Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn), Bridesmaids (Paul Feig)

1. Hævnen / In a Better World (Susanne Bier)
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy) [doc]
3. Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
4. The Social Network (David Fincher)
5. Another Year (Mike Leigh)
6. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
7. Inception (Christopher Nolan)
8. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
9. The Fighter (David O. Russell)
10. The King's Speech (Tom Hooper)

Also Recommended: Winter's Bone (Debra Granik), The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko), The Town (Ben Affleck), Greenberg (Noah Baumbach); More Documentaries: Inside Job (Charles Ferguson)

1. Un prophète / A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
2. In the Loop (Armando Iannucci)
3. An Education (Lone Scherfig)
4. Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze)
5. Bright Star (Jane Campion)
6. Avatar (James Cameron)
7. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
8. Sin Nombre / Without Name (Cary Fukunaga)
9. Crazy Heart (Scott Cooper)
10. The Hangover (Todd Phillips)

Also Recommended: Public Enemies (Michael Mann), Star Trek (J. J. Abrams), Moon (Duncan Jones); More Documentaries: The Entrepreneur (Jonathan Bricklin)

1. Hurt Locker (Katherine Bigelow)
2. Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
3. Waiting for Hockney (Julie Checkoway) [doc]
4. The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
5. Between the Folds (Vanessa Gould) [doc]
6. Man on Wire (James Marsh) [doc]
7. Aruitemo aruitemo / Still Walking (Hirokazu Koreeda)
8. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
9. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
10. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)

Also Recommended: The Class (Laurent Cantet), Frozen River (Courtney Hunt), Ghost Town (David Koepp), Home (Ursula Meier), Hunger (Steve McQueen), Lorna's Silence (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne), Love and Other Crimes (Stefan Arsenijevic), Milk (Gus Van Sant); More Documentaries: October Country (Michael Palmieri & Donal Mosher)

1. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile / 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
3. This Is England (Shane Meadows)
4. I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
5. No Country for Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
6. King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon) [doc]
7. Zodiac (David Fincher)
8. Sang Sattawat / Syndromes and a Century (A. Weerasethakul)
9. Bikur Ha-Tizmoret / The Band's Visit (Eran Kolirin)
10. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)

Also Recommended: Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi), The Counterfeiters (Stefan Ruzowitzky), Superbad (Greg Mottola), Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols), The Bourne Ultimatum (Paul Greengrass), Ratatouille (Brad Bird & Jan Pinkava), The Savages (Tamara Jenkins), Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg), Control (Anton Corbijn), Sweeney Todd (Tim Burton); More Documentaries: Arid Lands (Grant Aaker & Josh Wallaert), Helvetica (Gary Hustwit), River Ways (Colin Stryker)

1. Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
2. Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer & Peter Djigirr)
3. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)
4. Efter brylluppet / After the Wedding (Susanne Bier)
5. The Chances of the World Changing (Eric Daniel Metzgar) [doc]
6. Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog)
7. Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen)
8. Wristcutters: A Love Story (Goran Dukic)
9. Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon (Peter Richardson) [doc]
10. Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck)

Also Recommended: The Departed (Martin Scorsese), Sutra ujutru (Oleg Novkovic), Casino Royale (Martin Campbell), Inside Man (Spike Lee); More Documentaries: Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal), When the Levees Broke (Spike Lee)

1. The Joy of Life (Jenni Olson) [doc]
2. Frontline: Country Boys (David Sutherland) [doc]
3. Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney)
4. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
5. Dave Chappelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry) [doc]
6. After Innocence (Jessica Sanders) [doc]
7. Street Fight (Marshall Curry) [doc]
8. Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan)
9. Junebug (Phil Morrison)
10. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)

Also Recommended: Last Days (Gus Van Sant), The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach), The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones), Capote (Bennett Miller), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tim Burton), Sweet Land (Ali Selim), Syriana (Stephen Gaghan), The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Judd Apatow); More Documentaries: 49 Up (Michael Apted), Being Caribou (Leanne Allison & Diana Wilson), Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog), Why We Fight (Eugene Jarecki), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney)

