TSPDT

1920
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, Germany)

1927
Underworld (Josef von Sternberg, USA)

1931
La Chienne (Jean Renoir, France)
City Streets (Rouben Mamoulian, USA)
Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy, USA)
M (Fritz Lang, Germany)
The Maltese Falcon (Roy Del Ruth, USA)
The Public Enemy (William Wellman, USA)

1932
The Beast of the City (Charles Brabin, USA)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, USA)
La Nuit du carrefour (Jean Renoir, France)
Scarface (Howard Hawks, USA)

1933
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, Germany)

1934
The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, USA)

1936
Fury (Fritz Lang, USA)
The Petrified Forest (Archie Mayo, USA)

1937
Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier, France)
You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, USA)

1938
Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz, USA)
La Bête humaine (Jean Renoir, France)
Port of Shadows (Marcel Carné, France)
They Drive by Night (Arthur B. Woods, UK)

1939
Blind Alley (Charles Vidor, USA)
Le Dernier tournant (Pierre Chenal, France)
Le Jour se lève (Marcel Carné, France)
On the Night of the Fire (Brian Desmond Hurst, UK)

1940
Angels Over Broadway (Ben Hecht & Lee Garmes, USA)
City for Conquest (Anatole Litvak, USA)
Contraband (Michael Powell, UK)
Gaslight (Thorold Dickinson, UK)
The House Across the Bay (Archie Mayo, USA)
The Letter (William Wyler, USA)
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
The Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster, USA)
They Drive By Night (Raoul Walsh, USA)

1941
Among the Living (Stuart Heisler, USA)
Blues in the Night (Anatole Litvak, USA)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, USA)
The Face Behind the Mask (Robert Florey, USA)
High Sierra (Raoul Walsh, USA)
I Wake Up Screaming (H. Bruce Humberstone, USA)
Johnny Eager (Mervyn LeRoy, USA)
Ladies in Retirement (Charles Vidor, USA)
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, USA)
Out of the Fog (Anatole Litvak, USA)
Rage in Heaven (W.S. Van Dyke, USA)
The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
A Woman's Face (George Cukor, USA)

1942
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, USA)
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
Crossroads (Jack Conway, USA)
Fingers at the Window (Charles Lederer, USA)
The Glass Key (Stuart Heisler, USA)
Moontide (Archie Mayo, USA)
Street of Chance (Jack Hively, USA)
This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle, USA)

1943
Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France)
Distinto amanecer (Julio Bracho, Mexico)
The Fallen Sparrow (Richard Wallace, USA)
Hangmen Also Die! (Fritz Lang, USA)
Journey Into Fear (Norman Foster, USA)
The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, Italy)
The Ox-Bow Incident (William Wellman, USA)
The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, USA)
Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
Whispering Footsteps (Howard Bretherton, USA)

1944
Bluebeard (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
Christmas Holiday (Robert Siodmak, USA)
Dark Waters (André de Toth, USA)
Destiny (Reginald Le Borg, USA)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, USA)
Experiment Perilous (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
Gaslight (George Cukor, USA)
Guest in the House (John Brahm, USA)
Lady in the Death House (Steve Sekely, USA)
Laura (Otto Preminger, USA)
The Lodger (John Brahm, USA)
The Mark of the Whistler (William Castle, USA)
The Mask of Dimitrios (Jean Negulesco, USA)
Ministry of Fear (Fritz Lang, USA)
Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk, USA)
Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak, USA)
Strangers in the Night (Anthony Mann, USA)
The Suspect (Robert Siodmak, USA)
To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, USA)
Voice in the Wind (Arthur Ripley, USA)
When Strangers Marry (William Castle, USA)
The Whistler (William Castle, USA)
The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang, USA)

1945
Apology for Murder (Sam Newfield, USA)
Bewitched (Arch Oboler, USA)
Circumstantial Evidence (John Larkin, USA)
Confidential Agent (Herman Shumlin, USA)
Conflict (Curtis Bernhardt, USA)
Cornered (Edward Dmytryk, USA)
Danger Signal (Robert Florey, USA)
Dangerous Intruder (Vernon Keays, USA)
Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer & Charles Crichton, UK)
Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
Dillinger (Max Nosseck, USA)
Escape in the Fog (Budd Boetticher, USA)
Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger, USA)
The Great Flamarion (Anthony Mann, USA)
Hangover Square (John Brahm, USA)
The House on 92nd Street (Henry Hathaway, USA)
Jealousy (Gustav Machatý, USA)
Johnny Angel (Edwin L. Marin, USA)
The Lady Confesses (Sam Newfield, USA)
Lady on a Train (Charles David, USA)
Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl, USA)
The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, USA)
Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, USA)
My Name is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)
Pink String and Sealing Wax (Robert Hamer, UK)
The Power of the Whistler (Lew Landers, USA)
Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, USA)
Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
The Spider (Robert D. Webb, USA)
The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak, USA)
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (Robert Siodmak, USA)
Strange Illusion (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
Two O'Clock Courage (Anthony Mann, USA)
The Unseen (Lewis Allen, USA)
Voice of the Whistler (William Castle, USA)

