1962

Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
The Trial (Orson Welles)
La Jetee (Chris Marker)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)


The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer)
The Man who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey)
The Female: Seventy Times Seven (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson)
I Am Two (Kon Ichikawa)
Hara-kiri (Masaki Kobayashi)
Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut)
Two Weeks in Another Town (Vincente Minnelli)
Number 10 (Harry Smith) (the representative of the Early Abstractions series)
Nine Days of One Year (Mikhail Romm)
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel)
Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah)

Honorable mention: The Damned (Joseph Losey), The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (Riccardo Freda), Of Stars and Men (John Hubley), Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard)

Last updated: September 5, 2022

1961

Lola (Jacques Demy)
Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
The Marshes' Chant (Cecilia Mangini)
A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
Victim (Basil Dearden)
Divine Love (Cecilia Mangini)
The Exiles (Kent MacKenzie)
Tokyo Knights (Seijun Suzuki)
Mysterious Island (Cy Endfield)

Honorable mention: Creature from the Haunted Sea (Roger Corman), Junglee (Subodh Mukherjee), The Man with a Shotgun (Seijun Suzuki), Rabindranath Tagore (Satyajit Ray)

Last updated: March 18, 2021

1960

La Dolce vita (Federico Fellini)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder)

Devi (Satyajit Ray)

Smashing the O-Line (Seijun Suzuki)

Take Aim at the Police Van (Seijun Suzuki)
The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa)
Everything Goes Wrong (Seijun Suzuki)
The Magnificent Seven (John Sturges)

Stendali - Still They Toll (Cecilia Mangini)

Intimidation (Koreyoshi Kurahara)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)

The Letter Never Sent (Mikhail Kalotozov)
The Woman Who Touched Legs (Yasuzo Masumura)
Black Sunday (Mario Bava)
L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman)
Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)

Honorable mention: Beyond the Time Barrier (Edgar Ulmer), The City of the Dead (John Moxey), The Time Machine (George Pal), The Warped Ones (Koreyoshi Kurahara)

1959

North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)

Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)

Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray)
Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher)


The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)

Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus)
Bucket of Blood (Roger Corman)
Hiroshima mon Amour (Alain Resnais)

Honorable mentions: Araya (Margot Benacerraf), The First Lad (Sergei Paradjanov), The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery (Charles Guggenheim & John Stix), Journey to the Center of the Earth (Henry Levin), Lotna (Andrzej Wajda), The Manster (George P. Breakston & Kenneth G. Crane), Maria and Her Days (Cecilia Mangini)

Last updated: December 16, 2024

1958

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner)
The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher)
Ivan the Terrible II (Sergei Eisenstein)
Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph H. Lewis)
Shadows (John Cassavetes)
The Horse's Mouth (Ronald Neame)
Bridges-Go-Around (Shirley Clarke)
Giants and Toys (Yasuzo Masumura)

Honorable mention: The Blob (Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr.), Du cote de la cote (Agnes Varda), The Fearmakers (Jacques Tourneur), Horror of Dracula (Terence Fisher), Letter from Siberia (Chris Marker), The Music Room (Satyajit Ray), Underworld Beauty (Seijun Suzuki), Voice Without a Shadow (Seijun Suzuki)

Last updated: January 9, 2022

1957

The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalotozov)
Mambo Girl (Yi Wen)
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
Kanal (Andrzej Wajda)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
Decision at Sundown (Budd Boetticher)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Alison (John Huston)
Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean)
The Curse of Frankenstein (Terence Fisher)

Honorable mention: Golden Hands (Alexander Nikolenko, Alexei Pankratiev, and Sergei Paradjanov), Hell Drivers (Cy Endfield), Kronos (Kurt Neumann), Legend of the Lost (Henry Hathaway), The Mysterians (Ishiro Honda), Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur)

Last updated: June 11, 2018

1956

A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)
The Searchers (John Ford)
The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick)
Aparajito (Satyajit Ray)
The Mystery of Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot and Pablo Picasso)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang)
The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa)
Bigger than Life (Nicholas Ray)

