2000
1. Shadow of the Vampire (E. Elias Merhige, UK)
2. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
3. You Can Count On Me (Kenneth Lonergan, USA)
4. Wonder Boys (Curtis Hanson, USA)
5. Chicken Run (Peter Lord, Nick Park, UK/USA)

6. Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, UK/Spain)
7. George Washington (David Gordon Green, USA)
8. Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, Japan)
9. Jesus' Son (Alison Maclean, Canada)

10. Barking Dogs Never Bite (Bong Joon-Ho, South Korea) (No USA Release)
11. Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, USA)

12. Dead or Alive 2: Birds (Takashi Miike, Japan)

13. My Neighbors the Yamadas (Isa Takahata, Japan)
14. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, China)
15. Me, Myself and Irene (Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, USA) 
16. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen, USA)
17. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, USA)

18. Meet the Parents (Jay Roach, USA
19. Chuck & Buck (Miguel Arteta, USA)
20. Nurse Betty (Neil LaBute, USA)


2001
1. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, USA)
2. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, USA)

3. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, USA)
4. Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, Sweden)
5. In the Bedroom (Todd Fields, USA)
6. Werckmeister Harmonies (Bela Tarr, Hungary)
7. AI: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, USA)
8. The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen, USA)

9. Zoolander (Ben Stiller, USA)

10. Ocean's 11 (Steve Soderbergh, USA)
11. Gosford Park (Robert Altman, UK)
12. Stuff and Dough (Cristi Puiu, Romania)

13. Amores Perros (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Mexico)

14. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan)
15. A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, USA) 
16. Novocaine (David Atkins, USA)
17. Monsters, Inc (Pete Doctor, USA)
18. Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain, USA)
19. Vanilla Sky (Cameron Crowe, USA)
20. 101 Reykjavik (Baltasar Kormakur, Iceland)
21. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (Woody Allen, USA)
22. The Majestic (Frank Darabont, USA)

23. Heist (David Mamet, USA)
24. Dinner Rush (Bob Gerald, USA)
25. The Closet (Francis Veber, France)


2002
1. Adaptation. (Spike Jonze, USA)
2. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, USA)
3. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)
4. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (George Clooney, USA)
5. Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
6. 25th Hour (Spike Lee, USA)
7. Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes, USA)
8. Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
9. Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes, USA)
10. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, USA)
11. Frailty (Bill Paxton, USA)
12. About a Boy (Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, UK)
13. Catch Me If You Can (Steven Spielberg, USA)
14. One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek, USA)
15. Storytelling (Todd Solondz, USA)
16. Death to Smoochy (Danny DeVito, USA)

17. The Pianist (Roman Polanski, UK/France/Poland/Germany)
18. Chicago (Rob Marshall, USA)
19. All or Nothing (Mike Leigh, UK)
20. The Good Girl (Miguel Arteta, USA)
21. White Oleander (Peter Kosminsky, USA)

22. Auto Focus (Paul Schrader, USA)
23. The Hours (Stephen Daldry, USA/UK)
24. Panic Room (David Fincher, USA)

25. Man on the Train (Patrice Leconte, France/UK/Germany)
26. Orange County (Jake Kasdan, USA)

27. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, USA)
28. Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore, USA)
29. The Rules of Attraction (Roger Avary, USA)

30. Hart's War (Gregory Hoblit, USA)
31. 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom, UK)

32. Take Care of My Cat (Jae-eun Jeong, South Korea)

33. Dark Blue (Ron Shelton, USA/UK)
34. Human Nature (Michel Gondry, France/USA)
35. DumbLand (David Lynch, USA)

36. Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (Sun-Woo Jang, South Korea)
37. Spider-Man (Sam Raimi, USA)
38. Hollywood Ending (Woody Allen, USA)
39. Big Trouble (Barry Sonnenfeld, USA)
40. The Emperor’s Club (Michael Hoffman, USA)
41. Eight Legged Freaks (Ellory Elkayem, USA)


2003
1. Matchstick Men (Ridley Scott, USA)
2. Big Fish (Tim Burton, USA)
3. Kill Bill Volume One (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
4. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, USA)
5. Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, USA)
6. American Splendor (Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, USA)
7. Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, USA)
8. Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff, USA)
9. The School of Rock (Richard Linklater, USA)
10. 21 Grams (Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, USA)
11. The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismaki, Finland)
12. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, USA)
13. Hukkle (Gyorgy Palfi, Hungary)
14. The Cooler (Wayne Kramer, USA)
15. The Son (Dardenne Brothers, France)
16. Intolerable Cruelty (Joel Coen/Ethan Coen, USA)
17. City of God (Fernando Meirelles, Brazil)
18. All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green, USA) 
19. The Shape of Things (Neil LaBute, USA)
20. The Hunted (William Friedkin, USA)
21. The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, France)