1. Daremo shiranai / Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda)
2. Kekexili / Mountain Patrol (Chuan Lu)
3. I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell)
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
5. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh)
6. Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand / Turtles Can Fly (Bahman Gohbadi)
7. Control Room (Jehane Noujaim) [doc]
8. Team America: World Police (Trey Parker & Matt Stone)
9. Mang Jing / Blind Shaft (Li Yang)
10. Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess)

Also Recommended: The Incredibles (Brad Bird); More Documentaries: The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (Judy Irving), Venus of Mars (Emily Goldberg), Darwin's Nightmare (Hubert Sauper), I, Curmudgeon (Alan Zweig), Libby, Montana (Dru Gunn-Carr & Doug Hawes-Davis), Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky)

1. La meglio gioventù / The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana)
2. Bom yeoreum… / Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (Ki-duk Kim)
3. Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen) [doc]
4. Dogville (Lars von Trier)
5. The Station Agent (Thomas McCarthy)
6. Le Temps du loup / Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke)
7. De fem bemspænd / The Five Obstructions (Lars von Trier) [doc]
8. My Flesh and Blood (Jonathan Karsh) [doc]
9. The School of Rock (Richard Linklater)
10. Elephant (Gus Van Sant)

Also Recommended: All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green), The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Peter Jackson), Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich), The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet); More Documentaries: Army of One (Sarah Goodman), Long Gone (Jack Cahill & David Eberhardt), Lost Boys of Sudan (Megan Mylan & Jon Shenk), Power Trip (Paul Devlin), The Fog of War (Errol Morris)

1. Gerry (Gus Van Sant)
2. Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach)
3. Lovely and Amazing (Nicole Holofcener)
4. Hable con ella / Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar)
5. The Pianist (Roman Polanski)
6. Russkij kovcheg / Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov)
7. The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman)
8. Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz) [doc]
9. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
10. Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore) [doc]

Also Recommended: Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes), Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski), Bloody Sunday (Paul Greengrass), 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle), In This World (Michael Winterbottom), Broken Wings (Nir Bergman), Blue Gate Crossing (Chin-yen Yee), Mondays in the Sun (Fernando León de Aranoa), Gangs of New York (Martin Scorcese), 13 Conversations about One Thing (Jill Sprecher), Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce), Whale Rider (Niki Caro), The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan); More Documentaries: Bus 174 (Felipe Lacerda & José Padilha), Devil’s Playground (Lucy Walker), The Trials of Henry Kissinger (Eugene Jarecki), The Weather Underground (Sam Green & Bill Siegel), This Is Nowhere (Doug Hawes-Davis & John Lilburn)

1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2. Rivers and Tides (Thomas Reidelsheimer) [doc]
3. L’Emploi du temps / Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
4. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi / Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
5. Gosford Park (Robert Altman)
6. In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
7. Children Underground (Edet Belzberg) [doc]
8. Atanarjuat / Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk)
9. La Pianiste / The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
10. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)

Also Recommended: Read My Lips (Jacques Audiard), The Son’s Room (Nanni Moretti), The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson); More Documentaries: Murder on a Sunday Morning (Jean-Xavier de Lestrade), War Photographer (Christian Frei)

1. You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
2. Dark Days (Marc Singer) [doc]
3. Dut yeung nin wa / In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
4. Memento (Christopher Nolan)
5. Our Song (Jim McKay)
6. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
7. Roozi khe zan shodam / The Day I Became a Woman (Marzieh Meshkini)
8. Les glaneurs et la glaneuse / The Gleaners and I (Agnès Varda) [doc]
9. Code incońnu / Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
10. Sound and Fury (Josh Aronson) [doc]

