1979
1 ALL THAT JAZZ (Bob Fosse)
2 THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE STOLEN PAINTING (Raoul Ruiz)
3 STALKER (Andrei Tarkovsky)
4 THE HUMAN FACTOR (Otto Preminger)
5 GRADUATE FIRST (Maurice Pialat)
6 BEING THERE (Hal Ashby)
7 SERIE NOIRE (Alain Corneau)
8 MAD MAX (George Miller)
9 VENGEANCE IS MINE (Shohei Imamura)
10 HOME MOVIES (Brian De Palma)
11 CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER (Joan Micklin Silver)
12 ALIEN (Ridley Scott)
13 HOT ROD (George Armitage)
14 APOCALYPSE NOW (Francis Ford Coppola)
15 MANHATTAN (Woody Allen)
16 "10" (Blake Edwards)
17 THE BLACK STALLION (Carroll Ballard)
18 DRUGSTORE ROMANCE (Paul Vecchiali)
19 THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
20 THE WARRIORS (Walter Hill)
21 REAL LIFE (Albert Brooks)
22 THE WOMAN WITH RED HAIR (Tatsumi Kumashiro)
23 NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (Werner Herzog)
24 1941 (Steven Spielberg)
25 LAST HURRAH FOR CHIVALRY (John Woo)
1978
1 DAWN OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero)
2 REMEMBER MY NAME (Alan Rudolph)
3 PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (Eric Rohmer)
4 DOSSIER 51 (Michel Deville)
5 THE FURY (Brian De Palma)
6 DAYS OF HEAVEN (Terrence Malick)
7 EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE (James Fargo)
8 FILMING OTHELLO (Orson Welles)
9 SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR (Robert Mulligan)
10 THE DRIVER (Walter Hill)
11 THE GREEN ROOM (François Truffaut)
12 FEDORA (Billy Wilder)
13 FINGERS (James Toback)
14 KAMMESJUKJUL (Nils Malmros)
15 WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN (Karel Reisz)
1977
1 OPENING NIGHT (John Cassavetes)
2 KILLER OF SHEEP (Charles Burnett)
3 STAR WARS (George Lucas)
4 BLACK SUNDAY (John Frankenheimer)
5 ABIGAIL'S PARTY (Mike Leigh)
6 ERASERHEAD (David Lynch)
7 ANNIE HALL (Woody Allen)
8 THE DUELLISTS (Ridley Scott)
9 SORCERER (William Friedkin)
10 SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento)
11 THE AMERICAN FRIEND (Wim Wenders)
12 NEWS FROM HOME (Chantal Akerman)
13 LE DIABLE PROBABLEMENT (Robert Bresson)
14 MARTIN (George A. Romero)
15 TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING (Robert Aldrich)
16 ONE WAY OR ANOTHER (Sara Gomez)
1976
1 ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (John Carpenter)
2 ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (Alan J. Pakula)
3 THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (Orson Welles)
4 DUELLE (UNE QUARANTAINE) (Jacques Rivette)
5 THE MARQUISE OF O... (Eric Rohmer)
6 THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (Nicolas Roeg)
7 THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE (John Cassavetes)
8 MIKEY AND NICKEY (Elaine May)
9 WELCOME TO L.A. (Alan Rudolph)
10 GOD TOLD ME TO (Larry Cohen)
11 BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS, OR SITTING BULL'S HISTORY LESSON (Robert Altman)
12 THE TENANT (Roman Polanski)
13 THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN (Blake Edwards)
14 BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR (Joan Micklin Silver)
15 THE BAD NEWS BEARS (Michael Ritchie)
16 CARRIE (Brian De Palma)
17 THE CASSANDRA CROSSING (George P. Cosmatos)
THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (Clint Eastwood)
1975
1 JAWS (Steven Spielberg)
2 SHAMPOO (Hal Ashby)
3 THE MIRROR (Andrei Tarkovsky)
4 BARRY LYNDON (Stanley Kubrick)
5 JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (Chantal Akerman)
6 LOVE AMONG THE RUINS (George Cukor)
7 HUSTLE (Robert Aldrich)
8 SHIVERS (David Cronenberg)
9 THE KILLER ELITE (Sam Peckinpah)
10 THE ROMANTIC ENGLISHWOMAN (Joseph Losey)
11 XALA (Ousmane Sembene)
12 GREY GARDENS (Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer)
13 FRENCH CONNECTION II (John Frankenheimer)
14 PROFESSIONE: REPORTER (Michelangelo Antonioni)
15 MANDINGO (Richard Fleischer)
1974
1 LANCELOT DU LAC (Robert Bresson)
2 CHINATOWN (Roman Polanski)
3 PARADE (Jacques Tati)
4 THE CONVERSATION (Francis Ford Coppola)
5 THE TAMARIND SEED (Blake Edwards)
6 BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (Sam Peckinpah)
7 A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (John Cassavetes)
8 PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Brian De Palma)
9 CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette)
10 THE GODFATHER, PART II (Francis Coppola)
11 EDVARD MUNCH (Peter Watkins)
12 THE TRAVELER (Abbas Kiarostami)
13 THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (Joseph Sargent)
14 MES PETITES AMOUREUSES (Jean Eustache)
15 THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT (Michael Cimino)
16 LA GUEULE OUVERTE (Maurice Pialat)
17 ALICE IN THE CITIES (Wim Wenders)
18 JUGGERNAUT (Richard Lester)
19 L'AMBASSADE (Chris Marker)
29 COCKFIGHTER (Monte Hellman)
21 THE FRONT PAGE (Billy Wilder)
22 MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (Sidney Lumet)
23 THE TERMINAL MAN (Mike Hodges)
THE PARALLAX VIEW (Alan J. Pakula)
1973
1 F FOR FAKE (Orson Welles)
2 THE LAST DETAIL (Hal Ashby)
3 BREEZY (Clint Eastwood)
4 CHARLEY VARRICK (Don Siegel)
5 THE EXORCIST (William Friedkin)
6 MESSIAH OF EVIL (Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz)
7 THE ICEMAN COMETH (John Frankenheimer)
8 THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (Peter Yates)
9 THE PAPER CHASE (James Bridges)
10 WEDDING IN BLOOD (Claude Chabrol)
11 WHAT? (Roman Polanski)
12 SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE (Ingmar Bergman)
13 SEASON OF THE WITCH (George A. Romero)
14 LUCIFER RISING (Kenneth Anger)
15 DAY FOR NIGHT (François Truffaut)
16 THE CRAZIES (George A. Romero)
17 WORLD ON A WIRE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
18 PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID (Sam Peckinpah)
19 THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (Ivan Dixon)
20 TURKISH DELIGHT (Paul Verhoeven)
21 PAPER MOON (Peter Bogdanovich)
22 BADLANDS (Terrence Malick)
23 DEAD PIGEON ON BEETHOVEN STREET (Samuel Fuller)
24 BLUME IN LOVE (Paul Mazursky)
THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE (Jean Eustache)
THE AMUSEMENT PARK (George A. Romero)
1972
1 WE WON'T GROW OLD TOGETHER (Maurice Pialat)
2 LETTER TO JANE (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin)
3 AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (Werner Herzog)
4 JUNIOR BONNER (Sam Peckinpah)
5 TOUT VA BIEN (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin)
6 AVANTI! (Billy Wilder)
7 THE HEARTBREAK KID (Elaine May)
8 REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA (Jonas Mekas)
9 THE VISITORS (Elia Kazan)
10 PRIME CUT (Michael Ritchie)
11 FAT CITY (John Huston)
12 BLAISE PASCAL (Roberto Rossellini)
13 ULZANA'S RAID (Robert Aldrich)
14 THE HOT ROCK (Peter Yates)
15 THE GETAWAY (Sam Peckinpah)
16 THE GODFATHER (Francis Coppola)
17 POETIC JUSTICE (Hollis Frampton)
18 CISCO PIKE (B.L. Norton)
19 SPECIAL EFFECTS (Hollis Frampton)
20 HIT MAN (George Armitage)
21 CHLOE IN THE AFTERNOON (Erich Rohmer)
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
PREMONITION (Alan Rudolph)
THE LIFT (Robert Zemeckis)
1971
1 CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (Mike Nichols)
2 FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER (Robert Bresson)
3 TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (Monte Hellman)
4 KLUTE (Alan J. Pakula)
5 MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (Robert Altman)
6 GET CARTER (Mike Hodges)
7 DIRTY HARRY (Don Siegel)
8 DUCK, YOU SUCKER (Sergio Leone)
9 TRAFIC (Jacques Tati)
10 STRAW DOGS (Sam Peckinpah)
11 THE FRENCH CONNECTION (William Friedkin)
12 THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES (Robert Fuest)
13 MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ (John Cassavetes)
14 SUMMER OF '42 (Robert Mulligan)
15 A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
