National Society of Film Critics' Best Picture Winners by Award Year
1609
2024 P*
RaMell Ross
Ethan Cole Sharp, Sam Malone, Najah Bradley, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jase Stidwell
Drama / History
USA
English
1258
2024 P,F*
Payal Kapadia
Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon, Azees Nedumangad
Drama
France / India / Netherlands / Luxembourg / Italy
Malayalam
733
2024 P
Sean Baker
Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov, Ivy Wolk, Karren Karagulian
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2661
2024 F
Radu Jude
Ilinca Manolache, Ovidiu Pîrsan, Nina Hoss, Dorina Lazar
Comedy / Drama
Romania / Luxembourg / France / Croatia / Switzerland / UK / Canada
Romanian
1249
2024 F
Mohammad Rasoulof
Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki, Niousha Akhshi, Missagh Zareh, Soheila Golestani
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Germany / France
Persian
1081
2023 P*
Celine Song
Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro, Moon Seung-ah, Leem Seung-min
Drama / Romance
USA / South Korea
English
703
2023 P,F
Jonathan Glazer
Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Ralph Herforth, Max Beck, Marie Rosa Tietjen
Drama / History / War / Period Film
USA / UK / Poland
English
851
2023 P
Christopher Nolan
Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Scott Grimes
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK
English
1784
2023 F*
Aki Kaurismäki
Alma Pöysti, Alina Tomnikov, Jussi Vatanen, Sakari Kuosmanen, Martti Suosalo
Comedy / Drama
Finland / Germany
Finnish
764
2023 F
Justine Triet
Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner, Antoine Reinartz
Crime / Drama / Thriller
France
French
832
2022 P*
Todd Field
Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover
Drama / Music
USA
English
2661
2022 P,F
Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaseri, Bakhtiar Panjeei, Mina Kavani
Drama / Romance
Iran
Persian
1947
2022 P
Charlotte Wells
Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Sally Messham, Ayse Parlak
Drama
UK / USA
English
1359
2022 F*
Jerzy Skolimowski
Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz
Drama
Poland / Italy
Polish
1923
2022 F
Park Chan-wook
Park Hae-il, Tang Wei, Lee Jung-hyun, Go Kyung-Pyo, Shin-Young Kim
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
South Korea
Korean
1101
2021 P*
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima, Yoo-rim Park, Dae-Young Jin
Drama
Japan
Japanese
1743
2021 P
Céline Sciamma
Joséphine Sanz, Gabrielle Sanz, Nina Meurisse, Stéphane Varupenne
Drama / Fantasy
France
French
864
2021 P
Jane Campion
Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Drama / Romance / Western
UK / Australia / USA / Canada / New Zealand
English
566
2020 P*
Chloé Zhao
Frances McDormand, Gay DeForest, Patricia Grier, Linda May, Angela Reyes
Drama / Adventure
USA / Germany
English
1886
2020 P
Kelly Reichardt
John Magaro, Orion Lee, Rene Auberjonois, Toby Jones, Ewen Bremner
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2578
2020 P
Eliza Hittman
Ryan Eggold, Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin, Sidney Flanigan
Drama
UK / USA
English
1873
2020 F*
Alexander Nanau
Razvan Lutac, Mirela Neag, Catalin Tolontan, Tedy Ursuleanu, Vlad Voiculescu
Documentary
Romania / Luxembourg / Germany
Romanian
2449
2020 F
Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira, Thardelly Lima, Rubens Santos
Action / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Western
Brazil / France
Portuguese
2658
2020 F
Kantemir Balagov
Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov, Igor Shirokov
Drama / War / Period Film / History
Russia
Russian
2744
2020 F
Pedro Costa
Vitalina Varela, Ventura, Manuel Tavares Almeida, Francisco Brito
Drama
Portugal
Portuguese
399
2019 P*
Joon Ho Bong
Kang-ho Song, Yeo-jeong Jo, So-dam Park, Woo-sik Choi, Sun-kyun Lee, Seo-joon Park
Comedy / Drama / Thriller
South Korea
Korean
1345
2019 P
Greta Gerwig
Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Timothée Chalamet, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1092
2019 P
Quentin Tarantino
Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley
Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Period Film
UK / USA / China
English
2203
2018 P*
Chloé Zhao
Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau, Cat Clifford, Terri Dawn Pourier
Drama / Western
USA
English
529
2018 P,F*
Alfonso Cuarón
Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta
Drama
Mexico / USA
Spanish
1915
2018 P,F
Chang-dong Lee
Ah-in Yoo, Steven Yeun, Jong-seo Jun, Soo-Kyung Kim, Seung-ho Choi
Drama / Mystery / Crime
South Korea
Korean
955
2018 F
Pawel Pawlikowski
Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn
Drama / Music / Romance / History / Period Film
Poland / UK / France
