List of neo-noir films
The following is a list of films belonging to the neo-noir genre. Following a common convention of associating the 1940s and 1950s with film noir, the list takes 1960 to date the beginning of the genre.
List of films: 1960–1969
| Film | Director | Year | Country | Ref(s). |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 West Street | Philip Leacock | 1962 | United States | |
| The 3rd Voice | Hubert Cornfield | 1960 | United States | |
| Afraid to Die | Yasuzo Masumura | 1960 | Japan | |
| All Night Long | Basil Dearden | 1962 | United Kingdom | |
| Alphaville | Jean-Luc Godard | 1965 | France | |
| Any Number Can Win | Henri Verneuil | 1963 | France | |
| Army of Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1969 | France | |
| The Assassin | Elio Petri | 1961 | Italy | |
| Assignment K | Val Guest | 1968 | United Kingdom | |
| L'avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1960 | Italy | |
| The Bad Sleep Well | Akira Kurosawa | 1960 | Japan | |
| Bande à part | Jean-Luc Godard | 1964 | France | |
| Bandits in Milan | Carlo Lizzani | 1968 | Italy | |
| Beat Girl | Edmond T. Gréville | 1960 | United Kingdom | |
| The Birthday Party | William Friedkin | 1968 | United Kingdom | |
| Blast of Silence | Allen Baron | 1961 | United States | |
| Blood and Black Lace | Mario Bava | 1964 | Italy | |
| Blowup | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1966 | United Kingdom, Italy, United States | |
| Bonnie and Clyde | Arthur Penn | 1967 | United States | |
| Brainstorm | William Conrad | 1965 | United States | |
| Branded to Kill | Seijun Suzuki | 1967 | Japan | |
| Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard | 1960 | France | |
| The Bride Wore Black | François Truffaut | 1968 | France | |
| Bullitt | Peter Yates | 1968 | United States | |
| Bunny Lake Is Missing | Otto Preminger | 1965 | United Kingdom, United States | |
| Cape Fear | J. Lee Thompson | 1962 | United States | |
| Carnival of Souls | Herk Harvey | 1962 | United States | |
| Cash on Demand | Quentin Lawrence | 1961 | United Kingdom | |
| Castle of Blood | Antonio Margheriti and Sergio Corbucci | 1964 | Italy | |
| Le cave se rebiffe | Gilles Grangier | 1961 | France | |
| La caza | Carlos Saura | 1966 | Spain | |
| The Ceremony | Laurence Harvey | 1963 | United States | |
| The Challenge | John Gilling | 1960 | United Kingdom | |
| The Champagne Murders | Claude Chabrol | 1967 | France | |
| The Chase | Arthur Penn | 1966 | United States | |
| Le clan des siciliens | Henri Verneuil | 1969 | France | |
| Classe Tous Risques | Claude Sautet | 1960 | France | |
| A Colt Is My Passport | Takashi Nomura | 1967 | Japan | |
| La commare secca | Bernardo Bertolucci | 1962 | Italy | |
| The Criminal | Joseph Losey | 1960 | United Kingdom | |
| Crossplot | Alvin Rakoff | 1969 | United Kingdom | |
| Cruel Gun Story | Takumi Furukawa | 1964 | Japan | |
| Cul-de-sac | Roman Polanski | 1966 | United Kingdom | |
| The Damned | Joseph Losey | 1963 | United Kingdom | |
| A Dandy in Aspic | Anthony Mann | 1968 | United Kingdom | |
| The Day of the Owl | Damiano Damiani | 1968 | Italy | |
| Deadfall | Bryan Forbes | 1968 | United Kingdom | |
| Deadlier Than the Male | Ralph Thomas | 1967 | United Kingdom | |
| The Deadly Affair | Sidney Lumet | 1967 | United Kingdom | |
| The Delinquents | Carlos Saura | 1960 | Spain | |
| The Detective | Gordon Douglas | 1968 | United States | |
| Le deuxième souffle | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1966 | France | |
| Diabolically Yours | Julien Duvivier | 1967 | France, Italy, Germany | |
| Do You Know This Voice? | Dan Duryea and Isa Miranda | 1964 | United Kingdom | |
| Le Doulos | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1962 | France | |
| Eva | Joseph Losey | 1962 | France | |
| Experiment in Terror | Blake Edwards | 1962 | United States | |
| Eyes Without a Face | Georges Franju | 1960 | France | |
| Fantômas | André Hunebelle | 1964 | France | |
| The File of the Golden Goose | Sam Wanamaker | 1969 | United Kingdom | |
| Five Minutes to Live | Bill Karn | 1961 | United States | |
| A Fugitive from the Past | Tomu Uchida | 1965 | Japan | |
| A Game without Rules | Jindřich Polák | 1967 | Czechoslovakia | |
| The Girl Hunters | Roy Rowland | 1963 | United Kingdom | |
| The Great Spy Chase | Georges Lautner | 1964 | France | |
| Gunn | Blake Edwards | 1967 | United States | |
| Hammerhead | David Miller | 1968 | United Kingdom | |
| Hands over the City | Francesco Rosi | 1963 | Italy | |
| Hard Contract | S. Lee Pogostin | 1969 | United States | |
| Harper | Jack Smight | 1966 | United States | |
| The Haunting | Robert Wise | 1963 | United Kingdom | |
| Hell Is a City | Val Guest | 1960 | United Kingdom | |
| High and Low | Akira Kurosawa | 1963 | Japan | |
| The High Commissioner | Ralph Thomas | 1968 | United Kingdom, United States | |
| The Hole | Jacques Becker | 1960 | France | |
| Hoodlum Priest | Irvin Kershner | 1961 | United States | |
| The Hostage | Russell Doughten | 1967 | United States | |
| The Housemaid | Kim Ki-young | 1960 | South Korea | |
| The Hustler | Robert Rossen | 1961 | United States | |
| In Cold Blood | Richard Brooks | 1967 | United States | |
| In the Heat of the Night | Norman Jewison | 1967 | United States | |
| The Incident | Larry Peerce | 1967 | United States | |
| Intimidation | Koreyoshi Kurahara | 1960 | Japan | |
| The Ipcress File | Sidney J. Furie | 1965 | United Kingdom | |
| Johnny Cool | William Asher | 1963 | United States | |
| Joy House | René Clément | 1964 | France | |
| Judex | Georges Franju | 1963 | France | |
| Key Witness | Phil Karlson | 1960 | United States | |
| The Killers | Don Siegel | 1964 | United States | |
| The Killing Game | Alain Jessua | 1967 | France | |
| Kitten with a Whip | Douglas Heyes | 1964 | United States | |
| Lady in Cement | Gordon Douglas | 1968 | United States | |
| Landru | Claude Chabrol | 1963 | France | |
| The Lawbreakers | Joseph M. Newman | 1961 | United States | |
| Life Love Death | Claude Lelouch | 1968 | France | |
| Lilith | Robert Rossen | 1964 | United States | |
| Love Is Colder Than Death | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1969 | West Germany | |
| A Lovely Way to Die | David Lowell Rich | 1968 | United States | |
| Made in U.S.A. | Jean-Luc Godard | 1966 | France | |
| Mademoiselle | Tony Richardson | 1966 | United Kingdom, France | |
| Madigan | Don Siegel | 1968 | United States | |
| Magnet of Doom | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1963 | France | |
| The Man Without a Map | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 1968 | Japan | |
