21 Grams

directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

20

24 Hour Party People

directed by Michael Winterbottom

13

28 Days Later

directed by Danny Boyle

15

(500) Days of Summer

directed by Marc Webb

Adaptation.

directed by Spike Jonze

23

Adventureland

directed by Greg Mottola

Amelia

directed by Mira Nair

Amélie

directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

17

American Beauty

directed by Sam Mendes

19

Antichrist

directed by Lars von Trier

The Art of the Steal

directed by Don Argott

Atonement

directed by Joe Wright

Away We Go

directed by Sam Mendes

Babel

directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans

directed by Werner Herzog

Being John Malkovich

directed by Spike Jonze

24

The Big Lebowski

directed by Joel & Ethan Coen

01

Black Swan

directed by Darren Aronofsky

Brick

directed by Rian Johnson

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

directed by John Krasinski

Bright Star

directed by Jane Campion

Broken Embraces

directed by Pedro Almodóvar

Brothers

directed by Jim Sheridan

The Brothers Bloom

directed by Rian Johnson

Burn After Reading

directed by Joel & Ethan Coen

Chéri

directed by Stephen Frears

Choke

directed by Clark Gregg

City Island

directed by Raymond De Felitta

The Class

directed by Laurent Cantet

A Clockwork Orange

directed by Stanley Kubrick

05

Coco Before Chanel

directed by Anne Fontaine

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinksy

directed by Jan Kounen

The Concert

directed by Radu Mihaileanu

Crazy Heart

directed by Scott Cooper

Cyrus

directed by Jay & Mark Duplass

The Darjeeling Limited

directed by Wes Anderson

Death at a Funeral

directed by Frank Oz

The Departed

directed by Martin Scorsese

32

Doubt

directed by John Patrick Shanley

Eagle vs Shark

directed by Taika Cohen

Easy Virtue

directed by Stephan Elliott

An Education

directed by Lone Scherfig

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

directed by Michel Gondry

21

Exit Through the Gift Shop

directed by Banksy

Fantastic Mr. Fox

directed by Wes Anderson

33

Farewell

directed by Christian Carion

Fargo

directed by Joel & Ethan Coen

12

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

directed by Terry Gilliam

08

Fight Club

directed by David Fincher

04

A Film with Me in It

directed by Ian Fitzgibbon

Food, Inc.

directed by Robert Kenner

Frost/Nixon

directed by Ron Howard

Get Low

directed by Aaron Schneider

The Ghost Writer

directed by Roman Polanski

The Girl on the Train

directed by André Téchiné

The Girl Who Played with Fire

directed by Daniel Alfredson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

directed by Niels Arden Oplev

The Girlfriend Experience

directed by Steven Soderbergh

Gomorrah

directed by Matteo Garrone

Gran Torino

directed by Clint Eastwood

Greenberg

directed by Noah Baumbach

Hamlet 2

directed by Andrew Fleming

Hot Fuzz

directed by Edgar Wright

03

Howl

directed by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman

The Hurt Locker

directed by Kathryn Bigelow

I Am Love

directed by Luca Guadagnino

I’ve Loved You So Long

directed by Philippe Claudel

The Ice Storm

directed by Ang Lee

25

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

directed by Terry Gilliam

In Bruges

directed by Martin McDonagh

18

In the Loop

directed by Armando Iannucci

Inception

directed by Christopher Nolan

The Informant!

directed by Steven Soderbergh

Inglourious Basterds

directed by Quentin Tarantino

30

Into the Wild

directed by Sean Penn

Is Anybody There?

directed by John Crowley

It Might Get Loud

directed by Davis Guggenheim

It’s Kind of a Funny Story

directed by Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck

Jack Goes Boating

directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman

Julie & Julia

directed by Nora Ephron

Juno

directed by Jason Reitman

16

The Kids Are All Right

directed by Lisa Cholodenko

The Last Station

directed by Michael Hoffman

Let the Right One In

directed by Tomas Alfredson

Letters to Juliet

directed by Gary Winick

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

directed by Wes Anderson

02

The Limits of Control

directed by Jim Jarmusch

Lorna’s Silence

directed by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne

Lymelife

directed by Derick Martini

Me and Orson Welles

directed by Richard Linklater

Micmacs

directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Milk

directed by Gus Van Sant

Moon

directed by Duncan Jones

Never Let Me Go

directed by Mark Romanek

No Country for Old Men

directed by Joel & Ethan Coen

26

Nowhere Boy

directed by Sam Taylor-Wood

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

directed by Joel & Ethan Coen

07

Observe and Report

directed by Jody Hill

Once

directed by John Carney

Paper Heart

directed by Nicholas Jasenovec

Paris 36

directed by Christophe Barratier

Pirate Radio

directed by Richard Curtis

Please Give

directed by Nicole Holofcener

Precious

directed by Lee Daniels

A Prophet

directed by Jacques Audiard

Public Enemies

directed by Michael Mann

Pulp Fiction

directed by Quentin Tarantino

27

Rachel Getting Married

directed by Jonathan Demme

The Reader

directed by Stephen Daldry

Reign Over Me

directed by Mike Binder

Revolutionary Road

directed by Sam Mendes

The Royal Tenenbaums

directed by Wes Anderson

14

Running with Scissors

directed by Ryan Murphy

Rushmore

directed by Wes Anderson

31

The Science of Sleep

directed by Michel Gondry

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

directed by Edgar Wright

The Secret in Their Eyes

directed by Juan José Campanella

The September Issue

directed by R.J. Cutler

A Serious Man

directed by Joel & Ethan Coen

Shall We Kiss?

directed by Emmanuel Mouret

Shaun of the Dead

directed by Edgar Wright

10

Shutter Island

directed by Martin Scorsese

Sin Nombre

directed by Cary Fukunaga

A Single Man

directed by Tom Ford

Slumdog Millionaire

directed by Danny Boyle

Smart People

directed by Noam Murro

Snatch

directed by Guy Ritchie

09

The Social Network

directed by David Fincher

Solitary Man

directed by Brian Koppelman & David Levien

The Soloist

directed by Joe Wright

The Squid and the Whale

directed by Noah Baumbach

28

Stranger Than Fiction

directed by Marc Forster

Sugar

directed by Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck

Summer Hours

directed by Olivier Assayas

Sunshine

directed by Danny Boyle

Sunshine Cleaning

directed by Christine Jeffs

Synecdoche, New York

directed by Charlie Kaufman

Taking Woodstock

directed by Ang Lee

There Will Be Blood

directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

11

Traffic

directed by Steven Soderbergh

29

Trainspotting

directed by Danny Boyle

06

Up in the Air

directed by Jason Reitman

The Wackness

directed by Jonathan Levine

Waltz with Bashir

directed by Ari Folman

Wendy and Lucy

directed by Kelly Reichardt

Whatever Works

directed by Woody Allen

Where the Wild Things Are

directed by Spike Jonze

The White Ribbon

directed by Michael Haneke

Winter Passing

directed by Adam Rapp

Winter’s Bone

directed by Debra Granik

Wonder Boys

directed by Curtis Hanson

22

The Wrestler

directed by Darren Aronofsky

Y Tu Mamá También

directed by Alfonso Cuarón

Youth in Revolt

directed by Miguel Arteta