toth
Gate Of Hell - Kinugasa
Lady Without Camelias - Antonioni
la nave delle donne maledette (matarazzo)
Sawdust And Tinsel - Bergman
il sole negli occhi (pietrangeli)

44
Abismo de pasion - Bunuel
Beat The Devil - Huston
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
Eaux d'artifice - Anger
I Confess - Hitchcock
Love Letter (Kinuyo Tanaka)
un marito per anna zaccheo (de santis)
Mogambo - Ford
Nigorie/Troubled Waters - Tadashi
Older Brother, Younger Sister (Mikio Naruse)
Peter Pan -
Scotch Hop (Maclaine)
Wicked Woman -

1954 poll
1. Rear Window

2. Sansho the Bailiff

3. Journey to Italy
Johnny Guitar

5. Seven Samurai

6. The Crucified Lovers

7. Vera Cruz
La Strada

9. French Cancan
Dial M for Murder

11. Illusion Travels by Streetcar
Honour Among Thieves
On the Waterfront

13. An Inn at Osaka
Senso
Sound of the Mountain

16. Magnificent Obsession
The Far Country

18. The Woman in the Rumor

19. Late Chrysanthemums

20. Crime Wave
River of No Return
Them!
Wuthering Heights
Human Desire
The Raid

26. A Star Is Born
Brigadoon
Job
The Magic City
Track of the Cat
Silver Lode

32. Twenty-Four Eyes
Another Sky
Hobson's Choice
Robinson Crusoe
Salt of the Earth
Shield for Murder
The Barefoot Contessa

39. Across the Heart
It Should Happen To You
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Struggle in the Valley
The Caine Mutiny

1955 poll
1. (tie) Kiss Me Deadly
Night of Hunter

3. (tie) All That Heaven Allows
Floating Clouds
Pather Panchali

6. Ordet

7. (tie) The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
The Naked Dawn

9. (tie) Big Combo
Smiles of Summer Night

11. (tie) Moonfleet
Tennessee’s Partner

13. (tie) Lola Montes
The Long Gray Line
Wichita

16. (tie) Les Diaboliques
The Man from Laramie
Night and Fog
Princess Yang Kwei-fei

20. (tie) Riffifi
The Trouble with Harry

22. (tie) Aguaespejo granadino
East of Eden
Rebel Without a Cause
Stella
To Catch a Thief

27. (tie) Artists and Models
Mr. Arkadin
Il Bidone
Isole di fuoco
The Ladykillers
Orgullo
Stranger on Horseback

34. (tie) Bad Day at Black Rock
Cobweb
Death of a Cyclist
The Indian Fighter
Le Amiche
La pointe courte
Mister Roberts
Mr & Mrs 55
Murder Is My Beat
Phenix City Story
She Was Like Wild Chrysanthemum
We're No Angels

1956 poll
1. A Man Escaped (Bresson)

2. The Searchers (John Ford)

3. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi)

4. (tie) Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)

6. Apajarito (Satyajit Ray)

7. (tie) Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville)
Early Spring (Ozu)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel)
The Killing (Kubrick)

11. (tie) Forbidden Planet (Wilcox)
Great Day in the Morning (Tourneur)
The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
There's Always Tomorrow (Sirk)
While the City Sleeps (Lang)

16. The Ogre of Athens (Koundouros)

17. (tie) Elena and Her Men (Renoir)
Flowing (Mikio Naruse)
Man from Del Rio (Horner)
Merry-Go-Round (Zoltán Fábri)
Seven Men From Now (Boetticher)

22. (tie) Slightly Scarlet (Dwan)
Sudden Rain (Mikio Naruse)
The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hitchcock)

26. (tie) Peasants of the Sea (De Seta)
Tea and Sympathy (Minnelli)

28. (tie) Crazed Fruit (Ko Nakahira)
Death in the Garden (Buñuel)
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District (Kawashima)

31. (tie) ...And God Created Woman" (Roger Vadim, France/Italy)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Lang)
Jubal (Delmer Daves)
The Ten Commandments (DeMille)

1957 poll
1
The Incredible Shrinking Man

2
Pyaasa
The Seventh Seal
The Tarnished Angel
Throne Of Blood

6
Bridge On The River Kwai - lean
The Cranes Are Flying
Night Of The Demon
Tokyo Twilight (Ozu)
Wild Strawberries

11
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick

12
Paths Of Glory
The Tall T

14
12 Angry Men - Lumet

15
Bitter Victory (Ray)

16
Kanal

17
The Burglar
Decision At Sundown

19
Il grido (Antonioni)
Kisses (Yasuzo Masumura)
The Lower Depths
Le Notti Bianche (Visconti)
Notti Di Cabiria - Fellini
The River's Edge - Dwa n
sun-tribe myth from the bakumatsu era (kawashima)
The Tin Star
Whats opera doc (jones)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Witness For The Prosecution - Wilder

30
The Blue Sky Maiden (masumura)
A Face In The Crowd
Forty Guns
Men In War - Mann
Run Of The arrow
The Seine Meets Paris
3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves)
Time Without Pity

39
An Affair to Remember (McCarey)
La casa del angel
Les Espions
Hell Drivers
Monpti (Kautner)
Nine Lives (Arne Skouen)

45
Across the Bridge
The Enemy Below - Powell
Fear Strikes Out
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (Sturges)
The Wings Of Eagles
The Wrestler and the Clown (Barnet & Yudin)

1958 poll
1
Vertigo -

2
Touch Of Evil - Welles

3
Elevator To The Gallows - Malle

4
Mon Oncle - Tati
The Music Room - Ray

6
The Magician

7
Ajantrik - Ghatak
Cairo Station (Youssef Chahine, 1958)

9
Ashes And Diamonds

10
equinox flower (yasujiro ozu)
Ivan The Terrible P. 2 - Eisenstein

12
A Time To Love And A Time To Die - Sirk

13
Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli)
Summer Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1958)

15
Ballad Of Narayama - Kinoshita
Enjo/ CONFLAGRATION (Kon Ichikawa)
Giants And Toys

18
The Big Country
Bonjour Tristesse - preminger
Murder by Contract

21
Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
Party Girl - Ray

23
Endless Desire - Imamura
Eroica - Munk
The Hidden Fortress - Kurosawa
The Lineup- (Don Siegel)
Moi, un noir (Jean Rouch)

28
The Vikings

29
Buchanan Rides Alone -- Boetticher
The Last Day of Summer (Tadeusz Konwicki)
The Lovers - Malle
Madhumati - Bimal Roy
A Matter of Dignity (Kakogiannis)
Rosaura A Las 10 - Soffici
Terror In A Texas Town - Lewis

36
big deal on madonna street

37
Anzukko/Little Peach (Naruse)
le beau serge (claude chabrol)
Bell, Book and Candle
Bridges-Go-Round (Shirley Clarke)
a day in barbagia (de seta)
Firefly Light (Gosho)
Rock-a-Bye Baby (Frank Tashlin, 1958)

44
The Bravados (Henry King)
The Fly (Kurt Neumann, USA)
Gunman's Walk (Phil Karlson)

47
The Defiant Ones- ( Stanley Kramer)
Glas (Bert Haanstra)
Ház a sziklák alatt / The House Under the Rocks (1958, Károly Makk)
The Last of the Fast Guns (George Sherman)
The Long, Hot Summer
Montparnasse 19 (Becker)
A Movie (Bruce Conner)
The Rickshaw Man - Inagami
sweet anna (fábri)
Une vie

57
Bari Thekey Paliye - Ghatak
From Hell to Texas (Hathaway)
The Last Hurrah (John Ford)

1959 poll

1
400 Blows - Truffaut

2
North By Northwest - Hitchcock

3
Fires On The Plain - Ichikawa
Imitation Of Life - Sirk
ride lonesome (boetticher)

6
ballad of a soldier (chukhray)
Floating Weeds
Pickpocket - Bresson

9
day of the outlaw (de toth)
Hiroshima mon amour (resnais)
some like it hot (wilder)

12
anatomy of a murder (preminger)
good morning (ozu)
rio bravo (hawks)

15
Violent Summer
the world of apu (ray)

17
Kaagaz Ke Phool -Guru Dutt
nazarin (bunuel)
Night Train (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)

20
Araya - Margot Benacerraf
the bridge (bernhard wicki)
picnic on the grass (renoir)

23
the human condition part i (kobayashi)
no name on the bullet
Time Stood Still (Ermanno Olmi)

26
Adam Wants To Be A Man
The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller)
General Della Rovere (Rossellini)
The Hanging Tree (Delmer Daves)
the horse soldiers (john ford)
last train from gun hill (john sturges)
A Simple Story (Hanoun)
The Tiger of Eschnapur (Fritz Lang)
the wonderful country (robert parrish)

35
Ben-Hur (William Wyler)
Biyaya Ng Luppa - Manuel Silos
Fate of a Man (Bondarchuk)
the indian tomb (lang)
lin family shop
The Nun's Story (Fred Zinnemann)
shadows (cassavettes)
Stars (Konrad Wolf)
Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage)

44 - 64
All the Boys Are Called Patrick (Jean-Luc Godard)
black orpheus (camus)
chikamatsu's love in osaka
Come Back Africa - Lionel Rogosin
la cucaracha (rodríguez
The Facts of Murder (Germi)
Foma Gordeev
human condition part 2
india matri bhuta
Middle of the Night (Delbert )
Moonbird (Hubley) (short)
the nightingale's prayer
Odds Against Tomorrow - Robert Wise
On the Beach (Stanley Kramer)
Pillow Talk (Michael Gordon)
Room at the Top (Clayton)
a bucket of blood (roger corman)
Sapphire - Basil Dearden
Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959, Joseph L. Makiewicz)
Verboten - Fuller

1960 poll
1. Psycho

2. Le Trou

3. Eyes Without a Face

4. (tie) Peeping Tom
The Apartment

6. Late Autumn

7. (tie) The Virgin Spring
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

9. (tie) La Dolce Vita
Spartacus
The Cloud-Capped Star

12. Breathless
L'Avventura
The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

15. (tie) Macario
Rocco and his Brothers
Shoot the Piano Player
The Naked Island

19. (tie) L'amour existe
Plein Soleil
The Bad Sleep Well

22. (tie) Comanche Station
Devi
Era notte a Roma
Hell is a City
Les bonnes femmes
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
The Savage Innocents
The Warped Ones
Wild River

31. (tie) Autumn Has Already Started
Bad Luck
Black Sunday
Home from the Hill
House of Usher
Innocent Sorcerers
Night and Fog in Japan
The Criminal
The Magnificent Seven
The Sun’s Burial
The Young One
Village of the Damned

43. (tie) Blood is Dry
Classe Tous Risques
El Cochecito
hero of the red light district
Moderato Cantibile
Muzykanci
Sergeant Rutledge
Testament Of Orpheus
The Brides of Dracula
The Letter Never Sent
The Time Machine
The Wild, Wild Rose
Zazie dans le Métro

1961 poll
1
Last Year At Marienbad

2
The Innocents - Clayton
Viridiana

4
Through A Glass Darkly

5
Il Posto - Olmi

6
The Hustler - Rossen
La Notte - Antonioni

8
The End Of Summer -- Ozu
Yojimbo

10
Accattone - Passolini
fire in castilla (val del omar)

12
Banditi a Orgosolo - de Seta
Mother Joan Of The Angels - Kawalerowwicz

14
Lola - Demy
The Misfits - Huston
Night Tide - Harrington
One Eyed Jacks - Brando

18
The Exiles - mackenzie
One Twwo Threee - Wiler

20
Girl With A Suitcase - Zurlini
Paris Nous Appartient - Rivette
Pigs and Battleships
Two Rode Together
Underworld USA - Fuller

25
Chronicle of A Summer -Morn, Rouch
divorce italian style (germi)
Une femme est une femme- Godard
Kukuli
'Léon Morin, pretre' - Jean-Pierre Melville
Very Nice very Nice - Lipsett

31
Barrabas - Fleischer
Blast Of Silence - Baron
Curse Of The Werewolf - Fisher
Dance InThe Rain - Hladnik
Hercules And The Captive Womn -Cottafavi
King Of Kings - Ray
Komal Gandhar - Gitwak
The Ladies' Man - Lewis
Splendor In The Grass -
Three Daughters

41
El Cid - Mann
Dvoje / And the Love Has Vanished
A Fire (Ebrahim Golestan)
The Guns of Navarone
Human Condition III
Judgement At Nuremberg - Kramer
plácido (garcía berlanga)
THE PEOPLE FROM THE TRAIN (Kazimierz Kutz)
3he Steamroller And The Violin - Tarkovsky
The Victim
West Side Story - Wise
Whistle Down the Wind
A Wife Confessess - Masumura

54+ -- some placeholders
Animas Trujano - Rodriguez
As A Wife As A Woman - naruse
En el balcon vacio - Garcia Ascot
Le gout de la violence "The Taste of Violence" (Robert Hossein, France/West Germany/Italy)
Guns of the Trees (Jonas Mekas)
Hercules In The Haunted World - Bava, Prosperi
Teen Kanya - Ray
Ukrainian Rhapsody - Parjanov
Yanco - Gonzalez

1962 poll
La Jetee 16

Cleo from 5 to 7 15
The Exterminating Angel 15

An Autumn Afternoon 13
Ivan's Childhood 13

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 11
Vivre sa vie 11

Hatari10

Kanchenjungha 9
A Knife in the Water 9
L'Eclisse 9
The Trial 9

Carnival of Souls 8
Harakiri 8
Jules and Jim 8
Lawrence of Arabia 8
Pitfall 8
To Kill a Mockingbird 8

