Movie Lists

Updated 4/14/24

Best Movies of 2023
1. Oppenheimer
2. Godzilla Minus One
3. Asteroid City
4. The Zone of Interest
5. May December
6. The Holdovers
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
8. Poor Things
9. Anatomy of a Fall
10. Past Lives

Best Movies of 2022
1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. The Banshees of Inisherin
3. Tar
4. Aftersun
5. RRR
6. The Northman
7. Pinocchio
8. Bones and All
9. Turning Red
10. Barbarian

Best Movies of 2021
1. The Green Knight
2. Drive My Car
3. Petite Maman
4. The Worst Person in the World
5. No Sudden Move
6. Titane
7. Judas and the Black Messiah
8. The Power of the Dog
9. Pig
10. Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time

Best Movies of 2020
1. Minari
2. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
4. Another Round
5. Shiva Baby
6. The Father
7. Possessor
8. The Empty Man
9. Soul
10. Da 5 Bloods

Best Movies of the 2010s
1. Drive
2. Inception
3. Her
4. Mandy
5. The Man From Nowhere
6. Mad Max: Fury Road
7. Parasite
8. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
9. The Hateful Eight
10. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
11. Toy Story 3
12. Django Unchained
13. Hell or High Water
14. The Avengers
15. The Lighthouse
16. Green Room
17. The Favourite
18. Phantom Thread
19. Burning
20. Avengers: Infinity War
21. 20th Century Women
22. Call Me by Your Name
23. Arrival
24. Guardians of the Galaxy
25. Under the Skin

Best Movies of 2019
1. Parasite
2. The Lighthouse
3. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
4. A Hidden Life
5. The Irishman
6. Uncut Gems
7. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
8. Knives Out
9. Midsommar
10. Us

Best Movies of 2018
1. Mandy
2. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
3. The Favourite
4. Burning
5. Avengers: Infinity War
6. Annihilation
7. Sorry to Bother You
8. Eighth Grade
9. Suspiria
10. Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Best Movies of 2017
1. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2. Phantom Thread
3. Call Me by Your Name
4. Coco
5. Dunkirk
6. You Were Never Really Here
7. Brawl in Cell Block 99
8. Baby Driver
9. Lady Bird
10. John Wick: Chapter 2

Best Movies of 2016
1. Hell or High Water
2. 20th Century Women
3. Arrival
4. The Handmaiden
5. Captain America: Civil War
6. Manchester by the Sea
7. Moonlight
8. Swiss Army Man
9. Sing Street
10. The Nice Guys

Best Movies of 2015
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Hateful Eight
3. Green Room
4. Inside Out
5. Anomalisa
6. The Witch
7. Spotlight
8. The Martian
9. Tangerine
10. The Invitation

Best Movies of 2014
1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. Whiplash
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. Nightcrawler
5. The Lego Movie
6. Gone Girl
7. Ex Machina
8. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
9. The Raid 2
10. It Follows

Best Movies of 2013
1. Her
2. Under the Skin
3. Short Term 12
4. Gravity
5. The Wolf of Wall Street
6. Blue Ruin
7. The World's End
8. Inside Llewyn Davis
9. Upstream Color
10. 12 Years a Slave

Best Movies of 2012
1. Django Unchained
2. The Avengers
3. The Act of Killing
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. Looper
6. Lincoln
7. The Master
8. Argo
9. Zero Dark Thirty
10. The Hunt

Best Movies of 2011
1. Drive
2. A Separation
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. Warrior
5. 50/50
6. Super 8
7. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
8. Hugo
9. Contagion
10. The Raid: Redemption

Best Movies of 2010
1. Inception
2. The Man From Nowhere
3. Toy Story 3
4. The Social Network
5. Winter's Bone
6. Beginners
7. Shutter Island
8. Blue Valentine
9. The King's Speech
10. True Grit

Best Movies of the 2000s
1. Memento
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Amélie
5. Spider-Man 2
6. Tokyo Godfathers
7. Brick
8. City of God
9. Oldboy
10. Gangs of New York
11. Let the Right One In
12. Pan's Labyrinth
13. Minority Report
14. Wall-E
15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
16. Children of Men
17. Juno
18. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
19. Adaptation.
20. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
21. There Will Be Blood
22. A Prophet
23. You Can Count On Me
24. Ratatouille
25. Memories of Murder

Best Movies of 2009
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. A Prophet
3. A Serious Man
4. Mother
5. The White Ribbon
6. Mary and Max
7. The Informant!
8. Up in the Air
9. (500) Days of Summer
10. The Messenger

Best Movies of 2008
1. Let the Right One In
2. Wall-E
3. The Dark Knight
4. Synecdoche, New York
5. Milk
6. The Hurt Locker
7. Slumdog Millionaire
8. Happy-Go-Lucky
9. Waltz with Bashir
10. Taken

Best Movies of 2007
1. Juno
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Ratatouille
4. No Country for Old Men
5. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
6. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
7. Eastern Promises
8. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
9. Lars and the Real Girl
10. Zodiac

Best Movies of 2006
1. Pan's Labyrinth
2. Children of Men
3. The Prestige
4. The Lives of Others
5. The Departed
6. United 93
7. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
8. Casino Royale
9. Blood Diamond
10. Paprika

Best Movies of 2005
1. Brick
2. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
3. Caché
4. Munich
5. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
6. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
7. A History of Violence
8. Batman Begins
9. Match Point
10. Grizzly Man

Best Movies of 2004
1. Spider-Man 2
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. The Incredibles
4. The Aviator
5. Primer
6. Collateral
7. Shaun of the Dead
8. Kill Bill Volume 2
9. A Very Long Engagement
10. Downfall

Best Movies of 2003
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. Tokyo Godfathers
3. Oldboy
4. Memories of Murder
5. The Station Agent
6. Kill Bill Volume 1
7. X2: X-Men United
8. Finding Nemo
9. Mystic River
10. Touching the Void

Best Movies of 2002
1. City of God
2. Gangs of New York
3. Minority Report
4. Adaptation.
5. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
6. Punch-Drunk Love
7. The Pianist
8. Spider-Man
9. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
10. The Bourne Identity

Best Movies of 2001
1. Amélie
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3. Mulholland Drive
4. The Man Who Wasn't There
5. Donnie Darko
6. The Royal Tenenbaums
7. Spirited Away
8. Y Tu Mamá También
9. The Piano Teacher
10. Millennium Actress

Best Movies of 2000
1. Memento
2. You Can Count On Me
3. Snatch
4. Yi Yi
5. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
6. In the Mood for Love
7. Requiem for a Dream
8. Traffic
9. Gladiator
10. Almost Famous

Best Movies of the 90s
1. The Matrix
2. Fight Club
3. The Big Lebowski
4. The End of Evangelion
5. Princess Mononoke
6. L.A. Confidential
7. Pulp Fiction
8. Magnolia
9. The Usual Suspects
10. The Silence of the Lambs
11. Casino
12. The Shawshank Redemption
13. La Haine
14. Se7en
15. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
16. Fargo
17. Saving Private Ryan
18. American Beauty
19. Boogie Nights
20. Close-Up
21. Unforgiven
22. The Insider
23. Trainspotting
24. The Thin Red Line
25. Eyes Wide Shut

Best Movies of 1999
1. The Matrix
2. Fight Club
3. Magnolia
4. American Beauty
5. The Insider
6. Eyes Wide Shut
7. Being John Malkovich
8. All About My Mother
9. The Iron Giant
10. The Straight Story

Best Movies of 1998
1. The Big Lebowski
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. The Thin Red Line
4. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
5. After Life
6. American History X
7. Rushmore
8. The Celebration
9. A Simple Plan
10. Out of Sight

Best Movies of 1997
1. The End of Evangelion
2. Princess Mononoke
3. L.A. Confidential
4. Boogie Nights
5. Cure
6. Chasing Amy
7. Good Will Hunting
8. Perfect Blue
9. The Game
10. Lost Highway

Best Movies of 1996
1. Fargo
2. Trainspotting
3. Secrets & Lies
4. Hard Eight
5. Breaking the Waves
6. Kolya
7. Bottle Rocket
8. Sling Blade
9. Citizen Ruth
10. Waiting for Guffman

