Weighted list (5 votes minimum)

1. Muriel ou Le Temps d'un Retour (1963) .. Alain Resnais
2. Jeanne Dielman (1975) .. Chantal Akerman
3. Fantômas (1913/14) .. Louis Feuillade
4. The Long Day Closes (1992) .. Terence Davies
5. The Human Condition III (1961) .. Kobayashi Masaki
6. Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette
7. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939) .. Mizoguchi Kenji
8. Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer
9. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) .. Robert Hamer
10. The Mother and the Whore (1973) .. Jean Eustache
11. The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer
12. Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles
13. The Life of Oharu (1952) .. Mizoguchi Kenji
14. Early Summer (1951) .. Ozu Yasujiro
15. Late Spring (1949) .. Ozu Yasujiro
16. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) .. Terence Davies
17. Le Plaisir (1952) .. Max Ophüls
18. Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker
19. Viaggio in Italia (1954) .. Roberto Rossellini
20. L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo
21. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice
22. Partie de Campagne (1936) .. Jean Renoir
23. Les Vampires (1915) .. Louis Feuillade
24. A Brighter Summer Day (1991) .. Edward Yang
25. Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson
26. Tabu (1931) .. F.W. Murnau
27. Tokyo Story (1953) .. Ozu Yasujiro
28. Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) .. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
29. Lola Montes (1955) .. Max Ophüls
30. Seven Men from Now (1956) .. Budd Boetticher
31. Sátántangó (1994) .. Tarr Béla
32. Man with a Movie Camera (1929) .. Dziga Vertov
33. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) .. Tarr Béla
34. The River (1951) .. Jean Renoir
35. Casque d'Or (1952) .. Jacques Becker
36. Diary of a Country Priest (1950) .. Robert Bresson
37. Bigger Than Life (1956) .. Nicholas Ray
38. Zéro de Conduite (1933) .. Jean Vigo
39. La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir
40. Playtime (1967) .. Jacques Tati
41. Close-Up (1990) .. Abbas Kiarostami
42. Earth (1930) .. Aleksandr Dovzhenko
43. An Autumn Afternoon (1962) .. Ozu Yasujiro
44. Claire's Knee (1970) .. Eric Rohmer
45. Mother and Son (1997) .. Aleksandr Sokurov
46. Last Year in Marienbad (1961) .. Alain Resnais
47. Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein
48. Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein
49. L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni
50. Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau