Top Tens, etc
2026 Top Ten (2025/6 world-premieres)
1. Paper Trail (Hertzfeldt 2026 14m) 28 [out of 28]
2. Habibi Hussein (Bakri 2025 96m) 26
3. Sirât (Laxe 2025 120m) 25
4. Câine pierdut (Bourbon 2025 16m)
5. Lifelong (Kuzański 2026 12m) 24
6. EIGHT BRIDGES (Benning 2026 82m↑) 22
7. Copper Promises of Immediate Realities (Sabitzer 2026 9m) 22
8. Slet 1988 (Popivoda 2025 22m) 22
9. A Little More Action (Beaumont 2025 1m16s) 22
10. Trading Cards (Jang 2026 15m) 22
… then {21/28}
ab mala usque ab ovo (Pliamko 2026 6m)
Amílcar (Eek 2025 87m)
Nostalgie (Ferguson 2025 19m)
Project Hail Mary (Lord & Miller 2026 156m)
Vitrine (Lechner 2026 5m)
… then (20/28)
Det Sosiale (Dahl 2025 20m)
Romería (Simón 2025 112m)
Songs To Die in Havana (Salafranca 2026 17m)
… then (19/28)
All Buildings Are Beautiful (Schwarz 2026 20m)
Baisanos (Khamis Giacoman & Khamis Giacoman 2025 14m)
The Blue Trail (Mascaro 2025 90m)
Boorman and the Devil (Kittredge 2025 112m)
Datna Éclat (Frank 2025 3m)
Enough Is Enough (Sawasawa 2026 65m)
How Long Does the Eclipse Last (Paschinger 2026 9m)
How to Make Friends (Lyskov 2025 <1m)
Obsession (Barker 2025 109m)
Randaghi (Motti & Motti 2025 15m)
Rest (Miyajima 2025 5m)
Saipan (Barros D’Sa & Leyburn 2025 91m)
So He Grabbed the Knife (Kuwa 2026 12m)
Shot Reverse Shot (Cioflâncă & Jude 2026 22m)
… then (18/28) [2026 world-premieres only]
Follow Back (Sheratzky 2026 23m)
Henry is a Girl Who Likes to Sleep (Peters 2026 13m)
London (Brameshuber 2026 122m)
The Sea is the Walls of My Home (Zonneveld 2026 19m)
2025 Top Ten
(world-premieres, 50min+) maximum rating 28
1 Habibi Hussein (Alex Bakri 96m) 9/10 {26/28}
2 Sirāt (Oliver Laxe 115m) 9/10 {25/28}
3 Two Prosecutors (Zwei Staatsanwälte. Sergei Loznitsa 118m) 8/10 {22/28}
4 Amílcar (Miguel Eek 87m) 8/10 {21/28}
5 Fiume o morte! (Igor Bezinović 112m) 7/10 {20/28}
6 Romería (Carla Simón 115m) 7/10 {20/28}
7 One Battle After Another (Paul Anderson 162m) 7/10 {20/28}
8 Good Valley Stories (Historias del buen valle. José Luis Guerín 123m) 7/10 {19/28}
9 The Blue Trail (O Último Azul. Gabriel Mascaro 87m) 7/10 {19/28}
10 Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater 106m) 7/10 {19/28}
new (2025/2024 world premieres)
* = first-time view
[9/10]
… 26/28
Habibi Hussein (Bakri 2025 96m)*
… 25/28
Câine pierdut (Bourbon 2025 16m)*
Sirāt (Laxe 2025 115m)*
… 24/28
Adolescence episode 2 (Barantini 51m 2025 TV)*
[8/10]
… 23/28
Better Man (Gracey 2024 135m)
Dog Ear (Vácz 2025 20m)*
… 22/28
Bird (Arnold 2024 119m)*
Conclave (Berger 2024 120m)