Best Movies of 1995
1. The Usual Suspects
2. Casino
3. La Haine
4. Se7en
5. Braveheart
6. 12 Monkeys
7. Heat
8. Dead Man
9. Get Shorty
10. Kicking and Screaming

Best Movies of 1994
1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Léon
4. Three Colors: Red
5. Forrest Gump
6. Chungking Express
7. Pom Poko
8. Heavenly Creatures
9. Ed Wood
10. Three Colors: White

Best Movies of 1993
1. Schindler's List
2. Three Colors: Blue
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas
4. True Romance
5. Dazed and Confused
6. Jurassic Park
7. Naked
8. Groundhog Day
9. Manhattan Murder Mystery
10. Gettysburg

Best Movies of 1992
1. Unforgiven
2. Porco Rosso
3. Glengarry Glen Ross
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Malcolm X
6. Howards End
7. Husbands and Wives
8. Hard Boiled
9. Aladdin
10. A League of Their Own

Best Movies of 1991
1. The Silence of the Lambs
2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
3. Raise the Red Lantern
4. Delicatessen
5. Night on Earth
6. A Brighter Summer Day
7. The Double Life of Veronique
8. Europa
9. Barton Fink
10. Only Yesterday

Best Movies of 1990
1. Close-Up
2. Cyrano de Bergerac
3. Miller's Crossing
4. Goodfellas
5. La Femme Nikita
6. Mo' Better Blues
7. Edward Scissorhands
8. Wild at Heart
9. The Nasty Girl
10. Dreams

Best Movies of the 80s
1. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
2. Akira
3. Raging Bull
4. The Princess Bride
5. Back to the Future
6. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
7. Aliens
8. Once Upon a Time in America
9. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
10. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
11. Blue Velvet
12. The Verdict
13. Amadeus
14. The King of Comedy
15. Kiki's Delivery Service
16. Das Boot
17. Possession
18. The Land Before Time
19. Predator
20. This Is Spinal Tap
21. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
22. Come and See
23. Raising Arizona
24. Laputa: Castle in the Sky
25. The Thing

Best Movies of 1989
1. Kiki's Delivery Service
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
3. Do the Right Thing
4. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
5. The Killer
6. Sex, Lies, and Videotape
7. Say Anything...
8. Mystery Train
9. Batman
10. Crimes and Misdemeanors

Best Movies of 1988
1. Akira
2. The Land Before Time
3. My Neighbor Totoro
4. Die Hard
5. The Vanishing
6. The Last Temptation of Christ
7. Dead Ringers
8. Bull Durham
9. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
10. Distant Voices, Still Lives

Best Movies of 1987
1. The Princess Bride
2. Predator
3. Raising Arizona
4. Full Metal Jacket
5. Planes, Trains & Automobiles
6. Wall Street
7. Angel Heart
8. Withnail and I
9. Evil Dead II
10. Wings of Desire

Best Movies of 1986
1. Aliens
2. Blue Velvet
3. Laputa: Castle in the Sky
4. Hannah and Her Sisters
5. The Fly
6. Stand By Me
7. The Sacrifice
8. Little Shop of Horrors
9. The Green Ray
10. Down By Law

Best Movies of 1985
1. Back to the Future
2. Come and See
3. Brazil
4. Shoah
5. The Time to Live and the Time to Die
6. My Life as a Dog
7. The Color Purple
8. Pee-wee's Big Adventure
9. Ran
10. The Breakfast Club

Best Movies of 1984
1. Once Upon a Time in America
2. Amadeus
3. This Is Spinal Tap
4. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
5. The Terminator
6. Paris, Texas
7. Stop Making Sense
8. Night of the Comet
9. Ghostbusters
10. Blood Simple

Best Movies of 1983
1. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
2. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
3. Nostalghia
4. L'Argent
5. The Dead Zone
6. Sans Soleil
7. Trading Places
8. Scarface
9. Videodrome
10. A Christmas Story

Best Movies of 1982
1. The Verdict
2. The King of Comedy
3. The Thing
4. Blade Runner
5. Fanny and Alexander
6. Tootsie
7. Deathtrap
8. Veronika Voss
9. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
10. Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Best Movies of 1981
1. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Das Boot
3. Possession
4. Prince of the City
5. The Evil Dead
6. Chariots of Fire
7. Reds
8. An American Werewolf in London
9. Time Bandits
10. Thief

