Mysterious Object at Noon(Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Under the Sand(François Ozon)
Battle Royale(Kinji Fukasaku)
A Matter of Taste(Bernard Rapp)
Sexy Beast(Jonathan Glazer)
Wonder Boys(Curtis Hanson)
Suzhou River(Lou Ye)
The Yards(James Gray)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?(Joel Coen)
Requiem for a Dream(Darren Aronofsky)
Werckmeister Harmonies(Béla Tarr)
Nine Queens(Fabián Bielinsky)
Best in Show(Christopher Guest)
Blackboards(Samira Makhmalbaf)
Meet the Parents(Jay Roach)
Les Destinées(Olivier Assayas)
Esther Kahn(Arnaud Desplechin)
Workers for the Good Lord(Jean-Claude Brisseau)
Dead or Alive 2: Birds(Takashi Miike)
Mission: Impossible II(John Woo)
Loners(David Ondrícek)
Liam(Stephen Frears)
The Miracle Maker(Stanislav Sokolov & Derek Hayes)
Happy Times(Zhang Yimou)
The Dark Room(Marie Christine Questerbert)
The Gift(Sam Raimi)
American Psycho(Mary Harron)
Chaos(Hideo Nakata)
The Weight of Water(Kathryn Bigelow)
Bait(Antoine Fuqua)
Time of Favor(Joseph Cedar)
The Perfect Storm(Wolfgang Petersen)
Bamboozled(Spike Lee)
Unbreakable(M. Night Shyamalan)
Scarlet Diva(Asia Argento)
Real Fiction(Kim Ki-duk)
Reindeer Games(John Frankenheimer)
waydowntown(Gary Burns)
O Fantasma(João Pedro Rodrigues)
The Letterboxd
version of this list has posters for every film and whatnot.
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are
marked with if I
currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to
being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit
them and they get a numeral.
Seen but currently unrated (and not
presumptively among my top 10):Aberdeen (Moland);
Adanggaman (M'Bala); The Adventures of Felix (Ducastel &
Martineau); All the Pretty Horses (Thornton); The American
Nightmare (Simon); Animal Factory (Buscemi); The Art of
War (Duguay); Auggie Rose (Tabak); Beautiful Creatures
(Eagles); Bedazzled (Ramis); Before Night Falls (Schnabel);
Billy Elliot (Daldry); Bless the Child (Russell);
Boesman & Lena (Berry); Boiler Room (Younger); Book of
Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (Berlinger); BookWars (Rosette);
Bread and Roses (Loach); Bread & Tulips (Soldini); Bring
It On (Reed); Brother (Kitano); Calle 54 (Trueba);
Cecil B. Demented (Waters); Charlie's Angels (McG);
Chasing Sleep (Walker); Chocolat (Hallström);
Chronically Unfeasible (Bianchi); Chuck & Buck (Arteta);
Chunhyang (Im); The City of Lost Souls (Miike); The
Claim (Winterbottom); The Comedy of Innocence (Ruiz);
Committed (Krueger); The Crimson Rivers (Kassovitz);
Dark Days (Singer); Dinner Rush (Giraldi); Dinosaur
(Zondag & Leighton); The Dish (Sitch); Divided We Fall
(Hrebejk); Dr. T & the Women (Altman); Drowning Mona
(Gomez); An Everlasting Piece (Levinson); Everybody's
Famous (Deruddere); The Eyes of Tammy Faye (Bailey &
Barbato); Faat Kiné (Sembene); Faithless (Ullmann);
Fast Food Fast Women (Kollek); Fighter (Bar-Lev);
Finding Forrester (Van Sant); The Foul King (Kim);
Frequency (Hoblit); Gangster No. 1 (McGuigan);
Girlfight (Kusama); The Golden Bowl (Ivory); Groove
(Harrison); Hamlet (Scott & Simonson); Help!!! (To & Wai);
Hollow Man (Verhoeven); How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
(Kalesniko); Innocence (Cox); Into the Arms of Strangers:
Stories of the Kindertransport (M.J. Harris); The Isle (Kim);
Italian for Beginners (Scherfig); Jiang Hu—"The Triad
Zone" (Lam); Joe Gould's Secret (Tucci); Joint Security
Area (Park); kaza-hana (Somai); Keeping the Faith
(Norton); The King Is Alive (Levring); Kippur (Gitaï);
Krapp's Last Tape (Egoyan); La Captive (Akerman); La
Faute à Voltaire (Kechiche); Last Resort (Pawlikowski);
The Legend of Rita (Schlöndorff); Lost Souls
(Kaminski); Love & Basketball (Prince-Bythewood);
Love/Juice (Shindo); Love's Labour's Lost (Branagh);
Lumumba (Peck); The Luzhin Defence (Gorris); The
Magnet (Saleh & Akhenaton); Me, Myself & Irene (Farrellys);
Merci pour le chocolat (Chabrol); The Million Dollar Hotel
(Wenders); Mission to Mars (De Palma); The New Country
(Jörgensen); Nico and Dani (Gay); Nurse Betty
(LaBute); 101 Reykjavík (Kormákur); The Original
Kings of Comedy (S. Lee); Our Lady of the Assassins
(Schroeder); Our Song (McKay); Panic (Bromell); Pitch
Black (Twohy); Platform (Jia); Pollock (E. Harris);
The Price of Milk (Sinclair); The Princess and the Warrior
(Tykwer); Quills (Kaufman); Red Planet (Hoffman);
Remember the Titans (Yakin); Revelations: Paradise Lost 2
(Berlinger & Sinofsky); Rules of Engagement (Friedkin);
Seance (Kurosawa); Shadow of the Vampire (Merhige);
Shanghai Noon (Dey); Signs & Wonders (Nossiter); Small
Time Crooks (Allen); Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine
(Farmanara); Snatch. (Ritchie); Sound and Fury (Aronson);
Space Cowboys (Eastwood); The Stranger (Spielmann); Such
Is Life (Ripstein); Suspicious River (Stopkewich); The Tao
of Steve (Goodman); The Target Shoots First (Wilcha); The
Taste of Others (Jaoui); Thomas in Love (Renders); Time and
Tide (Tsui); A Time for Drunken Horses (Ghobadi);
Timecode (Figgis); To Die (Or Not) (Pons); The Town Is
Quiet (Guédiguian); Trixie (Rudolph); Two Family
House (De Felitta); U-571 (Mostow); Unwitnessed
Memories (Xenidou); Urbania (Shear); Versus (Kitamura);
The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Tran); Virgin Stripped Bare by Her
Bachelors (Hong); Waking the Dead (Gordon); Water Drops on
Burning Rocks (Ozon); The Way of the Gun (McQuarrie); What
Lies Beneath (Zemeckis); What Planet Are You From? (Nichols);
When Brendan Met Trudy (Walsh); With a Friend Like Harry
(Moll); The Wrestlers (Dasgupta); X-Men (Singer)
As yet unseen:El Valley Centro
(Benning); Fur on the Roses (Chervier & Obadia); The God of Day
Had Gone Down Upon Him (Brakhage)