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The Big List: A Year of Movies

Some of the High Hat gang were updating their 100-best-movies list; I haven’t touched mine since the pre-Netflix days, and I’ve seen more movies in the last five years than I did in the 35 years before that.  So I figured it was time I did the same.  Alas, I got to about 124 without even including any foreign films, so I thought a different approach was called for.

Instead, I put together 365 movies I loved in many different categories:  domestic features, foreign films, documentaries, experimental film, animation, shorts, made-for-TV movies, children’s and family films, cult movies, and so on.  That way, I didn’t have to limit myself to only 100, and you end up with a guide that lets you watch a great movie every day for a year.

Your corrections, complaints, and questioning of my sentience welcome.  Here, in order of release, is your year of movies:

  • L’Arrivée d’un Train en Gare de La Ciotat (Auguste & Louis Lumière, 1895, France)
  • A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, 1902, France)
  • Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend (Winsor McCay, 1921, USA)
  • Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty, 1922, USA)
  • The Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925, Russia)
  • The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reineger, 1926, Germany)
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928, France)
  • Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929, France)
  • The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau, 1930, France)
  • M (Fritz Lang, 1931, Germany)
  • Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932, USA)
  • I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932, USA)
  • Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo, 1933, France)
  • Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933, USA)
  • Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, 1935, Germany)
  • Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1935, USA)
  • Partie de Campagne (Jean Renoir, 1936, France)
  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937, USA)
  • Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938, USA)
  • Out of the Inkwell (Dave Fleischer, 1938, USA)
  • Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939, USA)
  • The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939, France)
  • The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939, USA)
  • The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940, USA)
  • Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen, 1940, USA)
  • Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941, USA)
  • The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941, USA)
  • Bambi (David Hand, 1942, USA)
  • Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942, USA)
  • Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943, USA)
  • Road to Utopia (Hal Walker, 1943, USA)
  • Red Hot Riding Hood (Tex Avery, 1943, USA)
  • Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943, USA)
  • Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944, USA)
  • Why We Fight (Frank Capra, USA, 1945)
  • Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945, Italy)
  • Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945, USA)
  • Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1945, USA)
  • The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946, USA)
  • Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946, France)
  • It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946, USA)
  • Fireworks (Kenneth Anger, 1947, USA)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948, USA)
  • La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti, 1948, Italy)
  • Macbeth (Orson Welles, 1948, USA)
  • Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann, 1948, USA)
  • The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949, England)
  • White Heat (Raoul Walsh, 1949, USA)
  • Thieves’ Highway (Jules Dassin, 1949, USA)
  • Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950, USA)
  • Night and the City (Jules Dassin, 1950, USA)
  • In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950, USA)
  • The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston, 1950, USA)
  • Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950, USA)
  • Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950, Japan)
  • The Thing from Another World (Howard Hawks, 1951, USA)
  • Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952, USA)
  • High Noon (Fred Zinnemann, 1952, USA)
  • Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones, 1953, USA)
  • The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953, France)
  • The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (Roy Rowland, 1953, USA)
  • Tokyo Story (Yazujiro Ozu, 1953, Japan)
  • Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954, Japan)
  • Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954, USA)
  • La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954, Italy)
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Richard Fleischer, 1954, USA)
  • Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955, France)
  • The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955, USA)
  • Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955, France)
  • All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955, USA)
  • Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955, India)
  • Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955, France)
  • The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955, USA)
  • Rebel without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955, USA)
  • The Searchers (John Ford, 1956, USA)
  • The Silent World (Jacques Cousteau & Louis Malle, 1956, France)
  • The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, 1956, USA)
  • Bob le Flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956, France)
  • Requiem for a Heavyweight (Ralph Nelson, 1956, USA)
