Cahiers du Cinema - Best Movies 1951 - 2006

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1951 - The River (Jean Renoir)

1955 - Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini)

1956 - A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson)

1957 - A King in New York (Charlie Chaplin)

1958 - Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)

1959 - Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi)

1960 - Sansho The Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi)

1961 - Lola (Jacques Demy)

1962 - My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard)

1963 - Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)

1964 - Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)

1965 - Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)

1966 - Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)

1967 - Persona (Ingmar Bergman)

1968 - Chronicle of Anna-Magdalena Bach (Jean-Marie Straub)

1981 - Francisca (Manoel De Oliveira) / The Aviator’s Wife (Eric Rohmer)

1982 - A Room in Town (Jacques Demy)

1983 - L’Argent (Robert Bresson) / A Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat)

1984 - Full Moon in Paris (Eric Rohmer)

1985 - Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard)

1986 - The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer)

1987 - Under the Sun of Satan (Maurice Pialat)

1988 - A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

1989 - Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) / Palombella Rossa (Nanni Moretti)

1990 - The Little Criminal (Jacques Doillon) / Freeze, Die, Come to Life (Vitali Kanevski)

1991 - Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat)

1992 - Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)

1993 - A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood)

1994 - Caro Diario (Nanni Moretti)

1995 - La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol)

1996 - Crash (David Cronenberg)

1997 - Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano)

1998 - Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

1999 - Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick)

2000 - Esther Kahn (Arnaud Desplechin)

2001 - Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)

2002 - Choses Secrètes (Jean-Claude Brisseau) / Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)

2004 - Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

2005 - Last Days (Gus Van Sant)

2006 - Coeurs (Alain Resnais) / Le Soileil (Aleksandr Sokurov)

The full top ten lists for each year can be found here.

MORE:

American Film Institute’s Top 100 Movies of All Times

BAFTA Award for Best Film 1948 -

British Film Institute – Top 100 British Films of the 20th Century

Cahiers du Cinema: 100 Most Beautiful Films in the World

FIPRESCI Grand Prix for Best Film of the Year

Oscars - Best Foreign Language Films 1947 -

Oscars - Best Picture 1927 -