1946
Accomplice (Walter Colmes, USA)
Appointment with Crime (John Harlow, UK)
Bedelia (Lance Comfort, UK)
Behind Green Lights (Otto Brower, USA)
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, USA)
Black Angel (Roy William Neill, USA)
The Blue Dahlia (George Marshall, USA)
The Chase (Arthur Ripley, USA)
Crack-Up (Irving Reis, USA)
Criminal Court (Robert Wise, USA)
The Dark Corner (Henry Hathaway, USA)
The Dark Mirror (Robert Siodmak, USA)
Deadline at Dawn (Harold Clurman, USA)
Deception (Irving Rapper, USA)
Decoy (Jack Bernhard, USA)
Dragonwyck (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
Fear (Alfred Zeisler, USA)
Gilda (Charles Vidor, USA)
The Glass Alibi (W. Lee Wilder, USA)
Green for Danger (Sidney Gilliat, UK)
Her Kind of Man (Frederick De Cordova, USA)
Humoresque (Jean Negulesco, USA)
Inside Job (Jean Yarbrough, USA)
The Killers (Robert Siodmak, USA)
The Locket (John Brahm, USA)
The Man I Love (Raoul Walsh, USA)
The Mask of Diijon (Lew Landers, USA)
The Murderers Are Among Us (Wolfgang Staudte, Germany)
Mysterious Intruder (William Castle, USA)
The Mysterious Mr. Valentine (Philip Ford, USA)
Night Editor (Henry Levin, USA)
Nobody Lives Forever (Jean Negulesco, USA)
Nocturne (Edwin L. Marin, USA)
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
La Otra (Roberto Gavaldón, Mexico)
Panique (Julien Duvivier, France)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett, USA)
The Secret of the Whistler (George Sherman, USA)
Shadow of a Woman (Joseph Santley, USA)
Shock (Alfred L. Werker, USA)
So Dark the Night (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)
Specter of the Rose (Ben Hecht, USA)
Somewhere in the Night (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
Strange Impersonation (Anthony Mann, USA)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (Lewis Milestone, USA)
Strange Triangle (Ray McCarey, USA)
The Strange Woman (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
The Stranger (Orson Welles, USA)
Suspense (Frank Tuttle, USA)
Temptation (Irving Pichel, USA)
They Made Me a Killer (William C. Thomas, USA)
Three Strangers (Jean Negulesco, USA)
Tomorrow is Forever (Irving Pichel, USA)
Undercurrent (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
The Verdict (Don Siegel, USA)
Wanted for Murder (Lawrence Huntington, UK)
Whistle Stop (Léonide Moguy, USA)

1947
The Arnelo Affair (Arch Oboler, USA)
Backlash (Eugene Forde, USA)
Blind Spot (Robert Gordon, USA)
Blackmail (Lesley Selander, USA)
Body and Soul (Robert Rossen, USA)
Boomerang! (Elia Kazan, USA)
Born to Kill (Robert Wise, USA)
The Brasher Doubloon (John Brahm, USA)
Brighton Rock (John Boulting, UK)
Brute Force (Jules Dassin, USA)
Bury Me Dead (Bernard Vorhaus, USA)
Calcutta (John Farrow, USA)
Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, USA)
Cry Wolf (Peter Godfrey, USA)
Dancing with Crime (John Paddy Carstairs, UK)
Dark Passage (Delmer Daves, USA)
Dead Reckoning (John Cromwell, USA)
Dear Murderer (Arthur Crabtree, UK)
Deep Valley (Jean Negulesco, USA)
Desert Fury (Lewis Allen, USA)
Desperate (Anthony Mann, USA)
The Devil Thumbs a Ride (Felix E. Feist, USA)
A Double Life (George Cukor, USA)
Fall Guy (Reginald Le Borg, USA)
Fear in the Night (Maxwell Shane, USA)
The Flame (John H. Auer, USA)
For You I Die (John Reinhardt, USA)
Framed (Richard Wallace, USA)
The Gangster (Gordon Wiles, USA)
The Guilty (John Reinhardt, USA)
High Tide (John Reinhardt, USA)
High Wall (Curtis Bernhardt, USA)
It Always Rains on Sunday (Robert Hamer, UK)
Ivy (Sam Wood, USA)
Johnny O'Clock (Robert Rossen, USA)
Key Witness (D. Ross Lederman, USA)
Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway, USA)
Lady in the Lake (Robert Montgomery, USA)
The Long Night (Anatole Litvak, USA)
The Lost Moment (Martin Gabel, USA)
Love from a Stranger (Richard Whorf, USA)
Lured (Douglas Sirk, USA)
The Macomber Affair (Zoltan Korda, USA)
The Mark of Cain (Brian Desmond Hurst, UK)
Mine Own Executioner (Anthony Kimmins, UK)
Moss Rose (Gregory Ratoff, USA)
My Favorite Brunette (Elliott Nugent, USA)
Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding, USA)
Nora Prentiss (Vincent Sherman, USA)
The October Man (Roy Ward Baker, UK)
Odd Man Out (Carol Reed, UK)
Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
The Paradine Case (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
Possessed (Curtis Bernhardt, USA)
The Pretender (W. Lee Wilder, USA)
Pursued (Raoul Walsh, USA)
Quai des Orfèvres (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France)
Railroaded! (Anthony Mann, USA)
Ramrod (André de Toth, USA)
The Red House (Delmer Daves, USA)
Repeat Performance (Alfred L. Werker, USA)
Ride the Pink Horse (Robert Montgomery, USA)
Riff-Raff (Ted Tetzlaff, USA)
Shoot to Kill (William Berke, USA)
Singapore (John Brahm, USA)
T-Men (Anthony Mann, USA)
Take My Life (Ronald Neame, UK)
They Made Me a Fugitive (Alberto Cavalcanti, UK)
They Won't Believe Me (Irving Pichel, USA)
The Two Mrs. Carrolls (Peter Godfrey, USA)
The Unfaithful (Vincent Sherman, USA)
The Unsuspected (Michael Curtiz, USA)
The Upturned Glass (Lawrence Huntington, UK)
Violence (Jack Bernhard, USA)
The Web (Michael Gordon, USA)
Whispering City (Fyodor Otsep, Canada)
The Woman on the Beach (Jean Renoir, USA)

