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--- highest-rated films:
by Year ---
pre-&-1911
| 1912 | 1913 | 1914
| 1915 | 1916 | 1917
| 1918 | 1919
1920 | 1921 | 1922
| 1923 | 1924 | 1925
| 1926 | 1927 | 1928
| 1929
1930 | 1931 | 1932
| 1933 | 1934 | 1935
| 1936 | 1937 | 1938
| 1939
1940 | 1941 | 1942
| 1943 | 1944 | 1945
| 1946 | 1947 | 1948
| 1949
1950 | 1951 | 1952
| 1953 | 1954 | 1955
| 1956 | 1957 | 1958
| 1959
1960 | 1961 | 1962
| 1963 | 1964 | 1965
| 1966 | 1967 | 1968
| 1969
1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973
| 1974 | 1975 | 1976
| 1977 | 1978 | 1979
1980 | 1981 | 1982
| 1983 | 1984 | 1985
| 1986 | 1987 | 1988
| 1989
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| 1993 | 1994 | 1995
| 1996 | 1997 | 1998
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2009
1913
****½
The Student of Prague
1914
****½
Cabiria
****
A Florida Enchantment
1915
*****
The Birth of a Nation
1916
*****
Intolerance
1918
****
The Outlaw and His Wife
1919
****
Broken Blossoms
1920
****½
Der Golem
****
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Phantom Chariot
1921
*****
The Kid
****½
Shattered
****
The Blot
Leaves from Satan's Book
Der Müde Tod
1922
*****
Foolish Wives
Häxan
Nosferatu
****½
Nanook of the North
1923
****½
Our Hospitality
La Souriante Madame Beudet
****
Safety Last!
1924
*****
Greed
The Navigator
Sherlock, Jr.
Strike
****½
The Last Laugh
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
****
Die Nibelungen: Krimhield's Revenge
1925
*****
The Battleship Potemkin
The Gold Rush
****½
The Phantom of the Opera
****
Lady Windermere's Fan
Seven Chances
1926
*****
By the Law
Mother
A Page of Madness
The Strong Man
****½
Faust
Ménilmontant
****
Metropolis
1927
*****
Bed and Sofa
The General
The Love of Jeanne Ney
****½
An Italian Straw Hat
Napoleon
Sunrise
****
Berlin, Symphony of a Great City
The Cat and the Canary
The End of St. Petersburg
October: 10 Days That Shook the World
1928
*****
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Storm over Asia
****½
The Crowd
The Docks of New York
The Last Command
****
The Circus
Show People
Spione
Zvenigora
1929
*****
Arsenal
Man with a Movie Camera
Turksib
****
Blackmail
1930
*****
L'Age d'or
The Tale of the Fox
Morocco
****½
All Quiet on the Western Front
Animal Crackers
Earth
Salt for Svanetia
****
The Blue Angel
Hell's Angels
1931
*****
City Lights
M
Monkey Business
****½
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dracula
Frankenstein
****
La Chienne
Dishonored
Enthusiasm
The Public Enemy
Road to Life
1932
*****
Fanny
Love Me Tonight
The Most Dangerous Game
The Old Dark House
Vampyr
****½
Horse Feathers
Trouble in Paradise
****
Freaks
Grand Hotel
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Kuhle Wampe
Red-Headed Woman
Scarface
Shanghai Express
1933
*****
Duck Soup
The Invisible Man
King Kong
****½
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Zéro de conduite
****
Baby Face
Dinner at Eight
Gold Diggers of 1933
I'm No Angel
Little Women
Mystery of the Wax Museum
She Done Him Wrong
1934
*****
L'Atalante
It Happened One Night
The Scarlet Empress
****½
Man of Aran
Three Songs of Lenin
****
The Gay Divorcee
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Merry Widow
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Thin Man
Twentieth Century
1935
*****
A Night at the Opera
The 39 Steps
****½
Mutiny on the Bounty
****
David Copperfield
The Devil Is a Woman
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sylvia Scarlett
Top Hat
Triumph of the Will
1936
*****
César
Dodsworth
Modern Times
My Man Godfrey
****½
Osaka Elegy
Sisters of the Gion
****
Desire
Libeled Lady
1937
*****
Grand Illusion