The Parallel Street 7

The Manchurian Candidate 6
The Suitor 6

The Devil's Trap 5
Electra 5
Il Sorpasso 5
Mafioso 5
Ride the High Country 5

The Elusive Corporal 4
Le Doulos 4
Lolita 4
Lonely Are the Brave 4
Requiem for a Heavyweight 4
The Intruder 4
The Trial of Joan of Arc 4

Advise and Consent 3
Barravento 3
David and Lisa 3
Human 3
Long Day's Journey into Night 3
Mamma Roma 3
Salvatore Giulani 3
Sanjuro 3
Tlayucan 3
Os Cafajestes / The Unscrupulous Ones 3

1963 poll


1
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)

2
8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)

3
The Birds - Hitchcock

4
Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Servant (Joseph Losey)

6
Charade (Stanley Donen)
Mahanagar - Satjayit Ray

8
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
Winter Light

10
The Fiancés (Ermanno Olmi, 1963)
The Fire Within (Louis Malle)
The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)

13
Donovan's Reef (John Ford, 1963)

14
The House Is Black
Muriel, or the Time of Return (Alain Resnais, 1963)

16
An Actor's Revenge (Ichikawa)
The Love Eterne (Li Han-Hsiang, 1963)
Mothlight (Stan Brakhage)
The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards)
Scorpio Rising
Shock Corridor - Fuller

22
Hands Over The City - Rosi
Hud (Martin Ritt)
Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker)
joseph kilian (juraček, schmidt)
The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis)
Passenger (Andrzej Munk)
Suzanne's Career (Eric Rohmer)
Valparaiso (Joris Ivens, 1963)

30
The Bakery Girl of Monceau (Éric Rohmer)
Bandini (Bimal Roy, 1963)
Black Sabbath - Bava
The Organizer (Mario Monicelli)
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman (Kihachi Okamoto, 1963)
The Great Escape (Sturges)
The Hainting - Robert Wise
L'immortelle (1963, Alain Robbes-Grillet)
Raven's End (Bo Widerberg)
This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson)
X - The Man With The X-Ray Eyes - Corman

41
Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy)
Billy Liar (John Schlesinger)
The Desolate Beach (Tapan Sinha )
Lord of the Flies (Brook)
the red lanterns
rite of spring (de oliveira)
The Executioner (Berlanga)
Barren Lives — N. Pereira Dos Santos
La frusta e il corpo / The Whip and the Body (Mario Bava)
Whistle Stop (Boris Barnet)
A Woman's Life (Naruse)
Young Aphrodites (Nikos Koundouros)
Yaju no seishun / Youth of the Beast (1963, Seijun Suzuki)

54- 63
Blow Job (Andy Warhol)
Borom sarret / The Wagoner (Ousmane Sembène)
Burying Old Alive (Kim Ki-young)
Bye Bye Birdie (Sidney)
From Russia with Love (Terence Young)
Judex (1963, Georges Franju)
A Legend or Was It?
Showdown (R.G. Springsteen, Universal-International)
Something Different (Věra Chytilová)
Susuz Yaz (Dry Summer)

1964 poll
1
Yearning (Naruse) 25 votes

2
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan) 24 votes

3
Charulata (Ray)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick) 20 votes

5
Gertrud (Dreyer)
Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, USA) 19 votes

7
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy) 17 votes

8
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini) 16 votes

9
Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô) 15 votes

10
Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
Culloden (Watkins)
I am Cuba (Kalatozov)
Kwaidan (Kobayashi)
The Naked Kiss - Fuller 13 votes

15
Diamonds of the Night (Jan Nemec, Czechoslovakia)
Nothing But A Man - Roemer 11 votes

17
Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni) 9 votes

18
Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha, Brazil)
A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone, Italy/Spain/West Germany)
The Killers - Siegel 8 votes

21
A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda)
Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer) 7 votes

24
A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
Man's Favorite Sport? (Hawks)
The Peach Thief (Vulo Radev)
Zulu (Cy Endfield) 6 votes

28
Diary Of A Chambermaid - Bunuel
Fail-Safe (Sidney Lumet)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (Mann)
The Patsy (Jerry Lewis)
The Soft Skin (Truffaut)
Strange Voyage (Fernando Fernan Gomez

34
Cheyenne Autumn (John Ford)
Hamlet (Kosintsev)
Intentions of Murder (Shohei Imamura, Japan)
Lady In A Cage - Grauman
Manji "Swastika" (Yasuzo Masumura, Japan)
The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman, USA/UK)
Noite Vazia (Walter Hugo Khouri)
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes)
Seduced and Abandoned Pietro Germi
Three Outlaw Samurai (Hideo Gosha)
Walking the Streets of Moscow (Georgiy Daneliya, Soviet Union)

45
3 36 Hours (George Seaton)
The Americanization of Emily (Hiller)
Assassination -shinoda
Dog Star Man - Stan Brakhage
Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton)
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Robert Aldrich)
Kiss Me, Stupid (Billy Wilder)
Lilith (Robert Rossen)
The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet)
Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger)
A Shot in the Dark (Blake Edwards, 1964)
Strait-Jacket (William Castle, USA)
The Train (Frankenheimer)
Two Stage Sisters (Xie)

1965 poll
1
Le Bonheur - Varda

2
Yo Yo - Etaix

3
Red Beard - Kurosawa

4
A Spring For The Thirsty -
Subarnarekha/The Golden Thread (Ritwik Ghatak)
The War Game (Peter Watkins)
white mountains (ubukeyev)

8
Elegia (Zoltan Huszarik)
I Knew Her Well (Pietrangeli)
Fists in the Pocket (Bellocchio)
The Seaside Village -

12
Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
কাপুরুষ [The Coward] - Satyajit Ray
Guide -
Pierrot le fou (Godard)
Saragossa Manuscript (Has)

17
The Brick and the Mirror (Ebrahim Golestan)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer)
For a Few Dollars More (Leone)
Kiga/Kaikyo/ a fugitive from the past (uchida)
my way home (jancso)
Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors -
Simon Of The Desert- Bunuel

24
Alphaville - Godard
The Collector - Wyler
The First Teacher - Konchalovsky
Juliet Of The Spirits - Fellini
Repulsion - Polanski
Shunpu den / Story of a Prostitute (1965, Seijun Suzuki)

30
Bunny Lake Is Missing - Preminger
Clay -
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" (Bill Melendez, 1965)
The Debussy Film (Ken Russell)
The Family Jewels (Jerry Lewis)
Fort Graveyard
The Hand (Jirí Trnka)
I Am Twenty Part 1/Part 2 -
The Ipcress File (Sidney J. Furie)
Red Line 7000 (Howard Hawks)
Seisaku's Wife
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
B�l� pan� / The White Lady (1965, Zdenek Podskalsk�)

43 - 71
The Ashes (Andzrej Wajda)
The Blizzard (Vladimir Basov)
The Cincinnati Kid (Norman Jewison, 1965)
Doctor Zhivago (1965, Fred Zinneman)
Flight of the Phoenix (Robert Aldrich)
forest of the hanged (ciulei) three segments
a high wind in jamaica (mackendrick)
I Saw What You Did (William Castle)
Intimate Lighting (Ivan Passer)
karla (zschoche)
Kustom Kar Kommandos (Kenneth Anger)
Loves of a Blonde (Miloš Forman, 1965)
Man Is Not a Bird (Dusan Makavejev)
El mundo sigue / Life Goes On (1965, Fernando Fern�n G�mez)
Not Reconciled (Jean-Marie Straub)
now! (álvarez)
planet of the vampires (bava)
Quixote (Bruce Baillie)
the rabbit is me (maetzig)
Sevmek Zamanı [Time to Love] - Metin Erksan
Shenandoah (Andrew V. McLaglen, 1965)
The Shop On Main Street
The Sound of Music (Wise)
A Story Written With Water
tattooed life (suzuki)
tri (petrovic)
La 317ème section [The 317th Platoon] - Pierre Schœndœrffer
Viento Negro - Gonzalez

1966 poll
1
Andrei Rublev - Tarkovsky

2
The Battle Of Algiers - Pontecorvo
Seconds - Frankenheimer

4
The Good The Bad And The Ugly - Leone

5
Au Hasard balthasar - Bresson

6
Blow-Up

7
The Taking Of Power By Louis XIV - Rossellini

8
The Face Of Another - Teshigihara

9
Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
The Shooting - Hellman

11
Black Girl - Sembene
Daisies - Chytilova
Ride In The Whirlwind - hellman
The Sword Of Doom - Okamoto

15
red angel (masumura)

16
Closely Watched Trains - Menzel
Cul De Sac - Polanski
Wings

19
7 women

20
Le Deuxième Souffle
Violence at Noon

22
Come Drink With Me - King Hu
Les Creatures
A Man And A Woman - Lelouch
The Pornographers - Imamura
Trans Europ Express - Robbe-Grillet
Tokyo Drifter - Suzuki
ukamau

29
Breakaway (Bruce Conner)
The Chase - penn
el dorado (hawks) 1967!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If I Had Four Camels - Marker
Karachi Karumen - Suzuki
the nun (rivette)
the party and the guests (nemec)
Pharaoh (Jerzy Kawalerowicz)
The Round-Up
Silence Has No Wings - Kuroki
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
Young Torless - Schlondorff
Yukoku - , Mishima

42
the authentic trial of carl emmanuel jung (hanoun)
carriage to vienna (kachyna)
Death of a Bureaucrat
Fahrenheit 451 - Truffaut
Giorgovistbe - Iosellani
The Fortune Cookie - Wilder
Harper - Smight
How to Steal a Million
Hunger
Mademoiselle (Tony Richardson)
The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short
Masculin Feminin
Tiempo De Morir

1967 poll
1 Playtime (Jacques Tati)

2 Scattered Clouds/Midaregumo (Naruse)

3 Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville)

4 Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlácil)

5 Mouchette (Robert Bresson)

6 (tie)
La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer)
Point Blank (John Boorman)
The Red and the White (Miklos Jancso)

9 (tie)
Belle du Jour (Bunuel)
Weekend (Godard)

11 Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev)

12 The Graduate (Mike Nichols)

13 Samurai Rebellion (Kobayashi)

14 (tie)
Bonnie and Clyde (Penn)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Godard)
Young Girls of Rochefort (Demy)

17 (tie)
Cool Hand Luke (Rosenberg)
The Firemen's Ball/Horí, má panenko (Forman)
The Producers (Mel Brooks)
Wavelength (Michael Snow)

21 (tie)
Bullets Don't Turn Back/Oi sfaires den gyrizoun piso (foskolos)*
One-Armed Swordsman (Chang)

23 (tie)
The Dirty Dozen (Aldrich)
Don't Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker)
The Fearless Vampire Killers (Roman Polanski)
In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks)
Oedipus Rex (Pasolini)
The Plea (Tenghiz Abuladze)
The Unforgettable/Nezabyvayemoye (Solntseva)

30 (tie)
Accident (Losey)
David Holzman’s Diary
Dragon Gate Inn (Hu)
Echoes of Silence (Peter Emmanuel Goldman)
In the Heat of the Night
July rain (Khutsiev)

36 (tie)
La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
Crosses Over The Dead Land/Cruces sobre el yermo (Mariscal)
Entranced Earth/Terra em transe (Glauber Rocha)
5 girls around the neck (Schorm)
The Honey Pot (Mankiewicz)
I even met happy gypsies (Petrovic)
Oh, Sun/O Soleil (Med Hondo)
On paper wings (Klopcic)
Romance pro kridlovku/Romance for Bugle (Vavra)
Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)
Wait Until Dark

1968 poll
1
2001: A Space Odyssey - Kubrick

2
Rosemary's Baby - Polanski

3
Death By Hanging - Oshima
Night Of The Living Dead - Romero
The Valley Of The Bees - Vlacil

6
Once Upon A Time In The West - Leone

7
L'Enfance Nue - Pialat
The Swimmer - Perry, Pollock

9
The Chronicle Of Anna Magdalena bach - Straub Huillet
If - Anderson
Kuroneko - Shindo

12
Hour Of The Wolf - Bergman
Planet Of The Apes - Schaffner
Shame - Bergman

15
The Devil Rides Out - Fisher
Pas de deux - McLaren
Profound desires of The Gods - Imamura
Targets - Bogdanovich

19
Dragon's Return - Grecher
Je T'Aime Je T'Aime - Resnais
Memories Of Underdevelopment - Gutierrez Alea
Seyyit Han - Guney
Signs Of Life - herzog

24
Baisers Voles - Truffaut
Bullitt - Yates
The Girls - Zetterling 33.13 = cheese gif
The Great Silence -
L'Homme Qui Ment - -Grillet Robbe
Hour Of The Furnaces - Getino, Solanas
Kill! - Okamoto
Mandabe - Sembene
A Quiet Place In The Country - Petri
Le Revelateur - Garrel
Salesman - Maysles
Teorema - Pasolini

36
The Arch - Tong
O Bandido da Luz Vermelha -
Barbarella - Vadim
Les Biches - Chabrol
The Boston Strangler - Fleischer
Faces - cassavetes
Innocence Unprotected - Makavejev
Nocturne 2 - Portabella
Petulia - Lester
Romeo And Juliet - Zeffirelli
Stone Cross - Hocico
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One - greaves
To Love

49
Capricious Summer - Menzel
Danger: Diabolik - Bava
El escapulario - Gonzalez
High School - Wiseman
The Immortal Story - Welles
Korotkie vstrechi - Muratova
The Lion In Winter -
No Way To Treat A Lady - Smight
The Odd Couple - Saks
Oliver
The Party - Edwards
Reeconstituirea - Pintilie
Un Soir Un Train - Derlvaux
The Stalking Moon - Mulligan
Sympathy For The devil - Godard
Whistle And I'll Come To You - Miller
Women In Chains - clouzot
Yellow Submarine - Dunning