GLAM: ‘bookshelf’ (Riha et al 2024 7m)*
A Little More Action (Beaumont 2025 1m16s)*
Slet 1988 (Popivoda 2025 22m)*
Two Prosecutors (Loznitsa 2025 118m)*
wedLOCK tradWIFE (Neudecker 2025 10m)*
… 21/28
Adolescence episode 3 (Barantini 2025 53m TV)*
Adolescence episode 4 (Barantini 2025 60m TV)*
Amílcar (Eek 87m 2025)*
Common Pear (Božič 2025 15m)*
I paddle my canoe 3 m below civilisation (Klöfkorn 2025 9m)*
JJ: ‘Wasted Love’ (Marek 2025 3m)*
Joost Klein: “Why Not???” (Pol 2025 3m)*
Living Jewel (Spitzer 2025 16m)*
Mare Imbrium (Fruhauf 2024 12m)*
Nostalgie (Ferguson 2025 19m)*
[7/10]
… 20/28
Criatura (Ramlogan 2025 10m)*
Det Sosiale (aka Honningbarna: Det Sosiale. Dahl 2025 20m)*
Fiume o morte! (Bezinović 2025 112m)*
Grand Tour (Gomes 2024 129m)
Hello, Headquarters (Heller 2025 5m)*
Magdalena Hausen: Frozen Time (Karpouzis 2025 24m)*
One Battle After Another (Anderson 2025 162m)*
Richard (Wetscher 2024 9m)*
Romería (Simón 2025 115m)*
Wiggle Room (Trana 2025 3m)*
… 19/28
Adolescence episode 1 (Barantini 2025 65m TV)*
Ainu Puri (Fukunaga 2024 86m)*
Baisanos (Khamis Giacoman & Khamis Giacoman 2025 13m)*
The Blue Trail (Mascaro 2025 87m)*
Bugonia (Lanthimos 2025 118m)*
Caught Stealing (Aronofsky 2025 107m)*
A Complete Unknown (Mangold 2024 141m)*
Datna Éclat (Frank 2025 3m)*
Favoriten (Beckermann 2024 118m)*
Free the Chickens (Vizár 2024 15m)*
Glimpse (Swoboda-Ostermann 2025 3m)*
Good Valley Stories (Guerin 2025 123m)*
How to Make Friends (Lyskov 2025 <1m)*
Hunting (Favre 2025 11m)*
little boy (Benning 2025 74m)*
Nouvelle Vague (Linklater 2025 106m)*
Obsession (Barker 2025 109m)*
Permanent Life (Griniūtė 2025 5m)*
Randaghi (Motti & Motti 2025 15m)*
Rest (Miyajima 2025 5m)*
Rudiburg (Spitzer 2025 16m)*
Sac en Plastique (Weberhofer 2025 2m)*
Saipan (Barros D’Sa & Leyburn 2025 90m)*
September 5 (Fehlbaum 2024 94m)*
Souleymane’s Story (Lojkine 2024 93m)*
The Ugly Stepsister (Blichfeldt 2025 110m)*
Vermiglio (Delpero 2024 119m)*
… 18/28
Abigail (Bettinelli-Olpin & Gillett 2024 109m)*
At Home I Feel Like Leaving (Kubiena 2024 19m)*
Couic! (Parent 2025 1m16s)*
Duet (Brunel 2025 1m)*
Ecce Mole (Emigholz 2025 28m)*
Fantasy (Kukla 2025 98m)*
The 5-Second Rule (‘Invisible Friends’ 2025 1.5m)*
God Is Shy (Charles 2025 15m)*
Green Grey Black Brown (Wang 2025 12m)*
IN-I in Motion (Binoche 2025 156m)*
Inventory (Marković 2025 21m)*
The Last People (Pindeus 2025 25m)*
The Last One For the Road (Sossai 2025 100m)*
Miroirs No 3 (Petzold 2025 86m)*
9 Million Colors (Stejskalová 2025 15m)*
No Other Choice (Park 2025 139m)*