Nothing Sacred
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
****½
The Awful Truth
Camille
A Day at the Races
Lost Horizon
The Prisoner of Zenda
A Star Is Born
****
Bizarre, Bizarre (Drole de drame)
Dead End
The Good Earth
Oh Mr. Porter
Stage Door
You Only Live Once
1938
*****
Bringing Up Baby
****½
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
The Lady Vanishes
Pygmalion
****
Alexander Nevsky
Holiday
La Marseillaise
Room Service
1939
*****
Bachelor Mother
Destry Rides Again
Gone with the Wind
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Ninotchka
La Régle du jeu
Stagecoach
The Wizard of Oz
****½
Dodge City
Midnight
The Women
Wuthering Heights
****
The Roaring Twenties
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
1940
*****
The Grapes of Wrath
His Girl Friday
The Philadelphia Story
****½
Fantasia
The Great Dictator
The Great McGinty
Pride and Prejudice
Rebecca
The Shop Around the Corner
****
My Favorite Wife
Night Train to Munich
Pinocchio
Remember the Night
1941
*****
Citizen Kane
Dumbo
The Lady Eve
The Maltese Falcon
****½
49th Parallel
Sullivan's Travels
****
How Green Was My Valley
The Little Foxes
1942
*****
Bambi
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
The Magnificent Ambersons
To Be or Not to Be
****½
Casablanca
Cat People
In Which We Serve
The Major and the Minor
The Palm Beach Story
****
Saboteur
This Gun for Hire
1943
*****
Le Corbeau
Day of Wrath
The Ox-Bow Incident
****½
Five Graves to Cairo
Heaven Can Wait
The More the Merrier
Shadow of a Doubt
****
The Seventh Victim
1944
*****
Double Indemnity
Jane Eyre
Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Murder, My Sweet
****½
Arsenic and Old Lace
Hail the Conquering Hero
Laura
Lifeboat
Meet Me in St. Louis
To Have and Have Not
****
The Woman in the Window
1945
*****
Detour
The Way to the Stars
****½
Les Enfants du paradis
****
Blithe Spirit
Brief Encounter
Rome, Open City
1946
*****
La Belle et la Bête
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Big Sleep
My Darling Clementine
Gilda
Great Expectations
****½
It's a Wonderful Life
A Matter of Life and Death
****
Ivan the Terrible, Part II
The Jolson Story
A Night in Casablanca
Paisa
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
1947
*****
Odd Man Out
Out of the Past
****½
T-Men
****
Black Narcissus
Daisy Kenyon
Lady in the Lake
Monsieur Verdoux
Quai des Orfèvres
1948
*****
He Walked by Night
Raw Deal
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
****½
Bicycle Thieves
A Foreign Affair
The Naked City
The Red Shoes
****
Behind Locked Doors
Key Largo
Macbeth
Oliver Twist
They Live by Night
1949
*****
Gun Crazy
A Letter to Three Wives
Stray Dog
The Third Man
****½
The Big Steal
Jour de fête
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Passport to Pimlico
Whiskey Galore
****
Holiday Affair
On the Town
1950
*****
All About Eve
The Asphalt Jungle
Rashomon
La Ronde
Sunset Boulevard
Winchester '73
****
Born Yesterday
Cinderella
Father of the Bride
The Furies
In a Lonely Place
Los Olvidados
Panic in the Streets
Stage Fright
Variety Lights
1951
*****
Ace in the Hole
Diary of a Country Priest
The Thing (From Another World)
****½
The Man in the White Suit
Strangers on a Train
****
The African Queen
An American in Paris
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Lavender Hill Mob
A Streetcar Named Desire
1952
*****
Forbidden Games
High Noon
Ikiru
The Quiet Man
Singin' in the Rain
****½
The Titfield Thunderbolt
****
The Bad and the Beautiful
The Narrow Margin
On Dangerous Ground
1953
*****
Tokyo Story
Ugetsu monogatari
The Wages of Fear
****½
The Band Wagon
The Naked Spur
Shane
****
From Here to Eternity
Genevieve
I Vitelloni
Madame De...