1948
All My Sons (Irving Reis, USA)
The Amazing Mr. X (Bernard Vorhaus, USA)
Behind Locked Doors (Budd Boetticher, USA)
Berlin Express (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
The Big Clock (John Farrow, USA)
Blonde Ice (Jack Bernhard, USA)
Blood on the Moon (Robert Wise, USA)
Bodyguard (Richard Fleischer, USA)
Call Northside 777 (Henry Hathaway, USA)
Canon City (Crane Wilbur, USA)
Corridor of Mirrors (Terence Young, UK)
Cry of the City (Robert Siodmak, USA)
The Dark Past (Rudolph Maté, USA)
Daughter of Darkness (Lance Comfort, UK)
Daybreak (Compton Bennett, UK)
Dédée d'Anvers (Yves Allégret, France)
Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
Escape (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, UK-USA)
The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, UK)
Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky, USA)
Good Time Girl (David MacDonald, UK)
He Walked by Night (Alfred L. Werker, USA)
Hollow Triumph (Steve Sekely, USA)
The Hunted (Jack Bernhard, USA)
I, Jane Doe (John H. Auer, USA)
I Love Trouble (S. Sylvan Simon, USA)
I Walk Alone (Byron Haskin, USA)
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (William Nigh, USA)
Incident (William Beaudine, USA)
Inner Sanctum (Lew Landers, USA)
Key Largo (John Huston, USA)
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (Norman Foster, USA)
The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, USA)
Larceny (George Sherman, USA)
Money Madness (Sam Newfield, USA)
Moonrise (Frank Borzage, USA)
The Naked City (Jules Dassin, USA)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow, USA)
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (St. John Legh Clowes, UK)
Noose (Edmond T. Gréville, UK)
Open Secret (John Reinhardt, USA)
Parole, Inc. (Alfred Zeisler, USA)
Pitfall (André de Toth, USA)
Race Street (Edwin L. Marin, USA)
Raw Deal (Anthony Mann, USA)
The Return of the Whistler (D. Ross Lederman, USA)
Road House (Jean Negulesco, USA)
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
Ruthless (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
Secret Beyond the Door (Fritz Lang, USA)
Shed No Tears (Jean Yarbrough, USA)
The Sign of the Ram (John Sturges, USA)
Sleep, My Love (Douglas Sirk, USA)
So Evil My Love (Lewis Allen, USA-UK)
Sorry, Wrong Number (Anatole Litvak, USA)
Station West (Sidney Lanfield, USA)
The Street with No Name (William Keighley, USA)
They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray, USA)
To the Ends of the Earth (Robert Stevenson, USA)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, USA)
Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, USA)
The Velvet Touch (Jack Gage, USA)
Walk a Crooked Mile (Gordon Douglas, USA)
Whiplash (Lewis Seiler, USA)

1949
Abandoned (Joseph M. Newman, USA)
The Accused (William Dieterle, USA)
Act of Violence (Fred Zinnemann, USA)
Alias Nick Beal (John Farrow, USA)
All the King's Men (Robert Rossen, USA)
Beyond the Forest (King Vidor, USA)
The Big Steal (Don Siegel, USA)
Border Incident (Anthony Mann, USA)
The Bribe (Robert Z. Leonard, USA)
Caught (Max Ophüls, USA)
Champion (Mark Robson, USA)
Chicago Deadline (Lewis Allen, USA)
Chinatown at Midnight (Seymour Friedman, USA)
City Across the River (Maxwell Shane, USA)
The Clay Pigeon (Richard Fleischer, USA)
C-Man (Joseph Lerner, USA)
Criss Cross (Robert Siodmak, USA)
The Crooked Way (Robert Florey, USA)
A Dangerous Profession (Ted Tetzlaff, USA)
Flamingo Road (Michael Curtiz, USA)
Flaxy Martin (Richard L. Bare, USA)
Follow Me Quietly (Richard Fleischer, USA)
House of Strangers (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
Illegal Entry (Frederick De Cordova, USA)
Impact (Arthur Lubin, USA)
Jigsaw (Fletcher Markle, USA)
Johnny Stool Pigeon (William Castle, USA)
Knock on Any Door (Nicholas Ray, USA)
The Lady Gambles (Michael Gordon, USA)
Manhandled (Lewis R. Foster, USA)
Obsession (Edward Dmytryk, UK)
Port of New York (Laszlo Benedek, USA)
The Reckless Moment (Max Ophüls, USA)
Red Light (Roy Del Ruth, USA)
The Red Menace (R.G. Springsteen, USA)
Reign of Terror (Anthony Mann, USA)
Rope of Sand (William Dieterle, USA)
Scene of the Crime (Roy Rowland, USA)
The Set-Up (Robert Wise, USA)
Shockproof (Douglas Sirk, USA)
The Small Back Room (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, UK)
The Story of Molly X (Crane Wilbur, USA)
Strange Bargain (Will Price, USA)
Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
Such a Pretty Little Beach (Yves Allégret, France-Netherlands)
Take One False Step (Chester Erskine, USA)
Thieves' Highway (Jules Dassin, USA)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, UK)
The Threat (Felix E. Feist, USA)
Too Late for Tears (Byron Haskin, USA)
Trapped (Richard Fleischer, USA)
The Undercover Man (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)
Undertow (William Castle, USA)
Whirlpool (Otto Preminger, USA)
White Heat (Raoul Walsh, USA)
The Window (Ted Tetzlaff, USA)
Without Honor (Irving Pichel, USA)
The Woman on Pier 13 (Robert Stevenson, USA)
A Woman's Secret (Nicholas Ray, USA)

