Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India(Ashutosh Gowariker)
Scratch(Doug Pray)
Fulltime Killer(Johnnie To & Wai Ka Fai)
Millennium Actress(Satoshi Kon)
Southern Comfort(Kate Davis)
Y tu mamá también(Alfonso Cuarón)
The Happiness of the Katakuris(Takashi Miike)
Dogtown and Z-Boys(Stacy Peralta)
Promises(Justine Shapiro & B.Z. Goldberg)
Ocean's Eleven(Steven Soderbergh)
Lovely & Amazing(Nicole Holofcener)
The Grey Zone(Tim Blake Nelson)
Manic(Jordan Melamed)
Fat Girl(Catherine Breillat)
Spirited Away(Hayao Miyazaki)
Winged Migration(Jacques Perrin)
In the Bedroom(Todd Field)
Wendigo(Larry Fessenden)
Startup.com(Jehane Noujaim & Chris Hegedus)
Black Hawk Down(Ridley Scott)
Hell House(George Ratliff)
Domestic Violence(Frederick Wiseman)
The Royal Tenenbaums(Wes Anderson)
The Believer(Henry Bean)
Take Care of My Cat(Jeong Jae Eun)
Birthday Girl(Jez Butterworth)
The Mexican(Gore Verbinski)
Pistol Opera(Seijun Suzuki)
Last Orders(Fred Schepisi)
Vanilla Sky(Cameron Crowe)
Bad Guy(Kim Ki-duk)
Monsoon Wedding(Mira Nair)
Joy Ride(John Dahl)
Shallow Hal(Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly)
Dog Days(Ulrich Seidl)
Shot in the Heart(Agnieszka Holland)
Wet Hot American Summer(David Wain)
Josie and the Pussycats(Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont)
Super 8 Stories(Emir Kusturica)
The Sleepy Time Gal(Christopher Münch)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(Peter Jackson)
Ichi the Killer(Takashi Miike)
Read My Lips(Jacques Audiard)
Daddy and Them(Billy Bob Thornton)
Festival in Cannes(Henry Jaglom)
The Château(Jesse Peretz)
Moulin Rouge!(Baz Luhrmann)
Made(Jon Favreau)
AI(Steven Spielberg)
The Piano Teacher(Michael Haneke)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch(John Cameron Mitchell)
Fate(Zeki Demirkubuz)
Rain(Christine Jeffs)
The Lady and the Duke(Eric Rohmer)
Bully(Larry Clark)
The Glow(Igal Bursztyn)
Me Without You(Sandra Goldbacher)
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge(Shohei Imamura)
Kissing Jessica Stein(Charles Herman-Wurmfeld)
Trouble Every Day(Claire Denis)
The Anniversary Party(Jennifer Jason Leigh & Alan Cumming)
Ali(Michael Mann)
Hotel(Mike Figgis)
Pootie Tang in Sine Your Pitty on the Runny Kine(Louis C.K.)