| Man-Trap | Edmond O'Brien | 1961 | United States | |
| The Manchurian Candidate | John Frankenheimer | 1962 | United States | |
| Marlowe | Paul Bogart | 1969 | United States | |
| Marnie | Alfred Hitchcock | 1964 | United States | |
| Medium Cool | Haskell Wexler | 1969 | United States | |
| La Métamorphose des cloportes | Pierre Granier-Deferre | 1965 | France | |
| Mickey One | Arthur Penn | 1965 | United States | |
| Midnight Lace | David Miller | 1960 | United States | |
| Mirage | Edward Dmytryk | 1965 | United States | |
| Mississippi Mermaid | François Truffaut | 1969 | France | |
| The Money Trap | Burt Kennedy | 1966 | United States | |
| Murder, Inc. | Burt Balaban and Stuart Rosenberg | 1960 | United States | |
| My Blood Runs Cold | William Conrad | 1965 | United States | |
| The Naked Kiss | Samuel Fuller | 1964 | United States | |
| Never Let Go | John Guillermin | 1960 | United Kingdom | |
| Night Train to Mundo Fine | Coleman Francis | 1966 | United States | |
| The Night of the Generals | Anatole Litvak | 1967 | United Kingdom, France, United States | |
| Nightmare | Freddie Francis | 1964 | United Kingdom | |
| Ocean's 11 | Lewis Milestone | 1960 | United States | |
| Once a Thief | Ralph Nelson | 1965 | United States | |
| P.J. | John Guillermin | 1968 | United States | |
| Pale Flower | Masahiro Shinoda | 1964 | Japan | |
| Panic in the City | Eddie Davis | 1968 | United States | |
| Paranoiac | Freddie Francis | 1963 | United Kingdom | |
| Pay or Die | Richard Wilson | 1960 | United States | |
| Peau d'espion | Édouard Molinaro | 1967 | France | |
| Peeping Tom | Michael Powell | 1960 | United Kingdom | |
| Pendulum | George Schaefer | 1969 | United States | |
| Pierrot le Fou | Jean-Luc Godard | 1965 | France | |
| Pigs and Battleships | Shōhei Imamura | 1961 | Japan | |
| La Piscine | Jacques Deray | 1969 | France | |
| Point Blank | John Boorman | 1967 | United States | |
| Portrait in Black | Michael Gordon | 1960 | United States | |
| Pretty Poison | Noel Black | 1968 | United States | |
| Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | 1960 | United States | |
| Purple Noon | René Clément | 1960 | France | |
| The Pusher | Gene Milford | 1960 | United States | |
| The Quiller Memorandum | Michael Anderson | 1966 | United Kingdom | |
| Rage | Gilberto Gazcón | 1966 | Mexico, United States | |
| Repulsion | Roman Polanski | 1965 | United Kingdom | |
| Requiem for a Heavyweight | Ralph Nelson | 1962 | United States | |
| Robbery | Peter Yates | 1967 | United Kingdom | |
| The Running Man | Carol Reed | 1963 | United Kingdom | |
| Salvatore Giuliano | Francesco Rosi | 1962 | Italy | |
| Le Samouraï | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1967 | France | |
| Sandra | Luchino Visconti | 1965 | Italy | |
| Seance on a Wet Afternoon | Bryan Forbes | 1964 | United Kingdom | |
| Seconds | John Frankenheimer | 1966 | United States | |
| The Secret Ways | Phil Karlson | 1961 | United States | |
| The Servant | Joseph Losey | 1963 | United Kingdom | |
| Seven Days in May | John Frankenheimer | 1964 | United States | |
| Seven Thieves | Henry Hathaway | 1960 | United States | |
| Shock Corridor | Samuel Fuller | 1963 | United States | |
| Shoot the Piano Player | François Truffaut | 1960 | France | |
| The Sleeping Car Murders | Costa-Gavras | 1965 | France | |
| The Small World of Sammy Lee | Ken Hughes | 1963 | United Kingdom | |
| The Soft Skin | François Truffaut | 1964 | France | |
| Something Wild | Jack Garfein | 1961 | United States | |
| The Split | Gordon Flemyng | 1968 | United States | |
| Spotlight on a Murderer | Georges Franju | 1961 | France | |
| The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Martin Ritt | 1965 | United Kingdom | |
| The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | Roger Corman | 1967 | United States | |
| The Strange Affair | David Greene | 1968 | United Kingdom | |
| Take Aim at the Police Van | Seijun Suzuki | 1960 | Japan | |
| Targets | Peter Bogdanovich | 1968 | United States | |
| Taste of Fear | Seth Holt | 1961 | United Kingdom | |
| Thérèse Desqueyroux | Georges Franju | 1962 | France | |
| They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Sydney Pollack | 1969 | United States | |
| The Thief of Paris | Louis Malle | 1967 | France | |
| The Third Lover | Claude Chabrol | 1962 | France | |
| The Third Secret | Charles Crichton | 1964 | United Kingdom | |
| This Man Must Die | Claude Chabrol | 1969 | France | |
| The Thomas Crown Affair | Norman Jewison | 1968 | United States | |
| The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse | Fritz Lang | 1960 | West Germany | |
| Tokyo Drifter | Seijun Suzuki | 1966 | Japan | |
| Les Tontons flingueurs | Georges Lautner | 1963 | France | |
| Tony Rome | Gordon Douglas | 1967 | United States | |
| Trans-Europ-Express | Alain Robbe-Grillet | 1966 | France | |
| The Trial | Orson Welles | 1962 | United States | |
| The Truth | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1960 | France | |
| Twisted Nerve | Roy Boulting | 1968 | United Kingdom | |
| Underworld U.S.A. | Samuel Fuller | 1961 | United States | |
| The Unfaithful Wife | Claude Chabrol | 1969 | France | |
| The Upper Hand | Denys de La Patellière | 1966 | France | |
| Uptight | Jules Dassin | 1968 | United States | |
| Victim | Basil Dearden | 1961 | United Kingdom | |
| Viridiana | Luis Buñuel | 1961 | Spain | |
| War Hunt | Denis Sanders | 1962 | United States | |
| Warning Shot | Buzz Kulik | 1967 | United States | |
| We Still Kill the Old Way | Elio Petri | 1967 | Italy | |
| Weekend | Jean-Luc Godard | 1967 | France | |
| Welcome to Hard Times | Burt Kennedy | 1967 | United States | |
| What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? | Lee H. Katzin | 1969 | United States | |
| The Whip and the Body | Mario Bava | 1963 | Italy | |
| Who Killed Teddy Bear | Joseph Cates | 1965 | United States | |
| Why Must I Die? | Roy Del Ruth | 1960 | United States | |
| Youth of the Beast | Seijun Suzuki | 1963 | Japan | |
| Z | Costa-Gavras | 1969 | France | |
| Zero Focus | Yoshitaro Nomura | 1961 | Japan |
List of films: 1970–1979
| Film | Director | Year | Country | Ref(s). |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Rillington Place | Richard Fleischer | 1971 | United Kingdom | |
| 99 and 44/100% Dead | John Frankenheimer | 1974 | United States | |
| Across 110th Street | Barry Shear | 1972 | United States | |
| All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula | 1976 | United States | |
| The American Friend | Wim Wenders | 1977 | West Germany | |
| ...And Justice for All. | Norman Jewison | 1979 | United States | |
