The Film-Lover's Check List: My Ten Best, Year By Year

My Ten Best, Year By Year

1899

1900

1901

1902


1.	A Trip To the Moon (1902)

1903


1.	The Great Train Robbery (1903)

1904

1905

1906

1907

1908

1909

1910

1911

1912

1913

1914

1915


1.	The Birth of a Nation (1915)

1916

1917

1918

1919

1920


1.	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

1921


1.	The Kid (1921)

1922


1.	Othello (1922)

1923

1924


1.	Sherlock, Jr. (1924)

1925


1.	The Gold Rush (1925)
2.	Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
3.	The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

1926


1.	The General (1927)

1927


1.	Metropolis (1927)
2.	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
3.	Wings (1927)
4.	The Jazz Singer (1927)

1928


1.	The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

1929


1.	The Broadway Melody (1929)
2.	The Cocoanuts (1929)
3.	Un Chien Andalou (1929)

1930


1.	All Quiet On the Western Front (1930)
2.	Animal Crackers (1930)
3.	Up the River (1930)

1931


1.	M (1931)
2.	The Public Enemy (1931)
3.	Monkey Business (1931)
4.	City Lights (1931)
5.	Little Caesar (1931)
6.	Cimarron (1931)

1932


1.	Grand Hotel (1932)
2.	Horse Feathers (1932)

1933


1.	King Kong (1933)
2.	Duck Soup (1933)
3.	She Done Him Wrong (1933)
4.	The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
5.	Cavalcade (1933)

1934


1.	It Happened One Night (1934)
2.	The Thin Man (1934)
3.	The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

1935


1.	A Night At the Opera (1935)
2.	Top Hat (1935)
3.	The Informer (1935)
4.	Mutiny On the Bounty (1935)
5.	Captain Blood (1935)

1936


1.	Dodsworth (1936)
2.	My Man Godfrey (1936)
3.	Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
4.	San Francisco (1936)
5.	Swing Time (1936)
6.	After the Thin Man (1936)
7.	The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
8.	Modern Times (1936)
9.	The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)

1937


1.	Grand Illusion (1937)
2.	The Hurricane (1937)
3.	Lost Horizon (1937)
4.	Stage Door (1937)
5.	Stella Dallas (1937)
6.	The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
7.	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
8.	Topper (1937)
9.	Captains Courageous (1937)
10.	A Day At the Races (1937)

1938


1.	Jezebel (1938)
2.	The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
3.	Bringing Up Baby (1938)
4.	Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
5.	Holiday (1938)
6.	The Lady Vanishes (1938)
7.	You Can't Take It With You (1938)
8.	Room Service (1938)

1939


1.	The Wizard of Oz (1939)
2.	Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)
3.	Wuthering Heights (1939)
4.	Stagecoach (1939)
5.	Ninotchka (1939)
6.	Gone With the Wind (1939)
7.	Gunga Din (1939)
8.	Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
9.	Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
10.	Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

1940


1.	The Great Dictator (1940)
2.	Rebecca (1940)
3.	The Philadelphia Story (1940)
4.	His Girl Friday (1940)
5.	Fantasia (1940)
6.	The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
7.	My Favorite Wife (1940)
8.	The Great McGinty (1940)
9.	Night Train To Munich (1940)
10.	Pinocchio (1940)

1941


1.	Citizen Kane (1941)
2.	Sullivan's Travels (1941)
3.	Ball of Fire (1941)
4.	The Lady Eve (1941)
5.	Meet John Doe (1941)
6.	Sergeant York (1941)
7.	How Green Was My Valley (1941)
8.	Suspicion (1941)
9.	High Sierra (1941)
10.	The Maltese Falcon (1941)

1942


1.	Casablanca (1942)
2.	Mrs. Miniver (1942)
3.	Saboteur (1942)
4.	The Palm Beach Story (1942)
5.	Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
6.	The Talk of the Town (1942)
7.	Now, Voyager (1942)
8.	Bambi (1942)
9.	The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
10.	To Be Or Not To Be (1942)

1943


1.	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
2.	The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
3.	Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
4.	For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
5.	Judo Saga (1943)
6.	The Song of Bernadette (1943)
7.	Destination Tokyo (1943)

