This Top 10 project began as a rolling engagement on the Slant Magazine blog in late 2005 and, no doubt, exposed me as a list queen. In reality, I'm a traffic whore, and given the response the project welcomed, I'd like to keep some of that momentum going by collecting the lists on one page, which not only saves me a lot of editing hassle but also prevents the reader from having to sort through several month's worth of blog entries to track any revisions I may have made to individual lists. All films prior to 2001—the year I started ranking films on Slant based on their U.S. theatrical release dates—will go by their IMDB year. Titles in my Honorable Mention sections have been limited to 10, and the titles listed under Blind Spots are just that: films that have eluded me over the years for whatever reason. This latter section exists, without embarrassment, for two reasons: perspective (for you) and incentive (for me). Crazy as this may sound, I've been seeing close to 800 films a year since 2000; since 60% of those are oldies, these lists are bound to change rather regularly. The latest 10 or so additions made to these lists will be highlighted in gray (and documented in the notes section below). Any titles bumped from the Honorable Mention section to make room for a film, or any titles that are no longer "blind" but fail to make the list for their respective year, will disappear from this page without fanfare. I reserve the right to change any of these lists whenever I want, including lists from 2001 to the present. (Also look for lists from the 1910s and the 1920s to be broken up into individual years in the near future.) If you find errors on this page, feel free to let me know at ed@slantmagazine.com or make a comment here, where you can also shoot the shit.

Latest Additions: The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli, 1952), Our Modern Maidens (Jack Conway, 1929), Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller, 1961), The Red Kimona (Walter Lang and Dorothy Davenport Reid, 1925), Midnight (Mitchell Leisen, 1939), The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973), Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964), Secrets of the Soul (G.W. Pabst, 1926), Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle, 1974), and Sorcerer (William Friedkin, 1977)

1910s:
1. Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915)
2. Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
3. Victory (Maurice Tourneur, 1919)
4. The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915)
5. Sir Arne's Treasure (Marutiz Stiller, 1919)
6. The Outlaw and His Wife (Victor Sjöström, 1918)
7. J'Accuse! (Abel Gance, 1919)
8. The Blue Bird (Maurice Tourneur, 1918)
9. Der Golem (Henrik Galeen and Paul Wegener, 1915)
10. Blind Husbands (Eric von Stroheim, 1919)

Honorable Mention: Snow White (J. Searle Dawley, 1916), Fantomas (Louis Feuillade, 1913), The Eyes of the Mummy (Ernst Lubitsch, 1918), Praesidenten (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1919), Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone, 1914), Hell's Hinges (Charles Swickard, 1916), The Delicious Little Devil (Robert Z. Leonard, 1919), Intolerance (D.W. Griffith, 1916), Carmen (Ernst Lubitsch, 1918), and The Oyster Princess (Ernst Lubitsch)

Blind Spots: The Student of Prague (Stellan Rye and Paul Wegener), The Last Days of Pompeii (Mario Caserini and Eleuterio Rodolfi), Traffic in Souls (George Loane Tucker), Margaret Day (Victor Sjöström), Twilight of a Woman's Soul (Yevgeni Bauer), Tillie's Punctured Romance (Mack Sennett), Judith of Bethulia (D.W. Griffith), Thou Shalt Not Kill (D.W. Griffith), A Florida Enchantment (Sidney Drew), The Mysterious X (Benjamin Christensen), In the Land of the Headhunters (Edward S. Curtis), Always Tell Your Wife (Leedham Bantock), The Wishing Ring (Maurice Tourneur), Cinderella (James Kirkwood), War Be Damned (Alfred Machin), The Cheat (Cecil B. DeMille), The Nigger (Edgar Lewis), Regeneration (Raoul Walsh), A Fool There Was (Frank Powell), Alias Jimmy Valentine (Maurice Tourneur), After Death (Yevgeni Bauer), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Stuart Paton), Judex (Louis Feuillade), A Life for a Life (Yevgeni Bauer), Where Are My Children? (Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber), Civilization (Reginald Barker, Thomas H. Ince, and Raymond B. West), Gretchen the Greehorn (Chester M. Franklin and Sidney Franklin), Blind Justice (Benjamin Christensen), The Merry Jail (Ernst Lubitsch), Straight Shooting (John Ford), The Fighting Gringo (John Ford), The Secret Man (John Ford), A Marked Man (John Ford), Bucking Broadway (John Ford), Joan the Woman (Cecil B. DeMille), The Dying Swan (Yevgeni Bauer), The Little Princess (Marshall Neilan), The Poor Little Rich Girl (Maurice Tourneur), Tillie Wakes Up (Harry Davenport), A Man There Was (Victor Sjöström), Tom Sawyer (William Desmond Taylor), The Little American (Cecil B. DeMille and Joseph Levering), Shoulder Arms (Charles Chaplin), Stella Maris (Marshall Neilan), Hearts of the World (D.W. Griffith), Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (Marshall Neilan), Mickey (F. Richard Jones and James Young), Tarzan of the Apes (Scott Sidney), Shifting Sands (Albert Parker), Marriage a la Mode (Mauritz Stiller), South (Frank Hurley), Daddy Long Legs (Marshall Neilan), The Doll (Ernst Lubitsch), Back to God's Country (David Hartford), True Heart Susie (D.W. Griffith), Different From the Others (Richard Oswald), Eerie Tales (Richard Oswald), The Delicious Little Devil (Robert Z. Leonard), The Sentimental Bloke (Raymond Longford), When the Clouds Roll By (Victor Fleming and Theodore Reed), Harakiri (Fritz Lang), A Romance of Happy Valley (D.W. Griffith), Meyer From Berlin (Ernst Lubitsch), The Girl Who Stayed at Home (D.W. Griffith), The Greatest Question (D.W. Griffith), The Mother and the Law (D.W. Griffith), Madame DuBarry (Ernst Lubitsch), Don't Change Your Husband (Cecil B. DeMille), and Male and Female (Cecil B. DeMille)

1921:
1. The Phantom Chariot (Victor Sjöström)
2. Destiny (Fritz Lang)
3. Seven Years Bad Luck (Max Linder)
4. Orphans of the Storm (D.W. Griffith)
4. The Kid (Charles Chaplin)
5. The Ace of Hearts (Wallace Worsley)
6. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Rex Ignram)
7. Leaves from Satan's Book (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
8. A Sailor-Made Man (Fred C. Newmeyer)
9. Johan (Mauritz Stiller)

Honorable Mention: Tol'able David (Henry King), Camille (Ray C. Smallwood), The Haunted Castle (F.W. Murnau), Janosik (Jaroslav Siakel), Little Lord Fauntleroy (Alfred E. Green and Jack Pickford), The Wildcat (Ernst Lubitsch), and The Sheik (George Melford)

Blind Spots: The Affairs of Anatol (Cecil B. DeMille), The Three Musketeers (Fred Niblo), The Indian Tomb (Joe May), The Love Light (Frances Marion), The Conquering Power (Rex Ingram), My Boy (Albert Austin and Victor Heerman), Eldorado (Marcel L'Herbier), Leap Year (Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and James Cruze), The Blot (Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber), The Dark Road (F.W. Murnau), Hamlet (Sven Gade and Heinz Schall), Too Wise Wives (Lois Weber), Backstairs (Leopold Jessner and Paul Leni), Love Never Dies (King Vidor), The Adventures of Tarzan (Robert F. Hill and Scott Sidney), Dream Street (D.W. Griffith), The Nut (Theodore Reed), Miss Lulu Bett (William C. de Mille), Shattered (Lupu Pick), Jackie (John Ford), Peck's Bad Boy (Sam Wood), Through the Back Door (Alfred E. Green and Jack Pickford), La Terre (André Antoine), Appearances (Donald Crisp), Dangerous Lies (Paul Powell), and The Bonnie Brier Bush (Donald Crisp)

1923:
1. Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
2. The Faithful Heart (Jean Epstein)
3. Crime and Punishment (Robert Wiene)
4. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wallace Worsley)
5. The Pilgrim (Charles Chaplin)
6. Why Worry? (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
7. Souls for Sale (Rupert Hughes)
8. Our Hospitality (John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton)
9. A Woman of Paris (Charles Chaplin)
10. Three Ages (Buster Keaton)

Honorable Mention: The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille), Warning Shadows (Arthur Robison), and White Tiger (Tod Browning)

Blind Spots: Salome (Charles Bryant), The Extra Girl (F. Richard Jones), Scaramouche (Rex Ingram), Souls for Sale (Rupert Hughes), Little Old New York (Sidney Olcott), The Covered Wagon (James Cruze), The Net (J. Gordon Edwards), The Shock (Lambert Hillyer), Fire on Board (Victor Sjöström), La Roue (Abel Gance), Merry-Go-Round (Rupert Julian), The White Rose (D.W. Griffith), The White Sister (Henry King), The Treasure (G.W. Pabst), Adam's Rib (Cecil B. DeMille), The Red Inn (Jean Epstein), Woman to Woman (Graham Cutts), Anna Christie (John Griffith Wray), and Gunnar Hede's Saga (Mauritz Stiller)

1925:
1. Go West (Buster Keaton)
2. Battleship Potemkin (Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein)
3. Strike (Sergei Eisenstein)
4. The Freshman (Fred C. Newmayer and Sam Taylor)
5. Lazybones (Frank Borzage)
6. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)
7. The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)
8. Joyless Street (G.W. Pabst)
9. Sally of the Sawdust (D.W. Griffith)
10. The Unholy Three (Tod Browning)

Honorable Mention: The Merry Widow (Erich Von Stroheim), Whirlpool of Fate (Jean Renoir), Lady Windermere's Fan (Ernst Lubitsch), The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian), Master of the House (Carl Theodor Dreyer), The Lost World (Harry O. Hoyt), The Pleasure Garden (Alfred Hitchcock), The Plastic Age (Wesley Ruggles), Wizard of Oz (Larry Semon), and The Red Kimona (Walter Lang and Dorothy Davenport Reid)

Blind Spots: Grass (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack), Tumbleweeds (King Baggot), Verité (Ewald André Dupont), Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Fred Niblo), The Lost World (Harry O. Hoyt), The Eagle (Clarence Brown), The Rag Man (Edward F. Cline), The Monster (Roland West), Braveheart (Alan Hale), The Vanishing American (George B. Seitz), Cirano di Bergerac (Augusto Genina), Zander the Great (George W. Hill), The Big Parade (King Vidor), and Smouldering Fires (Clarence Brown)

1927:
1. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
2. Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage)
3. Hindle Wakes (Maurice Elvey)
4. The Unknown (Tod Browning)
5. The General (Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton)
6. October (Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein)
7. The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttmann)
9. The Love of Jeanne Ney (G.W. Pabst)
10. Napoleon (Abel Gance)

Honorable Mention: Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack), Metropolis (Fritz Lang), College (James W. Horne), Downhill (Alfred Hitchcock), The Kid Brother (J.A. Howe and Ted Wilde), The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni), The Ring (Alfred Hitchcock), The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch), The Beloved Rogue (Alan Crosland), and The Girl With the Hat Box (Boris Barnet)

Blind Spots: The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland), It (Clarence G. Badger), The King of Kings (Cecil B. DeMille), My Best Girl (Sam Taylor), The End of St. Petersberg (Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller), Love (Edmund Goulding), Underworld (Josef von Sternberg), Two Arabian Nights (Lewis Milestone), and The Love of Sunya (Albert Parker), Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harry A. Pollard)

1929:
1. The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
2. Diary of a Lost Girl (G.W. Pabst)
3. Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst)
4. The General Line (Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein)
5. Asphalt (Joe May)
6. Cocoanuts (Robert Florey and Joseph Stantley)
7. Piccadilly (E.W. Dupont)
8. The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch)
9. Spite Marriage (Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton)
9. Blackmail (Alred Hitchcock)

Honorable Mention: Queen Kelly (Erich von Stroheim), Hallelujah (King Vidor), Applause (Rouben Mamoulian), The Woman in the Moon (Fritz Lang), The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (Charles Reisner), The Manxman (Alfred Hitchcock), The Great Gabbo (James Cruze and Erich von Stroheim), and Our Modern Maidens (Jack Conway).

