The Frame

Part 1: 1900-1959

1960-1969

Rocco and His Brothers (1960; Luchino Visconti)
La Dolce Vita (1960; Federico Fellini)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960; Karel Reisz)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960; François Truffaut)
L’avventura (1960; Michelangelo Antonioni)
La Joven (1960; Luis Buñuel)
The Cloud-Capped Star (1960; Ritwik Ghatak)
The Housemaid (1960; Kim Ki-young)
Psycho (1960; Alfred Hitchcock)
Black Sunday (1960; Mario Bava & Lee Kresel)
Peeping Tom (1960; Michael Powell)
The Apartment (1960; Billy Wilder)
Spartacus (1960; Stanley Kubrick)
Splendor in the Grass (1961; Elia Kazan)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961; Alain Resnais)
La jetée (1961; Chris Marker)
One-Eyed Jacks (1961; Marlon Brando)
Lola (1961; Jacques Demy)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961; Blake Edwards)
La Notte (1961; Michelanglo Antonioni)
Viridiana (1961; Luis Buñuel)
The Ladies’ Man (1961; Jerry Lewis)
Through a Glass Darkly (1961; Ingmar Bergman)
Chronicle of a Summer (1961; Edgar Morin & Jean Rouch)
The Hustler (1961; Robert Rossen)
West Side Story (1961; Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
Jules and Jim (1962; François Truffaut)
Mondo Cane (1962; Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco E. Prosperi)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962; Agnès Varda)
Dog Star Man (1962; Stan Brakhage)
An Autumn Afternoon (1962; Yasujiro Ozu)
L’eclisse (1962; Michelangelo Antonioni)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962; David Lean)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962; Robert Mulligan)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962; John Frankenheimer)
Lolita (1962; Stanley Kubrick)
Keeper of Promises (1962; Anselmo Duarte)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962; John Ford)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962; Robert Aldrich)
Vivre sa vie (1962; Jean-Luc Godard)
Heaven and Earth Magic (1962; Harry Smith)
The Birds (1963; Alfred Hitchcock)
The Nutty Professor (1963; Jerry Lewis)
Blonde Cobra (1963; Ken Jacobs)
The Cool World (1963; Shirley Clarke)
8 1/2 (1963; Federico Fellini)
Passenger (1963; Witold Lesiewicz & Andrzej Munk)
Contempt (1963; Jean-Luc Godard)
Hud (1963; Martin Ritt)
Winter Light (1963; Ingmar Bergman)
Flaming Creatures (1963; Jack Smith)
The Great Escape (1963; John Sturges)
Shock Corridor (1963; Samuel Fuller)
The Leopard (1963; Luchino Visconti)
Barren Lives (1963; Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
Méditerranée (1963; Jean-Daniel Pollet & Barbet Schroeder)
The House is Black (1963; Forugh Farrokhzad)
The Haunting (1963; Robert Wise)
An Actor’s Revenge (1963; Kon Ichikawa)
The Servant (1963; Joseph Losey)
Goldfinger (1964; Guy Hamilton)
Scorpio Rising (1964; Kenneth Anger)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964; Jacques Demy)
Marnie (1964; Alfred Hitchcock)
My Fair Lady (1964; George Cukor)
Woman in the Dunes (1964; Hiroshi Teshigahara)
Dr. Strangelove (1964; Stanley Kubrick)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964; Richard Lester)
The Red Desert (1964; Michelangelo Antonioni)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964; Sergei Parajanov)
Before the Revolution (1964; Bernardo Bertolucci)
Gertrud (1964; Carl Theodor Dreyer)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964; Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Black God, White Devil (1964; Glauber Rocha)
The Demon (1964; Kaneto Shindô)
Vinyl (1965; Andy Warhol)
The Shop on Main Street (1965; Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos)
Doctor Zhivago (1965; David Lean)
The War Game (1965; Peter Watkins)
Tokyo Olympiad (1965; Kon Ichikawa)
The Battle of Algiers (1965; Gillo Pontecorvo)
The Sound of Music (1965; Robert Wise)
The Saragossa Manuscript (1965; Wojciech Has)
Alphaville (1965; Jean-Luc Godard)
Chimes at Midnight (1965; Orson Welles)
Repulsion (1965; Roman Polanski)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965; Federico Fellini)
Pierrot le fou (1965; Jean-Luc Godard)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965; Russ Meyer)
Golden River (1965; Ritwik Ghatok)
The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (1965; André Delvaux)
Hold Me While I’m Naked (1966; George Kuchar)
Blowup (1966; Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966; Sergio Leone)
Daisies (1966; Vera Chytilová)
Come Drink With Me (1966; King Hu)
Seconds (1966; John Frankenheimer)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966; Mike Nichols)
Persona (1966; Ingmar Bergman)
Masculin, Féminin (1966; Jean-Luc Godard)
Au hasard Balthazar (1966; Robert Bresson)
In the Heat of the Night (1967; Norman Jewison)
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967; Jean-Luc Godard)
The Graduate (1967; Mike Nichols)
Playtime (1967; Jacques Tati)
Report (1967; Bruce Conner)
Hombre (1967; Martin Ritt)
Belle de jour (1967; Luis Buñuel)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967; Jacques Demy)
Week End (1967; Jean-Luc Godard)
Le Samouraï (1967; Jean-Pierre Melville)
Cool Hand Luke (1967; Stuart Rosenberg)
Point Blank (1967; John Boorman)
Wavelength (1967; Michael Snow)
Bonnie & Clyde (1967; Arthur Penn)
The Red and the White (1967; Miklós Jancsó)
Marketa Lazarová (1967; Frantisek Vláćil)
The Jungle Book (1967; Wolfgang Reitherman)
The Fireman’s Ball (1967; Milos Forman)
Earth Entranced (1967; Glauber Rocha)
Closely Watched Trains (1967; Jiré Menzel)
Vij (1967; Georgi Kropachyov & Konstanin Yershov)
Gaav (1967; Dariush Mehrjui)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968; Sergio Leone)
Planet of the Apes (1968; Franklin J. Schaffner)
Faces (1968; John Cassavettes)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968; Roman Polanski)
If… (1968; Lindsay Anderson)
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968; Thomás Gutiérrez Alea)
The Producers (1968; Mel Brooks)
David Holzman’s Diary (1968; Jim McBride)
Shame (1968; Ingmar Bergman)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968; Stanley Kubrick)
Hour of the Wolf (1968; Ingmar Bergman)
Targets (1968; Peter Bogdanovich)
Night of the Living Dead (1968; George A. Romero)
My Night with Maud (1969; Eric Rohmer)
Lucía (1969; Humberto Solás)
A Touch of Zen (1969; King Hu)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969; George Roy Hill)
Midnight Cowboy (1969; John Schlesinger)
Satyricon (1969; Federico Fellini)
Z (1969; Costa-Gavras)
The Conformist (1969; Bernardo Bertolucci)
Easy Rider (1969; Dennis Hopper)
High School (1969; Frederick Wiseman)
In the Year of the Pig (1969; Emile de Antonio)
The Wild Bunch (1969; Sam Peckinpah)
Andrei Rublev (1969; Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Butcher (1969; Claude Chabrol)
The Color of Pomegranates (1969; Sergei Parajanov & Sergei Yutkevich)
Kes (1969; Ken Loach)

1970-1979

Tristana (1970; Luis Buñuel)
Five Easy Pieces (1970; Bob Rafaelson)
El Topo (1970; Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Woodstock (1970; Michael Wadleigh)
Deep End (1970; Jerzy Skolimowski)
The Spider’s Stratagem (1970; Bernardo Bertolucci)
Little Big Man (1970; Arthur Penn)
The Ear (1970; Karel Kachyna)
Patton (1970; Franklin J. Schaffner)
M*A*S*H (1970; Robert Altman)