Honorable mention: Forbidden Planet (Fred M. Wilcox), Punishment Room (Kon Ichikawa), What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street (Rudy Burckhardt and Joseph Cornell)

Last updated: March 26, 2016

1955

Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson)
To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
Confidential Report (Orson Welles)
French Cancan (Jean Renoir)
A Lawless Street (Joseph H. Lewis)
Rebel without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Bunuel)

Honorable mention: Dream (Shin Sang-Ok), Night and Fog (Alain Resnais), Rififi (Jules Dassin), Run for Cover (Nicholas Ray), The Very Eye of Night (Maya Deren)

Last updated: March 25, 2026

1954

The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa) 
Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)

On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan) 

Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock) 

Wuthering Heights (Luis Bunuel) 

Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold)

This Island Earth (Joseph Newman) 

The Silver Chalice (Victor Saville) 

Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger) 

Suddenly (Lewis Allen)

1953

Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu)
Shane (George Stevens)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman)
The End (Christopher MacLaine)
El (Luis Bunuel)
The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Beat the Devil (John Huston)
I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock)
Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
Eaux D'Artifice (Kenneth Anger)

Honorable mention: Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones), The Earrings of Madame de... (Max Ophuls), Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa), Statues Also Die (Alain Resnais, Chris Marker, and Ghislain Cloquet), The War of the Worlds (Byron Haskin)

1952

Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)
Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen)
Limelight (Charlie Chaplin)

Bells of Atlantis (Ian Hugo)
The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir)
Secrets of Women (Ingmar Bergman)
Neighbours (Norman MacLaren)
The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer)

Last updated: November 25, 2024

1951

Othello (Orson Welles)
Awara (Raj Kapoor) 

The Tales of Hoffmann (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) 

Outcast of the Islands (Carol Reed)

The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Chrichton)

The Thing (Christian Nyby) 

The African Queen (John Huston)

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Alfred Lewin) 

The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise) 

Lightning Strikes Twice (King Vidor) 

Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock) 

Honorable mention: Four in the Afternoon (James Broughton), Gods of Bali (Nikola Drakulic [and Robert Snyder]), The Tall Target (Anthony Mann)

Last updated: November 25, 2024

1950

The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini)
Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini)

All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder)
House by the River (Fritz Lang)
Colt .45 (Edwin L. Marin)
Scandal (Akira Kurosawa)
The Killer That Stalked New York (Earl McEvoy)
Tarzan and the Slave Girl (Lee Sholem)

1949

The Third Man (Carol Reed)
The Small Back Room (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
The Fountainhead (King Vidor)
Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa)
D.O.A. (Rudolph Mate)
My Love Has Been Burning (Kenji Mizoguchi)
The Set-Up (Robert Wise)
Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger)
Barsaat (Raj Kapoor)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)

Honorable mention: Prince of Foxes (Henry King)

1948

Macbeth (Orson Welles)
Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu)
The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio DeSica)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
Red River (Howard Hawks)
Port of Call (Ingmar Bergman)
The Naked City (Jules Dassin)
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky)
Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa)
Corridor of Mirrors (Terence Young)

Honorable mention: Aag (Raj Kapoor)

Last updated: January 31, 2026

1947

Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) 

Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur) 

Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding)

La Tempestaire (Jean Epstein) 

Monsieur Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin) 

The Fugitive (John Ford) 

One Wonderful Sunday (Akira Kurosawa) 

Born to Kill (Robert Wise) 

Quai des Orfevres (Henri-Georges Clouzot) 

T-Men (Anthony Mann)

1946

A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir)
My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
Dead Reckoning (John Cromwell)
No Regrets for Our Youth (Akira Kurosawa)
It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra)
Ritual in Transfigured Time (Maya Deren)
Utamaro and his Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi)
The Murderers are Among Us (Wolfgang Staudte)

Honorable mention: The Killers (Robert Siodmak), Nobody Lives Forever (Jean Negulesco), The Stranger (Orson Welles)