1969 poll
1
My Night at Maud's Eric Rohmer (24)

2
The Wild Bunch (20)

3
Army of Shadows (Melville) (18)

4
Color of Pomegranates (Parajanov) (16)

5
Z - Costa Gavras (15)

6
Boy - Oshima
They Shoot Horses Don't They? (13)

8
A Gentle Woman (Bresson) (12)

9
Medea - Pasolini (11)

10
The Cremator
Eve Of Ivan Kupalo

12
Burn - Pontecorvo
Dilllinger E Morte - Ferrari
Invasion
Kes (Ken Loach)
The Milky Way - Bunuel
Women In Love
Midnight Cowboy

19
Double Suicide - Shimoda
Easy Rider
La Femme Infidèle (Claude Chabrol)
Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto)
Le Grand Amour (Pierre Étaix)
Medium Cool - Wexler
The Mummy -salam

26
L'Amour Fou - Rivette
Downhill Racer - Ritchie
Fellini Satyricon
Nest Of Gentry

30
Antonio Das Mortes - Rocha
Blind Beast (Yasuzô Masumura)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
Eros + Massacre (Yoshida)
Goyokin Hideo Gosha
A Married Couple (King)
Play Dirty - de Toth
The Sorrow and The Pity - Ophuls
This Man Must Die (Claude Chabrol)

39
Acts of the Apostles - Rossellini
AKA Serial Killer
The Cow - Mehrjui
The Damned - Visconti
The Joke (Jaromil Jires)
Mississippi Mermaid (Truffaut)
Mr. Freedom - Klein
Model Shop Jacques Demy
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter Hunt)
The Passion Of Anna - Bergman
Phantom India (Malle)

50
Bird, Orphans and Fools (Juraj Jakubisko)
Destroy, She Said - Duras
dzhamilya
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (Satyajit Ray)
Pirosmani - Shengelaia
The Rain People - Coppola
Walden: Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (Jonas Mekas)

57
Ådalen 31 (1969, Bo Widerberg)
Akran (Richard Myers)
Back and Forth (Snow)
Chacal de Nahueltoro - Littin
el dependiente/the clerk (favio)
Eggshells - Hooper
The first charge of the machete (gómez)
Have Sword Will Travel Chang Cheh
Katzelmacher - Fassbinder
The Land (Chahine)
Love Is Colder Than Death - Fassbinder
One On Top Of The Other - Fulci
La Piscine (Jacques Deray)
Red Lion Kihachi Okamoto
Take The Money And Run
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
Venus In Furs - Franco
Vrane / Crows (Kozomara, Mihić)
yawar malku (sanjinés)

1970 poll
1. Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)

2. Le boucher (Chabrol)

3. (tie) Othon (Straub-Huillet)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Wilder)

5. Five Easy Pieces (Rafelson)
L'Enfant Sauvage (Truffaut)
M.A.S.H. (Altman)
La Rupture (Chabrol)
The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (Blank)

10. (tie) Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)
Le Cochon (Jean Eustache, Barjol)
Husbands (Cassavetes)

13. (tie) The Conformist (Bertolucci)
Days and Nights in Forest (Ray)
Deep End (Skolimowski)
Investigation of Citizen Above Suspicion (Petri)
The Man Who Left His Will On Film (Oshima)
Samskar (Reddy)
Tristana (Bunuel)
Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders (Jires)
Zabriskie Point (Antonioni)

22. (tie) Bed & Board (Truffaut)
Dodes'ka-den (Kurosawa)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (Herzog)
Les Choses de Vie (Sautet)
Rejs (Piwowski)
The Strangler (Vecchiali)

28. (tie) Adelheid (Vláčil)
Brewster McCloud (Altman)
El Topo (Jodorowski)
Gimme Shelter (Maysles, Zwerin)
Hi, Mom! (De Palma)
Hope (Güney)
Our Daily Bread (Kaul)
This Transient Life (Jissoji)
Wanda (Loden)
Zorns Lemma (Frampton)

38. (tie) The Debut (Panfilov)
Ere erera baleibu icik subua aruaren (Sistiaga)
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Peckinpah)
Buraikan (Shinoda)
case for rookie hangman (Juracek)
Clowns (Fellini)
Little by Little (Rouch)
Os deuses e os Mortos (Guerra)
Patton (Schaffner)
Reconstruction (Angelopoulos)
Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr)
Umbracle (Pere Portabella)
Watermelon Man (Peebles)
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Fassbinder)

1971 poll
1
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)

2
Du côté d'Orouët (Jacques Rozier, 1971)
A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1971)

4
Out One - Rivette

5
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson, 1971)
McCabe And Mrs. Miller - Altman
A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)

8
Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti, 1971)
The Devils (Russell)
Wake In Fright - Kotcheff

11
the last picture show (bogdonavich)
Walkabout - Roeg

13
Appointment in Bray (André Delvaux, 1971)

14
Cuadecuc, Vampir (Pere Portabella, 1971)
daughters of darkness (kumel)
The French Connection (William Friedkin)
Klute (Pakula)
Murmur Of The Heart - Malle
La Région Centrale (Michael Snow, 1971)

20
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
punishment park (watkins)
Sinbad (Huszarik)
two english girls - truffaut

24
blanche (borowczyk)
The Ceremony (Nagisa Ōshima, 1971)
Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
the go-between (losey)
Love (Makk)
one day before the rainy season (kaul)
quick billy (bailie)

31
The Andromeda Strain (Wise)
The Beguiled (Siegel)
Beware of a Holy Whore / Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte — R. W. Fassbinder
The Boy Friend
the decameron - pasolini
Duck, You Sucker
Duel (Steven Spielberg)
The Emigrants (Troell)
emitaï (sembène)
the lady hermit (meng)
Mon Oncle Antoine (Jutra)
a necklace for my beloved (abuladze)
nostalgia - frampton
The Panic in Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg)
Straw Dogs - Peckinpah
10 Rillington Place (Fleischer)
the third part of the night - żuławski
The Wolves - Gosha
WR: Mysteries of the Organism / W.R. - Misterije organizma — D. Makavejev
You And Me - Shepitko

51 - 69
Carnal Knowledge (Nichols)
Harold and Maude — H. Ashby
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman / Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês — N. Pereira Dos Santos
The Last Valley (Clavell)
macbeth (polanski)
Max and the Junkmen (Sautet)
The Music Lovers (Ken Russell)
My Wife and the Dog
narita: second fortress (ogawa)
Play Misty for Me (Eastwood)
The policeman - kishon
Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Schlesinger)
Taking Off (Forman)
Touha Zvana Anada
Vanishing Point
Whity (Fassbinder)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (Elio Petri)
Xin du bi dao (The New One-Armed Swordsman)

1972 poll

1 Solaris
2 Aguirre: The Wrath of God
3 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
4 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
5 The Godfather
6 Love in the Afternoon
7 We Won't Grow Old Together
8 Avanti!
9 Cries and Whispers
10 Fat City
11 My Childhood
12 History Lessons
13 Cabaret
14 Deliverance
15 Last Tango in Paris
16 Red Psalm
17 Ulzana's Raid
18 A Well Spent Life
19 Blaise Pascal
20 Blanche
21 Frenzy
22 Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice
23 Images
24 Maya Darpan
25 Pictures of the Old World
26 The Stone Wedding
27 Junior Bonner
28 Nathalie Granger
29 The Goat Horn
30 The King of Marvin Gardens
31 The Mattei Affair
32 Uma Abelha na Chuva
33 Angels and Cherubs
34 Diabel
35 Goodbye CP
36 Home from the Sea
37 Hôtel Monterey
38 Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
39 Letter from the Wife
40 Ludwig
41 Pink Flamingos
42 Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
43 Savage Messiah
44 Silent Running
45 Sleuth
46 The New Land

1973 poll
1
The Spirit Of The Beehive

2
the Mother And the Whore

3
Badlands

4
The Long Goodbye

5
Duvidha
F For Fake

7
World On A Wire

8
Touki Bouki

9
Don't Look Now
Mean Streets
Scenes From A Marriage

12
Paper Moon (Bogdanovich)
The Wicker Man

14
The Exorcist

15
Titash Ekti Nadir Naam - Ghatak

16
The Hourglass Sanatorium - Has
Na wylot "Through and Through" (Grzegorz Krolikiewicz, Poland)
Pat Garrett And billy The Kid

19
Amarcord
Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
Day For Night - Truffaut
The Fate of Lee Khan (King Hu)
Fotográfia (Pál Zolnay)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates)
Juvenile Court (Wiseman)
The Sting (Hill)

27
The Day of the Jackal (Zinnemann)
High Plains Drifter
Serpico (Sidney Lumet)

30
The Dupes (Saleh)
Electra Glide in Blue (Guercio)
Emperor Of The North
Fantastic Planet
illumination - zanussi
The Mongols (Kimiavi)
Sisters • De Palma

37
age of the medici (rossellini)
Distant Thunder (Ray)
The Holy Mountain
Messiah Of Evil
My Ain Folk (Bill Douglas)
payday - duke
we’re cursed, irina (angelovski)

44
American Graffiti
Papillon (Schaffner)
Rose de fer -- Rolllin
the stone wedding - pita/veroiu
willow springs (werner schroeter)

49
the birth of a nation (klaus wyborny)
Black Caesar
Deux hommes dans la ville "Two Men in Town" (Jose Giovanni, France/Italy)
Dry Wood (Les Blank)
Hot Pepper (Blank)
i will walk like a crazy horse (arrabal)
Lady Snowblood
The Last Detail
Lisa And The devil
Ostrov / Island (Fyodor Khitruk)
Sanrizuka: Heta buraku (OGAWA, S.)Sleeper (Allen)
Some Call It Loving (James B. Harris)
Yaadon Ki Baaraat "Procession of Memories" (Nasir Hussain, India)

1974 poll
1. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)

2. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)

3. (tie) A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Peckinpah)

5. Edvard Munch (Watkins)

6. Mes petites amoureuses (Jean Eustache)

7. (tie) Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)

9. (tie) Alice in the Cities (Wenders)
The Godfather: Part II (Coppola)

11. Cockfighter (Monte Hellman)

12. The Mouth Agape (Pialat)

13. (tie) Femmes femmes (Vecchiali)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog)
The Man Who Sleeps (Queysanne)
The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel)
Young Frankenstein (Brooks)

18. (tie)California Split (Robert Altman)
The Taking of Pelham 123 (Joseph Sargent)

20. (tie) Black Christmas • Bob Clark
Je, tu, il, elle (Akerman)
Martha (Fassbinder)

23. (tie) 27 Down (Awtar Krishna Kaul)
Effi Briest (Fassbinder)
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Terayama)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
A Simple Event (Sohrab Shahid Saless)
Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Cimino)

30. (tie) Arabian Nights (Pasolini)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Scorsese)

32. (tie) Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (Kinji Fukasaku)
Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis)
Sweet Movie (Makavejev)
The Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner (Herzog)
The Parallax View (Pakula)
The Yakuza (Pollack)
Weighed but Found Lacking (Lino Brocka)

39. (tie) Ankur (Benegal)
Cartesius (Roberto Rossellini)
Electra, My Love (Miklos Jancso)
Himiko (Masahiro Shinoda)
Parade (Jacques Tati)
Phase IV (Saul Bass)
Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market (Noboru Tanaka)
Still Life (Sohrab Shahid Saless)
The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani)

PLUS Lancelot du Lac "somewhere in the top ten" -- but the tallying was off.

1975 poll


1. (tie) Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman)
The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
The Passenger (Antonioni)

4. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir)

5. India Song (Marguerite Duras)

6. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)

7. (tie) Adoption (Meszaros)
Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa)
Il messia (Roberto Rossellini)
L'Histoire d'Adele H (Truffaut)
Moses and Aron (Straub & Huillet)

12. (tie) Fox and His Friends (Fassbinder)
The Travelling Players (Angelopoulos)

14. (tie) Hedgehog in the Fog (Norstein)
Jaws (Spielberg)
Night Moves (Penn)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman)
Welfare (Wiseman)

19. (tie) Benilde, the Virgin Mother (Manoel de Oliveira)*
Pastoral (Iosseliani)

21. (tie) Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet)
Love and Death (Allen)
Nashville (Altman)
The Man Who Would Be King (Huston)
Xala (Sembene)

26. (tie) 31/75: Asyl (Kren)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam, Jones)
Salo (Pasolini)
The Seasons (Pelechian)

30. (tie) La bete (Borowczyk)
Manila in the Claws of Light (Brocka)
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (Fassbinder)
Nazareno Cruz y el lobo (Favio)
Numéro deux (Godard)
Three Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack)

36. (tie) American Torso (Bódy)
Black Moon (Malle)
Deep Red (Dario Argento)
Grey Gardens (David Maysles/Albert Maysles/Muffie Meyer/Ellen Hovde)
Hynningen (Nekes)
Iracema (Bodanzky)
Le Vieux Fusil (Robert Enrico)
L'important c'est d'aimer "The Main Thing Is to Love" (Zulawskiy)
Magic Flute, The (Bergman)
Mozart in Love (Rappaport)
muna moto (dikongue-pipa)
Seven Beauties (Wertmüller)
Sholay (Embers)
The Promised Land (Wajda)
The Violent Ones (King Hu)
The Wind and the Lion (Milius)
Tommy (Russell)
Un Partie de Plaisir (Chabrol)
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

1976 poll
1
The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie - Cassavetes (32)

