Accumulated from Piero Scaruffi's best films by year, all rated 7.0 or higher. Reformatted to one page and with genres provided for each title to maximize the efficiency of the recommendations.
For a condensed list, you can view Piero's all-time top 200 on his site here.
The + sign before a film indicates Piero's choice for the best film of that given year.
1910s
Abel Gance: J'Accuse (1919) || war, period drama, romance, French impressionist
Anton Giulio Bragaglia: Thais (1917) || Italian futurist cinema, melodrama
August Blom: Verdens Undergang / The End of The World (1916) || sci-fi, disaster, drama, post-apocalyptic
Cecil DeMille: The Cheat (1915) || melodrama, crime
+ David Wark Griffith: Intolerance (1916) || period drama, anthology film, romance, melodrama
David Wark Griffith: Broken Blossoms (1919) || melodrama, romance
David Wark Griffith: The Birth of a Nation (1915) || period drama, melodrama, war, propaganda film
Erich von Stroheim: Blind Husbands (1919) || melodrama, romance
Ernst Lubitsch: Die Austernprinzessin / Oyster Princess (1919) || comedy / satire
Ernst Lubitsch: Die Puppe / The Doll (1919) || absurdist comedy, low fantasy, romance
Georges Méliès: Le Voyage Dans la Lune / A Trip to the Moon (1902) || sci-fi / space exploration, fantasy, adventure, trick film
Giovanni Pastrone: Cabiria (1914) || sword and sandal / period drama, war
Louis Feuillade: Fantomas (1913) || crime, mystery
Louis Feuillade: Judex (1916) || crime, melodrama
Louis Feuillade: Les Vampires (1915) || crime / gangster / heist film, mystery, thriller
Maurice Tourneur: The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) || melodrama, comedy, low fantasy
Richard Jones & James Young (Mack Sennett): Mickey (1918) || comedy, drama
Stellan Rye & Paul Wegener: Der Student von Prag / The Student of Prague (1913) || supernatural horror, German expressionism
Thomas Ince: Civilization (1916) || war, drama, religious film
Urban Gad: Engelein (1914) || comedy
Victor Sjöström: Berg-Ejvind och Hans Hustru / The Outlaw and His Wife (1918) || romance, drama, adventure, survival, crime
Yevgeny Bauer: Zhizn zo Zhizn / A Life for a Life (1916) || drama
1920
Fred Niblo: The Mark of Zorro || swashbuckler, romance
Karlheinz Martin: Von Morgens bis Mitternachts / From Morn to Midnight || German expressionism, crime
Mauritz Stiller: Erotikon / When We Are Married || romantic comedy
Paul Wegener: Der Golem / The Golem || German expressionism, fantasy, horror, medieval
+ Robert Wiene: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari / The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari || German expressionism, mystery, psychological/gothic horror
1921
Charles Chaplin: The Kid || melodrama, slapstick
Fritz Lang: Der Mude Tod / Destiny || fantasy, German expressionism, romance, anthology film, melodrama, low fantasy, adventure
Henry King: Tol'able David || drama, coming-of-age
Leopold Jessner & Paul Leni: Hintertreppe / Backstairs || Kammerspiel/German expressionism
Lupu Pick (Carl Mayer): Scherben / Shattered || kammerspiel, drama
+ Marcel L'Herbier: Eldorado || melodrama, French impressionist cinema
Max Linder: Seven Years Bad Luck || slapstick, romantic comedy
Rex Ingram: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse || war, romance, period drama
Urban Gad: Christian Wahnschaffe* || crime, drama
Victor Sjöström: Körkarlen / Phantom Carriage || low fantasy, melodrama
*two films, Weltbrand / World Fire and Die Flucht aus dem goldenen Kerker / Escape from the Golden Dungeon
1922
Allan Dwan (Douglas Fairbanks): Robin Hood || swashbuckler, medieval
Benjamin Christensen: Häxan / The Witch || docudrama, supernatural/folk horror
Erich von Stroheim: Foolish Wives || drama
+ Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: Nosferatu || vampire, gothic horror, German expressionism
Fritz Lang: Doktor Mabuse / Dr. Mabuse || crime, thriller, German expressionism
Robert Flaherty: Nanook of the North || ethnographic film, docufiction, nature documentary
1923
Arthur Robinson: Schatten / Warning Shadows || German expressionism, thriller, low fantasy
Cecil DeMille: The Ten Commandments || sword and sandal, religious film, period drama, melodrama
Fred Newmeyer (Harold Lloyd): Safety Last || slapstick, romance
Germaine Dulac: La Souriante Madame Beudet / The Smiling Madame Beudet || psychological drama, French impressionist cinema
James Cruze: The Covered Wagon || western
+ Karl Grune: Die Straße / The Street || drama, German expressionism/new objectivity/straßenfilm
Mauritz Stiller: Gunnar Hedes Saga / The Blizzard || drama, adventure
1924
Buster Keaton: Sherlock Jr || slapstick, trick film
Buster Keaton: The Navigator || slapstick, adventure
Erich von Stroheim: Greed || psychological drama, romance, crime
Fernand Leger & Dudley Murphy: Ballet Mecanique || dada, cinema pur
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: Der Letzte Mann / The Last Laugh || kammerspiel, psychological drama, satire
+ Iakov Protazanov: Aelita || sci-fi/space exploration, melodrama, propaganda film, romance, comedy
Lev Kulesov: Neobychainiye Priklucheniya Mistera Vesta / The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West || comedy, satire, propaganda film, crime
Lupu Pick (Carl Mayer): Sylvester / New Year's Eve || kammerspiel
Marcel L'Herbier: L'Inhumaine / The Inhuman Woman || French impressionist, melodrama, sci-fi, romance
Paul Leni & Leo Birinski: Das Wachsfigurenkabinett / Waxworks || German expressionism, anthology film, horror, fantasy
Raoul Walsh: The Thief of Bagdad || fantasy, adventure, romance, trick film
Victor Sjostrom: He Who Gets Slapped || melodrama, thriller, romance
1925
+ Charles Chaplin: The Gold Rush || slapstick, adventure, romance
Ewald Andre Dupont: Variete / Variety || kammerspiel
Fred Newmeyer (Harold Lloyd): The Freshman || slapstick, sports, romance
Georg Wilhelm Pabst: Die Freudlose Gasse / The Joyless Street || kammerspiel, straßenfilm
Germaine Dulac: Le diable dans la ville / The Devil in the City || drama, medieval
King Vidor: The Big Parade || war, romance, melodrama, comedy
Sergei Eisenstein: Bronenosets Potyomkin / Battleship Potemkin || period drama, propaganda film, soviet montage, war
Sergei Eisenstein: Stachka / Strike || soviet montage, political drama, propaganda film, period drama
Tod Browning: The Unholy Three || crime, drama, thriller
1926
Boris Barnet: Miss Mend / The Adventures of the Three Reporters || spy, soviet montage
+ Buster Keaton: The General || slapstick, adventure, war, action
Clarence Brown: Flesh and the Devil || romance, melodrama, comedy
Dimitri Kirsanov: Menilmontant || French impressionist, melodrama
Georg Wilhelm Pabst: Geheimnisse einer Seele / Secrets of a Soul || new objectivity, psychological drama
Lev Kulesov: Po Zakonu / By the Law || ostern, soviet montage, psychological drama, survival
Vsevolod Pudovkin: Mat / Mother || drama, soviet montage, propaganda film
1927
Alexander Dovzhenko: Zvenigora || soviet montage, fantasy, drama, magical realism, period drama, surrealism, war, satire, medieval
Frank Borzage: Seventh Heaven || melodrama, romance, war
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: Sunrise || romance, melodrama, German expressionism, comedy
+ Fritz Lang: Metropolis || dystopian, sci-fi, German expressionism
Jean Epstein: La glace à trois faces / The Three-Sided Mirror || French impressionist, psychological drama
Josef von Sternberg: Underworld || gangster film, drama, romance
Paul Leni: The Cat and the Canary || haunted house, mystery, comedy
Tod Browning: The Unknown || romance, melodrama, horror
Walter Ruttmann: Berlin || city symphony, experimental
William Wellman: Wings || war, romance, melodrama
1928
Boris Barnet: Dom na Trubnoi / House on Trubnaya || comedy, soviet montage
Carl Theodor Dreyer: La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc / The Passion of Joan of Arc || biopic, period/medieval, legal drama, religious film, melodrama, French impressionist
Charles Reisner & Buster Keaton: Steamboat Bill Jr. || slapstick, romance, action
Charles Chaplin: The Circus || slapstick, romance
Erich von Stroheim: Wedding March || romance, drama
Frank Borzage: Street Angel || melodrama, romance
Josef von Sternberg: Docks of New York || romance, drama
Josef von Sternberg: The Last Command || period drama, tragedy, war, romance
+ King Vidor: The Crowd || melodrama, romance
Marcel L'Herbier: L'Argent / Money || French impressionist, melodrama
Paul Leni: The Man Who Laughs || melodrama, romance, period drama
Victor Sjostrom: The Wind || melodrama, psychological drama/horror, western, romance
Vsevolod Pudovkin: Potomok Cingischana / Storm Over Asia || drama, soviet montage, war, propaganda film
1929
Alexander Dovzhenko: Arsenal || propaganda film, Soviet montage, war, political drama
Alfred Hitchcock: Blackmail || crime, thriller
Dziga Vertov: Chelovek S Kino Apparatom / Man with a Movie Camera || city symphony, essay film, Soviet montage, experimental
Fridrikh Ermler: Oblomok Imperii / Fragment of an Empire || psychological drama, Soviet montage/propaganda film
Fritz Lang: Frau im Mond / Woman in the Moon || sci-fi/space exploration, adventure
Georg Wilhelm Pabst: Das Buchse der Pandora / Pandora's Box || kammerspiel, crime, new objectivity, romance
Georg Wilhelm Pabst: Das Tagebuch Einer Verlorenen / Diary of a Lost Girl || melodrama, new objectivity, kammerspiel
+ Grigorij Kozincev & Leonid Trauberg: Novyj Vavilon / New Babylon || period drama, Soviet montage, propaganda film
King Vidor: Hallelujah || race film, musical, drama
Luis Bunuel: Un Chien Andalou/ An Andalusian Dog || experimental, surrealism, dada, horror
Mykola Shpykovskyi: Shkurnyk / Self-Seeker || comedy, war
Mykola Shpykovskyi: Khlib / Bread || Soviet montage/propaganda film, drama
Rouben Mamoulian: Applause || musical melodrama
1930
Alexander Dovzhenko: Zemlja / Earth || drama, soviet montage, propaganda film
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: City Girl || romance, family drama/melodrama
+ Josef von Sternberg: Das Blaue Engel / The Blue Angel || melodrama, German expressionism, romance, music
Josef von Sternberg: Morocco || romance, drama
Lewis Milestone: All Quiet on the Western Front || war, period drama
Luis Bunuel: L'Age d'Or / The Golden Age || satire, surrealism, absurdist comedy, romance
René Clair: Sous les Toits de Paris / Under the Roofs of Paris || drama, romance, poetic realism, crime
Victor Heerman (Marx Brothers): Animal Crackers || musical, absurdist comedy
1931
Alexander Korda (Marcel Pagnol): Marius || romance, comedy, melodrama, slice of life
Charles Chaplin: City Lights || slapstick, romance, melodrama
+ Fritz Lang: M || crime, thriller, German expressionism, noir
James Whale: Frankenstein || gothic horror, sci-fi
Jean Renoir: La Chienne / Isn't Life a Bitch || poetic realism, drama, satire
Lewis Milestone: Front Page || satire, screwball comedy
Mervyn LeRoy: Little Caesar || gangster film, melodrama
Mervyn LeRoy: Five Star Final || melodrama
Norman McLeod (Marx Brothers): Monkey Business || absurdist comedy, gangster film, slapstick, musical
René Clair: Le Million || musical, comedy, poetic realism
René Clair: A Nous La Liberte / Freedom for Us || comedy, satire, buddy, musical, poetic realism
Tod Browning: Dracula || vampire, gothic horror
William Wellman: The Public Enemy || gangster film, drama
1932
Carl Theodor Dreyer: Vampyr || vampire, supernatural/gothic horror, surrealism
Ernest Schoedsack & Irving Pichel: The Most Dangerous Game || thriller, adventure, survival
+ Ernst Lubitsch: Trouble in Paradise || romantic comedy, crime
Howard Hawks: Scarface || gangster film, drama
Jean Renoir: Boudou Sauve des Eaux / Boudou Saved from the Waters || comedy/satire, poetic realism
John Stahl: Back Street || melodrama, romance
Josef von Sternberg: Shangai Express || drama, romance, war
Karl Freund: The Mummy || supernatural horror
Marc Allegret (Marcel Pagnol): Fanny || romance, comedy, melodrama
Mario Camerini: Gli Uomini che Mascalzoni / What Scoundrels Men Are || romantic comedy
Mervyn LeRoy: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang || prison film, drama
Norman McLeod (Marx Brothers): Horse Feathers || absurdist comedy, slapstick
Slatan Dudow: Kuhle Wampe || drama, new objectivity
Tod Browning: Freaks || drama, horror
Woodbridge Van Dyke: Tarzan the Ape Man || adventure, romance
Yasujiro Ozu: Umarate Wa Mita Keredo / I Was Born But || comedy, drama, slice of life
1933
Alexander Korda: The Private Life of Henry VIII || biopic, period drama, comedy
Ernest Schoedsack: King Kong || giant monster, adventure, natural horror, stop-motion/live-action animation, romance
Frank Borzage: Man's Castle || romance, drama
Frank Capra: Lady for a Day || comedy
Fritz Lang: Das Testament des Dr Mabuse / The Testament of Doctor Mabuse || crime, thriller, mystery, psychological, low fantasy
James Whale: The Invisible Man || horror, sci-fi, crime, black comedy
Jean Vigo: Zero For Conduct || poetic realism, coming-of-age, comedy/satire, surrealism
+ Leo McCarey (Marx Brothers): Duck Soup || absurdist comedy, slapstick, satire
Lewis Milestone: Hallelujah I'm a Bum || musical, romance, comedy
Lloyd Bacon: 42nd Street || musical, comedy, drama
Mervyn LeRoy: Gold Diggers of 1933 || comedy, musical, romance
Reinhold Schuenzel: Viktor and Viktoria || comedy, musical, satire
William Seiter (Laurel & Hardy): Sons of the Desert || slapstick, buddy
Yasujiro Ozu: Dekigokoro / Passing Fancy || drama, comedy
1934
Edgar Ulmer: The Black Cat || gothic/psychological horror, crime
Frank Capra: It Happened One Night || romantic/screwball comedy, road movie
Howard Hawks: Twentieth Century || screwball comedy
Jean Vigo: L' Atalante || romance, poetic realism, drama
Josef von Sternberg: The Scarlet Empress || biopic, period drama
Robert Flaherty: The Man of Aran || ethnographic film/ethnofiction, docudrama/docufiction
Woodbridge Van Dyke: The Thin Man || whodunit, screwball comedy
+ Yasujiro Ozu: Ukigusa Monogatari / A Story of Floating Weeds || melodrama
1935
Alfred Hitchcock: The 39 Steps || spy, thriller, mystery
Busby Berkeley: The Gold Diggers of 1935 || musical, comedy
Frank Lloyd: Mutiny on the Bounty || adventure, period drama
George Cukor: Sylvia Scarlett || romantic comedy
Henry Hathaway: Peter Ibbetson || romance, low fantasy, melodrama
Jacques Feyder: La Kermesse Héroïque / Carnival in Flanders || comedy, period drama
James Whale: Bride of Frankenstein || gothic horror, sci-fi, comedy, drama
Jean Renoir: Toni || poetic realism, romance
Josef von Sternberg: The Devil is a Woman || romance, period drama
Leo McCarey: Ruggles of Red Gap || comedy, western
Mario Camerini: Daro un Milione / I'll Give a Million || comedy
Mark Sandrich: Top Hat || musical, romantic comedy
+ Sam Wood (Marx Brothers): A Night at the Opera || musical, absurdist/screwball comedy, romance
1936
+ Charles Chaplin: Modern Times || slapstick, satire, romance
Frank Capra: Mr. Deeds Goes To Town || screwball/romantic comedy, legal drama
Fritz Lang: Fury || legal drama, crime, romance
Gregory LaCava: My Man Godfrey || screwball/romantic comedy, satire
Harry Lachman (Laurel & Hardy): Our Relations || slapstick, buddy
James Horne (Laurel & Hardy): The Bohemian Girl || comedy, buddy, operetta
Julien Duvivier: La Belle Equipe / They Were Five || poetic realism, drama
Kenji Mizoguchi: Gion Na Shimai / Sisters of Gion || drama
Kenji Mizoguchi: Naniwa Ereji / Osaka Elegy || drama
Marcel Pagnol: César || comedy, melodrama, romance
Yasujiro Ozu: Hitori Musuko / The Only Son || family drama
1937
David Hand (Walt Disney): Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs || animation, fairy tale, musical
Frank Capra: Lost Horizon || adventure, drama, low fantasy
Fritz Lang: You Only Live Once || crime, drama, romance
James Horne (Laurel & Hardy): Way Out West || slapstick, western
+ Jean Renoir: La Grande Illusion || prison film, drama, war, poetic realism
Julien Duvivier: Pépé le Moko || gangster film, poetic realism, drama
Julien Duvivier: Un Carnet de Bal / Life Dances On || drama
Leo McCarey: The Awful Truth || screwball/romantic comedy
Mario Camerini: Il Signor Max / Mister Max || romantic comedy
Mervyn LeRoy: They Won't Forget || legal drama, crime
Sadao Yamanaka: Ninjo Kami Fusen / Humanity and Paper Balloons || jidaigeki
Sam Wood (Marx Brothers): A Day at the Races || absurdist comedy, musical, sports
William Wellman: Nothing Sacred || screwball comedy, satire
1938
Alfred Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes || mystery, thriller
Frank Capra: You Can't Take It With You || screwball/romantic comedy
George Cukor: Holiday || screwball/romantic comedy
+ Howard Hawks: Bringing Up Baby || screwball/romantic comedy
John Blystone (Laurel & Hardy): Block-Heads || slapstick, buddy
Marcel Carne: Le quai des brumes / Port of Shadows || poetic realism, drama, romance, crime
Michael Curtiz: Angels with Dirty Faces || gangster film, drama
Michael Curtiz: The Adventures of Robin Hood || swashbuckler, adventure, medieval
William Wyler: Jezebel || romance, melodrama
1939
Ernst Lubitsch: Ninotchka || romantic comedy, satire
Frank Capra: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington || political drama, satire
George Cukor: The Women || comedy, drama
George Marshall: Destry Rides Again || western, comedy
George Stevens: Gunga Din || adventure, war, buddy, action
Hiroshi Shimizu: Kodomo no Shiki / The Four Seasons of Children || drama, slice of life
Howard Hawks: Only Angels Have Wings || drama, adventure, romance, buddy
+ Jean Renoir: La Regle du Jeu / The Rules of the Game || drama, satire, romance, comedy
John Ford: Stagecoach || western, road movie
Kenji Mizoguchi: Zangiku Monogatari / Story of the Last Chrysanthemums || romance, drama
Marcel Carne: Le Jour Se Leve / Daybreak || poetic realism, romance, crime, drama
Mario Soffici: Prisioneros de la Tierra / Prisoners of the Earth || period, melodrama, romance
Raoul Walsh: Roaring Twenties || gangster film, drama
Victor Fleming: Gone with the Wind || period drama, melodrama, romance
Victor Fleming: The Wizard of Oz || musical, adventure, fantasy
1940
Alfred Hitchcock: Rebecca || mystery, romance, psychological thriller
Ben Sharpsteen (Walt Disney): Pinocchio || animation, adventure, fairy tale, musical
Charles Chaplin: The Great Dictator || satire, slapstick/comedy, war, drama
Dorothy Arzner: Dance Girl Dance || drama, dance film/musical
Eddie Cline (W.C.Fields): The Bank Dick || absurdist comedy, crime
Ernest Schoedsack: Dr. Cyclops || sci-fi, horror, adventure
Frank Borzage: Strange Cargo || adventure, prison film, romance
George Marshall: The Ghost Breakers || comedy, haunted house/gothic horror
Howard Hawks: His Girl Friday || screwball comedy, satire
+ Preston Sturges: The Great McGinty || comedy/satire, political drama
Various (Walt Disney): Fantasia || animation, anthology film, music
1941
Alfred Hitchcock: Suspicion || mystery, romance, psychological thriller
Ben Sharpsteen (Walt Disney): Dumbo || animation, musical, fable
Frank Capra: Meet John Doe || drama, comedy
Howard Hawks: Sergeant York || war, biopic, propaganda film
Howard Hawks: Ball of Fire || screwball comedy, crime
John Ford: How Green Was My Valley || drama, coming-of-age
John Huston: The Maltese Falcon || mystery/crime, noir
Josef von Sternberg: Shanghai Gesture || melodrama, noir
+ Orson Welles: Citizen Kane || drama, mystery
Preston Sturges: Sullivan's Travels || comedy/satire, road movie
Preston Sturges: The Lady Eve || screwball/romantic comedy
1942
Alessandro Blasetti: Quattro Passi Fra le Nuvole / Four Steps in the Clouds || comedy, drama
Alfred Hitchcock: Saboteur || spy, thriller
David Butler (Bob Hope): Road to Morocco || comedy, musical
David Hand (Walt Disney): Bambi || animation, coming-of-age, fable
Ernst Lubitsch: To Be or Not to Be || satire/comedy, spy, war
George Stevens: Woman of the Year || screwball/romantic comedy
Jacques Tourneur: Cat People || mystery, psychological horror, romance
John Huston: In This Our Life || melodrama
John Huston: Across the Pacific || spy, adventure
Kenji Mizoguchi: Genroku Chushingura / The 47 Ronin || jidaigeki
Manoel DeOliveira: Aniki-Bóbó || drama, family
Michael Curtiz: Casablanca || drama, romance
Michael Curtiz: Yankee Doodle Dandy || biopic, jukebox musical
+ Orson Welles: The Magnificent Ambersons || family drama
Preston Sturges: The Palm Beach Story || screwball/romantic comedy
Rene Clair: I Married a Witch || romantic comedy, low fantasy
William Wellman: The Ox-Bow Incident || western
1943
Alfred Hitchcock: Shadow of a Doubt || psychological thriller, noir
Carl Theodor Dreyer: Vredens Dag / Day of Wrath || period drama
+ Ernst Lubitsch: Heaven Can Wait || romantic comedy
Gustaf Molander: Ordet / The Word || drama, religious film
Henri Clouzot: Le Corbeau / The Raven || mystery, drama
Jacques Becker: Groupi Mains-Rouges / It Happened at the Inn || drama, mystery/whodunit
Jacques Tourneur: I Walked with a Zombie || zombie, mystery, supernatural horror, psychological drama
Jean Gremillon: Lumiere d'Ete / Summer Light || romance, drama, poetic realism
Maya Deren: Meshes of the Afternoon (short) || surrealism, experimental
Michael Powell: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp || drama, war, romance
1944
Alf Sjoberg: Hets / Torment || drama, romance
+ Billy Wilder: Double Indemnity || noir, thriller, crime
Otto Preminger: Laura || noir, mystery/whodunit, romance
Preston Sturges: Hail the Conquering Hero || comedy/satire
Preston Sturges: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek || screwball comedy, satire
Rene Clair: It Happened Tomorrow || comedy, low fantasy
Robert Siodmak: The Suspect || noir, crime, drama, thriller
Sergei Eisenstein: Ivan Groznyi / Ivan the Terrible || period drama, biopic
Vincente Minnelli: Meet Me in St. Louis || jukebox musical, romance, family
1945
Alfred Hitchcock: Spellbound || psychological thriller, mystery, romance
Billy Wilder: The Lost Weekend || drama, psychological, noir
David Lean: Brief Encounter || romance, melodrama
Edgar Ulmer: Detour || noir, crime, road movie
Fritz Lang: Scarlet Street || noir, crime, drama
Jean Renoir: The Southerner || family drama
John Stahl: Leave Her to Heaven || melodrama, psychological thriller
+ Marcel Carne: Les Enfants du Paradis / Children of Paradise || romance, poetic realism, drama
Michael Curtiz: Mildred Pierce || melodrama, noir/mystery
Robert Hamer: Dead of Night || anthology film, psychological horror
Roberto Rossellini: Roma Citta Aperta / Rome, Open City || Italian neorealism, war, drama
1946
Alberto Lattuada: Il Bandito / Bandit || crime, drama, Italian neorealism
Alfred Hitchcock: Notorious || spy, romance, thriller
Charles Vidor: Gilda || noir, romance, drama
+ Frank Capra: It's a Wonderful Life || drama, low fantasy, family
Howard Hawks: The Big Sleep || noir, mystery, crime
Jean Cocteau: La belle et la bête / The Beauty and the Beast || fairy tale, romance, surrealism
John Ford: My Darling Clementine || western, drama
Kenji Mizoguchi: Utamaru o Meguru Gonin no Onna / Utamaro and his Five Women || jidaigeki
King Vidor: Duel in the Sun || western, romance, melodrama
Marcel Carne: Les portes de la nuit / Gates of the Night || poetic realism, melodrama, romance
Michael Powell: A Matter of Life and Death || romance, low fantasy, magical realism
Orson Welles: The Stranger || noir, thriller
Robert Siodmak: The Killers || noir, crime, mystery
Robert Siodmak: The Spiral Staircase || mystery, thriller
Robert Siodmak: The Dark Mirror || noir, psychological thriller
Tay Garnett: The Postman Always Rings Twice || noir, crime, drama
Vittorio DeSica: Sciuscia / Shoeshine || Italian neorealism, drama, prison film
William Wyler: The Best Years of Our Lives || melodrama
1947
Carol Reed: Odd Man Out || drama, crime, noir, thriller
Charles Chaplin: Monsieur Verdoux || black comedy, crime, drama
Delmer Daves: Dark Passage || noir, thriller, mystery
Edward Dmytryk: Crossfire || noir, whodunit, police procedural
Henri Clouzot: Quai des Orfevres / Quay of the Goldsmiths / Jenny Lamour || crime/police procedural, drama
Jacques Tournier: Out of the Past || noir, crime
Jules Dassin: Brute Force || prison film, crime
Michael Curtiz: The Unsuspected || noir, mystery
Michael Powell: Black Narcissus || psychological drama
Norman McLeod (Bob Hope): Road to Rio || comedy, adventure, buddy
+ Orson Welles: The Lady from Shanghai || noir, mystery, crime, drama
1948
Abraham Polonsky: Force of Evil || crime, noir, drama
Anatole Litvak: The Snake Pit || psychological drama, melodrama
Anatole Litvak: Sorry Wrong Number || thriller, noir, mystery
Anthony Mann: Raw Deal || noir, crime
Frank Capra: State of the Union || drama, satire
Henry Hathaway: Call Northside 777 || crime, noir, drama
Howard Hawks: Red River || western
Jean Negulesco: Johnny Belinda || melodrama, coming-of-age
John Ford: Fort Apache || western, drama, war
+ John Huston: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre || adventure, drama, neo-western
John Huston: Key Largo || gangster film, thriller, noir
Jules Dassin: The Naked City || noir/whodunit, crime, police procedural
Luchino Visconti: La Terra Trema / The Earth Trembles || Italian neorealism, drama
Max Ophuls: Letter From an Unknown Woman || romance, melodrama
Michael Powell: The Red Shoes || melodrama, dance film
Nicholas Ray: They Live By Night || crime, drama, romance
Roberto Rossellini: Germania Anno Zero / Germany Year Zero || Italian neorealism, drama
Uday Shankar: Kalpana || drama, dance film/musical, surrealism
Vittorio DeSica: Ladri di Biciclette / Bicycle Thieves || Italian neorealism, drama
Wanda Jakubowska: Ostatni Etap / The Last Stage || prison film, docudrama
1949
Alexander Mackendrick: Whiskey Galore || comedy, slice of life
Carol Reed: The Third Man || noir, mystery, thriller
George Cukor: Adam's Rib || legal drama, romantic comedy
Giuseppe DeSantis: Riso Amaro / Bitter Rice || Italian neorealism, crime, drama
Howard Hawks: I Was a Male War Bride || screwball/romantic comedy
John Ford: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon || western, war, romance
Joseph Mankiewicz: A Letter to Three Wives || romance, drama
Mark Robson: Champion || noir, sports, melodrama
Max Ophuls: The Reckless Moment || noir, thriller, melodrama
Nicholas Ray: Knock On Any Door || legal drama
Raoul Walsh: Colorado Territory || western
Raoul Walsh: White Heat || gangster film, noir
Robert Hamer: Kind Hearts and Coronets || black comedy, crime
Robert Rossen: All the King's Men || political drama
Robert Siodmak: Criss Cross || noir, heist film
Robert Wise: The Set-Up || sports, noir, drama
Thorold Dickinson: The Queen of Spades || gothic horror, period drama
+ Yasujiro Ozu: Banshun / Late Spring || family drama
1950
Akira Kurosawa: Rashomon || jidaigeki, mystery, crime
Alfred Hitchcock: Stage Fright || psychological thriller, crime, mystery
Anthony Mann: Winchester '73 || revisionist western
+ Billy Wilder: Sunset Boulevard || drama, noir
Henry King: The Gunfighter || revisionist western
Henry Koster: Harvey || comedy/satire, low fantasy, psychological drama
Jean Cocteau: Orphée / Orpheus || romance, fantasy/magical realism, drama, surrealism
John Huston: The Asphalt Jungle || heist film, noir
Joseph Lewis: Gun Crazy || noir, crime, thriller, romance
Joseph Mankiewicz: All About Eve || drama, satire
Jules Dassin: Night and the City || drama, crime
Luis Bunuel: Los Olvidados / The Forgotten Ones || drama, crime, coming-of-age
Michelangelo Antonioni: Cronache di Un Amore / Story of a Love Affair || drama, romance
Nicholas Ray: In a Lonely Place || noir, drama, romance, mystery
Otto Preminger: Where the Sidewalk Ends || noir, crime, drama, thriller
Rudolph Maté: D.O.A. || noir, mystery, thriller
1951
Alexander Mackendrick: The Man in the White Suit || comedy, satire, sci-fi
Alfred Hitchcock: Strangers on a Train || crime, psychological thriller
Billy Wilder: Ace In the Hole / The Big Carnival || drama, satire
Charles Crichton: The Lavender Hill Mob || comedy, heist film
Christian Nyby: The Thing From Another World || sci-fi, horror, alien invasion
George Stevens: A Place In the Sun || romance, melodrama, crime
Jacqueline Audry: Olivia || drama, LGBT
Jean Renoir: The River || drama, coming-of-age, romance
John Huston: The African Queen || adventure, romance
Joseph Losey: The Prowler || thriller, noir
Joseph Mankiewicz: People Will Talk || comedy, melodrama
Luchino Visconti: Bellissima / Beautiful || Italian neorealism, drama
Mario Monicelli: Guardie e Ladri / Cops and Robbers || comedy, Italian neorealism
Raj Kapoor: Awaara || romance, melodrama, musical, crime
Robert Bresson: Journal d'un Cure de Campagne / Diary of a Country Priest || psychological drama
Robert Wise: The Day the Earth Stood Still || sci-fi, alien invasion
Vincente Minnelli: An American in Paris || jukebox musical, romance
+ Vittorio DeSica: Miracolo a Milano / Miracle in Milan || comedy, low fantasy, satire, Italian neorealism
William Wyler: Detective Story || drama, crime, police procedural
Yasujiro Ozu: Bakushu / Early Summer || family drama
1952
+ Akira Kurosawa: Ikiru / To Live || melodrama
Charles Chaplin: Limelight || melodrama, romance, comedy, dance film
Elia Kazan: Viva Zapata || period drama, biopic, war
Fred Zinnemann: High Noon || western, drama
Fritz Lang: Rancho Notorious || western
Henry Hathaway: Diplomatic Courier || spy, thriller, mystery
Howard Hawks: Monkey Business || screwball comedy
Jacques Becker: Casque d'Or / Golden Helmet || drama, romance
Kenji Mizoguchi: Saikaku Ichidai Onna / The Life of Oharu || jidaigeki, melodrama
King Vidor: Ruby Gentry || melodrama
Rene Clement: Jeux Interdits / Forbidden Games || drama, coming-of-age
Richard Fleischer: The Narrow Margin || noir, thriller
Stanley Donen: Singin' in the Rain || musical, romantic comedy, satire
Vincente Minnelli: The Bad and the Beautiful || melodrama
Vittorio DeSica: Umberto D || Italian neorealism, drama
1953
Alfred Hitchcock: I Confess || drama, thriller, psychological
Anthony Mann: The Naked Spur || western
Bimal Roy: Do Bigha Zamin / Two Acres of Land || drama
Chuck Jones: Duck Amuck (short) || cartoon, absurdist comedy, satire, postmodernism
Fred Zinnemann: From Here to Eternity || war, romance, drama
+ Fritz Lang: The Big Heat || noir, crime, thriller
George Stevens: Shane || western
Henri Clouzot: Le Salaire de la Peur / The Wages of Fear || thriller, adventure, drama
Henry Hathaway: Niagara || thriller, noir, crime
Howard Hawks: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes || musical, romantic comedy, satire
Ida Lupino: The Hitch-Hiker || noir, thriller, crime, road movie
Ingmar Bergman: Sommarem med Monika / Summer with Monika || drama, romance, coming-of-age
Ingmar Bergman: Gycklarnas Afton / Sawdust and Tinsel || drama
Jack Arnold: It Came from Outer Space || sci-fi, horror, alien invasion
Jacques Tati: Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot / Mr. Hulot's Holiday || slapstick, satire
Kenji Mizoguchi: Ugetsu || jidaigeki/kaidan, low fantasy
Laszlo Benedek: The Wild One || drama, bikersploitation
Luis Bunuel: Él / This Strange Passion || melodrama, psychological
Max Ophuls: The Earrings of Madame de || romance, melodrama
Sam Fuller: Pickup on South Street || noir, political thriller
Teinosuke Kinugasa: Jigokumen / Gate of Hell || jidaigeki, romance
Vincente Minnelli: The Bandwagon || musical, comedy
William Wyler: Roman Holiday || romantic comedy
Yasujiro Ozu: Tokyo Monogatari / Tokyo Story || family drama
1954
Akira Kurosawa: Shichinin No Samurai / Seven Samurai || jidaigeki/chambara
Alfred Hitchcock: Dial M for Murder || thriller, crime
Alfred Hitchcock: Rear Window || mystery, thriller
Alessandro Blasetti: Peccato Che Sia Una Canaglia / Too Bad She's Bad || romantic comedy
Anthony Mann: The Far Country || northern western
Elia Kazan: On the Waterfront || melodrama, crime
+ Federico Fellini: La Strada / The Road || road movie, melodrama, Italian neorealism
George Cukor: A Star Is Born || melodrama, musical, romance
George Cukor: It Should Happen to You || romantic comedy
Gordon Douglas: Them || sci-fi, natural horror/giant monster
Ishiro Honda: Gojira / Godzilla || sci-fi, disaster, giant monster
Jack Arnold: Creature from the Black Lagoon || natural horror, sci-fi