Polish
998
2018 F
Hirokazu Koreeda
Lily Franky, Kirin Kiki, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Sakura Andô, Mayu Matsuoka
Crime / Drama
Japan
Japanese
1126
2017 P*
Greta Gerwig
Saoirse Ronan, Odeya Rush, Timothée Chalamet, Laurie Metcalf, Kathryn Newton
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1061
2017 P
Jordan Peele
Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford
Horror / Mystery
USA
English
1542
2017 P
Paul Thomas Anderson
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Vicky Krieps, Sue Clark, Joan Brown
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
2663
2017 F*
Cristian Mungiu
Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Rares Andrici, Lia Bugnar, Malina Manovici
Crime / Drama
Romania / France / Belgium
Romanian
1303
2017 F
Robin Campillo
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz
Drama / Romance
France
French
2418
2017 F
JR, Agnès Varda
Jean-Luc Godard, JR, Laurent Levesque, Agnès Varda
Documentary
France
French
577
2016 P*
Barry Jenkins
Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp, Duan Sanderson, Alex R. Hibbert, Janelle Monáe
Drama
USA
English
578
2016 P
Damien Chazelle
Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, J.K. Simmons, Finn Wittrock
Musical / Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
848
2016 P
Kenneth Lonergan
Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Liam McNeill
Drama
USA
English
823
2016 F*
Maren Ade
Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Michael Wittenborn, Thomas Loibl
Comedy / Drama
Germany / Austria
German
1412
2016 F
Paul Verhoeven
Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling, Virginie Efira
Drama / Thriller
France / Germany / Belgium
French
1364
2016 F
Chan-wook Park
Min-hee Kim, Tae-ri Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo, So-ri Moon, Hae-suk Kim
Drama / Romance / Thriller
South Korea
Korean
2528
2016 F
Mia Hansen-Løve
Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob, Sarah Le Picard
Drama
France / Germany
French
700
2015 P*
Tom McCarthy
Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
1222
2015 P
Todd Haynes
Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy, Sarah Paulson
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA / France
English
692
2015 P
George Miller
Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
Australia / USA
English
1434
2015 F*
Abderrahmane Sissako
Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed, Mehdi A.G. Mohamed
Drama
France / Mauritania
French
1906
2015 F
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Dahong Ni, Yun Zhou
Drama / Action / Period Film
Taiwan / China / Hong Kong / France
Mandarin
2579
2015 F
Christian Petzold
Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Trystan Pütter, Michael Maertens
Drama
Germany / Poland
German
2293
2014 P*
Jean-Luc Godard
Héloïse Godet, Kamel Abdeli, Richard Chevallier, Zoé Bruneau
Drama / Experimental
Switzerland / France
French
834
2014 P
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
511
2014 P
Richard Linklater
Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Elijah Smith, Lorelei Linklater
Drama
USA
English
2086
2014 P
Mike Leigh
Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Karl Johnson
Biography / Drama / History
UK
English
1190
2013 P*
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, Oscar Isaac
Drama / Music / Period Film
USA / France
English
1299
2013 P
David O. Russell
Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence
Crime / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1152
2013 P
Spike Jonze
Joaquin Phoenix, Lynn Adrianna, Lisa Renee Pitts, Gabe Gomez, Chris Pratt
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi
USA
English
619
2013 P
Steve McQueen
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dwight Henry, Dickie Gravois, Bryan Batt, Ashley Dyke
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK
English
762
2013 F*
Abdellatif Kechiche
Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jeremie Laheurte
Drama / Comic / Romance
France
French
1096
2013 F
Paolo Sorrentino
Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte
Comedy / Drama
Italy
Italian
2809
2013 F
Zhangke Jia
Wu Jiang, Tao Zhao, Baoqiang Wang, Lanshan Luo, Li Meng, Jia-yi Zhang
Drama / Crime
China
Mandarin
452
2012 P*
Michael Haneke
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud
Drama
France / Germany / Austria
French
1281
2012 P
Paul Thomas Anderson
Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Jesse Plemons, Laura Dern
Drama / Period Film / Religion
USA
English
644
2012 P
Kathryn Bigelow
Jason Clarke, Reda Kateb, Jessica Chastain, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Ehle
Action / Drama / History / Thriller / War
USA
English
1150
2011 P*
Lars von Trier
Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling
Drama / Sci-Fi
Denmark / Sweden / France / Germany
English
510
2011 P,F*
Asghar Farhadi
Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi
Drama
Iran
Persian
675
2011 P
Terrence Malick
Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler
Drama / Sci-Fi / Period Film
USA
English
1714
2011 F
Aki Kaurismäki
André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Blondin Miguel
Comedy / Drama
Finland / France / Germany
French
2578
2011 F
Raoul Ruiz
Adriano Luz, Maria João Bastos, Ricardo Pereira, Clotilde Hesme
Drama / Mystery / Epic / Period Film
Portugal / France
Portuguese
372
2010 P*
David Fincher
Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
1568
2010 P,F*
Olivier Assayas
Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo, Ahmad Kaabour
Biography / Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Epic
France / Germany
French
1152
2010 P
Debra Granik
Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Lauren Sweetser, Kevin Breznahan, Isaiah Stone
Drama
USA
English
402
2010 F
Jacques Audiard
Niels Arestrup, Alaa Oumouzoune, Tahar Rahim, Gilles Cohen, Farid Elouardi
Crime / Drama / Gangster
France / Italy
French
1665
2010 F
Claire Denis
Isabelle Huppert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Isaach De Bankolé, William Nadylam
Drama
France
French
290
2009 P*
Kathryn Bigelow
Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes
Action / Drama / Thriller / War
USA
English
2011
2009 P,F*
Olivier Assayas
Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, Edith Scob
Drama / Family
France
French
698
2009 P
Quentin Tarantino
Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender
Drama / War / Adventure
USA / Germany / France
English
2083
2009 F
Jan Troell
Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Emil Jensen
Drama / Period Film
Denmark / Finland / Norway / Sweden / Germany
Swedish
2809
2009 F
Corneliu Porumboiu
Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Irina Saulescu, Ion Stoica, Marian Ghenea, Cosmin Selesi
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Detective
Romania
Romanian
2056
2009 F
Claire Denis
Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogue, Grégoire Colin, Jean-Christophe Folly
Drama / Romance
France / Germany
French
445
2008 P*
Ari Folman
Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman, Dror Harazi, Yehezkel Lazarov, Mickey Leon
Animation / Biography / Drama / War / History
Israel / Germany / France
Hebrew
1505
2008 P
Mike Leigh
Sally Hawkins, Alexis Zegerman, Andrea Riseborough, Samuel Roukin, Sinead Matthews
Drama
UK
English
825
2008 P
Andrew Stanton
Ben Burtt, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, Elissa Knight, John Ratzenberger
Animation / Comedy / Family / Romance / Sci-Fi / Adventure
USA
English
310
2007 P*
Paul Thomas Anderson
Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
413
2007 P,F
Julian Schnabel
Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny
Biography / Drama
France / USA
French
230
2007 P
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
463
2007 F*
Cristian Mungiu
Adi Carauleanu, Luminita Gheorghiu, Vlad Ivanov, Anamaria Marinca
Drama
Romania
English
561
2007 F
Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian, Tilly Mandelbrot
Animation / Drama / Comic
France
French
175
2006 P*
Guillermo del Toro
Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Ariadna Gil, Doug Jones
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / War / Period Film
Mexico / Spain / USA
Spanish
672
2006 P
Jean-Pierre Melville
Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Claude Mann
Drama / War
France / Italy
French
1817
2006 P
Cristi Puiu
Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminita Gheorghiu, Gabriel Spahiu, Doru Ana, Dana Dogaru
Drama / Comedy
Romania
Romanian
1105
2006 P
Clint Eastwood
Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Shido Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase
Drama / War / History
USA
Japanese
501
2006 P
Stephen Frears
Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Sylvia Syms, Paul Barrett
Biography / Drama / History
UK
English
827
2005 P*
Bennett Miller
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Chris Cooper
Biography / Drama / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
808
2005 P
David Cronenberg
Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Ashton Holmes
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Comic
USA
English
1218
2005 P
Kar Wai Wong
Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Li Gong, Takuya Kimura, Faye Wong, Ziyi Zhang
Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi
China / France / Germany / Hong Kong
Cantonese
1538
2005 F*
Fatih Akin
Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Catrin Striebeck, Güven Kirac, Meltem Cumbul
Drama / Romance
Germany / Turkey
German
