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Best Film Every Year
Best Film Every Year
Best Film Every Year
People seem to be posting hundreds of “Best of X Year” lists, I’ll cover them all
with one big one.
All titles are listed in the year they first played in public theaters (not
including film festivals) in the U.S.
1. City Hall
2. Minari
3. World of Tomorrow 3: The Absent Destinations of David Prime
4. The Grand Bizarre
5. Lovers Rock
6. A White, White Day
7. Boys State
8. How to Cook the Perfect Risotto
9. Dick Johnson Is Dead
10. Collective
1. Parasite
2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
3. A Hidden Life
4. Marriage Story
5. Honeyland
6. Apollo 11
7. High Flying Bird
8. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
9. The Irishman & Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story (tie)
10. Uncut Gems
1. Roma
2. Burning
3. Thunder Road
4. The Other Side of the Wind
5. The Favourite
6. Bisbee ‘17
7. The Last Race
8. First Reformed
9. Shirkers
10. Shoplifters
The Best Films of 2017
1. Phantom Thread
2. Wormwood
3. A Ghost Story
4. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
5. Manifesto
6. Sleep Has Her House
7. Faces Places
8. Machines
9. The Meyerowitz Stories
10. LA 92
1. Moonlight
2. Manchester by the Sea
3. La La Land
4. The Lobster
5. Homo Sapiens
6. 20th Century Women
7. Shin Godzilla
8. Cemetery of Splendour
9. Jackie
10. Thunder Road
1. Beasts of No Nation
2. Anomalisa
3. About Elly
4. Hard to Be a God
5. Cartel Land
6. World of Tomorrow
7. Lighthouse & Made of Air (tie)
8. Son of Saul
9. Approaching the Elephant
10. Out 1 & (T)error & The Above (tie)
1. Citizenfour
2. Manakamana
3. The Overnighters
4. Under the Skin
5. Virunga
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
7. Ida
8. The Dance of Reality
9. Stray Dogs
10. Single Stream
1. Miss Bala
2. Samsara
3. Amour
4. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
5. The Kid with a Bike
6. The Master
7. Seven Psychopaths
8. 5 Broken Cameras
9. Beasts of the Southern Wild
10. Holy Motors
1. Take Shelter
2. The Tree of Life
3. A Separation
4. Shame
5. The Interrupters
6. 13 Assassins
7. Putty Hill
8. Incendies
9. Nostalgia for the Light
10. The Artist
1. Lebanon
2. Blue Valentine
3. Inside Job & Restrepo (tie)
4. Carlos
5. 45365
6. The Temptation of St. Tony
7. Exit Through the Gift Shop
8. It Felt Like a Kiss
9. Alamar
10. Disorder
1. Gomorrah
2. Che
3. Revolutionary Road
4. Synechdoche, New York
5. Chop Shop
6. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
7. Battle for Haditha
8. Shotgun Stories
9. Wendy and Lucy
10. The Band’s Visit
1. Children of Men
2. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
3. The Departed
4. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
5. Letters from Iwo Jima
6. Army of Shadows
7. L’Enfant
8. A Scanner Darkly
9. Brick
10. United 93
1. Le Fils
2. Lost in Translation
3. Ripley’s Game
4. City of God
5. Kill Bill: Volume 1
6. An Injury to One
7. Gerry
8. Saraband
9. The Man on the Train
10. Lilya-4-Ever
1. Public Housing
2. Jackie Brown
3. Good Will Hunting
4. L.A. Confidential
5. Boogie Nights
6. In the Company of Men
7. The Ice Storm
8. The Promise
9. Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
10. Irma Vep
1. Fargo
2. The Georgetown Loop
