top ten list: 2023
1-Oppenheimer 2-Barbie 3- Killers of the Flower Moon 4- The Zone of Interest 5- Menus-Plaisirs-Les Troisgros 6- Songs of Earth 7-Daddio 8-Anatomy of a Fall 9-All of us Strangers 10- Close Your Eyes. 11-IT’S A ZABRISKIE, ZABRISKIE, ZABRISKIE POINT 12-Godzilla Minus One.
top ten list: 2022
1-The Quiet Girl 2-EO 3- Aftersun 4- The Banshees of Inisherin 5- No Bears 6- All Quiet on the Western Front 7-Fabelmans, The 8-Women Talking 9-White Noise 10- Decision to Leave.
top ten list: 2021
1-Nighmare Alley 2- Licorice Pizza 3- The Humans 4- The Lost Daughter 5- West Side Story 6- PIg 7- The Tragedy of Macbeth 8-Mad God 9-Hit The Road 10-Brother’s Keeper. Honorable Mention: Petite Maman, Fever Dream, Parallel Mothers, Luzzu, The Velvet Underground, Red Rocket, Becoming Cousteau, After Yang, Rebel Hearts, Sabaya, Antlers, Cyrano, About Endlessness.
top ten list: 2020
1-Martin Eden 2-Minari 3-The Father 4-Nomadland 5-Mank 6- Kajillionaire 7-Collective 8-Black Bear 9-Vast of Night 10-Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets. Honorable Mention: Lovers Rock, News of the World, Luxor. I Care a Lot, David Byrnes’ American Utopia.
top ten list: 2019
1-The Irishman 2- Marriage Story 3- The Lighthouse 4- Parasite 5- Knives Out 6- Depraved 7- Light From Light 8- One Cut of The Dead 9- The Painted Bird 10- 1917. Honorable Mention: Honeyland, La Llorona, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Sorry We Missed You, Farewell, The.
top ten list: 2018
1-The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 2-Burning 3-Roma 4- Searching For Ingmar Bergman 5-Suspiria 6- They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead 7-The Old Man And The Gun 8-The Other Side of The Wind 9- Shirkers 10-Shoplifers.
Honorable Mention: Leave No Trace/Blaze/Minding The Gap/Won’t You Be My Neighbor?/An Elephant Sitting Still/High Life/The Eyes of Orson Welles/The Wild Pear Tree.
top ten list: 2017
1-Zama 2-Three Billboards 3-The Post 4-Faces Places 5- Dunkirk 6-Phantom Thread 7-Long Strange Trip 8- A Ghost Story 9- On The Beach At Night Alone 10-Okja.
Honorable Mention: The Death of Stalin/The Florida Project/First Reformed/Thoroughbreds/You Were Never Really Here/Lean on Pete/Becoming Cary Grant/One Cut of the Dead.
top ten list: 2016
1-Pasterson 2-Manchester by the Sea 3-La La Land 4-Hell or High Water 5- The Wailing 6-Love & Friendship 7-Neruda 8-The Lovers & The Despot 9 I Am Not Your Negro 10-Little Men.
Honorable Mention: Florence Foster Jenkins/Jackie/The Alchemist Cookbook/Life, Animated/Deepwater Horizon/School Life/Nocturama/The B-List: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography/Silence/I Called Him Morgan/Afterimage.
top ten list: 2015
1-Cartel Land 2-The Assassin 3-Spotlight 4-Sicario 5-Ex Machina 6-Carol 7-Beasts of no Nation 8-Macbeth 9- Steve Jobs 10-Queen of Earth
Honorable Mention: In Jackson Heights/Son of Saul..
top ten list: 2014
1-Boyhood 2-Birdman 3-Theory of Everything 4-Frank 5-The Two Faces of January 6-American Sniper 7-Grand Budapest Hotel 8-Calvary 9- Babadook 10-A Most Wanted Man.
Honorable mention: Interstellar/Mr. Turner/Winter Sleep/Predestination/Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued.
top ten list: 2013
1-Museum Hours 2-Upstream Color 3-Before Midnight 4-Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner 5-Enough Said 6-Blue is the Warmest Color 7-Captain Phillips 8-Gravity 9-Inside Llewyn Davis 10 –Prisoners.
