Past Top 10s
I have a list for most years back to 1920. For 1987 on, I use the year of commercial US release. For 1986 back, I use the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com). For some noted years, I don’t think I have seen 10 listworthy films. I also have Honorable Mentions, according to sliding criteria.
LATEST UPDATES:
(July 17, 2009)
1990: Miami Blues (plum forgot, should have been in July 5 update)
1937: Black Legion (ditto, though prompted by a re-viewing)
1964: Marriage, Italian Style (newly seen and updating anyway)
1962: La Jetee (ditto, though a re-viewing)
(July 5, 2009)
Added 2008
2005: Memories of Murder, The Aristocrats*
1999: Fight Club#
1997: Hard Eight
1994: Ashes of Time*
1989: Let’s Get Lost*
1982: Vernon, Florida
1977: Slapshot
1976: Grey Gardens
1974: Amarcord*
1973: Day of the Jackal
1970: Elvis: That’s the Way It Is
1968: Sympathy for the Devil
1967: Fireman’s Ball
1963: Hud
1961: Lover Come Back, El Cid
1960: School for Scoundrels
1955: Kiss Me Deadly
1953: Pickup on South Street
1952: Le Plaisir
1949: Caught*
1945: Blithe Spirit, The Battle of San Pietro
1943: December 7th, Les Anges du Peche
1940: From Mayerling to Sarajevo
1937: Angel; Back in Circulation
1936: My Man Godfrey
1933: Liebelei
1931: Five-Star Final
1929: The Love Parade
1928: Laugh, Clown, Laugh
1927: Love
* Moved up/down a film already on the list on new viewing
# Regraded an already-seen film so as to enter list
Still considering currently how to handle rejuggle of pre-1920
2008
1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, Romania)
2. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/Holland)
3. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme, USA)
4. The Class (Laurent Cantet, France)
5. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, USA)
6. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea)
7. Elite Squad (Jose Padilha, Brazil)
8. The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, USA)
9. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, Canada)
10. Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller, USA)
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Happy Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, Britain); Stuck (Stuart Gordon, Canada); Kit Kittredge: American Girl (Patricia Rozema, USA); Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen, USA); Hancock (Peter Berg, USA); The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin, Germany/Turkey); The Duchess of Langeais (Jacques Rivette, France); Chicago 10 (Brett Morgen, USA)
2007
1. No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, USA)
2. Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, Britain)
3. Atonement (Joe Wright, Britain)
4. Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais, France)
5. Into Great Silence (Philip Groening, Germany)
6. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
7. Grindhouse (Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino et al, USA)
8. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany)
9. Gone Baby Gone (Ben Affleck, USA)
10. Joshua (George Ratliff, USA)
HM: Juno (Jason Reitman, USA); Offside (Jafar Panahi, Iran); Time (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea); The Diving Bell and Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, France); The Boss of It All (Lars von Trier, Denmark), The Simpsons Movie (David Silverman, USA), The Host (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
2006
1. L’Enfant (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium)
2. The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, Britain)
3. Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, USA)
4. Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman, USA)
5. Cars (John Lasseter, USA)
6. Manderlay (Lars von Trier, Denmark)
7. United 93 (Paul Greengrass, USA)
8. Apocalypto (Mel Gibson, Mexico/USA)
9. Perfume (Tom Tykwer, Germany)
10. Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey)
HM: Over the Hedge (Tim Johnson & Karey Kirkpatrick, USA); Triple Agent (Eric Rohmer, France); Borat (Larry Charles, USA); The Queen (Stephen Frears, Britain); The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Christi Puiu, Romania); Idiocracy (Mike Judge, USA); Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, Britain)
2005
1. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, USA)
2. Not on the Lips (Alain Resnais, France)
3. Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan)
4. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, USA)
5. The Weeping Meadow (Theo Angelopoulos, Greece)
6. Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (Pracha Pinkaew, Thailand)
7. Cache (Michael Haneke, France)
8. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
9. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
10. Millions (Danny Boyle, Britain)
HM: 2046 (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong); Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, USA); Dallas 362 (Scott Caan, USA); Cinderella Man (Ron Howard, USA); Ushpizin (Gidi Dar, Israel); 3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea); Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park, Britain); Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand); The Aristocrats (Paul Provenza, USA); A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, USA); Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, Hong Kong)
2004
1. Dogville (Lars Von Trier, Denmark)
2. The Five Obstructions (Lars Von Trier/Jorgen Leth, Denmark)
3. Hero (Zhang Yimou, China)
4. Vera Drake (Mike Leigh, Britain)
5. The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson, USA)
6. The Incredibles (Brad Bird, USA)
7. Sideways (Alexander Payne, USA)
8. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea)
9. Team America: World Police (Trey Parker, USA)
10. Red Lights (Cedric Kahn, France)
HM: Kill Bill, Volume 2 (Quentin Tarantino, USA); Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, Britain); Maria, Full of Grace (Joshua Marston, Colombia/USA); Raja (Jacques Doillon, France/Morocco); The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci, France/Britain); The Assassination of Richard Nixon (Niels Muller, USA); Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi, Iran)
2003
1. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, USA)
2. The Secret Lives of Dentists (Alan Rudolph, USA)
3. The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
4. City of God (Fernando Mereilles, Brazil)
5. Irreversible (Gaspar Noe, France)
6. Master and Commander (Peter Weir, USA)
7. The Shape of Things (Neil La Bute, USA)
8. Bus 174 (Jose Padilha, Brazil)
9. Bubba Ho-Tep (Don Coscarelli, USA)
10. The Backyard (Paul Hough, USA)
HM: Girl with a Pearl Earring (Peter Webber, Britain); Down with Love (Peyton Reed, USA); House of Sand and Fog (Vadim Perelman, USA); Phone booth (Joel Schumacher, USA); Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (Guy Maddin, Canada); Sweet Sixteen (Ken Loach, Britain)
2002
1. Time Out (Laurent Cantet, France)
2. Songs from the Second Floor (Roy Andersson, Sweden)
3. La Pianiste (Michael Haneke, France/Austria)
4. The Believer (Henry Bean, USA)
5. Chicago (Rob Marshall, USA)
6. All or Nothing (Mike Leigh, Britain)
7. The Lady and the Duke (Eric Rohmer, France)
8. Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili, Israel)
9. Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, USA)
10. 8 Women (François Ozon, France)
HM: All About Lily Chou-Chou (Shunji Iwai, Japan); Signs (M. Night Shyamalan, USA); Roger Dodger (Dylan Kidd, USA); Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, Russia); Daughter from Danang (Gail Dolgin / Vicente Franco, USA); Femme Fatale (Brian De Palma, USA); Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen, China); ABC Africa (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran); What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan); Frailty (Bill Paxton, USA)
2001
1. Memento (Christopher Nolan, USA)
2. Audition (Takashi Miike, Japan)
3. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France)
4. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
5. Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, USA)
6. Faithless (Liv Ullmann, Sweden)
7. In the Bedroom (Todd Field, USA)
8. Under the Sand (François Ozon, France)
9. Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, France)
10. One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch (Chris Marker, France)
HM: Trembling Before G-d (Sandi Simcha Dubowski, USA/Israel); The Day I Became a Woman (Marziyeh Meshkini, Iran); Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back (Kevin Smith, USA); No Man’s Land (Danis Tanovic, Bosnia); Liam (Stephen Frears, Britain); Together (Lukas Moodysson, Sweden); Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann, USA); Ali (Michael Mann, USA)
2000
1. Dancer in the Dark (Lars Von Trier, Denmark)
2. Jesus’ Son (Alison Maclean, USA)
3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, Taiwan)
4. The Heart of the World (Guy Maddin, Canada)
5. The Idiots (Lars Von Trier, Denmark)
6. The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, USA)
7. An Affair of Love (Frederic Fonteyne, France)
8. The Color of Paradise (Majid Majidi, Iran)
9. The Terrorist (Santosh Sivan, India)
10. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
HM: Meet the Parents (Jay Roach, USA); High Fidelity (Stephen Frears, USA); Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, USA); Chunhyang (Im Kwon-taek, South Korea); Chicken Run (Peter Lord & Nick Park, USA); The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran); A Time for Drunken Horses (Bahman Ghobadi, Iran)
1999
1. The End of the Affair (Neil Jordan, Britain)
2. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, Britain)
3. Election (Alexander Payne, USA)
4. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, USA)
5. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (Trey Parker, USA)
6. Children of Heaven (Majid Majidi, Iran)
7. The Winslow Boy (David Mamet, Britain)
8. Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh, Britain)
9. Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter, USA)
10. Office Space (Mike Judge, USA)
HM: After Life (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan); The Straight Story (David Lynch, USA); All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar, Spain); An Autumn Tale (Eric Rohmer, France); Fight Club (David Fincher, USA); Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA); Mr. Death (Errol Morris, USA); Go (Doug Liman, Canada); Leila (Dariush Mehrjui, Iran)
1998
1. The Last Days of Disco (Whit Stillman, USA)
2. Happiness (Todd Solondz, USA)
3. Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg, USA)
4. Funny Games (Michael Haneke, Austria)
5. Primary Colors (Mike Nichols, USA)
6. Cousin Bette (Des McAnuff, Britain)
7. The Hole (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
8. Henry Fool (Hal Hartley, USA)
9. Life Is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni, Italy)
10. Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong)
HM: Your Friends and Neighbors (Neil LaBute, USA); Dil Se (Mani Ratnam, India); The Spanish Prisoner (David Mamet, USA); The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark); The Truman Show (Peter Weir, USA); The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison (Jonathan Stack & Liz Garbus, USA); There’s Something About Mary (Peter & Bobby Farrelly, USA)
1997
1. Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
2. Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith, USA)
3. Eve’s Bayou (Kasi Lemmons, USA)
4. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
5. Ponette (Jacques Doillon, France)
6. In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute, USA)
7. The Wings of the Dove (Iain Softley, Britain)
8. La Promesse (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
9. Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)
10. The Apostle (Robert Duvall, USA)
HM: Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, USA); The Children of the Revolution (Peter Duncan, Australia); My Son, the Fanatic (Udayan Prasad, Britain); L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson, USA)
1996
1. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh, Britain)
2. Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh, Britain)
3. Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier, Denmark/Britain)
4. Fargo (Joel Coen, USA)
5. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong)
6. Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, Britain)
7. Citizen Ruth (Alexander Payne, USA)
8. Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton, USA)
9. Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen, USA)
10. Beavis and Butt-head Do America (Mike Judge, USA)
HM: Bound (Larry & Andy Wachowski, USA); Emma (Douglas McGrath, USA); The Great White Hype (Reginald Hudlin, USA)
1995
1. Babe (Chris Noonan, Australia)
2. Seven (David Fincher, USA)
3. Toy Story (John Lasseter, USA)
4. Crumb (Terry Zwigoff, USA)
5. Clueless (Amy Heckerling, USA)
6. Exotica (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
7. Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach, USA)
8. Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan)
9. The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer, USA)
10. Il Postino (Michael Radford, Italy)
HM: Devil in a Blue Dress (Carl Franklin, USA); Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle, Britain); Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld, USA); Casino (Martin Scorsese, USA); Apollo 13 (Ron Howard, USA)
1994
1. Blue / White / Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, France / Poland / Switzerland)
2. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, USA)
3. To Live (Zhang Yimou, China)
4. Hoop Dreams (Steve James, USA)
5. Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, New Zealand)
6. Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
7. Red Rock West (John Dahl, USA)
8. The Lion King (Roger Allers / Bob Minkoff, USA)
9. Barcelona (Whit Stillman, USA)
10. Oleanna (David Mamet, USA)
HM: Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle, USA); 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (Michael Haneke, Austria); Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong); The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, Australia); Clerks (Kevin Smith, USA); The Last Seduction (John Dahl, USA)
1993
1. Menace II Society (Allen and Albert Hughes, USA)
2. Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, USA)
3. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, USA)
4. Iron Monkey (Yuen Wo-ping, Hong Kong)
5. The Best Intentions (Bille August, Sweden)
6. The Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan)
7. Man Bites Dog (Remy Belveaux, Belgium)
8. Much Ado About Nothing (Kenneth Branagh, Britain)
9. Kalifornia (Dominic Sena, USA)
10. Six Degrees of Separation (Fred Schepisi, USA)
HM: The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (Ray Müller, Germany); Smoking / No Smoking (Alain Resnais, France); Farewell, My Concubine (Chen Kaige, China); Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen, USA); The Bride with White Hair (Ronny Yu, Hong Kong); Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara, USA); The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang, China)
1992
1. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley, USA)
2. The Player (Robert Altman, USA)
3. White Men Can’t Jump (Rod Shelton, USA)
4. Howards End (James Ivory, Britain)
5. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, China)
6. The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, Britain)
7. One False Move (Carl Franklin, USA)
8. Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)
9. Proof (Jocelyn Moorhouse, Australia)
10. Benny’s Video (Michael Haneke, Austria)
HM: The Hairdresser’s Husband (Patrice Leconte, France); Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, USA); Wayne’s World (Penelope Spheeris, USA); Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen, USA)
1991
1. Baxter (Jerome Boivin, France)
2. An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, New Zealand)
3. Beauty and The Beast (Gary Trousdale / Kirk Wise, USA)
4. Life Is Sweet (Mike Leigh, Britain)
5. Truly, Madly, Deeply (Anthony Minghella, Britain)
6. Daddy Nostalgia (Bertrand Tavernier, France)
7. Europa Europa (Agnieska Holland, Germany / Poland)
8. Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou, China)
9. JFK (Oliver Stone, USA)
10. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, Taiwan)
HM: Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong); And Life Goes On (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran); Impromptu (James Lapine, Britain) My Father’s Glory / My Mother’s Castle (Yves Robert, France); The Rapture (Michael Tolkin, USA); Terminator 2 (James Cameron, USA); The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, USA)
1990
1. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (Peter Greenaway, Britain)
2. GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese, USA)
3. Monsieur Hire (Patrice Leconte, France)
4. Without You I’m Nothing (John Boskovich/ Sandra Bernhard, USA)
5. Metropolitan (Whit Stillman, USA)
6. Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mexico)
7. May Fools (Louis Malle, France)
8. Miami Blues (George Armitage, USA)
9. Last Exit to Brooklyn (Uli Edel, USA)
10. Larks On A String (Jiri Menzel, Czechoslovakia)
HM: Dreams (Akira Kurosawa, Japan); Black Rain (Shohei Imamura, Japan); The Godfather 3 (Francis Coppola, USA); Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy); For All Mankind (Al Reinert, USA); Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer (John McNaughton, USA); The Big Bang ( James Toback, USA); Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, USA)
1989
1. Roger and Me (Michael Moore, USA)
2. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, USA)
3. Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee, USA)
4. sex, lies and videotape (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
5. Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant, USA)
6. My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan, Ireland)
7. Scandal (Michael Caton-Jones, Britain)
8. Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford, USA)
9. The War of the Roses (Danny De Vito, USA)
10. The Little Mermaid (John Musker / Ron Clements, USA)
HM: The Seventh Continent (Michael Haneke, Austria); Let’s Get Lost (Bruce Weber, USA); Camille Claudel (Bruno Nuytten, France); Henry V (Kenneth Branagh, Britain); Dead Calm (Phillip Noyce, Australia)
1988
1. The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland)
2. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Robert Zemeckis, USA)
3. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman, USA)
4. A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton, Britain)
5. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
6. Bull Durham (Rod Shelton, USA)
7. The Naked Gun (Jim Abrahams, David & Jerry Zucker, USA)
8. The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, USA)
9. Midnight Run (Martin Brest, USA)
10. Vice Versa (Brian Gilbert, USA)
HM: Salaam Bombay! (Mira Nair, India)
1987
1. Babette’s Feast (Gabriel Axel, Denmark)
2. The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, Britain)
3. Broken Noses (Bruce Weber, USA)
4. The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, USA)
5. Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou, China)
6. Au Revoir, Les Enfants (Louis Malle, France)
7. Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, Britain)
8. House of Games (David Mamet, USA)
9. Where Is the Friend’s Home? (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
10. Planes, Trains and Automobiles (John Hughes, USA)
HM: Roxanne (John Hughes, USA); Broadcast News (James L. Brooks, USA); The Dead (John Huston, Ireland); Less Than Zero (Marek Kanievska, USA); Evil Dead 2 (Sam Raimi, USA)
1986
1. Jean De Florette / Manon of the Spring (Claude Berri, France)
2. Ruthless People (David and Jerry Zucker/Jim Abrahams, USA)
3. Sid and Nancy (Alex Cox, Britain)
4. Tampopo (Juzo Itami, Japan)
5. Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, USA)
6. A Room With A View (James Ivory, Britain)
7. The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky, Sweden)
8. Something Wild (Jonathan Demme, USA)
9. The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, France)
10. Ginger and Fred (Federico Fellini, Italy)
HM: Matador (Pedro Almodovar, Spain); At Close Range (James Foley, USA); Back to School (Alan Metter, USA); Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes, USA)
1985
1. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
2. 28 Up (Michael Apted, Britain)
3. The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, USA)
4. Prizzi’s Honor (John Huston, USA)
5. Witness (Peter Weir, USA)
6. Mask (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
7. Jagged Edge (Richard Marquand, USA)
8. The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen, USA)
9. After Hours (Martin Scorsese, USA)
10. Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky, USA)
1984
1. Amadeus (Milos Forman, USA)
2. This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, USA)
3. Blood Simple (The Coen Brothers, USA)
4. Once Upon A Time In America (Sergio Leone, USA/Italy)
5. The Killing Fields (Roland Joffe, USA)
6. The Wannsee Conference (Heinz Schirk, Austria/West Germany)
7. Under the Volcano (John Huston, USA)
8. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, Britain/West Germany)
9. A Passage to India (David Lean, Britain)
10. The Terminator (James Cameron, USA)
HM: Comfort and Joy (Bill Forsyth, Britain); Top Secret! (Jim Abrahams, David and Jerry Zucker, USA); What Have I Done to Deserve This (Pedro Almodovar, Spain); Full Moon in Paris (Eric Rohmer, France)
1983
1. The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman, USA)
2. Pauline at the Beach (Eric Rohmer, France)
3. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, USA)
4. Tender Mercies (Bruce Beresford, USA)
5. A Christmas Story (Bob Clark, USA)
6. Trading Places (John Landis, USA)
7. The Makioka Sisters (Kon Ichikawa, Japan)
8. The 4th Man (Paul Verhoeven, Holland)
9. Zelig (Woody Allen, USA)
10. Scarface (Brian De Palma, USA)
HM: Bad Boys (Rick Rosenthal, USA); Monty Python’s Meaning of Life (Terry Jones, Britain); Streamers (Robert Altman, USA); Risky Business (Paul Brickman, USA); Yentl (Barbra Streisand, USA)
1982
1. Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, USA)
2. E.T. (Steven Spielberg, USA)
3. Say Amen, Somebody (George Nierenberg, USA)
4. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
5. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
6. Gandhi (Richard Attenborough, Britain)
7. Night of the Shooting Stars (The Taviani Brothers, Italy)
8. An Officer and a Gentleman (Taylor Hackford, USA)
9. Veronika Voss (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany)
10. Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, USA)
HM: Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper, USA); The Executioner’s Song (Lawrence Schiller, USA); Vernon, Florida (Errol Morris, USA); The Draughtsman’s Contract (Peter Greenaway, Britain); 48 Hours (Walter Hill, USA)
1981
TO COME
1980
1. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, USA)
2. The Aviator’s Wife (Eric Rohmer, France)
3. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
4. Airplane! (David and Jerry Zucker/Jim Abrahams, USA)
5. Breaker Morant (Bruce Beresford, Australia)
6. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, Britain)
7. Atlantic City (Louis Malle, USA)
8. Mon Oncle D’Amerique (Alain Resnais, France)
9. 9 to 5 (Colin Higgins, USA)
10. Gilda Live! (Mike Nichols, USA)
HM: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, USA); Motel Hell (Kevin Connor, USA); Pepi, Luci, Bom … and other girls like mom (Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
1979
1. Nosferatu (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
2. Apocalypse Now (Francis Coppola, USA)
3. Monty Python’s Life of Brian (Terry Jones, Britain)
4. Breaking Away (Peter Yates, USA)
5. Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland)
6. That Sinking Feeling (Bill Forsyth, Britain)
7. The China Syndrome (James Bridges, USA)
8. The Onion Field (Harold Becker, USA)
9. Alien (Ridley Scott, USA)
10. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
HM: The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (Chuck Jones, USA); Christ Stopped at Eboli (Francesco Rosi, Italy); The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany); Time After Time (Nicholas Meyer, Britain)
1978
1. Halloween (John Carpenter, USA)
2. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden/West Germany)
3. Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris, USA)
4. Tree of the Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
5. The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, USA)
6. Death on the Nile (John Guillermin, USA)
7. Animal House (John Landis, USA)
8. Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty, USA)
9. The Boys from Brazil (Franklin Schaffner, USA)
10. Midnight Express (Alan Parker, USA)
HM: The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, USA); Movie, Movie (Stanley Donen, USA); Perceval (Eric Rohmer, France)
1977
1. Stroszek (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
2. Suspiria (Dario Argento, Italy)
3. Slapshot (George Roy Hill, USA)
4. Star Wars (George Lucas, USA)
5. Kentucky Fried Movie (David and Jerry Zucker/Jim Abrahams, USA)
6. ABBA: The Movie (Lasse Hallstrom, Sweden/Australia)
7. That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Bunuel, France)
8. Amar Akbar Anthony (Manmohan Desai, India)
9. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, USA)
10. Iphigenia (Michael Cacoyannis, Greece)
HM: Annie Hall (Woody Allen, USA); Bolwieser (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany); The Spy Who Loved Me (Lewis Gilbert, Britain); Padre Padrone (The Taviani Brothers, Italy); Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, USA)
1976
1. Network (Sidney Lumet, USA)
2. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, USA)
3. In the Realm of the Senses (Nagisa Oshima, Japan)
4. Carrie (Brian De Palma, USA)
5. The Marquise of O (Eric Rohmer, West Germany)
6. The Shootist (Don Siegel, USA)
7. Silent Movie (Mel Brooks, USA)
8. The Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie, USA)
9. All the President’s Men (Alan J. Pakula, USA)
10. Rocky (John Avildsen, USA)
HM: 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci, France/Italy); Grey Gardens (Albert Maysles, USA); Face to Face (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden); Harlan County USA (Barbara Kopple, USA); Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmuller, Italy)
1975
1. Nashville (Robert Altman, USA)
2. The Travelling Players (Theo Angelopoulos, Greece)
3. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, Britain)
4. The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, USA)
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones, Britain)
6. The Magic Flute (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
7. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni, Spain/Britain)
8. Sholay (Ramesh Sippy, India)
9. Swept Away (Lina Wertmuller, Italy)
10. Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, USA)
HM: Hard Times (Walter Hill, USA); Jaws (Steven Spielberg, USA), Cooley High (Michael Schultz, USA); Xala (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal)
1974
1. The Conversation (Francis Coppola, USA)
2. The Godfather 2 (Francis Coppola, USA)
3. The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Bunuel, France)
4. Amarcord (Federico Fellini, Italy)
5. Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
6. That’s Entertainment! (Jack Haley Jr., USA)
7. Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, USA)
8. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Ted Kotcheff, Canada)
9. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
10. Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, USA)
HM: The Front Page (Billy Wilder, USA); Chinatown (Roman Polanski, USA); Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese, USA)
1973
1. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
2. Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann, USA)
3. Day For Night (Francois Truffaut, France)
4. Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, Britain)
5. The Last Detail (Hal Ashby, USA)
6. Sisters (Brian De Palma, USA)
7. Badlands (Terrance Malick, USA)
8. Bang the Drum Slowly (John Hancock, USA)
9. The Sting (George Roy Hill, USA)
10. Love and Anarchy (Lina Wertmuller, Italy)
HM: Sleeper (Woody Allen, USA); The Exorcist (William Friedkin, USA)
1972
1. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
2. Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, France)
3. The Godfather (Francis Coppola, USA)
4. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel, France)
5. Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock, Britain)
6. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, West Germany)
7. Roma (Federico Fellini, Italy)
8. Cabaret (Bob Fosse, USA)
9. What’s Up, Doc (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
10. Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer, France)
HM: Fat City (John Huston, USA); Up the Sandbox (Irvin Kershner, USA); Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR); Play It Again, Sam (Woody Allen, USA); Ulzana’s Raid (Robert Aldrich, USA); Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (Woody Allen, USA); Pink Flamingos (John Waters, USA)
1971
1. A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, Britain)
2. The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, USA)
3. The Clowns (Federico Fellini, Italy)
4. The French Connection (William Friedkin, USA)
5. Play Misty for Me (Clint Eastwood, USA)
6. …And Now For Something Completely Different (Ian MacNaughton, Britain)
7. Two English Girls (Francois Truffaut, France)
8. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, USA)
9. Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle, France)
10. Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, Australia)
HM: Macbeth (Roman Polanski, Britain); Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, USA); The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda, USA)
1970
1. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder, USA)
2. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica, Italy)
3. Claire’s Knee (Eric Rohmer, France)
4. Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, France)
5. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
6. Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma, USA)
7. Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh, USA)
8. The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle, USA)
9. Bread and Alley (Abbas Kiarostami, Iran)
10. Donkey Skin (Jacques Demy, France)
HM: Patton (Franklin Schaffner, USA); The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy); Elvis: That’s the Way It Is (Denis Sanders, USA); Darling Lili (Blake Edwards, USA); Tristana (Luis Bunuel, Spain); Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy), The Spider’s Strategem (Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy)
1969
1. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, USA)
2. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
3. Once Upon A Time in the West (Sergio Leone, Italy)
4. My Night at Maud’s (Eric Rohmer, France)
5. The Wild Child (Francois Truffaut, France)
6. The Milky Way (Luis Bunuel, France)
7. Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, USA)
8. Burn! (Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy)
9. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Ronald Neame, Britain)
10. Women in Love (Ken Russell, Britain)
HM: The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden); Take The Money and Run (Woody Allen, USA); The Italian Job (Peter Collinson, Britain); Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol, France); A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez, USA)
1968
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, Britain)
2. The Producers (Mel Brooks, USA)
3. Shame (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
4. Bullitt (Peter Yates, USA)
5. Planet of the Apes (Franklin Schaffner, USA)
6. Who’s That Knocking at My Door (Martin Scorsese, USA)
7. Night of the Living Dead (George Romero, USA)
8. Oliver! (Carol Reed, Britain)
9. Greetings (Brian De Palma, USA)
10. Sympathy for the Devil (Jean-Luc Godard, Britain)
HM: Funny Girl (William Wyler, USA); If … (Lindsay Anderson, Britain); The Odd Couple (Gene Saks, USA); The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey, USA)
1967
1. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, USA)
2. Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
3. The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, France)
4. Fireman’s Ball (Milos Forman, Czechoslovakia)
5. Wait Until Dark (Terence Young, USA)
6. In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks, USA)
7. La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer, France)
8. The Valley of the Dolls (Mark Robson, USA)
9. Marat/Sade (Peter Brook, Britain)
10. Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg, USA)
HM: Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel, France); Reflections in a Golden Eye (John Huston, USA); Poor Cow (Ken Loach, Britain); Fearless Vampire Killers (Roman Polanski, Britain)
1966
1. The Nun (Jacques Rivette, France)
2. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Sergio Leone, Italy)
3. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
4. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, USA)
5. A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch, France)
6. Cul-De-Sac (Roman Polanski, Britain)
7. Seconds (John Frankenheimer, USA)
8. After the Fox (Vittorio De Sica, Italy/USA)
9. Closely Observed Trains (Jiri Menzel, Czechoslovakia)
10. Arabesque (Stanley Donen, USA)
HM: Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock, USA); A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinneman, USA); The Pornographers (Shohei Imamura, Japan); Fahrenheit 451 (Francois Truffaut, Britain); The Fortune Cookie (Billy Wilder, USA)
1965
1. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy/Algeria)
2. Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa, Japan)
3. Simon of the Desert (Luis Bunuel, Mexico)
4. For A Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, Italy)
5. The Round-Up (Miklos Jancso, Hungary)
6. Mudhoney (Russ Meyer, USA)
7. Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein, USA)
8. Doctor Zhivago (David Lean, Britain)
9. Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill (Russ Meyer, USA)
10. Juliet of the Spirits (Federico Fellini, Italy)
HM: Darling (John Schlesinger, Britain); Le Soldatesse (Valerio Zurlini, Italy)
1964
1. Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, Britain)
2. Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark)
3. Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, France)
4. Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, USA)
5. Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi, Japan)
6. Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton, Britain)
7. I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, Cuba/USSR)
8. The Gospel According to Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy)
9. A Shot in the Dark (Blake Edwards, USA)
10. A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, Britain)
HM: Seduced and Abandoned (Pietro Germi, Italy); Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japan); Marriage, Italian Style (Vittorio De Sica, Italy); Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo, Japan); Kiss Me, Stupid (Billy Wilder, USA); My Fair Lady (George Cukor, USA); Murder Most Foul (George Pollock, Britain)
1963
1. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, Italy)
2. Billy Liar (John Schlesinger, Britain)
3. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
4. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, Italy)
5. The Servant (Joseph Losey, Britain)
6. The Bakery Girl of Monceau (Eric Rohmer, France)
7. The Great Escape (John Sturges, USA)
8. An Actor’s Revenge (Kon Ichikawa, Japan)
9. The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards, USA)
10. The List of Adrian Messenger (John Huston, USA)
HM: Tom Jones (Tony Richardson, Britain); The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, USA); Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Vittorio De Sica, Italy); Hud (Martin Ritt, USA); From Russia With Love (Terence Young, Britain)
1962
1. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, Britain)
2. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
3. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, USA)
4. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Bunuel, Mexico)
5. Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, Poland)
6. The Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards, USA)
7. Merrill’s Murauders (Sam Fuller, USA)
8. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, USA)
9. La Jetee (Chris Marker, France)
10. Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR)
HM: Requiem for a Heavyweight (Ralph Nelson, USA); Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson, USA); To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, USA)
1961
1. Viridiana (Luis Bunuel, Spain)
2. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
3. Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
4. Lola (Jacques Demy, France)
5. Divorce, Italian Style (Pietro Germi, Italy)
6. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
7. Jules et Jim (Francois Truffaut, France)
8. Two Women (Vittorio De Sica, Italy)
9. One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder, USA)
10. Lover Come Back (Delbert Mann, USA)
HM: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, USA); El Cid (Anthony Mann, USA)
1960
1. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
2. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, Italy)
3. Devi (Satyajit Ray, India)
4. Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
5. Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut, France)
6. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, USA)
7. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, Britain)
8. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, France)
9. School for Scoundrels (Robert Hamer, Britain)
10. Mughal-e-Azam (K. Asif, India)
HM: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, Britain); The Wild, Wild Rose (Wong Tin-lam, Hong Kong); Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, USA); The Steamroller and The Violin (Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR); The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden); L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy); Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks, USA); The Concrete Jungle (Joseph Losey, Britain); La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
1959
1. Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, USA)
2. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, France)
3. Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, USA)
4. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
5. I’m All Right, Jack (The Boulting Brothers, Britain)
6. Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
7. Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
8. Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, France)
9. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, USA)
10. Pillow Talk (Michael Gordon, USA)
HM: The Nun’s Story (Fred Zinneman, USA); Suddenly, Last Summer (Joseph Mankiewicz, USA); Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa, Japan); Battle of the Sexes (Charles Crichton, Britain); Darby O’Gill and the Little People (Robert Stevenson, USA)
1958
1. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
2. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, USA)
3. The Hidden Fortress (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
4. The Left-Handed Gun (Arthur Penn, USA)
5. The Magician (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
6. Aren’t We Wonderful (Kurt Hoffmann, West Germany)
7. Gigi (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
8. Equinox Flower (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
9. I Want to Live! (Robert Wise, USA)
10. Big Deal on Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli, Italy)
HM: Ivan the Terrible, Part 2 (Sergei Eisenstein, USSR); Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati, France); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks, USA)
1957
1. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
2. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, USA)
3. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
4. Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, Italy)
5. Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
6. Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder, USA)
7. Bridge on the River Kwai (David Lean, Britain)
8. 3:10 to Yuma (Delmer Daves, USA)
9. Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, USA)
10. Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder, USA)
HM: Les Girls (George Cukor, USA); The Three Faces of Eve (Nunnally Johnson, USA)
1956
1. The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa, Japan)
2. Street of Shame (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)
3. The Killing (Stanley Kubrick, USA)
4. A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, France)
5. The Court Jester (Norman Panama/Melvin Frank, USA)
6. While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang, USA)
7. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
8. The Searchers (John Ford, USA)
9. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
10. Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, USA)
HM: The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, France); Giant (George Stevens, USA)
1955
1. Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, USA)
2. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark)
3. Lola Montes (Max Ophuls, France)
4. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, USA)
5. It’s Always Fair Weather (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, USA)
6. Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France)
7. Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, USA)
8. Rififi (Jules Dassin, France)
9. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, India)
10. Smiles Of A Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden)
HM: Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles, USA); East of Eden (Elia Kazan, USA); The Girls of San Frediano (Valerio Zurlini, Italy); The Ladykillers (Alexander Mackendrick, Britain); Moonfleet (Fritz Lang, USA);
1954
1. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
2. Sansho Dayu (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)
3. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
4. Richard III (Laurence Olivier, Britain)
5. Dial M for Murder (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
6. Senso (Luchino Visconti, Italy)
7. La Strada (Federico Fellini, Italy)
8. On The Waterfront (Elia Kazan, USA)
9. Hobson’s Choice (David Lean, Britain)
10. The Wild One (Lazslo Benedek, USA)
HM: A Star is Born (George Cukor, USA); Carmen Jones (Otto Preminger, USA); Silver Lode (Allan Dwan, USA)
1953
1. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
2. Ugetsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan)
3. The Bandwagon (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
4. Madame De … (Max Ophuls, France)
5. The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, France)
6. I Vitteloni (Federico Fellini, Italy)
7. From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinneman, USA)
8. The Naked Spur (Anthony Mann, USA)
9. Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Jacques Becker, France)
10. Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder, USA)
HM: Pickup on South Street (Sam Fuller, USA); Gate of Hell (Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan); I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock, USA); The Titfield Thunderbolt (Charles Crichton, Britain); Shane (George Stevens, USA); La Ilusion Viaja En Tranvia (Luis Bunuel, Mexico)
1952
1. Singin in the Rain (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, USA)
2. Le Plaisir (Max Ophuls, France)
3. High Noon (Fred Zinneman, USA)
4. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
5. Othello (Orson Welles, Morocco)