3. Dadetown
4. Breaking the Waves
5. Secrets and Lies
6. Hamlet
7. The People Vs. Larry Flynt
8. A Moment of Innocence
9. Nobody’s Business
10. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
1. Heat
2. Se7en
3. Leaving Las Vegas
4. Dead Man Walking
5. La Haine
6. Good Men, Good Women
7. Casino
8. Toy Story
9. Land and Freedom
10. Nixon
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Fresh
3. Satantango
4. Hoop Dreams
5. The Blue Kite
6. Chungking Express
7. Through the Olive Trees
8. The Shawshank Redemption
9. Rouge
10. Ed Wood
1. Malcolm X
2. Europa
3. Unforgiven
4. Glengarry Glen Ross
5. Lessons of Darkness
6. Out of Life
7. The Crying Game
8. The Match Factory Girl
9. The Ear
10. Reservoir Dogs
1. The Decalogue
2. Talk Radio
3. Wings of Desire
4. The Horse Thief
5. Grave of The Fireflies
6. Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
7. The Last Temptation of Christ
8. Another Woman
9. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
10. Salaam Bombay!
1. Mix-Up ou Meli-Melo
2. The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On
3. Yeelen
4. River’s Edge
5. Au Revoir, Les Enfants
6. House of Games
7. Broadcast News
8. Matewan
9. Missile
10. The Last Emperor
1. Streetwise
2. 28 Up
3. Shoah
4. Come and See
5. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
6. Grim
7. The Falcon and the Snowman
8. After Hours
9. Blood Simple
10. Ran
1. Paris, Texas
2. Love Streams
3. Stop Making Sense
4. Once Upon a Time in America
5. Amadeus
6. After the Rehearsal
7. The Ballad of Narayama
8. Ghost
9. Stranger than Paradise
10. This is Spinal Tap & Secret Honor (tie)
1. Diva
2. Gandhi
3. Fitzcarraldo & Burden of Dreams (tie)
4. Das Boot
5. Francisca
6. Mephisto
7. Thunder
8. Sophie’s Choice
9. Moonlighting
10. Cecilia
1. Pixote
2. Modern Romance
3. Blow Out
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. The Aviator’s Wife
6. Thief
7. My Dinner with Andre
8. Atlantic City
9. Vernon, Florida
10. Spacy
1. Raging Bull
2. Gates of Heaven
3. The Color of Pomegranates
4. Our Hitler: A Film from Germany
5. Best Boy
6. Mon Oncle d’Amerique
7. Ordinary People
8. Kagemusha
9. Melvin and Howard
10. The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
1. Apocalypse Now
2. Manhattan
3. Bush Mama
4. Stalker
5. Being There
6. The Muppet Movie
7. Vengeance is Mine
8. Alien
9. The Onion Field
10. Real Life
1. Days of Heaven
2. Killer of Sheep
3. The Ascent
4. Blue Collar
5. Autumn Sonata
6. The Tree of Wooden Clogs
7. One Way Boogie Woogie
8. The Whole Shootin’ Match
9. An Unmarried Woman
10. Dossier 51
1. Taxi Driver
2. Harlan County, USA
3. Kings of the Road
4. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
5. Network
6. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
7. Picnic at Hanging Rock
8. Small Change
9. The Memory of Justice
10. The Girl Chewing Gum
1. Welfare
2. Barry Lyndon
3. Nashville
4. Dog Day Afternoon
5. Mirror
6. The Phantom of Liberty
7. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauer
8. Jaws
9. Grey Gardens
10. Trick Bag
1. Chinatown
2. Scenes from a Marriage
3. Day for Night
4. Lucia
5. Attica
6. Hearts and Minds
7. The Godfather II
8. Marketa Lazarova
9. The Conversation
10. A Woman Under the Influence
1. Juvenile Court
2. Playtime
3. Last Tango in Paris
4. Mean Streets
5. Badlands
