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1969
1 PLAY DIRTY (André De Toth)
2 ARMY OF SHADOWS (Jean-Pierre Melville)
3 UNE FEMME DOUCE (Robert Bresson)
4 AGE OF CONSENT (Michael Powell)
5 MY NIGHT AT MAUD'S (Eric Rohmer)
6 BOY (Nagisa Oshima)
7 MODEL SHOP (Jacques Demy)
8 THE ITALIAN JOB (Peter Collinson)
9 INVASIÓN (Hugo Santiago)
10 INVOCATION OF MY DEMON BROTHER (Kenneth Anger)
11 THE STERILE CUCKOO (Alan J. Pakula)
12 THE HONEYMOON KILLERS (Leonard Kastle)
13 FELLINI SATYRICON (Federico Fellini)
14 BLIND BEAST (Yasuzo Masumura)
1968
1 L'ENFANCE NUE (Maurice Pialat)
2 BENJAMIN (Michel Deville)
3 JE T'AIME, JE T'AIME (Alain Resnais)
4 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George A. Romero)
5 ROSEMARY'S BABY (Roman Polanski)
6 THE BOSTON STRANGLER (Richard Fleischer)
7 CHARLIE BUBBLES (Albert Finney)
8 TEOREMA (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
9 SECRET CEREMONY (Joseph Losey)
10 THE BURNING (Stephen Frears)
11 FACES (John Cassavetes)
12 SURFACE TENSION (Hollis Frampton)
13 WHISTLE AND I'LL COME TO YOU (Jonathan Miller)
14 THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE (Robert Aldrich)
15 LA CHAMADE (Alain Cavalier)
16 MANDABI (Ousmane Sembene)
17 DEATH BY HANGING (Nagisa Oshima)
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (Stanley Kubrick)
1967
1 PLAYTIME (Jacques Tati)
2 THE GRADUATE (Mike Nichols)
3 MOUCHETTE (Robert Bresson)
4 SCATTERED CLOUDS (Mikio Naruse)
5 DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY (Jim McBride)
6 UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE (Robert Mulligan)
7 THE RED AND THE WHITE (Miklós Jancsó)
8 DRAGNET 1967: "THE SHOOTING BOARD" (Jack Webb)
9 QUATERMASS AND THE PIT (Roy Ward Baker)
10 THE BIG MOUTH (Jerry Lewis)
11 LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (Eric Rohmer)
12 DRAGNET 1967: "THE BIG INTERROGATION" (Jack Webb)
13 DRAGNET 1967: "THE BIG KIDNAPPING" (Jack Webb)
14 DRAGON INN (King Hu)
15 STRANGER ON THE RUN (Don Siegel)
16 ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (Zhang Che)
17 TWO FOR THE ROAD (Stanley Donen)
18 ACCIDENT (Joseph Losey)
19 DRAGNET 1967: "THE BIG GUN" (Jack Webb)
20 SING A SONG OF SEX (Nagisa Oshima)
21 THE DIRTY DOZEN (Robert Aldrich)
22 SAMURAI REBELLION (Masaki Kobayashi)
23 HURRY SUNDOWN (Otto Preminger)
24 THE HONEY POT (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1966
1 AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (Robert Bresson)
2 THREE ON A COUCH (Jerry Lewis)
3 WALK DON'T RUN (Charles Walters)
4 ANDREI RUBLEV (Andrei Tarkovsky)
5 THE TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV (Roberto Rossellini)
6 EL DORADO (Howard Hawks)
7 COME DRINK WITH ME (King Hu)
8 THE SHOOTING (Monte Hellman)
9 WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE WAR, DADDY? (Blake Edwards)
10 REPORT (Bruce Conner)
11 FIGHTING ELEGY (Seijun Suzuki)
12 THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY (Sergio Leone)
13 BLOWUP (Michelangelo Antonioni)
14 THE STRANGER WITHIN A WOMAN (Mikio Naruse)
15 THEY'RE A WEIRD MOB (Michael Powell)
16 MADE IN U.S.A. (Jean-Luc Godard)
17 WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (Mike Nichols)
18 THE PORNOGRAPHERS (Shohei Imamura)
19 IREZUMI (Yasuzo Masumura)
20 ALL MY LIFE (Bruce Baillie)
21 THE CHASE (Arthur Penn)