2
Taxi Driver - Scorsese (28)

3
Mikey And Nicky - May (20)

4
Cria Cuervos (Carlos Saura)
The Marquise of O - Rohmer
Network (Sidney Lumet) (17)

7
Assault On Precinct 13 - Carpenter (15)

8
Carrie - De Palma (14)

9
Heart of Glass (Herzog)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) (12)

11
Duelle - Rivette
The Man Who Fell To Earth (11)

13
Chinese Roulette - Fassbinder (10)

14
All the President's Men (Pakula)
Insiang (Brocka)
kings of the road - wenders (9)

17
Harlan County USA (Barbara Kopple)
Noroît (rivette)
Small Change (François Truffaut) (8)

20
L'innocente (Visconti)
The Last Supper - Gutierrez Alea
Mr. Klein (Joseph Losey)
Rocky (John G. Avildsen) (7)

24
Family Plot (Hitchcock)
The Little Mermaid
Marathon Man
The Middleman (Ray)
the tenant (polanski)

29
Desert of the Tartars (Zurlini)
Dirty Ho (Liu)
The Girl Chewing Gum (Smith)
God Told Me To - Cohen
In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Ôshima)
Obsession - de Palma
sérail (de gregorio)
The Shootist - Siegel

37
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (Robert Altman)
Face to Face (Bergman)
The Fifth Seal (Fabri)
Gypsies are Found Near Heaven (Loteanu)
harvest: 3000 years (gerima)
Ici et ailleurs (1976, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)
Jonah Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000 (Alain Tanner)
The Omen (Richard Donner)
Robin and Marian (Lester)
son nom de venise dans calcutta désert - duras
Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (Conner)

48
The Best Way To Walk (Claude Miller)
Canoa - Cazals
Chulas Fronteras (Les Blank)
Daguerrotypes (Varda)
Everyday Life in a Syrian Village (Amiralay)
Fellini's Casanova
Illustrious Corpses (Francesco Rosi, 1976)
Longitud de guerra - Martinez Ortega
Mado (Sautet)
The Magic Blade (Chor)
Master of the Flying Guillotine (Yu Wang, Taiwan/Hong Kong)
Novecento (Bertolucci)
Nuts in May (Leigh)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (Edwards)
A Real Young Girl (Breillat)
Satan's Brew (Fassbinder)
The Scar (Kieslowski)
Three Years Without God (O'Hara)

1977 poll
1
News From Home - Akerman

2
The Ascent - Shepitko
Eraserhead - Lynch

4
Stroszek - herzog

5
That Obscure Object Of Desire - Bunuel
3 Women - Altman

7
Opening Night - Cassavetes

8
Annie Hall - Allen
donkey in a brahmin village
Star Wars

11
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - Spielberg
Sorcerer - Friedkin
Suspiria - Argento

14
The Last Wave - Weir

15
Colloque de chiens - Ruiz
Perfumed Nightmare - Tahibik

17
The American Friend - Wenders
The Chess Players - Ray
Cross Of Iron - Peckinpah
The devil Probably - Bresson
11 x 14 (James Benning)
House (Nobuhiko Ōbayashi)
Invisible Adversaries - Export
Kanchana Sita (Govindan Aravindan)
Sentimental Swordsman - Yuen Chor

26
baxter, vera baxter (duras)
Diary of a Lover - Saless
executioners from shaolin
Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo/Reason, Debate And A Story - Ghatak
Last Chants for a Slow Dance (Jon Jost)
The Man Who Loved Women - Truffaut
A Special Day - Scola

33
Abigail's Party (Mike Leigh)
amar, akbar, anthony (desai)
Bhumika � S. Benegal
Ceddo - Sembene
Iphigenia - Cacoyannis
The Wishing Tree - Abuladze

39
Alice ou la derniere fugue - Chabrol
camouflage (zanussi)
Demon Seed
Desperate Living - Waters
Exorcist 2: The Heretic - Boorman
France/Tour/Detour/Deux/Enfants (Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Mi�ville
Grin Without A Cat - Marker
Hitler: A Film from Germany
The Hunters - Angelopoulos
jait re jait (jabbar patel)
The Late Show (Robert Benton)
Local Color (Mark Rappaport)
Man Of Marble - Wajda
parvarish (desai)
Saturday Night Fever
The Sealed Soil - Namili
Slap Shot (Roy Hill)
Special Education - Markovic
Tomorrow I'll Get Up and Scald Myself with Tea - Polak

1978 poll
1
Days Of Heaven - Malick

2
In A Year Of 13 Moons - fassbinder

3
Killer Of Sheep - Burnett

4
Halloween - Carpenter

5
The Deer Hunter
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers - Kaufman
Perceval Le Gallois - Rohmer

8
China 9 Liberty 37 - Hellman, Brandt
Dawn Of The Dead - Romero
The Driver - Hill
The Hypothesis Of The Stolen Painting

12
Autumn Sonata - Bergman
Blue Collar - Schrader
Les rendez-vous d'Anna - Chantal Akerman
36th Chamber Of Shaolin - Liu
The Tree Of Wooden Clogs - Olmi

17
Fury - De Palma
Girl Friends - Weill

19
graduate first - Pialat
Vertical Features Remake - Greenaway
The Whole Shootin' Match - Eagle Pennell

22
Gates of Heaven Morris

23
Despair - Fassbinder
My Way Home - Bill Douglas
Swordsman and enchantress -

26
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Blier)
Shadows of a Hot Summer (Vláčil)
Superman (Donner)
Старше на десять минут [Ten Minutes Older] - Herz Frank
veredas

31
Amor de Perdição - de Oliveira
Beauty And The Beast - Herz
césarée (duras)
The Chant Of Arnie Blacksmith - Schepisi
the crippled avengers (chang cheh)
Empire Of Passion - Oshima
Flammes - Adolfo Arrieta
heroes of the east
The Last Waltz - Scorcese
Magic (Attenborough)
My Tender and Affectionate Beast (Emil Loteanu)
Remember My Name - Rudolph
The Scenic Route - Rappaport
The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (Margarethe von Trotta)
The Shout - Skolimowski
The Silent Partner (Duke)

47
always for pleasure (les blank)
Animal House (John Landis)
circus tent (aravindan)
enter the fat dragon
Fingers (Toback)
Grand Opera, James Benning
Jubilee - Jarman
The lovers wind (lamorisse)
El lugar sin limites - Ripstein
les mains negatifs (duras)
Martin - Romero
Midnight Express
Orchestra Rehearsal - Fellini
Straight Time - Ulu Grosbard
An Unmarried Woman - Mazursky
Watership Down (Rosen)
Ward 6 (Lucian Pintilie)
What Max Said (Emilio Martínez Lázaro)

1979 poll


1
Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)

2
Apocalypse Now (Coppola)

3
Alien
nosferatu (herzog)

5
Life of Brian (Gilliam)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder)

7
Manhattan (Allen)

8
All That Jazz - Bob Fosse
The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki
Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari / Vengeance is Mine (1979)
Raining In The Mountain - King Hu
Real Life (Brooks)

13
Ballad of Tara (Bahram Beizai)
The China Syndrome (James Bridges)
dirty ho (liu chia-liang)
from the clouds to the resistance (huillet, straub)

17
And Quiet Rolls the Dawn (Sen)
Shan zhong zhuan qi "Legend of the Mountain" (King Hu, Taiwan/Hong Kong/South Korea)
The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff)

20
Christ Stopped At Eboli -
gol maal (mukherjee)
Kramer vs Kramer (Benton)
kummatty (g. aravindan)
Tale of Tales (Norstein)
Ticket Of No Return - Ottinger
The Warriors - Hill
Woyzeck - Herzog

28
Arrebato — Iván Zulueta
Breaking Away (Yates)
Mad Max (Miller)
The Maids of Wilko (Andrzej Wajda)
Messidor (Alain Tanner)
My Brilliant Career (Armstrong)
a walk through h (greenaway)

35
Anti-Clock (Jane Arden, Jack Bond)
Camera Buff (Kieslowski)
Escape from Alcatraz (Siegel)
Impostors (Rappaport)
Nacionalna klasa (Marković)
OVER the EDGE (Jonathan Kaplan)
Tess (Polanski)

42 - 59
Autumn Marathon (Georgi Daneliya)
The Battle of Chile - Patricio Guzman
Being There (Hal Ashby)
Doomed Love/Amor A Perdicao -
Elvis - Carpenter
Fascination (Rollin)
Five Evenings (Nikita Mikhalkov, 1979)
Hunter in the Dark (Gosha)
A Intrusa (The Intruder)
Love on the Run (Truffaut)
Mad Monkey Kung Fu (Chia-Liang Liu, 1979)
the mother (monteiro)
Phantasm (Don Coscarelli, USA)
The Plumber (Peter Weir, 1979)
Radio On (Petit)
Sayehaye Bolande Bad/Tall Shadows Of The Wind - Farmanara
Time After Time (1979, Nicholas Meyer)
Transfiguration Hospital - E Zembrowski

1980 poll
1
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)

2
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)

3
The Elephant Man - Lynch
Mon Oncle D'amerique (Alain Resnai
simone barbes or virtue

6/
The Falls (Peter Greenaway)
Zigeunerweisen

8
Airplane! (Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker)
Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Dressed to Kill (De Palma)
Heaven’s Gate


13
Esthappan
Narcissus and Psyche (Gabor Body)
Who's Singin' Over There (Sijan)

16
Alexander the Great (Theo Angelopoulos)
The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
evening rain
Gregory's Girl (Bill Forsyth)
The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie)
Loulou (Pialat)

22
Altered States (Ken Russell)
American Gigolo
c'est la vie
Dangerous Encounter First Kind - Tsui Hark
Khubsoorat (Hrishikesh Mukherjee)
Killer Constable

legend of tianyun mountain - jin xie
The Long Riders (Walter Hill)
Maniac -
Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
merry go round
sauve qui peut (la vie) / every man for himself
The Sword (Patrick Tam)
Talking Heads (Krzystof Kieslowski)

36
arising from the surface
Bhavni Bhavai
The Big Red One (Sam Fuller)
The Blues Brothers (John Landis)
Confidence

The Constant Factor (Krzystof Zanussi)
Le dernier métro / The Last Metro (1980, François Truffaut)
a distant cry from spring - yoji yamada
Hollywood (Kevin Brownlow & David Gill)
Inferno (Dario Argento)
the last witness
death watch
Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin)
Return to the 36th Chamber
Stardust Memories
A Story Of The Forest: Mavka - Ilyenko
The Stunt Man

53 - 76
arrival (mani kaul)
Babylon (Rosso)
A Bad Son (Sautet)
Bat Without Wings (Chor Yuen)
Breaker Morant (Bruce Beresford)
build a house, plant a tree (juraj jakubisko)
The Changeling
city after dark (ishmael bernal)*
City of Women
Cruising
The Fog (John Carpenter)
getting to know the big wide world
Gloria
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Hirak Rajar Deshe/Kingdom Of Diamonds - Satjayit Ray
jagko/Pursuit of Death

Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears (Menshov)
Oblomov
Ordinary People (Robert Redford)
Panelstory (Chytilova)
Petrijin venac (Petria's Wreath)
Popeye - Altman
Taxi zum Klo
Used cars

1981 poll
1. Lola

2. (tie) The Aviator’s Wife
Francisca
Ms .45
Thief

6. (tie) Blow Out
Excalibur
Muddy River
Southern Comfort
They All Laughed

11. (tie) Le pont du nord
Mad Max 2
Silvestre

14. (tie) Coup de torchon
My Dinner with Andre

16. (tie) An American Werewolf in London
The Prodigal Son
Blood Wedding
Body Heat
Das Boot
Deprisa, deprisa
Possession

23. (tie) Cutter's Way
Decline of Western Civilization
Escape from New York
Gallipoli
Mandala
Mavka (Song of the Forest)
Modern Romance
The Raiders of Lost Ark
Turumba

32. (tie) Alley / Xiao jie
Baddegama (Village in the Jungle)
Chariots of Fire
De weg naar het zuiden
Fehérlófia
Mephisto
Merry-go-round
New York Portrait, Chapter II
Polyester
Prince of City
Reds
Ritam zločina
Shuffle
Stations of Elevated
Tiempo de revancha (Time for Revenge)
Vernon, Florida
The Way Home
You Are Not I

1982 poll
1
Fanny And Alexander - Bergman

2
The Draughtsman's Contract - Greenaway
The King Of Comedy - Scorcese

4
Blade Runner - Scott
Trop tot, trop tard - Straub, Huillet

6
Veronica Voss - Fassbinder

7
Fitzcarraldo - herzog
Toute une nuit - Akerman

9
moonlighting (skolimowski)

10
Godard's Passion
A Good Marriage - Rohmer
Koyannisqarsi - reggio
The Thing - carpenter

14
48 Hrs - Hill
Death Of Yazdgerd
The Verdict - Lumet

17
Fast Times At Ridgemont High -

18
Une Chambre En Ville - Demy
E.T. Th Extra Terrestrial - Spielberg
oro, plata, mata (gallaga)
White Dog - Fuller
The Year Of Living Dangerously - Weir

23
Burden Of Dreams - Les Blank
elippathayam/rat-trap - gopalakrishnan
Five Element Ninjas - Chang
On Top Of The Whale - Ruiz
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Yol - Goren//Guney

29
Boat People - Hui
Chan Is Missing - Wang
Conan the Barbarian - Milius
The Grey Fox (Phillip Borsos)
Missing - Costa Gavras
New Yrk Ripper - Fulci
Querelle - Fassbinder

36
Ana - Reis, Cordeiro
La Bete Lumineuse -
Cat People - Schrader
Class of 1984
Come Back To The Fve And Dime, Jimmy Dean - Altman
en rachachant (Jean-Marie Straub, Daniele Huillet)
First Blood - Kotcheff
Gandhi - Attenborough
Liquid Sky - Tsukerman
Made In Britain - Clarke
the night of the shooting stars (Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani)
Nomad - Tam
Poltergeist - Hooper/Spielberg
Tenebre - Argento
Thunder (Ito)