Jacques Becker: Touchez Pas au Grisbi / Honour Among Thieves || crime/gangster film
Joseph Mankiewicz: The Barefoot Contessa || melodrama
Kenji Mizoguchi: Chikamatsu Monogatari / The Crucified Lovers || jidaigeki, romance, melodrama, tragedy
Kenji Mizoguchi: Sansho Dayu / Sansho the Bailiff || jidaigeki, tragedy
Luchino Visconti: Senso || romance, melodrama, period drama
Nicholas Ray: Johnny Guitar || revisionist western
Robert Aldrich: Vera Cruz || western
Robert Aldrich: Apache || revisionist western
Robert Wise: Executive Suite || drama
Vincente Minnelli: Brigadoon || musical, low fantasy, romance
William Wellman: Track of the Cat || northern western, family drama, romance, survival
1955
Alexander Mackendrick: The Ladykillers || black comedy, heist film
+ Alfred Hitchcock: To Catch a Thief || mystery, thriller, romance
Anthony Mann: The Man From Laramie || western
Billy Wilder: The Seven Year Itch || romantic comedy
Carl Theodor Dreyer: Ordet || drama, religious film
Charles Laughton: The Night of the Hunter || thriller, noir, crime
Delbert Mann: Marty || drama, romance, slice of life
Frank Tashlin: Artists and Models || satire, romantic comedy, musical, slapstick, buddy
Henri Clouzot: Les Diaboliques / The Devils || mystery, psychological thriller, crime
Ingmar Bergman: Sommarnattens Leende / Smiles of a Summer Night || romantic comedy
Jules Dassin: Rififi || heist film, thriller, crime/gangster film
Kenji Mizoguchi: Shin Heike Monogatari / Tales of the Taira Clan || jidaigeki
King Vidor: Man Without a Star || western
Max Ophuls: Lola Montès || biopic, period drama
Mervyn LeRoy: Mister Roberts || drama, comedy
Nicholas Ray: Rebel Without a Cause || coming-of-age/teen movie, melodrama
Orson Welles: Mr. Arkadin / Confidential Report || mystery, psychological thriller
Robert Aldrich: Kiss Me Deadly || noir, thriller, mystery
Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali || drama, slice of life, parallel cinema
Val Guest: The Quatermass Xperiment || sci-fi, horror, mystery
William Wyler: The Desperate Hours || thriller, crime, noir, home invasion
1956
Alfred Hitchcock: The Wrong Man || legal drama, crime, biopic
Budd Boetticher: Seven Men From Now || western
Claude Autant-Lara: La Traverse de Paris / Four Bags Full || comedy, buddy, drama
Don Siegel: Invasion of the Body Snatchers || sci-fi, horror/thriller, alien invasion
Douglas Sirk: Written on the Wind || melodrama/family drama
Elia Kazan: Baby Doll || melodrama, black comedy
Frank Tashlin: Hollywood or Bust || comedy, road movie, buddy
Frank Tashlin: The Girl Can't Help It || comedy, music
Fred Wilcox: Forbidden Planet || sci-fi/space exploration, adventure
Fritz Lang: While the City Sleeps || noir, psychological thriller, drama
Fritz Lang: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt || legal drama, crime, noir
+ George Stevens: Giant || family drama
Jacques Tourneur: Nightfall || noir, crime, thriller
Jean-Pierre Melville: Bob the Gambler || heist film/crime
John Ford: The Searchers || western
Ko Nakahira: Kurutta Kajitsu / Crazed Fruit || Japanese new wave, drama, romance
Kon Ichikawa: Biruma no Tategoto / The Burmese Harp || war, drama
Robert Aldrich: Attack || war
Robert Aldrich: Autumn Leaves || romance, melodrama
Robert Bresson: Un Condamne a morte s'est echappe / A Man Escaped || prison film, drama
Robert Wise: Somebody Up There Likes Me || sports, biopic, drama
Roger Vadim: Et Dieu Crea la Femme / And God Created Woman || romance, drama, erotica
Satyajit Ray: Aparajito / The Unvanquished || drama, coming-of-age, parallel cinema
1957
Akira Kurosawa: Kumonosu-jo / Throne of Blood || jidaigeki, tragedy, war, low fantasy
Alexander Mackendrick: Sweet Smell of Success || drama, noir
Andzej Wajda: Kanal / Canal || war, drama
Bert Gordon: Beginning of the End || sci-fi, giant monster/natural horror
Budd Boetticher: The Tall T || western
David Lean: The Bridge on the River Kwai || war, drama, prison film
Delmer Daves: 3:10 to Yuma || western, thriller
Elia Kazan: A Face in the Crowd || drama, satire
Federico Fellini: Le notti di Cabiria / Nights of Cabiria || drama, comedy
Fred Zinnemann: A Hatful of Rain || drama
Guru Dutt: Pyaasa / Thirst || musical, romance, melodrama
+ Ingmar Bergman: Det Sjunde Inseglet / Seventh Seal || period drama/medieval, low fantasy
Ingmar Bergman: Smultronstallet / Wild Strawberries || psychological drama
Jack Arnold: The Incredible Shrinking Man || sci-fi, survival
Jacques Tourneur: Night of the Demon || supernatural horror
John Sturges: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral || western
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson: La casa del ángel / End of Innocence || drama, coming-of-age
Lev Atamanov & Nikolay Fyodorov: Snezhnaya Koroleva / The Snow Queen || animation, fairy tale, adventure
Luchino Visconti: Le Notti Bianche / White Nights || romance, melodrama
Mehboob Khan: Mother India || melodrama, musical, crime
Michelangelo Antonioni: Il Grido / The Cry || drama, road movie
Michail Kalatozov: Letjat Zuravli / The Cranes are Flying || melodrama, war, romance, period drama
Sidney Lumet: Twelve Angry Men || legal drama
Stanley Kubrick: Paths of Glory || war, legal drama
Yasujiro Ozu: Tokyo Boshoku / Tokyo Twilight || family drama
1958
Akira Kurosawa: Kakushi Toride no San-akunin / The Hidden Fortress || adventure, jidaigeki, chambara
Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo || mystery, psychological thriller, romance
Andrzej Munk: Eroica / Heroism || war, comedy, drama, anthology film
Andzej Wajda: Popiol i Diament / Ashes and Diamonds || political drama, war
Bimal Roy: Madhumati || musical, romance
Ingmar Bergman: Ansiktet / The Magician || drama
Jacques Tati: Mon Oncle / My Uncle || slapstick, satire
Karel Zeman: Vynalez zkazy / Invention for Destruction || steampunk, adventure, cutout/live-action animation
Kurt Neumann: The Fly || sci-fi, body horror
Louis Malle: Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud / Elevator to the Gallows || drama, French new wave
Mario Monicelli: I Soliti Ignoti / Big Deal on Madonna Street || comedy, heist film
+ Orson Welles: Touch of Evil || noir crime, thriller
Richard Quine: Bell Book and Candle || romantic comedy, low fantasy
Satyajit Ray: Jalsaghar / The Music Room || music, drama, parallel cinema
Shirley Clarke: Bridges Go-Round (short) || new American cinema, city symphony
Stanley Kramer: The Defiant Ones || drama, crime, buddy
Vincente Minnelli: Gigi || musical, romantic comedy
Vincente Minnelli: Some Came Running || melodrama
Youssef Chahine: Bab al-Hadid / Cairo Station || crime, drama
1959
Alain Resnais: Hiroshima Mon Amour / Hiroshima, My Love || romance, psychological drama
+ Alfred Hitchcock: North By Northwest || thriller, spy, mystery
Billy Wilder: Some Like It Hot || screwball comedy
Budd Boetticher: Ride Lonesome || western
Francois Truffaut: Les Quatrecents Coups / The 400 Blows || French new wave, coming-of-age, drama
Grigorij Chukrai: Ballada o soldate / Ballad of a Soldier || drama, war
Guru Dutt: Kaagaz Ke Phool / Paper Flowers || musical, melodrama, romance
Howard Hawks: Rio Bravo || western, buddy
John Cassavetes: Shadows || drama, new American cinema, slice of life
Mario Monicelli: La Grande Guerra / The Great War || war, comedy
Masaki Kobayashi: Ningen no Joken / Human Condition - No Greater Love || war, period drama
Otto Preminger: Anatomy of a Murder || legal drama, crime
Pietro Germi: Un Maledetto Imbroglio / The Facts of Murder || mystery/whodunit, crime
Richard Quine: It Happened to Jane || comedy, romance, family
Robert Bresson: Pickpocket || drama, crime
Roberto Rossellini: General Della Rovere || prison film, period drama
Satyajit Ray: Apur Sansar / The World of Apu || drama, parallel cinema
Shui Hua: Linjia Puzi / The Lin Family Shop || drama
William Wyler: Ben-Hur || sword and sandal/period drama, religious film, action
1960
Alfred Hitchcock: Psycho || psychological thriller, mystery, horror
Basil Dearden: The League of Gentlemen || heist film, comedy, British new wave
Billy Wilder: The Apartment || romantic comedy, drama
Budd Boetticher: Comanche Station || western
Claude Chabrol: Les Bonnes Femmes / The Girls || French new wave, drama, crime, slice of life
Elia Kazan: Wild River || period drama
+ Federico Fellini: La Dolce Vita || drama, satire, postmodernism
Francois Truffaut: Tirez sur le Pianiste / Shoot the Pianist || French new wave, drama
Frantisek Vlacil: Holubice / The White Dove || drama, surrealism
Fred Wilcox: I Passed for White || exploitation, melodrama
Georges Franju: Les Yeaux Sans Visage / Eyes Without a Face || psychological horror
Henri Clouzot: La Verite / The Truth || legal drama
Ingmar Bergman: Jungfrukallan / The Virgin Spring || medieval/period drama
Jacques Becker: Le Trou / The Hole || prison film, drama
Jacques Rivette: Paris nous Appartient / Paris Belongs To Us || French new wave, mystery, drama
Jean Cocteau: Le testament d'Orphée / The Testament of Orpheus || surrealism
Jean-Luc Godard: A Bout de Souffle / Breathless || French new wave, crime, romance, drama
John Sturges: The Magnificent Seven || western
Kaneto Shindo: Hadaka No Shima / The Naked Island || family drama, slice of life
Kim Ki-young: The Housemaid || psychological thriller, melodrama
Kurt Maetzig: Milczaca Gwiazda / First Spaceship on Venus || sci-fi/space exploration
Luchino Visconti: Rocco e i suoi Fratelli / Rocco and his Brothers || melodrama
Luigi Comencini: Tutti A Casa / Everybody Go Home || war, comedy, road movie
Michael Powell: Peeping Tom || psychological thriller
Michelangelo Antonioni: L'Avventura / The Adventure || romance, psychological drama
Richard Brooks: Elmer Gantry || drama, satire
Ritwik Ghatak: Meghe Dhaka Tara / The Cloud-Capped Star || melodrama
Roberto Gavaldón: Macario || drama, magical realism/low fantasy, satire
Roger Corman: Little Shop of Horrors || black comedy, natural horror, low fantasy
Rolf Willa: Village of the Damned || sci-fi, mystery, horror, alien invasion
Satyajit Ray: Devi / The Goddess || drama, parallel cinema
1961
Akira Kurosawa: Yojimbo || chambara, jidaigeki
Alain Resnais: L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad / Last Year at Marienbad || surrealism, mystery, experimental
Dariush Mehrjui: Gav / The Cow || Iranian new wave, melodrama
Elia Kazan: Splendor in the Grass || melodrama, coming-of-age, romance
Ermanno Olmi: Il Posto / The Job || drama, coming-of-age
Hyun-mok Yu: The Aimless Bullet || drama, crime
Ingmar Bergman: Through a Glass Darkly || psychological drama, family drama
Jacques Demy: Lola || drama, romance
Jerzy Kawalerowicz: Matka Joanna od Aniolow / Mother Joan of the Angels || period drama, psychological horror, nunsploitation
John Huston: The Misfits || drama, neo-western, romance
+ Luis Bunuel: Viridiana || drama, satire
Michelangelo Antonioni: La Notte / The Night || drama
Pierpaolo Pasolini: Accattone / The Scrounger || drama
Pietro Germi: Divorzio all'Italiana / Divorce Italian Style || black comedy, satire
Robert Rossen: The Hustler || drama, sports
Val Guest: The Day the Earth Caught Fire || sci-fi, disaster
Yasujiro Ozu: Kohayagawa-ke No Aki / Autumn of the Kohayagawa family / The End of Summer || family drama
Yu Hyun-mok: Obaltan / The Aimless Bullet || drama
1962
Agnes Varda: Cleo de 5 a 7 / Cleo From 5 to 7 || French new wave, drama
Andrei Tarkovsky: Ivan's Childhood || war, drama, Soviet new wave
Chris Marker: La Jetee / The Pier (short) || foto film, French new wave, sci-fi, post-apocalyptic
David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia || biopic, adventure, war, period drama
Dino Risi: Il Sorpasso / The Easy Life || road movie, comedy, drama, buddy
Francesco Rosi: Salvatore Giuliano || crime, cinema politico Italiano
Francois Truffaut: Jules et Jim / Jules and Jim || French new wave, drama, romance
Jack Lee Thompson: Cape Fear || psychological thriller
Jean-Luc Godard: Vivre sa Vie / My Life to Live || French new wave drama
+ John Ford: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance || western, drama
John Frankenheimer: The Manchurian Candidate || political thriller, psychological
Luis Bunuel: El ángel exterminador / The Exterminating Angel || satire, surrealism, black comedy
Michelangelo Antonioni: L'Eclisse / The Eclipse || psychological drama, romance
Pierpaolo Pasolini: Mamma Roma || melodrama
Richard Quine: Notorious Landlady || mystery, comedy
Robert Aldrich: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane || psychological thriller
Robert Mulligan: To Kill a Mockingbird || coming-of-age, legal drama
Roman Polanski: Noz w Wodzie / Knife in the Water || psychological drama
Sam Peckinpah: Ride the High Country || revisionist western
Terence Young: Dr. No || spy, action
Wesley Barry: The Creation of the Humanoids || sci-fi
Yasujiro Ozu: Jamma no Aji / An Autumn Afternoon || family drama
1963
Akira Kurosawa: Tengoku to Jigoku / High and Low || drama, crime, police procedural, neo-noir
Alfred Hitchcock: The Birds || thriller, natural horror
Andy Warhol: Sleep || direct cinema, experimental
Billy Wilder: Irma La Douce || romantic comedy
Blake Edwards: The Pink Panther || comedy, heist film, whodunit
Bo Widerberg: Kvarteret Korpen / Raven's End || family drama
Elia Kazan: America America || period drama
Ermanno Olmi: I Fidanzati / The Fiancés || drama
+ Federico Fellini: 8 ½ || psychological drama, surrealism, postmodernism
Francesco Rosi: Le Mani sulla Citta / Hands Over the City || cinema politico Italiano
Georges Franju: Judex || crime, thriller
Ingmar Bergman: Nattvardsgatterna / Winter Light || psychological drama
Jean-Luc Godard: Le Mepris / Contempt || French new wave, drama, postmodernism
Jerry Lewis: The Nutty Professor || comedy, sci-fi
John Sturges: The Great Escape || war, prison film, adventure
Joseph Losey: The Servant || drama, British new wave
Joseph Losey: The Damned || sci-fi, mystery, horror
Lindsay Anderson: This Sporting Life || sports, psychological drama
Mark Robson: The Prize || mystery, spy, political thriller
Martin Ritt: Hud || drama, neo-western
Nelson Pereira: Vidas Secas / Barren Lives || drama
Sam Fuller: Shock Corridor || psychological thriller, mystery
Satyajit Ray: Mahanagar / The Big City || drama, parallel cinema
Shohei Imamura: Nippon Konchuki / The Insect Woman || Japanese new wave, drama
Stan Brakhage: Mothlight (short) || non-camera animation, abstract film
Stanley Donen: Charade || thriller, mystery/whodunit, romantic comedy
Stanley Kramer: It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World || comedy/slapstick, road movie
Terence Young: From Russia with Love || spy, action
Tony Richardson: Tom Jones || Comedy, Adventure, British new wave, period drama
Yves Robert: La Guerre des Boutons / The War of the Buttons || comedy, family
1964
Alfred Hitchcock: Marnie || psychological thriller, mystery, romance, melodrama
Bernardo Bertolucci: Before the Revolution || drama, romance
Billy Wilder: Kiss Me, Stupid || romantic comedy
Blake Edwards: A Shot in the Dark || comedy, whodunit
Carl Theodor Dreyer: Gertrud || drama, romance
Don Siegel: The Killers || crime, neo-noir
Franklin Schaffner: The Best Man || political drama, satire
George Cukor: My Fair Lady || musical, romantic comedy
Glauber Rocha: Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol / Black God White Devil || acid western, psychological drama, religious film
Hiroshi Teshigahara: Suna no Onna / Woman in the Dunes || psychological drama/thriller, Japanese new wave
Howard Hawks: Man's Favorite Sport || romantic/screwball comedy
Jacques Demy: Parapluies de Cherbourg / Umbrellas of Cherbourg || musical, romance, drama
Jan Nemec: Demanty Noci / Diamonds of the Night || Czechoslovak new wave, war, drama
Jean-Luc Godard: Une Femme Mariee / A Married Woman || French new wave, drama, postmodernism
John Frankenheimer: Seven Days in May || political drama/thriller
Karel Zeman: Blaznova kronika / The Jester's Tale || comedy, swashbuckler, buddy
Masahiro Shinoda: Kawaita Hana / Pale Flower || Japanese new wave, yakuza/gangster film, neo-noir
Michelangelo Antonioni: Deserto Rosso / Red Desert || psychological drama
Richard Quine: Sex and the Single Girl || sex comedy, satire
+ Robert Aldrich: Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte || psychological thriller, mystery
Robert Stevenson: Mary Poppins || musical, fantasy, live-action animation
Satyajit Ray: Charulata / Lonely Wife || romance, drama, parallel cinema
Sidney Lumet: Fail-Safe || political thriller/drama
Stanley Kubrick: Dr. Strangelove || satire, black comedy, war
Tinto Brass: Il Disco Volante / The Flying Saucer || sci-fi, comedy/satire
Xie Jin: Wutai Jiemei / Two Stage Sisters || melodrama
1965
Agnes Varda: Le Bonheur / Happiness || drama, romance, French new wave
Blake Edwards: The Great Race || adventure, slapstick, road movie
Elliot Silverstein: Cat Ballou || western, comedy
Federico Fellini: Giulietta Degli Spiriti / Juliet of the Spirits || surrealism, psychological drama
Henry Hathaway: The Sons of Katie Elder || western
Jan Troell: Har Har Du Ditt Liv / Here's Your Life || coming-of-age, period drama
Jean-Luc Godard: Alphaville || French new wave, dystopian, tech-noir, postmodernism, spy
Jean-Luc Godard: Pierrot le Fou / Pierrot the Fool || French new wave, road movie, crime, postmodernism, romance
Leonardo Favio: Cronica de un Nino Solo / Chronicle of a Boy Alone || coming-of-age, drama
Luchino Visconti: Vaghe Stelle dell'Orsa / Sandra || drama
Marco Bellocchio: I Pugni in Tasca / Fists in the Pocket || drama
Marlen Khutsiev: Mne Dvadtsat Let / I Am Twenty || coming-of-age, Soviet new wave, drama, slice of life
Miloš Forman: Lásky jedné plavovlásky / Loves of a Blonde || Czechoslovak new wave, drama, comedy, coming-of-age
Otto Preminger: Bunny Lake Is Missing || mystery, psychological thriller
Richard Lester: The Knack || British new wave, sex comedy
Ritwick Ghatak: Subarnarekha / The Golden Thread || drama
Robert Aldrich: The Flight of the Phoenix || adventure, drama, survival
+ Roman Polanski: Repulsion || psychological thriller
Russ Meyer: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! || exploitation, action, crime
Sergei Paradzanov: Teni Zabytykh Predkov / Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors || period drama, romance, magical realism, Ukrainian poetic cinema, surrealism/experimental
Sergio Leone: Per Qualche Dollaro in Più / For a Few Dollars More || spaghetti western
Vladimir Vengerov: Rabocij Poselok / Workers' Quarters || melodrama
1966
Alexander Kluge: Abschied von Gestern / Yesterday Girl || new German cinema, essay film
Ali Khamraev: White, White Storks
Andrei Tarkovsky: Andrei Rublev || period drama/medieval, biopic
Andy Warhol & Paul Morrissey: Chelsea Girls || new American cinema, experimental, queer cinema
Arthur Penn: The Chase || drama, new Hollywood, crime
Billy Wilder: The Fortune Cookie || comedy/satire, legal drama
Dino Risi: Il Tesoro di San Gennaro / The Treasure of San Gennaro || comedy, heist film
Fred Zinnemann: A Man for All Seasons || period drama, biopic, legal drama
George Kuchar: Hold Me While I'm Naked (short) || new American cinema, comedy
Gillo Pontecorvo: La Battaglia di Algeri / The Battle of Algiers || war, period drama, cinema politico Italiano
+ Ingmar Bergman: Persona || psychological drama
Istvan Szabo: Apa / Father || Hungarian new wave, coming-of-age, family drama
Jan Němec: O Slavnosti a Hostech / A Report on the Party and the Guests || Czechoslovak new wave, absurdist comedy, satire
Jean-Luc Godard: Masculine Feminine || French new wave, postmodernism
Jiri Menzel: Ostrie Sledovane Vlaky / Closely Watched Trains || Czechoslovak new wave, coming-of-age, black comedy, war
John Frankenheimer: Seconds || psychological thriller, sci-fi, drama, new Hollywood
John Frankenheimer: Grand Prix || sports, drama
Luigi Comencini: Incompreso / Misunderstood || drama
Luis Bunuel: Simon del Deserto / Simon of the Desert || satire, surrealism, postmodernism
Mario Monicelli: L'Armata Brancaleone / The Brancaleone Army / For Love and Gold || adventure, comedy/parody, medieval
Michelangelo Antonioni: Blow-Up || mystery, drama
Miklós Jancsó: Szegenylegenyek / The Round-Up || Hungarian new wave, period drama, political drama
Monte Hellman: The Shooting || acid western, new Hollywood
Monte Hellman: Ride in the Whirlwind || revisionist western, thriller, new Hollywood
Nagisa Oshima: Violence at Noon || Japanese new wave, crime, drama
Norman Jewison: The Russians Are Coming || comedy/satire
Ousmane Sembene: La Noire De / Black Girl || drama
Philippe de Broca: Le Roi de Coeur / King of Hearts || comedy, war, satire
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Uccellacci e Uccellini / The Hawks and the Sparrows || satire, road movie, absurdist comedy
Richard Brooks: The Professionals || western, adventure
Richard Fleischer: Fantastic Voyage || sci-fi, adventure
Richard Lester: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum || musical, comedy/slapstick, romance
Robert Bresson: Au Hasard Balthazar / Balthazar, at Random || drama, religious, tragedy
Roman Polanski: Cul-de-sac || black comedy, home invasion/crime
Sergio Corbucci: Django || spaghetti western
Sergio Leone: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo / The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly || spaghetti western
Shohei Imamura: Jinruigaku Nyumon / The Pornographers || Japanese new wave, black comedy, drama
Stanley Donen: Arabesque || thriller, spy, comedy
Vera Chytilova: Sedmikrásky / Daisies || Czechoslovak new wave, satire/absurdist comedy, surrealism
Vilgot Sjöman: Syskonbädd 1782 / My Sister, My Love || drama
1967
Aleksandr Petrovic: Skupljaci Perja / I Even Met Happy Gypsies || drama, Yugoslav black wave
Andrei Konchalovsky: Istoriya Asi Klyachinoy / Asya's Happiness || Soviet new wave, drama, slice of life, romance
Arthur Penn: Bonnie and Clyde || biopic, new Hollywood, crime, road movie, romance
Donn Alan Pennebaker: Don't Look Back || music documentary, direct cinema
Dusan Makavejev: Ljubavni Slucaj Ili Tragedija Sluzbenice PTT / Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator || Yugoslav black wave, drama, satire, romance
Frantisek Vlacil: Marketa Lazarova || period drama/medieval
Jacques Tati: Playtime || satire, slapstick
Jean-Louis Roy: L'Inconnu de Shandigor / The Unknown Man of Shandigor || spy, drama, thriller
Jean-Luc Godard: La Chinoise / The Chinese || political drama, French new wave, satire, postmodernism
Jean-Luc Godard: Weekend || French new wave, road movie, black comedy, satire, postmodernism
Jean-Pierre Melville: Le Samourai / The Samurai || neo-noir, crime
John Boorman: Point Blank || crime, neo-noir, new Hollywood, thriller
+ Luis Bunuel: Belle de Jour || drama, surrealism, romance
Mark Robson: Valley of the Dolls || melodrama, exploitation
Michael Snow: Wavelength || structural film
Mike Nichols: The Graduate || coming-of-age, drama, new Hollywood, romance
Milos Forman: Hori Ma Panenko / The Firemen's Ball || comedy, Czechoslovak new wave, satire
Nagisa Oshima: Japanese Summer - Double Suicide || Japanese new wave, satire, crime
Norman Jewison: In the Heat of the Night || mystery, crime, new Hollywood, drama, police procedural
Richard Lester: How I Won the War || war, absurdist/black comedy, satire
Robert Aldrich: The Dirty Dozen || war, action
Robert Mulligan: Up the Down Staircase || drama
Roger Corman: The St Valentine's Day Massacre || gangster film, period drama
Shirley Clarke: Portrait of Jason || biography documentary, queer cinema, interview, LGBT
Stuart Rosenberg: Cool Hand Luke || prison film, drama, new Hollywood
Tengiz Abuladze: The Plea || period drama, Soviet new wave, religious
Tom Gries: Will Penny || romance, revisionist western
1968
Alain Resnais: Je T'Aime Je T'Aime / I Love You, I Love You || sci-fi/time travel, psychological drama
Alexander Kluge: Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel / Artists Under the Big Top || satire, new German cinema, mockumentary
Don Siegel: Coogan's Bluff || crime, new Hollywood, action
Don Siegel: Madigan || crime, thriller, police procedural, neo-noir
Frank Perry: The Swimmer || psychological drama, new Hollywood
Franklin Schaffner: Planet of the Apes || dystopian/post-apocalyptic, sci-fi, adventure
Frantisek Vlacil: The Valley of the Bees || period drama/medieval
George Romero: Night of the Living Dead || zombie/horror, survival
Humberto Solás: Lucia || imperfect Cinema, melodrama, anthology film
John Boorman: Hell in the Pacific || war, drama, survival, new Hollywood
John Cassavetes: Faces || psychological drama
Joseph Losey: Secret Ceremony || psychological drama, mystery
Lindsay Anderson: If.... || satire, British new wave, coming-of-age, black comedy
Lucian Pintilie: Reconstituirea / Reconstruction || drama, satire/black comedy
Maurice Pialat: L' enfance nue / Naked Childhood || coming-of-age, drama
Miklós Jancsó: Csand es Kialtas / Silence and Cry || Hungarian new wave, political drama
Nagisa Oshima: Koshikei / Death by Hanging || Japanese new wave, absurdist/black comedy, satire
Norman Jewison: The Thomas Crown Affair || heist film, new Hollywood, romance
Paul Morrissey: Flesh || drama, queer cinema, new American cinema
Peter Yates: Bullitt || thriller, new Hollywood, crime, police procedural
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Teorema / Theorem || psychological drama
Raul Ruiz: Tres Tristes Tigres / Three Sad Tigers || new Chilean cinema, drama
Richard Lester: Petulia || drama, romance, new Hollywood
Robert Mulligan: The Stalking Moon || western
Roger Vadim: Barbarella || space opera, sex comedy/sexploitation, action
+ Roman Polanski: Rosemary's Baby || mystery, psychological horror/thriller, new Hollywood
Sergio Leone: C'era Una Volta il West / Once Upon a Time in the West || spaghetti western, drama
Shohei Imamura: Kamigami No Fukaki Yokubo / Profound Desires of the Gods || drama, Japanese new wave
Stanley Kubrick: 2001 - A Space Odyssey || sci-fi, space exploration, experimental/surrealism
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea: Memorias del Subdesarollo / Memories of Underdevelopment || imperfect cinema, psychological drama
1969
Abraham Polonsky: Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here || revisionist western, drama
Arthur Penn: Alice's Restaurant || comedy, drama, new Hollywood
Barbet Schroeder: More || drama, romance, drugsploitation
Bo Widerberg: Ådalen 31 || period drama
Claude Chabrol: Que le Bete Meure / This Man Must Die || psychological thriller
Costantin Costa-Gravas: Z || political thriller/drama, crime
Dennis Hopper: Easy Rider || road movie, drama, new Hollywood, bikersploitation, buddy
Eric Rohmer: Ma Nuit Chez Maud / My Night at Maud's || drama, French new wave, romance
Evald Schorm: Den Sedny Osma Noc / The Seventh Day the Eighth Night || drama, absurdist comedy, Czechoslovak new wave
Francis Ford Coppola: The Rain People || road movie, new Hollywood, drama
George Roy Hill: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid || buddy, revisionist western, new Hollywood
Glauber Rocha: Antonio das Mortes || cinema novo, drama, neo-western
Haskell Wexler: Medium Cool || new Hollywood, docudrama, political drama
Henrik Malyan: We and Our Mountains || comedy, drama
Jacques Rivette: L'Amour Fou / Mad Love || French new wave, drama, romance, slice of life
Jean-Pierre Melville: L' armée des ombres / Army of Shadows || war, period drama, thriller
Jerry Paris: Viva Max || comedy
John Schlesinger: Midnight Cowboy || drama, new Hollywood, buddy
Jonas Mekas: Walden || diary film, new American cinema
Juraj Jakubisko: Vtáckovia, siroty a blazni / Birds, Orphans and Fools || Czechoslovak new wave, surrealism/magical realism, drama, absurdist comedy
Ken Loach: Kes || coming-of-age, drama, British new wave
Krzystof Zanussi: Struktura Krysztalu / The Structure of Crystals || drama
Luchino Visconti: La Caduta degli Dei / The Damned || period drama, political drama
Luis Bunuel: La Voie Lactee / The Milky Way || surrealism, road movie, satire/comedy
Marco Ferreri: Dillinger È Morto / Dillinger Is Dead || black comedy, satire
Masahiro Shinoda: Shinju Ten No Amijima / Double Suicide || Japanese new wave, jidaigeki, tragedy, melodrama
Mrinal Sen: Bhuvan Shome / Mr. Shome || drama, comedy
Peter Watkins: O Gladiatiorerna / The Gladiators || war, satire, dystopian
Rainer Fassbinder: Katzelmacher / Troublemaker || drama, new German cinema, satire
Richard Lester: The Bed Sitting Room || post-apocalyptic, surrealism, satire, absurdist/black comedy
+ Sam Peckinpah: The Wild Bunch || revisionist western, new Hollywood, action
Sergei Paradzanov: Tsvet Granata / The Color of Pomegranates || biopic, experimental/surrealism
Shadi Abdel Salam: El Mumia / The Mummy / The Night of Counting the Years || period drama
Sydney Pollack: They Shoot Horses Don't They || drama, new Hollywood
Walerian Borowczyk: Goto || dystopian, drama
Yasuzo Masumura: Môjû / Blind Beast || erotic thriller, psychological/surrealism, pink film
1970
Alejandro Jodorowsky: El Topo || acid western, surrealism
Andzej Wajda: Brzezina / The Birch Wood || psychological drama, romance
Arthur Hiller: Love Story || romance, melodrama, new Hollywood
Arthur Hiller: The Out of Towners || black comedy
Arthur Penn: Little Big Man || revisionist western, new Hollywood, comedy
Bernardo Bertolucci: Strategia del Ragno / The Spider's Stratagem || mystery, psychological drama
Bob Rafelson: Five Easy Pieces || drama, new Hollywood
Carl Reiner: Where's Poppa || black comedy, new Hollywood
Claude Chabrol: Le Boucher / The Butcher || psychological thriller, crime
Claude Sautet: Les Choses de la Vie / Things of Life || drama
Elio Petri: Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto / Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion || crime, satire
Enzo Barboni (E.B. Clucher): Lo Chiamavano Trinita / They Call Me Trinity || spaghetti western, comedy, buddy
Jaromil Jires: Valerie a týden divů / Valerie and Her Week of Wonders || Czechoslovak new wave, surrealism, vampire, coming-of-age
Jean-Pierre Melville: Le Cercle Rouge / The Red Circle || heist film, neo-noir, thriller
Jerzy Skolimowski: Deep End || coming-of-age, drama
Joseph Losey: Figures In a Landscape || thriller, survival
Joseph Mankiewicz: There Was a Crooked Man || prison film, comedy, revisionist western
Mario Monicelli: Brancaleone alle Crociate / Brancaleone at the Crusades || comedy, adventure, medieval
Nagisa Oshima: The Man Who Left His Will on Film || Japanese new wave, mystery, psychological drama
Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell: Performance || gangster film, psychological drama
Otar Ioseliani: Iko shashvi mgalobeli / Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird || drama, Soviet new wave, slice of life
Richard Sarafian: Fragment of Fear || thriller, mystery, crime
Robert Altman: Brewster McCloud || new Hollywood, satire, fantasy, absurdist comedy
Roger Corman: Bloody Mama || crime, hixploitation, drama
Russ Meyer: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls || sexploitation, satire, music, melodrama, black comedy, LGBT
Sam Peckinpah: The Ballad of Cable Hogue || revisionist western, comedy, new Hollywood
+ Satyajit Ray: Aranyer Din Ratri / Days and Nights in the Forest || drama, romantic comedy, parallel cinema
Satyajit Ray: Pratidwandi / The Adversary || drama, parallel cinema
Werner Herzog: Auch Zwerge Haben Klein Angefangen / Even Dwarfs Started Small || new German cinema, black comedy/satire
Yilmaz Guney: Umut / Hope || drama
1971
Alan Pakula: Klute || neo-noir, thriller, new Hollywood, mystery, crime
Aleksei German: Proverka na Dorogakh / Trial on the Road || war, drama
Claude Jutra: Mon Oncle Antoine / My Uncle Antoine || coming-of-age, drama
Dalton Trumbo: Johnny Got His Gun || war, psychological drama, new Hollywood
Don Siegel: Dirty Harry || crime, thriller, action, new Hollywood
Don Siegel: The Beguiled || new Hollywood, drama, thriller, period drama
Dusan Makavejev: W.R. || Yugoslav black wave, essay film, satire, postmodernism
George Lucas: THX 1138 || dystopian, sci-fi, new Hollywood
Gordon Parks: Shaft || blaxploitation, crime
John Schlesinger: Sunday, Bloody Sunday || drama, queer cinema/LGBT, British new wave
Joseph Losey: The Go-Between || coming-of-age, period drama
Kamal Amrohi: Pakeezah || musical, melodrama, romance
Ken Russell: The Devils || period drama, folk horror, nunsploitation, black comedy, psychological
King Hu: A Touch of Zen || wuxia/kung-fu
Kira Muratova: Dolgie Provody / The Long Farewell || drama, Soviet new wave
Luigi Zampa: Bello Onesto Emigrato Australia / A Girl in Australia || comedy
Masahiro Shinoda: Silence || jidaigeki, religious film
Melvin Van Peebles: Sweet Sweetback's Bad Asssss Song || blaxploitation, crime, experimental/surrealism, action
Michael Snow: La Region Centrale / The Central Region || structural film
Monte Hellman: Two Lane Blacktop || road movie, new Hollywood, drama
Nelson Pereira: Como Era Gostoso o Meu Frances / How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman || cinema novo, period drama, satire, cannibal, black comedy
+ Nicolas Roeg: Walkabout || adventure, drama, coming-of-age, Australian new wave, survival
Peter Bogdanovich: The Last Picture Show || coming-of-age, new Hollywood, drama, slice of life, period drama
Philippe De Broca: Le Poudre d'Escampette / Touch and Go || comedy, road movie
Raul Ruiz: Nadie Dijo Nada / Nobody Said Anything || new Chilean cinema
Richard Fleischer: See No Evil || thriller, horror
Richard Sarafian: Vanishing Point || road movie, new Hollywood, carsploitation
Robert Aldrich: The Grissom Gang || gangster film, period drama
Robert Altman: McCabe and Mrs. Miller || revisionist western, new Hollywood, drama
Robert Fuest: The Abominable Dr. Phibes || horror, black comedy, police procedural
Robert Wise: The Andromeda Strain || sci-fi, thriller
Shuji Terayama: Emperor Tomato Ketchup (short) || experimental, Japanese new wave, satire, surrealism, dystopian
Stanley Kubrick: A Clockwork Orange || dystopian, crime, satire, black comedy, psychological drama
Steven Spielberg: Duel || thriller, road movie, new Hollywood, carsploitation
Vittorio DeSica: Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini / The Garden of the Finzi-Continis || period drama
William Friedkin: The French Connection || new Hollywood, crime, thriller, police procedural
Woody Allen: Bananas || satire, slapstick, absurdist comedy, new Hollywood
1972
Adoor Gopalakrishnan: Swayamvaram / One's Own Choice || parallel cinema, drama
Andrei Tarkovsky: Solaris || sci-fi, psychological drama, mystery
Bernardo Bertolucci: Last Tango in Paris || psychological drama, romance, erotica
Bob Fosse: Cabaret || musical, drama, new Hollywood, romance
Brian De Palma: Sisters || psychological thriller, new Hollywood, horror
Dick Richards: The Culpepper Cattle Co. || revisionist western
Douglas Trumbull: Silent Running || sci-fi, new Hollywood
Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather || gangster film, drama, new Hollywood
Herbert Ross (Woody Allen): Play It Again Sam || romantic comedy, new Hollywood
+ Ingmar Bergman: Viskningar och Rop / Cries and Whispers || psychological drama, family drama, period drama
John Boorman: Deliverance || thriller, adventure, new Hollywood, survival
John Huston: The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean || revisionist western, new Hollywood
John Waters: Pink Flamingos || black comedy, exploitation, gross-out comedy, queer cinema
Joseph Mankiewicz: Sleuth || psychological thriller, mystery
Kinji Fukasaku: Under the Flag of the Rising Sun || war, drama
Kumar Shahani: Maya Darpan / Mirror of Illusion || parallel cinema, romance
Li-Pao Hsueh: Tai yin zhi / Finger of Doom || wuxia/kung-fu
Luigi Comencini: Lo Scopone Scientifico / The Scientific Cardplayer || comedy
Luis Bunuel: Le Charme Discrete de la Bourgeoisie / The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie || surrealism, satire, black comedy
Massimo Dallamano: Cosa Avete Fatto a Solange? / What Have You Done to Solange? || giallo/slasher, thriller, mystery, exploitation
Metodi Andonov: Koziyat Rog / The Goat Horn || period drama, exploitation
Perry Henzell: The Harder They Come || crime, music, drama, blaxploitation
Rainer Fassbinder: Die betteren Tranen der Petra von Kant / The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant || new German cinema, melodrama
Robert Aldrich: Ulzana's Raid || revisionist western
Sam Peckinpah: Junior Bonner || neo-western, new Hollywood, drama
Sam Peckinpah: The Getaway || thriller, new Hollywood, action, road movie, heist film
Sydney Pollack: Jeremiah Johnson || revisionist western, new Hollywood, survival
Walerian Borowczyk: Blanche || period drama/medieval, romance
Werner Herzog: Aguirre The Wrath of God || period drama, adventure, new German cinema
1973
+ Alejandro Jodorowsky: La montaña sagrada / The Holy Mountain || surrealism, satire, adventure
Arturo Ripstein: El Castillo de la Pureza / The Castle of Purity || drama
Djibril Diop Mambety: Touki-Bouki / Journey of the Hyena || satire, road movie, drama
Don Siegel: Charley Varrick || heist film, new Hollywood, thriller
Eiichi Yamamoto: Belladonna of Sadness || animation/anime, surrealism, erotica/pink film, low fantasy, drama/tragedy, foto film, Japanese new wave
Ermanno Olmi: La Circostanza / The Circumstance || drama
Federico Fellini: Amarcord || comedy, coming-of-age, drama, slice of life
Francois Truffaut: La Nuit Americaine / Day for Night || comedy, drama
Franklin Schaffner: Papillon || prison film, drama, adventure, biopic, new Hollywood
George Lucas: American Graffiti || coming-of-age/teen movie, comedy, new Hollywood, drama
George Roy Hill: The Sting || buddy, heist film, new Hollywood
Gerard Damiano: The Devil in Miss Jones || erotica/porno, fantasy
Istvan Szabo: Tűzoltó utca 25 / 25 Firemen St || psychological drama, surrealism, hyperlink cinema
Jean Eustache: La Maman et la Putain / The Mother and the Whore || drama, romance
John Milius: Dillinger || gangster film, biopic, new Hollywood, action
Krzystof Zanussi: Illuminacja / The Illumination || psychological drama
Lindsay Anderson: O Lucky Man || black comedy/satire
Marco Ferreri: La Grande Bouffe / The Big Feast || satire/black comedy, drama, absurdist
Martin Scorsese: Mean Streets || gangster film, drama, new Hollywood, slice of life
Michael Crichton: Westworld || sci-fi, neo-western, thriller
Michael Winner: Scorpio || spy, thriller
Nicolas Roeg: Don't Look Now || mystery, psychological thriller
Orson Welles: F for Fake || art documentary, essay film, postmodernism
Peter Bogdanovich: Paper Moon || road movie, comedy, new Hollywood, drama, buddy
Rainer Fassbinder: Welt am Draht / World on a Wire (TV) || sci-fi, thriller
Rene Laloux: La Planete Sauvage / Fantastic Planet || sci-fi, animation, dystopian, surrealism
Richard Fleischer: Soylent Green || dystopian, sci-fi, thriller, mystery/tech-noir
Robert Aldrich: Emperor of the North Pole || adventure, action, new Hollywood
Robert Altman: The Long Goodbye || neo-noir, mystery, new Hollywood, crime, satire
Sam Peckinpah: Pat Garret and Billy the Kid || revisionist western, new Hollywood
Sidney Lumet: Serpico || biopic, new Hollywood, crime, drama, police procedural
Stanley Kramer: Oklahoma Crude || western
Terrence Malick: Badlands || crime, road movie, drama, new Hollywood
Victor Erice: El Espiritu de la Colmena / The Spirit of the Beehive || period drama, psychological
William Friedkin: The Exorcist || supernatural horror, new Hollywood
Wojciech Has: Sanatorium Pod Klepsydra / The Hourglass Sanatorium || surrealism, psychological drama, portal fantasy
Woody Allen: Sleeper || sci-fi, comedy/slapstick, dystopian, satire
1974
Alan Pakula: The Parallax View || political thriller, new Hollywood, mystery
Basu Chatterjee: Us Paar || parallel cinema, drama, romance
Bertrand Tavernier: L' horloger de Saint-Paul / The Clockmaker of St. Paul || drama, crime
Blake Edwards: The Tamarind Seed || drama, romance, spy
Brian De Palma: Phantom of the Paradise || rock opera/musical, satire, new Hollywood
Dusan Makavejev: Sweet Movie || satire, surrealism, absurdist/ black comedy, sexploitation/erotica, experimental, music
Ettore Scola: Ci Eravamo Tanto Amati / We All Loved Each Other So Much || comedy, drama
Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation || psychological thriller, new Hollywood, mystery, drama
Francis Ford Coppola: The Godfather Part II || gangster film, drama, new Hollywood
Franco Brusati: Pane e cioccolata / Bread and Chocolate || comedy/satire, drama
Ingmar Bergman: Scener ur ett Aktenskap / Scenes from a Marriage || romance, family drama
Jacques Rivette: Celine et Julie vont en Bateau / Celine and Julie Go Boating || low fantasy/magical realism, surrealism, mystery, comedy
John Boorman: Zardoz || dystopian, sci-fi/fantasy, satire, surrealism
John Carpenter: Dark Star || sci-fi/space exploration, comedy
John Cassavetes: A Woman Under the Influence || psychological drama, family drama, new Hollywood
John Guillermin: The Towering Inferno || disaster, thriller
Liliana Cavani: Il Portiere di Notte / The Night Porter || psychological drama, nazisploitation
Luis Bunuel: Le Fantome de la Liberte / The Phantom of Liberty || satire/black comedy, surrealism, absurdist, hyperlink cinema
Lyudmil Kirkov: Selyaninat s Koleloto / A Peasant on a Bicycle || drama, satire
Martin Scorsese: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore || new Hollywood. drama, romance
Maurice Pialat: La Gueule Ouverte / The Mouth Agape || drama
Mel Brooks: Blazing Saddles || parody, comedy, satire
Mel Brooks: Young Frankenstein || parody, comedy
Michael Winner: Death Wish || vigilante, drama, action, neo-noir
Michel Brault: Les Ordres / Orders || docudrama, political, prison film
Nikita Mikhalkov: Svoy Sredi Chuzhikh Chuzhoy Sredi Svoikh / At Home Among Strangers || Ostern (Russian western), drama, action
Ousmane Sembene: Xala / The Curse || satire, political drama, third cinema
Philippe Garrel: Les Hautes Solitudes || experimental
+ Roman Polanski: Chinatown || neo-noir, mystery, crime, new Hollywood, drama
Sam Peckinpah: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia || crime, neo-western, road movie, new Hollywood
Shyam Benegal: Ankur || parallel cinema, drama
Steven Spielberg: The Sugarland Express || road movie, crime, new Hollywood, drama
Tobe Hooper: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre || slasher, hixploitation
Vasily Shukshin: Kalina Krasnaja / The Red Snowball Tree || drama
Wim Wenders: Alice in den Stadten / Alice In the Cities || road movie, drama, new German cinema
1975
Akira Kurosawa: Dersu Uzala || adventure, biopic, drama
Andrei Tarkovsky: Zerkalo / Mirror || psychological drama, experimental
Andrzej Wajda: Ziemia Obiecana / The Promised Land || period drama, satire
Arthur Penn: Night Moves || mystery, neo-noir, new Hollywood, drama
Blake Edwards: Return of the Pink Panther || crime, slapstick/comedy
Chantal Akerman: Jeanne Dielman || drama, slow cinema
Dario Argento: Profondo Rosso / Deep Red || giallo/horror
David Cronenberg: Shivers / They Came From Within || body horror, sci-fi, Canuxploitation
Jim Sharman: The Rocky Horror Picture Show || rock opera/musical, parody, comedy, LGBT
Lina Wertmüller: Travolti da un'Insolito Destino / Swept Away By An Unusual Destiny || comedy/satire, romance, survival
Lina Wertmüller: Pasqualino Settebellezze / Seven Beauties || drama, prison film, black comedy, war
Luciano Salce: Fantozzi / White Collar Blues || absurdist comedy, slapstick, satire
Manuel de Oliveira: Benilde ou a Virgem Mãe / Benilde or the Virgin Mother || drama
Marguerite Duras: India Song || romance, slow cinema
Masahiro Shinoda: Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees || jidaigeki, kaidan
Michelangelo Antonioni: Professione Reporter / The Passenger || road movie, mystery, drama
Milos Forman: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest || drama, new Hollywood
Norman Jewison: Rollerball || dystopian, sports, sci-fi
Rainer Fassbinder: Faustrecht der Freiheit / Fox and his Friends || queer cinema/LGBT, new German cinema, melodrama
Ramesh Sippy: Sholay || masala/musical, buddy, crime
Robert Aldrich: Hustle || neo-noir, crime, thriller
Robert Altman: Nashville || new Hollywood, drama, music, hyperlink cinema, satire
Sam Peckinpah: The Killer Elite || new Hollywood, action, crime, thriller, spy
Shyam Benegal: Nishant || drama, parallel cinema
Sidney Lumet: Dog Day Afternoon || heist film, drama, new Hollywood, biopic
Sydney Pollack: Three Days of the Condor || spy, political thriller, new Hollywood, mystery
+ Theo Angelopoulos: O Thiasos / Travelling Players || period drama, slow cinema
Volker Schlondorff: Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum / The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum || new German cinema, drama
Yash Chopra: Deewaar || crime, melodrama
1976
Alain Tanner: Jonas Qui Aura 25 Ans En l'An 2000 / Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 || drama, comedy
Andre Techine: Barocco || thriller, neo-noir
Andzej Wajda: Czlowiek z Marmuru / Man of Marble || political drama
Antonio Reis & Margarida Cordeiro: Tras-os-Montes || ethnofiction/docufiction, docudrama
Barbet Schroeder: Maitress / Mistress || drama, romance, erotica
Bernardo Bertolucci: 1900 || period drama
Bertrand Tavernier: Le Juge et L'assassin / The Judge and the Assassin || period drama
Brian De Palma: Carrie || drama, supernatural horror, new Hollywood
Carlos Saura: Elisa Vida Mia / Elisa, My Life || family drama
Claude Miller: La Meilleure Facon de Marcher / The Best Way to Walk || psychological drama
Derek Jarman & Paul Humfress: Sebastiane || erotica/queer cinema, period drama
Don Siegel: The Shootist || revisionist western, new Hollywood
Ettore Scola: Brutti Sporchi e Cattivi / Ugly, Dirty and Bad || black comedy/satire, drama
Francesco Rosi: Cadaveri Eccellenti / Illustrious Corpses || political thriller/cinema politico Italiano
Gabor Body: Amerikai anzix / American Torso || period drama, adventure
Jimmy Wang Yu: Master of the Flying Guillotine || kung-fu
John Carpenter: Assault on Precinct 13 || thriller, action, crime
John Schlesinger: Marathon Man || thriller, new Hollywood
Joseph Losey: Mr. Klein || mystery, psychological drama, period drama
Luciano Salce: Il Secondo Tragico Fantozzi / The Second Tragic Fantozzi || comedy, satire
+ Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver || psychological drama, new Hollywood, crime
Mohammad Reza Aslani: The Chess Game of the Wind || drama, Iranian new wave
Mrinal Sen: Mrigayaa || political drama, parallel cinema
Nicolas Roeg: The Man Who Fell To Earth || sci-fi/extraterrestrial, drama
Nikita Mikhalkov: Raba Ljubvi / A Slave of Love || romance, melodrama
Rainer Fassbinder: Chinesisches Roulette/ Chinese Roulette || new German cinema, psychological drama
Roman Polanski: Le Locataire / The Tenant || psychological thriller, mystery
Sidney Lumet: Network || satire, drama, new Hollywood, black comedy
Tengiz Abuladze: The Wishing Tree || drama, romance, satire, low fantasy
Wim Wenders: Im Lauf der Zeit / Kings of the Road || road movie, drama, new German cinema, buddy
1977
Agnes Varda: L'une Chante, l'autre Pas / One Sings the Other Doesn't || drama, slice of life
Alan Clarke: Scum || drama, prison film
Antonio Eguino: Chuquiago || anthology film, drama, third cinema
Dario Argento: Suspiria || supernatural horror, mystery, giallo
+ David Lynch: Eraserhead || surrealism/experimental, psychological horror
George Lucas: Star Wars || space opera
John Badham: Saturday Night Fever || drama, dance film
John Cassavetes: Opening Night || psychological drama
Kidlat Tahimik: Mababangong Bangungot / Perfumed Nightmare || third cinema, ethnofiction
Li-Pao Hsueh: Tian long ba bu / The Battle Wizard || wuxia, fantasy, exploitation
Mario Monicelli: Un Borghese Piccolo Piccolo / An Average Little Man || drama, satire
Masahiro Shinoda: Ballad of Orin || period drama
Nikita Mikhalkov: Neokonchennaya Pyesa Dlya Mekhanicheskogo Pjanino / Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano || drama
Nobuhiko Obayashi: House || haunted house, absurdist comedy, surrealism
Paolo Taviani: Padre Padrone / Father and Master || drama, coming-of-age
Peter Hyams: Capricorn One || thriller, new Hollywood
Raul Ruiz: Colloque de Chiens / Dog's Dialogue (short) || foto film, melodrama
Robert Aldrich: Twilight's Last Gleaming || political thriller
Sam Peckinpah: Cross of Iron || war, period drama
Satyajit Ray: Shatranj Ke Khiladi / The Chess Players || parallel cinema, political drama, period drama
Shyam Benegal: Bhumika || drama, parallel cinema
Stanley Kramer: The Domino Principle || thriller
Steven Spielberg: Close Encounters of the Third Kind || sci-fi/alien invasion, mystery, drama
Valie Export: Unsichtbare Gegner / Invisible Adversaries || psychological drama, experimental
Werner Herzog: Stroszek || drama, new German cinema, satire
Wim Wenders: Der Amerikanische Freund / The American Friend || crime, new German cinema, drama, neo-noir, thriller
Woody Allen: Annie Hall || romantic comedy, drama
1978
Alan Parker: Midnight Express || prison film, biopic, drama
Alan Rudolph: Remember My Name || drama, thriller
Aleksandr Sokurov: Lonely Voice of a Man || drama
Bernard Blier: Préparez vos mouchoirs / Get Out Your Handkerchiefs || comedy, drama, romance
Charles Burnett: Killer of Sheep || drama, slice of life
Ermanno Olmi: L'Albero degli Zoccoli / The Tree of Wooden Clogs || period drama, slice of life
George Romero: Dawn of the Dead || zombie, splatter/horror, survival, satire
Ingmar Bergman: Höstsonaten / Autumn Sonata || family drama, psychological
Jerzy Skolimowski: The Shout || psychological thriller, drama, mystery
John Carpenter: Halloween || slasher
John Landis: Animal House || comedy
Karel Reisz: Who'll Stop the Rain || drama, crime, road movie
Louis Malle: Pretty Baby || period drama
Marco Ferreri: Ciao Maschio / Bye Bye Monkey || surrealism, satire, drama
Michael Cimino: The Deer Hunter || war, drama, new Hollywood
Paul Mazursky: An Unmarried Woman || romance, new Hollywood
Paul Schrader: Blue Collar || drama, crime
Phillip Noyce: Newsfront || Australian new wave, drama
Raul Ruiz: L'Hypothese du Tableau Vole / Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting || mystery, mockumentary, postmodernism, magical realism
Raul Ruiz: La Vocation Suspendue / The Suspended Vocation || period/political drama, religious film
Sam Peckinpah: Convoy || road movie, action, carsploitation
+ Terrence Malick: Days of Heaven || drama, romance
Yuen Woo-ping: Drunken Master || kung-fu, slapstick
1979
Alain Corneau: Serie Noire || drama, neo-noir, black comedy
Ali Khamraev: Triptych ||
Andrei Konchalovsky: Sibiriada || period drama, war
+ Andrei Tarkovsky: Stalker || psychological drama, slow cinema, sci-fi
Arthur Hiller: The In-Laws || comedy, spy, buddy
Bertrand Blier: Buffet Froid / Cold Cuts || absurdist/black comedy, crime
Blake Edwards: 10 || romantic/sex comedy
Bob Fosse: All That Jazz || drama, jukebox musical
Don Siegel: Escape From Alcatraz || prison film, thriller, biopic
Francis Ford Coppola: Apocalypse Now || war, psychological drama
George Miller: Mad Max || ozploitation, biker/carsploitation, dystopian, crime, action, neo-western, vigilante
Gillian Armstrong: My Brilliant Career || Romance, Australian New Wave, Drama
Hal Needham: The Villain || western, slapstick, parody
Ivan Zulueta: Arrebato / Rapture || mystery, psychological horror
James Bridges: The China Syndrome || thriller, drama, new Hollywood
Jane Arden & Jack Bond: Anti-Clock || experimental, essay film
King Hu: Legend of the Mountain || wuxia, mystery
Luigi Comencini: L'Ingorgo / Traffic Jam / Black Out in Autostrada || comedy, drama
Masahiro Shinoda: Demon Pond || low fantasy
Rainer Fassbinder: Die Ehe der Maria Braun / The Marriage of Maria Braun || new German cinema, period drama/melodrama
Ridley Scott: Alien || sci-fi/extraterrestrial, horror
Sydney Pollack: The Electric Horseman || drama, romance, neo-western
Volker Schlondorff: Die Blechtrommel / The Tin Drum || new German cinema, drama, war, coming of age, low fantasy
Walter Hill: The Warriors || action, crime, adventure
Woody Allen: Manhattan || romantic comedy, drama, slice of life
1980
Akira Kurosawa: Kagemusha || jidaigeki, war
Bai Hua/Chen Youhua: Kulian / Bitter Love ||
Bertrand Tavernier: La Mort en Direct / Death Watch || sci-fi, drama, satire
Bill Forsyth: Gregory's Girl || coming-of-age, teen movie, comedy, slice of life
+ Brian De Palma: Dressed to Kill || psychological/erotic thriller, mystery
Dario Argento: Inferno || supernatural horror
Ingmar Bergman: Aus dem Leben der Marionetten / From the Life of the Marionettes || psychological drama
Irvin Kershner (George Lucas): The Empire Strikes Back || space opera
István Szabó: Bizalom / Confidence || psychological drama, romance
Jim Abrahams, David & Jerry Zucker: Airplane! || parody, absurdist comedy, disaster
John Carpenter: The Fog || supernatural horror
John Cassavetes: Gloria || gangster film, drama, thriller
John Landis: Blues Brothers || comedy, buddy, road movie, music
Karpo Godina: Splav Meduze / The Medusa Raft || drama, surrealism
Ken Russell: Altererd States || sci-fi, body horror, psychological/surrealism
Louis Malle: Atlantic City, USA || crime, drama
Martin Scorsese: Raging Bull || biopic, sports, drama
Maurice Pialat: Loulou || romance, drama
Michael Cimino: Heaven's Gate || new Hollywood, revisionist western, period drama
Nicolas Roeg: Bad Timing || mystery, psychological drama
Peng Ning: Kulian / The Sun and the People aka Taiyang he Ren / The Sun and the Man
Ronald Neame: Hopscotch || spy, comedy
Walter Hill: The Long Riders || revisionist western, new Hollywood
1981
Agnieszka Holland: Fever || period /political drama, black comedy, hyperlink cinema
Andrzej Zulawski: Possession || psychological horror/drama, surrealism
Bernardo Bertolucci: La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo / The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man || crime, drama, satire
Billy Wilder: Buddy Buddy || black comedy, buddy
Blake Edwards: S.O.B. || satire, black/sex comedy
Brian De Palma: Blow Out || thriller, new Hollywood, mystery/neo-noir
Daniel Petrie: Fort Apache, the Bronx || drama, crime, buddy cop
David Cronenberg: Scanners || sci-fi, thriller, Canuxploitation
Eric Rohmer: La Femme de l'Aviateur / The Aviator's Wife || drama
George Miller: The Road Warrior || action, post-apocalyptic, ozploitation
Héctor Babenco: Pixote || drama, crime, coming-of-age, hood film
Istvan Szabo : Mephisto || political/period drama
Ivan Reitman: Stripes || comedy, war
Jacques Rivette: Le Pont du Nord / The North Bridge || mystery, surrealism
Joe Dante: The Howling || werewolf, supernatural horror
John Carpenter: Escape from New York || dystopian, action
Lawrence Kasdan: Body Heat || neo-noir, erotic thriller, crime
+ Manuel De Oliveira: Francisca || period drama
Rainer Fassbinder: Lola || melodrama, satire, new German cinema
Raul Ruiz: O Territorio / The Territory || drama, psychological horror, surrealism
Sam Raimi: The Evil Dead || supernatural horror, splatter, zombie
Sidney Lumet: Prince of the City || drama, new Hollywood, police procedural, crime
Steven Spielberg: Raiders of the Lost Ark || adventure, action, low fantasy
Terry Gilliam: Time Bandits || adventure, fantasy, comedy, time travel
Walter Hill: Southern Comfort || thriller, new Hollywood, survival
Warren Beatty: Reds || biopic, period drama, new Hollywood, romance
Wolfgang Petersen: Das Boot || war, period drama
1982
Adoor Gopalakrishnan: Elippathayam / The Rat Trap || drama
Amy Heckerling: Fast Times at Ridgemont High || teen movie/coming-of-age, comedy
Bela Tarr: Panelkapcsolat / The Prefab People || drama
Blake Edwards: Victor/Victoria || musical, comedy, LGBT
Carl Reiner: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid || parody, neo-noir/mystery
Chantal Akerman: Toute une Nuit / All Night Long || romance
Fred Schepisi: Barbarosa || western
Godfrey Reggio: Koyaanisqatsi || essay film, environmental documentary, experimental, city symphony
Jerzy Skolimowski: Moonlighting || drama
Lindsay Anderson: Britannia Hospital || black comedy, satire
Martin Scorsese: The King of Comedy || black comedy, satire, drama
Mike Leigh: Home Sweet Home || drama, comedy
Paolo Taviani: La Notte di San Lorenzo / The Night of San Lorenzo || war, period drama
Peter Greenaway: The Draughtsman's Contract || period drama, mystery
Peter Weir: The Year of Living Dangerously || political drama, romance, Australian new wave
+ Rainer Fassbinder: Veronika Voss || new German cinema, melodrama, psychological
Ridley Scott: Blade Runner || cyberpunk/tech-noir, dystopian, sci-fi
Steven Lisberger: Tron || adventure, sci-fi, virtual reality, computer animation
Steven Spielberg: E.T. || family, sci-fi/extraterrestrial, drama
Susan Seidelman: Smithereens || drama, music
Sydney Pollack: Tootsie || romantic comedy, satire
Ted Kotcheff: First Blood || action, drama
Tobe Hooper: Poltergeist || haunted house/supernatural horror
Walter Hill: 48 Hrs || buddy cop, action, crime
Wang Toon: Portrait of a Fanatic || drama
Wayne Wang: Chan Is Missing || mystery/neo-noir, drama
Werner Herzog: Fitzcarraldo || adventure, new German cinema, period drama
Wim Wenders : The State of Things || drama
Yilmaz Guney & Serif Goren: Yol / The Road || drama, road movie
1983
Alexander Kluge: Die Macht der Gefuehle / The Power of Emotion || essay film
+ Andrei Tarkovsky: Nostalghia / Nostalgia || psychological drama, slow cinema
Bill Forsyth: Local Hero || comedy, drama
Brian De Palma: Scarface || gangster film, drama
David Cronenberg: Videodrome || body/techno horror, sci-fi, psychological thriller, satire
Edward Yang: Hai Tan de Yi Tian / That Day on the Beach || Taiwanese new wave, drama
Eric Rohmer: Pauline a la Plage / Pauline at the Beach || drama, romance
Kundan Shah: Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro / Who Pays the Piper || satire, comedy/slapstick
Mike Leigh: Meantime || slice of life, family drama
Neri Parenti: Fantozzi subisce ancora || comedy/satire
Nicolas Roeg: Eureka || drama
Penelope Spheeris: Suburbia || drama, exploitation
Raul Ruiz: La Ville Des Pirates / City of Pirates || surrealism
Raul Ruiz: Les Trois Couronnes du Matelot / Three Crowns of the Sailor || surrealism, adventure, fantasy, mystery
Shohei Imamura: Narayama-Bushi-ko / The Ballad of Narayama || jidaigeki
Tony Scott: The Hunger || vampire, romance, horror
Yilmaz Guney: Duvar / The Wall || prison film
1984
Alan Parker: Birdy || buddy, coming-of-age, psychological drama
Alan Rudolph: Choose Me || drama, romantic comedy
Aleksei German: My Friend Ivan Lapshin || drama
Alex Cox: Repo Man || black comedy/satire, sci-fi, crime
Brian De Palma: Body Double || erotic thriller, mystery/neo-noir
Chen Kaige: Huang Tudi / Yellow Earth || fifth generation, music, drama
Fred Schepisi: Iceman || sci-fi, drama
Hayao Miyazaki: Kaze no tani no Nausicaa / Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind || anime, post-apocalyptic, sci-fi/fantasy, adventure
Hsiao-Hsien Hou: A Summer at Grandpa's || coming-of-age, drama, Taiwanese new wave, slice of life
Ivan Reitman: Ghostbusters || comedy, low fantasy/sci-fi
+ James Cameron: The Terminator || action, sci-fi, thriller, time travel, cyberpunk/tech-noir
Jim Jarmusch: Stranger Than Paradise || road movie, no wave cinema, slice of life
Joe Dante: Gremlins || black comedy, horror, low fantasy
Joel Coen: Blood Simple || crime, thriller, neo-noir
John Avildsen: The Karate Kid || martial arts/sports, drama, coming-of-age/teen movie
John Cassavetes: Love Streams || drama, psychological
John Hughes: Sixteen Candles || teen movie/coming-of-age, comedy
Juzo Itami: Ososhiki / The Funeral || satire/black comedy, family drama
Ken Russell: Crimes of Passion || erotic thriller
Lloyd Kaufman & Michael Herz: The Toxic Avenger || superhero, splatter/body horror, absurdist/black comedy
María Luisa Bemberg: Camila || period drama/biopic, romance, religious film
Márta Mészáros: Napló gyermekeimnek / Diary for My Children || period/political/family drama, coming-of-age
Martin Brest: Beverly Hills Cop || comedy, action, police procedural
Michael Apted: 28 Up || biography documentary
Michael Roemer: Vengeance Is Mine || family drama
Milos Forman: Amadeus || biopic, period drama, music
Paul Mazursky: Moscow on the Hudson || drama, comedy
Richard Lester: Finders Keepers || comedy
Robert Zemeckis: Romancing the Stone || adventure, romance, comedy
Roberto Benigni: Non Ci Resta Che Piangere / Nothing Left to Do But Cry || comedy, time travel, buddy, low fantasy, medieval
Roland Joffe: The Killing Fields || war, political/period drama
Ron Howard: Splash || romantic comedy, low fantasy
Tenghiz Abuladze: Monanieba / Repentance || satire, political drama
Theodoros Angelopulos: Taxidi sta Kythira / Voyage to Cythera || drama, slow cinema
Tsui Hark: Shanghai Blues || romantic/screwball comedy, slapstick
Vadim Abdrashitov: Para Planet / Planet Caravan || drama, comedy, surrealism
WD Richter: Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension || sci-fi, adventure, comedy, alien invasion
Wes Craven: A Nightmare on Elm Street || slasher, supernatural horror, teen movie
Wim Wenders: Paris, Texas || road movie, family drama
1985
Agnes Varda: Sans Toi ni Loi / Vagabond || drama, road movie
Aki Kaurismaki: Calamari Union || absurdist/black comedy
Akira Kurosawa: Ran || jidaigeki, tragedy, war
Alan Rudolph: Trouble in Mind || neo-noir, drama, romance
Ali Khamraev: I Remember You || drama
Andre Techine: Rendez-vous || drama
Andrei Konchalovsky: Runaway Train || thriller, action
Bela Tarr: Oszi Almanach / Autumn Almanac || psychological drama
Coline Serreau: Trois Hommes et un Couffin / Three Man and a Cradle || comedy
Edward Yang: Qing Mei Zhu Ma / Taipei Story || Taiwanese new wave, drama
Elem Klimov: Idi i Smotri / Come and See || war, psychological drama, period drama
Emir Kusturica: When Father Was Away on Business || drama, coming-of-age, comedy
George Miller: Beyond Thunderdome || action, post-apocalyptic, dystopian, ozploitation
Harun Farocki: Betrogen / Betrayed || neo-noir
Hsiao-Hsien Hou: A Time To Live, A Time To Die || coming-of-age, Taiwanese new wave, period/family drama, slice of life
James Ivory: A Room With a View || romance, period drama
John Huston: Prizzi's Honor || black comedy, gangster film/crime, romance
Lasse Hallstrom: Mitt Liv Som Hund / My Life as a Dog || coming-of-age, drama
Lewis Teague: The Jewel of the Nile || adventure, comedy, romance
Luis Puenzo: La Historia Oficial / The Official Story || political drama
Mamoru Oshii: Tenshi no Tamago / Angel's Egg || anime, post-apocalyptic, surrealism, fantasy, slow cinema
Martin Scorsese: After Hours || black comedy
Nicolas Roeg: Insignificance || satire, drama, alternate history
Percy Adlon: Zuckerbaby / Sugarbaby || comedy, romance
Peter Greenaway: A Zed and Two Noughts || black comedy, drama, postmodernism
Peter Weir: Witness || crime, thriller, romance, drama
Richard Marquand: Jagged Edge || legal drama, mystery, thriller, romance
Robert Zemeckis: Back to the Future || comedy, adventure, sci-fi/time travel
Ron Howard: Cocoon || sci-fi, comedy, drama
Shinji Somai: Typhoon Club || drama, teen movie/coming-of-age
Stuart Gordon: Re-Animator || splatter, body horror, zombie, sci-fi, black comedy
Susan Seidelman: Desperately Seeking Susan || comedy
+ Terry Gilliam: Brazil || dystopian, satire, sci-fi, black comedy
Tobe Hooper: Lifeforce || vampire/zombie, sci-fi/alien invasion, cosmic/body horror, disaster, erotic thriller, police procedural
Tom Holland: Fright Night || vampire, horror, comedy
William Friedkin: To Live and Die in L.A. || thriller, crime, police procedural
Woody Allen: The Purple Rose of Cairo || low fantasy, romantic comedy
1986
Andrej Tarkovsky: Offret / The Sacrifice || drama, slow cinema
Bertrand Blier: Tenue de soirée / Ménage || black/sex comedy, satire, LGBT
Blake Edwards: A Fine Mess || comedy/slapstick, action, crime
David Lynch: Blue Velvet || mystery/neo-noir, thriller, crime
Denys Arcand: Le Decline de L'Empire Americain / The Decline of the American Empire || drama, satire, sex comedy
Edward Yang: Kong bu fen zi / The Terrorizers || drama, Taiwanese new wave, hyperlink cinema
Eric Rohmer: Le Rayon Vert / The Green Ray || slice of life
Francis Ford Coppola: Peggy Sue Got Married || low fantasy/time travel, drama, comedy, romance
Hsiao-Hsien Hou: Lian Lian Fengchen / Dust in the Wind || drama, Taiwanese new wave
