2000's

2000
Memento (Christopher Nolan, USA)
Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, UK-Spain-USA)

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2001
The Deep End (Scott McGehee & David Siegel, USA)
Heist (David Mamet, USA-Canada)
The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, USA-UK)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, USA-France)
Training Day (Antoine Fuqua, USA-Australia)

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2002
Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma, France-Switzerland)
Insomnia (Christopher Nolan, USA)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, USA)
Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes, USA)
The Salton Sea (D.J. Caruso, USA)

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2003
The Cooler (Wayne Kramer, USA)
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Mike Hodges, UK-USA)
Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, South Korea)
Out of Time (Carl Franklin, USA)

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2004
Collateral (Michael Mann, USA)

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2005
The Aura (Fabián Bielinsky, Argentina-Spain-France)
Brick (Rian Johnson, USA)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, USA-Germany)
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Shane Black, USA)
Sin City (Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller, USA)

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2006
The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma, USA-Germany-France)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese, USA-Hong Kong)
Hollywoodland (Allen Coulter, USA)

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2007
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet, USA)
Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck, USA)
No Country for Old Men (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, USA)
Zodiac (David Fincher, USA)

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2008
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, USA-UK)