Year-End Lists

The Playlist: The 100 Best Films of the Decade. See also their large number of honorable mentions.

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
2. A Separation
   Asghar Farhadi
3. The Act of Killing
   Joshua Oppenheimer
4. The Master
   Paul Thomas Anderson
5. The Tree of Life
   Terrence Malick
6. Moonlight
   Barry Jenkins
7. Inside Llewyn Davis
   Joel & Ethan Coen
8. Dogtooth
   Yorgos Lanthimos
9. Under the Skin
   Jonathan Glazer
10. Toni Erdmann
    Maren Ade
11. Get Out
    Jordan Peele
12. You Were Never Really Here
    Lynne Ramsay
13. Carol
    Todd Haynes
14. 20th Century Women
    Mike Mills
15. Mad Max: Fury Road
    George Miller
16. Phantom Thread
    Paul Thomas Anderson
17. First Reformed
    Paul Schrader
18. A Prophet
    Jacques Audiard
19. 45 Years
    Andrew Haigh
20. Birds of Passage
    Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra
21. Arrival
    Denis Villeneuve
22. Stories We Tell
    Sarah Polley
23. The Comedy
    Rick Alverson
24. Pain and Glory
    Pedro Almodóvar
25. Li’l Quinquin
    Bruno Dumont
26. Manchester by the Sea
    Kenneth Lonergan
27. The Lobster
    Yorgos Lanthimos
28. Frances Ha
    Noah Baumbach
29. Jackie
    Pablo Larraín
30. Only Lovers Left Alive
    Jim Jarmusch
31. High Life
    Claire Denis
32. First Man
    Damien Chazelle
33. American Honey
    Andrea Arnold
34. Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho
35. If Beale Street Could Talk
    Barry Jenkins
36. Holy Motors
    Leos Carax
37. Certified Copy
    Abbas Kiarostami
38. Two Days, One Night
    Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
39. The Handmaiden
    Park Chan-wook
40. The Assassin
    Hou Hsiao-Hsien
41. Annihilation
    Alex Garland
42. Amour
    Michael Haneke
43. 12 Years a Slave
    Steve McQueen
44. Before Midnight
    Richard Linklater
45. Wildlife
    Paul Dano
46. Good Time
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
47. The Florida Project
    Sean Baker
48. Enemy
    Denis Villeneuve
49. Killing Them Softly
    Andrew Dominik
50. Foxcatcher
    Bennett Miller
51. Elle
    Paul Verhoeven
52. Columbus
    Kogonada
53. Roma
    Alfonso Cuaron
54. Selma
    Ava DuVernay
55. The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Wes Anderson
56. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
57. Her
    Spike Jonze
58. Phoenix
    Christian Petzold
59. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
60. Call Me by Your Name
    Luca Guadagnino
61. A Ghost Story
    David Lowery
62. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
63. Tabu
    Miguel Gomes
64. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
    Céline Sciamma
65. Blue Valentine
    Derek Cianfrance
66. O.J.: Made in America
    Ezra Edelman
67. Upstream Color
    Shane Carruth
68. Tangerine
    Sean Baker
69. Suspiria
    Luca Guadagnino
70. The Souvenir
    Joanna Hogg
71. Shoplifters
    Hirokazu Kore-eda
72. White Material
    Claire Denis
73. Weekend
    Andrew Haigh
74. Zama
    Lucrecia Martel
75. The Wolf of Wall Street
    Martin Scorsese
76. The Social Network
    David Fincher
77. The Immigrant
    James Gray
78. The Duke of Burgundy
    Peter Strickland
79. Eden
    Mia Hansen-Løve
80. Force Majeure
    Ruben Östlund
81. Boyhood
    Richard Linklater
82. Stranger by the Lake
    Alain Guiraudie
83. Leviathan
    Andrey Zvyagintsev
84. Girlhood
    Céline Sciamma
85. No
    Pablo Larraín
86. Spotlight
    Tom McCarthy
87. The Lighthouse
    Robert Eggers
88. Ida
    Pawel Pawlikowski
89. The Hunt
    Thomas Vinterberg
90. Shame
    Steve McQueen
91. Zero Dark Thirty
    Kathryn Bigelow
92. Inception
    Christopher Nolan
93. Margaret
    Kenneth Lonergan
94. The Wailing
    Na Hong-jin
95. mother!
    Darren Aronofsky
96. What We Do in the Shadows
    Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
97. Meek’s Cutoff
    Kelly Reichardt
98. Martha Marcy May Marlene
    Sean Durkin
99. Private Life
    Tamara Jenkins
100. Madeline’s Madeline
     Josephine Decker