Best Movies of 1980
1. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
2. Raging Bull
3. Airplane!
4. Ordinary People
5. The Elephant Man
6. Kagemusha
7. The Shining
8. The Blues Brothers
9. Dressed to Kill
10. Caddyshack

Best Movies of the 70s
1. The Godfather
2. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
3. Annie Hall
4. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
5. A Clockwork Orange
6. The Godfather: Part II
7. Stalker
8. Blazing Saddles
9. Taxi Driver
10. The Sting
11. Manhattan
12. Young Frankenstein
13. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
14. The Last Picture Show
15. Network
16. Chinatown
17. Scenes from a Marriage
18. The Conformist
19. All the President's Men
20. Alien
21. Barry Lyndon
22. The Deer Hunter
23. The Conversation
24. Days of Heaven
25. Patton

Best Movies of 1979
1. Stalker
2. Manhattan
3. Alien
4. Apocalypse Now
5. Monty Python's Life of Brian
6. Kramer vs. Kramer
7. The Tin Drum
8. Nosferatu the Vampyre
9. Being There
10. Arrebato

Best Movies of 1978
1. The Deer Hunter
2. Days of Heaven
3. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
4. Autumn Sonata
5. The Tree of Wooden Clogs
6. The Driver
7. Animal House
8. Halloween
9. Killer of Sheep
10. Coming Home

Best Movies of 1977
1. Annie Hall
2. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
3. High Anxiety
4. The Ascent
5. House
6. A Bridge Too Far
7. Stroszek
8. That Obscure Object of Desire
9. Suspiria
10. Eraserhead

Best Movies of 1976
1. Taxi Driver
2. Network
3. All the President's Men
4. Rocky
5. Carrie
6. Harlan County, USA
7. Kings of the Road
8. The Tenant
9. Face to Face
10. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Best Movies of 1975
1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2. Barry Lyndon
3. Jaws
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. The Man Who Would Be King
6. Picnic at Hanging Rock
7. Fox and His Friends
8. Deep Red
9. Night Moves
10. Dog Day Afternoon

Best Movies of 1974
1. The Godfather: Part II
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Young Frankenstein
4. Chinatown
5. The Conversation
6. A Woman Under the Influence
7. The Phantom of Liberty
8. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
9. Alice in the Cities
10. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

Best Movies of 1973
1. The Sting
2. Scenes from a Marriage
3. Badlands
4. Serpico
5. Papillon
6. American Graffiti
7. Day for Night
8. Paper Moon
9. The Spirit of the Beehive
10. The Exorcist

Best Movies of 1972
1. The Godfather
2. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
3. Solaris
4. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
5. Cries and Whispers
6. The Getaway
7. Dirty Money
8. Last Tango in Paris
9. The Candidate
10. Fist of Fury

Best Movies of 1971
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. The Last Picture Show
3. The French Connection
4. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
5. Harold and Maude
6. Duck, You Sucker
7. Fiddler on the Roof
8. The Devils
9. Two English Girls
10. A Touch of Zen

Best Movies of 1970
1. The Conformist
2. Patton
3. Le Cercle Rouge
4. MASH
5. Tristana
6. Two Mules for Sister Sara
7. Catch-22
8. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
9. Wanda
10. Performance

Best Movies of the 60s
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. Harakiri
3. The Graduate
4. The Producers
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
6. High and Low
7. The Apartment
8. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
9. The Hustler
10. Army of Shadows
11. Rosemary's Baby
12. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
13. Hud
14. Le Trou
15. Bonnie and Clyde
16. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
17. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
18. Persona
19. Le Samourai
20. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
21. Repulsion
22. Goldfinger
23. 2001: A Space Odyssey
24. Yojimbo
25. The Sound of Music

Best Movies of 1969
1. Army of Shadows
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3. The Wild Bunch
4. My Night at Maud's
5. Z
6. Kes
7. The Milky Way
8. Take the Money and Run
9. Midnight Cowboy
10. Topaz

Best Movies of 1968
1. Rosemary's Baby
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Bullitt
4. Shame
5. Memories of Underdevelopment
6. The Odd Couple
7. Hour of the Wolf
8. Once Upon a Time in the West
9. Faces
10. Where Eagles Dare