1944


1.	Double Indemnity (1944)
2.	Lifeboat (1944)
3.	Gaslight (1944)
4.	The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
5.	Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
6.	Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
7.	Murder, My Sweet (1944)
8.	Laura (1944)
9.	Going My Way (1944)
10.	Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

1945


1.	Spellbound (1945)
2.	Leave Her To Heaven (1945)
3.	The Lost Weekend (1945)
4.	Flame of Barbary Coast (1945)
5.	They Were Expendable (1945)
6.	The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail (1945)

1946


1.	Notorious (1946)
2.	Great Expectations (1946)
3.	The Big Sleep (1946)
4.	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
5.	The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
6.	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
7.	A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
8.	My Darling Clementine (1946)
9.	Duel In the Sun (1946)
10.	Gilda (1946)

1947


1.	Black Narcissus (1947)
2.	Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
3.	Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
4.	The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
5.	Dark Passage (1947)
6.	The Fugitive (1947)
7.	The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)

1948


1.	The Bicycle Thief (1948)
2.	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
3.	Rope (1948)
4.	Red River (1948)
5.	Fort Apache (1948)
6.	Drunken Angel (1948)
7.	Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
8.	Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
9.	The Snake Pit (1948)
10.	Call Northside 777 (1948)

1949


1.	The Quiet Duel (1949)
2.	A Letter To Three Wives (1949)
3.	All the King's Men (1949)
4.	White Heat (1949)
5.	Stray Dog (1949)
6.	She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
7.	On the Town (1949)
8.	The Third Man (1949)
9.	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
10.	Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

1950


1.	Sunset Boulevard (1950)
2.	Rashomon (1950)
3.	Scandal (1950)
4.	Born Yesterday (1950)
5.	The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
6.	The Furies (1950)
7.	Father of the Bride (1950)
8.	All About Eve (1950)
9.	Young Man With a Horn (1950)
10.	Harvey (1950)

1951


1.	Strangers On a Train (1951)
2.	An American In Paris (1951)
3.	The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
4.	The African Queen (1951)
5.	A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
6.	Ace In the Hole (1951)
7.	Show Boat (1951)
8.	As Young As You Feel (1951)
9.	Alice In Wonderland (1951)
10.	The Painted Hills (1951)

1952


1.	Ikiru (1952)
2.	High Noon (1952)
3.	Singin' In the Rain (1952)
4.	The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
5.	O. Henry's Full House (1952)
6.	The Quiet Man (1952)
7.	Bend of the River (1952)
8.	Don't Bother To Knock (1952)
9.	Phone Call From a Stranger (1952)
10.	The Greatest Show On Earth (1952)

1953


1.	The Wages of Fear (1953)
2.	The Big Heat (1953)
3.	Ugetsu (1953)
4.	Stalag 17 (1953)
5.	From Here To Eternity (1953)
6.	Roman Holiday (1953)
7.	Beat the Devil (1953)
8.	Tokyo Story (1953)
9.	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
10.	The War of the Worlds (1953)

1954


1.	The Seven Samurai (1954)
2.	La Strada (1954)
3.	On the Waterfront (1954)
4.	Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
5.	Rear Window (1954)
6.	Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
7.	Sabrina (1954)
8.	Carmen Jones (1954)
9.	Godzilla (1954)
10.	Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)

1955


1.	The Night of the Hunter (1955)
2.	Diabolique (1955)
3.	To Catch a Thief (1955)
4.	Summertime (1955)
5.	Marty (1955)
6.	Samurai II: Duel At Ichijoji Temple (1955)
7.	The Trouble With Harry (1955)
8.	Mister Roberts (1955)
9.	Daddy Long Legs (1955)
10.	The Man From Laramie (1955)

1956


1.	The Searchers (1956)
2.	The King and I (1956)
3.	The Man In the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
4.	The Ten Commandments (1956)
5.	Moby Dick (1956)
6.	Samurai III: Duel On Ganryu Island (1956)
7.	The Killing (1956)
8.	The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
9.	War and Peace (1956)
10.	The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)