Blind Spots: Dans La Nuit (Charles Vanel), Eternal Love (Ernst Lubitsch), Disraeli (Alfred E. Green), The Iron Mask (Allan Dwan), The Broadway Melody (Harry Beaumont), The Kiss (Jacques Feyder), The Virginian (Victor Fleming), Bulldog Drummond (F. Richard Jones), White Hell of Pitz Palu (Arnold Fanck and G.W. Pabst), The Wild Party (Dorothy Arzner), Dynamite (Cecil B. DeMille), The Mysterious Island (Lucien Hubbard, Benjamin Christensen, and Maurice Tourneur), Their Own Desire (E. Mason Hopper), The Thirteenth Chair (Tod Browning), Wild Orchids (Sidney Franklin), Welcome Danger (Clyde Bruckman and Malcolm St. Clair), Untamed (Jack Conway), The Single Standard (John S. Robertson), Rio Rita (Luther Reed), and The Canary Murder Case (Malcolm St. Clair and Frank Tuttle)

1931:
1. M (Fritz Lang)
2. Stolen Heaven (George Abbott)
3. Tabu (F.W. Murnau)
4. The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)
5. Frankenstein (James Whale)
6. Le Million (Rene Clair)
7. The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman)
8. Dishonored (Josef Von Sternberg)
9. Kameradschaft (G.W. Pabst)
10. Man of the World (Edward Goodman and Richard Wallace)

Honorable Mention: The Last Flight (William Dieterle), La Chienne (Jean Renoir), The Front Page (Lewis Milestone), Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod), This Modern Age (Nick Grinde), À Nous la Liberté (Rene Clair), Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy), The Champ (King Vidor), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian), and City Lights (Charles Chaplin)

Blind Spots: Street Scene (King Vidor), Tokyo Chorus (Yasujiro Ozu), The Miracle Woman (Frank Capra), Hippolyt, the Lackey (Steve Sekely), Limite (Mario Peixoto), Girls in Uniform (Leontine Sagan), Marius (Alexander Korda and Marcel Pagnol), The Black Camel (Hamilton MacFadden), Emil and the Detectives (Gerhard Lamprecht), Erik Charell (Congress Dances), Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra), Laugh and Get Rich (Gregory La Cava), Safe in Hell (William A. Wellman), Other Men's Women (William A. Wellman), Berlin Alexanderplatz (Piel Jutzi), and Girls About Town (George Cukor)

1933:
1. Hallelujah I'm a Bum (Lewis Milestone)
2. Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
3. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
4. Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)
5. Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch)
6. Sons of the Desert (William A. Seiter)
7. The Invisible Man (James Whale)
8. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedssack)
9. Secrets (Frank Borzage)
10. Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy)

Honorable Mention: 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon), Ever in My Heart (Archie Mayo), Passing Fancy (Yasujiro Ozu), Lady for a Day (Frank Capra), The Devil's Brother (Hal Roach and Charley Rogers), Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian), Baby Face (Alfred E. Green), I'm No Angel (Wesley Ruggles), Christopher Strong (Dorothy Arzner), and Counselor at Law (William Wyler)

Blind Spots: Man's Castle (Frank Borzage), The Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz), Picture Snatcher (Lloyd Bacon), Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton), Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon), The Good Companions (Victor Saville), Liebelei (Max Ophuls), Only Yesterday (John Stahl), The Silver Cord (John Cromwell), The Stranger's Return (King Vidor), Our Betters (George Cukor), Hello, Sister (Eric Von Stroheim), Bed of Roses (Gregory La Cava), Heroes for Sale (William A. Wellman), Apart from You (Mikio Naruse), The Water Magician (Kenji Mizoguchi), and Wild Boys of the Road (William A. Wellman)

1935:
1. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
2. The Informer (John Ford)
3. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. A Night at the Opera (Edmund Goulding and Sam Wood)
5. Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor)
6. Roberta (William A. Seiter)
7. The Devil is a Woman (Josef Von Sternberg)
8. Peter Ibbetson (Henry Hathaway)
9. Toni (Jean Renoir)
10. The Good Fairy (William Wyler)

Honorable Mention: Top Hat (Mark Sandrich), Mad Love (Karl Freund), Goin' to Town (Alexander Hall), Hands Across the Table (Mitchell Leisen), La Bandera (Julien Duvivier), Anna Karenina (Clarence Brown), The Story of Louis Pasteur (William Dieterle), Man on the Flying Trapeze (Clyde Bruckman and W.C. Fields), Alice Adams (George Stevens), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Dieterle and Max Reinhardt)

Blind Spots: The Raven (Lew Landers), Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey), Four Hours to Kill! (Mitchell Leisen), 'G' Men (William Keighley), The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Henry Hathaway), Les Miserables (Richard Boleslawski), Lucrezia Borgia (Abel Gance), The Ghost Goes West (René Clair), The Phantom Light (Michael Powell), Ah, Wilderness! (Clarence Brown), Carnival in Flanders (Jacques Feyder), The Gold Diggers of 1935 (Busby Berkeley), No More Ladies (Edward H. Griffith and George Cukor), The Whole Town's Talking (John Ford), Naughty Marietta (Robert Z. Leonard and W.S. Van Dyke), The Black Room (Roy William Neill), and Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd)

1937:
1. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
2. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
3. You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
4. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey)
5. Stage Door (Gregory La Cava)
6. Mannequin (Frank Borzage)
7. Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier)
8. Young and Innocent (Alfred Hitchcock)
9. Stella Dallas (King Vidor)
10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Lots of People)

Honorable Mention: History Is Made at Night (Frank Borzage), The Last of Mrs. Cheney (Richard Boleslawski), Topper (Norman Z. McLeod), Nothing Sacred (William A. Wellman), Way Out West (James W. Horne), A Star is Born (William A. Wellman), It's Love I'm After (Archie Mayo), Shall We Dance (Mark Sandrich), The Bride Wore Red (Dorothy Arzner), and A Day at the Races (Sam Wood)

Blind Spots: Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka), Dick Tracy (Alan James and Ray Taylor), Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen), Bizarre, Bizarre (Marcel Carné), Life Dances On (Julien Duvivier), Oh, Mr. Porter! (Marcel Varnel), Angel (Ernst Lubitsch), Swing High, Swing Low (Mitchell Leisen), Regain (Marcel Pagnol), To New Shores (Douglas Sirk), They Won't Forget (Mervyn LeRoy), Confession (Joe May), The Prisoner of Zenda (John Cromwell), Wee Willie Winkie (John Ford), Captains Courageous (Victor Fleming), and The Hurricane (John Ford)

1939:
1. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
2. The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)
3. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi)
4. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
5. Stagecoach (John Ford)
6. The Women (George Cukor)
7. Daybreak (Marcel Carne)
8. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
9. Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming)
10. Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding)

Honorable Mention: Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford), Midnight (Mitchell Leisen), The Old Maid (Edmund Goulding), Each Dawn I Die (William Keighley), Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch), Love Affair (Leo McCarey), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra), Jamaica Inn (Alfred Hitchcock), and Destry Rides Again (George Marshall)

Blind Spots: The Four Feathers (Zoltan Korda), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Alfred L. Werker), Beau Geste (William Wellman), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle), and The Spy in Black (Michael Powell)

1941:
1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
2. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
3. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks)
4. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford)
5. Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen)
6. The Little Foxes (William Wyler)
7. Hellzapoppin (H.C. Potter)
8. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
9. Man Hunt (Fritz Lang)
10. 49th Parallel (Michael Powell)

Honorable Mention: The Maltese Falcon (John Huston), Sergeant York (Howard Hawks), Hold Back the Dawn (Mitchell Leisen), High Sierra (Raoul Walsh), The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi), Meet John Doe (Frank Capra), Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock), The Shanghai Gesture (Josef Von Sternberg), I Wake Up Screaming (H. Bruce Humberstone), and The Flame of New Orleans (Rene Clair)

Blind Spots: Swamp Water (Jean Renoir), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Alexander Hall), H.M Pulham, Esq. (King Vidor), Dead Men Tell (Harry Lachman), A Woman's Face (George Cukor), The Sea Wolf (Michael Curtiz), Smilin' Through (Frank Borzage), Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (Edward F. Cline), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Victor Fleming), Manpower (Raoul Walsh), Adventures of Captain Marvel (John English and William Witney), It Started With Eve (Henry Koster), and The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle)

1943:
1. The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)
2. Hangmen Also Die (Fritz Lang)
3. The Ow-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)
4. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
6. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson)
7. Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
8. Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
9. Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
10. Sahara (Zoltan Korda)

Honorable Mention: Ghost Ship (Mark Robson), Stormy Weather (Andrew L. Stone), Cabin in the Sky (Vincente Minnelli), Old Acquaintance (Vincent Sherman), Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch), So Proudly We Hail! (Mark Sandrich), The More the Merrier (George Stevens), Guadalcanal Diary (Lewis Seiler), Air Force (Howard Hawks), and Fires Were Started (Humphrey Jennings)

Blind Spots: This Land is Mine (Jean Renoir), Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder), Mr. Lucky (H.C. Potter), Edge of Darkness (Lewis Milestone), Girl Crazy (Norman Taurog and Busby Berkeley), Hitler's Children (Edward Dmytryk), The Desperados (Charles Vidor), The Gang's All Here (Busby Berkeley), The Hard Way (Vincent Sherman), A Night to Remember (Richard Wallace), The Human Comedy (Clarence Brown), Thank Your Lucky Stars (David Butler), and Munchhausen (Josef von Báky)

1945:
1. Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang)
2. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
3. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné)
4. The Southerner (Jean Renoir)
5. Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl)
6. The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang)
7. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson)
8. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer)
9. Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
10. Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)

Honorable Mention: My Name is Julia (Joseph H. Lewis), I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Albert Lewin, 1945), Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcani, Charles Crichton, Basi Dearden, and Robert Hamer), Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder), Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger), The Enchanted Cottage (John Cromwell), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Elia Kazan), and The House on 92nd Street (Henry Hathaway)

