Top 100 of the Decade (2000 - 2009) [One film per director]

By: Manny Lage

listed alphabetically,
no short films,
one film per director

top fifteen,
in alphabetical order:

- *corpus callosum
- as i was moving ahead occasionally i saw brief glimpses of beauty
- dancer in the dark
- enter the void
- forest
- fuck cinema
- let each one go where he may
- los muertos
- marseille
- melancholia
- notre musique
- oxhide II
- twentynine palms
- tie xi qu: west of the tracks
- yella

• 01
  *Corpus Callosum
  Michael Snow
• 02
  3-Iron
  Kim Ki-duk
• 03
  4
  Ilia Khrzhanovsky
• 04
  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  Cristian Mungiu
• 05
  Alamar
  Pedro González-Rubio
• 06
  An Injury to One
  Travis Wilkerson
• 07
  Antares
  Götz Spielmann
• 08
  As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  Jonas Mekas
• 09
  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  Andrew Dominik
• 10
  Beijing Bicycle
  Wang Xiaoshuai
• 11
  Betelnut
  Yang Heng
• 12
  Boarding Gate
  Olivier Assayas
• 13
  The Bridesmaid
  Claude Chabrol
• 14
  The Brown Bunny
  Vincent Gallo
• 15
  Bungalow
  Ulrich Köhler
• 16
  Cannibal
  Marian Dora
• 17
  The Captive
  Chantal Akerman
• 18
  Che
  Steven Soderbergh
• 19
  Chop Shop
  Ramin Bahrani
• 20
  Climates
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• 21
  Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys
  Michael Haneke
• 22
  Comedy of Innocence
  Raúl Ruiz
• 23
  Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands
  Guy Maddin
• 24
  Dancer in the Dark
  Lars von Trier
• 25
  Don't Touch the Axe
  Jacques Rivette
• 26
  Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl
  Manoel de Oliveira
• 27
  The Empire in Africa
  Philippe Diaz
• 28
  Enter the Void
  Gaspar Noé
• 29
  Eureka
  Shinji Aoyama
• 30
  Everyone Else
  Maren Ade
• 31
  Face
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 32
  O Fantasma
  João Pedro Rodrigues
• 33
  Fat Girl
  Catherine Breillat
• 34
  FILM IST. a girl & a gun
  Gustav Deutsch
• 35
  A Fine Day
  Thomas Arslan
• 36
  Forest
  Benedek Fliegauf
• 37
  Fuck Cinema
  Wu Wenguang
• 38
  Garden of Earthly Delights
  Lech Majewski
• 39
  The Gleaners & I
  Agnès Varda
• 40
  The GoodTimesKid
  Azazel Jacobs
• 41
  Grizzly Man
  Werner Herzog
• 42
  Extraordinary Stories
  Mariano Llinás
• 43
  A Hole in My Heart
  Lukas Moodysson
• 44
  Human Nature
  Michel Gondry
• 45
  Hunger
  Steve McQueen
• 46
  I'm Gonna Explode
  Gerardo Naranjo
• 47
  Import/Export
  Ulrich Seidl
• 48
  In My Skin
  Marina de Van
• 49
  Innocence
  Lucile Hadzihalilovic
• 50
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 51
  In Vanda's Room
  Pedro Costa
• 52
  The Intruder
  Claire Denis
• 53
  A Lake
  Philippe Grandrieux
• 54
  Last Days
  Gus Van Sant
• 55
  The Loser Takes All
  Nikos Nikolaidis
• 56
  Lovesong
  Stan Brakhage
• 57
  Marseille
  Angela Schanelec
• 58
  Martyrs
  Pascal Laugier
• 59
  Mary
  Abel Ferrara
• 60
  Melancholia
  Lav Diaz
• 61
  Miami Vice
  Michael Mann
• 62
  Millennium Mambo
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 63
  Moscow Zero
  María Lidón
• 64
  Let Each One Go Where He May
  Ben Russell
• 65
  Los muertos
  Lisandro Alonso
• 66
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 67
  The New World
  Terrence Malick
• 68
  Noriko's Dinner Table
  Sion Sono
• 69
  Notre musique
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 70
  Of Time and the City
  Terence Davies
• 71
  Open Hearts
  Susanne Bier
• 72
  Oxhide II
  Liu Jiayin
• 73
  Police, Adjective
  Corneliu Porumboiu
• 74
  Private Fears in Public Places
  Alain Resnais
• 75
  Punch-Drunk Love
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 76
  Red Lights
  Cédric Kahn
• 77
  Regular Lovers
  Philippe Garrel
• 78
  The Return
  Andrei Zvyagintsev
• 79
  Russian Ark
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 80
  Shirin
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 81
  Silent Light
  Carlos Reygadas
• 82
  The Son
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 83
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 84
  Tarnation
  Jonathan Caouette
• 85
  The Taste of Tea
  Katsuhito Ishii
• 86
  Tiresia
  Bertrand Bonello
• 87
  Trash Humpers
  Harmony Korine
• 88
  Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 89
  The Triplets of Belleville
  Sylvain Chomet
• 90
  Tropical Malady
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 91
  Twentynine Palms
  Bruno Dumont
• 92
  Unknown Pleasures
  Jia Zhangke
• 93
  Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
  Hong Sang-soo
• 94
  Visitor Q
  Takashi Miike
• 95
  Werckmeister Harmonies
  Béla Tarr
• 96
  Whisky
  Juan Pablo Rebella
• 97
  Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks - Part 1: Rust
  Wang Bing
• 98
  Yella
  Christian Petzold
• 99
  Yi Yi: A One and a Two
  Edward Yang
• 100
  You, the Living
  Roy Andersson