Pickup on South Street
1954
*****
The Far Country
On the Waterfront
Rear Window
Sansho the Bailiff
The Seven Samurai
A Star Is Born
La Strada
****½
Sabrina
Senso
****
It Should Happen to You
Voyage to Italy
1955
*****
The Big Combo
Kiss Me Deadly
The Night of the Hunter
Smiles of a Summer Night
****½
Mr. Arkadin
Pather Panchali
The Seven Year Itch
****
All That Heaven Allows
The Man from Laramie
1956
*****
The Searchers
****½
Aparajito
Bus Stop
Street of Shame
****
The Killing
1957
*****
The Cranes Are Flying
Edge of the City
Nights of Cabiria
Paths of Glory
The Seventh Seal
Throne of Blood
Wild Strawberries
****
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Forty Guns
The Three Faces of Eve
3:10 to Yuma
1958
*****
Man of the West
Touch of Evil
****½
Vertigo
Gigi
****
Ashes and Diamonds
1959
*****
The Four-Hundred Blows
Hiroshima mon amour
Rio Bravo
Some Like It Hot
****½
North by Northwest
The World of Apu
****
Eyes Without a Face
The Nun's Story
1960
*****
La Dolce Vita
Psycho
****½
The Apartment
L'Avventura
Breathless
The Young One
****
The Bad Sleep Well
Black Sunday
1961
*****
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Innocents
Viridiana
****½
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Lola
The Misfits
****
Accattone
Last Year at Marienbad
A Woman Is a Woman
Yojimbo
1962
*****
La Commare Secca
The Exterminating Angel
Ivan's Childhood
La Jetée
Jules et Jim
Lawrence of Arabia
The Trial
Vivre sa vie
****½
Dr. No
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
****
Mamma Roma
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Night of the Eagle
Salvatore Giuliano
1963
*****
8½
The Leopard
****½
Les Carabiniers
The Haunting
The Silence
****
Bay of Angels
The Birds
Charade
Le Feu follet
From Russia with Love
Hud
Le Petit soldat
1964
*****
Before the Revolution
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Dr. Strangelove; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
I Am Cuba
Intentions of Murder
Woman in the Dunes
****½
Goldfinger
****
The Naked Kiss
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
1965
*****
The Knack... And How to Get It
Man Is Not a Bird
Pierrot le fou
****½
Chimes at Midnight
The War Game
****
Fist in His Pocket
The Saragossa Manuscript
1966
*****
The Battle of Algiers
Persona
****
Closely Observed Trains
Gambit
Georgie Girl
The Pornographers
1967
*****
Belle de Jour
Bonnie and Clyde
The Graduate
In Cold Blood
Love Affair; or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
Weekend
****½
The Firemen's Ball
I Am Curious - Yellow
****
Cool Hand Luke
Dance of the Vampires
Marketa Lazarová
Le Samourai
Two for the Road
Wait Until Dark
1968
*****
If...
The Immortal Story
Rosemary's Baby
2001: A Space Odyssey
****½
Petulia
Teorema
****
The Cremator
High School
Oliver!
