1999 Top Ten List

  • Audition (Takashi Miike)
  • The Blair Witch Project (Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez)
  • Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter)
  • The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella)
  • Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
  • The Winslow Boy (David Mamet)
  • Nowhere to Hide (Lee Myung-se)
  • Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh)
  • Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)
  • Jesus' Son (Alison Maclean)

    • Additional 1999 Films By Rating

  • Three Kings (David O. Russell)
  • Go (Doug Liman)
  • The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers)
  • South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker)
  • My Neighbors the Yamadas (Isao Takahata)
  • The Straight Story (David Lynch)
  • Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch)
  • Not One Less (Zhang Yimou)
  • The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)
  • The End of the Affair (Neil Jordan)
  • Election (Alexander Payne)
  • Ride With the Devil (Ang Lee)
  • Clouds of May (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
  • Instrument (Jem Cohen & Fugazi)
  • Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce)
  • Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (Errol Morris)
  • Arlington Road (Mark Pellington)
  • The Insider (Michael Mann)
  • Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  • An Affair of Love (Frédéric Fonteyne)
  • The Limey (Steven Soderbergh)
  • Ratcatcher (Lynne Ramsay)
  • Titus (Julie Taymor)
  • My Best Fiend (Werner Herzog)
  • American Movie: The Making of Northwestern (Chris Smith)
  • Rosetta (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
  • The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami)
  • American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
  • Office Space (Mike Judge)
  • Galaxy Quest (Dean Parisot)
  • Bringing Out the Dead (Martin Scorsese)
  • Limbo (John Sayles)
  • The Thomas Crown Affair (John McTiernan)
  • Human Resources (Laurent Cantet)
  • Fight Club (David Fincher)
  • Criminal Lovers (François Ozon)
  • Deep Blue Sea (Renny Harlin)
  • The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola)
  • Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz)
  • The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
  • The War Zone (Tim Roth)
  • Northern Skirts (Barbara Albert)
  • Notting Hill (Roger Michell)
  • Summer of Sam (Spike Lee)
  • 10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger)
  • Beau travail (Claire Denis)
  • Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders)
  • Bolivia (Israel Adrián Caetano)
  • All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar)
  • The Cider House Rules (Lasse Hallström)
  • eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
  • Pola X (Leos Carax)
  • Cremaster 2 (Matthew Barney)
  • Girl on the Bridge (Patrice Leconte)
  • Accelerated Under-Development: In the Idiom of Santiago Alvarez (Travis Wilkerson)
  • Sasayaki (Moonlight Whispers) (Akihiko Shiota)
  • Wonderland (Michael Winterbottom)
  • Stir of Echoes (David Koepp)
  • But I'm a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit)
  • Big Daddy (Dennis Dugan)
  • Breakfast of Champions (Alan Rudolph)
  • Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace (George Lucas)
  • L'humanité (Bruno Dumont)
  • The Road Home (Zhang Yimou)
  • Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (Matthew Bright)
  • The Mod Squad (Scott Silver)