| The Anderson Tapes | Sidney Lumet | 1971 | United States | |
| Assault on Precinct 13 | John Carpenter | 1976 | United States | |
| Badge 373 | Howard W. Koch | 1973 | United States | |
| Badlands | Terrence Malick | 1973 | United States | |
| The Big Fix | Jeremy Kagan | 1978 | United States | |
| The Big Sleep | Michael Winner | 1978 | United Kingdom, United States | |
| The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | Dario Argento | 1970 | Italy | |
| The Black Bird | David Giler | 1975 | United States | |
| Black Eye | Jack Arnold | 1974 | United States | |
| Black Gunn | Robert Hartford-Davis | 1972 | United States | |
| Black Sunday | John Frankenheimer | 1977 | United States | |
| Blue Collar | Paul Schrader | 1978 | United States | |
| Le Boucher | Claude Chabrol | 1970 | France | |
| Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sam Peckinpah | 1974 | United States, Mexico | |
| The Brink's Job | William Friedkin | 1978 | United States | |
| Buster and Billie | Daniel Petrie | 1974 | United States | |
| Capricorn One | Peter Hyams | 1977 | United States | |
| Le Cercle Rouge | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1970 | France/Italy | |
| The Champ | Franco Zeffirelli | 1979 | United States | |
| Chandler | Paul Magwood | 1971 | United States | |
| Charley Varrick | Don Siegel | 1973 | United States | |
| The China Syndrome | James Bridges | 1979 | United States | |
| Chinatown | Roman Polanski | 1974 | United States | |
| The Choirboys | Robert Aldrich | 1977 | United States | |
| Coffy | Jack Hill | 1973 | United States | |
| The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola | 1974 | United States | |
| Cool Breeze | Barry Pollack | 1972 | United States | |
| Cotton Comes to Harlem | Ossie Davis | 1970 | United States | |
| Cuba | Richard Lester | 1979 | United States | |
| Deadly Strangers | Sidney Hayers | 1975 | United Kingdom | |
| Death Wish | Michael Winner | 1974 | United States | |
| Detroit 9000 | Arthur Marks | 1973 | United States | |
| Dirty Harry | Don Siegel | 1971 | United States | |
| Dog Day Afternoon | Sidney Lumet | 1975 | United States | |
| The Domino Principle | Stanley Kramer | 1977 | United States | |
| The Driver | Walter Hill | 1978 | United States | |
| The Drowning Pool | Stuart Rosenberg | 1975 | United States | |
| Endless Night | Sidney Gilliat | 1972 | United Kingdom | |
| The Enforcer | James Fargo | 1976 | United States | |
| The Executioner | Sam Wanamaker | 1970 | United Kingdom | |
| Executive Action | David Miller | 1973 | United States | |
| Eyes of Laura Mars | Irvin Kershner | 1978 | United States | |
| Farewell, My Lovely | Dick Richards | 1975 | United States | |
| Fat City | John Huston | 1972 | United States | |
| Fingers | James Toback | 1978 | United States | |
| The First Great Train Robbery | Michael Crichton | 1978 | United Kingdom | |
| F.I.S.T | Norman Jewison | 1978 | United States | |
| Foxy Brown | Jack Hill | 1974 | United States | |
| Framed | Phil Karlson | 1975 | United States | |
| The French Connection | William Friedkin | 1971 | United States | |
| French Connection II | John Frankenheimer | 1975 | United States | |
| Frenzy | Alfred Hitchcock | 1972 | United Kingdom | |
| Friday Foster | Arthur Marks | 1975 | United States | |
| The Friends of Eddie Coyle | Peter Yates | 1973 | United States | |
| The Fury | Brian De Palma | 1978 | United States | |
| The Gauntlet | Clint Eastwood | 1977 | United States | |
| Get Carter | Mike Hodges | 1971 | United Kingdom | |
| The Getaway | Sam Peckinpah | 1972 | United States | |
| Going Home | Herbert B. Leonard | 1971 | United States | |
| The Grissom Gang | Robert Aldrich | 1971 | United States | |
| The Groundstar Conspiracy | Lamont Johnson | 1972 | United States | |
| Gumshoe | Stephen Frears | 1971 | United Kingdom | |
| Hard Times | Walter Hill | 1975 | United States | |
| Hardcore | Paul Schrader | 1979 | United States | |
| Hell Up in Harlem | Larry Cohen | 1973 | United States | |
| Hickey & Boggs | Robert Culp | 1972 | United States | |
| Hit Man | George Armitage | 1972 | United States | |
| The "Human" Factor | Edward Dmytryk | 1975 | United States | |
| The Human Factor | Otto Preminger | 1979 | United Kingdom | |
| Hustle | Robert Aldrich | 1975 | United States | |
| I... comme Icare | Henri Verneuil | 1979 | France | |
| I Walk the Line | John Frankenheimer | 1970 | United States | |
| Jaguar | Lino Brocka | 1979 | Philippines | |
| The Killer Inside Me | Burt Kennedy | 1976 | United States | |
| The Killing of a Chinese Bookie | John Cassavetes | 1976 | United States | |
| Klute | Alan J. Pakula | 1971 | United States | |
| The Kremlin Letter | John Huston | 1970 | United States | |
| Last Embrace | Jonathan Demme | 1979 | United States | |
| The Last of Sheila | Herbert Ross | 1973 | United States | |
| The Late Show | Robert Benton | 1977 | United States | |
| Le silencieux | Claude Pinoteau | 1973 | France | |
| The Liberation of L.B. Jones | William Wyler | 1970 | United States | |
| The Long Goodbye | Robert Altman | 1973 | United States | |
| The Looking Glass War | Frank Pierson | 1970 | United Kingdom | |
| The MacKintosh Man | John Huston | 1973 | United Kingdom | |
| Magnum Force | Ted Post | 1973 | United States | |
| Manila in the Claws of Light | Lino Brocka | 1975 | Philippines | |
| Mean Streets | Martin Scorsese | 1973 | United States | |
| Midnight Express | Alan Parker | 1978 | United States | |
| The Midnight Man | Roland Kibbee and Burt Lancaster | 1974 | United States | |
| Mikey and Nicky | Elaine May | 1976 | United States | |
| Money Movers | Bruce Beresford | 1978 | Australia | |
| The New Centurions | Richard Fleischer | 1972 | United States | |
| The Nickel Ride | Robert Mulligan | 1974 | United States | |
| Night Moves | Arthur Penn | 1975 | United States | |
| Obsession | Brian De Palma | 1976 | United States | |
| The Offence | Sidney Lumet | 1972 | United Kingdom | |
| The One Man Jury | Charles Martin | 1978 | United States | |
| The Onion Field | Harold Becker | 1979 | United States | |
| The Organization | Don Medford | 1971 | United States | |
| The Outfit | John Flynn | 1973 | United States | |
| The Parallax View | Alan J. Pakula | 1974 | United States | |
| The Passenger | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1975 | Italy, France, Spain | |
| Performance | Nicolas Roeg | 1970 | United Kingdom | |
| Play Misty for Me | Clint Eastwood | 1971 | United States | |
| Prime Cut | Michael Ritchie | 1972 | United States | |
| Pulp | Mike Hodges | 1972 | United Kingdom | |
| Rage | George C. Scott | 1972 | United States | |
| Remember My Name | Alan Rudolph | 1978 | United States | |
