| Title | Director | Year | Qualities | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Complicatedness | Unexpectedness | Emotion | |||
| American History X | Tony Kaye | 1998 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| The Animatrix | Larry and Andy Wachowski | 2003 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| Batman Begins | Christopher Nolan | 2005 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Battle Royale | Kinji Fukasaku | 2000 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| The Chumscrubber | Arie Posin | 2005 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
| Clue | Jonathan Lynn | 1985 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| Donnie Darko | Richard Kelley | 2001 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| Fermat's Room | Luis Piedrahita | 2007 | 4 | 3 | 4 |
| Following | Christopher Nolan | 1998 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| The Fountain | Darren Aronofsky | 2006 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | Mamoru Hosoda | 2006 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| The Godfather | Francis Ford Coppola | 1972 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Good Night, and Good Luck. | George Clooney | 2005 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Hero | Zhang Yimou | 2002 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| i ♥ huckabees | David O. Russell | 2004 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Insomnia | Christopher Nolan | 2002 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Interstella 5555 | Kazuhisa Takenouchi | 2003 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| The Matrix | Larry and Andy Wachowski | 1999 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| The Matrix Reloaded | Larry and Andy Wachowski | 2003 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| The Matrix Revolutions | Larry and Andy Wachowski | 2003 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Memento | Christopher Nolan | 2000 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Michael Clayton | Tony Gilroy | 2007 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| My Neighbor Totoro | Hayao Miyazaki | 1988 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| The Prestige | Christopher Nolan | 2006 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
| Rocket Science | Jeffrey Blitz | 2007 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Thank You for Smoking | Jason Reitman | 2006 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| The Thomas Crown Affair | John McTiernan | 1999 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| V for Vendetta | James McTeigue | 2006 | 3 | 4 | 2 |