| Year | Film | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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| 2010 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Män som hatar kvinnor | Niels Arden Oplev | Sweden / Denmark / Germany |
| Biutiful | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Mexico / Spain |
| I Am Love | Io sono l'amore | Luca Guadagnino | Italy |
| Mother | 마더 | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea |
| Outside the Law | Hors-la-loi خارجون عن القانون | Rachid Bouchareb | France / Algeria / Tunisia / Belgium |
| Soul Kitchen | Fatih Akın | Germany |
| White Material | Claire Denis | France |
| 2011 | Mysteries of Lisbon | Mistérios de Lisboa | Raúl Ruiz | Portugal / France |
| 13 Assassins | 十三人の刺客 | Takashi Miike | United Kingdom / Japan |
| Faust | Alexander Sokurov | Russia |
| Las Acacias | Pablo Giorgelli | Argentina |
| The Kid with a Bike | Le Gamin au vélo | Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne | Belgium / France |
| Le Havre | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland / France / Germany |
| Miss Bala | Gerardo Naranjo | Mexico |
| Mozart's Sister | Nannerl, la sœur de Mozart | René Féret | France |
| The Turin Horse | A torinói ló | Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky | Hungary |
| 2012 | The Intouchables | Intouchables | Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano | France |
| Pietà | 피에타 | Kim Ki-duk | South Korea |
| Amour | Michael Haneke | France / Austria / Germany |
| Beyond the Hills | După dealuri | Cristian Mungiu | Romania |
| Caesar Must Die | Cesare deve morire | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | Italy |
| Kon-Tiki | Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg | Norway / Denmark / Germany / Sweden / United Kingdom |
| Our Children | À perdre la raison | Joachim Lafosse | Belgium / France |
| A Royal Affair | En kongelig affære | Nikolaj Arcel | Denmark / Sweden / Czech Republic |
| A Separation | جدایی نادر از سیمین | Asghar Farhadi | Iran |
| War Witch | Rebelle | Kim Nguyen | Canada |
| 2013 | The Broken Circle Breakdown | Felix van Groeningen | Belgium |
| Bethlehem | בית לחם | Yuval Adler | Israel |
| Blue Is the Warmest Colour | La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 | Abdellatif Kechiche | France / Belgium / Spain |
| Circles | Кругови | Srdan Golubović | Serbia |
| Four Corners | Ian Gabriel | South Africa |
| The Great Beauty | La grande bellezza | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy / France |
| The Hunt | Jagten | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark |
| Metro Manila | Sean Ellis | United Kingdom |
| The Past | Le Passé | Asghar Farhadi | France / Italy / Iran |
| Wadjda | وجدة | Haifaa al-Mansour | Saudi Arabia |
| 2014 | Tangerines | Mandariinid / მანდარინები | Zaza Urushadze | Estonia / Georgia |
| Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem | Gett: Le procès de Viviane Amsalem | Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz | Israel / Germany / France |
| Ida | Paweł Pawlikowski | Poland / Denmark / France / United Kingdom |
| Force Majeure | Turist | Ruben Östlund | Sweden / France / Norway |
| Leviathan | Левиафан | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia |
| Little England | Μικρά Αγγλία | Pantelis Voulgaris | Greece |
| Mommy | Xavier Dolan | Canada |
| Timbuktu | Abderrahmane Sissako | Mauritania / France |
| Two Days, One Night | Deux jours, une nuit | Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne | Belgium / France / Italy |
| Wild Tales | Relatos salvajes | Damián Szifron | Argentina / Spain |
2015 [1] | Son of Saul | Saul Fia | László Nemes | Hungary |
| The Assassin | 刺客聶隱娘 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan / China / Hong Kong |
| The Brand New Testament | Le Tout Nouveau Testament | Jaco Van Dormael | Belgium / France / Luxembourg |
| Goodnight Mommy | Ich seh, Ich seh | Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala | Austria |
| The High Sun | Zvizdan | Dalibor Matanić | Croatia / Serbia / Slovenia |
| Labyrinth of Lies | Im Labyrinth des Schweigens | Giulio Ricciarelli | Germany |
| Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | France / Germany / Turkey |
| A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence | En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron | Roy Andersson | Sweden / Norway / France / Germany / Denmark |
| The Second Mother | Que Horas Ela Volta? | Anna Muylaert | Brazil |
| The Throne | 사도 | Lee Joon-ik | South Korea |
2016 [2] | The Salesman | فروشنده | Asghar Farhadi | Iran / France |
| The Ardennes | D'Ardennen | Robin Pront | Belgium |
| Elle | Paul Verhoeven | France / Germany |
| The Handmaiden | 아가씨 | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
| The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki | Hymyilevä mies | Juho Kuosmanen | Finland / Germany / Sweden |
| Julieta | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| A Man Called Ove | En man som heter Ove | Hannes Holm | Sweden |
| Ma' Rosa | Brillante Mendoza | Philippines |
| Paradise | Рай | Andrei Konchalovsky | Russia |
| Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | Germany / Austria |
| 2017 | In the Fade | Fatih Akin | Germany / France |
| BPM (Beats per Minute) | Robin Campillo | France |
| The Divine Order | Petra Volpe | Switzerland |
| First They Killed My Father | Angelina Jolie | Cambodia / United States |
| Foxtrot | Samuel Maoz | Israel / Germany / France / Switzerland |
| Loveless | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia / France / Belgium / Germany |
| The Square | Ruben Östlund | Sweden / France / Germany / Denmark |
| White Sun | Deepak Rauniyar | Nepal / Netherlands / Qatar / United States |
2018 [3] | Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | Mexico / United States |
| The Cakemaker | האופה מברלין | Ofir Raul Grazier | Israel / Germany |
| Cold War | Zimna wojna | Paweł Pawlikowski | Poland / France / United Kingdom |
| The Guilty | Den skyldige | Gustav Möller | Denmark |
| I Am Not a Witch | Rungano Nyoni | United Kingdom / France / Germany / Zambia |
| Shoplifters | 万引き家族 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan |
2019 [4] | Truth and Justice | Tõde ja õigus | Tanel Toom | Estonia |
| Atlantics | Atlantique | Mati Diop | France / Senegal / Belgium |
| Beanpole | Дылда | Kantemir Balagov | Russia |
| Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | France |
| Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Céline Sciamma |
| Pain and Glory | Dolor y gloria | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| The Painted Bird | Nabarvené ptáče | Václav Marhoul | Czech Republic / Slovakia / Ukraine |
| Parasite | 기생충 | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea |
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