Best Movies of 1967
1. The Graduate
2. The Producers
3. Bonnie and Clyde
4. Le Samourai
5. Play Time
6. Cool Hand Luke
7. The Dirty Dozen
8. In the Heat of the Night
9. Marketa Lazarova
10. Mouchette

Best Movies of 1966
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3. Persona
4. The Battle of Algiers
5. Blow-Up
6. A Man for All Seasons
7. Batman
8. Au hasard Balthazar
9. Daisies
10. How to Steal a Million

Best Movies of 1965
1. Repulsion
2. The Sound of Music
3. Le Bonheur
4. The Hill
5. Pierrot le fou
6. Doctor Zhivago
7. Chimes at Midnight
8. Red Beard
9. I Knew Her Well
10. The Collector

Best Movies of 1964
1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
3. Goldfinger
4. Fail-Safe
5. Woman in the Dunes
6. Diary of a Chambermaid
7. Gertrud
8. Charulata
9. The Train
10. The Pawnbroker

Best Movies of 1963
1. High and Low
2. Hud
3. The Great Escape
4. Winter Light
5. El Verdugo
6. The Birds
7. Tom Jones
8. It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
9. The Pink Panther
10. From Russia with Love

Best Movies of 1962
1. Harakiri
2. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. Jules and Jim
6. Le Doulos
7. L'Eclisse
8. Ivan's Childhood
9. The Exterminating Angel
10. An Autumn Afternoon

Best Movies of 1961
1. The Hustler
2. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
3. Yojimbo
4. One, Two, Three
5. The Innocents
6. Judgment at Nuremberg
7. Viridiana
8. La Notte
9. Through a Glass Darkly
10. Accattone

Best Movies of 1960
1. The Apartment
2. Le Trou
3. The Magnificent Seven
4. The Virgin Spring
5. The Bad Sleep Well
6. Eyes Without a Face
7. Peeping Tom
8. Rocco and His Brothers
9. Spartacus
10. L'avventura

Best Movies of the 50s
1. 12 Angry Men
2. The Wages of Fear
3. Rear Window
4. Vertigo
5. Wild Strawberries
6. North by Northwest
7. High Noon
8. Anatomy of a Murder
9. Sweet Smell of Success
10. Witness for the Prosecution
11. Rio Bravo
12. Umberto D.
13. The Cranes are Flying
14. Night and Fog
15. All About Eve
16. Paths of Glory
17. Seven Samurai
18. Sunset Boulevard
19. The Killing
20. A Man Escaped
21. Some Like It Hot
22. Roman Holiday
23. Marty
24. Early Summer
25. The 400 Blows

Best Movies of 1959
1. North by Northwest
2. Anatomy of a Murder
3. Rio Bravo
4. Some Like It Hot
5. The 400 Blows
6. Hiroshima Mon Amour
7. Ben-Hur
8. Pickpocket
9. The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
10. Imitation of Life

Best Movies of 1958
1. Vertigo
2. Ivan the Terrible Part 2
3. The Music Room
4. Mon Oncle
5. Elevator to the Gallows
6. Some Came Running
7. Touch of Evil
8. The Magician
9. Ashes and Diamonds
10. The Big Country

Best Movies of 1957
1. 12 Angry Men
2. Wild Strawberries
3. Sweet Smell of Success
4. Witness for the Prosecution
5. The Cranes are Flying
6. Paths of Glory
7. The Seventh Seal
8. Throne of Blood
9. The Bridge on the River Kwai
10. A Face in the Crowd

Best Movies of 1956
1. Night and Fog
2. The Killing
3. A Man Escaped
4. Written on the Wind
5. Aparajito
6. Baby Doll
7. The Man Who Knew Too Much
8. The Searchers
9. Giant
10. Bob le Flambeur

Best Movies of 1955
1. Marty
2. Diabolique
3. The Night of the Hunter
4. Pather Panchali
5. Ordet
6. Rififi
7. All That Heaven Allows
8. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
9. Smiles of a Summer Night
10. I Live in Fear

Best Movies of 1954
1. Rear Window
2. Seven Samurai
3. La Strada
4. Dial M for Murder
5. On the Waterfront
6. Johnny Guitar
7. Hobson's Choice
8. Sansho the Bailiff
9. Sabrina
10. Senso