Truly Human(Ake Sandgren)
Beijing Bicycle(Wang Xiaoshuai)
Martha... Martha(Sandrine Veysset)
Zoolander(Ben Stiller)
Under the Skin of the City(Rakhshan Bani-Etemad)
The Cat's Meow(Peter Bogdanovich)
All About Lily Chou-Chou(Shunji Iwai)
Investigating Sex(Alan Rudolph)
His Secret Life(Ferzan Ozpetek)
The Triumph of Love(Clare Peploe)
American Chai(Anurag Mehta)
Human Nature(Michel Gondry)
Lan Yu(Stanley Kwan)
Alias Betty(Claude Miller)
A Transistor Love Story(Pen-ek Ratanaruang)
Nowhere in Africa(Caroline Link)
The White Sound(Hans Weingartner)
Jeepers Creepers(Victor Salva)
Brotherhood of the Wolf(Christophe Gans)
Donnie Darko(Richard Kelly)
The Devil's Backbone(Guillermo Del Toro)
La Ciénaga(Lucrecia Martel)
John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars(John Carpenter)
Enigma(Michael Apted)
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner(Zacharias Kunuk)
I'm Going Home(Manoel de Oliveira)
Session 9(Brad Anderson)
A.B.C Africa(Abbas Kiarostami)
Jurassic Park III(Joe Johnston)
CQ(Roman Coppola)
Sex and Lucía(Julio Medem)
Wimbledon Stage(Mathieu Amalric)
Tirana Year Zero(Fatmir Koçi)
Stuff and Dough(Cristi Puiu)
H Story(Nobuhiro Suwa)
Autumn Spring(Vladimír Michálek)
Harvard Man(James Toback)
Bartleby(Jonathan Parker)
Planet of the Apes(Tim Burton)
Shrek(Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson)
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing(Jill Sprecher)
Crush(John McKay)
How I Killed My Father(Anne Fontaine)
Millennium Mambo(Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Frailty(Bill Paxton)
Secret Ballot(Babak Payami)
Storytelling(Todd Solondz)
In Praise of Love(Jean-Luc Godard)
Blackwoods(Uwe Boll)
Dischord(Mark Wilkinson)
Freddy Got Fingered(Tom Green)
The Letterboxd
version of this list has posters for every film and whatnot.
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Seen but currently unrated (and not
presumptively among my top 10):Address Unknown (Kim);
Adrift (Van Jaarsveld); The American Astronaut (McAbee);
Anita Takes a Chance (Pons); The Anniversary Party (Leigh &
Cumming); Antitrust (Howitt); Bandits (Levinson);
Baran (Majidi); Be My Star (Grisebach); A Beautiful
Mind (Howard); Behind Enemy Lines (Moore); Behind the
Sun (Salles); Brainstorm (Bodanzky); Bread and Milk
(Cvitkovič); Bridget Jones's Diary (Maguire); Brief
Crossing (Breillat); The Brothers (Hardwick); The
Bunker (Green); The Business of Strangers (Stettner); The
Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside (Matanić); The Center of
the World (W. Wang); Chain Camera (Dick); Chloe
(Rijū); The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (Allen);
Dark Blue World (Sverák); Deep Breath (Odoul);
The Deep End (McGehee & Siegel); Disco Pigs (Sheridan);
Distance (Kore-eda); A Dog's Day (Nair); Domestic
Disturbance (Becker); Driven (Harlin); Enemy at the
Gates (Annaud); Evolution (Reitman); The Fast and the
Furious (Cohen); Féliz et Lola (Leconte); The
Fluffer (Glatzer & West); From Hell (Hughes Brothers); Go
Tigers! (Carlson); Hannibal (Scott); Harry Potter and the
Sorceror's Stone (Columbus); Heartbreakers (Mirkin);
Heist (Mamet); Imago (Vermillard); Intimacy
(Chéreau); Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Smith);
Kandahar (Makhmalbaf); La Libertad (Alonso); Lantana
(Lawrence); Last Wedding (Sweeney); Legally Blonde
(Luketic); L.I.E. (Cuesta); Loin (Téchiné);
Lost and Delirious (Pool); Monkeybone (Selick);
Monster's Ball (Forster); The Mummy Returns (Sommers);
The Navigators (Loach); No Man's Land (Tanović);
O (Nelson); Oporto of My Childhood (De Oliveira); The
Orphan of Anyang (Wang C.); The Others (Amenábar);
The Pledge (Penn); Prozac Nation (Skjoldbjærg); The
Quickie (Bodrov); The Score (Oz); Serendipity
(Chelsom); Series 7: The Contenders (Minahan); The Shipping
News (Hallström); Silence...We're Rolling (Chahine);
Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 PM (Lanzmann); Spy Kids
(Rodriguez); Strumpet (Boyle); Swordfish (Sena); The
Tailor of Panama (Boorman); Tape (Linklater); That Old
Dream That Moves (Guiraudie); Vacuuming Completely Nude in
Paradise (Boyle); Waterboys (Yaguchi); Wit (Nichols)
As yet unseen:The Road (Omirbaev);
Roberto Succo (Kahn)