22. The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade, Germany)
23. Anything Else (Woody Allen, USA)
24. Monster (Patty Jenkins, USA)

25. Dead End (Jean-Baptiste Andrea/Fabrice Canepa, France)
26. X2: X Men United (Bryan Singer, USA)
27. Thirteen (Catherine Hardwicke, USA)

28. Niki and Flo (Lucian Pintilie, Romania) (No USA Release)


2004
1. Sideways (Alexander Payne, USA)
2. Kill Bill Volume Two (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, USA)
4. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson, USA)
5. I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell, USA)
6. The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia)
7. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh, UK)
8. Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, UK)

9. Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi, USA)
10. Rick (Curtiss Clayton, USA)
11. Closer (Mike Nicols, USA)
12. Kinsey (Bill Condon, USA)
13. The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Niels Mueller, USA)

14. Six Shooter (Martin McDonagh, Ireland)
15. The Village (M. Night Shyamalan, USA)
16. The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
17. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater, USA)
18. Mean Creek (Jacob Aaron Estes, USA)
19. Maria Full of Grace (Joshua Marston, USA)
20. Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
21. The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenabar, Spain)
22. The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles, Argentina)
23. Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
24. The Terminal (Steven Spielberg, USA)
25. Wicker Park (Paul McGuigan, USA)
26. Silver City (John Sayles, USA)
27. The Aviator (Martin Scorsese, USA)
28. The Passion of The Christ (Mel Gibson, USA)
29. Team America World Police (Trey Parker, USA)
30. Spanglish (James L. Brooks, USA)
31. House of Flying Daggers (Yimou Zhang, China)
32. In Good Company (Paul Weitz, USA)
33. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, USA)
34. The Ladykillers (Joel Coen/Ethan Coen, USA)
35. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Adam McKay, USA)
36. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Kerry Conran, USA)
37. The Door in the Floor (Tod Williams, USA)
38. Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, USA)


2005 
1. Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch, USA)
2. The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Girodana, Italy)
3.The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Tommy Lee Jones, USA)
4. King's and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
5. Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, USA)
6. Match Point (Woody Allen, UK)
7. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, USA)
8. Sympathy for Mr. Vengence (Chan-wook Park, South Korea)
9. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, USA)

10. Palindromes (Todd Solondz, USA)
11. 3-Iron (Ki-duk Kim, South Korea)
12. The Weather Man (Gore Verbinski, USA)

13. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumback, USA)
14. Head-On (Fatih Akin, Germany)
15. Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney, USA)
16. The Ice Harvest (Harold Ramis, USA)
17. Junebug (Phil Morrison, USA)
18. King Kong (Peter Jackson, New Zealand/USA)
19. Memories of Murder (Joon-ho Bong, South Korea)

20. The Fan and the Flower (Bill Plympton, USA)
21. Keane (Lodge Kerrigan, USA)
22. Tony Takitani (Jun Ichikawa, Japan)
23. Far Side of the Moon (Robert Lepage, Canada)
24. Save the Green Planet! (Joon-Hwan Jang, South Korea)
25. Schultze Gets the Blues (Michael Schorr, Germany)
26. Six Feet Under: "Everyone's Waiting" (Alan Ball, USA)
27. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan)
28. The Matador (Richard Shepard, USA)
29. Oldboy (Chan-wook Park, South Korea)
30. Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegal, Germany)
31. Capote (Bennett Miller, USA)
32. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Shane Black, USA)
33. In Her Shoes (Curtis Hanson, USA)
34. Jettison Your Loved Ones (Ray Tintori, USA)
35. Millions (Danny Boyle, UK)
36. Lord of War (Andrew Niccol, USA)
37. Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, USA)
38. Wallace and Gromit-The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Steve Box, Nick Park, UK)
39. Layer Cake (Matthew Vaughn, UK)
40. Munich (Steven Spielberg, USA)
41. Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)

42. The Upside of Anger (Mike Binder, USA)
43. An Unfinished Life (Lasse Hailstorm, USA)
44. Everything Is Illuminated (Liev Schreiber, USA)
45. War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg, USA)
46. 5x2 (Francois Ozon, France)
47. Unleashed (Louis Leterrier, France/USA/UK)
48. Corpse Bride (Tim Burton, USA)
49. Melinda and Melinda (Woody Allen, USA)
50. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (Jane Anderson, USA)
51. Film Geek (James Westby, USA)
52. V for Vendetta (James McTeigue, USA/UK/Germany)
53. The World’s Fastest Indian (Roger Donaldson, New Zealand/USA)
54. Oliver Twist (Roman Polanski, Czech Republic/France/Italy/UK)
55. Assisted Living (Elliot Greenebaum, USA)
56. Apres Vous. . . (Pierre Salvadori, France)
57. King of the Corner (Peter Riegert, USA)