1950
Armored Car Robbery (Richard Fleischer, USA)
The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston, USA)
Backfire (Vincent Sherman, USA)
Between Midnight and Dawn (Gordon Douglas, USA)
Black Hand (Richard Thorpe, USA)
The Blue Lamp (Basil Dearden, UK)
Borderline (William A. Seiter, USA)
Born to Be Bad (Nicholas Ray, USA)
The Breaking Point (Michael Curtiz, USA)
Caged (John Cromwell, USA)
The Capture (John Sturges, USA)
The Clouded Yellow (Ralph Thomas, UK)
Convicted (Henry Levin, USA)
D.O.A. (Rudolph Maté, USA)
The Damned Don't Cry (Vincent Sherman, USA)
Dark City (William Dieterle, USA)
Destination Murder (Edward L. Cahn, USA)
Devil's Doorway (Anthony Mann, USA)
Dial 1119 (Gerald Mayer, USA)
Edge of Doom (Mark Robson, USA)
The File on Thelma Jordon (Robert Siodmak, USA)
The Furies (Anthony Mann, USA)
Gambling House (Ted Tetzlaff, USA)
Guilty Bystander (Joseph Lerner, USA)
Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)
Gunman in the Streets (Frank Tuttle, France-USA)
Highway 301 (Andrew L. Stone, USA)
House by the River (Fritz Lang, USA)
Hunt the Man Down (George Archainbaud, USA)
In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, USA)
The Killer That Stalked New York (Earl McEvoy, USA)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Gordon Douglas, USA)
A Lady Without Passport (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)
The Lawless (Joseph Losey, USA)
The Man Who Cheated Himself (Felix E. Feist, USA)
Mystery Street (John Sturges, USA)
Night and the City (Jules Dassin, USA-UK)
No Man of Her Own (Mitchell Leisen, USA)
No Way Out (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
Once a Thief (W. Lee Wilder, USA)
One Way Street (Hugo Fregonese, USA)
Outrage (Ida Lupino, USA)
Outside the Wall (Crane Wilbur, USA)
Panic in the Streets (Elia Kazan, USA)
Quicksand (Irving Pichel, USA)
The Secret Fury (Mel Ferrer, USA)
711 Ocean Drive (Joseph M. Newman, USA)
Shadow on the Wall (Pat Jackson, USA)
Shakedown (Joseph Pevney, USA)
Side Street (Anthony Mann, USA)
The Sleeping City (George Sherman, USA)
Southside 1-1000 (Boris Ingster, USA)
Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock, UK)
Story of a Love Affair (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
The Sun Sets at Dawn (Paul Sloane, USA)
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, USA)
The Tattooed Stranger (Edward Montagne, USA)
Tension (John Berry, USA)
This Side of the Law (Richard L. Bare, USA)
Try and Get Me! (Cy Endfield, USA)
The Underworld Story (Cy Endfield, USA)
Union Station (Rudolph Maté, USA)
Unmasked (George Blair, USA)
Walk Softly, Stranger (Robert Stevenson, USA)
Where Danger Lives (John Farrow, USA)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Otto Preminger, USA)
Woman in Hiding (Michael Gordon, USA)
Woman on the Run (Norman Foster, USA)

1951
Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, USA)
Another Man's Poison (Irving Rapper, UK)
Appointment with Danger (Lewis Allen, USA)
The Big Night (Joseph Losey, USA)
Cause for Alarm! (Tay Garnett, USA)
Cloudburst (Francis Searle, UK)
Cry Danger (Robert Parrish, USA)
Detective Story (William Wyler, USA)
The Enforcer (Bretaigne Windust, USA)
FBI Girl (William Berke, USA)
Fourteen Hours (Henry Hathaway, USA)
He Ran All the Way (John Berry, USA)
His Kind of Woman (John Farrow, USA)
Hollywood Story (William Castle, USA)
The Hoodlum (Max Nosseck, USA)
The House on Telegraph Hill (Robert Wise, USA)
I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (Gordon Douglas, USA)
In the Palm of Your Hand (Roberto Gavaldón, Mexico)
Iron Man (Joseph Pevney, USA)
Lightning Strikes Twice (King Vidor, USA)
The Lost One (Peter Lorre, West Germany)
M (Joseph Losey, 1951, USA)
The Man with My Face (Edward Montagne, USA)
The Mob (Robert Parrish, USA)
No Questions Asked (Harold F. Kress, USA)
On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray, USA)
The People Against O'Hara (John Sturges, USA)
Pickup (Hugo Haas, USA)
A Place in the Sun (George Stevens, USA)
Pool of London (Basil Dearden, UK)
The Prowler (Joseph Losey, USA)
The Racket (John Cromwell, USA)
The Raging Tide (George Sherman, USA)
Roadblock (Harold Daniels, USA)
The Scarf (E.A. Dupont, USA)
The Second Woman (James V. Kern, USA)
Sirocco (Curtis Bernhardt, USA)
Storm Warning (Stuart Heisler, USA)
Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
The Strip (László Kardos, USA)
The Tall Target (Anthony Mann, USA)
Three Steps North (W. Lee Wilder, Italy-USA)
Tomorrow is Another Day (Felix E. Feist, USA)
Two of a Kind (Henry Levin, USA)
Under the Gun (Ted Tetzlaff, USA)
The Unknown Man (Richard Thorpe, USA)
The Well (Leo Popkin & Russell Rouse, USA)
The Whip Hand (William Cameron Menzies, USA)

