2001

1. Eloge de l'amour / In Praise of Love - Jean-Luc Godard ; France/Switzerland
2. La Pianiste / The Piano Teacher - Michael Haneke ; France/Austria/Poland
3. Trouble Every Day - Claire Denis ; France/Germany/Japan
4. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi / Spirited Away - Hayao Miyazaki ; Japan
5. The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson ; U.S.
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Peter Jackson ; NZ/U.S.
7. Pistol Opera - Seijun Suzuki ; Japan
8. Ni neibian jidian / What Time Is It There? - Tsai Ming-liang ; Taiwan/France
9. Va savoir - Jacques Rivette ; France/Italy
10. Mulholland Drive - David Lynch ; U.S./France
11. Qianxi manbo / Millenium Mambo - Hsiao-hsein Hou ; Taiwan/France
12. Kairo / Pulse - Kiyoshi Kurosawa ; Japan
13. L'Anglaise et le duc / The Lady and the Duke - Eric Rohmer ; France
14. The Man Who Wasn't There - Joel Coen ; U.S.
15. Le Souvenir d'un avenir / Remembrance of Things to Come - Yannick Bellon, Chris Marker ; France
16. Donnie Darko - Richard Kelly ; U.S.
17. Shiqi sui de dan che / Beijing Bicycle - Xiaoshuai Wang ; Taiwan
18. Bartleby - Johnathan Parker ; U.S.
19. Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu / Warm Water Under a Red Bridge - Shohei Imamura ; Japan
20. Human Nature - Michel Gondry ; U.S.
21. Tape - Richard Linklater ; U.S.
22. Invincible - Werner Herzog ; U.S./UK/Germany
23. Waking Life - Richard Linklater ; U.S.
24. Wet Hot American Summer - David Wain ; U.S.
25. Hell House - George Ratliff ; U.S.
26. Le Peuple migrateur / Winged Migration - Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats ; France
27. Kurosawa - Adam Low ; UK/U.S./Japan
28. El Espinazo del diablo / The Devil's Backbone - Guillermo Del Toro ; Spain/Mexico
29. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion - Woody Allen ; U.S.
30. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence - Steven Spielberg ; U.S.
31. Scotland, Pa. - Billy Morrisette ; U.S. added Jan. 08
32. Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain / Amelie - Jean-Pierre Jeunet ; France
33. Y tu mama tambien - Alfonso Cuaron ; Mexico
34. From Hell - The Hughes Brothers ; U.S.
35. Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tobira - Shinichiro Watanabe ; Japan/U.S.
36. Vanilla Sky - Cameron Crowe ; U.S.
37. Evolution - Ivan Reitman ; U.S.
38. Ghosts of Mars - John Carpenter ; U.S.
39. Hannibal - Ridley Scott ; UK/U.S.
40. Planet of the Apes - Tim Burton ; U.S.
41. A Knight's Tale - Brian Helgeland ; U.S.
42. The Score - Frank Oz ; U.S.
43. Moulin Rouge! - Baz Luhrmann ; Australia/U.S.
44. Antitrust - Peter Howitt ; U.S.
45. Jurassic Park III - Joe Johnston ; U.S.
46. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back - Kevin Smith ; U.S.
47. Pearl Harbor - Michael Bay ; U.S.
48. Shrek - Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson ; U.S.
49. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - Simon West ; UK/Germany/U.S./Japan
50. 3,000 Miles to Graceland - Demian Lichtenstein ; U.S.