  • The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, 1956, France)
  • The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957, Sweden)
  • Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957, USA)
  • Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958, USA)
  • Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958, USA)
  • Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli, 1958, Italy)
  • Les Cousins (Claude Chabrol, 1959, France)
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959, France)
  • Jazz on a Summer’s Day (Bert Stern, 1959, USA)
  • The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray, 1959, India)
  • Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960, France)
  • Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960, England)
  • Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960, USA)
  • Blast of Silence (Allen Baron, 1961, USA)
  • Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961, France)
  • West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, 1961, USA)
  • Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1962, France)
  • La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962, France)
  • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Robert Enrico, 1962, France)
  • The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962, Mexico)
  • Window Water Baby Moving (Stan Brakhage, 1962, USA)
  • The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962, USA)
  • 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963, Italy)
  • The Leopard (Lucino Visconti, 1963, Italy)
  • Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki, 1963, Japan)
  • From Russia with Love (Terence Young, 1963, England)
  • Point of Order (Emile de Antonio, 1964, USA)
  • Dr. Strangelove or:  How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964, USA)
  • Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage, 1964, USA)
  • A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, 1964, England)
  • Empire (Andy Warhol, 1964, USA)
  • Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1964, USA)
  • Culloden (Peter Watkins, 1964, England)
  • Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965, England)
  • The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1965, England)
  • A Charlie Brown Christmas (Bill Melendez, 1965, USA)
  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966, USA)
  • The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966, Italy)
  • Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966, Sweden)
  • The Big T.N.T. Show (Larry Peerce, 1966, USA)
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966, Italy)
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Chuck Jones & Ben Washam, 1966, USA)
  • Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967, Canada)
  • Don’t Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1967, USA)
  • Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967, Japan)
  • Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967, USA)
  • Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967, USA)
  • Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman, 1967, USA)
  • Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967, France)
  • Week-end (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967, France)
  • The Producers (Mel Brooks, 1968, Mel Brooks)
  • Les Biches (Claude Chabrol, 1968, France)
  • 2001:  A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968, USA)
  • Death By Hanging (Nagisa Oshima, 1968, Japan)
  • Yellow Submarine (George Dunning, 1968, England)
  • Night of the Living Dead (George Romero, 1968, USA)
  • Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968, Italy)
  • The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1968, England)
  • if… (Lindsay Anderson, 1968, England)
  • Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969, USA)
  • The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969, USA)
  • The Butcher (Claude Chabrol, 1970, France)
  • Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh, 1970, USA)
  • The Ossuary (Jan Svankmajer, 1970, Czechoslovakia)
  • Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970, France)
  • The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970, Italy)
  • Le Voyou (Claude Lelouch, 1970, France)
  • Gimme Shelter (Albert & David Maysles, 1970, USA)
  • Le Petit Théâtre de Jean Renoir (Jean Renoir, 1970, France)
  • Punishment Park (Peter Watkins, 1971, USA)
  • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971, USA)
  • Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
  • Duel (Steven Spielberg, 1971, USA)
  • The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage, 1971, USA)
  • The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972, USA)
  • Roma (Federico Fellini, 1972, Italy)
  • The Ruling Class (Peter Medak, 1972, England)
  • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel, 1972, France)
  • Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972, Germany)
  • Charlotte’s Web (Charles A. Nichols & Iwao Takamoto, 1973, USA)
  • Cocksucker Blues (Robert Frank, 1973, USA)
  • The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973, Spain)
  • Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse, 1973, USA)
  • Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973, USA)
  • Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973, USA)
  • The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973, USA)
  • The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (John Korty, 1974, USA)
  • Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974, USA)
  • Ali:  Fear Eats the Soul (Ranier Werner Fassbinder, 1974, Germany)
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1974, England)
  • The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, USA)
  • Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis, 1974, USA)
  • Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974, USA)
  • Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah, 1974, USA)
  • Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson, 1974, France)
  • Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma, 1974, USA)
  • Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974, USA)
  • The Godfather Part 2 (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, USA)
  • Fox and His Friends (Ranier Werner Fassbinder, 1975, Germany)
  • Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975, Belgium)
  • Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975, USA)
  • Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975, USA)
  • F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1975, USA)
  • Grey Gardens (Albert & David Maysles, 1975, USA)
  • Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976, USA)
  • The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976, USA)
  • Allegro Non Troppo (Bruno Bozzetto, 1976, Italy)
  • Harlan County, USA (Barbara Kopple, 1976, Canada)
  • Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog, 1976, USA)
  • Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977, USA)
  • Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977, USA)
  • The Truck (Marguerite Duras, 1977, France)
  • Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977, USA)
  • A Grin without a Cat (Chris Marker, 1977, France)
  • The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Liu Chia-Liang, 1978, Hong Kong)
  • Jubilee (Derek Jarman, 1978, England)
  • The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978, USA)
  • Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, USA)
  • Dawn of the Dead (George Romero, 1978, USA)
  • Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978, USA)
  • Richard Pryor:  Live in Concert (Jeff Margolis, 1979, USA)
  • Tale of Tales (Yuriy Norshteyn, 1979, Russia)
  • The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979, USA)
  • Real Life (Albert Brooks, 1979, USA)
  • A Walk Through H:  The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (Peter Greenaway, 1979, England)
  • The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff, 1979, Germany)
  • Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979, USA)
  • The Ninth Configuration (William Peter Blatty, 1980, USA)
  • The Falls (Peter Greenaway, 1980, England)
  • The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980, USA)
  • The Elephant Man (David Lynch, 1980, USA)
  • Berlin Alexanderplatz (Ranier Werner Fassbinder, 1980, Germany)
  • The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie, 1980, England)
  • Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980, USA)
  • Pixote:  The Law of the Weakest (Hector Babenco, 1981, Brazil)
  • The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris, 1981, USA)
  • Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam, 1981, England)
  • The Road Warrior (George Miller, 1981, Australia)
  • Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982, Germany)
  • Conan the Barbarian (John Milius, 1982, USA)
  • The Atomic Café (Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty & Pierce Rafferty, 1982, USA)
  • Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982, USA)
  • Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982, USA)
  • Dimensions of Dialogue (Jan Svankmajer, 1982, Czechoslovakia)
  • Sans Soliel (Chris Marker, 1983, France)
  • Local Hero (Bill Forsyth, 1983, Scotland)
  • The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1983, USA)
  • Special Bulletin (Ed Zwick, 1983, USA)
  • Nacht und Träume (Samuel Beckett, 1983, England)
  • Urusei Yatsura 2:  Beautiful Dreamer (Mamoru Oshii, 1984, Japan)
  • Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984, USA)
  • This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984, USA)
  • Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984, USA)
  • Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984, USA)
  • A Girl’s Own Story (Jane Campion, 1984, New Zealand)
  • Secret Honor (Robert Altman, 1984, USA)
  • Threads (Mick Jackson, 1984, England)
  • Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985, England)
  • Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985, Japan)
  • The Big Snit (Richard Condie, 1985, Canada)
  • After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985, USA)
  • Mishima:  A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985, USA)
  • Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon, 1985, USA)
  • Shoah (Claude Lantzmann, 1985, France)
  • My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1985, England)
  • Tampopo (Juzo Itami, 1985, Japan)
  • Street of Crocodiles (Stephen & Timothy Quay, 1986, USA)
  • The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986, USA)
  • Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986, USA)
  • Raising Arizona (Joel Coen, 1987, USA)
  • Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson, 1987, England)
  • Robocop (Paul Verhoeven, 1987, USA)
  • Superstar:  The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1987, USA)
  • The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987, USA)
  • Story of Women (Claude Chabrol, 1988, France)
  • Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988, Japan)
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988, USA)
  • Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988, Japan)
  • The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988, USA)
  • Eight Men Out (John Sayles, 1988, USA)
  • Drowning By Numbers (Peter Greenaway, 1988, England)
  • Traffik (Alastair Reid, 1989, England)
  • Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989, USA)
  • Tetsuo:  The Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989, Japan)
  • The Killer (John Woo, 1989, Hong Kong)
  • sex, lies and videotape (Steven Soderbergh, 1989, USA)
  • The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway, 1989, England)
  • The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1989, Poland)
  • Roger & Me (Michael Moore, 1989, USA)
  • GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990, USA)
  • The Civil War (Ken Burns, 1990, USA)