LA GUERRE EST FINIE (Alain Resnais)
1965
1 IN HARM'S WAY (Otto Preminger)
2 CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (Orson Welles)
3 THE WAR GAME (Peter Watkins)
4 THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER (Henry Hathaway)
5 THE GREAT RACE (Blake Edwards)
6 FISTS IN THE POCKET (Marco Bellocchio)
7 YOYO (Pierre Étaix)
8 THE IPCRESS FILE (Sidney J. Furie)
9 RED LINE 7000 (Howard Hawks)
10 A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA (Alexander Mackendrick)
11 BLACK GIRL (Ousmane Sembene)
12 TOKYO OLYMPIAD (Kon Ichikawa)
13 THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gillo Pontecorvo)
14 THE KNACK...AND HOW TO GET IT (Richard Lester)
15 KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (Kenneth Anger)
16 FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (Sergio Leone)
17 DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (David Lean)
18 RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND (Monte Hellman)
19 THERE ARE HORSES (Tolomush Okeyev)
20 THE ALPHABET MURDERS (Frank Tashlin)
21 BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING (Otto Preminger)
1964
1 THE PATSY (Jerry Lewis)
2 YEARNING (Mikio Naruse)
3 WOMAN IN THE DUNES (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
4 SCORPIO RISING (Kenneth Anger)
5 DOG STAR MAN (Stan Brakhage)
6 INTENTIONS OF MURDER (Shohei Imamura)
7 THE OUTER LIMITS: "THE INVISIBLES" (Gerd Oswald)
8 THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (Anthony Mann)
9 THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN (Charles Walters)
10 ZULU (Cy Endfield)
11 LUCKY JO (Michel Deville)
12 MAN'S FAVORITE SPORT? (Howard Hawks)
13 NOTHING BUT A MAN (Michael Roemer)
14 HAMLET (Grigory Kozintzev)
15 CULLODEN (Peter Watkins)
16 THE OUTER LIMITS: "DON'T OPEN TILL DOOMSDAY" (Gerd Oswald)
17 BANDE À PART (Jean-Luc Godard)
18 FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (Sergio Leone)
19 THE DISORDERLY ORDERLY (Frank Tashlin)
20 CHARULATA (Satyajit Ray)
21 THE CAVERN (Edgar G. Ulmer)
22 DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (Stanley Kubrick)
23 THE TRAIN (John Frankenheimer)
24 TRUTH AND ILLUSION: AN INTRODUCTION TO METAPHYSICS (King Vidor)
25 A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (Richard Lester)
A CAÇA (Manoel de Oliveira)
ZATOICHI AND THE CHEST OF GOLD (Kazuo Ikehiro)
1963
1 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
2 THE BIRDS (Alfred Hitchcock)
3 MURIEL (Alain Resnais)
4 THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (Jerry Lewis)
5 SHOCK CORRIDOR (Samuel Fuller)
6 HIGH AND LOW (Akira Kurosawa)
7 DONOVAN'S REEF (John Ford)
8 YOUTH OF THE BEAST (Seijun Suzuki)
9 JUDEX (Georges Franju)
10 BYE BYE BIRDIE (George Sidney)
11 I FIDANZATI (Ermanno Olmi)
12 LA BOULANGERE DE MONCEAU (Eric Rohmer)
13 LANDRU (Claude Chabrol)
14 THE OUTER LIMITS: "O.B.I.T." (Gerd Oswald)
15 HOW THE WEST WAS WON (Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall)
16 21-87 (Arthur Lipsett)
17 LE DOULOS (Jean-Pierre Melville)
18 CONTEMPT (Jean-Luc Godard)
19 LE JOLI MAI (Chris Marker)
20 SAMMY GOING SOUTH (Alexander Mackendrick)
21 BOROM SARRET (Ousmane Sembene)
1962
1 AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (Yasujiro Ozu)
2 HATARI! (Howard Hawks)
3 LA JETÉE (Chris Marker)
