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"No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead."
T.S. Eliot

1930

1.The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)

2.The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)
3.Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
4.Under the Roofs of Paris (Rene Clair)
5.Anna Christie (Clarence Brown)
6.Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
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1931

1.City Lights (Charles Chaplin)

2.M (Fritz Lang)
3.The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman)
4.Maedchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan)
5.Frankenstein (James Whale)
6.À nous la liberté (René Clair)
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1932

1.Freaks (Tod Browning)

2.Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
3.Boudu Saved From Drowning (Jean Renoir)
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1933

1.King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)

2.Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
3.Liebelei (Max Ophüls)
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Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
Public Enemies (Michael Mann)
Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola)
Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar)
Watchmen (Zack Snyder)
Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi)
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2008

Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
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2007

There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
Zodiac (David Fincher)
No Country For Old Men (Joel & Ethan Coen)
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Cristian Mungui)
My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-wai)
Grindhouse (Tarantino & Rodriguez)
The GoodTimesKid (Azazel Jacobs)
Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara)

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2006

Inland Empire (David Lynch)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
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2005

Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
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2000

In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr)
Memento (Christopher Nolan)
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1999

Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
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1994

Satantango (Bela Tarr)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
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1990

Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai)
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami)
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1980

Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino)
Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)
The Long Riders (Walter Hill)
Popeye (Robert Altman)
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
Gloria (John Cassavetes)
The Last Metro (Francois Truffaut)
LouLou (Maurice Pialat)

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1979

Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
Manhattan (Woody Allen)
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1978

Interiors (Woody Allen)
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1977

Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
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1971

McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
Out 1, noli me tangere (Jacques Rivette)
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
Vanishing Point (Richard C. Sarafian)
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev)
Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)

Runners-Up: Dirty Harry (Don Seigel), Klute (Alan J. Pakula), Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah), Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart), Bananas (Woody Allen), And Now for Something Completely Different (Ian MacNaughton).
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1970

Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)
M*A*S*H (Robert Altman)
El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)
Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman)
Donkey Skin (Jacques Demy)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio de Sica)
7 Plus Seven (Michael Apted)
Hospital (Frederick Wiseman)
Catch-22 (Mike Nichols)

Runners-Up: Watermelon Man (Melvin Van Peebles), Gimme Shelter (David & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin).
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The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
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1968

2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
Faces (John Cassavetes)
Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
Planet of the Apes (Sergei Parajanov)
Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava)
The Bride Wore Black (François Truffaut)
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov)
Shame (Ingmar Bergman)

Runners-Up: Yellow Submarine (George Dunning); The Odd Couple (Gene Sacks); Head (Bob Rafelson).
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1967

Playtime (Jacques Tati)
Wavelength (Michael Snow)
Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard)
Bonnie & Clyde (Arthur Penn)
Terra em Transe (Glauber Rocha)
Point Blank (John Boorman)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)
I am Curious (Yellow) (Vigot Sjoman)

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1966

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Sergio Leone)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
Chelsea Girls (Paul Morrissey/Andy Warhol)
Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene)
Masculine-Feminine (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Nun (Jacques Rivette)
The Hawks and the Sparrows (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)

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Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles)
Loves of a Blonde (Milos Forman)
Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard)
Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
Repulsion (Roman Polanski)
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I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatzov)
Gertrud (Carl Th. Dreyer)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)
Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha)
Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock)
A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)

Runners-Up: The Naked Kiss (Sam Fuller), Hamlet (Grigori Kozintsev), Black Peter (Milos Forman), My Fair Lady (George Cukor), Seven Up! (Paul Almond & Michael Apted), Kiss Me Stupid (Billy Wilder).
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8½ (Federico Fellini)
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti)
Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa)
Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller)
Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock)
Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith)
Charade (Stanley Donen)
The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards)

Runners-Up: Rogopag (Rossellini, Godard, Pasolini,Gregoretti), From Russia with Love (Terence Young).
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Jules et Jim (François Truffaut)
The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel)
Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
The Trial (Orson Welles)
L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Grim Reaper (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Trial of Joan of Arc (Robert Bresson)
La Jetée (Chris Marker)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Richardson)

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Viridiana (Luis Buñuel)
A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)
Lola (Jacques Demy)
Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Cleo From 5 to 7 (Agnes Varda)
West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
Two Rode Together (John Ford)
101 Dalmations (Clyde Geronimi)

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La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock)
Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Apartment (Billy Wilder)
Black Sunday (Mario Bava)
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
Paris is Ours (Jacques Rivette)
Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut)

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400 Blows (François Truffaut)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)
Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu)
Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa)
Nazarín (Luis Buñuel)
Shadows (John Cassavetes)

Runners-Up: Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher), Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu), The World of Apu (Satyajit Ray).
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Vertigo (Alfred Hitchock)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
Ivan the Terrible II (Sergei Eisenstein)
The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa)
Mon oncle (Jacques Tati)
Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli)
Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher)
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1957

The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick)
Forty Guns (Samuel Fuller)
The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov)
Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Le Notti bianche (Luchino Visconti)
Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini)