Honorable mention: Her/Nebraska/Crystal Fairy & The Magical Cactus/A Touch of Sin/Siddharth/Only Lovers Left Alive/Stray Dogs.
top ten list: 2012
1-The Master 2-The Day He Arrives 3-Holy Motors 4-The Deep Blue Sea 5-Lincoln 6-Amour 7-Magic Mike 8-Skyfall 9–The Sessions 10- The Hunter.
Honorable mention: Old Dog//Killing Them Softly/Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story/Arbitrage/Marley/Barbara/Tabu/Frances Ha/Night Across the Street/Mud/A Hijacking/Hannah Arendt/The Pervert’s G 3-uide to Ideology/Like Someone in Love.
top ten list: 2011
1-The Tree of Life 2-Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 3-The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo 4-Hugo 5-Pina 6-Bobby Fischer Against The World 7-George Harrison: Living in the Material World 8-We Need To Talk About Kevin 9-Drive 10-Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.
Honorable mention: A Dangerous Method/A Separation/My Reincarnation/Bullhead/Once Upon A Time in Anatolia/The Turin Horse/The Forgiveness of Blood/Neil Young Journeys/Seeking The Monkey King.
top ten list: 2010
1- Poetry 2- Another Year 3- Mother 4- World on a Wire 5- Ajami 6- The Ghost Writer 7- Carlos 8- Winter’s Bone 9- The Social Network 10- Green Zone.
Honorable mention: Certified Copy/Uncle Boonmee/Meek’s Cutoff/The Strange Case of Angelica/Silent Souls/A Screaming Man.
top ten list: 2009
1- A Serious Man 2- The Secret of Kells 3- Police Adjective 4- The Limits of Control 5- Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl 6- Night and Day 7- Anvil! The Story of Anvil! 8- White Material 9- The Hurt Locker 10- Lebanon.
Honorable mention: Tibet in Song/The Woman With The 5 Elephants/The Portuguese Nun.
top ten list: 2008
1- The Headless Woman 2- 35 Shots of Rum 3- The Wrestler 4- A Christmas Tale 5- Let The Right One In 6- Wendy and Lucy 7- Gomorrah 8- Burn After Reading 9- Of Time and The City 10- Hunger.
Honorable mention: Extraordinary Stories/Revanche/Still Walking.
top ten list: 2007
1- Berlin Alexanderplatz 2- Killer of Sheep 3- Eastern Promises 4- No Country For Old Men 5- There Will Be Blood 6- Alexandra 7- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 8- In The Valley Of Elah 9- The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan 10- Taxi to the Dark Side.
Honorable mention: The Secret of the Grain/Yella/Science is Fiction: 23 Films of Jean Painlove/Silent Light/The Man From Earth.
top ten list: 2006
1- Vajra Sky Over Tibet 2- Neil Young: Heart of Gold 3- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu 4- Syndromes and A Century 5- Pan’s Labyrinth 6- The Fountain 7- Children of Men 8- Half Nelson 9- Letters from Iwo Jima 10- Find Me Guilty.
Honorable mention: Bamako/Volver.
top ten list: 2005
1-A History of Violence 2- No Direction Home: Bob Dylan 3- The Sun 4- Three Times 5- Syriana 6- Broken Flowers 7- Who is Bozo Texino? 8- The Squid and the Whale 9- Good Night, and Good Luck 10- Ballet Russes.
Honorable mention: Persona Non Grata/Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream.
top ten list: 2004
1- Distant 2- Million Dollar Baby 3- Before Sunset 4- Tropical Malady 5- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 6- Maria Full of Grace 7- Z Channel 8- Fahrenheit 9/11 9- The Holy Girl 10- Downfall.
Honorable mention: Aaltra.
top ten list: 2003
1- Goodbye Dragon Inn 2- Wheel of Time 3- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … Spring 4- Spider 5- Cafe Lumiere 6- Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion 7- Cowards Bend Their Knees 8- The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill 9- Not on the Lips 10- Elephant.