Best Movies of 1953
1. The Wages of Fear
2. Roman Holiday
3. Tokyo Story
4. Ugetsu
5. From Here to Eternity
6. Shane
7. Sawdust and Tinsel
8. The Band Wagon
9. The Earrings of Madame de...
10. Stalag 17

Best Movies of 1952
1. High Noon
2. Umberto D.
3. Ikiru
4. Singin' in the Rain
5. The Life of Oharu
6. Casque d'Or
7. The Quiet Man
8. Europa '51
9. Le Plaisir
10. Limelight

Best Movies of 1951
1. Early Summer
2. The African Queen
3. A Place in the Sun
4. Detective Story
5. Strangers on a Train
6. Ace in the Hole
7. A Streetcar Named Desire
8. Summer Interlude
9. The Day the Earth Stood Still
10. An American in Paris

Best Movies of 1950
1. All About Eve
2. Sunset Boulevard
3. In a Lonely Place
4. The Asphalt Jungle
5. Rashomon
6. Harvey
7. Orpheus
8. Scandal
9. The Gunfighter
10. When Willie Comes Marching Home

Best Movies of the 40s
1. Casablanca
2. Double Indemnity
3. The Big Sleep
4. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
5. Citizen Kane
6. Late Spring
7. It's a Wonderful Life
8. Mrs. Miniver
9. Rebecca
10. Out of the Past
11. Brief Encounter
12. The Grapes of Wrath
13. Bicycle Thieves
14. The Third Man
15. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
16. A Matter of Life and Death
17. Arsenic and Old Lace
18. His Girl Friday
19. Children of Paradise
20. Notorious
21. The Red Shoes
22. The Shop Around the Corner
23. White Heat
24. Sullivan's Travels
25. Rope

Best Movies of 1949
1. Late Spring
2. The Third Man
3. White Heat
4. Twelve O'Clock High
5. The Passionate Friends
6. Stray Dog
7. The Heiress
8. All the King's Men
9. Kind Hearts and Coronets
10. Adam's Rib

Best Movies of 1948
1. Bicycle Thieves
2. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3. The Red Shoes
4. Rope
5. Germany Year Zero
6. Key Largo
7. Drunken Angel
8. The Naked City
9. They Live by Night
10. Fort Apache

Best Movies of 1947
1. Out of the Past
2. Monsieur Verdoux
3. Miracle on 34th Street
4. Black Narcissus
5. Gentleman's Agreement
6. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
7. Dark Passage
8. The Paradine Case
9. The Upturned Glass
10. Gran Casino

Best Movies of 1946
1. The Big Sleep
2. It's a Wonderful Life
3. A Matter of Life and Death
4. Notorious
5. The Best Years of Our Lives
6. Paisan
7. Beauty and the Beast
8. The Stranger
9. A Day in the Country
10. A Night in Casablanca

Best Movies of 1945
1. Brief Encounter
2. Children of Paradise
3. Rome, Open City
4. Mildred Pierce
5. The Lost Weekend
6. Detour
7. I Know Where I'm Going!
8. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
9. They Were Expendable
10. Spellbound

Best Movies of 1944
1. Double Indemnity
2. Arsenic and Old Lace
3. Ivan the Terrible Part 1
4. Lifeboat
5. Gaslight
6. To Have and Have Not
7. Laura
8. A Canterbury Tale
9. Meet Me in St. Louis
10. Going My Way

Best Movies of 1943
1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
2. Shadow of a Doubt
3. Day of Wrath
4. Meshes of the Afternoon
5. The Nazis Strike
6. Air Force
7. Sanshiro Sugata
8. Divide and Conquer
9. The Battle of Russia
10. The Battle of Britain

Best Movies of 1942
1. Casablanca
2. Mrs. Miniver
3. Yankee Doodle Dandy
4. To Be or Not to Be
5. The Palm Beach Story
6. One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
7. The Major and the Minor
8. The Pride of the Yankees
9. The Magnificent Ambersons
10. Bambi