Jim Jarmusch: Down by Law || prison film, buddy, comedy, road movie
John Hughes: Ferris Bueller's Day Off || comedy, teen movie
John Woo: Yingxiong Bense / A Better Tomorrow || heroic bloodshed/action, gangster/triad film, buddy, Hong Kong new wave
Jonathan Demme: Something Wild || romantic comedy, road movie, crime
Julien Temple: Absolute Beginners || musical, period drama
Ken Blancato: Stewardess School || sex comedy, slapstick, disaster
Konstantin Lopushansky: Pisma Myortvogo Cheloveka / Dead Man's Letters || post-apocalyptic, drama, survival
Manuel De Oliveira: Mon Cas / My Case || drama, comedy
Oliver Stone: Platoon || war, drama
Pedro Almodovar: Matador || erotic thriller, crime
Randa Haines: Children of a Lesser God || drama, romance
Roman Polanski: Pirates || swashbuckler, comedy
Russell Mulcahy: Highlander || action, fantasy/sword and sorcery
Stephen & Timothy Quay: Street of Crocodiles (short) || surrealism, puppet animation/stop-motion
Stephen Herek: Critters || horror, black comedy, sci-fi/alien invasion
+ Theodoros Angelopulos: O Melissokomos / The Beekeeper || road movie, psychological drama
Tsui Hark: Peking Opera Blues || comedy, action, period drama
Woody Allen: Hannah and Her Sisters || romantic comedy, drama
Wu Tianming: Lao Jing / Old Well || drama
1987
Abbas Kiarostami: Khaneh-Je Doost Kojast / Where Is the Friend's House? || drama, new Iranian cinema
Adrian Lyne: Fatal Attraction || psychological/erotic thriller
Agnieszka Holland: Kobieta samotna / A Lonely Woman || drama, romance
Aki Kaurismaki: Hamlet Goes Business || black comedy, tragedy
Alan Parker: Angel Heart || neo-noir/mystery, thriller, psychological horror
Bernardo Bertolucci: The Last Emperor || biopic, period drama
Bertrand Tavernier: La passion Béatrice / The Passion of Beatrice || period drama/medieval, coming-of-age
Chen Kaige: Hai zi Wang / King of the Children || fifth generation, drama
Clive Barker: Hellraiser || supernatural/body/sadistic horror
Hsiao-Hsien Hou: Daughter of the Nile || drama, Taiwanese new wave
Joel & Ethan Coen: Raising Arizona || comedy, crime
John McTiernan: Predator || action, sci-fi/extraterrestrial, survival
John Sayles: Matewan || period drama
Juzo Itami: Marusa No Onna / A Taxing Woman || comedy/satire, crime
Mani Ratnam: Nayakan || crime, drama
Mary Lambert: Siesta || mystery, erotic thriller
Omer Kavur: Anayurt Oteli / Motherland Hotel || psychological drama
Paul Verhoeven: Robocop || action, crime, satire, sci-fi/cyberpunk
Pedro Almodovar: La ley del deseo / Law of Desire || melodrama, romance, queer cinema/LGBT
Percy Adlon: Out of Rosenheim / Baghdad Cafè || comedy, drama, slice of life
Peter Greenaway: The Belly of an Architect || drama
Richard Donner: Lethal Weapon || action, crime, buddy cop, comedy
Souleyman Cisse: Yeelen / Brightness || drama, magical realism
Stanley Kubrick: Full Metal Jacket || war, drama
Stephen Frears: Sammy and Rosie Get Laid || romance, satire
+ Wim Wenders: Der Himmel uber Berlin / Wings of Desire || drama, low fantasy/magical realism
Zbigniew Rybczynski: Steps (short) || experimental, satire
1988
Aki Kaurismaki: Ariel || black comedy, crime, drama
Alan Parker: Mississippi Burning || drama, police procedural/crime
Alexander Sokurov: Dni Zatmenia / Days of Eclipse || drama
Barry Levinson: Rain Man || drama, road movie, buddy
Bela Tarr: Karhozat / Damnation || drama, slow cinema
Charles Crichton: A Fish Called Wanda || crime, black comedy
Claire Denis: Chocolat || period drama
David Cronenberg: Dead Ringers || psychological drama
Emir Kusturica: Dom za Vesanje / Time of the Gypsies || drama, crime, coming-of-age
Errol Morris: The Thin Blue Line || crime/investigative documentary
George Sluizer: Spoorloos / The Vanishing || psychological thriller/drama, mystery
Giuseppe Tornatore: Cinema Paradiso || coming-of-age, melodrama
Hayao Miyazaki: My Neighbor Totoro || anime, low fantasy/magical realism, family
Isao Takahata: Hotaru no Haka / Grave of the Fireflies || anime, war, period drama, tragedy
Istvan Szabo: Hanussen || biopic, period drama
John Carpenter: They Live || dystopian, satire, action, sci-fi/alien invasion
John Landis: Coming to America || romantic comedy
John McTiernan: Die Hard || action
Jonathan Demme: Married to the Mob || comedy, gangster film/crime
Jose-Luis Cuerda: Amanece que no es Poco / Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing || absurdist comedy
Julian Temple: Earth Girls Are Easy || sci-fi/extraterrestrial, romantic comedy, musical
Katsuhiro Otomo: Akira || anime, cyberpunk/dystopian, action
Krzysztof Kieslowski: Dekalog (ten shorts) || drama
Manuel De Oliveira: Os Canibais / The Cannibals || operetta, black comedy, period drama
Martin Brest: Midnight Run || comedy, road movie, buddy, action, crime
Michael Lehmann: Heathers || black comedy, teen movie, satire
Mike Nichols: Working Girl || romantic comedy, drama
Mira Nair: Salaam Bombay || drama, crime
Pedro Almodovar: Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios / Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown || comedy, melodrama
Peter Greenaway: Drowning by Numbers || black comedy, crime, postmodernism
Robert Zemeckis: Who Framed Roger Rabbitt || comedy, neo-noir/whodunit, live-action animation
Roman Polanski: Frantic || thriller, mystery
+ Theodoros Angelopulos: Topio Stin Omichli / Landscape in the Mist || road movie, drama, coming-of-age
Tim Burton: Beetlejuice || comedy, fantasy, haunted house, gothic horror
Tom Holland: Child's Play || supernatural horror/slasher, black comedy
Toshiharu Ikeda: Evil Dead Trap || slasher/splatter/horror
Vasily Pichul: Malankaya / Little Vera || drama, coming-of-age
1989
Aki Kaurismaki: Leningrad Cowboys Go America || road movie, comedy, music
Alejandro Jodorowsky: Santa Sangre / Holy Blood || psychological thriller, drama, surrealism
Bae Yong-Kyun: Why Has Bodhi Dharma Left For The East || drama
Bertrand Blier: Trop belle pour toi / Too Beautiful for You || drama, romance
Bertrand Tavernier: La Vie est rien d'Autre / Life and Nothing But || period drama, romance
Hsiao-Hsien Hou: Beiqing Chengshi / A City of Sadness || period/political drama, Taiwanese new wave
Ildiko Enyendi: My Twentieth Century || surrealism, period drama, romance
Jim Jarmusch: Mystery Train || comedy, drama, hyperlink cinema
John Hughes: Uncle Buck || comedy, family drama
John Woo: Die Xue Shuang Xiong / The Killer || heroic bloodshed/action, gangster/triad film, buddy
Michael Haneke: Der Siebente Kontinent / The Seventh Continent || psychological drama
Patrice Leconte: Monsieur Hire || drama, crime
Pedro Almodovar: Atame / Tie Me Up Tie Me Down || black comedy, romance, home invasion
+ Peter Greenaway: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover || drama, black comedy, satire
Philippe Garrel: Les Baisers de Secours / Emergency Kisses || drama
Ram Varma: Siva || crime
Shaji Karun: Piravi / The Birth || drama
Shinya Tsukamoto: Tetsuo the Iron Man || body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, experimental
Shohei Imamura: Kuroi Ame / Black Rain || period/family drama
Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing || drama, hood film, slice of life
Steve Kloves: The Fabulous Baker Boys || drama, romance, music
Steven Soderbergh: Sex Lies and Videotape || psychological drama
Takeshi Kitano: Violent Cop || crime, thriller
Trinh Minh-ha: Surname Viet Given Name Nam || essay film
Walter Hill: Johnny Handsome || crime/neo-noir, drama
Woody Allen: Crimes and Misdemeanors || drama
Youssef Chahine: Iskandariya Kaman wa Kaman / Alexandria Again and Forever || drama, satire
1990
Abbas Kiarostami: Namayeh Nazdik / Close-Up || docudrama/docufiction, legal drama, new Iranian cinema, postmodernism
Abel Ferrara: King of New York || gangster film, drama
Adrian Lyne: Jacob's Ladder || psychological horror/thriller/drama
Agnieszka Holland: Europa Europa || war, period drama, coming-of-age
Aki Kaurismaki: Tulitikkutehtaan Tytto / The Match Factory Girl || drama
Aki Kaurismaki: I Hired A Contract Killer || black comedy/parody, drama, romance, neo-noir
Barbet Schroeder: Reversal of Fortunes || legal drama
Bertrand Tavernier: Daddy Nostalgia / These Foolish Things || drama
Charles Burnett: To Sleep with Anger || drama
Chris Columbus: Home Alone || family, slapstick/comedy
David Lynch: Wild At Heart || road movie, romance, crime, black comedy, drama
Garry Marshall: Pretty Woman || romantic comedy
Gianni Amelio: Porte Aperte / Open Doors || legal drama
Howard Franklin & Bill Murray: Quick Change || comedy, heist film
Jane Campion: An Angel At My Table || biopic, psychological drama
Jerry Zucker: Ghost || romance, low fantasy, melodrama
Joel & Ethan Coen: Miller's Crossing || gangster film, neo-noir, period drama
+ John Woo: Dip Huet Gai Tau / Bullet in the Head || war, heroic bloodshed/action, period drama
Kathryn Bigelow: Blue Steel || thriller, crime
Luc Besson: La Femme Nikita || thriller, action
Martin Scorsese: Good Fellas || gangster film, biopic, drama
Mike Leigh: Life Is Sweet || comedy, family drama, slice of life
Nicolas Roeg: The Witches || fantasy, family, supernatural/body horror, comedy
Nikos Nikolaidis: Singapore Sling || neo-noir, black comedy, exploitation, erotica, surrealism, thriller, horror
Patrice Leconte: The Hairdresser's Husband || drama, comedy, romance
Paul Verhoeven: Total Recall || sci-fi, action, dystopian, thriller
Penny Marshall: Awakenings || drama
Richard Linklater: Slacker || slice of life, hyperlink cinema
Takeshi Kitano: 3-4x Jugatsu / Boiling Point || black comedy, yakuza/gangster film
Tim Burton: Edward Scissorhands || drama, low fantasy/fairy tale, romance
Wong Kar-Wai: Days of Being Wild || drama, romance
Zhang Yimou: Ju Dou || period drama, romance, fifth generation
1991
Alfonso Cuaron: Solo con Tu Pareja / Love in the Time of Hysteria || romantic/screwball/sex comedy
Ardak Armirkulov: Gibel' Otrara / The Fall of Otrar || period drama, war, epic
Ari Roussimoff: Shadows in the City || psychological horror/drama
Arturo Ripstein: Woman of the Port || drama
Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov: Bratan / Brother || drama, road movie
Chantal Akerman: Nuit et Jour / Night and Day || drama, romance
Chen Kaige: Bian Zou Bian Chang / Life on a String || drama, music
Gus Van Sant: My Own Private Idaho || drama, road movie, new queer cinema/LGBT
Heinz Emigholz: Der Zynische Koerper / The Holy Bunch || drama
Jacques Rivette: La Belle Noiseuse / The Beautiful Troublemaker || psychological drama
Jean-Pierre Jeunet: Delicatessen || black/absurdist comedy, dystopian
Joel & Ethan Coen: Barton Fink || black comedy/satire, psychological drama
John Sayles: City of Hope || political drama, crime, hyperlink cinema
John Singleton: Boyz N the Hood || drama, hood film, coming-of-age
Jonathan Demme: The Silence of the Lambs || psychological thriller, crime/police procedural
Joseph Ruben: Sleeping With the Enemy || thriller
Julie Dash: Daughters of the Dust || drama
Kenneth Branagh: Dead Again || mystery/neo-noir, thriller, low fantasy
Krzysztof Kieslowski: La Double Vie de Veronique / The Double Life of Veronica || psychological drama, romance, mystery
Lars Von Trier: Zentropa / Europa || psychological drama, neo-noir, period drama
Leos Carax: Les Amants du Pont Neuf / The Lovers on the Bridge || romance, drama
Manoel De Oliveira: A Divina Comedia / The Divine Comedy || drama, comedy
Nikita Mikhalkov: Close to Eden || drama
Nina Menkes: Queen of Diamonds || slow cinema, slice of life
Philippe Garrel: J'Entends plus la Guitare / I Don't Hear the Guitar Anymore || psychological drama, romance
Ridley Scott: Thelma and Louise || road movie, crime, buddy, drama
Stanley Kwan: Center Stage || biopic, docudrama
Terry Gilliam: The Fisher King || drama, buddy, comedy
+ Theo Angelopoulos: The Suspended Step of the Stork || drama, slow cinema
Tsui Hark: Wong Fei-hung / Once Upon a Time in China || kung fu/wuxia, period drama
Wim Wenders: Bis ans Ende der Welt / Until the End of the World || drama, sci-fi, road movie, romance
Zhang Yimou: Dahong Denglong Gaogao Gua / Raise of the Red Lantern || drama, fifth generation
1992
Abel Ferrara: Bad Lieutenant || crime, psychological drama
Alan Rudolph: Equinox || mystery/neo-noir, thriller
Aleksandr Sokurov: Kamen / Stone || drama, slow cinema
Arthur Hiller: The Babe || biopic, sports, comedy
Brett Leonard: The Lawnmower Man || cyberpunk/sci-fi, thriller, virtual reality
Claude Sautet: Un Coeur en Hiver / A Heart in Winter || drama, romance
Clint Eastwood: Unforgiven || revisionist western, period drama
Eric Rohmer: Conte d'Hiver / A Tale of Winter || drama, romance
Fernando Trueba: Belle Epoque / The Age of Beauty || romantic comedy
Goran Paskaljevic: Tango Argentino || comedy, drama, coming-of-age
Istvan Szabo: Edes Emma Draga Bobe - Vazlatok Aktok / Sweet Emma Dear Bobe - Sketches Nudes || political drama
Ivan Dykhovichnyy: Prorva/ Moscow Parade
James Ivory: Howards End || family drama
Jean-Claude Lauzon: Leolo || drama, coming-of-age, black comedy
John Smith: The Boys of St Vincent || drama
John Woo: Lashou Shentan / Hard Boiled || heroic bloodshed/action, buddy cop
Jonathan Lynn: My Cousin Vinny || comedy, legal drama
Lucian Pintilie: Balanta / The Oak || political drama, black comedy
Martin Brest: Scent of a Woman || drama
Michael Haneke: Benny's Video || psychological drama
Ming-Liang Tsai: Rebels of the Neon God || drama, Taiwanese new wave
Neil Jordan: The Crying Game || political thriller, romance, psychological drama, LGBT
Paul Verhoeven: Basic Instinct || psychological/erotic thriller, crime, mystery/neo-noir
Penelope Spheeris: Wayne's World || comedy/satire, buddy, music
Peter Hyams: Stay Tuned || satire/comedy, family
Phil Alden Robinson: Sneakers || thriller, heist film
+ Quentin Tarantino: Reservoir Dogs || heist film, thriller
Ralph Bakshi: Cool World || live-action animation, portal fantasy, neo-noir
Raul Ruiz: L'Oil qui Ment / Dark at Noon || comedy, surrealism
Remy Belvaux: C'est Arrive' pres de chez Vous / Man Bites Dog || black comedy/satire, mockumentary, crime
Roberto Benigni: Johnny Stecchino || comedy, gangster film
Roman Polanski: Bitter Moon || psychological drama, erotic thriller, romance
Ron Fricke: Baraka || ethnographic/essay film
Tsai Ming-Liang: Rebels of the Neon God || drama, Taiwanese new wave
Victor Erice: El Sol del Membrillo / The Quince Tree Sun || art documentary
1993
Aki Kaurismaki: Pida Huivista Kiinni Tatjana / Take Care of Your Scarf || road movie, comedy
Alan Shapiro: The Crush || thriller
Andre Techine: Ma Saison Preferee / My Favorite Season || family drama
Ang Lee: Xiyan / The Wedding Banquet || LGBTQ, family drama
Brian De Palma: Carlito's Way || gangster film/crime, drama, thriller
Chen Kaige: Ba Wang Bie Ji / Farewell My Concubine || period drama, romance, melodrama, LGBTQ, fifth generation
Fred Schepisi: Six Degrees of Separation || drama, satire, crime
Guillermo del Toro: Cronos || vampire, body horror, gothic
Harold Becker: Malice || psychological thriller, neo-noir
Harold Ramis: Groundhog Day || low fantasy/time travel, romantic comedy
Henry Selick (Tim Burton): The Nightmare Before Christmas || puppet animation, musical, fantasy
Hou Hsiao-Hsien: The Puppetmaster || biopic, docudrama
Im Kwon-taek: Seopyeonje || music, period drama
Jane Campion: The Piano || romance, drama
John Dahl: Red Rock West || neo-noir/neo-western, thriller, crime
Johnny To: The Heroic Trio || superhero, martial arts
+ Krzysztof Kieslowski: Bleu / Blue || psychological drama
Manoel De Oliveira: Vale Abraao / Abraham's Valley || drama
Mike Leigh: Naked || drama, black comedy
Nora Ephron: Sleepless in Seattle || romantic comedy, drama
Olivier Assayas: Une Nouvelle Vie / A New Life || drama
Richard Linklater: Dazed and Confused || teen movie/coming-of-age, comedy, slice of life
Robert Altman: Short Cuts || drama, slice of life, hyperlink cinema
Rolf De Heer: Bad Boy Bubby || black comedy, drama
Sergey Ovcharov: Barabaniada / Drumroll || comedy, surrealism, low fantasy
Sergio Cabrera: La estrategia del caracol / The Strategy of the Snail || comedy, drama, magical realism
Takeshi Kitano: Sonatine || yakuza/gangster film, drama, slice of life, black comedy
Tomomi Mochizuki: Ocean Waves || anime, romance, drama, coming-of-age/teen movie
Tran Anh Hung: The Scent of Green Papaya || slice of life, drama
Wolfgang Petersen: In the Line of Fire || political thriller, action
Wong Jing: City Hunter || comedy, martial arts/action
1994
Abbas Kiarostami: Zire Darakhatan Zeyton / Through the Olive Trees || drama, new Iranian cinema, postmodernism
Aleksandr Sokurov: Whispering Pages || slow cinema, psychological drama
Andre Techine: Les Roseaux Sauvages / The Wild Reeds || coming-of-age, drama, romance, LGBTQ
Ang Lee: Eat Drink Man Woman || Taiwanese new wave, family drama, slice of life
Atom Egoyan: Exotica || psychological drama, mystery, hyperlink cinema, Toronto new wave
Bela Tarr: Satantango / Satan's Tango || drama, slow cinema
Chia-Liang Liu/Lau Ka Leung: Drunken Master II || kung fu/action, comedy
Claire Denis: I Can't Sleep || drama
Danny Boyle: Shallow Grave || thriller, crime, black comedy
Edward Yang: A Confucian Confusion || Taiwanese new wave, drama, comedy/satire
Hal Hartley: Amateur || thriller, drama, black comedy, neo-noir
James Cameron: True Lies || action, spy, comedy, romance
James Gray: Little Odessa || drama, gangster film/crime, tragedy
Jan DeBont: Speed || action, thriller
Jan Svankmajer: Lekce Faust / Lesson Faust || surrealism, stop-motion/live-action animation, fantasy
John Dahl: The Last Seduction || neo-noir, erotic thriller, crime
John Sayles: The Secret of Roan Inish || family, low fantasy, magical realism
Kar-Wai Wong: Chongqing Senlin / Chungking Express || romance, drama
+ Krzysztof Kieslowski: Rouge / Red || drama
Lee Tamahori: Once Were Warriors || family drama, hood film
Luc Besson: Leon / The Professional || crime, drama, action
Michael Almereyda: Nadja || vampire, drama
Michael Radford: Il Postino / The Postman || drama, romance
Milcho Manchevski: Pred Dozdot / Before the Rain || drama, hyperlink cinema, war
Oliver Stone: Natural Born Killers || crime, satire/black comedy, road movie, action
Olivier Assayas: L'Eau Froid / Cold Water || drama, coming-of-age
Patrick Keiller: London || essay film, city symphony
Peter Jackson: Heavenly Creatures || period/psychological drama, coming-of-age
Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction || crime, black comedy, hyperlink cinema
Robert Zemeckis: Forrest Gump || drama, comedy, romance, alternate history
Stephen Elliott: The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert || road movie, comedy, queer cinema, LGBTQ
Zhang Yimou: Huozhe / To Live || period/political/family drama, fifth generation
1995
Abel Ferrara: The Addiction || vampire, psychological drama
Aditya Chopra: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge || musical/masala, drama, romantic comedy
Ann Hui: Summer Snow || comedy, drama
Bryan Singer: The Usual Suspects || crime, thriller, mystery
Chris Newby: Madagascar Skin || comedy
Claude Chabrol: La Cerimonie / The Ceremony || drama, psychological thriller
David Fincher: Se7en || crime, neo-noir, psychological thriller, police procedural
Donald Cammell: Wild Side || neo-noir, erotic thriller
Emir Kusturica: Underground || black comedy/satire, war, drama, magical realism
Gus Van Sant: To Die For || black comedy/satire, crime, drama, mockumentary
Hirokazu Kore-eda: Maborosi || psychological drama
Hou Hsiao-Hsien: Haonan Haonu / Good Men, Good Women || drama, Taiwanese new wave
Jafar Panahi: Badkonake Sefid / The White Balloon || drama, new Iranian cinema
Jean-Marie Jeunet: La Cite des Enfants Perdus / The City of Lost Children || steampunk, fantasy, dystopian, adventure
Jim Jarmusch: Dead Man || acid western, black comedy, road movie
Joao Cesar Monteiro: A Comedia de Deus / God's Comedy || drama, black comedy
John Lasseter: Toy Story || computer animation, adventure, family, comedy, buddy
Kathryn Bigelow: Strange Days || tech-noir/cyberpunk, thriller, dystopian
Kevin Reynolds: Waterworld || post-apocalyptic, action, adventure
Larry Clark (Harmony Korine): Kids || drama, hood film, coming-of-age, exploitation, slice of life
+ Lars Von Trier: Riget / Kingdom (TV) || black comedy, drama, mystery, supernatural horror
Martin Scorsese: Casino || gangster film, drama
Mathieu Kassovitz: La Haine / Hate || drama, hood film/crime
Michael Mann: Heat || thriller, heist film, drama, crime
Mike Figgis: Leaving Las Vegas || melodrama, romance
Mohsen Makhmalbaf: Salaam Cinema / Hello Cinema || new Iranian cinema
Ning Ying: On the Beat || sixth generation, drama
Noah Baumbach: Kicking and Screaming || comedy, coming-of-age, drama, slice of life
Peter Chelsom: Funny Bones || comedy, drama
Philip Ridley: The Passion of Darkly Noon || drama, psychological horror
Robert Longo: Johnny Mnemonic || cyberpunk/dystopian, action, thriller
Takashi Ishii: Gonin / The Five || yakuza/gangster film
Takashi Miike: Shinjuku Triad Society || yakuza/triad/gangster film, thriller
Taylor Hackford: Dolores Claiborne || drama, thriller, mystery
Terry Gilliam: Twelve Monkeys || dystopian/post-apocalyptic, sci-fi/time travel
Theo Angelopoulos: To Vlemma tou Odyssea / Ulysses' Gaze || drama, road movie, magical realism
Todd Haynes: Safe || psychological drama
Todd Solondz: Welcome to the Dollhouse || coming-of-age, black comedy, drama
Tran Anh Hung: Xich Lo / Cyclo || crime, drama
Wolfgang Petersen: Outbreak || thriller, disaster
Wong Jing: High Risk / Meltdown || action/martial arts, parody/comedy, heist film
Wong Kar-Wai: Fallen Angels || romance, crime, drama
Yoshifumo Kondo: Mimi Wo Sumasemba / Whisper of the Heart || anime, coming-of-age, romance, drama
Zhang Yimou: Shanghai Triad || drama, gangster/triad film
1996
Abel Ferrara: The Funeral || gangster film, family drama
Aki Kaurismaki: Kauas Pilvet Karkaavat / Drifting Clouds || drama, black comedy
Andre Techine: Les Voleurs / Thieves || crime, psychological drama, neo-noir
Arnaud Desplechin: Comment Je me Suis Dispute'... ma Vie Sexuelle / My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument || drama, romance
Arturo Ripstein: Profundo Carmesi / Deep Crimson || crime, black comedy, drama, road movie
Claire Denis: Nenette et Boni || drama
Danny Boyle: Trainspotting || black comedy, drama
Dariush Mehrjui: Leila || drama, romance, new Iranian cinema
David Cronenberg: Crash || erotic thriller, psychological drama
Eric Rohmer: Conte d'Ete / A Summer's Tale || romance, drama, slice of life
Hsiao-Hsien Hou: Goodbye South Goodbye || crime, drama, Taiwanese new wave
+ Jan Svankmajer: Conspirators of Pleasure || absurdist/black comedy, surrealism, hyperlink cinema
Jan Sverak: Kolja || drama, comedy, slice of life
Joel & Ethan Coen: Fargo || crime, black comedy, police procedural
John Sayles: Lone Star || mystery, drama, neo-western
Lars Von Trier: Breaking the Waves || psychological drama, melodrama
Mike Leigh: Secrets and Lies || family drama
Nicolas Winding Refn: Pusher || crime, thriller, drama
Olivier Assayas: Irma Vep || drama, postmodernism, satire
Patrice Leconte: Ridicule || period drama, comedy
Paul Thomas Anderson: Hard Eight || crime, drama
Peter Greenaway: The Pillow Book || drama, romance, experimental
Raul Ruiz: Trois Vies & Une Seule Mort / Three Lives and Only One Death || comedy, surrealism, magical realism, hyperlink cinema
Sang-soo Hong: The Day a Pig Fell into the Well || drama, romance
Srdjan Dragojevic: Lepa Sela, Lepo Gore / Pretty Village, Pretty Flame || war, drama, black comedy
Tim Burton: Mars Attacks || parody/satire/black comedy, sci-fi/alien invasion
1997
Abbas Kiarostami: Ta'ame-gilas / Taste of Cherry || drama, new Iranian cinema, road movie
Abel Ferrara: The Blackout || psychological drama
Aleksandr Sokurov: Mat i Syn / Mother and Son || slow cinema, family drama
Andrew Niccol: Gattaca || dystopian, sci-fi, drama, thriller
Ang Lee: The Ice Storm || coming-of-age, family drama
Atom Egoyan: The Sweet Hereafter || psychological drama, Toronto new wave
Barry Levinson: Wag the Dog || satire, political drama
Bruno Dumont: La Vie de Jesus / The Life of Jesus || drama
Carine Adler: Under the Skin || drama
Chang-dong Lee: Chorok Mulgogi / Green Fish || drama, crime
Curtis Hanson: L.A. Confidential || neo-noir/mystery, thriller, crime/police procedural
David Fincher: The Game || psychological thriller, mystery
+ David Lynch: Lost Highway || mystery, psychological thriller, surrealism, neo-noir
Erik Skjoldbjaerg: Insomnia || psychological thriller, neo-noir, police procedural/crime
Gary Burns: Kitchen Party || teen movie, drama
Gary Oldman: Nil by Mouth || drama
Harmony Korine: Gummo || slice of life, hyperlink cinema, drama, experimental, hixploitation
Hayao Miyazaki: Mononoke Hime / Princess Mononoke || anime, fantasy, adventure, drama, epic
Hideaki Anno & Kazuya Tsurumaki: Shin Seiki Evangerion Gekijo-ban / The End of Evangelion || anime, psychological drama, mecha, surrealism, post-apocalyptic/disaster
Jafar Panahi: Ayneh / The Mirror || docudrama, new Iranian cinema
Jia Zhangke: Xiao Wu / Pickpocket || drama sixth generation, crime
Jim Sheridan: The Boxer || drama, romance, sports
John Sayles: Men with Guns || political drama, adventure
John Woo: Face/Off || action, crime, thriller
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Cure || psychological thriller, mystery, police procedural/crime
Luc Besson: The Fifth Element || action, space opera/sci-fi, comedy
Majid Majidi: Children of Heaven || family drama, new Iranian cinema
Manoel DeOliveira: Viagem ao Principio do Mundo / Journey to the Beginning of the World || road movie, drama
Michael Haneke: Funny Games || psychological thriller, satire, home invasion, postmodernism
Neil Labute: In the Company of Men || black comedy, psychological drama
Paul Thomas Anderson: Boogie Nights || drama, black/sex comedy
Pedro Almodovar: Carne Trimula / Live Flesh || drama, romance, erotic thriller
Raul Ruiz: Genealogies d'un Crime / Genealogy of a Crime || crime, mystery, black comedy
Richard Donner: Conspiracy Theory || thriller, action
Roberto Benigni: La Vita e' Bella / Life Is Beautiful || comedy, period drama, prison film, melodrama
Satoshi Kon: Perfect Blue || anime, psychological thriller, mystery
Shohei Imamura: The Eel || drama
Takeshi Kitano: Hana-Bi / Fireworks || crime, psychological drama
Taylor Hackford: The Devil's Advocate || legal drama, thriller, mystery
Tim Blake Nelson: Eye of God / Beyond Obsessions || crime, drama
Tsai Ming-Liang: He Liu / The River || drama, slow cinema, LGBTQ, Taiwanese new wave
Wayne Wang: Chinese Box || drama, romance
Wong Kar-Wai: Happy Together || romance, drama, LGBTQ, slice of life
1998
Alex Proyas: Dark City || tech-noir/sci-fi, dystopian, thriller, mystery
Aleksei Balabanov: Pro Urodov i Lyudey / Of Freaks and Men || period drama, crime, erotica, black comedy/satire
Brett Ratner: Rush Hour || comedy, action/martial arts, buddy cop
Brian De Palma: Snake Eyes || thriller, crime, neo-noir
Chen Kaige: Ji-ng Ke-ci Qin Wang / The Emperor and the Assassin || period drama, war
Christopher Nolan: Following || neo-noir, crime, thriller
Darren Aronofsky: Pi || psychological thriller, surrealism
Don McKellar: Last Night || drama, disaster, black comedy, hyperlink cinema, Toronto new wave
Emir Kusturica: Black Cat White Cat || comedy, satire, romance
Goran Paskaljevic: Cabaret Balkan || drama, black comedy, hyperlink cinema
Guy Ritchie: Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels || black comedy, heist/gangster film, hyperlink cinema
+ Hirokazu Kore-eda: After Life || low fantasy, drama
Hsiao-Hsien Hou: Haishang Hua / Flowers of Shangai || period drama
Joel & Ethan Coen: The Big Lebowski || black comedy, buddy
Lars von Trier: Idioterne / The Idiots || drama, black comedy, satire
Lisa Cholodenko: High Art || romance, drama, new queer cinema
Lukas Moodysson: Fucking Amal / Show Me Love || drama, romance, teen movie/coming-of-age, LGBTQ
Manoel De Oliveira: Inquietude / Anxiety || drama
Mike Hodges: Croupier || crime, neo-noir
Penelope Spheeris: Senseless || comedy, sci-fi
Peter Weir: The Truman Show || satire, drama, postmodernism
Sang-soo Hong: Kangwon-do Ui Him / The Power of Kangwon Province || drama
Santosh Sivan: Bayangaravaathi / The Terrorist || drama, thriller
Shohei Imamura: Dr. Akagi || drama, comedy, war
Srdjan Dragojevic: Rane / Wounds || drama, black comedy/satire, crime
Steven Spielberg: Saving Private Ryan || war, period drama
Takeshi Miike: The Bird People in China || drama, adventure, comedy
Takeshi Miike: Blues Harp || drama, yakuza/gangster film
Terrence Malick: The Thin Red Line || war, period/psychological drama, epic
Theo Angelopoulos: Eternity and a Day || drama, slow cinema
Thomas Vinterberg: Festen / The Celebration || drama, satire
Todd Solondz: Happiness || black comedy, drama, hyperlink cinema
Tom Tykwer: Lola Rennt / Run Lola Run || crime, thriller, action
Tony Scott: Enemy of the State || thriller, action
Tsai Ming-Liang: Dong / The Hole || drama
Vincent Gallo: Buffalo '66 || drama, romance, black comedy
Walter Salles: Central do Brasil / Central Station || drama, road movie
1999
Abbas Kiarostami: The Wind Will Carry Us || new Iranian cinema, drama
Agnieszka Holland: The Third Miracle || drama
Alexander Sokurov: Moloch || biopic, psychological drama
Atom Egoyan: Felicia's Journey || psychological drama
Bruno Dumont: Humanite / Humanity || psychological drama, crime
Chang-dong Lee: Bakha Satang / Peppermint Candy || melodrama
Claire Denis: Beau Travail / Good Work || psychological drama
David Fincher: Fight Club || psychological drama, black comedy/satire, crime
Eric Mendelsohn: Judy Berlin || black comedy
Francois Ozon: Les Amants Criminels / Criminal Lovers || crime, new French extremity, thriller
Frieder Schlach: Otomo || drama
Harmony Korine: Julien Donkey Boy || family drama, experimental, slice of life
Harold Ramis: Analyze This || comedy, gangster film
James Toback: Black and White || drama, hyperlink cinema
Jan Hrebejk: Pelisky / Cosy Dens || black comedy, period, family drama, coming-of-age, slice of life
Jang Sun Woo: Lies || drama, erotica, romance
Jim Jarmusch: Ghost Dog || gangster film, drama, black comedy
John Sayles: Limbo || psychological drama
Johnnie To: The Mission || triad/gangster film
Johnnie To: An Zhan / Hidden War / Running Out of Time || crime, thriller
Josef Rusnak: The Thirteenth Floor || mystery, tech-noir, virtual reality
Kang Je-Gyu: Shiri || action, thriller, spy
Kevin Smith: Dogma || comedy/satire, adventure/road movie, low fantasy, religious film
Kimberly Peirce: Boys Don't Cry || drama, romance, biopic, LGBTQ
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Charisma || psychological drama
Larry (Lana) & Andy (Lilly) Wachowski: The Matrix || action, dystopian/cyberpunk, sci-fi/virtual reality
Lawrence Kasdan: Mumford || drama, romantic comedy
Lee Myung-Se: Nowhere To Hide || action, thriller, crime, police procedural
Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne: Rosetta || drama, slice of life
Lynne Ramsay: Ratcatcher || drama, coming-of-age
+ Majid Majidi: Rang-e Khoda / The Color of Paradise || new Iranian cinema, family drama
Michael Mann: The Insider || thriller, legal drama
Michael Winterbottom: Wonderland || drama, hyperlink cinema
Mike Figgis: The Loss of Sexual Innocence || coming-of-age, drama
Mike Leigh: Topsy Turvy || biopic, comedy, music
Patrice Leconte: La fille sur le pont / Girl On the Bridge || romance, drama
Pedro Almodovar: Todo Sobre Mi Madre / All About My Mother || melodrama, LGBTQ
Pen-ek Ratanaruang: 6ixtynin9 || thriller, black comedy, crime, neo-noir
Peter Greenaway: 8½ Women || drama, sex comedy
Rolf Schubel: Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod / Gloomy Sunday || war, period drama/melodrama
Sam Mendes: American Beauty || drama, black comedy/satire
Soren Kragh-Jacobsen: Mifunes sidste sang / Mifune's Last Song || drama, comedy, romance
Spike Jonze (Charlie Kaufman): Being John Malkovich || low fantasy/magical realism, black comedy, drama, postmodernism
Steven Soderbergh: The Limey || crime/vigilante, drama, thriller
Takeshi Kitano: Kikujiro || road movie, comedy, buddy, drama, slice of life
