1969

1. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
3. A Gentle Woman (Robert Bresson)
4. The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman)
5. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
6. Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)
7. The Milky Way (Luis Bunuel)
8. The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls)
9. The Rain People (Francis Ford Coppola)
10. Love Is Colder Than Death (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Honorable Mentions:
The Unfaithful Wife (Claude Chabrol), The Damned (Luchino Visconti), Calcutta (Louis Malle), Love and Anger (Marco Bellocchio, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, Carlo Lizzani, and Pier Paolo Pasolini), True Grit (Henry Hathaway), Mississippi Mermaid (Francois Truffaut), Katzelmacher (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen), One On Top of the Other (Lucio Fulci), Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)