1940s
1. Day of Wrath (Dreyer, 1943)
2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
3. The Magnificient Ambersons (Welles, 1942)
4. Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942)
5. It's a Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946)
1950s
1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
2. Touch of Evil (Welles, 1958)
3. Singin' in the Rain (Donen & Kelly, 1952)
4. Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957)
5. Mister Roberts (Ford, 1955)
1960s
1. Persona (Bergman, 1966)
2. Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara, 1964)
3. The Trial (Welles, 1962)
4. Hour of the Wolf (Bergman, 1968)
5. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
7. Juliet of the Spirits (Fellini, 1965)
8. 8 � (Fellini, 1963)
9. Shame (Bergman, 1968)
10. Gertrud (Dreyer, 1964)
1970s
1. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick, 1975)
2. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
3. The Godfather, I and II (Coppola, 1972-74)
4. The Duellists (Scott, 1977)
5. Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
6. F for Fake (Welles, 1974)
7. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir, 1975)
8. Harold and Maude (Ashby, 1971)
9. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
10. Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975)
1980s
1. Nostalghia (Tarkovsky, 1983)
2. The Sacrifice (Tarkovsky, 1986)
3. Come and See (Klimov, 1985)
4. Full Metal Jacket (Kubrick, 1987)
5. Alice (Svankmajer, 1988)
6. The Shining (Kubrick, 1980)
7. A Zed and Two Noughts (Greenaway, 1985)
8. A Fish Called Wanda (Crichton, 1988)
9. Medea (Von Trier, 1987)
10. Once Upon a Time in America (Leone, 1984)
1990s
1. The Big Lebowski (Coen, 1998)
2. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999)
3. Schizopolis (Soderbergh, 1996)
4. Jacob's Ladder (Lyne, 1990)
5. Election (Payne, 1999)
6. Fearless (Weir, 1993)
7. Conspirators of Pleasure (Svankmajer, 1996)
8. Faust (Svankmajer, 1994)
9. Institute Benjamenta (Quay, 1995)
10. Henry Fool (Hartley, 1997)
2000s
1. Team America: World Police (Parker, 2004)
2. Intolerable Cruelty (Coen, 2003)
3. Mulholland Dr. (Lynch, 2001)
4. Punch-Drunk Love (P.T. Anderson, 2002)
5. Gangs of New York (Scorsese, 2002)
6. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (Ki-duk Kim, 2003)
7. Hero (Zhang, 2002)
8. George Washington (Green, 2000)
9. Far From Heaven (Haynes, 2002)
10. Gladiator (Scott, 2000)