| Year
|
Film
|
Director
|
Country
|
|---|
| 2019
|
Cold War
|
Paweł Pawlikowski
|
 Poland
|
| 2018
|
The Other Side of Hope
Manchester by the Sea
|
Aki Kaurismäki
Kenneth Lonergan
|
 Finland
 United States
|
| 2017
|
Carol
|
Todd Haynes
|
 United Kingdom United States
|
| 2016
|
Two Days, One Night
|
Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
|
 Belgium
|
| 2015
|
Ida
|
Paweł Pawlikowski
|
Poland
|
| 2014
|
Blue Jasmine
|
Woody Allen
|
United States
|
| 2013
|
A Separation
|
Asghar Farhadi
|
 Iran
|
| 2012
|
Of Gods and Men
|
Xavier Beauvois
|
 France
|
| 2011
|
The Beaches of Agnès
|
Agnès Varda
|
France
|
| 2010
|
The Class
|
Laurent Cantet
|
France
|
| 2009
|
Persépolis
|
Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi
|
France United States
|
| 2008
|
The Lives of Others
|
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
|
 Germany
|
| 2007
|
Little Miss Sunshine
|
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
|
United States
|
| 2006
|
Sideways
|
Alexander Payne
|
United States
|
| 2005
|
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
|
Kim Ki-duk
|
 South Korea Germany
|
| 2004
|
Russian Ark
|
Alexander Sokurov
|
 Russia
|
| 2003
|
Talk To Her
|
Pedro Almodóvar
|
 Spain
|
| 2002
|
In the Mood for Love
|
Wong Kar-wai
|
 Hong Kong
|
| 2001
|
Amores perros
|
Alejandro González Iñárritu
|
 Mexico
|
| 2000
|
Central Station
|
Walter Salles
|
 Brazil
|
| 1999
|
Ulysses' Gaze
|
Theo Angelopoulos
|
 Greece
|
| 1998
|
Smoke
|
Wayne Wang
|
United States
|
| 1997
|
Before the Rain
|
Milcho Manchevski
|
 North Macedonia United Kingdom France
|
| 1996
|
Il Postino: The Postman
|
Michael Radford
|
France  Italy Belgium
|
| 1995
|
Strawberry and Chocolate
|
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío
|
 Cuba
|
| 1994
|
The Piano
|
Jane Campion
|
 New Zealand
|
| 1993
|
Raise the Red Lantern
|
Zhang Yimou
|
 China
|
| 1992
|
Ju Dou
|
Zhang Yimou
|
China
|
| 1991
|
Cinema Paradiso
|
Giuseppe Tornatore
|
Italy
|
| 1990
|
Babette's Feast
|
Gabriel Axel
|
 Denmark
|
| 1970
|
Fists in the Pocket
|
Marco Bellocchio
|
Italy
|
| 1956
|
Comedians
|
Juan Antonio Bardem
|
Spain  Argentina
|
| 1946
|
A Song to Remember
|
Charles Vidor
|
United States
|
| 1945
|
Going My Way
|
Leo McCarey
|
United Kingdom
|
| 1944
|
In Which We Serve
|
Noël Coward and David Lean
|
United States
|
| 1943
|
How Green Was My Valley
|
John Ford
|
United States
|