16 CRITICAL MASS (Hollis Frampton)
17 BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
18 THERE'S ALWAYS VANILLA (George A. Romero)
19 BIG JAKE (George Sherman and John Wayne)
20 A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Stanley Kubrick)
21 MAX ET LES FERRAILLEURS (Claude Sautet)
22 VANISHING POINT (Richard C. Sarafian)
23 TAKING OFF (Milos Forman)
RAPHAEL OU LE DEBAUCHE (Michel Deville)
1970
1 LA RUPTURE (Claude Chabrol)
2 HUSBANDS (John Cassavetes)
3 CLAIRE'S KNEE (Eric Rohmer)
4 HI, MOM! (Brian De Palma)
5 ZABRISKIE POINT (Michelangelo Antonioni)
6 PERFORMANCE (Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell)
7 HORNET'S NEST (Phil Karlson)
8 CATCH-22 (Mike Nichols)
9 TOO LATE THE HERO (Robert Aldrich)
10 WHICH WAY TO THE FRONT? (Jerry Lewis)
11 LE CERCLE ROUGE (Jean-Pierre Melville)
12 WANDA (Barbara Loden)
13 VENGEANCE! (Zhang Che)
14 SERENE VELOCITY (Ernie Gehr)
15 ONE MORE TIME (Jerry Lewis)
16 THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE (Sam Peckinpah)
17 TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA (Don Siegel)
18 GODS OF THE PLAGUE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
19 THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Billy Wilder)
20 LE PETIT THEATRE DE JEAN RENOIR (Jean Renoir)
ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (Vincente Minnelli)
LE BOUCHER (Claude Chabrol)
DARLING LILI (Blake Edwards)
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19 SPECIAL EFFECTS (Hollis Frampton)
20 HIT MAN (George Armitage)
21 CHLOE IN THE AFTERNOON (Erich Rohmer)
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
PREMONITION (Alan Rudolph)
THE LIFT (Robert Zemeckis)
1971
1 CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (Mike Nichols)
2 FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER (Robert Bresson)
3 TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (Monte Hellman)
4 KLUTE (Alan J. Pakula)
5 MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (Robert Altman)
6 GET CARTER (Mike Hodges)
7 DIRTY HARRY (Don Siegel)
8 DUCK, YOU SUCKER (Sergio Leone)
9 TRAFIC (Jacques Tati)
10 STRAW DOGS (Sam Peckinpah)
11 THE FRENCH CONNECTION (William Friedkin)
12 THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES (Robert Fuest)
13 MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ (John Cassavetes)
14 SUMMER OF '42 (Robert Mulligan)
15 A TOUCH OF ZEN (King Hu)
16 CRITICAL MASS (Hollis Frampton)
17 BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
18 THERE'S ALWAYS VANILLA (George A. Romero)
19 BIG JAKE (George Sherman and John Wayne)
20 A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Stanley Kubrick)
21 MAX ET LES FERRAILLEURS (Claude Sautet)
22 VANISHING POINT (Richard C. Sarafian)
23 TAKING OFF (Milos Forman)
RAPHAEL OU LE DEBAUCHE (Michel Deville)
1970
1 LA RUPTURE (Claude Chabrol)
2 HUSBANDS (John Cassavetes)
3 CLAIRE'S KNEE (Eric Rohmer)
4 HI, MOM! (Brian De Palma)
5 ZABRISKIE POINT (Michelangelo Antonioni)
6 PERFORMANCE (Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell)
7 HORNET'S NEST (Phil Karlson)
8 CATCH-22 (Mike Nichols)
9 TOO LATE THE HERO (Robert Aldrich)
10 WHICH WAY TO THE FRONT? (Jerry Lewis)
11 LE CERCLE ROUGE (Jean-Pierre Melville)
12 WANDA (Barbara Loden)
13 VENGEANCE! (Zhang Che)
14 SERENE VELOCITY (Ernie Gehr)
15 ONE MORE TIME (Jerry Lewis)
16 THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE (Sam Peckinpah)
17 TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA (Don Siegel)
18 GODS OF THE PLAGUE (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
19 THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Billy Wilder)
20 LE PETIT THEATRE DE JEAN RENOIR (Jean Renoir)
ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (Vincente Minnelli)
LE BOUCHER (Claude Chabrol)
DARLING LILI (Blake Edwards)
Other decades:
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2000s
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