1952
Affair in Trinidad (Vincent Sherman, USA)
Beware, My Lovely (Harry Horner, USA)
The Captive City (Robert Wise, USA)
Casque d'or (Jacques Becker, France)
Clash by Night (Fritz Lang, USA)
Deadline U.S.A. (Richard Brooks, USA)
Don't Bother to Knock (Roy Ward Baker, USA)
Gambler and the Lady (Patrick Jenkins & Sam Newfield, UK)
The Green Glove (Rudolph Maté, USA-France)
Hoodlum Empire (Joseph Kane, USA)
Kansas City Confidential (Phil Karlson, USA)
The Las Vegas Story (Robert Stevenson, USA)
The Last Page (Terence Fisher, UK)
Loan Shark (Seymour Friedman, USA)
The Lost Hours (David MacDonald, UK)
Macao (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
The Narrow Margin (Richard Fleischer, USA)
Night Falls (Roberto Gavaldón, Mexico)
Night Without Sleep (Roy Ward Baker, USA)
Scandal Sheet (Phil Karlson, USA)
The Sellout (Gerald Mayer, USA)
The Sniper (Edward Dmytryk, USA)
The Steel Trap (Andrew L. Stone, USA)
Stolen Face (Terence Fisher, UK)
Strange Fascination (Hugo Haas, USA)
Sudden Fear (David Miller, USA)
Talk About a Stranger (David Bradley, USA)
The Thief (Russell Rouse, USA)
The 13th Letter (Otto Preminger, USA)
This Woman is Dangerous (Felix E. Feist, USA)
The Turning Point (William Dieterle, USA)
Walk East on Beacon! (Alfred L. Werker, USA)
Without Warning (Arnold Laven, USA)

1953
Angel Face (Otto Preminger, USA)
Beat the Devil (John Huston, UK-Italy-USA)
The Big Heat (Fritz Lang, USA)
The Bigamist (Ida Lupino, USA)
The Blue Gardenia (Fritz Lang, USA)
A Blueprint for Murder (Andrew L. Stone, USA)
City That Never Sleeps (John H. Auer, USA)
Cosh Boy (Lewis Gilbert, UK)
Cry of the Hunted (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)
Dangerous Crossing (Joseph M. Newman, USA)
The Flanagan Boy (Reginald Le Borg, UK)
Forbidden (Rudolph Maté, USA)
The Glass Wall (Maxwell Shane, USA)
The Glass Web (Jack Arnold, USA)
The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, USA)
I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
I, the Jury (Harry Essex, USA)
Jennifer (Joel Newton, USA)
Jeopardy (John Sturges, USA)
The Limping Man (Cy Endfield, UK)
The Long Memory (Robert Hamer, UK)
The Man Between (Carol Reed, UK)
Man in the Attic (Hugo Fregonese, USA)
Man in the Dark (Lew Landers, USA)
Marilyn (Wolf Rilla, UK)
The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann, USA)
Niagara (Henry Hathaway, USA)
99 River Street (Phil Karlson, USA)
No Escape (Charles Bennett, USA)
Pickup on South Street (Samuel Fuller, USA)
Second Chance (Rudolph Maté, USA)
Split Second (Dick Powell, USA)
Stolen Identity (Gunther von Fritsch, Austria-USA)
The System (Lewis Seiler, USA)
Thérèse Raquin (Marcel Carné, France-Italy)
36 Hours (Montgomery Tully, UK)
Violated (Walter Strate, USA)
The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France-Italy)
Wicked Woman (Russell Rouse, USA)

1954
Bait (Hugo Haas, USA)
Beautiful Stranger (David Miller, UK-USA)
Black Tuesday (Hugo Fregonese, USA)
Black Widow (Nunnally Johnson, USA)
Crime Wave (André de Toth, USA)
Cry Vengeance (Mark Stevens, USA)
Drive a Crooked Road (Richard Quine, USA)
Face the Music (Terence Fisher, UK-USA)
Five Days (Montgomery Tully, UK)
The Good Die Young (Lewis Gilbert, UK)
Hell's Half Acre (John H. Auer, USA)
Highway Dragnet (Nathan Juran, USA)
The House Across the Lake (1954, UK)
Human Desire (Fritz Lang, USA)
The Human Jungle (Joseph M. Newman, USA)
Impulse (Cy Endfield, UK)
Jail Bait (Edward D. Wood Jr., USA)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, USA)
A Life at Stake (Paul Guilfoyle, USA)
The Long Wait (Victor Saville, USA)
Loophole (Harold D. Schuster, USA)
Make Haste to Live (William A. Seiter, USA)
Murder by Proxy (Terence Fisher, UK)
Naked Alibi (Jerry Hopper, USA)
The Other Woman (Hugo Haas, USA)
Playgirl (Joseph Pevney, USA)
Private Hell 36 (Don Siegel, USA)
Pushover (Richard Quine, USA)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
Riot in Cell Block 11 (Don Siegel, USA)
Rogue Cop (Roy Rowland, USA)
Shield for Murder (Edmond O'Brien & Howard W. Koch, USA)
The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey, UK)
The Stranger Came Home (Terence Fisher, UK)
Suddenly (Lewis Allen, USA)
Touchez pas au Grisbi (Jacques Becker, France)
Vicki (Harry Horner, USA)
Witness to Murder (Roy Rowland, USA)
World for Ransom (Robert Aldrich, USA)

