| 1. In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-wai | 2000 |
| 2. There Will Be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2007 |
| 3. Children of Men | Alfonso Cuarón | 2006 |
| 4. Songs from the Second Floor | Roy Andersson | 2000 |
| 5. Hero | Zhang Yimou | 2002 |
| 6. Werckmeister Harmonies | Béla Tarr | 2000 |
| 7. Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | 2001 |
| 8. The New World | Terrence Malick | 2005 |
| 9. The White Ribbon | Michael Haneke | 2009 |
| 10. Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2002 |
| 11. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | Andrew Dominik | 2007 |
| 12. Yi Yi | Edward Yang | 2000 |
| 13. 2046 | Wong Kar-wai | 2004 |
| 14. Syndromes and a Century | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 2006 |
| 15. The Royal Tenenbaums | Wes Anderson | 2001 |
| 16. The Lord of the Rings | Peter Jackson | 2001-03 |
| 17. Lost in Translation | Sofia Coppola | 2003 |
| 18. Kill Bill | Quentin Tarantino | 2003-04 |
| 19. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance | Park Chan-wook | 2002 |
| 20. Dancer in the Dark | Lars von Trier | 2000 |
| 21. Requiem for a Dream | Darren Aronofsky | 2000 |
| 22. Irreversible | Gaspar Noé | 2002 |
| 23. The Dark Knight | Christopher Nolan | 2008 |
| 24. Caché | Michael Haneke | 2005 |
| 25. Zodiac | David Fincher | 2007 |
| 26. Atonement | Joe Wright | 2007 |
| 27. Y Tu Mamá También | Alfonso Cuarón | 2001 |
| 28. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Michel Gondry | 2004 |
| 29. Pan’s Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro | 2006 |
| 30. No Country For Old Men | The Coen Brothers | 2007 |
| 31. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days | Cristian Mungiu | 2007 |
| 32. Moulin Rouge! | Baz Luhrmann | 2001 |
| 33. Traffic | Steven Soderbergh | 2000 |
| 34. Amores Perros | Alejandro Iñárritu | 2000 |
| 35. Memento | Christopher Nolan | 2000 |
| 36. Before Sunset | Richard Linklater | 2004 |
| 37. Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | 2009 |
| 38. 25th Hour | Spike Lee | 2002 |
| 39. A Serious Man | The Coen Brothers | 2009 |
| 40. The Departed | Martin Scorsese | 2006 |
| 41. The Aviator | Martin Scorsese | 2004 |
| 42. Oldboy | Park Chan-wook | 2003 |
| 43. Amelie | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 2001 |
| 44. The Fountain | Darren Aronofsky | 2006 |
| 45. Spirited Away | Hiyao Miyazaki | 2001 |
| 46. A History of Violence | David Cronenberg | 2005 |
| 47. Platform | Jia Zhangke | 2000 |
| 48. You, The Living | Roy Andersson | 2007 |
| 49. Marie Antoinette | Sofia Coppola | 2006 |
| 50. Valhalla Rising | Nicolas Winding Refn | 2009 |
| 51. Synecdoche, New York | Charlie Kaufman | 2008 |
| 52. City of God | Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund | 2002 |
| 53. Still Life | Jia Zhangke | 2006 |
| 54. Enter the Void | Gaspar Noé | 2009 |
| 55. Talk to Her | Pedro Almodóvar | 2002 |
| 56. Hunger | Steve McQueen | 2008 |
| 57. Fantastic Mr. Fox | Wes Anderson | 2009 |
| 58. The Piano Teacher | Michael Haneke | 2001 |
| 59. Antichrist | Lars von Trier | 2009 |
| 60. The Darjeeling Limited | Wes Anderson | 2007 |
| 61. Memories of Murder | Bong Joon-ho | 2003 |
| 62. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | Ang Lee | 2000 |
| 63. O Brother Where Art Thou? | The Coen Brothers | 2000 |
| 64. Avatar | James Cameron | 2009 |
| 65. Road to Perdition | Sam Mendes | 2002 |
| 66. Lady Vengeance | Park Chan-wook | 2005 |
| 67. A.I. Artificial Intelligence | Steven Spielberg | 2001 |
| 68. Code Unknown | Michael Haneke | 2000 |
| 69. Bad Education | Pedro Almodóvar | 2004 |
| 70. Mystic River | Clint Eastwood | 2003 |
| 71. Bright Star | Jane Campion | 2009 |
| 72. I Killed My Mother | Xavier Dolan | 2009 |
| 73. Pride and Prejudice | Joe Wright | 2005 |
| 74. WALL-E | Andrew Stanton | 2008 |
| 75. Elephant | Gus van Sant | 2003 |
| 76. Gosford Park | Robert Altman | 2001 |
| 77. 21 Grams | Alejandro Iñárritu | 2003 |
| 78. American Psycho | Mary Harron | 2000 |
| 79. The Man From London | Béla Tarr | 2005 |
| 80. Dogtooth | Yorgos Lanthimos | 2009 |
| 81. Million Dollar Baby | Clint Eastwood | 2004 |
| 82. Far From Heaven | Todd Haynes | 2002 |
| 83. Wendy and Lucy | Kelly Reichardt | 2008 |
| 84. Brokeback Mountain | Ang Lee | 2005 |
| 85. Millennium Actress | Satoshi Kon | 2001 |
| 86. Sin City | Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller | 2005 |
| 87. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith | George Lucas | 2005 |
| 88. Broken Embraces | Pedro Almódovar | 2009 |
| 89. Spider | David Cronenberg | 2002 |
| 90. Broken Flowers | Jim Jarmusch | 2005 |
| 91. Master and Commander: Far Side of the World | Peter Weir | 2003 |
| 92. Speed Racer | The Wachowskis | 2008 |
| 93. Donnie Darko | Richard Kelly | 2001 |
| 94. Two Lovers | James Gray | 2008 |
| 95. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | David Fincher | 2008 |
| 96. Polytechnique | Denis Villeneuve | 2009 |
| 97. The Prestige | Christopher Nolan | 2006 |
| 98. Morvern Caller | Lynne Ramsay | 2002 |
| 99. Gangs of New York | Martin Scorsese | 2002 |
| 100. The World | Jia Zhangke | 2004 |
