1895
L’arrive d’un Train en Garede la Ciotat (Louis Lumiere)
La Sortie des Usines Lumeire (Louis Lumiere)
1896
The Kiss (William Heise/Thomas A. Edison)
1902
A Trip to the Moon (Geroges Melies)
1909
A Corner in Wheat (D.W. Griffith)
1910
The Unchanging Sea (D.W. Griffith)
1912
The Cameraman’s Revenge (Starewicz)
1914
Gertie the Dinosaur (Winsor McCay)
1915
The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith)
1916
Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (D.W. Griffith)
1917
One A.M. (Charles Chaplin)
The Immigrant (Charles Chaplin)
1919
Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith)
1920
The Golem (Paul Wegener/Carl Boese)
1921
The Kid (Charles Chaplin)
Manhatta (Paul Strand/Charles Sheeler)
Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty)
1922
Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
1923
Three Ages (Buster Keaton/Edward F. Cline)
A Woman of Paris (Charles Chaplin)
1924
The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau)
Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
1925
The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)
Menilmontant (Kirsanoff)
Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
1926
Anemic Cinema (Duchamp)
Faust (F.W. Murnau)
1927
The General (Buster Keaton)
Metropolis (Lang)
Sunrise: A Tale of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau)
1928
The Cameraman (Buster Keaton)
Ghosts Before Breakfast (Hans Richter)
L’Etolie de Mer (Man Ray)
The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (Robert Florey/Slavko Vorkapich)
The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (Dreyer)
Steamboat Willie (Ub Iwerks)
1929
The Cocoanuts (Robert Florey/Joseph Stantley)
The Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunel/Salvador Dali)
1930
Animal Crackers (Heerman)
Earth (Dovzhenko)
1931
City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
Flunky, Work Hard! (Naruse)
M (Lang)
Monkey Business (McLeod)
1932
Freaks (Tod Browning)
Horse Feathers (McLeod)
I Was Born, But . . . (Ozu)
Million Dollar Legs (Edward F. Cline)
Vampyr (Dreyer)
Zero de Conduite (Jean Vigo)
1933
Apart From You (Naruse)
Every Night Dreams (Naruse)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
King Kong (Cooper/Schoedsack)
Passing Fancy (Ozu)
1934
L’Atalante (Jean Vigo)
A Story of Floating Weeds (Ozu)
1935
Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
An Inn in Tokyo (Ozu)
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
1936
Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
The Only Son (Ozu)
1937
A Day at the Races (Sam Wood)
La Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (William Cottrell/David Hand/Wilfred Jackson/Larry Morey/Perce Pearce/Ben Sharpsteen)
1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Curtiz/Keighley)
Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein)
The Daffy Doc (Robert Clampett)
1939
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
Stagecoach (John Ford)
The Wizard of Oz (Fleming/LeRoy/Vidor/Cukor)
1940
The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
Fantasia (Ben Sharpsteen)
The Philadelphia Story (Cukor)
Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen/Hamilton Luske)
Rebecca (Hitchcock)
The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger/Michael Powell/Tim Whelan)
1941
The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Ozu)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
1942
The 47 Ronin (Mizoguchi)
Casablanca (Curtiz)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
There Was a Father (Ozu)
To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch)
1943
Heaven Can Wait (Lubtisch)
Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock)
1944
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
Ivan the Terrible Part I (Eisenstein)
1945
Brief Encounter (David Lean)
Le Vampire (Painleve)
Rome Open City (Rossellini)
1946
La Belle et la Vete (Jean Cocteau)
It’s a Wonderful Life (Capra)
Ivan the Terrible Part II (Eisenstein)
My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
Notorious (Hitchcock)
Paisa (Rossellini)
1947
Germany Year Zero (Rossellini)
Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin)
The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Ozu)
T-Men (Anthony Mann)
1948
The Bicycle Theif (De Sica)
Rope (Hitchcock)
1949
Late Spring (Ozu)
The Third Man (Carol Reed)
1950
Born Yesterday (Cukor)
Cinderella (Wilfred Jackson/Luske/Clyde Geronnimi)
Harvey (Koster)
Los Olvidados (Luis Bunel)
Rashomon (Kurosawa)
Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
1951
Ace in the Hole / The Big Carnival (Wilder)
Alice in Wonderland (Geronnimi/Luske/Jackson)
Early Summer (Ozu)
1952
Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Ozu)
Limelight (Charles Chaplin)
Othello (Orson Welles)
Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen)
1953
Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones)
Duck Dodgers in the 24th ½ Century (Chuck Jones)
Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (Chuck Jones)
Tokyo Story (Ozu)
Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)
1954
La Strada (Fellini)
Rear Window (Hitchcock)
Sansho Dayu (Mizoguchi)
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
1955
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
Mr. Arkadin / Confidential Report (Orson Welles)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
Nuit et Brouillard (Resnais)
Panther Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
The Trouble with Harry (Hitchcock)
1956
Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
The Red Balloon (Lamorisse)
The Searchers (John Ford)
1957
12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet)
The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
Tokyo Twlight (Ozu)
What’s Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones)
Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
1958
Ashes and Diamonds (Andrej Wajda)
Equinox Flower (Ozu)
A Movie (Bruce Conner)
The Music Room (Satyajit Ray)
Robin Hood Daffy (Chuck Jones)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