1955
The Big Bluff (W. Lee Wilder, USA)
The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)
The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich, USA)
Bob le flambeur (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
A Bullet for Joey (Lewis Allen, USA)
Cast a Dark Shadow (Lewis Gilbert, UK)
Confession (1955, UK)
Crashout (Lewis R. Foster, USA)
The Crooked Web (Nathan Juran, USA)
The Desperate Hours (William Wyler, USA)
Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France)
Female Jungle (Bruno VeSota, USA)
Female on the Beach (Joseph Pevney, USA)
Finger Man (Harold D. Schuster, USA)
5 Against the House (Phil Karlson, USA)
Footsteps in the Fog (1955, UK)
Hell's Island (Phil Karlson, USA)
House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller, USA)
I Died a Thousand Times (Stuart Heisler, USA)
Illegal (Lewis Allen, USA)
Killer's Kiss (Stanley Kubrick, USA)
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, USA)
The Man with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger, USA)
Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles, France-Spain-Switzerland)
Murder is My Beat (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
The Naked Street (Maxwell Shane, USA)
New York Confidential (Russell Rouse, USA)
The Night Holds Terror (Andrew L. Stone, USA)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, USA)
No Man's Woman (Franklin Adreon, USA)
The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson, USA)
Queen Bee (Ranald MacDougall, USA)
Razzia sur la chnouf (Henri Decoin, France)
Rififi (Jules Dassin, France)
Shack Out on 101 (Edward Dein, USA)
Storm Fear (Cornel Wilde, USA)
Sudden Danger (Hubert Cornfield, USA)
Tight Spot (Phil Karlson, USA)
Violent Saturday (Richard Fleischer, USA)
Women's Prison (Lewis Seiler, USA)

1956
Accused of Murder (Joseph Kane, USA)
Behind the High Wall (Abner Biberman, USA)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, USA)
Calling Homicide (Edward Bernds, USA)
The Come On (Russell Birdwell, USA)
Crime Against Joe (Lee Sholem, USA)
Crime in the Streets (Don Siegel, USA)
A Cry in the Night (Frank Tuttle, USA)
Deadlier Than the Male (Julien Duvivier, France)
Death of a Scoundrel (Charles Martin, USA)
The Harder They Fall (Mark Robson, USA)
The Houston Story (William Castle, USA)
The Intimate Stranger (Joseph Losey, UK)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, USA)
Julie (Andrew L. Stone, USA)
The Killer is Loose (Budd Boetticher, USA)
The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, USA)
A Kiss Before Dying (Gerd Oswald, USA)
Man in the Vault (Andrew V. McLaglen, USA)
The Man is Armed (Franklin Adreon, USA)
Miami Exposé (Fred F. Sears, USA)
Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
Nightmare (Maxwell Shane, USA)
Over-Exposed (Lewis Seiler, USA)
Please Murder Me! (Peter Godfrey, USA)
The Price of Fear (Abner Biberman, USA)
Slightly Scarlet (Allan Dwan, USA)
Soho Incident (Vernon Sewell, UK)
The Steel Jungle (Walter Doniger, USA)
Terror at Midnight (Franklin Adreon, USA)
Tiger in the Smoke (Roy Ward Baker, UK)
Timetable (Mark Stevens, USA)
While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang, USA)
Wicked as They Come (Ken Hughes, UK)
A Woman's Devotion (Paul Henreid, USA)
The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
Yield to the Night (J. Lee Thompson, UK)

1957
Affair in Havana (Laszlo Benedek, USA-Cuba)
Appointment with a Shadow (Richard Carlson, USA)
Baby Face Nelson (Don Siegel, USA)
The Brothers Rico (Phil Karlson, USA)
The Burglar (Paul Wendkos, USA)
Chicago Confidential (Sidney Salkow, USA)
Crime of Passion (Gerd Oswald, USA)
Edge of the City (Martin Ritt, USA)
Footsteps in the Night (Jean Yarbrough, USA)
Fortune is a Woman (Sidney Gilliat, UK-USA)
The Garment Jungle (Vincent Sherman, USA)
Hell Drivers (Cy Endfield, UK)
Hit and Run (Hugo Haas, USA)
House of Numbers (Russell Rouse, USA)
I Am Waiting (Koreyoshi Kurahara, Japan)
Kill Her Gently (Charles Saunders, UK)
The Long Haul (Ken Hughes, UK-USA)
The Midnight Story (Joseph Pevney, USA)
My Gun is Quick (Victor Saville & George White, USA)
The Night Runner (Abner Biberman, USA)
Plunder Road (Hubert Cornfield, USA)
The Shadow on the Window (William Asher, USA)
Short Cut to Hell (James Cagney, USA)
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (Arnold Laven, USA)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, USA)
The Tattered Dress (Jack Arnold, USA)
The Unholy Wife (John Farrow, USA)
Time Without Pity (Joseph Losey, UK)

1958
The Bonnie Parker Story (William Witney, USA)
Chase a Crooked Shadow (Michael Anderson, UK)
Cop Hater (William Berke, USA)
Cry Terror! (1958, USA)
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, France)
I Want to Live! (Robert Wise, USA)
The Lineup (Don Siegel, USA)
Lonelyhearts (Vincent J. Donehue, USA)
Murder by Contract (Irving Lerner, USA)
Nowhere to Go (Seth Holt, UK)
Party Girl (Nicholas Ray, USA)
Rusty Knife (Toshio Masuda, Japan)
Screaming Mimi (Gerd Oswald, USA)
Step Down to Terror (Harry Keller, USA)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, USA)
Tread Softly Stranger (Gordon Parry, UK)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)