467
2004 P*
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Mackie
Drama / Sports
USA
English
1167
2004 P
Richard Linklater
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff, Louise Lemoine Torres
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English
303
2004 P
Alexander Payne
Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh
Adventure / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1198
2004 F*
Ousmane Sembene
Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Hélène Diarra
Drama
Senegal / France / Burkina Faso / Cameroon / Morocco / Tunisia
Bambara
663
2004 F
Yimou Zhang
Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Ziyi Zhang, Dandan Song
Action / Drama / Romance / Period Film
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
2809
2004 F
Jean-Luc Godard
Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Simon Eine
Drama / Experimental
France / Switzerland
French
1184
2003 P*
Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Shari Springer Berman, Paul Giamatti
Drama / Comedy / Biography
USA
English
345
2003 P
Sofia Coppola
Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray
Drama / Comedy
USA / Japan
English
532
2003 P
Clint Eastwood
Sean Penn, Tim Robbins
Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1208
2003 F*
Aki Kaurismäki
Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen
Comedy / Fantasy / Drama / Romance
Finland / Germany / France
Finnish
144
2002 P,F*
Alfonso Cuarón
Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Diana Bracho
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Adventure
Mexico / USA
Spanish
319
2002 P,F
Pedro Almodóvar
Javier Cámara, Dario Grandinetti
Drama / Romance
Spain
Spanish
253
2002 P*
Roman Polanski
Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay, Thomas Kretschmann, Maureen Lipman, Katarzyna Figura
Drama / War / Period Film
Poland / France / UK / Germany / Netherlands
English
1605
2002 F
Laurent Cantet
Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard, Serge Livrozet
Drama
France
French
82
2001 P*
David Lynch
Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Justin Theroux, Brent Briscoe
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Experimental / Post-Noir / Cult
France / USA
English
852
2001 P
Robert Altman
Maggie Smith, Ryan Phillippe, Michael Gambon
Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Drama / Period Film
UK / USA / Germany / Italy
English
211
2001 P
Peter Jackson
Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Ian Holm, Andy Serkis
Fantasy / Adventure / Action / Epic / Family / Cult
New Zealand / USA
English
52
2001 F*
Kar Wai Wong
Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Ping Lam Siu, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
Romance / Drama / Period Film
Hong Kong / France / Thailand
Cantonese
427
2001 F
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal
Thriller / Drama
Mexico
Spanish
1287
2001 F
Jafar Panahi
Nargess Mamizadeh, Maryiam Palvin Almani
Drama
Iran / Switzerland / Italy
Persian
263
2000 P*
Edward Yang
Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang
Drama
Taiwan / Japan
Mandarin
2310
2000 P
Terence Davies
Gillian Anderson, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron, Terry Kinney
Romance / Drama / Period Film
UK / France / Germany / USA
English
563
2000 P
Steven Soderbergh
Benicio Del Toro, Michael Douglas
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
Germany / USA
English
297
1999 P*
Spike Jonze
John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Ned Bellamy
Comedy / Fantasy / Drama / Cult
USA
English
773
1999 P*
Mike Leigh
Allan Corduner, Jim Broadbent, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith
Comedy / Drama / Music / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
1042
1999 P
Alexander Payne
Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Jessica Campbell, Chris Klein
Comedy
USA
English
1772
1999 F*
Eric Rohmer
Marie Rivière, Béatrice Romand, Alain Libolt
Romance / Comedy
France
French
1314
1998 P*
Steven Soderbergh
George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
1948
1998 P
Paul Schrader
Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe
Drama / Crime
USA
English
72
1998 P
Steven Spielberg
Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Matt Damon
Action / Drama / War / Epic
USA
English
438
1998 F*
Abbas Kiarostami
Homayon Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi
Drama
France / Iran
Persian
67
1997 P*
Curtis Hanson
Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Post-Noir / Period Film
USA
English
462
1997 P
Atom Egoyan
Ian Holm, Caerthan Banks, Sarah Polley
Drama
Canada
English
1850
1997 F*
Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Jérémie Rénier, Olivier Gourmet
Drama
Belgium / France / Luxembourg
French
394
1996 P*
Lars von Trier
Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård
Drama / Romance
Denmark / Sweden / France / Netherlands / Norway
English
255
1996 P
Mike Leigh
Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn
Drama / Comedy
France / UK
English
990
1996 F*
Claude Chabrol
Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire
Drama / Crime
France / Germany
French
593
1995 P*
Chris Noonan
Christine Cavanaugh, James Cromwell
Family / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
Australia / USA
English
517
1995 P
Terry Zwigoff
Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb, Maxon Crumb, Robert Hughes
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1009
1995 P
Todd Haynes
Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Peter Friedman, Susan Norman
Thriller / Drama
UK / USA
English
133
1994 P,F*
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Drama / Romance
Poland / France / Switzerland
French
19
1994 P*
Quentin Tarantino
John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis
Crime / Drama / Gangster / Post-Noir / Cult
USA
English
524
1994 P
Steve James
William Gates, Arthur Agee, Emma Gates, Curtis Gates
Documentary / Sports / Biography
USA
English
36
1993 P*
Steven Spielberg
Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall
Drama / War / Biography / Epic
USA
English
113
1993 P
Jane Campion
Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Australia / New Zealand / France
English
833
1993 F*
Yimou Zhang
Li Gong, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang, Quesheng Lei
Comedy / Drama
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
74
1992 P*
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett
Western / Drama / Crime
USA
English
301
1992 P
Neil Jordan
Forest Whitaker, Stephen Rea
Action / Drama / Romance / Thriller
UK / Japan
English
275
1992 P
Robert Altman
Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi
Comedy / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
43
1992 F*
Yimou Zhang
Li Gong, Caifei He, Cuifen Cao, Jingwu Ma, Qi Zhao, Lin Kong, Jin Shuyuan
Drama / Period Film
China / Hong Kong / Taiwan
Mandarin
1686
1991 P*
Mike Leigh
Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
1938
1991 P
David Cronenberg
Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands
Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Experimental
Canada / UK / Japan
English
440
1991 F*
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Irène Jacob, Halina Gryglaszewska, Kalina Jedrusik, Aleksander Bardini
Drama / Fantasy / Romance
France / Poland / Norway
French
27
1990 P*
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino
Crime / Drama / Biography / Gangster
USA
English
724
1990 P
Stephen Frears
Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening, Jan Munroe
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir
USA
English
2087
1990 F*
Aki Kaurismäki
Turo Pajala, Susanna Haavisto, Matti Pellonpää
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Romance / Adventure
Finland
Finnish
751
1989 P*
Gus Van Sant
Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James LeGros, Heather Graham
Crime / Drama
USA
English
1635
1989 P
Paul Mazursky
Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska
Drama / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1125
1988 P*
Philip Kaufman
Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin
Drama
USA
English
218
1988 P
Pedro Almodóvar
Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco
Comedy / Drama
Spain
Spanish
466
1987 P*
John Huston
Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Dan O'Herlihy, Donal Donnelly
Drama / Period Film
UK
English
128
1986 P*
David Lynch
Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
267
1986 P
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Barbara Hershey
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
50
1985 P*
Akira Kurosawa
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada
Drama / War / Epic / History / Period Film
Japan / France
Japanese
492
1985 P
John Huston
Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
624
1985 P
Woody Allen
Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Irving Metzman
Fantasy / Comedy / Romance
USA
English
555
1985 P
Peter Weir
Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubes
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
601
1984 P*
Jim Jarmusch
John Lurie, Eszter Balint
Comedy / Drama / Cult
USA / West Germany
English
630
1984 P
Bertrand Tavernier
Sabine Azéma, Louis Ducreux, Michel Aumont, Geneviève Mnich
Drama / Period Film
France
French
554
1983 P*
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli, Miriam Guidelli
Drama / Fantasy / War
Italy
Italian
831
1983 P
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Günter Lamprecht, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Karin Baal