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1956

The Searchers (John Ford)
Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock)
Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher)
Le Coup du berger (Jacques Rivette)
The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock)
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1955

The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray)
Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich)
Lola Montes (Max Ophüls)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray)
Rio 40 Degrees (Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles)
East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni)

Runners-Up: The Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock), Moonfleet (Fritz Lang), Mr. & Mrs. '55 (Guru Dutt), A Generation (Andrzej Wajda), The Seven Year Itch (Billy Wilder), Guys and Dolls (Joseph L. Mankiewicz).
Blind Spots: The Phenix City Story (Phil Carlson), Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman), All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk), Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot), The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (Luis Buñuel), Oklahoma! (Fred Zinnemann), The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger), The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis), Tales of the Taira Clan (Kenji Mizoguchi), We're No Angels (Michael Curtiz).

1954

Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray)
Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
Senso (Luchino Visconti)
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
La Strada (Federico Fellini)
Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich)
A Star is Born (George Cukor)
Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)
White Christmas (Michael Curtiz)

Runners-Up: Aar-Paar (Guru Dutt), Dial M For Murder (Alfred Hitchcock).
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1953

Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini)
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller)
Tokyo Story (Yasugiro Ozu)
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati)
I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini)
Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli)
Madame de... (Max Ophuls)
The Saga of Anatahan (Josef Von Sternberg)

Runners-Up: Baaz (Guru Dutt), Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks).
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1952

Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)
High Noon (Fred Zinnemann)
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica)
Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi)
The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (Orson Welles)
Forbidden Games (René Clément)
Jaal (Guru Dutt)
Moulin Rouge (John Huston)
The Member of the Wedding (Fred Zinnemann)

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1951

An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)
Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Tales of Hoffmann (Powell/Pressburger)
Baazi (Guru Dutt)
The African Queen (John Huston)
Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
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1950

Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)
Rashômon (Akira Kurosawa)
The Furies (Anthony Mann)
Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini)
In A Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
La Ronde (Max Ophüls)
All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Rio Grande (John Ford)
Harvey (Henry Koster)
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1949

The Third Man (Carol Reed)
Battleground (William A. Wellman)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu)
I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks)
The Red Danube (George Sidney)
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1948

The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica)
La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston)
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock)
Macbeth (Orson Welles)
Key Largo (John Huston)
They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray)
Moonrise (Frank Borzage)
Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini)

Runners-Up: Red River (Howard Hawks), The Three Musketers (George Sidney), Hamlet (Laurence Olivier).
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1947

Black Narcissus (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles)
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin)
The Red House (Delmer Daves)
Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger)
Dark Passage (Delmer Daves)
Gentlemen's Agreement (Elia Kazan)
Fireworks (Kenneth Anger)
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1946

The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)
La Belle et la bête (Jean Cocteau)
Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
My Darling Clementine (John Ford)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Stranger (Orson Welles)
Duel in the Sun (King Vidor)
Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Killers (Robert Siodmak)
Of Human Bondage (Edmund Goulding)

Runners-Up: No Regrets For Our Youth (Akira Kurosawa)
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1945

Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
Brief Encounter (David Lean)
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz)
Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (Akira Kurosawa)
Anchors Aweigh (George Sidney)
Sugata Sanshiro Part II (Akira Kurosawa)
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1944

Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks)
Ivan the Terrible I (Sergei Eisenstein)
Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang)
Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Most Beautiful (Akira Kurosawa)
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1943

Day of Wrath (Carl Th. Dreyer)
Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
I Walked With A Zombie (Jacques Tourneur)
The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman)
Ossessione (Luchino Visconti)
Girl Crazy (Norman Taurog)
Sugata Sanshiro (Akira Kurosawa)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren)
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1942

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
Now, Voyager (Irving Rapper)
I Married a Witch (René Clair)
Sabateur (Alfred Hitchcock)
To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (Michael Curtiz)
Road to Morocco (David Butler)

Runners-Up: Holiday Inn (Mark Sandrich).
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1941

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
High Sierra (Raoul Walsh)
Hellzapoppin' (H.C. Potter)
Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges)
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
Meet John Doe (Frank Capra)
Babes on Broadway (Busby Berkeley)
The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Alfred Hitchcock)
Western Union (Fritz Lang)

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1940

The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin)
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
Strike Up the Band (Busby Berkeley)
They Drive by Night (Raoul Walsh)
Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner)
Our Town (Sam Wood)
The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline)

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1939

La Regle du jeu (Jean Renoir)
The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks)
Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch)
Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming)
Stagecoach (John Ford)
Destry Rides Again (George Marshall)
Babes in Arms (Busby Berkeley)
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1938

Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks)
The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock)
Port of Shadows (Marcel Carne)
Angels With Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz)
Jezebel (William Wyler)
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (Anatole Litvak)
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1937

Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey)
The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
Big City (Frank Borzage)
Swing High, Swing Low (Mitchell Leisen)
Saratoga (Jack Conway)
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1936

Modern Times (Charles Chaplin)
Fury (Fritz Lang)
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava)
Osaka Elegy (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Love on the Run (W.S. Van Dyke)
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1935