Takeshi Miike: Deddo oa Araibu / Dead or Alive || black comedy, yakuza/gangster film, action/thriller
Veit Helmer: Tuvalu || romantic/black comedy, low fantasy, dystopian
Zhang Yimou: Not One Less || drama, coming-of-age
2000
Achero Manas: El Bola / Pellet || drama, coming-of-age
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu: Amores Perros / Love's a Bitch || drama, crime, hyperlink cinema
Anders Thomas Jensen: Blinkende Lygter / Flickering Lights || black comedy, crime, drama
Aparna Sen: Paromitar Ek Din / House of Memories || drama
Arturo Ripstein: La Perdicion de los Hombres / The Ruination of Men || black comedy
Bahman Farman-Ara: Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine || drama
+ Bela Tarr: Werckmeister Harmoniak / Werckmeister Harmonies || drama, slow cinema
Buddhadeb Dasgupta: Uttara || drama
Cameron Crowe: Almost Famous || coming-of-age, road movie, drama, music
Christian Petzold: Die Innere Sicherheit / The State I Am In || drama, coming-of-age, Berlin school
Christopher McQuarrie: The Way of the Gun || crime, thriller, action
Christopher Nolan: Memento || mystery, psychological thriller
Curtis Hanson: Wonder Boys || drama, comedy
Darren Aronofsky: Requiem For a Dream || psychological drama, drugsploitation
Edward Yang: Yi Yi / A One and a Two || slice of life, drama, family drama, Taiwanese new wave
Fatih Akin: In July || road movie, romantic comedy
Francois Ozon: Gouttes d'Eau Sur Pierres Brulantes / Water Drops On Burning Rocks || drama, queer cinema/LGBT
Francois Ozon: Sous le sable / Under the Sand || psychological drama
Jafar Panahi: Dayereh / The Circle || drama, new Iranian cinema
Jan Hrebejk: Musíme si pomáhat / Divided We Fall || war, drama, black comedy
Jiang Wen: Guizi Laile / Devils on the Doorstep || war, black comedy
Jia Zhang-Ke: Zhantai / Platform || period drama, sixth generation
Joao Pedro Rodrigues: O Fantasma / The Phantom || erotica, queer cinema, psychological drama
Joel & Ethan Coen: O Brother Where Art Thou || comedy, adventure, road movie, buddy, southern gothic
Julien Temple: Pandaemonium || biopic, period drama
Kenneth Lonergan: You Can Count On Me || slice of life, family drama
Lars Von Trier: Dancer In the Dark || musical, melodrama
Lone Scherfig: Italiensk for begyndere / Italian For Beginners || drama, romantic comedy
Manoel De Oliveira: Palavra e Utopia / Word and Utopia || biopic, period drama
Michael Haneke: Cone Inconnu / Code Unknown || drama, hyperlink cinema
Miguel Arteta: Chuck & Buck || black comedy, drama
Mike Figgis: Timecode || experimental, drama, hyperlink cinema
Neil Labute: Nurse Betty || crime, black comedy
Olivier Assayas: Les destinées sentimentales / Sentimental Destinies || romance, period drama
Raul Ruiz: Combat d'Amour en Songe / Love Torn in a Dream || drama, surrealism, magical realism
Raul Ruiz: Comedie de l'innocence / Comedy of Innocence || drama
Reza Parsa: Före stormen / Before the Storm || drama
Robert Guediguian: La Ville Est Tranquille / The Town Is Quiet || drama
Robert Zemeckis: Cast Away || drama, survival
Roy Andersson: Songs from the Second Floor || black comedy, satire, surrealism, drama
Samira Makhmalbaf: Takhte Siah / Blackboards || drama, new Iranian cinema
Sang-soo Hong: Oh Soojung / Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors || romance, drama
Stephen Frears: High Fidelity || romantic comedy, music, drama
Stephen Frears: Liam || drama
Steven Soderbergh: Erin Brockovich || legal drama, biopic
Tom Tykwer: Der Krieger und die Kaiserin / The Princess and the Warrior || romance, psychological drama
Tran Anh Hung: The Vertical Ray of the Sun || drama, slice of life
Tsui Hark: Time and Tide || action
Wisit Sasanatieng: Fah Talai Jone / Tears of the Black Tiger || romance, neo-western, melodrama
Wong Kar-wai: In the Mood For Love || romance, drama
2001
Ake Sandgren: Et rigtigt menneske / Truly Human || drama, low fantasy, black comedy
Antoine Fuqua: Training Day || crime/hood film, thriller, drama
Ashutosh Gowariker: Lagaan || sports, masala, period drama
Asif Kapadia: The Warrior || drama, adventure
Barry Levinson: Bandits || crime, comedy, buddy, romance
Chang Tso-chi: The Best of Times || drama, crime
Christian Petzold: Toter Mann / Something To Remind Me || drama, psychological thriller, Berlin school
Cristi Puiu: Marfa si Banii / Stuff and Dough || drama, road movie, Romanian new wave
+ David Lynch: Mulholland Drive || mystery/neo-noir, surrealism, psychological drama/thriller
Dover Kosashvili: Late Marriage || drama, comedy
Farhan Akhtar: Dil Chahta Hai / The Heart Desires || romance, drama, buddy, road movie
Guillermo del Toro: El espinazo del Diablo / The Devil's Backbone || drama, supernatural horror, magical realism, gothic
Hayao Miyazaki: Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi / Spirited Away || anime, fantasy, coming-of-age, adventure, isekai
Henry Bean: The Believer || drama, religious film
Hou Hsiao-hsien: Millennium Mambo || drama, romance, slow cinema
Jacques Audiard: Sur mes Levres / Read My Lips || crime, drama
Jean-Pierre Jeunet: Amelie || romantic comedy, drama
Jessica Hausner: Lovely Rita || drama
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo: Intacto / Intact || psychological thriller
Kim Ki-duk: Bad Guy || drama, exploitation
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Pulse || psychological/J-horror
Larry Fessenden: Wendigo || supernatural/psychological horror
Laurent Cantet: L'Emploi du Temps / Time Out || psychological drama, crime
Lav Diaz: Batang West Side / West Side Avenue || drama, crime
Lucrecia Martel: La Cienaga / The Swamp || drama, new Argentine cinema, slice of life
Mamoru Oshii: Avaron / Avalon || cyberpunk/tech-noir, dystopian, virtual reality
Manoel de Oliveira: Je rentre à la maison / I'm Going Home || drama
Michael Haneke: La Pianiste / The Piano Teacher || psychological drama, music, romance
Mike Figgis: Hotel || experimental, black comedy
Mira Nair: Monsoon Wedding || drama, romantic comedy
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad: Under the Skin of the City || drama, new Iranian cinema
Ray Lawrence: Lantana || drama, mystery
Richard Kelly: Donnie Darko || mystery, psychological drama, low fantasy/time travel
Richard Linklater: Waking Life || computer animation, surrealism, essay film, postmodernism
Rintaro: Metropolis || anime, dystopian, cyberpunk/sci-fi
Robert Glinski: Hi Tereska || drama, coming-of-age
Satoshi Kon: Sennen Joyu / Millennium Actress || anime, drama, romance, postmodernism/surrealism
Scott Reynolds: When Strangers Appear || crime, drama, psychological thriller, mystery
Sion Sono: Jisatsu Sakuru / Suicide Club || satire, mystery, thriller, drama, horror/splatter, police procedural
Takashi Miike: Ichi the Killer || splatter, black comedy, yakuza/gangster film, sadistic/body horror, psychological thriller
Takashi Miike: Visitor Q || black comedy, satire, family drama, sexploitation
Terry Zwigoff: Ghost World || coming-of-age/teen movie, drama, comedy
Todd Field: In the Bedroom || drama
Tsai Ming-Liang: What Time Is It There? || drama, slow cinema
Ulrich Seidl: Hundstage / Dog Days || drama, black comedy
Wang Xiaoshuai: Shiqi sui de dan che / Beijing Bicycle || drama, sixth generation, coming-of-age
Werner Herzog: Invincible || period drama
Wes Anderson: The Royal Tenenbaums || family drama, comedy
Zacharias Kunuk: Atanarjuat / The Fast Runner || drama
2002
Abbas Kiarostami: Ten || docudrama, new Iranian cinema
Abderrahmane Sissako: Waiting for Happiness || drama
Aki Kaurismaki: The Man Without a Past || drama, romance, comedy
Alexander Payne: About Schmidt || drama, black comedy, road movie
Alexander Sokurov: Russian Ark || period drama, low fantasy/magical realism
Andrei Konchalovskij: House of Fools || drama, romance, music, war
Aparna Sen: Mr. and Mrs. Iyer || drama, romance
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Sud Sanaeha / Blissfully Yours || romance, slow cinema, slice of life
Atom Egoyan: Ararat || period drama
Bertha Bay-Sa Pan: Face || drama
Brian De Palma: Femme Fatale || mystery/neo-noir, erotic thriller, crime
Carlos Reygadas: Japon || psychological drama, slow cinema
Curtis Hanson: 8 Mile || drama, hood film, music
Danny Boyle: 28 Days Later || zombie/post-apocalyptic/horror
Elia Suleiman: Divine Intervention || drama, absurdist/black comedy
Fernando Meirelles: Cidade de Deus / City of God || crime/hood film, coming-of-age, drama, hyperlink cinema
Francois Ozon: Huite Femmes / Eight Women || musical, comedy, whodunit/mystery
Gaspar Noe: Irreversible || new French extremity, crime, drama
Gurinder Chadha: Bend it Like Beckham || comedy, sports, coming-of-age/teen movie, romance, family drama
Gus Van Sant: Gerry || drama, slow cinema
Guy Maddin: Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary || vampire, gothic horror, dance film, queer cinema
Gyorgy Palfi: Hukkle || drama, black/absurdist comedy
Hilary Birmingham: Tully || drama
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne: Le Fils / The Son || drama
Jia Zhangke: Unknown Pleasures || drama, sixth generation
John Sayles: Sunshine State || drama, hyperlink cinema
Jonas Akerlund: Spun || black comedy, drama, crime/drugsploitation, surrealism
Karen Moncrieff: Blue Car || drama
Kei Kumai: The Sea Is Watching || jidaigeki, melodrama, romance
Kim Ki-Duk: The Coast Guard || psychological drama
Krishna Vamsi: Khadgam || action, drama
Lee Chang-dong: Oasis || drama, romance
Lee Simyung: 2009: Lost Memories || action, sci-fi, political thriller, alternate history
Lisa Cholodenko: Laurel Canyon || drama
Lucas Belvaux: Cavale / On the Run || political thriller, drama
Lucas Belvaux: Un couple épatant / An Amazing Couple || romantic comedy
Lucas Belvaux: Après la vie / After the Life || psychological drama
Lukas Moodysson: Lilya 4-Ever || drama, coming-of-age
Lynne Ramsay: Morvern Callar || drama
Mahamet-Saleh Haroun: Abouna / Our Father || drama
Marco Bellochio: L'ora di religion (Il sorriso di mia madre) / The Hour of Religion (My Mother's Smile) || drama, satire
Michael Moore: Bowling for Columbine || political documentary
Nae Caranfil: Filantropica / Philanthropy || black comedy/satire, drama, Romanian new wave
Niki Caro: Whale Rider || coming-of-age, family drama
Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Uzak / Distant || psychological drama, slow cinema
Park Chan-wook: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance || psychological drama, crime, thriller
Pat O'Neill: The Decay of Fiction || experimental, neo-noir
Paul Thomas Anderson: Punch-Drunk Love || romance, drama, black comedy
Pedro Almodovar: Talk To Her || melodrama
Peter Kosminsky: White Oleander || coming-of-age, family drama
Peter Sollett: Raising Victor Vargas || coming-of-age, romance, drama
Przemyslaw Reut: Paradox Lake || drama
Rebecca Miller: Personal Velocity || anthology film, drama
Rob Cohen: xXx || action, spy
Spike Jonze (Charlie Kaufman): Adaptation || satire/comedy, psychological drama, postmodernism
Stephen Daldry: The Hours || psychological drama
Stephen Frears: Dirty Pretty Things || drama, thriller, crime
Steven Spielberg: Catch Me if You Can || crime, biopic, drama
Steven Spielberg: Minority Report || dystopian, action, tech-noir/sci-fi, thriller
Takeshi Kitano: Dolls || melodrama, romance, hyperlink cinema
Tareque Masud: The Clay Bird || drama
Todd Haynes: Far From Heaven || melodrama/period drama
Tom Tykwer: Heaven || drama, romance, crime
+ Zhang Yimou: Ying Xiong / Hero || wuxia/martial arts, period drama, epic
2003
Abdellatif Kechiche: L'Esquive / Games of Love and Chance || romance, drama, coming-of-age
Alan Parker: The Life of David Gale || crime, drama, thriller
Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu: 21 Grams || drama, hyperlink cinema
Andrej Zvjagintsev: Vozvrashcheniye / The Return || road movie, coming-of-age, family drama
Bent Hamer: Kitchen Stories || drama, comedy
Bertrand Bonello: Tiresia || drama
Bong Joon-Ho: Sarinui Chueok / Memories of Murder || thriller, whodunit/mystery, police procedural
Christian Petzold: Wolfsburg || drama, crime, Berlin school
David Mackenzie: Young Adam || drama, erotica, crime
Erik Van Looy: De zaak Alzheime / The Alzheimer Case / The Memory of a Killer || crime, thriller, action
Ferzan Ozpetek: La Finestra di Fronte / Facing Windows || drama, romance
Gus Van Sant: Elephant || drama, hyperlink cinema, crime, slow cinema, slice of life
Hector Babenco: Carandiru || prison film, crime, drama
Henrik Ruben Genz: En som Hodder / Someone Like Hodder || family, drama, fantasy
Hugo Rodriguez: Nicotina / Nicotine || black comedy, crime
Iciar Bollain: Te Doy Mis Ojos / Take My Eyes || drama
Jafar Panahi: Talaye Sorkh / Crimson Gold || psychological drama, crime, new Iranian cinema
Jang Jun-hwan: Jigureul Jikyeora / Save the Green Planet || black/absurdist comedy, sci-fi/alien invasion, satire
Jean-Paul Rappeneau: Bon Voyage || war, comedy
Jonathan Lynn: The Fighting Temptations || comedy, drama, music/musical
Kim Jee-woon: A Tale of Two Sisters || psychological horror/thriller, mystery
Kim Ki-duk: Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom / Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring || drama, coming-of-age
Lars Von Trier: Dogville || psychological drama, postmodernism
Manoel DeOliveira: A Talking Picture || drama
Marco-Tullio Giordana: La Meglio Gioventu / The Best of Youth || drama, epic
Mark and Michael Polish: Northfork || drama, low fantasy, period drama
Matthew Ryan Hoge: The United States of Leland || psychological drama, prison film
Mitsuru Meike: The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai || sex comedy, satire, pink film/sexploitation
Nimrod Antal: Kontroll || psychological thriller, mystery, black comedy
+ Park Chan-wook: Oldeuboi / Oldboy || mystery, thriller, drama
Pen-ek Ratanaruang: Last Life in the Universe || romance, drama
Per Fly: Arven / Inheritance || drama
Rajkumar Hirani: Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. || romantic comedy, buddy, slapstick
Raul Ruiz: Ce Jour-La / That Day || black comedy, crime
Robert Lepage: The Far Side of the Moon || drama
Ron Shelton: Hollywood Homicide || action, comedy, buddy cop
Savi Gavison: Ha-Asonot Shel Nina / Nina's Tragedies || drama
Sofia Coppola: Lost in Translation || drama, romance
Takashi Miike: Gozu || surrealism, black comedy, mystery, yakuza/gangster film
Tsai Ming-Liang: Goodbye Dragon Inn || slow cinema
Vadim Perelman: House of Sand and Fog || drama
Wolfgang Becker: Good Bye Lenin || period drama, comedy
2004
Agnes Jaoui: Comme Un Image / Look At Me || drama, comedy
Alex De La Iglesia: Crimen Perfecto / The Perfect Crime || black comedy, crime
Alexander Payne: Sideways || road movie, buddy, drama, comedy, romance
Andrew Wagner: The Talent Given Us || comedy
Anurag Kashyap: Black Friday || crime/police procedural, political drama, hyperlink cinema
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Tropical Malady || romance, drama, low fantasy/magical realism, slow cinema
Arnaud Desplechin: Rois et Reine / Kings and Queen || drama
Benoit Jacquot: A Toute de Suite / Right Now || drama, crime
Brad Anderson: The Machinist || psychological thriller, mystery
Brad Bird: The Incredibles || computer animation, superhero, family, adventure, comedy
Carlos Sorin: Bombon El Perro || drama, road movie, slice of life
Claire Denis: L' intrus / The Intruder || psychological drama
Clint Eastwood: Million Dollar Baby || sports, melodrama
Cristi Puiu: Un Cartu de Kent i un Pachet de Cafea / Cigarettes and Coffee (short) || drama, Romanian new wave
David Gordon Green: Undertow || drama, thriller, southern gothic
Edgar Wright: Shaun of the Dead || zombie, parody/comedy
Eugene Green: Le Pont des Arts / The Bridge of Arts || drama, hyperlink cinema
Eugenio Polgovsky: Trópico de Cáncer / Tropic of Cancer || documentary
Fatih Akin: Gegen die Wand / Head On || drama, romance
Fernando Eimbcke: Duck Season || coming-of-age/teen movie, drama, slice of life, comedy
Francois Favrat: Le Role de sa Vie / The Role of Her Life || comedy
Gianni Amelio: Le Chiavi di Casa / The Keys to the House || drama
Gregg Araki: Mysterious Skin || coming-of-age, psychological drama, queer cinema/LGBTQ
Guillermo del Toro: Hellboy || action, superhero, fantasy
Hans Weingartner: Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei / The Edukators || romance, political drama
Hayao Miyazaki: Howl's Moving Castle || anime, fantasy, adventure, romance, steampunk
Hirokazu Kore-eda: Nobody Knows || family drama
Hiroyuki Imaishi: Dead Leaves || anime, action, prison film, sci-fi, absurdist comedy
Ilya Khrzhanovsky: 4 || surrealism, drama, postmodernism
Ivo Trajkov: Golemata Voda / The Great Water || drama
James Brooks: Spanglish || romantic comedy, drama, slice of life
Jan Hrebejk: Horem pádem / Up and Down || drama, comedy
Jia Zhangke: The World || drama, sixth generation
Jonathan Glazer: Birth || mystery, psychological drama, romance
Joshua Marston: Maria Full of Grace || drama
Katsuhito Ishii: Cha No Aji / The Taste of Tea || comedy, drama, slice of life, low fantasy/magical realism
Kim Ki-duk: Binjip / 3-Iron || romance, drama
Lav Diaz: Ebolusyon ng Isang Pamilyang Pilipino / Evolution of a Filipino Family || slow cinema, drama
Lech Majewski: Ogrod Rozkoszy Ziemskich / The Garden of Earthly Delights || drama, romance
Lisandro Alonso: Los Muertos / The Dead || road movie, drama, new Argentine cinema
Lucile Hadzihalilovic: Innocence || coming-of-age, mystery, magical realism, drama
Lucrecia Martel: La Nina Santa / The Holy Girl || coming-of-age, drama, new Argentine cinema
Luis Mandoki: Voces Inocentes / Innocent Voices || war, drama
Mark Bamford: Cape of Good Hope || drama
Masaaki Yuasa: Mind Game || anime, experimental/surrealism, absurdist comedy, psychological drama
Michel Gondry (Charlie Kaufman): Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind || romance, psychological drama
Mike Leigh: Vera Drake || legal/period drama, slice of life
Ousmane Sembene: Moolaade || drama
Pantham Thongsang: Ai-Fak / The Judgment || drama
Paolo Sorrentino: Le Conseguenze dell'Amore / The Consequences of Love || drama, crime
Patrice Leconte: Confidences trop intimes / Intimate Strangers || romance, psychological drama
Pawel Pawlikowski: My Summer of Love || romance, drama, LGBT
+ Pedro Almodovar: Mala Education / Bad Education || drama, queer cinema/LBGTQ, mystery
Sekhar Kammula: Anand || drama, romantic comedy
Shane Carruth: Primer || sci-fi/time travel, drama
Susanne Bier: Bredre / Brothers || melodrama, war
Teong Hin Saw: Puteri gunung ledang / The Princess of Mount Ledang || romance, period drama
Theo Angelopoulos: The Weeping Meadow || period drama
Timur Bekmambetov: Nochnoy Dozor / Night Watch || fantasy, vampire, action/thriller
Tony Gatlif: Exils / Exiles || drama, road movie
Wes Anderson: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou || adventure, comedy, drama
Wong Kar-wai: 2046 || romance, drama
Woody Allen: Melinda and Melinda || drama, romantic comedy
Yousry Nasrallah: The Gate of the Sun || drama
Zach Braff: Garden State || romantic comedy, drama, coming-of-age
2005
Abdellatif Kechiche: L'Esquive / Games of Love and Chance || romance, drama, coming-of-age
Andrei Kravchuk: The Italian || drama
Andrew Bujalski: Mutual Appreciation || mumblecore, drama
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Worldly Desires || experimental, movie documentary
Bennett Miller: Capote || biopic, crime
Carlos Reygadas: Batalla en el Cielo / Battle in Heaven || drama, slow cinema
Carlos Sorin: Bombon: El Perro || drama, road movie, slice of life
Christian Petzold: Gespenster / Ghosts || drama, Berlin school
Christoffer Boe: Allegro || psychological drama, romance
Craig Lucas: The Dying Gaul || drama
Cristi Puiu: Moartea Domnului Lazarescu / The Death of Mr. Lazarescu || drama, Romanian new wave, satire/black comedy
David Cronenberg: A History of Violence || crime, thriller, drama
David Jacobson: Down in the Valley || coming-of-age, romance, neo-western
Deepa Mehta: Water || drama
Don Roos: Happy Endings || drama, comedy, hyperlink cinema
Emmanuel Carrere: Moustache || psychological drama, mystery
George Romero: Land of the Dead || zombie/post-apocalyptic, splatter/horror, satire
Guy Ritchie: Revolver || gangster film/crime, action, psychological thriller
Hany Abu-Assad: Paradise Now || political drama
Ira Sachs: Forty Shades of Blue || drama
Jacques Audiard: De Battre Mon Cour S'Est Arrete / The Beat That My Heart Skipped || drama
Jan Svankmajer Sileni / Lunacy || psychological horror, surrealism, black comedy/satire
Jane Anderson: The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio || drama
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne: L'Enfant / The Child || drama, crime
John Hillcoat: The Proposition || revisionist western, drama
John Singleton: Four Brothers || crime/hood film, action, family drama
John Young: The Reception || drama, comedy
Joss Whedon: Serenity || action, space opera/sci-fi, neo-western
Kim Ki-duk: The Bow || drama
Majid Majidi: Beed-e Majnoon / The Willow Tree || new Iranian cinema, psychological drama
Marcos Siega: Pretty Persuasion || black comedy
Michael Cuesta: Twelve and Holding || coming-of-age, drama
+ Michael Haneke: Cache / Hidden || mystery, psychological thriller/drama
Mohammed Amin: Laylat Suqut Baghdad / The Night that Baghdad Fell || comedy
Noah Baumbach: The Squid and the Whale || family drama, coming-of-age
Patrice Chereau: Gabrielle || psychological drama
Philippe Garrel: Les Amants Reguliers / Regular Lovers || drama, romance
Ramin Bahrani: Man Push Cart || drama
Rian Johnson: Brick || mystery/neo-noir, crime, drama
Rodrigo Garcia: Nine Lives || drama, anthology film, hyperlink cinema
Sang-soo Hong: Tale of Cinema || drama, romance, postmodernism
Sanjay Bhansali: Black || drama
Shane Black: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang || crime, mystery/neo-noir, black comedy
Sion Sono: Kimyo no Circus / Strange Circus || psychological drama/horror, surrealism
Sion Sono: Noriko no Shokutaku / Noriko's Dinner Table || psychological/family drama
Stephen Gaghan: Syriana || political thriller, spy, hyperlink cinema
Stephen & Timothy Quay: The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes || fantasy, surrealism, romance
Steven Spielberg: Munich || period drama, political thriller, spy
Tomas Vorel: Skritek || low fantasy, absurdist comedy
Vimukthi Jayasundara: Sulanga Enu Pinisa / The Forsaken Land || drama
Ying Liang: Taking Father Home || drama
2006
Abderrahmane Sissako: Bamako || docudrama
Aki Kaurismaki: Laitakaupungin Valot / Lights in the Dusk || drama, crime/neo-noir, black comedy
Alain Resnais: Coeurs / Private Fears in Public Places || romance, drama, hyperlink cinema
Alexandra Lipsitz: Air Guitar Nation || rockumentary
Alfonso Cuaron: Children of Men || dystopian, drama, thriller
Andrea Arnold: Red Road || drama, psychological thriller
Anthony Minghella: Breaking and Entering || romance, thriller, drama
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Sang Sattawat / Syndromes and a Century || slow cinema, slice of life
Bong Joon-Ho: Gwoemul / The Host || giant monster/natural horror, drama, black comedy, satire, thriller
Brian Jun: Steel City || drama
Cao Hamburger: O Ano em Que Meus Pais Sairam de Ferias / The Year My Parents Went on Vacation || drama, coming-of-age
Carlos Sorin: El Camino de San Diego / The Road to San Diego || comedy, road movie
Christian Volckman: Renaissance || computer animation, tech-noir/dystopian, action
Christopher Nolan: The Prestige || mystery, period drama, thriller
Corneliu Porumboiu: A Fost Sau N-a Fost? / Was There or Wasn't There? / 12:08 East of Bucharest || Romanian new wave, drama, comedy
Daniel Sanchez Arevalo: AzulOscuroCasiNegro / DarkBlueAlmostBlack || drama
Daniele Thompson: Fauteuils d'orchestre / Orchestra Seats / Avenue Montaigne || comedy, romance, hyperlink cinema
David Lynch: Inland Empire || surrealism/experimental, psychological horror, mystery
Emanuele Crialese: Nuovomondo / Golden Door || period drama
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck: Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others || period drama, political thriller
Garin Nugroho: Opera Jawa / Requiem From Java || opera, drama
Gela Babluani: 13 Tzameti || psychological thriller, crime
Giuseppe Tornatore: La Sconosciuta / The Unknown Woman || drama, thriller, mystery
Goran Paskaljevic: Optimisti / The Optimists || anthology film, drama, black comedy/satire
Guillermo Del Toro: Pan's Labyrinth || fairy tale/fantasy, drama, gothic, war
Guy Maddin: Brand Upon the Brain || surrealism/experimental/postmodernism, steampunk, psychological drama
Gyorgy Palfi: Taxidermia || black/gross-out comedy, body horror, surrealism
Hirokazu Kore-eda: Hana || comedy, drama
Jean-Claude Brisseau: Les Anges Exterminateurs / Exterminating Angels || drama, low fantasy, erotica/new French extremity
Jens Lien: Den brysomme mannen / The Bothersome Man || satire, drama, low fantasy
Jia Zhang-Ke: Sanxia Haoren / Still Life || drama, slow cinema
Joachim Trier: Reprise || drama, buddy
Johnnie To: Fong Juk / Exiled || action, triad/gangster film
Julian Goldberger: The Hawk is Dying || drama
Julie Gavras: Blame It on Fidel || drama, coming-of-age
Kelly Reichardt: Old Joy || road movie, drama, slice of life
Ken Loach: The Wind that Shakes the Barley || period/political drama, war
+ Kim Ki-duk: Shigan / Time || psychological drama, romance
Konstantin Lopusanskij: Gadkie Iebedi / The Ugly Swans || drama, dystopian, sci-fi/extraterrestrial
Lisandro Alonso: Fantasma || new Argentine cinema, slow cinema, drama
Lou Ye: Yihe Yuan / Summer Palace || romance, drama
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: Daratt / Dry Season || drama
Mai Tominaga: Wool 100% || surrealism, fantasy
Michel Gondry: The Science of Sleep || surrealism, romantic comedy, magical realism/fantasy
Nuri Bilge Ceylan: İklimler / Climates || drama, slow cinema
Pablo Larrain: Fuga || music, psychological drama
Paolo Sorrentino: L'Amico di Famiglia / The Family Friend || drama, black comedy
Park Chan-wook: Ssaibogeujiman Gwaenchana / I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK || romantic comedy, psychological drama
Paul Verhoeven: Zwartboek / Black Book || war, spy, period drama, thriller
Paz Encina: Hamaca paraguaya / Paraguayan Hammock || drama, slow cinema
Pedro Almodovar: Volver || family drama
Pedro Costa: Juventude em marcha / Colossal Youth || docudrama/ethnofiction, slow cinema
Radu Muntean: Hartia va fi Albastra / The Paper Will Be Blue || Romanian new wave, drama
Rajkumar Hirani: Lage Raho Munna Bhai || comedy
Ray Lawrence: Jindabyne || drama, crime
Reha Erdem: Bes Vakit / Times and Winds || drama, coming-of-age
Richard Kelly: Southland Tales || black comedy/satire, dystopian/sci-fi, hyperlink cinema, alternate history, postmodernism, political drama
Sarah Polley: Away From Her || drama
Satoshi Kon: Paprika || anime, surrealism, sci-fi, psychological thriller, mystery
Sekhar Kammula: Godavari || romantic comedy, drama
Spike Lee: Inside Man || heist film, thriller, police procedural
Tony Kaye: Lake of Fire || political documentary
Tsai Ming-Liang: Hei Yan Quan / I Don't Want to Sleep Alone || drama, slow cinema
Wang Quan'an: Tu ya de hun shi / Tuya's Marriage || drama
2007
Aaron Katz: Quiet City || mumblecore, slice of life
Abdellatif Kechiche: La Graine et le Mulet / The Secret of the Grain || drama, slice of life
Abdullah Oguz: Mutluluk / Bliss || drama
Abel Ferrara: Go Go Tales || drama, comedy
Aditya Assarat: Wonderful Town || romance, drama
Adrian Sitaru: Pescuit Sportiv / Hooked || Romanian new wave, drama
Aleksei Balabanov: Cargo 200 || crime, thriller, period drama, sadistic horror, black comedy
Alexander Sokurov: Alexandra || drama, war
Andrei Zviagintsev: Izgnanie / The Banishment || psychological drama, slow cinema
Andrew Wagner: Starting Out in the Evening || drama
Avi Nesher: The Secrets || romance/LGBT, drama
Bela Tarr: The Man From London || drama, mystery/neo-noir, slow cinema
Bent Hamer: O'Horten || drama, black comedy
Bruce McDonald: The Tracey Fragments || psychological drama, coming-of-age, experimental
Carlos Reygadas: Stellet Licht / Silent Light || drama, slow cinema
Christian Petzold: Yella || psychological drama, Berlin school
Claude Chabrol: La Fille Coupee en Deux / A Girl Cut in Two || black comedy, thriller, drama, romance
Claude Miller: A Secret || period drama, mystery
Craig Gillespie: Lars and the Real Girl || psychological drama, romance, black comedy
Crispin Glover: It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine || psychological horror/surrealism, black comedy, erotic thriller
Cristian Mungiu: 4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile / 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days || drama, Romanian new wave
Cristian Nemescu: California Dreamin' || Romanian new wave, satire/comedy, drama
Danny Boyle: Sunshine || sci-fi/space exploration, thriller
David Fincher: Zodiac || thriller, mystery, crime/police procedural
David Volach: My Father My Lord || drama
Edgar Wright: Hot Fuzz || parody/black comedy, action, buddy cop/crime
Fatih Akin: Auf der Anderen Seite / The Edge of Heaven || drama, hyperlink cinema
Franck Vestiel: Eden Log || dystopian/cyberpunk, sci-fi, mystery
Gil Kofman: The Memory Thief || drama
Gus Van Sant: Paranoid Park || psychological drama, coming-of-age, slow cinema
Jacques Nolot: Avant que j'oublie / Before I Forget || drama
Jacques Rivette: Ne touchez pas la hache / The Duchess of Langeais || drama, romance
James Foley: Perfect Stranger || thriller, mystery
Javier Ideami: El Cuadro (short) || surrealism
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne: Dans l'Obscurite / Darknesss (short)
Joanna Hogg: Unrelated || drama
John Dahl: You Kill Me || crime, romantic/black comedy
+ Johnnie To: Mad Detective || psychological thriller, police procedural/crime
Judd Apatow: Knocked Up || romantic comedy
Julian Schnabel: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly || biopic, drama
Julie Delpy: 2 Days in Paris || romantic comedy
Julien Leclercq: Chrysalis || sci-fi/cyberpunk, thriller
Julien Temple: Joe Strummer - The Future Is Unwritten || rockumentary
Ken Jacobs: Razzle Dazzle - The Last World || experimental
Koji Wakamatsu: United Red Army || period/political drama
Lav Diaz: Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto / Death in the Land of Encantos || docudrama, psychological drama, slow cinema
Lee Chang-dong: Secret Sunshine || psychological drama
Li Yu: Lost in Beijing || drama
Luis Piedrahita & Rodrigo Sopena: La Habitacion de Fermat / Fermat's Room || mystery, psychological thriller
Masahiro Kobayashi: The Rebirth || slow cinema, psychological drama
Mike Cahill: King of California || drama, comedy, adventure
Milcho Manchevski: Shadows || mystery, drama, low fantasy
Nacho Vigalondo: Los cronocrímenes / Timecrimes || thriller, mystery, sci-fi/time travel
Naomi Kawase: Mogari No Mari / The Mourning Forest || psychological drama
Olivier Assayas: Boarding Gate || erotic thriller, drama, neo-noir/crime
Paul Thomas Anderson: There Will Be Blood || period drama
Pere Portabella: Die Stille vor Bach / The Silence Before Bach || essay film, music
Ramin Bahrani: Chop Shop || drama, slice of life
Roy Andersson: You the Living || black/absurdist comedy, surrealism, hyperlink cinema
Semih Kaplanoglu: Yumurta / Egg || drama, slow cinema
Serge Bozon: La France || drama, war, musical
Sidney Lumet: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead || crime, thriller, drama
Sol Tyron: The Living Wake || black comedy
Stefan Ruzowitzky: Die Faelscher / The Counterfeiter || period drama, prison film
Talia Lugacy: Descent || thriller, drama
Tamara Jenkins: The Savages || family drama, black comedy
Tony Gilroy: Michael Clayton || thriller, legal drama
Ulrich Seidi: Import/Export || drama, hyperlink cinema
2008
Albert Serra: El Cant dels Ocells / Birdsong || slow cinema, drama
Alex Rivera: Sleep Dealer || cyberpunk/dystopian, virtual reality, drama, sci-fi
Andrew Stanton: Wall-E || computer animation, sci-fi, adventure, romance
Ari Folman: Waltz with Bashir || computer animation, war documentary/docudrama
Arnaud Desplechin: Un Conte de Noel / A Christmas Tale || family drama, christmas, black comedy