Performance (1970; Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg)
Gimme Shelter (1970; Albert & David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)
Zabriskie Point (1970; Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970; Dario Argento)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970; Vittorio de Sica)
Wanda (1971; Barbara Loden)
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971; Dusan Makavejev)
A Clockwork Orange (1971; Stanley Kubrick)
The Sorrow and the Pity (1971; Marcel Ophüls)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971; Mel Stuart)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971; Robert Altman)
Walkabout (1971; Nicolas Roeg)
Klute (1971; Alan J. Pakula)
Harold and Maude (1971; Hal Ashby)
Red Psalm (1971; Miklös Jancsö)
Get Carter (1971; Mike Hodges)
The French Connection (1971; William Friedkin)
Shaft (1971; Gordon Parks)
Dirty Harry (1971; Don Siegel)
Murmer of the Heart (1971; Louis Malle)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song (1971; Melvin Van Peebles)
The Last Picture Show (1971; Peter Bogdanovich)
Straw Dogs (1971; Sam Peckinpah)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971; Monte Hellman)
The Heartbreak Kid (1972; Elaine May)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972; Werner Herzog)
Cabaret (1972; Bob Fosse)
Last Tango in Paris (1972; Bernardo Bertolucci)
High Plains Drifter (1972; Clint Eastwood)
Sleuth (1972; Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Deliverance (1972; John Boorman)
Solaris (1972; Andrei Tarkovsky)
The Godfather (1972; Francis Ford Coppola)
Cries and Whispers (1972; Ingmar Bergman)
Fat City (1972; John Huston)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972; Luis Buñuel)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972; Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Frenzy (1972; Alfred Hitchcock)
Pink Flamingos (1972; John Waters)
Superfly (1972; Gordon Parks, Jr.)
The Sting (1973; George Roy Hill)
The Mother and the Whore (1973; Jean Eustache)
Badlands (1973; Terrence Malick)
American Graffiti (1973; George Lucas)
Papillon (1973; Franklin J. Schaffner)
Enter the Dragon (1973; Robert Clouse)
Mean Streets (1973; Martin Scorsese)
The Long Goodbye (1973; Robert Altman)
The Wicker Man (1973; Robin Hardy)
Day for Night (1973; François Truffaut)
Don’t Look Now (1973; Nicolas Roeg)
Sleeper (1973; Woody Allen)
Serpico (1973; Sidney Lumet)
The Exorcist (1973; William Friedkin)
Turkish Delight (1973; Paul Verhoeven)
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973; Victor Erice)
Fantastic Planet (1973; René Laloux)
Amarcord (1973; Federico Fellini)
The Harder They Come (1973; Perry Henzell)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973; Sam Peckinpah)
Derzu Uzala (1974; Akira Kurosawa)
The Conversation (1974; Francis Ford Coppola)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974; Tobe Hooper)
The Mirror (1974; Andrei Tarkovsky)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974; John Cassavettes)
Young Frankenstein (1974; Mel Brooks)
Chinatown (1974; Roman Polanski)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974; Jacques Rivette)
Blazing Saddles (1974; Mel Brooks)
The Godfather Part II (1974; Francis Ford Coppola)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974; Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974; Sam Peckinpah)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975; Sidney Lumet)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975; Milos Forman)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975; Chantal Ackerman)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975; Jim Sharman)