Vertigo (Hitchcock)
1959
The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
Floating Weeds (Ozu)
Good Morning (Ozu)
The Human Condition: I (Kobayashi)
The Human Condition: II (Kobayashi)
North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
Peeping Tom (Powell)
Pickpocket (Bresson)
Some Like it Hot (Wilder)
Wedlock House: An Intercourse (Brakhage)
The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)
1960
The Apartment (Wilder)
Breathless (Godard)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
Psycho (Hitchcock)
Rocco and His Brothers (Visconti)
Shadows (Cassavetes)
1961
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)
The Human Condition: III (Kobayashi)
Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman)
Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
Yojimbo (Kurosawa)
1962
An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu)
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
Harakiri (Kobayashi)
The House is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad)
Ivan’s Childhood (Tarkovsky)
Jules and Jim (Truffaut)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
Prelude: Dog Star Man (Brakhage)
Dog Star Man: Part I (Brakhage)
Mama Roma (Pasolini)
Pitfall (Teshigahara)
The Trial (Orson Welles)
Window Water Baby Moving (Brakhage)
Winter Light (Bergman)
1963
8 ½ (Fellini)
The Birds (Hitchcock)
Contempt (Godard)
The Haunting (Robert Wise)
Mothlight (Brakhage)
The Silence (Bergman)
1964
Band of Outsiders (Godard)
Dog Star Man: Part II (Brakhage)
Dog Star Man: Part III (Brakhage)
Dog Star Man: Part IV (Brakhage)
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick)
A Fist Full of Dollars (Leone)
La Jetee (Chris Marker)
Marnie (Hitchcock)
The Night of the Iguana (John Huston)
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Sergi Parajanov)
Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara)
1965
Alphaville (Godard)
Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
A Few Dollars More (Leone)
Pierrot le Fou (Godard)
A Spring for the Thirsty (Yuri Ilyenko)
1966
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
Cul-De-Sac (Polanski)
The Face of Another (Teshigahara)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Leone)
MADE IN USA (Godard)
Masculine Feminine (Godard)
Persona (Bergman)
What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (Woody Allen)
1967
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Godard)
23rd Psalm Branch: Part I (Brakhage)
Belle de Jour (Bunuel)
The Graduate (Mike Nichols)
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Oshima)
Playtime (Tati)
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One (Brakhage)
1968
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergi Parajanov)
Faces (Cassavetes)
Night of the Living Dead (Romero)
Hour of the Wolf (Bergman)
The Producers (Mel Brooks)
Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski)
Shame (Bergman)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
1969
Diaries, Notes and Sketches aka Walden (Mekas)
Fellini’s Satyricon (Fellini)
Vinni-Pukh (Fyodor Khitruk)
1970
Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog)
Husbands (Cassavetes)
1971
The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes (Brakhage)
A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
Harold and Maude (Ashby)
THX 1138 (Lucas)
Walkabout (Roeg)
1972
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog)
American Graffiti (Lucas)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (Woody Allen)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
Solaris (Tarkovsky)
1973
Amarcord (Fellini)
Badlands (Terrence Malick)
Day for Night (Truffaut)
Don’t Look Now (Roeg)
F for Fake (Orson Welles)
Scenes From a Marriage (Bergman)
Sleeper (Woody Allen)
The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice)
1974
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Enigma of Kasper Hauser (Werner Herzog)
The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Traveler (Kiarostami)
A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
1975
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
Hedgehog in the Fog (Norshteyn)
Jaws (Spielberg)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes)
The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones)
1976
Network (Sidney Lumet)
Opening Night (Cassavetes)
Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
Three Godless Years (Mario O’Hara)
1977
Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg)
Eraserhead (Lynch)
Io Island (Kim Ki-young)
Star Wars: A New Hope (Lucas)
Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
Suspiria (Argento)
1978
Dawn of the Dead (Romero)
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
Halloween (Carpenter)
Interiors (Woody Allen)
1979
Alien (Ridley Scott)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
Being There (Ashby)
Manhattan (Woody Allen)
Monty Python’s the Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night (Werner Herzog)
Richard Pryor – Live in Concert (Jeff Margolis)
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
1980
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder)
The Blues Brothers (Landis)
The Elephant Man (Lynch)
Raging Bull (Scorsese)
The Shining (Kubrick)
Tale of Tales (Norshteyn)
1981
An American Werewolf in London (Landis)
The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Spielberg)
1982
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
Fanny & Alexander (Bergman)
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio)
1983
The Boys from Fengkuei (Hou)
First Name: Carmen (Godard)
The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones/Terry Gilliam)
Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola)
Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
Zelig (Woody Allen)
1984
Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)
Love Streams (Cassavetes)
Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman)
Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
A Summer at Grandpa’s (Hou)