| Rider on the Rain | René Clément | 1970 | France | |
| Rolling Thunder | John Flynn | 1977 | United States | |
| The Seduction of Joe Tynan | Jerry Schatzberg | 1979 | United States | |
| Série noire | Alain Corneau | 1979 | France | |
| Serpico | Sidney Lumet | 1973 | United States | |
| Seven | Andy Sidaris | 1979 | United States | |
| Shaft | Gordon Parks | 1971 | United States | |
| Shamus | Buzz Kulik | 1973 | United States | |
| Sheba, Baby | William Girdler | 1975 | United States | |
| The Silent Partner | Daryl Duke | 1978 | Canada | |
| Sisters | Brian De Palma | 1973 | United States | |
| Sitting Target | Douglas Hickox | 1972 | United Kingdom | |
| Sorcerer | William Friedkin | 1977 | United States, Mexico | |
| Soylent Green | Richard Fleischer | 1973 | United States | |
| Special Delivery | Paul Wendkos | 1976 | United States | |
| The Stone Killer | Michael Winner | 1973 | United States | |
| Straight Time | Ulu Grosbard | 1978 | United States | |
| Super Fly | Gordon Parks Jr. | 1972 | United States | |
| Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song | Melvin Van Peebles | 1971 | United States | |
| The Take | Robert Hartford-Davis | 1974 | United States | |
| The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Joseph Sargent | 1974 | United States | |
| Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese | 1976 | United States | |
| They Call Me Mister Tibbs! | Gordon Douglas | 1970 | United States | |
| Thieves Like Us | Robert Altman | 1974 | United States | |
| Twilight's Last Gleaming | Robert Aldrich | 1977 | United States | |
| Vanishing Point | Richard C. Sarafian | 1971 | United States | |
| Villain | Michael Tuchner | 1971 | United Kingdom | |
| Walking Tall | Phil Karlson | 1973 | United States | |
| White Line Fever | Jonathan Kaplan | 1975 | Canada, United States | |
| Winter Kills | William Richert | 1979 | United States | |
| The Yakuza | Sydney Pollack | 1974 | United States |
List of films: 1980–1989
| Film | Director | Year | Country | Ref(s). |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Million Ways to Die | Hal Ashby | 1986 | United States | |
| Absence of Malice | Sydney Pollack | 1981 | United States | |
| After Hours | Martin Scorsese | 1985 | United States | |
| Against All Odds | Taylor Hackford | 1984 | United States | |
| Agnes of God | Norman Jewison | 1985 | United States | |
| American Gigolo | Paul Schrader | 1980 | United States | |
| Angel Heart | Alan Parker | 1987 | United States | |
| At Close Range | James Foley | 1986 | United States | |
| Atlantic City | Louis Malle | 1980 | Canada/France | |
| Bad Boys | Rick Rosenthal | 1983 | United States | |
| Bad Timing | Nicolas Roeg | 1980 | United Kingdom | |
| Band of the Hand | Paul Michael Glaser | 1986 | United States | |
| Batman | Tim Burton | 1989 | United States | |
| The Bedroom Window | Curtis Hanson | 1987 | United States | |
| Best Seller | Larry Cohen | 1987 | United States | |
| Betrayed | Costa-Gavras | 1988 | United States | |
| A Better Tomorrow | John Woo | 1986 | Hong Kong | |
| The Big Easy | Jim McBride | 1987 | United States | |
| Black Rain | Ridley Scott | 1989 | United States | |
| Black Widow | Bob Rafelson | 1987 | United States | |
| Blade Runner | Ridley Scott | 1982 | United States | |
| Blue Thunder | John Badham | 1983 | United States | |
| Blue Velvet | David Lynch | 1986 | United States | |
| Blood Simple | Joel and Ethan Coen | 1984 | United States | |
| Blow Out | Brian De Palma | 1981 | United States | |
| Body Double | Brian De Palma | 1984 | United States | |
| Body Heat | Lawrence Kasdan | 1981 | United States | |
| The Border | Tony Richardson | 1982 | United States | |
| Breathless | Jim McBride | 1983 | United States | |
| Bulaklak sa City Jail | Mario O'Hara | 1984 | Philippines | |
| Chan Is Missing | Wayne Wang | 1982 | United States | |
| City on Fire | Ringo Lam | 1987 | Hong Kong | |
| Cop | James B. Harris | 1988 | United States | |
| Crimes of Passion | Ken Russell | 1984 | United States | |
| Cruising | William Friedkin | 1980 | United States | |
| Cutter's Way | Ivan Passer | 1981 | United States | |
| Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | Carl Reiner | 1982 | United States | |
| The Dead Pool | Buddy Van Horn | 1988 | United States | |
| Defiance | John Flynn | 1980 | United States | |
| D.O.A. | Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankel | 1988 | United States | |
| Dressed to Kill | Brian De Palma | 1980 | United States | |
| The Exterminator | James Glickenhaus | 1980 | United States | |
| An Eye for an Eye | Steve Carver | 1981 | United States | |
| Eyewitness | Peter Yates | 1981 | United States | |
| Fatal Attraction | Adrian Lyne | 1987 | United States | |
| Fear City | Abel Ferrara | 1984 | United States | |
| The First Deadly Sin | Brian G. Hutton | 1980 | United States | |
| Frantic | Roman Polanski | 1988 | United States | |
| Gloria | John Cassavetes | 1980 | United States | |
| Hammett | Wim Wenders | 1982 | United States | |
| Hidden City | Stephen Poliakoff | 1987 | United Kingdom | |
| The Hit | Stephen Frears | 1984 | United Kingdom | |
| House of Games | David Mamet | 1987 | United States | |
| The House on Carroll Street | Peter Yates | 1988 | United States | |
| I, the Jury | Richard T. Heffron | 1982 | United States | |
| Jagged Edge | Richard Marquand | 1985 | United States | |
| Johnny Handsome | Walter Hill | 1989 | United States | |
| Kill Me Again | John Dahl | 1989 | United States | |
| The Killer | John Woo | 1989 | Hong Kong | |
| Little Nikita | Richard Benjamin | 1988 | United States | |
| The Long Good Friday | John Mackenzie | 1980 | United Kingdom | |
| Manhunter | Michael Mann | 1986 | United States | |
| Mike's Murder | James Bridges | 1984 | United States | |
| Mona Lisa | Neil Jordan | 1986 | United Kingdom | |
| The Morning After | Sidney Lumet | 1986 | United States | |
| Ms. 45 | Abel Ferrara | 1981 | United States | |
| Murphy's Law | J. Lee Thompson | 1986 | United States | |
| Night of the Juggler | Robert Butler | 1980 | United States | |
| Nighthawks | Bruce Malmuth | 1981 | United States | |
| No Mercy | Richard Pearce | 1986 | United States | |
| No Way Out | Roger Donaldson | 1987 | United States | |
| Out of Bounds | Richard Tuggle | 1986 | United States | |
| Police | Maurice Pialat | 1985 | France | |
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | Bob Rafelson | 1981 | United States | |
| Prince of the City | Sidney Lumet | 1981 | United States | |
| Quicksilver | Thomas Michael Donnelly | 1986 | United States | |
| Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | 1980 | United States | |
