HONORABLE MENTIONS 

My Rules: (Same as the ones applied to the primary Best of 2005 list. Click Here.)

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1 
Tout de Suite - Benot Jacquot / France

Bolivia - Adrin Caetano / Argentina

Das de Santiago (Days of Santiago) - Josue Mendez / Peru

Don't Move (Non Ti Muovere) - Sergio Castellitto / Italy

Head-On (Gegen die Wand) - Fatih Akin / Germany-Turkey

Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro) - Hayao Miyazaki / Japan

Love in Thoughts (Was ntzt die Liebe in Gedanken) - Achim von Borries / Germany

Proof - John Madden / U.S.

Shes One of Us (Elle est des ntres) - Siegrid Alnoy / France

Wall (Mur) - Simone Bitton / France-Israel

2 
Ana y los Otros (Ana and the Others) - Celina Murga / Argentina

The Constant Gardener - Fernando Meirelles / U.S.-U.K.

The Ice Harvest - Harold Ramis / U.S.

Kings and Queen (Rois et Reine) - Arnaud Desplechin / France

Murderball - Henry Alex Rubin & Dana Adam Shapiro / U.S.

Pulse (Kairo) - Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Japan

Sometimes in April - Raoul Peck / U.S.

Tropical Malady (Sud Pralad) - Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Thailand

Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha hm parvaz mikonand) - Bahman Ghobadi / Iran-Iraq

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - Steve Box & Nick Park / U.K.

3 
Caterina in the Big City (Caterina va in Citt) - Paolo Virz / Italy

Doppelgnger (Dopperugeng) - Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Japan

Lords of Dogtown - Catherine Hardwicke / U.S.

Machuca - Andrs Wood / Chile

My Summer of Love - Paul Pavlikovsky / U.K.

No Rest for the Brave (Pas de repos pour les braves) - Alain Guiraudie / France

Not on the Lips (Pas sur la Bouche) - Alain Resnais / France

Schizo (Shiza) - Guka Omarova / Kazakhstan

A State of Mind - Daniel Gordon / U.K.

La Virgen de la Lujuria (The Virgin of Lust) - Arturo Ripstein / Mexico

4 
Ballets Russes - Daniel Geller & Dayna Goldfine / U.S.

Brothers (Brdre) - Susanne Bier / Denmark

Chekhovian Motifs (Chekhovskie Motivy) - Kira Muratova / Russia

Intimate Stories (Historias Mnimas) - Carlos Sorin / Argentina

Me and You and Everyone We Know - Miranda July / U.S.

9 Songs - Michael Winterbottom / U.K.

Ojos Que No Ven (What the Eye Doesn't See) - Francisco Lombardi / Peru

Pornografia (Pornography) - Jan Jakub Kolski / Poland

Samaritan Girl (Samaria) - Kim Ki-duk / S. Korea

Sin City - Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller / U.S.
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