Nuremberg (Vanderbilt 2025 148m)*
Resonance (Bayer 2024 8m)*
Sew Torn (Macdonald 2024 100m)*
Speaking in Tongues: Take One (Harris 2024 15m)*
Summer Emperors (Balla 2025 7m)*
Superman (Gunn 2025 129m)*
Top 10 Things to See (Reha 2025 14m)*
TRON: Ares (Rønning 2025 119m)*
U Are the Universe (Ostrikov 2024 101m)*
Ungrateful Beings (Omerzu 2025 110m)*
White Ribbons (Heindl 2025 4m)*
old (pre-2024)
[10/10]
… 27/28
Annie Hall (Allen 1977 93m)
The Honeymoon Killers (Kastle 1970 108m)
[9/10]
… 26/28
Edvard Munch (Watkins 1974 211m)*
Hail Mary (Godard 1985 72m)*
Samsara (Patiño 2023 113m)
… 25+/28
Profound Desires of the Gods (Imamura 1968 172m)*
… 25/28
All That Heaven Allows (Sirk 1955 89m)
An American Werewolf in London (Landis 1981 97m)
Dont Look Back (Pennebaker 1967 96m)
Elephant (Van Sant 2003 81m)
The Long Goodbye (Altman 1974 112m)
Possession (Żuławski 1981 124m)
… 24/28
Alien (Scott 1979 116m)
Beppie (van der Keuken 1965 37m)*
The Gatecrasher (Connor 1974 21m) episode of From Beyond the Grave
Starman (Carpenter 1984 115m)
[8/10]
… 23/28
Children of Men (Cuarón 2006 109m)
Cutter’s Way (Passer 1981 107m)
First Name: Carmen (Prénom: Carmen. Godard 1983 85m)*
The French Connection (Friedkin 1971 104m)
Knight of Cups (Malick 2015 118m)
Mirror (Tarkovsky 1975 106m)
Naked-Childhood (Pialat 1968 83m)*
The Night of the Hunter (Laughton 1955 92m)
The Vampires of Poverty (Agarrando pueblo; Mayolo & Ospina 1978 28m)
… 22/28
Animal Kingdom (Michôd 2010 113m)
Another Day, Another Man (Wishman 1966 71m)*
Blowup (aka Blow-Up. Antonioni 1966 111m)
Demons (L.Bava 1985 88m)*
Escape From New York (Carpenter 1981 99m)
Far From Heaven (Haynes 2002 107m)
Fournoi, A Female Society (Dimitriou & Kanakis 1983 47m)*
Horror Express (Martin 1972 90m)
In the Shadows (Arslan 2010 85m)
The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese 1988 163m)
Night of the Demon (Tourneur 1957 96m)
North by Northwest (Hitchcock 1959 136m)
Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch 1932 83m)*
You Only Live Once (Lang 1937 86m)*
… 21/28
L’amour existe (Pialat 1960 21m)*
Antonio das Mortes (Rocha 1969 95m)*
The Brood (Cronenberg 1979 92m)
The Cassandra Crossing (Cosmatos 1976 129m)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee 2000 120m)
Dancer in the Dark (‘Von’ Trier 2000 140m)
The Fault in Our Stars (Boone 2014 126m)*
The Fog (Carpenter 1980 90m)
The Insect Woman (Imamura 1963 123m)*
Lantana (Lawrence 2001 121m)
The Last Waltz (Scorsese 1978 117m)*
Lonely Are the Brave (Miller 1962 107m)*
Mahler (Russell 1974 115m)*?