Blind Spots: And Then There Were None (René Clair), Love Letters (William Dieterle), The White Gorilla (H.L. Fraser), They Were Expendable (John Ford), Murder, He Says (George Marshall), Wonder Man (H. Bruce Humberstone), Blithe Spirit (David Lean), A Walk in the Sun (Lewis Milestone), The Story of G.I. Joe (William A. Wellman), The Corn is Green (Irving Rapper), Objective, Burma! (Raoul Walsh)

1947:
1. Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
2. Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
3. Quai des Orfevres (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
4. The Record of a Tenament Gentleman (Yasujiro Ozu)
5. Odd Man Out (Carol Reed)
6. The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles)
7. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
8. Pursued (Raoul Walsh)
9. Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding)
10. Brute Force (Jules Dassin)

Honorable Mention: Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway), Possessed (Curtis Bernhardt), Railroaded! (Anthony Mann), They Made Me a Fugitive (Alberto Cavalcanti), Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk), Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan), Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (John Rawlins), The Paradine Case (Alfred Hitchcock), Born to Kill (Robert Wise), and Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)

Blind Spots: The Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir), Mad Wednesday (Preston Sturges), The Fugitive (John Ford), The Red House (Delmer Daves), Desperate (Anthony Mann), Lured (Douglas Sirk), The Unsuspected (Michael Curtiz), Pitfall! (Andre de Toth), Boomerang! (Elia Kazan), Brighton Rock (John Boulting), Angel and the Badman (James Edward Grant), A Double Life (George Cukor), The Bishop's Wife (Henry Koster), The Farmer's Daughter (H.C. Potter), Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (Stuart Heisler), and Ride the Pink Horse (Robert Montgomery)

1949:
1. Beyond the Forest (King Vidor)
2. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
3. White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
4. The Great Madcap (Luis Buñuel)
5. Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin)
6. Holiday (Jacque Tati)
7. The Reckless Moment (Max Ophüls)
8. Caught (Max Ophüls)
9. Whirlpool (Otto Preminger)
10. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)

Honorable Mention: Reign of Terror (Anthony Mann), On the Town (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly), Adam's Rib (George Cukor), I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks), The Big Steal (Don Siegel), Whisky Galore! (Alexander Mackendrick), Bitter Rice (Giuseppe De Santis), House of Strangers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Border Incident (Anthony Mann), and Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis)

Blind Spots: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford), Le Silence de la Mer (Jean-Pierre Melville), The Queen of Spades (Thorold Dickinson), Champion (Mark Robson), Come to the Stable (Henry Koster), The Secret Garden (Fred M. Wilcox), Home of the Brave (Mark Robson), Yellow Sky (William A. Wellman), Madame Bovary (Vincente Minnelli), Colorado Territory (Raoul Walsh), Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak), The Small Back Room (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), Intruder in the Dust (Clarence Brown), The Set-Up (Robert Wise), The Window (Ted Tetzlaff), The Hasty Heart (Vincent Sherman), Battleground (William A. Wellman), and Twelve O'Clock High (Henry King)

1951:
1. The Steel Helmet (Samuel Fuller)
2. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
3. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
4. Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De Sica)
5. The Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
6. The Tall Target (Anthony Mann)
7. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton)
9. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
10. A Place in the Sun (George Stevens)

Honorable Mention: Summer Interlude (Ingmar Bergman), The River (Jean Renoir), The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick), Susana (Luis Buñuel), Fixed Bayonets! (Samuel Fuller), Alice in Wonderland (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske), Hard, Fast and Beautiful (Ida Lupino), Circle of Danger (Jacques Tourneur), and He Ran All the Way (John Berry)

Blind Spots: The Prowler (Joseph Losey), Detective Story (William Wyler), His Kind of Woman (John Farrow), The Red Badge of Courage (John Huston), and Royal Wedding (Stanley Donen)

1953:
1. Él (Luis Buñuel)
2. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3. I Confess (Alred Hitchcock)
4. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
5. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
6. Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
7. Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)
8. Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
9. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
10. It Came From Outer Space (Jack Arnold)

Honorable Mention: The Bigamist (Ida Lupino), The Moon is Blue (Otto Preminger, Madame de... (Max Ophüls), The Brute (Luis Buñuel), The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino), The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann), The Glass Web (Jack Arnold), The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks), and A Geisha (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Blind Spots: The Cruel Sea (Charles Frend), I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini), The Actress (George Cukor), Genevieve (Henry Cornelius), Kiss Me Kate (George Sidney), Beat the Devil (John Huston), Invaders From Mars (William Cameron Menzies), Take Me to Town (Douglas Sirk), All I Desire (Douglas Sirk), Little Fugitive (Ray Ashley, Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin)

1955:
1. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
2. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Buñuel)
3. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
4. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
5. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
6. Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
7. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
8. Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse)
9. Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
10. Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles)

Honorable Mention: Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray), The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis), Lola Montes (Max Ophüls), Rififi (Jules Dassin), Bob le Fambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville), Summertime (David Lean), The Phenix City Story (Phil Carlson), Dreams (Ingmar Bergman), House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller), and The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich)

Blind Spots: The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger), Captain Lightfoot (Douglas Sirk), Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni), Les Grandes Manoeuvres (Rene Clair), The Indian Fighter (Andre de Toth), Murder is My Beat (Edgar G. Ulmer), Tales of the Taira Clan (Kenji Mizoguchi), Marty (Delbert Mann), Man Without a Star (King Vidor), Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin), Oklahoma! (Fred Zinnemann), Picnic (Joshua Logan), We're No Angels (Michael Curtiz), My Sister Eileen (Richard Quine), Stella (Michael Cacoyannis), It's Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly), The African Lion (James Algar), Marcelino Pan y Vino (Ladislao Vajda), The Bridges at Toko-Ri (Mark Robson), To Hell and Back (Jesse Hibbs), The Rose Tattoo (Daniel Mann), Richard III (Laurence Olivier), The Long Gray Line (John Ford), and Run for Cover (Nicholas Ray)

1957:
1. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
2. The Cranes are Flying (Mikheil Kalatozishvili)
3. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
4. Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin)
5. Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
6. Funny Face (Stanley Donen)
7. Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
8. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
9. Curse of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)
10. Kanal (Andrzej Wajda)

Honorable Mention: La Notte Bianche (Luchino Visconti), The Pajama Game (George Abbott and Stanley Donen), Bitter Victory (Nicholas Ray), The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean), Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller), The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman), Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman), Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick), and The River's Edge (Allan Dwan)

Blind Spots: The Tall T (Budd Boetticher), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (John Sturges), Decision at Sundown (Budd Boetticher), Time Without Pity (Joseph Losey), The Devil Strikes at Night (Richard Siodmak), 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves), Desk Set (Walter Lang), Nine Lives (Arne Skouen), Edge of the City (Martin Ritt), Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder), Barnacle Bill (Charles Frend), The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold), Peyton Place (Mark Robson), Les Girls (George Cukor), The Enemy Below (Dick Powell), and Seven Waves Away (Richard Sale)

1959:
1. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
2. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
3. Nazarín (Luis Buñuel)
4. 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
5. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
6. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger)
7. Fate of a Man (Sergei Bondarchuk)
8. Ballad of a Soldier (Grigori Chukhraj)
9. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju)
10. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)

Honorable Mention: The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller), The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray), Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronimi), Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu), North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock), Picnic on the Grass (Jean Renoir), The Scapegoat (Robert Hamer), Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu), Shadows (John Cassavetes), and Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)

Blind Spots: The Savage Innocents (Nicholas Ray), The Indian Tomb (Fritz Lang), Our Man in Havana (Carol Reed), Two Men in Manhattan (Jean-Pierre Melville), Verboten! (Samuel Fuller), Human Condition I (Masaki Kobayashi), Human Condition II (Masaki Kobayashi), Compulsion (Richard Fleischer), Les Cousins (Claude Chabrol), The Lady With the Dog (Iosif Kheifits), The Great War (Mario Monicelli), Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa), The Bridge (Bernhard Wicki), Room at the Top (Jack Clayton), Porgy and Bess (Otto Preminger), Kapo (Gillo Pontecorvo), Tiger Bay (J. Lee Thompson), The Cow and I (Henri Verneuil), It's All Right Jack (John Boulting), The League of Gentlemen (Basil Dearden), Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson), The Mouse That Roared (Jack Arnold), On the Beach (Stanley Krammer), Odd Obsession (Kon Ichikawa), Day of the Outlaw (Andre de Toth), Blind Date (Joseph Losey), and Samurai Saga (Hiroshi Inagaki)

1961:
1. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
2. Cleo From 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)
3. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)
4. Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
5. The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
6. A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
7. Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller)
8. The Ladies Man (Jerry Lewis)
9. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
10.Two Daughters (Satyajit Ray)

Honorable Mention: King of Kings (Nicholas Ray), Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan), Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman), One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder), Divorce, Italian Style (Pietro Germi), The Hustler (Robert Rossen), The Misfits (John Huston), Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi), Two Rode Together (John Ford), and Lola (Jacques Demy)

Blind Spots: Summer and Smoke (Peter Glenville), A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson), My Mother and Her Guest (Shin Sang-ok), The Human Condition III (Masaki Kobayashi), El Cid (Anthony Mann), Placido (Luis García Berlanga), The Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson), Vanina Vanini (Roberto Rossellini), Blast of Silence (Allen Baron), and Chronicle of a Summer (Edgar Morin and Jean Rouch)

1963:
1. The Servant (Joseph Losey)
2. Vidas Secas (Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
3. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
4. Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith)
5. A Child Is Waiting (John Cassavetes)
6. Charade (Stanley Donen)
7. Bay of Angels (Jacques Demy)
8. The Whip and the Body (Mario Bava)
9. Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
10. Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev)

Honorable Mention: 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini), Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman), The Great Escape (John Sturges), The Haunting (Robert Wise), Suzanne's Career (Eric Rohmer), The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock), The Nutty Professor (Jerry Lewis), Who's Minding the Store? (Frank Tashlin), The Insect Woman (Shohei Imamura), and The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)

Blind Spots: Muriel (Alain Resnais), I Step Through Moscow (Georgi Daneliya), Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard), Donovan's Reef (John Ford), Irma la Dulce (Billy Wilder), 55 Days at Peking (Nicholas Ray), The Ugly American (George Englund), Judex (Georges Franju), The Virgin of Nuremberg (Antonio Margheritti), The Big City (Satyajit Ray), The Raven (Roger Corman), Raven's End (Bo Widerberg), Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard), Gun Hawk (Edward Ludwig), 4 for Texas (Robert Aldrich), These Are the Damned (Joseph Losey), The Fiances (Ermanno Olmi), Monsieur Gangster (Georges Lautner), The Organizer (Mario Monicelli), 15 From Rome (Dino Rosi), America, America (Elia Kazan), Any Number Can Win (Henri Verneuil), and The Fire Within (Louis Malle)