1957


1.	12 Angry Men (1957)
2.	Paths of Glory (1957)
3.	Nights of Cabiria (1957)
4.	The Seventh Seal (1957)
5.	Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
6.	The Bridge On the River Kwai (1957)
7.	Throne of Blood (1957)
8.	Tokyo Twilight (1957)
9.	The Lower Depths (1957)
10.	Forty Guns (1957)

1958


1.	Touch of Evil (1958)
2.	The Rickshaw Man (1958)
3.	The Defiant Ones (1958)
4.	Saddle the Wind (1958)
5.	The Hidden Fortress (1958)
6.	Vertigo (1958)
7.	Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
8.	The Loyal 47 Ronin (1958)
9.	The Big Country (1958)
10.	Indiscreet (1958)

1959


1.	North By Northwest (1959)
2.	Sleeping Beauty (1959)
3.	Some Like It Hot (1959)
4.	Ben-Hur (1959)
5.	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
6.	The 400 Blows (1959)
7.	Rio Bravo (1959)
8.	The Nun's Story (1959)
9.	Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
10.	Journey To the Center of the Earth (1959)

1960


1.	The Apartment (1960)
2.	Psycho (1960)
3.	Elmer Gantry (1960)
4.	Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
5.	Spartacus (1960)
6.	The Magnificent Seven (1960)
7.	Inherit the Wind (1960)
8.	North To Alaska (1960)
9.	The Unforgiven (1960)
10.	The Alamo (1960)

1961


1.	West Side Story (1961)
2.	Splendor In the Grass (1961)
3.	Judgment At Nuremberg (1961)
4.	The End of Summer (1961)
5.	Yojimbo (1961)
6.	The Hustler (1961)
7.	Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)
8.	The Children's Hour (1961)
9.	Two Rode Together (1961)
10.	One, Two, Three (1961)

1962


1.	Sanjuro (1962)
2.	Harakiri (1962)
3.	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
4.	Gypsy (1962)
5.	Cape Fear (1962)
6.	Ride the High Country (1962)
7.	Lolita (1962)
8.	What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962)
9.	Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
10.	The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

1963


1.	Charade (1963)
2.	High and Low (1963)
3.	8 1/2 (1963)
4.	The Great Escape (1963)
5.	The Birds (1963)
6.	The Sword In the Stone (1963)
7.	Irma La Douce (1963)
8.	The Pink Panther (1963)
9.	From Russia With Love (1963)
10.	Donovan's Reef (1963)

1964


1.	Dr. Strangelove (1964)
2.	A Hard Day's Night (1964)
3.	Marnie (1964)
4.	A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
5.	Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
6.	My Fair Lady (1964)
7.	Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
8.	Goldfinger (1964)
9.	Father Goose (1964)
10.	A Shot In the Dark (1964)

1965


1.	Dr. Zhivago (1965)
2.	Ship of Fools (1965)
3.	Samurai Assassin (1965)
4.	For a Few Dollars More (1965)
5.	The Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)
6.	The Great Race (1965)
7.	The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
8.	The Sound of Music (1965)
9.	Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
10.	The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)

1966


1.	The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966)
2.	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
3.	A Man For All Seasons (1966)
4.	The Battle of Algiers (1966)
5.	Persona (1966)
6.	Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
7.	What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
8.	The Sword of Doom (1966)
9.	Grand Prix (1966)
10.	The Professionals (1966)

1967


1.	Samurai Rebellion (1967)
2.	Camelot (1967)
3.	The Graduate (1967)
4.	Two For the Road (1967)
5.	Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967)
6.	Cool Hand Luke (1967)
7.	In the Heat of the Night (1967)
8.	Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
9.	Wait Until Dark (1967)
10.	The Jungle Book (1967)

1968


1.	Once Upon a Time In the West (1968)
2.	Romeo and Juliet (1968)
3.	The Lion In Winter (1968)
4.	Planet of the Apes (1968)
5.	The Producers (1968)
6.	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
7.	The Odd Couple (1968)
8.	Rosemary's Baby (1968)
9.	Funny Girl (1968)
10.	Hang 'Em High (1968)

1969


1.	Midnight Cowboy (1969)
2.	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
3.	The Wild Bunch (1969)
4.	True Grit (1969)
5.	Easy Rider (1969)
6.	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
7.	The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)
8.	Take the Money and Run (1969)
9.	Topaz (1969)
10.	The Italian Job (1969)