| Scarface | Brian De Palma | 1983 | United States | |
| Sea of Love | Harold Becker | 1989 | United States | |
| Sharky's Machine | Burt Reynolds | 1981 | United States | |
| Silent Rage | Michael Miller | 1982 | United States | |
| Slam Dance | Wayne Wang | 1987 | United States | |
| Someone to Watch Over Me | Ridley Scott | 1987 | United States, United Kingdom | |
| Still of the Night | Robert Benton | 1982 | United States | |
| Stormy Monday | Mike Figgis | 1988 | United Kingdom | |
| Sudden Impact | Clint Eastwood | 1983 | United States | |
| The Terminator | James Cameron | 1984 | United States | |
| T-Bird at Ako | Danny Zialcita | 1982 | Philippines | |
| Thief | Michael Mann | 1981 | United States | |
| Tightrope | Richard Tuggle | 1984 | United States | |
| To Live and Die in L.A. | William Friedkin | 1985 | United States | |
| Trouble in Mind | Alan Rudolph | 1985 | United States | |
| True Confessions | Ulu Grosbard | 1981 | United States | |
| Union City | Marcus Reichert | 1980 | United States | |
| Violent Cop | Takeshi Kitano | 1989 | Japan | |
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Robert Zemeckis | 1988 | United States | |
| Witness | Peter Weir | 1985 | United States | |
| Year of the Dragon | Michael Cimino | 1985 | United States |
List of films: 1990–1999
| Film | Director | Year | Country | Ref(s). |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Monkeys | Terry Gilliam | 1995 | United States | |
| Affliction | Paul Schrader | 1997 | United States | |
| After Dark, My Sweet | James Foley | 1990 | United States | |
| Arlington Road | Mark Pellington | 1999 | United States | |
| Bad Influence | Curtis Hanson | 1990 | United States | |
| Bad Lieutenant | Abel Ferrara | 1992 | United States | |
| Basic Instinct | Paul Verhoeven | 1992 | United States | |
| Batman Returns | Tim Burton | 1992 | United States | |
| Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | Bruce Timm | 1993 | United States | |
| Belly | Hype Williams | 1998 | United States | |
| Best Laid Plans | Mike Barker | 1999 | United States | |
| The Big Lebowski | Joel and Ethan Coen | 1998 | United States, United Kingdom | |
| Blink | Michael Apted | 1994 | United States | |
| Blood and Wine | Bob Rafelson | 1996 | United States | |
| Blue Steel | Kathryn Bigelow | 1990 | United States | |
| Bound | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 1996 | United States | |
| Boys Don't Cry | Kimberly Peirce | 1999 | United States | |
| Bugsy | Barry Levinson | 1991 | United States | |
| Cape Fear | Martin Scorsese | 1991 | United States | |
| Carlito's Way | Brian De Palma | 1993 | United States | |
| La Cérémonie | Claude Chabrol | 1995 | France | |
| China Moon | John Bailey | 1994 | United States | |
| Clockers | Spike Lee | 1995 | United States | |
| Cop Land | James Mangold | 1997 | United States | |
| Croupier | Mike Hodges | 1998 | United Kingdom | |
| The Crow | Alex Proyas | 1994 | United States | |
| Dark City | Alex Proyas | 1998 | United States, Australia | |
| Dead Again | Kenneth Branagh | 1991 | United States | |
| Dead Presidents | Albert and Allen Hughes | 1995 | United States | |
| Deceiver | Jonas Pate and Josh Pate | 1997 | United States | |
| Deep Cover | Bill Duke | 1992 | United States | |
| Deep Crimson | Arturo Ripstein | 1996 | Mexico | |
| Delusion | Carl Colpaert | 1991 | United States | |
| Desperate Hours | Michael Cimino | 1990 | United States | |
| Devil in a Blue Dress | Carl Franklin | 1995 | United States | |
| Diary of a Hitman | Roy London | 1991 | United States | |
| Dick Tracy | Warren Beatty | 1990 | United States | |
| Donnie Brasco | Mike Newell | 1997 | United States | |
| Face/Off | John Woo | 1997 | United States | |
| Fallen Angels | Wong Kar-wai | 1995 | Hong Kong | |
| Fargo | Joel and Ethan Coen | 1996 | United States, United Kingdom | |
| Fear | James Foley | 1996 | United States | |
| La Femme Nikita | Luc Besson | 1990 | France/Italy | |
| Fight Club | David Fincher | 1999 | United States | |
| Final Analysis | Phil Joanou | 1992 | United States | |
| Flesh and Bone | Steve Kloves | 1993 | United States | |
| Following | Christopher Nolan | 1998 | United Kingdom | |
| Foreign Land | Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas | 1996 | Brazil | |
| The Game | David Fincher | 1997 | United States | |
| Gattaca | Andrew Niccol | 1997 | United States | |
| The Getaway | Roger Donaldson | 1994 | United States | |
| Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Jim Jarmusch | 1999 | United States | |
| The Glass Shield | Charles Burnett | 1994 | United States | |
| Gloria | Sidney Lumet | 1999 | United States | |
| The Grifters | Stephen Frears | 1990 | United States | |
| Guncrazy | Tamra Davis | 1992 | United States | |
| La Haine | Mathieu Kassovitz | 1995 | France | |
| Hana-bi | Takeshi Kitano | 1997 | Japan | |
| Hard Boiled | John Woo | 1992 | Hong Kong | |
| Hard Eight | Paul Thomas Anderson | 1996 | United States | |
| Heat | Michael Mann | 1995 | United States | |
| Homicide | David Mamet | 1991 | United States | |
| The Hot Spot | Dennis Hopper | 1990 | United States | |
| In the Line of Fire | Wolfgang Petersen | 1993 | United States | |
| Insomnia | Erik Skjoldbjærg | 1997 | Norway | |
| Internal Affairs | Mike Figgis | 1990 | United States | |
| Jackie Brown | Quentin Tarantino | 1997 | United States | |
| The Kill-Off | Maggie Greenwald | 1990 | United States | |
| King of New York | Abel Ferrara | 1990 | United States | |
| A Kiss Before Dying | James Dearden | 1991 | United States | |
| Kiss of Death | Barbet Schroeder | 1995 | United States | |
| Kiss or Kill | Bill Bennett | 1997 | Australia | |
| The Krays | Peter Medak | 1990 | United Kingdom | |
| L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson | 1997 | United States | |
| The Last Seduction | John Dahl | 1994 | United States | |
| Léon: The Professional | Luc Besson | 1994 | France | |
| Lethal Weapon 3 | Richard Donner | 1992 | United States | |
| Liebestraum | Mike Figgis | 1991 | United States | |
| Light Sleeper | Paul Schrader | 1992 | United States | |
| The Limey | Steven Soderbergh | 1999 | United States | |
| Live Flesh | Pedro Almodóvar | 1997 | Spain | |
| Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | Guy Ritchie | 1998 | United Kingdom | |
| Lone Star | John Sayles | 1996 | United States | |
| Lord of Illusions | Clive Barker | 1995 | United States | |
| Lost Highway | David Lynch | 1997 | United States | |
| Love Crimes | Lizzie Borden | 1992 | United States | |
| Malice | Harold Becker | 1993 | United States | |
| The Matrix | Lana and Lilly Wachowski | 1999 | Australia, United States | |
