Decade Lists

2000s
1. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
2. Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
3. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
4. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
5. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)
6. City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
7. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
8. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
9. Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
10. No Country for Old Men (Coen Bros)
11. Werkmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
12. 2046 (Wong Kar-Wai)

13. Y tu Mama tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)

14. Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)
15. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Christian Mungiu)
16. Eternal Sunshine (Michel Gondry)
17. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
18. Paranoid Park (Gus van Sant)

19. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
20. Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda)
21. Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson) 

22. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
23. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
24. Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
25. Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes)
26. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron)
27. Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar)
28. Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
29. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
30. Volver (Pedro Almodovar)


1990s
1. Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
2. Double Life of Veronique (Krzyzstof Kieslowski)
3. Blue (Krzyzstof Kieslowski)
4. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
5. Red (Krzyzstof Kieslowski)
6. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
7. Chungking Express/Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai)
8. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
9. Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
10. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)

11. White (Krzyzstof Kieslowski)

12. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar)

13. Piano (Jane Campion)

14. Fargo (Coen Bros)

15. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch)

16. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
17. Barton Fink (Coen Bros)
18. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
19. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
20. Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai)
21. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-Wai)
22. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
23. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
24. Matrix (Wachowski Sibs)
25. Player (Robert Altman)
26. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)

27. Pulp Fiction (Quintin Tarantino)
28. Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)

29. Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat) 
30. Lost Highway (David Lynch)


1980s
1. Fanny och Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Dekalog (Krzyzstof Kieslowski) 
3. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
4. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
5. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)  
6. Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky) 
7. Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky)
8. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
9. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
10. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
11. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
12. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore)
13. Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
14. Elephant Man (David Lynch)

15. Hannah & Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
16. Blood Simple (Coen Bros)            

17. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick)

18. Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch)

19. Raising Arizona (Coen Bros)

20. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott) 

21. This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)

22. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)

23. Damnation (Bela Tarr)
24. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodovar)
25. Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
26. A Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat)
27. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata)
28. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
29. Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
30. Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris)


1970s
1. Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
3. Manhattan (Woody Allen)
4. 3 Women (Robert Altman)
5. Nashville (Robert Altman)
6. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky)
7. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky)
8. Aguirre (Werner Herzog)
9. Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
10. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
11. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
12. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)
13. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
14. Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
15. Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
16. Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
17. Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
18. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
19. Godfather II (Francis Ford Coppola)

20. Discrete Charm (Luis Bunuel)

21. Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)

22. Jeanne Dielman (Chantal Akerman)

23. Eraserhead (David Lynch) 

24. Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse)

25. Don't Look Now (Nicholas Roeg)

26. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
27. Halloween (John Carpenter)
28. Carrie (Brian De Palma)
30. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
31. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)
32. Exorcist (William Friedkin)
33. Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
34. Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
35. Day for Night (Francois Truffaut)
36. F for Fake (Orson Welles)
37. Gimme Shelter (Albert and David Maysles)
38. Xala (Ousemane Sembene)
39. Clair's Knee (Eric Rohmer)
40. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)


1960s
1. Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut)
3. 2001: A Spacy Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
4. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
5. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. Modernity Trilogy (Michelangelo Antonioni)
7. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
8. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
9. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
10. Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
11. My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard)
12. Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
13. Blow-up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
14. Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu)
15. Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky)
16. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
17. Playtime (Jacques Tati)
18. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
19. Jetee (Chris Marker)
20. Gertrud (Carl Dreyer)
21. Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
22. End of Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
23. Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu)
24. Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni)
25. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
26. Man With No Name Trilogy (Sergio Leone)

27. Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)

28. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)

29. Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)

30. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard) 

31. Apartment (Billy Wilder)

32. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
33. Shock Corridor (Sam Fuller)
34. Charade (Stanley Donen)
35. Dr. Strangelove, Lolita, and Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)

36. Steamroller and the Violin (Andrei Tarkovsky) 
37. Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
38. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
39. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
40. Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)


1950s
1. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
2. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
3. 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
4. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
5. Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
6. La Strada (Federico Fellini)
7. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
8. Ordet (Carl Dreyer)
9. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
10. Early Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
11. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
12. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
13. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
14. Searchers (John Ford)

15. Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)

16. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
17. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
18. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)

19. Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
20. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)

21. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
22. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly)
23. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray
24. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
25. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
26. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
27. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
28. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
29. Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)
30. Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
31. Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
32. Rebel without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
33. Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
34. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
35. Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
36. Tokyo Twilight (Yasujiro Ozu)
37. Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu)
38. Early Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
39. Madame De... (Max Ophuls)
40. Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot)


1940s
1. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau)
2. Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
3. Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
4. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
5. Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
6. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
7. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
8. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne)
9. Brief Encounter (David Lean)
10. Third Man (Carol Reed)
11. Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
12. Day of Wrath (Carl Dreyer)
13. Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
14. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
15. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
16. My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
17. Red River (Howard Hawks)
18. Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
19. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
20. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
21. Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
22. To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)

23. Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)

24. Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)

25. Laura (Otto Preminger)

26. Maltese Falcon (John Huston)

27. Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)

28. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
29. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)

30. Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger) & Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)

1930s
1. Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)
2. M (Frtiz Lang)
3. 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
5. L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
6. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
7. Earth (Alexandre Dovzhenko)
8. City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
9. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
10. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
11. Zero for Conduct (Jean Vigo)
12. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
13. Freaks (Todd Browning)
14. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
15. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whales)
16. L'Age d'or (Luis Bunuel)
17. Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)
18. Stagecoach (John Ford)
19. Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein)
20. Frankenstein (James Whale)


1920s
1. Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau)
2. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
3. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
4. Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
5. Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
6. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene)
7. Man With The Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
8. Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton)
9. Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer)
10. Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali)