1.
Paris nous appartient / Paris Belongs to Us (Jacques Rivette)
2.
Tsuma wa kotuhaku suru / A Wife Confesses (Yasuzô Masumura)
3.
The Forgotten Faces (Peter Watkins)
4.
Allures (Jordan Belson)
5.
Lola (Jacques Demy)
6.
Chronique d'un été (Paris, 1960) / Chronicle of a Summer (Edgar Morin/Jean Rouch)
7.
Fuego en Castilla (Tactilvisión del páramo del espanto) / Fire in Castilla (Tactilvision from the Moor of the Fright) (José Val del Omar)
8.
Schwarzer Kies / Black Gravel (Helmut Käutner)
9.
Posse from Hell (Herbert Coleman)
10.
Povest plamennykh let / The Story of the Flaming Years (Yuliya Solntseva)
11.
Il posto (Ermanno Olmi)
12.
Yek atash / A Fire (Ebrahim Golestan)
RIP
13.
Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller)
14.
Cash on Demand (Quentin Lawrence)
15.
Obaltan / Aimless Bullet (Yu Hyun-mok)
16.
Whistle Down the Wind (Bryan Forbes)
17.
Faryade Nimeshab / The Midnight Terror (Samuel Khachikian)
18.
L'amour existe / Love Exists (Maurice Pialat)
19.
Ercole al centro della Terra / Hercules in the Haunted World (Mario Bava)
20.
Divorzio all'italiana / Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi)
Likely contenders that need a re-watch:
Une femme est une femme
La notte
Såsom i en spegel
Viridiana
Yôjinbô
If I'm going to leave out 5 of the very best-known non-American films I guess I'll leave off this as well, which needs no help from me:
L'année dernière à Marienbad
and I'm not a big fan of many of the best-known American films for this year, with the possible exceptions of
West Side Story and
One, Two, Three but both of those would need another viewing too after 25+ years
Other contenders/HM:
Accatone
Aprili
Balti zvanie
Barabbas
Blast of Silence
The Children's Hour
The Comancheros
The Deadly Companions
El Cid
The Exiles
Fi baitina rajul
The Innocents
Katok i skripka
Kohayagawa-ke no aki
Komal Gandhar
The Ladies Man
The Man in the Back Seat
The Mask
Mosura
Mr. Sardonicus
Mysterious Island
Ningen no jôken
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Pit and the Pendulum
Plácido
The Seventh Commandment
Splendor in the Grass
Swiadecto urodzenia
A Taste of Honey
Taste of Fear
Teen Kanya
Too Late Blues
Victim
Yet to see: a great many, and the number seemed to keep growing as I looked more at the year, even as I whittled down my watchlist I saw it sprout more branches. But the ones that seem most likely to make an impact here that I just didn't get to are
Léon Morin, prêtre and
Matka Joanna od Aniolów (which I'll probably watch next month for the horror challenge anyway). Lots more from Italy, France and Japan in particular.
Comment: A terrific year, but then I say that about just about every year. I guess if you like most genres and are open to arthouse films, experimental stuff and shorts and documentaries, and are a big softie

like me that's not so surprising. What is kind of amazing about the 60s in general, with this year certainly bearing it out, is how poor a period it was for American cinema even while much of the rest of the world had finally recovered fully from WWII, and we see so much genius elsewhere even while the USA is mired in truly dreadful romantic comedies and mostly very bloated musicals and religious epics (at least until the last couple of years of the decade). There are certainly some bright spots in America - some really good westerns and crime films for instance - but overall I'm mostly looking elsewhere for quality in this year, with France, Italy, Japan and the UK among the leaders, while relative upstarts like Egypt, Iran, Brazil, etc, are just starting to make themselves felt (at least in retrospect - how much play these films actually got outside of their home countries when new, I don't know.