NOSTALGIA (Frampton 1971 38m)*
Prince of Darkness (Carpenter 1987 101m)
Rome, Open City (Rossellini 1945 105m)
State of Grace (Joanou 1990 134m)*
The Swimmer (Perry/Pollack 1968 95m)*
An Unmarried Woman (Mazursky 1978 125m)*
The Wicked Lady (Arliss 1945 104m)
… 21?/28
White of the Eye (Cammell 1987 110m)
[7/10]
… 20/28
Altered States (Russell 1979 104m)*
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Mazursky 1969 105m)*
Close-Up (Kiarostami 1990 98m)
Dogfight (Savoca 1991 93m)*
From Beyond the Grave (Connor 1974 97m)
Good Will Hunting (Van Sant 1998 126m)
Harold and Maude (Ashby 1971 91m)
ILOX (Goldt 2001 3m)*
In Mytilene (Efstratiadis 1973 13m)*
In the Mouth of Madness (Carpenter 1994 95m)
The Iron Monkey (Yuen 1993 90m)*
The Killer (Woo 1989 111m)*
Manthan aka The Churning (Benegal 1976 134m)*
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (Carpenter 1992 99m)
The Miracle Worker (Penn 1962 106m)
Pierrot le Fou (Godard 1965 110m)
Short Cuts (Altman 1993 188m)
Tony Arzenta (Tessari 1973 113m)*
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Naruse 1960 111m)*
Winchester ’73 (Mann 1950 92m)*
… 19/28
Aluminium of Greece (Koundouros 1965 18m)*
Anatomy of a Murder (Preminger 1959 160m)*
Birth of Venus (Blackout 1972 5m)*
The Big Combo (Lewis 1955 88m)*
Daughter of Darkness (Comfort 1948 91m)*
Dead End (Wyler 1937 92m)*
Elvis (Carpenter 1979 TV / 120m theatrical version*)
Halimuhfack (Harris 2016 4m)*
The Hanging Tree (Daves 1959 107m)*
Heracles, Acheloos And My Granny (Koutsiabasakos 1997 29m)*
The General (Bruckman & Keaton 1926 79m)*
La Jetée (Marker 1962 28m)
Lifeboat (Hitchcock 1944 97m)
Light Sleeper (Schrader 1992 103m)*
The Little Foxes (Wyler 1941 116m)*
London Orbital (Petit & Sinclair 2002 77m)*
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Schrader 1985 120m)
Los Muertos (Alonso 2004 78m)
Los Olvidados (Buñuel 1950 88m)
Play It Again, Sam (Ross 1972 87m)
Play Misty for Me (Eastwood 1971 102m)
Rollercoaster (Goldstone 1977 119m)
Rouge (Kwan 1987 96m)*
The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson 2001 109m)
Salvador (Stone 1986 123m)
O Sangue [Blood] (Costa 1989 94m)
Sea of Love (Becker 1989 114m)*
Shooting Stars (Bramble 1927 80m)*
Single White Female (Schroeder 1992 108m)*
Spartacus (Kubrick 1960 197m)
Sunshine State (Extended Forecast) (Harris 2007 8m)*
The Suspicious Death of a Minor (Martino 1975 100m)*
These Three (Wyler 1936 93m)*
3 Women (Altman 1977 124m)
The Threat (La Minaccia; Bellino & Luzi 2008 86m)
Three Brothers (Rosi 1981 113m)
Turkish Delight (Verhoeven 1973 108m)*
28.IV.81 (Bedouin Spark) (Harris 2009 3m)*
Watch on the Rhine (Shumlin 1943 112m)*
… 18+/28
Lifeforce (Hooper 1985 101m)
… 18/28
b/w (Harris 2023 3m)*
Bad Lieutenant (Ferrara 1992 96m)
Bringing Up Baby (Hawks 1938 102m)
Devils (Kim 2023 105m)*
Donkey Punch (Blackburn 2008 97m)
The Enemy Within (Tsemberopoulos 2013 107m)*
The Evil Dead (Raimi 1981 85m)
The Furies (Mann 1950 109m)*
Notorious (Hitchcock 1946 101m)
The Pelican Brief (Pakula 1993 141m)*
Pollock (Harris 2000 122m)
Reckless Eyeballing (Harris 2004 14m)*
The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont 1994 142m)*
still/here (Harris 2000 or 2001 60m)*
Terra em Transe (Entranced Earth. Rocha 1967 106m)*
Il Vigile (The Traffic Policeman. Zampa 1960 100m)*
Walk In (Blackout 1969 5m)*
performances
(rating maximum 20)
20 Shirley Stoler, The Honeymoon Killers (1970).
18 Bud Cort, Harold and Maude (1971). Patty Duke, The Miracle Worker (1962). Dan Duryea, Winchester ’73 (1950), David Keith, White of the Eye (1987).
17 Jill Clayburgh, An Unmarried Woman (1978). Willem Dafoe, The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). Shelley Duvall, 3 Women (1977). Aleksandr Filippenko, Two Prosecutors (2025). Lillian Gish, The Night of the Hunter (1955). Herbert Marshall, Trouble in Paradise (1932). Kurt Russell, Elvis (1979 TV). Margarita Terekhova, Mirror (1975). Ashley Walters, Adolescence episode 2 (2025 TV). James Woods, Salvador (1986).
16
Marisa Abela, Black Bag (2025). Isabelle Adjani, Possession (1981). Tallulah Bankhead, Lifeboat (1944). Adrienne Barbeau, Escape From New York (1981). Tom Burke, Donkey Punch (2008). Chang Chen, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000). Mo Chara, Kneecap (2024). Owen Cooper, Adolescence episode 3 (2025 TV). Jonno Davies, Better Man (2024). Aidan Delbis, Bugonia (2025).
Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another (2025). Samantha Eggar, The Brood (1979). John Goodman, Sea of Love (1989). Elliott Gould, The Long Goodbye (1974). Joel Grey, Cabaret (1972). Tchéky Karyo, La Balance (1982). Buster Keaton, The General (1926). Pat Kiernan, 4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011). Greg Kinnear, Auto Focus (2002). Guillaume Marbeck, Nouvelle Vague (2025). Herbert Marshall, The Little Foxes (1941). Temuera Morrison, Once Were Warriors (1994). Rena Owen, Once Were Warriors (1994).
Sean Penn, State of Grace (1990). Vincent Price, The Masque of the Red Death (1964). Vanessa Redgrave, Julia (1977). Maximilian Schell, Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). George C Scott, Anatomy of a Murder (1959). Sylvia Sidney, You Only Live Once (1937). Lili Taylor, Dogfight (1991). Marie-Louise Thierry, Naked-Childhood (1968). Peter Ustinov, Spartacus (1960). Leo Woodall, Nuremberg (2025). Shailene Woodley, The Fault in Our Stars (2014).
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23+/28 since 2005 (50m+)
2025: Habibi Hussein [26]; Sirāt [25]; Adolescence episode 2 [24 TV]
2024: Better Man [23]
2023: Samsara [26]; The Human Surge 3 [25]
2022: Riders [25]; The Resurrection of Dave [24 TV]
2021: –
2020: –
2019: The Beach Bum [23]; I Was At Home, But… [23]
2018: –
2017: Araby [28]; ‘Gotta Light’ [25 TV]; Western [23]
2016: Miss Kiet’s Children [24]; One Hundred and Fifty Years of Life [23]
2015: Toponymy [27]; Chappie [26]; Lost and Beautiful [23]
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2014 : It Follows [23]; Li’l Quinquin {TV} [23]
2013 : Stray Dogs [28]; On the Edge of the World [24]; Hard To Be A God [23]; The Joycean Society [23; mid]
2012 : Me Too [25]; The Act of Killing [25].
2011 : Innocent Saturday [25]; Elena [25]; Rango [23]; Sawdust City [23]; small roads [23].
2010 : Archipelago [25]; The Christening [23]; Finisterrae [23]; The Lord’s Ride [23].
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2009 : Symbol [26]; District 9 [24]; The Wolf’s Mouth [23], Green Waters [23], A Serious Man [23].
2008 : The Wrestler [27]; Two Lovers [25]; René [24]; Revolutionary Road [24]; Wall-E [24]; Stella [23], Import Export [23].
2007 : casting a glance [28]; The Call of the Wild [26]; With a Girl of Black Soil [24]; Cargo 200 [24]; Blind Mountain [24]; Control [24]; Go Go Tales [23]; Zodiac [23].
2006: United 93 [27]; Fantasma [24]; Volver [24]; Children of Men [23]; The Other Half [23]; How Is Your Fish Today? [23]; Bellavista [23]; Pan’s Labyrinth [23]; Yella [23].
2005: A History of Violence [27]; Who is Bozo Texino? [26]; King Kong [24].
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“shorts”: 24+ since 2013 (49m or less)
2026: Paper Trail [28], Lifelong [24]
2025: Câine pierdut [25]
2024: this [24], Joost Klein: “Luchtballon” (1999) [24]
2023: Snow Crystals [24]
2022: Crow [25], Before Dark [24], Jill, Uncredited [24], The Human Torch [24]
2021: (third study for) Swedge of Heaven [25]; In Shallow Water [25]; Train Again [24]
2020: 13 [28]; Nenad [24]
2019: Thorax [27]; Mitski: A Pearl [26]
2018: Gede Vizyon [25]; Lost & Found [24]
2017: What Happens To the Mountain, or, Laramie [27]; Ruins Rider [24]
2016: The French Road, Detroit MI [25]; No’i [24]
2015: Isabella Morra [25]; Veruda, a Film About Bojan [25]; The Exquisite Corpus [24]; The Reflection of Power [24,?]; Pure Virtual Function [24?]
2014: Psychic Driving [28]; Vous voulez une histoire? [27]; Seventh Submarine [27]; Sun Stop [25]; Colterrain [24?]; The Claustrum [24?]; V~ [24?]
2013: brouillard – passage #14 [26]; The Queen [25]; The Three Disasters [25] Buffalo Death Mask [24?]
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#1 of any length (S = “short,” F = “feature-length)
2010 Big Bang Big Boom [28] ‘Blu’ — S
2011 Innocent Saturday [25] Aleksandr Mindadze — F
2012 The Action [27] David Matarasso — S
2013 Stray Dogs [28] TSAI Ming-Liang — F
2014 Psychic Driving [28] William E Jones — S
2015 Toponymy [27] Jonathan Perel — F
2016 The French Road, Detroit MI [25] Arthur Summereder — S
2017 Araby [28] Dumans/Uchôa — F
2018 Gede Vizyon [25] Kielwagen/Simeon/Serafim — S
2019 Thorax [27] Siegfried A Fruhauf — S
2020 13 [28] Shinya Isobe — S
2021 (third study for) Swedge of Heaven [25] Richard Forbes-Hamilton — S
2022 Riders [25] Dominik Mencej — F
2023 Samsara [26] Lois Patiño — F
2024 Joost Klein: Luchtballon (1999) [24] Lowpolyon — S
2025 Habibi Hussein [26] Alex Bakri — F
2026 Paper Trail [28] Don Hertzfeldt — S
DECADE (50m+) 2020s world premieres (updated 6/6/26)
1. SAMSARA (Lois Patiño)
2. HABIBI HUSSEIN (Alex Bakri)
3. THE HUMAN SURGE 3 (Eduardo Williams)
4. SIRĀT (Oliver Laxe)
5. RIDERS (Dominik Mencej)
6. BETTER MAN (Michael Gracey)
7. LOOKING FOR VENERA (Norika Sefa)
8. THE PLAINS (David Easteal)
9. AFTERSUN (Charlotte Wells)
10. ELVIS (Baz Luhrmann)
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11. THE DUST OF MODERN LIFE (Franziska Von Stenglin)