6. Touki Bouki
7. The Mother and the Whore
8. The Sting
9. State of Siege
10. The Exorcist
1. Hospital
2. Ice
3. The Conformist
4. Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music
5. Finally Got the News (not in Mubi database)
6. My Night at Maud’s
7. Law and Order
8. Le Cercle Rouge
9. Five Easy Pieces
10. Le Boucher
1. Medium Cool
2. Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
3. Z
4. Salesman
5. Andrei Rublev
6. If…
7. The Wild Bunch
8. Last Summer
9. Kes
10. American Revolution 2
1. Persona
2. The Round-Up
3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
4. Au Hasard Balthazar
5. The War Game
6. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
7. Blow-Up
8. Red Beard
9. Seconds
10. The Shop on Main Street
1. Pierrot Le Fou
2. The Gospel According to St. Matthew
3. The Fifth Horseman Is Fear
4. Repulsion
5. The Saragossa Manuscript
6. The Big City
7. The Hill
8. Joseph Kilian
9. The Golden Thread
10. Elegy & Quixote (tie)
1. 8 1/2
2. Hud
3. Winter Light
4. High and Low
5. The Leopard
6. The House is Black
7. Vidas Secas
8. The Trial
9. Contempt
10. The Great Escape
1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. The Exterminating Angel
3. My Life to Live
4. Le Trou
5. Ivan’s Childhood
6. Through a Glass Darkly
7. Jules et Jim
8. Good Morning
9. The Manchurian Candidate
10. Long Day’s Journey Into Night
1. The Apartment
2. Breathless
3. Hiroshima, Mon Amour
4. La Dolce Vita
5. The World of Apu
6. Shoot the Piano Player
7. L’Avventura
8. The Cloud-Capped Star
9. Peeping Tom & Psycho (tie)
10. Purple Noon
1. Le Chant du Styrene
2. The 400 Blows
3. Pickpocket
4. Black Orpheus
5. Aparajito
6. Touchez Pas au Grisbi
7. Shadows
8. Rio Bravo
9. North by Northwest
10. Window Water Baby Moving
The Best Films of 1958
1. Vertigo
2. Pather Panchali
3. The Music Room
4. Touch of Evil
5. Some Came Running
6. Mon Oncle
7. The Hidden Fortress
8. Big Deal on Madonna Street
9. Murder by Contract
10. Le Notte Bianchi
1. Seven Samurai
2. Ordet
3. A Man Escaped
4. All the World’s Memory
5. The Searchers
6. Golden Parable
6. I Vitelloni
8. Lola Montes
9. The Red Balloon
10. Street of Shame
1. On The Waterfront
2. Ugetsu
3. Le Plaisir
4. Rear Window
5. Ascent to Heaven
6. La Ronde
7. The Caine Mutiny
8. Crime Wave
9. Dial M for Murder
10. La Strada
1. Tokyo Story
2. Daybreak Express
3. The Earrings of Madame de…
4. Pickup on South Street
5. Wages of Fear
6. The Big Heat
7. Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday
8. Little Fugitive
9. The Brute
10. Summer with Monika
1. Ikiru
2. Umberto D
3. Singin’ in the Rain
4. Los Olvidados
5. The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice
6. Forbidden Games
7. The Bad and the Beautiful
8. Angel Face
9. High Noon
10. The Narrow Margin
1. Sunset Boulevard
2. Night and the City
3. Orpheus
4. Rashomon
5. In a Lonely Place
6. Stromboli
7. The Asphalt Jungle
8. Stars in My Crown
9. All About Eve
10. The Flowers of St. Francis
The Best Films of 1949
1. Notorious
2. A Matter of Life and Death
3. The Best Years of Our Lives
4. Beauty and the Beast
5. My Darling Clementine
6. The Big Sleep
7. Gilda & The Stranger (tie)
8. Paisan
9. Great Expectations
10. It’s a Wonderful Life
1. Children of Paradise
2. Rome, Open City
3. Brief Encounter
4. Ivan The Terrible, Part I