1970


1.	Patton (1970)
2.	Five Easy Pieces (1970)
3.	Dodes'ka-den (1970)
4.	Little Big Man (1970)
5.	MAS*H (1970)
6.	Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
7.	Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
8.	The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
9.	Kelly's Heroes (1970)
10.	Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

1971


1.	A Clockwork Orange (1971)
2.	The French Connection (1971)
3.	The Last Picture Show (1971)
4.	Harold and Maude (1971)
5.	McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
6.	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
7.	Klute (1971)
8.	Red Sun (1971)
9.	Bananas (1971)
10.	The Omega Man (1971)

1972


1.	The Godfather (1972)
2.	Sleuth (1972)
3.	Deliverance (1972)
4.	The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
5.	The Offence (1972)
6.	The 14 Amazons (1972)
7.	The Cowboys (1972)
8.	Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex * But Were Afraid To Ask (1972)
9.	Play It Again, Sam (1972)
10.	What's Up, Doc? (1972)

1973


1.	Mean Streets (1973)
2.	The Exorcist (1973)
3.	High Plains Drifter (1973)
4.	The Long Goodbye (1973)
5.	The Day of the Jackal (1973)
6.	Robin Hood (1973)
7.	American Graffiti (1973)
8.	Serpico (1973)
9.	The Way We Were (1973)
10.	Sleeper (1973)

1974


1.	Chinatown (1974)
2.	The Godfather, Part II (1974)
3.	The Conversation (1974)
4.	Murder On the Orient Express (1974)
5.	Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
6.	Blazing Saddles (1974)
7.	Young Frankenstein (1974)
8.	The Yakuza (1974)
9.	Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
10.	The Great Gatsby (1974)

1975


1.	Jaws (1975)
2.	Nashville (1975)
3.	Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
4.	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
5.	Love and Death (1975)
6.	The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
7.	Dersu Uzala (1975)
8.	Three Days of the Condor (1975)
9.	Barry Lyndon (1975)
10.	The Wind and the Lion (1975)

1976


1.	Rocky (1976)
2.	Network (1976)
3.	Taxi Driver (1976)
4.	Robin and Marian (1976)
5.	The Shootist (1976)
6.	All the President's Men (1976)
7.	Logan's Run (1976)
8.	Silver Streak (1976)
9.	The Front (1976)
10.	The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

1977


1.	Star Wars (1977)
2.	Annie Hall (1977)
3.	Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
4.	Slap Shot (1977)
5.	Sorcerer (1977)
6.	High Anxiety (1977)
7.	Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
8.	Saturday Night Fever (1977)
9.	The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
10.	Jesus of Nazareth (1977)

1978


1.	Coming Home (1978)
2.	The Last Waltz (1978)
3.	The Deer Hunter (1978)
4.	Animal House (1978)
5.	Superman (1978)
6.	Jaws 2 (1978)
7.	Grease (1978)
8.	Yagyu Clan Conspiracy (1978)
9.	Interiors (1978)
10.	Dawn of the Dead (1978)

1979


1.	Apocalypse Now (1979)
2.	Manhattan (1979)
3.	Alien (1979)
4.	All That Jazz (1979)
5.	Kramer Vs. Kramer (1979)
6.	Being There (1979)
7.	The Castle of Cagliostro (1979)
8.	Mad Max (1979)
9.	Rocky II (1979)
10.	Breaking Away (1979)

1980


1.	The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
2.	Raging Bull (1980)
3.	Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
4.	The Elephant Man (1980)
5.	Stardust Memories (1980)
6.	Ordinary People (1980)
7.	Kagemusha (1980)
8.	The Shining (1980)
9.	Shogun Assassin (1980)
10.	The Blues Brothers (1980)

1981


1.	The Road Warrior (1981)
2.	Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
3.	Gallipoli (1981)
4.	Arthur (1981)
5.	Stripes (1981)
6.	On Golden Pond (1981)
7.	Escape From New York (1981)
8.	Modern Romance (1981)
9.	The Fox and the Hound (1981)
10.	History of the World: Part I (1981)

1982


1.	The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
2.	Victor/Victoria (1982)
3.	Gandhi (1982)
4.	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
5.	First Blood (1982)
6.	Tootsie (1982)
7.	The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (1982)
8.	The Thing (1982)
9.	The Secret of NIMH (1982)
10.	Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)

1983


1.	Return of the Jedi (1983)
2.	The Right Stuff (1983)
3.	Rumble Fish (1983)
4.	Scarface (1983)
5.	The Big Chill (1983)
6.	Terms of Endearment (1983)
7.	Trading Places (1983)
8.	War Games (1983)
9.	Videodrome (1983)
10.	Superman III (1983)

1984


1.	Amadeus (1984)
2.	A Passage To India (1984)
3.	Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (1984)
4.	Once Upon a Time In America (1984)
5.	Places In the Heart (1984)
6.	The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
7.	This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
8.	Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
9.	Ghostbusters (1984)
10.	Sixteen Candles (1984)

1985


1.	The Color Purple (1985)
2.	The Breakfast Club (1985)
3.	Back To the Future (1985)
4.	Brazil (1985)
5.	After Hours (1985)
6.	Prizzi's Honor (1985)
7.	Ran (1985)
8.	Witness (1985)
9.	Vision Quest (1985)
10.	Rocky IV (1985)

1986


1.	Aliens (1986)
2.	Salvador (1986)
3.	Laputa: Castle In the Sky (1986)
4.	Highlander (1986)
5.	Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
6.	The Karate Kid, Part II (1986)
7.	The Color of Money (1986)
8.	The Mosquito Coast (1986)
9.	Sid and Nancy (1986)
10.	Ruthless People (1986)

1987


1.	Raising Arizona (1987)
2.	The Princess Bride (1987)
3.	The Last Emperor (1987)
4.	Wall Street (1987)
5.	Walker (1987)
6.	The Dead (1987)
7.	Predator (1987)
8.	Radio Days (1987)
9.	Cry Freedom (1987)
10.	Gardens of Stone (1987)

1988


1.	Cinema Paradiso (1988)
2.	Akira (1988)
3.	Die Hard (1988)
4.	Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
5.	Bull Durham (1988)
6.	Talk Radio (1988)
7.	The Land Before Time (1988)
8.	The Big Blue (1988)
9.	Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
10.	They Live (1988)

1989


1.	Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
2.	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
3.	Born On the Fourth of July (1989)
4.	Do the Right Thing (1989)
5.	Dead Poets Society (1989)
6.	Heathers (1989)
7.	Glory (1989)
8.	The War of the Roses (1989)
9.	When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
10.	Sono Otoko, Kyobo Ni Tsuki (1989)

1990


1.	Goodfellas (1990)
2.	Awakenings (1990)
3.	Wild At Heart (1990)
4.	The Hunt For Red October (1990)
5.	King of New York (1990)
6.	The Two Jakes (1990)
7.	Pump Up the Volume (1990)
8.	Edward Scissorhands (1990)
9.	Miller's Crossing (1990)
10.	The Godfather, Part III (1990)

1991


1.	Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
2.	Rhapsody In August (1991)
3.	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
4.	Only Yesterday (1991)
5.	JFK (1991)
6.	Bugsy (1991)
7.	Barton Fink (1991)
8.	Shadows and Fog (1991)
9.	Defending Your Life (1991)
10.	The Fisher King (1991)

1992


1.	Reservoir Dogs (1992)
2.	Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
3.	A Few Good Men (1992)
4.	Bob Roberts (1992)
5.	The Player (1992)
6.	Malcolm X (1992)
7.	Unforgiven (1992)
8.	Hard Boiled (1992)
9.	The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
10.	A League of Their Own (1992)

1993


1.	Schindler's List (1993)
2.	The Piano (1993)
3.	Jurassic Park (1993)
4.	Falling Down (1993)
5.	The Remains of the Day (1993)
6.	Fearless (1993)
7.	True Romance (1993)
8.	Groundhog Day (1993)
9.	The Joy Luck Club (1993)
10.	What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