Honorable mentions: Crimson Gold/The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein/Mystic River/Capturing the Friedmans/Lost In Translation/Northfork /My Architect: A Sons’s Journey/The Nazi Officer’s Wife/The Agronomist/The Company/Memories of Murder/Los Angeles Plays Itself.
top ten list: 2002
1- Russian Ark 2- Talk to Her 3- Time Out 4- Marathon 5- The Son 6- Ten 7- Blissfully Yours 8- Minority Report 9- All or Nothing 10- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
Honorable mentions: The Pianist/The Hours/Late Marriage/Back Against the Wall/Chekov’s Motifs/Ararat/Turning Gate.
top ten list: 2001
1- What Time is it There? 2- The Fast Runner 3- Nijinsky 4- Waking Life 5- Gosford Park 6- The Circle 7- I Stand Alone 8- Innocence 9- Ghost World 10- Ten Hundred Kings. Honorable mentions: A.I/The Pledge/Mulholland Drive//Kandahar.
Honorable mention: I’m Going Home.
top ten list: 2000
1- Beau Travail 2- Yi Yi 3- Va Savoir 4- Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai 5- Cyclo 6- Werckmeister Harmonies 7- Joe Gould’s Secret 8- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 9- Beyond the Clouds 10- La Commune. Honorable mentions: Under the Sand//Taboo/One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich/House of Mirth.
top ten list: 1999
1- Eyes Wide Shut 2- The Wind Will Carry Us 3- Topsy-Turvy 4- My Voyage to Italy 5- Bringing Up the Dead 6- Being John Malkovich 7- The Winslow Boy 8- Limbo 9- Rosetta 10 -Mr. Death. Honorable mentions: Human Resources/ Himalaya/Night Waltz /Ratcatcher/On The Ropes/South.
top ten list: 1998
1-The Celebration 2- Confession 3- The Idiots 4- The Cruise 5- The Thin Red Line 6- Saving Private Ryan 7- Happiness 8- A Simple Plan 9- Affliction 10- Conceiving Ada. Honorable mentions: Besieged/Clockwatchers/The Eel/Windhorse. Honorable mention: Histoires Du Cinema/Khrustalyov, My Car!.
top ten list: 1997
1- Mother and Son 2- Taste of Cherry 3- The River 4- The Sweet Hereafter 5- Character 6- Fast, Cheap & Out of Control 7- Kundun 8- Year of the Horse 9- Robinson in Space 10- The Saltman of Tibet.
Honorable mention: A Humble Life.
top ten list: 1996
1- Lone Star 2- Fargo 3- Secrets & Lies 4- A Moment of Innocence 5- Oriental Elegy 6- La Promesse 7- Breaking the Waves 8- The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus 9- Crash 10- From the Journals of Jean Seberg.
top ten list: 1995
1- Dead Man 2- Before Sunrise 3- Seven 4- Pharaoh’s Army 5- Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider 6- The White Balloon 7- The Beckoning Light 8- The World of Jacques Demy 9- Cyclo 10- The Convent.
Honorable mention: Get Shorty/Beyond the Clouds.
top ten list: 1994
1- The Tibetan Book of the Dead 2- Satantango 3- Vive L’Amour 4- Three Colors: Red 5- Pulp Fiction 6- The Shawshank Redemption 7- Vanya on 42nd Street 8- Quiz Show 9- Queen Margot 10- Bitter Moon.
top ten list: 1993
1- The Last Bolshevik 2-Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould 3- Schindler’s List 4- Matinee 5- The Secret Garden 6- Brother’s Keeper 7- Three Colors: Blue 8- Latcho Drom 9- The Blue Kite 10- Naked.
Honorable mention: Wittgenstein.
top ten list: 1992
1- Rebels of the Neon God 2- One False Move 3- Reservoir Dogs 4- Unforgiven 5- Simple Men 6- Thunderheart 7- Glengarry Glen Ross 8- Olivier, Olivier 9- The Player 10- Orlando.
Honorable mention: The Actress.
top ten list: 1991
1- La Belle Noiseuse 2- Queen of Diamonds 3- Life and Nothing More 4- A Woman’s Tale 5- The Stranger 6- Black Robe 7- Surviving Desire 8- A Brief History of Time 9- Tous Les Matins du Monde 10- Kafka.
Honorable mention: The Double Life of Veronique/A Brighter Summer Day/Zycie Za Zycie.
top ten list: 1990
1- The Second Circle 2- Step Across the Border 3-Close-Up 4- The Freshman 5- Europa Europa 6- The Sheltering Sky 7- An Angel At My Table 8- Life is Sweet 9- Goodfellas 10- Golden Braid.
Honorable mention: Vincent & Theo.
top ten list: 1989
1- The Decalogue 2- Why Has The Bodhi-Dharma Left For The East? 3- Chameleon Street 4- Mystery Train 5- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 6- Lodz Ghetto 7- Sex, Lies and Videotape 8- Drugstore Cowboy 9- The Unbelievable Truth 10- Say Anything.
Honorable mention: War Requiem/The Plot Against Harry/Breaking In.
top ten list: 1988
1- Damnation 2- A Short Film About Killing 3- A Short Film About Love 4- Sonata for Viola 5- Distant Voices, Still Lives 6- Dead Ringers 7- Midnight Run 8- Who Framed Roger Rabbit 9- Gang of Four 10- Vanishing.
Honorable mention: Running on Empty.
top ten list: 1987
1- Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh 2- Yeelen 3-Wings of Desire 4- Rouge 5- The Dead 6- Full Metal Jacket 7- Withnail And I 8- Near Dark 9- Radio Days 10- Candy Mountain.
Honorable mentions: Swimming to Cambodia/Medea/Moscow Elegy/Tin Men.
top ten list: 1986
1- The Sacrifice 2- Horse Thief 3- Man Facing Southeast 4- Manhunter 5- Salvador 6- Sleepwalk 7- Cactus 8- Magdalena Viraga 9- Blue Velvet 10- Signal Seven.
Honorable mentions: Down By Law/Caravaggio/Family Viewing /Wolf at the Door/Parting Glances/The Terrorizers/River’s Edge.
top ten list: 1985
1- Vagabound 2- Bring on the Night 3- After Hours 4- Brazil 5- Ran 6- Time to Live and Time to Die 7- To Live and Die in LA 8- Lost in America 9- The Purple Rose of Cairo 10- Tokyo-Ga .
top ten list: 1984
1- Love Streams 2- Love Unto Death 3- My First Wife 4- Repo Man 5- Almanac of Fall 6- The Times of Harvey Milk 7- Mixed Blood 8- Paris, Texas 9- Stranger Than Paradise 10- Broadway Danny Rose.
Honorable mentions: Class Relations.
top ten list: 1983
1- L’Argent 2- Nostalghia 3- Sans Soleil 4- Man of Flowers 5- Local Hero 6- The Ballad of Narayama 7- Never Cry Wolf 8- Streamers 9- Tender Mercies 10- Rembetiko.
Honorable mention: Rumble Fish.
top ten list: 1982
1- The Draughtsman’s Contract 2- Fanny and Alexander 3- Blade Runner 4- The Verdict 5- Stravinsky at a Border 6- Querelle 7- The King of Comedy 8- Burden of Dreams 9- Q: The Winged Serpent 10- Tales From the Gimli Hospital.
Honorable mentions: Veronika Voss/ Hamsin/Diner/Unforgiven/Losing Ground.
top ten list: 1981
1- Scanners 2- Lola 3- Diva 4- Whoever Says The Truth Shall Die 5- My Dinner with Andre 6- The Loveless 7- Man of Iron 8-Night and Day 9- Das Boot 10- The Outsider. Honorable mention: Lion of the Desert.
top ten list: 1980
1-The Secret of Nikola Tesla 2- The Elephant Man 3- Breaker Morant 4- Raging Bull 5- Melvin and Howard 6- The Falls 7- Popeye 8- The Stunt Man 9- Dressed to Kill 10- The Big Red One.
Honorable mention: Lightning over water/Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers.
top ten list: 1979
1- Stalker 2- The Marriage of Maria Braun 3-Wise Blood 4- Perceval le Gallois 5- Manhattan 6- China Syndrome 7- Zulu Dawn 8- Christ Stopped at Eboli 9- Escape from Alcatraz 10- Quadrophenia.
Honorable mention: The Tempest.
top ten list: 1978
1- In A Year of 13 Moons 2- Perfumed Nightmare 3- Fedora 4- Deer Hunter 5- The Shout 6- Days of Heaven 7- Autumn Sonata 8- Germany in Autumn 9- Les Rendez-Vous D’Anna 10- Gates of Heaven.