1965:
1. Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
2. Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel)
3. My Hustler (Andy Warhol)
4. Bunny Lake is Missing (Otto Preminger)
5. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
7. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
8. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer)
9. Le Bonheur (Agnes Varda)
10. Ride in the Whirlwind (Monte Hellman)

Honorable Mention: For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone), Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles), The War Game (Peter Watkins), The Shop on Main Street (Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos), Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa), The Nanny (Seth Holt), The Family Jewels (Jerry Lewis), Vinyl (Andy Warhol), The Flight of the Phoenix (Robert Aldrich), and Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio)

Blind Spots: What's New, Pussycat? (Clive Donner), A Thousand Clowns (Fred Coe), Mickey One (Arthur Penn), Sandra of a Thousand Delights (Luchino Visconti), Young Cassidy (Jack Cardiff), Yoyo (Pierre Étaix), Help! (Richard Lester), The Great Race (Blake Edwards), The Hill (Sidney Lumet), The Ipcress File (Sidney J. Furie), A Patch of Blue (Guy Green), Samurai (Kihachi Okamoto), and The Saragossa Manuscript (Wojciech Has)

1967:
1. Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman)
2. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
3. Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel)
5. Point Blank (John Boorman)
6. Wavelength (Michael Snow)
7. The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó)
8. The Shooting (Monte Hellman)
9. Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
10. Scattered Clouds (Mikio Naruse)

Honorable Mention: Accident (Joseph Losey), The Graduate (Mike Nichols), Marat/Sade (Peter Brook), Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville), La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer), Two for the Road (Stanley Donen), The Dirty Dozen (Robert Aldrich), The Commissar (Aleksandr Askoldov), 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard), and The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)

Blind Spots: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (David Swift), The President's Analyst (Theodore J. Flicker), Samurai Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi), Far from the Maddening Crowd (John Schlesinger), The Night of the Generals (Anatole Litvak), Peppermint Frappe (Carlos Saura), The Thief of Paris (Louis Malle), Oedipus Rex (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Don't Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker), Marketa Lazarová (Frantisek Vlácil), Bedazzled (Stanley Donen), Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev), Hombre (Martin Ritt), One-Armed Swordsman (Cheh Chang), The Stranger (Luchino Visconti), The Two of Us (Claude Berri), and David Holzman's Diary (Jim McBride)

1969:
1. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. Kes (Ken Loach)
3. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
4. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
5. Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
6. Putney Swope (Robert Downey Sr.)
7. Blind Beast (Yasuzo Masumura)
8. Diaries, Notebooks and Sketches (Jonas Mekas)
9. My Night of Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
10. That Cold Day in the Park (Robert Altman)

Honorable Mention: Women in Love (Ken Russell), The Unfaithful Wife (Claude Chabrol), Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda), Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler), The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman), Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin), Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen), and Z (Costa Gavras)

Blind Spots: Go, Go Second Time Virgin (Koji Wakamatsu), Law and Order (Frederick Wiseman), Burn! (Gillo Pontecorvo), The Gypsy Moths (John Frankenheimer), The Rain People (Francis Ford Coppola), The Reivers (Mark Rydell), The Secret of Santa Vittoria (Stanley Kramer), The Witness (Péter Bacsó), The Sicilian Clan (Henri Verneuil), The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophüls), Mississippi Mermaid (François Truffaut), King Lear (Grigori Kozintsev and Iosif Shapiro), The Boys of Paul Street (Zoltán Fábri), A Gentle Woman (Robert Bresson), This Man Must Die (Claude Chabrol), Ådalen '31 (Bo Widerberg), Support Your Local Sheriff! (Burt Kennedy), A Walk With Love and Death (John Huston), Macunaíma (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade), True Grit (Henry Hathaway), Paint Your Wagon (Joshua Logan), Battle of Britain (Guy Hamilton), Hello Dolly! (Gene Kelly), Cactus Flower (Gene Saks), and Sweet Charity (Bob Fosse)

1971:
1. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
2. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
3. Whity (Rainer Werner Fassbiner)
4. Macbeth (Roman Polanski)
5. Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo)
6. Pink Narcissus (James Bidgood)
7. La Région Centrale (Michael Snow)
8. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
9. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
10. The Cat o' Nine Tails (Dario Argento)

Honorable Mention: Boys in the Sand (Wakefield Poole), Wanda (Barbara Loden), Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog), Bay of Blood (Mario Bava), Fata Morgana (Werner Herzog), Two English Girls (Francois Truffaut), Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman), Vampyros Lesbos (Jesus Franco), The Devils (Ken Russell), and The Beguiled (Don Siegel)

Blind Spots: Basic Training (Frederick Wiseman), Taking Off (Milos Forman), The Touch (Ingmar Bergman), Play Misty for Me (Clint Eastwood), The Clowns (Federico Fellini), Bleak Moments (Mike Leigh), Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson), Family Life (Ken Loach), Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle), Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles), The Working Class Goes to Heaven (Elio Petri), and WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev)

1973:
1. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
2. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
3. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
4. Sisters (Brian De Palma)
5. Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
6. Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)
7. Black Caesar (Larry Cohen)
8. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
9. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
10. The Exorcist (William Friedkin)

Honorable Mention: The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky), Season of the Witch (George A. Romero), Lisa and the Devil (Mario Bava), The Last Detail (Hal Ashby), Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman), Sleeper (Woody Allen), The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy), Heavy Traffic (Ralph Bakshi), and Amarcord (Federico Fellini), Flesh for Frankenstein (Paul Morrissey)

Blind Spots: Distant Thunder (Satyajit Ray), Wattstax (Mel Stuart), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates), Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg), Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (Gilbert Cates), The Hour-Glass Sanatorium (Wojciech Has), Battles Without Honor & Humanity (Kinji Fukasaku), Kid Blue (James Frawley), The Iceman Cometh (John Frankenheimer), Turkish Delight (Paul Verhoeven), Dillinger (John Milius), Allonsanfan (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani), Love and Anarchy (Lina Wertmüller), O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson), State of Siege (Costa-Gravas), The Mackintosh Man (John Huston), The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann), Coffy (Jack Hill), Detroit 9000 (Arthur Marks), The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Ivan Dixon), The Mack (Michael Campus)Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse), Wedding in Blood (Claude Chabrol), Scarlet Letter (Wim Wenders), Emperor of the North Pole (Robert Aldrich), Blood Brothers (Cheh Chang), Snow of Blood (Toshiya Fujita), The Homecoming (Peter Hall), and Blume in Love (Paul Mazursky)

1975:
1. Nashville (Robert Altman)
2. Deep Red (Dario Argento)
3. Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
4. Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
5. Welfare (Frederick Wiseman)
6. Xala (Ousmane Sembene)
7. Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
8. Thundercrack! (Curt McDowell)
9. Promised Land (Andrzej Wajda)
10. The Day of the Locust (John Schlesinger)

Honorable Mention: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta), Shivers (David Cronenberg), Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick), Tommy (Ken Russell), Fear of Fear (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa), Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmüller), and Grey Gardens (Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Muffie Meyer)

Blind Spots: Hustle (Robert Aldrich), Crazy Mama (Jonathan Demme), French Connection II (John Frankenheimer), Numero Deux (Jean-Luc Godard), The Killer Elite (Sam Peckinpah), Keetje Tippel (Paul Verhoeven), Wrong Move (Wim Wenders), The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston), Une Partie de Plaisir (Claude Chabrol), Innocents with Dirty Hands (Claude Chabrol), The Old Gun (Robert Enrico), Fear Over the City (Henri Verneuil), Smile (Michael Ritchie), Mandingo (Richard Fleischer), Switchblade Sisters (Jack Hill), and Rollerball (Norman Jewison)

1977:
1. Suspiria (Dario Argento)
2. Padre Padrone (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
3. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
4. 3 Women (Robert Altman)
5. The Stationmaster's Wife (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
6. Cross of Iron (Sam Peckinpah)
7. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
8. Eraserhead (David Lynch)
9. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
10. Providence (Alain Resnais)

Honorable Mention: Opening Night (John Cassavetes), Stroszek (Werner Herzog), 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci), Desperate Living (John Waters), Rabid (David Cronenberg), Martin (George A. Romero), My American Friend (Wim Wenders), Scum (Alan Clarke), Citizen's Band (Jonathan Demme), and Sorcerer (William Friedkin)

Blind Spots: The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (Larry Cohen), The Perfumed Nightmare (Kidlat Tahimik), Man of Marble (Andrzej Wajda), Alambrista! (Robert M. Young), The Duellists (Ridley Scott), The Goodbye Girl (Herbert Ross), A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker), The Man on the Roof (Bo Widerberg), Short Eyes (Robert M. Young), Outrageous! (Richard Benner), News From Home (Chantal Akerman), Twlight's Last Gleaming (Robert Aldrich), The Choirboys (Robert Aldrich), New York, New York (Martin Scorsese), and The Late Show (Robert Benton)

1979:
1. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. Siberiade (Andrei Konchalovsky)
3. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
4. The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
5. Vengeance Is Mine (Shohei Imamura)
6. When a Stranger Calls (Fred Walton)
7. The Driller Killer (Abel Ferrara)
8. The Perfect Couple (Robert Altman)
9. The Warriors (Walter Hill)
10. The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard)

Honorable Mention: Scum (Alan Clarke), The Brood (David Cronenberg), Manhattan (Woody Allen), Woyzeck (Werner Herzog), Being There (Hal Ashby), Real Life (Albert Brooks), Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog), Perceval (Eric Rohmer), The Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorff), and Phantasm (Don Coscarelli)

Blind Spots: The Third Generation (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Sympathy for a Sinner (George Kuchar), Christ Stopped at Eboli (Francesco Rosi), The In-Laws (Arthur Hiller), 'Breaker' Morant (Bruce Beresford), Bloody Kiss (Stephen Frears), Without Anesthesia (Andrzej Wajda), Best Boy (Ira Wohl), My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong), Head Over Heels (Joan Micklin Silver), Bye Bye Brazil (Carlos Diegues), The Europeans (James Ivory), The Jerk (Carl Reiner), Doomed Love (Manoel de Oliveira), Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer), Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam), Saint Jack (Peter Bogdanovich), Cold Cuts (Bertrand Blier), Angi Vera (Pál Gábor), Wise Blood (John Huston), and Tess (Roman Polanski)

1981:
1. Possession (Andrzej Zulawski)
2. Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara)
3. Pixote (Hector Babenco)
4. Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
5. Polyester (John Waters)
6. Evil Dead (Sam Raimi)
7. Mommie Dearest (Frank Perry)
8. Man of Iron (Andrzej Wajda)
9. The Aviator's Wife (Eric Rohmer)
10. Circle of Deceit (Volker Schlondorff)

Honorable Mention: Escape from New York (John Carpenter), Beau Pere (Bertrand Blier), Reds (Warren Beatty), Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris), Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg), Eye of the Needle (Richard Marquand), Christian F. (Uli Edel), Agony (Elem Klimov), Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Scanners (David Cronenberg), and Coup de Torchon (Bertrand Tavernier)

