1989

1) Do The Right Thing
2) The Cook, The Thief, The Wife and Her Lover
3) My Left Foot
4) Crimes And Misdemeanors
5) Drugstore Cowboy
6) Dead Poets Society
7) Casualties Of War
8) The Killer
9) The War Of The Roses
10) Enemies: A Love Story

Runners-Up: Sex, Lies and Videotape, Batman, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Back to the Future Part II, Born on the Fourth of July, Kill Me Again, Weekend at Bernie's, Road House, Roger and Me, Major League, Glory

1988

1) Die Hard
2) Who Framed Roger Rabbit
3) The Last Temptation of Christ
4) Rain Man
5) A Fish Called Wanda
6) Big
7) The Vanishing
8) Midnight Run
9) They Live
10) Eight Men Out

Runners-Up: Married to the Mob, Mississippi Burning, Women on the Verge of A Nervous Breakdown, Naked Gun, Coming to America, Dead Ringers, The Accidental Tourist, Frantic, Tucker: A Man and His Dream, Working Girl

1987

1) Broadcast News
2) The Princess Bride
3) Raising Arizona
4) Full Metal Jacket
5) The Untouchables
6) Near Dark
7) Radio Days
8) River's Edge
9) House of Games
10) Predator/RoboCop

Runners-Up: Evil Dead II, No Way Out, Fatal Attraction, Robocop, Dirty Dancing, Wall Street, Delirious, Tin Men, Hope and Glory

1986

1) Blue Velvet
2) The Fly 
3) Something Wild
4) Aliens
5) Platoon
6) Hannah And Her Sisters
7) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
8) My Beautiful Laundrette
9) The Color of Money  
10) Manhunter

Runners-Up: Salvador, Sid, and Nancy, Down By Law, Mona Lisa, Three Amigos, Hoosiers, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Nothing in Common, Peggy Sue Got Married, Ruthless People, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Pretty in Pink, The Green Ray, Back to School

1985

1) Brazil
2) Back To The Future 
3) After Hours 
4) Witness 
5)  The Purple Rose Of Cairo
6) Prizzi's Honor
7) Ran
8) Mask
9) To Live and Die in L.A
10) Blood Simple

Runners-Up:  The Falcon and the Snowman, The Hit, Runaway Train, Lost in America, Day of the Dead, Pale Rider, The Breakfast Club, Shoah, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

1984

1) Amadeus
2) The Terminator
3) This is Spinal Tap
4) The Temple of Doom
5) Broadway Danny Rose
6) Body Double 
7) The Killing Fields
8) Stranger Than Paradise
9) Tightrope
10) The Karate Kid

Runners-Up: The Natural, Secret Honor, A Soldier's Story, Police Academy, The Times of Harvey Milk, Places in the Heart, Ghostbusters, Repo Men, Nightmare on Elm Street, Paris Texas, Beverly Hills Cop, Once Upon A Time in America, Stop Making Sense, Love Streams

1983

1) The King of Comedy
2) Fanny & Alexander
3) Videodrome
4) Terms of Endearment
5) Zelig
6) Silkwood
7) Risky Business
8) WarGames
9) The Dead Zone
10) Bad Boys

Runners-Up: Star 80, Tender Mercies, A Christmas Story, Trading Places, Baby It's You, Return of the Jedi, Scarface, Tenebrae, Local Hero, Possession, L'Argent, A Nos Amours

1982

1) Gandhi
2) Missing
3) The Thing
4) The Verdict
5) Tootsie
6) Moonlighting
7) Shoot the Moon
8) The Year of Living Dangerously
9) The Road Warrior
10) The Atomic Cafe

Runners-Up: An Officer and a Gentleman, Sophie's Choice, Blade Runner, First Blood, Diner, White Dog, Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1981

1) Blow Out
2) Raiders Of The Lost Ark
3) Prince of the City
4) Atlantic City
5) Thief
6) Cutter's Way
7) Pixote
8) Escape From New York
9) Arthur
10) Superman II

1980

1) The Shining
2) Raging Bull
3) The Elephant Man
4) Dressed to Kill
5) The Stunt Man
6) The Tin Drum
7) The Blues Brothers
8) Melvin and Howard
9) A Coal Miner's Daughter
10) My Bodyguard 

1970s

1) The Godfather
2) The Godfather Part II
3) Apocalypse Now
4) Barry Lyndon
5) A Clockwork Orange
6) 3 Women
7) Mean Streets/Taxi Driver
8) The Conversation
9) Chinatown
10) A Woman Under the Influence

1979

1) Apocalypse Now
2) All That Jazz 
3) Being There
4) Kramer vs. Kramer
5) The China Syndrome
6) Picnic At Hanging Rock
7) Breaking Away
8) The Shout
9) Hair 
10) And Justice For All ...

1978

1) The Deer Hunter
2) Midnight Express
3) Days of Heaven
4) Halloween
5) Blue Collar
6) Straight Time
7) Girlfriends
8) An Unmarried Woman
9) Martin
10) I Spit On Your Grave

1977

1) 3 Women
2) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
3) Sorcerer
4) Eraserhead
5) The American Friend
6) Annie Hall
7) Rolling Thunder
8) Saturday Night Fever
9) Pumping Iron
10) The Obscure Object Of Desire

1976

1) Taxi Driver 
2) Network
3) Seven Beauties
4) Carrie
5) Rocky
6) The Outlaw Josey Wales
7) Marathon Man
8) Bound For Glory
9) Family Plot
10) The Omen

1975

1) Barry Lyndon
2) The Passenger
3) Dog Day Afternoon
4) Jaws
5) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
6) Three Days of Condor
7) Assault On Precinct 13
8) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
9) Hard Times
10) Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

1974

1) The Godfather Part II
2) The Conversation
3) Chinatown
4) A Woman Under the Influence
5) Don't Look Now
6) The Parallax View
7) California Split
8) The Gambler 
9) Blazing Saddles
10) The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

1973

1) Mean Streets
2) Badlands
3) The Exorcist
4) The Long Goodbye
5) Serpico
6) The Last Detail
7) American Graffiti
8) The Day of the Jackal
9) The Sting
10) Paper Moon

1972

1) The Godfather
2) The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie
3) Last Tango in Paris
4) Cries And Whispers 
5) Frenzy
6) The Friends of Eddie Coyle
7) Fat City 
8) The Last House On The Left
9) Deliverance
10) Pink Flamingos 

1971

1) A Clockwork Orange
2) The Last Picture Show
3) Dirty Harry
4) The French Connection
5) Klute
6) McCabe and Mrs. Miller
7) Harold and Maude
8) A New Leaf
9) Straw Dogs
10) Duel