Honorable mention: The Last Waltz.
top ten list: 1977
1- Providence 2- Chinatown 3- A Grin Without A Cat 4- The Grateful Dead Movie 5- Iphigenia 6- Bad 7- The Ascent 8- Eraserhead 9- Annie Hall 10- Opening Night.
Honorable mention: Last Chants for a Slow Dance/A Special Day.
top ten list: 1976
1- Taxi Driver 2- F for Fake 3- Family Plot 4- God Told Me To 5- In The Realm of the Senses 6- Kings of the Road 7- The Shootist 8- News From Home 9- The Man Who Fell To Earth 10- Car Wash.
Honorable mention: All The President’s Men.
top ten list: 1975
1- Nashville 2- Jeanne Dielman 3- Barry Lyndon 4- The Mirror 5- The Passenger 6- The Rocky Horror Picture Show 7- Winstanley 8- Mother Kusters Goes To Heaven 9- Adoption 10- Fox and his Friends.
Honorable mention: Moses and Aaron/Black Moon.
top ten list: 1974
1- Edvard Munch 2- Lancelot of the Lake 3- Mahler 4- Martha 5- A Woman Under the Influence 6- Celine and Julie Go Boating 7- The Conversation 8- Effie Briest 9- The Godfather II 10- Janis.
Honorable Mention: The Castle of Sand/The Mouth Agape.
top ten list: 1973
1- Mean Streets 2- The Spirit of the Beehive 3- The Mother and The Whore 4- Don’t Look Now 5- The Long Goodbye 6- It’s Alive 7- Slither 8- Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid 9- The Killing Kind 10- The Friends of Eddie Coyle.
Honorable mention: A River Called Titus/Ganja & Hess/Sisters.
top ten list: 1972
1- Aguirre, The Wrath of God 2- Solaris 3- Two-Lane Blacktop 4- Winter Soldier 5- Fat City 6- The Heartbreak Kid 7- The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant 8- Deliverance 9- Blaise Pascal 10- Siddharta.
Honorable mention: Dreamwood.
top ten list: 1971
1- Love 2- McCabe and Mrs. Miller 3- Get Carter 4- Whity 5- Beware of a Holy Whore 6- The Adversary 7- The Devils 8- The Last Picture Show 9- Walkabout 10- Straw Dogs.
Honorable mention: Two-Lane Blacktop/Wake in Fright/Socrates/Appointment in Bray/Minnie and Moskowitz.
top ten list: 1970
1- Wanda 2- Zabriskie Point 3- Performance 4- Gimme Shelter 5- The Honeymoon Killers 6- The Conformist 7- Claire’s Knee 8- Bridge In The Jungle 9- WR: Mysteries Of The Organism 10- The Red Circle.
Honorable mention: Brewster McCloud/A Swedish Love Story.
top ten list: 1969
1- A Gentle Woman 2- Love is Colder Than Death 3- The Milky Way 4- Kes 5- Model Shop 6- Le Boucher 7- A Touch of Zen 8- Downhill Racer 9- The Gladiators 10- Marlowe.
Honorable mention: Army in the Shadows/My Night at Maud’s/A Time For Dying.
top ten list: 1968
1- 2001: A Space Odyssey 2- Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach 3- Rosemary’s Baby 4- Les Biches 5- Monterrey Pop 6- Night of the Living Dead 7- Pretty Poison 8- The Girl 9- Hour of the Wolf 10- Will Penny.
Honorable mention: All My Good Countrymen/Once Upon The Time In The West/One Night…A Train/Death by Hanging.
top ten list: 1967
1- Mouchette 2- Playtime 3- Don’t Look Back 4- The Young Girls at Rochefort 5- Privilege 6- Le Samourai 7- Beach Red 8- Point Blank 9- The Red and The White 10- La Chinoise.
Honorable mention: The Sorcerers/Weekend/Marketa Lazarova.
top ten list: 1966
1- Andrei Rublev 2- Au Hasard Balthazar 3- Wings 4- The Rise of Louis XIV 5- Persona 6- Masculine Feminine 7- Blowup 8- Hunger 9- The Nun 10- Falling Leaves.
Honorable mention: Black Girl/Kryla (Wings)/The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short.
top ten list: 1965
1- Chimes at Midnight 2- The Battle of Algiers 3-The Fifth Horseman is Fear 4- Loves of a Blonde 5- Major Dundee 6- Repulsion 7- The Roundup 8- The Shop on Main Street 9- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 10- Fists in the Pocket.
Honorable mention: The Moment of Truth/A High Wind in Jamaica.
top ten list: 1964
1- Dr. Strangelove 2- Charulata 3- Gertrud 4- Zulu 5- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 6- The Red Desert 7- Diamonds of the Night 8- Hamlet 9- Pale Flower 10- Scorpio Rising.
Honorable mentions: The Diary of a Chambermaid/Nothing But A Man.
top ten list: 1963
1- The Leopard 2- An Actor’s Revenge 3- Contempt 4- The Haunting 5- Muriel 6- The Silence 7- America, America 8- Charade 9- The Fire Within 10- Hands Over The City.
Honorable mentions: Hud/The House is Black/The Caretaker.
top ten list: 1962
1- An Autumn Afternoon 2- Exterminating Angel 3- La Jetee 4- The Trial of Joan of Arc 5- Confessions of an Opium Eater 6- Eclipse 7- The Grim Reaper 8- Jules and Jim 9- Knife in the Water 10- Ride the High Country.
Honorable mention: Lawrence of Arabia/The Lovers of Teruel/The Trial.
top ten list: 1961
1- Leon Morin, Priest 2- Viridiana 3- Lola 4- Through a Glass Darkly 5- Yojimbo 6- The Exiles 7- Blast of Silence 8- The Hustler 9- Last Year at Marienbad 10- Girl With A Suitcase.
Honorable mentions: Antigone.
top ten list: 1960
1- The Cloud-Capped Star 2- Psycho 3- Late Autumn 4- Black Sunday 5- L’Avventura 6- Peeping Tom 7- Les Bonnes Femmes 8- Macario 9- Jigoku 10- Le Trou.
Honorable mention: The Last Voyage, The Young One.
top ten list: 1959
1- Floating Weeds 2- Eyes Without A Face 3- Pickpocket 4- Good Morning 5- Hiroshima Mon Amour 6- Imitation of Life 7- North by Northwest 8- The Hound of the Baskervilles 9- The World of Apu 10- Shadows.
Honorable mentions: Warlock/Guns, Girls and Gangsters/India: Matri Bhumi.
top ten list: 1958
1- Nazarin 2- Touch of Evil 3-Murder by Contract 4- The Tarnished Angel 5- Equinox Flower 6- A Time To Love And A Time To Die 7- Eroica 8- The Magician 9- Man of the West 10- Vertigo.
Honorable mention: The Music Room/Run Silent Run Deep.
top ten list: 1957
1- Paths of Glory 2- Sweet Smell of Success 3- Wild Strawberries 4- Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? 5- Il Grido 6- Night of the Demon 7- Nights of Cabiria 8- The Incredible Shrinking Man 9- Forty Guns 10- Throne of Blood.
Honorable mention: On The Bowery/White Nights.
top ten list: 1956
1- A Man Escaped 2- Early Spring 3- The Searchers 4- The Killing 5-Forbidden Planet 6- Crazed Fruit 7- Death in the Garden 8- Bigger Than Life 9- Seven Men From Now 10- The Wrong Man.
Honorable mention: Invasion of the Body Snatchers/Rebel in Town.
top ten list: 1955
1- The Night of the Hunter 2- Ordet 3-Bob The Gambler 4- Kiss Me Deadly 5- Wichita 6 Pather Panchali 7- Night and Fog 8- Killer’s Kiss 9- Run For Cover 10- Le Amiche.
Honorable mention: All That Heaven Allows/Floating Clouds.
top ten list: 1954
1- Sansho the Bailiff 2- Track of the Cat 3- The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome 4- La Pointe Courte 5- A Star is Born 6- Seven Samurai 7- Robinson Crusoe 8- Another Sky 9- Hobson’s Choice 10- Johnny Guitar.
Honorable mention: Late Chrysanthemums/Sound of the Mountain.
top ten list: 1953
1- Tokyo Story 2- Voyage in Italy 3- Sawdust and Tinsel 4- A Geisha 5- The Big Heat 6- I Vitelloni 7- Little Fugitive 8- Julius Caesar 9- The Naked Spur 10- Ugetsu.
