Year-End Top 50: 2011

By: Pedro Ponte

Work in progress.

• 01
  Drive
  Nicolas Winding Refn
• 02
  The Tree of Life
  Terrence Malick
• 03
  The Artist
  Michel Hazanavicius
• 04
  Hugo
  Martin Scorsese
• 05
  We Need to Talk About Kevin
  Lynne Ramsay
• 06
  Midnight in Paris
  Woody Allen
• 07
  I Saw the Devil
  Kim Ji-woon
• 08
  Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• 09
  Shame
  Steve McQueen
• 10
  Melancholia
  Lars von Trier
• 11
  Submarine
  Richard Ayoade
• 12
  A Separation
  Asghar Farhadi
• 13
  Mysteries of Lisbon
  Raúl Ruiz
• 14
  Senna
  Asif Kapadia
• 15
  Bellflower
  Evan Glodell
• 16
  13 Assassins
  Takashi Miike
• 17
  The Skin I Live In
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 18
  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  Tomas Alfredson
• 19
  Cold Fish
  Sion Sono
• 20
  The Ides of March
  George Clooney
• 21
  50/50
  Jonathan Levine
• 22
  Martha Marcy May Marlene
  Sean Durkin
• 23
  The Descendants
  Alexander Payne
• 24
  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
  David Yates
• 25
  Attack the Block
  Joe Cornish
• 26
  Kill List
  Ben Wheatley
• 27
  The Guard
  John Michael McDonagh
• 28
  Tabloid
  Errol Morris
• 29
  Confessions
  Tetsuya Nakashima
• 30
  Jane Eyre
  Cary Fukunaga
• 31
  The Kid with a Bike
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 32
  Tomboy
  Céline Sciamma
• 33
  The Baron
  Edgar Pêra
• 34
  Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within
  José Padilha
• 35
  Black Death
  Christopher Smith
• 36
  The Secret World of Arrietty
  Hiromasa Yonebayashi
• 37
  Rango
  Gore Verbinski
• 38
  Carnage
  Roman Polanski
• 39
  The Loved Ones
  Sean Byrne
• 40
  Meek's Cutoff
  Kelly Reichardt
• 41
  Another Earth
  Mike Cahill
• 42
  X-Men: First Class
  Matthew Vaughn
• 43
  Super 8
  J.J. Abrams
• 44
  The Adventures of Tintin
  Steven Spielberg
• 45
  We Have a Pope
  Nanni Moretti
• 46
  Hanna
  Joe Wright
• 47
  Win Win
  Thomas McCarthy
• 48
  The Help
  Tate Taylor
• 49
  Warrior
  Gavin O'Connor
• 50
  Contagion
  Steven Soderbergh