The 50 best films of the decade (so far) – per­son­al lists

1. The Assas­sin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
2. L for Leisure (Lev Kalman, Whit­ney Horn)
3. Car­los (Olivi­er Assayas)
4. Oslo, August 31^st (Joachim Tri­er)
5. Drei (Tom Tyk­w­er)
6. I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhang-ke)
7. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
8. Lis­ten Up, Philip (Alex Ross Per­ry)
9. The Tree of Life (Ter­rence Mal­ick)
10. The Mas­ter (Paul Thomas Anderson)

1. Ene­my (Denis Vil­leneuve)
2. The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (Bruno Forzani, Hélène Cat­tet)
3. Boy­hood (Richard Lin­klater)
4. The For­bid­den Room (Guy Maddin)
5. The Yel­low Sea (Na Hong-jin)
6. Mars Et Avril (Mar­tin Vil­leneuve)
7. The King of Pigs (Yeon Sang-ho)
8. Mary is Hap­py, Mary is Hap­py (Nawapol Tham­ron­grat­ta­narit)
9. Moe­bius (Kim Ki-Duk)
10. Val­hal­la Ris­ing (Nico­las Wind­ing Refn)

1. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glaz­er)
2. Ara­bi­an Nights (Miguel Gomes)
3. Car­ol (Todd Haynes)
4. Obvi­ous Child (Gillian Robe­spierre)
5. I’m Still Here (Casey Affleck)
6. Snow­town (Justin Kurzel)
7. The Trip to Italy (Michael Win­ter­bot­tom)
8. Dog­tooth (Yor­gos Lan­thi­mos)
9. Leviathan (Andrey Zvyag­int­sev)
10. Aaaaaaaah! (Steve Oram)

1. Closed Cur­tain (Jafar Panahi)
2. The Tree of Life (Ter­rence Mal­ick)
3. Mar­garet (Ken­neth Lon­er­gan)
4. Meek’s Cut­off (Kel­ly Reichardt)
5. The Social Net­work (David Finch­er)
6. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
7. Once Upon a Time in Ana­to­lia (Nuri Bilge Cey­lan)
8. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (Spike Lee)
9. Leviathan (Lucien Cas­taing-Tay­lor, Ver­e­na Par­avel)
10. Cer­ti­fied Copy (Abbas Kiarostami)

1. Locke (Steven Knight)
2. Poet­ry (Lee Chang Dong)
3. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glaz­er)
4. The Stu­art Hall Project (John Akom­frah)
5. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
6. We Are the Best! (Lukas Moodys­son)
7. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppen­heimer)
8. An Over­sim­pli­fi­ca­tion of Her Beau­ty (Ter­ence Nance)
9. Lon­don: The Mod­ern Baby­lon (Julien Tem­ple)
10. Alan Par­tridge: Alpha Papa (Declan Lowney)

1. The Tree of Life (Ter­ence Mal­ick)
2. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
3. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glaz­er)
4. Meek’s Cut­off (Kel­ly Reichardt)
5. It’s Such a Beau­ti­ful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)
6. A Sep­a­ra­tion (Asghar Farha­di)
7. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
8. Win­ter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Cey­lan)
9. An Over­sim­pli­fi­ca­tion of Her Beau­ty (Ter­ence Nance)
10. Tomboy (Céline Sciamma)

1. The Immi­grant (James Gray)
2. Jour­ney to the West (Tsai Ming-liang)
3. The Assas­sin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
4. Black­hat (Michael Mann)
5. The Wind Ris­es (Hayao Miyaza­ki)
6. Romanc­ing in Thin Air (John­nie To)
7. Uncle Boon­mee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichat­pong Weerasethakul)
8. Hugo (Mar­tin Scors­ese)
9. Like Some­one in Love (Abbas Kiarosta­mi)
10. Good­bye to Lan­guage (Jean-Luc Godard)

