1990s

Close-Up

1990
1. Close-up (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
2. An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, Australia/United Kingdom/New Zealand)
3. No, or the Vainglory of Command (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal/France/Spain)
4. To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett, United States)
5. Boiling Point (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)
6. The Second Circle (Aleksandr Sokurov, Soviet Union)
7. White Hunter, Black Heart (Clint Eastwood, United States)
8. Nouvelle Vague (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland/France)
9. A Tale of Springtime (Eric Rohmer, France)
10. The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland/Sweden)

The Double Life of Veronique

1991
1. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
2. Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
3. The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, France/
Poland/Norway)
4. La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, France/Switzerland)
5. Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat, France)
6. The Stranger (Satyajit Ray, India/France)
7. A Scene at the Sea (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)
8. Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks, United States)
9. Side/Walk/Shuttle (Ernie Gehr, United States)
10. Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh, United Kingdom)

The Quince Tree Sun

1992
1. The Quince Tree Sun (Victor Erice, Spain)
2. Life and Nothing More... (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
3. Centre Stage (Stanley Kwan, Hong Kong)
4. The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, United Kingdom)
5. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, United States)
6. Guelwaar (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal/France/Germany)
7. A Tale of Winter (Eric Rohmer, France)
8. Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog, Germany/France/United Kingdom)
9. Simple Men (Hal Hartley, United States/Italy/United Kingdom)
10. Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambéty, Senegal)

Abraham's Valley

1993
1. Abraham's Valley (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal/France/
Switzerland)
2. A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood, United States)
3. The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
4. Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)
5. D'Est (Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France/Portugal)
6. Naked (Mike Leigh, United Kingdom)
7. The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang, China/Hong Kong)
8. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, United States)
9. Calendar (Atom Egoyan, Armenia/Canada/Germany)
10. Sopyonje (Im Kwon-taek, South Korea)

Sátántangó

1994
1. Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran/France)
2. Sátántangó (Bela Tarr, Hungary/Germany/Switzerland)
3. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
4. Vive L'Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
5. Cold Water (Olivier Assayas, France)
6. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, United States)
7. JLG/JLG (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
8. Exotica (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
9. Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland/

Germany)

10. Joan the Maid (Jacques Rivette, France)

Fallen Angels

1995
1. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
2. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, United States/Germany/Japan)
3. The Bridges of Madison County (Clint Eastwood, United States)
4. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, United States/Austria/
Switzerland)
5. Heat (Michael Mann, United States)
6. La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol, France/Germany)
7. The Convent (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal/France)
8. Rendezvous in Paris (Eric Rohmer, France)
9. The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
10. Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondô, Japan)

The Portrait of a Lady

1996
1. Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
2. The Portrait of a Lady (Jane Campion, United Kingdom/United States)
3. Crash (David Cronenberg, Canada/United States)
4. My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
5. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier, Demark/Sweden/France/
Netherlands/Norway/Iceland)
6. Drifting Clouds (Aki Kaurismäki, Finland)
7. Mother (Albert Brooks, United States)
8. Tierra (Julio Medem, Spain)
9. Big Night (Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci, United States)
10. A Moment of Innocence (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iran/France)

Mother and Son

1997
1. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
2. Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov, Germany/Russia)
3. Hana-bi/Fireworks (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)
4. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, United States)
5. Fragments * Jerusalem (Ron Havilio, Israel)
6. The River (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
7. Same Old Song (Alain Resnais, France/Switzerland/United Kingdom)
8. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan)
9. Ulee's Gold (Victor Nunez, United States)
10. Ossos (Pedro Costa, Portugal/France/Denmark)

The Thin Red Line

1998
1. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
2. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, United States)
3. An Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer, France)
4. Inquietude (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal/France/Spain/
Switzerland)
5. The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
6. Rushmore (Wes Anderson, United States)
7. The Power of Kangwon Province (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
8. There's Something About Mary (Bobby & Peter Farrelly, United States)
9. After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan)
10. Dil Se.. (Mani Ratnam, India)

Beau Travail

1999

1. The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran/France)

2. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, United States/United Kingdom)

3. Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz, France/Italy/Portugal)

4. Beau Travail (Claire Denis, France)

5. Gohatto/Taboo (Nagisa Oshima, Japan/France/United Kingdom)

6. Rosetta (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, France/Belgium)

7. The Letter (Manoel de Oliveira, France/Spain/Portugal)

8. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, France/Germany/United States/Japan)

9. Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, United States)
10. The Mission (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)

A Perfect World (1993)

The Decade's Ten Best (in alphabetical order): Abraham's Valley (Oliveira); A Brighter Summer Day (Yang); Centre Stage (Kwan); Days of Being Wild (Wong); Flowers of Shanghai (Hou); A Perfect World (Eastwood); The Quince Tree Sun (Erice); Sátántangó (Tarr); The Thin Red Line (Malick); Through the Olive Trees (Kiarostami).