| Menace II Society | Albert and Allen Hughes | 1993 | United States | |
| Miami Blues | George Armitage | 1990 | United States | |
| Miller's Crossing | Joel and Ethan Coen | 1990 | United States | |
| Mulholland Falls | Lee Tamahori | 1996 | United States | |
| Narrow Margin | Peter Hyams | 1990 | United States | |
| New Jack City | Melvin Van Peebles | 1991 | United States | |
| Night and the City | Irwin Winkler | 1992 | United States | |
| Night Train | Les Bernstien | 1999 | United States | |
| The Ninth Gate | Roman Polanski | 1999 | United States | |
| One False Move | Carl Franklin | 1992 | United States | |
| Out of Sight | Steven Soderbergh | 1998 | United States | |
| Pacific Heights | John Schlesinger | 1990 | United States | |
| Palmetto | Volker Schlöndorff | 1998 | United States | |
| El Patrullero | Alex Cox | 1991 | Mexico | |
| Payback | Brian Helgeland | 1999 | United States | |
| Pi | Darren Aronofsky | 1998 | United States | |
| The Player | Robert Altman | 1992 | United States | |
| Point Break | Kathryn Bigelow | 1991 | United States | |
| Poison Ivy | Katt Shea | 1992 | United States | |
| Poodle Springs | Bob Rafelson | 1998 | United States | |
| The Public Eye | Howard Franklin | 1992 | United States | |
| Pulp Fiction | Quentin Tarantino | 1994 | United States | |
| Pusher | Nicolas Winding Refn | 1996 | Denmark | |
| The Rapture | Michael Tolkin | 1991 | United States | |
| Red Rock West | John Dahl | 1993 | United States | |
| Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino | 1992 | United States | |
| Revenge | Tony Scott | 1990 | United States, Mexico | |
| Romeo Is Bleeding | Peter Medak | 1993 | United States | |
| Ronin | John Frankenheimer | 1998 | United States | |
| Rush | Lili Fini Zanuck | 1991 | United States | |
| Set It Off | F. Gary Gray | 1994 | United States | |
| Seven | David Fincher | 1995 | United States | |
| Shallow Grave | Danny Boyle | 1994 | United Kingdom | |
| Shattered | Wolfgang Petersen | 1991 | United States | |
| The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | 1991 | United States | |
| Simpatico | Matthew Warchus | 1999 | United States | |
| A Simple Plan | Sam Raimi | 1998 | United States | |
| Sleeping with the Enemy | Joseph Ruben | 1991 | United States | |
| Sling Blade | Billy Bob Thornton | 1996 | United States | |
| Sonatine | Takeshi Kitano | 1993 | Japan | |
| The Spanish Prisoner | David Mamet | 1997 | United States | |
| Strange Days | Kathryn Bigelow | 1995 | United States | |
| Suture | Scott McGehee and David Siegel | 1993 | United States | |
| Swoon | Tom Kalin | 1992 | United States | |
| The Talented Mr. Ripley | Anthony Minghella | 1999 | United States | |
| The Temp | Tom Holland | 1993 | United States | |
| Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead | Gary Fleder | 1995 | United States | |
| This World, Then the Fireworks | Michael Oblowitz | 1997 | United States | |
| True Romance | Tony Scott | 1993 | United States | |
| Twilight | Robert Benton | 1998 | United States | |
| Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | David Lynch | 1992 | United States | |
| The Two Jakes | Jack Nicholson | 1990 | United States | |
| U Turn | Oliver Stone | 1997 | United States | |
| The Underneath | Steven Soderbergh | 1995 | United States | |
| Unlawful Entry | Jonathan Kaplan | 1992 | United States | |
| The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | 1995 | United States | |
| Where the Day Takes You | Marc Rocco | 1992 | United States | |
| White Sands | Roger Donaldson | 1992 | United States | |
| Wild at Heart | David Lynch | 1990 | United States | |
| Wild Things | John McNaughton | 1998 | United States | |
| The X-Files | Rob Bowman | 1998 | United States | |
| Zero Effect | Jake Kasdan | 1998 | United States |
List of films: 2000–2009
| Film | Director | Year | Country | Ref(s). |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25th Hour | Spike Lee | 2002 | United States | |
| American Gangster | Ridley Scott | 2007 | United States | |
| American Psycho | Mary Harron | 2000 | United States | |
| The Assassination of Richard Nixon | Niels Mueller | 2004 | United States | |
| El Aura | Fabián Bielinsky | 2005 | Argentina | |
| Bad Education | Pedro Almodóvar | 2004 | Spain | |
| Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | Werner Herzog | 2009 | United States | |
| Baise-moi | Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi | 2000 | France | |
| Basic Instinct 2 | Michael Caton-Jones | 2006 | United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Spain |
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| Batman Begins | Christopher Nolan | 2005 | United States | |
| The Beat That My Heart Skipped | Jacques Audiard | 2005 | France | |
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Sidney Lumet | 2007 | United States | |
| Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Peter Hyams | 2009 | United States | |
| A Bittersweet Life | Kim Jee-woon | 2005 | South Korea | |
| The Black Dahlia | Brian De Palma | 2006 | United States | |
| Blind Shaft | Li Yang | 2003 | China | |
| The Bourne Identity | Doug Liman | 2002 | United States | |
| Brick | Rian Johnson | 2005 | United States | |
| Caché | Michael Haneke | 2005 | France | |
| Circus | Rob Walker | 2000 | United Kingdom, United States | |
| City of God | Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund | 2002 | Brazil | |
| Collateral | Michael Mann | 2004 | United States | |
| The Consequences of Love | Paolo Sorrentino | 2004 | Italy | |
| The Cooler | Wayne Kramer | 2003 | United States | |
| Dark Blue | Ron Shelton | 2002 | United States | |
| Dark Country | Thomas Jane | 2009 | United States | |
| The Dark Knight | Christopher Nolan | 2008 | United Kingdom, United States | |
| Dead Man's Shoes | Shane Meadows | 2004 | United Kingdom | |
| Dead Time: Kala | Joko Anwar | 2007 | Indonesia | |
| Deception | Marcel Langenegger | 2008 | United States | |
| The Deep End | Scott McGehee and David Siegel | 2001 | United States | |
| The Departed | Martin Scorsese | 2006 | United States | |
| Derailed | Mikael Håfström | 2005 | United States | |
| Dos Ekis | Erik Matti | 2001 | Philippines | |
| Duplicity | Tony Gilroy | 2009 | United States | |
| Eastern Promises | David Cronenberg | 2007 | United Kingdom, Canada | |
| Ek Hasina Thi | Sriram Raghavan | 2004 | India | |
| Enough | Michael Apted | 2002 | United States | |
| Femme Fatale | Brian De Palma | 2002 | United States | |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Niels Arden Oplev | 2009 | Sweden | |
| The Glass House | Daniel Sackheim | 2001 | United States | |
| Gone Baby Gone | Ben Affleck | 2007 | United States | |