Honorable mention: The Earrings of Madame De …/Angel Face/Anatahan/The Wages of Fear.
top ten list: 1952
1- Bend of the River 2- Angel Face 3- The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice 4- High Noon 5- Casque D’Or 6- The Lusty Men 7- Singin’ In The Rain 8- Umberto D 9- On Dangerous Ground 10- Life of Oharu.
Honorable mention: The Narrow Margin.
top ten list: 1951
1- Early Summer 2- The Lost One 3- The Man in the White Suit 4- Strangers on a Train 5- The Tall Target 6- The Thing From Another World 7- The Steel Helmet 8- The Tales of Hoffmann 9- Thunder on the Hill 10- The Red Badge of Courage.
Honorable mention: The River.
top ten list: 1950
1- Diary of a Country Priest 2- D.O.A. 3- Los Olvidados 4- Sunset Boulevard 5- Story of a Love Affair 6- Try and Get Me 7- Rashomon 8- Orpheus 9- In A Lonely Place 10- The Flowers of St. Francis.
Honorable mention: The Strange Ones/The Gunslinger.
top ten list: 1949
1- Late Spring 2- The Third Man 3- The Heiress 4- Intruder in the Dust 5- Kind Hearts and Coronets 6- On The Town 7- Adam’s Rib 8- The Reckless Moment 9- Caught 10- The Set-Up.
Honorable mention: The Queen of Spades/The Walking Hills.
top ten list: 1948
1- The Lady From Shanghai 2- The Red Shoes 3- The Big Clock 4- The Fallen Idol 5- Force of Evil 6- Hamlet 7- He Walked By Night 8- Red River 9- The Winslow Boy 10- The Last Stage.
Honorable mention: Letter from an Unknown Woman.
top ten list: 1947
1- Black Narcissus 2- Out of The Past 3- Brighton Rock 4- The Silence of the Sea 5- The Record of a Tenement Gentleman 6- Jenny Lamour 7- Monsieur Verdoux 8- Nightmare Alley 9- Mine Own Executioner 10- Odd Man Out.
top ten list: 1946
1- The Big Sleep 2- The Postman Always Rings Twice 3- The Spiral Staircase 4- Stairway to Heaven 5- Specter of the Rose 6- Notorious 7- My Darling Clementine 8- The Dark Corner 9- The Best Years of Our Lives 10- Canyon Passage.
Honorable mention: Under the Bridges.
top ten list: 1945
1- I Know Where I’m Going 2- The Picture of Dorian Gray 3- A Walk in the Sun 4- The Battle of San Pietro 5- The Story of G.I. Joe 6- They Were Expendable 7- The Southerner 8- Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne 9- Detour 10- Cornered.
Honorable mention: Children of Paradise.
top ten list: 1944
1-Double Indemnity 2- Meet Me in St. Louis 3- A Canterbury Tale 4- The Curse of the Cat People 5- Hail The Conquering Hero 6- Laura 7- The Lodger 8- The Miracle At Morgan’s Creek 9- To Have and Have Not 10- Bluebeard.
Honorable mention: The Children Are Watching/Christmas Holiday.
top ten list: 1943
1- Day of Wrath 2- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 3- The Leopard Man 4- I Walked With A Zombie 5- The Ox-Bow Incident 6- Shadow of a Doubt 7- Le Corbeau 8- Hangman Also Die! 9- Ossessive 10- Lassie Come Home.
Honorable mention: Five Graves to Cairo/Stormy Weather.
top ten list: 1942
1- Casablanca 2- There Was A Father 3- The Magnificent Ambersons 4- Cat People 5- The Palm Beach Story 6- To Be or Not To Be 7- I Married A Witch 8- Kid Glove Killer 9- The Man Who Came To Dinner 10- One of Our Aircraft is Missing.
Honorable mention: Went That Day Well?.
top ten list: 1941
1- Citizen Kane 2- Maltese Falcon 3- Frankenstein 4- The Lady Eve 5- The Shanghai Gesture 6- Ornamental Hairpin 7- The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family 8- The Wolfman 9- The Strawberry Blonde 10- The Little Foxes.
Honorable mention: Dumbo.
top ten list: 1940
1- His Girl Friday 2- Pinocchio 3- The Grapes of Wrath 4- The Letter 5- The Mark of Zorro 6- British Intelligence 7- The Thief of Bagdad 8- Rebecca 9- Christmas in July 10- Northwest Passage.