1994


1.	The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2.	Pulp Fiction (1994)
3.	Ed Wood (1994)
4.	Forrest Gump (1994)
5.	Clerks (1994)
6.	Chungking Express (1994)
7.	Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
8.	Quiz Show (1994)
9.	Red (1994)
10.	Clear and Present Danger (1994)

1995


1.	Braveheart (1995)
2.	Heat (1995)
3.	Toy Story (1995)
4.	Dead Man Walking (1995)
5.	Casino (1995)
6.	Nixon (1995)
7.	The Usual Suspects (1995)
8.	Apollo 13 (1995)
9.	Seven (1995)
10.	Desperado (1995)

1996


1.	Hamlet (1996)
2.	Fargo (1996)
3.	Primal Fear (1996)
4.	The Rock (1996)
5.	Kingpin (1996)
6.	Scream (1996)
7.	Grace of My Heart (1996)
8.	Michael Collins (1996)
9.	Jerry Maguire (1996)
10.	Bottle Rocket (1996)

1997


1.	Cop Land (1997)
2.	L.A. Confidential (1997)
3.	The End of Evangelion (1997)
4.	Life Is Beautiful (1997)
5.	In the Company of Men (1997)
6.	The Apostle (1997)
7.	Princess Mononoke (1997)
8.	Good Will Hunting (1997)
9.	Contact (1997)
10.	Kundun (1997)

1998


1.	The Truman Show (1998)
2.	The Big Lebowski (1998)
3.	Saving Private Ryan (1998)
4.	What Dreams May Come (1998)
5.	Rushmore (1998)
6.	Shakespeare In Love (1998)
7.	Pleasantville (1998)
8.	Run Lola Run (1998)
9.	Enemy of the State (1998)
10.	Meet Joe Black (1998)

1999


1.	Being John Malkovich (1999)
2.	Magnolia (1999)
3.	The Matrix (1999)
4.	Office Space (1999)
5.	The Green Mile (1999)
6.	The Hurricane (1999)
7.	Man On the Moon (1999)
8.	American Beauty (1999)
9.	10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
10.	The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

2000


1.	Gladiator (2000)
2.	In the Mood For Love (2000)
3.	Requiem For a Dream (2000)
4.	O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
5.	Memento (2000)
6.	High Fidelity (2000)
7.	Finding Forrester (2000)
8.	Wonder Boys (2000)
9.	Space Cowboys (2000)
10.	Battle Royale (2000)

2001


1.	Amelie (2001)
2.	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
3.	Training Day (2001)
4.	The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
5.	A Beautiful Mind (2001)
6.	Ghost World (2001)
7.	Spirited Away (2001)
8.	Black Hawk Down (2001)
9.	Storytelling (2001)
10.	In the Bedroom (2001)

2002


1.	City of God (2002)
2.	Talk To Her (2002)
3.	Adaptation (2002)
4.	Insomnia (2002)
5.	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
6.	The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
7.	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
8.	The Emperor's Club (2002)
9.	Antwone Fisher (2002)
10.	Road To Perdition (2002)

2003


1.	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
2.	Big Fish (2003)
3.	X2: X-Men United (2003)
4.	Oldboy (2003)
5.	The School of Rock (2003)
6.	Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
7.	Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
8.	Stander (2003)
9.	Love Actually (2003)
10.	Mystic River (2003)

2004


1.	The Passion of the Christ (2004)
2.	Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
3.	The Incredibles (2004)
4.	Collateral (2004)
5.	Man On Fire (2004)
6.	Sideways (2004)
7.	Downfall (2004)
8.	The Terminal (2004)
9.	Spanglish (2004)
10.	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)

2005


1.	The Constant Gardener (2005)
2.	Munich (2005)
3.	Serenity (2005)
4.	Lord of War (2005)
5.	Sin City (2005)
6.	The Jacket (2005)
7.	Millions (2005)
8.	North Country (2005)
9.	Batman Begins (2005)
10.	Brokeback Mountain (2005)

2006


1.	United 93 (2006)
2.	Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
3.	The Lives of Others (2006)
4.	Children of Men (2006)
5.	The Prestige (2006)
6.	Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
7.	Babel (2006)
8.	The Hoax (2006)
9.	Casino Royale (2006)
10.	The Good German (2006)