| Heist | David Mamet | 2001 | United States | |
| A History of Violence | David Cronenberg | 2005 | United States | |
| Hollywoodland | Allen Coulter | 2006 | United States | |
| Hostage | Florent Emilio Siri | 2005 | United States | |
| I, Robot | Alex Proyas | 2004 | United States | |
| I'll Sleep When I'm Dead | Mike Hodges | 2003 | United Kingdom | |
| In Bruges | Martin McDonagh | 2008 | United Kingdom | |
| In the Cut | Jane Campion | 2003 | United States | |
| Infernal Affairs | Andrew Lau and Alan Mak | 2002 | Hong Kong | |
| Inside Man | Spike Lee | 2006 | United States | |
| Insomnia | Christopher Nolan | 2002 | United States | |
| Irréversible | Gaspar Noé | 2002 | France | |
| Johnny Gaddaar | Sriram Raghavan | 2007 | India | |
| Just Another Love Story | Ole Bornedal | 2007 | Denmark | |
| Kill Bill: Volume 1 | Quentin Tarantino | 2003 | United States | |
| Kill Bill: Volume 2 | Quentin Tarantino | 2004 | United States | |
| Kiss Kiss Bang Bang | Shane Black | 2005 | United States | |
| Klopka | Srdan Golubović | 2007 | Serbia | |
| Lady Vengeance | Park Chan-wook | 2005 | South Korea | |
| Lantana | Ray Lawrence | 2001 | Australia | |
| Layer Cake | Matthew Vaughn | 2004 | United Kingdom | |
| Lorna's Silence | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | 2008 | Belgium, Italy, Germany | |
| Lower City | Sérgio Machado | 2005 | Brazil | |
| Lucky Number Slevin | Paul McGuigan | 2006 | United States | |
| Lust, Caution | Ang Lee | 2007 | United States, China, Taiwan | |
| The Machinist | Brad Anderson | 2004 | Spain | |
| Mad Detective | Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai | 2007 | Hong Kong | |
| The Man from London | Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky | 2007 | Hungary, France, Germany | |
| The Man Who Wasn't There | Joel and Ethan Coen | 2001 | United States | |
| The Manchurian Candidate | Jonathan Demme | 2004 | United States | |
| Match Point | Woody Allen | 2005 | United Kingdom, United States, Luxembourg |
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| Max Payne | John Moore | 2008 | United States | |
| Memento | Christopher Nolan | 2000 | United States | |
| Memories of Murder | Bong Joon-ho | 2003 | South Korea | |
| Merci pour le chocolat | Claude Chabrol | 2000 | France | |
| Miami Vice | Michael Mann | 2006 | United States | |
| Million Dollar Baby | Clint Eastwood | 2004 | United States | |
| Minority Report | Steven Spielberg | 2002 | United States | |
| Mother | Bong Joon-ho | 2009 | South Korea | |
| Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | 2001 | United States | |
| Mystic River | Clint Eastwood | 2003 | United States | |
| Narc | Joe Carnahan | 2002 | United States | |
| Nine Queens | Fabián Bielinsky | 2000 | Argentina | |
| No Country For Old Men | Joel and Ethan Coen | 2007 | United States | |
| Oldboy | Park Chan-wook | 2003 | South Korea | |
| One Nite in Mongkok | Derek Yee | 2004 | Hong Kong | |
| Out of Time | Carl Franklin | 2003 | United States | |
| Panic Room | David Fincher | 2002 | United States | |
| The Pledge | Sean Penn | 2001 | United States | |
| Public Enemies | Michael Mann | 2009 | United States | |
| Pusher II: With Blood on My Hands | Nicolas Winding Refn | 2004 | Denmark, United Kingdom | |
| Pusher III: I’m the Angel of Death | Nicolas Winding Refn | 2005 | Denmark | |
| Reindeer Games | John Frankenheimer | 2000 | United States | |
| Renaissance | Christian Volckman | 2006 | France | |
| Ripley's Game | Liliana Cavani | 2002 | Italy | |
| Road to Perdition | Sam Mendes | 2002 | United States | |
| The Salton Sea | D. J. Caruso | 2002 | United States | |
| A Scanner Darkly | Richard Linklater | 2006 | United States | |
| Sexy Beast | Jonathan Glazer | 2000 | United Kingdom | |
| Shinjuku Incident | Derek Yee | 2009 | Hong Kong | |
| Sin City | Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez | 2005 | United States | |
| The Spirit | Frank Miller | 2008 | United States | |
| State of Play | Kevin MacDonald | 2009 | United States | |
| Suspect Zero | E. Elias Merhige | 2004 | United States | |
| Suzhou River | Lou Ye | 2000 | China | |
| Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance | Park Chan-wook | 2002 | South Korea | |
| Tell No One | Guillaume Canet | 2006 | France | |
| Three Monkeys | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 2008 | Turkey | |
| The Town Is Quiet | Robert Guédiguian | 2000 | France | |
| Training Day | Antoine Fuqua | 2001 | United States | |
| Trapped | Luis Mandoki | 2002 | United States, Germany | |
| The Village | M. Night Shyamalan | 2004 | United States | |
| Watchmen | Zack Snyder | 2009 | United States | |
| The Way of the Gun | Christopher McQuarrie | 2000 | United States | |
| Where the Truth Lies | Atom Egoyan | 2005 | Canada | |
| The Yards | James Gray | 2000 | United States | |
| Zodiac | David Fincher | 2007 | United States |
List of films: 2010–2019
| Film | Director | Year | Country | Ref(s). |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Land Imagined | Yeo Siew Hua | 2018 | Singapore, France, Netherlands | |
| Aa Drushya | Shiva Ganesh | 2019 | India | |
| Aake | K. M. Chaitanya | 2017 | India | |
| Aaranya Kaandam | Thiagarajan Kumararaja | 2011 | India | |
| Alois Nebel | Tomáš Luňák | 2011 | Czech Republic | |
| The American | Anton Corbijn | 2010 | United States | |
| American Dreamer | Derrick Borte | 2018 | United States | |
| Animal Kingdom | David Michôd | 2010 | Australia | |
| Anon | Andrew Niccol | 2018 | United Kingdom, United States | |
| Anti Matter | Keir Burrows | 2017 | United Kingdom | |
| Asura: The City of Madness | Kim Sung-su | 2016 | South Korea | |
| B.A. Pass | Ajay Bahl | 2013 | India | |
| Badlapur | Sriram Raghavan | 2015 | India | |
| Bad Times at the El Royale | Drew Goddard | 2018 | United States | |
| Bad Turn Worse | Zeke and Simon Hawkins | 2014 | United States | |
| The Bag Man | David Grovic | 2014 | United States | |
| Bastards | Claire Denis | 2013 | France/Germany | |
| Black Coal, Thin Ice | Diao Yinan | 2014 | China | |
| Blade Runner 2049 | Denis Villeneuve | 2017 | United States | |
| Blow the Man Down | Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy | 2019 | United States | |
| Blue Ruin | Jeremy Saulnier | 2014 | United States | |
| Bornoporichoy | Mainak Bhowmick | 2019 | India | |
| Brawl in Cell Block 99 | S. Craig Zahler | 2017 | United States | |
| Brighton Rock | Rowan Joffé | 2011 | United Kingdom | |
| Broken City | Allen Hughes | 2013 | United States | |
| Burning | Lee Chang-dong | 2018 | South Korea | |
| Burning Kiss | Robbie Studsor | 2018 | Australia | |
| Cities of Last Things | Ho Wi Ding | 2018 | Taiwan, China, France, United States |