1. Uncle Boon­mee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichat­pong Weerasethakul)
2. Once Upon a Time In Ana­to­lia (Nuri Bilge Cey­lan)
3. Jau­ja (Lisan­dro Alon­so)
4. Sto­ry of My Death (Albert Ser­ra)
5. Good­bye to Lan­guage (Jean-Luc Godard)
6. The Strange Case of Angel­i­ca (Manoel de Oliveira)
7. House of Tol­er­ance (Bertrand Bonel­lo)
8. Autrement, la Molussie (Nico­las Rey)
9. Hard to Be a God (Alek­sei Ger­man)
10. Mys­ter­ies of Lis­bon (Raoul Ruiz)

1. The Lob­ster (Yor­gos Lan­thi­mos)
2. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glaz­er)
3. Brides­maids (Paul Feig)
4. Dri­ve (Nico­las Wind­ing Refn)
5. Frances Ha (Noah Baum­bach)
6. Blue Valen­tine (Derek Cian­france)
7. Boy­hood (Richard Lin­klater)
8. Wad­j­da (Haifaa al-Man­sour)
9. Take This Waltz (Sarah Pol­ley)
10. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)

1. Boy­hood (Richard Lin­klater)
2. The Tree of Life (Ter­rence Mal­ick)
3. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glaz­er)
4. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppen­heimer)
5. Car­ol (Todd Haynes)
6. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
7. Oslo, August 31^st (Joachim Tri­er)
8. Toy Sto­ry 3 (Lee Unkrich)
9. The Mas­ter (Paul Thomas Ander­son)
10. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)

1. The Social Net­work (David Finch­er)
2. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glaz­er)
3. Mar­garet (Ken­neth Lon­er­gan)
4. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppen­heimer)
5. Spring Break­ers (Har­mo­ny Korine)
6. Car­ol (Todd Haynes)
7. Blue Valen­tine (Derek Cian­france)
8. Girl­hood (Céline Sci­amma)
9. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
10 The Tree of Life (Ter­rence Malick)

1. This is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi)
2. The Assas­sin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
3. Mys­ter­ies of Lis­bon (Raoul Ruiz)
4. Closed Cur­tain (Jafar Panahi)
5. Like Some­one in Love (Abbas Kiarosta­mi)
6. Uncle Boon­mee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichat­pong Weerasethakul)
7. The Tree of Life (Ter­rence Mal­ick)
8. Drug War (John­nie To)
9. The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbin­s­ki)
10. In the Fam­i­ly (Patrick Wang)

1. The Tree of Life (Ter­rence Mal­ick)
2. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
3. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dar­d­enne)
4. Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve)
5. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
6. Boy­hood (Richard Lin­klater)
7. Pacif­ic Rim (Guiller­mo del Toro)
8. Mar­garet (Ken­neth Lon­er­gan)
9. Like Some­one in Love (Abbas Kiarosta­mi)
10. Girl Walk/​/​All Day (Jacob Krupnick)

1. It’s Such A Beau­ti­ful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)
2. Car­ol (Todd Haynes)
3. Boy­hood (Richard Lin­klater)
4. The Look of Silence/​The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppen­heimer)
5. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glaz­er)
6. Her (Spike Jonze)
7. The Mas­ter (Paul Thomas Ander­son)
8. Dri­ve (Nico­las Wind­ing Refn)
9. We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ram­say)
10. Dreams of a Life (Car­ol Morley)

1. Cer­ti­fied Copy (Abbas Kiarosta­mi)
2. Mys­ter­ies of Lis­bon (Raoul Ruiz)
3. Com­put­er Chess (Andrew Bujal­s­ki)
4. Louie, ​“Ele­va­tor (Part 1 – 6)” (Louis CK)
5. Let Your Light Shine (Jodie Mack)
6. Mar­garet (Ken­neth Lon­er­gan)
7. Mag­ic Mike XXL (Gre­go­ry Jacobs)
8. Hill of Free­dom (Hong Sang-soo)
9. At Bereke­ly (Fred­er­ick Wise­man)
10. Cam­era falls from air­plane and lands in pig pen – MUST WATCH END!! (Mia Munselle)