Best Movies of 1941
1. Citizen Kane
2. Sullivan's Travels
3. The Lady Eve
4. How Green Was My Valley
5. The Maltese Falcon
6. Ball of Fire
7. Suspicion
8. The 47 Ronin
9. The Little Foxes
10. 49th Parallel

Best Movies of 1940
1. Rebecca
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. His Girl Friday
4. The Shop Around the Corner
5. The Letter
6. The Philadelphia Story
7. The Great Dictator
8. Foreign Correspondent
9. Fantasia
10. The Sea Hawk

Best Movies of the 30s
1. It Happened One Night
2. Duck Soup
3. Grand Illusion
4. Bringing Up Baby
5. M
6. The Thin Man
7. The Rules of the Game
8. City Lights
9. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
10. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
11. My Man Godfrey
12. Stagecoach
13. Madchen in Uniform
14. Make Way for Tomorrow
15. Tabu
16. Mutiny on the Bounty
17. Only Angels Have Wings
18. The Informer
19. The Adventures of Robin Hood
20. The Awful Truth
21. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
22. Modern Times
23. The Lady Vanishes
24. The Wizard of Oz
25. Jezebel

Best Movies of the 20s
1. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
2. Safety Last!
3. Sherlock, Jr.
4. Nosferatu
5. Battleship Potemkin
6. Man With a Movie Camera
7. The Last Laugh
8. The General
9. Faust
10. October
11. The Circus
12. Our Hospitality
13. Four Sons
14. The Passion of Joan of Arc
15. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
16. Metropolis
17. Pandora's Box
18. Seven Chances
19. Un Chien Andalou
20. The Cameraman
21. The Thief of Bagdad
22. The Kid
23. The Phantom Carriage
24. The Iron Horse
25. Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Best Movies Year by Year
1918. A Dog's Life
1919. Broken Blossoms
1920. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1921. The Kid
1922. Nosferatu
1923. Safety Last!
1924. Sherlock, Jr.
1925. Battleship Potemkin
1926. The General
1927. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1928. The Circus
1929. Man With a Movie Camera
1930. All Quiet on the Western Front
1931. M
1932. Vampyr
1933. Duck Soup
1934. It Happened One Night
1935. Mutiny on the Bounty
1936. My Man Godfrey
1937. Grand Illusion
1938. Bringing Up Baby
1939. The Rules of the Game
1940. Rebecca
1941. Citizen Kane
1942. Casablanca
1943. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1944. Double Indemnity
1945. Brief Encounter
1946. The Big Sleep
1947. Out of the Past
1948. Bicycle Thieves
1949. Late Spring
1950. All About Eve
1951. Early Summer
1952. High Noon
1953. The Wages of Fear
1954. Rear Window
1955. Marty
1956. Night and Fog
1957. 12 Angry Men
1958. Vertigo
1959. North by Northwest
1960. The Apartment
1961. The Hustler
1962. Harakiri
1963. High and Low
1964. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1965. Repulsion
1966. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1967. The Graduate
1968. Rosemary's Baby
1969. Army of Shadows
1970. The Conformist
1971. A Clockwork Orange
1972. The Godfather
1973. The Sting
1974. The Godfather: Part II
1975. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1976. Taxi Driver
1977. Annie Hall
1978. The Deer Hunter
1979. Stalker
1980. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
1981. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982. The Verdict
1983. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
1984.Once Upon a Time in America
1985. Back to the Future
1986. Aliens
1987. The Princess Bride
1988. Akira
1989. Kiki's Delivery Service
1990. Close-Up
1991. The Silence of the Lambs
1992. Unforgiven
1993. Schindler's List
1994. Pulp Fiction
1995. The Usual Suspects
1996. Fargo
1997. The End of Evangelion
1998. The Big Lebowski
1999. The Matrix
2000. Memento
2001. Amélie
2002. City of God
2003. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004. Spider-Man 2
2005. Brick
2006. Pan's Labyrinth
2007. Juno
2008. Let the Right One In
2009. Inglourious Basterds
2010. Inception
2011. Drive
2012. Django Unchained
2013. Her
2014. Guardians of the Galaxy
2015. Mad Max: Fury Road
2016. Hell or High Water
2017. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2018. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2019. Parasite
2020. Minari
2021. The Green Knight
2022. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2023. Oppenheimer