Last updated: November 29, 2024

1945

I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
Les Dames de Bois du Boulogne (Robert Bresson)
Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne)
A Study in Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren)
San Pietro (John Huston)
The Big Sleep (pre-release version) (Howard Hawks)
Ivan the Terrible I (Sergei Eisenstein)
Detour (Edgar Ulmer)
Objective, Burma! (Raoul Walsh)

Honorable mention: Christmas in Connecticut (Peter Godfrey), Isle of the Dead (Mark Robson)

Last updated: February 25, 2026

1944

At Land (Maya Deren)
Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges)

Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
Resisting Enemy Interrogation (Bernard Vorhaus)

It Happened Tomorrow (Rene Clair)
A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges)

The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with his battell fought at Agincourt in France (Laurence Olivier)

None Shall Escape (Andre de Toth) 

Bluebeard (Edgar Ulmer)

Honorable mention: Grandpa Called it Art (Walter Hart), Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli), To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)

Last updated: July 20, 2025

1943

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) 

The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur)

Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock) 

I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur) 

Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer) 

This Land is Mine (Jean Renoir) 

Journey Into Fear (Norman Foster) 

December 7th (John Ford) 

Willoughby’s Magic Hat (Bob Wickersham)

The Desperadoes (Charles Vidor)

1942

The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
Went the Day Well? (Alberto Cavalcanti)
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
Quite Please, Murder (John Larkin)
The Battle of Midway (John Ford)
Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
Across the Pacific (John Huston)

Last updated: July 1, 2026

1941

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
Citizen Kane (trailer) (Orson Welles)
Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
The 47 Ronin (Kenji Mizoguchi)
That Night in Rio (Irving Cummings)
49th Parallel (Michael Powell)
Man Hunt (Fritz Lang)
The Blood of Jesus (Spencer Williams)
Major Barbara (Gabriel Pascal)
I Wake Up Screaming (H. Bruce Humberstone)

Honorable mention: An Airman's Letter to His Mother (Michael Powell), The Face Behind the Mask (Robert Florey), Rhapsody in Rivets (Friz Freleng), The Tell-Tale Heart (Jules Dassin)

Last updated: June 30, 2026

1940

The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)

The Westerner (William Wyler)
The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger, Tim Whelan and Michael Powell)

Island of Doomed Men (Charles Barton)
Composition 1 (Themis) (Dwinell Grant)
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
Contraband (Michael Powell)
Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock)
Gang War (Leo C. Popkin)

1939

The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)

Destry Rides Again (George Marshall)
Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford)
The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh)
Thugs with Dirty Mugs (Tex Avery)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
Stagecoach (John Ford)
Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra)

Honorable mention: Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (Norman Foster), Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding), Frontier Marshal (Allan Dwan), The Real Glory (Henry Hathaway)

Last updated: September 28, 2024

1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz and William Keighley) 

La Bete Humaine (Jean Renoir) 

Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein) 

The River (Pare Lorentz) 

Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl) 

Jack's Dream (Joseph Cornell)
The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock) 

Ride a Crooked Mile (Alfred E. Green) 

Prison Train (Gordon Wiles) 

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (Anatole Litvak) 

1937

Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir) 

The Edge of the World (Michael Powell) 

Crossroads (Shen Xiling) 

Street Angel (Yuan Mu-jih) 

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Walt Disney)

Hospitaliky (Dave Fleischer) 

Even -- As You and I (Roger Barlow, Harry Hay, and Le Roy Robbins) 

The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey) 

Vogues of 1938 (Irving Cummings) 

Nothing Sacred (William Wellman)

Honorable mention: Harlem on the Prairie (Sam Newfield)

1936

Things to Come (William Cameron Menzies)
Cosmic Journey (Vasily Zhuravlyov)

The Devil Doll (Tod Browning)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
Rainbow Dance (Len Lye)
Near the Blue Sea (Boris Barnet)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
Flash Gordon (Frederick Stephani)


Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell)
The Walking Dead (Michael Curtiz)
Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)

Honorable mention: Seven Sinners (Albert de Corville)