The Informer (John Ford)
Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (Busby Berkeley)
A Night at the Opera (Edmund Goulding & Sam Wood)
Hands Across the Table (Mitchell Leisen)
Anna Karenina (Clarence Brown)
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1934

L'Atalante (Jean Vigo)
The Scarlet Empress (Joseph von Sternberg)
The Lost Patrol (John Ford)
The Goddess (Wu Yonggang)
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra)
Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks)
Our Daily Bread (King Vidor)
The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch)
Dames (Ray Enright & Busby Berkeley)
The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke)

Runners-Up: Forsaking All Others (W.S. Van Dyke), Housewife (Alfred E. Green), Murder in the Clouds (D. Ross Lederman).
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1933

Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
Liebelei (Max Ophüls)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy)
Heroes For Sale (William A. Wellman)
42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon)
Wild Boys of the Road (William A. Wellman)
Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon)
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (Lewis Milestone)
Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian)

Runners-Up: Ecstacy (Gustav Machatý), Sons of the Desert (William A. Seiter), Midnight Mary (William A. Wellman).
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1932

Freaks (Tod Browning)
Boudu Saved From Drowning (Jean Renoir)
Scarface (Howard Hawks)
Vampyr (Carl Th. Dreyer)
Blonde Venus (Joseph von Sternberg)
Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian)
Grand Hotel (Edmund Goulding)
The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (Michael Curtiz)
Frisco Jenny (William A. Wellman)
Shanghai Express (Joseph von Sternberg)

Runners-Up: The Purchase Price (William A. Wellman), Three on a Match (Mervyn LeRoy), Love is a Racket (William A. Wellman), Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch), Red-Headed Woman (Jack Conway), Rasputin & the Empress (Richard Boleslawski), The Crowd Roars (Howard Hawks), Mata Hari (George Fitzmaurice), Movie Crazy (Harold Lloyd & Clyde Bruckman).
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1931

City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
M (Fritz Lang)
The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman)
Frankenstein (James Whale)
Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy)
À nous la liberté (René Clair)
Le Million (René Clair)
Other Men's Women (William A. Wellman)
The Peach Girl (Bu Wancang)
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1930

Blue Angel (Joseph von Sternberg)
The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh)
Morocco (Joseph von Sternberg)
Under the Roofs of Paris (René Clair)
Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman)
Anna Christie (Clarence Brown)
Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
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1929

The Man with the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)
The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch)
Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel)
The Broadway Melody (Harry Beaumont)
The Wild Party (Dorothy Arzner)
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1928

La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer)
The Crowd (King Vidor)
Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst)
The Cameraman (Buster Keaton & Edward Sedgwick)
The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
Our Dancing Daughters (Harry Beaumont)
Across to Singapore (William Nigh)
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1927

Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
The Unknown (Tod Browning)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttmann)
Napoléon (Abel Gance)
Spring Fever (Edward Sedgwick)
West Point (Edward Sedgwick)
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1926

A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
The Blackbird (Tod Browning)
Tramp Tramp Tramp (Harry Edwards)
The Boob (William A. Wellman)
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1925

The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin)
Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein)
The Big Parade (King Vidor)
Joyless Street (G.W. Pabst)
Strike (Sergei Eisenstein)
Paris Asleep (René Clair)
The Circle (Frank Borzage)
The Salvation Hunters (Josef von Sternberg)
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1924

The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau)
Greed (Erich von Stroheim)
The Iron Horse (John Ford)
The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh)
Saga of Gosta Berling (Mauritz Stiller)
The Marriage Circle (Ernst Lubitsch)
Michael (Carl Th. Dreyer)
Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton)
The Navigator (Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp)
Entr'acte (René Clair)

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1923

Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton & John G. Blystone)
Crime and Punishment (Robert Weine)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wallace Worsley)
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1922

Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty)
The Phantom (F.W. Murnau)
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1921

The Kid (Charles Chaplin)
The Wildcat (Ernst Lubitsch)
Among Those Present (Fred C. Newmeyer)
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1920

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine)
The Parson's Widow (Carl Th. Dreyer)
Sumurun (Ernst Lubitsch)
Anna Boleyn (Ernst Lubitsch)
Get Out and Get Under (Hal Roach)
Headin' Home (Lawrence C. Windom)
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1919

The Doll (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Oyster Princess (Ernst Lubitsch)
Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith)
Bumping Into Broadway (Hal Roach)
From Hand to Mouth (Alfred J. Goulding & Hal Roach)
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1918

Shoulder Arms (Charles Chaplin)
I Don't Want to Be a Man (Ernst Lubitsch)
Eyes of the Mummy (Ernst Lubitsch)
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1917

The Merry Jail (Ernst Lubitsch)
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1916

Intolerance (D.W. Griffith)
The Floorwalker (Charles Chaplin)
The Rink (Charles Chaplin)
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1915

Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)
The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith)
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1914

Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone)
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1913

The Student of Prague (Stellan Rye/Paul Wegener)
The Last Days of Pompeii (Caserini/Rodolfi)
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1912

The Musketeers of Pig Alley (D.W. Griffith)
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1910

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