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Title Year Country Director
Minority Report 2002 US Steven Spielberg
A.I: Artificial Intelligence 2001 US Steven Spielberg
Amelie 2001 France Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Ghost World 2001 US Terry Zwigoff
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001 New Zealand-US Peter Jackson
Moulin Rouge 2001 US/ UK Baz Luhrmann
Mulholland Drive 2001 US David Lynch
Monsters Inc. 2001 US Pete Docter
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000 Taiwan, US, China Ang Lee
Dancer in the Dark 2000 Denmark,France,Sweden Lars Von Trier
High Fidelity 2000 US Stephen Frears
In the Mood for Love 2000 HK Wong Kar-Wai
Memento 2000 US Christopher Nolan
Requiem for a Dream 2000 US Darren Aronofsky
Yi Yi 2000 Taiwan Edward Yang
American Beauty 1999 US Sam Mendes
Blair Witch Project, The 1999 US Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez
Go 1999 US Doug Liman
Fight Club 1999 US David Fincher
Run Lola Run 1999 German Tom Tykwer
Sixth Sense, the 1999 US M. Night Shyamalan
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut 1999 US Trey Parker
Toy Story 2 1999 US John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich,Ash Brannon
Hilary and Jackie 1998 UK Anand Tucker
Mulan 1998 US Barry Cook, Tony Bancroft
Pleasantville 1998 US Gary Ross
Simple Plan, a 1998 US Sam Raimi
Shakespeare in Love 1998 US/UK John Madden
There's Something About Mary 1998 US Peter Farrelly
12 Storeys 1997 Singapore Eric Khoo
Conspiracy Theory 1997 US Richard Donner 
Comrades, Almost a Love Story 1997 HK Peter Chan
Happy Together 1997 HK Wong Kar-Wai
Full Monty, The 1997 UK Peter Cattaneo
Gattaca 1997 US Andrew Niccol 
Ma Vie En Rose  1997 Belgium Alain Berliner 
Men in Black 1997 US Barry Sonnenfeld 
2 Days in the Valley 1996 US John Herzfeld 
Bound 1996 US Larry Wachowski, 
Andy Wachowski
Chungking Express 1996 HK Wong Kar-Wai
Fargo 1996 US Joel Coen
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The  1996 US Gary Trousdale, 
Kirk Wise
Boys on the Side 1995 US Herbert Ross
Cyclo 1995 France-Vietnam Tran Anh Hung
City of Lost Children 1995 France- 
Germany-Spain
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
Copycat 1995 US Jon Amiel 
Dolores Claiborne  1995 US Taylor Hackford 
Smoke 1995 US Wayne Wang
Toy Story 1995 US John Lasseter
Clerks 1994 US Kelvin Smith
Floundering 1994 US Peter McCarthy
Forrest Gump  1994 US Robert Zemeckis 
Natural Born Killers 1994 US Oliver Stone
Red  1994 France-Poland- 
Switzerland
Krzysztof Kieslowski 
Shawshank Redemption, The  1994 US Frank Durabond 
To Live 1994 China Zhang Yimou
True Lies 1994 US James Cameron
Fugitive, The 1993 US Andrew Davis 
Groundhog Day 1993 US Harol Ramis
In the Line of Fire 1993 US Wolfgang Peterson 
In the Name of the Father  1993 Ireland-US Jim Sheridan 
Scent of Green Papaya, The 1993 France-Vietnam Tran Anh Hung
Schindler's List  1993 US Steven Spielberg 
Wedding Banquet, The 1993 Taiwan-US Ang Lee
Aladdin 1992 US John Musker, 
Ron Clements 
Centre Stage 1992 HK Stanley Kwan
Crying Game, The 1992 UK Neil Jordan
Husbands and Wives 1992 US Woody Allen
Rebel of the Neon God 1992 Taiwan Tsai Ming Liang
Reservoir Dogs  1992 US Quentin Tarantino
Story of Qiu Ju, The 1992 China Zhang Yimou 
Un Coeur en Hiver (a Heart in Winter)  1992 France Claude Sautet 
Wayne's World 1992 US Penelope Spheeris
Beauty and the Beast  1991 US Kirk Wise, 
Gary Trousdale 
Days of Being Wild 1991 HK Wong Kar-Wai
Dead Again 1991 US Kenneth Branagh 
Double Life of Veronique, The 1991 France-Poland  Krzysztof Kieslowski
JFK 1991 US Oliver Stone
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 US James Cameron
Alice 1990 US Woody Allen 
Edward Scissorhands 1990 US Tim Burton 
Ghost 1990 US Jerry Zucker 
Grifters, The 1990 US Stephen Frears 
Hamlet 1990 US Franco Zeffirelli 
Matropolitan 1990 US Whit Stillman
Back to the Future Part II 1989 US Robert Zemeckis 
Dead Poets Society 1989 US Peter Weir 
Do the Right Thing  1989 US Spike Lee 
Heathers 1989 US Michael Lehmann 
Parenthood 1989 US Ron Howard
Santa Sangre 1989 Italy-Mexico Alejandro Jodorowsky 
Accidental Tourist, The 1988 US Lawrence Kasdan 
Bagdad Cafe 1988 West Germany Percy Adlon
Big 1988 US Penny Marshall 
Cinema Paradiso 1988 France-Italy Giuseppe Tornatore 
Mississippi Burning  1988 US Alan Parker
Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, The 1988 US David Zucker 
Running on Empty 1988 US Sydney Lumet
Vanishing, The  1988 France-
Netherlands
George Sluizer 
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 US Robert Zemeckis 
Working Girl 1988 US Mike Nichols
Angel Heart 1987 US Alan Parker 
Hellraiser 1987 UK Clive Barker 
Hope and Glory 1987 UK John Boorman 
Housekeeping 1987 UK Bill Forsyth
Red Sorghum  1987 China Zhang Yimou
Untouchables, The 1987 US Brian DePalma 
Blue Velvet 1986 US David Lynch
Ferris Bueller's Day Off  1986 US John Hughes 
Jean de Florette 1986 France Claude Berri 
Platoon 1986 US Oliver Stone
Stand by Me 1986 US Rob Reiner 
Brazil 1985 US Terry Gilliam 
Cocoon  1985 US Ron Howard 
Ladyhawke  1985 US Richard Donner 
Purple Rose of Cairo, The 1985 US Woody Allen
Sure Thing, The 1985 US Rob Reiner 
Witness 1985 US Peter Weir
Blood Simple 1984 US Joel Coen 
Killing Fields, The 1984 UK Roland Joffe 
Paris, Texas  1984 US Wim Wenders 
Places in the Heart 1984 US Robert Benton 
Romancing the Stone 1984 US Robert Zemeckis 
Terminator, The 1984 US James Cameron 
This Is Spinal Tap  1984 US Rob Reiner
Ballad of Narayama, The  1983 US Shohei Imamura
Man With Two Brains, The 1983 US Carl Reiner
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983 UK Terry Jones 
Trading Places 1983 US John Landis 
Gandhi  1982 India-UK Richard Attenborough 
Gods Must Be Crazy, The 1981 Botswana Jamie Uys
On Golden Pond 1981 US Mark Rydell 
Blues Brothers, The 1980 US John Landis 
Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 US Michael Apted
Elephant Man, The 1980 US David Lynch
Superman II 1980 US Richard Lester
Alien  1979 US Ridley Scott 
China Syndrome, The  1979 US James Bridge
Midnight Express 1978 US Alan Parker 
Superman 1978 US Richard Donner
3 Women 1977 US Robert Altman 
Taxi Driver  1976 US Martin Scorcece 
Godfather Part II, The 1974 US Francis Ford Coppola 
Phantom of Liberty, The 1974 France Luis Bunuel 
Badlands 1973 US Terrence Malick 
Paper Moon  1973 US Peter Bogdanovich 
Cabaret 1972 US Bob Fosse 
Deliverance 1972 US John Boorman 
Godfather, The 1972 US Francis Ford Coppola
Harold and Maude 1972 US Hal Ashby 
Play It Again, Sam  1972 US Herbert Ross
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK Stanley Kubrick 
Yellow Submarine 1968 UK George Dunning 
Dr. Strangelove or: 
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 UK Stanley Kubrick 
Mary Poppins 1964 US Robert Stevenson
My Fair Lady 1964 US George Cukor
Psycho 1960 US Alfred Hitchcock 
Four Hundred Blows, The 1959 France François Truffaut 
North by Northwest 1959 US Alfred Hitchcock
Some Like It Hot  1959 US Billy Wilder 
12 Angry Men 1957 US Sydney Lumet 
Throne of Blood 1957 Japan Akira Kurosawa 
Roman Holiday 1953 US William Wyler 
Ugetsu 1953 Japan Kenji Muzoguchi 
African Queen, The 1951 US John Huston
Alice in Wonderland 1951 US Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske
Strangers on a Train  1951 US Alfred Hitchcock
All About Eve 1950 US Joseph L. Mankiewicz 
Casablanca  1942 US Michael Curtiz 
Citizen Kane 1941 US Orson Welles 
Fantasia 1940 US Samuel Armstrong, James Algar
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington  1939 US Frank Capra 
Lady Vanishes, The 1938 UK Alfred Hitchcock