Deewaar (1975; Yosh Chopra)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975; Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones)
Barry Lyndon (1975; Stanley Kubrick)
Fox and His Friends (1975; Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
India Song (1975; Marguerite Duras)
Picinc at Hanging Rock (1975; Peter Weir)
Manila in the Claws of Brightness (1975; Lino Brocka)
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975; Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Nashville (1975; Robert Altman)
Cria! (1975; Carlos Saura)
The Traveling Players (1975; Theo Angelopoulos)
Jaws (1975; Steven Spielberg)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976; John Cassavetes)
Carrie (1976; Brian DePalma)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976; Clint Eastwood)
All the President’s Men (1976; Alan J. Pakula)
Rocky (1976; John G. Avildsen)
Taxi Driver (1976; Martin Scorsese)
Network (1976; Sidney Lumet)
Ascent (1976; Larisa Shepitko)
In the Realm of the Senses (1976; Nagisa Oshima)
1900 (1976; Bernardo Bertolucci)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976; Nicolas Roeg)
Star Wars (1977; George Lucas)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977; Steven Spielberg)
The Last Wave (1977; Peter Weir)
Annie Hall (1977; Woody Allen)
Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977; Jon Jost)
Stroszek (1977; Werner Herzog)
Man of Marble (1977; Andrzej Wajda)
Saturday Night Fever (1977; John Badham)
Killer of Sheep (1977; Charles Burnett)
Eraserhead (1977; David Lynch)
Ceddo (1977; Ousmane Sembene)
The American Friend (1977; Wim Wenders)
The Hills Have Eyes (1977; Wes Craven)
Soldier of Orange (1977; Paul Verhoeven)
Suspiria (1977; Dario Argento)
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978; Fred Shepisi)
Five Deadly Venoms (1978; Chang Cheh)
The Tree of the Wooden Clogs (1978; Ermamo Olmi)
The Deer Hunter (1978; Michael Cimino)
Grease (1978; Randal Kleiser)
Days of Heaven (1978; Terrence Malick)
Dawn of the Dead (1978; George A. Romero)
Shaolin Master Killer (1978; Chia-Liang Liu)
Up in Smoke (1978; Lou Adler & Tommy Chong)
Halloween (1978; John Carpenter)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979; Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Real Life (1979; Albert Brooks)
My Brilliant Career (1979; Gillian Armstrong)
Stalker (1979; Andrei Tarkovsky)
Alien (1979; Ridley Scott)
Breaking Away (1979; Peter Yates)
The Tin Drum (1979; Volker Schlöndorff)
All That Jazz (1979; Bob Fosse)
Being There (1979; Hal Ashby)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979; Robert Benton)
Life of Brian (1979; Terry Jones)
Apocalypse Now (1979; Francis Ford Coppola)
The Jerk (1979; Carl Reiner)
The Muppet Movie (1979; James Frawley)
Manhattan (1979; Woody Allen)
Mad Max (1979; George Miller)
Nosferatu (1979; Werner Herzog)

1980-1989

Ordinary People (1980; Robert Redford)
Atlantic City (1980; Louis Malle)
The Last Metro (1980; François Truffaut)
The Shining (1980; Stanley Kubrick)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980; Irvin Kershner)
The Elephant Man (1980; David Lynch)
The Big Red One (1980; Samuel Fuller)
Loulou (1980; Maurice Pialat)
Airplane! (1980; Jim Abrahams, David Zucker & Jerry Zucker)
Raging Bull (1980; Martin Scorsese)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981; Steven Spielberg)
Das Boot (1981; Wolfgang Petersen)
Gallipoli (1981; Peter Weir)
Chariots of Fire (1981; Hugh Hudson)
Body Heat (1981; Lawrence Kasdan)
Reds (1981; Warren Beatty)
An American Werewolf in London (1981; John Landis)
Three Brothers (1981; Francesco Rosi)
Man of Iron (1981; Andrzej Wajda)
Too Early, Too Late (1981; Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub)
Fast Times at Ridgement High (1981; Amy Heckerling)
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982; Steven Spielberg)
The Thing (1982; John Carpenter)
Poltergeist (1982; Tobe Hooper)
Blade Runner (1982; Ridley Scott)
The Evil Dead (1982; Sam Raimi)
Tootsie (1982; Sydney Pollack)
Yol (1982; Serif Gören & Yilmaz Güney)
Diner (1982; Barry Levinson)
Fitzcarraldo (1982; Werner Herzog)
Gandhi (1982; Richard Attenborough)
The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982; Paolo & Vittorio Taviani)
A Question of Silence (1982; Marleen Gorris)
Fanny and Alexander (1983; Ingmar Bergman)
A Christmas Story (1983; Bob Clark)
El Norte (1983; Gregory Nava)
Videodrome (1983; David Cronenberg)
Return of the Jedi (1983; Richard Marquand)
The Big Chill (1983; Lawrence Kasdan)
Sunless (1983; Chris Marker)
The Last Battle (1983; Luc Besson)
L’argent (1983; Robert Bresson)
Utu (1983; Geoff Murphy)
Terms of Endearment (1983; James L. Brooks)
The Fourth Man (1983; Paul Verhoeven)
The King of Comedy (1983; Martin Scorsese)
The Right Stuff (1983; Philip Kaufman)
Koyaanisqatsi (1983; Godfrey Reggio)
Once Upon a Time in America (1983; Sergio Leone)
Scarface (1983; Brian DePalma)
The Ballad of Narayama (1983; Shohei Imamura)
Amadeus (1984; Milos Forman)
The Terminator (1984; James Cameron)
Paris, Texas (1984; Wim Wenders)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984; Wes Craven)
This is Spïnal Tap (1984; Rob Reiner)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984; Martin Brest)
Ghostbusters (1984; Ivan Reitman)
A Passage to India (1984; David Lean)
Stranger Than Paradise (1984; Jim Jarmusch)
The Killing Fields (1984; Roland Jaffe)
The Natural (1984; Barry Levinson)
The Breakfast Club (1985; John Hughes)
Ran (1985; Akira Kurosawa)
Come and See (1985; Elem Klimov)
The Official Story (1985; Luis Puenzo)
Out of Africa (1985; Sydney Pollack)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985; Woody Allen)
Back to the Future (1985; Robert Zemeckis)
The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985; Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Brazil (1985; Terry Gilliam)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985; Hector Babenco)
The Quiet Earth (1985; Geoff Murphy)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985; Paul Schrader)
Prizzi’s Honor (1985; John Huston)
Vagabond (1985; Agnès Varda)
Shoah (1985; Claude Lanzmann)
The Color Purple (1985; Steven Spielberg)
Manhunter (1986; Michael Mann)
Stand by Me (1986; Rob Reiner)
Blue Velvet (1986; David Lynch)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986; Woody Allen)
She’s Gotta Have It (1986; Spike Lee)
The Decline of the American Empire (1986; Denys Arcand)
The Fly (1986; David Cronenberg)
Aliens (1986; James Cameron)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986; John Hughes)
Down by Law (1986; Jim Jarmusch)
A Room With a View (1986; James Ivory)
Children of a Lesser God (1986; Randa Haines)
Platoon (1986; Oliver Stone)
Caravaggio (1986; Derek Jarman)
Tampopo (1986; Juzo Hami)
Peking Opera Blues (1986; Tsui Hark)
Top Gun (1986; Tony Scott)
Sherman’s March (1986; Ross McElwee)
The Horse Thief (1986; Tian Zhuangzhuang)
Brightness (1987; Souleymane Cissé)
Wings of Desire (1987; Wim Wenders)
Project A, Part II (1987; Jackie Chan)
Babette’s Feast (1987; Gabriel Axel)
Raising Arizona (1987; Joel Coen)
Full Metal Jacket (1987; Stanley Kubrick)
Withnail and I (1987; Bruce Robinson)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987; Barry Levinson)
Au revoir, les enfants (1987; Louis Malle)