1935

Wife, Be Like a Rose (Mikio Naruse)
Legong: Dance of the Virgins (Henri de la Falaise)
A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood)
The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Story of a Soldier (Cenek Zahradnicek and Vladimir Smejkal)
The Deformation of the Setting Sun (Joseph Leclerc)
Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
Princess Tam Tam (Edmond Greville)
National Customs (Lo Ming-Yau and Zhu Shi-Lin)
The Ghost Goes West (Rene Clair)

Last updated: September 8, 2026

1934

A Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu)
The Black Cat (Edgar Ulmer)
The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg)
Heat Lightning (Mervyn LeRoy)
Red Hot Mamma (Dave Fleischer)
The Goddess (Wu Yonggang)
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
Massacre (Alan Crosland) 
The Private Life of Don Juan (Alexander Korda)
Two Monks (Juan Bustillo Oro)

Honorable mention: Grand Canary (Irving Cummings), Hell in the Heavens (John G. Blystone), The Live Ghost (Charley Rogers), The Mascot (Ladislaw Starewicz), The Wedding of Palo (Friedrich Dalsheim)

Last updated: July 30, 2025

1933

Counsellor at Law (William Wyler)
King Kong (Meriam Cooper and Ernest Schoesdack)
Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy and Busby Berkeley)
Passing Fancy (Yasujiro Ozu)

Deserter (Vsevolod Pudovkin)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)

Ace of Aces (J. Walter Ruben)
Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley)

Me and My Pal (Charley Rogers and Lloyd French)
The Invisible Man (James Whale)
Betty Boop’s May Party (Dave Fleischer)

42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley)

Honorable mention: Dirty Work (Lloyd French), The Fatal Glass of Beer (Clyde Bruckman), Lot in Sodom (James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber), Misery in the Borinage (Joris Ivens and Henri Storck), The Moving Picture Fight of the Fox and the Possum (Ikuo Oishi), The Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz), The Sin of Nora Moran (Phil Goldstone), The Working Man (John G. Adolfi), The Worst Woman In Paris? (Monta Bell)

1932

Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
The Mummy (Karl Fruend)

Queen Kelly (Erich von Stroheim)

The Music Box (James Parrott)
Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
The Dentist (Leslie Pearce)

The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau)

Chandu the Magician (Marcel Varnel and William Cameron Menzies)
Horse Feathers (Norman McLeod)
Betty Boop’s Ups and Downs (Dave Fleischer)
Red Dust (Victor Fleming)
I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You (Dave Fleischer)

Helpmates (James Parrott)
The Most Dangerous Game (Ernest B. Schoesdack and Irving Pichel)

Scram! (Ray McCarey, Lloyd French, and Jack Lloyd)  
Minnie the Moocher (Dave Fleischer)
I Was Born, But... (Yasujiro Ozu)
One Way Passage (Tay Garnett)
Freaks (Tod Browning)
Betty Boop’s Bamboo Isle (Dave Fleischer)

Towed in a Hole (George Marshall)  
White Zombie (Victor Halperin)
Betty Boop, MD (Dave Fleischer)
Mystery Ranch (David Howard)

Honorable mention: Airmail (John Ford), The Hatchet Man (William Wellman), Hell’s Highway (Rowland Brown), Island of Lost Souls (Erle C. Kenton), Jewel Robbery (William Dieterle), Kuhle Wampe: Or, Who Owns the World? (Slatan Dudow), Prestige (Tay Garnett), The Red Shadow (Roy Mack & Kurt Neumann), Six Hours to Live (William Dieterle), Their First Mistake (George Marshall), Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch), 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (Michael Curtiz)

1931

Tabu (F. W. Murnau)
The Last Flight (William Dieterle)
M (Fritz Lang)
The Miracle Woman (Frank Capra)
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin)
Bimbo’s Initiation (Dave Fleischer)
Kameradschaft (G. W. Pabst)
Bad Girl (Frank Borzage)

Come Clean (James W. Horne)

Chickens Come Home (James W. Horne)

Autumn Fire (Herman G. Weinberg)

Honorable mentions: Beau Hunks (James W. Horne), Brats (James Parrott), Dangerous Female (Roy Del Ruth), Dracula (Tod Browning), Jeux arborescents (Emile Malespine), Laughing Gravy (James W. Horne), Monkey Business (Norman Z. McLeod), One Good Turn (James W. Horne)