1. The Social Net­work (David Finch­er)
2. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
3. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
4. Inside Out (Pete Doc­ter)
5. Blue is the Warmest Colour (Abdel­latif Kechiche)
6. Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve)
7. The Canyons (Paul Schrad­er)
8. Out of the Fur­nace (Scott Coop­er)
9. George Har­ri­son: Liv­ing in the Mate­r­i­al World (Mar­tin Scors­ese)
10. Rust & Bone (Jacques Audiard)

1. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
2. Mag­ic Mike XXL (Gre­go­ry Jacobs)
3. Beyond the Hills (Cris­t­ian Mungiu)
4. The Spec­tac­u­lar Now (James Pon­sol­dt)
5. Tan­ger­ine (Sean Bak­er)
6. Le Havre (Aki Kau­ris­mä­ki)
7. Edge of Tomor­row (Doug Liman)
8. Sen­na (Asif Kapa­dia)
9. Blue is the Warmest Colour (Abdel­latif Kechiche)
10. Girl­hood (Céline Sciamma)

1. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppen­heimer)
2. We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ram­say)
3. The Babadook (Jen­nifer Kent)
4. Frances Ha (Noah Baum­bach)
5. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
6. I Wish (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
7. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glaz­er)
8. Tomboy (Céline Sci­amma)
9. We Are the Best! (Lukas Moodys­son)
10. World of Tomor­row (Don Hertzfeldt)

1. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
2. Black Swan (Dar­ren Aronof­sky)
3. Stok­er (Park Chan-wook)
4. Melan­cho­lia (Lars Von Tri­er)
5. The Mas­ter (Paul Thomas Ander­son)
6. Dog­tooth (Yor­gos Lan­thi­mos)
7. Frances Ha (Noah Baum­bach)
8. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
9. Boy (Tai­ka Wait­i­ti)
10. Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)

1. The Sec­ond Game (Cor­neliu Porum­boiu)
2. The Strange Case of Angel­i­ca (Manoel de Oliveira)
3. Cer­ti­fied Copy (Abbas Kiarosta­mi)
4. Maid­an (Sergei Loznit­sa)
5. Com­put­er Chess (Andrew Bujalk­si)
6. The Anaba­sis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years With­out Images (Eric Baude­laire)
7. Anoth­er Year (Mike Leigh)
8. The Acad­e­my of the Mus­es (José Luis Guerín)
9. Li’l Quin­quin (Bruno Dumont)
10. No Home Movie (Chan­tal Akerman)

1. The Mas­ter (Paul Thomas Ander­son)
2. Good­bye to Lan­guage (Jean-Luc Godard)
3. In Jack­son Heights (Fred­er­ick Wise­man)
4. Ship of The­seus (Anand Ghan­di)
5. Cit­i­zen­four (Lau­ra Poitras)
6. Djan­go Unchained (Quentin Taran­ti­no)
7. Mid­night in Paris (Woody Allen)
8. Incep­tion (Christo­pher Nolan)
9. Son of Saul (Lás­zló Nemes)
10 Mag­ic Mike XXL (Gre­go­ry Jacobs)

1. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppen­heimer)
2. The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)
3. Dog­tooth (Yor­gos Lan­thi­mos)
4. Post Tene­bras Lux (Car­los Rey­gadas)
5. Moon­rise King­dom (Wes Ander­son)
6. Ani­mal King­dom (David Michôd)
7. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jar­musch)
8. Girl­hood (Céline Sci­amma)
9. Lau­rence Any­ways (Xavier Dolan)
10. Sto­ries We Tell (Sarah Polley)

1. Vio­la (Matías Piñeiro)
2. Kill List (Ben Wheat­ley)
3. The Mas­ter (Paul Thomas Ander­son)
4. This is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi)
5. Every­one Else (Maren Ade)
6. Phoenix (Chris­t­ian Pet­zold)
7. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
8. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
9. Atten­berg (Athi­na Rachel Tsan­gari)
10. Leviathan (Lucien Cas­taing-Tay­lor, Ver­e­na Paravel)