Broadcast News (1987; James L. Brooks)
Housekeeping (1987; Bill Forsythe)
The Princess Bride (1987; Rob Reiner)
Moonstruck (1987; Norman Jewison)
The Untouchables (1987; Brian DePalma)
Red Sorghum (1987; Zhang Yimou)
The Dead (1987; John Huston)
Fatal Attraction (1987; Adrian Lyne)
A Chinese Ghost Story (1987; Siu-Tun Ching)
The Vanishing (1988; George Sluizer)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988; Pedro Almòdovar)
Bull Durham (1988; Ron Shelton)
Ariel (1988; Aki Kaurismäki)
The Thin Blue Line (1988; Errol Morris)
Akira (1988; Katushiro Ôtomo)
Cinema Paradiso (1988; Giuseppe Tornatore)
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988; Marcel Ophüs)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988; Charles Crichton)
The Naked Gun (1988; David Zucker)
Big (1988; Penny Marshall)
Dangerous Liaisons (1988; Stephen Frears)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988: Isao Takahata)
The Decalogue (1988; Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Landscape in the Mist (1988; Theo Angelopoulos)
Die Hard (1988; John McTiernan)
A History of Wind (1988; Joris Ivens)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988; Robert Zemeckis)
Rain Man (1988; Barry Levinson)
The Story of Women (1988; Claude Chabrol)
Drowning by Numbers (1988; Peter Greenaway)
Alice (1988; Jan Svankmajer)
Batman (1989; Tim Burton)
When Harry Met Sally… (1989; Rob Reiner)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989; Woody Allen)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989; Peter Greenaway)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989; Gus Van Sant)
My Left Foot (1989; Jim Sheridan)
The Killer (1989; John Woo)
Do the Right Thing (1989; Spike Lee)
Roger and Me (1989; Michael Moore)
Glory (1989; Edward Zwick)
The Asthenic Syndrome (1989; Kira Muratova)
sex, lies, and videotape (1989; Steven Soderbergh)
say anything… (1989; Cameron Crowe)
The Unbelievable Truth (1989; Hal Hartley)
A City of Sadness (1989; Hou Hsiao-hsien)

1990-1999

No Fear, No Die (1990; Claire Denis)
Reversal of Fortune (1990; Barbet Schroeder)
Goodfellas (1990; Martin Scorsese)
Jacob’s Ladder (1990; Adrian Lyne)
King of New York (1990; Abel Ferrera)
Dances with Wolves (1990; Kevin Costner)
Europa, Europa (1990; Agnieszka Holland)
Pretty Woman (1990; Garry Marshall)
Archangel (1990; Guy Maddin)
Trust (1990; Hal Hartley)
Close-Up (1990; Abbas Kiarostami)
Edward Scissorhands (1990; Tim Burton)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990; John McNaughton)
Total Recall (1990; Paul Verhoeven)
Once Upon a Time in China (1991; Hark Tsui)
Boyz ‘n the Hood (1991; John Singleton)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991; Zhang Yimou)
Delicatessen (1991; David Cronenberg)
A Brighter Summer Day (1991; Edward Yang)
Naked Lunch (1991; David Cronenberg)
The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991; Jacques Rivette)
The Rapture (1991; Michael Tolkin)
My Own Private Idaho (1991; Gus Van Sant)
Thelma and Louise (1991; Ridley Scott)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991; James Cameron)
Silence of the Lambs (1991; Jonathan Demme)
JFK (1991; Oliver Stone)
Slacker (1991; Richard Linklater)
Tongues Untied (1991; Marlon Riggs)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991; Fax Bahr, Eleanor Coppola, George Hickenlooper)
The Double Life of Veronique (1991; Krzysztof Kiewlowski)
Strictly Ballroom (1992; Baz Luhrmann)
The Player (1992; Robert Altman)
Reservoir Dogs (1992; Quentin Tarantino)
Romper Stomper (1992; Geoffrey Wright)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992; James Foley)
Unforgiven (1992; Clint Eastwood)