1930

People on Sunday (Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer)

Prix de Beaute (silent) (Alfredo Genina)
Prix de Beaute (sound) (Alfredo Genina)

The Vagrant (Fritz Weiss)

Blotto (James Parrott)

Brats (James Parrott)

Maria of the Sea (Jose Leitao de Barros)

Madam Satan (Cecil B. DeMille)

Yamekraw (Murray Roth)

Celles qui s'en font (Germaine Dulac)

L'Age d'or (Luis Bunuel)
Swing You Sinners! (Dave Fleischer)

Hog Wild (James Parrott)
Barnacle Bill (Dave Fleischer)

The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (James Parrott)

Honorable mention: Anna Christie (Jacques Feyder), Salt for Svanetia (Mikhail Kalotozov), Tomatos Another Day (James Sibley Watson and Alec Wilder), Walk Cheerfully (Yasujiro Ozu)

Last updated: August 11, 2025

1929

Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
Brumes d’Automne (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
L'Argent (Marcel L'Herbier)
Where East is East (Tod Browning)
Pandora's Box (G. W. Pabst)
Men O'War (Lewis R. Foster)
H2O (Ralph Steiner)
Big Business (James W. Horne)
Mother Hummingbird (Julien Duvivier)
The Organist at St. Vitus (Martin Fric)
Les Mysteres du chateau du De (Man Ray)
Angora Love (Lewis R. Foster)
Manolescu (Victor Tourjansky)
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali)
Autour de L'Argent (Jean Dreville)
Perfect Day (James Parrott)
Spite Marriage (Edward Sedgwick)
Dynamite (Cecil B. de Mille)
Red Heroine (Wen Yimin)
Diary of a Lost Girl (G. W. Pabst)

Honorable mentions: Arsenal (Alexander Dovzhenko), Berth Marks (Lewis R. Foster), Black and Tan (Dudley Murphy), Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock), Double Whoopee (Lewis R. Foster), Figaro (Gaston Ravel & Tony Lekain), Jazz Heaven (Melville Brown), The Kiss (Jacques Feyder), Liberty (Leo McCarey), Piccadilly (E. A. Dupont), Rain (Joris Ivens), The White Hell of Piz Palu (Arnold Fanck and G. W. Pabst), Woman in the Moon (Fritz Lang)

Last updated: August 31, 2025

1928

The Crowd (King Vidor)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
The Racket (Lewis Milestone)
Abwege (G.W. Pabst)
There It Is (Charley Bowers and H. L. Muller)
Refuge (Carl Froelich)
Two Tars (James Parrott)
The Mysterious Lady (Fred Niblo)
The Eleventh Year (Dziga Vertov)
L’Etoile de mer (Man Ray)
Steamboat Bill Jr. (Charles Reisner)
The Wind (Victor Sjostrom)
The Seashell and the Clergyman (Germaine Dulac)
Moulin Rouge (E. A. Dupont)
Ko-Ko’s Earth Control (Dave Fleischer)

Song (Richard Eichberg)
The Telltale Heart (Charles Klein)
The Circus (Charlie Chaplin)
The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick)
Habeas Corpus (Leo McCarey and James Parrott)
The Fall of the House of Usher (James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber)
The Little Match Girl (Jean Renoir)

Honorable mention: Beggars of Life (William Wellman), Castle of Wind and Clouds (Toko Yamazaki), Ghosts before Breakfast (Hans Richter), Greeting by George Bernard Shaw (Jack Connolly and George Bernard Shaw), The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (Slavko Vorkapich and Robert Florey), The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni), Moral (Willi Wolff), Pass the Gravy (Fred L. Guiol), Speedy (Ted Wilde), Susy Saxophone (Karel Lamac), A Woman with Style (Fritz Wendhausen), You're Darn Tootin' (Edgar Kennedy)

