1
9
9
0

Mountains of the Moon (Bob Rafelson) - 1990
La Femme Nikita (Luc Besson) - 1990
Wild at Heart (David Lynch) - 1990
White Hunter, Black Heart (Clint Eastwood) - 1990
Bullet in the Head (John Woo) - 1990
After Dark, My Sweet (James Foley) - 1990
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese) - 1990
The Grifters (Stephen Frears) - 1990
Miller’s Crossing (Coen Brothers) - 1990
King of New York (Abel Ferrara) - 1990
Jacob's Ladder (Adrian Lyne) - 1990
Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme) - 1991
Mortal Thoughts (Alan Rudolph) - 1991
Paris Trout (Stephen Gyllenhaal) - 1991
Zentropa (Lars von Trier) - 1991
Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott) - 1991
Barton Fink (Joel Coen) - 1991
Homicide (David Mamet) - 1991
Black Robe (Bruce Beresford) - 1991
The Rapture (Michael Tolkin) - 1991
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou) - 1991
My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant) - 1991
Salmonberries (Percy Adlon) - 1991
Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg) - 1991
Eternal Enemies (Dereck & Beverly Joubert) - 1992
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino) - 1992
Love Crimes (Lizzie Borden) - 1992
The Player (Robert Altman) - 1992
Hard-Boiled (John Woo) - 1992
A Midnight Clear (Kieth Gordon) - 1992
Man Bites Dog (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde) - 1992
One False Move (Carl Franklin) - 1992
Poison Ivy (Katt Shea) - 1992
Red Rock West (John Dahl) - 1992
Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski) - 1992
Waterland (Stephen Gyllenhaal) - 1992
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan) - 1992
El Mariachi (Robert Rodriguez) - 1992
Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara) - 1992
Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley) - 1992
Farewell, My Concubine (Chen Kaige) - 1993
The Piano (Jane Campion) - 1993
Stalingrad (Joseph Vilsmaier) - 1993
The Secret Garden (Agnieszka Holland) - 1993
The Cement Garden (Andrew Birkin) - 1993
The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese) - 1993
Cronos (Guillermo del Toro) - 1993
The Remains of the Day (James Ivory) - 1993
Backbeat (Iain Softley) - 1994
The Crow (Alex Proyas) - 1994
The Last Seduction (John Dahl) - 1994
Exotica (Atom Egoyan) - 1994
Léon (Luc Besson) - 1994
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino) - 1994
Ed Wood (Tim Burton) - 1994
Death & the Maiden (Roman Polanski) - 1994

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9
5

The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer) - 1995
Cold Fever (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson) - 1995
Citizen X (Chris Gerolmo) - 1995
Underground (Emir Kusturica) - 1995
City of Lost Children (Marc Caro/Jean-Pierre Jeunet) - 1995
La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol) - 1995
Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis) - 1995
Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin) - 1995
Seven (David Fincher) - 1995
Copycat (Jon Amiel) - 1995
Heat (Michael Mann) - 1995
Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam) - 1995
Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson) - 1996
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle) - 1996
Fargo (Joel Coen) - 1996
Crash (David Cronenberg) - 1996
Lone Star (John Sayles) - 1996
The Funeral (Abel Ferrara) - 1996
The Portrait of a Lady (Jane Campion) - 1996
Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton) - 1996
Blood & Wine (Bob Rafelson) - 1996
The Ogre (Volker Schlöndorff) - 1996
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Mike Barker) - 1996
Lost Highway (David Lynch) - 1997
Insomnia (Erik Skjoldbjaerg) - 1997
L A Confidential (Curtis Hanson) - 1997
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan) - 1997
Affliction (Paul Schrader) - 1997
The Apostle (Robert Duvall) - 1997
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson) - 1997
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami) - 1997
Wings of a Dove (Iain Softley) - 1997
Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino) - 1997
Ringu (Hideo Nakata) - 1998
The Big Lebowski (Coen Brothers) - 1998
King Lear (Richard Eyre) - 1998
Out of Sight (Steven Soderberg) - 1998
Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer) - 1998
Black Cat, White Cat (Emir Kusturica) - 1998
A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi) - 1998
Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller) - 1998

Ravenous (Antonia Bird) - 1999
The Limey (Steven Soderbergh) - 1999
Goya in Bordeaux (Carlos Saura) - 1999
American Beauty (Sam Mendes) - 1999
Fight Club (David Fincher) - 1999
Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton) - 1999
The Talented Mr Ripley (Anthony Minghella) - 1999

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0
0
0

American Psycho (Mary Harron) - 2000
Amores perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu) - 2000
Memento (Christopher Nolan) - 2000
Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer) - 2000
The Deep End (Scott McGhee/David Siegel) - 2001
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) - 2001
The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro) - 2001
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis) - 2001
The Others (Alejandro Amenábar) - 2001
Time Out (Laurent Cantet) - 2001
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch) - 2001
Last Orders (Fred Schepisi) - 2001
The Stickup (Rowdy Herrington) - 2002
City of God (Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund) - 2002
Man on the Train (Patrice Leconte) - 2002
Ripley's Game (Liliana Cavani) - 2002
Dirty Pretty Things (Stephen Frears) - 2002
Infernal Affairs (Wai-keung Lau, Siu Fai Mak) - 2002
Swimming Pool (François Ozon) - 2003
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood) - 2003
A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-woon) - 2003
Oldboy (Park Chanwook) - 2003
The Machinist (Brad Anderson) - 2004

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5

Sin City (Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller) - 2005
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg) - 2005
Lemming (Dominik Moll) - 2005
Caché (Micheal Haneke) - 2005
Good Night & Good Luck (George Clooney) - 2005
Brick (Rian Johnson) - 2005
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones) - 2006
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) - 2006
Them (David Moreau, Xavier Palud) - 2006
Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu) - 2006
Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro) - 2006
Black Book (Paul Verhoeven) - 2006
Inland Empire (David Lynch) - 2006
You Kill Me (John Dahl) - 2007
Breach (Billy Ray) - 2007
Yella (Christian Petzold) - 2007
Zodiac (David Fincher) - 2007
The Lookout (Scott Frank) - 2007
The Orphanage (Juan Antonio Bayona) - 2007
Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck) - 2007
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet) - 2007
Heartbeat Detector (Nicolas Klotz) - 2007
Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg) - 2007
No Country for Old Men (Ethan & Joel Coen) - 2007
Sweeney Todd (Tim Burton) - 2007
There Will be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson) - 2007
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh) - 2008
Revanche (Götz Spielmann) - 2008
The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson) - 2008
Gomorra (Matteo Garrone) - 2008
Lorna’s Silence (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) - 2008
The Square (Nash Edgerton) - 2008
Terribly Happy (Henrik Ruben Genz) - 2008
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel) - 2008
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow) - 2008
Jerichow (Christian Petzold) - 2008
Moon (Duncan Jones) - 2009
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Niels Arden Oplev) - 2009
Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar) - 2009
Sin Nombre (Cary Joji Fukunaga) - 2009
Bright Star (Jane Campion) - 2009
Mother (Bong Joon-ho) - 2009
A Prophet (Jacques Audiard) - 2009
Antichrist (Lars von Trier) - 2009
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke) - 2009
A Perfect Getaway (David Twohy) - 2009
The Road (John Hillcoat) - 2009
Port of Call - New Orleans (Werner Herzog) - 2009
Lebanon (Samuel Maoz) - 2009
Micmacs (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) - 2009
The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski) - 2010
Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik) - 2010
Shutter Island (Martin Scosese) - 2010

 

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List p.2: 1950-69
List p.3:1970-89

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