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992; Nick Broomfield)
A Tale of Winter (1992; Eric Rohmer)
The Actress (1992; Stanley Kwan)
Man Bites Dog (1992; Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel & Benoît Poelvoorde)
The Crying Game (1992; Neil Jordan)
Farewell, My Concubine (1993; Kaige Chen)
Groundhog Day (1993; Harold Ramis)
Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993; François Girard)
Short Cuts (1993; Robert Altman)
Philadelphia (1993; Jonathan Demme)
The Puppetmaster (1993; Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Jurassic Park (1993; Steven Spielberg)
Blue (1993; Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The Piano (1993; Jane Campion)
The Blue Kite (1993; Tian Zhuangzhuang)
The Wedding Banquet (1993; Ang Lee)
Schindler’s List (1993; Steven Spielberg)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994; Stephan Elliott)
Red (1994; Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Hoop Dream (1994; Steve James)
Forrest Gump (1994; Robert Zemeckis)
The Lion King (1994; Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff)
Clerks (1994; Kevin Smith)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994; Mike Newell)
Natural Born Killers (1994; Oliver Stone)
The Last Seduction (1994; John Dahl)
Pulp Fiction (1994; Quentin Tarantino)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994; Frank Darabont)
The Wild Reeds (1994; André Técheiné)
Chungking Express (1994; Wong Kar-Wai)
Crumb (1994; Terry Zwigoff)
Sátántangó (1994; Béla Tarr)
Zire Carakhatan Zeyton (1994; Abbas Kiarostami)
Heavenly Creatures (1994; Peter Jackson)
Dear Diary (1994; Nanni Moretti)
Muriel’s Wedding (1994; P.J. Hogan)
The Kingdom (1994; Morten Anfred & Lars von Trier)
Babe (1995; Chris Noonan)
Deseret (1995; James Benning)
Braveheart (1995; Mel Gibson)
Safe (1995; Todd Haynes)
Toy Story (1995; John Lasseter)
Casino (1995; Martin Scorsese)
Heat (1995; Michael Mann)
Zero Kelvin (1995; Hans Petter Moland)
Clueless (1995; Amy Heckerling)
Smoke (1995; Wayne Wang & Paul Auster)
The White Balloon (1995; Jafar Panahi)
Se7en (1995; David Fincher)
Underground (1995; Emir Kusturica)
Dilwale Dulhania le Jayenge (1995; Aditya Chopra)
Cyclo (1995; Anh-Hung Tran)
The Usual Suspects (1995; Bryan Singer)
Dead Man (1995; Jim Jarmusch)
Fargo (1996; Joel Coen)
Three Lives and Only One Death (1996; Raoul Ruiz)
Shine (1996; Scott Hicks)
Breaking the Waves (1996; Lars von Trier)
Independence Day (1996; Roland Emmerich)
Secrets and Lies (1996; Mike Leigh)
Gabbeh (1996; Maohsen Makhmalbaf)
Lone Star (1996; John Sayles)
Trainspotting (1996; Danny Boyle)
Scream (1996; Wes Craven)
The English Patient (1996; Anthony Minghella)
Happy Together (1997; Wong Kar-wai)
Princess Mononoke (1997; Hayao Miyazaki)
L.A. Confidential (1997; Curtis Hanson)
The Butcher Boy (1997; Neil Jordan)
The Ice Storm (1997; Ang Lee)
Boogie Nights (1997; Paul Thomas Anderson)
Deconstructing Harry (1997; Woody Allen)
The Sweet Hereafter (1997; Atom Egoyan)
Funny Games (1997; Michael Haneke)
Taste of Cherry (1997; Abbas Kiarostami)
Open Your Eyes (1997; Alejandro Amenábar)
Mother and Son (1997; Aleksandr Sukurov)
Titanic (1997; James Cameron)
Tetsuo (1998; Shinya Tsukamoto)
The Celebration (1998; Thomas Vinterberg)
Saving Private Ryan (1998; Steven Spielberg)
Buffalo 66 (1998; Vincent Gallo)
Rushmore (1998; Wes Anderson)
Run Lola Run (1998; Tom Tykwer)
The Idiots (1998; Lars von Trier)
Pi (1998; Darren Aronofsky)
Happiness (1998; Todd Solodz)
The Thin Red Line (1998; Terrence Malick)
There’s Something About Mary (1998; Bobby & Peter Farrelly)
Sombre (1998; Phillippe Grandrieux)
Ringu (1998; Hideo Nakata)