6. Pat and Mike (George Cukor, USA)
7. The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
8. Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica, Italy)
9. The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir, France)
10. Rancho Notorious (Fritz Lang, USA)
HM: The Quiet Man (John Ford, USA); Monkey Business (Howard Hawks, USA); Breaking the Sound Barrier (David Lean, Britain)
1951
1. Miracle in Milan (Vittorio de Sica, Italy)
2. The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton, Britain)
3. A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, USA)
4. The River (Jean Renoir, Britain / India)
5. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, USA)
6. Casque D’Or (Jacques Becker, France)
7. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
8. A Place in the Sun (George Stevens, USA)
9. The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick, Britain)
10. Bellissima (Luchino Visconti, Italy)
HM: The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, USA)
1950
1. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, USA)
2. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, Japan)
3. Francesco, Giullare di Dio (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
4. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, USA)
5. The Asphalt Jungle (John Huston, USA)
6. La Ronde (Max Ophuls, France)
7. Los Olvidados (Luis Bunuel, Mexico)
8. Night and the City (Jules Dassin, USA)
9. The Munekata Sisters (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
10. The Wagonmaster (John Ford, USA)
HM: Rio Grande (John Ford, USA); DOA (Rudolph Mate, USA); Cinderella (Clyde Geronimi et al, USA)
1949
1. The Third Man (Carol Reed, Britain)
2. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, Britain)
3. The Set-Up (Robert Wise, USA)
4. Passport to Pimlico (Henry Cornelius, Britain)
5. On The Town (Gene Kelly / Stanley Donen, USA)
6. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
7. Whisky Galore (Alexander MacKendrick, Britain)
8. Caught (Max Ophuls, USA)
9. Adam’s Rib (George Cukor, USA)
10. Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, USA)
HM: White Heat (Raoul Walsh, USA); Orpheus (Jean Cocteau, France), Letter to Three Wives (Joseph Mankiewicz, USA); She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (John Ford, USA); The Reckless Moment (Max Ophuls, USA)
1948
1. Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, Italy)
2. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger, Britain)
3. The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, Britain)
4. La Terra Trema (Luchino Visconti, Italy)
5. Red River (Howard Hawks, USA)
6. Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, USA)
7. Fort Apache (John Ford, USA)
8. Letter From An Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, USA)
9. Macbeth (Orson Welles, USA)
10. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, USA)
HM: Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, USA), Bitter Rice (Giuseppe di Santis, Italy); The Lady From Shanghai (Orson Welles, USA); Call Northside 777 (Henry Hathaway, USA); Louisiana Story (Robert Flaherty, USA)
1947
TO COME
1946
1. Brief Encounter (David Lean, Britain)
2. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
3. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, USA)
4. Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
5. A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger, Britain)
6. Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica, Italy)
7. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, USA)
8. Great Expectations (David Lean, Britain)
9. Gilda (Charles Vidor, USA)
10. The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett, USA)
HM: Paisan (Roberto Rossellini, Italy); Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, France); The Killers (Robert Siodmak, USA); Cluny Brown (Ernst Lubitsch, USA); My Darling Clementine (John Ford, USA)
1945
1. Les Enfants du Paradis (Marcel Carne, France)
2. Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, USA)
3. Blithe Spirit (David Lean, Britain)
4. Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, USA)
5. And Then There Were None (Rene Clair, USA)
6. They Were Expendable (John Ford, USA)
7. I Know Where I’m Going (Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger, Britain)
8. The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, USA)
9. The Battle of San Pietro (John Huston, USA)
10. Dead of Night (Anthology, Britain)
HM: Les Dames Du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson, France); Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
1944
1. Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges, USA)
2. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, USA)
3. On Approval (Clive Brook, Britain)
4. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges, USA)
5. Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
6. Laura (Otto Preminger, USA)
7. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, USA)
8. Henry V (Laurence Olivier, Britain)
9. The Children Are Watching Us (Vittorio De Sica, Italy)
10. Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk, USA)
HM: This Happy Breed (David Lean, Britain); To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, USA); Gaslight (George Cukor, USA)
1943
1. Day of Wrath (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark)
2. Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
3. The Ox-Bow Incident (William Wellman, USA)
4. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger, Britain)
5. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, USA)
6. Hangmen Also Die (Fritz Lang, USA)
7. Five Graves to Cairo (Billy Wilder, USA)
8. I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
9. Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
10. December 7th (John Ford/Greg Toland, USA)
HM: Les Anges du Peche (Robert Bresson, France); Crazy House (H.C. Potter/Olsen and Johnson, USA)
1942
1. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, USA)
2. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, USA)
3. Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges, USA)
4. In Which We Serve (Noel Coward / David Lean, Britain)
5. To Be or Not To Be (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
6. The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, USA)
7. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, USA)
8. Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
9. Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, Italy)
10. Woman of the Year (George Stevens, USA)
HM: The Major and the Minor (Billy Wilder, USA); Bambi (David Hand/Walt Disney, USA)
1941
1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, USA)
2. The Little Foxes (William Wyler, USA)
3. Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen/Walt Disney, USA)
4. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, USA)
5. The Strawberry Blonde (Raoul Walsh, USA)
6. The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, USA)
7. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford, USA)
8. Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Alexander Hall, USA)
9. Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
10. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks, USA)
HM: Hellzapoppin (H.C. Potter/Olsen and Johnson, USA)
1940
1. Fantasia (Ben Sharpsteen/Walt Disney, USA)
2. The Thief of Bagdad (Michael Powell et al, Britain)
3. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, USA)
4. Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
5. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
6. Pinocchio (Ben Sharpsteen/Walt Disney, USA)
7. From Mayerling to Sarajevo (Max Ophuls, France)
8. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, USA)
9. Gaslight (Thorold Dickinson, Britain)
10. The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges, USA)
HM: The Stars Look Down (Carol Reed, Britain); Christmas In July (Preston Sturges, USA); The Bank Dick (Eddie Cline/WC Fields, USA), The Domineering Male (John Hines/Pete Smith); City for Conquest (Anatole Litvak, USA); Night Train to Munich (Carol Reed, Britain)
1939
1. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, France)
2. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, USA)
3. Gone With The Wind (Victor Fleming, USA)
4. Le Jour Se Leve (Marcel Carne, France)
5. Ninotchka (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
6. They Made Me a Criminal (Busby Berkeley, USA)
7. Stagecoach (John Ford, USA)
8. Wuthering Heights (William Wyler, USA)
9. Gunga Din (George Stephens, USA)
10. Destry Rides Again (George Marshall, USA)
HM: Shchors (Alexander Dovzhenko, USSR)
1938
1. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, Britain)
2. Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl, Germany)
3. Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Eisenstein, USSR)
4. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, USA)
5. Angels With Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz, USA)
6. Room Service (William Seiter/Marx Brothers, USA)
7. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz / William Keighley, USA)
8. Holiday (George Cukor, USA)
9. Jezebel (William Wyler, USA)
10. Halfway to Hollywood (Charley Chase, Tom Kennedy, USA)
HM: Carefree (Mark Sandrich, USA); The Crowd Roars (Richard Thorpe, USA); Boystown (Norman Taurog, USA)
1937
1. Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs (David Hand/Walt Disney, USA)
2. You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, USA)
3. The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, France)
4. Angel (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
5. Nothing Sacred (William Wellman, USA)
6. Shall We Dance (Mark Sandrich, USA)
7. Pepe Le Moko (Julien Duvivier, France)
8. A Star Is Born (William Wellman, USA)
9. The Black Legion (Archie Mayo, USA)
10. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, USA)
HM: Kid Galahad (Michael Curtiz, USA); Back in Circulation (Ray Enright, USA); A Day at the Races (Sam Wood, USA); Pearls of the Crown (Sacha Guitry, France); Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen, USA); Camille (George Cukor, USA)
1936
1. Swing Time (George Stevens, USA)
2. Sabotage (Alfred Hitchcock, Britain)
3. Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry, France)
4. Dodsworth (William Wyler, USA)
5. Fury (Fritz Lang, USA)
6. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, USA)
7. Grand Slam Opera (Charles Lamont / Buster Keaton, USA)
8. Libeled Lady (Jack Conway, USA)
9. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, USA)
10. Bullets or Ballots (William Keighley, USA)
HM: Follow the Fleet (Mark Sandrich, USA); The Milky Way (Leo McCarey/Harold Lloyd, USA); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra, USA)
1935
1. A Night at the Opera (Sam Wood, USA)
2. Top Hat (Mark Sandrich, USA)
3. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, Britain)
4. Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, USA)
5. Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale, USA)
6. Alice Adams (George Stevens, USA)
7. The Informer (John Ford, USA)
8. The Old Gray Mayor (Lloyd Bacon / Bob Hope, USA)
9. David Copperfield (George Cukor, USA)
10. Page Miss Glory (Mervyn LeRoy, USA)
HM: Mississippi (Eddie Sutherland, USA); The Irish In Us (Lloyd Bacon, USA)
1934
1. Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, Germany)
2. Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, USA)
3. The Merry Widow (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
4. La Signora Di Tutti (Max Ophuls, Italy)
5. The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
6. The Cat’s Paw (Sam Taylor/Harold Lloyd, USA)
7. You’re Telling Me (Erle C. Kenton/WC Fields, USA)
8. A Mother Should Be Loved (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
9. It’s a Gift (Norman Z. McLeod/WC Fields, USA)
10. Of Human Bondage (John Cromwell, USA)
HM: The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, USA); It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, USA); The Personality Kid (Alan Crosland, USA)
1933
1. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey/Marx Brothers, USA)
2. Design for Living (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
3. The Fatal Glass of Beer (Clyde Bruckman/WC Fields, USA)
4. The Picture Snatcher (Lloyd Bacon, USA)
5. The Pharmacist (Arthur Ripley/WC Fields, USA)
6. Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, USA)
7. Liebelei (Max Ophuls, Germany)
8. Dinner at Eight (George Cukor, USA)
9. 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon, USA)
10. Hooks and Jabs (Arvid Gillstrom / Harry Langdon, USA)
HM: King Kong (Merian Cooper / Ernest Schoedsack, USA); Zero de Conduite (Jean Vigo, France); Baby Face (Alfred E. Green, USA); Madame Bovary (Jean Renoir, France)
1932
1. Trouble In Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
2. Horse Feathers (Norman Z. McLeod/Marx Brothers, USA)
3. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Germany)
4. One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
5. Where Now Are the Dreams of Our Youth? (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
6. Red Dust (Victor Fleming, USA)
7. I Was Born, but … (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
8. Their First Mistake (George Marshall / Laurel and Hardy, USA)
9. Mother’s Holiday (William B. Goodrich [Roscoe Arbuckle], USA)
10. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn Le Roy, USA)
HM: The Blue Light (Leni Riefenstahl, Germany); Shanghai Express (Josef von Sternberg, USA); Twice Two (Paul Parrott / Laurel & Hardy, USA); 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (Michael Curtiz, USA); What Price Taxi (Del Lord / Taxi Boys, USA); Scarface (Howard Hawks, USA); Movie Crazy (Clyde Bruckman/Harold Lloyd, USA); Las Hurdes (Luis Bunuel, Spain); Blonde Venus (Josef von Sternberg, USA); Number 17 (Alfred Hitchcock, Britain); The Dentist (Leslie Pearce/WC Fields, USA)
1931
1. M (Fritz Lang, Germany)
2. Tabu (FW Murnau, USA)
3. City Lights (Charles Chaplin, USA)
4. Le Million (Rene Clair, France)
5. The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
6. The Miracle Woman (Frank Capra, USA)
7. Public Enemy (William Wellman, USA)
8. Tokyo Chorus (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan)
9. The Front Page (Lewis Milestone, USA)
10. Next-Door Neighbors (Harry Sweet, USA)
HM: Our Wife (James Horne / Laurel and Hardy, USA); Five-Star Final (Mervyn LeRoy, USA); Frankenstein (James Whale, USA); Auto Intoxication (Albert Ray / Ford Sterling, USA); A Nous La Liberte (Rene Clair, France); The Antique Shop (Ray Cozine/Burns and Allen, USA)
1930
1. Earth (Alexander Dovzhenko, USSR)
2. L’Age D’Or (Luis Bunuel, France)
3. The Big Kick (Warren Doane / Harry Langdon, USA)
4. The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg, Germany)
5. The King (James Horne / Harry Langdon, USA)
6. Animal Crackers (Victor Heerman/Marx Brothers, USA)
7. Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy, USA)
8. Morocco (Josef von Sternberg, USA)
9. The Head Guy (Fred Guiol/Harry Langdon, USA)
10. The Unholy Three (Jack Conway, USA)
HM: Salt for Svanetia (Mikhail Kalatozov, USSR); The Golf Specialist (Monte Brice/WC Fields, USA); All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone, USA); The Big House (George W. Hill, USA); Honk Your Horn (Alf Goulding / Lloyd Hamilton, USA)
1929
1. Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock, Britain)
2. L’Argent (Marcel L’Herbier, France)
3. The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
4. The Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga-Vertov, USSR)
5. A Pair of Tights (Hal Yates / Garvin and Byron, USA)
6. Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel, France)
7. Queen Kelly (Erich Von Stroheim, USA)
8. Big Business (James Horne/Laurel and Hardy, USA)
9. Dynamite (Cecil B. DeMille, USA)
10. Hallelujah! (King Vidor, USA)
HM: Movie Night (Lewis Foster / Charley Chase, USA); Saturday’s Lesson (Robert MacGowan / Our Gang, USA); Marianne (Robert Z. Leonard, USA); Pandora’s Box (GW Pabst, Germany); The Hollywood Revue (Charles Reisner, USA); The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City (William Craft, USA); The Cocoanuts (Joseph Santley/Marx Brothers, USA)
1928
1. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, France)
2. Show People (King Vidor, USA)
3. The Wind (Victor Sjöstrom, USA)
4. The Wedding March (Erich Von Stroheim, USA)
5. The Docks of New York (Josef Von Sternberg, USA)
6. Speedy (Ted Wilde/Harold Lloyd, USA)
7. The Crowd (King Vidor, USA)
8. Steamboat Bill Jr. (Buster Keaton, USA)
9. Sadie Thompson (Raoul Walsh, USA)
10. The Beau Brummels (Shaw and Lee/Vitaphone, USA)
HM: The Last Command (Josef Von Sternberg, USA); Laugh, Clown, Laugh (Herbert Brenon, USA); Pass the Gravy (Fred Guiol / Max Davidson, USA); Zvenigora (Alexander Dovzhenko, USSR); Limousine Love (Fred Guiol/Charley Chase, USA); The Sex Life of the Polyp (Thomas Chalmers / Robert Benchley, USA); West of Zanzibar (Tod Browning, USA); The Treasurer’s Report (Thomas Chalmers/Robert Benchley, USA); When East Meets West (Ray Mayer and Edith Evans/Vitaphone, USA); Smith’s Army Life (Al Goulding, USA); Taxi Spooks (Del Lord, USA); Arsenal (Alexander Dovzhenko, USSR)
1927
1. Sunrise (FW Murnau, USA)
2. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, Germany)
3. The General (Buster Keaton, USA)
4. An Italian Straw Hat (Rene Clair, France)
5. It (Clarence Badger, USA)
6. The Unknown (Tod Browning, USA)
7. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
8. Should Husbands Come First? (Leo McCarey / Max Davidson, USA)
9. College (Buster Keaton, USA)
10. The Kid Brother (Ted Wilde/Harold Lloyd, USA)