Targets
1969
*****
My Night at Maud's
Once Upon a Time in the West
****½
Andrei Rublev
The Joke
Que la bête meure
****
La Femme infidèle
Kes
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
The Wild Bunch
Z
1970
*****
The Conformist
Five Easy Pieces
Tristana
****½
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
La Rupture
****
Le Boucher
The Ear
Gimme Shelter
The Honeymoon Killers
Wanda
1971
*****
The Last Picture Show
****½
The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty
Kick
The Hospital
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
WR: Mysteries of the Organism
****
The Beguiled
Claire's Knee
Death in Venice
The French Connection
Murmur of the Heart
1972
*****
Aguirre, Wrath of God
Bad Company
Cabaret
Cries and Whispers
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Godfather
My Childhood
****½
The Candidate
****
Chloë in the Afternoon
Deliverance
Fat City
Ulzana's Raid
1973
*****
My Ain Folk
Scenes from a Marriage
****½
American Graffiti
Badlands
The Day of the Jackal
Paper Moon
****
Day for Night
Don't Look Now
Fantastic Planet
Mean Streets
The Mother and the Whore
Sisters
1974
*****
Chinatown
Thieves Like Us
****½
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
The Godfather Part II
The Phantom of Liberty
Young Frankenstein
****
Alice in the Cities
Blazing Saddles
Celine and Julie Go Boating
The Conversation
Effi Briest
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Fear Eats the Soul
The Parallax View
The Sugarland Express
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
That's Entertainment!
1975
*****
Barry Lyndon
Farewell, My Lovely
The Story of Adèle H.
****½
Dersu Uzala
Dog Day Afternoon
Love and Death
Nashville
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
****
Jaws
1976
*****
Harlan County U.S.A.
****½
Bound for Glory
The Innocent
****
F for Fake
Taxi Driver
The Tenant
1977
*****
Annie Hall
Padre padrone
****½
3 Women
****
The American Friend
Martin
1978
*****
Days of Heaven
****½
Autumn Sonata
Fingers
My Way Home
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
****
Blue Collar
Coma
Halloween
An Unmarried Woman
1979
*****
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Love on the Run
****½
Manhattan
****
Alien
All That Jazz
Apocalypse Now
The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
Kramer vs. Kramer
Mad Max
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Stalker
The Tin Drum
1980
****
Ordinary People
Raging Bull
1981
****½
Diva
Three Brothers
****
Vernon, Florida
1982
****½
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Fanny and Alexander
Fitzcarraldo
Tootsie
****
Blade Runner
1983
*****
The Ballad of Narayama
****½
The Fourth Man
Zelig
****
The King of Comedy
1984
*****
Once Upon a Time in America
****½
Amadeus
Paris, Texas
Stranger Than Paradise
****
Broadway Danny Rose
Carmen
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
1985
*****
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Ran
****
My Beautiful Laundrette
Prizzi's Honor
A Room with a View
1986
*****
Hannah and Her Sisters
****½
Manon des sources
****
Blue Velvet
1987
*****
Wings of Desire
****
Hope and Glory
Law of Desire
Raising Arizona
1988
*****
Another Woman
Dangerous Liaisons
A Fish Called Wanda
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
****
The Accidental Tourist
A Short Film About Killing
The Thin Blue Line
1989
*****
Crimes and Misdemeanors
****½
Jesus of Montreal
Sex, Lies and Videotape
****
Cinema Paradiso
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Mystery Train
The Unbelievable Truth
1990
*****
Trust
****½
Miller's Crossing
****
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Grifters
The Match Factory Girl
The Nasty Girl
Total Recall
1991
*****
Raise the Red Lantern
****½
Beauty and the Beast
A Brief History of Time
Poison
The Silence of the Lambs
****
Edward II
JFK
1992
****½
Brother's Keeper
Husbands and Wives
La Sentinelle
Swoon
****
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer
Red Rock West
Reservoir Dogs
Simple Men
Unforgiven
1993
*****
Schindler's List
****½
The Age of Innocence
The Piano
Short Cuts
****
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Three Colours: Blue
1994
*****
Three Colours: Red
Wild Reeds
****½
Amateur
Chungking Express
Dear Diary
Ed Wood
The Hudsucker Proxy
Queen Margot
Three Colours: White
****
Before the Rain
Bullets Over Broadway
Ermo
Exotica
Leon
Muriel's Wedding
Pulp Fiction
1995
*****
The White Balloon
****½
Welcome to the Dollhouse
****
Clueless
Richard III
Sense and Sensibility
Seven
Underground
1996
*****
Fargo
****½
My Sex Life... Or How I Got Into an Argument
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
****
Breaking the Waves
The English Patient
Flirting with Disaster
Freeway
Hard Eight
Scream
Secrets and Lies
1997
*****
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
L. A. Confidential
The Sweet Hereafter
****½
As Good As It Gets
Children of Heaven
Happy Together
Henry Fool
The Ice Storm
Life Is Beautiful
Waco: The Rules of Engagement
Wag the Dog
****
Afterglow
Chasing Amy
Funny Games
Hana-bi
The Hanging Garden
Live Flesh
Lost Highway
Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion
The Thief
1998
*****
The Opposite of Sex
Shakespeare in Love
The Thin Red Line
****½
Black Cat, White Cat
Fucking Åmål
Out of Sight
Pleasantville
Run Lola Run
****
Festen
Happiness
A Simple Plan
Velvet Goldmine
1999
*****
All About My Mother
American Beauty
Being John Malkovich
Election
Magnolia
Three Kings
****½
Eyes Wide Shut
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Toy Story 2
****
Analyze This
Boys Don't Cry
The Girl on the Bridge
Go
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
One Day in September
Rosetta
Sweet and Lowdown
The Virgin Suicides
2000
*****
Dancer in the Dark
O, Brother, Where Art Thou!
****½
Best in Show
Memento
Nurse Betty
Songs from the Second Floor
Wonder Boys
You Can Count on Me
****
Amores perros
Chicken Run
The Claim
The Day I Became a Woman
The Emperor's New Groove
In the Mood for Love
2001
*****
Amélie
Ghost World
The Man Who Wasn't There
Mulholland Drive
****½
Donnie Darko
Kandahar
L.I.E.
The Royal Tennenbaums
****
A. I. Artificial Intelligence
In the Bedroom
Moulin Rouge!
Last Orders
Ocean's Eleven
The Others
Series 7: The Contenders
Spirited Away
2002
*****
Adaptation
Talk to Her
****½
Far from Heaven
Minority Report
****
Bowling for Collumbine
Daughter from Danang
Demonlover
Divine Intervention
The Hours
Igby Goes Down
Lilja 4-Ever
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Man Without a Past
Panic Room
Punch-Drunk Love
Russian Ark
2003
*****
Kill Bill, Vol. 1
****½
Crimson Gold
The Fog of War
Since Otar Left...
****
American Splendor
Bad Santa
The Best of Youth
The Corporation
Dogville
Finding Nemo
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Osama
Playing 'In The Company of Men'
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring
The Station Agent
2004
*****
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Kings and Queen
****½
Bad Education
I Heart Huckabees
Kill Bill, Vol. 2
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
****
Birth
Changing Times
Control Room
The Edukators
Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
In Your Hands
Maria, Full of Grace
Moolaadé
The Motorcycle Diaries
Mysterious Skin
Palindromes
Red Lights
A State of Mind
3-Iron
2046
2005
*****
Brokeback Mountain
The New World
****½
The Italian
Me and You and Everyone We Know
The Squid and the Whale
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
****
The Aristocrats
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Brick
Broken Flowers
Capote
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Grizzly Man
Junebug
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Peacock
The Sun
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
2006
*****
Volver
****½
Black Book
****
Children of Men
Deep Water
The Departed
Frozen City
The Host
Inland Empire
Pan's Labyrinth
Princess
Tuya's Marriage
The War Tapes
2007
*****
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
No Country for Old Men
The Simpsons Movie
****
Blind Mountain
Don't Touch the Axe
Flight of the Red Balloon
Gone Baby Gone
Into the Wild
Knocked Up
Lust, Caution
My Kid Could Paint That
An Old Mistress
Persepolis
The Secret of the Grain
There Will Be Blood
The Witnesses
2008
*****
A Christmas Tale
The Class
****½
Happy-Go-Lucky
Rachel Getting Married
****
Burn
After Reading
Of Time and the City
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Wall·E
Waltz with Bashir
The Wrestler