Azazel Jacobs: Momma's Man || mumblecore, psychological drama
Barry Jenkins: Medicine for Melancholy || mumblecore, romance
Bouli Lanners: Eldorado || road movie, black comedy, drama
Charlie Kaufman: Synecdoche New York || psychological drama, surrealism/postmodernism, black comedy
Claire Denis: 35 Rhums / 35 Shots of Rum || drama, slice of life
Fernando Eimbcke: Lake Tahoe || drama, coming-of-age, comedy
Gabriele Salvatores: Come Dio Comanda || drama
Gianni Di Gregorio: Mid-August Lunch || comedy, slice of life
Graham Reznick: I Can See You || psychological thriller/horror
Guy Ritchie: RocknRolla || gangster film/crime, black comedy, hyperlink cinema
Henrik Ruben Genz: Frygtelig Lykkelig / Terribly Happy || crime, drama, thriller, black comedy
Hirokazu Kore-eda: Still Walking || slice of life, family drama
Jean-Francois Richet: Mesrine || biopic, gangster film/crime
Jonathan Demme: Rachel Getting Married || family drama
Kanji Nakajima: Kuron wa Kokyo o Mezasu / The Clone Returns Home || sci-fi, drama
Karen Shakhnazarov: The Vanished Empire || period drama
Karin Albou: Le chant des mariées / The Wedding Song || period drama, erotica
Kelly Reichardt: Wendy and Lucy || drama, slice of life
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Tokyo Sonata || family drama, black comedy
Larry (Lana) & Andy (Lilly) Wachowski: Speed Racer || action, sports, family drama, computer/live action animation, sci-fi, carsploitation, crime
Laurent Cantet: Entre les Murs / The Class || drama, slice of life
Lav Diaz: Melancholia || slow cinema, drama
Lisandro Alonso: Liverpool || slow cinema, drama, new Argentine cinema
Lucrecia Martel: La Mujer Sin Cabeza / Headless Woman || new Argentine cinema, psychological drama, mystery, slow cinema
Majid Majidi: Avaze Gonjeshk Ha / Song of Sparrows || drama, slice of life, coming-of-age
Malgorzata Szumowska: 33 sceny z zycia / 33 Scenes from Life || psychological drama
Mariano Llinas: Historias extraordinarias / Extraordinary Stories || adventure, mystery, new Argentine cinema
Matteo Garrone: Gomorrah || gangster film/crime, drama, hyperlink cinema
Michel Gondry: Be Kind Rewind || comedy, buddy
Michelange Quay: Mange ceci est mon corps / Eat, for This Is My Body || drama
Miguel Gomes: Aquele querido mes de agosto / Our Beloved Month of August || romance, docudrama
Mike Leigh: Happy-Go-Lucky || slice of life, drama, comedy
Na Hong-jin: The Chaser || thriller, crime, neo-noir
Nina Paley: Sita Sings the Blues || animation, comedy, fantasy, jukebox musical, romance
Noah & Logan Miller: Touching Home || drama
Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Uc Maymum / Three Monkeys || psychological/family drama
Pablo Larrain: Tony Manero || psychological drama, crime
Radu Muntean: Boogie / Summer Holiday || Romanian new wave, slice of life, drama
Ramin Bahrani: Goodbye Solo || drama
Ruben Ostlund: De ofrivilliga / Involuntary || drama, hyperlink cinema, satire
Rustem Abdrashev: The Gift to Stalin || drama
Sean Baker: Prince of Broadway || drama, comedy, hood film/crime
Sebastian Doggart: Courting Condi || comedy, docudrama
Sergey Dvortsevoy: Tulpan || drama, coming-of-age
+ Sion Sono: Love Exposure || romance, drama, absurdist/sex comedy, satire, religious film, action/martial arts
Steve McQueen: Hunger || prison film, period/political drama, slow cinema
Tatia Rosenthal: $9.99 || stop-motion/claymation, drama, low fantasy
Tomas Alfredson: Lat den Ratte Komma In / Let the Right One In || vampire, drama, romance, coming-of-age, horror
Yoji Yamada: Kabei || drama
2009
Adam Elliot: Mary & Max || claymation, drama, black comedy, buddy
Alejandro Amenabar: Agora || period drama, biopic
Andrea Arnold: Fish Tank || coming-of-age, drama, hood film
Andrew Bujalski: Beeswax || mumblecore, comedy, drama
Anocha Suwichakornpong: Mundane History || drama
Anurag Kashyap: Dev.D || black comedy, romance, drama
Anurag Kashyap: Gulaal || political drama, crime
Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu: Les Derniers Jours du Monde / Happy End || disaster/post-apocalyptic, black comedy
Asghar Farhadi: Darbareye Elly / About Elly || mystery, drama
Benny & Josh Safdie: Daddy Longlegs / Go Get Some Rosemary || mumblecore, family drama
Bong Joon-ho: Mother || mystery/whodunit, family drama, black comedy
Bruno Dumont: Hadewijch || drama
Bui Thac Chuyen: Adrift || drama, romance/LGBT
Caroline Bottaro: Queen to Play || drama
Christian Alvart: Pandorum || sci-fi, horror/thriller, action, mystery
Christophe Honore: Non ma fille, tu n'iras pas danser / Making Plans for Lena || drama
Claire Denis: White Material || political drama, war, thriller
Claude & Nathan Miller: Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante / I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive || drama
Claudia Llosa: La Teta Asustada / The Milk of Sorrow || psychological drama, magical realism, slow cinema
Conor Horgan: One Hundred Mornings || post-apocalyptic, drama
Corneliu Porumboiu: Police Adjective || Romanian new wave, drama, satire
Duncan Jones: Moon || sci-fi, drama, mystery
Fatih Akin: Soul Kitchen || comedy, drama
+ Gaspar Noe: Enter the Void || psychological drama, experimental/surrealism, new French extremity
Giuseppe Capotondi: La doppia ora / The Double Hour || drama, mystery, thriller
Harmony Korine: Trash Humpers || black comedy, mockumentary/faux found footage, hixploitation, experimental
Henry Selick: Coraline || puppet animation/stop-motion, portal fantasy, gothic horror, family
Ivan Engler & Ralph Etter: Cargo || sci-fi, thriller
Jacques Audiard: Un Prophete / A Prophet || prison film, drama, gangster film/crime
Jan Hrebejk: Kawasakiho ruze / Kawasaki's Rose || drama
Jessica Hausner: Lourdes || drama, religious film
Johnny To: Vengeance || crime, action, thriller
Jonathan Parker: (Untitled) || satire/comedy, drama
Lu Chuan: City of Life and Death || war, period drama
Luca Guadagnino: Io sono l'amore / I Am Love || melodrama, romance
Marc Webb: (500) Days of Summer || romantic comedy, drama
Maren Ade: Alle Anderen / Everyone Else || psychological drama
Michael Haneke: Das Weisse Band / The White Ribbon || mystery, period drama
Michael Keaton: The Merry Gentleman || drama, crime
Michael Mann: Public Enemies || gangster film/crime, biopic, period drama
Nandita Das: Firaaq || drama
Natalia Smirnoff: Rompecabezas / Puzzle || drama, comedy
Noah Buschel: The Missing Person || mystery/neo-noir
Paul McGuigan: Push || sci-fi, action
Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio: Alamar / To the Sea || docudrama
Pema Tseden: The Search || drama
Peter Strickland: Katalin Varga || drama, exploitation
Pietro Marcello: La bocca del lupo / The Mouth of the Wolf || docudrama, essay film
Quentin Tarantino: Inglorious Basterds || war, black comedy, alternate history
Radu Jude: Cea mai fericita fata din lume / The Happiest Girl in the World || satire, Romanian new wave
Raya Martin: Independencia || drama, experimental, low fantasy
Rodrigo Garcia: Mother and Child || drama
Samuel Maoz: Lebanon || war
Sandra Nettelbeck: Helen || drama
Scott McGehee & David Siegel: Uncertainty || drama, romance, crime
Shane Acker: 9 || computer animation, post-apocalyptic/steampunk, fantasy, adventure, gothic, action
Sophie Barthes: Cold Souls || low fantasy, psychological drama, black comedy
Stephane Brize: Mademoiselle Chambon || drama, romance
Takeshi Koike: Redline || anime, action, sports/carsploitation, sci-fi/cyberpunk
Todd Solondz: Life During Wartime || black comedy, drama
Veiko Ounpuu: Puha Tonu kiusamine / The Temptation of St. Tony || surrealism, drama, black/absurdist comedy, mystery
Vimukthi Jayasundara: Ahasin Wetei / Between Two Worlds || drama
Xavier Dolan: J'ai tué ma mère / I Killed My Mother || coming-of-age, family drama, LGBT
Xiaolu Guo: She, a Chinese || drama
Yorgos Lanthimos: Kynodontas / Dogtooth || satire, psychological drama, Greek weird wave, black comedy
2010
Abdellatif Kechiche: Venus Noire / Black Venus || biopic, period drama
Agusti Vila: La Mosquitera / The Mosquito Net || drama, black comedy
Alex de la Iglesia: Balada triste de trompeta / The Last Circus || black comedy/satire, period drama
Alexei Popogrebsky: How I Ended This Summer || psychological drama
Andre Ovredal: Trolljegeren / Trollhunter || giant monster, found footage horror/mockumentary
Aparna Sen: Iti Mrinalini || drama
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives || magical realism/low fantasy, slow cinema, psychological drama
Baltasar Kormakur: Inhale / Run for Her Life || drama, thriller
Chang-dong Lee: Poetry || drama
Chen Kaige: Sacrifice || period drama
Christopher Nolan: Inception || action, sci-fi, heist film, psychological thriller
Clio Barnard: The Arbor || docudrama
Cristi Puiu: Aurora || drama, Romanian new wave, mystery
Darren Aronofsky: Black Swan || psychological thriller/drama, dance film
David Robert Mitchell: The Myth of the American Sleepover || coming-of-age/teen movie, hyperlink cinema, slice of life
Debra Granik: Winter's Bone || drama, mystery, southern gothic
Denis Villeneuve: Incendies || drama, mystery, war
Ed Gass-Donnelly: Small Town Murder Songs || drama, neo-noir/mystery, crime
Edgar Wright: Scott Pilgrim vs the World || action, romantic comedy, music, low fantasy
Eric Mendelsohn: 3 Backyards || drama
Feng Xiaogang: Aftershock || drama, disaster
Fred Cavaye: A bout portant / Point Blank || thriller, crime, action
Gareth Edwards: Monsters || sci-fi, giant monster/alien invasion, drama
Goutam Ghose: Moner Manush || period drama, biopic, music
Im Sang-soo: The Housemaid || melodrama, erotic thriller, black comedy
Jan Svankmajer: Surviving Life || surrealism, cutout animation, absurdist comedy, mystery
Jerzy Skolimowski: Essential Killing || thriller, drama, survival
Jiang Wen: Rang Zi Dan / Let the Bullets Fly || action, comedy, neo-western, crime
Joanna Hogg: Archipelago || family drama
Julie Bertuccelli: L’ arbre / The Tree || drama
Kelly Reichardt: Meek's Cutoff || revisionist western, period drama
Larysa Kondracki: The Whistleblower || thriller, political drama, crime
Leland Orser: Morning || drama
Li Hongqi: Winter Vacation || satire/comedy, slow cinema
Lisa Cholodenko: The Kids are All Right || family drama, comedy, LGBT
Liu Jian: Piercing I || animation, black comedy
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: Un homme qui crie / A Screaming Man || drama
Manoel de Oliveira: The Strange Case of Angelica || low fantasy, romance
Maria Sodahl: Limbo || drama
Matias Pineiro: Rosalinda || romance, new Argentine cinema
Michael Rowe: Ano bisiesto / Leap Year || drama
Michelangelo Frammartino: Le Quattro Volte / The Four Times || slow cinema, docudrama
Miguel Gomes: Aquele querido mes de agosto / Our Beloved Month of August || romance, docudrama
Mike Goldbach: Daydream Nation || psychological drama, coming-of-age
Mike Leigh: Another Year || drama, slice of life
Mike Mills: Beginners || family drama, romance
Na Hong-jin: The Yellow Sea || thriller, crime, neo-noir
Nina Menkes: Hitparkut / Dissolution || drama
Patric Chiha: Domain || drama
Quentin Dupieux: Rubber || horror-comedy/splatter, surrealism/postmodernism, satire
Radu Muntean: Marṭi, dupa Craciun / Tuesday After Christmas || Romanian new wave, family drama, slow cinema
Rafi Pitts: The Hunter || thriller, psychological drama
Raul Ruiz: Misterios de Lisboa / Mysteries of Lisbon || mystery, romance, melodrama, period drama/epic
Sang-soo Hong: Hahaha || drama, romance, comedy
Sang-soo Hong: Oki's Movie || drama, romance
Semih Kaplanoglu: Bal / Honey || drama, slow cinema
+ Sergei Loznitsa: Schastye Moe / My Joy || drama, road movie
Silvio Soldini: Cosa voglio di piu / Come Undone || drama, romance
Tobias Lindholm & Michael Noer: R || prison film, drama
Tsui Hark: Di Renjie - Tong Tian di Guo / Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame || wuxia/martial arts, mystery/whodunit
Vikramaditya Motwane: Udaan || drama, coming-of-age
Xavier Beauvois: Des hommes et des dieux / Of Gods and Men || period drama, war
Xavier Dolan: Heartbeats || romance/LGBT, drama
2011
Abel Ferrara: 4:44 Last Day on Earth || psychological drama, disaster
Agnieszka Holland: W ciemnosci / In Darkness || war, period drama
Aki Kaurismaki: Le Havre || drama, comedy
Alex Ross Perry: The Color Wheel || mumblecore, black comedy, drama, road movie
Alexander Sokurov: Faust || drama/tragedy, low fantasy
Alexander Zeidovich: Target || drama, dystopian
Alice Rohrwacher: Corpo Celeste / Celestial Body || coming-of-age, drama
Andrei Zvyagintsev: Elena || drama
Andrew Haigh: Weekend || romance/LGBT, slice of life
Andrew Niccol: In Time || dystopian, thriller, sci-fi
Asghar Farhadi: A Separation || legal/family drama
Bela Tarr: The Turin Horse || drama, slow cinema
Ben Wheatley: Kill List || thriller, crime, mystery, psychological/folk horror
Bertrand Bonello: L'Apollonide / House of Tolerance || period drama, erotic thriller
Bruno Dumont: Hors Satan / Outside Satan || drama, slow cinema, crime
Chris Weitz: A Better Life || drama
Christian Petzold: Dreileben - Etwas Besseres als den Tod / Beats Being Dead || drama, coming-of-age, Berlin school
Christopher Munch: Letters from the Big Man || sci-fi, drama
Dee Rees: Pariah || drama, coming-of-age, romance/LGBT
Dominik Graf: Dreileben - Komm mir nicht nach / Don't Follow Me Around || drama
Eduardo Nunes: Sudoeste / Southwest || low fantasy, psychological drama
Evan Glodell: Bellflower || psychological drama, romance
Everardo Gout: Dias de gracia / Days of Grace || drama, crime
Geoffrey Enthoven: Hasta la Vista / Come as You Are || comedy, road movie, drama
George Nolfi: The Adjustment Bureau || romance, low fantasy, thriller, mystery
Gerardo Naranjo: Miss Bala || crime, drama
Gian Alfonso Pacinotti: L'Ultimo Terrestre / The Last Earthling || drama, low fantasy/sci-fi
Hiroyuki Okiura: A Letter to Momo || anime, low fantasy, drama, coming-of-age
Jafar Panahi: This Is Not a Film || diary film, movie documentary
Jang Hoon: The Front Line || war, period drama
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne: The Kid with the Bike || drama, coming-of-age
Jeff Nichols: Take Shelter || psychological drama
Joachim Trier: Oslo August 31st || psychological drama, slice of life
Joe Cornish: Attack the Block || hood film, sci-fi/alien invasion, action, black comedy/satire
Joseph Cedar: Footnote || drama, satire
Julia Leigh: Sleeping Beauty || drama, erotica
Kanchi Wichmann: Break My Fall || drama
Lars Von Trier: Melancholia || psychological drama, disaster
Lav Diaz: Siglo ng Pagluluwal / Century of Birthing || drama, slow cinema
Lavinia Currier: Oka! || biopic, adventure
Lech Majewski: Mlyn i Krzyz / The Mill and the Cross || period drama, slow cinema, surrealism/magical realism, epic
Lynne Ramsay: We Need to Talk About Kevin || psychological/family drama, thriller
Malgoska Szumowska: Elles || drama
Marc Meyers: Harvest || drama, coming-of-age
Markus Schleinzer: Michael || drama
Michel Hazanavicius: The Artist || period drama/melodrama, romantic comedy
Mike Cahill: Another Earth || psychological drama, sci-fi
Milagros Mumenthaler: Abrir Puertas y Ventanas / Open Doors, Open Windows || psychological drama, new Argentine cinema, slice of life
Miranda July: The Future || drama, low fantasy/magical realism, surrealism
Nadav Lapid: The Policeman || political drama
Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da / Once Upon a Time in Anatolia || crime, drama
Pawel Pawlikowski: La femme du Veme / The Woman in the Fifth || mystery, psychological thriller
Pedro Almodovar: La piel que habito / The Skin I Live In || psychological thriller, drama
Sang-ho Yeon: The King of Pigs || animation, drama, crime
Sarah Polley: Take This Waltz || romance, drama
Sean Durkin: Martha Marcy May Marlene || psychological drama
Sion Sono: Koi no Tsumi / Guilty of Romance || psychological drama, erotic thriller, crime, mystery
Steve Collins: You Hurt My Feelings || drama, comedy
Steve James: The Interrupters || hood film, crime documentary
Steve McQueen: Shame || psychological drama
+ Terrence Malick: The Tree of Life || coming-of-age, psychological/family drama, experimental
Tiffany Shlain: Connected || documentary
Todd Solondz: Dark Horse || black comedy, psychological drama
Ulrich Kohler: Schlafkrankheit / Sleeping Sickness || drama
Wang Xiaoshuai: 11 Flowers || coming-of-age, period drama
Woody Allen: Midnight in Paris || low fantasy/time travel, romantic comedy
Xavier Gens: The Divide || post-apocalyptic/sci-fi, thriller, psychological drama, new French extremity, black comedy
Yorgos Lanthimos: Alps || psychological drama, Greek weird wave
Zack Parker: Scalene || thriller
2012
Alain Resnais: Vous n'avez encore rien vu / You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet || drama, essay film
Alice Winocour: Augustine || psychological drama
Amy Seimetz: Sun Don't Shine || road movie, psychological drama, mumblecore, crime
Anand Gandhi: Ship of Theseus || drama
Anurag Kashyap: Gangs of Wasseypur || dacoit/gangster film, period drama
Ava DuVernay: Middle of Nowhere || drama, romance
Ben Lewin: The Sessions || drama, biopic, romantic comedy
Benh Zeitlin: Beasts of the Southern Wild || drama, low fantasy/magical realism, coming-of-age, southern gothic
Benjamin Dickinson: First Winter || drama
+ Carlos Reygadas: Post Tenebras Lux / Light After Darkness || drama, slow cinema, surrealism/magical realism
Cate Shortland: Lore || period drama, war
Christian Petzold: Barbara || period drama, Berlin school
Christian Schwochow: Der Turm / The Tower || period drama
Cristian Mungiu: Dupa dealuri / Beyond the Hills || drama, Romanian new wave
David Russell: Silver Linings Playbook || drama, romantic comedy, dance film
Don Hertzfeldt: It's Such a Beautiful Day || animation, psychological drama, surrealism/experimental, black comedy, essay film
Gyorgy Palfi: Final Cut - Holgyeim es Uraim / Final Cut - Ladies and Gentlemen || romance, found footage, essay film
Harmony Korine: Spring Breakers || crime/gangster film, satire, psychological drama
Im Sang-soo: The Taste of Money || drama, erotic thriller
Jean-Claude Brisseau: La Fille de Nulle Part / The Girl from Nowhere || low fantasy, drama
Jeff Nichols: Mud || coming-of-age, drama, crime, southern gothic
Jem Cohen: Museum Hours || docudrama, essay film, art documentary
Jen & Sylvia Soska: American Mary || body/sadistic horror, exploitation, black comedy
Joachim Lafosse: A perdre la raison / Our Children || psychological drama
Joel Potrykus: Ape || black comedy, slice of life, surrealism/magical realism
Johnnie To: Drug War || thriller, crime/police procedural, action
Joshua Oppenheimer: The Act of Killing || documentary
Joss Whedon: Much Ado About Nothing || romantic comedy, drama
Julia Dyer: The Playroom || drama
Keith Miller: Welcome to Pine Hill || drama
Ken Loach: The Angel's Share || drama, comedy, crime/heist film
Kim Nguyen: Rebelle / War Witch || drama, war, coming-of-age
Kleber Mendonca Filho: O som ao redor / Neighboring Sounds || drama, satire, thriller
Larry Charles: The Dictator || satire/comedy
Leos Carax: Holy Motors || surrealism/postmodernism, satire/absurdist comedy, low fantasy
Mamoru Hosoda: Wolf Children || anime, family drama, low fantasy, coming-of-age
Matias Pineiro: Viola || new Argentine cinema, drama
Matteo Garrone: Reality || psychological drama, black comedy, satire
Michel Franco: Despues de Lucia / After Lucia || drama, coming-of-age
Miguel Gomes: Tabu || romance, drama, magical realism
Moussa Toure: La Pirogue || drama
Nabil Ayouch: Les chevaux de Dieu / God's Horses || drama
Noah Baumbach: Frances Ha || slice of life, drama, comedy, mumblecore, coming-of-age
Paul Thomas Anderson: The Master || psychological drama
Peter Strickland: Berberian Sound Studio || psychological horror/drama
Radu Jude: Toata Lumea din Familia Noastra / Everybody In Our Family || family drama, coming-of-age, black comedy, Romanian new wave
Raul Ruiz: La noche de enfrente / Night Across the Street || drama, surrealism/low fantasy
Sally El Hosaini: My Brother the Devil || drama, hood film/crime
Sally Potter: Ginger & Rosa || family drama, coming-of-age
Sergei Loznitsa: In the Fog || war, period drama
Terence Nance: An Oversimplification of Her Beauty || romance, postmodernism/experimental, docudrama
Thomas Vinterberg: Jagten / The Hunt || drama, psychological thriller
Tim Sutton: Pavilion || drama, coming-of-age
Tobias Lindholm: Kapringen / A Hijacking || drama, thriller
Ulrich Seidl: Paradies - Liebe / Paradise - Love || drama, slice of life
Wes Anderson: Moonrise Kingdom || adventure, coming-of-age, comedy, drama
Wladyslaw Pasikowski: Pokłosie / Aftermath || drama, thriller
Xavier Dolan: Laurence Anyways || melodrama, romance/LGBT
Ziad Doueiri: L' attentat / The Attack || psychological drama
2013
Aaron Fernandez: Las horas muertas / The Empty Hours || drama, coming-of-age
Agnieszka Holland: Horici ker / Burning Bush || period/legal drama
Alain Guiraudie: L' inconnu du lac / Stranger by the Lake || erotica/LGBT, crime, psychological drama
Albert Serra: Historia de la meva mort / Story of My Death || period drama, slow cinema, vampire
+ Alejandro Jodorowsky: La danza de la realidad / The Dance of Reality || surrealism, biopic, drama, black comedy
Aleksei German: Trudno byt' Bogom / Hard to Be a God || drama, medieval, extraterrestrial, slow cinema
Alexandros Avranas: Miss Violence || psychological drama, Greek weird wave
Amat Escalante: Heli || drama, crime
Andrea Pallaoro: Medeas || drama
Andrew Bujalski: Computer Chess || mumblecore, comedy, sports, docudrama, sci-fi
Andrew Dosunmu: Mother of George || drama
Andres Muschietti: Mama || supernatural/folk horror, mystery
Anthony Chen: Ilo Ilo || family drama
Arnaud Desplechin: Jimmy P || psychological drama, biopic
Asghar Farhadi: Le Passe / The Past || family drama
Ben Wheatley: A Field in England || period drama, surrealism, war, folk horror, black comedy
Bong Joon-Ho: Snowpiercer || post-apocalyptic/dystopian, thriller/action, sci-fi, satire
Calin Peter Netzer: Pozitia Copilului / Child's Pose || drama, Romanian new wave, psychological drama, black comedy
Christian Schwochow: Westen / West || period drama
Claire Denis: Les salauds / Bastards || neo-noir/mystery, drama, new French extremity
Claude Lanzmann: Le dernier des injustes / The Last of the Unjust || documentary
Daniel Patrick Carbone: Hide Your Smiling Faces || drama, coming-of-age
Danis Tanovic: Epizoda u zivotu beraca zeljeza / An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker || drama
Danny Boyle: Trance || psychological thriller/mystery, heist film
Darren-Paul Fisher: Frequencies || sci-fi, romance, surrealism
David Gordon Green: Joe || drama, southern Gothic
David Gordon Green: Prince Avalanche || drama, comedy
David Lowery: Ain't Them Bodies Saints || neo-western, drama, crime, romance
David Mackenzie: Starred Up || prison film, drama
Denis Cote: Vic + Flo ont vu un ours / Flo Saw a Bear || drama, crime, LGBT, black comedy
Denis Villeneuve: Enemy || psychological thriller/drama, postmodernism/surrealism, mystery
Denis Villeneuve: Prisoners || thriller, drama, mystery/neo-noir, crime/police procedural
Eran Creevy: Welcome to the Punch || action, thriller, crime, neo-noir
Erik Matti: On the Job || police procedural/crime, thriller
Fernando Coimbra: O lobo atrás da porta / A Wolf at the Door || drama, crime, psychological thriller
Giuseppe Tornatore: La migliore offerta / The Best Offer || mystery, drama, romance, psychological thriller, crime
Hirokazu Kore-eda: Soshite Chichi ni Naru / Like Father Like Son || family drama, slice of life
Isao Takahata: Kaguya-hime no Monogatari / The Tale of Princess Kaguya || anime, fairy tale, period drama, coming-of-age
JC Chandor: All Is Lost || survival, disaster
Jafar Panahi: Closed Curtain || docudrama, low fantasy
James Gray: The Immigrant || period drama, romance
James Ponsoldt: The Spectacular Now || romance, drama, teen movie/coming-of-age
James Wan: The Conjuring || haunted house/supernatural horror, drama
Jane Campion: Top of the Lake (TV) || mystery
Jean-Marc Vallee: Dallas Buyers Club || biopic, period/legal drama, LGBT
Jeethu Joseph: Drishyam || Malayalam new generation, drama, thriller
Jeremy Lovering: In Fear || psychological horror/thriller, road movie
Joanna Hogg: Exhibition || drama
John Curran: Tracks || biopic, adventure, survival
Jonathan Glazer: Under the Skin || sci-fi/extraterrestrial, psychological drama/horror, erotic thriller, slow cinema
Josh Waller: Raze || prison film, martial arts
Kim Mordaunt: The Rocket || drama
Lake Bell: In a World... || comedy
Lance Edmands: Bluebird || drama
Lav Diaz: Norte Hangganan ng Kasaysayan / Norte the End of History || drama, slow cinema, crime/prison film
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: Grigris || drama, crime/neo-noir, romance
Mati Diop: Mille Soleils / A Thousand Suns || docudrama
Matt Porterfield: I Used to Be Darker || drama, music, coming-of-age
Michael Dowse: The F Word / What If || romantic comedy
Mohammad Rasoulof: Manuscripts Don't Burn || political drama
Ned Benson: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby || drama, romance
Nicole Holofcener: Enough Said || romantic comedy, drama, slice of life
Paolo Sorrentino: La Grande Bellezza / The Great Beauty || drama, satire/black comedy, slice of life
Park Chan-wook: Stoker || mystery, psychological thriller, coming-of-age, gothic, crime, family drama
Paul Greengrass: Captain Phillips || thriller, drama, survival
Pawel Pawlikowski: Ida || period drama, coming-of-age
Phil Morrison: All Is Bright || comedy, buddy, drama, christmas, heist film
Philip Groning: Die Frau des Polizisten / The Police Officer's Wife || drama, slow cinema, slice of life
Philippe Garrel: La Jalousie / Jealousy || romance, drama
Richard Ayoade: The Double || psychological drama, black comedy, dystopian, neo-noir
Richard Foreman: Once Every Day || experimental
Richard LaGravenese: Beautiful Creatures || romance, low fantasy, teen movie, southern gothic
Richie Mehta: Siddharth || drama
Ridley Scott: The Counselor || crime, thriller, neo-western, drama
Ritesh Batra: The Lunchbox || drama, romance, slice of life
Rithy Panh: L'Image Manquante / The Missing Picture || biography documentary, essay film, puppetry
Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman: Lovelace || biopic, drama
Roberto Minervini: Stop the Pounding Heart || docudrama
Ryan Coogler: Fruitvale Station || drama, biopic
Sam Fleischner: Stand Clear of the Closing Doors || drama
Sang-soo Hong: Nobody's Daughter Haewon || drama, romance
Sebastian Lelio: Gloria || drama, new Chilean cinema
Sebastian Silva: Crystal Fairy y el cactus mágico / Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus || drama, comedy, road movie
Shane Carruth: Upstream Color || psychological drama, sci-fi, romance
Sofia Coppola: The Bling Ring || crime, teen movie, satire, drama
Spike Jonze: Her || romance, drama, sci-fi/artificial intelligence
Stacie Passon: Concussion || drama, queer cinema
Steve McQueen: 12 Years a Slave || biopic, period drama
Steven Knight: Locke || drama, road movie
Tom Shoval: Youth || thriller, drama
Ulrich Seidl: Paradies - Hoffnung / Paradise - Hope || drama, coming-of-age
Wong Kar-wai: The Grandmaster || kung fu/martial arts, biopic, period drama
Yann Gonzalez: Les Rencontres d'Apres Minuit / You and the Night || drama, fantasy
Yasuhiro Yoshiura: Patema Inverted || anime, sci-fi, dystopian, romance
Yuval Adler: Beit-Lehem || thriller
Zal Batmanglij: The East || thriller, drama, spy, crime
Zaza Urushadze: Mandariinid / Tangerines || drama, war
2014
Adam MacDonald: Backcountry || natural horror, survival
Alex Garland: Ex Machina || sci-fi/artificial intelligence, psychological drama/thriller
Alex Johnson: Two Step || thriller, crime, drama
Alex Ross Perry: Listen Up Philip || drama, comedy, romance, mumblecore
Alice Rohrwacher: Le Meraviglie / The Wonders || coming-of-age, family drama
Ana Lily Amirpour: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night || vampire/horror, romance, psychological drama
Andrei Konchalovskij: The Postman's White Nights || drama, slice of life
Andrei Zvyagintsev: Leviathan || drama
Andrew Niccol: Good Kill || psychological drama, war
Ann Hui: The Golden Era || biopic
Antonia Bogdanovich: Phantom Halo || crime, drama, thriller
Bennett Miller: Foxcatcher || sports, biopic, psychological drama/thriller
Bruno Dumont: P'tit Quinquin / Li'l Quinquin || drama, comedy, crime, mystery
Celine Sciamma: Bande de Filles / Girlhood || coming-of-age, hood film/crime, drama, slice of life
Chad Stahelski: John Wick || action, crime, thriller
Chris Rock: Top Five || romantic comedy, satire
Christian Petzold: Phoenix || period/psychological drama, neo-noir, Berlin school
Christopher Nolan: Interstellar || sci-fi/space exploration, drama, adventure
Daniel Ribeiro: Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho / The Way He Looks || coming-of-age, romance/LGBT
David Oelhoffen: Loin des hommes / Far From Men || drama, war, neo-western
David Robert Mitchell: It Follows || supernatural/psychological horror
David & Nathan Zellner: Kumiko the Treasure Hunter || psychological drama, road movie, black comedy
Diao Yi'nan: Bai Ri Yan Huo / Black Coal, Thin Ice || crime/police procedural, neo-noir/mystery, thriller
Eskil Vogt: Blind || psychological drama
Eugene Green: La Sapienza / Sapience || drama, road movie, comedy
Fatih Akin: The Cut || period/psychological drama
Francesco Munzi: Anime nere / Black Souls || gangster film/crime
Haik Kocharian: Please Be Normal || family drama
Hans Petter Moland: Kraftidioten / In Order of Disappearance || vigilante/crime, black comedy, nordic noir
Jake Paltrow: Young Ones || post-apocalyptic/dystopian, neo-western, drama
Jalmari Helander: Big Game || action, adventure/survival, comedy, coming-of-age, thriller
Jean-Luc Godard: Adieu au langage / Goodbye to Language || essay film, video art/experimental
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne: Deux jours, une nuit / Two Days One Night || drama
Jeffrey Chandor: A Most Violent Year || crime/gangster film, drama, thriller
Jennifer Kent: The Babadook || psychological horror/drama, haunted house
Jessica Habie: Mars at Sunrise || drama
Joel Potrykus: Buzzard || black comedy, crime, mumblecore, psychological thriller
John Chi: Tentacle 8 || thriller
John Michael McDonagh: Calvary || psychological drama, mystery, religious film, black comedy
Jonas Alexander Arnby: Nar dyrene drommer / When Animals Dream || werewolf/horror, drama, coming-of-age, psychological thriller
Joshua Oppenheimer: The Look of Silence || political/crime documentary
Justin Simien: Dear White People || satire/comedy, coming-of-age, drama
Kim Sung-hoon: A Hard Day || thriller, crime/police procedural
Kornel Mundruczo: Feher Isten / White God || drama, magical realism
Lav Diaz: Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon / From What Is Before || period drama, slow cinema, slice of life
Lech Majewski: Onirica / Field of Dogs || drama, surrealism, slow cinema
Lisa Cholodenko: Olive Kitteridge (TV) || family drama, slice of life
Lisandro Alonso: Jauja || period drama, low fantasy, revisionist western, slow cinema, surrealism
Mia Hansen-Love: Eden || music, drama
Mohsen Makhmalbaf: The President || political drama, dystopian, war, satire
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy: Plemya / The Tribe || crime, drama, romance
Nadav Lapid: The Kindergarten Teacher || drama, psychological thriller
Noah Baumbach: While We're Young || comedy, drama, romance
Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Kis uykusu / Winter Sleep || drama
Olivier Assayas: Clouds of Sils Maria || psychological drama, postmodernism
Oren Moverman: Time Out of Mind || drama
Pascale Ferran: Bird People || low fantasy, drama, romance
+ Pedro Costa: Cavalo dinheiro / Horse Money || drama, slow cinema, ethnofiction/docudrama, surrealism
Peter Strickland: The Duke of Burgundy || psychological drama, romance/LGBT, erotica
Quentin Dupieux: Réalité / Reality || absurdist comedy/satire, surrealism/postmodernism, hyperlink cinema
Raj Amit Kumar: Dagh Ujala / Unfreedom || crime, drama, LGBT
Rajat Kapoor: Ankhon Dekhi || comedy
Ramin Bahrani: 99 Homes || legal drama
Richard Linklater: Boyhood || coming-of-age, family drama, slice of life