51
l'ange (bokanowski)
la guerre d'un seul homme (cozarinsky)
The Herdsman - Xie, Huang
Identification Of A Woman - Antonioni
Legendary Weapons of China - Liu Chia-Liang
A Midsummer ight's Sex Comedy - Allen
Next of Kin (Tony Williams, New Zealand/Australia)
Parsifal (Syberberg)
PERSONAL BEST
The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth, USA)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
the state of things (wenders)
Variola Vera
Victor Victoria (Blake Edwards, UK/USA)
Wend Kuuni (Kaboré)

1983 poll

1. L'Argent (Robert Bresson)

2. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)

3. (tie) À nos amours (Pialat)
El Sur (Erice)

5. Videodrome (Cronenberg)

6. Nostalghia (Tarkovsky)

7. Scarface (De Palma)

8. (tie) Pauline at the Beach (Rohmer)
Three Crowns of the Sailor (Ruiz)

10. (tie) City of Pirates (Ruiz)
First Name: Carmen (Godard)
The Right Stuff (Kaufman)

13. (tie) The Boys from Fengkuei (Hou)
The Right Way (Fischli, Weiss)
Zelig (Allen)

16. (tie) Merry Christmas, Mister Lawrence (Oshima)
Rumble Fish (Coppola)
The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg)

19. (tie) Christine (Carpenter)
In The White City (Alain Tanner)
Risky Business (Brickman)
That Day, on the Beach (Yang)

23. (tie) A Christmas Story (Bob Clark)
Born in Flames (Borden)
Life is a Bed of Roses (Resnais)
Local Hero (Bill Forsyth)
The Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark)

29. (tie) Breathless (McBride)
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones)
My Brother’s Wedding • Charles Burnett
Return of the Jedi (Marquand)
The Makioka Sisters (Ichikawa)
Trading Places (Landis)

35. (tie) Angst (Kargl)
Dhrupad (Kaul)
My Memories of Old Beijing (Wu)
So Is This (Snow)
Tender Mercies (Beresford)
The Big Chill (Kasdan)
The Family Game (Morita)
Winners and Sinners (Sammo)

43. (tie) Ah Ying (Fong)
And the Ship Sails On (Fellini)
Babylon xx (Mikolaichuk)
Carmen (Carlos Saura)
Diary (Perlov)
Dimensions of Dialogue (Jan Svankmajer)
El Norte (Nava)
Eureka (Roeg)
Sleepaway Camp (Hiltzik)
The Moon in the Gutter (Jean-Jacques Beineix)

1984 poll

Paris, Texas Wim Wenders9

A Summer at Grandpa's Hou Hsiao-hsien7
Blood Simple Coen brothers7
Full Moon in Paris Eric Rohmer7
Legend of Suram Fortress Sergei Parajanov7
Once Upon a Time in America Sergio Leone7

A Passage to India David Lean6
Love Streams John Cassavetes6

Manoel's Destinies Raoul Ruiz6
Stranger Than Paradise Jim Jarmusch6
The Terminator James Cameron6
When the Tenth Month ComesĐặng Nhật Minh6

Body Double Brian De Palma5
Nausicaa of the Valley of the WindHayao Miyazaki5
Repo Man Alex Cox5
Shanghai Blues Tsui Hark5
Sunday in the Country Bertrand Tavernier5
The Home and the World Satyajit Ray5
Yellow Earth Chen Kaige5
This is Spinal Tap Rob Reiner5

Amadeus Milos Forman4
Gremlins Joe Dante4
Repentance Tenghiz Abuladze4
Stop Making Sense Jonathan Demme4
The Holy Innocents Mario Camus4
Voyage to Cythera Theo Angelopoulos4
Wanderers of the Desert Nacer Khemir4

After the Rehearsal Ingmar Bergman3
Broadway Danny Rose Woody Allen3
Diary for My Children Márta Mészáros 3
Ghostbusters Ivan Reitman3
Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany Edgar Reitz3
Places in the Heart Robert Benton3
The Killing Fields Roland Joffe3
Under the Volcano John Huston3

1985 poll

1
Come And See - Klimov

2
My Friend Ivan Lapshin - German

3
A Time To Live, A Time To Die - HHH

4
Ran - Kurosawa

5
Shoah - Lanzman

6
Vagabond - Varda

7
Brazil - Gilliam
Tampopo - Itami

9
Himatsuri -

10
To Live and Die in LA (William Friedkin)
A Zed And two Noughts - Greenaway

12
The Legend of Suram Fortress (Sergei Parajanov)
Pale Rider - eastwood

14
Hail Mary - Godard

15
After Hours - Scorcese
mind of clay (kaul)
Mishima - Schrader
Pee Wee's Big Adventure - Burton
Police Story - Chan
SHERMAN's MARCH (Ross McElwee)
Witness - Weir

22
the satin slipper (oliveira)

23
L'Amour Braque - Zulawski
Lost In America - Brooks
Purple Rose Of Cairo - Allen
Re-Animator - Gordon
Taipei Story - Yang
Treasure Island - Ruiz
When Father Was Away On Business - Kusturica

30
Bliss - Lawrence
nsignificance - Roeg

32
Angel's Egg - Oshii
Colonel Redl - Szabo
Commando - Lester
Contact (Alan Clarke)
Day Of The Dead - Romero
Falcon and the Snowman (John Schlesinger)
Flesh + Blood - Verhoeven
Grim (Ito)
Mata Hari - Harrington
Phenomena - Argento
Police - Pialat
a room with a view (james ivory)
She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps
Tangos el exilio de Gardel -
Topos - Antouanetta Angelini
Well, Come On, Smile -
wuthering heights (rivette)

1986 poll

1. The Terrorizers (Yang)

2. The Green Ray (Rohmer)

3. Blue Velvet (Lynch)

4. (tie) Shadows in Paradise (Kaurismaki)
The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky)
Melo (Resnais)
Hovering over the Water (Monteiro)

8.Hannah and Her Sisters (Allen)
Mauvais sang (Carax)

10. (tie) Castle in the Sky (Miyazaki)
Down by Law (Jarmusch)
Something Wild (Demme)
Manhunter (Mann)

14. Big Trouble in Little China (Carpenter)

15. The Fly (Cronenberg)

16. (tie )Mammame (Ruiz)
Peking Opera Blues (Tsui)
The Beekeeper (Angelopoulos)
Comrades (Douglas)

20. (tie) Budapest Portrait (Hutton)
Platoon (Stone)
Report to Mother (Abraham)
Street of Crocodiles (Quay Brothers)
The Singing Detective (Amiel)

25. (tie) Aliens (Cameron)
At Close Range (Foley)
Caravaggio (Jarman)
Grandeur And Decadence (Godard)
Heilt Hitler! (Achternbusch)
Jean de Florette (Berri)
Kin-dza-dza! (Daneliya)
River’s Edge (Hunter)
The End (Keiller)

1987 poll

1
Where Is The Friend's Home - Kiarostami (24)

2
Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick) (17)

3
4 aventures de reinette et mirabelle (rohmer)
Wings Of Desire

5
RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)

6
Au Revoir les Enfants (Malle)
House of Games (David Mamet)

8
Landscape Suicide (James Benning)
Prince Of Darkness

10
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Rohmer)
Brightness (Souleymane Ciss�)
The Dead (John Huston)
the emperor�s naked army marches on (hara)
Rouge - Kwan

15
Road • Alan Clarke

16
the death of empedocles (straub/huillet)
Predator (John McTiernan)

18
Radio Days (Woody Allen)
Raising Arizona (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
Red Sorghum
Under the Sun of Satan* (Pialat)
The Untouchables (Brian De Palma)
Withnail And I

24
The Belly of an Architect (Greenaway)
Eastern Condors (Hung)
Masques (Chabrol)
Matewan (Sayles)

28
China Girl - Ferrara
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner)
Walker
The Year My Voice Broke (Duigan)
Ishtar (May)

33
The Blind Owl - Ruiz
Christine (Alan Clarke)
Evil Dead II
HOUSEKEEPING (Bill Forsyth)
from the pole to the equator (gianikian/ricci lucchi)

38
Blind Chance (Kieslowski)
Good Morning, Vietnam (Barry Levinson)
Keep Your Right Up (Godard)
Landscape (for Manon) (Hutton)
The Last Emperor (Bertolucci)
the last of england (jarman)
The Man Who Planted Trees (Frederic Back)
Red Spectacles - Oshii

46
A Chinese Ghost Story (Siu-Tung Ching, 1987)
City on Fire (Ringo Lam)
Epidemic (von Trier)
it happened on this very day (lekic)
King Lear - Godard
life is a dream (ruiz)
Moonstruck
Near Dark (Bigelow)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (John Hughes)
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise (Hiroyuki Yamaga)
Street Smart (Jerry Schatzberg)
A Taxing Woman (Jûzô Itami)
thoovanathumbikal

59
An Autumn's Tale (Mabel Cheung)
Babette's Feast (Axel)
Best Seller (Flynn)
Black Widow (Bob Rafelson, USA)
Blind
Border Radio (Allison Anders, Dean Lent)
Broadcast News (Brooks)
Cry of the Owl (Chabrol)
Early Abstractions (Harry Smith, 1987)
The Empire Of The Sun - Spielberg
Extreme Prejudice
Une Flamme dans mon Coeur (Alain Tanner)
is-slottet (blom)
Nayakan (Hero)
No Way Out
Opera (Dario Argento)
Shy People (Andrei Konchalovsky)
The Sicilian (Michael Cimino, USA)
Tough Guys Don't Dance (Mailer)
The Whales of August (Lindsay Anderson)
White of the Eye • Don Cammell

1988 poll
1989 poll
1
Do The Right Thing -

2
Nostos, The Return - Piavoli

3
A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)
The Cook The Thief The Wife And The Lover

5
Blood (Pedro Costa, 1989)
The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1989)

7
Drugstore Cowboy - van Sant
Kiki's Delivery Service - Miyazaki
My Nights Ar More beautiful Than Your days - Zulawski
Yaaba/Grandmother (Idrissa Ouedraogo, 1989)

11
Life Lessons (Martin Scorsese) / N Y Stories
marriage of the blessed - makhmalbaf
The Unbelievable Truth (Hal Hartley, 1989)

14
Black Rain (Shohei Imamura)
Emergency Kisses (Philippe Garrel, 1989)
near death (wiseman)
Recollections of the Yellow House
Sex Lies And Videotape

19
Batman - Burton
Elephant - Alan Clark
Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte)
Mystery Train - Jarmusch
my twentieth century

24
Jésus de Montréal (1989, Denys Arcand)
Joan Of Arc Of Mongolia -
Les sièges de l'Alcazar (Luc Moullet, 1989)
Tetsuo The Iron Man
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left For The East?
You Take Care Now (Ann Marie Fleming)

30
the abyss (cameron)
Barroco - Leduc
Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bahram Beizai)
Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris Jr., 1989)
Dead Poets Society (Weir)
Gang of Four (Jacques Rivette, 1989)
Images of the World and the Inscription of War (Harun Farocki, 1989)
The Killer - Woo
Pedicab Driver
Route One USA
Santa Sangre - Joderowsky
The Seventh Continent (Haneke)
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 3: BETTER WATCH OUT! (Monte Hellman)
Tie Me Up Tie Me Down -
Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano)

46 - 62
Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis)
Bagh Bahadur (Buddhadev Dasgupta)
bill & ted's excellent adventure (stephen herek)
Crimes And Misdemeanors -
Freedom Is Paradise - Bodrov
Homework (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
Johnny Handsome (Walter Hill)
Leningrad Cowboys Go America -
Life And Nothing But (Tavernier)
Music Box (1989, Costa-Gavras)
my heart is that eternal rose - tam
Ora Pro Nobis (Lino Brocka)
Przesluchanie / Interrogation (1989, Ryszard Bugajski)
Road House (Rowdy Herrington, USA)
Sweetie (Jane Campion, 1989)
visitor of a museum - Lopushanskiy

1990 poll
1
Close-Up - Kiarostami

2
Goodfellas - Scorcese

3
Metropolitan (Whit Stillman)
trust -hartley

5
King Of New York - Ferrara
Miller's Crossing - Coens

7
Match factory Girl - Kaurismaaki

8
Life Is Sweet - Leigh
no, or the vainglory of command -oliviera

10
An Angel At My Table - Campion

11
Days Of Being Wild - Kar-Wei Wong
Edward Scissorhands - Burton
Tilai - Ouedraogo

`14
Dreams - Kurosawa
siddheshwari -kaul
Total Recall -
Wild At Heart - Lynch

18
the aesthenic syndrome -muratova
Paris Is Burning - Livingston
a tale of springtime -rohmer
twilight -feher

22
The Grifters (Stephen Frears)
Ju Dou - Yimou Zhang
to sleep with anger -burnett

25
Cyrano de Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
Dances With Wolves - Costner
larks on a string (menzel)
Misery - Reiner
Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking (Les Blank)

30
Mountains of the Moon (Rafelson)

31
archangel (maddin)
'Awakenings' - Penny Marshall
The Comfort Of Strangers
La Femme Nikita - Besson
Godfather III - Coppola
the hairdresser’s husband (leconte)
Hidden Agenda (Ken Loach)
Krug vtoroy (Sokurov)
Miami Blues (George Armitage)
Nouvelle Vague - (Godard)
The Sheltering Sky - Bertolucci
Swan Lake: The Zone -

43
Begotten - Merhige
cézanne (straub; huillet)
dick tracy (warren beatty)
La discrete - Christian Vincent
Europa Europa - Holland
freeze die come to life -kanevsky
The Golden Boat - Ruiz
'The Hunt for Red October' - John McTiernan
i hired a contract killer -kaurismaki
nazar (kaul)
'Presumed Innocent' - Alan J. Pakula
the reflecting skin -ridley
Rodrigo D No Future -
Sink or Swim - Su Friedrich
Texasville - Bogdanpvich
White Hunter Black Heart - eastwood

1991 poll

1
La belle noiseuse - Rivette

2
A Brighter Summer Day - Yang

3
Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat)

4
The Double Life Of Veronique - Kieslowski

5
Les Amants Du Pont Neuf - carax
Barton Fink (Coen brothers)

7
Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata, 1991)
Raise The Red Lantern

9
JFK -- Stone
Prospero's Books - Greenaway

11
Night and Day (Chantal Akerman)
Silence Of The Lambs - Demme
Slacker - Linklater

14
Delicatessen - caro,
Naked Lunch - Cronenberg
point break (kathryn bigelow)
The Suspended Stride of the Stork (Anghelopoulos)
Terminator 2 - Cameron

19
Agantuk - Ray
Europa - von Trier
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (Philippe Garrel)
Once Upon A Time In China - hark
A Scene at the Sea (Takeshi Kitano)
Thalapathi

25
Boyz N The Hood - Singleton
Cabeza De vaca - Echevarria
Cape fear - Scorcese
Daughters Of The Dust - dash
Edward II - Jarman
Jacquot De Nantes - varda
the man in the moon (robert mulligan)
My Own Private Idaho - van Sant
Night On Earth - jarmusch
Yumeji - Suzuki

35
Beauty and the Beast - Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
Bugsy (Barry Levinson)
center stage (stanley kwan)
Le Collier Perdu de la Colombe (Nacer Khemir)
A divina Comedia - de Oliveira
Dogfight
fly high, run far (im kwon-taek)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, 1991)
The Idiot - Mani Kaul
kit kat (sayed)
Prime Suspect (Christopher Menaul)
The Rapture
Until The End Of The World - Wender
Where It Is Cold In The Sun - Dumitrescu

1992 poll

1. (tie) Bad Lieutenant - Abel Ferrara
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)

3. Life...And Nothing More (Abbas Kiarostami)

4. (tie) The Long Day Closes (Terrence Davies)
The Quince Tree Sun (Victor Erice)

6. (tie) Basic Instinct (Verhoeven)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch)

8. Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai)

9. A Tale of Winter (Eric Rohmer)

10. (tie) La vie de Boheme (Aki Kaurismaki)
Porco Rosso (Miyazaki)

12. (tie) Antigone (Straub-Huillet)
One False Move (Carl Franklin)
The Last Dive (Monteiro)
The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)

16. (tie) Careful (Maddin)
Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola)
Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
Simple Men - Hal Hartley
The Player (Altman)

23. (tie) A Heart in Winter (Claude Sautet)
Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski)
Hyènes (Djibril Diop Mambéty)
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)

27. (tie) Céline (Jean-Claude Brisseau)
Deep Cover • Bill Duke
Kairat - Darezhan Omirbayev
Man Bites Dog (Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde)
Orlando (Sally Potter)

32. (tie) A Place in the World (Adolfo Aristarain)
Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi)
Belle Epoque (Fernando Trueba)
Benny's Video (Michael Haneke)
Day of Despair (Manoel de Oliveira)
Howards End (James Ivory)
Lessons of Darkness (Herzog)
Vacas (Medem)

40. (tie) Damage (Louis Malle)
Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
Las soledades • Ruiz
North on Evers (Benning)
Romper Stomper - Wright
The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou)
Three Days (Sharunas Bartas)

47. (tie) A Sense of History (Mike Leigh)
Avetik - Don Askarian
Baraka (Ron Fricke)
Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader)
My Crasy Life (Gorin)
Noises Off! (Bogdanovich)
Passion Fish (John Sayles)
Raising Cain (Brian De Palma)
The Golden Gate • Jürgen Reble
The Last Days of Chez Nous (Gillian Armstrong)
The Stolen Children (Gianni Amelio)
The Stone - Alexander Sokurov

1993 poll

1. Naked

2. D'est

3. Groundhog Day

4. (tie) Blue (Jarman)
Dazed and Confused

6. (tie) Green Snake
Sonatine

8. (tie) A Perfect World
Abraham’s Valley
Carlito’s Way
Helas pour moi
Three Colors: Blue

13. (tie) Calendar
Seopyeonje
The Remains of the Day

16. (tie) Clean, Shaven
The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque
Lodz Symphony
The Age of Innocence
The Last Bolshevik
The Piano

22. (tie) Farewell my Concubine
Je vous salue Sarajevo
Schindler’s List
Short Cuts
The Puppet Master

27. (tie) Body Snatchers
The Blue Kite
Latcho Drom
Libera Me
Sankofa
True Romance

33. (tie) Dear Diary
32 Short Films About Glenn Gould
A Night In Nude
Baby of Mâcon
Fearless
Fiorile
Flesh and Bone
Jurassic Park
M Butterfly
Madadayo
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Moving
Patlabor 2
The Bed You Sleep In
The Fugitive
The Nightmare Before Christmas
La Jeune Werther
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom

1994 poll

1
Satantango - Tarr

2
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)

3
Casa de lava (Pedro Costa)

4
Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994)

5
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)

6
Portrait d'une jeune fille de la fin des années 60 à Bruxelles [Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 1960s in Brussels] - Chantal Akerman

7
I Can't Sleep - denis

8
The Silences Of The Palace
U.S. Go Home - Claire Denis

10
Exotica - Egoyan
Hoop Dreams - Steve James
Little Odessa
Pulp Fiction - Tarantino

14
Crooklyn
Crumb - Zwigoff
Ed Wood
In The Mouth Of Madness - Carpenter
Jeanne La Pucelle I/II
london (keiller)
Three Colors: Red - Kieslowski
whispering pages - sokurov

22
Fado - Ruiz
lothringen!
To Live (Zhang Yimou)

25
多桑 [A Borrowed Life] - Wu Nien-jen
A Confucian Confusion - Yang
Léon: The Professional (Luc Besson)
平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ [Pom Poko] - Isao Takahata
River of Grass - Kellly Reichardt

30
Amateur - hartey
Ashes of Time
The Cloud Door (Mani Kaul)
Eat Drink Man Woman
L'Eau Froide - Assayas
L'Enfer - Chabrol
the day the sun turned cold - yim ho
JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December
The Last Seduction (John Dahl)
Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
Serial Mom - Waters
Speed - de Bont
take care of your scarf tatiana - kaurismaki

44 - 54
Barcelona - Stillman
Charachar "Shelter of the Wings" (Buddhadev Dasgupta, India)
Dumb and Dumber (Bobby Farrelly/Peter Farrelly)lanski
陽光燦爛的日子 [In the Heat of the Sun] - Jiang Wen
khabi haan khabi naa
Love on Delivery
Natural Born Killers - Stone
Passions (Kira Muratova, 1994)
Queen Margot (Patrice Chereau)
Three Colors: White - Kieslowski
Wild Reeds (Andre Techine)

1995 poll

1. God's Comedy

2. Heat

3. Persuasion

4. (tie) La ceremonie
Maborosi

6. Haut/Bas/Fragile

7. Dead Man

8. (tie) The Addiction
Before Sunrise
Casino
Fallen Angels
Le Haine
Randezvous in Paris
Safe

15. (tie) The Bridges of Madison County
Whisper of the Heart
The White Balloon

18. (tie) The Enclosed Valley
The Blade
The Convent
Deseret
Institute Benjamenta
Le garçu
Se7en

25. (tie) Mother Dao Turtlelike
Ulysses' Gaze

27. (tie) Clueless
Ghost in Shell
Good Me, Good Women
Strange Days
Twelve Monkeys
Underground

33. (tie) The Corridor
Crimson Tide
Kids
The Little Princess
Salaam Cinema
Summer Snow
The Usual Suspects

40. (tie) All Things Fair
Antigravitation
City of Lost Children
Cyclo
The Devil in a Blue Dress
Flirt
From the Journals of Jean Seberg
Kicking and Screaming
Land and Freedom
Loving You • Johnnie To
Naseem - Saeed Akhtar Mirza%
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
Passeio com Johnny Guitar
Peculiarities of the National Hunt
The Postman
Sense and Sensibility
Showgirls

1996 poll

1
Fargo - Coen

2
a summer's tale - rohmer

3
secrets & lies - leigh

4
a moment of innocence - makhmalbaf

5
irma vep - assayas

6
la promesse - dardennes

7
Breaking the Waves (von Trier)
Goodbye South, Goodbye

9
Crash - Cronenberg

10
Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton)

11
gabbeh - makhmalbaf
mahjong - yang
Schizopolis - Soderbergh

14
drifting clouds - kaurismaki
From Dusk Tll Dawn
lone star - sayles
The Pillow Book (Peter Greenaway)
Szamanka - Zulawski

19
Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson)
The Funeral (Ferrara)
Mission Impossible (Brian De Palma)
Scream (Craven)

23
Beautiful Girls (Demme)
MURDER And Murder
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)
voci nel tempo - piavoli
when we were kings - gast

28
Comrades, Almost a Love Story (Chan)
Conspirators Of Pleasure - Svankmajer
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well - Hong Sang-Soo
Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
Jerry Maguire
Mars Attacks
Nenette and Boni (Claire Denis)
The People Vs. Larry Flynt
Ponette - Doillon
Pusher (Nicolas Winding Refn)
ridicule (leconte)
Star Trek: First Contact (Frakes)
Stealing Beauty (Bertolucci)
Thieves (Techine)
trees lounge - buscemi

43
big night - tucci/scott
Bound
City Hall (Becker)
Cremaster 1 - Barney
Earth (Medem)
The English Patient (Minghella)
Everyone Says I Love You (Allen)
Flirting with Disaster (David O. Russell)
Fudoh: The New Generation - Miike
gallivant - kotting
God Of Cookery - Chow
Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson)
kid's return - kitano
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
The Portrait of a Lady (Jane Campion)
Profundo Carmesi - Ripstein
Sleepers (Barry Levinson)
Somersault in a coffin
Stendhal Syndrome (Argento)
Twelfth Night (Trevor Nunn)

1997 poll

1
Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai)

2
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
taste of cherry (abbas kiarostami)

4
the river (tsai ming-liang)
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997)

6
Starship Troopers

7
Princess Mononoke -Miyazaki

8
Boogie Nights (Anderson)
blackout (abel ferrara)
Henry Fool (Hal Hartley)\
The Ice Storm (Lee)
jackie brown (quentin tarantino)
L.A. Confidential (Hanson)
The Mirror (Jafar Panahi, 1997)
Public Housing (Frederick Wiseman, 1997)

16
Lost Highway (Lynch)
Mat i syn (Aleksandr Sokurov)
Train of Shadows (Guerin)

19
Face/Off (Woo)
Funny Games
Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano)
The Life of Jesus (Bruno Dumont, 1997)
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)

24
the pelvis of JW

25
attaca (Andrew Niccol)
Neon genesis EvangelionL: The End
Ossos (Pedro Costa, 1997

28
Affliction (Schrader)
Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
The Eel (Imamura)
The House (Bartas)
INNOCENCE (Zeki Demirkubuz)
nowhere (gregg araki)

34
buud yam - Gaston Kadone
Children of Heaven
The Fifth Element (Besson)
The Full Monty (Cattaneo)
The Game (David Fincher)
Gummo - Korine
Iruvar (Ratnam)
Knittelfeld - Town without History (Gerhard Benedikt Friedl)
Life Is Beautiful (Benigni)
Robinson in Space (Patrick Keiller, 1997)
The Roe's Room (Majewski)
Same Old Song (Alain Resnais, 1997)
Titanic (Cameron)
Voyage to the Beginning of Time

48 - 63
Abre los ojos (Amenábar)
brother (aleksei balabanov)
Character (Van Diem)
"Comingled Containers" (Stan Brakhage, 1997)
The Crazy Stranger (Tony Gatlif, 1997)
Grosse Pointe Blank (George Armitage)
In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
Labyrinth of dreams (sogo ishii)
A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy (Elder)
The Rainmaker (Francis Ford Coppola)
rainy dog (takashi miike)
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion (David Mirkin)
Das Schloss/ The Castle - Haneke
Still Life (Harun Farocki, 1997)
Study of a River (Peter Hutton)
Suzaku

1998 poll

1. The Hole - Tsai

2. Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer)

3. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

4. (tie) Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
The Big Lebowski (Coen Bros)

6. (tie) A Hero Never Dies (To)
Festen (Thomas Vinterberg)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)

9. Fucking Åmal (Moodysson)

10. (tie) Buffalo ’66 (Vincent Gallo)
Run Lola Run - Tom Tykwer
The Last Days of Disco (Stillman)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir)

14. (tie) Anxiety - de Oliveira
Dr. Akagi (Imamura Shohei)
Secret Defense (Jacques Rivette)
The Power of Kangwon Province (Hong Sang-soo)

18. (tie) After Life (Hirokazu Koreeda, 1998)
Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica)
Dark City (Alex Proyas)
Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Julio Medem)
My Name Is Joe (Loach)
New Rose Hotel • Ferrara
Snake Eyes (Brian De Palma)
The Dinner Game (Francis Veber)

26. (tie) American History X (Tony Kaye)
Central Station (Walter Salles)
Happiness (Todd Solondz)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard)
Pi (Darren Aronofsky)
Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg)
Terminus Paradis - Pintille
The Apple (Samira Makhmalbaf)
The Idiots (Lars Von Trier)

35. (tie) A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi)
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold)
April Story (Shunji Iwai)
babe a pig in the city!! (miller)
Besieged (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Croupier (Mike Hodges)
Enemy of the State (Tony Scott)
Eternity and a Day (Angelopolous)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Terry Gilliam
Gods and Monsters (Condon)
Goshogaoka (Sharon Lockhart)
Khroustaliov, My Car! (Alexei German)
L'ennui (Cedric Kahn)
Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
Passion (György Fehér)
The Negotiator (F. Gary Gray)
The Rose Seller (Gaviria)
The Silence - Makhmalbaf