2007


1.	I'm Not There (2007)
2.	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
3.	Atonement (2007)
4.	Into the Wild (2007)
5.	Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)
6.	No Country For Old Men (2007)
7.	Juno (2007)
8.	Zodiac (2007)
9.	The Drummer (2007)
10.	There Will Be Blood (2007)

2008


1.	The Dark Knight (2008)
2.	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
3.	The Visitor (2008)
4.	Gran Torino (2008)
5.	Man On Wire (2008)
6.	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
7.	WALL*E (2008)
8.	In Bruges (2008)
9.	Milk (2008)
10.	Doubt (2008)

2009


1.	District 9 (2009)
2.	Moon (2009)
3.	Inglourious Basterds (2009)
4.	Public Enemies (2009)
5.	Up (2009)
6.	The Hurt Locker (2009)
7.	Watchmen (2009)
8.	Mary and Max (2009)
9.	The Secret of Her Eyes (2009)
10.	Whatever Works (2009)

2010


1.	Black Swan (2010)
2.	Inception (2010)
3.	True Grit (2010)
4.	The King's Speech (2010)
5.	Shutter Island (2010)
6.	The Social Network (2010)
7.	Toy Story 3 (2010)
8.	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
9.	The Fighter (2010)
10.	Kick-Ass (2010)

2011


1.	The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
2.	The Beaver (2011)
3.	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)
4.	The Descendants (2011)
5.	Super 8 (2011)
6.	Midnight In Paris (2011)
7.	50/50 (2011)
8.	War Horse (2011)
9.	Moneyball (2011)
10.	Drive (2011)

2012


1.	Life of Pi (2012)
2.	The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
3.	Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
4.	Argo (2012)
5.	Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
6.	Lawless (2012)
7.	Django Unchained (2012)
8.	The Avengers (2012)
9.	The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
10.	Looper (2012)

2013


1.	American Hustle (2013)
2.	Her (2013)
3.	The Way, Way Back (2013)
4.	12 Years a Slave (2013)
5.	Side Effects (2013)
6.	Gravity (2013)
7.	Captain Phillips (2013)
8.	About Time (2013)
9.	Wild Speed: Euro Mission (2013)
10.	Pacific Rim (2013)

2014


1.	The Lego Movie (2014)
2.	Interstellar (2014)
3.	American Sniper (2014)
4.	This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
5.	Gone Girl (2014)
6.	Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
7.	Jersey Boys (2014)
8.	Godzilla (2014)
9.	Marvel Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
10.	Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

2015


1.	Bridge of Spies (2015)
2.	The Martian (2015)
3.	Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
4.	Room (2015)
5.	Spotlight (2015)
6.	Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
7.	Wild Speed: Sky Mission (2015)
8.	Inside Out (2015)
9.	Creed (2015)
10.	Mr. Right (2015)

2016


1.	Arrival (2016)
2.	Miss Sloane (2016)
3.	Zootopia (2016)
4.	Passengers (2016)
5.	The Nice Guys (2016)
6.	Hell Or High Water (2016)
7.	Captain America: Civil War (2016)
8.	Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016)
9.	Deadpool (2016)
10.	The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

2017


1.	Coco (2017)
2.	The Greatest Showman (2017)
3.	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
4.	Lady Bird (2017)
5.	The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
6.	Logan Lucky (2017)
7.	King Kong: Giant From Skull Island (2017)
8.	Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
9.	Beauty and the Beast (2017)
10.	American Made (2017)
11.	Wonder Woman (2017)

2018


1.	Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
2.	When We First Met (2018)
3.	Overlord (2018)
4.	Tully (2018)
5.	The Untitled Deadpool Sequel (2018)
6.	The Party's Just Beginning (2018)
7.	BlacKkKlansman (2018)
8.	Black Panther (2018)
9.	Incredibles 2 (2018)
10.	Game Night (2018)
11.	The Meg (2018)

2019


1.	Avengers: Endgame (2019)
2.	Booksmart (2019)
3.	Long Shot (2019)
4.	1917 (2019)
5.	Captain Marvel (2019)
6.	Always Be My Maybe (2019)
7.	Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
8.	Isn't It Romantic (2019)
9.	Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
10.	Yesterday (2019)