  • The Grifters (Stephen Frears, 1990, USA)
  • The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991, USA)
  • Barton Fink (Joel Coen, 1991, USA)
  • Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise, 1991, USA)
  • Hearts of Darkness:  A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (Fax Bahr & George Hickenlooper, 1991, USA)
  • Brother’s Keeper (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky, 1992, USA)
  • Man Bites Dog (Benoît Poelvoorde, André Bonzel & Rémy Belvaux, 1992, Belgium)
  • Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley, 1992, USA)
  • Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992, USA)
  • Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara, 1992, USA)
  • From the East (Chantal Akerman, 1993, Belgium)
  • And the Band Played On (Roger Spottiswoode, 1993, USA)
  • 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (Francois Girard, 1993, USA)
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick, 1993, USA)
  • The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park, 1993, England)
  • Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994, USA)
  • Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994, New Zealand)
  • Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994, USA)
  • The Kingdom (Lars von Trier, 1994, Denmark)
  • Crumb (Terry Zwigoff, 1995, USA)
  • Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995, USA)
  • Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995, USA)
  • Babe (Chris Noonan, 1995, Australia)
  • Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life (Stephen & Timothy Quay, 1995, USA)
  • Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid (Gimpo, 1995, England)
  • La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995, France)
  • Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995, USA)
  • When We Were Kings (Leon Gast, 1996, USA)
  • Fargo (Joel Coen, 1996, USA)
  • The Bloody Child (Nina Menkes, 1996, USA)
  • Hype!  (Doug Pray, 1996, USA)
  • 4 Little Girls (Spike Lee, 1997, USA)
  • The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan, 1997, Ireland)
  • Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997, USA)
  • The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, 1998, USA)
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998, USA)
  • After Life (Hirokazu Koreeda, 1998, Japan)
  • The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1998, USA)
  • The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999, USA)
  • Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999, Japan)
  • The Limey (Steven Soderbergh, 1999, USA)
  • Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999, USA)
  • American Movie (Chris Smith, 1999, USA)
  • Amores Perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000, Mexico)
  • La Commune [Paris, 1871] (Peter Watkins, 2000, France)
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000, Taiwan)
  • Dark Days (Marc Singer, 2000, USA)
  • Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000, USA)
  • In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai, 2000, Hong Kong)
  • Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000, Japan)
  • Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001, USA)
  • Gerry (Gus van Sant, 2002, USA)
  • Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass, 2002, England)
  • Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma, 2002, France)
  • City of God (Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund, 2002, Brazil)
  • Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, 2002, Russia)
  • 10 Minutes (Ahmed Imamovic, 2002, Bosnia)
  • Adaptation. (Spike Jonze, 2002, USA)
  • Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003, Denmark)
  • The Fog of War (Errol Morris, 2003, USA)
  • Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich, 2003, USA)
  • The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, 2003, France)
  • Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Anderson, 2003, USA)
  • The Saddest Music in the World (Guy Maddin, 2003, Canada)
  • Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003, USA)
  • Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke, 2003, France)
  • Elephant (Gus van Sant, 2003, USA)
  • Angels in America (Mike Nichols, 2003, USA)
  • Oldboy (Chan-Wook Park, 2003, South Korea)
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004, USA)
  • Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004, Thailand)
  • The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004, USA)
  • Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Mikazaki, 2004, Japan)
  • Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005, USA)
  • Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005, USA)
  • My Dad is 100 Years Old (Guy Maddin, 2005, USA)
  • 49 Up (Michael Apted, 2005, England)
  • The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005, USA)
  • The Road to Guantánamo (Michael Winterbottom, 2006, England)
  • A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006, USA)
  • Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Balchwai, 2006, Canada)
  • Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007, USA)
  • Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, 2007, France)
  • No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen, 2007, USA)
  • There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007, USA)
  • Man on Wire (James Marsh, 2008, USA)
  • Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley, 2008, USA)
  • I’ve Loved You So Long (Philippe Claudel, 2008, France)
  • WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, 2008, USA)
  • The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008, Spain)
  • Trouble the Water (Tia Lessin & Carl Deal, 2008, USA)
  • Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008, USA)
  • Red Riding (Tony Grisoni, 2009, England)
  • Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009, Greece)
  • Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010, France)