Roy Andersson: A Pigeon Sat On a Branch Reflecting On Existence || black/absurdist comedy, satire, hyperlink cinema
Ruben Ostlund: Turist / Force Majeure || psychological/family drama, satire/black comedy
Sang-soo Hong: Right Now Wrong Then || romance, drama, comedy, postmodernism
Shira Piven: Welcome to Me || psychological drama, black comedy/satire
Stephane Lafleur: Tu Dors Nicole / You're Sleeping Nicole || drama, coming-of-age, comedy
Wes Anderson: The Grand Budapest Hotel || comedy, adventure
Xavier Beauvois: La rancon de la gloire / The Price of Fame || drama, comedy, crime
Xavier Dolan: Mommy || drama
Yann Demange: '71 || thriller, war, period drama
Yuri Bykov: The Fool || drama, thriller
2015
Adam McKay: The Big Short || drama, hyperlink cinema
Agnieszka Smoczynska: Corki dancingu / The Lure || musical, fairy tale, body/folk horror, melodrama, romance
Aleksander Sokurov: Francofonia || essay film, postmodernism, docudrama/art documentary
Aleksei German: Under Electric Clouds || drama, hyperlink cinema, surrealism, slow cinema
Andrew Bujalski: Results || romantic comedy
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Cemetery of Splendour || drama, slow cinema, magical realism/low fantasy, romance
Atom Egoyan: Remember || psychological thriller/drama
Bi Gan: Lu Bian Ye Can / Kaili Blues || drama, slow cinema
Cary Fukunaga: Beasts of No Nation || war, drama
Chantal Akerman: No Home Movie || diary/essay film
Charlie Kaufman: Anomalisa || puppet animation, psychological drama, postmodernism, romance
Christian Desmares & Franck Ekinci: Avril et le Monde Truque / April and the Extraordinary World || animation, steampunk/sci-fi, alternate history, comedy, romance
Christian Vincent: L'Hermine / Courted || legal drama, romance
Ciro Guerra: El abrazo de la serpiente / Embrace of the Serpent || adventure, period drama
Clement Cogitore: Ni le ciel, ni la terre / Neither Heaven Nor Earth / The Wakhan Front || mystery, war, low fantasy
Corneliu Porumboiu: Comoara / The Treasure || Romanian new wave, drama
Craig Zobel: Z for Zachariah || post-apocalyptic, romance, thriller, drama
Deniz Gamze Erguven: Mustang || drama, coming-of-age
Don Hertzfeldt: World of Tomorrow (short) || animation, sci-fi/time travel, black comedy/satire, dystopian, surrealism/psychological drama
Gabriel Mascaro: Boi neon / Neon Bull || drama, slice of life
Gavin Hood: Eye in the Sky || political drama/thriller, war
Grimur Hakonarson: Hrutar / Rams || drama
Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson: The Forbidden Room || surrealism/experimental, absurdist comedy
Hou Hsiao-hsien: Nie Yinniang / The Assassin || wuxia/martial arts, slow cinema, period drama
Jacques Audiard: Dheepan || family drama, crime/hood film
Jafar Panahi: Taxi || drama, road movie, slice of life
Jayro Bustamante: Ixcanul Volcano || coming-of-age, drama
Jennifer Phang: Advantageous || drama, dystopian/sci-fi
Jerzy Skolimowski: 11 minut / 11 Minutes || hyperlink cinema, thriller, melodrama
Jia Zhangke: Shan He Gu Ren / Mountains May Depart || family drama
Joel Edgerton: The Gift || psychological thriller, mystery
John Maclean: Slow West || revisionist western
Jonas Carpignano: Mediterranea || drama
Josh Mond: James White || drama, mumblecore
Lars Kraume: Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer / The People vs Fritz Bauer || biopic, period/political drama
Laszlo Nemes: Saul Fia / Son of Saul || period drama, war, prison film, psychological thriller
Lee Toland Krieger: The Age of Adaline || romance, low fantasy, melodrama
Lorenzo Vigas: Desde Alla / From Afar || drama, LGBT
Lucile Hadžihalilović: Evolution || mystery, psychological horror, coming-of-age, sci-fi, surrealism
Malgorzata Szumowska: Body/Cialo / Booty || psychological drama, black comedy
Marcin Wrona: Demon || psychological horror, drama, low fantasy, mystery, black comedy
Marielle Heller: The Diary of a Teenage Girl || coming-of-age, drama
Matteo Garrone: Il Racconto dei Racconti / Tale of Tales || fairy tale, medieval, hyperlink cinema
Michael Almereyda: Experimenter || biopic, psychological drama
Michael Mann: Blackhat || thriller, crime
Michel Franco: Chronic || drama, slice of life
+ Miguel Gomes: Arabian Nights || docudrama, anthology film, postmodernism, low fantasy/magical realism
Nanni Moretti: Mia Madre / My Mother || family drama
Pablo Trapero: El Clan || thriller, new Argentine cinema, crime
Paolo Sorrentino: Youth || drama
Pema Tseden: Tharlo || drama, slow cinema
Pete Docter: Inside Out || computer animation, coming-of-age, adventure, psychological/family drama
Peter Greenaway: Eisenstein in Guanajuato || biopic, queer cinema
Piero Messina: L'Attesa / The Wait || drama
Quentin Tarantino: The Hateful Eight || revisionist/northern western, black comedy, mystery/whodunit
Radu Jude: Aferim || period drama, black comedy, road movie, Romanian new wave
Rebecca Miller: Maggie's Plan || romantic comedy
Rick Alverson: Entertainment || road movie, psychological drama, black comedy
Robert Eggers: The Witch || psychological/supernatural/folk horror, period drama
Roberto Berliner: Nise || drama, biopic
Rosemary Myers: Girl Asleep || coming-of-age, comedy, surrealism/low fantasy
Ryusuke Hamaguchi: Happi Awa / Happy Hour || drama, slice of life
Sam De Jong: Prins / Prince || coming-of-age, drama, comedy, crime, romance
Santiago Mitre: La patota / Paulina || political drama
Sang-soo Hong: Jigeumeun Matgo Geuddaeneun Teullida / Right Now Wrong Then || romantic comedy, drama
Sean Baker: Tangerine || comedy, drama, LGBT/queer cinema, hood film, mumblecore
Sebastian Schipper: Victoria || drama, crime/heist film, romance
Shoojit Sircar: Piku || road movie, comedy, drama
Sion Sono: Riaru Onigokko / Tag || psychological thriller, black/horror comedy, satire, postmodernism/surrealism, action
Sion Sono: The Whispering Star || post-apocalyptic, sci-fi, slow cinema
Spike Lee: Chi-Raq || satire, hood film, drama, musical
Tim Blake Nelson: Anesthesia || melodrama
Todd Haynes: Carol || romance/LGBT, period drama
Tom McCarthy: Spotlight || drama, biopic
Trey Edward Shults: Krisha || psychological/family drama
Tsai Ming-liang: Afternoon || cinema verite/direct cinema, movie documentary, slow cinema
Yorgos Lanthimos: The Lobster || dystopian, black comedy/satire, drama, romance
2016
Ala Eddine Slim: The Last of Us || drama, survival, slow cinema, surrealism
Alejandro Jodorowsky: Poesia sin Fin / Endless Poetry || biopic, surrealism
Amat Escalante: La Region Salvaje / The Untamed || psychological horror, drama, mystery
Andrea Arnold: American Honey || road movie, drama, coming-of-age
Andrei Konchalovsky: Рай / Paradise || period drama, war
Andrzej Wajda: Powidoki / Afterimage || biopic/period drama
Anna Biller: The Love Witch || satire, supernatural horror, psychological drama, crime, erotic thriller, black comedy, romance, gothic
Anocha Suwichakornpong: By the Time It Gets Dark || drama, postmodernism/experimental, essay film
Argyris Papadimitropoulos: Suntan || psychological drama/thriller
Asghar Farhadi: Forushande / The Salesman || drama, mystery
Barry Jenkins: Moonlight || coming-of-age, drama, LGBT
Bertrand Bonello: Nocturama || crime, thriller, satire
Boo Junfeng: Apprentice || psychological drama
Chris Kraus: Die Blumen von gestern / The Flowers of Yesterday || comedy, romance, psychological drama
Claude Barras: Ma vie de courgette / My Life as a Zucchini || puppet animation, drama, comedy
Cristi Puiu: Sieranevada || family drama, Romanian new wave, black comedy, slice of life
Cristian Mungiu: Bacalaureat / Graduation || family drama, Romanian new wave, coming-of-age
Damien Chazelle: La La Land || musical, romance
Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert: Swiss Army Man || buddy, low fantasy, absurdist/black comedy, survival, drama
Dan Trachtenberg: 10 Cloverfield Lane || post-apocalyptic, thriller, mystery, survival
Eugene Green: Le Fils de Joseph / The Son of Joseph || drama, satire, religious film
Fernando Trueba: La reina de Espana / The Queen of Spain || comedy, drama
Gabriele Mainetti: Lo Chiamavano Jeeg Robot / They Call Me Jeeg Robot || superhero, crime, action, black comedy
Gary Ross: Free State of Jones || period drama, war
Gaston Solnicki: Kekszakallu || drama, new Argentine cinema, slow cinema
Hirokazu Kore-eda: After the Storm || family drama, slice of life
Ira Sachs: Little Men || coming-of-age, family drama
James Gray: The Lost City of Z || biopic/period drama, adventure
Jan Hrebejk: Učitelka / The Teacher || drama
Jeff Nichols: Midnight Special || sci-fi, thriller, mystery
Jim Jarmusch: Paterson || drama, slice of life
Joao Pedro Rodrigues: O ornitologo / The Ornithologist || adventure, mystery, magical realism/low fantasy, surrealism
Joel & Ethan Coen: Hail Caesar || comedy/satire, crime
Julia Ducournau: Grave / Raw || coming-of-age, cannibal/body horror, new French extremity
Kelly Reichardt: Certain Women || drama, slice of life, hyperlink cinema
Kenneth Lonergan: Manchester by the Sea || drama
Lav Diaz: Ang Babaeng Humayo / The Woman Who Left || drama, slow cinema
+ Maren Ade: Toni Erdmann || drama, comedy/satire
Matias Pineiro: Hermia and Helena || drama, new Argentine cinema
Maysaloun Hamoud: Bar Bahar / In Between || drama, LGBT
Meera Menon: Equity || drama, thriller
Mike Mills: 20th Century Women || coming-of-age, drama
Mira Nair: Queen of Katwe || biopic, sports
Na Hong-jin: The Wailing || mystery, supernatural horror
Nacho Vigalondo: Colossal || giant monster/low fantasy, drama
Night Shyamalan: Split || psychological thriller
Nitesh Tiwari: Dangal || sports, biopic, family drama
Olivier Assayas: Personal Shopper || psychological drama/thriller, mystery
Osgood Perkins: I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House || haunted house, psychological horror
Paolo Genovese: Perfetti sconosciuti / Perfect Strangers || drama, comedy
Park Chan-wook: The Handmaiden || erotic thriller, period drama, LGBT, drama, crime
Paul Verhoeven: Elle || psychological thriller/mystery, drama, black comedy/satire
Radu Jude: Inimi Cicatrizate / Scarred Hearts || biopic/period drama
Ralitza Petrova: Godless || drama
Sang-soo Hong: Yourself and Yours || drama, romance, comedy, mystery
Sean Ellis: Anthropoid || war, period drama
Shane Abbess: The Osiris Child || sci-fi/dystopian, action
Taika Waititi: Hunt for the Wilderpeople || comedy, buddy, adventure
Terence Davies: A Quiet Passion || biopic, period drama
Tom Ford: Nocturnal Animals || psychological thriller, drama
Travis Knight: Kubo and the Two Strings || puppet animation, adventure, fairy tale
Yeon Sang-ho: Train to Busan || zombie/horror, survival, action
Yoshinari Nishikori: Tatara Samurai || jidaigeki
2017
Aaron Katz: Gemini || neo-noir/mystery, thriller
Abbas Kiarostami: 24 Frames || essay/anthology/structural film
Abdellatif Kechiche: Mektoub My Love Canto Uno || romance, slice of life, drama, coming-of-age, slow cinema
Agnieszka Holland: Pokot / Spoor || crime, drama, mystery, thriller
Alan Rudolph: Ray Meets Helen || romance, drama
Alex Ross Perry: Golden Exits || drama
Alireza Khatami: Los Versos del Olvido / Oblivion Verses || drama, surrealism
Anahita Ghazvinizadeh: They || drama, coming-of-age, LGBT
Anders Walter: I Kill Giants || psychological drama, low fantasy
Andrea Pallaoro: Hannah || drama
Andrei Zvyagintsev: Nelyubov / Loveless || drama
Andrew Haigh: Lean on Pete || drama, road movie, coming-of-age
Angela Robinson: Professor Marston & the Wonder Women || biopic, psychological drama, romance, LGBT
Ann Hui: Our Time Will Come || war, period drama, action
Apolline Traore: Frontieres / Borders || drama
Armando Iannucci: The Death of Stalin || black comedy/satire, political drama
Arnaud Desplechin: Les Fantomes d'Ismael / Ismael's Ghosts || psychological drama, romance
Atsuko Hirayanagi: Oh Lucy || drama, comedy
Ben Russell: Good Luck || slow cinema, ethnographic film
Blake Williams: Prototype || experimental/structural film
Bong Joon-Ho: Okja || adventure, drama, sci-fi, black comedy/satire
Cate Shortland: Berlin Syndrome || psychological thriller/drama
Chloe Zhao: The Rider || drama, neo-western, sports, slice of life
Clio Barnard: Dark River || psychological drama
Coralie Fargeat: Revenge || exploitation, new French extremity, thriller, splatter
Craig Zahler: Brawl in Cell Block 99 || prison film, thriller, action
Damon Cardasis: Saturday Church || coming-of-age, drama, LGBT
Daniela Thomas: Vazante / The Surge || period drama
Dave McCary: Brigsby Bear || drama, black comedy
David Lowery: A Ghost Story || low fantasy/magical realism, drama, romance, slow cinema
Doug Liman: The Wall || war, psychological thriller
Edgar Wright: Baby Driver || heist film/crime, action/carsploitation, music, thriller, comedy, romance
Fatih Akin: Aus dem Nichts / In the Fade || drama
Felipe Barbosa: Gabriel e a montanha / Gabriel and the Mountain || docudrama, road movie/adventure
Francis Lee: God's Own Country || romance/LGBT, drama
Francois Ozon: L'Amant Double / Double Lover || psychological/erotic thriller, mystery
Frederick Wiseman: Ex Libris – The New York Public Library || direct cinema, art documentary
Greg Zglinski: Tiere / Animals || psychological drama, surrealism, mystery
Greta Gerwig: Lady Bird || coming-of-age/teen movie, drama, comedy, slice of life
Gurinder Chadha: Viceroy's House || period drama
Heinz Emigholz: Streetscapes [Dialogue] || experimental, biography documentary
Ivana Mladenovic: Soldatii - Poveste din Ferentari / Soldiers - A Story from Ferentari || LGBT/queer cinema, docudrama
Jean-Stephane Sauvaire: A Prayer Before Dawn || prison film, sports, biopic
Jim McKay: En el Septimo Dia || drama, sports
+ Joachim Trier: Thelma || psychological drama/thriller, low fantasy, coming-of-age, LGBT
Jonas Carpignano: A Ciambra || coming-of-age, drama, crime
Jordan Peele: Get Out || psychological horror, mystery, satire
Kantemir Balagov: Tesnota / Closeness || drama, romance, crime, coming-of-age
Kaouther Ben Hania: La Belle et la Meute / Beauty and the Dogs || drama, crime, thriller
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Before We Vanish || sci-fi/alien invasion, comedy, romance, thriller
Leonor Serraille: Jeunne Femme / Montparnasse Bienvenue || comedy, drama
Liu Jian: Have a Nice Day || animation, crime, neo-noir
Luca Guadagnino: Call Me by Your Name || romance/LGBT, coming-of-age, drama, slice of life
Lucrecia Martel: Zama || period drama
Lukas Feigelfeld: Hagazussa || psychological/folk horror, period drama
Mahmut Fazil Coskun: Anons / The Announcement || period drama, comedy
Martin McDonagh: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri || drama, black comedy, crime/vigilante
Matt Spicer: Ingrid Goes West || black comedy/satire, psychological drama
Michael Almereyda: Marjorie Prime || psychological/family drama, sci-fi/artificial intelligence
Michael Pearce: Beast || psychological drama/thriller, crime, romance, mystery
Miguel Arteta: Beatriz at Dinner || drama, satire
Noah Baumbach: The Meyerowitz Stories || family drama, comedy
Paul Schrader: First Reformed || psychological drama
Pedro Pinho: A fabrica de nada / The Nothing Factory || drama, satire
Philippe Garrel: L'Amant d'un Jour / Lover for a Day || drama, romance
Rachel Israel: Keep the Change || romantic comedy
Rainer Sarnet: November || fairy tale/magical realism, period drama, romance, black comedy
Richard Linklater: Last Flag Flying || road movie, drama, buddy
Ridley Scott: All the Money in the World || crime, period drama, thriller
Robin Campillo: 120 battements par minute / 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) || period/political drama, queer cinema/LGBT
Rungano Nyoni: I Am Not a Witch || drama, satire/black comedy
Sang-soo Hong: On the Beach at Night Alone || drama
Sang-soo Hong: The Day After || drama, romance
Scott Cooper: Hostiles || revisionist western, period drama
Sean Baker: The Florida Project || drama, slice of life
Sebastian Lelio: Una mujer fantastica / A Fantastic Woman || melodrama, queer cinema/LGBT
Sebastian Lelio: Disobedience || romance/LGBT, drama
Semih Kaplanoglu: Bugday / Grain || sci-fi/post-apocalyptic, surrealism
Sergei Loznitsa: A Gentle Creature || drama
Stephen Chbosky: Wonder || coming-of-age, family, drama
Steven Soderbergh: Logan Lucky || heist film/crime, comedy, family drama
Steven Spielberg: The Post || political/period drama
Susanna White: Woman Walks Ahead || biopic/period drama, western
Takashi Miike: Blade of the Immortal || chambara/martial arts, low fantasy, jidaigeki, splatter, crime/vigilante
Taylor Sheridan: Wind River || thriller, crime/police procedural
Teresa Villaverde: Colo || drama
Trey-Edward Shults: It Comes at Night || post-apocalyptic/epidemic/survival, psychological thriller
Valeska Grisebach: Western || drama, slice of life, slow cinema
Xavier Beauvois: Les Gardiennes / The Guardians || period drama
Xavier Legrand: Jusqu'a la Garde / Custody || family drama
2018
Adina Pintilie: Touch Me Not || docudrama, erotica, psychological, LGBT
Aleksei German: Dovlatov || biopic, slice of life
Alex Garland: Annihilation || sci-fi/cosmic horror, mystery, psychological thriller
Alex Ross Perry: Her Smell || psychological drama, music
Alexandre Franchi: Happy Face || docudrama
Alexandre Moratto: Sócrates || drama, coming-of-age, LGBT
Alfonso Cuaron: Roma || drama, slice of life
Ali Abbasi: Gräns / Border || psychological drama, low fantasy/magical realism, neo-noir
+ Alice Rohrwacher: Lazzaro Felice / Happy as Lazzaro || drama, magical realism/low fantasy
Alonso Ruizpalacios: Museo / Museum || heist film, drama
Ari Aster: Hereditary || supernatural/psychological horror, family drama, tragedy
Asghar Farhadi: Todos lo saben / Everybody Knows || drama
Ash Mayfair: Vo ba / The Third Wife || period drama, coming-of-age
Ava DuVernay: A Wrinkle in Time || fantasy/sci-fi, family, adventure
Benjamin Naishtat: Rojo || mystery, period drama, thriller
Bi Gan: Long Day's Journey Into Night || mystery/neo-noir, drama, romance, crime, slow cinema, surrealism
Bing Liu: Minding the Gap || documentary, cinema verite
Blitz Bazawule: The Burial of Kojo || thriller, fantasy, drama
Brady Corbet: Vox Lux || drama, music, satire
Bruno Dumont: Coincoin et les Z'Inhumains / CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans (TV)
Carolina Hellsgard: Endzeit / Ever After || horror/zombie, post-apocalyptic, drama
Christian Gudegast: Den of Thieves || heist film/crime, thriller, action
Christian Petzold: Transit || drama, war, romance, alternate history, Berlin school
Christophe Honore: Plaire, aimer et courir vite / Sorry Angel || drama, romance/LGBT
Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra: Pájaros de verano / Birds of Passage || crime, thriller, period drama
David Robert Mitchell: Under the Silver Lake || mystery/neo-noir, black comedy
Debra Granik: Leave No Trace || family drama, coming-of-age, survival
Drew Goddard: Bad Times at the El Royale || crime, thriller, neo-noir
Emir Baigazin: Ozen / The River || drama, slow cinema
Erik Poppe: Utoya 22. juli / U - July 22 || psychological thriller, period drama, crime
Eva Husson: Les filles du soleil / Girls of the Sun || drama, war
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck: Werk ohne Autor / Never Look Away || period drama, romance, war
Francis Lawrence: Red Sparrow || spy, psychological thriller, drama
Gustav Moller: The Guilty || thriller, neo-noir, police procedural
Henry Dunham: The Standoff at Sparrow Creek || thriller, mystery/whodunit
Hirokazu Kore-eda: Manbiki Kazoku / Shoplifters || family drama, slice of life, crime, coming-of-age
Hu Bo: An Elephant Sitting Still || drama, hyperlink cinema, slow cinema
Jacques Audiard: The Sisters Brothers || revisionist western, buddy, adventure, black comedy, drama
Jean-Luc Godard: Le livre d'image / The Image Book || found footage, essay film, political documentary, postmodernism, video art
Jennifer Kent: The Nightingale || period drama, exploitation, road movie, psychological horror
Jia Zhangke: Jiang hu er nv / Ash is Purest White || drama, romance, crime/gangster/triad film
Joel & Ethan Coen: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs || anthology film, western
Joel Potrykus: Relaxer || gross-out/black comedy, survival, low fantasy
John Krasinski: A Quiet Place || post-apocalyptic, horror/thriller, survival, alien invasion, family drama
John Maringouin: Ghostbox Cowboy || comedy, drama
Johnny Kevorkian: Await Further Instructions || psychological thriller, mystery, satire, sci-fi, psychological/body horror
Yoon Jong-bin: The Spy Gone North || spy, political thriller, period drama
Josephine Decker: Madeline's Madeline || psychological drama, coming-of-age, experimental, mumblecore, black comedy
Julia Hart: Fast Color || drama, sci-fi, thriller
Julian Schnabel: At Eternity's Gate || biopic, psychological drama
Karyn Kusama: Destroyer || thriller, crime, neo-noir, psychological drama, vigilante/police procedural
Kent Jones: Diane || slice of life, drama
Kim Bo-ra: House of Hummingbird || coming-of-age, drama, LGBT, slice of life
Kirill Serebrennikov: Summer || music, drama, biopic, romance, comedy
Kirill Sokolov: Why Don't You Just Die || black comedy, splatter/action, thriller, crime, drama
Laszlo Nemes: Napszallta / Sunset || mystery, period drama, psychological, political thriller
Laura Bispuri: Figlia mia / Daughter of Mine || drama
Lee Chang-dong: Beoning / Burning || mystery, psychological drama, thriller
Li Fangfang: Wu Wen Xi Dong / Forever Young || period drama, war
Lila Aviles: La Camarista / The Chambermaid || drama, slice of life
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: Une saison en France / A Season in France || drama
Malgorzata Szumowska: Twarz / Mug || drama, comedy
Mamoru Hosoda: Mirai || anime, family, low fantasy/time travel, comedy, coming-of-age
Mariano Llinas: La Flor / The Flower || anthology film, postmodernism
Matteo Garrone: Dogman || drama, crime
Mike Leigh: Peterloo || political/period drama, hyperlink cinema
Milorad Krstic: Ruben Brandt || computer animation, heist film, adventure, psychological drama/surrealism, comedy
Morgan Neville: Won't You Be My Neighbor? || biography documentary
Nadine Labaki: Capharnaüm / Capernaum || melodrama, coming-of-age, crime
Nia DaCosta: Little Woods || drama, crime
Nicole Holofcener: The Land of Steady Habits || drama, black comedy
Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Ahlat Agaci / The Wild Pear Tree || drama
Olivier Assayas: Doubles Vies / Non-Fiction || romantic comedy, drama
Panos Cosmatos: Mandy || vigilante, horror/splatter, surrealism
Patrick Wang: A Bread Factory || comedy/satire, drama
Pawel Pawlikowski: Zimna Wojna / Cold War || romance, period/political drama, music
Pema Tseden: Jinpa || drama, road movie, slow cinema
Pete Billington: Wolves in the Walls (short) || animation, low fantasy
Peter Jackson: They Shall Not Grow Old || war documentary
Peter Strickland: In Fabric || supernatural horror, black comedy, hyperlink cinema, surrealism
Philip Groning: Mein Bruder heißt Robert und ist ein Idiot / My Brother's Name Is Robert and He Is an Idiot || family drama
Phuttiphong Aroonpheng: Manta Ray || mystery, drama, magical realism
Radu Jude: Imi Este Indiferent Daca in Istorie vom Intra ca Barbari / I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians || political drama, Romanian new wave, satire
Rahi Anil Barve: Tumbbad || supernatural horror, fantasy, period drama
Rick Alverson: The Mountain || period drama, psychological, slow cinema
Roberto Minervini: What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire? || political documentary
Rodrigo Cortes: Down a Dark Hall || supernatural horror, fantasy, mystery
Ryusuke Hamaguchi: Asako I & II || drama, romance, coming-of-age, slice of life
Sebastian Silva: Tyrel || drama, mumblecore
Sheng Qiu: Suburban Birds || drama, coming-of-age, mystery
Sophie Lorain: Charlotte a du fun / Slut in a Good Way || teen movie/coming-of-age, romantic/sex comedy
Soudade Kaadan: The Day I Lost My Shadow || drama
Spike Lee: BlacKkKlansman || police procedural, biopic, comedy/satire
Stéphane Brizé: En guerre / At War || political drama
Steve McQueen: Widows || heist film, drama, thriller, neo-noir
Steven Soderbergh: Unsane || psychological horror/thriller, mystery
Susanna Fogel: The Spy Who Dumped Me || comedy, spy, buddy, action, thriller
Terry Gilliam: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote || adventure, comedy/satire, surrealism, buddy
Wes Anderson: Isle of Dogs || puppet animation, dystopian, adventure, comedy
Yeo Siew Hua: A Land Imagined || psychological drama, mystery/neo-noir
Yorgos Lanthimos: The Favourite || period/political drama, black comedy/satire, romance/LGBTQ
2019
Adam Egypt Mortimer: Daniel Isn't Real || psychological/supernatural horror, mystery, thriller
Adilkhan Yerzhanov: A Dark Dark Man || police procedural, thriller, black comedy
Agnieszka Holland: Mr. Jones || biopic, period/political drama, spy
Alice Waddington: Paradise Hills || sci-fi, psychological thriller, dystopian
Amjad Abu Alala: You Will Die at Twenty || drama, coming-of-age
Andrew Patterson: The Vast of Night || sci-fi/alien invasion, mystery, period drama
Angela Schanelec: Ich war zuhause, aber... / I Was at Home But || drama, Berlin school, slow cinema
Benny & Josh Safdie: Uncut Gems || thriller, crime/gangster film, drama, sports, black comedy
+ Bong Joon-Ho: Parasite || drama, black comedy/satire, thriller, crime
Bruno Dumont: Jeanne / Joan of Arc || period drama/medieval, biopic/alternate history, war
Celine Sciamma: Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu / Portrait of a Lady on Fire || period drama, romance/LGBT
Chinonye Chukwu: Clemency || drama, prison film
Coky Giedroyc: How to Build a Girl || comedy, drama, coming-of-age
Corneliu Porumboiu: La Gomera / The Whistlers || neo-noir, police procedural, hyperlink cinema, gangster film/crime
Damien Manivel: Les Enfants d'Isadora / Isadora's Children || drama
Daniel Grou / Podz: Mafia Inc || gangster film/crime, drama
Danielle Lessovitz: Port Authority || drama, romance/LGBT
Darius Marder: The Sound of Metal || psychological drama, music
David Perrault: L'Etat Sauvage / Savage State || period drama, adventure/road movie, romance
Deon Taylor: Black and Blue || crime/hood film, thriller/action
Diao Yinan: Nan Fang Che Zhan de Ju Hui / The Wild Goose Lake || neo-noir, crime/triad/gangster film, thriller, police procedural
Ferzan Ozpetek: La Dea Fortuna / The Goddess of Fortune || drama, LGBT, comedy
Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia: El hoyo / The Platform || dystopian, prison film, psychological thriller/horror, satire, cannibal, survival
Heather Young: Murmur || drama
Ina Weisse: Das Vorspiel / The Audition || music, drama
James Mangold: Le Mans '66 / Ford v Ferrari || sports, biopic, buddy
Jayro Bustamante: La Llorona || political drama, haunted house/psychological/folk horror
Jeremy Clapin: I Lost My Body || animation, drama, low fantasy, coming-of-age, adventure
Jim Jarmusch: The Dead Don't Die || zombie, black comedy/satire
Joanna Hogg: The Souvenir || drama, romance, slice of life, coming-of-age
Joe Talbot: The Last Black Man in San Francisco || drama, buddy, hood film, slice of life
Jonathan Levine: Long Shot || romantic comedy, satire
Jordan Peele: Us || psychological thriller, slasher, home invasion, mystery, black comedy
Josh Lobo: I Trapped the Devil || psychological/supernatural horror
Julius Onah: Luce || family/psychological drama, mystery, thriller
Jung-bum Park: Height of the Wave || drama
Kantemir Balagov: Dilda / Beanpole || period/psychological drama
Karim Ainouz: A vida invisível / Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao || melodrama, period, psychological, family drama
Kazik Radwanski: Anne at 13,000 ft || psychological drama, slice of life
Kelly Reichardt: First Cow || period drama, revisionist western, buddy
Ken Loach: Sorry We Missed You || family drama
Kenji Iwaisawa: On-Gaku - Our Sound || anime, music, comedy, buddy, coming-of-age, slice of life
Kirill Mikhanovsky: Give Me Liberty || slice of life, comedy, drama, romance, hood film
Kitty Green: The Assistant || psychological drama, slice of life
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: To the Ends of the Earth || psychological drama, road movie, black comedy
Kleber Mendonca Filho & Juliano Dornelles: Bacurau || satire/black comedy, thriller, acid western, dystopian
Ladj Ly: Les Miserables || hood film, drama, thriller, police procedural/crime
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese: This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection || drama, religious film
Lorcan Finnegan: Vivarium || sci-fi, mystery, satire/black comedy, psychological horror/surrealism
Lou Ye: Xin da Juyuan / Saturday Fiction || period drama, spy, action
Luc Besson: Anna || spy, thriller/action
Lynn Shelton: Sword of Trust || comedy
Malgorzata Szumowska: The Other Lamb || coming-of-age, psychological drama, horror/thriller
Mamadou Dia: Baamum Nafi / Nafi's Father || drama
Maria Sodahl: Håp / Hope || family drama, romance
Mark Jenkin: Bait || drama
Mati Diop: Atlantique / Atlantics || drama, low fantasy, romance, mystery, police procedural
Mehdi Barsaoui: Un Fils / A Son || drama
Melina Leon: Canción sin nombre / Song Without a Name || period/political drama, LBGT, mystery
Melina Matsoukas: Queen & Slim || road movie, drama, romance/buddy, crime
Minhal Baig: Hala || drama, coming-of-age
Nadav Lapid: Synonymes / Synonyms || drama, satire
Nicolas Winding Refn: Too Old to Die Young (TV) || neo-noir, crime, drama, satire, thriller
Noah Baumbach: Marriage Story || drama
Olivia Wilde: Booksmart || teen movie/coming-of-age, comedy, buddy
Oualid Mouaness: 1982 || drama, war, coming-of-age
Pablo Larrain: Ema || psychological drama, dance film, LGBT
Paolo Sorrentino: The New Pope (TV) || biopic, period drama
Pedro Costa: Vitalina Varela || slow cinema, drama, ethnofiction/docudrama
Pietro Marcello: Martin Eden || period/political drama, romance
Quentin Dupieux: Le daim / Deerskin || absurdist/black comedy, crime, slasher, psychological drama
Quentin Tarantino: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood || period drama/alternate history, black comedy, buddy, slice of life
Rian Johnson: Knives Out || whodunit/mystery, black comedy/satire, family drama
Ritesh Batra: Photograph || drama, romance
Robert Eggers: The Lighthouse || psychological thriller/horror, surrealism, period drama, mystery, black comedy
Rodd Rathjen: Buoyancy || drama, crime, thriller
Rodrigo Sorogoyen: Madre || psychological drama/thriller
Rose Glass: Saint Maud || psychological drama/horror, religious film
Saeed Roustaee: Just 6.5 || drama, police procedural/crime, thriller, prison film
Sam Mendes: 1917 || period drama, war, adventure, thriller/action
Sasie Sealy: Lucky Grandma || black comedy, crime
Shahad Ameen: Scales || drama, low fantasy, fable
Shannon Murphy: Babyteeth || melodrama, romance, coming-of-age, music
Shatara Michelle Ford: Test Pattern || psychological drama, romance
Simon Curtis: The Art of Racing in the Rain || drama
Stephen Merchant: Fighting with My Family || biopic, sports, comedy, family drama
Steven Soderbergh: The Laundromat || hyperlink cinema, crime, drama, black comedy/satire
Taika Waititi: Jojo Rabbit || coming-of-age, satire/comedy, period drama, war
Tayarisha Poe: Selah and the Spades || coming-of-age
Terrence Malick: A Hidden Life || period drama/biopic
Te-yin "Midi Z" Chao: Zhuo Ren Mi Mi / Nina Wu || psychological drama/thriller
Theo Court: Blanco en blanco / White on White || period drama, revisionist western, slow cinema
Todd Haynes: Dark Waters || legal/political drama, biopic
Tom Harper: The Aeronauts || adventure, period drama/biopic, buddy, survival
Tran Thanh Huy: Rom || drama, crime, thriller
Trey Edward Shults: Waves || coming-of-age, family drama/melodrama
Tyler Cornack: Butt Boy || gross-out/black comedy, neo-noir/psychological thriller, low fantasy, parody
Vaclav Marhoul: Nabarvene Ptace / The Painted Bird || period/psychological drama, war, coming-of-age
Valentyn Vasyanovych: Atlantis || war, psychological drama, slow cinema, post-apocalyptic
Wang Xiaoshuai: So Long, My Son || family/period drama, slice of life
Xavier Dolan: Matthias & Maxime || drama, LGBT, buddy, comedy