2006 
1. Little Children (Todd Field, USA)
2. Children of Men (Alfonso Cueron, UK/USA)
3. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, Romania)
4. Babel (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, France/USA/Mexico)
5. A Prairie Home Companion (Robert Altman, USA)
6. Tideland (Terry Gilliam, USA)
7. Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, USA)
8. Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster, USA)
9. The Last King of Scotland (Kevin MacDonald, UK) 

10. Don’t Come Knocking (Wim Wenders, France/Germany/USA)
11. Inland Empire (David Lynch, USA)
12. Lady in the Water (M. Night Shymalan, USA)
13. Lunacy (Jan Svankmajer, Czech Republic/Slovakia)
14. What Is It? (Crispin Hellion Glover, USA)
15. Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, USA)
16. Volver (Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
17. The Illusionist (Neil Burger, Czech Republic/USA)
18. A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, USA)

19. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, Mexico)
20. Clerks II (Kevin Smith, USA)
21. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, UK)
22. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, USA)
23. Hard Candy (David Slade, USA)
24. Edmond (Stuart Gordon, USA)
25. Duck Season (Fernando Eimbcke, Mexico)
26. A Good Year (Ridley Scott, USA)
27. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tom Tykwer, Germany)
28. Lady Vengeance (Chan-Wook Park, South Korea)
29. Notes on a Scandal (Richard Eyre, UK)
30. Bubble (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
31. Dead Man’s Shoes (Shane Meadows, UK)
32. Down in the Valley (David Jacobson, USA)
33. Happy Feet (George Miller, USA)
34. Thank You For Smoking (Jason Reitman, USA)
35. Strangers with Candy (Paul Dinello, USA)
36. Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (Albert Brooks, USA)


2007
1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, USA/France)
2. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
3. No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, USA)
4. Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, USA)
5. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, Romania)
6. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, USA)
7. Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, USA)
8. The Banishment (Andrei Zvyagintsev, Russia) (RELEASED IN USA IN 2018)
9. 12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
10. King of California (Mike Cahill, USA)
11. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon, USA)
12. Zodiac (David Fincher, USA)
13. The Hawk Is Dying (Julian Goldberger, USA)
14. Dr. Plonk (Rolf de Heer, Australia) (NO USA RELEASE)
15. Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran, Belgium/France/UK)
16. The Lookout (Scott Frank, USA)
17. The Band's Visit (Eran Kolirin, Israel)
18. Angel-A (Luc Besson, France)
19. The Bothersome Man (Jens Lien, Norway)
20. Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, UK)
21. Bug (William Friedkin, USA)
22. Jindabyne (Ray Lawrence, Australia)
23. It Is Fine, EVERYTHING IS FINE!!! (Crispin Hellion Glover, USA)
24. Joshua (George Ratliff, USA)
25. Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols, USA)
26. The Boss Of It All (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
27. Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin, Canada)
28. Red Road (Andrea Arnold, UK)
29. Fay Grim (Hal Hartley, USA)
30. Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, USA)
31. The Savages (Tamara Jenkins, USA)
32. Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi, France)
33. Lights in the Dusk (Aki Kaurismaki, Finland)
34. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, UK)
35. Ratatouille (Brad Bird, USA)
36. With Your Permission (Paprika Steen, Denmark) (NO USA RELEASE)
37. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Jake Kasdan, USA)
38. The Mist (Frank Darabont, USA) 
39. L'Iceberg (Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Belgium)
40. Mr. Brooks (Bruce A. Evans, USA)
41. Slipstream (Anthony Hopkins, USA)
42. Vitus (Fredi M. Murer, Switzerland)
43. The Good Night (Jake Paltrow, USA) 
44. The Merry Gentleman (Michael Keaton, USA)
45. Eagle vs Shark (Taika Waititi, New Zealand)
46. The Nines (John August, USA)
47. The Ten (David Wain, USA)
48. Breach (Billy Ray, USA)
49. The TV Set (Jake Kasdan, USA)
50. Grace Is Gone (James C Strouse, USA)
51. Stardust (Matthew Vaughn, UK)
52. Death at a Funeral (Frank Oz, UK)
53. Superbad (Greg Mottola, USA)
54. Spider-Man 3 (Sam Raimi, USA)
55. Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie, USA)


