In chronological order, only one movie per director.
- The Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson, 2001/2003)
- The Ring (Gore Verbinski, 2002)
- Basic (John McTiernan, 2003)
- The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003)
- Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
- Kill Bill: Volume 1 / Volume 2 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003/2004)
- Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
- Crash (Paul Haggis, 2004)
- House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou, 2004)
- Match Point (Woody Allen, 2005)
- A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
- La Moustache (Emmanuel Carrère, 2005)
- Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)
- Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006)
- The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
- The Man from Earth (Richard Schenkman, 2007)
- Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)
- The Time Traveler’s Wife (Robert Schwentke, 2009)
- Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)