Drama / Epic / Period Film / History
Italy / West Germany
German
65
1983 P
Ingmar Bergman
Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Gunn Wållgren, Börje Ahlstedt
Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Period Film
Sweden / France / West Germany
Swedish
261
1982 P*
Sydney Pollack
Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange
Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English
34
1982 P
Steven Spielberg
Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote
Family / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Fantasy / Drama
USA
English
143
1981 P*
Louis Malle
Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli, Hollis McLaren, Robert Joy
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster / Post-Noir
USA / Canada / France
English
1082
1981 P
Sidney Lumet
Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy
Drama / Crime / Detective
USA
English
254
1981 P
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton
Drama / Epic / History / Biography / Romance
USA
English
18
1980 P
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto
Drama / Biography / Sports
USA
English
476
1979 P*
Peter Yates
Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid
Drama / Comedy / Sports / Family
USA
English
188
1979 P
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1236
1978 P*
Bertrand Blier
Gérard Depardieu, Carole Laure
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Belgium / France
French
194
1978 P
Terrence Malick
Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
131
1978 P
Michael Cimino
Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken
Drama / War / Epic
USA
English
1036
1978 P
Paul Mazursky
Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman, Patricia Quinn
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
28
1977 P*
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
500
1977 P
Luis Buñuel
Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau
Drama / Comedy
France / Spain
French
148
1976 P*
Alan J. Pakula
Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
20
1976 P
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Post-Noir
USA
English
55
1975 P*
Robert Altman
Henry Gibson, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakely, Lily Tomlin
Drama / Music
USA
English
812
1974 P*
Ingmar Bergman
Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Anita Wall, Jan Malmsjo
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
138
1973 P*
François Truffaut
François Truffaut, Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Drama / Comedy
France / Italy
French
63
1972 P*
Luis Buñuel
Fernando Rey, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier, Stéphane Audran
Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Experimental
France / Italy / Spain
French
268
1972 P
Ingmar Bergman
Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Anders Ek
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
4
1972 P
Francis Ford Coppola
Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
621
1971 P*
Eric Rohmer
Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Béatrice Romand, Laurence de Monaghan
Drama / Romance / Comedy
France
French
162
1971 P
Stanley Kubrick
Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee
Crime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Comedy / Cult
UK
English
31
1971 P
Bernardo Bertolucci
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio
Drama
Italy / France / West Germany
Italian
127
1970 P*
Robert Altman
Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall
Comedy / War / Drama
USA
English
186
1970 P
Bob Rafelson
Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush, Fannie Flagg, Sally Struthers
Drama / Music
USA
English
528
1970 P
Eric Rohmer
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
Drama / Comedy / Romance
France
French
1117
1970 P
François Truffaut
François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol
Drama / Period Film / Biography
France
French
289
1969 P*
Costa-Gavras
Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner
Thriller / Drama / Mystery
Algeria / France
French
556
1969 P
François Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade
Drama / Romance / Comedy
France
French
967
1969 P
Claude Chabrol
Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Michel Duchaussoy, Maurice Ronet
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Post-Noir
Italy / France
French
16
1967 P*
Ingmar Bergman
Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
29
1967 P
Arthur Penn
Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons
Crime / Drama / Romance / Gangster / Biography / Period Film / Caper
USA
English
102
1966 P*
Michelangelo Antonioni
Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle, Jane Birkin
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Cult
UK / Italy
English