Honorable mention: The Shop Around the Corner.
top ten list: 1939
1- Rules of the Game 2- Gone With The Wind 3- Stagecoach 4- The Light Ahead 5- Gunga Din 6- The Hunchback of Notre Dame 7- Spy in Black 8- Young Mr. Lincoln 9- Le Jour Se Leve 10- The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Honorable mention: The Wizard of Oz/Wuthering Heights/The Story of the last Chrysanthemums/The Housekeeper’s Daughter.
top ten list: 1938
1- Bringing Up Baby 2- Holiday 3- The Lady Vanishes 4- The Human Beast 5- Drums 6- Adventures of Robin Hood 7- Gold is Where You Find It 8- A Christmas Carol 9- La Marseillaise 10- The Masseurs and a Woman.
top ten list: 1937
1- The Dybbuk 2- The Grand Illusion 3- Stage Door 4- Make Way For Tomorrow 5- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 6- What Did The Lady Forget? 7- You Only Live Once 8- The Great Garrick 9- Young and Innocent 10- Edge of the World.
Honorable mention: Humanity & Paper Balloons.
top ten list: 1936
1- The Only Son 2- Osaka Elegy 3- Showboat 4- Libeled Lady 5- Rembrandt 6- Swingtime 7- Abel Gance’s Beethoven 8- The Prisoner of Shark Island 9- The Crime of Monsieur Lange 10- Yiddle with his Fiddle.
Honorable mention: A Day in the Country/By the Bluest of Seas.
top ten list: 1935
1- The Bride of Frankenstein 2- The 39 Steps 3- The Little Colonel 4- The Mutiny on the Bounty 5- Sylvia Scarlett 6- An Inn in Tokyo 7- The Gold Diggers 8- Mad Love 9- The Whole Town’s Talking 10- Top Hat.
top ten list: 1934
1- L’Atalante 2- The Scarlet Empress 3- A Story of Floating Weeds 4- Black Cat 5- Imitation of Life 6- The Third Man 7- Three Songs About Lenin 8- Twentieth Century 9- It’s A Gift 10- The Thin Man.
top ten list: 1933
1- Duck Soup 2- The Invisible Man 3- Passing Fancy 4- Sons of the Desert 5- Zoo in Budapest 6- Gold Diggers of 1933 7- Counsellor at Law 8- Mystery of the Wax Museum 9- Emperor Jones 10- King Kong.
top ten list: 1932
1- The Old Dark House 2- Love Me Tonight 3- Uncle Moses 4- Shanghai Express 5- I Was Born, But … 6- I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang 7- The Mummy 8- Trouble in Paradise 9- The Penguin Pool Murder 10- Freaks/Island of Lost Souls.
top ten list: 1931
1- M 2- City Lights 3- Last Flight 4- Kameradschaft 5- Le Million 6- Waterloo Bridge 7- Tokyo Chorus 8- Safe in Hell 9- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 10- Little Caesar. Honorable mention: Tabu/A Nous La Liberte/Drums of Jeopardy.
top ten list: 1930
1- The Blood of a Poet 2- All Quiet on the Western Front 3- People on Sunday 4- Our Daily Bread 5- The Blue Angel 6- The Silent Enemy 7- Applause 8- Morocco 9- Animal Crackers 10- The Bishop Murder Case.
Honorable mention: Safe in Hell/Earth/L’Age D’Or.
top ten list: silents from 1929-1925
1- The General 2- The Passion of Joan of Arc 3- Greed 4- Sunrise 5- The Crowd 6- Un Chien Andalou 7- Battleship Potemkin 8- Faust 9- Metropolis 10- Pandora’s Box.
Honorable mention: The Last Command/The Man Who Laughs/Kurutta Ippeiji.
top ten list: silents from 1924-1902
1- Birth of a Nation 2- Nosferatu 3- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 4- Intolerance 5- Les Vampires 6- The Navigator 7- Sherlock Jr. 8- He Who Gets Slapped 9- Our Hospitality 10- A Trip to the Moon.
Honorable mention: Peter Pan/Lonesome/The Loves of Pharaoh/Napoleon.