1999 poll
1
eyes wide shut (stanley kubrick)

2
The Wind Will Carry Us - Kiarostami

3
beau travail (claire denis)

4
As Bodas De Deus - Monteiro

5
sicilia! (straub/huillet)

6
the little girl who sold the sun (djibril diop mambety)
the mission (johnnie to)
rosetta (jean-pierre dardenne / luc dardenne)

9
all about my mother (pedro almodovar)

10
outer space (peter tscherkassky)
The Straight Story - Lynch

12
charisma (kiyoshi kurosawa)
Fight Club (David Fincher)
Magnolia (Anderson)

15
humanite (bruno dumont)
Kikujiro no katsu - Takeshi Kitano

17
Being John Malkovich (Jonze)
Gohatto/Taboo - Oshima
the insider (michael mann)
Le Temps Retrouve - Ruiz
Tempting Heart (Chang)

22
existenz (david cronenberg)

23
Adieu, plancher des vaches!
Audition - Miike
belfast, maine (frederick wiseman)
The Matrix - Wachowskis
MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (Isao Takahata)
throne of death (nair)

29
Topsy Turvy

30
American Beauty- (Sam Mendes)
Bringing Out The Dead - Scorcese
The Color of Lies (Chabrol)
The Girl on the Bridge- (Patrice Leconte)
M/Other (Suwa)
Ratcatcher (Ramsay)
running out of time (johnnie to)
tuvalu (helmer)

38
the third page (zeki demirkubuz)

39 - 52
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai- (Jim Jarmusch)
The Iron Giant
kaun? (varma)
King of Comedy
Moloch - Sokurov
The Road Home (Zhang)
the servant's shirt (kaul)
Sleepy Hollow (Burton)
Solas (Zambrano)
Summer Of Sam - Spike Lee
Toy Story 2 (Pixar)
True Crime (Clint Eastwood)
where a good man goes (to)
willow and wind

2000 poll

1. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)

2. (tie) In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
Platform (Jia Zhangke)

4. Werckmeister Harmonies (Tarr)

5. La Commune (Paris, 1871) - Peter Watkins

6. The Gleaners & I (Agnes Varda)

7. The House of Mirth • Terence Davies

8. (tie) Eureka (Shinji Aoyama)
Love Torn in a Dream (Ruiz)

10. (tie) La Captive • Akerman
The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)
The Yards (Gray)
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo)

14. (tie) As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas)
Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen)
Memento (Christopher Nolan)
Small Time Crooks (Woody Allen)
Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson)
Workers for the Good Lord (Brisseau)

21. (tie) Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
High Fidelity (Stephen Frears)
In Absentia (Quay Brothers)
In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Coens)
Origins of the 21st Century • Godard
The Circle (Jafar Panahi)
The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Tran Anh Hung)
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
You Can Count on Me • Kenneth Lonergan

31. (tie) A Time for Drunken Horses (Bahman Ghobadi)
Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Lee)
Time and Tide (Hutton)

35. (tie) Chunhyang (Im Kwon-taek)
Gladiator (Scott)
Hamlet (Michael Almereyda)
Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky)
Space Cowboys (Clint Eastwood)
Time and Tide (Tsui Hark)
Together (Lukas Moodysson)
Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson)
Word and Utopia (De Oliveira)

2001 poll

1. La Llibertad (Alonso)

2. (tie) Mulholland Dr (David Lynch)
Spirited Away (Miyazaki)

4. La ciénaga (Martel)

5. What Time Is It Over There? (Tsai)

6. The Lady and the Duke (Eric Rohmer)

7. (tie) A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson)

9. (tie) Late Marriage (Koshashvili)
The Man Who Wasn’t There (Coen brothers)
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Imamura)
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie (Costa)
Workers, Peasants (Straub-Huillet)

14. (tie) En Construccion (Jose Luis Guerin)
Dog Days (Ulrich Seidl)
Ghost World (Zwigoff)
Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
Millenium Mambo (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
Porto of My Childhood - Manoel de Oliveira
Pulse - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Y Tu Mama También - Alfonso Cuaron

22. (tie) In the Bedroom (Field)
Los (Benning)
Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
Others (Alejandro Amenábar)
Toutes Les Nuites (Green)
Va Savoir (Jacques Rivette)
Waking Life (Linklater)
Yazgi (The Zeki)

30. (tie) Red Persimmons (Ogawa & Peng)
The Curse of Jade Scorpion (Woody Allen)
Domestic Violence (Wiseman)
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich)
The Piano Teacher - Michael Haneke
'R Xmas (Ferrara)
Time Out (Cantet)
Vanilla Sky - Cameron Crowe
In Praise of Love - Jean-Luc Godard

2002 poll

1
Russian Ark - sokurov

2
Adaptation. (Jonze)
Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson)

4
Le Fils (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne )

5
Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
City of God (Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund)

7
vendredi soir -denis

8
25th Hour (Lee)
Far from Heaven (Haynes)
Talk to Her (Almodovar)
On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo)
ten -kiarostami
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Wang Bing)

14
Decasia (Morrison)
Femme Fatale (De Palma)
Lilya 4-Ever - Moodysson
The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismäki)
Morvern Callar (Ramsay)
The Pianist - Polanski

20
Chekhovian Motifs
Minority Report - Spielberg
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)

23
Gangs Of New York - Scorcese
Hero - zhang
Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau, Alan Mak )
My Mother's Smile (Bellocchio)

27
Dracula: Pages From - Madden
Dream Work (Peter Tscherkassky)
Gerry (van Sant)
Irréversible [Irreversible] - Gaspar Noé
Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers - Jackson
my left eye sees ghosts -to
Signs - Shyamalan
unknown pleasures -jia

35
24 Hour Party People (Winterbottom)
The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman)
Bowling For Columbine - Moore
The Cat Returns (Hiroyuki Morita )
le doux amour des hommes/man's gentle love -civeyrac
Filantropica (Caranfil)
Funny ha ha (bujalski)
Insomnia (Nolan)
letter from a filmmaker to his daughter -pauwels
Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Chan-wook Park)
The Twilight Samurai (Yamada)
La vie nouvelle (Grandrieux)
Waiting for Happiness (Abderrahmane Sissako)

49
Oasis (Lee Chang-Dong)
Xiao cheng zhi chun (Springtime in a Small Town)

51
8 Women - Ozon
28 Days Later (Danny Boyle)
All or Nothing (Mike Leigh)
The Black Garment (Fareeda Mehta)
*Corpus Callosum (Snow)
Cremaster 3 (Barney)
Demonlover (Assayas)
fat choi spirit -to
Der Felsen - Graf
Ju-On (Takashi Shimizu)
Lundi matin (Iosseliani)
The Magdalene Sisters (Mullan)
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (Sen)
The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce)
Rabbits - Lynch
Resident Evil - Anderson
Ripley's Game (Cavani)
Secret Things (Brisseau)
Shin Jingi no Hakaba "Graveyard of Honor" (Takashi Miike, Japan)
A Snake of June (Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 2002)
solaris - Sodebergh
whale rider (caro)

2003 poll

1
Memories Of Murder

2
goodbye, dragon inn

3
come and go

4
Elephant - Van Sant
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen)

6
Brown Bunny - Gallo
Oldboy - Park
The Return - Zvyagintsev

9
Kill Bill V 1 - Tarantino

10
Bekleme Odasi/The Waiting Room - Demirkubuz
cafe lumiere
Dogville - von Trier
Mystic river Eastwood
The Story of Marie and Julien (Rivette)

15
Capturing the Friedmans (Jarecki)
crimson gold
Lost In Translarion - Coppola
A Talking Picture - Oliviera

19
The Blind Swordsman Zatoichi - Kitano
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (Morris)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (Kim)

22
Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff)
Father and Son (Sokurov)
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich)
Goodbye Lenin - Becker
Intolerable Cruelty - Coen, Coen
Last Life in the Universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
Le monde vivant (Green)
PTU - to
A Tale Of Two Sisters - Kim

31
The Barbarian Invasions (Arcand)
The Best of Youth (Giordana)
Coffee And Cigarettes - Jarmusch
cowards bend the knee
The Dreamers - Bertolucci
The Five Obstructions (Von Trier)
The Flower of Evil (Chabrol)
The Forest for the Trees (Ade)
Gozu - Miike
Kontroll - Antal
Landscape - Loznitsa
Matchstick Men - scott
21 Grams - Iñárritu

44
Cold Mountain (Anthony Minghella)
the company (Robert Altman)
Dying at Grace (King)
Good Morning, Night (Bellocchio)
Maqbool - Bhardwaj
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Peter Weir)
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property - Burnett
not on the lips (Alain Resnais)
Repatriation (Kim Dong-won)
The Room (Wiseau)
the saddest music in the world (Guy Maddin)
School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
Story of the Weeping Camel
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (Greenaway)

2004 poll[/b1
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

2
Before Sunset (Linklater)
2046 (Wong Kar-wai)

4
Mysterious Skin
The World - Zhangke Jia
Vera Drake

7
the sky turns (mercedes alvarez)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

9
Collateral (Michael Mann)
Head-On (Akin)
le pont des arts - green
throw down (johnnie to)

13
l'intrus - denis
Kung Fu Hustle
moolaade (sembene)
Los muertos
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004)

18
The Holy Girl — Lucrecia Martel
The Incredibles (Brd)
Innocence (Hadzihalilovic)
light is calling (bill morrison)
Bad Education (Almodovar)*
notre musique - godard

24
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Million Dollar Baby - Eastwood
skagafjördur (peter hutton)
Woman Is the Future of Man — Hong Sang-soo

28
The Bourne Supremacy (Greengrass)
breaking news (to)
The Consequences of Love (Sorrentino)
the face you deserve - gomes
the hidden blade (yoji yamada)
Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, 2004)
Kings and Queen (Desplechin)
main hoon na - khan
Marseille (Angela Schanelec)
Primer (Carruth
The Taste of Tea — Katsuhito Ishii
13 Lakes (Benning)
triple agent, eric rohmer
Wolff Von Amerongen: Did He Commit Bankruptcy Offences? (Gerhard Benedikt Friedl)

42
Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
Hana and Alice (Shunji Iwai, 2004)
House of Flying Daggers
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Anderson)
Man on Fire (Tony Scott)
Ocean’s Twelve (Soderbergh)
Papillon d’Amour (Nicolas Provost)
pirated copy - he
Sideways (Payne)
swapner din, buddhadeb dasgupta
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (Greenaway)
Turtles Can Fly
The Village

56 - 78
Ae Fond Kiss (Ken Loach)
Anatomy of Hell (Breillat)
The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
Bab el shams (The Gate of Sun)
Clean
Chain (Jem Cohen)
Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw (Kōji Wakamatsu)
Disintegration Loop 1.1 (William Basinski)
ek hasina thi (sriram raghavan)
Fahrenheit 9/11 — Michael Moore
The Hand (Wong Kar-wai)
Keane (Lodge Kerrigan)
The Keys to the House (Gianni Amelio)
Kill Bill Vol II (Tarantino)\
Mean Girls — Mark Waters
Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, 2004)
Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright)
Spider-Man 2 (Raimi)
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (Kang Je-kyu)
une visite au louvre (straub/huillet)
Vital (Shinya Tsukamoto, 2004)
Whisky — Pablo Stoll, Juan Pablo Rebella
yesterday once more, johnnie to]


2005 poll

1
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
The New World (Terrence Malick)

3
Caché (Michael Haneke)

4
The Wayward Cloud (Tsai)

5
Linda Linda Linda -
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones)
Three Times (Hsiao-hsien Hou)

8
The Child (Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)

10
Battle In Heaven - Reygadas
Election - To
Grizzly Man - herzog

13
Regular Lovers (Philippe Garrel)

14
Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)

15
Die große Stille (Philip Gröning)

16
Oxhide (Liu Jiayin)

17
Gespenster - Petzold

18
Good Night and Good Luck (George Clooney)
Munich (Steven Spielberg)
otra vuelta (santiago palavecino)
The Proposition (Hillcoat)
Vocal Parallels (Rustam Khamdamov)

23
Brokeback Mountain - Lee
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard)
Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
Capote (Bennett Miller)
the descent (neil marshall)
Domino (Tony Scott)
Last Days - van Sant
Match Point-(Woody Allen)
Our Daily Bread (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)
The Squid And The Whale
Syriana (Stephen Gaghan)
tristram shandy (winterbottom)

35
Batman Begins - Nolan
Be with Me (Khoo)
Burnt Theatre (Pirty Panh)
The Constant Gardener-(Fernando Meirelles)
Funky Forest: The First Contact (Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine, 2005)
I Am a Sex Addict (Caveh Zahedi)
instructions for a light and sound machine
Iron Island (Mohammad Rasoulof)
Jarhead (Sam Mendes)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black)
sympathy for lady vengeance (park)
who's camus anyway
Young Lieutenant - Beauvois

2006 poll

1
Syndromes And A Century -

2
Colossal Youth -

3
Inland Empire - Lynch

4
I Don't Want To Sleep Alone -
Still Life (Jia Zhangke)

6
Woman On The Beach - Hong

7
Brand Upon The Brain - maddin
Children Of Men - Cuaron
Offside (Jafar Panahi)
Volver - almodovar

11
Kader - Demirkubuz

12
Climates - Ceylan
Exiled - To
Marie Antoinette - Coppola
Memories Of Matsuko - Nakashma

16
Deja Vu - Scott
The Host -
Private Fears In Public Places
Ten Canoes -
United 93 - Greengrass
When The Levees Broke - Lee