2008
1. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, USA)
2. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh, UK)
3. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, USA)
4. Snow Angels (David Gordon Green, USA)
5. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, USA)
6. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, UK)
7. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico)
8. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, USA)
9. The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, USA)
10. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, USA)
11. The Secret of the Grain (Abdel Kechiche, France)
12. A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
13. The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, Germany)
14. Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols, USA)
15. Baghead (Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass, USA)
16. My Father, My Lord (David Volach, Israel)
17. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, USA)
18. Blindness (Fernando Meirelles, Canada/Brazil)
19. Four Nights with Anna (Jerzy Skolimowsky, Poland)--NO USA RELEASE
20. Burn After Reading (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, USA)
21. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen, Spain/USA)
22. Elegy (Isabel Coixet, USA)
23. The Class (Laurent Cantet, France)
24. Stuck (Stuart Gordon, USA)
25. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kurt Kuenne, USA)
26. Changeling (Clint Eastwood, USA)
27. Moscow, Belgium (Christophe Van Rompaey, Belgium)
28. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, Canada)
29. Sangre de mi Sangre (Christopher Zalla, USA/Argentina)
30. Step Brothers (Adam McKay, USA)
31. Roman de Gare (Claude Lelouch, France)
32. Married Life (Ira Sachs, USA)
33. The Visitor (Tom McCarthy, USA)
34. Zack and Miri Make a Porno (Kevin Smith, USA)
35. Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog, USA)
36. Ghost Town (David Koepp, USA)
37. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller, USA)
38. Hamlet 2 (Andrew Fleming, USA)
39. Finding Amanda (Peter Tolan, USA)
40. What Just Happened (Barry Levinson, USA)
41. Frozen River (Courtney Hunt, USA)
42. Role Models (David Wain, USA)
43. Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green, USA)
44. Towelhead (Alan Ball, USA)
45. Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Guillermo del Toro, USA)
46. Henry Poole Is Here (Mark Pellington, USA)

47. Gruber's Journey (Radu Gabrea, Romania) (No USA Release)

48. Boygo (Pier Paolo Giarolo, Italy) (No USA Release)

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2009
1. A Serious Man (Joel Coen/Ethan Coen, USA)
2. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
3. Up in the Air (Jason Reitman, USA)
4. In the Loop (Armando Iannucci, UK)
5. Cold Souls (Sophie Barthes, USA)
6. California Dreamin' (Endless) (Cristian Nemescu, Romania)
7. You, the Living (Roy Andersson, Sweden)
8. Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar, Mexico)
9. Julia (Erick Zonca, France/USA)
10. Revanche (Gotz Spielmann, Austria)
11. A Town Called Panic (Stephanie Aubier/Vincent Patar, Belgium)
12. Antichrist (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
13. The Messenger (Oren Moverman, USA)
14. Moon (Duncan Jones, UK)

15. Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan)
16. Taxidermia (Gyorgy Palfi, Hungary)
17. Import/Export (Ulrich Seidl, Austria)
18. Lorna's Silence (Dardenne Brothers, Belguim)
19. The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, France)
20. Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumbolu, Romania)
21. O'Horten (Bent Hamer, Norway)
22. Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley, USA)
23. The Road (John Hillcoat, USA)
24. Sea Legs (Craig Butta, USA)—NO USA RELEASE
25. The Windmill Movie (Alexander Olch, USA)
26. Tulpan (Sergei Dvortsevoy, Kazakhstan)
27. 12 (Nikita Mikhalkov, Russia)
28. Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani, USA)
29. Mary and Max (Adam Elliot, Australia)
30. Mad Men: “Shut the Door. Have a Seat.” (Matthew Weiner, USA) (TV)
31. Black Dynamite (Scott Sanders, USA)
32. Disgrace (Steve Jacobs, Australia)
33. Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze, USA)
34. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, USA)
35. Whatever Works (Woody Allen, USA)
36. World's Greatest Dad (Bobcat Goldthwait, USA) 
37. The House of the Devil (Ti West, USA)
38. Autumn Ball (Veiko Ounpuu, Estonia)
39. Coraline (Henry Selick, USA)
40. Somers Town (Shane Meadows, UK)
41. Up (Pete Doctor, USA)
42. Big Fan (Robert Siegal, USA)
43. Cargo 200 (Aleksei Balabanov, Russia)
44. Pontypool (Bruce McDonald, Canada)
45. Adoration (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
46. Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn, UK)
47. Phoebe in Wonderland (Daniel Barnz, USA)
48. Away We Go (Sam Mendes, USA)
49. Lymelife (Derick Martini, USA)
50. Adventureland (Greg Mottola, USA)
51. The Missing Person (Noah Buschel, USA)
52. The Damned United (Tom Hooper, UK)
53. Five Minutes of Heaven (Oliver Hirschbiegel, UK)
54. Orphan (Jaume Collet-Serra, Canada/Germany/USA)
55. The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)
56. State of Play (Kevin MacDonald, USA)
57. Eldorado (Bouli Lannders, Belgium)
58. Everybody's Fine (Kirk Jones, USA)
59. The Escapist (Rupert Wyatt, UK)
60. The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, USA)