HM: The First Auto (Roy Del Ruth, USA); Jewish Prudence (Leo McCarey / Max Davidson, USA); Should Men Walk Home (Leo McCarey/Mabel Normand, USA); Many Scrappy Returns (James Parrott / Charley Chase, USA); Don’t Tell Everything (Leo McCarey / Max Davidson, USA); King of Kings (Cecil B. DeMille, USA); Eve’s Love Letters (Leo McCarey/Stan Laurel, USA); Love (Edmund Goulding, USA); Wings (William Wellman, USA); Play Safe (Joseph Henabery / Monty Banks, USA); The Missing Link (Chuck Reisner / Syd Chaplin, USA); The Ring (Alfred Hitchcock, Britain)
1926
1. For Heaven’s Sake (Sam Taylor / Harold Lloyd, USA)
2. The Scarlet Letter (Victor Sjöstrom, USA)
3. Flesh and the Devil (Clarence Brown, USA)
4. Saturday Afternoon (Harry Edwards / Harry Langdon, USA)
5. The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock, Britain)
6. Tell It to the Marines (George W. Hill, USA)
7. Mama Behave (Leo McCarey / Charley Chase, USA)
8. Careful Please (Norman Taurog / Lloyd Hamilton, USA)
9. Heavy Love (Scott Pembroke / Ton of Fun, USA)
10. Harem Knight (Eddie Cline / Ben Turpin, USA)
HM: What Happened to Jones (William Seiter/Reginald Denny, USA); Madame Dynamite (Zion Meyers / Alice Howell, USA); Mighty Like a Moose (Leo McCarey / Charley Chase, USA); Nobody’s Business (Norman Taurog / Lloyd Hamilton, USA); Tell Em Nothing (Leo McCarey / Charley Chase, USA); Along Came Auntie (Fred Guiol / Oliver Hardy, USA); Menilmontant (Dmitri Kirsanov, USSR); The Strong Man (Frank Capra / Harry Langdon, USA); My Stars (Fatty Arbuckle / Johnny Arthur, USA)
1925
1. Greed (Erich Von Stroheim, USA)
2. The Freshman (Sam Taylor/Fred C. Newmeyer/Harold Lloyd, USA)
3. Seven Chances (Buster Keaton, USA)
4. Curses! (Grover Jones / Fatty Arbuckle, USA)
5. Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde (Percy Pembroke/Stan Laurel, USA)
6. The Lost World (Harry O. Hoyt, USA)
7. Strike (Sergei Eisenstein, USSR)
8. Michael (Carl-Theodor Dreyer, Germany)
9. Time Flies (Jess Robbins / Lupino Lane, USA)
10. Boobs in the Wood (Harry Edwards/Harry Langdon, USA)
HM: Ben-Hur (Fred Niblo, USA); The Merry Widow (Erich Von Stroheim, USA); The Uneasy Three (Leo McCarey / Charley Chase, USA); Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, USSR); Uncle Tom’s Gal (William Watson/Edna Marion, USA); The Movies (Fatty Arbuckle/Lloyd Hamilton, USA); Santa Claus (F.E. Kleinschmidt and wife, USA); Go West (Buster Keaton, USA); Lady Windermere’s Fan (Ernst Lubitsch, USA); The Big Parade (King Vidor, USA)
1924
1. Sherlock Jr. (Fatty Arbuckle / Buster Keaton, USA)
2. Girl Shy (Fred C. Newmeyer / Sam Taylor / Harold Lloyd, USA)
3. The Navigator (Donald Crisp / Buster Keaton, USA)
4. Hot Water (Fred C. Newmeyer / Sam Taylor / Harold Lloyd, USA)
5. The Marriage Circle (Ernst Lubitsch, USA)
6. Feet of Mud (Harry Edwards/Harry Langdon, USA)
7. The Iron Horse (John Ford, USA)
8. His New Mama (Roy Del Ruth/Harry Langdon, USA)
9. Stupid But Brave (Fatty Arbuckle / Al St. John, USA)
10. Entr’acte (Rene Clair, France)
HM: The Thief of Baghdad (Raoul Walsh, USA); The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Lev Kuleshov, USSR); Kid Speed (Noel Smith & Larry Semon, USA); The Reel Virginian (Edgar Kennedy/Reggie Morris/Ben Turpin, USA); The Last Laugh (FW Murnau, Germany)
1923
1. Our Hospitality (Jack Blystone/Buster Keaton, USA)
2. Safety Last (Fred C. Newmeyer/Sam Taylor/Harold Lloyd, USA)
3. The Pilgrim (Charles Chaplin, USA)
4. A Woman of Paris (Charles Chaplin, USA)
5. The Mystery Man (Hugh Fay/Snub Pollard, USA)
6. The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, USA)
7. The Love Nest (Eddie Cline/Buster Keaton, USA)
8. Skylarking (Mack Sennett, USA)
9. The Egg (Gilbert Anderson/Stan Laurel)
10. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Wallace Worsley, USA)
HM: The Three Ages (Eddie Cline/Buster Keaton, USA); Under Two Jags (George Jeske/Stan Laurel, USA; Horseshoes (James Davis/Larry Semon, USA); The Balloonatic (Eddie Cline/Buster Keaton, USA)
1922
1. Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, USA)
2. Nosferatu (FW Murnau, Germany)
3. Foolish Wives (Erich Von Stroheim, USA)
4. Dr. Jack (Fred C. Newmeyer/Sam Taylor/Harold Lloyd, USA)
5. Grandma’s Boy (Fred C. Newmeyer/Harold Lloyd, USA)
6. Robin Hood (Allan Dwan, USA)
7. Cops (Eddie Cline/Buster Keaton, USA)
8. Day Dreams (Eddie Cline/Buster Keaton, USA)
9. Head Over Heels (Victor Schertzinger/Mabel Normand, USA)
10. The Paleface (Eddie Cline/Buster Keaton, USA)
HM: Pay Day (Charles Chaplin, USA); My Wife’s Relations (Buster Keaton, USA)
1921
1. The Three Musketeers (Fred Niblo, USA)
2. Orphans of the Storm (DW Griffith, USA)
3. The High Sign (Eddie Cline/Buster Keaton, USA)
4. Never Weaken (Fred C. Newmeyer/Harold Lloyd, USA)
5. Leaves From Satan’s Book (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark)
6. The Idle Class (Charles Chaplin, USA)
7. Seven Years Bad Luck (Max Linder, USA)
8. The Playhouse (Eddie Cline / Buster Keaton, USA)
9. Be Reasonable (Roy Del Ruth/Mack Sennett, USA)
10. A Sailor-Made Man (Fred C. Newmeyer/Harold Lloyd, USA)
HM: The Love Light (Frances Marion, USA); The Kid (Charles Chaplin, USA); The Vagrant (Hugh Fey/Lloyd Hamilton, USA), A Lucky Dog (Jess Robbins/Laurel & Hardy, USA); Now or Never (Hal Roach/Fred C. Newmeyer/Harold Lloyd, USA); The Goat (Malcolm St. Clair/Buster Keaton, USA); Among Those Present (Fred C. Newmeyer/Harold Lloyd, USA)
1920
1. L’Homme du Large (Marcel L’Herbier, France)
2. One Week (Eddie Cline/Buster Keaton, USA)
3. The Penalty (Wallace Worsley, USA)
4. Kiss Me Quick (Jack Blystone, USA)
5. The Last of the Mohicans (Maurice Tourneur, USA)
6. Convict 13 (Eddie Cline/Buster Keaton, USA)
7. The Stage Hand (Norman Taurog/Larry Semon, USA)
8. Cinderella Cinders (Frederic Ireland/Alice Howell, USA)
9. The Scarecrow (Eddie Cline/Buster Keaton, USA)
10. The Golem (Paul Wegener, Germany)
HM: The Fly Cop (Mort Peebles/Larry Semon, USA); The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, Germany); A Twilight Baby (Jack White/Lloyd Hamilton, USA)
pre-1920
1. Broken Blossoms (DW Griffith, USA, 1919)
2. The Girl from Stormy Croft (Victor Sjostrom, Sweden, 1917)
3. Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone, Italy, 1914)
4. Boobley’s Baby (Sidney Drew, USA, 1915)
5. The Cheat (Cecil B. DeMille, USA, 1915)
6. A Trip to the Moon (Georges Melies, France, 1902)
7. Intolerance (DW Griffith, USA, 1916)
8. The Oyster Princess (Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, 1919)
9. Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life (Roscoe Arbuckle, USA, 1915)
10. The Man with the Rubber Head (Georges Melies, France, 1901)
11. The Birth of a Nation (DW Griffith, USA, 1915)
12. A Dog’s Life (Charles Chaplin, USA, 1918)
13. His Wife’s Mistake (Fatty Arbuckle, USA, 1916)
14. The Rounders (Charles Chaplin / Fatty Arbuckle, USA, 1914)
15. A Christmas Accident (Bannister Merwin, USA, 1912)
16. The Tramp (Charles Chaplin, USA, 1915)
17. The Infernal Boiling Pot (George Melies, France, 1903)
18. Daddy-Long-Legs (Marshall Neilan/Mary Pickford, USA, 1919)
19. Max’s Hat (Max Linder, France 1913)
20. Wished on Mabel (Fatty Arbuckle, USA, 1915)
21. Max Learns to Skate (Max Linder, France, 1912)
22. The Four Troublesome Heads (Georges Melies, France, 1898)
23. Fox Trot Finesse (Sidney Drew, USA, 1915)
24. Max Takes a Bath (Max Linder, France, 1910)
25. The Butcher Boy (Fatty Arbuckle/Buster Keaton, 1917)
26. The Floorwalker (Charles Chaplin, USA, 1916)
27. The Dream (Thomas Ince/George Loane Tucker, 1911)
28. The Music Lover (Georges Melies, France, 1903)
29. Two-Gun Gussie (Hal Roach/Harold Lloyd, 1918)
30. Pigs Is Pigs (George Baker/John Bunny, USA, 1914)
UPDATES Feb. 2008
1983: A Christmas Story; 1928: The Beau Brummels, When East Meets West; pre-1920: Several Georges Melies films
UPDATES Oct. 2007
2002: La Pianiste*; Devils on the Doorstep; 1998: Funny Games*; The Hole*; 1997: My Son, the Fanatic; 1995: Kicking and Screaming; 1994: 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance; 1992: Rebels of the Neon God; 1990: Metropolitan*, May Fools*; 1986: The Sacrifice*; 1983: Tender Mercies; 1977: Killer of Sheep; 1975: The Passenger; 1972: Play It Again, Sam*; 1970: The Honeymoon Killers; 1969: My Night with Maud*, The Milky Way*; 1967: Marat/Sade; 1965: Mudhoney; Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill; 1964: I Am Cuba; 1963: The Bakery Girl of Monceau; 1960: Devi; The Apartment*; The Wild, Wild Rose; 1958: Ivan the Terrible, part 2; 1955: It’s Always Fair Weather; 1953: I Confess; 1940: The Stars Look Down; 1938: Halfway to Hollywood; 1933: Hooks and Jabs, Baby Face; 1932: Mother’s Holiday; 1931: Auto Intoxication; 1930: The Head Guy; 1928: The Treasurer’s Report; 1927: Should Husbands Come First, Jewish Prudence, Should Men Walk Home, Many Scrappy Returns, Eve’s Love Letters, Play Safe, The Missing Link; 1926: What Happened to Jones, Heavy Love, Tell Em Nothing, Along Came Auntie; 1925: Doctor Pyckle and Mr. Pryde; 1924: Michael, Stupid But Brave; 1923: The Egg, Under Two Jags; 1922: Head over Heels; pre-1920: The Girl from Stormy Croft; Boobley’s Baby; Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life; The Rounders; His Wife’s Mistake; A Dog’s Life
* Moved up/down an existing film
