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My Top 5 Films per Year

My favourite films per year, starting from 1911. A companion to this list.

The five films for each year are sorted alphabetically. I used dates from IMDb.


Top 20 per Year
1972 | | | 1975 | | | 1977 | | | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | | | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023


Recurring Directors…

Block or Report
  • Evil Does Not Exist
  • Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
  • Killers of the Flower Moon
  • Oppenheimer
  • Rye Lane
  • Decision to Leave
  • No Bears
  • The Novelist's Film
  • Return to Seoul
  • RRR
  • Drive My Car
  • Dune
  • Flee
  • Mad God
  • Memoria
  • Mank
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • Nomadland
  • Quo Vadis, Aida?
  • Time
  • A Hidden Life
  • The Irishman
  • Parasite
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Uncut Gems
  • Burning
  • An Elephant Sitting Still
  • The Other Side of the Wind
  • Never Look Away
  • Roma
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • Dunkirk
  • Phantom Thread
  • The Shape of Water
  • You Were Never Really Here
  • American Honey
  • The Handmaiden
  • Moonlight
  • O.J.: Made in America
  • Silence
  • Bitter Lake
  • Carol
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • The Pearl Button
  • Son of Saul
  • From What Is Before
  • Inherent Vice
  • The Look of Silence
  • Mommy
  • The Tribe
  • Blue Is the Warmest Color
  • Hard to Be a God
  • Snowpiercer
  • The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
  • Under the Skin
  • The Act of Killing
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • A Royal Affair
  • Zero Dark Thirty
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • A Separation
  • The Tree of Life
  • The Turin Horse
  • Tyrannosaur
  • The Arbor
  • Inception
  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  • The Social Network
  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  • Antichrist
  • Fish Tank
  • In the Loop
  • Thirst
  • The White Ribbon
  • Bronson
  • The Dark Knight
  • Love Exposure
  • WALL·E
  • Waltz with Bashir
  • 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  • The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  • Secret Sunshine
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Zodiac
  • Children of Men
  • Colossal Youth
  • The Host
  • The Lives of Others
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Caché
  • The New World
  • Lady Vengeance
  • Tale of Cinema
  • 3-Iron
  • Downfall
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • Shaun of the Dead
  • Tropical Malady