1960's

1960:

1. Psycho (Hitchcock)
2. The Apartment (Wilder)
3. L'Avventura (Antonioni)
4. La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
5. Breathless (Godard)
6. The Virgin Spring (Bergman)
7. Peeping Tom (Powell)
8. Shoot the Piano Player (Truffaut)
9. Eyes Without a Face (Franju)
10. Le Trou (Becker)

Also rans:
Black Sunday (Bava)
Spartacus (Kubrick)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Naruse)
Inherit the Wind (Kramer)


1961:
1. Viridiana (Buñuel)
2. Yojimbo (Kurosawa)
3. The Hustler (Rossen)
4. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
5. The Innocents (Clayton)
6. Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman)
7. West Side Story (Robbins/Wise)
8. La Notte (Antonioni)
9. A Woman is a Woman (Godard)
10. Il Posto (Olmi)

Near misses:
Lola (Demy)
Human Condition III (Kobayashi)
The Guns of Navarone (Thompson)


1962:
1. Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
2. La Jetée (Marker)
3. My Life to Live (Godard)
4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford)
5. The Trial (Welles)
6. Winter Light (Bergman)
7. L’Eclisse (Antonioni)
8. Jules and Jim (Truffaut)
9. Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda)
10. Carnival of Souls (Harvey)

Also rans:
The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Mulligan)
The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel)


1963:
1. 8 ½ (Fellini)
2. The Birds (Hitchcock)
3. High and Low (Kurosawa)
4. Contempt (Godard)
5. Shock Corridor (Fuller)
6. The Servant (Losey)
7. The Haunting (Wise)
8. Charade (Donen)
9. The Great Escape (J. Sturges)
10. The House is Black (Farrokhzad)

Also rans:
I Fidanzati (Olmi)
Jason and the Argonauts (Chaffey)
Flaming Creatures (Smith)


1964:
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Kubrick)
2. Band of Outsiders (Godard)
3. Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara)
4. I Am Cuba (Kalatozov)
5. Onibaba (Shindô)
6. Fail-Safe (Lumet)
7. A Hard Day’s Night (Lester)
8t. Scorpio Rising (Anger)
8t. Marnie (Hitchcock)
10t. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy)
10t. Shadows Of Our Forgotten Ancestors (Parajanov)

Not quite:
Charulata (S. Ray)
A Fistful of Dollars (Leone)
Goldfinger (Hamilton)


1965:
1. Repulsion (Polanski)
2. For a Few Dollars More (Leone)
3. Red Beard (Kurosawa)
4t. The War Game (Watkins)
4t. The Shop on Main Street (Kadár/Klos)
6. Pierrot le Fou (Godard)
7. Juliet of the Spirits (Fellini)
8. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Meyer)
9. Loves of a Blonde (Forman)
10. Alphaville (Godard)

Missed it by that much:
Dr. Zhivago (Lean)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (Melendez)
The Collector (Wyler)


1966:
1. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Leone)
2. Persona (Bergman)
3. Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
4. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
5. Blowup (Antonioni)
6. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Nichols)
7. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Jones/Washam)
8. Masculin, féminin (Godard)
9. A Man for All Seasons (Zinnemann)
10. Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki)

Just missed:
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Melendez)


1967:
1. Play Time (Tati)
2. Le Samouraï (Melville)
3. Bonnie and Clyde (Penn)
4. The Graduate (Nichols)
5. Point Blank (Boorman)
6. Mouchette (Bresson)
7. Week End (Godard)
8. The Firemen's Ball (Forman)
9. Cool Hand Luke (Rosenberg)
10. Belle de jour (Buñuel)

Near misses:
Samurai Rebellion (Kobayashi)
In Cold Blood (Brooks)
Branded to Kill (Suzuki)
Titicut Follies (Wiseman)
Wavelength (Snow)


1968:
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
2. Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone)
3. Rosemary's Baby (Polanski)
4. Night of the Living Dead (Romero)
5t. Faces (Cassavetes)
5t. Planet of the Apes (Schaffner)
7. Pas de deux (McLaren)
8. If … (Anderson)
9. The Producers (Brooks)
10. Hour of the Wolf (Bergman)

Not quite:
Stolen Kisses (Truffaut)
High School (Wiseman)
Yellow Submarine (Dunning)

1969:

1. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)

2. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)

3t. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill)

3t. Army of Shadows (Melville)

5. Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger)

6. Satyricon (Fellini)

7. Take the Money and Run (Allen)

8. Easy Rider (Hopper)

9. Kes (Loach)

10. My Night at Maud's (Rohmer)

Not quite there:

Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (Wakamatsu)

Z (Costa-Gavras)

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Pollack)