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| Cold in July | Jim Mickle | 2014 | United States | |
| The Dark Knight Rises | Christopher Nolan | 2012 | United Kingdom, United States | |
| Destroyer | Karyn Kusama | 2018 | United States | |
| Detour | Christopher Smith | 2016 | United Kingdom, South Africa | |
| Disappearance at Clifton Hill | Albert Shin | 2019 | Canada | |
| Dragged Across Concrete | S. Craig Zahler | 2018 | United States | |
| Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn | 2011 | United States | |
| Drum | Keywan Karimi | 2016 | Iran/France | |
| Earthquake Bird | Wash Westmoreland | 2019 | United States, United Kingdom | |
| Elena | Andrey Zvyagintsev | 2011 | Russia | |
| Elle | Paul Verhoeven | 2016 | France/Germany | |
| Ex Machina | Alex Garland | 2015 | United States, United Kingdom | |
| Frank & Lola | Matthew Ross | 2016 | United States | |
| The Ghost Writer | Roman Polanski | 2010 | United Kingdom, France, Germany | |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | David Fincher | 2011 | United States | |
| Gone Girl | David Fincher | 2014 | United States | |
| Good Time | Josh and Benny Safdie | 2017 | United States | |
| The Handmaiden | Park Chan-wook | 2016 | South Korea | |
| Hell or High Water | David Mackenzie | 2016 | United States | |
| In the Shadow | David Ondříček | 2012 | Czech Republic | |
| In the Shadow of the Moon | Jim Mickle | 2019 | United States | |
| Inception | Christopher Nolan | 2010 | United Kingdom, United States | |
| Inherent Vice | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2014 | United States | |
| John Wick | Chad Stahelski | 2014 | United States | |
| John Wick: Chapter 2 | Chad Stahelski | 2017 | United States | |
| John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum | Chad Stahelski | 2019 | United States | |
| Kill List | Ben Wheatley | 2011 | United Kingdom | |
| The Killer Inside Me | Michael Winterbottom | 2010 | United States | |
| Killer Joe | William Friedkin | 2012 | United States | |
| Killing Them Softly | Andrew Dominik | 2012 | United States | |
| Long Day's Journey into Night | Bi Gan | 2018 | China | |
| The Looming Storm | Dong Yue | 2017 | China | |
| Looper | Rian Johnson | 2012 | United States | |
| Lost River | Ryan Gosling | 2014 | United States | |
| Magical Girl | Carlos Vermut | 2014 | Spain | |
| Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story | Tikoy Aguiluz | 2011 | Philippines | |
| The Merciless | Byun Sung-hyun | 2017 | South Korea | |
| Miss Bala | Gerardo Naranjo | 2011 | Mexico | |
| A Morass | Shane James Bordas | 2011 | United Kingdom | |
| Motherless Brooklyn | Edward Norton | 2019 | United States | |
| Mute | Duncan Jones | 2018 | United Kingdom, Germany | |
| The Nice Guys | Shane Black | 2016 | United States | |
| Nightcrawler | Dan Gilroy | 2014 | United States | |
| Nocturnal Animals | Tom Ford | 2016 | United States | |
| No Other Woman | Ruel S. Bayani | 2011 | Philippines | |
| Only God Forgives | Nicolas Winding Refn | 2013 | Denmark/France | |
| On the Job | Erik Matti | 2013 | Philippines | |
| Paradox | Wilson Yip | 2017 | Hong Kong | |
| Phoenix | Christian Petzold | 2014 | Germany | |
| Pickings | Usher Morgan | 2018 | United States | |
| The Place Beyond the Pines | Derek Cianfrance | 2013 | United States | |
| Pocket Listing | Conor Allyn | 2016 | United States | |
| The Poison Rose | George Gallo and Francesco Cinquemani | 2019 | United States | |
| Prisoners | Denis Villeneuve | 2013 | United States | |
| Serenity | Steven Knight | 2019 | United States | |
| Shutter Island | Martin Scorsese | 2010 | United States | |
| Spring Breakers | Harmony Korine | 2012 | United States | |
| Strangled | Árpád Sopsits | 2016 | Hungary | |
| Sunrise | Partho Sen-Gupta | 2014 | India, France | |
| Taniel | Garo Berberian | 2017 | United Kingdom, Armenia | |
| Trance | Danny Boyle | 2013 | United Kingdom | |
| Trouble Is My Business | Tom Konkle | 2018 | United States | |
| Uncut Gems | Josh and Benny Safdie | 2019 | United States | |
| Under the Silver Lake | David Robert Mitchell | 2018 | United States | |
| Upgrade | Leigh Whannell | 2018 | Australia, United States | |
| Victoria | Sebastian Schipper | 2015 | Germany | |
| The Villainess | Jung Byung-gil | 2017 | South Korea | |
| A Walk Among the Tombstones | Scott Frank | 2014 | United States | |
| Walking Too Fast | Radim Špaček | 2010 | Czech Republic | |
| Who Killed Cock Robin | Cheng Wei-hao | 2017 | Taiwan | |
| Widows | Steve McQueen | 2018 | United States | |
| The Wild Goose Lake | Diao Yinan | 2019 | China/France | |
| Wind River | Taylor Sheridan | 2017 | United States | |
| Winter's Bone | Debra Granik | 2010 | United States | |
| You Were Never Really Here | Lynne Ramsay | 2017 | United Kingdom, United States, France |
List of films: 2020–2029
| Film | Director | Year | Country | Ref(s). |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adverse | Brian Metcalf | 2021 | United States | |
| Arishadvarga | Arvind Kamath | 2020 | India | |
| The Batman | Matt Reeves | 2022 | United States | |
| Calm with Horses | Nick Rowland | 2020 | Ireland | |
| The Card Counter | Paul Schrader | 2021 | United States | |
| City of Love | Èric Boadella | 2023 | United States | |
| Decision to Leave | Park Chan-wook | 2022 | South Korea | |
| Emily the Criminal | John Patton Ford | 2022 | United States | |
| The Empty Man | David Prior | 2020 | United States | |
| Hand Rolled Cigarette | Kin Long Chan | 2020 | China | |
| I'm Your Woman | Julia Hart | 2020 | United States | |
| John Wick: Chapter 4 | Chad Stahelski | 2023 | United States | |
| Kabadadaari | Pradeep Krishnamoorthy | 2021 | India | |
| Kapatadhaari | Pradeep Krishnamoorthy | 2021 | India | |
| The Kid Detective | Evan Morgan | 2020 | Canada | |
| Last Moment of Clarity | James and Colin Krisel | 2020 | United States | |
| Last Night in Soho | Edgar Wright | 2021 | United Kingdom | |
| The Last Victim | Naveen A Chathapuram | 2021 | United States | |
| The Little Things | John Lee Hancock | 2021 | United States | |
| Nightmare Alley | Guillermo del Toro | 2021 | United States | |
| No Sudden Move | Steven Soderbergh | 2021 | United States | |
| Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time | Lili Horvát | 2020 | Hungary | |
| Reminiscence | Lisa Joy | 2021 | United States | |
| The Virtuoso | Nick Stagliano | 2021 | United States | |
| Wrath of Man | Guy Ritchie | 2021 | United Kingdom, United States | |
| Spears | Gerard Lough | 2022 | Ireland | |
| Windfall | Charlie McDowell | 2022 | United States | |
| Killers of the Flower Moon | Martin Scorsese | 2023 | United States |