22
Big Bang Love - Miike
Black Book -
Election 2 - To
Fireworks Wednesday - Farhadi
Lady In The Water - Shyamaalan
Old Joy -
Opera Jawa -
Pan's Labyrinth - del Toro
A Scanner Darkly - Linklater

31
Black Dahlia - de Palma
Casino Royale - Campbell
Everything Will Be OK - Hertzfeld
Honor Of The Knights - Serra
Paprika -
Pudhu Petta
Retribution - Kurosawa
Superman 2
Tell No One - Canel
12:08 East Off Bucharest - Porumblu

41
Bamako -
Belle Toujours -
Bug - Friedkin
The Departed - Scorcese
Hors de Prix (Pierre Salvadori)
I Served The King Of England - Menzel
Invisible Waves - Ratanaruang
Kamome Diner -
Little Children - Field
Omkara - Bhardwaj
The Prestige
The Queen - Frears
Reprise'- Trier
Requiem -
The Science Of Sleep - Gondry
Those Encounters Of Theirs - Straub/Huillet

2007 poll
1. (tie) No Country for Old Men (Coen brothers)
Zodiac (David Fincher)

2. At Sea - Hutton

3. RR (Benning)

4. (tie) Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)
Mad Detective - Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai
My Winnipeg (Maddin)
Persepolis (Dirs. Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi)
The Man from London (Tarr & Hranitzky)
There Will Be Blood (Anderson)
We Own The Night (Dir. James Gray)

12. (tie) 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (Sidney Lumet)
In The City Of Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin)
The Duchess of Langeais - Rivette
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (Rohmer)

17. (tie) Encounters at the End of the World
Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino, Edgar Wright, Rob Zombie)
Heartbeat Detector (Dir. Nicolas Klotz)
Mister Lonely (Dir. Harmony Korine)
You, the Living (Andersson)

22. (tie) Atonement (Joe Wright)
Casting a Glance (Benning)
Flight Of The Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
Nightwatching (Greenaway)
State Legislature
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson)
The Silence before Bach (Portabella)
Village People Radio Show (Muhammad)

2008 poll
1
Historias Extraordinarias - Llinas

2
La mujer sin cabeza - Martel
Synecdoche NY - Kaufman

4
Still Walking (Koreeda)

5
35 Shots of Rum (Denis)
liverpool (alonso)

7
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
Night and Day (Sang-soo)
Of Time And The City - Davies
Sparrow (To)
Summer Hours (Assayas)
Two Lovers (Gray)

13
A Christmas Tale (Desplechin)
le genou d'artémide (straub)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
Love Exposure (Sono)
Revanche (Götz Spielmann)
The Wrestler (Arronofsky)

19
The Beaches of Agnes (Varda)
Burn After Reading - Coen + Coen
Hunger (Steve McQueen)
Our Beloved Month Of August (Miguel Gomes)
Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki)
Tokyo Sonata - Kurosawa
Wall-E - Stanton
Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman)
Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt)

28
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Leigh)

30
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)

31
Aniceto - Favio
The Class (Cantet)
Gran Torino (Eastwood)
The Happening
I Am So Proud of You (Hertzfeldt)
Pontypool - McDonald
Sleep Furiously (Gideon Koppel)

38
birdsong (serra)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
Frost/Nixon (Howard)
The Hurt Locker (Bigelow)
Iron Man (Jon Favreau)
Seraphine -
Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín)
Un Lac (Philippe Grandrieux)
Lorna's Silence (Dardenne Bros)
Melancholia (Diaz)
Tokyo! - Gondry, Carax, Ho

49
24 City (Jia)
Changeling (Eastwood)
The Chaser (Na Hong-jin)
Departures (Yôjirô Takita)
Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani)
JCVD (El Mechri)
Jerichow (Christian Petzold)
Me and Orson Welles (Richard Linklater, 2008)
Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
Rumba (Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy )
The Sky Crawlers Mamoru Oshii
Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Tropic Thunder - Stiller

2009 poll
oxhide ll (9)
everyone else (8)
like you know it all (8)
eccentricities of a blonde-haired girl (8)
police, adjective (7)
le streghe, femme entre elles (6)
inglorious basterds (6)
sweetgrass (6)
envy (5)
hadewijch (5)
bluebeard (5)
face (5)
white material (5)
the white ribbon (5)
about elly (5)
the bad lieutenant: port of call new orleans (5)
the limits of control (5)
ruhr (4)
bright star (4)
broken embraces (4)
fish tank (4)
moon (4)
petition (4)
vincere (3)
lourdes (3)
i am love (3)
a town called panic (3)
phantoms of nabua (3)
a prophet (3)
district 9 (3)
the temptation of st tony (3)
wild grass (3)
up in the air (3)
the queen of hearts (3)
mother (3)
trains are for dreaming (3)
podworka (3)

2010 poll
1
Copie conforme [Certified Copy] - Abbas Kiarostami

2
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

3
Mysteries Of Lisbon - Ruiz

4
Meek's Cutoff - Kelly Reichardt

5
Another Year (Mike Leigh)

6
Carlos [Carlos the Jackal] - Olivier Assayas
the strange case of angelica (manoel de oliveira)

8
The Social Network - Fincher

9
Ha Ha Ha

10
Essential Killing - Jerzy Skolimowski
Oki's Movie

12
True Grit - Coens
Winter Vacation (Li Hongqi)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)

15
Cave Of Forgotten Dreams - herzog
The Illusionist
Nostalgia de la luz [Nostalgia for the Light] - Patricio Guzmán
Poetry (Lee Chang-dong)
十三人の刺客 [13 Assassins] - Takashi Miike

20
band baaja baaraat (maneesh sharma)

21
Aayirathil Oruvan - Selvaraghavan
The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
finisterrae (caballero)
nainsukh (amit dutta)
Shutter Island - Scorsese
THE YELLOW SEA (Na)

27
Attenburg - Athina Rachel Tsangari
Black Swan - Aronofsky
Boxing Gym (Frederick Wiseman)
Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Ghost Writer - Polanski
Hereafter - eastwood
Kaboom (Gregg Araki, 2010)
Maryadda Ramana - Rajamouli
My Joy - Loznitsa
Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois)
Le quattro volte [The Four Times] - Michelangelo Frammartino
Robinson In Ruins
Toy Story 3 - Lee Unkrich
Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean)
Unstoppable (Tony Scott)

42
Thomas Mao -

43
Au Revoir Taipei (Arvin Chen, 2010)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu - Andrei Ujica
Blue Valentine - Derek Cianfrance
Coming Attractions • Peter Tscherkassky
Four Lions (Chris Morris)
I Wish I Knew (Zhang Ke Jia, 2010)
El Infierno - Estrada
The Japanese Wife (Sen)
Let the Bullets Fly (Jiang Wen)
Serious Games 1-4 (Harun Farocki)
Somewhere - Sofia Coppola
Vapor Trail (Clark) (John Gianvito)

2011 poll


1
A Separation - Farhadi

2
The Turin Horse - Tarr, Hranitzky

3
The Day He Arrives -- Hong Sang-Soo

4
The Kid with a Bike (Dardenne Brothers)

5
The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies, 2011)
don't go breaking my heart
Melancholia - van Trier

8
Killer Joe (William Friedkin)
Margaret (Lonnergan)
Tree Of Life - Malick

11
A Century Of Birthing - Diaz
Le Havre - Kaurismaki
Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier)

14
A Dangerous Method - cronenberg
Dyut Meeng Gam/Life Without Principle - To
Faust - Sokurov
La folie Almayer - Akerman
4:44, Last Day On Earth - Ferrara
Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2011)
Keyhole - maddin
The Mill and the Cross (Lech Majewski)
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia - Ceylan

23
Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan - G. Singh
The Artist -
deool
Drive - Refn
Elena (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
house of tolerance (bonello)
mysteries of Lisbon tv cut
Small Roads - benning
This Is Not A Film - Mirtahmasb
Tinker Tailor Solider Spy
We Need To Talk About Kevin

35 - 48
Las acacias -
Contagion (Steven Soderbergh)
Dreileben: Beats Being Dead (Christian Petzold, 2011)
Un Ete Brulante - Garrel
Five Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi, 2011)
Girl Walk: All Day (Jacob Krupnick, 2011)
In the Family (Patrick Wang, 2011)
Les neiges du Kilimandjaro (The Snows of Kilimanjaro)
Rango (Gore Verbinski)
Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)
Tomboy (Céline Sciamma, 2011)
War Horse
Weekend (Andrew Haigh)
Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)

2012 poll

1
Spring Breakers - Korine

2
Like Someone In Love - Kiarostami

3
Moonrise Kingdom (Anderson)
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Resnais

5
Drug War - To
Eega - Rajamouli

7
Romancing In Thin Air - To

8
Stemple Pass
a woman's revenge!

10
barbara (petzold)
in another country
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Post tenebras lux - Reygadas
Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas)

15
Amour (2012, Michael Haneke)
Cosmopolis - Cronenberg
Goltzius And The Pelican Company -
Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)

20
Blancanieves - P. Berger
Ernest & Celestine (Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier)
the girl from nowhere
The Hunt (Vinterberg)
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)

25
the act of killing
ai to makoto (takashi miike)
Frances Ha - Baumbach
in the house (ozon)
No (Larrain)
Flight (Robert Zemeckis)
gebo and the shadow
it's such a beautiful day (hertzfeldt)
Killing Them Softly (Andrew Dominik)
Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard)
To the Wonder (Malick)

36 - 57
Anna Karenina (Joe Wright)
Argo (Ben Affleck)
Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu)
Byzantium (Jordan)
celestial brides of the meadow mori
Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski)
Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)
dredd
Gangs Of Wasseypur -
In The Fog - Loznitsa
jack reacher (mcquarrie)
Lawrence Anyways (Dolan)
leviathan (castaing-taylor/paravel)
Lincoln (Spielberg)
lines of wellington
magic mike
Outtakes From The Life Of A Happy Man - Mekas
Prometheus (Ridley Scott)
a royal affair
Viola - Matias Piniero
walker

2013 poll (12/24/2018)
1
Stray Dogs - Ming-Lian
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
3
Inside Llewellyn Davis - Coens
4
The Wolf Of Wall Street
5
Three Landscapes (Peter B. Hutton, 2013)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
7
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
blind detective (to)
Ida - Pawlikosky
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
11
Blue Is The Warmest Color - Keechiche
The Immigrant (James Gray, 2013)
Trudno byt bogom / Hard To Be A God - German
14
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie, 2013)
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
The Grandmaster - Wong Kar-Wei
17
Her - Jonze
La jalousie - Garrel
Nobody's Daughter Haewon - Hong, SangSoo
Les Salauds/The Bastards - Denis
Upstream Color
22
Gravity - Cuaron
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino)
Only God Forgives - refn
The parrot and the swan (moguillansky)
Why Don't You Play In Hell? - Sono
27
At Berkeley - Wiseman
Behind The Candelabra - Soderbergh
The Lunchbox (Batra)
Norte, The End Of History - Diaz
Snowpiercer - Joon Ho Bong
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher, 2013)
Til Madness Do Us Part (Wang)
What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto)
35
Borgman (van Warmerdam)
Dallas Buyers Club
Dialogue of Shadows (Jean-Marie Straub)
Like Father Like Son - Koreeda
matru ki bijle ka mandola (Bhardwaj)
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013)
Only Lovers Left Alive - Jarmusch
Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo, 2013)
The Past (Farhadi)
The Selfish Giant
Skinningrove - Almereyda
Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan)
Vi Ar Bast/ We Are The Best - Moodysson
48
Blue Ruin
BNSF (James Benning)
Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass)
Computer Chess - Bujolski
Djinn - Hooper
Enemy (Villeneuve)
The Fake (Sang-ho Yeon)
Fandry (Manjule)
Gerontophilia - LaBruce
Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
Nymphomaniac V1 / V2 - van Trier
sentimental education (bressane)
Shuddh Desi Romance (Sharma)
a spell to ward off the darkness
Tale of Iya (Tetsuichiro Tsuta, 2013)
tirez la langue, mademoiselle (ropert)
12 Years a Slave

2014 poll

1
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)

2
Boyhood (Linklater)

3
Clouds of Sils Maria (Assayas)

4
The Homesman
Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Nightcrawler

7
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Andersson)
Two Days, One Night (Dardennes)

11
Grand Hotel Budapest
Mr. Turner (Leigh)
Phoenix (Petzold)
Wild Tales (Szifron)

15
Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (To)
Heaven Knows What (Safdie
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
Horse Money - Pedro Costa
Maps to the Stars
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)
0.5 mm

22
Birdman (Alejandro G. Iñárritu)
The Duke of Burgundy (Strickland)
Nuits Blanches Sur La Jetee - Paul Vecchiali

25
Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund)
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller
From What is Before (Diaz)
Gone Girl (Fincher)
Gueros - Alonso Ruizpalacios
Haider - V. Bhardwaj
Happy New Year (Khan)
It Follows (Mitchell
Li'l Quinquin (Dumont)
Marshland (Alberto Rodríguez)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2014)
White Bird in a Blizzard (Gregg Araki)

38
Ex Machina (Alex Garland
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Amirpour)
Girlhood (Sciamma)
journey to the west
A Most Violent Year (Chandor)
National Gallery
pompeii (paul w.s. anderson)
Timbuktu
Welcome to New York (Ferrara)
Winter Sleep

48 - 58
Beloved Sisters (Dominik Graf)
Cold in July (Mickle)
Edge of Tomorrow
Fehér isten (White God)
Highway
Interstellar
Life of Riley- Alain Resnais
Maidan - Loznitsa
Not My Type (Belvaux
Pasolini (Ferrara)
Saint Laurent

2015 poll
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