1. The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)
2. The Tree of Life (Ter­rence Mal­ick)
3. Closed Cur­tain (Jafar Panahi)
4. Cos­mopo­lis (David Cro­nen­berg)
5. Moon­rise King­dom (Wes Ander­son)
6. The Wolf of Wall Street (Mar­tin Scors­ese)
7. Djan­go Unchained (Quentin Taran­ti­no)
8. Jour­ney to the West (Tsai Ming-liang)
9. Leviathan (Lucien Cas­taing-Tay­lor, Ver­e­na Par­avel)
10. Good­bye to Lan­guage (Jean-Luc Godard)

1. Mar­garet (Ken­neth Lon­er­gan)
2. Boy­hood (Richard Lin­klater)
3. Com­put­er Chess (Andrew Bujal­s­ki)
4. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
5. The Iron Min­istry (JP Sni­adec­ki)
6. Jour­ney to the West (Tsai Ming-liang)
7. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glaz­er)
8. Night With­out Dis­tance (Lois Patiño)
9. The Trea­sure (Cor­neliu Porum­boiu)
10. Green­berg (Noah Baumbach)

1. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
2. Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve)
3. Before Mid­night (Richard Lin­klater)
4. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
5. The Immi­grant (James Gray)
6. I Wish (Hirokazu Koree­da)
7. The Wolf of Wall Street (Mar­tin Scors­ese)
8. Boy­hood (Richard Lin­klater)
9. The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almod­ó­var)
10. Drug War (John­nie To)

1. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
2. Amour (Michael Haneke)
3. Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel and Ethan Coen)
4. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jar­musch)
5. Mr Turn­er (Mike Leigh)
6. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glaz­er)
7. The Mas­ter (Paul Thomas Ander­son)
8. The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almod­ó­var)
9. Love is Strange (Ira Sachs)
10. The Girl with the Drag­on Tat­too (David Fincher)

1. The Tree of Life (Ter­rence Mal­ick)
2. The Illu­sion­ist (Syl­vain Chomet)
3. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
4. To the Won­der (Ter­rence Mal­ick)
5. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming Liang)
6. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glaz­er)
7. Spring Break­ers (Har­mo­ny Korine)
8. Mar­garet (Ken­neth Lon­er­gan)
9. Inher­ent Vice (Paul Thomas Ander­son)
10. Meek’s Cut­off (Kel­ly Reichardt)

1. Good­bye to Lan­guage (Jean-Luc Godard)
2. Amour (Michael Haneke)
3. Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
4. Zero Dark Thir­ty (Kathryn Bigelow)
5. The Tree of Life (Ter­rence Mal­ick)
6. 4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Fer­rara)
7. The Mas­ter (Paul Thomas Ander­son)
8. Black Swan (Dar­ren Aronof­sky)
9. It Fol­lows (David Robert Mitchell)
10. Before Mid­night (Richard Linklater)

1. Horse Mon­ey (Pedro Cos­ta)
2. A Burn­ing Hot Sum­mer (Philippe Gar­rel)
3. The Strange Case of Angel­i­ca (Manoel de Oliveira)
4. This is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi)
5. 88:88 (Isi­ah Med­i­na)
6. Lin­coln (Steven Spiel­berg)
7. Cos­mopo­lis (David Cro­nen­berg)
8. Good­bye to Lan­guage (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming Liang)
10. The Immi­grant (James Gray)

1. The Mas­ter (Paul Thomas Ander­son)
2. It’s Such a Beau­ti­ful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)
3. Boy­hood (Richard Lin­klater)
4. Sto­ries We Tell (Sarah Pol­ley)
5. Car­ol (Todd Haynes)
6. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
7. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dar­d­enne)
8. Frances Ha (Noah Baum­bach)
9. Oslo, August 31^st (Joachim Tri­er)
10. Spring Break­ers (Har­mo­ny Korine)

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