Blind Spots: Tree of Knowledge (Nils Malmros), Marianne and Juliane (Margarethe von Trotta), Three Brothers (Francesco Rosi), Assassination Attempt (Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov), The Professional (Georges Lautner), Cutter's Way (Ivan Passer), Prince of the City (Sidney Lumet), Modern Romance (Albert Brooks), Ragtime (Milos Forman), S.O.B. (Blake Edwards), They All Laughed (Peter Bogdanovich), True Confessions (Ulu Grosbard), Taxi Zum Klo (Frank Ripploh), Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (Emir Kusturica), Southern Comfort (Walter Hill), All the Marbles (Robert Aldrich), Rich and Famous (George Cukor), Full Moon High (Larry Cohen), and Eijanaika (Shohei Imamura), Montenegro (Dusan Makavejev)

1983:
1. L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
2. Nostalgia (Andrei Tarkovsky)
3. Sans Soleil (Chris Marker)
4. Ballad of Narayama (Shohei Imamura)
5. Scarface (Brian De Palma)
6. The Fourth Man (Paul Verhoeven)
7. Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer)
8. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese)
9. Testament (Lynne Littman)
10. El Sur (Victor Erice)

Honorable Mention: Videodrome (David Cronenberg), Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio), Dark Habits (Pedro Almodovar), The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg), Christine (John Carpenter), A Christmas Story (Bob Clark), Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford), Warriors of the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark), and Zelig (Woody Allen)

Blind Spots: A Brutal Game (Jean-Claude Brisseau), Danton (Andrzej Wajda), A nos amours (Maurice Pialat), Three Crowns Of The Sailor (Raoul Ruiz), Faux-Fuyants (Alain Bergala and Jean-Pierre Limosin), Carmen (Carlos Saura), El Norte (Gregory Nava), Entre Nous (Diane Kurys), Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima), Star 80 (Bob Fosse), Sudden Impact (Clint Eastwood), Exposed (James Toback), Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis), Betrayal (David Hugh Jones), Life Is a Bed of Roses (Alain Resnais), Local Hero (Bill Forsyth), Sugar Cane Alley (Euzhan Palcy), and Under Fire (Roger Spottiswoode)

1985:
1. Come and See (Elem Klimov)
2. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)
3. Pee-wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton)
4. Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant)
5. Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
6. The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Jiri Barta)
7. Day of the Dead (George Romero)
8. When Father Was Away on Business (Emir Kusturica)
9. Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Caravaggio (Derek Jarman)

Honorable Mention: Ran (Akira Kurosawa), The Angelic Conversation (Derek Jarman), Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon), My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears), After Hours (Martin Scorsese), Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman), Mask (Peter Bogdanovich), Phenomena (Dario Argento), Vagabond (Agnes Varda), and Fool For Love (Robert Altman)

Blind Spots: Flesh & Blood (Paul Verhoeven), Boycott (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), Police (Maurice Pialat), Hour of the Star (Suzana Amaral), Tokyo-Ga (Wim Wenders), Dreamchild (Gavin Millar), The Runner (Amir Naderi), Wuthering Heights (Jacques Rivette), Lost in America (Albert Brooks), Police Story (Jackie Chan), Real Genius (Martha Coolidge), To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin), Angel's Egg (Mamoru Oshii), Sweet Dreams (Karel Reisz) Wetherby (David Hare), Himatsuri (Mitsuo Yanagimachi), Taipei Story (Edward Yang), and Insignificance (Nicolas Roeg)

1987:
1. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes)
2. Opera (Dario Argento)
3. Law of Desire (Pedro Almodóvar)
4. Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg)
5. Yeelen (Souleymane Cisse)
6. Where Is the Friend's House? (Abbas Kiarostami)
7. Hope and Glory (John Boorman)
8. RoboCop (Paul Verhoeven)
9. Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow)
10. Au Revoir Les Enfants (Louis Malle)

Honorable Mention: The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Kazuo Hara), The Stepfather (Joseph Ruben), Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Eric Rohmer), The Dead (John Huston), Good Morning, Babylon (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani), O.C. & Stiggs (Robert Altman), Maurice (James Ivory), Radio Days (Woody Allen), Raising Arizona (The Coen Brothers), and Matewan (John Sayles)

Blind Spots: Dark Eyes (Nikita Mikhalkov), Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer), Rouge (Stanley Kwan), The Cry of the Owl (Claude Chabrol), Under Satan's Sun (Maurice Pialat), The Camp at Thiaroye (Ousmane Sembene and Thierno Faty Sow), Missile (Frederick Wiseman), The Belly of an Architect (Peter Greenaway), Barfly (Barbet Schroeder), Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme), Made in Heaven (Alan Rudolph), Winter Ade (Helke Misselwitz), The Cyclist (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), My Twentieth Century (Ildikó Enyedi), and A Taxing Woman (Juzo Itami)

1989:
1. The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
2. Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee)
3. Born on the 4th of July (Oliver Stone)
4. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
5. Casualties of War (Brian De Palma)
6. My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan)
7. Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
8. sex, lies and videotape (Steven Soderbergh)
9. Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant)
10. La Chiesa (Michele Soavi)

Honorable Mention: The Killer (John Woo), Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman), Henry V (Kenneth Branagh), Batman (Tim Burton), Heathers (Michael Lehmann), How to Get Ahead in Advertising (Bruce Robinson), Cat Chaser (Abel Ferrara), Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki), Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch), and Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano)

Blind Spots: Sea of Love (Harold Becker), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover (Peter Greenway), Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte), The Icicle Thief (Maurizio Nichetti), Freeze, Die, Come To Life (Vitali Kanevsky), and Black Rain (Shoei Imamura)

1991:
1. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
2. My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
3. Poison (Todd Haynes)
4. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
5. Edward II (Derek Jarman)
6. JFK (Oliver Stone)
7. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
8. La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette)
9. The Rapture (Michael Tolkin)
10. Hangin' With the Homeboys (Joseph P. Vasquez)

Honorable Mention: And Life Goes On... (Abbas Kiarostami), Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai), Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax), Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat), High Heels (Pedro Almodóvar), Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron), A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris), Dead Again (Kenneth Branagh), and Madonna: Truth or Dare (Alek Keshishian)

Blind Spots: Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders), The Stranger (Satyajit Ray), A Scene at the Sea (Takeshi Kitano), J' entends plus la guitare (Philippe Garrel), Paris s'eveille (Olivier Assayas), Homicide (David Mamet), Impromptu (James Lapine), Surviving Desire (Hal Hartley), Kasba (Kumar Shahani), The Commitments (Alan Parker), The Other (Bernard Giraudeau), Swordsman II (Siu-Tung Ching and Stanley Tong), The Fall of Otar (Ardak Amirkulov), Highway Patrolman (Alex Cox), Antonia and Jane (Beeban Kidron), City of Hope (John Sayles), Billy Bathgate (Robert Benton), and A Woman's Tale (Paul Cox)

1993:
1. Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
2. The Piano (Jane Campion)
3. Naked (Mike Leigh)
4. A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)
5. Dangerous Game (Abel Ferrara)
6. Mercedes (Yousry Nasrallah)
7. Blue (Derek Jarman)
8. The Remains of the Day (James Ivory)
9. Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
10. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)

Honorable Mention: In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan), Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis), Latcho Drom (Tony Gatlif), Six Degrees of Separation (Fred Schepisi), Matinee (Joe Dante), My Favorite Season (Andre Techine), King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh), Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano), Totally F***ed Up (Gregg Araki), and Kika (Pedro Almodovar)

Blind Spots: The Snapper (Stephen Frears), Raining Stones (Ken Loach), Being Human (Bill Forsyth), Bhaji on the Beach (Gurinder Chadha), The War Room (Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker), 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (François Girard), The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang), and Helas Pour Moi (Jean-Luc Godard)

1995:
1. Underground (Emir Kusturica)
2. Safe (Todd Haynes)
3. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)
4. Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven)
5. La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol)
6. Clockers (Spike Lee)
7. Nixon (Oliver Stone)
8. The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood)
9. Land and Freedom (Ken Loach)
10. The Addiction (Abel Ferrara)

Honorable Mention: Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins), Hate (Mathieu Kassovitz), Rendezvous in Paris (Eric Rohmer), Heavy (James Mangold), Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-hsien), Fallen Angels (Wong Kar Wai), The Neon Bible (Terence Davies), Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo), Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz), and The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi)

Blind Spots: Waati (Souleymane Cissé), Love Letter (Shunji Iwai), Antonia's Line (Marleen Gorris), Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud (Claude Sautet), Persuasion (Roger Michell), American Job (Chris Smith), An Awfully Big Adventure (Mike Newell), Les Miserables (Claude Lelouch), Beyond Rangoon (John Boorman), Carrington (Christopher Hampton), Up Down Fragile (Jacques Rivette), The Convent (Manoel de Oliveira), Georgia (Ulu Grosbard), JLG/JLG (Jean Luc Godard), Salaam Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), Like Grains of Sand (Ryosuke Hashiguchi), Wild Bill (Walter Hill), L'Appat (Bertrand Tavernier), Getting Any? (Takeshi Kitano), Rangeela (Ram Gopal Varma), Spiritual Voices (Aleksandr Sokurov), and Le Garcu (Maurice Pialat)

1997:
1. Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov)
2. Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano)
3. Happy Together (Wong Kar Wai)
4. Face/Off (John Woo)
5. The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan)
6. Career Girls (Mike Leigh)
7. The Eel (Shohei Imamura)
8. Lost Highway (David Lynch)
9. Life of Jesus (Bruno Dumont)
10. Gadjo Dilo (Tony Gatlif)

Honorable Mention: Live Flesh (Pedro Almodóvar), The Mirror (Jafar Panahi), Men With Guns (John Sayles), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog), U-Turn (Oliver Stone), Nowhere (Gregg Araki), Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), The Apostle (Robert Duvall), Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (David Mirkin), Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven), and The River (Tsai Ming-liang)

Blind Spots: Chronicle Of A Disappearance (Elia Suleiman) and Regeneration (Gillies MacKinnon)

1999:
1. Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
2. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
3. L'Humanite (Bruno Dumont)
4. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
5. The Straight Story (David Lynch)
6. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar)
7. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne)
8. Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese)
9. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)
10. The End of the Affair (Neil Jordan)

Honorable Mention: Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone), Election (Alexander Payne), Go (Doug Liman), Three Kings (David O. Russell), Felicia's Journey (Atom Egoyan), The Iron Giant (Brad Bird), Limbo (John Sayles), Fight Club (David Fincher), Office Space (Mike Judge), and My Neighbors the Yamadas (Isao Takahata)

Blind Spots: Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz)

2001:
1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai)
3. The Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
4. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
5. Litte Otik (Jan Svankmajer)
6. Children Underground (Edel Belzberg)
7. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
8. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
9. Intimacy (Patrice Chéreau)
10. Under the Sand (François Ozon)

