Top 10 Lists (2000-10s)

2015

1. Hard to be a God (Aleksei German)
2. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
3. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
4. The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu)
5. Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
6. Li'l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
7. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
8. The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino)
9. Anomalisa (Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman)
10. The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson)

2014

1. Two Days, One Night (Dardenne Brothers)
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
3. Heaven Knows What (Safdie Brothers)
4. Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
5. Inherent Vice (P.T. Anderson)
6. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
7. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour)
8. Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)
9. Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)
10. The Guest (Adam Wingard)

2013

1. The World’s End (Edgar Wright)
2. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
3. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Brothers)
4. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
5. Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdelatif Kechiche)
6. The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki)
7. Before Midnight (Richard Linklater)
8. The Immigrant (James Gray)
9. A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
10. Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)

2012

1. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. Beyond the Hills (Christian Mungiu)
3. Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
4. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
5. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
6. Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
7. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
8. Lincoln (Steven Spielberg)
9. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
10. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)

2011

1. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
2. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
3. The Kid with a Bike (Dardenne Brothers)
4. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi)
5. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn)
6. This is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb)
7. Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki)
8. Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
9. Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier)
10. The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar)

2010

1. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)
2. Another Year (Mike Leigh)
3. 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike)
4. Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
5. The Social Network (David Fincher)
6. The Secret World of Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi) 
7. True Grit (Coen Brothers)
8. Meek's Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
9. Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)
10. Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik)

2009

1. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
2. A Single Man (Tom Ford)
3. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
4. A Serious Man (Coen Brothers)
5. Sin Nombre (Cary Fukunaga)
6. White Material (Claire Denis)
7. Sugar (Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden)
8. Up (Pete Docter)
9. Alamar (Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio)
10. A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)

2008

1. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)
2. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
3. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
4. The Class (Laurent Cantet)
5. The Fall (Tarsem Singh)
6. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
7. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
8. Milk (Gus van Sant)
9. Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki)
10. Martyrs (Pascal Laugier)

2007

1. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers)
3. Zodiac (David Fincher)
4. Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
5. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (Christian Mungiu)
7. Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols)
8. Sunshine (Danny Boyle)
9. Inside (Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo)
10. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)

2006

1. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
2. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu)
3. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weeresthetakul)
4. Tell No One (Guillaume Canet)
5. Half Nelson (Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden)
6. The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
7. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
8. Offside (Jafar Panahi)
9. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach)
10. Them (David Moreau and Xavier Palud)

2005

1. The New World (Terrence Malick)
2. L'Enfant (Dardenne Brothers)
3. Caché (Michael Haneke)
4. No Direction Home (Martin Scorsese)
5. Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
6. Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad)
7. Match Point (Woody Allen)
8. Capote (Bennett Miller)
9. The Descent (Neil Marshall)
10. The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard)

2004

1. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater)
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
3. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4. Howl's Moving Castle (Hiyao Miyazaki)
5. The Life Aquatic (Wes Anderson)
6. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
7. The House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou)
8. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino)
9. Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar)
10. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)

2003

1. Dogville (Lars von Trier)
2. 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle)
3. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman)
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
5. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
6. Big Fish (Tim Burton)
7. Oldboy (Park Chan-Wook)
8. Elephant (Gus van Sant)
9. Coffe and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)
10. Cabin Fever (Eli Roth)

2002

1. The Son (Dardenne Brothers)
2. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
5. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
6. The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismaki)
7. 25th Hour (Spike Lee)
8. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)
9. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe)
10. All or Nothing (Mike Leigh)

2001

1. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
2. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
4. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
5. In the Bedroom (Todd Field)
6. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
7. The Royal Tennenbaums (Wes Anderson)
8. The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo Del Toro)
9. The Son's Room (Nanni Moretti)
10. Y Tu Mama Tambien (Alfonso Cuaron)

2000

1. Werckmeister Harmonies (Béla Tarr)
2. You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
3. Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
4. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier)
5. Code Unknown (Michael Haneke)
6. Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
7. Traffic (Stephen Soderbergh)
8. George Washington (David Gorden Green)
9. Best in Show (Christopher Guest)
10. The House of Mirth (Terence Davies)