Last updated: October 16, 2024

1927

Sunrise (F. W. Murnau)
Love (Edmund Goulding)
The Unknown (Tod Browning)
The Kid Brother (Ted Wilde)
Wings (William Wellman)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Alfred Hitchcock)
L'invitation au Voyage (Germaine Dulac)
The Battle of the Century (Clyde Bruckman and Leo McCarey)
The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni)
The Chess Player (Raymond Bernard)
Chang (Ernest Schoesdack and Merian Cooper)
The End of St. Petersburg (Vsevolod Pudovkin)

A Wild Roomer (Charley Bowers and H. L. Muller)
October (Sergei Eisenstein)
Nocturne (Marcel Silver)
Captain Salvation (John S. Robertson)

Honorable mention: The Blood Ship (George Seitz)
, Don't Tell Everything (Leo McCarey), King of Kings (Cecil B. de Mille), Many a Slip (Charley Bowers and H. L. Muller), The Night of Love (George Fitzmaurice)

Last updated: December 11, 2025

1926

Faust (F. W. Murnau)
A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa)



Menilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff)
The General (Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman)
The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjostrom)



Now You Tell One (Charley Bowers and H. L. Muller)
Kid Boots (Frank Tuttle)
A Sixth Part of the World (Dziga Vertov)
Anemic Cinema (Marcel Duchamp)



Egged On (Charley Bowers and H. L. Muller)
Moana (Robert Flaherty)
Mama Behave (Leo McCarey)
Don Juan (Alan Crosland)
The Great K & A Train Robbery (Lewis Seiler)




Honorable mention: The Black Bird (Tod Browning), The Flute of Krishna (Martha Graham), The Flying Ace (Richard E. Norman), For Heaven’s Sake (Sam Taylor), The Girl in Tails (Karin Swanstrom), He Done His Best (Charley Bowers and H. L. Muller), Ibanez' Torrent (Monta Bell), A Motorcycle Trip Through the Clouds (Lothar Rubelt), The Winning of Barbara Worth (Henry King)

Last updated: August 18, 2026

1924

The Swallow and the Titmouse (Andre Antoine)
Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
Greed (Erich Von Stroheim)
The Navigator (Buster Keaton and Donald Crisp)
Wild Oranges (King Vidor)
The Last Laugh (F. W. Murnau)
The Signal Tower (Clarence Brown)
The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh)
Dangers of the Big City Street (Toni Attenberger)
Three Women (Ernst Lubitsch)
Land of the Bulls (Musidora)
Kino-Eye (Dziga Vertov)
Gosta Berling's Saga (Mauritz Stiller)
Ballet mecanique (Fernand Leger)

Honorable mention: The Fugitive Futurist (Gaston Quiribet), The Humming Bird (Sidney Olcott), Profanation (Eugenio Perego)

Last updated: October 4, 2026

1925

The Light of Asia (Franz Osten and Himansu Rai)

Seven Chances (Buster Keaton)

The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin)
Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)

Jeux des reflets et de la vitesse (Henri Chomette)

Maciste in Hell (Guido Brignone)

In Youth, Beside the Lonely Sea (Anonymous)

The Freshman (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)

Chess Fever (Vsevelod Pudovkin and Mykola Shpkovskyi)
Strike (Sergei Eisenstein)
Don Q, Son of Zorro (Donald Crisp)
The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian)
Isn’t Life Terrible? (Leo McCarey)

  Honorable mention: Ben-Hur (Fred Niblo), Lady Windermere's Fan (Ernst Lubitsch), No Father to Guide Him (Leo McCarey), Tumbleweeds (King Baggot)

Last updated: August 14, 2025

1923

The Smiling Madame Beudet (Germaine Dulac)
Safety Last (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. de Mille)
Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton)
Why Worry? (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
Penrod and Sam (William Beaudine)
The Pilgrim (Charlie Chaplin)
Le Retour a la Raison (Man Ray)
The First Degree (Edward Sedgwick)
The Balloonatic (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)


Honorable mentions: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wallace Worsley), Johan Ulfstjerna (John W. Brunius), The Love Nest (Buster Keaton), When Knights Were Cold (Frank Fouce)