1959
The Beat Generation (Charles F. Haas, USA)
Blind Date (Joseph Losey, UK)
City of Fear (Irving Lerner, USA)
The Crimson Kimono (Samuel Fuller, USA)
Cry Tough (Paul Stanley, USA)
Date with Death (Harold Daniels, USA)
The Last Mile (Howard W. Koch, USA)
Odds Against Tomorrow (Robert Wise, USA)
The Trap (Norman Panama, USA)
Two Men in Manhattan (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)

1960
The Bad Sleep Well (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
Classe tous risques (Claude Sautet, France)
The Criminal (Joseph Losey, UK)
Hell is a City (Val Guest, UK)
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, UK)
Plein soleil (René Clément, France-Italy)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut, France)
Take Aim at the Police Van (Seijun Suzuki, Japan)
Le Trou (Jacques Becker, France-Italy)

1961
Blast of Silence (Allen Baron, USA)
The Frightened City (John Lemont, UK)
Payroll (Sidney Hayers, UK)
Underworld, U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller, USA)
Zero Focus (Yoshitaro Nomura, Japan)

1962
Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson, USA)
Experiment in Terror (Blake Edwards, USA)
The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, USA)

1963
Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville, France-Italy)
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller, USA)

1964
Bande à part (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
Cruel Gun Story (Takumi Furukawa, Japan)
The Killers (Don Siegel, USA)
The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, USA)
Pale Flower (Masahiro Shinoda, Japan)

1965
Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
Brainstorm (William Conrad, USA)
Mirage (Edward Dmytryk, USA)
The Money Trap (Burt Kennedy, USA)

1966
Harper (Jack Smight, USA)
Second Breath (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, USA)
Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, Japan)

1967
Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, USA)
Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, Japan)
A Colt is My Passport (Takashi Nomura, Japan)
Point Blank (John Boorman, USA)
Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
Warning Shot (Buzz Kulik, USA)

1968
The Bride Wore Black (François Truffaut, France)
Bullitt (Peter Yates, USA)
The Detective (Gordon Douglas, USA)
Lady in Cement (Gordon Douglas, USA)
Madigan (Don Siegel, USA)

1969
Marlowe (Paul Bogart, USA)

1970
The Kremlin Letter (John Huston, USA)
The Red Circle (Jean-Pierre Melville, France-Italy)

1971
Chandler (Paul Magwood, USA)
Get Carter (Mike Hodges, UK)
Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, USA)
The French Connection (William Friedkin, USA)
Klute (Alan J. Pakula, USA)

1972
Across 110th Street (Barry Shear, USA)
Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville, France-Italy)
The Getaway (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
Hickey & Boggs (Robert Culp, USA)

1973
Badlands (Terrence Malick, USA)
Charley Varrick (Don Siegel, USA)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates, USA)
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, USA)
Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, USA)
The Outfit (John Flynn, USA)
Serpico (Sidney Lumet, USA)

1974
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, USA)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, USA)
Death Wish (Michael Winner, USA)
The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula, USA)
Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman, USA)
The Yakuza (Sydney Pollack, USA-Japan)

1975
Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, USA)
The Drowning Pool (Stuart Rosenberg, USA)
Farewell, My Lovely (Dick Richards, USA)
Hustle (Robert Aldrich, USA)
The Nickel Ride (Robert Mulligan, USA)
Night Moves (Arthur Penn, USA)

1976
The Killer Inside Me (Burt Kennedy, USA)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, USA)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, USA)

1977
The American Friend (Wim Wenders, West Germany-France)
The Late Show (Robert Benton, USA)
Rolling Thunder (John Flynn, USA)

1978
The Big Sleep (Michael Winner, UK)
The Driver (Walter Hill, USA)
Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard, USA)
Who'll Stop the Rain? (Karel Reisz, USA)

1979
Hardcore (Paul Schrader, USA)
Last Embrace (Jonathan Demme, USA)
The Onion Field (Harold Becker, USA)
Série noire (Alain Corneau, France)

1980
Atlantic City (Louis Malle, Canada-France)
The Long Good Friday (John Mackenzie, UK)
Union City (Marcus Reichert, USA)

1981
Blow Out (Brian De Palma, USA)
Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan, USA)
Coup de torchon (Bertrand Tavernier, France)
Cutter's Way (Ivan Passer, USA)
Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix, France)
Eyewitness (Peter Yates, USA)
Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara, USA)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Bob Rafelson, USA)
Sharky's Machine (Burt Reynolds, USA)
Thief (Michael Mann, USA)
True Confessions (Ulu Grosbard, USA)

1982
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, USA)
The Border (Tony Richardson, USA)
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Carl Reiner, USA)
Hammett (Wim Wenders, USA)
I, the Jury (Richard T. Heffron, USA)
Still of the Night (Robert Benton, USA)

1983
Bad Boys (Rick Rosenthal, USA)
Breathless (Jim McBride, USA)

1984
Against All Odds (Taylor Hackford, USA)
Blood Simple (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, USA)
Body Double (Brian De Palma, USA)
The Element of Crime (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
Fear City (Abel Ferrara, USA)
The Hit (Stephen Frears, UK)
Mike's Murder (James Bridges, USA)
Tightrope (Richard Tuggle, USA)