Yonfan: No. 7 Cherry Lane || animation, period drama, romance
2020
Agnieszka Holland: Šarlatán / Charlatan || biopic/period, legal/political drama, LGBT
Ahmad Bahrami: Dashte Khamoush / The Wasteland || drama, slow cinema
Alexis Gambis: Hijo de monarcas / Son of Monarchs || psychological drama
+ Anders Thomas Jensen: Retfaerdighedens Ryttere / Riders of Justice || vigilante/crime, drama, black comedy, action/thriller
Andrei Konchalovsky: Dorogie Tovarishchi / Dear Comrades || period/political drama
Azazel Jacobs: French Exit || black comedy, drama, low fantasy
Bassam Tariq: Mogul Mowgli || psychological/family drama, music, magical realism
Burhan Qurbani: Berlin Alexanderplatz || crime, psychological drama, romance
C.W. Winter & Anders Edstrom: The Works and Days of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin || docufiction, slice of life, experimental, slow cinema
Catarina Vasconcelos: A metamorfose dos pássaros / The Metamorphosis of Birds || essay/diary film, docudrama, coming-of-age, magical realism
Chaitanya Tamhane: The Disciple || psychological drama, music, slice of life
Charlie Kaufman: I'm Thinking of Ending Things || surrealism/postmodernism, psychological drama/horror/thriller
Chloe Zhao: Nomadland || slice of life, road movie, drama
Christian Petzold: Undine || romance, drama, Berlin school
Christopher Munch: The 11th Green || sci-fi, drama
Cooper Raiff: Shithouse || drama, coming-of-age/teen movie
Craig Zobel: The Hunt || satire/black comedy, action/splatter, thriller, survival
Cristi Puiu: Malmkrog / Manor House || period drama, slow cinema
David Bruckner: The Night House || psychological horror/haunted house, mystery/thriller, drama
Dea Kulumbegashvili: Beginning || drama, slow cinema
Edson Oda: Nine Days || psychological drama, low fantasy, postmodernism
Egor Abramenko: Sputnik || sci-fi, thriller, body/psychological horror
Eliza Hittman: Never Rarely Sometimes Always || drama, coming-of-age, slice of life, road movie
Emma Dante: Le sorelle Macaluso / The Macaluso Sisters || drama
Ephraim Asili: The Inheritance || political drama, docudrama
Faraz Shariat: Futur Drei / No Hard Feelings || romance/LGBT, drama
Fernanda Veladez: Sin Senas Particulares / Identifying Features || drama, mystery
Filip Jan Rymsza: Mosquito State || satire, psychological drama
Florian Zeller: The Father || psychological/family drama
Francis Lee: Ammonite || period drama, romance/LGBT, biopic
Ilya Khrzhanovsky: DAU Degeneratsiya / DAU Degeneration || psychological thriller, period drama/alternate history
Ivan Ostrochovsky: Sluzobnici / Servants || period drama, political thriller, crime
Janicza Bravo: Zola || crime, black comedy, drama, road movie, buddy, biopic
Jasmila Zbanic: Quo Vadis, Aida? || war, period/political drama
Joao Paulo Miranda Mari: Casa de Antiguidades / Memory House || drama, surrealism, low fantasy
Joe DeNardo & Paul Felten: Slow Machine || psychological drama/thriller
Johann Johannsson: Last and First Men || sci-fi, essay film, post-apocalyptic, slow cinema
Josephine Decker: Shirley || psychological drama, biopic, LGBT
Kaveh Mazaheri: Botox || thriller, drama
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Supai no Tsuma / Wife of a Spy || period drama, spy/political thriller
Kornel Mundruczo: Pieces of a Woman || drama
Lav Diaz: Lahi Hayop / Genus Pan || political, psychological drama, slow cinema
Lawrence Michael Levine: Black Bear || psychological drama, postmodernism
Lee Isaac Chung: Minari || family/period drama, slice of life
Lili Horvat: Felkészülés meghatározatlan ideig tartó együttlétre / Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time || psychological drama, romance
Liz Garbus: Lost Girls || mystery, thriller, biopic, crime/police procedural
Lois Patino: Lua Vermella / Red Moon Tide || low fantasy, slow cinema, mystery
Maite Alberdi: El agente topo / The Mole Agent || docudrama, spy, comedy, direct cinema
Majid Majidi: Khorshid / Sun Children || drama, crime, coming-of-age, slice of life
Matias Pineiro: Isabella || drama, mystery
Max Barbakow: Palm Springs || romantic comedy, low fantasy/sci-fi/time travel
Michael Almereyda: Tesla || biopic
Michel Franco: Nuevo Orden / New Order || dystopian, political thriller
Miranda July: Kajillionaire || family drama, crime, comedy
Mohammad Rasoulof: There Is No Evil || anthology film, political/psychological drama
Natalia Meta: El prófugo / The Intruder || psychological thriller, supernatural horror
Nicolas Pereda: Fauna || drama, slow cinema, black comedy
Pete Docter & Kemp Powers: Soul || computer animation, low fantasy, family, comedy, music, buddy
Philippe Garrel: Le sel des larmes / The Salt of Tears || drama, romance
Radha Blank: The 40-Year-Old Version || drama, comedy, music
Radu Jude: Tipografic majuscul / Uppercase Print || political drama, compilation documentary/docudrama, essay film
Regina King: One Night in Miami || period drama/biopic/alternate history
Robert Machoian: The Killing of Two Lovers || psychological thriller, family drama
Romola Garai: Amulet || horror
Ruslan Pak: Tri / Three || crime, thriller, mystery
Sandra Wollner: The Trouble with Being Born || sci-fi, psychological drama
Sion Sono: Red Post on Escher Street || drama, comedy/satire, hyperlink cinema, postmodernism
Srdan Golubovic: Father || drama, road movie
Steve McQueen: Mangrove || legal/political drama, period/biopic
Tsai Ming-liang: Days || slow cinema, slice of life, LGBT
Viggo Mortensen: Falling || family drama, LGBT
Yoon Sung-hyun: Sa-nyang-eui-si-gan / Time to Hunt || dystopian, thriller/action, heist film
Yujiro Harumoto: A Balance || drama
2021
Aaron Wilson: Little Tornadoes || period drama
Abel Ferrara: Zeros and Ones || thriller/neo-noir, crime, psychological drama, experimental
Adam McKay: Don't Look Up || satire/black comedy, disaster/sci-fi, political drama
Ainsley Gardiner & Briar Grace Smith: Cousins || drama
Alexandre Moratto: 7 Prisioneiros / Prisoners || drama, crime, psychological thriller, prison film
Alice Diop: Nous / We || documentary, essay film
Amalia Ulman: El Planeta || drama, slice of life, comedy
Ana Katz: El perro que no calla / The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet || drama, black comedy, slice of life
Andreas Fontana: Azor || period/political drama, mystery, thriller
Antoneta Kusijanovic: Murina || coming-of-age, family/psychological drama
Aparna Sen: The Rapist || drama
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Memoria || slow cinema, psychological drama, mystery, magical realism
Arthur Harari: Onoda - 10,000 Nights in the Jungle || survival, war, biopic, psychological drama
Asghar Farhadi: A Hero || legal drama
Audrey Diwan: L' événement / Happening || drama, coming-of-age
Ben Wheatley: In the Earth || sci-fi, horror
Benjamin Cleary: Swan Song || sci-fi, psychological drama
Blerta Basholli: Zgjoi / Hive || biopic, drama
Brillante Ma Mendoza: Gensan Punch || sports, drama
Celine Sciamma: Petite Maman || family drama, magical realism, coming-of-age
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet: Les amours d'Anais / Anais in Love || drama, romance/LGBT
Charlotte Colbert: She Will || psychological horror, exploitation
Christopher Makoto Yogi: I Was a Simple Man || drama
Clint Bentley: Jockey || family drama, sports
Dash Shaw: Cryptozoo || cutout animation, adventure, low fantasy, surrealism, psychological drama
Dean Camp: Marcel the Shell With Shoes On || stop-motion/live-action animation, mockumentary/comedy, family drama, low fantasy
Denes Nagy: Természetes fény / Natural Light || war, period/psychological drama
Denis Cote: Hygiène sociale / Social Hygiene || comedy, surrealism/experimental
Dina Amer: Tu me Ressembles / You Resemble Me || drama
Eli King: The Lady of Heaven || religious film, period drama
Ellie Foumbi: Mon père, le Diable / Our Father the Devil || thriller
Eric Grave: A Plein Temps / Full Time || drama, thriller
Fran Kranz: Mass || drama
Gaspar Noe: Vortex || psychological drama, slice of life, experimental
Gonzalo Calzada: Nocturna || psychological drama
Haider Rashid: Europa || drama
Iuli Gerbase: A nuvem rosa / The Pink Cloud || sci-fi, psychological drama, mystery, dystopian, satire
Jake Wachtel: Karmalink || sci-fi, drama, mystery
Jakrawal Nilthamrong: Anatomy of Time || political/period drama, slow cinema
James Ashcroft: Coming Home in the Dark || thriller, road movie, psychological horror
James Vaughan: Friends and Strangers || drama, comedy/satire
Jane Campion: The Power of the Dog || psychological drama, period, revisionist western, LGBT
Jane Schoenbrun: We're All Going to the World's Fair || psychological drama, digital horror
Jean Luc Herbulot: Saloum || thriller, neo-western, supernatural horror, crime
Jerrod Carmichael: On the Count of Three || black comedy, buddy, crime, drama
Joanna Hogg: The Souvenir Part II || drama, postmodernism/surrealism, slice of life
Jonas Poher Rasmussen: Flugt / Flee || animation, docudrama, biography documentary, LGBT, coming-of-age
Josh Greenbaum: Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar || absurdist comedy, buddy
Juho Kuosmanen: Hytti nro 6 / Compartment No. 6 || road movie, drama, romance, buddy
Julia Ducournau: Titane || body horror, new French extremity, psychological drama, LGBT, crime, magical realism/surrealism, black comedy
Kenneth Branagh: Belfast || coming-of-age, period/family drama, slice of life, comedy, war
Khadar Ahmed: The Gravedigger's Wife || drama
Kim Se-in: The Apartment with Two Women || family drama
Kira Kovalenko: Unclenching the Fists || family drama, coming-of-age
Kogonada: After Yang || family/psychological drama, artificial intelligence/sci-fi
Laura Samani: Piccolo Corpo / Small Body || period drama, adventure, low fantasy
Laura Wandel: Un Monde / Playground || drama
Lauren Hadaway: The Novice || psychological drama, sports, LGBT
Le Bao: Vi / Taste || slow cinema, drama
Leonardo DiCostanzo: Ariaferma / The Inner Cage || drama, prison film
Lorenzo Vigas: La Caja / The Box || drama, crime, coming-of-age
Lyle Mitchell Corbine: Wild Indian || drama, crime
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: Lingui || family drama, coming-of-age
Mamoru Hosoda: Belle || anime/computer animation, virtual reality, music, coming-of-age, melodrama
Maria Schrader: Ich bin dein Mensch / I'm Your Man || sci-fi/artificial intelligence, romantic comedy, drama
Mathieu Amalric: Serre-moi fort / Hold Me Tight || psychological drama
Michael Sarnoski: Pig || drama
Nadav Lapid: Ahed's Knee || political/psychological drama, satire
Omar El Zohairi: Feathers || black comedy, drama, slow cinema
Panah Panahi: Jaddeh Khaki / Hit the Road || road movie, family drama, comedy
Paolo Sorrentino: E` stata la mano di Dio / The Hand of God || coming-of-age, drama
Paul Schrader: The Card Counter || psychological drama/thriller
Pedro Almodovar: Madres Paralelas / Parallel Mothers || family drama, romance, LGBT, melodrama
+ Phil Tippett: Mad God || stop-motion/live-action animation, body/sadistic horror, post-apocalyptic/dystopian, surrealism, adventure
Radu Muntean: Intregalde || drama, road movie, psychological thriller, Romanian new wave
Ramon & Silvan Zuercher: Das Maedchen und die Spinne / The Girl and the Spider || drama, slice of life, black comedy
Rebecca Hall: Passing || period/family drama, melodrama, film noir
Ruth Paxton: A Banquet || supernatural horror, psychological drama
Ryusuke Hamaguchi: Doraibu Mai Ka / Drive My Car || drama, road movie
Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman: Neptune Frost || musical, cyberpunk
Semih Kaplanoglu: Bağlılık Hasan / Commitment Hasan || psychological drama, slow cinema
Shaka King: Judas and the Black Messiah || biopic, political/period drama, thriller/spy
Sian Heder: Coda || family drama, coming-of-age, comedy, music, romance
Simon Stone: The Dig || period drama/biopic, war, romance
S.K. Dale: Till Death || home invasion, survival
Stephen Karam: The Humans || family/psychological drama, horror, slice of life
Steven Soderbergh: No Sudden Move || heist film/crime, period drama, neo-noir
Tatiano Huezo: Noche de fuego / Prayers for the Stolen || drama, coming-of-age, slice of life
Teodora Ana Mihai: La Civil || drama, crime
Theo Anthony: All Light Everywhere || essay film, science/crime documentary, postmodernism
Thomas Daneskov: Vildmænd / Wild Men || crime, drama, black comedy, police procedural
TJ Gnanavel: Jai Bhim || legal drama, biopic
Tom McCarthy: Stillwater || drama, mystery/thriller, romance, crime
Travis Taute: Indemnity || action, crime, thriller
Valdimar Johannsson: Dýrið / Lamb || magical realism, family drama, supernatural/folk horror, slow cinema, surrealism
Valentyn Vasyanovych: Reflection || war, slow cinema, psychological drama
Vincent Le Port: Bruno Reidal, confession d'un meurtrier / Confession of a Murderer || crime, biopic
Wang Qi: The Bargain || crime, family drama
Xavier Giannoli: Illusions Perdues / Lost Illusions || period drama, satire
Zhang Lu: Yanagawa || drama, romance
2022
Abi Damaris Corbin: 892 / Breaking || thriller, biopic, psychological drama, crime
Adamma Ebo: Honk for Jesus - Save Your Soul || mockumentary/comedy/satire
Addison Heimann: Hypochondriac || body/psychological horror, LGBT
Agnieszka Smoczynska: The Silent Twins || biopic, stop-motion, music
Alain Guiraudie: Viens je t'emmène / Nobody's Hero || drama,
Albert Serra: Pacifiction || political drama, slow cinema, satire
Alberto Vazquez: Unicorn Wars || animation, fable/fantasy, war, psychological drama/horror, satire
Alejandro Loayza Grisi: Utama || drama
Alessandro Comodin: Gigi la Legge / The Adventures of Gigi the Law || docudrama
Alexander Sokurov: Skazka / Fairytale || experimental, essay film, animation, found footage, surrealism
Alice Diop: Saint Omer || legal drama
Alli Haapasalo: Tytöt tytöt tytöt / Girl Picture || drama, romance, coming-of-age, LGBT, slice of life
Andrew Cumming: The Origin / Out of Darkness || horror/thriller, survival, prehistoric
Andrew Semans: Resurrection || psychological thriller/drama/horror, mystery
Ann Oren: Piaffe || psychological drama, magical realism, erotica, LGBT
Anthony Hayes: Gold || survival, post-apocalyptic, psychological thriller, road movie, drama, disaster
Carla Simon: Alcarràs || family drama, slice of life
Carolina Cavalli: Amanda || comedy, family drama
Charlotte Vandermeersch & Felix Van Groeningen: Le Otto Montagne / The Eight Mountains || drama, buddy, coming-of-age
Charlotte Wells: Aftersun || family drama, slice of life, coming-of-age
Chie Hayakawa: Plan 75 || drama, hyperlink cinema, dystopian, slow cinema
Chinonye Chukwu: Till || biopic, period/legal drama
Chloe Okuno: Watcher || psychological thriller/horror/drama, mystery
Christian Tafdrup: Gæsterne / Speak No Evil || psychological thriller/drama, satire
Clement Virgo: Brother || drama
Colin West: Linoleum || psychological drama, surrealism
Colm Bairead: An Cailín Ciúin / The Quiet Girl || family/period drama, slice of life
Cooper Raiff: Cha Cha Real Smooth || drama, romance, coming-of-age, comedy
Cyril Schaublin: Unrueh / Unrest || political/period drama
Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan: Everything Everywhere All at Once || absurdist comedy, fantasy/sci-fi, family drama, action, postmodernism
Danny & Michael Philippou: Talk to Me || supernatural/psychological horror, teen movie, thriller
David Cronenberg: Crimes of the Future || body horror, drama, tech-noir, sci-fi
David Wagner: Eismayer || drama, biopic, LGBT, romance
Dominik Moll: La nuit du 12 / The Night of the 12th || police procedural, drama, mystery
Dong-hoon Choi: Oegye+in 1bu / Alienoid || comedy, fantasy, sci-fi/extraterrestrial, action
Emily Atef: Plus que jamais / More Than Ever || drama
Emin Alper: Kurak Gunler / Burning Days || psychological drama, political thriller, mystery, crime, LGBT
Fukada Koji: Love Life || family drama
Fyzal Boulifa: Les damnés ne pleurent pas / The Damned Don’t Cry || drama
Gabriel Martins: Marte Um / Mars One || family drama, coming-of-age, slice of life
Georgia Oakley: Blue Jean || LGBT, period drama
Gina Gammell & Riley Keough: War Pony || drama, crime, coming-of-age
Goran Stolevski: You Won't Be Alone || folk/supernatural horror, magical realism, period drama
Hannah Marks: Don't Make Me Go || family drama, road movie
Hlynur Palmason: Godland || period drama, slow cinema, adventure, religious
Houman Seyidi: Jang-e Jahani Sevom / World War III || drama
Jafar Panahi: No Bears || docudrama, postmodernism
James Gray: Armageddon Time || coming-of-age, period drama
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne: Tori and Lokita || drama, crime, thriller, coming-of-age
Jeffrey Tremaine: Jackass Forever || reality film, slapstick, gross-out/sketch comedy
Joanna Hogg: The Eternal Daughter || gothic, psychological drama, slice of life
John Patton Ford: Emily the Criminal || crime, drama, thriller
Josephine Decker: The Sky Is Everywhere || coming-of-age, drama, romance
Juan Pablo Gonzalez: Dos Estaciones || drama, slow cinema
Julian Higgins: God's Country || drama, thriller, neo-western
Kurdwin Ayub: Sonne || drama, coming-of-age
Kyle Edward Ball: Skinamarink || experimental, analog horror, supernatural/haunted house
+ Laura Citarella: Trenque Lauquen || drama, mystery, romance, magical realism, hyperlink cinema
Leonor Serraille: Un petit frère / Mother and Son || family drama
Li Ruijun: Yon ru Chenyan / Return to Dust || drama
Lotfy Nathan: Harka || drama, psychological thriller
Luca Guadagnino: Bones and All || road movie, cannibal, romance, coming-of-age, drama
Lukas Dhont: Close || coming-of-age, drama, LGBT
Manuela Martelli: Chile '76 / 1976 || period drama, political thriller
Marie Kreutzer: Corsage || biopic/period drama/alternate history
Martika Ramirez Escobar: Leonor Will Never Die || postmodernism, drama, comedy
Martin McDonagh: The Banshees of Inisherin || black comedy, period drama, psychological drama
Martine Syms: The African Desperate || comedy/satire, coming-of-age, surrealism/postmodernism, slice of life, LGBT
Mary Nighy: Alice Darling || psychological drama/thriller, mystery
Maryam Touzani: The Blue Caftan || LGBT, family drama
Matthew Warchus: Matilda: the Musical || musical, comedy, family, low fantasy, coming-of-age
Max Walker-Silverman: A Love Song || slice of life, drama, romance
Mayim Bialik: As They Made Us || family drama
Mia Hansen-Love: Un beau matin / One Fine Morning || romance, family drama
Michelle Garza Cervera: Huesera - The Bone Woman || body/psychological/supernatural horror, family drama, LGBT
Mimi Cave: Fresh || cannibal, thriller
Mitra Farahani: À vendredi / See You Friday, Robinson || documentary
Nikyatu Jusu: Nanny || psychological drama/horror, surrealism
Owen Kline: Funny Pages || black comedy, coming-of-age, family drama, mumblecore
Panos Koutras: Dodo || comedy
Park Chan-Wook: Haeojil Gyeolsim / Decision to Leave || romance, neo-noir, police procedural, mystery
Peter Strickland: Flux Gourmet || black comedy/satire, drama, food
Robbie Banfitch: The Outwaters || found footage, surrealism, cosmic horror, experimental/abstract film
Saeed Roustayi: Leila’s Brothers || family drama
Sanjay Leela Bhansali: Gangubai Kathiawadi || biopic/period drama, crime
Sarah Polley: Women Talking || drama, religious film
Sebastian Lelio: The Wonder || period/psychological drama
Sebastien Marnier: L' origine du mal / The Origin of Evil || psychological thriller/drama, satire/black comedy
Sophie Hyde: Good Luck to You Leo Grande || drama
Steven Soderbergh: Kimi || thriller, mystery
Tarik Saleh: Boy from Heaven || political thriller, drama, spy, religious film
Thomas Salvador: La montagne / The Mountain || low fantasy, slice of life
Ti West: X || slasher, hixploitation, sexploitation/erotic thriller, southern gothic
Todd Field: Tar || psychological drama, music
Ulrich Seidl: Rimini || drama, black comedy, music
Welby Ings: Punch || drama, sports, LGBT
Zach Cregger: Barbarian || horror, thriller, satire, black comedy
Zachary Wigon: Sanctuary || drama, erotic thriller, romance, black comedy
2023
Adele Lim: Joy Ride || road movie, comedy, buddy, drama
Agnieszka Holland: Zielona Granica / The Green Border || political drama, hyperlink cinema
Ali Ahmadzadeh: Mantagheye bohrani / Critical Zone || drugsploitation, black comedy, experimental, slow cinema
Alice Troughton: The Lesson || psychological thriller, family drama
Amjad Al Rasheed: Inshallah a Boy || family drama
Andrew Haigh: All of Us Strangers || psychological drama, low fantasy, LGBT, romance
Angela Schanelec: Music || drama, music, slow cinema
Anna Kendrick: Woman of the Hour || period drama
Babak Jalali: Fremont || drama, slice of life, comedy, mumblecore, road movie, romance
Benjamin Caron: Sharper || hyperlink cinema, crime, thriller
Benoit Chieux: Sirocco et le royaume des courants d'air / Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds || animation, fantasy, surrealism, adventure
Bertrand Bonello: La Bete / The Beast || sci-fi, romance, psychological drama, period, thriller
Bradley Cooper: Maestro || biopic, music, romance, LGBT, melodrama
Byun Sung-hyun: Kill Boksoon || thriller, martial arts/action, crime, black comedy, LGBT, family drama
Celine Song: Past Lives || drama, romance
Chang-hoon Kim: Hwaran / Hopeless || drama, crime
Charlie Day: Fool’s Paradise || comedy/satire
Christos Nikou: Fingernails || drama, romance, sci-fi, black comedy
Cord Jefferson: American Fiction || comedy/satire, family drama
Daina Oniunas-Pusic: Tuesday || magical realism, coming-of-age, family drama
Emily Atef: Irgendwann Werden wir uns alles Erzaehlen / Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything || period drama, romance
Gareth Edwards: The Creator || artificial intelligence, cyberpunk/tech-noir, war, thriller
Giacomo Abbruzzese: Disco Boy || drama, surrealism/magical realism/psychological
Goran Stolevski: Housekeeping for Beginners || family drama, LGBT
Greg Kwedar: Sing Sing || prison film, drama
Ilger Catak: The Teacher's Lounge || drama
Ilya Povolotsky: Grace || road movie, slow cinema
Jason Yu: Sleep || psychological thriller, horror comedy, supernatural, family drama
Jayant Digambar Somalkar: Sthal / A Match || drama
Jeff Nichols: The Bikeriders || period drama, romance, crime
Joanna Arnow: The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed || sex comedy
JT Mollner: Strange Darling || erotic thriller, crime, black comedy
Julio Torres: Problemista || absurdist comedy
Just Philippot: Acide / Acid || disaster
Justine Triet: Anatomie d'une Chute / Anatomy of a Fall || legal drama, psychological, mystery/police procedural
Kanu Behl: Agra || psychological drama
Karan Tejpal: Stolen || drama, thriller
Kenya Barris: You People || romantic comedy, family drama
Kleber Mendonca Filho: Retratos Fantasmas / Pictures of Ghosts || movie documentary, essay film, docudrama
Lisandro Alonso: Eureka || drama, western, low fantasy, slow cinema
Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir: Ser Ser Salhi / City of Wind || drama
Luna Carmoon: Hoard || psychological drama
Martin Scorsese: Killers of the Flower Moon || period drama/revisionist western, crime, biopic
Michel Franco: Memory || drama, romance
Milad Alami: Motstandaran / Opponent || psychological drama
Mohamed Ben Attia: Oura El Jbel / Behind the Mountains || drama
Moin Hussain: Sky Peals || sci-fi
Nida Manzoor: Polite Society || comedy, family drama, martial arts, coming-of-age, heist film
Noora Niasari: Shayda || drama
Pham Thien An: Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell || slow cinema, drama, road movie, religious, psychological/magical realism
Paola Cortellesi: C'è ancora domani / There's Still Tomorrow || period/family drama, Italian neorealism
Quentin Dupieux: Yannick || black comedy/satire, chamber film, crime, postmodernism
Quentin Dupieux: Daaaaaali! || surrealism/postmodernism, absurdist comedy, biopic, satire
+ Radu Jude: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World || satire/black comedy, postmodernism, Romanian new wave, essay film, slice of life, road movie
Raine Allen-Miller: Rye Lane || romantic comedy, slice of life
Raven Jackson: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt || drama, coming-of-age, slow cinema
Robert Morgan: Stopmotion || psychological horror, stopmotion/puppet animation
Robin Campillo: L'ile rouge / Red Island || drama, coming-of-age
Rodrigo Moreno: Los Delincuentes / The Delinquents || crime/heist film, drama, comedy, romance, slow cinema
Ryusuke Hamaguchi: Aku Wa Sonzai Shinai / Evil Does Not Exist || drama, slice of life, slow cinema, mystery
Soda Jerk: Hello Dankness || political documentary, clip collage, comedy
Stefan Arsenijevic: Strahinja Banovic / As Far as I Can Walk || drama
Stephane Brize': Hors-Saison || drama, romance
Thea Sharrock: Wicked Little Letters || black comedy, mystery, period drama, police procedural
Thomas Cailley: The Animal Kingdom || family drama, epidemic, sci-fi/low fantasy, coming-of-age, body horror, comedy
Tina Satter: Reality || crime, biopic/docudrama, police procedural, psychological, political drama
Tom Hardiman: Medusa Deluxe || mystery/whodunit, black comedy, psychological drama
Tommaso Santambrogio: Los Oceanos Son Los Verdaderos Continentes / The Oceans Are the Real Continents || drama
Um Tae-hwa: Concrete Utopia || disaster, post-apocalyptic, drama, satire
Victor Iriarte: Sobre Todo De Noche / Foremost by Night || drama
Viggo Mortensen: The Dead Don’t Hurt || western
Wes Anderson: Asteroid City || postmodernism, comedy/satire, extraterrestrial
William Oldroyd: Eileen || psychological thriller/drama, neo-noir, period, LGBT
Yorgos Lanthimos: Poor Things || black comedy/satire, steampunk/sci-fi, low fantasy, coming-of-age
Zarrar Kahn: In Flames || psychological thriller
2024
Aaron Schimberg: A Different Man || psychological drama, black comedy/satire
Adam Elliot: Memoir of a Snail || claymation, black comedy, coming-of-age, drama
Adilkhan Yerzhanov: Dala Kaskyry / Steppenwolf ||
Alex Garland: Civil War || war, road movie, thriller, dystopian
Alexandra Simpson: No Sleep Till ||
Alonso Ruizpalacios: La Cocina || drama
Andrea Arnold: Bird || coming-of-age, family drama, magical realism
Bogdan Muresanu: Anul Nou care n-a fost / The New Year That Never Came || period drama, hyperlink cinema, Romanian new wave, black comedy, political drama, satire
Brady Corbet: The Brutalist || period drama, epic
Cedric Kahn: Le procès Goldman / The Goldman Case || legal drama, chamber film, period drama
Chris Nash: In a Violent Nature || slasher/sadistic horror, slow cinema
Chris Sanders: The Wild Robot || computer animation, artificial intelligence/sci-fi, family
Constance Tsang: Blue Sun Palace || drama, romance, slice of life
Coralie Fargeat: The Substance || body horror, satire, sc-fi, psychological thriller
Dag Johan Haugerud: Drommer / Dreams (Sex Love) || romance, coming-of-age, psychological drama
David Moreau: MadS || zombie/horror, thriller
Dea Kulumbegashvili: April || drama, slow cinema
Fleur Fortune: The Assessment || dystopian, drama, sci-fi, psychological thriller
Francois Ozon: Quand vient l'automne / When Fall Is Coming || family drama, crime
Gints Zilbalodis: Straume / Flow || computer animation, adventure, low fantasy/magical realism, disaster, survival
Guillem Morales: The Wasp || psychological thriller
Gustav Moeller: Vogter / Sons || prison film
India Donaldson: Good One || drama, slice of life
Jacques Audiard: Emilia Perez || musical, LGBT, crime, melodrama
Jane Schoenbrun: I Saw the TV Glow || psychological drama, queer cinema, analog/techno-horror, coming-of-age
Jeremy Saulnier: Rebel Ridge || thriller, neo-western
Jesse Eisenberg: A Real Pain || family drama, buddy, road movie, comedy
Jia Zhangke: Caught by the Tides || drama, postmodernism
Joel Potrykus: Vulcanizadora || black comedy
Jonathan Millet: Les fantômes / Ghost Trail || spy, drama, thriller
Joshua Erkman: A Desert || psychological horror/thriller, neo-noir
Joshua Oppenheimer: The End || musical, post-apocalyptic, family drama
Justin Kurzel: The Order || period drama, police procedural, thriller, neo-western
Kazik Radwanski: Matt and Mara || psychological drama, slice of life, comedy, romance
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Cloud || thriller, crime, black comedy/satire
Levan Akin: Crossing || drama, buddy, road movie, LGBT
Lou Ye: An Unfinished Film || docudrama
Magnus von Horn: Pigen med nalen / The Girl With the Needle || period drama, biopic, psychological horror/gothic, crime
Matthew Rankin: Une langue universelle / Universal Language || absurdist comedy, hyperlink cinema, surrealism, drama
Matthias Glasner: Sterben / Dying || psychological, family drama
Maura Delpero: Vermiglio || period/family drama, slice of life
Miguel Gomes: Grand Tour || adventure/road movie, period drama, postmodernism
Mike Leigh: Hard Truths || family drama, psychological drama, black comedy, slice of life
Mohammad Rasoulof: Dane-ye Anjir-e Ma'abed / The Seed of the Sacred Fig || family/political/psychological drama, mystery, thriller
Nathan Silver: Between the Temples || comedy, drama
+ Payal Kapadia: Prabhayaay Ninachathellam / All We Imagine as Light || drama, romance, slice of life
Pedro Almodovar: The Room Next Door || psychological drama, melodrama
RaMell Ross: Nickel Boys || period drama, prison film, coming-of-age, experimental/postmodernism, docudrama
Ray Yeung: Cong Jin Yihou / All Shall Be Well || drama, LGBT
Rob Tregenza: The Fishing Place || drama
Rudy Mancuso: Musica || romantic comedy, music/musical
Rungano Nyoni: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl || family/psychological drama
Ryan Sloan: Gazer || psychological thriller, mystery
Sandhya Suri: Santosh || police procedural/crime, drama
Sarah Friedland: Familiar Touch || drama, slice of life
Sean Baker: Anora || drama, black comedy
Sean Wang: Didi || coming-of-age, drama, comedy, slice of life
Steven Soderbergh: Presence || haunted house/psychological drama, slice of life, family drama, chamber film
Tim Fehlbaum: September 5 || period drama, political thriller
Tim Mielants: Small Things Like These || period drama
Titus Kaphar: Exhibiting Forgiveness || family drama
Tyler Taormina: Christmas Eve in Miller's Point || family drama, slice of life, comedy, christmas
Walter Salles: Ainda Estou Aqui / I’m Still Here || biopic, period/political/family drama
Zoe Kravitz: Blink Twice || psychological thriller, mystery, satire
2025
Akinola Davies: My Father's Shadow || period/family drama
Bi Gan: Kuang ye Shidai / Resurrection || drama, sci-fi
Chie Hayakawa: Runowaru / Renoir || drama, coming-of-age
Clint Bentley: Train Dreams || drama
Diego Cespedes: La Misteriosa Mirada del Flamenco / The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo || period drama, LGBT
Duke Johnson: The Actor || mystery, psychological drama, low fantasy
Emilie Blichfeldt: Den stygge stesosteren / The Ugly Stepsister || body horror, dark fantasy, black comedy/satire
Gabriel Mascaro: O Ultimo Azul / The Blue Trail || drama, dystopian
Hasan Hadi: The President’s Cake || drama
Huo Meng: Shengxi Zhi Di / Living the Land || period drama, coming-of-age
James Griffiths: The Ballad of Wallis Island || music, comedy, drama, romance, buddy
Johanna Moder: Mother's Baby || psychological drama
Julia Kowalski: Her Will Be Done || drama
Kelly Reichardt: The Mastermind || drama
Kleber Mendonca Filho: O Agente Secreto / The Secret Agent || period drama
Lucile Hadzihalilovic: La Tour de Glace / The Ice Tower || drama
Mary Bronstein: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You || psychological drama
Mascha Schilinski: In die Sonne schauen / Sound of Falling || period drama
Matteo Zoppis & Alessio Rigo de Righi: Testa o croce? / Heads or Tails? || western
Michel Franco: Dreams || drama
Nadav Lapid: Yes! ||
+ Oliver Laxe: Sirat || drama, road movie, thriller
Paul Thomas Anderson: One Battle After Another ||
Pedro Pinho: O Riso e a Faca / I Only Rest in the Storm ||
Radu Jude: Kontinental '25 || drama, black comedy/satire
Richard Linklater: Blue Moon || drama, chamber film
Roshan Sethi: A Nice Indian Boy || romantic comedy, LGBT, family drama
Ryan Coogler: Sinners || southern gothic, vampire/supernatural horror, music, period drama, thriller
Sergei Loznitsa: Dva Prokurora / Two Prosecutors || period drama
Simon Mesa Soto: Un Poeta / A Poet ||