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Favourites of Each Year

A top 5 film list for each year of cinema.


Director Stats: (Indicates Favourite of the Year)

12 - Ingmar Bergman (2), Martin Scorsese (1)
11 - Billy Wilder (6)
10 -
9 - Akira Kurosawa (4), Kenji Mizoguchi (3)
8 - Fritz Lang (1)
7 - Charlie Chaplin (3), Ernst Lubitsch (2), Yasujirō Ozu (2), The Coen Brothers (1), Stanley Kubrick (1), F.W Murnau (1), Alfred Hitchcock
6 - Carl Theodor Dreyer (2), Frank Capra (1), Howard Hawks (1), Steven Spielberg (1)
5 - Wong Kar-wai (4), Andrei Tarkovsky (4), David Cronenberg (1), Hayao Miyazaki (1), Christopher Nolan (1), Satyajit Ray (1)
4 - Victor Sjöström (2), Spike Jonze (1), Sergio Leone (1), Masaki Kobayashi (1), Orson Welles (1), Michelangelo Antonioni, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Terry Gilliam, Denis Villeneuve, Edward Yang

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  • The Wild Robot

    1

  • Flow

    2

  • Anora

    3

  • Dune: Part Two

    4

  • Nosferatu

    5

  • Monster

    6

  • Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    7

  • Oppenheimer

    8

  • Killers of the Flower Moon

    9

  • Poor Things

    10

  • Hundreds of Beavers

    11

  • The Banshees of Inisherin

    12

  • Aftersun

    13

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    14

  • Decision to Leave

    15

  • Titane

    16

  • Dune

    17

  • Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

    18

  • Petite Maman

    19

  • Mad God

    20

  • Quo Vadis, Aida?

    21

  • Wolfwalkers

    22

  • Soul

    23

  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

    24

  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always

    25

  • Parasite

    26

  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    27

  • Marriage Story

    28

  • The Lighthouse

    29

  • Booksmart

    30

  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    31

  • Shoplifters

    32

  • Annihilation

    33

  • Roma

    34

  • An Elephant Sitting Still

    35

  • Paddington 2

    36

  • Blade Runner 2049

    37

  • Get Out

    38

  • Good Time

    39

  • I Am Not a Witch

    40

  • Swiss Army Man

    41

  • The Handmaiden

    42

  • Moonlight

    43

  • La La Land

    44

  • The Nice Guys

    45

  • The Lobster

    46

  • Anomalisa

    47

  • Right Now, Wrong Then

    48

  • Cemetery of Splendor

    49

  • The Witch

    50

  • Nightcrawler

    51

  • What We Do in the Shadows

    52

  • A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

    53

  • Whiplash

    54

  • Mommy

    55

  • Her

    56

  • The Wolf of Wall Street

    57

  • Enemy

    58

  • About Time

    59

  • Fruitvale Station

    60

  • It's Such a Beautiful Day

    61

  • Seven Psychopaths

    62

  • The Master

    63

  • Holy Motors

    64

  • s Ha

    65

  • The Raid

    66

  • Warrior

    67

  • Drive

    68

  • A Separation

    69

  • Tomboy

    70

  • Inception

    71

  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

    72

  • Certified Copy

    73

  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

    74

  • Who Killed Captain Alex?

    75

  • The White Ribbon

    76

  • Black Dynamite

    77

  • A Serious Man

    78

  • Moon

    79

  • Where the Wild Things Are

    80

  • WALL·E

    81

  • Synecdoche, New York

    82

  • In Bruges

    83

  • Ponyo

    84

  • The Dark Knight

    85

  • There Will Be Blood

    86

  • Hot Fuzz

    87

  • No Country for Old Men

    88

  • Superbad

    89

  • 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

    90

  • Children of Men

    91

  • Pan's Labyrinth

    92

  • The Fall

    93

  • The Prestige

    94

  • The Lives of Others

    95

  • Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

    96

  • Thank You for Smoking

    97

  • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

    98

  • Caché

    99

  • Brokeback Mountain

    100