5. The Lost Weekend
6. A Walk in the Sun
7. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
8. Detour
9. Leave Her to Heaven
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray
1. Double Indemnity
2. Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
3. Lifeboat
4. To Have and Have Not
5. Ministry of Fear
6. Arsenic and Old Lace
7. Laura
8. Murder, My Sweet
9. Gaslight
10. Meet Me in St. Louis
1. Day of Wrath
2. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
3. Ossessione
4. Le Corbeau
5. The Ox-Bow Incident
6. Shadow of A Doubt
7. I Walked with a Zombie…
8. For Whom the Bell Tolls
9. The More the Merrier
10. Sahara
1. Citizen Kane
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. Ball of Fire
4. The Lady Eve
5. Sullivan’s Travels
6. The 47 Ronin Part I
7. High Sierra
8. The Devil and Daniel Webster
9. How Green Was My Valley
10. Suspicion
1. Alexander Nevsky
2. Olympia
3. Port of Shadows
4. La Bete Humaine
5. Angels with Dirty Faces
6. The Adventures of Robin Hood
7. Bringing Up Baby
8. The Baker’s Wife
9. Jezebel
10. The Lady Vanishes
1. Grand Illusion
2. Make Way for Tomorrow
3. Humanity and Paper Balloons
4. Pepe Le Moko
5. Street Angel
6. The Spanish Earth
7. The Awful Truth
8. Dead End
9. Way Out West
10. The Dybbuk
1. L’Atalante
2. The Thin Man
3. Man of Aran
4. It Happened One Night
5. The Black Cat
6. Twentieth Century
7. It’s A Gift
8. A Story of Floating Weeds
9. Our Daily Bread
10. The Man Who Knew Too Much
1. Blood of a Poet
2. Land Without Bread
3. Duck Soup
4. Zero for Conduct
5. King Kong
6. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
7. Design for Living
8. Passing Fancy
9. Sons of the Desert
10. The Invisible Man
1. Earth
2. All Quiet on the Western Front
3. L’Age d’Or
4. Borderline
5. People on Sunday
6. City Girl
7. Animal Crackers
8. Under the Roofs of Paris
9. Hell’s Angels
10. The Blue Angel
1. Sunrise
2. Metropolis
3. Napoleon
4. Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
5. Hindle Wakes
6. Walking from Munich to Berlin
7. Invitation to the Voyage
8. Underworld
9. The Lodger
10. College
1. The General
2. Faust
3. A Page of Madness
4. The Adventures of Prince Achmed
5. Menilmontant
6. Emak-Bakia
7. A Sixth Part of the World
8. Nothing but Time
9. 3 Bad Men
10. For Heaven’s Sake
1. Sherlock Jr.
2. Greed
3. The Great White Silence
4. Entr’acte
5. Ballet Mecanique
6. The Last Laugh
7. Paris Asleep
8. The Navigator
9. Cloud Phenomena of Maloja
10. The Fugitive Futurist
1. Haxan
2. The Smiling Madame Beudet
3. Safety Last!
4. Our Hospitality
5. The Ten Commandments
6. Go West (Len Powers – Not in Mubi database)
7. Hunchback of Notre Dame
8. The Nightingale’s Voice
9. The Balloonatic
10. Souls for Sale
1. Broken Blossoms
2. J’Accuse!
3. Out of the Inkwell
4. A Day’s Pleasure
5. The Wicked Darling
1. Intolerance
2. One A.M.
3. Police
1. Cabiria
2. Gertie the Dinosaur
3. In the Land of the Head Hunters
1. Fantomas
2. The Student of Prague
3. Bout de Zan Steals an Elephant
1. Fighting Blood
2. The Lonedale Operator
3. Banks of the Nile
1. Frankenstein
2. The Unchanging Sea
3. The Balancing Bluebottle
1. Locataire Diabolique
1. Fantasmagorie
1. Ben Hur
1. San Fransisco
1. Grand Display of Brock’s Fireworks at the Crystal Palace (not in Mubi database)
1. Fire!
1. Joan of Arc