4 THE TRIAL (Orson Welles)
5 COSMIC RAY (Bruce Conner)
6 A WANDERER'S NOTEBOOK (Mikio Naruse)
7 THE HOUSE IS BLACK (Forugh Farrokhzad)
8 ADVISE & CONSENT (Otto Preminger)
9 THESE ARE THE DAMNED (Joseph Losey)
10 THE THIRD LOVER (Claude Chabrol)
11 PROCÈS DE JEANNE D'ARC (Robert Bresson)
12 CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER (Albert Zugsmith)
13 JULES AND JIM (François Truffaut)
14 SANJURO (Akira Kurosawa)
15 MAMMALS (Roman Polanski)
16 HELL IS FOR HEROES (Don Siegel)
17 ADORABLE MENTEUSE (Michel Deville)
18 RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY (Sam Peckinpah)
19 THE FABULOUS BARON MUNCHAUSEN (Karel Zeman)
20 EVA (Joseph Losey)
21 IVAN'S CHILDHOOD (Andrei Tarkvosky)
22 THE ELUSIVE CORPORAL (Jean Renoir)
23 THE SUITOR (Pierre Étaix)
24 MAFIOSO (Alberto Lattuada)
25 TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN (Vincente Minnelli)
26 THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (John Ford)
27 LOLITA (Stanley Kubrick)
28 LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Sidney Lumet)
29 VIVRE SA VIE: FILM EN DOUZE TABLEAUX (Jean-Luc Godard)
FLASHING SPIKES (John Ford)
THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Luis Buñuel)
1961
1 THE LADIES' MAN (Jerry Lewis)
2 BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (Blake Edwards)
3 THE ERRAND BOY (Jerry Lewis)
4 ALYONKA (Boris Barnet)
5 ONE, TWO, THREE (Billy Wilder)
6 LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Alain Resnais)
7 THE END OF SUMMER (Yasujiro Ozu)
8 IL POSTO (Ermanno Olmi)
9 PARIS BELONGS TO US (Jacques Rivette)
10 ¡CUBA SÍ! (Chris Marker)
11 EL CID (Anthony Mann)
12 YOJIMBO (Akira Kurosawa)
13 NELLY'S FOLLY (Chuck Jones)
14 THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW: "HARRISON B. HARDING OF CAMP CROWDER, MO." (John Rich)
15 PLEINS FEUX SUR L’ASSASSIN (Georges Franju)
16 BAD BOY (Susumi Hani)
17 THE LAST HUNGRY CAT (Friz Freleng)
18 THE FAT AND THE LEAN (Roman Polanski)
19 THE FORGOTTEN FACES (Peter Watkins)
20 BARABBAS (Richard Fleischer)
1960
1 THE THOUSAND EYES OF DR. MABUSE (Fritz Lang)
2 WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS (Mikio Naruse)
3 LE TROU (Jacques Becker)
4 SERGEANT RUTLEDGE (John Ford)
5 THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS (Jean Cocteau)
6 LATE AUTUMN (Yasujiro Ozu)
7 THE BELLBOY (Jerry Lewis)
8 LET'S MAKE LOVE (George Cukor)
9 THE WESTERNER: “BROWN” (Sam Peckinpah)
10 BREATHLESS (Jean-Luc Godard)
11 THE APPROACH OF AUTUMN (Mikio Naruse)
12 THE WESTERNER: “JEFF” (Sam Peckinpah)
13 THE BAD SLEEP WELL (Akira Kurosawa)
14 LES BONNES FEMMES (Claude Chabrol)
15 HOME FROM THE HILL (Vincente Minnelli)
16 L'AVVENTURA (Michelangelo Antonioni)
17 STARTIME: "INCIDENT AT A CORNER" (Alfred Hitchcock)
18 PSYCHO (Alfred Hitchcock)
19 EYES WITHOUT A FACE (Georges Franju)
20 AFRAID TO DIE (Yasuzo Masumura)
21 LA VÉRITÉ (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
22 BRAINWASHED (Gerd Oswald)
23 CLASSE TOUS RISQUES (Claude Sautet)
24 THE LADY WITH THE DOG (Iosif Khejfits)
25 NORTH TO ALASKA (Henry Hathaway)
WAGON TRAIN: "THE COLTER CRAVEN STORY" (John Ford)
THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN (Edgar G. Ulmer)
BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER (Edgar G. Ulmer)
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