Honorable Mention: Vengo (Tony Gatlif), Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings (Peter Jackson), Gosford Park (Robert Altman), Baise-moi (Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Tri), Audition (Takashi Miike), Shallow Hal (Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly), The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo Del Toro), The Circle (Jafar Panahi), and Together (Lukas Moodysson)

2003:
1. The Company (Robert Altman)
2. Balseros (Carlos Bosch and José María Doménech)
3. The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
4. Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
5. Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon)
6. Big Fish (Tim Burton)
7. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
8. In America (Jim Sheridan)
9. Cabin Fever (Eli Roth)
10. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)

Honorable Mention: Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhang-ke), To Be and To Have (Nicolas Philibert), Friday Night (Claire Denis), Waiting for Happiness (Abderrahmane Sissako), Love and Diane (Jennifer Dworkin), Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett), Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (Guy Maddin), The Fog of War (Errol Morris), Bus 174 (José Padilha), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)

2005:
1. The New World (Terrence Malick)
2. The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
3. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
5. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
6. Wolf Creek (Greg McLean)
7. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
8. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
9. The White Diamond (Werner Herzog)
10. The Intruder (Claire Denis)

Honorable Mention: Last Days (Gus Van Sant), Machuca (Andrés Wood), Private (Saverio Costanzo), Schultze Gets the Blues (Michael Schorr), HellBent (Paul Eteredge-Ouzts), Fever Pitch (Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly), Crimen Ferpecto (Álex de la Iglesia), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Steve Box and Nick Park), Red Eye (Wes Craven), and Darwin's Nightmare (Hupert Sauper)

2007:
1. Offside (Jafar Panahi)
2. Into Great Silence (Philip Gröning)
3. Golden Door (Emanuele Crialese)
4. Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog)
5. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
6. Exiled (Johnnie To)
7. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
8. Forever (Heddy Honigmann)
9. The Life of Reilly (Barry Poltermann and Frank Anderson)
10. Superbad (Greg Mottola)

Honorable Mention: The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman), Bug (William Friedkin), Beyond Hatred (Olivier Meyrou), Broken English (Zoe Cassavetes), Jimmy Carter Man from Plains (Jonathan Demme), Summer '04 (Stefan Krohmer), Away from Her (Sarah Polley), The Decomposition of the Soul (Nina Toussaint and Massimo Iannetta), The Bubble (Eytan Fox), and Descent (Talia Lugacy)

1920:
1. Monastery of Sendomir (Victor Sjöström)
2. The Penalty (Wallace Worsley)
3. The Parson's Widow (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
4. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
5. Way Down East (D.W. Griffith)
6. The Last of the Mohicans (Clarence Brown and Maurice Tourneur)
7. Der Golem (Carl Boese and Paul Wegener)
8. I Don't Want to Be a Man (Ernst Lubitsch)
9. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (John S. Robertson)
10. Kohlhiesel's Daughters (Ernst Lubitsch)

Honorable Mention: Erotikon (Mauritz Stiller), Romeo and Juliet in the Snow (Ernst Lubitsch), The Toll Gate (Lambert Hillyer), The Saphead (Herbert Blaché), The Flapper (Alan Crosland), Genuine: A Tale of a Vampire (Robert Wiene), The Mark of Zorro (Fred Niblo), One Arabian Night (Ernst Lubitsch), Anne Boleyn (Ernst Lubitsch), and The Wandering Image (Fritz Lang)

Blind Spots: Within Our Gates (Oscar Micheaux), Sex (Fred Niblo), Lost Atlantis (Jacques Feyder), Why Change Your Wife? (Cecil B. DeMille), Something New (Nell Shipman and Bert Van Tuyle), and The Symbol of the Unconquered (Oscar Micheaux)

1922:
1. Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
2. Foolish Wives (Erich Von Stroheim)
3. Haxan (Benjamin Christensen)
4. Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty)
5. Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (Fritz Lang)
6. The Toll of the Sea (Chester M. Franklin)
7. Oliver Twist (Frank Lloyd)
8. Dr. Jack (Fred C. Newmeyer)
9. Burning Soil (F.W. Murnau)
10. Grandma's Boy (Fred C. Newmeyer)

Honorable Mention: The Smiling Madame Beudet (Germaine Dulac), Beyond the Rocks (Sam Wood), Blood and Sand (Fred Niblo), Down to the Sea in Ships (Elmer Clifton), Once Upon a Time (Carl Theodor Dreyer), Shadows (Tom Forman), and Phantom (F.W. Murnau)

Blind Spots: Robin Hood (Allan Dwan), Tess of the Storm Country (John S. Robertson), The Prisoner of Zenda (Rex Ingram), When Knighthood Was in Flower (Robert G. Vignola), Beauty's Worth (Robert G. Vignola), Lorna Doone (Maurice Tourneur), Othello (Dimitri Buchowetzki), Moran of the Lady Letty (George Melford), Crainquebille (Jacques Feyder), The Three Must-Get-Theres (Max Linder), Manslaughter (Cecil B. DeMille), The Young Rajah (Phil Rosen), and The Primitive Lover (Sidney Franklin)

1924:
1. Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
2. Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
3. Kinoglaz (Dziga Vertov)
4. The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau)
5. He Who Gets Slapped (Victor Sjöström)
6. The Hands of Orlac (Robert Wiene)
7. Die Nibelungen (Fritz Lang)
8. Waxworks (Paul Leni)
9. The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh)
10. Michael (Carl Theodor Dreyer)

Honorable Mention: The Marriage Circle (Ernst Lubitsch), The Saga of Gosta Berling (Mauritz Stiller), The Navigator (Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton), and The Chechahcos (Lewis S. Moomaw)

Blind Spots: Girl Shy (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor), Aelita (Yakov Protazanov), The Iron Horse (John Ford), Hot Water (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor), Peter Pan (Herbert Brenon), The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Lev Kuleshov), The Red Lily (Fred Niblo), America (D.W. Griffith), Manhandled (Allan Dwan), The Sea Hawk (Frank Lloyd), The New Enchantment (Marcel L'Herbier), The Beautiful Rebel (E. Mason Hopper), Finances of the Grand Duke (F.W. Murnau), Isn't Life Wonderful (D.W. Griffith), Forbidden Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch), Beau Brummel (Harry Beaumont), Helen's Babies (William A. Seiter), Romola (Henry King), Monsieur Beaucaire (Sidney Olcott), The Cigarette Girl from Moscow (Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky), Open All Night (Paul Bern), Helen of Troy (Manfred Noa), Captain January (Edward F. Cline), Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (Marshall Neilan), The Enchanted Cottage (John S. Robertson), The Age of Innocence (Wesley Ruggles), The Prude's Fall (Graham Cutts), Backbiters (Albert Dieudonné and Jean Renoir), and Name the Man (Victor Sjöström)

1926:
1. A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
2. Faust (F.W. Murnau)
3. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger)
4. The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjöström)
5. Tartuffe (F.W. Murnau)
6. Mother (Vsevolod Pudovkin)
7. Moana (Robert J. Flaherty)
8. The Battling Butler (Buster Keaton)
9. Nana (Jean Renoir)
10. The Black Pirate (Albert Parker)

Honorable Mention: Secrets of the Soul (G.W. Pabst), Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown), The Temptress (Fred Niblo), The Show Off (Malcolm St. Clair), and Three Bad Men (John Ford)

Blind Spots: La Boheme (King Vidor), For Heaven's Sake (Sam Taylor), The Strong Man (Frank Capra), So's Your Old Man (Gregory La Cava), and So This is Paris (Ernst Lubitsch), The Black Pirate (Albert Parker), Son of the Sheik (George Fitzmaurice), Sparrows (William Beaudine), Tell It to the Marines (George W.Hill), Don Juan (Alan Crosland), Torrent Monta Bell), The Holy Mountain (Arnold Fanck), Carmen (Jacques Feyder), Brown of Harvard (Jack Conway), The Bat (Roland West), The Boob (William A. Wellman), Nana (Jean Renoir), Exit Smiling (Sam Taylor), The Blackbird (Tod Browning), The Student of Prague (Henrik Galeen), What Price Glory (Raoul Walsh), Beau Geste (Herbert Brenon), Mantrap (Victor Fleming), and By the Law (Lev Kuleshov)

1928:
1. The Crowd (King Vidor)
2. The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein)
3. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
4. The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick)
5. The Wind (Victor Sjöström)
6. Lonesome (Pál Fejös)
7. Arsenal (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
8. The Docks of New York (Josef Von Sternberg)
9. Show People (King Vidor)
10. Street Angel (Frank Borzage)

Honorable Mention: The Last Command (Josef Von Sternberg), Spies (Fritz Lang), Laugh, Clown, Laugh (Herbert Brenon), West of Zanzibar (Tod Browning), The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim), The Circus (Charles Chaplin), Beggars of Life (William A. Wellman), Storm Over Asia (Vsevolod Pudovkin), Steamboat Bill Jr. (Charles Reisner), and The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni)

Blind Spots: The Farmer's Wife (Alfred Hitchcock), Noah's Ark (Michael Curtiz), Sex in Chains (William Dieterle), White Shadows in the South Seas (W.S. Van Dyke), Four Sons (John Ford), Across to Singapore (William Nigh), The Battle of the Sexes (D.W. Griffith), Hangman's House (John Ford), The Divine Woman (Victor Sjöström), The Matinee Idol (Frank Capra), West Point (Edward Sedgwick), The Garden of Eden (Lewis Milestone), White Shadows in the South Seas (W.S. Van Dyke), The Racket (Lewis Milestone), and Sadie Thompson (Raoul Walsh)

1930:
1. Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
2. The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau)
3. L' Age D'Or (Luis Buñuel)
4. Under the Roofs of Paris (Rene Clair)
5. City Girl (F.W. Murnau)
6. Morocco (Josef Von Sternberg)
7. Westfront 1918 (G.W. Pabst)
8. The Blue Angel (Josef Von Sternberg)
9. All Quiet On the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
10. Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman)

Honorable Mention: Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch), Min and Bill (George W. Hill), Hell's Angels (Howard Hughes), Anna Christie (Clarence Brown), Free and Easy (Edward Sedgwick), Our Blushing Brides (Harry Beaumont), and Prix de Beaute (Augusto Genina)

Blind Spots: Salt for Svanetia (Mikheil Kalatozishvili), People on Sunday (Kurt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, and Fred Zinnemann), The Royal Family of Broadway (George Cukor and Cyril Gardner), The Devil to Pay! (George Fitzmaurice), Holiday (Edward H. Griffith), The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh), and The Big House (George W. Hill)

1932:
1. Freaks (Tod Browning)
2. Blonde Venus (Josef Von Sternberg)
3. Boudu Saved From Drowning (Jean Renoir)
4. ¡Que viva México! (Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei Eisenstein)
5. Red Dust (Victor Fleming)
6. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
7. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
8. Rain (Lewis Milestone)
9. If I Had a Million (Lots of People)
10. I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy)

Honorable Mention: One Hour With You (George Cukor and Ernst Lubistch), I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu), Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer), Shanghai Express (Josef Von Sternberg), Three on a Match (Mervyn LeRoy), The Old Dark House (James Whale), A Farewell to Arms (Frank Borzage), So Big! (William A. Wellman), Number Seventeen (Alfred Hitchcock), and Night After Night (Archie Mayo)

Blind Spots: Jewel Robbery (William Dieterle), Sign of the Cross (Cecil B. DeMille), This Is the Night (Frank Tuttle), and Doctor X (Michael Curtiz)

1934:
1. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
2. The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
3. Three Songs of Lenin (Dziga Vertov)
4. Imitation of Life (John M. Stahl)
5. Liliom (Fritz Lang)
6. Man of Aran (Robert J. Flaherty)
7. The Scarlet Empress (Josef Von Sternberg)
8. It's a Gift (Norman Z. McLeod)
9. Six of a Kind (Leo McCarey)
10. The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch)

Honorable Mention: We're Not Dressing (Norman Taurog), You're Telling Me! (Erle C. Kenton), Judge Priest (John Ford), Our Daily Bread (King Vidor), The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke), Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks), The Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich), The Story of the Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu), It Happened One Night (Frank Capra), and Sadie McKee (Clarence Brown)

Blind Spots: The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock), Hips Hips Hooray! (Mark Sandrich), No Greater Glory (Frank Borzage), Mills of the Gods (Roy William Neill), One More River (James Whale), Death Takes a Holiday (Mitchell Leisen), Murder at the Vanities (Mitchell Leisen), La Signora di Tutti (Max Ophüls), The Lost Patrol (John Ford), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (Sidney Franklin), Fog Over Frisco (William Dieterle), The Count of Monte Cristo (Rowland V. Lee), 6 Day Bike Rider (Lloyd Bacon), Little Man, What Now? (Frank Borzage), and Plunder of Peach and Plum (Ying Yunwei)

1936:
1. Fury (Fritz Lang)
2. Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)
3. Desire (Frank Borzage)
4. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Jean Renoir)
5. The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo)
6. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. The Only Son (Yasujiro Ozu)
8. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
9. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
10. Things to Come (William Cameron Menzies)

Honorable Mention: Dodsworth (William Wyler), Libeled Lady (Jack Conway), Swing Time (George Stevens), Dracula's Daughter (Lambert Hillyer), Camille (George Cukor), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra), Secret Agent (Alfred Hitchcock), The Devil-Doll (Tod Browning), The Milky Way (Leo McCarey), and Love Before Breakfast (Walter Lang)

Blind Spots: They Were Five (Julien Duvivier), It's Love Again (Victor Saville), Cesar (Marcel Pagnol), The Man Who Could Work Miracles (Lothar Mendes), The Lower Depths (Jean Renoir), Show Boat (James Whale), Woman of Osaka (Kenji Mizoguchi), Mary of Scotland (John Ford), After the Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke), The Plainsman (Cecile B. DeMille), Craig's Wife (Dorothy Arzner), San Francisco (W.S. Van Dyke), These Three (William Wyler), Mayerling (Anatole Litvak), Theodora Goes Wild (Richard Boleslawski), The Garden of Allah (Richard Boleslawski), Come and Get It (Howard Hawks and William Wyler), Three Godfathers (Richard Boleslawski), The Road to Glory (Howard Hawks), Small Town Girl (William A. Wellman), and Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry)

1938:
1. The Human Beast (Jean Renoir)
2. Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl)
3. Angels With Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz)
4. Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev)
5. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Port of Shadows (Marcel Carné)
7. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
8. The Baker's Wife (Marcel Pagnol)
9. You Can't Take It With You (Frank Capra)
10. Block-Heads (John G. Blystone)

Honorable Mention: Room Service (William A. Seiter), Pygmalion (Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard), Swiss Miss (John G. Blystone), The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz), The Dawn Patrol (Edmund Goulding), La Marseillaise (Jean Renoir), Jezebel (William Wyler), Boys' School (Christian-Jaque), The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (Mark Donskoy), and Holiday (George Cukor)

Blind Spots: Mad About Music (Norman Taurog), Mars Attacks the World (Ford Beebe and Robert F. Hill), Hôtel du Nord (Marcel Carné), Ask a Policeman (Marcel Varnel), The Citadel (King Vidor), The Mad Miss Manton (Leigh Jason), King of Alcatraz (Robert Florey), The Shopworn Angel (H.C. Potter), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Norman Taurog), The Shining Hour (Frank Borzage), Joy of Living (Tay Garnett), Sidewalks of London (Tim Whelan), Three Comrades (Frank Borzage), A Slight Case of Murder (Lloyd Bacon)

1940:
1. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
2. Christmas in July (Preston Sturges)
3. Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen)
4. The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline)
5. The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
6. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
7. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
8. Rebecca (Alred Hitchcock)
9. Fantasia (Lots of People)
10. Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)

Honorable Mention: My Little Chickadee (Edward F. Cline), Waterloo Bridge (Mervyn LeRoy), The Sea Hawk (Micharl Curtiz), A Chump at Oxford (Alfred J. Goulding), They Drive by Night (Raoul Walsh), The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, and Tim Whelan), The Ghost Breakers (George Marshall), The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin), The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges), and My Favorite Wife (Garson Kanin)

Blind Spots: Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster), You're Missing the Point (Juan Bustillo Oro), The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage), Strange Cargo (Frank Borzage), Edison, the Man (Clarence Brown), City for Conquest (Anatole Litvak), Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen), The Stars Look Down (Carol Reed), Murder Over New York (Harry Lachman), Contraband (Michael Powell), Pride and Prejudice (Robert Z. Leonard), Night Train to Munich (Carol Reed), The Long Voyage Home (John Ford), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (John Cromwell), Santa Fe Trail (Michael Curtiz), Northwest Passage (King Vidor), Our Town (Sam Wood), Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman (Sam Wood), Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor), I Love You Again (W.S. Van Dyke), Torrid Zone (William Keighley), Escape (Mervyn LeRoy), Primrose Path (Gregory La Cava), and From Mayerling to Sarajevo (Max Ophüls)

1942:
1. To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
2. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
3. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
4. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
5. The Talk of the Town (George Stevens)
6. Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. This Gun For Hire (Frank Tuttle)
8. Random Harvest (Mervyn LeRoy)
9. There Was a Father (Yasujiro Ozu)
10. Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper)

Honorable Mention: Casablanca (Michael Curtiz), The Glass Key (Stuart Heisler), Gentleman Jim (Raoul Walsh), Son of Fury (John Cromwell), Reap the Wild Wind (Cecil B. DeMille), In Which We Serve (Noel Coward and David Lean), In This Our Life (John Huston), Holiday Inn (Mark Sandrich), I Married a Witch (René Clair), and Reunion in France (Jules Dassin)

Blind Spots: One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), Take a Letter, Darling (Mitchell Liesen), The Pied Piper (Irving Pichel), Once Upon a Honeymoon (Leo McCarey), Wake Island (John Farrow), My Sister Eileen (Alexander Hall), Johnny Eager (Mervyn LeRoy), The Major and the Minor (Billy Wilder), Yankee Doodle Dandy (Michael Curtiz), Road to Morocco (David Butler), My Favorite Blonde (Sidney Lanfield), For Me and My Gal (Busby Berkeley), The Lady is Willing (Mitchell Liesen), The Black Swan (Henry King), All Through the Night (Vincent Sherman), Tortilla Flat (Victor Fleming), The Devil's Envoys (Marcel Carne), Kings Row (Sam Wood), Castle in the Desert (Harry Lachman), and Pardon My Sarong (Erle C. Kenton)

1944:
1. Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang)
2. Dark Waters (Andre de Toth)
3. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)
5. The Children are Watching Us (Vittorio De Sica)
6. Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak)
7. The Curse of the Cat People (Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise)
8. Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Eisenstein)
9. Laura (Otto Preminger)
10. To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)

Honorable Mention: Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder), Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli), Henry V (Laurence Olivier), Mr. Skeffington (Vincent Sherman), Going My Way (Leo McCarey), Arsenic and Old Lace (Frank Capra), The Scarlet Claw (Roy William Neill), Gaslight (George Cukor), Since You Went Away (John Cromwell), and Jane Eyre (Robert Stevensen)

Blind Spots: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges), The Suspect (Robert Siodmak), The Great Moment (Preston Sturges), Frenchman's Creek (Mitchell Leisen), Youth Runs Wild (Mark Robson), Bluebeard (Edgar G. Ulmer), Torment (Alf Sjöberg), Mademoiselle Fifi (Robert Wise), The Sullivans (Lloyd Bacon), An American Romance (King Vidor), Block Busters (Wallace Fox), The Uninvited (Lewis Allen), and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (Mervyn LeRoy)

1946:
1. Shoeshine (Vittorio de Sica)
2. My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
3. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
4. Great Expectations (David Lean)
5. Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
6. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
7. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett)
8. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
9. Gilda (Charles Vidor)
10. Bedlam (Mark Robson)

Honorable Mention: Decoy (Jack Bernhard), Humoresque (Jean Negulesco), Duel in the Sun (King Vidor), The Razor's Edge (Edmund Goulding), A Scandal in Paris (Douglas Sirk), No Regrets For Our Youth (Akira Kurosawa), The Stranger (Orson Welles), The Killers (Richard Siodmak), Tomorrow is Forever (Irving Pichel), and Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch)

Blind Spots: Murders Among Us (Wolfgang Staudte), The Kid from Brooklyn (Norman Z. McLeod), Dangerous Money (Terry O. Morse), Dear Alibi (Phil Karlson), and I See a Dark Stranger (Frank Launder)

1948:
1. Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle)
2. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
3. The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica)
4. Red River (Howard Hawks)
5. Moonrise (Frank Borzage)
6. Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur)
7. Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)
8. Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
9. Oliver Twist (David Lean)
10. The Boy With the Green Hair (Joseph Losey)

Honorable Mention: They Live By Night (Nicholas Ray), Raw Deal (Anthony Mann), The Naked City (Jules Dassin), The Secret Beyond the Door (Fritz Lang), The Big Clock (John Farrow), The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed), Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston), The Street With No Name (William Keighley), and La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti)

Blind Spots: Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mui), Fort Apache (John Ford), and Hen in the Wind (Yasujiro Ozu)

1950:
1. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
2. Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini)
3. Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
4. Side Street (Anthony Mann)
5. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
6. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
7. Night and the City (Jules Dassin)
8. Winchester '73 (Anthony Mann)
9. Where the Sidewalk Ends (Otto Preminger)
10. La Ronde (Max Ophüls)

Honorable Mention: Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan), House by the River (Fritz Lang), Try and Get Me! (The Sound and the Fury) (Cy Endfield), Orpheus (Jean Cocteau), Outrage (Ida Lupino), The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini), Caged (John Cromwell), The Damned Don't Cry (Vincent Sherman), The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston), and All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Blind Spots: Scandal (Akira Kurosawa), The Breaking Point (Michael Curtiz), So Long at the Fair (Antony Darnborough and Terence Fisher), Last Holiday (Henry Koss), No Man Of Her Own (Mitchell Leisen), The Munekata Sisters (Yasujiro Ozu), and The Gunfighter (Henry King)