1985
Jagged Edge (Richard Marquand, USA)
To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin, USA)
Year of the Dragon (Michael Cimino, USA)

1986
At Close Range (James Foley, USA)
The Big Easy (Jim McBride, USA)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, USA)
8 Million Ways to Die (Hal Ashby, USA)
52 Pick-Up (John Frankenheimer, USA)
Manhunter (Michael Mann, USA)
Mona Lisa (Neil Jordan, UK)
The Morning After (Sidney Lumet, USA)

1987
Angel Heart (Alan Parker, USA)
Best Seller (John Flynn, USA)
Black Widow (Bob Rafelson, USA)
Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne, USA)
House of Games (David Mamet, USA)
Lethal Weapon (Richard Donner, USA)
No Way Out (Roger Donaldson, USA)
Slam Dance (Wayne Wang, USA-UK)
Someone to Watch Over Me (Ridley Scott, USA)

1988
Cop (James B. Harris, USA)
D.O.A. (Rocky Morton & Annabel Jankel, USA)
Frantic (Roman Polanski, USA-France)
Stormy Monday (Mike Figgis, UK)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Robert Zemeckis, USA)

1989
Black Rain (Ridley Scott, USA)
Johnny Handsome (Walter Hill, USA)
Kill Me Again (John Dahl, USA)
The Kill-Off (Maggie Greenwald, USA)
Sea of Love (Harold Becker, USA)
Violent Cop (Takeshi Kitano, Japan)

1990
After Dark, My Sweet (James Foley, USA)
Bad Influence (Curtis Hanson, USA)
The Grifters (Stephen Frears, USA)
The Hot Spot (Dennis Hopper, USA)
Internal Affairs (Mike Figgis, USA)
King of New York (Abel Ferrara, USA)
Miami Blues (George Armitage, USA)
Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, USA)
Narrow Margin (Peter Hyams, USA)
Nikita (Luc Besson, France-Italy)
State of Grace (Phil Joanou, USA-UK)
The Two Jakes (Jack Nicholson, USA)

1991
Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese, USA)
Dead Again (Kenneth Branagh, USA)
Delusion (Carl Colpaert, USA)
Homicide (David Mamet, USA)
A Kiss Before Dying (James Dearden, USA-UK)
Liebestraum (Mike Figgis, USA)
New Jack City (Mario Van Peebles, USA)
Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, USA-Japan)
Shattered (Wolfgang Petersen, USA)
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, USA)

1992
Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara, USA)
Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, USA)
Deep Cover (Bill Duke, USA)
Final Analysis (Phil Joanou, USA)
Guncrazy (Tamra Davis, USA)
Night and the City (Irwin Winkler, USA)
One False Move (Carl Franklin, USA)
The Public Eye (Howard Franklin, USA)
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
White Sands (Roger Donaldson, USA)

1993
Red Rock West (John Dahl, USA)
Romeo is Bleeding (Peter Medak, USA)
Suture (Scott McGehee & David Siegel, USA)
True Romance (Tony Scott, USA)

1994
China Moon (John Bailey, USA)
The Getaway (Roger Donaldson, USA)
The Last Seduction (John Dahl, USA)
Léon (Luc Besson, France)
Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, USA)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, USA)

1995
Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin, USA)
Kiss of Death (Barbet Schroeder, USA)
Heat (Michael Mann, USA)
Se7en (David Fincher, USA)
Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow, USA)
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (Gary Fleder, USA)
The Underneath (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, USA)

1996
Bound (Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski, USA)
Fargo (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, USA)
Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
Mulholland Falls (Lee Tamahori, USA)

1997
City of Industry (John Irvin, USA)
The Game (David Fincher, USA)
Insomnia (Erik Skjoldbjærg, Norway)
Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, USA)
Lost Highway (David Lynch, USA-France)
The Spanish Prisoner (David Mamet, USA)
This World, Then the Fireworks (Michael Oblowitz, USA)
U Turn (Oliver Stone, USA-France)

1998
The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, USA-UK)
Croupier (Mike Hodges, Ireland-UK-France-Germany)
Dark City (Alex Proyas, USA-Australia)
Following (Christopher Nolan, UK)
A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi, USA)
Twilight (Robert Benton, USA)

1999
Fight Club (David Fincher, USA-Germany)
The Limey (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
Payback (Brian Helgeland, USA)

2000
Memento (Christopher Nolan, USA)
Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, UK-Spain-USA)

2001
The Deep End (Scott McGehee & David Siegel, USA)
Heist (David Mamet, USA-Canada)
The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, USA-UK)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, France-USA)
Training Day (Antoine Fuqua, USA-Australia)

2002
Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma, France-Switzerland)
Insomnia (Christopher Nolan, USA)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, USA)
Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes, USA)
The Salton Sea (D.J. Caruso, USA)

2003
The Cooler (Wayne Kramer, USA)
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Mike Hodges, UK-USA)
Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
Out of Time (Carl Franklin, USA)

2004
Collateral (Michael Mann, USA)

2005
The Aura (Fabián Bielinsky, Argentina-Spain-France)
Brick (Rian Johnson, USA)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, USA-Germany)
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Shane Black, USA)
Sin City (Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller, USA)

2006
The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma, USA-Germany-France)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese, USA-Hong Kong)
Hollywoodland (Allen Coulter, USA)

2007
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet, USA)
Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck, USA)
No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, USA)
Zodiac (David Fincher, USA)

2008
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, USA-UK)

2010
The Killer Inside Me (Michael Winterbottom, USA-UK-Sweden-France)

2011
Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, USA)

2014
Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, USA)