1. Carlos Olivier Assayas, France/Germany

  2. The Social Network David Fincher, U.S.

  3. White Material Claire Denis, France

  4. The Ghost Writer Roman Polanski, France/Germany/U.K

  5. A Prophet Jacques Audiard, France/Italy

  6. Winter’s Bone Debra Granik, U.S.

  7. Inside Job Charles Ferguson, U.S.

  8. Wild Grass Alain Resnais, France/Italy

  9. Everyone Else Maren Ade, Germany

  10. Greenberg Noah Baumbach, U.S

  11. Mother Bong Joon-ho, South Korea

  12. Toy Story 3 Lee Unkrich, U.S.

  13. Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal/France/Spain

  14. Another Year Mike Leigh, U.K.

  15. The Strange Case of Angelica Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal/Spain/France/Brazil

  16. The Kids Are All Right Lisa Cholodenko, U.S.

  17. Shutter Island Martin Scorsese, U.S.

  18. Around a Small Mountain Jacques Rivette, France/Italy

  19. Our Beloved Month of August Miguel Gomes, Portugal

  20. Ne change rien Pedro Costa, Portugal/France  

20 BEST UNRELEASED FILMS OF 2010

  1. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives ApichatpongWeerasethakul, Thailand/U.K./France/Germany
  2. Film Socialisme Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland
  3. Poetry Lee Chang-dong, South Korea
  4. Meek’s Cutoff Kelly Reichardt, U.S.
  5. Aurora Cristi Puiu, Romania/France/Switzerland
  6. Mysteries of Lisbon Raúl Ruiz, Portugal/France
  7. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu Andrei Ujica, Romania
  8. The Four Times Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy/Germany/France
  9. Certified Copy Abbas Kiarostami, France/Italy/Belgium
  10. Tuesday, After Christmas Radu Muntean, Romania
  11. Oki’s Movie Hong Sang-soo, South Korea
  12. Ruhr James Benning, Germany
  13. I Wish I Knew Jia Zhangke, China
  14. My Joy Sergei Loznitsa, Germany/Ukraine/Netherlands
  15. Nostalgia for the Light Patricio Guzmán, Chile/France/Germany
  16. Robinson in Ruins Patrick Keiller, U.K.
  17. Black Venus Abdellatif Kechiche, France
  18. Of Gods and Men Xavier Beauvois, France
  19. Tabloid Errol Morris, U.S.
  20. The Robber Benjamin Heisenberg, Germany/Austria