1952:
1. The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
2. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)
3. On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)
4. Le Plaisir (Max Ophüls)
5. The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Orson Welles)
6. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen)
7. Limelight (Charles Chaplin)
8. The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray)
9. The Marrying Kind (George Cukor)
10. Casque d'Or (Jacques Becker)

Honorable Mention: Mexican Bus Ride (Luis Buñuel), Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa), The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli), Waiting Women (Ingmar Bergman), Okasan (Mikio Naurse), The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer), Forbidden Games (Rene Clement), Sudden Fear (David Miller), The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Yasujiro Ozu), Monkey Business (Howard Hawks), and A Woman Without Love (Luis Buñuel)

Blind Spots: The White Reindeer (Erik Blomberg), Moulin Rouge (John Huston), The Little World of Don Camillo (Julien Duvivier), The Card (Ronald Neame), Outcast of the Islands (Carol Reed), Pat and Mike (George Cukor), Scandal Sheet (Phil Karlson), 5 Fingers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Europa '51 (Roberto Rossellini), Fanfan la Tulipe (Christian-Jaque), The Greatest Show on Earth (Cecil B. DeMille), Ivanhoe (Richard Thorpe), The Overcoat (Alberto Lattuada), Ruby Gentry (King Vidor), and The Member of the Wedding (Fred Zinnemann)

1954:
1. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
2. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
4. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
5. Wuthering Heights (Luis Buñuel)
6. Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk)
7. Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Luis Buñuel)
8. Black Tuesday (Hugo Fregonese)
9. Crime Wave (Andre de Toth)
10. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)

Honorable Mention: Carmen Jones (Otto Preminger), Sound of the Mountain (Mikio Naruse), La Strada (Federico Fellini), The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph L. Mankiewicz), Dial M For Murder (Alfred Hitchcock), Them! (Gordon Douglas), Godzilla (Ishirô Honda), Senso (Luchino Visconti), Illusion Travels by Streetcar (Luis Buñuel), and Pushover (Richard Quine)

Blind Spots: Late Chrysanthemums (Mikio Naruse), The Tale of the Crucified Lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi), The Woman in the Rumor (Kenji Mizoguchi), Riot in Cell Block 11 (Don Siegel), Apache (Robert Aldrich), It Should Happen to You (George Cukor), Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey), Private Hell 36 (Don Siegel), Taza, Son of Cochise (Douglas Sirk), Susan Slept Here (Frank Tashlin), Suddenly (Lewis Allen), An Inspector Calls (Guy Hamilton), Rogue Cop (Roy Rowland), Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich), and Salt of the Earth (Herbert J. Biberman)

1956:
1. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
2. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
3. The Searchers (John Ford)
4. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
6. While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang)
7. Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
8. The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
9. La Pointe Courte (Agnes Varda)
10. Autumn Leaves (Robert Aldrich)

Honorable Mention: Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi), The Killer Is Loose (Budd Boetticher), The Killing (Stanley Kubrick), Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (Nunnally Johnson), Death in the Garden (Luis Buñuel), The Girl Can't Help It (Frank Tashlin), Calle Mayor (Juan Antonio Bardem), Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan), and Baby Doll (Elia Kazan)

Blind Spots: There's Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk), War and Peace (King Vidor), Bhowani Junction (George Cukor), Intimate Stranger (Joseph Losey), Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli), Hollywood or Bust (Frank Tashlin), Great Day in the Morning (Jacques Tourneur), Le Monde du Silence (Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle), Patterns (Fielder Cook), Crazed Fruit (Ko Nakahari), Pursuit of the Graf Spree (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), Carnival in Moscow (Eldar Ryazanov), Early Spring (Yasujiro Ozu), The Mystery of Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot), Deadlier Than the Male (Julien Duvivier), Four Bags Full (Claude Autant-Lara), Friendly Persuasion (William Wyler), and Attack (Robert Aldrich)

1958:
1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchock)
2. The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk)
3. The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
4. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati)
5. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
6. Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
7. The Music Room (Satyajit Ray)
8. Man of the West (Anthony Mann)
9. The Magician (Ingmar Bergman)
10. Fiend Without a Face (Arthur Crabtree)

Honorable Mention: Some Came Running (Vincente Minnelli), Ivan the Terrible II (Sergei Eisenstein), The Blob (Irvin S. Yeaworth), Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda), Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli), The Fly (Kurt Neumann), The Horse's Mouth (Ronald Neame), A Night to Remember (Roy Ward Baker), Giants and Toys (Yasuzo Masumura), and Party Girl (Nicholas Ray)

Blind Spots: It Happened in Broad Daylight (Ladislao Vajda), Underworld Beauty (Seijun Suzuki), Modigliani of Montparnasse (Jacques Becker), The Left Handed Gun (Arthur Penn), The Young Lions (Edward Dmytryk), A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk), Brink of Life (Ingmar Bergman), Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol), China Doll (Frank Borzage), Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (Leo McCarey), The Gentleman and the Gypsy (Joseph Losey), Machine-Gun Kelly (Roger Corman), Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph H. Lewis), The Lineup (Don Siegel), Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher), Separate Tables (Delbert Mann), The Big Country (William Wyler), Saddle the Wind (Robert Parrish), Les Amants (Louis Malle), Enjo (Kon Ichikawa), Auntie Mame (Morton DaCosta), Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle), and The Long, Hot Summer (Martin Ritt)

1960:
1. L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
2. The Young One (Luis Buñuel)
3. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Les Bonnes Femmes (Claude Chabrol)
5. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
6. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
7. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
8. Two Women (Vittorio De Sica)
9. Purple Noon (Rene Clement)
10. Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Oshima)

Honorable Mention: The Apartment (Billy Wilder), Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut), Devi (Satyajit Ray), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz), Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman), Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti), The Bellboy (Jerry Lewis), Jazz on a Summer's Day (Aram Avakian and Bert Stern), Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman), and Steamroller and the Violin (Andrei Tarkovsky)

Blind Spots: The Approach of Autumn (Mikio Naruse), Macario (Roberto Gavaldón), The Truth (Henri-Georges Clouzot), The Entertainer (Tony Richardson), The Housemaid (Kim Ki-young), Tunes of Glory (Ronald Neame), Pollyanna (David Swift), The Savage Innocents (Nicholas Ray), The Sundowners (Fred Zinnemann), Girl with a Suitcase (Valerio Zurlini), The Island (Kaneto Shindô), The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang), Mysterious Case of the Rygseck Murders (Matti Kassila), The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (Budd Boetticher), The Criminal (Joseph Losey), and Paris is Ours (Jacques Rivette)

1962:
1. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
2. Confessions of an Opium Eater (Albert Zugsmith)
3. My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard)
4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
5. Jules and Jim (François Truffaut)
6. Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
7. The Elusive Corporal (Jean Renoir)
8. Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
9. The Twelve Chairs (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1962)
10. Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey)

Honorable Mention: Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski), Advise and Consent (Otto Preminger), The Manchurian Candidate (John Frakenheimer), The Trial (Orson Welles), Long Day's Journey Into Night (Sidney Lumet), The L-Shaped Room (Bryan Forbes), Lolita (Stanley Kubrick), Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa), What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich), and David and Lisa (Frank Perry)

Blind Spots: Birdman of Alcatraz (John Frankenheimer), Lonely Are the Brave (David Miller), Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville), Gypsy (Mervyn LeRoy), Freud (John Huston), Billy Budd (Peter Ustinov), The Easy Life (Dino Risi), Requiem for a Heavyweight (Ralph Nelson), The Intruder (Roger Corman), Night of the Eagle (Sidney Hayers), Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards), Experiment in Terror (Blake Edwards), Hell Is for Heroes (Don Siegel), 47 Samurai (Hiroshi Inagaki), and A Monkey in Winter (Henri Verneuil)

1964:
1. I Am Cuba (Mikheil Kalatozishvili)
2. The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller)
3. The Gospel According to Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
4. The Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel)
5. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
6. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
7. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
8. Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava)
9. The Last Man on Earth (Sidney Salkow)
10. Onibaba (Kaneto Shindô)

Honorable Mention: A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy), Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni), Charulata (Satyajit Ray), Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi), Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Robert Aldrich), The Pumpkin Eater (Jack Clayton), Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard), King & Country (Joseph Losey), and Seven Up! (Paul Almond)

Blind Spots: Nothing but a Man (Michael Roemer), Manji (Yasuo Masumura), Séance on a Wet Afternoon (Bryan Forbes), Marriage, Italian Style (Vittorio De Sica), Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi), Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci), Diamonds of the Night (Jan Nemec), That Man From Rio (Philippe de Broca), The Night of the Iguana (John Huston), The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet), Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer), Intentions of Murder (Shohei Imamura), The Enchanted Desna (Yuliya Solntseva), and Man's Favorite Sport? (Howard Hawks)

1966:
1. Masculine, Feminine (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
3. Kill, Baby...Kill! (Mario Bava)
4. Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5. Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene)
6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
7. Chelsea Girls (Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol)
8. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
9. Hunger (Henning Carlsen)
10. Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (Jean Eustache)

Honorable Mention: Cul-de-Sac (Roman Polanski), Made in the U.S.A. (Jean-Luc Godard), The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini), The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara), The Glass Bottom Boat (Frank Tashlin), The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura), La Caza (Carlos Saura), Seconds (John Frankenheimer), Daisies (Vera Chytilová), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)

Blind Spots: Watch Out for the Automobile (Eldar Ryazanov), Second Breath (Jean-Pierre Melville), The Nun (Jacques Rivette), The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming! (Norman Jewison), The Wrong Box (Bryan Forbes), The Rise of Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini), The Trap (Sidney Hayers), Morgan (Karel Reisz), A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch), El Dorado (Howard Hawks), The Fortune Cookie (Billy Wilder), Come Drink With Me (King Hu), and King of Hearts (Philippe de Broca)

1968:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
2. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
3. Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomas Gutierrez Alea)
4. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
5. Faces (John Cassavetes)
6. Shame (Ingmar Bergman)
7. High School (Frederick Wiseman)
8. Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
9. The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Paradjanov)
10. Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman)

Honorable Mention: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (William Greaves), Flesh (Paul Morrissey), The Killing of Sister George (Robert Aldrich), The Producers (Mel Brooks), The Party (Blake Edwards), Hell in the Pacific (John Boorman), The Bride Wore Black (François Truffaut), The Swimmer (Frank Perry), Mandabi (Ousmane Sembene), and Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)

Blind Spots: Le Révélateur (Philippe Garrel), Nanami: The Inferno of Lost Love (Sasumu Hani), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Robert Ellis Miller), Death by Hanging (Nagisa Oshima), Funny Girl (William Wyler), Partner (Bernardo Bertolucci), Madigan (Don Siegel), Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava), I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (Hy Averback), Head (Bob Rafelson), The Legend of Lylah Clare (Robert Aldrich), Me (Maurice Pialat), Petulia (Richard Lester),