Taboo (1999; Nagisa Oshimi)
Magnolia (1999; Paul Thomas Anderson)
Beau Travail (1999; Claire Denis)
The Blair Witch Project (1999; Daniel Myrick & Eduardo S´nchez)
Three Kings (1999; David O. Russell)
Rosetta (1999; Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
All About My Mother (1999; Pedro Almódovar)
Time Regained (1999; Raoul Ruiz)
Fight Club (1999; David Fincher)
Being John Malkovich (1999; Spike Jonze)
American Beauty (1999; Sam Mendes)
The Wind Will Carry Us (1999; Abbas Kiarostami)
The Matrix (1999; Andy & Larry Wachowski)
The Sixth Sense (1999; M. Night Shyamalan)

2000-2007

The Gleaners and I (2000; Agnès Varda)
Nine Queens (2000; Fabiá Bielinsky)
The Captive (2000; Chantal Ackerman)
In the Mood for Love (2000; Wong Kar-Wai)
Ali Zaoua, Prince of the Streets (2000; Nabil Ayouch)
Gladiator (2000; Ridley Scott)
Kippur (2000; Amos Gital)
Yi Yi (A One and a Two) (2000; Edward Yang)
Requiem for a Dream (2000; Darren Aronofsky)
Amores Perros (2000; Alejandro Gonz´lez Iñárritu)
Meet the Parents (2000; Jay Roach)
Signs and Wonders (2000; Jonathan Nossiter)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000; Ang Lee)
Traffic (2000; Steven Soderbergh)
Dancer in the Dark (2000; Lars von Trier)
Memento (2000; Christopher Nolan)
Kandahar (2001; Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
What Time Is It There? (2001; Ming-liang Tsai)
Y tu mamá también (2001; Alfonso Cuarón)
Amélie (2001; Jean-Pierre Jenuet)
Spirited Away (2001; Hayao Myazaki)
The Piano Teacher (2001; Michael Haneke)
The Son’s Room (2001; Nanni Moretti)
No Man’s Land (2001; Danis Tanovic)
Moulin Rouge! (2001; Baz Lurhmann)
Monsoon Wedding (2001; Mira Nair)
Lantana (2001; Ray Lawrence)
Fat Girl (2001; Catherine Breillat)
Mulholland Drive (2001; David Lynch)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001; Wes Anderson)
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001; Peter Jackson)
The Pianist (2002; Roman Polanski)
Gangs of New York (2002; Martin Scorsese)
City of God (2002; Fernando Meirelles)
Hero (2002; Zhang Yimou)
Talk to Her (2002; Pedro Almódovar)
Russian Ark (2002; Aleksandr Sukurov)
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002; Peter Jackson)
The Barbarian Invasions (2003; Denys Arcand)
Oldboy (2003; Chan-wook Park)
Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (2003; Quentin Tarantino)
Goodbye, Lenin! (2003; Wolfgang Becker)
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003; Peter Jackson)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004; Michael Moore)
Passion of the Christ (2004; Mel Gibson)
Collateral (2004; Michael Mann)
The Aviator (2004; Martin Scorsese)
Million Dollar Baby (2004; Clint Eastwood)
Sideways (2004; Alexander Payne)
Downfall (2004; Oliver Hirschbiegel)
Crash (2004; Paul Haggis)
Head On (2004; Fatih Akin)
3-Iron (2004; Kim Ki-duk)
Tsotsi (2005; Gavin Hood)
Brokeback Mountain (2005; Ang Lee)
Paradise Now (2005; Hany Abu-assad)
Go, See, and Become (2005; Radu Mihaileanu)
The Host (2006; Bong Joon-ho)
The Queen (2006; Steven Frears)
Once (2006; John Carney)
The Lives of Others (2006; Florian Hinckel von Donnersmarck)
Borat (2006; Larry Charles)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006; Guillermo del Toro)
The Departed (2006; Martin Scorsese)
Apocalypto (2006; Mel Gibson)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006; Jonathan Dayton/Valerie Faris)
Atonement (2007; Joe Wright)
Into the Wild (2007; Sean Penn)
No Country for Old Men (2007; Joel & Ethan Coen)
La vie en rose (2007; Olivier Dahan)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007; Julian Schnabel)
There Will Be Blood (2007; Paul Thomas Anderson)