Also Recommended: Amores perros (A. González Iñárritu), The Princess and the Warrior (Tom Tykwer), Together (Lukas Moodysson); More Documentaries: Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens (Margaret Selby)

1. Ressources humaines / Human Resources (Laurent Cantet)
2. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
3. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Boys Don’t Cry (Kimberly Peirce)
5. Il mio viaggio in Italia / My Voyage to Italy (Martin Scorsese) [doc]
6. Three Kings (David O. Russell)
7. Election (Alexander Payne)
8. Mein liebster Feind / My Best Fiend (Werner Herzog) [doc]
9. Fight Club (David Fincher)
10. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar)

Also Recommended:, Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, et al.), The Insider (Michael Mann); More Documentaries: Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders), Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (Errol Morris), Pop (Joel Meyerowitz)

1. Wandafuru raifu / After Life (Hirokazu Koreeda)
2. Festen / The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg)
3. The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen)
4. The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
5. Fucking Åmål / Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson)
6. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
7. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
8. Bure baruta / Cabaret Balkan (Goran Paskaljevic)
9. Hilary and Jackie (Anand Tucker)
10. Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)

Also Recommended: The Dreamlife of Angels (Erick Zonca), Happiness (Todd Solondz), Pleasantville (Gary Ross)

1. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
2. The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
3. Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell)
4. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino)
5. Hands on a Hardbody (S. R. Bindler) [doc]
6. Affliction (Paul Schrader)
7. Ma vie en rose / My Life in Pink (Alain Berliner)
8. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
10. The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan)

Also Recommended: The Wings of the Dove (Iain Softley)

1. Fargo (Joel & Ethan Coen)
2. When We Were Kings (Leon Gast & Taylor Hackford) [doc]
3. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
4. Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh)
5. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
6. Lepa sela, lepo gore / Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Srdjan Dragojevic)
7. The Lumíere Brothers' First Films (Bertrand Tavernier)
8. Lone Star (John Sayles)
9. A Perfect Candidate (R. J. Cutler & David Van Taylor)
10. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle)

Also Recommended: Twelfth Night (Trevor Nunn), American Buffalo (Michael Corrente), Kolya (Jan Sverák)

1. La haine / Hate (Mathieu Kassovitz)
2. A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies [doc]
3. Maboroshi no hikari / Maborosi (Hirokazu Koreeda)
4. American Movie (Chris Smith) [doc]
5. Underground (Emir Kusturica)
6. Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee)
7. Walking and Talking (Nicole Holofcener)
8. Toy Story (John Lasseter)
9. Clueless (Amy Heckerling)
10. Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam)

Also Recommended: Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach)

1. In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan)
2. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis)
3. Brother's Keeper (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky) [doc]
4. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, et al.) [doc]
5. The Piano (Jane Campion)
6. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater)
7. The Remains of the Day (James Ivory)
8. Naked (Mike Leigh)
9. Crumb (Terry Zwigoff) [doc]
10. City of Hope (John Sayles)
11. Slacker (Richard Linklater)
12. Three Colors Trilogy (Krzystof Kieslowski)
13. Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
14. Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott)
15. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
16. The War Room (D. A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus) [doc]
17. Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh)
18. 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould (François Girard)
19. Pred doždot / Before the Rain (Milcho Manchevski)
20. American Dream (Barbara Kopple) [doc]

Also Recommended: Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino), Delicatessen (Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet), What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallström), The Player (Robert Altman), Terminator 2 (James Cameron), Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch), Burnt by the Sun (Nikita Mikhalkov), The Crying Game (Neil Jordan), Truly, Madly, Deeply (Anthony Minghella), My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant), Pump up the Volume (Allan Moyle), Malcolm X (Spike Lee); More Documentaries: Visions of Light (Arnold Glassman, et al.)

1. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
2. Style Wars (Henry Chalfant & TonySilver) [doc]
3. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
4. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
5. Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris) [doc]
6. Sherman's March (Ross McElwee) [doc]
7. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
8. Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi (George Lucas)
9. Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
10. Der Himmel über Berlin / Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
11. A Zed and Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway)
12. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
13. Coal Miner’s Daughter (Michael Apted )
14. Neco z Alenky / Alice (Jan Švankmajer )
15. Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
16. Burden of Dreams (Les Blank) [doc]
17. Repo Man (Alex Cox)
18. Heathers (Michael Lemann)
19. A Room with a View (James Ivory)
20. Dom za vesanje / Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica)

Also Recommended: Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant), E.T. (Steven Spielberg), Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg), Reds (Warren Beatty), The Shining (Stanley Kubrick), My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan), Batman (Tim Burton), Amadeus (Milos Forman), Say Anything… (Cameron Crowe), My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodóvar), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman), Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch), When Father Was Away on Business (Emir Kusturica), The Elephant Man (David Lynch); More Documentaries: Roger and Me (Michael Moore), The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris), The Atomic Cafe (Jayne Loader, et al.), The Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein)

1. Nashville (Robert Altman)
2. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
3. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
4. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
5. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick)
6. Jonas qui aura 25… / Jonah Who Will be 25 in the Year 2000 (Alain Tanner)
7. The Godfather I and II (Francis Ford Coppola)
8. Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
9. Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
10. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
11. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese)
12. Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple) [doc]
13. One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman)
14. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
15. Gimme Shelter (Maysles Brothers) [doc]
16. Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris) [doc]
17. Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
18. F for Fake (Orson Welles) [doc]
19. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
20. Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman)

Also Recommended: Star Wars (George Lucas), Chinatown (Roman Polanski), Amarcord (Federico Fellini), Manhattan (Woody Allen), Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich), The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich), The French Connection (William Friedkin), All the President’s Men (Alan Pakula), M*A*S*H (Robert Altman), Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet), Network (Sidney Lumet), Serpico (Sidney Lumet), Marathon Man (John Schlesinger), The Tenant (Roman Polanski), Cabaret (Bob Fosse), Lenny (Bob Fosse), Catch-22 (Mike Nichols ), The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg), Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart); More Documentaries: Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis), The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese), Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh)

1. To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
2. La battaglia di Algeri / The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
4. Don't Look Back (D. A. Pennebaker) [doc]
5. La dolce vita (Federico Fellini)
6. L'armée des ombres / Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
7. Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler)
8. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
9. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
10. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
11. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
12. Le Samouraï / The Godson (Jean-Pierre Melville)
13. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
14. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
15. Playtime (Jacques Tati)

Also Recommended: The Finger Man (Jean-Pierre Melville), Charade (Stanley Donen), 8½ (Federico Fellini), A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone), A Hard Days Night (Richard Lester ), Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper ), The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel), The Firemen’s Ball (Milos Forman), The Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman), Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick), The Graduate (Mike Nichols), The Hustler (Robert Rossen), The Servant (Joseph Losey), Z (Costa-Gavras); More Documentaries: Salesman (Maysles Brothers)

1. Les Quatre cents coups / The 400 Blows (François Truffaut)
2. The Searchers (John Ford )
3. La strada / The Road (Federico Fellini)
4. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
5. Los olvidados / The Young and the Damned (Luis Buñuel)
6. Nuit et brouillard / Night and Fog (Alain Resnais) [doc]
7. East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
8. Le notti di Cabiria / Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)
9. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
10. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
11. On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
12. Mystère Picasso / The Mystery of Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot) [doc]
13. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
14. Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)
15. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)

Also Recommended: 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet), Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich), Pickpocket (Robert Bresson), Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder), The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)

1. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
2. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
3. Ladri di biciclette / Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
4. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
5. The Cameraman (Buster Keaton)
6. The Third Man (Carol Reed)
7. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
8. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
9. Red River (Howard Hawks)
10. Chelovek s kinoapparatom / Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov) [doc]

Also Recommended: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene), Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau), M (Fritz Lang), Metropolis (Fritz Lang)