1985
Back to the Future (Zemeckis)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
The Breakfast Club (Hughes)
The Purples Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
Ran (Kurosawa)
A Time to Live and a Time to Die (Hou)
Tokyo-Ga (Wim Wenders)
1986
Blue Velvet (Lynch)
Down By Law (Jarmusch)
Dust in the Wind (Hou)
Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky)
1987
Damnation (Bela Tarr)
The Dante Quartet (Brakhage)
Radio Days (Woody Allen)
Raising Arizona (Joel Coen/Ethan Coen)
Withnail & I (Bruce Robinson)
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
1988
Another Woman (Woody Allen)
Big (Penny Marshall)
Decalogue (Krzystof Kieslowski)
My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Zemeckis)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Almodovar)
1989
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit (Nick Park)
The Killer (John Woo)
sex, lies, and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
Visions in Meditation #1 (Stan Brakhage)
1990
Close-Up (Kiarostami)
Miller’s Crossing (Joel Coen)
Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston)
Trust (Hal Hartley)
Wild at Heart (David Lynch)
1991
Barton Fink (Joel Coen/Ethan Coen)
Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale/Kirk Wise)
The Double Life of Veronique (Krzystof Kieslowski)
The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam)
My Own Private Idaho (Gus van Sant)
1992
Baraka (Fricke)
Braindead / Dead Alive (Peter Jackson)
Hard-Boiled (John Woo)
Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
1993
Dazed and Confused (Linklater)
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
Je Vous Salue Sarajevo (Godard)
The Puppetmaster (Hou)
Three Colors: Blue (Krzystof Kieslowski)
Wallace and Gromit: the Wrong Trousers (Nick Park)
1994
Casa de Lava (Pedro Costa)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)
Speed (Bont)
Three Colors: White (Krzystof Kieslowski)
Three Colors: Red (Krzystof Kieslowski)
What Happened Was . . . (Noonan)
1995
Before Sunrise (Linklater)
Black Ice (Brakhage)
Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
Maborosi (Kore-eda)
Toy Story (Lasseter)
The White Balloon (Panahi)
1996
Fargo (Joel Coen/Ethan Coen)
Goodbye, South, Goodbye (Hou)
1997
Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai)
The Mirror (Panahi)
Mother and Son (Sokurov)
Ossos (Pedro Costa)
Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki)
The River (Tsai Ming-liang)
Scream (Wes Craven)
Starship Troopers (Verhoeven)
1998
The Cruise (Bennett Miller)
Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen)
Eternity and a Day (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
Pi (Aronofsky)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
1999
All About My Mother (Almodovar)
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
In Vanda’s Room (Pedro Costa)
Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Platform (Jia Zhang-ke)
Traffic (Soderbergh)
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (Hong Sang-soo)
Wreckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr/Agnes Hranitzky)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
2001
The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
Lovesong (Brakhage)
In Praise of Love (Godard)
Mulholland Drive (Lynch)
What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
2002
Adaptation. (Spike Jonze)
Camel(s) (Park Ki-Yong)
The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (Sen)
On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo)
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Talk to Her (Almodovar)
Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhang-ke)
Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)
2003
Café Lumiere (Hou)
Crimson Gold (Panahi)
Dogville (Lars von Trier)
Elephant (Gus van Sant)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)
The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
Memories of Murder (Bong)
Oldboy (Park Chan-wook)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring (Kim Ki-duk)
2004
2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)
Bad Education (Almodovar)
Before Sunset (Linklater)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
Notre Musique (Godard)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2005
Be With Me (Khoo)
Cache (Haneke)
Fuck Cinema (Wu Wenguang)
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
King Kong (Peter Jackson)
L’Enfant (Jean-Pierre Dardenne/Luc Dardenne)
The Meaning of Life (Hertzfeldt)
The New World (Terrence Malick)
Oxhide (Liu Jiayin)
Match Point (Woody Allen)
Three Times (Hou)
Women Workers Leaving the Factory (Jose Luis Torres Leiva)
2006
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa)
The Fountain (Aronofsky)
The Host (Bong)
Once (Carney)
Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2007
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Mungiu)
Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
You, the Living (Andersson)
Zodiac (Fincher)
2008
24 City (Jia Zhang-ke)
Che (Soderbergh)
Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani)
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel)
Man on Wire (James Marsh)
Melancholia (Lav Diaz)
Of Time and the City (Terence Davies)
Still Walking (Kore-eda)
Summer Hours (Assayas)
Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)
Two Lovers (James Gray)
Wall-E (Stanton)
Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt)
2009
Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino)
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Mother (Bong)
Phantoms of Nabua (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
A Serious Man (Ethan Coen/Joel Coen)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola)
Up (Pete Docter/Bob Peterson)
The White Ribbon (Haneke)
2010
Film Socialisme (Godard)
I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhang-ke)
Louis C.K.: Hilarious (Louis C.K.)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2011
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)