1961

1. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
2. Last Year At Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
3. Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
4. A Woman Is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard)
5. La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni)
6. The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
7. Breakfast At Tiffany's (Blake Edwards)
8. The End of Summer (Yasujiro Ozu)
9. El Cid (Anthony Mann)
10. The Misfits (John Huston)

Honorable Mentions:
One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder), Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller), Lola (Jacques Demy), Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa), Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini), Splendor In the Grass (Elia Kazan), The Hustler (Robert Rossen), The Pit and the Pendulum (Roger Corman), The Last Sunset (Robert Aldrich)